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2008 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Main article: 2008 United States presidential election
← 2004 November 4, 2008 2012 →
Barack Obama John McCain
Democratic Republican
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Electoral vote
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The 2008 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 4, 2008, as part of the 2008 United States presidential election throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 4 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Democratic nominee Barack Obama won the state with a margin of 9.61 percentage points. Obama took 54.13% to Republican John McCain's 44.52%. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state. The state was originally thought to be a swing state in 2008 for a number of reasons. New Hampshire is considerably more fiscally conservative than its neighbors in New England and has a strong disdain for taxes, giving the Republicans an edge in the state. However, like the rest of New England, it is considerably more liberal on social issues like abortion and gay rights, which helps the Democrats. Also, McCain was very popular among Republicans based on the fact that he won both the 2000 and 2008 primaries here. In 2008, Obama lost the primary to Hillary Clinton. However, after the financial crisis, Obama pulled away in the pre-election polls.
The 2008 result made Barack Obama the first Democratic presidential nominee to sweep all 10 of New Hampshire's counties since native son Franklin Pierce in 1852. Obama even won a majority of the vote in traditionally staunchly Republican Carroll County, the only county in New Hampshire (and in all of New England) to have voted for Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Democratic landslide. This is despite Obama's 10-point margin being considerably lower than Lyndon B. Johnson's 28-point margin. Carroll County had not given a majority to a Democratic presidential nominee since 1888, although vote-splitting last allowed Woodrow Wilson to win a plurality there in 1912. As of the 2016 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Rockingham County, Belknap County, and Carroll County voted for the Democratic candidate.
1 Primaries
1.1 Democratic
1.1.1 Voter eligibility
1.1.2 Delegate allocation
1.1.3 Polling and predictions
1.1.4 New Hampshire campaign office hostage-taking
1.2 Republican
1.2.1 Polling
2 Recount
3 General election campaign
3.1 Predictions
3.2 Polling
3.3 Fundraising
3.4 Advertising and visits
4.1 By congressional district
5 Electors
Primaries[edit]
New Hampshire hosts the first primary in the nation. A state law that was passed in 1975 required that the date be set at least one week before any other similar contest. The Iowa caucuses are the only delegate-choosing event before the New Hampshire primary, but since Iowa hosts caucuses, not primaries, that is not seen as violating the law.[1]
Democratic[edit]
Main article: 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary
2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary
← 2004 January 8, 2008 (2008-01-08) 2012 →
Hillary Clinton Barack Obama John Edwards
Democratic Democratic Democratic
New York Illinois North Carolina
The purpose of the New Hampshire Democratic primary on January 8, 2008, was to determine the number of delegates from New Hampshire that would represent a certain candidate at the National Convention. In a primary, members of a political party—in this case, the Democratic Party—will select the candidates to a subsequent election. Since 1920, New Hampshire has always hosted the first primaries in the entire nation. The Democratic Party's primary occurred on the same day as the Republican primary.[1]
Hillary Clinton was the winner of the popular vote in the primary, with Barack Obama trailing in second. Clinton's win was the first time a woman had ever won a major American party's presidential primary for the purposes of delegate selection.[2] (Shirley Chisholm's prior win in New Jersey in 1972 was in a no-delegate-awarding, presidential preference ballot that the major candidates were not listed in and that the only other candidate who was listed had already withdrawn from; the actual delegate selection vote went to George McGovern.[3][4]) However, Clinton and Obama received an equal number of delegates to the National Convention since the percentages of their votes were close.
After Obama became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee on June 3, the New Hampshire Delegation to the 2008 Democratic National Convention unanimously cast its 30 formal votes for him, one of only three states to do so.
Voter eligibility[edit]
Any registered voter may participate in New Hampshire's primary. Voters must declare a party affiliation so that they could participate in only one primary every year, not both the Democratic and Republican primaries.
Delegate allocation[edit]
The voters will elect delegates to the district-level events; a candidate will only receive delegates to the national convention if he or she receives at least 15% of the district voters' votes. 30 delegates will be proportionally sent to the national convention.[1]
Any votes cast for a candidate that did not meet the 15% threshold for votes will be discarded. 14 district delegates will be proportionally allocated to each viable presidential candidate based on the primary's results in each Congressional District.[5] All of the district delegates are considered pledged delegates, which means that they must openly commit to a candidate before the vote and are subject to review by the candidate they represent.[6] Both the First Congressional District and Second Congressional District are allocated 7 district delegates each. These delegates independently represent each Congressional District; they are not affected by the results of the entire state.[5]
In addition, there are 8 more pledged delegates that are allocated based on the results of the statewide primary. Five of them would be at-large delegates to the national convention.[5] These at-large delegates are usually selected by district-level delegates.[6] The other 3 pledged delegates will be Party Leaders and Elected Official (PLEO) delegates.[5] PLEO delegates usually consist of members of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic members of Congress, Democratic Governors, and former Democratic Party leaders.[6]
While the 14 district delegates and 8 statewide delegates are pledged to represent a candidate, 8 more National Convention delegates will be considered unpledged. 7 of them are additional PLEO delegates, which consist of 4 Democratic National Committee members, 2 members of Congress, and 1 Governor. An additional unpledged delegate will be considered the add-on delegate. The add-on delegate is selected by a committee of district-level delegates.[5]
Polling and predictions[edit]
Main article: Statewide opinion polling for the January Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008 § New Hampshire
Five days before the New Hampshire primary, candidates competed at caucuses in Iowa. Barack Obama hoped that he would win these primaries the same way he defeated Hillary Clinton at the Iowa caucuses. Since his victory, he had attracted several supporters, which increased his chances at winning this primary.[7] Likewise, Clinton was struggling to overcome setbacks after she came in third place at the caucuses in Iowa.[8] A series of pre-primary polls showed that Obama enjoyed a significant lead. Clinton was coming second, and John Edwards third.[7] Average polling during the period of January 5 to January 7, 2008, by Real Clear Politics indicated Obama's support at 38.3%, Clinton at 30.0%, Edwards at 18.3%, and Richardson at 5.7%. These results indicated an 8.3% lead for Obama.[9]
A USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that Barack Obama enjoyed a 13-point lead over Hillary Clinton three weeks after they were tied in the pre-primary polls at New Hampshire. The USA Today/Gallup poll was held on January 4, 2008. The conductors of this poll surveyed 778 New Hampshire residents who most-likely were going to attend the Democratic primaries. The survey was conducted after news from the Iowa caucuses had been reported. In the following table, the candidates' support on January 4 is compared with the results of the USA Today/Gallup poll from mid-December 2007 in New Hampshire.
Percentage (December)
Percentage (January)
Barack Obama 32% 41%
Hillary Clinton 32% 28%
John Edwards 18% 19%
Bill Richardson 8% 6%
No other candidate had higher than 3% support in New Hampshire. Each figure has a margin of error of ±4%. Obama's 13-point lead was outside that margin.[10]
A US Census in 2006 reported that the population of New Hampshire was 1,314,895. 356,897 did not declare a party affiliation.[11] These independent voters make up 44 percent of the New Hampshire electorate and could have voted in either the Democratic primary or the Republican Party's primary, but couldn't have voted in both. Democratic voters made up a smaller proportion.[12] 216,005 people have registered as a Democrat. These statistics are important because in 2004, the New Hampshire independents leaned towards the Democratic side in favor of then-candidate John Kerry. Since then, New Hampshire has become more Democratic, replacing their Republican governor and state legislature with a government led by Democratic politicians. However, the people of New Hampshire are divided into several smaller regions, so the entire state as a whole wouldn't have been expected to act in a uniform manner.[11]
New Hampshire campaign office hostage-taking[edit]
Wikinews has related news: Hostage taker surrenders peacefully at Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign office
On November 30, 2007, a man identified as 47-year-old Leeland Eisenberg,[13] armed with road flares strapped to his chest which he claimed were a bomb, entered a Clinton presidential campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire.[14] He took hostage the five people in it, and asked for Clinton, believing she could assist him in gaining psychiatric help.[15] Two hostages were released early on, a woman and her infant. Other hostages were released sporadically. The standoff ended with Eisenberg's surrender about five hours after the incident began.[16]
At the time of the event, Clinton was in the Washington D.C. area, scheduled to speak at a Democratic National Committee meeting in Vienna, Virginia; she canceled her appearances at public events for the remainder of the day.[17] That evening she flew to Rochester in order to meet with and comfort the hostages,[18] praise the law enforcement officials who handled the situation,[18] and vow not to change her campaign style due to the incident.[19]
Results[edit]
Hillary Clinton greets supporters after her New Hampshire Primary win.
See also: Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Key: Withdrew
prior to contest
2008 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary[20][21]
Results[5]
Estimated national delegates[5][22]
National delegates
Hillary Clinton 112,404 39.09% 9 9
Barack Obama 104,815 36.45% 9 13
John Edwards 48,699 16.94% 4 0
Bill Richardson 13,239 4.6% 0 0
Dennis Kucinich 3,891 1.35% 0 0
Joe Biden 638 0.22% 0 0
Mike Gravel 404 0.14% 0 0
Total 287,557 100% 22 22
Hillary Clinton led Barack Obama by 20 points in pre-primary polls in New Hampshire prior to the Iowa caucuses, but had fallen behind Obama by 13 points in the week prior to the New Hampshire primary.[8] However, she rebounded to get more votes than Obama in the New Hampshire primary, winning by 3 percent. According to exit polls, female voters and elderly voters helped her win this particular race. In the Iowa caucuses, Obama received 35 percent of the female vote, while Clinton only received 30 percent. In New Hampshire, however, 45 percent supported Clinton, compared to 36 percent for Obama. Also during the primary, older voters outnumbered younger voters; 67 percent of Democratic voters were over the age of 40, and most of them supported Clinton.[23]
A turnout of nearly 288,000 people was even higher than expected, and was greater than the number of New Hampshire residents who voted for Al Gore in 2000.[24]
Bill Richardson withdrew from the race after placing 4th in both the New Hampshire primary with less than 5 percent of the vote and the Iowa caucuses with less than 2 percent of the vote. He made this decision as he returned to his home state, New Mexico, on January 9, 2008, to meet with his top advisors.[25]
Republican[edit]
Main article: 2008 New Hampshire Republican primary, 2008
2008 New Hampshire Republican primary
John McCain Mitt Romney Mike Huckabee
Republican Republican Republican
Arizona Massachusetts Arkansas
The New Hampshire Republican primary also took place on January 8, 2008, with 12 national delegates being allocated proportionally to the popular vote.[26] Arizona Senator John McCain won 7 of the delegates.
Independent voters made up 44 percent of the New Hampshire electorate and could choose to vote in either this primary or the Democratic Party's contest held on the same day, but voters could not vote in both.[27]
See also: Opinion polling for the Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008 § New Hampshire
In the days leading up to the primary, John McCain appeared to gain a slight lead over Mitt Romney. Average support from polls were McCain, 31.8%; Romney, 28.2%; Huckabee, 12.2%; Giuliani, 9.3%; Paul, 8.2%; Thompson, 2.2%.[28]
The official return was certified by the New Hampshire Secretary of State on 9 January.[29] According to New Hampshire law, delegates are allocated proportionally with a minimum 10% threshold required to receive delegates. The balance of delegates that are not assigned are then allocated to the winner.
John McCain 88,571 37.71% 7
Mitt Romney 75,546 32.17% 4
Mike Huckabee 26,859 11.44% 1
Rudy Giuliani 20,439 8.7% 0
Ron Paul 18,308 7.8% 0
Fred Thompson 2,890 1.23% 0
Duncan Hunter 1,217 0.52% 0
Alan Keyes 203 0.09% 0
Stephen Marchuk 123 0.05% 0
Tom Tancredo* 80 0.03% 0
Dr Hugh Cort 53 0.02% 0
Cornelius Edward O'Connor 45 0.02% 0
Albert Howard 44 0.02% 0
Vern Wuensche 44 0.02% 0
Vermin Supreme 41 0.02% 0
John H. Cox 39 0.02% 0
Daniel Gilbert 33 0.01% 0
James Creighton Mitchell Jr. 30 0.01% 0
Jack Shepard 27 0.01% 0
Mark Klein 19 0.01% 0
H. Neal Fendig Jr. 13 0% 0
Scattered 227 0.1% 0
Total 234,851 100% 12
* Candidate had already dropped out of the race prior to primary.
Recount[edit]
Most New Hampshire voters cast their votes on Diebold optical-scan systems, which read paper ballots. Some activists claimed to find evidence suggesting fraud, largely because results did not match pre-election polling for Obama and Clinton, and because of different levels of support between precincts where ballots were counted by hand and those where they were counted by machine.[30] Most observers have concluded that discrepancies were the result of the fact that ballots are more likely to be hand-counted in small towns and machine-counted in cities and larger towns, explaining differences in candidate support.[31]
On January 10, 2008, presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich paid for a recount in the Democratic primary. Republican candidate Albert Howard also requested a recount in the Republican primary.[32] Kucinich noted the difference between pre-primary polls which showed that Obama would win, and Clinton's win in the actual election.[33] New Hampshire had not conducted a statewide recount in a presidential primary since the 1980 primary.[33]
The recount began on January 16, 2008, after New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner received $27,000 from Kucinich. The results in both parties changed little: Republican results changed only by 1 vote for Romney, while Democrats changed less than 1 percent, much of which was due to vote miscounting was Ward 5 in Manchester, where votes for the top candidates dropped after the recount. Clinton's total went from 683 to 619, Obama's went from 404 to 365, and other candidates saw similar drops.[34] Excluding the results of Ward 5 the error rate was less than 1%.[35] The official explanation for the discrepancies in Ward 5 was that a poll worker added the vice presidential and presidential totals before reporting.[34]
The recount was halted on January 23, 2008.[36] The Deputy Secretary of State, David Scanlan, estimated that the Republican recount cost $57,600 and the Democratic recount, with more votes cast, cost $67,600.[37]
General election campaign[edit]
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, New Hampshire was the most reliably Republican states in the Northeast. From 1948 to 1988, it only supported a Democrat once, in Lyndon Johnson's 44-state landslide of 1964. However, since 1992 it has become a swing state that leans slightly Democratic in presidential elections. The last Republican to carry the state was George W. Bush, who won by a narrow margin in 2000—to date, the only time since 1992 that a Republican has won a state north of the Potomac River. New Hampshire was the only switchover state that Kerry won in 2004 and Bush lost. Moreover, the New Hampshire Republican Party is considerably more moderate and libertarian-leaning especially on social issues, making the behavior of the state considerably difficult to predict.
Republicans had remained fairly competitive at the state level until November 2006 when Democratic Governor John Lynch was reelected to a second term with 74% of the vote. At the same time, two unknown Democrats knocked off the state's two incumbent Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and Democrats swept to control of both chambers of the state legislature for the first time since 1874. This led pundits to joke that the national Democratic wave of 2006 came ashore in Nashua.[38] Continuing on that trend, New Hampshire looked very favorable to the Democrats heading into 2008.
Republican presidential nominee John McCain had early hopes for winning the state. New Hampshire strongly supported McCain in the 2000 and 2008 Republican primaries, attracted by his status as an independent maverick; New Hampshire voters have historically been friendly to independent-minded Republicans. After he clinched the GOP nomination in March 2008, McCain began to move more to the right to appease the base of his party, and his selection of the socially conservative Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin to be the vice presidential nominee alienated several independents and libertarian-leaning Republicans in New Hampshire. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama campaigned extensively throughout the state in 2008 to try and unite the party in the general election after the historic and divisive 2008 Democratic primary. Despite the polls that had Obama leading by double digits, New Hampshire voters gave a surprise comeback win to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the January 2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary thanks in large part to an enormous number of women who turned out to support Clinton after her emotional moment at a campaign stop in Portsmouth a few days earlier. Obama acknowledged this phenomenon throughout the campaign when he advised his supporters not to get so cocky and arrogant when they saw the polls that had him leading.
Early polling during the general campaign showed Obama with a very narrow lead. By early October, Obama had gained a double-digit lead in the state and never looked back.[39] Obama successfully carried New Hampshire with 54.13% of the total statewide vote while McCain received 44.52%.
At the same time, popular incumbent Democratic Governor Lynch was reelected to a third term in a landslide over Republican Joe Keeney and Libertarian Susan Newell. Lynch received 70.12% while Keeney took in 27.70% and Newell with 2.18%. Former Democratic Governor Jeanne Shaheen ousted incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Sununu by a 6.34-percent margin of victory, giving the Democrats an additional seat in the U.S. Senate. However, Republicans also picked up 14 seats in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Predictions[edit]
There were 16 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:
D.C. Political Report: Democrat[40]
Cook Political Report: Leaning Democrat[41]
Takeaway: Leaning Obama[42]
Electoral-vote.com: Strong Democrat[43]
Washington Post: Solid Obama[44]
Politico: Leaning Obama[45]
Real Clear Politics: Solid Obama[46]
FiveThirtyEight.com: Solid Obama[44]
CQ Politics: Safe Democrat[47]
New York Times: Leaning Democrat[48]
CNN: Leaning Democrat[49]
NPR: Leaning Obama[44]
MSNBC: Leaning Obama[44]
Fox News: Democrat[50]
Associated Press: Democrat[51]
Rasmussen Reports: Leaning Democrat[52]
Main article: Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008: New Hampshire
Pre-election polling showed a tight race early on. But since September 22, Obama swept the rest of the polls taken in the state. Since October 1, Obama never polled below 50%.[53]
Fundraising[edit]
John McCain raised a total of $867,279 in the state. Barack Obama raised $2,470,579.[54]
Advertising and visits[edit]
Obama and his interest groups spent $10,931,32. McCain and his interest groups spent $6,478,902.[55] Each campaign visited the state 6 times.[56]
Electoral votes
Democratic Barack Obama Joe Biden 384,826 54.38% 4
Republican John McCain Sarah Palin 316,534 44.73% 0
Others Others 531 0.08% 0
Independent Ralph Nader Matt Gonzalez 3,503 0.50% 0
Libertarian Bob Barr Wayne Allyn Root 2,217 0.31% 0
Totals 707,611 100.00% 4
Voter turnout (Voting age population) 70.0%
Belknap 49.97% 16,796 48.80% 16,402 1.23% 416 33,614
Carroll 52.39% 15,221 46.07% 13,387 1.54% 448 29,056
Cheshire 62.98% 26,971 35.51% 15,205 1.51% 647 42,823
Coos 58.31% 9,532 40.11% 6,558 1.58% 258 16,348
Grafton 63.03% 31,446 35.45% 17,687 1.52% 757 49,890
Hillsborough 51.20% 104,820 47.47% 97,178 1.33% 2,711 204,709
Merrimack 56.27% 45,078 42.46% 34,010 1.27% 1,018 80,106
Rockingham 49.89% 83,723 48.81% 81,917 1.30% 2,182 167,822
Strafford 59.50% 37,990 39.19% 25,021 1.31% 837 63,848
Sullivan 58.23% 13,249 40.30% 9,169 1.47% 336 22,754
By congressional district[edit]
Barack Obama swept both of New Hampshire's congressional districts.
52.68% 46.47% Carol Shea Porter (D)
56.09% 43.00% Paul Hodes (D)
Electors[edit]
Main article: List of United States presidential electors, 2008
Technically the voters of New Hampshire cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. New Hampshire is allocated 4 electors because it has 2 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 4 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 4 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them.[57] An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2008, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 4 were pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden:[58]
Martha Fuller Clark[59]
Gaeten DiGangi
Ned Helms [60]
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Roman Catholic monastic order
This article is about a monastic order of the Catholic Church. For similar monastic orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church, see Order of Saint Benedict (Orthodox). For similar monastic orders of the Anglican Communion, see Order of St. Benedict (Anglican). For other uses, see Benedictine (disambiguation).
"O.S.B." redirects here. For other uses, see OSB.
Order of Saint Benedict
Ordo Sancti Benedicti
Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal
("Pray and Work")
529; 1490 years ago (529)
Founded at
Subiaco Abbey
Catholic religious order
Church of Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino, Rome
Abbot Primate
Gregory Polan OSB
Main organ
Benedictine Confederation
osb.org
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a monastic Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. They are also sometimes called the Black Monks, in reference to the colour of the members' religious habits.
Despite being called an order, the Benedictines do not operate under a single hierarchy but are instead organised as a collection of independent monastic communities, with each community (monastery, priory or abbey) within the order maintaining its autonomy. Unlike other religious orders, the Benedictines do not have a superior general or motherhouse with universal jurisdiction. Instead, the order is represented internationally by the Benedictine Confederation, an organisation that was set up in 1893 to represent the order's shared interests.
1 Historical development
1.1 England
1.1.1 Monastic Libraries in England
1.4 Switzerland
2 Benedictine vow and life
3 Organization
4 Other orders
5 Notable Benedictines
5.1 Saints and Blesseds
5.2 Monks
5.2.1 Popes
5.2.2 Founders of abbeys and congregations and prominent reformers
5.2.3 Scholars, historians, and spiritual writers
5.2.4 Maurists
5.2.5 Bishops and martyrs
5.2.6 Twentieth century
5.3 Nuns
5.4 Oblates
Historical development[edit]
Main article: Benedict of Nursia
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–543). Detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico (c. 1400–1455) in the Friary of San Marco Florence.
The monastery at Subiaco in Italy, established by Saint Benedict of Nursia c. 529, was the first of the dozen monasteries he founded. He later founded the Abbey of Monte Cassino. There is no evidence, however, that he intended to found an order and the Rule of Saint Benedict presupposes the autonomy of each community. When Monte Cassino was sacked by the Lombards about the year 580, the monks fled to Rome, and it seems probable that this constituted an important factor in the diffusion of a knowledge of Benedictine monasticism.[1]
It was from the monastery of St. Andrew in Rome that Augustine, the prior, and his forty companions set forth in 595 on their mission for the evangelization of England. At various stopping places during the journey, the monks left behind them traditions concerning their rule and form of life, and probably also some copies of the Rule. Lérins Abbey, for instance, founded by Honoratus in 375, probably received its first knowledge of the Benedictine Rule from the visit of St. Augustine and his companions in 596.[1]
Gregory of Tours says that at Ainay Abbey, in the sixth century, the monks "followed the rules of Basil, Cassian, Caesarius, and other fathers, taking and using whatever seemed proper to the conditions of time and place", and doubtless the same liberty was taken with the Benedictine Rule when it reached them. In Gaul and Switzerland, it supplemented the much stricter Irish or Celtic Rule introduced by Columbanus and others. In many monasteries it eventually entirely displaced the earlier codes.[1]
Benedict of Aniane (747–821).
By the ninth century, however, the Benedictine had become the standard form of monastic life throughout the whole of Western Europe, excepting Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, where the Celtic observance still prevailed for another century or two.[1] Largely through the work of Benedict of Aniane, it became the rule of choice for monasteries throughout the Carolingian empire.[2]
Monastic scriptoria flourished from the ninth through the twelfth centuries. Sacred Scripture was always at the heart of every monastic scriptorium. As a general rule those of the monks who possessed skill as writers made this their chief, if not their sole active work. An anonymous writer of the ninth or tenth century speaks of six hours a day as the usual task of a scribe, which would absorb almost all the time available for active work in the day of a medieval monk.[3]
In the Middle Ages monasteries were often founded by the nobility. Cluny Abbey was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. The abbey was noted for its strict adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict. The abbot of Cluny was the superior of all the daughter houses, through appointed priors.[2]
One of the earliest reforms of Benedictine practice was that initiated in 980 by Romuald, who founded the Camaldolese community.
The dominance of the Benedictine monastic way of life began to decline towards the end of the twelfth century, which saw the rise of the Franciscans and Dominicans.[2] Benedictines took a fourth vow of "stability", which professed loyalty to a particular foundation. Not being bound by location, the mendicants were better able to respond to an increasingly "urban" environment. This decline was further exacerbated by the practice of appointing a commendatory abbot, a lay person, appointed by a noble to oversee and to protect the goods of the monastery. Oftentimes, however, this resulted in the appropriation of the assets of monasteries at the expense of the community which they were intended to support.
England[edit]
The English Benedictine Congregation is the oldest of the nineteen Benedictine congregations. Augustine of Canterbury and his monks established the first English Benedictine monastery at Canterbury soon after their arrival in 597. Other foundations quickly followed. Through the influence of Wilfrid, Benedict Biscop, and Dunstan, the Benedictine Rule spread with extraordinary rapidity, and in the North it was adopted in most of the monasteries that had been founded by the Celtic missionaries from Iona. Many of the episcopal sees of England were founded and governed by the Benedictines, and no fewer than nine of the old cathedrals were served by the black monks of the priories attached to them.[1] Monasteries served as hospitals and places of refuge for the weak and homeless. The monks studied the healing properties of plants and minerals to alleviate the sufferings of the sick.[4]
Germany was evangelized by English Benedictines. Willibrord and Boniface preached there in the seventh and eighth centuries and founded several abbeys.[1]
In the English Reformation, all monasteries were dissolved and their lands confiscated by the Crown, forcing their Catholic members to flee into exile on the Continent. During the 19th century they were able to return to England, including to Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, one of the few great monastic churches to survive the Dissolution.
The two sides of a Saint Benedict Medal
St. Mildred's Priory, on the Isle of Thanet, Kent, was built in 1027 on the site of an abbey founded in 670 by the daughter of the first Christian King of Kent. Currently the priory is home to a community of Benedictine nuns. Five of the most notable English abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, The Abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr commonly known as Douai Abbey in Upper Woolhampton, Reading, Berkshire, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London, and Worth Abbey.[5][6] Prinknash Abbey, used by Henry VIII as a hunting lodge, was officially returned to the Benedictines four hundred years later, in 1928. During the next few years, so-called Prinknash Park was used as a home until it was returned to the order.[7]
St. Lawrence's Abbey in Ampleforth, Yorkshire was founded in 1802. In 1955, Ampleforth set up a daughter house, a priory at St. Louis, Missouri which became independent in 1973 and became Saint Louis Abbey in its own right in 1989.[8]
As of 2015, the English Congregation consists of three abbeys of nuns and ten abbeys of monks. Members of the congregation are found in England, Wales, the United States of America, Peru and Zimbabwe.[9]
Since the Oxford Movement, there has also been a modest flourishing of Benedictine monasticism in the Anglican Church and Protestant Churches. Anglican Benedictine Abbots are invited guests of the Benedictine Abbot Primate in Rome at Abbatial gatherings at Sant'Anselmo.[10] There are an estimated 2,400 celibate Anglican Religious (1,080 men and 1,320 women) in the Anglican Communion as a whole, some of whom have adopted the Rule of St. Benedict.[11]
Monastic Libraries in England[edit]
The forty-eighth rule of Saint Benedict prescribes extensive and habitual "holy reading" for the brethren.[12] Three primary types of reading were done by the monks during this time. Monks would read privately during their personal time, as well as publicly during services and at meal times. In addition to these three mentioned in the Rule, monks would also read in the infirmary.
However, Benedictine monks were disallowed worldly possessions, thus necessitating the preservation and collection of sacred texts in monastic libraries for communal use.[13] For the sake of convenience, the books in the monastery were housed in a few different places, namely the sacristy, which contained books for the choir and other liturgical books, the rectory, which housed books for public reading such as sermons and lives of the saints, and the library, which contained the largest collection of books and was typically in the cloister.
The first record of a monastic library in England is in Canterbury. To assist with Augustine of Canterbury's English mission, Pope Gregory the Great gave him nine books which included the Gregorian Bible in two volumes, the Psalter of Augustine, two copies of the Gospels, two martyrologies, an Exposition of the Gospels and Epistles, and a Psalter.[14] Theodore of Tarsus brought Greek books to Canterbury more than seventy years later, when he founded a school for the study of Greek.[15]
France[edit]
Monasteries were among the institutions of the Catholic Church swept away during the French Revolution. Monasteries were again allowed to form in the 19th century under the Bourbon Restoration. Later that century, under the Third French Republic, laws were enacted preventing religious teaching. The original intent was to allow secular schools. Thus in 1880 and 1882, Benedictine teaching monks were effectively exiled; this was not completed until 1901.[16][17][18][19]
Germany[edit]
Saint Blaise Abbey in the Black Forest of Baden-Württemberg is believed to have been founded around the latter part of the tenth century. Other houses either reformed by, or founded as priories of, St Blasien were: Muri Abbey (1082), Ochsenhausen Abbey (1093), Göttweig Abbey (1094), Stein am Rhein Abbey (before 1123) and Prüm Abbey (1132). It also had significant influence on the abbeys of Alpirsbach (1099), Ettenheimmünster (1124) and Sulzburg (ca 1125), and the priories of Weitenau (ca 1100), Bürgeln (before 1130) and Sitzenkirch (ca 1130).
Switzerland[edit]
The abbey of Our Lady of the Angels was founded in 1120.
United States[edit]
The first Benedictine to live in the United States was Pierre-Joseph Didier. He came to the United States in 1790 from Paris and served in the Ohio and St. Louis areas until his death. The first actual Benedictine monastery founded was Saint Vincent Archabbey, located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1832 by Bonifice Wimmer, a German monk, who sought to serve German immigrants in America. In 1856, Wimmer started to lay the foundations for St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. In 1876, Father Herman Wolfe, of Saint Vincent Archabbey established Belmont Abbey in North Carolina.[20] By the time of his death in 1887, Wimmer had sent Benedictine monks to Kansas, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Illinois, and Colorado.[21]
Wimmer also asked for Benedictine sisters to be sent to America by St. Walburg Convent in Eichstätt, Bavaria. In 1852, Sister Benedicta Riepp and two other sisters founded St. Marys, Pennsylvania. Soon they would send sisters to Michigan, New Jersey, and Minnesota.[21]
By 1854, Swiss monks began to arrive and founded St. Meinrad Abbey in Indiana, and they soon spread to Arkansas and Louisiana. They were soon followed by Swiss sisters.[21]
There are now over 100 Benedictine houses across America. Most Benedictine houses are part of one of four large Congregations: American-Cassinese, Swiss-American, St. Scholastica, and St. Benedict. The congregations mostly are made up of monasteries that share the same lineage. For instance the American-Cassinese congregation included the 22 monasteries that descended from Boniface Wimmer.[22]
Benedictine vow and life[edit]
Main article: Rule of Saint Benedict
Benedictine monks singing Vespers on Holy Saturday in Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
The sense of community was a defining characteristic of the order since the beginning.[23] Section 17 in chapter 58 of the Rule of Saint Benedict states the solemn promise candidates for reception into a Benedictine community are required to make: a promise of stability (i.e. to remain in the same community), conversatio morum (an idiomatic Latin phrase suggesting "conversion of manners"; see below) and obedience to the community's superior.[24] This solemn commitment tends to be referred to as the "Benedictine vow" and is the Benedictine antecedent and equivalent of the evangelical counsels professed by candidates for reception into a religious order.
Much scholarship over the last fifty years has been dedicated to the translation and interpretation of "conversatio morum". The older translation "conversion of life" has generally been replaced with phrases such as "[conversion to] a monastic manner of life", drawing from the Vulgate's use of conversatio as a translation of "citizenship" or "homeland" in Philippians 3:20. Some scholars have claimed that the vow formula of the Rule is best translated as "to live in this place as a monk, in obedience to its rule and abbot."
Benedictine abbots and abbesses have full jurisdiction of their abbey and thus absolute authority over the monks or nuns who are resident. This authority includes the power to assign duties, to decide which books may or may not be read, to regulate comings and goings, and to punish and to excommunicate, in the sense of an enforced isolation from the monastic community.
A tight communal timetable – the horarium – is meant to ensure that the time given by God is not wasted but used in God's service, whether for prayer, work, meals, spiritual reading or sleep.
Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other times silence is maintained as much as is practically possible. Social conversations tend to be limited to communal recreation times. But such details, like the many other details of the daily routine of a Benedictine house that the Rule of St Benedict leaves to the discretion of the superior, are set out in its 'customary'. A ' customary' is the code adopted by a particular Benedictine house, adapting the Rule to local conditions.[25]
In the Roman Catholic Church, according to the norms of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, a Benedictine abbey is a "religious institute" and its members are therefore members of the consecrated life. While Canon Law 588 §1 explains that Benedictine monks are "neither clerical nor lay", they can, however, be ordained.
Some monasteries adopt a more active ministry in living the monastic life, running schools or parishes; others are more focused on contemplation, with more of an emphasis on prayer and work within the confines of the cloister.
Organization[edit]
Benedictine monasticism is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders insofar as its individual communities are not part of a religious order with "Generalates" and "Superiors General". Each Benedictine house is independent and governed by an Abbot.
In modern times, the various groups of autonomous houses (national, reform, etc.) have formed themselves loosely into congregations (for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines). There are twenty Congregations within the Benedictine Confederation. These, in turn, are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief "Summum semper" on 12 July 1893.[26] This organization facilitates dialogue of Benedictine communities with each other and the relationship between Benedictine communities and other religious orders and the church at large. The Abbot Primate resides at the Monastery of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.[27]
In 1313 Bernardo Tolomei established the Order of Our Lady of Mount Olivet. The community adopted the Rule of St. Benedict and received canonical approval in 1344. The Olivetans are part of the Benedictine Confederation.
Other orders[edit]
The Rule of Saint Benedict is also used by a number of religious orders that began as reforms of the Benedictine tradition such as the Cistercians and Trappists. These groups are separate congregations and not members of the Benedictine Confederation.
Although Benedictines traditionally refer to Catholics, there are also some within the Anglican Communion and occasionally within other Christian denominations as well, for example, within the Lutheran Church, that claim adherence to the Rule of Saint Benedict. [28] There are also some Eastern Orthodox Benedictines. [29] [30]
Notable Benedictines[edit]
Saint Boniface (c. 680–750), Pope Gregory I (c. 540–604, pope 590–604), Adalbert of Egmond (8th century) and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum
Late Gothic sculpture of Rupert of Salzburg (c. 660–710)
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) featured in a 13th-century illuminated manuscript
A Carolingian manuscript, c. 840, depicting Rabanus Maurus (left), supported by Alcuin (middle), presenting his work to Otgar of Mainz
Self portrait of Matthew Paris (c.1200–59)
Abbot Suger (c.1081–1135) in a medieval stained-glass window
Saints and Blesseds[edit]
Pope Gregory I (c. 540–604, r. 590–604)
Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604)
Saint Boniface (c. 680–755)
Willibrord (c. 658–739)
Rupert of Salzburg (c. 660–710)
Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt (d. 713)
Saint Sturm (c. 705–79)
Ansgar (801–65)
Wolfgang of Regensburg (934–994)
Adalbert of Prague (c. 956–97)
Gerard of Csanád (c. 980–1046)[1]
Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–85, r. 1073–85)
Pope Victor III (c. 1026–87, r. 1086–87)
Pope Celestine V (1215–96, r. 1294)
Pope Urban V (1310–70, r. 1362–70)
Pope Pius VII (1742–1823, r. 1800–23); Servant of God
Monks[edit]
Popes[edit]
Pope Sylvester II (c. 946–1003, r. 999–1003)
Pope Paschal II (d. 1118, r. 1099–1118)
Pope Gelasius II (d. 1119, r. 1118–19)
Pope Clement VI (1291–1352, r. 1342–52)
Pope Gregory XVI (1765–1846, r. 1831–46)[1]
Founders of abbeys and congregations and prominent reformers[edit]
Earconwald (c. 630–93)
Benedict Biscop (c. 628–90)
Leudwinus (c. 665–713)
Benedict of Aniane (747–821)
Dunstan (909–88)
Berno of Cluny (c. 850–927)
Odo of Cluny (c. 878–942)
Majolus of Cluny (c. 906–94)
Odilo of Cluny (c. 962–c. 1048)
Bernard of Cluny (d. 1109)
Peter the Venerable (c. 1092–1156)
Romuald (c. 956–c. 1026)
Robert of Molesme (c. 1028–1111)
Alberic of Cîteaux (d. 1109)
Stephen Harding (d. 1134)
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
William of Hirsau (c. 1030–91)
John Gualbert (995–1073)
Stephen of Obazine (1084–1154)
Robert of Arbrissel (c. 1045–1116)
William of Montevergine (1085–1142)
Sylvester Gozzolini (1177–1267)
Bernardo Tolomei (1272–1348)
Laurent Bénard (1573–1620)
Prosper Guéranger (1805–1875)
Jean-Baptiste Muard (1809–1854)
Boniface Wimmer (1809–1887)
Maurus Wolter (1825–1890)
Martin Marty (1834–1896)[1]
Andreas Amrhein (1844–1927)
Lambert Beauduin (1873–1960)
Margit Slachta (or Schlachta, 1884–1974)
Scholars, historians, and spiritual writers[edit]
Jonas of Bobbio (600-659)
Bede (673–735)
Aldhelm (c. 639–709)
Alcuin (d. 804)
Rabanus Maurus (c. 780–856)
Paschasius Radbertus (785–865)
Ratramnus (d. 866)
Walafrid Strabo (c. 808–49)
Notker Labeo (c. 950–1022)
Guido of Arezzo (991–1050)
Hermann of Reichenau (1013–54)
Paul the Deacon (c. 720–99)
Hincmar (806–82)
Saint Maurus of Pécs (c. 1000–c. 1075)
Peter Damian (c. 1007–72)
Lanfranc (c 1005–89)
Anselm of Canterbury (c 1033–1109)
Eadmer (c 1060–c1126)
Florence of Worcester (d. 1118)
Symeon of Durham (d. 1130)
Jocelyn de Brakelond (d. 1211)
Matthew Paris (c. 1200–59)
William of Malmesbury (c. 1095–c. 1143)
Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1141–c. 1210)
Roger of Wendover (d. 1236)
Peter the Deacon (d. 1140)
Adam Easton (d. 1397)
Honoré Bonet (c. 1340–c1410)
John Lydgate (c. 1370–c. 1451)
John Whethamstede (d. 1465)
Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516)
Louis de Blois (1506–66)
Benedict van Haeften (1588–1648)
Augustine Baker (1575–1641)
Jean Mabillon (1632-1707)
Mariano Armellino (1657–1737)
Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672–1757)
Magnoald Ziegelbauer (1689–1750)
Marquard Herrgott (1694–1762)
Luigi Tosti (1811–97)
Jean Baptiste François Pitra (1812–89)
Suitbert Bäumer (1845–94)
Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929)
Fernand Cabrol (1855–1937)
Germain Morin (1861–1946)
John Chapman (1865–1933)
Cuthbert Butler (1858–1934)[1]
Maurists[edit]
Nicolas-Hugues Ménard (1585–1644)
Luc d'Achery (1609–85)
Antoine-Joseph Mège (1625–91)
Thierry Ruinart (1657–1709)
François Lamy (1636–1711)
Pierre Coustant (1654–1721)
Edmond Martène (1654–1739)
Ursin Durand (1682–1771)
Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741)
René-Prosper Tassin (1697–1777)[1]
Bishops and martyrs[edit]
Saint Ernest (d. 1148)
Laurence of Canterbury (d. 619)
Mellitus (d. 624)
Justus (d. 627)
Paulinus of York (d. 644)
Oda of Canterbury (d. 958)
Bertin (c. 615–c. 709)
Wilfrid (c. 633–c. 709)
Cuthbert (c. 634–87)
John of Beverley (d. 721)
Swithun (d. 862)
Æthelwold of Winchester (d. 984)
Edmund Rich (1175–1240)
Abbot Suger (c. 1081–1151)
John Beche (d. 1539)
Richard Whiting (d. 1539)
Hugh Cook Faringdon (d. 1539)
Sigebert Buckley (c. 1520–c. 1610)
John Roberts (1577-1610)
Gabriel Gifford (1554–1629)
Alban Roe (1583-1642)
Philip Michael Ellis (1652–1726)
Charles Walmesley (1722–97)
William Placid Morris (1794–1872)
John Polding (1794–1877)
William Bernard Ullathorne (1806–89)
Roger Vaughan (1834–83)
Guglielmo Sanfelice d'Acquavilla (1834–1897)[1]
Joseph Pothier (1835–1923)
John Cuthbert Hedley (1837–1915)
Domenico Serafini (1852–1918)
Placidus Nkalanga (1918 - 2015)[31]
Twentieth century[edit]
Cardinal Schuster.
Bl. Alfredo Schuster (1880–1954)
Bede Griffiths (1906–1993)
Paul Augustin Mayer (1911–2010)
Hans Hermann Groër (1919–2003)
Basil Hume (1923–1999)
Rembert Weakland (1927–)
Daniel M. Buechlein (1938-2018)
Jerome Hanus (1940-)
Anselm Grün (1945–)
Nuns[edit]
Abbot of Montserrat
Scholastica (c. 480–547)
Æthelthryth (c. 636–79)
Hilda of Whitby (c. 614–80)
Werburh (d. 699)
Mildrith (d. early 7th century)
Saint Walpurga (c. 710–79)
Wulfthryth of Wilton (c. 937–1000)
Saint Edith of Wilton (c. 961–984)
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
Gertrude the Great (1256–c. 1302)[1]
Joan Chittister (1936-)
Noella Marcellino (1951-)
Teresa Forcades (1966–)
Oblates[edit]
Bonifatius Becker
Benedictine Oblates endeavor to embrace the spirit of the Benedictine vow in their own life in the world.[32] Oblates are affiliated with a particular monastery.
Emperor Henry II (972–1024)
Frances of Rome (1384–1440)
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907)[1]
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973)
Romano Guardini (1885–1968)
Dorothy Day (1897–1980)
Walker Percy (1916–1990)
Kathleen Norris (1947– )
Dom Pierre Pérignon
French Romanesque architecture
Sisters of Social Service
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^ a b c "The Benedictines: An Introduction by Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen OSB. Liturgical Press".
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^ Mian Ridge "Prinknash monks downsize," The Tablet 12 November 2005, 34.
^ "History", Saint Louis Abbey
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You are here: Home Events and Education Cemetery History Sample Data-Articles Dudley, Dr. Benjamin Winslow (1785-1870)
Dudley, Dr. Benjamin Winslow (1785-1870)
Section G, Lot 10
Someone wrote about Dr. Benjamin Winslow, who was considered by many a hero of the 1833 cholera epidemic, "Our physicians are either dead or broken down, Dr. Dudley alone I believe has stood it through, and is still on the alert."
Receiving his early education Lexington, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania medical department at the age of 19. In returning to Lexington, he was offered the Chair of the Anatomy and Pysiology Department at Transylvania University. Dudley performed over 200 lithotomies, an operation for the removal of bladder-stones, with only six fatalities, and was among the first neurosurgeons in the United States to work in trephining. This surgery involved making a circular incision in the skull to release pressure, which was believed to cause epilepsy. Dr. Dudley has an international reputation for his successful operations for bladder stone, and was a pioneer in cataract and brain surgery.
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BHS Presents Hairspray
“You can’t stop the beat” when Burlington High School presents its hilarious and uplifting production of Hairspray, the Broadway Musical on March 15, 16, 22, 23 at 7:30 pm and on March 24 at 2:00 pm. Performances of the Tony award-winning musical will take place in the Fogelberg Performing Arts Center of Burlington High School.
Picture this: It’s 1962 in Baltimore and the lovable plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire – to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star. She must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heart-throb Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network, all without denting her ‘do!
A family-friendly production, Hairspray promises to have you be-boppin’ with a roster of uplifting songs by Mark Chaiman and Scott Wittman that include “Good Morning Baltimore,” “Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now,” “Welcome to the ‘60s,” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat.”
Leading the talent-packed cast of Hairspray is senior Marissa Cote as the ever-optimistic Tracy Turnblad. She is joined by Eddie Gelberg as Corny Collins, Steven Gelberg as Link Larkin, Mikayla Merrill as Velma Von Tussle, Ashley Shafman as Amber Von Tussle, Emily Martin as Penny Pingleton, Danielle Calder as Prudy Pendleton and Joram Coichy as Seaweed J. Stubbs. Also featured are Nicollette Moodie as Motormouth Maybelle, Michael Garcia as Edna Turnblad, Harry Lane as Wilbur Turnblad, Caroline Kashgegian as Little Inez and Nicholas Silva as Harriman Spritzer.
Tickets for Hairspray, The Broadway Musical are now on sale and can be purchased by visiting Burlington Theatre or by phone at 781-A-FUN-TIC (781-238-6842). Ticket prices are $10 for students and senior citizens, $15 for adults. All performances will take place in the Fogelberg Performing Arts Center of Burlington High School, 123 Cambridge Street in Burlington, Massachusetts, a handicapped accessible facility.
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LecturesChristian Michelbach2019-05-08T17:50:52+00:00
The Street 2019 by MM Cite, Zlin, Czech Republic, 2019
Harvard Club of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, USA, 2019
2019 National Urbanism Next Conference, Portland, OR, USA, 2019
Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, 2018
University of Rhode Island, Department of Landscape Architecture, Kingston, RI, USA, 2018
III Bienal Latinoamericana de Arquitectura de Paisaje, Mexico City, Mexico, 2018
Portland Design Events, Portland, OR, USA, 2018
AIA Washington, D.C., USA, 2018
Landscape Pleasures Symposium, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, USA, 2018
Boston Architectural College Commencement Speech, Boston, MA, USA, 2018
Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajista de Puerto Rico (CAAPPR), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2018
Brad Sears / George Albrecht Lecture, Syracuse University SUNY, Department of Landscape Architecture, Syracuse, NY, USA, 2018
Longfor Properties, Beijing, China, 2018
Architecture Center Austin, TX, USA, Jan 2018
Saturday of Symposia, Harvard Alumni Association, Cambridge, MA, 2017
Design Matters, University of Calgary, Faculty of the Environment and Design, Calgary, Canada, 2017
ASLA 2017 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2017
Synsocium, A Dialogue Between Art & Design, Palais de Congrès in Montreal, Canada, 2017
Spirit de Milan, Italy, 2017
Politecnico di Milano, School of Design, Italy, 2017
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design, 68th Session, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2017
Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Brunswick, NJ, USA, 2017
Colorado State University, College of Agricultural Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 2017
New Jersey ASLA Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, 2017
Tamayo Museum of International Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico, 2017
ASLA New York, New York City, NY, USA, 2017
IE School of Architecture, Segovia, Spain, 2017
University of Southern California, School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2016
New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY, USA, 2016
CANactions, Kiev, Ukraine, 2016
National Football Museum, Manchester, UK, 2016
University of Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2016
Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2016
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2016
Beijing University, China, 2016
Green is Life Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2015
Future University, Braga, Portugal, 2015
Moscow Urban Forum, Kazan, Russia, 2015
UCA Canterbury School of Architecture, 2015
LAUD International Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Expo, Warsaw, Poland, 2014
MIPIM Innovation Forum, Cannes, France, 2015
MIPIM London Stand, Cannes, France, 2015
Georgia Tech, School of Architecture, Georgia, AT, USA, 2014
Finding Center Conference, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA, 2014
LAUD International Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Expo, Bucharest, Romania, 2014
4th Green Building Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013
Heinze ArchitekTOUR, Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2013
Lemesos Waterfront Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, 2013
Vanke V-Talk, Chongqing University, China, 2013
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, 2013
Haifa International Waterfront Conference, Israel, 2013
The TimesCenter New York City, NY, USA, 2013
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, 2013
Tianjin University, School of Architecture, China, 2013
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK, 2012
Building Information Centre YEM, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
Garden Museum, London, UK, 2012
GH Form, Borup, Denmark, 2012
Seoul National University, South Korea, 2012
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2012
South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China, 2012
361° Conference, Mumbai, India, 2012
Beijing University, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Beijing, China, 2012
American Club Hong Kong, China, 2012
National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, Singapore, 2012
Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore, 2012
XIII Landscape Architecture Course, Fondacion Juana de Vega, La Coruna, Spain, 2011
9th Annual JJR Lecture, University of Michigan School School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2011
University of Turku, Finland, 2011
Reshaping London talks, Design for London and RIBA, London, UK, 2011
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, London, UK, 2011
RiverCity Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011
Art of Design Series, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UK, 2011
University of Oxford Botanic Lecture, Said Business School, Oxford, UK, 2011
Harvard University, GSD Talks, 2011 (Martha Schwartz and Charles Waldheim), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011
ULI Europe Annual Conference, Paris, France, 2011
Tsinghua Lecture, Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010
Boston Architectural League, Boston, MA, USA, 2010
Business Junction, London, United Kingdom, 2009
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Nieman Foundation, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2009
Shlomo Aronson Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, 2009
Dublin Docklands Authority, Dublin, Ireland, 2009
Kew Gardens, London, UK, 2009
BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium, 2009
John Wood Lecture, Royal Literary & Scientific Institute, Bath, UK, 2008
Second Wave of Modernism Lecture, Chicago Architectural Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA, 2008
Architect’s Journal Debate: Martha Schwartz and Will Alsop, London, UK, 2008
Prospect Debate, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005
New Worlds in Design, Harvard Design Magazine Symposium, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2005
Annual Meeting of the Friends of Real Estate at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2005
Cityscape – the Future of Britain‘s Cities, Town & Suburbs – Innovations in Urban Design, Landscape & Construction (panel discussions), London, UK, 2005
Dubai Architectural World Congress, Dubai, UAE, 2005
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA, 2005
Museum of Modern Art Symposium in conjunction with „Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape“ Exhibit, New York City, NY, USA, 2005
Tau Sigma Delta, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Chicago, IL, USA, 2005
Renssalear Polytechnic, Troy, NY, USA, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA, 2004
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York City, NY, USA, 2004
3rd International Summit of Real Estate Landscape in China, Kunming, China, 2004
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA, 2004
Coalfields Partners Workshop, Moira, UK, 2004
Urban Land Institute Conference, Madrid, Spain, 2004
Pero Presentation, Milan, Italy, 2004
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK, 2004
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York City, NY, USA, 2004
Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio, Milan, Italy, 2004
City University of New York City, NY, USA, 2004
Inspiring Spaces, Birmingham, UK, 2003
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2003
Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA, 2003
„Contemporary Habitation“, Architectural League, New York City, NY, USA, 2003
International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress Key Note Speaker, Calgary, Canada, 2003
American Society of Landscape Architects Conference, Des Moines, IA, USA, 2003
Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, 2003
Clemson Architecture Center, Charleston, SC, USA, 2003
Interior Design Show, Toronto, Canada, 2003
Southern California Institute of Architecture, San Diego, CA, USA, 2003
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2003
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 2003
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA, 2003
Toronto Design Show, Toronto, Canada, 2003
The Architectural League, New York City, NY, USA, 2002
American Institute of Architects, Jacksonville, FL, USA, 2002
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2002
Lunchtime Lecture Series, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2002
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, 2001
Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, USA, 2001
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, 2000
Fredrick Law Olmsted Lecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2000
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, 2000
Fleet Bank Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 2000
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2000
BM8 Lecture, Munich, Germany, 2000
Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, USA, 2000
City College of New York, New York City, NY, USA, 2000
Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2000
Technical University of Berlin, Germany, 1999
Technical University of Munich, Germany, 1999
Glasgow, UK, 1999
Academy of Art, Hamburg, Germany, 1999
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1999
Kansas City, MO, USA, 1999
Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, USA, 1999
Toronto, Canada, 1999
Cambridge Plant & Garden Club, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1999
Barcelona University, Spain, 1998
Dallas Architecture Forum, Dallas, TX, USA, 1998
Paradeisos – 3rd National Convention on Urban Parks, Italy, 1998
Florida Phosphate Conference, Lakeland, FL, USA, 1998
Kinross Gold Corporation, Toronto, Canada, 1998
Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh, India, 1998
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 1998
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1997
University of Michigan Alumni Reunion, Keynote speech with Jim Van Sweeden, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 1997
Federation of German Landscape Architects, Berlin, Germany, 1997
Planning Matters: Art in Public Places, Orlando, FL, USA, 1997
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA, 1997
Architalx Lecture Series, Portland, MN, USA, 1997
Australia Institute of Landscape Architects, Australia, 1997
Conference on Tailings and Mine Wastes, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 1997
Designed Landscape Forum, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1996
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., 1996
Society for Environmental Graphic Design Conference, New York City, NY, USA, 1996
New England Women in Real Estate, Boston, MA, USA, 1996
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 1996
Pennsylvania Avenue Charrette, Washington, D.C., USA, 1995
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1995
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1995
Mayor‘s Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1995
International Federation of Landscape Architects, General Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 1995
American Institute of Architects, Baltimore, MD, USA, 1995
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, 1995
5th Viennese Seminar, Vienna, Austria, 1994
Rapperswil Summer Academy, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 1994
Grupo De Deseno Urbano with Mario Schjetnan, Mexico City, Mexico, 1994
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, D.C., USA 1994
American Society of Landscape Architects New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, USA, 1994
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA, 1993
Architecture Society of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA, 1993
College of Technology, Marietta, GA, USA, 1993
Urban Development Forum, Hamburg, Germany, 1993
Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., USA, 1992
University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1992
University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 1992
International Federation of Landscape Architects Conference, Netherlands, 1992
Veisha Lecture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, 1992
National Association of Women Business Owners, Washington, D.C., USA, 1992
Edmonton Societey, Urban & Architecture Lecture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1992
Westweek, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1992
New York Botanical Garden Symposium, New York City, NY, USA, 1992
University of California, Davis, CA, USA, 1992
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, 1992
Committee for Public Art, Cleveland, OH, USA, 1991
University of California San Diego Forum, San Diego, CA, USA, 1991
Australia Summer School, Melbourne, Australia, 1991
Art in Public Places Symposium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1991
Kiley Lecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1991
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 1991
Organization of Women Architects/Design Profesionals, Berkeley, CA, USA, 1990
City University of New York, New York City, NY, USA, 1990
American Institue of Architects Minnesota Convention, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1990
Cal-Poly University Lecture, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, 1990
Sacramento Arts Director‘s Club, Sacramento, CA, USA, 1990
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, USA, 1990
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA, 1990
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1990
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1990
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 1990
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 1990
Alcan Lecture Series, National Juneteenth Obervance Foundation, Belzoni, MS, USA, 1990
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA, 1990
University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1990
Graduate School of Design
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Lydia R. Diamond
Let's Talk About Race
Preview of Smart People, Long Wharf Theatre
So far this season, the Long Wharf Theatre has presented a somewhat surreal couples comedy (Meteors by Steve Martin); a re-vamp of an Eighties comedy-drama that was surprisingly relevant around election time (Other People’s Money by Jerry Sterner); a strong revival of a great achievement in twentieth-century drama (Samuel Beckett’s Endgame); a brand-new play with a fresh voice about Italian immigrants (Napoli, Brooklyn by Meghan Kennedy), and now, next up, a newish play that takes us back to a moment in the recent past that’s seeming more “historic” every day: Smart People by Lydia R. Diamond is set uring the campaign and election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States in 2008. The play purports to follow up recent Long Wharf successes in presenting abrasive plays that feature people in polite situations having to handle ugly truths.
Ka-Ling Cheung, who plays Ginny Yang in the play, saw the production at Second Stage a year ago in New York, and found it “a sexy play about race” that caused her and the friend she saw it with to talk about it afterwards. It’s a play that “asks important questions” about the puzzle of race relations and the problem of status, and she found she had some questions herself after seeing it. In working on the play with her fellow cast members and director Desdemona Chiang, some of those questions are being answered, and some “will be left to the audience.”
Cheung, who has been working mostly in “classical stuff” since her MFA days at the American Conservatory Theater, welcomes a change to “the fun of contemporary language” with a small cast of four who are all playing characters around the same age. All four characters work in Boston with some connection to Harvard, a setting that one imagines will transfer easily to New Haven and that other big Ivy in our midst. The play focuses on highly educated professionals who, we might imagine, are less tainted with racist ideas than people more regionally based and less educated. But that comfortable assumption is precisely what Diamond’s play wants to question, with humor and with added romance elements.
left to right: back row: Peter O'Connor (Brian); director Desdemona Chiang; front row: Tiffany Nichole Greene (Valerie), Ka-Ling Cheung (Ginny), Sullivan Jones (Jackson)
Ginny is “an Asian-American professor who has worked hard to be tenured.” She is a psychologist who mainly does research and a little teaching. Cheung sees her as somewhat “hard and brittle” because, as a woman of color, she’s had to prove herself where a white man would get the benefit of the doubt. Though this is academia, Ginny’s situation extends to almost any profession where women are denied the same status and compensation that men receive. Ginny adds comedy to the plot—deliberately acting-out a stereotype at one point—and Cheung likes the challenge of comedy, which is “harder” than serious roles. She’s also intrigued by the way the ensemble cast will also “play crew” during the set changes, which, she says, creates a level of participation by all that adds to the closeness of the characters’ interactions.
“All the characters are provocative and have strong opinions about racism,” and the play handles the “hot topic” as an aspect of both the personal and professional aspect of the characters. When she first saw Smart People, Cheung was excited, as a young Asian-American woman, that the play “had a part for me”; now, she’s excited by how timely the play seems and by the fact that it should give audiences, as it did for Cheung and her friend, “a lot to talk about.”
Smart People opens this Wednesday, March 15, in previews, at Long Wharf Theatre; the official opening is next week, Wednesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m.
By Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Desdemona Chiang
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Voiceover: Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung visited three elderly households and families in need in Sham Shui Po. He presented them with gift packs and some organic vegetables grown by Chief Executive CY Leung. He also took the opportunity to learn more about their living conditions and needs. The Celebrations for All project is one of the major events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Speaking at the launch ceremony, Mr Cheung said the initiative shares the joy of the 20th anniversary with the less privileged, extends warm wishes to them and promotes the important messages of unity, inclusiveness and care. Volunteers will visit around 300,000 households of elderly people and families in need. Senior Government officials will also join the home visits. The project will provide transportation and meals to more than 100,000 elderly and less privileged people to facilitate their participation in the 20th anniversary celebratory activities.
Citywide celebrations: Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung speaks at the launch ceremony of the Celebrations for All project in Sham Shui Po.
Community care: Mr Cheung visits families in need in Sham Shui Po.
Citywide celebrations Community care
Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung visited three elderly households and families in need in Sham Shui Po today, commencing home visits in all districts under the Celebrations for All project.
He presented them with gift packs and organic vegetables grown by Chief Executive CY Leung.
He also took the opportunity to learn more about their living conditions and needs.
The project is one of the major events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Speaking at the launch ceremony, Mr Cheung said the initiative shares the joy of the 20th anniversary with the less privileged, extends warm wishes to them and promotes the important messages of unity, inclusiveness and care.
Volunteers will visit around 300,000 households of elderly people and families in need.
Senior Government officials will also join the home visits.
The project will provide transportation and meals to more than 100,000 elderly and less privileged people to facilitate their participation in the 20th anniversary celebratory activities.
HK architectural talent on show(May 04, 2017)
Gov't to start home visits(April 29, 2017)
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Babylonian Exile
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Deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon's temple
The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadrezzar II. The Babylonian exile is distinguished from the earlier exile of citizens of the northern Kingdom of Israel to Assyria around 722 B.C.E. The exile in Babylon—which directly affected mainly those of the upper class of society—occurred in three waves from 597 to 581 B.C.E. as a result of Judean rebellions against Babylonian rule. The Bible portrays the internal cause of the captivity as the sins of Judah in failing to rid herself of idolatry and refusing to heed prophetic warnings not to rebel against Babylon.
While the Jews in Babylon did not suffer greatly in the physical sense, the siege and later sack of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E., including the destruction of its sacred Temple, left many of the exiles deeply repentant and determined to keep their faith pure. After Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylon, he allowed the exiles to return in 537 B.C.E. They came to Jerusalem with a tradition refined by the rise of the scribal profession, deeply committed to ethnic purity centering on the rebuilt Temple, and yet enriched by universalistic monotheistic values.
1 Deportations
2 Numbers and conditions
3 Religious and cultural impact
4 The Return
4.1 Jews and Samaritans
5 Lasting Impact
The Babylonian exile represents both one of Judaism's darkest hours and also the beginning of its history as an enduring universal religion that gave birth to the later monotheistic traditions of Christianity and Islam.
King Jehoiakim destroys the writings of the prophet Jeremiah, who had opposed the king's alliance with Egypt and urged cooperation with Babylon
The first deportation from Judah occurred in 597 B.C.E., as a result of the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar II. The purpose of this action was to punish King Josiah's son Jehoiakim, once Babylon's vassal, for allying with Egypt and rebelling against Babylonian dominance (2 Kings 24:1). Against Babylon's superior forces, Jehoiakim retained no territory except Jerusalem when he died of natural causes. His son Jehoiachin, also called Jeconiah, continued to resist until he was forced to surrender after a reign of only three months. Nebuchadnezzar ordered him and the elite citizens of Judah deported, together with the most valuable treasures of the Temple and the palace (2 Kings 24 1-16). Among the captives was the prophet Ezekiel, though not Jeremiah, who remained in Jerusalem, where he counseled cooperation with Babylon.
Jeremiah advised those taken to Babylon to settle there peacefully, and not hope to return for at least 70 years. They were even to pray for Nebuchadrezzar, for he was God's instrument to punish Judah for her sins. He strongly urged those in Jerusalem to be patient and resist the urge to rebel. This advice was opposed forcefully by the prophet Hananaiah, who urged the new king, Zedekiah, to have faith that God would deliver Judah from the hand of its oppressor (Jer. 28).
Jeremiah's advice would ultimately go unheeded. Zedekiah, who, like his predecessor Jehoiakim, had taken the oath as a vassal of Nebuchadrezzar (Ezek. 17:13), rebelled. Nebuchadrezzar, reaching the end of his patience, began the siege of Jerusalem in January 587. He was soon forced to abandon the siege in order to face Zedekiah's Egyptian allies. After defeating them in battle, however, the Babylonian forces renewed their assault on Jerusalem, finally breaching its walls in July 586. Zedekiah and his court attempted to flee, but were captured. As punishment, he was forced to witness the death of his sons and then he was blinded. After this, the king was taken in chains to Babylon.
In August of the same year, while they watched with spiritual eyes in troubled visions from Babylon, Nebuchadrezzar’s captain, Nebuzaradan, supervised the destruction and burning of the Temple of Jerusalem, the royal palace, and virtually the entire city. Hundreds of the surviving inhabitants were deported to Babylon, but another 70-80 leading citizens, including the high priest Seraiah, were put to death (2 Kings 25, Jer. 34). A notable exception was the prophet Jeremiah, who was rightly viewed by the Babylonians as a vocal opponent of the rebellion.
Nebuchadrezzar appointed the collaborator Gedaliah to govern what remained of Judah from Mizpah. After seven months, however, Gedaliah was assassinated, and another rebellion broke out. Many Judeans escaped to Egypt during this time. Among them was Jeremiah, who apparently went very reluctantly after prophesying against such a course (Jer. 41-43). In retribution against the rebels, a third deportation was ordered by Nebuchadnezzar around 582-581 B.C.E.
Numbers and conditions
"By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion"
According to the Book of Jeremiah (52:28-30), 3,023 Jews were deported in the first wave, 832 in the second, and 745 in the third, making 4,600 in all. However, it is likely that only the men were counted. Including women and children it is estimated that 14,000 to 18,000 people would be the full number. A larger estimate is given in 2 Kings 24:14-16, which refers only to the first deportation 597 B.C.E. Verse 14 gives the numbers as 10,000 men, while verse 16 puts the number at 8,000, an estimate roughly double that of Jeremiah's for all three deportations. Scholars tend to accept Jeremiah's figures as more accurate. In either case, since scholars estimate the total population of the Kingdom of Judah during this time at between 120,000 and 150,000, less than one quarter of the population was actually taken into exile. However, since this included a high percentage of court officials, the priesthood, skilled craftsmen, and other wealthy citizens, the exiles constituted the majority of the cultural elite of nation.
Those who had been deported in 597 had hoped for a speedy return to their homes. They were encouraged in this hope by certain prophets among them, against whom Jeremiah and Ezekiel worked in vain (Jer. 29-29; Ezek. 18, 22). Although most lived in the environs of the great city of Babylon, it is not known whether they formed a close knit community or were scattered throughout the area. One of their places of dwelling was called Tel Aviv (Ezek. 1:3).
As exiles under royal protection, the deportees enjoyed special prerogatives. Indeed, their personal fortunes were undoubtedly better than those who remained behind. Jeremiah's communications with them (Jer. 24:5-7) indicate that that the exiles were permitted to engage in farming, to marry and raise families, buy property, and accumulate wealth. Aside from the issue of sacrifices, which could only be properly offered at the Temple of Jerusalem, they were apparently not hindered in the exercise of their religion. No bloody persecutions are reported.[1]
Nevertheless, it is clear from the writings of the Psalms and later prophets that that many of the exiles indeed felt themselves imprisoned and ill-treated. Psalm 137 expresses these sentiments eloquently:
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs
Our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you,
If I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
Deutero-Isaiah[2] particularly expresses a sense of Israel's degradation as a result of her exile. It describes the nation as a helpless worm (Isa. 41:14) and speaks of her suffering in chains and bondage (42:20-24). These sufferings, however, are not to be understood literally. Rather, they represent the condition of homelessness and servitude to foreign rule, while the territory formerly promised to Israel by God and the holy city itself lay in ruins. Meanwhile, pagans and idolaters could scoff and point to the fall of Jerusalem and its Temple evidence of Yahweh's weakness of Israel's God.
Religious and cultural impact
Ezekiel preaches to the elders of Judah in exile
Many of the exiles, finding themselves in comfortable circumstances, assimilated into Babylonian society in ways that concerned the pious among them. Ezekiel denounced such men as "a rebellious house," and parts of the Book of Isaiah written during exilic times likewise expressed concern over the adoption of Babylonian traditions (Isa. 65:3). Some, however, maintained their faith and others responded to prophetic preaching of repentance (Ezek. 33:31).
Since the Temple was available neither for sacrifices nor festival celebrations, solemn days of penance and prayer commemorated Jerusalem's fall (Zech. 7:3-5, 8:19). The Sabbath took on new emphasis as a day of contemplation, prayer, and sacred rest. Circumcision, too, grew in significance as the special mark of the Israelites in the midst of a foreign people. The prophetic emphasis on works of morality and charity came to the fore, since the priestly functions were, for the moment at least, irrelevant. In response to those who feared that the "sins of the fathers" would be visited upon the sons for the full four generations promised by the Book of Deuteronomy (5:5), Ezekiel promised that "(The son) will not die for his father's sin; he will surely live. But his father will die for his own sin" (Ezek. 19:17-18). Deutoero-Isaiah, meanwhile, expanded the concept of God's special blessing on Israel to include the eventual recognition of Yahweh even by the Gentiles (Isa. 49:22)
The profession of the scribes, often themselves priests learned in the law, also grew in importance during the exile. A more modern Hebrew script was adopted during this period, replacing the traditional Israelite script. Historical writings were compiled and revised in accordance with the emerging priestly consensus, based especially on the historical conception expressed in the Book of Deuteronomy. In this view, the calamities that had befallen the people of Israel and Judah must be accepted by the exiles as a punishment for their sins, especially the sin of idolatry. At the same time, the hope was expressed that a resurrected Jewish people, a holy remnant risen from the grave of exile, would one day return to Jerusalem, rebuild the Temple, and once and for all live in accordance with the Law of Moses.
Ezra the scribe became a leading figure in early post-exilic Judaism
At the same time, the Jews' exposure to Babylonian literature and traditions served to broaden their viewpoint to include new concepts formerly not strongly evident in the literature of ancient Israel, among them:
The concept of Satan as God's adversary
The idea of an angelic hierarchy under God rather than the more ancient idea of an assembly of the gods with Yahweh/Elohim as the supreme deity
The idea of absolute monotheism, as opposed to the idea that Yahweh was the special god of Israel, but not necessarily the only God
The related idea of universalism: that not only the Jews, but all people, must honor God
The Jews were also apparently influenced by the wisdom literature of Babylon, expressing a less black-and-white approach to the concept of spiritual wisdom—as expressed for example in the Book of Proverbs with its promises of blessings to righteous and suffering to the wicked. The newer type of wisdom literature expressed a more nuanced and realistic viewpoint, some might even say skeptical, as exemplified by Ecclesiastes and Job.
Finally, some scholars opine that the Babylonian tradition may even have influenced the origin story of Genesis 1, which mythologists believe to be a reworking of the Babylonian cosmology portrayed in the Enuma Elish.
The exiles return to Jerusalem
After the overthrow of Babylon by the Persians, Cyrus instituted a major shift in religious policy, encouraging the priests who had been forced into exile by his predecessors to return to their native lands, install captured religious icons in their proper temples, and minister to the spiritual needs of the peoples. He thus gave the Jews permission to return to Jerusalem in 537 B.C.E. The Book of Ezra reports that 42,360 availed themselves of the privilege, including women, children and slaves, finally completing a long and dreary journey of four months from the banks of the Euphrates to Jerusalem.
Under the Babylonian-appointed governor Zerubbabel, chosen in part because of his Davidic lineage, the Temple foundation would soon be laid, and—just as important—the sacrificial rituals were once against offered. The returning exiles poured their gifts into the sacred treasury with great enthusiasm (Ezra 2). They erected and dedicated the altar of God on the exact spot where it had formerly stood and cleared away the charred heaps of debris which occupied the site. In 535 B.C.E., among great public excitement, the foundations of the second temple were laid. However, its poor appearance was regarded with mingled feelings by the spectators (Haggai 2:3).
Seven years after this Cyrus the Great died (2 Chron. 36:22-23). Mistrust of the non-Jewish populations and various political intrigues caused the rebuilding to cease for a time, but under Darius I of Persia, the work was resumed and carried forward to its completion (Ezra 5:6-6:15). It was ready for consecration in the spring of 516 B.C.E., more than 20 years after the return from captivity.
Jews and Samaritans
When the Jews[3] returned home, they found a mixture of peoples practicing a religion very similar to their own. These people, who came to be known as Samaritans, worshiped Yahweh and honored the Law of Moses as they understood it, but many had intermarried with non-Israelite peoples who had immigrated to Judah and Israel in the wake of the Assyrian and Babylonian policy of forcing conquered peoples into exile. Moreover, some of them had established altars and were offering sacrifices outside of Jerusalem, considered a sin by the spiritual leaders of the exiles.
Zerubbabel and the Jewish elders therefore rebuffed offers from the local inhabitants to help rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem. Ezra and Nehemiah even went so far as to require those who had intermarried to divorce their foreign wives and disown their children in order to be included in the assembly of the Jews. Hostility grew between the returning Jews and the Samaritans. For much of the period from this point until the Common Era, Judea remained a smaller and less influential province than did its northern neighbor, Samaria.
Lasting Impact
Nevertheless, once the Temple of Jerusalem was rebuilt, it became the rallying point of the Jewish people, spawning a tradition which, unlike its Samaritan counterpart, has survived with a large worldwide following into the current era. The paradoxical combination of ethnic purity and universalism that evolved during the Babylonian exile resulted in a religious spirit that survived both the later expulsions of Jews from Jerusalem and their being scattered throughout the world for the last two millennia. The tradition of Jewish ethical monotheism also inspired two other world religions: Christianity and Islam. It may be one of history's great ironies—or perhaps one should say one of God's most dramatic twists of fate—that out of Israel's most tragic moment, its lasting legacy would be born.
↑ Exceptions may be noted in the Book of Daniel, which portrays Nebuchadrezzar as persecuting certain Jews. However, the historicity of this account is questioned.
↑ Deutero-Isaiah is the name give to author(s) of those parts of the Book of Isaiah believed to have been written during the Babylonian Exile and later included as part of Isaiah's work.
↑ From this point on, we may truly speak of "Jews" rather than "Israelites," since the basic precepts and tradition of Judaism were now firmly in place.
Cahill, Thomas. The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels. New York: Anchor Books, 1999. ISBN 978-0385482493
Grayzel, Solomon. A History of the Jews: From the Babylonian Exile to the Present. Jewish Publication Society, 1968. ISBN 978-0999163368
Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews. Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0060915339
The above article may incorporate text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and may be adapted in part from an article originally appearing in the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, also now in the public domain.
Babylonian Exile history
History of "Babylonian Exile"
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Israel advancing plans to expand illegal settlement west of Salfit
April 2, 2017 4:01 P.M. (Updated: April 3, 2017 1:28 P.M.)
NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Israeli authorities are advancing plans to expand an illegal settlement west of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank, to be built on tens of dunams of private Palestinian land, local sources said.
According to Palestinian researcher Khalid Maali, the Supreme Council for Planning and Building at the Israeli Civil Administration has put forward a new settlement scheme to expand a college in the illegal Israeli settlement of Elqana, to be constructed on the lands of the Palestinian village of Masha.
Maali said that Israeli bulldozers have recently leveled agricultural land in Masha for new settlement units in Elqana and the neighboring settlement of Shaare Tiqwa, noting that Israeli authorities did not notify landowners beforehand.
“Building a college in a settlement built on Palestinian land is a violation of international humanitarian law, which bans the building of facilities for the occupying power on occupied land. It also violates the Fourth Geneva Convention,” Maali noted.
A spokesperson for COGAT, the Israeli agency responsible for implementing Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territory, told Ma'an in a statement on Sunday evening that "the educational technology college in Elqana has received approval from the (Israeli) Supreme Council for Planning and Building in the Civil Administration and exists in the towns outline plan."
According to the Applied research Institute - Jerusalem, Israeli authorities confiscated 2,356 dunams of Masha’s land as of 2013, for the construction of Israeli settlements, checkpoints, outposts, and bypass roads, and the separation wall.
Some 31 percent of the total village area has been seized for the establishment of the four illegal Israeli settlements -- Elqana, Ez Efrayim, Shaare Tiqwa, and Benot Orot Yisrael, which are all located on the west side of the village’s territory, within a zone that Israel seeks to include to its borders upon the completion of its illegal separation wall.
The reports came as the Israeli government has come under widespread international condemnation for approving the first illegal new settlement in the occupied West Bank in 20 years, declaring 977 dunams (241 acres) of Palestinian land as "state land" for the retroactive legalization of three illegal West Bank outposts, and advancing plans to build of up to 2,000 new settler units -- in addition to the thousands of units that were approved earlier this year.
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OAS »Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) » Media Center » Press Releases » 2017 » 116
IACHR Announces Schedule of Public Hearings for its 164th Sessions and Calls for Participation in Hearings Convened at its own Initiative
Schedule of Hearings
IACHR calls for expressions of interest from civil society organizations that may wish to participate in the hearing on “Legal and judicial process for the recognition of refugees and stateless persons in the Americas”
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Washington, D.C. - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today publishes the schedule of public hearings that will take place during its 164th Extraordinary Period of Sessions, to be held in Mexico City, Mexico. Also, the IACHR calls for expressions of interest from civil society organizations that may wish to participate in the hearing convened at the IACHR’s own initiative.
The hearings in Mexico will take place on September 5, 6 and 7, during the morning hours. Attached to this press release is the complete schedule of hearings.
The IACHR’s convened on its own initiative (ex officio) a hearing on “Legal and judicial process for the recognition of refugees and stateless persons in the Americas”, and invites interested organizations and persons to participate.
Beginning today, the Commission is accepting expressions of interest to participate in these hearings. Pursuant to Article 66 of the IACHR Rules of Procedure, those interested must submit information indicating the identity of the participants and the purpose of their appearance. Expressions of interest should be sent through this system, which will be available until August 17 at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST), in the United States.
At a later date, the IACHR will announce the list of organizations convened to participate in the hearings. These organizations will have a combined total of 15 minutes to present any information they consider relevant. The expense of participating in the hearings must be covered by the organization or persons interested in participating. In terms of organizations and persons that are not called on to participate, the IACHR invites them to present in writing any documentation and information they believe is relevant to the subject matter of the hearing.
Pursuant to Article 68 of the IACHR Rules of Procedure, the hearings will be public. Anyone interested may attend, subject only to space restrictions in the hearing room, and no prior registration is required.
A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has a mandate to promote respect for and to defend human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this area. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who are elected in an individual capacity by the OAS General Assembly and who do not represent their countries of origin or residence.
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I Belong to You (song)
Name I Belong to You
Mon Cœur S'ouvre à Ta Voix (interlude)
Album/single The Resistance (8)[1]
Length 5:38, 3:12 (New Moon remix)
Alternative titles Delilah[2]
First live performance 25th May 2010
Latest live performance 10th September 2010
Recorded Studio Bellini, Lake Como and Milan, Italy, 2009
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, Christopher Wolstenholme, Camille Saint-Saëns
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MK Ultra < I Belong to You > Exogenesis: Symphony
Black Holes and Revelations (2006) < The Resistance (2009) > The 2nd Law (2012)
"I Belong To You" has a slow rhythm. The song's middle section[3] is sung in French[3] and the latter section includes a bass clarinet solo.[4]
Matt said that "This song is influenced by silly circus sounds, 'Sgt. Pepper's', 'Pet Sounds' and a general 'anything goes' approach to music. It is about feeling in debt or grateful to someone for being an inspiration for creating music. The middle is from the aria called 'Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix from the French opera 'Samson and Delilah' composed by Camille Saint-Saens. The song features a bass clarinet solo which we wanted to sound like a theme tune from a children's TV program featuring teddy bears in a garden."[5]
Matt stated that the lyrics of the song were inspired by the opera by Camille Saint-Saëns "Samson and Delilah": "the idea that there's a woman tempting him to give up his (hair) or something, something biblical"[6] . In one interview, Matt said "I really like the aria section from Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens. I tried singing the parts translated into English but it sounded horrible so I ended up doing it in French. Sorry for my pronounciation!". He also feels this song and "Exogenesis" are the two tracks he can't believe made it onto the album.
According to Chris, the song's middle-section was inspired by the opera "Samson and Delilah". The song, which he says has a different rhythmic feel, is therefore one of the more unusual songs of the album, but has become one of his personal favourites on The Resistance.[7]
The meaning of "She attacks me like a Leo, when my heart is split like Rio" acording to Matt in a tweet is: "Rio is pretty divided, 5 Star hotels and favelas close together. Leo star sign."[8]
When the name of this song was released on musewire, it was appended with "(+Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix)",[1] which translates from French into "My Heart Opens Itself To Your Voice", and is the name of an aria from Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Samson and Delilah. An operatic partial cover of this song is included as the interlude in "I Belong to You".
The song makes several self-references, namely "Guiding Light" and "Overdue", the common use of the word "soul" in Matt's lyrics, and the band name, "Muse" itself.
Matt can be heard popping his mouth with his finger right before the verses and the chorus. This is also shown on "The Making Of The Resistance" DVD.
An alternative version of "I Belong to You" is featured in the soundtrack of the film New Moon, the sequel to Twilight.[9] Despite the song's writing being entirely independent from the story of New Moon, the lyrics are fitting to the story.
I Belong to You is one of the band's rarest songs live. It was only given five performances in mostly French-speaking European nations in 2010. It is unknown what turned the band off to performing I Belong to You live, though it is believed that the French section of the song, as well as the bass clarinet solo, were what sealed the song's fate as a rare song.
When these pillars get pulled down
It will be you who wears the crown And I'll owe everything to you
How much pain has cracked your soul? How much love would make you whole? You're my guiding lightning strike
I can't find the words to say They're overdue I've traveled half the world to say "I belong to you"
And she attacks me like a Leo When my heart is split like Rio But I assure you my debts are real
I can't find the words to say When I'm confused I've traveled half the world to say "You are my mu..."
[Mon Cœur S'ouvre à Ta Voix] (My heart opens itself to your voice) Ah! Réponds, (Ah! Respond,) Réponds à ma tendresse (Respond to my tenderness) Verse-moi, verse-moi l'ivresse! (Pour out to me, pour out to me the euphoria!) Réponds à ma tendresse! (Respond to my tenderness!) Réponds à ma tendresse! (Respond to my tenderness!) Ah! Verse-moi l'ivresse! (Ah! Pour out to me the euphoria!)
Verse-moi, verse-moi l'ivresse! (Pour out to me, pour out to me the euphoria!) Réponds à ma tendresse! (Respond to my tenderness!) Réponds à ma tendresse! (Respond to my tenderness!) Ah! Verse-moi l'ivresse! (Ah! Pour out to me the euphoria!)
I belong I belong to you alone
"...use"
New Moon remix
I can't find the words to say When I'm confused I've traveled half the world to say "You are my muse"
↑ a b 8. I BELONG TO YOU (+Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix) (2009-07-03). Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-03 from twitter.com.
↑ The making of The Resistance
↑ a b Julien Bordier. (2009-07-0?). Jai ecoute le nouveau Muse. L'Express. Retrieved 2009-07-10 from www.muselive.com. [verify]
↑ Ray Wilkinson. (2009-07). Progressive stadium rock three dream up album five. Mojo magazine, 1802. Retrieved 2009-07-05 from www.muselive.com. [verify]
↑ iTunes LP - The Resistance
↑ Virgin MegaFR. (2009). Muse Interview 2009 : The Resistance. Retrieved 2018-11-16 from Youtube.
↑ 5fm (South Africa) interview with Chris (2009-09-13). 5fm. Retrieved 2009-09-13 from muselive.com.
↑ Matthew Bellamy. (2011-04-01). Twitter / Matt Bellamy: @DomsFaffBag.... Twitter. Retrieved 2011-04-15 from twitter.com.
↑ Exclusive: Muse For New Moon Soundtrack (2009-09-21). MTV. Retrieved 2009-09-21 from mtv.co.uk.
Media use of I Belong to You
I Belong to You tablature
Go back to The Resistance
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About PACCIN
National Gallery of Victoria Sculpture Garden Installation 2004
Brent Powell, Coordinator Art Handling
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia
Geoffrey Bartlett "Messenger"
In January 2003 the primary logistics started to be put into place for the re-installation of outdoor sculptures for the newly renovated National Gallery of Victoria Sculpture Garden. Five sculptures were to be installed in the garden and one sculpture removed from the present site before the grand reopening of the newly refurbished building on December 4th 2003.The sculptures from the NGV collection were August Rodin's "Balzac", William DeKooning's "Standing Figure", Henry Moore's "Draped Seated Woman", Fernand Leger's "LaGrande Parade", Geoffrey Bartlett's "Messenger" and Deborah Halpern's " Angel".
Rodin "Balzac"
This project presented several complications which required months of planning, many hours of negotiations with several parties including Baulderstone- Hornibrook (building contractors), ARUP Engineering, The Victorian Arts Center, Heritage Victoria, JK Fasham (installation contractor), Artists (Deborah Halpern and Geoffrey Bartlett) and the City of Melbourne. Discussions and negotiations involved many National Gallery of Victoria staff including the Director, Deputy Directors, Curators, and staff from Conservation, Risks and Facilities, Registration, Design and Public Programming.
The first stage of the project involved working with the schedule established by BH and additional contractors in regard to the garden construction. The design included the establishment of a new garden on the previous garden site. Discussions and supervision of the engineered placement of the footings and bases for the works were maintained as the elements of the garden design were considered and changed. This included the addition of thousands of cubic meters of new soil, planting of trees and shrubs, building walkways, irrigation systems and waterproofing of the garden base floor, which is the existing ceiling of the subbasement of the building itself.
Deborah Halpern "Angel"
The primary obstacle to the installation of the sculptures was the use of heavy equipment on the newly established soil and the prevention of damage to the internal irrigation and waterproof membrane that existed beneath the soil surface. Each piece of heavy equipment to be used had to be approved by engineers, as it was critical to ensure that the combined weight of the equipment and sculptures was well within safe working limits.
Ultimately all involved parties agreed that no heavy equipment should be used on the site until after the winter months and the rainy season had given the soil some time to create some natural compaction. This delayed the project considerably and meant that all work had to be undertaken around the new existing landscape features.
When the actual installation procedure was executed all heavy equipment, which included cranes and trucks, had to be driven over 20mm plywood walkways to help eliminate damage to the soil surface and possible disruption of the internal components within the subsoil.
The second obstacle to the installation process was the access route from the street to the garden, which were the adjacent front and side forecourt and walkways between the Victorian Arts Center and the National Gallery of Victoria building. The main difficulty of this access route was the fact that the existing public spaces of the substructures beneath. The substructures below this area include one of the main performing theatres, internal public service areas and in one area two levels of underground car parking.
Careful planning and negotiating had to be undertaken with the Victorian Arts Center, and be approved by their engineers before any heavy equipment was moved across these areas.
The Rodin and Henry Moore sculptures have been on long-term loan and were displayed at McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park in Langwarrin, Victoria. These sculptures were removed in early winter to prevent damage to the McClelland Gallery's lawns and stored at JK Fasham warehouse where they prepared for the final installation. Both works needed minor preparation and were the simplest works in the whole project due to their sizes and weights. Each work was delivered and installed with a 10-ton flat top crane truck.
Willem de Kooning "Figure"
The Willem de Kooning " Standing Figure" was previously installed on the front forecourt of the Victorian Arts Center. It was removed in early August and taken off site for storage until the final installation in the new Sculpture Garden could be made.
The size and weight of this work meant that it was impossible to move it through the general access route and the combined weight of the crane and the sculpture was too great. Final installation of the work was achieved by using an 80-ton crane based in Sturt Street, which runs parallel to the back portion of the Gallery and Garden. The crane lifted the sculpture up and over the two-story portion of the building area and across into its final location in the Sculpture Garden. This installation was done on a Saturday morning as Sturt Street had to be temporarily closed off while the crane was positioned and the sculpture lifted into the Garden.
"Messenger" by Geoffrey Bartlett had to be relocated from the right front moat at the front of the NGV in St. Kilda Road. Many discussions and negotiations were held with the artist and engineers to determine how this large work could be removed, relocated and reinstalled. Like the De Kooning, due to its size and weight it was impossible to take this sculpture through the general access route between the NGV and the VAC. It was finally decided that the work be disassembled, moved in sections to its new site in the Sculpture Garden and then reassembled.
In early October the work was disassembled into four pieces and then taken off site to be reconditioned and painted. While the work was being reconditioned and painted, the slab within the moat in the new Sculpture Garden had to be altered and enlarged due to design and placement changes requested by the artist.
In early November the work was transported back to the NGV and all parts taken through the general access route to the Sculpture Garden. The work was reassembled and all welding was conditioned and repainted for its final treatment. This work involved a 12-ton "Franner" crane, which is a small flexible crane that could maneuver through the general access area and around the existing garden landscaping. Since the work had been disassembled this crane was sufficient to lift the individual portions and extend the portions into the sunken moat area and onto the concrete slab for its final placement.
Deborah Halpern "Angel" - installed
The Deborah Halpern "Angel" was located in the left side moat at the front of the NGV in St. Kilda Road. It was determined that this work was to be removed from the site and be stored until a future date when a suitable location for it had been agreed. This work was by far the largest of all the six sculptures and weighed approximately 40 tons. It stood approximately seven meters high. It had to be disassembled and removed in three major portions.
The work is composed of colored ceramic tile, which are adhered to a concrete and steel mesh support structure. Over the 20 years that the sculpture had been installed at the gallery the surface tile had begun to separate and fall away in some minor areas. It was determined that the entire work should be wrapped in a wide plastic tape sheeting to assure that no tiles would come loose during its de-installation and transport. The work was started in early November and took two weeks to prepare and disassemble before it was removed.
Two 80-ton cranes were positioned on the St Kilda Road access street adjacent to the building. They were needed to lift the work out of the moat above 15-meter tall trees, which lined the roadway and then turn the work on its side over the roadway to be loaded onto the trucks. Like the De Kooning this work was done early on a Saturday morning and required the access street being closed for several hours while the operation took place.
Even cut into three sections the main body of the work was so large that oversized transport permits had to be obtained and escort vehicles used during its transport to the off-site storage.
The Ferdinand Leger " La Grande Parade" is a large mural, which had to be installed onto a large framework built within the garden. This was the last work to be installed because once it was installed access routes between the established garden elements would be greatly reduced.
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Thousands Protest Prawer Plan in Global "Day of Rage"
By Ben H. - December 04, 2013
Section: [Main News] [IN PICTURES] [Life under Occupation] [Features]
Tags: [Prawer Plan] [ethnic cleansing] [protests]
The protest against the Prawer Plan in Ramallah. Photos by Calum Toogood.
Protests were held throughout the Israeli and Palestinian territories as well as 31 cities around the world on Saturday, 30 November, to protest the Prawer-Begin Bill for the Regulation of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, a development plan currently being reviewed by the Israeli parliament which would displace some 40,000-70,000 Bedouin from their communities in the Negev (known as al-Naqab in Arabic), the desert region of southern Israel.
The Prawer Plan, as Prawer-Begin is commonly called, targets dozens of Bedouin settlements in the Negev – “areas not recognized by the government as residential locations,” according to an article on the plan published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in March 2012. The tens of thousands of Bedouin due to be displaced by the plan would be resettled in neighborhoods designated by the government for this purpose. While the language of the plan is vague regarding the size and location of the settlements, it states that possible areas for relocation “could include neighborhoods in long-standing Bedouin settlements, in the Abu Basma settlements [11 extant Bedouin villages in the northwestern Negev], or in close-fitting expansions of these and other settlement sites.”
Prawer passed its first reading in the Knesset in June of this year and will receive second and third readings in the coming months. “If passed into law,” states a report on the Prawer Plan from the Institute of Middle East Understanding, “it could result in the largest displacement of Palestinian citizens of Israel since the 1950s.”
Since its adoption by the Israeli government as a proposed plan for the Negev in 2011, Prawer has faced considerable backlash and outcry both from Palestinians and the international community. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated in July 2013 that the Prawer Plan “seeks to legitimize forcible displacement and dispossession of indigenous Bedouin communities.”
Saturday’s “Day of Rage,” organized by a coalition of youth organizations and the Alternative Information Center – a joint Palestinian-Israeli NGO – was the third such day of coordinated protests against the Prawer Plan this year. Large demonstrations were held in Haifa, Jerusalem, and Hura village in the Negev, where more than 1,000 protesters massed in opposition to Prawer. Smaller protests occurred in Gaza City and outside the Beit El settlement near Ramallah.
Israel’s government issued a harsh response to the 30 November protests. “We will not tolerate such riots. We shall continue to advance the Prawer Bill,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Violence at the Gates of Beit El
Protestors gathered outside City Hall in Ramallah and bused to Beit El, the nearby Israeli settlement that houses the Civil Administration, which oversees and administers Israel’s policies in the West Bank. Led by Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, protestors attempted to open the gates of the settlement.
Settlers inside Beit El threw stones at the protestors and fired handguns into the air to disperse the demonstrators. Shortly thereafter, Israeli armed forces arrived and pushed the demonstration down the main street away from the settlement using riot shields and tear gas.
Three people were arrested at the Beit El protest. Ma’an News Agency later published a civilian journalist’s video of police brutality during one of the arrests.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestine National Initiative, who attended the demonstration at Beit El, called the Prawer Plan “a racist, apartheid, ethnic cleansing plan.”
Police Clash With Protesters in the Negev
Approximately 1,000 people, including two Palestinian members of the Knesset, demonstrated in Dura village in the Negev on Saturday, blocking the highway between Beersheba and the Dead Sea. The protest turned violent after police officers, some on horseback, began clashing with youth throwing rocks at the officers. Police used batons and water cannons to attack the protestors.
Clashes continued into the evening, and ten of the protestors were arrested. According to Al-Jazeera’s account of the protest, burning barriers were set up on the highway and some young protestors threw Molotov cocktails at the police officers present.
In an interview with Ma’an News Agency, Ahmad al-Tibi, one of the Knesset members who joined the demonstration, said that “the protest was meant to emphasize that Prawer will not pass on the ground, even if it does in the Knesset.”
The protest against the Prawer Plan in the Negev. Photos by Lazar Simeonov.
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JUPITER’S LEGACY #1
Writer: Mark Millar
Art: Frank Quitely & Peter Doherty
James R: Love him or hate him, you can't ignore Mark Millar. In many ways, he seems synonymous with the rise in popularity of comics within the mainstream media,and one has to admire how he has managed himself into a position of real clout within the industry. Over the last few years, I've been of the opinion that he has lost his edge somewhat - since getting his head turned by Hollywood, I've found that his creator-owned work has read like a series of illustrated elevator pitches of diminishing quality. With the release of Jupiter's Legacy this week, it looks like Millar has got some of his old mojo back with a tale that reminded me of Warren Ellis at his best. Starting with a great Golden Age origin that establishes how Sheldon Sampson became the Utopian (this world's Superman analogue) it then jumps forward to the present day, showing us how his children struggle to live in his shadow. The thing I enjoyed most here was the parallels between the world of the post-Wall Street crash of 1929 and our current financial meltdown. Back in the Twenties, the crisis inspires Sheldon (as it did for society in reality) whereas today, it seems to generate apathy in his son, Brandon. It goes without saying that it's a beautiful book - Frank Quitely never seems to turn in an inferior page, and this all adds up to a compulsive first issue. We now have to wait a while for issue #2, and there is an argument to be made for trade-waiting here, but this was a great debut and - dare I say it? – a return to form for Millar. 8/10
Matt C: It's good but not great. Perhaps expectations were too high, but there's a sneaking feeling that, deep down, this is a rather pedestrian opening, one that's perhaps a little too familiar (a Warren Ellis Stormwatch storyline was something that sprang immediately to mind for some reason). It's elevated substantially by the always welcome return of Frank Quitely. His detailed, distinctive illustrations add weight and importance to the proceedings, the action scenes are kinetic and thrilling to behold. So, while some of the dialogue is a little bit silly and implausible you can excuse that because it's an engaging idea, beautifully rendered. Not the greatest thing ever as the master of self-promotion Mark Millar would have you believe, but a promising opening all the same. 7/10
Stewart R: A good start from Millar here I have to say. He quickly establishes when and where the superheroes of Earth first came to be and then shows where the world sits as a result in the modern age. The comparison between the proactive initial generation and their image conscious, money-hungry and self-preserving children with 21st Century ideals is well realised and made all the more interesting by the apparent divide forming in the ranks of the elder heroes based upon a disagreement over democracy and their power to potentially intervene and act as they see fit in the best interest of the planet and its inhabitants. There’ll inevitably be a good, deep look at the argument for preventative action in the issues to come no doubt, but the more intriguing point to arise from this debut is that Millar doesn’t give us any idea of where this story may actually lead in the next issue, let alone in the series as a whole. There are the seeds of plot threads to be sure, dotted throughout the page count, but at this time only Millar himself - along with Quitely who puts in a strong effort with his linework - has any true idea of what might grow out of this and what part the various characters might play. I for one will quite happily be back to see what sprouts next. 7/10
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #2
Art: Steve McNiven, Sara Pichelli, John Dell & Mark Morales
Matt C: There's still a lot I like about this book, it's just the execution of the ideas and the lack of attention to detail that puts me off. A bunch of galactic empires have decided, due to all the cosmic events that occur around Earth or involve its inhabitants, that the planet is a potential threat and something needs to be done. Because, like, that notion has never been dealt with in the Marvel Universe before! It's a solid idea but the continuity it ignores just to make it appear fresh just irks. Oh, and when did Rocket Raccoon become so blatantly homicidal? McNiven and Pichelli skilfully sell the action and there's an argument that it's strong enough to carry things at enough speed so you don’t get time to dwell on the flaws. I could almost go along with that - almost, but not quite. Because we get the suggestion in the middle of it, from a character who would know better, that there's only one London-based superhero - Captain Britain - and he's a bit crap. I'm not one to get overly patriotic, and really I shouldn’t rise to this, but can the UK not fight its own battles, do we always require American assistance. Is it a case of: America, fuck yeah!? Nope, it's a case of: Bendis, fuck you! And that's enough to knock one point of the score. 5/10
Stewart R: Let us start with the good and then move on to the not-so-good shall we. Firstly I am enjoying some of the little character points that Bendis is managing to drop into his rather action heavy work with the Guardians. Rocket’s rather cut and dry method of dealing with enemies is entertaining and to a certain degree falls in line with how I think the roguish little critter should operate (though not entirely). Drax on the other hand is showing subtle signs that all is not well in his mind and his heart as the Destroyer may possibly be struggling to find what he needs to soldier on in this latest mission. I also quite enjoyed the meeting of the various galactic forces, chaired by Peter Quill’s father and the encounter oozed a calm and cloaked tension which will hopefully continue to play out as the game wears on. And now to the not-so-good. Bendis to this point hasn’t realistically given his true protagonist - Peter Quill a.k.a Starlord - nearly enough page time and has elected to go with the all guns blazing introduction which we’ve all seen so many times before. Two issues in and it may as well be Steve Rogers zipping around in a new suit, hollering orders and being the ‘just and good’ face of his team. A bland, blue-eyed, blond do-gooding hero was what I feared we might get here and so far it’s looking like the fears may be on course. Gamora is also pretty characterless so far, merely scything through bone, plate metal and several other substances, barely uttering a word. Then there’s the smaller anomalies such as Gladiator’s weird position in regards to Earth, a planet he sent his son to for schooling no less, and also worked with the Annihilators and Avengers to eventually protect. His stance seems too forced and it’s further evidence that Bendis will twist working, accepted character histories and perspectives to shape his occasionally cliched ideas. Through all of the writer's ups and downs, McNiven remains a joyful mark of high artistic consistency ensuring that the ‘shit and shynola’ writing looks glorious regardless. Equally good and bad then. Here’s the 5/10
EAST OF WEST #2
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Art: Nick Dragotta & Frank Martin
Matt C: As we've come to expect from Hickman, this is another thoroughly ambitious exercise in world-building that impresses not just with its scope and scale, but with the robust intelligence that he injects into the proceedings. He’s keeping his cards close to his chest, teasing out information - we essentially know at this point the endtimes are approaching in an alternate reality, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse are down to three since Death went rouge and was dealt with, but now he's back for vengeance. Hickman is placing his trust in his audience, trust that they're willing to go along for the ride and let the story unfold the way he wants it to, and in turn we place our trust in him, trust that he knows we're smart enough that we don't need things dumbed down to make them more palatable. Dragotta's nails the grandeur of the tale with his illustrations but doesn't skip on the emotion in the faces and gestures of the characters. It's a treat for both the grey matter and the eyeballs. If you like what Hickman's doing on the Avengers books but haven't explored his creator-owned work yet, you need to get on board with this, pronto. 8/10
Stewart R: This appears to be forming into quite the political adventure as the various representatives of the regions that make up this version of the United States are introduced to us for the first time and, in keeping with how Hickman set things out in the first issue, there’s no clear leader or protagonist for us to get behind. Everyone seems to have their own agendas and skeletons in the closet and the great uncertainty over just what The Message is and what the Horsemen’s ultimate goal is still lingers tantalisingly out of reach for the meantime. Death is the closest to a principal character we have and his solemn yet impatient temperament makes any scene he turns up in a tense affair, particularly his meeting this time out with the delightfully tricky Andrew Archibald Chamberlain who seems quite capable of holding his own in the face of his potential end. Dragotta enhances Hickman’s pointed and terse dialogue with plenty of sideways glances and looks of disdain amongst the various leaders and it’s evident that Frank Martin may be delivering some of his very best colour work with a diverse and incredibly rich palette that just sucks you into the western bleakness and futuristic cityscapes. 9/10
NEW AVENGERS #5
Art: Steve Epting, Rick Magyar & Frank D'Armata
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James R: Once again, it was a case of flipping a coin to decide which of Hickman's two Avengers books would be book of the week for me. The main Avengers title continues to be a grand exercise in pushing the limits of a team book, whereas this remains the darkest and philosophically most compelling book from either of the Big Two. This issue finishes off the great Galactus cliffhanger from last month, and then focuses on the imprisoned Black Swan as she tells the Illuminati of her origin, and of a possible cause of survival for mankind. As with last month, Hickman presents utilitarianism as the natural ethical position for super-powered people; when the fate of the world rests on your shoulders, you can't afford to think in terms of emotion or sentiment - survival comes down to rational numbers. How the Illuminati respond to this has made for fascinating reading, and I feel that this is a run with the makings of a classic. It also looks increasingly good - after my initial scepticism over the work of Steve Epting, his pencils have improved with every issue, and Frank D'Armata's colours give the book a definite tone and identity. I cannot wait to see how Hickman resolves this arc or, better still, what his long-term plans for the title are; this is the book that knows no limits. 9/10
AMALA’S BLADE #1
Writer: Steve Horton
Art: Michael Dialynas
Stewart R: Just when I thought I was going to be without a strong, sword swinging female character from Dark Horse, following the conclusion of Tom Morello’s Orchid, out pops Amala’s Blade and a mighty impressive debut it is too. The map of the strange land of Naamaron on the inside front cover is a great introduction to twisted and divided realm of Purifiers (a steam-powered nation) and Modifiers (implanting technology into their bodies) that is climbing its way out of a long civil war. It shows just how much thought these creators have put in and helps to set the scene perfectly. Horton keeps the laughs to a minimum, but Dialynas’s art brings with it a vaguely cartoonish touch that helps instill the action with a great sense of fun as Amala firstly escapes a slightly botched mission and then contemplates a future where she’s no longer used to do another’s dirty work. There are some genuinely moving moments, however brief, as Amala and Ren’s closeness is revealed and the fact that Amala is accompanied through her adventures by a retinue of ghosts that only she can see adds another aspect of interest. A solid start indeed and the remaining three issues will be pull-list guarantees in the coming months. 8/10
BEFORE WATCHMEN: COMEDIAN #6
Writer: Brian Azzerllo
Art: J.G. Jones, Alex Sinclair & Lee Loughridge
Matt C: Well, actually... that wasn't bad at all. A miniseries that commenced with an audacious twist only to descend into directionless twaddle rather quickly afterwards reaches the finish line with an instalment that is surprisingly coherent and cleverly echoes back to the events of the first issue, twisting the perceived wisdom of the Comedian's involvement in certain historical events yet again. It almost feels like Azzerrello had his points A and B but no idea how to get from one to another, and seeing now how it's bookended you can see hints of what might have been. Now it's all done and dusted, Before Watchmen certainly hasn't been the unmitigated disaster some hoped for (although there is a sense that DC started sweeping it under the rug once interest waned), but - Minutemen aside - it's largely going to be remembered as a missed opportunity with a smattering of creative flourishes that suggested better things. 6/10
Stewart R: Strange schools and teenage angst seem to be all the rage presently in the comic book medium - see Avengers Arena, Wolverine & The X-Men, Uncanny X-Men - yet I would argue for all of Marvel’s competent and enjoyably glossy efforts, it’s Jimmie Robinson’s Five Weapons that carries the biggest amount of heart within it. The subterfuge still in effect, the boy masquerading as Tyler Shainline continues his attendance at the deadly school for assassins adding a handful of close friends along the way, whilst seemingly adding to a growing list of enemies by refusing to play the game in the manner that they expect. For all of the allies that he makes, Robinson keeps Tyler’s journey devilishly tough by ensuring that he’s being fought or attacked from two different angles at once. For every direct battle he finds himself in when trying to rise to the top of each class, he’s also having to thwart the subtler machinations of the school faculty and headmistress as well. This keeps the question of doubt on Tyler’s odds of success ever present and keeps me engrossed in the high school antics each time. The characters are all wonderfully over-the-top, yet show a real human element in the same breath, and the same could be said about this comic book as a whole. 8/10
UNCANNY X-MEN #5
Art: Frazer Irving
James R: Earlier in the year, I sat at the Marvel panel at London Super Comic-Con and herd Frazer Irving speak of his love for the X-Men, and consequentially, I was keen to see how his passion would come across in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. Irving is a mercurial talent - there are some projects where he seems to be a natural fit, and his art brings another dimension to the work (Klarion The Witch Boy and the sadly unfinished Gutsville spring to mind) but then there are the projects where his unique style seems to hinder the narrative; his issues of the pre-New 52 Batman And Robin derailed what had been a great ongoing storyline from Grant Morrison. Unfortunately for me, this book falls into the latter category. Following on from some of Marvel's big guns, Irving's art has its moments but, once again, I was left thinking "What's just happened there?" on a few panels. This coincides with a pretty flabby script from Bendis, where a simple premise - Magik's powers are wonky like Cyclops' are post-Phoenix - is stretched out interminably. Twenty pages of fairly pointless plot mean this is the first time that I've really not enjoyed one of the main X-books for a while - I hope this is a blip rather than the norm. 4/10
Art: Bill Sienkiewicz & Glynis Wein
Matt C: After the relatively low-key shenanigans of the last few issues things start to get meatier again with the introduction of a character that is still firmly on the mutant radar to this day: Professor X’s son, David Charles Haller. At this point Charlie’s completely oblivious to his bloodline continuing, adding a bit of frisson to the proceedings as we wait for the revelation to hit him. There are still a lot of subplots on the boil (it is Claremont, after all) but none of them seem unnecessary distractions at this stage, instead they add to the feeling there are a lot of things bubbling on the horizon for the teen mutant team. Another terrifically effective cover from Sienkiewicz, and you can’t help but think this is the original inspiration – the template, as it were – for Mike Del Mundo’s excellent covers on the current X-Men Legacy series. Firmly character driven and seemingly back on track again. 8/10
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Dr. Phillip W. Brunst works on issues between law and technology. He conducts research on current issues of information technology law and legal informatics.
Information Law
Information (technology) law, often referred to as “computer law”, “multimedia law”, or “Internet law”, engages in the reactions of jurisprudence on the developments of modern information technology. Examples are the introduction of electronic signatures in legal relations, the establishment of access to digital governmental information, or the development of a coherent regulatory system for the prosecution of criminal actions in the digital arena. Information law is therefore a truly cross sectional area that combines civil law, public law, and criminal law.
The research interests of Dr. Brunst concern primarily matters of criminal law in the areas of information law as well as of data protection law, especially in relation to the Internet.
In the area of criminal law he conducts research especially on the phenomena of transborder computer criminality as well as on the national and international instruments in the fight against them. His book “Handbook on Internet Criminal Law” (together with Dr. Marco Gercke; in German), for example, highlights the legal responses on these challenges in Germany. He analyzed the difficulties in the international arena in the context of the fight against a terrorist use of the Internet (often referred to as “cyber terrorism”) in several publications and expert opinions.
In his (multiple award-winning) doctoral dissertation he studied on the one hand the interdependencies of law and technology and the close relation between questions of criminal law and data protection law on the other hand. The book concerns the relationship between anonymity on the Internet and chances for an effective prosecution of Internet-related crime.
While information law deals primarily with legal issues, legal informatics puts a focus on the technical implementation of solutions that are important for jurists as well as jurisprudence in general. As an example, for a long time research has been conducted on the question whether – with the help of artificial intelligence – judicial decision processes and the act of subsumption can be technically adapted
The research interests of Dr. Brunst in the area of legal informatics are manifold. Up to now a focus was on the development of e-learning applications for jurists. Previous projects aimed at the transfer of applied knowledge, of legal expert knowledge, and on expert systems in comparative law.
Examples for the first category, the transfer of applied knowledge, are several applications that were created by Dr. Brunst for the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (LMU), e.g. document management systems or e-learning applications for young jurists that provide insight into technical basic knowledge. Both applications were in productive use for several years.
The multimedia e-learning application “cueno” was aimed at law students and allowed them to gain insight into legal expert knowledge. The concept, the development as well as the service itself were sponsored by the Bavarian Ministry for Science, Research, and Art and jointly put into effect by the LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. As head of project Dr. Brunst was responsible for the legal questions that were in the center of the knowledge transfer process, the didactic challenges, and the technial implementation. “cueno” was available from 2005 to 2010 free of charge. Another example for the transfer of expert knowledge is a chapter that Dr. Brunst designed for the e-learning program of the KIC in Seoul/Korea.
The “International Max Planck Information System for Comparative Criminal Law” in Freiburg i. Br./Germany, is an expert system for researchers who want to inform themselves on foreign legal systems with the help of a computer system. Future development steps will contain comparative legal information as well as background data on the legal systems contained with the program. For several years, Dr. Brunst was the technical manager for the program.
Award for outstanding studies from the “Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility” (FIfF; November 2010)
Outstanding Achievement Award from the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science (DSRI; October 2009.
Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation from the Staedtler Foundation (October 2009).
Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation from the Department of Law of the Faculty of Law and Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (February 2009).
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Zika Virus Information
Zika is a virus spread to people primarily through the bite of an Aedes mosquito; these mosquitoes most frequently bite in the daytime but can also bite at night. According to the CDC, there have been no reported cases of Zika virus disease transmission in Ohio or anywhere else in the continental United States at this time. However, cases have been reported in travelers returning to the United States, and recently in the U.S. there has been a case of Zika being sexually transmitted. Even though there are no recorded cases in Ohio, the Aedes mosquito that can hold the virus does live here in our state. - Haley White, Intern at the Perry County Ohio Health Department
Zika is a virus spread to people primarily through the bite of an Aedes mosquito; these mosquitoes most frequently bite in the daytime but can also bite at night. According to the CDC, there have been no reported cases of Zika virus disease transmission in Ohio or anywhere else in the continental United States at this time. However, cases have been reported in travelers returning to the United States, and recently in the U.S. there has been a case of Zika being sexually transmitted. Even though there are no recorded cases in Ohio, the Aedes mosquito that can hold the virus does live here in our state.
The virus causes a flu-like illness which is typically mild to the average person usually only resulting in either no symptoms or mild fever, red eyes, joint and muscle pain, and/or itching and a rash. These symptoms and the virus itself are usually cleared up within a week or even less.
Although the virus is non-threatening to the average person, it can however be verydangerous to a pregnant woman’s unborn child. Currently the CDC is monitoring 320 pregnant women here in the U.S. who have contracted the Zika virus. Pregnant women infected with the Zika virus often give birth to children with Microcephaly, a condition in which a baby’s head is significantly smaller than expected often due to abnormal brain development.
Baby with Microcephaly
Symptoms of Microcephaly can include things like backward-sloping forehead, small head size, dwarfism/short stature, seizures, hyperactivity, facial distortions, coordination difficulties, and delays in speech and movement.
Because the Zika virus only has mild symptoms it usually goes unnoticed, although a simple blood or urine test done by a doctor can confirm a Zika infection.
When it comes to treatment of the virus there is no vaccine to prevent it, or medicine to treat it. You can treat Zika on your own by getting plenty of rest and drinking lots of fluids to prevent dehydration. You can take acetaminophen to reduce your fever and headache although you should not take aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) until dengue fever, another mosquito borne virus, can be ruled out to reduce the risk of bleeding.
You can find out more information on the Zika virus and how to protect you and your family by visiting WWW.CDC.gov or contacting the Perry County Health Department.
-Haley White
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General Presbyter
stewart@presbyteryofarkansas.org
Stewart Smith is a lifelong Presbyterian who was born as a preacher’s kid in Charlotte, NC. He moved to Arkansas while in the first grade and grew up in the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church in Forrest City. He served on one of the earliest versions of the Presbytery of Arkansas Youth Council while in High School. He graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX with a degree in Accounting and became a member of First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio where he was elected a deacon. After several years of work with Diamond Shamrock Refining and Marketing Company he experienced a call to the ministry and attended Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. While there he did a year-long internship at the St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, VA and served for a year as a student co-pastor at the Youngblood Memorial Presbyterian Church in Robinson, TX. After graduation from seminary Stewart served as Associate Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith, AR for seven years. In 2001 he accepted a call to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Springdale and served there until accepting the call to become General Presbyter in October of 2015. In the Presbytery of Arkansas he has served on the Camps and Conferences Committee, the Christian Education Committee, the Committee on Preparation for Ministry and the Committee on Ministry. He served as Moderator of the Presbytery in 2007 and moderated the General Council in 2008. Stewart is married to Laura, an elementary school teacher in Maumelle and they have two sons, Ryan and Alex and a daughter-in-law Jessica who is married to Ryan. In his spare time, Stewart enjoys biking, jogging, golf, skiing and watching sports year round.
Leslie Belden
Temporary Stated Clerk
leslie@presbyteryofarkansas.org
Leslie Belden has a commitment to serving Christ through the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. that was planted in her before she was born. Leslie was baptized at Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church in Forrest City, Arkansas, and was nurtured in her faith by that congregation as well as Park Hill Presbyterian Church of North Little Rock, First Presbyterian Church of Paragould, First Presbyterian Church of Jonesboro, First Presbyterian Church of Pine Bluff, and First Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville, Arkansas. Leslie graduated from the University of Arkansas with the Bachelor’s degree in architecture, which remains one of her passions, especially the fields of historic preservation and community planning. But through her commitment to the church, and her leadership as a Ruling Elder and a member of the Presbytery of Arkansas’s Committee on Ministry, she felt called to ordination as a Teaching Elder. Leslie received her Master of Divinity and Doctorate in Ministry from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and was ordained as the Associate Pastor of First United Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville in 1995. Leslie has served the PC(USA) on the General Assembly, Synod, and Presbytery levels of governance. She is married to Ted Belden, whose commitment to our denomination and service to God through it mirrors her own. Avid Razorback fans, they enjoy spending much of their time together with their two daughters and their families at sporting events, encouraging their three grandchildren to prioritize God, family, and the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Kenneth Rich
Director of Mission Support
kenneth@presbyteryofarkansas.org
Kenneth is a native of Louisiana and graduated from Centenary College with a Bachelors of Science in Accounting degree. He was most recently employed as the North American Fixed Asset Accountant for Almatis, Inc., where he worked since 2005. His prior work, from 1993 to 2005, was with Alltel Communications in a variety of accounting positions and from 1990 to 1993 with AT&T. From 1997 to 2000, Kenneth served as the Treasurer for Habitat for Humanity of Pulaski County. Kenneth and his family are active in the life of Second Presbyterian Church of Little Rock where Kenneth sings in the adult choir and is a youth group advisor. He has also served as Second Presbyterian’s treasurer. Away from work, Kenneth enjoys spending time with his children at their sporting events, visiting extended family in the area, watching good movies and reading good books.
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Rev. Leslie Bethel Roper
Moderator of the Coordinating Team
Leslie is a lifelong Presbyterian who grew up and was baptized and confirmed at Central Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Leslie was an active participant in the presbytery’s youth activities during her teenage years. Leslie attended and graduated from Austin College in Sherman, TX and served in the Young Adult Volunteer Program of the Presbyterian Church. Leslie is a graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Her first call was as Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Batesville. In 20??, the church called Leslie to be their pastor. Leslie is married to Jeff and they have two sons.
David Stricklin
Moderator of Presbytery
Marion Humphrey
Vice Moderator of Presbytery
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Christina Moore, Ms. Brooklyn
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Five frenzied months into her reign as Miss Brooklyn, Christina Moore is showing no signs of slowing down- or scaling back her hometown pride.
“I am a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in good old Bensonhurst,” Moore said in a phone interview from her Wagner College dorm, where she's studying Arts Administration, with a minor in Dance.
Though she's living on Staten Island, Moore spends much of her time in Brooklyn fulfilling her pageant responsibilities, which include raising awareness about cancer and funds for various charities.
“My goal is to reach out to as many communities as possible, and to raise as much money for charity as possible” in the coming year, she said.
A competitive dancer since age four, Moore tried out for Miss Brooklyn in 2009. She came in fourth, but returned last fall and wowed the judges with her words, dance skills and, of course, her good looks.
Moore was modest about the win, saying “it was more of a fluke than anything.”
Regardless, she's made the most of her ambassador status.
She has taught dance workshops at countless Brooklyn schools this winter, where she instills children with a love of dance, and awards them tickets to her upcoming spring benefit.
Scheduled for May 7 at Xaverian High School in Bay Ridge, all proceeds from the performance will go to the Sarcoma Alliance, a national advocacy organization for victims of the rare cancer.
Moore’s connection to the disease is personal: in 2007, her aunt Josephine Schiavo was diagnosed
with Stage Four sarcoma. Schiavo survived, and the experience left its mark on Moore.
“As far as I’m concerned she is literally a walking miracle,” Moore said. “And I wanted to do whatever I could to support her, and support her story.”
On February 12 a Valentine’s Day dinner-dance benefit in Schivao’s honor will do just that.
The event sold out well in advance but the coming months should see no shortage of Miss Brooklyn sightings, as Moore continues her work and prepares for the Miss New York competition in June. (Nathan Tempey)
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Top Songs Of The ’90s
Song #97: "Meet Virginia" by Train
|In Top Songs Of The '90s, Train
|By Rizzo
Rizzo Music’s Top 100 Songs Of The 1990s continues today with number 97, “Meet Virginia” by Train. “Meet Virginia” came out at the tail end of the 1990s, eventually topping out at #15 on the Hot 100 chart in 1999. This song’s catchy intro and fun lyrics fell on welcoming ears and put Train on the road to instant stardom. The song took a while to become popular since most people had not heard of the band at the time, but after their first single, “Free”, was featured on the popular TV show Party of Five, it wasn’t long before “Meet Virginia” lead their self-titled album to platinum status.
Train is a band that didn’t just peak after their first hit. In 2001, they scored their biggest hit to date, “Drops of Jupiter”. “Ordinary” was featured in the ever-popular movie, Spiderman 2, in 2004 and certainly helped them stay in the forefront of mainstream music. Still a very popular band, Train released their newest album, For Me, It’s You in 2006, which peaked at #10 on the Billboard charts in the US. Now with Columbia records, they do not show any signs of slowing down.
The music video features Rebecca Gayheart, who recently starred in the TV show “Vanished”, who plays the role of Virginia as a new waitress at a diner. It has shots of the band playing as well as lead singer Patrick Monahan eating in the dinner. It’s a fairly plain music video but it gets the job done. Here it is:
Interested in other songs from the countdown? Check out the other Top Songs of the 1990s.
mass_appeal
January 7th 2008, 6:23 pm
I much preferred yesterdays song, and walking in Memphis has always been cool.
Keep up the good work 😀
This song’s fabulous, personally I would’ve been happier with it farther along the line, but that’s just my own preference. Train has some tremendous tunes.
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History 18th February 2014
Anne of Cleves, A Flanders Mare: Part 3
Elizabeth Norton
The Queen, Eighty Years a Subject
In July 1540 Anne of Cleves – the fourth wife of Henry VIII – went from being queen of England back to Anne, the Daughter of Cleves, with alarming speed. Life as an ex-queen of England was very nearly uncharted territory, but, for Anne, who was only twenty-five, her life stretched ahead of her.
When Anne wrote to her brother, to inform him of the end of her marriage, she finished by saying that ‘I purpose to lead my life in this Realm’. In reality, as she was aware, she did not have a choice. Henry VIII was not prepared to risk her repudiating the annulment once she was safely out of his reach and her generous divorce settlement, which included two palaces, only applied while she remained in his kingdom.
Anne had been strictly brought up in Cleves and may not, in any event, have relished a return home to her mother, particularly given her anomalous position as a divorcee. Instead, she decided to enjoy herself in England. She remained at Richmond, which was granted to her for life, until the end of the year, wearing ‘new dresses every day’ and appearing ‘as joyous as ever’, something which confounded her contemporaries. The French ambassador, for one, considered that Anne’s conduct ‘argues either prudent dissimulation or stupid forgetfulness of what should so closely touch her heart’. Perhaps she simply tried to make the best of the situation and, as a wealthy and independent woman, her situation was hardly tragic.
If Anne had any concerns about how she would be viewed following her divorce, these were soon abated. Internationally, sympathy lay with her. Her brother-in-law, John Frederick of Saxony, on hearing of the divorce, broke the Schmalkaldic League’s alliance with England. He always rebuffed attempts to re-establish friendship with Henry, whom he referred to as that ‘crazy man’. Francis I of France, on being informed that Henry had doubts about the validity of his marriage, asked incredulously ‘what, with the matrimony made with the queen that now is?’ On being informed that this was the case, he simply sighed and became quiet. It seemed that Henry VIII could never settle with a wife.
Henry had, in fact, already lined up a fifth wife before he ended his marriage to Anne. His choice fell on one of Anne’s maids, ‘that young girl Catherine’. On 28 July 1540 Henry married the teenaged Catherine Howard at Oatlands Palace, at least showing Anne the decency of coming in person to Richmond Palace to inform her himself. Anne and Catherine actually got on rather well. When Anne visited court for New Year 1541 – as an honoured guest – the pair gave each other gifts and danced together.
While Anne was treated well by Henry, she was very far from free. Members of her household were spying on her, something of which she was aware. She particularly resented young Wymond Carew, her English interpreter, who complained that the ex-queen was ‘bent to do me displeasure’. This was hardly surprising, given the fact that he had reported to the king that she was not passing on letters from her brother for censorship. When Catherine Howard was arrested for adultery towards the end of 1541, Anne also found herself uncomfortably in the spotlight. Rumours that she had borne a child reached the king and she was subjected to an investigation by the council.
Anne and Henry also found that they got along better after their divorce. Anne, who, at the time of the annulment had privately declared herself to be Henry’s true wife, hoped for a reconciliation. When Catherine Howard was beheaded in February 1542, William of Cleves petitioned the king to take back his sister, to no avail. Anne was personally highly offended when Henry married his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, a woman that she considered inferior to herself in beauty. Nonetheless, Henry and Anne rubbed along well together for the last years of his life, with the king personally paying many of her expenses as inflation lowered her income.
When Henry VIII died in January 1547, Anne’s political significance came to an end. Edward VI’s council had no reason to pay her debts or increase her pension, since it no longer affected anyone if she claimed to have been validly married to Henry. Instead, Edward VI’s council looked greedily at her property, confiscating first Bletchingley Palace and then Richmond and exchanging them for less favourable residences. Anne had evidently not kept Richmond in as good a state of repair as she might have done, but, as she complained, ‘everything is so costly here’. Inflation effectively wiped out the value of her pension, forcing her to battle the council for money to live on.
Matters improved for Anne in 1553 when her former stepdaughter, Mary, came to the throne. Anne and Mary were the same age and friends, with the former queen well treated at court. She attended Mary’s coronation that autumn, riding in the first carriage after the queen, which she shared with Princess Elizabeth.
She had always been fond of Henry VIII’s younger daughter, spending time with her after her divorce. This association caused Anne to lose favour with Mary as rapidly as she had achieved it, with the queen holding both Elizabeth and Anne under suspicion following Wyatt’s Rebellion in February 1554. There is no evidence that Anne was involved, but she no longer found herself quite so welcome at court. This proved to be the final straw for the former queen and she took steps to try to annul her divorce legally, something which would have allowed her a widow’s dower and the freedom to return to Cleves. She was, however, unsuccessful, remaining in England for the remainder of her life.
Anne of Cleves spent her last years in retirement. She was staying at the royal manor of Chelsea in 1557 when she made her Will, leaving bequests to Henry VIII’s daughters and her servants and friends. She died on 15 July 1557 – aged only forty-one. The last survivor of Henry VIII’s six wives was given a royal funeral in Westminster Abbey.
Anne of Cleves – fourth wife of Henry VIII – was queen of England for only six brief months, but she was the luckiest of all Henry VIII’s wives. You can read more about her in my book, Anne of Cleves: Henry VII’s Discarded Bride (Amberley, 2009)
Photo credit: Anne of Cleves (author’s own collection)
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Physicists reveal why matter dominates universe
Press Release From: Syracuse University
Posted: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University have confirmed that matter and antimatter decay differently for elementary particles containing charmed quarks.
Distinguished Professor Sheldon Stone says the findings are a first, although matter-antimatter asymmetry has been observed before in particles with strange quarks or beauty quarks.
He and members of the College's High-Energy Physics (HEP) research group have measured, for the first time and with 99.999-percent certainty, a difference in the way D0mesons and anti-D0 mesons transform into more stable byproducts.
Mesons are subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark, bound together by strong interactions.
"There have been many attempts to measure matter-antimatter asymmetry, but, until now, no one has succeeded," says Stone, who collaborates on the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. "It's a milestone in antimatter research."
The findings may also indicate new physics beyond the Standard Model, which describes how fundamental particles interact with one another. "Till then, we need to await theoretical attempts to explain the observation in less esoteric means," he adds.
Every particle of matter has a corresponding antiparticle, identical in every way, but with an opposite charge. Precision studies of hydrogen and antihydrogen atoms, for example, reveal similarities to beyond the billionth decimal place.
When matter and antimatter particles come into contact, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy--similar to what happened in the Big Bang, some 14 billion years ago.
"That's why there is so little naturally occurring antimatter in the Universe around us," says Stone, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, which has awarded him this year's W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.
The question on Stone's mind involves the equal-but-opposite nature of matter and antimatter. "If the same amount of matter and antimatter exploded into existence at the birth of the Universe, there should have been nothing left behind but pure energy. Obviously, that didn't happen," he says in a whiff of understatement.
Thus, Stone and his LHCb colleagues have been searching for subtle differences in matter and antimatter to understand why matter is so prevalent.
The answer may lie at CERN, where scientists create antimatter by smashing protons together in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest, most powerful particular accelerator. The more energy the LHC produces, the more massive are the particles--and antiparticles--formed during collision.
It is in the debris of these collisions that scientists such as Ivan Polyakov, a postdoc in Syracuse's HEP group, hunt for particle ingredients.
"We don't see antimatter in our world, so we have to artificially produce it," he says. "The data from these collisions enables us to map the decay and transformation of unstable particles into more stable byproducts."
HEP is renowned for its pioneering research into quarks--elementary particles that are the building blocks of matter. There are six types, or flavors, of quarks, but scientists usually talk about them in pairs: up/down, charm/strange and top/bottom. Each pair has a corresponding mass and fractional electronic charge.
In addition to the beauty quark (the "b" in "LHCb"), HEP is interested in the charmed quark. Despite its relatively high mass, a charmed quark lives a fleeting existence before decaying into something more stable.
Recently, HEP studied two versions of the same particle. One version contained a charmed quark and an antimatter version of an up quark, called the anti-up quark. The other version had an anti-charm quark and an up quark.
Using LHC data, they identified both versions of the particle, well into the tens of millions, and counted the number of times each particle decayed into new byproducts.
"The ratio of the two possible outcomes should have been identical for both sets of particles, but we found that the ratios differed by about a tenth of a percent," Stone says. "This proves that charmed matter and antimatter particles are not totally interchangeable."
Adds Polyakov, "Particles might look the same on the outside, but they behave differently on the inside. That is the puzzle of antimatter."
The idea that matter and antimatter behaves differently is not new. Previous studies of particles with strange quarks and bottom quarks have confirmed as such.
What makes this study unique, Stone concludes, is that it is the first time anyone has witnessed particles with charmed quarks being asymmetrical: "It's one for the history books."
HEP's work is supported by the National Science Foundation.
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Falls Church City, VA Real Estate
Falls Church City, VA
If you are looking for a city with a strong sense of community that you can call home, then look no further and welcome to the City of Falls Church! Taking its name from “The Falls Church”, an 18th-century Anglican Parish, the City of Falls Church is an independent city nestled between Fairfax and Arlington County. Consisting of a unique environment that almost seamlessly blends rural and suburban lifestyle, it’s not hard to see why it is frequently named one of CNN’s Top 100 Places to live in the U.S.
Located only six miles from the Nation’s Capital and inside the Beltway, the City of Falls Church offers a variety of neighborhoods featuring a wide selection of townhomes and single-family residences, a nationally ranked school system, and endless year round events.
Gaining Township status within Fairfax County in 1875, Falls Church served as a rural farming community throughout most of the 19th century. Consisting of large land plantations that had been sub-divided into smaller farms comprising various crops; including wheat, corn, potatoes and fruit that were grown for area markets, the City of Falls Church remains true to its history by holding a year-round farmers market at the City Hall every Saturday. Not only will you find an abundance of fruits and vegetables, you will also find a strong sense of community. The Farmers Market is only one of many traditional community events that Falls Church City takes pride in. Many other long-standing community wide events include Concerts in the Park, Sunset Cinema, Tinner Hill Blues Festival, Memorial Day Parade and Festival, Independence Day Celebration, and many more!
If you are looking to get out for some fresh air and want to explore the city, why not take a walking tour of the city’s historic sites and explore the city’s 6 marked stops along the Civil War Trail (Insert Map?). Not in the mood for a city tour? Then come and park yourself at one of the city’s 12 Parks. Grab a picnic table and have your friends and family gather for a summer cookout and enjoy the many amenities offered from grill equipment to playgrounds and lighted basketball, volleyball, and tennis courts. If it’s a night on the town you are looking for, head into Falls Church City for dinner on Broad Street and then make your way to the classic 1936 movie house, The State Theater, for a night of music and entertainment.
The City of Falls Church not only offers a wide variety of events and entertainment, it also offers it’s own highly rated school system. Of the now five schools serving under the city’s independent public school division, the Falls Church City Public Schools (FCCPS), there is one Preschool, two Elementary Schools, one Intermediate School and one High School. The newest addition to Falls Church, the Jessie Thackrey Preschool, serves children 2 to 5 years old and also offers special needs programs. The city’s two elementary schools, Mt. Daniel and Thomas Jefferson, have long been recognized as schools of excellence by the U.S. Department of Education and the Virginia Department of Education. For those students in grades 5-7, Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, open in 2005 and recognized as a school of excellence, offers a progressive, enriching, and differentiated curriculum in an effort to help guide future academic and career goals. As Virginia’s first school to offer the challenging International Baccalaureate (IB) program, George Mason High School gives students the opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school. The school’s reputation is widely known and consistently cited in national publications for above average state and national standardized test scores.
Wondering how to get your friends and family to Falls Church? Broad Street bisects the community, linking Falls Church to Tyson’s Corner in the west and Arlington and Alexandria to the east. There are two metro stops at East and West Falls Church, which run on the Orange Line, numerous bus routes, and Falls Church is also easily accessible by Routes 66 and 50. For those friends and family visiting from the West Coast, not to worry! With two airports both less than 20 miles away, you have your choice of Ronald Reagan National Airport or Washington Dulles International Airport.
No matter which mode of transportation you choose, make sure it brings you home to the City of Falls Church!
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News: Malaysians Relying On Airbnb To Pay Off Their Loans
With the property market suffering from oversupply, more Malaysians are turning to Airbnb to pay off their loans. Based on an Airbnb survey of over 2,000 Malaysian guests and hosts, half of the responding hosts indicated that Airbnb helped them in settling their loan payments, while 40 percent said the platform provided them with supplementary income.
Airbnb is an internet-based booking platform that allows owners to rent out their properties or extra rooms to guests.
With more than 53,000 Airbnb listings, Malaysia saw over 3.25 million guests in the last 12 months ended 1 July, or up 73 percent from the previous period, reported The Star.
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Siva Shanker, investment head of Axis REIT Managers Bhd and former president of Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents, however, believes that there is a bad side to the Airbnb trend.
According to him, Airbnb hosts were speculators and investors who bought properties during the upturn, with the goal of selling them at a higher price.
“However, when the property market started to make a turn for the worse, many of these speculators found it difficult to sell or rent out their units but at the same time they needed income to service their loans.”
He added that many investors and buyers bought units on the advice of a few people with questionable credentials and skills.
“Many of the people, who claimed to be experts, gave false assurances that the properties could be sold at a premium of up to 40 percent within a couple of years, or that they would be able to get high rental yields.”
“This is essentially a get rich quick scheme and many people believed in them. But then the market crashed and many of the buyers are saddled with a property that they can’t sell or rent out,” he said.
Meanwhile, PPC International managing director Datuk Siders Sittampalam called for the regulation of Airbnb.
“It’s never been regulated in the past, especially in terms of taxes. How do you determine things such as cost and security?”
Siva agreed that there is a need to set up proper regulation for Airbnb operators.
“You don’t know who’s going into your apartment. Every other day, your occupants are changing…They could be illegal immigrants, running criminal activities, being a nuisance and disturbing the neighbours,” he said.
“How is the unit considered ‘gated and guarded’ when the owner is the one that opens the door to these strangers?”
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VOTM-Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles
By SandwichJohnFilms December 31, 2009
Video Of The Month.
Star Wars Gangsta Rap. If you have seen the first video then your going to love this new version. It is a completely new song and has added to the line up.
MCs Vader, Skywalker, Palpatine and Trooper are back with a sequel to the hit animated series Star Wars Gangsta Rap. With surprise appearances from Leia, Lando, and all your favorite flow from a galaxy far, far away.
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Survivor All-Star 2 Announced
So who's your money on?
We already know that next season's Survivor will be another "All-Star" edition, this time dubbed Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. After 19 seasons there have certainly been some stand-out personalities. And now, we know exactly which ones are headed back out to try their luck again. And one player from Samoa will be joining them -- need I say who?
Just as Rupert Boneham went straight from the Pearl Islands edition into the first All-Stars, the producers recognized right away what a villain they had in Russell Hantz, and the Samoa runner-up was sent right back out to try his luck in an all-villains team.
The full "Villains" roster:
Tyson Apostol (Tocantins) - smart-ass who hated Sierra
Randy Bailey (Gabon) - curmudgeon who hated everyone
Sandra Diaz-Twine (Pear Islands) - won without winning a single challenge
Danielle DiLorenzo (Panama) - beat Cirie in the final fire-making challenge
Russell Hantz (Samoa) - burned…
Zachary Levi Or Chuck Talks Where He Sees Show Headed
What does Zachary Levi, or Chuck's Chuck, want for his character when he returns for the third season? Levi would like to see "The birth of a superhero, you know," he admitted when he sat down for an interview with Televisionary (aka Jace) just after production had started last fall.
In the just-released video interview, Levi offered his thoughts about our favorite bumbling spy, who may not be quite as bumbling now that his brain has been upgraded with the Intersect 2.0 giving him mad physical spy skills to go with his ability to flash on the government secrets installed in his head.
"I think as he starts to get more of a handle on the Intersect and all that stuff, and just trains in the everyday stuff," said Levi, "he's going to become what fate had always meant for him to become, which was the best spy in the world."
However, Levi also sounds pretty excited at the thought of playing Chuck, Action…
Marvel And Disney One Happy Family
Marvel stockholders have approved the company's plan to merge Marvel Entertainment with the Walt Disney Co., Marvel announced Thursday.
The deal, which will see Marvel become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mouse House, was approved at a special meeting in New York Thursday morning. Marvel estimates the merger’s value at $4.3 billion.
The completed merger is still subject to conditions in the definitive proxy statement/prospectus filed by Disney with the SEC December 2.
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Fox To Go Dark On Time Warner Cable
Fox and Time Warner Cable are in the final hours of a showdown in the face of the Thursday midnight deadline for the sides to cut a deal to prevent Fox-owned channels from going dark on Time Warner systems in New York, Los Angeles and seven other markets.
Execs from the companies were expected to negotiate again Thursday in a last-ditch effort to come to terms before the expiration of the previous contracts allowing Time Warner Cable to carry 14 Fox-owned stations as well as such cable channels as FX, Fuel, Speed TV and 10 regional sports cablers. Fox is seeking a monthly fee of $1 per Time Warner subscriber in exchange for retransmission consent rights to 14 of its stations in markets served by Time Warner Cable. Time Warner has balked at Fox's demand and is said to have offered about 30 cents per sub.
As the rhetoric from both camps heated up on Wednesday, a source close to the situation noted that with the sides so far apart on price, neither wa…
Jeremy Renner Not Playing Hawkeye In Any Upcoming Film
There was a rumor floating around that you’d play Hawkeye in Thor. Did that ever pan out?
That was just one of those things that got blown way out of proportion. It was an idea. Those Marvel guys, I’m a big fan of them. They’re so smart about how they want to do these things — they have Captain America, and Thor coming around, Iron Man 2, and then I happen to know Zak Penn, who’s writing The Avengers. So they thought Hawkeye is an interesting role, and asked me if I knew anything about him. I said no, so they gave me their sort of spiel on what he was, and I thought that it was kind of interesting. The only reason it came out this early, because Avengers is two years away, is that they’re thinking OK, we may throw him in Thor, we may not, as a cameo. You know what I mean? So there’s truth that we talked about it, but there’s no truth to me doing it.
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The Eagle Of The Ninth First Look-Channing Tatum Starring Role
In 140 AD, a young Roman centurion attempts to uncover the truth about the disappearance of his father's legion—the Ninth—in the north of Britain twenty years previously. The centurion, Marcus Aquila (Tatum), travels with a British slave, Esca (Bell), beyond Hadrian's Wall into Caledonia, where he must confront the tribes to recover the legion's standard and restore his father's reputation.
The Eagle of the Ninth is a forthcoming film adaptation of the 1954 historical adventure novel of the same name by Rosemary Sutcliffe. Directed by Kevin Macdonald from a script by Jeremy Brock, the film is set in the second century AD and tells of a young Roman officer's search to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father's legion in the north of Britain. The story is based on the legend of the Ninth Legion.
The film stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong. Filming began on…
Top 10 Biggest TV Business Mistakes of the Decade
10 biggest mishaps in the television industry over the past decade.
10. Fox canceling "Family Guy" (and perhaps "Firefly" too)
Axed TV shows usually stay dead, yet two titles canceled by former Fox chief Sandy Grushow in 2002 refused to go quietly. One was Seth MacFarlane's "Family Guy," which was moved around the schedule and was even put opposite top-rated hits "Survivor" and "Friends" before getting yanked. After the show's repeats got strong ratings on Adult Swim and netted big DVD sales, the comedy eventually made its way back to broadcast in 2005. "Family Guy" is now Fox's second-highest-rated scripted series and has produced a successful spinoff ("The Cleveland Show"). As for "Firefly," the show lived on as a theatrical movie ("Serenity") and to this day, no TV series cancellation inspires louder fanboy wails.
9. NBC hiring Ben Sil…
Michael Jackson Inducted Into The National Film Registry
The late performer's 1983 video "Thriller" is among the 25 motion pictures that have been selected this year for preservation by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
The list of films, announced Wednesday, ranged from the 1911 silent film "Little Nemo," which mixed animation with live action, to 1995's "Scratch and Crow," an animated short film made by Helen Hill.
The films named to the 2009 National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress include the 1957 sci-fi classic "The Incredible Shrinking Man," as well as the Muppets' movie debut in 1979's "The Muppet Movie."
This year's selections bring the number of films in the registry to 525.
Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Librarian of Congress names 25 films to the registry that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant, to be preserved for…
Tim Roth Is Game For A Return In 'Incredible Hulk' Sequel Or Other Marvel Movies
While 2008's "Incredible Hulk" only performed marginally better at the box office than its 2003 counterpart, many fans praised Louis Leterrier's take on Marvel's green goliath as a significant upgrade from Ang Lee's earlier film. One of the most notable improvements, according to many critics, was the addition of award-winning actor Tim Roth as the villainous soldier Emil Blonsky opposite Edward Norton's scientist-on-the-run Bruce Banner.
Even though [SPOILER ALERT] Roth's character was on the receiving end of a Hulk beatdown at the end of the film (despite becoming the mutated behemoth Abomination), the door was left wide open for a potential return. And as Hulk fans know, Blonsky is a regular presence among Hulk's rogues.
While chatting with Roth recently about "Lie to Me," the Fox television series in which he plays a human lie-detector of sorts, I m…
Sam Worthington Or Ryan Reynolds To Play Flash Gordon In Remake
Flash Gordon is one of my all time favorite films as a kid I remember watching it on my father's beta. And then as I got older watching it on VHS.
Who doesn't love this movie. Forget about it!
A remake I am not so sure of but the two actors they have in mind could fill the Iconic role that Sam J. Jones made so famous.
Here is some interesting news I found out.
Newcomer Sam Worthington is rising up in the ranks! We hear buzz that he may be starring in a Flash Gordon remake. He currently stars in James Cameron’s Avatar, and has been named as one of the hot breakout stars of the year.
Sources say Sam is up against the sexy Ryan Reynolds for the leading role in the sci-fi flick. “If he gets the role it would be quite a big deal as Flash is an all-American hero,” dished one Hollywood insider. “Right now it’s between Sam, Ryan Reynolds and one or two others for the lead role should the project actually get off the ground.”
Douchebags Of 2009. The Top 10 List
Sadly the douchebag is still alive and well in America. They creep among us in a glaringly obvious way with their poor sense of style, over-inflated sense of self-worth, and all-round bad behavior. The problem with the douchebag is they’re not self-aware. They're so caught up in themselves they don’t realize they’re 100 percent douche..unless of course, we name them and shame them.
10. Christian Bale
After the success of The Dark Knight last year it seemed Christian Bale could do no wrong. That all changed early this year when an audio recording was leaked of Bale screaming and shouting at Director of Photography Shane Hurlbut on the set of Terminator Salvation. The angry tirade had a psychotic Bale hurling a mountain of abuse at Hurlbut, swearing at him, and threatening him. Once released, the recording went viral and Bale quickly became the butt of endless jokes and parodies.
Bale publicly apologized, saying the outburst was “inexcusable” and that…
"The Boondocks" To Return In Early 2010
After nearly a two-year hiatus, animated series "The Boondocks" is returning for a third season.
According to creator Aaron McGruder's Twitter feed, the show is currently in production and set to air in early 2010.
No network has been announced, but the Sony Pictures Television-produced skein was most recently seen on Adult Swim.
Based on McGruder's cartoon strip, "The Boondocks" examines an African-American family who has moved from Chicago to the suburbs outside Washington, D.C., and quickly discovers the challenges of living in a different culture.
Show, which received many favorable reviews, was often criticized for its use of language and racial stereotypes. Fifteen episodes were created for each of the two seasons, with the most recent episode airing in spring 2008.
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“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” Johnny Depp and Jude Law Open Up
Reps for the Sony Pictures Classics release “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” the latest fantasia from Terry Gilliam, are distributing statements from co-stars Johnny Depp and Jude Law. This was the film Heath Ledger was working on when he died last year, and Gilliam asked Depp, Law and Colin Farrell to help finish the film as variations on Ledger’s character.
Johnny Depp and Jude Law on Heath Ledger and Doctor Parnassus
Here are the statements:
JOHNNY DEPP:
“Maestro Gilliam has made a sublime film. Wonderfully enchanting and beautiful, ‘The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus’ is a uniquely ingenious, captivating creation; by turns wild, thrilling and hilarious in all its crazed, dilapidated majesty. Pure Gilliam magic!!!
It was an honor to represent Heath. He was the only player out there breathing heavy down the back of every established actors neck with a thundering and ungovernable talent that came up on you quic…
Warner Bros. Tops 2009 Box Office. Thanks To A Boy Named Harry
Harry Potter's broom was turbo-charged this year, as the schoolboy wizard's latest film adventure helped Warner Bros. fly well north of $2 billion to repeat atop the annual domestic boxoffice rankings.
Warners projects a $2.99 billion domestic tally and nearly 20% market share through Dec. 31. But as certain as the picture is at the pinnacle of year-end rankings, other top positions remain cloaked in uncertainty.
Headed into the final frame, Paramount sits second with $1.44 billion and a 14% share, while Sony is third with $143 billion and a similar share. But Fox, with $1.25 billion (12%), has holiday tentpoles "Avatar" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" still going strong enough to give the it a real shot at one of the medal positions.
Warners -- also ringing up lots of loot with recently released "Sherlock Homles" -- used the heftiest slate in Hollywood to nail down its repea…
James McAvoy To Play Ian Fleming In Upcoming Film
Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films are developing a biopic based on the life of Ian Fleming, according to our source, The Hollywood Cog. Currently working under the title, Ian Fleming, the movie will be about the man behind James Bond, specifically focused on the years that gave him inspiration for the Bond character.
Years before creating Bond, Fleming struggled and floundered under the shadow of his family name (his father was a member of Parliament, and his siblings were also well-known, as well, including Peter — a travel writer). Likable but lost, Fleming was little but an aimless playboy, until his experiences in World War 2 changed his life, and it was those autobiographical experiences during war time that inspired James Bond, who was based — in part — on Fleming.
The movie itself will be based on the book, Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond, by Andrew Lycett, who has also written books on Arthur Conan Doyle, Dylan Thomas…
Avenged Sevenfold Drummer James Owen Sullivan Found Dead At His Home
Police say James Owen Sullivan, a drummer and backup vocalist for the Southern California band Avenged Sevenfold, has been found dead at his home in Southern California.
Lt. John Domingo says the 28-year-old Sullivan, who went by the stage name The Rev, appears to have died of natural causes on Monday in Huntington Beach.
The Orange County coroner's office is investigating the death.
Avenged Sevenfold formed in Huntington Beach in 1999 and won Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2006. According to their MySpace page, the five-man metalcore band was working on their fifth album.
The band released a statement Monday expressing their sadness and calling Sullivan "one of the world's best drummers," and "our best friend and brother."
Ghostbusters 3 To Be In Theaters In 2011
Here comes the Ghostbusters question: What’s up with part three?
Something’s going to happen. Dan [Aykroyd] did write a spec GB3 screenplay a few years ago, but no one was motivated to pursue it. Now, 25 years after the original, there seems to be some willingness to proceed and apparently a substantial public appetite for a sequel. We’ll introduce some new young Ghostbusters, and all the old guys will be in it, too. Think Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future ... GB3 is progressing with plans to shoot next summer and release in 2011 … Oh, and I have two one-of-a-kind Ghostbuster yarmulkes sent by fans.
Ghostbusters 3 Spoiler Sigourney Weaver Spills The Slime
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Sherlock Holmes Movie Review By: Windy
Sherlock Holmes Movie Review
By: Windy
Windy has out done herself again. Coming in with a home run review! What would we do without her?
Make sure to visit her site and let her know what a great job she is doing.
"Sherlock Holmes", directed by Guy Ritchie,takes place in 1891 London, just as the well-known Tower Bridge was being constructed. The film is extremely fast paced in both movement and dialogue-too fast at times. It may have been the dialect of the time, but in 2009, the words become hard to discern. Kudos to Robert Downey Jr for picking up such a strong dialect, but it needed to be slowed for the audience.
Downey Jr's character is well-developed, as we hear his thoughts throughout the movie, see into his home and learn about his techniques for solving mysteries. Dr. John Watson, played by Jude Law, is also well developed as Holmes' partner who has to balance life-threatening detective work, his friendship with Holmes and his relationship with his soon-to-be-…
Iron Man 2 Black Widow What Team Is She Playing For?
We were all over the official "Iron Man 2" trailer when it hit the 'Net a few weeks ago, giving you the five most important scenes from the trailer, a shot-by-shot analysis and even some thoughts on what the "Iron Man 2" trailer reveals about the film's plot. But even after all of that coverage, there's something we missed.
Right around the 1:40 mark in the trailer, there's a scene featuring Scarlett Johansson in action as Black Widow, and some keen-eyed observers around the InterWebs have discovered what could be a major plot point revealed in a few frames. Check it out for yourself:
Notice anything? Well, if you're willing to brave a SPOILER ALERT, go ahead and read on for what could be an intriguing plot point revealed in this scene.
If you need a hint (and I did), cast your attention to Scarlett Johansson's left arm, just below the shoulder of her Black Widow costume. Notice the patch part…
Twilight Tops Fan List For 2009
The "Twilight" vampire franchise topped a survey of 2009 moviegoers' favorites, but film fans were divided over whether they loved or hated this year's "Transformers" sequel.
A poll on the AOL movie Web site Moviefone.com ranked "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" both the worst of 2009 and the year's best action movie, as well as the second-most disappointing film of the year -- after "Bruno."
And "Transformers" star Megan Fox was overwhelmingly voted both the year's sexiest female actress, and the actress who gave the worst performance of the 2009, according to the poll released Monday.
Whatever the views of Moviefone.com followers, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" grossed more than $834 in ticket sales worldwide to make it the third-most commercially successful movie of 2009, behind "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs…
Moviegoers have shown a willingness to be entangled by Spider-Man's web over and over again. Now, as Disney prepares to buy the comic-book powerhouse Marvel, it faces the question of whether fans will also get attached to characters as obscure as Ant-Man and Iron Fist.
The Walt Disney Co. is making a $4.2 billion bet that they will as it nears completion of its acquisition of Marvel Entertainment this week. The cash-and-stock deal brings those characters and thousands of others to an entertainment empire that already includes Mickey Mouse, Kermit the Frog and Hannah Montana.
Disney's biggest challenge will be to get enough people enthused about second-string superheroes to justify the price -- about $1.2 billion, or 40%, more than what Marvel's stock was worth when the deal was announced Aug. 31.
The high price means Disney will have to find new ways to earn revenue from Marvel -- perhaps by bringing Marvel-licensed toys to more…
It's Complicated Movie Review By: Windy
It's Complicated Movie Review
Chicago must have had some Hellish wind storms, Windy our resident Film reviewer blew into two films this weekend. We will start with "It's Complicated" first.
And make sure to come back and read her review of Sherlock Holmes.
Please make a pit stop to her site here.
"It's Complicated," starring Merryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, is the story of a divorced couple of ten years who begins having an affair with each other after sparks ignite at their son's graduation weekend.
Merryl Streep and Alec Baldwin are perfectly cast as the divorced couple who portray palpable on-screen chemistry. Every emotion they share - anger, happiness, laughter, confusion - is felt through the screen. They play off of each other quite nicely as if they have acted together for years. Alec plays the perfect seducer while Streep plays the not-so-sure-but-jump-feet-first "victim" of seduction. Their comedic timing is …
Thundercats Movie Not Moving Forward
Before getting to the good news, if you didn’t know, WB was developing a Thundercats movie back in late 2007. Variety reported video game vet Jerry O’Flaherty was set to direct a CGI-animated feature film based on the property. He even said:
“It feels like a natural thing for me to step into,” he said. “Games have come so far now. The last four years of my life have been about bringing the energy of film making into the video game experience.”
The movie was going to be an origin story similar to the original pilot, “Exodus” (which you can watch here). It would have focused on Lion-O becoming the leader of the Thundercats and having to do battle with Mumm-Ra.
But, as I said, it seems like Lion-O’s Sword of Omens won’t be calling on any of the other Thundercats anytime soon.
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Avatar Sequel Gossip Next Film May Venture Off Of Pandora
Given Avatar’s strong showing at the box office for the past few weekends, and that James Cameron and Fox have invested considerable amounts of blood and money in the film, you can rest assured that we’re going to get a sequel (and most likely a third film to complete the trilogy). The only question now is what those sequels will be about.
According to a recent LA Times Hero Complex interview, which occurred on Avatar’s opening night, Cameron is considering exploring the other moons surrounding the gas-giant planet Polyphemus, which Pandora orbits. This confirms an earlier rumor by Market Saw, and it gives us an idea about the increased scope of the Avatar universe.
Cameron’s quote, as well as a few other sequel bits, after the break. And of course, spoilers for the ending of Avatar as well.
In reference to the other moons around Polyphemus, Cameron said:
We have some story ideas about how to branch out into other moons of Polyphemu…
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Fashion Site Inspirare.com Launches Collaboration Program with the School of Fashion at Academy of Art University
Talented fashion design students from Academy of Art University are getting an opportunity to have their fashion projects completely funded. Inspirare, a new social networking fashion site, is teaming up with the fashion school to promote their talent and introduce their work to a worldwide audience.
Inspirare is a perfect opportunity for our students to have their designs exposed to an international community and be put into production. We see a bigger potential with Inspirare as the collaboration grows
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 26, 2012
Local e-shop founder Sean Peng and his company Inspirare have teamed up with the San Francisco fashion powerhouse Academy of Art University (AAU). Inspirare’s business model is selling San Francisco produced garments designed by emerging designers from over 20 countries in their e-shop set to launch in the coming week. Academy of Art University is known to churn out hundreds of talented designers annually from over 90 countries. The school just wrapped up their Spring 2013 presentation at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City.
Sean Peng sought an opportunity for discovering new talent when he decided to collaborate with the school’s arsenal of innovative and unique designers. Many of these students (even after school) do not have the resources in the Bay Area to get their collections into production for retail. Students will now have the opportunity to begin experiencing commercial success while still mastering their skill and degree.
The collaboration program with AAU launched this Fall 2012 semester. The Inspirare team and the AAU Fashion team have outlined specific guidelines for the students. At the end of the semester, a selection of the Spring 2013 garments will be placed into production. Students must operate under the company’s retail price range.
Inspirare is not the only one to benefit from the city’s rich resource for great fashion designers. Selected students whose garments are produced will receive a 10 to 15% royalty. Students receive guidance and develop awareness in creating production-friendly collections. Inspirare ships and sells these garments in its e-shop that reaches over 30 countries.
Gladys Perint Palmer, Executive Director of the School of Fashion, and Simon Ungless, Director of the School of Fashion, have been leading the fashion school since 1996. “Inspirare is a perfect opportunity for our students to have their designs exposed to an international community and be put into production. We see a bigger potential with Inspirare as the collaboration grows,” said Ungless.
About Academy of Art University
With more than 18,000 students, Academy of Art University is the nation’s largest accredited private art and design university. Established in 1929, the school offers accredited A.A., B.A., B.F.A., M.A., M.F.A., and M.Arch degree programs in Acting, Advertising, Animation & Visual Effects, Architecture, Art Education, Art History, Fashion, Fine Art, Game Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture & Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures & Television, Multimedia Communications, Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media, Photography, and Web Design & New Media. Online degrees are offered in most areas. Academy of Art University is an accredited member of WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges), NASAD (National Association of Schools of Art and Design), NAAB (National Architectural Accrediting Board, Master of Architecture), and CIDA (Council for Interior Design Accreditation offered for BFA-IAD, MFA-IAD).
About Inspirare
Inspirare is part of the San Francisco fashion scene and is dedicated to supporting the next wave of emerging fashion designers by offering them 100 percent production funding. All garments are manufactured in the U.S.
Inspirare offers an open dialogue between customers and designers, connecting them through an online community. It provides designers the opportunity to gain exposure and form a solid foundation from which to launch their label. Consumers benefit by having access to cutting edge design not available anywhere else.
Fashion School, Academy of Art University
Director of Public Relations: Ian Mackintosh
Email: imackintosh(at)academyart(dot)edu
Web: http://www.academyart.edu/experiencefashion/index.html
Inspirare
Creative Director: Olivia Muniak
Email: hi(at)inspirare(dot)com
Web: http://www.inspirare.com
Olivia Muniak
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About Jinyun
Jinyun County, dating back to the year 696 (the Tang Dynasty) with an area of 1503 square km and a population of 444,000, consists of 8 towns, 8 townships and 2 rural administrative offices, with 642 administrative villages in their charge. Located in the north of Lishui Prefecture, which is in central and southern Zhejiang Province, Jinyun is surrounded by Xianju and Yongjia on the east, Qingtian on the south, Liandu and Wuyi on the west and Yongkang and Pan'an on the north. With its developed transportation network of highway, freeway and railway, Jinyun is easy and convenient to travel to from all directions, which makes it possible for Jinyun to develop its economy and society in a preferable way.
In addition to its advantages in location and transportation, Jinyun has its own characteristics. Jinyun Duck, dating back to over 300 years ago, has advantages over other types of ducks in growing period, egg producing, feed saving and virus fighting. Since the 1980s, the beginning of reform and opening up, Jinyun Duck farming has been fast developing in some developed areas such as Shanghai and Guangdong, which has brought great fame to Jinyun Duck. Hence, Jinyun was awarded with the title of "China Duck Town" by the State Council in 1997.
Jinyun is also famous for its long history of more than 1,300 years and natural scenery. Dating from the Tang Dynasty, Wuyunzhen, the capital town of Jinyun, is typical of its stone streets, stone bridges and stone houses, which gets Wuyunzhen its name "Stone Town" . Besides, more than 200 films were set in Xiandu Scenic Spot in Jinyun for its beautiful natural scenery----unique stones of Huangshan Mountain's, gorgeous mountains like Huashan Mountain and clear green water like that in Guilin, which deserves the titles of National Key Place of Interest of 4 A level, National Photographing Base and Provincial Top Ten Resort. Dinghu Peak is the heart of Xiandu resort, which is a170.8-meter-tall stalagmite mountain in the shape of a huge bamboo shoot and known as "No 1 Stalagmite Stone " in the world. And Huangdi, who was said to have searched for medicine for immortal life in Jinyun and is respected and honored as the first grandfather of the Chinese Han Nationality, has played an important part in the communication with North China, where Huangdi was said to have passed away. And the Huangdi Temple is the symbol of Huandi Culture, where ceremonies of honoring Huangdi are held every year.And Heyang Village, built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the best preserved of its kind in Jinyun, is also an attractive place for tourists. Besides its beautiful natural scenery, Jinyun is well known for its eco-tourism, which has won Jinyun the title of "China Best Eco-Tourism County" based on its top quality of eco-environment in which Jinyun comes the 37th out of the 2348 counties all over China and the 14th out of all the counties in Zhejiang Province, an important part of "Zhejiang Green Valley", which is an area of eco-environment in Zhejiang.
Jinyun is especially rich in natural resources like minerals and water resources. More than 0.13 billion tons of zeolite has been explored, which makes it the largest amount of zeolite in our country. And the unique way of making use of water resources by building water power stations at different levels has won its technique training base for small water power stations in Asian-Pacific areas designated by the UN.
Jinyun has attached even greater importance to education, which makes it a good example for the counties around to follow in hard work and scientific teaching methods. People in all walks of life in Jinyun , especially the parents of students, put education in the first place of all, which was praised by former vice premier Li Lanqing.
Guided by the CPC's Scientific Outlook on Development----develop our country scientifically and harmoniously and the polices at provincial and city levels, Jinyun has made great progress in the development of economy and society, aiming to develop Jinyun in a harmonious , vigorous, creative and open-minded way, which is certain to change Jinyun into a powerful and developed county from all aspects. The figures below show how fast Jinyun is developing. The GDP of Jinyun reached 6.726 billion yuan, 16.5% more than that of 2006 with per capita GDP reaching 2,000 dollars. In 2007, the gross output value of industry in Jinyun was 14.405 billion yuan, 30.5% more than that in 2006. And the gross output value of agriculture in Jinyun was 0.948 billion yuan, 7% more than that in 2006. The financial revenue of 2007 in Jinyun was 0.784 billion yuan, 30.6% more than that in 2006,including local financial revenue of 0,384 billion yuan, 34.8% more than that in 2006. Urban residents' per capita annual income was 16,251 yuan, 15.3% more than that in 2006. Rural residents' per capita annual income was 4,533 yuan, 10.9% more than that in 2006. In the first half of 2008, the GDP of Jinyun was 3.57 billion yuan, 13.9% more than that in the same period in 2007. In the first three quarters, the gross output value of industry in Jinyun was 14.36 billion yuan, 38.8% more than that in the same period of 2006 and the financial revenue was 0.69 billion yuan, 16% more than that in the same period of 2007, including local financial revenue of 0.32 billion yuan, 11.6% more than that in the same period of 2007. And urban residents' per capita income in this period was 13,700 yuan, 12.5% more than that in the same period of 2007, while rural residents' per capita income was 4,692 yuan , 16.4% more than that in the same period of 2007.
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New Haven Register: Emergency crews, volunteers try to make sense of mass ODs
Emergency crews, volunteers try to make sense of mass ODs
By Jessica Lerner
Updated 4:38 pm EDT, Saturday, August 18, 2018
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Things seemed to have returned to status quo, more or less, on the city Green Saturday, following the massive K2 overdoses that plagued the city for several days.
Emergency personnel were pushed to their limits during a 72-hour period, as they responded to more than 100 overdoses since Tuesday night.
New Haven police Lt. Karl Jacobson, who heads the department’s intelligence and narcotics division, said during a press conference Friday city officials determined that 47 individuals were treated at least once for an overdose. Some individuals were treated multiple times for overdosing, resulting in roughly 120 separate ambulance calls.
City Office of Emergency Management Director Rick Fontana said things started to calm down around 10 p.m. Thursday, when the men allegedly responsible for the sale of the tainted K2 were placed in custody.
Felix Ayala Melendez, 37, and John Parker, 53, both of New Haven, have been arrested in connection with the overdoses. Police Chief Anthony Campbell said during the press conference Friday that Melendez, whom police had arrested in February on drug charges, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance. Parker is facing state drug charges as well as a federal narcotics charge.
A third man, believed to be a distributor of the bad batch of K2, has also been arrested on a federal search warrant. The man, who has not been publicly identified, is being held on federal drug charges, Campbell said.
Campbell said Saturday there have also been some reported heroin overdoses, as those individuals that were looking for K2 weren’t able to get it, so they resorted back to the drug that was easier to get.
Since 12 a.m. Saturday, Fontana said there have been six K2 overdoses — four of which happened around the Green — noting that these synthetic cannabinoid overdoses may not be the same K2 from earlier in the week.
“We’re really back to what we call ‘normalcy,’” Fontana said.
However, “normalcy” doesn’t mean emergency crews stop responding to the Green. Fontana said emergency personnel respond to around 2,000 reported overdoses on the Green every year, but not all of them “pan out.”
A Torrington resident named Rob said Saturday, as he was coming out the library, he saw a man, unresponsive, lying on his side. Rob said he started asking if anyone had called for an ambulance, but the man’s friend said he hadn’t.
“I said to [the friend], ‘You need to call an ambulance,’” Rob said. “But he just said, ‘Everything’s all good.’”
Rob said the friend scooped the man off the sidewalk, and they both started walking away. Ignoring the friend’s wishes, Rob said he tried to call 911, but his cellphone was dead. When the ambulance showed up several minutes later, sirens flashing, Rob said the man was gone.
Jacobson and Assistant Police Chief Herb Johnson said Friday that trying to stop drug dealing on the Green presents a difficult set of challenges, though recent events have led to an increased police presence in the area.
A man who identified himself only as Danny said he’s very familiar with the people who frequent the Green, as he walks through it every day with his dog on his way to a nearby methadone clinic. Danny said he understands addiction, having become addicted to pain killers after a car accident a few years ago, but he can’t seem to make sense of the past few days.
“I just don’t get it. I don’t get why you would want to let yourself go that far. I’m an addict, and I knew I had to go get help. You’re not going to get better unless you want to,” he said.
Danny said the Green is a lot more “hectic” this weekend. He said there are individuals looking to score K2 and officers patrolling the area. “I understand the cops and EMTs got to do what they got to do, but there isn’t anything they can do to stop it.”
However, the increase in officers hasn’t been to everyone’s benefit. Angelina Carney said she was meeting her mom on the Green, when she saw her pregnant friend’s boyfriend getting arrested.
Carney alleged the police arrested the boyfriend because he had a prescription bottle for medication without the label on it. “It has nothing to do with what’s been going on or anything like that,” Carney said.
While she doesn’t blame the officers for checking everyone’s IDs after the mass overdoses, she said it’s still an unfortunate situation, something that she could have just as easily found herself in.
“I do the same thing. I rip the labels off my bottles. It’s something I do. I don’t want people knowing my information,” Carney said.
The overdoses have drawn international attention, as city, state and federal officials, and as well as community leaders, attempt to address the issues that are part of a national drug addiction problem.
In the basement of the Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, 25 people sat around a round table, brainstorming ideas on how to help members of the community who struggle with addiction.
Rev. Luk De Volder said this past week highlighted the fact that Trinity is, often times, on the frontline of these situations.
“There is a need for counseling, a need for community among the people struggling with addiction, a need for more coordination among the victim services who are not always aware of what is going on, so people are being sent from one place to another, often returned without follow-up,” he said,
De Volder said some of the conversation revolved around the stigma associated with addiction. “There’s a real need to humanize the understanding about the background of people and what they’re struggling with,” he said.
Pastors Marc and Ana Reyes, of the Good Shepherd Ministries in West Haven, also stood on the Green, talking to passersby and handing out pamphlets.
Marc Reyes said, while their church is in West Haven, he was born and raised in New Haven. Having grown up in the city, he said, he understands the needs and challenges the members of the community faces.
“Today, we’re just reaching out to the homeless, just bringing out hope to them, giving them out hope, letting them know the love of God is real, and life is better than where they’re at ... now,” Marc Reyes said.
Ana Reyes said the church also has a group that will come out to the Green “every so often” to distribute food and personal items like shampoo, conditioner and toothpaste to the homeless. In the winter, she said the group brings blankets and hot chocolate.
Along with inviting people to their church and offering a message of hope, the Reyeses said they are also attempting to help in other, nonspiritual ways. Ana Reyes said around 11 a.m., she was trying to convince a man to seek treatment, after the man admitted he needs help.
“We’re just trying to reach out,” Ana Reyes said. “That’s what we’re called to do.”
Maija McManus
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October 26, 2017 Music ReviewSean McHughComment
In 2015, seemingly out of nowhere, a nineteen year-old Memphis post-punker by the name of Julien Baker released Sprained Ankle, a collection of songs written with startling awareness and humility that, for the most part, remains absent in much of her peers. Naturally, the blogosphere erupted with adoration - here was a promising young artist that had depth, sustainability, and seemingly little interest in the post-Internet social media sphere - and thus began the meteoric rise of Julien Baker’s (totally deserved) legacy.
It’s almost amusing to consider that throughout the two years that followed Sprained Ankle’s release, someone as private as Baker would quickly become one of the most sought after entities in independent music. If Baker’s songwriting were any indication, forthright lyrics and minimalist guitar would leading to indie-stardom would have been the last thing on her mind. Nevertheless, Baker is a member of the late-millennial generation, so combined with Baker’s irrefutable musical excellence, she garner deep and devout support from any and all who see her (as they should).
But with Baker, there’s an added dimension of fervent devotion - both amongst contemporaries and gatekeepers alike (Matador, NPR, and everyone in-between) - within the indie world. There’s an artist worth talking about, and for once, it seems like there’s enough of a wellspring of talent to continue talking about her, so when we stop talking and move on to whatever artist du-jour may pop up in the interim, Baker’s follow-up will no doubt be exceptional.
And almost to the T, when Baker announced the release date for her sophomore effort, Turn Out the Lights, almost exactly two years following the release of Sprained Ankle, that same adoration returned, and with good reason. While folks within the blogosphere may be quick to move on to something with a little more sheen to it, consistency is what truly builds a legacy, and TOTL manages to serve as a prime exemplar.
When Baker and her new label, Matador, released TOTL’s lead single, “Appointments,” Baker’s rasped whisper came through singing heart-wrenching thoughts of not living up to another’s standards, failing to understand change over time, and ultimately watching such factors lead into the end of a relationship. All of this on top of Baker’s tastefully minimalist guitar tones, this time accentuated by percussive piano, further extending the sentiments of what is a devastating first taste.
The rest of TOTL follows suit - expanded sound (piano, string arrangements, and woodwind on an instrumental “Over,” which seamlessly leads into “Appointments”), and decidedly more confident (“Turn Out The Lights”), but ultimately plain-speaking lyricism. Baker’s candor has always been her most disarming artistic attribute - just look to the immense pain and visceral imagery of “Shadowboxer” for reference - but on TOTL, she manages to lean into her guitar abilities a little more willingly. The dynamic crescendos of “Shadowboxer” or the subtle overlays of “Sour Breath” further extend Baker’s supreme progression as a lyricist on top of her continued prowess.
While Baker’s musicality may serve as a pleasant surprise on TOTL, her distinct capacity with language continues to be by far and away the most beguiling aspect of any Julien Baker project. Baker’s lyrical depth has hardly been doubted, refuted, or rebuked - and to do so would only serve a contrarian cause - but if there was ever an ounce of musing uncertainty, this album throws any and all cynicism by the wayside.
TOTL is an absolute masterclass in songwriting. Look no further than “Televangelist” for what is one of the strongest exercises in allegorical elocution in recent memory. Wasting no time, Baker opens with “My heart is going to eat itself,” diving headfirst into a hymn of heart broken masochistic martyrdom. Shortly thereafter, Baker utters what may be the greatest line of the year - ”I’m an amputee with a phantom touch / Leaning on an invisible crutch / Pinned to the mattress like an insect to styrofoam / Coming up from my bedroom alone,” - over nothing more than echoing piano. Baker goes straight for the heart, in an attempt to imbue her own anguish.
Turn Out the Lights is truly one of the best albums of 2017. There is no galavanting of gregariousness, no over-saturation of privileged existence, instead, there is only what Baker offers up for those who are willing to receive of her. This album is her via dolorosa, and we are privileged that she would be willing to share it with the world. Julien Baker is a once-in-a-lifetime talent, and Turn Out the Lights is simply exquisite.
Sean McHughMusic ReviewTurn Out the Lights, Julien Baker, Sprained Ankle, Shadowboxer, Televangelist, Music Review, New Music, album review
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Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist
Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Conservationist , Woodland and Trees > Ecology, Conservation and Biodiversity , University of Regina Press
Includes a foreword by HRH Prince Charles and an introduction by Jane Goodall Richard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too, through his ceaseless global campaign to raise the alarm about deforestation and desertification and by finding effective, culturally sensitive ways for people to contribute to a more peaceful and greener world. He was also an Edwardian eccentric whose obsession with trees caused him to neglect his family; the devout son of an evangelical preacher who became a New Age hero; an unapologetic colonial officer fired for defending indigenous Africans; a forester who rarely had a steady income; a failed entrepreneur and inventor; a proud soldier and peace activist; a brilliant writer, speaker, and raconteur who made wild claims about the effectiveness of his conservation efforts. His encounters with historical figures like FDR, Nehru, and George Bernard Shaw are eye-popping, as were his accomplishments.
Manufactured by: University of Regina Press
(H) 228mm, (W) 6mm, (D) 152mm
Stock: - Manufactured on demand
Publisher: - University of Regina Press - more
Year: - 2018 10 (Oct)
Authors: - Paul Hanley
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Timbuktu’s history
Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research (IHERI-AB)
The Mamma Haidara Memorial Library
The Timbuktu Andalusian Library (Fondo Ka'ti)
The al-Wangari Manuscript Library
Editorial, December 2015
The attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako on Friday 20 November was a reminder of the political instability in Mali. The political crisis in the country surfaced with the insurrection in the North, which led to the occupation of that region and major towns such as Timbuktu and Gao in mid-2012. During this period hundreds—perhaps a couple of thousand even—of metal crates of manuscripts were moved from Timbuktu to Bamako. Fortunately, these metal crates are housed far from the hotel that was the scene of the hostage-taking by two armed men affiliated to one or other rebel grouping in the country. By the end of the 2012 – 2013 crisis, when I learned of the transport of the manuscripts from the insecurity of the North to the relative security of the capital, Bamako, I mused to myself: “What if the capital is not all that safe?” But I did not declare this concern because it would have appeared too negative. My concern with that transfer of the metal crates was expressed in rather technical terms: Bamako is far too humid, storing paper in metal crates in a humid climate is not a very good idea, the cost of renting space to house these crates must be prohibitive, when will the situation in the North return to normality allowing the manuscripts to return to their original locations? The concern I kept to myself—about the probability of armed violence and general insecurity in Bamako—was based on what was reported about Bamako during the 2012 – 2013 period. The Presidential Palace was attacked and even ransacked. If this can happen to the most secure of building precincts in the capital then it does make one doubt the security of other spaces in the otherwise peaceful capital by the Niger River. We hope that the bloody incident of Friday November 20 does not happen again. We have many friends and colleagues in Bamako including those who relocated there from the North because of the problems besetting the region. We have many reasons to keep going to Bamako not least because the libraries are now hidden there.
On workshops, libraries and soldiers in Bamako
I spent ten days in Bamako in early October, participating in a series of workshops organised by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at the University of Hamburg, under the framework of events “Paroles de sagesse: les manuscrits anciens du Mali” sponsored by joint Malian-Franco-German cultural funds. Four workshops spread over seven days were held at the Malian National Library in Bamako, and were directed at a multi-national group of West African manuscript researchers, library and archive personnel, as well as manuscript owners.
My first impression upon landing in Bamako airport was the overarching presence of UN personnel and soldiers in the city. The only other airplanes on the runway at the time I arrived, besides my Ethiopian Airlines Boeing, were numerous UN cargo planes. As I waited patiently for my luggage, I was surrounded by many returning hajj pilgrims clad in white, accompanied by overflowing baggage, as well as serious MINUSMA (the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali) soldiers attired in khaki uniforms; the contrast was stark. These foreign soldiers were ever-present in government buildings, restaurants and hotels, altering the landscape of the city in ways I am still trying to understand. Ironically, I felt much more insecure when in their company at the workshop hotel, than I ever experienced when wondering the dusty streets of Bamako on the back of a motorcycle.
Nouakchott-Tombouctou via Cape Town
Le Mali, notamment dans sa partie septentrionale, représente à plus d’un titre un centre d’intérêt pour les études sociales en Mauritanie. Il est d’ailleurs très significatifs que les grands chercheurs comme H.T. Norris, P.F. de Moreas Farias ou P. Bonte ont souvent procédé à de fréquents va et vient dans l’étude des sociétés malienne et mauritaniennes ce qui fait penser à l’existence d’un tronc commun quelques part.
Je suis pour ma part particulièrement interpellé étant donné que les centres d’intérêt de mes recherches se focalisent sur l’histoire médiévale des Sanhadja et la langue berbère ce qui trouve des extensions ou au moins des possibilités de comparaison dans le Nord Mali de la même époque domaine d’un peuple cousin des Sanhadja, nomade comme eux mais aussi parlant une branche voisine du berbère.
On Not Reading Manuscripts in Makassar
In early June this year I travelled to the village of Borong Calla in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, to participate in an important religious ceremony marking the date of Nisfu Sha’baan, or the halfway point in the month of Sha’baan. An hour by car from the capital city Makassar, Borong Calla is a small fishing community consisting of roughly 30 households. As locals – especially older residents – remark, the village is special because it is a place of tarekat (tariqa). According to oral history sources, the community was established several generations ago as a centre of Islamic learning, where people could further their knowledge in the Sufi traditions of the Naqshabandiyya and Khalwatiyya. As a resident in her 80s explained to me, when she was younger Borong Calla was an extremely important, respected place; not just anyone could enter the area, there were rules regarding modesty of dress and conduct and only those seeking knowledge would be accepted into the community. While the village ‘isn’t like it used to be,’ with an influx of outsiders holding new and contradicting ideas of Islamic knowledge, the remnants of certain traditional learning practices can still be found, especially around the time of local religious festivals such as the Moulood an-Nabi and at Nisfu-Sha’baan.
Report: Searching for Manuscripts in West Africa
In July/August 2015, I conducted a short research trip in West Africa (Senegal, Ivory Coast and Ghana) with the financial support of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project and the Research Board Award of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I started in Senegal, Dakar, where, during the period of July 20 – 30, 2015, I worked at the Institiut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN). Access to the manuscripts is possible to researchers at the Laboratoire d’Islamologie, Salle Professeur Amar Samb, at certain times during the week: Monday - Friday, 08.00 – 12.00 and 15.00 – 18.00, and Saturday 08.00 – 12.00 (and during vacation period which is August 1 - September 30, from 08.00 – 13.00).
The staff of the library, Mr. Souleymane Gaye, curator at IFAN, and Mme. Oumou Kalsoum Ka Diop, kindly facilitated my work with the manuscripts during my stay. Unfortunately, the lack of detailed catalogues prevents scholars from fully exploiting the potential of this very rich collection of Arabic manuscripts. For example, while my visit was aimed primarily at collecting evidence for my ongoing project on “Arabic Script Styles in West African manuscripts;” I also worked with very interesting and mainly unpublished historical accounts from Mauritania and Mali.
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Sharjah, RAK lay foundation stone for Arab Academy for Science
SHARJAH, April 14, 2019
Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah governments will jointly set up the regional unit of Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Khor Fakkan, a city located on the east coast of the UAE, facing the Gulf of Oman.
The foundation stone for the Arab Academy was jointly laid yesterday (April 13) evening by HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah and HH Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, reported state news agency Wam.
The new branch of the Academy will grant students a bachelor's degree in applied and theoretical sciences.
Dr Sheikh Sultan later inaugurated the Khor Fakkan Lakes and the Fountains Project at the entrance of the city of Khorfakkan, which consists of 4 huge lagoons adorning the four sides of the city’s entrance square, it stated.
Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah was also present at the foundation stone laying ceremony.
The Sharjah ruler also unveiled the Resistance Monument, which bears a historical and symbolic significance for the city's authentic heritage, and is a testament to the steadfastness of the Khor Fakkan people in the face of the Portuguese invasion in the early 15th century.
The monument rises on the entrance of the city and takes the form of a helmet that symbolises the resistance that took place in this city, stated the report.
The site of the monument was designed in a way that makes it a park for the public, adding more beauty to Khor Fakkan and enhancing its tourist attractions, it added.
Later on, both the rulers went up to the top of the mountain, where the unique Al Rabi Tower sits, which is distinguished by its unique architecture, to unveil the memorial plaque of the tower known as "Burj" that dates back to 1915, during the reign of Sheikh Saeed bin Hamad bin Majid Al Qasimi.
The tower is characterised by its multi-shaped geometrical design and its distinctive visual view overlooking the city. The tower, part of the series of observation towers, was regarded as the first defence line to face the greedy invaders, said the Wam report.
Then, they moved to inaugurate "Al Adwani Tower" located on a hilltop near the port of Khor Fakkan. This tower was built in 1623 AD by Sheikh Kayed bin Hamoud Al Adwani Al Qasimi, and was characterised by its unique shape, and was used as a coastal lighthouse to lead ships to the port site, stated the report.
Later the Sharjah ruler unveiled the memorial plaque for the excavations of the ancient Khor Fakkan wall and toured the renovated buildings surrounding Khorfakkan fort, it added.
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What Elizabeth Taylor - The Novelist! - Tells Us About Writing in "Angel"
In Angel, novelist Elizabeth Taylor gives us a biography of a fictional Edwardian writer, Angelica Deverell, her heady rise and disastrous fall. Angel is not a genius, she is not even talented. She writes verbose, flowery, ludicrous, deadly serious tomes full of aristocrats tippling champagne and enchanting royalty with their exquisite beauty, wearing crimson velvet evening gowns and losing their virginities in games of poker. She dislikes reading, claims her main influences as Shakespeare and (a mispronounced) Goethe, disdains research, and absolutely refuses to have a copy editor touch The Lady Irania or An Eastern Tragedy. When she tires of European aristocrats, she simply sets the story in ancient Greece or a harem in a vague location in the East; as she claims "Human nature never changes," such new settings require no study. Her long-suffering editor is forced to invent a Mr. Delbanco, the "man behind the scenes" who serves as a scapegoat for every decision that brings down Angel's wrath. Her books sell: the public devours their escapism and the critics howl over their absurdity. Angel, having no sense of humor, least of all about herself, believes the critics to be insanely jealous of her literary prowess and to have thus marked her as an enemy. In old age, she takes to paying off the ever mounting bills with signed first editions of her works.
Taylor's magic in Angel is to present the reader with an extremely eccentric, morally vacuous, undeservedly self-righteous, and totally untalented character, a writer whose books really are plainly and simply bad. And since Angel doesn't have the smallest capacity to laugh at herself, the critical barbs and ridicule are horrifically cruel. Yet Taylor isn't cruel to her creation. She parades out this figure and refuses to lampoon her. The reader doesn't get impatient, in part because Taylor's style, elegant, yet clean, with an ever so slightly acerbic edge, is quite pleasant to read, but also, and more importantly, because Angel - in modern terms, profoundly 'unrelatable' - is plumbed to her very depth. It becomes difficult to laugh at her, no matter how many times she describes things as "corruscating," when her suffering is so vividly described, when her success, soon and irrevocably quashed by a hairpin turn in taste precipitated by World War I, blooms into failure and leaves her mouldering away in a decaying mansion, sparring with a cranky chauffeur and trailing around in fungus-infected evening gowns.
For writers, Angel has a message it would do us well to heed, for in it, Taylor reminds us that the throes and struggles are hardly proof of genius, or even workaday competence, but part and parcel of the writing process, whether the end result is Hamlet (Angel considers those who mock her "those who would sneer at Shakespeare because they could not write Hamlet themselves") or utter junk. Depictions of great writers and artists, whether in literature or film, often forgive monstrous behavior, fruitless self-destruction, neglect and cruelty of all sorts, as the worthwhile price for the works of genius bequeathed to posterity. That's bunkum as those miseries are the stuff of human life, not genius, the stuff of life, rather than creation. The same behavior can as easily yield trash as treasure, more easily trash, if we're going to be honest. Taylor, in depicting Angel barbed with foibles, follies, caprices, and freakishness, but with wildly different results, reveals the hubris and absurdity of our notions of literary genius. Angel's eccentricity - and her monstrousness is more aesthetic, nowhere on a par with the evil antics of, say, Rimbaud or the titillating scandals of George Sand - is considered absurd because her books are dreadful; if she were churning out the likes of The Age of Innocence or Howards End, the same eccentricity would be imitated and coddled.
Thus Angel becomes an exercise in humility, not merely on a metatextual level, as one of the great English novels of the twentieth century, but also because it patiently and almost tenderly extracts the canker from the flower of genius. It is not how much one suffers, not how hard one works, not even how much money one makes or how many celebrities want to meet one, but a complex alchemical process that might produce a literary philosopher's stone... or else, nothing but dross and singed, foul-smelling dregs.
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Why Do We Laugh at Melodrama?
In these dark times we live in, some give vent to rage, some bewail misfortune - and some have discovered what an extraordinary weapon of resistance laughter can be. Certainly, we knew this before. After all, who isn't familiar with Hans Christian Andersen's wise child, who noticed the absurd emperor's nakedness? Through laughter, pretensions of grandeur, founded on vanity and lies, can be toppled with the greatest of ease. Laughter is a means of fighting violence with nonviolence, physical aggression with a counterattack of wit.
Laughter, however, can also be a weapon of ignorance, or simply cruelty. Laughter is not a purely singular force that punctures abusers of power; it works equally well as a means of denying a powerless person's worth, especially a marginalized person. Think of the scene in Carrie when a bevy of girls throw tampons at her, yelling at her to 'plug it up,' while she quite literally thinks that she is dying. The joke is horrendously cruel and acts as a catalyst for an outbreak of violence, is itself an act of violence. Laughter, it's true, is an exceptionally powerful weapon against tyrants, but its power isn't diminished when it's wielded against those without power.
These days, few audiences have much patience for melodrama. I use the term without any pejorative connotation, since the melodrama is a genre, just like horror, science fiction, or any other more popular type of narrative. Once a mainstay of novels, cinema, opera, and theater, the melodrama has been relegated to the comedy section through laughter - but is it laughter of the first or second type? It's hard to see in what way laughing at tragedies, created by social strictures, providential coincidences, and fated circumstances, could be interpreted as an act of resistance. There is nothing to resist against, except perhaps an emotional response.
I recently attended a screening of A Woman of Affairs, starring Greta Garbo and directed by Clarence Brown. The film's racy adult themes - including very broad hints at a homosexual relationship between men, drug use, syphilis, and lots and lots of sex - tend to be interpreted as the rum in this Dirty Shirley, the sugar in the otherwise gag-worthy medicine, though this attitude misapprehends melodrama as a genre. Such themes were, and would be still if it weren't moribund, hallmarks of melodrama. After all, their heroines are often courtesans and ruined women. Though it was a treat to see the film on the big screen (it is currently streaming on Filmstruck, as part of their spotlight on Garbo), it was not a treat to watch it with an audience that found every acknowledgment of unhappiness screamingly funny. Garbo's brother wallows in a stupor of drug use after his dearest friend, and presumably lover, committed suicide on his honeymoon with Garbo - people were slapping their knees. Garbo protects the man's reputation, by letting authorities believe her own promiscuity drove him to suicide, instead of blackmail over embezzling, and presumably his gay relationship - hear them roar. Garbo, having just suffered a miscarriage, agonizingly clutches a bouquet of flowers as though it were an infant - the snickers became howls.
To be generous, I realize that most people are unfamiliar with the conventions of silent films and I assume that at least part of this reaction can be ascribed to ignorance, to failing to understand the implications. No title card announces that Garbo's character has just had a miscarriage for instance, but an astute adult viewer shouldn't have too much trouble understanding this.
But, this laughter has an insidious and disgusting meaning. I can only imagine that the same person who thinks it's funny that a heartbroken, closeted man in the final throes of drug addiction is crying, or that a woman could die of heartbreak after a life-threatening miscarriage, abandoned in the hospital and rejected by society, could hardly be especially empathetic. The person who laughs at melodrama - and this is supremely well-acted melodrama - prefers to assert a snide self-superiority, far more mannered than the gestures of agony on the screen. That person insists that any strong feeling that hasn't been diagnosed by a psychiatrist is tosh, bollocks, balderdash, baloney, rubbish, drivel. That person thinks that any love, hate, fury, desire, or passion that leads to tragedy is hilariously avoidable.
Moderns may say, how absurd - the courtesan should just marry the aristocrat and screw the consequences, or why doesn't she just go to the doctor and cure her tuberculosis before it's too late? Why don't these people just buck social convention, why don't they just take care of their health, why don't they ignore any feelings that don't let them, as the social media mavens would have it, follow their bliss?
Those questions, accompanied by snickers and hoots, not only ignore historical reality - there are no antibiotics in the middle of the nineteenth century and just look at Lord Byron's conquests alone to see how happy people who bucked conventions turned out to be - but they also refuse emotional engagement, which is exactly and primarily what melodrama asks of its viewers, readers, and listeners. People who laugh at melodrama give themselves permission to laugh at the emotions they don't dare confront themselves, in a socially sanctioned lifting of the taboo of, say, giggling at the misery of a woman who has lost her mind after having a stillborn child. The exercise of empathy is part and parcel of the experience of the melodrama, and so the melodrama cannot have an audience in a cultural world that divides feelings into positive or pathological. That is why moderns laugh at melodrama: because misery, anguish, agony, and adoration have been compartmentalized and shoved into a box marked 'sick.' Today, we feel a passion for a brand of gelato with a cute logo, which would be fine, except... people still die of heartbreak. People still commit suicide. People still get incurable illnesses, have miscarriages, see their children reject them, have affairs and destroy their marriages, drive their cars into ditches. Some people are miserable. And a few are even still capable of sacrificing themselves for others. Those realities that melodrama dramatizes with full emotional engagement have not been overcome. And as long as that is the case, laughing at melodrama should embarrass us far more than melodrama itself.
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4 Books for the Hermione Grangers of This World
Let's be real: the Harry Potters and Ron Weasleys of this world aren't great readers, but the Hermione Grangers sure are! Here are four fantastic books for bookish types that unite a love for study and knowledge with gorgeous language, a sharp intellectual facility, and, you know, magic. All of them are written by women who might very well have considered joining the Society for the Protection of Elvish Welfare.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Clarke's novel is an alternate history that pulls off the genuinely magical trick of seeming to have been composed when it is set, in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. Pedantic, fussy Mr. Norrell believes himself to be the only practical magician in the English realm and he gets the shock of his life when flighty, but charismatic Jonathan Strange pops up, casting far showier and more dramatic spells. Labyrinthine in plot, elegant in language, devilishly complex in its construction of character, and both unique and historically erudite in terms of its explanation of magic and prophecy, this novel is above all a book for readers who go into raptures in libraries and hysterics at the sight of an e-reader. Few fictional tomes are as tantalizing as those in this book. Hermione Granger wouldn't be able to put it down.
Wise Child - Monica Furlong
This darkly enchanting novel is about the apprenticeship of its young protagonist to a white witch named Juniper in Medieval Scotland, whose powers, both magic and moral, are tested when her mother Maeve, a black witch, reappears in her life. Though in some respects reminiscent of T.H. White's Arthurian novels, The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King, Furlong had a rare gift for refocalizing both the Middle Ages and our contemporary ideas about witchcraft, morality, mysticism, and women's roles in society through a profoundly gynocentric lens. The lines between witch and woman, good and evil, Christian and pagan, are redrawn from that new perspective, making this young adult novel far wiser than one would expect. A novel of education that Hogwarts' best student would eat up.
Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Though it has begun to gain a reputation as a long-lost feminist classic, Sylvia Townsend Warner's 1926 novel, her debut, remains perhaps too odd a beastie to be entirely absorbed into the canon. Predating A Room of One's Own by three years, Lolly Willowes recounts the biography of a spinster who, enchanted by a bouquet of chrysanthemums, decides to pick up and move to the country village where the flowers were grown. At first contentedly installed in Great Mop, Lolly's idyll is interrupted by the unwanted intrusion of a nephew, but a certain mild-mannered gamekeeper, sometimes known as Satan, drops by to lend a hand... As much, if not more so, an elegantly comic novel about the foibles of the upper crust and the oddities of English rural types than it is a fantasy about a witch, Lolly Willowes has a light touch, managing to be both the perfect cozy teatime read and a biting, yet empathetic satire of spinsterhood. Hermione might save this one for retirement!
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Woolf's most experimental project in biography, Orlando follows the adventures of a seemingly immortal Elizabethan swain, whose androgynous beauty suddenly and without explanation becomes a woman's over night some decades later. This metamorphosis thrusts the former ambassador to Constantinople into the bondage suffered by women for centuries. Woolf's cool, gentle, and precise sense of irony is the guiding spirit over this novel that is at once a work of English history and a dissection of what it meant to be a man and what it meant to be a woman through the development of feminism. Though it is almost never considered as a fantasy novel, the book viscerally tastes and smells of magic, of an alternative to all the rational, reasonable, 'enlightened' ideas of the patriarchal world, fashioning a new logic out of all that is usually excised from history. Though Hermione generally prefers scholarly works, this one would surely appeal to her intellectual appetites.
6 Movies for Fans of "Hocus Pocus"
There are inevitably some movies that a person simply can't judge according to anything approaching critical standards. I don't mean liking movies that are bad (or so bad they're good - my favorite in this category is the extremely silly The Magic Sword), but rather movies that are so deeply embedded in one's life that, well... their flaws are as much virtues as flaws, if flaws can even be found. For those of us of the home video generation, certain movies have become cult favorites not only because of their kookiness, kitschy-ness, or quirkiness, but because we've seen them so many times that we can quote them from opening to closing credits.
Hocus Pocus was savaged by critics upon theatrical release, but as a staple on the Disney Channel, it became an adored Halloween classic for 90's kids. Its combination of witchcraft, snark, and celebration of the sibling bond squared the circle of family entertainment, throwing Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as a trio of featherbrained witches into the midst of a heartwarming story of a brother looking out for his younger sister. Though slightly more kid-friendly than, say, The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, the fun of Hocus Pocus lies, at least in part, in growing into the buried adult humor, especially in Midler's performance. The stakes in Hocus Pocus are significantly higher than in your average kids' Halloween film. Whereas in the far tamer Halloweentown, the kids are threatened by being frozen in time (though the movie never succeeds in making that threat especially menacing), in Hocus Pocus, a child has died within the first five minutes of the film. The witches are funny, but they are also genuinely evil and genuinely dangerous. Max, Dani, and Allison are not saving a cartoonish fantasy world; they are trying to keep each other alive. The witch sisters aren't smart, but they are powerful. This counterbalance to the absurd humor rescues the movie from wallowing in silliness and places it squarely in the horror-comedy genre.
Doth I protest too much? Perhaps, but it seems likely that Hocus Pocus could end up as the kiddie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! At least part of its cult status is due to the difficulty of finding films that are similarly creepy, yet ludicrous, wacky, yet scary: here are six recommendations for Hocus Pocus fans, each with a quote to match!
"I smell children."
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Though often dismissed as the lesser Mary Poppins, given its combination of animation and live action, its no-nonsense, magical protagonist, songs by the Sherman Brothers, and the presence of David Tomlinson, it would be better to call Bedknobs and Broomsticks the darker Mary Poppins. Instead of the specter of workaholism menacing the nuclear family in an otherwise sunny and secure world, in this film, the Blitzkrieg and Nazi raiders are the dangers posed to three refugee orphans, the witch - played with a deliciously schoolmarmish stiff upper lip by Angela Lansbury - forced to take them in, and the charlatan who just happened to stumble on a genuine book of spells (Tomlinson). There is a scrappier quality to the storytelling, but the effects are top-notch, culminating in an incredible scene of an army of animated - as in moving, not drawn - suits of armor going toe-to-toe with Nazi gunners.
"I put a spell on you and now you're mine."
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
This Hollywood oddity is usually remembered today as the inspiration for Bewitched. A frigidly feline Kim Novak stars as a bored, barefoot witch in Manhattan, who sets her spells on her clean-cut publisher neighbor, played by Jimmie Stewart in his final leading man role, with the help of her cat and familiar, Pyewacket (played by Novak's actual pet!). The romance is enjoyable enough, but the witchy shenanigans of the supporting cast are far more fun: Jack Lemmon plays a bongo-playing, mischief-making warlock with a creepily glazed smile, Elsa Lanchester is a daffy, gossiping witch with a gypsy sense of style, and Hermione Gingold is the grand-dame of the magical set. With weirdly diaphanous costumes by Jean Louis and set design by Cary Odell and Louis Diage that draws inspiration from the avant-garde Greenwich Village club scene of the time, the movie is an eccentric charmer, dipping only a toe into transgressive politics, but unafraid of combining wackiness and tragedy.
"Go to hell!" "Oh, I've been there, thank you. I found it quite lovely."
I Married a Witch (1942)
French auteur René Clair directs this Hollywood comedy starring Veronica Lake as a witch who, after being torched in Puritan Salem, comes back from the dead to wreak havoc on the descendant of her accuser, a twitchy politician on the eve of both his wedding and gubernatorial elections, played by Fredric March, only to accidentally drink her own love potion. Again, the supporting cast is fabulous, with Cecil Kellaway as Lake's demonic father, Robert Benchley as March's friend, always ready to take a stiff drink in his place, and Susan Hayward as March's shrewish fiancee, a thankless role that she enlivens with a double dose of venom. Fast-paced and frothy, this film would fit snugly in the oeuvre of either Ernst Lubitsch or Preston Sturges (who was an uncredited producer). Like so many mainstream films about witches and the men they love, the ending frustrates, but this film is otherwise delicious.
"Hang him on a hook and let me play with him!"
The Love Witch, written, directed, produced, scored, costumed, designed, and edited by Anna Biller, is one of the most singularly weird witch movies ever made, drawing as deeply on Italian thrillers and gialli of the '70s as it does on swoony romance paperbacks, tarot cards, and Renaissance Faire culture. Samantha Robinson, in a star-making performance, plays Elaine, a witch so bent on amorous fulfillment that she overdoes it every time, leaving a trail of dead would-be Romeos in her wake. A psychedelic color swirl of reds, pinks, purples, greens, and yellows, nonchalant nudity, and a poker-faced sense of humor elevate the occasionally clunky dialogue, though that clunkiness may very well be part of the point. Elaine is so deeply ensorceled by millennia's worth of misogynistic notions of love and romance that the magic she performs on men to force them into a performance of that love turns in on itself and is reborn as the same kind of violence patriarchy enacts on women; if she speaks in women's magazine platitudes, it's no wonder. You will be singing "Love Is a Magickal Thing" for weeks afterwards.
"Max likes your yabbos. In fact, he loves them."
Miranda (1948)
This sweet, subtly sexually transgressive British comedy follows the adventures of a mermaid, played by the exquisite Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins, The Court Jester), who persuades a vacationing, and decidedly married, doctor (Griffith Jones) to take her to London with him to see the sights. She's always wanted to attend the opera at Covent Garden, you see. Johns's mermaid is irresistible to men - including a very young David Tomlinson sans moustache - and soon has a string of straying beaux, happy to overlook her diet of raw fish and her total lack of commitment, but the lovely thing is that, for once, the mermaid isn't a siren luring men to their doom. She just likes everybody and likes to have a good time. She treats all her conquests with the same cool and generous lust - and the ending is not one you're going to see in a Hollywood film! The inimitable and brilliant Margaret Rutherford plays an eccentric registered nurse.
"You know I always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one. On toast!"
Robin Hardy's folk-song-laden horror film has acquired a carapace of spoofs and spoofs of spoofs, but it remains a stubbornly unique contribution to the genre, remake be damned. A sternly religious policeman (Edward Woodward) flies out to a remote Hebridean island where a child has been reported missing and finds himself in a hotbed of pagan ritual, led by Lord Summerisle, played by Christopher Lee in a no-holds-barred, go-for-broke performance. A collection of kooks, from Diane Cilento to Lindsay Kemp, round out the cast, but despite the hijinks, a mixture of Summer of Love sex, nude Waldorf School-style games, and Hieronymous Boschesque processions, The Wicker Man ceases to be a fish-out-of-water comedy blended with an Ealing Studios satire in the final scene, all the more haunting for being such a hairpin turn in tone.
"Booooooooooooooooooooooooooook!"
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Prof. Salvatore Berlingò is the current Chancellor of the University for Foreigners "Dante Alighieri".
Born in Pizzo Calabro (VV) on the 09.06.1943, residing in via Giarabub n. 12 /a; 89018 Villa San Giovanni (RC). E-mail: : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
He graduated with honors in the Faculty of Law of the University of Messina in November 1965 and at the Pontifical Lateran University in October 1972.
Qualified teacher of History and Philosophy in high schools in 1968. Advocate Supreme Court of Cassation and the Roman Curia.
He was Vice President of the Italian canon law from 1993 to 1999.
He was legal adviser to the Regional Council of Calabria 1983-1995.
He was Scientific Director of the Central Library of the Faculty of Law of Messina from 1980 to 2004.
Former Director of the School of Specialization for Legal Professionals since 2001 and followed Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Messina, 2004-2012.
Iemolo Award 1994 Award Anassilaos 1995 Award Troccoli "Magna Grecia" 2002 Award "City of the Sun" 2007 Award Pericles 2008.
Already Professor of Ecclesiastical Law and Canon Law at the University of Messina from 1975 until the termination of his career.
Collaborator of the Encyclopedia of Law, Legal Encyclopaedia Treccani of the Digest, the Institutes of Civil Law, the Biographical Dictionary of Italian Jurists, the Legal Dictionary and the Dictionary of Constitutional Law, edited by Il Sole-24 Ore, the Diccionario General de Derecho Canonico.
Already a member of the management of the magazine "The ecclesiastical law" since 1975, and now the magazine "Notebooks of law and ecclesiastical policy" since 1987, and the "Revista de Derechos Humanos" since 2012.
Founder member of '"European Consortium for Church and State Research."
Chairman of the Diocesan Centre St. Paul for intercultural and interreligious dialogue from 1995 to 2011 and member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation "Giorgio and Isa de Chirico" from 1999 to present.
Rector of the University for Foreigners Dante Alighieri since 1998 and now confirmed in office for the next six years.
Author of more than two hundred monographs, essays on Italian and foreign magazines, encyclopedia entries, collections of writings, both in canon law, as in ecclesiastical law. Among the monographs of greater interresse include:
The Power of authorization in the Ecclesiastical Law (1974); The Cause Pastoral Pantry (1978); Cultural Pluralism Promotion and Education (1983); Freedom of Education and Religious Factor (1987); Justice and Charity in the economy of the Church (1991); Canon Law ( 1995); The last law (1998); and, in collaboration with other authors : Democratic State and rules of the agreement (1977); Civil effects of ecclesiastical judgments in matrimonial matters (1985); Canonical jurisdiction and civil jurisdiction . Cooperation and competition (1993); The religious factor tensions between old and new (1997); Citizens and Faithful in the countries of the European Union : A dual membership to the test of secularization and globalization (1999); The Canon Marriage (2006); Lessons of Canon Law (2008) ; The Financing of Religious Communities in the European Union - Le financement des religions dans les pays de l'Union européenne (2008) ; Code of canon law (2009) ; The Wedding Canon ( 2012).
He conducts on behalf of '"European Consortium for Church and State Research" the Code Européen Droit et Religions, which was released on Tomo I, EU - Les Pays de la Méditerranée (2001).
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exercise disciplinary authority over the staff of the University, within the limits of the law and in accordance with the provisions of the present Statute preserving, specifically, the powers of the Administrative Director for the technical and administrative staff;
adopt, in exceptional justified necessity and urgency cases, and in accordance with the General Regulations of the University, the measures of competence of the Executive Committee or of the Board of Directors, to be submitted for ratification at the next meeting of the organs mentioned;
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submit annually to the Board a report on the state of the University;
to provide scholarships, awards and grants to deserving students, based on the criteria proposed by the Senate of the students and approved by the Board of Directors and / or the Executive Committee;
appoint a Deputy Pro-Chancellor and one or more Pro-Rectors, with specific tasks, among the professors of the first or, failing that, of the second band of the University, who have opted for the regime of full time commitment;
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Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
(17 April 2005: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- Frequently referred to as a silent killer, ovarian cancer offers few clues to its presence, often until it has spread beyond the ovary to other tissues. Early detection has been difficult because ovarian cancer is not a single disease, but appears in many forms, with each form behaving differently. Now researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have explained how and why different forms of ovarian cancer evolve in a discovery that could lead to earlier detection and perhaps more personalized treatment for a disease that will claim an estimated 16,210 women's lives in the United States in 2005.
Honami Naora, Ph.D., an assistant professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Molecular Therapeutics and her colleagues discovered that a set of shape-altering genes become activated in ovarian cancer. These HOX genes, better known for their role in normal embryonic development, direct the cancer cells to take a variety of different forms, depending on which of the genes is turned on. The researchers reported their finding in the April 10, 2005 on-line issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
"Our finding explains how each of the three major forms of ovarian cancer acquire their unique appearance," says Naora. "These genes cause a metamorphosis of the ovarian epithelial cells, directing them to change their shape."
These strange shapes make each form of ovarian cancer different from one another, and also different to the surface epithelium or outer covering of the ovary from which these cancers are thought to arise, explained Naora. Serous ovarian cancer exhibits features resembling those of the fallopian tubes; the endometrioid form has features resembling the lining of the uterus; mucinous ovarian cancer even looks like intestinal cells.
These mysterious shapes have caused some researchers to speculate that ovarian cancers might originate from some other tissues, and not the ovarian surface epithelium at all. Naora reasoned that ovarian tissue might be coaxed into the different forms by changes in its genetic programming.
Naora suspected that HOX genes, which direct immature embryonic tissue to form the various body structures during development, could become reactivated in ovarian cancer cells. She and her colleagues tested the effect of four HOX genes on cells derived from the ovarian surface epithelium and found that activating different HOX genes caused the cells to change into different shapes and resemble the forms seen in ovarian cancer.
For example, turning on HOXA9 caused cells to form tumors that resembled high-grade serous ovarian cancer. On the other hand, HOXA10 activation resulted in tumors that resembled endometrioid ovarian cancer and HOXA11 caused cells to form tumors that resembled mucinous ovarian cancer. What's more, the research team found that activation of HOXA7 in combination with any of the other HOX genes resulted in formation of low-grade tumors that are less aggressive than high-grade tumors.
Because HOX genes are sensitive to levels of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone produced in the reproductive organs, Naora speculates that abnormal changes in levels of these hormones could explain how the HOX genes come to be turned on in ovarian tissue. Indeed, most of the known risk factors for ovarian cancer are related to levels of these same hormones.
"One of the major problems with diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer is that it is not a single disease," Naora says. "Each form of ovarian cancer has its own unique clinical behavior. If we understand what causes these different forms, we have taken the first step toward early diagnosis and therapy tailored to each of the various subtypes."
The American Cancer Society estimates that about 22,220 new cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in the United States during 2005. A woman's risk of getting ovarian cancer during her lifetime is about 1 in 58, accounting for about 3 percent of all cancers in women.
The ultimate goal of Naora's research is to develop a molecular profile or pattern that could be used to determine who is at greatest risk of ovarian cancer and to tailor treatment for women who do develop ovarian cancer.
"An impediment to improving early detection of ovarian cancer is the lack of well-defined pre-malignant or precursor lesions. Furthermore, right now we don't have any way to assess the relative risk for women with a strong family history of ovarian cancer," she continues. "Often these women have their ovaries removed, and unusual changes in the cell shape are seen in many cases. But we don't know if changes in cell shape necessarily lead to cancer. We would like to be able to offer a test that could assess risk and allow women to make more informed choices."
In addition to Dr. Naora, Ph.D., Wenjun Cheng, M.D., Jinsong Liu, M.D., Ph.D, Hiroyuki Yoshida, M.D., Ph.D., and Daniel Rosen, M.D., all of M. D. Anderson, contributed to the research. The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the U. S. Army, and the American Cancer Society; an M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Institutional Research Grant; and an award from Cancer Fighters of Houston.
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New lead reported in tumor angiogenesis
(21 July 2005: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- Scientists supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, have added a key new piece to the puzzle of how tumor cells induce new blood vessels to form and fuel their abnormal growth, a well-known process called angiogenesis.
As published in this month’s issue of the journal Cancer Cell, the scientists found that in addition to the well-known strategy of secreting proteins to trigger angiogenesis, tumor cells also physically attach to a protein displayed on the surfaces of cells that line the walls of our blood vessels. This physical interaction, like a finger pushing a button, sends a signal within these cells to grow and sprout new capillaries.
The finding, while technical in nature, has potentially major implications for anti-angiogenic therapy, one of the hottest areas in cancer research. Dr. Cun-Yu Wang, a scientist at the University of Michigan and senior author on the paper, said the finding suggests a future anti-angiogenic strategy of blocking not only the secreted molecules but also the cell-to-cell contact.
Wang said these early data also suggest the intriguing possibility of directing growth-inhibiting drugs at the normal blood vessel cells to stop angiogenesis. “It’s well established that tumor cells can become resistant to chemotherapy,” said Dr. Wang. “For endothelial cells, which are the cells that line the walls of the blood vessels, there is no indication that resistance is a problem. It’s an intriguing idea, and one that we think might be well worth pursuing.”
This month’s paper, as is often the case in the world of science, involves a great deal of hard work - and a little luck. Wang said his group began a few years ago studying a secreted protein called hepatocyte growth factor, or HGF, and its role in helping head and neck tumors to turn cancerous. HGF does so, in part, by helping to induce nearby blood vessels to grow misguidedly toward and eventually into the developing tumor for nourishment. “Still unanswered was exactly how HGF sets the angiogenic process in motion,” said Dr. Qinghua Zeng, lead author on the paper and a researcher at the University of Michigan, noting that HGF also has a pro-angiogenic effect in other tumor types. “We needed to connect the molecular dots.”
Zeng and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments under carefully controlled laboratory conditions to determine whether, as they suspected, HGF stimulates head and neck tumor cells to release pro-angiogenic proteins. To their surprise, they found that was not the case. Tumor cells stimulated by HGF strongly promoted the formation of a capillary-like network compared with secreted factors induced by HGF alone. “At this point, we didn’t have any idea of what was going on,” said Wang. “But we started to think that it must involve the direct interaction between the tumor and endothelial cells.”
Wang said that’s where luck entered the picture. He and his colleagues decided to take a closer look at a vast body of data that they had generated a few years earlier showing thousands of genes that HGF activates in head and neck tumor cells. The gene that was among the most expressed is called jagged1, which is known to bind to a specific protein on the surface of endothelial cells. “I thought, ‘Oh, this makes sense,’” said Wang. “The jagged1 protein is not secreted but is displayed on the surface of the tumor cells. I speculated that HGF induced jagged1 levels to increase, leading to a direct surface to surface interaction between the tumor and endothelial cells.”
Wang’s hunch also made good intuitive sense for another reason. The jagged1 protein bound in a hand-in-glove manner to a protein on the endothelial cells called notch. Other laboratories have shown that notch plays a key role during human development in forming blood vessels. Oddly, Wang noted, the possible role of notch in tumor angiogenesis has not been well studied.
After further laboratory and mouse experiments, Wang said the data supported their hypothesis. “Over the past several years, various compounds have been developed to inhibit secreted proteins such as the much-studied vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, which clearly plays a role in tumor angiogenesis,” said Wang. “To date, though, none of these compounds have been very effective as cancer therapies, suggesting that other factors may play a role. We think that we have found one of these additional factors.”
Zeng added that because the research involved cells from head and neck tumors, the discovery could provide further insight into the uniquely invasive character of these cancers. He explained that cells in head and neck tumors tend to be mobile, shifting within the developing mass and possibly establishing tumor-to-endothelial cell contact to prompt angiogenesis. “We have some evidence that inflammatory factors, and even some infectious agents, can induce jagged1 expression,” said Wang. “That’s what we plan to study next.”
The article is titled, “Crosstalk between tumor and endothelial cells promotes tumor angiogenesis by MAPK activation of notch signaling.” The article was published in the July issue of Cancer Cell, and its authors are: Qinghua Zeng, Shenglin Li, Douglas B. Chepeha, Jong Li, Honglai Zhang, Peter J. Polverini, Jacques Nor, Jan Kitajewski, and Cun-Yu Wang.
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Ico - It's like one long Zelda dungeon
Ico used to be a fairly unknown game. It was going to be a PS1 game, then ended up on PS2 (in 2001), and was remastered with HD textures for PS3 (in 2011). When it first came out, it didn't fit in with the games that were popular at the time. It was pretty mellow and not all that long. It had fighting, but it wasn't the focus. It had a story, but only a few cutscenes in the whole game. Its audio was almost exclusively ambient sounds and the quest's only location is in and around one big castle. It was kind of a middle ground between modern "art games" and traditional games.
Anyway, it was quite good and became something of a cult classic. I recently played through it for the first time, thanks to the HD version on PS3 and figured I'd write about it, just in case some of you haven't heard of this gem or have passed it up until now.
Many of Ico's vistas do a lot with a little to create some truly beautiful scenes.
Essentially what we've got here is one long Zelda dungeon which you progress through by using just a few simple gameplay mechanics. Those mechanics are: climbing and swinging on stuff, pushing stuff, guiding your companion, Yorda, around, lighting things with sticks, and cutting things with swords. None of this is terribly complicated, but it's still rewarding to progress through to the next area, if only to see what breathtaking view awaits you. This simplicity of gameplay also allows a level of immersion that is unencumbered by any semblance of HUD or text-based tutorial. The conditions for a game over are similarly simple: either you fall off a cliff or Yorda gets captured.
Yorda's in no hurry, but if you are, you can drag her around by the hand.
Preventing Yorda's capture is the other focus of the game, but that's not to say that this is like one of those escort missions that everyone hates. You'll find Yorda early on in the game and will need to lead her around the castle in order to open certain doors. You can also call to her at any time and she'll come to you if she's able. Sometimes getting yourself across an obstacle is easy enough, but the real puzzle is getting Yorda across too. Also, periodically, shadows will appear that will attempt to take her away. You can beat them back with your sword or stick or just try to run past them. The combat here is unfortunately rather simplistic and repetitive, but luckily there isn't all that much of it in the game. These shadows only appear at scripted points, so it's not like you'll be constantly needing to worry about whether your companion is being attacked (and if she is while offscreen, you'll be notified).
The game in its entirety isn't too long, and shouldn't take you more than five hours to beat on your first time through. Even though it's short, it seems to be just the right length for what it is. Although it has very few cutscenes, it manages to build to a rather exciting and emotional climax and ending. Like with the horse in Shadow of the Colossus, you're likely to develop a sense of attachment to Yorda after your few hours of escaping the castle together. Ico HD also offers an incentive to play through a second time, with a New Game + mode and trophies. In New Game +, you'll be able to see what was being said during certain cutscenes that were in a different language, have a second player control Yorda, and get a slightly different ending.
(Check out my girlfriend and I playing through the entirety of Ico in New Game+)
For a PS1 game turned PS2 game turned PS3 game, Ico stands the test of time fairly well. The updated graphics look good enough, though certainly not outstanding by any means. As far as gameplay is concerned, I thought that fighting would have been better had it contained a bit more variety of attacks and enemy AI. Also, jumping and climbing on chains was something of an all-or-nothing affair, with jumps either sending you flying or having no lateral distance at all, and movement up and down chains not stopping until long after you released the joystick. Apart from those minor gripes, I can still confidently recommend this game to anyone who has yet to play it. It may have been hard to come by for PS2, but now that there's the HD remastered version available, you have no excuse for not playing it.
(If you like mellow, offbeat games, you might also be interested in Boku no Natsuyasumi 3, a Japan-exclusive PS3 game in which you enjoy your summer vacation on your uncle's farm in rural Hokkaido.)
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India coach should be a good man-manager: Gurpreet
Wednesday - April 17, 2019 3:38 pm , Category : SPORTS
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu wants the Indian football team coach to be a good man-manager above all, as he feels that will push them to do well as a unit.
"As a player, I would want someone who helps us become better players and is a good man manager. Man management is very important for a head coach of any team," Gurpreet told IANS in an interview on the sidelines of the Red Bull Neymar Jrs Five 5v5 football tournament.
India's No.1 goalkeeper Gurpreet is a Red Bull Athlete and is in town to witness the national finals.
"We have senior and junior players and he needs to make sure that everyone is happy. Someone who knows the strengths and weaknesses and can push us to play better football. We know we can play better football," Gurpreet said.
Since Stephen Constantine resigned as head coach following India's exit from the Asian Cup, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has received more than 250 applications for the job with big names such as Raymond Domenech, former manager of the French national team and former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson also throwing their hat into the ring.
After further scrutinising, eight to 10 coaches could be interviewed through long-distance calls and finally, a couple of them may be called to Delhi for personal interviews.
Constantine not only helped India play the Asian Cup after a hiatus of eight years in his second stint as India coach, but also oversaw a period of resurgence in Indian football where Sunil Chhetri and Co. broke into the top 100 in FIFA rankings last year.
But his stay was sullied with rumours of senior players being unhappy with him and even asking for his removal doing the rounds.
Not wanting to delve into those issues, Gurpreet said Constantine did a good job with them, and now the team needs someone who can carry forward the legacy.
"He did a good job by taking us to the Asian Cup. We now need someone who can push us to play better football," said Gurpreet who is the first Indian to play in the Europa League for Norwegian club Stabaek FC.
"We need to make sure that we have a procedure where we learn and play football as the coach wants us to play," the 27-year- old added.
Gurpreet, who lifted the Indian Super League title with Bengaluru FC this year, also pitched for one league with relegation and promotion being the key, saying I-League clubs wanting to shut shop due to negligence is unfortunate and the issue should be addressed immediately.
"It doesn't matter whatever you call the league. We should have a league where you have more than 10 teams and relegation promotion. Which is the main league and all is secondary. As a player, the way forward is having relegation and promotion in a league," he said.
The Super Cup, which FC Goa won, was marred by many clubs pulling out of the competition. The likes of Minerva Punjab FC and Neroca FC have also wanted to shut shop due to the step-motherly treatment meted out to I-League clubs.
"Why have a situation where clubs are thinking of shutting shop? We need to understand why is this happening. If things need to be sorted then it should be sorted. The problem gets resolved by addressing it," said Gurpreet.
India will be taking part in the Kings Cup in June ahead of the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers scheduled to kick-off in September. Gurpreet said the aim is to remain consistent as it's the hardest thing to do.
"The most difficult thing is to be consistent. I want to maintain that both for my club and national team."
On the Red Bull Neymar Jrs Five, Gurpreet said: "I am very happy to be part of this. They are always very enthusiastic about sports."
The 2019 World Champions will have the experience of a lifetime, with the chance to play against Neymar Jr himself in Brazil and meeting him again in Paris.
(Debayan Mukherjee can be contacted at debayan.m@ians.in)
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Photo Gallery: CMA Fest’s Nissan Stadium Night 2 With Carrie Underwood, Eric Church, Dan + Shay, Thomas Rhett, Little Big Town & More
Thousands of fans packed Nissan Stadium during Night 2 of CMA Fest on June 7 to see scheduled performances by Dan + Shay, Little Big Town, Thomas Rhett, Eric Church and Carrie Underwood, with surprise appearances by Joan Jett and Jon Pardi. Check out some of our favorite photos from Night 2, courtesy of photographer…… MORE
Jon Pardi Shares Track List and Artwork for New Album, “Heartache Medication”
Jon Pardi revealed the track list, songwriters and artwork for his upcoming third studio album, Heartache Medication, which will drop on Sept. 27. The 14-song offering, which was co-produced by Jon, Bart Butler and Ryan Gore, features a bevy of top songwriters, including Natalie Hemby, Dean Dillon, Rhett Akins and more. Jon co-wrote seven of…… MORE
Jim Casey talks with Thomas Rhett about: the anticipation of releasing his new album, Center Point Road, on May 31 moving from Valdosta, Ga., to Hendersonville, Tenn., as a 5-year-old in 1995 his first memory of his house on Center Point Road building the new 16-song album finding the centerpiece for the album, “Remember You…… MORE
Brooks & Dunn to Headline Free “CMT Crossroads” With Luke Combs, Brett Young, Midland, Jon Pardi & More
CMT Crossroads is crossing up its playbook for an event in downtown Nashville on June 4 that will feature headliner Brooks & Dunn teaming with a number of country artists. Instead of collaborating with a cross-genre artist—as is the norm on CMT Crossroads—Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks will join forces with a number of stars…… MORE
Jon Pardi Announces New “Heartache Medication” Album, Single & Tour [Listen to New Single]
After scoring four Top 5 singles—including two No. 1 hits—with his 2016 No. 1 album, California Sunrise, Jon Pardi revealed that he will release his third studio album, Heartache Medication, on Sept. 27. On June 3, Jon will ship the album’s title track to country radio as his lead single. Co-written by Jon, Barry Dean…… MORE
Thomas Rhett Taps Jon Pardi for New Song, “Beer Can’t Fix” [Listen]
Thomas Rhett is gearing up for the release of his upcoming fourth studio album, Center Point Road, which will drop on May 31. The 16-song album takes its name from the street in his Tennessee hometown that shaped much of TR’s life experiences. TR co-penned every track on the album, which also features a number…… MORE
Thomas Rhett’s New Album Features Collaborations With Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town & Jon Pardi
Thomas Rhett revealed the track listing, songwriters, featured artists and cover art for his upcoming fourth studio album, Center Point Road, which will drop on May 31. The 16-song album takes its name from the street in his Tennessee hometown that shaped much of his life experiences. TR co-penned every track on the album, which…… MORE
Dierks Bentley’s Seven Peaks Music Festival to Feature Luke Bryan, Maren Morris, Travis Tritt, Jon Pardi & More
Dierks Bentley announced the lineup for his second annual Seven Peaks Music Festival in Buena Vista, Colo., on Labor Day Weekend (Aug. 30–Sept. 1). Artists joining Dierks this year include Luke Bryan, Maren Morris, Jon Pardi, Mitchell Tenpenny, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Ryan Hurd, Steep Canyon Rangers, The War and Treaty, Tenille Townes and Caylee…… MORE
Brooks & Dunn Reveal “Reboot” Track List + Listen to the Duo Collaborate With Jon Pardi on “My Next Broken Heart”
Brooks & Dunn are back in the saddle with a new Reboot album that features an all-star cast of artists performing duets with country’s greatest duo. Artists taking part in the project include Kacey Musgraves, Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett, Brett Young, Lanco, Ashley McBryde, Midland, Luke Combs, Brothers Osborne, Cody Johnson, Jon Pardi and Tyler…… MORE
Brooks & Dunn to Release New “Reboot” Album Featuring 12 Duets With Thomas Rhett, Kane Brown, Kacey Musgraves, Midland & More
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Women In History - Ohio Bicentennial Figures
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1832-1918)
Wife of James Garfield, 20th President of the United States was First Lady for six months when her husband was assassinated. "Crete" returned home to Lawnfield in Mentor where her life continued in a non-traditional way
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (1826-1902)
Wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, was a determined woman who despite family objections married the man she loved. Outspoken, she also created her own plans for ending the Civil War and holding a secret Presidential Inauguration.
Florence Harding (1860-1924)
Wife of Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States, the first presidential wife able to vote for her husband. Scandal plagued this First Lady throughout her life
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison (1832-1892)
Wife of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, was the first president-general of the newly formed DAR. An accomplished watercolorist, she designed and painted the Harrison state china and organized the White House china collection
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (1831-1889)
Wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States, was the first presidential wife to have a college degree. She originated the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn
Ida Saxton McKinley (1847-1907)
Wife of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, developed a unique way of coping with her epileptic seizures during her public appearances as First Lady
Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943)
Wife of William H. Taft, 27th President of the United States, always longed to live in the White House. Known for planting Washington D.C.’s legendary cherry trees
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Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet, journalist, lyricist and teaching artist based in Sydney. Featured in The Guardian, CNN International, ABC News and other media, she has also performed her poetry in diverse international stages, from the Sydney Opera House and the deserts of Alice Springs to the United Nations Climate Negotiations in Paris. During a residency in Canada's prestigious Banff Centre, she collaborated with award-winning jazz musician and Cirque du Soleil vocalist Malika Tirolien. She has also shared her verses with celebrated composer Andrée Greenwell for the choral project Listen to Me. Eunice co-produced and curated Harana, a series of poetry tours led by Filipina-Australians in response to the Passion and Procession exhibition in the Art Gallery of NSW.
Her poems have appeared in Peril, Verity La, Voiceworks, and Deep Water Literary Review, amongst other publications. She was awarded the John Marsden & Hachette Australia Poetry Prize in 2014. In 2016, she was honoured by Australian Poetry as the first of their 30 Under 30 Poets. In 2018, the Amundsen-Scott Station in the South Pole of Antarctica will feature her poetry in a special exhibition on climate change. Her first poetry collection Flood Damages (Giramondo Books) was published in April 2018.
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Why Aren't You Watching?
Why Aren’t You Watching THE LEFTOVERS?
by Ed Dutcher · September 2, 2016
No really, why aren’t you? HBO is packed to the gills with pretentious, high profile dramas like GAME OF THRONES and TRUE DETECTIVE, but their strongest contender is the one so many people don’t seem to be watching. The network has pushed out a menagerie of shows appealing to America’s post-9/11 sensibilities, from GENERATION KILL to the most recent THE NIGHT OF, but none are as striking or as on-point as Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s THE LEFTOVERS. Despite overwhelming acclaim, viewership of the show has been meager enough that it was only through a miracle that a third and final abbreviated season was greenlit by Home Box Office. But as I said earlier in my review of the the show’s second season, THE LEFTOVERS is the most gripping drama currently on television, and nearly a year later, it’s a claim that I stand by.
Okay, okay! I’ll stop hyping it!
As an ensemble piece, THE LEFTOVERS has a lot of characters that you’re pulling for, but it’s Justin Theroux’s Kevin Garvey, Jr. that acts as the main throughline. Kevin’s the chief of police of secluded Mapleton, New York several years after a mysterious event known as the “Departure” causes 2% of the world’s population to vanish into thin air. After a chance visit by an eccentric, borderline angelic stranger, Kevin begins to suspect that a similar event will soon fall upon his town. Kevin’s ex-wife Laurie and distant son Tommy, both who fled to doomsday cults following the Departure, have similar fears of an impending peril, and the show cultivates a mounting sense of dread as the three converge. Also caught up in the paranoia is Matt, a local preacher whose faith is tested after being left out of the apparent Rapture, as well as his sister Nora, who lost her husband and two children on the day of the Departure. What each of these people carried out of the first Departure, and what they expect from the next, fuels a chain of events that tears the community apart.
And as we all know, karaoke has a tendency to sunder relationships
If it wasn’t made clear by the premise, it should be known that THE LEFTOVERS is not a happy show: Suicide, murder, drug abuse, and screaming matches are par for the course. Just about everyone is dealing with some sort of loss, and it’s never a pretty picture when these issues come pouring out. Watching the carefully constructed facades of normalcy that each character hides behind be torn down can be pretty heavy, but it’s all (mostly) worth it. Because, in the end, THE LEFTOVERS is still a hopeful show, and for as much shit as its hapless subjects must slog through, there’s usually a light at the end of the tunnel. Never anything material or tangible, mind you, but instead catharses so profound that you’ll be left shaking in your seat.
Characters are THE LEFTOVERS’s strongest suit, and watching the cast grow and transform over the series offers a voyeuristic thrill not seen anywhere else. This isn’t to say that Lindelof invented character development as a concept, rather he honed it as a mechanic. The changes that people go through here are so dramatic in such a short span that the audience is forced to feel the same sense of bewilderment that the characters themselves feel on their journey, yet the show manages to avoid ever feeling contrived or convenient. While on paper, THE LEFTOVERS’s content would suggest an experience that would exhaust the viewer, the end result is, in fact, the most exhilarating drama out there.
Me, after I hear you haven’t watched THE LEFTOVERS
It also helps that THE LEFTOVERS is never afraid to throw you through a loop. As Kevin’s paranoia grows, so does the frequency and intensity of his heavenly visions. Though since Kevin has a family history of dementia, and the only others who claim to believe him are either cultists or “crazy,” it’s left to the audience to decide how much, if any, of what they see is real. On top of boasting TV’s most unreliable narrator outside of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, THE LEFTOVERS is rather trigger-happy on shocking twists and bizarre imagery, lending the show a most surreal atmosphere of magical realism.
You, after telling me that you don’t watch THE LEFTOVERS
So why is it then that no one is talking about one of my all time favorite series? Well, while the second season is absolutely spectacular, the first makes a few blunders. The action is simply too spread out to be reliably coherent, and some characters (*cough* Tommy *cough*) don’t feel entirely necessary in the grand scale of things. Throw in some real misfires as far as “teenage” dialogue is concerned and an early action segment that is wholly inappropriate for the show’s tone, and it’s not too hard to figure out why the show suffered an initial drop off in viewership.
Yet despite this, there is still a rock solid skeleton lying beneath it all. S1E3, “Two Boats and a Helicopter,” is still the best television episode I’ve ever seen. Besides being a darn good story focusing entirely on Reverend Matt, it teases how season two fixes everything wrong with the first. By framing an hour around a single character, THE LEFTOVERS is able to capitalize on its strengths without getting muddied up by actors competing for screentime. While only a handful (and the best) of season one’s episodes utilize this LOST-esque approach, the entirety of season two is based around these character portraits. Thanks to this, despite boasting a fairly large cast, THE LEFTOVERS feels refreshingly focused, much like that other Lindelof drama.
I don’t know what more I can even say at this point. To say I love THE LEFTOVERS would be the biggest understatement I’ve written on this site, and to further expound on its brilliance would be like beating a dead horse. THE LEFTOVERS is a modern marvel, the textbook example of a perfectly executed televised drama. Please, please, please stop doing yourself a disservice and check it out before the final season premieres, lest you get left behind, too.
Ed Dutcher
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Season 2 of the popular true crime podcast MONSTER features a 15-episode series devoted to the Zodiac mystery. Rolling Stone magazine published a brief article about the series, and The Wrap posted also posted a story about the premiere. The series features retired Vallejo police detective Ed Rust, photographer Tom Balmer, former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Duffy Jennings, criminal psychologist Eric Hickey, San Francisco State University historian and lecturer Peter Richardson, cipher expert David Oranchak, writer Michael Butterfield, and others, with audio clips of surviving victim Bryan Hartnell, Leslie, the daughter of Zodiac codebreakers Donald and Bettye Harden, possible Zodiac victim Kathleen Johns, SFPD Inspector David Toschi, park ranger William White, and many others involved in the case.
Listen to all 15 episodes of MONSTER: THE ZODIAC KILLER at iHeartRadio.
Episode #1 premiered on iHeartMedia News/Talk radio stations on January 2, 2019. According to several reports, MONSTER: THE ZODIAC KILLER reached more than 12 million downloads in the months of January and February 2019. On March 24th, a live episode of MONSTER was recorded at the Gramercy theater in New York City, including a Q&A session with the audience.
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* BOOK REVIEW: August 1, 2014 – Gary Stewart and co-author Susan Mustafa recently published the book titled The Most Dangerous Animal of All which claims that Stewart’s father, Earl Van Best, Jr., was the Zodiac killer. Publisher Harper Collins remained silent until the book was released and Stewart went on a publicity tour with interviews on television and radio. According to Stewart, he has presented more evidence against his father than anyone has ever presented against any other suspect in the entire history of the Zodiac case. Stewart and Mustafa are convinced that their claims are true. However, examination of the book and its claims cast serious doubts on Stewart’s solution to the mystery. Much of Stewart’s book has been debunked, leaving virtually no credible evidence to implicate Earl Van Best in the Zodiac crimes. Click here to read the ZodiacKillerFacts review of Gary Stewart’s book.
* UPDATE: MAY 31, 2014 – In March 1971, a letter arrived at the offices of The Los Angeles Times newspaper. The author claimed to be the Zodiac and referred to the recent reports that he was responsible for the unsolved murder of Riverside City College student Cheri Jo Bates in 1966. Previously released photographs of this letter have been dark and the handwriting appeared distorted. I recently obtained a large book collection titled Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia. Page 2152 of volume 18 featured another photograph of the LA Times letter. The quality of this photograph was better than the others I have seen. The detail was sharper and the handwriting was not distorted by high contrast or the photocopy process. Click Here to view this image at the ZodiacKillerFacts document gallery.
NOTE: Here is some basic information and links to resources which may be useful to anyone who wants to track down their own copy of this encyclopedia set or the individual volume containing the LA Times letter.
Title: CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia
Set: 28 volumes
ISBN-10: 185435793X (entire set)
ISBN-13: 978-1854357939 (entire set)
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp / H. S. Stuttman
Photo of LA TIMES Letter: Page 2152, Volume 18
Available thru: Amazon.com
Available thru: BookFinder.com
* MEDIA UPDATE: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 – The San Francisco TV station KGO ABC 7 will feature a story about the Zodiac case on Friday, February 14, 2014. According to Investigative Producer Jim O’Donnell, the new ABC story will examine one of the many tips reported to police regarding possible Zodiac suspects. This time, a New York man claims that a friend once confessed that he was the Zodiac killer. The segment will also include a brief recap of the Bay Area crimes. The Zodiac story will air during the 11:00 PM news broadcast and will available to view on the ABC 7 website approximately one hour later at midnight (Pacific Standard Time).
* RADIO INTERVIEW: February 2, 2014 – On January 31, 2014, I was a guest on “The Fringe Radio Show” to discuss the unsolved “Zodiac” murders and other infamous serial killer. An archived recording of the 2-hour broadcast is now available at the K-Talk Radio Archives. Click on the following link to listen to the show: The Fringe Radio Show with Michael Butterfield.
* UPDATE: November 22, 2013 – In November 1969, the Zodiac mailed one of his most baffling clues and a letter including one of his most controversial claims. The killer sent a greeting card along with his second cipher consisting of 340 symbols. In his next communication, the Zodiac wrote that he was angered by the “lies” told by police who claimed that he had left fingerprints at the crime scene and had been seen by witnesses. The Zodiac announced that he would change his “way of collecting slaves” and disguise his future murders as routine robberies, accidents and other random crimes. The killer also claimed that San Francisco police had stopped him near the scene of his last murder but had inexplicably allowed him to escape justice. The 340 CIPHER: Dead Ends examines some of the solutions offered by amateur code breakers.
* UPDATE: OCTOBER 30, 2013 – 47 years ago, Cheri Jo Bates was murdered near the campus of the Riverside City College library. One month after the murder, someone mailed an envelope to the offices of the Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper. The envelope contained a typed letter titled “The Confession” which included an account of the murder and the warning that more victims were to come. Six months after the murder, someone mailed three handwritten notes to the newspaper, the police and the father of Cheri Jo Bates. The author wrote, “Bates had to die. There will be more.” Three years later, the Zodiac surfaced in Northern California with bizarre letters sent to newspapers and a horrific series of seemingly inexplicable murders. Riverside police contacted Zodiac investigators with the suspicion that their unsolved case was linked to the Zodiac crimes. Many investigators believed that the Zodiac had killed Bates and some handwriting experts concluded that the Zodiac was responsible for the Riverside writings. In November 1970, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery revealed the so-called “Riverside connection” and Cheri Jo Bates became known as the Zodiac’s first known victim. In one letter, the Zodiac wrote, “I do have to give them credit for stumbling across my riverside activity, but they are only finding the easy ones, there are a hell of a lot more down there.” The Riverside Police Department later declared that Bates had been killed by someone she had known and officially denied that the Zodiac was responsible for the crime. The RPD then discovered that DNA evidence found at the murder scene did not match their suspect, but the department continued to insist that the suspect had killed Bates and the Zodiac was not involved. Decades after the murder, the case remains unsolved and the shadow of the Zodiac still haunts this mystery. Read more in the ZodiacKillerFacts blog entry RIVERSIDE ACTIVITY: Unsolved Mysteries.
* MEDIA UPDATE: August 30, 2013 – Former KGO-TV reporter Richard Carlson shares his memories of the Zodiac case in a new article posted at WeeklyStandard.com titled Signs of the Zodiac. Highlights include:
* Carlson recalls visiting the scene of the Stine murder in San Francisco on the night of the crime.
* A behind-the scenes account during the now-infamous televised exchange between attorney Melvin Belli and the Zodiac impostor known as “Sam” on The Jim Dunbar Show.
* A look at the events surrounding the proposed meeting between Belli and Sam after the television broadcast.
Find a link to the story and read more at the ZodiacKillerFacts Forum or go directly to the article Signs of the Zodiac.
* UPDATE: July 26, 2013 – Forty-three years ago today, the Zodiac mailed one of his most baffling clues and inspired one the most persistent myths in the history of the case. Read the ZodiacKillerFACTS article THE RADIAN THEORY: Mistakes in the Myth-Making and learn how to debunk this myth using a map, a protractor and the facts.
* UPDATE: July 22, 2013 – San Francisco’s Old Mint recently hosted a special screening of the 2007 film ZODIAC. Inspector Pamela Hofsass attended the screening and reportedly told the audience that the SFPD has obtained a partial profile of Zodiac DNA. The SFPD had previously reported the same news more than a decade ago but the latest rumors indicate that investigators are still working to obtain new evidence which could finally solve the Zodiac mystery. Read the ZodiacKillerFacts blog entry ZODIAC DNA: A Question of Answers or visit the ZodiacKillerFacts Forum to discuss this and other case-related issues.
* UPDATE: June 7, 2013 – Dave Oranchak’s site ZodiacKillerCiphers.com features a new article about Zodiac theorist Gareth Penn and math and science writer Martin Gardner, the author of the column Mathematical Games for the magazine Scientific American. The article, titled Gardner and Penn, Jekyll and Hyde, focuses on Penn’s writings and Gardner’s opinions regarding Penn’s theories about the Zodiac ciphers and other material. The ZodiacKillerFacts Blog page has been updated with a new post regarding Oranchak’s article which includes links to various articles related to Penn and his theories. [NOTE: Thanks to Dave Oranchak for obtaining and sharing the collection of Gardner documents.]
* UPDATE: June 2, 2013 – The Benicia Herald featured a story about former Benicia police Chief Pierre Bidou discussing the Zodiac case with students of the Benicia Citizens Police Academy. Read the article: Citizens Police Academy: Signs of the Zodiac.
* UPDATE: On April 17, 2013, the Napa Valley Register reported the death of Napa Police officer David Slaight. On the night of September 27, 1969, Slaight was assigned to dispatcher duty and received a telephone call from an individual who claimed to be responsible for the stabbing at Lake Berryessa. Slaight described the phone call attributed to “the Zodiac killer” in his interviews for the 2003 television documentary COLD CASE FILES as well as the 2007 documentary THIS IS THE ZODIAC SPEAKING. Slaight died at the age of 68 after he was diagnosed as suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Vallejo Police dispatcher Nancy Slover Earp had also received a phone call from an individual who claimed to be responsible for a previous attack attack at Blue Rock Springs Park as well as two other murders. She appeared in several television documentaries including HAUNTING EVIDENCE and MYSTERYQUEST. Nancy Slover-Earp died in 2012. The passing of both Nancy Slover-Earp and David Slaight closed a chapter in history as they were the only two people to have allegedly spoken to the Zodiac killer by telephone. Bryan Hartnell, the man who survived the stabbing at Lake Berryessa, remains the only living person believed to have spoken with the Zodiac killer.
* UPDATE – ZODIAC BOOKS: Several new books focus on the unsolved mystery of “the Zodiac killer.”
* FRINGE: The ZODIAC PARADOX features characters from the popular FOX science fiction television series FRINGE. In an interview posted at Suvudu.com, author Christa Faust offered this description of the plot. “It starts in the late sixties, when young graduate students Walter Bishop and William Bell are testing a special blend of perception-altering chemicals at Reiden Lake. Their artificially enhanced minds accidentally open a rift between universes and allow a vicious serial killer to escape into our world. The killer is profoundly changed and unnaturally enhanced by their psychic encounter, but it isn’t until 1974 that Walter learns the true nature of the monster they have unleashed. It’s up to him, along with Bell and Nina Sharp, to find a way to stop him.”
* HUNTER AMONG THE STARS by John Robert Jordan is described as “A Critical Look at the Zodiac Killer as Serial Killer, Occultist, and Speller.” Amazon.com offers the following description of the book: “Hunter Among the Stars is a critical re-examination of the Zodiac Killer’s tragic murder spree. Beginning with a “blitz attack” restatement of the “Zodiac Mythos”, the author quickly establishes his own premise; the Zodiac Killer’s unique pathology and it’s interface with his hitherto unidentified occult practice. After meticulously reconstructing each crime and deconstructing each investigation, the author provides the first systematic diagnostic analysis of the Zodiac’s Killer’s spelling errors in forty years. Critically evaluating the modern technique of profiling, Hunter identifies the fallacies inherent in all Zodiac profiles, and concludes by revealing the personation or “signature” on a “Zodiac kill” linking it to the killer’s use of occult astrology and belief. Hunter offers investigatrs and readers alike the first testable hypothesis forever answer the twofold question of how many victims Zodiac murdered and whether the killer moved his homicidal enterprise elsewhere.” [Note: All spelling errors contained in the original text.]
* ZODIAC CRACKED: THE MANIFESTATION OF A KILLER presents yet another solution to the Zodiac mystery. Amazon.com offers the following information regarding the author: “Marianne Koerfer is a retired Police Secretary and a native Chicagoan. She is the author of two civic articles, Creating Opportunities for The Employee Who is Disabled and Law Enforcement Opportunities. Her current focus is directed toward reviewing, researching, and writing about cold cases. She strives to bring long neglected cases out from the archives and back into the open case status by developing a fresh profile of a viable suspect through an intense reinterpretation of the evidence and circumstances of these dark crimes.“
* UPDATE: August 20, 2012 – Mike Morford of the website Zodiackillersite.com has obtained more than 900 pages of FBI documents via a Freedom of Information Act request and he generously shared these documents with the research community. Information regarding these files and links to view the documents are available at the ZodiacKillerFacts Blog page.
* UPDATE: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 – The release of a new book by long-time Zodiac theorist Lyndon Lafferty has sparked a wave of media coverage announcing that the Zodiac killer has been identified. Those who are new to this story, and Lafferty’s history, may be tempted to believe that the case has finally been solved, but the facts tell a very different story. Lafferty has been accusing his suspect for decades and has never presented any credible evidence to implicate his suspect, the man identified in Robert Graysmith’s book ZODIAC as “Andrew Todd Walker.” Lafferty is a retired law enforcement officer, but law enforcement agencies have dismissed his claims and theories and authorities have no interest in pursuing his solution to the case. According to Lafferty and his book, the investigation of his suspect was thwarted by a biased judge and others, including Pam Huckaby, sister of Zodiac victim Darlene Ferrin. Pam now claims that Lafferty’s suspect is the man who allegedly stalked Darlene in the months before she was killed. Lafferty claims that Pam betrayed his confidence, leaked sensitive information to irresponsible parties, and destroyed any hope to ever charge and prosecute Lafferty’s suspect. “Andrew Todd Walker” died in February, 2012, shortly before the release of Lafferty’s book, THE ZODIAC KILLER COVER-UP. For more information, including links to the related news stories featuring excerpts of a recent interview with Pam Huckaby, read the ZodiacKillerFACTS blog entry The ZODIAC KILLER COVER-UP: A Bad Case of Deja Vu.
* TV ALERT: The case of the Zodiac killer and other California crime stories will be featured on the Travel Channel series “Hidden City” hosted by writer Marcus Sakey. The Hidden City webpage offers this synopsis of the broadcast: “Marcus examines the infamous murder of Harvey Milk, rides along with the San Jose police to uncover the fear and greed which created the Vigilance Committee during the gold rush, and gets inside the mind of the Zodiac killer.” The show will air on Tuesday January 10, 2012 at 10:00 PM and again at 1:00 AM in the Mountain Time Zone. Check your local listings for the Pacific, Central and Eastern times zones, or, consult the Travel Channel schedule.
* UPDATE: January 3, 2012: ZodiacKillerFACTS.com has been updated with four pages designed to provide basic information about the Zodiac case. The Case Summary has been revised, expanded and updated with more information on various aspects of the case. A Reference Information Page has been added which provides basic information such as the names of the victims, the law enforcement agencies involved, the recipients of Zodiac communications, and a list of Zodiac-related books, films and television broadcasts. A new section titled Zodiac: UNSUB offers two pages featuring information regarding The Eyewitness Descriptions and The Psychological Portraits of the Zodiac killer. The site has also been revised for easy access to basic information with a link to The ZODIAC CASE FILES, including the police reports and other official documents regarding the original Zodiac investigation. This new page features a filing cabinet approach to the files produced by the Benicia Police Department, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office, the Vallejo Police Department, the Napa County Sheriff’s Department, the San Francisco Police Deparment, the California Department of Justice, the FBI and other official agencies involved in the investigations of the known and suspected Zodiac crimes.
January 2012 marks the fifth anniversary since ZodiacKillerFACTS.com was first launched in 2007. Throughout the new year, other areas of the site will be revised, expanded and updated to include more information about the case and other material which may be of interest to regular visitors and new visitors. The Mysteries of the Mt. Diablo Map contains several pages devoted to the Zodiac’s so-called “Mt. Diablo map” and other clues. The first article serves as a basic introduction to this enigmatic piece of the Zodiac’s legacy. The second article Radians & Inches focuses on the Zodiac’s mathematical clues. The Mt. Diablo Map provides a unique look at one of the Zodiac’s most cryptic clues. Zodiac researcher Ed Neil obtained a copy of the same road map used by the Zodiac. Ed’s photographs may be useful to those with questions about the Zodiac’s map. Radians: By the Textbook features pages from an 11th year high school textbook which explain the use of radians and inches in mathematics. The ZodiacKillerFACTS Document Gallery features a collection of FBI files about the Zodiac case which is presented in chronological order, organized and listed by month and year for easy reference (the remaining sections will be added soon). This site also features a comprehensive list of links to the original police reports, crime scene sketches, official documents, photographs, videos and other material which is organized by each of the four known Zodiac crimes as well as other cases possibly linked to the killer. The Document Gallery includes a collection of the Zodiac letters, other possible communications, and suspected forgeries. The ZKF Blog page features periodic updates and articles about new developments, media reports, and case-related issues. This page also includes a list of links to reliable Zodiac websites and sources. The ZodiacKillerFACTS forum offers a place for discussion about the case, the exchange of information, and the examination of theories (membership is free). Credible tips, case-related information and legitimate inquiries should be directed to info@zodiackillerfacts.com.
* TV ALERT: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 – Director David Fincher’s movie version of the Zodiac story airs tonight on the Independent Film Channel. The IFC website states that the film will air at 12:30 AM Eastern Time (late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning). Check your local listings for times in your area or check the schedule at IFC.com. A scene-by-scene examination of the film and its factual accuracy is available in the ZodiackillerFACTS article titled FACT vs. FINCHER.
* ANNIVERSARY: October 11, 2011 – Tuesday marks the 42nd anniversary of the Zodiac’s last known killing, the murder of San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine. To learn more about this case and view original police reports, other official documents and photographs, click here.
* TV ALERT: August 4, 2011 – Director David Fincher’s movie version of the Zodiac story airs tonight on the Independent Film Channel. The film be will be repeated twice in a back-to-back broadcast. Check your local listings for times in your area or check the schedule at IFC.com. A scene-by-scene examination of the film and its factual accuracy is available in the ZodiackillerFACTS article titled FACT vs. FINCHER.
* UPDATE: August 1, 2011 – Recently, several news reports have stated that the Zodiac’s infamous “340 cipher” had been solved by a resident of Tewksbury, Massachusetts named Corey Starliper. The alleged solution ends with the line, “MY NAME IS LEIGH ALLEN,” an obvious reference to the once-prime suspect Arthur Leigh Allen. The overwhelming majority of those who have examined Starliper’s solution have deemed his work invalid and critics have challenged his questionable methods. Starliper contacted me in late June 2011, and I have added a new blog entry about this issue titled, “The STARLIPER SOLUTION.” This blog page also features links to news stories about Starliper’s claims and links to articles which critique and debunk Starliper’s methods and findings.
* RADIO INTERVIEW: July 27, 2011 – I was a guest on the Ireland radio show hosted by author and broadcaster Sean Moncrieff. After a basic run down of the case itself, Sean and I discussed several issues, including the recent claims by amateur “code-breaker” Corey Starliper. You can listen to the segment by clicking on the following link; the interview starts just before the 5 minute mark. The Sean Moncrieff Show.
* UPDATE: July 21, 2011 – The ZodiacKillerFACTS.com Document Gallery has been updated to include the infamous “code key” sent to the Vallejo Police Department on August 10, 1969. This “key” was mentioned in the Vallejo police reports but has never been available to the general public. The individuals known as “morf” and “AK Wilks” sent a Freedom of Information request to the FBI and received copies of the original envelope, the note card and the key itself. [Note: Special thanks to “morf” and “AK Wilks” for their persistence and generosity.]
* UPDATE: May 28, 2011 – The ZodiacKillerFacts.com Document Gallery has been updated to include two suspected “Zodiac” forgeries: A card sent in October, 1970 which read in part, “YOU ARE NEXT,” and the so-called “Equinox” letter sent in 1972. Neither letter is included on the list of authenticated Zodiac letters. These messages are presented with the corresponding pages from the FBI files regarding the Zodiac case. View the “You Are Next” Card or view the “Equinox” letter. [Note of thanks: The letters were obtained by morf (of zodiackillersite) via the Freedom of Information Act and were provided to ZodiacKillerFacts.com by AK Wilks.]
* UPDATE: March 29, 2011 – ZodiacKillerFacts.com and the Document Gallery have been updated to include the suspected Zodiac forgery mailed in Atlanta, Georgia during the notorious “Atlanta Child Murders.” The letter was postmarked March 8, 1981. The author claimed to be the Zodiac and signed the message with a crossed-circle symbol. CLICK HERE to view the letter and corresponding pages from the FBI files regarding the Zodiac case. [Note of thanks: The letter was obtained by morf (of zodiackillersite) via the Freedom of Information Act and was provided to ZodiacKillerFacts.com by AK Wilks.]
* TV ALERT: March 28, 2011 The AMC network broadcast a new series of documentary vignettes titled The UNSOLVED. WATCH THE VIDEO. The first segment focused on the Zodiac case and featured brief interviews with author Susan Milano Murphy, author John Gilmore (Severed), author Michael Connelly, and FBI profiler Jim Clemente. Host Dan Abrams introduced and narrated the segment which included a brief synopsis of the case as well as briefs clips of vintage news footage featuring Det. Les Lundblad, Bryan Hartnell and others. In a melodramatic introduction, Abrams said: “The ideals of the 1960s were born in California’s Bay Area, and that’s where some would argue they died, smothered by a costumed serial killer who worked in shotguns, hunting knives and cryptograms. Local police forces clashed, careers ruined, and a new kind of monster emerged. He took five confirmed victims with as many as two dozen more suspected but never proven. The series of lover’s lane murders committed by the man still only known as the Zodiac remain unsolved.” The Zodiac did not use a shotgun in any of his known or suspected crimes, and claims of police clashes have been greatly exaggerated by the media and others over the years. The program did not include any new or important information. AMC’s limited series of vignettes will continue throught the last week of March leading up to the April 3rd premiere of the new series The KILLING. On Tuesday, March 29, AMC will broadcast the film ERASER along with another UNSOLVED vignette about the unsolved murder of Jon Benet Ramsey.
* The Zodiac Killer on AMC’s The UNSOLVED – Susan Murphy Milano Tapped for New AMC Network Project “The Unsolved” Produced by Eight Time Emmy Nominated, Jeff Roe – Nationally recognized Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Expert and Author, Susan Murphy Milano has recently been invited to participate in a new project by the producers and host of the short-form documentary series, “The Unsolved.” This nightly series leads the way towards the premier of the new original drama, “The Killing” premiering Sunday, April 3 at 9pm ET on AMC (amctv.com). “The Unsolved” will focus on true-life unsolved crimes such as Jon Benet Ramsey, The Black Dahlia, Natalee Holloway, Marilyn Sheppard, The Alphabet Murders, and The Zodiac Killer. Host Dan Abrams’ voice will guide viewers through the evidence packed presentations of each of these cases along with Murphy Milano’s commentary. Each night the shows will delve into the lives of the people most affected by these crimes, using footage, police reports and news stories, the cases will be fleshed out quickly, but huge in content so viewers will come away with a better understanding of, not only the crime itself, but its ramifications upon friends, politicians, media, detectives and family members whose lives are forever changed. The goal of the series is to produce compelling, not sensationalized, treatments of each case through interviews and visuals that will keep viewers engaged, yet aiming to be sympathetic and respectful to the victims and loved ones left in the wake of the events of the trauma and its inevitable aftermath. Outlaw Laboratories and eight time Emmy Award nominee, Jeff Roe will produce and direct each of the shows in the series, told in a stylistically different approach that won’t rely on re-enactments, but will be chocked full of evidence directly from the case files. NOTE: The AMC series The UNSOLVED is actually a series of vignettes. Each segment will last approximately 3-5 minutes and will be shown during the broadcasts of six true story films over six nights. The Zodiac segment is reportedly scheduled to air during the broadcast of the gangster film GOODFELLAS on the night of March 28, 2011. [See also: SusanMurphyMilano.com and AMC TV Originals “The Killing”.]
* NEW: March 21, 2011: A new section titled The Mysteries of the Mt. Diablo Map contains several pages devoted to the Zodiac’s so-called “Mt. Diablo map.” The first article serves as a basic introduction to this enigmatic piece of the Zodiac’s legacy. The second article Radians & Inches focuses on the Zodiac’s mathematical clues. The Mt. Diablo Map provides a unique look at one of the Zodiac’s most cryptic clues. Zodiac researcher Ed Neil recently tracked down and purchased a copy of the same road map used by the Zodiac. Ed’s photographs may be useful to those with questions about the Zodiac’s map. Radians: By the Textbook features pages from an 11th year high school textbook which explain the use of radians and inches in mathematics. More information is also available in the article titled Gareth Penn and the Radian Theory.
* TV ALERT: February 19, 2011: NBC’s THE TODAY SHOW aired a segment on the Zodiac case which featured Dave Collins and Dick Lonergan of the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, FBI profiler Cliff Van Zant, author Robert Graysmith, and Zodiac survivor Bryan Hartnell. WATCH THE VIDEO or read the story at the NapaValleyRegister.com.
* TV ALERT: February 19, 2011: AMERICA’S MOST WANTED aired a segment on the Zodiac case which featured a photograph showing Zodiac victim Darlene Ferrin and an “unidentified man.” The AMW website states that “police want to know who he is.” Read more about the issues surrounding this photograph in the article Darlene Ferrin and the Unidentified Man or join the discussion at the Zodiackillerfacts.com FREE FORUM.
* Featured Blog: Remembering the GOOD TIMES and Richard Gaikowski with “Becky Sharp”
* NEW: The MYTHS & LEGENDS section has been updated with new articles regarding the Ferrin case, including: Darlene Ferrin MYTHS: The Beginning, The Painting Party, The Stalker and “Andrew Todd Walker”, and an examination of the 1991 Geraldo Rivera television broadcasts regarding the life and death of Darlene Ferrin, NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: The Rest of the Story, including links to watch the original programs.
* TIT WILLOW: THE STORY OF THE ZODIAC KILLER by Judith Chapman presents yet-another “I-knew-the-Zodiac-killer” tale. Chapman accuses her now-deceased husband Peter Plante. Amazon.com offers the following summary of Chapman’s book: “This book details the murders of the Zodiac Killer of the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960’s. The author describes twenty years of terror, living with the man she believes to be the Zodiac. The book includes handwriting evidence and a solution to the “My name is ..” cipher.“
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8 ways to use the word 'look' - Pride and Prejudice part 1
Unspoken love, romance and missed opportunities
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Hello, I'm Lizzie. Today, I've got a story about unspoken love, romance and missed opportunities. It's about a young, beautiful girl called Elizabeth, whose mother is looking for a good man to marry her.
Elizabeth would love to meet the man of her dreams too, and thinks she has when she attends a very smart party. He's called William Darcy - a wealthy man who has the looks - rather handsome, shiny, thick black hair, dark brown eyes, smartly dressed, very tall and not only that, he has the look of someone very important – oh, and did I mention he's single?
But there's a problem. William is very proud and isn't big on talking - and being a wealthy and important man, he looks on someone from a lower status in society, such as Elizabeth's family, with contempt. Oooh… but there's something about Elizabeth that interests him.
However, she hears about some bad things he's done and it looks like he's someone best to avoid so she decides to steer clear of him. Then she gets some more bad news. One of William's friends, who at one stage had been looking to marry her sister Jane, moves away. Elizabeth is angry and annoyed for her sister and decides to travel to see him and his family to discover the real reason for his sudden departure and change of mind.
By chance, she bumps into William again, and it looks as if he still has the hots for Elizabeth because he asks her to marry him. Ahh, how romantic. But believing all the rumours she thinks of him as someone not to be trusted, so she says politely says 'no' and returns home. He's surprised by her decision and writes to her explaining why all of the bad things she's heard about him are untrue. She looks over his letter and realises how stupid she has been to have judged him so badly. Awkward!
We'll leave the story there. Join me again to find out what happens next. See you!
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SO MUCH YOU CAN DO ON A WEEKEND TRIP TO D.C.
Washington D.C. really feels like a city of government. Everywhere I turn there is a government building, museum, or politician hangout restaurant. We flew on a red eye into D.C. and landed super early Friday morning (those economy seats are really rough these days!). Jean, one of my dear college friends, had been road tripping throughout the U.S. with her husband. So Mui (her BFF) and I wanted to make a trip out to be reunited with her. Luckily she did not have the chance to explore much of the city yet so it was a new experience for all of us.
Friday: We were very fortunate to have the hotel let us check in at 8 am in the morning. So to take advantage of this, we both took a 2 hour nap before our breakfast meetup with Jean at Busboys & Poets. After a nice breakfast, we headed towards the Chinatown gate because Jean wanted to show her heritage? haha I actually don't know why she did, but it was on the way. There was actually only a few Chinese joints around the area, and mostly just American restaurants with Chinese translations below it. Odd, but interesting to discover that. Our first official attraction off the 1,000 List was the US Capitol Building! Unfortunately, none of us contacted our congressmen to get access to the private tour inside so we only took pictures of the exterior. So, for those planning ahead, make sure to contact your congressmen to gain access to the Capitol Building, Library of Congress, and White House. Next, we headed to the National Mall to experience all the free museums D.C. had to offer! Our first museum was part of the Smithsonian collection called the National Air & Space Museum, where you can find the Wright Brothers glider, old US missiles, and retired planes. Out of all the Smithsonian museums on this trip, the Hirshhorn museum was my favorite. I love modern and contemporary art, and this place had tons of it. It's also even more exciting when there are interactive exhibits, like the Wish Tree by Yoko Ono. If you are planning to be in D.C. during the summer, be prepared for the hot and muggy weather. Drink lots of water to stay hydrated and maybe even bring an umbrella to shade you from the sun. After lunch, we hit up the National Museum of American History (also part of the Smithsonian collection) to see Julia Child's kitchen and the 1st Ladies wardrobe collection. We had dinner at Rasika (an Indian restaurant) later that night and I highly recommend the black cod dish. It wasn't on the 1,000 List, but it should've been. After dinner, we got cereal milk shakes at Milk and went straight to bed!
Saturday: Now, with a full night's sleep, we were ready to go Saturday morning. We decided to meet Jean and Brant at a brunch place for some amazing brunch buffet before walking through Georgetown. We've heard all the hype about Georgetown cupcakes and we had to try it out! I don't know if it was because we picked the specialty cupcakes of the day, but their cupcakes are definitely overrated. And to be honest, I prefer the Sprinkles cupcakes over theirs. After disappointing cupcakes, I tried to redeem the moment by heading over to the Old Stone House (which is obviously on the List). It's the only surviving pre-Revolutionary building in the capital, built in 1766. Afterwards, we headed back to the National Mall for the anticipated Spy Museum everyone in our group wanted to go to. I would suggest buying tickets ahead of time if you are limited in your schedule and want to participate in the Spy Game (this is an additional cost, but you can save some money by buying a combo pack). When we got there at 2:45 pm, the only time slots left for the Spy Game were for the 5:25 pm. So to kill time we decided to check out the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum, which was right across the street. These two museums were actually housed in the same building, but split in the middle when it came to their exhibits. One of the highlights to the American Art Museum is the paintings of all the presidents thus far, based on their choice of artistic take on their portrait. If you had to choose one area of that museum to see, that would be it. This section also included the recommended Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington. But at the time of visit it was taken away for maintenance, and a different portrait of him was displayed instead. Our last stop before dinner was the National Archives. Now, the National Archives contains the original Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Magna Carta. No pictures can be taken inside whatsoever, and the lights are dimmed to protect the fragile documents. You really can't read the documents that well since its been faded over time, but it was cool to just be in the presence of these documents that shaped our country to what it is today. Since our dinner reservations were later at night, we decided to use that time to check out the Tidal Basin and Lincoln Memorial. It was closer to sunset when we saw it and there were still hordes of people taking pictures of the site. I think my experience would have been more meaningful if there wasn't as much of a crowd as there was that day. Anyways, we had dinner at Zaytinya (one of Jose Andres restaurant) and it was a decent meal. The pita bread was unique, but all the other dishes were basically like any other Lebanese/Middle Eastern food restaurant.
Sunday: Our last full day in D.C. was bittersweet for us. We were excited to leave this hot and humid town, but I still had so much stuff to see and do. By today, I've come to the conclusion that Mui and I are great travel buddies and we work together very efficiently as fellow planners. So, thanks Mui for helping me check off as many places on my list as I did for this trip! We woke up early in the morning so that we can make a stop at Union Station for some coffee and pastries before heading to brunch at Old Ebbitt Grill. The Union Station in D.C. used to be the world's largest railroad station back in the day and had some historical significance. It's not as beautiful as the one in Los Angeles or New York, but it could have been the largest. Afterwards, we took the train to Old Ebbitt Grill for brunch. However, we had much more time than we expected so we decided to make a quick jaunt to the White House. They blocked off the road in the beginning, so we had to take pictures from across the street. But around 11 am, they opened it up and let us walk all the way up to the black gate. It was pretty cool! Ok, so after the loads of pictures we took we went back to Old Ebbitt Grill to eat. I had the chicken and waffles and they were really good, with the portion size being perfect. It has such an old school luxurious vibe, you will feel like you're dining with the best of the politicians. After brunch, Mui and I moved hotels to one in Arlington so that we can be closer to the airport for our 6 am flight the next day. We then met up with Jean and Brant at Arlington Cemetery. Even though it is a cemetery, it felt like Universal Studios because of the tram tour. It was about $16.50 for the tram tour and it acts like a hop-on hop-off bus. Some of the stops included the Iwo Jima Memorial, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, JFK Burial Site, and Arlington House. Arlington House was the former residence of Robert E. Lee and it was actually a small mansion compared to houses today. Even though it looked grand from the outside, the inside only had a few rooms and really high ceilings. We got off on the wrong stop (JFK Burial), but you should learn from our mistake and get off on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stop. That way you see the Tomb, then walk to the JFK Burial, then walk to Arlington House. Take the tram from Arlington House and make your way back to the exit. This should allow you to see everything the cemetery has to offer. For our final adventure in D.C., we took a Lyft down to old town Alexandria to check out the Gadsby's Tavern and Museum. It's only about a 11 minute drive and it didn't cost that much actually. The museum was cool, but the restaurant was even better! They say that it was the original dining room where a bunch of historical figures dined in (ie. George Washington). Even the servers were dressed in colonial attire! I had the Gentleman's Pye, which was a spin on Shepherd's Pie. Don't forget to walk down to the beautiful Waterfront where you can see boats, other restaurants, shops, and a park.
To avoid the random rain & sun that comes in the summer (which makes it humid), maybe buy a small umbrella that's travel friendly. Also, on a side note, the restaurant inside the Mandarin Oriental called City Zen has now been replaced and is no longer there.
Tags Old Stone House, The Smithsonian, American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Gadsby's Tavern Museum, Old Ebbitt Grill, Hirshhorn Museum, The National Mall, National Archives, White House, Zaytinya, Arlington Cemetery, Arlington House, Capitol Building, Union Station, Spy Museum, Gadsby's Tavern, Lincoln Memorial, City Zen
OLD STONE HOUSE, THE NATIONAL MALL, NATIONAL ARCHIVES, SMITHSONIAN, CAPITOL BUILDING, WHITE HOUSE, AMERICAN ART MUSEUM, NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, HIRSHHORN MUSEUM, SPY MUSEUM, UNION STATION, ARLINGTON CEMETERY, ARLINGTON HOUSE, DINNER AT GADSBY'S TAVERN, GADSBY'S TAVERN MUSEUM, LUNCH AT OLD EBBITT GRILL, DINNER AT ZAYTINYA, DINNER AT CITY ZEN (IN MANDARIN ORIENTAL) (CLOSED), LINCOLN MEMORIAL
STILL NEED TO GO TO:
DUMBARTON OAKS, GEORGETOWN HOUSE & GARDEN TOURS, THE NATIONAL ZOO, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, RENWICK GALLERY, HILLWOOD MUSEUM, PHILLIPS COLLECTION, HOLOCAUST MUSEUM, NEWSEUM, NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM, KENNEDY CENTER, MOUNT VERNON, MT VERNON SPIRIT CRUISES, FOUR SEASONS (INCL. DINNER AT BOURBON STEAK), THE HOTEL GEORGE (INCL. DINNER AT BISTRO BIS), HAY-ADAMS HOTEL, THE JEFFERSON (INCL. DINNER AT PLUME), HOTEL TABARD INN (INCL. DINNER AT THE RESTAURANT), WILLARD INTERCONTINENTAL, DINNER AT CENTRAL MICHAEL RICHARD, DINNER AT CLYDE'S, DINNER AT JALEO, DINNER AT OYAMEL, DINNER AT MINIBAR, TASTING MENU AT KOMI, DINNER AT THE MONOCLE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
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Mel Tillis’ Funeral Arrangements Announced
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Funeral arrangements have been announced for the late Mel Tillis, who passed away at the age of 85 on Nov. 19.
A visitation for the musician will be held on Nov. 27 at Sykes Funeral Home in Clarksville, Tennessee. A public funeral service will then proceed at 3 p.m. at Mount Hermon Baptist Church, with a private burial to follow.
A preceding service will take place at the Ocklawaha Bridge Baptist Church in Silver Springs, Fla., on Nov. 25.
Out of respect for the family, attendees are asked to refrain from photographing, filming, or live streaming either service.
In addition to these services, the Tillis family is planning to hold a public memorial in January that will be open to fans and the music industry. The event will be held in Nashville with details to be announced in the coming weeks.
Tillis died at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla., having battled intestinal issues ever since he was hospitalized in 2016 after undergoing colon surgery. The suspected cause of death is respiratory failure, according to a press release from his publicist.
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16 Years Ago: Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks Take Over Super Bowl XXXVII
On Jan. 26, 2003 -- 16 years ago today -- country music made its biggest showing in years at the NFL's most high-profile game. At Super Bowl XXXVII, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, Calif., the Dixie Chicks sang the National Anthem, and Shania Twain was a halftime show headliner.
Prior to 2003, the only country artists chosen to sing the Anthem at the Super Bowl were Charley Pride (1974), Garth Brooks (1993) and Faith Hill (2000). But the Dixie Chicks were flawless: Natalie Maines kicked off "The Star-Spangled Banner" solo, singing "Oh, say, can you see …" in a clear voice. Starting with the next line — "… by the dawn's early light" — bandmates Emily Robison and Martie Maguire joined in, their voices branching off to create three-part harmonies.
This particular arrangement of the National Anthem was lovely, and clearly scored to highlight the Dixie Chicks' vocal strengths. Gathered around one microphone, the trio's members were solemn and reverential, their voices dipping and soaring in rhythm with the lyrical imagery. As the song crested to its apex — "Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave / O'er the land of the free / And the home of the brave" — their voices strengthened and grew louder, and the performance ended on a dime.
Twain, meanwhile, was in the enviable position of kicking off 2003's Super Bowl halftime show, which also featured Sting and No Doubt. With a shout of "Let's go, football fans!" she strutted onto a small circular stage and launched into a rocked-up version of "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" Backed by an army of musicians, she exuded a take-charge presence: Her outfit was commanding — a floor-length black duster, thigh-high boots, a jewel-encrusted bra and a black miniskirt — and her gesticulations were defiant and confident.
After "Man!," Twain segued into a hard-edged version of her then-single, "Up!" In a nod to the song's buoyant chorus, she took a looser approach to her performance: Twain walked down an attached walkway perpendicular to the stage and high-fived with crowd members, and then huddled with her bandmates, mugging for the camera. Appropriately, as the song ended, she stepped onto a platform that was then elevated and rotated above the crowd via a crane.
Incredibly, Twain was the last country artist to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show to date; in fact, her appearance was rivaled only by the 1994 all-country halftime show lineup of Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt and the Judds. Anthem-wise, since the Dixie Chicks, only Carrie Underwood (2010) and Luke Bryan (2017) have done the honors; country stars have been tapped to perform "America, the Beautiful" at the game, however. In 2009, Faith Hill did the song justice, while then-couple and Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert sang it in 2012.
Oh, and as for the game? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Oakland Raiders, 48-21.
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Everything We Know About Shawn Mendes’ Third Album
Matthew Scott Donnelly
Will the third time be the charm for Shawn Mendes, who's gearing up to release Studio Album No. 3 later this year? So far, we've got some convincing evidence.
Mendes, who's had fans on their toes since uploading a teaser of his forthcoming collection with a shirtless Instagram photo, has so far released two songs from his forthcoming LP: "In My Blood" and "Lost in Japan." While the former has a rockier Kings of Leon vibe, the latter could be straight from Justin Timberlake's early-aughts catalog, and the pairing is proof that Mendes is ready to take risks on his follow-up to 2016's Illuminate.
But are you ready for his new sound? Need more convincing that the album will be worth your investment? Glad you stopped by.
Take a look below at everything we know about Shawn Mendes' third studio album, and hang tight for an exact release date, which he'll likely announce soon.
Lead single "In My Blood" was inspired by anxiety:
Mendes told Beats 1's Zane Lowe that "The only way we're going to step up...and get better...is if it's more honest. Like, how raw can we get?"
He intentionally sought out the sound of Kings of Leon:
Mendes added to Lowe that he's a big fan of the group (he's performed a cover of "Use Somebody" in a previous concert), and was incredibly inspired by watching them one night by side stage. "I was like, I want to make a Kings of Leon record – I want to go more rock," he said.
The album might include this lyric:
The LP's artwork seems to have been inspired by nature:
Mendes added to The Zach Sang show that he wrote a lot of the album in Malibu.
Fans can't get enough of a teaser called "What If I Told You a Story":
Mendes later added to The Zach Sang Show that he "accidentally" leaked his music, and that when he sat down to post the song bit in a private group chat, he mistakenly put it on his Instagram story. It was only up for 45 seconds, he said, but fans got their hands on it.
A collaboration with Niall Horan seems likely:
Mendes told Entertainment Tonight he and the former One Direction member have become close over the years, and have toyed with the idea of working together for a long time.
"It will be true one day," he said. "We're really good friends and we hang out all the time, and we are always like, 'We should write a song,' and then we're planning on writing a song -- and then we just end up hanging out!"
Mendes added that collaborations have to manifest organically.
"It's just a vibe," he told The Zach Sang Show. "You meet an artist...and it's not really about writing music, it's just about 'One day we got together and wrote this song.'"
Camila Cabello helped him perfect a line of Spanish for the album:
Cabello told The Zach Sang Show in January: "I think he was working on his album and he said he needed help because he was going to sing a line in Spanish and so I voice memoed him the correct pronunciation."
Mendes laster told The Zach Sang Show that he sends "all of his music" to Camila ahead of time to get her thoughts.
He looked to reliable collaborators to craft the LP:
Ryan Tedder, Teddy Geiger, Scott Harris, and Geoffrey Warburton all contributed to SM3. "Last year [at the EMAs], I got to meet Ryan Tedder for the first time...and actually was just in the studio with him like a week ago and wrote some awesome songs," Mendes told MTV News in 2017.
Oh, and John Mayer helped Mendes work out a new track, too:
The guys have been friends for years, Mendes told Valentine in the Morning.
He's scrapping the idea of a singular sound:
"I didn't put any walls up for my genre," Mendes added to Valentine, noting the stark difference between first two singles "In My Blood" and "Lost in Japan." "I just made music."
He said you can also expect a song that carries a '50s rock vibe and more mainstream pop.
"Lost in Japan" is the song he's most proud of:
He told The Zach Sang Show that the song's guitar, especially, signaled a breakthrough in his musicianship (though he credits much of the instrumentation to a writer named Nate). Mendes added that he was listening to a ton of "Old JT" before writing it, which is why the track might give you a truly Timberlake vibe.
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Is it possible to save a rainforest by listening to it?
A tribe in the Brazilian state of Pará is exploring ways to use old cell phones and machine learning to fight deforestation.
Turn on your audio for the best experience.
The Amazon rainforest, in all its majesty, is a very loud place.
A howler monkey howls.
Rain falls under the canopy.
A bird marks its territory. A macaw, to be exact.
But another sound lingers underneath, signaling that something else is here in the Amazon.
A chainsaw.
The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, home to a quarter of the world’s biodiversity.
Since 1970, 20% of the Amazon has been destroyed by deforestation.
The indigenous Tembé people live on 2,800 km² of rainforest in northern Brazil. Over 30% of their territory has been deforested by cattle ranching, fires, and illegal logging.
“The biggest mark in my life was at the age of 8, when I went to do the first inspection [of the forest]. Back then, we heard a lot about loggers taking wood from our area, and I was outraged by seeing people stealing wood, [so] we mobilized.”
– Chief Naldo Tembé
As a boy, Naldo Tembé sacrificed any semblance of a normal childhood for the sake of the rainforest. He organized small groups of kids to survey their territory for illegal loggers without his parents’ knowledge, as the task of monitoring armed loggers is dangerous for anyone, let alone a child. He made his dedication for preserving the forest known to anyone who would listen, and his people took notice. When he turned 15, he was named chief.
“To be chief is a very heavy task, because you start to live others’ lives, not yours. And that is very tough. Even today, having been chief for many years, I haven’t really got used to it.”
For the Tembé, life and forest are forever intertwined. When illegal loggers destroy the forest for profit, they aren’t just tearing down trees but the culture and heritage of people who’ve lived there for centuries.
While Chief Naldo was fighting to preserve his people’s land, in a village across the territory, Dona Verônica Tembé was mounting a campaign to help the tribe reclaim their culture. She encouraged the Tembé people to hold traditional festivities and to speak their own language alongside Brazilian Portuguese. Today, her granddaughter Marcelina Kuda teaches the Tembé language to a new generation at the village school, hoping they will be the cultural stewards of the forest for a new generation.
Over the past 30 years, Chief Naldo and the tribe have wrestled back substantial portions of their land from the invaders, but detecting new illegal logging activity has continued to be a dangerous endeavor. Illegal loggers enter the Tembé land under the cover of night and can decimate hundreds of acres of forest without being detected. The ever-present sounds of the rainforest drown out the noise from the loggers’ chainsaws and trucks, making monitoring thousands of square kilometers of rainforest a nearly impossible task.
The Tembé people are well organized, well educated; they are not afraid to use new tools and new technologies. They are looking for collaboration. They’re not looking for help.
– Topher White, founder of Rainforest Connection
In 2014, Chief Naldo reached out to Topher White, founder of environmental nonprofit Rainforest Connection, and together they embarked on an ambitious project using recycled Android phones and TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning model, to track the sounds of illegal logging in real time.
How recycled cell phones and machine learning help the Tembé protect their homeland
An Android phone is affixed to a solar power adapter and external microphone. These devices, nicknamed Guardians, can hear the sounds of illegal logging up to 1 kilometer away.
The Guardians are hidden high up in trees for better cell service and access to sunlight for power. They listen to all the sounds of the forest around the clock.
Rainforest Connection’s TensorFlow model uses machine learning to analyze the audio recorded by the Guardians, and learns to identify the sounds of chainsaws and logging trucks.
Within minutes of an identification, a real-time alert is sent to the Tembé rangers, a select security force of villagers who can intervene or report the logging activity to the authorities.
Rainforest Connection is putting this same acoustic monitoring system into the hands of other partners fighting deforestation in five different countries, including Peru, Ecuador, and Romania.
Today, Chief Naldo and the tribe are canvassing their land, climbing trees to install and maintain the Guardian devices, and responding to the logging alerts they receive. Armed with this new technology, the Tembé have a chance to safeguard not only their forest but their entire way of life.
“This was my grandfather’s big dream, and then it became my parents’ big dream, and today it is the great dream of my life, trying to leave the best for my children and grandchildren. There are great expectations as to what can happen from now on.”
Watch how the Tembé and Rainforest Connection are working together to bring this ambitious plan to life in the film below.
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Research ArticleGENETICS
Differential intron retention in Jumonji chromatin modifier genes is implicated in reptile temperature-dependent sex determination
Ira W. Deveson1,2,*,
Clare E. Holleley3,4,*,
James Blackburn1,5,
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves3,6,
John S. Mattick2,5,7,
Paul D. Waters2 and
Arthur Georges3,†
1Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
3Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
4Australian National Wildlife Collection, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
5St. Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
6School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
7Neuroscience Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
↵†Corresponding author. Email: georges{at}aerg.canberra.edu.au
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
Science Advances 14 Jun 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 6, e1700731
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700731
Ira W. Deveson
Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Clare E. Holleley
Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.Australian National Wildlife Collection, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
ORCID record for Clare E. Holleley
Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.St. Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
John S. Mattick
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.St. Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Neuroscience Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Paul D. Waters
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Arthur Georges
Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
For correspondence: georges@aerg.canberra.edu.au
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Alternative splicing in chromatin-modifying genes is associated with temperature-dependent sex in divergent reptile lineages.
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The French word 'frisson' signifies a brief sensation usually reported as pleasurable and often expressed as an overwhelming emotional response to stimuli, such as a piece of music. Frisson often occurs simultaneously with piloerection, colloquially known as 'goosebumps', by which tiny muscles called arrector pili contract, causing body hair, particularly that on the limbs and back of the neck, to erect or 'stand on end'.[54][55][56][57]
ASMR is a relatively new phenomenon sweeping the audiophile community. Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) affects millions of people, and even more, may not realize there is a name to their feelings. Those who experience ASMR have different reactions to a variety of types of sounds, all positive. Some feel tingly, some sleepy, and most feel relaxed. The types of sounds include whispering, tapping, crackling, touching, and popping, as well as many more.
“I just tried it because I thought it would help out my channel and it did, yeah,” Kelly says of her honeycomb video. When she started her channel in March 2018, Kelly made more traditional YouTube videos – filming herself applying make-up and eating different foreign snacks. “It was exciting,” she says of going viral, “because I was like, this could actually be my dream, I’ve always wanted a lot of subscribers.”
"As ASMR has started to come to mainstream attention, researchers have finally begun trying to answer that question. Neuroscientists are now experimenting with fMRIs and electroencephalography to see if the brains of 'tingleheads,' as they are called, are any different than those who don’t tremble at the sight of napkin-folding. They’ve also surveyed tens of thousands of people who say they experience the phenomenon. So far there are intriguing—if limited—findings suggesting that ASMR may relieve some people’s symptoms of stress and insomnia, and that the brains of those who experience it may be organized a little differently."
In addition to the information collected from the 475 subjects who participated in the scientific investigation conducted by Nick Davies and Emma Barratt,[4] there have been two attempts to collate statistical data pertaining to the demographics, personal history, clinical conditions, and subjective experience of those who report susceptibility to ASMR.
I’m totally with you in similarity on that. I can get it from reading or watching something profound, and also being engaged in a deep connection with someone. I believe ASMR is the main reason why I used to believe in, and what I used to describe as, my third eye. Like Carlos Cruz, I also get the sensation from music, actually having been utterly attached my whole life to gaining these feelings from listening to music.
It now drives an entire industry on YouTube, where video artists rack up millions of views filming an array of audio and visual triggers for their viewers: They whisper, tap their fingers, flip through pages of a book, play with slime, slurp up noodles, make “mouth sounds” and even role-play scenarios like a spa visit or a doctor’s appointment — anything to evoke the sensation.
Richard and his team ask participants to rank the way they’d most prefer to experience ASMR, if YouTube weren’t the only option. (Data from the Swansea University study shows most people have their first ASMR experiences as children, through real-life interactions with family and friends.) “Receiving light touches with my eyes closed” ranked first; sound triggers were below and visual ones lower still—an echo, Richards says, of how the senses develop in human beings.
I can trigger my ASMR at any time and it helps me gather my thoughts and calm down easily. It is weird to do, I have just recently found out about it and I was really strange knowing that not everyone could just do it anytime, sometimes or not at all so this is so strange before I found this out I thought I was just giving my self goosebumps just without the bumps so those are my feelings I just had to get out of my system.
Creators like Heather Feather are making videos that create the tingly ASMR effect. In fact, there are currently about 5.2 million ASMR videos on YouTube, and there is interest coming from all corners of the globe (see chart below). YouTube searches for ASMR grew over 200% YoY in 2015 and are consistently growing.3 On its own, a top ASMR video can garner over 16 million views.
NBC News: "Why some researchers say 'brain tingles' could be the next big trend in relaxation" — "Have you ever felt a static-like or tingling sensation on the top of your head when someone brushes your hair or whispers to you? The feeling may travel down your arms and your spine, and it likely makes you feel very relaxed. Some call it a 'sparkly' feeling, and it might happen when you hear someone crinkle a piece of paper or when someone traces a word on your back.
The uncharted territory isn’t what people experience, Richard says, but how (some people are triggered through their own thoughts and memories; others through external sights, sounds or touch) and why. To help find answers, Allen and Richard’s team launched its first rudimentary ASMR research survey last month. It received more than 4,000 responses within the first 10 days.
ASMR seems to need an emotional component to it, and Winter says that’s not accidental. “Some things may remind you of your mother or being a kid,” he says. “I’d guess that it’s no accident that a lot of the videos of someone whispering feature an attractive woman, which make you think of your mom whispering to you when you went to sleep.” Those memories the videos evoke are likely comforting, and can shift people into a more relaxed state that then helps them fall asleep, he says.
I’m not really sure if I have ASMR or not – I literally discovered it was an actual thing a few minutes ago – but I am very sensitive to sounds. Certain chord progressions or note progressions in songs, and other sounds like people eating watermelon give me the tingling feeling described. But I also get the opposite. For some reason, certain sounds make me feel queasy and sick (like the sound of someone pulling a string through their fingers). Is this ASMR, or related? Or if it’s not, does anyone know what that is?
An article titled "An examination of the default mode network in individuals with autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)"[38] by Stephen D. Smith, Beverley Katherine Fredborg, and Jennifer Kornelsen, looked at the default mode network (DMN) in individuals with ASMR. The study, which used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), concluded that there were significant differences in the DMN of individuals who have ASMR as compared to a control group without ASMR.
"We believe technology presents great opportunities for young people to express themselves creatively and access useful information, but we also know we have a responsibility to protect young creators and families and consider the potential impact of emerging trends on them. We've been working with experts to update our enforcement guidelines for reviewers to remove ASMR videos featuring minors engaged in more intimate or inappropriate acts. We are working alongside experts to make sure we are protecting young creators while also allowing ASMR content that connects creators and viewers in positive ways."
I have experienced this sensation for years and whenever I try to explain it to others they look at me as if I am strange. This happens to me every day when one particular delivery man comes to my office to bring parcels, he has such a quiet voice, and a slow methodical way about him. I wish he would stay longer so I could enjoy the sensation for longer !
The bizarreness of this footage means ASMR isn’t without controversies. In June 2018, the Chinese government banned ASMR videos, branding them “vulgar” and “pornographic”. In August, PayPal began blocking the accounts of ASMRtists who received money to make custom videos (although the company later denied it has a policy against ASMR content). For those who don’t experience ASMR, the videos can seem fetishistic. Beyond the weirdness of whispering and making “mouth sounds” as in Kelly’s honeycomb video, some people nickname ASMR a “brain orgasm”.
"Basically, it feels like the amazing chills you get when someone plays with your hair or traces your back with their fingertips," says Heather Feather, a popular "ASMRtist" with nearly 400,000 YouTube subscribers. The dulcet tones of famed soft-spoken painter Bob Ross are among the most common ASMR triggers. Indeed, "Bob Ross" is among the terms most frequently associated with ASMR—and so are "Heather Feather" and "GentleWhispering," another top ASMRtist on YouTube.
So if you’re looking for a natural way to fall asleep quickly, I’d really recommend trying some ASMR videos on YouTube. Get in bed and put on a good pair of headphones (noise-canceling if you have them) and watch one of the videos in this article on your smartphone or tablet. By the time the video ends, you might be ready to drift into sleep. There have been plenty of times that I haven’t even been able to make it halfway through one of these videos before I needed to put my phone down and shut my eyes.
It might sound like a bafflingly bizarre way to spend time on the Internet. But for Maria’s viewers, her voice and movements hold a certain magic: They can instill tranquillity, overcome insomnia — and induce a mysterious physical sensation known as autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, wherein the body is flooded with waves of euphoric tingles.
Coming onto this page, I was hoping for a few good videos to bring on the shivers, but unfortunately, Ol' Bob Ross was the only successful one. I did enjoy that fountain pen and the tea making video though. Made me kinda drowsy aha. I don't know about you, but my ultimate asmr triggers, are soft spoken role-plays, especially when the person has an accent. Videos of head massages are also fantastic whenever I want some tingles :) You should check some of them out.
I frequently get seemingly random shivers throughout my body that last for a moment or two. To give these shivers some context, I was told this is what happens when "someone walks over your grave," (don't know if you guys have heard the expression?) Could these shivers be momentary glimpses of a real ASMR experience, or something else entirely? I've never really paid much attention to them before.
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a calming, pleasurable feeling often accompanied by a tingling sensation. This tingle is said to originate in a person’s head and spread to the spine (and sometimes the limbs) in response to stimulation. The stimuli that trigger ASMR vary from person to person. Some of the most common ones include whispers, white noise, lip smacking, having a person’s complete attention (as in having one’s hair cut by a hairdresser), as well as brushing, chewing, tapping, scratching, whispering, and crinkling.
I have been experiencing ASMR right from my childhood on many occasions, notably when I get personal attention, for example when a tailor takes the measurements. I do experience ASMR during hair cuts but to a lesser degree. The intensity is more when I get my moustache trimmed, a final ritual of my hair cut. It might sound weird to you, but I am trying to explain iin detail so that you get a better understanding of ASMR for different people.
So how do you know if you have ASMR? There’s no single way to tell for sure, but for starters, you can watch some of the internet’s most popular videos and determine whether they elicit a tingling response. And for your convenience, we’ve compiled some of the best ASMR videos that YouTube has to offer—so get those goose bumps ready, and while you’re at it, try these brain teasers to find out whether you’re smarter than an astronaut.
YouTube pays on average $2 per 1,000 views if you run ads on your videos, but there are many other factors involved in payment. For example, not all clips have commercials on them and different genres on YouTube have different payouts, depending on popularity. Maria says she doesn't think she could sustain a family with her ASMR videos, while Paul, who does have a wife and child, points out that a YouTube career doesn't cover additional costs like health benefits.
My main trigger is watching someone concentrating silently on a mundane task (writing, drawing, ironing, cleaning, doing a puzzle) and them not being aware that I am aware of what they are doing. I also find sometimes that having a haircut can produce the same sensation. I also find that the feeling can sometimes be accentuated by gently rubbing the back of my neck with something like a pen or the end of my glasses. I haven’t yet found a video that works as a trigger – it needs to be there for real and even then doesn’t and won’t happen “on demand”.
From my experience with ASMR videos in the last three weeks, I’ve never had one trigger the kind of episode I had with my uncle. However, that doesn’t mean the ASMR videos had no benefits. The biggest, I’ve found, is that the right ASMR video works like a charm in sending me to sleep. In fact, ASMR videos seem to be better at sending me to sleep than most sleep hypnosis videos I’ve found.
The areas that typically work together weren’t firing together as much. Instead, other areas of the brain were getting more involved than usual—areas related to a visual network, for instance. These differences suggest “that instead of having distinct brain networks the way you or I would, there was more of a blending of these networks,” says Smith, who studies the neuroscience of emotion. “It does make intuitive sense that a condition associated with atypical sensory association and atypical emotional association would have different wiring in the brain.”
There is little scientific research on the phenomenon—the first scientific paper on it was published on the open-access journal PeerJ in 2015. That study had nearly 500 people who subscribed to Facebook or Reddit ASMR groups fill out a questionnaire about their online ASMR habits and why they engaged in them. Most people said they watched the videos to help them relax, de-stress, and get to sleep. (Only five percent said they watch the videos for sexual reasons.)
I also happen to be able to trigger asmr at will pretty much instinctively; the intensity sometimes is weak though if i cant concentrate due to interference. The intensity is far greater than when it is caused by external stimuli though. Anyone alse capable of directing the feeling (always starts at the base of the skull for me) to parts of their body at will??
ASMR doesn’t work for everyone and it can be tough to imagine the sensation if you don’t experience it first-hand. For most people who do experience it, the blissful tingling starts up in the scalp and then makes its way through the body to the arms and legs. And as a result, it can trigger a feeling of relaxation before bedtime, which can help you overcome insomnia. The audio/video segments are long—in fact, some last up to an hour. They are lengthy so that you can keep watching or listening to them until you drift off.
As ASMR has started to come to mainstream attention, researchers have finally begun trying to answer that question. Neuroscientists are now experimenting with fMRIs and electroencephalography to see if the brains of “tingleheads,” as they are called, are any different than those who don’t tremble at the sight of napkin-folding. They’ve also surveyed tens of thousands of people who say they experience the phenomenon. So far there are intriguing—if limited—findings suggesting that ASMR may relieve some people’s symptoms of stress and insomnia, and that the brains of those who experience it may be organized a little differently.
This image from video provided by Michelob shows a frame from their 2019 Super Bowl commercial for Michelob Ultra Pure Gold. The ad features the actress Zoe Kravitz using techniques for autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR. It is described as a tingly euphoric response, usually starting on the head and scalp, and sometimes spreading down the neck, arms or back. (Michelob ULTRA via AP)
I wonder if I have this ASMR thing too. The only thing that I don’t have in common like the rest, is audio. I only get this feeling, this “head-orgasm feeling,” when someone or something touches, like a kitten’s whiskers, a feather or someone’s hand, the side of my temples or near my ears. This feeling is very difficult to describe. When this happens I automatically close my eyes, I smile involuntarily and I get this tingling sensation all over my head. It’s a really good feeling too. Also, I’m not sure if it goes through the rest of my body like the rest of you, because I guess I’m feeling this sensation and I’m unaware of it. I remember when I was little I would get this feeling when I would play with a cat and they would head-bud my face and this feeling happened. I wasn’t sure what it was and was afraid that someone would see me making my face doing the “involuntarily closing my eyes and smiling” thing. So, I try to snap out of it as fast as I could… my question is, is this the same thing? Do I have ASMR?
Among the category of intentional ASMR videos that simulate the provision of personal attention is a subcategory of those specifically depicting the "ASMRtist" providing clinical or medical services, including routine general medical examinations. The creators of these videos make no claims to the reality of what is depicted, and the viewer is intended to be aware that they are watching and listening to a simulation, performed by an actor. Nonetheless, many subjects attribute therapeutic outcomes to these and other categories of intentional ASMR videos, and there are voluminous anecdotal reports of their effectiveness in inducing sleep for those susceptible to insomnia, and assuaging a range of symptoms including those associated with depression, anxiety, and panic attacks.[17][18][19]
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2. Ribbons & Bows
3. You Got Lucky
4. Deliverance (To Evil)
Released in March 2003, Deliverance was the second release from the album of the same name, but the first commercially available single from the album. The double A-side single also features the album version of Ribbons & Bows. Other tracks include You Got Lucky which was only ever available as a mp3 from the Who Put The Devil In You downloadable single, and Deliverance (To Evil). The Deliverance video features some great live footage including the Homebake 2002 performance.
WHO PUt the devil in you
1. Who Put The Devil In You
3. The Cream & The Crock (Live)
The Who Put The Devil In You single was available only as a download from You Am I's official website, You Am I Central in September 2002 and was never available commercially released. Each song was made available as mp3 files, and even the cover artwork as a PDF file. A video was made for the title track featuring the band racing hot rods down an airstrip in South Australia. The track You Got Lucky is an original You Am I song and was recorded during the Deliverance sessions. The live performance of The Cream & The Crock was recorded for the Saturday Night Round Ten live album and has never previously been released.
kick a hole in the sky
1. Kick A Hole In The Sky
2. Midget In A Nightclub
3. Sweet Alcohol
4. White And Lazy
Kick A Hole In The Sky was the third and final single to be released from Dress Me Slowly in July 2001. It was one of three songs from the album that the band wrote and recorded nearly half a year after the album was ostensibly finished. "Just because I had some new songs and I wanted to tell my wife how much I love her," says Tim. Midget In A Nightclub and Sweet Alcohol are both You Am I originals and were recorded during the initial Dress Me Slowly sessions. Sweet Alcohol previously appeared on the Big Day Out 2001 compilation. White And Lazy is a Replacements cover and has also appeared on the all Australian Replacements tribute album, I'm In Love... With That Song.
1. Get Up
2. Older Guys
3. Tourism
4. Be Prepared
5. Damage
Get Up, the second single released from Dress Me Slowly sees a long awaited return to the rock for You Am I. It was released in March 2001. The video clip for the song sees a very sweaty and bloody band performing inside of what appears to be a pinball machine. Older Guys was recorded during the Dress Me Slowly sessions and was originally going to appear on the album before another delay allowed the guys to record some new material. Tourism was recorded during a demo session in 2000. Be Prepared is a autobiographical Tim Rogers acoustic ballad and was a live favourite from Tim's solo shows in 2000. Damage is the studio version which appears on Dress Me Slowly.
2. She Don't Need The Morning
3. One Cent Coins
4. Open All Night
Damage was released in October 2000 - the first You Am I single in two years and the first to be taken from Dress Me Slowly. It is also their most successful single to date. Tim speaks about the song: "Damage is about trying to find some hope. The most uplifting pop songs come from desperate situations in minor keys." The song makes reference to John Prine, an acclaimed singer/songwriter who flirted with everything from acoustic folk to rockabilly to straight ahead country. "I did wake up in the morning and I did put on a John Prine record and I did have my someone's baby photos lying around." The single also contains the track Open All Night (originally titled Dress Me Slowly) which also appears on the soundtrack to the aussie film Better Than Sex. "A paean to someone who isn't getting alot of breaks. I love you, you are great, so fuck everybody."
heavy heart
1. Heavy Heart
2. What I Don't Know 'Bout You (Live)
3. Midnight To Six Man
4. She's So Fine
The acoustic ballad Heavy Heart was the third and most popular single from the #4 Record. It reached the number 9 spot on the 1998 Triple J Hottest 100 and has also been covered by Ben Lee, Paul Kelly and Seattle rockers The Supersuckers. The live performance of What I don't Know 'Bout You was taken from the Triple J Live at the Wireless performance that features on the limited #4 Record bonus disk Radio Sette. Midnight to Six Man was originally recorded by The Pretty Things. She's So Fine is an Easybeats cover and was a live favourite on the Uptight Express Tour of 1996.
1. Rumble
2. Arse-Kickin' Lady From The North-West
3. I Live Under The Flightpath
Rumble was released in April 1998, just prior to the release of #4 Record in May. It reached the number 65 spot in the 1998 Triple J Hottest 100. The track features the chant "R.A.D.I.O." which was performed by members of the US rock outfit The Muffs. The song also makes reference to Lionel Rose, who was a champion Aboriginal boxer of the 60's. Arse-Kickin' Lady From The North-West is also the opening track from the live album, Saturday Night, Round Ten and an acoustic version appears on Tim's solo album, What Ryhmes With Cars And Girls. I Live Under The Flight Path was also re-recorded for the Twin Set album, and features the lap steel guitar of Piers Crocker.
what i don't know 'bout you
1. What I Don't Know 'Bout You
2. You Want It So Bad
3. Cathy's Clown (Live)
4. The Applecross Wing Commander (Live)
The first single from #4 Record, What I Don't Know 'Bout You was released February 1998, three months prior to #4 and peaked at number 23 on the national chart - the highest charting You Am I single so far. The video clip is a tribute to the 70's Australian film Don's Party. It features prominent Aussie actors including Ben Mendehlson, Matt Day, Steven Curry, Tania Lacey and Nadine Gardener plus the boys themselves! One memorable scene sees Tim attempting to crack onto Nadine which results in a swift knee to the nads! You Want It So Bad also appears on the bonus disk to Saturday Night, Round Ten. The live performances of Cathy's Clown and The Applecross Wing Commander were recorded at the 1997 Reading Festival in the UK.
1. Trike
2. Opportunities
3. Who Turned Out The Lights
4. I Can Hear The Grass Grow
5. (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown
Trike and Opportunties were recorded in late 1996 for the international version of Hourly, Daily in place of Someone Else's Home and Moon Shines on Trubble. Tracks 1-3 were recorded in Los Angeles with American producer George Drakoulias who has previously worked with Black Crowes. Drakoulias would again work with the band to produce #4 Record. A different version of Who Turned Out The Lights first appeared on the No Guts, No Glory compilation with Tim performing solo. I Can Hear The Grass Grow was originally performed by The Move, while (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown is a New York Dolls song.
1. Tuesday
2. Circles
3. When You Got Dry
4. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Live)
Tuesday was released in February 1997, and was the fourth single from Hourly, Daily. It reached number 29 in the national chart and received quite a bit of mainstream radio airplay. It features the fine string arrangements of Jackie Orszaczky and a Penny Lane style trumpet solo. The video clip is quite slick and features Tim doing weird things like bathing with clothes on, mowing newspapers indoors and using an electric shaver with shaving cream. Circles is a Who cover. When You Got Dry originally appeared on the very limited, vinyl only When You Got Dry/How Much IS Enough 7" and features the slide guitar of Brad Shepard (Hoodoo Gurus). Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You is a Bob Dylan song and is a live, acoustic performance from The Metro in Sydney.
good mornin'
1. Good Mornin'
2. I'll Make You Happy
3. (You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet of The Apes
Good Mornin' was released in September 1996 and was the third single taken from Houly, Daily. It came in at number 84 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 and got to number 44 in the national chart. Tim on the song: "When we were writing the record I was waking up early and listening to the early morning AM chatter. Often I wake up depressed, as people do, and I found it really comforting, I could see how you could get attached to it, instead of waking up with someone next to you." I'll Make You Happy is an Easybeats song which the band performed to close the 1996 Aria (Australian Reording Industry Association) Awards, where picked up six awards from nine nominations. (You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet of The Apes was originally performed by The Mummies and features Rusty on lead vocals. Good Mornin' was also released on cassingle featuring live perormances of Soldiers, Mr Milk and Cathy's Clown as b-sides.
1. Soldiers
2. Boulder Fair
4. Count To Four
Soldiers was released in July 1996 and came in at number 80 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 and reached number 33 in the national chart. The video clip features the band (including Greg Hitchcock) working in a factory, and won the award for best video at the 1996 Aria (Australian Recording Industry Association) Awards. The b-sides are all You Am I originals. Boulder Fair is an acoustic track about life in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Six was inspired by Tim's childhood and Count To Four is about a couple getting married. Soldiers was also released on 7 inch vinyl with same track listing.
mr milk
1. Mr Milk
2. My Friend Jack
3. Embarrassed (Live)
Mr Milk was the first single from taken from Hourly, Daily and the first song written for the album. It reached number 50 on the national chart. This version of the song differs from the one that appears on the album as it was originally recorded for the SubPop label. My Friend Jack was originally recorded by The Smoke. Embarrassed was taken from the 1995 Triple J Live At The Wireless performance, and originally appeared on the Coprolalia ep.
1. Purple Sneakers
2. Sci-Fi Way
3. We're Desperate
Purple Sneakers was released in June 1995 and reached number 24 in the 1995 Triple J Hottest 100. The song was inspired by the school yard taunts Tim suffered after he wore purple sneakers (a twelfth birthday present from his father) to school. Sci-Fi Way is an instrumental track and features samples from retro sounding television shows including Ren and Stimpy. We're Desperate was originally performed by X and features Rusty on backing vocals.
jewels and bullets
1. Jewels and Bullets
2. Jaimmes Got A Gal (Remix)
3. Young Man Blues (Live)
The Jewels And Bullets single was second single from Hi Fi Way and was released in April 1995. It managed to sneak into the 1995 Triple J Hottest 100 at number 93. The song was inspired by the story of Anastasia Romanov, a young Russian princess who was "executed" in 1918. It was rumoured that jewels woven into her gown deflected the bullets meant to kill her. In 1991 the skeletons of the Romanov family were dug up in Siberia. But the skeletons of Anastasia and her brother Alexii were apparently not identified. Rumours have existed for over 79 years that Anastastia did survive. The Jaimmes Got A Gal remix features strings and additional guitar and percussion. Young Man Blues was recorded live at Memorial Stadium, Seattle on August 13, 1994 while supporting Soundgarden on their national tour. The same concert features on the Hi Fi Way limited edition bonus disk, Someone Else's Crowd.
cathy's clown
1. Cathy's Clown
2. Hi-Way Fi
3. Gira E Respira
4. In The Street
Cathy's Clown was the first single released from Hi Fi Way and the first single to make the national Top 40 singles chart peaking at numer 36. It also reached number 84 in the 1995 Triple J Hottest 100. Hi-Way Fi and Gira E Respira are original You Am I songs. A perfomance of Hi-Way Fi can be found on Someone Else's Crowd and is interestingly listed as Hi Fi Way. Confused yet?! In The Street is a cover of a Big Star song.
when you got dry
2. Ken (The Mother Nature's Son)
3. How Much Is Enough
4. Bitter Young Man Of The Fanzine Press
This double A-Side was released only on 7 inch vinyl in November 1994. It is probably the most rarest and sought after You Am I release. Due to a pressing fault, only 449 copies were ever produced out of what was to be a run of 1000. Ken (The Mother Nature's Son) and How Much Is Enough appear on Hi Fi Way. When You Got Dry was later released on the Tuesday single, and a live performance can be found on Someone Else's Crowd, the limited edition Hi Fi Way bonus disk. Bitter was later released on a Ra Records sampler called Rare Cords which was given away with various Ra Records releases.
jaimme's got a gal
1. Jaimme's Got A Gal
2. I'm So Tired
3. 20,000
Jaimme's Got A Gal was released in May 1994 and was the third and final single released from Sound As Ever. It reached number 77 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994. The ballad was inspired by Tim's brother Jaimme Rogers who was the original drummer in the band. I'm So Tired is a Beatles cover and 20,000 is an orginal You Am I track.
berlin chair
1. Berlin Chair
2. Can't Explain
3. Jaimme (Makers Mark Version)
4. All I Want To Do Is Rock
Berlin Chair was released in February 1994 and is arguably the bands most famous song. It came in at 23 in the 1994 Triple J Hottest 100, number 63 in the Hottest 100 of all time in 1998, and in a listener phone poll in late 1999 was voted best Australian song of the ninties. The original Berlin Chair was a sculpture that Tim saw in Canberra, but in song it symbolises the relationship he had with his girlfriend at the time. The famous video clip stars PJ, an old boxer and his amazing dancing moves. "We just got him along, paid him some cash, put him in a silver suit and said 'dance away my son' and he did it spectacularly" says Rusty. PJ would later re-appear in the Cathy's Clown video. Can't Explain is a cover of The Who song. Jaimme (Makers Mark Version) is an excellent acoustic version of Jaimme's Got A Gal.
adam's ribs
1. Adam's Ribs
2. Spit
3. Alembic
The very first You Am I single, Adam's Ribs was released in October 1993 and came in at number 50 in the 1993 Triple J Hottest 100. Spit and Alembic are You Am I originals. Alembic also appeared on rooArt's Australian grunge-pop compilation Crack in the Sun or Fade in the Shade. Released in November 1992, it also featured tracks from Nursery Crimes, Guttersnipes, Screamfeeder, Massappeal, The Meanies, Tumbleweed and Headache.
discography :: Albums :: EPs :: Compilations :: Rarities
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News, announcements and more.
National Portrait: Alexia Hilbertidou, Young woman of influence
Her experience as the only female student in her high school IT class motivated YES alumnus Alexia Hilbertidou to create GirlBoss NZ, which began as a YES company in 2016.
When Alexia Hilbertidou's teacher announced to her IT class that she'd won a national coding competition, she was mobbed by her classmates. They weren't extending their unfettered congratulations to the class's only girl.
"Do you think you won that just because you'll be used for the promotional material?" the boys asked. "Do you think just because you're a confident speaker that's why you won it?"
"I remember being quite upset about that at the time. And I remember being surprised because I thought I was quite a confident person and that if I was faced with digs like that I would be able to handle it. But I really felt myself shutting down."
The news about women in science didn't get better. Three days later she went to a women in technology event. Michelle Dickinson, aka Nanogirl, was talking about her experiences and Hilbertidou was so inspired she approached her afterwards and told her about the put-downs. Dickinson shared how just the other day she'd been at a tech board meeting in which someone suggested she was the board's token woman. "Obviously we all know why Michelle's here."
"I remember her telling me that and I remember feeling really angry and really shocked," Hilbertidou says. "And then she gave me a hug and we got a photo."
But the anger Hilbertidou felt at her own and Dickinson's belittling didn't go away.
Browse Hilbertidou's Twitter account and you'd be forgiven for thinking she was a 30-something corporate boss. The serious clothes; the endless speaking engagements; the overseas conferences; the Nasa space flight. She's like a walking TED talk, spouting facts and figures about female participation in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) and the pending disaster that is the future of work. Close your eyes and you can picture her on stage talking to Trade Me, Air New Zealand or Xero about why young women aren't studying science and tech.
But open your eyes again and here is a 19-year-old, sitting at the dining table of her mother's North Auckland home, where she still lives, dressed in a GirlBoss T-shirt, embroidered leather jacket and slouchy pants.
While her peers are out partying, getting drunk (she doesn't drink), studying and generally easing their way into adult life, Hilbertidou has ditched uni in favour of working fulltime for the startup she launched in 2015, at 16, to get more young women to study STEM subjects.
Her mum, Vicky Crawford, also works for GirlBoss. She floats around the kitchen offering coffee and gems of information. Hilbertidou was born in Cyprus, to a Greek Cypriot and Crawford, who is part Samoan. They met in a nightclub in Mykonos, Crawford adds, cackling. Hilbertidou looks mortified.
"I'm a bit naughty," Crawford explains. "And I just had this very good girl."
That very good girl was always an overachiever. She just rediscovered the CV slideshow she made when she was eight. One of the bullet points said she liked making PowerPoint presentations.
"It's quite funny," she laughs. "Because now I go around schools speaking to thousands of young women using a lot of PowerPoints. I'm living the childhood dream."
GirlBoss is two-pronged, holding events to inspire young women to consider working in technology and aiming to be business CEOs, and holding workshops with school kids to help break down barriers to studying science and maths. It's free to join and now has 8000 members, as well as an Australian offshoot called ChangemakeHer.
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News Releases 2002
.INFO Reaches 1 Million Registrations
GoDaddy registers .INFO's 1 millionth name
DUBLIN, IRELAND - 19 November 2002 - Afilias, a global provider of domain name registry services, announced Tuesday that its flagship product .INFO, has surpassed 1,000,000 registrations in just over one year of operation. The one millionth name, los-angeles-real-estate-search.info, was registered through ...
Internet Society Proposal to Operate .ORG Approved by ICANN
Reston, Virginia - October 14, 2002 - Today, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected its proposal to operate the .ORG registry. ISOC has established a new not-for-profit organization -- the Public Interest Registry (PIR) -- which will succeed VeriSign Global Registry Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) as the registry operator for .ORG when its contract with ICANN expires on December 31, 2002.
Eureto Bid for European Domain Name Registry Announced
Business Approach, Technology and High Level Pan-Europe Input Differentiate Consortium
DUBLIN - September 18, 2002 - Eureto officially launched its bid to run the European Domain Name Registry '.eu' out of Ireland today.
Afilias Announces Over 200,000 Live .INFO Web Sites
.INFO gains momentum in becoming Internet's leading source for Information
LONDON, ENGLAND - 24 July 2002 - Afilias, a global provider of domain name registry services, announced Wednesday that as of the end of May 2002, there were more than 200,000 live, dedicated Web sites in the new .INFO domain. This research indicates a strong growth potential for .INFO in key regions such as Europe, and poises .INFO to become one of the leading top-...
The Internet Society Seeks to Make .ORG a Global Home for Non-Commercial Organizations
Announces Bid to Succeed VeriSign GRS as Registry Operator for .ORG
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- June 19, 2002 -- Today, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it has submitted a bid to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to succeed VeriSign Global Registry Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) as the registry operator for the .ORG top-level domain (TLD). ICANN is currently seeking a new registry operator...
Afilias to Launch Land Rush 2 to Redistribute .INFO Sunrise Names
HORSHAM, PA - May 22, 2002: Afilias, a global provider of domain name registry services, announced Wednesday that it has provided all Afilias-authorized registrars with the list of names being offered in Land Rush 2 (LR2).
Afilias Agrees to Acquire LibertyRMS
Afilias brings registry management in house to create a fully integrated registry services company
DUBLIN, IRELAND - 26 March 2002 - Afilias Limited today announced that it has reached an agreement with Toronto-based Tucows, Inc. (OTCBB: TCOW) to acquire its wholly owned subsidiary LibertyRMS, Inc., a domain name registry services company for the management of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and country code top-level...
Afilias Announces Plans to Distribute Repossessed .INFO Names
Thousands of intuitive, generic names to be released to the public
NEWTOWN, PA - February 18, 2002 - Afilias announced Monday that it unveiled plans at the ICANN Registrars Constituency Meeting in Dulles, VA this past weekend, for the public redistribution of .INFO domain names that were repossessed through the Sunrise Challenge Process.
Afilias Starts Challenge of .INFO Names
Over 700 .INFO Sunrise registrations have been challenged
NEWTOWN, PA - January 17, 2002 - Afilias announced Thursday that it has submitted its first set of challenges against names that may have been inappropriately registered during the .INFO Sunrise period. Through the Sunrise Challenge process, managed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the registrants of these names will now need to produce proof...
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Builder: Freed Developments and Elad Canada
Total Units: 3400
Location: Dufferin & Dupont
Address: 1245 Dupont St
Toronto Ontario M6H 2A6
Condo Project Summary
The proposed redevelopment of the Galleria Mall at 1245 Dupont Street will call for new public and private streets, gathering spaces, and a diverse mix of residential, retail, office, civic and recreational facilities which will comprehensively transform the current site into a high-density community.
"Galleria On The Park Condos, also known as Block 5, will sit at the northwest corner of Dupont Street and Emerson Avenue in Toronto. This collection of residential buildings will account for 2,696 condominium units proposed for the new and improved site.
The overall project coined, "Galleria On The Park Master-Planned Community" aspires to, solidify the site’s role as a community hub, create a space with a variety of mixed spaces, deliver housing options, focus on prioritizing active transportation, enhance local and regional transit, reflect the site’s industrial legacy and lastly promote design excellence. The future of this new neighbourhood is bright as it will soon become its own city within a city.
Galleria On The Park is a joint venture between Freed Developments and ELAD Canada while the architectural mastermind behind the project is Hariri Pontarini Architects. Expect a high quality of public and private amenity spaces provided for all units while the base of the building will either be non-residential or residential podiums. In response to their location, the total height or residential podiums will be between 7 and 10 storeys along Dupont and 2 and 8 storeys along Dufferin.
Terraced buildings will boast mid-rise built form elements that will frame views onto parks and key open spaces, assists in achieving a transition between the base, podium and towers, and deliver a large assortment of outdoor amenity spaces. Lastly, a number of taller tower elements will range from 18 to 35 storeys in height. Podium and terraces elements preserve a comfortable human scale at grade.
Sustainability is a key factor in the success of this master-planned community. The revised proposal has proposed thoughtfully incorporated places for work, life, recreation and relaxation, all accessible by foot, car, bike and public transit.
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The Beach Boys On CD: Holland
Posted on January 17, 2013 by Andrew Hickey
Holland is, in many ways, the last gasp for the Beach Boys as an artistic group. They would produce good work again, both as a band or as individuals, but in future their work would be driven by one or two members of the band at a time rather than being a true group effort.
For the recording of the bulk of the album, the band decamped to Baambrugge in the Netherlands, and had their recording studio shipped over as well (which caused a huge amount of delay). This was at the instigation of Jack Rieley, and many reasons have been given over the years for the move, including tax issues, the idea that a change of scenery would inspire Brian Wilson, and even the laughable claim that it would be harder for those band members with drug problems (especially Brian Wilson) to obtain drugs in Holland than the USA. The fact that Rieley opted to remain in the Netherlands (and, for a while, attempted to continue managing the band’s career from a distance) may say more about the reasons than anything else.
The trip abroad did inspire Brian Wilson, but not in the way that the band had hoped or expected. Instead of coming up with any new conventional songs, his main piece of work during the trip to the Netherlands was a short story with musical accompaniment, Mount Vernon And Fairway (A Fairy Tale), that was initially included with the album as a bonus 45 and is now included at the end of the CD release.
The resulting album was considered too weak to release by Warner/Reprise, until Van Dyke Parks suggested that the song Sail On Sailor, initially not part of the album’s line-up, would make a good single. This replaced the Chaplin/Fataar/Love track We Got Love (which was accidentally included on some early German pressings of the album) and the resulting album got some of the best reviews of the band’s career, though it was less commercially successful, scraping into the top forty in the US, but doing slightly better in the UK where it made the top twenty.
The album is actually one of the most cohesive the band had done, with an ongoing theme of travel, especially by sea, and of a homesick longing for America. It’s also the most collaborative of the Beach Boys’ albums, with many different combinations of band members writing together in ways they otherwise never did.
This cohesion helps overcome what is actually a fairly weak set of material — there’s nothing here on the level of an All This Is That or Make It Good, let alone Til I Die or Surf’s Up, but the album is nonetheless one of the more worthwhile listening experiences of the band’s later years.
Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, Mike Love, Blondie Chaplin, Ricky Fataar
Songwriter: Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Ray Kennedy, Tandyn Almer and Jack Rieley
Lead vocalist: Blondie Chaplin
The opening song has a history which has been the subject of much recent debate. The generally-accepted story until recently was as follows: the Beach Boys turned in the Holland album but it had no obvious single on it. At this point Van Dyke Parks remembered a cassette he had in his possession of a song being written by himself and Brian Wilson, which had single potential. Various hands brushed up the song, at which point Carl Wilson took various backing band members into the studio and cut a backing track, with Brian supervising over the telephone. Dennis Wilson attempted a lead vocal, but gave up after a couple of takes, and Blondie Chaplin took over.
However, Steve Desper, who had been the band’s engineer for much of the late 60s and early 70s, but had stopped working for the band just before the trip to Holland, claims that the backing track dates back much earlier, and is a track that Brian Wilson had been working on for a long time. He also claims that the song originally had Carl Wilson on lead vocals, and that Chaplin is imitating Wilson’s phrasing exactly (a reasonable claim — Chaplin sounds spookily like Wilson here).
Whatever the truth of this (and I am inclined to believe Desper here), there is also the question of who exactly wrote what. A press release at the time claimed it was “a Brian Wilson-Jack Rieley song with writer credits suggesting informal assistance from a wide range of characters, among them Van Dyke Parks”. Steve Desper, on the other hand, has claimed that the lyrics are entirely Parks’ work, and Parks has claimed in the past that not only did he write all the lyrics but also the chord changes in the chorus and the start of the middle section. If this is the case, then Brian Wilson’s contribution to the song is reduced to coming up with the verse riff (a 12/8 shuffle between I and IV, actually quite similar to a gospel take on Imagine) and possibly the melody.
One might possibly get an idea of what actually happened by listening to a version of the song recorded by KGB, a band featuring Ray Kennedy. This version is credited only to Wilson/Kennedy, and has fairly incoherent lyrics about cocaine and trying to get out of the ghetto. One suspects that Wilson brought his initial idea to several different collaborators, at different times, without necessarily thinking to mention to them that he was working with other people. My own guess (given the reliability of the various parties involved) is that Parks’ account is largely correct — not only is Parks the most scrupulously honest person involved, with an excellent memory, but the song just sounds like a Van Dyke Parks song rather than a Brian Wilson song.
Whatever the process involved though, the end result is the most convincing attempt at R&B that the Beach Boys ever did, with a strong lead vocal from Chaplin, excellent group backing vocals (apparently only featuring Carl Wilson, Chaplin and Fataar from the Beach Boys, along with backing band member Billy Hinsche, session steel guitar player Tony Martin, and Gerry Beckley from the band America, though some have claimed that the other Beach Boys later overdubbed additional vocals), and in its VIb-VIIb-I chorus changes a hook so powerful that the band reused it (a tone up and in 4/4 time) for their 1985 hit Getcha Back.
The song was released twice as a single, hitting number 79 on the charts in 1973, and number 49 in 1975. Despite this relative lack of chart success, it was popular on the radio at the time and has remained a fixture in the setlists of the Beach Boys and their various solo shows.
Songwriter: Dennis Wilson and Jack Rieley
Lead vocalist: Carl Wilson
The second track on the album continues the sailing theme, here with a typically-inscrutable Rieley lyric about steamboat travel. The lyrics are pretty and evocative, but make very little sense on any kind of literal level — lines like “The stream is a timepiece of children bridged with crystal haze” defy any normal interpretation. On the other hand, the lyric is slightly more comprehensible in the USA than elsewhere, as the “Mr Fulton” referred to, Robert Fulton, is considered a major historical figure in the US for his development of the first successful steamboat. He doesn’t, however, have the same “as every schoolchild knows…” status elsewhere.
Musically, the song is built around simple I-V7 changes for the most part (with a V7-VI7-II7 change at the end of the verse which is actually similar in its effect to the more outrageous chorus progression in Sail On Sailor), until the tag when the V7 changes into a VIb7, with mechanical-sounding drums perfectly evoking the feel of a paddle-wheel turning in the water and the hiss of steam.
The effect is possibly a little too dragged out — the combination of Carl Wilson’s lazy-sounding vocals, however, lovely, and the slow, mechanical pace of the song, tends to drag long before the four minutes and thirty-six seconds of the song is up — but it’s a worthwhile track, and a sign of the stylistic evolution that was bringing Dennis Wilson to the more confident style of his later work on Pacific Ocean Blue.
California Saga: Big Sur
Songwriter: Mike Love
Lead vocalist: Mike Love
The centrepiece of Holland, covering the bulk of side two, was a thematically-linked suite of songs by Love and Jardine called California Saga. Possibly the most artistically-ambitious thing either man ever did, this was in part inspired by their homesickness for California while living in Holland, but also tied into the themes of the environment and of travel that suffuse the band’s music at this point.
California Saga is unusual in the Beach Boys’ work in that rather than celebrating Southern California, and in particular Los Angeles, as most of their California-centred work did, it instead focuses on Central and Northern California, especially the less-populated areas.
The first of the three songs is this, the first song released by the band to have Love as the sole credited writer, and a surprisingly pleasant song. Starting with the ascending/descending Cm arpeggios that make up the bulk of the next song, we then go into a pleasant country-folk waltz, mostly based on a single C major chord with a scalar bassline that goes up and down much as the arpeggios at the beginning.
The song only really contains four chords, and is the kind of thing that could be written by someone with rudimentary or non-existent instrumental skills, but it has a catchy enough melody, and shows that Love was at least a competent songwriter in his own right. The instrumentation is equally primitive, mostly acoustic guitar and harmonica, evoking a campfire singalong, along with piano, drums and steel guitar.
The whole track is surprisingly pleasant, for a first solo songwriting attempt, but it could have been better — the song was first recorded three years earlier, and that version (unreleased but widely bootlegged) is in 4/4 rather than waltz time. Once one has heard this earlier version, the version on Holland sounds slightly ungainly in comparison, with the stresses falling less gracefully than on the original.
California Saga: The Beaks Of Eagles
Songwriter: Al Jardine, Lynda Jardine and Robinson Jeffers
Lead vocalist: Al Jardine and Mike Love
The second part of the California Saga is unique in the Beach Boys’ catalogue, though it points the way stylistically towards some of Jardine’s later work.
It’s almost two separate songs in itself, in fact. In what, for want of a better term, we can call the verses, we have the ascending/descending C-minor piano arpeggios (with a descending bass) that started Big Sur, along with some Morricone-esque flute from Charles Lloyd. Over this, Love recites, in three sections, The Beaks Of Eagles, a poem by far-right-wing environmentalist poet Robinson Jeffers, about how in the lifetime of one eagle human civilisation could change utterly, and how yet ultimately humans are constrained by their natures just as much as the eagles are.
The choruses, meanwhile, are in C major, built around yet another ascending/descending bassline, and feature Jardine, singing new lyrics to a conventional melody, over a guitar/bass/piano/drums/flute backing.
The thing that most people listening to this will notice now is that it is the first time Jardine uses a style which he uses consistently in his later songs, of having someone speak or recite poetry over part or all of a song (see especially the Tidepool Interlude on his solo album A Postcard From California , but also California Energy Blues and Santa Ana Winds), and it’s interesting to see this as a step towards that style from Jardine, probably inspired by the artistic success he’d had using The Road Not Taken for All This Is That (Robert Frost, the author of The Road Not Taken, was a contemporary of Jeffers and wrote on similar themes).
But what’s more interesting is to compare the poem that inspired this piece, and which Love recites verbatim, with the interpolated material by the Jardines. Jeffers referred to himself as an ‘inhumanist’, and claimed that humanity was fundamentally unimportant to him, that he preferred nature to humanity. His poem, therefore, like much of his work, is an attempt to see things on an inhuman scale, to apply a perspective that one might call either realistic or misanthropic depending on one’s own sympathies.
The chorus material, though, is all on the human scale — about death, and rebirth coming from it. The lyricist here (either Al or Mary Ann Jardine) is also writing about natural cycles, as Jeffers is, but on a human scale, and based in human needs and concerns. And despite the rather hippyish conclusion, there’s a real sense here of how the need to acquire mineral wealth can destroy people’s lives (the image of the dead mariners, shipwrecked while transporting limestone ore, ties in nicely both with the first two songs, but also with The Trader).
Fundamentally, while Jardine may have been inspired by Jeffers’ poetry, their worldviews are incompatible. The writer of those chorus sections cares about human beings in a way that Jeffers doesn’t, and while one may argue that in the grand scheme of things Jeffers’ worldview is more correct, the worldview of the choruses is much more caring and decent.
California Saga: California
Songwriter: Al Jardine
Lead vocalist: Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine
The second single off Holland was this song, the last part of California Saga, and with good reason. Easily the most commercial thing Jardine has ever written on his own, this is an updating of California Girls for the 1970s country-rock era, keeping Love’s nasal voice and the Tumbling Tumbleweeds bass-line (here played on Moog), but using acoustic guitar, harmonica (apparently played by Brian Wilson) and banjo rather than a Wall Of Sound orchestra.
Musically, it’s a simple song, just using the chords C, F and G, but it communicates a feeling of relaxed joy in nature that really does seem like a more mature version of the youthful ecstasy of California Girls. Out of the larger context of the California Saga, this is an unpretentious and unambitious song, but all the better for it.
Despite its relative lack of commercial success (barely scraping the top 100 in the US, though reaching the lower reaches of the top forty in the UK), this has remained a fan favourite, and was the only solo Jardine composition (and, other than All This Is That, the only one for which he was primary songwriter) to appear on the career-spanning Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys box set. Jardine returned to the song on his 2010 solo album A Postcard From California, remaking it with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young providing harmony vocals, and the song also became a regular in the setlists of the Beach Boys’ 2012 reunion tour.
Songwriter: Carl Wilson and Jack Rieley
Lead vocalist: Carl Wilson (with Justyn Wilson saying “Hi”)
The Trader is Carl Wilson’s primary songwriting contribution to the Holland album, and the last new song he would bring to the band until LA (Light Album) in 1979, so it’s a good job that it’s a good one.
The song breaks into two halves, with little connection between them, either musically or lyrically. The first half is possibly the most overtly political thing the Beach Boys ever recorded (albeit it is a condemnation of acts carried out by people who were long-dead). Over a piano-led rock background, Wilson sings about the colonisation of the Americas, the genocide of their native population, and the way the land had been ‘civilised’. It’s Rieley’s most straightforward lyric, and also his best. It also manages to tie in with the themes of sea travel, America, and nature in opposition to industrial civilisation that permeate the whole of the album.
But then, almost exactly half-way through the song, the key changes from G to C, the prominent piano drops out to be replaced by sighing backing vocals and tinkling Moog, and the lyric goes from concrete to utterly abstract, as the song turns into something closer to Carl Wilson’s songs from Surf’s Up. Instead of “Trader found the jeweled land was occupied before he came/By humans of a second look who couldn’t even write their names”, the lyrics suddenly become “Embracing together, like the merging streams, crying dreams”.
Frankly, it shouldn’t work — this song sounds exactly like something that’s been bolted together from two different ideas, with no real thought as to how the two sections actually interact. Yet it does work, mostly through sheer chutzpah, but also through an absolutely remarkable vocal performance from Carl Wilson, who goes from a strained, pained vocal near the top of his range in the rock section to a softer, gentler, reassuring vocal for the second, mellow section. Somehow, the result is actually better than the sum of the parts, though there’s no earthly reason why it should be. It works because Wilson and Rieley say it works, and because they both had enough talent at this point to do something as ambitious as this.
The song became a regular in the band’s setlist for much of the rest of the 1970s, even as the rest of the set became increasingly dominated by hits, and was a favourite with crowds, again thanks largely to Carl Wilson’s vocal performance.
Songwriter: Carl Wilson, Blondie Chaplin, Ricky Fataar and Mike Love
A tedious song that unfortunately merges the worst aspects of both Carl Wilson’s and the Flame team’s writing, this plods along based on slow, steady piano chords in much the same style as Feel Flows, and has a simple chord sequence (alternating between I, V, i and v in two keys a tone apart) with little of interest about it. Then the melody over the top stays, like all the Chaplin/Fataar material, in a narrow range, and consists mostly of long, held notes.
Once the song gets to the two minute long Moog solo, it takes a great deal of effort for the listener to keep awake, and the lyrics are enough of a formless mess (a case of too many cooks, one suspects) that there is no emotional hook there to encourage one to listen for much longer. Easily the least interesting thing that Chaplin and Fataar had a hand in during their time with the Beach Boys, and the most pointless thing on the album (Beaks Of Eagles is worse, but it’s an ambitious failure, while this seems to have been made with no greater ambition than filling six minutes of vinyl).
Songwriter: Dennis Wilson and Mike Love
In an unfortunate piece of sequencing, Leaving This Town is followed by another sedate, mellow song at a near-identical tempo, and the momentum of the album is killed stone dead. It’s a shame because, unlike the previous song, this one really is worthwhile.
While Love and Dennis Wilson had a legendarily fractious relationship, their few songwriting collaborations (of which this is the only one to end up on a Beach Boys album rather than a solo release) show a deeper mutual sympathy, and Love’s lyrics and Wilson’s music here complement each other perfectly.
Musically, this is one of the simplest things Dennis Wilson had composed to this point, possibly because it wasn’t written in collaboration with the more musically-sophisticated Daryl Dragon, and the only really interesting change is the one from Em/G to E7/G# (in a section that feels like it’s in G, but which is in fact in the same key of D as the rest of the song) under the phrase “love had always had its ups and downs”. However, the song’s simplicity is its key — a direct lyric combined with simple changes gives this song a formal grace that is very different from the primal howl of many of Dennis’ songs.
While Carl Wilson’s vocal on this track has been almost universally praised, it doesn’t quite work as well for me as for many others — while his vocal on the quieter verses is exemplary, he is a little mannered on the middle eight and tag (something that would become increasingly true of his vocals over later years). It’s a very good performance, yes, but one is left wishing that Dennis had sung his own song, with his less technically perfect but more expressive voice.A version of the song with Dennis Wilson on vocals was released in 2008, on the Pacific Ocean Blue CD reissue, and will be discussed in the chapter on that album.
While it’s not as perfect a song as Forever or God Only Knows, two songs it is clearly an attempt to emulate, it’s still extremely good, and one of the best things on the album, and it makes one wish that Love and Dennis Wilson had been able to work together more often.
Songwriter: Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Jack Rieley
Lead vocalist: Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin. Ricky Fataar and Mike Love
The only song, other than Sail On Sailor, contributed by Brian Wilson to the Holland project proper was this track on which he contributed nearly all the instruments (Carl Wilson added some guitar, and Fataar some percussion, but Brian played the drums as well as probably playing all the keyboard parts).
Musically, the song is not all that interesting as a song, but is fascinating as a pointer to Brian Wilson’s musical direction at the time and for the next few years. The entire track is based around Moog, with Moog parts in three ranges (a squelchy, fuzzy bass part, a mid-range part in the same range as the piano, and a high counter-melody), with only the most rudimentary drum part and no real connection to conventional rock music at all.
While the song’s title sums up the feel very well (the vocals have a great, soulful feel, while there’s an ethereal beauty to the Moog parts), the lyrics as a whole are fairly pointless, combining the worst of both Rieley (pointless prettiness without any sense) and Love (an obsession with astrology, a long list of place names, and a slightly lecherous tone). The vocals, though, are extraordinary. For those playing along at home, Carl Wilson takes the verses (and the verse backing vocals), Jardine takes over on “where’s my spark in the dark?”, Fataar “Glow glow glow come on glow”, Chaplin on “the funky pretty flame in my heart” and Love “me and my Pisces lady are apart.”
On the second chorus, Chaplin sings “Cos it’s a silent night in the sea”, Jardine “and if you’re cosmically conscious you’ll see”, Fataar “why she’s a princess imparted to me” and Love “daughter of Neptune, the ruler of the sea”. Carl Wilson takes the middle section with the listing of place names, and Chaplin takes the fade. The fade-out would be the perfect end for the album, but then we have…
Mt Vernon And Fairway (A Fairy Tale)
Songwriter: Brian Wilson (with Carl Wilson and Jack Rieley)
Lead vocalist: Jack Rieley (with Brian and Carl Wilson)
Possibly the most controversial thing the Beach Boys ever released, this is, depending on who you talk to, either one of Brian Wilson’s greatest masterpieces or a sad record of a once-great talent’s decline.
When the Holland album was being recorded, Brian Wilson was at a low ebb, mentally and creatively, and wanted little or nothing to do with the recording process. Instead, he found himself listening over and over to Sail Away by Randy Newman [FOOTNOTE:An absolutely wonderful album, which anyone who likes good songwriting should check out.].
He discovered that while he was listening to this, he was able to get into a creative mood, and wrote a fairytale, about a young prince who lived at Mount Vernon And Fairway (the address where Mike Love had grown up) and who, while alone in his bedroom, discovered a magic transistor radio, which normally played the music of Bach, but sometimes was possessed by “the Pied Piper from the faraway land of night”, whose music was unlike anything the prince had ever heard.
Unsurprisingly, when he presented this fairytale to the other band members and suggested it go on the album, their reaction was not hugely enthusiastic, and Brian was apparently so discouraged that he didn’t finish the story (Jack Rieley apparently supplied the rather abrupt ending, as a result). Nonetheless it was agreed to package the result as a 7 inch single with the album (it appears as a bonus track on CD releases), and the finished piece is one of the most interesting, ambitious, and beautiful things Wilson has ever created.
Rieley narrates the story, which is clearly the work of someone who is not especially articulate, but which makes up for in emotional honesty what it lacks in craft, while under it we have electronic sound effects, piano music, and snatches of vocal music, mostly repeated lines (“Pied Piper, I’d better get back in bed,” “I’m the Pied Piper in the radio”, “Dom dom King dom”). The effect is somewhere between Peter And The Wolf and Nilsson’s The Point, with tiny moments of beauty that are never developed into full songs, but drift away like someone tuning the radio to another station.
The music itself has had more appreciation since it was released, without the spoken narration and sound effects, as Fairy Tale Music on the Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys box set, but while the story is not the work of someone with any great skill in language, it’s still joyful and perfectly conveys the wonder of a lonely teenager, sat in his room listening to the radio, hit from out of the blue with music only he can hear, more wonderful and exciting even than Bach.
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5 Responses to The Beach Boys On CD: Holland
Well done. My familiarity with Beach Boys albums ends with Surf’s Up (you know, in terms of having heard rather than read about them) but this piece was fascinating and largely excellent. There’s something so *odd* about a Beach Boys record entitled Holland even with the simple reason behind it, it’s like there being a Bee Gees album called Luxembourg or Byrds lp titled Wales.
“(Lyrics such as) “The stream is a timepiece of children bridged with crystal haze” defy any normal interpretation””, hilariously dry and accurate of you! That Rieley may have chosen the Netherlands as a base because of easy access to drugs seems almost pitiable to me, quite sad. For some reason it makes me think of the excruciating footage of an inebriated Dennis Wilson making a fool of himself as he and the other “boys” were interviewed included in the Dennis biodocumentary. So embarrassing, so tragic. Who would believe that could happen? But then, the history of the Beach Boys is full of such darkness a flipside to the beauty and (sometimes melancholy) joy of their music. Ah, life.
Nice to see mentions for Randy Newman’s great Sail Away, and the gifted (and yet again tragic) Nilsson. Nilsson is someone whose work at its best is idiosyncratically astonishing, though his increasing compulsion to scatter some razorblades and trash in there became his ruination, um I think . Anyone who could manage something as radiant and empathetic as Sister Marie had a special talent though.
I think your work here on Sail On, Sailor and Mount Vernon and Fairway, not to mention on the evolution of the contributions of Dennis, Carl and Jardine is enlightening. As is the examination of The Trader, California, and Beaks Of Eagles in particular. But those Funky Pretty lyrics – Ouch!
Andrew Hickey says:
Thanks for this. Of course, while there wasn’t a Bee Gees album called Luxembourg, there was one called Odessa. Their best album, actually…
Ha! Of course and it *is* their best album too, so much for that joke! I suppose I think of Odessa as more impressive and for some reason romantic, although the truth is it didn’t even enter my mind (I *did* think of, uh, Cucumber Castle tho’!). Well, I am ill so that’s some slim excuse. Not much of one, however. :)
Days of Broken Arrows says:
Glad someone else think the original “Big Sur” blows away the “Holland” version. I think we differ on the slower songs, though. Being a Pink Floyd fan, I feel right at home with the snail-paced “Steamboat” and “Leaving This Town,” especially those killer solos.
And I agree Carl doesn’t really do “Only With You” justice, but I think the problem is that the song doesn’t really fit the album. As a straight love song, its plainspoken lyric sounds out of place amongst all the florid passages.
A better choice would have been the song Dennis wrote but voted off the album, “Carry Me Home.” It’s the one where he imagines himself as a dying soldier in Vietnam. He felt it didn’t fit the Beach Boys concept of uplifting music, which is weird considering most of “Pet Sounds” was none too upbeat. I think Dennis and Blondie do an excellent job singing it. The lyric makes little sense unless you know Dennis’ premise – if you don’t, it comes off as a morbid death song like Bloodrock’s “DOA.” Maybe this is really why it didn’t make the cut. Still, it would have made a powerful closing number (I can’t hear it anywhere else).
Yeah, I’ve always loved Carry Me Home. One of the great unreleased tracks, though I strongly suspect it’ll be on the box set due out later this year.
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The Climate of the Chihuahuan Desert
Posted on July 14, 2012 by aneyefortexas
Climate can be defined as the prevailing weather conditions in a given region averaged over many years. Rainfall and temperature are the primary factors that usually limit an ecosystem’s structure and function. Secondary limiting factors include long-term climate patterns: the length and intensity of weather events, seasons in which they occur, and the amount of variability between and among years. Together, these dynamics greatly influence the types of plant species that occur, and where, the ways in which nutrients are cycled, and the relationships between soil, plants, and water availability. Accordingly, climate is a fundamental determinant of plant and animal distributions, productivity, and ultimately biodiversity. They can also affect the susceptibility of an ecosystem to disturbance.
Our climate results from a combination of factors.
Global Air Patterns
Global air movements make most of the earth’s deserts possible. At the equator, the air is warm and saturated with moisture. Since warm air rises, the air above the equator tends to rise. As it rises, it cools, and the cooling causes moisture to condense into clouds and fall back to earth. The air which is now cool and dry moves northward in a great rotating toroidal pattern (donut-shaped) that encircles the planet. At about 30° latitude it begins to sink, growing warmer as it descends. The result is a persistent high-pressure zone that supplies warm, dry air to the surface at about 30 degrees latitude in both the north and south hemispheres (the Horse latitudes). This rotating mass of air is known as the “Hadley Cell.”
Global-Scale Wind Patterns
The Hadley cell contributes to the formation of deserts all around the world. As you can see in this map, the Chihuahuan desert is located in the same latitudes as most other deserts of the world.
Map of the Chihuahuan Desert showing surrounding mountain ranges.
Westerly winds persist over the Chihuahuan Desert for more than two-thirds of the year. During these periods, incoming air must pass over the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. When high mountains block the path of incoming moist air, the air is forced upwards, causing it to cool and release most of its moisture. Once past the summit, the air descends the lee side of the range and grows warmer.
Origin of the Rain Shadow
The warm dry air has great evaporative power, so that even existing surface water may be subject to high rates of evaporation. While the windward side of the range may be cloaked with well-watered forests, the leeward side, robbed of its moisture, becomes a desert. The effect is known as the “rain-shadow” effect. The Chihuahuan desert is widely described as a rain-shadow desert.
To the north, the sierras become more fragmented, but the desert is farther from the sources of moisture. Land that is close to the sea generally receives more moisture than areas far inland. For example, Galveston gets about 42 inches of rain a year. Sonora, located 340 miles further inland receives about 22 inches. Pecos, 500 miles away from the coast receives 11 inches annually. As West Texans are well aware, most moisture coming from the gulf is dropped as rain long before it arrives in the Trans-Pecos. Also, the lack of continuous barriers to the north results in more intense and frequent exposure to cold, dry, arctic air.
Atmospheric Circulations
Subtropical High Pressure Cells – There is a strong relation between the occurrence of the temperature maximum shift and the onset of the summer rainy season. The highest monthly temperatures in central Mexico occur in May. By June, the heat wave moves over the southern two-thirds of the Chihuahuan Desert, and in July the northern and far-eastern portions of this arid zone achieve their maximum temperatures. The heat wave is caused by a warm upper-level high pressure cell that rotates slowly clockwise. In the months of July and August the cell shifts westward bringing moist air from the Gulf of Mexico into the Chihuahuan Desert. The influx of moist tropical air is accompanied by higher relative humidity, increased cloud cover, and thunderstorms. The increased cloud cover and widely scattered convection storms cool the area and bring about the conditions West Texans refer to as the “Fifth Season.” West Texas receives between 50 and 75 percent of its annual rainfall during this period.
Because most of the Chihuahuan Desert is in the lee of the Sierra Madre Occidental and other mountain ranges to the west and north, and is located more towards the equator, this arid zone does not have a winter rainy season like that of the northern Sonora and the Arizona Uplands. Their rains are equally distributed in the Spring and Fall. Our peak rainfall occurs between July and October. Our winter rainy season is a period of prolonged cloudiness and light precipitation usually in the form of drizzle. The winter season reaches peak rainfall between November and February. This seasonality of precipitation is the major distinction between the warm deserts of North America.
Low Pressure Cells – Low-pressure systems can also bring rain. Years with unusually generous rainfall are frequently associated with a special tropospheric circulation associated with a Southwest cutoff low-pressure system. These lows are counter-clockwise rotations which have become separated from the main belt of west-to-east winds in the jet stream high above the earth’s surface. They usually form over the southwestern United States, adjoining Mexico, and the adjacent Pacific Ocean. Generally cutoff lows remain in the area for several days – then they move northeastward and intensify. The counter-clockwise circulation around this low pressure center results in a southerly influx of moisture from the Pacific Ocean.
Tropical Revolving Storms – Tropical storms can bring in moisture from great distances. The Gulf of California is a major source of summer moisture for northwestern Mexico and the adjoining southwestern United States. Powerful storms in both the Gulf of Mexico and in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean are responsible for most of the heaviest and widespread rains occurring in the interior desert. These storms are also responsible for most of the large deviations in precipitation totals from year to year, especially those deviations occurring during the warm season.
Hurricanes often bring huge bursts of rainfall over short periods. In fact, floods are common throughout the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Recent examples in West Texas might include the Sanderson flood in 1965, caused by almost a year’s worth of rain falling in 12 hours on the canyons around Sanderson Texas. The resulting flood killed 28 people – their bodies were found as far as 200 miles away. Twenty percent of the population was left homeless and half of all business was destroyed. More recently, flash floods claimed the lives of at least 34 people in northern Mexico and 6 people in Texas between April 3 and April 7, 2004. In 2008 flood waters breached levees around Ojinaga and Presidio.
The CD experiences a drought on an average of once per decade. The written record goes back to Cabeza de Vaca who was petitioned by farmers near Presidio to ask the sky gods for rain. In 1720 a serious drought spread throughout the northern CD causing massive livestock die-outs. In 1883 Texas opened its western school lands to immigration, attracting thousands of immigrant farmers and would-be ranchers to the West. The timing was singularly unfortunate because one of the worst droughts in Texas history started in 1884 and did not break for two years. Most of the new immigrants failed and had to return to the East.
Between 1892 and 1992 the Trans Pecos experienced 16 years of drought. The most catastrophic one affected every part of the state in the first two thirds of the 1950s. It began in the late spring of 1949 in the lower valley, affected the western portions of the state by fall, and covered nearly all Texas by the summer of 1951. For seven consecutive years, 1950–1956, annual precipitation was less than 12 inches. In three of those years (1951, 1953, 1956) the annual value was less than 9 inches, an amount lower than any year in the half century since then. In the Trans-Pecos only 8 inches of rain fell the entire year of 1953, and the drought grew worse from 1954 to 1956. Streams only trickled or dried up completely. The drought ended abruptly in 1956.
Although the 1950s drought was unique in the 20th century, it was neither as severe, or as long as droughts that happened in the area around 1000 A.D. and in the late 13th and 16th centuries. Frequency analysis indicates that severe droughts occur at least once every century with an approximate average of 60–80 years between them. This periodicity is observed in similar records throughout the Mountain West.
Recently, the year 2011 was the driest (and second-hottest) year on record in the state. Only 2.53 inches of rain fell at Panther Junction in the Big Bend National Park and barely over 1.5 in Presidio that year. The drought extended throughout the Big Bend into northern Mexico and caused widespread plant mortality. Texas lost 5.6 million urban shade trees, roughly 10 percent of the state’s urban forests. Probably around 500 million rural, park, and forest trees died, and the die-off will probably continue as many trees were stressed beyond recovery.
With drought, comes dust – huge dust storms traverse the CD, frequently making national and international news. Many are so large they are clearly visible from space. These storms may bring “walls” of dust over 2 miles high and along a front 50 miles wide that can move at speeds over 70 mph. The dust may be thick enough to completely darken the sky.
A Dust Storm Rolling In
Dust is so common around El Paso that highways are equipped with electric signs to warn of impending blowing dust and of sand drifting over the highways.
West Texas Dust Storm
Local Variability
Almost every aspect of the Chihuahuan desert is characterized by extremely variable conditions at all scales. Our climate is no exception. Because of our varied topography, our most dramatic local variable is probably altitude. For example, Balmorhea’s (elevation 3205 feet) average annual mean temperature is about 65°F, while only a short distance to the southwest the station at Mount Locke (elevation 6790 feet) shows a value of about 57°. Moving farther south, Presidio, at 2600 feet elevation and only about 60 miles south of Marfa shows an annual mean temperature of about 70°, but the 7730 feet high Chinati Mountains, though only 25 miles away from Presidio is about 60°. Rainfall varies extremely from year to year – in 2011 we received about 2.5 inches of rain. In 1984 we got almost 20. The following graph show Presidio’s annual rainfall from 1901 to 1965.
Presidio’s Annual Rainfall 1901 to 1965
The combination of clear skies, high altitudes, and southerly location enable the Trans-Pecos to receive the highest mean annual solar radiation of any location within the United States. At lower elevations in the Rio Grande valley below Candelaria some of the highest temperatures in the United States are frequently recorded. But in general, the Trans-Pecos enjoys some of the highest average maximum temperatures found in Texas during the winter (second only to the Gulf Coast) and some of the lowest average temperatures in summer (second only to the Panhandle). Of course, temperatures vary widely throughout the typical day, but on average, the Chihuahuan Desert climate is enviably pleasant for most of the year.
Note: This entry is not completely finished. I’m teaching a class this fall on Chihuahuan Desert ecology, and this will be the supporting text. I’m not a climatologist, so if you notice anything amiss, anything at all, please let me know. I don’t want to misinform or mislead students. Thanks for your help.
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Thanks for this link. Lots of interesting material there.
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speechless. I got an A thanks aneyefortexas
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Michael John Smith says:
Fibonacci numbers. What a wondrous subject. We were assigned a basic design project in the School of Architecture at UT Austin using golden mean rectangles and squares. All to fit within a 12″ square mat board painted in warm colors, a second geometric composition painted in warm tones, and a third and different composition to be painted in a combination of both warm and cool colors. It is obvious that we literally scratched the surface of a rich subject that nave mor to do with intuitively fine design. Thanks for the eye opener.
Patt says:
Love reading your blogs, Gary, I always manage to learn something. Thanks.
Paula Loftin says:
thanks for the info. I am fascinated with this area of Texas….
Desert Dweller / David C. says:
This is some good information and should make for an interesting class. I’m familiar with the map you are showing, and some other versions of what makes up the Chihuahuan Desert from viewpoints of plants, climate, etc. A few good, a few really weak. To me, there is little consistent, deep study or mapping of what is such a large, important part of the world.
I look forward to re-reading your post, and I’ll try to make notes of anything I see and get those to you.
Thanks so much. I just noticed your comment today. WordPress has many mysteries for me …
I’ve never found a good public-domain map. I know that there are so many different ways of
defining this desert that no two would look alike, but for this chapter I guess I would like
one based on climate, sorta. I’m probably going to have to draw one myself, or maybe ask the
gis guy to make one.
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My top 25 DS games of all time. (Part 2/3)
Welcome to part 2!
#19: Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes
Look! There is a dragon on the box-art. Best game ever made! 10/10. Next game.
My love for dragons has nothing to do with this game. It was only a lame joke to start my explanation for my pick for the 19th spot.
I do love playing puzzle games sometimes. But when there is a battle element involved, I enjoy it even more. It has also been released on Steam, so you can enjoy it on the PC as well.
I have to admit that I haven’t beaten the game. But I’m really trying to find time to play this game. Sadly enough, this is a game I can only play in short bursts. That’s mostly due to the nature of the gameplay. But I’m sure that some people might be able to keep playing this game for hours on end.
What I have seen from the game shows that this game is a very good game. Further proof is that on some lists of forgotten gems on the DS, this game appears. So, I don’t have to further proof myself… I think.
#18: Orcs And Elves
Sometimes, I love myself a good dungeon crawler and adventure game. This game nails most of the things I was looking for in these kinds of games. The game feels old, which made me love it even more. Yet, I was surprised how this game is a port of a mobile game. And this port is actually pretty well made. iDSoftware and EA worked on it after all. (And there aren’t any microtransactions from EA, thankfully.)
In this game, you play an elf that is fighting the orcs to stop corrupting the land. You fight through various dungeons and explore them. Best of all, it’s in 3D. So, that makes the atmosphere even better. What I love most of all, is that this game is turn based. If you make a move, your enemies make a move as well. This makes the game very tactical.
I haven’t beaten this game since the final boss is pretty brutal. At least, to me. Maybe, when I restart playing this game and thought out the evolution of my character a bit better, I might be able to defeat that boss. We shall see. And maybe then I’ll write a review about it! So yeah, we shall see.
#17: Ghost Trick
Recently, I have beaten a game called M.U.R.D.E.R.E.D. – Soul Suspect. My buddy, Seraph made a great video review for it. I highly recommend you guys watching it some time.
But this game is how it should have been. This visual novel and adventure game puts you in the role of a ghost. You have to avoid the death of a character by going a few minutes back in time. Then you have to poltergeist items to change the course of history.
The game became really memorable to me because one of the characters is a black cat, one that reminds me a lot of my own cat, Sparta. If only, my real life cat could talk to me.
When I started writing about this game, I actually wanted to replay this game. Since the memories are getting vague. Which is a good thing, because I remember enjoying this game a whole lot. Maybe, one day, I might write an article about it.
#16: Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
It would be a shame if I hadn’t put an Indiana Jones game on this list, right? Well, here it is! Lego Indiana Jones. I know that there is a sequel and an other game of my favorite hero on the DS, but I don’t think they deserve a spot on this list (yet). Because, I haven’t played them enough.
This game is simply one of the best LEGO games I have ever played. In 2014, there is an overdose of LEGO games with all a similar formula.
This game is pretty fun to play. It follows the plot of the movies pretty close. It helps introducing the movies to a younger audience, since it doesn’t contain the graphical scenes which made the movies not meant for their eyes. The humor of this game makes it even better. I actually laughed with some jokes they made with the characters I love.
I hope that the sequel can bring me the same joy. I finally got myself a copy, so fingers crossed!
#15: Wario games (Best: Wario: Master Of Disguise)
I know what some readers are already thinking. Isn’t this cheating? Putting these games on spot 15, while I put all the Mario games on spot 23? No, it’s not cheating. The reason behind it, is that these games are pretty different from the Mario series in my opinion.
The honorable mention for this spot is WarioWare D.I.Y., which helped DS gamers to make their own mini-games. That was simply an amazing experience.
But if this spot has to go to one game, it has to be Wario: Master Of Disguise. Because I think that this game has a brilliant idea behind it.
You play in the role of Wario. He just stole a magic wand that gives him the ability to transform in different suits that give him special powers. Maybe, I should take a closer look in a review or something?
#14: Super Scribblenauts
In the past, the Scribblenauts series was criminally overlooked. Because the game was on the DS, it looked like a kids game. While in reality, it’s one of the best games to be creative in.
I could have put the original too in this spot, but there is a reason why I don’t. Super Scribblenauts is just a better game then it’s original. It surpasses the original by so much.
While the user interface isn’t the best I have seen on the system, it’s highly addictive to play. Oh, you might be wondering what this game is about? Let me tell you, it’s about writing things to helps people. The people in Maxwell’s (main character) area aren’t very smart. So, you have to write words on your magic notepad.
The words you write however, come to life. In this version they added adjectives! So you can write “big blue truck” and you will get just that. You can basically write anything, as long it’s PG-13 and it isn’t trademarked. The game is a lot of fun, and if you are interested, there are a few titles of this series on Steam. So you have no excuse to give this series a try!
#13: Club House Games / 42 Game Classics
This game blew me off my socks. I think that this is one of the best games in it’s genre. This is how you should make a game about card and board games. I barely have anything negative to say about it.
The multiplayer is quite fun and I mostly remember this game because I played it a lot with my sister while we were young. The hours we spend on this game secretly playing this game while we are supposed to sleep. I really enjoyed those times.
I recently got this game back, since I lost my first copy. And I play it from time to time. In the present, I play this game while I’m on the train towards work. But I’m afraid that I’ll miss my station one day because I’m too addicted to this game. So, fingers crossed that it never happens.
Actually, I should write a review or something about this game. Maybe next month, since in September I will write about games I wanted to write about for a long time.
#12: Another Code: Trace Memory
Also known as “Trace Memory” in Europe, this visual novel game is quite an overlooked gem. The story of this game touches me on personal levels. There are some things that happen in the game that make it quite memorable to me. I won’t give the details about them, since they are personal.
A while ago, I actually took a look to the sequel of this game on the Nintendo Wii. If you are interested, you can follow this link to it: Another Code – R. In this game, Ashley is on a quest to look for her father. While she is on that quest, she will unravel a mystery about her dead mother. It’s a quite thrilling story, actually.
Ashley has a sort of PDA-ish device that looked like a DS. Her father developed it. It might be an easter egg or not, it’s quite an amusing touch.
Sadly enough, the developers of this game went bankrupt. Cing made also the smash hit named Hotel Dusk. Before you ask yourself which spot that it’s going to have on the list, let me save you this disappointment. I couldn’t really get into the art style.
#11: Time Hollow
I wrote a review on this game not too long ago! I praised it enough, so you guys might have seen this entry coming.
So, the reason why this is one of my favorite games, it’s simply because the story, theme song and gameplay kept my playing until the very end.
While the game’s length is criminally short, the actual content is highly enjoyable. The soundtrack is one of the ones I have heard in a visual novel game.
That themesong, that’s the most important factor in this game. The memories that are connected to it, that’s what I gave this game such a high spot on my list. Some memories about it might be personal, but they sometimes come all back when I listen to the song. At once.
I still remember playing this game, with my back to a radiator. It was quite cold. It was in the middle of the winter and it had snowed a whole bunch. A part of the wheels of my mothers car where even stuck in the snow. But I couldn’t be bothered, I was too drawn into this gem of a game.
#10: Retro Game Challenge
xSeed, I’m sorry to hear that the sale of this game didn’t went all that good. For that reason, you couldn’t release the sequel in the west.
I urge everybody to start playing this game. If you love challenges and retro games, it’s right up your alley. If you liked games like NES Remix on Wii U, this game is something for you.
The humor, references and actually pretty accurate evolution of the video game industry… It makes for a gem of a game. I really wish it was more successful then this.
This game appears on various overlooked / underrated and top DS games, and it has every right to do so. This game has multiple games into one. And they aren’t simply mini-games, no! They are in itself full games.
They were even able to get a story into the game. Before, I sound like I’m trying to sell this game to you, I actually am. I’m not being payed by xSeed, but I think you should give them your money for this game! Or check it out at least!
End of part 2.
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CreepyPasta: Player 2 not found – Written by: NekoJonez
Player 2 not found
If my story is ever read on a channel where they read or discuss creepypasta’s I’m quite sure they might shout at my story that it has some clichés and that it killed the experience. Sadly enough, I wish I could convince those people that this story is quite real. And I’m finally ready to tell it. I don’t speak English, but given that I want a bigger audience for my tale, I’ll try my best to translate. I’m trying to talk about a big life change event here.
Some time ago, I had a great friend. He was one of the only guys who looked after me. We were both into the same style of games. Which is surprising, mostly you and your friends have a few games in common, but Eric and I, we both had nearly exactly same tastes in games.
One day a sad truth came falling into my letterbox. That winter will be forever ice cold to me. Get it… Winter, cold..? Never mind, I might be ruining the mood here. Anyways, I got that letter. It was a letter to tell me that Eric died due to a stupid accident. He slipped with his bike and broke his neck at the street pavement. And that in front of our favorite gaming store.
I was shocked and mad. Mad because I told him so many times that he should go cycling when it had frozen. And shocked because Eric was dead. My best friend. I had him for nine years. I went through one of the roughest periods of my life. I went insane for a few weeks. I saw things move for no reasons and various other things. It was like I took drugs, while in reality I didn’t take any.
But when I finally came back to my senses, I was wishing that I had that pen from the Time Hollow game. Ethan, the game’s main character, was able to open a time “portal” there and change the past. I could have saved him. Thinking about that game made me remember my Nintendo DS and my flashcard. For the readers who don’t know what that is, it’s a card which you can use to play roms on the actual device. So, I haven’t downloaded any roms from shady websites. Don’t worry, my story doesn’t have any of that.
When I booted up Phantom Hourglass, I started to notice something strange. At the part where you needed to meet-up with Linebeck, there was a character at the docks. That guy who is normally there to say: “Hey, do you have a canon already.” I don’t remember the exact lines. The ship was missing. And Linebeck of course as well. The character at the docks said to me that he was gone. Because his friend went missing.
I scratched my head. Linebeck and friends. I looked it up in my Hyrule Historia book I got and I couldn’t find any information. Did I download a bad rom by accident? Was I going to be tricked into a scary game where blood and gore is going to come? I shook it off. It might have been my fantasy going wild again.
Then I started playing Spirit Tracks on the flashcard. First I saw that the train controls where missing. I got a little annoyed. Again something missing? But before I let out some soft curses, I remembered that the anti-piracy protection was that the train controls didn’t appear. When I patched the game and tried it out quickly in my emulator, the train controls where there. I sighed in relief.
I sent over the save file from the emulator and the patched rom to my flashcard and I started playing. To my surprise, my save file was corrupt. Did I close the emulator while it was still saving? Or did the coders of the emulator derp and bugged the save files? I didn’t really mind since my game was at the very start anyways.
Before I even could start the train exam, the track were already gone. This was supposed to happen later in the game. I got confused. I didn’t understand at all. I closed my DS and shut it down. I checked my flashcard for any damage. I wondered to myself if something broke which made my game glitch so bad. I put my DS aside. I’m kind of lazy and when I need to fix something I look at it a week or two later. Or after so much time that I don’t even know what I’m supposed to fix.
I took my 3DS and booted up my copy of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. I don’t really know if there is already a flashcard for the 3DS but I don’t even care. The 3DS is too awesome for me to download the games. Sadly enough they are expensive. Anyways, this is off topic. I’m saying that my copy is the legal deal.
I started up the save file and my character was named Eric. It felt a bit awkward to me. The game was at the final battle. I won’t spoil who it was for you, but when I beat the game, the main character didn’t return. I was surprised. Did Nintendo really went this way? Did they really made this twist to take veteran players by surprise? It seemed as such.
In the town, all characters of the game, except Eric, were present. They were all in a sad mood. The partner, having my name, was the saddest of them all. He couldn’t believe that his friend was gone for real. I closed my 3DS. The story was a bit too personal and brought back a bit too much memories.
I played some soccer outside with my friends to put my mind on something else. That night when I played a bit on my PSP under my sheets. Okay, I might be 25 years old but we all did that when we were still young okay? Remember? With Pokémon Blue? Those were the times.
I beat an interesting visual novel game Corpse Party. In that game, a group of teens are captured in a horrible school were many murders happen. Many gruel things. Writing a creepypasta with a lot of blood and gore wouldn’t make it since the game is already so bloody and gory. And that for a 2D game!
So, a spoiler warning now. At the end, a part of the group is able to return to the real world. But the ones who died are forgotten by everybody. Nobody remembered Eric, expect the male lead character. It took me a second but when I realized I totally freaked out. There wasn’t any character named Eric in that game. I didn’t understand it one bit. I put my lights on and looked to a picture of Eric. I haven’t forgotten him and nobody has.
At the soccer match earlier today, nobody was allowed to play at the spot Eric normally plays. Which caused my team to have a disadvantage without good midfielder. But hey, it’s the thought that counts.
The next day, another friend of mine came over. He wanted to play a bit of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon on my 3DS. He was planning to buy the game. But when he played, everything was normal. Even the main character returned. I sighed in relief. It was my paranoia playing tricks on me. I was so glad.
The freaking things started to get worse since then. When I played with friends online, I won each and every match. With some major luck each time. I was able to pull off things I wasn’t able too before. It went as far as my friends accusing me of cheating. But I wasn’t cheating. I don’t even know how to get cheats working in multiplayer for most of the games I play.
Also, in various games, things started happening. Like in Animal Crossing. Everybody living around Eric’s home started moving within a week. And in Minecraft, Eric’s name was everywhere on signs.
I went to my shrink but she started to think that I really was losing it. Nobody could see the signs, nobody was able to see the letters in Animal Crossing of the characters moving.
When I analyzed various things, it became clear to me. Eric was trying to get a message to me. But what is it? Is he lost in the spirit realm? Or are his powers just not strong enough to make a message reach out to everybody.
I wanted to know more but I couldn’t research more. I was taken to a mental hospital. Declared insane because I supposedly couldn’t get over the loss of my best childhood friend who saved me from various suicide attempts.
First I was pissed off that I couldn’t research this case but after some time I was able to put it aside and well, between quotes, get over it. I took the newspaper after a year staying in the hospital and I started reading about a serial killer who killed his victims outside of gaming stores when they wanted to return a game.
I got confused. But tears started to flow when I saw the author’s name. Eric R. My death friend is now able to follow me outside of games. The article’s author was different too people, yet the story was surprisingly true.
To this day, I’m trying to convince people that my friend is killed by that serial killer. I started to study to become a lawyer. I want to catch that crook. Before he makes more victims. And hopefully Eric’s powers grow stronger so I have him at my side to solve this case.
– Several years later. –
The latest edition of the newspaper has an interesting article.
“Yesterday, Blaire DV, a famous lawyer died today at a strange accident. He slipped and broke his neck. The accident happened in front of his favorite video games store where he was investigating the case of a death friend. Who he believes is murdered by the Ice Video Game Killer. Witnesses claim that they have seen a man, identified by the name of Eric R., push the victim.
Today witnesses claim to sometimes see Blaire lurk in a side street next to the shop. But the police doesn’t believe in ghost stories. Should they?
– Blaire VD”
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Basil+Lily
We’d love to tell you a little bit more about us, the people behind the name and how we got here.
My husband and I have always loved travelling to Italy. In the 15 years we have been together we have visited every year and we got married in Florence in 2010.
For as long as I can remember it has been a dream of mine to open an Italian wine bar and in a place I live and love and finally that dream has come true! Whilst I’m not in Italy I thought I’d bring Italy to us.
We have tried and tested hundreds of wines and foods (it was a tough task) to find the best and most authentic products for you. With our wines we wanted to give you some names you would be familiar with but then some that you have never heard of from small, independent vineyards from across every region.
You can find out more about some of our suppliers here.
BASIL + LILY
Trying to think of a name was not easy, everything I thought of didn’t quite fit. I wanted something that had a story and meaning behind it and that is where Basil and Lily came from. Named after my paternal grandpa and maternal grandma who were both born and raised in Prestwich and were remarkable people seemed perfect and I am so proud to be able to use their names.
My grandpa Basil was born on 1st February 1928 and worked as an accountant.
Basil was one of the first members of the Manchester Bnei Akiva youth movement and helped find the Salford premises which they are still in today. He was also a keen athlete running the 400 yards and even entering sprint races in his 50s. He managed and trained junior and senior football teams, and supported Manchester City.
He was conscripted into the Army in 1946, and served as a Corporal in Germany, based in Hamburg. The ship, Exodus, carrying 4500 Jews who had survived World War II attempted to reach Palestine, but were turned back by the British Army. The ship was forced to dock at Hamburg. Basil received orders to take men to the docks and operate a "shoot to kill" policy for any Jews attempting to leave the ship. When he was threatened with court-martial for refusing to go to the docks, he agreed to go, but informed his commanding officer that he could not guarantee the direction in which his bullets would be fired.
Grandpa Basil was a precise man who liked things in order but had a great sense of humour and was so fun to be around. He had two children (my dad and my aunty) and six grandchildren that he adored. He passed away aged 71 on the 9th September 1999 (9/9/1999) which was so very particular of him.
Born on the 23rd May 1924, my grandma, Lily once owned a children’s clothing shop named after my mum (Mandy’s) in the Mocha Parade in Salford and following its closure she helped my grandpa at his textiles warehouse in Cheetham Hill. During the Second World War, and just before her 18th birthday, grandma Lily joined the Women’s Land Army. Together with 6,000 other women they were responsible for sawing down trees, in freezing conditions, with six pound axes to help keep the country supplied with food and timber. If that isn’t a reason to be proud of your badass grandma I don’t know what is!
My brother, sister and I along with my cousins would go to her house every Friday after school and when I say there was a spread, you had never seen anything like it! She was a proud and stylish woman who was never seen without a string of pearls and loved inviting anyone and everyone into her home where she force fed them homemade biscuit after biscuit (and if you didn’t leave then a full 3 course dinner was coming your way!).
Grandma Lily had three children (my mum, my uncle and my aunty), 11 grandchildren and was lucky enough to meet seven of her great grandchildren. She passed away aged 92 in November 2016.
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Rebecca Frazier and Hit & Run: From Shredding to Plaintive Ballads, in a Single Bound
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http://rebeccafrazier.com/
Hit & Run is the name of Rebecca Frazier's band, but it could also serve as a capsule summation of her flatpicking style--which scads of reviewers have described with some version of the same comment: "The lady can flat-out shred a guitar."
Coincidentally, that ability helped her make Bluegrass history, as the first female ever to appear on the cover of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. And the band members are no slouches, either. Hailed by a critic as "world-class acoustic artists," Hit & Run hit the record books themselves with the only back-to-back wins at the Rockygrass Band Competition and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
Rebecca has been honing her talent for quite a spell. She received her first guitar--a Yamaha Dreadnought--for Christmas at age 12, and by age 13 she was a song leader at the Shenandoah Valley Girls Camp, writing songs and teaching melodies to fellow campers. "We'd sing three-part harmonies," she recalls, "as we washed our hair in the ice-cold Cowpasture River."
“I’m very much inspired by music from the 1970’s,” Frazier says. “Early Bonnie Raitt; old-school Tony Rice and Dave Grisman Quintet; Neil Young. All this music just feels like home to me.”
That vibe also has a lot in common with the group's newest CD, "When We Fall." All original material with the exception of the Neil Young cover "Human Highway," the album drew high praise from Grammy-winner Alison Brown: "Rebecca Frazier is a triple threat. She's a wonderfully engaging singer, a compelling songwriter, and an accomplished guitarist to boot. On 'When We Fall,' all of these talents come together to dazzling effect."
The range of material is impressive, as well. "Better than Staying" begins, "I want to follow this old gravel road / And see where it ends / I hear the highway calling / And it seems to be saying / That going anywhere is better than here..." And "It's funny how I feel in your way, now / When you used to be happy to see me / It seems so simple to me, dear / There's no longer a spark in your eyes..."
But the plaintive ballads are interspersed with blazing instrumentals such as "Virginia Coastline" and "Clifftop" that keep the pace upbeat.
The original songs on "When We Fall" are hard-earned from the most difficult period in Frazier's life. She and her husband John (Hit & Run's mandolinist) were living in Colorado when he received a job offer to tour with the John Cowan band--it meant a move to Nashville, and Rebecca mostly putting her own career on temporary hold.
Before long, motherhood began taking up all of her time. But in 2010, tragedy struck: their middle child died unexpectedly. And in the devastating grief she found herself entering a new period of creativity--writing new material and reworking other songs she had written in the past.
The offshoot of that re-found passion is "When We Fall"; its producer is Dixie Chicks' and Alison Krauss's studio wizard Brent Truitt. John plays mandolin and provides harmony vocals, with Barry Bales on bass, Shadd Cobb on fiddle, Andy Hall on reso-guitar, and Ron Block and Scott Vestal sharing banjo duties. Rebecca plays all the guitar and sings lead, with Shelby Means on harmony.
"I knew I could rely on creativity and hope in order to heal," Rebecca says now. "While the project itself may have been inspired by loss, its creation has brought joy to the forefront."
And that joy has opened up another avenue for the Fraziers, as well: the album's release coincided with the birth of a new baby girl.
Filed Under: 2014 Beartrap Summer Festival, Rebecca Frazier and Hit & Run
Categories: 2014 Sunday Lineup, Articles, Beartrap 2014
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BUY OR RENT
Set in 2045, the virtual reality world- the OASIS is the future. Follow Wade and his friends on a digital treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger. Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn
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2017 PG CC IMDb Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6.4/10 A new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator -- a wildly imaginative 7-year-old named Tim. The most unusual Boss Baby (Alec Baldwin) arrives at Tim's home in a taxi, wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. The instant sibling rivalry must soon be put aside when Tim discovers that Boss Baby is actually a spy on a secret mission, and only he can help thwart a dastardly plot that involves an epic battle between puppies and babies.
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2017 R CC IMDb Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 7.8/10
Talented getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. After meeting the woman (Lily James) of his dreams, he sees a chance to ditch his shady lifestyle and make a clean break. Coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), Baby must face the music as a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom.
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1990 PG CC IMDb Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 7.5/10 When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.
2017 PG CC IMDb Rating: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 2.7/10 Hidden inside a smartphone, the bustling city of Textopolis is home to all emojis. Each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, an exuberant emoji with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his best friend Hi-5 and a notorious code breaker called Jailbreak. During their travels through the other apps, the three emojis discover a great danger that could threaten their phone's very existence.
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Barack Hussein Obama II
Barack Hussein Obama II (Listeni/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.
In 2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary, his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his election to the Senate in November. He began h…
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What are wetlands?
Wetlands are natural areas where water is the dominant factor determining soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living there. Types of wetlands vary widely given local differences in soils, climate, hydrology, and other factors. To learn more about wetlands in Alberta, visit Wetlands Alberta.
Photo source: Ducks Unlimited Canada
Why are wetlands important?
Wetlands are among the richest ecosystems on earth. They are home to a huge variety of plant and animal species such as dragonflies, ducks, and elk, and are vital to protecting biodiversity. In addition, wetlands behave as natural filters. They trap sediment and pollutants like heavy metals, and excess nutrients in runoff. A healthy wetland can reduce nitrate and phosphorus levels by up to 80 per cent and 94 per cent respectively. This makes them extremely important to protecting drinking water supplies.
Wetlands also act as a water storage system, which makes them very useful in mitigating floods and droughts. Protecting wetlands as a flood mitigation mechanism can also save municipalities valuable resources that would otherwise need to be spent on flood infrastructure. For more information on wetlands and flood mitigation, click here.
In addition to these environmental benefits, wetlands also make social and economic contributions to our society. They provide opportunities for tourism, boating, bird watching, photography, hunting and fishing. They also have a major positive impact on property values by contributing to aesthetic appeal and amenities.
Unfortunately over the past 100 years, more than 60 percent of Alberta’s wetlands have been destroyed and we continue to lose wetlands at a rate of 0.5 percent per year.
Graphic source: 2005: WaterScape Bowen Island, Turner R.J.W. et al, Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 88
AUMA policy on wetlands
In an effort to reduce wetland losses, the Government of Alberta developed and released a wetlands policy in 2013. The goal of the provincial wetlands policy is to “conserve, restore, protect and manage Alberta’s wetlands to sustain the benefits they provide to the environment, society and the economy”. To learn more watch a recording of To Conserve and Protect: Implementing Alberta's Wetland Policy.
The province is currently developing tools and resources to support implementation of the policy.
Development of the provincial wetland policy provided AUMA with an opportunity to develop policies of our own. AUMA’s wetlands policies reflect extensive discussion with our members and are being used to guide our input to implementation of the provincial policy. View the AUMA Municipal Water Policies on Wetlands
Resources and municipal examples of wetland management
A new Guide to making wetlands work in your municipality provides municipalities with information, case studies and tools to support wetland conservation. The Alberta North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) led development of the guide with input from AUMA, AAMDC, the province and individual municipalities.
The guide is meant to be a living document that will be updated as new examples and resources become available. For example, forthcoming changes to the Municipal Government Act will be incorporated.
Municipalities are encourges to review the guide and provide feedback or case studies that will help to ensure it stays current and provides value to municipalities.
In addition, AUMA has assembled examples of municipal wetland management as well as additional resources that you can use to learn more about wetlands and municipal actions to manage them
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Conservatives And Liberals Combined: Tony Abbott Speech
This is the text of a speech delivered to a gathering of young Liberal Party members by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Tony Abbott.
In the speech, Abbott discusses the nature of the Howard government and the balance between conservatives and liberals in the Liberal Party.
The future prime minister had been a member of parliament for seven years at the time of this speech, and a minister for three.
Text of speech by Tony Abbott to Young Liberal members.
Towards the end of the Coalition’s 13 years in the wilderness, Michael Kroger gave a thoughtful analysis of why we’d failed. He made the point that almost every Labor MP had been a political professional before entering parliament while most Coalition MPs came to politics after a career in the professions or in small business. After years of addressing union meetings, doing deals, and writing press releases, national politics “came naturally” to Labor MPs in ways it simply did not to people for whom it was a “second career”.
The Kroger thesis was rightly influential at the time but the ALP’s political performance has declined since then (at least at the federal level) even though its domination by an “apparatchik” political caste has further increased. Today, more than 50 per cent of the federal front bench are former trade union officials. Except for a couple of barristers taking union briefs, every Labor member of the House of Representatives was a union official, political staffer or public sector employee before entering parliament. What’s more, federal Labor has 9 “hereditary peers” (MPs whose fathers were in parliament), four “noble families” (where siblings have sat in federal or state parliament) and at least five “royal couples” (where spouses and former spouses have sat in parliament) making it, on one view, more in-bred than the House of Lords.
Under the 60:40 rule, affiliated unions choose the majority of delegates to most Labor conferences and pre-selection panels. Unions such as the AWU (particularly in Queensland) and the Shop Assistants seem to control more rotten boroughs than the Duke of Newcastle in the pre-Reform Act House of Commons. In Victoria, the largest single bloc vote is controlled by the AMWU whose Victorian Secretary is currently awaiting trial for site invasion and industrial vandalism. If seeking pre-selection today, Ben Chifley would almost certainly not get a look in because Labor candidates for winnable seats are nearly always university-educated former union research officers whose experience of blue collar work is limited to Saturday mornings while they were students. If an engine driver is ever again to become prime minister of Australia, he almost certainly won’t be a member of the Labor Party.
By contrast, the Coalition counts people whose former occupations were shearer, crocodile shooter, meat-worker and cane-cutter (as well as the expected run of ex-lawyers, farmers, and presidents of local chambers of commerce) among its MPs (some 50 per cent of whom have business backgrounds). Because the Coalition has no homogenising equivalent of the union movement, its members can be individualistic and even awkwardly outspoken – but also far more representative of the Australian people at large. In different political circumstances, and under better political leadership, the factors Kroger identified as a weakness have actually become one of the Coalition’s strengths because there’s nothing that forces us to see unions (or any other group) as “more equal” than everyone else.
Edmund Burke famously described a political party as people working for the common interest according to a particular principle on which they all agree. As the name implies, the Liberal Party’s animating principle is freedom. As its name implies, the ALP’s underlying unity does not come from commitment to a philosophical principle so much as commitment to the interests of the labor movement. Historically, the Coalition has won strong support from farmers, professionals and small business people. Historically, the ALP has employed the rhetoric of equality to bolster its appeal. Even so, there’s a sense in which the Coalition (or at least its dominant Liberal component) has been motivated by an ideal while Labor is concerned with an interest.
Business magnates control no votes at Liberal Party conferences or pre-selections while all decisions inside the ALP are potentially hostage to the controlling interest of the union movement of which it is the political wing. A persistent myth is that the Coalition represents business in a mirror image of the way Labor represents unions. This sectional fallacy ignores the organisational nexus which is quite absent between business and the Coalition. Compared to the ALP and the unions, business and the Coalition are more like allies than agents of each other, and partners rather than Siamese twins.
Business, particularly small business, finds its natural political home in the Coalition because the Coalition shares many of its fundamental values. The Coalition has an intellectual or instinctive constituency rather than a sectional one – but that has not prevented consistent support from those parts of the Australian community which share its attitudes and values. Business doesn’t “own” the Coalition because it has been clear-headed enough to accept that political parties should not be bought. This political magnanimity has given business the freedom to work with Labor governments and to criticise Liberal governments in ways in which unions have never been able to work with the Coalition and criticise their own side. Business has generally understood that the national interest is bigger than any sectional interest – even its own.
At times, a misdirected sense of good citizenship has led business leaders to cooperate in “tripartite” structures – only to discover that in any threesome involving business, unions and Labor governments, its critics have the numbers. Small businesses and Burke’s “little platoons” which are at the heart of civil society are invariably forgotten when the corporate state concludes its deals. And unions are not what they were. After helping to civilise capitalism and to establish the dignity of work, they are now more interested in protecting their own institutional prerogatives than in a better deal for workers – which helps to explain, outside industries with a “claytons” closed shop, why workers have deserted them in droves.
Business has generally been comfortable with the Coalition on three grounds: Practically, the political dynamic means that Labor governments have invariably supported (while Coalition governments have often resisted) union demands.
Intellectually, Coalition governments generally resist change for change’s sake in favour of the stability in which productive business tends to thrive. And instinctively, Coalition governments have an ingrained preference for private and community-driven initiatives over government action based on the assumption that “Canberra knows best”.
For its part, the Coalition intuitively assents to the hard-won business truths: that you can’t give what you haven’t got, can’t keep what you haven’t earned, and can’t distribute wealth without creating it first. There’s a sense in which people who invent new products, design new processes and create new employment are the best philanthropists because they are helping to create the sense of shared endeavour and common purpose which constitutes the basic social fabric of every healthy community. As individuals, members of the Coalition stand ready to help anyone in need but our sympathies are most engaged by people who want no more than a fair go and who face life’s vicissitudes with the grit and stoicism that was once part of the Australian national character. We understand that some problems can’t be solved this side of eternity and that many “solutions” are more trouble than they’re worth.
We are instinctively drawn to people who believe in thrift, honesty, hard work, self-reliance and having a go. The notion of “Howard’s battlers”, quaint though it seems to the commentariat, is more than just rhetoric. “Howard’s battlers” are the political descendants of the people Sir Robert Menzies eulogised in his 1942 Forgotten People address: “…salary-earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on….for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious…envied by those whose benefits are largely obtained by taxing them. They are not rich enough to have individual power…They are not sufficiently lacking in individualism to be organised for… “pressure politics”. And yet…they are the backbone of the nation”.
The Coalition rejoices in people’s individual and collective success. We want people to have the freedom to do well – and we don’t mind if some do better than others as long as everyone has a fair go. Our support for capitalism owes far more to experience than ideology because, for us, it describes what happens when people have the freedom to use their property and their talents as they choose. There’s a sense in which capitalism is just a fancy word for freedom – that freedom of possession which should complement freedom of persons. The role of government is to ensure that people are genuinely free and not to insulate people completely from the consequences of free choice.
There is a natural affinity between conservatism and liberalism because freedom cannot exist without a framework of order, stability and fairness. Indeed, what’s most distinctive in the long history of the English-speaking branch of western civilisation is the evolving relationship between freedom and authority and the manner in which, as Macauley put it, “freedom broadens slowly down from precedent to precedent”. In our culture, there is little tension between the liberal and the conservative political traditions both of which have a long and honoured lineage. In our culture, the “voice of poetry in the conversation of mankind” has always resonated with lilt of freedom.
Freedom is the thread connecting the principal policies and achievements of the Howard Government: freedom to show what can be achieved when we focus on what people can do rather than what they can’t do.
Work for the Dole is tackling the “something for nothing” culture responsible for much of the resentment corroding Australian communities. People on modest incomes resent paying high taxes to support people who, they think, could be making more of a contribution to the community. And unemployed people understandably resent feeling excluded and living on benefits which never seem enough. As a society, we can’t guarantee jobs but we should be able to ensure that everyone has something useful to do. Work for the Dole is about ensuring that people pull their weight and giving Australians more confidence that everyone has a place in the bigger team.
Industrial relations reform means giving people the sort of freedom in the workplace that is taken for granted in most other aspects of life. For too long, it was impossible to make a workplace bargain without a union as a partner to the deal – either doing the negotiating or setting detailed limits on what people could do. The Government’s Workplace Relations Act has made it possible for the first time to conclude legal contracts of employment completely independent of industrial awards provided the benefits are not inferior to them. Under Labor, pay rises without productivity increases meant higher inflation, higher interest rates and higher unemployment. Under the Accord, basic award wages actually fell 5 per cent in real terms over 13 years. Since 1996, more freedom has helped to deliver 800,000 new jobs and a 9 per cent pay increase to basic award employees.
Tax reform is the clearest possible sign of the Howard Government’s determination to do what’s right rather than what’s politically popular. The GST is not the product of ideology but of necessity – which is a perfectly acceptable conservative justification. As Queen Victoria’s uncle, the Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-chief of the British Army for more than 40 years once remarked: “It is said that I am against change. I am not against change. I am in favour of change in the right circumstances. And those circumstances are when it can no longer be resisted”.
It was necessary to broaden the tax base to reduce the tax burden. Australia could not have continued to tax manufacturing industry but not the service sector. We could not have continued to tax income far more than we tax spending. The burden of taxation had to shift from income to spending if 50 per cent marginal tax rates for modest income earners (and even higher effective rates for people caught in both the tax and welfare system) were ever to come down. Both sides of politics now accept that the GST is necessary. The difference is that the Coalition believes that the dividend of tax reform should be income tax cuts while Labor believes that tax reform justifies higher spending and a bigger (and more unionised) public sector.
Since 1996, the overall tax take has remained more or less steady as percentage of GDP despite the introduction of the New Tax System. Importantly, government spending has fallen from 25.9 per cent of GDP in 1995 to 23.3 per cent now to almost exactly balance taxes raised – and this 2.6 per cent reduction in the income gap constitutes a $15 billion turnaround in public finances.
The Government appreciates the way Australian business has adapted to the New Tax System. Although changing the tax system was long overdue, it was still a “big ask” and the Government is proud of the way small business has shouldered additional responsibilities in return for the benefits received since 1996. Capital Gains Tax has been halved for most investors and entirely abolished for people who “roll over” their investments into other businesses or superannuation. Company tax has come down and the biggest income tax cuts in Australia’s history have been introduced. Above all, the Government’s low interest rate policy has shaved about $12,000 a year from a typical $100,000 business overdraft.
Despite a media tendency to revel in bad news and pander to the “poor little me” syndrome, the Government seems to have fostered a greater sense of national unity and pride. The liberation of East Timor removed a quarter century old sense of shame and repaid a debt of honour. Australia’s military involvement was minor compared to that in two world wars – yet it was the first time Australia had assembled and led an international military force. No-one told us what to do and no-one held our hand. The UN sanctioned the operation because Australia persuaded the international community that it was necessary to stand up for the common decency of mankind.
The Government’s readiness to assert Australia’s national interests and values, is starting to dissolve the widespread feeling (particularly among more conservative people) that “nothing makes sense any more”. Far from damaging our standing in other countries, the Tampa affair has demonstrated that we are sick of being a soft touch and having our decency exploited by people smugglers. The Australian people seem to understand better than “opinion formers” that it’s impossible to preserve national sovereignty with a defacto immigration policy: “if you can get here, you can stay here”. As for the “compassion deficit” identified by the “blame Australia” brigade, Governments spending other people’s money and eroding other people’s rights usually end up showing more moral vanity than Christian charity.
In important respects, this has been a conservative government as well as a liberal one. There are good “liberal” arguments, for instance, for giving parents more choice about their children’s schooling and mothers more choice about whether they go back to work. Still, this encouragement of religious schools and recognition of stay-at-home mums is also an acknowledgment of enduring social values. The liberal argument for over-turning the Northern Territory’s euthanasia law was that human beings should never be treated as disposable commodities. But for many, the chief problem was the Territory’s cavalier disregard of our culture’s most powerful moral and ethical commitment to the sanctity of life.
This Government has been more mindful than its Coalition predecessors that we are the Australian custodians of the conservative as well as the liberal political tradition. We respect values other than our own and will do our best to accommodate interests outside our natural constituency but, as Ronald Reagan once said to the Conservative Political Action Conference: we will never forget how important it is to “dance with the one that brung ya”.
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Anti-corruption models
Transparency international’s official assessment released in January 2019, indicated that corruption grew in Australia.
Australia corruption Index at it’s the lowest point in 2019
During the current term of the Federal Coalition Government, Australia fell from 7th place to 13th place in 2015 and has not shifted since on Transparency International’s index. This relative stability is illusory. The indexed gap United Kingdom (80) and Austria (76) is the widest available for the top 20 least corrupt countries. The width of this gap has obscured Australia’s actual fall from 79 to 77. The latest review by TI was completed by September 2018, after which time new Federal Government scandals emerged:
Paladin corruption allegations,
Royal Commission findings on Banks,
No charges laid over questionable tip-offs on AFP’s union raid from Michaelia Cash’s office.
Northern Territory’s public service corruption charges
Federal ICAC proposals
This prompting renewed calls from the media and public for a federal ICAC to be established. Previously submitted by Sen Bob Brown in 2010, Adam Brant in 2012 & 2017, Christine Milne in 2013 and lately Cathy McGowan in 2018. None of which have come to fruition.
In early 2018, the Australia Institute convened a panel of experts on the subject of the different forms of anti-corruption commissions, generating diverse political and legal reactions. The report’s recommendations remain unenacted despite growing corruption in our governance.
Apart from Tony Abbot begging the government not to create an integrity commission, both major political parties were at least considering such a commission. The Federal Labour party has promised to implement an anti-corruption agency based on the Australia Institute research. In the meantime, Cathy McGowen delivered her National Integrity Commission (NIC) legislation in the last week of November and the second bill for National Integrity Bill in early December. Despite a motion in support in Parliament, it was referred to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee for a report due April 5th. Morrison was initially dismissing it as a “fringe issue”, rejected the McGowen model, offering the coalition’s version, which was neither retrospective, public nor able to make findings of corruption.
The debate has since become what model of Anti-corruption enforcement might actually be useful and agreed upon federally.
Corruption fight as a threat to democracy
How we structure and manage anticorruption commissions, matters.
Transparency International’s anti-corruption conference in Denmark in 2018 made a predictive and correct analysis of Brazil’s presidential elections based on what many saw as the failure of anti-corruption measures. I attended a workshop in Copenhagen titled “The fight against corruption as a threat to democracy” predominately concerned with achieving increased transparency without political radicalisation. Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power was a cautionary example.
http://auswakeup.info/waking/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/181023_threat2democracy.mp3
The workshop concluded that an improperly managed anti-corruption body could be both ineffective and harmful to civil society, engendering populist movements and anti-establishment radicalism as manifested in Brazil. Corruption prevention by itself would not strengthen democracy and scandals could lead to:
A power vacuum to be filled by even worse governance,
Fuel cynicism towards politics,
Entrench the idea that corruption is inevitable.
So we need to ask of any commission:
What should the characteristics of it be?
Is it a court or an investigative body
Does it secure prosecutions?
Should it raise community expectations of a transparent clean society?
To whom does it report?
Who is covered by this legislation?
In Singapore, the CPIB reports directly to the Prime Minister’s office, but in the era of Donald Trump, is a direct line to the top a good idea? Does it cover civilian public servants, the private sector, the police? Should elected officials, including our Prime Minister, to be classed as public servants and answerable to this commission?
At this point, we come to the conflict that occurs between lawyers versus political/civil objectives. Legal experts have argued that public hearings risk reputational damage, but interestingly, even the Australian’s Mark Coultan noted that “ICAC routinely conducts private hearings before proceeding to a public inquiry.” He went on to remind us that:
“Mr Sturgess, head of the cabinet office in the Greiner government when ICAC was established, warned that making all hearings private would radically alter the nature of the organisation.”
When you consider that it was Ian Macdonald, found guilty of corruption, who said making hearings private was long overdue, it may be mindful to ask who seeks to gain the most from secret hearings? A lack of transparency will always hide corruption.
Lawyers also express concerns around the lack of the usual rules of evidence that exist around admissibility of evidence to these commissions. For example, lack of available admissible evidence was why in the case of Bankstown and Strathfield councils in November of 2007 resulted in findings of corrupt conduct, but did not result in a referral to the Director of Public Prosecutions. This case essentially represented a tussle between criminal standards of evidence versus a civil good.
Conversely, it has been argued that public hearings play an essential role in engaging the public in democratic processes, and this is clear through regular community surveys. Transparency builds confidence in public institutions and giving whistleblowers a line of sight between their actions and consequences. Whistleblower Rebecca Connor’s mining corruption allegations could have been buried with parliamentary debate and committees. Although, parliamentary committees have upheld the principle of public hearings on several occasions. Assertions of unfair reputational damage overlook the detailed pre-investigative processes that preceded public hearings.
Positive perceptions of ICAC for the people of NSW over time.
NSW ICAC regularly receives approval levels above 85% in community surveys. In states where hearings are conducted in secrecy such as Victoria’s IBAC or South Australia’s ICAC, there is little community awareness, and consequently has no role in building community confidence. The vast majority of the public perceives most, if not all, politicians are corrupt.
The next important consideration is that operational legislation specifies the right to investigate, recommend charges, present reports to parliament, and pursue parliamentarians. The early successes of NSW ICAC from 1989 to 1993, and then later from 2011 to 2015 were facilitated by strong political will and commitment to transparency. A commission thrives or withers depending on the level of political favour. The first few years of an agency being established are marked by many legal challenges to its jurisdiction. Therefore, a dynamically supportive legislature is a must in addressing weaknesses exposed by legal challenges.
Does the commission have funding for a dedicated unit to provide advice around legislative reforms? One of the reasons for NSW ICAC’s success under Ian Temby QC was the existence of such a department which was able to provide advice on matters of legislative reform. [NSW ICAC Annual report 1991 pg 66] There also needs to be a mechanism for independent evaluation of the ICAC’s budgetary needs, as investigations and public hearings are costly.
McGowan or Morrison’s model?
So how do the respective models offered by McGowan versus Morrison stack up? On 13th December 2018, Morrison announced a Commonwealth Integrity Commissioner (CIC), who would have oversight over a Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner and a Public Sector Integrity Commissioner. The new commission will have the power to investigate politicians and their staff but is not allowed to act on complaints raised by the public or reported in the media. It will not have public hearings and is designed to respond to allegations of criminal conduct. Criminal conduct represents a much narrower standard than what has been applicable for other state-level anti-corruption agencies, which had a broad mandate of investigating misconduct. Grey instances such as Susan Ley’s use of tax-payer funded travel to coincidentally inspect an investment property; Barnaby Joyce created a position for his partner or Peter Dutton’s profiting from Childcare facilities, or the lack of tendering for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority funding scandal would not be referred. Can the status quo be challenged as we sanction misconduct by directing it to internal review?
The CIC cannot make findings of corruption, misconduct or criminal matters. This stands in contrast to NSW ICAC which is allowed to make findings of contempt, corrupt conduct and report on recommendations for criminal charges.
Funding is estimated to be between $100 to $125 million and is considered inadequate. There is a proposal around mandatory reporting of corrupt conduct by public servants, but this does not include mandatory reporting by parliamentarians. It is not clear whom this commission will report to, or whether it would present publicly available reports to parliament. Not surprisingly, former NSW ICAC Commissioner David Ipp described the CIC as the “kind of integrity commission that you would have when you don’t want to have an integrity commission“.
P.S. This article is based on the research by Dr Martha Knox-Haly in researchgate.
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Shauna Tyser (Assistant) graduated Magna Cum Laude, with her BFA in dance performance and choreography from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and was the 2007 recipient of the Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities for excellence in dance. In the past, she has performed with Philadanco II (Philadelphia), Contempra Dance Theater (Philadelphia), Melange Contemporay Dance (Philadelphia), Opera Company of Philadelphia, Colette Harding Contemporary Dance Company (San Diego), Mojalet Dance Collective (San Diego), “Trolley Dances” with Jean Isaac’s San Diego Dance Theater, Get Down Pick Up Company (San Diego), isadoraNOW (San Diego), and was a guest artist for a commercial work with PGK Dance Project (San Diego). She also holds a certificate from the Teaching Artist Institute of San Diego and her CTE Certification in arts, media and entertainment. She has taught in dance schools and programs on the East and West Coast, as well as, internationally in Mumbai, India. Her choreography has been presented at the 2016 San Diego International Fringe Festival, danceXchange; she was a 2017 finalist for the San Diego Young Choreographers Showcase and Prize, and regularly produces work with Avocado Dance Theatre. She has been a member of Avocado Dance Theatre since 2016, and has also worked under Lori Craig Torok as Production Assistant (2017), Assistant Director (2018), and Film Festival Coordinator (2018) for the Front and Main Dance Festival. Currently, along with dancing with the company she is co-coordinator of danceXchange, an active teaching artist in Riverside and San Diego Counties, pursuing her master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from Northeastern University and Mom to an amazing little girl!
Amanda Rose Shind began studying dance in Massachusetts at the age of three and has never stopped! Growing up, she studied primarily with Tammy Aspell, took class from many fabulous teachers all over the northeast in the styles of ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, and modern and continued her dance education at Emerson College in Boston. While at Emerson, Amanda developed a love for modern dance and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Theatre. She also completed the dance education training course with the Dance Teachers Club of Boston receiving the overall excellence award in Tap. After teaching and choreographing at numerous dance studios and public schools in the Greater Boston area, Amanda made the move out west where she began working with mobile dance companies Webby Dance & Petite Feet dance and fitness, and currently teaches with Rowe Dance Academy. She continues to share her love of dance with preschool and elementary aged children throughout Southern California. Amanda was blessed to choreograph for Avocado in 2016 and is beyond excited and honored to be celebrating her 5th season sharing moves and stories onstage as part of the Avocado family!
Emeline Lotherington grew up in Temecula, California and trained in classical ballet and jazz at Inland Valley Classical Ballet Theater. She attended UC Irvine and received a BFA in Dance Performance where she trained in Classical Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, and Contemporary. She studied Lar Lubovitch technique and repertory with Lar Lubovitch and company members; Jose Limon technique and repertory with the former company member, Dante Puleio; William Forsythe technique and repertory with Jodie Gates, the current Director of the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC and former Forsythe company soloist dancer; and performed as one of the Four Little Swans in George Balanchine’s adaptation of Swan Lake under instruction of former Los Angeles Ballet soloist, Diane Diefenderfer. She was a team member of the Common Ground Dance Team for the ’16-’17 season. For her final semester, she studied abroad in Jerusalem, Israel at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Emeline studied Ballet, Contemporary, Improvisation, Israeli Dance History, and Gaga under former Batsheva company members and former Israel Ballet Soloist Dancers. They had a summer intensive of Gaga and Ohad Naharin Repertory with Aya Israeli and other former Batsheva Dance Company Members. They also has a summer intensive of Contemporary and Vertigo Dance Company Repertory with Alon Karniel, a former Vertigo company member. She is currently dancing with Avocado Dance Theater and is eager to learn more contemporary and modern.
Isabella Farris was born and raised in Temecula, California and has danced competitively for over 11 years. Isabella trained in contemporary, ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, musical theater and lyrical and is currently represented by MSA Talent Agency. Isabella was named one of 15 Top Locals to Watch in the Inland Empire Magazine (Aug 2015) and has worked on many national commercials, including Old Navy, Nickelodeon, and Church’s Chicken and was a model for Urban Empire Dance Wear. She may be seen as a dancer in Just Dance Kids and Zumba Kids video games. Isabella performed in Los Angeles in Debbie Allen’s Hot Chocolate Nutcracker. In 2018, she was the National YoungArts Foundation Winner in Jazz Dance. She participated in the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Summer intensive in August 2018 and the Pace University Commercial Dance Fall Intensive. Currently, she is a member of the the GOHS Varsity Dance Team and the newest member of Avocado Dance Theatre.
Joseph Lister began his dance training at California State University, Chanel Islands at age 19. While there he became the founder and captain of CI’s first dance team, Breaking Pointe. He then transferred to University of California, Riverside where he received his Bachelors of Arts in Dance (2015). While at UCR Joseph received the GLUCK fellowship award and the Chancellors Performance Award. During his time there he was as an apprentice for Lula Washington Dance Theatre (2013) while attending their Professional Development Program. Joseph also got the chance to assist in choreography in MSJC’s production of Pippin under the direction of Lori Torok. Post grad Joseph has the opportunity to dance with No) One Art House in a residency at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He also took a summer course at Voronezh Ballet School in Russia where he received a certificate on completing their character folk dance intensive. He is now dancing with a variety of companies including: Avocado Dance Theatre, Donna Sternberg and Dancers, FUSE, Goblin Party, Inland Valley Classical Ballet Theatre and is founder and Artistic Director of CalliOpus Contemporary Dance.
Kristin Brown began her study of dance at the age of three. She had the opportunity to study at dance schools in California and Utah where she learned a variety of dance styles including; ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, and contemporary. She furthered her training in college and received her BA in Dance from Brigham Young University (BYU). While at BYU she was able to perform on the touring company, Contemporary Dance Theatre, and travel with them to India and Colorado. Kristin had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers Donald McKayle, Diavolo dancers Jenn and Omar Olivas, Jennifer Backhaus, and others. Kristin received further training at summer intensives including San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Paul Taylor, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. She most recently danced on the Utah-based company, SALT Contemporary Dance under the direction of Michelle Nielsen. It was there she was able to work with dancers from North West Dance Project and broaden her artistic abilities. Kristin also loves to teach and choreograph. She is excited to be back in California and to be a member of Avocado Dance Theatre.
William Feldon is a professional dancer from the Inland Empire. Training at the age of 6, William began dancing at Heart and Soul Dance Studio in Moreno Valley, CA as well as Bre Dance Studio in Riverside, CA as a recreational and competitive dancer. Experienced in Hip- Hop, Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Modern, Tap, and Musical Theatre, William holds various Regional and National titles as an ensemblist and soloist. William Feldon has participated as one of the head dancers and assistant choreographers for Valley View High School’s performance ensemble. He has also competed and placed in the NAACP’s National Afro- Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics Competition- A year-long achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievements. In addition, William has participated as a resident choreographer and performer for Friday Night Live- An organization that builds partnerships for healthy and positive youth development. William has studied under the direction of Clifford Breland, Anthony Jackson, Quincy Jacinto, as well as Rachel Swinson- Jacinto and has danced for Bre Dance Theatre- A pre-professional dance company. Currently, William Feldon is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance with a focus on experimental and unconventional choreography from the University of California-Riverside.
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Allison McCurdy has been a passionate about dance for her whole life, basically ever since she could walk. She trained in all styles from ballet to hip hop, but has an undeniable love for contemporary. Alli currently trains at Academy of Ballet Arts and Murrieta Dance Project. She is also a part of The Pack’t, which is an urban dance team. She embraces artistry and storytelling within dance and is constantly striving to grow her personal style through versatility.
Ava Sarnowski is excited to be performing in her 1st Production with Avocado Dance Theatre. Ava started her dance training at age 4 and has performed in over 30 Musical Theater productions at the Old Town Temecula Community Theater. Her past performances include Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act, Ariel in The Little Mermaid and Bambi Bernet in Curtains. Ava loves her Temecula Theater Family and currently can be seen as Marcy Park in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Ava would like to thank Lori Craig for this Amazing opportunity, Family, Friends, and The Avocado Dancers. Enjoy the show.
Carissa Johnson grew up in Vista California and began training in ballet at age 3. At 14, she started training at Dunamix Dance Project and began learning Jazz, Contemporary, Hip-hop, and Modern, as well as continuing her ballet training. Since then, she has had the opportunity to tour with Dunamix to Washington DC, Ecuador, and Cuba and looks forward to returning to Cuba with them this spring. Although Carissa will always have a special place in her heart for ballet, she fell in love with Contemporary/Modern dance and is looking forward to increasing her knowledge of it through attending Backhaus Dance intensive this summer where she has been awarded a scholarship, as well as through this opportunity to work with Avocado Dance Theatre.
Gwen Benitez began her dancing career with Crowl’s Ballet School and High Steppers Dance Studio in the High Desert, CA. Since then, she has continued her training in ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, tap, improvisation, West African, and Latin American movement. She has also worked with Contra-Tiempo, an LA-based multilingual urban latin dance theatre company, and danced in the final gala showcase with UCR for the American College Dance Association. Currently, she is pursuing her Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Theatre, Film, and Digital Production with an emphasis in Filmmaking with UCR.
Hailee Whiddon has trained in both classical and contemporary ballet for 14 years at Dunamix Dance Project. She has performed as The Nutcracker’s Arabian Queen and Snow Queen, Sleeping Beauty Lilac Fairy, Don Quixote’s Duet, Odette from Swan Lake. She competed at YAGP in 2017 and was a top 10 semi-finalist for contemporary dance earning her a scholarship to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Advanced Summer Ballet Program. In 2018, Hailee earned a merit scholarship to Alonzo King Lines Advanced Summer Ballet and will be returning in 2019 to their Pre-professional program. She will finish her summer with a scholarship to Backhaus Summer Intensive. Hailee can be seen in “These Walls” Music Video as a ballet dancer by Artist Jason David Sluter and “Happiness” an Indy Film as a classical ballerina directed by Michael Uganda. She is a regular at the Merc in Old Town Temecula, performing her original choreography and variations for Dunamix Dance Project. She is currently signed with San Diego Model and Talent agency and is a model for the Palm Springs Dance Fest, 2019. Hailee has taken her love for dance and shared it on two missions trips. She performed at Freedom Fest 2015 in Washington, D.C. and in Quito, Ecuador for orphanages and shelter for girls rescued from human trafficking.
Hyoin Jun is a co-artistic director of Goblin Party, dance performing group, and actively working as a freelancer dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor. Jun has finished the Experimental Choreography program (MFA) at University of California, Riverside (UCR) in December 2017. Jun also received an M.A. degree in Physical Education (in 2014) and a B.A. degree in Dance (in 2012) from Chung-Ang University (CAU), Korea. Jun has actively attended and won in international dance competitions, including Jury Award, Sibiu International Dance Competition, Rumania (2011); Bronze Medal, Novosibirsk International Dance Competition, Russia (2010); and Gold Medal, Berlin International Dance Competition TANZOLYMP, Germany (2010). Furthermore, Jun has performed on both international and local stages, such as the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Closing Ceremony on behalf of Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, at the Olympic Stadium, Sochi, Russia.
Kylie Canales has been trained in all sorts of styles of dance. At age 12, she won the 2009 World Championship of Irish Dance and shortly after trained in New York with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and Joffrey Ballet School. Kylie has been seen dancing in “Snoopy’s Merriest Tree Lighting Show” at Knott’s Berry Farm, “Disney’s Diamond Celebration” show-stop in the 2016 Rose Parade, and Disneyland’s “A Christmas Fantasy” parade. Happy to be reunited with the Avocado Dance Theater, Kylie continues fulfilling her passion of dance throughout Southern California and cannot wait to see where life takes her.
Tori Alforque has been performing over 10 years in all forms of dance and singing. Her passion for the arts has progressively grown through the years playing countless roles. To name a few of her favorites, (Future Ghost) -Christmas Carol, (Clara)-Nutcracker, (Diana)- A Chorus Line, (Tree)- Into The Woods, (The Cat In the Hat)-Seussical.
2 comments on “Avocado Dancers 2019 Season”
Anonymous on May 2, 2012 at 5:43 am said:
Beautiful! All of these fabulous dancers. I love Avocados even more now!
Lori Craig Torok on April 25, 2014 at 3:28 pm said:
Thanks, Gloria!
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The democrats are party of cowards, from John Koziol, Citizen of Loconia:
The scheduled appearance of 1st District Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter at a “town hall” meeting at Laconia City Hall on Thursday is shaping up to be an interesting affair with critics of her vote in favor of health care reform blasting her for holding what some have described as a tightly-controlled “victory lap.”
Shea-Porter, D-Rochester, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers in City Hall. The room can accommodate 60 people. Tickets will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis and local Republicans including Skip Murphy of the website www.granitegrok.com are warning that those seats will be rapidly snapped up by pro-Shea-Porter attendees, not her constituents at large
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.
And from, Jordan Fabian, Politico:
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) canceled a town hall on the new healthcare law Tuesday because of concerns about the security of the event.
The congressman’s office cited safety issues at the facility where the meeting was to take place and threats to his office, according to a report by News21.
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GOODBYE 2006 – HELLO 2007!
I don’t know whether to say goodbye or good riddance to the old year…but I do know I’m optimistic about the new one! All of us here at Artie Wayne On The Web, promise to continue to give you the “Best in Truth, Entertainment and Bullshit!”
If you scroll down to the next article, you’ll find, ” The Best Videos and Websites Of 2006″, which a couple of “cool cats” put together for me! It’s not only entertaining but a valuble resource you can use for years to come.
Finally, if your going out tonight and you want to have one for the road…make it a cup of coffee, with a little man in it who’ll remind you not to drink and drive!
Wishing you all the best…and of course a HAPPY NEW YEAR! From Artie Wayne On The Web..and Whoppy And Streaker on the couch!
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Whoppy And Streaker Present The Best Videos And Websites Of 2006!
All in one place…Top 10 You Tube vids, Top Viral Videos Of All Time, Justin, Mary J., Rihanna, U2, Best Rock Archives, Viral vids, Top art museums, best websites What do a couple of cats know about videos and websites? Let’s find out!
BEST MUSIC ARCHIVES
I wanted to locate a video I’d seen on MTV of the group OK GO performing, “Here It Goes Again”. They do imaginative, synchronized moves on four moving treadmills, filmed by a single camera in one continuous shot! You can imagine how I felt when I discovered the FatAdam.Com’s collection of ” The Top Ten Viewed You Tube Videos Of All TIme”. Not only did I find the video I wanted, I found the Token’s “Lion Sleeps Tonight”, performed by a CGI Hippo and dog, Plus eight other internet smashes I’d never seen before!
http://www.fatadam.com/2006/12/03/top-10-viewed-youtube-videos-of-all-time/
IFILM.Com never ceases to amaze me with it’s constantly updated coming attractions, previews and Viral Videos! http://www.ifilm.com/
Top Viral Videos Of All Time!…The title says it all! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15958470/
Then I found some incredible videos on my Spectropop pal, Laura Pinto’s website!
“In 2001, A&E’s Biography presented a fantastic documentary called ‘Hitmakers: The Teens Who Stole Pop Music.’ This documentary, which is available on home video under the name ‘Songmakers,’ covers the work of the gifted composers and producers from the Brill Building era, early 50’s to late 60’s. Biography launched the weeklong series with a 90-minute special featuring a wealth of historical information, archival photos and footage, and interviews with dozens of singers, songwriters, producers and insiders – among them, Carole King/Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller, Neil Sedaka, Jack Keller, Don Kirshner, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, George “Shadow” Morton, Mary Weiss, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, Steve Lawrence, Shirley Alston Reeves, and so many more including a 1991 interview with the late Doc Pomus. Recently, the Hitmakers special was added to the popular video site YouTube in nine parts, approximately 10 minutes in length each. Being a huge fan of the Brill Building music in general and Jeff Barry in particular, I wasted no time in posting all nine videos to my Oldies Connection MySpace blog. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!” http://blog.myspace.com/oldiesconnection
Spectropop… One of the main reasons I joined Spectropop, was the appreciation, by its members, of the well-crafted Pop song, the kind that dominated the Top 40 charts in the 1960s. The site is full of information and entertainment that has brought me back dozens of times this year! I personally want to thank “Spectrotopper”Mick Patrick for helping to create and maintain one of the best music sites on the web.
http://spectropop.com
Wolfgangs Vault…Bill Graham, the unequaled concert promoter and humanitarian, who died in a helicopter crash in 1991, has left quite a legacy. Not only did he loom larger than life in the careers of the Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Janis Joplin, ad pop infinitum, he was astute enough to extensively document most of the acts that performed concerts along the way.
Bill was always nice to me and let me and my pals in backstage to watch his shows from the wings…even though he knew I was there to probably pitch a song or impress some girl. I can’t tell you how surprised…and happy I was to see a segment about him on the CBS Network show “Sunday Morning”, that spotlighted his vast collection of memorabalia that includes millions of posters, unused concert tickets, photos, high quality audio and videos from concerts at the Filmore West and Filmore East.
http://wolfgangsvault.com/
Coverville…Creator and host, Brian Ibbott, is one of the most consistant podcasters around. His twice weekly show spotlights new covers of older songs, that never cease to amaze me! This week is his 277 th show (all of which are downloadable), which features the official 2006 Coverville Countdown!
http://coverville.com
BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Smoking Gun…One of my faves! “The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents–cool, confidential, quirky–that can’t be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and court files nationwide, everything here is 100% authentic.” http://www.thesmokinggun.com/about.html
TMZ…Harvey Levin and pals seem to get the scoop on celebrity mis-behavior, and is quoted often as a source on news and entertainment shows.
http://tmz.com
BEST MUSIC VIDEOS
I grew up with top 40 music listening to Pop, R&B and Country side by side. Today to get that kind of diversity is impossible, so now I must get my music from 4 different sources.
MTV…The pioneer in pop videos where you can see videos on line! The best artists to watch, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, JoJo, The Killers, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, All American Rejects, Cold Play, Black Eyed Peas and Jay-Z http://www.mtv.com/ Here’s Justin Timberlake and, “Sexy Back” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgtmETjMT7Y
VH1…Check out…James Blunt, John Mayer, John Legend, Nelly Furtado, Pussycat Dolls, Shakira, Ne-yo, Riianna, Mary J. Blige, Green Day, Danity Kane, and the Fray http://www.vh1.com/ Here’s one of my personal favorites…Rihanna, “Unfaithful” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1154844957034870481&q=rianna+unfaithful+video&hl=en
BET…The Black Entertainment network A bit rap heavy, but diverse within the Genre. This is the place where artists break out! Chris Brown, Timbaland, Ludacris, Mary J. Blige, Emenem, 50 Cents, TI, R.Kelly, Fat Joe, Jaimie Fox and Kanye West.
http://www.bet.com/ Here’s the Artist of the Year, Mary J. Blige and “One” featuring U2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3297419603290460058&q=Mary+J.+Blige+videos&hl=en
CMT…Country Music Television plays the best country videos. Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Allison Krauss, Sugarland, and Shania Twain. http://www.cmt.com/ My favorite of the year, Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbvZlfTulYc
BEST ART MUSEUM WEBSITES
The Louvre in Paris…Still one of my favorite museums in the world, even though I was once thrown out for trying to photograph my hand puppet Kah-Kah on the shoulder of the Venus De Milo! Take A virtual tour. http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
New York’s Museum of Modern Art…Where many of my romances began and ended in front of Monet’s “Water Lillies”. View permanent collection http://www.moma.org/
Los Angeles County Museum…finally has become a world class destination!
http://www.lacma.org/
BEST DIFFICULT TO CLASSIFY VIDEOS
My longtime friend, Ken Schaffer, inventor of the “Wireless Microphone and Wireless Electric Guitar”, put a video up on that he and his son , shot at the launch of the Columbia Space Shuttle. I asked Kenny to describe what you’re about to see.
” I’d done some work with NASA, so we (Kenny’s then-wife and then 8 year old son) got front row seats in the VIP bleachers – a mile and a half just west off launch complex 39A. anyone closer was a bird. It was an hour before dawn, so the view to the east was amazing – and you can see the dawn-coming glow framed around the pad. All NASA guys were ecstatic in their agreement that this was the most beautiful launch in shuttle history.
It was the first day of March 2003. The mission was to fix the Hubble Telescope (which you can actually see near the moon at the start of the video!). It was beautiful – brighter than the sun, louder than ay train Woody Guthrie rode – bone rattling – awesome in the same way as St. Basil’s Cathedral in St.Petersburg “How can human bubbleheads create something so beautiful!?” It was the last successful mission of the Columbia. You know the rest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdjID2osZ0A
To see what Kenny Schaffer up to these days http://tv2me.com/
The next video, my friend and journalist Ellen Sander created about Amsterdam. An unpretentious look at one of my favorite cities in the world. In her words,
“The Van Gogh Museum was one of my most coveted destinations and it did not disappoint. In the lobby a quartet was playing a Dutch version of Hank Williams’ Cold Cold Heart as we walked in, and they continued with a gentle repertoire of country and folk music. The exhibit upstairs was small, the Van Gogh family’s collection of around 70 of Vincent’s paintings. I was thinking of the consonances between the works of Bob Dylan and Vincent Van Gogh as I walked around. They both broke the mold, they both crafted their work out of inference and references that embodied their images. The portrait of Vincent by Gauguin was there as was Van Gogh’s canvas of Gauguin’s Chair, the emptiness of which almost echoed with sobs.
In the exhibit you’re so aware of light and shadow and brushstroke, how a drip of multiple colors from the same paintbrush defined the grain in the trunk of the Small Pear Tree in Blossom. Vincent. You were here, you are here.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh2FnQRDIqU
Here’s an inspiring video, that author and composer, Patti Dahlstrom sent me. She writes, “Having a nephew who is #1 in his class as a Marine Lt. flying Harrier jets and another nephew who is an Honors junior at West Point, has enlightened and educated me about military service. This is more than a choice, it is a calling, as many who are reading this were called to music.
We would not have what we have today, any of us, without people who were willing to fight and die to protect our loved ones, our families, and our freedoms. Unfortunately, negotiating has never solved anything with a tyrant; we tried it with Hitler and Hussein. The only temporary peace we receive is a grace from those who are willing to defend us from those who wish to dominate and/or destroy us.
Today’s military is voluntary, which means they are there because they want to be. They don’t want to kill or be killed, they want to defend freedom. If they pay the ultimate sacrifice, so be it. It is their calling, and they understand the consequences of such a path. I once read that spiritually the souls who come to fight our battles are the same throughout history. This is the job they come to do. Please take a moment to view this wonderful video and to hear this wonderful song in tribute to those who allow us our reality.” http://www.managedmusic.com/php/BYGIndex.php?page=Listen_To_BYG_Introduction#
The last video is produced and directed by Sebastian Prooth. It’s the updated demo version of Alan O’Day and the Late Johnny Stevenson’s number one hit, “Rock And Roll Heaven”, featuring singer Ronnie Kimball. Prooth humbly says,
“I’m very pleased it affects so many people on such an emotional level. We all remember at least one of the people featured in Alan O’Day’s song. This video serves to remind us of not only the artists remembered in pictures, but also the ones that we remember personally. I hope it will be enjoyed and appreciated for years to come.”
https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/rock-and-roll-heaven/
HAPPY NEW YEAR from Artie Wayne on the Web and Whoppy and Streaker on the couch!
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To reach Alan O’Day http://alanoday.com
Sebastian Prooth http://sebrt.com
Ellen Sander http://ellensander.com/crackpot.html
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If It’s On The Internet, It’s Gotta’ Be True! Triple Breasted Beauty Photo Exclusive!
Lara Banks, of Atlanta Georgia was eliminated early in the Miss America contest, not because she wasn’t pretty or smart enough, but because she was considered to have one up on everyone else in the the competition!
Darrell Hammond, of Saturday Night Live, is no longer allowed to do impersonations on the show. It seems his statute of imitations has run out!
PHOTOS! FISTFIGHTS BREAK OUT IN CONGRESS! https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/exclusive-photos-fistfights-erupt-at-washington-economics-meeting-biden-steps-down-hillary-steps-in/Will the old feud between Madonna and Angelina Jolie rear it’s ugly head when the African Baby races begin next week in Zambia?
Ousted Miss Nevada USA, Katie Rees, lost her case in the court of public opinion when Heidi Fleiss, Anna Nicole Smith, and Tonya Harding testified on her behalf!
In a recent survey, 95% of women since the 1950’s admitted to having had pre-marital sex…the other 5% lied!
“Governator” Arnold Schwartzenegger, always eager for a “Photo Op”, gladly broke his leg again as soon as the Paparazzi arrived at the scene of his skiing accident.
Next month CBS debuts the new reality show, “Armed and Famous”, in which celebrities join a real police department in Indiana and are issued badges and guns. Eric Estrada, Trish Stratus, Jack Osborne (Ozzie’s son) and LaToya Jackson’s first assignment is to hunt down Danny Bonaduce.
Bono seems to be taking his recent Knighthood seriously, and plans appear in a full suit of armor at U2’s upcoming New Years Eve concert in Dublin!
What did Justin Timberlake give Cameron Diaz for Christmas? Click in the box http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA
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For more “If It’s On The Internet…It’s Gotta’ Be True!” https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/if-you-saw-it-on-the-internetthen-you-know-its-gotta-be-true/
Even More “If You Saw It On the Internet…yada, yada, yada” https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/if-its-on-the-internetits-gotta-be-true-is-this-really-britney-spears-pussy/
To see “More” of Britney Spears…click onto https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/theres-a-crack-in-a-star-on-hollywood-boulevard-quick-call-your-publicist/
To see the”Most” of Britney Spears…click onto https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/exclusive-photos-lindsay-lohan-and-paris-hilton-on-top-of-britney-spears/
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JAMES BROWN R.I.P. ROCK N PERPETUITY!
JAMES BROWN 5/31/28 – 12/25/06
James Brown was never part of a musical genre…he Was a musical genre! I remember seeing half of his incredible stage show at the Apollo theater back in the 50’s. His shows were always twice as long as anybody elses and I was too young to navigate through the streets of Harlem or travel back to the Bronx on the subways alone after dark. I had to miss half the show…but I still felt all the excitement!
Although I’m African-American, his early records were somewhat of a mystery to me. His lengthy sparse tracks, which consisted of few lyrics on a bed of complex African and Latin rhythms, punctuated by horns, yells, and grunts were embraced only by Blacks initially. Over the years, not only was his influence felt on Pop, Disco, Hip-Hop and Rap, but his “ahead of their time” tracks were sampled over and over again!
He was one of the first Black artists to have the power to release anything he wanted and was on the forefont of the civil rights movement with songs like, ” Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud! ” He was also one of the first to make us pay attention to Women’s rights with, “It’s A Man’s World.” I’m sure that everytime Christmas comes around, I’ll not only remember the Birth of a Prince, but the passing of a King!
James Brown R.I.P. Rock In Perpetuity
See James Brown performing “Cold Sweat” on Soul Train http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2466750706053376295&q=james+brown+videos&hl=en
A short clip of James Brown being given a cape and escorted off stage http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7963982752168652171&q=james+brown+videos&hl=en
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“I Lose It When I Hear “White Christmas” – The Story Behind The Song!
As a long time lover of pop music I’ve always been curious about the story behind the song. Knowing that many of you feel the same way, I’d like to share the story behind “I Lose it When I Hear “White Christmas”, A new song that I wrote with Toni Wine (”Groovy Kind of Love”, “Candida”) which is on the Tony Orlando and Dawn “Reunion” album.
In 1995, after 20 years of being in the music buisness as a singer, songwriter, producer, being an exec at April-Blackwood, Warner Brothers music, and running Irving/ Almo, I had become too weak to even hold a guitar. Finally, I could no longer work at Allan Rinde’s legendary Chinese restaurant in Hollywood, Genghis Cohen, (which I named and hosted off and on for ten years)
When I kept falling down in the street, I knew that something was seriously wrong with me! I was uninsured, and was facing this crisis all alone. My two closest friends, Allan Rinde, was spending more and more time in Nashville with his fiance, Toni Wine…and Patti Dahlstrom, had moved back to Houston, to teach music and critical thinking at the Art Institute of Houston. I had taken to wearing all black, as I stumbled around the back streets of Hollywood, hoping I wouldn’t see anybody that I knew. I felt, for the first time in my life, that I had reached the end of the road.
Fortunately, Patti was in town for a conference, and came over to visit. I didn’t want her to see me broke and broken…but now I’m glad I did. She convinced me to swallow my pride and seek help from social services…which saved my life! I went to the USC medical center for 2 days of tests, and they kept me for 3 weeks.
It was a few days before Christmas, I was in a ward with many who were far worse off than me…and we did our best to keep each others’ spirits up. Somehow, I lost my phone book, and the only numbers that I could remember was my Mothers’, who had moved to West Virginia, and that my long time friend Alan O’Day, who was on his way out of town.
It’s a policy of most hospitals to send as many patients home for the holidays to be with their family and friends. Soon, I was the only one left in the ward, since I had nowhere else to go. One lonely night, as I sat feeling sorry for myself, I heard a group down the hall, singing Christmas carols. I followed the voices to the the children’s ward…where I heard the joyous sounds of “Jingle Bells”. It was the Salvation Army, passing out toys and candy, and singing to the kids, who wereconfined to their beds. I joined in on “Silent Night”, “Jingle Bell Rock”, and “Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer”, but when they started singing “White Christmas”…tears started running down my face, and I had to sit in another room to compose myself. This song, written by Irving Berlin, always brings back memories of family and friends in a snow covered New York City…flooding me with emotions.
10 years later, I told Toni Wine (whom I’ve known since she was 14), and showed her some lyrics I had written that fateful night “I Lose it When I Hear “White Christmas”.
She loved it, but wanted to make the story more universal. Over two writing sessions, which we started on Irving Berlin’s piano, which was given to Toni many years ago, we came up with….
“I LOSE IT WHEN THEY HEAR “WHITE CHRISTMAS”
If you want to hear the Tony Orlando and Dawn recording click http://artiewayne.com/I_Lose_It.html
If you like it, please feel to share it with a friend…if you love it, however, feel free to share it with your entire address book!
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukka and best of holidays, from Artie Wayne On The Web…and Whoppy and Streaker on the couch! Enjoy to the world!
If you’d like to see “Whoppy and Streaker Presents The Top Christmas Music Videos Of All Time!” Bing, Elvis, Band-Aid, Singing Reindeer, Bowie, Destiny’s Child, more! https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/12/15/whoppy-and-streaker-present-the-top-christmas-videos-of-all-time/
For “Nookie’s Top Christmas And Hanukka Videos!” Adam Sandler, “Hanukkah Song”, Neil Diamond, Jingle Cats, Mariah Carey, Charlie Brown Christmas, more! https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/nookies-top-holiday-video-picks/
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NOOKIE’S TOP CHRISTMAS AND HANUKKAH VIDEOS!
JUSTIN BIEBER, MICHAEL JACKSON, REINDEER SINGING , “White Christmas”, Adam Sandler’s, “Hanukkah Song”, ELVIS, , Mastinatu,BING, Carrie Underwood”, MARIAH CAREY, Bon Jovi PAUL EVANS, ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS”…and MORE! Not to be outdone by his rivals, Whoppy and Streaker, Nookie made up his own list of favorite Holiday videos and asked me to pass them along to you.
Now our first animated Christmas video, was sent to us this year by Ron and Sydney Haffkine. It features SINGING REINDEER and”White Christmas’ by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters. http://gpsinformation.info/main/merryxmas.swf
Carrie Underwood, “Oh Holy Night”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MQ-emtC1w&feature=related
TIME FOR ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, “THE CHRISTMAS SONG!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hAUWyp0qzs
HERE’S THE HEIDI LITTLE BAND AND “THE CHRISTMAS SONG” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTeG2TKt3U
NOW THE BUCKINGHAMS WITH A TASTE OF THEIR CHRISTMAS CD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyHa9btpG4
JIM MORRISON AND “JINGLE BELLS” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvj4yQF2fCU&feature=related
Here’s Donny Hathaway and “THIS CHRISTMAS” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeAO7y7k7dc&feature=related
ELVIS AND “BLUE CHRISTMAS”
Tony Orlando and Dawn with “I LOSE IT WHEN I HEAR WHITE CHRISTMAS” http://artiewayne.com/I_Lose_It.html
JUST ADDED! MICHAEL JACKSON”S NEWLY RE-MASTERED “LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE” (Clinton jr./ Wayne) from the new JACKSON FIVE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS ALBUM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjn2dv2ZqQ
Here’s Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole singing ,”The Christmas Song”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEbNKCeMgDs
“MAMA, MY SOLDIER BOY IS COMING HOME” BY THE SHIRELLES http://artiewayne.com/soldierboy.html
“THIS CHRISTMAS” BY FANTASIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqwJb44ByI0&feature=related
“Deck The Halls” with She Daisy http://www.cmt.com/videos/shedaisy/39548/deck-the-halls.jhtml
JUST ADDED! JAY TRAYNOR, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
ROLF HARRIS…MY CHRISTMAS IN THE SUN”! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMgzkzQR_8
Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” is most definitely one of the greatest Christmas songs/videos ever! Trust me!
Here are the Jingle Cats and their version of , ”Jingle Bells” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4713533704832803716&q=jingle+bells+jingle+cats&hl=en
HERE’S BING CROSBY WITH THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SONG “WHITE CHRISTMAS!
Here’s a video of Adam Sandler performing “The Hanukkah song” for the very first time on Saturday Night Live. He says, “There are a lot of Christmas songs out there, but there aren’t too many about Hanukkah. So I wrote a song for all of those nice little Jewish Kids, who dont get to hear any Hanukkah songs!” http://www.hulu.com/watch/109925/saturday-night-live-sandler-update-song
Here’s the surfing version of “O Hanukkah” by Meshugga Beach Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BILmgS5TGIU
Here’s Kenny Ellis and his hit single “Swingin’ Dreidle” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpYZIktK2Yg
A beautiful short explanation of each candle lit at Hanukkah. http://www1.msn.americangreetings.com/ecards/display.pd?prodnum=3143228&Ne=374980&N=374333+374226&offset=0&Ns=P_NEWNESS|1||P_PERFORMANCE_NUMBER|1
JUST ADDED!! BON JOVI AND RED BANK 3, SINGING “THE HANUKKAH SONG” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXtHdxN4Iw
Tom Lehrer’s “Hanukkah in Santa Monica.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSCmZU0eFJg
“HANUKKAH OH HANUKKAH” BY THE BARE NAKED LADIES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLqG3BqMC8E&feature=related
AND NOW THE MACCABEATS AND “CANDLELIGHT” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJCSR4MuhU
HERE’S MASINATU AND THE HANUKKAH SONG MUSIC VIDEO “MIRACLE” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-7WdpB72o
FINALLY HERE’S A DEMO FROM 1974 not about Christmas, but about December 26…”WHAT ABOUT THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS” (Dahlstrom/ Wayne) sung by Patti Dahlstrom
Special thanks to Jacob Richman for enriching the internet with his incredible collection of Jewish Videos. http://www.jr.co.il/index.html
VERY special thanks to Laura Pinto, Jean LeMond, Mark L. Ostrovsky, Robin Miller, and Joyce for their video suggestions.
YOU SAY YOU WANT MORE?Then click onto THE STORY BEHIND THE MOTOWN CHRISTMAS ALBUM…the classic album that almost never saw the light of day. Diana Ross, The Miracles, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson all contributed to one of the greatest albums of all time, THE MOTOWNCHRISTMAS ALBUM. It is also the story of how George Clinton, Jr. and I wrote “Little Christmas Tree” for Michael Jackson. Read all about it here.
SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! My friend Laura Pinto just put up the Original video of “Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer” as sung by Gene Autry and the original “Christmas Song” by Alvin and the Chipmunks, “Little St.Nick” by Brian Wilson, on her remarkable website! http://laurapinto.tripod.com/christmasrock/
If you liked “Nookie Presents The Top Christmas and Hanukkah Videos”, you’ll love “WHOPPY AND STREAKER’S 99 CHRISTMAS VIDEOS”.https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/the-top-the-best-and-the-greatest-christmas-music-videos/
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANNUKKAH, HAPPY KWANZA…FROM ARTIE WAYNE ON THE WEB!
Copyright 2011 by Artie Wayne http://artiewayne.com
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Teach A Class
FELICE HOUSE | MAY 2016
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Felice Trees, Oil on canvas, 36 x 72 inches
Interview conducted by Deedra Baker, Art Room Program Director
Felice House is a figurative painter who strives, through her portrayals of women, to provide a counterpoint to the passive female representations found in art historical tradition. She has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA in painting from the University of Texas. In between her other schooling, House spent time studying classical painting and portraiture at the Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
In the past year, House has exhibited work in galleries and museums across the United States and Canada including Maryland, Georgia, Colorado, Louisiana, Tennessee, New Mexico, Texas, and Nova Scotia. Her co-authored paper, “Female Heroes: A Survey of Warrior Women in Painting and Sculpture,” was accepted and presented at the Traditional Representational Art Conference in Ventura, California this fall. This past spring her involvement in the international Women Painting Women movement lead her to coproduce Women Painting Women: Texas, a juried exhibition that highlighted fourteen prominent figurative artists working in Texas today. House’s work is collected both publicly and privately. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, sculptor, Dana Younger. She is an Assistant Professor in the Visualization Department at Texas A&M University. — Felice House
Nedah Clouds, Oil on canvas, 36 x 72 inches
Whether working individually or as a couple, painter Felice House and sculptor Dana Younger produce images and objects that address some of society’s most fundamental binaries: the masculine versus the feminine, the natural versus the cultural, the part versus the whole. House and Younger share an affinity for the representational, the figurative and the naturalistic, all of which make their works immediately—though sometimes deceptively—accessible. Presented larger than life, the faces and limbs operate within a realm of simultaneous contrast, each appearing more striking in proximity to the others than in his or her absence. Neither icons, nor ruins nor relics, but participating in the classical academic and cultural traditions in which all three arose and flourished, the works in this exhibition celebrate the human figure and the human form in order to expose some of the dangers inherent in an anthropocentric worldview. The resulting tension between superficial beauty and philosophical provocation creates an expansive and fertile interpretive space within which the viewer can project and reflect on his or her own senses of self, nature, and wholeness.
— Dr. Stephen Caffey, art historian, critic, and curator
Deedra Baker: Describe how your background and education in tradition and classical painting has influenced your current working methodologies.
Felice House: Like many, I went to art school, had a great time, and left with very little information about how to paint in a representational manner. For some, this is not an issue, but since I wanted to do this for a living I needed more training. My quest led me to the Schuler School of Fine Arts, a classical atelier in Baltimore, Maryland. Their six-week summer session opened my eyes to the wealth of information available on representational painting. I studied at Schuler for three summers and one full year. As a producer and lover of representational figure painting, I think the key is to learn a traditional set of skills that you can then use to convey a more contemporary message.
Sarah Fire, Oil on canvas, 24 x 48 inches
DB: What or who inspires you as an artist?
FH: My mom is an artist. She had a painting/drawing studio in our house when I was growing up. As a kid, she took me with her to life drawing sessions. Because of her, I had posters of Ingres’ portrait of the “Countess d'Haussonville” and Renoir’s “Girl with a Falcon” in my bedroom. When I walked into my first painting class in college, holding a box of my mother’s old paints, I felt perfectly at home.
My mom and I still talk about painting all the time. My husband is a sculptor, whom I show with regularly. In my job at Texas A&M, I teach students how to paint. It is so fun.
I am inspired and fueled by the connections and innovations that come from making, teaching and showing art. I am inspired by those whom I can tell have poured themselves into their artistic practice: Laura Knight, Paula Rego, Sorolla, Sargent. I am inspired by WWII propaganda posters, screen printing, good abstract painting, studying anatomy….I could go on and on…..
DB: Your work utilizes the traditional female figure in a contemporary, non-consumable manner. Describe how you have come to paint this subject matter and how you feel you achieve a unique viewpoint of the female form.
FH: Historically portrayals of women in painting were made by men for men. For this reason, we have come to accept over sexualized depictions of women as standard, normal and inevitable. It is going to take some effort on the part of artists and viewers to change the dialog about women to be more multidimensional. I have always been interested in realigning and reinterpreting the gender/power dynamic in our culture. Posture, eye contact, scale, color, and brush mark are some of the methods that I use to challenge the status quo. For example, the subjects in my series of paintings SUM YOU SOME ME, recently on display at Artroom gallery, are placed confrontationally in the center of the frame. They are twice life-size and cropped down to just their head and shoulders. Through this cropping, I am only giving the viewer access to the real power center of women, their head. The landscapes behind the figures refer back to the subject’s emotional state, or internal reality, rather than referencing anything external. In my previous series of large-scale paintings, RE•WESTERN, I projected contemporary women into heroic roles in classic western movies. Through the use of the gender flip, I asked the audience to question cultures gendered notion of the hero.
Misha Sky, Oil on canvas, 36 x 72 inches
DB: As an artist, do you find yourself working on several bodies of work at once or do you focus on a single project? What are you working on now?
FH: Since taking a full time teaching position at Texas A&M I have gained more flexibility and support to develop bodies of work. Previously, when I needed to pay the bills, I would interrupt my work on a series to take on individual commission or sell off a painting before getting to display it with a group.
I am currently working on a series of drawings that fit into my SUM YOU SOME ME body of work. The drawings, like the paintings, are head and shoulders portraits of women. Unlike the paintings, the drawings are vertical, black and white and created with vine charcoal. The twist of these portraits is that the woman’s hair transitions into a plant form. It has been really fun to focus on drawing; though I have always drawn, I have never presented them as finished pieces. I feel like a whole new avenue has opened up.
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Hitler Had Jewish, African Roots DNA Tests Suggest
Recent DNA tests of relatives of Adolf Hitler suggest that the Fuehrer of Nazi Germany, whose ideology was based on the primacy of “racial purity” and the existence of a master race and the extermination of “lesser races”, had Jewish and African roots.
According to the UK Telegraph:
“Jean-Paul Mulders, a Belgian journalist, and Marc Vermeeren, a historian, tracked down the Fuhrer’s relatives, including an Austrian farmer who was his cousin, earlier this year.
“A chromosome called Haplogroup E1b1b1 which showed up in their samples is rare in Western Europe and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
“‘One can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised,’ Mr Mulders wrote in the Belgian magazine, Knack.
“Haplogroup E1b1b1, which accounts for approximately 18 to 20 per cent of Ashkenazi and 8.6 per cent to 30 per cent of Sephardic Y-chromosomes, appears to be one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population.”
Hitler’s father Alois is suspected of being the illegitimate offspring of a maid and a 19-year-old Jewish man.
The findings suggests a strange and bitter irony arising out of the horrible history of World War II. Hitler’s Nazi Party prescribed the extermination of “sub human races”, especially Jews. This extermination was carried out before and during the Second World War on an industrial scale, with 6 million Jews being annihilated, primarily in gas chambers in death camps such as Auschwitz and Dachau.
That Hitler himself was not the Aryan ideal can be realized in a glance. The Fuehrer of Nazi Germany was hardly a tall, blue-eyed, blond-haired ubermann. Hitler was short; dark-haired; and, with the tooth brush moustache, somewhat funny looking in a Chaplinesque way.
The existence of DNA, not to mention DNA testing, was unknown during the Nazi era. But one with a whimsical turn of mind could imagine an alternate history in which the Nazi Reich survived and DNA testing would be used to weed out the untermeschen and mark them for obliteration. How many blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryans would have been marked as having unacceptable DNA in that case?
Going even further, what would happen in the alternate Nazi reality if some researcher had gotten a hold of – say – a little bit of Hitler’s hair and done a DNA test, as have Mulders and Vermeeren in our history? Consternation and anarchy? Or a cover up? Seems like there is an alternate history story there.
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Adult Time Partners with SinfulXXX for New Content Deal, Launches Channel July 11th
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Most recently, Colin co-founded Boodigo.com, a privacy-focused adult internet search engine that supports the adult industry in many ways.
An eloquent, witty and thought-provoking commentator, Colin is a frequent contributor to industry trade publications and websites, including Adult Video News and other media outlets. He has been interviewed by and featured on International Business Times, CNBC, Rolling Stone Magazine, BBC Television, the Fox Network, HBO, ABC Nightline, NewsCorp, Time and Wired magazines, Cnet.com and Bnet.com.Most recently, Colin was awarded the 2015 Progressive Leadership of the Year XBIZ Executive Award.
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Dan Parham
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Dan Parham co-founded Neighborland with Candy Chang and Tee Parham. Neighborland is a communications platform (SaaS) that empowers civic organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way. As a social enterprise, Neighborland has worked with over 200 civic organizations including city agencies, universities, foundations, and local non-profits. Over 750,000 U.S. residents have participated on Neighborland projects to date.
Neighborland is a distributed company with employees in Boulder, New Orleans, Oakland, and San Francisco. Dan led Neighborland’s $1.25m seed funding in 2012 with True Ventures, Obvious Corporation, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, SV Angel, and Crunchfund. Projects on Neighborland have yielded over $100m in social and economic impact, including the $30m community benefit agreement negotiation between the City of San Francisco and Central Market businesses (including Twitter, Spotify, and Microsoft).
In 2010, Dan traveled across Asia to research, photograph, and write about urban design. Inspired by Candy's tactical civic engagement installations at the time, he moved to New Orleans to collaborate with Candy on developing products for Civic Center. Neighborland is based on Candy’s project “I Wish This Was.”
Before founding Neighborland, Dan was a Director of User Experience at Yahoo, working for the Marketplaces and Advertising Platform teams. As a Director of UX, Dan led product design and research for Yahoo Autos and Real Estate. He also directed the integration of the Right Media Exchange ($650m acquisition) into Yahoo’s core advertising platform. Dan focused on recruiting exceptional design talent into the company (12 product designers), and built high performing, distributed design teams across offices in New York, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. Previously, Dan was the Associate Creative Director for Aol’s entertainment division. Dan recruited, hired, and managed over 30 product designers and developers in Aol’s New York City office. Dan was the Creative Director of several of the company’s most successful products, including Aol Music. In 2007, Dan led a small, internal team of designers and developers on Aol’s platform redesign, which was used by over 250 million people, and delivered over $2b in advertising revenue for the company.
Dan’s work has been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation, Venice Biennale of Architecture, American Institute of Graphic Arts, and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Dan has spoken about urban design at the Smart Cities World Congress in Barcelona, American Institute of Architects in San Francisco, California Historical Society in San Francisco, Adaptive Metropolis Conference at the University of California Berkeley, and SPUR.
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Interview with comedian Laurence Clark
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Laurence Clark – An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting Tour 2018
“An engaging clown” SUNDAY TIMES “Natural wit” DAILY EXPRESS
“Wickedly funny” HERALD★★★★★ “Dangerously funny” SCOTSMAN★★★★
Writer and actor Laurence Clark brings his 10th critically acclaimed comedy show, ‘An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting’, to the UK this year after its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival. His observational, political stand-up and filmed stunts demonstrate the endearing naivety and ridiculousness of human behaviour by seeing the world through his eyes with humour and warmth.
Growing up, Laurence never came across any dads with cerebral palsy; which made him think he would never be one himself. Besides, he was way too selfish to look after another human being. He was in love with having a disposable income and going for a poo with no children watching… and having a lie-in without someone belly flopping onto him at 6am!
But then…he meets his wife to be Adele. Who makes it clear that if they’re to have a future, then he had better be prepared for the fact she wants a family…which came as a shock on a first date! What follows is the hilarious, honest, warm story of two people with cerebral palsy traversing the ups and downs of parenthood.
Over the years people on social media have commented that they think it’s irresponsible for Laurence and his wife to have kids in their situation. So he now wants to set the record straight – if he is an irresponsible father, it’s got nothing to do with being disabled! It’s probably more to do with things like strategically balancing his wife’s crutches on his son’s baby walker to make him look like a Dalek!
Interview with Laurence Clarke
Laurence kindly spoke to me more about his show in this interview with me…amidst lots of laughing too.
Can you give me a little snapshot into your show and what inspired you to write an ‘Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting Your 2018’
My kids have got more and more curious about what I do for a living and they asked me if they could be in one of my shows. I have struggled for a while how I could that in a way that didn’t feel added on or exploitative. I wanted to do a show about being a father for a while. We made a documentary 5 or 6 years ago for the BBC and in December that got loaded onto Youtube. Hundreds of thousands of people watched it and people say the first things that come into their heads in the comments underneath. We were all a bit upset about some of the things that people wrote and wanted to do something in response to that. Then I thought it would actually be better that I could say I am a great dad and my wife is a great mum, but it is a lot stronger from my kids. So I picked out 8 comments of the main kind of things people were saying and misconceptions and I filmed my kids reading them for the first time and their reactions to them, which is how I managed to include them.
To touch upon the title, I was really shocked to hear people had said it was irresponsible for you to be a parent on social media and were negative. What would you say to these people now?
We deconstruct their misconceptions and show them up for what they are.
The relationship with you and Adele is obviously really strong. What’s your favourite things about being a husband & father?
(There was a lot of laughing here. Followed by a quick offline chat with Adele…which led to more laughing). That’s really difficult (more laughs). Obviously you have someone to share the work and the pain. This morning, Jamie hasn’t seen me in 8.5 days. I keep saying it’s a week but he keeps correcting me. He came in this morning and gave me a big hug.
I read your first comedy gig was at a cabaret night at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. What made you first go into comedy and what do you love about it so much?
I always wanted to be do comedy but really I wanted to be a writer. I was getting nowhere sending off scripts as no-one does. I enjoyed it initially as a way of trying it out. It grew from there.
I am off to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time this year. What do you love about performing at the Fringe?
It’s a great atmosphere and audiences are happy to take a risk Go see people they have’t heard of before or maybe a bit different from the norm. Feels like because the rest of the year comedians are mostly do comedy clubs which are mostly in cellars and attics and places which are not accessible. It feels like the Fringe is more of a levelling field.
What advice would you give to other people starting out in comedy?
To go for it and get as much practice as you can because the more you do it the better it will get. You have to learn the hard way. Even now even though I have been doing it so long. Some jokes don’t work. The only real way to find out is so funny is put it in front of an audience. You might find it funny but they don’t.
Laurence Clarke – the comedian and writer
Laurence has performed everywhere from the House of Commons to a double-decker bus in Sheffield. His 9 critically acclaimed solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe have gained him a plethora of four and five star reviews. With television appearances on BBC, ITV and Channel 4, Laurence was the subject of major BBC1 documentary “We Won’t Drop the Baby”. He was awarded Shortlist magazine’s Funniest New Comedian, came runner-up in the Amused Moose Edinburgh Laughter Awards and performs and writes sketches for comedy collective Abnormally Funny People.
In March 2018 Laurence’s first play, Cured won an Unlimited R&D commission from over 200 entries. It tells the story of 4 young disabled Scousers who rebel during a Catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes and will premiere at Liverpool’s Royal Court theatre in November. Laurence and collaborator Matt Holt have been commissioned by Channel 4 to write a pilot for their sitcom Intolerable, about two incompetent equality and diversity trainers. The sitcom is currently in development with production company Objective Fiction. In addition, Lime Pictures have also just optioned Help, Laurence’s drama series set in Liverpool about people who use social care.
Laurence is currently performing at the Edinburgh Fringe before taking his show on a nationwide tour. Do go and see him!
Fri 7th LONDON – Southbank Centre – Unlimited Festival
Thur 13th STOKE ON TRENT – ROFL Comedy Club
Fri 12th LEICESTER – Richard Attenborough Centre
Tue 16th ORMSKIRK – Edge Hill Arts Centre
Fri 19th STOCKTON – Arc
Fri 24th LIVERPOOL – Unity Theatre – DaDa Fest
Sat 1st ST HELENS – Citadel
Tue 11th COLCHESTER – Arts Centre
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Paramount Media Group, Inc. v. Village of Bellwood
In 2005 Paramount leased a parcel of highway-adjacent property in Bellwood, Illinois, planning to erect a billboard. Paramount never applied for a local permit. When Bellwood enacted a ban on new billboard permits in 2009, Paramount lost the opportunity to build its sign. Paramount later sought to take advantage of an exception to the ban for village-owned property, offering to lease a different parcel of highway-adjacent property directly from Bellwood. Bellwood accepted an offer from Image, one of Paramount’s competitors. Paramount sued Bellwood and Image, alleging First Amendment, equal-protection, due-process, Sherman Act, and state-law violations. The Seventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of the defendants. Paramount lost its lease while the suit was pending, which mooted its claim for injunctive relief from the sign ban. The claim for damages was time-barred, except for an alleged equal-protection violation. That claim failed because Paramount was not similarly situated to Image; Paramount offered Bellwood $1,140,000 in increasing installments over 40 years while Image offered a lump sum of $800,000. Bellwood and Image are immune from Paramount’s antitrust claims. The court did not consider whether a market-participant exception to that immunity exists because Paramount failed to support its antitrust claims. View "Paramount Media Group, Inc. v. Village of Bellwood" on Justia Law
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Knight Capital Partners Corp. v. Henkel AG & Co.
KCP, the plaintiff, had hoped to act as a middleman in a potential distribution deal for a novel cleaning product and targeted Henkel, a large consumer products company as a potential distributor. KCP and Henkel entered into a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to aid in the negotiations of a distribution deal. KCP provided Henkel with confidential information about the product. Following a year of exchanging information and engaging in negotiations, the NDA lapsed, and no deal was consummated. KCP asserts that Henkel’s parent company, Henkel KGaA, used confidential information it acquired through the NDA to develop the product on its own and also interfered with the potential distribution deal. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of KGaA. As to a breach of contract claim, the court found that KGaA was not a party to the NDA and could not be liable for its breach. As to a tortious interference claim, the court found that KGaA is the parent company of Henkel, so the parent-subsidiary privilege immunizes it from a tortious interference claim involving its subsidiary; the court found that the narrow “improper motive” exception to that privilege did not apply. The Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of KGaA, KCP has not presented sufficient evidence of any improper motive or means to pierce the parent-subsidiary privilege. View "Knight Capital Partners Corp. v. Henkel AG & Co." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Contracts, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc.
The Ninth Circuit certified the following questions to the California Supreme Court: Does section 16600 of the California Business and Professions Code void a contract by which a business is restrained from engaging in a lawful trade or business with another business? Is a plaintiff required to plead an independently wrongful act in order to state a claim for intentional interference with a contract that can be terminated by a party at any time, or does that requirement apply only to at-will employment contracts? View "Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc." on Justia Law
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Enterprise Financial Group Inc. v. Podhorn
The absence of a judgment in the state court litigation does not mean that plaintiff lacks Article III standing to bring this suit. Enterprise filed suit against several defendants, alleging a claim under the Missouri Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. The district court dismissed the complaint without prejudice based on the ground that there was no case or controversy because Enterprise lacked Article III standing. The Eighth Circuit reversed and held that Enterprise has alleged facts sufficient to demonstrate the elements of standing. In this case, Enterprise has sufficiently alleged a present injury in fact, fairly traceable to defendants, as the transferees of the funds. Therefore, the court remanded for further proceedings. View "Enterprise Financial Group Inc. v. Podhorn" on Justia Law
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Alarm Detection Systems, Inc. v. Village of Schaumburg
Schaumburg’s 2016 ordinance requires commercial buildings to send fire‐alarm signals directly to the local 911 dispatch center, NWCDS, which has an exclusive arrangement with Tyco. To send signals to NWCDS, local buildings must use Tyco equipment. Schaumburg’s notice of the ordinance referred to connection through Tyco and stated that accounts would be charged $81 per month to rent Tyco’s radio transmitters and for the monitoring service. Tyco pays NWCDS an administrative fee of $23 per month for each account it connects to the NWCDS equipment. Tyco’s competitors filed suit charging violations of constitutional, antitrust, and state tort law. The district court dismissed the case. The Seventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of the Contracts Clause claim against Schaumburg. The complaint alleges a potentially significant impairment, the early cancellation of the competitors’ contracts, and Schaumburg’s self‐interest, $300,000 it stands to gain. The court otherwise affirmed, noting that entities not alleged to have taken legislative action cannot be liable under the Contracts Clause. WIth respect to constitutional claims, the court noted the government’s important interest in fire safety. Rejecting antitrust claims, the court stated that the complaint did not allege a prohibited agreement, as opposed to an independent, legislative decision. View "Alarm Detection Systems, Inc. v. Village of Schaumburg" on Justia Law
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Ex parte Valley National Bank.
Valley National Bank ("VNB") petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to direct the Montgomery Circuit Court to dismiss a declaratory-judgment action filed against VNB by Jesse Blount, Wilson Blount, and William Blount. William owned a 33% interest in Alabama Utility Services, LLC ("AUS"). William also served as the president of WWJ Corporation, Inc. ("WWJ"), and WWJ managed AUS. Wilson and Jesse, William's sons, owned all the stock of WWJ. In May 2013, William transferred his 33% interest in AUS to WWJ, and WWJ then owned all of the interest in AUS. In July 2015, VNB obtained a $905,599.90 judgment against William in an action separate from the underlying action. On August 31, 2015, Asset Management Professionals, LLC, purchased from WWJ all the assets of AUS for $1,600,000. On July 17, 2018, the Blounts filed a declaratory-judgment action seeking a judgment declaring "that (a) William's transfer of his interest in AUS to WWJ was not fraudulent as to [VNB], (b) William was not the alter ego of AUS or WWJ, (c) the sale of AUS did not result in a constructive trust in favor of [VNB], and (d) the [Blounts] did not engage in a civil conspiracy." VNB responded by filing a motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1) and (b)(6), Ala. R. Civ. P., asserting the lack of subject-matter jurisdiction and the lack of a justiciable controversy. The parties were referred to mediation, which was unsuccessful. The Supreme Court determined that with regard to the Blounts' complaint, insofar as it sought a judgment declaring that William's transfer of his interest in AUS to WWJ was not fraudulent as to VNB and that the Blounts did not engage in a civil conspiracy, a declaratory-judgment action was inappropriate as a means of resolving those issues. Therefore, VNB had demonstrated a clear legal right to have its motion to dismiss granted as to those claims. With regard to the alter-ego claim and the constructive-trust claim, VNB did not demonstrate "a clear legal right" to have those claims dismissed. The Court therefore granted in part, and denied in part, the petition for mandamus relief. View "Ex parte Valley National Bank." on Justia Law
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Smithberg v. Smithberg, et al.
Ronald Smithberg appealed a judgment ordering Smithberg Brothers, Inc., to purchase his interest in the family farm corporation for $169,985 and dismissing on summary judgment his other claims against the corporation and its remaining shareholders, Gary and James Smithberg. After review, the North Dakota Supreme Court concluded Ronald Smithberg raised genuine issues of material fact regarding his claims against the corporation and Gary and James Smithberg, and the district court erred in granting summary judgment dismissing those claims. The court’s valuation of Ronald Smithberg’s interest in the corporation was reversed because his interest could not be valuated until his derivative claims on behalf of the corporation were resolved. View "Smithberg v. Smithberg, et al." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Civil Procedure, North Dakota Supreme Court, Real Estate & Property Law
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Ballard
The Court of Chancery granted in part and denied in part Defendants' motion to dismiss Plaintiff's complaint brought in an effort to collect on an unpaid judgment, holding that one claim must be dismissed as untimely. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. sued Data Treasury Corporation (DTC) and obtained a final judgment against DTC for $69 million. JPMorgan bought this action in an effort to collect on its judgment. DTC moved to dismiss all of JPMorgan's claims on a variety of grounds. JPMorgan claimed that DTC's directors should be liable for dividends DTC paid its stockholders after DTC licensed its patents to someone other than JPMorgan in violation of DTC's obligation to tell JPMorgan under a license agreement. JP Morgan also claimed it was entitled to recover the distributions because they were fraudulent transfers. The Court of Chancery held (1) JPMorgan had standing as a creditor of DTC to assert a claim under Section 174 to recover for itself and other creditors of DTC the dividends DTC paid; (2) the six-year limitations period in 8 Del. C. 174 is a statute of repose. The court thus finds that JPMorgan’s Section 174 claim must be dismissed as untimely; and (3) all of JPMorgan’s fraudulent transfer claims were timely filed. View "JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Ballard" on Justia Law
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Chelsea Housing Authority v. McLaughlin
The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the superior court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants, the former accounts of Plaintiff, the Chelsea Housing Authority, on the ground that Plaintiff's claim of negligence against Defendants was barred by the common-law doctrine of in pari delicto, holding that, by enacting Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, 87A 3/4, the Legislature intended to preempt the doctrine of in pari delicto in cases where an accountant is sued for failing to detect fraud committed by a client. In this action, Plaintiff sought to recover the losses incurred from the accountants' alleged negligent failure to detect the fraudulent conduct of its former executive director, its former finance director, and others. A superior court judge concluded that Plaintiff's claim was barred by the doctrine of in pari delicto without addressing the applicability of section 87A 3/4. The Supreme Judicial Court vacated the summary judgment, holding that the Legislature has preempted the common-law doctrine of in pari delicto doctrine as it applies to the negligent conduct of accountants and auditors in failing to detect fraud. View "Chelsea Housing Authority v. McLaughlin" on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
FCS Advisors, LLC v. Missouri
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of an action brought by an investor, alleging that Missouri fraudulently induced a loan between the investor and EngagePoint and illegally discriminated against EngagePoint. The court held that the investor failed to plead fraud with particularity. The court also held that the investor's unlawful discrimination claims failed because it has failed to identify any impaired contractual relationship under which it had rights, and 42 U.S.C. 1981 does not allow the investor to sue on EngagePoint's behalf. Similarly, the investor failed to state a discrimination claim under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. View "FCS Advisors, LLC v. Missouri" on Justia Law
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Marvell to Acquire Aquantia, Eying Automotive Networking Market
May 7, 2019 JamesNetworking
Marvell on Monday announced that it had reached an agreement to buy the networking specialist firm Aquantia for $452 million. The acquisition will allow Marvell to significantly augment their current networking capabilities, with the company intending to use Aquantia’s technology in future PC, enterprise, and especially in-vehicle applications.
Under the terms of the deal, Marvell will pay Aquantia shareholders $13.25 per share in cash, bringing the total value of the deal to $452 million. The transaction has already been approved by board of directors of both companies, and subject to regulatory approval, is expected to close by the end of calendar year 2019.
Aquantia for its part is best known for their Multi-Gig (2.5G/5G/10G) Ethernet controllers for a variety of markets, including PC, datacenter, and automotive. In fact it’s this latter market that seems to have caught Marvell’s eye, as the bulk of Marvell’s official press release is dedicated to talking about automotive applications. Marvell in particular is looking to grow their high-speed in-car networking product portfolio, with Aquantia’s multi-gig technology helping Marvell to deliver products with enough bandwidth for level 4 and level 5 autonomous driving systems. Fittingly, on a broader basis Marvell is expecting the market for in-vehicle networking to grow significantly over the coming years, citing one study that expects over 350 million ports by 2022.
Meanwhile, commenting on the buyout from their end, Aquantia’s CEO and chairman Faraj Aalaei had this to say:
“Marvell and Aquantia share a vision where the network – whether in an autonomous vehicle, an enterprise application or in cloud infrastructure – can seamlessly power the data economy. This is a fantastic opportunity as our customers will benefit from Marvell’s global scale and expanding footprint in Multi-Gig network applications.”
It’s also noteworthy here that along with Aquantia’s technology, Marvell will get to acquire Aquantia’s business connections. This includes Aquantia’s collaboration with NVIDIA for their Xavier and Pegasus Drive AGX systems, which in turn are expected to be adopted by a number of auto makers. So this potentially opens the door to a much larger market for Marvell.
Overall the buyout of Aquantia is the latest high-profile acquisition for Marvell. The company previously picked up CPU and SoC specialist Cavium in late 2017, using their technology to improve Marvell’s own SoCs. With the addition of Aquantia, Marvell has developed a rather deep portfolio of products and IP that can be used by a variety of applications, from embedded to automotive to the datacenter.
As for Aquantia, it’s worth noting that the sale comes at a time where the company has been struggling to grow out of startup mode and become profitable. Also released today were the company’s Q1’19 earnings, where Aquantia lost $13M on $17M in revenue. These sorts of acquisitions are negotiated over many months, so the Marvell buyout shouldn’t be a direct reaction to their Q1 earnings. But on the whole Aquantia hasn’t been in the black yet, making an acquisition one way to stabilize the core business.
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Home News & Notes FYI How Frugal MacDoogal Remains On Top Despite Industry Shifts
How Frugal MacDoogal Remains On Top Despite Industry Shifts
Melissa Niksic
Charles Sonnenberg knows how to capture consumer interest.
In the past, his three-store chain of Frugal MacDoogal stores has been known to entertain customers by bringing a live elephant to the store parking lot, hiring musicians to play piano music in stores, and even having mimes perform for customers waiting in checkout lanes.
However, many things have changed in the 30+ years Sonnenberg has been part of the industry. The days of retailers simply being able to open their doors each morning waiting for customers to arrive and offering the same products as everyone else are long gone. Diverse product lines, increased competition and unanticipated legislative changes all have forced retailers to up their game and fight to hold onto their place in a more competitive market than ever before.
Because of Sonnenberg’s business savvy and his ability to forecast how future changes will impact his business, he’s managed to stay a step ahead of the competition and maintain Frugal MacDoogal’s position as a top beverage retail destination.
Charles Sonnenberg (front) has been in the business for more than 30 years.
Rolling With The Punches
Sonnenberg, who previously held an on-premise license before entering the retail side of the industry, has always been a bit of a trendsetter.
He opened the first Frugal MacDoogal location in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee, in an era when the concept of a big-box liquor store was virtually unheard of. After several years, Sonnenberg was ready to expand the Frugal MacDoogal brand.
However, Tennessee law does not allow package store chains, so Sonnenburg set his sight on other states. He ultimately opened a second Frugal MacDoogal location in Fort Mill, South Carolina, in 1990. A second South Carolina store opened in Columbia in 2004.
Over the years, Sonnenberg has witnessed many shifts in the industry, and he’s learned to stay on top of the changing tides in order to remain as competitive as possible.
“I’ve seen some remarkable things,” he recalls. “It used to be that we had two or three brands accounting for 80% of any particular category. These days at any given time, we have 35 – 40 craft gins alone. We see that the consumer has very different expectations compared to the consumer of years past. Also, through the evolution of technology, consumers and retailers have access to a plethora of information, which requires retailers to be more informed and invested in the industry.”
With the boom of areas such as the craft beer industry and a focus on education, consumers are now more aware of product offerings and distinctions than ever before. Although Sonnenberg’s chain of Frugal MacDoogal stores is spread out over multiple states and cities, he is quick to point out that none of the locations are identical in terms of appearance or product selections.
“Two of our stores are physically larger than the other, but more importantly, the demographics of each store is very different,” he says.
In Nashville, Sonnenberg remembers a time when customers would commute more than 50 miles to visit his store. However, the city has experienced dramatic growth over the past several decades, especially in the downtown area where Frugal MacDoogal is located.
With such growth came additional retail competition. Population shifts included a boom of Millennials, and Sonnenberg says that a large portion of his consumer base now consists of young professionals who spend a significant portion of their income on lifestyle and entertainment options.
This consumer base also happens to be well-educated about the beverage industry, and they deliberately seek out retailers that offer the latest product selections and additional information about the items on store shelves, particularly in the fine wine and craft beer segments.
Conversely, while one of Sonnenberg’s South Carolina stores is located in a booming geographical area, the other is set in a less affluent location, meaning that products at each store are tailored to suit each target customer’s budget.
“You sell what the customer wants – that’s the bottom line,” Sonnenberg says. “We also bill ourselves as a low-price leader, and we need to continue to be a leader in that area no matter what.”
He also notes that it’s more difficult to hold consumers’ interest and keep them engaged than it was in years past.
“Before, we used to try and make the stores exciting and offer entertainment as part of the shopping experience,” Sonnenberg reflects. “Now you need to use social media to keep customers engaged. It’s become less about entertainment and more about giving them meaningful product information and a tasting experience.”
Frugal MacDoogal has long since recognized the value of investing in social media, which is a challenging undertaking for brick-and-mortar stores that don’t have the added advantage of selling online.
Sonnenberg has staff members who work closely with an external social media specialist to generate content designed to engage customers and draw them into the stores. He encourages other retailers to invest in this technology by bringing in the expertise of outside professionals in order to take full advantage of social media’s reach and metrics.
There are three Furgal MacDoogal stores in TN and SC.
Sonnenberg is also very committed to providing consumer education about products through events like in-store tastings and activities. As a result, he also dedicates time to developing educational opportunities for his approximately 50 employees, who can take advantage of beer festivals, winery trips and other activities designed to deepen their knowledge about beverage products and the industry.
Another unique opportunity afforded to Frugal MacDoogal staff members is the chance to participate in an employee stock option plan. The program, which launched two years ago, essentially makes every employee an owner in the business.
“They get rewarded and it’s an incentive for them as a stockholder to go a little farther in their work each day,” Sonnenberg explains. “It’s just one example of our strategy to empower staff as much as we can.”
Modernizing Operations
Sonnenberg’s desire to be as informed as possible helped him coordinate some extensive planning in advance of a new law that went into effect last year.
Until then, Frugal MacDoogal’s 18,000-square-foot Nashville location actually consisted of two separate stores with different entrances. It was constructed that way because Tennessee state law prohibited the sale of wine and spirits in supermarkets and also banned the sale of beer in liquor stores. As a result, the Nashville location was split into a wine and liquor store and a second party store that offered beer, snacks, soft drinks, glassware, gifts, and other items.
However, as of July 1, 2016, a new state law permitted the sale of wine in Tennessee grocery stores. While this change made it easier for consumers to pick up a bottle of wine at the same location where they purchase their food, it posed a huge challenge for beverage retailers who were already struggling to remain competitive.
When Sonnenberg realized that the new law would put his business at an extreme disadvantage once it went into effect, he decided to do something about it.
“This change has had enormous repercussions in the marketplace, but we used it as an opportunity to contemporize out interior in terms of aesthetics and function,” Sonnenberg states. “We knew we had to take advantage of the chance to retail under one roof.”
For three months prior to the new regulation’s implementation, Sonnenberg’s Nashville store was under construction. The undertaking was both extensive and expensive because Sonnenberg opted for the store to remain open the entire time during the renovations.
In order for that to happen, he had to pay a premium for contractors to begin work at 11 p.m. each evening after the store closed, work all through the night, and have the store operational again by 8 a.m. the following morning. Some of the many changes made to the store include removal of the drop ceiling, updates to the HVAC systems, removal of partition walls between the retail wine and liquor stores, installation of a single store entrance and automated doors and the addition of a growler station with 24 taps.
Changes made to the store includethe addition of a growler station with 24 taps.
Sonnenberg says that even though his customers were inconvenienced during the many months the store was under construction, consumer reaction to the renovated space has been overwhelmingly positive. Despite the large-scale renovations, however, Frugal MacDoogal’s Nashville location hasn’t generated a significant boost in overall revenue.
“We are confident it was money well-spent, and we are very happy with the results of the renovation itself,” he states. “Retailers are often hesitant to invest in this kind of capital expenditure without being sure of the reward. In our case, we are seeing increases in some aspects of the business, but wine sales have inevitably declined as a result of the new legislation. We’ve had to find more esoteric products for our customers to maintain their interest. The competition makes it necessary to find other profit centers.”
Even though the Nashville location’s sales aren’t what Sonnenberg would like them to be, he thinks the store is in a much better position now than it would be had the renovations not taken place last year.
With so many changes to legislation affecting the beverage alcohol industry, retailers need to stay on top of things to ensure they understand proposed changes and how their business may be impacted. Sonnenberg urges retailers to be active members of industry associations and maintain constant awareness of potential regulation changes.
“More than ever before, the political consequences of proposed legislation and the need to remain involved is critical,” Charles Sonnenberg stresses.
“More than ever before, the political consequences of proposed legislation and the need to remain involved is critical,” Sonnenberg stresses. “Remember that we are a privileged license, and everything the legislation does affects us. It is essential to remain politically engaged. Otherwise we end up shouldering the costs with no benefit.”
In addition to being politically active, Sonnenberg also thinks it’s vital for retailers to maintain an active presence in the community and to remember the importance of giving back.
For the past several years, the Tennessee store has collaborated with the National Hockey League’s Nashville Predators team on an annual event for approximately 1,250 donors who enjoy an evening of fine wines, beer and liquors paired with a formal dinner served on the covered ice rink at Bridgestone Arena.
Guests can also bid on various auctions, and all proceeds benefit the Nashville Predators Foundation. Frugal MacDoogal also partners closely with the Nashville Zoo on charitable events, as Sonnenberg strongly supports the organization’s commitment to children and education.
Frugal’s Future
So what’s next for the Frugal MacDoogal chain? Sonnenberg doesn’t refute the idea of additional expansions.
“We will expand if the opportunity arises,” he says. “Maybe in Tennessee, or possibly out of state. My primary focus right now is to transition many of my responsibilities to the management team so I can play more of a strategic role and have less of a hand in daily operations.”
Until then, rest assured that Sonnenberg will still be at the helm of Frugal MacDoogal, all but guaranteeing that it will be a successful retail chain for decades to come. bd
Melissa Niksic is a freelance writer and marketing communications strategist from Chicago, IL. Her work has appeared in Chicago’s Daily Herald newspaper, Time Out Chicago, Suburban Life newspapers, and various magazines. She is also the author of several children’s books. Follow her @MelissaNiksic.
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Gordon called the Baranovskaya bitch
The presenter told us about working with the Director on the film “Uncle Sasha”. The premiere is expected in early June at the festival “Kinotavr”. Yulia Baranovskaya got the role itself. According to Gordon, his colleague in the shop did great work.
On 29-th Open Russian film festival “Kinotavr” which will pass in Sochi from 2 to 10 June, will show a Comedy “Uncle Sasha” Alexander Gordon. In the movie is played Anna Saliva, Agniya Kuznetsova, Nikita Efremov, Sergey Puskepalis, Olga Yakovleva, Director and co-host on the program “Male / Female” Yulia Baranovskaya. Participation in the film was an interesting experience for star TV. Julia recently gave an interview in which he told about joint work with Gordon, his acting abilities and ambitions.
According to Baranovskaya, a colleague in the shop he offered her the role. Presenter, who first starred in a full meter, decided to answer Gordon’s consent. In her opinion, Alexander Garrievich – a true professional of his craft.
“One day, Alex looked at me: “I’ll put you in my film, the script for which I write. I want to”. Small role, but it is Gordon, and I think he is very talented. So to appear for the first time in the movie, the more full the meter from a good Director is a big responsibility. Acting is actually a difficult profession, and I do not know how to play! Can’t even in an interview, to play along with the caller if something went wrong. Although people are interesting to me, genuinely communicate with them in their gear,” shared Julia.
According to Alexander Gordon, the film Baranovskaya depicts an exaggerated version of itself. The Director has taken liberties in the image of the star and called her in some degree cartoon. Gordon is sure that the presenter has been performing her duties.
“He’s so funny, he said to me: “you’ll be playing myself – bitch”. I said, “I’m not a bitch and it never was!” And Sasha: “You’re not a bitch? Well, not a bitch, but it can be,” said Julia, laughing.
On the question of if she wanted to continue to pursue an acting career, Baranovskaya did not answer clearly. The star it would be interesting to try once again to star in a movie or TV series, but she doesn’t know how well it will work. “I’m afraid because now I know about all the difficulties,” said the leader.
In the nearest plans of the baranouskaya – producing another autobiographical book. According to celebrity, she decided to update the first edition of his work “All for the best.” Now to the title added the phrase “Tested by me”. “The story of my life was supplemented by the events of the present time — I don’t like innuendo and gossip. Because Instagram said one message on the most commonly asked me three questions: “I don’t dye their hair, not wear lenses and don’t expect Arshavin,” he told star magazine The Hollywood Reporter.
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YEN SLUMPS TO TWO-MONTH LOW AFTER DISAPPOINTING MANUFACTURING NUMBERS
The Japanese yen fell to a two-month low after the worst manufacturing numbers in almost two years. This was mostly due to trade war fears and how tensions could affect external product demands. The PMI was 52.9, which was lower than the 53.1 that traders had expected. This data came two days after the country’s trade numbers showed increased exports and a day after the Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, won the support of his party. It also came after consumer inflation rose to the highest level in 6 months. The national CPI rose by 1.3%, which was higher than July’s 0.9%.
Yesterday, the euro jumped sharply against the US dollar as the crisis in the emerging markets eased. This effectively ended the narrow range trading that has happened in the past week. Yesterday, the Turkish government announced that it will reduce investments in a bid to reduce borrowing. This came after the central bank raised interest rates to support the currency. Today, manufacturing PMI data from Germany will be released, which will be a good indicator of the performance of the economy. Traders expect the PMI to reduce to 55.7 from last month’s 55.9.
This month, the Canadian dollar has strengthened significantly against the US dollar. It is now trading near the monthly high. The currency has been supported by positive economic data and the willingness of the Reserve Bank of Canada (RBC) to adjust its monetary policy. Inflation numbers from Canada will be released today. Traders expect the CPI to rise by 2.8%. This will be lower than July’s 3.0%. The core CPI is expected to slow to 1.5%, which will be lower than July’s 1.6%. On the other hand, retail sales are expected to improve to 0.4% while the core retail sales are expected to improve to 0.6%.
This week, the USD/CAD pair touched the important support of 1.2887 as the dollar weakened. It is now trading slightly above that level at 1.2900. By reaching this support, the pair completed the first phase of the inverted cup and handle pattern. This means that the pair will likely start moving up slightly as it completes the handle phase. The signs of the new phase are seen with the divergence between the price action and the momentum indicator below. There are also signs that a crossover between the 14 and 28-day EMA is happening.
The Japanese yen has fallen against the USD and is currently trading near the two-month low. On the four-hour chart below, the pair completed the cup pattern in July. It then formed the handle position that led it to a low of 109.76. In the past two months, the pair has attempted to move up. There is a likelihood that the pair will continue moving up to test the 113.74 level.
The EUR/USD pair made a major breakout yesterday after weeks of trading within a narrow range. The pair reached a high of 1.1783, which was the highest level since July this year. The movement was expected since the near-symmetrical triangle pattern had already reached the apex by yesterday. There is a likelihood that the pair will continue the upward momentum ahead of next week’s Fed decision.
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October 30, 2014 November 25, 2018 / caron vikre
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Art, Caron Vikre, Crayon (band), Creativity., friends, music, peace, songwriting, Sunshine, Wayne Hueners, writing
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Was David a producer assigned to your band, or was he your choice? It’s too bad that he had a different vision for the direction of the band. I like your song, and thanks for sharing it. I think that it has a really solid pop groove to it.
Thanks, Rob. No, David chose us. We would not have had the opportunity to record anything at that time were it not for him. Unfortunately, that made it awkward for Wayne since he was a vocalist and not a writer per se. Wayne was certainly an integral part of what Crayon was—we were a duo, after all. But by diminishing Wayne’s role, David was essentially telling him “I don’t want you here.” In the end though, Wayne’s creativity was probably better- served elsewhere, as he seemed to be becoming less interested in the music thing. While I, on the other hand, was becoming more interested in it.
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That’s a great song Caron. It’s a different feel than most of the Crayon songs I’ve heard, but still recognizable by your distinctive voice. Having experienced the frustrations of working with a difficult producer, I can sympathize with your plight. I had written two songs that were being recorded by the Continental Drifters (Peter Holsapple of The dB’s, Vicki Petersen of The Bangles and Susan Cowsill, et al) who were recording a reunion CD in 2005. I didn’t care for the mixing and “structural” changes made to my songs. It altered their feel and message. I threatened to pull the licensing/recording rights as the author. The producer went ballistic and threw me out of the studio. Warranted or not, it was all for naught because, a month later, Hurricane Katrina removed all evidence of the studio and its contents from the map. That wouldn’t have been my first choice for a resolution to the problem.
Thanks so much! Yes, the song does have a different feel—a bit closer to the demo’s Wayne, and I use to bring to the studio. In the past, I would cringe at the thought of revisiting old Crayon stuff. Recently, though, I’ve begun to appreciate the innocence of those songs, and the enthusiasm Wayne and I had while recording them. And while we were fortunate to have had the opportunity to record as we did, it is a pity that by our third time around, he was not more a part of things. I don’t think he was mixed down or out maliciously, but in hindsight, it does seem a little fishy.
In any event, that’s some story about Katrina fixing your producer problem!
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September 6, 2015 September 6, 2015 cassdoney
Saving EWRASAC
One in four women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
Take a moment to think about it. One quarter of women. And it’s not just happening to nameless people in a faraway place; it’s happening here, in our city, to our friends and neighbours and families.
It’s a sobering statistic, and a stark reality that most of us would like to shy away from. It’s a tough subject to talk about. There’s always the temptation to avoid it; to sweep it under the carpet. But pretending that it doesn’t happen won’t make it stop. And it won’t help the survivors of these kinds of crimes recover.
The Edinburgh Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre puts these survivors first. It’s a free, discreet service that has been offering support and information to people who have experience sexual assault or abuse for over 35 years. It also has specialist departments for helping those who are underage or transgendered. Last year, it provided support to over 400 people in and around the community.
It’s also currently under threat. The funding stream that allows them to stay open ends in May 2014, and without this money, 75% of their services could be drawn to a halt.
Dealing with survivors of assault is something that requires extensive amounts of time, training and sensitivity. Money should not even be a concern, and it’s frustrating and infuriating to see services like this one struggling through lack of it. With imminent withdrawal of funding, they’ve been forced to rely more heavily on public donations. The community has rallied; over £40,000 has already been raised, but there’s a constant need for more funds.
Laura Mulcahy is the founder of the Save EWRASAC Society and the organiser of a fundraiser that will be taking place this Thursday in aid of the centre.
The event will feature an auction (with prizes donated by Edinburgh businesses) and a vintage clothes swap. All proceeds go towards the centre; so if you’re feeling a bit jaded and Grinch-y by all the Christmas consumerism, this is a great opportunity to do some guilt-free present shopping, or pick yourself up some festive new garb for the party season.
The event will also feature a talk which will discuss the work that the centre does, and the necessity of keeping these resources available to people who need them.
As someone who has also used the centre’s resources in the past, Laura stresses the importance of keeping places like EWRASAC open. “If people didn’t have access to the centre and their services, the outcome would be devastating. They would be left isolated and unsupported. Without them, I would not have got my life back together as quickly as I have.”
The fundraiser takes place at The Counting House, on West Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, and starts at 7pm on the 5th of December. Everyone is welcome to come and join in the fun.
If you would like to sign the petition campaigning for the continued funding of EWRASAC, it can be found here. (link – http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/edinburgh-women-s-rape-and-sexual-abuse-centre-ewrasac-please-help-ensure-that-this-brilliant-service-can-still-go-on) To keep updated with news and get invited to future events, you can like the Save EWRASAC facebook page. (link – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Ewrasac/504730402916567?fref=ts)
If you, or someone you know, have experienced sexual abuse or assault, you can get in touch with the centre through their website for support and information about what to do next. (link – http://www.ewrasac.org.uk/)
For hundreds of people in Edinburgh and the Lothians, EWRASAC has meant the difference between going unheard and unsupported, and being given the chance to rebuild their life after their assault. But it can only continue to provide this service to survivors in the future if it’s able to remain open; and that rests entirely in our hands.
Article reproduced here is no longer available online. Published by RAWRRR! Magazine (December 2013)
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Burn the witch!
In the past few days, this blog has seen some rather heated discussions of intolerance, attempts to suppress “offensive” speech, and elevation of dogma over science on the part of the religious right. Now comes an example of the same from the politically correct left: Harvard president Lawrence Summers has announced that he will resign at the end of this academic year. His decision is widely seen as stemming in large part from the brouhaha over his speech last year in which Summers said, in part, that the underrepresentation of women in science may be partly due to biological differences between the sexes (and thus irremediable), which prompted an outcry from the faculty. In his letter to the Harvard community, Summers notes that “the rifts between me and segments of the Arts and Sciences faculty make it infeasible for me to advance the agenda of renewal that I see as crucial to Harvard’s future.”
Here’s my March 1, 2005 Boston Globe column on the Summers controversy:
THE REAL scandal at Harvard is not that university president Lawrence Summers suggested, at a private symposium, that the small numbers of women in math and science departments at top research institutions may be due less to sex discrimination than to personal choices and inherent sex differences. The scandal is that his fairly innocuous, carefully hedged remarks sparked an irrational, intolerant outcry and that Summers was forced to offer groveling apologies in order to save his job.
Now that the transcript of Summers’s remarks at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce on Jan. 14 has been released, let’s clarify what Summers did not say. He did not say that women are intellectually inferior to men or that women can’t be great scientists. He did not say that young women shouldn’t be encouraged to pursue careers in math and science or that there is no need to combat discrimination. (In fact, he said just the opposite.) He did suggest that even with the best efforts, full parity might be unattainable.
One reason for the imbalance, Summers said, is that science is one of those fields where highly successful people must have “near total commitments to their work” and fewer women than men are willing to make such a commitment, particularly women with families. (He added, “That’s not a judgment about how it should be.”) That is, quite simply, true. In a 2001 study by University of Vanderbilt psychologists David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow, nearly a third of talented female graduate students in math and science and only 9 percent of the men said it was important to work part-time for at least a part of their careers. More egalitarian family roles would solve the problem.
Summers also touched feminism’s third rail: biological differences between the sexes. The issue isn’t average mathematical ability, which is quite similar for men and women; it’s that many more males are clustered at the high and low ends of the scale, among the geniuses and the learning-disabled, while women are more likely to be found near the middle.
Is it “crazy,” as Harvard physics professor Howard Georgi averred, to suggest that this may be due partly to scientifically proven brain differences? These differences aren’t absolute (about a third of each sex usually fits the pattern more typical of the other), but they’re significant enough to result in uneven distribution. Few would question the role of biology in the fact that four out of five children with autism are male.
Why deny it so strenuously when it comes to mathematical and scientific geniuses? Why refuse to consider that innate differences in temperament may make women more likely to prefer people-oriented occupations? Discrimination can’t explain why women have made far greater inroads in formerly male-dominated fields such as law and medi cine than the hard sciences.
Summers’s comments are hardly beyond criticism. He may well have underestimated the role of culture in gender differences. His story about his daughters calling their toy trucks “daddy truck” and “baby truck” belongs to the annoying “how my kids confirm gender stereotypes” anecdotal genre. Still, his informal talk was more grounded in solid research than the 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the status of women faculty, a largely data-free hodgepodge of broad claims about discrimination and women’s feelings of marginalization and misery.
The anti-Summers backlash is a scary display of know-nothingism, an embarrassing spectacle of academics rushing to denounce the mere statement of an unorthodox hypothesis. Like the MIT study, it’s likely to create a climate that ultimately won’t be good for women scientists. In his talk, Summers warned that an aggressive push to hire and promote more women i.e. preferential treatment may cast a shadow on women’s merits, even when their advancement is based solely on talent. A number of women scientists such as Lynn Hillenbrand, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, have expressed similar concerns.
It has been suggested that Summers’s comments could discourage scientifically talented young women. But exaggerated claims of pervasive, subtle discrimination could have an even more discouraging effect. Our message to these women should be that they are individuals whose talent is not diminished by the male-to-female ratio in their field and whose personal choices play a key role in shaping their careers not victims whose fragile egos must be protected from dangerous ideas of gender difference.
The witch-hunt against Summers may not have been quite up there with Stalinist show trials, as some have rhetorically claimed; but it was an egregious display of PC intolerance, and now the witch-hunters have had their burning at the stake, which is likely to have (pardon the mixed metaphor) a chilling effect on other administrators who would raise similar contentious issues.
For those who want to read Summers’ heresy for themselves, here it is. Stanley Kurtz thinks Summers’ real sin was the apology (his Galileo moment, so to speak), and he may be right.
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Calvin Harris Has Been Hospitalized
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Calvin Harris was in a Friday night car crash and he headed to the airport in Los Angeles for a Las Vegas performance. According to his representatives, Harris will be resting “for a few days.”
“[Harris’] transport was involved in a collision this evening on the way to the airport. As a result, he will be unable to perform at [Vegas club] Omnia tonight. He has been examined by doctors and told to rest for a few days,” his team wrote in a Facebook statement.
It was reported by TMZ that the Los Angeles car crash involved a second car, which crossed the center line and hit Harris’ vehicle at around 11 p.m. It resulted in the ejection of one of the passengers in the second car.
Harris was riding as a passenger in an SUV, according to TMZ.
Harris’ face was lacerated and he was transported to the hospital, where he later left “against medical advice” because a private room was not available.
The driver of the second car, a 16-year-old girl, and her passenger who was ejected, were also hospitalized.
After leaving the hospital, a source reported to People that Harris returned to his home in Beverly Hills, California, after the crash.
It is a pretty sad day when you realize that Harris can’t even recover properly in a hospital because he’s worried that hospital personnel will take photos of him or leak hospital records. Leave the man be and let him recover.
Regardless, we’re wishing Harris a speedy recovery.
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Time to take auditors seriously: professional status means personal responsibility
Tagged accountants, accounting, accounts, active citizenship, auditing, auditors, bloxham, business, C&AG, Comptroller and Auditor General, consultant, controversy, debate, definition, fas, fitness to practice committee, iaasa, integrity, investors, Ireland, Irish, Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority, Irish Medical Council, irish times, management, political communication, politico.ie, Politics, practitioners, professional, professionalism, public controversy, public discussion, public servant, responsibility, state, stockbrokers, vincent browne
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0531/breaking29.html
It would appear that at Bloxham Stockbrokers accounts have been falsified for several years and that the problem involved enormous figures. Now, reassurances have been issued to investors who might be worried. Little is heard, however, of the Bloxham staff who will lose their jobs.
This wasn’t an accounting error. This was wilful. This wasn’t a little backstreet, fly-by-night “enterprise” in fear of being audited. This was a prestigious company which was regularly audited. The fact that the auditors failed should lead to some very hard questioning.
Vincent Browne tackles the auditors. http://politico.ie/social-issues/8586-auditing-firms-banking-crisis-audit-the-auditors.html He writes about very well-known companies who – despite repeated failure – continue to be taken seriously. Indeed they continue to be awarded work by the state, i.e. the state gives them official recognition of suitability and confidence.
However, because he focusses on these large accountancy/management consultancy firms Vincent doesn’t give due recognition to a couple of issues. Firstly, these failures go to the heart of auditing and its professional status. Secondly, the problem extends beyond the large private firms
The issue of professionalism is at stake here. An essay might be written on its definition which might refer to payment as opposed to being an amateur or to dispassionate as opposed to involved but there is another crucial part of the usual understanding of what it means to be a professional. Here is the crux of the thing: if auditors are to be regarded as professionals in the usual sense of the term, they must face their responsibilities individually. In short, when there are failings and problems, questions should be asked not only of the company which employs the auditor but of the auditor himself/herself.
Financial auditing is too important to allow failed practitioners to hide behind their employers. If an auditor has been irresponsible, negligent, incompetent he/she should face sanctions right up to being struck off. Indeed such a level of personal responsibility would countervail the risk that an employer might want a particular outcome.
The second issue absent from Vincent’ piece is that the nonsense extends into the state auditors, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. When it was reported that a former member of the board of Fás said that he’d been given assurances by staff of C&AG that all was ok, I wrote to the C&AG to ask if this had been investigated. I also asked had anything been learned from the years of failure to uncover wrongdoing at Fás, had auditing procedures changed, were the staff who had worked on these audits still in place? Many e-mails later, I’m still none the wiser. Well, that’s not entirely true; I was given the run-around rather than an answer but it is clear that nothing changed after Fás.
There seems to be a cumbersome route for initiating complaints against a professional auditor. http://www.iaasa.ie/faq/rms/index.htm What is not clear is whether complaints are accepted from members of the public as opposed to clients and if this route is open, what is to be done when a member of the public doesn’t know the name of the professional beyond his/her employer. What is needed is for auditors is something akin to the Irish Medical Council’s approach: http://www.medicalcouncil.ie/Public-Information/Making-a-Complaint-/Making-a-Complaint1.html
The “Fás scandal” is not unique but an example of how many senior employees think they are entitled to behave.
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Tagged business, civil service, class, corruption, executive culture, fas, inequality, Ireland, mnagerialism, private industry, public servant, scandal, status, theft, unearned consumption, white collar
Only the wilfully blind could think that there is something unique or even unusual in Fás employees confusing business and pleasure. The revelations from Fás illustrate the extent to which an idle “executive” culture with its roots in private business has lodged in the public service. Public servants are expected to behave better but those who see themselves as equivalent to people at a similar level in private industry have abandoned the service ethos and joined in a way of life which measures status and success in access to unearned consumption. This is not to say that that this form of white-collar theft from private companies is acceptable but merely to say that it started there.
Tagged airlines, business class, class, elite, fas, identity, inequality, luxury, marketing, roddy molloy, status, terminology, theft, travel, traveller
The term “business class” in travel is revealing. Airlines realised that two conditions existed which would allow them to make money on this new notion of travel class. For the purpose of successful marketing the two conditions had to be in numerical harmony. Firstly, a sufficient number of travellers had the means to plunder their employers’ funds to pay for unnecessary luxury. Secondly, the number of such travellers was small enough to form the elite identity that the status hungry crave.
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The Last of Us live performance may be better than the game
The numerous Game of the Year honors that Sony’s post-apocalyptic adventure The Last of Us took home in 2013 (including one from us) weren’t just because of the game’s tense gameplay. The story… Continue reading →
E3: Scenes from the video game circus
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10 exciting video games to look out for
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Xbox still more about games than shows
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Gaming’s new superstars are independent developers
Independent games don’t rule the sales charts. Their fan base is dwarfed by that of even a mid-level game put out by a major publisher. And the money they make is just a… Continue reading →
‘Grand Theft Auto V’ races to next gen platforms
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E3 may pull the plug on Los Angeles
The video game industry has held its annual trade show in its backyard of Los Angeles for 17 of the past 19 years. But the president of the Entertainment Software Association, which organizes the annual… Continue reading →
Nintendo at the crossroads
Just seven years ago, Nintendo was the undisputed king of the video game world. The Wii was impossible to find, as people who had never considered themselves gamers couldn’t get enough of the company’s products.… Continue reading →
Disappointing Zynga primes for a comeback
Zynga, to many investors, is a cautionary tale. In the months preceding its 2011 IPO, some analysts estimated the company to have a market cap of $15 billion to $20 billion. At the… Continue reading →
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Grammys: Chris Stapleton’s Soulful Country
by lryan on February 12, 2016 Read in
Unless you live in Nashville, or called yourself a fan of progressive bluegrass group The SteelDrivers, you probably didn’t know who Chris Stapleton was until the minute he and Justin Timberlake set the CMA Awards stage on fire, swapping licks and lyrics for eight primetime minutes with a stunning “Tennessee Whiskey/Drink You Away” mash-up. The incandescent performance dripped with soul, radiating so much heat social media had a near meltdown.
After sweeping the 2015 CMAs, people are certainly wondering if lightning will strike again at the Grammys
In a recent interview with Nashville Scene, Stapleton confessed he didn’t think the performance would have been so impactful. When asked what was going through his mind while onstage, the singer said, “About halfway in, like, ‘Cool, people aren’t going to throw anything at us. That’s good.’ And [the crowd] all really seemed to enjoy it, and we got offstage and all the musicians — my band and [Justin’s] band — all felt like we did a good job. We felt like we did it as well as we could have done it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFD9ObuLoOM
Stapleton, who moved to Nashville in 2001, has been quietly writing chart-topping hits for artists such as Darius Rucker, Kenny Chesney and George Strait, as well as others for Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley and someone by the name of Adele — not too bad for the son of a Kentucky coal miner.
When Stapleton and wife Morgane sang a mostly a capella version of “Daddy Doesn’t Pray Anymore,” you could damn well nearly hear the goosebumps rising on everyone’s arms
Last year, during the annual Country Radio Seminar, I sat in the church-like Ryman Auditorium as Universal Music Group rolled out most of their country roster to play acoustic versions of new or upcoming singles.
The three-or-so hour event had its fair share of restless moments — what industry event doesn’t? — but when Stapleton and wife Morgane began singing a mostly a capella version of “Daddy Doesn’t Pray Anymore,” you could damn well nearly hear the goosebumps rising on everyone’s arms in the room. And when the song was over, the couple was met with thunderous applause and a standing ovation.
Stapleton’s rough-and-tumble voice, and the astounding, soulful sound it generates, is quite unlike what is “in” at country radio at the moment; whereas radio embraces countrified hip-hop beats, electronic loops and lyrical re-treads, Stapleton reveres the visceral. Which sums up the emotional, blood and guts listen that is Traveller.
After sweeping the 2015 CMAs for New Artist of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and, perhaps most impressively, Album of the Year, people are certainly wondering if lightning will strike again at the Grammys, where Stapleton is up for Best Country Album, Best Country Solo Performance (for “Traveller”), Best Country Song (also for “Traveller”) and, most impressively, the all-genre Album of the Year.
In getting the Album of the Year nod, the singer said, “There are some heavy-hitters in that category, we all know that, and I don’t think we’re expecting to take [anything home], but it’s certainly nice to be mentioned alongside some of that music, and I think it’s good for country music. We don’t always get validated that way.”
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A percentage of homosexuals or lesbians Essay Example #1546
However, the real question should be, who should be the ones to define marriage? Who should be able to tell someone who they can love and share the rest Of their lives with?
Who should it be to say what is best for a couples child/children? Religious beliefs feel that ociety will suffer if privileges are given to same-sex couples due to marriage results in birth of children. Homo-sexual couples are unable to reproduce children. However, a percentage of homosexuals or lesbians already have children from previous relationships. Also, there is the choice of having a sergeant or adoption. There are many children in adoption agencies waiting for a place to call home.
Even though our fourteenth amendment reads “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States… Nor deny to any person within he jurisdiction the equal protection of laws. ” However, many places has discriminated against gays and lesbians as citizens who have rights. They have been denied employment and education. After a congressman, a democrat from Massachusetts announced that he was gay, other doors began to open up for the gays and lesbian couples. In 1991 , a black lesbian, Sherry Harris, was elected mayor of Seattle, Washington.
Then, by the 90’s, U. S Companies as diverse as the Lotus Software Company, Levi Strauss, the Bottle Globe, and the Apple Computer had granted spousal benefits, such as health insurance, to the partners of homosexual employees. Also, during that same time, large U. S Corporations had formal nondiscrimination Policies covering gay men and lesbians. Many people believe children of homosexuals and lesbians cannot parent a child properly and teach them all the skills they need to grow. A mother knows more of the lady things a child should know and a father can assist with the man part of the teaching.
However, wouldn’t a child/children be missing out on one side by being raised by a single parent? The 2000 U. S Census Bureau counted about six thousand same-sex couples sharing households. Children were living in 28 percent of these households. This means about more than two hundred thousand are living with two homosexual parents or two lesbian parents. The main issues these families face is the reactions of Society. There IS nothing that states that children who are raised in gay or lesbian homes have more problems than any other child mentally, physically or emotionally.
There is no psychological evidence that states that children raised in these homes are worse than any other child living in heterosexual homes. The main things are how they are treated by society or their peers. In todays society, many children bully for many reasons. If there isnt a reason, then a bully will make up one. Therefore, where someone is raised or who their parents are has nothing to do with the problem. The bullies are the problem! Marriage is a commitmentyou make in front of many loved ones and your state for the one you love. To make a bond for the rest of your life.
A promise bigger than any other that could be made. Who gets to decide who someone experiences this with? Heterosexuals don’t have anyone making this decision for them. Therefore, what gives them the right to make the decision because someone sexual preference is different than they believe it should be? This timeline shows how far we have come and how long homosexuality has been around. The timeline goes back until 1969 but homosexuality actually goes back farther than that. Therefore, people can prove that since it goes back at least until the 1860’s its never going to go away.
Why not just stop fighting with homosexuality, lesbians, and let them be married to who they want to be married too. Timeline 1969- On June 28, New York City police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. The riots and demonstrations that follow mark the beginning of the modern gay- rights movement in the United States. 974- The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of medical diseases and disorders. 1981- First reports of mysterious. Deadly sickness afflicting gay men in the United States surface- the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. 984- Berkeley, California, grants same-sex partners of local government employees and the same benefits granted to their employees’ legal spouses. 1986- The U. S. Supreme Court, in Bowers V. Hardwick, upholds state laws against homosexual sex. 1992- The software company Lotus becomes the first U. S. Company with publicly traded stock to offer family benefits to same-sex artners of employees. 1993- On May 5, Hawaii’s state Supreme Court, in Baehr V. Lewin, decides that it is a violation of the state constitution to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples unless the state can show a “compelling state interest’ for doing so.
Vermont becomes first state to grant health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of state employees. Austin, Texas, becomes the first U. S. municipality to overturn an existing domestic partnership law. A Virginia court takes custody of a toddler away from his mother solely because the mother is a lesbian living with her same-sex artner. 1996- In September President Bill Clinton signs the defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which forbids federal recognition and federal tax and pension benefits for same-sex marriage partners. DOMA also gives states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. 997- In July three same-sex Vermont couples who had been refused marriage licenses file suit seeking rights to marry. Nine more states pass legislation against same-sex marriage. 1998- An Alaska court renders a decision similar to Hawaii’s 1 993 Baehr decision, ruling that denying same sex- couples marriage licenses violates the state constitution. In November voters in Hawaii and Alaska approve amendments to their states’ constitutions against same-sex marriage, effectively overruling the previous state court decisions favoring it.
Six states pass antigay marriage legislation, bringing the total number of states that have done so to thirty. 1999- On December 20, Vermont’s state supreme court rules that the state must grant same-sex couples the same protections and benefits as heterosexual couples, either by allowing same-sex marriages or by creating an equivalent domestic artnership option. 2000- The U. S. Census Bureau counts almost six hundred thousand same-sex couples. Children are living in 28 percent of these households. On April 26, Vermont’s governor, Howard Dean, signs the state’s civil union bill into law.
On July 1, shortly after midnight, two women become the first couple to be issued license and to be joined in union under Vermont’s civil union law. 2001- In April lawyers file suit in Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of seven same-sex couples seeking the right to marry. 2003- On June 26, the U. S. Supreme Court strikes down on all the remaining state sodomy laws. In September California’s governor, Gray Davis, signs a bill assigning a long list of benefits and responsibilities to domestic partners, making registering for domestic partnership similar to getting married in its statewide legal effects.
On November 18, the Massachusetts State Supreme Judicial Court rules, in Goodridge V. Department of Public Health, that denying marriage to same-sex couples violates the state constitution. 2004- On February 4, the Massachusetts State Supreme Judicial Court informs the state’s legislature that a same-sex civil union law won’t meet the court’s mandate in the Goodridge and that nothing short of arriage will do On February 12, the mayor of San Francisco announces that the city will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
On March 1 1, the California State Supreme Court suspends the issuing of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. On May 1 7, the first marriage licenses are issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts. In July the Family Amendment is voted down in the U. S. Senate. On August 12, the California State Supreme Court annuls all the same-sex marriages that had been performed in San Francisco. 2005- On October 1, Connecticut legalizes same-sex civil unions, hich provide for the same benefits and privileges the state grants to married couples. 2006- On June 7, the u. . Senate once again votes against an amendment to the U. S. Constitution against same-sex- marriage. On October 25, the New Jersey Supreme Court rules that within six months the state must take available to same-sex couple’s legal recognition equivalent to marriage. In December New Jerseys State legislature legalizes same-sex civil union’s equivalent to marriage under state law. 2007- In February Rhode Island declares that it will recognize any marriage legally made in another state, ncluding same-sex marriages made in neighboring Massachusetts.
On April 26, New Hampshire’s state legislation authorizes same-sex- civil union’s equivalent to marriage. On November 7, voters in seven states approve same- sex- marriage bans. Total number of states with such laws increases to twenty-seven. 2008- On May 15, California’s Supreme Court strikes down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Between June and November, eighteen thousand same-sex couples from around the county are married in California On November 4, California voters approve Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage. Two other states also approve same-sex- marriage bans.
In November same-sex marriages begin in Connecticut. 2009- In April the Vermont legislature and the Iowa state Supreme Court allow same-sex- marriage in those states. In November Maine voters repeal a State law passed in May allowing same-sex marriage. 2010- In January New Hampshire’s first same-sex- weddings are registered. On July 8, a federal judge in Massachusetts declared part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. On August 12, a federal judge in California decides that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the U. S. Constitution. 201 1- On February 23, the U.
S. Justice Department says it will no longer defend DOMA in court. ( Andryszewski 108-112) In conclusion, we all are different, have different views, and beliefs but how are we the ones to judge someone or control someone’s life because we don’t share the same interest or desires as them. It is supposed to be that all should be treated equal, not who we choose. Homosexuality has been around for centuries and it isn’t something that will ever go away. In my opinion think that the ones that are against same-sex marriage could possibly be scared to admit who they are.
I mean most people I know that are for same-sex marriage are comfortable with their sexuality. So ask the people around you this one question, what are people fighting for?
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In the Shadows of Victory II
America's Forgotten Military Leaders, the Spanish-American War to World War II
Phillips, Thomas D.
The history of the United States is peppered with extraordinary military leaders. Fate has enshrined an exceptional few in the public's collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the nation owes them considerable debts, there are many examples of men whose singular leadership is now little remembered or forgotten completely. This volume covers leaders "in the shadows" during the four major conflicts the United States engaged in from the end of the 19th century to the middle years of the 20th: the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, World War I, and World War II. It tells the stories of more than 20 individuals and chronicles their activities through conflagrations spanning five decades. To enable readers to put these exploits into proper context, each chapter traces the roots of the conflict covered and discusses the paths that led to America's involvement. Throughout the book, examples are also noted of leaders whose major renown is associated with a specific war-John J. Pershing, America's towering military figure during World War I, for example-who also rendered exemplary though largely forgotten service during a different conflict (in Pershing's case, the Philippine Insurrection). Of special interest to many audiences may be the commentaries regarding the World War I services of officers such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton, and Bradley-an aspect of their long military careers overshadowed by their World War II renown and too often minimized in consequence. The book also features brief biographies of officers whose contributions, while less consequential on the world stage than those of colleagues chronicled elsewhere in these pages, are nonetheless deserving of far more recognition than has thus far been accorded them.
Publisher: [United States] :, Casemate,, 2018
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Alternative Title: In the shadows of victory 2
In the shadows of victory two
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Command of Troops — History — 18th Century
United States — Armed Forces — Officers — Biography
United States — History, Military — 18th Century
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Di Liu graduated from Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom and Peking University in China. She has worked for the Research Department of Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Christie’s London as well as independent curatorial projects. She is an aspiring art writer and was a finalist of the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC) 2016.
Dorby Leung is a second-year university student studying Advertising Design at the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong. She likes to visit different countries, exhibitions and watching movies because these activities give her a chance to learn more about design and art, which has enriched her knowledge and has given her inspiration for her own creations. She believes design and art improve people’s satisfaction with life.
Emily Cheung is a third-year student at Hong Kong Baptist University, majoring in International Journalism. She believes in the journalistic power of building connection between society and its people. She is passionate about reporting on what is undiscovered in a city, especially on unexposed art work and culture. She aspires to work as a video journalist that captures significant moments in time with her camera and words.
Gabriel Yiu is a Master of Journalism candidate at the University of Hong Kong and a graduate of City University of Hong Kong, where he majored in English Studies. He believes in the potential of art to drive social change, and enjoys exploring the intersection between art, culture and philosophy, where inspiring messages are made all the more powerful through beautiful forms. He is currently a news intern at Reuters, where he reports on Hong Kong’s politics, society, economy and financial markets. He is also a social media content producer at the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative, where he helps to promote documentary films directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang.
Inga Nelli is a German artist based in Hong Kong since 2013. She is a final year student of Fine Arts (Painting) at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Hong Kong. A traveller at heart, Inga has been exposed to a variety of cultures and different sets of aesthetic principles. This irrevocably altered her philosophies and her understanding of the world – a world where art is the highest form of hope. Inga is a mother of a 2-year old daughter who is her greatest inspiration.
Jasmine Mak is a third-year student of Advertising at the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong. Art and design are key components of her life and she believes great art and design can make the world a better place. She likes telling stories through her design work and dreams that one day her designs or advertisements will change the world. Bringing positive energy to people is one of her life goals.
Joana Carla Schertenleib is studying in the MA Cultural Publishing program at the Zurich University of the Arts. During her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts she had the opportunity to express herself as an artist and become well grounded in art history and art philosophy. This passion is the reason she focuses on art criticism and this interest has led her to various fields in the art scene. Her goal is to practice the journalistic forms of writing and to gain a deeper insight into the international art market.
Kate Whitebread is a curator and writer studying Cultural Publishing at the Zurich University of the Arts, following a first degree in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, UK. She currently curates the project space LINKS in Bern, Switzerland and works as a freelance translator and gallery manager.
Lu Wang is a graduate student of Asian Studies at the University of Tokyo. She is writing her thesis on journalistic professionalism in Hong Kong and hopes to get a closer look at the media environment through a fellowship with the Cultural Journalism Campus. By studying abroad in Japan, the United States and Russia, and through internship experience, she has been exposed to a world of art that she believes can open up people’s minds for mutual understanding. Lu aims to witness and write about people’s lives in different cultures and societies as a journalist.
Maggie Leung is a final year student at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, majoring in Journalism and Communication. She likes all forms of the arts, especially literature, drama and film. Eager to be inspired by other professional artists, she is a budding director that aims to work in the film industry after graduation. She has produced more than ten dramatic works, short films and music videos and believes that self-cultivation is important for art creation. She wishes to widen her horizons by attending more art and culture related activities.
Dawn Tsang is a journalism major at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She aspires to become a writer or a documentary filmmaker who produces stories that inspire others through words and motion pictures. Travelling and arts are very important to her and she loves Chinese literature, contemporary dance, drama. Amazing experiences she has had include a six-month student exchange in Taiwan and a one month busking trip in Eastern Europe.
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Screenwriting in a digital era
Daniel C Tuck July 11, 2017 Discussion, Screenplay, Writing
In the conclusion of her book, Screenwriting in a digital era, Kathryn Millard presents a manifesto for ‘sustainable screenwriting’, stating that the current system for producing films from screenplays is simply unsustainable is there is any hope of producing unique films which aren’t targeting purely at making money for studios.
As a self-confessed introvert, this chapter scared me somewhat. I generally like to write on my own, even with all of the frustrations of working with myself, and discussing my ideas, opening up a script to suggestions from others, incorporating other people’s ideas into something I’m working on both fills me with trepidation and also excites me. There are times when I’m hugely stuck writing something, and someone else’s input would be hugely valued, but there’s also that part of me that still lacks any sort of confidence, and isn’t ready to share anything I’ve written with the wider world.
However, I know that screenwriting above any other form is writing, is a collaborative medium. The final draft of a screenplay (or shooting script, anyway) rarely resembles anything even close to what the original writer sent out. Whilst Millard says to ‘accept nothing less’ than being ‘involved in every aspect of designing and executing the screen idea’, it’s rare for a screenwriter to actually be involved that deeply once a film has entered production.
Unless, of course, you follow one of the ‘sustainable screenwriting’ paths Millard suggests. I would love to be involved with the writing and production of a film with a group of people I like and respect, but it’s making those connections and finding those collaborators (and finding the time!) that I’m struggling with at the moment. However, I do agree with Millard that independent production in this way does indeed appear to be the future, unless you somehow get noticed by someone with clout and are willing to write by committee. Of course, a well-made independent film of some description could potentially open many doors in the future, so it’s definitely something that I would like to do, given the opportunity.
More and more people do seem to be embracing the technological advances which make it possible to write and produce your own film on a limited budget, and this can only be a good thing. As Millard said, generally, studios’ ‘focus is entirely on financial outcomes – art has been edited out of the picture … Along the way, a plethora of well-meaning consultants and advisors assist in eroding the distinctive qualities of works, reader’s report by reader’s report, draft-by-draft.’ It seems to only way to retain your own unique film-makers’ voice is to go completely independent.
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The two-year anniversary of my blog is just a few days away. It was last year on that day that I finally changed the name of my blog from “Andy Hardy Writes a Blog” to “Jew Eat Yet,” a name I’m still mildly embarrassed explaining to strangers when they ask. When I was trying to come up with a new title last year, one suggestion that I thought was funny was “Straight Man/Gay Blog.” Do you think my choice of topics reveals a bit of a gay sensibility? Well, hold on to your rainbow flags, kids, because I’m about to send the blog gaydars into the stratosphere with my response to the new movie “Dreamgirls.”
Kendall, Leah, and I saw the film last night at the Cinerama Dome, one of my favorite movie theatres in the world (which is surprising since it was built in the 1960s). While “Dreamgirls” opens nationwide on Christmas Day, they’re having a special 10-day presentation at only three theatres in the country: the Dome in L.A., the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York, and the Metreon in San Francisco. Tickets are $25 each which is crazy but you get a souvenir program and a limited edition lithograph of the poster art with a certificate of authenticity.
Leah started listening to the soundtrack a few weeks ago and has already choreographed her own versions of most of the numbers. She can’t decide which of the Dreams she wants to play, Deena or Effie. I don’t have the heart to tell her that her theatre company of mostly white 10-13-year-old girls will probably never put on this show. Kendall saw “Dreamgirls” when it premiered in Los Angeles with the original cast including Jennifer Holliday’s knock-down performance as Effie White, the Florence Ballard-like member of the Dreams who is booted out of the group even though she has the best set of pipes. I happened to be in New York in early 1982 and scored a front row seat to the original Broadway production at the Imperial Theatre. In addition to Holliday, the Dreams were played by Sheryl Lee Ralph as the Diana Ross-inspired Deena Jones and Loretta Devine as the Mary Wilson-ish Lorell Robinson. I loved the play and was stunned by the raw emotion in Jennifer Holliday’s explosive signature song, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” which she recreated that year on the Tony Awards. A bunch of movie versions of the musical were planned over the years including one in the 80s with Whitney Houston as Deena (she tried to get them to rewrite the story so that she could sing Effie's “And I Am Telling You”) and one in the 90s with Lauryn Hill. Thankfully, the project languished in development. Now, 25 years after the Broadway opening, the movie version is finally here. So how did it turn out?
I can’t remember the last time any movie I’ve seen has lived up to its hype but “Dreamgirls” surpasses even its own advanced press. I had been looking forward to seeing the film but it was WAY better than I anticipated and even more enjoyable than the play. Several of the characters were fleshed out in a very satisfying way and Bill Condon’s deft direction allowed more elements of the changing times and the civil rights struggle to find their way into the story which added a lot. The film has an energy that I can’t even describe (I’m tempted to call it “electric”) and the look of it is total perfection from the simulated album art to the 5,000 pairs of false eyelashes I read they went through during the first month of shooting.
If I rack my brain I can’t come up with a negative comment about the cast. The biggest surprise to me was Eddie Murphy’s fantastic turn as soulful R&B singer James Thunder Early. There were so many opportunities for Murphy to fall back on some of his old (funny) shtick in this very over-the-top role but he avoided that temptation completely and gave a performance that was wild and raw and yet full of poignancy and complexity. Amazing. I read that Jamie Foxx first turned down the Berry Gordy-like role of Curtis Taylor and the part was offered to Denzel Washington who had to decline because he just can’t sing. When Murphy signed on, Foxx relented and it’s lucky that he did, he is superb in the role of the visionary but ultimately corrupt and power-hungry Svengali who brings the Dreams and their “new sound” into the mainstream and turns the once timid Deena Jones into a world class performer. I loved seeing the always moving Danny Glover in the role of the passed-over agent Marty and newcomer Keith Robinson was quite effective as Effie’s composer brother C.C. White.
My last comment about Beyoncé Knowles on this blog was mocking her overexposure at the 2005 Academy Awards. She sang three of the nominated songs which, in my opinion, was two too many. She had a nice enough voice but I just didn’t get the appeal. I do now. Knowles was apparently so desperate to play this role (she wanted it since she was 15 years old) that she begged the producers to give her a chance and swore that we would not see any trace of Beyoncé in her performance. And we don’t. It is Deena Jones all the way through, with a healthy dose of Diana Ross, of course. The Deena-Diana connection is so much more pronounced in the film version than in the stage play that I’m frankly surprised they could get away with it. Most of Deena’s incredible outfits and hairstyles (and she must have 100 costume changes in the film) are lifted straight from the historic annals of Miss Ross’s heyday, as are many of the situations (e.g., trying to break free from her mentor’s influence to become a serious actress) but the parallels have their limits. When the musical came out in the 1980s it was widely disowned by the real-life Supremes. Times have changed, though. Last week Mary Wilson was asked about the film and said that “it was closer to the truth than they even know.” When asked how similar Diana Ross was to the character of Deena (I love that Mary Wilson will only refer to Ross as “Diane,” her real name and what she called her when they were girls in the Detroit projects), Wilson said, “Nowhere near it. Not near it.” “You mean she wouldn’t have been as sweet?” the interviewer asked. “You said it!” Wilson exclaimed. Ouch. After turning down the role of Deena’s mother in the film, Diana Ross is trying to distance herself as much as possible from the film, the same way she’s avoided talking about the play which she claims she’s never seen or listened to.
Anika Noni Rose struck just the right note as Lorell in “Dreamgirls” and she had big shoes to fill. I loved Loretta Devine’s original (her character provided most of the comic relief in the play) and thought she had a killer voice. In a very sweet and fan-pleasing move, Devine has a nice cameo in the film as a jazz singer and former acquaintance of Jimmy Early (who was her married boyfriend in the play). Last week Leah and her mom were shopping at the Grove shopping center in L.A. In a cell phone store, Loretta Devine came over and was admiring Leah’s new cell phone. Sophie recognized her and told her how much she enjoyed her work in “Boston Common” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” After they walked away, Devine’s husband doubled back to Sophie and Leah and whispered, “You know, my wife was in the original ‘Dreamgirls’ and has a role in the movie version that’s coming out!” Now that’s a supportive hubby.
No sign in the film of Sheryl Lee Ralph, the original Deena, who has criticized the casting of Beyoncé on the grounds of her light skin. “When Tom Eyen who is the creator, had this idea, he said that the Dreams have to be three obviously black girls,” Ralph said in a recent interview. “Why? Because America will always go for that light, bright, long-haired black girl because they will feel comfortable building her up, since they see themselves in her. But for the obviously black girl, if she makes it, she deserves to be right there…So, when they cast Beyoncé in the role of Deena Jones, I said, ‘Wow, this is exactly what Tom Eyen said would happen. They are going to take to that light, bright blackish blonde girl because they feel comfortable with her. That's the reality.’” I’m not sure I agree with her concerns about Beyoncé but I’m still sorry they didn’t find a small role for Ralph in the film. “For us to be so much a part of theatrical history and then to be treated like we did nothing is heartbreaking,” she said last week. “I don't take offense. It's just show business, baby. I wish them every success.” Until this year Ralph had a child at my daughter’s school and we used to trail after her at school events (violating the strict rule in the parent handbook to avoid approaching celebrities on campus) humming the lyrics to her songs under our breaths. “Every man has his own special dream, and your dream is about to come true. Life’s not as bad as it may seem, if you open your eyes to what’s in front of you…” Sheryl Lee Ralph is still as stunningly beautiful as she was when she was playing Deena Jones a quarter of a century ago.
Jennifer Holliday seems to be the most bitter former cast member, raging mad that she wasn’t asked to be involved with the project in any way and feeling like she was being disappeared from the history of the show in the same way that Efffie White was excised from all the Dreams PR after she left the group. “Why is it necessary for them to wipe out my existence in order for them to have their success?” Holliday has publicly pondered. “It’s scary that they can be so cruel. I know it’s business, but why do they have to do to this extreme? I’m a human being. Why do I have to die to make them a winner.” Those criticisms sound a little unfair to me, and I’ve always heard how difficult Holliday was back in the day (just like Effie) but I can see why she feels excluded. Following her huge success as Effie White, Holliday's life took a few Effie-like turns. She suffered from severe depression, had two failed marriages, and tried to commit suicide on her 30th birthday. She later lost a whopping 200 lbs. and started recording again but it's been an uphill struggle. I can understand how Holliday's ego might be taking a hit since her mantle has been passed on to someone as extraordinarily talented as Jennifer Hudson. The one-time “American Idol” performer does not revisit Jennifer Holliday’s tour-de-force in the film version of "Dreamgirls" but instead gives the role an entirely new interpretation, one that is so real and so natural you just can’t believe she’s never acted before. But as Kendall pointed out, a good singer is a good actress.
Hudson never once hits a false note in this film and for my money, is the best thing in it. When’s the last time you heard someone sing a song with such pure emotion that people were crying all over the theatre and then furiously applauding at the end of the number? In another case of life imitating art (as if Jennifer Holliday’s sad life isn’t enough), the Golden Globes were announced the other day with Beyoncé being nominated for Best Actress but Jennifer Hudson getting the nod for Best Supporting Actress. Huh? Isn’t her part just as big and critical to the story? I think it may be the studios themselves who submit actors for different categories and it was probably a calculated move to give Hudson a better shot at the prize, but it makes no sense. Is Knowles more the lead than Hudson because she’s prettier and thinner?
I love the fact that movie musicals are making a comeback and “Dreamgirls” director Bill Condon deserves a lot of the credit for that. After so many failed stage-to-screen transfers (from the abominable “Chorus Line” to the lukewarm “Rent” and “The Producers”) the total success of “Dreamgirls” as a film is even more heartening. In the recent “Chicago,” which Condon penned, all the musical numbers had to be seen as Renee Zellweger’s fantasies. “Dreamgirls” uses no such gimmick—there are lots of actual staged numbers since this is a story about show biz, but there are also plenty of instances where the characters just burst into song (without apology) to convey their emotions. Hooray! I say we elect Bill Condon our new National Musical Czar and see what he comes up with next.
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Danny, with this post you've cemented your position as Cultural Czar of the 21st Century. I can't think of anyone else who could come up with as many references, who's been to as many relevant productions in historic theatres, who knows the history of every role and performer and whose wit is on display as he writes about all of them. You really are a one-man show. And a good one.
Posted by: david | December 19, 2006 at 06:29 PM
Okay, that does it: I officially have Dreamgirls fever.
I thought I was losing my mind. I told someone that the actress who plays Effie is named Jennifer Holliday, and they said, "No, Jennifer Hudson." I wondered where I got Holliday. Now I know!
Posted by: Heather | December 20, 2006 at 05:07 AM
Danny, I was on the fence about seeing the film, but after reading your commentary, I am going. You mentioned you saw the original Broadway show in New York in 1982. Well, listen to this: I was working in the entertainment press on the very night that "Dreamgirls" opened in Boston in tryouts BEFORE its New York debut. So I was one of the first people to hear Jennifer Holliday sing her famous showstopper live! I still remember, all these years later, how powerful that performance was. I knew I was witnessing something amazing and important in theater history.
Posted by: Rhea | December 20, 2006 at 07:59 AM
Oy, Danny...now I can't wait to see this movie...I can't convince my husband though...he needs a little more of your gay sensibilities.
Posted by: cruisin-mom | December 20, 2006 at 08:18 AM
Yes, it's me again...returning to darken your monitor after a long absence.
Re your proposed name, "Straight Man/Gay Blog”: a friend of mine once asked, "Why do gay men have great taste in everything EXCEPT music? They seem to listen to nothing but show tunes and bad disco!" To which my ex-girlfriend replied, "The show tunes remind them of their mothers and high school drama class, and the bad disco has a perfect beat for back-door sex!" She was that kind of a woman...
Anyway, this very sinful Christian hopes you, Kendall & the kid are having a happy Hanukkah. And if I don't post before then, a joyous and productive Ought-Seven as well!
Posted by: MikalM | December 20, 2006 at 01:34 PM
Amazing review. Frankly, I knew nothing about "Dreamgirls" (the movie or the musical) until I saw Beyonce Knowles on Letterman last night. It sounded interesting then, but reading your review was thoroughly entertaining and enlightening, and I may try and see the movie.
Posted by: Elisabeth | December 20, 2006 at 07:07 PM
I'll add my "straightman/gay taste" voice to the growing chorus and say that this is one of the most sensational film experiences I've had in years.
Murphy will pick up the cu as Best Supporting at the Oscars. Hudson will at least get a nod.
Now I'd love to see a stage revival. In the meantime, you MUST see this film!
Posted by: pdxbray | December 26, 2006 at 10:31 PM
I loved this commentary. Dreamgirls was SO much more about Jennifer Hudson's singing and preformance than Beyonce's part in the movie. Beyonce was really befitting of the part of Deena given her own background and lack of "personality" in her voice.
I hope that everyone see's how Hudson was the shinning star in this movie, and give her due and earned attention. Hopefully what happened in the movie won't be replayed in real life :)
I really dont think this movie helped beyonce's career.
Posted by: Malu | January 02, 2007 at 08:31 AM
thatr is kwl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It located six nautical miles from Punta del Este, Isla de Lobos is the world's second largest sea lions colony.
After a careful approach to the seals in the West Bay, these charming pieces will provide a lively and noisy welcome to the Island
You can experience and interact in a unique and incredible show of mutual observation, with thousands of sea lions. After a great shoot, sail slowly to the northeast tip, to see the wreck of Santander, the facilities of the former Wolf Pack and the highest lighthouse in South America.
Return seen a wonderful view of the Peninsula and its silhouette. It located six nautical miles from Punta del Este, Isla de Lobos is the world's second largest sea lions colony.
Return seen a wonderful view of the Peninsula and its silhouette. Meeting/pick-up point: Pick-up a t the hotel.
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Languages: Spanish and English.
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Amnesty International Denounces the Ortega Government’s “Strategy of Repression”
Guevara Rosas: “The Government is wrong if it believes that critical thinking and the demand for rights and indignation can be imprisoned.”
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Amnesty International affirmed today that the arrest of 38 people in a march Sunday against the government of Daniel Ortega, “continues the strategy of repression”, which criminalizes those who disagree.
“It is an aberration that the government of President Daniel Ortega makes arbitrary use of the criminal justice system to silence those who speak out against him,” said Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty’s director for the Americas, in a statement.
The National Police of Nicaragua confirmed that 38 people had been arrested during the march held on Sunday, for participating in “instigating and provocative activities” and altering “peace and normal coexistence.” Eight of the detainees, all over 60, were released on Sunday and the rest on Monday, although five more, captured during the same raid are still missing.
Guevara Rosas said that arresting people for going out to the streets to protest reflects the “detachment” of the Nicaraguan government to legality and human rights.
In addition, Amnesty was able to verify “that the protestors were not in the flagrant commission of any crime established in the law, nor existed at the moment of the arrest an order of apprehension against them”.
She recalled that, in several bulletins of the National Police of Nicaragua, the Executive had already warned that any public demonstrations against the government were declared “illegal” and that those who convened them would be detained.
Only pro-Ortega rallies and marches are considered legal and receive police protection.
Amnesty “has been documenting the arbitrary detention of people simply for participating in demonstrations, or publicly criticizing the government,” and many of them are leaders of social and student movements.
“The Government of Nicaragua is wrong to think that critical thinking, the demand for rights and indignation can be imprisoned,” said Guevara Rosas.
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Annotation 8 - Fourteenth Amendment
Taxing Power
Generally .--It was not contemplated that the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment would restrain or cripple the taxing power of the States. 1 Rather, the purpose of the amendment was to extend to the residents of the States the same protection against arbitrary state legislation affecting life, liberty, and property as was afforded against Congress by the Fifth Amendment. 2
Public Purpose .--As a general matter, public moneys cannot be expended for other than public purposes. Some early cases applied this principle by invalidating taxes judged to be imposed to raise money for purely private rather than public purposes. 3 However, modern notions of public purpose have expanded to the point where the limitation has little practical import. Whether a use is public or private, while it is ultimately a judicial question, ''is a practical question addressed to the law-making department, and it would require a plain case of departure from every public purpose which could reasonably be conceived to justify the intervention of a court.'' 4 Taxes levied for each of the following purposes have been held to be for a public use: a city coal and fuel yard, 5 a state bank, a warehouse, an elevator, a flourmill system, homebuilding projects, 6 a society for preventing cruelty to animals (dog license tax), 7 a railroad tunnel, 8 books for school children attending private as well as public schools, 9 and relief of unemployment. 10
Other Considerations Affecting Validity: Excessive Burden; Ratio of Amount of Benefit Received .--When the power to tax exists, the extent of the burden is a matter for the discretion of the lawmakers, 11 and the Court will refrain from condemning a tax solely on the ground that it is excessive. 12 Nor can the constitutionality of taxation be made to depend upon the taxpayer's enjoyment of any special benefits from use of the funds raised by taxation. 13
Estate, Gift, and Inheritance Taxes .--The power of testamentary disposition and the privilege of inheritance being legitimate subjects of taxation, a State may apply its inheritance tax to either the transmission, or the exercise of the legal power of transmission, of property by will or descent, or to the legal privilege of taking property by devise or descent. 14 Accordingly, an inheritance tax law, enacted after the death of a testator but before the distribution of his estate, constitutionally may be imposed on the shares of legatees, notwithstanding that under the law of the State in effect on the date of such enactment, ownership of the property passed to the legatees upon the testator's death. 15 Equally consistent with due process is a tax on an inter vivos transfer of property by deed intended to take effect upon the death of the grantor. 16
When remainders indisputably vest at the time of the creation of a trust and a succession tax is enacted thereafter, the imposition of the tax on the transfer of such remainder is unconstitutional. 17 But where the remaindermen's interests are contingent and do not vest until the donor's death subsequent to the adoption of the statute, the tax is valid. 18
The Court has noted that insofar as retroactive taxation of vested gifts has been voided, the justification therefor has been that ''the nature or amount of the tax could not reasonably have been anticipated by the taxpayer at the time of the particular voluntary act which the [retroactive] statute later made the taxable event. . . . Taxation . . . of a gift which . . . [the donor] might well have refrained from making had he anticipated the tax . . . [is] thought to be so arbitrary . . . as to be a denial of due process.'' 19
Income Taxes .--The authority of states to tax income is ''universally recognized.'' 20 Years ago the Court explained that ''[e]njoyment of the privileges of residence in the state and the attendant right to invoke the protection of its laws are inseparable from responsibility for sharing the costs of government. . . . A tax measured by the net income of residents is an equitable method of distributing the burdens of government among those who are privileged to enjoy its benefits.'' 21 Also, a tax on income is not constitutionally suspect because retroactive. The routine practice of making taxes retroactive for the entire year of the legislative session in which the tax is enacted has long been upheld, 22 and there are also situations in which courts have upheld retroactive application to the preceding year or two. 23
Franchise Taxes .--A city ordinance imposing annual license taxes on light and power companies is not violative of the due process clause merely because the city has entered the power business in competition with such companies. 24 Nor does a municipal charter authorizing the imposition upon a local telegraph company of a tax upon the lines of the company within its limits at the rate at which other property is taxed but upon an arbitrary valuation per mile, deprive the company of its property without due process of law, inasmuch as the tax is a mere franchise or privilege tax. 25
Severance Taxes .--A state excise tax on the production of oil which extends to the royalty interest of the lessor as well as to the interest of the lessee engaged in the active work of production, the tax being apportioned between these parties according to their respective interest in the common venture, is not arbitrary as applied to the lessor, but consistent with due process. 26
Real Property Taxes .--The maintenance of a high assessment in the face of declining value is merely another way of achieving an increase in the rate of property tax. Hence, an overassessment constitutes no deprivation of property without due process of law. 27 Likewise, land subject to mortgage may be taxed for its full value without deduction of the mortgage debt from the valuation. 28
A State may defray the entire expense of creating, developing, and improving a political subdivision either from funds raised by general taxation or by apportioning the burden among the municipalities in which the improvements are made or by creating, or authorizing the creation of, tax districts to meet sanctioned outlays. 29 Where a state statute authorizes municipal authorities to define the district to be benefited by a street improvement and to assess the cost of the improvement upon the property within the district in proportion to benefits, their action in establishing the district and in fixing the assessments on included property, after due hearing of the owners as required by the statute cannot, when not arbitrary or fradulent, be reviewed under the Fourteenth Amendment upon the ground that other property benefited by the improvement was not included. 30
It is also proper to impose a special assessment for the preliminary expenses of an abandoned road improvement, even though the assessment exceeds the amount of the benefit which the assessors estimated the property would receive from the completed work. 31 Likewise a levy upon all lands within a drainage district of a tax of twenty-five cents per acre to defray preliminary expenses does not unconstitutionally take the property of landowners within that district who may not be benefited by the completed drainage plans. 32 On the other hand, when the benefit to be derived by a railroad from the construction of a highway will be largely offset by the loss of local freight and passenger traffic, an assessment upon such railroad is violative of due process, 33 whereas any gains from increased traffic reasonably expected to result from a road improvement will suffice to sustain an assessment thereon. 34 Also the fact that the only use made of a lot abutting on a street improvement is for a railway right of way does not make invalid, for lack of benefits, an assessment thereon for grading, curbing, and paving. 35 However, when a high and dry island was included within the boundaries of a drainage district from which it could not be benefitted directly or indirectly, a tax imposed on the island land by the district was held to be a deprivation of property without due process of law. 36 Finally, a State may levy an assessment for special benefits resulting from an improvement already made 37 and may validate an assessment previously held void for want of authority. 38
Jurisdiction to Tax
The operation of the Due Process Clause as a limitation on the taxing power of the states has been an issue in a variety of different contexts, but most involve one of the other of two basic issues, first, the relationship between the state exercising taxing power and the object of that exercise of power, and second, whether the degree of contact is sufficient to justify the state's imposition of a particular obligation. Often these issues arise in conjunction with claims that the state's actions are also violative of the Commerce Clause. Illustrative of the factual settings in which such issues arise are 1), determining the scope of the business activity of a multijurisdictional entity that is subject to a state's taxing power, 2) application of wealth transfer taxes to gifts or bequests of nonresidents, 3) allocation of the income of multijurisdictional entities for tax purposes, 4) the scope of state authority to tax the income of nonresidents, and 5) collection of state use taxes.
The Court's opinions in these cases have often discussed due process and Commerce Clause issues as if they were indistinguishable. The recent decision in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 39 however, utilized a two-tier analysis that found sufficient contact to satisfy due process but not Commerce Clause requirements. Quill may be read as implying that the more stringent Commerce Clause standard subsumes due process jurisdictional issues, and that consequently these due process issues need no longer be separately considered. This interpretation has yet to be confirmed, however, and a detailed review of due process precedents may prove useful.
Sales/Use Taxes .--In Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 40 the Court struck down a state statute requiring an out-of-state mail order company with neither outlets nor sales representatives in the state to collect and transmit use taxes on sales to state residents, but did so on Commerce Clause rather than due process grounds. Taxation of an interstate business does not offend due process, the Court held, if that business ''purposefully avails itself of the benefits of an economic market in the [taxing] State . . . even if it has no physical presence in the State.'' 41 A physical presence within the state is necessary, however, under Commerce Clause analysis applicable to taxation of mail order sales. 42
Land .--Even prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, it was a settled principle that a State could not tax land situated beyond its limits; subsequently elaborating upon that principle the Court has said that, ''we know of no case where a legislature has assumed to impose a tax upon land within the jurisdiction of another State, much less where such action has been defended by a court.'' 43 Insofar as a tax payment may be viewed as an exaction for the maintenance of government in consideration of protection afforded, the logic sustaining this rule is self-evident.
Tangible Personalty .--As long as tangible personal property has a situs within its borders, a State validly may tax the same, whether directly through an ad valorem tax or indirectly through death taxes, irrespective of the residence of the owner. 44 By the same token, if tangible personal property makes only occasional incursions into other States, its permanent situs remains in the State of origin, and, subject to certain exceptions, is taxable only by the latter. 45 The ancient maxim, mobilia sequuntur personam, which had its origin when personal property consisted in the main of articles appertaining to the person of the owner, yielded in modern times to the ''law of the place where the property is kept and used.'' The tendency has been to treat tangible personal property as ''having a situs of its own for the purpose of taxation, and correlatively to . . . exempt [it] at the domicile of its owner.'' 46 When rolling stock is permanently located and employed in the prosecution of a business outside the boundaries of a domiciliary State, the latter has no jurisdiction to tax it. 47 Vessels, however, inasmuch as they merely touch briefly at numerous ports, never acquire a taxable situs at any one of them, and are taxable by the domicile of their owners or not at all, 48 unless of course, the ships operate wholly on the waters within one State, in which event they are taxable there and not at the domicile of the owners. 49 Airplanes have been treated in a similar manner for tax purposes. Noting that the entire fleet of airplanes of an interstate carrier were ''never continuously without the [domiciliary] State during the whole tax year,'' that such airplanes also had their ''home port'' in the domiciliary State, and that the company maintained its principal office therein, the Court sustained a personal property tax applied by the domiciliary State to all the airplanes owned by the taxpayer. No other State was deemed able to accord the same protection and benefits as the taxing State in which the taxpayer had both its domicile and its business situs; the doctrines of Union Transit Co. v. Kentucky, 50 as to the taxability of permanently located tangibles, and that of apportionment, for instrumentalities engaged in interstate commerce 51 were held to be inapplicable. 52
Conversely, a nondomiciliary State, although it may not tax property belonging to a foreign corporation which has never come within its borders, may levy on movables which are regularly and habitually used and employed therein. Thus, while the fact that cars are loaded and reloaded at a refinery in a State outside the owner's domicile does not fix the situs of the entire fleet in that State, the latter may nevertheless tax the number of cars which on the average are found to be present within its borders. 53 Moreover, in assessing that part of a railroad within its limits, a State need not treat it as an independent line, disconnected from the part without, and place upon the property within the State only a value which could be given to it if operated separately from the balance of the road. The State may ascertain the value of the whole line as a single property and then determine the value of the part within on a mileage basis, unless there be special circumstances which distinguish between conditions in the several States. 54 But no property of an interstate carrier can be taken into account unless it can be seen in some plain and fairly intelligible way that it adds to the value of the road and the rights exercised in the State. 55 Also, a state property tax on railroads, which is measured by gross earnings apportioned to mileage, is not unconstitutional in the absence of proof that it exceeds what would be legitimate as an ordinary tax on the property valued as part of a going concern or that it is relatively higher than taxes on other kinds of property. 56 The tax reaches only revenues derived from local operations, and the fact that the apportionment formula does not result in mathematical exactitude is not a constitutional defect. 57
Intangible Personalty .--To determine whether a State, or States, may tax intangible personal property, the Court has applied the fiction, mobilia sequuntur personam and has also recognized that such property may acquire, for tax purposes, a business or commercial situs where permanently located, but it has never clearly disposed of the issue whether multiple personal property taxation of intangibles is consistent with due process. In the case of corporate stock, however, the Court has obliquely acknowledged that the owner thereof may be taxed at his own domicile, at the commercial situs of the issuing corporation, and at the latter's domicile; constitutional lawyers speculated whether the Court would sustain a tax by all three jurisdictions, or by only two of them, and, if the latter, which two, the State of the commercial situs and of the issuing corporation's domicile, or the State of the owner's domicile and that of the commercial situs. 58
Thus far, the Court has sustained the following personal property taxes on intangibles:
(1) A debt held by a resident against a nonresident, evidenced by a bond of the debtor and secured by a mortgage on real estate in the State of the debtor's residence. 59
(2) A mortgage owned and kept outside the State by a nonresident but on land within the State. 60
(3) Investments, in the form of loans to a resident, made by a resident agent of a nonresident creditor, are taxable to the nonresident creditor. 61
(4) Deposits of a resident in a bank in another State, where he carries on a business and from which these deposits are derived, but belonging absolutely to him and not used in the business, are subject to a personal property tax in the city of his residence, whether or not they are subject to tax in the State where the business is carried on. The tax is imposed for the general advantage of living within the jurisdiction (benefit-protection theory), and may be measured by reference to the riches of the person taxed. 62
(5) Membership owned by a nonresident in a domestic exchange, known as a chamber of commerce. 63
(6) Membership by a resident in a stock exchange located in another State. ''Double taxation'' the Court observed ''by one and the same State is not'' prohibited ''by the Fourteenth Amendment; much less is taxation by two States upon identical or closely related property interest falling within the jurisdiction of both, forbidden.'' 64
(7) A resident owner may be taxed on stock held in a foreign corporation that does no business and has no property within the taxing State. The Court also added that ''undoubtedly the State in which a corporation is organized may . . . [tax] all of its shares whether owned by residents or nonresidents.'' 65
(8) Stock in a foreign corporation owned by another foreign corporation transacting its business within the taxing State. The Court attached no importance to the fact that the shares were already taxed by the State in which the issuing corporation was domiciled and might also be taxed by the State in which the stock owner was domiciled, or at any rate did not find it necessary to pass upon the validity of the latter two taxes. The present levy was deemed to be tenable on the basis of the benefit-protection theory, namely, ''the economic advantages realized through the protection at the place . . . [of business situs] of the ownership of rights in intangibles. . . .'' 66
(9) Shares owned by nonresident shareholders in a domestic corporation, the tax being assessed on the basis of corporate assets and payable by the corporation either out of its general fund or by collection from the shareholder. The shares represent an aliquot portion of the whole corporate assets, and the property right so represented arises where the corporation has its home, and is therefore within the taxing jurisdiction of the State, notwithstanding that ownership of the stock may also be a taxable subject in another State. 67
(10) A tax on the dividends of a corporation may be distributed ratably among stockholders regardless of their residence outside the State, the stockholders being the ultimate beneficiaries of the corporation's activities within the taxing State and protected by the latter and subject to its jurisdiction. 68 This tax, though collected by the corporation, is on the transfer to a stockholder of his share of corporate dividends within the taxing State and is deducted from said dividend payments. 69
(11) Stamp taxes on the transfer within the taxing State by one nonresident to another of stock certificates issued by a foreign corporation, 70 and upon promissory notes executed by a domestic corporation, although payable to banks in other States. 71 These taxes, however, were deemed to have been laid, not on the property, but upon an event, the transfer in one instance, and execution in the latter which took place in the taxing State.
The following personal property taxes on intangibles have been invalidated:
(1) Debts evidenced by notes in safekeeping within the taxing State, but made and payable and secured by property in a second State and owned by a resident of a third State. 72
(2) A property tax sought to be collected from a life beneficiary on the corpus of a trust composed of property located in another State and as to which the beneficiary had neither control nor possession, apart from the receipt of income therefrom. 73 However, a personal property tax may be collected on one-half of the value of the corpus of a trust from a resident who is one of the two trustees thereof, not withstanding that the trust was created by the will of a resident of another State in respect of intangible property located in the latter State, at least where it does not appear that the trustee is exposed to the danger of other ad valorem taxes in another State. 74 The first case, Brooke v. Norfolk, 75 is distinguishable by virture of the fact that the property tax therein voided was levied upon a resident beneficiary rather than upon a resident trustee in control of nonresident intangibles. Different too is Safe Deposit & T. Co. v. Virginia, 76 where a property tax was unsuccessfully demanded of a nonresident trustee with respect to nonresident intangibles under its control.
(3) A tax, measured by income, levied on trust certificates held by a resident, representing interests in various parcels of land (some inside the State and some outside), the holder of the certificates, though without a voice in the management of the property, being entitled to a share in the net income and, upon sale of the property, to the proceeds of the sale. 77
A State in which a foreign corporation has acquired a commercial domicile and in which it maintains its general business offices may tax the latter's bank deposits and accounts receivable even though the deposits are outside the State and the accounts receivable arise from manufacturing activities in another State. 78 Similarly, a nondomiciliary State in which a foreign corporation did business can tax the ''corporate excess'' arising from property employed and business done in the taxing State. 79 On the other hand, when the foreign corporation transacts only interstate commerce within a State, any excise tax on such excess is void, irrespective of the amount of the tax. 80 A domiciliary State, however, may tax the excess of market value of outstanding capital stock over the value of real and personal property and certain indebtedness of a domestic corporation even though this ''corporate excess'' arose from property located and business done in another State and was there taxable. Moreover, this result follows whether the tax is considered as one on property or on the franchise. 81 Also a domiciliary State, which imposes no franchise tax on a stock fire insurance corporation, validly may assess a tax on the full amount of its paid-in capital stock and surplus, less deductions for liabilities, notwithstanding that such domestic corporation concentrates its executive, accounting, and other business offices in New York, and maintains in the domiciliary State only a required registered office at which local claims are handled. Despite ''the vicissitudes which the so-called 'jurisdiction-to-tax' doctrine has encountered . . . ,'' the presumption persists that intangible property is taxable by the State of origin. 82 But a property tax on the capital stock of a domestic company which includes in the appraisal thereof the value of coal mined in the taxing State but located in another State awaiting sale deprives the corporation of its property without due process of law. 83 Also void for the same reason is a state tax on the franchise of a domestic ferry company which includes in the valuation thereof the worth of a franchise granted to the said company by another State. 84
Transfer (Inheritance, Estate, Gift) Taxes .--Being competent to regulate exercise of the power of testamentary disposition and the privilege of inheritance, a State may base its succession taxes upon either the transmission or an exercise of the legal power of transmission, of property by will or by descent, or the enjoyment of the legal privilege of taking property by devise or descent. 85 But whatever may be the justification of their power to levy such taxes, States have consistently found themselves restricted by the rule, established as to property taxes in 1905 in Union Transit Co. v. Kentucky, 86 and subsequently reiterated in Frick v. Pennsylvania 87 in 1925, which precludes imposition of transfer taxes upon tangible personal property by any State other than the one in which such tangibles are permanently located or have an actual situs. In the case of intangibles, however, the Court has oscillated in upholding, then rejecting, and again currently sustaining the levy by more than one State of death taxes upon intangibles comprising the estate of a decedent.
Until 1930, transfer taxes upon intangibles levied by both the domiciliary as well as nondomiciliary, or situs State, were with rare exceptions approved. Thus, in Bullen v. Wisconsin, 88 the domiciliary State of the creator of a trust was held competent to levy an inheritance tax, upon the death of the settlor, on his trust fund consisting of stocks, bonds, and notes kept and administered in another State and as to which the settlor reserved the right to control disposition and to direct payment of income for life, such reserved powers being equivalent to a fee. Cognizance was taken of the fact that the State in which these intangibles had their situs had also taxed the trust. Levy of an inheritance tax by a nondomiciliary State was sustained on similar grounds in Wheeler v. New York, wherein it was held that the presence of a negotiable instrument was sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon the State seeking to tax its transfer. 89 On the other hand, the mere ownership by a foreign corporation of property in a nondomiciliary State was held insufficient to support a tax by that State on the succession to shares of stock in that corporation owned by a nonresident decedent. 90 Also against the trend was Blodgett v. Silberman, 91 wherein the Court defeated collection of a transfer tax by the domiciliary State by treating coins and bank notes deposited by a decedent in a safe deposit box in another State as tangible property, albeit it conceded that the domiciliary State could tax the transfer of books and certificates of indebtness found in that safe deposit box as well as the decedent's interest in a foreign partnership.
In the course of about two years following the Depression, the Court handed down a group of four decisions which placed the stamp of disapproval upon multiple transfer and--by inference--other multiple taxation of intangibles. 92 Asserting, as it did in one of these cases, that ''practical considerations of wisdom, convenience and justice alike dictate the desirability of a uniform rule confining the jurisdiction to impose death transfer taxes as to intangibles to the State of the [owner's] domicile,'' 93 the Court, through consistent application of the maxim, mobilia sequuntur personam, proceeded to deny the right of nondomiciliary States to tax and to reject as inadequate jurisdictional claims of the latter founded upon such bases as control, benefit, and protection or situs. During this interval, 1930-1932, multiple transfer taxation of intangibles came to be viewed, not merely as undesirable, but as so arbitrary and unreasonable as to be prohibited by the due process clause.
While the Court expressly overruled only one of these four decisions condemning multiple succession taxation of intangibles, beginning with Curry v. McCanless 94 in 1939, it announced a departure from the ''doctrine, of recent origin, that the Fourteenth Amendment precludes the taxation of any interest in the same intangible in more than one State. . . .'' Taking cognizance of the fact that this doctrine had never been extended to the field of income taxation or consistently applied in the field of property taxation, the Court declared that a correct interpretation of constitutional requirements would dictate the following conclusions: ''From the beginning of our constitutional system control over the person at the place of his domicile and his duty there, common to all citizens, to contribute to the support of government have been deemed to afford an adequate constitutional basis for imposing on him a tax on the use and enjoyment of rights in intangibles measured by their value. . . . But when the taxpayer extends his activities with respect to his intangibles, so as to avail himself of the protection and benefit of the laws of another State, in such a way as to bring his person or . . . [his intangibles] within the reach of the tax gatherer there, the reason for a single place of taxation no longer obtains, . . . [However], the State of domicile is not deprived, by the taxpayer's activities, elsewhere, of its constitutional jurisdiction to tax.'' In accordance with this line of reasoning, Tennessee, where a decedent died domiciled, and Alabama, where a trustee, by conveyance from said decedent, held securities on specific trusts, were both deemed competent to impose a tax on the transfer of these securities passing under the will of the decedent. ''In effecting her purposes,'' the testatrix was viewed as having ''brought some of the legal interests which she created within the control of one State by selecting a trustee there, and others within the control of the other State, by making her domicile there.'' She had found it necessary to invoke ''the aid of the law of both States and her legatees'' were subject to the same necessity.
These statements represented a belated adoption of the views advanced by Chief Justice Stone in dissenting or concurring opinions which he filed in three of the four decisions during 1930-1932. By the line of reasoning taken in these opinions, if protection or control was extended to, or exercised over, intangibles or the person of their owner, then as many States as afforded such protection or were capable of exerting such dominion should be privileged to tax the transfer of such property. On this basis, the domiciliary State would invariably qualify as a State competent to tax as would a nondomiciliary State, so far as it could legitimately exercise control or could be shown to have afforded a measure of protection that was not trivial or insubstantial.
On the authority of Curry v. McCanless, the Court, in Pearson v. McGraw, 95 also sustained the application of an Oregon transfer tax to intangibles handled by an Illinois trust company and never physically present in Oregon. Jurisdiction to tax was viewed as dependent, not on the location of the property in the State, but on control over the owner who was a resident of Oregon. In Graves v. Elliott, 96 the Court upheld the power of New York, in computing its estate tax, to include in the gross estate of a domiciled decedent the value of a trust of bonds managed in Colorado by a Colorado trust company and already taxed on its transfer by Colorado, which trust the decedent had established while in Colorado and concerning which he had never exercised any of his reserved powers of revocation or change of beneficiaries. It was observed that ''the power of disposition of property is the equivalent of ownership, . . . and its exercise in the case of intangibles is . . . [an] appropriate subject of taxation at the place of the domicile of the owner of the power. Relinquishment at death, in consequence of the nonexercise in life, of a power to revoke a trust created by a decedent is likewise an appropriate subject of taxation.'' 97 Consistent application of the principle enunciated in Curry v. McCanless is also discernible in two later cases in which the Court sustained the right of a domiciliary State to tax the transfer of intangibles kept outside its boundaries, notwithstanding that ''in some instances they may be subject to taxation in other jurisdictions, to whose control they are subject and whose legal protection they enjoyed.'' In Graves v. Schmidlapp, 98 an estate tax was levied upon the value of the subject of a general testamentary power of appointment effectively exercised by a resident donee over intangibles held by trustees under the will of a nonresident donor of the power. Viewing the transfer of interest in the intangibles by exercise of the power of appointment as the equivalent of ownership, the Court quoted from McCulloch v. Maryland 99 to the effect that the power to tax '''is an incident of sovereignty, and is coextensive with that to which it is an incident.''' Again, in Central Hanover Bank Co. v. Kelly, 100 the Court approved a New Jersey transfer tax imposed on the occasion of the death of a New Jersey grantor of an irrevocable trust executed, and consisting of securities located in New York, and providing for the disposition of the corpus to two nonresident sons.
The costliness of multiple taxation of estates comprising intangibles is appreciably aggravated when each of several States founds its tax not upon different events or property rights but upon an identical basis, namely that the decedent died domiciled within its borders. Not only is an estate then threatened with excessive contraction but the contesting States may discover that the assets of the estate are insufficient to satisfy their claims. Thus, in Texas v. Florida, 101 the State of Texas filed an original petition in the Supreme Court, in which it asserted that its claim, together with those of three other States, exceeded the value of the estate, that the portion of the estate within Texas alone would not suffice to discharge its own tax, and that its efforts to collect its tax might be defeated by adjudications of domicile by the other States. The Supreme Court disposed of this controversy by sustaining a finding that the decedent had been domiciled in Massachusetts, but intimated that thereafter it would take jurisdiction in like situations only in the event that an estate did not exceed in value the total of the conflicting demands of several States and that the latter were confronted with a prospective inability to collect.
Corporate Privilege Taxes .--Since the tax is levied not on property but on the privilege of doing business in corporate form, a domestic corporation may be subjected to a privilege tax graduated according to paid-up capital stock, even though the latter represents capital not subject to the taxing power of the State. 102 By the same token, the validity of a franchise tax, imposed on a domestic corporation engaged in foreign maritime commerce and assessed upon a proportion of the total franchise value equal to the ratio of local business done to total business, is not impaired by the fact that the total value of the franchise was enhanced by property and operations carried on beyond the limits of the State. 103 However, a State, under the guise of taxing the privilege of doing an intrastate business, cannot levy on property beyond its borders; therefore, as applied to foreign corporations, a license tax based on authorized capital stock is void, 104 even though there be a maximum to the fee, 105 unless apportioned according to some method, as, for example, a franchise tax based on such proportion of outstanding capital stock as it represented by property owned and used in business transacted in the taxing State. 106 An entrance fee, on the other hand, collected only once as the price of admission to do an intrastate business, is distinguishable from a tax and accordingly may be levied on a foreign corporation on the basis of a sum fixed in relation to the amount of authorized capital stock (in this instance, a $5,000 fee on an authorized capital of $100,000,000). 107
A municipal license tax imposed as a percentage of the receipts of a foreign corporation derived from the sales within and without the State of goods manufactured in the city is not a tax on business transactions or property outside the city and therefore does not violate the due process clause. 108 But a State lacks jurisdiction to extend its privilege tax to the gross receipts of a foreign contracting corporation for work done outside the taxing State in fabricating equipment later installed in the taxing State. Unless the activities which are the subject of the tax are carried on within its territorial limits, a State is not competent to impose such a privilege tax. 109
A tax on chain stores, at a rate per store determined by the number of stores both within and without the State is not unconstitutional as a tax in part upon things beyond the jurisdiction of the State. 110
Individual Income Taxes .--Consistent with due process of law, a State annually may tax the entire net income of resident individuals from whatever source received, 111 and that portion of a nonresident's net income derived from property owned, and from any business, trade, or profession carried on, by him within its borders. 112 Jurisdiction, in the case of residents, is founded upon the rights and privileges incident to domicile, and, in the case of non residents, upon dominion over either the receiver of the income or the property or activity from which it is derived and upon the obligation to contribute to the support of a government which renders secure the collection of such income. Accordingly, a State may tax residents on income from rents of land located outside the State and from interest on bonds physically without the State and secured by mortgage upon lands similarly situated 113 and from a trust created and administered in another State, and not directly taxable to the trustee. 114 The fact that another State has lawfully taxed identical income in the hands of trustees operating therein does not necessarily destroy a domiciliary State's right to tax the receipt of income by a resident beneficiary. ''The taxing power of a state is restricted to her confines and may not be exercised in respect of subjects beyond them.'' 115 Likewise, even though a nonresident does no business within a State, the latter may tax the profits realized by the nonresident upon his sale of a right appurtenant to membership in a stock exchange within its borders. 116
Corporate Income Taxes: Foreign Corporations .--A tax based on the income of a foreign corporation may be determined by allocating to the State a proportion of the total. 117 However, such a basis may work an unconstitutional result if the income thus attributed to the State is out of all appropriate proportion to the business there transacted by the corporation. Evidence may always be submitted which tends to show that a State has applied a method which, albeit fair on its face, operates so as to reach profits which are in no sense attributable to transactions within its jurisdication. 118 Nevertheless, a foreign corporation is in error when it contends that due process is denied by a franchise tax measured by income, which is levied, not upon net income from intrastate business alone, but on net income justly attributable to all classes of business done within the State, interstate and foreign, as well as intrastate business. 119 Inasmuch as the privilege granted by a State to a foreign corporation of carrying on local business supports a tax by that State on the income derived from that business, it follows that the Wisconsin privilege dividend tax, consistent with the due process clause, may be applied to a Delaware corporation, having its principal offices in New York, holding its meetings and voting its dividends in New York, and drawing its dividend checks on New York bank accounts. The tax is imposed on the ''privilege of declaring and receiving dividends'' out of income derived from property located and business transacted in the State, equal to a specified percentage of such dividends, the corporation being required to deduct the tax from dividends payable to resident and nonresident shareholders and pay it over to the State. 120
Insurance Company Taxes .--A privilege tax on the gross premiums received by a foreign life insurance company at its home office for business written in the State does not deprive the company of property without due process, 121 but a tax is bad when the company has withdrawn all its agents from the State and has ceased to do business, merely continuing to be bound to policyholders resident therein and receiving at its home office the renewal premiums. 122 Also violative of due process is a state gross premium tax imposed on a nonresident firm, doing business in the taxing jurisdiction, which purchased coverage of property located therein from an unlicensed out-of-state insurer which consummated the contract, serviced the policy, and collected the premiums outside that taxing jurisdiction. 123 Distinguishable therefrom is the following tax which was construed as having been levied, not upon annual premiums nor upon the privilege merely of doing business during the period that the company actually was within the State, but upon the privilege of entering and engaging in business, the percentage ''on the annual premiums to be paid throughout the life of the policies issued.'' By reason of this difference a State may continue to collect such tax even after the company's withdrawal from the State. 124
A State which taxes the insuring of property within its limits may lawfully extend its tax to a foreign insurance company which contracts with an automobile sales corporation in a third State to insure its customers against loss of cars purchased through it, so far as the cars go into possession of a purchaser within the taxing State. 125 On the other hand, a foreign corporation admitted to do a local business, which insures its property with insurers in other States who are not authorized to do business in the taxing State, cannot constitutionally be subjected to a 5% tax on the amount of premiums paid for such coverage. 126 Likewise a Connecticut life insurance corporation, licensed to do business in California, which negotiated reinsurance contracts in Connecticut, received payment of premiums thereon in Connecticut, and was there liable for payment of losses claimed thereunder, cannot be subjected by California to a privilege tax measured by gross premiums derived from such contracts, notwithstanding that the contracts reinsured other insurers authorized to do business in California and protected policies effected in California on the lives of residents therein. The tax cannot be sustained whether as laid on property, business done, or transactions carried on, within California, or as a tax on a privilege granted by that State. 127
When policy loans to residents are made by a local agent of a foreign insurance company, in the servicing of which notes are signed, security taken, interest collected, and debts are paid within the State, such credits are taxable to the company, notwithstanding that the promissory notes evidencing such credits are kept at the home office of the insurer. 128 But when a resident policyholder's loan is merely charged against the reserve value of his policy, under an arrangement for extinguishing the debt and interest thereon by deduction from any claim under the policy, such credit is not taxable to the foreign insurance company. 129 Premiums due from residents on which an extension has been granted by foreign companies also are credits on which the latter may be taxed by the State of the debtor's domicile; 130 the mere fact that the insurers charge these premiums to local agents and give no credit directly to policyholders does not enable them to escape this tax. 131
[Footnote 1] Tonawanda v. Lyon, 181 U.S. 389 (1901); Cass Farm Co. v. Detroit, 181 U.S. 396 (1901).
[Footnote 2] Southwestern Oil Co. v. Texas, 217 U.S. 114, 119 (1910).
[Footnote 3] Loan Association v. City of Topeka, 87 U.S. (20 Wall.) 655 (1875) (voiding tax employed by city to make a substantial grant to a bridge manufacturing company to induce it to locate its factory in the city). See also City of Parkersburg v. Brown, 106 U.S. 487 (1882) (private purpose bonds not authorized by state constitution).
[Footnote 4] Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co., 301 U.S. 495, 515 (1937). In applying the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause the Court has said that discretion as to what is a public purpose ''belongs to Congress, unless the choice is clearly wrong, a display of arbitrary power, not an exercise of judgment.'' Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619, 640 (1937); United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1, 67 (1936). That payment may be made to private individuals is now irrelevant. Carmichael, supra, at 518. Cf. Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co., 428 U.S. 1 (1976) (sustaining tax imposed on mine companies to compensate workers for black lung disabilities, including those contracting disease before enactment of tax, as way of spreading cost of employee liabilities).
[Footnote 5] Jones v. City of Portland, 245 U.S. 217 (1917).
[Footnote 6] Green v. Frazier, 253 U.S. 233 (1920).
[Footnote 7] Nicchia v. New York, 254 U.S. 228 (1920).
[Footnote 8] Milheim v. Moffat Tunnel Dist., 262 U.S. 710 (1923).
[Footnote 9] Cochran v. Board of Education, 281 U.S. 370 (1930).
[Footnote 10] Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co., 300 U.S. 644 (1937).
[Footnote 11] Fox v. Standard Oil Co., 294 U.S. 87, 99 (1935).
[Footnote 12] Stewart Dry Goods Co. v. Lewis, 294 U.S. 550 (1935). See also Kelly v. City of Pittsburgh, 104 U.S. 78 (1881); Chapman v. Zobelein, 237 U.S. 135 (1915); Alaska Fish Salting & By-Products Co. v. Smith, 255 U.S. 44 (1921); Magnano Co. v. Hamilton, 292 U.S. 40 (1934); City of Pittsburgh v. Alco Parking Corp., 417 U.S. 369 (1974).
[Footnote 13] Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. v. Wallace, 288 U.S. 249 (1933); Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co., 301 U.S. 495 (1937). A taxpayer therefore cannot contest the imposition of an income tax on the ground that, in operation, it returns to his town less income tax than he and its other inhabitants pay. Dane v. Jackson, 256 U.S. 589 (1921).
[Footnote 14] Stebbins v. Riley, 268 U.S. 137, 140 , 141 (1925).
[Footnote 15] Cahen v. Brewster, 203 U.S. 543 (1906).
[Footnote 16] Keeney v. New York, 222 U.S. 525 (1912).
[Footnote 17] Coolidge v. Long, 282 U.S. 582 (1931).
[Footnote 18] Binney v. Long, 299 U.S. 280 (1936); Nickel v. Cole, 256 U.S. 222 (1921). See also Salomon v. State Tax Comm'n, 278 U.S. 484 (1929) (contingent remainder); and Orr v. Gilman, 183 U.S. 278 (1902) (power of appointment).
[Footnote 19] Welch v. Henry, 305 U.S. 134, 147 (1938).
[Footnote 20] New York ex rel. Cohn v. Graves, 300 U.S. 308, 313 (1937).
[Footnote 21] Id. See also Shaffer v. Carter, 252 U.S. 37, 49 -52 (1920); and Travis v. Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., 252 U.S. 60 (1920) (states may tax the income of nonresidents derived from property or activity within the state).
[Footnote 22] See, e.g., Stockdale v. Insurance Companies, 87 U.S. (20 Wall.) 323 (1874); United States v. Hudson, 299 U.S. 498 (1937); United States v. Darusmont, 449 U.S. 292 (1981).
[Footnote 23] Welch v. Henry, 305 U.S. 134 (1938) (upholding imposition in 1935 of tax liability for 1933 tax year; due to the scheduling of legislative sessions, this was the legislature's first opportunity to adjust revenues after obtaining information of the nature and amount of the income generated by the original tax). Since ''[t]axation is neither a penalty imposed on the taxpayer nor a liability which he assumes by contract,'' the Court explained, ''its retroactive imposition does not necessarily infringe due process.'' Id. at 146-47.
[Footnote 24] Puget Sound Co. v. Seattle, 291 U.S. 619 (1934).
[Footnote 25] New York Tel. Co. v. Dolan, 265 U.S. 96 (1924).
[Footnote 26] Barwise v. Sheppard, 299 U.S. 33 (1936).
[Footnote 27] Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. v. Browning, 310 U.S. 362 (1940).
[Footnote 28] Paddell v. City of New York, 211 U.S. 446 (1908).
[Footnote 29] Hagar v. Reclamation Dist., 111 U.S. 701 (1884).
[Footnote 30] Butters v. City of Oakland, 263 U.S. 162 (1923).
[Footnote 31] Missouri Pac. R.R. v. Road District, 266 U.S. 187 (1924). See also Roberts v. Irrigation Dist., 289 U.S. 71 (1933), in which it was also stated that an assessment to pay the general indebtedness of an irrigation district is valid, even though in excess of the benefits received.
[Footnote 32] Houck v. Little River Dist., 239 U.S. 254 (1915).
[Footnote 33] Road Dist. v. Missouri Pac. R.R., 274 U.S. 188 (1927).
[Footnote 34] Kansas City Ry. v. Road Dist., 266 U.S. 379 (1924).
[Footnote 35] Louisville & Nashville R.R. v. Barber Asphalt Co., 197 U.S. 430 (1905).
[Footnote 36] Myles Salt Co. v. Iberia Drainage Dist., 239 U.S. 478 (1916).
[Footnote 37] Wagner v. Baltimore, 239 U.S. 207 (1915).
[Footnote 38] Charlotte Harbor Ry. v. Welles, 260 U.S. 8 (1922).
[Footnote 39] 112 S. Ct. 1904 (1992).
[Footnote 41] The Court had previously held that the requirement in terms of a benefit is minimal. Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, 453 U.S. 609, 622 -23 (1982), (quoting Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co., 301 U.S. 495, 521 -23 (1937)). It is satisfied by a ''minimal connection'' between the interstate activities and the taxing State and a rational relationship between the income attributed to the State and the intrastate values of the enterprise. Mobil Oil Corp. v. Commissioner of Taxes, 445 U.S. 425, 436 -37 (1980); Moorman Mfg. Co. v. Bair, 437 U.S. 267, 272 -73 (1978). See especially Standard Pressed Steel Co. v. Department of Revenue, 419 U.S. 560, 562 (1975); National Geographic Society v. California Bd. of Equalization, 430 U.S. 551 (1977).
[Footnote 42] Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 112 S. Ct. at 1911-16 (refusing to overrule the Commerce Clause ruling in National Bellas Hess v. Department of Revenue, 386 U.S. 753, 756 (1967)). See also Trinova Corp. v. Michigan Dep't of Treasury, 498 U.S. 358 (1991) (neither the Commerce Clause nor the Due Process Clause is violated by application of a business tax, measured on a value added basis, to a company that manufactures goods in another state, but that operates a sales office and conducts sales within state).
[Footnote 43] Union Transit Co. v. Kentucky, 199 U.S. 194, 204 (1905). See also Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry Co. v. Kentucky, 188 U.S. 385 (1903).
[Footnote 44] Carstairs v. Cochran, 193 U.S. 10 (1904); Hannis Distilling Co. v. Baltimore, 216 U.S. 285 (1910); Frick v. Pennsylvania, 268 U.S. 473 (1925); Blodgett v. Silberman, 277 U.S. 1 (1928).
[Footnote 45] New York ex rel. New York Cent. R.R. v. Miller, 202 U.S. 584 (1906). As to the competence of States to tax equipment of foreign carriers which enter their jurisdiction intermittently, see supra, pp. 227-33.
[Footnote 46] Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Fox, 298 U.S. 193, 209 -10 (1936); Union Transit Co. v. Kentucky, 199 U.S. 194, 207 (1905); Johnson Oil Co. v. Oklahoma, 290 U.S. 158 (1933).
[Footnote 47] Union Transit Co. v. Kentucky, 199 U.S. 194 (1905). Justice Black, in Central R.R. v. Pennsylvania, 370 U.S. 607, 619 -21 (1962), had his ''doubts about the use of the Due Process Clause to . . . [invalidate State taxes]. The modern use of due process to invalidate State taxes rests on two doctrines: (1) that a State is without 'jurisdiction to tax' property beyond its boundaries, and (2) that multiple taxation of the same property by different States is prohibited. Nothing in the language or the history of the Fourteenth Amendment, however, indicates any intention to establish either of these two doctrines . . . And in the first case [Railroad Co. v. Jackson, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 262 (1869)] striking down a State tax for lack of judisdiction to tax after the passage of that Amendment, neither the Amendment nor its Due Process Clause . . . was ever mentioned.'' He also maintained that Justice Holmes shared this view in Union Transit Co. v. Kentucky, supra, at 211.
[Footnote 48] Southern Pacific Co. v. Kentucky, 222 U.S. 63 (1911).
[Footnote 49] Old Dominion Steamship Co. v. Virginia, 198 U.S. 299 (1905).
[Footnote 50] 199 U.S. 194 (1905). See also Central R.R. v. Pennsylvania, 370 U.S. 607, 611 -17 (1962).
[Footnote 51] Pullman's Car Co. v. Pennsylvania, 141 U.S. 18 (1891).
[Footnote 52] Northwest Airlines v. Minnesota, 322 U.S. 292, 294 -97, 307 (1944). The case was said to be governed by New York ex rel. New York Cent. R.R. v. Miller, 202 U.S. 584, 596 (1906). As to the problem of multiple taxation of such airplanes, which had in fact been taxed proportionately by other States, the Court declared that the ''taxability of any part of this fleet by any other State, than Minnesota, in view of the taxability of the entire fleet by that State, is not now before us.'' Justice Jackson, in a concurring opinion, would treat Minnesota's right to tax as exclusively of any similar right elsewhere.
[Footnote 53] Johnson Oil Co. v. Oklahoma, 290 U.S. 158 (1933).
[Footnote 54] Pittsburgh C.C. & St. L. Ry. v. Backus, 154 U.S. 421 (1894).
[Footnote 55] Wallace v. Hines, 253 U.S. 66 (1920). For example, the ratio of track mileage within the taxing State to total track mileage cannot be employed in evaluating that portion of total railway property found in the State when the cost of the lines in the taxing State was much less than in other States and the most valuable terminals of the railroad were located in other States. See also Fargo v. Hart, 193 U.S. 490 (1904); Union Tank Line Co. v. Wright, 249 U.S. 275 (1919).
[Footnote 56] Great Northern Ry. v. Minnesota, 278 U.S. 503 (1929).
[Footnote 57] Illinois Cent. R.R. v. Minnesota, 309 U.S. 157 (1940).
[Footnote 58] Howard, State Jurisdiction to Tax Intangibles: A Twelve Year Cycle, 8 Mo. L. Rev. 155, 160-62 (1943); Rawlins, State Jurisdiction to Tax Intangibles: Some Modern Aspects, 18 Tex. L. Rev. 196, 314-15 (1940).
[Footnote 59] Kirtland v. Hotchkiss, 100 U.S. 491, 498 (1879).
[Footnote 60] Savings Society v. Multnomah County, 169 U.S. 421 (1898).
[Footnote 61] Bristol v. Washington County, 177 U.S. 133, 141 (1900).
[Footnote 62] Fidelity & Columbia Trust Co. v. Louisville, 245 U.S. 54 (1917).
[Footnote 63] Rogers v. Hennepin County, 240 U.S. 184 (1916).
[Footnote 64] Citizens National Bank v. Durr, 257 U.S. 99, 109 (1921).
[Footnote 65] Hawley v. Malden, 232 U.S. 1, 12 (1914).
[Footnote 66] First Bank Corp. v. Minnesota, 301 U.S. 234, 241 (1937).
[Footnote 67] Schuylkill Trust Co. v. Pennsylvania, 302 U.S. 506 (1938).
[Footnote 68] International Harvester Co. v. Department of Taxation, 322 U.S. 435 (1944).
[Footnote 69] Wisconsin Gas Co. v. United States, 322 U.S. 526 (1944).
[Footnote 70] New York ex rel. Hatch v. Reardon, 204 U.S. 152 (1907).
[Footnote 71] Graniteville Mfg. Co. v. Query, 283 U.S. 376 (1931).
[Footnote 72] Buck v. Beach, 206 U.S. 392 (1907).
[Footnote 73] Brooke v. City of Norfolk, 277 U.S. 27 (1928).
[Footnote 74] Greenough v. Tax Assessors, 331 U.S. 486, 496 -97 (1947).
[Footnote 75] 277 U.S. 27 (1928).
[Footnote 77] Senior v. Braden, 295 U.S. 422 (1935).
[Footnote 78] Wheeling Steel Corp v. Fox, 298 U.S. 193 (1936). See also Memphis Gas Co. v. Beeler, 315 U.S. 649, 652 (1942).
[Footnote 79] Adams Express Co. v. Ohio, 165 U.S. 194 (1897).
[Footnote 80] Alpha Cement Co. v. Massachusetts, 268 U.S. 203 (1925).
[Footnote 81] Cream of Wheat Co. v. County of Grand Forks, 253 U.S. 325 (1920).
[Footnote 82] Newark Fire Ins. Co. v. State Board, 307 U.S. 313, 318 , 324 (1939). Although the eight Justices affirming this tax were not in agreement as to the reasons to be assigned in justification of this result, the holding appears to be in line with the dictum uttered by Chief Justice Stone in Curry v. McCanless, 307 U.S. 357, 368 (1939), to the effect that the taxation of a corporation by a State where it does business, measured by the value of the intangibles used in its business there, does not preclude the State of incorporation from imposing a tax measured by all its intangibles.
[Footnote 83] Delaware, L. & W.P.R.R. v. Pennsylvania, 198 U.S. 341 (1905).
[Footnote 84] Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry Co. v. Kentucky, 188 U.S. 385 (1903).
[Footnote 85] Stebbins v. Riley, 268 U.S. 137, 140 -41 (1925).
[Footnote 86] 199 U.S. 194 (1905). In dissenting in State Tax Comm'n v. Aldrich, 316 U.S. 174, 185 (1942), Justice Jackson asserted that a reconsideration of this principle had become timely.
[Footnote 87] 268 U.S. 473 (1925). See also Treichler v. Wisconsin, 338 U.S. 251 (1949); City Bank Co. v. Schnader, 293 U.S. 112 (1934).
[Footnote 88] 240 U.S. 635, 631 (1916). A decision rendered in 1926 which is seemingly in conflict was Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Doughton, 272 U.S. 567 (1926), in which North Carolina was prevented from taxing the exercise of a power of appointment through a will executed therein by a resident, when the property was a trust fund in Massachusetts created by the will of a resident of the latter State. One of the reasons assigned for this result was that by the law of Massachusetts the property involved was treated as passing from the original donor to the appointee. However, this holding was overruled in Graves v. Schmidlapp, 315 U.S. 657 (1942).
[Footnote 90] Rhode Island Trust Co. v. Doughton, 270 U.S. 69 (1926).
[Footnote 92] First Nat'l Bank v. Maine, 284 U.S. 312 (1932); Beidler v. South Carolina Tax Comm'n, 282 U.S. 1 (1930); Baldwin v. Missouri, 281 U.S. 586 (1930); Farmer's Loan Co. v. Minnesota, 280 U.S. 204 (1930).
[Footnote 93] First National Bank v. Maine, 284 U.S. 312, 330 -31 (1932).
[Footnote 94] 307 U.S. 357, 363 , 366-68, 372 (1939).
[Footnote 98] 315 U.S. 657, 660 , 661 (1942).
[Footnote 99] 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316, 429 (1819).
[Footnote 100] 319 U.S. 94 (1943).
[Footnote 101] 306 U.S. 398 (1939). Resort to the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction was necessary because in Worcester County Trust Co. v. Riley, 302 U.S. 292 (1937), the Court, proceeding on the basis that inconsistent determinations by the courts of two States as to the domicile of a taxpayer do not raise a substantial federal constitutional question, held that the Eleventh Amendment precluded a suit by the estate of the decedent to establish the correct State of domicile. In California v. Texas, 437 U.S. 601 (1978), a case on all points with Texas v. Florida, the Court denied leave to file an original action to adjudicate a dispute between the two States about the actual domicile of Howard Hughes, a number of Justices suggesting that Worcester County no longer was good law. Subsequently, the Court reaffirmed Worcester County, Cory v. White, 457 U.S. 85 (1982), and then permitted an original action to proceed, California v. Texas, 457 U.S. 164 (1982), several Justices taking the position that neither Worcester County nor Texas v. Florida was any longer viable.
[Footnote 102] Kansas City Ry. v. Kansas, 240 U.S. 227 (1916); Kansas City, M. & B. R.R. v. Stiles, 242 U.S. 111 (1916).
[Footnote 103] Schwab v. Richardson, 263 U.S. 88 (1923).
[Footnote 104] Western Union Tel. Co. v. Kansas, 216 U.S. 1 (1910); Pullman Co. v. Kansas, 216 U.S. 56 (1910); Looney v. Crane Co., 245 U.S. 178 (1917); International Paper Co. v. Massachusetts, 246 U.S. 135 (1918).
[Footnote 105] Cudahy Co. v. Hinkle, 278 U.S. 460 (1929).
[Footnote 106] St. Louis S. W. Ry. v. Arkansas, 235 U.S. 350 (1914).
[Footnote 107] Atlantic Refining Co. v. Virginia, 302 U.S. 22 (1937).
[Footnote 108] American Mfg. Co. v. St. Louis, 250 U.S. 459 (1919). Nor does a state license tax on the production of electricity violate the due process clause because it may be necessary, to ascertain, as an element in its computation, the amounts delivered in another jurisdiction. Utah Power & Light Co. v. Pfost, 286 U.S. 165 (1932).
[Footnote 109] James v. Dravo Contracting Co., 302 U.S. 134 (1937).
[Footnote 110] Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Grosjean, 301 U.S. 412 (1937).
[Footnote 111] Lawrence v. State Tax Comm'n, 286 U.S. 276 (1932).
[Footnote 112] Shaffer v. Carter, 252 U.S. 37 (1920); Travis v. Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., 252 U.S. 60 (1920).
[Footnote 113] New York ex rel. Cohn v. Graves, 300 U.S. 308 (1937).
[Footnote 114] Maguire v. Trefy, 253 U.S. 12 (1920).
[Footnote 115] Guaranty Trust Co. v. Virginia, 305 U.S. 19, 23 (1938).
[Footnote 116] New York ex. rel. Whitney v. Graves, 299 U.S. 366 (1937).
[Footnote 117] Underwood Typewriter Co. v. Chamberlain, 254 U.S. 113 (1920); Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd. v. Tax Comm'n 266 U.S. 271 (1924). The Court has recently considered and expanded the ability of the States to use apportionment formulae to allocate to each State for taxing purposes a fraction of the income earned by an integrated business conducted in several States as well as abroad. Moorman Mfg. Co. v. Bair, 437 U.S. 267 (1978); Mobil Oil Corp. v. Commissioner of Taxes, 445 U.S. 425 (1980); Exxon Corp. v. Department of Revenue, 447 U.S. 207 (1980). Exxon refused to permit a unitary business to use separate accounting techniques that divided its profits among its various functional departments to demonstrate that a State's formulary apportionment taxes extraterritorial income improperly. Bair, supra, at 276-80, implied that a showing of actual multiple taxation was a necessary predicate to a due process challenge but might not be sufficient.
[Footnote 118] Hans Rees' Sons v. North Carolina, 283 U.S. 123 (1931).
[Footnote 119] Matson Nav. Co. v. State Board, 297 U.S. 441 (1936).
[Footnote 120] Wisconsin v. J.C. Penney Co., 311 U.S. 435, 448 -49 (1940). Dissenting, Justice Roberts, along with Chief Justice Hughes and Justices McReynolds and Reed, stressed the fact that the use and disbursement by the corporation at its home office of income derived from operations in many States does not depend on and cannot be controlled by, any law of Wisconsin. The act of disbursing such income as dividends, he contended is ''one wholly beyond the reach of Wisconsin's sovereign power, one which it cannot effectively command, or prohibit or condition.'' The assumption that a proportion of the dividends distributed is paid out of earnings in Wisconsin for the year immediately preceding payment is arbitrary and not borne out by the facts. Accordingly, ''if the exaction is an income tax in any sense it is such upon the stockholders (many of whom are nonresidents) and is obviously bad.'' See also Wisconsin v. Minnesota Mining Co., 311 U.S 452 (1940).
[Footnote 121] Equitable Life Soc'y v. Pennsylvania, 238 U.S. 143 (1915).
[Footnote 122] Provident Savings Ass'n v. Kentucky, 239 U.S. 103 (1915).
[Footnote 123] State Bd. of Ins. v. Todd Shipyards, 370 U.S. 451 (1962).
[Footnote 124] Continental Co. v. Tennessee, 311 U.S. 5, 6 (1940) (emphasis added).
[Footnote 125] Palmetto Ins. Co. v. Connecticut, 272 U.S. 295 (1926).
[Footnote 126] St. Louis Compress Co. v. Arkansas, 260 U.S. 346 (1922).
[Footnote 127] Connecticut General Co. v. Johnson, 303 U.S. 77 (1938).
[Footnote 128] Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. City of New Orleans, 205 U.S. 395 (1907).
[Footnote 129] Orleans Parish v. New York Life Ins. Co., 216 U.S 517 (1910).
[Footnote 130] Liverpool & L. & G. Ins. Co. v. Orleans Assessors, 221 U.S. 346 (1911).
[Footnote 131] Orient Ins. Co. v. Assessors of Orleans, 221 U.S. 358 (1911).
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Review evidence from fMRI and ERP studies for the specificity of brain systems responding to different emotional stimuli Essay
Review evidence from fMRI and ERP studies for the specificity of brain systems responding to different emotional stimuli.
fMRI is one of the most useful of tools to investigate the activities of the brain. An activation is the difference between distribution of signal intensities on two kinds of conditions.
Signal intensities differ according to the blood flow volume passing through a vessel and so they depend on the vessel diameter too (Fukami, 2007, p. 2460). Comparison of conditions at two points may be regulated using a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and correcting the signals by using the diameter. Hypothesis testing may use Rician distribution or Gaussian (Park, 2007, p.2472). The analysis of data allows us to locate brain activity while doing something like moving the finger or smelling or seeing. Recordings could be disturbed by movement of the head, cardiac and respiratory activity and noise from the scanner. Random noise also must be eliminated (Voultsidou, 2007, p. 99). The random matrix theory is suitable for data analysis
by some researchers (Voultsidou, 2007, p. 99).
Image acquisitioning
The concept of mental rotation (MR) has been widely used in cognitive psychology and brain research (Christova, 2008, p. 79). This concept is used in functional neuroimaging studies like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) which document areas of the brain engaged in MR. Two features are commonly seen in all neuroimaging studies. They analyse the average of signals over the regions of interest (ROI). They also test whether a particular ROI showed a significant activation during an MR period as compared to a period of control (Christova, 2008, p. 79).
Most fMRI studies record the BOLD signal which is the blood oxygen level dependent signal using the GE EPI (gradient-echo echo-planar imaging ). BOLD sensitivity loss caused by susceptibility, induced in the readout direction, is featured (Weiskopf, 2006, p. 39).
A compensation approach is developed. The BOLD susceptibilty effects in the regions of neuronal activity causes microscopic magnetic alterations. GE EPI is sensitive to these alterations and to the macroscopic field in homogeneities which cause local image distortions and signal losses. The distortions can be corrected to a limited extent by online and offline methods. Signal dropouts are a problem compromising the fMRI studies in inferior frontal, medial temporal and inferior temporal lobes. The susceptibility related signal losses are reduced through several methods. The dropouts caused by field gradients in the direction of slice selection are focused upon (Christova, 2008, p. 79).Earlier fMRIs used thick slices while recently thinner slices are being used. Z-shimming is a widely used dropout compensation technique. It helps the formation of a composite image from a series of images with a different gradient pulse in the slice selection direction. These in-plane gradients in the phase encoding direction could also cause dropouts in the EPI by reducing the BOLD sensitivity. Different techniques are used to reduce dropouts. They are applying gradient pre-pulses in the Phase encoding (PE) direction, changing the slice orientation so as to reduce the PR component of the susceptibility induced gradient, reducing the EPI acquisition time and inverting the PE gradient polarity (Weiskopf, 2006, p.40). This can also be achieved by optimizing the slice tilt, PR gradient polarity and using the Z shim gradient prepulse. Even after optimizing, dropouts are seen with the orbito-frontal cortex and inferior temporal lobes. Strong gradients in the direction of readout lead to loss of signals in the EPI.
The asymmetry of the left-right and upper-lower visual fields can be studied in detail using the fMRI method and the BOLD response (Chen, 2004, p. 39). The reaction time is shorter and stronger when the lower visual field is stimulated than the upper. Similarly the right and left fields show different responses.
Audio-visual cross modal interactions
Perception of events in daily life rarely occurs through a single sensory modality (Belardinelli, 2004, p. 167). Processing of information from different senses leads to the perception. Due to the different modalities in an input, detection, localization and recognition or interpretation of the events become easier. Cross modal processing has given rise to two theories on neural pathways. One stresses the significance of multisensory cortical areas getting input from different senses. The second view is that synchronized firing causes a combined activity of the modality specific cortices. The heteromodal cortices in the human brain get the afferents from different senses as seen in animals (Belardinelli, 2004, p. 167). They are found in
the superior temporal sulcus, in the intraparietal sulcus, and in the prefrontal and limbic cortices.
They are found in the superior colliculus also below the level of the cortex. Research into the
regions found that the supra-additive response is enhanced by congruent audio-visual speech
when fMRI imaging was done. The left superior temporal sulcus showed strong interaction effects (Calvert et al, 2000). ). Another study showed that the facilitation effects were only for the visual targets on the auditory. Multisensory processing is also seen the right fronto-temporal area, anterior hippocampus and rostromedial orbitofrontal cortices (relationship between vision and smell) and right frontotemporal area (meaningless non verbal stimuli ). Another study compared the responses of the brain in crossmodal conditions which were more or showed a greater BOLD signal than the unimodal ones. The effect of the congruent cross modal presentations were mainly seen in the left parahippocampal gyrus and bilaterally in the visual unimodal cortices. It was inferred that the reactivation of the semantic cross modal associations was mediated by medial temporal structures (Belardinelli, 2004, p. 168). The left inferior frontal sulcus showed the effects of the incongruent crossmodal presentation.
Positron Emission Tomography and Applications in cancers
Management of various cancers requires the use of this potent imaging tool of PET
(Chatzifotiadis, 2006, p. 449). This is a nuclear medicine technique, originally used for quantitative imaging the metabolic activity of the brain. Intravenous positron emitting radio pharmaceuticals are injected. A PET scanner then images the flow of the medicine and its activity in the cancer regions. F-fluoride which has a short half live of 109 minutes the most commonly used positron emitter. It is used as F-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) to detect
the early steps of the accelerated glucose metabolism in cancers. The initial accumulation of the radiotracer into the cancer via membrane transport and its initial phosphorylation by hexokinase to FDG-6-phosphate are traced by the FDG (Chatzifotiadis, 2006, p. 449). However some cancers like prostate cancers, primary renal cancers, hepatomas, mucinous tumours and some low grade lymphomas do not have accelerated glucose metabolism and so PET would not be useful. Brain tumours have a high glucose acceleration but still cannot be imaged well due to the high uptake of FDG by the background. The tissues which uptake glucose are the brain, heart,
kidneys, testes, exercising skeletal muscle, and the kidneys. Excretion is via the kidneys so renal lesions are not easily imaged. PET is a molecular imaging tool and provides quantitative data based on the amount of radioactivity in the tissues and is non-invasive in nature (Chatzifotiadis, 2006, p. 449). Lesions less than one cm. but more than 5mm. may be detected. The detection depends on the degree of uptake against the clarity of the background. Magnification of images is not possible. If the background is also uptaking the tracer, a hot spot or a place of malignancy may be detected but the size may not be clear. PET is being combined with CT or MRI as single machines through software fusion to detect the exact site and size of the lesion. PET has better imaging than either CT or MRI. Tumour staging, assessment of response to treatment and restaging in recurrence are the most common uses (Chatzifotiadis, 2006, p. 450).
EEG is spontaneous electrical activity at the scalp. The signal is the electrophysiological response. Electrical dipoles in the pyramidal cell layer produce the electrical potentials recorded as EEG. Localisation of these dipoles is the main problem in the study of brain activity with the EEG. Human brains have the possibility of being connected to “to the intelligent computing applications in form of brain computer/machine interfacing (BCI/BMI) technologies” (Rutkowski, 2008, p. 122). One form of brain electrical activity is the Electro encephalogram (EEG). This can be captured and used for the BCI/BMI applications. However noise disturbances caused by electrophysiological signals and from the different machines in the environment could produce electromagnetic disturbances. Computer aided communication has made the non-invasive EEG more acceptable. Steady state potentials produce steady responses which can better evaluated have increased the popularity of EEG. EEG allows the “detection, estimation, interpretation and modeling of brain activities, and cross-user transparency” in the signal processing (Rutkowski, 2008, p. 122). This technique is now seen at the centre of future “intelligent computing”. Industries which could benefit from the online analysis and visualization of the brain states are the prosthetics, entertainment and the computer games. EEG is a summation of the post synaptic potentials from a number of neurons in the brain. They can be monitored and classified after giving a stimulus to the patient. These are divided into components called intrinsic mode functions (Rutkowski, 2008, p. 123).
Electrical artifacts can be caused by eye movement in the process of taking an EEG.
Methods like regression in the time domain or frequency domain have been adopted to prevent these artifacts (He, 2007, p.495). Newer techniques include the principal component analysis
(PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA). A recent method involves an adaptive filtering technique. This method appears to be useful in removing the horizontal and vertical components of the artifacts. A noise canceller can be also added (He, 2007, p. 495).
Epilepsy is evaluated using the EEG. The spikes in the EEG are diagnostic of the illness.
Idiopathic focal epilepsy sees a difference in the seizures and EEG changes at puberty. However psychomotor disturbances remain and renders the patient severely affected (Gross-Selbeck, 2004, p. 90). Considerable impairment of speech and mental development and a regression on the illness could be seen in the EEG. The question remains as to whether to continue treating a person who had abnormal paroxysms in the EEG but whose EEG shows a change for the better. It is not proven that this person with a residual psychomotor disturbance can go on without treatment . The conclusion in this study was that a person with idiopathic focal epilepsy need not have treatment other than for his seizures to improve neuropsychological outcome (Gross-Selbeck, 2004, p. 90). Treatment should be given to children with epilepsy of less than 6 years duration, extensive changes in the EEG and IQ less than 60. The EEG should be used to decide about treatment at frequent intervals. A child with more than six years of illness requires treatment only if there a regression of the mental status (Gross-Selbeck, 2004, p. 90). Partial epilepsy due to neuronal migration disorders were compared to patients with brain tumours (BT) and hipocampalsclerosis (HS) (Degen, 2004, p. 22). The clinical, MRI findings and EEG findings were compared in these surgically treated patients. The MRI showed temporal localizations of the brain abnormalities in BT and HS patients. The interictal EEG was 95% and the ictal EEG was 85% in BT and HS patients. Extratemporal localization was found in NMD by 58%. NMD patients showed more “retarded developmental milestones (46.3%), intellectual deficits (78.4%), behavioral disorders (68.3%), neurological deficits (61%) and a more unfavorable surgical outcome (class I A-D:37.5%)”. (Degen, 2004, p. 22). More favourable findings were seen in BT. Partial seizures were therefore concluded to be of the less favourable type.
Magneto encephalography (MEG)
Technology has allowed scientists to look inside a living brain (Kim, 2006, p. 2714).
MEG is a non-invasive technique which “measures the magnetic field induced by neural current flows in the cerebral cortex result of electrical activity in neural cell assemblies”. The neural current sources from a measured distribution of an electromagnetic field are measured by the MEG source localization. The equivalent current dipole method is used. The advantages are that it is easy to implement and robust to various noises (Kim, 2006, p. 2714). A variety of techniques are available for MEG imaging data to the corresponding cortical structures. MR-FOCUSS (Multiresolution Focal underdetermined system solution) allows spatial resolution to be “selected appropriately for focal or extended sources”( Moran, 2005, p. 1). The cortical activity is enhanced to get the final high resolution results as in the FOCUSS imaging technique. Quantification is possible. Language processing for pre-surgical planning is possible and effective with MR-FOCUSS. Sequential activation of many co-related sources in the language processing is also possible ”( Moran, 2005, p. 1).
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February 13, 2018 By cs
New rule allows other direct costs and order level materials on GSA Schedule task orders
The General Services Administration (GSA) has finalized a major change to its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program, allowing the purchase of incidental materials.
On FSS contracts, the new rule allows vendors to include other direct costs (ODCs) or order level materials (OLMs) on individual task orders. ODCs or OLMs are costs that aren’t specifically identified in the contract, such as a specialized tool or test equipment. GSA says the change will help create parity with commercial sector best practices.
The new rule was originally proposed in the Federal Register at 81 FR 62445 on September 9, 2016, but only recently finalized. It addresses the importance of providing the same flexibility for the FSS program that is currently authorized for other indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) vehicles, which will help reduce contract duplication and the associated administrative costs and inefficiencies.
Details at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/01/24/2018-01232/general-services-administration-acquisition-regulation-gsar-federal-supply-schedule-order-level
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July 31, 2013 By cs
Interagency acquisition and GWACs explained, related resources identified
A government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) is one form of interagency acquisition – the process by which one agency uses the contracts and/or contracting services of other agencies to obtain supplies and services.
Interagency acquisitions typically involve two government agencies: the requesting agency, which is the agency with the requirement, and the servicing agency which provides acquisition support, administers contracts for other agencies’ direct use, or both. In some cases, more than one servicing agency may be involved in an assisted acquisition.
Requesting agencies benefit from the capabilities or expertise of the servicing agency and the efficiencies and economies associated with leveraging resources and requirements. Servicing agencies benefit from the improved pricing and terms and conditions they can negotiate when consolidating, in a justified manner, other agencies’ needs with their own and among requesting agencies.
Interagency acquisitions are commonly conducted through indefinite delivery vehicles (IDVs), such as task and delivery order contracts. The structure of these vehicles is well-suited to the efficiencies and economies that agencies seek through interagency acquisitions. IDVs permit the issuance of orders for the performance of tasks or the delivery of supplies against prepositioned contracts and agreements during the term of the vehicle. The IDVs used most frequently to support interagency acquisitions are multiple award schedules (MAS), government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs), and multi-agency contracts (MACs).
Types of Interagency Acquisitions
There are two types of interagency acquisitions: direct acquisitions and assisted acquisitions.
In a direct acquisition, the requesting agency places an order directly against the servicing agency’s IDV. The servicing agency manages the IDV but does not participate in the placement of an order.
In an assisted acquisition, the servicing agency and requesting agency enter into an interagency agreement pursuant to which the servicing agency performs acquisition activities on the requesting agency’s behalf, such as awarding a contract, task order, or delivery order. In many assisted acquisitions, the servicing agency also manages the IDV against which orders are placed. For example, the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service will typically place orders against a MAS contract or a GWAC on behalf of its requesting agencies. Sometimes, a servicing agency may find that another agency’s IDV can better serve the requesting agency’s needs, in which case two servicing agencies would be involved in the interagency acquisition.
A variety of laws authorize interagency acquisitions. The Economy Act, 31 U.S.C. 1535, provides general authority to undertake interagency acquisitions that is available to agencies when more specific statutory authority does not exist.
An increasing number of interagency acquisitions are falling outside the Economy Act because many of interagency contract vehicles that are widely used today, such as the MAS and GWACs, are not governed by the Economy Act. Instead, these vehicles are governed by more specific statutory authority. For example, the MAS is governed by Title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 251, et seq.) and Title 40 U.S.C. 501, Services for Executive Agencies. GWACs are authorized by section 5112(e) of the Clinger-Cohen Act (40 U.S.C. 11302(e)).
As a general matter, laws and regulations give agencies the discretion to determine whether to use an interagency acquisition.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) says direct acquisitions from GSA’s GWACs are “in the best interest of the government” in its June 2008 memo, Guidance for Improving the Management and Use of Interagency Acquisitions. OMB designated GSA as the Executive Agent for GSA-issued GWACs under the Clinger-Cohen Act.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) also asks agencies to look to interagency contracts like GWACs first for efficiencies and cost savings in its September 2011 memo, Development, Review and Approval of Business Cases for Certain Interagency and Agency-Specific Acquisitions.
The Department of Defense issued a memo on July 14, 2011 encouraging the use of 8(a) STARS II, Alliant Small Business, and VETS to meet DoD’s small business contracting and information technology needs. Read the July 14, 2011 memo.
The Department of Navy issued a memo on April 23, 2012 emphasizing the mandatory use of the GSA Alliant/Alliant Small Business for the acquisition of IT development and support services. Read the April 23, 2012 memo.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense issued a memo on August 16, 2012, stating that the Department of Defense acquisition community is to maximize the use of all available authorities to acquire products and services from small businesses. Read the August 16, 2012 memo.
Using an Indefinite Delivery Vehicle
Before placing an order directly against another agency’s IDV, the requesting agency’s contracting officer, or other official designated in accordance with agency procedure, should ensure that an interagency acquisition is in the best interest of the government, taking into account factors such as:
Suitability – whether the IDV that would be used can satisfy the agency’s schedule, performance, and delivery requirements, including any statutory, regulatory, and policy requirements.
Value – whether the IDV’s pricing, including vehicle access fees (sometimes referred to as an “industrial funding fee”), is fair and reasonable and comparable to what the agency is likely to secure by creating its own contract, and structured to allow the agency to obtain the best value for its needs.
Expertise – whether the agency’s contracting office personnel have the appropriate experience and training to properly place an order on a timely basis, take advantage of beneficial features, such as discounts, and effectively administer the order.
GSA GWACs
GWACs were put in place by the General Services Administration to enable federal agencies to buy cost-effective and innovative solutions for information technology (IT) requirements.
GWACs provide access to IT solutions such as systems design, software engineering, information assurance, and enterprise architecture solutions. Small business set-aside GWACs also provide socioeconomic credit.
GWAC benefits
GSA promotes the use of GWACs by promoting a number of potential benefits, including:
Premier IT service providers – Access to exceptionally qualified IT service providers enabling innovative solutions at competitive prices.
Worldwide IT solutions – GSA GWACs can be used to develop IT solutions anywhere in the world.
Access to ancillary support – GWACs facilitate a total integrated solution on a single task order by providing access to ancillary support, such as products and services that are integral and necessary to an IT effort.
Savings in time and money through streamlined contracting – GWACs are pre-competed contracts offering a full range of contract types (all types of fixed-price, cost-reimbursement, labor-hour, and time-and-materials) making procurement planning easier. GWAC task orders can be issued in considerably less time than conventional open market procurements.
Scope compatibility reviews – At no cost to the agency, GSA promises to determine whether an agency’s requirement is within scope of a GWAC within two to five business days.
Support from Assisted Acquisition Services – GSA’s Assisted Acquisition Services can provide optional contracting, project management, and financial management expertise and support.
GWAC Resources
The Interagency Contract Directory (ICD) is a central repository of Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDV) awarded by federal agencies. The ICD assists in strategic sourcing and identifying existing contract vehicles (including those awarded to small businesses).
The “GWAC Dashboard” is located at: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/103435. This is an interactive tool that allows GWAC stakeholders to view and segment GWAC information to make better business decisions. Users have the ability to explore GWAC data by contract family, federal agency, and industry partner as well as build customized reports for download.
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Trump doubles down on US lies about Iran
in World — by Bill Van Auken — June 15, 2019
US President Donald Trump escalated the war threats against Iran Friday, insisting that Tehran was responsible for the damage done to two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman the previous day and vowing US retaliation for any Iranian action to shut the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Trump based his ignorant and belligerent remarks on a grainy, black-and-white video released Thursday night by the US Central Command (CENTCOM), which directs US military interventions throughout the Middle East.
CENTCOM claimed that the video, apparently shot from a US spy plane, showed a small boat of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) approaching one of the damaged tankers, the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous, and removing an unexploded limpet mine attached to its hull. The video was touted as proof that Iran carried out attacks on the vessels and had sent the IRGC boat to remove any incriminating evidence.
Fire and smoke billowing from Norwegian-owned Front Altair tanker said to have been attacked in the waters of the Gulf of Oman on June 13, 2019 [Credit: ISNA]
In a Fox News television interview Friday, Trump declared, “Well, Iran did do it, and you know they did it because you saw the boat.”
He continued: “I guess one of the mines didn’t explode, and it’s probably got essentially Iran written all over it. And you saw the boat at night, trying to take the mine off and successfully took the mine off the boat. And that was exposed. That was their boat. That was them, and they didn’t want the evidence left behind.”
He went on to denounce Iran as a “nation of terror”, adding that “they’re in deep, deep trouble.” He also told Fox News that if Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, “it’s not going to be closed for long.” The strait, which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, is a 21-mile-wide seaway through which 30 percent of all seaborne-traded liquid products pass, most of them petroleum-based.
The claims by Trump and the Pentagon that the CENTCOM video is some kind of smoking gun proving the culpability of the Iranian government in the apparent attack on the Kokuka Courageous and the second tanker, the Norwegian-owned Front Altair, is nothing of the kind.
Unsubstantiated is the claim that those depicted in the video were removing a limpet mine from the hull, not to mention that in supposedly doing so they were engaged in a coverup designed to conceal evidence of Iranian culpability.
The CENTCOM video recalls nothing so much as the incontrovertible “proof” presented by then Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN Security Council in 2003 of Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction”.
The US claims ran in direct contradiction from the owners of the tanker shown in the video. Yutaka Katada, president of the Kokuka Sangyo shipping firm which owns the Kokuka Courageous tanker, told reporters Friday in Tokyo that the claim the ship had been damaged by limpet mines was “false”.
“The crew are saying it was hit with a flying object. They say something come flying toward them, then there was an explosion, then there was a hole in the vessel. Then some crew witnessed a second shot,” Katada said.
“To put a bomb on the side is not something we are thinking,” he added, noting that the damage to the ship “was above the water surface by quite a lot.”
As for Trump’s denunciation of Iran as a “terror nation”, the wholesale terror that has been inflicted upon the Middle East has the clear imprint of “Made in the USA”.
Successive US wars against Iraq, which culminated in the illegal invasion of the country and cost the deaths of well over a million people, have been followed by the wars for regime change in Libya and Syria in which Washington utilized, funded and armed Islamist militias tied to Al Qaeda for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi and the attempt to overthrow that of Bashar al-Assad.
Now Washington is attempting to accomplish the same goal in relation to Iran a far larger and more powerful country, with four times the landmass and more than twice the population of Iraq.
It has implemented what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday boasted was a “campaign of maximum pressure” designed to starve the Iranian population into submission. Having abrogated last year the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord reached between Tehran and the five permanent member nations of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, Washington has reimposed and sharply intensified crushing economic sanctions that threaten not only Iran but any country or company doing business with it. The aim, as the US has made clear, is to reduce Iranian oil exports, which count for the overwhelming share of the country’s export earnings, to zero.
These measures, carried out unilaterally and in direct violation of UN resolutions, are the equivalent of a full-scale economic blockade, an act of war.
Iran responded to the latest threats from Trump and the Pentagon calling them “alarming and worrisome.”
Just before Trump gave his interview to Fox, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced Washington for having “immediately jumped to make allegations against Iran [without] a shred of factual or circumstantial evidence.”
On Thursday, Zarif called attention to the fact that the two tankers, one owned by a Japanese firm and the other carrying a Japanese-related cargo, had been struck precisely at the moment that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meeting with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. “Suspicious doesn’t begin to describe what likely transpired,” he said.
Pompeo, in his bullying speech at the State Department Thursday afternoon, declared insultingly that Zarif was trying to be “funny”. On the contrary, the Iranian foreign minister was merely hinting at the conclusion drawn by many around the world that Tehran would hardly be motivated to strike the tankers just as Abe was in Tehran crediting the Iranian government with abiding by the nuclear accord and forswearing the development of nuclear weapons. While there, he declared that “major progress has been made toward securing peace and stability in this region.” Japan had been one of the major purchasers of Iranian oil before last month when the Trump administration abrogated waivers that had been granted to several importing countries.
In examining the crime from the standpoint of the age-old detective maxim of Cui bono?, or Who benefits?, the answer is obvious: those who want to prevent Iran from reaching accommodations allowing it to loosen the economic noose tied around its neck by US imperialism. This includes both Washington itself, as well as its principal regional allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, all of which are entirely capable of carrying out strikes on tankers in order to blame them on Tehran and set the stage for a catastrophic war.
The apparent attacks on the two tankers came just days after German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas traveled to Tehran with the aim of salvaging the nuclear accord repudiated by Washington and forestalling a region-wide war.
Maas promised Iran that Germany, the UK and France would soon put into operation a payment channel to sidestep US sanctions known as INSTEX, while warning that the European powers could not do “miracles” in the face of punishing US sanctions feared by companies who previously did business in Iran.
Germany and the other European powers–with the exception of London, which, as in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is marching in lockstep with Washington–have voiced skepticism about the US charges of proof of Iran’s guilt in relation to the tankers and have called for de-escalation by both sides.
China, meanwhile, has rejected the US charges. Meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan, with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed that Beijing would deepen its ties with Tehran no matter what the situation in the region. He and Rouhani both placed central responsibility for the tensions on Washington’s unilateral abrogation of the nuclear treaty.
Washington is determined to blow up any attempts to circumvent its sanctions regime and clear the way for direct military intervention in Iran. This is the most likely motive for the tanker attacks.
This conclusion is borne out by an editorial published in the Wall Street JournalThursday which stated: “Lately, some have doubted the importance of the U.S. role in the region. Two oil tankers in flames from torpedo attacks in the Gulf of Oman refute that view. The unavoidable fact is that Iran remains the primary threat to stability in the Middle East. The U.S. is right to be there, in force and prepared to defend the interests of itself and its allies.”
The Journal added that it was “all the more important that the West unite in opposition to Iran’s aggression, It would send the worst possible signal if in the aftermath of these attacks the Europeans buckled to Iran’s military pressure.”
Similarly, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius, a columnist with close ties to the US military and intelligence apparatus, wrote in a piece published Thursday titled “Is the Iran-U.S. tinderbox about to ignite?”: “Trump has a new opportunity to broaden international support for his Iran policy, after isolating the United States last year by abandoning the Iran nuclear agreement.”
What is being prepared with the provocations in and around the Persian Gulf is a war that could quickly claim the lives of tens of thousands. An outright US invasion of Iran would require the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of US troops, forcing the re-introduction of the draft and creating revolutionary conditions in the US itself.
At the same time, as the tensions with Europe and China signal, such a bloody conflict would pose the direct threat of triggering a third world war.
Originally published by WSWS.org
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GW170817—The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
October 16, 2017 December 8, 2018 / CPLB / 4 Comments
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have detected their first binary neutron star inspiral. Remarkably, this event was observed not just with gravitational waves, but also across the electromagnetic spectrum, from gamma-rays to radio. This discovery confirms the theory that binary neutron star mergers are the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae, and may be the primary source of heavy elements like gold.
In this post, I’ll go through some of the story of GW170817. As for GW150914, I’ll write another post on the more technical details of our papers, once I’ve had time to catch up on sleep.
The second observing run (O2) of the advanced gravitational-wave detectors started on 30 November 2016. The first detection came in January—GW170104. I was heavily involved in the analysis and paper writing for this. We finally finished up in June, at which point I was thoroughly exhausted. I took some time off in July [bonus note], and was back at work for August. With just one month left in the observing run, it would all be downhill from here, right?
August turned out to be the lava-filled, super-difficult final level of O2. As we have now announced, on August 14, we detected a binary black hole coalescence—GW170814. This was the first clear detection including Virgo, giving us superb sky localization. This is fantastic for astronomers searching for electromagnetic counterparts to our gravitational-wave signals. There was a flurry of excitement, and we thought that this was a fantastic conclusion to O2. We were wrong, this was just the save point before the final opponent. On August 17, we met the final, fire-ball throwing boss.
At 1:58 pm BST my phone buzzed with a text message, an automated alert of a gravitational-wave trigger. I was obviously excited—I recall that my exact thoughts were “What fresh hell is this?” I checked our online event database and saw that it was a single-detector trigger, it was only seen by our Hanford instrument. I started to relax, this was probably going to turn out to be a glitch. The template masses, were low, in the neutron star range, not like the black holes we’ve been finding. Then I saw the false alarm rate was better than one in 9000 years. Perhaps it wasn’t just some noise after all—even though it’s difficult to estimate false alarm rates accurately online, as especially for single-detector triggers, this was significant! I kept reading. Scrolling down the page there was an external coincident trigger, a gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) within a couple of seconds…
We’re gonna need a bigger author list. Credit: Zanuck/Brown Productions
Short gamma-ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the Universe. I’ve always found it mildly disturbing that we didn’t know what causes them. The leading theory has been that they are the result of two neutron stars smashing together. Here seemed to be the proof.
The rapid response call was under way by the time I joined. There was a clear chirp in Hanford, you could be see it by eye! We also had data from Livingston and Virgo too. It was bad luck that they weren’t folded into the online alert. There had been a drop out in the data transfer from Italy to the US, breaking the flow for Virgo. In Livingston, there was a glitch at the time of the signal which meant the data wasn’t automatically included in the search. My heart sank. Glitches are common—check out Gravity Spy for some examples—so it was only a matter of time until one overlapped with a signal [bonus note], and with GW170817 being such a long signal, it wasn’t that surprising. However, this would complicate the analysis. Fortunately, the glitch is short and the signal is long (if this had been a high-mass binary black hole, things might not have been so smooth). We were able to exorcise the glitch. A preliminary sky map using all three detectors was sent out at 12:54 am BST. Not only did we defeat the final boss, we did a speed run on the hard difficulty setting first time [bonus note].
Spectrogram of Livingston data showing part of GW170817’s chirp (which sweeps upward in frequncy) as well as the glitch (the big blip at about ). The lower panel shows how we removed the glitch: the grey line shows gating window that was applied for preliminary results, to zero the affected times, the blue shows a fitted model of the glitch that was subtracted for final results. You can clearly see the chirp well before the glitch, so there’s no danger of it being an artefect of the glitch. Figure 2 of the GW170817 Discovery Paper
The three-detector sky map provided a great localization for the source—this preliminary map had a 90% area of ~30 square degrees. It was just in time for that night’s observations. The plot below shows our gravitational-wave localizations in green—the long band is without Virgo, and the smaller is with all three detectors—as with GW170814, Virgo makes a big difference. The blue areas are the localizations from Fermi and INTEGRAL, the gamma-ray observatories which measured the gamma-ray burst. The inset is something new…
Localization of the gravitational-wave, gamma-ray, and optical signals. The main panel shows initial gravitational-wave 90% areas in green (with and without Virgo) and gamma-rays in blue (the IPN triangulation from the time delay between Fermi and INTEGRAL, and the Fermi GBM localization). The inset shows the location of the optical counterpart (the top panel was taken 10.9 hours after merger, the lower panel is a pre-merger reference without the transient). Figure 1 of the Multimessenger Astronomy Paper.
That night, the discoveries continued. Following up on our sky location, an optical counterpart (AT 2017gfo) was found. The source is just on the outskirts of galaxy NGC 4993, which is right in the middle of the distance range we inferred from the gravitational wave signal. At around 40 Mpc, this is the closest gravitational wave source.
After this source was reported, I think about every single telescope possible was pointed at this source. I think it may well be the most studied transient in the history of astronomy. I think there are ~250 circulars about follow-up. Not only did we find an optical counterpart, but there was emission in X-ray and radio. There was a delay in these appearing, I remember there being excitement at our Collaboration meeting as the X-ray emission was reported (there was a lack of cake though).
The figure below tries to summarise all the observations. As you can see, it’s a mess because there is too much going on!
The timeline of observations of GW170817’s source. Shaded dashes indicate times when information was reported in a Circular. Solid lines show when the source was observable in a band: the circles show a comparison of brightnesses for representative observations. Figure 2 of the Multimessenger Astronomy Paper.
The observations paint a compelling story. Two neutron stars insprialled together and merged. Colliding two balls of nuclear density material at around a third of the speed of light causes a big explosion. We get a jet blasted outwards and a gamma-ray burst. The ejected, neutron-rich material decays to heavy elements, and we see this hot material as a kilonova [bonus material]. The X-ray and radio may then be the afterglow formed by the bubble of ejected material pushing into the surrounding interstellar material.
What have we learnt from our results? Here are some gravitational wave highlights.
We measure several thousand cycles from the inspiral. It is the most beautiful chirp! This is the loudest gravitational wave signal yet found, beating even GW150914. GW170817 has a signal-to-noise ratio of 32, while for GW150914 it is just 24.
Time–frequency plots for GW170104 as measured by Hanford, Livingston and Virgo. The signal is clearly visible in the two LIGO detectors as the upward sweeping chirp. It is not visible in Virgo because of its lower sensitivity and the source’s position in the sky. The Livingston data have the glitch removed. Figure 1 of the GW170817 Discovery Paper.
The signal-to-noise ratios in the Hanford, Livingston and Virgo were 19, 26 and 2 respectively. The signal is quiet in Virgo, which is why you can’t spot it by eye in the plots above. The lack of a clear signal is really useful information, as it restricts where on the sky the source could be, as beautifully illustrated in the video below.
While we measure the inspiral nicely, we don’t detect the merger: we can’t tell if a hypermassive neutron star is formed or if there is immediate collapse to a black hole. This isn’t too surprising at current sensitivity, the system would basically need to convert all of its energy into gravitational waves for us to see it.
From measuring all those gravitational wave cycles, we can measure the chirp mass stupidly well. Unfortunately, converting the chirp mass into the component masses is not easy. The ratio of the two masses is degenerate with the spins of the neutron stars, and we don’t measure these well. In the plot below, you can see the probability distributions for the two masses trace out bananas of roughly constant chirp mass. How far along the banana you go depends on what spins you allow. We show results for two ranges: one with spins (aligned with the orbital angular momentum) up to 0.89, the other with spins up to 0.05. There’s nothing physical about 0.89 (it was just convenient for our analysis), but it is designed to be agnostic, and above the limit you’d plausibly expect for neutron stars (they should rip themselves apart at spins of ~0.7); the lower limit of 0.05 should safely encompass the spins of the binary neutron stars (which are close enough to merge in the age of the Universe) we have estimated from pulsar observations. The masses roughly match what we have measured for the neutron stars in our Galaxy. (The combinations at the tip of the banana for the high spins would be a bit odd).
Estimated masses for the two neutron stars in the binary. We show results for two different spin limits, is the component of the spin aligned with the orbital angular momentum. The two-dimensional shows the 90% probability contour, which follows a line of constant chirp mass. The one-dimensional plot shows individual masses; the dotted lines mark 90% bounds away from equal mass. Figure 4 of the GW170817 Discovery Paper.
If we were dealing with black holes, we’d be done: they are only described by mass and spin. Neutron stars are more complicated. Black holes are just made of warped spacetime, neutron stars are made of delicious nuclear material. This can get distorted during the inspiral—tides are raised on one by the gravity of the other. These extract energy from the orbit and accelerate the inspiral. The tidal deformability depends on the properties of the neutron star matter (described by its equation of state). The fluffier a neutron star is, the bigger the impact of tides; the more compact, the smaller the impact. We don’t know enough about neutron star material to predict this with certainty—by measuring the tidal deformation we can learn about the allowed range. Unfortunately, we also didn’t yet have good model waveforms including tides, so for to start we’ve just done a preliminary analysis (an improved analysis was done for the GW170817 Properties Paper). We find that some of the stiffer equations of state (the ones which predict larger neutron stars and bigger tides) are disfavoured; however, we cannot rule out zero tides. This means we can’t rule out the possibility that we have found two low-mass black holes from the gravitational waves alone. This would be an interesting discovery; however, the electromagnetic observations mean that the more obvious explanation of neutron stars is more likely.
From the gravitational wave signal, we can infer the source distance. Combining this with the electromagnetic observations we can do some cool things.
First, the gamma ray burst arrived at Earth 1.7 seconds after the merger. 1.7 seconds is not a lot of difference after travelling something like 85–160 million years (that’s roughly the time since the Cretaceous or Late Jurassic periods). Of course, we don’t expect the gamma-rays to be emitted at exactly the moment of merger, but allowing for a sensible range of emission times, we can bound the difference between the speed of gravity and the speed of light. In general relativity they should be the same, and we find that the difference should be no more than three parts in .
Second, we can combine the gravitational wave distance with the redshift of the galaxy to measure the Hubble constant, the rate of expansion of the Universe. Our best estimates for the Hubble constant, from the cosmic microwave background and from supernova observations, are inconsistent with each other (the most recent supernova analysis only increase the tension). Which is awkward. Gravitational wave observations should have different sources of error and help to resolve the difference. Unfortunately, with only one event our uncertainties are rather large, which leads to a diplomatic outcome.
Posterior probability distribution for the Hubble constant inferred from GW170817. The lines mark 68% and 95% intervals. The coloured bands are measurements from the cosmic microwave background (Planck) and supernovae (SHoES). Figure 1 of the Hubble Constant Paper.
Finally, we can now change from estimating upper limits on binary neutron star merger rates to estimating the rates! We estimate the merger rate density is in the range (assuming a uniform of neutron star masses between one and two solar masses). This is surprisingly close to what the Collaboration expected back in 2010: a rate of between and , with a realistic rate of . This means that we are on track to see many more binary neutron stars—perhaps one a week at design sensitivity!
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a binary neutron star insprial. The rest of the astronomical community has observed what happened next (sadly there are no neutrinos). This is the first time we have such complementary observations—hopefully there will be many more to come. There’ll be a huge number of results coming out over the following days and weeks. From these, we’ll start to piece together more information on what neutron stars are made of, and what happens when you smash them together (take that particle physicists).
Also: I’m exhausted, my inbox is overflowing, and I will have far too many papers to read tomorrow.
GW170817 Discovery Paper: GW170817: Observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral
Multimessenger Astronomy Paper: Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger
Data release: LIGO Open Science Center
If you’re looking for the most up-to-date results regarding GW170817, check out the O2 Catalogue Paper.
Inbox zero
Over my vacation I cleaned up my email. I had a backlog starting around September 2015. I think there were over 6000 which I sorted or deleted. I had about 20 left to deal with when I got back to work. GW170817 undid that. Despite doing my best to keep up, there are over a 1000 emails in my inbox…
Around the start of O2, I was asked when I expected our results to be public. I said it would depend upon what we found. If it was only high-mass black holes, those are quick to analyse and we know what to do with them, so results shouldn’t take long, now we have the first few out of the way. In this case, perhaps a couple months as we would have been generating results as we went along. However, the worst case scenario would be a binary neutron star overlapping with non-Gaussian noise. Binary neutron stars are more difficult to analyse (they are longer signals, and there are matter effects to worry about), and it would be complicated to get everyone to be happy with our results because we were doing lots of things for the first time. Obviously, if one of these happened at the end of the run, there’d be quite a delay…
I think I got that half-right. We’re done amazingly well analysing GW170817 to get results out in just two months, but I think it will be a while before we get the full O2 set of results out, as we’ve been neglecting otherthings (you’ll notice we’ve not updated our binary black hole merger rate estimate since GW170104, nor given detailed results for testing general relativity with the more recent detections).
At the time of the GW170817 alert, I was working on writing a research proposal. As part of this, I was explaining why it was important to continue working on gravitational-wave parameter estimation, in particular how to deal with non-Gaussian or non-stationary noise. I think I may be a bit of a jinx. For GW170817, the glitch wasn’t a big problem, these type of blips can be removed. I’m more concerned about the longer duration ones, which are less easy to separate out from background noise. Don’t say I didn’t warn you in O3.
Parameter estimation rota
The duty of analysing signals to infer their source properties was divided up into shifts for O2. On January 4, the time of GW170104, I was on shift with my partner Aaron Zimmerman. It was his first day. Having survived that madness, Aaron signed back up for the rota. Can you guess who was on shift for the week which contained GW170814 and GW170817? Yep, Aaron (this time partnered with the excellent Carl-Johan Haster). Obviously, we’ll need to have Aaron on rota for the entirety of O3. In preparation, he has already started on paper drafting
Methods Section: Chained ROTA member to a terminal, ignored his cries for help. Detections followed swiftly.
Especially made
The lightest elements (hydrogen, helium and lithium) we made during the Big Bang. Stars burn these to make heavier elements. Energy can be released up to around iron. Therefore, heavier elements need to be made elsewhere, for example in the material ejected from supernova or (as we have now seen) neutron star mergers, where there are lots of neutrons flying around to be absorbed. Elements (like gold and platinum) formed by this rapid neutron capture are known as r-process elements, I think because they are beloved by pirates.
A couple of weeks ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced for the observation of gravitational waves. In December, the laureates will be presented with a gold (not chocolate) medal. I love the idea that this gold may have come from merging neutron stars.
Here’s one we made earlier. Credit: Associated Press/F. Vergara
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