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Keystone Pipeline Delay Could Kill Project, Flaherty Says
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the decision to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline may kill the project and could add momentum to efforts to open up the Asian market for Canadian oil.
The U.S. State Department announced the delay Thursday, saying it wanted to look at other possible routes for the $7-billion pipeline which Calgary-based TransCanada has proposed to carry mostly Canadian crude from the Alberta oilsands to the U.S.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/11/11/keystone-flaherty.htm...
GOP Candidates Target Housing Market, Tax Reform and Bailouts in Latest Debate
ROCHESTER, Mich. – If it's too big to fail, it's too big, several Republican presidential candidates said Wednesday, arguing in the latest 2012 debate that housing and tax reforms, as well as an end to government bailouts, are critical to stopping the U.S. economy's slide into mediocrity.
In what was largely a friendly debate -- with most of the candidates' ire directed toward the current administration rather than each other -- the most unforgettable moment of the night came when Texas Gov. Rick Perry stumbled in a moment of forgetfulness. Perry's brain freeze came when he couldn't remember the three agencies that he would pledge to get rid of as president.
"Sorry. Oops," he said, after recalling only the departments of Commerce and Education. He later said he also wanted to abolish the Energy Department.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/09/gop-2012-hopefuls-take-on-e...
Energy Secretary: I’m Not Going To Talk About Drilling In ANWR But There Are Other Sites
(CNSNews.com) - After testifying before the House Energy and Water Development Subcommittee about his department’s FY2012 budget, CNSNews.com asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu if -- given the high price of gasoline -- he supports increasing offshore drilling and opening up ANWR [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] to domestic drilling?”
Chu responded, “I’m not going to talk about ANWR, but I think there’s many areas in the arctic that are potential exploration sites. We have opened up deep shore oil drilling; as I said, there are now two new leases since the Macondo well in deep shore. There have been some 33 or 35 shallow wells, so that has continued”...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/energy-secretary-i-m-not-going-tal...
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PC men one of 64
Thu, 05/04/2017 - 10:51am Vic MacDonald
Conference Champion Men's Tennis Team to face Texas in NCAA Playoffs opening round
PC Sports Information
The NCAA takes 64 teams to the annual single-elimination tournament, which is held on campus sites for the first two rounds, taking place May 12-13. The top team from each of the 16 sites advances to the NCAA Team Championships in Athens, Ga., May 18-23.
The Big South Champion Presbyterian College men's tennis team is headed to Texas to make it first ever NCAA Tournament appearance since PC moved to Division I.
The Blue Hose will play 10th-seeded Texas on Friday, May 12, in the Austin Regional in Austin, Texas, to open tournament play.
The Blue Hose will face the regional host and No. 10 seed Longhorns on Friday, who went 19-8 overall with a 2-3 record against Big 12 competition this season.
Joining the two schools in Austin will be Tulane (18-5) and Washington (12-11), who will square off in a first-round matchup on Friday as well. The winners of the respective Friday matches will play in the second round on Saturday.
PC finished the year with an 18-10 overall record, including a 6-1 mark in the Big South, and captured its first Big South title with a 4-3 win over Campbell back on April 22. The Blue Hose won its second Big South Regular Season title but the tournament title and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament was its first.
Six different players earned at least one All-Big South honor in either singles or doubles. Ben Kelley was named first team All-Big South in singles, going 20-4 this season, while Alexander Lykou and Brandon Mills earned first team doubles honors. Jaime Castillo-Lopez and Alejandro Bejar each earned second team singles honors with the doubles pairings of Castillo-Lopez and Diego Manzanas and Kelley and Joel Roberts each receiving second team honors as well.
Austin Regional Schedule
Presbyterian vs. Texas – 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET)
Tulane vs. Washington – 1 p.m. CT (2 p.m. ET)
Second-round match – 1 p.m. CT (2 p.m. ET)
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You are here:Blog “Antura and the Letters” nominated twice for 2018 G4C Award
“Antura and the Letters” nominated twice for 2018 G4C Award
We are proud to announce that the Games for Change Festival committee selected “Antura and the Letters” as a finalist for the 2018 Games for Change Award in the categories of “Most significant impact” and “Best learning Game”. Our warmest congratulation to the team!!
“Antura and the Letters” (2016-2018) was developed as a pilot project by “The Antura Initiative” as a winner of the international competition EduApp4Syria. It was developed by a consortium led by the Cologne Game Lab (Germany), Video Games Without Borders (Spain) and Wixel Studios (Lebanon). The team consisted of over 60 people from 7 different countries spanning Europe to the Middle East and North Africa.
The approach used in the game was a blend of phonics instruction and iterative pattern recognition. This method created a meaningful learning experience and explained the logic behind the Arabic language. Children started with an easy introduction to patterns and letter sounds and reiterated the learning process throughout the entire alphabet.
Antura and the Letters
The game’s release was split into two phases:
An open-beta release (March 2017) where the game was field test by the development team and partners to verify the design methodology and teaching framework. An independent third-party analysis was also conducted in this duration.
A final release (2018) where the game was updated based on the findings of the development team and the independent analysis.
In a year’s time, Antura and the Letters has been downloaded over 40,000 times on iOS and Android phones. It has an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 on the Google Play Store. Apart from winning the EduApp4Syria competition, the game also won “Best Serious Game” at the Fun & Serious Festival 2017. Even the game’s open-source code has been used by an independent developer to create a version with English voiceovers.
To find our more about the pilot project, visit: http://www.antura.org
The project source code is available here: https://github.com/vgwb/Antura_arabic
Tobias Lemme
10th Clash of Realities
Call for Papers / Participation
Interview schedule 2019 – M.A. Game Dev. & Research
Interview schedule 2019
2nd Games-Gipfel by NRW state government at Cologne Game Lab
Clash of Realities at gamesweekberlin
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Andrée Bosquet
Today is the birthday (1900) of Andrée Bosquet, a Belgian painter who is not especially well known to the general public for a variety of reasons, not least being that art historians have a hard job classifying her work. Bosquet was born in Tournai (Doornik in Dutch), in the province of Hainaut, now part of the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai metropolitan area.
Bosquet took painting lessons with Marguerite Putsage, Anto Carte, and E. Motte, but she was primarily self-taught. She exhibited regularly from 1922 onwards, invited in particular by the Groupe Nervia and Le Bon Vouloir (Mons). She was awarded the Charles Caty Prize in 1963.
Bosquet used primarily oil, red chalk and charcoal, painting and drawing with simplicity and delicacy. Her subjects included multiple self-portraits, children, still life, and waterscapes. She used soft colors in half-tints mainly. Her style cannot be connected with any school defined by art history, although it is sometimes likened to Primitivist or Symbolist works. Her work are exhibited in various Belgian museums in Ghent, Brussels, Mons, and La Louvière.
She died in La Louvière on June 27, 1980. Here is my gallery of selected works:
For Bosquet I have chosen a dish that you can think of as having a distinctive Walloon style. Like Bosquet’s art, it is both simple and profound. The trick is that it is made from classic ingredients from Wallonia: Herve cheese and sirop de Liège. Rotsa ruck finding them outside of Belgium. Herve cheese is a strongly flavored, rind washed soft cheese made from cow’s milk. The aging process takes place in ripening cellars of the Herve countryside, sometimes cut into its chalky rock. Sirop de Liège is made by boiling apple or pear juices for hours until they are reduced to a syrup, somewhat like apple butter only not as firm.
Toast thick slices of crusty bread. Spread them with sirop de Liège, and top this with a layer of Herve cheese. Place the slices on a baking sheet and bake in a very hot oven for a few minutes until the cheese melts. Serve hot straight from the oven.
Posted by admin at 6:34 am Tagged with: art, charcoal, herve cheese, oil, pastel, self-portrait, sirop de Liège, still life, waterscape
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Today is the birthday (1863) of Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist who is commonly remembered for his painting “The Scream” and little else these days. Certainly the painting is emblematic of Munch’s life, and representative of much of his work. But there is more to him than that. I don’t have space to go into great detail, so I’ll content myself with a few highlights (as I see them).
Munch was born in a farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, and the family moved to Christiania (renamed Kristiania in 1877, and now Oslo) in 1864 when his father was appointed medical officer at Akershus Fortress. His mother died of tuberculosis in 1868, as did Munch’s favorite sister Johanne Sophie in 1877. After their mother’s death, Munch and his siblings were raised by their father and by their aunt Karen. Munch was often ill for much of the winters and kept out of school. To keep himself occupied he would draw by himself, and was tutored at home by various family members.
Munch wrote, “My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.” One of Munch’s younger sisters, Laura, was diagnosed with mental illness at an early age. Of the five siblings, only Andreas married, but he died a few months after the wedding. Munch wrote later, “I inherited two of mankind’s most frightful enemies—the heritage of consumption and insanity.”
Munch’s father’s military pay was very low, and his attempts to develop a private side practice failed, keeping his family in genteel poverty. They moved frequently from one cheap apartment to another. Munch’s early drawings and watercolors depicted these interiors, and the individual objects, such as medicine bottles and drawing implements, plus some landscapes. By his teens, art dominated Munch’s interests. At 13, Munch had his first exposure to other artists at the newly formed Art Association, where he admired the work of the Norwegian landscape school. He returned to copy the paintings, and soon he began to paint in oils.
In 1879, Munch enrolled in a technical college to study engineering, where he excelled in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. He learned scaled and perspective drawing, but frequent illnesses interrupted his studies. The following year, much to his father’s disappointment, Munch left the college determined to become a painter. His father viewed art as an “unholy trade”, and his neighbors reacted bitterly and sent him anonymous letters. Munch wrote his goal in his diary: “in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.”
In 1881, Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Kristiania, one of whose founders was his distant relative Jacob Munch. His teachers were sculptor Julius Middelthun and the naturalistic painter Christian Krohg. In 1883, Munch took part in his first public exhibition and shared a studio with other students. His full-length portrait of Karl Jensen-Hjell, a notorious bohemian-about-town, earned a critic’s dismissive response: “It is impressionism carried to the extreme. It is a travesty of art.” Munch’s nude paintings from this period survive only in sketches, except for Standing Nude (1887). They may have been destroyed by his father.
During these early years, Munch experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism. Some early works are reminiscent of Manet. Many of these attempts brought him unfavorable criticism from the press and constant rebukes by his father who eventually refused to advance him any more money for art supplies. Munch also received his father’s ire for his relationship with Hans Jæger, the local nihilist who lived by the code “a passion to destroy is also a creative passion” and who advocated suicide as the ultimate way to freedom. Munch wrote, “My ideas developed under the influence of the bohemians or rather under Hans Jæger. Many people have mistakenly claimed that my ideas were formed under the influence of Strindberg and the Germans…but that is wrong. They had already been formed by then.” At that time he began the binge drinking and brawling of his circle.
After numerous experiments, Munch concluded that the Impressionist idiom did not allow sufficient expression. He found it superficial and too akin to scientific experimentation. He felt a need to go deeper and explore situations brimming with emotional content and expressive energy. Under Jæger’s commandment that Munch should “write his life”, meaning that Munch should explore his own emotional and psychological state, he began a period of reflection and self-examination, recording his thoughts in his “soul’s diary”. This deeper perspective helped move him to a new view of his art. He wrote that his painting The Sick Child (1886), based on his sister’s death, was his first “soul painting”, his first break from Impressionism. The painting received a negative response from critics and from his family, and caused another “violent outburst of moral indignation” from the community.
By 1892 Munch had formulated his characteristic aesthetic, as seen in Melancholy which he produced in several versions. Melancholy was exhibited in 1891 at the Autumn Exhibition in Oslo. In 1892, Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invited Munch to exhibit at its November exhibition, the society’s first one-man exhibition. However, his paintings evoked bitter controversy (dubbed “The Munch Affair”), and after one week the exhibition closed. Munch was pleased with the “great commotion”, and wrote in a letter: “Never have I had such an amusing time—it’s incredible that something as innocent as painting should have created such a stir.”
In Berlin, Munch became involved in an international circle of writers, artists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual August Strindberg, whom he painted in 1892. During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched out most of the ideas that would comprise his major work, The Frieze of Life, first designed for book illustration but later expressed in paintings. He sold little, but made some income from charging entrance fees to view his controversial paintings. Already, Munch was showing a reluctance to part with his paintings, which he termed his “children”.
The Scream exists in four versions: two pastels (1893 and 1895) and two paintings (1893 and 1910). There are also several lithographs of The Scream (1895 and later). The Scream is one of the most recognizable paintings in all art. Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: “I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.” He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, “for several years I was almost mad… You know my picture, ‘The Scream?’ I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again.”
The original German title given by Munch to his work was Der Schrei der Natur (“The Scream of Nature”). The Norwegian word skrik usually is translated as “scream” but is cognate with the English “shriek”. Occasionally, the painting has been called The Cry.
Munch hated to part with his paintings because he thought of his work as a single body of expression. So to capitalize on his production and make some income, he turned to graphic arts to reproduce many of his most famous paintings. Munch admitted to the personal goals of his work but he also offered his art to a wider purpose, “My art is really a voluntary confession and an attempt to explain to myself my relationship with life—it is, therefore, actually a sort of egoism, but I am constantly hoping that through this I can help others achieve clarity.”
In 1896, Munch moved to Paris, where he focused on graphic representations of his “Frieze of Life” themes. He further developed his woodcut and lithographic technique. Munch produced multi-colored versions of “The Sick Child” which sold well, as well as several nudes and multiple versions of Kiss (1892) Many of the Parisian critics still considered Munch’s work “violent and brutal” but his exhibitions received serious attention and good attendance. His financial situation improved considerably and in 1897, he bought a summer house facing the fjords of Kristiania, a small fisherman’s cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand. He called this home the “Happy House” and returned here almost every summer for the next 20 years. It was this place he missed when he was abroad and when he felt depressed and exhausted. “To walk in Åsgårdstrand is like walking among my paintings—I get so inspired to paint when I am here”.
In 1899, Munch began an intimate relationship with Tulla Larsen. They traveled to Italy together and upon returning, Munch began another fertile period in his art, which included landscapes and his final painting in “The Frieze of Life” series, The Dance of Life (1899). Larsen was eager for marriage, and Munch begged off. His drinking and poor health reinforced his fears, as he wrote in the third person: “Ever since he was a child he had hated marriage. His sick and nervous home had given him the feeling that he had no right to get married.” Munch almost accepted marriage, but then fled from Larsen in 1900, also turning away from her considerable fortune, and moved to Berlin.
The good press coverage gained Munch the attention of influential patrons Albert Kollman and Max Linde. He described the turn of events in his diary, “After twenty years of struggle and misery forces of good finally come to my aid in Germany—and a bright door opens up for me.” However, despite this positive change, Munch’s self-destructive and erratic behavior involved him first with a violent quarrel with another artist, then with an accidental shooting in the presence of Tulla Larsen (who had returned for a brief reconciliation), which injured two of his fingers. She finally left him and married one of Munch’s younger colleagues. Munch took this as a betrayal, and he dwelled on the humiliation for some time to come, channeling some of the bitterness into new paintings. His paintings Still Life (The Murderess) and The Death of Marat I, done in 1906-7, clearly reference the shooting incident and the emotional after effects.
In the autumn of 1908, Munch’s anxiety, compounded by excessive drinking and brawling, had become acute. As he later wrote, “My condition was verging on madness—it was touch and go.” Subject to hallucinations and feelings of persecution, he entered the clinic of Dr. Daniel Jacobson. The therapy Munch received for the next eight months included diet and “electrification” (a treatment then fashionable for nervous conditions, not to be confused with electroconvulsive therapy). Munch’s stay in hospital stabilized his personality, and after returning to Norway in 1909, his work became more colorful and less pessimistic.
Munch spent most of his last two decades in solitude at his estate in Ekely, at Skøyen, Oslo. Many of his late paintings celebrate farm life, including several in which he used his work horse “Rousseau” as a model. Munch occasionally left his home to paint murals on commission, including those done for the Freia chocolate factory.
To the end of his life, Munch continued to paint unsparing self-portraits, adding to his self-searching cycle of his life and his unflinching series of takes on his emotional and physical states. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled Munch’s work “degenerate art” (along with that of Picasso, Paul Klee, Matisse, Gauguin and many other modern artists) and removed his 82 works from German museums.
In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government. Munch was 76 years old. With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation. Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had been returned to Norway through purchase by collectors (the other eleven were never recovered), including The Scream and The Sick Child, and they too were hidden from the Nazis.
Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. The city of Oslo bought the Ekely estate from Munch’s heirs in 1946; his house was demolished in May 1960.
When I look at a platter of Norwegian open-face sandwiches I am vaguely reminded of a Munch painting. However, I’ll turn my attention to pinnekjøtt. Pinnekjøtt are lamb or mutton ribs that are prepared in a way that was originally traditional in northern and western Norway but is now popular throughout the country, especially at Christmas. I can’t give you a genuine recipe because you need to get the ribs in Norway, but I can give the idea.
The preparation of pinnekjøtt uses traditional methods for food preservation, curing, drying and in some regions also smoking as means of inhibiting the growth of micro-organisms. In home preparation of pinnekjøtt, racks of lamb or mutton are cured in brine or coarse sea salt. Once sufficiently cured, and when the weather is cold enough, the racks are hung in a cool, dark, well ventilated place to dry. In some regions, particularly in parts of Hordaland, the fresh racks are smoked prior to curing. Traditionally this was done in order to prevent mold growth during the drying process and some food historians assert that this method was inherited from the Vikings.
Before cooking, the racks are separated into individual ribs by cutting them apart with a sharp knife between the bones. The ribs must then be soaked in water in order to rinse out the salt and reconstitute the meat. Today pinnekjøtt is available in most supermarkets before Christmas, smoked or unsmoked, ready cut and sometimes also soaked, ready for cooking.
After soaking, the ribs are steamed over a little water in a large saucepan. A layer of birch twigs or strips may be placed in the bottom of the saucepan instead of a metal steamer. The name pinnekjøtt (literally: stick meat) is disputed. It may refer to the birch twigs of the cooking process, but the word ‘pinne’ in Norwegian slang is also used to refer to single ribs.
Posted by admin at 5:18 pm Tagged with: frieze of life, larsen, lithograph, melancholy, Munch, oil, pastel, pinnekjøtt, scream, sick child
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According to Jewish tradition on this date in 164 BCE Judah Maccabee rededicated the temple in Jerusalem after he had defeated the Seleucid Antiochus IV and cleaned out all the Greek statuary and other profanations. The Jewish feast of Hanukkah (“Dedication”), thus, commemorates the restoration of Jewish worship at the temple. For centuries Hanukkah was a relatively minor celebration in the Jewish ritual calendar because, unlike major holy days such as Passover and Yom Kippur, it has no basis in the Tanakh (Hebrew biblical canon).
Judea was part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt until 200 BCE when Antiochus III of Syria defeated Ptolemy V Epiphanes of Egypt at the Battle of Panium. Judea became at that moment part of the Seleucid Empire of Syria. Antiochus III wanting to conciliate his new Jewish subjects guaranteed their right to “live according to their ancestral customs” and to continue to practice their religion in the temple in Jerusalem. However in 175 BCE, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus III, invaded Judea, ostensibly at the request of the sons of Tobias. The Tobiads, who led the Hellenizing Jewish faction in Jerusalem, were expelled to Syria around 170 BCE when the high priest Onias and his pro-Egyptian faction wrested control from them. The exiled Tobiads lobbied Antiochus IV to recapture Jerusalem. As ancient Jewish historian Josephus tells us:
The king being thereto disposed beforehand, complied with them, and came upon the Jews with a great army, and took their city by force, and slew a great multitude of those that favored Ptolemy, and sent out his soldiers to plunder them without mercy. He also spoiled the temple, and put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months.
When the temple in Jerusalem was looted and services stopped, Judaism was outlawed. In 167 BC Antiochus ordered an altar to Zeus erected in the Temple. He banned brit milah (circumcision) and ordered pigs to be sacrificed at the altar of the temple (the sacrifice of pigs to the Greek gods was standard ritual practice in ancient Greek religion).
Antiochus’ actions provoked a large-scale revolt. Mattathias (Mattityahu), a Jewish priest, and his five sons Jochanan, Simeon, Eleazar, Jonathan, and Judah led a rebellion against Antiochus. Judah became known as Yehuda HaMakabi (“Judah the Hammer”). By 166 BC Mattathias had died, and Judah took his place as leader.
By 165 BC the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid monarchy was successful. The Temple was liberated and rededicated. The festival of Hanukkah was instituted to celebrate this event. Judah ordered the Temple to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of the polluted one and new holy vessels to be made. According to the Talmud, unadulterated and undefiled pure olive oil with the seal of the kohen gadol (high priest) was needed for the menorah in the Temple, which was required to burn throughout the night every night. The story goes that one flask was found with only enough oil to burn for one day, yet it burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of kosher oil for the menorah. An eight-day festival was declared by the Jewish sages to commemorate this miracle.
The version of the story in 1 Maccabees states that an eight-day celebration of songs and sacrifices was proclaimed upon re-dedication of the altar, and makes no mention of the miracle of the oil. In fact, the miracle of the oil, which is central to Hanukkah, has been repeatedly questioned for its historicity since the Middle Ages. Because of its lack of Biblical authority Hanukkah was, for centuries, considered of minor importance. Now, because of its proximity to Christmas, it has taken on much greater importance in countries where Christmas is a mega-fest of display and consumption – acting as a rival festivity. As such it has adopted many Christmas customs such as the Christmas tree, redefined as a Hanukkah bush, with classic Jewish symbols, such as the star of David, replacing santa and wise men.
Hanukkah is not a Sabbath-like holiday, and there is no obligation to refrain from activities that are forbidden on the Sabbath, as specified in the Shulkhan Arukh. Adherents go to work as usual, but may leave early in order to be home to kindle the lights at nightfall. There is no religious reason for schools to be closed, although, in Israel, schools close from the second day for the whole week of Hanukkah. Many families exchange gifts each night, such as books or games.
Each night, throughout the 8 day holiday, a candle or oil-based light, is lit. As a universally practiced “beautification” (hiddur mitzvah) of the mitzvah, the number of lights lit is increased by one each night. An extra light called a shamash, meaning “attendant” or “sexton,” is also lit each night, and is given a distinct location, usually higher, lower, or to the side of the others. The purpose of the extra light is to adhere to the prohibition, specified in the Talmud (Tracate Shabbat 21b–23a), against using the Hanukkah lights for anything other than publicizing and meditating on the Hanukkah miracle. This differs from Sabbath candles which are meant to be used for illumination and lighting. Hence, if one were to need extra illumination on Hanukkah, the shamash candle would be available, and one would avoid using the prohibited lights. Some, especially Ashkenazim, light the shamash candle first and then use it to light the others. So all together, including the shamash, two lights are lit on the first night, three on the second and so on, ending with nine on the last night, for a total of 44 (36, excluding the shamash). It is Sephardic custom not to light the shamash first and use it to light the rest. Instead, the shamash candle is the last to be lit, and a different candle or a match is used to light all the candles.
The lights can be candles or oil lamps. Electric lights are sometimes used and are acceptable in places where open flame is not permitted, such as a hospital room, or for the very elderly and infirm. Most Jewish homes have a special candelabrum referred to as either a Chanukiah (the Sephardi and Israeli term), or a menorah (the traditional Ashkenazi name); Many families use an oil lamp (traditionally filled with olive oil) for Hanukkah. Like the candle Chanukiah, it has eight wicks to light plus the additional shamash light. Since the 1970’s the worldwide Chabad Hasidic movement has initiated public menorah lightings in open public places in many countries.
The reason for the Hanukkah lights is not for the “lighting of the house within,” but rather for the “illumination of the house without,” so that passersby should see it and be reminded of the holiday’s miracle (i.e. the triumph of the few over the many and of the pure over the impure). Accordingly, lamps are set up at a prominent window or near the door leading to the street. It is customary amongst some Ashkenazi Jews to have a separate menorah for each family member (customs vary), whereas most Sephardic Jews light one for the whole household. Only when there was danger of antisemitic persecution were lamps supposed to be hidden from public view, as was the case in Persia under the rule of the Zoroastrians, or in parts of Europe before and during World War II. However, most Hasidic groups light lamps near an inside doorway, not necessarily in public view. According to this tradition, the lamps are placed on the opposite side from the mezuzah, so that when people pass through the door they are surrounded by the holiness of mitzvot (the commandments).
There are two main traditional foods for Hanukkah, latkes and sufganiyot (more or less a jelly doughnut). They are both traditional because they are fried in oil – symbolic of temple oil. There is a long North African Jewish tradition of associating sfenj (small, round, deep-fried donuts) with Hanukkah. In Israel, where Central and East European Jews mingled with North African Jews, the Yiddish ponchkes (similar to the German Berliner, the Polish pączki, or the Russian ponchik) became part of this tradition. The ponchke-style sufganiyah was originally made from two circles of dough surrounding a jelly filling, stuck together and fried in one piece. Although this method is still practiced, an easier technique commonly used today is to deep-fry whole balls of dough, similar to the preparation of sfenj, and then inject them with a filling through a baker’s syringe (or a special industrial machine). This method has resulted in the modern sufganiyah being identical to the German Berliner. As such I do not find them as interesting as latkes.
The “modern” latke is a potato pancake which is known across Europe and the Middle East (and Africa due to colonial influence). As such, it is not especially Jewish. In fact much of what has come to be known as “Jewish cuisine” is a collection of the different cooking traditions of the Jewish diaspora worldwide. It is a diverse cuisine that has evolved over many centuries, shaped by Jewish dietary laws (kashrut), Jewish festival, and Shabbat (Sabbath) traditions. Jewish cuisine is influenced by the economics, agriculture, and culinary traditions of the many countries where Jewish communities have settled and varies widely throughout the world.
Until the potato was introduced to the Old World there could not have existed potato pancakes there, Jewish or otherwise. Latkes must have been made from other vegetables. So a challenge I throw out is to make this kind of pancake with a vegetable indigenous to the Old World. The first possibility that springs to mind is to use mashed legumes such as lentils or fava beans (as in Indian cuisine). Another choice would be roots such as celeriac, parsnips, turnips, or carrots, or a mix. If you want, use the potato recipe I am going to give here but use 2 cups of cooked and mashed legumes or grated vegetable in place of the potatoes. I’ve done this many times. Yum.
Potato latkes can be tricky if you do not follow certain simple rules (ask me how I know !!). The key issue is to avoid them becoming soggy. So . . . peel and grate 2 cups of potatoes. Soak in cold water then strain, repeating as many times necessary until the water runs clear. This helps leach out much of the starch – which you don’t want. Drain them, then squeeze out as much liquid as you can by placing the potatoes in a colander and pressing hard with wadded paper towels until they are as dry as you can get them.
Beat two eggs with salt to taste in a mixing bowl and add the potatoes. Mix well. At his point you may add other ingredients such as finely chopped onions (very common), parsley, tomatoes, whatever you want. Purists add nothing else. In many recipes you will find people adding flour or other starches. Under no circumstances do this. You just got rid of all the starch; why add it back?
Heat good quality olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. The quantity of olive oil is cook’s choice. I use about ¼ inch because the whole idea is to remember the temple oil. Besides, I think it works well. Meanwhile, take about ¼ cup of the mixture, shape it into a ball, then flatten it to form a disk. How flat is also cook’s choice. They should not be too thin, in my opinion, but traditions vary.
Fry 2 or 3 latkes at a time, turning once when the bottom browns. Drain on wire racks and serve warm.
I like mine plain as a side dish, but there are no rules here. As an appetizer you can serve them with a dollop of sour cream or what you will. At Hanukkah many Jews eat them with a sprinkling of sugar or something sweet, especially at tea time
Yield: about 8
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Riot Police Break Up Pride Events in Minsk
Belarussian police on Saturday broke up a gay and lesbian pride demonstration by about 20 participants who defied an official ban to gather on a side street in central Minsk and march with bright rainbow flags.
Some carried handwritten signs saying, “Today they ban gays, tomorrow they will ban you,” in a short-lived protest that was the first of its kind organized by the Russian and Belarussian Slavic Pride rights group in the capital.
Police wearing black berets and armed with batons moved in after the protesters advanced about 300 meters down the street. They tore away the flags and hauled off the marchers, some of whom had traveled from Russia for the event.
“The police reaction was completely disproportionate to the threat which they thought the protesters posed,” Russian activist Nikolai Alekseev told Reuters.
UK Gay News anticipated the potential trouble in Minsk and has been live-blogging Pride events the entire weekend. Here’s their description of the crackdown:
Minsk had its gay pride march. For just 10 minutes, 40 Belarusians and Russians waived a 12 meters long rainbow flag for a short march of approximately 200 meters. They were at first met by a large group of journalists, photographers and TV crew. But when they reached the first crossing point, they were trapped by several vans of anti-riot police. Suddenly, the doors of the vans opened and anti-riot officers ran towards the participants. “I never saw anything of the kind” said Nikolai Alekseev by mobile phone. “They were brutal and violent” he added. Another participant who did not want to be named said: “It was like a group of wild dogs”. The march ended with most of the participants being arrested and violently beaten. A few managed to escape but the police ran after them.
Twelve people were reportedly detained by police. It appears that at least eight of them have been released, but must appear in court on Monday.
The planned march, which had been banned by Minsk authorities, was just one of several events planned by the Minsk LGBT community. Other private events, including a dance scheduled for Saturday night, appear to have gone on without incident, and sometimes with police protection from skinhead protesters.
Here is video of the march:
Tags: Belarus, Minsk, Nikolai Alekseev
johnathan
These brave Belorussian men and women who participated in the pride event. For me, this only reiterates the fact that, with all of the crap we deal with in American culture, there are other societies where it is MUCH worse. Speaking of which, if you want to be exposed to some vile hatred and homophobia, click on the YouTube video and read some of the comments regarding this pride march. I don’t know if these comments are from real people or merely “trolls,” but…sad indeed.
Heterosexual police enforcing heterosexual supremacy… totally expected. But you won’t here any gay person say that explicitly, they will make it sound like that is just the way it is. Gay people continue to ignore heteosexual prejudices.
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In 1987 the Birmingham City Council designated the Department of Archives and Manuscripts as the archives for the City of Birmingham. As such the department works in concert with the city’s Department of Records Management to preserve city records of historic value.
Arrington, Richard, Jr.
Richard Arrington, Jr. served as the first African American mayor of Birmingham. Born in Livingston, Alabama in 1934, Arrington is a graduate of Miles College and holds a doctorate in zoology from the University of Oklahoma. Arrington taught and served as a dean at Miles College and was elected to the Birmingham City Council in 1971. He was elected mayor in 1979 and served five terms, retiring from office in 1999. The papers contain the office files from Arrington’s five terms and include correspondence, clippings, reports, publications and other material relating to city government.
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Birmingham’s first library was organized in 1886 for the public schools. In 1891 it became a subscription library for the general public. In 1908 The Birmingham Library Association was founded to establish a free public library and by 1909 had abolished user fees. The City created an independent Library Board in 1913. For decades the library was housed in various locations including the old City Hall where it was destroyed by fire in 1925. In response libraries from throughout the U.S. sent books to rebuild the collection. Local civic-minded citizens raised funds to build a new library, which opened on April 11, 1927 and served as the city’s main library until 1984. Today the library operates a central library, research library and 19 branches. This collection contains reports on library activities and development.
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Home > Americana > Seely’s Castle in Asheville, North Carolina
Seely’s Castle in Asheville, North Carolina
By Charlie Hintz on March 19, 2012
Some people believe the imposing brick walls of Seely’s Castle in Asheville, NC hold terrible secrets from it’s evil past.
What horrors lurk inside Seely’s Castle?
The history of Seely’s Castle, also known as the Overlook Mansion, in Asheville, North Carolina is steeped in rumors of dark and disturbing affairs befitting of a place long reputed to be a location for the satanic rituals and sacrifices of the “rich, elite and powerful” satanists that populate Asheville and the surrounding region.
It seems that little is known about the castle, considering its age. It was built in 1912-1914 for Fred Loring Seely on ten acres at the top of Sunset Mountain. It has seen five known owners.
The Seelys lived there until Mr. Seely’s death in 1942 at age 70. In 1949 his wife, Evelyn Grove Seely, whose father had given them the land, sold the castle to Asheville-Biltmore College, who occupied the property until they outgrew it in 1961. The third owner was Mr. Jerry Sternberg, who made several improvements with plans to open it as a museum, which he never achieved. He then turned the property over to Overlook Christian Ministries in the late 1970s. Overlook was a full gospel ministry that believed in speaking in tongues and other gifts of the Pentecost, which some claim may be the root of the rumors of satanism. The owners of Overlook wrote a book about their ministry called A Castle in the Kingdom.
The castle was acquired by the Wells family in 1984, who seem to be the last known owners, though another rumor claims executives of BonWorth purchased the castle from the Overlook ministry as a retreat.
Among its many amazing features are the Jacobean ceilings, stained glass windows and a huge, two-story library with balcony in the north tower, which includes an entire wall made of glass with a panoramic view of Asheville. Besides its many secret passages, it is said there is a room hidden behind the library’s fire place, with soot-covered windows on the outside but no known access. The original wooden doors removed in the 1960s depicted the 12 Canterbury tales.
The lions on each side of the tunnel entrance were apparently at the courthouse in Atlanta when Sherman’s army marched through during the Civil War.
Located at 710 Town Mountain Rd. (map), a drive said to be adorned with the mansions of the area’s rich and powerful, Seely’s Castle can only be glimpsed through the woods from a distance, or at the entrance guarded by metal gates and surveillance cameras. It is said the castle is inhabited by a religious order, and no visitors are allowed through the gates.
Read about some of the alleged Satanic rituals and human sacrifices at Seely’s Castle in Pam Schuffert’s 2001 article Satanism in America Today.
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Seely’s Castle as Biltmore College
The castle in 1920
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Sean K
Sadly, Loren Wells died last September 15, 2018 in Hendersonville
tfagan804
I went to church there in the 70’s, knew the owners well. They originally were from the West Asheville Assembly of God church, on Haywoid Rd ,moved and now known as Crossroads Assembly on S. Bear Creek Rd.
Here is the tax info on the Castle 🙂
Dave/Mary Hamby
In the early 60’s I worked for William (Winky) Digges, at the Register of Deeds office for Buncombe County. He told a story of being driven in a limosine up to Seely’s castle to play with the children. I assume he was talking about the original Seely family who lived there in the 30’s.
The Digges were in political office for many years. Winky had been voted into the office his father had held for many election cycles. He was a good man and a fine boss.
Vrindy
I’m ready to buy this castle for Jesus again! Let’s do it!
You want to create more horror stories?
rick foshie
Good stories…thanks…love to see it..Maybe I can do some metalwork for them..
Interesting stories. Would love to tour the Castle. Rather looks “prisonlike” from some of the photos shown. The men in the Upper Room did speak in tongues and when speaking to the people, they did hear in their own languages. Also Paul refers to speaking in tongues as a gift from the Holy Spirit, but it should be done only if there is an interpreter, so that others would be edified. It is also stated by Paul that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives gifts to people and that people should not ask for that gift, because only the Holy Spirit knows who is to receive it. Read your Bible, folks.
Wanda Jones
I knew someone who was connected with the ‘congregation’ at the castle in the mid to late 70’s. She went to a church that believed in a lot of borderline extremist theology and she told me some crazy nonsense about her mother’s shadow turning into a skeleton that fell down the wall and disappeared. Don’t know if her ‘shadow’ ever came back. I was raised Baptist and our ministers went to Seminary and had extensive education in religious theory. I never saw someone fall down during a service or start babbling when ‘the Lord’ entered the room. Why would God have us speaking in ‘tongues’ today? What purpose would it serve? Don’t we have enough misunderstanding in the Christian world? How would this help? I’ve watched people who claimed to be speaking in tongues. It’s gibberish. No one interpreted anything, either.There’s no pattern to the speech, it’s not a language. Klingon is a more developed language. They get a room all worked up, talking about God’s presence in the room, anointing with cooking oil, falling backwards when the oil touches their foreheads, then they start shaking and vocalizing. It’s absurd. One thing no one mentions about Paul – he was a religious/political prisoner for many years and he was quite crazy. If I remember right, he argued against women being involved in the church, saying instead that they should be quiet and stay out of the way of the men. There are many writings not included in the King James version of the Bible, used by many modern churches and schools. It’s the basis for the protestant religions that began in Europe and the mid east. I don’t believe King James was anything but a man who wished to force his theology on his subjects and control them through the use of scripture. I can imagine Donald Trump would rewrite the Bible if he thought he could get away with it. There’s always a fringe element willing to believe anything if it’s claimed to be the will of God.
Michelle Ledbetter Dickerson
Just because you don’t know about it or understand it doesn’t make it wrong or ‘gibberish.’ It’s one of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and Biblical. Sounds like maybe you need to do some reading. I think this is one of the main problems in our world – people bashing things just because they are unfamiliar with them. (I’m not even going to comment on the things you said about the Apostle Paul.)
Angelia Lowery
Agreed!! I was told by a 6 year old little girl when I was attending a Church of God my first time, after I said outloud, why in the world are they speaking that way? Thelittke girl beside me just touched my hand and told me that the devil can understand our spoken words but he can’t understand speaking in tougens and some things are meant to be spoken outloud. Out of the mouth of babes the truth was revealed. I also learned to watch what I spoke outloud, because your words can be used against you. Its a shame that people are so close minded.
kaelob lewis
Wanda Jones you’re an ignorant botard reject who was picked On in school obviously.
Lisa Doyle
That’s godly… do you feel better by calling someone names… you sound like my grandsons with what I just read… ????????????
rick laws
No english lesson. …..
Ned Harkey
The actual address of this property is 379 Town Mountain Rd, Asheville, NC 28804
Jim Lindsay
I worked on a Movie set there in the mid 70s. The EO Corporation from Shelby filmed a movie there called, Hot Heir. I don’t think the movie went anywhere but it was a fun job for the summer…
Bonnie Kamp
I was a guest at the castle during the winter of 77/78. It was a fun experience. I would love to visit again if the Wells family would agree.
Rebekkah Snyder
My husband and I are looking for a venue for our vow renewal and I would love to have it in the castle!
peter moss
Contact OMNI resorts (owners of the Grove Park Inn) as they are going to buy the castle when Mr. Wells sells it soon.
I was a senior in high school & was intrigued by the romantic old castle. I talked my boyfriend into driving me through the gates so I could ask for a tour. Rude, I know, but hey – I was 17! The gentleman who approached us as on the front lawn was understandably upset & said we were lucky that the dogs were put up & that “just the week before they bit the hand off of another intruder”. When I told him that I was doing a class paper on the castle he warmed up & graciously gave us a quick tour. My hubby & I cannot remember it all, but we do recall a small room with an old, bare light bulb that he said was “an original Edison bulb that still worked”. I remember a beautiful stone or marble staircase in the foyer – maybe even a split staircase? Not sure. I remember a not-so-old suit of armor which the caretaker laughingly described it as “obligatory”. I remember him telling us about a hidden room (near a fireplace?) where Mrs. Seely would hide her furs, but I do not remember seeing it.
I’m still intrigued by the old place & feel very blessed to have been given a glimpse inside.
I know this comment is a couple years old but what year did you say you visited and what was the name of the gentleman who let you in?
I was born in Asheville in 1932 many stories and rumors about the castle, used to play on the grounds in the 1940’s sat on the lions there and played as if there were knights etc there. rode my bicycle up there form down town loved to ride down the mountain coming back. also during the second world way there were rumors that the atomic bomb was designed there and built in ten but never got any conformation on this. I knew Mr. Sternberg when he owned it and lots of rumors there but is a great conversation piece at any rate .
Mèlonie
Does anybody know details of the inside ? How many bedrooms ? Is it only two stories ? Is there a large fireplace in each room ? Is there a basement ? How many secret rooms ? What about formal rooms such as a ball-room maybe for entertaining guests with dance’s and such in the early yrs ?? Etc etc etc.
Bob L.
Pam Schuffert’s 2001 so-called article, “Satanism in America Today”, is a complete crock, concocted by a brainless and hopeless mentality that is entirely controlled by fear and ignorance. Christ has a few things to say about such fear and hopelessness, yet many self-described Christians seem to completely ignore many of these teachings. WWJD? Think about it, and LIVE accordingly.
Speaking in tongues is not necessarily satanic, although it can be. On the day of Pentecost, after Jesus arose from the dead and ascended to Heaven, the Scriptures tell us the Holy Ghost landed on the people in the “Upper Room” and they started speaking in tongues. Tongues is actually a real language the person does not know, yet is able to speak fluently. The book of Acts tells us this. I Corinthians 12 lists the gifts of the Holy Ghost. One of those is speaking in tongues. Paul told us “When my spirit prays, my understanding is unfruitful”. This means his spirit is speaking with God in a tongue unknown to him. So, if a Pentecostal Christian is speaking in tongues, it should not be viewed as a satanic practice.
Not so. What happened on the day of Pentecost was that the apostles spoke in their language, and everyone listening heard it in *their* language. Think “universal translator” in the “Star Trek” series. Kind of like that…if I’m speaking English and a Mexican person hears it in Spanish…it was like that.
Becky Seeley Limbaugh
I’ve always known about the old “family castle”, but never suspected such a colorful history! #Related
Forgot to mention that family legend states the stones they built it from were brought over from Scotland. True or false, I don’t know.
I heard the same thing about the stones from Scotland. Such a rich and wonderful history. I would love to interview you someday if you would allow me to do so. My cell # is 9707798009. If you’re interested, please send a text.
Dan Warren
I remember being told that a castle in Scotland was torn down and rebuilt on the mountain. My mother told me that fact
Martha Culler
I did live in the “Castle” in 1979/1980….My son was born in the upper room on the right in the front picture of the castle. The owners at that time did have a Christian church that met in part of the castle. We lived in a part and the owners lived in another part. The church people were good Christian people and never heard a story of “satanic ritual” until I met someone from Asheville that moved here to S.C. about 10 years ago. For the short time we were there we had a good life. My son was born in June of 1980. What child can say he was born in a castle???? It was beautiful on that part of the mountain and we would see red foxes come up to the house all the time. What a good memory!!
did they teach you English… needs work.. two spaces after periods.
Okay, Mr. Oxford Comma, way to be a total ass. Thank you, Ms. Culler for sharing your first hand experience. Such an interesting legacy for your son!
Michelle Leigh
Agreed, Suz! 🙂
I agree with Suz. Thank you Martha for sharing your memory!!!!!….!!!!
Nadia Acosta Hickerson
Chicago, AP and MLA formats all suggest using 1 space after a punctuation mark. So Martha Culler is correct.
Where did you learn your English, Mr. Elliot? How about using correct punctuation, yourself, if you feel that your idea of proper English needs to be rudely rammed down someone’s throat, and in a context that is entirely inappropriate? By the way, you MIGHT note that I’ve added a “question mark” at the end of my question! You might also better educate yourself regarding the usage of “… “, as well as “.. (sic), which is entirely incorrect within your (did I already state this?) rude response.
You’re a fucking dumbass. I have a graduate degree in English and using two spaces after a period is NEVER done.
Cyndi H.
Really? Now I have to go look up the rules on how many spaces after periods. I was taught to put two. I’m 45. Maybe it has changed over the years?
BTW- I am about the same age and was taught to put two spaces after periods. Also, I have old pictures of the castle that include some of my Asheville relatives who were friends with the Seeleys.
Deb Maddox
Did they teach you English, Elliot? Sentences begin with a capital. Question marks follow questions. Ellipses always come in a series of THREE dots, and there is supposed to be a space between each dot. As a hypocritically unkind oaf, you may now retire to your grammar and punctuation book leaving the rest of us to sincerely thank Ms. Culler for suffering such boorishness and unselfishly sharing her story.
Elliot, you need to look at your own mistakes before you try to correct others.
Allen Patton
Who owns castle now?
Cecilia Rhymer
Martha Culler. I am sitting here amazed by what you just wrote! I was 16 in 1980 and was looking for a car. I can’t remember how we come to find the ad about a 1974 Nova. But it was at Seely’s Castle. I was excited about seeing the car but also about seeing the Castle! I remember we were looking at the car and someone stuck their head out of one of the top windows and yelled “it’s a Boy’!! That was around 35-36 yrs ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. I am so glad that I read your comment!
Cecilia Rhymer: I am sitting here AMAZED at life and synchronicity. Thanks for sharing your story!
I was born fall of that yr there
That’s a wonderful memory Martha. May I ask why you moved out ? It would have been an awesome place to stay and raise a boy. Ohh the life stories he could have told.
This is absolutely absurd! Satanism at Seely’s Castle. Who ever wrote that should be ashamed. I went to school with a girl who was part of Overlook Christian Ministry. I did think her family was a bit overzealous about avoiding ‘sin’ but it wasn’t a cult, just a bit too Pentecostal for my Southern Baptist’s tastes. Why not write about a spot in Asheville that was really popular? How about the fellas who roamed the streets around Grove Park Arcade in the 1980s-1990’s? Used to be a genuine pick up spot for gay men – now it’s a posh place to eat and shop. Or, there was always a little place called ‘Sandy Bottoms’, and another little park near the bus garage and transfer station off Brevard Road. Remember My Brother’s Mustache, a popular gay bar, and O. Henry’s pub. And for the ladies, check out Malaprop’s book store. See, Asheville’s past is steeped in lore about the relationships between the leaders of the town and some important historical figures, such as Thomas Edison, Firestone, Ford. Fred Seely was rumored to have been a member of the Masonic Lodge. Perhaps it’s no accident that Asheville has always been accommodating and tolerant of people who are ‘different’. I’m not sayin…. but, you know, the photos are on the walls of the Grove Park Inn, drive by and see them sometime…
C. Randolph
missing the connection between possible Satan worship at Seely’s Castle and guys looking to get their rocks off downtown…
And this is “weird” how? Cult of Weird is about urban legend and stories of the odd and stories that often get started and passed down from family to family of the spooky and supernatural.
Wells bought the place and spent much time fixing the place up.
Glad someone with means got it so
it will not be pile of rocks like so
many English castles are today.
Shop BONWORTH and support Seely’s castle restoration.
Greg Ness
Loren W. Wells (CEO of Bon Worth) to be more specific, and his choice of 12 foot high barbed wired fencing surrounding the property is very tasteful.
people this day and age don’t know boundaries unless you make it 12′ high with barbed wire.
that’s all thanks to vandals and vagrants. especially these days when the general population doesn’t have morals or thoughts of anything other than self. sadly that’s whats happening to this world. technology has propelled peoples knowledge into the future by having anything they could want at the tips of their fingers, but never having to work to earn it makes it lose some of its hard earned value.
I think that is why people build up walls and fences.
Zelda Schmelda
That castle is supposed to be mine.
We’re you supposed to inherit it?
JJF13
This is not owned by any type of religious order. It is privately owned by Mr. and Mrs. Wells. Mr. Wells is the owner or one of the higher ups of Bon Worth. It is his private estate.
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US resumes drone attacks in Pakistan risking �already strained ties� over Davis� fate
Islamabad, Feb 22: The US has reportedly started its drone attacks in Pakistan yet again, shrugging off rumours that the strikes have been suspended amid tension between the two nations over the fate of Raymond Davis.
Though it is speculated that Washington would not be able to carry out the drone strikes without Pakistan�s help in identifying targets, the attacks in recent years suggests that few of those killed in those strikes are considered high-value targets, Fox News reports.
A U.S. official, however, said that focusing solely on high-value targets underestimates the importance of keeping pressure on the Al Qaeda and Taliban networks in Pakistan�s tribal areas.
"There hasn't been a single non-combatant casualty since last summer. And it's ridiculous to think that you can't go after lower-ranking terrorists who, among other things, are targeting American forces in Afghanistan -- not to mention our homeland," the official said.
Pentagon might have defended its aerial assault on Muslim extremists in the region, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confirmed that the U.S. is attempting to negotiate with the Taliban.
�Now, I know that reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace. President Reagan understood that when he sat down with the Soviets,� Clinton said.
The frequent drone attacks, which are considered key to the U.S. strategy for the region, have outraged the Pakistanis.
Last week, CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose agency runs the drone program, had told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the U.S.-Pakistan alliance is �one of the most complicated relationships that I've seen in a long time. There are issues that we have as to how they operate, ties the Pakistanis have to certain groups that concern us. I have to be part director of the CIA and diplomat to get the job done.�
The resumption of this week�s drone attacks in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan on the Afghan border have come after a month-long debate over the fate of the alleged CIA contractor Davis, who had earlier confessed to shooting dead Mohammed Fahim and Faizan Haider in Lahore on January 25, allegedly in self-defence.
While Pakistani authorities have charged Davis with murder, the Obama administration has been insisting that he is an "administrative and technical official" attached to its Lahore consulate and has diplomatic immunity.
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Francisco Solano López, 1928-2011
Francisco Solano López, the acclaimed Argentine artist who published with an array of international publishers including those in the U.S., died on August 12 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 83 years old.
Francisco Solano López was born in 1928. His first published comics work came in 1953, when the young artist signed a contract with the publishing company Columba. His first assignment was with the writer Roger Pla on the feature Perico Y Guillermina. Solano López met the writer Hector German Oesterheld when he was assigned to scripts at Abril. They began a series Bull Rocket in the publication Misterix. Oesterheld recruited Solano López as a co-founder of Frontera, a publishing effort that the writer funded and ran with his brother. Among their collaborations were the character Joe Zonda and the series for which Solano López is best known, El Eternauta. That series debuted in September 1957.
El Eternauta told the story of an alien invasion of Buenos Aires from the point of view of a group of survivors. Its enduring image of men in suits traveling through a poisonous, weaponized snowfall was a sign of the still-young Solano López's growing strength as an image maker. In addition to the thrilling nature of the story and the chops put on display by the writer and artist, El Eternauta trafficked in an obviously rich series of potential and realized metaphors: the invasion of Buenos Aires by an outside force, the monsters and creatures the resistance fighters encountered, the ultimate enemy controlling these things from afar. Oesterheld would later rewrite and aim the story more squarely at political targets; its sequels, not all of which were drawn by Solano López, straddled the line between science fiction adventure and political satire, often to the dissatisfaction of one part of the audience or another. But because of the skill of its practitioners in executing the story, the hero-as-group at the story's heart and Solano López's haunting imagery, El Eternauta remains one of the most influential and most highly regarded of all Argentine comics series. The original serialization ended in 1959. The story was revived in its own magazine in 1961, soon before a national economic crisis contributed to the closure of Ediciones Frontera. A more stridently politicized remake of El Eternauta without Solano López's involvement came in 1969, and a sequel featuring the artist's work began in the 1975. Solano López would later work on sequels created after Oesterheld's disappearance and presumed death.
It was in part because of the political undertones of El Eternauta, particularly its commentary on Argentine and Chilean politics, that saw Solano López flee to Spain out of fears of reprisal. This was the first of two extended periods away from his homeland, although wherever he traveled he remained distinctly an Argentine both in mannerism and art style. "He was the absolute exemplar of the courtly South American gentleman, an enthusiastic and ultra-reliable professional, and an artist to the core," wrote Fantagraphics publisher Kim Thompson in his tribute.
While in Europe, Solano began to provided more work for Fleetway, a relationship that would last for decades off and on and see the artist illustrate several comics series including Kelly's Eye, Pete's Pocket Army, and The Drowned World.
In the 1970s, Solano López returned to Argentina and picked up work on older series such as the El Eternauta sequel (the property was now with Editorial Records) and newer ones such as Slot-Barr and Evaristo. The latter of those two new efforts paired him with the writer Carlos Sampayo. Evaristo was a series of short stories about a police commissioner in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. That work was the basis of Solano López's eventual first major entry into the North American market, the 1986 Catalan publication Deep City. Says arts writer and former comics editor Robert Boyd. "I wish someone would retranslate and reprint this book. These stories are extremely abbreviated -- so much is left out. As you reread them (as I often do), you fill in the blanks. The richness of Solano's art helps you. He had a gritty, earthy realistic style. It's a brilliant work -- a classic." Boyd praised Lopez as an urban artist whose cityscapes were specifically South American, and particularly evocative of his longtime home Buenos Aires.
Despite this facility with urban storytelling, both Boyd and eventual Solano López publisher Gary Groth compared Solano López's artwork to that of famed U.S. western and war artist John Severin. Groth: His work always reminded me of a more proletarian John Severin; just as Severin captured the environment of dust and dirt in his Westerns, Solano captured the grit and texture of urban life -- and like Severin, he could adapt his style to humor."
"When I think of Argentine artists, I think of artists who were influenced by Milton Caniff," Boyd told CR. "Lots of chiaroscuro. Alberto Breccia and Hugo Pratt seemed to use Caniff as sort of a starting point, though both evolved in very different directions. Ditto with Jose Munoz. But Solano approached it differently. His art felt more like John Severin's than Milton Caniff's -- although I think Solano was a better artist than Severin."
Fleeing Argentina once again at the end of the decade because of further political turmoil, Solano López set up shop once more in Spain. He arranged for the continued serialization of his then-current work in two Italian magazines: LancioStory and Skorpio.
By the time the 1990s rolled around, Solano López was in the midst of a relatively short but fruitful period working for a variety of North American publishers. Having already run a piece of the work in a 1987 issue of its anthology Prime Cuts, in 1991 Fantagraphics re-issued a 1978 Solano López comic featuring a script from his son Gabriel, Ana. A brutally-told story again using both offbeat science fiction and a series of events loaded with metaphorical power, Ana was distinguished by Solano López's stunning portraiture work. Much of Ana is told in the faces and figures of its participants, giving it a affecting fragility not always found in politically oriented comics. While Solano López certainly had the skill to make idealized forms, something he would put on display to great effect later in his career, many of the characters in Ana have a real-world, beaten-up quality, and its his evocation of what co-publisher Gary Groth called "the rot of politics" on what was essentially a canvas of flesh that made Ana a ruthless, unsettling work.
Solano López collaborated with the cartoonist Jim Woodring on Freaks, derived from Tod Browning's film, for the ill-fated Fantagraphics Monster imprint. There were four issues, published in 1992. The artist Jim Blanchard, who art directed the series, remembers the artist's general skill and the facility with which he worked. "I saw a few quick portraits he did of Fanta employees that were terrific -- his drawing talent was immense, and it seemed like he cranked out detailed, high-quality comic pages faster than anyone."
It was during this period of publication in the U.S. that Solano López became known as one of the best artists in the world working in erotica, splitting efforts between Fantagraphics' Eros line and comparable international outlets for that material like Spain's Kiss Comix. His best known series for Eros were the Young Witches books, Young Witches 2 in particular bringing an incredibly high quality of art to its imaginative series of couplings and depredations. Solano López later won a Best Erotic Author prize for that work and the "Silly Symphony" full-color comics (this may have been another collaboration with son Gabriel).
Those that worked with Solano López in the U.S. remember the man in addition to the artistic achievements. "Professionally, he was a delight to deal with. Personally, he was even more delightful," said Gary Groth. "He stayed at my home once in the early '90s, and he was sweet, funny, and gregarious. I remember a wonderful dinner we had at my home barbecuing ribs and talking late into the night."
Ryder Windham was an editor at Fantagraphics and Dark Horse and was Solano López's primary contact at the Seattle-based alternative comics publisher. "It was while working on Freaks that I really got to know Solano and appreciate his work even more. So when he visited the US in 1994, when I worked at Dark Horse Comics, I was happy that he agreed to stay at my place for several days. Robert Boyd and I had great fun showing him around town. We went to the Columbia River Gorge, the zoo at Washington Park, and drank beer at the Goose Hollow Inn. He loved looking at women, and I got the impression that they found him adorable. We threw a big party for him."
Boyd remembered that same party. "Ryder hosted a party in his honor. It was a few comics types and the usual collection of young singles who came to Ryder's parties. Joe Sacco and Thom Powers cornered Solano because they wanted to talk about comics and politics, but Solano, then in his mid-60s, was more interested in chatting with the 20-something girls there. I remember he found one who spoke Italian and surprised her with his Italian flirtations." He added, "Solano was 35 years older than me, but I felt a strong connection with him -- he was charming, a delightful dining companion, worldly but unpretentious."
Solano López did receive some work from Dark Horse, illustrating a Robert Boyd short story in Dark Horse Presents, an Aliens story, and working on several issues of an abortive relaunch of the Jonny Quest property. "I wrote [the short story 'Buoy 77'] with the intent of giving him some work, but really I was the main beneficiary--my amateurish hard-boiled story was immensely improved by his brilliant artwork." López also returned to work for Fleetway during this period, doing six-page "Nipper" stories for Roy Of The Rovers monthly, and provided inside art and cover illustrations for Bram Stoker's Burial Of The Rats at the short-lived Roger Corman's Cosmic Comics.
One of his final original comics to appear in the US was a two-page contribution to Dark Horse's 9/11 anthology with writer Pablo Maiztegui. As Boyd was quick to point out, the work López did that has been translated into English or meant primarily for English-language audience is "the tip of the iceberg" in terms of his overall career output. "There's so much he did that should be in print here. And maybe some of it will be published. I'm only sorry that Solano won't be here in person to receive the praise his work so richly deserves."
Windham remember the artist's hands, and a specific act of kindness. "Solano López was doing a pencil sketch at the dining table in my apartment in Portland, Oregon, in 1994, when I noticed his hands looked younger than mine, which was kind of annoying because he had a few decades on me. I said, 'How old were you when your hands stopped aging?" He thought this was very funny. But it's true, he had lovely hands, not a mark or age-betraying wrinkle on them.
"After I moved to New York City and married, he asked me to send a photo of my wife, Anne, and over a year later, in May 1997, I was surprised to receive a pencil sketch of Anne based on the photo. He wrote, 'It has been a huge pleasure to try and make the portrait of Anne. I sincerely hope you like it.'
"He was a real sweetheart, and I miss him very much."
Solano López was briefly hospitalized after the hemorrhage in the Italiano Hospital in Buenos Aires. It was believed he had been in ill heath for a while.
In addition to son Gabriel, Argentine news sources mention another survivor: a daughter Maria, who was with him near the time of his passing.
* from El Eternauta: a great López face
* photo of the artist provided by Ryder Windham; my thanks to Windham for this one and the one below
* a cover to one of the magazines serializing El Eternauta
* Ana
* one of the Freaks issues
* from the Young Witches cycle of stories
* Ryder Windham and F. Solano López in Portland, 1994
* another great López face
* self-portrait of the artist at his drawing table
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Forestry "provides post-Brexit answers"
Forestry can provide answers to many of the questions posed by the UK Government's consultation on the future of the rural economy after Brexit.
That was the view of Sir Harry Studholme, Chairman of the Forestry Commission, at a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Forestry, chaired by Chris Davies MP. The APPGF discussed Defra's paper, Health and Harmony: consulting on the future of food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit.
“The questions [in the consultation] are framed in terms of agriculture, but many have forestry answers,” Sir Harry said.
“I think Defra is listening. Normally, consultation papers are issued with a sense that there is an answer in mind. I think this is a genuine consultation with genuine questions being asked. I am impressed by Defra’s desire to be on top of this.”
Sir Harry noted that every £1 spent on the Countryside Stewardship scheme delivered, on average, £3.60 in benefit, but where that £1 was spent on forest management, it delivered £5.60. “A future prosperous rural economy needs forestry at its heart,” he said.
Stuart Goodall, Chief Executive of Confor, welcomed references to forestry and timber in the consultation about what will replace the Common Agricultural Policy, but called for greater depth and detail. He suggested the draft Bill be named to reflect the move beyond simply agriculture to forestry and wider land uses.
Guy Horsington, Defra’s Deputy Director for Future Farming Policy, said the final title of the Bill had not been decided and noted Mr Goodall’s comment.
Mr Horsington outlined the key aspects of the consultation and said: “At the heart of our thinking is that public money should be spent on public goods."
He defined public goods as “things that benefit more than just the recipient and cannot be rewarded by the market alone” and added: "Our new agricultural policy in England should be underpinned by the principle that pubic money buys public goods.
“The pre-eminent public good is environmental public good. We need to have a conversation that is about much more than the production of food."
Mr Horsington said a future Environmental Land Management scheme could have a number of features, including: multi-annual agreements; a user-friendly focus; innovative mechanisms; capital grants; and funding for collaborative projects.
He described CAP’s Direct Payments scheme as “poor value for money, untargeted and undermined farmers’ ability to improve business profitability”.
The three options for change were progressive reductions in payments, applying a cap to the largest payments or applying a different cap to a higher or lower number of payments. Mr Horsington said it was not yet confirmed when the new system would start, but it was expected to be 2020 or 2021.
The meeting was also atended by Fiona Harrison, Deputy Director of Climate and Forestry at Defra. She said she welcomed direct engagement with the forestry sector as it had just been added to her portfolio.
Both Sir Harry and Mr Goodall stressed that forestry delivered multiple public goods. In the ensuing discussion, Lord Inglewood, a member of the APPGF, asked if food production, and by extension wood production, was in itself a public good. Sir Harry said growing timber delivered many wider public goods - such as wildlife habitats and carbon sequestration - but most landowners were not paid for providing these goods.
Mr Goodall warned of ‘unintended consequences’ if wood production was not recognised alongside other public goods. Forestry and tree planting had been undermined as an activity by the support given historically for agriculture through CAP, and if productive forestry continued to be excluded, then it could be damaged further. This would threaten rural jobs and an important low-carbon sector.
He noted that all managed woodland included significant areas, often as much as 40 per cent of the area in new woodlands, that was managed for wildlife and the environment. This provision of public goods was supported by the productive component of the woodland, and did not attract continued public funding.
Mr Goodall encouraged those in the forestry sector to respond to the Health and Harmony consultation, which closes on 8 May. Confor’s initial response is here
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American Standards Announce New Album; Drop "Writer's Block Party" Music Video
(March 14, 2017 - Phoenix, AZ) - Chaotic hardcore quartet, American Standards have announced their upcoming full length titled, Anti-Melody which is set to release April 28th on all digital music outlets. Off the forthcoming record comes the first single "Writer's Block Party", giving a good glimpse into the group's new record. The new single premiered exclusively on Lambgoat.
"What started as social commentary on the growing divide in our society became very personal when our founding guitarist (Cody Conrad) passed of suicide and then soon after, my father of cancer. We went back in to re-write much of the album and in a lot of ways used it as therapy to deal with the experiences. Although very personal, at its core Anti-Melody is centered around the universal theme of separation on many levels." -Vocalist, Brandon Kellum
Watch "Writer's Block Party" below and pre-order the "Anti-Melody" at American Standards' online store.
Anti Melody Track List
1. Writers Block Party
2. Carpe Diem, Tomorrow
3. Church Burner
4. Bartenders Without Wings
5. Danger Music #9
6. CancerEater
7. Broken Culture
8. Chicago Overcoat
Connect with American Standards:
About American Standards:
Formed in 2011, American Standards is a hard-hitting, emotionally and politically charged hardcore punk unit from Phoenix, Arizona. Employing a blistering blend of metal, punk and thrash the band released its powerhouse debut “Still Life” in 2012 under We Are Triumphant (distributed by Victory Records) and immediately went on to share the stage with bands such as Every Time I Die, Norma Jean and The Dillinger Escape Plan.
American Standards quickly became known for their intense live show, tongue in cheek demeanor and relentless work ethic playing over 250+ shows to date. Since then, the band has released two independent EP’s and has announced a full length titled “Anti-Melody” set for release April 28th 2017. Based on recent interviews with the band, the release will continue to build upon sociopolitical themes, corporate greed, satire and materialism but will also have a much more personal tone.
American Standards Anti-Melody BANGS! cowgirlzen Music Video Writer's Block Party
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Abdul Mahdi, referring to what happened a few days ago, "deprived of Iraq for decades"
Dinar Daily :: DINAR/IRAQ -- NEWS -- GURUS and DISCUSSIONS :: IRAQ and DINAR -- ARTICLE BASED INFORMATION and DISCUSSIONS
by RamblerNash on Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:42 pm
Twilight News
[Asharq Al-Awsat] Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi met with Italian Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta and her accompanying delegation.
Trenta stressed Italy's support for the Iraqi government in confronting the challenges and responsibilities it faces.
"Italy is interested in the war against Da'ash because it represents a threat to Iraq first and to the Europeans and the world." She expressed her country's concern about the continuation of terrorist financing networks and the culture of extremism, while insisting on supporting Iraq, especially in the training of armed and security forces. Iraq and the whole world. "
In turn, Abdul Mahdi stressed that democracy in Iraq is growing, developing and matured, and called for the peaceful transfer of power that the country has been denied for decades.
"The country has achieved great victories in its war against al-Qaeda, but it is still fighting a fierce war against the remnants of cancerous terrorism," he said, calling on friendly countries to support Iraq in its fight against terrorism and to support its economy because "it not only defends the security of its citizens, "He stressed that this war remains a priority of the Iraqi government and can not be isolated from the priorities of development and democracy and the rights of citizens
He praised the" historical role played by the fatwa of reference in mobilizing the people to support the armed forces, "adding that" the support received by the armed forces of the crowd Popular and Peshmerga Other popular forces that enabled our armed forces to get the opportunity to rebuild and restructuring and mobilization in the war against Daesh and that all Iraqi forces are under the command of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. "
http://www.shafaaq.com/ar/Ar_NewsReader/89252ff4-04f4-4ab6-9609-2836583ff825
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Broken Blade (Colbana Files #3) by J.C. Daniels
After being tortured, marked and raped by Jude the vampire, Kit is suffering from PTSD and feels that she is broken. Her connection with her blade no longer works and Kit can barely deal with the loss. Kit retires to Wolf Haven and starts working at a bar. All her friends want her to hurry up and rejoin life but Kit isn't ready to face her demons. T.J. however will not be denied and so arranges a small job for Kit, not realising that it will lead to Kit taking on one of the oldest magical creatures and possibly her death.
In Broken Blade, Daniels widened her world by introducing Pandora/Lilith. We learned that Pandora/Lillith is responsible for creating shifters, vampires, witches and the warrior race the Aneria. I loved the origin story and it helped explain why witches are pacifists and some of the ongoing antagonism between the various supernatural groups. With Pandora/Lilith as an antagonist, the story should have been absolutely epic. I thought that this is where it was going when Pandora/Lillith killed Es, the leader of a coven of witches, only to be sorely disappointed when she was easily defeated by Kit. No way should Pandora/ Lilith have been defeated by a gunshot to the head. Clearly, Daniels didn't know what to do with this character once she added her to the story. It made the ending seem so rushed. It would have been better to draw this out over two books, rather than to have Pandora/Lilith so easily defeated.
Far too often, when traumatic things happen to urban fantasy protagonists, it's brushed off so that the author can tell another story. Because of the way that Daniels dealt with Kit's traumatic childhood, I believed that this would be different and I was right. No one just gets over being kidnapped and tortured and that really needed to be dealt with. My biggest issue is that Kit was given just four months before she was forced back out into the world. How is that enough time to heal? Her friends claimed to want to help her but to me, it felt very much like Kit and her new quirks were being portrayed as a burden. How is going back to work and burying the trauma the strong thing to do? To me, it just sets up the victim to have yet another massive breakdown because no one is meant to simply power on after something like that. Since Daniels decided to go there, I couldn't help but wonder why it is that she didn't set Kit up with some counselling? Yeah, I know that urban fantasy is supposed to be all about defeating the bad guy but if you are going to have a protagonist with serious mental health issues then it must be respected and written about appropriately.
Kit isn't the only survivor who is not fully respected. T.J., the owner of the bar where Kit works is now a wheelchair user after being paralyzed by her former Alpha. She has made a life for herself running Wolf Haven, taking in the lost and the scared. It is T.J. who ultimately pushes Kit out into the real world, pleading for Kit not to be like her. T.J.'s way of dealing with being viciously assaulted is painted as weakness and that is a problem. If T.J. wasn't tough, she wouldn't have survived.
"Yeah, sure. I could be like your bitch of a grandmother. I could have been born human and made a leech instead of born a weak werewolf and then tortured by the sadistic wolf who stole my legs. But he’s not the one who stole my life, Kit. I gave it up. I stay in here…and I hide. I let him ruin me. I’m letting him win…and I know it.”
“TJ, that’s not—”
“Don’t,” she warned, and the thread of steel under her voice was enough to silence me. “I stay in there,” she murmured. “I hide. Even though that son of a bitch would never leave his mountain to find me, I stay here. And I hide. You face down everything that scares you, until now. Don’t let him win, Kitty. You didn’t let anything else take you down. Don’t let this ruin you.” (pg 22)
The idea that there's only one acceptable way to be after surviving a violent assault is harmful and further policies victims. T.J. it seems is a beta and so Kit simply assumes that she didn't have the ability for vengeance and justice and so decides at the end of the story to go after the twisted Alpha. This was not Kit's decision to make. What I took away from all of this is that survivors cannot be trusted to run their own lives in the wake of an assault or to heal in a way that best suits them. This plot line very much makes self care a sign of weakness.
I wasn't really impressed when all of the cats refused to make eye contact with Kit after the attack. They made what happened to her all about them and their failure to protect her. It did however make me happy when Kit remained consistent in her demand that people make eye contact rather than look at her feet whenever they are in her presence. Kit however seemed to hold it against Damon for not protecting her which was a problem for me. Yes, Damon did promise that no one would ever hurt her but Kit is an assassin and a warrior and the very idea of needing a man for protection just doesn't make any sense to me.
As for Kit's relationship with Damon, I continue to find it a problem. From the very beginning, Damon has been physically abuse, controlling and manipulative. This is what passes for love and it's nothing more than a masquerade for intimate partner violence. Kit hides in Wolf Haven to recover from being kidnapped and assaulted and instead of giving her the space she asks for, Damon actually forces his way into the bar where she works. Just about every time Kit tries to put some distance between them, Damon steps into her personal space. Even though Damon promises Kit that he will wait for her, invading on her time to heal is far from being a good friend let alone partner. If that were not enough, Damon clearly used Kit to find out more about Doyle - the child he adopted who is half Aneria like Kit. We are told repeatedly that Damon loves Kit but all I have seen him do to date is to abuse and manipulate her for his own convenience.
Despite the fact that Daniels has widened her world in terms of real world marginalised people, there's a lot of erasure going on. Chang, Damon's second has a scant appearance in this book and there are no other people of colour to speak of. We've not had an LGBT character in this series since the first book. If Daniels can write tales about vampires, Pandora/Lilith, witches and shifters, there's absolutely no reason that she couldn't include more diversity.
I have to admit that I am waffling on Broken Blade. On one hand, I really appreciate the fact that Kit's PTSD was explored but on the other, the very idea that there's some time frame for healing is beyond problematic. When this is coupled with the idea that self care is a reflection of weakness, it makes Broken Blade absolutely toxic.
I continue to dislike Damon and Kit as a couple. The very idea that his controlling, abusive ways are fine because he is a cat is a problem. I am further troubled by the calm and contentedness Kit experiences in his presence. Sure, abuse is all Kit has every really known but to then have those around her support this relationship makes it appear innocuous instead of dangerous.
Broken Blade could have been so much more than it was. With Pandora/Lilith as an antagonist, I should have been racing through the pages. In the end, I simply was bitterly disappointed with how easily Pandora/Lilith was dispatched. Yes, Kit has to be the hero because she is the protagonist but her victory needs to feel plausible and thought out, and not simply a race to wrap up a story line. I'm not sure yet where Kit's character is going and I'm not entirely sold on this series because of how trope laden and erased it is.
Labels: 2 fangs, book review, Colbana Files, J.C.Daniels, Lilith, magic, Pandora, shifters, vampires, Werewolves, Witches
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[FEVERSmedia] Yuna Kim’s thoughts on the ice show: “It’s been absolutely amazing”
Yuna Kim’s thoughts on the ice show: “It’s been absolutely amazing”
On the night of May 6, Yuna Kim stepped away from the competitive stage at her retirement ice show, 'All That Skate 2014', held at the Seoul Olympic Gymnastics Arena.
The entire cast of All That Skate 2014 opened up the show with a group number to the last winter’s biggest hit song, “Let It Go.” Kim followed up later in the first act with a skate to her short program at the Sochi Olympics, “Send in the Clowns.” At the end of the second act, she presented the crowd with a new exhibition program to commemorate her retirement stage.
A 50-person live orchestra accompanied this year’s show, with its rich and resounding sound adding to the grandeur of the Queen’s farewell performance. Her final gala number was one used by countless figure skaters in the past, which is the very reason she decided against using it during her competitive career. In a stunning red-colored costume, Kim flawlessly skated to “Nessun Dorma," receiving a standing ovation from the crowd of 10,000.
As the show drew to a close, Kim skated around the rink one last time while the orchestra was playing the tunes of her last competitive program music. “This is really, really the end now. It’s been absolutely amazing thanks to you. Thank you. And I love you,” she said. Quite a few in the crowd shed tears as this was the Queen's adieu stage.
With the three-day ice show officially over, Kim met with the press with David Wilson, her choreographer, and a few other members of the cast. “I think they put together that compilation for me since this was my retirement show,” Kim conjectured about her program music the orchestra played while she was doing the last lap around the rink. “I think this will remain a very memorable show not only for my fans, but for me personally as well,” she added.
When asked about her new exhibition program, Kim said, “It hasn’t been long since I received the program so I had to make sure I had it nailed down before the show. I think I put out all I wanted to today, and it felt really good out there when fans loved it.” She also added, “Skating along to the sound of the live orchestra made it feel even more glorious.”
“Even though this ice show marked my retirement, I had so much fun during the past three days. I was feeling a little nervous leading up to this because I wanted to be perfect, especially since this was going to be my last. But the audience was great, they were so responsive and looked like they were having so much fun out there, so I was really happy,” she said. “I just want to thank everyone who worked hard to make this happen, and I also want to thank all the skaters for enjoying the show even in the midst of a really tight schedule.”
When David Wilson, her long-time friend and choreographer, expressed how proud he was of her, it was a cue for Yuna Kim's tears which she was barely holding back. (See more on David Wilson’s interview: http://www.feverskating.com/fevers/65712420)
“I’m done with my competitive career now, I feel free. The last competition for me as a skater was the Sochi Olympics, and I was just pleased that I was able to put out everything I had long prepared.” she continued. "I really didn’t want to cry, but I saw Hae-Jin crying after the finale. I tried so hard not to cry, but so many people around me were crying and I just couldn’t hold it in anymore,” Kim said. “I think I’m crying because my life as a skater was just so long.”
When asked of the most memorable moment in her career, she answered, “Those times when I skated to my satisfaction at competitions, I think I will cherish them the most. As far as bad memories go, I've had lots of injuries and gone through lots of slumps. However, I think, because I fought really hard to get through them, I was able to come this far. They’re not pleasant memories, but I do think it will continue to shape who I am and the way I face my future.”
Even in her last departing words, a sense of composure and serenity was felt by those present in the room. “I just want to take a break now. A real break. I don’t want to rush through my decisions, and I think I need to take it slow and think carefully about what I want to do from this point on," Kim said.
■ Photos by 케더덕, SB+ , 볼트인
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English [FEVERSmedia] Yuna Kim’s thoughts on the ice show: “It’s been absolutely amazing” 31,843 14.06.10
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Cabaret Secrets Podcast
CS Podcast
How to create a show
Sound and lights
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Alexander Bermange - Composer and Performer explains with ins and outs of cabaret
Alexander Bermange has written eighteen musicals. His work has been performed in London at the O2, the Duchess Theatre, The Old Vic and throughout the world. Some of his best work is available on an album called “Act One” featuring twenty-six of the best voices in musical theatre. His own cabaret show, Wit and Whimsy, came about by almost by accident and was successful enough to inspire Alexander to hire a director. As he said, praise from other artists is possibly, “the least useful thing you can have,” and he needed someone who would provide impartial advice and honest feedback.
He explains the importance of being yourself as much as possible on stage and how his director helped present that on stage in the most effective way. Many of us would like to hire a director and guest artistes to help us with our show, but can we afford it? Alexander explains some of the practicalities involved in finding and commissioning the right person. The lesson I took away from this was “don't be afraid to ask”.
The alternative, if you're not careful, is to end up with a series of audition songs with no cohesion. You need to be able to justify exactly why you have made our choices and be able to explain them clearly. If you cannot, maybe you need to rethink what you're doing.
Interestingly Alexander approaches chat differently to me. I like to work with a script first and work on it so much that it sounds natural. Alexander prefers to start with just bullet points and fill in the gaps more spontaneously. Either way we both hate to hear chat that sounds scripted.
Alexander told me how he struggles with praise immediately after a performance. We talked about giving constructive criticism and what to say when we've seen a show we hate!
Kuba Kawnik - Cruise Ship Multi Instrumentalist - Part 1
Allan Stewart - How to Get A Standing Ovation
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Corporate entry Waite Agricultural Research Institute (1924 - 1991)
Education and Agricultural industry
The Waite Agricultural Research Centre was established in 1924 as a centre for agricultural research and development. In 1991, along with Roseworthy Agricultural College, it became a campus of Adelaide University's Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.
1924 - 1991 Waite Agricultural Research Institute
1991 - Waite Campus
1991 - Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
Andrewartha, Herbert George (1907 - 1992)
Herbert Andrewartha was an entomologist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute from 1935 to 1954.
Date: 1935 - 1954
Browning, Thomas Oakley (1920 - )
Thomas Browning was an Assistant Entomologist and full Entomologist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute between 1948 and 1962.
Catcheside, David Guthrie (1907 - 1994)
Research associate, of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide from 1976
Date: 1976 -
Colquhoun, Thomas Talbot (1904 - 1981)
Thomas Colquhoun was a Plant Pathologist at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute from 1935 to 1943.
Donald, Colin Malcolm (1910 - 1985)
Colin Donald has held multiple positions at The University of Adelaide's Waite Agricultural Research Institute beginning in 1934 to 1939 investigating mineral deficiencies then returning in 1954 to Head the Department of Agronomy.
Fincher, Geoffrey Bruce (1946 - )
Director, 2003 - 2010
Flentje, Noel Thomas (1921 - 1974)
Noel Flentje worked within the Department of Plant Pathology at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute.
Melville, James (Jim) (1908 - 1984)
James Melville was Director of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute between 1956 and 1973.
Morton, Robert Kerford (1920 - 1963)
Robert Morton was Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, Waite Agricultural Research Institute at The University of Adelaide 1959-1962.
Quirk, James Patrick (1924 - )
James Quirk was a Reader in Soil Science at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, The University of Adelaide from 1956 to 1962. In 1974 he became an Emeritus Professor at The University of Adelaide.
Richardson, Arnold Edwin Victor (1883 - 1949)
Arnold Richardson was the Waite Professor of Agriculture and Director of the Waite Agricultural Institute at The University of Adelaide (1924 - 1937).
Trumble, Hugh Christian (1903 - 1960?)
Argonomist and Professor of Agronomy
Waite, Peter (1834 - 1922)
The institute was named for Peter White, who gave land to the University of Adelaide to be held in perpetuity as a park for public enjoyment.
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Zeitz, Lynette D., The Waite: a Social and Scientific History of the Waite Agricultural Research Institution, Barr Smith Press, Adelaide, 2014, 441 pp. Details
Best, Rupert J., 'Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson C.M.G., D.Sc. (Melb.), M.A. (Adel.), B.Sc. (Agric.) (Adel.), R.D.A., P.A.I.A.S., foundation Director of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, first Waite Professor of Agriculture: an appraisal', Biennial Report of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, vol. 1980-81, 1981, pp. 4-25. Details
Schedvin, C. B., 'Environment, Economy and Australian Biology 1890-1939', Historical Studies, vol. 21, 1984, pp. 11-28. Details
Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-491344. Details
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Barker, R. and Barker, W. R., 'David Symon (1920-2011)', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, vol. 151, 2012, pp. 11-9. Details
Barker, R. M., 'David Eric Symon (1920-2011)', Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 26, 2013, pp. 71-96. Details
Radcliffe, John C., 'Melville, James (1908-1984), Agricultural Scientist', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 18, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2012, pp. 150-1. Also available at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/melville-james-14964. Details
Rogers, George E. and Elliott, William H., 'Robert Henry Symons, 20 March 1934 - 4 October 2006', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 54, 2008, pp. 383-400. Details
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Erin Ventures Announces Special Meeting to Consider a Share Consolidation
Erin Ventures Inc. ("Erin" or the “Corporation”) [TSXV: EV] announced today that, on August 11, 2017, it will hold a special meeting of shareholders (the “Special Meeting”) to consider, and if deemed appropriate, to approve, a special resolution to authorize an amendment of Erin’s articles to consolidate the issued and outstanding common shares of the Corporation on the basis of one post-consolidation common share for every seven pre-consolidation common shares. The details of the matters proposed to be put before the Special Meeting are set forth in the management information circular (the “Circular”) to be available on SEDAR and mailed to shareholders on or about July 17, 2017. At the Special Meeting, shareholders may also be asked to consider and vote in respect of other matters that may be properly brought before the Special Meeting. Management is not currently aware of any such other matters.
Erin’s board of directors believes that the proposed consolidation is in the best interest of its shareholders in that it will permit Erin greater flexibility and opportunity regarding certain future corporate activities which are designed to help increase shareholder value. Activities which may be positively impacted by a consolidation are expected to include Erin’s ability to structure strategic alliances, enhanced marketability of its common shares as an investment which aids in fund raising activities, and an increased interest by a wider audience of potential investors, brokers and analysts that may consider investing or be able to invest in the Corporation as a result of an increase in the market price of its common shares, and a reduction in the number of shares outstanding. Each of these factors result in an enhanced ability for Erin to advance its mineral projects on terms, and with methods, that are more favorable to the Corporation than what currently exist.
Subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, approval of the special resolution by shareholders would give the Board of Directors the authority to implement the share consolidation, or, in its discretion, revoke the special resolution, without further approval or action or prior notice to shareholders. If approved and implemented, the share consolidation will occur simultaneously for all of the Corporation’s common shares and will affect all shareholders and holders of convertible securities such as options, warrants and convertible debt, uniformly.
The Circular will contain, among other things, details concerning the proposed share consolidation, requirements for the share consolidation to be implemented and the procedure for receiving new shares if the share consolidation is implemented, as well as the procedures for voting at the meeting and other related matters. Shareholders are urged to carefully review the Circular and accompanying materials as they will contain important information regarding the share consolidation. A copy of the Circular will be available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
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The Style Essentials--Michelle Pfeiffer Takes the Plunge in 1983's SCARFACE
The style of the 1970s has been working its way back into fashion for some time now, and 2017 was the year it took over the trends. Everything from the decade seems to be the epitome of style right now. One example is all the menswear that has been popular throughout the year - appropriate considering this is the 40th anniversary of Annie Hall and the iconic style of Diane Keaton. Of course another style star from the decade is Ali MacGraw, someone who is always mentioned in the fall and winter months due to the coat inspiration of 1970's Love Story. Both are among The Style Essentials here on GlamAmor. This year also brought back the popularity of disco dresses - slinky, sparkly, or sometimes both. For this type of look, few movies serve it up better than yet another Style Essential - 1983's Scarface.
The first part of any decade carries over the style of the decade before, and the early 80s was largely an extension of 1970s style. During this time, fashion began turning to earlier eras for inspiration, especially the look of the 1930s (as the 1980s went on, there was more of the 1940s with its suiting and shoulder pads). Designers like Halston and Yves Saint Laurent loved to refer to the masters of Old Hollywood - costume designers like Adrian who was responsible for most of Jean Harlow's bias cut, body conscious silk gowns.
The connection to 1930s classic cinema does not end there. Scarface, of course, is a remake of the Howard Hawks' movie from 1932 - director Brian De Palma even dedicated his film to Hawks and screenwriter Ben Hecht. Because the original was done during the time when the Production Code was still taking effect, the film had few restrictions on it. The story was loosely based on Al Capone (whose nickname was "Scarface") and Hawks did not shy away from the violence of his life. In addition, the Pre-Code era costumes could also be as revealing as they wanted, and Karen Morley's Poppy was certainly sultry as the gangster's girl.
The 1983 version of Scarface was widely criticized when it first premiered, namely for its own depiction of violence, but has since been re-evaluated and now considered one of the best gangster movies of all time. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who starts in America with nothing and works his way through the criminal ranks to becoming a powerful drug lord. Pacino is perfection; his physicality alone tells the story of this man's rise and fall, and he seems to regress to an almost animal state by the end of the film.
Another of the cast who is absolute perfection is Michelle Pfeiffer. Elvira Hancock is a woman who goes from being the girlfriend of one gangster (Robert Loggia) to the wife of another when Tony takes over the drug business. This is Michelle very early in her career, and it's said that people - including Pacino - were not in favor of her being cast. Glenn Close was apparently the front runner with others like Geena Davis, Sharon Stone, Sigourney Weaver, and even Carrie Fisher being considered instead.
Today it's hard to imagine anyone else in the role. She inhabits Elvira perfectly, including her always annoyed attitude and her slight frame communicating the character's love of cocaine. Everything about her style - from the hair to the clothes - has become influential in fashion, and that is courtesy of costume designer Patricia Norris.
Though many costume designers in early Hollywood came from couture, Norris was self-made and had her own path. The single mother worked odd jobs to care for her 5 children, and eventually found work in the stockroom of the costuming department at MGM. She then progressed to being a costumer and ultimately a costume designer known for her rigorous research and historical knowledge of everything from architecture to fashion.
Unlike the early days of Hollywood with their long-term contracts, modern costume designers were not necessarily aligned with a studio. Instead they often had ongoing collaborations with directors. This describes Norris, who had a long-time collaboration with David Lynch and partnered with him on productions like The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks, and Blue Velvet. Something extra special about Norris is that she was also a production designer, which means that she really was responsible for the whole look of Lynch's work. She was so talented in this regard that she is the only person who has ever received the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Costume Designers Guild and Art Directors Guild. She could design for comedy as well as drama, and worked with some of the best directors of the genre like Mel Brooks (High Anxiety, Silent Movie) and Blake Edwards (Victor/Victoria). As a costume designer, she would be nominated 6 times for an Academy Award - including for The Elephant Man and Victor/Victoria - before she passed away in 2015.
Even with these credentials, Patricia was humble and gave credit for the longevity of the costumes in Scarface to Michelle Pfeiffer as well as the producers and director. She insisted, "They knew exactly what they wanted." De Palma was a student of classic cinema and made frequent references to it in his work. What's really interesting is that we can see those references in the costume design as well. The original Scarface gave him a great starting point for what Tony's girl should look like. Elvira's silk bias cut gowns are also a nod to someone like Jean Harlow, who herself played a gangster's moll in 1931's The Public Enemy. In addition, there is another nod to 1946's The Postman Always Rings Twice with Elvira's all white suit.
The origins of Michelle Pfeiffer's Elvira
can be seen in Karen Morley as Poppy in 1932's Scarface
Scarface has been a source of inspiration for the fashion industry for several years. Armani, Versace, and Donna Karan have all taken cues from the costumes for their designs, and many can be seen on the red carpet. Rihanna is such a big fan of the film that she asked Armani for not one but two custom creations for her appearances at the Grammys and London's Fashion Week. The plunging necklines and thigh high slits have also appeared at many an award show, including the Golden Globes and Oscars. They're so common now, it's almost expected.
And as I mentioned in the opening, disco was a trend on the 2017 runways with designers ranging from Versace to Michael Kors all offering up options. Because 1970s style is so huge this year, even Halloween costumes reflected the decade. Cindy Crawford's model daughter Kaia channeled Elvira right down to her blonde wig. You'll see some of these Cinema Connections below. It's easy to assume that Scarface will be an influence in party dresses for the upcoming holidays as well.
Scarface can give us plenty of inspiration for 2018. Just remember, my friends - the world is yours.
The style of Scarface is all encompassing -
set design from Bruce Weintraub helps deliver De Palma's vision of Miami style
I love how directors introduce characters -
Elvira makes a dramatic entrance in a slinky backless gown
Elvira's style is immediately established with this teal gown -
plunging neckline, thigh high slit, and bias cut silk
Elvira has a rather annoyed attitude no matter where she is
Patricia Norris carefully chose Elvira's jewelry -
some of it a nod to the era of the original movie and
each piece screams money but none overwhelm her
Cinema Connections--Rihanna in custom Armani at London Fashion Week 2012 (above)
and Rita Ora in Donna Karan at the 2014 Video Music Awards
Once again, Elvira is annoyed
when Tony picks her up in what she considers a tacky automobile
This all-white skirt suit finds inspiration from
Lana Turner in 1946's The Postman Always Rings Twice
The influence of Scarface is seen on fashion runways like Cushnie et Ochs,
which based much of its 2017 collection on the movie
Primary colors are such an important part of 1980s style
and De Palma delivers in this poolside scene
Elvira covers up her plunging green one-piece with this white wrap
as she listens to Tony tell her that he wants to be with her
Another iconic gown from Scarface -
this plunging pink number wows whether coming or going
Cinema Connections--Zendaya in Ralph & Russo at a 2017 premiere (above)
and a gown from the affordable Lulu's
Of course the gangster's moll sleeps in satin sheets -
Tony goes to get Elvira the second he takes over the business
Money + Marriage = Happily ever after?
De Palma gives us the most over-the-top vision of luxury with scenes like this
Even when she's just around the house,
Elvira is in the slinkiest of loungewear that mirrors her gowns
This sexy sequin gown is only part of the explosion in this final fight
Cinema Connections--Michael Wilkinson's gunmetal sequin gown for Amy Adams (above)
and Versace Fall 2017
Jennifer Aniston in Versace at the 2017 Academy Awards (aobve),
and Kaia Gerber's Halloween costume this year show the influence of Scarface
Colker, Dave. "Patricia Norris Dies at 83: Oscar-Nominated Costume Designer." The Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-patricia-norris-20150307-story.html.
Norris, Patrick. "A Tribute to Patricia Norris, 1931 - 2015." Costume Designers Guild, publish date unknown, http://costumedesignersguild.com/articles-videos/articles-archive/patricia-norris-tribute.
R, Nathaniel. "Interview: Patricia Norris on 12 Years a Slave, Scarface, Twin Peaks." The Film Experience, February 25, 2014, http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2014/2/25/interview-patricia-norris-on-12-years-a-slave-scarface-twin.html.
Saperstein, Pat. "Costume Designer Patricia Norris Dies at 83." Variety, March 4, 2015, http://variety.com/2015/film/news/costume-designer-patricia-norris-dies-dead-scarface-at-83-1201446183/.
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Labels: 1970s style, 1980s style, Costume Designer Bio, Michelle Pfeiffer, Patricia Norris, Scarface, Style Essentials, The Cinema Style File
Silver Screenings said...
It was fascinating to see the style connection between the original film and the 1983 version. I wasn't familiar with Patricia Norris' career, so it was good to learn more about her. Ill be paying closer attention the next time I see her name in the credits.
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Athletic Facilities, Game Operations and Championships
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Athletic Facilities, Game Operations and Championships Office Bio
Kyle Koncar began working with the Game Operations and Facilities department in July of 2016. He currently serves as an Assistant Director of Athletic Facilities, Game Operations and Championships. He was elevated from his previous role of Coordinator of Athletic Facilities, Game Operations and Championships in July of 2018. He serves as game manager for Men’s and Women’s Soccer as well as Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse.
Prior to working at Duke, he served as Stadium/Event Operations Intern at Heinz Field for a year. During his time at Heinz Field he assisted in the coordination of all Pittsburgh Steeler and Pitt Panther games. While also coordinating concerts, charity runs and the WPIAL High School football championships.
Koncar received his B.S. in Sport Management from Georgia Southern University in 2014.
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Abroad and online — beyond Title IX’s reach?
Posted on September 20, 2017 Authoradmin
Online courses — and especially the special brand of massive open classes that emerged earlier this decade — have helped colleges expand their reach geographically as well as educationally; they are far likelier today than they were a decade or more ago to be educating students in, and from, other countries.
An unfolding lawsuit shows that a key federal law may not be keeping up with that reality.
The case in question may be familiar to Inside Higher Ed readers and fans of physics, because it involves the former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus Walter Lewin, whose enigmatic teaching videos have millions of views on YouTube. However, no videos of Lewin remain on any official MIT platforms. They were removed after an internal investigation at MIT found that Lewin had sexually harassed one of his students online, and consequently his “For the Love of Physics” MOOC, and his emeritus title, were removed.
Lewin’s accuser, Faïza Harbi, is now suing MIT and Lewin for compensation for the emotional distress she says she suffered as a result of Lewin’s conduct. Harbi’s legal team has made claims under tort law, state antidiscrimination laws and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal statute that prohibits gender-based discrimination in educational programs.
Both MIT and Lewin tried to dismiss Harbi’s claims, but they have only been partially successful. On Sept. 1, the federal judge in the case ruled that six of the nine claims that Harbi made would stand — including a claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress against MIT. Harbi’s Title IX claim, however, was dismissed.
Were Harbi an American, or an international student living in the U.S., her Title IX claim would likely have stood. However, as the judge explained in his ruling, because Harbi is French and was living in France, she did not qualify for protection under Title IX.
‘Title IX May Well Be Outdated’
Explaining his decision to dismiss Harbi’s Title IX claim, Judge F. Dennis Saylor said that “no reported case appears to have examined the precise question at issue here: whether Title IX protects a person abroad with respect to conduct committed in the United States and transmitted over the internet.”
Given that online learning allows students to be located anywhere in the world, Judge Saylor said that Title IX, enacted in 1972 with (understandably) no mention of the internet, “may well be outdated.” Despite this, Saylor said, it was not his job to dispute the law — “this court is not empowered to ‘fix’ outdated statutes, no matter how worthy the goal may be.”
Ted Folkman, a lawyer at Murphy & King who has written about the Harbi case on his blog, said the issue comes down to extraterritoriality — a “hot topic” in legal circles. “Congress wrote into the statute a limitation on who is entitled to the law’s protection and expressly excluded people not in the United States. Judge Saylor’s view [that Title IX does not apply to Harbi] is probably right, because there is a general presumption that federal laws do not have extraterritorial effect, and the words of the statute seem to reinforce that presumption here,” Folkman said via email. “It would be up to Congress to extend the law’s protection to foreign students studying abroad.”
Adele Kimmel, a senior lawyer at Public Justice, said it is understood that Title IX applies to any university or college that receives federal funds, even if that institution is completely online. But she concurred with Saylor’s assertion that while the law covers international students taking online courses while living in the U.S., it does not cover international students residing in another country. “Separate from Title IX, students may have protections under state antidiscrimination laws, but this will vary from state to state,” said Kimmel.
Looking for Guidance
Laura Dunn, founder and executive director of SurvJustice, which offers legal assistance to survivors of sexual violence on campus, said that she would like to see a thoughtful discussion about the limitations of Title IX, but she doesn’t expect the law to change. “Of course the issue of extraterritoriality comes up — how can you enforce a law from one country in another country?” she said. “For now, I think the statute as written offers pretty significant protection for students.”
The Harbi case has, however, highlighted the need for more direction on how Title IX should be applied in contemporary situations, said Dunn. “This is an issue that would be perfect for [Education Department] guidance,” she said.
Khalilah Burton, assistant provost for institutional effectiveness and accreditation at Columbia Southern University, an online-only institution, agreed that there are areas in which Title IX guidance could be improved. “I’ll be interested to see in the future whether there are changes regarding clarity in the regulations for online interactions, not necessarily just at online schools … Brick-and-mortar institutions are having larger online platforms, and they will need guidance as well,” she said.
Burton said that her institution, a for-profit in Alabama, would treat all its students as if they were protected by Title IX, no matter where they were located. Jennifer Kalfsbeek-Goetz, dean of student learning and Title IX coordinator at Moorpark College, in California, said that her institution would do the same. “The most conservative look at Title IX or the Clery Act [a federal law relating to campus safety] might suggest that students have to be in the geography of the campus for it to apply. However, we would certainly consider an online classroom to be within the space of our campus,” said Kalfsbeek-Goetz.
Dunn, Burton and Kalfsbeek-Goetz all agreed that beyond having a Title IX coordinator and ensuring that employees have suitable training, institutions should ensure that the policies they provide to students and staff regarding expected behavior are clear.
Dunn suggested that institutions with online learning options, and even study abroad programs (where there is some confusion whether American students studying outside the country are covered), should contractually extend Title IX protections to students outside the U.S. “The relationship between that school and student is still there in that other country — that doesn’t disappear. Schools could be progressive beyond the limitations of the law to assure students are protected,” said Dunn.
Asked what incentive there would be for colleges to do this, Dunn said, “I think schools do what people ask them to do, or what they will get in trouble for not doing. If a group of parents banded together and asked for this, I think some schools, perhaps some more progressive ones, would do it.”
The Social Media Problem
Billie Dziech, a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and co-author of The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus, said institutions need to do more to acknowledge the responsibility they have for students online. “It’s not as if the technology just appeared out of nowhere. We’ve known for a long time that online courses were going to pose all kinds of responsibilities to us.”
Dziech said that students engaging in online learning should be able to expect that courses be delivered “in a professional manner.” Very little is known about the prevalence of sexual harassment in the context of online learning, said Dziech, but she suspects that online-only students could be less likely to report incidents of harassment than campus-based students who have closer ties with their institution.
To combat this, Dziech suggested that faculty members and students be encouraged to report inappropriate exchanges they see or experience online. She added that institutions should also have clear and strict penalties for breaking the rules — not just a “slap on the wrist.”
“If a professor sends someone’s 18-year-old daughter a picture of their private parts, and we send them on a Title IX sexual harassment training course, that accomplishes nothing. It sends a message to other faculty that they can do the same sort of stuff,” said Dziech. As a preventative measure, Dziech suggested that faculty should agree, as a condition of them being hired or keeping tenure, to not communicate with students through social media. “Why would a professor need to contact a student on Facebook? What’s wrong with using your .edu email?” asked Dziech.
In court documents, Harbi’s legal team said that Lewin originally reached out to Harbi through a Facebook group she created for students taking his MOOC. Evidence shared in court by Harbi’s legal team suggests the nature of Harbi and Lewin’s communications through Facebook, email and Skype quickly crossed professional lines — with Harbi telling Lewin how she struggled to concentrate on her studies because of a history of sexual abuse, and Lewin offering to help her gain confidence by teaching her to masturbate.
Communicating through social media makes it almost impossible for institutions to spot red flags, said Stephen Downes, a senior researcher in online learning for Canada’s National Research Council. He said that online education providers typically encourage communications through their own discussion forums or Listservs, but there have always been cases of students and professors communicating by other means. “If there’s a way to message someone, people have been using it,” said Downes.
Unlike Dziech, Downes doesn’t believe a social media communication ban is necessary. Instead, he made an appeal to common sense online. “I don’t wish to sound naïve, but why don’t people, especially those in positions of power, just behave better online? Forget the legalisms, forget the codes of conduct. Just behave better. That would be my No. 1 suggestion,” said Downes.
“This isn’t an issue that’s specific to online courses, education or social media. It seems odd to me that people would think because something is online that they can behave differently. If you wouldn’t say it face-to-face to a person, why say it online?”
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Ethan Hawke to Play Brett Favre in Upcoming Film
JPFootball May 15, 2009 Ethan Hawke to Play Brett Favre in Upcoming Film2009-05-16T12:53:16+00:00 No Comment
I like to make a daily scan of the various press release services, because once in awhile you get a scoop on a blockbuster announcement like this one – at least for Packer fans:
—– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE —–
Pantamount Pictures
Principal Photography for “Training Camp,” a feature-length film starring Ethan Hawke, will begin at M.M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
In the film Ethan Hawke plays Brett Favre, former quarterback of the Green Bay Packers and New York Jets. The storyline begins immediately after the Green Bay Packers’ loss to the Denver Broncos in Superbowl XXXII and carries through the end of the 2008 NFL football season.
For this film Pantamount had been given unprecedented access to NFL facilities across the country during the 2008 season, including access to New York Jets’ locker rooms during pre-game and post-game as well as private player-coach meetings. Full access was also granted to the substantial video libraries at NFL Films, allowing Pantamount to create the most historically accurate and exciting film about a current football legend.
Coinciding with the start of principal photography, Dunder Mifflin will be publishing a one-time-only platinum retrospective of Brett Favre’s illustrious career, including photographs, press articles and quotes from Favre himself and his teammates through the years.
I was able to get a small screen capture from a promotional piece for the movie, and it looks like Ethan Hawke will again be paired up with Denzel Washington as they were in the movie that won Washington an Oscar: Training Day. A curious casting choice, but perhaps fitting given the tumultuous relationship Favre had with current Packers General Manager Ted Thompson, Washington will be playing the role of Thompson in this movie.
But this time around, when Thompson (Washington’s character) leaves Favre (Hawke’s character) with a bunch of (football) thugs, there’s no getting out of it. Favre totally gets his shit pushed in.
Beeg time, bro.
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Weekend Reading: Frank Gehry Talks Beekman, New Yorkers Go Crazy For Compost, PlaNYC’s Green Roof Push
posted on Friday, October 8, 2010 in Architecture, Buildings, Design, Financial District, Green Building, Green Construction, Green Real Estate, Green Roofs, Manhattan, Most Recent, Neighborhoods, New York City, Residential
Sustainable tapas. Green mezes. An EnergyStar pu-pu platter. Whatever food metaphor you favor, here are three snack-size stories to keep you sated over the weekend.
As you may have noticed, gbNYC has been in energy-saver mode over the last week-plus. This is in part because of our dedication to efficiency and sustainability in all its forms, but mostly it’s because I’ve been really busy, and Stephen is always really busy, and… well, yeah. At least we’ve got a nice backlog of stuff to cover next week, when we’ll hopefully get back on a more reasonable schedule. Until then, though, here are three stories I meant to cover, but didn’t, and now kind of am. It’s the return of your Friday Reading, but given how late on Friday this return is occurring, it’s perhaps best if we call it Weekend Reading. So let’s do that. And let’s read these stories:
Frank Gehry has been quite clear about how he feels about LEED — spoiler: he feels curmudgeonly in the extreme — and his typically striking Beekman Tower at 8 Spruce Street in the Financial District will not be pursuing any kind of LEED certification. That said, it’s impressive-looking enough — and Gehry is an interesting enough interview — to make it worth a gbNYC mention even without the bike racks and other LEED point-getters. The building is interesting enough in the context of the Financial District real estate ebb-and-flow, but Gehry successfully makes it sound more interesting in his conversation with the Wall Street Journal’s Peter Grant. “I am a contexualist,” Gehry says by way of putting the building in context. (Which, also: really?) “I pay a lot of attention to where I’m doing things. And I have a mind-set not to talk down to people or places. People have been telling me this is a New York building. I don’t think you would build that building anywhere else. With its stair-steps, it has a New York persona. I think I’ve nailed that part of it. That was intentional. I think it talks to the Woolworth Building. I like the juxtaposition. It sure as hell doesn’t talk down to it.”
Sean O’Driscoll of the Associated Press, who wrote an interesting piece about white roofs — that in turn drew some interesting comments-section criticism here at gbNYC from the estimable Anne Whitacre — is back in action with a piece on New York City’s composting underground. Which makes it sound kind of menacing, I know. It’s really just a bunch of well-meaning gardener/foodie types intent upon making the most out of their garbage. “New York has become a center for compost coops, especially after cutbacks two years ago forced the city sanitation department to drastically cut back on a program that had offered the public free compost,” O’Driscoll writes. “In its place, gardeners have come together to share each other’s decomposing waste.”
Green roofs: I believe I am on the record as pertains to this issue. But while I make no real bones about my sorrow at green roofs sluggish adoption in New York City, I don’t pretend not to know why that’s so. They’re expensive, and heavy, and don’t necessarily confer the sort of green building benefits that lead to fast paybacks; that they’re beautiful is enough for me, but it’s easy to see why one doesn’t see more of them in New York. That may — may, as in maybe or maybe not — change, though. The Bloomberg administration has announced an initiative, as part of the ambitious green PlaNYC omnibus, designed to incent green roof construction (and blue roofs, and porous paving of parking lots and sidewalks) in the hopes of diverting runoff from the city’s overmatched sewer system, and thus from the city’s unappealingly sewage-rich waterways. “Bloomberg estimates the city could save $2.4 billion over 20 years if the state allows it to use this kind of green technology instead of relying on so-called grey infrastructure, such as storage tanks and tunnels,” Reuters’ Joan Gralia reports. I get suspicious whenever politicians promise savings in the 10-figure range, but you know my biases on this and it is at the very least cheaper than the proposed $6.8 billion modernization of the city’s sewer system. There’s more on this at Inhabitat, as well.
Friday Reading: Green Dreams in Midtown East, Rise of the Prefab High-Rise, NYC’s Huge A/C Bill
Friday Reading: Jane Jacobs’ Intellectual Afterlife, Jersey’s Massive Solar Play, Ogling The Hearst Building
Friday Reading: New Domino, The Movie; The Battle For 112 West 34th Street; Green Ghost Houses Of The Tennessee Valley
Beekman, Compost, Frank Gehry, Friday Reading, Most Recent, North Brooklyn Compost Project, PlaNYC 2030
Blue and Green: Blue Sea Development’s Forest Homes Mark Another Green Triumph In The Bronx
Surpass The Salt: Dattner’s LEED Silver-Hopeful SoHo Salt Shed Is Surprising, And Not Surprising
2 Responses to Weekend Reading: Frank Gehry Talks Beekman, New Yorkers Go Crazy For Compost, PlaNYC’s Green Roof Push
Stephen Del Percio Friday, October 8, 2010 at 9:10 pm #
Dave, one more piece to note from today is Krugman’s editorial about Chris Christie’s reprehensibly short-sighted decision earlier this week to axe the new mass transit tunnel under the Hudson River. It’s the most important infrastructure project anywhere in the country and if Christie gets away with killing the project, I think it says a lot about our collective ability to tackle big problems that require big solutions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/opinion/08krugman.html?_r=1&hp
David Roth Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 11:43 am #
I’m working on a longer post about that, SDP. Or at least was planning on doing so. It’s a bad, bad move by a bad, bad governor, and while Krugman gets it right and expresses himself more economically than I probably will, I’m still hoping to do something on it. But yeah, everyone should read that column.
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Tag Archives: San Jose Taiko
San Jose Taiko
Drumming, Japanese Drumming, San Jose Taiko, Taiko, World Music
San Jose Taiko (SJT) has been mesmerizing audiences since 1973 with the powerful, spellbinding, and propulsive sounds of the taiko. Inspired by traditional Japanese drumming, SJT performers express the beauty and harmony of the human spirit through the voice of the taiko as they create new dimensions in Asian American movement and music. Continuing the core values of founding directors and National Endowment for the Arts 2011 National Heritage Fellows, Roy and PJ Hirabayashi, San Jose Taiko performances are based on a profound respect for each member of the group. All compositions performed by SJT are written or arranged by members of the group. Composing, choreographing, designing and producing costumes, and handcrafting of the drums are part of the holistic process in which all members participate. Through this singleness of mind and spirit, harmony is achieved and the music rings with unity and clarity.
SJT has broadened this historical art form into a style that joins the traditional rhythms of Japanese drumming with other world rhythms, including African, Brazilian, Filipino, Latin, and jazz, bridging many styles, while still resonating with the Asian soul in America. Company members study both traditional and contemporary dance with leading choreographers, producing performances that are theatrical extravaganzas of movement and music.
Since 1987, when SJT became one of the first American taiko ensembles invited to tour Japan, the company has collaborated in joint concerts with internationally renowned Asian performing artists. SJT has also collaborated with artists from other disciplines, including the Bangerz, Brenda Wong Aoki, Mark Izu, Kenny Endo, Eth-Noh-Tec, American Conservatory Theater, George Coates Performance Works, San Jose Repertory Theatre, The San Jose Museum of Art, Abhinaya Dance Company, Hiroshima, Jon Jang, Keith Terry and Crosspulse, Anthony Brown, Marco Lienhard, Qi-Chao Liu, PressGang, and Michael Sasaki.
SJT has been recognized for its artistic and managerial excellence by the Advancement Program from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Multicultural Advancement Program from the California Arts Council, Meet The Composer International Creative Collaborations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the Chevron Award for Excellence. In 1994, SJT was honored by the Arts Council of Santa Clara County with a commendation for community leadership for its efforts to foster cultural and ethnic diversity in the arts.
This engagement of San Jose Taiko is made possible through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Sherri Evonne Shepherd
Sherri Evonne Shepherd is an American comedienne, actress, and television personality. She is one of five co-hosts on the ABC daytime talkshow, The View, as well as being the current host of the Newlywed Game and having a recurring role as Angie Jordan on the NBC series 30 Rock. As an actress, she has starred in the sitcom Less Than Perfect and her own sitcom Sherri on Lifetime.
Shepherd was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Lawrence A. Shepherd and LaVerne Shepherd (1941–1991), as the eldest of three sisters. When she was 11, her family moved to Hoffman Estates, a Chicago northwest suburb. She attended Winston Churchill Elementary School and Eisenhower Junior High School of Community Consolidated School District 54 and Hoffman Estates High School of District 211.
Shepherd worked a day job as a legal secretary while doing stand-up comedy at night. Her first TV role was on the show, Cleghorne!, starring former Saturday Night Live cast member Ellen Cleghorne. Three years later, Shepherd pursued acting and stand-up comedy full-time, working again as a legal secretary for a day job. She had guest and recurring roles on Everybody Loves Raymond and Living Single as well as regular roles on Suddenly Susan and The Jamie Foxx Show. Perhaps her most successful role prior to The View was playing the main character of Ramona Platt (2002–2006) on the comedy Less than Perfect. She is currently starring in Lifetime Television's Sherri, a sitcom about Shepherd's life.
Shepherd has branched out to film, with roles in Guess Who, Beauty Shop, Cellular, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Academy Award winning film Precious. She still performs stand-up comedy at Los Angeles area clubs like the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory, although she lives in New York. She has also been a frequent and popular guest on Ellen DeGeneres's syndicated daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, for which she holds a record for being on the show the greatest number of times. She currently has a recurring role on 30 Rock as Angie Jordan, as well appears as a special guest host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Co-host on The View
In 2006, Sherri Shepherd became a frequent guest co-host on ABC's, The View. Shepherd eventually became a permanent co-host on Monday September 10, 2007. Shepherd co-hosted the 35th Daytime Emmy Awards on June 20, 2008. Her fellow co-host was All My Children star Cameron Mathison. Shepherd was nominated for her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
On May 14, 2009, she was nominated again for her second Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host, when nominations for 36th Daytime Emmy Awards were announced on the Today Show. Shepherd won her first Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host that year.
Criticized statements
Shepherd was criticized heavily after the September 18, 2007 broadcast of The View, in which she stated that she didn't "believe in evolution. Period." Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked her, "Is the world flat?" She first responded, "I don't know", and expanded that she "never thought about it." Shepherd continued that it was more important to her that she thought about how she was "going to feed child." Barbara Walters replied by pointing out, "You can do both." However, Shepherd then went on to quote scripture. Shepherd later referred to her statement as a "brain fart" brought on by nerves, and said that she still is not sure the earth is round.
Similar criticism erupted after the December 4, 2007 broadcast of The View when, during a discussion initiated by Joy Behar about Epicurus, Shepherd attempted to assert that Christians existed in classical Greece, and that the Greeks threw them to the lions. When confronted on this point, she further claimed that "Jesus came first" and stated, "I don't think anything predated Christians", to which Joy Behar responded "The Jews".
Shepherd garnered ridicule after admitting to never voting partly due to her upbringing as a strict Jehovah's Witness. She was quoted as saying that she just "never knew the dates or anything"; she stated, "I've never voted for anything in my life." In January 2008, Sherri referred to R&B/gospel singer Shirley Caesar as "the black Patti LaBelle." LaBelle, like Caesar, is black.
Shepherd authored the book: Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break, published in October 2009.
In 2001, Shepherd married comedian Jeff Tarpley . Their only child was born in April 2005. Previously, Shepherd had announced that she had expected to have fraternal twins , but miscarried her daughter, and instead gave birth three months prematurely. The couple separated in 2006 and divorced in 2009 after she discovered he was having an affair, an event that inspired her sitcom Sherri.
On January 4, 2011, it was announced that Shepherd got engaged on December 26, 2010, to TV writer Lamar Sally, whom she had been seeing for over a year. On Saturday, August 13, 2011 Shepherd and Sally were wed at at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Shepherd's eight bridesmaids included The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Niecy Nash and Community's Yvette Nicole Brown, and Kym Whitley and Shepherd's 6-year-old son Jeffrey Tarpley walked her down the aisle.
A devout Christian, she has stated about the role God has played in her life and career: "If I didn't have God I would have been dead."
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
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Madea Goes to Jail
Who's Your Caddy?
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The Hashtag Comedy Improv Show ft. Travis Irvine
ShadowboxLive's Backstage Bistro 503 South Front Street Columbus, OH, 43215 United States (map)
He's a comedian, journalist, filmmaker and political activist and TONIGHT, he joins Hashtag Comedy on stage for a night of improv comedy and storytelling. He was the youngest ever candidate for the mayor of Bexley, so we're sure he's got some good ones to share!
Doors at 7pm, show promptly at 8pm
Food and drink available
Reservations recommended to guarantee seating
www.hashtagcomedy.com/tickets
Travis Irvine is a comedian, journalist, filmmaker and unsuccessful politician. He has been featured on VICELAND, the Guardian, HuffPost, Mediaite, Jesse Ventura’s “Off the Grid” and .Mic. Travis wrote and directed a feature-length horror/satire film about killer raccoons that is available from the cult film company Troma Entertainment and is set to release a sequel by Christmas 2018. In 2007 Travis ran for mayor of his hometown in Ohio and turned the experience into a short documentary called "AMERICAN MAYOR" that was featured at the Cannes Film Festival and is now available on Amazon Prime. Travis’ campaign and comedy videos have been featured on “The Jay Leno Show,” PBS’s “NewsHour” and Funny Or Die, and he was also once on “The People’s Court." His debut comedy album "GUY FROM OHIO" was released from On Tour Records in the summer of 2017. A recent graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Travis lives and performs around Ohio.
TBD: the Improvised Musical!
The Hashtag Comedy Improv Show ft Musician Keith Gibson
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MENGS, ANTON RAFAEL:
By: Isidore Singer, Frank Cramer
Austrian painter; born in Aussig, Bohemia, March 12, 1728; died in Rome June 29, 1779; son of Ismael Israel Mengs. Anton Mengs was early destined for an artist's career; and his father with much strictness kept him to his studies, although the boy at first evinced but little inclination or ability for that calling. In 1741 he was taken to Rome, where he studied the old masters, and upon his return to Dresden (1744) he was honored by King Augustus III. with the title of court painter. He obtained the royal permission to return to Rome to complete his studies, and in 1748 his first large canvas, "The Holy Family," appeared. A beautiful peasant girl, Margareta Guazzi, who had posed as a model for this painting, won his heart; and in order to marry her he abandoned the Jewish faith and was admitted into the Roman Catholic Church. Mengs again visited Dresden in 1749, but returned to Rome in 1752, where he spent the greater part of his life, and where most of his important works were painted. In 1754 he became the first director of the newly founded Painters' Academy in that city.
Mengs was an eclectic who endeavored to blend the peculiar beauties of the old masters Raffael, Titian, and Correggio. His taste was exquisite, his groupings and compositions simple and noble, his drawing always correct; while his coloring, with regard to which he took Titian for his example, was strong and true. Though his paintings lack the originality of genius, their force and beauty give them rank among the foremost works of art.
In Rome Mengs painted the following large pictures: "Saint Eusebius Surrounded by Angels" (on the ceiling of the Celestine Monastery; 1757); "Apollo and the Nine Muses on Parnassus" (on a ceiling in Cardinal Albani's villa); "History Writing on the Shoulders of Time"; "A Meeting of the Gods"; "Cleopatra." In 1761 Mengs was called to Madrid by King Charles III. of Spain to decorate the ceiling of the dining-hall in the royal palace. He painted "The Apotheosis of Trajan" and "The Hall of Fame," which latter is considered his masterpiece. In Madrid he completed also "The Ascension of Christ" for the altar of a new Catholic church in Dresden. Various other paintings by Mengs are in the possession of the art-galleries of many European capitals. Berlin has a "Holy Family"; Vienna, "St. Joseph's Dream," "The Virgin," "The Infant Savior," "The Annunciation," and "Infanta Maria Theresa"; St. Petersburg, "Andromeda Liberated by Perseus"; Dresden, "Cupid Sharpening an Arrow"; Madrid, "Christ's Release from Calvary" and "Mary of Magdala."
The "Opere di Antonio-Raffaelle Mengs" (2 vols., Parma, 1780) has been translated into German (by G. F. Prange, Halle, 1786), English (London, 1796), and French (by Jansen, Ratisbon, 1782; Paris, 1786). A young Englishman named Webb, to whom Mengs had expressed his ideas on art, published them for his own under the title "Untersuchungen über die Schönheit" (Zurich, 1771), which act of plagiarism gained him considerable fame.
Mengs had twenty children, seven of whom outlived him. Of these, five daughters were adopted by King Charles III. of Spain, who also accorded pensions to Mengs's two sons. Mengs bequeathed his valuable collections of drawings, vases, and gypsoplasts to the royal academies of art in Madrid and Dresden. Empress Catherine II. of Russia erected a monument to his memory in St. Peter's Church, Rome, where he was interred.
Dictionnaire Universel Encyclopédique;
Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon;
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon;
Nouvelle Biographie Générale;
Woermann, Ismael und Rafael Mengs, in Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst, vol. v., 1893.
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John Teltsch - Growth-Focused IBM Sales Executive
About John Teltsch
Over the course of his career at IBM, John Teltsch has facilitated domestic and global sales for a broad range of growth areas. He draws on his experience in software and hardware, as well as cloud services and analytics, the latter two of which he focuses on in his current role as the general manager of Global Business Partners at IBM. In this role, John Teltsch drives revenue from a diverse cohort of partners, including value-added distributors (VADs) and independent software vendors (ISVs), as well as cloud and managed service providers.
John Teltsch comes to this role after gaining experience as a general manager with IBM's analytics and global markets divisions. In his leadership for the latter division, he served a client cohort that drove a large percentage of the company's global revenue for 2015.
Mr. Teltsch has also served the company in a number of other executive positions, both in the United States and in Europe. He proved successful in centralizing operations centers across Europe and later consolidated the company's two regional European software units into a single center, thus improving productivity and increasing client numbers.
Mr. Teltsch continues to lead growth as part of IBM's Chairman's Performance Team, through which he works with fellow leading general managers to work toward the company's fiscal goals. Also a member of the company's acceleration team, he collaborates with the 350 most experienced executives in the organization to act on development and innovation in both business and technology.
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Ken Skates AM | Clwyd SouthLatest NewsLatest NewsAM brands alcohol problems ‘number one’ public health challenge
29 Mar June 14, 2018
AM brands alcohol problems ‘number one’ public health challenge
LABOUR AM, KEN SKATES, has called on the Welsh Government to tackle the impact alcohol-related problems are heaving on communities in North East Wales.
Speaking during First Minister’s questions on Tuesday, the Clwyd South AM welcomed the Welsh Government’s “Don’t let drink sneak up on you” campaign to improve people’s awareness of how much alcohol they consume but said those suffering from addiction needed better support.
In 2011, Wrexham suffered the biggest increase in alcohol-related crime in North Wales, recording 43 more incidents from April to September 2011 compared to 2010.
CLWYD SOUTH AM KEN SKATES said: “We know that alcohol is one of the three highest risk factors for reduced life expectancy and linked to a whole host of preventable diseases. More than this it also affects other people quite significantly and is having a clear impact on communities in North East Wales.
“The worrying thing is that often these problems start at an early age. A recent report by Alcohol Concern highlighted that children as young as 10 in North Wales are more able to recognise alcoholic drinks brands than those of best-selling ice creams or cakes.
“The issue highlights a wider problem we have with drink in Wales, with the cost to the NHS of excess alcohol consumption believed upwards of £69m a year. Tackling the problem of excessive drinking and the impact it has on the health of our nation is probably the number one public health challenge we face in 2012.
“There is an established link between issues like crime, mental health problems, domestic abuse and alcohol, and in some areas like North East Wales this is causing real problems in our communities.
“We need to work closely with our local authorities, the local health board, the police and the licensing trade to make our communities safer and make sure individuals with drink-related problems get the help they need.”
Latest figures show there were almost 500 alcohol-related deaths in Wales in 2010. Based on the worst case scenario published in The Lancet, annual deaths could exceed 700 a year in Wales over the course of the next two decades, equivalent to 14,000 in the 20-year period.
More information on the Welsh Government’s “Don’t let drink sneak up on you” can be found at: www.change4lifewales.org.uk
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Euro-Zone: Up the Creek without a Helicopter and Paralyzed By Hyper-Inflation Phobia
Interest-Rates / Euro-Zone Nov 13, 2011 - 05:27 AM GMT
By: Andrew_Butter
I don’t know why but when I watch the drama of the Euro crisis unfold my mind wanders to a scene in “Nashville” about a “country girl” who got a gig to jump out of a cake at a function, and didn’t quite understand what was supposed to happen next. I can’t help thinking that at some point in this whole sad scenario someone will have to stand naked.
Almost everybody agrees that the only way to resolve the Euro-Zone debt crisis in an orderly fashion is for the central bank to print somewhere between One and Two trillion Euros so as to allow Italy and probably France, plus any little piggy’s who promise to be good, to roll over their sovereign debt, plus perhaps to spoon-feed out ten billion here and twenty billion there as an occasional treat for all the little Miss Piggy’s who can’t collect enough taxes to keep their show on the road, but are “trying their best”.
That could be done by sleight of hand, just getting the ECB to run the presses, or by selling AAA rated Euro-Bonds just like the US Treasury sells recently downgraded US Treasuries (mainly to the Fed).
And that would at least buy the time to sort out the combination of fraud, creative accounting, and delusional incompetence that caused the panic in the first place. The option is that the Euro is no more.
The problem is the European Central Bank can’t just run the presses, Germany made sure of that at the Treaty of Lisbon.
Leaving aside the insanity of designing a central bank for a new-fangled fiat currency, without a helicopter, even if the politicians decided that it was in the best interests of the Euro-Zone and the Euro to authorize a helicopter-drop, they can’t, because that decision would need to be made in the German equivalent of the Supreme Court. Plus they would need to get around a system of checks and balances in Germany that was set up to make absolutely sure a lunatic like that excitable little chap with the moustache, could never corrupt the system and grab power again.
Meanwhile the hyper-inflation crowd is streaming out of the woodwork complete with selective amnesia of their silly warnings in 2009 about the how the $2 Trillion that Ben Bernanke dropped out of the sky was going to cause the end of the world, except it didn’t. There we go again, Einstein said the definition of lunacy is to expect a different result when you do the same thing, that works the other way around too, they did QE in USA and also in UK, and it worked more or less and there was no hyper-inflation because the money just sat, in the event it was nothing more than a state-sponsored accounting ruse.
Remember when Nassim Taleb said that the whole world should short US Treasuries? Back then the 10-Year was 3.7%, it looks like the pesky black swan got the last laugh on that one, of course the amnesia brigade say “just you wait”; but they are beginning to sound as insane as Nouriel Roubini and his carpet-bag full of stopped clocks.
The interesting thing about what Ben did is that he just did it; he didn’t even really explain to anyone what he was doing. Sure every now and then he rolled up in front of some committee or other to take questions from a cross section of the fools that pass for government “experts” in USA, which he answered in riddles, and then he went back to his office and kept on printing. You can say what you like about Ben Bernanke, but you have to admit he got style.
The problem in Europe right now is also the structure of the debt. All of the sort-of wannabe “sovereigns” in Europe hiding under the skirt of the Euro, are akin to municipalities in USA, except in USA the municipalities typically offer debt secured by something, whether it’s a sewage treatment plant, or a public transport system, that has assets, which can theoretically be re-possessed, plus cash flows.
In the heady days of Europe’s most recent debt-fuelled Renaissance, they skipped that step and a lot of that sort of “peripheral” debt was underwritten by promises from corrupt and/or incompetent politicians buying election-candy, and we all know how “bankable” those are once everyone wakes up from the LSD trip.
The ironic thing is that on the face of it Europe’s debt problem looks not much worse than America’s, the problem is really that they don’t have an “irresponsible” chap like Ben Bernanke who slips out the back door and prints a couple of trillion, without asking anyone’s permission, meanwhile President Obama can’t even get permission to go to the toilet…so who runs America?
Here is a chart of Europe’s debt compared to America’s, using an exchange rate of $1.4 to a Euro for comparison. It isn’t exactly apples for apples, because the nominal $30 Trillion of “Euro-zone Bank Loans + Securities held” includes quite a lot of EU Government Debt (a lot of which is Piggy debt).
It’s quite difficult to understand Euro-Zone debt because the way the data is presented by the ECB and EUROSTAT is bizarre, and there is double counting.
The US data on the other hand is very clean; you can produce those lines in five minutes, all you need is SIFMA report of the value at face of securities outstanding, then the FDIC Quarterly reports (remember to subtract the securities FDIC-insured banks hold so not to double count), then you to pull out the timeline on how much the Federal Government owes in “Intra-governmental debt” which you can get from Wikipedia and Bingo! Of course those lines don’t show the situation in the “Shadow Banks”, because that’s in the “shadows”, but most people look at that as double counting anyway.
So Big Picture the Euro-zone nominal GDP in 2010 was $12.2 trillion (that’s excluding UK and other EU members that don’t use the Euro), their private sector debt is a tad over $30 trillion so that’s about 250% of nominal GDP, in USA that number is 240%. That’s the real story, public debt is a red-herring, and which is why I think the whole hyper-ventilation about Italy is overblown because their private sector debt is low; and the clever Italian bankers got the French and the Germans to finance their government, as in they knew the score!
The important thing is that eyeballing that chart, as predicted, eighteen months ago, the private sector is deleveraging, in both Europe and USA, and the public sector is reluctantly filling in the gap to make sure the wheels don’t fall off.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article20418.html
Net-net total debt as a percentage of GDP is not going up much, which is probably why there was not any sign of serious inflation, let alone hyper-inflation.
The most obvious message you get from looking at that chart is in four years (2004 through 2007), both USA and the Euro-Zone piled on $10 trillion of extra debt, each, that’s an average of $2.5 trillion a year, that’s when the damage happened, that was when complete utter lunatics were in charge, and that WAS hyper-inflationary, then.
What’s happening now is damage control, sometimes when you been on a bender and you drank a whole bottle of vodka in an evening, the best thing to get you through the next day, is a couple shots.
Sure you can promise yourself “Never-Again”, and you mean it, from the bottom of your heart. Be that as it may, you still have to get through the day to carry you through the time the damage of the night of debauchery slowly heals and the toxins slowly get washed out of your system.
Come on Angela, what you waiting for?
It’s “Hair of the Dog Time”.
Don’t let your Protestant inhibitions stand in the way of taking the medicine, see how healthy and contented Ben Bernanke looks, and notice that bulge in his pocket, that’s a hip-flask, just in case he gets an attack of the trembles. Sometimes that’s all you can do, AA (Alcoholic’s Anonymous) can wait until next week.
Meanwhile, I can’t believe that the politicians will be so incompetent that they blow up the Euro just because they had a bad-trip, I think a solution will be found, all I’m interested in at this juncture, is who has to stand naked?
Twenty years doing market analysis and valuations for investors in the Middle East, USA, and Europe; currently writing a book about BubbleOmics. Andrew Butter is managing partner of ABMC, an investment advisory firm, based in Dubai ( hbutter@eim.ae ), that he setup in 1999, and is has been involved advising on large scale real estate investments, mainly in Dubai.
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Wheaton is an urban area north of Washington, D.C. and northwest of Silver Spring.
Downtown Wheaton is situated in the center of three major thoroughfares – Georgia Avenue, Veirs Mill Road and University Boulevard. It is two miles north of the Capital Beltway.
Wheaton takes its name from Frank Wheaton, a career Army officer and volunteer in the Union army during the Civil War. He became a local hero when he defended nearby Fort Stevens and Washington, D.C. from attacks by the Confederates.
The community is home to Wheaton Regional Park, which includes a nature center, riding stables, dog park, a picnic area with an old fashion carousel and miniature train, an athletic complex, ice rink, tennis courts, ball fields and Brookside Gardens, an award winning 50-acre public display gardens. There are over a dozen different gardens ranging from the Azalea Garden, which holds over 300 Azalea varieties, to the Aquatic garden with water flowers, two ponds and a gazebo. Many soon-to-be-married couples have been photographed in these gardens over the years.
The diversity of Wheaton’s neighborhood is reflected by the high concentration of restaurants, shops and music venues located within the vicinity of Wheaton Plaza and Westfield Wheaton Shopping Mall. Currently, the Wheaton Redevelopment Program plans to create over 1,300 residential units and nearly 600,000 square feet of retail, all the while promoting development that emphasis transit and pedestrian accessibility.
With the addition of the Wheaton Metro station, as well as Metro and Ride-On buses, Wheaton has become an easily accessible community to Kensington, Chevy Chase, Silver Spring, Rockville and the District. Major roads include Veirs Mill Road, University Boulevard and Georgia Avenue.
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Willie Nelson sings, “All I want is on the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again, the life I love is makin’ music with my friends…” Willie’s famous song is about his life on tour, and if you’re curious as to what that life is like, you can jump onto his famous “Me and Paul” tour bus.
Willie Nelson sings, “All I want is on the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again, the life I love is makin’ music with my friends…” Willie’s famous song is about his life on tour, and if you’re curious as to what that life is like, you can jump onto his famous “Me and Paul” tour bus owned by Vintage Innovations.
"The company soon evolved into an air stream rental company with Perkins and a friend building a fleet of air streams to rent out for events. “We started getting calls saying, ‘Hey, do you guys have any of these available for SXSW or this event or that event?’”
Then, about two years ago, the Willie Nelson bus came up for auction. “I saw it and a few of my friends, one in particular, my business partner who owns [Vintage Innovations] with me in New York messaged me and said, ‘Dude, you’re the guy for this project. We’ve got to get this thing!’ We kept bidding on this auction and it kept going up and up and up. People from all over the world were bidding on it as far as Uruguay, to Canada, and Europe. I think at the end of the day, the reason we won the auction was because the guy that owned it was selling it here in Texas. He loved the idea of it selling to a Texan and we even ended up having a few mutual friends.”
Once Perkins and his partner won the tour bus, they began to restore it. “Me and Paul” is one of the first four original buses built for Willie Nelson and the family band in 1983 by Florida Coach. The renovation process consisted of a series of conversations with people who had been on the bus before in the last 20 years. “When we got the bus, it was worn and interior had gone through various remodels, but a lot of it is still original. Everything is crushed red velvet on the inside and mahogany. We added in a lot of nostalgic things that correspond with the band and Willie and Paul in particular.”
Soon after Taylor and his partner purchased “Me and Paul” he found “Calypso,” which was John Denver’s original tour bus. “We wanted to be able to expand our bandwidth and ‘Calypso’ is such a cool bus too.” The third bus that Perkins bought was the last Silver Eagle bus to be built at the Brownsville, Texas plant, so they call it the “Last Texas Eagle.” “We actually use that bus to tour up and coming musicians now. There’s a handful of them that are using it regularly out of Nashville. We try to help any artists in the transportation arm of their touring by being competitive in pricing and creating an experience for them that will hopefully lead down the road to a long term relationship with them.”
The infamous Willie Nelson bus has had its fair share of fame as well. The Nelson family borrows it for various charitable functions. It has also served as a Green Room for “Drake” and “Florence and the Machine” at the Austin City Limits festival in 2015. “It’s been used state wide for all types of Austinite’s that have wanted to use it for various things. As everyone knows, Willie Nelson has been elevated to a demigod in so many ways. People are able to step onto the bus and share an intimate moment with him, even though he’s not there in that capacity and it’s the spirit of him. They get an opportunity to really enjoy it and that in of itself has made the whole project worthwhile.”
“Me and Paul” has also made its debut in Rolling Stone magazine three times and has appeared on HGTV. “Rolling Stone did the initial interview when we purchased the bus. Then they did a follow up interview where they actually put the HGTV interview on their website. Then we had a third one for us being rated one of the top 50 things that Rolling Stone found during SXSW last year. We took a fleet of photographers and journalists from Rolling Stone and other various magazines out to Luck, Texas to Willie Nelson’s ranch on the bus and programmed the whole experience for them. It was a lot of fun.” In 2015, the Austin Chronicle voted Vintage Innovations as The Best Moveable Beasts. “They kind of created a category for us and we were very fortunate to win that.”
The famous Willie Nelson Florida Coach has raised over $50,000 dollars for various charities. Perkins explains, “Vintage Innovations has a very diverse and fun group of partners. Every single one of them has an interest in various charities that they support.” Austin Pets Alive used the large Vintage Innovations entertainment space in February for their No Kill anniversary party. “We took the Willie bus to Gilley’s in Dallas for a charity event and actually met up with a few of the other Willie buses that are out on the road. We collaborated there to have everyone show up and raise money for a good cause.”
With all of the large buses that Vintage Innovations owns means Perkins and his partners need a large space to store their unique buses. Perkins came across a 12,000 square foot warehouse owned by his friends from Four Star Development. “We call it Innovation Station since we’re Vintage Innovations and it’s proximity to the railroad tracks and it’s correlation to our program.” After he moved the buses into the warehouse, Perkins wanted to do more with the space. “I just recognized that there wasn’t really an industrial space like this that I could freely let people come and use for charity events and for graffiti artists to have a gallery that doesn’t get painted over every two days. We’ve kind of turned it into a living gallery for graffiti/street art and in essence it’s become a unique industrial event space in West Austin.”
So what does Willie Nelson think of the bus? “As far as I know he thinks the program is fun. His granddaughter actually works for us and is our tour manager. I think we’ve been around long enough for the Nelsons to feel like we’re doing this for the right reasons. We want people to take it to Willie’s shows and use it for charity events. We’re very conscientious of using it for charities that the Nelson family also supports. It’s been something they’ve all engaged with. Nelson, Paul English, a lot of the crew, Willie’s harmonica player, and friends of Willie’s have all been on the bus.”
“Hungry every minute of the day…” sings Willie. With that appetite and Austin’s growing restaurant scene, there’s plenty of places to grab a bite to eat. Perkins started Austin Restaurant Week 10 years ago. “We shut it down last year and decided to figure out how we’re going to re-program it and see how people are eating, where they’re eating, what they’re doing and how they’re interacting with these restaurants. We’re re-launching it this year. It benefits Meals on Wheels and More and I think they do an incredible job of connecting with the community and creating sustainable programs for homebound individuals that don’t have the means to go elsewhere. $2 dollars from every meal that people go out and eat during Restaurant Week goes directly to Meals on Wheels and More, which is a little under the cost of one meal. If you go out and eat a meal during Restaurant Week, you’re creating a meal for someone in need. We are targeting April right now.”
So if you just can’t wait to get on the road again, visit Vintage Innovations and take a ride on Willie’s bus! To learn more about Vintage Innovations or our partner company ninjabuses.com, visit: VintageInnovations.net, or www.ninjabuses.com
Photography by John Pesina
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Harbor Fest Returns to Mamaroneck Avenue June 6
Judy Silberstein, posted on May 27, 2010
The Mamaroneck Village Harbor Fest returns to its original location and one-day format on Sunday, June 6 – rain or shine from 11 am to 6 pm.
After a few years of experimentation, the festival will once again be centered along Mamaroneck Avenue and at the entrance to Harbor Island Park. Entertainment and family fun areas will be staged at the park, while booths for arts, crafts, antiques and commercial exhibitors will run down the avenue. Food concessions will be at the top of the avenue (the Palmer end) and near the park entrance.
Admission is free and free satellite parking and shuttle buses will be available from Mamaroneck Avenue School, Mamaroneck High School and the Mamaroneck Town Center.
Begun in 2002 as a “historic street fair,” the festival now focuses on food and entertainment. However, there will be a museum set up in the old Mamaroneck Avenue fire house that will showcase photos and other memorabilia depicting Mamaroneck’s history, said Jennifer Graziano, co-chair of the event with Lenny Verrastro, the former administrator for the Village of Mamaroneck. There will also be a film tribute shown in the museum.
In a nod to Mamaroneck’s shipping history, the festival is bringing in the Yankee Clipper, a “tall ship” that will be docked in the harbor for people to tour.
The Harbor Fest will include tours of the Yankee Clipper.
New this year will be an expanded food court. “As everyone knows Mamaroneck has a vast array of cuisines from around the globe,” said Ms. Graziano. “A lot of those local restaurants will be displaying their signature dishes.”
As for entertainment, the local band Reunion will be on the main stage for a good portion of the day. Café Mozart will also have a stage outside the restaurant with a series of bands and other performers.
“And there will be plenty of children’s entertainment,” said Ms. Graziano. Applause Westchester, the children’s acting school in Mamaroneck, will be staging events. Families will also find children’s story telling, face painting, arts and crafts and other activities.
“It’s a combination of old favorites and new traditions,” said Ms. Graziano. “We’re hoping it’s a recipe for success.”
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TOMMY NOBIS CENTER et al. v. BARFIELD.
(187 Ga. App. 394)
MCMURRAY, Presiding Judge.
Workers' compensation. Cobb Superior Court. Before Judge Hines.
The principal question for decision in this workers' compensation case is whether claimant was an "employee" within the meaning of the Act. The employer, Tommy Nobis Center, Inc., is a non-profit corporation which trains handicapped persons participating in a Job Training Partnership Act ("JTPA") program. It takes the position that claimant, a participant in such a program, was a "trainee" -- not an "employee" -- and that, therefore, he was not entitled to workers' compensation protection.
Claimant, a 52-year-old man, was severely injured in an automobile accident in 1982. (The accident was not job related.) He underwent surgery for the replacement of his right hip (in 1983 and again in 1985) as a result of that accident. In the summer of 1985, claimant enrolled in a JTPA (29 USCA 1501 et seq.) program at the Tommy Nobis Center (hereinafter "Center"). The program was to last for seven weeks.
Upon enrollment in the program, claimant signed a "Contract for JTPA Participants" which reads, in part: "I am in the program because I want a job. I understand that at the end of this program I will be placed on a job. I understand that the production work at the Tommy Nobis Center is part of my training program and I will do my best on the job I am placed in." He also signed an agreement entitled "JTPA -- Meals, Transportation, Income." It reads: "I understand that I will receive $100.00 per week for 30 hours a week if I am present and participating for 30 hours a week. $3.33 per hour will be deducted if I am not present or am present but not participating. . . . I will provide for my own meals from the income received above. . . . I will be utilizing the Tommy Nobis Center bus. I understand the cost is $15.00 per week, whether or not I am absent during that time because a slot will be reserved for me."
On his first day at the Center, claimant was given classroom instruction concerning job search readiness. Thereafter, claimant was placed on an assembly line where he was required to box plastic trash bags. (One day claimant performed a different task -- he stuffed envelopes.) Periodically, claimant received additional instruction in the classroom. Claimant continued his assembly line work until he was "terminated" by the Center in the fall of 1985.
During his stay at the Center, claimant was continuously supervised and evaluated by the Center's regular employees. The employees observed and noted claimant's job attitude and ability to function in a work environment. The goal of the Center was to be able to recommend claimant to a prospective employer.
The Center received monies from outside sources for the assembly line work performed by claimant and others enrolled in the JTPA program. In turn, the Center gave claimant $100 per week. Taxes were not withheld from claimant's pay.
Taxes were withheld from the wages paid to regular employees of the Tommy Nobis Center. These employees were paid on an hourly, piecework or annual basis. Some of the "regular" employees were "graduates" of the JTPA program.
On September 17, 1985, claimant slipped as he attempted to board the Center's bus following his work day. Claimant fell on his right leg. As a result of claimant's fall, yet another hip replacement was required to be performed (in January 1986). Claimant has been totally disabled since the performance of that surgery.
In May 1986 a hearing was held upon claimant's application for workers' compensation benefits. Following the hearing, the administrative law judge determined that claimant was an employee of the Center and that he sustained a compensable injury when he slipped and fell on September 17, 1985. He also determined that the defense of the claim was unreasonable. Accordingly, attorney fees were assessed against the employer/insurer pursuant to OCGA 34-9-108 (b). The board adopted the decision of the administrative law judge and the superior court affirmed. We granted the discretionary appeal application of the employer/insurer. Held:
1. Whether a participant in a JTPA program is entitled to workers' compensation benefits is a question of State law. 29 USCA 1553 (3). (Compare the treatment afforded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act ("CETA") participants who were "assured of workers' compensation." 29 USCA 848 (a) (4); Larson, Law of Workmen's Compensation, 47.33.) Thus, we look to our Workers' Compensation Act to determine whether claimant was an "employee" within the meaning of the Act. In pertinent part, OCGA 34-9-1 (2) reads: " 'Employee' means every person in the service of another under any contract of hire or apprenticeship, written or implied, except a person whose employment is not in the usual course of the trade, business, occupation or profession of the employer . . ." Was claimant an "employee" within this definition of the Act?
"The question of whether a person is an employee is one of fact, and, where there is any evidence to sustain the board's finding of fact, the trial court should not interfere. Golosh v. Cherokee Cab Co., 226 Ga. 636 (176 SE2d 925) (1970); Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. v. Farr, 180 Ga. 266 (178 SE 728) (1934)." Goolsby v. Wilson, 150 Ga. App. 611, 612 (258 SE2d 216). "In determining whether or not the relationship of master and servant prevails in a compensation case, the same principles that exist under the common law obtain." Travelers Ins. Co. v. Clark, 58 Ga. App. 115, 121 (197 SE 650). The chief test to be applied is "whether the contract gives, or the employer assumes, the right to control the time, manner and method of executing the work . . ." Brewer v. Pacific Employers Ins. Co., 95 Ga. App. 270, 272 (97 SE2d 643). Any doubt about the claimant's status as an employee must be resolved in his favor. Unigard Mut. Ins. Co. v. Hornsby, 134 Ga. App. 157, 159 (213 SE2d 538).
The facts demonstrate that in addition to receiving classroom instruction from the Center, claimant performed work for the Center. In performing the work, claimant was subject to the Center's supervision and control. Claimant was paid so long as he participated in the Center's program activities and the Center was paid from outside sources for the work which claimant performed on its behalf. Given these facts, it cannot be said that the superior court erred in affirming the board's finding that claimant was an employee of the Center. See Grant v. Blazer Coordinating Council, 267 A2d 568 (111 N.J. Super. 125) (1970); State Subsequent Injuries Fund v. Indus. Accident Comm., 16 Cal.Rptr. 323 (1961). After all, our Workers' Compensation Act "must be construed reasonably and liberally with a view of applying the beneficent provisions of the statute so as to effectuate its purposes, and to extend them to every class of workman and employee that can fairly be brought within the provisions of the act." Lee v. Claxton, 70 Ga. App. 226, 228 (28 SE2d 87).
Overton v. Rochambeau School, 396 NYS2d 78 (58 AD2d 694) (1977), upon which the employer/insurer relies, is inapposite. In that case, the board denied claimant benefits on the ground that he was a student, not an employee. Affirming the board's decision, the Overton court observed that it was a factual determination supported by the evidence. In the case sub judice, that factual determination was adverse to the employer/insurer's position.
2. "While the matter of whether the employer of the insured has defended a claim without reasonable grounds and is thus liable for attorney fees under Code Ann. 114-712 [now OCGA 34-9-108 (b)] is a factual issue for determination by the board, Meeks v. Travelers Ins. Co., 119 Ga. App. 569 (167 SE2d 927); McCoy v. J. D. Jewell, Inc., 123 Ga. App. 175 (179 SE2d 654), the finding that the matter was defended without reasonable grounds must be supported by the evidence, and there must be supporting evidence upon which to make the finding, just as is the case of other findings upon which the award is made." Pacific Employers Ins. Co. v. Peck, 129 Ga. App. 439, 441 (200 SE2d 151).
Having reviewed the evidence, we are of the opinion that the employer/insurer's defense was not unreasonable. A novel, serious question was raised with regard to claimant's employment status as a JTPA participant.
Claimant was enrolled in a seven-week JTPA program. Through that program, claimant was given instruction to enable him to seek future employment. His attitude and work habits were evaluated with that goal in mind. Arguably, claimant was not paid a wage; rather, he was given a training allowance (from which taxes were not withheld); In this respect, he was treated differently from the Center's "regular employees. In our view, these facts cast legitimate doubt upon claimant's employment status and therefore afforded the employer/insurer a reasonable basis for defending the claim.
There being a reasonable basis for the employer/insurer's defense, the superior court erred in affirming that portion of the board's award finding the employer/insurer liable for attorney fees.
Steve T. Woodman, for appellee.
Kenneth B. Donahue, for appellants.
DECIDED JUNE 2, 1988.
NORTH v. FLOYD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al. (212 Ga. App. 593) (442 SE2d 809) (1994)
ECHO ENTERPRISES, INC. et al. v. ASPINWALL. (194 Ga. App. 444) (390 SE2d 867) (1990)
GRAY v. THE STATE. (191 Ga. App. 135) (381 SE2d 312) (1989)
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Natalie Portman And Ashton Kutcher Sound Off On No Strings Attached’s Unequal Paychecks
Kutcher was reportedly paid three times more than Portman. Sigh.
Deepa Lakshmin deepa 01/12/2017
The gender pay gap has always been a thing in Hollywood (and elsewhere), but at least now people are speaking up about it. In the February issue of Marie Claire UK, cover star and Jackie actress Natalie Portman got real about being paid less than her male co-stars, specifically Ashton Kutcher.
Turns out Kutcher was paid three times more than her for No Strings Attached, the 2011 rom-com that came out less than two months after Black Swan, the critically acclaimed drama for which Portman won an Oscar. (Kutcher has never won an Oscar, for whatever that's worth.)
"I knew and I went along with it because there’s this thing with 'quotes' in Hollywood," Portman told the magazine. "His [quote] was three times higher than mine so they said he should get three times more. I wasn’t as pissed as I should have been. I mean, we get paid a lot, so it’s hard to complain, but the disparity is crazy."
"Compared to men, in most professions, women make 80 cents to the dollar," Portman continued. "In Hollywood, we are making 30 cents to the dollar."
After Portman's quotes hit the internet Wednesday (January 11), Kutcher followed up with his own positive but kind of generic response. "So proud of Natalie and all women who stand up for closing the gender pay gap!" he tweeted, along with a link to her interview.
https://twitter.com/aplusk/status/819296888864141312
Hopefully he'll follow through on these comments and support his future co-stars when they negotiate for equal pay, like Charlize Theron reportedly did for The Huntsman: Winter's War.
As Entertainment Weekly pointed out, the exact wage gap depends on ethnicity as well as gender. The gap is narrowing very slowly — like, at a glacial pace — but there's still so far to go. Luckily, you can help.
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The Olympic and Sports Museum Juan Antonio Samaranch, managed by the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, is a window on the universe of sport. A long haul for insight into the sport, which is the materialization of a universal language without borders. Sport as a tool for social integration will be a trip you will never forget.
The Olympic and Sports Museum Juan Antonio Samaranch, a pioneer equipment in Europe with a historical, ethical, entertaining and educational shows an overview of the sport in all its disciplines and modalities in an interactive space featuring an advanced technology applied to all areas it becomes a spectacle for the senses. A cultural and interactive format in which new technologies have an important role in multimedia interactive performances and installations to convey experiences and to induce reflection. In the living museum aspects of the sport in all its facets, from the high yield to competitive sport and leisure and sporting activities for people with disabilities or sport in general. Millennium Sport is something else to do physical exercise. The Museum will introduce the different facets of the sport, the Olympic spirit and values associated with its practice. His visit will explain how, through sport, you can:
Promoting Values: The way to approach both sport and the Olympic movement has been trying to spread positive values of sport such as teamwork, work and consistency.
Educate: The museum wants to become a place to bring children and schools to live an enjoyable and educational at the same time.
Innovate: We present the sports people in a closer way through audiovisual and multimedia facilities. One of the features of the museum is that interactivity is very present, so that the visitor has an experience that leads to reflection.
Renew: Supply and programming will be constantly updated with new content and new contributions, as the exhibition formats allow constant adjustments.
The opening of the Museum was made possible thanks to contributions from the following institutions:
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Don Broco Biography
Don Broco
Don Broco are a British rock band formed in Bedford, England in 2008. The band consists of Rob Damiani (lead vocals and electronics), Simon Delaney (guitar), Tom Doyle (bass) and Matt Donnelly (drums and vocals). The band's debut album Priorities was released on 13 August 2012, and will be followed up by Automatic on 7 August 2015.
The band's origins go back to before their university years during High School, attending Bedford Modern School, where they played their first gigs, but it wasn't until after University where they decided to become a band. Damiani, Delaney and Donnely all attended the same High School, and met Rayner after university.
The band initially took on many different names, including "Club Sex". One of the group's ideas was "Don Loco", which was changed to Don Broco following guitarist Simon Delaney breaking his wrist in a football accident.
They first toured the country in November 2008, playing gigs in places such as Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester and Watford, amongst others.
They appeared at Camden Crawl and Download Festival in 2009, as well as supporting Enter Shikari on a short run of shows in May 2009.
Don Broco also played Underage Festival, at Victoria Park in London, UK, in both 2009 and 2010. They played Sonisphere festival 2010 on the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage. The band then went on to support Enter Shikari at both their Christmas parties at Hatfield Forum in December 2010. In September 2010 Don Broco also played in a local festival called Amersham Summer Festival.
Don Broco are planning to release a second studio album in Autumn 2015. They have stated that the majority of 2014 would be focused around writing material for the album and that they will headline a tour after its release. It was announced that the band will be supporting British band You Me at Six during their UK headline tour during March and April 2014, along with support act Young Kato.
In late August 2014 Don Broco were announced to headline 2015's Kerrang! tour in February, when they will tour the UK with support from pop rock band We Are the In Crowd and metalcore bands Bury Tomorrow and Beartooth.
On 23 November 2014, the first single from the new album, titled "Money Power Fame", premiered on BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show" programme. A second single, "Fire", was streamed online on 26 January 2015. On 7 April 2015, the band released the third song off the new album titled "What You Do to Me".
The second album, Automatic, is set to be released 7 August 2015.
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Morphius.com: The End of the Universe: Black, Lewis: Music
Stand Up! (SUR-006CD)
One of the most prolific and popular performers working today, Lewis executes a brilliant trifecta as stand-up comedian, actor and author. Receiving critical acclaim, he performs over 200 nights a year to sell-out audiences throughout Europe, New Zealand, Canada and The United States. He is one of few performers to sell out multiple, renowned theatres including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City Center and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Lewis’s new book Me of Little Faith hits the shelves at Borders, Barnes & Noble and other fine bookstores on June 3rd. Even at the age of 60, it seems like his career is just getting going. See Lewis On Tour and pick up the landmark albums that jumpstarted his career. Along with The White Album, End of The Universe includes some of the world's most biting social commentary. Perhaps chiefly by standing at one intersection with a Starbucks on either side of him and pointing out what so many Americans have failed to notice about their own culture, Lewis has created what many consider the pinnacle of the art form of comedy. Pick up this album, and see him on tour:
05/01/2008 - Santa Barbara, CA - Arlington Theatre
05/02/2008 - Thousand Oaks, CA - Fred Kavli Theatre - Thousand Oaks Civic Arts
05/03/2008 - Long Beach, CA - Terrace Theater - Long Beach Convention Center
05/04/2008 - Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
05/08/2008 - Boston, MA - Opera House
05/09/2008 - Syracuse, NY - Landmark Theatre
05/10/2008 - Sewell, NJ - Commerce Bank Arts Centre
05/11/2008 - Rochester, NY - Rochester Aud Theatre
05/15/2008 - Washington, DC - Warner Theatre
07/10/2008 - Birmingham, AL - BJCC Arena
07/11/2008 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
07/13/2008 - Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theatre Memphis
07/17/2008 - Erie, PA - Warner Theatre
07/18/2008 - Reading, PA - Sovereign Performing Arts Center
07/20/2008 - Albany, NY - Palace Theatre Albany
07/24/2008 - San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre San Antonio
07/25/2008 - Austin, TX - Austin Music Hall
07/27/2008 - Fort Worth, TX - Bass Performance Hall
07/31/2008 - Richmond, VA - Landmark Theater
08/02/2008 - Norfolk, VA - Chrysler Hall
08/03/2008 - Baltimore, MD - Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
08/09/2008 - Peoria, IL - Peoria Civic Center
08/10/2008 - Columbus, OH - Palace Theatre Columbus
09/04/2008 - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theatre
09/05/2008 - Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre
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Robin O.
What To Do About Mental Clarity & Dyslexia
Author: Robin O.
We have a college student living with us who is very dyslexic and has a very hard time studying. She said that when she tries to read she has to sound out every word and fight the confusion of ideas going through her head. Her reading speed is very low and comprehension even lower.
One night she had a head cold so I put a few drops of the RC oil blend into a dish with very warm water for her to inhale. After a few minutes she said that she had the overwhelming urge to drink it.
I didn't think it would hurt her so she did. She went back to her room to study and said that a few minutes later her brain cleared and she could read clearly. She usually takes about 4 hours to read 4 pages of history.
That night she read and comprehended four pages in about 30 minutes.
She made her highest score ever on that history exam!
Additional keyword(s) assigned by the editor: cognitive, concentration, disability, fluency, language, learning, neurological, reading disorder, thinking.
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Immortalisation (standard:fantasy, 1012 words)
Author: Melkor Added: Jun 22 2007 Views/Reads: 1663/1045 Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
He had met her here countless times, but this time something was different.
He looked on as the sun set. The same image that backdropped innumerable
memories. His gaze wandered around the three walled shack. This was
their favourite place. Isolated, and overlooking most of the world they
knew. They would wait until the sun set, and then climb back down to
the city. The orange light was slowly fading away. He couldn't remember
the last time they had decided to meet here this late. There would
definitely be something important she wanted to say.
He looked back at the sun. It was seconds away from sinking below the
horizon. He reached his hand out, as if to catch it. To hold it there
until she comes, just so she can watch it, even if it would be for the
thousandth time. He noticed it was drizzling. It felt like a cool layer
of morning dew forming over his hand. He waited in daydream, until the
stars began to appear in the sky, along with the city lights below.
Just when he began to wonder if he should worry about her, she walked up
to the door. Greetings that could not be said in words were exchanged
as she waited there. He could tell from when he first saw her that
something was different. Her face seemed naked without the smile that
he was used to seeing. And as most other things, it was more beautiful
that way.
He stood up, and broke the silence, without ever breaking eye contact.
"What took you so long?" "Long story." Anxious, though he was, he would
have to wait for her to tell him her way. She walked up to him and
said, "It's not what you think." "You're so sure you know what I
think?" "Maybe I don't. But I'm sure I know the things you won't think,
and this is one of them." She turned toward the window, and said "I
like the night better, don't you? It brings out our true characters. We
can be just who we want to be, and there's no one around to bother us.
Night is for those who are different, and some of those who want to
be." He didn't say anything, knowing that she would then get to the
point faster.
She turned to face him again. And then she kissed him. And even that was
different. So different that he couldn't even begin to identify what
was different about it. It wasn't warm; it reminded him of the drizzle
outside. Like cool morning dew. He could still unmistakably identify
her though, and that was definitely a good thing.
"You love me." He was tempted to answer, but he knew it wasn't a
question. "We swore that we'll stay together, whatever it takes. But
I'm not gonna hold you to that.” she continued. He opened his mouth,
but she didn't give him enough time to realise that he hadn't found
words yet. "My life changed completely yesterday. More than I could
ever imagine. And now, you're going to have to make a choice. If you
chose to stay with me, you'll have to let go of everything else you
have, and everything you know. We'll have to leave this place, leave
everyone you know behind. Leave behind your life, your dreams, your
whole world. And you will most probably also end up leaving behind who
"So, you can leave yourself, or ..." He had already completed the
sentence. "I'm not leaving you. I'd like to stick to every promise I
made. I meant all that I said. I'm prepared to let go of everything you
need me to, as long as I understand the reasons why I must." She moved
closer, and said almost in his ear, "And that, I promise, you will."
ending in just a whisper.
She kissed him again. This time, he couldn't even identify her. As he
was trying to figure out how she changed so suddenly, who she was now,
and where she might want him to go, she moved down to his neck, and bit
so hard that he gasped and opened his eyes. He tried to jerk himself
away, but her grip was too strong. He noticed how fast he was
breathing, and then suddenly noticed that she wasn't breathing at all.
He made sense of it now, the choice he had just made. His heart was
racing, but he knew hers wouldn't be beating at all. Now that he knew
what she was doing, he could feel the life being sucked out of him. The
world around him slowly faded away, until all he could see was black.
Had life already left him? He must have thought out loud, because he
heard her say: "Life will leave, but death won't come."
He couldn't move, and he couldn't see, but he could still hear her, and
he could still talk in whispers. "You lied to me.", he said.
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Avicii has died
Sweden's Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii, died Friday at the age of 28. 'One day you'll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember' - The Nights, Avicii
Prolific songwriter, producer and artist Avicii (AKA Tim Bergling) died on April 20 as one of the world’s highest grossing live music artists. He was 28 years old.
Bergling was born in Stockholm on Sept. 8, 1989. As a teenager he began a career as a DJ and released his first single in 2007. He released a large number of singles and remixes in the following years, quickly building a reputation as a live act and hitting the charts with singles and collaborations.
In 2011, he broke into the international scene and in 2012 he became the first DJ to headline New York’s prestigious Radio City Music Hall. He released his debut album “True” in September 2013, and was No. 1 for a record 14 weeks on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Songs chart with “Wake Me Up,” and continued with high-profile collaborations around the globe.
He had some health setbacks, and was hospitalized in March 2014 and cancelled several tour appearances; but then he collaborated with Carlos Santana and Wyclef on the official FIFA World Cut Anthem “We Will Find a Way” and produced a song on Coldplay’s album “Ghost Stories.” He released his second full-length, “Stories,” in October 2015.
Though his health problems were known to the public, his 2016 decision to retire from touring was a surprise to his fans. “It was something I had to do for my health,” Bergling told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. “The scene was not for me. It was not the shows and not the music. It was always the other stuff surrounding it that never came naturally to me. All the other parts of being an artist. I'm more of an introverted person in general. It was always very hard for me. I took on board too much negative energy, I think.”
His death comes just before the long-planned Washington DC screening of the film, AVICII: TRUE STORIES, scheduled for this Sunday, April 22.
In conjunction with the exhibition The Creative Nation: Swedish Tech and Innovation, the House of Sweden is showing AVICII: TRUE STORIES By Levan Tsikurishvili on April 22 at 3 p.m. The event is free.
The film traces the Swedish artist/DJ’s life from his beginnings, all the way to the joy of his success, from his chart-topping global radio hits and subsequent struggles with his physical and mental health. Tsikurishvili followed Bergling for over four years, and captured fly-on-the-wall footage of his experiences and thinking. The film reveals the choices he faced and his thoughts at the time.
Featuring appearances by colleagues such as Chris Martin, Nile Rodgers, David Guetta and Wyclef Jean, Avicii: True Stories is a cautionary tale that explores the taxing nature and intensity of fame from the artist's point of view as much as it is a film for Avicii’s die-hard fans.
"I wanted to do a brutally honest film about Tim as a person and not only about Avicii. Everybody knows Avicii but very few people know Tim. I think this documentary really shows Tim’s struggle and strength of character. Being a worldwide superstar artist is not as easy as it looks on Instagram,” Tsikurishvili says.
RSVP (it's free) here to attend the screening
More info: http://www.aviciitruestories.com
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZFK3VKzQIs
Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii. Photo: Avicii AB
Avicii spins his 2013 hit “Wake me up.” The star DJ had to call off all his shows scheduled for the remainder of 2014 to recover from surgery earlier this year. Photo: Jalil Arfaoui
Image from the movie playing at the House of Sweden on April 22, 2018. www.aviciitruestories.com
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by Chuckles • June 20, 2019 • 3 Comments
1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model:
“I wan’ all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan’ all the kids to copulate me.”
2. New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:
“I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first..”
3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the ‘Skin’s say:
“I’d run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,”
Matt Millen of the Raiders said: “To win, I’d run over Joe’s Mom, too.”
4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
“He treat us like mens. He let us wear earrings..”
5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:
“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
6. Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh :
“I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes..”
(Now that is beautiful)
7. Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach:
“You guys line up alphabetically by height..”
And, “You guys pair up in groups of three, and then line up in a circle.”
8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison:
“Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton ..”
9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker:
“That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.”
10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota:
“He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning, regardless of what time it is.”
11. Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice:
“My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt. (I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)
12. Frank Layden , Utah Jazz president, on a former player:
“I asked him, ‘Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?’
He said, ‘Coach, I don’t know and I don’t care.’”
13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F’s and one D:
“Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.”
14. In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:
“I can go to my left or right, I am amphibious.”
15. Former Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips,
Phillips responded: “Because she’s too ugly to kiss good-bye.”
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3 comments for “Lost in translation”
All that does is show why ‘jocks’ have a hard time finishing high school in the US, but some of them make good money regardless.
Mark Matis
Actually, MOST of those are adherents to fourth world culture…
lordsomber
“He also was the first pass rusher to use the head slap, a move that he said was, ‘…to give myself an initial head start on the pass rush, in other words an extra step. Because anytime you go upside a man’s head … or a woman; they may have a tendency to blink they [sic] eyes or close they eyes…'”
— Deacon Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm2l0pxYw-4
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Jaitley wants US to alter 'unjust' social security regime
by veena April 16, 2015 0136
Washington, April 16 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has pushed for the US administration to begin a process by which contributions by Indians to the country’s exchequer by way of social security is returned and not retained in an “unjust” manner.
“This is like an aid program that Indian workers run for the US government,” Jaitley said during his speech at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, entitled “India’s demographic transition: Opportunities for partnership”.
“Indians contribute – according to research done by Jacob Kirkegaard at the Peterson Institute – about $3 billion annually to the US government by way of social security contributions, which they will never receive back,” the finance minister said.
He, accordingly, wanted the US to alter what is formally called the totalisation regime. “I am confident that the US will take up this matter soon,” he said, calling the present arrangement a “very unjust situation”.
Indian workers, who are posted to foreign countries by their employers in India over short periods of time, continue to make social security contribution in India as per Indian law. At the same time, some countries like the US make them pay contributions under their laws as well.
Such contributions do not accrue to the workers till they have been made for a certain period.
Successive Indian governments have raised the issue with the US, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he met US President Barack Obama in New Delhi in January this year.
“We will also start discussions on the social security agreement that’s so important for the hundreds and thousands of Indian professionals working in the US,” Modi had said during his remarks at the joint press interaction with Obama.
A totalisation agreement between the US and India has been a long-standing demand by the IT industry for Indian workers who are in the US for temporary work and pay towards social security.
Industry body the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) had requested that Modi discuss with Obama the long outstanding issue of a totalisation agreement.
The US currently has such agreements with 25 countries.
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James Franco just can’t shake the James Dean connection. Back in 2001, the actor won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Dean in a made-for-TV movie (the resemblance and mannerisms were uncanny). Now, he’s taking on a project about Dean’s Rebel Without a Cause co-star, Sal Mineo. Franco optioned the rights to Sal Mineo: A Biography and is interested in writing and directing a screen version. The book details Mineo’s life as a rising young star in films like Rebel and Exodus (1960) as well as his conflicted sexuality, friendships with Dean and Natalie Wood and his untimely murder at the age of 37. Hmm...wonder if Franco's gonna reprise his role as James Dean for this one.
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Labels: james dean, james franco, rebel without a cause, sal mineo
A Pirate Meets The Thin Man!
So I think maybe I’m a little psychic. Or maybe just super intuitive.
Way back in February of last year I wrote a post about franchises, focusing specifically on The Thin Man series and also referencing the shoulda-stopped-after-one Pirates of the Caribbean series. Little did I know over a year later these two franchises would be magically combined! How is this mash-up possible you ask? Picture Johnny Depp as Nick Charles, the cocktail-sipping, fast-quipping detective originated by William Powell, and you’ll get what I mean.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, it seems Warner Bros. is remaking the 1930s-through-40s franchise (six films over 13 years) with Captain Jack Sparrow himself in the lead role. Word is, Depp’s been trying to convince his Pirates 4 director Rob Marshall to direct him on this film too. Mind you, all of this is still in its early stages - there’s not even a script yet. But it’s an interesting prospect, no? We already know Depp has wit and swagger - plus he can rock a thin mustache.
Who do you think will snag the role of Nora, Nick’s sassy, wealthy wife and partner in solving crime, originally played by Myrna Loy? Cate Blanchett? Or am I just saying that because I believe she can do no wrong?
Two franchises merging into... a remake. Hollywood's really working overtime, isn't it?
Labels: Johnny Depp, Myrna Loy, The Thin Man, William Powell
Michelle as Marilyn!
Way back when (December to be exact), we posted that Michelle Williams was considering stepping into Marilyn Monroe's high-heeled pumps for the film My Week with Marilyn. Since that post not only as Williams accepted the role, she's begun filming it. As of today, the first pic of Williams as Marilyn was released, and let's just say she nails the blonde bombshell look.
The flick, due out in 2012, focuses on the personal account of assistant director Colin Clarke, who worked with Monroe and director Laurence Olivier on 1957's The Prince and the Showgirl. Word is, Monroe and Olivier did not get along. She drove him ca-razy. So crazy, in fact, that Olivier basically gave up on directing after that. Kenneth Branagh is playing Olivier and Eddie Redmayne is playing Colin Clarke.
What do you think of Williams' Marilyn look?
Labels: laurence olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams
Old Hollywood's Ultimate Cougar!
Forget Demi Moore. She’s got nothing on Celeste Holm. The 93-year-old Oscar-winning actress (for her supporting role opposite Gregory Peck in Gentlemen’s Agreement) lives a life of luxe in a fabulous duplex apartment on Manhattan’s Central Park West…with her 47-year-old husband. That’s right. For those of you good at math, that’s a 46 year age difference. Meet Old Hollywood’s ultimate cougar.
Not bad for an actress who had a pretty low-key reputation back in the day. She was the wholesome best friend to Bette Davis’ grande dame of Broadway in 1950’s All About Eve, and a Broadway darling herself in numerous productions on the Great White Way. Holm never attracted much in the way of scandal – aside from four previous marriages that all ended in divorce. But look at her now!
According to the NY Post, Holm has kept her magnificent apartment largely unchanged since she purchased it for a mere $10,000 in 1953 (which today would be worth more than $10 million). And again, for those math whizzes – that’s before her husband, opera singer Frank Basile, was even born!
Not gonna lie, we’re kind of impressed. Out of all of these present-day Hollywood cougars, Celeste Holm reigns supreme. Get it, girl!
Labels: all about eve, celeste holm, cougar, gentleman's agreement
Jackie Earle Haley Goes Silent!
Ah, the silent film. No whiney voices (Miley Cyrus), no blank expressions (Kristen Stewart), no cheesy dialogue (pick any romantic comedy). Can’t we just go back to that? Ok, ok, so modern movies with sound aren’t all bad. Thanks for proving that, Christopher Nolan. But wouldn’t it be fun to see how some modern day movie stars fared without the use of their voice? Could they hack it?
In the film Louis, Jackie Earle Haley (the creepy guy in Little Children and…well, just about everything) gives it a shot. The film, directed by Dan Pritzker, is about a young Louis Armstrong and his dreams of becoming a musician. It aims to pay homage to the silent films of the early 1900s and Haley plays a Charlie Chaplin-esque villain (duh). The film is void of dialogue, but rich in cinematography (by Oscar winner Vilmos Zsigmond) and a blaring jazz score. It’s set to tour five cities in late August, complete with a 10-piece jazz ensemble.
It’s an ambitious idea to be sure, but I, for one, am curious to see how it turns out. You know what they say, actions speak louder than words.
Labels: charlie chaplin, jackie earle haley, louis, silent films
That's What Hitch Said!
Anyone who has watched The Office at some point knows Michael Scott's favorite "That's what she said" joke. But who knew the master of dark suspense Alfred Hitchcock had the same naughty sense of humor? Don't believe me? Here's proof, courtesy of the Huffington Post. It's video of a sound test for Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail. Granted Hitch actually says "as the girl said," but it's a variation on the same joke.
Once I saw this, I just new it was worth reposting. It certainly left me smiling and satisfied...
Labels: alfred hitchcock
On the Boulevard
Last summer while on vacation in London, I came across a Colin Farrell movie shoot in progress. I swear I must have a radar for these things. I stood across the street, watching the dreamy Irish actor shoot his scenes in a Rolls Royce, all the while pondering what movie it was and how I could get close enough to snap a picture. I did eventually sneak a photo – albeit a slighty blurry one (see above). And I also did eventually find out what movie he was filming, and whaddaya know? It has a classic movie connection. I’m tellin’ you – radar.
The film, called London Boulevard, is a loose take-off of Sunset Boulevard and based on the book by Ken Bruen. Instead of a ready-for-her-close-up Gloria Swanson, this film has Keira Knightley playing a reclusive former movie star. Farrell – a truly underrated actor, in my opinion - plays an ex-con who becomes involved with her. The director and screenplay writer is William Monahan, who also wrote The Departed, so expect lots of gritty tension and twisty turns.
The film doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s something to look out for.
What do you think of the 1950 classic rebooted and set in London? Think Keira’s a little young to be playing a washed up actress? And, more importantly, should I have mauled Colin Farrell when I had the chance?
Labels: colin farrell, gloria swanson, keira knightley, london boulevard, sunset boulevard
Wanna See James Dean Point a Gun at Ronald Reagan?
Back when Ronald Reagan only had a Screen Actors Guild presidency under his belt and back when James Dean was just a quirky young actor and not the icon of rebellious youth he is today, the unlikely duo appeared on screen together in an episode of General Electric Theater which aired live on December 12, 1954. Check out rare snippets from this episode called "The Dark Dark Hours." Reagan plays a straitlaced doctor, Dean plays a loose cannon criminal. It's glorious.
"Do. The. Best. You. Can. Ya dig me?"
Oh yes, James Dean, we dig you.
Labels: james dean, Ronald Reagan
They've Got Grace!
Do you live in London or are you planning on visiting as soon as this volcanic dust settles? An exhibition showcasing the wardrobe of one Miss Grace Kelly has opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum. It’s a good thing I’m not going because I’d probably be the crazy girl hauled away by security for trying to pilfer one of her outfits from Rear Window. For those of us who can’t see the exhibit in person (for security reasons or otherwise) the Daily Mail has a great article with suggestions on how you can copy the looks that made Grace a star.
All this Princess Grace news got me thinking. And all that thinking led me to another game of “Who Would Play.” We here at On the Marquee last played this game with Natalie Wood. Now it’s time to list some potential Grace Kellys - for the Grace Kelly biopic that for now only exists in my head.
This first one is kind of obvious and it’s not hard to picture – mainly because we know she can already pull off the vintage wardrobe and also because Mad Men beats us over the head with the Grace Kelly comparisons every chance it gets. But while we think January Jones rocks as Betty Draper on the AMC drama, we kind of think that might be the only character she can play. I mean, you saw her Rear Window skit on SNL, right? Yikes.
Emily Deschanel
Bear with me on this one. Try to picture the Bones star with a blonde wig - there's definitely some similar bone structure going on. Still don't see it? Ah well. Consider this pick a dark horse.
Think we found a winner! This lovely Brit brings her poise and, ahem, grace to every role she takes. Whether it’s the soft-spoken eldest sister in Pride & Prejudice or the not-too-bright socialite in An Education. We think she has the look and the talent. Ok, so we may not have been the first to notice her Grace Kelly-like attributes, but we’re totally on board with her as first choice.
What do you guys think? Any other suggestions? Just not Gwyneth Paltrow. Only non-obnoxious actresses need apply.
Labels: Emily Deschanel, Grace Kelly, January Jones, Rosamund Pike
Kate as Mildred!
I can't possibly be the only one geeking out over Kate Winslet as Mildred Pierce. Since she's currently filming the HBO miniseries in Manhattan, I think a good old-fashioned set-stalking is in order. But until I can get up-close with my camera, I'll let the paparazzi do it for me. Here are a few shots taken of Ms. Winslet filming in her 1930s costume. She's got the Depression-era housewife look down! Plus, check out that great prop newspaper!
Labels: kate winslet, mildred pierce
My Fair Carey
So remember last year when we told you that Keira Knightley was in talks to star in a remake of the Audrey Hepburn classic, My Fair Lady? Well, it seems Keira’s out and the newest British It Girl is in! Carey Mulligan – incidentally Keira’s co-star in 2005’s Pride and Prejudice – is now the lead choice to play Eliza Doolittle. We’re hoping this is true, because the info came straight from the mouth of the film’s writer, Emma Thompson. (Thompson didn’t tell us, of course, but she told the BBC and that’s as close as “straight from her mouth” as we’re gonna get.) However, Mulligan is still playing coy on the subject, saying at this point she just “doesn’t know.”
As Mulligan mulls her options, let us count the reasons we think she just might be the perfect choice.
After her brilliant turn as 16-year-old girl taken in by an older man in An Education, Mulligan proved she can carry a movie all by herself.
We love Keira, but let’s face it, she’s kind of a glamour-puss. Mulligan will be able to play both pre-and post-makeover Eliza with great believability. She’s more of an “every-girl,” if you will.
She’s one of the hottest commodities in town right now (and not just ‘cause she’s dating her Wall Street 2 co-star Shia LaBeouf). She’s that rare instance of a pretty young actress who’s also smart, talented and a little bit quirky (she wore a dress with tiny forks and scissors hanging off it to the Oscars). Plus, this year’s Oscar nomination certainly didn’t hurt.
As for the role of Henry Higgins, played by Rex Harrison in the 1964 film, Hugh Grant has reportedly been linked to the role. But that, says Thompson, has also yet to be confirmed. If the potential addition of Mulligan is any indication, My Fair Lady may be poised to follow its predecessor in a trip to the Oscars.
Labels: audrey hepburn, carey mulligan, keira knightley, my fair lady
Hollywood's Cheating Hearts
Cheaters. They’re saturating the news so much right now, it’s just plain unavoidable. The most recent example being Jesse James, the Monster Garage scumbag who dared cheat on America’s sweetheart and recent Best Actress Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock. Granted, she married a tattooed, motorcycle riding bad boy with a porn star ex, so she basically got what she paid for – but that doesn’t make the situation suck any less. Who cheats on Miss Congeniality?! Jesse better watch his back – we hear Sandy’s got Betty White on her side.
Jesse James isn’t first (and he certainly won’t be the last) celeb to give in to his roving eye and amped up libido. In Old Hollywood, illicit affairs were rampant. Let’s look at some of the most infamous philanderers from back then, shall we?
The number one spot has to go to Spencer Tracy. He was one-half of one of Hollywood’s most famous couples – the other half of course being Katharine Hepburn. But there was actually one other fraction to that equation that a lot of people might forget – Tracy’s wife. He stayed married all throughout his 25-year relationship with Hepburn. His Catholic faith prevented him from seeking a divorce, but not from breaking the commandment about adultery, obviously.
Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor
Well I guess if you’re gonna cheat, you do it with one of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood - Elizabeth Taylor. It’d be like someone having an affair with Angelina Jolie - you just don’t pass that up (methinks Brad Pitt knows what I mean). Burton was married with kids when he and Taylor first hooked up on the set of Cleopatra. But let’s not forget about Taylor, who wasn't exactly a saint. She was married at the time too, to Eddie Fischer (who had left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for Taylor!) Oh what a tangled web…
Ooh this is a juicy one. Good ole Clarkie was married to a woman named Maria Franklin Printiss while he had an on-set affair with Loretta Young in 1935. Their affair produced a love child, but Young hid this fact from the world, pretending her daughter Judy was adopted. Judy herself believed this lie throughout most of her life and she met Gable only once, as a teenager, with no idea that he was her real father. She didn’t find out this fact until 20 years later. Pretty messed up, huh?
Ingrid Bergman & Roberto Rossellini
Talk about a scandal! Bergman and Rossellini were both married when they began their affair in 1949. In 1950, Bergman gave birth to Rossellini’s son – sparking outrage. (You have to admit, it was pretty brazen for such a huge star.) The affair almost ruined the actress’ image completely, and she was exiled for the U.S. for a time because of it.
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Labels: affairs, clark gable, elizabeth taylor, ingrid bergman, jesse james, katharine hepburn, loretta young, richard burton, roberto rossellini, sandra bullock, spencer tracy
On the Marquee & Whiskey
So check this out. On the Marquee is branching out to different mediums! Yours truly crashed Sean and Bob’s WhiskeyHour podcast today and chatted about this very blog. I talk about my latest post on I Confess, so go to whiskeyhour.com to check it out! My bit is towards the end, but make sure you listen to Sean and Bob’s musings too! And follow them on Twitter. Because they’re awesome. (And I’m not just saying that because I work with them.)
Labels: podcast, WhiskeyHour
The Full Monty!
Starting last Thursday and all through this month, BAMcinématek is running a Montgomery Clift retrospective. I like to think of Clift as the actor who showed the world how brooding was done. (Wannabe brooders like Robert Pattinson take note.) In his films, Monty perfected the silent sulk, the inner turmoil, the just-below-the-surface panic and despair of a brooding hero, in a way that sets you on edge. “When is he finally going to explode?” you keep thinking.
No better evidence of this is found than in Alfred Hitchcock’s supremely underrated I Confess – the film I moseyed on down to Brooklyn this weekend to watch, with my mom (the biggest Clift-fan I know) and sister in tow. Just how under the radar is this film, you ask? I had no idea Hitchcock even directed it until the credits started to role. You’ll never hear it spoken about in the same breath as Psycho, Rear Window and Vertigo, but all the makings of a Hitchcock classic are there. From his camerawork (a lot of back-of-the-head shots and foreboding cathedral angles) to the interesting location (Quebec) to the story of murder, religion and scandalous intrigue.
Clift plays conflicted priest Fr. Michael Logan, who receives a confession of murder, yet cannot break his vows to speak of it. Things get complicated when Fr. Logan himself gets implicated in the murder. Turns out, he may have had quite the motive – one that involves a married woman (Anne Baxter). Does he go against his religion and talk? Or will he go to the grave for a crime he didn’t commit?
Chock-full of great stuff, I tell ya. Including a sly performance by Karl Malden as the investigator determined to bring Fr. Logan to justice.
Clift – like many of the characters he played – led a conflicted life. The actor battled alcoholism, drug abuse, his closeted homosexuality, and later in life, a nasty car accident that permanently altered his good looks. Marilyn Monroe once described him as "the only person I know who is in worse shape than I am." But thanks to films like I Confess, and showcases like the one at BAM, we’re able to see Monty immortalized in peak cinematic condition.
Labels: alfred hitchcock, Anne Baxter, BAM, I Confess, karl malden, Montgomery Clift
Pierce Gets Pearce! (And Evan Rachel Wood!)
HBO’s Mildred Pierce five-part mini-series is shaping up quite nicely! As I previously reported, the great Kate Winslet is going all Joan Crawford in the title role. And in the latest bit of casting news, Evan Rachel Wood has signed on to play Mildred’s scheming, ungrateful bitch of a daughter, Veda. I’m all set to hate her already! Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) is set to play Monte Beragon, the role originated by Zachary Scott in the 1945 film. Melissa Leo, James Le Gros, Brian F. O’Byrne, and Morgan Turner round out the cast.
Sounds top notch. Primed for an Emmy-sweep, if you ask me.
Labels: evan rachel wood, guy pearce, kate winslet, mildred pierce
Natalie Wood Mystery Resurfaces
Sudden celeb deaths are always a point of fascination. But once the police (and the media) decide case closed, it’s on to the next scandal. Case in point: Heath Ledger. We never did find out the exact Mary-Kate Olsen connection. Will we ever? And Brittany Murphy. The coroner ruled there were no illegal drugs in her system. But was there more to the story? What’s with that shady husband? Questions, questions. Maybe years down the line someone will decide to re-open the cases.
Which brings me to this latest bit of news.
Friends and family of Natalie Wood (A Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass) have asked the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office to re-open the case surrounding her mysterious death, CNN reported yesterday. Wood died tragically at the age of 43 after falling off a yacht and drowning in November 1981, following an argument with her husband Robert Wagner. Wood's sister, Lana Wood, and Dennis Davern, former captain of the yacht called The Splendour, are now hoping police will investigate and find out the truth – and to be honest, we’re pretty curious ourselves.
According to Wagner’s autobiography, he admits he got into a fight with Christopher Walken, who was also aboard the boat and may have had a less-than-appropriate relationship with Wood. He said during the fight Wood went back to her room and that was the last he saw of her. But the captain says he heard Wood and Wagner fighting inside their stateroom, then arguing on the boat's deck. He thinks her death was a direct result of their fighting. Cue the conspiracy theorists.
This is one case that begs to be revisited. Circumstances are just too strange – and ironic – considering Wood’s biggest fear was dark water. Maybe now we’ll get some answers. Or maybe, like most things in Hollywood, the truth will remain just below the surface.
Labels: celebrity deaths, christopher walken, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner
A Good Old Fashioned Gag Reel!
This absolutely made my morning.
Humphrey Bogart flubbing his lines?! Edward G. Robinson unable to work his prop gun?! It's a 1930's blooper reel and it'll blow your mind. (At around the 6:45 mark, check out the guy in the Lady GaGa headdress. Amazing.)
Want more? I know I do! Click here for the complete series of Warner Bros. bloopers. Oh man, you'll be glad you did.
Labels: gag reel
San Francisco Treats!
I visited San Francisco last weekend and here’s what I discovered: there are a lot of steep hills to be climbed, good food to be eaten, amazing shopping to be done, and many Full House references to be made. But even more than that - because I always have movies on the brain, even on vacation - I noticed evidence of Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on the town. I spotted old movie posters tacked up in the Castro and an entire book dedicated to Hitchcock’s San Fran films in the Ferry Market. It all got me thinking about my favorite old flicks set in the colorful California city. Here are a few that came to mind:
Dark Passage (1947)
This movie is all kinds of ridiculous, and it completely sucked me in one night on TCM. Humphrey Bogart plays an escaped wrongly accused convict, and nearly the entire first half of the movie is filmed as if you’re seeing through Bogart’s eyes. Then, he gets plastic surgery to disguise his looks, so there’s a good chunk of the movie where he’s all wrapped in bandages. You may not be able to see his face through most of the movie, but you do catch glimpses of some San Fran scenery. Lauren Bacall’s apartment building can be found on Telegraph Hill.
With all those steep San Francisco hills, it’s no wonder James Stewart’s character had vertigo! This Hitchcock classic, also starring Kim Novak, includes some iconic shots of the Golden Gate Bridge, Mission Dolores and Nob Hill. Granted, it’s not my favorite Hitchcock film (not even close), but as for movies set in San Fran, it's one to see.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A substitute English teacher at my high school made my class read Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon just for the hell of it. (Seriously, when we asked him why he picked that book for us to read, he shrugged and said he thought it might be fun.) Then, he showed us the movie. In this real Venetian-blinds film noir, Humphrey Bogart stars as a P.I. for a San Francisco detective agency investigating some mysterious murders that all revolve around one gold-encrusted statue of a bird.
It’s a silly premise, but it’s also kind of a creepy one. Birds inexplicably begin attacking people in a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film opens with a shot of a San Francisco cable car crossing in front of Union Square, as Tippi Hedren makes her entrance. Word is, Hitchcock wanted to end the movie with a shot of birds swarming the Golden Gate Bridge, but it proved too expensive.
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Labels: alfred hitchcock, dark passage, humphrey bogart, San Francisco, the birds, the maltese falcon, vertigo
Beatty Beds 12,000?!
Take that Tiger Woods! While the world is still reeling from news of the golf legend’s escapades with 10 + mistresses, a new biography was released that alleges Warren Beatty bedded over 12,000 women! Kinda makes Woods’ indiscretions seem like nothin’, eh?
Granted, we always knew of Beatty’s womanizing reputation – and how Annette Bening finally tamed the beast in 1992 – but over 12,000?! That’s the population of a small town! Warren Beatty had sex with an entire town of women! Peter Biskind, author of Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, calculates that Beatty slept with "12,775 women, give or take, a figure that does not include daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses and so on." His conquests allegedly included Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Leslie Caron, Isabelle Adjani, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton and Madonna (who hasn’t?).
We’re surprised the 72-year-old is still standing! And as far as we know, he’s never pulled a Duchovny. Beatty has already issued a statement through his attorney denying the claims, and to be fair, that number does seem a little unlikely. Still, it doesn’t keep us from wondering. If Woods taught us anything, it’s that nothing stays secret forever.
Labels: Warren Beatty
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Radon and Thoron
VARIABILITY OF INDOOR RADON LEVEL ACCUMULATION: A STUDY IN PORTUGUESE THERMAL SPAS
A. S. Silva, M. L. Dinis
The aim of this work was to measure the concentration of the indoor radon in 16 Portuguese thermal spas (38% of the thermal spas in Portugal) and assess its variability within each establishment as well as its contribution to the effective dose. The measurements were performed with CR-39 passive detectors placed at different workplaces within each thermal spa, for an average period of 42 days, in different seasons of the year. The indoor radon concentrations ranged from 68 to 4335 Bq/m3 with a geometric mean of 437 Bq/m3 and an arithmetic mean of 702 Bq/m3. Geological factors that can lead to such behaviour are discussed. The results showed that the EU reference level of 300 Bq/m3 (Directive 2013/59/EURATOM) was exceeded in several cases. No significant differences were observed among measurements taken during different seasons of the year, however, large differences of radon concentrations in different rooms of the same thermal establishment were noted as well as significant difference when comparing to other thermal establishments. The effective dose resulting from the inhalation of radon ranged between 2 and 32 mSv/y. In 43% of the thermal spas, the effective dose is likely to be higher than 6 mSv/y, which means that the exposure should be managed as a “planned exposure situation” according to the European Directive 2013/59/EURATOM. Also, in 19% of the cases, the annual effective dose exceeds 20 mSv/y, and in these cases, monitoring and radiological protection is required as laid down in the European Directive 2013/59/EURATOM.
Radão – um gás radioativo de origem natural, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Lisboa, Portugal, 2010. (Radon - a radioactive gas of natural origin, Technological and Nuclear Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.)
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Retrieved on: Dec. 20, 2016
“Sources and effects of ionizing Radiation,” United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, New York (NY), USA, Rep. 46 (A/55/46), 2000.
Retrieved from: http://www.unscear.org/docs/publications/2000/UNSCEAR_2000_Report_Vol.I.pdf
Cadernos da Direcção-Geral da Saúde, vol. 1, Lisboa, Portugal: Direcção-Geral da Saúde, 2002. (Notebooks of Directorate-General for Health, vol. 1, Lisbon, Portugal: Directorate-General for Health, 2002.)
Retrieved from: https://www.dgs.pt/upload/membro.id/ficheiros/i005519.pdf
“Radiation Protection against Radon in Workplaces other than Mines,” IAEA and ILO, Vienna, Austria, Rep. 33, 2003.
Retrieved from: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1168_web.pdf
Radon and health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007.
Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs291/en/
Handbook of indoor radon: A public health perspective, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, 2009.
Retrieved from: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44149/1/9789241547673_eng.pdf
Consumer’s Guide to Radon Reduction: How to fix your home, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington (DC), USA, 2016.
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The Council of European Union. (May 13, 1996). Council Directive 96/29/EURATOM Laying down safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation.
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Jonah Melvon & Adesha will join the Art & Soul Festival this year. The most ethnically diverse fun festival on the West Coast. Great music, great food, great art and good vibes.
The citizens were ready for the change. It started to gentrify without pushing out locals. The East Bay Times reports that the Fruitvale district is a great example that this is possible: “Schildt said it’s possible to invest in a community without causing displacement — particularly if it’s public investment or community-driven. Oakland’s Fruitvale Village is held up as a national model. As Scott Morris reports, the mixed-use development near Fruitvale BART improved the socio-economic well-being of residents in the immediate neighborhood and preserved the area’s racial and ethnic diversity.”
Today 38% of people in Oakland hold secondary degrees, crime is down to the same level as San Francisco, aside of Long Beach California it is the most racially mixed town in the world. When researching the most crime ridden towns in the US no California town made it into the top 30 most dangerous towns in the US. Niche voted Oakland as the 26th best US city to live in.
How did Oakland do it? This is the story that Oakland born and raised artists “Jonah Melvon featuring Adesha” wish to tell. Their song 1099 available on Spotify tells the story of how cities need to pull together to become whole again. Jonah Melvon works closely with business leaders and educational and community outreach organizations to bring about a spirit of “togetherness, love, peace and understanding.” Adesha works with the Boys and Girls Club as a Community Relations Manager. They have lived the story and they want to help cities around the world to help create living conditions that are pleasing for all ethnic groups. It can be done! Oakland is proof that it can be done.
Jonah Melvon believes, as his lyrics explain, that we all need to support local businesses, make education available and accessable to everyone who wishes to improve their lifestyle and take part of a thriving economy. In Oakland, Peralta Colleges came together to provide educational access to everyone at affordable rates. Businesses cleaned up neighborhoods and provide access to comfortable yet affordable housing. Charities pitched in with Kindergardens and Schools. When all people, regardless of ethnic background join forces to create a nice place to live, with compassionate support for those least among us, and businesses create access to well paying jobs through education, mentorships, classes cities can be reclaimed. Today WeWorks, General Assembly, Kickstart Coding, App Academy, Springboard, help young and mature people find ways to succeed.
Most importantly the soul based neighborhood spirit that teaches belief in each of our ability to participate in a thriving economy creates a new mindset. Love is the answer. Diversity is beautiful. By opening people’s minds through the Peralta Study Abroad Programs and by offering genuine assistance the East Bay and especially Oakland are becoming a thriving metropolis again. http://web.peralta.edu/foundation/scholarships-and-grants/
Support Study Abroad at the Peralta Colleges
This program is immensely successful and has brought peace and prosperity through education to Oakland. The Peralta Study Abroad program brings students from around the world together and allows them to see the world, broadening their horizons while boosting their confidence.
We can do anything, when we work together. When political leaders, business leaders, eduational leaders, and religious leaders come together with the single purpose to lift up everyone of its citizens success is within reach.
Since 2010 Oakland is a new shining star showing its can do spirit. Now, Jonah Melvon and Adesha want to share how it happened. They want to bring the knowledge that celebration of life, work, and family can bring amazing results and lead to a thriving, safe town. They are supported by Drew Gephart, International Services Manager at the Peralta College Group of fine educational institutions. This group of Junior Colleges serve as feeder schools to UC Hayward, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. All we have to do is believe and then act on our beliefs.
Oakland was named the most ethnically and economically diverse city
Oakland is the most diverse city in the country and the world.
Even before the city “hit bottom” Jerry Brown and business leaders stepped up to create a plan to fix the city. After a six year out of public service Brown returned to public life, serving as Mayor of Oakland (1999–2007). It took a lot of work to attract new investments. The police corruption that plagued cities all across California had to be dealt with.
A group of four corrupt police officers called “The Rough Riders” finally were dealt with after outrage grew too much that the city kept settling law suits to sweep the offences under the table. The clashes between the racially white police and the largely ethnic population caused much dissatisfaction and distortions about the way Oakland was perceived. Politico reported in their March/April issue of 2015: “Oakland’s cops, a legal advocate for victims of police abuse said at the time, might just be “the worst department in the country. Officer-involved shootings were frequent, and often fatal.” In continued: “Complaints of beatings, shakedowns and unwarranted arrests were rampant and cost the city dearly. All told, from 2001 to 2011, Oakland paid some $57 million for claims, lawsuits and settlements involving alleged misconduct by the Oakland Police Department—not just the largest sum paid by any municipality in California, but more than double what San Francisco, with roughly twice the population, paid in the same time frame. The police force seemed broken, brutal beyond repair.”
Accusations of corruption in Oakland were rampant in 2005 the FBI investigated Perata. The East Bay Times reported: Records show Perata’s son’s and daughter’s businesses have been paid at least $750,000 since 1999 by political committees under his direct control, even as Nick Perata and his businesses have been involved in real estate rentals and sales with his father. Also, Perata’s consulting business brought in more than $100,000 in 2003, and between $10,000 and $100,000 in each of the four years before that; his bigger clients during those years included his son’s business as well as two belonging to Staples. The case was stopped by Schwarzenegger’s call for a special election.
Education in Trouble
Even in 2009 SF Gate reported that Schwarzenegger decided to California ranks 47th in per-pupil spending, according to “Quality Counts,” a report issued Tuesday from Education Week, a national newspaper specializing in public schools. It showed that while the national average is $9,963 per pupil, California spends $7,571, according to the report. Vermont spends the most, with $15,139. Utah spends the least, with just $5,964 per pupil.
Around the state, school administrators have begun looking at how many employees they can lay off next year and which programs they can cancel.
Oakland went through a period of decline during in the mid 20th century
Then came the 50s, 60s, and 70s which were a very tough time for Oakland. The city became every more dangerous, crime-ridden, and unlivable. First West Oakland was destroyed by the Nimitz Freeway and the Cypress Viaduct. Many homes and businesses were destroyed creating a period of poverty for West Oakland. Then in the 1960 West Oakland suffered from the construction of BART and the Main Post Office Building on 7th Street. Again local businesses suffered, more jobs and entire neighborhoods were replaced.
Oakland become the home of the motorcycle gang the “Hell’s Angels” named after Howard Hughes movie, and eventually grew ever more corrupt and crime ridden. Eventually it became the market place of Fred Mitchell who ran a crime symposium changing Oakland into a hotbed for the sale of Crack Cocaine, a very harmful substance that ruined many people’s lives. Additionally, the crime wave sent a lot of middle class inhabitants packing and many of the people who remained lost business. They eventually were unable to keep buildings, street, school and the city services in good repair. Crime attracted more crime and the lack of policing opened the door for more crime.
By the end of the 70s crime was twice as high in Oakland than it was in San Francisco. Most of the Police Officers were white, frightened and entitled. As a result police brutality created ever more problems. This in turn brought impoverished communities together to forge alliances such as the Black Power Movement to help each other by “policing the police.” They created kindergardens and food pantries for the poor, but grew ever more militaristic. Unfortunately, this turned the city into a gang run town, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Crips and the Bloods, the People and the Folk, the 35th Street Gang, Norteños, Border Brothers and Sureños.
‘Freeway’ Ricky Ross, the drug kingpin who ignited crack cocaine epidemic
From the 1980s to 2000 Oakland suffered from a Crack epidemic that is now rivaled by the Opioid Crisis
By 2010 it was estimated that Oakland’s population of gang members had grown to over 10,000 members. The situation of both, the crime level, corruption and problems with the police became untenable.
Even in 2009 SF Gate reported that Schwarzenegger decided to California ranks 47th in per-pupil spending, according to “Quality Counts,” a report issued Tuesday from Education Week, a national newspaper specializing in public schools. It showed that while the national average is $9,963 per pupil, California spends only $7,571 per pupil and three times that much on prisoners. Vermont spends the most, with $15,139. Utah spends the least, with just $5,964 per pupil.
Around the state, school administrators have begun looking at how many employees they can lay off next year and which programs they can cancel. Then citizens, business leaders, charities, and religious groups decided to get involved.
Oakland was a thriving town about 100 years ago. It went through many phases and now once again is a thriving town.
Oakland might be a poster child for our future.
Oakland had a most impressive long history as a thriving industrial center.
Oakland was first incorporated as a town in 1852. It had always been a popular place for thousands of years before by the Muwekna Ohlone who were part of the original Californians the Miwoks who spent winters near Temescal Creek and Lake Merritt for thousands of years. In 1772 the Spaniards occupied the land in the name of their king. Peralta, a Spanish soldier was deeded 44 thousand acres by the Spanish crown and his deed was confirmed when Mexico declared their independence. The land was divided up by his 4 sons. As much of California this region was covered by Oak trees and this is how it eventually got its name. During the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in the mid 19th century during the gold rush Mexico gave up the land to the US. Ever more and more squatters ignored the land ownership and a team of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo roving soldiers led by three men from nearby San Francisco established “Contra Costa.”
In 1853 John Coffee “Jack” Hays took up residence while he served as the sheriff in San Francisco. On March 25, 1854, Oakland was once again incorporated as the City of Oakland with Carpentier one of the San Francisco war lords as the Mayor. However he was quite corrupt and was quickly voted out of office and replaced by Charles Campbell as Mayor on March 5, 1855. Thanks to the fact that the several railroads ended up in Oakland it quickly became a major industrial hub. In 1868, the Central Pacific ended at the Port of Oakland. The Long Wharf also served as the terminus for the Transcontinental Railroad and the Southern Pacific, which was localed initially at 16th Street Station located at 16th and Wood.
In 1902 a deep channel was created for large ships and this is how Alameda become an Island separated from the mainland. Due to the earthquake and subsequent fires in San Francisco in 1906 the population doubled. This is when Mayor Frank Kanning Mott launched the “Beautiful City project” establishing the many parks, lakes and oak rimmed boulevards the city enjoys to this day. In 1914 he founded the Oakland Civic Auditorium which cost $1.4 Million dollars. It was used briefly as a hospital during the 1918 flue epidemic. Oakland was one of the most wonderful places to live and jobs were plentiful. Employers included General Motors, Chevrolet, Chrysler, and several other major auto companies.
Motorama “Dream Car” by Chevrolet 1954
The city also housed companies such as Kaiser, Bechtel, Phelan, Dreyer’s, Rocky Road Icecream, Western Union, Del Monte, and too many others to mention here. The high employment rate and associated growth of a strong middle class allowed Oakland to fashion itself into a world class city with the Golden State Theatre, Fox, Blumenfeld, Orpheum, Turner & Dahnken, the Grand Lake and the Paramount among others. By 1949 Oakland had a seating capacity of over 43 thousand theatre goers. Theatres came and went including the Hippodrome, Lurie, Premier and Roosevelt. Thanks to the start of commercial aviation Amelia Earhart , the Alameda Navel Air Station, and the 1930’s Howard Hughes’ movie the “Hell’s Angels” Oakland was one of the romanticized the epicenter of the West Coast.
Would TTIP have passed during the times of the Declaration of Independence?
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Posted on May 19, 2016 January 10, 2017
Allison Lovejoy in recital at Enso Piano accompanies singers Gerry Basserman and Colleeen Touriane, May 21, 2016.
This Saturday, May 21, the third in a series of magical musical events in Half Moon Bay. Come join Carrie and Mauro again in their effort to keep serving the community through the unique creation called Enso. Donations, loans and art purchases welcome.
Allison Lovejoy in recital at the Enso piano.
Gerry Basserman and Colleen Touriane, songs.
Music, refreshments, art, and poetry, from 6 til 9 pm
These salons are rich and satisfying. Bring a friend!
Enso : 131 Kelly Ave, Half Moon Bay, CA
Posted on May 17, 2016 February 8, 2017
WomenNow and New Delhi Restaurant will be hosting their second Spring India Day on June 11th in Union Square in the heart of San Francisco. Spring India Day is a free annual festival. It is a celebration of the colorful and exuberant Indian culture.
Come join us as we take over beautiful San Francisco’s crown jewel – Union Square – for a full day of fun and entertainment. Spring India Day will be featuring henna artists, Bollywood dancing, music, a high couture fashion show, and more! Our food booths will entice your taste buds with several Indian regional cuisines including samosas, keebabs, curried rice, exotic island delights, South Indian delicacies, and roadside chat selections.
Where: San Francisco’s Union Square
When: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Date: Saturday, June 11th, 2016
This event is organized by WomenNow TV in association with New Delhi Restaurant and benefits Compassionate Chefs Cafe a 501(c) non-profit organization with a mission to help Kids Across the Street in the Tenderloin After School Program and Across the Ocean in Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India to help them become global citizens.
Gandhi’s intention behind his Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, was to help uplift the underprivileged. On this very location, we are helping to fund the school for children of Harijan (Untouchable) Street Cleaners. This school helps us continue Mahatma Gandhi’s movement to eradicate the social injustice of being labeled Untouchable. These children will help to uplift their impoverished communities from within. It is most basic of all human needs to be clean and have nurturing human touch.
Closer to home, we are also supporting Tenderloin After School Program – which provides valuable services to kids of families living in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. The Tenderloin After School Program serves as a shelter from the street culture and many harmful influences that abound in this area. TASP provides kids with a safe space to be, where they can play and study, and get the proper support and training necessary to succeed in life.
Compassionate Chefs will be hosting a photo booth next to the main stage with props and backgrounds. Bring your smiling face and help out a great cause!
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Title: Michael Fassbender
Subject: Shame (2011 film), The Counselor, Prometheus (2012 film), Frank (film), Ian McKellen
Collection: 1977 Births, 20Th-Century German Male Actors, 20Th-Century Irish Male Actors, 21St-Century German Male Actors, 21St-Century Irish Male Actors, Alumni of the Drama Centre London, Best Supporting Actor Aacta International Award Winners, Best Supporting Actor Empire Award Winners, Empire Hero Award Winners, Film Awards for Lead Actor, German Catholics, German Emigrants to Ireland, German Male Film Actors, German Male Stage Actors, German Male Television Actors, German Male Video Game Actors, German People of Irish Descent, Irish Catholics, Irish Male Film Actors, Irish Male Stage Actors, Irish Male Television Actors, Irish People of German Descent, Living People, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award Winners, People Educated at St. Brendan's College, Killarney, People from County Kerry, Volpi Cup Winners
Fassbender at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International
(1977-04-02) 2 April 1977
Heidelberg, West Germany
Hackney, United Kingdom[1]
German-Irish
Drama Centre London (dropped out)
Actor, producer
Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977)[2] is a German–Irish actor of stage and screen whose career includes roles in both independent and blockbuster films. His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic 300 (2006) as a Spartan warrior; his earlier roles included various stage productions, as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–05). He first came to prominence for his biographical role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in the historical drama Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor. Subsequent roles included the independent film Fish Tank (2009), earning his second BIFA nomination; as a Royal Marines lieutenant in the Quentin Tarantino war film Inglourious Basterds (2009); as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre; as psychiatry innovator Carl Jung in historical drama A Dangerous Method (2011); as a sentient android in the Ridley Scott science fiction film Prometheus (2012); and in the musical dramedy Frank (2014) as the title character, an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.
In 2011, Fassbender debuted as the Marvel antihero Magneto in the prequel X-Men: First Class; he would go on to share the role with Ian McKellen in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). Also in 2011, Fassbender's performance as a sex addict in Shame received critical acclaim. He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. In 2013, his role as slave owner Edwin Epps in slavery epic 12 Years a Slave was similarly praised, earning him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. 12 Years a Slave marked Fassbender's third collaboration with Steve McQueen, who also directed Hunger and Shame. In addition to Prometheus, Fassbender has appeared in another film by Ridley Scott: The Counselor (2013). He portrayed Steve Jobs in the Danny Boyle-directed biopic of the same name (2015). As well as acting, Fassbender produced the 2015 western Slow West which he also starred in.
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Fassbender was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, in Germany.[3] His mother, Adele, is from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, and his father, Josef Fassbender, is German.[4] According to Fassbender "family lore," his mother is the great-grand-niece of Michael Collins, an Irish leader during the War of Independence.[3][5] When he was two years old, his parents moved to Killarney, County Kerry, in the Republic of Ireland, where they ran the West End House, a restaurant where his father worked as a chef.[3][4] Fassbender was raised Catholic, and served as an altar boy[6] at the church his family attended. He has an older sister, Catherine, who works at the University of California, Davis as a neuropsychologist.[7]
Fassbender and his sister spent summer holidays in Germany, and he speaks German fluently.[8] He attended Fossa National School,[9] and St. Brendan's College, both in Killarney, County Kerry.[10] He discovered he wanted to be an actor at age 17 when he was cast in a play by Donal Courtney. At 19, he moved to London to study at the Drama Centre London. In 1999 he dropped out of the Drama Centre and toured with the Oxford Stage Company to perform the play Three Sisters.[7][11]
Fassbender at the premiere of 12 Years a Slave, 2013 Toronto Film Festival
Before he found work as an actor, he had a period of doing "auditions interspersed with bartending stints, [and] postal delivery".[12] Fassbender's first screen role was that of Burton "Pat" Christenson in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's award-winning WW II television miniseries Band of Brothers (2001).[13] He played the character of Azazeal in both series of Hex on Sky One and starred as the main character in the music video for the song "Blind Pilots," by the British band The Cooper Temple Clause. In the video, he plays the part of a man out with friends on a stag night who slowly transforms into a goat due to wearing a cowbell necklace.[13]
Fassbender played Jonathan Harker in a ten-part radio serialisation of Dracula produced by BBC Northern Ireland and broadcast in the Book at Bedtime series between 24 November and 5 December 2003. He was also seen in early 2004 in a Guinness television commercial, The Quarrel, playing a man who swims across the ocean from Ireland to apologise personally to his brother in New York;[14] this commercial won a gold medal at the 2005 FAB Awards.[15][16]
During the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Fassbender played Michael Collins in Allegiance, a play by Mary Kenny based on the meeting between Collins and Winston Churchill.[17] In addition, he produced, directed, and starred in a stage version of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs,[13] along with his production company.
He appeared in Angel (UK title: The Real Life of Angel Deverell), about the rise and fall of an eccentric young British writer (played by Romola Garai) in the early 20th century. Fassbender plays her love interest, an average painter named Esmé.[13] The drama—the first English-language effort by French director François Ozon and based on the novel by Elizabeth Taylor—premiered on 17 February 2007 at the Berlin International Film Festival and on 14 March 2007 in Paris. He then made a brief appearance in Dean Cavanagh and Irvine Welsh's Wedding Belles as Barney, speaking with a Scottish accent.
Mainstream success
Fassbender at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
In 2006, Fassbender played the role of Stelios, a young Spartan warrior, in 300, a fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder. The film was a commercial success.[18] In preparation for his role as Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen's 2008 film Hunger, Fassbender underwent a crash diet that restricted him to 600 calories a day. He received the British Independent Film Award for his performance.[19] One year after his success at the Cannes Film Festival with Hunger, he appeared in two films. The first was Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, in which he played the British officer Lieutenant Archie Hicox. The other film was Fish Tank directed by Andrea Arnold. Both films were critically acclaimed and Fassbender's work in them also well received.
In 2010, Fassbender appeared as Burke in Jonah Hex, a Western film.[20] In an interview at San Diego Comic-Con International, a comic book convention, Fassbender commented of the role: "I kind of developed this character and really pushed it – I’ll see how far I pushed it ... I had this idea about the character, he’s kind of psychotic, he gets his kicks in perverted ways. I didn’t want to make it very obvious or like something you’ve seen before."[21] Hex received predominately negative reviews.[22] Responding to criticism of Jonah Hex in 2011, Fassbender commented: "Pretty awful, was it? I haven't seen it myself."[23] He portrayed Quintus Dias in Neil Marshall's bloody Roman war-thriller-drama film Centurion.[24] and was cast as 'Richard Wirth' in the Joel Schumacher film Blood Creek alongside Dominic Purcell. The story centres on a West Virginia man who comes to terms with his moral qualms and helps his brother wipe out a family that had been protecting a Nazi occultist and who had kept his brother captive for him to feed off for years. Fassbender played Edward Rochester in the 2011 film Jane Eyre, featuring Mia Wasikowska in the title role, with Cary Fukunaga directing.[25]
Fassbender (right), Megan Fox and Josh Brolin promoting the 2010 film Jonah Hex at Comic-Con in 2009.
Fassbender portrayed Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class, the prequel to X-Men. Set in 1962, it focuses on the friendship between Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. The film was released on 3 June 2011 to general acclaim and financial success and promoted Fassbender to being more of a popular movie star. In 2011, Fassbender starred in A Dangerous Method by director David Cronenberg, playing Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung. The film premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.[26]
He also starred in Shame, as a man in his thirties struggling with his sexual addiction. Shame reunited him with director Steve McQueen and premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, where Fassbender won a Volpi Cup Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Brandon.[27] Fassbender was a serious contender for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, but he was not nominated, and according to various sources his full-frontal nudity and depiction of sexual encounters inspired voters "to fantasize, and not actually vote."[28][29] Fassbender achieved critical acclaim for his performance in Shame and received nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Starring in the film raised Fassbender's profile leading to roles in larger films.
In 2012, he appeared as an MI6 agent in Haywire, an action-thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh,[20] and in the science fiction film Prometheus. Reviews praised both the film's visual aesthetic design and the acting, most notably Fassbender's performance as the android David. Fassbender played the title role in The Counselor, a 2013 film directed by Ridley Scott, and based on the Cormac McCarthy script.[30][31] In 2013, he starred in 12 Years a Slave, his third collaboration with Steve McQueen. Fassbender's portrayal of Edwin Epps earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Fassbender reprised the role of Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past (released 23 May 2014), the sequel to X-Men: First Class.[32] Fassbender stars in the title role in Frank (released late summer 2014),[33] a comedy loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, a comic persona created by English comedian Chris Sievey.
In October 2015, he starred as Macbeth opposite Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth and David Thewlis as King Duncan in the film directed by Justin Kurzel.
Fassbender at the 2013 TIFF
Fassbender co-starred in Slow West, a western starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn, in 2015. He played Silas, an enigmatic traveller.[34] The film has premiered at Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2015. Fassbender took on the Shakespearean role of Macbeth in a film directed by Justin Kurzel, where he teamed up with Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth.[35] Filming for the production began in January 2014 and the film premiered in 2015.[36]
Fassbender played late Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs in the Danny Boyle-directed film Steve Jobs, which began filming in January 2015, in San Francisco, U.S., and premiered in September of that year. The film is an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's book Steve Jobs.[37] The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin. Fassbender became attached after Christian Bale dropped out of the project.[38]
Fassbender has filmed Trespass Against Us, with fellow Irishman Brendan Gleeson.[39] He will also star in The Light Between Oceans, based on the novel written by M. L. Stedman and directed by Derek Cianfrance, which began filming in New Zealand in late September 2014, for theatrical release sometime in 2015.[40]
Fassbender announced in November 2013 that there will be a sequel to Prometheus, where he will reprise his role as the android David.[41] Production for the film is scheduled to begin January 2016.[42] He will co-produce and star in the film adaptation of Assassin's Creed along with Marion Cotillard which is set for release on 21 December 2016.[43][44]
Together with screenwriter Ronan Bennett, Fassbender has formed a production company, Finn McCool Films. Fassbender and Bennett are currently developing a film about the Irish mythological hero Cú Chulainn.[45]
Shifting between European and North American films, Fassbender resides in east London, where he has lived since 1996.[1][46] Fassbender still lives in the same modest flat in Hackney, East London, that he has owned since his late 20s, when he was struggling to get enough work to make ends meet.[47] He speaks German, though he stated before filming Inglourious Basterds that he had needed to brush up a bit on his spoken German because it was a bit rusty.[48][49] He has also expressed interest in performing in a German language film or theatre production one day.[50] He is a lapsed Catholic.[10][51]
In 2011, Fassbender was in a brief relationship with actress Zoë Kravitz, whom he met on the set of X-Men: First Class.[52] Fassbender confirmed he was seeing Nicole Beharie, his co-star in Shame in 2012, though by early 2013 the couple confirmed they had split. In September 2013, Fassbender started dating actress and model Mădălina Diana Ghenea, but they split in early 2014.[53] Fassbender dated his The Light Between Oceans co-star, actress Alicia Vikander, from late-2014[54] to September 2015.[55]
2007 300 Stelios
2007 Angel Esmé Howe-Nevinson
2008 Hunger Bobby Sands British Independent Film Award for Best Actor
IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film
IFTA Rising Star Award
2008 Eden Lake Steve
2009 Blood Creek Richard Wirth
2009 Fish Tank Connor Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Film
2009 Inglourious Basterds Lt. Archie Hicox
2010 Centurion Quintus Dias
2010 Jonah Hex Burke
2011 Jane Eyre Edward Rochester Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor
National Board of Review Spotlight Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
2011 X-Men: First Class Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto National Board of Review Spotlight Award
2011 A Dangerous Method Carl Jung National Board of Review Spotlight Award
London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year
2011 Shame Brandon Sullivan Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor]]
British Independent Film Award for Best Actor
Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film<
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Seville European Film Festival Award for Best Actor
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Volpi Cup
Nominated – AACTA International Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated – Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated – London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year
Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Phoenix Film Critic's Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
2012 Haywire Paul
2012 Prometheus David Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2013 12 Years a Slave Edwin Epps AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor
Empire Award for Best Supporting Actor
IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Film
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated – Guardian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – London Film Critics' Circle Award for Supporting Actor of the Year
Nominated – London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year
Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Village Voice Film Poll Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
2013 The Counselor Counselor Nominated – London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year
2014 1: Life on the Limit Narrator
2014 Frank Frank Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain
2015 Slow West Silas Selleck
2015 Macbeth Lord Macbeth
2015 Steve Jobs Steve Jobs
2015 Trespass Against Us Chad Cutler Post-production
2016 The Light Between Oceans Tom Sherbourne Post-production
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto Post-production
2016 Assassin's Creed Callum Lynch and Aguilar Filming
TBA Untitled Terrence Malick film TBA Post-production[56]
2001 Band of Brothers Burton 'Pat' Christenson 7 episodes
2001 Hearts and Bones Hermann 3 episodes
2002 NCS: Manhunt Jack Silver
2002 Holby City Christian Connolly Episode: "Ghosts"
2003 Carla Rob Television film
2004 A Bear Named Winnie Lt. Harry Colebourn Television film
2004 Gunpowder, Treason & Plot Guy Fawkes Television film
2004 Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder Charles Bravo Television film
2004 Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Charles Allen Television film
2004–2005 Hex Azazeal 11 episodes
2005 Murphy's Law Caz Miller 5 episodes
2005 Our Hidden Lives German POW Television film
2005 William and Mary Lukasz Episode #3.3
2006 Agatha Christie's Poirot George Abernethie Episode: "After the Funeral"
2006 Trial & Retribution Douglas Nesbitt 2 episodes
2007 Wedding Belles Barney Television film
2008 The Devil's Whore Thomas Rainsborough 4 episodes
Nominated – IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Television
Voice role
2010 Fable III Logan
1994 Fairytales Fairytales 123 Cinderella's ugly sister [57]
1995 Reservoir Dogs Mr. Pink Also producer and director[57]
1999 Three Sisters Alexei Petrovich Fedotik
2006 Allegiance Michael Collins [58]
List of awards and nominations received by Michael Fassbender
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^ Maytum, Matt (11 September 2011). "Venice 2011: Michael Fassbender Wins Best Actor for Shame". TotalFilm.com. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
Michael Fassbender at the Internet Movie Database
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Use dmy dates from June 2015
Film awards for lead actor
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German emigrants to Ireland
German male film actors
German male television actors
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German male video game actors
German people of Irish descent
Irish male film actors
Irish people of German descent
Irish male stage actors
Irish male television actors
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
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Volpi Cup winners
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21st-century Irish male actors
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21st-century German male actors
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Ryan Tubridy, Love/Hate (TV series), Simon Delaney, Game of Thrones, James Nesbitt
Shame (2011 film)
Steve McQueen (director), Venice Film Festival, Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, New York City
Cormac McCarthy, Ridley Scott, Brad Pitt, Tony Scott, Michael Fassbender
Prometheus (2012 film)
Damon Lindelof, Ridley Scott, Alien (franchise), James Cameron, Blade Runner
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Select or special committee
Title: Select or special committee
A select or special committee of the United States Congress is a congressional committee appointed to perform a special function that is beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee. A select committee is usually created by a resolution that outlines its duties and powers and the procedures for appointing members. Select and special committees are often investigative in nature, rather than legislative, though some select and special committees have the authority to draft and report legislation.
A select committee generally expires on completion of its assigned duties, though they can be renewed. Several select committees are treated as standing committees by House and Senate rules, and are permanent fixtures in both bodies continuing from one congress to the next. Examples of this are the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House and the Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate. The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is also a select committee, though the name select is no longer a part of its title.[1]
Some 20th-century select committees are called special committees, such as the Senate Special Committee on Aging. However, they do not differ in any substantive way from the others.[2]
Prior to the advent of permanent standing committees in the early 19th century, the House of Representatives relied almost exclusively on select committees to carry out much of its legislative work.[3] The committee system has grown and evolved over the years. During the earliest Congresses, select committees, created to perform a specific function and terminated when the task was completed, performed the overwhelming majority of the committee work. The first committee to be established by Congress was on April 2, 1789, during the First Congress. It was a select committee assigned to prepare and report standing rules and orders for House proceedings, and it lasted just five days, dissolving after submitting its report to the full House. Since that time, Congress has always relied on committees as a means to accomplish its work.[2]
1 Early select committees
2 Notable select committees
3 Select committees in the 21st century
Early select committees
In the 1st Congress (1789–1791), the House appointed roughly 220 select committees over the course of two years.[3] By the 3rd Congress (1793–95), Congress had three permanent standing committees, the House Committee on Elections, the House Committee on Claims, and the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, but more than 350 select committees.[4] While the modern committee system is now firmly established in both House and Senate procedure, with the rules of each House establishing a full range of permanent standing committees and assigning jurisdiction of all legislative issues among them, select committees continue to be used to respond to unique and difficult issues as the need arises.[2]
The United States Senate did not establish its first standing committees until 1816, so select committees performed the overwhelming majority of the committee work for the Senate during the earliest Congresses. Like the House, standing committees have largely replaced select committees in the modern Senate, but select committees continue to be appointed from time to time.[5]
Early select committees were very fluid, serving their established function and then going out of existence. This makes tracking committees difficult, since many committees were known by the date they were created or by a petition or other document that had been referred to them. In a number of instances, the official journal and other congressional publications did not consistently refer to an individual committee by the same title. Though such inconsistencies still appeared during the 20th century, they were less frequent.[2]
Notable select committees
Henry Clay, Chairman of the Select Committee on the Various Propositions for the Admission of Missouri into the Union
While earlier select committees often narrowly tailored to specific issues, some select committees ultimately had a noticeable impact on federal legislation and American history. One was the select committee dealing with Missouri's admission as a new state.[3] The committee was established in 1821 and lasted just 7 days.[6] Chaired by Henry Clay,[3] the committee helped draft the Missouri Compromise, which attempted to resolve the question of whether slavery would be permitted in newly admitted states.
Some select committees went on to become permanent standing committees. The most notable of these is the Ways and Means Committee. It was first established as a select committee July 24, 1789 during a debate on the creation of the Treasury Department. Representatives had concerns over giving the new department too much authority over revenue proposals, so the House felt it would be better equipped if it established a committee to handle the matter. This first Committee on Ways and Means had 11 members and existed for just two months. It later became a standing committee in 1801, and still operates as a standing committee today.[7]
Select committees in the 21st century
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming was established during the 110th Congress and renewed for the 111th Congress. The committee was advisory in nature, and lacked the legislative authority granted to standing committees.[8] The Committee was disbanded by the House in 2011 following Republican victories at the 2010 mid-terms[8]
The House of Representatives voted on May 8th, 2014 to create a special select committee to investigate what happened during the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. [9]
Select Committee (United Kingdom)
^ Vincent, Carol Hardy; Elizabeth Rybicki (February 1, 1996). "Committee Numbers, Sizes, Assignments, and Staff: Selected Historical Data". Congressional Research Service. p. 7. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
^ a b c d Schamel, Charles E.; Mary Rephlo, Rodney Ross, David Kepley, Robert W. Coren, and James Gregory Bradsher. (1989). "Guide to the Records of the United States House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989: Bicentennial Edition". National Archives and Records Administration. pp. Chapter 22. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
^ a b c d Canon, David T.; Garrison Nelson and Charles Stewart III (2002). Committees in the U.S. Congress: 1789-1946. Vol 4, Select Committees. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
^ Galloway, George B. (1946). Congress at the Crossroads. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. p. 88.
^ Coren, Robert W.; Mary Rephlo; David Kepley; Charles South (1989). "Guide to the Records of the United States Senate at the National Archives, 1789-1989: Bicentennial Edition". National Archives and Records Administration. pp. Chapter 18. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
^ Stubbs, Walter (1985). Congressional Committees, 1789-1982: A Checklist. Greenwood Press. p. 90.
^ H. Doc. 100-244, The Committee on Ways and Means a Bicentennial History 1789-1989, page 3
^ a b Pelosi, Dingell Compromise in House Over Climate Issue, Associated Press, Fox News website February 7, 2007
^ http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/08/house-approves-benghazi-select-committee-probe/
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Rules and Administration
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Tag Archives: The Bionic Woman
Wednesday, February, 26, 2014
Sci-Fi on Television (Part 1)
I’m a big fan of sci-fi on television, which I almost always refer to by its “proper” name, telefantasy. The 1950s-1990s were, in my opinion, the Golden Age of telefantasy, and the first real telefantasy started about a decade or so before my birth (in December 1960), when Captain Video and His Video Rangers first appeared on US television in 1949, followed closely in the early 1950s by the likes of Space Patrol, Tom Corbett: Space Cadet and Rocky Jones: Space Ranger.
UK telefantasy was slightly slower to get off the mark, and it was mostly with one-offs like the 1949 adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the prestigious 1954 adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. The first ongoing, serialized sci-fi productions of any note were the three Quatermass serials which aired in 1953, 1955 and 1958. These were the first real stars of pre-Doctor Who UK telefantasy, and, in my opinion, the classic 1958 six-part serial Quatermass and the Pit remains, to this day, one of the greatest examples of telefantasy ever produced.
But those were all produced and televised well before I was born, and it’s only really been in more recent years that I’ve discovered and begun looking back at some of the much older telefantasy series, which aired in the years between the first appearance of Captain Video and His Video Rangers in 1949 and the very first episode of Doctor Who, in November 1963. It would be the mid-1960s before I started to show the first glimmers of interest in any kind of sci-fi on contemporary television.
I’ve been an avid viewer of sci-fi television of all kinds ever since the time that Doctor Who first began to register in my very young and impressionable mind around 1966-1967. But it was when Jon Pertwee first fell out of the Tardis at the beginning of Spearhead from Space, in January 1970, that marked the moment where I can definitely say that I made the leap from merely enjoying Doctor Who, to becoming an obsessive, life-long fan.
I also became a huge fan of the original Star Trek, which first appeared on UK television channel BBC1 in July 1969, and also the new live-action Gerry Anderson series UFO, which first aired on ITV in 1970. I’d previously watched, and enjoyed, the various Anderson puppet shows such as Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds and Stingray, but I preferred the live shows, and UFO was where I first became a real Anderson fan.
By December 1970 (when I’d reached my tenth birthday), with Pertwee almost a year into his tenure on Doctor Who, Star Trek at the height of its popularity on BBC1, and UFO featuring prominently on ITV, I was now old enough to really start understanding and appreciating television sci-fi in general. These were the first three telefantasy series that I really got into, and it’s no big surprise that these series have always remained right at the very top of my list of favourites.
As I moved into the 1970s, things really started to heat up. I began to get heavily into other UK telefantasy series such as Timeslip, The Tomorrow People, Space: 1999, Blake’s 7 and Sapphire and Steel. I was also hooked on then-current 1970s US telefantasy such as the animated Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica. And, of course, UK television was also awash with re-runs of the various Irwin Allen series, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel and Lost in Space, plus re-runs of other classic US “cult” TV sci-fi series such as The Invaders, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
Take all these great telefantasy series, and the fact that the early 1970s marked the time that I was moving into my teens, and it was a great time for a young fan of sci-fi television like myself.
Posted in Telefantasy
Tagged 1984 (TV 1954), Battlestar Galactica (Classic Series), Blake's 7, Buck Rogers (tv series 1979-1980), Captain Scarlet, Captain Video and His Video Rangers (tv series 1949-1955), Doctor Who: Classic Series, George Orwell, Gerry Anderson, H. G. Wells, Irwin Allen, Jon Pertwee, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Quatermass, Quatermass and the Pit (TV 1958), Quatermass Experiment (TV 1953), Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Sapphire and Steel, Space Patrol (tv series 1950-1955), Space: 1999, Star Trek: TAS, Star Trek: TOS, Stingray, The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk (tv series 1977-1982), The Invaders, The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Time Machine (TV 1949), The Time Tunnel, The Tomorrow People, The Twilight Zone, Thunderbirds, Timeslip, Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, UFO, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Wonder Woman (TV)
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Inspired 491145341
Northfield artist's diary recounts a brave life cut short at 21
By Philip Weyhe Northfield News
August 17, 2018 — 6:05pm
Jennifer Bonner had just enough time to become an adult.
Born a “blue baby” in 1967 with several heart defects, she was given two days to live by doctors at the University of Minnesota. But they kept helping her; her parents, Bob and Barbara Bonner, kept holding her up; and Jennifer kept living.
She lived 21 years in Northfield, Minn., years filled with chaos, fear, bliss, love and art. Through the latter, she lives on. Her drawings and paintings are plastered on the walls at her parents’ home and throughout the community. Her artistic spirit is captured at a memorial garden at Carleton College.
Provided by the Bonner family
Jennifer Bonner, 1986.
And now her writing, specifically what she penned in her diaries in the year before she died from complications of a heart transplant in 1987, is encapsulated in a book.
“The Wait,” co-authored by Jennifer and family friend Susan Cushman, details Jennifer’s thoughts as a 21-year-old — from confronting death to relationships with boys.
It’s the story of a young woman’s fleeting adulthood.
“What she managed is to complete her life, and that’s what’s in the book,” Barbara Bonner said.
Barbara and Bob were in London when Barbara became pregnant with Jennifer. Bob was hired at Carleton, so the family headed to Minnesota. Jennifer was born before complications were discovered. She was sent to the U, perhaps the only place in the world she could survive at that time. Cushman writes that medical advancements, coupled with some of the world’s premier heart doctors, made the U the perfect location for Jennifer.
Less than a year later, the family moved to Northfield.
Growing up, Jennifer found solace in the arts. Unable to run and play, she turned to pencils and paintbrushes. She participated in theater and performed unabashedly in speech.
“She was as energetic as she could possibly be,” Bob said. “She just had these very serious limits.”
After high school, Jennifer attended Carleton. She made heaps of friends, dated, studied, partied, frequented coffee shops, made art and wrote.
In her junior year, Jennifer suddenly couldn’t move or breathe. At the Mayo Clinic Health Systems in Rochester, her family was told she needed a heart transplant. That’s where her diary entries begin:
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“My world fell in today,” Jennifer wrote on Dec. 16, 1987. “My normal life, my hopes of old age, not gone, but forced through a sieve. My perceptions, once again forced to change, make allowances. Surmount odds. Beat risks. My heart is stone, rolling over challenges, crushing them, my feelings safely hid inside.”
A year later, she received a heart from Mankato. But after 13 days, in and out of surgery, she experienced brain death. Her parents “went crazy.”
“We didn’t have a plan B,” Bob said. They knew Jennifer had left behind years of writing. They didn’t know what to do with it.
About 25 years later, they found the answer in Cushman, their former babysitter and now doctor, who offered to edit the diaries, add context and make it a book. It took her five years.
“It’s been a really interesting experience for me,” Cushman said. “I have never once gotten tired of reading what she wrote.”
For the Bonners, the book is an assurance that Jennifer’s life could be complete. “We have not had this wonderful person with us for over 30 years,” Bob said, “but what we have now, at the end of the day, is this beautiful, moving, coherent story.”
Click here to read this story in its entirety at the Northfield News.
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Why Visit Saskatoon?
Saskatoon is nicknamed "River City" and has the beautiful North Saskatchewan River meandering through the city. It is the gateway to Prince Albert to its North, North Battleford to its west, and Lake Diefenbaker to its South, and while in town, you have access to one of the best and most diverse restaurant scenes in Canada.
Saskatoon, in west-central Saskatchewan, combines big city amenities with small-town charm. The city is magically wrapped around the South Saskatchewan River, which winds its way through the city. The town is home to the University of Saskatchewan, which accounts for the city's "young at heart" nature. Saskatoon's downtown looks small but has a dizzyingly diverse choice of restaurants and cultural amenities.
The town has professional baseball, hockey, and thoroughbred racing, and has lots of facilities for those who prefer to take part in their recreation. The city's climate is typical for the prairies, though the area farmers are pleased it gets above average rainfall, and in the winter, the moderate snowfall provides for ample sports activities.
Whether it's a visit to a park, an art gallery or the area's history, Saskatoon offers its visitors and residents lots to do every day of the week.
History of Saskatoon
Saskatoon and the surrounding area has been inhabited for over 6,000 years, the earliest residents were members of the Plains Ojibwa, Assiniboine and Plains Cree tribes. There cultures were similar, with their main source of food coming from bison hunters, traveling as far as Montana and South Dakota in the U.S.
The surrounding tribes used an area just north of present day Saskatoon as a winter camp. The site, Wanuskewin, was and is still a place of spiritual power, and has both mortal and supernatural protectors.
Early settlers dreamed of creating a prosperous community in Saskatoon. John A. MacDonald's government was looking so rapidly to develop the country, that he was offering large sections of land to any colonization companies.
Members of Toronto's Methodist community, which was opposed the use of alcohol, formed the Temperance Colonization Society ("TCS") in 1881 and signed up 3,100 would-be colonists for more than two million acres. TCS's own 313,000 acres ran from Clark's Crossing (now Clarkboro) about 20 km downstream from today's Saskatoon, west to the Moose Woods Reserve, about 45 km upstream. In June 1882 John Lake, a Methodist minister & entrepreneur, found a colony site on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, at a point deep enough for regular ferry crossing, following the advice of Moose Woods Chief, White Cap. The place was named Minnetonka, though early settlement was discouraged due to the hostile native activity caused by the North-West Rebellion.
In 1890 the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railway Company bridged the river at Saskatoon and built a line to Prince Albert. The railway station on the west bank soon attracted settlement, which in 1901 was incorporated as the village of Saskatoon and became a town (population 544) in 1903. The settlement on the east side was called Nutana, and a third settlement called Riversdale grew west of the railway tracks, and in 1906 the three amalgamated (population 4500) to form a city.
By 1908 4 bridges crossed the river at Saskatoon, making it a major western transportation hub for rail and road traffic. The city became a major commercial centre as agricultural goods were sold for eastern consumption, and the farmers bought manufactured goods, brought from the east by the railroad. Later potash, which is used in fertilizer, was found near Melville.
Saskatoon became a mainstream city of Saskatchewan by assuring the railways came to their town. By 1908 Saskatoon had three railway bridges and a traffic bridge crossing the South Saskatchewan River, securing Saskatoon as the hub of a transportation network..
By 1912, during the pre-war boom, the city grew to 24,000 and the Campus of University of Saskatchewan was holding its first classes. The next year the municipal railway (public transit) began running and carried 3 million passengers in its first year. In 1923 the city had its first radio station, and by 1928 opened its airport, and in 1928 had its first public library, and by 1931 the population grew to 43,000. This dipped a bit during the Great Depression but rebounded to 46,000 by 1946.
It wasn't until the early 1900's, when the town had grown to 20,000 people due to the amalgamation of the three settlements that the community had proved that it was going to survive. With Saskatoon becoming a city in 1906, their borrowing powers increased dramatically and this encouraged an outburst of city spending, including the development of sewer and water works. These improvements made it sensible to build permanent structures. The majority of structure made prior to these advancements have not lasted.
After World War II, significant reserves of oil were found in Saskatchewan, both in the northwest around Lloydminster, and the east around Estevan. This broadened the resource base of the province away from agriculture and potash. Saskatoon also benefited from the surge of European immigrants after the War. By 1948 electric trolleys began replacing the street railway, completed by 1951. Over the next decade, Saskatoon grew to 95,000 residents.
Today Saskatoon has over 200,000 people, and is Saskatchewan's largest city, with significant growth in population over the 1980's. The main industry continues to be agriculture, Saskatoon is also very blessed with being one of primary forces in Saskatchewan's growth of half of the entire quantity of Canada's major export crops. Mining is also an important part of the economy, with the Saskatoon area is the world's largest exporter of uranium, and source of almost two-thirds of the world's recoverable potash reserves. High technology is also growing, fueled by proximity to the well-regarded University of Saskatchewan.
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Saskatoon AccommodationsNova Inn Kindersley
Hotel has 600 sq ft meeting room, business services, exercise room with sauna. Large, newly renovated rooms with hairdryers, remote-control cable TV, free movie channels, complimentary in-room coffee.
Saskatoon AccommodationsManitou & District Regional Park Campground
Situated 8 km north of Watrous on Highway 365, the regional park is comprised of three parts: the campground, the golf course across the highway and about 500 metres past the park gates, and the beach front.
Saskatoon AccommodationsWakaw Lake Regional Park-Office
There are over 300 camp sites located within the beautifully designed Regional Park. There are a number of key amenities including clean washrooms, shower and laundry facilities, dump station, with a boat launch, boat rentals, golf, mini-golf
Saskatoon AccommodationsCollege Park Bed & Breakfast
College Park B&B features a suite via a separate entrance. Cable TV, Wi-Fi, and free parking. No smoking and no pets are allowed. Accommodation facility licensed by City of Saskatoon and by Saskatoon Regional Health Authority.
Saskatoon AccommodationsNight Owl Camping Cabins Inc
Enjoying all the fun and excitement in our Log Camping Cabins, sit by the fire or take a stroll by the beach ! Golfing at Moon Lake Golf Course.
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Saskatoon Travel & AttractionsMeadow Lake Golf Club
The golf course offers many unique challenges for every level of golfer. The front nine, built in 1952, has a true northern feel with large groups of trees lining each fairway waiting to grab those errant tee shots. The back nine, added in
Saskatoon Travel & AttractionsEnterprise Rent-A-Car
Unlike other rental car companies, Enterprise focuses on neighborhood markets. We specialize in renting to people who need a temporary replacement car or a vehicle for a special occasion.
Saskatoon Travel & AttractionsRock Ridge Paintball
We are committed to providing you, our valued guest with a safe and fun afternoon that fits your event by offfering paintball and lasertag games. Laser Tag Birthday Blast. Mobile Laser Tag at your venue. SPY TRAP Mobile Laser Maze
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Saskatoon Travel & AttractionsBlueberry Hill Golf Course
This golf course is located in northern Saskatchewan, a short drive from Saskatoon
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Walking On The Moon
In the midst of all our Earthly problems the government made the long hoped for announcement that it was going to be a partner in the Lunar Gateway project, a NASA space station orbiting the Moon. We were the first international partner to confirm participation in the program and it will give us the opportunity to not only expand our leadership in space based robotics but also see a Canadian astronaut on the Moon and possibly even Mars. The Canadian space program has an impressive track record of landmark achievements and and this was a very welcome development that will allow us to keep building on our success.
The first time Canada participated in a NASA project was September 29, 1962 when the Canadian built satellite named Alouette was launched into orbit around the Earth. Canada became the 3rd nation, after the U.S. and Russia to design and construct its own satellite. Its mission was to study the ionosphere from above using over 700 radio frequencies and it kept doing this for 10 years. The satellite is still in orbit and will remain so for 1,000 years.
On November 9, 1972 Canada launched the Anik satellites, the world's first national domestic satellites. These geostationary satellites gave Telesat Canada the ability to deliver television to the Canadian North for the first time. Subsequent Anik satellites would deliver radio, satellite TV, broadband Internet and pay TV services.
On November 13, 1981 the Canadarm was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia and made its space test debut while orbiting the Earth. Starting from a Canadian designed robot that could load fuel into CANDU nuclear reactors, a robotic arm that could deploy and retrieve space hardware from the payload bay of the space shuttle was eventually developed. Like a human arm with rotating joints at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist but made from titanium, stainless steel and graphite, it's 15 metres in length, weighs less than 500 kilos but can lift up to 30,000 kilos. After 90 space shuttle flights, and many successful applications over a period of 30 years it was finally retired.
Back row, from left to right: Ken Money, Marc Garneau, Steve MacLean and Bjarni Tryggvason. Front row: Robert Thirsk and Roberta Bondar.
On December 5, 1983 the first 6 Canadian astronauts were selected; Ken Money, Robert Thirsk, Mark Garneau, Steve MacLean, Roberta Bondar, and Bjarni Tryggvasson and, on October 4, 1984 Mark Garneau became the first Canadian in space on board the Challenger. On January 19, 1990 after a hiatus following the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, Roberta Bondar became the 1st Canadian woman in space on the space shuttle Discovery and, on October 22, 1992 Steve MacLean became the 3rd Canadian in space on board the Columbia.
Back row, from left to right: Chris Hadfield, Dave Williams. Front row: Michael McKay, Julie Payette
On June 8, 1992 four more Canadian astronauts are selected to join the team, Mike Mckay, Dave Williams, Julie Payette, and Chris Hadfield. On November 12, 1995 Chris Hadfield became the 4th Canadian in space on the shuttle Atlantis and also the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm (linking Atlantis to the Russian space station MIR) and the first Canadian to visit the Russian space station. On May 19, 1996 Marc Garneau became the first Canadian to fly twice into space, this time on the shuttle Endeavour where he also operated the Canadarm. On July 20, 1996 Robert Thirsk became the 5th Canadian in space on the shuttle Columbia spending 17 days in space, the longest of any Canadian. On August 7, 1997 Bjarni Tryggvasson became the 6th Canadian in space on shuttle Discovery where he tests an anti-vibration system he invented and is now in use on the MIR space station. On April 17, 1998 Dave Williams became the 7th Canadian in space on the shuttle Columbia. On May 27, 1999 aboard shuttle Discovery, Julie Payette becomes the 8th Canadian in space and part of the first crew to dock the shuttle and deliver equipment to the new International Space Station becoming the first Canadian to visit the International Space Station, and the 3rd Canadian to operate the Canadarm. On November 30, 2000 Mark Garneau made his 3rd visit to space with a crew on the Endeavour to install the solar panels on the International Space Station.
Canada's First 8 Astronauts
Canada's eight astronauts, posing for a photo at the John H. Chapman Space Centre in St. Hubert, Que., in 2003: Back row, left to right, Marc Garneau, Steve MacLean, Julie Payette, Dave Williams; front row, left to right, Roberta Bondar, Chris Hadfield, Robert Thirsk and Bjarni Tryggvason.
Following the success of the original Canadarm the next generation Canadarm2, or Space Station Remote Manipulator System as it's officially known, was developed as a permanent attachment for the new International Space Station. At 18 metres in length and weighing 1,800 kilos it is capable of handling payloads up to 116,000 kilos and is able to assist with docking the space shuttle itself. On April 19, 2001 Chris Hadfield was part of the crew on the shuttle Endeavour who delivered and installed Canadarm2 on the International Space Station and became the first Canadian to do a spacewalk.
On June 5, 2002 Canada's second contribution to the International Space Station the Mobile Base System is delivered by the shuttle Endeavor. A base platform for robotic arms to connect via 4 different power data grapple fixtures, it rests on top of the Mobile transporter rail car. The Mobile Base can glide along the main truss of the International Space Station and access any of 8 work-sites that feature power connections for the Base and its attachments.
On September 9, 2006 Steve MacLean makes his 2nd space flight and visits the Space Station for the first time on board the shuttle Atlantis to resume assembly of the Space Station following the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003. He is the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm2 and Mobile Base System and the 2nd to do a spacewalk.
On March 11, 2008 "Dextre" the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, a smaller two-armed robot that can attach to Canadarm2 or the Mobile Base System was installed. Designed to handle delicate assembly tasks with smaller arms and power tools this was another Canadian contribution to the Space Station demonstrating our expertise with space robotics. On May 7, 2009 Robert Thirsk launched from Kazakhstan aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and arrived at the International Space Station where he would stay for a record breaking 6 months as part of the first permanent Space Station residents. Then on July 17, 2009 Julie Payette arrived at the Space Station on board the shuttle Endeavour and was welcomed aboard by Robert Thirsk making another first for Canadians as they met in space. With the retirement of the American space shuttle program in 2011 Chris Hadfield on December 19, 2012 returned to space for the 3rd time via a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and became the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station where he stayed for 6 months.
Meanwhile our original Radarsat-1 program launched on November 4, 1995 and updated with Radarsat-2 on December 14, 2007 was the first commercial Earth observation satellite in service and has been providing marine surveillance, ice monitoring, disaster management, resource management, environmental monitoring and mapping services for Canada and around the world ever since as part of the collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency and MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates, the same folks who brought us the Canadarm technology.
We've come a long way since Alouette and reaped many technological and monetary benefits as a result. Even now we are experimenting with our own version of a Mars Rover and contributing to all sorts of scientific testing on NASA missions to Mars. Mars of course being the ultimate destination in the foreseeable future for Earthlings but, before Canadians get there, we look forward to seeing them walking on the Moon. Which one of the four newest astronauts it will be has yet to be determined but, as of December 3, 2019, David Saint-Jacques has been up in the Space Station via a new Russian Soyuz launch, following the aborted Soyuz failure in October, for a 6 month tour, as Canada's 9th person to be in space.
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Pest Library: Ants
The life of an ant starts from an egg. If the egg is fertilised, the progeny will be female diploid; if not, it will be male haploid. Ants develop by complete metamorphosis with the larva stages passing through a pupal stage before emerging as an adult. The larva is largely immobile and is fed and cared for by workers. Food is given to the larvae by trophallaxis, a process in which an ant regurgitates liquid food held in its crop. This is also how adults share food, stored in the “social stomach”. Larvae, especially in the later stages, may also be provided solid food, such as trophic eggs, pieces of prey, and seeds brought by workers.
The larvae grow through a series of four or five moults and enter the pupal stage. The pupa has the appendages free and not fused to the body as in a butterfly pupa. The differentiation into queens and workers (which are both female), and different castes of workers, is influenced in some species by the nutrition the larvae obtain. Genetic influences and the control of gene expression by the developmental environment are complex and the determination of caste continues to be a subject of research. Winged male ants, called drones, emerge from pupae along with the usually winged breeding females. Some species, such as army ants, have wingless queens. Larvae and pupae need to be kept at fairly constant temperatures to ensure proper development, and so often, are moved around among the various brood chambers within the colony.
A new ergate spends the first few days of its adult life caring for the queen and young. She then graduates to digging and other nest work, and later to defending the nest and foraging. These changes are sometimes fairly sudden, and define what are called temporal castes. An explanation for the sequence is suggested by the high casualties involved in foraging, making it an acceptable risk only for ants who are older and are likely to die soon of natural causes.
Ant colonies can be long-lived. The queens can live for up to 30 years, and workers live from 1 to 3 years. Males, however, are more transitory, being quite short-lived and surviving for only a few weeks. Ant queens are estimated to live 100 times as long as solitary insects of a similar size.
Ants are active all year long in the tropics, but, in cooler regions, they survive the winter in a state of dormancy known as hibernation. The forms of inactivity are varied and some temperate species have larvae going into the inactive state (diapause), while in others, the adults alone pass the winter in a state of reduced activity.
Some ant species are considered as pests, primarily those that occur in human habitations, where their presence is often problematic. For example, the presence of ants would be undesirable in sterile places such as hospitals or kitchens. Some species or genera commonly categorized as pests include the Argentine ant, pavement ant, yellow crazy ant, banded sugar ant, Pharaoh ant, carpenter ants, odorous house ant, red imported fire ant, and European fire ant. Some ants will raid stored food, others may damage indoor structures, some can damage agricultural crops directly (or by aiding sucking pests), and some will sting or bite. The adaptive nature of ant colonies make it nearly impossible to eliminate entire colonies and most pest management practices aim to control local populations and tend to be temporary solutions. Ant populations are managed by a combination of approaches that make use of chemical, biological and physical methods. Chemical methods include the use of insecticidal bait which is gathered by ants as food and brought back to the nest where the poison is inadvertently spread to other colony members through trophallaxis. Management is based on the species and techniques can vary according to the location and circumstance.
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Oscar Betting, SAG Winners & Milk Homophobia
There’s been a fair amount of fall out from last week’s Academy Award nominations. The biggest controversy has surrounded the omission of The Dark Knight from the list of best picture nominees. I wouldn’t have included it myself (it was a very good film, not a brilliant film) but I wouldn’t have been too disappointed if it was nominated. It is the second highest grossing movie of all time in the United States and it was well received by both the public and critics. It has also featured in many lead up awards.
Spoilt Milk
I am a huge Oscar buff and follow many blogs and news sites throughout the year to read about the latest news. Of all the interesting articles I’ve seen, this one released over the weekend tops the pile - http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=6364.
On the Internet Movie Database (which the world’s biggest movie site), the public can rate a film on a scale between 1 and 10. The votes are collated electronically and you can see the current score of any movie. As you can see from the chart in the article, Milk’s ranking in the all-time best movies list took a nose dive after Thursday’s nominations. It seems a large number of people suddenly logged onto the site and gave it a score of 1 out of 10 – hence the fall in score.
As alluded to in this article, this is widely attributed to a backlash from homophobic moviegoers. I find this ironic in a week when Americans saluted their very first black President. I guess the gay movement still has a long way to go.
This reminds me of all the anti Brokeback Mountain sentiment in early 2006. It lost the best picture Oscar to Crash, despite the fact that Brokeback had won almost every single important lead up award. It’s sad to find out that little has changed in the past 3 years.
The most important lead up awards to the Oscars are the Screen Actors Guild Awards (the SAGs).
They were held earlier today and the winners were:
Best Actor – Sean Penn (Milk)
Best Actress – Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Best Supporting Actor – Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Best Supporting Actress – Kate Winslet (The Reader)
Best Ensemble Cast – Slumdog Millionaire
They can’t match up with this year’s Oscar winners because both Winslet and Streep will face off in the same category – best actress.
The last major awards are the BAFTAs which are announced on 8 February 2009.
Oscar Betting
For those new to the Film Pie, I always place a few bets each year on the Academy Awards. I’ve done this every year since 1996 and over the last 12 years, I’ve managed a profit of $4,280. Hey, it’s fun to win the money, but I really do it for the challenge of outsmarting the betting agencies and showing that I know how to pick a winner.
Having won $265 already on the Golden Globes earlier this month, I’ve had the following bets on this year’s Oscars…
Best Actor – $400 on Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) to win $346.70.
Best Actress - $400 on Kate Winslet (The Reader) to win $386.83.
Mickey Rourke is in a two horse race with Sean Penn. The reason I like Rourke over Penn is because (1) Rourke’s win would be a remarkable comeback – a Cinderella story, and (2) Penn won in this category 5 years ago and it’s tough to back up so close after a win – the Academy likes to spread the love around. I know that Penn just won the SAG (which would automatically give him favouritism) but you have to remember that Penn didn’t win the SAG in the year he won the Oscar (for Mystic River). Today’s SAG win was his first and was widely tipped by the pundits. I did win a lot of money on Penn back in 2004 but this year I’m betting against him and going with Rourke.
Kate Winslet faces off against Meryl Streep in the best actress category. It’s going to be one hell of a contest but as Winslet has always been the bridesmaid and never the bride, I think the Academy will shine a light on her this year – her 6th nomination. She also has two great performances – The Reader and Revolutionary Road and that may sway voters minds. Streep is a danger but I think Winslet is too strong this year.
I’ve been talking so much about the Oscars and the year end awards races over the last few weeks. I usually don’t have much else to talk about at this time of the year so I hope it’s not too boring. See you next week!
Oscar Nomations 2009: The Reader Steals Batman's Limelight
It’s one of my favourite parts of the film year – the moment that the Academy Award nominations are revealed. They were announced just moments ago and here’s a look at the nominees in the major categories with my personal thoughts…
Frost/Nixon
Wow, a big surprise here. Everyone thought the top 5 films were locked in but we did have one upset – The Dark Knight, the second highest grossing film in U.S. history, was overlooked for a nomination. I’m not too fussed. Stealing the nomination was The Reader which I haven’t seen yet and is due for release in Australia in February. Slumdog Millionaire has this won – I’ve no doubt about that.
Achievement in directing
David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant for Milk
Stephen Daldry for The Reader
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire
Usually, there’s one film which doesn’t match up in the best picture and best director categories. That didn’t happen this year. They went 5 for 5. So again, the upset was Stephen Daldry being nominated for The Reader over Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight. I think it’s a fantastic achievement for Daldry. He has made only 3 feature films and he’s been nominated for an Oscar every time – for Billy Elliot (my all time favourite movie), for The Hours and now for The Reader. Well done indeed.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn in Milk
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
There weren’t any major surprises here. This is a two horse race – Sean Penn v. Mickey Rourke. Rourke has the edge right now and I think he can win it. The two most high profile actors to miss out were Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road). It’s nice to see Richard Jenkins and Frank Langella both earn their first nominations. They’re veterans actors who were well overdue.
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie in Changeling
Melissa Leo in Frozen River
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Kate Winslet in The Reader
I saw this coming but not a lot of other people had the guts to predict it. The Academy has deemed that Kate Winslet’s role in The Reader is NOT in the supporting category (as was the case at the Golden Globes). Given that you can only be nominated once within a single category, one of her great performances had to miss out. It turns out she’s been nominated for The Reader as opposed to Revolutionary Road. She’ll now be the frontrunner in this category given that’s she’s due (she’s now got 6 nominations without a win). Melissa Leo caused quite a boilover being nominated for the small independent film, Frozen River. She’s won a few critics awards but most people didn’t see this coming. The unlucky victim in this category was the wonderful Sally Hawkins who has missed out for her beautiful performance in Happy-Go-Lucky. That’s a real shame.
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin in Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road
Heath Ledger has this one in the bag. The only nice surprise was seeing Michael Shannon nominated for Revolutionary Road (see my full length review this week). Robert Downey Jr. completes his comeback with his first nomination since Chaplin in 1993. He’s career has gone full circle in between. Another first for Josh Brolin who earned his first nomination ever.
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in Doubt
Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis in Doubt
Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
This category is now wide open with the disappearance of Kate Winslet. Penelope Cruz will be the early favourite but she’s vulnerable. Anyone could win this and I’ll be following the lead up awards closely over the next month.
Screenplay written directly for the screen
Happy-Go-Lucky
This will be an interesting category as only one of the best picture nominees this year (Milk) is an original screenplay. I’m very “happy” with the Happy-Go-Lucky nomination. I know of at least someone who will be just as happy with the In Bruges nomination.
Screenplay based on material previously produced or published
This is a very strong category this year. Doubt is the only film which wasn’t nominated for best picture and yet it still picked up 4 acting nominations (more than any other film). Slumdog is the favourite given that it will be crowned best picture.
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button picked up a whopping 13 nominations. Only two films (All About Eve and Titanic) have earned more. This is a little surprise but it was always going to perform well in the technical categories (make up and special effects in particular).
Australia earned just one nomination – best costume design. I was hoping that it’d perform a little better.
The winners will be announced on Monday, 23 February 2009 (Brisbane time). I’ll be sure to keep you up-to-date with the latest happenings and my Oscars gambling in the meantime.
Another Golden Night For Hollywood...
After laying low over the Christmas period, my movie going year has kicked into full swing over the past week – I’ve seen 7 films in the past 5 days and there’s more to see this weekend. I’ve just gotten back from a screening (Gran Torino) and there’s not much time so let’s get right to it…
The Golden Globes were held earlier today and it was very significant in terms of the Oscars race. The Globes do seem to impact Academy voters. They are the 2nd most important lead up award (behind the Screen Actors Guild Awards) in the lead up to next month’s Oscars.
As I do each year, I placed a few wagers with a sports betting company in the hope of an upset. I backed both Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) and Kate Winslet (The Reader) and luckily went 2 for 2. My windfall was $265 and that’ll do just nicely. I plan to use those winnings to place a few more bets on the upcoming Oscars. My career award show gambling profit since 1996 now stands at $4,545 but hey, who’s counting
On to the awards themselves and I think I’ll do this best by splitting them into the relevant categories…
The favourite, Slumdog Millionaire, won best picture, best director and best screenplay at the Globes. It is now the very clear favourite going into the Oscars and I can’t see it getting beat.
Mickey Rourke won best actor in a drama for The Wrestler after beating favourite Sean Penn (Milk). I tipped this and I think Rourke’s great speech will see his momentum build in the next month. Hollywood loves a Cinderella story and Mickey Rourke (after all that he’s been through in life) would be just that if he claimed the coveted gold statue. Penn is the only man who can beat him and I wouldn’t rule him out just yet. The Guild winner will probably tell us more. For the record, Colin Farrell won best actor in a comedy for In Bruges and that’s great to see (I thought it was Farrell’s best ever roles) but he’s no chance at an Oscar nom.
The best actress race at the Oscars has now become a lottery. The two favourites leading into the Globes were Anne Hathaway (Rachel’s Getting Married) and Meryl Streep (Doubt). Both lost however in the night’s biggest upset – to Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road. The reason it was so shocking is that Winslet had won earlier in the night for The Reader (see below). You’d usually expect the awards to be shared around. Also mudding the waters was the win by the amazing Sally Hawkins (my personal choice) in the best actress comedy category for Happy-Go-Lucky. She’s an outsider for the Oscars but should score a nomination. It’s a race in 4 and anyone could win it. At this point, I can’t pick it.
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) won the Globe and just about everything else to date. He’ll start as a $1.01 favourite for the Oscars and it’s pointless to speculate about any of the other hopefuls as they have zero chance.
Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) was the early frontrunner but Kate Winslet has stolen the lead with her Globe win for The Reader. It’s great to see because Winslet has been well overdue. She had been nominated for 5 Golden Globes previously and was yet to win. Now, can she break her run of 0 for 5 at the Oscars? I hope so. She’s no certainty however because her win in the best actress category for Revolutionary Road might actually hurt her. If members split their votes (i.e. only voting for her in one category so as to spread their love around), then she might end up losing both.
The Globes ceremony itself was rather uneventful. Sacha Baron Cohen stole the limelight with his distasteful, politically incorrect humour. Yes, he was booed by some but I was happy just to see someone mixing it up. I tire easily of the standard thank yous and back slapping. Ricky Gervais was also good when he presented.
The Oscars are unveiled next Thursday (Jan 22) at 11:38pm. Next week’s Film Pie newsletter will therefore be a few days late. I’ll release it to tie in with the nominations and will provide my insightful commentary. See you then.
The 2009 Oscars Race: Getting Something Off My Chest
And so it begins once again. Another year of cinema has begun. It’s the 14th year that I’ve been reviewing movies and the 11th for the Film Pie website and newsletter. Let’s hope it’s a good one.
I usually use the first issue of each year as a “report card” for the previous year. I look back at the highlights… and lowlights… and everything in between.
I’m not doing that this year because I want to have my say on the upcoming Oscars. It’s just my opinion but I guess it’s as valid as the next man. Let’s get this off my chest…
The close of 2007 was a great period for cinema. The 5 films nominated for best picture at the subsequent Academy Awards were Atonement, Michael Clayton, Juno, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Narrowly missing out on nominations were The Diving Bell & The Butterfly and American Gangster. I’ve been obsessed with the Oscars since 1994 (when my love of cinema developed) and I can honestly say that 2007 was the first year that I really enjoyed all five of the best picture nominees. I’d have preferred to see Juno win but wasn’t unhappy that No Country For Old Men took the prize. Each year, there’s usually one or two best picture nominees that I’m not a fan of. Crash is a good example from back in 2006. It’s not that I hated it but I think I saw at least 60 movies that were better in that year.
This leads into 2008 and there are four films which are dominating the critics awards to this point – Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight and WALL-E. The first three look certain to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars but WALL-E will probably only be nominated in the best animated film category. For the other 2 slots, the contenders are Milk, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road and The Reader.
My problem is that of the 3 favourites (Slumdog, Benjamin Button and Dark Knight), I don’t really want any of them to win. They’re good films but they’re not great films. As I said before though, that’s just my opinion. It does seem to contradict that of most people. The Dark Knight is the highest grossing movie since Titanic. Its many fans have hoisted it to 4th on the all time greatest films list on the Internet Movie Database. I know a few people who loved this film and have seen it more than once.
There are also a lot of people supporting Slumdog. It’s got “crowd pleaser” written all over it and it has won the most critics awards to date. It seems to be on the top 10 list of almost every respected critic. It is the front-runner leading into the Oscar nominations on Jan 22.
Benjamin Button opened on Christmas Day in the United States and has been a box-office hit. That surprises me a little given the film’s length (close to 3 hours) and its subject matter (death). There are critics I admire who are calling it a near-masterpiece. The public seem to like it too (based on the box-office). It’s currently sitting 61st on the greatest films list on the Internet Movie Database.
The point of this week’s Film Pie is to tell you why I don’t think these 3 films deserve to win. Yes, I’m in the minority with my viewpoint, but I feel like it needs to be said.
Now the following contains spoilers so if you haven’t seen, and you intend to see, any of these films, then I’d skip this part and move to the very end.
Is this film a love story or a rags-to-riches story? Is it both maybe? I don’t know what I’m supposed to take away from it.
If it’s a love story, which I think is the intention, then I’m struggling with it. Jamal and Latika first meet when they are very young kids (I’d estimate about 8 years old). They are then separated and they only fleetingly see each other on 2 occasions in the lead up to the current day setting (where they are now 18 years old). Latika did her best to push Jamal away on both occasions. The second time, he asks her to flee with him but she doesn’t want to as she knows they will have no money to live off. I wasn’t convinced that she had such overwhelming feelings for him. Was this really true love? Should I be sitting in my seat with a beaming smile on my face when they finally get together in the end? I couldn’t do it.
Let’s now look at the rags-to-riches argument. The script creates as much drama as possible in the lead up to the final question. Will a slumdog from the streets take the top prize? In the closing scenes, we see all of India glued to their television screens and watching the final question. Lo and behold, Jamal correctly guesses the answer to the final question and wins a fortune.
What point is trying to be made here? Is there a point? Jamal believes that the only way to win Latika’s heart is to go on this show (which is her favourite) and win financial security. I couldn’t help but think that she liked him more because he was now a millionaire.
Probably by biggest problem with the rags-to-riches tale was the handling of Jamal’s brother, Salim. As Jamal answers the final question, we see Salim locking himself in a bathroom and lying in a bathtub full of money. He shoots his gangster boss and is then killed himself. Is this supposed to be some form of redemption? Maybe symbolism? I find it odd that in a part of the film where the audience feels like jumping up and celebrating with Jamal, we see his brother being heinously killed. I think it’s a little distasteful. It felt as if Salim’s life wasn’t being given the full credit he deserved.
Also, did Salim really need to lock himself in the room with the money? It was always going to be suicide. Why didn’t he just shoot his boss and try to flee? I thought Salim was the most interesting character in the film but I was puzzled by his ever changing personality. There are scenes where he saves his brother’s life but there are scenes when he stabs him in the back. He was forever transforming. Maybe Salim’s death scene was some form of redemption but if so, it wasn’t necessary.
I’ve now seen Slumdog Millionaire twice and both times I thought it worth of an A- grading. It is still a good film and when I saw it for the second time, I realised there were moments in it of brilliance. Danny Boyle is a talented director and I loved his visuals, his editing and his creative subtitles.
As I’ve alluded to above however, I think the screenplay has limitations. It tries too hard to be a crowd pleaser. It’s structured around a set ending and some of the subplots that lead up this ending just don’t quite fit. Would they really have let the game show host and Jamal go to the bathroom together during an ad break? Would Salim have really given Latika his phone if he was about to commit suicide? I don’t know.
This film has all the right ingredients and I should love it – it has a great director, a great cast and great reviews. Instead, I felt disappointed on seeing it. I liked the post by one person on the Internet Movie Database who dubbed it “The Curious Case Of Wanting My Money Back.”
Once grievance I have is with the modern-day Hurricane Katrina subplot. Was this necessary? It has no relevance to the story whatsoever. It thought it might for a little while but realised it didn’t when the credits started to roll.
Another annoyance is the continual theme of death. We see Benjamin have to endure the death of so many people. This happens to all of us but to Benjamin, perhaps more so given that he is getting younger and his friends are getting older. There’s an obvious message here and that is to live life to its fullest. I felt like yelling out “yeah, I get it – let’s just move on.” I felt like the message was being force-fed down my throat. Why did we have to see the guy getting struck by lightening so many times? Was it comic relief? Or did I need to be reminded again about the richness of life?
What bugged me most was that I thought the characters were very cold (with the exception of Benjamin’s adopted mother). This is a clearly a journey movie. It’s not the ending which is important but rather how you got there. We see all these short stories involving people that Benjamin meets along the way. These include his first love (played by Tilda Swinton), his father (played by Jason Flemyng) and the captain of a tug-boat (played by Jared Harris). I didn’t mind these stories but was never particularly moved. Benjamin speaks so slowly and I thought he was a boring character.
Like I said with Slumdog, I appreciate how this film was made. The overall look, the music and the special effects were all beautifully done. Unfortunately, this was another lacklustre script which didn’t do it for me.
Yes, I liked this film too but I don’t think it’s one of the top 5 movies of the year. I thought that Batman Begins, released in 2005, was just as good. It revitalised the series and boasted a terrific performance from Christian Bale. It received just one Oscar nomination – for best cinematography.
This sequel is being talked about as one of the greatest films of all time. Is it really any better than Batman Begins? If so, why so? The villains are cool but the third act of the film gets a little far-fetched (e.g. the scene with the 2 ferries). I truly believe that the hype surrounding this film has overtaken the film itself.
The biggest raves for The Dark Knight have been for the performance of the late Heath Ledger. I’m 99% confident that we will win the Oscar for best supporting actor. He’s won almost every other critics award to date.
I admit that I’ve struggled to get my head around this. Heath died in 2008 on the same date that the Academy Award nominations were announced. I remember the news stories and people were already saying that it was a tragedy for Heath because his performance in The Dark Knight was touted as his finest and he was one of the front-runners for next year’s Oscars.
The reason I’ve been angered by all this let’s give Heath an Oscar talk is that I find it disrespectful to other contenders. People have been saying that he deserves the Oscar for almost a year now. They were saying it months before the film was even finished and before any of the other performances from any of the other movies were seen. If Heath deserves it, then so be it. I’m just peeved that people were anointing him as deserving of an Oscar. There are a lot of other great actors who passed away who never received one.
I am a bit Oscars fan and over the past few months, I have become more accepting of the whole Heath Ledger / Oscar thing. Many actors have not won for the best performance of their career – instead, they win for a later performance as a way of the Academy making up for past mistakes. For example, Al Pacino’s Oscar was won for Scent Of A Woman. Was it really a better performance than that in Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico or The Godfather?
Still, I’d like to ask the question about what is so special about Heath’s performance in The Dark Knight? Is it really that good? Is it better than Eddie Marsan in Happy-Go-Lucky, Josh Brolin in Milk, James Franco in Milk, Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt, Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading and Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road? He may be a deserving winner but I think the question deserves deeper thought.
That has been a rather long Film Pie newsletter and I think most of the above is incoherent dribble. It’ll do.
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Miss USA 2011 winner is Alyssa Campanella of California
21 year old Miss California, Alyssa Campanella was crowned as the new Miss USA 2011 during a beauty contest held on June 19 at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and was broadcast live by NBC. She was crowned by Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010.
The 1st run-up was Miss Tennessee, Ashley Elizabeth Durham. The 2nd run-up was Miss Alabama, Madeline Mitchell. And finally, the 3rd run-up was Miss Texas, Ana Christina Rodriguez.
The award for Miss Congeniality was given to Miss Kentucky, Kia Ben-et Hampton. And the Miss Photogenic award went to Miss Arizona, Brittany Dawn Brannon
Alyssa Campanella stands 5'8" tall and will represent USA at the Miss Universe 2011 beauty pageant to be held on September 12 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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The 3rd annual Saudi Miss Congeniality pageant took place last October 8 at the grand King Abdullah Ballroom in the Eastern province of Qatif. Crowned Maram Zaki al-Saif from Tarout as the ultimate winner beat out other 284 candidates.
From ages ranging from 16 to 24 years old, a delegate’s ethics and good behaviour, their charisma and theatrical performance, confidence and literacy have been taken into consideration for choosing the set of winners, according to Khadra’a Al Mubarak, the executive director.
The top 5 finalists answered 2 main questions confidently: What will the title add to you if you were qualified? What will you add to the title in return?
Aside from her title, Maram also named as the new Saudi “Queen of Ethics” and received 3000 USD as part of her prize package.
Close to the title was the 1st run-up, 17 year old Fatema Abdel Jaleel Al Abad from the Saudi region of Al-Ahsa.
2nd run-up position went to Fatema Saeed Al Baik, a 23 year old beauty from Al Qatif.
Al Saif told the media after her crowning that she will continue to achieve her ambitions and goals, along with inspiring other people especially women to believe in their ability to form a change in the society as a whole. She also reveals her plan to set-up a vocational rehabilitation project for people with special needs that would help them find suitable job opportunities.
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Why I Volunteer - Ellen Levine
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Saluda is located in west North Carolina. Saluda is between the Polk, Henderson county. Saluda has 1.56 square miles of land area and has no water area. As of 2010-2014, the total Saluda population is 596, which has grown 3.65% since 2000. The population growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 21.13% and is much lower than the national average rate of 11.61%. Saluda median household income is $41,591 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 6.47% since 2000. The income growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 19.16% and is much lower than the national average rate of 27.36%. Saluda median house value is $272,400 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 127.95% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 41.83% and is much higher than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers Saluda is much better than the state average in quality. The Saluda area code is 828.
Median Household Income: $41,591 at 2010-2014—6.47% increase since 2000, rank #319
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Begin Reading Whatever Happened to Mourning Free?
Still queasy and relieved to be almost home, Charlene Connor turned right onto Middlebury Drive. Her parents’ empty house would feel sad and strange, but at least she’d have time to herself, peace and quiet to ask herself: What’s wrong with me?
There it was on the next corner – 32 Brookline Lane – the cozy little Cape Cod, white with black shutters. She used to tell her parents, “When I grow up you’re going to have to move out. Me and my husband are going to live here.” Now it was Charlene who would oversee the sale of the house – and she no longer wanted a husband nor to live in this quaint little subdivision.
She pulled to the curb opposite the house and was staring at it, expression blank, when at the bottom of the hill a car slowly nosed around the corner of Brewster Road and turned toward her. It was a black and white patrol car, with the familiar “Keep Dearborn Clean” emblazoned on its side. She’d naively thought that slogan was a simple admonishment not to litter – until a 5th grade classmate had rolled his eyes and said, “Everyone knows what that means: Keep the niggers in Detroit and out of Dearborn.” The cop, who looked like he was about twelve, pulled up next to Charlene and leaned over to the open window.
“Everything all right, Miss?”
“Yes, fine. I’m just sitting here thinking. I live there.” She nodded at the house.
“Oh, you one of Joe Connor’s girls?”
“Great guy. I served on the school board with him last year. You home from college for the summer?” He nodded at the back seat, which was piled with boxes, blankets, and clothing on hangers.
She nodded again. “I just graduated from U of M.”
“Well, congratulations and good luck to you, Miss. Take care.” He touched the brim of his hat and drove off.
She pulled into the driveway and got out to yank on the handle of the garage door, which slid up with a loud rattle. It would have been much easier to unpack through the front door, with the car standing outside, but she preferred not to advertise her arrival. Her best friend lived across the street, two doors down, and it wouldn’t take Kimberly Ann long to notice a candy apple red Mustang GT convertible in the Connor’s driveway. Charlene’s father had been almost defensive about this expensive graduation gift, saying she would need a dependable car to drive over to Grand Rapids to visit him. She knew the real reason – plain old guilt. He could, after all, have waited for her to graduate and settle into a job before he moved away and left her homeless.
In the garage she gathered up her bag of groceries and slipped out the pedestrian door in the back. She hurried up the walk and steps to the screened-in porch, where she unlocked the door that opened into the kitchen. Her father had warned her that no one had been in to clean, but the stack of dirty dishes took her by surprise. It was so unlike him.
Thirsty, she set the groceries on the countertop and opened the cupboard next to the sink to reach for a glass, but froze; her mother’s medicines still filled the bottom shelf. Charlene thought she might finally cry, but no. Not now. She stood for a moment with both hands braced on the countertop, before bending to drink straight from the tap. Then she turned around to hug the old Kelvinator refrigerator while she fished behind it for the cord and plugged it in. The loud cough and hum reminded her of its arrival many years ago – a surprise from Joe Connor for his wife Reggie.
“A new refrigerator!” Reggie had snapped at the hapless deliveryman. “Wouldn’t you think he could’ve at least asked me what kind I wanted? When was the last time he set foot in the kitchen?”
When Joe arrived home that evening – as always at 5:30 on the dot – Reggie had kissed his cheek and thanked him, but never missed an opportunity to loudly grumble about the racket “that thing” made.
Charlene put the groceries away and slipped past the dining table into the living room. Thank God the rented hospital bed was gone, but the long impressions its fold-up legs had left in the shag carpeting remained. She went to the hall broom closet for the bamboo rake they used after vacuuming. With a few quick strokes the marks disappeared and she rearranged the furniture, the way it used to be before Reggie got sick. Then Charlene pushed up some of the windows, hoping for a breeze; the weather was hot and humid and she was already sweating from that little exertion.
Exhausted, she trudged up the stairs to her room and flopped down on one of the twin beds. Why on earth did everyone else her age seem to love taking drugs? Almost two whole days had passed since her first – and definitely last – experiment with them and she still felt terrible. She had nearly drifted into sleep when she heard the distant ring of the phone. Too tired to race downstairs and answer, she rolled over and ignored it. It was probably her father, wanting to make sure she was home safe when she’d said she’d be. I’ll call him later, she thought.
But she was wide awake again. She propped two pillows against the headboard and idly picked up the wine-colored journal that lay on the nightstand. Her Aunt Olivia’s diary. What would Aunt Olivia have thought of all these spoiled college kids today, passing joints in dark rooms and mouthing idiocies they thought profound? Well, aren’t I a great one to judge? Charlene thought, closing her eyes and wishing she could eradicate the last few days. Aunt Olivia certainly wouldn’t have anything good to say about the appalling way Charlene had behaved out in California.
Olivia Killion was in fact Charlene’s great-great-great aunt, but Charlene felt more closely related to her than that, almost as if she knew her. Charlene had spent long hours wondering what had become of Mourning Free, Olivia’s friend and partner. The journal ended abruptly. Olivia was on her farm, planning to go over to the neighbors and then it just ended. Folded in the journal were two yellowed newspaper clippings from the late 1860s that celebrated Olivia Killion as a local heroine. OK Accommodations – Olivia Killion’s boarding house and a stop on the Underground Railroad – had become a tourist attraction. Had Mourning been there with her? Why had they left the farm? Where did she get the money to buy a boarding house? When Charlene was little she used to lie on a ratty beach towel in the backyard, staring at the sky and making up Olivia and Mourning stories, but was never satisfied with any of the versions she invented. She never came up with a happy ending she could believe in.
Finally she set the journal on the nightstand and stood, feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the things she had told her father she would do. First was to clean the house and make it presentable for the realtor to show. Then spruce up the yard, paint the picket fence out back, and clean up the garage. Once all that was done, she would begin packing – sorting everything into separate boxes for herself, her sister Rosalie, her father, the Goodwill, and trash. And somehow, along with accomplishing all of that, she had to figure out what to do with the rest of her life. How to become a normal person.
One thing at a time, she told herself. Just like Aunt Olivia always said. One thing at a time. And not today. For what remained of this day she would unload the car, shower, change the sheets on her bed, do a load of laundry, and have something to eat. By tomorrow she should have some energy back.
She let out a long sigh and went back downstairs, to the wall phone in the kitchen, and called her father at his new office in Grand Rapids.
“It’s good to know you’re safe at home. I tried to get you a while ago,” he said.
“I took my time getting here. Stopped for something to eat,” Charlene lied.
“I’m sorry I left the house in such a mess, but it was either get over here in a hurry or not at all.”
Charlene didn’t believe that. No new boss would have pressed him to move that fast, barely a week after his wife died. It was Joe who’d been in a rush – he simply couldn’t stand to spend another day alone in this house.
“It’s all right, Dad. I’ll manage just fine.”
“I could still get a mover to do the packing.”
“No. I want to go through everything. All those cupboards in the basement, the stuff from when we were kids.”
“Well, all right then. But if it gets to be too much . . . Have you seen anyone?” he asked.
“I don’t know if I mentioned it . . . Reeves is back, staying with his folks, and I hired him to help you out with the heavier stuff.”
She remained silent. She should have been furious with this lame attempt to throw her back together with the golden boy her father had been anxious for her to marry, but her black mood had lifted at the mere mention of his name. If Reeves had agreed to come work on the house, perhaps he didn’t hate her.
She flashed back to the morning – a few days after their Senior Prom – when Reeves had informed her that his full ride basketball scholarship to Michigan State had come through. Everything was set.
“How come you’ve never said anything about getting your acceptance letter from them,” Reeves had asked.
Unable to look him in the eye, she’d gotten up to take a paper from one of the drawers of the hutch. Eyes still on the floor, she’d handed him the letter from the University of Michigan. “I’ve decided to go to Ann Arbor.”
He sat through a long silence and his voice was restrained and unfamiliar when he said, “I know it’s a better school, but think of all the time we’ll waste, traveling back and forth.”
“The thing is . . . we’ve been together for so long . . . maybe we should stop seeing each other for a while. Go out with other people.”
Obviously stunned, he slowly got to his feet, saying, “I bet you didn’t even apply to State, did you? All this year you . . . you just lied.”
The coldness of his tone had been terrifying and the hurt on his face made her ache, but when he turned and walked out she didn’t run after him. Somehow she managed to harden her heart and it felt like a rock in her chest when she watched the door close behind him. He’d never called her again. She knew he was waiting for – and deserved – an apology. She should have crawled back on her knees. She’d picked up the phone many times, but always set it back in its cradle. She’d been feeling depressed and confused for a long time, but the one thing she knew for sure was that she wanted to escape her father’s version of her life, a script in which Reeves Valenti played a starring role. Reeves was going to be hard to leave behind, but she had two main defenses against her feelings for him.
He won’t waste any time pining away for me. I’m the one who’s going to be lonely. He’s going to be a big man on campus, with all kinds of girls throwing themselves at him. Even if I followed him to State, he’d be cheating on me right and left. And anyway, he’s better off without me. There is something wrong with me. Why don’t I act like other people? Think like them? Like to do the things they do? He’s used to me now, but once he starts hanging around with normal girls, he’ll dump me in a flash.
Returning to the present, she asked her father, “When you asked Reeves to work on the house, did he know I was going to be here?” Maybe now, she thought, after all this time, we can be friends.
“Well, of course he did. Now I know you’re probably mad . . .” His voice was not apologetic. He was using his “if only you would come to your senses and do as I say” tone.
She interrupted him. “You should have asked me, but I’m not mad. I haven’t seen him in ages. Except when Mom . . . at the funeral. And I wasn’t very nice that day.”
“Well, I’m glad to hear you are aware of that. I can’t imagine what got into you, ignoring him like he wasn’t even there.”
“I ignored everyone that day. I guess I wasn’t too worried about good manners,” she said, not hiding her annoyance.
“Charlene, you weren’t the only one . . .” He stopped, cleared his throat, and no longer sounded angry when he spoke again. “By the way, he got a job coaching at Edsel.”
“I know. Kim told me.”
“I bought that little sailboat I told you about. Why don’t you and Reeves drive over next weekend so I can take you out on it? Show off my sailing skills.”
“Stop.” Her voice was soft. “Please, Dad, just stop.”
There was a short silence.
“I left some money for you. Two hundred dollars, in the middle drawer of the hutch. For your groceries and anything else you need.”
“Thanks. You still liking Grand Rapids?”
“More every day.” She could hear the stress drain from his voice, now that he could talk about uncomplicated things, like pretty little Reed’s Lake and the great hamburgers they served at Rose’s Diner, a quaint shack right on the docks.
They chatted a while longer and then Charlene begged off, saying she was starving. She was in fact hungry and stood staring blankly into the open refrigerator, half-expecting her mother to come around the corner and ask, “Waiting for something to jump out?” Charlene made a cup of instant coffee, slapped Kraft American cheese between two slices of Wonder bread, and ate standing at the sink.
Then she shoved things around in the kitchen cupboards while she made a grocery list. Behind a tall carton of Quaker oats she found an unpleasant reminder – a half-empty bottle of vodka. Many years ago Charlene had come into the kitchen and found her mother taking a swig, straight out of just such a bottle. While Reggie screwed the top back on she’d mouthed, “Don’t tell your father,” and returned it to the cupboard.
Charlene had been dumbfounded; she’d never seen her mother anywhere near drunk, not even when her parents had friends over for drinks and everyone else’s speech became slurred. So what was with the bottle in the kitchen? Charlene blinked at it. And why is it still here? Dad did all the cooking for the last two years. Didn’t he find it? She sighed again. There were too many things about her parents she would never understand.
The next morning Charlene felt fine and decided to start cleaning the kitchen. She carried her record player downstairs and put a stack of 45s on the spindle. She was half-dancing to the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations while emptying the contents of the upper cupboards onto the countertop and dining table when the front doorbell rang.
Her heart pounded. What if it’s Reeves? She washed her hands, ran her fingers through her curls, and wished she had put on something nicer than cutoff jeans and an old T-shirt, but when she peeked out the front window his car was not there. Neither was his bicycle. An unfamiliar green sedan was parked across the street, but that must be someone visiting the Carters.
Expecting Kimberly Ann, she pulled the heavy door open saying, “I was just about to call you,” and then froze. A Black man stood on the porch, dressed in jeans and a black summer sports jacket over a black T-shirt and holding two bulky manila envelopes. It took Charlene a few seconds to recover from her astonishment.
“Good morning,” she said. “Can I help you?”
“If you’re Miss Charlene Connor, I have something that may be of interest to you.”
Charlene stared at the envelopes. “Yes, I’m Charlene. Are you from the realtor?”
“No. I’m an attorney, but not from any realtor. And this is . . . of a personal nature.”
She blanched. The first thought to cross her mind was that someone had taken pictures of her behaving badly at that stupid Pop Festival in Monterrey and now they’d sent this man to blackmail her. She knew it was a ridiculous notion, but still her voice quivered when she asked, “Regarding what?”
“It has to do with your ancestry. Your family tree.”
Charlene relaxed and then hesitated. She would not have invited a White man to come in when she was alone – not a complete stranger – and could not deny feeling even more leery of this extremely good-looking Black man. Ashamed of this fact, she couldn’t bear to keep him standing in the scorching sun, proving that Dearborn was no better than Mississippi – just like Malcolm X had said. She stretched her smile wider and pushed the screen door open.
“Then I guess you’d better come in and tell me about it.”
She saw surprise register on his face and also suspected a trace of contempt for the little White girl, who was trying so hard to act natural while her vocal cords betrayed her, sounding ready to snap from the strain.
“All right, thank you. It won’t take long.”
The record player’s automatic changer had replaced the Beach Boys with Wilson Pickett singing Mustang Sally and she willed the lawyer to notice – See how much I like colored singers – before lifting the arm and turning the machine off. She led him through the living room, past the dining table, into the kitchen, and out the back door to the screened-in porch.
“I’m sorry for the mess in there. Have a seat and I’ll get us some lemonade.” She had made a pitcher earlier and went into the kitchen to pour two glasses.
“Thank you.” He accepted his. “Kind of you.”
She took the cushioned chair opposite him and couldn’t help wondering if the neighbors could see through the screen well enough to tell that he was Black. He was so thin and wiry, his black T-shirt stretched tight across his abs, that she’d thought him younger. But now she noticed the gray in his short-cropped hair and the crinkles around his eyes.
“My name is Bates. Billy Bates.”
She thought she should have leaned over and held out her hand to shake his, but he was busy removing a sheaf of papers from one of the envelopes.
He finally looked up and said, “One of my clients has come into possession of a journal that was kept by a woman from whom I believe you may be descended. Olivia Killion?”
“Yes I am,” Charlene said eagerly. “Well, not from her, exactly. Her brother Tobey was my great-great-great grandfather. I can’t believe you’re asking about my Aunt Olivia – I was just reading her journal last night. But I have it here, right upstairs, so it can’t be her journal that your client has.”
He leaned back in his chair and took a long drink of the lemonade. “Delicious,” he said and set the glass down. “Interesting that you put mint leaves in it. Just like Miss Killion used to.”
Charlene’s eyes opened wide. “How do you know that?”
“As I said, my client has her journal – two journals actually – and I’ve read both of them. They’re the last two she wrote. What you have is the first one, telling how she came out here to Detroit.”
Charlene leaned forward, anxious to finally learn what had become of Olivia and Mourning, but a frown crossed her face. “How do you know about me?” she asked.
“I believe that a few years ago Reverend Tillson in Detroit asked you to speak to his Sunday school classes, about the activities of your Aunt Olivia as part of the Underground Railroad.”
“Yes. That’s right.”
That hadn’t been long after the Klan murdered three civil rights workers for trying to help colored people in Mississippi register to vote.
“When my client happened to mention the journals, I remembered my nephew talking about a White lady named Olivia Killion and a descendant of hers who had come to speak to them. You see, my nephew was one of those Sunday school children. So I asked Reverend Tillson how I could get in touch with you.”
Charlene leaned back and drank from her own glass, at ease. “I would love to read those journals. Where did your client get them?”
“I couldn’t really say.” He removed more pages from the second envelope and arranged the two piles together. “I had my secretary type out the contents of the second journal. This is a carbon copy for you. And on top here – I had these photographs taken of two of the pages, so you can compare this handwriting to that in the journal you have. My client has Miss Killion’s Bible too. I also photographed the front pages of it, where the family recorded all the births, marriages, and deaths.” He leaned forward and held the pages out to Charlene.
“This is so kind of you.” She rose, wiping her hands on her cutoffs before accepting the documents. “I’m just going to set them over here on the table, so I don’t need to worry about dripping lemonade on them. I can’t wait to find out what Olivia did for the rest of her life. Why she never got married and had kids.” She sat back down. “This is such a coincidence. One of the things I’m planning to do this summer is type out a copy of the journal I have. I’d be happy to make a carbon for your client, if he’d like. In fact I’d be glad to type out that third journal he has. I’d promise to take good care of it.”
“Well, we can see about that. I’m sure we’ll be in touch.” He got to his feet and held out a business card. “Here’s my number.”
“Thank you so much, Mr. Bates.”
“Okay, Billy. It was really nice of you to come all the way here.” She had often heard about the Dearborn police harassing Black drivers.
At the front door he turned to face her. “It won’t be easy reading,” he said. Then he looked at his watch and said he had to go.
Charlene closed the door behind him and eyed the mess on the dining table, but there was no way it was getting cleaned up before she found out what had happened to Olivia and Mourning.
Charlene washed her hands and raced upstairs to get Olivia’s wine-colored journal, which she set on the coffee table, next to the pile of pages Billy Bates had given her. Then she went to the den to fetch her father’s magnifying glass and confirmed that the handwriting did indeed look the same. It’s really hers, she thought. I’m finally going to find out what happened to Olivia and Mourning. She settled into the armchair and began reading, but her eager anticipation quickly turned to a puzzled frown. For some reason Olivia was back in dreary Five Rocks, baking cookies and frying apple fritters, while living with Jettie Place, the woman who had been her father’s mistress.
Charlene checked the dates. The last entry in the leather bound journal had been written in July 1841 and the first entry on the pages Mr. Bates had given her was dated January 1842. How, in just six months, had Olivia gone from clearing fields with Mourning on their farm in Michigan to working in a bakery in Five Rocks, Pennsylvania? And where was Mourning? Well, there were a lot more pages to read.
Before curling back up in the armchair she lifted the lid of the RCA Victor hi-fi console her father had bought for her mother the Christmas before last and flipped through the albums. She chose Johnny Mathis and settled in to read.
She was humming along to The Twelfth of Never when her jaw dropped. Aunt Olivia was pregnant? She’d had a baby? But why the heck was she staying with Jettie Place, of all people? Had something happened to her husband? Is that the sad thing Billy Bates was hinting at when he told me it wouldn’t be easy reading?
When the doorbell rang again she would have ignored it, but this time it had to be Kimberley Ann. Charlene already felt guilty for not calling her. Her hand was on the doorknob before she remembered that it might be Reeves. And when the door made its familiar whooshing sound over the front hall carpeting, there he stood – Reeves Valenti – or a made-over version of him.
Since the 7th grade he’d sported the same crew cut, clipped close because his hair was so curly, but now he’d let those blonde curls grow out past his ears. She was amazed at how good it looked on him – and that she hadn’t even noticed the drastic change in his appearance when he’d come to her mother’s funeral. The boy who’d lived in non-descript khakis, T-shirts, and scruffy sneakers was wearing flared white trousers, a clingy royal blue shirt, and brown leather Top-Siders. He looked tense, unsure of the reception he was going to receive.
She smiled and blurted out, “Reeves. Oh Reeves. I’m so happy to see you.” She pushed the screen door open. “And look at you! You look just like me, only prettier.”
And he did. Since she had given up sleeping with her hair wrapped around old orange juice cans, the same curls surrounded Charlene’s face. They could have passed for brother and sister.
“I don’t have your freckles.” He tried a grin as he stepped inside, but still looked unsure. “Thought I might get some tattooed on.”
Johnny Mathis was crooning “Hold me close” and that didn’t sound like such a bad idea to Charlene, but she stepped back and Reeves followed her into the living room, where she shut the music off.
After her initial outburst she had no idea what to say to him. No idea why he had agreed to her father’s request. I’m so stupid. Why did I turn Johnny Mathis off? I could have asked him to dance with me. That was what she felt like doing. Just touching him. Being touched. No talking.
Everyone had thought she was crazy to give him up. When she’d come home from college last Thanksgiving vacation her father greeted her with what might have been tears in his eyes, except that Joe Connor never cried, not even on the day he buried his wife.
He’d glared at her with his “this is serious” look, saying, “Your friend Kimberly Ann just told me Reeves is planning to get himself engaged to some girl he met at school. Kathy somebody, from Charlevoix. Going to propose as soon as he gets back to school after vacation.”
“I know. Kim called and told me last week.” Charlene had turned away, knowing what was coming.
“You know? Then what the hell are you doing here? Get your butt over there and tell him you’ve come to your senses. Before it’s too late.”
“It is too late, Dad. He’s getting engaged.”
“Engaged isn’t married. He doesn’t love that girl.”
“You don’t know that.”
“I know it and so do you. His own mother told me he’ll never find anyone he’ll love the way he loves you.”
“Loved, Dad, the way he loved me. We were kids and people move on. What if I died?” She’d lowered her voice to almost a whisper. She hadn’t been back to her mother’s room yet and didn’t know if she was awake. “You think he’d never love anyone else?”
“You didn’t die, Charlene. Except for your brain. That seems to have fizzled out.” He stretched his lips wide and emitted a sharp breath before his face settled into the expression he wore so often lately, the one that made him look desperate and helpless. “I know you think it’s none of my business, but what you don’t know is how much you’ll come to regret this stupidity.”
“I can’t change how I feel just because you think Reeves is supposed to fill in for the son you never had.” She felt sick to her stomach for arguing with him, while her mother was back in the bedroom, in constant pain and having to listen to this. “I’m going to see Mom,” she said and brushed past him before one of them started yelling.
Her mother had surprised her that day. Charlene sat next to her on the bed and Reggie took her hand and squeezed it. “You do what your heart tells you,” she said and pressed Charlene’s hand again. “Don’t let him bully you.” Then she’d turned her head aside, exhausted.
Charlene sat there for a long time, watching Reggie sleep. Her mother had never spoken to her like that before. You can’t die, Charlene wanted to shake her. I don’t even know you. Wake up. Talk to me. But Reggie had just had her injection of morphine and slept.
“How are you?” Reeves looked into Charlene’s eyes.
She knew he hadn’t gotten engaged. Their families lived in the same neighborhood and they had too many friends in common for her not to know. Kimberly Ann had married Rick Langford – Reeves’ best friend all through junior high and high school – and they were living two doors down, in what had been Rick’s parents’ house. Charlene and Reeves hadn’t spoken during the past four years, but – through Kim and Rick – they probably knew more about each other’s activities than some married couples did.
She smiled and nodded her head. “I’m all right. My exams were good. Obviously you know my dad moved to Grand Rapids –”
“Ah, Char . . .” He moved slightly forward, as if to pull her to him, but hesitated. “I’m so sorry about your mom. You never let me tell you. I cared about her too.”
“I know.” Charlene nodded her head again, her lips still stretched into a smile. “And she always liked you so much . . .”
Then her voice deserted her and tears finally spilled down her cheeks. This time she didn’t move away when he took a small step closer. She put her arms around his neck and let her head fall to his shoulder as great sobs overtook her. He held her close, patting her back like a little girl, until she finally stopped shaking and pulled away.
“Oh geez, shoot, look at that. Stupid me, I got snot and drool all over your fancy shirt,” she said.
“Sit down,” he said, guiding her to the sofa behind her.
He left the room and returned with a box of Kleenex and a glass of water. She turned away to blow her nose, wipe her eyes, and drink the water. He sat beside her and awkwardly put his arm around her shoulder and then just as awkwardly removed it. It would have felt lovely to collapse against him again, but she forced herself to remain rigid.
“Your dad hired me to do some work on the house,” he said. “Get it ready to show to buyers.”
“I know. He told me and I’m really glad you agreed. It’ll be so good to talk to you, after all this long time. And I need to apologize for how I was at the funeral.”
He shook his head as if to say, “Don’t worry about it.”
“You’re living here, with your parents?” she asked.
“Yeah, for now, but I’ll get my own place as soon as I get my first pay check. I got hired to teach and coach at Edsel.”
That’s a big surprise to no one, Charlene thought. For three years Reeves had been star forward of the basketball team at Edsel Ford High School and made All-State in his senior year. A local celebrity.
“If it’s okay with you, I was planning to come over tomorrow,” he said. “Get started painting the inside of the garage.”
“Sure, come whenever you want. You don’t have to ask me. I’ll give you a key. He didn’t tell me he wanted the garage painted. I guess he wants to cover up that big black stain on the wall from when I almost burned the house down.”
“Yeah. How’d you do that, anyway?”
“We’d been burning leaves by the curb and I thought the fire was all out and shoveled the ashes into an old bushel basket, to put out with the trash. But it was Saturday and trash day wasn’t until Monday, so I put the bushel basket in the garage.” She shrugged. “I guess the fire wasn’t out.”
Her throat had grown tight again and she could feel her face beginning to melt. That smell of burning leaves – her mother had loved it. She’d always come out to stand by the fire, holding a rake that she never put to any use and smoking one of her Tareyton cigarettes. Then she’d toss the butt into the pile of leaves with a funny motion, as if she were aiming for a basketball hoop. Charlene suddenly wished Reeves would leave, so she could go upstairs, crawl into bed, and bawl her head off.
Neither of them spoke for a long moment as he watched her struggle not to cry again and then reached for her hand. “I get it, C.C. You don’t want to be my girl.” He put his other hand over hers, making her feel pleasantly warm. “Do me a favor and stop thinking you can’t touch me, or talk to me, or cry on my shoulder without me whipping an engagement ring out of my pocket.”
“I don’t think that.”
“Sure you do. But you’re welcome to cry on my shoulder any time, no strings attached. I won’t say I haven’t missed you. A lot. But I do get it and I promise not to make you feel uncomfortable.” Then he managed a grin. “I bet you whaled on your poor dad for asking me to come over here.”
“No. I was feeling like crap and the minute he said you’d be coming over I felt a whole lot better, so I couldn’t get mad at him . . . I didn’t think I’d mind coming back here alone, but once I got home . . . He moved to Grand Rapids so fast, I hadn’t even been in the house since my mom died and all her stuff’s still here.” She held tightly onto his hand. “So I’m glad you’re here and I don’t have to do this alone. You were always my best friend. I hated thinking that you hated me.”
“I never hated you. I just couldn’t understand why. What I did wrong. You weren’t even mad at me or anything. That drove me crazy. So I think you owe me that – to tell me why. Don’t worry about hurting my feelings. Just say it, the way you would if it was Kim sitting here.”
She nodded, but looked miserable. Of course she owed him that, but she didn’t know how to explain it, even to herself.
“I will, Reeves. I’ll try anyway. But it doesn’t have to be now, does it?”
“No, it doesn’t have to be now. What’s all that?” He nodded at the coffee table.
She perked up. “You remember the stories about my Aunt Olivia?”
“The old maid abolitionist? How could I forget? You talked about her enough.”
“Well, I guess she wasn’t an old maid. Those pages are a copy of the second journal she wrote. I’ve only just started reading them – someone brought them over this morning, but she’s –”
“What do you mean, someone brought them? Some long-lost relative?”
“No, not a relative. This guy just showed up at the door and came in and told me she’d written two more journals, but he’d only made a copy of one of them.” She nodded at the pages.
“You let him in? You were here all alone and you let some stranger in?”
“He looked perfectly nice.”
“Charlene, you can’t –”
“I know, I know. Anyway, he said that if I want he’ll get a copy made of the third journal.”
“Who is this guy?”
She rose and searched through the pages for the business card Billy Bates had given her and handed it to Reeves.
“A lawyer? This guy’s a lawyer? So what’d he want?”
“Nothing.” Charlene shook her head. “It’s just . . . the person who has these journals is one of his clients, that’s all. And he knew about me because . . . Remember one time I went to talk about Aunt Olivia to some Sunday school kids?”
“Yeah, at that Black church in Detroit.”
She waited for him to ask, “So this guy you let in the house was Black?” But he didn’t.
“Well, Mr. Bates remembered about Aunt Olivia from that and when he heard about these other journals, he thought I might be interested in them. That’s all.” She picked a magazine out of the holder under the end table and fanned herself with it.
“I’d give good odds that’s not all.” Reeves rose and picked up some of the papers. “I mean, come on C.C. –”
“I wish you wouldn’t call me that. If I’m C.C. that makes you R.V.” Which wouldn’t be a bad name for you, she thought. You always were a great vehicle of recreation.
“Okay, okay. Listen Char, today we are not going to argue about anything. I had a peek in the garage,” he said. That’s one wicked set of wheels. You planning on taking me for a ride?”
“Sure. Are you hungry for a late lunch? Or early dinner? I’ve been dying for a Big Boy. My treat.”
“Yeah, I can go for that. But really, Char, about this lawyer. No way he paid someone to type all that stuff and then drove here to find you, just out of the goodness of his heart.”
She shrugged. “His secretary typed it. He’s paying her anyway. And maybe he had to be around here for something else.”
“Yeah, right. I’m sure this guy from a Black church in Detroit has a whole boatload of friends to visit in Dearborn.”
“So what sinister motives do you think he’s hiding?”
“First off, he’s probably going to try to sell you those journals. Or did he already offer them for sale?”
She grinned. “No, he didn’t. But I’m going to offer to buy them.”
He put both palms up in surrender. “Well, at least when he calls you back, try and act like you’re not really sure you want them. And don’t you call him. If he figures out how obsessed you are with your Aunt Olivia, he’ll say he wants five hundred dollars. I knew there had to be something fishy about this guy. What kind of lawyer shows up at the door without calling? He wanted to catch you off guard.”
When they were ready to leave for Big Boy’s she pulled him to stand next to her, staring into the framed oval mirror in the front hall.
“See, if you weren’t so tall, we’d look like twins,” she said.
At 5’10” he was short for a basketball player – especially one who’d played at a Big Ten school – but he seemed to tower over Charlene. She was 5’5″ but so small-boned she looked tiny. Charlene had always been jealous of Rosalie, who was the beauty of the family, tall and stately with long legs and straight blonde hair that moved. Charlene was cute. As a child she’d done some modeling for J.L. Hudson’s and one of the ads showed 5-year-old Charlene in a pink sweater with one big fancy button. The words “Cute as a Button” were emblazoned next to her picture. Even before that ad appeared Charlene’s cheeks had frequently been pinched by her mother’s friends saying, “Aren’t you just as cute as a button?” But after it ran, even strangers felt free to assault her in the street.
Over their hamburgers Charlene and Reeves talked mostly about their former classmates. When they came out of the restaurant Charlene handed Reeves the keys to the Mustang and he drove around town. Charlene felt like they were teenagers again, cruising the drive-ins, looking for their friends’ cars. When they arrived back at Brookline Lane he parked the Mustang in the driveway and got out. His body language said he was preparing to say goodnight.
Charlene touched his arm and said, “Come inside. I don’t have a very good explanation about what you asked before . . . but I’ll try.”
They sat together on the living room couch and she turned to face him. “I think you must know I never stopped . . . having feelings for you,” she began. “Even now it isn’t easy for me to keep my hands off you.”
She stopped, at a loss, and he waited. “I loved growing up here. I did. And I loved being with you. But . . . I don’t know . . . at some point I started to feel trapped. Not by you . . . by everything. My whole life was all laid out: Go to college, marry you, get a mortgage. Every Saturday you’ll take the car over to the Ajax, pick up your shirts from George Paul’s, and get your hair cut. After you get home we’ll work in the yard together. Every Sunday you’ll barbecue, every spring we’ll knock ourselves out during paint up/fix up/clean up week, and every summer we’ll either rent a cottage on Higgins Lake for a week, or camp up at Sleeper State Park.”
“Well, there you go, you had it all wrong. Every summer we’ll go to my parents’ cottage for a week.”
She smiled. “I know what you’re thinking, ‘So what’s wrong with that?’ And I can’t answer because there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s a wonderful life. People all over the globe would kill for that life. I know that. It just . . . it just doesn’t feel like it’s supposed to be my life.”
“I don’t get you.” His face was blank.
“Have you ever been to a dairy farm? Seen those long chutes, so the cows all follow each other? I started feeling like one of those cows – chewing my cud and following everyone else up and down ramps.”
“You wouldn’t have to be like your mom, at home all day,” he said. “You could have a job, go to school, whatever you wanted.”
“I know that. I mean . . . I don’t know what I mean. I told you I don’t know how to explain it.”
“You spent too much time hanging out with those hippies over in Ann Arbor, buying into their crap about changing the world with love and flowers.”
“Not hardly.” Her voice had an edge to it.
“You didn’t go to all those SDS protests?”
“I did at first, but then they started chanting all that crap.” She changed to a cave man voice. “Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is going to win.” She went back to her regular voice. “Like what? They’re praying for our guys to get killed? I’d die if they sent you over there.” She took his hand.
He looked at her the way he used to and she realized she had no right to say things like that. No right to touch him. So she rushed on talking and reclaimed her hand to push her hair out of her face.
“And the peace-lovers got so vicious and crude with that, ‘1-2-3-4, we don’t want your f-ing war,’ and ‘Johnson’s father should’ve pulled out,’ kind of stuff so I quit going.”
He smiled. “Four years in Ann Arbor and you still can’t say the f-word.”
“That’s never been one of my goals in life.”
“So you weren’t trying to break out of your cow chute because you wanted to be like the street people?”
“Heck no. If I’ve ever wanted to be like someone else it’s Olivia – the way she got so involved with helping people. And the way she had an issue that was so clear. No question about who the good guys were.”
“So you need slavery to come back, so you can feel good about helping on the Underground Railroad?”
“Don’t make fun of me, Reeves. I’m trying to be as honest as I can. I don’t have a clue what I want to do. Or what I can do. If Olivia were alive today she’d be going on Freedom Rides all over the place . . . but I’ve seen what the Klan does to people and I’m . . . I’m not that brave. And nowadays you don’t even know if they want White people helping them. All I do know is that I need time to figure it out. I guess that’s what four years of college was supposed to be for, but I was always studying or working or on the bus coming home every weekend. And ever since I found out my mom was going to die . . . it felt like I was living in a fog. Lately I’ve been thinking, maybe after I get the money . . . Remember that land in Kentucky Rosie and I inherited? Well, some hotel chain is probably going to buy it. So after I get that money, maybe I’ll go to Italy for a year.”
“Wow, that’ll really make the world a better place. Can’t hardly get more selfless than that.” He rolled his eyes at the ceiling, but then put his hand over hers and said, “Sorry.”
“No, you’re right . . . and I know going to Italy wouldn’t change anything. But at least it would get me away from my dad and all his great expectations, give me a chance to figure out what kind of a life I do want to live. So far I only know about the things I don’t want. Ways I don’t want to feel about myself.”
They sat in silence for a while. Then he took both her hands.
“All right, here’s the deal,” he said. “We’re going to be spending a lot of time together, so for these next few weeks you’ll make me real happy if you just do whatever you feel like doing. You feel like putting your hands on me, by all means. You want to invite me upstairs, just for old times’ sake, I promise not to feel like you’re taking advantage of me.” He grinned. “You want to get away from me, go off with Kim while I’m working here, so go. You talk to me about anything you want. Say what you really feel. You got something you need help with, ask me. Same goes for me. I don’t feel like helping with whatever you ask me to do, I say so. I don’t feel like seeing you today, I’m not here. I start seeing some other girl, I’ll tell you, but you don’t get mad. When the time comes for you to run off to Italy or Mars or wherever the hell you think you have to go, I kiss you goodbye with my best wishes. No one feels guilty. We don’t owe each other anything.”
A wide smile spread across her face. This sure is a new, improved version of Reeves, she thought, remembering how possessive and bossy he sometimes used to be.
Then he asked, “You remember that creep Rosalie went with all through high school, just because it got your dad ticked off? You ask me, one of the things you need to meditate on is whether you didn’t do the opposite. The way everyone always assumed we’d end up together and especially the way your dad got all hacked every time you had a fight with me . . . maybe you breaking up with me after high school was just your way of sticking it to him.”
She looked into his face and could see that he really did want to understand. Like any teenaged boy Reeves had acted like a jerk now and then, but the most important thing about him had never changed – he’d always been on her side. Even that day he’d walked away from her, crushed, she didn’t believe he’d been wishing her sorrow and suffering, a curse on her house.
“Well,” she said, “that might be part of it. It would have felt like an arranged marriage. Heck my whole life felt arranged. Only it’s not just that. But Reeves . . .” She put her hand back on his. “Can we stop talking about this? For now anyway? It’s starting to wear me out.”
“Sure.” He rose, obviously thinking he had been dismissed.
“Wait a minute. Where do you think you’re going?” Charlene went to the hi-fi console and turned it back on. “You don’t get out of here that easy. Not if you really meant all those things you just said.” She put the stylus down and Johnny Mathis began singing Wonderful, Wonderful. “Especially the part about putting my hands on you . . .” She raised her arms, beckoning him to dance with her. “You can’t stay too long,” she said as she stepped into his arms. “The neighbors will be taking notes on how late your car is parked out front. But at least you can leave through the front door – won’t have to climb out my bedroom window and jump off the garage roof.”
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ROMANESQUE ART
ROMANESQUE ART 1100 – 1200
The notion Romanesque is used for all genres of art in this time. The medieval Romanesque epoch begins with the early Romanesque in ca. 1000 AD, but did not end simultaneously in all European countries. So in France the Gothic era already emerged in 1140, whereas in the other European countries still reigned the Romanesque style. With the rise of the Carolingian dynasty (from 751 AD on) sovereigns were seeking for an independent architectural language for representation purposes, even in clerical buildings. Construction was done according to the Roman style. After the troubles of the migration period, Charlemagne promoted education in his territory and contributed to the cultural transformation of the entire empire.[1] The Romanesque era was the epoch of foundation of monasteries.[2] The crusades imported influences from foreign countries to Europe and influenced medieval science.[3] In the Christian sense women in the Middle Ages were inferior, immoral and libidinous. They were inferior to men in all sectors of life, it was their purpose to ensure progeny and to keep house. Women had no rights and were subject to men.[4] In the beginning of the 12th century emerged the guilds, where women step by step gained access to mainly femally connoted professions (especially in the textile sector). In the course of the Middle Ages women gained more rights, even for practising certain professions what became necessary due to the population decline caused by the pest.[5] Women occasionally worked as vendors and merchants, in the clerical context nuns worked in the scriptories in monasteries. Beguines[6] were unmarried independent women creating a community who lived without property and supported themselves.[7]
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TO THE VICTORIA & GEORGE CROSS
COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE
NZC 1869
Dickin Medal
b. 03/02/1915 Hampstead, London. d. 03/05/2015 Middlesex.
DATE AND PLACE OF GC ACTION: 02/09/1940 Llandarcy, Swansea, Wales.
Archer, commonly known as Stuart, was born in Hampstead on 3rd February 1915, the son of Bertram George Reine Archer and Francis Maud Hatfield. After attending Sheringham House school in Hampstead, Archer went on to Regent's Street Polytechnic. He qualified as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects at the youngest age permitted, at 21, in July 1936. He worked in Gray's Inn, initially with Ingram Son and Archer. He continued working with this partnership throughout his working life except for his time in the Army.
In 1937, he joined The Honorable Artillery Company T.A. as a private soldier moving onto the Officer Cadet Training Unit of 142 Royal Engineers from October 1939 to January 1940. He married Kathleen Matilda Hatt in 1939 and they had one son (Ian Stuart Trevelyan) and two daughters (Deidre and Melanie).
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in January 1940 and was posted to 553 Field Company Royal Engineers being appointed Officer in Charge of 104 Bomb Disposal Section a fe months later stationed in Cardiff. Between June 1940 and September 1940 he dealt with over 200 bombs. On 2nd September 1940 he dealt with a number of unexploded devices at Llandarcy, near Swansea, which saw him awarded the GC. He was invested with the GC in October 1941 at Buckingham Palace.
After demobilisation, he retunred to his career as an architect. For many years he designed pubs for different breweries one of which was the Cricketers at Mitcham Common. In 1950 he re-joined the Army Emergency Reserve. In 1953 he was selected to command No 142 Bomb Disposal Regiment as a Lt.Colonel. Archer was appointed Honorary Colonel Bomb Disposal Regiments in 1963. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1970.
In the late 1980s Archer's son Ian, joined the partnership which became Archer & Son. He finally retired in 1995 just after he became the Chairman of the VC and GC Association. He held the position until 2006. He was also a Freemason (since 1939) and held the Grand Lodge Officer role in later life.
On 3rd February 2015, Archer became the only VC or GC (to date) to reach the age of 100. Sadly, he passed away just three months later on 3rd May. He was cremated at the New Southgate Crematorium.His ashes were interred with his wife, who had pre-deceased him in 1996. His medals are privately held.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: PRIVATELY HELD.
BURIAL LOCATION: NEW SOUTHGATE CREMATORIUM, LONDON.
Bertram Stuart Trevelyan Archer
Portrait courtesy of Stephen Venus
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Frank Binder throws down another $30 million for the infamous 1 Electra Court palace
Posted on 27/11/2018 at 1:11 PM 11/27/2018
As we stare down the final weeks of 2018, the great Woodbridge sell-off continues.
Those of you who have been following this site (or real estate news in general) for some time should already be familiar with this saga: Woodbridge, the investment front for a now-defunct billion dollar Ponzi scheme, hoovered up dozens of prime LA properties over the last few years. After they were sued by the SEC, however, they went belly-up, eventually reached a settlement, and now their choicest real estate is surfacing on the market as part of ongoing bankruptcy/asset liquidation proceedings.
One of the most notable properties in the Woodbridge portfolio is a hulking mansion on a 4.5-acre Hollywood Hills promontory. Despite never having been owned by a celebrity, the house has become one of the most (in)famous in LA. That’s partly due to its very public nature — anyone down in Hollywood can see it squatting up there on yonder hill — and partly for its rather (ahem) “unique” architecture.
Anyway, the monstrosity went up for sale this June (2018) with a fat $35 million asking price.
According to public bankruptcy court documents, Woodbridge has accepted a $29,500,000 offer for the porker and the deal is done, done, done — save for final court sign-off. Should the transaction close prior to year’s end, it will rank as LA’s 18th-biggest residential sale of 2018.
The buyer, y’all may be interested to know, is a dude from Germany. He’s our very own Frank Binder.
Mr. Binder is a billionaire heir to the fortune of pharmaceutical giant Merck, which generates well over $15 billion USD in revenue every single year and has been majority family-owned since its 1668 founding, 350 years ago. The global conglomerate is now one of the world’s largest — and oldest — family-owned companies. If Mr. Binder’s name sounds vaguely familiar, it’s probably because Yolanda first introduced y’all to him a few months ago, back when he and his American fiancee Alexandra Schuck paid a shocking $33 million for The Stanley House. But we digress for now.
Miss Schuck & Mr. Binder
Before we deal with the present, let’s revisit the past.
The oddball mansion was originally constructed back in 1990, according to records, and designed by an unknown (to Yolanda) architect. Quite possibly one of the weirdest homes in LA, the structure is one of those rare things that actually looks more bizarre the further away you get from it. From the driveway out front, we’d describe it as the bastard child of a Mormon temple, the Flintstones house and an igloo. But from the air, it appears more like a squashed wedding cake.
Anywho, despite its eccentric looks, the Mount Olympus property has one of the best views in LA and therefore attracted many rich buyers. The house changed hands several times in the 1990s before it was sold — way back in 2002 — for $4.4 million to a Las Vegas-based businessman named Eddy Aslanian.
Our boy Mr. Aslanian quickly became notorious for throwing wild and (allegedly) raunchy parties at this house, the sort of benders that go on all night and involve lots of shouting, boozing, and expensive cars racing up and down the street. During his ownership, the house also sported a backyard sand volleyball court (later removed) where young men and women could frequently be spied wearing skimpy bathing costumes or even less. Gossipy neighbors say that sometimes the young people had no clothes on at all!
Good heavens! All allegedly, of course.
RIP to the infamous volleyball court (Photo: David Garil Photography)
Years ago, we heard repeatedly that the house has also served as the location for dozens — if not hundreds — of porn video shoots, though obviously Yolanda cannot independently verify that. Could be just another urban legend. Maybe someone who has done more naughty video “research” than your gurl could enlighten us all? Or don’t, that’s fine too.
Let’s move on. In late 2013, Mr. Aslanian sold 1 Electra Court to billionaire heiress Megan Ellison for $20,000,000. (He also sold her several acres of adjacent vacant hillside land for another $10,000,000, meaning Miss Ellison actually paid $30 million for the whole shebang). We’re sure all the neighbors rejoiced to see Mr. Aslanian pack his bags and skedaddle.
Rumor has it that although Miss Ellison moved into the mansion (after a HazMat suit-wearing cleaning crew had their way with it, we hope), she always planned to eventually demolish and replace it with a residential showstopper of her own creation. But Miss Ellison is also a notoriously fickle lass — at least when it comes to real estate — and so she never followed through with her demolition plans. Instead, she flipped the unchanged house and adjacent land to Woodbridge last year (2017). Records show that the Ponzi peeps coughed up a monstrous $35,530,000 for the 9+ acre estate.
Woodbridge also planned to eventually raze the ol’ gurl, but once again she was saved from the landfill — in this case, by the timely bankruptcy filing. And while it may seem that Woodbridge is losing money on this deal with Mr. Binder — he’s paying “just” $29.5 million — that’s actually not the case. You see, Woodbridge quietly sold some of their vacant hillside land earlier this year for exactly $12 million to a developer, shrinking the estate from 9+ acres to 4 and change. So in actuality, they got a total of $41.5 million ($29,500,000 + $12,000,000) for the whole property. Good for their creditors, we suppose.
Keeping up?
Anyway, it ain’t likely that the lavish-living Mr. Binder and Miss Schuck will ever spend a night in this place — almost certainly they bought it for the land and the incredible jetliner views it affords, nothing more. And while we have no idea what they plan to build in its stead, the current listing includes plans for an uber-contemporary villa by architect Noah Walker.
In case y’all did not know, Mr. Walker is the guy responsible for one of Yolanda’s favorite houses in LA. The Oak Pass Residence, as it is known, is hidden way high up in Beverly Hills Post Office and was sold — a couple years ago — for exactly $20 million to a Chinese film producer. But we digress yet again.
The 35,000-square-foot showplace has multiple levels, two long ‘n skinny swimming pools, rooftop lawns, and acres of glass walls. If you ask Yolanda it rather looks like a military bunker transported from some faraway desert, but we doubt Mr. Binder, Miss Schuck and the architect give a hoot what we think.
And again, we have no idea if the Schuck-Binders will actually construct the giga-mansion you see in renderings above, or if they will fashion something of their own custom design.
While Miss Schuck and Mr. Binder await the completion of their new family-friendly Mount Olympus estate, they temporarily reside at their “starter” Hollywood Hills home, the sexed-up Stanley House.
Mr. Binder & Miss Schuck’s $33 million Stanley House
The multi-level pad — which the couple bought for $33,000,000 earlier this year (in cash, naturally) features jaw-dropping views of the LA basin and the Pacific Ocean, an enormous swimming pool, and an at-home nightclub. What the property does not have, however, is much of a yard or outdoor space for kids to play. And given that Miss Schuck recently gave birth to the couple’s first child — congrats! — we can see why they were drawn to the much larger (4.5-acre) 1 Electra Court lot.
For those who haven’t kept up with their maths, Yolanda can tell y’all that Mr. Binder has now spent $62.5 million in less than one year on luxury LA real estate. Although he has never appeared on an international wealth ranking — presumably because Forbes and their ilk can’t tell which Merck family members own what — Yolanda finds it very hard to believe that Mr. Binder is not a billionaire. Particularly since these LA homes aren’t even his main residence.
Mr. Binder & Miss Schuck’s oceanfront Monaco villa
For the last few years, Mr. Binder and Miss Schuck have primarily resided in Monte Carlo, Monaco, in an oceanfront villa within a guard-gated community.
Views from the Schuck-Binder Monaco villa
Located on Avenue Princesse Grace, which has been called the world’s most expensive street, the approximately 6,000-square-foot villa contains 5 beds, 5 baths, a 5-car garage, and a perfectly circular infinity-edged swimming pool with views over the Mediterranean Sea and the Monte Carlo coastline.
The funny thing about all the couple’s recent spending in LA is that Mr. Binder — who is in his late 50s and has lived in Europe most all his life — probably wouldn’t have even bought in Los Angeles had not his young fiancee been born and raised here. But since he met Miss Schuck several years ago (while she was on a tour of Europe with her family) they’ve been living together and recently celebrated the birth of their first child, so it makes sense that they’d want a SoCal outpost near her friends and relatives.
When in LA, the Schuck-Binders typically stayed with Miss Schuck’s family at their longtime ranch compound in guard-gated Bradbury Estates, about 15 minutes (by car) east of Pasadena and deep in the San Gabriel Valley. The huge spread includes a 6,000-square-foot main house, a full-size tennis court, a pool, horse stables and an equestrian riding rink.
Miss Schuck’s longtime family home, Bradbury Estates
It is here, in Bradbury, where Miss Schuck was born and raised. Her parents (her father is a prominent LA attorney and former mayor of Bradbury) have owned their 5+ acre compound since before she was born — since 1987, in fact. Property records indicate they paid $1.7 million way back then, though the property has most assuredly appreciated by millions of dollars in the 31+ years since.
Just for giggles, we asked a couple of our real estate expert friends about what they imagine Mr. Binder is plotting for 1 Electra Court. They both opined that when a non-developer guy like Mr. Binder buys a $30 million teardown, it’s because he’s got a real severe hankerin’ to build a residential monument — an edifice that will span generations — to his wealth, power, and privilege.
And that, kiddies, is exactly what Yolanda expects Mr. Binder (and Miss Schuck) will do.
Listing agent: Tomer Fridman, Compass
Frank Binder’s agent: Darryl Wilson, Rodeo Realty
6 Replies to “Frank Binder throws down another $30 million for the infamous 1 Electra Court palace”
Anthony says: Reply
Good write up. This was also the Lou Ferrigno house in I Love You Man.
Snowman says: Reply
I don’t care how great the view is, $30m and you still have to live in Mt Olympus surrounded by Russian mobsters and garbage architecture. No thanks.
AMC Gremlin says: Reply
Would love to take a blacklight to the inside of that house; wonder how many layers of body fluids are stuck to the walls and floors…
Lisa says: Reply
^^^ Yuck! Why would you want to do that?
Petra says: Reply
Miss Schuck is a lucky young lady. I will also volunteer to house-sit their LA homes while they are overseas.
Bette Davis says: Reply
WHAT A DUMP!!!
Khalid nabs a starter location in the Encino hills
Billionaire Jaime Gilinski drops $36 million cash in Bel Air and the Birds
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“Was Bin Laden’s death really a triumph over terror?”
May 22, 2011 1203 views Democracy, New Zealand, Pacific, war
The death of America’s number one enemy has given US President Barack Obama a significant boost, but it is not likely to bring an end to fear and conspiracy theories, writes 19-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent Alisha Lewis from New Zealand.
It’s been a pretty good month for Barack Obama. After weeks of drilling and controversy surrounding the president’s policies, decisions and even his birthplace, Obama has managed to come out on top.
First there was his winning speech at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, in which he poked fun at American TV star and businessman Donald Trump who had been spreading rumours the president was not born in America. Trump demanded to see Obama’s (long-form) birth certificate, and it was finally released last week.
In his speech, Obama depicted what the White House would look like if Trump was president (gold columns instead of white and half-naked girls frolicking in the fountain) and made fun of Trump’s trivial concerns, such as whether or not to ‘fire’ Meatloaf fromThe Celebrity Apprentice. “Those are the decisions that would keep me up at night”, the president quipped.
But that speech was nothing compared to the one Obama made on Sunday night (Monday afternoon Australia-time). Facebook and Twitter exploded with messages and tweets saying the president was about to make an announcement regarding ‘national security’. “It’s all very dramatic”, tweeted CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
It’s rare for the president to interrupt normal programming in order to make an announcement, so everyone knew this was going to be something big. And it was. The world watched as Obama announced that US forces had killed al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, almost a decade after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
The announcement, streamed live over the internet and carried by nine US television networks, saw thousands of Americans celebrating outside the White House, at Ground Zero – the site of the former World Trade Centre – and into Times Square.
It was another one of those iconic moments in history that we seem to be experiencing so many of this year. One of those events that sends you rushing home to turn on the television, to log on to your Facebook and Twitter, or simply to let yourself be moved by the magnitude of the moment.
While we may not have been as strongly affected by the news as the people of America, Osama’s death still bears great meaning for us and the rest of the world.
We’ve all been affected by the hugely jacked up security since the 9/11 attacks, especially whilst travelling. The words ‘terrorist’, ‘al Qaeda’ and ‘suicide bombers’ have become a larger part of our vocabulary. Mainly though, we all remember exactly where and when we heard the news and saw those images: Two towers on fire, crumbling. People jumping out of windows; people screaming.
The world became a scarier place for everyone the moment that first plane flew into the tower.
Terror became a fixture in our lives and in our news – as did war. Former President George W Bush launched the ‘war against terror’ directly after September 11. The war has seen countless US and ally soldiers, as well as innocent Afghan and Iraqi civilians, die each year. It has been hugely controversial and people have questioned the motives behind the US presence in the Middle East, often citing Middle Eastern oil reserves to be a driving factor.
In light of this controversy, when Obama was elected president in 2008 he vowed to begin the momentous process of bringing their troops home. Another promise he made was to find and kill Osama Bin Laden. A promise which, on May 1 2011, he fulfilled.
But while people have been rejoicing in the streets, it’s important to note the fight is not over – nor is the war. Yet in a moment of blind joy and relief, people seeking closure after the terrifying attacks of 2001 clung to the news of Osama’s death as a sign that it was all over.
“It’s over. It’s finished. We can bring our troops home now,” said one man during the BBC’s live coverage from Ground Zero.
But as the parties faded and the sun rose the next morning, a different atmosphere took hold of the United States and in particular, New York City.
Security has been hiked up and everyone is on alert for a retaliatory attack from al Qaeda or, as most people are putting it, revenge. The news of his death will have been met by much fury and disbelief by Osama’s followers, who had watched him evade capture for almost a decade.
Notorious for planning anti-Western terrorist acts such as the 9/11 attacks, London bombings and various US embassy bombings around the world, it’s scary to think what the already anti-American extremists will do now.
Kiwi expat Natasha Lewis, who is currently living in New York, describes the atmosphere there as “cathartic on one hand, fearful of what might happen next on the other”.
Many people believe that Osama bin Laden’s death will make little to no difference when it comes to the safety of the western world. Foreign Correspondent for the Independent newspaper, Robert Fisk, who has interviewed bin Laden three times, told Al Jazeera his death will have little impact.
“I don’t really think Al Qaeda needs a leadership and I don’t doubt very much bin Laden was still the leader. He was certainly the founder…but to suggest he was in control of Al Qaeda…is complete rubbish. I think he spent most of his time in hiding.”
Whether Fisk’s opinion is true or not, the fact remains that Osama bin Laden’s death has been a huge boost to the morale of a country living in a season of fear and economic instability. It will also undoubtedly be a big boost to the popularity of a president whose ratings were slipping as a result of this. Many are already speculating that this victory will lead to a political victory for President Obama, who may have just secured another term of office.
Signing off on the operation to “capture or kill” Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, a city of over one million on the outskirts of Pakistan’s largest city Islamabad, was probably the biggest decision – and gamble – of Obama’s presidential career so far.
And yet after giving his permission for the operation to go ahead, the president had to pull a poker face and perform his duties as though nothing was going on. He visited different cities with his family, met with tornado victims, made an impressive speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner and played a round of golf. And all the while, one of the most pivotal decisions of his career was playing out on the other side of the world.
There are so many things that could have gone wrong, so many different ways the story could have ended. FOX News, famous for its blatantly right wing slant and constant criticism of the U.S Democratic Party, was quick to pounce on this fact. Yet a guest on the channel was also quick to point out another important fact – yes, it could have gone wrong. But it didn’t.
In fact not only did it not go wrong, it seemed to go seamlessly. Osama was killed quickly with two shots to the head, no US soldiers were killed and no civilians were harmed. His body was identified and disposed of within 24 hours, all in accordance with Muslim funeral traditions.
It almost seems too perfect. And this is exactly what the conspiracists and Republican red-necks seem to be jumping on. A number of conspiracy theories began popping up in the hours following the announcement. ‘Is Osama really dead?’ ‘Why was his body disposed off so quickly?’ ‘Show us proof’. Blogs and forums discussing the ‘faked raid’ and ‘death hoax’ have been buzzing online.
The US government decided against releasing a photo of bin Laden’s corpse to quell the theories, but even if they had, it is unlikely that it would have put the hardcore conspiracists or the anti-Obama camp to rest. How long till Trump starts demanding to see Osama’s (long-form) death certificate?
Despite all the theories floating around, most of the world believes he’s gone. Most of the world is relieved he’s gone. And rightly so – his face and his name alone incited terror in a world already overflowing with the stuff. But is it right for everyone to be so happy? To be rejoicing and celebrating in the streets the death of another human – however evil he may have been? Revenge may have been served but it also fuels the fight.
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport, Chicago
Founded in 2004 by the internationally acclaimed Zhou Brothers, Zhou B Art Center was created as a site of exchange between local artists and the global art community while promoting the contemporary convergence of Eastern and Western visuality in the United States. Located in Chicago’s historic Bridgeport neighborhood, the Zhou B Art Center's mission is to engage cultural dialogue through contemporary art exhibitions and programming with an international scope.
The Zhou B Art Center provides galleries, studio spaces, and a collaborative environment to a thriving community of talented artists and curators. The purpose of the Zhou B Art Center is to nurture the creativity and growth of its nearly 50 resident artists while providing groundbreaking exhibitions open to the public. On the Third Friday of each month, the center hosts a free exhibition and open studio event where locals can explore the main galleries as well as resident artists' studios. This event is the perfect opportunity for Chicagoans and tourists alike to support the numerous artists involved with the Zhou B Art Center.
On Dec 7th, 2017, Zhou B Art Center was featured in the New York Times as one of the “Five Places to Go in Chicago”.
This warehouse has served as an early neighborhood arts hub. The Chinese contemporary painter brothers ShanZuo and DaHuang Zhoushi claimed the space for artists in 2004. It features an expansive ground-floor gallery of the brothers’ bold, abstract canvases and studios on upper floors.
On Dec 8th, 2017, BuzzFeed rated Zhou B Art Center as the #1 figurative art gallery in the US 2017.
“The Zhou B Art Center actually houses several galleries within what used to be the Spiegel Catalog Building. Since 2013, PoetsArtists has been exhibiting group shows on various floors of the building primarily the second level which has 10,000 square feet gallery space. The purpose of the Zhou B Art Center is to nurture the creativity and growth of its nearly 50 resident artists while providing groundbreaking exhibitions open to the public. The also recently built a Center in Beijing. The first floor primarily exhibits the works of the Internationally acclaimed artists, the Zhou Brothers.”
In 2015, the Zhou Brothers returned to their homeland homeland China which they parted over 40 years ago and established a new studio in Beijing. This new studio will become the base camp of their life and work. The astonishing interior design of the studio is another creation of their wild imaginations.
At the moment, the Zhou Brothers are building a Zhou Brother International Art Center in the Dazhalan district, center Beijing.
Dazhalan, or colloquially Dashilar, which means “Big Stone Fence”, is a famous historical and cultural zone in the center of Beijing, China. It referred to several major business streets outside Qianmen.
For centuries, the traditional commercial street Dazhalan has held quite a few Lao Zihaos ( historical brand-name store) that are well known nationally. There was a saying in Beijing, “Wear the hats of Ma Ju Yuan, stand in the shoes of Nei Lian Sheng, wear the clothes of Ba Da Xiang, and take the money of Si Da Heng Banks.” Those mentioned are all famous brand-name stores located in Da zhalan that are taken as the symbol of wealth.
Dazhalan was also the entertainment center of Beijing, besides being the historical commercial center. There once were five grand Beijing opera houses in this area. The first movie theatre in Beijing, Daguan Lou, also situated there.
In 2011, the government of Beijing started a revitalization effort to restore and promote Dazhalan’s status as the historical and cultural center of the capital. The new Zhou B International Art Center in Beijing, opening soon, will be one of the highlights of the effort, together with the new Sotheby’s headquarter and a new POLY Auction house Plaza.
The internationally acclaimed Zhou Brothers, best know for being the most famous Chinese American Contemporary artists, are bringing their successful art center model to Kansas City, MO. The original Zhou B Art Center, founded in 2004 in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, has been a seminal part of the vibrant creative culture developing in Chicago’s South Side. Housed in a renovated manufacturing loft in the Historic Original East Manufacturing District, in the fourteen years since its inception the original Zhou B Art Center has established itself as top tier exhibition recognized both the national and international level due in large part to the dynamic influence of the Zhou Brothers and their philosophy of “feeling is liberty”.
The newest Zhou B Art Center, a sister space to the Chicago art center, will be activated by the same ethos of free expression and serve as a hub of artistic and creative pursuits connecting the historic Jazz District with the burgeoning Crossroads Art District to the east in a mission to revitalize the area through art and commerce. Housed in the former Attucks Elementary school building, the new Zhou B Art Center boasts fifty thousand square feet of exhibition space and art studios that will become a vital and enduring part of Kansas City, MO art scene.
Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri, United States, and the 37th largest city by population in the United States. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Kansas–Missouri border.
Kansas City is known for its long tradition of jazz music and culture; its notable museums includes the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the World War One museum, and various museums and establishments on the 18th and Vine district.
18th and Vine in Kansas City is internationally recognized as one of the cradles of jazz music and a historic hub of African-American businesses. Today, the district includes the Mutual Musicians Foundation, the Gem Theater, the long-time offices of African-American newspaper The Call, the Blue Room jazz club, the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Smaxx Restaurant, restaurant inside the Juke House and Blues Club, and several apartments and condos.
Following the models of the Zhou B Art Centers in Chicago and Beijing, the majority of space on each floor will be allocated for a combination of individual artists’ studios as well as formal exhibition space for rotating exhibitions, providing work space to artists as well as an opportunity to exhibit local, national and international artists. The remainder will be allocated to various office space for Zhou B and its relevant partner operations. The first floor will include space for a coffee shop, which enhances the communal aspect of this multi-faceted and interdisciplinary arts building by ensuring a central lounge-like area as another social aspect and public draw. This combination of publicly accessible fine art exhibition space, coffee house area, individual artist studios, music and dance studios and relevant arts partner organizations is intended to promote a successful rehabilitation of the Attucks School, reinvigorating its beautiful existing architecture and providing a thriving, vibrant, and engaging center for the arts in Kansas City.
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Yiddishkeit In Vegas?
by S. Olidort - SUMMERLIN, NV
Unfolding along the western rim of the Las Vegas Valley, Summerlin is a new, 22,500-acre master-planned community, with a quality-of-life to match its azure skies, and the majestic Spring Mountain Range and Red Rock Canyon Conservation hugging its perimeter.
"Eleven years ago I told Rabbi Harlig we'd need a Chabad center in Summerlin," recalls Terry Knight, among the first of Summerlin’s residents. Harlig, Chabad's first representative to Las Vegas, was doubtful about such a development so soon after his own arrival and said so. But Terry wasn’t easily dissuaded. "'It will happen,' I told the Rabbi.”
A native of Florida, Terry moved to Las Vegas just as Chabad was setting up base here, and was witness to the birth pangs of traditional Judaism in a city that glitters with gold. When her vision of Chabad in Summerlin was realized with the arrival of Rabbi Yisroel and Shterna Schanowitz a few years later, Terry rolled up her sleeves quickly becoming an active, devoted participant in the work of Chabad in Summerlin. And as new families settled in Summerlin, says Terry, “each became a ‘shliach,’” an emissary, helping to bring Jewish awareness to their friends and their neighbors.
Home to some 25,000 Jews, Summerlin is now the fastest growing Jewish community in Las Vegas, and by extension nationwide, and the Schanowitzs are matching that growth spurt with an expansion of their own. After eight years of services, classes, and functions in a rented storefront, the community is abuzz with excitement, anticipating the completion of a permanent community center for Jewish life. A 12,000 square foot building, the new Chabad House will include two sanctuaries, a large social hall, classrooms, a comprehensive Jewish library, and a Mikvah sponsored by the Knight family.
The idea took shape nearly two years ago, says Rabbi Schanowitz, and during their first fundraiser for the project, the community pulled together $300,000.00, which they put towards the purchase of a lot of land in a terrific location. Part of a shopping mall complex, the lot has the benefits of a commercial spot in a residential area, easily accessible to the community, without the strict zoning laws that pertain to the residential blocks, and sits on the border that divides Summerlin and its affluent neighbor, Desert Shores.
In addition to its wide array of programs including a Hebrew School that meets twice weekly, Mommy and Me sessions, adult education classes, and a monthly women’s get-together, Chabad is also addressing the needs of residents of Sun City, a nearby retirement community with a Jewish population of 4,000. The Schanowitzs have made a habit of visiting Sun City around the Jewish holidays with educational programs and lively functions that go a long way to inform and inspire. They also offer Yiddish lessons to retirees nostalgic for the “mama loshon” of yesteryear.
When Herb Jaffee left New Jersey with his wife Fran, for a retirement life in Sun City, they would fly to Los Angeles every now and then to stock up on kosher goods. But in the few years since they’ve come, the Jaffees have seen Las Vegas, and Summerlin itself, utterly transformed. Today, says Herb, “I can’t think of anything I can’t buy here.”
Inspired by the dramatic change in a city that only several years ago was very much a desert, physically and spiritually, Terry—now Feige— describes herself as someone who “lives, breathes, and works for Chabad.” Her children, she says, are perfect indication of all that Chabad has achieved in its short time here. Yirmi, her oldest, is now halfway around the globe, studying in a Chabad yeshiva down under to receive his rabbinical ordination, and another is preparing for a similar course as her two younger boys study at Chabad’s Desert Torah Academy, the only Jewish day school in Las Vegas.
It is an ironic turn of events that would lead Terry to leave Florida for Vegas to find Judaism. But in a deeply Jewish faith that informs her perspective, Terry says it is anything but coincidental.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadow and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed by the masses.
--Plato
(So THAT'S why I'm not getting as many page views as I'd like!--KJ)
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In Memoriam: David Brenner 1936-2014
"I'm supposed to end with a joke. But for the first time in my career, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to end by telling you that I learned tonight that if you can laugh, you can live. And that means we are going to get through this."
Brenner said the above to a half-empty room at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas on September 11, 2001. He got a standing ovation.
His comedic heyday, however, was the 1970s, as evidenced by the above picture.
A favorite of Johnny Carson, he appeared on The Tonight Show, both as guest and substitute host, over 150 times.
Did you ever notice David Brenner says "Did you ever notice" a lot? I think he may have popularized the phrase!
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Graphic Grandeur (Pacific Northwest Edition)
Every so often I like to focus attention on a talent who's still breathing.
Alternative cartoonist and illustrator Ellen Forney was born on this day in 1968.
A sampling of her work. Try to keep an open mind.
Since 1989, the Philadelphia-born Forney has been based in Seattle, Washington.
If she had moved to Denver instead, maybe the Broncos would have won the Super Bowl.
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In Memoriam: Harold Ramis 1944-2014
Comic actor, comic writer, comic director. Editor of Playboy's "Party Joke" feature. The National Lampoon Radio Hour. Second City on stage, and its television spin-off, SCTV. National Lampoon's Animal House. Meatballs. Caddyshack. Stripes. Ghostbusters. Back to School. Groundhog Day. As Good as It Gets. Analize This.
"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."
"In my heart, I felt I was a combination of Groucho and Harpo Marx, of Groucho using his wit as a weapon against the upper classes, and of Harpo’s antic charm and the fact that he was oddly sexy — he grabs women, pulls their skirts off, and
gets away with it."
For almost 40 years, Harold Ramis was in the vanguard of a new type of comedy that has at various times been called sick comedy, alternative comedy, anti-comedy, slash-and-burn comedy, cringe comedy, ironic comedy, and, most often these days, snarky comedy. It really goes all the way back to the 1950s with the emergence of such talents as Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Feiffer, Lenny Bruce and Nichols & May. What was so new about this comedy? Well, it was sick, alternative, antieverything, ironic, snarky, and made you cringe as it slashed and burned you. However, this kind of humor played second fiddle to more traditional forms of comedy--by "traditional" I mean everyone from the Keystone Cops to Johnny Carson--until the 1970s when it suddenly began to take over the mainstream. First you had National Lampoon, an acid-tipped tattoo needle rewrite of Mad magazine, then Saturday Night Live, which brought vitriol to the vaudeville sketch, and, finally, the somewhat gentler but sharply intelligent SCTV, of which Ramis (doing that bunny ears-fingers thing to Dave Thomas' head in the above picture) did double duty as cast member and head writer. As the '70s grew to a close, this new comedy had begun to take over the movies as well.
Another reason for its success is that the mainstream itself became more sick, alternative, antieverything, ironic, snarky, and able to make you cringe while slashing and burning you. Today's comedy simply reflects all that. In fact, taking the long view, I wonder if humor, even in its most benign form, hasn't always had those qualities, and what happened to comedy to comedy was less than abrupt break from the past and more simple evolution. To make my case, I'm going to present a bunch of movies Harold Ramis was involved in, either as an actor, writer, director, or combination thereof, and then some films as antecedents. Now, I'm not saying that Ramis copied, or was influenced, or even saw any of these films, only that he couldn't help but be part of a larger comedy continuum of which these films were included.
Animal House (1978) Co-written by Ramis. Antecedents: A Night at the Opera, though it doesn't take place at college. An earlier Marx Brothers movie, Horse Feathers, did in fact have a campus setting, but was less a revenge comedy than Opera, and that's what matters here.
Many memorable scenes, including horse in the dean's office, the food fight, the toga party, the visit to the roadhouse, John Belushi chugging a fifth of Jack Daniels, and the ruined homecoming parade, but what sticks with me most is the plaintive cry at the heart of all rebellions, large and small:
"I know this may be an inopportune moment to ask, Dean Wormer, but could you see your way clear to give us one more chance?"
Meatballs (1979) Co-written by Ramis. Antecedents: Boy's Town. Angels Wash Their Faces. Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Going My Way. Hans Christian Anderson. Merry Andrew. Mary Poppins. The Sound of Music. Follow Me, Boys! OK, OK, most of those movies aren't comedies, but they all fall into the wise-adult-teaches-children-life-lessons genre. Meatballs itself wouldn't have been a comedy had not hip, irreverent Bill Murray been brilliantly cast as the wise (and wisecracking) adult.
Memorable scene: Murray rallies the kids for an athletic meet with this curiously invigorating pep talk:
"...even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field; even if every man, woman, and child held hands together and prayed for us to win, it just wouldn't matter because all the really good looking girls would still go out with the guys from Mohawk because they've got all the money! It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER!"
There's gotta be a life lesson in there somewhere.
Caddyshack (1980) Directed and co-written by Ramis. Antecedents: Animal Crackers. City Lights. Trouble in Paradise. Design for Living. Dinner at Eight. It Happened One Night. The Gay Divorcee. The Thin Man. Top Hat. Twentieth Century. My Man Godfrey. The Awful Truth. Bringing Up Baby. The Philadelphia Story. Topper. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Ninotchka. Midnight. The Lady Eve. The Devil and Miss Jones. The Palm Beach Story. In Society. Kind Hearts and Coronets. How to Marry a Millionaire. High Society. All in a Night's Work. You probably expected me to list sports comedies. Instead, I chose movies where rich people make fools of themselves, with proletarian onlookers getting caught up in the action. That sums up Caddyshack for me.
Totally ruined that country club. Must be a Marxist.
Stripes (1981) Co-starring and co-written by Ramis. Antecedents: Shoulder Arms. Half-Shot at Sunrise. Pack Up Your Troubles. Bonnie Scotland. Flying Deuces. Great Guns. Born to Dance. Follow the Fleet. Caught in the Draft. You're in the Army Now. Buck Privates. In the Navy. Keep 'Em Flying. Up in Arms. See Here, Private Hargrove. What's Next, Corporal Hargrove? Up Front. At War with the Army. Sailor Beware. Jumping Jacks. No Time for Sergeants. Operation Mad Ball. Operation Petticoat. Mister Roberts. Ensign Pulver. The Wackiest Ship in the Navy. Sad Sack. The Geisha Boy. Don't Give Up the Ship. The Horizontal Lieutenant. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Kelly's Heroes. Which Way to the Front? Several seasons of The Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy, Gomer Pyle USMC, and CPO Sharkey.
(No, not the film version of MASH. Oddly enough, that bore more of a resemblance to Animal House!)
Ghostbusters (1984) Co-starring and co-written by Ramis. Antecedents: Habeas Corpus. The Old Dark House. The Cat and the Canary. A-Haunting We Will Go. Ghost Breakers. I Married a Witch. Spooks Run Wild. Hold That Ghost. The Boogie Man Will Get You. Scared Stiff (1945). Spook Busters. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. Scared Stiff (1952). Bell, Book, and Candle. The Ghost of the Dragstrip Hollow. Little Shop of Horrors. The Comedy of Terrors. The Ghost and Mr Chicken. The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. The Fearless Vampire Killers. The Spirit is Willing. The Maltese Bippy. Young Frankenstein.
Admittedly, none of those films had a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Back to School (1986) Co-written by Ramis. Antecedents: The Freshman. College. Hold 'Em Jail. Horse Feathers. College Humor. College swing. Too Many Girls. A Yank at Oxford. A Yank at Eton. A Chump at Oxford. Girl Crazy. Here Comes the Co-Eds. That's My Boy. The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (unlike the TV show, this took place in college.) She's Working Her Way Through College. The Absent-Minded Professor. The Nutty Professor. For Those Who Think Young. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones. The Monkey's Uncle. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. Now You See Him, Now You Don't. The Strongest Man in the World.
As a longtime Kurt Vonnegut fan, I get a kick out of his cameo in Back to School. Here's what happens. Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) decides to go to college as a way of bonding with his estranged son, a fellow student. Unfortunately, he's more interested in partying (more than his son, actually) than studying, and so he pays other people to do his homework. Assigned by a teacher he's attracted to (Sally Kellerman) to do a report on Kurt Vonnegut, he hires the great man of letters himself to write it. She grades it an F. So it goes.
Analyze This (1999) Directed and co-written by Ramis. Monkey Business. Hook, Line and Sinker. Our Relations. One Night in the Tropics. A Slight Case of Murder. Great Balls of Fire. A Song is Born. Larceny, Inc. My Favorite Brunette. Sorrowful Jones. The Lemon Drop Kid. The Noose Hangs High. Money From Home. Robin and the 7 Hoods. The Big Mouth. The Busy Body.
In addition to being a mob/gangster comedy, the above film also has a psychological angle. Ramis actually did have some experience in that field. Psychology, that is, not mobsters. For about seven months after graduating from college, he worked at a mental institute in St. Louis.
"[working in such a place] prepared me well for when I went out to Hollywood to work with actors. People laugh when I say that, but it was actually very good training. And not just with actors; it was good training for just living in the world. It's knowing how to deal with people who might be reacting in a way that's connected to anxiety or grief or fear or rage. As a director, you’re dealing with that constantly with actors. But if I were a businessman, I’d probably be applying those same principles to that line of work."
I don't know if he applied those principles to Analyze This, but he did accomplish what many thought impossible. He turned Robert De Niro in a major comedy star.
OK, you may have noticed I've been doing this in chronological order. I'm stopping right now because I thought it best to save this next film for last...
Groundhog Day (1993) Director and co-writer Harold Ramis' masterpiece, and one for which I can't come up with a single antecedent. It's a Wonderful Life? PUH-LEEZE. Back to the Future II? Nice try, but no.
All the other films I mentioned, even the other two touchstone films from Ramis' career, National Lampoon's Animal House and Ghostbusters, may someday fade from the collective pop culture memory, but I have a feeling that, like its main character (played so well by Bill Murray), Groundhog Day is here for the ages.
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Trump tweets continue after weekend rant, says 'Fake News' blaming him for New Zealand shooting
By Jordyn Phelps Mar 18, 2019, 2:02 PM ET
WATCH: The president accused the late Sen. McCain, with no evidence, of sharing the Steele dossier, which allegedly links Trump to Russia, before the 2016 election.
President Donald Trump tweeted six times before noon Monday -- following up on a weekend tweetstorm that sparked widespread criticism.
In one of the Monday tweets, he once again attacked the "Fake News Media" he said was trying to blame him for Friday's mass shooting that left 50 people dead at two mosques in New Zealand.
Over the weekend, he was especially prolific on Twitter, commenting on topics ranging from the late Sen. John McCain to a shuttered auto plant in Ohio to Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.
On Monday, one of the president’s top White House aides, Kellyanne Conway, defended the president’s weekend tweets, saying that “the president tweeted about a number of things” and accused the media of “cherry-picking” the president’s tweets.
Known for his frequent use of his favorite social media platform, the president fired off a flurry of some 50 tweets and retweets over the course of an otherwise quiet weekend spent at the White House, save for a brief outing to attend church on Sunday morning.
Days after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution expressing their support for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to be made public, President Trump tweeted Saturday to claim that he encouraged Republican leadership to let all Republicans vote for transparency" and to "Play along with the game!"
The president’s tweet stood in contrast to a tweet he sent on Friday in which he argued there should have never been an investigation in the first place and that “there should be no Mueller report.”
The president also went after the late Sen. John McCain, who passed away in August, accusing him of “spreading the fake and totally discredited dossier” and of sending it to the FBI and the media “hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election.” But the president’s claim is not accurate. McCain wasn’t made aware of the dossier until after the election when he passed it on to the FBI.
On ABC's "The View" on Monday, McCain's daughter Meghan fired back at Trump, saying he "spends his weekend obsessing over great men" because "he will never be a great man" like her father.
The president also sent multiple tweets related to a GM auto plant in Ohio that shuttered earlier this month, using his platform on Twitter to urge GM to get the Lordstown plant back up and running.
On Sunday, the president said he spoke to the CEO of GM, Mary Barra, and “asked her to sell it or do something quickly.” The president said Barra blamed the workers’ union, to which he said: “I don’t care, I just want it open!” He even went so far as to blast the local union chapter president – by name – and called on him to “get his act together and produce.”
The president also tweeted in support of FOX News host Jeanine Pirro, with whom he is friendly, after her usual Saturday night show did not air following controversial comments she made on her previous week’s show in which she questioned whether Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Islamic religious beliefs are opposed to the U.S. Constitution. Fox News later condemned Pirro’s comments.
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Purpose of meeting with the dean and provost during campus visit
I was invited to a campus visit for a faculty position at a university in the U.S. The visit will include a job talk, a class presentation to students, meeting with faculty members, meeting with the dean of the school and meeting with the provost from the university’s president’s office. This is by no means not a small university.
I was wondering what is the goal of meeting with each one of these parties. I do realize that I am being tested as much as I am also doing the same, but I would like to know what the dean and the provost would want to talk about with me.
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Nate Eldredge
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I would like to hear from people who does the dean and the provost would want to talk with me about?. = a job. In most US universities, departments don't hire on their own, they recommend for hiring, and final decisions technically come from above (deans etc). – virmaior May 12 '17 at 11:01
Related: academia.stackexchange.com/q/80558/40589 – Dan Romik May 12 '17 at 14:06
That's interesting, we don't have a "dean" tag. – Nate Eldredge May 12 '17 at 14:52
Perhaps they don't want to scrutinize your inability to comprehend the double negative. – Strawberry May 12 '17 at 15:04
Typically we only run candidates through all of these meetings - hiring committee, teaching example, dept. chair, provost, various AVPs and VPs, etc. IF we are paying them to travel to the interview. For local candidates the provost, AVPs, etc. don't meet them until after most of the other process is complete – ivanivan May 12 '17 at 18:35
Meetings of this sort are pretty standard, but my experience is they're usually at a later stage of the process, like a second visit. Deans don't like to waste the time if the candidate doesn't pass muster of the faculty.
For better or worse, the Dean and the Provost carry a very big stick. Your recruitment can be halted in a split second if one of them decides that way. The way it goes is that search committees make recommendations to Chairs and Deans. At intermediate stages, they will advance a handful of applicants for consideration. If the Dean or higher up says to the Chair "I would prefer if you don't hire that candidate" that's usually a done deal.
In subtler cases, they can come up with "extra" resources to make your package a bit more exciting if they feel you're worth it, such as bumping the size of your startup package with discretionary funds.
If the Deans or other high level officers want to meet with you at an early stage, that's could be just due diligence, providing a reality check, but it could be almost anything. Could be a young department or chair, and the Dean feels the need to keep an eye on the process. It could also be an indication that the search has advanced to a fairly late stage, and they want to make a hire quickly. It could also mean that these officers take a very active role in the management of their faculty, which could be a good thing. It could mean that they take a very active interest in a campus with a family-like leadership style. It could also mean that you're being considered for a very strategic hire and that they have a key interest in making sure just the right person is brought in to advance their programs.
There's also the possibility that you're a desirable candidate, and they want to impress you by showing high-level interest in your recruitment right from the start.
It's very hard to know exactly why they're directly involved without asking them. In any case, be responsive to their questions. Use earlier meetings with other faculty to try to get a feel for the slot you're being recruited for, and in your big meetings, be the person they're looking for.
Scott SeidmanScott Seidman
Your experience is rather different from mine (US, math). I've never heard of a faculty interview process that involved more than one campus visit per candidate - organizing one is hard enough! And on that one visit, meeting with the dean is nearly universal and doesn't indicate anything special. One would meet with the provost at a school that is small enough that the provost has many dean-like duties, or if the job is more of a leadership role (e.g. department chair). – Nate Eldredge May 12 '17 at 14:50
Thanks a lot. Youve touched upon few possibilities that actually crossed my mind. The department is making a late recruitment of faculty members for 4 new classes in a new program that they are launching this year. The search committee search told me over the phone that because they want to move quickly with the process, Ill have all these meetings in one day. I was also told that I will be teaching graduate classes that will open next year. I am also bringing funding with me to the school. – Change May 12 '17 at 14:51
Also, whether you meet with the dean before or after the faculty is, in my experience, usually just a matter of scheduling - and they don't usually communicate with each other about the candidate until afterwards. – Nate Eldredge May 12 '17 at 14:51
@NateEldredge -- our recruitments are almost always two visits. The first throws a wider net -- maybe four candidates or so, and the purpose of the visit leans more toward "do we want you?", although is is still certainly a two-way conversation. Second visits are usually for the strong favorite, or maybe the top two, and that visit takes on a "do you want us?" flavor, where we lay out physical space, go through the wish list, bring them to realtors.... The Dean's visit tends to take place more during the 2nd than the 1rst, but that doesn't mean the Dean isn't involved until then. – Scott Seidman May 12 '17 at 14:58
@Nate Eldredge: That's been my experience also -- I've never heard of more than one visit for a candidate in math. Also, for what it's worth, I've not only had provost interviews, but for several of the smaller colleges I've interviewed at I've even had an interview with the president of the college. – Dave L Renfro May 12 '17 at 17:00
A lot depends on the size of the institution. Compare a flagship large state university with 40,000 students to a small liberal arts college with 1000 students. In the case of the small college, the dean is likely just a part-time administrator and the provost is probably the only full-time academic administrator. At the large university, there might be a full-time department chair, dean, and maybe a vice president below the provost.
In my experience of running search committees at a small college, the dean and provost typically interview all of the faculty candidates that come to campus and provide feedback to the committee. They're mostly interested in making sure that candidates can communicate well and will fit into the campus culture. They also make a point of explaining their expectations of new faculty. At our institution, they're very interested in candidates who will be active in interdisciplinary research projects. I've come to respect the judgments of these folks when it comes to communications skills and personality because they've had a lot of experience in hiring people.
As an applicant, I'd suggest that you focus on communicating clearly about your teaching and research interests and how you can contribute to the larger mission of the institution. Try to come across as someone who will work hard and not demand too much special attention. Do not use this interview to start making demands relating to salary, start-up package, etc.- that can be a huge turn-off.
You can also look for any signs of tension between the administration and the academic department. For example, are their expectations of your teaching and research activity in agreement? If you get inconsistent answers from the administration and the academic department then that is an indication of discord within the institution.
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February 1, 2016 | Published By Jake Paine
Showbiz & A.G. Bring O.C. Into The Fold To Weigh What Defines A “Classic” (Audio)
The D.I.T.C. collective has some plaques, courtesy of Big L’s The Big Picture, Fat Joe’s Don Cartagena, and the platinum Jealous Ones Still Envy albums. However, “classic” is never weighted in framed medal albums. Showbiz & A.G. and O.C. are two factions of the Diggin’ In The Crates conglomerate who have never had plaques on their own works, but the “classic” term has been tossed around surrounding works like Runaway Slave and Word…Life.
On “Gotta Be Classic,” the Bronx-to-Brooklyn, New York trifecta debates what truly measures greatness. Produced by Show (who does not rhyme on the track), A and O go in—and even discuss some “ambrosia”:
This is the latest in an apparent 2016 weekly series of D.I.T.C. drops.
As a note, A.G. (and Diamond D) will be on hand at this weekend’s J Dilla Weekend in Miami, Florida.
#BonusBeat: Can’t get enough Showbiz tracks? Here’s something the former Payday Records artist did recently for D.I.T.C. affiliate Milano:
Related: Fat Joe, O.C. & A.G. Remind Listeners How Lethal D.I.T.C.’s Lineup Is (Audio)
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About AEM
PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Metabolic Commensalism and Competition in a Two-Species Microbial Consortium
Bjarke B. Christensen, Janus A. J. Haagensen, Arne Heydorn, Søren Molin
Bjarke B. Christensen
BioCentrum-DTU, Molecular Microbial Ecology Group, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 LyngbyDivision of Microbiological Safety, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, DK-2860 Søborg, Denmark
Janus A. J. Haagensen
BioCentrum-DTU, Molecular Microbial Ecology Group, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby
Arne Heydorn
Søren Molin
For correspondence: imsm@pop.dtu.dk
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.5.2495-2502.2002
We analyzed metabolic interactions and the importance of specific structural relationships in a benzyl alcohol-degrading microbial consortium comprising two species, Pseudomonas putida strain R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6, both of which are able to utilize benzyl alcohol as their sole carbon and energy source. The organisms were grown either as surface-attached organisms (biofilms) in flow chambers or as suspended cultures in chemostats. The numbers of CFU of P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 were determined in chemostats and from the effluents of the flow chambers. When the two species were grown together in chemostats with limiting concentrations of benzyl alcohol, Acinetobacter strain C6 outnumbered P. putida R1 (500:1), whereas under similar growth conditions in biofilms, P. putida R1 was present in higher numbers than Acinetobacter strain C6 (5:1). In order to explain this difference, investigations of microbial activities and structural relationships were carried out in the biofilms. Insertion into P. putida R1 of a fusion between the growth rate-regulated rRNA promoter rrnBP1 and a gfp gene encoding an unstable variant of the green fluorescent protein made it possible to monitor the physiological activity of P. putida R1 cells at different positions in the biofilms. Combining this with fluorescent in situ hybridization and scanning confocal laser microscopy showed that the two organisms compete or display commensal interactions depending on their relative physical positioning in the biofilm. In the initial phase of biofilm development, the growth activity of P. putida R1 was shown to be higher near microcolonies of Acinetobacter strain C6. High-pressure liquid chromatography analysis showed that in the effluent of the Acinetobacter strain C6 monoculture biofilm the metabolic intermediate benzoate accumulated, whereas in the biculture biofilms this was not the case, suggesting that in these biofilms the excess benzoate produced by Acinetobacter strain C6 leaks into the surrounding environment, from where it is metabolized by P. putida R1. After a few days, Acinetobacter strain C6 colonies were overgrown by P. putida R1 cells and new structures developed, in which microcolonies of Acinetobacter strain C6 cells were established in the upper layer of the biofilm. In this way the two organisms developed structural relationships allowing Acinetobacter strain C6 to be close to the bulk liquid with high concentrations of benzyl alcohol and allowing P. putida R1 to benefit from the benzoate leaking from Acinetobacter strain C6. We conclude that in chemostats, where the organisms cannot establish in fixed positions, the two strains will compete for the primary carbon source, benzyl alcohol, which apparently gives Acinetobacter strain C6 a growth advantage, probably because it converts benzyl alcohol to benzoate with a higher yield per time unit than P. putida R1. In biofilms, however, the organisms establish structured, surface-attached consortia, in which heterogeneous ecological niches develop, and under these conditions competition for the primary carbon source is not the only determinant of biomass and population structure.
Bacteria often live in consortia bound to surfaces, such as in biofilms, flocs, or granules (5). Under these conditions the bacteria are positioned in a heterogeneous environment with gradients of nutrients and waste products as a consequence of diffusion and mass transport processes, and it is therefore to be expected that this heterogeneity is reflected in the physiology of the individual cells. In agreement with this, consortia like biofilms often appear as rather complex and heterogeneous assemblies consisting of clusters of bacteria embedded in polymeric substances, which are separated by void regions (cell-free channels) (12, 13, 27, 28). The development of the cell-free regions may support transport of nutrients and waste products to and from the deeper layers of the biofilms (7). For example, DeBeer et al. (8) showed by using microelectrodes that at the same depths in a biofilm, oxygen concentrations in the void regions were much higher than those in adjacent clusters of biomass.
The development of what seem to be structurally organized communities may argue for the presence of overall regulatory elements, which control the formation of the community structures (6). However, changes in structural organization have been shown to be significantly affected by the nutrients supplied to the community (13, 27). Furthermore, mathematical modeling of bacterial growth in biofilms has indicated that simple rules based on nutrient gradients, diffusion rates, and biomass production may determine basic features of biofilm structures (18, 26). Thus, even though there may be regulatory factors that are actively involved in control of biofilm formation, parameters like mass transport, substrate concentrations, diffusion gradients, detachment-attachment mechanisms, and flow rates probably all have significant influence on biofilm structures.
Syntrophic relationships between different organisms have been demonstrated in several microbial ecosystems, such as the interspecies electron transfer from H2 or formate in anaerobic digesters (1, 25) and the relationship between ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing species in nitrifying communities (22). Communities involving xenobiotic degradation (for a review, see reference 21) and oral communities (2) are other examples of tight metabolic associations between community species.
Applications of scanning confocal laser microscopy (SCLM), fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and microelectrodes have led to a rapidly increasing understanding of structure-function relationships in microbial communities. FISH and the use of microelectrodes have shown that the nitrite-oxidizing bacteria are clustered around ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in nitrite-oxidizing zones (inner part of the biofilm) in a nitrifying wastewater treatment biofilm (17). In addition, Ramsing et al. (20) demonstrated a negative correlation between sulfate-reducing bacteria and the oxygen profile in a photosynthetic biofilm, and in anaerobic granular sludge digesters the structural relationship between different species was shown to be highly organized (9, 11, 23).
To obtain a better understanding of the function of channel structures and of structural relationships between species in relation to the overall functionality of the microbial communities, we also need to be able to determine the physiological state of the individual cells in the microbial consortium. Recently, a reporter system based on a fusion between the rRNA promoter from Escherichia coli and a reporter gene encoding an unstable derivative of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) was developed (24). This reporter system has been used to monitor growth activity in the present study of species relationships in benzyl alcohol-degrading communities comprising two species, Acinetobacter sp. strain C6 and Pseudomonas putida strain R1.
Strain and growth conditions.Throughout this investigation, derivatives of P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 described in Table 1 were used. P. putida R1 (SM1700) with the mini Tn5-Km-rrnBP1-gfp[AGA]-T0-T1 cassette inserted in the chromosome encodes an unstable variant of the GFP (AGA) with a slower degradation half-life, of approximately 6 to 7 h (19), than those previously described (24). The use of a slowly degrading GFP protein reduced the ability to monitor rapid changes in growth activity. However, cells with a much reduced growth rate could be detected when this GFP protein variant was used.
A streptomycin-resistant mutant of the natural isolate of Acinetobacter strain C6 was isolated as a spontaneous mutant on Luria-Bertani (LB) broth plates containing 200 μg of streptomycin per ml.
Strains were grown in FAB medium [1 mM MgCl2, 0.1 mM CaCl2, 0.01 mM Fe-EDTA (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.), 0.15 mM (NH4)SO4, 0.33 mM Na2HPO4, 0.2 mM KH2PO4, and 0.5 mM NaCl] supplied, unless otherwise mentioned, with benzyl alcohol (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) as the sole carbon source. When required, antibiotics were added at final concentrations of 100 μg/ml for streptomycin, 50 μg/ml for nalidixic acid, and 10 μg/ml for kanamycin.
Chemostat experiments.The chemostats were made from a 50-ml plastic syringe (Terumo Europe N.V., Leuven, Belgium) with a rubber stopper containing a glass tube for outlet of the effluent culture and another for intake of air, which was passed through a 0.2-μm-pore-size filter. In addition, a thin hypodermic needle was inserted for injection of medium and another was inserted for withdrawal of samples from the chemostat. All chemostats were coated with a dimethyl-dichlorosilane solution (Sigma) to avoid attachment of cells to the chemostat walls. In addition, occurrence of bacterial growth on the chemostat wall was tested after each experiment by scraping of samples from the wall followed by plating. In all experiments the total CFU of suspended cells were at least 100 times higher than the number of surface-attached cells, indicating that a potential bias of the chemostat data by development of biofilms on the chemostat walls was insignificant in the present experiments. Six chemostats were run in parallel at the same time. The chemostats were supplied with FAB medium containing 5 mM benzyl alcohol (Merck), and the dilution rate was kept at 6 ml/h with a 205S peristaltic pump (Watson Marlow Inc., Wilmington, Mass.). The chemostats were inoculated with 25 ml of an overnight culture of either P. putida R1 or Acinetobacter strain C6 grown in FAB minimal medium supplemented with 2 mM benzoate and 5 mM benzyl alcohol. In chemostats where P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 were mixed, 25 ml of overnight cultures of both strains were mixed before inoculation. The chemostats were sampled at 1-day intervals. For each sample the optical density at 450 nm was measured and the CFU per milliliter for each strain was enumerated by plating on LB broth plates containing antibiotics for selection of P. putida R1 or Acinetobacter strain C6. The chemostats were checked for contaminating organisms by plating on LB broth plates without addition of antibiotics (data not shown).
Flow chamber experiments.Biofilms were grown at room temperature in three-channel flow chambers with individual channel dimensions of 1 by 4 by 40 mm. The flow system was assembled and prepared as described previously (3). The substratum was a microscope glass coverslip (st1; Knittel Gläser, Braunschweig, Germany). Each channel was supplied with a flow of 3 ml/h (flow rate of 0.2 mm/s) of FAB medium containing 0.5 mM benzyl alcohol. Flow cells were inoculated with mixtures of overnight cultures of P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 grown in LB medium. P. putida R1 was diluted 20 times, and Acinetobacter strain C6 was diluted 4 times, in 0.9% NaCl. After the medium flow was stopped, the flow channels were turned upside down and 250 μl of the diluted mixture was carefully injected into each flow channel with a small syringe. After 1 h, the flow channels were turned around and the flow was resumed using a 205S peristaltic pump (Watson Marlow). Enumeration of detaching biofilm cells was performed by collecting 0.5 to 1 ml of cells from the flow chamber effluent in an Eppendorf tube kept on ice. The cells were vortexed for at least 20 s, which was shown by microscopic inspection to be enough to ensure dispersion of cell clumps. The effluent cells were enumerated for each strain by plating on LB broth plates containing antibiotics for selection of P. putida R1 or Acinetobacter strain C6. The flow chambers were checked for contaminating organisms by plating on LB broth plates without antibiotics (data not shown).
Oligonucleotide probes.For in situ 16S rRNA hybridizations two different oligonucleotide probes were used. A probe specific for P. putida subgroup A, PP986 (14), was labeled with the indocarbocyanine dye CY5, and the probe specific for Acinetobacter sp. strain C6, ACN449 (15), was labeled with the indocarbocyanine dye CY3. Hybridization was performed in 30% formamide at 37°C, as this stringency proved to be sufficient for distinguishing the species in the model consortium. The probes were purchased from Hobolth DNA Syntese (Hillerød, Denmark).
Embedding and 16S rRNA hybridization of hydrated biofilm samples.In order to avoid further degradation of the unstable GFP, the embedding and hybridization procedure, as previously described (3, 4, 15), was slightly modified. The biofilms were fixed by carefully inoculating 500 μl of ice-cold 4% paraformaldehyde solution directly into the flow channel, which was then kept on ice for at least 1 h to ensure complete fixation of all cells in the biofilm. The fixed biofilms were washed with 1× phosphate-buffered saline by pumping the solution through the channels for 20 min (flow rate, 0.25 mm s−1), and finally the biofilm was embedded in 1 ml of 20% acrylamide solution containing 200:1 acrylamide-bisacrylamide (Sequagel; National Diagnostics, Atlanta, Ga.), 8 μl of N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylendiamine (Kodak International Biotechnologies Inc., New Haven, Conn.), and 20 μl of 1% ammonium persulfate (International Biotechnologies Inc.). After the polyacrylamide was allowed to solidify for at least 1 h, the glass coverslip was carefully loosened from the flow cell, and the biofilm containing the polyacrylamide block was lifted out of the flow channel. The block was subsequently cut into slices of approximately 5 mm, placed on a six-well hybridization slide (Novakemi ab, Enskede, Sweden), and prehybridized at 37°C in 45 μl of the hybridization buffer (washing solution I [0.9 M NaCl, 100 mM Tris, pH 7.2] containing 30% formamide at 37°C). After 30 min, the prehybridization buffer was removed and 30 μl of the hybridization buffer containing 75 ng of each probe was added to the hybridization well. The slide was incubated at 37°C for at least 3 h in a moisturized chamber. The polyacrylamide blocks were washed in 45 μl of washing solution I for 30 min at 37°C, followed by washing in 45 μl of washing solution II (0.9 M NaCl, 100 mM Tris, pH 7.2) for another 30 min at 37°C. Finally, the acrylamide blocks were rinsed in 45 μl of Milli-Q water and then immediately mounted on an object glass with a drop of SlowFade phosphate-buffered saline-based antifade solution (Molecular Probes) and a coverslip on top.
Microscopy and image analysis.All microscopic observations and image acquisitions were performed with a TCD4D SCLM (Leica Lasertechnik GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany) equipped with an argon-krypton laser and three detectors and filter sets for simultaneous monitoring of fluorescein isothiocyanate-GFP and the indocarbocyanine dyes CY3 and CY5.
The x-y images were presented as extended-focus images, which are produced by taking the confocal images from the different depths of the biofilm and projecting them into a single image. The extended-focus images and vertical cross sections through the biofilm were generated by using the IMARIS software package (Bitplane AG, Zurich, Switzerland) running on an Indigo2 workstation (Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, Calif.). Images were further processed for display by using Photoshop software (Adobe, Mountain View, Calif.)
HPLC analysis.Samples subjected to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis were taken from the effluent of the flow channels. The samples were filtered through a 0.2-μm-pore-size filter, and the contents of benzyl alcohol and benzoate were measured with a Shimadzu (Tokyo, Japan) HPLC equipped with a Supelcosil C18 reverse-phase column (Supelco Park, Bellefonte, Pa.) and a UV-visible detector set at 206 nm. The mobile phase was a solution of 40% acetonitrile (HPLC grade; Sigma Aldrich) and 60% NaH2PO4 (50 mM, pH 3,0) supplied at a flow rate of 1 ml min−1.
Analysis of biofilm thickness.The thicknesses of the biofilms were measured using a specific function on the digitally controlled microscope (DMRXA microscope; Leica Mikroskopie und Systeme GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany) which makes it possible to measure the distance between two focused planes.
Quantitative analysis of mixed-species and monospecies consortia of P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 in chemostats and in flow chambers.P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 were grown as suspended cultures in chemostats, in which heterogeneous structural relationships between the organisms are not established. Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 were established either as monocultures (Fig. 1A) or together in a mixed culture (Fig. 1B). As shown in Fig. 1, constant cell densities were reached in the monoculture and mixed-culture chemostats after approximately 3 and 5 days, respectively. With respect to Acinetobacter strain C6, the cell density remained constant in both chemostats over the course of the next 5 days until the experiment was terminated, whereas a slight increase in P. putida R1 cell numbers was observed during the last 2 days. In both the mixed and monospecies cultures Acinetobacter strain C6 reached the same cell density of approximately 109 CFU/ml. In contrast, the cell densities of P. putida R1 were lower than the corresponding levels of Acinetobacter strain C6 in both the mixed-species and the monospecies chemostats. When growing alone in the chemostat, the cell density of P. putida R1 was between 10 and 100 times lower than that of Acinetobacter strain C6, whereas in the chemostats in which Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 were mixed, the density of P. putida R1 was reduced to a 500- to 1,000-fold-lower level relative to that of Acinetobacter strain C6. These results show that Acinetobacter strain C6 produces more biomass than P. putida R1.
Time course analysis of the numbers of P. putida R1 (▪) and Acinetobacter strain C6 (•) cells collected from chemostats where the strains were established either as monospecies cultures (A) or as mixed cultures (B). CFU were enumerated on LB plates containing the appropriate antibiotics for selection of P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6, respectively. Error bars indicate standard deviations.
To investigate how the observed differences in the metabolic efficiency affected the composition in surface-associated cultures over time, nondestructive in situ methods were employed. Two parameters were measured: (i) biofilm thickness and (ii) CFU of cells collected from the flow chamber effluents per milliliter. Although the ratios between biomass, voids, and channels may vary in internal parts of the biofilm (which was not taken into account when measuring biofilm thickness), the thickness of the biofilm may, as shown for other biofilm consortia (10), be used as a relative measure of the total biomass accumulated in the flow channels. As shown in Fig. 2, both Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 monocultures reached a thickness of about 7 to 10 μm, whereas the binary biofilm reached a thickness of approximately 12 to 14 μm.
Time course analysis of biofilm thickness when P. putida R1 (▪) and Acinetobacter strain C6 (•) were grown as monoculture biofilms or when the two strains were grown as mixed biofilms (▴). Each point represents the mean of the mean thickness in at least three independent flow channels run in parallel. Error bars indicate standard deviations. The mean thickness in each flow channel was taken as the mean from four random microscope viewing fields in which the thickness was measured at five different positions (a total of 20 positions in each flow channel).
The cells collected from the effluent are those cells that detach from the flow chamber biofilm. Only in cases where the biofilm cell density has reached a steady state for each species will the effluent cells become an exact representation of the biofilm population. On the other hand, previous studies have shown (3) that in control experiments in which Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 were the only species or the predominant species, the effluent data do represent reliable estimates of the entire biofilm population. Determinations of the biofilm effluent cell numbers showed that a ratio of approximately 1:5 of Acinetobacter strain C6 to P. putida R1 in the mixed biofilm was reached after a few days (Fig. 3B). Varying the ratio of Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 in the inoculum did not change this ratio significantly (data not shown). After 2 to 3 days the effluent cell numbers of Acinetobacter strain C6 in the monoculture (Fig. 3A) and mixed-culture (Fig. 3B) biofilms had reached a level which remained nearly constant throughout the rest of the experiment. In the monoculture biofilm of P. putida R1, the cell number increased at a lower rate but reached higher numbers than Acinetobacter strain C6 (Fig. 3A), whereas a constant high level of P. putida R1 in the mixed biofilm was reached within a few days (Fig. 3B). Thus, the presence of Acinetobacter strain C6 apparently results in a faster establishment of P. putida R1 in the mixed consortium.
Time course analysis of the numbers of P. putida R1 (▪) and Acinetobacter strain C6 (•) cells collected from flow channel effluents where the strains were established either as monoculture biofilms (A) or as mixed biofilms (B). CFU were enumerated on LB plates containing the appropriate antibiotics for selection of P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6. Error bars indicate standard deviations.
It was previously observed that in mixed-species biofilms growing with benzyl alcohol as the sole carbon and energy source, the expression of the benzoate-inducible promoter, Pm, from the TOL pathway inserted into P. putida R1 was induced in regions near microcolonies of Acinetobacter strain C6 (15), and it was speculated that benzoate leaking from Acinetobacter strain C6 caused the induction of Pm in P. putida R1. In order to investigate this explanation, we performed HPLC analysis of benzyl alcohol and benzoate in flow channel effluents, and at the same time this analysis was used to further assess the metabolic efficiencies of the two organisms.
Samples were taken at different time points after initial colonization of mono- and mixed-culture flow chamber biofilms of P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6. In the P. putida R1 monoculture biofilm (Fig. 4A), the amount of degraded benzyl alcohol increased slowly over the entire sampling period, reaching 75% conversion after 10 days. In the Acinetobacter strain C6 monoculture biofilm, more than 90% of the benzyl alcohol was catabolized 4 days after the initial colonization, but in contrast to the case for the P. putida R1 biofilm, a large amount of benzoate was accumulated (Fig. 4B). Thus, Acinetobacter strain C6 does in fact leak benzoate from cells when grown as a biofilm. The effluent from a mixed culture of the two species showed removal of benzyl alcohol as well as efficient degradation of benzoate (Fig. 4).
HPLC analysis of the flow channel effluents. The contents of benzyl alcohol (A) and benzoate (B) were measured for monoculture biofilms of P. putida R1 (▪) and Acinetobacter strain C6 (•), and for the binary Acinetobacter strain C6-P. putida R1 biofilm (▴). In all flow channel biofilms the inlet concentration of benzyl alcohol was 0.5 mM. Error bars indicate standard deviations.
In situ analysis of the mixed biofilm consortium.To further analyze the metabolic interactions between Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 cells and their consequences for the structural development of the consortium, mixed-species biofilms were fixed and embedded 1, 2, 3, and 6 days after the initial colonization. For specific identification of the two organisms, we used FISH with the fluorescence-labeled probes PP986 and ACN449, targeting P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6, respectively. By employing SCLM in combination with FISH, the exact positions of Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 cells could be visualized. The changes and distributions of microbial growth activity of P. putida R1 cells were analyzed by insertion of a transposon with the growth phase-regulated promoter rrnBP1 fused to a gfp gene encoding an unstable variant of GFP. Applications of this type of monitor system inserted into P. putida R1 for determinations of growth activity in biofilms have previously been demonstrated (24). This reporter system can be used to distinguish between fast-growing (bright green) and slow-growing or nongrowing (weak or no signal) cells.
The images presented in Fig. 5 represent examples of the most frequently occurring structural relationships between the two species observed at days 1, 2, 3, and 6 after the initial colonization. In order to ensure that the changing structures observed were a consequence of a systematic process and not just some random process occurring in some cases and not in others, the experiments was run in five independent rounds each time with three independent flow channels running in parallel. In all experiments the same developmental pattern was observed, indicating that the dynamic changes in the structural relationships between the two species are caused by nonrandom processes.
SCLM micrographs showing the structural relationships between Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 cells with low and high activity, respectively, in a mixed biofilm consortium which was supplied with 0.5 mM benzyl alcohol as the sole carbon source. At days 1 (A), 2 (B), 3 (C and E), and 6 (D and F) after inoculation, biofilms were embedded and hybridized. P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 were hybridized with PP986 labeled with CY5 (blue) and ACN449 labeled with CY3 (red), respectively. The active P. putida R1 cells were monitored as cells emitting green fluorescence due to the rrnBP1-gfp[AGA] fusion inserted in the chromosome of P. putida R1. These cells appear as cyan due tothe combination of green (GFP) and blue (hybridization). For each panel similar images were collected from at least five independent biofilm experiments. Panels A and B are representative of the biofilm structures observed at day 1 and 2. Panels C and D are examples of the large Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies that developed after 3 days (C) and which later were overgrown by P. putida R1 (D). Panels E and F are examples of Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies (arrow) that were established in the upper part of P. putida R1 cell clusters after 2 to 3 days (E), which resulted in production of large macrostructures of associated P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 cells (F). All x-y plots are presented as extended-focus images. Shown to the right and above the x-y plots are vertical sections through the biofilm collected at the positions indicated by the white triangles. The arrow indicates the direction of flow. Bars, 20 μm. Note that the green fluorescent intensities on the images have been amplified to give the best differentiation between P. putida R1 cells with low and high activity in each image. Thus, the intensity levels in the different images cannot be directly compared.
One day after inoculation of the strains, the P. putida R1 cells with the highest apparent growth activity (highest GFP signal) were observed in the regions near small microcolonies of Acinetobacter strain C6 cells (Fig. 5A). As the Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies grew in size, the P. putida R1 cells with highest growth activity were located in the center of the colonies (Fig. 5B). At day 3, two distinct types of associations had developed. In one of these, P. putida R1 was excluded from the center of the rather large Acinetobacter strain C6 colonies (Fig. 5C), and the cells with the highest growth activity were now observed at the periphery of the colonies. After 6 days, many of these Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies were overgrown by P. putida R1 cells and the fluorescence intensity of the P. putida R1 cells near the Acinetobacter strain C6 colonies was reduced to low levels (Fig. 5D). In the other type of association, small Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies started to build up in the upper layers of the P. putida R1 biofilm (Fig. 5E). The result was production of large structures (at least 100 to 200 μm thick) in which Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies became integrated in the P. putida R1 cell structures (Fig. 5F).
Competition for substrate is considered to be one of the major evolutionary driving forces in the bacterial world, and numerous experimental data obtained in the laboratory under well-controlled conditions show how different organisms, or variants of one organism, may effectively outcompete others because of better utilization of a given energy source. Such competition experiments may be performed very convincingly in chemostats, where nutrient limitation allows for metabolic competition among the cells present in the reactor. One important factor for optimal performance of a chemostat is the homogeneous distribution of the suspended cells, and it is considered important to prevent surface attachment of the cells to the reactor walls. Under such optimal conditions, in which only one nutrient is limiting for growth, it may be expected that an organism will totally outcompete all others if it has an improved efficiency of substrate utilization relative to the others. The concentration of the particular nutrient will always be below the threshold level for the less efficient cells, and the rate of washout is therefore higher than the rate of cell proliferation for these cells.
In the present study the two organisms were grown as monospecies and as mixed-species cultures with benzyl alcohol as the sole carbon source, both as surface-attached organisms (biofilms) in flow chambers and as suspended cultures in chemostats. In the chemostats, differences in the respective cell numbers at steady state showed that Acinetobacter strain C6 produced the highest yield on the limiting concentration of benzyl alcohol. When Acinetobacter strain C6 and P. putida R1 were mixed in the chemostat, both organisms rapidly reached relatively stable cell densities in which the cell number ratio was approximately 1 to 500 in favor of Acinetobacter strain C6. This again showed the competitive advantage of Acinetobacter strain C6, but it also showed an unexpected stable presence of P. putida R1 at a low but significant level. In the flow chamber-based biofilms, effluent cell counts showed that within a few days the two organisms reached nearly stable cell densities, in which P. putida R1 was present in higher numbers than Acinetobacter strain C6 (approximately 5 to 1). Furthermore, measurements of the biofilm thickness suggested that the simultaneous presence of both strains resulted in a significant increase of the overall biomass in the biofilm. Thus, despite the better utilization of benzyl alcohol by Acinetobacter strain C6, P. putida R1 was maintained in both growth systems. This finding may be explained by the previous suggestion that growing with benzyl alcohol as the carbon source makes Acinetobacter strain C6 cells excrete benzoate, a carbon source readily utilized by P. putida R1, into the reactor environment (15). This hypothesis has been confirmed in the present study. The HPLC analysis of the effluent from flow chambers shows that benzoate accumulates in Acinetobacter strain C6 monospecies biofilms, whereas in the presence of P. putida R1 almost all the excreted benzoate is degraded. In the P. putida R1 monospecies biofilm, degradation of benzyl alcohol was rather inefficient, and only a low concentration of benzoate was detected in the effluent. This suggests that Acinetobacter strain C6 relatively easily converts benzyl alcohol to benzoate, whereas the degradation of benzoate is slow, resulting in a metabolic bottleneck that leads to accumulation of benzoate. In contrast, P. putida R1 encodes a better pathway for degradation of benzoate, which has the capacity to mineralize both the benzoate derived from the conversion of benzyl alcohol to benzoate via its own degradation pathway and the external supply from Acinetobacter strain C6.
To further explain the differences in ratios between P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 in the flow chambers and chemostats, a detailed analysis of the distribution and activity of the P. putida R1 cells in the flow chamber biofilms was carried out. In situ rRNA hybridization for identification of the individual organisms was used to analyze the spatial distribution of the two strains in the flow chamber biofilms. After 2 to 3 days of growth, large numbers of P. putida R1 cells were found to cluster around large surface-associated microcolonies of Acinetobacter strain C6. By employing the rrnBP1::gfp[AGA] monitor cassette inserted into P. putida R1, it was shown that the P. putida R1 cells in these regions had a higher growth activity than those further away from the Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies. Similar distribution patterns have also been observed in nitrifying biofilms (17) and in a two-species biofilm growing with chlorobiphenyl as the sole carbon and energy source (16). However, in neither of these studies was it possible for the individual strains to be established as monospecies biofilms under the conditions described, and thus, in contrast to the present study, there was no competition for the primary carbon source in the mixed biofilms.
For the Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies that were initially established at the flow chamber glass surface, a stable structural relationship between P. putida R1 and Acinetobacter strain C6 cells was not maintained, because P. putida R1 started to overgrow the Acinetobacter strain C6 microcolonies (Fig. 5C and D). The result was a significant reduction in the growth activity of P. putida R1 (reduced GFP signal) in these regions. We suggest that the establishment of P. putida R1 cells on the outside of the surface-associated microcolonies reduced the supply of benzyl alcohol to the Acinetobacter strain C6 cells and thereby also the production of benzoate from these cells. Instead, small microcolonies of Acinetobacter strain C6 cells became established in the upper layer of the P. putida R1 biofilm where they were near the medium flow and thereby exposed to a constant supply of benzyl alcohol. This allowed the Acinetobacter strain C6 cells to accumulate benzoate in these regions, which was metabolized by the associated P. putida R1 cells, which obtained a growth advantage over other, nonassociated P. putida R1 cells (Fig. 5E). We suggest that due to the metabolic interactions, these mixed Acinetobacter strain C6-P. putida R1 structures grew faster than the rest of the biofilm and resulted in the production of large structures of biofilm. Thus, taking all these observations together, the two organisms in the biofilm competed as well as exhibited commensal interactions, depending on the physical positioning of the organism. Similar interacting mechanisms, i.e., different species being able to degrade the primary substrate but having different capacities for degradation of the metabolic intermediates, may be expected to prevail in natural environments. This may explain why some natural communities grown on a single carbon source, such as in the studies presented by Wolfaardt et al. (27) and Møller et al. (13), often develop quite complex biofilm compositions and organizations.
The present investigation of the structure-function relationships in a binary biofilm growing with benzyl alcohol as the only added carbon and energy source thus offers an explanation of the contradictory population data from suspended cultures in chemostats and in flow chamber biofilms, respectively. In the chemostat the individual cells are all surrounded by the same environmental conditions, and they cannot stay in the reactor if their growth rate is lower than the dilution rate (no adherence). In the biofilm there is a range of conditions surrounding the cells due to the heterogeneity of the consortium structure; i.e., microniches develop in which the supplies of primary and secondary nutrients differ significantly. There will therefore be locations in the biofilm where the conditions favor one or the other or both of the organisms, depending on the local structure. In addition, the cells may adhere to the surface or to each other, thus reducing washout. One important consequence of the biofilm configuration, therefore, is that substrates may be more optimally utilized by the consortium (increased mineralization of metabolic intermediates), resulting in faster degradation of the primary nutrient and a faster buildup of biomass. The reorganization of mixed-species consortia in response to the nutrient conditions in order to achieve optimal conditions for the present organisms may require active motility coupled with chemotaxis, cell-to-cell communication signals for coordinated organizational development, or a liquid flow moving cells around for detachment and reattachment. In the present consortium neither chemotaxis nor cell-to-cell communication is the obvious mechanism behind the presented development of the consortium, because our unpublished investigations have not so far shown evidence of any of these properties in P. putida R1. It is therefore concluded that passive transport of cells by the flow through the biofilm may be solely responsible for the continuous structural development taking place in the consortium.
This work was supported by grants from the Danish Biotechnology Program.
We thank Anne Nielsen and Tove Johansen for expert technical assistance.
Received 23 October 2001.
Accepted 6 February 2002.
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January 23, 2018 by Aphoristical38 Comments on Queen Albums: Ranked from Worst To Best1970s, 1980s, 1990s, worst to best
Queen formed in 1970 in London, originally a hard rock band with shades of progressive rock and metal. They adapted as musical fashions changed; they flirted with disco on 1982’s Hot Space and produced stripped-down, synthesizer fuelled pop hits on 1984’s The Works.
But over their twenty year recording career, certain hallmarks of their sound remained; Freddie Mercury’s virtuoso voice and Brian May’s distinctive guitar sound, from his “Red Special” guitar that he handcrafted as a teenager with his father. Mercury and May were supported by drummer Roger Taylor, whose high harmony vocals were an important part of the group’s sound, and bassist John Deacon. While Mercury and May were the most prolific writers, all four members wrote hit singles for the band – they’re the only four piece band to have all of their members inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Queen’s best albums were generally at the start of their career – in the 1980s they often seemed more focused on singles and dabbled with solo careers. Even as the quality of their albums declined, they remained a formidable live attraction, especially their 1985 Live Aid performance, and enjoyed hit singles throughout their twenty year tenure. Queen refocused their attention as Mercury’s health declined, before he succumbed to AIDS in 1991.
I’ve skipped 1980’s Flash Gordon soundtrack, as it doesn’t feel like an album, mostly short instrumentals interspersed with dialogue, but it would be at #15 if I had included it.
Queen’s Albums Ranked
#14: A Kind Of Magic
A Kind of Magic is Queen at their least focused, and it’s largely a compilation of their contributions to soundtracks like Highlander. But even on their weakest studio album there are highlights; May’s majestic, haunting ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’ and the group rocker ‘One Vision’.
#13: Made In Heaven
Queen re-emerged in 1995 with a collection of songs the band worked on with Mercury in the months before his death. Many of the songs were outtakes from previous Queen albums or songs previously used on solo projects, and it feels thin, despite the heart-warming story behind it.
#12: Hot Space
Hot Space is infamous as Queen’s disco record. There are weak songs like Mercury’s ‘Body Language’, but it does feature the classic David Bowie duet ‘Under Pressure’ and the second half is more focused on balladry like ‘Les Palabras De Amor’ than on dance floor fillers.
#11: The Miracle
It’s messy, and the two rock songs that open the album aren’t convincing, but at its best The Miracle is a creative rebound for Queen after a sometimes indifferent 1980s. ‘I Want It All’ has scorching guitar work from May, while the title track is a pretty multi-part suite.
#10: Jazz
Queen closed out the 1970s with their weakest album of the decade. The ‘Bicycle Race’/’Fat Bottomed Girls’ single is one of their finest, but most of the album tracks feel unfocused, like weaker versions of past triumphs.
#9: The Works
After Hot Space, The Works marks a return to basics. It’s not their most substantial album, but Mercury’s ‘It’s A Hard Life’ is a majestic ballad, and the rhythm section supply the hits with Deacon’s ‘I Want To Break Free’ and Taylor’s ‘Radio Ga Ga’.
#8: A Day At The Races
A Day At The Races was less ambitious than the group’s previous albums, and it was their weakest to date, but it still contained Mercury’s gospel-tinged show-stopper ‘Somebody To Love’, and great Brian May tracks like ‘Tie Your Mother Down’ and ‘Long Away’.
#7: The Game
The Game introduces a new, streamlined Queen for the 1980s – if they were an album band in the 1970s, they’re largely a singles band in the 1980s. The best tracks are diverse singles like Mercury’s rockabilly ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ and Deacon’s funky ‘Another One Bites The Dust’.
#6: Queen
Queen’s debut album wasn’t very successful in terms of sales, but it showed a lot of their ideas already in place. May’s ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ is the most well known song, but there are strong, forgotten Mercury songs like ‘Great King Rat’ and ‘My Fairy King’.
#5: Innuendo
The group’s final album before Mercury’s death suffers from being released in the CD era – at almost 55 minutes it could do with some trimming. But the key tracks – the six minute title track and ‘The Show Must Go On’ – recapture the grandiose Queen of old, and they’re some of the band’s best work ever.
#4: News of the World
In the year of punk, Queen produced a more streamlined album. The album opens with two huge Queen anthems – ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are The Champions’ – but the rest of the album is surprisingly consistent, with highlights like May’s ‘It’s Late’ and Taylor’s ‘Fight From The Inside’.
#3: Sheer Heart Attack
Queen’s second album of 1974 contained their breakthrough hit ‘Killer Queen’, but it’s a relentlessly entertaining suite of songs, showcasing the diverse music interests of Queen’s four members.
#2: A Night At The Opera
A Night At The Opera contains the monstrous single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, a multi-part epic, but there’s enough else here that it doesn’t overshadow the rest of the record. ‘Death On Two Legs’, ’39’, ‘The Prophet’s Song’, and Deacon’s pop of ‘You’re My Best Friend’ are all strong entries in the band’s catalogue too.
#1: Queen II
Queen’s second album is their most indulgent and pretentious, but that’s a compliment. Mercury and May have an LP side each – May contributes ‘White Queen (As It Began)’, while Mercury’s ‘The March of the Black Queen’, ‘Ogre Battle’ and The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke’ are all multi-part magnum opuses.
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Heavy Metal Overload says:
Always going to be disagreements and nitpicking with this kind of thing but… overall… yes. And the number one? HELL YES.
Cool – there are 87,178,291,200 different ways to rank a list of 14 items, right? Looking at my list objectively, the most provocative thing is probably having Jazz below The Works. Never really been able to get into Jazz.
MusiCommentator says:
Queen will never get old.
But their catalogue may be distilled down to Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, and Don’t Stop Me Now.
True. Those songs are their best: Bohemian Rhapsody is my favorite for sure
I think Queen have a lot of good, overlooked album tracks though. And because they’re a good singles band, it’s likely that a lot of fans will overlook their full albums.
Pretty much the guide I’ve been looking for! The only Queen album I own is A Night At The Opera, but my introduction was Greatest Hits back in the early 90s (quite possibly after Wayne’s World and Bohemian Rhapsody). The only studio albums I actually bought after that? Innuendo and, quite possibly, The Miracle. Then I drifted away and tuned into alternative rock. Although obtaining a copy of A Night At The Opera a few years ago, I still haven’t explored the discography too much.
Cool. In some ways I think the 1981 Greatest Hits is the best thing they ever did, but I also feel like their albums are overlooked, while some of their singles are overexposed. If you like Night at the Opera, Sheer Heart Attack is almost as good, while Queen II is a bit more hard rock/progressive rock.
2loud2oldmusic says:
Great list. it is hard to say yeah or nea as everyone likes different ones. I have about 6 of their albums, so I have a few more still to get.
Do you have a favourite so far?
Strangely enough, I love A Kind of Magic, your #14. But I would probably go with Innuendo and Queen II as two of my favorites.
Great list. “A Night At The Opera” is still my personal favourite, but they did a clutch of records from “Queen II” up until “News Of The World” that all have a claim to be their greatest IMO.
That’s my favourite stretch too, although I’d probably throw the debut in as well.
KamerTunesBlog (by Rich Kamerman) says:
Good list but you’re a little too harsh on three albums in particular: A Kind Of Magic, The Miracle and Hot Space. Perhaps they belong in the “you had to be there” category, but since I was there I have a strong affinity for all three. Initially I was against Hot Space as the “disco album,” but it has grown in stature for me over the years. I particularly like “Back Chat” among the dance/club-inspired songs, and the second half of the album has some really strong rockers, Beatles-inspired tracks & ballads. A Kind Of Magic, which I featured in my “Thirty Year Thursday” series in 2016, is a very strong album in spite of the fact that it was tied to their Highlander contributions. Freddie’s histrionic (in the best possible way) vocals on “One Year Of Love” are incredible. As for The Miracle, it’s one of the most interesting & creative albums in their discography, and it gets unfairly compared to its follow-up, Innuendo, which I think receives a little too much praise because (a) it “sounds like” classic Queen and (b) it’s tied to people’s emotions about Freddie’s death shortly after its release. Don’t get me wrong…it’s a very strong album…but The Miracle shows Queen being creative as opposed to re-creative (if that makes any sense). I also believe it’s the only Queen album where all songs were credited as “written by Queen” instead of one particular band member. Through it all, even the lesser songs on these albums are notable for the incredible musicianship, especially Brian May’s constantly inventive guitar work.
Okay, I’ll step off my soap box now. 😀
Something has to be near the bottom! I like ‘Back Chat’ a lot as well – I almost mentioned it in the write-up, and I think even at #11, I actually like The Miracle more than most Queen fans, but like a lot of the 1980s’ stuff I generally mostly like May’s stuff and the singles.
I think they had shared writing credits for Innuendo as well – it masks how important Roger Taylor was as a writer on the last few Queen albums (Breakthru, Invisible Man, Days of our Lives, Innuendo, Heaven for Everyone).
What else would you have near the bottom?
I guess the problem I have with “worst to best” lists is that they tend to keep people who may have been on the fence about certain albums from ever checking them out. For me, just about every Queen album is great, with only varying degrees of greatness…with the exception of Made In Heaven, of course, which has some decent moments but it sounds like the pieced-together project that it is. I can’t argue that most of the albums near the top of your list are essential purchases for anyone new to Queen’s music (or who haven’t delved beyond compilations), while the lower-ranked albums…while still as worthy of praise…are probably not the best entry points into their discography.
Had a couple of rare typos here which I feel compelled to correct:
…who haven’t delved beyond compilations…
…while still as worthy of praise…
Maybe I should even be stating in the intro that I only do Worst To Best lists for artists that I really like, and where I think their albums are generally worthwhile. I don’t think I’d even attempt it for someone like Neil Young – I love his 1970s stuff, but there are so many post 1970s albums to wade through, and I only need so many Neil Young albums in my life.
Always good to have some kind of disclaimer or explanation up-front, even if some readers won’t pay attention. I know what you mean about Neil Young. I covered his complete discography a few years ago in a 10-post series. There are some wonderful post-’70s albums but more often than not it was a slog to differentiate many of them.
Whenever someone asks me what is my favorite Queen album I always have a hard time deciding between Queen II and A Night at the Opera, so I think this is a great list! =D
I wish I liked News of the World as much as you do, though. I am not a big fan of neither We Will Rock You nor We Are the Champions (maybe they are a victim of being overplayed), so that makes the album lose quite a bit of its charm. I do, however, love Spread Your Wings and All Dead, All Dead.
Thanks! I’m pretty sick of the 1-2 punch on News of the World too, but I think the rest of the album is very solid. Did you know that ‘All Dead, All Dead’ is about May’s cat?
I have a related question: Do you think being sick of certain songs takes away from an album’s greatness if you thought those songs were great in the first place? I’m rarely affected by songs being “overplayed” but I seem to be in the minority, as a lot of music lovers I know will take points away from albums because of that. I like to think of how an album will sound to someone hearing it for the first time, and as often as possible I like to listen with that mindset. I’m curious about how many others do the same.
I have had that issue sometimes – I remember when I first started my site, I marked Crowded House’s early albums pretty harshly, then realised I wasn’t taking the singles into account, which wasn’t fair. ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ kind of towers over the rest of the Crowded House debut, so it shouldn’t be discounted.
The two acts I struggle with the most with single overplay are Queen and U2 – the first two songs on News of the World and the first three songs of Joshua Tree in particular I’ll often skip, but I think both of those albums are very solid otherwise. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ has lost impact for me too, but it’s a key track for Queen.
I have a friend who wouldn’t listen to The Beatles, once claiming that they were overrated and that he preferred The Monkees. His explanation was that he was overexposed to Beatles songs when he was younger and didn’t need to hear them anymore. At this point it’s probably been 35 years since he played anything by them, which makes me think that they would sound pretty fresh to him. But he’s clung to that opinion for so long that I don’t think he’ll budge. Just because a song is overexposed doesn’t mean its impact should be forgotten.
U2 is a great example. I was already a huge fan when The Joshua Tree was released, and overplayed that record all by myself throughout my junior & senior years of college. I don’t play it (or most of their discography) much anymore, but I still regard it as a pivotal album in my life and would rank it among their Top 3 or 4, especially for newcomers. Maybe “worst to best” should really be “least favorite to most favorite” or “least played to most played.”
bitsandpisces says:
I overdid the Rolling Stones & Dylan totally
I did! At first I sure did not think it was about his cat.
The top 3 are (deservingly) on the 1001 – nice to see a later record (innuendo) crack the top 5!
Innuendo is a weird album to rank – some of their best stuff, but quite a bit of filler.
The pre Queen group Smile makes for interesting reading & i think i undervalued Queen. I once saw them emerge from a central Dublin hotel on route to the RDS venue. Very hip & very chic.
I have heard some of the Smile stuff, but not for ages.
Very little of it re material
May & Mercury differed on musical direction
I generally like May throughout Queen- I think he was pretty consistent, even on their weaker albums. While Mercury shone brightest on their early albums, I think.
Roger is undervalued
I don’t love him as a drummer, but as a high harmony singer and as a songwriter he was very useful. I guess Mercury and May were the most distinctive and prolific but the rhythm section contributed a lot too.
Fully agree & his drumming was a flaw
Daddydinorawk says:
I agree with your top 4. Not necessarily in that order, but those 4 are clearly the bands best, most cohesive works( pun non-intendre)
The Miracle is the dark horse. Always liked that album.
I actually think I was a little controversially high rating The Miracle at #11. A lot of people hate it, but I think it brings back the classic Queen sound – ‘I Want It All’ and the title track are nice and pompous.
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The Walton Hop and Operation Ravine.
by Anna Raccoon on October 5, 2015
When the Walton Hop opened its doors in the Surrey countryside of 1958 it would scarcely have been described as a ‘teen disco’ – too few people would have understood the meaning. ‘Teenagers’ had barely been discovered, indeed the word was first used in the previous year by an American rock idol – Bill Haley – to describe the war babies who had just reached their ‘teen years’ with more pocket money and freedom to spend on clothes and records than their parents had ever envisaged.
The music business was as fledgling as the dot.com business was in a later decade – and attracted those who were quick off the mark to find a new and exciting way of earning a living. Who wanted to follow their father’s footsteps to a life as a clerk in a shipping office when you could wear what you want, get out of bed late and earn money in the music business? Even the Riki Tik club in Windsor, which kick started the career of many famous artists, was not to open its door for another 4 years.
In 1958, the ‘Hop’ was probably the first place in the country where you could go and listen to the ‘new’ music. Scarcely surprising that is should have attracted so many music industry figures, nor so many teenagers – though viewed through the prism of near 60 years hindsight, there must be a lot of people around who reading of the Walton Hop, and alleged sexual attacks on teenagers, imagine that the music industry figures were only attracted to that club because of the teenagers. Truth is, there wasn’t anywhere else for either teenagers or music industry employees.
Suddenly we were the most fashionable age group in the world. While once we’d been called war babies and raised on rationing and the Welfare State, overnight we were reclassified by advertisers as that bouncing new modern generation – teenagers.
In the late Fifties, the newspapers were full of us. We were, they said, uncouth, rebellious and sex mad, the clothes we wore were loud, and the raucous music we listened to was certain to lead us into something called “moral turpitude”.
The music industry attracted a lot of individuals who were homosexual; like the fashion business, hairdressing, the theatre – it allowed you to express your personality and not force yourself into the standard ‘short back and sides’ and John Collier suit that the shipping office required. Kenny Everett, Chris Denning, Paul Gambaccini, Tam Paton, Brian Epstein, Jonathan King. Being homosexual doesn’t equate to being a paedophile. Nor does having a flamboyant personality and long hair in more conservative times (1960) equate to being homosexual. The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, John Mansfield of the Rikki Tik club. It does make you an object of some concern to the deeply conservative forces of law and order.
So it was that in 2000, 40 years after the Walton Hop first opened its doors, that Surrey Police launched Operation Arundel to look closely at some of the relationships that had been formed between teenagers above the age of consent at the time, and assaults against those who may have been below the age of consent – though where homosexual activity had taken place, there was no age of consent in 1960, homosexual acts were strictly illegal – therefore absolutely no point in worrying about the age of your partner.
The first arrests Surrey Police made in 2000 were of Paul Weller and Mick Hucknall. Neither involved children, nor homosexual activity. So much for Operation Arundel investigating a ‘gay paedophile ring’. Both men were exonerated, and released with no charge, though not before their reputations had been trashed by their arrest being leaked by Surrey Police to the world wide media.
It was to prove the beginning of Surrey Police’s ‘Stars in their Eyes’ panto season.
By 2003, they had marched into a Birmingham theatre – and with positively ‘theatrical’ flourish – had arrested ‘national treasure’ Matthew Kelly playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan. On the uncorroborated ‘evidence’ of one man who claimed Matthew had molested him 30 years beforehand. The media loved it; sadly all that publicity only damaged Matthew’s career – the police were unable to find anyone to corroborate their ‘victim’s’ allegation. Matthew only had to wait five weeks to be exonerated and released without charge – current victims of the various ‘Operations’ would be grateful for a mere five months.
However, the five weeks was long enough for ‘senior officers’ to ‘act on a tip off from a British journalist’ and fly to Sri Lanka, to Kelly’s holiday home, and there to seize 54 videos and one o’ they new fangled computers… the videos proved to be of such degenerate viewing as “Mary Poppins” and “the Hunchback of Notre Dame”. Did Police Officers receive suitable counselling after having to trawl through this material?
They arrested Jimmy Pursey for ‘forcibly kissing a 16 year old girl‘ in a Weybridge newsagent. Not even underage, and a girl to boot – Pursey accepted a police caution for the act, but even so, rumours of paedophilia have haunted him ever since from those who have never bothered to look up the original charge.
Finally a ‘big fish’, Chris Denning, and amongst media leaks that he had been seen at the Walton Hop, there was excitement that perhaps the ‘gay paedophile ring’ had been busted. It had, in a way, but in Czechoslovakia rather than humble Walton.
Life continued to get embarrassing for Chief Inspector Brian Marjoram, in charge of Operation Arundel – he was moved to the Milly Dowler inquiry as a reward for his ‘performance’ on Arundel. Sadly, officers on the Surrey force, under Marjoram’s directions, called on Levi Bellfield on several occasions – but gave up when he failed to answer the door. Whilst the Surrey squad were pursuing their interest in gay celebrities, Bellfield murdered two further girls, Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, and Kate Sheedy narrowly escaped the same fate. It was not until Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, from the Metropolitan Police, not Surrey, took over the squad that Bellfield was finally arrested – he would have been charged with the attempted abduction of 11 year old Rachel Cowles, but ‘leaks from Surrey Police to the media’ had resulted in prejudicial material being published and those charges had to be dropped.
One of the most oft quoted ‘successes’ of Operation Arundel, was the arrest and conviction of Jonathan King in 2001. King was certainly convicted of homosexual acts with young men under the varied ages of consent. He certainly visited the Walton Hop on many occasions. The curious thing is that he was acquitted of all the charges relating to boys claiming that they had been groomed and assaulted by King as a result of attending the Walton Hop – the charges he was found guilty of had nothing to do with the place.
For all the noise and column inches generated by Operation Arundel – it only resulted in three charges and convictions for ‘serious sexual offences’. It is not clear whether this statement relates to King’s convictions, which of course were not ‘Walton Hop’ offences, or whether there were others unreported, because they were not news worthy.
As a result of Operation Yewtree, which also netted a number of ‘I was assaulted at Walton Hop’ allegations, Merseyside Police opened an investigation into whether Surrey Police had correctly investigated Walton Hop in the first place.
This in turn has led to the setting up of Operation Ravine which is following up intelligence received but not acted upon regarding Operation Arundel. It remains to be seen whether such intelligence will amount to anything or not. The media so obfuscate every report, that it is impossible to tell at present if the intelligence turned out to be an anonymous letter saying ‘Ere, there’s loads of poofters and nonces at that Walton Hop’ which may be a heartfelt opinion, but is scarcely evidence likely to lead to a conviction.
Last December, Chris Denning was jailed for 13 years at Southwark Crown Court, for sexually assaulting 24 boys – some as young as 10 years old – between 1967 and 1987.
Prosecutor Neil Moore said at the 73-year-old’s sentencing that some victims claimed they were abused up to 60 times, and that Denning found them at skateparks, youth centres and discos such as the Walton Hop.
…and at disco’s such as the Walton Hop…between 1967 and 1987, when such a thing as an age of consent for homosexual behaviour first came into being.
Denning is obviously a prolific offender with a particular interest in young boys – young boys, even ones who manage to find themselves abused by the same man 60 times and wait 40 years before complaining, do deserve to be protected from predatory sex offenders. They are still children, no matter that they may have appeared to be enthusiastically assaulted. It is for adults to restrain themselves, not children, to obey the law.
Without having sight of the full case transcript, it is impossible to tell whether any of the charges in respect of which Denning was convicted actually relate to offences carried out at the Walton Hop – or whether the word itself is being used as shorthand to conjure up a picture of a mythical predatory paedophile gang of homosexual monsters for the benefit of the media.
Much as the one known occasion when Ray Teret drove Savile’s motor caravan to Jersey for him came to be shortened to the ubiquitous ‘Savile’s chauffeur’ and used to ensure that Teret’s conviction became the proxy conviction for all Savile’s alleged crimes.
Curiously, there are so many ex-teenagers with happy memories of the Walton Hop, over 1,000 of them, that they still have an annual reunion to this day. Next one is January 23rd next year.
Rumour has it that Chris Denning accepted all the charges due to being destitute and in very poor health – but it’s curious and perhaps a sign of these “enlightened” times that he received half the sentence of the heterosexual Ray Teret, who still maintains his innocence and was acquitted of over half of the mountain of pernicious charges against him. Ray’s “victims” even took to firing out messages to strangers on Facebook – here’s one of the charming stars of BBC Two’s “The Detectives” addressing me for daring to wish him a Happy New 2014:
Ellie Moorcroft
What makes you think Ray Teret will have anything to celebrate at the end of 2014?
Anna Raccoon
I think Arundel and Ravine may prove to be even more bizarre than Midland.
Hysteric chrono-correction?
In 1944, US Philadelphia media magnate Walt Anennberg (later US Ambassador to UK under rabid Right Pres RayGun) launched ‘Seventeen’ mag, and WFIL-Radio & TV ‘Bandstand’ in Rockin ’52. Rocked in Rockin ’56, then become ‘American Bandstand’ by, er, a D.J. KidSeX scandal! Involving young teen gals (quell surprise), prompting tough Sth Philly punks to quip that his license plate number was, ‘R U 13’!
While serving as Editor and Publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Annenberg saw the need for a publication for teenage girls and, in 1944, established Seventeen magazine. In 1953, as a result of his belief that television’s growth would create a demand for more information on the part of viewers, he established TV Guide as a national publication. Under Mr. Annenberg’s leadership, Triangle Publications bought a radio station in the early 1940’s in Philadelphia and built a VHF television station which was one of the first television stations owned by a publishing house. The radio-TV division of Triangle grew to include six AM and six FM radio stations and six TV stations. The Philadelphia station pioneered a number of broadcasting concepts among which was Mr. Annenberg’s decision to use television to present a series of educational programs that ran for more than a decade. In 1951, Mr. Annenberg became an early awardee of the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont Award for pioneering education via television. He was also given the Marshall Field Award in 1958. In 1983, he received the Ralph Lowell Medal for his “outstanding contribution to public television.”
http://www.annenbergfoundation.org/board-of-directors/walter-annenberg
I do think that at the heart of *all this* is old-fashioned homophobia, these things not having gone away but can no longer speak their name ‘in plain sight’. In the interests of ‘equality’ they’ve rolled it out to apply to all men, and to make amends made sure the penalties are geared higher towards ‘the straights’ who “offend” against the female of the species – but the prejudice no-one is allowed to voice any more is never far below the surface of this witch hunt, whatever the ‘operation’ – perhaps going 50-50 with the middle-class leftie ‘punk prejudice’ I’ve highlighted before that means pre-punk entertainers & right-leaning and/or Jewish politicians are top of the list.
Here’s a reference to ‘teenagers’ from 1956:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q96ylFiQK_I
Way off topic, I love song and video though….
Joe Public
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap didn’t mince words …….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJFVPxBpezk
Joe Public,
He doesn’t say how old this young girl is, she could be 19 and him 30 for all I know, so just a ‘young girl’ to him. Perhaps a friends sister or daughter….
I never heard anyone try and read too much into that song until fairly recently, it was covered by Darren Day in 1996….
Not so ‘off topic’ Anon, this topic is timeless!
Ur Rockin ’56 sensational Frankie Lymon clip was just 2-years before his successor Pop pedo scandalised Michael Jackson was born.
And lil teen BIG Hit Frankie, 13, was also notorious as a proactive aMused non-victim ‘Adultophile’ shaggin’ a 20-something fancy dame. Plus brazenly smokin’ BIG cigars while strollin’ down London’s Palladium backstage hallowed halls. Yeah he died too young of illegal substances in Swingin ’65, but hey – that’s SeX Drugs Rock n’ Roll?
Today’s low dishonest era in denial, for careers/ratings/profit et al deviously masked by Mass Deception, as ‘Child Protection’, just can’t grasp the fact that natural instincts kick in WAY before inhuman crap laws do.
Eccentric,
You know a lot more about Frankie Lymon than do, I saw a film about him not so long ago though.
I really like the song and the performance though. He seems much more confident than Micheal Jackson, which I put down to Frankie starting his career when he was a bit older, becoming well known at 13, rather than 9 or 10 like Michael Jackson, and it not taking over his whole life, like being famous and the Jackson 5 did with Micheal Jackson. So he’d had bit of a life before, and outside the band, and before he became well known, so a far less sheltered life, which I think Micheal Jackson often complained about having had….
Slightly off-topic, but the following article may be of interest:
“A shaking of belief: victims and impartial investigation”
http://www.police-foundation.org.uk/news/182/23/A-shaking-of-belief/d,Blog-main
What a brilliant and well informed article. Breath of fresh air.
Somebody posted a link on Twitter – I forget who, I’m afraid – and I clicked without any great expectation (given the destination). I was very pleasantly surprised! It’s a shame it’s not appearing in the ‘real’ press – great writing & clarity.
The Blocked Dwarf
That was indeed worth the read, thanks Bandini.
Tom O’Carroll
Shame this otherwise excellent piece is marred by an out-of-character surrender to popular prejudice when Ms Raccoon pronounces judgement on my old friend Chris Denning.
He is described as a “predatory sex offender”. But what does this mean? “Predatory” is a tabloidism unworthy of this esteemed blog. It implies a beast that attacks and kills, with utter disregard for its victims. The Chris Denning I remember is a kind, pleasant, humorous guy who wouldn’t hurt a fly, much less a child.
As for being a “sex offender”, as you point out yourself, Anna, so was every active gay man not so long ago. To use that as a condemnation is to beg the question. If you are going to say that sex with willing children is wrong it is not sufficient to assume the truth of your assertion based solely on the fact that there is an offence in law. What if the law is not justified?
As you have in effect admitted, Chris’s so-called victims (some of them pre-teen) were plainly willing and active participants at the time. Where is the harm in what happened between them other than that generated by our culture’s savage reaction? – a reaction that can and should change, as it has for gays.
You are simply parroting the chorus of those who are terrified to subject the supposedly “moral” foundations of society to scrutiny lest they are seen to be held in place by nothing but relentless blasts of hot air.
In reply to Chris above, Chris Denning was indeed destitute and in poor health.
JuliaM
“If you are going to say that sex with willing children is wrong…”
‘If’..?!?
I think she has on numerous occasions.
It’s not just a man made law though, it’s not in keeping with nature either and is potentially physically dangerous. That’s all i’m saying.
Esther Rantson
Just over 100 years ago the age of heterosexual consent to sex in the UK was 12.
Esther Rantson,
I heard it was 12 for girls and 14 for boys, probably because 12 is when the average girl starts her period, and so could potentially get pregnant (I think it was more to do with marriage), there’s usually still a bit of growing for girls to do after 12 though, and boys usually start puberty a bit later and finish a lot later than girls.
This guy was talking about sex with ‘pre teens’ though, 12 is technically ‘pre teen’ with still some growing to do for girls, and probably a massive amount of growing still to do for boys, but I wasn’t sure he was just talking about ‘pre teens’ over the age of 12…. :/
The age of consent for heterosexual acts in England was set at 12 in 1275 during the reign of Edward I.
A concern that young girls were being sold into brothels led Parliament to raise the age of consent to 13 in 1875 under the Offences against the Person Act 1875. After W. T. Stead’s Maiden Tribute articles, the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 raised the age of consent to 16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#History_29
I think I read somewhere that the minimum age for marriage was 12 for girls, 14 for boys, the ‘common law age of puberty’, e.g probably means when a boy and girl where typically expected to become fertile.
You can see from your link Wales had that law, but no age of consent law as such, this was probably the law in Scotland too, but that particular page seems to mainly be referring to the law regarding sex/marriage for girls, rather than both girls and boys….
You are simply parroting the chorus
TC, I get you feel that AR was being unfair to your friend, and your criticism of her using the word ‘predatory’ may be justified ( I don’t know CD). But I feel you owe the Landlady an apology for the above. You know damn well that she never ‘polly-wants-a-cracker’ anything.
Petunia Winegum
‘Chris’s so-called victims (some of them pre-teen) were plainly willing and active participants at the time’. Do you really believe a pre-teen is emotionally mature enough to consent to sexual activity? It matters not if the activity is hetero or homosexual; any adult who indulges with a pre-teen is expoiting their immaturity and should know better. A boy or girl 24 hours away from their 16th birthday is a different kettle of fish, but 11/12? Sorry, but that’s just plain wrong.
In some countries the age of sexual consent is 10 years or even less. Does that mean those countries are wrong?
In my opinon, yeah. Personally, I think the infantilisation of teenagers today warrants the age of consent being raised, not lowered. 21 should be about right.
Perhaps the case is that in countries like Italy & Spain and so on which have a much lower age of consent, the general public have a far more mature attitude about sex which is passed on to their own children.
Having now lived in Australia for a number of years I recall how weirdly obsessed Britain is with sex, especially pre-teen sex. While not a subject that interests me I always felt very uncomfortable with the British tabloid’s obsession with sex and especially with illicit sex. In a country like Oz where half the population is either born in the UK (about 1 & half million) or their parents were, this obsession seems absent. I seriously put this down to people having a far more active outdoor life, sunshine and so on. That may sound simple but I believe it is a definite reason because people have so many more opportunities for physical activity and less time for introspection.
Of my mini surveys of the Brits I do meet, most are disinterested in the current UK ‘Operations’, most seem to think the Savile claims are hugely exaggerated or are about compensation (given that the cost of living in Oz is far less & you get more bang for your buck, another reason so many Brits seemed consumed by ‘pedo panics’ in the UK) and the sympathy seems to be mostly with the harried celebrities and indeed I think the media & police have totally underestimated the huge respect there is for Cliff Richard which seems to be one Yewtree too far.
Perhaps that’s why Rupert Murdoch eyed the News of The World and The Sun as his prizes and understood that the British appetite for illicit sex tales is unlimited. And the same seems to go, more or less, for the USA.
Sorry, Petunia, but with our legal system the way it is, how many more hysterical court cases do you think you will see by raising the age of consent? The answer surely is to confront infantilisation?
Tongue was nestling in cheek there, Windsock. It’s an alternative to fighting a losing battle against those whose opinions are set in stone.
Oops! Too subtle for me!
I think you’ll find that I described Denning as a ‘prolific offender’.
It might not be your position that the law is to be upheld even if you disagree with it – but it is mine.
Whilst I would also welcome a debate on the age of consent, and would not be adverse to it being raised as it happens, I would never advocate that the law be broken simply because some feel that the debate should have been held earlier. The debate is overdue, 100 years overdue.
Some children may not be harmed by early sexual experience – the number of people who have gone on to have happy marriages to their ‘first’ boyfriend at age even 12 is testament to that, but that doesn’t mean that no children are harmed by such an experience, context is all – and the law is there to protect them all. It should be obeyed.
You think I parrot a ‘terrified chorus’ – really? I can tell you – its a bloody lonely business being such a parrot.
So you did- I have just checked-and that means ToC probably did what I did when I first read the article, his ‘eye’ turned ‘prolific’ into ‘predatory’ (which is in the next sentence). There is a word for that, can’t recall what but the scribes and monks of the Middle Ages had a hell of a problem with it. Turning a ‘surfeit of lampreys’ into an excess of eating ponies on one occaision (Gildas?). ToC’s posts are usually so well reasoned and well written that he has me reaching for dictionary.com, however this comment of his screams ‘upset on a friend’s behalf’ and I’m guessing he pressed ‘send’ far quicker than he normally might.
>…this comment of his screams ‘upset on a friend’s behalf’ and I’m guessing he pressed ‘send’ far quicker than he normally might.
Yes, BD, you are right. Thank you for your very generous interpretation.
This is what Ms Raccoon wrote:
“Denning is obviously a prolific offender with a particular interest in young boys – young boys, even ones who manage to find themselves abused by the same man 60 times and wait 40 years before complaining, do deserve to be protected from predatory sex offenders.”
The fact that the word “prolific”, as an intensifier of “offender”, is in there along with “predatory” seems merely to compound the prejudicial effect. The implication – unless Anna cares to repudiate it – appears to be that Chris was both prolific AND predatory.
Anna also said:
“…that doesn’t mean that no children are harmed by such an experience, context is all – and the law is there to protect them all. It should be obeyed.”
Children are definitely harmed by the fallout from engagement in forbidden activity, including the often hysterical reaction of parents when they find out and the heavy ordeal of the legal process. So, yes, while the law is as it is, it should be obeyed. Predictably, though, it won’t be, despite a rising tide of ever more frantically savage punishments, surveillance and media hostility. This is the wrong direction, folks. It is just making everyone nastier and harming kids in the process.
I suppose the average blokes who go to the pub or disco on a Saturday hoping to pick up a lady could be considered predatory (and the females as well) and indeed, all those Sun Sex & Suspicious Parents lot invading the Med are predatory. It’s probably the appropriate word to use but stands out in this article when really, it’s part of the nature of most teenagers and young adults to be predatory and this fact is a part of being a human being.
The word stands out as it is mis-used so many times especially by the media as a form of insult.
But really, is there noting more predatory that Britain’s tabloid media? I think not.
Thank you for your very generous interpretation.
Da nada.
The fact that the word “prolific”, as an intensifier of “offender”, is in there along with “predatory” seems merely to compound the prejudicial effect
Far be it from me to interpolate upon anything the Landlady has written but I think you missed the trenchant wit of her comment . That whole ‘manage to find themselves abused by the same man 60 times and wait 40 years before complaining,’ reads to me as a typical Raccoonism, her ‘jaundiced’ view. But that’s just my interpretation and may well be wrong.
And as to the Age Of Consent personally I find the idea (used I think in some European countries) of a rolling AoC or what I think some US states call ‘Romeo & Juliet’. From the age of , say, 12 a child may indulge in sexual activity with someone who themselves is under 16. From age 14 with someone under the age of 17, from 15 under the age of 18 and at 16 with anyone under the age of 21,@17 then 25 until finally at age 18 there are no restrictions.
Mind you I see some virtue in raising the AoC to 21…or even 25….seeing the damage all those teenage fumblings resulted in (and i’m not talking about pregnancies). It is a sad fact of our existence that our bodies develop far quicker than our souls….no doubt for good evolutionary reasons.
The Blocked Dwarf,
If you’re gonna pick an age of consent by mental maturity I think it would have to be at least 40.
I’m sure most people would make better parents after 40, would only leave a very small window for having children though….
As part of the block of sessions we had on law during my college training, once of the subjects we covered was which laws are enforced and why do some fall by the wayside? One of the reasons given was that mass flouting of the law by the populace resulted in specific laws being seen as risible and therefore not enforced.
I had my first sexual experience with another man in 1976 when I was 18 and he was 27. Do you think he should have been prosecuted even though I entered into that liaison willingly although it was illegal for him to do so?
Windsock,
Re: “I had my first sexual experience with another man in 1976 when I was 18 and he was 27. Do you think he should have been prosecuted even though I entered into that liaison willingly although it was illegal for him to do so?”
No, as even though the age of consent for homosexual men was 21 at the time 18 was still considered a legal adult at the time, or was it? Was it 21? I don’t know?
That’s the problem if you say someone is a legal adult at 18 capable of making their own decisions, what’s the point in putting restrictions above that age? It’s been lowered to 16 now so I don’t think he’d be at risk of prosecution anymore.
Over 18 and 21 or even 30, you might be an adult capable of making your own decisions for the most part, but quite often still make mistakes and the wrong ones. I don’t think there is a magic age where we all become wise and incapable of making mistakes, we learn from out mistakes and learn from experience….
I’m now 57. I’m not sure even now about the value of some of my decisions…
Well let me reassure you that your decision to post here today was the right one.
Tom, I tried seeking an explanation from you for what seem to be contradictory beliefs – that supplying a child with alcohol & cigarettes is wrong but engaging them in sexual activity is not – here:
https://annaraccoon.com/2015/08/16/parish-notice-5/#comment-125088
You didn’t reply, but I’d still be interested to hear how you rationalize this.
As in THAT case (Charles Napier – your friend), that of Richard Alston & the present one we have men who you state would never hurt a fly and yet they all seemed to have little interest in the ‘intellectual paedophilia’ of poetry & grapes and rather more interest in jazz mags, sherbet dib-dabs, mucky videos, booze, fags & even drugs:
“He [Denning] offered them cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, bought them gifts and gave them money. He gave them access to pornographic material and gave them the means to do what they wanted in order to groom them.”
Presumably you will once again condemn the bribery but not the behaviour these men were only able to engage in thanks to the same. The logic escapes me.
I dare say that a 10-year old could be enticed in to being what YOU might term a “willing and active participant” in all manner of activities if, for example, he or she were first given a taste of sweet cocaine – with a promise of another junior-line on subsequent visits. But it wouldn’t be right. In fact, it would be wrong.
James E Shaw
I think it’s worth pointing out that Tom O’Carroll is a former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange and it is no surprise he is expressing deeply misguided views on this website.
Of course we need to accept that there are grey areas regarding the issue of paedophilia but grooming pre-pubescent children for sex, as Denning did, is plain wrong and deeply unhealthy for a child’s emotional development.
Just because Denning is a victim of his genetics (many of the studies into the causes of paedophilia do conclude that genetics play a factor, along with childhood experiences) does not excuse his behaviour. Those that abuse children are often incapable of confronting the consequences of their actions unless they accept therapy. The work of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation in this respect has been rightly publicised on this website.
I think it’s worth pointing out that Tom O’Carroll is a former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange
Thank you Captain Obvious
>…plain wrong and deeply unhealthy for a child’s emotional development.
Evidence, James? You may think you have seen truck loads of evidence in the media from heart-rending “victim” testimony. Unfortunately, the story is not so simple. Yes, there are lots of screwed up angry people. However, the background is invariably complicated, with all manner of violence, neglect and other stressful misfortune as a part of the mix. Early sex is often blamed because it is the easy and fashionable thing to point to.
But lots of people, such as gay guys given a hard time as kids by rejecting parents (especially macho fathers) enter a healing process, not a damaging one, when they form an intimate relationship with an adult.
I have met people (and some have become friends) who claim to have been sexually active since as young as six years old by their own choice and who also claim not to have been emotionally or physically harmed by the experience (in one case, I think that is plainly delusional thinking). Despite that, I would still argue that an age of consent should exist – there are those children who enter into sexual activity without realising the consequences nor the importance of the activity, nor the boundaries between consent, coercion and abuse.
Re: “I have met people (and some have become friends) who claim to have been sexually active since as young as six years old by their own choice and who also claim not to have been emotionally or physically harmed by the experience”
I’ve heard far more men than women come out with ‘I lost my virginity on a tennis court when I was 11, and if you don’t believe me, i’ve still got the leaf I found in my arse afterwards to prove it” tales, I used to believe them all uncritically, now I think *some* might have been exaggerating a bit, or a lot to try and ‘impress’ people….
I have no reason to doubt the veracity of these particular people, but I do take your point.
‘I lost my virginity on a tennis court when I was 11,
I lost my virginity in Wales …on a welsh farm somewhere with far too many ‘L’s in it’s name…and I shall stop there so not as to put the lunchtime guests off their croques and anchovy pizzas.
King as a result of attending the Walton Hop – the charges he was found guilty of had nothing to do with the place.
That little fact still leaves me gobsmacked. Next you’ll be telling us that there was never any Ritual Satanic Abuse in Cleveland. Wasn’t King supposed to have groomed the entire teenage population of Esher & Walton? 10,000 or something? As every watcher of any TV murder mysteries knows, when all the witnesses are singing from the same song sheet then there is a conspiracy afoot to convict an innocent man and I begin to wonder if, anyone with all the aesthetic charm of a Spitting Image puppet (sorry JK but you know you’ve been batting way way above your average for your entire life), ever managed to groom one boy let alone having hundreds queueing up to bend over the bonnet of his TR7. Now there’s a crime worthy of jail time-have you seen what jeans’ zips and rivets will do to a TR7’s paint job?
It says much about the man that he hasn’t become an embittered recluse, with only rottweilers for company and a razor wire fence around his Island Hideway but has remained the sort of man whose friendship is valued.
Mudplugger
Better a TR7 than a Triumph Spitfire – the latter had individual raised chrome letters spelling T R I U M P H all across the front of the bonnet which, depending on your approach, could leave some long-lasting mirror-image letters embossed across the bare buttocks or belly of the lucky recipient – the completeness of the word varying, depending on the girth of the victim.
(I won’t admit how I know that, suffice to say that she wasn’t too happy with the resultant indentations).
she wasn’t too happy with the resultant indentations
The poor girl’s version of ‘she got the Mercedes bends‘
There is so much evidence that ‘pedo panic’ has replaced gay panic and this is demonstrated that society still views an older man with a much younger male partner (even when they are both legally aged) as almost a perversion or that the older is a ‘predator’.
Yet an older bloke doing the same with a younger lady- Rupert Murdoch?- is hardly blinked at and when it’s a far older bloke – Hugh hefner – he’s promoted by the media as an heroic stud to be admired.
I reminded of this by a long time pair of friends. The older by 25 years was a senior media executive in Australia who kept his relationship with the young merchant seaman he met on a voyage and who came to live with him, a secret. Now the older is in his 90s after nearly 40 years together, is suffering dementia while the younger, now a senior citizen in his 60s is caring for him and at the same time, battling with the older’s relatives who see the younger as a ‘predator’ hoping to keep the family home they have lived in together for decades.
Empathy for all TRUE victims.
But, if the honorably uninformed millions were the honored Cilla and millions more unsung NON-victims, they’d have a whole new pedo point of view. Perhaps crystalized thus, “If U don’t know it, don’t knock it!”
“I actually wasn’t 16, I was only fourteen!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjakDTNOztE
“He was a great kisser…the younger you were the better.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlI2RKNGnLU
And, quote Rock God Good Pedo Presley’s BIG buddy BIG Johnny Cash, “A Boy Named Sue…ah came away with a different point of view.”
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Susan (Sue) Clemmer Steiner is a spiritual director and retired pastor from Kitchener, Ontario.
She grew up on W. Chestnut St., Souderton, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Lester M. and Martha M. Clemmer [nee Derstine]. The three institutions which nurtured her early life were Souderton Mennonite Church at the end of the block, Souderton Elementary Schools in the next block, and the Moyer & Son feedmill in the center of town, owned by her family.
Later three Mennonite schools influenced her greatly. She graduated from Christopher Dock Mennonite High School [now Dock Academy] near Lansdale, PA.; Goshen College in Goshen, IN; and Associated [now Anabaptist] Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) in Elkhart, IN.
Sue has spent her adult years in Kitchener-Waterloo, ON., to which she came to marry Sam Steiner, a Mennonite draft resister in the Vietnam War era. After buying books for the church-owned Provident Bookstores in Kitchener and London, ON. for ten years, she felt the call to go to seminary.
Sue has served as a pastor at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church and Waterloo North Mennonite Church, as well as being an interim pastor at four other Ontario churches. In retirement, she along with her husband Sam, are active members of Rockway Mennonite Church in Kitchener.
Sue received her training as a spiritual director from Shalem Institute near Washington. D.C., with additional seminars through AMBS. She is a partner in the Mennonite Spiritual Directors of Eastern Canada (MSDEC).
She gives thanks for the many persons, places and experiences which have nourished her soul these past 70 years, and continue to do so.
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Bacon & Karr
Bacon & Raven (also listed as Raven & Bacon) was part of one of the oldest and most historical American piano manufacturers. Originally started in 1789 by the famous business tycoon John Jacob Astor along with piano makers Robert Stodart and William Dubois, the firm was originally known as Dubois & Stodart until 1836. In 1836, Stodart retired and George Bacon joined the firm. In 1841, Dubois left the firm and Bacon was joined by brothers Richard & Thomas Raven, and the firm’s name was changed to Bacon & Raven.
After the death of George Bacon in 1855, his son Francis Bacon joined the firm and the name of the firm was changed to Raven, Bacon & Company. In 1862 the name of the firm was again changed to simply “Raven & Bacon”. In 1872, Richard M. Raven died and the firm was taken over by Thomas Raven at which time the name of the firm was changed to Raven & Company. In 1878, Thomas Raven left the firm and the name of the company was changed to “Raven Piano Works”. Raven Piano Works was out of business before 1890. In 1871, Karr joined the firm and the name was changed to Bacon & Karr.
In 1904, the firm was incorporated as the Francis Bacon Piano Company. Francis Bacon continued building pianos with great success until the 1920’s era when the firm was absorbed into industrial giant Kohler & Campbell. Kohler & Campbell continued building the Francis Bacon name until 1934.
19th Century Bacon & Karr
19th Century Advertisement for Bacon & Karr Piano Company, Circa About 1875
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Leveraging Large Scale Development for Equity and Sustainability?
September 10, 2013 / Lizzy Mattiuzzi
The Oakland waterfront redevelopment project called Oak to Ninth is back in the news after Governor Brown and Mayor Quan recently secured $1.5 billion in funding from a Chinese investment company. The Oakland’s City Council approved the project and a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) in 2006, but the developer, Signature Properties, never broke ground due to the recession. In 2011, city officials even tried (and failed) to attract the planned satellite campus of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to the site. Now, the development is proceeding with a new name: Brooklyn Basin.
Like fees and exactions, CBAs represent a developer’s contribution to the local community as a condition of receiving public subsidies and permits. Going beyond baseline payments for infrastructure such as roads and schools, CBA campaigns can target affordable housing and workforce development, among other local needs. They can involve diverse stakeholders, as well as more immediate input from the public than fees and exactions, which may be assessed automatically.
Oak to Ninth put equity advocates and the developer in an unlikely alliance. Once the City and the developer had signed a development agreement that included community benefits and enforcement provisions, community groups came out to planning meetings to support the project. This placed them at odds with environmentalists, intent on maintaining an earlier agreement with the city that created a greater amount of public open space from the former industrial site, as well as historic preservationists who wanted the whole Ninth Street Terminal, not part of it, restored.
Site of Brooklyn Basin, the project formerly known as Oak to Ninth (Google, Europa Technologies, TerraMetrics 2007)
Today, Plan Bay Area and other efforts to promote smart growth in the region suggest that environmental and social justice groups are much less at odds with each other. This is partly due to a greater aligning of goals between environmental groups and organizations focused on social justice and community development. The former have focused their agenda more on urban issues, in addition to wildlife preservation outside cities. The latter have focused on health and opportunities in the green economy. Both have come together around the uneven impacts of climate change.
With Oak to Ninth-Brooklyn Basin and its accompanying CBA looking set to move forward again, it’s worth checking in with the overall concept of community benefits. In the time that Oak to Ninth lay dormant, CBAs were tested, shown to have some fundamental weaknesses, and improved upon. The foreclosure crisis and a new drive to link sustainability with housing and land use under Plan Bay Area provide a different backdrop for the project than the pre-recession real estate market did.
At 30 acres, Brooklyn Basin is small compared to other large-scale infill projects such as the Railyards in Sacramento (240 acres), the future terminus of California’s high-speed rail line, or the Brooklyn Navy Yards in New York (300 acres). Yet Brooklyn Basin will be significant for reconnecting Oakland neighborhoods south of Downtown with the waterfront. The site borders Chinatown, Lower San Antonio, and Fruitvale, where there are high poverty rates and a need for jobs and affordable housing.
Brooklyn Basin plaN (Signature Properties 2013, http://www.brooklynbasin.com/images/sitemap.jpg)
In the seven years since the Oak to Ninth project approval and CBA campaign, Oakland has experienced high foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, and social movements targeting income and housing inequality, such as Occupy Oakland. Developer funding for job training programs and affordable housing stalled along with the Oak to Ninth project. However, as soon as the first building permit is issued on the multi-year project, $1 million will be divided among several Oakland job-training programs, with another $325,000 specifically for job training in Chinatown, Fruitvale and Lower San Antonio. In terms of housing, 465 affordable units will be built onsite-- about 17 percent of a total 2,765 units.
Oak to Ninth was approved at a time when CBAs were becoming a popular tool for equity advocates. CBAs provide a political rallying point for sharing the benefits of publicly funded projects, rather than simply halting them. The Staples Center CBA (2001) is considered an early model for community groups to negotiate for first source hiring, living wage, and affordable housing when large public subsidies for development are at stake. Yet CBAs can also reflect broader power imbalances. Who represents the “community” can come up for debate, as it did with the Atlantic Yards CBA (2005).
The Oak to Ninth CBA was grassroots-driven. A group of labor, neighborhood, faith-based and equity advocates were among the coalition members who created political pressure for the City of Oakland to approve the development agreement that codifies the CBA. The City of Oakland, eager to attract development, was a reluctant partner in the CBA, but eventually signed a development agreement that is binding for both the City and the developer. Among the agreement’s safeguards are payroll reporting by contractors and financial penalties if targets are not met.
The local hiring provisions of the CBA are designed to help Oakland workers without significant previous experience break into the construction trades. It does this by requiring that six percent of the job hours on individual parcels be carried out by Oakland residents who are new to the construction trade, with an incentive to keep the same workers on the job for the equivalent of 23 full time weeks. Although this is only a small percentage of the site hours, the effect will be that at least a third of the apprenticeships – paid, entry level, career path positions - on each project site will be filled by Oakland residents.
CBAs have become more common since Oak to Ninth, and with more examples have come lessons for their proponents. Enforcement mechanisms are key, and the most effective CBAs provide a stepping-stone to stronger citywide policies on local hiring and affordable housing, rather than project-by-project funding. Although a more comprehensive citywide policy on community benefits has not materialized in Oakland, members of the Oak to Ninth CBA coalition have put the experience they gained to use. In 2012, EBASE helped negotiate a stronger CBA in connection to the redevelopment of the Oakland Army Base. The site will remain industrial, creating construction as well as long term living wage shipping and logistics jobs for Oakland residents and residents of the high unemployment area of West Oakland.
The loss of state funding has complicated local redevelopment, but public funding and permitting of large-scale development remains a leverage point for equity and sustainability advocates. As it moves forward, the Brooklyn Basin project will provide much-needed local investment, but work remains to be done to make housing and employment more equitable in Oakland and in the Bay Area across the board.
Lizzy Mattiuzzi is a doctoral candidate in City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. She studies the politics of sustainable land use, transportation, and community development at the urban and metropolitan scales. She can be reached at emattiuzzi@berkeley.edu.
September 10, 2013 / Lizzy Mattiuzzi/ 2 Comments
Brooklyn Basin, CBA, Community Benefit Agreement, Community Benefits Agreement, Oak to Ninth, Oakland Waterfront, Plan Bay Area, slider
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McCain and Graham praise airstrike against Syrian air force base
By Bryan Renbaum · April 7, 2017 · No comments
Satellite imagery released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows the Shayrat Airfield in Syria, which was targeted by U.S. missile strikes on April 7, 2017.
WASHINGTON- Republicans Senators John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) praised President Donald Trump’s decision to order a cruise missile strike against a Syrian air force base.
“We salute the skill and professionalism of the U.S. Armed Forces who carried out tonight’s strikes in Syria. Acting on the orders of their commander-in-chief, they have sent an important message the United States will no longer stand idly by as Assad, aided and abetted by Putin’s Russia, slaughters innocent Syrians with chemical weapons and barrel bombs,” McCain and Graham said in a joint statement issued Thursday evening shortly after the strikes had begun.
McCain and Graham have both long criticized the Assad regime for its human rights abuses and sponsorship of international terrorism.
About 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from U.S. Naval vessels off the coast of the Mediterranean Sea Thursday evening targeting Shayrat Airfield in western-central Syria. The airfield stored chemical weapons that were used in a recent attack in which almost 100 civilians were killed, President Trump said after the strike.
Nine were killed in the U.S. airstrike and the airfield sustained heavy damage.
Syria has been engulfed in sectarian violence since 2011
The country’s dictator President Bashar-al-Assad has often faced international criticism as a war criminal for resorting to ruthless tactics to stamp out political opposition.
Assad’s power base lies within Syria’s Alawite ethnic minority. The dictator has struggled to maintain power in the face of internal and international pressure to implement political reforms.
Assad’s human rights abuses largely went unchecked for decades because of international concern that terrorist elements would fill the power vacuum if his regime were to collapse.
Russia has provided substantial military aid to Syria since beginning the 1960s when the Middle East became a Cold War battleground with the Soviet Union backing Arab states and the U.S. supporting Israel.
Moscow condemned the U.S. attack, calling it “Trumped-up strike.”
Israel put a dent in Syria’s nuclear program in 2007 with an unexpected airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in the eastern region of the country.
Syria at the time denied that the facility was being used to make weapons grade uranium but the International Atomic Energy Agency later disputed those claims.
The story is reprinted with permission from Talk Media News.
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Couple Adopts Triplets. Soon After They Got A Call From The Hospital That Shook Them To Their Core
Sarah and Andy Justice would admit it themselves – they were desperate to have a family of their own. They’d tried in vain many times before and were starting to get older. They really wanted to have children before they reached middle age. Despite doing everything within their power for Sarah to get pregnant, it just was not working for them – and so they turned to IVF.
However, IVF was far too costly for this humble couple. They didn’t want to shell out the thousands of dollars for a procedure that, for Sarah, had a low success rate giving the troubling concerns the doctors had already laid out for them. That’s when they decided that the best way for them to have a large family was to adopt – so adopt they did.
When the couple was matched with a pregnant woman, they began the adoption process. Sarah and Andy lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and were so pleased that their adoption plans were proceeding perfectly. The woman they met through the adoption agency was eager to put her baby up for adoption after birth, and Andy and Sarah were ready to travel to her to pick up the babies following the completion of the paperwork. Both parties were committed. It was a best-case scenario.
Then things changed. The woman discovered that she was pregnant not with just one baby as Sarah and Andy had thought, but triplets. While this might have been a deal breaker for some couples, Sarah and Andy were thrilled. They always wanted a large family and decided that God was just making up for the lost time by giving them all three babies at once.
Two months earlier than planned, the woman went into labor and had to undergo an emergency C-section to save the babies. That’s when Joel, Hannah, and Elizabeth came into the world. All weighed only three pounds and were in severe danger unless they got state-of-the-art care. Thankfully, the babies were rushed to the hospital’s NICU and had their progress monitored every step of the way.
A week after the triplets were born, Sarah started feeling “strange.” She told Andy she was just getting a cold or something, but when the symptoms did not go away, she scheduled an appointment with her doctor. Thinking it was probably the stress of adopting triplets, she was not expecting. Then the doctor told her the news.
She was pregnant! It was a dream come true for Andy and Sarah. They were having a baby of their own.
When the time came for her 20-week checkup, Sarah was eager to know whether she had a baby girl or boy growing inside her. When the ultrasound technician took a close look at the little one to identify its sex, they had a strange look on their face.
Then she learned that her fate had come running into her life full force.
Sarah called Andy to tell him the news.
“One is a boy,” she said.
“One?” he said dumbfounded. As it turned out, Sarah was pregnant with twins.
The went from having no babies to having five in just about nine months.
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Biohazard, Trauma and Crime Scene Cleanup Services in Clay Center, Kansas
Facts about Clay Center, Kansas
Clay Center is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,334.
Clay Center was first settled in 1862. It was named from its position near the geographical center of Clay County.
The first post office was established in Clay Center on July 3, 1862.
As of the census of 2010, there were 4,334 people, 1,920 households, and 1,172 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,407.1 inhabitants per square mile (543.3/km²). There were 2,158 housing units at an average density of 700.6 per square mile (270.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.9% White, 0.5% African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 1.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.8% of the population.
There were 1,920 households of which 27.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.8% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 39.0% were non-families. 35.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.82.
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Blavity Exclusive: Eric Holder on Airbnb's anti-discrimination policy
Airbnb has been heralded as a brilliant startup for its success in revolutionizing short and long term lodging and disrupting markets worldwide. However, the company's insurmountable success has also been met with numerous amounts of criticism, particularly for the amount of discrimination that occurs on the platform. After Gregory Selden's case, the hashtag, #airbnbwhileblack, and a Harvard study that proved African Americans are less likely to receive bookings on Airbnb, the company realized they had not taken racism and discrimination into account when designing the product
The 32-page report is made up of eight key changes they plan to implement immediately:
Blavity sat down with Holder to discuss his decision to join Airbnb, users' apprehensions about the policy, and his thoughts on the post-election racial climate of the United States.
The New York TimesThe New Yorker.
In the larger scheme of things, I expressed to Holder that conversations around race and tackling discrimination begin to feel elusive during such an overtly racist period in our history, he shared the following words of wisdom and comfort:
millennials, you’re the generation that is soon going to control this country, you’re the future, and you’re crucial to the future of this country.
What are your thoughts on Airbnb's anti-discrimination policy? Share in the comments below.
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Tag Archives: David “Hawk” Wolinski
Programming Highlights; February 18, 2010
Tune in to some great live content today on BlogTalkRadio.
Today at 2 PM EST PI Window on Business chats about how the new show, Undercover Boss with Lawrence O’Donnell III, President and CEO of Waste Management, who is featured on the show getting up close and personal with his employees.
Tonight at 9 PM EST Bottom Line Sports Show welcomes NBA star, from the Golden State Warriors, Raja Bell, to help set the upcoming weekend in sports and take a look at the best college basketball best match-ups.
Also at 9 PM EST Hip Talk Radio welcomes Bad Girls Club cast member Florina to talk about she breaks Albanian Muslim stereotypes on the show and to share her musical talent.
Tonight at 10 PM EST Artists on Demand Radio welcomes musical guest, Broken Sons, an energetic, four piece alternative rock band from Toronto, Ontario, to talk about their music and their live shows.
Tonight at 11 PM EST Night Views welcomes David “Hawk” Wolinski, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer best known for his work with the funk band Rufus and their lead singer Chaka Khan, talks about his career in the music world.
Also at 11 PM EST E3 Radio celebrates the visibility of black LGBT women in film with special guests Faith Trimel, of the coming-of-age dramedy, Family and poet Ifa Bumi.
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bank of moscow
RT : February 17, 2011 1:00pm-1:30pm EST
money may have been used by about two dinner to cover up the debts of a company in teko for recent years both the union about and you to school of moscow's former mayor have been subjected to controversy although neither of them have been found guilty of any illegal activities there's a lot of speculation that you don't want to know who is the russia's richest woman and the only female billion in the country she was able to gain this fortune with the help of her husband's resources as the mayor of moscow her company and also always got the most attractive deals in the city when it comes to its development and what's also interesting is that since i stopped being the mayor of moscow in tech are also stopped getting all these good deals. and her lawyer so deny all the accusations saying that the investigators have absolutely no grounds for such claims even the martin a says that neither she or her company in teko were connected or involved. in any criminal activities and said that these. are pressure on her and her husband meanwhile the investigators are ready to call up everybody in
money may have been used by about two dinner to cover up the debts of a company in teko for recent years both the union about and you to school of moscow's former mayor have been subjected to controversy although neither of them have been found guilty of any illegal activities there's a lot of speculation that you don't want to know who is the russia's richest woman and the only female billion in the country she was able to gain this fortune with the help of her husband's resources as the...
RT : February 17, 2011 8:00am-8:30am EST
. this company development company in teko also an interesting fact is that the dean did the this transaction happened to have been on the same day as another transaction from the government to the bank of a moscow which is actually the fifth largest bank of russia and according to some reports this state money may have been used to cover up. some of the debts of you don't know what in this company. you are this isn't exactly the first time. i've had a brush with. oh absolutely both are you going about that in the end you will have long become subjects' awful controversy since although the haven't actually ever been found guilty of any criminal activities there's a lot of speculation that you know. russia's richest woman and the only female billion year managed to gain her wealth with the high. of the emir of moscow when you deal with the head of the cd and there's a lot of reports that her company always got the most attractive development company projects in town and always was able to somehow. somehow avoid serious competition but actually another interesting fact is since you
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says that neither she or her company in teko were connected or involved in any criminal activities and said that these searchers and this case are pressure on her and her husband meanwhile the investigators say that they're ready to call up everybody in including e.t.l. about doing that for questioning if it isn't. all right r.t.c. group is going to thanks so much. well now let's get to some other international headlines now a series of blasts rocked a military base in tanzania killing at least thirty people it happened near the airport in the country's a larger city. the explosions had started in one arms depot before spreading to others in the camp four thousand people have fled the area and have gathered at the country's national sports stadium a similar accident at another tanzanian facility in two thousand and nine killed three people. tourists were among the twelve people killed when a boat sank in northeastern vietnam the vessel that went down before. it's believed there were twenty foreigners on board now nine people and six crew members have been rescued so far it is the deadl
says that neither she or her company in teko were connected or involved in any criminal activities and said that these searchers and this case are pressure on her and her husband meanwhile the investigators say that they're ready to call up everybody in including e.t.l. about doing that for questioning if it isn't. all right r.t.c. group is going to thanks so much. well now let's get to some other international headlines now a series of blasts rocked a military base in tanzania killing at...
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AN interviews Hamilton set designer David Korins about the show's exhibition
It has already been a busy year for creative director and set designer David Korins. Hamilton: The Exhibition, which Korins served as creative director of, opened on April 27, bringing an immersive 18-room exhibition to Chicago’s Northerly Island; that same week, the stage adaptation of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, with sets designed by Korins, opened in New York on Broadway. Hamilton: The Exhibition dives much deeper into the life and history of Alexander Hamilton, the person, than the stage show (which Korins also designed the set for) and expands on topics that were overlooked in the musical, such as slavery and Hamilton’s legacy after his death. To help guide fans through the exhibition, an audio guide narrated by original cast members Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Phillipa Soo (Elizabeth Schuyler), and Christopher Jackson (George Washington). The show, which is currently staged in a 35,000-square-foot black “hangar,” was designed to be mobile and will eventually pack up and leave for other cities after an undetermined run time in Chicago. The $13.5 million exhibition actually cost $1 million more to open than the musical it’s based on, but much of that owes to the show’s high level of technological integration and attention to detail. Guests can take an interactive tour through famous scenes from Hamilton’s life, engage with games, and even watch a 3D version of the musical’s opening as it was performed in Washington, D.C., with Miranda at the helm. Tickets for Hamilton: The Exhibition are $39.50 for adults and $25 for children. Korins also served as the creative director of Treasures from Chatsworth, a show at the renovated Sotheby’s New York headquarters that will run from June 28 through September 18. Art from the Chatsworth House in England, owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, will be juxtaposed against supersized versions of minute details from the home that could easily be overlooked. AN recently caught up with Korins and asked him to break down how he was able to realize his two most recent projects. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. How did you go about translating a show that works around one set into an exhibit with 18 full exhibition rooms with branching paths and interactive multimedia? David Korins: Well, it was harrowing. Although, the Hamilton exhibition is decidedly not Hamilton, the show. We had way more content to deal with. In a way, using Hamilton, the man, as our through-line and as our lens into early America was helpful because it helps crystallize the story that we're telling. There's enough information about the founding of early America that we could have made an exhibition just on George Washington, or Thomas Jefferson, or James Madison, or anyone. In a way, the stage show, which obviously spans about thirty years across countless locations was one thing. But we had to use a whole bunch of artistic compression in order to make that show a dramatic piece of theater. What we wanted to do with the exhibition museum was to really able to go in to deeper and wider into the entire story of America and really kind of right the wrongs of the dramatic lives that we tried to mimic in the show. It's easy conceptually to say, "let's expand this thing into 18 or 20 galleries" because there's just so much more information. It was nearly an impossible task artistically to try and actually execute it because a stage show has no ceiling on it, there's no fourth wall, there's no wall between the audience and the performers. In this exhibition, every one of these things is a complete room. I know it's more about Hamilton the man, but it does seem like some of the rooms, this writing desk room for instance, tie into songs from the show. How did you balance how much of the musical should be in the exhibition versus how much should focus on history and Hamilton's life? DK: First of all, we're not trying to distance ourselves from the show. We, in fact, have a completely remastered, re-orchestrated, rerecorded score in every one of the galleries. I think if you look at the New York City gallery, it is very reminiscent of the architecture that I designed the stage show with. I would say that much of the spaces employ the use of very abstract, theatrical design, visual vocabulary. Part of that is because I'm the one designing it, creating it. A part of that is because you can't realistically recreate all these historical locations. Nor do I think that that would be necessarily interesting. I think one of the things that we told ourselves in the very beginning of this process was to try and do what only we can do. And then there are moments that are wildly abstract where there are swirling pieces of parchment paper floating up into a work cloud over your head. So we tried all that we could do, and I thought for two years about what I want each one of these rooms to feel like and what story we are trying to tell.
Changing gears to Beetlejuice—that's a movie where the scenery is constantly shifting around. Looking at the photos from the set, it seems like you had to reinvent the same stage multiple times during the show. How did you translate Tim Burton's aesthetic for the stage without reusing it wholesale? It doesn't exactly match the house in the movie, but I see there are references to his other work sort of scattered around.
DK: As far as technical difficulty, I will agree with what you said, and I will tell you that the show is by far the most technically challenging thing I have ever done, and it's by far the most technically challenging show I've ever seen. If the Hamilton exhibition was the biggest and most ambitious project I have ever worked on, which it certainly was by a lot, Beetlejuice was the most complicated one. That show, every single piece of scenery has a light in it, a special effect, a magic trick, a puppet pole, a speaker. Some crazy thing going on inside of it. How do we incorporate the world of Tim Burton? I think that Tim Burton is one of the great visual artists of our time. I think when you are asked to do a Tim Burton project you have to honor it and acknowledge it and try to keep up. Beetlejuice the musical is very different than Beetlejuice the movie. The thing about it is we have a whole bunch of different physical parameters, so we have to take those into consideration as opposed to making a movie. First of all, the play runs eight times a week and we can't cut away, we can't dissolve, we can't have a puppeteer just out of frame or anything like that. We have to make this thing work seamlessly for a bunch of live people in a room. Beyond that, I thought that it would be interesting to honor Tim Burton's kind of overall visual aesthetic, not just the Beetlejuice one. You have Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline—we have tons of references. So we’re storytelling in a very different way. You can't have an actor be in a different costume every single scene. We're telling the story at a much broader, more muscular gesture. How did you design a set that would be so easy to shift in such shorter amounts of time? DK: I guess the short answer is: we're geniuses. Just kidding! I think it was very important that the Maitland's home felt different aesthetically than the Deetz's home. And that the Deetz's home felt different than the Beetlejuice home. So we had to ask ourselves, what could we possibly change in six minutes of stage time, or ten minutes of stage time? And how do we do that? We came up with a really ingenious wall system that we would be able to sub out. The changing of the furniture and the mantles and the window frames and the light fixtures is exactly as you would imagine it. A lot of manpower is back there doing these, like schlepping stuff on and off in a perfectly choreographed ballet move backstage. The wall systems are similar. There are prefabricated sections of wall that click in on top of or below other sections. And they literally have to go in and every single section of wall gets changed out. I see a lot of detail went into even just the small touches in the wallpaper, sculptures, sconces, and all of that. DK: Every single piece of scenery, every single wallpaper, every single piece of furniture, every single graphic was hand-drawn. And I don't mean “hand-drawn” like drafted. I mean, literally hand-drawn, even what we drafted with architectural drawings so that they could build them and engineer them. We then went in and we hand-drew all the wallpaper. We hand-drew all the etching and the lines on all the molding so that everything single thing had a really homemade kind of quality to it.
Women architects are everywhere: Call for 1 minute films
CALL FOR STUDENT FILMS
We seek 1 to 2-minute student films about women. This project will continue the efforts to write women into architectural history, this time via video.
SPONSORED BY ARCHITEXX
THE SUBJECT OF YOUR FILMS:
We seek to have the subjects of these 1-minute films be about women architects, defined expansively. These are women who were educated as architects, or educate others to become architects. Women from wide and diverse practices, demonstrating the myriad ways women trained as architects have participated and continue to participate in the built environment and design related fields. For example, these could be women who spent their careers at large or mid-sized or small firms, in City Planning departments, as sole practitioners, as educators, historians, as landscape designers, as well as those who go on into other design-related industries such as interiors, exhibition design, film, production design, art installations, gaming, fashion, to name but a few. This project seeks to demonstrate that women have been vital to the practice of architecture for decades, while radically under recognized. This project works with other global efforts to change that!
THE FOLLOWING QUESTION MUST BE INCLUDED IN YOUR FILM:
What about this architect's work has inspired / impacted / influenced you or you learned from?
FILM REVIEW + SCREENING PROCESS:
Each of the finished films will be reviewed by an esteemed jury of architects, design professionals and industry leaders. A selection of the films will be publicly screened during New York City’s Archtober month-long focus on architecture and will be available online once they have screened.
FILM SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
1. Each film is to be between 1 to 2 minutes long 2. Opening and closing credits including required citations, may be up to an additional 10 seconds in total 3. We encourage original content and in-person interviews whenever possible as well as the use of public domain images and music. Please see the following for more ideas: https://archive.org/ http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/A_Ton_of_Public_Domain_Songs 3. Films may be in any language, non-English audio or on-screen text, must have English subtitles 4. All submissions are due by May 31st 8pm EST, including sending a downloadable link to hello@architexx.org that includes the short film and two (2) still images from the film. For some inspiration, take a look at #wikiD, Rebel Architette, Una dia / Una Arquitecta https://www.architexx.org/subtexxt/wikid-women-wikipedia-design https://www.facebook.com/architettearchiwomen/ https://www.facebook.com/undiaunaarquitecta/
WOMEN ARCHITECT 1MIN FILM PROJECT CHAIRS
LORI BROWN, PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
DALE B. COHEN, ASSOC. AIA, OWNER OF DALE COHEN DESIGNSTUDIO
Film Forum's extensive renovation becomes art in new photo book
The following is excerpted from Film Forum: Under Construction 2018.
The images that you see here were captured on a worksite for the expansion of Film Forum, a place where people gather with a group of strangers to watch a story unfold —something that is increasingly unusual these days. They are a celebration of an ancient ritual married to a modern technology. The technology develops but the ritual decays.
What do these photographs say about watching movies? What do they recall and what do they suggest? How is it that beneath the formal pleasures of their design, their abstraction, and their use of color, they conjure something concrete about shared experience? Like a lot of abstractions, and certainly like many of Jan Staller’s photographs, these pictures are not only about a surface but the materiality below the surface. In this case the materials are the brick and mortar of the theater itself and the steel and brittle celluloid of projectors, reels and filmstrips—objects that look now like sacraments of the earliest technology of the art form. They are evocative because they are tactile. My first exposure to the movies was more sterile and electronic. It took place alone, in a dark room, late at night in front of a television set. In this respect, it was closer to the way that most people watch movies today. As I got older I went to movie theaters, spending hours of my youth in palaces called The Orpheum, The Lyric, and more prosaically (and appropriately), The Suburban World. There was something fundamentally different about going to a theater. The impact of the experience was magnified literally by the scale of its presentation and emotionally by the act of sharing it with a community. And just as importantly, by its appeal to the sensorium, something that most modern technology abjures. The theater was itself a machine, one that you entered, was turned on, and then would grind into action. Its constituent parts were hidden but somehow felt. That’s part of what these photographs evoke, but for me they also evoke memories of my early days as a film editor, when you felt the film in your hands and heard the clack of the sprockets as it ran through the machines. But before waxing too nostalgic about the older ways of doing things, it may be useful to think about two movies that I saw for the first time at Film Forum. They were both by F. W. Murnau, a German filmmaker who came to Hollywood in 1926. The first, Sunrise, was made in 1927 and is certainly one of the greatest movies of the silent period. It was a huge success, and William Fox, the man who had brought Murnau to America and who was the producer of Sunrise, asked him to do another movie. In his youth, Murnau had been something of a gear head—he was fascinated by cameras and new technology. In the interim between Sunrise and his next film for Fox, The City Girl, sound had been introduced. The new technology was alien to Murnau as an older man. He couldn’t reconcile it with his taste or his process and The City Girl was made and released as a silent film with title cards instead of dialogue. Watching it now one wonders what it would have been like otherwise. A cautionary tale about aging out of your era. The movies are wedded to technology, and for better or worse as the technology advances it changes not only how they’re made, but what we actually see and how we watch them. At a certain point resistance seems quaint and misguided. The opportunities in most cases outweigh the things we lose. The sensual pleasures of pre-digital machines are probably lost forever, but the act of gathering to watch stories, to be part of an audience, would be dangerous to lose. It is ancient and fundamental. So let’s celebrate one of the few institutions that continues to expand that opportunity. These pictures do, and they do something else—they get under the skin.
Evoking a villain’s lair, James Bond museum opens in the Austrian Alps
If all the James Bond villains got together and opened a museum, this would be it. Carved inside a mountain, surrounded by snow, reachable only by an alpine gondola, the remote location was the ideal set for the 2015 Bond movie Spectre. Now it’s transformed into 007 Elements, a Bond-themed spy museum that opened on July 12 in the Austrian Alps. Designed by Johann Obermoser of Obermoser arch-omo ZT GmbH | Architektur in Innsbruck, the two-level museum is located on top of and inside the Gaislachkogl mountain in Sölden, Austria, site of a popular ski resort and location of the fictional Hoffler Klinik that appeared in Spectre. Planning for the project began while Spectre was being filmed in 2015. The museum primarily focuses on that movie, the 24th in the Bond franchise, but highlights others as well. Visitors reach the museum by taking a cable car to the top of the mountain, nearly 10,000 feet above sea level. The museum is filled with props and other artifacts from Bond movies, including the plane used in Spectre, which is suspended like a Calder mobile. Inside are nine galleries that were designed to be 'floating cubes' set within the mountain. These chambers employ dark lighting, sound effects, mirrors and videos to evoke the feel of a villain’s underground lair. The only parts of the museum that are above ground are the entrance, exit, two windows, and a plaza that provides sweeping Alpine views. Each cube showcases a different aspect of filmmaking, such as title sequences, music, special effects, stunts, spy gadgets, and cars. The museum is a joint venture of EON Productions, a production company behind the Bond films, with MGM Studios, and Jakob Falkner, owner of the cable car company at the Sölden resort. The museum’s creative director is Neal Callow, who served as art director for the last four Bond films, all starring Daniel Craig. The galleries are intentionally not heated or air conditioned, so visitors could experience “the extreme climate conditions of high altitudes,” according to the architect’s website. “It being Bond, of course, building something inside the top of a mountain feels very kind of correct, for the history of the legacy,” Callow told Conde Nast Traveler. “We always wanted to do a different type of experience than a traditional museum, where we wanted to teach people about how all of our films are made, and inspire people to get in the industry.” The museum is next to ice Q, a restaurant that doubled as the Hoffler Klinik in Spectre and was designed by the same architects.
New doc spotlights Helmut Jahn's threatened Thompson Center
The nonprofit MAS Context is hosting the international digital premier of Starship Chicago: A Building on the Brink, a documentary by Nathan Eddy, chronicling the oft-misunderstood Helmut Jahn–designed James R. Thompson Center. The film was premiered at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, with a U.S. premiere at the fall MAS Context: Analog event in Chicago. Later it was shown at the New Urbanism Film Festival in Los Angeles, and the Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York. The one-week showing on the MAS Context website runs through November 12, and it's the first time the 16-minute film can be streamed online. “I love these buildings, and I don’t think these buildings are appreciated. Helmut Jahn told me while making the documentary, 'At some point every artist just makes a lot of noise.’ I know how to make a lot of noise,” filmmaker Nathan Eddy told The Architect's Newspaper (AN). “That is the only way that people will pay attention in this day and age. I’m a controversy builder. I do these things because I cannot help myself.” Completed in 1985, the Thompson Center is the hub of Illinois state government in the City of Chicago. From the moment it was constructed, it has turned heads and sparked debate. Today, the current governor, Bruce Rauner, has been adamant about his intentions to see the building either demolished or converted into a private property. Starship Chicago interviews many of Chicago’s most influential architectural thinkers to discuss the construction, legacy, and future of the iconic structure. The documentary includes conversations with James R. Thompson, the former governor who commissioned the building, the building’s architect, Helmut Jahn, architecture critics Blair Kamin and Lynn Becker, and architects Chris-Annmarie Spencer and Stanley Tigerman, among others. Starship Chicago is the second short film by producer-director Nathan Eddy, whose first film, The Absent Column, covered the preservation battle for the eventually demolished Bertrand Goldberg–designed Prentice Women’s Hospital. Starship Chicago is the first vocal step in beginning the conversation about saving the Thompson Center, and Eddy is active in preservation battles elsewhere. Recently, he has led the charge to protect the Philip Johnson and John Burgee–designed AT&T Building in New York, whose granite facade could be replaced with glass in a Snøhettta-led redesign. “I have one method, which is 'WAKE UP!!!' All caps with three exclamation points,” Eddy said, discussing the differences between The Absent Column and the Thompson Center film. “After Prentice, we made a great film that tried to appeal to people on an emotional level that would be poignant. That didn’t work and that sucked. When we were doing the film about the Thompson Center, we needed to re-evaluate the way we were going to make people wake up. So, I wanted to make the first comedic architecture documentary.” Of the famed and derided atrium of the Thompson Center, former governor James R. Thomson remembers in the film discussions surrounding space. “I heard a lot of criticism at the time saying, ‘Boy, that is a lot of wasted space.' And I would usually say something like ‘Well, would you like me to fill up the building with bureaucrats?’ So, it is not a wasted space, it’s a celebration of space.” The film can be seen in its entirety exclusively on the MAS Context website.
Modern architecture stars in Kogonada's Columbus
“Well, that’s Columbus—meth and modernism,” quips 19-year-old protagonist Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), in the new independent film Columbus. Directed by Kogonada, the movie centers on Columbus, Indiana, so much so that the city and its architecture functions as a character equal to the actors (and of course, lending itself to the film’s title). In context, her remark isn’t a flippant dismissal of the town but a reflection of larger issues Kogonado contemplates in his work. “Do forms make a difference? Do buildings make our lives better even when they are bad?” This is a particularly apt question to ask in a city like Columbus, which, although known for its architecture, is not exactly known as a cultural hotspot. It is rare that architecture features so heavily in what is otherwise a clever coming-of-age tale, but even the plot emerged from the city’s buildings. Kogonada was inspired by visiting the southern Indiana city and wrote the script based on his observations. “The City of Columbus had to give us permission to film there, or else we wouldn’t have made the film,” Kogonada said in a discussion following a screening at BAM. Scenes center on, around, and in the soaring modernist works by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Deborah Berke, as Casey rapidly gains aesthetic awareness and an appreciation for architecture as she grapples with staying in her hometown and taking care of her mother (a recovering meth addict) while her friends go off to college. She encounters Jin (John Cho), a Korean-American translator who comes to the city to care for his father, a noted architectural historian who falls critically ill while visiting Columbus; the pair form a relationship. The plot itself is charming and smart, but it is the film’s pacing, styling, and setting that elevate it to what the New Yorker has described as “precocious genius.” Kogonada incorporates the architecture both blatantly and subtly. Throughout, Casey names and describes each building to Jin, a newcomer to Columbus—Eliel Saarinen's First Christian Church, I.M. Pei's Cleo Rogers Memorial Library, Eero Saarinen’s Miller house, the Irwin Conference Center, and North Christian Church, Deborah Berke’s Irwin Union Bank, and Robert A.M. Stern’s Columbus Regional Hospital, among others. Those structures not explicitly labeled still loom prominently in the setting. Architectural themes also permeate the film, most notably the exploration of absence and presence, void and volume. Kogonada explores this several different ways: Whenever music plays, there is an absence of dialogue; when Jin speaks Korean, there is an absence of subtitles; characters refer to plot moments that never came up; and at times there is silence even though the audience can see that the person is speaking. Other questions are grappled with, as well: “Can architecture heal?” “Do the buildings we grow up around inform our views of the world?” “What makes modernism important?” They are good questions and ones that the architectural, art, and design communities debate often, but in Columbus they are opened up to the layperson and architecture aficionado alike. For screenings and more information, see the film's website.
The Architecture & Design Film Festival previews fall lineup
The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) is returning for its ninth edition. The nation’s largest film festival dedicated to the subject of design, architecture, and urbanism is touring around the world in cities near and far with an extensive program of films, events, and panel discussions. The ninth annual festival will be passing through Seoul, South Korea (July 27-October 29), New Orleans (August 24-27), Montana (September 23-24), Chicago (September 26-27), and ending at its home base at New York City’s Cinépolis Chelsea (November 1-5). A full schedule of the 2017 program is yet to be released, but below is a sneak peek at a few feature films that will be presented, followed by the tour dates and locations of ADFF. Integral Man 2016 / 62 min / Canada – U.S. Premiere Director: Joseph Clement The film presents a close glance at the intricacies inside the home of Jim Stewart, the most published mathematician since Euclid. Noted as “one of the most important private houses built in North America,” the dwelling is located in Toronto’s Rosedale neighborhood and was designed by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in 1999. The Integral House was a decade-long project that worked to intertwine and reflect Stewart’s two obsessions: curves and music. The completed home is filled with curved wood, expansive windows, and seductive spaces that many consider to be one of the city’s best performance spaces. Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres 2016 / 55 min / UK - US premiere Director: Sarah Howitt Can design be the secret cure to cancer? A popular cancer support organization in the U.K., Maggie’s Centres, thinks it definitely plays a role. Maggie’s Centres has a unique approach to patient care that considers the importance of design. With a major focus on constructing environments to comfort and rejuvenate patients, the organization stands out as exceptional. The documentary, Building Hope: The Maggie’s Centres, directed by Sarah Howitt, illustrates the story of Maggie’s Centres and puts on display the utter appreciation that the patients have for the healing environment that Maggie’s Centres offers.
Below are dates and descriptions available on the ADFF website. JULY 27 - OCTOBER 29 ADFF: Seoul @ Storage Seoul, South Korea Presented by Storage, an experimental exhibition space opened by HyundaiCard, ADFF will screen three films per day over a four-month period. The gallery shows alternative works covering architecture, design, film, and contemporary art. AUGUST 24 - 27 ADFF: NOLA New Orleans, Louisiana Presented by the Louisiana Architectural Foundation (LAF), the opening night of the second annual ADFF: NOLA (August 24) will be held at the Contemporary Arts Center followed by a special screening of Designing Life: The Modernist Legacy of Albert C. Ledner at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) on Friday, August 25. All other screenings will be held at the Broad Theater. SEPTEMBER 23 - 24 ADFF: Tippet Rise Fishtail, Montana ADFF will present a curated selection of nine feature-length documentaries and three film shorts at the Tippet Rise Art Center—the 10,260-acre sculpture park and classical music center in the Montana highlands. On Saturday, September 23, Frances Anderton, host of KCRW’s DnA, will moderate a conversation with artist Stephen Talasnik, architect Débora Mesa, and Tippet Rise co-founder Peter Halstead. SEPTEMBER 26 – 27 Ace Hotel Screenings Chicago, Illinois During the Chicago Biennial, ADFF will host two rooftop screenings at the Ace Hotel. On September 26, the winner of AIA’s ‘I Look Up Film Challenge’—an initiative that encourages architects and filmmakers to collaborate and produce short film— will make its world premiere in addition to a screening of Design that Heals with Mass Design Principal Alan Ricks. OCTOBER 11 ADFF: Short Films Walk New York, NY ADFF and SoHo Design District present the 4th Annual Short Films Walk (SFW), where participating SoHo showrooms will screen a unique program of film shorts curated by ADFF. This year’s walk will be held from 5:00 - 9:00 pm with an expanded list of locations. NOVEMBER 1-5 ADFF: New York New York, NY In its ninth edition, ADFF’s annual anchor festival in New York will present a series of feature length and short films, panel discussions, filmmaker Q&A's, and more, at Cinépolis Chelsea (260 West 23rd Street, NYC). Film highlights include Columbus, Building Home: The Maggie’s Centres, Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place, Integral Man, and Land Artists: The Story of Denton Corker Marshall.
Liam Young's films explore how technology will shape cities and daily life
Liam Young: New Romance is the first solo exhibition for the filmmaker, storyteller, futurist, and architect in the U.S., presented by the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia. Young’s work is an examination of fiction, technology, and the near future through cinema and visualization. The exhibit will feature three of Young’s short films: In the Robot Skies (2016), an exploration of love in the time of drone surveillance; Where the City Can’t See (2016), a look at subcultures in the near-future world of data shot entirely with laser scanning technology; and Young’s most recent film, Renderlands (2017), a look at the half-realities of rendered worlds built with the leftovers of digital rendering projects. Alongside the films will be several props Young created for the work and research he utilized for his fictitious cinematic universes, emphasizing his focus on existing technologies and networks and how he begins to project them into unknown futures.
Liam Young: New Romance The Ross Gallery in Buell Hall Columbia University 1172 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City Through May 13, 2017
Explore three near-future worlds where technology has changed romance (and cities too) in this GSAPP exhibit
Film enthusiasts, sci-fi nerds, architects, and romantics alike will delight in the provocative new exhibition at the GSAPP's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery. Titled Liam Young: New Romance, it features three remarkable films that explore how technology is changing society and the built environment. New Romance is the product of a collaboration between director Liam Young (an Australian architect-turned-filmmaker) and writer Tim Maughan (a British fiction and non-fiction writer). The exhibition features three films that extrapolate current trends in technology to create near-future sci-fi settings; each film tracks a different kind of romance to explore how technology might shape human relationships and architecture. For instance, In the Robot Skies follows the relationship between two teens—Jazmin and Tamir—living in public housing in London. One teen is under house arrest, so the pair uses hacked drones to pass notes between one another. Shot entirely from the drones' perspectives, viewers see a familiar story of star-crossed lovers from an entirely new vantage point. The striking Where the City Can't See was shot entirely in LIDAR, a technology used to scan surfaces for digital mapping and navigation. It follows Dexter, a new arrival to Detroit, as his factory coworker Kelis takes him into a community of young people who shield themselves from the city's smart sensing technologies. Hidden from Detroit's electronic eyes, they gather to dance, party, and freely express themselves. Lastly, Renderlands explores the fantasy life of Prakash, who works at an anonymous Indian render farm. Prakash uses leftover fragments of digital renderings to build the image of his dream girl, an unnamed American actress, who he meets in a romanticized digital vision of L.A. A peon by day and dreamer by night, Prakash constructs a digital fantasy alternative reality. All three films offer beautifully surreal visuals and a soundtrack by Detroit-based D.J. Stingray to match. However, Young and Maughan contend that these films don't depict dystopias in the conventional sense: these worlds are extrapolations of the "trends and weak signals" the duo have already detected in the real world, especially in parts outside the developed West. As Young put it in a panel discussion before New Romance's premier, he and Maughan seek to "embed critical ideas about the present in fiction." The films use romance as a means to "find the emotional potential and drama in the everyday," making the work more accessible to a general audience in the process. There is certainly an activist element to these films. Young described how their goal is to "exaggerate [the effects of technology] to the point that you can't ignore it." Drones, smart city technology, digital renderings—all are essential to the film's "world building" and the relationships between the characters. "You can't separate technology and culture," he added, "we're prototyping those cultures, those subcultures." Liam Young: New Romance runs through May 13, 2017, at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University. For more on Young, whose previous projects include New City series, matte animations that explore similar near-future worlds, see his Vimeo page here. More on Maughan (who also contributed to the New City series) can be found here.
Artist builds replica of "2001: A Space Odyssey" set in L.A. warehouse
In a new immersive art experience on the outskirts of Downtown Los Angeles, Hong Kong–based artist Simon Birch has created a replica of the iconic bedroom from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Birch collaborated with architect Paul Kember of Hong Kong–based firm KplusK to create the space as part of his project The 14th Factory. The duo worked carefully to mimic the details of the original set in ambiance and coloring, using illuminated floor tiles to give the space its otherworldly glow. The replica bedroom, titled The Barmecide Feast, is one of fourteen spaces that weave together across the three acres of the warehouse to create one immersive journey. Birch collaborated with twenty interdisciplinary artists to create this multi-media extravaganza, with work ranging from installations and paintings to video and performance art. “My hope for The 14th Factory is to bring a broad range of minds together, to uplift and inspire, ignite conversation, action, and solutions but also to provoke,” said Birch in a press release. “There are installations here that discuss love, loss, fear, pain, hope... our shared experience, but that also ask the question; as civilizations have risen and fallen, are we now at the brink of collapse or the start of a wonderful new chapter?” Birch continues to explain that he hopes the Factory will act as a “safe haven” where people are able to immerse themselves in a journey and be transformed. It would seem Birch is going further than replicating the cult film’s iconic set, also paralleling its existential quest examining the future of mankind. Birch and his collaborators are currently turning the multi-media adventure into a documentary-style film, where visitors take on the role of protagonists as the space’s story unfolds. The space is currently open to visitors by appointment, and Birch hopes to temporarily open the space to the public once filming has concluded. For more information visiting or about the artists featured at The 14th Factory, you can visit their website here.
The best architectural films from this year's Sundance/Slamdance
The annual ritual of the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals that take place simultaneously in Park City, Utah in January have just concluded. Here’s a rundown of films where architecture and design are featured characters. Watch out for these titles as are they are released. (Note: All films were screened at Sundance, unless otherwise noted.) Columbus is set in this Indiana town that has become a modernist architectural mecca (and is the birthplace of V.P. Mike Pence). The Cummins Engine Company, then run by J. Irwin Miller II, initiated a program where the company paid architects’ fees for public buildings in this small town (population 44,000 in the last census) if selected from a designated list, yielding buildings from architects like Eliel and Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Roche-Dinkeloo, Robert Venturi, César Pelli, Richard Meier, and Harry Weese. A magnet for architects to visit, the plot begins when a notable Korean architect is in town to deliver a lecture, only to collapse at the Miller House (Eero Saarinen, architect; Alexander Girard, interiors; Dan Kiley, landscape) in the opening scene. A young woman, Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), who grew up in Columbus and works in the library (I.M. Pei, architect), has come to love the architecture, unlike her peers, who barely seem to notice. Casey says of Columbus, “Meth and modernism are really big here” to the Korean architect’s estranged son, Jin (John Cho), who has come to be with his now-comatose father. She takes him around Columbus, often at night, to show him the architecture that moves her. She also tells him that she met architect Deborah Berke when she delivered a lecture in town—Berke designed the Columbus’s Irwin Union Bank in 2006 as well as a building for Cummins in Indianapolis in 2017—who encouraged Casey to go to the University of New Haven, audit her class at Yale (where Berke is now dean) and intern at her office in New York. Casey even quotes Jim Polshek about the healing power of the built form. In the film, architecture symbolizes hope for the future, a utopian vision. The director, Kogonada, made his name as a film critic and maker of “supercuts,” short online videos on cinema history. (See his website for “Kubrick’s One-Point Perspective,” “Auteur in Space” and “Mirrors of Bergman.”) Abstract: The Art of Design is a new series premiering on Netflix on February 10. Each of the eight episodes focuses on a designer—Bjarke Ingels (architect), Christoph Niemann (illustrator), Es Devlin (stage designer), Ilse Crawford (interior designer), Paula Scher (graphic designer), Platon (photographer), Ralph Gilles (automobile designer) and Tinker Hatfield (Nike shoe designer)—all chosen by Scott Dadich, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. The one shown at Sundance was on Niemann and directed by Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom, Best of Enemies). The question arises: Is the designer the filmmaker? Is the film about the maker or made by him or her? By taking us inside Niemann’s head and processes with clever animation, they are clearly partners. The title “abstract” refers to taking meaning down to the essence, like Niemann’s explanations with Legos—yellow for a New York City taxi, or several configurations to explain a nuclear family from different members’ point of view, or his many New Yorker covers including one of Donald Trump in U.S. flag motif. Slamdance presented Aerotropolis, whose title refers to an ambitious urban development project for Taoyuan, a city in northwestern Taiwan, as a major transportation hub for airplanes and ships. However, it has been a bust with an incomplete airport subway link, unaffordable luxury properties laying empty, land sold at wildly inflated prices, and thousands of displaced residents, all accompanied by conflicts of interest and corruption scandals involving government officials overseeing the project. Allen (Yang Chia-lun) has invested all his inheritance in real estate hoping to cash in on the market bubble created by the Aerotropolis project. But his scheme is a failure as he is unable to find buyers. Although he owns a luxury property, in order to keep it pristine for potential buyers, Allen essentially lives like a homeless person, sleeping in his car and using public restrooms at the airport. The web series Gente-fied (executive produced by America Ferrara) depicts slices of life in a gentrifying L.A. neighborhood, Boyle Heights, with stories of those struggling with (and adapting to) the changes brought by affluent people moving in and long-term, less-affluent residents facing displacement. The series tries to humanize the issues. In the first vignette, Chris has a taco shop. Mexicans won't buy $3 tacos because they’re too expensive, while whites say the food is so authentic, it’s like they were kidnapped by a cartel. Chris is given a “Mexican” test by his cousin and elders. Another story depicts Ana, who paints a gay-themed mural on side of bodega for the supremely pleased, new white landlord—to the horror of the staff. Her attempts to appease the shopkeeper are rebuffed, as she fears the mural will scare away her regular customers. In the third, Pancho runs a bar. New customers want the bar to look like “Frida Kahlo threw up all over it.” The same white landlord (who owns the bodega) raises the rent repeatedly, and when the price doubles, Pancho gives up the bar and washes floors in a bodega with the mural. In the winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting, Pop Aye, Thana (Thaneth Warakulnukroh) is the once-praised architect of Gardenia Square, a 1990s landmark high-rise in Bangkok. Now that his boss’s son has taken over the firm and is replacing Gardenia with a sleek new skyscraper called Eternity (seen in a slick video), Thana is depressed. Now unkempt and out of place in his office, as well as an unwanted presence by his wife in his own modernist home with an interesting curved front gate and clean lines (complete with a Barcelona chair). He goes on an unexpected road trip with an elephant he believes to be from his childhood—they never forget—through the Thai countryside to his hometown where his childhood home has been sold to developers and replaced with a mundane apartment block. Another example of sleek development is shown in the Middle East in The Workers Cup, where construction workers from India, Kenya, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Philippines work in Qatar to build the 2022 FIFA World Cup Stadium. We see the work camps where they live, the luxury shopping centers they have built (but cannot enter after they open to the public at 10:00 a.m.), and their arduous construction sites. We follow a group who participate in a corporate-sponsored “workers welfare” soccer tournament. The Nile Hilton Incident, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, is set against the backdrop of Cairo in the days before the Tahrir Square uprising. A wealthy real estate developer of the “New Cairo” is mistakenly accused of the murder of his mistress in the upscale—yet still seedy—hotel of the title just off the square. As we follow Noredin (Fares Fares), a cop who is corrupt but has his limits, around the new and old cityscapes—from the Sudanese immigrant community to the palatial home of the developer—it’s like watching a Graham Green novel. Winner of Slamdance’s Narrative Feature Audience Award was Dave Made a Maze. During a weekend when his girlfriend, Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani) is away, Dave (Nick Thune) decides to build a cardboard fort in the living room; essentially, he is the architect of the maze. On her return, Annie speaks to the unseen Dave inside the maze, who tells her that he is lost inside. She calls a friend for help, who in turn calls a documentary filmmaker and other friends. When they enter, the world inside the maze is far bigger than what appears on the outside, with a seemingly unending string of puzzles and booby traps all cleverly brought to life through the use of cardboard, modest digital effects, and animation. The filmmakers assembled 30,000 square feet of cardboard to build full-scale sets for this fortress-like environment. After losing her job and boyfriend in New York due to binge drinking, Gloria (Anne Hathaway) moves back to her hometown to discover a strange connection with a monster attacking Seoul, South Korea in Colossal. When she moves, the monster moves. The plot is motivated by the child Gloria’s model of a town: skyscraper, tower, and bridge that is blown away, and then seemingly rescued by her friend Oscar, who then destroys it. As adults, alcohol makes Gloria and Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) into monsters who can destroy this far-off city with their actions. Berlin Syndrome portrays Australian architectural photographer Clare (Teresa Palmer), who is in Berlin shooting GDR buildings for a planned book. We see examples of her work and traverse the city with her until she meets a handsome English literature teacher, Andi (Max Riemelt), who shows her a Schrebergarten colony, miniature follies on the outskirts of the city with tiny gardens sprinkled with gnomes, windmills, and vegetation, used by middle-class Germans in the summer. He takes her back to his East German-era apartment building with central courtyard, which is largely abandoned except for him…where he then holds her hostage. In Rememory, Peter Dinklage plays an architectural model-maker turned sleuth. Chasing Coral, winner of the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary and coming to Netflix, shows how coral reefs are underwater cities and skyscrapers where life can flourish. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the Northeast coast of Australia is called "the Manhattan of the ocean.” However, the film charts how coral reefs are being imperiled by rising temperatures to their death, first by bleaching the coral white and then disintegrating. In 2016, more than 2/3 of the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef died. New Frontier is the Sundance section devoted to art and technology. The most interesting of the VR experiences were Heroes, Melissa Painter’s exploration of dancers in a movie palace and the historic Ace Hotel in downtown L.A., and Saschka Unseld’s Dear Angelica, which creates a drawn, magical universe where we explore loved ones who have died. Also of interest was Hue, an immersive environment of a color-blind man who we help to see color, and the installation Pleasant Places, which displayed Van Gogh’s Provence landscapes. Films and Projects: Abstract: The Art of Design, Morgan Neville, director Aerotropolis, Li Jheng-neng, director/screenwriter Berlin Syndrome, Cate Shortland, director Chasing Coral, Jeff Orlowski, director - Colossal, Nacho Vigalondo, director Columbus, Koganada, director/screenwriter Dave Makes a Maze, Bill Watterson, director/co-screenwriter Dear Angelica, Saschka Unseld, director Gente-Fied, Marvin Lemus, director Heroes, Melissa Painter, director Hue, Nicole McDonald, KC Austin, Tay Strathairn, directors The Nile Hilton Incident, Tarik Saleh, director Pleasant Places, Quayola, director Pop Aye, Kirsten Tan, director/screenwriter Rememory, Mark Palansky, director/co-screenwriter The Worker Cup, Adam Sobel, director
Feature film on Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in the works
Can you imagine Jeff Bridges playing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe? Of course you can. Luckily, for those who bemusingly can't, a film about the trials and tribulations behind Mies's magnum opus dwelling, The Farnsworth House, is reportedly in the works. Edith Farnsworth, the German architect's client, will be played by Maggie Gyllenhaal and van der Rohe will be played by, you guessed it, Jeff Bridges. Completed in 1951 in Plano, Illinois on the outskirts of Chicago, the house was put onto the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 for its architectural significance. Two years later, it was designated a National Historic Landmark. Open to its natural setting, the elevated glass box and its all-white steel structure was viewed as the epitome of the International Style's ethos. The house, however, has a history of controversy. Famously bearded Mies became embroiled in a fiasco pertaining to the Farnsworth House's finances during and after its construction and was also rumored to be in a romantic relationship with Edith Farnsworth. (Warning, spoilers below.) The public dispute came after costs overran by $15,600 (roughly $156,000 in today's money), totaling $74,000. This was down to the rising price of materials; anticipated market demand increased with the Korean War looking more and more likely. In the aftermath, Mies filed a lawsuit for the unpaid sum of around $30,000 in construction costs and service fees. Edith Farnsworth, a reputable Chicago nephrologist, then hit back with a lawsuit of her own accusing Mies of malpractice. It was later deemed by the court that Farnsworth had approved of the ever-inflating budget and she was ordered to pay up the outstanding construction costs. The debacle, however, left a bitter stain on Mies's career. He and Farnsworth were also heavily rumored to be romantically involved with each other. Mies also referred to the dwelling as the "child" of their relationship. More detail on this can be found here. According to a source speaking to Showbiz411, “Jeff and Maggie have been looking for another movie to do, and this script really appealed to them.” No dates for the film have yet been disclosed.
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Cardinals need to select Kyler Murray with No. 1 pick in 2019 NFL Draft
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By Dan Bickley | February 21, 2019 at 6:59 pm
UPDATED: February 22, 2019 at 7:39 am
File - In this Oct. 27, 2018, file photo, Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray maneuvers during the team's NCAA college football game against Kansas State in Norman, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
The NFL is blinded by bias. Paralyzed by analysis. Forgetful that what makes a player great can’t be quantified with stopwatches and tape measures.
Like the 2-3 inches that separate Kyler Murray from no way to no-brainer.
More than ever, the Cardinals need to select Murray with the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. As the loudest supporter of Josh Rosen in the Valley, I hereby announce the time has come to draft his replacement.
It’s because everything you believe to be true about the NFL is false, corrupted by arrogance or changing on a daily basis.
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Why an NFL mock draft has the Cardinals picking QB Kyler Murray
Size no longer matters. Maybe it never did. Or maybe it only mattered between the ears of those selecting the players and protecting their own jobs. Either way, an eternal truth has finally bubbled to the surface in the NFL:
If you’re good enough, you’re big enough.
Drew Brees and Russell Wilson are proof that height is a state of mind. Patrick Mahomes and Baker Mayfield are evidence that Air Raid quarterbacks can succeed without lengthy internships. The future is now hitched to head coaches who can mold aggressive philosophies around dynamic talent, riding the wave of innovation in the NFL, exploiting rules that continue to marginalize defensive players, big hitters and bounty hunters.
But this is way more than that.
When the Cardinals hired Kliff Kingsbury, the move was either revered or reviled for its unconventional nature. It’s a big-time throw of the dice. It excited an audience bored to tears by his predecessor. It’s a smart play, given the direction of the NFL and the malaise that followed this football team in 2018. And it’s a dangerous move, asking a glorified play-caller to serve as head coach, surrounding him with assistants selected by the general manager.
That’s why Murray is so important.
Can you really believe in the sincerity and vision of our football team if they hire Kingsbury and pass on the quarterback he covets most? If they fail to give Kingsbury the one player who can fuel his credibility and empower his fledgling voice?
Keep in mind, Kingsbury gushed over Murray long before he surfaced as an NFL coaching candidate, when he had no reason to hide his true intentions. His comments from back then matter more than ever now, when everyone is lying.
If Steve Keim is bold enough to believe in Kingsbury, he must do the same with Murray. The confluence of events is too perfect, and there are no good reasons not to draft Murray.
Remember, Michael Bidwill is a progressive student of history. He once stormed into Ken Whisenhunt’s office, demanding to know where the former head coach had slotted Wilson on his draft board, before the diminutive quarterback landed in Seattle and changed the balance of power in the NFC West.
Some believe the Cardinals would be far better served by drafting Nick Bosa, a defensive standout who can elevate the team’s pass rush. I’m sure he’d be a fine addition. Except look at how the last Big 12 quarterback fared as the No. 1 pick in the draft (Baker Mayfield) compared to the first defensive lineman selected in 2018 (Bradley Chubb). Whom would you prefer?
The reigning Heisman Trophy winner is no more fragile than any other NFL quarterback. He might be more elusive, frequently described as having eyes in the back of his head. He is committing to football for the first time in his life, drawn to the position by the glory and the doubt. And how often does a player of his caliber fit so perfectly in the grand scheme of a first-year head coach?
That doesn’t mean they have to give up or trade Rosen. To the contrary. Stage a battle. Best man wins and the other gives Arizona one of the best backup quarterbacks in the NFL. A little competition might do wonders for the quarterback room.
Besides, if the Cardinals pass on Murray, they are scoffing at the pioneering spirit that led them to Kingsbury in the first place. And what fun is that?
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Dan Bickley is the most influential sports media member in Arizona sports history, having spent over 20 years as the award-winning lead sports columnist for The Arizona Republic and AZCentral.com and almost two decades as a Valley sports radio talk show host. In spring 2018, Bickley made the decision to leave the newspaper to join the Arizona Sports team as host of the entertaining and informative midday show Bickley and Marotta, as well as bring his opinionated and provocative column exclusively to ArizonaSports.com.
Bickley’s journalism career began in his hometown of Chicago, where he was part of a star-studded staff at the Chicago Sun-Times. He chronicled Michael Jordan’s six NBA championships; covered the Olympics in eight different countries and attended 14 Super Bowls; spent three weeks in an Indianapolis courthouse writing about Mike Tyson’s rape trial; and once left his laptop in an Edmonton bar after the Blackhawks reached the Stanley Cup Finals.
He has won multiple awards, written two books, formed a rock band, fathered three children, and once turned down an offer to work at the New York Times. His passions include sports, music, the alphabet, good beer and great radio. After joining Arizona Sports 98.7 FM, he couldn’t be happier
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Pursuing a Hunch
A UO graduate student’s unexpected discovery could someday lead to new treatments for the nearly 1.5 million Americans with Type 1 diabetes
When she first looked in the microscope and saw the cluster of new, green-tinted cells, University of Oregon doctoral student Jennifer Hampton Hill was astounded.
The surprisingly large cluster of cells hinted that she had just tracked down a very special bacterial protein inside the guts of zebrafish. That elusive little protein is special because it appears to help grow more of the cells that release insulin and could one day lead to new treatments for Type 1 diabetes.
The new finding is just one more example of how basic research science can result in discoveries with big implications.
“That was a memorable moment when I first saw how many more cells had developed in fish treated with that protein,” Hampton Hill said. “My heart rate definitely increased a little, and I knew this was the thing we had been looking for.”
In people with Type 1 diabetes, an immune reaction destroys the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Without insulin, sugar can’t be absorbed from the blood stream and cells starve for energy. By understanding the basic development of such cells, researchers hope one day to stimulate insulin-producing cells to grow in Type 1 patients.
Hampton Hill wasn’t thinking about diabetes when she began this research back in the winter of 2013. She was doing what UO researchers do well, asking a novel, yet basic question about science. In this case, she wanted to know if the community of microorganisms, known as a microbiome, residing within bodies of humans and most other animals could somehow influence the development of cells in the pancreas that release insulin, known as beta cells.
To begin to answer this question, she turned to the trusty zebrafish, a traditional animal model developed at the UO by pioneering biologist George Streisinger. The zebrafish is now widely appreciated for its ease of visualization, fast development and most importantly its similarity to humans at a basic biological level.
By systematically investigating the natural microbial community within the zebrafish gut, Hampton Hill found that certain bacteria could actually influence the development of the incredibly important beta cells. This was a surprising finding that spurred an exhaustive search to uncover the microbial factor responsible for this new phenomenon.
A Path To Protecting Children’s Health
A Path To Protecting Children’s Health
The study sheds new light on associations between the microbiome and development of Type 1 diabetes.
Previous studies have suggested that children who develop Type 1 diabetes tend to have fewer types of bacteria in their microbiomes. Guillemin and Hampton Hill suspect that these low-diversity microbiomes could be less capable of stimulating beta cell expansion early in life, leaving these children with little buffer if their immune systems go on the attack.
Immediate implications of the research from the Guillemin group would be to encourage best practices in promoting healthy microbiome development in children, for example by encouraging breastfeeding and avoiding excessive use of antibiotics.
“Antibiotics are valuable for preventing infections, but they have been viewed as causing no real collateral damage, whereas now we appreciate that there’s actually a risk associated with antibiotic use. We should be questioning whether practices make sense such as impregnating our kids’ pajamas with antimicrobials,” Guillemin said.
Results Too Tidy
Inside the intestine of a single larval zebrafish exists a teeming community of hundreds of thousands of bacteria. Each of these bacteria secretes hundreds of proteins into the gut.
For Hampton Hill, the process of sifting through all of those proteins in search of an unknown factor played out over the course of countless experiments. But even after all those months in the lab, the moment she narrowed her list of 163 potential proteins to a single suspect was somewhat anticlimactic. The findings seemed a little too neat to be believed.
“The fact that we only found one protein that fit our criteria was actually kind of disappointing,” Hampton Hill said. “In science, it’s so rare to have one candidate that works. I thought I’d have to do a lot more work.”
Hampton Hill’s advisor, UO biologist Karen Guillemin, recalls her own skeptical response.
“I said, ‘There’s no way that this is it, Jen,’” Guillemin said. “This is just too good to be true.”
Further testing confirmed the results and months of additional research followed. Guillemin and Hampton Hill compiled their findings in a just-published research paper in the open access journal eLife.
The one protein, dubbed Beta Cell Expansion Factor A, or BefA, boosts insulin-producing cells in the pancreases of zebrafish. The bacteria that live among us and the products they release represent an underexplored resource that could someday hold the key to solving many human diseases, including Type 1 diabetes. Formerly known as juvenile diabetes, Type 1 diabetes afflicts nearly 1.5 million Americans and typically first appears at a young age.
“It’s exciting to think that bacteria could play such an important role in a process that is so essential for the ability to regulate sugar metabolism,” Hampton Hill said.
The research demonstrates the important developmental role of the microbiome. It also serves as an example of how research projects are carried out at major research universities like the UO, where the process of scientific discovery is built on the model of senior faculty mentors and junior graduate students working collaboratively together.
Bef What?
When naming bacterial products, researchers stick to a convention of providing them with a three-letter moniker that designates their observed function. And much like naming a champion racehorse, they need to avoid names that have already been used.
To describe their newly discovered protein that induced beta cell expansion in the pancreas of zebrafish, Jennifer Hampton Hill and Karen Guillemin chose Beta Cell Expansion Factor A, or BefA for short.
As for the “A” in the title?
“You have to give it the name A, B, C or 1, 2, 3, in case you discover others in the future,” Hampton Hill said.
Partnership of the Pancreas
Hampton Hill, a graduate student pursuing a doctorate in biology, credits Guillemin for steering her through the project. Guillemin says very few graduate students could have exhibited the kind of perseverance that Hampton Hill did during the three-and-a-half-year-long project.
“(What Jennifer did) is not something that most people do,” Guillemin said. “A lot of people would have ended it sooner, but the way in which she took this project and ran with it was just amazing.”
A professor in the UO’s Department of Biology and the Institute of Molecular Biology who also serves as director of the META Center for Systems Biology, Guillemin examines the role bacteria play in animal development and disease. She uses a research model she helped develop involving a special kind of sterile zebrafish that don’t have any internal or external microbes of their own — no microbiome, making them germ-free — so scientists can better determine the role those microbes play as animals grow.
The direction of Guillemin’s work has broadened as a result of her collaboration with Hampton Hill. Beyond studying the impact of microbes on the guts of zebrafish, she has expanded to include other organs involved in digestion, and, she says, this current project is among the most important work she’s done to date.
“I had this idea sitting in the back of my head just because I had done a lot of work on pancreas biology in the past,” Hampton Hill said. “I thought that this idea was maybe too far out there and I definitely needed some guidance and someone to tell me that this was something worth pursuing.”
Hampton Hill’s interest in the pancreas began shortly after she left Humboldt State University with an undergraduate degree in cellular and molecular biology. After she completed a fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, where she learned about pancreatic development and gained experience working with zebrafish, she came to the UO in fall 2011 and joined Guillemin’s team the following spring.
Having studied the pancreas and its importance to metabolism, and knowing that host metabolism can be strongly influenced by microbes, Hampton Hill naturally developed an interest in the role of bacteria in pancreatic development, which Guillemin encouraged.
“I think something special about Karen is that she’s really receptive to ideas no matter who they are coming from,” Hampton Hill said. “She gets very excited about new, possible, cutting-edge science. She’s capable of really using her imagination and allowing, say, a graduate student, to have more of a voice.”
Knight Campus Connection
Furthering the understanding of microbial diversity and its effects on human development with the goal of developing future therapeutics for improving health and combatting diseases, such as diabetes, is the type of translational research that could eventually be conducted at the recently announced Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.
“Ultimately we’d like to team up with researchers studying Type 1 diabetes to look at developing BefA-related molecules as potential therapeutics,” Guillemin said.
Good Instincts
From Guillemin’s perspective, Hampton Hill’s instincts about studying the role of bacteria in the development of the pancreas were good. Guillemin encouraged some preliminary research and Hampton Hill returned with scientific images that clearly showed many fewer insulin-producing cells were present in microbe-free zebrafish.
“Once she showed me those images … I said, ‘OK, there’s something here,’” Guillemin said.
Having identified the phenomenon, many students would have been happy to end their research there. But Hampton Hill was intent on discovering what the microbial factor was that was causing an expansion of beta cells, Guillemin said.
Hampton-Hill and Guillemin went on an exhaustive hunt using scientific techniques spanning genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics and even the use of mass spectrometry services at Oregon Health & Sciences University to isolate different proteins.
The results continued to point to the idea that a specific factor, rather than a generic type of microbial product, was causing the phenomenon.
Experiment after experiment, Hampton Hill methodically narrowed her list of suspects. Using a collection of known bacteria, she identified a few promising suspects and further reduced her list of possibilities. The microbe-free system in the Guillemin lab allowed her to study the effects of bacterial products and eventually arrive at her list of 163 proteins, which she then reduced to the single BefA protein.
In the final stages of the study, Hampton Hill and Guillemin identified bacteria in humans that produce proteins that are similar to BefA. They tested these proteins in microbe-free fish and found them to be potent at boosting the number of insulin-producing cells.
In addition to the exciting possibilities the project presents for additional diabetes research, the study by Hampton Hill and Guillemin provides a model that other researchers and graduate students will study and build upon with future research projects.
“I think this is, in many ways, going to become a beautiful model of resident microbes influencing development,” Guillemin said. “Right now, this is the best-understood example of that in any system.”
Zebrafish: Fishing for Answers
The UO has been a leader in zebrafish research since the 1960s when biologist George Streisinger pioneered a new method for the study of vertebrate development and genetics with the introduction of the zebrafish as a model organism
Zebrafish embryos have since become very popular worldwide as a means of understanding how all vertebrates, including people, develop. Zebrafish eggs are transparent and develop outside of the mother's body, providing scientists with a window on development — researchers can literally watch a zebrafish egg grow into a newly formed fish under a microscope. Today, thousands of researchers around the world use zebrafish as a powerful biomedical model organism useful for understanding human health, disease and function.
Currently, about 100 UO researchers in 11 laboratories use zebrafish to study medical issues and fundamental questions about how organs develop, regenerate and function, as well as questions related to interactions between zebrafish and their resident microbes.
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<Get involved >
Jessica Green's Fund
Raising funds for The Brain Tumour Charity in memory of Jessica
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Jessica's Story
Our Jessica was a beautiful, confident and happy little girl who lived her life to the full and had lots of friends. Jessica liked to be the centre of attention. She enjoyed singing and dancing (especially to Lady Ga Ga) dressing up and loved anything to do with Disney Princess.
Life changed for Jessica and all those who knew her in March 2011 when Jessica was only 3 years old. We had noticed that Jessica's left eye has started to drift inwards. We weren't worried about it we just thought she would need glasses or an eye patch to correct it. We took her for an eye test and the optician confirmed her sight was fine but wanted to know the cause of the squint so referred her to the Royal Bolton Hospital.
That appointment went well. We were told again that her eyesight was fine and the squint could easily be corrected but Jess would need a scan to find out the cause. We were given a follow up appointment for 2 weeks later. In those 2 weeks we noticed a big change in Jessica. She wasn't blinking from her left eye very often and she couldn't close it, she became clumsier, started banging into things and stumbling and the left side of her mouth was weak and she began to dribble. The symptoms came on all of a sudden and we were obviously very worried now.
We explained our concerns to the orthoptist and he referred her to the paediatrician straight away. Jessica was examined and we were told they wanted to do an MRI as soon as it was free. As soon as the consultant came into the room after the MRI I knew it was bad news. Nothing can prepare you for hearing that your child has cancer. They couldn't tell us much more and we were blue lighted to the Royal Manchester Children's hospital.
Our worst fears were realised the following day when we were taken into a quiet room to be told that Jessica had a tumour in the worst possible place. It was in the brain stem, the tumour was inoperable and Jessica's life expectancy was 9-12 months. There was little treatment they could offer…only treatment to prolong Jessica's life and not cure her.
"We made plans to spend as much quality time together as we could and that we did! We went to Disney World, Euro Disney and Lapland to name a few. Jessica had the best princess themed 4th birthday party a little girl could wish for arranged by when you wish upon a star and she battled on and defied the odds to celebrate her 5th and 6th birthdays. Jessica also got the chance to start school and meet her new baby sister."
Jessica was started on steroids straight away to relieve some of the pressure on her brain and preparations began so she could start radiotherapy. In total Jessica received 30 fractions over a 6 week period. I can't begin to tell you how proud we were of her. She was so young and would lie completely still with her mask over her face and shoulders which pinned her to the table so she could have her treatment. During the 6 weeks Jess contracted chicken pox so we had to have a 3 day stay in hospital on top of daily radiotherapy sessions and she didn't complain once.
By the end of the 6 weeks Jessica was no longer on steroids and her initial symptoms had improved. Weeks later, after a further MRI, we were told that the tumour had reduced by about half the size…we were over the moon.
We made plans to spend as much quality time together as we could and that we did!!! Over the next 2 and a half years we went to Disney World, Euro Disney and Lapland to name a few. Jessica had the best princess themed 4th birthday party a little girl could wish for arranged by when you wish upon a star and she battled on and defied the odds to celebrate her 5th and 6th birthdays. Jessica also got the chance to start school and meet her new baby sister. We began to believe that the doctors had got Jessica's diagnosis wrong. How could this bright, happy little girl have a terminal illness? It seemed ridiculous.
In October 2013 we began to see signs that something wasn't quite right. Jessica's left eye began to drift inwards again and she was slightly off balance at times. Jessica was referred for an MRI and our worst fears came back. The tumour had started to grow again this time more aggressively than before. We knew there still wasn't a cure. We hoped that Jessica would be accepted on a new experimental treatment at Bristol but the tumour took hold of her quickly and in a matter of days Jessica became very weak. She was unable to walk, had difficulty moving her right side and couldn't swallow. Jess was admitted put on a high dose of steroids and things improved again.
Our only option was to start chemotherapy at this stage. Jess had fought for too long for us just to give up. The next few months were like being on a roller coaster. Jessica would be doing well so her steroids would be gradually reduced and frustratingly she would become unwell again. The chemotherapy and steroids were causing her further side effects and we had many overnight stays in hospital due to getting infections or needing blood products. Jessica continued to be brave through all of this and her strength is what pulled our family through such a difficult time.
In March we made the decision to stop her treatment. The tumour was continuing to grow with the chemotherapy and we didn't want her to suffer any more. Jessica became unwell and developed a chest infection. She required 24 hour care so we decided to take her to Derian House children's hospice. Each day Jessica became weaker and lost the ability to do something else. She could no longer walk, talk, swallow or move any part of her body. The only way she could communicate was with her eyes. She was fed by an NG tube and she didn't have any quality of life. The cruel thing was that Jessica knew exactly what was happening to her little body. This horrendous disease takes away your ability to do everything you usually take for granted but leaves you with your mind. I know Jessica was scared despite our best efforts to comfort her and that is now something we have to live with.
Jessica passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on the 1st April 2014 aged only 6 years old.
This debilitating disease robbed her of everything she loved to do and all of her dreams.
Jessica has become one of the 'long term survivors' of DIPG. She fought the evil disease until her last breath and we are so very proud of her. This is why we have vowed to continue Jessica's fight against brain tumours…in particular paediatric brain tumours.
It is difficult to think that if more money had been given to this area of research our little girl may still be with us today.
Please help us to support The Brain Tumour Charity so we can help to fund research into this evil disease.
https://www.justgiving.com/JessicaGreen6/
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Brandeis rebrands with updated seal, narrative
Celia Young
Brandeis introduced an updated seal and logo on Wednesday in an effort to become more recognizable outside the Brandeis community, said Mark Neustadt, a marketer with Neustadt Creative Marketing who presented the logo to students, staff, faculty and other community members. The new brand will be officially rolled out on Aug. 1.
Neustadt said that though the changes may appear slight, he hopes that they provide a way for Brandeis to be more recognizable to the outside world. He spoke about encouraging more “connective tissue” so that the University as a whole is consistently branded.
The new logo can come in different versions including or without the seal and the words “Brandeis” or “Brandeis University.” Different institutes and centers can use the logo for publications by putting the name of their school to the right of the word “Brandeis,” but the athletics department will not yet be affected by the logo change, Neustadt said.
The logo uses a sans serif typeface, and Neustadt hopes to standardize fonts and colors across Brandeis publications. Neustadt said that one of the hardest parts of the process was dealing with the letter “r” and “a” in the word “Brandeis.” Neustadt said that the two letters, when placed next to each other, tend to clash and worked to adjust the font to rectify that problem.
The seal has also been slightly changed. In the new seal, there is no longer a double ring in the center, the word “Brandeis” is now in all capital letters, the shield is centered in the seal, and the lines that lead into the seal were changed to create a more “luminous effect,” said Neustadt.
Neustadt plans to release “swag” to promote the logo to new and returning Brandeis students, though he is not sure what type of merchandise it would be. Neustadt also emphasized that the roll-out process of the new logo and seal would be slow, as it would have to be phased in with existing materials. Neustadt urged administrators in the room to order materials with the new branding rather than the old.
Neustadt also spoke about the Brandeis “brand narrative,” which is meant to encompass the personality of the university and what external groups will see Brandeis as. Neustadt said that for the narrative to be effective, it needs to be authentic.
He described Brandeis as “inquisitive, considerate, genuine, friendly, embracing of the unconventional and creative,” and “inviting and open to engaging across difference, even if that requires uncomfortable conversations, with the goal of making Brandeis and the world a better place.”
Neustadt elaborated on the brand narrative and spoke about the interviews with over 20 divisions, offices and groups of individuals the communications team did to research what the narrative would be. Neustadt then presented the “core differentiator” of Brandeis or why Brandeis is unique.
“Brandeis is a research university shaped by a spirit of rigorous inquiry. And because Brandeis is not as big as other research universities, it is also marked by a particular coactivity. Faculty, students and staff engage with others across departments, disciplines and interests. This results in an academic and social environment that is both deeply curious and collaborative,” Neustadt read off a slide.
The presentation also displayed additional characteristics of Brandeis, that included inquisitivity, Brandeis’ Jewish roots, its commitment to social justice and its placement in Waltham, outside of Boston.
Neustadt then took questions from the audience about the implementation of the new logo. He told students that though he wanted student clubs to be able to use the logo, he also wants to allow students to brand themselves as they see fit. He also reiterated that the seal and the logo should be used as provided.
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ELECTRIC CARS ARE NO THREAT TO OIL
April 10, 2017 / climatewise101 / 14 Comments
Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2017
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At a recent conference in Calgary, Steve Kronin, a former under secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy and a New York University professor, predicted that electric vehicles will make up 50 percent of the vehicles on the road by 2050 and that this will pose a threat to the oil industry because of its dampening effect on fuel demand.
Kronin’s remarks echo those of many advocates for electric vehicles who enjoy speculating about the future. Their objective, perhaps, is to reinforce the thesis that there will be an easy and inevitable transition to a “decarbonized” world economy.
Let us, instead, examine the facts and draw our conclusions from them.
There is no question that there has been a relatively rapid growth in the sales of electric vehicles (EV), including both electric hybrids (PHEVs) and all-electric cars (BEVs), since 2010. Annual global sales of plug-in models rose from 134,000 in 2012 to 774,000 in 2016. By the end of 2016, cumulative global sales of plug-in passenger cars and light utility vehicles passed the two million mark.
These sales were stimulated in large part by continuing large government subsidies in North America, Europe and China. The geographic distribution of sales offers some insight into why sales have increased so fast. China, which has poured billions of dollars into consumer subsidies, had 645,000 cumulative sales of plug-ins by the end of 2016. In the United States, where federal subsidies of up to $7,500 per vehicle are available in addition to various state-level subsidies, the cumulative sales total was 570,000 vehicles. Japan accounted for 147,500 and Europe 637,000. Norway alone has the highest plug-in electric car segment. There, extremely rich subsidies have driven plug-ins to 29% of new car sales.
That, for EVs, is the good news. However, a little perspective is in order.
For all the growth from small beginnings, plug-in electric vehicles still represent less than 0.15 percent of the global light duty vehicle stock. In the United States alone, annual EV sales are far less than 1% of the total. Last year, there were 17 million new cars sold in the United States that run on oil fuels. There were 157,000 EV sales.
It is far from clear that governments will continue indefinitely the large subsidies that have underpinned EV sales. In the United States, it has always been a feature of the existing program that the subsidies to an EV producer would end when its sales reached the 200,000 vehicle level. The Trump Administration is now in the process of eliminating or reducing many of the subsidy and regulatory programs implemented by the former Obama Administration to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; one wonders how long the U.S. subsidy program can last. China has announced that it will eliminate EV subsidies by 2020. European taxpayers have begun to tire of endless subsidies to various “green” causes; even there, governments are starting to take a closer look at whether such subsidies are justified when most of them go to consumers who could afford to buy the vehicles without subsidies.
Nonetheless, many countries remain committed publicly to a vision of rapidly growing EV sales. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has developed a policy and planning process called Energy Technology Perspectives that seeks to chart technology paths towards the reduction of global GHG emissions from 33 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2013 to about 15 Gt in 2050. The IEA vision for transportation sees EVs constituting 150 million (10%) of the total light duty vehicle stock by 2030 and nearly 1 billion (40%) of the total light duty vehicle stock by 2050. The 2015 Paris Declaration on Electro-Mobility and Climate Change, announced at the time of the COP21 conference, set more modest targets of 400 million electric two-wheelers and 100 million EVs by 2030.
With these targets in mind, on which growth path are EVs? Continuation of the relatively fast rate of growth in sales plus some acceleration could yield a vehicle stock of 7.4 to 13 million EVs by 2020. In contrast, an annual growth in sales by 230,000 units per year, as has happened over the last three years, would produce a stock of less than 3 million units by 2020 and less than 7 million units by 2030. Either outcome would be still be tiny in comparison to a global vehicle population of 1.3 billion.
Further, the most optimistic projections of EV sales have very limited implications for global oil demand growth. Over the period since 2008, in spite of the most serious recession since the Great Depression, world oil demand has increased from 86 million barrels per day to 97 million barrels per day, or around 1 million barrels per day per year. If that trend continues, then even the most optimistic scenarios for growth in EV sales would only make a slight dent in oil demand growth. Oil would continue, as it is now, the most important energy source on the planet.
Alberta, decarbonization, Uncategorized
ARC Energy Research InstituteBEVChinaelectric vehiclesEVParis Declaration on Electro-Mobility and Climate ChangePeterTertzakianPHEVRobert LymanSteve Kronin
Bullying in Climate Science???!! AGU Policy. Enforceable?
The Myth of the 97% Consensus. Hey! They’re fooling you.
Electric car prices come down while fossil fuel costs go up due to harder to obtain locations on earth.
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Electric-Vehicles-Could-Soon-Reduce-Oil-Demand-By-13-Million-Barrels-Per-Day.html
Electric Vehicles Could Soon Reduce Oil Demand By 13 Million Barrels Per Day
According to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the rapid decline in the cost of building batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) will make them cheaper than the internal combustion engine in just a few years. By the 2020s, EVs could beat conventional vehicles on price, a shocking development and a potential epochal shift for energy markets.
Battery prices declined by 35 percent in 2015, another impressive feat for the technology as it marches towards both relevance and market share. BNEF believes that EVs – on an unsubsidized basis – will be just as affordable as a car that runs on gasoline…within six years. That means that by 2022, BNEF argues, EVs will reach “the point of liftoff for sales.” The cost-competitive prediction for EVs even assumes that gasoline-powered cars continue to improve efficiency at a rate of 3.5 percent per year.
The writing is on the wall – as a technology, battery costs will continue to decline as manufacturing and the chemistry improves. Oil companies can reduce costs, but commodities don’t see costs decline in the same way. Finite natural resources see costs rise as they become scarcer. In the long-term, very few people expect oil to be as cheap as it is today at around $30 per barrel. And to the extent that oil remains cheap indefinitely, it will be because EVs destroy demand. It is cliché at this point, but as the old adage goes: the Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones.
Those with the cheapest oil survive due to the effect of electric cars on the market. And Canadian oil in not the cheap oil in the world, it is the higher priced oil. It appears to me, Canada and the US should start looking at getting out of oil soon. No sense in corrupting governments just so that your industry can squeeze out a few more senseless years.
The higher the price of oil, the faster electric cars crush them.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/25/electric-cars-will-be-cheaper-than-conventional-vehicles-by-2022
Electric cars ‘will be cheaper than conventional vehicles by 2022’
However, the analysis published by BNEF on Thursday predicts that the total cost of ownership – combining purchase price and running costs – of battery-only cars will dip below those with internal combustion engines in 2022, even if the conventional cars improve their fuel efficiency by 3.5% a year.
The analysis uses the US government’s projected oil price of $50-$70 (£36-£50) a barrel in the 2020s. If the price is $20, the tipping point is pushed back by between three and nine years.
Renewables Guy, As usual you offer unjustified speculation in response to facts. If electric vehicles become cheaper to own and operate than gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles – if pigs had wings…
Lol My Lyman. I must be doing something right. You really have no response on this. Tesla Model 3 is expected to come down in price as time goes on. Elon Musk has built the Giga facory to do just that. As production ramps up of batteries, the cost of batteries is expected to come down conservatively 30% which means it will be some number much higher. The best selling large luxury car in the world is the Tesla Model S. It beats out the other large luxury cars even in their own home countries. The upper class in the world has spoken with their dollars. They love Tesla. Next up is the model 3. Lets wait and see how it does. There are already 400,000 $1000 dollar deposits ready to go to get their cars first.
Renewableguy, my response is that you are once again speculating. If you follow the auto industry news, you will see that present expectations are that Tesla’s Model 3 will likely not be delivered until late in 2017 or in 2018 and that the price will be well above U.S. $35,000. According to insideevs.com, global EV sales in 2016 were 777,000, of which Tesla’s deliveries were 76,000, or just under 10%. According to Macquarie Research, global cars sales in 2016 were 88 million. EV’s are a sideshow, and Tesla is a small part of the EV industry that happens to get the hype.
This is a car that is in the large luxury car market. It matches the same number of Lexus GX460 full size suvs. Apples to apples this is a very good performance for a company so small. I’m sure Mr. Lyman you know of the giga factory in which there will be 5 billion dollars invested into it when its done. Also I’m sure you are aware of it’s (giga factory) planned ability to produce 500,000 cars per year by 2020. Elon Musk typically doesn’t meet his own deadlines, but he does reach them. All the car companies in the world are investing in electrification of their auto lineup. That is the trajectory. With the Trump administration working against efficiency of cars he is actually hurting the US car market.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/tesla-model-3-/477243/
Meanwhile, many hundreds of thousands of vehicles is a lot to produce, even for a more established manufacturer than Tesla. The Toyota Camry was the most popular car in America last year, with 429,355 vehicles sold, followed by the Toyota Corolla at 363,332 and the Honda Accord with 355,557. For its part, Tesla delivered 25,202 Model S cars in the U.S. during that same period. To put that figure in context, it’s about the same number of Lexus GX460 full-size SUVs or Fiat 500 hatchbacks that were sold last year. All of which is to say: For the Model S to reach Camry or Accord-levels of popularity, Tesla would have to ramp up its production capacity quickly and substantially to start delivering by its late-2017, as the company has promised. In all likelihood, many Model 3 reservation customers will wait longer than two years for their vehicles.
1200 cycles in the lab. Tesla’s batteries now are at about 3000 cycles with 90% capacity remaining. All the improvements that are needed in the battery seem to be in this one so far.
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/04/08/at-94-inventing-the-solar-future/
Today’s lithium-ion batteries use liquid electrolytes to transport the lithium ions between the anode (the negative side of the battery) and the cathode (the positive side of the battery). If a battery cell is charged too quickly, it can cause dendrites or “metal whiskers” to form and cross through the liquid electrolytes, causing a short circuit that can lead to explosions and fires. Instead of liquid electrolytes, the researchers rely on glass electrolytes that enable the use of an alkali-metal anode without the formation of dendrites.
The use of an alkali-metal anode (lithium, sodium or potassium) — which isn’t possible with conventional batteries — increases the energy density of a cathode and delivers a long cycle life. In experiments, the researchers’ cells have demonstrated more than 1,200 cycles with low cell resistance.
Additionally, because the solid-glass electrolytes can operate, or have high conductivity, at -20 degrees Celsius, this type of battery in a car could perform well in subzero degree weather. This is the first all-solid-state battery cell that can operate under 60 degree Celsius.
Pilot facilities. This is a serious play for taking the lead in batteries. This is very close to making electric cars competitive.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/04/20170408-hyundai.html
Report: Hyundai developing solid-state EV batteries itself
Citing “sources close to the matter,” the Korea Herald reports that Hyundai Motor is developing solid-state batteries for its electric vehicles, and has established pilot-scale production facilities.
“Hyundai is developing solid-state batteries through its Namyang R&D Center’s battery precedence development team and it has secured a certain level of technology,” the source told The Korea Herald.
Solid-state rechargeable batteries are drawing significant attention due to their increased energy density (partially enabled by the safe use of Li metal anodes), safety and reliability. Solid-state electrolytes are superior to liquid electrolytes in various aspects including dendrite formation on the anode, flammability, and leakage.
This the market speaking.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/tesla-passes-gm-as-musk-s-carmaker-becomes-america-s-top-valued
Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future
Musk eclipses company once famously tied to U.S.’s fortunes
Tesla ‘engenders optimism, freedom,’ analyst says in upgrade
Tesla is less of a car maker than a speculative high technology firm. There is a very wide difference between the vehicle market, the oil market and the market for speculative stocks. I invite anyone who thinks that Tesla’s market capitalization is a sign of its success as an auto maker to consider the following facts. Tesla will be fortunate this year if it is able to manufacture and market 100,000 vehicles world wide. That compares to over 17 million cars sold in the United States alone last year by the established auto manufacturers. Tesla’s market capitalization has been driven by hype and speculation to $51 billion, above that of General Motors, which annually produces more than 100 times as many cars as Tesla. Over the last three years, Tesla has racked up $1.9 billion in losses, compared to $23 billion of net profits reported by General Motors over that period. The strength of the Tesla stocks is clearly driven by hopes, not actual company performance, and especially hopes that Tesla’s forthcoming Model 3, that Tesla now predicts will sell in the U.S. for about $35,000, will be a major success. Here, however, is where Tesla may flounder most dramatically, because the company has so far failed to produce cars free from serious quality problems (see the Consumers Report evaluation based on consumer feedbacks), to meet manufacturing deadlines or to maintain service to existing customers. Tesla is a sideshow in the global EV market, and an example of how speculation can drive stock prices to outlandish levels, that’s all.
All your points Mr. Lyman, is what makes Tesla extraordinary. In spite of its size it is that hightly valued in the market. There are a lot of electric car maker failures out there. This one is the diamond in the rough. And he has the money behind him. The rich want a Tesla over BMW, GM, Ford, Audi, and the rest.. It is risky and yet the market believes and supports Tesla. No ICE, just electric.
wkblair
The stock market is driven by emotion and greed as much as by logic. Musk has lots of money behind him – much of it government subsidies. The time is coming to short sell Tesla, just wish I knew the appropriate time when the house of cards will fall.
Tesla drives the market in electric cars with bigger auto companies lagging behind. Wallstreet is the one making Tesla hum with its value higher than GM.
Emissions lowered, quieter ride and take off, more night time flights due to lower noise on neighborhoods.
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/04/19/peak-emissions-by-2020-a-possible-dream/
eattle-based startup Zunum Aero has received funding from Boeing HorizonX and JetBlue Technology Ventures toward making its dream of electrified air travel a reality.
Sometimes billed as the Tesla of the airplane industry, Zunum is developing a relatively small regional aircraft with about 700 miles of range. A 1,000-mile range will be attainable by 2030, it says.
The as-yet-unnamed aircraft will hold between 10 and 50 passengers, depending on how it’s configured, the company says.
Zunum’s jet will primarily run on batteries, so it promises to make air travel quieter for passengers and those who live under flight paths.
Noise-free take-offs will open up the possibility of scheduling more flights overnight.
A fuel-burning range-extender will turn on only when additional electricity is needed, according to the company’s official website. Ultimately, Zunum plans on building a regional jet that runs exclusively on electricity.
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Ceramics buying trip in Mashiko, and meeting the potters
Today was my first purchase of note. I picked ceramic wares from three different artists at two different dealers. My original intent was to buy from four separate dealers, but time was getting tight.
I ended up buying a substantial amount of work from a Mr. Minowa, who is a 60-something potter who does beautiful gas-fired work using the classic Mashiko kaki-yu (persimmon glaze), but which depending on oxidation or reduction factors can take on a temmoku-like appearance, a red rainbow striated pattern, or sometimes a luster-like metallic appearance. Kaki-yu is an iron-based glaze but is very versatile in gas-fired work. I bought about 12 guinomi for drinking sake, a few sakazuki, which are lower, wider forms also for sake, various meoto-jawan (husband-wife sets for tea), and a good number of vases. Mr. Minowa came to the gallery to meet us and show us some additional work. He invited us to come and see his workshop after we finished our other business today.
At another gallery, I bought out probably 75% of a show from a young potter name Mr. Akutsu, who was doing his first solo exhibition. He previously co-presented most of his work with his family. His work has about three or four motifs but tends toward earthy textures… sometimes a wood-like appearance, sometimes lighter colors, and sometimes a strong green glaze. A lot of his work is slab built, but of course his cups and bowl-like forms are wheel thrown. We talked to him a little bit and then made a lot of work for him and the staff by selecting more than a hundred pieces from the collection.
Hiromi and I were getting tremendously hungry by around 4:30, so while they were doing some initial packing and drawing up the long invoice, we walked across the street to get a bite to eat at a nearby Mashiko café. Everything at that café is served on Mashiko ware… almost everything is Wafuu (Japanese style) western food… we had a Japanese-style pasta dish with mushrooms and nori, a cheese-heavy “pizza” with little chunks of potato on top, and some salad in a beautifully rustic Mashiko plate with braided handles. Afterword we leapt for the yuzu-flavored desserts, a yuzu poundcake and yuzu cheesecake, served with lemon tea.
When we came back I made some additional selections for work from Mr. Yoshiaki Senda, which are pricy but very desirable pots made by combining multiple colored clays into floral or geometric patterns. The technical complexity of this work is truly amazing. In most cases, the pattern is visible on both the inside and outside of the form. I bought a relatively small amount of these pots because of budget constraints, but I think it will be easy to sell them.
We made some final logistics arrangements with the gallery owners and tried to find Mr. Minowa’s workshop, which is about 20 minutes from the center of Mashiko by car if you know where you’re going, or 40 minutes if you have never been there before. He comes to meet us at a nearby landmark after we call him, then leads us toward his home.
A windy dirt and gravel road leads off the main street to his home and workshop. He greets us and shows us around the outdoor parts of his workshop… He points us toward his mostly dormant noborigama (climbing kiln), his huge gas kiln, and his stash of clay. When we come inside he shows us his kickwheels and some unfired, bisqued and recently produced work. His wife, who had been representing him at the gallery, served us some black tea in English-style cups.
He then proceeds to show us some of his other pieces and tell us about the happy accidents and intentional manipulations that make up his work. My friend understands only a little of the Japanese terminology for ceramic materials and techniques, but occasionally when I volunteer an English technical term for the same thing Mr. Minowa seems to recognize when I get it right. Occasionally all of us are at a loss to communicate in a way that is meaningful to more than one of us, so we aren’t always sure what we understand…
We are forced by time constraints to depart his studio at about 8:45 pm, even then uncertain if we’ll get back to Tokyo in time for Hiromi to return her car to Yokohama and for me to get to the hotel near Shimbashi. Today was an incredible experience, though, as I had a chance to meet two of the potters whose work I had planned to buy since my last trip. I look forward to coming back here a few months from now and making another buy… This small purchase is more of a test to see what it takes to market handmade ceramics to an American audience… if it goes well, I’ll need to be buying on a larger scale than I could on this trip. If not so well, then I’ll need to be very good at acting as an import agent on the other stuff I’ve been investigating.
I’ve been an avid collector of Japanese ceramics for quite a long time, though, and this is really a labor of love for me. So even if it takes some time to develop an audience for these ceramics, I’ll keep investing in it. These things are too special to go unnoticed by US customers.
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The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola (2018)
August 23, 2018 | Jane @ Beyond Eden Rock
‘The Unseeing’ is fiction, spun around historical fact, set in the 19th century.
When Audrey Hart reads an advertisement for a collector of folk tales on the Isle of Skye she can’t help feeling that it was meant for her.
She had a difficult relationship with her father and her step-mother; she was in an awkward situation at the orphanage where she had been volunteering. Her mother, who had a particular interest in folklore, had disappeared, had been presumed to have had an accident, while out walking on Skye many years earlier.
It was hardly surprising that Audrey felt the pull of the distant island that she had visited as a very small child.
She won the job, but when she arrived on the island and met her new employer, Miss Buchanan, she came to realise that her work would be rather more difficult than she had expected. The Highland Clearances had forced many crofters to leave Skye, and and the few who remained were adamant that they would not repeat the old stories to her
That might have been because Audrey was an outsider from England; it might have been because they were obedient to the wishes of their minister, who was stern and strict and who preached fire and brimstone; but Audrey was sure that there were other, more sinister, reasons. The islanders seemed to be fearful of the consequences of having the tales that they could tell written down.
Then Audrey finds the body of a girl who had been missing washed up on the beach, when she learns that she is not the first girl who went missing on the island, she begins to realise that something is very wrong on the isle of Skye and in all probability that was what made the islanders fearful.
Her instinct was to act and to ask questions, but she didn’t know who she could trust, she didn’t know where she was safe, and she began to wonder if her new job was turning into a terrible trap …
Audrey drew me into the story. I liked her, I empathised with her situation, and as the story progressed I came to share her hopes and fears and understand what she wanted to do and what she wanted to find out. I didn’t always agree – and there were times when I worried about her and feared for her – but I did understand.
I appreciated that she was bright, she was curious, but there was only so much that she could do; because she was a woman of her time.
There were mysteries in Audrey’s past, and as the story moved forward I would learn why she had been so anxious to leave her her father’s and stepmother’s home, why she things had gone wrong at the orphanage, and even what had happened to her mother, all those years ago.
The story was well constructed, the pace was well judged, and once Audrey had drawn me there was a great deal to hold me there. Her world lived and breathed. I could hear the sea as she did, I shivered in the damp misty weather alongside her, and I I knew exactly how she felt as she ventured into new houses and across harsh and unfamiliar countryside. I appreciated the understanding of the history of the island and the way of life of the islanders; the writing was lovely and the descriptive prose, the pictures that the author painted, were wonderful.
I was disappointed that the end was a little too dramatic; but it held my attention because very final revelation came at the end of the book, it took me by surprise, and that the resolution of the story was satisfying.
I appreciated that this second novel sits well alongside its predecessor; and that it has exactly the right mix of things in common and things that make it different and distinctive. That said, I do think that the stronger colours of that first book suited Anna Mazzola rather better than the more muted tones of this one.
I found much to love though, and I am very interested to find out what the third novel will hold.
Posted in Reading 2018Anna Mazzola
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9 thoughts on “The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola (2018)”
janetemson says:
This is my current read. I’m enjoying it so far so we shall see what I make of the ending, though I already have my suspicions!
I’ll be interested to read your thoughts, Janet.
Café Society says:
It is interesting to me, as a researcher into pretty much anything to do with narrative just how many societies protect their stories from outsiders. Their reasons may be different, but there is almost always that same feeling that story is something that is culturally personal and not just to be shared with anyone.
That is interesting. My experience is that too many people say too much, but of course I’m an available ear and not a researcher.
londonlifewithliz says:
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your review and am looking forward to reading ‘The Story Keeper’ in the near future. Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing Anna Mazzola interviewed at a book festival and I put together some thoughts in a blog post afterwards: https://londonlifewithliz.com/2018/06/09/a-book-brunch-with-anna-mazzola-and-natasha-pulley/
It must have been lovely to see that pair of authors – I’ve loved Natasha Pulley’s first two novels- , and I hope you’ll enjoy this book as much as I did.
Although I don’t really like historical fiction this sounds like a fascinating read, I have to say.
It was a cut above most books of this kind, but I suspect it would be a little too dark for you
Ah – thank you!
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Roller Coaster Pre-Election Ride Begins
Filed under: Israel — qwertster @ 1:54 AM
Tags: Ayelei Shaked, bloc, Coalition, Elections, Haredi, Israel, Knesset, Labor Party, Laws, media, parties, Torah, Voting
Where to start, why not with the good, the bad and the beautiful. The good is easy but also will prove difficult to mediate. The good comes from the United Right’s current number two, Bezalel Smotrich, who has spoken the truth which the vast majority of the religious right pray for at services every day, that Israel live and keep the Torah and its commandments throughout the land. This does not mean what the media paints it to mean, as it does not demand anything from anyone who is not Jewish. They are only requested to follow the Noahic Code with seven laws. The Jews, on the other hand, have a mere six-hundred-thirteen laws in Torah. Somewhere over one-third of these refer to the service of the Cohanim and the Levites and their duties and expectations serving in the Temple. We do not currently have a Temple nor has any government Minister really pursued such a venture in the Knesset, thus it is not on the drawing boards, not in the planning stage and likely nowhere on the horizon. This means that these laws will have to await the people of Israel demanding the Temple be built, something prayed for every morning, afternoon and evening but not expected any time too soon. The rest of the laws are largely basic decency, common sense and the dietary laws of Kashrut. The majority of grocery stores sell only kosher food and are certified to have taken out the appropriate tithes and everything meets the high standards of the law. Restaurants are a separate issue but there are sufficient kosher restaurants even including some fast food establishments. What may amaze many people is that it may be likely, unless your favorite lunch location is not kosher, that the vast majority of people, Jews and non-Jews alike, probably lead lives that, outside of prayers they may ignore saying, are close to or within the demands of Torah. So, when Bezalel Smotrich spoke of his desire for Israel to become a nation whose laws and people kept to the Torah, he was speaking of a desire held by many and not transgressed by more than most might believe. He could just as easily spoken of the desire for the coming of the Mashiach, and we bet that would have drawn just as much scorn from any in the left-wing media, unfortunately that is the majority of the media. Their scare mongering will dredge up more hatred and mistrust between the people which is their intent. But speaking of such desire for Israel to become a Torah observant society is a very nice though and natural desire for the religious Zionist as well as other observant groups such as the Haredi. Nobody would even think twice had a Haredi leader made the same statement as that is acceptable from them as their voters mostly do not include the secular community. The entire flap over this was due to the attempt by the media to frighten the secular community, specifically the secular Zionists, into fearing the religious right parties over an event which was far more innocent than portrayed. Hopefully, the media feeding frenzy will be seen for what it was, an attempt at voter manipulation. It is really sad that the media here in Israel resorts to such tactics, but they will do whatever it takes to try and push the voting public into electing a left-leaning government.
The bad is an internal desire which was expressed largely within the Blue White Party but which did receive some mention by the media. This was a request, perhaps a demand, for Yair Lapid to lay low and quiet over his otherwise normal denunciation of the Haredi community. Are some of the views expressed by Yair Lapid accurate and in need of a solution? The answer is of course some of these complaints necessary, but his solutions would actually be detrimental to the desires he expresses. The Haredi community are people, believe it or not, people just like all other people. As a normal community, they will adapt to changing needs and other factors at their own speed. On the other hand, if such a community believes they are being pressured, pushed and manipulated to change, they will resist such change just because people resent being pushed into change. What Yair Lapid is ignoring is simply because his vision is clouded by his personal apparent dislike for the Haredi community and their favored treatment due them legally under laws and appropriations made by the Knesset. Part of their favored treatment comes due to their guaranteed number of Ministerial positions they receive in every election from a devoted and unified community. The thing is some Haredi are already voting outside their dedicated voting bloc. This makes them what are called king makers as their bloc is necessary to reach the sixty-one mandates to form a coalition whether that coalition is left-wing or right-wing. Due to their crucial voting bloc, the Haredi will receive an identical set of concessions from either side, over the tantrum which would likely be thrown (in private) by Yair Lapid. The demand that his Blue White Party run with part of their platform for the forcing of the Haredi to allow more of their youth to be drafted for IDF service and their being coerced into joining the workforce in larger numbers would be a guarantee to never have the Haredi join them in a coalition. Their insistence that Yair Lapid tone down his Haredi rants is a purely political measure as they know that if they would ever be chosen to form a coalition, they would absolutely be required to include the Haredi parties.
Ayelet Shaked
The beautiful is easy as former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (pictured above) has made a semi-official announcement that she will be running for a position in the Knesset in the coming September elections. This semi-announcement about her return left out one important item; she forgot to mention exactly which party she intended to make her run with and what position she wished to take in their list. There have been those claiming she will be part of the Likud Party and others have called for her to replace Rafi Peretz at the top of the United Right Party list. Which one is the most likely? Well, I have doubts that she will replace Rafi Peretz at the top of the list with the United Right and Bibi Netanyahu has stated that he is not considering inviting Ayelet Shaked into the fold with Likud. So, where does this leave Ms. Shaked now as the leader of one list is not expecting to be replaced and the head of the other party simply is not interested in having her join the party. Perhaps we can find a small hint from her statements at the small ceremony given when she left the Justice Ministry. One of her comments was that she expects to return to the Justice Ministry. The interesting thing about her desire to return to the Justice Ministry does not require that she head any party’s list. She was not the leader of Jewish Home when she received the Justice Minister posting. She was number two behind Naftali Bennett. She was the number two behind Naftali Bennett on the list for the New Right Party which she and Naftali Bennett founded right before the last elections where that party did not quite pass threshold to make it into the Knesset. When Bibi Netanyahu was unable to reach an amicable agreement with Avigdor Lieberman who was making the same demands which he had pressed leading to the call for new elections in the first place, that situation is most likely not going to change with Avigdor Lieberman which means that should Bibi Netanyahu be tapped again, he will be relying on the right-wing, religious and, of course, religious Zionist parties. The good news for these elections is that such is very probably what will happen as long as the Haredi Parties also join the government coalition, something which is largely expected. So, the situation with Ayelet Shaked will depend on which party’s list she lands within. We can probably safely bet that she will not be placed atop of either Likud or United Right. There is still the possibility that she will remain with Naftali Bennett if the New Right is reformed for another attempt to pass the threshold this time around.
We can provide some free advice for Naftali Bennett, if he reforms the New Right, he should place Ayelet Shaked in the number one slot and take the second slot himself which would be more probable to put them over the threshold. There is one item which is the biggest guarantor of failure in politics such as in other professions, that is an overly inflated ego believing that they are the answer that the people are craving and if only you present yourself then they will flock to your banner. When you are Bibi Netanyahu and have been Prime Minister for the past decade and lead the strongest party, or at worst the second leading party, and may become the longest serving Prime Minister by the time of the coming elections, then you can have such an ego. No, we are not claiming that Bibi has an over-inflated ego. This is about all the actual excitement we have seen over the coming elections in Israel. More over the weeks to come and perhaps things will heat up. We can tell that the Blue White Party is confident that they should receive the nod from President Reuven Rivlin to form the next coalition. They are confident that with the Haredi Parties they will be able to form a coalition. There may be some questions as to this confidence. The Labor Party is in a tailspin and hoping primary elections for what they hope, and as Avi Gabay has decided that he will resign from leading the party and dropped from the primary list, will be a new leader as the latest polls showed that the Labor Party, the party which led Israeli politics for decades until 1979 when they lost the coalition making position, was not polling sufficient to pass threshold. Labor has also sought to join another party as a joint list, either Blue White, Meretz or another left-wing party but they have not had any takers as of yet. As the elections grow closer, they will have a better chance for this alternative. But with the left polling lower and lower, there may be doubts about the optimism of the Blue White Party. We will try and find more fun things concerning the September 17th elections in future articles.
Poway California Synagogue Shooting and Other Hot Topics
Tags: American, Anti-Semitism, Arab Palestinian, Attack, Iran, Israel United States, Jerusalem, Jews, media, President Trump, Synagogue, Yemen
Here we are once more with a Synagogue being attacked with the shooting taking at least one life. The media will play this horrific episodic hate the full coverage as the perpetrator is apparently an alt-right White Supremacist. The condemnations will come from all corners with much of the media attempting to link this shooting with Trump. The logic is that those on the right are all exactly identical in their beliefs, politics and thoughts. To the leftist media, President Trump is conservative and nationalist and these alt-right hatemongers are presumed to be conservative and are nationalist, thus they are identical. This breaks down exceedingly quickly once people take the time to think. Many on the alt-right favor a fascist dictatorial government while President Trump supports a Constitutional Democratic Republic. These are definitive and separate ends that these groups seek and there can be no overlap between them. The White Supremacists desire doing away with the Constitution and its guarantees and giving out selective citizenship excluding most, if not all, minorities, this would definitely include Jews, and allowing only those who agreed with them completely any real rights under the law. Should the government ever be taken over by these groups, the United States would be over. If these White Supremacists are such a great problem, why are most of the public comfortable in that they hold no power. Perhaps this is due to their percentages of the population are in the single digits and in some states near to nonexistent. The alt-right have no political power throughout most of the United States and the majority are already known to law enforcement officials at multiple levels. But, so very unfortunately, one or two of these crazies perpetrate horrific crimes such as the Squirrel Hill Synagogue shooting of October 27, 2018, and now, a mere six months later, the Poway California Synagogue shooting. The only fortunate thing from this latest criminal attack upon Jews at worship was that the congregation reacted to prevent further casualties. Their threat of force against the shooter sent him cowering and fleeing as soon as he realized there was going to be resistance. According to officials, the suspect is a nineteen-year-old adult white male from San Diego. Initially, he fled the scene, but later surrendered to police.
Chabad of Poway Synagogue
But if it is as the facts point out, that the numbers of white supremacists, Nazis in particular along with other anti-Semites on the alt-right, have been steadily decreasing, how can it be the anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic acts have been steadily rising? The most obvious answer is that there must be another source of anti-Semitism which is rising precipitously. One of the first hints as to the source of this growing anti-Semitism is that it is found to be quite prevalent on the nation’s college campuses. Some have even struck into the mainstream media. Our first example was from before the armed assault on the Poway synagogue, the international edition of the New York Times ran a cartoon depicting a blind Trump wearing a yarmulke being taken for a walk by a dog sporting a Star of David. If this cartoon does not reek of the anti-Semitic trope that the Jews or Israel controls the United States, in this case the American President. But what about biases from other angles which refuse to report news which would favor Israel as it would depict a Palestinian as wanting to commit terrorism within the United States.
There was a report in American newspapers this week, where you saw headlines such as, “Wisconsin Mom Accused of Spreading Support for ISIS” to “Wisconsin Mother of Seven Charged with Trying to Recruit for ISIS” and “Wisconsin Woman Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges.” We found these reports and more which we will allude to from an Israeli editorial titled, “Just don’t call her a Palestinian Arab! US media plays a game” by Stephen M. Flatow. There was a secret the media did not see fit to share with the American public and the world about this energetic mother, Waheba Issa Dai. For example, NBC News.com didn’t even mention that she was born in Jerusalem while the New York Times and the British Daily Mail went so far as to transpose this Palestinian Arab born in Jerusalem into being born in Israel. Could this mean that the media has realized that Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel and not contested lands? Not a chance as they will be declaring that eastern Jerusalem must be made Jew free and become the capital of historic Palestine which is a KGB invention by which the Arabs would be better able to victimize the Jews. Why would the media go so far around the truth when an Arab Palestinian was recruiting for the Islamic State while planning for a high casualty attack in the United States for which she was reportedly manufacturing biological weapons in her home. Perhaps they figured that the average American or citizen of the world would automatically know from her name, Waheba Issa Dai, everything about her origins, nationality (claimed and actual), along with virtually every other particular which they decided was not necessary to report. Imagine if it was someone who actually was an Israeli and not a Palestinian Arab who was doing such activities. You would know everything including interviews with neighbors from the old community down to whether they served in the IDF and every other extraneous fact they could glean.
The new anti-Semitism has nothing similar with the historic, classic anti-Semitism of generations ago; today anti-Semitism is most often expressed as anti-Zionism and anti-Israelism and these slurs are used to incorporate all Jews who are unwilling to expressly denigrate and condemn everything about Israel and to become their Jew vanguard behind which they crouch ready to devour any Israel supporter, Jewish or otherwise. For a Jew to be innocent of being part of the Israel conspiracy, which is defined as the Jews of the world having their dual-loyalty and working undercover to control the world and every nation where they reside, they must accept the BDS Movement and support SJP. Jews are providing organizations which Jews are able to join with other Jews for the expressed purpose of supporting every anti-Israel protest, sign every anti-Israel petition, produce their own versions of anti-Israel literature, editorials, letters to the editor and comments on social media. These Jews have lavished praise showered upon them by most of the media, the Arab driven anti-Israel often terror-tied groups, anti-Semites everywhere pointing to them as the good Jews and even the alt-right use them for cover for their hatred of Israel because of its Jewish nature. All of these are very active on the American college scene and are influencing the future leaders of America and Europe. You do not have to scour the news for examples as three were recently elected to the House of Representatives and two of them have been quite vocal and quotable, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.
All of this hatred against Israel and its infection of the colleges and universities where the future leadership arises is troubling to say the least. Many claim that the main place which will face a troubling future due to these changes is Israel. Unfortunately for many nations of the world, Israel will be affected largely by having the vast majority of world Jewry coming home to a warm and gratifying welcome. Israel, people claim, is too small to accommodate a doubling of the population from a mass emigration of the world’s Jews making Aliyah. There are two problems with their claims, one is that we are probably at best talking half or possibly as high as three-fifths of the world’s Jews coming home as the remainder will remain blind to what is happening and believe that they are amongst the good Jews who are safe. In the end, there are no good Jews and their safety will dissipate in an instant and they will be shocked by the ensuing events; and two, Israel has one third of the country sparsely populated just waiting for Jews to come and transform the southern regions of the Negev Dessert into something unimaginable until it has been completed. Some see a new high-tech center where every form of advanced research and production will take place and lead Israel into the brightest of futures along with those nations who are not taken over by an anti-Semitic rage. It will be the nations where these anti-Semitic haters of Israel and Jews become the ruling elite as once they have the power to execute a transformation to a new system of governance and laws by enacting Sharia instead of the Constitution, Magna Carta, the latest French Republic (currently on number five but who knows when six will be required) and the governing laws and jurisprudence and laws of the land of others as well.
As we reported yesterday, there may be an inevitable clash brewing in the Middle East which will be largely about, you guessed it, oil. The United States, more accurately President Trump, is poised to end the waivers granted to numerous Asian states which imported a fair amount of their oil from Iran. The United States and the Gulf Nations are stepping up production to meet these nations’ needs but Iran receives forty-percent of their annual revenue from their oil sales. Preventing the sale of Iranian oil has always been a red line with Iran though President Trump will likely point out he is not banning their selling their oil, just warning that doing so comes at a cost. If the world prefers doing business with the United States over buying Iranian oil, then that is their choice. Such will not sit well with the Mullahs of Iran, many of which have been itching for a fight with both the United States and Israel. Yes, should a shooting war erupt over the Strait of Hormuz and potentially the Bab-el-Mandeb where the Red Sea exits past Yemen at this choke-point, perhaps that is the reason for having one aircraft carrier stationed on the Mediterranean side of that waterway. Such an outbreak will be sold by many on the left as President Trump fighting this war for Israel claiming that Iran has never done anything to America. Well, perhaps the validity of that claim needs some inspection.
We will start this review looking at the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings in which caused the deaths of three-hundred-five victims constituting two-hundred-forty-one United States military personnel, fifty-eight French military personnel and six civilians while destroying United States Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut Airport along with the Ramlet al Baida in Beirut where the French troops were billeted. The 1998 United States Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania have also been linked and attributed to sources within the Iranian government. Both Iran and Sudan have been found to be complicit in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole docked in Yemen for refueling at the time of the attack. Iran has been supporting the revolution by the Houthis in Yemen as part of their efforts to surround Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States with the intent of eventual conquest. It has been brought to light that the 2003 United States Riyadh Compound bombings were planned and trained in Iran and received Iranian assistance as well as protection. Iran is thought to have provided aid for the Taliban against American forces. Please allow us one last mention, the 2011–12 Strait of Hormuz dispute which included at least one American vessel being struck by a mine and the ensuing naval battle between American naval forces and Iranian naval forces. This one-day battle was dubbed Operation Praying Mantis by the United States launched in retaliation for the mining of the USS Samuel B. Roberts resulted in American units sinking one Islamic Republic of Iran Naval frigate, one gunboat, and as many as six armed speedboats and seriously damaging a second frigate. These are just some of the altercations between the two nations since the 1979 takeover of Iran by the Grand Ayatollah and new Supreme Leader of Iran Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini.
The only reason that Israel could become involved in such an altercation simply rides on the fact that the Iranian leadership has stated emphatically that any attack by any forces from the Western world will result in Iran immediately loosing attacks upon Israel. Their logic is that the only reason any nation would take up arms against Iran would be due to the Israeli and Jewish ability to have other nations fight her wars. Israel has never threatened to enter into armed conflict with Iran. The reason Iran makes this threat is because they believe it would make a difference in the plans by the United States or other Western nation as they would be concerned for Israel. That is not of any real importance to the United States or others as they would leave any attacks upon Israel up to Israel to defend against and take whatever required steps may be deemed necessary. If the past is any way of measuring the future, Israel was specifically ordered to stand down during the two Iraq wars as a means of not forcing the Arab allies from removing their support. Israel was attacked by Saddam Hussein’s forces as they launched a series of Scud missiles in the direction of Israel. Israeli sources reported that eight Scud missiles had landed within Israeli territory, three in Tel Aviv, one in Haifa, three in largely unpopulated areas in remote regions and one in an unknown location. What any future Middle East conflict will take is anybody’s guess but one thing will probably be true in such a conflict, the Americans and any European allies will insist Israel do their best to intercept incoming missiles but to leave all military actions to the allies, especially if they have Arab allies. The one Arab ally which America can depend upon other than Israel is Saudi Arabia. The problem with any altercations breaking out between Iran and the United States is that Iran currently commands the areas not only of Iran but of Iraq, Lebanon, most of Syria as well as good relations with the rebel forces in Yemen who control much of that nation and with the Sudan. This is an area almost equal in size to the United States and does not include the Hezballah camps such as the one in the South American three borders region. These truths in the world and the media will continue to stress the story-line that all anti-Semitism comes from the alt-right which they link to President Trump despite all evidence to the contrary even to include the alt-right denouncing virtually everything President Trump has done which benefits Israel.
Watchwords of a Leftist are Racist and Fascist
Tags: Arab, Fascist, Gaza, IDF, intersectionality, Israel, Israeli People, Jews, Leftists, media, Palestinian, Racist, United States
It is so easy to tell when somebody is suggesting concepts, laws or ideas where government power is reduced, private rights extended and the “deep state” has a tooth pulled, the person or group engaged in such tactics will invariably be called either a racist or a fascist if not both. These words are used as a rallying cry to engage the intersectionality engine so as to get all the other support groups to circle the wagons around their target and all engage their chosen chant pointing at their now vastly outnumbered victim while the words “racist” and “fascist” ring in their ears. The circled wagons are almost always a sign for the media to gather and quote the chanters in their articles making sure to emphasize that this capitalist or libertarian individual who believes in the rights of the individual over the rights of the collective has for now and evermore been labeled either a “racist” or “fascist” or received the worst charge, a racist fascist. There are so few other accusations which get broader use than racist and fascist, despite the fact that the people being harangued often are anything but what they are accused in order to dismiss their position out of hand. What need be understood is that “racist” and “fascist” are utilized instead of mounting a cogent argument proving that the leftist concept is superior, instead they simply label the person and all they stated as racist or fascist and that dismisses their ideas. Why bother with tedious arguments proving your point and ideas are superior, you are already convinced your ideas are superior and thus any other position is racist or fascist.
Living on the left is an easy place to reside. Mostly, nobody calls you out and there are very few rules by which one must live. Once you have mastered intersectionality, which we discussed here as well as here, you then have a guideline of the acceptable causes and the remainder are fascist and racist by definition. The basis for being accepted on the left is to support every protest with equal enthusiasm even should you have no idea what the protest is demanding. The only other item is that you never condemn or criticize any of the other leftist causes included as part of intersectionality and you never ever support those causes which are on the short list of items which are forbidden. These include anything to do with securing the borders, forcing a path to work from welfare or limitations on how long one is allowed to collect government benefits and the most stringent rule is Israel is an evil, apartheid, racist and fascist enterprise to be reviled and anybody who supports Israel is to be driven from the ranks as they are unacceptable. Another item which must always be remembered is that criticism of Israel is always valid by definition and has absolutely nothing to do with anti-Semitism. You can demand that Israelis and their IDF meet standards which are not expected of any other nation because those Israelis, never Jews, always just Israelis though we all know we actually mean those Jews, believe and claim to be better than others, so make them prove this is so. Remember, every time the fascist and racist policies and actions of those Israelis are exposed, it is one more proof that every accusation we have made is valid. Further, anybody stupid enough to try and counter our convictions against Israel, by their actions and acts, they have proven that they are one of those Jewish supremacists who believe that the Jews stand above everyone else. Defending Israel is racist according to the leftists and their intersectionality. When the action was taken by the Israeli government, then it is not only racist, it is also another movement towards complete fascism which is how the Israelis rule their areas, just like fascists. They have elections where only Jews can vote, well, the Arabs are not permitted to vote, well, the Palestinian Arabs. They claim that they have their own government but we know the truth, that Israel rules them and will not allow them a voice because they are racists.
Racism is easy to find. Whenever there is a Republican in the White House, that is a racist President. If that Republican President is actually accomplishing what he set out to accomplish, then not only is the government racist, it is also fascist. When a Democrat is in the White House, then everything, no matter what they have done, is considered to be near to if not perfect. If a Democrat President is being blocked by the Congress, then the Congress is racist and using fascist principles to block the word of the people. Anyone who votes for a Republican is racist and may actually also be a fascist. If one votes for the Democrats, then they are enlightened and intelligent. Republicans are always boorish racists and strong-arming fascists. Democrats are enlightened, intelligent and sensitive to the desires of the true American people. An easy way to remember this is, Democrats equals good and Republicans are always evil.
This intersectionality thing is also easy to remember and works to one’s benefit. Any cause which has been accepted as meeting the qualifiers to be considered part of intersectionality must be supported by all other groups who have been accepted into intersectionality. These are easily recognized as they meet at the least much of the politics of the Democrat Party. But be wary, as there are certain protests and groups which do not meet the qualification of intersectionality and instead are bigoted, racist and very likely fascist. If you are at a protest and there are no people from the Rainbow Coalition, Boycott-Divestment-Sanction of Israel (BDS), Black Lives Matter, We Are the 99%, abortion rights activists, then you may have joined a racist, fascist and hate-filled rally. Remember, it is not about right or wrong, it is about one of us or the enemy. We on the left are wonderful, accepting, open to discussion (as long as you do not mind one talking in bromides and self-fulfilling circular reasoning), warm and only take strong stands against those things which are racist or fascist, something we allow our all-powerful and super-intelligent leadership to decide.
Now the Democrat Party is involved in a movement of flux, a period where changes are taking place. The new face of the Democrat Party consists of people such as Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory on the women’s rights front, with new members of Congress backing them up consisting of but not limited to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (who else would top this list), Senator Bernie Sanders D-Vermont (yes, we know he was born a Jew but even Jews have their misguided idiots), Rashida Tlaib D-Mich., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y. (our chief editor calls her the gift which keeps on giving) and there were the standard bearers of the far left and the far right. The anti-Semites on the far right are not as dangerous as they are rejected by much of the mainstream conservatives. There are those on the left who will be shielded by the media and their fellow leftists as long as they stay away from obvious statements as have already gotten Sanders, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortes and Omar, especially Omar, in trouble deep enough that even the media has had to call them out.
There are two types of far right, also known as paleo-conservatives such as Pat Buchanan, who are anti-Semites and their main difference is where they place their Jew hatred. The Nazis and allied others place the Jews at the top of their hate list with Blacks and Hispanic close behind while the KKK and their ilk place Blacks and Hispanic ahead of Jews on who to hate. The leftists are a more unique breed as they place Jews at the top of their list and anything conservative closely behind. The leftists do not hate most other groups outside of Jews and are willing to accept Jews, tentatively at that, as long as they are willing to denounce Israel and support the Arab cause against the Jews. These Jews are the useful idiots, as should these people they are aligning themselves with ever gain control over the levers of power, it will not matter if a Jew supported their hate for Israel or remained Zionist; they will at that point simply see Jews and for them Jews are to be eradicated, not just hated. Examples of anti-Semites protected by the majority of those on the left include Al Sharpton, John Lewis, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Danny Davis, Andre Carson, Cory Booker and many other members of the Black Congressional Caucus. What makes this so sad is that the Jews marched right alongside Blacks in the Civil Rights movement as they saw this as a mutual concern. That generation of Blacks who knew these Jews are no more and their next generation did not know these Jews just as the new Pharos did not know Joseph. This has led to one of the most drastic and quick turnarounds in political history as the Blacks went from joining with the Jews to being diametrically opposed to the Jews and the Jewish State. Making this turnaround even more tragic is it only occurred for one side as the Jews still support equal rights and freedom for all.
Thus it has become that should a Jew support Israel, they will no longer be permitted to even join protests for other communities which became so very evident at the Chicago Dyke March where LGBTQ Jews who arrived with rainbow flags with a Star of David were banned, scorned and belittle as not being true to the cause as they apparently supported the racism and fascism that is presumably Israel. Because their flags had that abhorrent Star of David, these supporters were rejected and denied the right to march for a cause which they were just as involved and ardent about as the other marchers. The problem is that they were considered to be antagonistic to the Palestinian cause and supportive of Israel. This crosses the intersectionality agreement where in order to be accepted, one must accept those causes which are acceptable to the rest of the leftists and if one should break ranks in any means, then they are no longer permitted to enjoy the right to protest which is a denial of their right to free speech.
Multi-Colored Flags with a Star of David
If we may close speaking about Israel and the consequences of supporting her right to exist, we will appreciate such. According to the ‘Lords of Intersectionality,’ Israel must be rejected as they have determined that Israel is racist and fascist. Why is Israel racist? Well, because she refuses to permit people from a separate nation, the Arab Palestinians, to vote in their elections and to claim any and every inch of the country followed by their long awaited and desired slaughter of the Jews which will resemble, allow us to quote Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League who stated as the armies of six Arab nations reinforced by numerous militias organized to attack Israel on the morning Israel declared her statehood on May 15, 1948 in what the Arabs called their War of Annihilation, “It will be a war of annihilation. It will be a momentous massacre in history that will be talked about like the massacres of the Mongols or the Crusades.” This has also been phrased as the Jews ending up in the sea. It was at a speech given as part of the “>a href=https://archive.org/details/arabstatesandthe012664mbp target=blank>The Arab States And The Arab League A. Documentary Record Vol. I Constitutional Developments,” where Dr. Fadhil Jamali, Iraqi Representative to the United Nations, speaking to the Arab League, February 6, 1955, stated (direct quote is provided by Algemeiner),
I asked them (Arab League members) how Palestine was lost. It had been lost for two basic reasons: one, because we deluded ourselves by underestimating the power of our opponent and by thinking that the Jews were not powerful. The highest official in the League said that with 300 soldiers or North African Volunteers we could throw the Jews into the sea. The war started and His Excellency then said that with 3,000 North African Volunteers we could throw them into the sea. The second reason was that we thought that we were strong enough to face the world but the fact was that we did not estimate our own strength correctly. This then was the issue of Palestine. It seemed a trifling thing at the time but we did not know that behind the Jews of Palestine stood World Zionism with its resources in every major country.
We could easily contest the every major country part of the statement as the only nation to provide weapons which Israel desperately required in 1948 was Czechoslovakia. The commonly made statement that the United States has always stood behind Israel is patently false. This can be proven with the simple graph below which depicts the total aid given Israel by the United States by year and one can easily see that United States aid to Israel did not become a major factor until the early 1970’s. Allow us to explain the situation with Israel by a simple analogy. You receive information that there is a group of a couple hundred people in a field a mile from your house preparing to come and burn your house down. What would you do? Call the police, right. Where the police would tell you there is nothing they can do until a crime has been committed and that you can call back once they have started, you would get upset and still they would claim they will send a car by. They won’t. But these people who wish to burn your house down want to intimidate you first, so they stand surrounding your house and start throwing rocks through your windows. Now, when you call the police, they will hopefully respond. This is the case with Israel. The Arab world has wanted to burn our house down for over one-hundred years, even before we had fully moved in and declared the house ours. They had this strange habit of screaming warnings and threats and launching projectiles while massing on the Israeli borders. The police Israel calls is the IDF, and as they take orders from the people placing the call, they respond quite quickly. For some strange reason, probably we have found that when the Arabs claim they are going to come to dispossess us of our homeland and kill most if not all of us in the process, they mean it and will attack very soon. So when this happens we call the IDF, they respond, and then the media will cover the attack by Israel. Meanwhile, they had largely ignored the projectiles launched into Israel and the fields which were burned down costing farmers that year’s crop and burned down orchards which take many years to replace as well as forests and game reserves. This was not worthy of a report in much of the media. But as soon as Israel attacks, then come the headlines which tell the entire story, except the part about the past three months of rockets and other projectiles launched into Israel are in paragraph twelve of the fourteen paragraph story because research has informed the media that the third from the last paragraph is the least read in any article over eight paragraphs. Tricky, those media people, tricky they are. The last Gaza war, Operation Protective Edge it was called, before Israel attacked with ground forces, over two to three thousand rockets had been launched into Israeli cities and it was not until the daily numbers exceeded one hundred per day and Hamas and Islamic Jihad began using their largest rockets targeting Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that Israel responded. Another misrepresentation is the media claiming that Israel sends in ground forces in order to maximize damages and casualties. The reality is exactly the opposite. Israel sends in ground forces so as to target only combatants and to minimize civilian casualties. We need to point out that the Terrorist rulers of Gaza will remove the ammunition, weapons and identifying markers from a dead terrorist and then call the media to take pictures of the latest civilians killed. If Israel so desired to minimize IDF casualties, she could sit outside Gaza and use aircraft, naval artillery, and tanks and level all of Gaza killing tens of thousands and largely not lose any IDF soldiers. Israel does not take the indiscriminant mode of simply kill everything and instead sends in ground forces who will enter buildings to assure that the target they shoot is a combatant as often the snipers force entire families to sit with them as shields.
United States Israel Aid (Military)
Lastly, the accusation that Israel is racist because they only target Arabs and Muslims is false. First, there are Arabs living in Israel who are Jews, Christians and Muslim as well as other faiths. These people are treated exactly the same as every other Israeli. For those who refuse to believe such, we invite you for a visit or a few weeks or months to see for yourself. Yes, we treat the Arab Palestinians differently just as the United States treats Mexicans, Canadians and North Korean differently. The Arab Palestinians inform us with their every broadcast that they are our implacable enemies and want us all dead. This is not exactly the form of activity you perform if you wish to be accepted. Yes, they go through checkpoints as they are entering another nation from a semiautonomous zone if they are living under the Palestinian Authority and a separate nation completely free of Israeli interference except when they push for a war, something they are currently threatening and Egypt is desperately attempting to stave off such an eventuality. Israel left all of Gaza even to the point of reinterring our dead within Israel otherwise, they would have been dug from their graves and desecrated. We left millions of dollars worth of functioning greenhouses already planted so they could have a start at an economy. The greenhouses were destroyed and the piping turned into rockets and sent back to Israel with an explosive charge atop. The rockets launched from Gaza are seldom targeting any military target and instead are intentionally targeting civilian locations. Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim that every Israeli from the unborn to someone over one-hundred years old are all combatants because every Jew in Israel desires killing an Arab. This claim is the greatest example of projection one will ever find as the Quran is interpreted by many to guarantee a Muslim be placed in paradise should they murder a Jew. It does not matter if the Quran actually guarantees paradise for the murdering of a Jew, it only maters that they believe the Quran promises them this. If the Palestinian Arab is from the Palestinian Authority and murders a Jew, they and their family are guaranteed a payment, for as long as Abbas can find the cash, into perpetuity, and it is a very healthy check which guarantees one’s family living the good life. This is important in an area where jobs are scarce and becoming more scarce thanks to the BDS movement. Those “evil” Israeli companies beyond the Green Line employ tens of thousands of Arab Palestinians at the same rate the Israelis earn and at these plants, the Arabs often are managerial position and have Jews working under them. Each time the BDS succeeds in closing one of these companies, hundreds or even thousands of Arab Palestinians lose their well paying job. When SodaStream relocated inside the Green Line, five-hundred Arab Palestinians lost their jobs. Finally, we hear about the fact that Palestinians go through checkpoints in order to enter Israel, ever wonder what Israelis have to do to enter the Palestinian areas? Well, here is a picture worth a thousand words which depicts what an Israeli is told about entering the Palestinian areas, and the information on the sign is beautified compared to the reality if they were caught within these areas.
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