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The Remission of Sins
How do you view yourself? Do you acknowledge that you are a sinner who is no longer guilty because of Christ? Or are you weighed down by guilt for the sins that you have committed? If you have trusted in ...Read More
Synthetic Justification
Because of the way heretics like to misuse the language of Scripture, theology often uses highly technical terms in order to make sure that doctrine remains faithful to the apostolic writings of the Bible. The use of analytic versus synthetic ...Read More
The Lordship of Christ
Do you believe that you can be a "carnal Christian?" That is, do you believe that Jesus can save you if you in no way submit to Him as Lord? Perfect obedience is not possible in this life, but if ...Read More
Faith and Repentance
Repentance is not something that is only a part of our lives when we first come to Christ. Jesus tells us in the Lord's Prayer that it is to be a daily practice (Matt. 6:12). When we go before the ...Read More
Faith Defined
Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you know about the sinless life He led and the work He did on the cross? Do you believe that He is who He says He is and does what He says ...Read More
By Christ Alone
Roman Catholic theology denies the sufficiency of Christ by regarding our works as something that adds to and makes possible a righteousness within ourselves. However, though personal holiness is important, it only demonstrates that we have been justified by faith ...Read More
The Means of Salvation
In a few days, we will discuss the differences between Roman Catholics and Protestants regarding justification in more detail. Today we will note that, according to Scripture, justification does not infuse a righteousness that we must maintain in our nature. ...Read More
The Great Exchange
If we are in Christ, if we trust in Him alone, we have His righteousness credited to our account. When God looks at us, He sees the righteousness of Christ and no longer deems us guilty. This is the good ...Read More
God's Legal Declaration
How do you hope to stand before the judgment seat of God? Are you counting on your own goodness? Or, do you understand that the depth of your sin makes it impossible that your good works could ever make you ...Read More
Living Faith
A dead faith is really no faith at all because a dead faith can in no way lay hold of the perfect righteousness of Christ. We must have a living faith evidenced by works of love and mercy toward other ...Read More


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"Belief And Seeing Are Both Often Wrong." -Robert McNamara (U.S. Secretary of Defense 1961-1968)
Monday, June 4, 2012
NIGHTMARES: CDC OFFICIAL STATEMENT: "NO ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE", But Yet, The Dead Still Walk The Earth...
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." -Seth Grahame Smith, ( Pride, Prejudice and Zombies).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an official reassurance: no zombie apocalypse. "CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)," agency spokesman David Daigle told The Huffington Post.
Who knows, maybe the CDC statement allayed a few anxieties. I found it downright depressing. That the CDC felt compelled to issue an official denial that the zombie apocalypse was upon us seemed like another discomfiting moment in America's cultural descent.
All this, of course, was set off by the savage May 26 attack on a homeless man on the MacArthur Causeway and the horrible hospital photos and the overwrought on-line, hit-driven media coverage. And, as "zombie apocalypse" trended to become the second most popular search term on Google, it was as if Americans, some of them anyway, couldn't be bothered with the intellectual distinction between a very real, brutal tragedy in Miami and the ghoulish zombie fantasies of movies, TV and literature.
"I've written quite a bit about the current 'zombie renaissance,' but things are starting to go far beyond the ideas I explored in my book," Kyle Bishop, author of American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture, told me by e-mail Monday. "I thought we as a culture were simply seeing a renewed and increased interest in monster narratives as a gut-check reaction to 9/11 and the War on Terror.
"Now, however, the zombie has become something much more visceral, something that has taken hold on our collective unconscious. People – many people, probably – think zombies, or something like them, may actually, indeed exist," Bishop stated.
Elizabeth Bird, a professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida, sees these reanimated corpses plodding through pop culture as surrogates for the pervasive fears that nag at modern life: pandemic diseases, nuclear destruction, environmental collapse, "the idea that we're consuming ourselves. If world comes to an end, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Professor Bird said that the CDC probably didn't help itself last year with a tongue-in-cheek youth-oriented campaign, with ads and buttons and a novella packaged as "a fun new way of teaching the importance of emergency preparedness. Our new graphic novel, Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic demonstrates the importance of being prepared in an entertaining way that people of all ages will enjoy. Readers follow Todd, Julie, and their dog Max as a strange new disease begins spreading, turning ordinary people into zombies."
The CDC slogan: "If you're ready for the zombie apocalypse, you're ready for any emergency."
I keep wondering what anthropologists, digging through the remnants of our society, will make of us, a thousand years from now. Judging by the content of our most popular books, movies and TV programs, we'll look like a culture much more obsessed with vampires and zombies, with the occasional werewolf outlier, than, say, religion or philosophy or science.
"I expect anthropologists in the future will find our collective fascination with zombies (and other supernatural monsters) amusing — the wild rantings of a backward and superstitious culture," ventured Bishop. "Or maybe they'll be more sympathetic and see how we used our monsters to try to explain our society (and vice versa)."
"I think if future anthropologists were to look back on our culture and try to explain our fascination with monsters they would see a society riven by fears and anxieties of various kinds, including uncertainty about the future, the fear of being victimized by violent crime, and a sense that we live in an atomized culture, each of us separated from everyone else by religion, class, economics, among other things," said David Schmid of the University of Buffalo, who has written about our pervasive fascination with real monsters in Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture. "You might think that our pop culture would be filled with happy-go-lucky tales of escapism that would help alleviate these anxieties, but the opposite is true: Whether it's Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy, the Twilight movies, TV series like True Blood or The Walking Dead, or this latest incident in Miami, both our pop culture and the media are saturated by violence, more often than not committed by monsters of one kind or another."
Schmid suggested via e-mail that all this zombie stuff is supposed to be therapeutic. "Watching TV shows or films, and reading books about monsters give us a safe, manageable way to work through our fears, to remind ourselves that happy endings can still happen."
He wrote, "In this respect, the reason that the 'face-eating' incident has received so much press coverage is that it seems to signal a place where fiction has crossed over into reality."
"Even the ironic jokes about 'The Zombie Apocalypse Starts Now!' are tinged with a certain unease because our pop cultural monsters can only ever give us a way of processing our fears, not removing them entirely," Schmid said. "Even if we know our house is secure, that next bump in the night will still make us start!"
Bishop, who teaches, among other courses, fantasy literature at Southern Utah University, said he intends to talk about the Miami incident in Montreal next month. He's delivering the keynote address at the First (but probably not the last) International Zombie Conference.
-Fred Grimm ("Fear, Anxiety Drive Zombie Craze", Miami Herald,6.04.12, Image: Dick Cheney, still alive, 2012).
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Vote for Dancing with the Stars Season 14 Winner
It's time for our traditional DWTS poll where you can vote for who you think will be the winner of Dancing with the Stars season 14. Will it be Katherine Jenkins, William Levy, or Donald Driver hoisting the Mirror Ball Trophy and becoming the Dancing with the Stars Season 14 Winner? The interesting thing is that usually in the Dancing with the Stars finale the judges scores are quite close and so it's really all about the public voting.
Of course, this poll isn't scientific, but when you look at past results from Pure Dancing with the Stars polls they do quite well. So, vote for who you think will win Dancing with the Stars 2012. Don't worry about voting over and over and over again. The poll does a pretty good job of filtering out extra votes. It's not perfect, but luckily we will get enough votes that it should be a pretty good predictor of the DWTS season 14 winner.
Feel free to also share in the comments who you wish was the DWTS season 14 winner or who deserves to be the winner of DWTS 2012.


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The Wonderful Cape Winelands
by Wines of South Africa
An award-winning wine estate & luxury hotel
in the heart of the Cape Winelands.
Asara Wine Estate & Hotel offers warm hospitality, luxury accommodation, friendly, attentive service and the finest in food and wines. All against a backdrop of breath-taking views and cocooned in a relaxed, tranquil ambience.
Situated just 4kms from Stellenbosch, and 25kms from Cape Town International Airport, Asara is ideal as a base for exploring the picturesque Cape Winelands and the many attractions of the Cape Peninsula. Or for simply kicking back and soaking up the views.
AVALON SUITE: This elegantly appointed, spacious suite (150m²) features a separate sitting-room with a gas fireplace and French doors on two sides opening onto a private wrap-around balcony with magnificent views. More Information
VINEYARD SUITE: This suite (150m²) boasts an exceptional bedroom, with French doors opening on two sides onto a private wrap-around balcony with sweeping views. More Information
CARILLON SUITE: In the heart of the hotel with French doors opening off both the lounge and the bedroom onto a large private terrace overlooking the central courtyard.
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3 elegantly styled rooms (55m²), situated in the southern 'Shiraz' wing of the hotel. Each is spacious with its own unique features and layout, and elegant, modern décor.
14 rooms in the 'Cabernet', 'Shiraz' and 'Merlot' wings. Spacious (50m²) with elegant, modern décor. Features plenty of natural light and a terrace with magnificent views.
6 spacious rooms (50m²) with elegant, modern décor. Each with plenty of natural light and a balcony or terrace with views to the valley and mountains.
10 rooms (45m²) in the 'Cabernet' and 'Merlot' wings. Comfortable, modern décor, plenty of natural light and a balcony with sweeping views.
The joy of food and wine is an essential part of the Asara experience. We celebrate local, artisanal suppliers and subscribe to an ethos of seasonal, sustainable food and robust flavour.
Hotel guests and visitors can choose from several different venues:
mise en place Our seasonal, evenings-only Destination Restaurant with elegant décor, superb service and seasonal menu.
Sansibar Bistro Open from midday each day, an indoor/outdoor experience with lovely, large terraces and sweeping views.
Reception Lounge & Courtyard Lounge and outdoor seating in the courtyard at the heart of the hotel with teas, coffees and more.
Raphael's Venue for our fabulous buffet and a la carte breakfasts.
Deli Offers various treats, including in-house ice-creams in summer.
The Sansibar Gin lounge boasts Africa's largest selection of imported gins, as well as the full range of gins produced by the burgeoning local gin industry. At Sansibar we not only offer gin tasting experiences – a great way to learn about gin for connoisseurs and novices alike, often one that leads to much discussion and laughter.
There is also an extensive and exclusive list of whisky's, cognacs, cocktails and other drinks including non-alcoholic cocktails.
Sansibar offers magnificent views from the terrace in summer, and a roaring fireplace in winter.
Opening Hours Mon – Sun: 11h00 till late Sample drinks list
Open in summer months only, our pool bar offers a range of drinks and light bites for Asara hotel residents only.
Our Deli is situated just off the central courtyard and offers for sale cakes (including our famous carrot cake), macaroons, chocolates made in-house, jams, locally produced cheeses, bath products, Karoo lavender soaps, shampoos, creams and sprays, and more.
In summer there is an ice-cream cart at the Deli that serves delicious in-house ice-creams of many flavours.
Opening Hours Mon – Sun: 8h00 – 17h00
View Our Deli Menu
Asara is situated in superb wine-making country. As the old saying goes, "wine-making starts in the vineyard", and at Asara the combination of a rich deep soil derived from decomposed granite, rolling hills, strong sunshine and cooling sea breezes makes an ideal environment for the cultivation of high quality grapes.
There are 104 hectares under vine on the estate, 75% planted with Red Grape Varieties, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinotage, Shiraz, Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Gamay (Noir) and Petit Verdot. White grape varieties we are currently growing are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay.
Guests can book a range of relaxing massages, beauty and spa treatments in the comfort and privacy of our treatment room.
Booking is at reception, and preferably 24 hours in advance.
Asara is a wonderful venue for celebrations of all kinds – whether a 21st, 40th or 50th birthday, an anniversary, a baby shower, an end of year party or any other special occasion.
We have the venues to suit parties of guests from 2 people to 200, or up to 500 people with a marquee, and can accommodate dining preferences from buffet to plated dinner, to fine dining or a spit braai.
We offer some extraordinary options for your event, including a magical lamp-lit dinner in the vineyards, and a unique cellar dinner in our chandelier-lit, oak barrel wine cellar.
mise en place is our seasonal Restaurant, open from 19th October to the end of March each year.
mise en place features sophisticated dining and elegant service. We host a maximum of 40 guests per evening, and do not seat tables larger than eight. On fine summer evenings guests can choose to dine on the terrace, which offers a spectacular setting and memorable ambience.
The restaurant is open Tuesday to Saturday evenings from 6pm onwards. Reservations are highly recommended.
Making magnificent wines is at the heart of what Asara is all about, and we welcome visitors to our wine-tasting centre to sample some of our established favourites as well as our exciting new wines.
At the centre, which overlooks our chandelier-lit barrel maturation cellar, an Asara wine ambassador will guide you through the tasting process, and discuss our wines, how they are made and their characteristics and qualities.
Informative cellar tours are offered by appointment from Monday to Friday at 11h00 or 15h00.
There is always a selection of the estate's wines available for purchasing at the tasting centre.
For hotel guests who have booked directly with Asara the tasting is complimentary. Day visitors pay R50 for their choice of three wines, or R75 for their choice of five. It's not necessary to book a tasting, but it is advisable if it's for a large group.


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We start off with the best proof that Rob will nail his job as a daddy in Breaking Dawn (and we're guessing Water for Elephants too). Sigh..
In 2010, Rob also proved that he can sell anything to a willing audience.. a burgundy suit, sure!
Dirt?.. we love him even more!
Not to mention the ultimate role.. as a Bad Ass Cop!
In 2010 fans also got the best chance to run their fingers through Rob's hair. Unfortunately, it was his wax figure who paid the price.
But the passion fans displayed for everything Rob also had its benefits. Rob was voted sexiest, most talented, most popular, and everything you can imagine related to him in 2010. Here's a list of those titles.
And each and every one of you made quite an impact on twitter, spreading the love for Rob and his roles.
Make no mistake, you are the voice of the fandom, so as 2011 arrives we'd like to thank you for your support of the blog/twitter as we support Rob and his career. Hope you stick around to see what comes next!
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You all know my thoughts on this year's pack of GOP candidates, but then I'm a known pinko commie socialist and am deeply unlikely to be voting for any of them. So: Can you articulate for me your own honest feelings about this election cycle's slate of candidates? I am genuinely interested.
So that the comment thread actually produces the results I am interested in, let me lay down some comment thread rules.
1. This comment thread is for people who are US potential primary voters who identify as Republican and/or conservative (libertarian is also fine, if you see your libertarianism more aligned with general Republican/conservative principles and/or intend to vote in the GOP primaries). If you're not any of these things, don't comment, please. Seriously. We have enough politics back and forth on other threads; this one is not about that.
To amplify this point I will also stay out of the thread except in my capacity as site moderator.
2. For the purposes of this thread, please take as given that you likely believe the policies and practices of the Obama administration to be varying levels of bad, so it's not on point to go on about that. I'm interested on your take on the actual candidates running for the GOP nomination and your thoughts on their individual pluses and minuses as well as on the group as a whole.
3. If you are a Whatever regular but don't generally discuss politics and/or don't want (for whatever reason) to out yourself as a Republican/conservative, go ahead and use a different name when you comment. I don't mind.
4. Commenting between the people in the thread (who have already identified themselves as Republicans/conservatives) is of course fine but in general I'm more interested in people's individual opinions regarding the candidates/group than I am in people trying to argue to others in the thread for their favorite candidate. So if you'd keep campaigning to a minimum and focus on the actual question, I'd be appreciative.
5. If you're coming here from elsewhere and you're new here, and have never posted a comment before, it might be worth it to read the site comment policy.
Okay, then. Republican/conservative readers, please tell me your thoughts on the candidates!


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Hastenrath, Theunis (d. 1551)
Theunis (Thönis, Teunis, Tonnis) van Hastenrath (Hastenraedt, Haustelraed), an Anabaptist elder and martyr, burned at the stake at Linnich on the Roer, Germany, on 30 June 1551. Theunis van Hastenraedt, who is identical with Anthonis von Asselroye or Assenray, was a native of Hastenrath, Germany, near the Dutch town of Roermond. After his conversion he studied the Holy Scriptures for 15 years, during which time he seldom preached. He also read the books of Menno Simons. As an elder he preached and baptized after 1545 in many towns of the duchies of Jülich and Upper-Gelre. Among the places where he was baptizing, he himself mentions Illikhoven, Loevenich, Hastenrath, Weert, Maastricht, Cologne, Monschau, Cleve, and Goch. In 1547 he was present at a meeting of Mennonite elders at Goch, where Adam Pastor was excommunicated. His interesting confession at his trial appeared in Doopsgezinde Bijdragen 1909.
Bax, W. Het Protestantisme in het Bisdom Luik I. The Hague, 1937: 306-09, 406-10 and Index.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doopsgesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, 1685: Part II, 97.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 495. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1890): 58-59; (1894): 18; (1909): 120-26.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 265.
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Neff, Christian and Nanne van der Zijpp. "Hastenrath, Theunis (d. 1551)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 7 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hastenrath,_Theunis_(d._1551)&oldid=145428.
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Neff, Christian and Nanne van der Zijpp. (1956). Hastenrath, Theunis (d. 1551). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 7 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hastenrath,_Theunis_(d._1551)&oldid=145428.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 677-678. All rights reserved.
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Up to 10% of all women experience some form of elevated blood pressure during pregnancy. Researchers from the Centre for Social Evolution at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen show that mild maternal hypertension early in pregnancy actually benefits the fetus, but that late-pregnancy hypertension has negative health consequences for the child. The study is based on more than 750,000 births in Denmark, with follow-up data on children's hospital diagnoses for up to 27 years.
'It has been known for some time now that pregnancy-induced hypertension can lead to more serious toxic conditions (preeclampsia), but it has puzzled biologists why such a medical condition that can be quite dangerous for both mother and child has not previously been removed by natural selection in our stoneage ancestors. However, evolutionary theory also emphasizes that paradoxes of this kind can be due to genetic parent-offspring conflicts, so we set out to test whether we could find statistical evidence for that type of explanation', says Professor Jacobus Boomsma, Director of the Centre for Social Evolution and coordinator of the study.
Minor increases in blood pressure gives better health
The results clearly indicate that mothers with minor increases in blood pressure in the first trimester of pregnancy have babies that enjoy generally better health than children of mothers who never get a hypertension diagnosis during pregnancy. The difference was between 10 and 40% fewer diagnoses across all disease categories during the 27 years of available follow-up data, a result that has never been documented before. However, when hypertension continues or starts later in pregnancy, this advantage shifts to a ca. 10% disadvantage in terms of an increased risk of acquiring a diagnosis in the Danish public health data bases. Child mortality during the first year of life showed the same trend. In spite of this risk being very low in Denmark, no children of mothers with early pregnancy-induced hypertension died, whereas the mortality risk of children born to mothers with hypertension late in pregnancy was above average.
Fathers genes enhances blood pressure
Parent-offspring-conflict theory maintains that father-genes in the placenta will have a tendency to 'demand' a somewhat higher level of nutrition for the fetus than serves the interests of mother-genes. It argues that father genes that somehow manage to enhance maternal blood pressure will likely be met by maternal genes compensating this challenge. Both types of genes are 50/50 represented and thus likely to find a 'negotiated' balance while creating an optimally functioning placenta. However, when the pull of paternal genes cannot quite be managed by maternal counterbalances, there is a risk of elevated blood pressure to develop and persist, leading to late occurring pregnancy complications and compromised offspring health. The results obtained are consistent with the idea that some deep fundamental conflicts lay buried in our genes right from the moment of conception. Imprinted genes are prime suspects for mediating such conflicts as they 'remember' which parent they come from.
'Molecular biologists have recently found many such genes in mice and man, and they are particularly expressed in the placenta as the theory predicts. Our study therefore suggests that further research to test whether different patterns of pregnancy-induced hypertension are indeed related to paternal or maternal imprints would be highly worthwhile', says PhD student Birgitte Hollegaard, who did the analyses together with EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Byars.
The authors of the study hope these results will help build bridges between their evolutionary inspired public health analyses and established clinical praxis.
'Ultimately we are not only interested in the fundamental science aspects of genome level reproductive conflicts, but also in seeing some of these findings being made more directly useful, for example by adjusting pregnancy monitoring schemes to take long term risks for offspring health into account', concludes Jacobus Boomsma.
Background methods
The statistical analyses used data from the Danish National Patient Registry covering records of more than 750,000 singleton births collected between 1977 and 2007. The original, larger data set was trimmed by omitting all mothers that had blood-pressure-related health problems before pregnancy. The final analyses were adjusted for the usual socioeconomic variables that were obtained from Statistics Denmark. The Danish national health system requires all pregnant women to be registered, so they receive routine medical checkups by their general practitioner (at least three times) and mid-wife (at least six times) until they reach term. Children's medical records were available for up to 27 years after birth.


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(Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP (CG.O) on Thursday said the United States remained the world's best place to invest, citing low interest rates and the recovering housing market, as it reported a return to profitability in the third quarter.
The strong comments by Carlyle co-chief executive William Conway of faith in U.S. investment opportunities came after Wednesday's massive sell-off on Wall Street as many investors gave a wary reception to President Barack Obama's re-election victory.
Carlyle said it invested $1.6 billion in equity in 86 new or follow-on investments in the third quarter. It has committed to invest more than $4 billion in equity in 10 transactions in four countries that were announced in the third quarter but are expected to close in upcoming quarters.
"More than half of these investments, and virtually all of the larger ones, were made in the United States, with 62 percent of the equity for the committed transactions in the U.S. industrial and manufacturing sectors." Conway told investors and analysts on a conference call.
"There is a reason for this. To put it bluntly, we believe that the best place in the world to invest today is the United States," Conway said, citing a "revolution" in energy markets as well low interest rates and the strengthening housing market as some of the country's appeals.
Carlyle's third-quarter profit reflected rising asset values, largely due to its public holdings, which benefited from the stock market rally, and the cash it pocketed from exiting investments.
Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) and KKR & Co LP (KKR.N), rival alternative assets managers, have also reported their funds appreciated in the third quarter amid a buoyant stock market and profitable exits from the sale of assets.
Carlyle's private equity portfolio rose 5 percent in value in the third quarter versus a 7.1 percent rise in Blackstone's private equity funds and a 6 percent increase in the private equity holdings of KKR.
Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle, which was founded in 1987 by David Rubenstein and Daniel D'Aniello as well as Conway, has been very active in leveraged buyouts this year.
Carlyle reported third-quarter economic net income (ENI), a measure of profitability that takes into account the market valuation of its assets, of $219 million, compared with a loss of $191 million a year before.
This translated into after-tax ENI of 66 cents per common unit, in line with the average estimate of analysts in a Reuters poll of 64 cents.
Carlyle shares were 0.2 percent higher at $25.65 in afternoon trading. Through Wednesday the shares were up about 16 percent since the firm went public in May, compared with a 7 percent rise for KKR, a 14 percent gain for Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N), and a 12 percent rise for Blackstone Group.
Pre-tax distributable earnings, which included realized investment gains and accounted for cash available to pay dividends, came in at $206 million compared with $244 million in the third quarter of 2011.
As Congress prepares to grapple with $600 billion in spending cuts and higher taxes scheduled to start in January unless lawmakers come up with a plan to address the budget deficit, Rubenstein on Thursday said he expected that any comprehensive tax reform would take at least two years.
Rubenstein, a Democrat, said he did not expect carried interest — the slice of private equity fund profits that is paid out to managers — to be targeted disproportionately in the near term.
The tax treatment of carried interest became an issue during the presidential campaign as many Democrats focused on the money earned by Republican challenger Mitt Romney from his years at private equity firm Bain Capital LLC, which he co-founded.
Carried interest is now taxed as a capital gain at a rate of 15 percent. Many Democrats say it should be taxed as ordinary income, meaning that high-earning private equity managers would pay as much as 35 percent in tax on those earnings.
"Our best judgment and information on what will happen on carried interest taxation does not yet enable us to say how this or any other issue of interest to firms like ours will ultimately be resolved," Rubenstein, who served as a domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter, said on the same conference call.
Carlyle has been expanding beyond private equity into other alternative assets such as corporate credit, real estate, hedge funds, and most recently commodities. Its assets under management were $157.4 billion at the end of September, up 0.8 percent from the end of June, while fee-earning assets under management were $115.1 billion.
Carlyle said its latest North American buyout fund, Carlyle Partners VI, has attracted $3.7 billion in commitments and is on track to reach its $10 billion fundraising target on schedule.
Carlyle is also raising a fourth $3.5 billion Asian buyout fund and said it expected to have some investor commitments finalized before the end of the year. Its energy mezzanine fund has raised about $1.1 billion and is expected to conclude fundraising by the end of the year, exceeding its target, Carlyle said.
Fee-related earnings increased 24 percent year-on-year to $46 million as cash compensation to employees declined and the company increased its compensation in Carlyle shares. Carlyle's so-called dry powder, or capital available to invest in deals, was $39.4 billion at the end of September, $15.6 billion of which was available for private equity.
The firm's funds that generate carried interest realized $5.1 billion in proceeds in the quarter from the sale of assets and on dividends from investments.
This included a stock sale in pipeline company Kinder Morgan Inc (KMI.N) for slightly over $1 billion, a $721 million sale of shares in China Pacific Insurance Group Co Ltd (601601.SS), and a $367 million sale of a final ownership stake in Dunkin' Brands Group Inc (DNKN.O), Conway said.
Carlyle declared a third-quarter distribution of 16 cents per common unit.
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The greatest dancefloor musical of all time, Saturday Night Fever, will tour arenas and theatres in New Zealand this November and December. The mammoth 24-date tour will kick off in Kerikeri, then going to Auckland, Mt Maunganui, Rotorua, Whanganui, Taupo, Gisborne, Napier, Palmerston North, Wellington, Waimakariri, Oamaru, Invercargill, Gore, Dunedin, Timaru, Ashburton, Christchurch, Nelson, Blenheim, Paraparaumu, New Plymouth, Hamilton and will wrap up in Whangarei.
Today's announcement coincides with the 40th anniversary of the release of the film starring John Travolta - spawning a decade of disco, fuelled by Bee Gees hits including Stayin Alive, Disco Inferno, More than a Woman, You Should Be Dancing and Jive Talkin.
Saturday Night Fever is the iconic coming-of-age story of young Tony Manero who learns the value of life in 1970s Brooklyn. By day he is a humble paint store clerk but at night he turns into the polyester-clad king of the local discotheque. He uses the dance floor as an escape from the reality of his dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his association with a gang of dead-beat friends.
This contemporary retelling of the classic story captures the energy, passion and life-changing moments that have thrilled movie audiences since 1977. Now, a new generation of talented actors, singers and dancers meet a new generation of theatre-goers to explore the soaring sounds and pulsating rhythms of this coming-of-age disco fantasy.
Combining some of the most groundbreaking choreography ever with the best-selling motion picture soundtrack of all time, Saturday Night Fever will be staged in 24 arenas and theatres around New Zealand as the ultimate end of year party event.
"Hit song after hit song, bright lights and dancing to blow you away." - BBC


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West Coast Productions v. Does 1 – 5,829, — F.Supp.2d —, 2011 WL 2292239 (D.D.C. June 10, 2011)
The judge in one of the well-known mass copyright cases filed by Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver a/k/a U.S. Copyright Group (West Coast Productions v. Does 1 – 5,829) has issued an order denying motions to quash filed by several of the unnamed defendants. Plaintiff had served subpoenas on the ISPs associated with the IP addresses allegedly involved in Bittorrent activity, seeking to learn the identity of those account holders.
The ruling is potentially troubling because the court refused to even consider the arguments presented by those anonymous parties who did not reveal their identity in connection with the motion to quash. Such an approach undermines, and indeed comes close to refusing altogether to recognize any privacy interest that a person may have concerning his or her ISP account information.
The court observed that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure require that a party must identify himself or herself in the papers filed with the court. In some situations, however, a court may grant a "rare dispensation" of anonymity after taking into account the risk of unfairness to the party seeking anonymity as well as the general presumption of openness in judicial proceedings.
In this case, the court noted that other courts had "uniformly held that the privacy interest in [ISP account] information is minimal and not significant enough to warrant the special dispensation of anonymous filing."
Absent from the court's analysis was the potential for harm to defendants who were the subject of these subpoenas but might have the ability to demonstrate (anonymously) that they were not involved. In cases involving adult content, in particular, the harm of being publicly associated with that content — even if the association turns out to be in error — is one that should not be disregarded in this way. Moreover, taking away the ability of an anonymous defendant to challenge his unmasking will encourage extortionate-like behavior on the part of copyright plaintiffs hoping to extract a settlement early in the case. If writing a check is the only way to keep from having to turn one's name over (and this case pretty much establishes that rule), then more settlements should be expected.
The court went on to reject the arguments in favor of motions to quash filed by John Does who had provided their contact information to the court. The court found that it was premature to rule on any objections based on a lack of personal jurisdiction because the defendants filing the motions had not actually been named as a party. And the court rejected the arguments that the defendants were improperly joined into the action, noting the allegations in the complaint that the IP addresses were involved in a single Bittorrent swarm.
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Comscore vCE Reaches Milestone with Completion of 4,000th Client Study
vCE Boasts Wide Adoption Among Leading Advertising Agencies
RESTON, VA, January 23, 2013 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced that the validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE) family of products, including audience and validated audience reporting, recently reached a significant milestone with the completion of its 4,000th study for its clients. vCE boasts particularly wide adoption among the agency community – which has accounted for approximately half the studies – including more than 75 leading agencies such as AKQA, Carat, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Deutsch, Digitas, Doner, Draft FCB, Maxus, MEC, MediaVest, Mindshare, Moxie, Neo@Ogilvy, Razorfish, Saatchi & Saatchi, Starcom, Universal McCann, VivaKi, and Zenith Optimedia.
"The validated Campaign Essentials product suite has become central to the evaluation processes of many of the leading agencies for digital display and video campaigns," said Serge Matta, President of Comscore Commercial Solutions. "We are excited to reach such an important milestone with the completion of our 4,000th study and that leading agencies have been with us every step of the way as we've evolved this product suite to meet the demands of advertisers. We believe that this milestone cements vCE as not only the leading campaign analytics platform among agencies but in the entire digital marketplace. We look forward to building on this position by continuing to innovate and push the boundaries of what's possible in campaign analytics, both within and across media platforms."
vCE is currently the only campaign analytics solution with MRC accreditation for ad viewability for most cross-domain iframes. It is also the only MRC-accredited service for brand safety and ad engagement. The vCE product suite has recently expanded beyond its original online campaign measurement reporting to include multi-platform campaigns ( vCE Multi-Platform). Together, this product suite enables clients to measure campaigns holistically according to their content type and media platform in alignment with how campaigns are planned by agencies today.
About Comscore
Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital business analytics. For more information, please visit www.Comscore.com.
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August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson readily invites students to ask a number of questionsbig and
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students learn how to create effective discussion questions and then put them to use in student-led
seminar discussions after act 1 and again at the end of the play.
In advocating for an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning about literature, Mark Ensrud
suggests that mundane questions about due dates and classroom procedures are "hardly the kinds of
questions we teachers hope for" (79). To develop students' ability to ask questions that facilitate studentled
seminar discussions, Ensrud shares this framework with students: "Opening questions begin a
discussion and invite a reexamination of the text. Closed-ended questions seek particular information,
while open-ended questions invite authentic inquiry. And core questions attempt to get at the meaning
of a text" (80). The ability to conceive of questions of these four types forms the basis for an introduction
to inquiry-based student-led seminars about literature.
Further Reading
Ensrud, Mark. "Getting at What They Want to Know: Using Students' Questions to Direct Class Discussion." From Inquiry and the Literary Text: Constructing Discussions in the English Classroom. James Holden and John S. Schmit, eds. NCTE, 2002: 79-86.


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After several months of preliminaries and finals, the 16th Samsung Cup wrapped up surprisingly quickly this week, with a three game match between Won Seongjin 9P and Gu Li 9P. The games were played over three consecutive days starting on December 5, 2011. Won clinched the third game on December 7, scoring a 2-1 win, as well as his first major international title. Both players are renowned for their thick and powerful fighting styles, but many go fans expected Gu, who's known as 'muscle man' in Asia, to defeat 'Won punch' in the heavyweight stakes. Even if Gu's fans were disappointed with the results, they can't have been disappointed with the games, which thoroughly demonstrated the power and creativity of both masters.
– Jingning; Games and photos are available in her original article: Won Seongjin wins 16th Samsung Cup!
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We've partnered with The Arc Community Centre to bring you a fun cardio workout class designed to spin you into shape with adult size hula hoops. Tone and condition your core muscles whilst listening to carnival tunes! Forget sit ups, this is the best way to work your midsection.
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We all know the legendary Herbie Hancock. Céu is a Brazilian singer-songwriter. "Céu reached unprecedented chart numbers for a Brazilian female artist—1 on Billboard's Heatseekers (New Artist) Chart, 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 1 on Billboard's World Music charts. In 2008, Céu received a Grammy nomination for "Best Contemporary World Music Album" of 2007 for her debut album Céu."
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Callan Bentley, geology faculty member at Northern Virginia Community College, leading other two-year college faculty on a field trip in conjunction with the 2010 workshop The Role of Two-Year Colleges in Geoscience Education. At this point, the group was hiking along the Billy Goat Trail through Mather Gorge.
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Not a super way to engage young workers
Superannuation is in the news yet again! This time it's a major report from the Productivity Commission containing a raft of recommendations to make more changes to the system.
Predictably, it got great headlines. After all who could resist the "revelation" that an employee who is young today could be more than $500,000 better off at age 65 if they chose a better performing fund than someone who chose a lesser one?
But that's no revelation — it's just the way compound interest works. For example, if a 21-year-old was earning $35,000 a year and their salary increased by 4% per annum they would have $2.2 million at age 67 if their fund achieved 9% per annum. If another person in the same situation got only a 4% return, their balance would be just $800,000.
So, it's stating the obvious to reiterate that the biggest factor in your retirement superannuation balance is the net rate of return you can achieve. The major factors that affect that rate of return are the performance of the assets you choose, the fees your fund charges, and other expenses, such as insurance and entry taxes.
The impact is particularly high for young people. Imagine you were 21, with a superannuation balance of $3000. If your insurance premiums were $100, and account-keeping fees were $100, your net return would be close to zero if your fund earned 9%. The only thing keeping you out of the red would be the employer contribution, which may be around $3000 a year after the government hit you with the 15% entry tax. But contributions, even though they increase your balance, have no effect on the return from the fund.
A major problem for many younger workers is that most of them are disengaged, and as a result have multiple superannuation funds with small balances. The combination of all those account-keeping fees, and of premiums for insurance (which is often unwanted), is ripping their returns to shreds.
The obvious solution, and the Productivity Commission alluded to it, is to have some mechanism where small multiple balances owned by the same person would be compulsorily amalgamated and placed in a default fund. At least this would go some way towards boosting their returns.
Then there's the problem of choosing an appropriate fund. There is no easy answer, because an appropriate fund will vary according to the individual's risk profile and goals. Either seek advice or do your research.
The Commission has tried to assist with this problem by recommending the government set up a panel of Best in Show which would comprise the best 10 performing funds over the last 10 years. Employees would then be nudged towards using those funds, in the expectation they could do better than the funds they are using now.
But the whole concept is based on flawed logic. The ASIC website is unequivocal. It states that advertising of financial products and advice "should 'unambiguously and without reservation' point to the fact that past performance is not indicative of future performance".
For as long as I can remember, the financial planning industry has been warning investors that past returns do not necessarily guarantee what may happen in the future. But here we have the Productivity Commission recommending a change in the system based on the premise that past returns should be the major criterion in the fund you choose. It beggars belief!
The sad reality is that governments can only do so much. At the end of the day it's up to individuals to become engaged with their own financial affairs, to make sure they are making the most of their precious resources. There is no other way to make it to a prosperous retirement.
- Noel Whittaker is the author of Making Money Made Simple and numerous other books on personal finance. firstname.lastname@example.com


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text: Netflix has decided to discontinue the sale of used DVDs through their website in order to focus on their core rental business. Starting on November 30th, all of their previously viewed overstock will be passed to a wholesaler—effectively adding a middleman. I suppose it doesn't seem to make much sense, but selling all of this overstock to a wholesaler greatly simplifies the distribution process (and might even save the company a bit of money as well). Plus, Netflix has been looking towards the future lately by putting a great deal of effort into their "Watch Instantly" program (TiVo, Xbox, Roku and Macs to name a few). [CNET via Electronic House]


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Major Contemporary Art Exhibition Opens at the Getty on February 29, 2000
February 14, 2000
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Exhibition Overview
LOS ANGELES--The J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting a major contemporary art exhibition of commissioned works in a variety of media by 11 outstanding Los Angeles-area artists responding to the Getty's collections. Organized by guest curator Lisa Lyons, Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty opens February 29 and continues through May 7, 2000 at the Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive. Spanning a broad emotional and stylistic spectrum, the artists' projects challenge and expand our ideas about art--both of the past and of the present.
Participating artists are John Baldessari, Uta Barth, Sharon Ellis, Judy Fiskin, Martin Kersels, John M. Miller, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Lari Pittman, Stephen Prina, Alison Saar, and Adrian Saxe. A special section of the exhibition is devoted to portraits of the Departures artists by Los Angeles-based photographer Grant Mudford. Selected works that served as starting points for some of the Departures artists are included in the exhibition as well.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Getty is publishing an illustrated, 64-page, soft-cover catalogue, with a foreword by Getty museum director John Walsh, an introduction and essays by Lisa Lyons on each artist's work, and photographs of the artists by Grant Mudford. The catalogue is available in the Getty Museum bookstore for $24.95. A Guide to Getty Points of Departure, a free handout available at the entrance to the exhibition, directs visitors to works in the Getty collections that served as starting points for the contemporary works. The guide also lists events related to the exhibition including artist lectures, gallery talks, film screenings, and performances. (See Related Events below for details.)
Discussing the exhibition, John Walsh, director of the Getty Museum, commented, "For two centuries, museums have been a challenge to artists and sometimes an inspiration. The Getty's galleries have been a place to learn, translate, react, and protest. It seems a good idea to start the new millennium with an invitation for experiments. We hope the show will help build our relationship with Los Angeles artists."
Exhibition guest curator Lisa Lyons said, "Departures explores the potent and sometimes surprising ways in which the art of the past can inform contemporary art. Equally important, the new works produced for the exhibition offer valuable insights into the Getty collections."
Lisa Lyons has been a consultant to the Getty since 1996. Previously, she was a curator at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and director of Art Programs at Lannan Foundation in Los Angeles. At the Getty Center, she has overseen the commissioning of major works of art for key public spaces, including: Edward Ruscha's painting, PICTURE WITHOUT WORDS, for the lobby of the Harold M. Williams Auditorium; Alexis Smith's Taste, a mixed-media wall work for the Restaurant at the Getty Center; and Martin Puryear's That Profile, a monumental sculpture for the Getty Center Tram Arrival Plaza. In concert with the Smith and Puryear commissions, Lyons curated exhibitions for the Getty Museum that provided visitors with an introduction to the artists' works.
Projects Commissioned for the Exhibition
Following are brief descriptions of the 11 projects commissioned for the exhibition.
John Baldessari
Baldessari selected Albrecht Dürer's diminutive drawing, Stag Beetle (1505), as the starting point for his project. Working from a transparency of the 5 9/16 x 4 _-inch drawing, Baldessari created a 14 _ x 11 _-foot, ink-jet enlargement of the image on canvas. Specimen (After Dürer) is mounted to the wall with a gigantic metal T-pin. Stabbed through the back of the stag beetle, the pin appears to have put an end to the critter's trek across the paper.
Uta Barth
Barth is represented by a group of framed color photographs (three diptychs and one triptych) from ... and of time, a series of more than 1,000 photographs that the artist made of her sparsely furnished living room. Focusing on issues of perception and what Barth calls "ambient vision," these carefully cropped images suggest her affinity for works at the Getty Center by contemporary artist Robert Irwin (Central Garden, 1997) and Impressionist painter Claude Monet (Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning, 1891). Copies of the 32-page soft-cover book with 20 color reproductions that serves as an index to Barth's project are on view in the exhibition and are available for purchase in the Museum Bookstore.
Sharon Ellis
Ellis' 4 x 5-foot painting, A Vision of Spring in Winter, portrays a landscape rendered with the intensity of a vision seen in a dream or hallucination. In creating this work, the artist drew inspiration from several works in the Getty collection, including a photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot (Oak Tree in Winter, 1841) and paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Spring, 1894) and Caspar David Friedrich (A Walk at Dusk, 1830-35). Ellis's own photographs of flowers in Robert Irwin's Central Garden also served as a source of imagery. The painting's title derives from a poem by the late-Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Judy Fiskin
Judy Fiskin's witty, 16-minute video, My Getty Center, is an elegantly constructed pseudo-documentary about the harmonic convergence of what the artist refers to as "two cataclysmic events" that occurred in 1997: the opening of the Getty Center and the arrival of El Niño. Narrated by Fiskin, the video's story line unfolds in sequences of original footage interwoven with material appropriated from broadcast TV, old movie-house newsreels, low-budget documentaries, and other sources.
Martin Kersels
Kersels selected the Getty Kouros (young man), among the Museum's most controversial acquisitions, as his point of departure. After more than 15 years of study, scholars are still uncertain if the sculpture is a Greek antiquity or a modern forgery. Pondering the sculpture's authenticity and its beauty, Kersels produced Kouros and me, a series of four large-scale, color photographs. The pictures, taken by Kersels' wife Mary Collins, show the artist and a copy of the Getty Kouros (carved from foam) flying through the air or about to be launched there with the aid of a trampoline just out of camera range. With this project, Kersels gives new meaning to "wrestling with history."
John M. Miller
Miller chose as his departure point a diptych by the 15th-century painter Jean Fouquet from the Hours of Simon de Varie (1455), a prayer book made for an official at the French royal court. In response to the image of de Varie kneeling before the Madonna and Child, Miller created three large-scale, abstract paintings: Prophecy, Sanctum, and Atonement. As their titles suggest, and like the manuscript illumination that inspired them, Miller's paintings invite you to turn your attention inward and to participate in what the artist calls "a moment in flux."
Rubén Ortiz Torres
A box of 91 stereographic cards in the Getty Research Institute's collection that show views of Cuba during the Spanish-American war (1899) allowed Ortiz to "rethink history on many levels." The images of Cuba played into his fascination with the island's geopolitical significance, and they struck a more personal chord. In the 1960s, Ortiz's father composed La Zamba del Che, a popular anthem to Che Guevara, the socialist revolutionary and comrade-in-arms of Cuba's Fidel Castro. Ortiz's project, La Zamba del Chevy, consists of a customized 1960 Chevrolet Impala—the same model driven by Guevara--and a five-minute, 3-D video. The lowrider is parked in the Museum courtyard and, thanks to a sophisticated hydraulic system, it can "dance." (See Related Events below for performance schedule.) The car performs in the 3-D video that screens continuously in the exhibition. The soundtrack for the video is a techno version of the elder Ortiz's anthem to Che, produced by a Uruguayan rock group.
Lari Pittman
Pittman's 26 -foot-long painting, Indebted to you, I will have had understood the power of the wand over the scepter, reflects his affinity for Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888). Pittman views James Ensor's masterpiece "not as a painting, but as a tableau." Its rush of images can engulf the viewer, and Pittman notes, "one can get lost in the delirium of its abstraction." Much the same can be said of Pittman's own painting, with its vivid colors and dizzying array of decorative patterns and images spanning five mahogany panels. Immense portraits of five men and vessels issuing flames set up the basis for an enigmatic narrative suggesting a cycle of human desire and passion.
Stephen Prina
Prina's Vinyl II is a 21-minute, 16-mm film shot in the Getty galleries. Featuring an original score and a performance by the artist, the film focuses on the relationship between works in the Getty collection by two artists known for dramatically illuminated night scenes: Georges de La Tour (The Musicians' Brawl, 1625-30) and Gerrit van Honthorst (Christ Crowned with Thorns, circa 1620). Unless otherwise noted, Vinyl II screens in the Museum Lecture Hall, Tuesdays--Sundays at 12:30, 2:30, and 4:30 p.m. Additional screenings are on Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. A related wall work and Prina's hand-inked score for the film are on view in the exhibition galleries.
Alison Saar
Carved of wood, clad in a skin of hammered copper, and with dreadlocks of twisted branches of bleached white coral, Saar's Afro-di(e)ty is reminiscent of both African fetish figures and the creations of urban American folk artists. The pose of the towering female figure is borrowed from the Getty's Hercules (Lansdowne Herakles), while many of her other attributes refer to Yemaya, the primary goddess of the Yoruba people of Africa.
Adrian Saxe
High art collides with popular culture in Adrian Saxe's 1-900-ZEITGEIST, an outrageously ornate and comical variation on a classic French garniture, a set of related vessels. Saxe produced the porcelains for a table and a pair of torchères (candlestands) in the Getty's collection of 18th-century decorative arts. Five pieces on a stoneware base grace the table; another two stand atop the torchères. Their curvaceous relief elements derive from patterns on ancient Chinese bronzes and pots, and their shapes suggest those of Chinese scholar's rocks, beautiful stones used as tabletop objects of contemplation. Their leafy handles are based on French Rococo designs, while their wacky finials are made from toy action figures. Hidden in the vessels' intricate surface patterns are a portrait of Saxe and images of several animals including a hippopotamus, a donkey, a school of fish, a bear, and a butterfly.
Lectures, Q & A: Artists dicuss their Departures projects in lectures on four Thursday evenings at 7 p.m.: John Baldessari (March 2), Lari Pittman (March 30), Martin Kersels (April 13) and Adrian Saxe (May 4). Q & A with Judy Fiskin, with a special screening of her video, My Getty Center, is on Friday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Events are free. Lectures and Q & A are held in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Seating reservations required. Call 310-440-7300, or 310-440-7305 TTY for deaf and hearing impaired, for reservations and information.
Gallery Talks: Join artists for small group discussions: Sharon Ellis (Friday, March 24, 6 and 7:30 p.m.) and Rubén Ortiz Torres (Friday, April 7, 6 and 7:30 p.m.). Gallery talks are free. Sign up at the Museum Information Desk beginning at 4:30 p.m on the day of the event.
Lowrider Performances: La Zamba del Chevy, Rubén Ortiz Torres' Chevrolet lowrider performs in the Museum courtyard on Saturday, March 11 at 2 p.m. and Sunday, April 16 at 1 p.m. The artist will be present. Event is free. Dates and times are subject to change.
Play: Inspired by the Departures exhibition, An Antigone Story (A Hijack), a play by Los Angeles' Cornerstone Theater Company, reinterprets Sophocles' Antigone with a contemporary sensibility. Held in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Performances are Friday, March 10 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, March 11 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, March 12 at 2:30 p.m. Event is free. Parking and seating reservations required. Call 310-440-7300, or 310-440-7305 TTY for deaf and hearing impaired, for reservations and information.
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Opening Day saw some pretty spectacular bullpen meltdowns. But what
does it say about the game that teams have become so reliant on the
bullpen that relievers can pretty much make or break a season? Have
pitchers gotten soft?
Morristown, NJ
'Tis the season to yack up ballgames, fa la la la la, la la la AGGGHHHH!!!!
*Breaks window, jumps from the second story, runs down the street screaming even though forgot pants*
Believe me, Mr. Jake, I am really trying to tackle this one without any bias, without any memory of Opening Day in the 'Lou, without a mammoth-sized chip on my shoulder. But let's be honest: in baseball, there isn't much worse than watching your team dominate throughout a game, only to blow it all in the 9th when the win is on the line.
My Redbirds managed to do that on Opening Day. The Brewers did too (all credit goes to John Axford). The Mets ran into it last night with Jail-Rod's shenanigans (Also, his unfettered desire to fight people proves that pitchers — at least this one — have not gotten "soft"… unless the pitcher's name is Kyle Farnsworth). Hell, ask the 2010 Baltimore Orioles… they know all about losing games late considering they blew more games last year than Lil Kim did Bad Boys in the 90s.
But what does it say about the game that teams have become so reliant on the bullpen that relievers can pretty much make or break a season? Gee, I'm not sure it's really come to that. The '08 Cardinals were pretty awful, as I remember the bullpen yacking up over 25 games late… but, after giving it the old eye test, I'm not sure it's really fair to say that the state of Major League bullpens is any different than it has been in years past. You either have a good one, a mediocre one, or a bad one.
And even when you have a bad one, that doesn't necessarily spell gloom and doom for one's team. 2009 Brad Lidge comes to mind; my pedestrian and oft frightened colleague, Mr. Krause probably could've done a better job on the hill than Lidge that season, but the Phillies still managed to grind their way to the World Series.
Unfortunately, these days, the role of a "closer" and "set-up man" and "7th inning guy" has been magnified because of money. The more money involved, the more pressure. The more pressure, the fewer who can actually deal with it.
In fact, for my money, there's only one closer who is reliable every single day and that man's name is Mariano Rivera. I think the Yankees could realistically state that their season might rely on Mo's cutters; but then again, their set-up man saved 40+ last year. And, oh yeah, their all-star lineup doesn't hurt either.
But for the other 29 teams, yeah, it could be a problem. But when your team is in flux — featuring an unsigned future Hall of Famer, a sidelined perennial Cy Young contender, and an All-Star outfielder absent because of an appendectomy — then you got more problems than you can actually stomach right now. The bullpen is just one of many.
Don't hate me. 'Cuz I'm right.
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