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When Was Leonardo da Vinci Born?
Da Vinci was born in Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy), in 1452, close to the town of Vinci that provided the surname we associate with him today. In his own time he was known just as Leonardo or as "Il Florentine," since he lived near Florence—and was famed as an artist, inventor and thinker.
Da Vinci's parents weren't married, and his mother, Caterina, a peasant, wed another man while da Vinci was very young and began a new family. Beginning around age 5, he lived on the estate in Vinci that belonged to the family of his father, Ser Peiro, an attorney and notary. Da Vinci's uncle, who had a particular appreciation for nature that da Vinci grew to share, also helped raise him.
Early Career
Da Vinci received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and math, but his father appreciated his artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 to the noted sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio of Florence. For about a decade, da Vinci refined his painting and sculpting techniques and trained in mechanical arts.
When he was 20, in 1472, the painters' guild of Florence offered da Vinci membership, but he remained with Verrocchio until he became an independent master in 1478. Around 1482, he began to paint his first commissioned work, The Adoration of the Magi, for Florence's San Donato, a Scopeto monastery.
However, da Vinci never completed that piece, because shortly thereafter he relocated to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza clan, serving as an engineer, painter, architect, designer of court festivals and, most notably, a sculptor.
The family asked da Vinci to create a magnificent 16-foot-tall equestrian statue, in bronze, to honor dynasty founder Francesco Sforza. Da Vinci worked on the project on and off for 12 years, and in 1493 a clay model was ready to display. Imminent war, however, meant repurposing the bronze earmarked for the sculpture into cannons, and the clay model was destroyed in the conflict after the ruling Sforza duke fell from power in 1499.
'The Last Supper'
Although relatively few of da Vinci's paintings and sculptures survive—in part because his total output was quite small—two of his extant works are among the world's most well-known and admired paintings.
The first is da Vinci's "The Last Supper," painted during his time in Milan, from about 1495 to 1498. A tempera and oil mural on plaster, "The Last Supper" was created for the refectory of the city's Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Also known as "The Cenacle," this work measures about 15 by 29 feet and is the artist's only surviving fresco. It depicts the Passover dinner during which Jesus Christ addresses the Apostles and says, "One of you shall betray me."
One of the painting's stellar features is each Apostle's distinct emotive expression and body language. Its composition, in which Jesus is centered among yet isolated from the Apostles, has influenced generations of painters.
'Mona Lisa'
When Milan was invaded by the French in 1499 and the Sforza family fled, da Vinci escaped as well, possibly first to Venice and then to Florence. There, he painted a series of portraits that included "La Gioconda," a 21-by-31-inch work that's best known today as "Mona Lisa." Painted between approximately 1503 and 1506, the woman depicted—especially because of her mysterious slight smile—has been the subject of speculation for centuries.
In the past she was often thought to be Mona Lisa Gherardini, a courtesan, but current scholarship indicates that she was Lisa del Giocondo, wife of Florentine merchant Francisco del Giocondo. Today, the portrait—the only da Vinci portrait from this period that survives—is housed at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, where it attracts millions of visitors each year.
Around 1506, da Vinci returned to Milan, along with a group of his students and disciples, including young aristocrat Francesco Melzi, who would be Leonardo's closest companion until the artist's death. Ironically, the victor over the Duke Ludovico Sforza, Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, commissioned da Vinci to sculpt his grand equestrian-statue tomb. It, too, was never completed (this time because Trivulzio scaled back his plan). Da Vinci spent seven years in Milan, followed by three more in Rome after Milan once again became inhospitable because of political strife.
Inventions and Philosophy
Da Vinci's interests ranged far beyond fine art. He studied nature, mechanics, anatomy, physics, architecture, weaponry and more, often creating accurate, workable designs for machines like the bicycle, helicopter, submarine and military tank that would not come to fruition for centuries. He was, wrote Sigmund Freud, "like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep."
Several themes could be said to unite da Vinci's eclectic interests. Most notably, he believed that sight was mankind's most important sense and that "saper vedere" ("knowing how to see") was crucial to living all aspects of life fully. He saw science and art as complementary rather than distinct disciplines, and thought that ideas formulated in one realm could—and should—inform the other.
Probably because of his abundance of diverse interests, da Vinci failed to complete a significant number of his paintings and projects. He spent a great deal of time immersing himself in nature, testing scientific laws, dissecting bodies (human and animal) and thinking and writing about his observations.
Da Vinci's Notebooks
At some point in the early 1490s, da Vinci began filling notebooks related to four broad themes—painting, architecture, mechanics and human anatomy—creating thousands of pages of neatly drawn illustrations and densely penned commentary, some of which (thanks to left-handed "mirror script") was indecipherable to others.
The notebooks—often referred to as da Vinci's manuscripts and "codices"—are housed today in museum collections after having been scattered after his death. The Codex Atlanticus, for instance, includes a plan for a 65-foot mechanical bat, essentially a flying machine based on the physiology of the bat and on the principles of aeronautics and physics.
Other notebooks contained da Vinci's anatomical studies of the human skeleton, muscles, brain, and digestive and reproductive systems, which brought new understanding of the human body to a wider audience. However, because they weren't published in the 1500s, da Vinci's notebooks had little influence on scientific advancement in the Renaissance period.
How Did Leonardo da Vinci Die?
Da Vinci left Italy for good in 1516, when French ruler Francis I generously offered him the title of "Premier Painter and Engineer and Architect to the King," which afforded him the opportunity to paint and draw at his leisure while living in a country manor house, the Château of Cloux, near Amboise in France.
Although accompanied by Melzi, to whom he would leave his estate, the bitter tone in drafts of some of his correspondence from this period indicate that da Vinci's final years may not have been very happy ones. (Melzi would go on to marry and have a son, whose heirs, upon his death, sold da Vinci's estate.)
Da Vinci died at Cloux (now Clos-Lucé) in 1519 at age 67. He was buried nearby in the palace church of Saint-Florentin. The French Revolution nearly obliterated the church, and its remains were completely demolished in the early 1800s, making it impossible to identify da Vinci's exact gravesite.
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The following commentary is by Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the NAACP
and Lateefah Simon, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not just fairness—although more black men are in jail than were slaves in 1850. The cost is driving states to bankruptcy.
Reforming the nation's criminal-justice system is one of the most urgent civil rights issues of our time. One shocking fact illustrates why: More African-American men are entangled in the criminal-justice system today than were enslaved in 1850.
How did we get here? The rise in America's penchant for punishment can be traced as far back as the 1964 presidential campaigns of Barry Goldwater and George Wallace, each of whom made law and order a defining plank of his platform.
President Richard Nixon continued the trend, framing Democrats as "soft on crime" and pushing for tough law-enforcement policies in opposition to President Johnson's credo of tackling crime through a "war on poverty." "Doubling the conviction rate in this country would do more to cure crime in America than quadrupling the funds for [Hubert] Humphrey's war on poverty," Nixon told voters.
Since then, Republicans have pushed—and Democrats have embraced—a so-called tough-on-crime approach to keeping us safe, one that emphasizes harsh measures after crimes have already occurred and that disproportionately punishes poor and minority communities rather than addressing the root causes of crime and preventing it in the first place.
As a result, our wrong-headed approach to justice and safety is breaking the bank of pretty much every state and breaking the spirit of communities across the country. Today the U.S. accounts for 5 percent of the world's population but has 25 percent of the world's prisoners. We imprison almost 1 million more people than China, at a cost to taxpayers of $68 billion in 2010.
This week the NAACP released a new report called Misplaced Priorities, demonstrating how state and federal spending decisions are creating a generation that is both undereducated and overincarcerated. Between 1987 and 2007, nationwide spending on higher education increased by a modest 21 percent. By contrast, corrections funding grew 127 percent during the same period, a rate that is more than six times as great.
Turning locally, California's prison spending has risen 25 times faster than spending on higher education over the last 30 years. The state's prison population grew 500 percent from 1982 to 2000, and California now attempts to manage nearly 170,000 people in prisons designed to hold 83,000.
In the last 20 years, the cost of operating California's corrections system skyrocketed from $2.3 billion in 1992-1993 to a projected $9.3 billion budget in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, with an additional $4 billion budgeted for prison-infrastructure expenses. Ten percent of the state's general-fund revenue now goes to the prison system.
Nowhere is the impact felt more deeply than in African-American communities, where America's epidemic of mass incarceration seemingly has removed entire generations of African-American men from their communities. Today 500,000 black fathers are currently incarcerated in America's prisons, and one out of every six African-American men has spent time in prison.
African-American girls and young women have become the fastest-growing population of incarcerated young people in the country. More than 2 million African Americans are currently either in prison, in jail, on probation or on parole.
Our criminal-justice system today undoubtedly functions much like a racial caste system, as Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, so aptly points out. Being labeled a felon effectively strips away crucial rights from an individual, locking him or her into second-class status indefinitely, unable to vote, secure a good job or find safe and affordable housing.
The current system provides for little or no reintegration; it functions as a revolving door, through which those who have served time in jail or prison all too often quickly find themselves back in, unable to overcome the many obstacles they face when attempting to re-enter their communities.
It is time to recognize that our scorched-earth approach to public safety has sent us down the wrong path. We need to be smart about our policies and resources while keeping our communities safe. Here are three steps we recommend to ensure that public safety is a true civil and human right for all of us:
Build Broad-Based Coalitions
It is no longer enough for criminal-justice reform to be an issue of concern only to criminal-justice reformists. We need to bring to the table business leaders and advocates for civil rights, education equality, women's rights and families. We also need to work with people we have traditionally considered to be unlikely allies in this fight, such as law enforcement and business.
More and more, leaders in law enforcement are calling for new ways to keep our communities safe, and California's new attorney general, Kamala Harris, is among those leading the charge. We also need more grant makers to recognize the connection between criminal justice and other social problems they are aiming to alleviate, and invest resources for maximum impact.
Eliminate Barriers to Employment
There is perhaps no more effective tool for successful re-entry into society than employment. Formerly incarcerated people who are able to secure employment are one-third less likely than their counterparts to end up back in prison or jail. That is why both the NAACP and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area have launched new initiatives to meet this challenge.
In California, the NAACP worked to secure an administrative order from the governor's office that removes questions about criminal history from employment applications for most state jobs. The Lawyers' Committee has launched a new clinic to connect formerly incarcerated individuals with pro bono attorneys from top law firms to address legal barriers to re-entry and employment. We all win when we ensure that those who have paid their debt to society can have the tools they need to turn their lives around.
Reallocate Resources
In 2010 the NAACP commissioned new rolling advertisements in various California cities to draw attention to the disturbing trend of spending more on jails than on higher education. Former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged this when he aptly noted, "Spending 45 percent more on prisons than on universities is no way to proceed into the future … What does it say about any state that [it] focuses more on prison uniforms than on caps and gowns?"
As states across the country continue to struggle with budget crises, we need to collectively call for shifting our funding priorities from incarceration toward programs and initiatives that will revitalize our communities.
It is our belief that criminal-justice reform is one of the leading issues in the fight to ensure equal opportunity for communities in need. We cannot afford to wait another generation to turn around decades of failed policies that have caused our nation to hemorrhage money and human potential. The exigency for policies that are smart on crime -- not just "tough on crime" -- is now. It is the only way we can achieve something we all want: safe and healthy communities.
The NAACP has released a report titled Misplaced Priorities that details the challenges faced by the states because of spending on incarceration over education. You can get a full copy of the report here.


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Barack Obama has pulled off the easy part. He got re-elected. Now, he faces a second term full of painful choices.
You could see it in his campaign, which focused more on Mitt Romney's flaws than on what the president would do in the next four years. Much of this, I suspect, was the result of the terrible budget constraints under which he operates. In short: Not even a Democrat can do very much new when faced with a trillion dollar deficit.
That and the reality that Republicans still control the House and can block most anything in the Senate, is why Obama is likely to spend most of the next year or two struggling with budget issues even as he consolidates health reform. Bold new initiatives will be off the table until the deficit is addressed.
His biggest challenge: Find a way to break the logjam between Democrats who are reluctant to slow the growth of programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and Republicans who insist that all deficit reduction must come from spending cuts and none from new taxes. Obama will find some moderates of both parties eager to deal, but he will also face hardliners who are not.
It is not an understatement to say that the success of his second term will depend on whether he finds a way to build a coalition of those moderates.
Here is what is likely to happen with five major domestic issues:
The Fiscal Cliff: On Jan. 2, the 2001-2010 tax cuts are due to expire and automatic across-the-board spending reductions will hit all federal programs except for Social Security and Medicaid. Obama has the leverage to force Congress to extend the tax cuts on his terms (see below), and could well link such a step to a framework for deficit reduction that delays the spending cuts until later in 2013. Such a deal could include spending and revenue targets, a specific timeline for action, and a temporary extension of the debt limit which will be reached in early 2013.
The 2001-2010 Tax Cuts: Obama has vowed to extend most of them, except for those that benefit taxpayers making more than $200,000 ($250,000 for couples). While Republicans want to continue the tax cuts for all, they have little chance of success. One unsettled issue: Will Obama try to replace the 2010 payroll tax cut, also due to expire in January, with some other tax reduction for working people? Congress and Obama are almost certain to agree to extend the Alternative Minimum Tax patch, which would protect about 25 million middle- and upper-middle income households from the levy.
Tax Reform: The president has shown no interest in individual tax reform but has supported the idea of a rate-cutting, base-broadening corporate tax rewrite. His aides insist corporate reform is easier, though I have my doubts. House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) has been working on a corporate reform of his own. There is an opportunity here, but will it get buried by divisions in the business community and other fiscal conflicts?
Medicare and Medicaid: Obama has vowed to preserve the basic designs of both. However, Senate moderates of both parties are exploring substantial changes in the health programs, including shifting Medicare to a form of premium support and capping federal Medicaid funding to a formula based on inflation and enrollment. Will Obama agree to some of those reforms as part of some grand bargain?
Health Reform: The 2010 Affordable Care Act will take effect as planned. Republicans have lost their chance to repeal it or even make significant changes. That means the law's tax increases on high-income households will kick in as scheduled in 2013. And in 2014 major insurance reforms, including a broad expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, the requirement that insurance companies sell coverage to all regardless of pre-existing conditions, and the health exchanges will take effect—at least in most states.
The biggest question for the next couple of years is not about Obama, however. It is about congressional Republicans. Will they respond to yesterday's defeat by doubling down on their no new taxes pledge? Or will they accept a fiscal grand bargain that includes both tax hikes and serious efforts to slow the growth of Medicare and Medicaid. If they do, it is a good bet that Obama will meet them somewhere in the middle.
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Soaring over Disneyland, and beyond !
Hello, all. I suppose that all of you know what Google Earth is about, and probably had already a look to a view of Disneyland "from the sky". Well, it's time to go back on the Google Earth web page and discover the new Google Earth 4.2 program, because , as you will see it is amazing.
To make it easy for you, i'm going to do a step-by-step with plenty of screen captured images, and don't go away, because it is easy to do - and Google Earth is totally free!
In fact, at the end you will be able to "soar" over california - or disney world - or any place in the world without moving from your chair! You will also find at the end of the article youtube links for two videos that i did for you that will show you in real what i explain below. Can't do more than that, can't i ?
Okay, here we go, and please double-click on each image to have them in bigger size - you will have a better view, and , most of all, a better understanding of what i explain.
So, the first thing that you have to do is to go to : http://earth.google.com/
and to download the new 4.2 program by clicking on the green space up right where it is written "download google earth "
Once it is done, go to : http://earth.google.com/3d.html
and click on the blue link "3D Warehouse network link" that you will find on the first line under the screen image.
Once both of them are downloaded , double-click on both of them ( the google earth 4.2 program first ) and then this must appear
on the left there is a space to type the destination where you want to go, and type as keyword: "disneyland" - you don't even have to type "california" or "anaheim" , "disneyland" will be enough - in case it's not, of course type "anaheim".
google earth will move to california , then zoom to disneyland ( the move/zoom is always amazing, by the way ) and you will arrive more or less to that image below.
may be you will have to "re-center " the park in the screen, what you can do easily by putting your mouse on the image. A little hand appear , click and hold, and move the image in any direction you want to center the image so you'll get the view below.
now, this is the view that you could have easily before with the previous versions of the google earth program, a totally vertical view. of course you can zoom in the image to come closer to the magic kingdom, but it would have stay always a vertical view.
This is where it begin to become interesting, because, thanks to the google earth 4.2 you're going to be able to move the image more "horizontally" .
On the top right of the image you should have this ( see picture below )
what looks like a circle will allow you to turn the view 360 degrees . the vertical bar on the right is to zoom up or down , but the horizontal bar on the top will allow you to move the image in a horizontal way by moving the cursor that is on the center to the right. now, don't swing the image too much horizontally, just do it on an angle of 30 or 45 degrees, and your vertical view that you had above will become this
As you can see, you begin to have more perpective . The image will be less sharp than when it was totally vertical, but that's how it goes. You can now begin to zoom in the image. Now, it's possible to add to the image some great 3D recreation of some Disneyland buildings! Here is how, and once again, it's incredibly easy! If you have open the two program you've downloaded before, you will notice that small "blue house" icons will appear sometime on the image. double click on any of them , and a window like this one will open
Choose the 3D building you want to add to the sky-view image and click on " download to google earth 4 " . If, just like me you've chosen to download the 3D castle and the house of the future , this is what you will get
or this with the castle only
now, swing your image more horizontally , and zoom on the house of the future , view from the entrance of tomorrowland ( turn the circle bar on the top left to get the right angle )
zoom again to get even closer ...
and again....until you actually get INSIDE of the house of the future ! the furniture have not been 3D recreated, but it's okay.
go always forward inside and you will even see through the windows the 3D Disneyland castle behind ! Amazing, isn't it?
you can go around the park view and find these little blue house icons to add more 3D building , like the haunted mansion one
Mind you, google earth is also useful to locate what space could be available to built new attractions in the future, like on this view of the whole resort where i'm ready to bet that the parking lot in the front of the picture will disappear in some years to make room for a new california adventure land ( or whatever it will be called then )
We will come back to disneyland later, but let's have a look to WDW ( just type "disney world" as key word destination) . There, too, you can add 3D buildings and even a part of mainstreet !
Or a kind of orbitron and space mountain , too
At Epcot, you can of course add a 3D spaceship earth
You will have also a great view of the outside loop of test track
or the world showcase and futureworld all together
At disney mgm you can download and add a 3D tower of terror among others
let's go around the world now, to disneyland paris ( type: "chessy, france" ) where a space mountain or a phantom manor are 3D recreated
And what about tokyo disneyland? i didn't find 3D buildings to download, but you'll have great view of both parks - tokyo disney sea is here on the left , near the sea !
It is fun also to compare this view of TDS ( the image has been swing on 30 degree angle )
...with the original rendering of the park
you can also have a closer look in the lagoon of captain nemo's mysterious island
You will notice that when you swing more horizontally the picture, the building still look more flat than they are in reality, which is logic as we must not forget that it is a 2D picture shot from the sky at the origin.
However if you want you can add the 3D building function ( choose it in the "infos " box at the bottom right ) and you will see this to have an idea of the volume proportions - note that "tower of terror " was not built yet when this picture was shot
Of course, the same principle of 3D buildings are available to download in other locations than disney theme parks , like here with the famous Griffith observatory on the hills of los angeles
or you can re-create the whole las vegas strip by adding one by one all the hotels and casinos !
But let's go back to disneyland, as the most amazing is yet to come ( yes! ). Last week, google have added "google sky" to the google earth program. what the hell is it? Well it will allow you to have a view of the sky above the location where you are , let's say disneyland. So, double-click on the little icon on the topbar of the google earth window - the one at the top right of all the icons with a planet logo, just on the right of the icon that looks like an open book , or the the third on the right after the icon that looks like an enveloppe. Wait, and watch what happens - the previous view will be reversed and instead to zoom from the sky to disneyland , you will have a view of the sky constellation,s that are actually above disneyland ( sorry, on the picture below the constellations name are in french as i am in france )
And now, let's go the universe and beyond, as the new "google sky" allows you to "zoom" inside the universe until you reach galaxies millions light years away and above disneyland, like this one below. Can you believe that? Zooming from your home computer inside the universe and travel through it? Amazing!
I let you travel through galaxies and once you'll be over, come cack on earth above disneyland, as there is more amazing things to do!
Try to comeback to this view we had at the beginning ( swing the image to have the same angle )
Now, as you have noticed, when you put your mouse on the image a little white hand appear ( that's your mouse ). Click and hold on your mouse to "hold the image "( just like when you want to move it left or right ) and do a gentle move, just like if you wanted to "launch" the image, for instance in direction of the bottom of the screen . The california ground will begin to move and you will "soar" over disneyland and all california. You don't have to "launch" the image twice, once you've done it, it will not stop until you do something else on the screen, you can "soar" around the earth like that, once you've launch the image , it won't stop!. The trick is to don't launch the image with a fast move, just do a gentle slow move, so the image don't go too fast and you'll be gliding like a bird over the california landscape and beyond !
It's not over yet, as the Google Earth program have an hidden Easter egg! Believe it or not, there's a flight simulator hidden in the program! It works with the realistic images of Google Earth, which give a great illusion. And you know what? Unlike the most popular flight simulator, it's totally free!
Here is how to find it: Type on the keyboard Ctrl+Alt+A (if you're running a Mac OS X it's Command+Option+A ) Some people have reported that on PC, Ctrl+A or Ctrl+Windows+A work when the standard Ctrl+Alt+A does not). Note that once you will have launch the flight simulator the first time, you will not need to do this again the next time, as you will find in "tools" menu the "open flight simulator" option.
The following window should pop up (shown below, the text in your version should be in English) and you can choose between two aircraft, an F16 or a small tour plane. If you already have a joystick you can also choose to use it.
You can lift off from any one of 30 different airports - the default is Kathmandu, but you can choose from many others.
Here is a view when you lift off from Los Angeles airport.
To know which keystrokes you must use to fly, use this link:
If you have a Mac, here's a page to know what keystrokes means what:
And now, as promised at the beginning, here are the two links where you can see the videos demo that i've filmed to help you : The first video will explain you how to move the image:
And the second one how to "launch" the image to soar over california - or anywhere else in the world you wish!
Have fun all around the world!
All photos : copyright Google Earth
Artwork : copyright Disney-Oriental Land co
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Alain you have the greatest blog on our planet, you know that right :)! Thank you for this walk through, it's brilliant just like all the other content you continually post for us!
- September 9, 2007 at 8:32 AM
- Alain Littaye said...
Thank you Kristina, it's very kind from you!
- September 9, 2007 at 4:52 PM
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If you're installing (or will be installing) a hot tub, you'll want to do some additional landscaping to add some curb appeal and make your hot tub look like the heavenly spot that it is. It isn't difficult, but there are a few things you'll want to consider before getting started.
Plan Everything
Before you head to the garden store, take some time to draw out your space and plan what you'd like to do with the space. This way, you'll have a chance to identify problem areas, price out your project, and make a comprehensive list of what you'll need to get it all done. You can get everything you need in one trip, and no matter what you do first, you'll always know what is supposed to go where.
Create Some Privacy
The last thing you want while you're enjoying your hot tub is a whole group of strangers gawking at you. So, you'll need to build some sort of fence or privacy guard. You can build one out of wood or even metal. You may even want to dress it up with climbing or flowering plants. This is a great way to tie in your hot tub with the exterior of the house and the rest of the property. However, you can also grow your own privacy wall.
Bamboo and other tall plants are an excellent way to enjoy your privacy, without having to construct a large wooden or metal structure. The only thing you'll need to be aware of is that plants will drop leaves, bugs, and other unwanted things into your hot tub, so make sure there's plenty of space between them and the tub.
A Great View
If you want your time in the hot tub to be heavenly, it will need to look like it — your own piece of heaven — but how you accomplish that is up to you. Tropical plants, trees, and bushes are a great start. Lavender, lilies, orchids, and other flowering plants will set off the green of the tropical forests perfectly and give the air a light scent. Can't grow these types of plants in your area? No problem! Grow everything in containers.
You'll be able to move and rearrange, and bring them inside during the winter.
Your garden will also need a focal point. Of course, you can do this with trees and flowers, but you can do many other things with it as well. A water fountain, waterfall, or even water gardens can be filled with plants, fish, rocks, and interesting structures that will add interest to your backyard.
A Comfortable Surrounding
Crushed rock, wood chips, and grass might look nice around the hot tub, but they're not so nice on your feet or in your hot tub, so you'll need to plan the patios, decks, and walkways to your new oasis carefully.
If you need to install a pathway or ground level patio, use paving stones or something that is easy on your feet and won't track into the hot tub. Want to make a fun or interesting shape? Use your garden hose to mark out the shape of the path or patio and use it as a guide to remove the sod.
If your hot tub is on a deck, turn it into party central! Add an area for a patio table and chairs and a spot for the barbeque! You might even want to add a dressing screen and create a private spot for people to change or hang their clothing.
Landscaping around your hot tub is easy. You'll just need to remember to plan things carefully, and most importantly, have fun with it! Before you know it, your backyard will become your favorite place in the world and you'll be calling into work sick, just so you can enjoy it.


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It was an awesome OS.
I'm a little unusual though in that I've liked almost every OS I've used.
I was actually interested in this though, from Windows 3.1. I had the entire Windows Entertainment Pack collection back then (all 4). I lost them in my upgrade to Windows 95. It was good to get them working again and revisit old games.


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First part is here: http://lag.lt/latency-comparison-on-screens-for-hmd-fpv-use/
Got new firmware for my HMD, purchased some equipment for testing, borrowed goggles and did another measurement. Entire chain:
Sony Xperia Z1 compact => HS1177 => BF OSD => VTX03 => HMD/Goggles – so, keep in mind that visible latency is from entire chain included. Results in short:
- LTD056EV7F (my HMD with 5.6″ screen and RTD2662, firmware from smth like 2016.06): min: 29, max: 55, avg: 44ms. Main issue – blur on screen itself (old type LCD screen)
- Headplays with low latency firmware: min: 30, max: 69, avg: 39ms. Slightly less blurry than old Toshiba 5.6″, but more blur compared to any goggles.
- Quanum Fatshark Genesis: min: 45, max: 89, avg: 64ms. Again, less blurry compared to my HMD, but still more than goggles.
- Fatshark Dominator v2: min: 31, max: 51, avg 38ms.
- Fatshark Attitude v3 (should be the same optics dom v2?): min: 27, max: 69, avg: 50ms. Maybe optics is identical to doms, but something is different in processing chain, because averages are clearly higher.
Photo samples if someone is interested (taken with SONY A6300 + Samyang 8mm F2.8, ISO 25600 EV -2.7, but allways at 1/4000 shutter speed, so you know what quality to expect =)


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This is one that I figured out pretty quick.
What has the ActionScript 2.0 Migration to say about this subject:
ActionScript 2.0 | ActionScript 3.0 | Comments |
random() | Math.random() | Removed. Use Math.random() instead. |
I could have seen that coming:
Deprecated since Flash Player 5. This function was deprecated in favor of Math.random().
Returns a random integer between 0 and one less than the integer specified in the value parameter.
Source: as2 help documentation.
I was still using it a in Flash 6 and higher, but now I have to change that habit.
And now we come to an annoying point: if you go to the as3 help documentation you only get an explanation but not a nice piece of example code. I don't know why they changed that, but I don't like it.
So this is the explanation from the as3 help for Math.random()
Returns a pseudo-random number n, where 0 <= n < 1. The number returned is calculated in an undisclosed manner, and pseudo-random because the calculation inevitably contains some element of non-randomness.
with some example code from as2 (functionality isn't changed)
// The following example outputs 100 random integers between 4 and 11 (inclusively):
function randRange(min:Number, max:Number):Number {
var randomNum:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (max – min + 1)) + min;
return randomNum;
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
var n:Number = randRange(4, 11)
the way I using it was somewhat simpler then the example
There are a couple of ways to do that in ActionScript 2:
Example #1
[as]random(10)+1; // to get a number between 1 and 10 (1 and 10 included)[/as]
Lets try this in ActionScript 3:
Example #1
[as]Math.floor(Math.random()*10)+1; // to get a number between 1 and 10 (1 and 10 included)[/as]
Just make a snippet out of it, and you have never to search for this answer…


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What, I wondered, does McKendry say about American Indians? Are we part of his narrative?
I'll have to get to the library and read the whole book, but here's what I see using Google Books:
Today's Times Square sits on land once owned by Medcef Eden, a brewer-turned-farmer whose seventy-acre farm covered much of the area in the early 1800s.That'd be an easy place for McKendry to say who owned that land prior to Medcef Eden, wouldn't it? A few pages later, McKendry shows us some ironworkers laying steel beams:
The text suggests these ironworkers are working on the Paramount Building, completed in 1926. He doesn't tell us anything about the workers themselves. Maybe he meant some of them to be Mohawk. Maybe he didn't. Either way, he could have included a sidebar about the Mohawk ironworkers who have been building those skyscrapers since the late 1800s. If you want to know more about the Mohawk ironworkers, the National Museum of the American Indian has a peek at an exhibit, and Time has a photoessay of Mohawk ironworkers.
I'll let you know when I get a copy and see the whole thing. I think I'm really going to like McKendry's artistry, but I also think I'll walk away from it wishing it was more comprehensive with regard to Native peoples. McKendry's attention to detail is astounding. You can see some of the art at his website. I'm guessing it isn't meant to be a social history, but he does include information about some people... Charles Thorley is one; Oscar Hammerstein is another.
More later...


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DAVAO, Philippines — Philippine firefighters recovered one body from a burning shopping mall Sunday and there was "zero" chances of survival for 36 other trapped people inside the four-story building in southern Davao city, an official said.
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said firefighters told distraught relatives of the 36 trapped employees of a business outsourcing company at the top floor of the NCCC Mall that nobody could survive the extreme heat and thick black smoke.
"They were told that the chances of survival are zero," she said, adding that one of those trapped may be a Chinese or a South Korean, based on the name.
It is unclear when firefighters can break into most areas of the mall, where the blaze was put under control Sunday morning although smoke continued to billow from the building. The firefighters won't stop until all those reported missing are found, Duterte-Carpio said.
Investigators will determine the cause of the fire and the prospects of criminal lawsuits against the mall owners and officials would depend on the outcome of the investigation, said the mayor, who is the daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte, the mayor and Roman Catholic Church officials went to the site and met with relatives of the trapped office employees late Saturday and asked them to pray. The president was photographed wiping his eyes with a handkerchief, his head bowed, at an emotional moment with the relatives.
The mall's marketing manager, Janna Abdullah Mutalib, said the fire started Saturday morning at the third floor where clothes, appliances and furniture are sold, after a storm hit Davao and flooded parts of the city. Except for a grocery at the ground floor and the business outsourcing company at the top floor, the shopping areas were still closed to the public when the fire started mid-morning, preventing a bigger tragedy amid the peak Christmas shopping season.
Duterte served as Davao mayor for many years before being elected to the presidency last year.
It's been a difficult year for the tough-talking, 72-year-old leader, who faced his most serious crisis when hundreds of pro-Islamic State group extremists laid siege on Marawi city, also in the southern third of the Philippines. He declared martial law in the south to deal with the insurrection, which troops crushed in October.
The storm that blew out of the southern Philippines Sunday reportedly left more than 120 people dead with 160 others still missing.


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Snapshot showcases the unique perspectives of La Trobe's undergraduate students. The work published in this journal represents a broad range of work produced for assessment in the humanities and social sciences.
For more information about getting published in Snapshot, read the selection policy.
We welcome expressions of interest from other disciplines at La Trobe.
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The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Books is an electronic journal about children's literature. This site is currently in recess, as the Journal Editor has retired from La Trobe University.
The site was launched April 2, 1997 -- International Children's Book Day. As our name suggests, we combine an interest in the traditional with an eye to the modern. Our readers and contributors are academics, librarians, teachers, parents and anyone else fascinated by the world of children's literature. This journal is published by a small group of volunteers. Our expertise includes writing, editing, teaching, publishing, librarianship -- all the various aspects of children's books and literature. In the beginning, our parent organization was the Toronto Centre for the Study of Children's Literature (TCSCL), then housed at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, now at York University. From 1 July 1998, however, The Looking Glass was independent of any institutional support. In July 2007 La Trobe University in Australia began providing hosting and technical support, utilising the OJS open access journal system.


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The news section is now part of BLOG / NEWS.
You can now leave comments!
Originally Life in Pictures
This websites original intention was to be a repository of family pictues.
Once the infrastructure was in place, I figured the website would be a great way to share my interest.
As the hobbies grow, so does the website.
The intent of this website still remains to be a way to share picture....ALL kind of pictures now. Whether it be a photo from our travels or our house under renovation, we will share it on this site.
We will not only focus on pictures though. We hope to educate at the same time. Take for example the U.S. Currency pages. The plan is to continue adding text explaining the history behind the notes.


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Subscribe to Cases that cite 178 U. S. 186U.S. Supreme Court
Clarke v. Clarke, 178 U.S. 186 (1900)
Clarke v. Clarke
No. 210
Argued April 9-10, 1900
Decided May 21, 1900
It is a doctrine firmly established that the law of a state in which land is situated controls and governs its transmission by will or its passage in case of intestacy.
The courts of a state where real estate is situated have the exclusive right to appoint a guardian, of a nonresident minor, and vest in such guardian the exclusive control and management of land belonging to said minor situated within the state.
This writ of error was procured for the purpose of obtaining the reversal of a judgment of the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut which, as respected real estate situated in the State of Connecticut, refused to follow and apply a judgment of the Supreme Court of South Carolina interpreting and construing the will of Julia H. Clarke.
The facts from which the legal questions presented arise are as follows:
Henry P. Clarke and Julia Hurd intermarried in New York in 1886, and immediately thereafter went to South Carolina, where they afterwards continuously resided. Mrs. Clarke died on February 10, 1894, owning real and personal property in South Carolina, and also real estate situated in Connecticut. Two daughters survived, one Nancy B., aged five years, the other, Julia, aged about two months chanrobles.com-red
A will and codicil executed by Mrs. Clarke were duly established in the Court of Probate for Richland County, in the State of South Carolina. The will contained the following provisions:
"Fifth. The rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, real and personal, of whatever description or wheresoever situated, I give, devise, and bequeath as follows: one-half thereof to my husband, Henry P. Clarke, and one-half thereof to my said husband in trust for my daughter, Nancy, until she becomes twenty-five years of age, and then to pay the whole sum over to her. But if she shall marry before that age with the consent and approval of her father, or, in case of his death, with the consent and approval of her then guardian, then I direct that one-half of her share shall be paid to her upon her marriage and the other half when she becomes twenty-five."
"In case I shall leave surviving me one or more children beside my daughter Nancy, then I direct that the said rest, residue, and remainder of my estate shall be divided equally among my said husband and all of my children, share and share alike, my husband and my children sharing per capita, and the shares of said children to be held in trust as above provided in the case of Nancy as being the only one."
"And I give, devise, and bequeath the said rest, residue, and remainder as aforesaid to each and to their heirs and each of them forever."
The infant daughter Julia died shortly after her mother, in the month of May, 1894, owning no property in Connecticut except such as had devolved on her under the will of her mother.
Henry P. Clarke, as executor of the last will and testament of his wife, Julia H. Clarke, and trustee of the estate of Nancy B. Clarke, his infant daughter, brought suit in June, 1895, against said Nancy B. Clarke, in the Circuit Court for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina, praying for the
"judgment and direction of the court in regard to the true construction of said will, and especially the fifth and residuary paragraph thereof, and as to his powers and duties as such executor and trustee under said will in the premises and for such further relief as may be just and proper. "
A guardian ad litem was appointed for the infant defendant, who duly answered, and, after hearing, the court decreed that the will of the testatrix, Julia H. Clarke, worked an equitable conversion into personalty at the time of her death of all her real estate of whatsoever description and wheresoever situated; that the plaintiff as executor should receive, administer, and account for the same as personalty; that he was by the said will authorized and empowered to sell and convey the same for the purpose of executing the will, and leave was given to apply for further orders and directions upon the foot of the decree. This judgment was, upon appeal, affirmed by the Supreme Court of South Carolina. 46 S.C. 230.
The controversy in the courts of Connecticut was commenced by the filing in the Probate Court for the District of Bridgeport of a petition on behalf of Henry P. Clarke as administrator of the estate of his deceased daughter Julia Clarke, he having been appointed such administrator by the proper court in Connecticut. In the petition, it was recited that Julia had died intestate, leaving real estate in the district, and that divers persons claimed to be entitled to have the said real estate set apart and distributed to them, and the court was asked to hear the claims of said parties and ascertain to whom the estate should be apportioned. A guardian ad litem having been appointed by the court for Nancy B. Clarke, the application was heard, and a decree was entered finding that she was the sole heir and distributee of her deceased sister Julia. The Connecticut law, which devolved on Nancy the whole of the real estate of Julia, differed from the law of South Carolina, by which the estate of Julia, both real and personal, passed equally to the father and to Nancy the surviving sister.
Henry P. Clarke individually appealed from the decision of the probate court to the Superior Court of the County of Fairfield. That court filed its findings stating the facts concerning the controversy, and reserved the resulting questions of law to the Supreme Court of Errors of the state, which court recommended that the decree of the probate court be affirmed. 70 Conn.195. Thereupon the Superior Court of Fairfield County entered a decree in conformity to the mandate to it directed. chanrobles.com-red
In the body of the decree, the court referred to the contention between the parties and stated the one pertinent to the issue now before us as follows:
"Upon the facts aforesaid, the appellant claimed and contended that the decision and decree of the Circuit Court for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of South Carolina, being the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Richland County, affirmed by the Supreme Court of said state, 46 S.C. 230, in the case of Henry P. Clarke, executor and trustee, against Nancy B. Clarke, in its interpretation and construction of the will of the said Julia H. Clarke, to the effect that said will worked an equitable conversion into personalty at the time of her death of all the real estate of the testatrix, wherever situated, was binding and conclusive on the courts of this state in his favor in this proceeding, and that to hold otherwise would be to deny full faith and credit to the judicial proceedings and judgment of the State of South Carolina, and would be in contravention of section 1, Article IV, of the Constitution of the United States."
An appeal was taken from the decree of the superior court. The Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, although it remarked that the appeal was unnecessary, as its prior judgment had settled the controversy between the parties, yet entertained the appeal, and affirmed the decree below. 70 Conn. 483.
MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut held that the will of Julia H. Clarke, wife of the plaintiff in error, did not at the time of her death work an equitable conversion into personalty chanrobles.com-red
of the real estate situated in the State of Connecticut, and consequently that though personal property might be governed by the law of the domicil, real estate within Connecticut was controlled by the law of Connecticut, and hence that Nancy B. Clarke, as surviving sister of Julia Clarke, inherited, under the laws of Connecticut, to the exclusion of the father, the interest of the deceased sister Julia in the real estate in Connecticut which had passed to Julia by the will of her mother. It is assigned as error that, in so deciding, the Connecticut court refused full faith and credit to the decree of the courts of South Carolina, wherein it was adjudged that the will of Mrs. Clarke had the effect of converting her real estate, wherever situated, into personalty; the deduction being that as under the South Carolina decision the real estate situated in Connecticut became personal property, it was the duty of the Connecticut court to have decided that the land passed by the law of South Carolina, and not according to the law of Connecticut, and hence that, instead of treating the daughter Nancy as the owner of the whole of the real estate, it should have recognized the father as having a half interest therein. And the correctness of this proposition is really the only question which the assignment of errors presents for our decision.
The argument at bar has taken a wide range, and the various legal principles by which it was deemed that a solution of the controversy might be facilitated have been supported by a very elaborate reference to authority. We do not deem it necessary, however, to critically review the cases cited and the observations of text writers which were relied on in argument, nor to analyze all the contentions which it is asserted those authorities sustain. We say this because, in our opinion, the matter at issue may be disposed of by the application of two well defined and elementary legal principles.
It is a doctrine firmly established that the law of a state in which land is situated controls and governs its transmission by will or its passage in case of intestacy. This familiar rule has been frequently declared by this Court, a recent statement thereof being contained in the opinion delivered in De Vaughn v. Hutchinson, 165 U. S. 566, where the Court said (p. 165 U. S. 570): chanrobles.com-red
"It is a principle firmly established that to the law of the state in which the land is situated we must look for the rules which govern its descent, alienation, and transfer, and for the effect and construction of wills and other conveyances. United States v. Crosby, 7 Cranch 115; Clark v. Graham, 6 Wheat. 5774; McGoon v. Scales, 9 Wall. 23; Brine v. Insurance Co., 96 U. S. 627."
Now in the case at bar, the courts of Connecticut, construing the will of Mrs. Clarke, have declared that, by the law of Connecticut, land situated in that state owned by Mrs. Clarke at her decease continued to be, after her death, real estate for the purpose of devolution of title thereto. The proposition relied on therefore is this, although the court of last resort of Connecticut (declaring the law of that state) has held that the real estate in question had not become personal property by virtue of the will of Mrs. Clarke, nevertheless it should have decided to the contrary, because a court of South Carolina had so decreed. This, however, is but to argue that the law declared by the South Carolina court should control the passage by will of land in Connecticut, and therefore is equivalent to denying the correctness of the elementary proposition that the law of Connecticut where the real estate is situated governed in such a case. It is conceded that had the will been presented to the courts of Connecticut in the first instance and rights been asserted under it, that the operative force of its provisions upon real estate in Connecticut would have been within the control of such courts. But it is said a different rule must be applied where the will has been presented to a South Carolina court and a construction has been there given to it, for, in such a case, not the will, but the decree of the South Carolina court construing the will, is the measure of the rights of the parties as to real estate in Connecticut. The proposition, when truly comprehended, amounts but to the contention that the laws of the respective states controlling the transmission of real property by will, or in case of intestacy, are operative only so long as there does not exist in a foreign jurisdiction a judgment or decree which in legal effect has changed the law of the situs of the real estate. This is but to contend that what cannot be chanrobles.com-red
done directly can be accomplished by indirection, and that the fundamental principle which gives to a sovereignty an exclusive jurisdiction over the land within its borders is in legal effect dependent upon the nonexistence of a decree of a court of another sovereignty determining the status of such land. Manifestly, however, an authority cannot be said to be exclusive, or even to exist at all, where its exercise may be thus frustrated at any time. These conclusions are not escaped by saying that it is not the law of Connecticut which conflicts with the interpretation of the will adopted by the South Carolina court, but the decision of the court of Connecticut which does so. In this forum, the local law of Connecticut as to real estate is the law of that state as announced by the court of last resort of that state.
As correctly observed in the course of the opinion delivered by the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, the question as to the operative effect of the will of Mrs. Clarke upon the status of land situated in Connecticut was one directly involving the mode of passing title to lands in that state. This resulted from the fact that, if the will worked a conversion into personalty immediately upon the death of Mrs. Clarke, as contended, it necessarily vested her executor with authority at once to sell and convey the real estate in Connecticut by a deed sufficient, under the laws of that state, to transfer title to real estate -- a power which was held by the courts of Connecticut not to have been conferred. Had the executor assumed to exercise such a power, however, the validity or invalidity of a conveyance thus executed would have been one exclusively for the courts of Connecticut to determine, just as would have been the question of the sufficiency of the will to vest title. Such being the case, there is no basis for the contention that it was not the exclusive province of the courts of Connecticut to determine, prior to the execution of such a conveyance, whether or not the power to do so existed.
As further observed by the Connecticut court, whether Mr. Clarke, as executor and trustee under the will of his wife, had any power, duty, or estate with respect to lands situated in Connecticut depended upon the laws of that state. The courts of chanrobles.com-red
the domicil of Mrs. Clarke could properly be called upon to construe her will so far as it affected property which was within or might properly come under the jurisdiction of those tribunals. If, however, by the law as enforced in Connecticut, land in Connecticut owned by Mrs. Clarke at her decease was real estate for all purposes, despite the provisions contained in her will, that land was a subject matter not directly amenable to the jurisdiction of the courts of another state, however much those courts might indirectly affect and operate upon it in controversies where the court, by reason of its jurisdiction over persons and the nature of the controversy, might coerce the execution of a conveyance of or other instrument encumbering such land.
And the cogency of the reasons just given is further demonstrated by considering the case from another, though somewhat similar, aspect. The decree of the South Carolina court, which, it is contended, had the effect of converting real estate situated in Connecticut into personal property, was not one rendered between persons who were sui juris. Nancy B. Clarke, one of the parties to the suit in South Carolina, and whom the Connecticut court has held inherited, to the exclusion of the father, under the laws of Connecticut, the whole of the real estate belonging to her sister, was a minor. She was therefore incompetent, in the proceedings in South Carolina, to stand in judgment for the purpose of depriving herself of the rights which belonged to her under the law of Connecticut as to the real estate within that state. Neither the executor nor trustee under the will, nor the guardian ad litem, nor any other person assuming to represent the minor in South Carolina, had authority to act for her quoad her interest in real estate beyond the jurisdiction of the South Carolina court, and which was situated in Connecticut.
It cannot be doubted that the courts of a state where real estate is situated have the exclusive right to appoint a guardian of a nonresident minor, and vest in such guardian the exclusive control and management of land belonging to said minor, situated within the state. This Court had occasion to consider and pass upon this doctrine in the case of Hoyt v. Sprague, 103 U. S. 613, and, in the course of the opinion, it was said (p. 103 U. S. 631): chanrobles.com-red
"One of the ordinary rules of comity exercised by some European states is to acknowledge the authority and power of foreign guardians -- that is, guardians of minors and others appointed under the laws of their domicil in other states. But this rule of comity does not prevail to the same extent in England and the United States. In regard to real estate, it is entirely disallowed, and is rarely admitted in regard to personal property. Justice Story, speaking of a decision which favored the exterritorial power of a guardian in reference to personal property, says:"
"It has certainly not received any sanction in America in the states acting under the jurisprudence of the common law. The rights and powers of guardians are considered as strictly local, and not as entitling them to exercise any authority over the person or personal property of their wards in other states, upon the same general reasoning and policy which have circumscribed the rights and authorities of executors and administrators."
(Story, Confl.Laws, secs. 499, 504, 504a. And see Wharton, Confl.Laws, secs. 259-268, 2d ed.; 3 Burge, Colon. & Foreign Laws 1011.) And some of those foreign jurists who contend most strongly for the general application of the ward's lex domicilii admit that, when it comes to the alienation of foreign assets, an exception is to be made in favor of the jurisdiction within which the property is situate for the reason that this concerns the ward's property, and not his person. (Wharton, secs. 267, 268).
Of what efficacy, however, would be the power of one state to control he administration, through its own courts, of real estate within the state, belonging to minors, without regard to the domicil of the minor, if all such real estate could be disposed of and the administration thereof be controlled by the decree of the court of another state. Here again, the argument relied on must rest upon the false assumption that an exclusive power which confessedly exists in the courts of one jurisdiction may be wholly destroyed or rendered nugatory by the action of the courts of another jurisdiction in whom is vested no authority whatever on the subject. It results that no person before the South Carolina court assuming to speak for the estate of Nancy B. Clarke represented any real property of said Nancy which chanrobles.com-red
was not within the territorial jurisdiction of South Carolina, and the decree therefore could not affect land in Connecticut, an interest which was not before the court.
When, therefore, Henry P. Clarke, as administrator, appointed in Connecticut, of the estate of his deceased daughter, Julia Clarke, applied to the Connecticut probate court to determine who was entitled to the "real estate" owned by the intestate, it was the province of the Connecticut court to decide such question solely with reference to the law of Connecticut. Its power in this regard was not limited by the fact that in order to determine who owned the real estate, it was necessary for the court to construe the will of the mother of the intestate, and to determine what effect it had upon the status of the real estate under the law of Connecticut. Having a right to decide these questions, it was not constrained to adopt the construction of the will which had been announced by the court of South Carolina. From these conclusions it follows that, because the court of Connecticut applied the law of that state in determining the devolution of title to real estate there situated, thereby no violation of the constitutional requirement that full faith and credit must be given in one state to the judgments and decrees of the courts of another state was brought about, as the decree of the South Carolina court, in the particular under consideration, was not entitled to be followed by the courts of Connecticut, by reason of a want of jurisdiction in the court of South Carolina over the particular subject matter which was sought to be concluded in Connecticut by such decree. Thompson v. Whitman, 18 Wall. 457; Cole v. Cunningham, 133 U. S. 107; Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Co. v. Radcliffe, 137 U. S. 287; Simmons v. Saul, 138 U. S. 439; Reynolds v. Stockton, 140 U. S. 254.
Judgment affirmed.


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Like most things CK these days, this newly-released product guide/special issue is already causing a stir among the scrapping masses. Discussions on 2Peas: HERE and HERE. One Pea was so unhappy, she gave her issue away FOR FREE. Debate on CKMB: HERE, HERE and HERE (this one is harshing on not just the product review issue, but CK of late, in general). I just bought mine at the grocery store lastnight (as I no longer subscribe)(but not for the reason you think).
Let me see if I can sum up the "issues" with this issue:
~ Paying good money for a scrapbook magazine that features only 3 or 4 layouts (15 if you count those in advertisements)
~ Just one big advertisement for their sponsors
~ Doesn't give a complete list of things like electronic cutters
~ Apparently replaced the Top 10 Issue, which everyone seems to have liked (at least in comparison to this)
~ No "How To's" to USE the products featured
~ Nothing new is featured, stuff we've seen before, "so last week"
~ Geared toward newbie scrappers
~ Couldn't access online links that were listed, and why not just include that content in the magazine in the first place?
~ Not consistent in use of comparison charts, or in featuring ALL of a certain type of product
And with CK magazine in general lately:
~ Too much digital now
~ Bland, uninspiring, dog-earing a lot fewer pages
~ Less layouts
~ Less pages, more ads
~ Layouts are shown so small you can't read the journaling, even when the article is about journaling
~ Would like to see more scraprooms, more of the latest products being used in layouts
~ What's with the "lifestyle" articles like How You Met Your Spouse?
~ Going more toward altered projects and paper crafts vs. scrapbooking, which is okay just keep it to a moderate level not put it on the cover
~ Would like more from HOF and SOY scrappers
On a positive note:
~ Like the new cover style
~ Like the Dream Team, Candice Stringham, computer and photography tips, Jennifer McGuire, Fresh Faces
~ CK was responsive to complaints by getting rid of Organize It, Easy Patterns, and the full page photos of Ali Edwards, et al.
Disclaimer: Please note that the comments or points above are NOT my opinion, just a summary of what I read in the CKMB and 2peas threads.
What did you think of the issue, and of CK magazine in general lately? Are you liking the Product Guide and all the changes CK is making?


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Writing about performances one has seen is like telling stories of travels - it is not about a shared experience, all we can do is create a new experience. The experience of "I heard about a show where...". This is not always easy to accept, on either side.
The last edition of the Warszawa Centralna festival ended by two shows that deal with the dead-end of civilization as we know it, the fall of paradigms and the attempts to overcome entropy.
Two shows - one is Christoph Marthaler's +-0, the other, Christoph Schlingesief's Via Intoleranza II, ridiculed our attempts to try and do something, and both of them tried doing something, while not managing, but trying, and maybe doing, but not really, but really...
Marthaler's is a beautiful and desperate lamentation after a culture which cannot go beyond itself, which fits nowhere and makes nothing. It still is godly, but useless... For all its beauty, I found it proving its point too well - this high culture does nothing, here. It is a mixture of a deep-rooted feeling of superiority and of despair when this superiority does not help, build or bind. It is a hopelessness I am not ready to accept - or contemplate.
Schlingesief's work (not just this piece) is all about refusing to accept this status quo.
What does Via Intoleranza II do? If you see the trailer, you might get the impression that it's a lively multi-culti show with quantities of fairly classic stage-action and a humanist message. Which, of course, it refuses to be. And which it is, after all.
Let's begin with this: when watching the show, I can't stop imagining Schlingesief-the-director tired of the absolute spectacle with no performative transferrence. Tired of the isolation of art, and, on the other hand, of the happy solutions that are neither happy nor solutions.
And, of course, tired of being sick, of having his sickness define what and who he is (Schlingensief died of cancer short after the premiere).
So he makes one last show. A show where stage is a constant reminder that there is a reality outside. An uncomfortable reminder, one which is to make us feel how ridiculous this place, here, is, and that its one hope is making us feel the need to use it for something very different, really real, really real.
The problem is - unless you leave your culture of distance, pathos and irony, it contaminates everything. But how would you leave this culture? And what tools would you have left?
Please let me out.
How do I get out.
I would love to get out, but can I keep some of the toys? Can I still make it a performance? Can I tell them what I really think, and still keep it a show, and make it unbearable for them to the extent where they themselves will want to leave and act?
Of course, the tools are the tools at hand. The show tools. The contemporary theater tools. The German critical art tools. With a little help from this or that culture or art. It is difficult not to see the presence of the different artistic styles (from traditional Burkinabe music and dance to French-language hip-hop) as a postmodern collage. A playful fairy-tale.
But the question is not: whether, or how, can the real be built on fiction. The question is: what sort of real can we build with fiction?
But first: what sort of fiction can we build with the fiction of being smarter-than-all-this and more-provocative-than-all-this?
Well, in the case of Via Intoleranza II, fiction starts off by looking ridiculous.
Not again - the happy bourgeois laughing at their own pitiful culture. Not again - the spectators suffering joyfully, as it will all be gone soon, so what do I care, if this is real or not.
The first reaction is frustration: I didn't give you my trust and allow you to leave the space (mental space) of theater, so you can come back into theater and make the same sarcastic, self-flagelating stage jokes I know from so many other contemporary theater artists.
Why are you doing this to me. Why are you taking us back into easy bitterness, when your bitterness was difficult and wild, when it was unbearable and over-the-top crazy and it was doing things. Why are you making it seem like it's just a show, after all?
The difference, here, happens, when you know it's real. If you know that there is an actual opera/school being built in Burkina Faso, if you know Schlingensief really was sick and did die, and really did give his social projects everything he had. Finally, if you know these people have something in there - that something is at stake, then it becomes something else.
It's a paradoxical situation: the show can only be performative (which is its explicit aim) if you know it corresponds to something real (in the outside world) already.
Whatever comes out of it, needs us to be prepared, and in a way, needs us to have lived it already. Is this a failure of art-as-intervention?
Maybe. Or maybe we misjudge theater. We still wishfully dream of the play making the King confess his crimes, out of nothing, out of thin air, and making the anonymous spectator become actor, agent, become activist, become action, become real.
This may make for some shallow theatrical provocations. Doesn't the spectator know he is more real than the stage? Because he comes from the outside? What is real, in this show, has already happened, and not onstage. It is the outside world that is working. And I'm not sure if the stage helps its existence in any way, if it provides it with the fictional energy, or if it is just an excuse.
After all, what we see is not what we get. We get everything it is part of. We are free to dive in and out of it, using it as a ficitonal or real weapon of our choice. Too abstract? Let's make it concrete then: the crazy stories about the opera being built exist also once you leave the space. You can help build the place. The child actor pretending to be an adult, is actually an adult actor who has the health condition of physically looking like a child. He says it, but why would we believe him? Because we know it already. Or we suspect it, knowing how the layers of fiction and reality abuse each other constantly.
Which makes it an insider's theater. Moving for those who had been moved even before, out there.
And extremely frustrating, because it makes it safe, after all, to treat this as a trick, a big, truth-filled trick. No matter how many operas you build and how sad the real death is, they remain outside. The show is so precisely full of itself, it is so spectacle-like, that I'm okay. Just when I hoped I wouldn't be.
That's my problem? I'm afraid Schlingensief's heritage makes it clear - it's ours.


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Nearly two weeks ago, Edward Snowden, who leaked massive quantities of classified information about top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs before fleeing the country, was being denounced by the Obama administration as a traitor whose acts are "despicable and beyond description."
Congress demanded that the U.S. government exert its massive power to have Snowden returned to face a charge of theft of government property and two offenses under the espionage act.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, described Snowden, 30, as a ne'er-do-well, "a high-school dropout who had a whole series of both academic troubles and employment troubles."
The idea now is to portray Snowden as less than "Reilly, Ace of Spies" and First Amendment crusader and more as a low-level employee of a subcontractor, not the fabled National Security Agency itself, who lucked into a trove of highly classified data that he then shared with Britain's Guardian newspaper and The Washington Post.
President Barack Obama, on a trip to Africa, described Snowden as a "hacker" and said he didn't want the case "elevated to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues simply to get a guy extradited."
The president said he would not take up the issue with the leaders of China, where Snowden first fled, or Russia, where he is said to be holed up in the transit lounge of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, supposedly awaiting permission to travel to Ecuador (now run by a Hugo Chavez/Fidel Castro wannabe), where he has sought sanctuary, or possibly elsewhere.
As anyone who has been forced to spend the night in an airport terminal can attest, being trapped in a transit lounge indefinitely — Ecuador says it may take months to decide on sanctuary for Snowden — is its own kind of purgatory.
And it may be beginning to tell on Snowden, who has surely by now exhausted the excitement of the duty-free shops and the limited choice of fast food.
His father, Lonnie Snowden, who insists he has not had direct contact with his son, says Edward might return voluntarily if he were allowed to go free before trial, was not subject to a gag order and could pick the location of his trial, an offer the Justice Department is sure to refuse.
Deprived of his U.S. passport, Edward Snowden is condemned to wander the halls of the Sheremetyevo transit lounge until Ecuador makes up its mind, never a quick process under the best of circumstances. The South American nation's dilemma is further complicated because hundreds of millions of dollars of trade with the U.S. are at risk.
Perhaps Snowden thinks that if he's holed up and harmless, Obama and whoever follows him in the White House will forget about him. Osama bin Laden no doubt thought something similar.
Lonely exile for Snowden?
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