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This week in movie news:
Justin Theroux will replace Chris Evans in The Girl on the Train; the live-action Micronauts film is getting a rewrite; George Clooney will direct the Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted crime drama Suburbicon; Michelle Rodriguez is set to star in action thriller Tomboy; M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller has a title and release date; Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny will star in a new movie about ax murderer Lizzie Borden; a new trailer has been released for The Lady in the Van; Michael Mann's Enzo Ferrari biopic starring Christian Bale has secured funding and distribution; Ryan Reynolds is in final negotiations to star in Truth in Advertising; and Kingsman: The Secret Service star Sofia Boutella joins The Coldest City.
Justin Theroux is in negotiations to join the cast of The Girl on the Train, the upcoming film adaptation of the best-selling Paula Hawkins novel. The actor would step into the role vacated by Chris Evans, who had to depart the project due to a scheduling conflict. Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Leto, Haley Bennett and Edgar Ramirez are all attached to star.
Directed by Tate Taylor (The Help), the film centers on a troubled woman -- played by Blunt -- who witnesses a murder, and Theroux will play her character's ex-husband. The actor currently stars in the HBO drama The Leftovers and is also a successful screenwriter, whose credits include Tropic Thunder, Rock of Ages and the forthcoming Zoolander 2. The Girl on the Train is set for release on October 7th, 2016.
Screenwriter Tom Wheeler (Puss in Boots) has been brought to work on the live-action Micronauts film over at Paramount. The film will be adapted from the popular Hasbro sci-fi toy line, though no other story details have been revealed just yet. In addition, there's no word on cast or crew of the project.
Paramount has been developing a Micronauts film for years, and the studio has also set Wheeler on another high-profile adaptation. He is confirmed to work on the live-action version of hit Nickelodeon series Dora the Explorer.
Source: Deadline
George Clooney is in talks to direct Suburbicon, a film noir written by Joel and Ethan Coen. The movies is reportedly a crime drama set in the 1950s, thought there are no other story details at this early stage. It's unclear if Clooney would only direct or if he would star as well. No other cast or crew have been announced.
If Clooney does board the project, it would only be the latest in a long string of collaborations between the actor/director and the Coens. He previously starred in the brothers' films O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading. Next year, Clooney will also be prominently featured in the upcoming Coen brothers comedy Hail, Caesar!.
Source: Deadline
Michelle Rodriguez will headline Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale for director Walter Hill (The Warriors). In the action film, the Fast & Furious star will play a male assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of a rogue surgeon who turns him into a woman. Sigourney Weaver is already onboard to play the the villainous doctor.
The film will mark the first starring vehicle for Rodriguez in a long while, as she has stuck mostly with ensemble projects in recent years. Tomboy previously had Slumdog Millionaire actress Frieda Pinto attached, but she has long since left the project. Filming begins on November 9th in Vancouver.
Source: THR
Universal Pictures has announced that M. Night Shyamalan's next film is titled Split. The film will see the writer/director reteaming with Blumhouse Productions, with whom he worked on this year's The Visit. No plot details are known about Split, but the supernatural thriller will hit theaters on January 20th, 2017.
James McAvoy will star in the film, along with Anya Taylor Joy, Betty Buckley, Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson. Split is currently the only film scheduled for release during its announced week, and it is expected to be similarly low-budgeted as The Visit, which cost only $5 million to produce.
Source: Deadline
Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny will star in a new, as-yet-untitled psychological thriller about ax murderer Lizzie Borden, who killed her family in 1892. Pieter Van Hees -- who directed the 2014 film Waste Land -- will helm the film, in which Sevigny will play Borden and Stewart will take on the role of the Bordens' live-in maid who may have been in the home during the murders.
The story of Borden's crimes has been adapted numerous times over the years, but the most recent incarnation was a 2014 television movie that starred Christina Ricci as the killer herself. Sevigny -- a Golden Globe-winning actress -- was previously attached to a Borden project over at HBO. She currently stars on the FX series American Horror Story: Hotel.
Source: THR
Sony Pictures Classics has released a new trailer for The Lady in the Van, a new big-screen adaptation of the 1999 play by Alan Bennett. Bennett also wrote the film version, a true story centering on an elderly woman who lived in a van in Bennett's own driveway for 15 years. Maggie Smith stars as Mary Shepherd, the titular character at the heart of the film.
Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George) will direct the film, which also features Alex Jennings (as Bennett himself), Jim Broadbent, Dominic Cooper and James Corden. Hytner directed the original production of the play, which also starred Smith. The role won her critical acclaim and a Best Actress nomination at the 2000 Olivier Awards. The Lady in the Van will be released on December 4th, 2015.
Source: Sony Pictures Classics
Paramount Pictures has signed on to distribute Enzo Ferrari, the upcoming biopic from director Michael Mann. The film will cover a year in the life of tthe Italian auto magnate, with Oscar-winner Christian Bale leading the film. Production will begin in summer 2016 in Italy, and the project will receive funding from Vendian Entertainment and YooZoo Bliss Film Fund.
The film's development mirrors Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, another Paramount release. Mann has worked for 15 years to make the film -- based on the Brock Yates book "Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races" -- finally come together. Set in 1957, it documents a particularly harrowing challenge Ferrari faced during his life and career.
Source: Deadline
Ryan Reynolds is in final negotiations to star in comedy/drama Truth in Advertising, which will be introduced to international distributors at the upcoming American Film Market. Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill), the film centers on an advertising executive who begins to question why his life isn't progressing when his boss asks him to cancel his Christmas vacation to work on an ad campaign.
Filming is set to begin in mid-2016 for the film, written by John Kenney based on his own 2013 novel of the same name. Like the novel, the film version of Truth in Advertising is expected to comment on corporate culture and society's obsession with consumerism. Reynolds will next appear in the highly anticipated Fox release Deadpool, based on the Marvel character.
Source: The Solution Entertainment Group
The Coldest City has added Kingsman: The Secret Service costar Sofia Boutella to the cast. She will appear in the film alongside Charlize Theron (who is also producing) and James McAvoy in the David Leitch-directed (John Wick) spy thriller based on the Oni Press graphic novel by Antony Johnston. Production begins on November 16th in Budapest.
The story centers on an spy (Theron) who must find a list of agents that a fallen MI6 officer was smuggling into the country prior to his death, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. No details on Boutella's character have thus far been confirmed. However,Boutella will also be featured in the 2016 release Star Trek Beyond, the third entry in the rebooted sci-fi franchise.
Source: The Wrap


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Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. A searchable guide to these and many other art shows is at nytimes.com/events.
★ Brooklyn Historical Society: 'Personal Correspondence: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn' (through June 19) The Civil War officially ended when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1865. For many people who lived through it, though, the war never ended at all, and it lives on in letters sent to and from the battlefield. Thousands of these ended up half-forgotten in attics and bureau drawers; a small stash comes to light in this exhibition, which consists of just one little room with a lot in it — including letters, Civil War souvenirs and explanatory texts — with everything as readily accessible as if in a well-packed suitcase. 128 Pierrepont Street, near Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, 718-222-4111, brooklynhistory.org. (Holland Cotter)
Brooklyn Museum: 'Agitprop!' (through Aug. 7) Most art is political, whether it's means to be or not, and politics is what this group exhibition is all about. Photography, prints and performance are favored media because they're, in different ways, portable, readily legible, easily reproducible and disposable — ready to change as the news changes. The Brooklyn Museum show has change built in. It's been conceived as an exhibition in progress, and at this point, early in its run, it looks like one, only half there and thin. But there's more to come in cumulative stages, with artists chosen by artists already in the show joining on Feb. 17 and again on April 6. Among the later arrivals will be young activist collectives like Occupy Museums and Not an Alternative. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org. (Cotter)
Brooklyn Museum: 'This Place' (through June 5) Art, life and photography make sparks fly in this show of more than 600 images by 12 well-known photographers. They document the many tensions and ways of life in Israel and the West Bank. But each body of photographs also expresses an individual sensibility and style, so the show becomes an exciting meditation on the possibilities of photography itself. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org. (Roberta Smith)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: 'Beauty — Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial' (through Aug. 21) This year's version of the Cooper Hewitt's always interesting Design Triennial boldly ventures to tackle one of the most controversial topics in today's visual culture. With more than 250 works by 63 designers from around the world in a jam-packed two-floor show, it's a mixed bag in terms of quality. But whether or not everything in it qualifies as incontrovertibly beautiful, it offers an exciting opportunity to meditate on two perennially confounding questions, what is beauty and what is it good for? 2 East 91st Street, 212-849-8400, cooperhewitt.org. (Ken Johnson)
El Museo del Barrio: 'The Illusive Eye' (through May 21) A half-century after the Museum of Modern Art opened "The Responsive Eye," the landmark show that introduced Op Art and related trends to the general public, El Museo del Barrio looks back on that exhibition. Presenting 65 visually dazzling works dating from the 1950s through the 1970s, "The Illusive Eye" reveals what the MoMA show overlooked: the contributions of Latin American artists to the Op Art and kinetic art movements. Of the 53 artists in "The Illusive Eye," 37 are or were from one or another of eight South American countries and Puerto Rico. 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, East Harlem, 212-831-7272, elmuseo.org. (Johnson)
★ Guggenheim Museum: 'Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better' (through April 27) Presenting more than 300 sculptures, photographs and videos, this marvelously entertaining exhibition demonstrates the power of creative play to invigorate hearts and minds. It includes photographs of doll-scale tableaus made mainly of processed meats; films starring the artists as Rat and Bear in frowzy costumes; more than 160 small, comical clay sculptures representing a harebrained history of the world; and myriad trompe l'oeil sculptures of ordinary objects. Most importantly, there's the team's classic movie "The Way Things Go" (1987), the landmark film documenting an apparently continuous series of chain reactions of a Rube Goldberg-type construction. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, 212-423-3500, guggenheim.org. (Johnson)
★ Guggenheim Museum: 'Photo-Poetics: An Anthology' (through March 27) Formally complex and expressively reserved, even hermetic, the work by 10 photographers in this stimulating show has roots in Conceptualism and takes language, history and speculative thinking as its raw materials. Photographs are structured with the equivalent of poetry's metrical cadences and internal rhymes, and treated less as generators of translatable ideas than of suggestive metaphors. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, 212-423-3500, guggenheim.org. (Cotter)
★ Jewish Museum: 'Unorthodox' (through March 27) With about 200 putatively unorthodox works crowded into tightly walled-in spaces, this lively show has the feel of an Outsider Art fair — in a good way. The paintings, drawings, collages, assemblages, ceramics, weavings and videos are variously funny, funky, quirky, eccentric, idiosyncratic and visionary. Are they truly unorthodox by the standards of a contemporary art world wherein no one wants to be thought orthodox? No, but that's O.K. It's an entertaining and intermittently exhilarating exhibition nonetheless. 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org. (Johnson)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age' (through May 1) In December, the Met unveiled a beautiful new period room in the American Wing: the Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room, which was created in the early 1880s by the heretofore little-known cabinetmaker and interior decorator George A. Schastey (1839–1894). A two-part exhibition in neighboring galleries focuses on individual work by Schastey, including an extravagantly ornamented Steinway grand piano. Also featured are sumptuous furnishings and decorative objects made for the palatial William H. Vanderbilt House by Herter Brothers, one of Schastey's chief competitors. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Johnson)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Celebrating the Arts of Japan: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection' (continuing) This lavish roll out of 160 objects came to the Met from the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation last spring. The Burkes loved Japanese art — all of it — and the collection is close to compendious in terms of media, from wood-carved Buddhas to bamboo baskets, with a particular strength in painting, early and late. The quality of the work? Japan thinks highly enough of it to have made the Burke holdings the first Japanese collection from abroad ever to show at Tokyo National Museum. Some pieces on view now will be rotated out and replaced in February, making this an exhibition to visit at least twice. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'A New Look at a Van Eyck Masterpiece' (through April 24) This small show of Flemish art, highly specialized yet not inaccessible, is the latest in an impressive sequence of laser-focused examinations of the Met's holdings of late medieval and Renaissance painting. A crystalline Crucifixion attributed to van Eyck, and a jam-packed Last Judgment painted by him and his studio, now hang as a diptych — but technical analysis of the frames suggests they were probably side panels for a central painting now lost. Alongside the Met's van Eycks is a recently resurfaced drawing of the Crucifixion, lent by Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, whose wizened Virgin and writhing thieves rhyme with the painted version. Did van Eyck draw it? Whether he did or not, the drawing grounds these divinely impeccable paintings in the real world of brushes and pencils. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Jason Farago)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France' (through May 15) This outstanding late-17th-century painter finally receives a ravishing survey. A prodigy and portraitist to Marie Antoinette and her court, Vigée Le Brun orchestrated an equally successful career among the royals of Italy, Prussia and especially Russia after the French Revolution. Her best efforts are distinguished by exquisite technique (ears sometimes excepted), inventive colors and immensely sympathetic portrayals of men and women alike. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Roberta Smith)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger's Drawings From the Collection of Ricky Jay' (through April 11) A draftsman, calligrapher, magician and musician, Matthias Buchinger (1674–1739) traveled all over Northern Europe to entertain kings and aristocrats as well as hoi polloi with feats of physical dexterity. He was especially noted for elaborate drawings featuring biblical passages written in letters too small to be read by ordinary naked eyes. This he managed despite having been born without hands or legs: His arms ended at the elbows and his lower extremities were truncated at the upper thighs. Sixteen of his amazing works are featured in this exhibition. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Johnson)
★ Museum of Arts and Design: Ebony G. Patterson: 'Dead Treez' (through April 3) Born in Kingston, Jamaica, this young artist focuses her attention on the island's dance-hall culture in a smashing solo show. The centerpiece is a set of monumental tapestries, laid flat on the floor like carpets, their embroidered surfaces sparkling with sequins and dense with sewn-on objects that partially obscure images of urban murder victims. The theme of beauty disguising danger extends to a smaller adjoining installation in which the artist has inserted jewelry from the museum's permanent collection in vitrines filled with carnivorous-looking fake tropical flowers. 2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan, 212-299-7777, madmuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954' (through May 1) The first exhibition devoted to the Modern's unsurpassed Pollock holding gives a dazzling account of the evolution of his signature poured paintings. Its 58 works on canvas and paper also attest to the Modern's laserlike focus on accounting fully for the achievements of artists it deems great. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Smith)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective' (through May 15) The Belgian poet Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) supported himself for 40 years as a bookseller before deciding on a new career as an artist. In 1964, he turned some unsold poetry books into a sculpture, and instantly had a debut solo show. Four years later, he appointed himself director of a fictional art museum — his own. Now comes a belated and woozily perplexing first New York survey of one of Europe's most influential 20th-century trickster-artist-poets, along with a complementary showcase, "Marcel Broodthaers: Ecriture," at Michael Werner Gallery on the Upper East Side. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Cotter)
Museum of Modern Art: 'Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015' (through March 20) To celebrate the 30th anniversary of its longstanding "New Photography" series, and perhaps to soften the news that the series will now change from annual to biennial, MoMA presents the largest and most cosmopolitan edition yet, with 19 artists and collectives, from 14 countries. The title refers to the infinite image blank called the Internet, and borrowed and manipulated images. So built-in delays in accessibility. Almost wherever you look you need to look twice, and consult a label, to fully understand what you're seeing. The extra effort feels more fruitful in some cases than in others, with work by Yuki Kimura, Basim Magdy, Indre Serpytyte and Lieko Shiga particular worth lingering over. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Cotter)
Museum of Modern Art: 'Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection' (through April 10) MoMA's latest installation of works from its permanent collection fills the second-floor contemporary galleries with videos, installations, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs produced by more than 30 artists during the past three decades. It's an uneven, haphazard selection, but leaving artistic quality aside, its unusually optimistic-sounding title inadvertently raises a large and intriguing question: At a time when contemporary art seems to be spinning its wheels, what could a new heritage be? 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Johnson)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War' (through March 20) MoMA usually stages the years after 1945 as a triumph of American abstraction, but this vital show affirms that the human figure never disappeared from art — especially not in battle-scarred Europe. With the end of the war, and the full revelation of the Holocaust, the human body became a sign of pathos and existential dread, notably in the fraught paintings of Francis Bacon and the spindly sculptures of Alberto Giacometti. The same was true of other European artists who received less American acclaim — such as Jean Fautrier, whose haunted "Otages" ("Hostages") are far better known in his native France. The show is drawn entirely from the museum's permanent collection, and its greatest surprise comes from Jan Müller, a German émigré in New York, whose ghoulish "Faust I" (1956) depicts the witches of Goethe's epic as starved, traumatized wraiths. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Farago)
Museum of the City of New York: 'Activist New York' (continuing) With a focus on activist tactics from the 17th century to the present, this exhibition — designed by the firm Pentagram — is a room-size onslaught of sensory stimulation, complete with videos, graphics and text. Told through 14 "moments" in New York activism, it includes a facsimile of the Flushing Remonstrance (1657), a petition for religious tolerance given to Peter Stuyvesant, director-general of the settlement, as well as contemporaneous objects, like a Dutch tobacco box, a Bible and "Meet the Activists" kiosks adjacent to each display, which identify activist groups working in the present. Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672, mcny.org. (Martha Schwendener)
Museum of the City of New York: 'Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half' (through March 20) The Danish immigrant muckraker's stark photographs, coupled with his documents from the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress, vividly portray the changing face of poverty since Riis exposed the poor to an oblivious public 125 years ago and remind viewers of the lingering challenges. Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672, mcny.org. (Sam Roberts)
★ New Museum: 'Anri Sala: Answer Me' (through April 10) This austere yet impassioned survey examines the work of an Albanian-born artist known for roiling explorations, mostly in video, of sound, color, history and architecture, as well as the politics of modern life. Brilliantly installed, the works here remarkably balance the sensuous and the social, exposing music to minute dissection, charged settings or uncharacteristic instruments, inspiring us to listen as deeply as we look. 235 Bowery, at Prince Street, Lower East Side, 212-219-1222, newmuseum.org. (Smith)
New-York Historical Society: 'Maestà': Gaddi's Triptych Reunited' (through March 20) This tiny but lovely exhibition focuses on three marvelous Italian Early Renaissance paintings from a collection given to the society by Thomas Jefferson Bryan, one of most discerning American collectors of the 19th century. The main attraction, by Taddeo Gaddi, is a triptych whose central panel depicting Mary enthroned — the Maestà — here is temporarily reunited with the folding shutters from which it had been separated long ago. The two other paintings are a poignant Crucifixion by a follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna and a lively, panoramic picture of an Ancient Roman procession by Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi, Masaccio's younger brother. 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street, 212-873-3400, nyhistory.org. (Johnson)
Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Flatlands' (through April 17) This engaging small show presents a dozen pieces by five young (all born since 1980) representational painters who work under the influences of Pop Art and Surrealism. Highlights include Matthew Cerletty's hallucinogenic view into a fish tank; Orion Martin's erotic depiction of a knee-high boot; Jamian Juliano-Villani's funny-scary image of an apartment haunted by a black-clad figure with an animal-skull head; Caitlin Keogh's anatomical meditations resembling pages from a morbid coloring book for grown-ups; and Nina Chanel Abney's 18-foot-wide "Hothouse," which updates Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." 99 Gansevoort Street, at Washington Street, 212-570-3600, whitney.org. (Johnson)
★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Laura Poitras: Astro Noise' (through May 1) An engrossing first solo museum show by an artist-activist known for films documenting the United States government's post-Sept. 11 "war on terror," notably the Oscar-winning "Citizenfour." Here she pursues her forensic mediation on global surveillance with a suite of dimly lit installations made up of photographs, videos and texts that take us from ground zero to Baghdad, Washington and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that conclude with a chilling little real-time surprise. 99 Gansevoort Street, at Washington Street, 212-570-3600, whitney.org. (Cotter)
Galleries: Uptown
★ 'Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan' (through May 8) The Kamakura Period — 1185 to 1333 — gave rise to some of Japan's greatest sculpture. This terrific show presents works carved from wood representing Buddhist deities, some wrathful, others exuding beatific serenity. The most amazing piece depicts Daiitoku Myoo, or the Wisdom King of Awe-Inspiring Power. He has six faces, six legs and six arms and is riding a pony-size water buffalo. With an expression of gleeful fury on his foremost face, he holds a sword in one hand, a trident in another and, in a third, a noose for dragging people onto the right spiritual path. Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, at 70th Street, 212-517-2742, asiasociety.org. (Johnson)
★ 'Munch and Expressionism' (through June 13) There's no question that Munch was a product of his Norwegian homeland. But this show makes him part of a larger history too. It argues that his art significantly shaped, and was shaped by, European culture of the early 20th century, when an atmospheric clash of liberationist yearning and doomsday fear charged the air like lightning and sparked reality-fracturing art styles, including German Expressionism. Along with "The Scream," in the 1895 pastel version that sold at Sotheby's a few years back, you'll find wonderful paintings by Munch's younger contemporaries Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann and Egon Schiele glowing like lamps against midnight-blue walls. Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, 212-628-6200, neuegalerie.org. (Cotter)
Galleries: Chelsea
Berlinde De Bruyckere: 'No Life Lost' (through April 2) This Belgian artist's rousingly operatic exhibition casts an ominous, funereal spell. Most arresting is "No Life Lost II," in which the bodies of three horses — made by the artist using real horse hides, hooves and all — lie on their sides, one on top of the other inside a big, old wood-framed glass cabinet. Their legs jut out the front doors so that they look frozen in a dying struggle to get out. It's like a nightmare had by Louise Bourgeois. Hauser & Wirth, 511 West 18th Street, Chelsea, 212-790-3900, hauserwirth.com. (Johnson)
Matias Faldbakken: 'Europe is Balding' (through March 19) The center of this show is a resonant 13-minute video that somehow encapsulates the vastness of human folly while playing on a screen mounted on an entertainment console covered with glazed aqua tile. The absurdity of it all is reinforced by more workaday essentials — automobile dashboards, a wood pallet, a wheelbarrow tray — also rendered useless by tile. Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st Street, Chelsea, 212-255-1105, paulacoopergallery.com. (Smith)
★ Robert Ryman (through July 29) For nearly 60s years, the Minimalist painter Robert Ryman has had few equals when it comes to doing more with less. White has been his primary, if not quite his only, color, the square his typical format. And yet within these seeming limitations a remarkably fecund and resonant body of work has evolved as demonstrated with unusual clarity (and in natural light) by this small but comprehensive exhibition. Dia: Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, 212-989-5566, diaart.org. (Smith)
Mickalene Thomas (through March 17) Mickalene Thomas is best known for lavish, collagelike paintings, but the photographs on view in "Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs" often served as sketches or studies for those paintings. The "Tête-a-Tête" portion of the show makes explicit Ms. Thomas's formal and spiritual kinship with other black photographers. Works by Lyle Ashton Harris, Derrick Adams, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deana Lawson, Renée Cox, Zanele Muholi, Xaviera Simmons and Hank Willis Thomas hang alongside a photograph by the Malian master Malick Sidibé, linking contemporary practices and traditions of African portraiture, with its creative posing of subjects and juxtapositions of contrasting textile patterns. Aperture, 547 West 27th Street, Chelsea, 212-505-5555, aperture.org. (Schwendener)
Galleries: SoHo
★ Giorgio Morandi (through June 25) The Italian master of modern still life, and closet abstractionist, is celebrated in a large show devoted foremost to his painting from the 1930s, which are not well known in this country. They reveal a period of struggle during which the artist had settled on what to paint, how to paint was still very much up for grabs. Joel Meyerowitz's large color photographs of Morandi's still life objects — which he sometimes altered — are also on view. Reservations are required. Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, near Crosby Street, SoHo, 646-370-3596, italianmodernart.org. (Smith)
Galleries: Other
Larry Bamburg: 'TalctoTile, PL'd to MDO' (through March 20) The gallery's second exhibition of this talented, searching sculptor is as good as his first, in 2013. His drive to meld processed and natural materials now focuses on large chunks of non-pulverized talc, a soft, grainy stone as strange as talcum powder is familiar. Each chunk rests on a matching pedestal of pink, yellow, white or black made from soap, garbage bags, ceramic and plaster tiles or old tires. There are also two giant mollusk shells cast in soap made from various animal fats and aromatic oils. Simone Subal, 131 Bowery, Lower East Side, 917-409-0612, simonesubal.com. (Smith)
★ 'Global/Local 1960-2015: Six Artists From Iran' (through April 2) In the early 1960s, the American art patron Abby Weed Grey traveled to Iran, loved the new art she saw there, bought it and gave it to New York University, where she also founded Grey Art Gallery. For its current multigenerational show, the gallery joins two artists from its collection, Parviz Tanavoli and Faramarz Pilaram, with borrowed work by four younger figures. Of particular interest is an installation by Chohreh Feyzdjou (1955-1996) who, late in her career, recycled her only earlier paintings in installations that suggest the contents of Pharaonic tombs. She is well matched in the young Tehran Conceptualist Barbad Golshiri, who takes funerary monuments and history as his theme. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, Greenwich Village, 212-998-6780, nyu.edu/greyart. (Cotter)
★ Glenn Ligon: 'We Need to Wake Up Cause That's What Time It Is' (through April 17) At some point in the 1982 film "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip," the politically trenchant comedian says that racism makes him so furious he can't speak. Silence is the most immediately arresting feature of Mr. Ligon's installation, for which the soundtrack of the film has been eliminated. What's left is an entirely visual experience, and a radically fragmented one, projected on several screens ranged around the gallery. On one, Mr. Pryor appears, full length, on stage; On the others, he's divided into close-ups: his mouth on one screen, his hands on another; his torso and groin isolated on a third; his shadow, cast by the spotlight on yet another. Luhring Augustine Bushwick, 25 Knickerbocker Avenue, at Ingraham Street, Brooklyn, 718-386-2746, luhringaugustine.com. (Cotter)
★ 'Painting Tranquility: Masterworks by Vilhelm Hammershoi From SMK — The National Gallery of Denmark' (through March 26) One of Denmark's most celebrated artists, Hammershoi (1864-1916) was known as "the painter of tranquil rooms." This beautiful show of 24 paintings includes pictures in severely muted colors of women in nearly empty rooms suffused by atmospheres of mystery and loneliness; misty gray cityscapes, devoid of people, that are like anxiety dreams; and tenderly unflinching portraits of the artist's wife, Ida. Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, at 38th Street, 212-779-3587, scandinaviahouse.org. (Johnson)
★ 'this one is smaller than this one.' (through March 19) This wildly pluralistic show displays more than 70 small works by 28 artists on a broad, white, irregularly geometric table. It's a brilliant installation, a work of art in its own right. Styles range from the verbal Conceptualism of Lawrence Weiner's gnomic, block-lettered text, which reads, "An Abrogation of the Inherent Destiny of Any Object At Hand," to the funky surrealism of Monica Cook's "Cobra," a monstrous snake made of stuffed stockings and porcupine quills. Postmasters, 54 Franklin Street, TriBeCa, 212-727-3323, postmastersart.com. (Johnson)
Public Art
Jeppe Hein: 'Please Touch the Art' (through April 17) People with small children likely will enjoy Mr. Hein's three-part show. If it's a hot day, the kids will rush to be drenched by "Appearing Rooms," which has water spouting up unpredictably from a square platform of metal grating. Youngsters as well as grown-ups also may be fascinating by the perceptually confounding "Mirror Labyrinth NY," which consists of mirror-surfaced planks of stainless steel in varying heights planted in the grass in a spiral formation. Meanwhile, guardians can rest on one of 16 fanciful, shocking orange park benches while their young charges clamber about on the furniture's surrealistically altered parts. Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street, Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, publicartfund.org. (Johnson)
Out Of Town
Dia:Beacon: Robert Irwin: 'Excursus: Homage to the Square³' (through May 2017) A walk-in maze with walls of white scrim lit by color-filtered fluorescent tubes, Mr. Irwin's "Excursus: Homage to the Square³" had its debut in 1998 at the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. It was so popular that the curators elected to keep it on view a year longer than its originally planned run. It's reincarnation here is similarly transporting, if not as thoroughly as the original was. But to experience it at Dia:Beacon along Minimalist works by other artists that encourage heightened perceptual attention to the here and now is as spiritually calming as it is historically illuminating. 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, 845-440-0100, diaart.org. (Johnson)
★ 'International Pop' (through May 15) Pop Art has a reputation for being light and bright, but under its sleek veneer lay the social and political pathogens that made the Sixties in America so jumpy. Less familiar is Pop's status internationally. And it did get around, flourishing in Cold War Europe, in South American countries under the thumb of military dictatorships; and in Japan, where memories of Hiroshima and the material rewards of Western occupation made for an intensely conflicted culture. The story of that spread is what this brash, acid-tinged show, full of fascinating artists, is about. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ National Gallery of Art: 'Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World' (through March 20) One of the best sculpture surveys you'll ever see, this one refutes the view that Hellenistic period was inferior to the idealized renderings of the Classical age. Its 40 outstanding figures and heads trace the introduction of an unprecedented realism visible in a combination of motion, emotion and physical detail that can still astound. On the National Mall, between Third and Seventh Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 202-737-4215, nga.gov. (Smith)
Last Chance
★ 'As I Am: Painting the Figure in Post-War San Francisco' (closes on Sunday) While representing the work of Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Frank Lobdell, James Weeks and others, this exhibition centers on the greatness of David Park, whose warm, richly textured paintings outnumber all else. Learning from Fauvism, German and Abstract Expressionism and photography, Park became a master of illuminating people in moments of stillness. New York Studio School, 8 West Eighth Street, Greenwich Village, 212-673-6466, nyss.org. (Smith)
Thomas Bayrle (closes on Sunday) Much has been made of Thomas Bayrle's early days as a textile worker. The textile motif also serves as a kind of formal and philosophical template for Mr. Bayrle, who imagines a social fabric that "is made up of individuals who are woven together but cannot move." The best works here are the early black-and-white films, which reflect the pulsing throb of the factory and its immobilizing effects. In his later digital works and paintings, Mr. Bayrle used computer programs to achieve similar yet less interesting results, more like trippy wallpaper or screen savers than imaginative artworks. Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 291 Grand Street, Lower East Side, 212-627-5258, gavinbrown.biz. (Schwendener)
★ Bronx Museum of the Arts: 'Martin Wong: Human Instamatic' (closes on Sunday) Fervor, desire and coded insider-outsider knowledge crackle through this career retrospective of one of our great 20th-century American visionaries. Expanding on an earlier survey at the New Museum, the Bronx exhibition takes the artist from precocious juvenilia to unearthly little pictures done the year before his death from AIDS in 1999. Along with his art we have the traces of his countercultural life as mythologist, homoeroticist, existential tourist and urban resurrectionist. And all revolves around his mystical visions of ghetto New York. Neighborhood buildings are fortresslike, crushing, sinister. Yet miracles abound: Windows glow gold; night skies bloom with stars. 1040 Grand Concourse, at 165th Street, Morrisania, the Bronx, 718-681-6000, bronxmuseum.org. (Cotter)
Heidi Hahn (closes on Sunday) The paintings in Heidi Hahn's first New York solo show depict young women laughing and crying in groups and pairs, or alone with a cat or a candle. The works nod to Edvard Munch, but also recent figurative painters like Sue Williams, Lisa Yuskavage, Judith Linhares and Dana Schutz and non-art sources like cheerful tampon commercials, the yellow smiley face and even the flowing facial hair of the Wookiees from "Star Wars." The results are "Girls"-esque drama with a 1970s aesthetic, painted for life in the age of emoji and social media where ambiguity often reigns. Jack Hanley, 327 Broome Street, between Bowery and Chrystie Street, Lower East Side, 646-918-6824, jackhanley.com. (Schwendener)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection' (closes on Sunday) This show is not framed as a showcase of what's new, hot or trending, but rather includes 18 works by 15 artists acquired during the past seven years — work that Met curators think will endure historically. Among those on view are Moyra Davey's photographs of record store patrons and vinyl record bins, printed on fold-up mailers; Lucas Blalock's example of photography in the post-Internet era, which contains perverse digitally tweaked passages; as well as a deceptively simple image by Sarah Charlesworth, a leading member of the Pictures Generation, who died in 2013 but remains influential. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Schwendener)
★ 'Paula Modersohn-Becker: Life and Art' (closes on Saturday) This rare survey reintroduces a pioneering German painter who kept a close watch on developments in Paris and may have been the first woman to paint nude self-portraits. She died in 1907 at the age of 31, and it's sad to wonder what she might have achieved had she lived longer. Galerie St. Etienne, 24 West 57th Street, 212-245-6734, gseart.com. (Smith)
★ Cameron Rowland: '91020000' (closes on Sunday) This remarkable show fuses history and aesthetics using carefully selected (and displayed) found objects accompanied by terse, illuminating captions. The subject is slavery as the primary through-line of the American saga, from the Middle Passage beyond the Emancipation Proclamation and into the present in the form of cheap inmate labor in state prisons, where the population is one-third African-American. It is a shameful, heartbreaking story and a continuing plague on the national house. Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, at Grand Street, SoHo, 212-226-3970, artistsspace.org. (Smith)
★ Amy Sillman: Stuff Change (closes on Saturday) In some of the best paintings of her career, Amy Sillman steps back from abstraction to reassert the ambiguous figurative motifs of her earlier paintings. Beautiful and funky, elegant but attuned to the messiness of desire, these canvases are full of teasing ambiguities but also benefit from the more assured brushwork and palette of the preceding abstractions. Sikkema Jenkins & Company, 530 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, 212-929-2262, sikkemajenkinsco.com. (Smith)


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Nearly a year after the previous gathering, Kent Business School's loyal almuni community came together in June to catch-up with old classmates and academics.
At the beginning of the evening, former Institute of Directors (IoD) Chief Economist, James Sproule, entertained the audience with his interpretation of statistics surrounding the global economy.
As described by Kent Business School's Business, Advancement and Enterprise Officer, Floortje Hoette:
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The Town Center Community Association is housed in Historic Oakland. It is believed that Charles Sterrett Ridgely had a Baltimore housewright named Abraham Lerew build the mansion between 1810 and 1811. The name is likely to have come from a large oak tree that stood on the property at the time.
The Rouse Company purchased the property during the initial land acquisition and preserved it to help give a sense of history to the new town. The Rouse Company used it for offices for a short time. Over time, it served as a campus for Antioch College, the home of Dag Hammarskjöld College and then offices of the local Red Cross.
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That's the focus of this year's Senior Adult Fair, taking place today at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.. Join everyone for a fun-filled day and obtain information from local and surrounding businesses about both services and goods available to boomers and seniors 55 and up. Admission is free. "We are proud to offer such a great day to the seniors and baby boomers of our community," Kaitlyn McAdams of the Coffee County Funeral Chapel said. "This is our 8th year of hosting the event and it seems like every year just gets better," she said. "This event is something that the Senior Adults look forward to all year long, and I want to personally thank everyone who makes this wonderful day come together." Among vendors participating for the eighth event are the Manchester Times, Haven of Hope, Manchester Health Care Center, Tennova Healthcare, Manchester's Senior Center, as well as Horizon Health Care and Rehab, Prater's BBQ, Fast Pace Urgent Care, and many others. With goody bags, free samples, food, live entertainment and door prizes, there will be something for everyone. Admission is free, and the event is sponsored by Coffee County Funeral Chapel, Manchester Funeral Home & Crematory and Tullahoma Funeral Home.


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WHILE some of Oxford United's attacking play caught the eye against Peterborough United, skipper John Mousinho was delighted with how solid they looked defensively.
Karl Robinson's side opened their account at the Kassam Stadium with a 1-0 victory against a team backed to challenge for promotion.
In difficult windy conditions, the U's limited their visitors' goalscoring chances.
And Mousinho, who was making the 500th appearance of his career, felt it came down to hard work throughout the side.
He said: "Winning games is always built off the foundations of keeping clean sheets and good defensive performances.
"Albeit I thought we were really good going forward, especially in the first half, and it made our job a lot easier because we kept the ball so well.
Also read: League One round-up from Saturday's games
"We had a good mixture of both because in the second half we had to dig in and show we had a bit of steel about us.
"It was really positive from both aspects, but it was really pleasing to get the first clean sheet.
"Maybe at the very top level you can carry a couple of players, but we can't afford to do it.
"We need the spark when we have the ball, but we need the work ethic on the defensive side as well.
"We saw that last week (in the 1-1 draw at Sunderland). Everyone really dug in and made it worthwhile. We're going to need that going forward."
Cameron Brannagan's volley won the game, but the midfielder had to be withdrawn on the hour mark.
Already on a booking, he risked a second when giving away a foul against Marcus Maddison.
Also read: Player ratings - how the U's fared against Peterborough
Boss Karl Robinson admitted the sight of referee Michael Salisbury, who dismissed Shandon Baptiste last season before United could make a substitution, prompted the hosts to make a rapid change.
He said: "Someone said to me before the game this was the referee that sent Shandon Baptiste off against Luton.
"You can imagine what was going through my head when Cameron made a foul on the far side, so we had to make a decision very quickly."
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"We're sat here with four points from two tough games.
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In a world where smartphones and technology have become a social status symbol, I remained one of the outsiders. I still clung to my iPhone 5. I was not the type of person who 'needed' the latest and greatest phone. I was content. I was happy, even. Until, at a concert for one of my favorite bands of the last 15 years, I shattered the screen. I was screaming the lyrics and having a great time recording the band play on my iPhone. I was blissfully unaware of the drunken slob that would soon send my world crashing down. The man plowed into me, sending me, my phone and my sense of security flying. While he was a slob, he was also kind enough to offer to buy me a new phone. Three days later, I met him at the mall where he presented me with a shiny, new iPhone 6. Yet, that wasn't the end of it. I was going to take precautions this time.
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I had my iPhone 5 since November, 2012. After 3 years and 7 months together, we had a bond. The screen wasn't the only thing that broke that day. My spirit was also shattered. One thing I learned from this experience is that no matter how well you take care of your phone, it is a small fragile object subjected to the outside world. This includes drunken guys at concerts. I did everything I possibly could to keep it safe from harm, but fate had other plans. This could happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. You may be walking carefully down the stairs while checking a text and the person behind you could trip and take you both down. There is no way to know for sure when or if it will happen to you. Fortunately, there is a way to protect your phone's screen. And with my shiny new iPhone 6 in hand, carefully, I searched the internet for a screen protector.
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Being adults, most chief executives and other top corporate managers know they can't get away with blaming their failure to deliver on run-ins with homework-eating canines or other unlikely mishaps.
Fortunately for them, there are plenty of seemingly more believable excuses to choose from when it comes to delivering subpar quarterly results. Earnings season is just about to move into full swing. So far, just a smattering of S&P 500 SPX, +0.91% companies have reported, but that sample offers up an early guide to the factors certain to be lamented in conference calls.
Analysts at data provider FactSet combed through the transcripts of the 23 S&P 500 firms that had reported as of Oct. 7 to see how many companies used particular factors, such as "strong dollar" or "China" in a negative light or as a reason for underperformance in the quarter just completed or in guidance for future quarters.
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That companies are citing the stronger dollar isn't a shock, as it has been a top negative factor for several quarters, the FactSet analysts noted.
The dollar has rallied since mid-2014. In the past 12 months alone, the ICE dollar index DXY, +0.00%, a measure of the U.S. unit against a basket of six major rivals, is up more than 10%, which may be a source of legitimate pain for some big multinationals.
That said, the index rose just 0.8% in the third quarter after a 2.9% fall in the second quarter.
Regardless, it looks like there will be plenty of opportunity for excuse-making in the weeks ahead. As of Oct. 9, the S&P 500 was forecast to report a year-over-year earnings decline of 5.5% in the third quarter, according to FactSet. While expectations usually lowball corporate performance, analysts note the steep decline may be too deep for positive earnings surprises to overcome.


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Animal rights groups search Gloucestershire for wounded badgers as second phase of pilot badger cull begins
Posted by vetsbeyondreason in Animal Welfare, Science on 13/09/2014
From http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Animal-rights-groups-search-Gloucestershire/story-22897696-detail/story.html.
ANIMAL rights groups have started their search for wounded badgers across Gloucestershire as the second round of the pilot cull has begun.
The next phase of culling started last night in a bid to eradicate bovine TB in cattle by shooting 615 animals, Defra has announced.
Opponents say a vaccination programme would be more effective in tackling the disease.
Scott Passmore, from A Wildlife with Animals which is based in the Forest of Dean, said: "We started at Newent and at one point we were near Deerhurst and I have mammal handling equipment in the car and many badger setts can be seen from the roadside.
"We did not find any wounded badgers last night. But my view is this is totally wrong and if anything this is going to make TB worse.
"They should be addressing the real problem, which is cattle movement and bio-security on farms.
"We have been finding lamb carcasses left in fields, deer heads hanging on trees and we have been finding all sorts of undesirable things left in fields but unfortunately the wildlife is being used as a scapegoat."
Activists operating for the Gloucestershire Badger Office patrolled most of the zone which lies between the M5, M50 and A40 to guard badger setts from cull marksmen.
Anti-cull campaigner Drew Pratten, from the Forest of Dean, said: "We had a phenomenal amount of support last night including people from Manchester and Derbyshire saying 'we are here for one night, what can we do'?
"There are people actually guarding setts, people on lookout points and at crossroads where we can see what's happening."
NFU president Meurig Raymond said in the South West, where bovine TB is endemic and where herds are being reinfected despite farmers' best efforts to protect the, controlling the disease in badgers has to be an essential part of any strategy to wipe the disease out.
He said: "Nobody would choose to kill badgers if there was an effective alternative in areas where TB is rife. But if we're ever going to get on top of TB in areas where the disease is endemic there is no other choice.
"The chief vet has said culling over a four-year period in both pilot areas will have an impact on disease control. I am confident that these pilot culls will help deliver a reduction in bTB in cattle and it is vital that they are allowed to be successfully completed so they can deliver the maximum benefits.
Environmental secretary Elizabeth Truss said the Government is pursuing a comprehensive strategy supported by leading vets which includes cattle movement controls, vaccinating badgers in edge areas and culling badgers where the disease is rife. She said: "This is vital for the future of our beef and dairy industries, and our nation's food security.
"At present we have the highest rates of bovine TB in Europe. Doing nothing is not an option which is why we are taking a responsible approach to dealing with bovine TB."
The pilot cull will run for the next six weeks.
Read more: http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Animal-rights-groups-search-Gloucestershire/story-22897696-detail/story.html#ixzz3D9jaGK2d
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Religious Slaughter II
Posted by vetsbeyondreason in Animal Welfare, Religion on 12/03/2014
John Blackwell, president-elect of the British Veterinary Association, is to be congratulated for his call to make religious slaughter more humane (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-top-vet-sparks-controversy-with-call-for-ban-on-slashing-animals-throats-in-ritual-slaughters-for-halal-and-kosher-meat-products-9173258.html).
There is no scientific reason why an animal should have its throat cut while fully conscious. As Dr. Blackwell rightly points out a sheep with its throat cut will remain conscious for seven seconds while cattle, which have an extra blood vessel in their spinal column, can remain conscious for up to two minutes. This practice was presumably instigated many moons ago to ensure meat was fresh. In this modern age such a justification is no longer applicable, and animal welfare concerns should take precedent over religious superstitions. The Danish recently managed to ban the slaughter of animals without prior stunning and it would be wonderful if the British followed suit.
Unfortunately, as soon as anything is suggested that a religious group does not like, such as banning religious slaughter or circumcision, they conveniently ignore the scientific reasons and start screaming about religious freedom. Why superstitious beliefs should take precedent over animal welfare is beyond me.
See also my post, "Religious Slaughter" written in 2011 in response to the Dutch banning the practice.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step." Lao tzu
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What's infecting England's cows with TB? Is it badgers, or farmers and climate change?
Posted by vetsbeyondreason in Animal Welfare, Science on 09/01/2014
Found at http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059991389.
Erica Rex, E&E Europe correspondent
ClimateWire: Friday, December 6, 2013
Why do badgers leave their homes?
Is climate change the real villain?
The badger sett vs. the Paterson set
Mountain Cattlemen Care For The High Country
Posted by vetsbeyondreason in Conservation on 27/07/2012
But mountain cattle don't. I am surprised that people are still driving around with this misguided sticker attached to their cars. Mind you most of the cars I see them on look like the closest they have come to the high country are the Mt. Buller ski fields. Equally misguided and erroneous is the sticker that states, "Alpine Grazing Reduces Blazing," especially in light of a CSIRO study that found grazed areas are just as likely to burn as non-grazed ones (http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Environment/Australian-Landscapes/AlpineGrazingAndFire.aspx#adoes).
It's about time people faced the facts that cattle do nothing but damage to the high country, with their cloven hooves trampling the delicate sphagnum moss, and their huge mounds of wet steaming faeces that take months or even years to decompose (Australian dung beetles can't cope with cattle faeces, having adapted to dealing with smaller, drier marsupial faecal pellets. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dung_Beetle_Project).
The government is to be congratulated for finally banning cattle grazing in the high country. It's not as if the area is an indispensable part of Australia's beef production, as it is only used by a handful of families anyway. Surely we can set aside a few acres of national park to support an endangered species or two, and leave cattle grazing for more suitable regions? We don't need to turn the entire country into a cattle pasture, especially when 30 million km2 (an area the size of Africa) have already been turned over to livestock production worldwide.
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In other words, make sure your buy-sell agreement will work.
To that end, Barry S. Cain, managing director for the Family Business Center at the accounting and consulting firm Blackman Kallick, has recently posted a fine article that focuses on the need for diversity in succession planning.
The key to the long-term success of your business lies in a word widely used in business today, although usually in a different context: diversity. Because the future is full of uncertainty, it's extremely risky to pin all your hopes on one successor, even if a relative is waiting in the wings. The future of your business will be best assured if you have choices ... and good ones, at that.Some of the key ideas covered in the article by Mr. Cain include:
- The need to have options for the next generation of leaders for the business. Choosing only one successor is very risky. If that individual is not ready when the time comes, either due to changes over time in the needs of the business or because of changes in the professional or family life of the successor, then the succession plan for the business is in peril.
- Mr. Cain also suggests that the next generation of leaders for the business need not come from within the family bloodline. This idea is obviously directly aimed at family businesses, but the idea of looking outside the organization can also be well-applied to most closely held companies.
Special thanks to author Paul Brown and his New York Times small business tool kit for bringing the article by Mr. Cain to my attention.


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I first visited the Chu Shing Restaurant for Dim Sum on a visit to Ottawa some eight years ago. Last year, I tried to make a second visit for lunch but the place was so packed I gave up on the idea and it was only on my most recent trip to the capital that I was able to sample their dim sum once again. This trip was on a Tuesday afternoon so the place was not too busy, and the cart service (which can pretty slow in some places) was bringing around delicacies more quickly than I could eat them …
Shrimp Rolls – These were Spring Roll wrappers stuffed with minced shrimp. The shrimp was a tasty enough, but a little more filling would have been better. The 'sweet and sour' sauce served on the side was basically dilute ketchup and not very good. The rolls went better with a dip of soy sauce with a little chili sauce supplied on the table. Overall these were not bad.
Har Gow – Har Gow are the bench mark by which many fans judge a Dim Sum restaurant. Many times, I find the ones I get served to be wanting in some way but these were excellent. They were very well-formed and the shrimp was in large chunk, crisply tender, and very tasty. The wrapper was slightly dry on the outside (which happens with cart service dim sum), but overall they were very good.
Steamed Squid – This consisted of pieces of baby squid steamed with ginger and scallion. The squid was a bit over steamed and, in all honesty, probably not the freshest quality, but I still enjoyed it well enough.
Shrimp Chang Fen – As far as Chang Fen generally go, this dish, like the Har Gow, was better than those one can usually get in many other places. The shrimp were good sized, generously supplied, and were very tasty. The oyster sauce in which the rolls were served was very delicate and balanced the flavor of the rolls very nicely. I thought this item was excellent.
Ham Sui Gok – These, unfortunately, were a bit of a disappointment, although they were attractive and nicely formed. The problem was that they were a little too large. They were not quite crispy enough on the outside and the overly thick wrappers were doughy and pasty to the bite. There was very little pork on the inside (which is actually pretty standard), but the pork that was there was over seasoned with five spice powder and just not that tasty in my opinion.
Anyway … this recent excursion to Chu Shing was very pleasant overall, with far more hits than misses…


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12th AIHS: A Brief Post-event Report
The 12th edition of prestigious Abuja International Housing Show held from 16-19 July 2018. After massive build up and anticipation, the show surpassed all expectations as it started and climaxed in excitement, leaving a huge impact on the housing and construction industry market in Nigeria and beyond.
The Show was attended by top local and international dignitaries from both public and private sectors. At least over 30, 000 participants in general was recorded.
Some of them included the Vice President of Nigeria, governors, Minister of Works and Housing from both Ghana and Nigeria, State commissioners of Housing, First class traditional rulers, industry CEOs and other ranking stakeholders.
International stakeholders included 20 representatives from Turkey, 2 from Italy, 15 from United Arab Emirates, 25 from China, 30 from Ghana including members of the Country's parliament. Also from UN Habitat and AU Housing Finance (AUHF).
On stand to showcase were over 352 exhibitors. These exhibitors included those from the real estate sector, sanitary wares, building materials, home interiors, etc.
The show also featured important sections like the Conference on Affordable Housing; Nigerian Housing Finance Program in partnership with World bank; Not Too Young To Own a Home; Women in Housing Initiative; B2B meetings etc.
There were a lot of positive testimonies with regards to the quality of networking at the show, massive product marketing and sales, and the significant resolutions that were reached by stakeholders on how to move the industry forward.
After a stakeholders tour of housing and property projects in Abuja, the Show came to an exciting climax with the Nigeria Housing awards dinner which honored outstanding industry performers from both public and private sectors.
The Nigeria Housing Awards recognize and celebrate original and innovative contractors, businesses, teams, consultants and projects that demonstrate excellence in the building and construction environment. The award was set up to encourage competition and competitive pricing in the Housing Construction Industry. The award categorization is carefully designed to recognize the efforts of both established and up-coming organization in the Housing/ Construction Sector in Nigeria.
Recognized at NHA 2018 was Sa'adiya Aliyu Aminu, who won the award for the female CEO of real estate Company of the year, Rev Ugochukwu Chime, Housing Advocacy person of the year (National), while Kunle Faleti won the award In the Diaspora category, the merit award for excellent contribution to mortgage banking and housing finance in Nigeria was given to Kayode Omotoso.
The MD/CEO of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Arc. Ahmed Dangiwa was recognized as the housing finance person of the year (male), while Agnes Tokunbo Martins won the award in the female category.
Also recognized on the night was Haven Homes limited (Innovative real estate company of the year), AFP Furniture (Furniture company of the year), CDK Integrated Industries (Sanitary wares company of the year award), Voda Paints Limited (Innovative paints company of the year), Constrix real estate development company (fastest growing real estate company of the year).
Others include Millard Fuller Foundation (affordable housing project of the year), Royal Ceramics Limited (Innovative marble company of the year), Brains and Hammers Limited (Real estate company of the year), Wiser Estates (Innovative housing project of the year), Abuja Property Development Company (Quality housing project of the year), Bstan Homes Limited (New real estate company to watch award) and Jigawa Mortgage Bank Limited (Innovative mortgage bank of the year).
Azizi Development Limited, Dubai was recognized as the International Real Estate Development Company of the year. Tpl. Steve Onu, Hon. Shehu Liman Wan and Tpl. Umar Shuaib were specially honoured with the lifetime achievement awards for 2018′
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Several months ago I began following the data presented at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The University of Colorado provides the web site. I really like the site, it's full of interesting information and is less preachy than many climate data sites.
In April, the Ice Sheet in the Arctic was above average, now it's at record lows. Two months of very good ice formation weather was followed by two months of really good melting weather. What conclusions can be drawn from the data.
Not much. The data set is too small. If we can go from above average to record lows in just 3 months…and most of the data in the last 5 years lies outside + or – 2 standard deviations (that should hold about 95% of the data) …the data set probably is too small.
The data appears to be fluctuating more than statistical analysis says would be normal…either the data is very unusual, which means the world is changing rapidly or the base line data is skewed. I vote for skewed data, but I don't know and I worry about air pollution coming from China. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and/or increased particulate air pollution from China might be really messing things up.
Most of the recent data is outside the normal data range. I suspect the normal data range is flawed. Time will tell…..lots of time. Don't expect an answer next week or next month or next year. We could still be trying to figure this out 10 or 20 or 50 years from now.


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This man-sized plant is deep green with trumpet-shaped flowers of red, yellow, and orange topping its stalks.
Tri-Flower Frond CR 2
N Medium plant
Init +0; Senses blindsight 30 ft., low-light vision; Perception +1
AC 13, touch 10, flat-footed 13 (+3 natural)
hp 13 (2d8+4)
Fort +5, Ref +0, Will +1
Defensive Abilities camouflage; Immune plant traits
Speed 0 ft. (immobile)
Melee 4 tendrils +3 (1d2+2 plus sleep pollen)
Special Attacks acid, fluid drain, sleep pollen
These creatures are generally most active during the day and dine on fresh meat, having no preference as to the source. If a foe falls victim to its sleep poison, the tri-flower frond droops over the fallen foe, allowing its yellow bloom to drip a shower of caustic acid on the sleeping victim while it inserts a needle-like tendril from its red bloom into the victim's body and drains fluids.
Str 14, Dex 10, Con 14, Int –, Wis 13, Cha 9
Base Atk +1; CMB +3; CMD 13 (can't be tripped or bull rushed)
Acid (Ex)
The tri-flower frond can tip its yellow bloom over a slumbering or prone foe and shower it with sap laden with potent digestive enzymes. This sap does 1d6 points of acid damage per round to flesh until it is washed or scraped off.
Camouflage (Ex)
Since a tri-flower frond looks like a normal flowering plant when at rest, it takes a DC 20 Perception check to notice it before it attacks. Anyone with ranks in Survival or Knowledge (nature) can use one of those skills instead of Perception to notice the plant.
Fluid Drain (Ex)
Against a sleeping or helpless foe, a tri-flower frond can release a needle-sharp tendril from its red bloom that pierces its target and drains its body fluids. This deals 1d4 points of Constitution damage each round, and the victim is considered grappled.
Sleep Pollen (Ex)
A creature struck by one of the tri-flower frond's tendrils must make a DC 13 Fortitude save or fall into a deep, coma-like slumber from which it cannot be awakened that lasts for 1-4 hours. The save DC is Constitution-based. Resistances and immunities to poison apply against the pollen, but resistances or immunities to sleep effects do not. A slumbering victim can also be awakened by a successful DC 20 Heal check after one minute of treatment.
A creature that falls victim to the sleep pollen is subject to the tri-flower frond's acid and fluid drain attacks, both as free actions.
Environment warm forests
Organization solitary, patch (2-5), or cluster (6-11)
Treasure none
Tri-flower fronds are carnivorous plants found in warm (and rarely temperate) forests. They are immobile creatures that reproduce by releasing seeds into the air and allowing either the wind (or creatures who happen to come into contact with them) to carry them wherever they go. Seeds take root once they touch the ground, and within a few months, a new tri-flower frond appears.
A tri-flower frond stands about 5 to 8 feet tall. While the orange, red, and yellow flower combination is the most common, other color combinations have been reported, including white, gray, and pearly silver-gray, and golden brown, deep brown and russet.
Tri-Flower Frond from the Tome of Horrors Complete, Copyright 2011, Necromancer Games, Inc., published and distributed by Frog God Games; Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Gary Gygax.


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down in the bayou
Just got back from a week in Lousiana. My good friend Mr John Taylor and his lovely wife Mrs Thuy Bui Taylor (who also did all the flowers, decorations and designed all the dresses) got hitched in Abbeyville. Congrats you guys! (btw - what a great website you have!). The wedding was in Abbeyville, and while we were there I had my first authentic crawfish boil experience. After the 3 day long wedding celebration we spent some quiet time enjoying the French Quarter.
This was my third time to New Orleans, and my second since Katrina. The Quarter is definitely back 100% - and I encourage everyone to visit that can. They used to do 1-2 million visitors a month before Katrina, and since they've only done three million total. The upside to that means if you go now there isn't alot of reservations needed at restaurants, and some great deals on hotels can be found.
I traveled with my family and Tien's family. He brought his dSLR and I took video - so until I edit that together - check out his amazing shots which include this one above. His takes on the Rehersal Dinner / Roast, the Wedding (more) and the Crawfish Boil


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A new Babylon 5 Show?
I found this artical on IGN, and though it was intreting enough to post here.
J. Michael Straczynski gets his own panel when he does Comic-Con, and he has a following. People fill the room just to hear him talk about whatever he feels like talking about at the moment. He's pretty fun too. And today he very briefly spoke about a new Babylon 5 show.
Straczynski, who of course created the classic sci-fi series, was somewhat cryptic about the state of the franchise. He said until a deal is done he has to be. But he explained that a new series could happen.
Apparently, last year Warner Bros. approached Straczynski about a new distribution system that they were attempting to launch, and they wanted him to produce a new Babylon 5 for that system.
Straczynski, who over the years has dabbled in a variety of spin-offs of the series, said that he didn't want to do anything on the cheap anymore (*cough* The Lost Tales *cough*). So his terms for Warner Bros. were: two to three million dollars per episode, commission a full season and grant him full creative control And they went for it.
But then, months later, this new "distribution system" collapsed.
And yet, Straczynski says that there's still a chance that some kind of show will happen. Again, he can't say much right now, but the implication seems to be that this is a sooner rather than later situation. Will it be a reboot, a sequel, a prequel? Only Londo knows!
I am a huge fan of B5, so I hope it comes about, even if it is a reboot as long as do it with the five year plan. Like the orignal.
The Amazing Spider-Man Tesser Trailer
I love the Sam Raimi, Spider-Man films and though he captured the Comics very well.
So I was a little shocked that they going to do a remake so soon.
I have to say that I don't like the new Spidysuit at all. I think the one for Sam Raimi films got it right.
Anyway the teaser trailer has just been realised. I have to say that It Looks interesting , so enjoy.
X-MEN Frist Class, Film Review
When it was announced, that there would be a new X-Men movie. With none of the current casts. I thought great another reboot of another comic book franchised.
Saying that, that is not the case with the film.
X-Men: First Class, is the story of how Charles Xavier & Erik Lensherr became friends and then enemies. There is a lot history between the two and Xavier first class of X-Men. Way too much to put into a movie that is only two hours long.
What Brian Singer (returning as a Producer.) has done is to take the important parts history of these two people and put it together in a story that is suited for the film audience, while at the same time keeping the story in the real world, just like the last four X-Men films. (X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand & Wolverine: Origins.)
Most of the story is set in the 60's and leads up to how the Cuban Missile Crises came about and how it was resolved. This gives the film a slight of the classic Bond movies, but not taking it to far. Which helps sell the era the film is set in.
Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass) has written a fine story though reader of the comics might think WTF with some major character changes, such as Dr. Moira MacTaggert being a CIA agent and not a fellow student with Xavier at Cambridge University. Is that a bad thing, well that depends on how much of a hard core fan you are. As I have not really read the X-Men comics it does not bother me too much.
James McAvoy does a great job as Xavier. He has stated in interview that he tired to copy how Patrick Stewart played the role but at the same time make it his own, and it shows.
Michael Fassbender is excellent as Erik Lensherr and he has great on screen chemistry with McAvoy.
The rest of the cast has been well casted over, a few of the characters seemed a little left out, and really did not have time to grow. But then this is the story of Xavier and Lensherr.
The film moves along at a nice pacing, but there is no real stand out moments. Except for a great little cameo from Hugh Jackman & blink and you miss her Rebecca Romijn. Both actors reprise their roles from the previous X-Men films.
Because of the two cameos and the storyline it does not mean that Fox has decided to wipe the history of the previous films. As X-Men: First Class is a set up to the other films.
With two sequels planned to follow this film, which will also be prequels, and the planned Wolverine: Origins sequel. It's a safe bet that Fox don't plan on rebooting this Franchise any time soon.
I give this film 8 of 10.
Professor Charles Xavier: We have it in us to be the better men.
Erik Lehnsherr: We already are.
Project: Ark – Concept Mines
I have designed 3 different mines as the story call for one to be used.
As with everything I plan to use them all even if turning them into a bit of greebles for a ship details.
So here is a picture of all three. If not they can still be used as mines.
The idea behind these mines is that they are dropped by the parent ship. Once that is far enough away they will are the mine. The mine will then just site and wait for a victim to come along. The mine will that activate a large magnet, causing it to attach to the victim ship and detonate. The Change is shaped so the explosion would go directly into the ship, instead going all directions.
The mine can also be remote detonated by the parent ship. This is so they can make sure that the mine goes off in the place they want without have to fire other weapons at that area.
I have included "Max" in each picture to show the size of these things.
In each pictuer is a mine with wire and the other just a plain clay render.
First up is the big one. I am not to sure about this one and will most likely find itself as details on a ship But if I do use it, it would be a first generation mine.
Next is a version that would be in service of the current military.
And last is the mine that our Heroes use. It can't be found on any other ship as it homemade by the crew. The change is also smaller but can also do the same amount of damage as the other two.
I am thinking of adding light to the last two, This is to show when it just about to dentate but I am not sure at the moment.
Freak Art turns 1 year old!
Freak Art truns one year old this month.
I like to thank everyone that has visited my blog over the year.
I am happy to say that I have been able to keep my promises of Posting at least once a week.
I plan on keep on doing this over the next year. I will carry on posting WIP's and finished art as well movies review. (I will be seeing Cars 2 when it realsied in the UK later this month, so look out for the reivew.)
To date Freak Art has had 10,492 vistors, in the last year.
here is a little animation I been working on for this occataion, using a tutorials from Blender Guru.
So once again Thank you to everyone that has visited, I hope you'll carry on visiting and posting some comments.
Burno Mars – The Lazy Song (Offical Alternate Version)
I was just over on the Dex Files, I saw this little jem, staring the great Leonard Nimoy.
Some you of might not vist Doug Drexler site, so I thought would post it up here for you to see.
Project: Ark – Concept Art
As with any film project, you need to great concept art for things that will appear in your film.
This can be from tiny suck as a pen all the way up to a full Spaceship.
While I worked on the script with Lee Beran, Dale "Safe@2nd" Long & Kennith "Lonewriter" Perry. I asked some of the guy's that had joined the original project to do some concept art of things we knew that we would need.
So I like to take this opportunity to thank Edward "hal" McIver, Brian Larsen, John "Brickhead" Varallo, Andy "backstept" Tubbs, Jeffery "JEFFERYSG" Gugick, Carl "Ozylot" Ozlot, Lee Beran & Supdmonkey for all your hard work, on the concepts.
Unfortunately I was unable to save everything that was saved into the area we where working in on Scifi-mehses.com before it had a site refresh. But this is some of what I was able to save.
Frist up Chariter desgins by Edward "hal" McIver.
we gave Edward an out line what we wanted the characters to look like. He did some hand drawn stuff and some painting.
Here is a painting of Hirio Tanaka.
This is one of the many hand drawing submitted for Jana Cervantes.
Lee Beran, did a simple shaping for a Earth Warship in 3d.
Here is a dropship desgined by Andy "backstept" Tubbs and shaping out in 3d by John "Brickhead" Varallo.
We liked this design, but it turned out that it would be to large to fit into the size we planned the "hero ship" to be. That's not to say that we would have thrown the idea out, it would have most likely used as a background ship.
The dropship I had built was based of this design; however I took it in a different direction.
Here is a shoot gun designed by Jeffery "JEFFERYSG" Gugick.
Andy Tubb's also did a design for the "hero ship" this would fit with the dropship seen above.
Brian Larsen was only with the project for a short time before he left due to real world commitments. But before he left he offered the use of one of his models that was built before the project had started. This was a land based vehicles that the hero's would use on a planet.
As you can see, this would not fit into the size of dropship we had in mind.
However Brian did say that we could make change to the meshes so that it would fit with the size we had in mind.
Brian also did the second pass on the "Hero ship" this was rough the size we had in mind.
We all the loved the design, but as the story was progressing, it was found that the ship did not really fit what we where looking for.
This is where Carl "Ozylot" Ozlot stepped in he spoke with the writer and final came out this this simple desgin.
So there you go. Some of the Concepts from the old Project, I plan using as much as I can in this new version of the project.


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Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind
Venue 33Pleasance Courtyard - Beneath
- 17:45
- Aug 25
- 1 hour
- Country: United Kingdom - England
- Group: Soho Theatre and United Agents
- Warnings and additional info: This show contains audience participation and strong language.
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- Policy applies to: Children under 2 years
DescriptionEdinburgh Comedy Award and double BAFTA-nominated professional idiot Spencer Jones is back with his brand-new show. The Things We Leave Behind is an absurd mash-up of comedy styles, mixing looped music, props, stand-up, turbo clowning and puppets for your eyes, ears and face. Star of the upcoming BBC series Mr Winner and The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk. 'One of the silliest, most consuming shows of the Fringe' ***** (Times). 'Unadulterated dumb genius' ****½ (Chortle.co.uk). 'Gleefully madcap' **** (Guardian). 'Solid belly laughs' **** (Scotsman). 'Utterly delightful' **** (Time Out).
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