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Topic: Good Will Hunting
It's Brian's fault.
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It's Brian's fault.
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Oh, that's right. My bad.
It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault...
Probably my favourite movie so I'm glad you guys did a commentary of it. And I fully agree they don't really make movies like this anymore (although Chef kinda has that feel-good quality of it). I always thought it was justifiable that Will knows so much. I think it kind of goes hand in hand with his fear of failure. He read books to make himself impenetrable to others (i.e being dumber than anyone). But he never pursued college or something further than reading because of his fear of failure. Overall I agree that most geniuses are geniuses in only a specific category, but I also don't think him being that smart hurts the movie.
As for the "It's not your fault" scene. While it is quotable and a bit melodramatic, I don't think it's the case that it kind of fixes all his issues. I think its obvious he was making progress before the scene, and even after the scene he doesn't immediately go and chase after the girl. Will still takes time to realize what he really wants and chase after it.
Just my 2 cents, overall it was a fun episode to listen to
There are definitely people who have a perfect storm of intellectual traits which give them a general aptitude that's like in the 99th percentile or something. Combine a photographic memory with a high IQ and a quick reading pace, and someone could definitely learn a lot about a lot by the time they were 20 (kinda like the 10000 hour rule. musicians can reach near master status by the time they're 20)
George Plimpton did ads for Intellivision, not ColecoVision. Intellivision was the first real challenger to the Atari 2600, with graphics that actually looked like something and this weird controller with a movement disk and a keypad. The ColecoVision was the next generation (and the system I had). It too had a keypad, but also an actual joystick. The controller must have been good for just general hacking, as you could still buy generic replacements in RadioShack for decades afterwards.
There's a documentary called "Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself!" Jonathan Coulton has a song about him called "A Talk With George" that appears on both his live albums.
I still have an Intellivision
*not relevant to the discussion at all*
But do you have an Intelevator?
*even less relevant*
My favourite movie of all time. Not perfect, not even the 'best' movie I've ever seen, but I just love it so hard.
Anyway. Great commentary, even if it did go a wee bit off topic a few times I love the park bench scene, that's just golden, and it really resonated with me at the time (I would've been maybe 20 when I first saw this movie). That sentiment of getting out and doing things, making mistakes and having experiences because just reading about them isn't the same.
As for the infamous it's not your fault scene, I feel like you were right when you said it's something Sean says because it's something he has found out for himself, that he thinks Will needs to hear. But he can see that Will doesn't believe him, so he keeps saying it. And Will brushes it off as more psychobabble, but it's not, and Sean keeps going until Will breaks down. And says "I'm so sorry." That's the clincher.
I love that moment, and it's kind of a shame that it became such a cliché and made so much fun of, although it's also (as evident in your commentary!) very easy to do. I just watched the trailer for Kenneth Branagh's upcoming Cinderella... spot the it's not your fault moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPXeNzpDJE
Haven't listened yet, but I'll be disappointed if nobody mentions that this is the film that spawned the best porn parody title ever. You all know that one, admit it.
There's more than one
Maybe they used footage of the game, because the first time either Sean or Will saw the game was as a recording. As stated in the movie, it wasn't something they actually experienced live. However, the footage has a home movie kind of feel. This in the context of a film can be associated with a character's actual memory of an event.
So, just like Sean's setup of the story, the intercutting of the game footage makes it compelling but slightly misleading.
And in similar categories like 'Bros playing Bros':
Martin Sheen frequently plays the father of characters played by his sons.
Damon Whitaker has played the younger versions of (his brother) Forest Whitaker's characters in Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.
Finally listened to this one even though I've never seen Good Will Hunting. I got a name drop, whee!
Concatenate: to stick together, to append, to prefix/suffix.
The sum of seven and eight is fifteen; the concatenation of 'seven' and 'eight' is 'seveneight'. It's more commonly a programming thing for characters than a math thing for numbers.
The whole "it's not your fault" riff, a minute after the two-hour mark — with all of us telling Brian it's not his fault that he ostensibly sank his crew boat that one time — is cracking me up.
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EDIT: And 2:20.
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Each serving contains about 182 calories, 1 g protein, 6 g fat (30 percent calories from fat), 15 mg cholesterol, 27 g carbohydrates, 3 g fiber, and 10 mg sodium.
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Apples, onions, and garlic are simmered with chops.
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Put peaches, yogurt, ice and all but 6 raspberries into blender and puree. Serve in tall glasses. Garnish with reserved berries. The smoothie will be thick enough to float them on top. Add fresh mint leaves if you have them.
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Rosti has been called the national dish of German-speaking Switzerland. Rosti is similar to hash browns and is usually topped with cheese.
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Cook chopped apples and cranberries in the microwave for 4 minutes. Then stir in sugar or sweetener and mash with a fork to desired consistency.
Process the beans and spices in a blender, then refrigerate until ready to serve with baked corn chips.
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Cubed potatoes are sautéed with onions and lima beans and seasoned with parsley and paprika.
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A simple meal for one, quickly prepared in a microwave oven.
This is a picture-pretty first course for a summer meal. Make in advance and serve chilled.
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This trout recipe uses lemon pepper, almonds, and lemon wedges for flavoring.
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DENVER—More than 6,500 people have signed up for a challenge to get more Coloradans off the couch.
The Get Movin' challenge is offering prizes for Coloradans who do 30 minutes of activity daily from Thursday through Aug. 30 and log it online. Gov. John Hickenlooper, LiveWell Colorado and Kaiser Permanente announced the challenge in July.
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Sam Rosen and Tim Ryan provided commentary for today's game of the Atlanta Falcons at the Seattle Seahawks. Broadcast on Fox, the Seahawks were on offense first and did an incredible job at moving the ball down the field. Eight minutes into the first quarter and the Seahawks were nose-to-nose to the end zone. One play later, running back Marshawn Lynch broke the plane. Seattle 7 and Atlanta 0. With under three minutes left in the quarter, Seattle lost a challenge of whether or not Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan got enough forward progress to get convert a fourth down. Would they be able to do it again for a touchdown? Running back Michael Turner carried the ball a handful of times and then at the top of the second quarter, Matt Ryan and running back Jason Snelling connected for six points and the extra point was good. Seahawks 7 and Atlanta 7.
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Observations & Miscellania:
1. Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum was in attendance supporting his Seahawks.
2. I watched this game on an HD 65 inch television.
3. The Seahawks wore full-bodied cobalt uniforms; the Falcons wore white tops and pants. Have the Seahawks worn green gloves before?
4. As of the bottom of the first quarter, the Falcons would no doubt be in the playoffs because the New Orleans Saints and New York Giants lost their respective games.
5. Jonathan Babineaux is a defensive tackle for the Falcons; his brother Jordan is a Seahawk. Their mother was in the stands supporting both sons (Seahawks jersey frontside and Falcons jersey on the backside).
6. In the bottom of the fourth quarter, Falcons owner Arthur Blank and Matt Ryan had a short chat on the sidelines. Blank patted Ryan on the back. He then made it down the sidelines and exchanged encouraging words with the rest of the Falcons.
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Analysis It's a narrow line to have to tread and STEC chairman Kevin Daly has not kept to it in his response to the nasty letter from hedge fund Balch Hill calling for STEC CEO Mark Moshayedi's head and a new set of directors for mismanagement of STEC since the EMC OEM deal glory years.
There is going to be a contested vote with a proxy war - candidates for directorship supported by shareholder votes put at their disposal - between STEC's incumbent board and a new slate of directors supported by Balch Hill and its ally Potomac Capital, at the company's annual general meeting (AGM) this year. Shareholders will be canvassed by the two opposing groups putting forward their manifestos.
The Balch Hillites have said - read the letter here - that STEC management mis-managed the company, were asleep at the wheel when the OEM contracts declined in value, reacted too late, reacted in the wrong way, chose strategies that further decreased shareholder value, and fell afoul of SEC suspicions about insider trading - and that, damningly, they had a verbal agreement that STEC's CEO would stand down. STEC welshed on this deal. Trust us; we will raise shareholder value.
Now STEC's chairman has issued his riposte in a letter to shareholders which Benzinga has made available; it isn't on STEC's website.
The narrow line is to be credible and open about past mishaps, and upbeat and convincing about the steps taken to recover from the misfortunes. Daly doesn't appear strong on either topic.
Basically he's saying things have gone awry due to market forces, not due to management error, and STEC management is working with the right strategy to diversify away from OEM sales dependency into storage solution sales. Existing management is experienced and committed. Trust us; we will raise shareholder value.
He writes:-
Over the past four months, STEC has been aggressively moving forward to implement a new business plan and market strategy that is focused on diversifying the company's reach, domestically and globally, by adding a solid mix of channel partners and direct enterprise and vertical sales and sales support expertise to our existing OEM distribution model. An essential element of this strategy is transforming STEC from a component supplier into a storage solutions provider.
It's a weak hand he has to play because Balch Hill is right. STEC results have been dire; there is no immediate remedy at hand, and it was on existing management's watch that things fell apart.
Daly bigs up the achievements made so far, like the first non-OEM customer accounting for more than 10 per cent of sales, and says:
"This is a testament to both a well-conceived plan and to an enhanced sales and marketing team with extensive direct enterprise and application expertise. All told, the actions we have taken give us growing confidence that STEC is well-positioned to execute its strategy for 2013 and beyond."
The phrase "well-positioned to execute its strategy for 2013 and beyond," is hardly stirring stuff.
Daly adds:
"Our STEC team includes highly qualified, engaged individuals who are committed to serving the best interests of the company and our shareholders."
Yes Kevin, but they messed up; admit it. Only he doesn't, merely saying:
"The enterprise solid-state storage market has both grown and changed dramatically since STEC essentially invented it more than a decade ago."
STEC invented it and then STEC lost it; hardly admirable. Now it's trying to regain it in a well-populated field of competing suppliers and coming from behind with catch-up technology.
STEC is doing well
But, STEC is doing well:
The activists' assertions overlook the considerable successes our existing Board and management team have already achieved, such as:
- Being the industry's first company to deploy solid-state storage on a large scale in enterprise systems
- Pioneering two-terabyte solid-state drives (SSDs) with the two most in-demand interfaces
- Innovating application optimisation through object abstractions (e.g. flash object store) and other advanced technologies
- Having SSDs incorporated into the world's most sophisticated storage equipment
Let's face it; the first and last assertions aren't very credible.
The first claim; yes STEC was first; now it isn't. What's good about that?
The last claim; come on. Fusion-io, LSI, Micron, OCZ, Samsung, Plextor, you name it, can all make the same claim. This indicates a weak hand if the argument has to be bulked out with thin stuff like this.
Pioneering 2TB SSD would be okay if there was some tangible success associated with it and STEC had an advantage other suppliers do not. There isn't and it doesn't.
Who do you trust?
There's just nothing here you can safely get hold of and rely on. It's not like STEC is saying we have this sustainable technology lead in "X" and will leap to the head of the pack again.
Daly says this is no time for a management change which would put the company's future at risk:
"Allowing activist hedge funds inexperienced in our industry to assume control of STEC's Board would in our view endanger the company and destroy shareholder value."
Balch Hill says that without a management change the company's future is at risk:
"We do not believe the Company can rebuild the trust it has lost with its key customers and shareholders without immediate and meaningful change to the Board and executive management team. We strongly believe that Manouch Moshayedi's continued presence at the Company is detrimental to STEC and Mark Moshayedi is too closely aligned with his brother to rebuild the trust that has been lost."
Daly says stick with us and we'll rebuild STEC's fortunes for the long haul. Balch Hill says commit to us and we'll return value to shareholders directly by, if necessary, selling the company.
The choice for shareholders is pretty easily described: Balch Hill and short-term gains plus a company sale, or existing management and a struggle against intensifying competition to rebuild revenues and return to profit.
STEC shareholders are floating on a raft in a sea of troubles. Is Balch Hill the lifeboat or the killer whale come to feast on their company and then swim off to some other tasty piece of meat, leaving them with a few short-term morsels of their own?
It's an unenviable choice, partly because the STEC chairman has so few good cards to play and is saying, in effect: "Trust us. (Whisper; we fouled up, but) we're best placed to repair things." ®


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Greed: The word they dare not speak
And yet as they stand to speak, they are unlikely to ever use the word. To do so, they may conclude, may be seen as unseemly moralizing. Moreover, talk of greed intrudes on individual rights, the holy of holies.
Further, for elected politicians to raise the question of greed might seem hypocritical. The greedy are the very people who elected them to public office. Massive political donations come from the very wealthy and their political arms. Secret political contributions ensure that political discourse never addresses the question of greed.
Greed is off the table.
It shouldn't be.
We must free the word "greed" of its moral connotations and look it square in the face as a pathology. Only then can we examine what it is and does. Try treating the word as you would "cancer" or, better yet, "drug addiction."
Greed, shorn of questions about its morality, is clearly the driver of the vast inequities in our society. It is what compels the susceptible to accumulate vast sums of money they clearly desperately want but, just as clearly, don't need. And all this is happening at a time when the wealthy live in a society of dire, real needs that their hoarded money could address.
I won't review the statistics on inequality here. They are well known and documented. Just search "inequality" on your computer. You will not come up wanting.
This is not about numbers. It is about resources wasted on a all-consuming, destructive addiction.
Sure, this can be seen as a moral issue, but arguing about morality narrows the debate to individual moral choices. "Look, if that guy wants to pay himself $15 million a year, that's his right." "She deserves that kind of reward." "It's a question of what the market will bear." "Greed is in the eye of the beholder."
You aren't going to shame the greedy to change their behavior any more than you are going to shame an addict out of his or her addiction.
To couch the debate in appeals to individual rights misses the point: Greed is a disease that infects and destroys the entire society.
The debate the House of Representatives should have over extending or ending the tax cuts for the wealthy must expose greed as bad for America. It's a drug. It's like tobacco or alcohol. It destroys not just the person afflicted with the addiction (in this case some obvious symptoms are obsession, denial, secrecy, need for more, and elitist isolation). Greed damages through "second-hand smoke" those who are nearby. The children of the wealthy become addicted to greed too. With rare exceptions, they display the same symptoms.
The damage caused by greed spreads to the society as a whole. We pay the costs of someone else's greed, just as our health insurance rates go up to pay for the disproportionate health costs associated with smoking or other addictions.
How so? We live in a society whose health is dependent on rational, open civil discourse. Without it, democracy dies. If we elect our leaders (who set our priorities and create our laws) based on expensive, evocative, emotional, irrational appeals, the foundations of democracy wanes and we are left with a government ruled by those who control and manipulate mass communication.
That control belongs to the very rich, and their goal is to support and protect their habit of greed.
Moreover, the money spent to support their habits and hoarding, is money not spent on the very real problems of our society. Greed's damage spreads to the larger society. For millions in true need, it slams shut the doors to health, education and opportunity. For a growing number, it denies them food and shelter.
Of course in a democracy we turn to our elected representatives to address those problems, but, as we've seen, those representatives aren't answering to us.
Most elected representatives have been put in office by the greedy, for the greedy.
(A reminder: When I use the word "greedy," I'm not making a moral judgment. I'm describing a pathology.)
And so our mounting social problems go unaddressed, and society enters a kind of death spiral as the rich get richer and everyone else gets poorer. The failure to see greed as the source of our problem is part of the same self-destructive, avoidance behavior that began with those individuals originally addicted to greed.
This is the state of our nation as the House debate begins. Greed should be front and center in the debate. The issue is ultimately about the social and political health of America.
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The Sal Show
Call Sal Milione a busy man. He's recently taken the production helm for the monthly showcase of local singer/musicians, Acoustic Charlottesville [Tunes, "Live Arts Hosts Acoustic Show," September 5]. He heads a recording studio in Ruckersville. And now he's reprising his role as the star of his one-man play (of sorts), In Your Dreams, a.k.a. The Sal Show, when it opens this weekend as the first staged piece in the new season at the Live Arts LAB Space.
The Sal Show premiered last December, and apparently things went so well that time around that Milione is bringing the show back for a second shot at filling the small and intimate black box theater. He calls the performance a "multimedia self-portrait involving acting, music, and art."
Milione, originally from Staten Island, has lived in Charlottesville for 16 years and currently owns Milestone Recording. In The Sal Show, he showcases a wide variety of musical influences, including folk-rock, blues, contemporary folk, modern rock, country, and neo-classical.
Here's how it works: the audience arrives early, say, 7-ish, and sips wine and views what is ostensibly an exhibit of a dozen of Milione's paintings. Close to 8-ish, everyone is invited into the theater for the show that draws on the themes of the paintings and shuffles back and forth between time periods. In one scene Milione is a 10-year-old boy learning to play guitar. In another, he's "adult Sal," contemplating his artistic future.
Like one of the songs in the show, "Thoughts," Milione says he views the play as a concoction. "I'd describe both the song and the play as a spiraling fudge swirl of right-brained abstractions… spoken out loud." Trek through past, present, and future as Milione takes you on what he hopes is a comic and thoughtful trip through his many adventures, artistic and otherwise.
The Sal Show plays September 18-22 and 25-29 at the Live Arts LAB Space, 609 E. Market St. Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm. Doors open an hour before the show begins. $7 at the door. 985-4742.


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Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and chair of the Program in Dramatic Arts. She has served as director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, chair of the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. A member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies and a trustee of the English Institute, she is the former president of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and a continuing member of its board. She is the author of sixteen books and has edited seven collections of essays on topics from Shakespeare to literary and cultural theory to the arts and intellectual life, including Shakespeare After All, which was acclaimed as one of Newsweek's ten best nonfiction books of 2004 and received the 2005 Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society.


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This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's affiliate activity in their native countries. Ethnic innovators also appear to facilitate the disintegration of innovative activity across borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the support of local joint venture partners. Thus, this paper points out that immigration can enhance the competitiveness of multinational firms.
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Cruise ship prepares to rescue French sailor
The crew of an Australian cruise liner are making final preparations to rescue a French national adrift in a life raft in heavy seas south of Hobart for more than 48 hours.
Round-the-world solo yachtsman Alain Delord activated his distress beacon on Friday after his 10-metre yacht sunk in heavy seas 380 nautical miles south-west of Hobart. The signal was intercepted by the Rescue Centre Co-ordinator in Canberra, which relayed the distress call to the closest known ship, the MV Orion.
The Orion was en route from Antarctica to Macquarie Island when it received the distress call at 3.10pm and immediately altered course. It is currently steaming towards the beacon at maximum speed with a scheduled intercept time of 7pm EST.
"We will be receiving navigational direction at the scene from aircraft that will be flying overhead," said Orion expedition leader Don McIntrye. "Yesterday they dropped a new life raft and Alain managed to transfer into it from his old one. The new life raft has food, water and good communication equipment. He has been advised we will be arriving at his position tonight. From what we've heard he's anxious to be rescued but otherwise in reasonably good health."
Mr McIntrye and the ship's captain Mike Taylor have devised two potential rescue scenarios in consultation with the Rescue Centre Co-ordinator.
"If the winds are less than 25 knots and the seas no larger than 3 metres, then the preferred option is to manoeuvre the ship upwind to Alain with our portside hatch facing his life raft," he said.
"We'll then send out a Zodiac to pull up alongside the life raft and transfer him into the Zodiac. The Zodiac will be manned by myself, a driver, our ice pilot Tim Sharp and our field guide Falcon Riley, who'll execute the transfer. Falcon is our swimmer. He's very strong and fit and spent his whole life on boats. There's no doubt he's the man for the job."
Mr Riley, 24, from New Zealand, said he does not expect to have to enter the water but is equipped for the eventuality.
"We should be able to get him from the life raft into the Zodiac and from the Zodiac into the ship," he said. "But if I have to get into the water, I'm ready for it.
"I'll be wearing a survival suit with cuffs around the ankles and neck that stops most water from getting in. It's basically a big life jacket. The water won't be that cold – only 5 degrees – so it's not a big worry."
Mr Riley said the biggest challenge will be transferring Mr Delord from the Zodiac to the ship via the portside hatch.
"This is where things could get complicated. You have this large quasi-stationary mass that weighs 4000 tonnes moving at 2 knots, any time you're working at the edge of it, there are serious safety concerns. The ship will be rolling and with every wave, the Zodiac will be crashing against it. But we've been practising and are confident we can get him aboard safely," he said.
"Heroes get their people killed on the sea. Teamwork makes things happen."
A contingency plan has also been devised in the event of seas larger than 3 metres and winds exceeding 25 knots. It will see captain Taylor carefully position the ship right alongside the life raft and attempt to hold the ship still. Under McIntrye's watch, a small crane will be used to lower a line and hoist directly on top of the life raft. Mr Delord will then be required to fasten the hoist around his chest and be winched out of the life raft onto the ship.
However, if Mr Delord is unconscious or too weak to strap himself into the hoist, Mr Riley will be lowered into the life raft and the two men will be winched out in tandem.
"The most important thing for this operation to succeed," Mr Riley added, "is that we work as a team. We don't need heroes; we need teamwork.
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Hank Shteamer, writer-on-music at Time Out New York and blogger at Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches, writes "I am not a jazz journalist" in response to "The State of Jazz Journalism Now and Immediate Prospects" town hall meeting at the Jazz Journalists Association's "New Media for New Jazz" conference yesterday (Jan 8). He doesn't deny that he loves jazz and writes about it, but considers putting the title off an insistence for diversity. I'm president of the JJA and a jazz journalist -- among other things. My response to him follows; not … [Read more...]
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Millennium Partners Sports Club Management LLC has signaled its plans to grow in 2011. The Boston-based company is moving Art Curtis, former CEO, into a new role with parent company Millennium Partners, where he will focus on mergers and acquisitions of health club properties.
In December, Millennium Partners entered into a new capital partnership, the details of which the company would not disclose other than to say the capital is being used on expansion and some renovations and equipment purchases.
The company's expansion plans focus on mostly urban areas in Boston and the Washington, DC, area, according to Smaiyra Million, who was promoted to CEO from her COO role. Million has more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality and health club industry, 10 of those with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.
Much of that expansion will be through purchasing existing clubs, but Million says the company will build if the right opportunity presents itself. Millennium Partners is a developer of luxury mixed-use properties.
During the past three months, the company has invested about $1.3 million in new equipment. Million says more equipment purchases are on tap for this year, in addition to a locker room renovation at Reebok Sports Club/NY.
"We've had a great track record," Million says. "When Millennium bought the business, we invested $35 million five years ago in the clubs."
In 2006, Millennium purchased five clubs for $80 million from The Sports Club Co., in which Millennium had been a major stockholder. Millennium now operates six Sports Club/LA locations.
Million says that although the recession did affect the luxury market with some people dropping memberships out of necessity and others dropping out of guilt about still being able to afford their memberships, the market is improving. Sports Club/LA is now focusing even more on customer service and the value proposition of the club rather than just the dollars, she says.
Millennium Partners ranked No. 9 on Club Industry's Top 100 Clubs list in 2010, based on an estimated 2009 revenue of $110 million.


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Iran (12/01)
Islamic Republic of Iran
Area: 1.6 million sq. km. (636, 294 sq. mi.); slightly larger than Alaska.
Cities: Capital--Tehran. Other cities--Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Shiraz.
Terrain: Desert and mountains.
Climate: Semiarid; subtropical along the Caspian coast.
Nationality: Noun and adjective--Iranian(s).
Population (2001 est): 66 million.
Population growth rate: 1.66% (1998).
Ethnic groups: Persians 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1%.
Religions: Shi'a Muslim 89% Sunni Muslim 10%; Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i 1%.
Languages: Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%. Literacy (definition: age 15 and over can read and write; (1997): Total population 73.4.
Health (2001 est): Infant mortality rate--26 deaths/1,000 live births (1996) Life expectancy at birth--total population: 70.7 (1998)
Work force (1999): Agriculture--23%; manufacturing--31%. There is a shortage of skilled labor.
Type: Islamic republic.
Constitution: Ratified December 1979, revised 1989.
Branches: Executive--"Leader of the Islamic Revolution" (head of state); president and Council of Ministers. Legislative--290-member Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles). Judicial--Supreme Court.
Political parties: The following organizations appeared to have achieved considerable success at elections to the sixth Majles in early 2000: Assembly of the Followers of the Imam's Line, Freethinkers' Front Islamic Iran Participation Front, Moderation and Development Party, Servants of Construction Party, and Society of Self-sacrificing Devotees.
Administrative subdivisions: 28 provinces.
Suffrage: Universal at 15.
GDP (2000 est.; purchasing power parity): $413 billion.
GDP real growth rate (2000 est): 3%. GDP (2000 est.; per capita purchasing power parity): $6,300. GDP (1999; composition by sector): Agriculture 21%, industry 23%, services 48%, oil 8%.
Per capita income (est.): $1,500.
Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas, and some mineral deposits.
Agriculture: Principal products--wheat, rice, other grains, sugarbeets, fruits, nuts, cotton, dairy products, wool, caviar; not self-sufficient in food.
Industry: Types--petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and building materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil production), metal fabricating (steel and copper).
Trade (1999): Exports--$19.7 billion: petroleum 85%, carpets, fruits, nuts. Imports--$13.5 billion: food, machinery, and semifinished goods. . Major markets/suppliers--Germany, Japan, Italy, South Korea.
Almost two-thirds of Iran's people are of Aryan origin--their ancestors migrated from Central Asia. The major groups in this category include Persians, Kurds, Lurs, and Baluchi. The remainder are primarily Turkic but also include Arabs, Armenians, Jews, and Assyrians.
The 1979 Islamic revolution and the war with Iraq transformed Iran's class structure politically, socially, and economically. In general, however, Iranian society remains divided into urban, market-town, village, and tribal groups. Clerics, called mullahs, dominate politics and nearly all aspects of Iranian life, both urban and rural. After the fall of the Pahlavi regime in 1979, much of the urban upper class of prominent merchants, industrialists, and professionals, favored by the former Shah, lost standing and influence to the senior clergy and their supporters. Bazaar merchants, who were allied with the clergy against the Pahlavi shahs, have also gained political and economic power since the revolution. The urban working class has enjoyed somewhat enhanced status and economic mobility, spurred in part by opportunities provided by revolutionary organizations and the government bureaucracy.
Unemployment, a major problem even before the revolution, has many causes, including population growth, the war with Iraq, and shortages of raw materials and trained managers. Farmers and peasants received a psychological boost from the attention given them by the Islamic regime but appear to be hardly better off in economic terms. The government has made progress on rural development, including electrification and road building but has not yet made a commitment to land redistribution.
Most Iranians are Muslims; 89% belong to the Shi'a branch of Islam, the official state religion, and about 10% belong to the Sunni branch, which predominates in neighboring Muslim countries. Non-Muslim minorities include Zoroastrians, Jews, Baha'is, and Christians.
The ancient nation of Iran, historically known to the West as Persia and once a major empire in its own right, has been overrun frequently and has had its territory altered throughout the centuries. Invaded by Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Mongols, and others--and often caught up in the affairs of larger powers--Iran has always reasserted its national identity and has developed as a distinct political and cultural entity.
Archeological findings have placed knowledge of Iranian prehistory at middle paleolithic times (100,000 years ago). The earliest sedentary cultures date from 18,000-14,000 years ago. The sixth millennium B.C. saw a fairly sophisticated agricultural society and proto-urban population centers. Many dynasties have ruled Iran, the first of which was under the Achaemenians (559-330 B.C.), a dynasty founded by Cyrus the Great. After the Hellenistic period (300-250 B.C.) came the Parthian (250 B.C.-226 A.D.) and the Sassanian (226-651) dynasties.
The seventh century Arab-Muslim conquest of Iran was followed by conquests by the Seljuk Turks, the Mongols, and Tamerlane. Iran underwent a revival under the Safavid dynasty (1502-1736), the most prominent figure of which was Shah Abbas. The conqueror Nadir Shah and his successors were followed by the Zand dynasty, founded by Karim Kahn, and later the Qajar (1795-1925) and the Pahlavi dynasties (1925-1979).
Modern Iranian history began with a nationalist uprising against the Shah (who remained in power) in 1905, the granting of a limited constitution in 1906, and the discovery of oil in 1908. In 1921, Reza Khan, an Iranian officer of the Persian Cossack Brigade, seized control of the government. In 1925, he made himself Shah, ruling as Reza Shah Pahlavi for almost 16 years and installing the new Pahlavi dynasty.
Under his reign, Iran began to modernize and to secularize politics, and the central government reasserted its authority over the tribes and provinces. In September 1941, following the Allies' (U.K.-Soviet Union) occupation of western Iran, Reza Shah was forced to abdicate. His son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, became Shah and ruled until 1979.
During World War II, Iran was a vital link in the Allied supply line for lend-lease supplies to the Soviet Union. After the war, Soviet troops stationed in northwestern Iran not only refused to withdraw but backed revolts that established short-lived, pro-Soviet separatist regimes in the northern regions of Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. These were ended in 1946. The Azerbaijan revolt crumbled after U.S. and UN pressure forced a Soviet withdrawal and Iranian forces suppressed the Kurdish revolt.
In 1951, Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, a militant nationalist, forced the parliament to nationalize the British-owned oil industry. Mossadeq was opposed by the Shah and was removed, but he quickly returned to power. The Shah fled Iran but returned when supporters staged a coup against Mossadeq in August 1953. Mossadeq was then arrested by pro-Shah army forces.
In 1961, Iran initiated a series of economic, social, and administrative reforms that became known as the Shah's White Revolution. The core of this program was land reform. Modernization and economic growth proceeded at an unprecedented rate, fueled by Iran's vast petroleum reserves, the third-largest in the world.
In 1978, domestic turmoil swept the country as a result of religious and political opposition to the Shah's rule and programs--especially SAVAK, the hated internal security and intelligence service. In January 1979, the Shah left Iran; he died abroad several years after.
On February 1, 1979, exiled religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from France to direct a revolution resulting in a new, theocratic republic guided by Islamic principles. Back in Iran after 15 years in exile in Turkey, Iraq, and France, he became Iran's national religious leader. Following Khomeini's death on June 3, 1989, the Assembly of Experts--an elected body of senior clerics--chose the outgoing president of the republic, Ali Khamenei, to be his successor as national religious leader in what proved to be a smooth transition.
In August 1989, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the speaker of the National Assembly, was elected President by an overwhelming majority. He was re-elected June 1993, with a more modest majority; some Western observers attributed the reduced voter turnout to disenchantment with the deteriorating economy. (Ali) Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani, elected President in August 1997 with an overwhelming majority, was re-elected, again with a majority in June 2001.
The December 1979 Iranian constitution defines the political, economic, and social order of the Islamic republic. It declares that Shi'a Islam of the Twelver (Jaafari) sect is Iran's official religion. The country is governed by secular and religious leaders and governing bodies, and duties often overlap. The chief ruler is a religious leader or, in the absence of a single leader, a council of religious leaders. The constitution stipulates that this national religious leader or members of the council of leaders are to be chosen from the clerical establishment on the basis of their qualifications and the high esteem in which they are held by Iran's Muslim population. This leader or council appoints the six religious members of the Council of Guardians (the six lay members--lawyers--are named by the National Consultative Assembly, or Majles); appoints the highest judicial authorities, who must be religious jurists; and is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The Council of Guardians, in turn, certifies the competence of candidates for the presidency and the National Assembly.
The president of the republic is elected by universal suffrage to a 4-year term by an absolute majority of votes and supervises the affairs of the executive branch. The president appoints and supervises the Council of Ministers (members of the cabinet), coordinates government decisions, and selects government policies to be placed before the National Assembly.
The National Assembly consists of 290 members elected to a 4-year term. The members are elected by direct and secret ballot. All legislation from the assembly must be reviewed by the Council of Guardians. The Council's six lawyers vote only on limited questions of the constitutionality of legislation; the religious members consider all bills for conformity to Islamic principles.
In 1988, Ayatollah Khomeini created the Council for Expediency, which resolves legislative issues on which the Majles and the Council of Guardians fail to reach an agreement. Since 1989, it has been used to advise the national religious leader on matters of national policy as well. It is composed of the heads of the three branches of government, the clerical members of the Council of Guardians, and members appointed by the national religious leader for 3-year terms. Cabinet members and Majles committee chairs also serve as temporary members when issues under their jurisdictions are considered.
Judicial authority is constitutionally vested in the Supreme Court and the four-member High Council of the Judiciary; these are two separate groups with overlapping responsibilities and one head. Together, they are responsible for supervising the enforcement of all laws and for establishing judicial and legal policies.
The military is charged with defending Iran's borders, while the Revolutionary Guard Corps is charged mainly with maintaining internal security. Iran has 28 provinces, each headed by a governor general. The provinces are further divided into counties, districts, and villages.
Principal Government Officials
Leader of the Islamic Revolution--Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
President--(Ali) Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani
First Vice President--Mohammad Reza Aref-Yazdi
Foreign Minister--(Ali Naqi) Kamal Kharazii
Ambassador to the United Nations--Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hoseinian
Iran's post-revolution difficulties have included an 8-year war with Iraq, internal political struggles and unrest, and economic disorder. The early days of the regime were characterized by severe human rights violations and political turmoil, including the seizure of the U.S. embassy compound and its occupants on November 4, 1979, by Iranian militants.
By mid-1982, a succession of power struggles eliminated first the center of the political spectrum and then the leftists, leaving only the clergy. There has been some moderation of excesses both internally and internationally, although Iran remains a significant sponsor of terrorism.
The Islamic Republican Party (IRP) was Iran's dominant political party until its dissolution in 1987; Iran now has no functioning political parties. The Iranian Government is opposed by a few armed political groups, including the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (People's Mojahedin of Iran), the People's Fedayeen, and the Kurdish Democratic Party.
Pre-revolutionary Iran's economic development was rapid. Traditionally an agricultural society, by the 1970s, Iran had achieved significant industrialization and economic modernization. However, the pace of growth had slowed dramatically by 1978, just before the Islamic revolution.
Since the revolution, increased government involvement in the economy has further stunted growth. Iran's current difficulties can be traced to a combination of factors. Economic activity, severely disrupted by the revolution, was further depressed by the war with Iraq and by the decline of oil prices beginning in late 1985. After the war with Iraq ended, the situation began to improve: Iran's GDP grew for 2 years running, partly from an oil windfall in 1990, and there was a substantial increase in imports.
A decrease in oil revenues in 1991 and growing external debt, though, dampened optimism. In March 1989, Khomeini had approved Rafsanjani's 5-year plan for economic development, which allowed Iran to seek foreign loans. But mismanagement and inefficient bureaucracy, as well as political and ideological infighting, have hampered the formulation and execution of coherent economic policies. Today, Iran's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture, and smallscale private trading and service ventures. President Khatami has continued to follow the market reform plans of former President Rafsanjani and has indicated that he will pursue diversification of Iran's oil-reliant economy, although he has made little progress toward that goal.
Official unemployment was estimated to be 14% for 1999. Although Islam guarantees the right to private ownership, banks and some industries--including the petroleum, transportation, utilities, and mining sectors--were nationalized after the revolution, although Iran has been pursuing some privatization. (Oil price and debt problems are no longer relevant.) The import-dependent industrial sector is further plagued by low labor productivity, lack of foreign exchange, and shortages of raw materials and spare parts.
Agriculture also has suffered from shortages of capital, raw materials, and equipment, as well as from the war with Iraq; in addition, a major area of dissension within the regime has been how to proceed with land reform.
Khomeini's revolutionary regime initiated sharp changes from the foreign policy pursued by the Shah, particularly in reversing the country's orientation toward the West. In the Middle East, Iran's only significant ally has been Syria, but Iran has made great strides in improving relations with its Gulf neighbors, particularly Saudi Arabia. Iran's regional goals are dominated by wanting to establish a leadership role, curtail the presence of the U.S. and other outside powers, and build trade ties. In broad terms, Iran's "Islamic foreign policy" emphasizes:
- Vehement anti-U.S. and anti-Israel stances;
- Eliminating outside influence in the region;
- Support for Muslim political movements abroad; and
- A great increase in diplomatic contacts with developing countries.
The country's foreign relations since the revolution have been tumultuous. In addition to the U.S. hostage crisis, tension between Iran and Iraq escalated in September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran. Much of the dispute centered around sovereignty over the waterway between the two countries, the Shatt al-Arab, although underlying causes included each nation's overt desire for the overthrow of the other's government. Iran demanded the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Iranian territory and the return to the status quo ante for the Shatt al-Arab as established under the 1975 Algiers Agreement signed by Iraq and Iran. After 8 punishing years of war, in July 1988, Iran agreed to UN Security Council Resolution 598, which called for a cease-fire. The cease-fire was implemented on August 20, 1988; neither nation had made any real gains in the war.
Iran's relations with many of its Arab neighbors have been strained by Iranian attempts to spread its Islamic revolution. In 1981, Iran supported a plot to overthrow the Bahraini government. In 1983, Iran expressed support for Shi'ites who bombed Western embassies in Kuwait, and in 1987, Iranian pilgrims rioted during the Hajj (pilgrimage) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Nations with strong fundamentalist movements, such as Egypt and Algeria, also mistrust Iran. Iran backs Hizballah, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command--all groups violently opposed to the Arab-Israeli peace process.
Relations with west European nations have taken a turn for the better with Iran attempting to present itself as a more reliable partner in diplomatic and commerical affairs.
Iran maintains regular diplomatic and commercial relations with Russia and the former Soviet Republics . Both Iran and Russia believe they have important national interests at stake in developments in Central Asia and the Transcaucasus, particularly on energy resources from the Caspian Sea. Russian and other sales of military equipment and technology concern Iran's neighbors and the United States.
Iran spends about 4% of its GDP on its military. Branches of its military include ground forces, a navy, an air force, and Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Iran-Iraq war took a heavy toll on these military forces. Iran is trying to modernize its military and acquire weapons of mass destruction; it does not yet have, but continues to seek, nuclear capabilities.
On November 4, 1979, militant Iranian students occupied the American embassy in Tehran with the support of Ayatollah Khomeini. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days. On April 7, 1980, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran, and on April 24, 1981, the Swiss Government assumed representation of U.S. interests in Tehran. Iranian interests in the United States are represented by the Pakistani Government.
In accordance with the Algiers declaration of January 20, 1981, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal (located in The Hague, Netherlands) was established for the purpose of handling claims of U.S. nationals against Iran and of Iranian nationals against the United States. U.S. contact with Iran through The Hague covers only legal matters.
Commercial relations between Iran and the United States are restricted by U.S. sanctions and consist mainly of Iranian purchases of food and medical products and U.S. purchases of carpets and food. The U.S. Government prohibits most trade with Iran.
There are serious obstacles to improved relations between the two countries. The U.S. Government defines five areas of objectionable Iranian behavior:
- Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction;
- Its involvement in international terrorism;
- Its support for violent opposition to the Middle East peace process;
- Its threats and subversive activities against its neighbors; and
- Its dismal human rights record.


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The Art of Our Terrible War
The Civil War and American Art
Taken simply as an exhibition of paintings and photographs, the works that make up "The Civil War and American Art," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, form a muffled and somehow scattered, even numbing, display. In pictures that date from 1852 to 1877 but were mostly made during the war years, we see soldiers in camp, battlefields after the fighting, with dead infantrymen remaining to be buried, and the fortifications around the port of Charleston, South Carolina. There are scenes of the life of black people before and after the war, and, surprisingly, a good number of landscapes. They are of threatening weather or unusual developments in the sky—or are grandiose vistas of the Andes and the Arctic by Frederic Church or of Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt—and are to be seen as reflecting the moods of the moment. Considering how fraught, wounding, and dramatic an event the war has long been in our national consciousness, the exhibition feels anticlimactic. It has few commanding or affecting images of people. We walk away wondering where everyone is.
No war, of course, has an obligation to inspire works of art, let alone great ones, and a viewer can quickly become disgusted with himself or herself for finding the purely artistic results of the Civil War to be only moderately engaging. Probably few wars have compared with World War I in the art that emerged during and after it. Considerable amounts of sentimental and propagandistic work were, it is true, produced on both sides. Yet the war gave rise to paintings and sculptures of imaginative power by artists who were commissioned by their governments to record the events (notably Paul Nash) and by artists who were merely soldiers or onlookers at the time—figures such as Max Beckmann, Fernand Léger, Marsden Hartley, Walter Sickert, Otto Dix, Félix Vallotton, William Nicholson, E.L. Kirchner, Christopher Nevinson, and Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Lasting works were created about the nightmare of combat, bereavement in itself, and even the sheer physical exhilaration engendered by serving one's country.
The circumstances of our Civil War were quite different. Given the still relatively youthful and exploratory state of American art in the middle of the nineteenth century, it is remarkable that any first-rate artworks were made at all. Few already established painters dealt directly with the topic, and no government agencies at the time, in Washington or Richmond, paid artists to document the events. Photography, then hardly beyond its nascent stage, was in the hands of people who were learning on the job what the camera's capacities were in wartime. But the largest issue, commented on by observers, had to do with the fratricidal, and not always morally clear-cut, nature of the conflict.…
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