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March 29, 2008 - 11:38pm | By Danny O'Brien
- Israel Adopts Fair Use
In their reform of national copyright law, Israel opts for an open-ended and court-defined idea of fair use, similar to the United States.
- India Wants Blackberry Crypto
On the eve of renewing RIM's license in the country, India wants the keys to the mobile device's encryption system.
- Council of Europe Thinks Hard About Internet Filtering
Good (but minimal) recommendations for any country considering tampering with the Net.
- Industry Losing Faith In WIPO; Debates US WTO Cases Against China
March 22, 2008 - 10:10pm | By Danny O'Brien
- Antigua Says It Will Start Ignoring US Copyrights
WTO gave Antigua the right to ignore US IP rights as part of a judgement over online gambling bans. Now the small country is threatening to begin its data haven status, starting in April.
- France's Olivennes Law in Final Negotiations (Google Translation)
Sticking point among parties to the discussion is ISP filtering; outside, users are worried about government access to IP addresses and end-user liability for others using their network.
- CBC to Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent
March 18, 2008 - 5:25pm | By Danny O'Brien
The music and movie industries have been making a concerted attempt to introduce a "three strikes" rule for Net users in many countries simultaneously — pressuring ISPs to throw their customers offline, possibly permanently, if the rightsholders report that they have been infringing.
The response by national ISPs and governments has varied: in the same week as Japanese ISPs declared they would voluntarily follow such a scheme, Sweden's Ministers for Justice and Culture came out strongly (Swedish article) against shutting down subscribers in their country.
March 14, 2008 - 8:50pm | By Danny O'Brien
- Italian Privacy Authority Upholds Privacy of P2P Users' IP addresses
Google translation of court decision defending 3000 Italian P2P users, whose IP addresses were obtained by German label Peppermint.
- License Plate Surveillance 'The Hallmarks of a Totalitarian State', Says German Supreme Court
Roundly rejects the technology from being used in the country.
- Is British Government Going Wobbly on No Sound Copyright Extension?
A UK government spokesman hints they are not wedded to their previous economic analysis.
March 8, 2008 - 2:42am | By Danny O'Brien
- UK ISPs to Show Targetted Ads Based on Visited URLs
The set-up claims not to leak information: but should ISPs be surveiling your browser habits in the first place?
- Flood of EU Passenger Surveillance Plans Coming, Says Watchdog
"Far reaching proposals intended to contribute to the monitoring of travellers ... are succeeding each other rapidly," says European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Husinx.
- Israeli ISPs to Block Peer-to-Peer Site
A court judgement in favor of IFPI in Israel forces ISPs to re-route traffic.
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So the govt refuses to regulate the purchases with food stamps like soda and chips (taxpayer stolen money) yet they think they can tell the taxpayer what their kid can buy in a vending machine????
Maybe they should get their act together and limit the taxpayer forced stolen money purchases using food stamps vs the taxpayer using their own money!!!


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my speculation is as follows.
darth sidious used to be a jedi named sifa-dyas (or the earlier sido-dyas) in fact he was the head of the jedi council untill he presumably died about 10 years before AOTC. sifa-dyas was of course one of darth sidiouses many alter egos. this explains who deleted the kamino sysyet from the jedi archives. (yoda>"only a jedi could have ereased those" it also explains who crreated the army and why. darth sidious/senator palpatine-supreme chamsalor plapatine/sifa-dyas must have been a busy man.
i hope ep. 3 flashes back and shows what palps looked like when he was the head of the jedi order. i presume he looked super old like in ROTJ , after all he can make himself look younger than he really is (hence how the jedi didnt know that sifa-dyas and palps was the same dude).


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I would have expected that the shield pin layout is the same. Did I miss something?
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I'm not even sure which topic to post this in but I need help. I've bought two different routers - a Belkin and a Netgear. I'm having the same problem with both of them and I don't know what to do. I got the Netgear first then I thought it was broken so I bought the Belkin.
Continually during the day my router will become disconnected. So, I have to unplug it and plug it back in and it works fine for about 30-45 minutes then off it goes again.
You are all way more "tech savvy" than I am so I thought I'd post this problem here and see if anyone has any idea what to do about it.
Thanks in advance!!!!
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Posted 15 October 2012 - 04:59 AM
We have a similar problem here. Our's is a wireless router and we get interference from our neighbours router, we have to make sure ours is on a different channel to our neighbours, bit of guess work. Our router was supplied by our internet provider and when it stops working, if you open the internet a special page opens that allows you to change the settings.
Other electrical equipment can interfere with it as well, it's position can make a difference.
I don't know if this will help, but I hope you get it fixed soon.
Other electrical equipment can interfere with it as well, it's position can make a difference.
I don't know if this will help, but I hope you get it fixed soon.
Posted 15 October 2012 - 05:44 AM
My router is provided by our internet provider and it did this same thing for a long time too. I had re-set it on a daily basis and finally, of all things, I moved it from the desk to the floor and it hasn't gone out on it's own for the past year or so! I don't know what moving it to the floor did because I'm not at all tech-savvy, but.....it worked! Now, of course, it goes out when cable goes down and I do have to re-set it then most of the time.
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By Special to the Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – In Saturday's
loss at Providence in the SEC-Big
East Challenge, Mississippi State
produced a solid second half and
managed to cut a 26-point deficit
to just five points in the closing
But don't expect MSU head
coach Rick Ray to be claiming any
moral victories.
Despite a roster depleted by injuries
and dismissals, Ray isn't
pleased with the end result and
that centers around the Bulldogs'
2-5 start in his first season.
The Bulldogs return to action
tonight with a 7 p.m. tipoff against
Texas-San Antonio at Humphrey
Coliseum. Ray is hoping his
squad produces consistent play
from start to finish.
"Not necessarily a quick start
but just a start where you don't
put yourself in a hole," Ray told
reporters on Monday. "Obviously
the hole ended up being insurmountable
and that's the one
thing we got to do. We got to give
ourselves a chance to win ball
"I'm not happy. I know a lot of
people were patting us on the
back about the way we came back
and competed in the second half.
I am not satisfied with that. It is
great our guys came back and
played hard but we got to play
better and put ourselves in better
As far as positives are concerned,
Ray pointed to one major
factor for MSU's improved play in
the second half at Providence.
"We forced turnovers," said Ray.
"It's always better to play basketball
when you force turnovers
and play in transition. We were
able to get out in transition and
make some things happen. The
biggest thing is we scored off our
UTSA is currently in the middle
of a season-long, six-game
road swing and enter Starkville
with a 3-4 record. The Roadrunners
of the Western Athletic
Conference have dropped their
last three games on the road at
BYU, Oregon and CSU-Bakersfield.
Junior guard Kannon Burrage
leads UTSA with 17.9 points a
game while forward Jeromie
Hill is averaging 12.1 points and
6.9 boards a game.
"They are a ball-screening offense,"
said Ray of UTSA. "They
have a really skilled kid (Hill) at
the four spot that can make
some things happen. They want
to spread you out, get some
dribble penetration and try to
get in some situations where
those guys can catch and shoot
from the perimeter.
"From what I've seen, we
have to make sure we keep
those guys out of the lane so we
are not in help situations all the
Tonight's matchup will be the
first-ever meeting between the
two schools. It also marks the
last game for MSU inside
Humphrey Coliseum until a
game against Alabama A&M
Dec. 30. The Bulldogs are off for
exams until a Dec. 15 visit to
Loyola-Chicago, followed by a
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The Mayan gods must be smiling on Shanghai this summer – the buzzing metropolis has just welcomed new Mexican eatery and bar MAYITA, which besides boasting one of the best rooftop situs in the city is also home to a top notch, tamarind-flavoured frozen margarita sure to be pulling in the sundowner crowds this steamy season. The casual little sister of latin stalwart MAYA takes over the 80-seat, sixth-floor space at Silver Court formerly occupied by Fat Olive, and the restaurant's trump card is unquestionably its oversized, palm-fringed patio framed by stellar Pudong views.
MAYITA's menu includes some inherited favourites from its older sibling, plus plenty of new dishes like a seafood ceviche platter stacked high with chipotle prawns, mango salsa scallops and tuna dressed with lime, chilli and coconut. Share-style mains span tender slow-cooked beef ribs braised for 24 hours and served with lime-crushed baby potatoes and a tomatillo-guajillo salsa, to more green-friendly options like Wild Mushroom Soft Corn Tacos and Achiote Quinoa with Spanish rice, red beans and spice-rubbed roast vegetables. Desserts and drinks are equally inviting – think choc-pistachio ice cream and a rotating selection of flavoured frozen margaritas – and all this is best enjoyed on the bright patio tables. Be sure to book ahead.
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September 5, 2008
Join Atlantic Cape Community College for an Open House and the 46th Annual College Fair from 1-3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5, at ACCC's Mays Landing Campus, 5100 Black Horse Pike.
During ACCC's Open House, information on various college services and career and academic programs will be available. Representatives from the Academy of Culinary Arts will host a concurrent open house, providing information about the culinary program, its alumni, career opportunities and job placement. Continuing Education staff will offer details on personal and professional development workshops, seminars and short-term career training.
Dozens of colleges are expected to attend, including Caldwell College, Goldey-Beacom College, Northwood University, Penn State University, Rowan University, Rutgers University and Temple University.
The College Fair is sponsored by the Atlantic County Branch of the American Association of University Women and the Kiwanis Club of Atlantic City.
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Ages 8-18
Location: Integrity Park-Argyle, TX (Dallas Area)
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 to Friday, July 26, 2013
Camp Cost: $435.00
The 11th Annual Dallas Area Baseball Camp is designed to provide players intense instruction in all aspects of the game. Our camps are known nationally for a "non-standing around" approach meaning players get the maximum amount of work in daily while receiving verbal assessment of their skills throughout the week. Our daily formats are written by directors with years of Professional baseball backgrounds and mirror a Spring Training type day. Huge reps and teaching all day long with live games mixed in.
Our baseball camps in Texas are staffed with former and current professional players, college coaches and scouts who are extremely experienced and share one common goal - to provide you with the tools you need to take your game to the next level and beyond. Eat, live and breathe the game with us while we train daily at Integrity Park, one of the premier baseball facilities just northwest of Dallas, in Argyle.
Age Divisions
Campers will be broken into groups by age and ability levels.
General age divisions are:
8-11, 12-13, 14-16 and 16+
Camp Packages For your convenience, America's Baseball Camps has three options to meet your camp needs.
Package #1: Day Camp Option (no accommodations)
Package #2: Overnight Staying w/ Parents Option (Parents pay for hotel room) Hotel room fees not included, see Accommodations below for more info on reserving a room.
Package #3: Overnight Staying w/ other Players Option (hotel room included in camp fees)
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Professional Pitching Mechanics or Swing Video Analysis
Players will be evaluated personally with Video Analysis software and have the chance to have their swing and/or their pitching mechanics broken down by a Professional Instructor. Professional Instructors will provide an evaluation of feedback, changes and recommend drills to help fix or improve your swing and/or your pitching mechanics.
Check out our One Day Hitting Camp!
We will be conducting an extensive Hitting Camp on July 22nd from 2:00pm-6:00pm. This camp will cover every aspect of hitting and is a great way to "kick off" the week.
Airport Pick-up / Drop-off
For our out-of-town campers, we provide airport pick-up and drop-off at the Dallas International Airport.
All options are available on the Registration Page.
Information & Welcome Packet
Location, Dates and Times
Camp will be conducted at:
Integrity Park
9139 Hwy 377
Argyle, TX 76226.
July 22nd: Optional Hitting Camp 2:00pm - 6:00pm
July 23rd 9:00am - 2:30pm
July 24th 9:00am - 2:30pm
July 25th 9:00am - 2:30pm
July 26th 9:00am - 2:00pm
2012 Staff members included the following instructors:
Sean McCorry: Former Assistant Coach Azusa Pacific University
Jeff Osterode: Former Professional Player Seattle Mariners Organization
Sean Brinkley: Former Head Coach Georgia Perimeter College
Shad Whiteley: Former Professional Player New York Yankees Organization
Joe McDonald: Former Asst. Coach Western Oregon University
JT Herak: Current Asst. Coach FT Worth Arlington Heights H.S
Jim Gatewood: Former Assistant Coach University of Alabama
Brooke Court: Current Head Coach McKinney Boyd High School
All Campers should check in at the main baseball diamond at Integrity Park by 8:30am on the morning of the 23rd (hitting campers check in at Integrity Park by 1:30pm on the 22nd).
Attention Fly-In Players without parents (ones we are picking up from the airport): Players need to do their best to arrive before 4:00pm on July 22nd. If you are attending the hitting camp please do your best to arrive before 11:00am so we can get you to camp on time. If you arrive later than 12:00pm for hitting camp this is ok, it will just be a little tighter for us. On the last day of camp, the camp will end at 2:00pm, so schedule your departure out of Dallas sometime between 4:00pm and 6:00pm if possible, can be earlier if necessary. We would however prefer you to do your best in scheduling your return flight as close to the 4:00pm to 6:00pm time slot as possible.
Daily Schedule Breakdown
Typical Day at Camp
09:00am: Roll call
09:10am: Break into groups/teams
09:20am: Warm up/Stretch
09:40am: Throwing
10:00am: Station work... (Infield, Outfield, Hitting, Pitching, Catching, Baserunning)
12:00pm: Lunch
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MOCRA > MOCRA Voices > Adrian Kellard
|The MOCRA podcast
|Regina DeLuise
and Susan Schreiber
on the art and life of Adrian Kellard
|Release date: November 1, 2011
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|Related podcast: Thomas Sokolowski
|Related exhibition: Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion
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Listening Guide:
|David Brinker
Fojammi (Daniel Stefacek)
John Launius
David Brinker
American artist Adrian Kellard (1959-91) had a brief but productive career that was cut short by his death from AIDS-related causes at the age of 32. Kellard pursued art studies at SUNY Purchase, then moved to New York City and studied under artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt. Kellard achieved national and international recognition, having had six solo shows as well as being included in more than 25 group exhibitions at the time of his death. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, New York University's Grey Art Gallery, the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.
Despite his artistic training, Kellard remained grounded in his blue collar upbringing. Working in the stylistic tradition of German Expressionism, Kellard demonstrated expertise with wood carving by creating bold images of Christian subjects in contemporary contexts. Yet he worked with simple pine wood and household latex paint with the screws and hanging hardware fully visible—materials readily available at any local hardware store. He incorporated "high" art with "low" art, combining images quoted from artists such as Giotto and Michelangelo with images from pop culture. Kellard's work reflects his deep faith and a complicated set of identities: Irish-Italian ancestry, Catholic, gay. He brought all of these realities, and later on his struggle with AIDS, into his work.
MOCRA is fortunate to have the largest collection of Kellard's work in any single art institution. Several works have been shown in MOCRA group exhibitions over the years, but since 2011 marks 30 years after the identification of HIV and 20 years after Kellard's death, it seemed fitting for MOCRA to present a solo exhibition including a number of Kellard's most important works.
For this episode of MOCRA Voices, host John Launius and MOCRA Director Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J., are joined by Regina DeLuise, a close friend of Kellard and an artist photographer in her own right, and Susan Schreiber, Kellard's New York gallery dealer. Dempsey, DeLuise, and Schreiber share stories of Kellard that serve to illuminate his artistic aims and influences, his distinctive visual style and treatment of his woodcut medium, and the ways in which Kellard's upbringing, sexual orientation, and faith found expression in his work. Photo courtesy of Regina DeLuise.
Regina DeLuise is a professional photographer based in Baltimore, Maryland. She received a BFA at the State University of New York at Purchase and an MA at the Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. She has taught and given workshops on photography at several major institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Union, and Pratt Institute. She has been teaching photography at Maryland Institute College of Art since 1998. DeLuise has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and Europe as well as in Japan and Bhutan. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, to name just a few. Samples of her work can be found on her website. DeLuise writes,
For the last twenty years, the work of Adrian Kellard has been in my care. Since he and I were the same age, (born 2 days apart, same year) . . . It feels so poignant to me, that two decades later, at the same moment I find myself established in a rich life and practice, about to move into the Photography Department Chair position at my college, and having my own exhibition spanning those same 20 years, Adrian's work has found its right home. The parallels of my life and Adrian's have always been sharply drawn and alive to me. What would Adrian's life and work looked like had his life not been cut short by AIDS in 1991? It is extraordinary to see anew, not only the depth of his talent, dedication and commitment to his art and his faith, but also how prolific he was.
The work at MOCRA represents the largest collection of Adrian's work anywhere (and a number of his most important pieces). The Grey Art Gallery, Neuberger Museum, Ali Forney Institute, and The American Visionary Museum also hold magnificent works in their collections. My hope is that Adrian's work continues to be seen and appreciated; inspiring people to realize their best and most loving selves. I have kept Adrian's work safe and protected over the years, but have not accomplished much else for him. My gratitude to Fr. Terrence Dempsey is profound. He is to be credited with recognizing the importance of this work when Adrian was alive, and never tiring in his efforts to present it to the world. To see the exhibition at MOCRA and the tremendous care and attention both Terry and David Brinker have shown, has been extraordinarily moving to those of us who knew and loved Adrian.
Susan Schreiber has worked with contemporary artists in New York City for over 30 years. She established her gallery in Soho in 1986 and was pleased to present a solo show of Adrian Kellard's work as the inaugural exhibition. The gallery lasted for 5 years during which time Adrian's work was featured in annual solo shows as well as group exhibitions. She is proud to have been Adrian's dealer and friend until his death in 1991. Since then Susan has worked as a private dealer and art consultant. From 1995 until 2010 she was the director of PS122 Gallery, a small non-profit gallery which provided exhibition and support services for emerging artists. During that time she worked closely with artists, curators and critics to help launch a successful website for the gallery and developed new and innovative programs to allow artists to create unusual installations and collaborations. She has served on several juries for arts councils and alternative art spaces. Susan is currently exploring additional aspects of arts administration in her new role as Volunteer Coordinator at The Jewish Museum in New York.
|Listening Guide
Dr. Jody Cutler received her B.A. from New York University in 1981 and worked as a gallerist and art dealer in New York for more than a decade before returning to academia for advanced art studies. She received her M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from The City College of CUNY in 1996, and her Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism from SUNY at Stony Brook in 2001. Her teaching experience includes positions at the University of Tulsa, Wichita State University, University of Central Florida, Lincoln University, and Christoper Newport University. Her recent research has been focused on ethnicity and visual representation in the West through time; African American Art; methodologies of art analysis; and the dynamics of exhibition culture.
Schreiber mentions two Manhattan neighborhoods that were the epicenters of thriving and at times competing arts scenes. The East Village had its heyday during the 1970s and 1980s. Among the visual artists prominent on the scene were Kiki Smith, Keith Haring, Goldin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger, Rick Prol, and Jeff Koons. In this New York Magazine essay, artist and writer Gary Indiana gives a caustic elegy to the East Village scene. He makes reference to a 2004 exhibition at the New Museum titled East Village USA, that brought together a significant assembly of art shown in the East Village from 1981 to 1987.
The SoHo neighborhood began to attract galleries out of the East Village in the late 1980s, as documented in this 1989 article by New York Times art critic Roberta Smith. Following a perhaps inevitable bout of gentrification, SoHo in turn ceded its claim as the heart of the New York arts scene to Chelsea a decade later, as described in this Hedy O'Beil article from 2001.
In addition to the solo exhibition Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion (2011), Kellard's work has been exhibited as part of the MOCRA exhibitions Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS (1994); MOCRA: The First Five Years (1998); MOCRA at Fifteen: Good Friday (2009); and Good Friday: The Suffering Christ in Contemporary Art (2010). His work has also been shown in rotation as part of MOCRA's permanent collection and works on long-term loan.
Kellard died on November 14, 1991, from complications due to AIDS. At the time, he was considered a long time survivor, having lived with the disease for five years.
June 5, 1981, marked the first published descriptions of the disease that would come to be known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, a complex of opportunistic infections that take advantage of an immune system weakened by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. The amFAR website provides this timeline of the impact of AIDS over the ensuing 30 years, from the 159 cases reported in the U.S. in 1981, to the over 33 million estimated worldwide cases today. Another timeline is provided by AVERT. This New York Times article reports on new research showing that HIV was laying its first roots as early as the 1920s.
It may be difficult for some today to appreciate just how devastating the impact of HIV/AIDS was upon those infected in the early years. Lack of scientific knowledge about the disease and its causes led to unfounded rumors and consequent discrimination against and ostracizing of both HIV+ patients and people in high risk groups, particularly gay men. The epidemic devastated whole communities with predominantly gay residents, yet also led to grassroots activism to address the needs of the ill, to educate those at risk, to fund scientific research, and to influence government policy and public opinion. (The U.S. government response, initially distressingly tepid, has since become quite robust.) One of the lasting testaments to this widespread response is the AIDS Memorial Quilt, sections of which still travel to communities around the country each year.
This anniversary year has led to a number of projects reflecting on what is now a pandemic, such as this website titled "Making AIDS History," and a recent documentary titled We Were Here, featuring MOCRA artist Daniel Goldstein. But the arts community, which seemed to be disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, has responded to the crisis in the most natural way it could, through the creation of art. One such project was called Living Proof, in which photographic portraits by Carolyn Jones were paired with the stories and words of the subjects, all people who were living with--not dying from--the virus. An ongoing project, observed each year on World AIDS Day (December 1), is called Day With(out) Art, for which galleries and museums display (or sometimes remove) works of art to mark the impact of HIV/AIDS on the arts community. MOCRA participates annually in the Day With(out) Art observance. MOCRA's 2009 observance featured Kellard's work The Promise.
Shrine, also known as "The Wagon Piece," was the first work by Kellard to get national exposure; images of it appeared in a number of publications following its appearance in the 1985 group exhibition Precious at New York University's Grey Art Gallery. The work rests on wheels and can be easily moved, evoking mobile shrines in popular Catholic religious outdoor processions. It also is reminiscent of the wagons that functioned as stages for medieval troupes to act out religious drama. The quotes on the panel atop the work are drawn from the eucharistic prayers of the Catholic Mass; the full expression is: "Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life. Lord Jesus, come in glory."
On the "Dying" side of the work, the crucified Christ (a quote from a drawing by Michelangelo -- see the discussion of Kellard's tattoos below) is flanked by large clown faces. The juxtaposition of religious and circus imagery is is jarring, and their meaning is ambiguous. The panel at the base of the Crucifixion contains a number of faces, including Jesus' mother Mary, expressing grief.
On the reverse, "Rising" side, we find a large face of Christ with a tender and sad expression. The panel below makes reference to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a popular Catholic devotion. On either side of the Sacred Heart are many dwelling places: in the country, in small towns, and in the city. For Kellard, the Sacred Heart represented Christ's unconditional love for all humanity, no matter where we reside.
Adrian Kellard, Healing . . . The Learned Art of Compassion, 1985-86. Latex on wood with hardware. Collection of the
In Healing . . . The Learned Art of Compassion, Kellard's blending of high and folk art result in a shrine dedicated to people with AIDS but accessible to all of us. It invites us to draw on our higher qualities—compassion, understanding, and love. This work is a summation of many of the themes and images found throughout Kellard's work.
The face of Jesus, with gaunt features much like those of a person with advanced AIDS, looks out from a prominent place atop the canopy. To the right of the canopy is the crucified Jesus and to the left is a protective and vigilant Mary with wings watching over Adrian, whose self-portrait is contained in the square box beneath the face of Mary. The altar-like box beneath the canopy bears a quote from the Gospel of John calling for a sense of understanding and compassion. On the face panel of the box a supine figure evokes the entombed Christ, but is in fact a self-portrait of Kellard as a man with AIDS, with images of grief, hatred, and death to his right. To either side of the base of the canopy posts figures of Mary and St. John keep vigil.
On the wall above, an image of Mary with the legend "Pray for Us" is framed by the names of the days of the week, which in turn are separated by lighthouses, beacons of safety and hope in stormy times. A pine panel depicting a small boat is moved from lighthouse to lighthouse to mark each day. This shrine seems free of anger and bitterness. Kellard's use of the word "healing" certainly encompasses the hope of physical healing, but perhaps more importantly it anticipates a spiritual healing among us all—a healing from prejudice and hatred to understanding and compassion.
Fr. Dempsey's Ph.D. dissertation was titled "The Pursuit of the Spirit: The Re-Emergence of Spiritual and Religious Concerns in American Art of the 1980s." See MOCRA's blog for a discussion of the role of the dissertation and Fr. Dempsey's research in the genesis of MOCRA.
Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties, was an exhibition organized in 1985 by Thomas Sokolowski for the Grey Art Gallery of New York University. An exhibition catalogue was published and can be found in many library holdings. Brief discussions of the exhibition can be found online here (New York Magazine) and here (Christian Science Monitor).
Sokolowski has played an influential role in American contemporary art. He served as Director of the Grey Art Gallery from 1984 to 1996, then as Director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. 1996 to 2010. Sokolowski involved himself early on in the arts community's response to HIV/AIDS, and was instrumental in founding Visual AIDS, the organization that launched Day With(out) Art in 1989. Among other projects, the Visual AIDS Archive Project helps to support HIV+ artists and preserve and promote the legacy of artists who have died from AIDS related causes. (Kellard's work is not in the Archive Project, but as discussed in the podcast, his estate faces the same challenges as many other artists whose lives were cut short before their artistic careers were firmly established.)
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, The Anchorite, 2009. Mixed media. Shown at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (b.1948) is known for creating glittering mixed-media constructions that speak directly to issues of sex, class and religion, particularly gay and working-class consciousness as well as theological, philosophical and aesthetic ideas/ideals. An art pioneer in the use of reflective materials, he has influenced subsequent generations of artist--including Adrian Kellard--who have engaged a similar "glitter" aesthetic, exploring themes of glamour, sexual transgression, camp and kitsch. Also like Kellard, Lanigan-Schmidt explores the relationship between "high" and "low" culture. Lanigan-Schmidt is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He has been an instructor in the M.F.A. Program of The School of Visual Arts in New York City since the mid-1980s.
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The photo at left, taken by Regina DeLuise in Northport, NY, circa 1990, shows some of the tattoos mentioned by Fr. Dempsey and DeLuise. From the top, visible are:
The Sacred Heart, a devotion popular primarily among Roman Catholics, with roots in the medieval period but popularized by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the seventeenth century. The Sacred Heart is commonly depicted as a flaming heart pierced by the wound of the centurion's lance, surrounded by the crown of thorns and surmounted by a cross. The references to Jesus' suffering and death are paired with a fire representing the transformative power of divine love. Read more about the Sacred Heart on Wikipedia.
Kyrie eleison, a Greek phrase meaning, "Lord, have mercy." It appears frequently in Christian liturgical texts, often as a response to a litany of petitions or invocations. Learn more on Wikipedia.
The Crucifixion, based on a drawing by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) dating from c.1541. It was a gift to his friend and confidante, poet Vittoria Colonna. The drawing is in the collection of the British Museum.
Attr. to Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), St. Christopher, 1525. Woodcut.
Kellard's work titled The Promise references the legend of St. Christopher, who according to the Western Christian tradition lived in third-century Asia Minor. Reprobus (his birth name) was of gigantic stature, and after a period of spiritual searching was living a life of service by ferrying people across a dangerous river. One day a little boy asked Reprobus to carry him across the river. Reprobus was soon struggling, as if he were carrying the weight of the world, but eventually they reached the other side. The infant then told him that Reprobus indeed had been bearing all the world, but also the one who created the world. The child then revealed himself as Christ, and vanished. From that point on, Reprobus was known as Christopher, Greek for "Christ bearer."
The image of St. Christopher was especially popular in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Typically, he is depicted carrying the infant Jesus on his shoulders, as seen in the woodcut print of the saint attributed to the sixteenth-century German artist, Albrecht Dürer. Christopher is also frequently carrying a staff. He became the patron saint particularly of travelers, but also of athletes.
Adrian Kellard, The Promise, 1989. Latex on wood. Long-term loan to the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.
In The Promise Kellard portrays himself in the role of St. Christopher. The enigmatic text, "I will never leave you," seems to assert love, hope, compassion, and loyalty. The image expresses endurance and perseverance in the midst of suffering. Yet it remains ambiguous as to which figure is speaking the words, or perhaps they are addressing each other. The Promise was included in the 1992-93 international traveling exhibition From Media to Metaphor: Art about AIDS, and in the 1994 exhibition Art's Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death, organized by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Read a commentary about Media to Metaphor by co-curators Robert Atkins and Thomas Sokolowski. The Promise is mentioned in this New York Times review of the exhibition. The catalogue for Media to Metaphor is listed in WorldCat and is available in many library collections.
The catalogue for Art's Lament is listed in WorldCat and available in many library collections.
The scriptural reference is to Isaiah 43:2. Read it in the NIV, NAB, NKJV, and NRSV renditions.
See the discussion above at 7:35 for links to information about HIV/AIDS and its impact in the early years of the epidemic.
Adrian Kellard, Lovers, 1986. Latex on wood with trouble lamps. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.
Lovers is at once inclusively anonymous with the high skyscrapers of the New York skyline, and intimately autobiographical with the inclusion of the Kellard's New York apartment building and his neighborhood church. The identities of the figures sheltered under the crucified Christ are not immediately clear: two lovers, or perhaps Christ cradling the beloved disciple (i.e., St. John). In either case, the figure on the left is a self-portrait of the artist. The identities are less important than the compassion, care and trust the figures express.
We should not take for granted the significance of the word "compassion," as it is a term that has resonance among all the world's great faith traditions. Wikipedia provides this definition:
The Wikipedia entry goes on to give capsule summaries of how compassion is regarded and practiced in the world's faith traditions.
A recent global movement seeks to restore and promote compassion as a central virtue of religions and, indeed, all facets of life. The Charter for Compassion was launched in 2009 by author Karen Armstrong (highly regarded for her books on the history of religion). The Charter for Compassion website hosts a number of resources, including six talks about compassion from a variety of religious, spiritual, and ethical perspectives.
Regina DeLuise talks about the physicality of Kellard's carving technique. Kellard's woodworking tools, pictured at left, were lent to the exhibition by his sister, Betsy Rock.
Watch these videos on the MoMA website for an introduction to the techniques of carving, inking, and printing from wood blocks.
Regina DeLuise provided this picture of Kellard at work in his apartment.
Adrian Kellard, Veronica towel rack, 1982. Latex on wood with hooks. Collection of Regina DeLuise, Baltimore.
Kellard incorporated religious imagery into everyday, often functional objects, conveying playfulness without irreverence. Regina DeLuise mentions that Kellard often gave his functional artworks to friends as gifts, including this small work given to DeLuise. Veronica does not appear in the New Testament, but she is remembered in the Catholic tradition as a model of compassion for her selfless gesture of wiping the face of Jesus with a cloth as he carried his cross to Calvary. According to the non-scriptural tradition, in return for her act of courage and care, an impression of Jesus' face remained on the cloth (the name Veronica is popularly said to be derived from the Latin and Greek words for "true image"). In a playful reference to the tradition, this towel rack offers users the hospitality of a cloth to wipe their faces or hands.
Adrian Kellard, St. Martin of Tours coat rack, 1985. Latex on wood with metal coat hooks. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.
The St. Martin of Tours coat rack demonstrates how, for Kellard, there was no separation between art and everyday life. He incorporated religious imagery into everyday, often functional objects, conveying playfulness without irreverence. Frequently Kellard drew upon his knowledge of Catholic saints and of famous artistic depictions of those saints. This work quotes a painting by El Greco of St. Martin of Tours and the Beggar. The fourth-century saint was a soldier in Constantine's army. While stationed in Amiens, France, Martin reportedly encountered a beggar suffering from the cold one winter day. In an act of compassion, the saint sliced through his own cloak and gave one half to the beggar. Kellard's art work doubles as a functioning coat rack.
Read more about Martin of Tours on Wikipedia. View the source painting by El Greco, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., here.
Erich Heckel (1879-1970), Self-Portrait, 1919. Color woodcut.
Fr. Dempsey notes that Kellard woodcut pine panel works evoke the woodcut prints of the German Expressionists. Expressionism, according to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) website,
The Expressionists had a long history of woodcut printing to draw on, stretching back to Albrecht Dürer and earlier. By severely simplifying the images, the Expressionists took advantage of the medium's affinity for bold, flat patterns and the telltale grain and rough hewn look of the blocks.
Antonio Frasconi (b. 1919), Stake (plate, folio 5) from Oda a Lorca, 1962. Lithograph. Collection of MOMA.
Antonio Frasconi was born in Buenos Aires but raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. He emigrated to the United States in 1945 and has distinguished himself as an artist, illustrator of books, and teacher (Kellard studied with Frasconi at SUNY Purchase). One of his major projects, illustrations for the book Los desaparecidos, concerns the grave human rights abuses committed in Uruguay under military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.
Read about Frasconi on Wikipedia, or search for online images of Frasconi's work through Artcyclopedia. You can also view the trailer for a 1985 film about Frasconi.
Here is the WorldCat entry for Los desaparecidos, by Mario Benedetti with illustrations by Frasconi.
Adrian Kellard, St. Francis screen, 1985. Latex on wood with hinges. Collection of Antonia Lasicki and William Devita, Niskayuna, NY
This depiction of the popular St. Francis of Assisi also serves as a beautifully carved privacy screen. Kellard bases his image of St. Francis of Assisi and the Birds from a fresco by the fourteenth-century Italian artist Giotto (1266/7-1337). The screen's rightmost panel features a functional calendar that is meant to be changed on a daily and monthly basis. References to calendars appear in several of Kellard's works, including Healing . . . The Learned Art of Compassion (see above). These calendars suggest that his art is meant to be a part of one's daily life. It demonstrates how, for Kellard, there was no separation between art and everyday life.
In the catalogue from the 1986 exhibition, Contemporary Screens: Function, Decoration, Sculpture, Metaphor, Kellard speaks directly to the issue of the everyday aspect of his art and faith in a way that is simple and illuminating. "I can remember watching a religious program on television in which the interviewer asked the priest how one has more faith. The priest said -- and I think it to be true -- that having faith is an activity, that by living with faith one will no doubt become more faithful, and that by living with love one will become more loving. The calendar signifies, that by engaging the intercession of St. Francis daily, monthly and yearly, we may be inspired by his life and values to help ourselves in our (life)."
Read more about St. Francis of Assisi on Wikipedia. View the source fresco by Giotto here.
This podcast is made possible through the financial support of the Regional Arts Commission.
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Amateur callbacks to water marks
Amateur callbacks to water marks
Glenda Seivert
"The support team"
Thank you Glenda.
Marcy Wright
Amateur result
1st Thief & Dave Seivert (whoo hoo! Surpassed 100 AA points)
2nd Tia & Suzan Caire
3rd Riot & Brad Clow
4th Marley & Hank Knoblock
RJ Rigby & Judy Aycock
Greti & Bob Heise
Pride & Susie Ditch
Katie & Danny Widner
Dealer & Vern Hasenbank
Lexi & Wayne Stupka
Misty & Wayne Stupka
Angus & Larry Bozeman
Very tough competition! Thanks to the judges & workers for a great trial.
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Glenda Seivert
"The support team"
Thats a salty bunch of Ams that finished. Congrats to all.
'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.' - Bear Bryant / Alabama
Congratulations to Dave and Glenda! Thief is an impressive dog that I always enjoy watching. We like having the Iowa gang down for the winter ~ lots of nice people in that group.
Bentwater Retrievers
'06 National Finalist FC/AFC Tiger's Goodness Gracious "Gracie" (12/31/02-7/31/09)
Adalida's Relentless Pursuit*** "Addie" (05/25/02 - 10/30/14)
Candlewoods Aphrodites Jazz*** "Jazz"
Southamptons Override*** "Rory"
Newest Kids: Bentwater's True North - "Star"
and Bentwater's "The Sheriff" - "Peyt"
DAVE & GLENDA!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I am so happy for you!! That's a lotta points!
And also Thief (who now gets a spot by the bed, right!?! )
Dont wave your phony patriotism in MY face! If you really love America, open your wallet and hire an American kid to build what you buy. Doug Fraser (paraphrased) 1980
Real Americans buy American.
Way to go Team Thief!!!!
AFC Iron Lines Sergeant Pepper "Pepper"
FC FTCH Westwood's Sunday Silence "Buck"
Sweet Swingin' Fred MH ***
Thank you to our judges who did a great job and to all our new visitors and old time friends for coming!
Even when you think nobody is looking, they are looking and they know what you did.
Congratulations to Janet Loughlin and Ray Amundson on the Open Win with Trip!!!
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Fed 2008 Transcripts Q1: Winter Wake-Up Call
Federal Reserve officials spent much of 2007 underestimating the trouble brewing in financial markets, but the transcripts show how they came to realize in early 2008 that they were facing a potentially serious crisis.
The Fed on Jan. 22 announced a three-quarter percentage point cut in its benchmark short-term interest rate to 3.5%, which up until then was the single deepest cut to the rate in more than two decades. Fed officials made the decision after a hastily-convened video conference call the evening of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday — acting just a little more than a week before a scheduled policy meeting. Their statement cited "a weakening of the economic outlook and increasing downside risks to growth." They cut the rate by another half a percentage point at that Jan. 29-30 meeting, and by another 0.75 percentage-point in March.
More In Federal Reserve 2008 Transcripts
- Fed Releases Staff Memos Prepared for December 2008 Policy Meeting
- Metaphorically Speaking: 5 Turns of Phrase from the Federal Reserve's 2008 Transcripts
- 2008 Transcripts: Boston Fed's Rosengren Pressed for Early, Aggressive Crisis Response
- The 2008 FOMC Laugh Track: Gallows Humor at the Federal Reserve
- Fed Transcripts Provide New Details on 2008 Fed Libor Suspicions
- Fed 2008 Transcripts Q4: Whatever It Takes
Then came the demise of Bear Stearns Cos. in mid-March, which opened the door to the policy improvisation that would come to define the Fed's crisis fighting under then-Chairman Ben Bernanke. The central bank pushed the limits of its emergency lending powers to orchestrate a loan to keep the investment bank from bankruptcy. Then, to persuade J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to buy the ailing firm, the Fed agreed to put $29 billion in taxpayer money at risk to cover losses on dodgy assets in Bear Stearns' portfolio. Simultaneously, the Fed for the first time opened its emergency discount-lending window to securities dealers.
Here are some key excerpts:
On Jan. 9, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke convened an unscheduled conference call because he was growing increasingly worried about the economy – so worried, in fact, he had staff circulate a draft policy announcement in case officials wanted to cut rates that day. He opened the call by saying that some feedback from colleagues, and additional thought on his part, led him to decide not to propose a rate cut after all, but he wanted to discuss recent developments.
MR. BERNANKE: I have become increasingly concerned that our policy rate is too high to fully address the downside risks to growth. We have cut 100 basis points since September, and I think that may possibly have roughly offset the credit factors and the housing factors, but I don't think that we can claim that we have done anything in the way of taking out insurance against what I think are some potentially significant downside risks. Meanwhile, since our last meeting in December, the data have been on the whole negative. The fourth quarter looks all right, but since then we have seen a number of indicators that the economy is sliding.
Mr. Bernanke told his colleagues that a mere run-of-the-mill recession was not his main concern.
MR. BERNANKE: I do think the risks are at least 50 percent at this point that we will see an NBER recession this year. Now, as I said, the concern I have is not just a slowdown but the possibility that it might become a much nastier episode. The main mechanism I have in mind—there are several possibilities, but I think the financial markets are the main risk.
He spent some time talking about big banks and the impact capital cushions would have on overall credit conditions, potentially exacerbating any downturn.
MR. BERNANKE: I have had a lot of opportunities to talk to bankers. We had a meeting over the weekend in Basel between the central bankers and about 50 private-sector representatives. The thrust that I got was that things are going to be pretty tight. "We are going to meet our regular customers' needs, but all of this is conditioned on no recession." As one banker put it in our meeting, "There is no Plan B." So a concern that is evident is that, if economic conditions worsen notably, the effects on bank capital, on credit risk, and so on will create a more severe credit situation, which could turn a garden variety downturn into something more persistent.
On Jan. 21, Chairman Bernanke convened an unscheduled video conference call to consider cutting the Fed's benchmark short-term interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point. Mr. Bernanke usually waits until other officials have their say before expressing his views, but this time he launched into an argument for why the Fed needed to take action:
MR. BERNANKE: I think there are times when events are just moving too fast for us to wait for the regular meeting. I know it is only a week away, but seven trading days is a long time in financial markets. As Bill described, over the holiday, global stock markets have been falling very sharply, both in Asia and in Europe. As he mentioned, even though the U.S. markets are closed, the S&P 500 was off about 60 points today, close to 5 percent. That makes the cumulative decline in the S&P 500 since our last FOMC meeting 16½ percent. Obviously, it is not our job to target stock values or to protect stock investors, but I think that this is a symptom of both sharply mounting concerns about the economy and increasing problems in credit markets. …
After describing some more worrying signs in the economy and financial markets, Mr. Bernanke admitted he didn't know whether a rate cut would help.
MR. BERNANKE: Would a rate action today, before the start of trading tomorrow, be of help? I don't know. In some sense it was a lucky break that today was a holiday because in the middle of the day we got a very good read on what the markets are doing tomorrow, and so we can get ahead of things as opposed to being forced, after a couple of disastrous days, to respond. … , I think that indicating that the Fed is on top of the situation and that we are proposing to address economic and credit risks aggressively would help. In any case, it would at least make clear that the Fed was in touch with the situation. … I think we have no choice but to try to get ahead of this.
Later, he stated explicitly that the Fed has waited too long to act.
MR. BERNANKE: I would not be proposing this if I didn't think we were seriously behind the curve in terms of economic growth and the financial situation. … [W]e are behind the curve. We need to do something to get up there.
San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen backed the move:
MS. YELLEN: I think the risk of a severe recession and credit crisis is unacceptably high, and it is being clearly priced now into not only domestic but also global markets… An intermeeting move will be a surprise, but I think it will show that we get it and we recognize we have been behind the curve.
St. Louis Fed President William Poole, who voted against the move, worried about the perception of an inter-meeting rate cut.
MR. POOLE: [T]his action will not be viewed in the marketplace as anything other than a direct response to the stock market.
Later he voiced concern that the move would be viewed as a reaction to declines in overseas markets, which at the time it was. Mr. Bernanke made clear it was not.
MR. BERNANKE: I think the situation in the United States, the fundamental situation, is much more severe at this juncture than in Europe or the United Kingdom. The basis for this move is not to calm markets per se but rather to get the funds rate closer to where it ought to be on fundamental grounds.
New York Fed President Timothy Geithner, if anything, sounded more worried than Mr. Bernanke.
MR. GEITHNER: None of us can know for sure what the next nine days would be like if we did not act. None of us can know the probability that the market will work through this stuff on its own. It is a matter of judgment, and I think your judgment on this is right. I strongly support it. I just would say again, although I don't think any of us can support this with hard, quantifiable evidence, that conditions are so fragile and so tenuous now that by not acting tomorrow morning we would be taking an irresponsible risk that we would see substantial further erosion in confidence. That would put us in a much weaker position to mitigate these risks going forward.
Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart concurred.
MR. LOCKHART: I think the psychology here is bordering on, shall we say, a spiral quality. … I think we are at a kind of juncture now where the spillover from the financial markets is not really much debatable; it is very clearly happening, with risk of a dynamic that feeds off itself.
Gov. Kevin Warsh thought "fragile" was too weak a word for what was happening in financial markets.
MR. WARSH: First, during the discussions on this call, we have described these financial markets as fragile I think the situation in the United States, the fundamental situation, is much more severe at this juncture than in Europe or the United Kingdom. The basis for this move is not to calm markets per se but rather to get the funds rate closer to where it ought to be on fundamental grounds. …
My judgment would be, if we chose not to act today, that we would in all likelihood not make it until next week. There can't be a ton of conviction that by virtue of 75 basis points today we are going to redress some of this fear and some of the psychology that is working against us in the markets. But just because we don't have a panacea, just because monetary policy can't solve the monoline problem and can't solve some of the other problems, doesn't mean that we shouldn't be doing our part. It strikes me that by taking action today we are doing our part.
The Fed held it's regularly-scheduled policy meeting Jan. 29-30, where it cut rates again. During the discussion, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans revealed that the CEO of General Motors had – as it would turn out – a far too sanguine outlook about the economy. The firm would end up being rescued from bankruptcy by the federal government.
MR. EVANS: I also spoke with the CEO of General Motors. His outlook was a lot like what President Fisher was just mentioning from other CEOs. They are looking for slow economic growth overall, and they are concerned about the risk of a serious downturn. That is not what they are planning on.
Some officials, including New York Fed chief Geithner, remarked that financial markets seemed to be starting to work out their problems. But Fed Gov. Randall Kroszner was still cautious.
MR. KROSZNER: I do share some of the optimism about improvements that we've seen in the financial markets, but I had that feeling in October and November, and it is hard for me to really understand exactly what drove the subsequent deterioration. … So I'm concerned that, since I don't really understand what happened there, I don't want to take too much comfort from what has happened so far.
Mr. Geithner, discussing the officials' uncertainty over how much the financial market turmoil would be a drag on the economy, urged "humility."
MR. GEITHNER: But the main point is that we just don't know much about it, and I think it is worth a lot of humility. I mean, think how surprised we have been by so much over this period, even with all our thinking through three years ago about alternative paths for housing. So I would just vote for humility. But the basic point is that we have to err on the side of being worried about reducing the risk that you end up with 75 mile an hour headwinds rather than 25 for a long period of time.
In a theme that would reoccur, some Fed officials thought that only the market could solve the problems at hand and further rate cuts would not help.
MR. PLOSSER: I share President Hoenig's concern that only the market can solve many of the problems that we see out there, and we must give the market time and patience to do so.
Chairman Bernanke at the January meeting worried about the Fed's communications and pushed back against officials who wanted to downplay language in the policy statement on the downside risks facing the economy.
MR. BERNANKE: In particular, during the past few months I think a perception has developed that we are tentative and indecisive and are not communicating clearly enough to the markets and to the public … As we have all noted, the pace of economic activity appears to have slowed sharply around the turn of the year. I am very hopeful that the labor market report this Friday will be positive. However, as I mentioned yesterday, there is as yet no evidence whatsoever that the housing market is stabilizing, as the new home sales data show. So long as house prices keep falling, we cannot rule out some extremely serious downside risks to our economy and to our financial system. We need to be proactive and forceful, not tentative and indecisive, in addressing this risk.
The day before at the meeting, during a discussion of his concerns about a bottom to the housing market still not yet in sight, noted "jingle mail" among his concerns.
MR. BERNANKE: A phrase you might have heard, which is getting great currency among bankers, is "jingle mail." Jingle mail is what happens when otherwise prime borrowers decide that the value of their house is worth so much less than the principal of their mortgage that they just mail their keys to the bank.
On March 10, Mr. Bernanke convened yet another unscheduled meeting via conference call, this time to create the Term Securities Lending Facility, under which the Fed was to lend to its primary dealers as much as $200 billion of Treasury securities from its own portfolio, in exchange taking as collateral difficult-to-trade mortgage-backed securities and other debt.
MR. BERNANKE: So, there are different ways to look at this. We're crossing certain lines. We're doing things we haven't done before. On the other hand, this financial crisis is now in its eighth month, and the economic outlook has worsened quite significantly. We are coming to the limits of our monetary policy capability. The Congress has passed a fiscal program. I do not know how much political capacity there is to do additional things, although I assure you that we will be thinking hard about it and I hope you will be, too. So I view this really as incremental, and I think we need to be flexible and creative in the face of what are really extraordinary challenges.
On March 18, at the Fed's schedule policy meeting and just a few days after the Bear Stearns rescue, William Dudley, then manager of system open market account at the New York Fed, told policymakers that the firm's sale price of $2 a share was one reason the firm's collapse had had "significant contagion effects" on other U.S. broker-dealers. J.P. Morgan would eventually raise the price to $10 a share.
MR. DUDLEY: First, these firms also are dependent on the repo market to finance a significant portion of their balance sheets. Second, the $2 per share purchase price for Bear Stearns was a shock given the firm's $70 per share price a week earlier and its stated book value of $84 per share at the end of the last fiscal year. The disparity between book value and the purchase price caused investors to question the accuracy of investment banks' financial statements more generally.
David Stockton, a Fed economist, briefed policy makers on significant changes the staff had made to its economic forecast – including that the economy is moving into recession.
Mr. STOCKTON: To be sure, we may have overreacted by moving to a recession call. But that possibility is counterbalanced by some clear downside risks even relative to this more pessimistic forecast. The recession that we are forecasting is relatively shallow.
A committee of economists later determined the U.S. recession began in December 2007. He went on, emphasizing the uncertainty of the outlook.
MR. STOCKTON: In recognition of that uncertainty, we included in the Greenbook two alternative simulations. In the "faster recovery" alt sim, we assume a stabilization of housing later this year and a reversal of most risk spreads by the middle of next year. Under these assumptions, growth picks up more noticeably, and a tightening of monetary policy is required next year. Alternatively, one cannot rule out some further deterioration in financial conditions and an even longer period of subpar economic performance. In the "greater housing correction with more financial fallout" scenario, a steeper decline in home prices results in a deeper contraction in construction activity, a further widening of risk spreads, tighter lending conditions, and an additional deterioration in household and business sentiment. Although this scenario might sound extreme, it only pushes the outer edge of the 70 percent confidence interval for real GDP and unemployment. It is also sobering to recognize that this simulation results in a nominal funds rate path that skirts the zero bound.
Ms. Yellen then president of the San Francisco Fed, was found to be the Fed's best forecaster in a Wall Street Journal analysis. At the March 18 meeting, she came pretty close to predicting when the recession started.
MS. YELLEN: "[T]he NBER may well date the beginning of the recession to last November."
Fed governor Warsh made a prescient prediction about the fate of investment banks at the March policy meeting.
Mr. WARSH: But I think, most fundamentally, that the business model of investment banks has been threatened, and I suspect the existing business model will not endure through this period. As a result, the current architecture of the regulation of financial institutions and of the business model across ranges of financial institutions—commercial banks, investment banks, and hedge funds—will change through this period.
Fed Chairman Bernanke finally weighs in with his outlook, saying he's more pessimistic than the staff projection.
MR. BERNANKE: The reason is that I don't see where the recovery is coming from in the beginning of next year. In particular, we won't have a recovery until financial markets stabilize, and the financial markets won't stabilize until house prices stabilize, and there is simply no particular reason to choose a time for that to happen. So I do think that the downside risks are quite significant and that this so-called adverse feedback loop is currently in full play. At some point, of course, either things will stabilize or there will be some kind of massive governmental intervention, but I just don't have much confidence about the timing of that.
Mr. Bernanke also started to worry about the Fed reaching the limits of its powers.
MR. BERNANKE: I think we are getting to the point where the Federal Reserve's tools, both its liquidity tools and its interest rate tools, are not by themselves sufficient to resolve our troubles. More help, more activity, from the Congress and the Administration to address housing issues, for example, would be desirable. We are certainly working on those issues here at the Board, and I will be talking to people in Washington about what might be done to try to address more fundamentally these issues of the housing market and the financial markets.
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, who dissented against the 0.75 percentage point cut to rates approved at the March 18 meeting, explains why.
MR. FISHER: The fact of the matter is that we have undertaken significant liquidity enhancement initiatives, and I think we're going to have to do more, and I've been fully supportive of them, but I think 75 basis points, Mr. Chairman, is way too much. My thought is that it encourages the financial markets. They're not going to be satisfied. I said this last time. It's Jabba the Hutt. They will keep asking for more and more. We have to quit feeding them.
NEXT CHAPTER: Q2: Spring Lull
Jan 9
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Jan 21
Minutes: See end of minutes of January 29/30 meeting
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Jan. 29-30
Minutes (Released Feb 20, 2008):
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March 10
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More transcripts analysis: Main WSJ article | Q2: Spring Lull | Q3: The Panic Erupts | Q4: Whatever It Takes | Timeline | Complete coverage
Jan. 23: Fed Rate Cut Halts Market Free Fall, But Recession Fears Are Mounting
Jan. 31: Fed Moves to Curb Risk of Recession
March 15: Fed Races to Rescue Bear Stearns In Bid to Steady Financial System
March 15: Behind the Fed's Bear Loan: Systemic Risk Fear
March 17: Central Bank Offers Loans To Brokers, Cuts Key Rate
March 17: J.P. Morgan Buys Bear in Fire Sale, As Fed Widens Credit to Avert Crisis
March 18: The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns
March 19: Credit Worries Ease as Fed Cuts, Hints at More Relief


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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 7:54 PM GMT on November 21, 2007
Everyone knows that flying into hurricanes is dangerous work. The NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft have flown a number of dangerous flights over the years, most recently in Hurricane Felix on September 2 this year. NOAA P-3 aircraft N42RF (affectionately called Kermit), penetrated a rapidly intensifying Hurricane Felix as it approached Category 5 intensity. The aircraft hit four G's of acceleration in both the up and down directions in Felix's eyewall. Regulations require a flight to be aborted at that level of turbulence, and Kermit returned to base. A detailed inspection of the aircraft the next day revealed no damage, and Kermit returned to service for the remainder of hurricane season.
Figure 1. A NOAA P-3 refuels in Cold Bay, Alaska (left) on its way to the Aleutian Islands to fly a mission in the 1987 Alaska Storms Program. Right: The two NOAA P-3's get de-iced at Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine, as they prepare for a mission into a 'Noreaster during the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA) in 1989. Both photos taken by yours truly.
What is less appreciated is that these aircraft fly research missions into dangerous weather conditions year-round and world-wide, and some of the most dangerous flights have occurred far from the tropics. Earlier this year, Kermit experienced perhaps the most dangerous flight of its 31-year career. On February 9, the aircraft flew into an intense winter storm 500 miles east of Newfoundland. The mission was part of the Ocean Winds project, a study designed to test the accuracy of QuikSCAT satellite wind estimates in regions of high wind and heavy rain. Flying at 3,000 feet, the aircraft sampled the surface winds with its SFMR (Step Frequency Microwave Radiometer) and dropsondes. The flights were timed to coincide with an overhead pass of the QuikSCAT satellite, which also measured winds at the ocean surface. It was a bit of a rough ride, since the storm packed winds of 100-110 mph at flight level. Sea spray kicked up by the powerful winds reached all the way to flight level, coating the windshield with a thick white coating of salt. The windshield washer failed, leaving the windshield partially opaque. It was an unusually dry winter storm, and the rain showers needed to rinse the windshield clean were difficult to find.
Figure 2. QuikSCAT wind profile of the ocean surface at 21:22 GMT February 9, 2007, just before Kermit headed back to St. John's, Newfoundland.
After a successful 4-hour flight, the aircraft dropped its final dropsonde, and turned north to complete its final sampling run. Suddenly, crew members observed flames coming from the #3 engine, accompanied by an audible popping sound. "Fire on #3, flames, flames, flames!" came the cry over the on-board intercom system. The pilots and flight engineers immediately began an emergency shut down of the #3 engine. As they worked to shut down the engine, the ominous call, "Fire on #4!" came over the intercom. The pilot immediately began an emergency shut down of the #4 engine. With both engines on the right wing now shut down, the pilot cautiously ramped up power on the two engines on the left wing, turned the aircraft towards home base in St. Johns, Newfoundland, and attempted to climb. However, the aircraft was not able to climb on just two engines, and the pilot was forced to begin a gradual descent to 2600 feet. The pilot notified the crew to review their ditching placards, and word was send to air traffic control informing them of the emergency. Three tense minutes passed, as the crew attempted to figure out what had caused the multiple engine failures. Speculation centered on the unusually heavy accumulation of salt on the aircraft--but excessive salt had never been implicated in engine failures before. Then, the words they all dreaded, "Fire on #1!" burst out over the intercom. The flight engineer immediately pulled the emergency shutdown handle for the #1 engine, and Kermit began a 700 foot per minute descent towards the turbulent sea below.
The crew donned survival suits as the pilot issued a May-day distress call and prepared to ditch the aircraft. Beneath them, hurricane force winds blew over the night-shrouded North Atlantic waters. With waves easily reaching 20 feet, water temperatures near freezing, and 500 miles out at sea at night, prospects for survival were dim. Four minutes remained to restart one of the flamed-out engines, and the pilot called for an immediate restart of the #1 engine. As the flight engineer worked to comply, Kermit passed through a brief rain shower that washed considerable salt from the aircraft. The attempt to restart the #1 engine succeeded, and Kermit pulled out of its descent just 800 feet above the waves--one minute from impact.
The crew now worked to restart the failed #3 and #4 engines, while the plane slowly climbed away from the ocean surface. As they headed towards Newfoundland, the Canadian Air Force launched a search and rescue C-130 aircraft from Nova Scotia to intercept Kermit. Crews on the Hibernia and Terra Nova oil rigs located east of Newfoundland were alerted of the emergency, and stood by to help if necessary. Kermit's navigator continuously plotted vectors to the oil rigs at they flew home, in case a ditch near one of the rigs became necessary.
As they continued westward, the crew successfully restarted both the #3 and #4 engines, but at reduced power. Kermit climbed to a more comfortable altitude of 14,000 feet and made it uneventfully back to St. Johns. Fortunately, the engines were undamaged and perfectly operational after the salt was washed out, and the data collected during the mission was saved. According to the detailed NOAA Mishap Investigation Report posted on Chris Mooney's excellent blog, "Post flight inspection of engines revealed significant white build up on intakes, first stage compressors, and CIP probes of all four engines. Subjectively, the #2 engine appeared to be the worst coated of all engines. Aircraft fuselage and windows were also heavily coated." Salt build-up on the engines was determined to be the cause of the incident. The unusually dry nature of the storm prevented the salt from being washed off, and was probably part of the reason the engines failed on this flight, and not on previous flights.
I asked Dr. Jim McFadden, project manager of the Ocean Winds project, what happened. He was on the flight, and responded:
This event stumped everyone including the experts who spend a life-time studying sea salt and aerosols in the marine boundary layer. Six previous flights in similar conditions had resulted in nothing like this. But this one was different. It was flown over an ocean warmed by the Gulf Stream in a dry slot of cold Canadian air. Somehow that combination was the key to what could have been a disastrous flight. Fortunately, quick thinking and the flawless action of the crew brought about by excellent training got us home safely.
Last week in Washington D.C., the crew of Kermit was honored with the Department of Commerce's Gold Medal for successfully bringing home the aircraft. The crew members from NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center who were on the flight were:
LCDR Mark Nelson
LCDR Carl Newman
Joseph Klippel
LCDR Peter Siegel
LCDR Joseph Bishop
Tom Shepherd
James Barr
Terry Lynch
William Olney
James McFadden
QuikSCAT scientists Paul Chang and Rob Contreras were also present on the flight.
Separate Department of Commerce Gold and Silver Medals were also awarded last week for scientists involved in leading NOAA's operational use of NASA's QuikSCAT satellite to produce more accurate forecasts and warnings of marine and coastal weather:
Paul Chang
Hugh Cobb III (NWS)
Roger Edson (NWS)
James Franklin (NHC)
Richard Knabb (NHC)
Eugene Legg
Kevin Schrab (NWS)
Joseph Sienkiewicz (NWS)
A Gold Medal is defined as distinguished performance characterized by extraordinary, notable or prestigious contributions that impact the mission of the Department and/or one operating unit and which reflect favorably on the Department. Congratulations to all the awardees, and thanks for all that you do!
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Gamers rejoice - PlayStation 4 is coming.
Sony's announcement yesterday confirmed some existing rumours and rubbished others, and new ones have arisen ahead of an expected launch at the end of the year.
I had a conversation recently with Sony Computer Entertainment NZ's David Hine, who told me his camp had progressed beyond herding players into their bedrooms and were thinking socially.
The PS4 announcement appears to confirm that statement with an array of features including instant sharing of screenshots and motion clips, and interactive live streaming of gameplay with the possibility for other players to comment and even take control remotely.
This could potentially turn the tips-and-tricks community on its head. Imagine a live games rescue squad coming to your aid.
Insiders and observers alike are calling the caring, sharing features an ecosystem.
The lineup of games - and forget the talk about the do-everything devices, because it's games that matter most - looks promising. Bungie are out to better themselves with the post-Halo title called Destiny, and Ubisoft's Watch Dogs has been starring in "most-anticipated" lists since its demonstration at E3 last year.
Earlier this month, SCE NZ described New Zealand as a "PlayStation Nation" on the strength of the brand's sales here. With that in mind, the issue of backwards compatibility is a key one.
In yesterday's announcement it was said that the PS4 would support cloud-based streaming of classic titles, eventually enabling players to access "everything ever" and "only pay for the games they actually love".
A concern is the suggestion that the PS4 will not be able to play disks designed for older consoles.
That might be a blow for Kiwis who have been collecting PlayStation games for almost 20 years.
Hopefully it won't be too costly for gamers to unlock access to streaming versions of the games they actually love.
My hope is the PS4 arrives on the right side of Christmas, at a fair price, with ease of use right out of the box.