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A South Texas woman accused of ripping her 6-year-old son's genitals in anger and trying to repair the wound with glue has pleaded not guilty.
The San Antonio Express-News reports the woman's lawyer on Monday filed a waiver of arraignment and she didn't appear in court. She's charged with assault in the Sept. 27 incident at the family's home at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
Investigators say the father, who's in the Army, returned from work and found his injured son. The boy underwent surgery and remains with his father.
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The woman was arrested Oct. 23 and opted to remain in jail pending trial. She's also pleaded not guilty to a drunken driving charge from a June incident.
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Affordable day/night PTZ dome with 18x zoom for broad outdoor application
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December 14, 2010
1958: Summerall FG Lifts Giants Past Browns to Force Playoff
The battle for the NFL's Eastern Conference had come down to the season finale on December 14, 1958 as the New York Giants hosted the Cleveland Browns at Yankee Stadium. The Giants were 8-3 and a game behind the 9-2 Browns. Thus, New York needed to win in order to force a playoff with Cleveland for the conference title. A loss or tie would propel the Browns into the championship game.
New York's head coach was Jim Lee Howell, but he had two highly able assistants in Vince Lombardi to run the offense and Tom Landry to direct the defense. They were a solid, veteran club on both sides of the ball, featuring QB Charlie Conerly, halfbacks Frank Gifford and Alex Webster, OT Roosevelt Brown, and C Ray Wietecha on offense and DE Andy Robustelli, MLB Sam Huff, and safety Jim Patton on defense. However, they had played poorly in the preseason and got off to a 2-2 start in the regular season games before winning six of their last seven contests (one of their wins had been against the Browns in Cleveland).
As for Cleveland, Head Coach Paul Brown's club featured second-year FB Jim Brown on offense, who had already broken the single-season rushing record. If teams concentrated too heavily on stopping him, rookie HB Bobby Mitchell made them pay with his outstanding outside running ability. Second-year QB Milt Plum was still something of a project, but the offensive line was a good one and the defense contained Pro Bowl-quality players in tackles Bob Gain and Don Colo, LB Walt Michaels, and HB Don Paul.
The Browns wasted no time in taking the lead as Jim Brown ran 65 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage. There was no further scoring until the second quarter, when Giants DE Jim Katcavage recovered a fumble at the Cleveland 38 by HB Lew Carpenter and the Giants capitalized as Pat Summerall kicked a 46-yard field goal.
The Browns responded with a 22-yard Lou Groza field goal that was set up by a 51-yard pass play from Plum to flanker Ray Renfro. Cleveland held a 10-3 lead at the half.
In their first possession of the third quarter, the Browns drove to the New York 13 yard line. But in a call that was heavily second-guessed afterward, Paul Brown chose to try a fake field goal. Holder Bobby Freeman attempted to run around left end but was tackled for a loss by LB Harland Svare. Instead of potentially taking a 13-3 lead (Groza had missed two earlier attempts, but this would have been from just 20 yards with the ball well placed at the center of the field), the margin remained seven points.
The teams traded punts after the failure on the fake. Now in the fourth quarter, and following a fumble by Plum that the Giants recovered on the Cleveland 45, New York came back with trickery of its own. End Kyle Rote had noted that the Browns were vulnerable to the halfback option pass because HB Don Paul and safety Junior Wren were quick to run up and defend against the sweep coming in their direction. On the first play following the fumble recovery, Conerly pitched to Gifford, who ran to his right on an apparent power sweep. The Browns defense shifted to stop the run, and Gifford fired a pass to Rote, who was finally brought down after a 39-yard gain to the six yard line. After two running plays into the line lost yardage, the Giants again ran the option play and Gifford threw to end Bob Schnelker in the end zone for an eight-yard touchdown (pictured below). Following Summerall's extra point, the score was tied at 10-10.
The Browns, playing conservatively to run the clock down since a tie was as good as a win for their purposes, punted the ball back to the Giants. New York proceeded to drive from its own 30 to the Cleveland 25, but Summerall missed a 33-yard field goal attempt with less than five minutes to play.
The New York defense again forced the Browns to punt, but punter Dick Deschaine, who encountered a heavy rush, got off a poor 22-yard kick that went out at the Cleveland 43. The Giants misfired on three passes, including a long throw to Webster at the goal line that the halfback dropped and one to Gifford that was ruled an incomplete pass (although the Browns insisted afterward that it was a fumble).
With just over two minutes left, Summerall, who had suffered a knee injury in the previous contest against Detroit and was listed as doubtful in the week leading up to the game, kicked a 49-yard field goal through the snow for the winning points (pictured at top). The final score was 13-10, setting up the rematch at the same venue the following week.
The game had been a tough defensive struggle, and the two Cleveland turnovers, against none by the Giants, played a key role. The Browns outgained New York, 257 yards to 226. Jim Brown (pictured at right) accounted for 148 yards on 26 carries (bringing his record total to 1527), but other than the game-opening 65-yard score, the great fullback had been well defensed. Cleveland passed for just 107 yards, to 162 for the Giants.
"Imagine having to beat the Browns three times in one season to even get into the championship game," said Jim Lee Howell. "Once is tough enough. Twice, and now again."
In the rematch of the two 9-3 teams for the conference title the following week, the Giants defense shut the Browns down even more effectively and won, 10-0. They lost the NFL Championship game to the Baltimore Colts in a 23-17 overtime classic.
Pat Summerall, in his first year with the Giants after a season in Detroit and five with the Chicago Cardinals, was successful on 12 of 23 field goals in 1958, none bigger than the kick to beat the Browns. As he returned to the sideline following the climactic field goal, Vince Lombardi said to him, "You know you can't kick a football that far, don't you?"
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The Kasiisi Project believes that multiple factors make a successful school. We take a holistic approach to helping schools be effective. We have learned over the years that for children to succeed in school they need to be healthy and well-fed, have happy and well-trained teachers and safe and comfortable classrooms, have access to proper school supplies like books and pencils, and have the chance to enjoy sports, art, dance and music. We share with the children the importance of safeguarding their environment, we address issues that lead to high absenteeism and we help the children continue their education beyond primary school. Our approach has resulted in Kasiisi Project schools outperforming peer forest edge schools by a statistically significant 20%. Today, our scholars are graduating from University and colleges. We have teachers and lab technicians, electricians and plumbers, nurses and doctors and many are coming back to the forest to work with The Kasiisi Project.


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QVF7305 Dual-Core Gigabit VPN Router
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It's long been known that Radcliffe only had eight movies where he could play the Boy Who Lived.
But that hasn't stopped him from dealing with the supernatural.
In the new film "The Woman In Black," Radcliffe plays a lawyer who travels to a small town to attend a funeral. But as is the case with most remote English estates that don't involve Jane Austin, the place is haunted. Strange noises and sights are everywhere.
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The movie, based on a 1983 novel by Susan Hill, will be out later this year.
Watch the trailer to see Radcliffe not waving around a wand.
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Now, this is an interesting point of view: According to Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at UNCTAD, Heiner Flassbeck, the European financial crisis are all Germany's fault. Here at econoTwist's, however, we belive that the responsibility should be shared among several others – like the incompetent EU parliament and the ridiculous artificial institution called the EU Council. But Mr. Flassbeck makes some valid arguments, and it's certainly a theory worth taking into account.
"Since the end of Bretton Woods, Germany's economic policy has been based on two main pillars: competition of nations and monetarism. Both are irreconcilable with a monetary union."
Heiner Flassbeck
"There is no solution to the current euro zone crisis as long as no one effectively challenges the consistency of Germany's economic policy strategy with the logic of a monetary union. Captain Merkozy's boat approaches the rocks at high speed," Heiner Flassbeck writes.
This commentary is syndicated by www.eurointelligence.com:
A German End to the Euro Vision
Once upon a time European leaders believed in a step-by-step approach of European integration.
Each step would bring Europe closer to the target of closely related but still independent states.
According to this vision states would be willing to relinquish more and more of their independence, in order to gain advantages of peace, global strength through political cooperation and economic strength as a result of a big common market.
"Germany is considered by many as the role model for the rest of the union. That is the biggest mistake and the real reason why Europe is committing economic suicide instead of tackling its problem at the root."
In this approach, the creation of a monetary union was just one of these consecutive and unavoidable steps on the path to strengthen political cooperation and to completethe common market with its indisputable advantages for all European citizens.
Unfortunately, twelve years after the start of the European Monetary Union (EMU) reality tells a different story.
EMU is in troubled water and captain Merkozy is steering the boat towards some dangerous rocks that could mark the end to a long and peaceful ride of a formerly war torn region.
Much has been said about the folly of pushing countries to cut public expenditure, increase taxes and put pressure on wages in the middle of one of the deepest recessions in modern history.
However, even the outspoken critics of the Merkozy approach rarely discuss Germany's economic policy approach.
To the contrary, Germany is considered by many as the role model for the rest of the union. That is the biggest mistake and the real reason why Europe is committing economic suicide instead of tackling its problem at the root.
"Since the end of Bretton Woods, Germany's economic policy has been based on two main pillars: competition of nations and monetarism. Both are irreconcilable with a monetary union."
A monetary union is in essence a union of countries willing to harmonize their rates of inflation and to sacrifice national monetary policies.
A country like Germany, fighting for higher market shares in international markets, tries to achieve the opposite. It has to undercut the cost and price level of its main trading partners by all means.
A monetary union formed by already closely integrated countries becomes a rather closed economy and needs domestic policy instruments like monetary policy to stimulate growth time and again.
German monetarism asks for the opposite, the absence of any discretionary action of central banks and relies solely on flexibility of prices, in particular wages.
Along these lines the story of EMU's failure is quickly told. From the very beginning of the monetary union, German politicians put enormous pressure on trade unions to help realise an increase of unit labour cost and prices that was less than in other countries.
Since member states no longer could devalue their currencies to maintain competitiveness as they had done hitherto this was a rather easy task. The effects got stronger as small annual effects accumulated over time and, after ten years, created a huge gap in competitiveness in favour of Germany.
"Germany built up huge current account surpluses and Southern Europe and France accumulated the complementary deficits."
The ECB, in good German monetarist tradition, celebrated the achievement of the two percent inflation target, while ignoring the fact that this was built on two-sided violation of the inflation target.
Without Germany's undershooting of the target the overshooting in Southern European countries would not have been compatible with two percent overall.
The result is disastrous for the southern European economies as they are losing permanently market shares without being able to successfully retaliate the German attack. They would need a number of years with falling wages to come back into the markets.
However, the time to do that is not available.
Falling wages mean falling domestic demand and recession especially in countries like Italy or Spain with small export shares of some 25% of GDP. The resulting depression would be politically unbearable.
"Even a political tour de force would in vain as long as Germany is blocking the indispensable short and medium term relief measures."
Until EMU as a whole recovers strongly, deficit countries will remain in current account deficits and will not be able to reduce their budget deficits.
What would be required is direct intervention by the ECB to bring down bond yields as well as Eurobonds to bridge the time until the deficit countries' competitiveness is restored.
These measures are blocked by the German economic policy doctrine.
There is no solution to the current euro zone crisis as long as no one effectively challenges the consistency of Germany's economic policy strategy with the logic of a monetary union.
Captain Merkozy's boat approaches the rocks at high speed.
By Heiner Flassbeck
Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at UNCTAD.
Related by econoTwist's:
- Sado Monetarism & Fiscal Bondage
- EU: Drifting Towards Default, Destabilization And Disaster
- Europe In Debt (Part 1): Creating a Monster
- Europe In Debt (Part 2): Poisonous PIIGS With Toxic Lipstick
- Europe In Debt (Part 3): Exit On Main Street
- In Dangerous Times
- Kenneth Rogoff: Some European Countries Are Fundamentally
- BankruptFinancial Monsters Threaten Democracy, Former Portuguese President Says
- Europe: A Lehman Collapse in Slow Motion, Former Lehman Banker Says
Other related articles:
- Euro Crisis: German Unit Labor Cost repression is the primary cause of periphery stress (seekerblog.com)
- An unhappy anniversary for the euro | John Grahl (guardian.co.uk)
- New Year, Same Crisis: Will the Euro Survive 2012? (curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com)
- Will the Euro Survive 2012? (curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com)
- The eurozone will pay a high price for Germany's economic narcissism | Hans Kundnani (guardian.co.uk)
- The Coming Resolution of the European Crisis (seekerblog.com)
- Not favouritism, just error (economist.com)
- Chancellor Desk (Germany) : Europe will emerge stronger from the crisis (prosumerzen.net)
- Germany's Fed Up and Getting Ready to Walk (zerohedge.com)
- Germany is the ultimate victim of EMU (jhaines6.wordpress.com)
- Monti Says Germany Should Show More Support For EMU Peers: FT (forexlive.com)
- Read This and Tell Me Germany Wants a Monetary Union (zerohedge.com)
- Nothing else matters… (simonellis.wordpress.com)


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Welcome to Country - Why is it important?
To answer this question, we asked Joy Murphy Wandin. She is a Wurundjeri elder who has given Welcome to Country at numerous public events.
"For Wurundjeri it is about giving recognition to our ancestors for giving us the right to be here," Joy said. "It's paying respect, in a formal sense, and following traditional custom in a symbolic way.
"If you are looking for someone to give Welcome, it is very important that you identify carefully the traditional owners of the country, so that the correct elder can be invited. If you don't know whose country it is, you might not be applying the right protocols."
Every time a formal Welcome to Country is given it continues a tradition that has always been a part of Australian culture - except for a recent lapse of about 200 years. It was always given by way of welcome when permission was granted to visit a different tribal area.
What does it mean to Joy? A heck of a lot. "It is one of the most proud moments in my life, each and every time I'm able to pay respect and acknowledge my people," she said. "I think I'm fortunate to be here at this time when the mainstream are inviting us to give Welcome to Country. If we can continue with it, it will help to put that respect into the entire community.
"Initially people were hesitant, not so comfortable, but now there are all these wonderful invitations. It's a very important way of giving Aboriginal people back their place in society, and an opportunity for us to say, 'We are real, we are here, and today we welcome you to our land'.
Michael Winkler
Download your copy of the Dare to Lead Postcard (PDF 876Kb) or download directly from the Dare to Lead website by clicking here.
How to Do an Acknowledgment to Country
APAPDC's Acknowledgment to Country
This statement is used by Brian Giles-Browne in the work he does in New South Wales.
The following statement was used at the Dare to Lead national, state and territory launches. You are welcome to adapt it to your own situation (eg using the name of the people intstead of the generic 'first people', changing the last line so it refers to your particular project, agreement etc).
Acknowledging the loss of lands, cultures and treasures,
Knowing the consequences for people, communities and nations,
Believing we can walk together to a better future,
We meet today, taking it on."
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Haithabu Viking Museum – just outside Schleswig – is among the foremost archaeological museums in Germany.
The Wadden Sea National Park and World Heritage site is at your fingertips at the Multimar Wattforum Centre.
One of four sites under the Saxon Museum of Industry umbrella, Chemnitz Museum of Industry is housed inside a former foundry.
Erika Pohl-Ströher is the granddaughter of Franz and Marie Ströher – the founders of cosmetics company Wella, which was based in Rothenkirchen in Saxony until 1945.
The State Museum of Prehistory in Halle is one of the most important archaeological museums in central Europe.
Seven thousand years of Gallo-Roman history are brought to life at the European Archaeological Park in Bliesbruck-Reinheim, right on the French border in the Saarland .
As soon as you go inside you find yourself in a dark room. The objects on display in the cabinets at the Saarland exhibition have an almost theatrical effect.
Villa Borg, situated in the town of Perl in the Saarland , paints a vivid picture of life in the Saarland, Lorraine and Luxembourg region some 2,000 years ago.
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Im totally on board for more 'phones in the mid-to-high price range which bring awesome sound to the consumer.
Tyll: when you do sit down with them, if possible, can you provide some A-B comparison to the Oppo PM3? That is the one headphone, time and time again, that i see VERY positive feedback on. Its closed and planar so the comparison is warranted. (thou the cost difference is substantial..Oppo is around 400 and this is 800).
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McElhanney Consulting Services staff team wants to contribute to the community. That's why they decided to support a child in KidStart.
KidStart is a volunteer-based mentoring program offered by The John Howard Society of North Island (JHSNI). This award-winning program connects vulnerable children and youth aged six to 18 with positive adult role models in the Comox Valley and Campbell River.
Ian Whitehead, McElhanney's Vancouver Island vice-president, is a KidStart mentor. As well as volunteering his time on a weekly basis, Whitehead wanted to give the program a monetary donation.
"I wanted to help Comox Valley KidStart co-ordinator, Wendy Thurlborn, and the local JHSNI office. The work they do there is so important to us all, on so many levels. My definition of a true hero is someone who does good things for others but expects no public congratulation. To me, the staff at JHSNI typify this quality," Whitehead said.
KidStart depends on donations, grants, and fundraising. The staff team at McElhanney Consulting Services committed to a KidStart Champion Gold Sponsorship. JHSNI is inviting other groups and individuals to take part in its KidStart Champions fundraising campaign.
Becoming a KidStart Champion is simple — you choose from three levels of monthly sponsorship (Gold = $100/month, Silver = $50, Bronze = $25). Gold covers the entire cost of a child's participation in KidStart. Donations are tax deductible.
"We are thrilled that the staff members at McElhanney Consulting Services have decided to pool individual donations to add up to a KidStart Champion Gold Sponsorship," said JHSNI executive director Wendy Richardson. "It's a fantastic way to help a local child."
KidStart is looking for volunteer mentors as well as donors. There are more than 45 children aged six to 18 in the Comox Valley waiting for volunteer mentors to spend three hours a week with them.
Do you like fishing? Walking? Animals? Nature? Baking? Knitting? Biking? Playing board games? Consider sharing your time and interests with the next generation.
"KidStart is an easy way to 'give back' and make a difference in a young person's life. It's really rewarding and I would encourage anyone with a little spare time and an interest in helping others to give Wendy a call," said Whitehead.
To find out more about becoming a KidStart Champion or volunteer mentor, contact Wendy at 250-338-7341, ext. 335, or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit JHSNI online at www.jhsni.bc.ca/kidstartchampion.html.
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Better Offline Capabilities with Maven 2.0.10
This week while traveling on business, I had hoped to get a lot of work done, but was quickly disappointed when I wasn't able to build because maven couldn't download the latest SNAPSHOTs. Even though I had fresh local SNAPSHOT versions that would suffice.
Fortunately, maven 2.0.10 was recently released and it promised fixes for this exact situation (see release notes). Currently I am happily using version 2.0.9.
So now that I am at the hotel I decided to see if an upgrade would help me. I first built the submodule again to make sure I got the dreaded unable to download dependency. Downloaded and installed 2.0.10 and rebuilt again. And I am very excited to report that it worked
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They Gave Me Eyes But I Could Not See
Did two posts (here, and here) last month on the likeliest successors for each of the 30 current active big league skippers.
ATLANTA: Maybe Chico Cadahia or Eddie Perez, but I think the best bets are two former Cox lieutenants, Fredi Gonzalez of the Marlins, and ex-Brewers boss Ned Yost. If the latter were the obvious choice, he'd probably be back on the staff, not an advisor in KC.
KANSAS CITY: John Gibbons. Hiring a recently dismissed, no-nonsense ex-manager as your bench coach, is the standard process for anointing an heir apparent.
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Keith, At least you had Ned Yost up for a Manager's position. BTW, I am a lifelong Monty Python fan since the days I lived in London as a youth. Your Python asides on Countdown and in this blog always bring a smile to my face and a chuckle, if not an outright guffaw. I loved it when you interviewed the Pythons on your show a while back . Keep up the good work in both arenas of our mutual interest…Baseball and Politics!
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Predictions can make dumb people look smart and smart people look dumb, so I wouldn't sweat it. But I'd rather hear from Keith who he thinks the next manager should be, or should have been. Ned Yost doesn't seem like a very good choice. The Brewers were a sloppy team when Yost was manager. They made a lot of mental mistakes, which for a young team is understandable but so are the Rays. Even the Angels have mostly young players now. Yost is even-keeled and that's good for a team that's going to have a lot of rough days but the fans of Kansas City deserve better. There's a great baseball tradition there– I wish I could have witnessed the Yankees-Royals rivalry of the '70s and '80s– and Yost is a ho-hum choice for a franchise constantly settling for ho-hum, as in Jose Guillen. The most emotion I ever saw out of Yost was his insistence that C.C. Sabathia had pitched a no-hitter and made a throwing error rather than giving up an infield hit. And he was right, come to think of it.
Everyone has slumps. It's the nature of baseball. I think Yost got a raw deal in Milwaukee and I am glad that someone of his calaber is going to take on that disaster that is the Kansas City Royals. I don't follow the Royals, as I am not a fan of the AL. But, being from Missouri, I have many friends who are. For their sake I hope Yost can turn that club around. Lord knows they need the help.
I have one very important question to ask though. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? :>)
Learn to spell Marilyn. I meant caliber. Why is there no edit option on this blog?
Speaking of no edit option, I realize now that C.C. didn't make a throwing error in that (almost) no hitter but rather he didn't pick up a ball that was hit back to him.
Two stories.
One, on a Mets broadcast, Lindsey Nelson read an AP report that a manager was about to be fired and commented that AP didn't have a great record of accuracy on those things. A couple of minutes later, what came over the ticker in the booth? "We do so!"
The other is, supposedly, when the Giants were looking for a manager in the early 1960s, Len Schecter, Stan Isaacs, and Larry Merchant were together at the winter meetings and thought, who is the least likely person ever to become a manager? They agreed: Yogi Berra. So they floated the rumor that the Giants wanted Yogi. That led to other reporters calling Yogi, who said he certainly would like to manage someday. After that came various stories reporting that he might be under consideration for other openings. And who is one of the few managers to win pennants in both leagues? Yogi.
So, Keith, don't feel bad. Managerial speculation is as bad as Russell Baker's "The Great Mentioner," who "mentions" possible presidential candidates.
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Ahemm…Keith. Could you reflect on your Dodger predictions please? You were kind enough to do so when they were 11-14. Also, and slightly out of bounds…could you stop gathering all members of a certain uh, silver state under the same umbrella. At least in terms of poultry…
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Back in 1995 pop music's leading bad girl Madonna was featured in her first Versace ad campaign. She followed it up with another turn as the brand's spokesperson in 2005. Now Donatella Versace's "topless" friend Lady Gagais going in with the fashion house on a new deal of her own.
The singer announced yesterday via Twitter that the Italian fashion house will provide custom costume pieces for the American Born This Way Ball running through mid-March 2013.
THE BORN THIS WAY BALL is getting a face-lift for America. I heard rumors @versace IS CUSTOM DESIGNING ALL THE CLOTHES AND NEW LOOKS.
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) November 13, 2012
The announcement should actually come as no surprise. Gaga has been spending at lot of time with designer Donatella Versace in the past few months after The announcement should actually come as no surprise. Gaga has been spending at lot of time with designer Donatella Versace in the past few months after being crowned as her muse for the latest collection. The two women have been practically inseparable as they attended Paris' Fashion Week together and enjoyed some down time at Donatella's late brother Gianni's apartment in Milan.
Back in June Gaga declared that she would wear nothing but vintage Versace for the next two months, thus beginning her Versace craze. The singer even wore archival pieces from Versace's 1992 bondage collection in the "Edge Of Glory" music video.
Following her Tweet, Gaga also announced a pre-show parking lot party before every U.S. show on the new tour. Tailgating — does that go with Versace?
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The play "Suicide Note from Palestine," directed in 2013 by Nabil Al-Raee at the Freedom Theater in Jenin. Photo by Lazar Simeonov.
The artistic director of the Freedom Theatre based in Jenin, Nabil Al-Raee, has been denied entry to the UK, where he was meant to give a speaking tour in June about the work of the theatre in addition to screening short films and documentaries.
According to the British immigration authorities, Al-Raee's visit did not qualify under "Entertainer Visitor," nor did it fit under "Business Visitor," which is reportedly why he was denied a visa. He was also suspected of trying to extend his stay in Britain.
The artist claimed that the accusations were unfounded, as he is married to a Portuguese woman and could easily apply for residency in Portugal and then travel to the UK if he wanted to.
Yet Al-Raee told Palestine Monitor that this uncertainty is common not only for artists but also for Palestinian people in general: You can never know whether you will be granted a visa or not, he said.
"What would be my chances of getting a visa to Italy, for example, if I wasn't the artistic director of a theatre?" he asked.
One of the Palestinian actors of the Freedom Theatre, Ahmed Tobasi, has now replaced Al-Raee for the speaking tour since he is able to travel to the UK with his Norwegian passport.
However, the Freedom Theatre is already preparing for a much bigger production meant to take place in Britain during spring 2015. "The Siege" is a multimedia piece of theatre, telling the story of Palestinian fighters who took refuge in the Church of Nativity in 2002 at the height of the Second Intifada.
Although seven Palestinian actors will need visas for the production, Al-Raee said the group would definitely try to get in, as this would be the first time the Freedom Theatre is to perform abroad.
"I think it would be important for the British audience to understand the situation in Palestine and also their responsibility," Al-Raee said, referring to the role Britain played in the creation of the state Israel and its facilitation of mass Jewish immigration to the region. The entirety of historic Palestine was under British mandate from the end of the First World War until the independence of Israel in 1948.
"Of course, we would also like to develop more artistic partnerships in the country," he added.
The director lamented the fact that Palestinians were not allowed to see their partner workers in the UK while the latter were able to visit them the West Bank.
"Even the Prime Minister of the UK has visited us in Jenin," he said.
Al-Raee sees the visa issue as a struggle for all the residents of the so-called Third World, who are trying to obtain visas to the Western countries.
"At the moment, the system divides people into good and bad; those who can enter and those who cannot," he said, indicating that often times, being from the 'third world' renders one forever in the later category.
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"Nothing quite like it exists yet, but we have begun building it," Henry Markram wrote in the June 2012 issue of Scientific American. He was referring to a "fantastic new scientific instrument"—a biologically realistic and detailed model of a working human brain hosted on supercomputers. Markram, who directs the Brain Mind Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, has been working on the Blue Brain Project, more recently known as the Human Brain Project, since 2005. "A digital brain will be a resource for the entire scientific community: researchers will reserve time on it, as they do on the biggest telescopes, to conduct their experiments," Markram wrote in SA. "They will use it to test theories of how the human brain works in health and in disease. They will recruit it to help them develop not only new diagnostic tests for autism or schizophrenia but also new therapies for depression and Alzheimer's disease. The wiring plan for tens of trillions of neural circuits will inspire the design of brainlike computers and intelligent robots. In short, it will transform neuroscience, medicine and information technology."
This is a segment from Year 3 of Bluebrain, Noah Hutton's 10-Year documentary on the Blue Brain Project. Hutton's first documentary feature was Crude Independence, a portrait of small-town life during the present-day oil boom in North Dakota. The film premiered at SXSW in 2009. Hutton has since directed music videos (including one for neuroscientist Joe LeDoux's band The Amygdaloids), the concert documentary King for Two Days, and freelance work that helps finance ongoing personal projects, such as Bluebrain.
Markram has claimed, at various times, that he can complete this ambitious project within 10 years. His critics argue that his ultimate goal is unachievable because the human brain is too complex to simultaneously simulate at every level, from the molecule to the cortex. Say one wanted to build an exact replica of a large and intricate circuit board. One would first need to map every wire linking every component and then re-create these links. In the same way, making a model of the human brain requires knowing the trillions of connections between its neurons. A map of all the connections between neurons in a brain is called a connectome, and no such map exists for the human brain. In fact, the only organism with a complete connectome is the tiny nematode C. elegans, which has 302 neurons total. The human brain has more than 80 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections between those cells.
Markram counters that one can build a realistic virtual brain without understanding the function of every last molecule or pinpointing every single connection in a living brain. In December 2006 Markram and his team simulated a rat's neocortical column, a small functional unit of brain tissue containing about 10,000 neurons. A rat's brain has perhaps 100,000 of these columns, whereas the human brain likely has more than two million of them, each of which comprises 100,000 neurons. Markram did not create a connectome for the rat's cortical column. Instead, he gathered all the available information about how the many different types of neurons in a single column connect and programmed his virtual cells to link up in the same way. Instead of manually connecting his virtual neurons one by one, he's hoping to get his supercomputers to do the linking on their own, following the same rules—genetic, geometric or otherwise—that govern neural connections in a fleshy brain.
Mapping connections is just one of the many hurdles Markram will have to overcome or circumvent to make his project a success. Another barrier is funding: Right now Markram is competing with five other teams for a one-billion-euro grant from the European Commission. Debate about how that money is best spent—and whether Markram should even be in the running—is heated.
To capture the controversy, the science and the evolution of this scientific enterprise, independent filmmaker Noah Hutton flies from New York City to Lausanne each year. Hutton has been working on this 10-year documentary since 2009, when he first learned of the Blue Brain project by listening to Markram's TED talk. Above, you can watch a segment from the third year of this ongoing documentary and, below, you can read a Q&A with Hutton.
Tell us a little about your documentary. Why are you making this film?
This is a 10-year documentary film that I began making in 2009, focusing on The Blue Brain Project in Lausanne, Switzerland. It's going to continue to focus on Blue Brain at its center, but starting this year I'm expanding its scope to explore the work of some other ambitious projects and labs that are trying to understand the brain. I'm hoping that the film can provide a platform over the rest of this decade for a conversation about the relative accomplishments, advantages and potential weaknesses of the paths taken by each project towards that understanding—be it mapping the brain, poking and prodding it or building it with supercomputers—and can become sort of a state-of-the-union documentary that tracks the evolution of our understanding of the brain over the rest of this decade.
So I am making the film first from a place of personal interest in these pursuits. We've seen some strong cases presented by some prominent figures in recent years, and I am very interested to see how these projects unfold over the next decade. I also think that a documentary film, like some long-form written journalism, allows for a certain kind of independent conversation and exploration to take place that might not otherwise appear in the public forum. And I've been interested to see how that exploration might unfold over the course of a decade—with short-length, edited updates to the film released publicly each year the film is getting made and these projects are releasing the results of their work. It also makes for an interesting relationship with the subjects of the film, in terms of the normal sequence of events of shooting footage for a documentary, editing it and then presenting the completed version. Here the subjects see a glimpse each year of where this film about them is heading, even as it's still being made.
Are you working alone?
I've worked with a small crew on some of the interviews in the U.S. so far, but I've made the yearly trips to Blue Brain in Switzerland on my own, because I've been self-funding this project through my production company here in New York City, as I have wanted to stay independent. I'm actively looking to secure outside funding from a source not tied to any of the subjects or projects in the film so that I can make more trips, stay longer in places and work with a crew. I'm trying to find a funder who is open to the timeline and is interested in seeing this film get made.
What are your main sources of inspiration in making this documentary? Are there particular movies or directors that have guided your own thinking?
My main source of inspiration in making the film is the thing that is at the heart of all of the scientists' pursuits in the film: the human quest to explore and understand the brain, to try to use the most advanced machines of science to reveal this great unknown within us. And the fact that some believe it to be an impossible quest in their lifetimes, while others believe it will be achieved in theirs—maybe even in 10 years—to me, this makes for an inspiring subject. Certainly the work of other filmmakers who have done longitudinal projects—I think first of Seven Up! and there are several other interesting ones—the ambitions and structures of these longitudinal films have inspired me.
What has Henry Markram achieved so far?
What I understand on a general level is that Blue Brain has begun to create the infrastructure for how they see the future of 21st-century neuroscience. They talk about it in terms of building new facilities. That means building a biologically realistic simulation of a scalable, functional unit of cortex—the column—which can be used to do experiments, and also building more efficient data-mining tools that they will use to continue to feed in biological data to their simulations. They also speak of some interesting insights gleaned thus far from the behavior of the network they're simulating, which they've presented in papers and at some conferences.
It's also worth noting that Markram's earlier biological work at the cellular level, beginning with his work with Bert Sakmann, is widely regarded now as part of the bedrock of the field. I first heard about Markram about a year before I saw his TED talk, when I was assigned as an undergrad studying neuroscience in 2008 to read and write a summary of one of his widely cited papers from the '90s.
Do you think Markram will achieve his ultimate goal of reverse engineering the human brain as a biologically realistic computer model? Do you think that reaching that goal matters?
I don't have a prediction. I don't feel I know enough yet to make one. Some do seem to make predictions with their tone of coverage of Blue Brain, and I'm somewhat skeptical of anyone in the press or elsewhere dooming it to fail or painting an excessively grim portrait at this stage without getting specific and staying open. Because Blue Brain is not off in the woods, impervious somehow to legitimate feedback—what I have learned is that they are periodically reviewed by their funders, by an outside panel of experts—they continue to do well and be funded, and continue to move forward. And from spending time there, I can say from my own perspective that the project is made up of very sharp scientists from around the world, and they are very detailed in their thinking—most of all, Henry Markram.
On the question of whether Blue Brain reaching its goal matters, I would say I'm not really in it to be rooting for one thing or another, and I'm not even sure how one would predict whether reaching their goal will eventually matter or not at this early stage. Though if evidence mounts that understanding the brain through Blue Brain's methods will lead to medical advances in treating diseases or damage to the brain, I am rooting. From a more philosophical point of view, I can say for myself that in making this film, I'm equally interested in success as I am in failure. Because if we have mapped the brain, fully simulated it or otherwise grappled with it comprehensively, and if we're still not yet understanding it or watching it come alive, what are we missing?
Markram is competing with five other research groups for a mega-grant from the European Commission of one billion Euros ($1.4 billion) over 10 years. Many scientists have argued that Markram's project is so daunting and, perhaps, impossible that the money is better spent elsewhere. Do you have an opinion on the matter?
I trust that with so much money at stake, the European Commission has vetted the proposals at a pretty high level, so I don't see what I would know that they don't towards this question of where the money is best spent. But I am of course aware of the criticism you're referencing. I wonder if it's helpful to look at this as more of a positive-sum thing for neuroscience on the whole—this is what Rafael Yuste of Columbia [University] told me this year when I interviewed him for the film. He said, in talking about the relationship of structural connectomics to functional brain simulation, that we too often view this as a zero-sum game, with clear winners and losers, when, in reality, the very fact that governments are carving out new pockets of funding for brain research of any kind, and that data is being gathered and analyzed at all—it's all a positive-sum affair in an age of longer life spans and increased rates of neurodegenerative conditions. So whether you agree with him or not, Markram has been very successful in raising the profile of a line of brain research and securing government funding for it. The fact that he is perhaps in the position to do so again, on a larger scale, and at the expense of any of those other projects that would not be funded, will inevitably charge the passions of supporters and critics alike.
I think this also has something to do with the nature of how the commission has structured this grant-awarding process—a call for flagship proposals, then a group of finalists battling it out for two mega-grants, thereby creating winners and losers, like any competition would. Another interesting question to ask is whether another brain-related project could have even made it into the final group, had Markram's not been there. I'm not sure about the answer to that, but this is where the positive-sum perspective comes into play for me.


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I'm very disappointed in reading this from the Vatican. My mother was divorced and remarried for around 15 years before finally deciding to pursue the annulment process. She had become far more of a devout Catholic by this time then she was when first divorced (although she did care enough that she continued going to mass most of the time even though she was forbidden to receive the sacraments). When she finally received the annulment papers in the mail, she was overjoyed and quickly made arrangements to get married again in the Church. She is now so happy to be able to participate again in the sacramental life of her Church after having been denied for so many years because her first marriage didn't work out.Now the Pope of Rome wants to make it harder for millions of Catholics to get an annulment and thus return to participation in the RC sacraments every Sunday. How sad that the RCC will not under any circumstances permitt a divorce in the first place. Thank God that Orthodoxy, although always striving to preserve the dignity of marriage, allows for the option of divorce. Thank God to belong to a Church which tolerates human nature and understands the weakness of the flesh.http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5294 Granting easy access to marriage annulments is an offense against both justice and charity, said Pope Benedict XVI on January 29. The Pope's message has a particular resonance in the US, whose Catholic Church tribunals account for more than half of the world's annulment decrees. Pope Benedict, like Pope John Paul II before him, has repeatedly argued for a more vigorous defense of the marital bond.
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LEWISTON, ME -- The Lewiston (ME) School Department was awarded a three-year grant worth $496,000 from a foundation headed by the grandson of L.L. Bean to teach students fitness skills and help them stay active for life, the Lewiston Sun Journal reports.
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Lewiston schools will increase physical opportunities, from dance to more active learning, the newspaper reports. Next year, Lewiston Middle School will get a new fitness center, and the year after, K-6 schools will get 10-station fitness centers, according to the newspaper.
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Individual student fitness assessments, or fitnessgrams, similar to those created by The Cooper Institute of Dallas and used in Texas schools, will be taken of every student in Maine and shared with their parents, the newspaper reports.


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The temperature was in the 30s Saturday evening in downtown Chicago, but you wouldn't know it from looking at Lee DeWyze.
The former "American Idol" winner and Mount Prospect native was wearing flip-flops and a black t-shirt while smoking a cigarette outside the Hard Rock Hotel, where he later performed three songs with The Gold Coast All-Stars at the "Starry New Year's Eve" party.
"They have heat lamps," said DeWyze when I questioned the decision.
The 25-year-old singer now lives in the L.A.-area – where flip flops and a t-shirt in late-December is more common. He moved there after winning "Idol" in May 2010. He plans to marry fiance and model/actress Jonna Walsh there some time between August and October.
In addition to a wedding this year, DeWyze plans on releasing his follow-up to 2010's "Live It Up" in the spring. The album will be his first since being dropped from RCA Records in September.
"This album will be much different than the last album as far as creative control on it," DeWyze said once we sat down in the warmer Hard Rock lobby. "I definitely have been able to write the songs I want to write and take my time on it.
"I was able to write on the last album, but the last album had a bunch of songs I liked that didn't get on the album. And that one, I had only three months. This one, I have almost a year to get this to where I want it to be."
"Live It Up" sold fewer copies than the debut albums of any other past "Idol" winners and received mixed reviews. Still, DeWyze, who is quick to point out that he loves the album, said he doesn't know for sure if that's why he was dropped.
"Was I surprised?" DeWyze said about RCA's decision. "I'll say this: They were great when I was with them. Do I feel I got the support that was needed to promote the album – especially after coming off an 'Idol' type show? No, I don't. But I'm not on that end of it. It's easy to sit here and say that."
DeWyze said his new album will include a few folk country songs, which he said is what happens when you write music in Nashville. He described the sound of these songs as Jason Aldean-meets-Keith Urban. And while he has yet to officially decide on a new record label, he said he was approached by one major label and a few independent ones.
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Michigan Tech Archives Recognized as National Heritage Site
Michigan Technological University's Archives has long been a popular spot for students, researchers and locals to find information. Many come to view the abundant records, search the photographs of the area and Michigan Tech, research family history or look at the collections of old newspapers. Now, however, the Michigan Tech Archives offer the added attraction of recognition as a Keweenaw National Historical Park (KNHP) heritage site.
"It's really great," says Julie Blair, interim University archivist and strategic initiatives librarian. "It's nice to get the formal recognition. It creates more opportunities for us to collaborate with the other participating heritage sites, such as the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, the Houghton County Historical Museum and the Calumet Theatre. It also makes us eligible for additional support from the park, such as funding for various grants and displays."
She hopes that now, with heritage site status, the Archives will see an increase in out-of-town visitors, including summer tourists, who come to learn about the area.
"We are working on an exhibit that we hope will be interesting to those anticipated visitors, and we would like to include aspects that appeal to travelers who come here with families," Blair said. "They don't necessarily think of archives as a vacation destination spot."
The Archives collections focus on social, cultural and economic aspects of the Western Upper Peninsula and Michigan Tech. They collect, preserve and make accessible the records of the past.
"The Archives is one of the area's richest cultural resources," says Blair. "We have the largest collection of historical documents about local history in the western UP. The National Historic Park Establishment Act, which went before the House of Representatives in 1992, actually cited the Michigan Tech Archives as one of the University's 'outstanding resources'."
Blair explains that the Archives has a significant manuscript collection--7,000 cubic feet of books and papers to be exact--and that the Archives can, and has, acted as a referral for the KNHP. The Archives can promote park resources and guide people to other resources as well. Visitors come to the Archives for research, and the Archives always tries to point them in the right direction.
"It's neat for people to come and see how things have changed and how things haven't changed," Blair remarks.
When asked if she was proud, Blair responded, "I think that the Archive's collections really speak for themselves. This is about the collections and the services that we offer. I think that it adds to, and raises, our national profile as a significant cultural resource, not only for the area but as part of our national history."
The Michigan Tech Archives is located on the lower level of the Van Pelt and Opie Library. It is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Pressure cookers never really did much for me. They seemed fussy — and scary! All those stories about explosions...
Then I used one to make a risotto, a dish that by definition is tedious to make. I was blown away. It simplified the process and — most impressively — sped it up. What normally takes me 45 minutes in a traditional saute pan was done and ready to serve in about 20. That's my type of risotto! And my type of pan.
Pressure cookers really are very cool devices. Because the lids clamp on and create a pressured, steam-driven environment, they allow you to cook at higher temperatures. Normal boiling or steaming cooking methods max out around 212 F, the boiling point of water. Pressure cookers allow for water (as steam) to be superheated, reaching as high as 250 F.
The result is a moist, quick method of cooking that produces deliciously tender meats in little time. And modern pressure cookers also happen to be very safe (don't worry about explosions!).
My risotto recipe is simple and delicate because I wanted it to showcase the asparagus. But it would be easy to add a touch of garlic, your favorite mushrooms and even tender spring peas.
The second time I made it, I added porcini mushroom powder and it was divine, resulting in a bolder, more umami filled risotto without any mushroom slices. The garlic and mushrooms — or porcini powder — should go in at the beginning and peas should be added when the asparagus is to let the heat of the steaming rice cook the tender vegetables.
I have never had so much fun making risotto. Now that I have the hang of using the pressure cooker, I can't wait to tackle short ribs, chicken Marbella, whole stuffed artichokes and grits, too — anything that normally takes hours and/or lots of stirring to make!
The asparagus is added raw to the rice after it is cooked, letting the delicate green stalks cook just briefly. This light touch leaves the asparagus bright green and slightly crunchy. If you like your asparagus cooked more, you can grill or saute it briefly before adding it to the risotto. But do not add it to the pressure cooker at the same time as the rice or it will overcook.
Start to finish: 45 minutes
Servings: 4
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 large shallot, chopped or thinly sliced
1 cup Arborio rice
1/2 cup white wine
2 cups no-salt chicken broth
Pinch of salt, plus more to taste
Pinch of red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup small asparagus tips and tops, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1/8 cup chopped fresh chives
In a medium pressure cooked over medium, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the shallot and saute for 2 to 3 minutes, or until translucent. Increase heat to high and add the rice, stirring to coat. Toast the rice, stirring constantly, for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the wine and cook until evaporated.
Add the broth and a pinch each of salt and red pepper flakes. Stir until the mixture comes to a simmer, then lock on the pressure cooker's lid. Set a timer for 9 minutes. Bring the cooker up to full pressure, then reduce the heat to maintain that level. Cook until the timer goes off.
Take the cooker off the heat and wait 3 minutes, then put the pot in the sink and run cold water over it to release the pressure. Open the cooker; the rice should be creamy. Return the pot to the stovetop over medium heat. Add the butter, asparagus, cheese and chives. Stir until heated through and the butter and cheese have melted. Season with salt and pepper.
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A few months ago I came across a handwritten note by a very good artist, in his eighties – who just happens to like classical representational art. He not only did not like abstract painting – he disliked it. OK – many people do not like abstractions – but they have the wisdom to say -' I don't understand it'. What is the Artist trying to say? That is a valid point. You must understand something before you appreciate it or pass an opinion. I personally struggled for a long time because I did not understand Christo. However – after a few videos, his biographical book, and a few other books on his art – I came upon the 'aha' moment. I got it! And ever since that moment a few years back – I am trying to the best of my abilities to explain his art to others – to the best of my understanding. Back to the old school Artist, who dislikes Abstract art. So much so, that he had the audacity to cut out an Article form a newspaper, about a celebrated abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler, with a note addressed to his fellow-artist buddy: ' Hi John! Here is another example of hoe talentless fraud is accepted as art and equally kook-y critics!'". I just happen to know 'John', who knows I love abstract art and just lets me have the cut outs… The point here is – it is so easy to dismiss something one does not understand. And for some – belittling and degrading something they simply cannot grasp – comes even easier.
But WHY?
Why dismiss something that clearly has values to many – aesthetic value, poetic value, even monetary value ….. That brings me to enclosing some reprints from a a well known publication about my favorite abstract artist – Gerhard Richter – named lately " The Top Selling Living artist": by Wall Street Journal in an article by Kelly Crow.
About Gerhard Richter's unrivalled success Mr. Crow adds: "The artist's ascent is being driven by market demands as much as curatorial merit: Auction houses and museums, eager for new masters to canonize, are showcasing Mr. Richter's works around the world at an ever-increasing clip. An influx of international collectors and dealers are also seizing the moment to buy or sell his pieces at a profit—including art-world tastemakers such as Russian industrialist Roman Abramovich, French luxury-goods executive Bernard Arnault, dealer Larry Gagosian, Taiwanese ele
ctronics mogul Pierre Chen and New York hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen
Mr. Richter's work is uniquely suited to the tastes of the current art market. Like Picasso, he paints in a number of different styles—from rainbow-hued abstracts to poignant family portraits—giving collectors plenty of choice. Like Warhol, he is prolific, which ensures a steady volume of his works in the marketplace—yet enough of his works are in museum collections that he has avoided a glut. And ever since the deaths last year of painters Cy Twombly and Lucian Freud, collectors searching for another senior statesman have started giving his work a closer look.
Collectors are paying a particular premium for Mr. Richter's larger abstracts from the
late 1980s, which have all the visual impact of a work by Francis Bacon or Mr. Rothko, artists whose prices spiked before the recession. These abstracts are also immediately identifiable as being Mr. Richter's creations, making them easy status symbols. San Francisco dealer Anthony Meier says, "Collectors want an iconic work in a format that everyone recognizes. Monkey see, monkey do"
As Terry Teachout points out in his article " The Seductive Allure of Abst
raction" :
"Part of what makes this series so fascinating is that Mr. Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, waged a lifelong "battle" with abstraction. He started out as a gifted Abstract Expressionist painter. In 1955 he suddenly embraced representation, turning out dozens of figurative paintings that translate the language of Matisse into a wholly personal, semiabstract style. Then, in the Ocean Park series, he made a decisive return to total abstraction, in the process creating the most original works of his career.
"To chart Mr. Diebenkorn's stylistic development is to be reminded of the near-overwhelming power of the idea of abstraction in the 20th century. It was even felt by artists who, like Pierre Bonnard and Fairfield Porter, never produced an abstract painting in their lives, but were nonetheless influenced by the way in which practitioners of abstraction created what Mr. Diebenkorn called "invented landscapes," nonobjective images that evoked the world of tangible reality while steering clear of literal representation."
"Just as Kandinsky turned his back on figuration, so did the atonal composers of the early 20th century, led by Arnold Schoenberg, abandon tonal harmony, the fundamental ordering principle on which all Western classical music had previously been based. In a tonal composition, harmonic movement is the "plot" that propels the listener through time. Schoenberg, by contrast, sought to express his inmost feelings in a raw, unmediated way instead of using large-scale tonal architecture to shape them into conventionally coherent structures. "One must express oneself!" he told Kandinsky in 1911. "Express oneself directly! Not one's taste, or one's upbringing, or one's intelligence, knowledge or skill. Not all these acquired characteristics, but that which is inborn, instinctive."
Whatever causes the Abstract Art to be in the center of such controversies as despised by some and revered by others – is certainly not going away. Abstract Art is here to stay. For those of us – who love Abstract Art – and even paint abstract – this is the good news. For the ones, who have not grown to at least like it – I would say – "Get over it! Spend more time trying to understand it and less time complaining and maybe you will figure out why abstract art is so timeless…' For now, my Abstract lovers – let us enjoy Richter's unlimited imagination, while he keeps being amazed at his own success….
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The ruling is limited to Germany, where the drug had sales of $82 million for the first 10 months of the year, and not binding to other countries, the company said.
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For college football aficionados, especially those who are BYU fans, The Miracle Bowl represents one of the finest comebacks ever in the history of the college football—engineered by the great Jim McMahon. The Cougars had never won a bowl game coming into the 1980 Holiday Bowl, and the "experts" seemed sure they wouldn't get this one either.
They were matched up against the Mustangs of SMU who boasted two of the best running backs in the game. Nicknamed the "Pony Express," Eric Dickerson and Craig James were picked to run roughshod over Brigham Young.
With four minutes left in the game, everything was turning out just as it was supposed to. BYU's defense couldn't handle SMU's offense, and the Mustangs scored to take a commanding 45-25 lead over the Cougars.
But, like all miracles, the undoable found a way to get done. Over the next four minutes, BYU found a way back. Then, in the final minute of the game, now just down by six, The Cougs blocked a punt, and with 13 seconds left, ended up with the ball on the 41-yard line. After two incompletions, McMahon threw a "Hail Mary" pass as time expired. Due to an amazing catch, the ball found its way into Clay Brown's hands for the touchdown. With no time left, the miracle was completed as the extra point was good. BYU took their first bowl win with a 46-45 victory. (To see a piece done on The Miracle Bowl, click here—or watch it at the end of this post)
This year, I had my own Miracle Bowl. It was twice as amazing, and took my breath away in a way the 1980 Holiday Bowl never could.
It was the first weekend in November and BYU was playing at home against UNLV. The night before, I had decided that I wasn't going to use my season tickets, and just watch the game on TV. It was supposed to be pretty cold, and UNLV was on a down year to say the least.
But, when I woke up the next morning, the weatherman was all wrong (big shock…right?!) It was a beautiful day, with temperatures you expected to see in mid September—not the first of November. Feeling like I couldn't pass on such a beautiful day, I got on the phone and started making the rounds to see if I could find a second (Ko's my usual game day gal, but things have been a little off this year…OK maybe more than just a little).
I called my brother, my brother in law, my buddy—all the usual suspects, and because of the late notice no one could join me. Finally, sitting at the counter, I looked over at Cole and asked him. He didn't say no—frankly, he didn't really say anything, I took that as a yes, and we were off.
We made the hour and a half trip brilliantly. I was in the front of the van doing my pregame prep by listening to the pre-game on 1160 AM, while Cole was in the back getting all he needed from Donald Duck (said like it's all one word, "Donalduck"). We prepare for games very differently, but different strokes and all that
We got to the stadium where Cousin Jessie, who's going to the Y, met us, and unloaded The Cole Man from his car seat.
Before I knew it, there we were, Cole and I taking in our first Cougar game together. We sat there, got some pics together, and with Cosmo the mascot, Cole saw his first touchdown (which we happened to get on video—you can see that below too) and even somehow enjoyed a hot dog together. Which, I know may not seem like much, but when you have no use of your hands, partial use of your arms, and have your left hand side unable to help since it's being used holding Cole, buying, unwrapping, and sharing a hot dog with a 22 month old takes real skill!
Then, in the middle of all the cheering and fun (BYU won big), it hit me.
I've had those same seats for a long time; since '89 when I was a freshman; since before I knew Kolette. I've been watching BYU play football from those same seats for 21 seasons now, and during those seasons I've seen a lot—a lot of football, a lot of fun, and a lot of fathers taking their sons to football games. Through nearly all those seasons, I wondered if I would ever get to be one of those fathers.
Then, on the 6th of November, there I was—watching a game with my boy. I was now the father. I now got to make sure my boy could see the ball, meet the mascot and get a hot dog.
Tears welled up in my eyes, and streamed down my face, as I saw my Miracle Bowl. For, I was reminded again, as I so often am, that Cole is just that—a miracle—the real thing. Just like the BYU vs. SMU game, Cole proves that the undoable is doable, and that the "experts" don't always know as much as they think they do. It made me grateful to my Father in Heaven for this supreme blessing; for this incredible kindness.
It may not be the best game I've ever seen, but it was the most beautiful.
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Michelle Obama will be in Chicago Friday to tape an upcoming episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," the White House announced.
Obama joins Tom Brokaw and Bob Woodward to discuss military families and the first lady's forthcoming launch of a national campaign to support and honor such families.
During the show, scheduled to air Thursday, Jan. 27, Obama and Winfrey also will be joined by a military family talking about ways to help spouses and children of U.S. servicemen and women. Brokaw and Woodward plan to tell stories of military families.
The announcement comes during a rough patch of viewership for Winfrey's OWN cable network.
Ratings for the network have dropped off after a strong start, according to the New York Post.
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