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Somerset England
Incredible locations
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Discover the top photo spots in Somerset
Somerset is sometimes overlooked when considering destinations to visit in England and yet it offers a wide range of opportunities for photographers. This is a county that really has it all; from historic villages like Dulverton, Dunster, and Cheddar to seaside resorts such as Weston Super-Mare, Burnham on Sea and Minehead. Somerset is a county of contrasts with a varied, rugged coastline, coves, sandy beaches, moors and levels. There are also beautiful woodland areas located in Exmoor, the Quantock Hills, and Mendip Hills. Somerset has something to offer all year around. Come in January / February for a chance of snow on the high ground as well as flooded Somerset Levels, May for colourful bluebells, summer months for colourful canola fields and lush woodlands.Late October / early November is the best time for rich autumn colours. Somerset has few restrictions for photographers other than respecting fenced off fields and guidelines in National Trust properties. Locations in the guide are relatively close to each other, so you can visit a number of different spots based in any one location. This guide covers a mixture of popular spots as well as few hidden gems in Somerset. I have tried to include spots from different parts of the county to give a variety of photographic options, but it is by no means an exhaustive list as there are many other locations to be discovered!
Somerset is a safe destination for travel in general. You can photograph everywhere in confidence, including at night, but apply usual common sense when out with your camera gear. Take care when photographing on the coastal areas, particularly along the Severn Estuary on the Somerset coast as it has has the second highest tidal range in the world. Respect and follow National Trust guidelines when in National Trust areas and in Exmoor National Park. Follow local weather updates before setting off. The UK uses three-pin British plugs at 230V. If you are coming from mainland Europe, you will need a simple adapter for your electrical equipment. The major mobile network providers are EE, O2, Vodafone and Three. The majority of the country has network cover and data transfer is usually fast and reliable. 4G is common around most towns and cities.
The Best Photo Locations In Somerset
We show you where, when and how to get the very best travel photos in Somerset.


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Does President Obama want to be impeached?
Well, no. But he and his political chieftains apparently want voters to think that Republicans are scheming on how to impeach him. Every failed political leader and movement need a straw man and as November approaches, liberal politicos want to paint various Republican statements and efforts to curtail Obama's "phone and pen" strategy as a precursor to impeachment.
Last week, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters that "it would be foolish to discount the possibility that Republicans would think about going down that path."
Pfeiffer succeeded in spinning the media. On Sunday, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, asked House Majority Whip-elect Steve Scalise whether "impeachment was off the table."
And then Monday, again on Fox News, the lead question for Scott Brown, the Republican candidate running for Senate in New Hampshire, was about, that's right, impeachment.
(One can only imagine the impeachment hysteria going on at MSNBC.)
Both Scalise and Brown dismissed the impeachment talk as political shenanigans by Democrats who want to take the focus off unfavorable news stories like the border crisis, more court rulings against Obamacare and failed foreign policies. They also claim it's a fundraising ploy: There's a reason the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has raised more than $2 million dollars online saying the GOP is out to impeach Obama.
They're right on both counts, but the harsh reality is they still ended up talking about the "I" word.
Republicans, who may very well be on their way to controlling both the House and Senate following the November election, should not take the bait. Why blow a likely good hand for a very uncertain one? Polls show the public has no appetite for impeachment—and that the GOP is inching closer to getting the six seats it needs to win control of the Senate.
As House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday, "We have no plans to impeach the president. We have no future plans. Listen, it's all a scam started by Democrats at the White House."
I don't think there is any doubt Obama has ignored the restraints put on the executive office by the Constitution. He's unilaterally made changes to Obamacare without congressional approval, made recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess, and refused to enforce our immigration and drug laws, and on it goes.
An Executive Unbound: The Obama Administration's Unilateral Actions
But whether Obama's tendency to "go it alone" when he can't get what he wants via Congress rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors is questionable, certainly in the eyes of the American public.
The most effective way to rein in Obama's imperial presidency isn't impeachment hearings. It is for voters to have their say on November 4.


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Don't Let Your Luck Run Out This St. Patrick's DayLeave your thoughts
It'll take more than a four-leaf clover to keep you from getting ticketed this St. Patrick's Day. From Friday, March 17 through Sunday, March 19, police will be cracking down on drunk driving and other traffic violations as part of New York State's STOP-DWI enforcement campaign for St. Patrick's Day.
State and local law enforcement will be stepping-up the number of marked and unmarked patrols throughout the three-day campaign and will also be setting up random DWI checkpoints. Drivers should expect police to crack down on speeding, distracted driving, seat belt violations, and other moving violations.
During last year's St. Patrick's Day crackdown police issued more than 17,000 tickets for traffic violations, including distracted driving, speeding, and failing to move over for emergency vehicles. Police also charged more than 500 people with alcohol-related infractions, with more than 20% of the arrests taking place on St. Patrick's Day.
Driving with a BAC of 0.08% or higher can result in being charged with drunk driving. A conviction means facing more than $1,000 in fines and up to one year in prison. The judge could also require the installation of a $700 interlock device. In addition, drunk driving convictions can have a devastating impact on your insurance premiums or even result in you being dropped by your insurer altogether.
Don't count on the Luck of the Irish to get you out of a drunk driving charge – count on a skilled attorney instead. If you or a loved one has been charged with drunk driving or any other traffic violation as part of the STOP-DWI St. Patrick's Day Crackdown, contact the Rosenblum Law right away. Our attorneys have extensive experience fighting alcohol and other traffic-related charges. Email or call 888-203-2619 for a free consultation about your case.


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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Twenty to 40 percent of people who suffer a severe brain injury do not survive. Of those that do, a diagnosis can often be hard to reach.
With no proven treatment to improve or speed up recovery from a minimally conscious state, many families are told there is no hope. There is however, a medication that for some, has the remarkable side effect of waking patients up.
Roughly 300,000 people in the U.S. are trapped in a vegetative or minimally conscious state. Causes range from bad accidents to falls, violence and other types of brain trauma.
Unlike a coma, a vegetative state is classified as being unconscious except for some eye opening and periods of wakefulness.
The patient may moan when their muscles are stretched, may cry or smile, track objects with their eyes and react to sounds.
About 50 percent of patients who are in a vegetative state one month after traumatic brain injury recover some degree of consciousness, yet in many cases they drift in and out and only make minimal progress.
As a result, doctors without experience in treating this type of trauma often rule out the possibility of recovery and patients end up living out their days in hospital rooms or nursing homes.
"The doctors say, 'Oh you're not going to make it.' And they make it,' noted Dr. Lori Grafton, Director of the Brain Injury Program at Carolinas Rehabilitation. "Then they come to rehab and the families say, 'OK what do we do now?'
Grafton, a physiatrist, says that in some cases the answer may be: Ambien.
Ambien is a pharmaceutical drug designed to help people sleep by lowering overall brain activity. Yet in some cases, when used for experimental and unintended purposes, the medication has the unexplained effect of "awakening" victims of brain trauma.
The exact mechanism behind this paradoxical response is still a mystery.
One theory based on EEG results, suggested that the cerebral cortex (the "thinking" part of the brain) is disconnected after trauma. Ambien may be able to "turn on" a switch that turns on the connections between the striatum, thalamus and cerebral cortex.
Another way of looking at it: if brain trauma inhibits overall brain activity and Ambien lowers brain activity to help people sleep, then, Ambien may be "inhibiting the inhibition" to allow for wakefulness.
"It's rare - it's not something that works all the time," Grafton said "But from my standpoint it's worth a try, especially for these patients where nothing else has worked."
Take George Melendez, who was nearly dead when pulled from his wrecked car. The near-drowning and brain trauma left him in a minimally conscious state.
In 2002 a doctor prescribed zolpidem (Ambien) to calm his nighttime fits and within 10 minutes his mother saw his eyes open and become able to respond to questions about his life before the accident.
Grafton has seen the phenomenon with her own eyes.
"It's not like they stand up from their wheelchairs and walk," she points out. "It's been more their ability to communicate or understand."
Casually called "Ambien Awakenings," they are unfortunately not a cure for the estimated 1 in 15 patients that the medication helps. After a few hours, the drug wears off and the patient slips back into oblivion until the next dose.
"It puts us in a very challenging position, especially after I see patients with severe brain injury, because we don't want to give false hope," Grafton said. "There are so many things we don't know."
It's unlikely that more information will be revealed from the pharmaceutical industry, says Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist Jerry McKee.
"Nobody will touch it in terms of further research," Jerry McKee, Dean at Wingate University-Hendersonville, said.
That's because Ambien now has generic options, which largely deflates any profits to be made off breakthrough research.
"It takes billions and billions of dollars to bring a drug to market and there's nothing preventing a provider from using an approved med for an unapproved use," McKee said. "So you're not going to see a lot of research dollars invested when the economic return is just not going to be there."
Still, for some families, there is hope – but not without struggle. Caregivers often have to specifically ask doctors to explore experimental options – like Ambien – or, ask for a referral to a rehabilitation clinic that houses the resources they need.
In many cases, small community hospitals can only do so much without the expertise to develop the extensive therapy regime needed. The same is true for nursing homes.
While news about Ambien can be encouraging, it can also complicate the decision-making process as to whether or not to continue care.
Typically, once a patient progresses to minimal consciousness it's hard to predict what will happen next, making a long-term prognosis almost impossible to determine.
As time passes and more experimental therapies are tried, the option to end care can often pass because the patient eventually starts breathing on their own.
At this point, should a family decide to end any suffering, the process would require the removal of any feeding tubes or the decision to let a new bacterial infection take over.
Meanwhile, families bear a heavy financial burden keeping their loved one in hospital care receiving specific tests and assessments.
Sanofi U.S., the manufacturer of Ambien, was not able to comment on this report, saying that the Food and Drug Administration does not allow them to comment on any unintended use of their pharmaceutical products.
Copyright 2014 WECT. All rights reserved.


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Nordiques Nation is returning to the New York area.
Some 2,100 Quebec fans are expected to travel April 10 to Prudential Center in Newark for the season-ending game between the Devils and the Boston Bruins, said Vincent Cauchon, a Quebec sports radio host and an organizer of Nordiques Nation, the fan group dedicated to bringing an N.H.L. club back to the old city.
Cauchon said 1,600 people would make the 550-mile trip from Quebec to Newark in 31 buses, with an additional 500 traveling on their own.
On Dec. 11, about 1,100 blue-clad Nordiques fans enlivened a Islanders-Atlanta Thrashers game at Nassau Coliseum with their cheering, chanting and sign-waving.
"We just want to show the N.H.L. that Quebec needs a team and is a better market; maybe a third of the markets in the N.H.L. aren't doing so well right now," Cauchon said.
Cauchon said last week that the trip to Newark had "the same goal, in the same peaceful way, just to let people know we won't give up and we are the best crowd with our team."


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This is a work in progress…if anyone sees any needed changes or additions please jump in and let us know. Thanks, Vivian and Marilyn
And special thanks to Anne Alberg and Margaret Pommert for helping us write down and begin organizing all of your great ideas.
Northwest Women in Boating – Monday, February 16, 2015
These ideas and resources emerged from a group discussion involving members of Northwest Women in Boating: The event was titled:
Becoming a Better Resource For Women Who Want Learn To Boat or Buy A Boat
NWWB Blog www.nwwb.wordpress.com
Keep NWWB as it is…
- Vivian manages email list / Marilyn manages the Blog
- No dues/No board members
- Monthly meetings are limited by size of the room
- Create opportunities for members to take their passion for the boating world and run with their ideas
Blog ideas – add member profiles, spotlight member stories to inspire women, promote member's books, post current crew opportunities
Target: Women interested in what is happening in the PNW boating community, including those who have never been out on the water, those that used to be active and those currently involved.
Boating offers a character building experience beyond just having fun on the water.
Provide inspiration to empower women to believe they too can do it
Seeing other women boating
Exhibit photos at "Knot A Boat" booth at Seattle boat show
Request stories from NWWB members for use on Blog, and in articles about women in local boating community
Post quotes from NWWB members and women who experience boating for the 1st time
Educational Field Trips
United States Coast Guard Museum www.uscg.mil/baseseattle/museum.asp
Center for Wooden Boats www.cwb.org
NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration www.noaa.gov
Vessel Traffic Service www.uscg.mil/d13/psvts
Marine Forecast / U of Washington Department of Atmospheric Science – www.atmos.washington.edu
Education For Women Only
Develop list of courses taught by/for women only – Partial List Below
Private Boating Instruction / Captain Linda Lewis www.privateboatinginstruction.com
San Juan Sailing / Captain Anne Alberg http://sanjuansailing.com/instruction-sail/womens-courses.html
She Sails / Captains Lisa Cole and Rhonda www.lakeunioncharters.com/shesails
Charter Companies/Boating Instruction
Apply for Mandatory Boater Education Card – http://boat.wa.gov
San Juan Sailing and Yachting – Bellingham www.sanjuansaiingcom and www.sanjuanyacthing.com
Seattle Sailing Club – Shilshole http://seattlesailing.comWindworks Sailing and Powerboating – Shilshole www.windworkssailing.com
Online Sailing Education NauticEd www.nauticed.com
Boating Events
Pacific Marine Expo November 18-20, 2015 www.pacificmarineexpo.com
Boats Afloat Lake Union September (2nd Th/F/S/S)
Seattle Boat Show Last week of January
Create networking opportunities for women immediate after the Women's Panel on Monday night and Wine event on 1st Friday – Promote both events to encourage new boaters to attend. Brainstorm with Boat Show for enhancing Boat Show experience for women.
Summer Sailstice www.summersailstice.com
Social Events
Owners Rendezvous at Shilshole Marina Guest Dock
Educational topic on each boat – 30 minutes
Educational / Article Topic Ideas
- Learning Engine Basics
- Buy a Boat, Become Empowered
- Docking Techniques for Women Boaters
- Being a Great Guest on a Boat
- Get the Boat Back to the Dock if Something Happens to the Skipper
- Be Captain of Your Own Boat
- Your Role as Competent Crew
- "It's Your Boat Too"
Encourage women to start in small boats to get basic experience
Center for Wooden Boats www.cwb.org
Seattle Sailing Club http://seattlesailing.com
Windworks Sail & Powerboat www.windworkssailing.com
Sail Sand Point www.sailsandpoint.org
Mountaineers sailing program www.mountaineers.org
Seattle YC, Queen City YC – Group of women power boaters offering "How to Get the Boat Home"
Sail & Power Squadron lessons at Shilshole www.usps.org
9 -10 May Seaskills Event and Rendezvous – Shilshole Bay Marina. All day seminars on members boats
Encourage local brokers to take women out on the water
Lake Union Sea Ray www.lakeunionsearay.com/page.aspx/pageid/153723/education.aspx
Members take women out on the water or just visit boats at the dock
Discussed insurance concerns – can not charge money
Pair up w/another woman whose story you relate to (mentorship)
Provide Articles to Local Print Publications and Online Publications
Develop Series of Articles – Anne Alberg and Lisa Cole volunteered to write, others are welcome
Spotlight stories of NWWB members to empower women
Seattle Women Magazine – no longer in print publication, Available online at www.facebook.com/SeattleWomanMagazine
Seattle Magazine www.seattlemag.com
Volunteer Opportunities
Observer for IPBA, power boat predicted log race www.ipbalogracing.org
PNW Sailing and Boating Organizations
Women Only Organizations
Facebook women who sail and power PNW www.facebook.com/groups/670313733034187
South Sound Women's Sailing Group – https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SSWSG/info
123 members
WOW! Women of Windworks! Program www.windworkssailing.com/club/wow.aspx
Co-Ed Organizations
MeetUp Groups
- Puget Sound Sailing Group www.meetup.com/Puget-Sound-Sailing-Group
- Pacific Northwest Sailing Group www.meetup.com/PNWsailinggroup
- Seattle Sailing Club Meetup www.meetup.com/Seattle-Beginners-Sailing-Meetup
- Team Adventure Sailing www.meetup.com/Team-Adventure-Sailing
Corinthian Yacht Club at Shilshole Sunset Sailing for Women Sailors Program www.cycseattle.org/sunset-women_2014
Puget Sound Cruising Club www.pugetsoundcruisingclub.org
Seattle Singles Yacht Club http://ssyc.com
Infiltrate and connect with Skippers and/or Crew, not just the cocktail party crowd
She Sails – Lisa Cole and Rhonda www.lakeunioncharters.com/shesails
International Boating Opportunities
Master ocean sailing in a dynamic learning environment aboard Mahina Tiare III, a Hallberg-Rassy 46, in the South Pacific with John and Amanda Neal www.mahina.com
Skippered charters (summers in Greece & Turkey, winters in Thailand & Malaysia) with Captain Diane Edwards www.seascape-sail.com
Sistership sailing school for women in the BVI's with Captain Pat Nolan www.sailsistership.com
Boat Buying Resources
Women Brokers
Judy Nasmith
Swiftsure Yachts
Marine Surveyor
Lynne H. Reister, AMS
LodeStar Marine Survey & Consulting
Brainstorming ideas
- Gather ALL boating resources available for women – post on NWWB Blog or find online boating site willing to be repository
- Create NWWB Meetup group for women interested in on the water opportunities
- Design cards for this group to promote NWWB Blog
- Organize overnight cruise/raft-up
- Identify social media opportunities / identify member to post to social media
- Use surveys to identify interests/needs from the women's community
- Love of Boating – Capture stories for book on Northwest Women in Boating
- Send feedback to Seattle Boat Show


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Navigating Plans for Summer with the National Park Service
Do you know what you are doing this summer? To find out what our National Parks have to offer, tune in to FEDtalk this Friday and start planning your trip!
Co-hosts Julie Perkins and Natalia Castro will sit down with Kathy Kupper, Public Affairs Specialist for the National Park Service (NPS); Katie Liming, DC Program Coordinator for the NPS, and Allyson Gantt, Chief of Communications for South Florida Parks within the NPS. The guests will share the inside scoop on the activities available at their local parks and nationwide.
The show airs live on Friday, June 7, 2019, at 11:00 am ET on Federal News Radio 1500 AM. You can stream the show online anytime via the Federal News Radio player and listen to the FEDtalk podcast on PodcastOneand Apple Podcasts.
FEDtalk is a live radio talk show produced by Shaw Bransford & Roth P.C., a federal employment law firm. Bringing you the insider's perspective from leaders in the federal community since 1993. FEDtalk is sponsored by Long Term Care Partners who administers the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sponsored Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP). Start planning for the future. Take the next step and visit LTCFEDS.com today.
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Good afternoon,
PAS is hosting a super Star Party at PV Park tomorrow.
RSVP is requested to be sure I bring enough handouts for everyone.
Drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com by noon tomorrow,
or if it is after noon but before 4:30pm, you can call my cell to let me know
you will be attending 602-561-5398. When you call, leave just your first name
and number of attendees coming with you.
You can find out all the info you need to know about this event at:
In brief, we are:
Observing the Moon
Observing anything else that is available in the night sky.
Sunset 6:15pm
Venus visible 6:15pm - sets 7:45pm
Moon visible all day into the night
Saturn visible 6:20 - sets 6:50pm
Mars visible 6:20 - sets 7:45pm
Jupiter rises at 6:45pm
Dark 7:20pm
We will be setting up about 5:30pm, to begin at 6pm, however
for those early bird arrivals, we hope to catch a planet or two.
From 6pm to dark we will show what we can of the planets
that are available first, then move our attention to the moon
and fainter objects.
PAS was awarded a Moon rock to share and have on display.
Come check it out. You can hold a piece of the Moon in your hand.
And Wendy from ASU will be providing posters for viewing,
and handouts about the moon. Thank you Wendy.
Mike will be there with his collection of Meteorites. Hold a real
meteorite in your hand. Mike loves and has a lot of meteorites to share.
At the moment, we have 3 scopes lined up to attend, but more may make it
before the end of the night.
Come have some fun with us. Your RSVP is requested.
Bring your own Chairs, snacks and drinks.
Bathrooms are available, but are not always the cleanest.
We'd love to have you join us.
Weather should be awesome.
You don't have to arrive on time, but you should let me konw you
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Joan Miro
Composition XIII, from: Barcelona
Roy Lichtenstein
Nude, from: Brushstroke Figure Series
Biography :
Joan Miró was born in Montroig, near Barcelona in 1893. He came from a long line of hardworking craftsmen, and his father also worked as a goldsmith and a watchmaker. Although Miró did poorly at school, he began drawing regularly at the age of eight. In 1907 he attended the Lonja School of Fine Arts in Barcelona where he received encouragement from his teachers. After a brief period working as a clerk, he attended the Gali School of Art in 1912, also in Barcelona.
After Miró completed his artistic education in Barcelona, he produced portraits and landscapes in the Fauve manner, a style of painting popular around 1900 that emphasized brilliant and aggressive colours. He had his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1918 and later that year he became a member of the Agrupacio Courbet, to which the ceramist Joseph Llorenz Artigas belonged.
In 1919 Miró made his first trip to Paris and thereafter he spent the winters in Paris and the summers in Montroig. He met members of the Dada group, an artistic and literary movement which sought to expand the boundaries of conventional art. His first one-man show in Paris was held in 1921 and his paintings of this period reflect cubist influences.
The change in his art was furthered by his encounter with the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Jean Arp. Miró's aim was to rediscover the sources of human feeling, to create poetry by way of painting, using a vocabulary of signs and symbols, plastic metaphors (an implied similarity between two different things), and dream images to express definite themes. He had a genuine sense of humour and a lively wit, which also characterized his art. His chief consideration was social, to get close to the great masses of humanity, and he was deeply convinced that art can make a genuine appeal only when returning to the roots of experience.
Miró was connected with the surrealists from 1924 to 1930. Surrealism was a source of inspiration to him, and he made use of its methods; however,
Exhibition :
Joan Miro Printmaker, November 2017
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Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928, in the neighbourhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father, Ondrej Warhola, was a construction worker, while his mother, Julia Warhola, was an embroiderer. Drawing soon became Warhol's favourite childhood pastime. He was also an avid fan of the movies, and when his mother bought him a camera at the age of 9 he took up photography as well, developing film in a makeshift darkroom he set up in their basement.
Warhol attended Holmes Elementary school and took the free art classes offered at the Carnegie Institute (now the Carnegie Museum of Art) in Pittsburgh. In 1942, at the age of 14, Warhol suffered a tragedy when his father passed away. Warhol's father had recognized his son's artistic talents, and in his will he dictated that his life savings go toward Warhol's college education. That same year, Warhol began at Schenley High School, and upon graduating, in 1945, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute for Technology to study pictorial design.
When he graduated from college with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist. He landed a job with Glamour magazine in September, and went on to become one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s.
In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the concept of "pop art"—paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time.
In 1964, Warhol opened his own art studio, a large silver-painted warehouse known simply as "The Factory." The Factory quickly became one of New York City's premier cultural hotspots.
In 1968, however, Warhol's thriving career almost en
Exhibition :
American Post War, July 2017
Biography :
Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia in 1898. He studied engineering from 1915 to 1919 at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He took drawing courses with Clinton Balmer in New York in 1922, and studied at the Art Students League from 1923-25. Calder worked for the magazine "National Police Gazette" as of 1924. For two weeks in 1925, he attended the daily show of a travelling circus in New York.
In 1926 Alexander Calder moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. This is where he made his first small figure of wire, wood and cloth. In spring of 1927 he decided to set up a complete miniature circus with these figures, and performs shows that are visited by many Parisian artists.
His miniature wire figures were on exhibition in the New Yorker Weyhe Gallery in 1928.
His first one-man show took place at the Paris Galerie Billiet-Pierre Vorms in 1929.
In 1930 Alexander Calder joined the artists group "Abstraction-Création". He increasingly dealt with abstractions. A visit to the Paris observatory was a major inspiration for his first mobile and abstract wire sculptures, for which Marcel Duchamp came up with the term "Mobile".
Alexander Calder exhibited these "Mobiles" in the Galerie Vignon in Paris in 1932 for the first time. In these "Mobiles" Calder found his very own and most appropriate form of art. The perfectly balanced constructions, moved by a touch of air, are made of metal elements, wires, threads and sticks, they became more complex and abstract over the years, however, their impression is always one of great poetry and playful airiness. In the beginning he also made constructions that were moved by a small motor, but Calder did not pursue this type of "Mobile". As counterparts to the "Mobiles", Alexander Calder also made immobile, tectonically heavy, partly monumental constructions of sheet metal, for which Jean Arp invented the term "Stabile".
In 1933 Alexander Calder bought a farm house in Rox
Exhibition :
Alexander Calder and Sam Francis: American Abstraction, Kinetism to Expressionism, October 2018
Biography :
Marc Chagall was born in 1887, in Vitebsk, Russia, to a poor Jewish family that included ten children. His father, Zakhar Chagall, worked in a fish factory and his mother, Ida Chagall, worked in the family home and ran a grocery store. The years of his childhood, the family circle, and his native village became the main themes of his art. These first impressions lingered in his mind like original images and were transformed into paintings.
Chagall received early schooling from a teacher friend who lived nearby. He then attended the town school, but he only did well in geometry. He decided that he wanted to become an artist and talked his parents into paying for art lessons. He began his artistic instruction under the direction of a painter in Vitebsk. In 1907 he moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he attended the school of the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts and studied briefly with famed Russian painter Leon Bakst (1866–1924). These were difficult years for Chagall. He was extremely poor and was unable to support himself with his artwork. He took a job as a servant and also learned how to paint signs. In Bakst's studio he had his first contact with the modern movement that was sweeping Paris, and it freed his inner resources.
With some help from a patron Chagall went to Paris in 1910. The poets Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire, and the painters Roger de La Fresnaye, Robert Delaunay and Amedeo Modigliani became his friends. Chagall participated in the art showings at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne in 1912, but it was his first one-man show in Herwarth Walden's Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin which established him internationally as a leading artist.
Chagall lived in Russia for the duration of World War I and in 1922 the artist left Russia for good, going to Berlin, Germany and then back to Paris. The art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1865–1939) commissioned him to illustrate Nikolay Gogol's (1809–1852) "Dead
Exhibition :
Chagall: the Storyteller, May-June 2018
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Samuel Lewis Francis was born in San Mateo, California in1923. He began painting in 1944 after being diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis, resulting from a U.S. Army Air Corps accident. In 1947 he studied privately with painter David Park, and soon gave up his intended medical studies, earning a BA in 1949 and an MA in 1950 at the University of California, Berkeley.
He experimented with the dominant and emerging styles of the late 1940s, particularly Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, eventually developing a personal style of abstraction focused on dripping, cell-like forms, an all-over instability, and sensitivity to colour and light, as in Opposites (1950). In 1950 Francis moved to Paris and attended the Atelier Fernand Léger, where he was exposed to the work of Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, which reinvigorated his interest in light and vibrant colour, visible in his 1953 painting Big Red. Producing such work led to his association with "Art Informel", although Francis never fully associated with any movement. A visit to Japan in 1957 coincided with an opening up of expanses of white space in much of his work, and his subsequent move to a larger studio in Paris resulted in the production of large-scale paintings and mural commissions, including a 1959 painting for the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York.
Francis returned to California in 1962 and resumed painting with combinations of bright colours. Clement Greenberg's landmark exhibition Post Painterly Abstraction (1964) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which focused on paintings emphasizing colour over gesture, included works by Francis. In the late 1960s, however, colour increasingly vanished from his canvases. In 1973 he formed a lithography production company, which published his own prints. Over the next decades, Francis's style in painting and print production evolved from the depiction of bright, centrally placed shapes evocative of Tibetan mandalas (influenced by Jungian psychology) to his l
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Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923 the son of a successful real estate developer. As a boy growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Lichtenstein had a passion for both science and comic books. In his teens, he became interested in art. He took watercolour classes at Parsons School of Design in 1937, and he took classes at the Art Students League in 1940, studying with American realist painter Reginald Marsh.
Following his graduation from the Franklin School for Boys in Manhattan in 1940, Lichtenstein attended The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. His college studies were interrupted in 1943, when he was drafted and sent to Europe for World War II.
After his wartime service, Lichtenstein returned to Ohio State in 1946 to finish his undergraduate degree and master's degree—both in fine arts. He briefly taught at Ohio State before moving to Cleveland and working as a window-display designer for a department store, an industrial designer and a commercial-art instructor.
In the late 1940s, Lichtenstein exhibited his art in galleries nationwide, including in Cleveland and New York City. In the 1950s, he often took his artistic subjects from mythology and from American history and folklore, and he painted those subjects in styles that paid homage to earlier art, from the 18th century through modernism.
Lichtenstein began experimenting with different subjects and methods in the early 1960s, while he was teaching at Rutgers University. His newer work was both a commentary on American popular culture and a reaction to the recent success of Abstract Expressionist painting by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Instead of painting abstract, often subject-less canvases as Pollock and others had had done, Lichtenstein took his imagery directly from comic books and advertising. Rather than emphasize his painting process and his own inner, emotional life in his art, he mimicked his borrowed sources right down to an impersonal-looking s
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Pablo Picasso was born in a poor family in Málaga, southern Spain in 1881. After some early training with his father, a provincial drawing teacher, Picasso showed that he had thoroughly grasped naturalistic conventions at a very young age. After some incomplete sessions of art school in Barcelona and Madrid, Picasso spent his adolescence associating with the group of Catalan modernists who gathered at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona. From there he moved to Paris, where he quickly found like-minded poets and painters. His work began to attract serious critical attention and praise by the time he was twenty.
His first mature work, dating from this time, around 1901, is classified as his Blue Period. He painted anecdotal scenes of clowns, vagrants, and prostitutes, all in tones of blue.
As Picasso spent more time in Paris, as his painting developed, and as he began to meet the right people, his mood lifted. His subject matter remained much the same, but his tones were warmer, or rosier, and the atmosphere of his paintings was gayer. He began also to acquire mistress-muses; the women in his life would be his most consistent inspiration. Unfortunately, while his girlfriends were such a valuable impetus to his art, they seldom emerged from their museships unscathed. Jacqueline Roque and Marie-Thérese Walter committed suicide, and Olga Koklova and Dora Maar became somewhat insane. While Picasso's relationships imbued life into his painting, they often destroyed the lives of the women involved.
Acquiring the valuable patronage of the American siblings Leo and Gertrude Stein, Picasso soaked in all the experimental energy of the Parisian art scene and, inspired by other French painters–especially Cézanne, and also the "primitive" art of Africa and the Pacific–Picasso began to create for himself a radically new style. "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), perhaps the most revolutionary painting of the century, prepared the ground for Cubism, a style Picasso developed in col
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Edward Ruscha was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Roman Catholic family. His father worked as an auditor for an insurance company and his job took the family to Oklahoma City, where they lived for 15 years.
Ruscha's artistic talents developed at a young age. He particularly enjoyed drawing cartoons, an interest he maintained for many years. Although his mother supported his decision to apply to art school, his father was unhappy about the idea. Though, when his son gained a place at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, he changed his mind because he had read that Walt Disney often offered well-paid jobs to its graduates.
While he was studying in LA, his father died. His mother Dorothy decided that she needed to expand her horizons so after Ruscha graduated, he went on a trip to Europe in the summer of 1961 with his mother and brother. They travelled for four months, buying a small car in Paris and using it to visit countries all over Europe. Ruscha visited museums, but found he wasn't gripped by the art of previous centuries. Instead, when he returned to Paris at the end of the trip, he spent time walking through the streets and painting local signage, such as those above the Metro stations.
After returning to Los Angeles, he worked for the Carson-Roberts Advertising Agency designing layouts. In 1962, Ruscha was invited to show his work as part of the "New Painting of Common Objects" show at the Pasadena Art Museum, curated by Walter Hopps. The show is generally credited as the first museum exhibition in America showing what would later be dubbed Pop art. Ruscha, the youngest artist in the group, showed his work alongside pieces by Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Joe Goode, Wayne Thiebaud and Andy Warhol.
The following year, Hopps invited Ruscha to put on his first one-man show at his commercial gallery, the Ferus Gallery, where Andy Warhol had presented his first solo show in 1960. The show was a success and Ruscha sold six paintings. The same year, Hopps organized a
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Personally I prefer fewer changing lines but that is because I am lazy by nature and more moving lines often means more work to do. But for me the general idea of moving lines is this: a moving line means that there is too much yin or yang at that location. 'Too much' means that it is not balanced, and that is why the line is changing to regain balance. The more moving lines the more there is to rebalance.... but that does leave me with another burning question: why was I thinking that having fewer changing lines is better than more changing lines? Best, David.
Welcome to the club, everyone does.But personally I find it easier to work with
I don't. I don't prefer readings with fewer change lines to more, the reading is the reading. The more change lines the more the relating hexagram comes to the fore, or the more the primary is 'tipping over' to it. Also there's the change patterns to consider - and also with more change lines I think it's a case of stepping back as it were to get the bigger picture just as you would need to step away from a large painting to get a better view of it.Welcome to the club, everyone does.
Have you considered that the special text for 1 and 2 is enough of a hint to comprehend how to read multiple lines?
Hilary says for example Gua 'A' Zhi 'B' Gua. I say something a little different, which is really nothing more than grammatical preference: a very B A.
(hex B being a qualitative descriptor of A)
In 8.5 (2) this is really easy to see
Do explain about 1 and 2 ?
I do exactly the same, zoom in, zoom out, in, out. Then I notice that the overarching message is when zoomed real out. (sure I can see elements when there are two lines, but, to me, it feels like noticing the fresh paint on a street sign instead of the message of the sign)but for me it's also often a case of zooming in with few lines and zooming out
So, you enjoy work.I don't prefer readings with fewer change lines to more.
184.108.40.206.4.5.6 (2)
Bradford: Observe a group of dragons - without a leader
I get you. I think it's just the same when you have 4 or 5 change lines in any hexagram, the dialogue then becomes about the transformation of each into the other. I wouldn't completely ignore what for example 4 change lines say but they'd be quieter, just part of the change.is line 1 relevant? no.
There is no counsel not to act. (because of the hidden 44)
Is line 6 relevant? Nope.
There is no counsel against arrogance or exceeding ones power.
So, all these lines do is graphically represent the only way possible to get 2 as a relating using the Yi's coding system.
The lines become meaningless.
Marry hex 1 and hex 2 and you get the meaning as written with the special text. (dragon(s)= 1 + having no leader at first=2)
No don't remember.(remember my story of the friend and his 1>(2) situation? (he saw a group of entertainers, musicians, jugglers, and dancers who didn't have a leader, so he became their leader.)
So, all you have to do is marry the two hex's to understand the meaning. (individual line texts are already 'married' for us and apply the most when there is only one of them)
I do exactly the same, zoom in, zoom out, in, out. Then I notice that the overarching message is when zoomed real out. (sure I can see elements when there are two lines, but, to me, it feels like noticing the fresh paint on a street sign instead of the message of the sign)
So, you enjoy work.
Good for you.
Yes, that's right.I don't know what you mean by 'special text' ? Do you mean 1.7 and 2.7 ?
Whatever our preferences are regarding the number of lines, or how we choose to interpret them, I think we can agree on the above. And as baby bear said, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed (and asking questions of the I Ching) and she's still there!"... the reading is the reading.
the reading is the reading.
Whatever our preferences are regarding the number of lines, or how we choose to interpret them, I think we can agree on the above.
And as baby bear said, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed (and asking questions of the I Ching) and she's still there!"
Agreed, however the 'we' of my post was the few of us active on this thread, and our discussion was about how to deal with the lines we do get in a reading, not those we don't. I can't remember if harmen's rules covers this or not?You'd be surprised at the growing trend amongst newbies to read hexagrams and lines they did not cast at all ...
Well, it was written while it was perhaps too early, dark and cold here, and i wasn't quite awake, but ... our discussion of the number of lines reminded me of the 3 bears too hot/too cold, too big/too small, too hard/too soft story, where in the end you end up with the reading you get, lines and all: missing porrage, a broken chair, and a strange young girl in your bed! (admittedly obscure).You've lost me I don't know what this illustrates ?
That would be rule no. 11 . Rule/habit no. 12: you ask the Yijing "what should I do?" and your interpretation is "everything is going to be alright!"I can't remember if harmen's rules covers this or not?
One of the reasons this happens is because the author of Ichingonline does it.You'd be surprised at the growing trend amongst newbies to read hexagrams and lines they did not cast at all that isinstead of the answer they did cast.
When I went to the site, and did a query "what is wrong with this website?" it gave me 57.3.6 > 29. It did highlight my changing lines (3, 6) in red but you are right, you can then click on any of the lines and read about that line regardless if they are 'moving' or not.One of the reasons this happens is because the author of Ichingonline does it.
Very short instruction for the Changing Lines:
Changing Lines transform into their polar opposite during the course of your consultation.
When there are more than one lines changing, there is a problem in interpretation; if these lines are contradictory, which one to choose?
At I Ching Online we have chosen to apply a set of rules to determine the one Changing Line that prevails as an answer to your question.
This one Changing Line is selected initially, but you can read about any Changing (red) Line by clicking on it.
Changing Lines are part of the answer to your question, but any NON-changing (black) Line can be read as well by clicking on it.
(Clicking the Hexagram Lines tab again will reset.)
Although this set of rules is old and widespread, it is just one of many methods that can be found to handle this delicate issue.
Consider it a guideline, which is not compelling at all.
The following rules are applied for the seven possible number of changing lines:
There are no Changing Lines.
Read only the Cast Hexagram.
There is one Changing Line.
Consult this changing line.
There are two Changing Lines.
If both lines are Six (Old Yin) or Nine (Old Yang), the Upper Line applies.
If one is Six and the other Nine, the Six prevails. (* See "Instruction page".)
There are three Changing Lines.
The middle line counts.
There are four Changing Lines.
Read the upper NON-changing line.
There are five Changing Lines.
Read the only NON-changing line.
All lines are Changing.
Only the Transformed Hexagram applies.
With two exceptions: If all lines are Six or all lines are Nine, read both Cast Hexagram and Transformed Hexagram.
It might be left to us then to continue to do remediation and recommend this site instead for readings and instruction.
Thanks!Most of these sites copy the rules that are given in Alfred Huang's book, which are a modification of Zhu Xi's original rules.
Well, given what shows up in the Shared Readings, I really think this is the least of our worries!.... Interesting that there is now a steadyish stream of people following that turning up on SR and presenting lines they didn't cast for interpretation.
I wonder, do we really know that Alfred Huang's method of dealing with the moving lines is wrong or faulty? Or is it just how people are applying it?Thanks! Now I know who to blame.
I really know it's wrong.I wonder, do we really know that Alfred Huang's method of dealing with the moving lines is wrong or faulty?
That is not a method of interpretation.Bradford Hatcher (vol II) describes a method which designates a certain line or lines as the 'ruling' lines for each hexagram, which are said to capture the essence or character of that hexagram - Line 5 for Hex. 1, Line 6 for Hex 23 and so on.
I do not disagree at all. I was mainly expressing my curiosity (and ignorance) about this practice or method. I will only add that a lot of 'methods of interpretation' shared and used on this site are 'in addition to' the I Ching; for example, Shadow (and Ideal) hexagrams, some of the various methods of nuclear hexagram interpretation, The Patterns (hexagrams) of Change; different ways of interpreting the trigrams, and so on. I get the sense that sometimes we pick what works for us - often regardless of its source - but then if we don't like some other method we'll say "that's not part of the original Yi," or "that came so much later," or some such thing.I really know it's wrong. It was made about 1400 years after the Zhou Yi, by a Confucian scholar from a different clan of people who focused his studies on other books (instead of I Ching).
Again, I don't disagree. I was only wondering if this 'recognition' of certain lines might be what is behind some of the methods that have us select and read only one moving line (over others). Again, a question of curiosity about something I know very little about.That is not a method of interpretation. That is simply recognition that certain lines 'embody the spirit' of the Hexagram, having a meaning that is close to or same as the Image or Hex meaning as a whole. He is not telling you to ignore some lines and embrace others
Yep. I'd say that there is a whole bunch of stuff on the web about the I Ching that is wrong or faulty (or lame or just plain crap), or is maybe just confusing. Whatever we call it, it certainly muddles people's understanding and use of the Yi.I don't think anyone is saying it is wrong or faulty in itself if that is what a person chooses but for newbies using online casting tools so they sometimes don't even know what a change line is, well it just compounds the confusion. I had wondered why total newbies who weren't yet clear on how to cast a hexagram by hand, no clear idea of how lines connected to relating hexagram yet, were showing up with all these rules that appear to make sure one never actually considers the answer received. Doesn't seem a great way to start, they would be better off just doing the free beginners course here then exploring other methods later if they want.
Sorry, slow as a wet week here. Yes, I'd blame Google too. We'll have to buy them out.yes I do think this place, SR at least, mops up all the troubled misinformed people from those kinds of places but why are they being used [MENTION=252]hilary[/MENTION] instead of the online casting tool here ? As a regular respondent in SR I have to say I think they, the sites in question, are a nuisance. I guess it must be they appear first in Google or whatever.
And I'll start now and hold my breath until you do! Holding ... holding ... waiting ...... Yes, I'd blame Google too. We'll have to buy them out.
It all depends upon how one breaks apart the hexagram, and put them back together again.Many ways to read multiple lines, Hilary has a recent Blog post on it. You can read them as a story, chronologically, as alternatives etc but for me it's also often a case of zooming in with few lines and zooming out, like a camera lens for more lines. With many lines I don't think it's necessary to place too much emphasis on each line - but you already know what I think I imagine - I just piped up to say not everyone has any preference for less/more change lines.
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How To Configure A Stack On A Brocade (Foundry) FCX648SHPOE
config t
stack enable
stack secure
config t
stack mac XXXX.XXXX.XXXX <--- Primary switch MAC address
After the "stack secure" command, the stack will start to configure. It will take a few seconds and then all switches except the primary switch will reboot. To see the stack configuration, do the "show stack" command. Below you will see that I ran the command when the second switch was still booting up.
FCX648SHPOE Switch#sh stack
alone: standalone, D: dynamic config, S: static config
ID Type Role Mac Address Pri State Comment
1 S FCX648SPOE alone XXXX.XXXX.6bc0 128 local None:0
. +---+
-2/2| 1 |2/1-
. +---+
Current stack management MAC is XXXX.XXXX.6bc0
FCX648SHPOE Switch#Election, was alone --> active, assigned-ID=1, total 2 units, my priority=128
Detect stack member 2 POE capable
Done hot swap: Set stack unit 2 to Ready <--- (NOTICE THE 2nd UNIT HAS BOOTED UP AND IS READY IN THE STACK)
sh stack <--- I RAN THE "SHOW STACK" COMMAND AGAIN TO SEE THE 'CURRENT' TOPOLOGY.
alone: standalone, D: dynamic config, S: static config
ID Type Role Mac Address Pri State Comment
1 S FCX648SPOE active XXXX.XXXX.6bc0 128 local Ready
2 D FCX624SPOE member XXXX.XXXX.a000 0 remote Ready
. active
. |+---+ +---+|
-2/1| 1 |2/2--2/1| 2 |2/2-
. | +---+ +---+ |
Current stack management MAC is XXXX.XXXX.6bc0
FCX648SHPOE Switch#Election, was active, no role change, assigned-ID=1, total 2 units, my priority=128
That is all you have to do. Brocade certainly makes this an easy process.
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What if you do the sh stack command and the mac address of the member is all zero's?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Kevin. I have not seen that happen when Ive done a stack before. Im just not sure. Ill do some research on it as I have time. If you come up with the answer before I do, Id be interested in hearing what you found out.Delete
So what I found out is that the stacking module was going bad and it was not detecting the other switches. Fix was to just found either fiber or crossover cable and link them together.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Kevin for the update. You might can RMA the unit.Delete


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"Nothing's been decided yet for the rest of the year even though there's a plan in place. That plan might change I just have to now go back to the drawing board and decide what's important, what's most important and what's really important so we'll see what happens," the Swiss Maestro added.
Asked about his participation in the Davis Cup, Federer said he's glad to join the Swiss team and help them back in the world group.
"For me it's more about taking part with my team-mates, I enjoy being with them, and that's about it really. I have a good time and my team-mates are all my best friends – I don't see them regular basis on tour and we have a great friendship and it's always a lot of fun."
Federer is currently leading Serbia's Novak Djokovic by 1335 points in the ATP world ranking. Federer has to defend 3000 points in Basel, Paris Masters and ATP World Tour Finals. He did not played in last year's Shanghai Rolex Masters, so he can grab some points from Shanghai before he head to Basel.
Nevertheless, Federer has come up with a stellar year at the age of 31, winning the Wimbledon, Indian Wells Masters, Cincinnati Masters, Madrid Masters, a silver medal in the London Olympics, Rotterdam and Dubai Championships.
Date: 18th September 2012, Source: Student News ie
Federer retains Switzerland's World Group status
Federer has a 32-7 mark in singles rubbers since his debut in 1999.
Any Dutch hopes that Haase might be able to build on Saturday's impressive doubles victory over Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka appeared to be dashed from the get go. Federer broke the Haase serve at the first opportunity and went up 3-0 in a matter of minutes. A completely one-sided affair it was not; Haase had a break point in the third game and three consecutive break points at 4-1, only to see Federer blasting five big first serves to go 5-1 up, then taking the set as 6-1.
"The first set actually on the score looks the easiest but could have been one of the tougher ones", Federer said. "The result doesn't always show how tough it was. But I was in control most of the time."
The third game of the second set saw Federer breaking Haase's serve. The Dutchman got two chances to break back immediately, but again Federer's serve got him out of jail. And that seemed to be that. From that point, the home crowd seemed content enjoying the silky skills of the world No. 1, with a brilliant half volley crosscourt dink to go up 4-2 standing out in particular – cue several oohs and aahs. Federer held onto the break to take the second set as 6-4.
A slight lapse of concentration gifted Haase a breakpoint early in the third - but once again, Federer came to his own rescue with a monster second serve that drew a Haase error. Federer then broke Haase's serve in the fifth game and cruised to a comfortable victory.
Haase said he hadn't played his best tennis, which was necessary if he was to have any chance at all in his first match against Federer.
So what was it like playing him? "Incredibly difficult. It's the spin and speed he puts on the ball that stand out. I can hit a ball ten centimetres from his baseline and he gets it back deep into my court, with no trouble at all. When he hits the ball ten centimetres from my baseline, it's a totally different shot and I'm barely able to keep the ball in play."
"It's a joy to watch, really. Unless it's you on the court." said Haase.
The Securitas Swiss Davis Cup Team meets the Swiss Supporters after their victory over the Netherlands in Amsterdam. Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka and Severin Luthi express their thanks to the fans, the whole team sings the Fan song and signs autographs.
Date: 16th September 2012, Source: Davis Cup
Surprise win keeps Dutch in hunt
Haase now faces the challenge of a live fourth rubber against Federer on Sunday. Making a bid for the understatement of the weekend, Dutch captain Jan Siemerink said that "lots of questions will be asked of Robin tomorrow. But first, we want to be happy with this win." Haase added: "And for a good reason. It's not as if these guys can't play doubles. They are the Olympics doubles champions of Beijing."
For doubles specialist Rojer, it was one the biggest wins of his career. "Possibly – yes, because you face a couple of big names, one of them the No. 1 in the world. But it was also a good win because it was important to win to make Sunday relevant."
Federer gave the Dutch pair credit for playing "a clean doubles". As for himself, Federer thought that his returns were below par in sets one and two in particular. "And that translates into mistakes at the net as well," he admitted.
The first set saw the Swiss seeking out Rojer as their prime target, but the doubles specialist proved that he is just that - a specialist – with some nifty volleying, taking advantage of every high Swiss return of serve. The Dutch finished off a break of Wawrinka's serve at 4 all to take the first set 6-4.
With the crowd now firmly behind them, Rojer and Haase raced to a 4-0 lead in the second set with some impressive returns of serve. In their own service games they didn't give the Swiss a look in. Wawrinka hit out at the net with his racket in frustration, as he and Federer conceded the second set 6-2. People in the crowd were starting to exchange baffled looks: what was happening here? It all seemed a bit too easy.
Wawrinka and Federer switched sides for the third set, with Federer now returning from the ad court. For this reason or another, the Swiss got more and better returns of serve into play and made the Dutch work harder. At 6-5 Federer and Wawrinka got their first set point, and they took it when Rojer played an angled drop volley, Federer not only did well to get to it, he also pushed his crosscourt backhand dig deep into Rojer's court, forcing the error: 7-5.
It might have served as a classic example of a turning point in the match, but it wasn't, as the Dutch maintained their intensity. "I was very happy with the mental side of it," Rojer said. "We talked about going for our shots when we had the chance before the match. We wanted to play very aggressively." And so they did, breaking the Federer serve at 3 all in the fourth and adding a second break at 5-3 to win set and match after Federer missed a makeable forehand volley.
To Federer, the doubles loss made Wawrinka's win against Haase on Friday even more important in retrospect. "Credit to Stan for that difficult win. It means we are still up, 2-1, and we're full of confidence for tomorrow."
Date: 15th September 2012, Source: Davis Cup
Switzerland in control in Amsterdam
Federer defeated Thiemo de Bakker 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 and Wawrinka battled past Robin Haase 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) to put the visitors in control at the end of day one.
In the opening rubber the run of play was quickly established, with Federer holding serve easily and putting de Bakker under pressure even after the Dutchman landed his heavy first serves. At 11am, play was interrupted due to rain, but when play was resumed Federer seamlessly picked up where he left off. Federer broke de Bakker's serve twice and only lost his once, after a careless game, which meant he had secured the first set 6-4 after 39 minutes.
The Swiss No. 1 then rushed to a two-break 3-0 lead and things started to look dark for the home player. The crowd wasn't about to let anyone spoil their party however, let alone Federer, and started a Mexican wave.
Federer didn't disappoint his many fans in red (Swiss) and orange (Dutch). The match yielded more than a few examples of Federer's brilliance - some slice backhands in particular drew oohs and aahs. And besides being pretty shots, they also forced the tall de Bakker to stoop down with Federer pouncing on the high balls that followed. De Bakker managed to pull one break back, but never threatened to do more, conceding the second set 3-6.
For the third set, de Bakker had seemingly decided to go for broke and went up for the first time in the match at 1-0 and again at 2-1. Then Federer decided to up a gear, breaking the Bakker in the fifth game, never to look back. Just before the rain started pouring down again, he converted his first match point.
In the second rubber again it was close and again the winner came from Switzerland. In their sixth career clash, Wawrinka beat Haase for the sixth time to put Switzerland 2-0 up.
"He let me back into the match", Haase said. "It was more a matter of him playing poorly, than me upping my game. But at the end of the second set, I actually started hitting the ball well."
But not anymore, as fists were pumped on court and off court. Grown-up men screamed Haase's name and small boys looked up in shock, which turned into amazement, which turned into courage, which made them scream "Ro-bin Ro-bin!" for themselves.
Science has proved that momentum in sports doesn't exist, but Haase seemed to have it nonetheless, and the prospect of at least one live singles rubber on Sunday – which was the most the Dutch hoped for privately – became real. At the other end of the court, Wawrinka started throwing his racket, which usually only makes bad things worse. But this might oddly have been the turning point: the Swiss took four of the next five games: 6-3 and a two set to one lead.
The fourth set saw both players reaching their highest level of the match, at least until five games all, when all of a sudden nervous error followed nervous error. At 5-6 down, Haase saved a match point on his serve to set up a tiebreak. But under consistent pressure from Wawrinka he ended up making one of those too many, netting a makeable forehand for the minibreak that Wawrinka happily made use of. He converted his third match point to take his team 2-0 up.
Reflecting on the opening rubber Federer said: "It's nice to be admired for a nice looking game, one that looks effortless. But I put so much work into making it work. I try to get to balls and get them back. And for some reason it looks OK. And people like that."
But to Federer, style is secondary. "I try to play fair and tough, the way I'm supposed to do it." And this he did. "Thiemo didn't play bad, I played pretty good. He got chances in second and beginning of the third, but in the end I had a little to much margin over him."
De Bakker could only agree. At the press conference, he couldn't help looking satisfied with his game, but he said that every time he played an average ball, "Federer hit a great one back at me".
Said de Bakker: "There's hardly any margin for error with him. He's just so solid, he pushes you away so far, he moves unbelievably well. He makes you feel so uncomfortable."
Tomorrow Robin Haase and doubles specialist Jean-Julien Rojer face the daunting task of beating Federer and Wawrinka to keep the tie alive for the Dutch. Swiss captain Severin Luthi tried his best not to seem sure of victory in the tie. "There's no guarantees, even with Roger and Stan teaming up", he said. "But we gave ourselves a good chance of being 3-0 up tomorrow, and I'm happy with that."
Date: 14th September 2012, Source: Davis Cup
Perfect start for Switzerland in Davis Cup
Under wet and windy conditions, the match was interrupted at 1-1 for about an hour. After that, both players earned a break but Roger was able to win the deciding one to win the first set 6-4. Our champ started into the second set with a double break and held to win the second set, too. Roger did not waste any chances in the third to win the match after 102 minutes of play.
Roger will play tomorrow's doubles match aside Stanislas Wawrinka against Robin Haase (ATP 50) and Jean-Julien Rojer (ATP 17 in doubles).
Date: 14th September 2012, Source: RF Official
Federer starts Swiss survival bid in Davis Cup
The second rubber on Friday will see Dutch No. 1 Robin Haase pitted against Stanislas Wawrinka. On Saturday, Wawrinka and Federer team up against Haase and Dutch doubles specialist Jean-Julien Rojer.
Federer acknowledged that he is the overwhelming favourite in all of this weekend's ties, but he said he didn't underestimate anyone, certainly not on the outside clay court the Dutch opted for with Federer in mind.
"Obviously we've been on faster courts for sometime now," the world No. 1 said. "Now we're looking at a very slow clay court, outdoors, potentially in cold conditions. It's a matter of getting through and not losing, me being the overwhelming favourite in most of the matches."
His opponent on Friday, Thiemo de Bakker, said he was excited to be playing Federer for the first time: "He's obviously one of the best players in history, maybe the best, but I'm looking forward to it."
Will he be adapting his game in order to give himself a fighting chance? "For sure I have to take some risks," said de Bakker. "Because what else can you do? At least I'll try to make him work as hard as possible for it." Last week, de Bakker won a Challenger tournament on clay in the Netherlands. "I'm hitting the ball OK," he added. "So I have some confidence."
In Friday's second rubber, Haase will play Wawrinka, against whom he has a 0-5 losing record. However, Haase stressed that four of those matches had been extremely close. "In our last match [in the Rome-1000 tournament this spring], I was within two points of the win. So I think it will be a good match. And here, playing in a full stadium, it'll be interesting."
If he played his own game well enough, "I can beat almost everybody", Haase said. So what will he have to come up with against Federer, on Sunday? The very best version of his own game, he said.
"I think that everyone always plays their own game, unless someone else is so good that you have to defend. But say you're a serve and volley player and you play Roger, you won't be playing from the baseline. You'll have to try and beat him with your game. If I change my game, I won't be used to it, so I will make more mistakes."
Earlier this week, when the news came out that Federer would play the tie, Haase put the Dutch chances of winning the tie at 10 percent. Dutch captain Jan Siemerink said he didn't agree with Haase. "There is always a chance of beating the Swiss with Federer. Maybe with the crowd behind us, they can push our guys to the limit and chances might even up a little," the captain said.
Swiss captain Severin Luthi said that he was relieved that his No. 1 decided to come and play in Amsterdam. "We only have two players in the top hundred, so I was happy he could come."
Obviously his team were now the favourites to win the tie. But the Swiss captain said he was expecting a tough and long weekend on an outdoors clay court - possibly made even longer, considering the weather forecast: a 75 percent chance of rain on Friday.
The full draw is listed below:
R1: Thiemo de Bakker (NED) v Roger Federer (SUI)
R2: Robin Haase (NED) v Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
R3: Robin Haase / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) v Roger Federer / Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
R4: Robin Haase (NED) v Roger Federer (SUI)
R5: Thiemo de Bakker (NED) v Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
Federer to play in Davis Cup tie against Netherlands
Roger Federer confirmed for Shanghai Rolex Masters 2012
World No. 1 Roger Federer, who was stunned by the World No. 7 Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic in the 2012 US Open quarter finals in four sets with a 7-6(1), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 score line. Swiss star said he had not played his best tennis in the US Open quarters.
Federer retook the world No. 1 spot after winning the Wimbledon this year. After winning the Cincinnati Masters earlier this month, Federer has accumulated a total of 21 Masters titles, equaling that of Nadal's. But the Spaniard's absence from Shanghai should give the Swiss an edge and set a new record. Besides Federer, the world's top 44 male tennis players including the No. 2 Novak Djokovic and the No. 4 Andy Murray are also expected to show up for the October 7 - 14 tournament. Organizers also claimed that ticket sales went up by 30 percent since last year with most of the tickets for the final and semifinals already sold out in a month.
Date: 8th September 2012, Source: Shanghai Rolex Masters
Federer hoping to finish the season strong
"I mean, in terms of that I tried, I don't have any regrets there," said Federer afterwards. "Obviously, I rarely go through matches where I have no chances. So obviously I missed some tonight again, but that's normal. When you end up losing at the end, you always hope that you made every chance you had. It's just not possible. He probably created more than I did, and that's why he ended up winning tonight."
"Regrets were early in my days," said the 17-time Grand Slam champion. "I was trying to come through and I couldn't figure out how to always be in great shape, always be in a good mood to play, always ready to practise, all that stuff."
"Today I always know I'm going to put in the best fight. I did that tonight again with what I had. Obviously I wish I could have played better. So many moments I thought, 'Man, it's just not happening for me.' It was just a very disappointing match for me."
The 31-year-old Federer came into New York in scintillating form. He returned to World No. 1 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings following his triumph at Wimbledon (l. to Murray), before capturing a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games and lifting his 21st ATP World Tour Masters 1000 trophy at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati (d. Djokovic). He had not dropped a set on his run through to the quarter-finals, but was granted a walkover through the fourth round against Mardy Fish.
"I really expected myself to play better tonight," admitted Federer, who reigned at Flushing Meadows from 2004-2008. "Especially at night I have had such a great record. I felt good. Such an amazing summer I had. I really thought I was going to come out and play a solid match. I didn't do that tonight. Obviously there is a bit of a letdown now."
Looking ahead to the remainder of the season, Federer expressed his desire to finish year-end No. 1 for the sixth time. He has already secured his place at the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, where he will join Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray.
"No. 1 has another a role to play, but this obviously is a setback," said Federer. "But again, the season is not over. I hope to finish strong at the end, and particularly in the indoor season."
Date: 6th September 2012, Source: ATP
Federer lost in quarterfinals of US Open
It marks the first time in eight years that Federer has failed to reach the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows.
"I'm disappointed. I really expect myself to play better tonight, especially at night I have had such a great record," said Federer. "I felt good. Such an amazing summer I had. I really thought I was going to come out and play a solid match. I didn't do that tonight. Obviously there is a bit of a letdown now."
Federer had entered the match on a nine-match winning streak, following his title win in Cincinnati on the eve of the US Open, and with a perfect record in night session matches on Arthur Ashe Stadium. He secured the first break of serve, but his lead proved short-lived as Berdych broke back and took the first set in the tie-break.
The Czech, who defeated Federer in their last Grand Slam meeting two years ago in the Wimbledon quarter-finals, secured the second set with two breaks and opened the third with another break of serve. But two untimely double-faults by the Czech - on break point opportunities for Federer - turned the momentum briefly in the five-time champion's favour.
Though Federer pulled within a set, he was unable to overcome Berdych. The Czech put a forehand winner past Federer on break point opportunity go up 5-3 and served out the match at love.
"I cannot count on beating Roger in straight sets and not getting in any trouble," said Berdych. "I was always careful that anything could happen. Actually, it happened in the third set that he came strongly back. But for that, I'm even more happy with the way that I was able to hold his pressure and then add something extra for the fourth set."
Federer had earned a walkover into the quarter-finals, following Mardy Fish's withdrawal due to health issues, and was playing his first match since Saturday.
"I should come in here with tons of energy and ready to go," he said. "Who knows, if you get that day, that match in with Fish, come through with more confidence, maybe the first three matches didn't quite give me that. Who knows? I don't put that down as a negative, really. I just didn't come up with the goods tonight. It was unfortunate."
Date: 6th September 2012, Source: ATP
Roger Federer: 'I hope Rafael Nadal plays again this year'
"It's obviously not great news but one that was a possibility," said world number one Federer when told that Nadal could be forced to delay his return to the tour until 2013.
He was forced to sit out the Olympics to recover from more problems with his knees, a requirement which also forced him to miss the ongoing US Open where he was champion in 2010 and runner-up last year.
That would also rule him out of the Davis Cup semifinal against the United States in Gijon from September 14-16 as well as a potential final date in November.
Nadal's name is already absent from the team list published on the official Davis Cup website for the semifinal.
"I'm not shocked about the news. I'm still hopeful that he'll be okay for the rest of the year," added the world number one.
Federer and Nadal have developed a close bond despite their eight-year rivalry which has seen them battle for the world number one ranking as well as Grand Slam titles.
Between them they have won 24 of the last 30 majors.
Federer said that he and Nadal had never discussed injury problems and that even if they did, their conversations would remain strictly confidential.
"I think it's quite personal except if one guy goes up to the other. But we're both very open and honest. When I ask him how he's feeling, he's not feeling well, he'll tell me, I'm tired, a little injured," said Federer.
"There's no real secrets out there because he knows and I know when we tell each other that stuff it doesn't leave the room."
"That's a nice relationship I have with Rafa. It's based on a lot of trust."
Date: 2nd September 2012, Source: AFP
Federer into 4th round of US Open
Top-seeded Federer faced only a single break point in his 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over No. 25 Fernando Verdasco on Saturday and won it with the longest point of the match - a 20-stroke rally he captured by moving Verdasco back and forth on the baseline until the Spaniard finally sprayed a forehand wide.
The rest of the time, Verdasco found Federer doing an unusual amount of damage at the net, closing out 26 of 27 points from the front court. Federer added that effort to the 32 points he won in 47 trips to the net two nights earlier in a second-round win over Bjorn Phau.
''I really tried to play offensive against ... Phau in my second match,'' Federer said. ''I did lose more points than I was hoping to. But I think that gave me the confidence to move forward today. And conditions helped that because it was quicker during the day.''
Indeed, the wind and the quicker surface put more pressure on Verdasco, a baseliner who had trouble getting the ball past Federer. It was hard for him to get comfortable against the 17-time Grand Slam champion, who got 67 percent of his first serves in, many at tough angles that drove Verdasco off the side of the court.
''He served well the whole match,'' Verdasco said. ''He always has great control close to the lines with his serve.''
Federer, who hasn't lost a set through three matches over the first week at the U.S. Open, stayed on course for a semifinal meeting against No. 3 Andy Murray.
Federer will play the winner of a late match between Gilles Simon and Mardy Fish.
Date: 2nd September 2012, Source: AP