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1. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
2. The Double Comfort Safari Club, by Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon
3. This Body of Death, by Elizabeth George, Harper
4. Deliver Us from Evil, by David Baldacci, Grand Central
5. Imperfect Birds, by Anne Lamott, Riverhead
6. Every Last One, by Anna Quindlen, Random House
7. Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes, Atlantic Monthly
8. Solar, by Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese
9. Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel, Spiegel & Grau
10. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson, Random House
11. Anthill, by E.O. Wilson, Norton
12. House Rules, by Jodi Picoult, Atria
13. Bite Me, by Christopher Moore, Morrow
14. The Lake Shore Limited, by Sue Miller, Knopf
15. The Mapping of Love and Death, by Jacqueline Winspear, Harper
16. A Question of Belief, by Donna Leon, Atlantic Monthly
A new Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery by the bestselling author of About Face
1. The Big Short, by Michael Lewis, Norton
2. Women Food and God, by Geneen Roth, Scribner
3. Earth, by Bill McKibben, Times Books
4. The Bridge, by David Remnick, Knopf
5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, Crown
6. Oprah, by Kitty Kelley, Crown
7. 13 Bankers, by Simon Johnson, James Kwak, Pantheon
8. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, by Chelsea Handler, Grand Central
9. In the Green Kitchen, by Alice Waters, Clarkson Potter
10. Game Change, by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Harper
11. Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, Knopf
12. This Time Together, by Carol Burnett, Harmony
13. The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Craft Rubin, Harper
14. Stones Into Schools, by Greg Mortenson, Viking
15. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, by Sarah Silverman, Harper
20. Mom, by Dave Isay (Ed.), Penguin Press
A celebration of mothers from Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorp
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
3. Little Bee, by Chris Cleave, S&S
4. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, Vintage
5. A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick, Algonquin
6. Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, Random House
7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions
8. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, Random House
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, Harper
10. Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín, Scribner
11. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, Ballantine
12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Dial
13. Sarah's Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin's Griffin
14. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley, Bantam
15. Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See, Random House
1. Food Rules, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
2. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin
3. The Lost City of Z, by David Grann, Vintage
4. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
5. The Girls From Ames, by Jeffrey Zaslow, Gotham
6. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen, Holt
7. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler, Simon Spotlight
8. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin
9. For You Mom, Finally, by Ruth Reichl, Penguin
10. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, by Nujood Ali, Three Rivers
11. Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson, Mariner
12. In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan, Penguin
13. The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis, Norton
14. The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes, Vintage
15. Lords of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed, Penguin
1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson, Vintage
3. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Warner
4. Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child, Dell
5. The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central
6. Borderline, by Nevada Barr, Berkley
7. Dead and Gone, by Charlaine Harris, Ace
8. Fatally Flaky, by Diane Mott Davidson, Avon
9. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Warner
10. Dear John, by Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central
1. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
2. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, Knopf
3. Savvy, by Ingrid Law, Puffin
4. Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, by Lincoln Peirce, Harper
5. When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead, Wendy Lamb
6. If I Stay, by Gayle Forman, Speak
7. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown
8. Graceling, by Kristin Cashore, Graphia
9. The Earth Book, by Todd Parr, Little Brown
10. The Demigod Files, by Rick Riordan, Hyperion
11. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Puffin
12. Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, Tor
13. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, by Rick Riordan, Hyperion
14. Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin
15. Masterpiece, by Elise Broach, Kelly Murphy (Illus.), Square Fish
1. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper
2. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, Harper
3. The Lion & the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney, Little Brown
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, Putnam
5. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, by Dr. Seuss, Random House
6. Good Night, Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann, Putnam
7. Pat the Bunny, by Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden
8. The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson (Illus.), Puffin
9. Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw (Illus.), Firefly
10. My Garden, by Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow
11. The Lorax, by Dr.Seuss, Random House
12. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, by Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt
13. Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey, Puffin
14. The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein, Harper
15. Waddle!, by Rufus Butler Seder, Workman
1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (hardcover and paperback), by Rick Riordan, Miramax
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover and paperback), by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
3. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback), by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
4. The 39 Clues (hardcover), by Gordon Korman, et al., Scholastic
5. The Hunger Games (hardcover), by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
6. Fancy Nancy I Can Read Series (paperback), by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper
7. Twilight (hardcover and paperback), by Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown,
8. Ivy & Bean (hardcover and paperback), by Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle
9. How to Train Your Dragon (paperback), by Cressida Cowell, Little Brown
10. Harry Potter (hardcover and paperback), by J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Book
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In a district with 140-some registered voters, the importance of every single vote is amplified. Support for a special tax district among native Daufuskie Islanders to improve ferry service looks doubtful because of distrust and financial straits, but a chief proponent argues what they should fear is the status quo.
Many of those natives, who can trace their roots back generations, have since moved to Savannah for economic opportunity but still own property or maintain ties. Those who still reside there - ranging from 10 to 20 after numbering about 1,500 a century ago - say the African-American community stands firmly against the measure because their transportation problems have been neglected by Beaufort County for decades and they doubt that will change with an unelected commission recommending new tax levels and operational decisions.
Island native Freddie Grant Jr. said the perception that "Beaufort County doesn't care about Daufuskie Island" is firmly entrenched in the community. He'll vote against it, and he said he believes the district will go down Nov. 6.
"For one reason, me and my family are having a hard time paying the taxes as it is on the property, and we just can't afford it," he said. "And we've been trying to get another boat over here for 30 years, and Beaufort County has not done a thing."
Establishing a ferry system that eventually encompasses the entire region has been a goal for decades, and among those who want greater commercial development on the island, few disagree that reliable ferry service that at least forges a connection with Savannah is key - they just disagree about how to do it.
The referendum allows the county to tax district residents up to 16.5 additional mills, or $0.66 per $1,000 of taxable value for primary residences and $.99 per $1,000 for all other property owners. If passed, a five-member commission appointed by County Council but with community input would act in an advisory role, with ultimate authority in Beaufort.
It took signatures from 15 percent of voters in the tax district to clear election rules. The affluent golf course community Haig Point wasn't included because the development already includes private ferry service in its homeowner dues.
But what's important to note, says Beaufort County Staff Attorney Josh Gruber, is that the referendum is non-binding, requiring County Council approval through three readings and a public hearing.
"It's procedural in nature, and it's certainly not the life and death of this issue," he said.
Native island resident Ervin Simmons, who also has a home in Savannah but intends to vote on Daufuskie, was approached by Island Council Chairman Bill Greenwood about serving on the commission, but that didn't quell his reservations. Like others, he suspects the move is motivated by real estate and development interests attempting to shoulder taxpayers with the costs of improving their own bottom line.
"Once it's up, it's up, and it keeps moving up," he said. "That may not mean a lot depending on where your pocket is, but for people who don't intend to sell their property, who have always had it and plan to keep it, that could be a real hardship."
Aaron Crosby, chairman of the Island Council's ferry committee, challenged that assertion in an email after Simmons announced he couldn't support the measure following his meeting with Greenwood. He noted 97 percent of the taxes collected within the district would come from non-residents.
"Therefore, if one of the benefits of an improved system is a healthier economy on Daufuskie and an opportunity for more jobs, those who are poor and willing to work may well find a means for climbing out of poverty thanks to a ferry system that people who don't live on the island are paying for," he wrote to Simmons.
A group of opponents have raised the issue of "taxation without representation" in their campaign against the referendum, but Crosby says the district did everything it could do through online means to inform property owners, and many responded positively because of the potential to increase their property values and more easily access their land.
Crosby, a former real estate agent with a Masters Degree in tourism administration and development, denied any motivation of financial gain.
"I do some consulting with the owner of Bloody Point, but there's no job waiting for me if a new ferry system is approved," he said. "I don't have an interest in land that would be impacted by a new ferry service."
Author Roger Pinckney, a 15-year resident who's penned three books largely dealing with the island, also said natives stand firmly opposed to the measure. He also pegs the referendum to real estate interests but doesn't believe the best-case revenue projections will be enough and the real answer lies in a nascent task force working to establish a regionwide system.
"I think it's a way for the real estate people and the development people who've been frustrated the past 10 to 15 years to shift the burden to the taxpaying public so they can bring their people here at a greatly reduced rate or fee," he said.
About a year and a half old, the Sea Island Ferry Task Force will benefit from its non-profit status to secure grants under the umbrella of community welfare, with the goal of establishing service between Beaufort County islands and Savannah, said Robin Chamberlain, executive director. The group is staying neutral on the issue, partly because it views its role as a funding mechanism for any organization or agency wanting to establish service in Beaufort County, with an eye toward the bigger picture and no commitment to hand over grants in their entirety to any single entity, she said.
"I'm not a resident, but if I were a resident, I would be serious that, if you have an entity with access to greater grants and funding, why tax the little man on the island? Have we looked at all of the avenues first?" she said.
The choice
Members of the Island Council's ferry committee - which includes people who've been working toward improving ferry service for decades - have waited for two budget cycles for the county to fund further study of the best way forward, and a June 4 endorsement from the Lowcountry Regional Transportation Authority to study a model such as a special tax district was the last straw, Crosby said.
"At that point it became clear to us that the county was not going to come to the point beyond wanting to do another study but not having the money for it," he said. "We've begged and pleaded for the county to do more."
LRTA Chairman Dick Stewart endorses the special tax district and argues his agency could find applicable grants, even for a fledgling service.
Past efforts fell with the "lack of political will," and the only way to leverage partnerships is to get organized, Crosby said.
"If you look at where previous efforts have fallen short, it was a lack of political will at the local government level," he said. "A lot of this work needs an official, recognized, local government body affiliated with it."
Chatham Area Transit's executive director has also expressed a desire to work across state lines but noted that would require legislative approval.
Crosby said the distrust of native islanders is a concern, but he doesn't understand how maintaining a declining system with increasingly unlikely support from Beaufort County and no say in decision-making is preferable, even with lower taxes.
"What is difficult to understand is why they have any greater trust in the existing system as opposed to something they could actually be a part of," he said.
Greenwood, the Island Council chairman, has argued the district comes with little downside, that voters could disband it with County Council approval if it doesn't yield the tax revenue, grants and partnerships needed to expand service. He previously estimated the district could raise upwards of $350,000 but stressed that figure is a rough projection, especially given an upcoming reassessment. Marine transportation expert AJ Weis places the cost of providing service between Savannah and Daufuskie at $1.2 million.
Crosby asks voters to look at support among people who have dedicated substantial time to finding solutions, such as LRTA vice chairman Chris Hutton and private boat captain John Wampler, both longtime residents.
"Nobody who's been working on this for decades or even a couple years are against this," he said. "I think that's quite telling. People have been showing their dedication by the time they've allocated."

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Carotene. However, if you happen to come across heritage varieties, you'll notice carrots run through a spectrum of white through to yellow to hues of deep purple. So what caused the dominance of the orange carrot? Ex-Cambodia Daily editor and current Washington Post staffer Suzy Khimm delves into the political history of the carrot, which traditionally links the rise of orange variety to the Dutch House of Orange – a tale which may be of questionable authenticity:
As it turns out, the political history of carrots is more murky and complicated. The World Carrot Museum–an unsigned, virtual repository of information that Next Nature cites in its original post–calls the link to the House of Orange an "apocryphal" tale dreamed up by historians, though it fails to provide any specific citations for its own conclusion.
What is clear, however, is that the Dutch themselves have used the orange carrot as a political weapon during the rise and fall of the House of Orange. According to historian Simon Schama, in the late 18th century, the Dutch Patriot movement that revolted against the House of Orange saw the vegetable as an offensive tribute to the monarchy. After forcing the reigning descendent of William of Orange to leave the Hague, the Patriots declared that orange was "the color of sedition…carrots sold with their roots too conspicuously showing were deemed provocative," Schama writes in his book, "Patriots and Liberators." To this day, many in the Netherlands attest that orange carrots were originally a tribute to the House of Orange, as various Dutch tourism outfits will attest.
Orange carrots don't get mentioned in literature until about 1100.


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Welsh Rugby
Cardiff Blues - We can cope without Roberts
ESPN Staff
April 16, 2013
Jamie Roberts will play in the Top 14 next year © Getty Images
Cardiff Blues coach Phil Davies is certain they have enough strength in depth within the region to fill the void left by the departing Jamie Roberts.
Roberts bid an emotional farewell to the Arms Park faithful on Saturday when he played his final home match for the Blues ahead of his summer switch to France with Racing Metro his expected destination.
The Wales international, who also qualified as a doctor this week, marked the occasion with a try but Davies is confident they can pose a threat in the centres despite losing the 26-year-old's services.
"Jamie's loss is disappointing but it will give others an opportunity here to fill the void," Davies told Wales Online. "Opportunities open up for other and that is professional sport.
"Cory Allen and Owen Williams are two young centres who have huge futures in the game. Along with Dafydd Hewitt and Gavin Evans, we also have experience to play alongside them."
Allen has shone for the Wales Sevens team this year and scored a memorable solo effort in the Hong Kong final. Williams has played the bulk of his rugby on the flank this season but Davies is hopeful of utilising the pair in the centres next term.
"We see Owen as a 13 in the future and he has played well for us this season," added Davies. "It is a case of needs must for us this season but playing on the wing has been a good experience for him.
"He came in at 13 against Toulon with only half an hours notice and did exceptionally well. I would have thought he would be in with a shout of the Japan tour."
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) – UBS AG shares rose more than 5% in early trading, after the firm reported fourth-quarter profit was up after a year of losses.
The Zurich-based firm's profit beat analyst expectations, boosted by higher earnings in its main business units and lower legal costs.
UBS UBS, -0.61% reported profit of 917 million francs or $1 billion, compared to a loss of 1.9 billion francs or $2.1 billion in the same period a year earlier.
The firm had announced it would scale back its investment bank unit and grow its wealth management business under a restructuring plan that would reduce risk and increase capital.
Switzerland's biggest bank was hit by the financial crisis like many financial firms and recently became embroiled in an interest-rate rigging probe. The firm eventually paid a fine to regulators of $1.5 billion over the allegations of manipulating interest rates and two former UBS traders were charged.
The firm said it expects legal charges to be at "elevated levels" this year.
UBS also announced an increase in bonuses for employees in 2013 by 28% from the year before and includes deferred payments.
UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti recently lashed out at critics of the industry saying "bashing banks" is not helping the industry.
European rival Deutsche Bank AG DB, -0.99% reported a fourth-quarter loss last month and was hurt by legal costs and accounting charges. Shares for the firm were down 0.6%. French banks Credit Suisse Group AG CS, -0.31% and BNP Paribas S.A. BNP, +1.22% were up 1.9%.
U.S. bank stocks are having a better day on Tuesday after disappointing manufacturing data hurt the broader market.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund XLF, -0.59%, which tracks financial stocks in the S&P 500 SPX, -0.49%, was up 0.7%. Citigroup Inc. C, -0.54% bounced back and was up 2.4%.
J.P. Morgan rose 1.4% JPM, -0.40% JPM, -0.40% and was one of the top-five gainers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.59%.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, -0.69% was up 1.25% and Bank of America Corp. BAC, -0.77% rose 1%. Morgan Stanley MS, -0.80% was up moderately 0.5% but is down more than 7% year-to-date.
CME Group Inc. CME, -0.38% reported its fourth-quarter profit rose 16% on increased volumes. Trading volumes were up 11% in the quarter on 11.3 million contracts for the Chicago-based exchange.
The futures and options exchange was boosted by an increase in processing swap trades.
CME reported profit of $193.1 million or 58 cents a share, compared to $166.8 million or 50 cents a share, in the same period the year before. Revenue was up 3.9% to $687 million.
Regulators are steering toward more transparent trading platforms and that is positive for the clearing house unit for the firm. CME reported clearing and transaction-fee revenues were up 5.9% to $576.8 million. Its market data and information-services revenue fell 3.5% to $76.5 million.
The CEO Terry Duffy noted the firm was working with regulators and industry participants in the past year on the changing landscape from new regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act.
"Looking ahead, we will continue to build on the most extensive product offering available today to deliver innovative solutions to meet our customers' needs," said Duffy.


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Bryan Singer: Mark Miller 'not involved' with X-Men
- Bang Showbiz
- 12 March 2013
Bryan Singer has revealed Mark Millar, 20th Century Fox's consultant on Marvel movies, hasn't had any input in his upcoming 'X-Men' movie
Bryan Singer has insisted Mark Millar is "not involved" in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
The director - who is set to direct the upcoming superhero film which will unite cast members from the original film trilogy and 2011's 'X-Men: First Class' - hasn't had any conversations with the screenwriter, who was hired by movie studio Fox to oversee its Marvel Comics-based projects.
Singer told BleedingCool.com: "I've not spoken to Mark Millar at all. He's not involved. I don't know what his role is about. All I know is that I have my own specific beliefs about how to take this universe forward.
"I started with the first 'X-Men', then 'First Class' and now I am combining them and I think it could go further than that and I have some ideas about that, so perhaps he should chat to me at some point."
Comic book writer Millar - who has written many of the 'X-Men' comics, as well as graphic novel 'Kick-Ass' - previously praised the film's script and hailed Singer for his direction of the 'X-Men' cinematic franchise.
He said: "Of course, he is Mr. 'X-Men' and he knows exactly how everything works. Just look at these first two 'X-Men' movies - despite the huge cast of characters it all came together really well. These two movies never felt like overload and the balance was really, really good.
"On the other hand I though the third film felt crowded, but then Singer is excellent at working with ensemble casts. So with this one I feel it is all fine. I have read the screenplay and it doesn't feel rushed and it doesn't feel like it is too many characters."
'X-Men: Days of Future Past' will star Sir Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, Sir Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Lawrence.
The film is tentatively due for release in July 2014.


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Bad Medicaid facts make bad spending precedent
The Healthcare Cases contain a major factual fallacy that Medicaid is somehow now two programs, old Medicaid and new Medicaid. Dismayingly, Chief Justice Roberts persuaded Justices Breyer and Kagan to sign on to this ridiculous description of Medicaid. And the dissent bought it too. As I've said before, healthcare is an imperfect vehicle for constitutional change. Here's why that description is both wrong and potentially dangerous.
The Roberts plurality on Medicaid and the joint dissent both describe Medicaid as if it had been structured to cover certain categories of the poor as a way to protect states. History tells us this characterization is quite far from the truth. As I have described elsewhere, in 1965, Medicaid was limited to covering the unfortunately named "deserving poor" because the states had only provided benefits to the deserving poor. That "choice" was not really a choice at all, but rather the result of path dependence on the part of both the states and the federal government. Prior to the New Deal, states were responsible for welfare-type programs, and welfare programs only extended help to certain poor who were deemed blameless in their poverty. This notion of blamelessness was a direct descendent of the Elizabethan Poor Laws, which found certain poor liable for their poverty and allowed assistance for only certain "deserving poor" – and those poor happened to be widows, orphans, disabled, and elderly. Sound familiar? It should, as these are essentially the same categories that were covered in 1965, when Kerr-Mills became Medicaid, a more centralized and clearly federal program.
Since 1965, the federal government has slowly added to Medicaid eligibility, thereby also slowly eroding some of the old notions regarding the deserving poor. And, the states have always had the option of extending Medicaid to poor beyond the old categories, an option that every state has exercised to some degree. For example, all states provide some coverage to parents of needy children, not just pregnant women, and some states have covered childless, non-disabled adults under age 65. Thus, extending eligibility and eliminating the categorical characterizations of eligibility is not unprecedented. And again, that distinction lies in biases about who should receive governmental assistance that date to the colonial period, not a deliberate choice to protect states. [more after the jump]
So, the Medicaid expansion is not "new" Medicaid or "Medicaid 2.0". It is a modernization of the Medicaid program that should have occurred years ago, with or without the expansion of health insurance to all Americans. (By the way, the essential health benefits package is also not new, it was introduced as an element of flexibility for states in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Ironic that the states now point to it as coercion, when it was originally written to benefit them and provide them more flexibility.)
This characterization of "new Medicaid" is dangerous because it essentially tells the federal government that it cannot set the parameters of its conditional funding programs. The federal government has always created the baselines of Medicaid, one of which is eligibility, allowing states flexibility to increase coverage but never decrease it. The Roberts plurality seems to miss that eligibility for a federal program is a key element of "preserv[ing] control over the use of federal funds." [slip at 49] If eligibility for federal funding is beyond the federal government's control, then this case truly does open the floodgates for coercion litigation. This will be another National League of Cities v. Usery, or New York v. U.S., or Lopez… pick your judicially-enforced federalism precedent.
The danger is not only that such a flood may affect wide-ranging cooperative federalism programs such as education, welfare, environmental protection, and highway infrastructure, but also that we still don't know what coercion is. The Roberts plurality refused to define it, and the joint dissent did too, providing nomenclature – the "anti-coercion rule" – but not articulating any kind of test. [slip at 37] The dissent's formula was simply: "if States really have no choice other than to accept the package, the offer is coercive, and the conditions cannot be sustained under the spending power." [slip at 35] We hear echoes of Justice Stewart's famous "I know it when I see it" line (and we know how clearly the Court has resolved obscenity cases). Perhaps the dissent acknowledged the ambiguity in its invitation for coercion litigation by stating (at least twice) that determining the difference between influence and coercion is "difficult."
So, the bad facts leave us with a deeply undertheorized expansion of the coercion concept. Despite the lack of a rule, let alone a viable theory, coercion litigation is sure to follow this decision.


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IQ's Soundlab joins mathematic rhymes with scientific beats to create a Hip Hop album that whn listened too is like one cohesive tour through the work of MC/Producer IQ. Each track off this album is like a chapter, all of them having there own intent withink the overall purpose of the album. A must listen.


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This tutorial will cover the very basics of using Waterine's ClgEditor tool to create your own combo challenges for SSF4AE. For this, we will need the ClgEditor and Dantarion et al's Ono! Editor.
When you first run the ClgEditor, click the button to 'Open...' and browse to your installation directory (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\super street fighter iv - arcade edition), then go to ...\resource\battle\chara and go into the folder for the character whose Trial Mode you wish to modify. It should filter the folder contents such that the only file displayed is our desired CLG file, in my case, CMY.clg.
The area underneath those pulldowns is where most of the fun happens.
In the 'Scripts' section, the first button from the left (looks like a sun) creates a new command, either an 'attack' or a 'script,' which you can choose between using the 'Criteria type' pulldown menu to the right. Attacks are just your normal actions while scripts are movement actions, like dashes and FADCs.
The 'Criteria indices' field tells the game which moves it should accept as a successful command. If any strength of a move will do, as is the case with many of the early challenges, you must include each index that fulfills the criteria. For a regular special move (light, medium, hard and EX), you would need entries for all four strengths.
Back in the scripts window, each command represents one discreet portion of a challenge, and you can show up to 8 on the screen. You can go beyond 8 in the list, but unfortunately the display doesn't scroll in-game, so the player won't be able to see the rest.
To the right, you can choose what on-screen instructions and input help to display from the respective pulldown menus.
So, lets say I want to change Cammy's first challenge from a simple Spiral Arrow to a Cannon Spike > FADC > EX Cannon Spike.
Step 1. Select the first trial from the levels list and hit the 'X' button under Scripts to delete the existing command. Then, click the sun button to create a new command. Our first command--Cannon Spike--is an attack, so choose that from the Criteria type pulldown.
Step 2. Next, we need to fill in the Criteria indices field with the indices for the move (I cheated and stole them from Challenge #3), in this case, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105.
Step 3. Under 'On-screen command text's last pulldown menu, we want to select Cannon Spike, and under 'Help menu command text's last pulldown menu, we want to select Cannon Spike Input.
Great! There's our first command. Now, we need to make another.
Step 4. Click on the sun button again, but this time we're going to use a movement script, so select 'Script' from the Criteria type pulldown.
As in step 2, fill in the Criteria indices field with the appropriate inputs, in this case 325 (I stole that from a later challenge, as well; are you seeing a pattern here?).
Likewise, we'll fill in the On-screen command text and Help menu command text, which are a little weird for FADCs: in the first pulldown under On-screen commant text, choose 'EX,' and under the third pulldown, choose 'FocusCancel.' Then, under Help menu's first pulldown, choose 'EX' again, and under the third, choose 'MP+MK.'
Step 5. Alright, moving right along, click the sun button one more time and choose the 'Attack' criteria. Up until now, all of the moves we've wanted to use could be easily pilfered from other challenges. However, no challenge requires an EX Cannon Spike specifically, so we'll have to figure this one out on our own. To do it, open up the Ono! Editor and open Cammy's BCM file. You should see a window that looks something like this:
Click on the bottom button, labeled "Hitbox Table." It should open a new window that looks something like this:
There's a lot of really great information available in this window, but we really only need the numbers on the far left in front of the move names. So, scroll down until you find your desired move, in my case EX Cannon Spike, which is listed under #106 and #107. If the criteria type is an attack, you use the hitbox data number, if it's a script, you should use the script number (you can expand the header info in Ono! to see it).
Now, enter those numbers into the Criteria indices field, separated by commas and spaces as necessary.
Fill in the appropriate on-screen command and help menu text, and you should be all set. Click the save button and lets go check it out by copying it into our ...\resource\battle\chara\CMY folder (don't forget to make a backup!!).
Now, as a note, you can make your combos against any version of the characters' movesets you like (Super is the default, of course, but you can use movesets from AE, 2012 or even custom movesets created in Ono!), you just have to copy the appropriate BAC/BCM files into the ...\resource\battle\chara\*** folder to overwrite the ones that are already there.
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In 1915 John Boston Campbell and his sons Neil and Kenneth started a little floor covering company in Salem, New Jersey and operated under the values of hard work, honest dealing, faith, family and community.
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Barnard Center for Research on Women Director Janet Jakobsen is quoted in The Daily Beast, in an article about Hillary Rodham Clinton's possible 2016 presidential bid and the importance of her 2008 attempt. An excerpt:
"From a cultural standpoint, even though it failed, Clinton's first run held significant meaning for women. "It created the feeling that one's gender did not mean one could not win, even if she didn't," says Janet Jakobsen, director of Barnard College's Center for Research on Women. "When Shirley Chisholm ran in 1972, it was clear that her identity meant she was never going to win. With Clinton, it didn't seem as though her gender meant if you were a woman you could not win. That's a big change."
Read the full article.
Prof. Jakobsen's research interests include religion, gender, and sexuality in American public life; social movements and feminist alliance politics; feminist and queer ethics; and global issues of economics and violence.


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Change in HIV May Precipitate AIDS Studies in Tonsil Tissues Advance AIDS Research
Scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have developed a new model for studying the destructive effects of AIDS in live tissue samples. The critical events in the development of AIDS take place in lymphoid tissue, but AIDS research has been hampered by the fact that an animal model of HIV infection that readily mimics human AIDS does not exist. Scientists also lack readily available laboratory techniques for closely mimicking, in vitro, HIV infection in the body (in vivo).
The NICHD scientists have overcome this limitation by culturing and infecting pieces of tonsil, which is composed largely of lymphoid tissue, obtained from tonsillectomies. With this advance, they have helped illuminate one of the central questions of HIV pathology--what triggers the eventual development of AIDS in people who carry HIV?
The finding appears in the March issue of Nature Medicine, and was reported by scientists Svetlana Glushakova, Jean- Charles Grivel, Wendy Fitzgerald, Andrew Sylvester, Joshua Zimmerberg, and Leonid Margolis.
The laboratory model, which allows HIV to be studied in the tissue in which it is usually found, consists of tiny (1mm) cubes of tonsil cultured on wet collagen sponges. The cubes, which retain their viability and native architecture for several weeks, can be infected with HIV (which multiplies and spills into the surrounding medium), so that they mount a response to immunological challenge. Such responses are the hallmark of lymphoid tissue. Thus, just as they would in the body, the blocks of lymphoid tissue make antibodies to tetanus toxoid or diphtheria toxoid (which are used to immunize people against tetanus and diphtheria), and they do so with much greater efficiency than isolated immune cells, underscoring the importance of the cell's environment to the cell's proper functioning.
With the help of these cultured, immunologically responsive, tonsil blocks, the NICHD team has started to answer some of the basic questions about AIDS and HIV infection. HIV is transmitted by a form of the virus that can infect macrophages, scavenger cells that live in the body's tissues, and other immune cells known as CD4+ T lymphocytes. Viruses with this property are called M- tropic (M for macrophage) and are the predominant form of HIV found in a person's body early in the disease process. Later in the course of the disease, a different strain of the virus often predominates, and that strain is called "T-tropic," because it attacks T lymphocytes almost exclusively.
Researchers speculate whether AIDS develops partly because of the transition from M-tropism to T-tropism. In the Nature Medicine paper, the researchers present strong evidence that it is a change in the virus itself that leads to irreparable damage to the immune system.
Dr. Margolis and his coworkers showed that, after being infected with T-tropic viruses, the response of the tonsil blocks to immunological challenge is suppressed, whereas M- tropic viruses have the opposite effect, making the blocks secrete more antibody. This study supports the view that changes in the properties of HIV may contribute to the immunologic deterioration that leads to AIDS.
This is a useful tool for scientists to observe the development of immunodeficiency outside the body. The technique promises to provide important information about HIV pathogenesis and should be extremely useful in developing and testing therapies and vaccination strategies.


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Reasonable Doubts One of the very best Atheist podcasts ever. Thoughtful and professional, but still entertaining and funny. They are now on the Freethought Blogs network.
Church of Awesome This podcast is right up there with Reasonable Doubts. They're often just as deep, but with much more foul-mouthed humor added for good measure. The mostly former Mormon crew has a lot of detailed and interesting insights into their former denomination. But they cover all sorts of non-Mormon topics too. A definite must for your playlist.
Living After Faith An excellent podcast with very candid life stories from a former Pentecostal minister and his amazing wife. They have great interviews an are quite inspirational, in a humanistic way of course. They helped to show me that living after faith can be far more warm, vibrant and exciting than it was before.
The Thinking Atheist A great podcast from a great guy, Seth Andrews. Seth is a mild mannered podcast host by day and an insanely talented video production super hero by night. Check out his videos on YouTube. They were instrumental in my long and multifaceted deconversion process.
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Kaltura Announces its Social Enterprise Video Solution Suite at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit
Kaltura, (www.kaltura.com ),developer of the first open source video platform, today announced its Social Enterprise Video Solution Suite at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit. As stated by Gartner[1], by 2016, large companies will stream more than 16 hours of video per worker per month. To that end, Kaltura's Social Enterprise Video Solutions empower leading businesses worldwide, including Best Buy, Coldwell Banker, Texas Instruments, and Siemens, with advanced video and rich media capabilities for collaboration and knowledge sharing among employees, partners, and customers.
"Video is rapidly becoming the most effective tool for knowledge sharing and collaboration in enterprises. Similar to the successful introduction of Facebook™ and Twitter™-like consumer functionalities into the enterprise world, Kaltura provides corporations with advanced YouTube™-like functionalities that had been previously perfected through millions of viewers of leading media companies such as ABC, HBO, Paramount, and Warner Bros" said Ron Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO of Kaltura. "Our Social Enterprise Suite enables employees to create, author, share and search video content while allowing managers and administrators to govern, administer and moderate this content. Kaltura's open platform enables organization to easily customize the functionalities and user experience, to integrate it with various other enterprise systems, and to flexibly choose which elements to deploy on-premise or on the cloud."
Kaltura's Social Enterprise Suite is part of Kaltura's broader Enterprise Video Solution Suite, which also includes video solutions for training, marketing and eCommerce. The Suite includes:
– Social Enterprise video solutions – including a video portal powered by Kaltura MediaSpace Version 3.0, with support for user uploads, recording and screen capture, separately managed channels and additional interactive features; and Kaltura's SharePoint video extension, allowing to easily create, share and search video in SharePoint; as well as many other integrations into enterprise social networks such as Lotus Connections, Jive and others.
– Marketing and eCommerce video solutions – allowing to easily publish and distribute corporate videos on company websites, portals, and other social media outlets for improved lead generation, better messaging, and increased conversion.
– Learning and Training solutions – including an internal training portal for employees, a video-presentation widget for synchronized videos and PowerPoint presentations, and more.
About Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit
The Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit focuses on workplace technologies, such as portals, content management, social networking, mashups, online communications tools, eDiscovery, search technologies, Web 2.0 and emerging collaboration tools, and explores how these technologies are a key element in raising overall organizational productivity and employee impact, and how enterprises must change to get business results. Complete details can be found at www.gartner.com/us/pcc.
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Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 150,000 media & entertainment companies, enterprises, SMBs, educational institutions, service providers, platform vendors, and system integrators use Kaltura's flexible platform to enhance their websites, web-services, and web-platforms with advanced customized video, photo and audio functionalities. Kaltura's features and products enable to easily deploy custom work-flows involving video creation, ingestion, publishing, management, syndication, engagement, monetization and analysis. The free community-supported self-hosted software and source-code is available for download at www.kaltura.org. A commercial version of the software can be obtained at www.kaltura.com along with Kaltura services such as streaming, hosting, transcoding, analytics, ad serving, support and maintenance packages, and professional development. Founded in 2006, New York-based Kaltura is also a founding member of the 'Open Video Alliance' (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video. For more information: www.kaltura.com , www.kaltura.org and exchange.kaltura.com.


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AFL Players Association chief executive Matt Finnis has slammed the Herald Sun's call to name and shame Essendon players. Photo: Sebastian CostanzoThe AFL players' union has bitterly condemned the identification of present and former Essendon players who are alleged to have admitted telling investigators they had been injected with peptides.
AFL Players Association chief executive Matt Finnis said it was an abuse of the players' trust in the system and the confidentiality they were guaranteed in the investigation for them to be identified.
Fourteen players were identified in the News Corp press on Sunday as having told the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority they had taken supplements that may have been banned and they consequently face suspensions.
It has long been known and accepted that a number of Essendon players had admitted to having been administered peptides that may have been banned – with possibly more than the 14 who were named being involved.
Essendon captain and Brownlow medallist Jobe Watson had previously admitted in a television interview that he had been told that he had taken the peptide AOD9604, which the World Anti-Doping Agency insists was a banned substance, but the AFL admits there was confusion about its status at the relevant time.
Finnis said all players had voluntarily co-operated with the investigation into the "failures of workplace governance" and their trust in the process had been abused.
"The AFL Players Association condemns in the strongest possible terms the publishing of names and photos of current and former Essendon football players in today's Herald Sun," Finnis said.
"[It] calls on everyone to respect the process and integrity of the ASADA investigation – just as the players have done since this regrettable saga arose.
"For over 12 months, players have withstood enormous uncertainty, public scrutiny and speculation over their health, their careers, and their reputations. But for over 12 months, players have honestly, candidly and transparently co-operated with all authorities involved in multiple investigations.
"You would hope that by now, there might be some level of acknowledgment of the invidious position these young men have been placed in, which is higher than publishing names and photos of some of them in a major daily newspaper in a manner which only fuels further speculation and uncertainty."
Despite the "invidious position" and the sympathy for the players' predicament, the doping code provides little scope for leniency were they to be charged and found guilty of taking banned substances, such as hexarelin or thymosin beta 4.
It is extremely unlikely any player could argue "no fault or negligence" under the World Anti-Doping Code as that defence refers to cases such as an athlete being administered a drug when unconscious on the operating table.
The defence below that is when athletes satisfactorily claim there had been "no significant fault or negligence". They are entitled to a reduction but that discount "may not be less than one-half of the period of ineligibility otherwise applicable". For instance, a 12-month ban cannot be reduced to less than six months.
While there is confusion over the legality of AOD 9604, there is none over the status of thymosin beta 4. It is banned.
There are other thymosin variants that are legal but the AFL and ASADA investigation could find no source of legal thymosin being sourced by Essendon.
The AFL investigation has already concluded that 38 players admitted signing release forms for the administration of AOD9604 and weekly injections of thymosin.
Invoices discovered at Windy Hill also point to the purchase of hexarelin, a banned drug, which was found in an unlocked fridge in Stephen Dank's office at the club.
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I worked for Eddie Van Halen for five years in the 1990's in the Beverly Hills area of Los Angeles and was instrumental in providing help with development of the Peavey Wolfgang and Wolfgang Special Guitar by providing feedback on the prototypes Eddie was designing at the time. I learned a lot from Eddie and his brother Alex about music and the music industry. (All you have to do is pay attention! ) I have played in bands from Hollywood to Toronto and back both as a singer songwriter and guitarist. I bring the Musicians Institute way to the table and get things up and ru
I believe in sharing the happiness of making music with anyone who loves music and the guitar in particular. I do my very best to get you playing the songs you love in Pop, Rock, Jazz and Folk Music of your choice. Today's modern new guitars are easy to play and you will enjoy learning Guitar right away. That is how it should be.
When you study there is a basic understanding of Guitar to be learned that allows an ease of use for anyone for years to come. This will help you reach your goal and improve each week. My students learn to practice in a way that feels comfortable and makes sense. This takes all the stress out of learning and gives everyone something to smile about and look forward to each week.
The good feeling of playing along with friends and taking a solo is within every students grasp. I will show you the way there. And with a solid and straightforward approach to the theory as it applies directly to the guitar you will feel confident and unafraid of any music endeavor. We'll cover harmony and fingerboard theory and give you a road map of the guitar neck that makes it a pleasure to play. You learn the basics and much more than you thought possible retaining 90 percent of what you learn!
Having been a student myself I was deeply involved in music since age 12 and played in bands and duos for over 15 years . I can help you to be a well rounded player and performer with a smile, a laugh and a joy for music whether your in a band or a budding solo artist.
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Most students want to play the Guitar to play their favorite songs and I'm the same way. Music is something we carry with us in our hearts and minds. Students will learn what they wish to learn and work at a pace that is comfortable to them. Whether you are a student, "weekend warrior" or a parent whose child has expressed an interest in Guitar anyone can learn all there is to know about Harmony and Theory for the Guitar and how to play their favorite songs.
We cover theory in an easy and straightforward no nonsense way in the first half of each lesson and then apply it to the song you wish to learn. This creates an atmosphere where you understand and feel at home with the Guitar. You get an understanding right away and because it is immediately fun it allows you to feel comfortable at any level. Music is fun, and songs are the creative expression of what we feel. Combining theory and the freedom to play and sing songs allows us to express ourselves through music.
After 6 months students will have a solid foundation in theory, and a road map of the guitar fretboard enabling them to advance to an intermediate level if they are ready to do so. Students will know enough that music as it relates to the Guitar, which is the world's most popular instrument in contemporary music, is not a mystery but is a welcome friend. And they will be able to play songs by popular artists and advance at a pace that is satisfying and enjoyable.
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Throughout the months, he has been very supportive and encouraging, oftentimes doing welfare checkups on me throughout the week and showing me new ideas and techniques in film, acting and spontaneity. He demonstrates patience with learning curves, and gives good assignments to work on through the week for the next time you meet up. He also is understanding if you cannot make an appointment.
In terms of the actual classes, they are phenomenal. Many classes, when deliberately practicing, feel more like an actual In-the-moment conversation rather than a mechanical " Do this than that" layout. He gives a lot of good and fair feedback for improvement at the end of the class, and following the advice never failed to be right. Be prepared for time to fly, though, as 45 minutes will feel like 10, especially if you are REALLY in character and going back and forth with him on random topics, which almost make you feel like you have a hidden persona lol.
All in all, James is very experienced and skilled in teaching students of all walks of life, from aspiring actors/actresses to would be filmmakers to people simply looking to learn life skills that are invaluable to life, career, relationships and even mental health! There is something for all in this coach's teachings, provided you are wiling to put in the work. Phenomenal teacher and an all around great person!
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This class will focus on the basic movements and techniques of jazz dance involving ballet-based movement, and phrases at center and across the floor. Students will be encouraged to have lots of showmanship and creativity. This fun and energetic class will have you moving and smiling from beginning to end.
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She received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Dance and Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from the University of Michigan in May of 2013 and has had a wide range of professional experience. She has worked with and performed works by modern dance choreographers such as Lindsey Merchant, Melissa Beck, Germaul Barnes, Jessica Fogel, Christopher Huggins, Shen Wei and Dianne McIntyre. She was artistic director of a chapter of the international hip-hop dance company Dance2XS International.
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Muffin Tin Monday
Across the top are strawberries, cheddar cheese flowers, blackberries.
The bottom row has peach yogurt, waffles with blueberry syrup, and a couple pieces of cereal bar (she insisted on that!).
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I hope everyone is off to a great week! :)
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- Lisa said... [Reply to comment]
- March 29, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- varunner said... [Reply to comment]
I once did the wrong tin too, and then was scrambling to try to come up with the right one at lunch. LOL!
Great tin! The waffles look really good.
Where do you get all your cool bento boxes?
- March 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- JDaniel4's Mom said... [Reply to comment]
Waffles with blueberry syrup sounds great!
- March 29, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks, ladies! :)
varunner - I got the bento boxes from a few different places. Some are "authentic" bento boxes that came from Japanese shops (not widely available), but most of the boxes I use are easy to find! Sassy mealtime boxes are marketed for toddlers, but a perfect bento size for most children (can be found on Amazon or some other stores, ToysRus and BRU might still sell them), Lock & Lock boxes are great - I used to be able to find those at Target and I hear Walmart carries them too, Laptop Lunches and Goodbyn can be found online and in some select stores. In a couple days I'll have a new bento box to introduce, too! :)
- March 29, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Amy said... [Reply to comment]
Love your muffin tin!
- March 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- w said... [Reply to comment]
well it looks beautiful! love the vibrant colors!
- March 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Kristie Clower said... [Reply to comment]
very fancy. I also saw the bunny bento you did for your daughter's third b-day. Super cute. I had to order so of those egg molds for myself. I am following your blog now.
- March 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM
- Kelly said... [Reply to comment]
It looks wonderful and healthy.
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- Ladynred said... [Reply to comment]
Great selection of food. looks really yummy!
- March 30, 2010 at 12:21 AM
- muffintinmom said... [Reply to comment]
you pulled off Blue/purple theme two weeks in a row. I am way impressed!
those waffles look soooooo good.
- April 1, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- Amanda said... [Reply to comment]
I think I'm going to make myself a bento box/muffin tin one day!
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If any of you guys have a spare couple of hours whilst in New York the Modigliani exhibition at the Jewish Museum on 5th. Avenue sounds like a worthwhile diversion.
The art critics here in the UK have been quietly raving about this show ever since it opened.
I've pasted in one of the many excellent reviews that the show has received here in the UK.
Well I'm going.
Ta Ken
The challenge of taking Modigliani seriously
Modigliani's madonnas actually suggest a far stronger brew, Waldemar Januszczak now realises
Taking Modigliani seriously is a challenge. Lots of things have conspired to diminish his reputation as an artist. The disastrous life he led, for one. All that hashish-smoking and boozing, all those angry love affairs, the TB, the coughing, have turned him into a classic artistic loser and made him internationally infamous: so much so that he is about to be unleashed upon us in movie form, with the dark and smouldering Andy Garcia playing "Modi". Truly great artists are able to survive the banal atten-tions of a big Hollywood biopic. Picasso survived the crude Hispano-Welsh characterisations of a raving Anthony Hopkins. Van Gogh lived through Kirk Douglas. The question is: can Modigliani survive Garcia? Is he a profound enough artist to emerge from a cinematic beatification with his aesthetic legacy intact? Had you asked me this question before I toured Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, at the Jewish Museum in New York, I would have replied "No", confidently. Now, I would answer "Yes", confidently. Because the deepest reason for the fragility of Modigliani's modern reputation is not the grotesqueness of the proto-rock'n'roll life he is thought to have led, but the wan and powdery impact of his art. Mention Modigliani (which, incidentally, you should say without any g-sound in it, because it is an Italian name) and you evoke before the viewer an immediate parade of slope-shouldered, long-necked, neomedieval madonnettes, flickering weakly like the final moments of a candle.
Passing off this weak tea bag of femininity as a profound achievement requires chutzpah and invention. The Jewish Museum, startlingly, has provided both. Its new Modigliani show is the first exhibition in my lifetime that manages successfully to enhance his artistic reputation. Indeed, it completely rebuilds it. The show yanks Modigliani out of the clutches of the makers of pretty postcards and turns him, instead, into an unsettling Jewish mystic, whose cultural anxieties nourished his work continuously, productively and superbly. Who would have thought it? So superficially do we understand Modigliani that even acknow- ledging his Jewishness requires a deeper-than-usual knowledge of him. The other Jewish artists operating around him in first world war Paris — Chagall, Soutine, Lipchitz — were so much more obviously Jews. They came from Eastern Europe. They smelt of the ghetto. They spoke with thick foreign accents. Their work made Jewishness an issue and proclaimed it. Modigliani, however, smelt of cologne and privilege. He was the fourth son of a family of genteel and assimilated Sephardic Jews who had settled in Livorno, in northern Italy, and who brought up their offspring to be cultured and travelled. Modigliani spoke fluent French. Everyone in their memoirs goes on about how pretty he was, how elegant his hands were, how well spoken he could be. Thus, his Jewishness was of an entirely different order from the transgressive, second- commandment-breaking, shtetl-hardened Jewishness of his Montmartre buddies. But it was there all right. Spotting it so clearly is this show's chief achievement.
Modigliani arrived in Paris as a sculptor. He had studied marble-carving in Michelangelo's old stamping ground of Carrara, though his preferred material was limestone — cheaper than marble and altogether grittier. A hacked- out limestone head begins these proceedings. The face is already one of Modigliani's ovals, a nose as thin as an exclamation mark, with a tiny full-stop mouth and closed hyphen eyes. But these elegant feminine simplifications have then had a hammer taken to them. Bits of the head are missing. Chunks are gone from the nose. The neck has been battered.
Modigliani seems to have perpetrated his own iconoclasm.
I suppose his ambition was to make the thing look dug-up and ancient. But since we know it is not, the head connects instead with an un-Modiglianian sense of violence. Looking closer, I noticed something peculiar sticking out of a hole in the idol's headdress.
I peered in. There was a little face in there — a mini-idol who had taken up residence in the larger idol's hair. The mini-idol was just sitting there, looking out, like a mouse in a skirting board. The keynote struck by this spooky opening piece is eminently peculiar.
The exhibition ahead mixes Modigliani's sculpture not only with his paintings but also with his drawings, the three of them marching side-by-side along the woman-signposted route of his notoriously brief life. As a painter, his opening style was derived from Picasso's Blue-Period parade of whores and circus performers. Yet, interestingly, Modigliani's Blue Period has more sense of confrontation about it than Picasso's. An early nude in a hat, with droopy breasts and carelessly applied lipstick, stares out sullenly from her imaginary doorway and accuses you, I suggest, of being foul client material.
Thus, a show you had expected to be wan and gentle all the way through seeks instead to give you a slapping from the off. It is the drawings, carefully positioned to provide irrefutable evidence of Modigliani's spiritual turmoil at all the main junctures, that reveal most clearly the mystical origins of his anguish. We know from biographical evidence that Modigliani was dabbling with the occult and taking drugs in order to reach heightened states. The very first drawing in the show, produced while he was still in Italy, shows a man lying on the ground and yet simultaneously standing above himself in a creepy, out-of-body experience. Later on, quotations from mystical and occult texts begin to infiltrate the action. Six-pointed stars turn up; gnomic thoughts are scrawled in the margins. Sniffing the air, you smell the unmistakable mystic pong of the tarot.
The first of the show's spectac-ular revisionist set pieces features a collection of paintings and drawings centred on the image of the caryatid. Caryatids are the twisted figures in classical architecture charged with holding up roofs and lintels. Modigliani painted them obsessively, and I had previously found them tedious and repetitive. But here, this repetitiveness is revealed as a strength. The caryatid's endless physical struggle is a perfect visual equivalent of Modigliani's endless spiritual struggle. His painted caryatids, and the sculptures associated with them, have a coiled psychological power that I had stupidly missed in his work.
As another deliberate counter to the myth of Modigliani as the supreme painter of pale women, the show also devotes a gallery to his intense portraits of men. The sitters are unhappy art-world types from his Parisian circles: the collector Paul Guillaume; the poet Max Jacob; dealers; drinking buddies. Because of the fascinating groundwork the show has already put in before we reach them, it is easier here to sense the voodoo in these unsmiling masculine portraits. In all Modigliani's portraiture, an attempt is being made to transform the peripheral and the everyday into the immutable and the permanent. The louche art-world types have been granted the gravitas of ancient idols.
But it is, naturally, the appearance of the familiar Modigliani women halfway through the procession, the ones with the long necks and the almond eyes, that really tests the mettle of this show. Can we see them afresh as the product of a handsome wandering Jew's anguished spiritual journey? Alas, I'm not sure we can. Because this is the Jewish Museum, and all the exhibitions here have a proselytising religious ambition to them, Modigliani's Jewishness is overpromoted as the source of his new-found religious power. The evidence of the show itself suggests that, while mystical Jewishness may indeed have been Modigliani's original fuel, it was soon replaced by others. The Christian archetype of the gentle madonna was obviously the main pattern for Modigliani's long-necked women.
What I discovered in them instead was the nuanced subtlety of his colouring. Reproductions do Modigliani's work no favours. They flatten his forms and reduce his outlines to a comic-book crudeness. Modigliani in the flesh is a master of glows and translucencies. His women have an inner light in them. They shine from the middle like Hallowe'en pumpkins.
Ever so smartly, the show has saved its best room for last. The final gallery is devoted to Modigliani's nudes. Half a dozen of them surround you and stare at you. These magnificent nudes pull off a marvellous trick. They manage simultaneously to be sexy and portentous. Their outlines seem sculptural. Simplified. Elegant. But their details are carefully observed. Practical. True. A couple of them even have hair under their arms. How Italian of him.
Modigliani: Beyond the Myth is at the Jewish Museum, New York, until September 19
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Modigiani show
Thank you for posting this Ken!
I was planning on seeing this show - this weekend would be a
perfect opportunity!
I was planning on seeing this show - this weekend would be a
perfect opportunity!
Modigliani show
oops! I meant next weekend, the weekend of the event - only 5
more days!
more days!
Info about Jewish Museum
On Thursdays between 5 and 9 PM it's "pay what you wish" with a $4 surcharge for the Modigliani exhibit. On other days it's $ 10 admission, $7.50 for seniors and students. It's closed on Saturdays for the Sabbath and Fridays after 5. The cafeteria is below the museum, had decent food and wasn't very expensve. The book and gift shop have many tempting items,( e.g. things about Jewish mysticism, art, celebrities) sold at full price. I'd write the titles down and look for them at a discount on the net unless you need a gift in a hurry or want to support the museum.
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Re: the Modigliani exhibition at the Jewish Museum
Concerning the Madonna, much of Christian symbols came from earlier Pagan symbolism.
see this link.
see this link.
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