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Despite Concerns Around Washington, Affordable Long-Term Care
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UBS Wealth Management Americas today released its second UBS Investor Watch report providing insights on core affluent and high net worth investor sentiment. The survey shows that, despite being increasingly concerned about the political environment in Washington and their personal ability to afford long-term care, investors are feeling better about their own financial situation. UBS Investor Watch indicates that long-term care concerns have surpassed retirement issues as the most critical of investors' personal finance worries for the future. Still, investor confidence in their personal financial situations was at higher levels in January than before the U.S. elections.
"The continued uncertainty in Washington is having a tremendous effect on investors," said Paula Polito, Client Strategy Officer of UBS WMA. "Today, we are seeing long-term care trump retirement as investors' number one personal concern. The need for advice is even more critical in this environment."
Highlights from the January 2013 UBS Investor Watch report include:
- The political environment in Washington caps investors' list of top concerns: Three in four investors (76%) are worried about the political environment in Washington, with 60% stating they are dissatisfied with the recent Congressional agreement to avert the fiscal cliff.
- Government "kicking the can" impacts willingness to invest, return expectations and long-term outlook: 60% of investors are dissatisfied with the fiscal cliff agreement, and 90% feel the deal did not do enough to address the national debt problem. With that in mind, investors indicated a decline in long-term economic optimism, and they are continuing to adopt a wait-and-see mindset toward investing as Washington works through outstanding fiscal cliff issues.
- Long-term care trumps retirement as biggest personal concern: The ability to afford healthcare/support in old age is the top concern among investors, with 26% agreeing it's their main worry versus 14% who said having enough money for retirement was their primary fear. Nearly three in four investors (73%) listed "staying healthy / fit" among their top three objectives, versus one in four (26%) who said the ability to retire when and how they want is a top-three goal.
- However, investors feel more confident about their own financial situation than three months ago: 56% of investors say they feel "very good" or "excellent" about their financial situation, compared with 44% as indicated in the October 2012 Investor Watch report. And investors who consistently follow their own financial plan feel markedly better about their finances, with 73% saying they feel "excellent" and "very good."
- Finally, investors believe that advice is central to achieving goals in this environment: Overall, 68% say receiving good advice is highly important to achieving their goals. And in particular, relating to recent events – post-election and prior to the fiscal cliff – investors were twice as likely to take action if they spoke with their advisors about these topics. Among investors who sought advice about the election, 76% were highly satisfied with the advice they received.
The UBS Investor Watch survey was conducted among 2,056 investors, including current UBS clients. Investor Watch will continue to track overall investor objectives and concerns toward U.S. economic factors, as well as geopolitical events, each quarter. To download a copy of the January 2013 UBS Investor Watch report, please visit here.
About UBS Wealth Management Americas
UBS Wealth Management Americas provides advice-based relationships through financial advisors who deliver a fully integrated set of products and services specifically designed to address the needs of ultra-high net worth, high net worth and core affluent individuals and families. It includes the Wealth Management US business, the domestic Canadian business and the international business booked in the United States.
About UBS
UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Its business strategy is centered on its pre-eminent global wealth management businesses and its universal bank in Switzerland. Together with a client-focused Investment Bank and a strong, well-diversified Global Asset Management business, UBS will expand its premier wealth management franchise and drive further growth across the Group.


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This week in new hires, Brooke Zrno Grisham was named CEO of the Nautilus Group and George Connolly was elected to the board of trustees of the American College.
Also, Connecticut Wealth Management welcomed four new additions.
Grisham Named CEO of Nautilus Group
New York Life announced that Brooke Zrno Grisham has been named CEO of the Dallas, Texas-based Nautilus Group, a team of industry professionals providing dedicated support in business and estate planning for a group of New York Life agents serving the advanced markets for life insurance. She reports to Gerard Rocchi, senior vice president.
Grisham joined New York Life in 1999 as a senior associate in the Nautilus Group and has held positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as chief operating officer where she was responsible for case development, information technology, compliance and administrative functions. She was named a vice president in 2011. Prior to joining, she worked as a corporate sales and marketing trainer for Mary Kay Inc.
American College Adds Connolly to Board
The American College announced that George Connolly has been elected to its board of trustees.
Connolly, now senior vice president of the wealth management group at Securian Financial Group, joined the firm in 1996 as president of Securian Financial Services. In his current role he oversees many functions related to distributing financial services to individuals, including compliance, distribution technology, recognition, compensation, field practices, career advisor recruiting, Securian Trust Co. and the Securian Financial Network.
Connecticut Wealth Management Adds Four
Connecticut Wealth Management recently welcomed financial advisors Michael Tedone, Kathleen Christensen and Elizabeth DeBassio, all formerly of Filomeno Wealth Management, as well as Kimberly Lockwood, who served as investment group administrator at Filomeno.
Tedone, a principal and shareholder at Filomeno & Co., has been providing wealth management and tax planning services to clients for 30 years.
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Bishops Will Vote on Statement Opposing Assisted Suicide
First priority at upcoming meeting in Seattle.
WASHINGTON (CNA/EWTN News) — The U.S. bishops will debate and vote on a statement that strongly opposes physician assisted suicide — one of the most controversial topics in American society.
"After years of relative inaction following legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon in 1994, the assisted-suicide movement has shown a strong resurgence in activity," said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, head of the bishops' pro-life committee.
"The Church needs to respond in a timely and visible way to this renewed challenge, which will surely be pursued in a number of states in the years to come," he said.
The bishops will vote on a document on doctor-assisted suicide at their June 15-17 spring assembly in Seattle. The statement, "To Live Each Day With Dignity," will be the first official stance taken on the issue by the full body of the U.S. bishops' conference.
A Gallup poll released on May 31 shows Americans are sharply divided on the topic, with 45% finding it permissible versus 48% who believe it is morally wrong.
Cardinal DiNardo warned that increasing cultural acceptance of doctor-assisted suicide has led to legislative efforts to make the practice widespread in the U.S.
"This renewed effort has led to the passage of an Oregon-style law in Washington by popular referendum in November 2008, a state Supreme Court decision essentially declaring that assisted suicide is not against public policy in Montana, and concerted efforts to pass legislation in several New England and Western states," he said.
The bishops' draft statement recognizes the hardships and fears of patients facing terminal illness, and at the same time counters the popular claims of the assisted-suicide movement that the act affirms patients' "choices" and expresses "compassion" for their suffering.
The bishops argue that true compassion eliminates suffering, not the patient himself, and that medical workers must dedicate themselves to addressing patients' needs and affirming their value as human beings.
The statement also warns that "compassion," as defined by assisted-suicide advocates, is a slippery slope: that will extend to others who do not have terminal illnesses, such as individuals with disabilities.
The bishops also say they are concerned about the practice undermining patients' freedom, citing legal systems such as the Netherlands, where voluntary assisted suicide has led to involuntary euthanasia in certain instances.
The U.S. bishops also raise the economic interests of those advocating the legalization of assisted suicide, arguing that the practice can ultimately become an excuse to save money by denying better medical care to seriously ill people — even for those who never considered the option.


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Life on aquatic is of two type
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The geological information of the earth helps in the forecasting of natural hazards (volcano eruptions, earth quakes, landslides) with which the life can be preserved. The applied geology gives us the information about the earth rocks their potentiality and to determine how they exist and their effect on mankind. It helps in evaluating the local, regional and global change, on and below the surface of earth.
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Quality amount of water which is required for the population to endure a good livelihood and to fortify protection against water pollution and deadly diseases associated with it and look after the ecosystem and its preservance.
Water sustainability includes four important elements
It mostly focuses on the water consumption without letting go off present and future requirements
These gases are abundant in the atmosphere which absorb and emit the infrared radiation. Due to the industrial revolution and some other factors contributed majorly in the rise of concentrations of these gases which leads to the global warming. Gases include Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, CFCS, HCFCS etc. These concentrations should be in balance and determined by airborne fraction
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Surface water hydrology is the phenomenon which is used to know the movement of surface water its distribution in space and time which is largely dependent upon the climate conditions along with the land usage, soil fertility, and terrain. Hydrological variability is the key component which had an impact on the river basins.
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Bioenergy is the natural energy which is obtained from the biological sources and organisms. Many of the natural waste is potential of chemical energy which is acquired by photosynthesis which is transformable to renewable source. It is an alternative and most efficient way for the energy production instead of depleting the earth core for relying on the fossil fuels which leads to environmental hazardous.
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Environmental toxicology is a branch of science which acknowledges us about the harmful toxicants which are contemporarily used in different arenas which makes the different species growth questionable and near to endangered. Many ecosystems are spoiled due to the amount of waste the mankind is generating. Organic and inorganic pollutants, pesticides, biological agents are the sources for the environmental toxicity.
Soil contamination is a natural as well as manmade havoc by the release of chemicals which alter the soil environment. Most of the erosion is because of waste disposal, use of chemicals in cultivation and industrial effluents. Mining, Debris, Petro chemicals, Land fill, Underground collisions and other nuclear wastes and many other are widely responsible for soil contamination which deteriorates the environment.
Soil science which particularly acknowledges us the formation of soil its management and its physical and chemical and overall is fertility for proper use of soil. With the tremendous increase of population and to meet their needs soil management must be considered as a vital aspect.
Soil ecology is a unique study concerned with the cycling of soil stability and its formation. Soil organisms have a key role in maintain the stability of soil & its fertility. To the known earthworms to unknown bacteria make their impact and nourish the soil which is important for the environment
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Many factors contribute to the deteriorating of environment. Pollution is a global problem. Smoke from vehicles to industrial wastes, from plastic to health hazard chemicals, debris, every manmade factor which is useful to man is turning out to be poison inhaled by our atmosphere and gives us return into global warming and rise in concentrations of harmful gases. This could be as simple as that stop using the products which rely on fossil fuels instead change the track to renewable sources. Limit the toxicants from the industries, plastic consumption, knowledge on debris recycling could make an impact
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Oceanography is a science which includes the study of different aspects of nature and form ocean basins, and movement of water in the basins. It includes many aspects like marine life their environment and formation of currents, waves, geophysical fluid dynamics, plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor and its properties with in and around the boundaries
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Wildlife ecology tells us variance in between the wildlife species habitat and their ecosystem. The wild life species are of types includes primary, secondary and territory consumers among them. Due to the certain climatic and atmospheric conditions the species are endangered and survival is inflexible for the other because they are interlinked.
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There is no difference between slaughtering of animals and clearing the forests. Deforestation mainly disrupts the habitat of wildlife their ecosystem and also causes aridity. The remedy lies within the human is the proper reforestation and letting the forest to give its charm and providing proper support in terms of manmade or natural disasters.
Geographic information system is the best approach to know, store, rectify, analyze the geographical data of a planet. The use of location intelligence along with geographical information system helps in location based amenities which generally based on survival lance and visualization
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Natural disasters are familiar to life on earth its consequences results in the greater damage in terms of life, environmental and financial. Mostly occurring events are earth quakes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, volcano eruptions.
Geography is an earth science which tells us about the distribution of land its physical properties atmospheric conditions, landscape, ecology, oceanography every aspect related in the biodiversity it also implies to the relationship between the environment and its people which change over time.
Ecosystem acts like motherhood to the species to continue their life its services include biological diversity, food. Threats to the ecosystem rises when these ecosystems exposed to the manmade nuisance like pollution, climate and environmental changes makes the ecosystem weaker and no longer bears the pressure which tears apart the biodiversity. This could be stopped by conserving the ecosystem and reducing the man's burden on it
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The geological information of the earth helps in the forecasting of natural hazards (volcano eruptions, earth quakes, landslides) with which the life can be preserved. The applied geology gives us the information about the earth rocks their potentiality and to determine how they exist and their effect on mankind. It helps in evaluating the local, regional and global change, on and below the surface of earth.
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Coastal environments contain diverse habitats that support an abundance of marine life. Some examples of marine and coastal habitats include mangrove forests; coral reefs; sea grass beds; estuaries in coastal areas; hydrothermal vents; and seamounts and soft sediments on the ocean floor a few kilometres below the surface
Petrology is the branch of geology that studies rocks and the conditions under which they form. Petrology has three subdivisions: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary petrology
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Sept. 22, 2008 — Researchers at a medical conference this week aresuggesting that children with recurrent croup be tested for reflux, which may be a contributingfactor.
As any parent who has listened to a child with croup can attest, it is ascary sound. Croup is characterized by a loud cough that sounds like a seal barking. There can alsobe wheezing and difficulty breathing.
Though it is commonly believed that croup is caused by a virus, upper airwaycomplications have also been considered a factor.
Researchers evaluated 80 children with recurrent croup (more than threeepisodes in a year) and found that 26 had narrowing of the airways. Of thosewith narrowed airways, 19 had acid reflux that backed up into the throat andvoice box area.
Overall, 56% of the children were suspected to have reflux after evaluationand testing.
The researchers presented their findings at the 2008 American Academy ofOtolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery annual meeting in Chicago.
They suggest that children with multiple episodes of croup be tested forreflux. With proper preventive treatment of reflux, future episodes of croupmay be avoided.


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I went to see the Walton Ford exhibit, Tigers of Wrath, at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday. Fantastic! Ford creates gigantic watercolor paintings, often life-sized or larger, in the style of James Audubon with layers of subtext woven into them -- colonialism, destruction of natural resources, vanity, etc. I had wanted to see the show for some time but I got even more excited after speaking with Ted and Betsy Lewin at the Society. We quickly got around to talking about the Museum of Natural History and Carl Akeley. The Lewins told me that one of the Ford paintings was a tribute to Akeley and that meant that I had to run over as soon as I could.
Carl Akeley is considered the father of modern taxidermy. He revolutionized the craft by expertly sculpting the musculature of the animals rather than limply stuffing the skins with straw. The American Museum of Natural History's Hall of African Mammals was his vision and he died creating it. I've had a black and white photograph of the mountain gorilla group hanging on my office door for ages. The diorama not only depicts the landscape those gorillas lived and died in, it is also the place where Akeley was buried.
And when I say "the place", I mean that literally. One of the many things I love about those dioramas is that they are not representations of typical landscapes, they are exact replicas of a real place. Once a spot was chosen, every tree was caste and molded, plants were taken, grasses, dirt, reference paintings were done on site. Each diorama is a specific place at a specific time. When you see them (and the Hall of North American Mammals is no less stunning) you are looking at some of the finest landscape painting and animal sculpture possible, not to mention lighting design.
I love all the contradictions that the museum offers. Each of those specimens were shot and gutted (even the cute lil' baby ones) and yet Akeley established the first park in Africa to protect the wildlife. The museum is a contemporary working science lab (the galleries take up a very small percentage of the buildings) even as it epitomizes a nineteenth century "great white hunter" esthetic. I also love that you can see exhibition design that has not been touched since the 50's next to some fabulous contemporary design. (The only halls that I ever found ugly, the Hall of Human Biology are, thankfully, under renovation.)
Another exhibit we saw at the Brooklyn Museum was Ron Mueck's hyper realistic sculptures of human bodies that have been enlarged or shrunk. I have to admit, before seeing the exhibit I wasn't thinking too much of it...but in person, this show is amazing. The scale shifts, and flawless craft, jar you into reexamining the figure and quietly gasping at their humanity. These "people" are awkward, lonely, and fascinating.
Both shows, and the Natural History dioramas, rely on a mastery of their medium in order to be so effecting. (Very refreshing when so much contemporary art eschews technical ability.) Any flaw in the craft would have been a distraction from their artistic message. These exhibits can be visited over and over again... they are not intellectual puzzles to be "gotten" they are to be felt and experienced.
Lest you think this post is devoid of a science fiction connection, just a few minutes ago I learned j that James Tiptree Jr. went on expedition with Carl Akeley when she was six years old, or least that's what Wikipedia says.
Walton Ford's "Falling Bough" and detail. These paintings are often seven feet long or more. (There was even a life sized elephant painting.) Remarkable for watercolor. While the surface isn't as deep and lush as a Charles Santore or Genady Spirin painting, the drawing and the value is spot on. What you lose in the looseness you more than make up for in the sheer presence of the work.
Various shots from the Museum of Natural History on a very busy New Years Day. I've been there a hundred times and still only leave when I'm kicked out. If you go, bring binoculars. It's a great way to rediscover the paintings.
A short bio, comic strip style, of Akeley that I found while looking for the the gorilla group photo below.
Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto began his career with a series of photos of the dioramas in the 1970s. Here is the mountain gorilla group, depicting the burial ground of Carl Akeley.
Ron Mueck's sculptures "Man in a Boat" and the artist with "Dead Father." Since the whole point of these sculptures is the scale, you must see them in person. If given the chance, you won't regret the effort.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Walton Ford, Carl Akeley, and Ron Mueck
I went to see the Walton Ford exhibit, Tigers of Wrath, at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday. Fantastic! Ford creates gigantic watercolor paintings, often life-sized or larger, in the style of James Audubon with layers of subtext woven into them -- colonialism, destruction of natural resources, vanity, etc. I had wanted to see the show for some time but I got even more excited after speaking with Ted and Betsy Lewin at the Society. We quickly got around to talking about the Museum of Natural History and Carl Akeley. The Lewins told me that one of the Ford paintings was a tribute to Akeley and that meant that I had to run over as soon as I could.
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- Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) said...
FANTASTIC!!!!!! I love this kind of work, and museum display set ups and so on. Whether art is sci fi/SF(take your pick) or just natural history, or just landscapes, good work is good work. And good and unusual work inspires. I find that diversifying my interests just makes me a better artist and seeing this, is pretty exciting!
You know, I've loved museum displays my entire life. I was one of those kids that would sit and stare and wonder for hours, her parents completely giving up trying to lure her away. I lived near a very good museum in San Francisco, and I made it a regular haunt.
I never had any idea about how much /work/ went into the displays -- I just recently had the pleasure of viewing the exactly displays you mention in the Natural History Museum in NYC -- that whole place just mesmerized me. To know this history of it, makes it all the more special - and all the more an imperative for me to travel up there with my children, so I can tell them this story as well.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
As a total aside, but not too far off the subject, the new film "Night at the Museum" is a wonderful romp, even for adults :)
and I agree with you about the current flavor of the month art eschewing technical ability -- it's why I've always loved illustrators - they don't have such luxury, and my oh my how wonderful it shows.
- Irene Gallo said...
The museum is full of great stories. For anyone interested, these are some fun books about it:
Dinosaurs in the Attic
A Gathering of Wonders
Windows on Nature


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Emotional Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard admitted Sunday's 3-2 victory over title rivals Manchester City was the longest 90 minutes of his career.
The 33-year-old midfielder has experienced the full range of feelings during his lengthy career at Anfield but, having seen his side's 2-0 lead pegged back in the second half, there was still time for a nervy finish.
Goals from Raheem Sterling and Martin Skrtel had put the hosts ahead inside 26 minutes, only for a rejuvenated David Silva to score one and force a Glen Johnson own goal to level things up before Philippe Coutinho drove home the winner with just 12 minutes remaining to keep Liverpool's title dream on track.
Jordan Henderson's lunge on Pablo Zabaleta in added time resulted in a red card and a three-match ban which may yet damage their prospects, however, as may a hamstring injury to striker Daniel Sturridge.
"That's the longest 90 minutes I've probably ever played in. It felt like the clock was going backwards in some parts of that game," Gerrard, who delivered a rousing speech to the players in a huddle at the final whistle, told Sky Sports 1.
"That win means so much. That is such a big result for us.
"We've got four cup finals left. Nothing is ours yet. The important thing now is not to get carried away with that result.
"We need to stay calm and prepare for Norwich (next weekend)."
Manager Brendan Rodgers felt it was a game his team may well have lost in the early part of his tenure, but the Reds are made of much more resilient stuff these days.
Their 10th successive league win opened up a seven-point gap to third-placed City, who have two matches in hand but have had their destiny taken out of their own control.
"The group is very tight. We foster a real closeness here in our spirit and you need that if you are going to win anything. There has to be a cause to fight for," the Northern Irishman said.
"Getting pegged back to 2-2, we may have gone on to lose that game when I first came in here, but we dusted ourselves off and went again and the level of some of our football was so good we ended up getting a terrific goal.
"The performance level of the players was sensational - to dominate as we did in the first half with that energy and intelligence was remarkable.
"We showed our resilience to see it through. Ten wins in succession is an incredible achievement and against all the odds we are where we are and are still fighting."
Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini accepted his side failed to deal with the early onslaught launched by Liverpool, but was pleased with their comeback and does not consider the title race done and dusted just yet.
"The team played very well. We had chances to score and win the game and we didn't. Finally Liverpool won the game with a mistake," he said.
"It is not the end of the Premier League. The most important thing today is now it is not dependent what we do in the future.
"If Liverpool win their four games maybe they deserve to win the title, but we will continue fighting until the end. We have to play one of our games in hand on Wednesday."
Pellegrini felt they should have had a penalty in the first half with the score at 2-0 when Mamadou Sakho clattered into Edin Dzeko, but he refused to criticise referee Mark Clattenburg.
"It was a very clear penalty but I don't want to talk about the referee - it is not fair to think that we lost the game because of the referee," he added.
City lost influential midfielder Yaya Toure to injury midway through the first half, which may cast doubt on his participation in the rest of the season.
"Yaya has an injury in his hamstring and will be assessed (on Monday)," the Chilean said.


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Since 1993, the US State Department has listed Sudan as a "state sponsor of terrorism." Since 1997, Sudan has faced a set of economic and political sanctions from the US. President Barack Obama renewed those sanctions in November, as he did in November 2011. Both times, unsurprisingly, the government in Khartoum objected to the decision, charging that Washington wants the sanctions to hurt Sudan's economy. This year, the Sudanese government suggested that it had fulfilled the conditions necessary for Washington to lift the sanctions:
"The American administration has acknowledged more than once that Sudan has honored its commitments but the American administration, time and again, has withdrawn from its promises … to lift the sanctions," the foreign ministry said.
Implied in the statement is that by allowing the secession of South Sudan, Khartoum did what Washington wanted it to do.
The State Department suggested that sanctions would remain in place as a means of pressuring Khartoum to make peace with South Sudan and in the new border zones such as South Kordofan, where the Sudanese government is at war with rebels:
In recent years, Sudan has made progress in resolving a number of outstanding issues with South Sudan, which contributes significantly to the prospects for peace between the two countries. However, the ongoing conflict in Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile, and Darfur continue to threaten regional stability, and the human rights and humanitarian crises there – including the lack of humanitarian access – are very serious. Outstanding issues with South Sudan, such as the final status of Abyei, also pose such a threat. Addressing these concerns is necessary for a peaceful Sudan and would enable the United States and Sudan to move towards a normalized relationship.
The issue of sanctions revives a conversation that took place at different points last year among Africa watchers about whether the US has real leverage over Khartoum. A brief conversation that occurred last summer on Twitter between Sudanese blogger Amir Ahmad Nasr and Sudan analyst Bec Hamilton has stuck with me, and I am reminded of it now. Nasr wrote, "There's leverage. Sudan badly wants relations normalized with US." Hamilton responded, "Right, but that's no longer leverage since Khartoum doesn't believe it will ever happen (and they are probably right)."
Why am I writing about this now, when the sanctions were renewed well over a month ago? Because of a statement on December 16 by the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' spokesperson Al-Obaid Adam Marawih:
Marawih told the pro-government daily Akhbar Al-Yawm* that Sudan's position on normalizing ties with the U.S. remain clear and unchanged. He elaborated that as long as this issue remains in the hands of lobby groups in the U.S. Congress, Sudan can never hope for any positive results.
"We reiterated this position when we congratulated the U.S. President [Barack Obama] on his re-election for the second term" Marawih said. He added that therefore the issue is "not a priority" for Khartoum in the time being.
Regardless of whether one agrees with Marawih's idea of the causes for the continued sanctions, his pessimism regarding prospects for normalization – and, assuming he speaks for the government, a broader pessimism in Khartoum regarding this issue – is clear.
*I tried to find the Arabic article but the link to the paper is broken for me.


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Teenie Matlock. American Scientist. Volume 100, Issue 6. Nov/Dec 2012.
Millions of dollars are spent on campaign ads and other political messages in an election year, but surprisingly little is known about how language affects voter attitude and influences election outcomes. This article discusses two seemingly subtle but powerful ways that language influences how people think about political candidates and elections. One is grammar. The other is metaphor.
In an election year, voters are inundated with political messages from various sources, including television ads, campaign websites, blogs and social network forums, such as Facebook. Some of these messages focus on candidates' positions on various issues, including the economy, same-sex marriage, education and war. Some focus on candidates' personal characteristics. Is the candidate warm and accessible, or cold and distant? An autocrat or a team player? Family oriented? Not family oriented? Some messages focus on candidates' past actions, and others focus on their apparent abilities to tackle problems ranging from immigration to unemployment. Some messages are factual and objective, and others are exaggerated and sensationalized.
Political scientists, such as James Druckman of Northwestern University and Stephen Ansolabehere of Harvard University, study how political messages affect voting. Their work tells us that voters' attitudes can be influenced by a number of factors, including which information the media chooses to emphasize and how it is slanted. Framing, how a message is worded to encourage particular interpretations and inferences, can influence the perception of political candidates. Negative framing is often used to make opposing candidates seem weak, immoral and incompetent. It is persuasive because it captures attention and creates anxiety about future consequences. When negative information becomes excessive, however, it can backfire and lead to deleterious outcomes, including low voter turnout. Negative framing can be effective even when subtle or indirect. For instance, people tend to align more closely with their parties when opposition is emphasized, and people may not want to vote for incumbent candidates when there are frequent reports about how bad times are.
It is no surprise that language in political messages affect people's attitudes about political candidates and more generally, elections. Just about anybody would form a low opinion of a politician who is described as a cocaine addict with a track record of accepting bribes, cheating coworkers and evading taxes by illegal means. What's interesting is how language has this influence, especially when it comes to framing effects. Particlarly interesting is how the more subtle dimensions of language, including grammar and metaphor, can modify attitudes about political candidates.
Framing with Grammar
Grammar is something we learned in elementary school. We learned that sentences have a subject, a verb and, in some cases, an object. We learned about irregular verbs, such as "went" and "flew." We learned about parts of speech, including nouns, verbs and adjectives. We learned about active versus passive sentences. We learned that tense signals when events happened in time: past, present or future. And more. What we did not learn is that grammar has meaning, and that it is linked to mental experience and physical interactions with the world. Although grammar is poorly understood and uninteresting to folks other than linguists and grammar teachers, it plays a critical role in our everyday reasoning.
Grammatical aspect occurs in English and many other languages. Its main purpose in a language is to express how events unfold in time. Grammatical aspect works with tense, modality and other systems in a language to provide the reader or listener with information about whether an event has started, whether it has finished, whether it has continued over a significant period of time and more. In English, a person can describe past events in a variety of ways. For instance, you see your friend Maria cycling one evening across campus, and the next morning you report, "Maria was riding her bike last night" or "Maria rode her bike last night." Both statements are perfectly acceptable English, and express the same event. However, there is a slight difference in how the action is construed. With the former, which uses the past progressive grammatical form (was verb+ing), the event is conceptualized as ongoing. With the latter, which uses the simple past grammatical form (verb+ed), the event is conceptualized as an entire, completed event. This distinction is common across languages, even though it is realized in different ways. For instance, Russian has a more complex, nuanced aspectual system than English does.
A few years ago, I began exploring the idea of grammatical framing. In an article with Caitlin Fausey, "Can Grammar Win Elections?" published in Political Psychology, we explored the consequences of tweaking grammatical information in political messages. We discovered that altering nothing more than grammatical aspect in a message about a political candidate could affect impressions of that candidate's past actions, and ultimately influence attitudes about whether he would be re-elected. Participants in our study read a passage about a fictitious politician named Mark Johnson. Mark was a Senator who was seeking reelection. The passage described Mark's educational background, and reported some things he did while he was in office, including an affair with an assistant and hush money from a prominent constituent. Some participants read a sentence about actions framed with past progressive (was verb+ing): "Last year, Mark was having an affair with his assistant and was taking money from a prominent constituent." Others read a sentence about actions framed with simple past (verb+ed): "Last year, Mark had an affair with his assistant and took money from a prominent constituent." Everything else was the same. After the participants read the passage about Mark Johnson, they answered questions. In analyzing their responses, we discovered differences. Those who read the phrases "having an affair" and "accepting hush money" were quite confident that the Senator would not be reelected. In contrast, people who read the phrases "had an affair," and "accepted hush money" were less confident. What's more, when queried about how much hush money they thought could be involved, those who read about "accepting hush money" gave reliably higher dollar estimates than people who read that Mark "accepted hush money." From these results, we concluded that information framed with past progressive caused people to reflect more on the action details in a given time period than did information framed with simple past.
This effect of grammatical aspect is consistent with other research done in my lab, including a study with student collaborators on how people describe car accidents. In this study, to appear in Studies in Language, participants watched six videos of vehicle collisions on a computer screen. For example, in one video, a police car pursues a truck that swerves off the road and crashes into an overpass, and in another, a car sideswipes a van, which then smashes into a truck. After each video, one group of participants was presented with the prompt "Tell what was happening," and another was presented with the prompt "Tell what happened." Participants' descriptions were recorded and analyzed. Those who read the past progressive prompt included proportionally more motion verbs in their descriptions, such as "drive," as in "There's a guy driving a truck," and "come," as in "Another car came," than did participants who read the simple past prompt. These same individuals also mentioned more reckless driving phrases, such as "cut off," as in "He tried to cut off the car next to him," and "swerve," as in "She was swerving." The results suggest that tweaking grammatical aspect in an open-ended question or prompt can lead to differences in thinking and talking about events.
Using grammatical aspect to frame campaign information, positive or negative, appears to be an effective tool for influencing how people perceive candidates' past actions. It may also be tweaked to invite inferences about what candidates will do in the future because it influences inferences about how events transpire.
Framing with Metaphor
In elementary school, we also learned about metaphor. Through reading literature, we learned that metaphor is used to create a special effect or feeling. William Shakespeare was the master of this. In his Sonnet 50, "How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way," for instance, Shakespeare metaphorically depicts the process of grieving from the loss of a dear friend as a journey that moves him from one emotional state to another: "My grief lies onward and my joy behind." The journey is portrayed as heavy and effortful: "The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, plods dully on, to bear that weight in me."
Metaphor is not restricted to literature. It pervades everyday conversation, blogs, text messages and many other forms of everyday language, including political ads. Linguist George Lakoff and philosopher Mark Johnson (no relation to the fictional political candidate Mark Johnson mentioned in the study above!) have argued that metaphor is much more than a literary device. They claim that metaphor is in fact a basic mechanism that enables people to understand one kind of thing, particularly something abstract, in terms of another thing that is more familiar and based on direct experience. For example, through our experiences with physical actions—walking across rooms, driving cars, riding bikes, reaching out to grab objects and watching others do the same hundreds of times each day—we are able to make sense of expressions like "Bob stepped into a bad situation," "The instructor will walk us through the speech," and "Have you reached a conclusion yet?" In each of these examples, motion verbs describe a state change but no actual physical movement takes place.
Motion metaphors run rampant in campaign-speak. Some are innocuous and merely describe candidates' reflections on the current state of affairs. Right after the 2012 Olympics, for instance, Barack Obama shared his thoughts on the campaign ahead: "This is not going to be a race like Usain Bolt, where we're like 40 yards ahead and we can just kind of start jogging 10 feet before the finish line," referring to the Jamaican sprinter who won three gold medals at the games in London. "We're going to have to run through the tape." Here Obama used phrases such as "race," "jogging" and "run through the tape" to describe his campaign as a footrace, and he suggested that he would need to power across the finish line to win on election day. Around that same time, Paul Ryan, who had just been chosen as Mitt Romney's running mate, commented, "We're going to win this campaign. We've got the wind behind us. I'm really excited about this race." Ryan's comment was consistent with a race metaphor, but his use of "got the wind behind us" suggested that victory would be relatively easy. In many other forums, both Democratic and Republican candidates routinely talk about campaigns as races in this way.
Democratic campaign messages are emphasizing the idea of forward motion in this year's election. One Obama commercial titled "Forward" implies forward movement, first downward and then upward. To emphasize upward movement and to recruit other metaphorical elements, namely about improvement ("Things are looking up," "blue skies"), a long list of Obama's accomplishments, including, "4.2 million jobs saved" and "$100 billion invested in science and research" scroll upward. The ad ends with Obama stating that "America is on the way up." Interestingly, Obama's forward messages are consistent with the phrase "stay the course," which was used by Republican Ronald Regan when campaigning for president in the 1982 mid-term elections, and later by George H. W. Bush in 1992.
Republicans seem to be using a variety of motion metaphors. Mitt Romney's website implores donors to help him "turn America around," suggesting that America needs to return to a different place, where it was before. This metaphorical framing is strengthened with campaign phrases like "It's time for America's comeback team." The Republicans frame their message in this way to imply that the country has been going in the wrong direction under President Obama's leadership and that change is needed. (Note that in the 1992 election, challenger Bill Clinton appealed to change using literal language: "Change vs. more of the same.") And in a recent Republican Party ad, Paul Ryan promises to "put the nation back on a path to renewed prosperity for all," suggesting that the country has been derailed and needs to be put back on track.
Using motion metaphors to frame messages in political campaigns is well motivated. It is in line with a large body of findings in cognitive science on how humans are wired to mentally simulate motion in all sorts of conditions, including even when nothing is actually moving. In 2004, 1 published results from an experiment on the interpretation of fictive motion sentences, nonliteral statements that include motion verbs but describe no actual motion. I discovered that people simulate a fleetng sense of motion when they interpret sentences such as "The road goes through the desert," "The trail runs through the wood" and "A fence follows the property line." In a 2005 study with collaborators Lera Boroditsky and Michael Ramscar, I found that interpreting fictive motion sentences that varied by direction, such as "The road goes all the way to New York," and "The road comes all the way from New York," caused people to reason about time differently in a seemingly unrelated task. The results of these studies and others I have done provide evidence that people simulate motion even when motion is metaphorical. The results are in line with findings from neuroscience. When people view static images depicting humans in motion (for example, a man throwing a discus), motion perception areas in the brain are activated. When they view static images of humans moving along paths (for example, a man walking down steps), they mentally "fast-forward" to a position slightly farther along the path. And when people observe a human extending a hand to grasp an object, it activates the same brain areas that would be activated if they were doing the action themselves.
Taking Framing to the Next Level
Grammatical aspect works as a framing device because it involves mental simulation of actions. In some cases it enhances simulation, and in others it diminishes simulation. A message like "was having an affair" should be worse for a candidate than a message like "had an affair" because it implies more immoral actions, and suggested that those actions may continue in the future. Metaphorical framing is effective for the same reason. People simulate movement and state change with figurative expressions, such as "America is on the way up" all the time. Campaign messages about forward movement into the future, turning things around or getting back on track are readily understood because they are grounded in people's everyday understanding about how motion canonically works: along a path toward a destination.
What next? There are many ways that grammar can influence information in the popular media. Grammatical information, such as which person is used—for instance, first person, second person or third person—may have important implications for how people think about or align themselves with political candidates, and so might modal auxiliaries, for instance, "Yes, we can" versus "Yes, we will." And there are many more uses of metaphor in political races, including phrases that refer to battles ("Romney draws battle lines in GOP acceptance speech"), uncleanliness ("dirty campaign tactics"), and space ("Romney is distancing himself from Ryan's Medicare cuts").
The semantics of grammar and metaphor and their power in framing political issues is understudied. Differences in grammatical aspect or other grammatical forms may create wildly different inferences about when somebody will do something and in what way. And differences in metaphor can be used to magnify or enhance people's attitudes about political candidates. We use grammar and metaphor all the time, but we have only begun to scratch the surface of how they shape our everyday thoughts and actions.


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JNagarya - Unfortunately, I don't have the clip of Michelle and Dominique Dawes.
If I find one, I will post it.
Can you post the FOX interview with Michelle and Daniele Dawes? I tried several times to DL it from FOX but was unable.
(Good to see how well Danielle Dawes is doing: I'd not heard anything about or from her since she was competing.)
Hmm, doesn't look like I see you on the list, but it was a bit confusing for me the first time I accepted a friend.
Feel free to post anything in Cloud 9 that you think needs to be posted again. I'm sure all of us would want to recover some of the threads/downloads we lost from the forum wipeout.
I'm not weird, I'm gifted!
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Here is an article on Michelle's speech:
Great news from the article--Clay and Michelle have new real estate in Newport!
"Pell and Kwan bought a home in Newport last December. Pell said the house "is Michelle's project" and "needs a lot of work." They still live in Providence, he said."
Michelle's "projects" turn out so
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Yes, please!
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From FSU:
[/FONT][/COLOR]Evelyn Kramer say a that Michelle had three dresses for the wedding: the formal one, a short dress for dancing and a red traditional dress.
I'd love to see that red dress!
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Actually, Tara signed on to do the show the wk before it was "taped". MK was not excluded.
What ticked me off is that we didn't get to see Todd or Michael Weiss, both of whom were terrific...as were Peter and Naomi and Calla and Rocky. Instead we got to see Sarah's jumpless, wobbly-spiraled program and an interview with Tara who turned her back on the sport for 8 yrs.
You spoke for me!
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The SEMA show in Las Vegas is known for the quirky and unusual, but Kia took that a step farther on Tuesday, revealing a handful of cars customized with a superheroes theme.
Kia rolled out a Koup styled like the Flash, a Soul designed with a Green Lantern appearance, an Aquaman Rio and a Cyborg Forte. They were fortified with a Batman Optima shown earlier to round out the Justice League theme. Three more superheroes cars will be revealed at other auto shows.
The cars have artwork from famous DC Comics artist Jason Lee. Kia is working with DC Entertainment on a campaign to raise awareness about hunger issues in Africa.
The custom rides also offer examples of ways to tune Kias, said Michael Sprague, executive vice president of marketing and communications.
"These vehicles just scream: accessorize me," he said. "What we want to do is just showcase … think differently about our vehicles."
West Coast Customs went to work on two particularly extravagant cars, the Flash Koup and the Aquaman Rio. The Koup has a bright red, yellow and range paint job with 20-inch wheels and a coil-over suspension. The Rio had a two-tone green-and-yellow paint scheme complete with fish-like scales and a body lighting kit.


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Myths and Ikaria
According to the myth, it is the sea around Ikaria where the son of Daedalus landed when the sun burnt his wax wings; that sea neighbourhood owes its name to that leggend, as it is called Ikarian. It is said that Ikarus rests to eternity on the islet Níkari opposite the island. His fall is symbolised on a statue in the entrance to the island's main port.
But that's not all: Ikaria is linked to Dionysus (Bacchus) too. In particular, it's the area of Drakano in the east that is supposed to be the god's birthplace. Nowadays, the remnants of an old castle are there, a circular building of the Alexandrian era (4th century BC).
As far as archaeology is concerned, there is also the foundation of the ancient temple of goddess Artemis in the area of Nas. It is the same place that myths depicted as the home of the water nymphs Nayads.
Nature and Ikaria
Hiking on the island of Ikaria is not only a wonderful experience, but also the reason why a great many choose the island of the myths as their winter or summer holiday destination.
This pristine land is mostly mountainous and covered by a carpet of cypress, plane, oak, and pine trees. It is under that carpet that the island's slopes maintain their moisture to enable wild goats to graze around. What is more, the South seems to have given into the historicity of olive and the tastefulness of apricot trees – don't miss tasting the local variety called "kariotika kaissa".
The forest of Radi: Part of the Natura 2000 scheme, this natural monument is considered to be the oldest in the Balkans. Low types of oak trees are its most numerous "residents".
Chalaris' Canyon: A great variety of flora and fauna go hand in hand with rich vegetation, while the river that crosses the canyon forms some marvellous little waterfalls and basins.
Another exciting experience is to walk through the canyon that lies underneath the aeolian park of Ikaria, all the way to the beach of Nifi. In the freshness of the arbutus trees and the scent of thyme, eagles build their nests to treat nature lovers with some fascinating birdwatching moments.
Finally, some of the best friends of some of the inhabitants of the island are… swarms of bees. As a matter of fact, beekeeping is a source of life and a means for providing locals and visitors with delicious thyme honey.
Villages and Ikaria
Agios Kirykos: Seamen and captains had built their houses in the capital of the island to give it an air of marine tradition. In the archaeological museum this tradition lives on, as a great part of the exhibits had been fished off the bottom of the sea.
In the North there is another port village, Evdilos. Built around and above the port, the village is a beauty with traditional houses, cobbled streets, and a characteristic local colour.
Karavostamo: It is the largest village and a very hard-working one: seafarers and the workmen who built the churches and the arched bridges of Ikaria used to reside here.
Karkinagri: It is an isolated fishing village, in the proximity of cape Papas, which is alleged to house the most fun-loving of the villagers of the whole island. It is also very impressive as it rests beneath a mountain with heaps of large stones. An old belief has it that the stones were thrown onto the island by God, when he had finished creating the world and had no longer need of building material.
Christos: One and two-storey traditional houses and cobbled streets mark the main village of the mountainous area of Raches. But tradition here does not hold strong only in architecture: in old times, farmers and unskilled workers of all kinds in an unrelenting need of making a living, would get here after the end of the working day, to trade their goods and shop. As a result, shops would be open when there would be no more daylight. Nowadays, shops in Raches keep the old habit: they are open from dusk till dawn!
Beaches and Ikaria
Wild beauty is a landmark of Ikaria. When it comes to thick vegetation or high mountains, enchanting rivers or gorgeous gorges, Ikaria is definitely the place to be. But that is no less true when it comes to beaches too. Sandy or pebbly, popular or isolated, easily accessible or non car-accessible ones, with or without food and drink amenities, the beaches of the island are proud for their crystal clear turquoise waters.
Not far from the village of Magganitis there is a very beautiful beach. Its sand is surrounded by masses of rocks, which have been left after digging through the mountain to build a tunnel to the village. The exotic –somewhat uncanny- picture recalls Seychelles, which is actually what the locals have named that beach. In the NW, the village of Armenistis is very popular with the young, mainly thanks to the most famous beaches of the island, Livadi and Messakti.
If you have arranged for your accommodation in Agios Kirykos, treat yourself with the joys of the sea at the beaches of Prioni, Lefkada, Faros, Drakano, while the area of Evdilos is closer to the beaches of Fytema, Fles, Kyparissi.
Thermal springs and Ikaria
In the ancient times, the thermal springs had caused for a town to flourish; it was a town that celebrated the natural phenomenon and its therapeutic effects by its name: Thermai. In the roman years, an earthquake devastated Thermai, but not the springs, which are considered to be among the richest in the world as far as radium content is concerned. Rheumatism, arthritis, neuralgia, neuritis, skin, circulatory, endocrine and gynecological conditions bring people to the springs to seek and find cure. Some of them dive not only into health, but into history also: they swim in the water coming out of an ancient basin, at the place where the ancient thermal site used to be.
History and Ikaria
During the centuries after 1.000 AD, the locals left the shore for fear of the pirates plundering and looting their island. That explains why all the traditional settlements are retired to the mountainous parts of Ikaría. Some splendid castles of the 11th and the 12th centuries testify to that. Pay a visit to:
Here and there, age-old still wayfarers will be joining your hiking: beautiful windmills and watermills add to the traditional aspect of the scenery of the island. Speaking of mills, you'll see one in every traditional old house: it's a simple yet very effective hand-mill that enables some stones to move and turn and grind wheat.
Feasts and Ikaria
If one had to name one thing to identify Ikaria with, it would definitely be its feasts. Either for religious of for social reasons, there are feasts happening almost daily in the summer season. The inhabitants make their own full-bodied red wine off their vineyards and set the spirits on fire with it. People volunteer to roast or boil meat (of the wild goats of the island) prepare salads and cook potatoes, and then they offer them to the visitors, who are either strangers, or islanders whose turn is not to participate in catering for the feast, but to pay a token price as visitors, so that the local governments can finance their public works. Everybody dances the night out. They may wear stylish clothes in the day, they may look old and heavy, they may be very young and with a globalised culture; nevertheless, they are full of energy and enthusiasm to dance to sounds of good, folk, local live music. Join them for a genuine Ikarian experience!
Getting to Ikaria
Apart from the connection to the nearby islands (such as Samos) the island is accessible by boat from Athens (port of Piraeus) and Kavala (in the North of the country). Keep in mind that boats from Athens call daily at both of the island's ports, Agios Kirykos and Evdilos.
By plane, one can travel from Athens, Heraklion, and Thessaloniki (via Limnos).
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A new study reveals that harboring beneficial intentions — or, conversely, the desire to do evil — results in an increased threshold for strength and endurance. In other words, you can be super if you really want to.
A study conducted by Harvard doctoral student Kurt Gray has found that people who either did good deeds, or even merely imagined themselves doing them, were able to lift or squeeze more weight than those who didn't.
In one experiment, 91 volunteers were asked to hold a five-pound (about 2.3-kilogram) weight for as long as they could, and then given $1 for their efforts. About half were asked if they would like to donate their dollar to UNICEF. Everyone in this group agreed to donate, while those not asked of course didn't donate. All participants were then asked to hold the weight a second time. Those who had donated to charity were able to hold the weight for an average of 53 seconds, or 7 seconds longer than those who did not donate.
In a second, similar experiment, people who actively thought about harming someone could suspend the same weight for even longer. "Evildoers have more [agency], because they need to overcome the voice of their conscience to harm others. It takes even more agency to harm those around you," Gray said, using "agency" to refer to the ability to have self-control, tenacity or strength.
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On Architecture: 2010 year in review- Lawn and Monticello widen, 'cabin' rises
While private sector construction nearly ground to a standstill in 2010, thanks to that bit of trouble American banks have been having, there were still a few standout additions to our physical world worth noting this year.
UVA's South Lawn
After years of pre-publicity and considerable controversy, UVA's big production number, the $105 million South Lawn Project, opened to much fanfare, but flopped at the box office.
Indeed, as the Hook asked in a cover story on the project, should the grassy area on the South Lawn, just a little longer than a tennis court, qualify as a "lawn"?
What began as a tremendously ambitious project when the University chose visionary architect James Polshek was eventually pared down by cost worries and fears among the UVA Board of Visitors that the design might not be "Jefferson" enough. In 2006, the University parted ways with Polshek and went looking for a new architect, a decision that prompted a protest from UVA's architecture faculty. In 2005, over 30 faculty members signed an open letter condemning the University for perpetuating "faux Jeffersonian architecture" and characterized the direction the design was taking as "apologetic neo-Jeffersonian appliqu©."
When UVA hired California-based Moore Ruble Yudell to design the South Lawn, some faculty threw up their hands.
"This," declared architect and letter signer Jason Johnson after seeing renderings of the new design, which featured familiar pergolas and red-brick columned exteriors, "is a disappointment on every possible level."
After it was finished, University Architect David Neuman defended the project from the mixed reviews. "The South Lawn design was inspired by the integration of site planning, architecture and landscape that characterizes Jefferson's Academical Village," he said, "and we feel this project has been fully successful in living up to that inspiration."
But some faculty members were adamant.
"It's clumsy in its detail, its massing, its materials, its fenestration pattern, its effort to hide its bulk, and its relation to the street," says one A-school faculty member. "On the interior, I look up and down those halls, and I feel as if there is a colonoscopy awaiting me behind every door."
Not everyone, though.
"They did a pretty good job," says UVA architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson. "I think it picks up the palette of the Academical Village, but doesn't mimic it."
Wilson, no stranger to bashing other recent designs, also likes the fact that the South Lawn offers places to gather outside the classrooms, in its light-filled conservatory area and gardens, and on the grassy terrace itself, which he sees as an extension of the experience Jefferson wanted to create on the Lawn.
Indeed, the jewel of the South Lawn–- if there is one–- may be the Conservatory, a semi-circular meeting place between Gibson and Nau Halls, which includes a Starbucks, a grassy courtyard, and seating on three levels.
At Monticello, the upper floors of Jefferson's home were finally opened to the public for the first time, including the mysterious third-floor Dome Room. In May, new Monticello boss Leslie Greene Bowman proudly displayed the parts of the residence that Jefferson designed for the enslaved workers who moved about the house relatively unseen, serving food, changing linens, and emptying chamber pots.
In addition to rooms for Jefferson's granddaughters, and two narrow, almost-spiral staircases that allowed slaves to enter all the floors of the house from the basement, Bowman introduced the Dome Room, a beautiful chamber that features a Mars yellow Palladio-inspired "temple" with circular windows and an oculus skylight with beautiful views, but no apparent function.
"It was mostly constructed to be seen from the outside," said David Ronka, Monticello's manager of special programs. "But we don't know what the purpose of the room was."
It did for a time, however, offer a passage to a secret hiding place for Jefferson's granddaughters, where they could escape the constant activity within the house.
Other changes included a new chrome yellow paint job for the dining room, the color Jefferson had chosen in his later years (after 75 years of Wedgwood blue), the newly renovated wine cellar, and the restoration of the South Pavilion, which served as living quarters for Jefferson and his wife during the two-year construction phase of the main house. All of this accompanied a new exhibit in the cellar level called "Crossroads," which sheds light on the intersections between Jefferson, his family and guests, and the enslaved workers.
"We're trying to make Monticello a more lively and entertaining experience," says Susan Stein, Monticello's senior curator.
Wood's "cabin on the hill"
That's how developer Wendell Wood characterized the 20,000-plus square-foot residence he was building atop Carter Mountain. However, not only is it one of the biggest houses ever built in the area, it's also perched on the highest part of Charlottesville's biggest mountain. Indeed, as Wood has now cleared a considerable number of trees around the property, it's hard to miss.
"Have I seen the house?" asked Piedmont Environmental Council officer Jeff Werner. "Who hasn't?"
While folks like Werner, former County Supe Sally Thomas, and current Supe Dennis Rooker believe the mammoth house is a scar on our mountain viewsheds, for Wood it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. As a kid, Wood says, he used to ride his bike up there and fantasize about someday calling it home. In 1982 his successes as a real estate developer allowed him to buy the 29-acre tract.With the recent purchase of 272 acres below the mountain along Route 20, he says, he now owns 700 acres of the mountainside.
"This is something I've wanted to do for 30 years," says Wood, 70, resigned to the fact that people have begun to talk about the house. "And I'm not getting any younger."
Finally, after five years, it has commenced: architect Bill Atwood's $20 million Waterhouse project, a six-story mixed-use complex of offices, retail space, and apartments atop a parking garage that will span the gap between West Water and South Streets. Demolition began in October.
Originally, Atwood had a vision for a massive pedestrian village, complete with two nine-story towers, an underground parking structure, and a park of sorts that he hoped would "reinvent the block" by rescuing the beauty of the Lewis & Clark building from its isolated perch with a compatible neighbor along the streetscape. But when the economy tanked, so did the vision.
"Fundamentally, the world has changed," says Atwood, meaning that the money for such creations simply isn't available. "It's so difficult to get things done these days."
Casteen dedicates his last building
One of his goals during his presidency, joked former UVA president John Casteen at the dedication ceremony for Bavaro Hall, the $37 million addition to the Curry School of Education, was to see an open field where Bavaro Hall now stands. "I failed," he deadpanned. What a card! Of course, the reason everyone chuckled: during Casteen's presidency, UVA built or bought 134 buildings. It was kind of like George Bush saying he always wanted to see Saddam Hussein turn Iraq into an amusement park. Bavaro Hall– executed in neo-Jeffersonianism complete with brick columns and hints of Boston's Faneuil Hall– transforms a stretch of Emmet Street by blocking the old view of Ruffner Hall.
Landmark Hotel
What a mess. What an eye-sore. The abandoned hotel project was actually included in last year's round up, but since it went up two years ago, the 11-story shell of the planned Landmark Hotel continues to loom large over the Downtown landscape, a victim of delusions of grandeur, short-sightedness, hubris, a bad economy, and the ongoing legal battle between Halsey Minor, the hotel's owner, and Lee Danielson, the hotel's former developer.
When will it ever get built? Will it ever get built? Unlikely. Since Minor's company Minor Family Hotels LLC declared bankruptcy, the worthless shell of a half-finished building has belonged to the bank that funded its construction, and if they wanted to sell it now, they would most likely have to accept much less than Minor owes them. Earlier this year, it was discovered that some people were squatting on the upper floors of the structure. And as those who've passed by it during heavy rain storms have noticed, it also has the distinction of being Charlottesville's only 11-story urban waterfall.
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Hold on, let me write that down...OK, got it! "Truth, love, peace and sympathy will get me a monster mansion that can be seen from space. Thanx Ken!
To get a clear view of the city, I suppose so.
Nobody cared when Brown's Mountain was cleared off to create magnificent views of the city.
People whine way too much nowadays.
An old indian was explaining human nature to his grandson.
"There are two wolves fighting inside every person. One wolf is jelousy, greed, hate, envy, and prejudice. The other wolf is truth, love, peace and sympathy."
The grandson asked, "grandfather, which wolf wins the fight?"
The grandfather replied, "the one you feed"
Do you have to clear cut a mountaintop to put a house on it. Terrible stuff.
Wood's house, clown house? It will be beautiful when finished!
If he has the desire and money to live in something that large, more power to him!
People with big houses (and big cars) are usually attempting to compensate for other "shortcomings" (ahem).
Macro-Palace = Micro-Phallus...
well pup it worked for carol king, james taylor and jimmy buffet
does wendell think he is in the same league as Jefferson? perhaps he is building his mausoleum. i think planet Earth will not miss him.
The South Lawn looks like Friendship Court. Wood's Cabin on the hill looks like a clown house. The Landmark Hotel? Please....
In my humble opinion the house is attractive.
I know the designer.