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John G. Morris 100th Birthday Party has been held on Sunday December 11, 2011, at his home in Paris, in which has been a milestone event to commemorate the century of the most influential picture editor ever, after an amazing photographic career throughout which he was Life magazine Hollywood correspondent, London Life magazine picture editor during Second World War, Executive Editor of Magnum Photos, Ladies´Home Journal photo editor, assistant managing editor for graphics of the Washington Post, picture editor for The New York Times and a Europe corresponding editor for National Geographic, so turning into the most experienced picture editor in the History of Photography.
This living legend of the photojournalism worked through many decades of the XX Century with the foremost photographers in the world: Henri-Cartier Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, David Seymour Chim, Werner Bischof, Gjon Mili, Georg Rodger, Bob Landry, Ralph Morse, Carl Mydans, Elliot Elisofon, Hansel Mieth, Elliott Erwitt, Phillippe Halsman, Eugene Smith, Cornell Capa, Inge Morath, Dmitri Kessel, David Douglas Duncan, Fritz Goro, Myron Davies, George Silk, Peter Stackpole, John Florea, Hans Wild, Frank Scherschel, Dave Scherman, Ernst Haas, Lee Miller, Bill Vandivert, Ruth Orkin, Sol Libson, Esther Bubbley, Gordon Coster, Larry Burrows, Eve Arnold, Burt Glinn, Erich Hartmann, Dennis Stock, John Phillips, Erich Lessing, Marc Riboud, Kryn Taconis, Bill Snead, Ernies Sisto, Barton Silverman, Neal Boenzi, Edward Hausner, Jack Manning, Don Hogan Charles, Peter Magubane, Michel Laurent, Eddie Adams, Steve McCurry, David Turnley, Peter Turnley and many more.
His birthday has really been four days before, on Wednesday, December 7, 2016, but John G. Morris 100th Birthday Party has been scheduled for today December 11, 2016.
Many guests from all over the world (particularly from United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Spain) have attended the event,
And among the roughly 95 attendees who filled John G. Morris´s home at the Paris III Arrondissement there has been a vast amount of recognized photographers, documentary movie producers, TV producers, editors-in-chief of magazines, journalists, filmmakers, writers and artists: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Amalie R. Rothschild, Mort Rosenblum, Barbara Nagelsmith, Joan Z. Shore, Riccardo Fisichella, Thomas Haley, Dimitri Beck, Cheryl Ann Bolden, Elisabeth Lortic, Dan Spigelman, Irene Walsh, Dragana Jurisic, Daphné Anglès, Jeffrey Schaeffer, Maya Vidon-White, Peter Brooks, Sonya K. Fry, Guillermo Altares, Hélene Grelou, Zachary Miller, and many others.
Besides, it must be highlighted the previous arrangement great work fulfilled by Mr John Morris (John G. Morris´s son) and his wife, John G. Morris´s grandsons and granddaughters and Riccardo Fisichella (John G Morris´s assistant, who has also worked with Martin Parr in New York, and a key factor during the making of My Century, the next autobiographic book written by John G. Morris on his lifetime as a picture editor and featuring stunningly lavish historical information on the myriad of photographers he met during his lifetime and sent on assignments, multitude of anecdotes, special events, defining instants of photojournalism, a number of exceedingly interesting stories, the usually difficult decisions which had to be quickly taken to publish iconic images, the exhausting hours before the deadlines to include the selected images and texts inside the magazines, the intricacies of the layouts along the many days spent envisaging the best way to visually enhance the pictures and making them match the texts and captions, etc.
Many of the pages of this exceptional book containing a slew of the best pictures made in XX Century were thoroughly prepared in advance before the party and projected during it on a screen through a laptop by Riccardo Fissichella, bringing about moments of unutterable relish among the guests, all of them lovers of timeless photojournalistic images.
Four days before, the guests to the party have been sent an email by the Morris Family explaining that John G. Morris has had to go to hospital, so he won´t be able to attend the open house party in his honor on Sunday December 11, 2016, and will spend his birthday in bed, though they hope that everybody goes to the event such as it had been scheduled to toast him and send him a birthday message.
They also report that if everything goes well, the guests might be able to share the occasion with him via Skype.
17:30 h in the evening.
The big lounge of John G. Morris´s home in Paris is already overcrowded with the guests, who in spite of the Maestro absence, have wished to be present to cheer him up and express the uncompromising love they all feel for him.
There can be seen among others Riccardo Fissichella (John G. Morris´s assistant, who has made a strenuous and praiseworthy labour in a number of sides to have the book My Century, written by John G. Morris and containing tons of gorgeously reproduced fundamental pictures of the XX Century as a photographic memoir particularly focused on those memorable photographs and the legendary photographers that made it , finished in time), Dimitri Beck (Director of Photography of Polka Magazine, currently one of the best illustrated publications in the world on photojournalism and featuring 236 pages), Amalie R. Rothschild (Producer of Anomaly Films and one of the most prolific photographers and movie producers ever regarding mythical concerts, singers, musical groups and social topics revealed through the lives of people in the arts), Irene Walsh, Elisabeth Lortic (one of the founders of Les Trois Ourses association in 1988) and Guillermo Altares (a highly versatile journalist working for El Pais Spanish newspaper, writing on a wide range of topics, having been editor-in-chief of that publication and its cultural supplement Babelia, as well as having formerly worked for Madrid France Press office)
Around 17:45 h in the evening.
Another area of the aforementioned lounge with a lot of guests chatting in a relaxed atmosphere. The event was a full-fledged meeting of John G. Morris´s friends and venue of a number of exceedingly interesting conversations.
There can be seen among others Jane Evelyn Atwood, a legendary photographer and one of the foremost embodiments of the development of long-term works focused on in-depth involvement with the human beings captured with the camera after a painstaking previous selection of the tackled projects.
Archetype of highly passionate concerned photographer and a woman featuring tremendous courage, mental strength and uncommon talent to get a rapport with the persons she photographs often in the most dangerous countries and contexts, her impressive 10 year project (1989-1999) Too Much Time on women in prison is one of the historical pinnacles in the scope of a reportage made throught many years exhausting up to the last drop of stamina, along with the project Minamata (1971-1975) by Eugene Smith.
Roughly 17:50 h in the evening.
The abundant quantity of guests arrived to celebrate John G. Morris´s 100th Birthday Party made that space for people had to be distributed before the lounge of the house and the legendary library.
Here we can see among others the photographer, videographer and writer Maya Vidon-White (working for U.S media and the Agence France-Press and featuring an experience of more than twenty years as a photojournalist who has covered different events like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the first intifada in late eighties, the Somalia famine in 1992, the Hong-Kong handover to China in 1997, the riots in Jakarta and clashes in East Timor because of the economical crisis in 1997 and many others), Cheryl Ann Bolden ( American artist and curator, driving force of the itinerant Precious Cargo travelling museum devoted to the African Diaspora and the historical and social aftermath of slavery) and the Dublin based photojournalist Dragana Jurisic (author of The Lost Country, an excellent quickly sold out 112 pages photobook in 130 x 210 mm format, delving into the sequels of exile and displacement on memory and indentity from the viewpoint of an exile after the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991).
John Morris, John G. Morris´s son with the famous book Get the Picture written by his father and which has been published by the University of Chicago Press since 1998.
Albeit the book hasn´t been published yet, there are scads of hints clearly suggesting that John G. Morris and his assistant Riccardo Fisichella have made a herculean endeavour during 2015 and 2016 and have begotten a masterpiece work boasting more than 600 pages and including a very comprehensive assortment of the cream of XX Century pictures together with extensively detailed texts oozing very valuable information of all kind on plenty of subjects and the most preeminent photojournalist of the halcyon days of photojournalism, in addition to featuring new material not unveiled hitherto.
Her all-out efforts to utterly grasp the personality of her subjects, her relationship to them and the resulting mutual interaction irrespective of the necessary years to acomplish it, do beat in intensity Salvador Dali´s unswerving attempts throughout his lifetime to paint the electron and Werner Heisenberg´s Uncertainty Principle on canvas, and the extraordinary images of her project The Blind with which she attained the W. Eugene Smith Award in 1980 (and many of which were published in the book Extérierur Nuit in 1998) are probably the reference-class work of all time in this sphere together with René Burri´s reportage made at the Zurich-Morgenthal School for Deaf-Mute Children, and of which two of its images appeared on pages 302 and 303 in the July 1956 number of the legendary Swiss illustrated publication Camera magazine, one year after appearing in Life magazine with the title Touch of Music for the Deaf.
Such is her interest and passion for photography, particularly the one dealing with the concept of exclusion: surviving women of abuse, the immigration phenomenon, AIDS, the devastation of landmines in Angola, Mozambique, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Cambodia, death rows in penitentiaries and jails, aftermath of earthquakes, prostitutes and others, always managing to penetrate hidden environments often ignored or unknown by vast majority of society.
Her presence at the John G. Morris 100th Birthday Party in Paris was fairly meaningful.
As a matter of fact, she met John G. Morris in 1980, when she was awarded the first Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, knows him well and four days before the December 11, 2016 John G.Morris 100th Birthday party in the French capital, she published an insightful article in L´Oeil de la Photographie titled John G. Morris at 100: Jane E. Atwood Tribute in which she underscored not only the virtues of John G. Morris as a great picture editor but his love for photographers, whom he has defended to his utmost being always loyal to them, the tragedies regarding his most beloved persons died from illness or killed in war that have steadily haunted his existence from his very beginnings in photojournalislm and his boundless humanity which has resulted in the true love and affection professed to him for those who have had the chance to meet him and be witness to his élan and verve on every conceivable aspect related to photography and photographers, his lifetime professional core.
Mort Rosenblum, a towering figure of the international journalism, featuring an amazing background of 50 years as a reporter, writer and educator.
Among the major prizes bestowed to him are: the Overseas Press Club Award for coverage of Romania and Czechoslovakia (1989), the Associated Press Managing Editors Annual Award for coverage of Africa (1990), the Associated Press Managing Editors Annual Award for coverage of water matters (2001), the Harry Chapin Media Award for coverage of water affairs (2001), the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for coverage of world water topics (2001) and eight Pulitzer Prize nominations.
After being a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star newspaper in Tucson between 1964 and 1965, his international career began working as an AP Central Africa correspondent in Kinshasha 1967-1968, two years after he joined Associated Press) when he was sent to cover the mercenary wars in Congo brought about by the secession of Katanga province, subsequently becoming AP West Africa correspondent in Lagos, Nigeria (1968-1970), AP Chief of Bureau in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysa (1970-1973), AP Chief of Bureau in Argentina (1973-1976), Edward R. Murrow fellow in the New York Council of Foreign Relations (1976-1977), Chief of Bureau of Associated Press in Paris (1977-1979, Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris (1979-1981) and Chief International Correspondent of the Associated Press (1981-2004), as well as having been a professor at the University of Arizona Journalism Department since 2005 and editor of Dispatches, an international affairs journal, since 2008.
Amalie R. Rothschild in conversation with a guest.
A renowned award winning filmmaker and photographer, Amalie R. Rothschild started her almost fifty years career in 1968 working as a freelance photographer in the musical field, making a sensation with her pictures being published in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time-Life Books, Life Magazine, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, After Dark and many others, until in 1969 she became a member of the Joshua Light Show at the Fillmore East Theatre in New York as an expert in special effects photography, slides, graphics, films and film loops used during performances, and that same year she was on staff at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
Her love for her trade, innate gift for capturing the gist of what happened on stage and backstage, huge talent and working ability to spare launched her meteoric progression, subsequently photographing the most important music events on the East Coast, including the 1969 Newport Festival, the Isle of Wight Festival and the 1969 and 1970 Tanglewood Festival, as well as the Who´s United States premiere of their rock opera Tommy, the Rolling Stones at the Madison Square Garden in November of 1969 and the six week Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 tour throughout January and February, getting pictures of them in 21 cities and 40 concerts with her Nikon F camera and Nikkor high speed primes.
This exceedingly genuine and unforgettable rock and roll tour, maybe the greatest in history (held in full winter of 1974 and with performances all over United States often under freezing temperatures with massive devoted audiences), made a deep impression on Amalie R. Rothschild, fostering even more her enthralment for live concerts and the sphere of rock music.
Not in vain, she had already made with a 24 x 36 mm format Nikon F camera coupled to a 5 elements in 3 groups Non-Ai Nikkor-P 105 mm f/2.5 Auto telephoto lens an excellent black and white head and right shoulder picture of Bob Dylan on the stage in 1969 in the Isle of Wight which was published in full page in the number 43 of the Rolling Stone magazine of October 4, 1969, and in 1972 Bobbs-Merrill publisher from Indianapolis had dedicated 30 pages to her work in their book The Photography of Rock.
She had previously got a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School in 1967, studied photography in 1968 with Harry Morey Callahan ( a disciple of Lászlo Mohóly-Nagy, National Medal of Arts in 1966, driven by an innovative impulse, enthusiast of making proof prints of the best negatives and a wizard of the use of chemical emulsions in both small and large formats, different photographic techniques with multiple exposures, creative bokehs and others aimed at enhancing lines, shape, light and darkness, he was a seminal figure in the bringing of photography into the art world) and with Paul Caponigro in 1969 while obtaining her MFA in Film Production from New York University´s Institute of Film and Television.
She was probably along with Jim Marshall the photographer who got pictures of more prominent figures in the golden era of rock and roll, and among the personalities and bands of this field photographed by her stand out Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, James Brown, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, Miles Davies, Bob Dylan, Roberta Flack, Dizzie Gillespie, Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Mick Jagger, Elton John, B.B.King, John Lennon, Jerry Lee Lewis, Thelonious Monk, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Santana, Nina Simone, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, The Who, Neil Young, Frank Zappa and many others, nowadays keeping on making gorgeous prints of them on photographic paper in traditional darkroom.
She was one of the original founders of New Dat Film self-distribution cooperative in 1971 and has received a number of production grants like the American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker grant in 1973; the National Endowment for the Arts 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985 and 1987; the New York State Council on the Arts in 1978 and 1987; the Pinewood Foundation in 1978; the Ohio Joint Program in the Arts and Humanities in 1985, and in 2007 she won an award for its pioneering role in autobiographical cinema at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna (Italy).
And in July 2002, Amalie R. Rothschild´s picture of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin singing together was given as a gift to President Clinton and exhibited in the Music Room of the White House.
Thomas Haley, Barbara Nagelsmith and another guest inside John G. Morris´s famous library during the 100th Birthday Party in Paris.
Barbara Nagelsmith was for twenty-three years photo editor in the Paris Bureau of Time Magazine and also assistant to the French publisher Robert Delpire in the magazine Special Photo and sime photographic projects, in addition to having participated in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.
She currently one of the foremost experts in the world in picture editing as well as a recognized writer on photography, organizer of workshops, curator of photographic exhibitions (some of them landmark ones like Murs held in Pont de la Machine, Geneva, Switzerland, between November 9, 2009 and January 31, 2010, with pictures of Larry Towell, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Marlow, Michael Yamashita, Moises Saman, Chris Anderson, Macduff Everton, Henk Kruger, Tony Suau, Ron Haviv, Peter Boer, Shai Kremer, Tomas Muscionico, Frédéric Sautereu, Stéphane Duroy, Sean Hemmerle, Ad van Denderen and Ron Haviv) and editor of photographic books.
A self-made woman featuring a tremendous love for photography, all kind of illustrated books and children´s books, she began her career teaching art in elementary schools, until becoming a picture reasearcher while working for some publishing houses in New York, London and Paris.
A highly experienced photographer who has travelled worldwide while doing his assignments, he features a stunning background of almost forty years both as a photojournalist and documentary film maker since he worked as a photo researcher for Magnum Agency New York and Paris between 1979 and 1982, subsequently becoming a photographer for Visions Photo Agency, after which he met Göksin Sipahioglu (Legion d´Honneur France 2007, one of the most important figures in the History of Photojournalism, father and mentor of many great current photojournalists and a great enthusiast of basketball who founded the Efes Pilsen team and created the groundwork for the future thriving Turkish basketball churning out franchise players like Hidayet Türkoglu, Ibrahim Kutluay, Ersan Ilyasova, Mehmet Okur, Enes Kanter, Ömer Asik and others), beginning his relationship with Sipa Press Agency covering international news, which would last until Le Grand Turc´s death on October 5, 2011.
On the other hand, Thomas Haley was commissioned in 1997 by the United Nations Drug Control Program to make the photographic project Drug Abuse in South Asia, after which was hired by Danone in 2008-2009 to implement Danone Annual Reports and give birth to the eleven minutes multimedia production Believe in Your Dreams, following in 2012 with the start of his collaboration with Mediapart aimed at the realization of multimedia content.
During his long photojournalistic career, Thomas Haley has regularly worked with the most important news magazines (GEO, Life, Figaro Magazine and many others) which have published a number of photographs taken by him.
In addition, he has shot a lot of documentary movies.
A man sporting a broad photographic and artistic education (he studied photography at Oregon University between 1971 and 1973, at the Université de París-Sorbonne in 1974, Art History at the American College in Paris during 1975-1976 and New York University Film School), Thomas Haley has received a number of awards during his extensive professional career: Pictures of the Year Award (POY) 1982 for British Butler School published in GEO magazine, 1984 World Press Award for Bhopal Victim published in Newsweek, 1987 Picture of the Year Award for Seoul Demonstration published in Time, 2006 Pris Special dy Jury, Prix Paris Match for Bosnie + 10, 2010 Grant from CNC for the web documentary project Facts on the Ground, 2013 First Prize for his short documentary American Dreamer at the Visions du Réel Film Festival, Nyon.
Thomas Haley has been one of the standard-bearers of a philosophy brought into being by the genius photojournalist Göksin Sipahioglu (in a time when Sipa, Gamma and Sigma, three Paris-based agencies, were the spearhead of the best international photojournalism during seventies, eighties and nineties), a visionary who had a unique nose for the news, an outstanding knowledge of the photographic market circumstances and helped to launch the starting careers of great photojournalists like Abbas, Maggie Steber, Reza, Luc Delahaye, Patrick Chauvel, Nina Berman (World Press Photo Award Winning photographer of the 2005 and 2007 photo contest) , Olivier Jobard and others, as well as managing to attract top-of-the-line photojournalists excelling in the coverage of wars, disasters and turmoil milieus all over the world and whose labour was strengthened with the hiring of gifted photo editors like Geoffrey Hiller, Jim Colton, Sue Brisk and Robert Dannin (the latter would be director of Magnum Photos Inc between 1985 and 1990),
Detail of a section of John G. Morris´s famous library showing a shelf with books on Robert Doisneau, Leonard Free, Robert Capa and Martine Franck.
John G. Morris´s knowledge on the History of Photography, photojournalism and the traits of all and each one of the photographers with whom he worked was truly tremendous, in the same way as his prodigious memory enabling him to remember everything since mid twenties hitherto down to the very last detail.
" He really knew the personality of each photographer, he knew what each assignment would entail, so he always chose the best photographer to do things " Bobbi Baker Burrows (Photo Editor for Life magazine throughout more than 30 years and presently Life Books Photo Editor and Member of the Board of Directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop).
Another detail of a different section of John G. Morris´s library showing a shelf with some books on Magnum stories and the birth of the prestigious photographic agency (founded by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour Chim, Georg Rodger and William Vandivert in 1947 as a photographic cooperative owned by its photographer members and with a powerful individual vision ), of which he was executive director between 1952 and 1961.
" Testimony and creation were the starting principles of the agency, and their claim by creating Magnum Agency was to stay free, to be able to act as an author " Andrea Holzherr (Magnum Exibition Manager).
Detail of a further section of John G. Morris library with a shelf containing books on Gordon Parks, Man Ray, David Seymour Chim and Eugene Smith.
Irene Walsh, Board Member of The Collection Trust (the professional association for collections management established in 1977 and which since then has worked worldwide with museums, galleries and archives to improve the management and use of their collections) writing some words of encouragement to John G. Morris in the guests book, while Peter Brooks (Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University, who has been teaching at Princeton University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature since 2008 as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar) introduces two other guests who are shaking hands.
Irene Walsh is an experienced financial advisor to governments and corporates in the development of infrastructure projects, who based in New York and London over the last thirty years, has held senior positions at J.P.Morgan, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), KPMG Corporate Finance, USB and Deloitte Corporate Finance.
She holds degrees from Harvard University´s Kennedy School of Government and George Washington University, also being a great enthusiast of art and photography who is presently earning an MA in Beaux and Decorative Art from the London Sotheby´s Institute of Art and her labour throughout the last three decades has been instrumental in the development, promotion, maintaining and improving the standards of collections and information management in museums, art galleries, heritage organizations and other collecting institutions, providing know-how and pioneering new ideas, as well as bringing experts together.
Daphné Anglès, European Picture Coordinator and Bureau Manager of the New York Times in Paris.
She was Secretary of the Annual World Press Photo Jury between 2009 and 2013 and has been a member of photojournalism juries such as Visa pour L´Image, Bayeux Award for War Correspondents, Yves Rocher Foundation Photo Award, Canon Award for Female Photojournalists, Prix Lucas Dolega de la Ville de Paris, the International Red Cross Committee Award, Czech Press Photo, Bulgarian Press Photo, Belarus Press Photo Award, Estaçao Imagem, Humanitarian Visa d´Or ICRC, International Sportsfolio Award, AFD Photo Contest and others, also being a portfolio reviewer at Les Rencontres d´Arles, Visa pour L´Image, Hamburg Trienale, Lens Culture FotoFest and others, in addition to having developed an intensive activity as curator of photography exhibitions at Galerie Dupont in Paris and as a teacher of the Editing and Visual Storytelling masterclass at the Lucca Photolux Festival (Tuscany, Italy).
The filmmaker, movie cameraman and editor Gabriel Moscovitz from Atlanta, United States (in the lower right area of the image) talking to some guests.
In spite of his youth (he is only 36 years old), he´s gleaned a lot of experience through taking part in the shooting of films like the impressive Outcast Forever, directed by DeVaughn Hughson. produced by Jason Staten and with a great direction of photography by De Vaughn Hughson and himself, enhancing the power and impact of the footage with high contrast black and white gorgeous images.
He is also the director of BTS ATL, a movie making firm in Atlanta (Georgia) specialized in the genesis of documentary films and reality based creative content, working wirh highly experienced professionals in the sphere of sound, editing, camera handling, special effects, etc, which has made hitherto short commercials for Adidas Training and RGIII, Celebrity Solstice cruiser, American singer Usher Confessions fourth studio album, Festival Flea Market in Miami, the Joint Snelville place aiming at improving quality of life through routine chiropractice care, and others.
Joan Z. Shore, a Paris-based journalist, author and lecturer, currently a columnist of the Huffington Post, providing it with more than a hundred articles until now.
She is an internationally acclaimed writer born in New York City, though has spent most of her life in Europe and was Paris correspondent for CBS News for a decade during seventies (even doing some television reports on important topics for the Evening News with Walter Cronkite), and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Voice of America, CNN, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, UPI, Conde-Nast publications, Boomer Times & Senior Life Florida and Scotland on Sunday among others.
During her previous ten years living in Belgium she founded ViVART! (a top-notch art curatorial service and was staff writer for The Brussels Times, English language correspondent and commentator for Belgium´s RTB radio and Features Editor of the weekñy magazine Brussels Bulletin.
She is likewise a recognized art critic with solid background in history and architecture (she graduated from Vassar College, New York, majoring in both of them) and a remarkable interior design expert who won the Vogue Prix de Paris and earned a certification from the New York School of Interior Design, as well as a scholarship from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Often self-defined as a newsperson, Joan Z. Shore is for all intents and purposes a multitalented writer for radio and television, whose activity raison d´etre is mostly hinged on a keynote of inspiration balanced with curiosity aplenty, and a journalist with a very deep discernment on international politics, social subjects, French culture, art in its manifold expressions, economy, as well as an unwavering love for cuisine, proximity to water and becoming spellbound on watching the architecture of Pompidou Centre, etc, besides featuring a great acumen on human psychology.
And throughout her more than forty years of professional career she has interviewed such characters like Leonard Bernstein, François Mitterrand, Valéry Giscard d´Estaign, Jacques Chirac, Nancy Reagan,
She has also written some very interesting books, among them the landmark ones Saging-How to Grow Older and Wiser (2000) dealing on helpful attitudes in life including to avoid doldrums with age and Red Burgundy (2011), a novel presenting the readers with a wealth of information on French language and culture, together with a once in a lifetime culinary experience and an adamant immersion in fabulous wines, intriguing characters, mouthwatering recipes and description of the beautiful French landscapes.
Jim Bitterman (CNN European correspondent) talking to Jeffrey Schaeffer (senior producer of the Paris bureau of Associated Press Television News and columnist on a wide range of topics).
On the left of the image is Talia Moscovitz, John G. Morris´s granddaughter, who made a commendable work throughout the whole party, constantly paying attention to every detail to help the guests and fulfilling a painstaking previous organization of the event along with John G. Morris´s son and his two grandsons.
Talia Moscovitz features a remarkable background as a media artist, curator, photography researcher, visual artist, writer, editor and self publisher of exhibition catalogues, as well as experience in the scopes of galleries management and contemporary documentary photography.
Her work has been displayed in Atlanta, Boston, Accra and Dublin.
She is currently Magnum Photos Consultant for the project management and development of Education activity in the United States, having produced two Magnum Education workshops events in Los Angeles (California) and Austin (Texas), and has exhibited as a curator and photographer in Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow, in addition to working professionally for the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the British Film Institute´s London Film Festival, the Frieza London and New York Art Fairs, among other prominent galleries and arts organizations.
On the other hand, she possesses a distinctive flair and savvy for the development of all kind of artistic projects and edition of exhibitions publications, keeping low budgets without reducing quality and subsequently undertaking foresighted marketing strategies aimed at optimizing profitability.
Talia Moscovitz is a Northeastern University Boston Massachussets B.A in International Affairs and Art (2001-2006) and Edinburgh College of Art at University of Edinburgh MFA with Distinction Honours in Contemporary Art Theory and Visual Culture (2012).
Dimitri Beck, Editor-in-Chief and Director of Photography of Paris-based Polka magazine and member of the International Jury of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award / Newcomer Award.
Having been preceded by the foundation of Polka Gallery in 2007, photojournalistic Polka magazine´s main goal has been to promote photography through a powerful focus on visual storytelling in synergy with the support to photographers when it comes to selling their pictures.
Something almost heroic in a current world ruled by the tremendous technological progress and in which the speed of transmission is most times given absolute priority, frequently at the expense of the quality of the images, the accuracy and veracity of the information, the lack of a wise selection of photographs, the absence of good picture editors and their very important relationship with photojournalists and the input of professional photographers often underestimated by some shareholding bosses of the media and newspapers who lack knowledge and experience on image impact, subtleties and messages conveyed, don´t care a bit about photography and good pictures and are only interested in money, in addition to shameful drops in the payment for the assignments to photojournalists (who are increasingly asked to also do video recordings for the same "price", and if they have a drone of course bought by themselves, far better) risking their lives, as well as the nowadays "fashionable habit" of preferring anybody living in the specific area of the world to get the pictures for misery salaries or even free, sending the photographs through email. WeTransfer or FTP in exchange of their names and their blogs titles appearing in the credits than paying fair prices to professional photographers, something that has regrettably become mainstream in editorial groups of different countries and continents all over the world, always with a common aim: to pay as little as possible to the good photographers or even better to bypass them, to such an extent that during the last ten years a lot of professional photojournalists had to begin their careers putting werewithal of their own to travel abroad and be able to make their assignments under precarious and stressful conditions, though it is true that the interest of people for photobooks and the work of good photographers has had a tremendous surge throughout recent years and is steadily turning into a very interesting economical parallel alternative.
As a matter of fact, by dint of strenuous effort, passion for photography, taking of risks and the creation of a great team integrating highly experienced professionals in the sphere of photographic image, visual communication, printing, image analysis, picture editing and others and a huge effort spanning nine years, Polka magazine has become an international benchmark of quality, preserving its independence, authenticity and fundamental keynote of photography as a haptic entity on paper tooth and nail, with a really top-notch content whose cornerstone are the superb photographic stories, interviews and illustrated articles it features, simultaneously having been successful in the attaining of utter trust by such firms like Cartier, Luois Vuitton, Chanel, Guerlain, Woodford Reserve, Leica, Sony, Nikon, Hermès, HP, Huawei, Lexus, Louis Roederer, Bulgari, Fujifilm, BMW, Panasonic, Asus, Tamron, Sigma, Swarovski Optik, Samsung and others which announce in Polka magazine in full page, double page and even different full pages, knowing the prestige and profitability it delivers.
This is an amazing accomplishment which can be undoubtedly defined as a feat, particularly if we bear in mind that it has been fullfilled in less than ten years, in the midst of very difficult times for the photoreportages, with far-reaching changes in the photojournalistic industry and a more than massive volume of millions and millions of daily images all over the world unleashed by the arrival of digital photography.
The proof is in the pudding: the Life magazine number of November 5, 1945 (in the heydays of photojournalism, when there wasn´t TV and it had a run of 2 million worldwide copies) with extraordinary cover picture made by Eileen Darby in Central Park capturing unaware, at point blank range from a perpendicular position, using her 2 1/4 x 2 1 /4 medium format Rolleiflex camera with Zeiss Tessar 75 mm f/3.5 lens and Kodak Super-XX black and white film the American sailor Calvin Matthews from the U.S.S Portland returned from the Pacific War, sitting at the table of a coffee shop terrace and drinking soda, featured 39 full page advertisements of different firms, while the number 36 of Polka magazine holds 35 full pages of advertisements of very important firms.
It does confirm that there´s nowadays space for a painstakingly made and top class illustrated photojournalistic publication, a very interesting amount of discerning readers having a penchant for real quality and awesome photographic essays and texts, and that Polka magazine has turned into a highly influential niche in itself and has even been about to reach the figure of full page advertisements made sixty-one years ago by one of the most sold numbers of the legendary Life magazine which also included a 17 page portfolio titled War Photographers with a choice of the best U.S war photographers during the Second World War: Carl Mydans, Robert Capa, George Strock, George Silk, W. Eugene Smith, Vernard Hoffman, J.R.Eyerman, David Scherman, Margaret Bourke-White, William Shrout, Myron Davies, Peter Stackpole, Eliot Elisofon, John Phillips, William Vandivert, John Florea, Ralph Morse, Frank Scherschel, Georg Rodger, Robert Landry and Dmitri Kessel,
First two pages of the article written by Dimitri Beck in number 36 of Polka magazine November/December/January outlining the most significant traits of My Century, a new autobiographic book by John G. Morris containing more than 600 pages and in which his author delivers his vision of modern photojournalism with a work going far beyond the already acclaimed Get the Picture book (published by Chicago Press Library in 1998 and in France by Editions La Martinière in 1999 with images from archives), particularly in two sides: a much higher figure of pictures (many of them among the most important images in the history of photography and reproduced with a top-notch quality), setting up a one of a kind visual diary, telling his life and his profession with photographs and a lot of very interesting stories which took place since he started working as a photo editor for Life in 1938.
In this book, John G. Morris and his assistant the photographer Riccardo Fisichella have made a strenuous effort during 2015 and 2016 to go ahead with this colossal work in which thousands of hours had to be spent on research, designing of the layouts, selection of the images, choice of the pictures sizes, preparation of the texts, captions of the photographs and many other things.
On the other hand, this superb and historical number 36 of the quarterly Polka magazine (currently among the best five illustrated publications in the world on photography, with nothing less than 236 pages, an excellent quality of paper, dazzling reproduction of the pictures with impressive colour precision and tonal range attained with black and white images and commendable level of detail in both low key and high key areas even in photographs taken with scarce available light, admirable portfolios of noteworthy photographers, surveys on photobooks launched into market, interviews with personalities of the photographic sphere, essays on photographic topics with in-depth texts providing lavish information) also features an extraordinary 40 page portfolio with the cream of the crop pictures made by the colour wizard Joel Meyerowitz throughout his professional career, a gorgeous black and white portfolio titled Retour Vers L´Enfer with an assortment of inedit pictures made by Sebastiao Salgado in Kuwait during the Gulf War of 1991 accompanied by an insightful text by Thierry Grillet, a reportage by Souvid Datta on Calcuta brothels with text by Manon Moreau, a 12 page portfolio with a medley of black and white and colour images created by William Klein in Paris titled Paris Les Terrasses de Klein, a compelling eight page photoreportage made by Deanne Fitzmaurice titled Saleh Coeur de Lion with pictures of the 9 years old Iraqui boy Saleh who was about to be killed by a bomb in 2003 and was sent to United States where ha managed to survive and recover from the terrible wounds he suffered all over his body, and a ten page photoreportage titled Sur Le Chemin Étroit Des Mennonites made by Jordi Busqué to the Mennonnite community in Bolivia with impactful images unveiling the commendable degree of intimacy and empathy attained by the photographer while living with these people.
Cheryl Ann Bolden talking to Amalie R. Rothschild.
Cheryl Ann Bolden is an American independent artist and curator of museums featuring a long experience in the management of cultural institutions.
Her most important task so forth has been the creation and development of the itinerant Precious Cargo Museum, devoted to the African Diaspora and the historical and social aftermath of slavery, and whose trove of more than five hundred works has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and the Berlin´s Amerika Haus.
She is a world-class authority regarding the Afro-American culture and heritage who learned Art History working as a guide at the Phillips Collection and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C, after which she went to China in 1981 to get the knack of ancient medicine, subsequently travelling to Western Australia to acquire proficiency in weaving and textile arts, completing her formation studying at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C. and opened her first gallery in Charlotteville (Virginia) in 1984, displaying her artistic clothes and jewels for the first time, together with the historical objects he had gathered for years and pictures of her great aunt´s great aunt.
Cover of the book My Century with a picture of John G. Morris made in 1953 by Henri Cartier-Bresson at his apartment in rue de Lisbonne, Paris.
Text and Photos: José Manuel Serrano Esparza


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About satellite navigation
Since the beginning of time, human beings have looked to the sky to determine their whereabouts. Traditionally, the Sun and the pattern of fixed stars have been their guides. But in the second millennium, constellations of man-made satellites have taken over as beacons to guide the way.
What is satellite navigation?
Using the fixed stars, you can determine your position anywhere on the Earth's surface to within a few hundred metres, provided the weather is fine. But navigation satellites can tell you where you are to the nearest few metres or better, whatever the weather. Enhanced instruments can even pinpoint the position of a stationary object to within a few centimetres by measuring the object's position many thousands of times over several hours and then working out the average of the measurements.
All you need to take advantage of this sophisticated new technology is a receiver to pick up signals transmitted by navigational satellites. The receiver technology is small enough to be incorporated into the electronics of a car or mobile phone, and all our lives are changing as a result.
How does it work?
To pinpoint your location accurately, your receiver needs to receive signals from at least four navigational satellites. The receiver determines your distance from each of the satellites by measuring the time taken by the signal to travel from the satellite to your receiver antenna.
Distance measurements from two satellites tell you that you are situated somewhere on the circle where two spheres intersect. The spheres each have one of the two satellites at their centre and their radii are the satellite-receiver distances. Knowing your distance from a third satellite fixes your position at one of the two points where the circle intersects the third sphere. One of the intersection points can usually be discounted – for instance, it may be thousands of kilometres above the Earth's surface.
In practice, a fourth satellite is needed to synchronise your receiver's clock with a common time standard which is strictly adhered to by the clocks on board all the satellites. The use of a fourth satellite also resolves the position ambiguity that occurs with only three satellites. In general, the more satellites used, the greater the positioning accuracy. Many receivers have channels for receiving signals from up to 15 satellites.
The importance of measuring time
Determining precise location depends on accurately measuring the distances between receiver and satellite, and that depends on very accurate measurement of the radio signal's travel time from the satellite to the receiver. As these signals travel at the speed of light, the journey times are tiny fractions of a second.
The receiver measures travel times by comparing 'time marks' imprinted on the satellite signals with the time recorded on the receiver's clock. The time marks are controlled by a highly accurate atomic clock on board each satellite.
These clocks, however, are too expensive to incorporate into standard receivers, which have to make do with small quartz oscillators like those found in a wristwatch. Quartz oscillators are very accurate when measuring times of less than a few seconds, but rather inaccurate over longer periods. The solution is to re-set the receiver's time to the satellite's time continuously. This is done by the receiver's processor using an approximation method involving signals from at least four satellites.
For this system of measurement to work, all satellites need to be synchronised so that they can start transmitting their signals at precisely the same time. This is achieved by continuously synchronising all on-board atomic clocks with a master clock on the ground. These super-accurate clocks have an accuracy equivalent to one second in three million years.
Where are the navigational satellites?
It is only possible to determine a location on Earth if you know the location of the navigational satellites very precisely. This is achieved by placing the satellites in highly stable Medium Earth Orbits (MEOs) at an altitude of about 22 000 kilometres. MEOs are the orbits of choice for a number of reasons: their stability enables exact orbit predictions; the satellites travel relatively slowly and so can be observed over several hours, and the satellites can be arranged in a constellation so that at least four are visible from any point on the Earth's surface at any time.
Despite the predictability of the MEOs, it is still necessary to monitor the precise location of each satellite constantly to achieve high positioning accuracy. This is done from a global network of reference stations on the ground, whose positions are known to within centimetres. The ground system sends data derived from the reference station measurements to each satellite. This precise location information, called ephemeris data, is then relayed by the satellite to the user receivers with the navigation signal.
What about errors?
Numerous errors can degrade the accuracy of a position measurement. For example, errors in satellite to receiver distances can creep in if conditions within the ionosphere, the electrically charged outer layer of the atmosphere, slow down the signal. Conditions within the ionosphere are influenced by the level of activity on the surface of the Sun. Inaccurate distance measurements will also occur if the signal takes an abnormally long path because it is reflected off tall buildings or other surfaces before reaching the receiver.
There are various ways of overcoming such inaccuracies. The best known is called differential satellite navigation, which uses a fixed receiver in a known position as a reference.
The time taken for the signal to travel from the satellite to the fixed receiver can be calculated precisely because the positions of the fixed receiver and the satellites (and hence the length of the travel path) are known precisely. Any difference between the calculated travel time and that actually measured reflects inaccuracies introduced by disturbances in the ionosphere.
If a moving receiver, attached to an aircraft for example, is within a few hundred kilometres of the fixed receiver, then it is fair to assume that the errors experienced by the signal in reaching both receivers will be roughly the same, as variations in ionospheric conditions tend to be similar over large areas. The timing errors determined by the fixed receiver can then be used to eliminate similar errors in the moving receiver. Major users of satellite navigation, such as large airports, may decide to use the differential technique by installing their own fixed receivers.
Another technique, which makes use of two positioning signals at two different frequencies, does away with the need for differential satellite navigation. It works on the principle that each frequency will be slowed down by a slightly different amount when travelling through the atmosphere. By sending the two frequencies at the same time and recording the time difference between their arrivals, it is possible to build up a model of ionospheric conditions. This dual-frequency technique can increase positioning accuracy to better than one to two metres and will be standard for Galileo.
Finally, it is possible to determine positions to within a few tens of centimetres using a technique called Three Carrier Ambiguity Resolution (TCAR). TCAR eliminates inaccuracies by looking at the wavelike structure of the signal and determining how much it has been pushed along during its passage through the atmosphere. Such phase shifts can be measured to within a fraction of the wavelength, which is typically 20 centimetres.
The calculations needed to do TCAR are presently beyond the capabilities of standard hand-held receivers and this technique is used mainly for long-term monitoring of movement in buildings, oil pipelines, changes in sea level and even changes in the shape of the Earth's crust.
Europe's approach to Global Navigation Satellite Systems has begun with the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), which complements and improving GPS, entering service in 2009 and certified for safety-of-life operations in 2011.
The technical and operational experience of EGNOS is helping paving the way for Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system. The first Galileo satellite, GIOVE-A – Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element A, was launched at the end of 2005, with GIOVE-B following it in 2008. The first pair of operational Galileo satellites was launched in 2011.
Galileo is a joint initiative between ESA and the European Commission. When fully deployed later this decade, it will be the first civilian positioning system to offer global coverage.

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L.A. Guns – Hollywood Forever (CD)
The first new studio album from Hollywood legends L.A. Guns in 7 years finds the boys paying tribute to the city of their collective birth with a heavy slab of classic Guns-style metal!
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The first new studio album from Hollywood legends L.A. Guns in 7 years finds the boys paying tribute to the city of their collective birth with a heavy slab of classic Guns-style metal!
Produced and engineered by the inimitable Andy Johns whose credits include The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St., Led Zep's IV, and, more recently, the supergroup Chickenfoot!
Formed in 1986 at the height of the Sunset Strip metal explosion, L.A. Guns has become one of the Golden State's great musical dynasties, stretching into its 4th decade and showing no signs of fading. The band's first 3 albums are celebrated as definitive expressions of the no holds barred, melodic metal that consumed Hollywood and the nation in the late '80s and continues to find new audiences, generation after generation.
Through numerous line-up changes and a wildly shifting musical landscape, the group has survived and thrived by staying true to the ethos and sound that earned the group its legion of dedicated fans. It's been 7 whole years since the last L.A. Guns studio album – 2005's Tales From The Strip – but that long wait is about to end with the release of Hollywood Forever, the band's newest effort and perhaps their best yet! With vocalist Phil Lewis at the helm, this album draws on the group's greatest strengths including the propulsive drumming of longtime Gunner Steve Riley, the gigantic riffs of virtuoso guitarist Stacey Blades and the solid grooves of bassist Scotty Griffin.
Add into the mix one of rock music's most celebrated producers, Andy Johns, and this band is ready to once again conquer the Sunset Strip!
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Hollywood Forever
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June 5, 2012
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1. Hollywood Forever
2. You Better Not Love Me
3. Eel Pie
4. Sweet Mystery
5. Burn
6. Vine Street Shimmy
7. Dirty Black Night
8. Underneath The Sun
9. Queenie
10. Crazy Tango
11. Venus Bomb
12. I Won't Play
13. Requiem (Hollywood Forever)
14. Araña Negra (Black Spider) [Bonus Track]


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Richard Cowdrey is the New York Times #1 bestselling illustrator of the children's book "Bad Dog, Marley!" Over the past twenty five years he has worked with most of the top publishers: Harper Collins, Scholastic Inc., Simon & Schuster, Zondervan, Random House, Harcourt, McMillan McGraw Hill, Bantam Books, Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin Publishing, Workman Publishing, and Harvest House. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Cowdrey graduated from The Columbus College of Art and Design in 1981.
He has since been a freelance illustrator working with many distinguished clients, including: Chase Manhattan Bank, National Football League, National Hockey League, World Wildlife Federation, Honda Inc., Ducks Unlimited, American Kennel Club, Kimberley Clark, Longaberger, Mead Papers, Wendy's International, Weyerhaeuser, Focus on the Family, and many more. "Fundamentally, illustration is artwork used to clarify or illuminate an idea or concept," he says. "Creating a successful illustration is a process of collaboration between illustrator and designer, a process of directing and taking direction, of concepting and exchanging ideas, and completion of final artwork. My desire is to serve each client with honesty and integrity; integrity in taking direction, meeting deadlines, and in the financial aspect of every job."
Richard is very thankful to be able to do the type of work he loves to do. "I recognize where the talent and opportunities come from and desire to honor God with my work and with my life," he says. "I care greatly about each piece of art I work on; I care ultimately about each person I work with."


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This triptych is a delicate, shimmering work inspired by how light refracts and dances. The colours are soft blues and pinks with imitation silver leaf and it flickers with candle, crystal and chandelier shapes. It is entrancing when the light shines on it.
One of the great things about my paintings is that they look different in different lights - and even more so if iridescent paint is used. The photos here have been carefully chosen to show the painting in different lights. This will give you some idea of what the painting will look like in the different lights in your space.
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Happy Monday!
I'm excited for this week because Wednesday is my birthday! :) I don't typically take my birthday off but this year I decided too, just because.
Anyway, I didn't do much this weekend but did a lot at the same time, does that make any sense?
I am on the hunt for this nail polish. I have checked my local Ulta AND Kohls. I will keep searching. It is such a pretty color!
I picked up Charlie Brown Christmas stamps for our Christmas cards. Can't wait to send out our first Christmas cards as a married couple. :)
Our Wedding Cake was featured again!
Thursday evening we went to TJMaxx and I came across this cute sign. Too bad we don't have our own home or else I would have got it. I'm going to watch it to see if it goes on clearance and put it away.
I filmed my 21 Days of Beauty Steals Ulta haul. Which is now live and you view here. But I will also be blogging about it this week.
Sneak peak of my purchases:
I decided to play around with some of my make up and created this fun fall look using last year's Too Faced La Belle Carousel Christmas 2014 palette.
I spent Saturday evening editing the video. This took me a long time to do and I hardly did anything to it, but it literally took me a couple of hours!
And there's the end product.
We spent our Sunday morning lounging around and watching football. I finally showered and did my makeup to do another video (which will be up tomorrow or Wednesday). I did a look using all of the products in last month's Ipsy bag! I kind of like the way it turned out too.
GUYSS!! I'm super excited about this. On my new Instagram account (MrsFrostBitten), Stila Cosmetics LIKED my photo!!! Uhhhhh? I am probably the only person in the world who would get excited about this. Haha.
Sunday I also spent the majority of my evening creating a header for my main page. This actually takes a lot of work.
So, like I said I was busy but not busy this past weekend. Haha.
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The Ethical Brain: Chemical Conscience, Homeostasis and Religion
October 9, 2008
Michael S. Gazzaniga [1] argued that our beliefs about the world and the nature of human experience are merely tendentious and our memories fallible. Therefore we should rely not on "the ubiquitous personal belief systems held by billions of people (which he describes as akin to believing in Santa Claus (Gazzaniga 2005:163) but on modern science to seek out, understand and define our universal ethics grounded in the natural order (Gazzaniga 2005:178). From his viewpoint great religions of the world were conceived by ill-informed humans (not received from the Divine) who lacked competing data about the essence of the natural world (Gazzaniga 2005:162). He explains religious experiences as Temporary Lobe Epilepsy (TLE). He compares the conception of a fetus to the "conception" of a house at Home Depot. When is a fetus a person? When is a house a house? Gazzaniga believes that a fertilized egg is hardly deserving of the same moral status we confer on the newborn child or the functioning adult (Gazzaniga 2005:17-8). He also argued that the aging brain's level of consciousness should be assessed by scientific means and euthanasia considered as an option (Gazzaniga 2005:33). His reasoning is not robust and appears to be directed to those already converted to his belief system.
However, it is his argument for brain enhancement through genetic intervention that causes a shiver of repugnance:
"Perhaps we should be free to try whatever we can think to try- this is the nature of scientific inquiry. Let an innate moral-ethics system assert itself and stop us from going too far. We have never annihilated ourselves; we have managed to stop short of doing that so far. I am confident that we will always understand what is ultimately good for the species and what is not (Gazzaniga 2005:54)."
One wonders on what planet he has been living.
We are currently listening to political debates around the clock as two nations head to the polls. Different value systems clash as "facts" are presented on each side of debates over contentious issues. We live in a time when scientific facts themselves are challenged as informed readers inquire about motivation and agendas of scientific researchers. Who finances the research? We are all too aware of the ease with which policy makers and decision makers choose comfortable truths over the uncomfortable.
Gazzaniga oversimplifies the awe-inspiring mind-soul-spirit by reducing humans to the chemical brain. He grossly underestimates followers of religions capable of making ethical decisions by considering both scientific information and their religious principles.
He argued that universal ethics are social, contextualized, influenced by emotions and natural survival-instincts. Whether your guide in life is simply "received wisdom" or "the confluence of neuroscientific data, historical data, and other information illuminating our past" he claim s we all share the same hard-wired moral networks and systems and therefore respond in similar ways to similar issues. He further claims that social systems explain individual feelings which are institutionalized into social structure (Gazzaniga 2005:162)."
According to his logic philosophers involved in neuroethics[2] should "use understandings of the brain's hard-wiring to contextualize and debate gut instincts that serve the greatest good- or the most logical solutions- given specific contexts (Gazzaniga 2005:178)."
"Neuroscience reads brains, not minds. The mind, while completely enabled by the brain, is a totally different beast (Gazzaniga 2005:119)."
Gazzaniga (2005:iv-v) describes neuroethics as a spin-off of bioethics [which] was developed and defined to take medical ethics further, as scientific findings became more advanced and needed more specialized philosophers thinking about what is acceptable and unacceptable in areas like genetic engineering, reproductive science, defining brain death, and so on. [. . . Neuroethics are involved] whenever a bioethical issue involves the brain or central nervous system (2005: v)."
"We now step into the world of neuroethics. This is the field of philosophy that discusses the rights and wrongs of the treatment of, or enhancement of, the human brain." "Was the medical team acting ethically, putting the patients' interests first, or was it influenced by the humanitarian prospect of the advancement of specific knowledge about the brain — or by the attraction of the world fame and professional prestige that would follow a high achievement?" "Not just neurosurgeons but other brain scientists are thinking long and hard about the morality (right or wrong) and the ethics (fair or unfair) of what such breakthroughs as genomics, molecular imaging and pharmaceuticals will make it possible for them to do." "In the treatment or cure of brain disease or disability, the public tends to support neuroscience's needs for closely controlled and informed experimentation. But in the enhancement of the brain's ability to learn or remember, or to be cheerful at home or attentive in school, many of the scientists are not so quick to embrace mood-manipulating drugs or a mindless race to enhance the mind (Safire 2003-07-10)."
"The brain's ethical sense may run deeper than we think. "The essence of ethical behavior," writes the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in Looking for Spinoza, his newest book, "does not begin with humans." Ravens and vampire bats "can detect cheaters among the food gatherers in their group and punish them accordingly." Though human altruism is much further evolved, in one experiment "monkeys abstained from pulling a chain that would deliver food to them if pulling the chain caused another monkey to receive an electric shock. Damasio does not believe that there is a gene for ethical behavior or that we are likely to find a moral center in the brain. But we may one day understand the "natural and automatic devices of homeostasis" — the brain's system that balances appetites and controls emotions, much as a constitution and a system of laws regulates and governs a nation (Safire 2003-07-10)."
"[Brain] scientists . . . debate going beyond the cure of disease to the possibilities of meddling with memory or implanting a happy demeanor (Safire 2003-07-10)."
"Maybe the human brain has a self-defense mechanism that causes brain scientists to pause before they improve on the healthy brain. Would we feel guilty about discovering the chemistry of conscience (Safire 2003-07-10)?"
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cognitive neuroscience: moral and ethical aspects, ethics, Damasio, science and religion, chemical conscience, meddling with memory, permalink,
- Michael S. Gazzaniga is President of the American Psychology Society, and director of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College.
- According to Gazzaniga it was William Safire who coined the term neuroethics to describe the field of philosophy that discusses the rights and wrongs of the treatment of, or enhancement of, the human brain."
- The Dana Foundation: "The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropy with principal interests in brain science, immunology, and arts education. Charles A. Dana, a New York State legislator, industrialist and philanthropist, was president of the Dana Foundation from 1950 to 1966 and actively shaped its programs and principles until his death in 1975."
- Some of these bibliographic entries were inserted using Zotero's capacity to let "users choose a citation format, such as Chicago, MLA, APA, or others. To add a source from Zotero, a user simply drags that source into an application such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs [and WordPress!!!!], and a properly formatted citation is inserted. Zotero also generates a bibliography of all the sources included in a paper." I did not choose my preferred citation format or generate the bibliography in the proper Zotero mode yet. This needs tweeking on my part but it was successful.
Citations from Antes, Geertz and Warne (2004).
4. "Body, Emotion, and Consciousness: The Portuguese born neurologist at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Antonio R. Damasio, has argued in a number of books that studies of the brain, cognition and consciousness are seriously hampered because neuroscientists traditionally ignore the role of functions and emotions in the brain. 47 He claims that "it is possible that feelings are poised at the threshold that separates being from knowing and thus have a privileged connection to consciousness" (Damasio 1999:43). Emotions are at a fairly high level of life regulation, and when they are sensed, that is when one has 'feelings,' the threshold of consciousness has been crossed. Emotions are part of homeostasis, which is the automatic regulation of temperature, oxygen contentration or pH in the body by the autonomatic nervous system, the endrocrine system and the immune system. According to Damasio, homeostasis is the key to consciousness (Damasio 1999:40). Damasio defined consciousness as constructing knowledge about two facts: "that the organism is involved in relating to some object, and that the object in the relation causes a change in the organism" (Damasio 1999:20). Understanding the biology of consciousness becomes, then, a matter of discovering "how the brain can map both the two players and the relationship they hold" (Damasio 1999:20). The interesting thing is that the brain holds a model of the whole thing, and this may be the key to understanding the underpinnings of consciousness (Antes, Geertz, Warne 2004:365)."
"[Damasio's] explanation for this enigma is precisely as follows: "I have come to the conclusion that the organism, as represented inside its own brain, is a likely biological forerunner for what eventually becomes the elusive sense of self. The deep roots for the self, including the elaborate self which encompasses identity and personhood, are to be found in the ensemble of brain devices which continuously and nonconsciously maintain the body state within the narrow range and relative stability required for survival. These devices continually represent, nonconsciously, the state of the living body, along its many dimensions. I call the state of activity within the ensemble of such devices the proto-self, the nonconscious forerunner for the levels of self which appear in our minds as the conscious protagonists of consciousness: core self and autobiographical self." (Damasio 1999:20) cited in (Antes, Geertz, Warne 2004:365)."
"This is, indeed, a radical embodiment theory and should be of interest to scholars of religion involved in studies of central religious concepts such as personalities, personhood, selves and souls. The very fact of plurality of selves in Damasio's model should prove useful to the study of religions that deal with multiple selves and souls (Antes, Geertz, Warne 2004:365)."
Webliography and Bibliography
Antes, Peter; Geertz, Armin W.; Warne, Randi R. 2004. Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Religion. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin/New York.
Anthony Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (New York: Harcourt, 1999).
"Brain-Based Education – Summary Principles of Brain-Based Research, Critiques of Brain-Based Education,"
Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Ethical Brain (New York: Dana Press, 2005).
Henry T. Greely, "Prediction, Litigation, Privacy, and Property: Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience," in Neuroscience and the Law: Brain, Mind, and the Scales of Justice . Dana Press.
Safire, William. 2003-07-10. "The Risk that Failed." New York Times.
Educause, "7 Things You Should Know About Geolocation," 2008,


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When Gwen Taylor turned 50 this month, she wanted to celebrate the milestone with something other than the typical dinner and drinks.
So one recent Saturday afternoon she and about a dozen girlfriends and relatives headed to a Catonsville fitness studio to sweat and burn off some calories in honor of Taylor's half-century.
Dressed in black fitness tights and brightly colored sport tank tops, they shimmied and shook at Taylor's Zumba birthday party.
The women are part of a growing legion celebrating life's important moments with fitness. Brides-to-be are raising their hands into sun salutations at yoga parties. Teenagers are pedaling to the beat of the music at birthday spin parties. And women like Taylor are dancing until they sweat at Zumba and Jazzercise parties.
"Fitness is a lifestyle," Taylor said. "It's even more important as you get older to stay active."
The popularity of fitness parties is being driven by a national movement to live more healthful lifestyles. Others are simply looking for different ways to celebrate birthdays and other events.
"You are doing something active and fun rather than sitting around just eating and drinking," said Shelley Sharkey, manager at Transformations Fitness for Women, where Taylor recently held her party. "As people become fitness enthusiasts, it is a great way to share that with people in their lives."
The fitness party scene at Transformations is evolving, Sharkey said. The gym has hosted other Zumba birthday parties and recently hosted a hip-hop dance party for a group of teenagers. Sharkey said she is also exploring the possibility of having bachelorette parties.
Charm City Yoga hosts events that have become popular with bridal parties. After months of intense wedding planning, many brides are looking for some peace before the big day, said Allison Korycki, the yoga chain's director of community relations and operations.
Bridal parties sometimes come to one of Charm City Yoga's studios, or instructors will come to the hotel where the group is staying. The instructor teaches for an hour to 75 minutes, and guests celebrate with food and drink when it is done.
"It's a nice way to de-stress," Korycki said.
Korycki said the studio has also held parties for a group of college students and a group of Girl Scouts and their moms. The yoga studio tries to fit teachers with the personality of each group, she said. Some want a restorative session, while others might desire a more active and intense power-yoga party.
The Maryland Athletic Club, or MAC, has also seen growing interest in fitness parties. Some of its members will start off the night with a spin or Zumba class before heading out for bar- and club-hopping.
"They sweat together and they shower up in the club before heading out on the town," said Sharon Nevins, MAC vice president of marketing.
Shelia Barksdale was looking for something different when she held a Zumba party to celebrate her 40th birthday at Transformations. She had T-shirts made that read "Zumba Party" and invited her closest friends. She decorated with balloons and streamers and gave out party favors before the dancing began.
"I wanted to get my girlfriends to do something different," said the program analyst, who lives in Catonsville. "I wanted to expose my friends to something new."
Fitness instructors said the parties are a good way to introduce people to exercise. Partygoers are often a combination of the very fit and those who would rather get a manicure than sweat in a gym.
"It lets people see that you can exercise and still have fun," said Valerie Stewart, a fitness instructor who led Taylor's Zumba party.
Taylor's niece, Tyra Mills, conceded that she was a little worried about being able to keep up. The party did get intense at times, she said.
"But I liked it," she said. "I would do it again."
Taylor decided to host a fitness party after two of her girlfriends had Zumba parties. One of those friends, Renee King, said she loves to dance but also wanted to do something healthy for her birthday.
"It's nice when it doesn't feel like a workout," she said. "You're still getting the health benefits, but having fun as well."
Prices of the parties can vary depending on the location. Some charge per person, while others charge a group rate or a fee to rent a room.
At Taylor's Zumba party, the women were led through a series of mostly Latin-inspired dance themes. They danced salsa, the merengue and the cha-cha to songs by Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj, among others.
When things got intense, instructor Stewart shouted out words of encouragement to get people pumped up again.
"It's going to be OK," she said. "You can handle it."
It was a little too intense for at least one participant, who found her way to back of the room to sit down.
The party ended with a free-style number as the ladies did the popular wobble line dance.
They then noshed on bananas and other fruit and drank bottled water.
No cake and soda at this fitness party.
"It's all about living a healthy lifestyle," Taylor said.
When Gwen Taylor turned 50 this month, she wanted to celebrate the milestone with something other than the typical dinner and drinks.


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SQUAW VALLEY PEACE: Looking within and blissing out can be very personal things for many people. So when a large-scale gathering comes together to encourage both things, it has to be very special, very directed, and full of classes and workshops that enhance that personal journey. That's the Wanderlust Festival, though to say that's Wanderlust in a nutshell would be incorrect. It's hard to put the yoga-centric, music-filled summertime gathering into any narrow boxes. Is it like Coachella? Not really, although there's a be-yourself, do-your-own-thing vibe (and major DJs do show at both). Is it a nature happening, given that it is in the mountains near Lake Tahoe? It is, very much, though the trees and sky are there to enhance the experience (in other words, camping trips and major hikes are not the thrust of the long weekend). And is it pure yoga and movement? That's the still and sweet centerpiece to Wanderlust, for sure, but there are other doings beyond downward dog. Tickets are now on sale for the annual warm-weather fest, which returns to Squaw Valley from July 18-21, 2013.
ON THE SCHEDULE: We mentioned DJs before, and there shall be DJs again: Moby is set to perform at the 2013 gathering. There will also be celebrated yoga teachers like Sianna Sherman, Schuyler Grant, and Seane Corn leading major classes (major meaning that there will likely be more practitioners, and perhaps more accumulated vibe, than you're used to if you're a solo yoga person). It's a peaceful four days, but scheduling is paramount, and definitely if you want to work with a specific teacher. Wanderlust lands in a few cities around North America during the year, and Squaw Valley is its Golden State stop. Namaste, Wanderlusters.


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1. Yves V – Enter My World (Original Mix)
2. Baggi Begovic – Freefalling (Original Mix)
3. Savoy Feat. Heather Bright – We Are The Sun (Laidback Luke Remix)
4. Eva Simons – I Don't Like You (Nicky Romero Remix)
5. Airsoul – Asia
6. Kanye West & JAY Z vs Benny Benassi – Niggas Satisfaction In Paris (Chuckie Pass That Dutch Bootleg)
7. Avicii vs. Lenny Kravitz – Super Love ( Space Mix)
8. Deadmau5 Feat. Chris James – The Veldt
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Since Russia was knocked out of the tournament, this turns into the rematch we've all be waiting for: the U.S. vs. Canada in the Olympic semifinals.
The U.S. wanted another shot at Canada after the heartbreaking overtime loss in the gold-medal game in 2010 in Vancouver, and they're going to get it. The winner of this game will be guaranteed a medal and will play either Finland or Sweden in the finals.
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1. Will Canada Click?
There has been some concern in the Great White North about Team Canada. Sure, the team hasn't lost in the tourney, but Canadian fans expect blowouts and domination, especially against teams like Latvia and Norway.
That hasn't happened.
Team Canada's coaching staff has used the early rounds of the tournament to experiment with line combinations and systems, which has led to uneasiness and a bit of confusion among the players.
Is there real cause for concern, or is head coach Mike Babcock just playing possum? There's a good chance Babcock has been biding his time, waiting until when the games really count to show off the full capabilities of his all-star squad.
Think of Babcock as Darth Vader and the Death Star as Team Canada: You may fire when ready.
2. Can the U.S. Maintain Its Sochi Success
Team Canada's issues may be real, or they may be a game of rope-a-dope. But Team USA, on the other hand, has yet to truly struggle in the tournament.
Sure, they went to a shootout with Russia, but that was a fierce game on the Russians' home ice.
The team has looked solid from the get-go in Sochi, which is not only surprising, but could bring a false sense of security heading into this matchup with Canada.
Is the U.S. really this good? Or perhaps their opponents in the early rounds were really that bad? Intriguing questions to ponder, for sure.
And if the U.S. is really this good, how long will the good times last? The worst thing that can happen is the high-powered U.S. offense suddenly goes cold.
Luckily for coach Dan Bylsma, he's installed a good defensive system, as well, which the team can fall back on if Canada stymies the offensive attack. Oh, and he's got Jonathan Quick in goal, too, if all else fails. No offense to Carey Price and Roberto Luongo, but I'd put my money on Quick when the game is on the line.
3. Who Will Be the Hero?
Take your pick. The obvious hero on the Canadian side is Sidney Crosby, who scored the game-winner in the gold medal game four years ago. But Sid the Kid has yet to light the lamp in four games in Sochi. It's not very often that Crosby doesn't score in five straight games. He may be due.
On the U.S. side, T.J. Oshie has already played the role of hero in the shootout against Russia. And if you remember the Vancouver Games, Zach Parise tied the gold-medal game with a goal with just 24 seconds left in regulation. Captain America could have some more heroics in store in Sochi.
But if you're looking for a surprise pick for both teams, how about Matt Duchene for Team Canada? He's going to get a lot more playing time now that John Tavares is done for the Olympics (and the rest of the NHL season) with a knee injury. Duchene will be looking to take advantage of his new role, and to prove he can be counted on with regular ice time in a winner-takes-all game.
On the U.S. side, keep an eye on Blake Wheeler. He hasn't received a ton of ice time yet in Sochi, but the coaching staff loves the way he plays. Could he be the answer to Canada's Death Star approach?
In any case, this should be one heck of a game. So sit back, grab a sandwich (or a breakfast sandwich depending on where you live) and enjoy.
Bonus: Paul Martin Out
Word came out just hours before the game that Team USA defenseman Paul Martin will not play in the game. Some reports have it being an illness, while others suggest that it could be a hand/wrist injury.
In any case, this is a huge blow to the U.S. defense. While not a well-known name on the squad, he is a steady, methodical defenseman who can log a ton of minutes and play in all situations.
Justin Falk will be added to the lineup to take his place. Keep an eye on how much ice time he gets and how Canada will look to exploit Martin's absence.


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What is the best way to implement a validation for a withdrawal operation? So there is an Operation and Client models.
Client has_many :operations. In case of withdrawal operation, I'd like to check if the requested sum is not greater than a Client account balance. How to link the validation in the Operation model to a specific client ?
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