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New guides help communities to negotiate fair contracts with investors
These Community-Investor Negotiation Guides provide communities and advocates with strategies to protect themselves from unjust land-based investment projects and ensure that the community's long-term prosperity is at the center of all negotiations.Get RSS feed of these results
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Guide 1: Preparing in advance for potential investors
Author: Namati & Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Unfortunately, consultations between communities and investors are typically characterized by significant information and power imbalances. Community members often don't know what rights they have, what fair compensation would be, or what is required to make a contract clear and enforceable. Without such a contract, communities are often powerless to hold an investor acting in bad faith accountable, demand remedies for environmental and social damages, or contain an expanding investment to the plot of land originally agreed upon. The Community-Investor Negotiation Guides equip communities and frontline advocates to engage with potential investors from a place of empowerment.
...This guide... details how a community can:
1) Create a shared vision for their future development, so they can assess whether an investment would be in their best interest;
2) Understand the holistic value of their land in order to better assess investors' offers;
3) Make rules to guide how they and their leaders will interact with potential investors and help to manage their lands and natural resource sustainably and equitably;
4) Work to resolve intra-community conflicts around how to react to potential investors; and
5) Prepare for negotiations by researching the investor, creating a negotiating team, and agreeing on points the team will advocate for incorporation into the contract.
Guide 2: Negotiating contracts with investors
Author: Namati & Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
This guide... contains advice for communities who have agreed to negotiate with a potential investor. It describes the various sections and clauses that should be in a contract, advises what protective language to include, and warns of "red flag" language to avoid. It is designed to help communities and their frontline advocates to negotiate clear, fair, and enforceable contracts that require investors to respect community interests, conserve the local environment, and support the community's development—all on the community's own terms.


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Asus announces the first gaming laptop with an eight-core processor
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At Computex today, Asus announced several new ROG gaming laptops. The new Strix GL702ZC is the first gaming laptop to feature an eight-core processor (AMD Ryzen 1700 CPU). Variants of the laptop will also be available with the six...


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The consultation on the first draft of the Local Plan, which took place from 8 July until 19 August 2016, is now closed.
The Local Plan sets out a 15-year strategic vision, objectives and the spatial strategy as well as the planning policies and site allocations that will guide future development of the borough.
The Plan looks ahead to 2033 and identifies where the main developments will take place, and how places within the borough will change, or be protected from change, over that period.
This Pre-Publication consultation follows an informal Scoping Consultation, which took place in January 2016.
Please note, the first draft consultation document exceeds 100MB in size and may take some time to download. For higher resolution maps, view the draft Plan on the Consultation Portal.
The consultation documents can also be viewed in our Consultation Portal as well as at the Civic Centre, 44 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3BZ or in the Borough's main libraries.
Responses were able to be submitted in the following ways:
Note that Cabinet, at its meeting on 23 June 2016, has agreed the adoption and use of the Affordable Housing policy LP 36 as set out in the Pre-Publication Local Plan for determining planning applications and development management purposes. See further details on our Affordable Housing SPD webpage.
The Council considered all responses received on the Pre-Publication Local Plan consultation(pdf, 1755KB) and the appendices (large PDF). The analysis is set out in the Summary of main issues raised during public consultation on the Pre-Publication Local Plan, December 2016 (pdf, 1.4 MB), including a summary of all responses received and the Council's response. This has informed the next step as set out in the timetable for reviewing and preparing the Local Plan.
For information, we are not reviewing the Area Action Plan for Twickenham centre, which was adopted in 2013. Note that separate workshops and consultations were being undertaken for Twickenham Riverside and the creation of a new heart for Twickenham around the time of the Pre-Publication consultation.
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Parties: The 2014 Los Angeles Magazine Food Event – Great Cuisine, Beverages and Scenery
By Andy J. Gordon
One of the most anticipated food events of the year took place on a Sunday afternoon in October at the majestic Saddlerock Ranch in the Malibu hills. Los Angeles Magazine puts on this spectacular culinary feast that is simply called The Food Event. The home of Malibu Family Wines, makers of Saddlerock and Semler wines served as the site for this tasting event. More than 40 of the finest restaurants and food purveyors in the greater Los Angeles area provided samples of their menus. Guests tasted some amazing food, drank a variety of wines, beers and cocktails while enjoying a beautiful autumn day at the scenic ranch setting.
One of the nice things about this event is getting a map at the entrance that shows you where each of the vendors are situated. The ranch is a huge property with vineyards, exotic animals in pens and a lush, grassy residential area. The food event is set up in the grassy sections – a lower one and another one that is up a gradual incline. Restaurant and beverage tents are set up throughout the expanse and knowing in advance where each is located makes it easier to plan your trek through the property. A large, shaded chef demo kitchen was set up near the middle of the lower section. Over the course of the afternoon, Brooke Williamson (Playa Provisions), Elia Aboumard and Uyen Nguyen (Gorge), CJ Jacobson (Girasol) and Tal Ronnen (Crossroads Los Angeles) shared a few of their recipes with the guests.
Los Angeles Magazine is always dialed into the hottest restaurants in town, so the food choices at this event are always top notch. Some of the outstanding items this year were presented by Wolfgang Puck's restaurants. Cut offered succulent braised boneless short ribs. Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air served delicious lamb belly with squid ink crackers. Spago Beverly Hills had an amazing Korean flavored salmon dish. Jimmy Shaw's Loteria Grill always offers something special. This year they served chilaquiles in green tomatillo and red chipotle salsas. The Front Yard had a decadent Korean braised short rib grilled cheese. The Sunset Malibu served a delicious scallop with fish roe and micro greens.
Some great desserts were available as well. The best choices included the insane chocolate chunk cookies from Playa Provisions and the tequila, passion fruit and lime meringues from Goldie's.
There were a variety of excellent choices to wash down the fine food. In addition to a wide selection of Semler and Saddlerock wines, Karma tequila, founded by Devin Semler from the wine making family, was pouring tasty strawberry margaritas. They also offered samples of their full line of Blanco, Reposado and the newly released Añejo. The Don Julio ice bar also had a variety of tequila cocktails. Their Jalisco Garden was a delicious blend of Blanco tequila, pineapple juice, pressed kale and agave nectar. Deep Eddy vodka had a festive booth with two of the Deep Eddy "Betty's" pouring special potions. Some fine beers were also available at the event. A long line stretched out from the Stella Artois/Hoegaarden/Leffe Belgian Beer café. At another location, guests could sample some of the Goose Island and Shock Top selections.
There are many food, wine and booze events in Los Angeles throughout the year. None of them can match the array of excellent restaurants combined with the scenic setting of Los Angeles Magazine's Food Event. The 2014 edition was a smashing success and raised money for Kids Courage Foundation, an organization that offers support to families with critically ill children. What could be better than enjoying great food and drinks in a beautiful setting while helping raise money for needy kids? Several hundred people did just that and enjoyed every minute of it.
All photos copyright Andy J. Gordon 2014© except where noted.


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Even You
Where do you turn when love turns to hurt, when loss turns to fury?
Impetuous is not a word you'd use to describe Claire Bramany. She's capable, reliable and steady. But when a sudden accident in Brooklyn in 1995 takes the life of her lover, Jessie Friedman, Claire's world implodes. And worse is soon to come: while cleaning out Jessie's desk, Claire finds hidden journals that tell long-buried secrets of Jessie's western girlhood.
Jessie's account of Tulsa in 1944 appears innocent and playful, at first. Jessie's days are peopled with quirky characters–especially Uncle Jimmy, an honest-to-goodness teenage hero just back from war-torn Europe. He's Jessie's favorite, until the afternoon he makes his move on his nine-year-old niece.
No secrets. Secrets kill. This was the promise Claire and Jessie had made to each other. But in twenty-three years together with Jessie, Claire never heard of any Uncle Jimmy, much less any sexual violation. Shattered, yearning to reconnect with the Jessie she thought she knew, Claire heads out to Oklahoma to find this man. Is the story in the journals true? If so, has Claire any other course than to avenge Jimmy's hideous crimes…?
Praise for Even You
Even You is a profound work of literature….a gripping read from beginning to end." –Manhattan Book Review
"An inherently riveting read from beginning to end…Marilyn Oser [is] a particularly gifted novelist. Solidly entertaining from first page to last." –Midwest Book Review
"You will stay riveted 'til you know how this turns out." -AuthorsReading.com
"Oser has a painterly way with words, and captures the complexities of her characters." -NetGalley
"Poignantly written and a delight to read." -author Kristina Aziz
Rivka's War
Russia, 1914. Rivka, daughter of a prosperous boot maker, seems destined by tradition for marriage and the humdrum rounds of shtetl life. Then war breaks out, and things go badly for the tsar's army. When demoralized troops begin deserting their posts in the trenches, one unlikely officer recruits a battalion of girls to set an example for the men. Rivka seizes upon this chance for adventure as her once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do something great in the world. She signs on, never suspecting the terrors that await her, or the trials that will test her, or the mishaps that will take her from the frozen steppes of Siberia to the hot, dusty hills of Palestine. Based on actual events Rivka's War is a riveting tale of loss and survival. In vivid detail, it portrays the impact of the Great War on Jewish life, re-creating a vanished world.
Praise for Rivka's War
"Rivka…is a compelling heroine, representing both the Jewish diaspora and the precarious politics of the time." –Publishers Weekly
"Rivka's War is a must-read." -Baltimore Jewish Times
"A figure steps forward from history and shows herself to be a strong and courageous character. In Rivka's War, Marilyn Oser gives us a hero to cheer. A thoughtful and inspiring novel." -Susan Isaacs
"Steeped in historical fact, with a healthy dose of adventure." -Joanne Harvey, Kiwi Book Advisor
"Outstanding…Five stars." -Fran Lewis, Just Reviews
"Will interest Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike."
-Historical Novel Society
"Well written and fast paced." -Library Thing


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Saturday, January 24, 2015
Obama doesn't care about piling up Debt
Marc Faber : "Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt," - in Bloomberg
Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions of the stock market and futures markets around the world.Dr. Doom also trades currencies and commodity futures like Gold and Oil.
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Location: Vixen Point, Gorda Sound
Today we started off with a delicious french toast breakfast with pineapple. Today was another rotation day and we began with sailing Pico boats which was very fun! We then learned about RDPs and understanding how the chart works. After that we ate chicken salad sandwiches for lunch. Right after lunch we took a quiz over the information we learned about the RDPs. After our lunch break we then went sailing on boat a little larger than Picos and learned how to save a man overboard. We had a ton of fun! Soon after, we were off to go snorkeling and saw a bunch or really cool fish, including a baby barracuda. We then came back to the boat and started getting ready for the barbecue! Today was an awesome day and I cant wait for tomorrow!


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Addiction is a complex disease, and one that still isn't well-understood. Among other things, that means there's no one path to sustained sobriety for the person you love. Working with your loved one's health care providers (therapist, doctor, addiction counselor and/or interventionist), you should assess the types of treatments that best fit your loved one's needs and preferences.
The first step to treatment is usually detoxification, or the removal of the substance(s) or problematic behavior(s). With the exception of a few drugs (like inhalants), withdrawal symptoms occur when a substance or behavior is removed. These can include physical and/or psychological symptoms:
Physical symptoms of withdrawal:
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Muscle aches
- Headaches
- Shakiness
- Seizures
- Coma
Psychological symptoms of withdrawal:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Sadness
- Anger
- Upset
Once your loved one enters into treatment program for addiction (being admitted into an inpatient, outpatient or day treatment program), chances are they'll have a mix of the following approaches as part of their treatment plan:
Drug Therapy: Withdrawal symptoms – both physical and psychological – can be intense. There are a variety of prescriptions that can be used to help ease the symptoms of withdrawal in the short term and to keep cravings at bay for the longer-term; this is called medication-assisted therapy (MAT). According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), prescription medications may help restore normal brain function (namely the production of dopamine) in people who have substance use disorders. While drug makers don't have a prescription to help every addiction, here are some of the substance use disorders that have FDA-approved prescriptions available:
- For alcoholism: Naltrexone (brand names: Depade, ReVia and Vivitrol, an injectable form) is used to quell cravings for alcohol (and opioids; more on that below), while acamprosate (brand name: Campral) reduces withdrawal symptoms. Disulfiram (brand name: Antabuse), the oldest medication for alcoholism, causes unpleasant symptoms like nausea and skin-flushing that deter patients from drinking.
- For opioid addiction: Powerful painkillers, opioids are a class of drugs that include both the illicit drug heroin and prescription medications like morphine, oxycodone and hydrocodone. Addictions to these drugs can be treated with methadone, buprenorphine hydrochloride (brand name: Subutex) or buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxone hydrochloride tablets (brand name: Suboxone). Methadone and Subutex are used to quell withdrawal symptoms, including cravings, while Suboxone blocks opioids' ability to elicit a reaction from brain receptors. All of these drugs alleviate drug-seeking behavior, too. (Methadone, if used, should be managed with caution due to its risk for life-threatening breathing problems, says the National Institutes of Health; it's also highly addictive). The drug naltrexone (Vivitrol) also has FDA approval for treating opioid addictions; it works by erasing the drugs' effects so that cravings eventually diminish.
- For tobacco addiction: Nicotine is the addictive ingredient in tobacco products. Various nicotine-replacement therapies are available over-the-counter (OTC), including nicotine patches, sprays, gums and lozenges. Bupropion (brand names: Wellbutrin, Zyban) and varenicline (brand name: Chantix) are both FDA-approved for smoking cessation.
- For video gaming addiction: The antidepressant bupropion (brand names: Aplezin, Budeprion, Buproban, Wellbutrin, Zyban) is sometimes used to treat gaming disorders; as with its use in treating some substance use disorders, it can help reduce cravings for gaming.
More medications are also in the pipeline to help with addiction. Several are currently under investigation for the treatment of gambling disorder, but none have been approved by the FDA. And drugs are being developed for treating addictions to stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine as well as marijuana addiction, reports SAMHSA. You should know that if your loved one is addicted to more than one substance (what's called "poly-drug" use), this is common, and his/her treatment team should address each drug of abuse – as well as any other mental health issues – in treatment.
Psychotherapy: Counseling is considered an essential component in successfully treating addiction. What this means, however, varies a lot. It can mean that your spouse or loved one undergoes one-on-one "talk therapy" with a trained therapist, social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist or an addiction counselor, or he/she might be referred to group therapy. (This is when a group of people meet for counseling sessions to work on the same or similar issues with a trained therapist.) Your loved one might do both group and individual therapy, too.
The treatment plan for your family member or friend could include other types of therapy, too, and the approach that's used could change over time. For instance, counseling sessions may at first focus on recognizing triggers and sidestepping them or identifying ways to self-soothe in the face of difficulty and anxiety. Other techniques may be incorporated to help him/her deal with any past hurts or trauma in more depth. How a treatment team helps your loved one depends on the techniques the counselor is trained in as well as research that's proven to be effective for people who are facing similar challenges. In addition, counselors take into account who your loved one is and what kinds of therapies might work based on his/her interests and personality.
Here are some of the more common psychotherapeutic approaches to treating addiction:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT is a term for a well-documented and widely used treatment approach for mental health problems and substance and behavioral addictions. It's a general term for a group of therapies in which the therapist aims to help her client shift negative, inaccurate and unproductive thoughts and beliefs (such as, "How do you know everyone was looking at you? Isn't it possible you just felt they were?"), thereby improving the client's overall emotional health and behavior. When your loved one is in counseling for an addiction and/or mental health problem, it's very likely that a therapist will incorporate some CBT techniques. This approach tends to be a more rapid form of therapy, and "homework" is often assigned to help clients unlearn unhealthy habits and behavior.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): According to the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of CBT that is used when patients dealing with trauma or a difficult childhood require more support and acceptance to overcome addiction or other issues. In DBT, the clinician offers the client total acceptance, helping the client to open up and letting the client know when a behavior or belief is unhealthy. During counseling sessions, the patient reports the problems encountered in the previous week. The therapist tries to work with the addict to teach coping skills for dealing with life's everyday challenges – both big and small – while at the same time helping the client to learn how to deal with the present situation and not see or experience these through the lens of the past.
Motivational Interviewing (MI): This type of psychotherapy is used by counselors who want to help clients feel empowered to make positive changes in their lives. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative form of counseling in which a therapist seeks to strengthen the individual's desire to reach goals and make effective life changes.
Group Therapy: Group work can be very effective for people who share similar issues – including an addiction or a co-occurring mental health issue (like depression, bipolar disorder or ADHD). The certified group therapist (or sometimes a certified group facilitator) helps guide members to have focused conversations about their experiences and also participate in group activities that can help the healing process. By taking in the perspectives of others who have walked a similar path, members can learn from each other and feel less alone in their struggles. The therapist effectively uses group dynamics to help members change any negative behavior or thought processes that might underlie an addiction.
Family & Couples Therapy: Family therapy (also sometimes called Multidimensional Family Therapy, or MDFT) brings family members together to work to improve relationships, communication and cohesiveness. When a family goes to therapy because one or more members has an addiction and/or a mental health issue, there's an opportunity to solve problems and past hurts among the group. The family learns not to feed into an addiction, so they don't enable it to continue. In couples therapy sessions, partners work with a therapist to deal with an addiction and all the ways the substance or behavior has wounded their relationship by eroding trust and interdependence. The couple works to reconnect – or if they're unable, to part ways. Therapy might unearth unresolved trauma or unmanaged mental health issues. Depending on the situation, the therapist may decide to hold individual sessions with one partner or even refer a patient for more specialized care, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) if indicated.
Other Treatment Options: As part of treatment for addiction, your loved one might also encounter these therapies:
Adventure therapy: These programs welcome nature into the healing process. Programs vary but may include adrenaline-pumping sports or activities such as rock climbing, orienteering and zip lining. The premise is that Mother Nature dishes up unique, unpredictable challenges, allowing addicts to learn how to manage problems on the fly and that problem is insurmountable.
Art therapy: Certified art therapists help bring out patients' inner artist, using a variety of media (watercolors, oil pastels, clay) as a means to address and sort through difficult feelings and experiences. According to the American Art Therapy Association, art therapy helps patients to resolve inner conflicts, gain self-awareness, change behavior, strengthen social skills, manage anxiety and increase self-esteem.
Equine therapy: Sometimes animals can heal when nothing and no one else can. Your loved one may get a lot out of caring for and riding horses as part of his/her treatment program. Some centers offer equine therapy on property to help those with addictions and/or mental health issues to develop deeper emotional connections and promote healing.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): This form of psychotherapy aims to relieve anxiety, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. A trained EMDR therapist uses a technique in which the client follows the therapist's fingers with his/her while recalling a negative memory. The combination of the repetitive eye movement and memory recall is said to help the client process memories and relieve negative emotions. Because events such as past trauma may contribute to a drug addiction and because co-occurring disorders need to be addressed in treatment, EMDR is sometimes used when more intensive therapy is needed. EMDR may be repeated until the client fully processes his/her distress over past events.
Motivational incentives: To encourage clients to reach treatment goals and stay sober, clinicians may reward those who are making good strides in treatment. Rewards might include a weekend pass to go home, a voucher for an outing or a privilege like getting their own room in a sober living home. This positive psychological approach encourages clients in residential treatment programs or sober living communities to stay the course.
Recreational therapy: Addicts often need to re-learn healthy ways to have fun, relieve stress and build relationships. By participating in scrapbooking, knitting or bowling, for example, recreational therapy helps addicts build community and begin to experience healthy ways to have fun, relieve stress and form relationships.
Wilderness therapy: Usually geared towards teens and young adults, wilderness therapy teaches skills that allow participants to subsist in nature for a period of days or weeks, depending on the program. The self-reliance learned in the wild translates into real life following the program. These programs may include individual treatment plans and 12-step work, too.


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When we think how many millions of words have been written and printed in England in the past three hundred years, and how the vast majority have died out without leaving any trace, it is tempting to wonder what quality the words of Donne possess that we should still hear them distinctly today. Far be it from us to suggest even in this year of celebration and pardonable adulation (1931) that the poems of Donne are popular reading or that the typist, if we look over her shoulder in the Tube, is to be discovered reading Donne as she returns from her office. But he is read; he is audible — to that fact new editions and frequent articles testify, and it is worth perhaps trying to analyse the meaning that his voice has for us as it strikes upon the ear after this long flight across the stormy seas that separate us from the age of Elizabeth. But the first quality that attracts us is not his meaning, charged with meaning as his poetry is, but something much more unmixed and immediate; it is the explosion with which he bursts into speech. All preface, all parleying have been consumed; he leaps into poetry the shortest way. One phrase consumes all preparation:
I long to talke with some old lover's ghost,
He is starke mad, whoever sayes,
That he hath beene in love an houre.
At once we are arrested. Stand still, he commands,
Stand still, and I will read to thee
A Lecture, Love, in love's philosophy.
And stand still we must. With the first words a shock passes through us; perceptions, previously numb and torpid, quiver into being; the nerves of sight and hearing are quickened; the "bracelet of bright hair" burns in our eyes. But, more remarkably, we do not merely become aware of beautiful remembered lines; we feel ourselves compelled to a particular attitude of mind. Elements that were dispersed in the usual stream of life become, under the stroke of Donne's passion, one and entire. The world, a moment before, cheerful, humdrum, bursting with character and variety, is consumed. We are in Donne's world now. All other views are sharply cut off.
In this power of suddenly surprising and subjugating the reader, Donne excels most poets. It is his characteristic quality; it is thus that he lays hold upon us, summing up his essence in a word or two. But it is an essence that, as it works in us, separates into strange contraries at odds with one another. Soon we begin to ask ourselves of what this essence is composed, what elements have met together to cut so deep and complex an impression. Some obvious clues lie strewn on the surface of the poems. When we read the Satyres, for example, we need no external proof to tell us that these are the work of a boy. He has all the ruthlessness and definiteness of youth, its hatred of the follies of middle age and of convention. Bores, liars, courtiers — detestable humbugs and hypocrites as they are, why not sum them up and sweep them off the face of the earth with a few strokes of the pen? And so these foolish figures are drubbed with an ardour that proves how much hope and faith and delight in life inspire the savagery of youthful scorn. But, as we read on, we begin to suspect that the boy with the complex and curious face of the early portrait — bold yet subtle, sensual yet nerve drawn — possessed qualities that made him singular among the young. It is not simply that the huddle and pressure of youth which out-thinks its words had urged him on too fast for grace or clarity. It may be that there is in this clipping and curtailing, this abrupt heaping of thought on thought, some deeper dissatisfaction than that of youth with age, of honesty with corruption. He is in rebellion, not merely against his elders, but against something antipathetic to him in the temper of his time. His verse has the deliberate bareness of those who refuse to avail themselves of the current usage. It has the extravagance of those who do not feel the pressure of opinion, so that sometimes judgment fails them, and they heap up strangeness for strangeness' sake. He is one of those nonconformists, like Browning and Meredith, who cannot resist glorifying their nonconformity by a dash of wilful and gratuitous eccentricity. But to discover what Donne disliked in his own age, let us imagine some of the more obvious influences that must have told upon him when he wrote his early poems — let us ask what books he read. And by Donne's own testimony we find that his chosen books were the works of "grave Divines"; of philosophers; of "jolly Statesmen, which teach how to tie The sinewes of a cities mistique bodie"; and chroniclers. Clearly he liked facts and arguments. If there are also poets among his books, the epithets he applies to them, "Giddie fantastique", seem to disparage the art, or at least to show that Donne knew perfectly well what qualities were antipathetic to him in poetry. And yet he was living in the very spring of English poetry. Some of Spenser might have been on his shelves; and Sidney's Arcadia; and the Paradise of Dainty Devices, and Lyly's Euphues. He had the chance, and apparently took it —"I tell him of new playes"— of going to the theatre; of seeing the plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare acted. When he went abroad in London, he must have met all the writers of that time — Spenser and Sidney and Shakespeare and Jonson; he must have heard at this tavern or at that talk of new plays, of new fashions in verse, heated and learned discussion of the possibilities of the English language and the future of English poetry. And yet, if we turn to his biography, we find that he neither consorted with his contemporaries nor read what they wrote. He was one of those original beings who cannot draw profit, but are rather disturbed and distracted by what is being done round them at the moment. If we turn again to Satyres, it is easy to see why this should be so. Here is a bold and active mind that loves to deal with actual things, which struggles to express each shock exactly as it impinges upon his tight-stretched senses. A bore stops him in the street. He sees him exactly, vividly.
His cloths were strange, though coarse; and black, though bare;
Sleevelesse his jerkin was, and it had beene
Velvet, but t'was now (so much ground was seene)
Become Tufftaffatie;
Then he likes to give the actual words that people say:
He, like to a high stretcht lute string squeakt, O Sir,
'Tis sweet to talke of Kings. At Westminster,
Said I, The man that keepes the Abbey tombes,
And for his price doth with who ever comes,
Of all our Harries, and our Edwards talke,
From King to King and all their kin can walke:
Your eares shall heare nought, but Kings; your eyes meet
Kings only; The way to it, is Kingstreet.
His strength and his weakness are both to be found here. He selects one detail and stares at it until he has reduced it to the few words that express its oddity:
And like a bunch of ragged carrets stand
The short swolne fingers of thy gouty hand,
but he cannot see in the round, as a whole. He cannot stand apart and survey the large outline so that the description is always of some momentary intensity, seldom of the broader aspect of things. Naturally, then, he found it difficult to use the drama with its conflict of other characters; he must always speak from his own centre in soliloquy, in satire, in self-analysis. Spenser, Sidney, and Marlowe provided no helpful models for a man who looked out from this angle of vision. The typical Elizabethan with his love of eloquence, with his longing for brave new words, tended to enlarge and generalize. He loved wide landscapes, heroic virtues, and figures seen sublimely in outline or in heroic conflict. Even the prose-writers have the same habit of aggrandisement. When Dekker sets out to tell us how Queen Elizabeth died in the spring, he cannot describe her death in particular or that spring in particular; he must dilate upon all deaths and all springs:
. . . the Cuckoo (like a single, sole Fiddler, that reels from Tavern to Tavern) plied it all the day long: Lambs frisked up and down in the vallies, kids and Goats leapt to and fro on the Mountains: Shepherds sat piping, country wenches singing: Lovers made Sonnets for their Lasses, whilst they made Garlands for their Lovers: And as the Country was frolic, so was the City merry . . . no Scritch-Owl frighted the silly Countryman at midnight, nor any Drum the Citizen at noon-day; but all was more calm than a still water, all husht, as if the Spheres had been playing in Consort: In conclusion, heaven lookt like a Pallace, and the great hall of the earth, like a Paradise. But O the short-liv'd Felicity of man! O world, of what slight and thin stuff is thy happiness!
— in short, Queen Elizabeth died, and it is no use asking Dekker what the old woman who swept his room for him said, or what Cheapside looked like that night if one happened to be caught in the thick of the throng. He must enlarge; he must generalize; he must beautify.
Donne's genius was precisely the opposite of this. He diminished; he particularized. Not only did he see each spot and wrinkle which defaced the fair outline; but he noted with the utmost curiosity his own reaction to such contrasts and was eager to lay side by side the two conflicting views and to let them make their own dissonance. It is this desire for nakedness in an age that was florid, this determination to record not the likenesses which go to compose a rounded and seemly whole, but the inconsistencies that break up semblances, the power to make us feel the different emotions of love and hate and laughter at the same time, that separate Donne from his contemporaries. And if the usual traffic of the day — to be buttonholed by a bore, to be snared by a lawyer, to be snubbed by a courtier — made so sharp an impression on Donne, the effect of falling in love was bound to be incomparably greater. Falling in love meant, to Donne, a thousand things; it meant being tormented and disgusted, disillusioned and enraptured; but it also meant speaking the truth. The love poems, the elegies, and the letters thus reveal a figure of a very different calibre from the typical figure of Elizabethan love poetry. That great ideal, built up by a score of eloquent pens, still burns bright in our eyes. Her body was of alabaster, her legs of ivory; her hair was golden wire and her teeth pearls from the Orient. Music was in her voice and stateliness in her walk. She could love and sport and be faithless and yielding and cruel and true; but her emotions were simple, as befitted her person. Donne's poems reveal a lady of a very different cast. She was brown but she was also fair; she was solitary but also sociable; she was rustic yet also fond of city life; she was sceptical yet devout, emotional but reserved — in short she was as various and complex as Donne himself. As for choosing one type of human perfection and restricting himself to love her and her only, how could Donne, or any man who allowed his senses full play and honestly recorded his own moods, so limit his nature and tell such lies to placate the conventional and the decorous? Was not "love's sweetest part, Variety"? "Of music, joy, life and eternity Change is the nursery", he sang. The timid fashion of the age might limit a lover to one woman. For his part he envied and admired the ancients, "who held plurality of loves no crime":
But since this title honour hath been us'd,
Our weak credulity hath been abus'd.
We have fallen from our high estate; the golden laws of nature are repealed.
So through the glass of Donne's poetry, now darkly clouded, now brilliantly clear, we see pass in procession the many women whom he loved and hated — the common Julia whom he despised; the simpleton, to whom he taught the art of love; she who was married to an invalid husband, "cag'd in a basket chair"; she who could only be loved dangerously by strategy; she who dreamt of him and saw him murdered as he crossed the Alps; she whom he had to dissuade from the risk of loving him; and lastly, the autumnal, the aristocratic lady for whom he felt more of reverence than of love — so they pass, common and rare, simple and sophisticated, young and old, noble and plebeian, and each casts a different spell and brings out a different lover, although the man is the same man, and the women, perhaps, are also phases of womanhood rather than separate and distinct women. In later years the Dean of St. Paul's would willingly have edited some of these poems and suppressed one of these lovers — the poet presumably of "Going to Bed" and "Love's Warr". But the Dean would have been wrong. It is the union of so many different desires that gives Donne's love poetry not only its vitality but also a quality that is seldom found with such strength in the conventional and orthodox lover — its spirituality. If we do not love with the body, can we love with the mind? If we do not love variously, freely, admitting the lure first of this quality and then of that, can we at length choose out the one quality that is essential and adhere to it and so make peace among the warring elements and pass into a state of being which transcends the "Hee and Shee"? Even while he was at his most fickle and gave fullest scope to his youthful lusts, Donne could predict the season of maturity when he would love differently, with pain and difficulty, one and one only. Even while he scorned and railed and abused, he divined another relationship which transcended change and parting and might, even in the bodies' absence, lead to unity and communion:
Rend us in sunder, thou cans't not divide,
Our bodies so, but that our souls are ty'd,
And we can love by letters still and gifts,
And thoughts and dreams;
They who one another keepe alive
N'er parted be.
And again,
So to one neutrall thing both sexes fit,
Wee dye and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.
Such hints and premonitions of a further and finer state urge him on and condemn him to perpetual unrest and dissatisfaction with the present. He is tantalized by the sense that there is a miracle beyond any of these transient delights and disgusts. Lovers can, if only for a short space, reach a state of unity beyond time, beyond sex, beyond the body. And at last, for one moment, they reach it. In the "Extasie" they lie together on a bank,
All day, the same our postures were,
And wee said nothing, all the day. . . .
This Extasie doth unperplex
(We said) and tell us what we love,
Wee see by this, it was not sexe,
Wee see, we saw not what did move: . . .
Wee then, who are this new soule, know,
Of what we are compos'd, and made,
For, th' Atomies of which we grow,
Are soules, whom no change can invade.
But O alas, so long, so farre
Our bodies why doe wee forbeare? . . .
But O alas, he breaks off, and the words remind us that however much we may wish to keep Donne in one posture — for it is in these Extasies that lines of pure poetry suddenly flow as if liquefied by a great heat — so to remain in one posture was against his nature. Perhaps it is against the nature of things also. Donne snatches the intensity because he is aware of the change that must alter, of the discord that must interrupt.
Circumstances, at any rate, put it beyond his power to maintain that ecstasy for long. He had married secretly; he was a father; he was, as we are soon reminded, a very poor yet a very ambitious man, living in a damp little house at Mitcham with a family of small children. The children were frequently ill. They cried, and their cries, cutting through the thin walls of the jerry-built house, disturbed him at his work. He sought sanctuary naturally enough elsewhere, and naturally had to pay rent for that relief. Great ladies — Lady Bedford, Lady Huntingdon, Mrs. Herbert — with well-spread tables and fair gardens, must be conciliated; rich men with the gift of rooms in their possession must be placated. Thus, after Donne the harsh satirist, and Donne the imperious lover, comes the servile and obsequious figure of Donne the devout servant of the great, the extravagant eulogist of little girls. And our relationship with him suddenly changes. In the satires and the love poems there was a quality — some psychological intensity and complexity — that brings him closer than his contemporaries, who often seem to be caught up in a different world from ours and to exist immune from our perplexities and swept by passions which we admire but cannot feel. Easy as it is to exaggerate affinities, still we may claim to be akin to Donne in our readiness to admit contrasts, in our desire for openness, in that psychological intricacy which the novelists have taught us with their slow, subtle, and analytic prose. But now, as we follow Donne in his progress, he leaves us in the lurch. He becomes more remote, inaccessible, and obsolete than any of the Elizabethans. It is as if the spirit of the age, which he had scorned and flouted, suddenly asserted itself and made this rebel its slave. And as we lose sight of the outspoken young man who hated society, and of the passionate lover, seeking some mysterious unity with his love and finding it miraculously, now here, now there, it is natural to abuse the system of patrons and patronage that thus seduced the most incorruptible of men. Yet it may be that we are too hasty. Every writer has an audience in view, and it may well be doubted if the Bedfords and the Drurys and the Herberts were worse influences than the libraries and the newspaper proprietors who fill the office of patron nowadays.
The comparison, it is true, presents great difficulties. The noble ladies who brought so strange an element into Donne's poetry, live only in the reflection, or in the distortion, that we find in the poems themselves. The age of memoirs and letter-writing was still to come. If they wrote themselves, and it is said that both Lady Pembroke and Lady Bedford were poets of merit, they did not dare to put their names to what they wrote, and it has vanished. But a diary here and there survives from which we may see the patroness more closely and less romantically. Lady Ann Clifford, for example, the daughter of a Clifford and a Russell, though active and practical and little educated — she was not allowed "to learn any language because her father would not permit it"— felt, we can gather from the bald statements of her diary, a duty towards literature and to the makers of it as her mother, the patroness of the poet Daniel, had done before her. A great heiress, infected with all the passion of her age for lands and houses, busied with all the cares of wealth and property, she still read good English books as naturally as she ate good beef and mutton. She read The Faery Queen and Sidney's Arcadia; she acted in Ben Jonson's Masques at Court; and it is proof of the respect in which reading was held that a girl of fashion should be able to read an old corrupt poet like Chaucer without feeling that she was making herself a target for ridicule as a bluestocking. The habit was part of a normal and well-bred life. It persisted even when she was mistress of one estate and claimant to even vaster possession of her own. She had Montaigne read aloud to her as she sat stitching at Knole; she sat absorbed in Chaucer while her husband worked. Later, when years of strife and loneliness had saddened her, she returned to her Chaucer with a deep sigh of content: " . . . if I had not excellent Chaucer's book here to comfort me", she wrote, "I were in a pitiable case having as many troubles as I have here, but, when I read in that, I scorn and make light of them all, and a little part of his beauteous spirit infuses itself in me". The woman who said that, though she never attempted to set up a salon or to found a library, felt it incumbent on her to respect the men of low birth and no fortune who could write The Canterbury Tales or The Faery Queen. Donne preached before her at Knole. It was she who paid for the first monument to Spenser in Westminster Abbey, and if, when she raised a tomb to her old tutor, she dwelt largely upon her own virtues and titles, she still acknowledged that even so great a lady as herself owed gratitude to the makers of books. Words from great writers nailed to the walls of the room in which she sat, eternally transacting business, surrounded her as she worked, as they surrounded Montaigne in his tower in Burgundy.
Thus we may infer that Donne's relation to the Countess of Bedford was very different from any that could exist between a poet and a countess at the present time. There was something distant and ceremonious about it. To him she was "as a vertuous Prince farre off". The greatness of her office inspired reverence apart from her personality, just as the rewards within her gift inspired humility. He was her Laureate, and his songs in her praise were rewarded by invitations to stay with her at Twickenham and by those friendly meetings with men in power which were so effective in furthering the career of an ambitious man — and Donne was highly ambitious, not indeed for the fame of a poet, but for the power of a statesman. Thus when we read that Lady Bedford was "God's Masterpiece", that she excelled all women in all ages, we realise that John Donne is not writing to Lucy Bedford; Poetry is saluting Rank. And this distance served to inspire reason rather than passion. Lady Bedford must have been a very clever woman, well versed in the finer shades of theology, to derive an instant or an intoxicating pleasure from the praises of her servant. Indeed, the extreme subtlety and erudition of Donne's poems to his patrons seems to show that one effect of writing for such an audience is to exaggerate the poet's ingenuity. What is not poetry but something tortured and difficult will prove to the patron that the poet is exerting his skill on her behalf. Then again, a learned poem can be handed round among statesmen and men of affairs to prove that the poet is no mere versifier, but capable of office and responsibility. But a change of inspiration that has killed many poets — witness Tennyson and the Idylls of the King — only stimulated another side of Donne's many-sided nature and many-faceted brain. As we read the long poems written ostensibly in praise of Lady Bedford, or in celebration of Elizabeth Drury (An Anatomie of the World and the Progresse of the Soul), we are made to reflect how much remains for a poet to write about when the season of love is over. When May and June are passed, most poets cease to write or sing the songs of their youth out of tune. But Donne survived the perils of middle age by virtue of the acuteness and ardour of his intellect. When "the satyrique fires which urg'd me to have writt in skorne of all" were quenched, when "My muse (for I had one), because I'm cold, Divorced herself", there still remained the power to turn upon the nature of things and dissect that. Even in the passionate days of youth Donne had been a thinking poet. He had dissected and analysed his own love. To turn from that to the anatomy of the world, from the personal to the impersonal, was the natural development of a complex nature. And the new angle to which his mind now pointed under the influence of middle age and traffic with the world, released powers that were held in check when they were directed against some particular courtier or some particular woman. Now his imagination, as if freed from impediment, goes rocketing up in flights of extravagant exaggeration. True, the rocket bursts; it scatters in a shower of minute, separate particles — curious speculations, wire-drawn comparisons, obsolete erudition; but, winged by the double pressure of mind and heart, of reason and imagination, it soars far and fast into a finer air. Working himself up by his own extravagant praise of the dead girl, he shoots on:
We spur, we reine the starres, and in their race
They're diversly content t' obey our pace.
But keepes the earth her round proportion still?
Doth not a Tenarif, or higher Hill
Rise so high like a Rocke, that one might thinke
The floating Moone would shipwracke there, and sinke?
Seas are so deepe, that Whales being strooke to day,
Perchance tomorrow, scarce at middle way
Of their wish'd journies end, the bottome, die.
And men, to sound depths, so much line untie,
As one might justly thinke, that there would rise
At end thereof, one of th' Antipodies:
Or again, Elizabeth Drury is dead and her soul has escaped:
she stayes not in the ayre,
To looke what Meteors there themselves prepare;
She carries no desire to know, nor sense,
Whether th' ayres middle region be intense;
For th' Element of fire, she doth not know,
Whether she past by such a place or no;
She baits not at the Moone, nor cares to trie
Whether in that new world, men live, and die.
Venus retards her not, to' enquire, how shee
Can, (being one starre) Hesper, and Vesper bee;
Hee that charm'd Argus eyes, sweet Mercury,
Workes not on her, who now is growne all eye;
So we penetrate into distant regions, and reach rare and remote speculations a million miles removed from the simple girl whose death fired the explosion. But to break off fragments from poems whose virtue lies in their close-knit sinews and their long-breathed strength is to diminish them. They need to be read currently rather to grasp the energy and power of the whole than to admire those separate lines which Donne suddenly strikes to illumine the stages of our long climb.
Thus, finally, we reach the last section of the book, the Holy Sonnets and Divine Poems. Again the poetry changes with the change of circumstances and of years. The patron has gone with the need of patronage. Lady Bedford has been replaced by a Prince still more virtuous and still more remote. To Him the prosperous, the important, the famous Dean of St. Paul's now turns. But how different is the divine poetry of this great dignitary from the divine poetry of the Herberts and the Vaughans! The memory of his sins returns to him as he writes. He has been burnt with "lust and envy"; he has followed profane loves; he has been scornful and fickle and passionate and servile and ambitious. He has attained his end; but he is weaker and worse than the horse or the bull. Now too he is lonely. "Since she whom I lov'd" is dead "My good is dead." Now at last his mind is "wholly sett on heavenly things". And yet how could Donne — that "little world made cunningly of elements"— be wholly set on any one thing?
Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begott
A constant habit; that when I would not
I change in vowes, and in devotione.
It was impossible for the poet who had noted so curiously the flow and change of human life, and its contrasts, who was at once so inquisitive of knowledge and so sceptical —
Doubt wisely; in strange way,
To stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is
— who had owned allegiance to so many great Princes, the body, the King, the Church of England, to reach that state of wholeness and certainty which poets of purer life were able to maintain. His devotions themselves were feverish and fitful. "My devout fitts come and goe away like a fantastique Ague." They are full of contraries and agonies. Just as his love poetry at its most sensual will suddenly reveal the desire for a transcendent unity "beyond the Hee and Shee", and his most reverential letters to great ladies will suddenly become love poems addressed by an amorous man to a woman of flesh and blood, so these last divine poems are poems of climbing and falling, of incongruous clamours and solemnities, as if the church door opened on the uproar of the street. That perhaps is why they still excite interest and disgust, contempt and admiration. For the Dean still retained the incorrigible curiosity of his youth. The temptation to speak the truth in defiance of the world even when he had taken all that the world had to give, still worked in him. An obstinate interest in the nature of his own sensations still troubled his age and broke its repose as it had troubled his youth and made him the most vigorous of satirists and the most passionate of lovers. There was no rest, no end, no solution even at the height of fame and on the edge of the grave for a nature plaited together of such diverse strands. The famous preparations that he made, lying in his shroud, being carved for his tomb, when he felt death approach are poles asunder from the falling asleep of the tired and content. He must still cut a figure and still stand erect — a warning perhaps, a portent certainly, but always consciously and conspicuously himself. That, finally, is one of the reasons why we still seek out Donne; why after three hundred years and more we still hear the sound of his voice speaking across the ages so distinctly. It may be true that when from curiosity we come to cut up and "survey each part", we are like the doctors and "know not why"— we cannot see how so many different qualities meet together in one man. But we have only to read him, to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time. Even the elements seem to have respected that identity. When the fire of London destroyed almost every other monument in St. Paul's, it left Donne's figure untouched, as if the flames themselves found that knot too hard to undo, that riddle too difficult to read, and that figure too entirely itself to turn to common clay.
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RMC Sport journalist Loic Tanzi believes Monaco, on top of their talks with Ajax for Kasper Dolberg, are also interested in signing Chelsea outcast Diego Costa, wantaway Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez and in-form Manchester United attacker Anthony Martial.
Monaco s'est renseigné sur le cas de Diego Costa, A. Martial et Alexis Sanchez. Recherche d'un attaquant, negos avec Dolberg #Breakingfoot
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Costa has been heavily linked with a move back to former club Atletico Madrid after spectacularly falling out with Blues manager Antonio Conte, with the Spain international currently in Brazil despite the club ordering him to return to training.
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Seen In New York, September 2013
The New York art season opened earlier this month with what seems like an impossible number of shows in Chelsea, Bushwick, Dumbo, Midtown, and the Lower East Side, with still more dotting neighbourhoods off the beaten track. Are there really enough rich people to keep all these spaces afloat?
What follows is a round-up of my favourite exhibitions, with an emphasis on painting.
The Gene Davis show at Ameringer McHenry Yohe was a fine way to kick things off – it consisted of six large pictures from a fairly broad range of time, four of which I consider to be genuine masterpieces: Yellow Jacket (1969), Queen's Gate (1980), Peeping Wall II (1961), and Untitled (1973). Each have all of the Gene Davis hallmarks: bands of colour that vibrate like guitar strings, enveloping scale, and a marvellous tension between the materiality of the raw canvas and hues that seem to float in mid-air, dissolving and unattached to the surface. The colour sequences are always full of surprises, with short repeating sections quickly interrupted by accenting colours, which give way to new rhythms or long rests created by large areas of raw canvas or stained colour. It's hard to avoid using musical analogies when talking about these pictures – Davis possessed a sense of space and pacing that any jazz drummer would be thrilled to own. Yellow Jacket, with its ballsy bubble-gum pink section on the left side, was my hands-down favourite.
Another surprising quality in Davis is that the pictures look like they could have been made last week. This dawned on me not while looking at the paintings, but while at two other shows I saw immediately afterward – the Frederick Hammersley exhibition in the project space at Ameringer McHenry Yohe and the Paul Feeley show at Garth Greenan. Both had some fine pictures, but I never lost sight of the period in which they were made. This isn't necessarily a criticism of the two latter shows, it just highlights yet another somewhat miraculous and difficult to quantify aspect of the Davis canvases. All that said, Hammersley's See Saw #3 from 1966 was particularly nice, with bold simple geometric shapes in stark black and white balanced and pinched as delicately as can be – like a strange mix of heavy industry and ballet. Paul Feeley's Petono from 1962 pleasingly pulsed in a particular 1960's way; not exactly psychedelic but unmistakably a product of that moment.
The Chuck Webster show at Betty Cunningham required a little while to seep in (at least for me). At first the paintings seemed like large-scale Guston-esque abstractions; not bad at all, but hardly a rare commodity. But a little time spent in the room slowly revealed a soft glow to the glazed colour, as though the pictures were subtly lit from behind. This luminosity gave a delicacy to the big simple shapes that made them look considerably less cartoony and much less like Guston, whose colour rarely holds any appeal for me. As much as I like big pictures, I responded strongly the diminutive Block from 2013, only 12" square; its soft violet landscape was sweet and sad.
The tradition of Latin American abstraction is hardly a new thing, but it's finally begun to get its due in the NYC museums and galleries; a trend largely ushered in by the impressive Geometry of Hope exhibition at NYU's Grey Art Gallery in 2007. Brazilian painter Caetano de Almeida has filled both of Eleven Rivington's Galleries (one at 11 Rivington, the other around the corner on Christie St.) with large-scale paintings and works on paper. The loosely woven stripes of Foi, Goldeneye, For Your Eyes Only, and 3170 (all from 2013) could have been images derived from Adobe Illustrator studies or from extreme close-ups of threadbare fabric – the squishy grids they articulated had rigor but also just a little touch of humour, underscored by the neon/candy colour palette.
Cynthia Daignault's solo show at Lisa Cooley Gallery is called Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow? and featured some very good paintings with equally awful titles. The 8' tall Light into twilight, emptiness into waiting presence (2013) was a really nice take on the all-over composition – as you might expect from the name it looked something like a cloud, but one made of sinewy, fluid sluices of oil paint, all pale greys and pinks. It was delicious. In other paintings from the series Daignault superimposed representational motifs (light bulbs, windows, figures, cracks in the wall) across a similarly painted ground, but I would have preferred to see a series in which the integrity of the field was left intact and the colour varied (maybe next time?). In the small project room behind the main gallery were 365 10" x 15" paintings of the sky, presumably one for each day of the year. It sounds corny (like the titles) but it was wonderful – if you had this installation in your home it would make your life noticeably better.
Charlene von Heyl's show at Petzel was like a trip through the whole history of 20th century abstraction – elements of Picasso, colour-field, Miro, modernism, pop, and op were all seamlessly woven together with real panache – the painter's strong personality was the glue that made the disparate elements cohesive and original. I thought each canvas in the larger gallery space (there were two contiguous rooms) was excellent, and all were very different from one another – a real feat. Jakealoo (2012) had a kind of loosely painted cubist figuration in black over flecked violet, orange and green on a white ground – it felt a lot like the off-register commercial printing that Warhol found so compelling, but it also looked a like 3D glasses would complete the scene. Guitar Gangster (2013) hearkened back to cubism both in figuration and title, but the drop shadow on the right side of the big triangle in the foreground placed it squarely in the realm of the Mac desktop that I'm looking at as I type this.
For a long time I've been of the mind that Doug Ohlson was one of the great under-appreciated masters of the 20th century, and his show at Washburn reinforced that conviction. The dominant theme of the exhibition was orange, which was subtly contrasted with a variety of close-value blues, pinks, siennas, and cranberry reds. The pictures had a misty, ethereal quality akin to Rothko, but the strong vertical thrust simultaneously gave them an architectural solidity and also a sense that they were rising upward in the same manner as Rubens' angels and cherubs. Lost Twin from 1996 consisted of two 9' tall panels which were perfectly mirrored in terms of colour and composition, but infinitely varied by the gestural application of paint at the edges of each canvas. The small areas of light blue at the top and bottom of each side sang and glowed.
Minus Space and artist John Zinsser co-curated an ambitious tribute to legendary New York City art dealer and curator Julian Pretto, whose life was cut short by AIDS at the age of 50 in 1995. The 45 works in the show represent very nearly all of the artists associated with Pretto's various galleries. It was quite difficult to decide which pictures to highlight given the scope and quality of the show, but here are a few I especially enjoyed: Li Trincere's Untitled from 1990, was spatially quite sly – it only consisted of four elements: a sideways "T" in red, two white shapes that read as a continuous field behind the "T," and a second white, subtly different than the first, covering the left side of the picture. The resulting layered space is quite complex given the economy of means. It was also a good example of a shaped canvas that still read as a picture and didn't lapse over into the object/sculpture arena. I've always enjoyed Tom Martinelli's dot pictures – the layers of transparent subtractive primaries form glassy blacks with shifting multi-coloured haloes. The smallish Untitled (Nov. 10, 1994) vibrated with manic energy, as these pictures often did. Daniel Reynolds Untitled from 1999 looked something like a shimmering submerged brain gone out of focus at the edges. It was in reality completely abstract, but at the same time evoked spooky sci-fi films from the 1950's.
I'm about to bump up against 1500 words, so a few quick mentions before closing:
I've never been a fan of Josh Smith, but I have to say the room full of monochromes at Luhring Augustine looked great. I'm not sure how they would hold up individually, but so what. In a somewhat surprising move, Edward Thorp left his summer group show up right through to October. I very much enjoyed the small red, white, and pink paintings by Andrew Spence, and the Gary Stephan and Andrea Belag pictures were also quite strong. And finally, Ron Milewicz' brick paintings at Elizabeth Harris were weightless and lyrical, which are qualities not generally associated with bricks.
Paul Corio
New York City
September, 2013
very good works!
Thanks for your excellent article. New York is blessed with galleries showing great painting; I can but dream of being there!
Great article, Paul!
Re: Frederick Hammersley's 'Sea Saw'#3, which you have given the title, 'See saw'. I wondered which title was correct as I have just recently titled a piece, 'See,saw' and quite liked it.
The Chuck Webster looks great,hypnotic. Thanks.
thank you for that speedy tour, Paul Corio-a giddy pleasure to read. I wish I could have seen the Gene Davis show – fabulous paintings and as you say, they don't seem to age.


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Don't stop believing, New York City. Broadway is alive and kicking—and at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, it's even straddling the occasional chair. Mamma Mia! might own the '70s with Abba, but Broadway newbie Rock of Ages rules the '80s—from Journey to REO Speedwagon to Pat Benatar. Sound like fun? That's because it is.
A recent addition to the Great White Way from Off-Broadway, Rock of Ages channels the decadent party spirit of LA's Sunset Strip in 1987 through some provocative "grit-under-your-fingernails" costumes (as director Kristin Hanggi puts it), an elaborate dive-bar-meets-rock-club set and a slew of hair-band hits—including a fist-pumping rendition of Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again." American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis stars alongside Off-Broadway vet Amy Spanger and a handful of other charismatic players—like the show's onstage narrator, Mitchell Jarvis (Lonny).
"There are no rules for my character," Jarvis chuckles, remembering a Rock experience from Off-Broadway. "Once a T-shirt got thrown into my face at the end of act one, so we took it backstage, cut the sleeves off, and I wore it at the top of act two." As Lonny, his delivery is both David Lee Roth and Jack Black, a style that seduces viewers into interacting with the performance—which is, essentially, the point. "We want the audience to sing back to the cast," says Jeff Davis, one of Rock's producers. "We're taking it to a whole new level of feel-good."
One of the show's feel-good stars, Mötley Crüe fan James Carpinello (Stacee Jaxx), recognizes that viewers deserve some fun in their lives these days: "In times of economic distress, it's imperative that there is something to lift your spirits—and this does just that." Carpinello will entertain you—he does the Axl Rose snake dance on command—but he assures that Rock is more than meets the ears: "There's an emotional journey. People hear ''80s hair band' and think, This is gonna be stupid, but there's a really great story that catches people off guard."
So what is the story? "My character's a good guy from the Midwest," says Maroulis. "He's got that talent, but he hasn't had someone to bring it out of him yet—until he meets Sherrie (Spanger) and falls head-over-heels in love with her." Even though the show is set in Los Angeles, Carpinello argues that the plot could just as easily take place in NYC: "This is the story of people coming from a small place to a bigger place and trying to fit in—which is what most people who come to New York City have to do."
Maroulis, who lives in Gramercy, is a believer in NYC's '80s spirit, circa 2009: "When I party at Tenjune, they play hip-hop, and then—boom—the '80s comes on: Guns N' Roses into 'Jessie's Girl' into 'I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love Tonight.' People love that, and we're trying to create that atmosphere in the show." Some energetic choreography from Kelly Devine (associate choreographer of the Tony Award–winning Jersey Boys) doesn't hurt, nor does the laid-back attitude of Rock's creators and performers. Rock writer Chris D'Arienzo isn't shy to admit that the show "lovingly lampoons the ridiculousness of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle," while funnyman Jarvis says with a belly laugh, "It's not meant to be taken seriously—so it's right up my alley."
If you like good, er, not-so-clean fun, Rock of Ages will be right up your alley as well—and these days, even the price is right. "We've lowered ticket prices," says Maroulis. "Come, have a good time and celebrate a time when you had no worries—no problems, man—and just embrace that."
Find out where to rock in New York City with recommendations from Constantine Maroulis and director Kristin Hanggi.


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Day 4:
A 12-point Action Agenda for a Resilient HKH
The conference participants adopted a 12-point action agenda for a resilient Hindu Kush Himalaya unanimously. Ideas for the action points were crowd-sourced over the period of four days. These action points will provide a common framework for various stakeholders to work toward building resilience in the HKH through common purpose and collective action.
Day 3: Capatalizing on Opportunities: Mechanisms for Integrating the Building Blocks
"HIMAP fills the major scientific gap. However, ICIMOD has to be bold and clear to drive the science-policy interface." - Asun Lera St. Clair, Senior Principal Scientist, DNV GL
Day 2: Science, Policy, and Practice of Resilient Building: Key Challenges and Building Blocks
"It is remarkable how little governments know about wealth of their nations." - Sir Partha Das Gupta, University of Cambridge
Day 1: Inauguration and High-Level Leadership Panel
"The HKH is home to many developing nations and it is imperative that we take collective steps to alleviate the threats of climate change. I expect the conference to deliberate these challenges." - The Right Honourable President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari


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WASHINGTON — How to prevent a sticky gunk from clogging up, and probably killing, the brain cells of Alzheimer's patients is the newest focus in the fight against the disease.
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Half a dozen companies are developing drugs to target the buildup, and researchers are enrolling hundreds of patients to test the lead candidate — although nobody yet knows if this gunk, called beta-amyloid, is the disease's true culprit.
But it's the chief suspect, and tests of these drugs could finally end a long-standing debate over the cause of Alzheimer's devastating symptoms.
"We have placed our bet on the amyloid hypothesis," is the way Dr. Eric Siemers of Eli Lilly & Co. puts it — a statement that describes much of industry's focus.
The theory is that reducing this brain plaque will finally offer a way to do more than treat just the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, as today's drugs do. But lest families' hopes get too high, even proponents expect anti-amyloid therapy is most likely to help mild disease, before too many neurons have died.
"If you're trying to control the disease process, you certainly want to treat people as early as possible," said Dr. Paul Aisen, a Georgetown University neurologist who is heading the largest U.S. study yet of an anti-amyloid drug, Neurochem Inc.'s Alzhemed.
14 million may be affected by 2050
About 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's, a creeping brain degeneration that slowly robs its victims of memory and the ability to reason, communicate and care for themselves. With the aging population, a staggering 14 million may have it by 2050.
No one knows what causes Alzheimer's. Some scientists think fibrous tangles of a protein called tau that builds up inside brain cells kills them.
But the leading theory is that something spurs abnormal production of another protein, beta-amyloid, which forms clumps that coat the outside of brain cells and kills them — plaque that is the disease's trademark.
Different attempts to attack that plaque:
- Beta-amyloid initially floats in the blood and spinal fluid, until the sticky substance bonds with helper molecules to form chains that build into plaque. Alzhemed essentially coats beta-amyloid, reducing the stickiness so those chains can't form.
It won't help existing symptoms, Aisen stressed. But in small, early stage testing, spinal taps showed Alzhemed users harbored less beta-amyloid, and a handful of milder patients treated for over a year seem to have slowed worsening of their disease, he says.
Consider Libby Monroe, 84, of Bethesda, Md., diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1999. Her main symptom to date is short-term memory loss.
"I can't say I can recognize any improvement" since adding Alzhemed to her usual medication, said her husband, Bill Monroe. "But I can say her gradual loss of memory seems to be quite slow. It's possible the Alzhemed is helping her hold her own to some extent."
A Phase III study is enrolling about 500 patients around the country and in Canada to try to prove Alzhemed's effects.
- Lilly hopes to halt beta-amyloid formation in the first place. Its drug candidate blocks an enzyme called gamma secretase. The enzyme helps create beta-amyloid by clipping pieces that form it off a larger protein. In early studies, Alzheimer's patients given the still-unnamed drug for six weeks had a 40 percent reduction of beta-amyloid in their blood. Lilly is pursuing additional small studies, but can't yet say when large-scale testing may begin.
- Merck & Co. is trying to block another enzyme, beta secretase, also involved in amyloid formation.
- New York-based Axonyx has Phase III studies under way in Europe of a drug called phenserine. It targets a symptom-causing brain chemical like older Alzheimer's drugs do, but also may have the added boost of somehow lowering beta-amyloid production.
- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Elan Corp. have begun early human studies of antibodies, immune system cells created to attack existing amyloid plaque. Elan's earlier attempt at a vaccine to spur patients' own immune system to do the job failed when some suffered serious brain inflammation.
- Harvard researchers are studying whether drugs that remove copper from the body may also remove amyloid.
These approaches require years more research. Meanwhile, there are some steps that may help prevent Alzheimer's, said Dr. Mark Mattson of Johns Hopkins University: Exercise and avoid obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, because the same things that cause heart disease seem to play a role in Alzheimer's.
And keep mentally active, too — it likely protects brain cells.
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Or in English, Radiance Concentrate with Pure Gold Make-up Base. Got 1 sample size of it as the price per ml and price for the bottle are both cheaper than the real stuff.
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Aggies and Aussies successfully fly unmanned air vehicles 8,000 miles away
Students from Texas A&M University and The University of Sydney in Australia participated in the Aerial International Robotic Racing of Unmanned Systems (AIRUS) where teams were able to successfully demonstrate remote piloting of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) more than 8,000 miles away.
Pilots in Texas used a joystick to control a UAV (also known as a quadrotor or drone) in Australia, while at the same time pilots in Sydney controlled a UAV in Texas. A camera mounted on the front of the UAV captured video which was sent over the Internet to the pilot on the other side of the world.
The top pilots achieved an international landing. They controlled the sideways movement to land the UAV on a small target. Additionally, everyone in attendance at the event had the opportunity to pilot the UAV by controlling the spinning motion (yaw) of the UAV. They also gained an appreciation for the difficulty of dealing with the half-second delay through the international communications. Despite this delay, it is believed to be the lowest latency (delay) achieved for controlling an aircraft internationally.
Having successfully demonstrated the international piloting, AIRUS members have applied for a World Record for the Longest Distance Remote Piloting of a UAV, which is now pending assessment. At the Texas event there was also a showcase of UAVs, with students in attendance given the opportunity to test their skills in a race of small UAVs.
This first successful event is a stepping stone to the full plans for AIRUS — to involve many more universities around the world, each having local pilots controlling and racing UAVs at the different international locations.
The immediate plans for the coming year are to further develop the control systems to grant the international pilot a higher level of control and to build towards being able to race the UAV around an obstacle course on the other side of the world. This work also will lead to research on enhancing long distance remote control of aircraft and robotics at both universities.
The Texas A&M team is comprised of aerospace engineering students who are members of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The competition was funded in part by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station's Aerospace Technology Research and Operations Center (ASTRO) and Center for Autonomous Vehicles & Sensor Systems (CANVASS).


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