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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 62
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 62
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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The following are a list of past interviews with alternate historians:
Greg Ahlgren: author of Prologue (11/23/11)
Taylor Anderson: author of the Destroyermen series (5/4/16)
Lou Antonelli: author of Another Girl, Another Planet (3/24/16)
Hugh Ashton: author of Beneath Gray Skies (6/29/11)
J.L. Avey: author of An Alternate History of the Netherlands (3/6/13)
Tom Black: founder of Sea Lion Press (8/20/15)
Sebastian Breit: author of Wolf Hunt: The Burning Ages (7/29/11)
Tyler Bugg: author of "From Enigma to Paradox" (11/14/12)
Jack Campbell: author of The Lost Fleet (9/7/16)
Christopher M. Cevasco: author and editor of Paradox magazine (10/10/14)
Jennifer Ciotta: author of I, Putin (5/3/12)
Dale Cozort: author of Exchange (11/17/11)
George Crall: author of Hitler Invades England (2/8/12)
Rhys Davies: author of Timewreck Titanic (5/17/12)
Lynn Davis: alternate cartographer who goes by "ToixStory" (4/23/15)
Michael Lee "Gan" Day: administrator and founder of Endless Worlds (a.k.a. Other History) (2/24/16)
RF Dunham: author The Other Side of Hope (8/18/16)
Robin Dunn: author of "Hands and Grater" (5/29/13)
Henrik Fåhraeus: project lead and lead designer of Crusader Kings II (11/21/12)
Hominid (a.k.a. Owen): administrator and founder of Diverginguniverses (3/30/16)
Bill Fawcett: author of 101 Stumbles in the March of History (9/6/16)
James "Krall" Fitzmaurice: founder and admistrator of Althistoria (2/11/16)
Joseph Franciosa Jr.: co-author of Young Adolf (3/13/12)
Cody Franklin: founder and curator of The Alternate History Hub (2/26/14)
Katina French: author of "Bitter Cold" (5/30/13).
Paula Goodlett: author of numerous Assiti Shards stories and editor of the Grantville Gazette (10/17/14)
Thomas Gorence: creator of Time Samplers (12/19/12)
William Peter Grasso: author of East Wind Returns (9/4/11)
Alan Gratz: author of The League of Seven (9/23/14).
Ella Grey: author of "Wings" (5/31/13)
Grey Wolf: administrator of Alternate History Fiction (1/22/16)
Thomas Wm Hamilton: author of Time for Patriots (3/27/14).
Jordan Harbour: host of the Twilight Histories podcast (5/3/13)
Frank Harvey: Author of Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence (4/17/14).
Roel "lordroel" Hendrikx: Administrator of Alternate Timelines Forum.
Karen Hellekson: Keynote speaker at the Sideways in Time Conference (12/12/14).
Mark Jeffrey: author of Age of Aether (11/15/12)
Andy Johnson: author of Seelowe Nord (1/11/12)
David Kowalski: author of The Company of the Dead (4/3/12)
Evelyn Leeper: Sidewise judge and Uchronia contributor.
Bruno Lombardi: author in the Altered America anthology (4/2/14)
Mark Lord: editor of the Alt Hist magazine (7/20/11)
Ian R. MacLeod: author of Wake Up and Dream (11/13/12)
Michael J. Martinez: author of The Daedalus Incident (7/24/13)
Ian Montgomerie: founder and administrator of AlternateHistory.com (10/2/14)
Alison Morton: author of Inceptio (3/27/13)
Bruce Munro: alternate cartographer who goes by "B Munro" (6/25/15)
Chris Nuttall: author of The Royal Sorceress and Schooled in Magic (10/5/12, 3/7/14 and 12/16/15)
Nicholas Pardini: co-host of What If History podcast (10/28/11)
Blaine Pardoe: author of Never Wars (3/18/15)
Joe Pearson: creator of War of the Worlds: Goliath (9/12/12)
Robert G. Pielke: author of A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor (6/29/12)
Jeff Provine: author of Hellfire and editor at This Day in Alternate History Blog (6/23/16)
Doctor Quincy E. Quartermain: director of the Alternate History Track at Dragon*Con (6/8/12)
Jacopo della Quercia: author of License to Quill (1/19/16)
Matthew Quinn: author of "Coil Gun" (9/21/11)
Roger L. Ransom: author of The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (9/20/12)
Rvbomally: alternate cartographer and author of "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (5/29/15)
Ian Sales: 2012 Sidewise nominated author of "Adrift on the Sea of Rains". (8/8/13)
Guy Saville: author of The Afrika Reich (10/6/11)
Carole Scott: author of Clopton's Short History of Confederate States of America (2/23/12)
Graeme Shimmin: author of A Kill in the Morning (6/11/14).
Tony Schumacher: author of The Darkest Hour (1/14/15)
Steve/Caliboy1990: administrator of Steve's AH Place (3/23/16)
Steven H Silver: Sidewise Awards judge, bibliographer, publisher, and editor (8/16/11)
Alan Smale: author of Clash of Eagles trilogy. (4/13/16)
Eric Swedin: Sidewise award winning author of When Angels Wept (9/9/11)
Harry Turtledove: the master of alternate history (3/24/15)
Steven W. White: author of Outrageous Fortunes (8/26/11)
Geoffrey Wilson: author of Land of Hope and Glory (6/13/12)
James Young: author of Acts of War (2/19/15)
Bryce Zabel: author of Surrounded by Enemies (8/14/14)
If there is someone you think we should interview, contact us at ahwupdate at gmail dot com.
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How Adam Rogers and WIRED Utterly Fail to Understand Commercial Space Ops
November 9, 2014 by Steve Tupper 1 Comment
Late last week, I saw a post on WIRED’s website by Adam Rogers called Space Tourism Isn’t Worth Dying For. In 12 insipid paragraphs, Mr. Rogers delivered a tortured hash that boils down to: “Don’t hate me bro. I loved Apollo and the shuttle program, but now it’s all about dilettantes with money going up for thrills.”
Shortly thereafter, I suggested on Facebook that, if somebody would mock up a WIRED cover or logo, I’d write a parody to the effect of WIRED Responds to the Apollo 1 Fire. Two talented friends mocked up covers and posted them in comments. Bryan Rivera of Windtee Aviation Art was first to post and his cover leads this post. Thomas Freundl also posted an excellent cover that’s featured below.
But, much as I tried to make good on my promise, I had reservations about the Apollo 1 parody. It’s not that I couldn’t do it. I know my NASA history as well as any aerospace geek and could come up with an almost exactly parallel parody article. But I realized that to do so would be to talk past Rogers when what’s needed is a direct response. So here it is.
Rogers claims to be a fan of space exploration. He says that he likes spaceships. He’s been to the Cape and to Mojave. And this and other hedging qualifies him to “call bullshit” if anyone speaks of the SpaceShipOne accident in terms of giant leaps and boldly going where no one has gone before.
I write to call bullshit on Rogers.
Rogers says, “Do human beings have a drive to push past horizons, over mountains, into the unknown? Manifestly. But we always balance that drive and desire with its potential outcomes. We go when there’s something there.” In this insipid word salad, Rogers proves that he has no idea what drives those who dream about space travel.
There’s something there, alright: It’s the there, stupid.
Even if it’s a suborbital trajectory, it’s space. It’s the chance to see the curvature of the planet that has been the origin of every human song, play, book, thought, hope, and dream. It’s the chance to be up there and experience the Overview Effect attested to by Ed Mitchell, Chris Hadfield, and Mike Massimino, among others. In fact, I’d be willing to chip in to fund a sub-orbital (or better) flight for every incoming leader of a nuclear-capable county if we could make it mandatory before taking the oath of office.
Not every Virgin Galactic slot-holder is an explorer. To be sure, some almost certainly have more money than brains and are just in line for the thrill. But I’d venture to guess that the vast majority of slot-holders are those genuinely moved by the prospect of being in space, even for a few moments.
Additionally, a functioning regular sub-orbital service is a valuable step in preserving and building space capability. NASA, for all practical purposes, finished up its manned suborbital program with only two such flights in 1961. After that, it was all about orbit and beyond though the remaining four Mercury flights and all of Gemini, and Apollo. You have to be good at different things to regularly fly people in sub-orbital profiles. Virgin and others are filling in some of the blanks that have been there for 50 years. And they’re building physical and intellectual infrastructure that will further commercial spaceflight beyond sub-orbital levels in the near future.
Rogers simply doesn’t understand that aviation and aerospace technology is rarely single-purpose or merely horizontally integrated. We’ll learn things doing sub-orbital flights that apply to every aspect of space flight. In fact, some elements of commercial sub-orbital flights are more likely than other kinds spaceflight to help develop some elements of vital aerospace technology and practice. Look at the higher operational tempo. Look at the requirements for efficiency and reusability in launch and recovery. Look at the crew training, preparation, and performance elements. These and other operational considerations will force innovation that we wouldn’t otherwise see. For Pete’s sake, the very existence of White Knight/SpaceShipOne and White Knight Two/SpaceShipTwo in the first place is demonstration enough.
Is Rogers’ problem with the private-sector nature of Virgin Galactic’s operations? Look, it’s pretty obvious that there’s little present public support for government-backed manned space exploration, at least in the US. Commercial spaceflight is our best bet for preserving our space exploration chops and moving them forward. It’s also a place where the know-how of space veterans is preserved and where it’s passed on to the next generation. Like it or not, this an essential funding model for the next step in space exploration.
Is Rogers’ problem the lucre that it takes to get humans into space? Surely it’s not the money itself. The Apollo program cost $100 billion over 10 years and of the Space Transportation System (the “space shuttle”) cost $200 billion over 40 years and that’s apparently okay with Rogers. Must money be spent by a government in order to make it noble or worth risking life over? How is it less noble when the money comes from those who have it and are moved to invest it? Might private money be even more noble?
Private space operations are the way of the world for the next Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. It’s not what I expected growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, but it’s what we have and, in many ways, it’s even more exciting. I’d be just as happy to go into space with Delos D. Harriman or Richard Branson as with Neil Armstrong or Dave Scott. To be sure, it is no less noble and perhaps it is even more so. The motivation remains as pure as it ever has been at any other time or place. We have not stopped dreaming. We’re going back to space. Sub-orbital now. Low-Earth orbit next. Then outward. Ever outward.
But Rogers goes even further. He says right up front that test pilots take risks and die “in the service of millionaire boondoggle thrill rides.” He most likely says this because he has zero idea about what motivates these people.
There’s a very special breed of men and women who live for aviation and aerospace and sharing that love with others. While test pilots are such men and women, I don’t know any test pilots. But I do know airshow performers, and they’re cut from the same cloth. These people don’t do it for the fame. The average American can’t name a single Thunderbird or Blue Angel, much less come up with the names of Greg Koontz, Mike Goulian, Patty Wagstaff, or Rob Holland. Airshow performers generally don’t do it for the money. It is said that one can make a small fortune in the airshow business – if one starts with a large fortune. These are words that are more true than any airshow performer likes to admit.
They do it because they love to fly. They love to operate in the less-occupied reaches of the envelope with engineering, skill, and determination. They love to fly at airshows and they know that some of the kids who see them fly will walk off the field each weekend with new purpose to their lives.
I don’t speak idly here. I’ve done it myself. Not often or particularly thrillingly, but I’ve stuck my head into that rarefied box air in front of 20,000 people on several occasions. I’ll breathe that air again any time they let me and I’ll spend the hundreds of hours in training and preparation to be worthy of that trust and honor.
Almost every year, one or more of those people die in the pursuit of that love. It’s never easy when that happens. We all know exactly what risks are involved. We prepare as best we can for the risks and then we execute with clear purpose and a safety culture that is second to none. Have you ever tried to live up to a standard like that? Perfection is expected, but mere excellence is tolerated. We feel awful when one of our fellows dies or is injured. But we understand the drive and we all believe that what we do is worth the risks that we assume with open eyes.
Pilots – or at least the pilots that I know and model – don’t operate in the service of millionaire boondoggle anything. They serve the highest aspirations of our species.
Rogers is wrong on every count. He doesn’t understand why we dream about space. He thinks that government is the only proper mechanism to fund space travel. He doesn’t understand how technology is preserved and enhanced. And he sure as heck doesn’t understand pilots.
So, finally, I speak for thousands, if not millions, of my fellow dreamers when I say this: I’ll gladly train up, suit up, and strap into the very next available space vehicle. And, if it helps, I’m a commercial pilot with about 600 hours in my logbook; a little bit of it in jets and a lot of it in gliders. My resume and logbook are available to anyone at Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, or any others who are interested. For that matter, SpaceX already has my resume.
In any case, so say all of us: Bullshit, Mr. Rogers.
Filed Under: Stephen Force Tagged With: accident, Adam Rogers, airshows, astronauts, bullshit, commercial space, commercial space operations, mojave, orbital sciences, pilots, scaled composites, space travel, spaceshiptwo, spacex, Virgin Galactic, white knight two, WIRED
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s children still detained by US?
Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 7. June 2007 by Administrator 8. February 2014
Among the cases detailed in the report is the detention in September 2002 of two children, then aged seven and nine, of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was later detained and is now held at Guantanamo.
"According to eyewitnesses, the two were held in an adult detention center for at least four months while U.S. agents questioned the children about their father's whereabouts," the report said.
Groups list 39 'disappeared' in U.S. war on terror
Thu Jun 7, 2007 10:12 AM IST
By Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
The groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, said they filed a U.S. federal lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information about the 39 people it terms "ghost prisoners" in the U.S. "war on terror."
"Since the end of Latin America's dirty wars, the world has rejected the use of 'disappearances' as a fundamental violation of international law," professor Meg Satterthwaite of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University's School of Law said in a statement.
The report said suspects' relatives, including children as young as seven, had been held in secret detention on occasion.
CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano dismissed the report, saying the CIA acts in "strict accord with American law" and its counter-terrorist initiatives are "subject to careful review and oversight."
"The United States does not conduct or condone torture," he said.
In September, U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged the CIA had interrogated dozens of suspects at secret overseas locations and said 14 of those held had been sent to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Bush strongly defended the secret detention and questioning of terrorism suspects and said the CIA treated them humanely. The program has drawn international outcry and questions about the cooperation of European governments.
Tens of thousands of people "disappeared" during Latin America's so-called dirty wars in Chile, Argentina and several other countries where right-wing dictators used extra-judicial detentions to crush armed Marxist opposition.
The list of 39 people said to have been held in U.S. custody at some point was compiled using information from six rights groups, including London-based groups Cageprisoners and Reprieve and the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York.
The detentions began shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks and include people said to be captured in locations including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia.
EVIDENCE OF DETENTIONS
The United States has acknowledged detaining three of the 39. The groups said, however, there was strong evidence, including witness testimony, of secret detention in 18 more cases and some evidence of secret detention in the remaining 18 cases.
Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watch said it was unknown if the suspects were now in U.S. or foreign custody, or even alive or dead.
"We have families who have not seen their loved ones for years. They've literally disappeared," Mariner told Reuters.
The groups said the lack of information about the prisoners "prevents scrutiny by the public or the courts, and leaves detainees vulnerable to abuses that include torture."
Bush said in September there were no prisoners remaining in custody in U.S. secret facilities at that time. But the report said the transfer of Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi from CIA custody to Guantanamo in April showed the system was still operating.
"Interviews with prisoners who have been released from secret CIA prisons indicate that low-level detainees have frequently been arrested far from any battlefield, and held in isolation for years without legal recourse or contact with their families or outside agencies," the report said.
The groups urged the U.S. government to cease use of secret detention, provide information on those in custody, give access by the International Committee of the Red Cross to all detainees and either bring charges or release all prisoners.
(Additional reporting by Carol Giacomo)
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Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: July 5, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/health/05sex.html
Some people are attracted to women; some are attracted to men. And some, if Sigmund Freud, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and millions of self-described bisexuals are to be believed, are drawn to both sexes.
But a new study casts doubt on whether true bisexuality exists, at least in men.
The study, by a team of psychologists in Chicago and Toronto, lends support to those who have long been sceptical that bisexuality is a distinct and stable sexual orientation.
People who claim bisexuality, according to these critics, are usually homosexual, but are ambivalent about their homosexuality or simply closeted. "You're either gay, straight or lying," as some gay men have put it.
In the new study, a team of psychologists directly measured genital arousal patterns in response to images of men and women. The psychologists found that men who identified themselves as bisexual were in fact exclusively aroused by either one sex or the other, usually by other men.
The study is the largest of several small reports suggesting that the estimated 1.7 percent of men who identify themselves as bisexual show physical attraction patterns that differ substantially from their professed desires.
"Research on sexual orientation has been based almost entirely on self-reports, and this is one of the few good studies using physiological measures," said Dr. Lisa Diamond, an associate professor of psychology and gender identity at the University of Utah, who was not involved in the study.
The discrepancy between what is happening in people's minds and what is going on in their bodies, she said, presents a puzzle "that the field now has to crack, and it raises this question about what we mean when we talk about desire."
"We have assumed that everyone means the same thing," she added, "but here we have evidence that that is not the case."
Several other researchers who have seen the study, scheduled to be published in the journal Psychological Science, said it would need to be repeated with larger numbers of bisexual men before clear conclusions could be drawn.
Bisexual desires are sometimes transient and they are still poorly understood. Men and women also appear to differ in the frequency of bisexual attractions. "The last thing you want," said Dr. Randall Sell, an assistant professor of clinical socio-medical sciences at Columbia University, "is for some therapists to see this study and start telling bisexual people that they're wrong, that they're really on their way to homosexuality."
He added, "We don't know nearly enough about sexual orientation and identity" to jump to these conclusions.
In the experiment, psychologists at Northwestern University and the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto used advertisements in gay and alternative newspapers to recruit 101 young adult men. Thirty-three of the men identified themselves as bisexual, 30 as straight and 38 as homosexual.
The researchers asked the men about their sexual desires and rated them on a scale from 0 to 6 on sexual orientation, with 0 to 1 indicating heterosexuality, and 5 to 6 indicating homosexuality. Bisexuality was measured by scores in the middle range.
Seated alone in a laboratory room, the men then watched a series of erotic movies, some involving only women, others involving only men.
Using a sensor to monitor sexual arousal, the researchers found what they expected: gay men showed arousal to images of men and little arousal to images of women, and heterosexual men showed arousal to women but not to men.
But the men in the study who described themselves as bisexual did not have patterns of arousal that were consistent with their stated attraction to men and to women. Instead, about three-quarters of the group had arousal patterns identical to those of gay men; the rest were indistinguishable from heterosexuals.
"Regardless of whether the men were gay, straight or bisexual, they showed about four times more arousal" to one sex or the other, said Gerulf Rieger, a graduate psychology student at Northwestern and the study's lead author.
Although about a third of the men in each group showed no significant arousal watching the movies, their lack of response did not change the overall findings, Mr. Rieger said.
Since at least the middle of the 19th century, behavioural scientists have noted bisexual attraction in men and women and debated its place in the development of sexual identity. Some experts, like Freud, concluded that humans are naturally bisexual. In his landmark sex surveys of the 1940's, Dr. Alfred Kinsey found many married, publicly heterosexual men who reported having had sex with other men.
"Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual," Dr. Kinsey wrote. "The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats."
By the 1990's, Newsweek had featured bisexuality on its cover, bisexuals had formed advocacy groups and television series like "Sex and the City" had begun exploring bisexual themes.
Yet researchers were unable to produce direct evidence of bisexual arousal patterns in men, said Dr. J. Michael Bailey, a professor of psychology at Northwestern and the new study's senior author.
A 1979 study of 30 men found that those who identified themselves as bisexuals were indistinguishable from homosexuals on measures of arousal. Studies of gay and bisexual men in the 1990's showed that the two groups reported similar numbers of male sexual partners and risky sexual encounters. And a 1994 survey by The Advocate, the gay-oriented newsmagazine, found that, before identifying themselves as gay, 40 percent of gay men had described themselves as bisexual.
"I'm not denying that bisexual behaviour exists," said Dr. Bailey, "but I am saying that in men there's no hint that true bisexual arousal exists, and that for men arousal is orientation."
But other researchers - and some self-identified bisexuals - say that the technique used in the study to measure genital arousal is too crude to capture the richness - erotic sensations, affection, admiration - that constitutes sexual attraction.
Social and emotional attraction are very important elements in bisexual attraction, said Dr. Fritz Klein, a sex researcher and the author of "The Bisexual Option."
"To claim on the basis of this study that there's no such thing as male bisexuality is overstepping, it seems to me," said Dr. Gilbert Herdt, director of the National Sexuality Resource Center in San Francisco. "It may be that there is a lot less true male bisexuality than we think, but if that's true then why in the world are there so many movies, novels and TV shows that have this as a theme - is it collective fantasy, merely a projection? I don't think so."
John Campbell, 36, a Web designer in Orange County, California., who describes himself as bisexual, also said he was sceptical of the findings.
Mr. Campbell said he had been strongly attracted to both sexes since he was sexually aware, although all his long-term relationships had been with women. "In my case I have been accused of being heterosexual, but I also feel a need for sex with men," he said.
Mr. Campbell rated his erotic attraction to men and women as about 50-50, but his emotional attraction, he said, was 90 to 10 in favour of women. "With men I can get aroused, I just don't feel the fireworks like I do with women," he said.
About 1.5 percent of American women identify themselves bisexual. And bisexuality appears easier to demonstrate in the female sex. A study published last November by the same team of Canadian and American researchers, for example, found that most women who said they were bisexual showed arousal to men and to women.
Although only a small number of women identify themselves as bisexual, Dr. Bailey said, bisexual arousal may for them in fact be the norm.
Researchers have little sense yet of how these differences may affect behaviour, or sexual identity. In the mid-1990's, Dr. Diamond recruited a group of 90 women at gay pride parades, academic conferences on gender issues and other venues. About half of the women called themselves lesbians, a third identified as bisexual and the rest claimed no sexual orientation. In follow-up interviews over the last 10 years, Dr. Diamond has found that most of these women have had relationships both with men and women.
"Most of them seem to lean one way or the other, but that doesn't preclude them from having a relationship with the nonpreferred sex," she said. "You may be mostly interested in women but, hey, the guy who delivers the pizza is really hot, and what are you going to do?"
"There's a whole lot of movement and flexibility," Dr. Diamond added. "The fact is, we have very little research in this area, and a lot to learn."
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Introducing Objectivism
The following is a short description of Objectivism given by Ayn Rand in 1962:
At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows:
Metaphysics: Objective Reality
Epistemology: Reason
Ethics: Self-interest
Politics: Capitalism
If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 1. “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed” or “Wishing won’t make it so.” 2. “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too.” 3. “Man is an end in himself.” 4. “Give me liberty or give me death.”
If you held these concepts with total consistency, as the base of your convictions, you would have a full philosophical system to guide the course of your life. But to hold them with total consistency—to understand, to define, to prove and to apply them—requires volumes of thought. Which is why philosophy cannot be discussed while standing on one foot—nor while standing on two feet on both sides of every fence. This last is the predominant philosophical position today, particularly in the field of politics.
My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:
Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man’s rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
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Colorado has many wonderful and beautiful cities that offer a wide variety of arts, culture, recreation and entertainment. Below are communities that offer these unique traits.
Alamo Placita
Alamo Placita is named after Alamo Placita Park, which is located on the North side of Speer Boulevard between...
Baker is a historic neighborhood located adjacent to the South Platte River. An area of approximately 30 blocks...
Belcaro
Belcaro is a fashionable neighborhood in central Denver near the Cherry Creek Shopping Center.
Bonnie Brae is located east of University Avenue between Mississippi and Exposition Avenues, Steele Street and...
Capitol Hill is one of the most diverse and eclectic neighborhoods in Denver. There are a large number of...
Congress, which had originally designated the acreage for burials, switched it to park land at the request of...
Denver’s premier shopping enclave for several decades, Cherry Creek is the place to live, work, shop, and...
Denver’s City Park neighborhood includes its namesake park, the Denver Zoo, and the Denver Museum of Nature &...
Opportunities for outdoor recreation, cultural enrichment, gainful employment, or just hanging out at a favorite...
Congress Park
What began as a streetcar suburb in the early 1900's is now one of Denver's most popular urban neighborhoods....
Cory Merrill
Cory-Merrill is a quiet, highly desirable neighborhood with tree-lined streets and a spattering of large new...
Nowhere else in Denver does the canopy of 100-year-old American elms spread quite so magnificently over tiled...
Crestmoor
Denver’s Crestmoor neighborhood is located adjacent to Mayfair and Hilltop in a desirable area featuring a...
Curtis Park
Land for Curtis Park at 30th Avenue and Champa Street, Denver’s first public park, was donated in 1868, while...
New comers and old timers alike boost Downtown with an enthusiasm bordering on religious fervor and no wonder:...
A prime central location highlighted by a dynamic mix of residential, commercial, cultural, and educational...
Noted for quiet, tree-shaded streets, charming period architecture, and lush parkways, Hilltop lies adjacent to...
The historic lofts, charming townhomes, and elegant high rises of LoDo offer an idyllic Parisian lifestyle where...
Lower Highlands, or LoHi, is one of the trendiest parts of Denver and a cool place for beating midwinter...
The mixed-use Town Center District artfully blends traditional and contemporary designs
Mayfair boasts roomy lots, nearly double the size of those found in other urban neighborhoods such as Washington...
Denver’s Montclair neighborhood was originally developed as a small suburban community east of Denver.
Observatory Park
Observatory Park offers the charm of a college town, the convenience of a central location, and the serenity of...
Designed to showcase Mayor Speer’s City Beautiful program, Park Hill, located on high ground east of City...
Platt Park
Platt Park adjoins Denver’s Washington Park neighborhood where tree-lined streets showcase a variety of...
Denver’s River North Art District, or RiNo, is rapidly becoming the hotspot for artsy types in Denver with a...
Riverfront in downtown Denver is an ideally located neighborhood where residents live, play and party together
Denver’s former airport has evolved into one of the nation’s finest master-planned communities. Stapleton,...
Denver’s University neighborhood is the area surrounding the University of Denver. It bustles with students,...
People began to settle around the fringes of a buffalo wallow near the north end of Washington
Named after John Greenleaf Whittier, an American poet, abolitionist, and founding member of the American...
Castle Pines North
Nestled in the beautiful rolling hill country of Douglas County, Castle Pines North is a visionary city focused...
Castle Pines Village
Expansive Forests, Panoramic Mountain Views, and World-Class Golf Courses Define This Exclusive Community
Recreation, open space and healthy living define old Phipps Ranch.
The wide range of diversions available to Lone Tree residents virtually on their doorsteps inspired the town...
The setting is unforgettable: picturesque hills, buff-colored rimrock, and sweeping meadows set against the...
Erie is a diverse, dynamic community offering a contemporary pace to life that appeals to all age groups.
Arrayed about the fairways of the Arnold Palmer designed Lone Tree Golf Course, the elegantly beautiful homes at...
Diverse housing options are available in Lafayette. Well-kept neighborhoods showcase tree-lined streets,...
Longmont was named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in the United States in 2006 and again in 2008 as...
In its July 2011 issue, Money Magazine named Louisville one of the best places to live in America. The leading...
Quaint, charming, safe and friendly, Niwot is 10 minutes from Boulder and just five minutes from Longmont....
A Place for Everyone to Play
Roxborough
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Southeast Aurora
As the 19th century drew to a close, the town of Fletcher, located on the barren high plains east of Denver,...
Westminster is characterized by a wide range of housing choices, excellent schools, and hundreds of recreational...
Buell Mansion
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Charlou
Curved, looping, and blind streets magnify the pastoral charm of Charlou, an exclusive enclave dotted with...
Cherry Hills Village, one of the nation's most elegant suburbs, is also among the safest. A tranquil, rustic...
Glenmoor
Glenmoor Country Club, an exclusive, gated community in Cherry Hills Village, features magnificent modern to...
Green Oaks is a jewel of a neighborhood tucked along the High Line Canal on the west side of Greenwood Village.
Greenwood Village was named for the Greenwood Ranch and was developed during the 1860’s when settlers came...
High Country Beauty Just 15 Miles from Denver
Mountain Living for City People. Genesee blends extraordinary residences with Mother Nature’s grand design.
City Close, Country Quiet
Columbine Valley
Concerts, Dining, Dinosaurs, and More
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St. Barth in 1997
Le Manoir de Saint Barthelemy
Le Manoir is a guest house on the road from Lorient to Grand Fond. Its sign is easy to miss (you'll need to turn right immediately- as in 1 foot - before the building that houses La Ligne de St. Barth), and it is off the road, down a very narrow way. Parking is at a premium in its lot. The building with the reception area was transported to St. Barth from France, and it was said to have been built in the 17th Century. The bungalows around the garden are all in the same style. Each cottage has a kitchen and a private garden, and the price we were quoted was 600 francs per day for two persons. The staff is courteous, and English is excellent. The beach at Lorient is a few minutes' walk along the road.
The cottages are very large. There are ceiling fans, but no air conditioning, and all the beds have mosquito nets. We are informed by residents of St. Barth that Le Manoir is in an area known for mosquitoes. Each cottage has a fully equipped kitchen and private bath.
We had the opportunity to see several of the cottages, and their size varied from enormous to merely large. Some were on two floors, all were furnished with large wooden chairs, couches, beds, and tables. The construction appeared to be without a plan, so some units had the bath in the unit itself, some had the bath in a separate cottage, open to the unit's private garden. One unit had a separate shaded area with a hammock. The overall effect was charming, and we intend to stay at Le Manoir when we visit St. Barth again.
The gardens are lush and beautiful. This is a lovely, tranquil setting. What makes Le Manoir even nicer is that it truly is within an easy walk of the beach, 2 small grocery stores, a great place for hamburgers, and a restaurant. Taking a shower outside in a tropical garden is a special treat; our favorite cottages were those with a separate bath cottage. We plan to ask for Nicolas cottage on our next visit; it has a private garden with table and chairs, a kitchen on the porch, an outdoor shower for rinsing off sand, and a separate bath with a shower looking onto another private garden corner. The room itself is relatively small, but has 2 doors opposite each other that each open onto the garden. Pure delight!
No meals are included in the price. Cleaning is offered every four days. Let them know when you arrive, and you will be picked up at the airport, although you will have to arrange for your own transportation while on St. Barth. A 25% deposit is required, and it seems that credit cards are not accepted: checks, travellers checks, and cash are listed as means of payment. The listed rates are 200 to 350 francs, single, 400 to 600 francs double in season; 150 to 250 francs, single, 300 to 500 francs double, in the low season (15 April to 15 December). Telephone +((590) 27.79.27; fax +(590) 27.65.75. Email is lemanoir@wanadoo.fr.
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(Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles)
Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Screenwriters: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Starring: Shahir Kabaha, Fouad Habash
Ajami is a film in five chapters set in the West Bank on both the Israel and Palestinian sides. (The title refers to the neighborhood a couple of the stories are set in.) The five stories are all interwoven, with shared characters that, with each progressive chapter, become more fleshed out and motivations become apparent. The stories include two brothers who strive for survival after their uncle injures a member of a powerful clan, an Israeli policeman looking for his missing brother who is a soldier in the Israeli army, and a love story between a man of Muslim faith and a Christian woman, which is forbidden (or at the very least, frowned upon) in the West Bank.
Ajami is non-linear, with characters returning when you least expect them to, and the stories and actors weave seamlessly among one another. No real actors were used, only local residents, which is quite shocking based on the depth and strength of all of the performances. Every story, though approximately 20 minutes long each, were rich and full-bodied due to the excellent screenplay by writer/directors Copti & Shani. Though the subject matter was very heavy and involved some politics and nuances that may have gone past me a bit, Ajami was riveting from start to finish, a real accomplishment for a film so dense and complicated.
The winner of several Israel Academy Awards, and nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Ajami is like the 2004 film Crash, only good. It gets its point(s) across without heavy-handedness and literally had me holding my breath at the end, so intense and impactful the entire experience was. Ajami is not for anyone looking for levity in a film, but the film is so good, it really should be experienced.
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It's Complicated: Screwball Seniors Sitcom
It's Complicated is seniors sitcom, baby-boomer screwball, cuisine cinema. Writer/director Nancy Meyers has crafted a feelgood movie that's funny as well.
It continues her involvement in this genre established in Something's Gotta Give and far outshines that effort.
The stellar cast don’t let her down. Meryl Streep as Jane Adler proves again that she does comedy as easily as the heavy drama that won her youthful Oscars. I’m beginning to think her quaint giggle is a personal trait not just part of her acting repertoire.
Alec Baldwin, as ex- hubby Jake, is made for this part of retread romeo. It's no coincidence that the filmmakers see him as their Spencer Tracy. He's good but not that good. Alec has the decadent girth we associate with successful American attorneys and the innocent eyes of the amoral egoist. When he looks Jane straight in the eye, it’s hard not to believe his spin. At times we almost symapthise with him as he tries to escape the second-marriage trap he has set for himself. Almost!
Steve Martin has less to play with in his role as Adam, the third corner of the triangle. It’s a fairly flat performance but zany isn’t what we expect from an architect. To Meyers’ credit, his contributions to the more comic scenes, such as the party, are mercifully restrained. It’s not the slapstick, loud Martin that many try to avoid.
The over-the-top stuff is left to John Krasinski as Harley, the future son-in-law. But the audience enjoyed his comic moments. The three grownup offspring are ably played by Zoe Kazan, Caitlin Fitzgerald and Hunter Parrish, as is to be expected from seasoned Hollywood professionals.
One thing that annoys is the trite setting in Santa Barbara's semi-rural Upper-Class America. Jane’s home is reminiscent of Rachel Getting Married. She is having additions made to the house where she lives alone. The kitchen isn’t big enough. Not! Anyway,who wouldn't want to wake to a view of the Pacific. Her bakery business is to die for, naturally. How else could she afford the lifestyle.
You have to wonder if the inclusion of Jane’s psychiatrist and Jake's fertility clinic are simply soft satire or just giving the audience something to identify with. It seems that having a shrink is just part of the conspicuous consumption of this section of U.S. society.
Lake Bell and Emjay Anthony make a suitably menacing, if stereotypical, mother/son duo as Jake's second family. Just part of the everyday world of post-divorce.
It’s Complicated has the feel of a French food farce. Most of the action revolves around eating but it just isn’t biting enough.
Labels: cinema, comedy, Film Reviews, movies, Oscars
Cheers for Bran Nue Dae at Sundance
Up in the Air: Departure Lounge Lizard
Monty Python's Almost Final Cut
Avatar: One, Two, Three Dimensional
Bran Nue Dae January Cinema Release
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Portland Sends Ukraine Love
February 27, 2018 · Emmanuel Mercy Mission, Portland · (No comments)
As Valentine’s Day approaches, one group in Portland shows what real love means. Emmanuel Mercy Mission recently collected donations for medical supplies to help relieve the mass shortage in Ukraine. This Portland area mission gathered $900,000 of basic medical necessities from local individuals, manufacturers, and hospitals. The shipment full of diapers, crutches, wheelchairs, and other medical supplies is set to arrive in early April. There it will be divided and distributed to Ukrainian hospitals.
Since gaining its independence in 1991, the Ukraine has seen its share of fighting and war. The Eastern European country’s limited budget has left a gap in basic resources. The last four years have produced massive shortages, including water, power, and food. With the UN’s World Food Program set to withdraw aid due to lack of funds, humanitarian efforts like Emmanuel Mercy Mission’s are vital to keeping the country alive.
For Emmanuel Mercy Mission, this is more than just a love project. Many things has been brewing in their mind and heart and he recalled that it was like learning things to talk about with a girl that you are meeting for the first time and it seems to pulsating to him knowing that the Mercy mission would do a lot of good for the Ukrainians . This Portland non-profit was started in 1992 by refugees. They knew from personal experience what blessings and hardships were. Seeing the need in the communities they left behind, the mission came together to provide humanitarian aid at home and abroad to people in need.
Collaborating the last four years with Medical Teams International, the mission has put together three shipments of medical supplies to help Ukraine’s hospitals. Efforts like these from Portland bolster more than just the physical health of Ukrainians, it reminds these forgotten people that they are loved.
March 3, 2019 · Cancer, Doctor · (No comments)
Erick Lesfkofsky is an American billionaire who co-founded Tempus. He is also the current CEO of Tempus. He was raised in a Jewish family and attended the University of Michigan where he graduated with honors. To further the studies he went to University of Michigan Law School where he graduated in 1993.
Erick Lesfkofsky also participates in philanthropic activities. Together with his wife, Liz they established Lesfkofsky family foundation in 2006. It is a private charity organization that strives to improve the lives of children through high impact initiatives. Since its formation, it has funded more than fifty organizations.
Erick is also concerned about the interests of the community, and this had made him serve on different boards that are community oriented. He serves in many boards of directors including the children memorial hospital and the world business Chicago.
Erick Lesfkofsky is also a professor at the University of Chicago. He is also the author of Accelerated Disruption: Understanding the True Speed of Innovation. In his book, he talks about how great business ideas are born in people’s minds, but people end up not working on their plans.
According to Erick Lesfkofsky, this is because they fail to realize how they can use technology to bring their ideas to life. His book describes how business can use technology advancements to survive and thrive in a competitive business environment. The book also explains the trends that make many companies decline.
Tempus is a technology company that enables doctors to give cancer patients personalized care by using interactive analytical and machine learning platform. According to Erick, he got the idea to start the company when he witnessed the treatment process of a family member.
The process made him search for a way to use technology to help in the fight against cancer. Tempus strives at fighting cancer by equipping doctors all the knowledge they need using molecular and clinical data. According to Erick Lesfkofsky, the future of less cancer diagnosis lies in data-driven health care. He also stated that Tempus was concentrating its time and resources in data collection.
About Eric Lefkofsky: www.artnews.com/top200/liz-and-eric-lefkofsky/
February 25, 2019 · Business, Music · (No comments)
Music soothes the soul, and this is an outstanding fact that Cassio Audi believed in. Before pursuing his university studies that would later see him climb the corporate ladder as an executive of financial management, Audi spent his childhood telling stories through his famous songs which were composed using superb lyrics. Archives have it that this Brazilian artist started off as a music instrumentalist. Together with his colleagues Andre Machado, Felipe Machado, Yves Passarell, and Pit Passarell, they founded Viper, a Brazilian all-boys rock band in 1985. This group went down the history of Brazil and the entire Latin America as Cassio Audi the first Heavy Metal band.
Under the influence of Iron Maiden and the heavy metal from England, Viper band discerned to settle for music genres such as power metal, alternative rock, thrash metal and heavy metal. Later in 1985, the band recorded their first demo known as The Killera Sword. While his colleagues took center stage to perform, Audi took up his role as the drum player and entertained the crowd through varied tones and bits.
Viper band strongly believed in quality. They took a considerable amount of time combing through their album to ensure quality production. This was justifiable when the band finally recorded Soldiers of Sunrise, their first album in the year 1987. This album, which included tracks like Soldiers of Sunrise, Knits of Destruction, Nightmares, and Signs of the Night, became so popular that the team sold over 10,000 copies within a short stint of time.
Audi continued to write the band’s powerful songs, and in 1989, they released another album referred to as Theatre of Fate. This album, the last in which Audi participated, topped the charts, showcasing Van Halen and Nirvana, the well-known groups.
February 23, 2019 · Real Estate, Successful Business · (No comments)
New residential investment Corp is a well-known investment trust which mainly deals with real estate investments. The company was incorporated on 26th of September 2011. The firm is focused on managing and investing in any ventures related to real estate. Some of the services and segments found at New Residential Investment Corp include MSRs (investments in mortgage servicing rights, investments in mortgage servicing rights, investments in servicer advances and investments in residential mortgage loans
In addition, the company also offers investments in consumer loans and corporate loans as well as investments in real estate securities. The firm’s portfolio includes residential mortgage-backed securities, mortgage servicing related assets and other investments. The company also ventures in non-agency RMBS and agency RMBS.
New Residential Investment Corp runs under the management Mr. Michael Nierenberg, who is the current Chief Executive Officer. He doubles as the chairman of the Board of directors and the President of the company. Michael Nierenberg is a highly professional person who runs the firm smoothly and responsible for all aspects of its growth and development. Nierenberg was the managing director of Fortress Company, an investment firm in the United States whose affiliates manages and finances New Residential Investment Corp externally.
To know more click: here.
February 20, 2019 · Business, Businesswoman, Entrepreneur · (No comments)
Ashley Lightspeed has a proven record of accomplishment in prototyping. She uses these skills to contribute to the development of prominent companies.
Ashley Lightspeed began this skill from her childhood; she used to see her father draft thing in their garage. She then impressed the capability of developing new ideas, products, business models and services. However, she now works to oversee the development and future of business in modern times. See articles at bostonglobe.com
Her role at lightspeed
She is an integral member of lightspeed; she utilizes her skills in everyday practices. She has brought a different perspective when it comes to creating trends and spotting. She has also helped lightspeed to diversify in its operations through insights in the female-driven consumer markets. This insight has proved to drive the market in the United States of America and the world at large.
After graduating from Duke University in Copenhagen, Ashley Lightspeed went to work as a consultant at Giant Brain and company. She worked there for some time and learned not to rely on skills but also use sophisticated tools to shape actionable business intelligence.
She was later recruited in Thumbtack. This startup tech company connected local clients with a professional. Ashley helped this company to develop events and wedding platform. She saw the company to become a significant online market for hiring event-related services. As she worked here, she was inspired by her clients and hence went in to study sociology.
She learned to use the customer’s feedback to improve the quality of services she offered. She learned that customer is ever right and she tallied all the commendations from clients, the one with many clients won and was to be rectified. That is how she has shaped the companies she ever worked with. Find out more: https://medium.com/@ashley.brasier
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Throughout his career, Robert Heinecken (1931–2006) amused, educated, and often shocked viewers with his pointed, irreverent photographic works. So provocative were Heinecken’s subjects—the Vietnam War, pornography, sexual politics, the media marketplace—that many critics and other observers rank either as avid fans or staunch detractors. It has always been difficult to call him a “photographer” in the strict sense of the word, because he rarely used a camera to make his pictures. Rather, Heinecken worked on the fringes of the photographic medium, and in the margins of what might be considered acceptable subject matter, as an artist who used photography only as a means to an artistic end.
Heinecken was born in Denver, Colorado, the only child of a Lutheran minister. In 1942 the family moved to Southern California, where Heinecken attended public high school and then community college in Riverside, earning an Associate’s Degree in Art in 1951. For the next two years, Heinecken studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He dropped out in 1953 to enlist in the United States Navy, where he learned to fly airplanes. In 1954 he joined the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot. When he was discharged in 1957, he returned to university on the GI Bill, earning a BA in art in 1959 and an MA the following year. While in school, Heinecken concentrated mostly on printmaking, but by the end of his graduate study, he was introduced to photography and to the pre–Pop art ideas of Robert Rauschenberg and other artists who were using photographic imagery.
In 1960, Heinecken was appointed as an instructor in the Department of Art at UCLA, teaching drawing, design, and printmaking. Within two years he had initiated a photographic curriculum for the department and was appointed Assistant Professor in 1962, overseeing a regular series of courses in undergraduate photography. Over the next three decades, Heinecken’s influence as a teacher was profound; he encouraged his students to approach art—and particularly photography—in the same spirit of experimentation with which he approached his own work. Fostered in part by social and political events of the day—the Vietnam war, the women’s movement, and the growth of the counterculture—the classroom became a place for dialogue and self-evaluation.
When Heinecken emerged in the Southern California art scene in the mid-1960s, he was one of a growing number of artists who had begun to incorporate photographs and other images into their art as a way to renegotiate the nature and meaning of contemporary art. Other Los Angeles artists, like Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, practiced photography as a medium of conceptual art. Inspired by these new approaches, Heinecken seized the opportunity to transform a medium restrained at one time by the purist principles of modernism into one increasingly intertwined with popular culture. At every stage, Heinecken’s work reminds us of photography’s pervasiveness and its significance as a medium of transformation. The Center’s first director, Harold Jones, acquired the first Heinecken prints for the collection in 1975. The formal arrival of the Robert Heinecken Archive began in 1981. It has now grown to over 90 boxes of archival materials and more than 500 artworks.
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Athletes, Volleyball
Net Gains: beach volleyball star Brooke Sweat
Any athlete will tell you that the road to the Olympics can be lonely, grueling and extremely costly. If that athlete plays a sport where the prize money is small, travel expenses are large, and the window of competitive opportunity closes quickly, it’s a wonder why they would be willing to take on such long odds. But Brooke Sweat is not the type to let overwhelming odds alter her goals.
Sweat didn’t grow up with Olympic dreams. In fact, beach volleyball wasn’t even on her radar. “Basketball was my sport,” she says. “I did softball and track, too. It wasn’t until I was 15 that I started playing club volleyball.” Sweat began dating a friend who helped out with the volleyball team. He was a beach volleyball player himself. After watching him play, she decided to give it a try. “I hated it at first! (laughs) Over time, I grew to like it,” Sweat says. “Then, it was all I played.”
Playing recreationally, however, was one thing. Playing professionally is an exponentially more difficult endeavor. Getting started on the pro circuit requires more than just athletic ability. “When you start, the prize money is so small,” Sweat says. “You’re grinding it out in qualifiers. Sometimes, the prize money doesn’t even equal your travel expenses. You’re basically competing and losing money.”
After completing a successful collegiate volleyball career at Florida Gulf Coast University, Sweat began earning her way into draws for AVP tournaments—the major pro circuit. She moved to California in 2012, and she broke through with partner Jennifer Fopma in 2013 to win the Huntington Beach Open. Sweat was even named the AVP’s defensive player of the year. But at the end of the season, Fopma chose to play with a different partner for the following season.
“Feelings do get hurt,” Sweat says. “It’s part of the sport. We were beginning to find some real success. Lots of times, things aren’t working between partners and they try to force it. It’s important that you find a partner who compliments you as a player.”
In 2014, Sweat and AVP pro Lauren Fendrick decided to try teaming up. “I absolutely hated playing against her,” Sweat says. “She had the same mindset I had. I wanted her on my side of the net.”
The partnership clicked immediately. Fendrick was the tall, intimidating presence at the net that complimented Sweat’s game perfectly. They both shared the same ambition of pursuing the Olympics. The teammates immediately began playing internationally. Now, they are in Rio, ready to go for gold at the 2016 Games.
The road to Rio has provided its own challenges. Sweat’s husband, Nick, a former beach volleyball player himself, still lives and maintains his business in Florida. Supportive of his wife’s dream, he flies out to California frequently to help her train and provide support. Sweat’s extended family will also fly from Florida to her international tournaments to spend time with her and watch her play as well. She has also battled a shoulder injury that briefly threatened to derail her Olympic ambitions. Yet still, Sweat has found a way to manage her injury, and the distance from her family and friends, while staying focused on her dream. “It’s been a battle to get this far,” she says. “I know that I’ve sacrificed a lot to get this far, but I’m excited for the rest of the journey.”
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Darling Downs
This area to the west of Brisbane and the Great Dividing Range, is one of teh most fertile areas in Queensland. Crops in the area include wheat, barley, maize, soya beans, beef cattle, dairy cattle, and horses.
The Darling Downs were discovered by botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham in 1827, and were named afer Govenor Ralph Darling who was Govenor of N.S.W. from 1825 to 1831.
Museums and Galleries of Darling Downs
Cecil Plains
Cecil Plains Homestead was founded in 1841 by Henry Stuart Russell and it was sold to James Taylor in 1859. The Station area covered over 200,000 acres. Ludwig Leichhardt came on 3 occasions to the Station. The homestead still stands today and is used as a Bed & Breakfast.
In 1919 Cecil Plains developed as a soldier settlement community. There has been 3 large successful Saw Mills in town as well as the Cotton Gin.
Located in the Western Darling Downs, the town's major industries are rural and saw milling. Its rural products include wheat, sorghum, barley, cattle, sheep, fruit and vegetables. Chinchilla is also a gem and petrified wood fossicking area.
Located just 8 kilometres south of the town, the Chinchilla Weir offers fun watersports including skiing. Set in rugged mountainous country, Chinchilla has a shire area of 8689 square kilometres and is 300 metres above sea level.
Average summer day temperature: 29.8°C
Average winter day temperature: 17.4°C
Average annual rainfall: 692.9mm
Average clear days: 106.0
The October Iris & Rose Show is the only one of its kind in Queensland and features cut flowers, with championships for the best blooms.
Crow's Nest
Crows Nest National Park is located 6 km to the east of the township, and has extensive walking trails and picnic areas. A number of areas offer extensive views of the area and the park includes waterfalls and cascades.
In the heart of the "golden west", the Dalby area includes the beautiful Bunya Mountains National Park. Built on the Condamine river, it is the centre of a productive wheat and cattle area. The explorer Ludwig Leichhardt on his last trek from the local 'Jimbour' homestead.
The Dalby Rodeo is held in September each year.
This town is located on the Queensland / New South Wales border at the intersection of the Bruxner Highway, Barwon Highway and Cunningham Highway. The twon takes its name from the aboriginal word Gundawinda meaning "place of birds". The town services a large cotton industry.
Home of the famous Goondiwindi Grey race horse, Gunsynd. Today a statue of the Goondiwindi Grey can be viewed in the town.
Visitors will appreciate the lovely Western Woodlands Botanical Gardens and the Scenic Macintyre River.
Iglewood and Texas are the twin towns of the Inglewood Shire. Forests, rivers, wildlife, national parks & dams make this a good area for fishing and rock climbing.
Jandowae
Jondaryan
The Jondaryan Woolshed has demonstrations of blacksmiths, working horses, shearing and damper making are featured. One of the largest collections of historical farm machinery, steam engines, tractors and horse drawn vehicles in Australia can also be enjoyed.
Miles is Located on the Darling Downs, 346 kilometres west of Brisbane. As the regional centre it has shopping, medical, and educational facilities available.
Millmerran
The national headquarters of the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia, who gather biennually for the National Open Rendezvous.
Murilla Shire
Pitsworth
Pittsworth is known as the "Heart of the Darling Downs." A beautiful display of Silky Oak and Jacaranda trees line the towns streets.
It also boasts some of the richest farming land in Australia.
The Rosalie Shire on the Darling Downs includes the towns of Kingsthorpe, Goombungee, Quinalow, Meringandan, Gowrie Junction, Acland, Cooyar, Kulpi, Yarraman and Upper Yarraman.
Average clear days: 82.3
Located in the Granite Belt, Stanthorpe is an important wine producing area. Tourism to the winyards is popular, as is the Bed & Breakfast accomodation offered in the area.
Toobeah
Toowoomba is situated at the top of the mountain escarpment west of Brisbane. Generally it enjoys a cooler climate than the capital city although it is only about an hour away from the coast.
There is always something on in Toowoomba but the Carnival of Flowers in September attracts a huge amount of visitors to the area to view the magnificent floral displays.
Waggamba
Wandoan
Wandoan is a delightful town with a small population of wonderful people. Visit the Wandoan Information & Juandah Heritage Centre and pick up a Heritage Trail Map and visit the many fascinating places this town has to offer. Wandoan also has a talented and enthusiastic Country Music Club that is famous throughout Queensland - to find out when they are performing, see Elaine Bruggemann at the Wandoan Sewing Centre.
Before 1926, Wandoan was known as Juandah. The official records show that Juandah was first selected in 1852. The run was over 700 square miles and has an estimated herd of over 50,000 cattle. During the drought of 1902 the surface water dried up and 20,000 head of cattle were lost.
Mustering was carried out throughout the year and is was said that there was up to eighty stockmen working on Juandah, forty on the station and forty droving mobs of cattle. There were also shearers, a bookkeeper, blacksmiths, carpenters, cooks, a housekeeper and housemaids.
Provisions arrived by bullock dray from Ipswich every six months, weather permitting.
In the early years Juandah was an important resting and watering place for passing bullock and horse teams. From 1890 it was also the Coach change where lunch was served on the Miles - Taroom twice-weekly service. In 1900 the first hotel was opened and in 1914 the Railway came to Juandah.
The historical site of Juandah is open to the public and is situated only 1 km off the Leichhardt Highway at Wandoan
The pretty town of Warwick is located at the juncture of the New England and Cunningham Highways on the southern edge of the Darling Downs. The productive land in the area produces wheat, sunflowers and other crops, along with beef cattle and dairying.
Warwick is a popular amenity stop for travelers, and their are many fast food outlets to cater to their needs.
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