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Now You See Me (film)
Now You See Me is a 2013 American heist thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin, and Edward Ricourt. The film features an ensemble cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman. The plot follows an FBI agent and an Interpol detective who track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money, attempting to bring them to justice. This is the first installment of a series.
|Now You See Me
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Louis Leterrier
|Produced by
|Screenplay by
|Story by
|Music by
|Brian Tyler
|Edited by
|Distributed by
|Summit Entertainment
Release date
Running time
|115 minutes[1]
|United States
|$75 million[2][3]
|Box office
|$351.7 million[3]
The film premiered in New York City on May 21, 2013 before its official release in the United States on May 31, 2013 by Summit Entertainment. The film received mixed reviews from critics but became a box office success, grossing $351.7 million worldwide against a budget of $75 million. The film won the Favorite Thriller Movie at the People's Choice Awards in 2014 and also received nominations for the Empire Award for Best Thriller and the Saturn Award for Best Thriller Film and Best Music. A sequel was released on June 10, 2016.
Four stage magicians, J. Daniel "Danny" Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), are each given a tarot card that leads them to the same empty New York City apartment where they find information from an unknown benefactor.
A year later, the four have their first major performance as the Four Horsemen in an elaborate Las Vegas show funded by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine). Their final trick appears to transport one of the audience members to the vault of his bank, the Crédit Républicain in Paris, where stacks of new euro bills are stored. At the magicians' command, the fans in the vault activate, drawing the bills into the vents and then showering the Las Vegas crowd with them. The euros are shown to be real, and the vault in Paris is found to be empty of its recent shipment of euros. FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo), and Interpol agent Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent), are then partnered to investigate the Horsemen. The two question the magicians but have no evidence to hold them. Dylan and Alma turn to Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), a former magician and now a popular video host who makes millions of dollars exposing the tricks behind magic acts. Thaddeus demonstrates how the Horsemen used a mock vault under the Las Vegas stage, and explains that the group must have stolen the money in Paris before it arrived at the bank, and replaced it with flash paper which ignited but left no residue as evidence.
Dylan, Alma, and Thaddeus follow the Horsemen to their next show in New Orleans. There their final trick appears to transfer over 140 million dollars from Tressler's private accounts to those in the audience, made up of people that were denied insurance claims by Tressler's company in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Dylan and Alma attempt to apprehend the four, but the magicians elude arrest. Tressler hires Thaddeus to expose the Horsemen in revenge for the loss of his money. Alma investigates the Horsemen and determines they are connected to a group called the Eye, a small group of magicians that claim to have access to real magic and only accept the best of the best magicians, who have to be invited and pass tests. She finds out that one of the Eye's members, Lionel Shrike, had previously been exposed by Thaddeus, but died in a locked-safe escape trick he was performing in an attempt to regain his standing. Alma suspects a fifth person is aiding the Horsemen.
Alma's research leads the FBI to a New York City apartment. When they raid it, three of the Horsemen escape while Jack recovers numerous documents and then leads the authorities on a high-speed car chase. Jack loses control of his car, causing it to flip and catch fire. Dylan is unable to save Jack, but manages to recover the papers, pointing to the Horsemen's next planned crime, stealing millions of dollars in cash out of a large safe of the Elkhorn company. By the time Dylan, Alma, and Thaddeus find the safe it had just been stolen and loaded into a truck. They quickly apprehend the truck, arrange for it to be delivered to its arranged destination, and Dylan hides inside. But when it arrives, and is opened by Bradley and his assistant, it contains nothing but balloon animals.
The Horsemen broadcast that they will perform their final show that night at 5 Pointz, inviting the public to attend. The FBI and police converge on the scene and amid the chaos search for the Horsemen. The remaining Horsemen appear to the crowd, giving their fans a farewell and a message about an ulterior purpose, and then run to jump off a roof; Dylan attempts to shoot them but Alma pushes his arm so he misses. The three Horseman jump, turning into a shower of money over the crowd. The money is counterfeit, but the audience's race to collect it prevents the authorities from tracking the real Horsemen.
After the show, Thaddeus walks to his car, only to find it full of the money stolen from the Elkhorn safe. Assumed to be the fifth Horseman, he is arrested. Dylan speaks to Thaddeus in jail, where Thaddeus slowly comes to realize that Alma's theory was correct, and Dylan was the fifth Horseman. Dylan quietly walks away, leaving Thaddeus shouting "Why?" Elsewhere, the Horsemen (including Jack, who had faked his death using a cadaver and a duplicate car) meet at the carousel in Central Park, and use their tarot cards to turn it on. Dylan arrives and welcomes the four to the Eye.
Later, at the Pont des Arts, Dylan meets with Alma and reveals that he is Shrike's son. He brought the Horsemen together to get retribution for his father's death: the Elkhorn Safe Company for providing a faulty safe that led to the accident; Thaddeus, for humiliating and impoverishing his father and forcing him to try the new trick to regain his standing; and the Crédit Républicain and Tressler's insurance companies for failing to pay out on Shrike's life insurance. Alma, who has come into a romantic relationship with Dylan, easily decides not to turn him in. She takes a lock and a key that Dylan produces, attaches the lock among the other love locks on the railing, and throws the key into the Seine.
- Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel "Danny" Atlas / The Lover: An arrogant illusionist and street magician, and the ostensible leader of the Four Horsemen.
- Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney / The Hermit: A hypnotist, mentalist, and a self-proclaimed psychic. Originally more famous in his youth, his manager brother absconded with all his money, leaving McKinney with a long hard trek back to his former glory. Middle-aged, McKinney is the oldest of the Four Horsemen.
- Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves / The High Priestess: An escapist and stage magician. She is also J. Daniel Atlas' former assistant and ex-lover.
- Dave Franco as Jack Wilder / Death: A sleight of hand illusionist, street magician, and a talented impressionist of other people's voices. Additionally, he is a pickpocket, and is able to pick locks. In his early twenties, Wilder is the youngest of the Four Horsemen.
- Mark Ruffalo as Dylan Rhodes-Shrike,[4] an FBI agent struggling to capture and bring the Four Horsemen to justice for their unique heist agenda. In the end, he is revealed to be an illusionist, a member of the Eye himself, Lionel Shrike's son and the mastermind behind the entire heist mission.
- Mélanie Laurent as Alma Dray,[4] a French Interpol agent who is partnered up with Dylan Rhodes to investigate the Four Horsemen.
- Morgan Freeman as Thaddeus Bradley, an ex-magician who, for thirty years, has profited by revealing the secrets behind other magicians' tricks.
- Jessica Lindsey as Hermia, Thaddeus Bradley's assistant.
- Michael Caine as Arthur Tressler,[4] an insurance magnate and the Four Horsemen's sponsor.
- David Warshofsky as FBI Agent Cowan.
- Michael Kelly as Agent Fuller, an FBI agent who serves as Rhodes' sidekick.
- Common as Agent Evans, Rhodes's supervisor at the FBI.
- José Garcia as Étienne Forcier, the account holder at the Crédit Républicain de Paris.
- Caitriona Balfe as Jasmine Tressler,[4] Arthur Tressler's young wife.
- Elias Koteas as Lionel Shrike, a magician who drowned while performing an escape trick thirty years earlier. Dylan is revealed to be his son at the end of the movie.
- Conan O'Brien as himself
On October 25, 2011, Summit Entertainment announced the release date for Now You See Me for July 18, 2013.[5] On November 3, 2011, the company revealed the film's first synopsis and teaser poster.[6]
On January 16, 2012, shooting began in New Orleans, Louisiana, which lasted until March 26, 2012.[7] Additional filming took place in New York City on February 13[8] and in Las Vegas from April 9, 2012 to the following day.[9] During filming of the scene where Henley Reeves tries to escape from a tank of water and piranhas, Isla Fisher came close to drowning. Fisher had become stuck and tried to alert the crew by banging on the window she was facing, but the cast and crew did not think anything of it because that was what the character was supposed to be doing. She was able to untangle the chain and get out of the tank safely.[10]
|Now You See Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
|Soundtrack album by
|May 28, 2013
|Glassnote Records
|Brian Tyler
|Brian Tyler soundtrack chronology
|Singles from Now You See Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The official soundtrack, titled Now You See Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), for the film was composed by Brian Tyler and was released by Glassnote Records on May 28, 2013 for physical purchase and digital download.[11] The film's soundtrack song "Entertainment", performed by French rock band Phoenix, was featured in the film's end credits.
Track listingEdit
All music composed by Brian Tyler, except where noted.
|"Now You See Me"
|Brian Tyler
|"The Four Horsemen"
|Brian Tyler
|"Now You See Me (Reprise)"
|Brian Tyler
|"Sun" (Jesse Marco Remix)
|Two Door Cinema Club
|"Now You Don't"
|Brian Tyler
|"Sleight of the Mind"
|Brian Tyler
|"Now You See Me" (Robert DeLong Remix)
|Brian Tyler
|"Welcome to the Eye"
|Brian Tyler
|"Cineramascope" (featuring Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry)
|"Now You See Me" (Spellbound Remix)
|Brian Tyler
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The film premiered in New York City on May 21, 2013 before its official release in the United States on May 31, 2013 by Summit Entertainment.
Home mediaEdit
Now You See Me was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 3, 2013 through Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The Blu-ray release contains an extended version of the film featuring ten additional minutes.[12] It also contains two featurettes: a behind-the-scenes and a "History of Magic", plus 30 minutes of deleted scenes.[citation needed]
Box officeEdit
By the end of its box office run, Now You See Me had grossed $117.7 million in the U.S. and Canada and $234 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $351.7 million, against a budget of $75 million.[3]
The film had a successful box office run, placing second behind Fast & Furious 6 and taking $29,350,389 on its opening weekend from 2,925 theaters. By the end of June, it had grossed double its production budget.[3] The film stayed in the top 10 of the North American box office for six weeks after release.[citation needed]
The biggest markets in other territories were France, China, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom and Australia where the film grossed $25.7 million, $22.9 million, $21.2 million, $17.1 million, $16.8 million and $16.1 million, respectively.[13]
Critical responseEdit
Now You See Me received mixed reviews from critics. The most common criticism is that various plot points were insufficiently resolved at the film's conclusion, leaving some questions unanswered or answered unclearly (although some suggested that this was intentional, leaving room for a sequel).[14] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 49%, based on 152 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Now You See Me's thinly sketched characters and scattered plot rely on sleight of hand from the director to distract audiences."[15] Metacritic assigned the film a score of 50 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[16] Audience polls conducted by CinemaScore give the film a grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.[17] Peter Hammond from Movieline wrote, "Pure summer movie magic—literally. More fun than Ocean's 11, 12, and 13 combined. You won't believe your eyes—and that's the point."[18]
|List of awards and nominations
|Date of ceremony
|People's Choice Awards
|January 8, 2014
|Favorite Thriller Movie
|Now You See Me
|Empire Awards
|30 March 2014
|Best Thriller
|Now You See Me
|Saturn Awards
|June 26, 2014
|Best Thriller Film
|Now You See Me
|Best Music
|Brian Tyler
On July 3, 2013, after the box office success of the film, Lionsgate's CEO Jon Feltheimer confirmed that there would be a sequel to the film with production beginning in 2014 for an unspecified release date.[20] Louis Leterrier stated that he would return to direct the sequel;[21] however, in September 2014, it was confirmed that Jon M. Chu would replace Leterrier as director. Eisenberg, Ruffalo, Harrelson, Franco, Caine and Freeman were set to reprise their roles for the sequel. Fisher was unable to participate because of her third pregnancy and was replaced by Lizzy Caplan. The film was released on June 10, 2016, titled Now You See Me: The Second Act.[22] On October 2, 2014, Michael Caine said in an interview that Daniel Radcliffe would be playing his son in the film.[23] Filming began in late November.[24] On May 22, 2015, Lionsgate revealed the details about the development of the sequel, when CEO Jon Feltheimer announced that they had "already begun early planning for Now You See Me 3."[25]
- ^ "NOW YOU SEE ME (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. May 28, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ Kaufman, Amy. "'Fast & Furious 6' to speed past 'After Earth' at the box office". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
"Now You See Me" cost roughly $75 million
- ^ a b c d "Now You See Me (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Now You See Me (I) (2013) Full Cast & Crew". imdb.com. IMDb. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
- ^ Lussier, Germain (October 25, 2011). "'Ender's Game' Has A Release Date, So Does 'Red 2,' 'Now You See Me' And Others". Slashfilm.
- ^ Chitwood, Adam (November 3, 2011). "First Synopsis and Promo Poster for NOW YOU SEE ME Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson". Collider.
- ^ "Be on the lookout for Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Evans, Tom Hanks, Jesse Eisenberg & more celebs filming in Louisianadate=December 21, 2011". On Location Vacations.
- ^ "'Now You See Me' filming in NYC tomorrow". On Location Vacations. February 13, 2012.
- ^ "'Now You See Me', starring Jesse Eisenberg & Woody Harrelson, is filming in Las Vegas next week". On Location Vacations. April 6, 2012.
- ^ Graham, Caroline (May 11, 2013). "'"I feared that I was about to drown": Isla Fisher reveals moment daring underwater stunt went terrifyingly wrong". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
- ^ "Various Artists - Now You See Me [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ "Now You See Me Arrives on Blu-ray and DVD September 3". ComingSoon.net. CraveOnline. August 13, 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ^ "The Judge – International Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ "Review: 'Now You See Me' Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher & Mark Ruffalo | The Playlist". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
- ^ Now You See Me at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ "Now You See Me". Metacritic. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
- ^ Stewart, Andrew (June 2, 2013). "'Now You See Me' Pulls $28 Mil-Plus Rabbit, Beating 'After Earth' With $27 Mil". Variety. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
- ^ "Now You See Me - Movie Review". Youtube.com/user/MovielineNetwork. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
- ^ "Now You See Me (I) (2013) Awards". imdb.com. IMDb. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
- ^ Brew, Simon (August 13, 2013). "'Now You See Me' to get sequel". Den of Geek. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ Douglas, Edward (August 28, 2013). "'Exclusive: Louis Leterrier Back for Now You See Me Sequel". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ "Lionsgate Sets Dates for Now You See Me 2 and Dirty Grandpa". ComingSoon.net. September 9, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ "Daniel Radcliffe to Play Michael Caine's Son in NOW YOU SEE ME 2". GeekTyrant.com. October 2, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
- ^ Mark Ruffalo. "And so it begins... Now You See Me...again". Mark Ruffalo Facebook. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
- ^ McNary, Dave (May 22, 2015). "'Now You See Me 3′ in the Works at Lionsgate". variety.com. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
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This was originally composed as a comment to a post on a friend's blog, entitled "The Next Great Depression? When Trust Vanishes, Worry". Unfortunately I can't seem to get a comment through to his site, so I'm posting it here instead.
When people talk about the banks being scared to lend, I have to laugh. I received two 0% credit card offers yesterday - and they were good, too, 0% for a full year. I haven't received offers like that since the internet bubble.
Are banks going to start looking more carefully at subprime mortgages? Yes, they are, and those mortgages are going to be harder to get. I'd argue that's a good thing, not a bad thing: if banks had been insisting on 20% down payments all along, like they used to do, we wouldn't have the mortgage problem in the first place. And even if the banks are making fewer mortgage loans, the money still exists, and the banks want to do something with it; thus, the credit card offers.
Now, banks might start tightening their loans to businesses, too. But here's the thing: even if they're buying treasuries instead, that brings down the interest rate on government debt, and thus reduces the deficit. Taxes can fall - or be prevented from rising - making it easier for businesses to self finance rather than borrow. The truly prudent investments will still be made. The "petfood.com" type investments might be out of luck, but I would argue that they should be.
Now, will we have a recession? I sure hope so. The economy needs a recession every now and then, exactly to squeeze out inefficiencies like overinflated internet stock prices, or overinflated housing prices. That's not a problem; it's a necessity. The recessions in 1980 and 1992 were needed to support the decades of strong growth that followed them. Trying to stave them off can do more harm than good, as happened during the period of "stagflation" in the 1970s preceding the 1980 recession.
All of those are reasons why intervention is not necessary. The question then is, can intervention do any harm? We can get a start on understanding this by looking at what's happened so far.
Initially, the "crisis" started when FNMA ("Fannie Mae") and FHLMC looked like they might be having problems. There was a proposal to inject $2.5 Billion into FNMA (which, Tom, I remember you as opposing at the time). To put it in more personal terms, that amounts to something like $30 for a family of four. However, Bernanke and Paulson decided to take control of the two entities instead.
Unfortunately, Bernanke and Paulson didn't do their homework, and didn't realize that this would trigger billions - possibly hundreds of billions - of dollars in mortgage based credit default swaps. This caused a liquidity crisis at AIG, perhaps the biggest insurer in the world with over $500 Billion in assets. Bernanke intervened again, this time loaning $75 Billion to AIG to prevent a loan default.
Now, a loan default isn't a disaster; usually creditors can work things out without it becoming a bankruptcy, and even if it were a bankruptcy, creditors would still have gotten at least 85 cents on the dollar, and more likely 97 cents, neither of which is so bad. However, for whatever reason, Bernanke provided the money, which this time amounted to about $1000 for a family of four.
Naturally, once you've bailed one person out, everyone wants assurances that they'll be bailed out too. That's why Bernanke and Paulson are asking for $700 Billion, almost a trillion dollars, which is what's in the news right now. That's about $9000 for a family of four; it's starting to add up to real money - especially for the average American, who might not be as affluent as the average reader of this blog. When it comes time to pay the piper, that's going to be a big increase in taxes - likely enough to cause a recession or depression bigger than what we're trying to prevent.
But is that the end? I don't think it is. The more people get guarantees from the government, the less careful they'll be about risk - and there's a lot of at risk money out there. How much?
$54 Trillion. That's the total amount of credit default swaps outstanding. It doesn't sound like much until you realize that's a "T" instead of a "B" at the beginning of "Trillion". And that's the amount the government is ultimately headed towards guaranteeing, if they keep heading down that path.
Now we're talking about $700,000 for a family of four. Can you imagine the average American family trying to work off that amount in taxes? It can't be done.
The government will be reduced to printing money to the point where it's worthless. At that point, investors aren't going to take refuge in treasury bonds - they won't trust them not to become worthless due to inflation - they'll take refuge in commodities, like the old standby, gold. Then the capital will really be out of circulation, unavailable for loans. We'll get to go down to the grocery store and try to barter our engineering services or legal services for food. That won't work too well.
That's what the worst case economic scenario really is - and that's where the bailout is taking us. Fortunately, we still have a chance to say no.
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On October 2nd, 2008 02:12 pm (UTC), (Anonymous) commented:
I don't feel like I completely understand what the problem is. These subprime mortgages aren't worthless. Not all are in default, and they are collateral back loans, so the lenders ought to be able to get some of their money back through foreclosure - so some money is being lost for sure, but it seems like there is still value there.
I thought some of the problem was liquidity, since the are either hard to assign a value or hard to sell?
I do agree that once we start bailing people out, everyone wants a bailout. Including the homeowners that are losing their homes.
And I also agree about removing the penalties for risk being a BAD thing. It does seem like we need to let this all work its way out of the system, so to speak - but is there a way to let it unfold slowly?
I have to admit, what I have read about the current bailout proposal scares me.
On October 2nd, 2008 04:07 pm (UTC), psychohist replied:
I think you actually do understand pretty well. There is no fundamental underlying problem: as you note, even a foreclosed mortgage is generally worth most of its face value, and most mortgages that are in default - which is just a month or two of delinquency - do not result in foreclosure.
Some of the derivatives, including the credit default swaps, are slightly complex, albeit but nothing a bright high school student couldn't understand. The "hard to assign a value" and "hard to sell" things are, I think, largely red herrings; what they mean is, "I don't want to assign a true value and sell them at that, because that would require me to write them down on my books, and the stock market would punish my company's stock for that, making my executive stock options worth less". Writing down a mortgage portfolio by even a couple of percent is enough for the analysts to take note. However, it's nothing that some honesty won't fix, as has been noted by the CEOs of some of the better managed banks and brokerage houses.
Liquidity can be an issue. Most banks have a longer average term on their loans - for example mortgages - than on their deposits, much of which can be withdrawn at a moment's notice. If a rumor goes around that a bank is going to fail, there may be a "run" on the bank - that is, depositors may rush to withdraw their deposits while they still can before the bank fails. Given time, the mortgage payments would cover those withdrawals, or the mortgages could be sold to cover them, but the bank might not have enough time.
That's what the FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Company - was establised to prevent. By insuring most deposits, runs on those deposits are less likely.
Now, it's true that the FDIC limits haven't been raised since 1990 or so, while the amount of money people have in their bank accounts has increased substantially. What happened with Wachovia was that, in addition to some questionable mortgages (a mortgage type called "pick your payment" can't be good), people with more than $100,000 in deposits started withdrawing their excess money to get under the insurance limit.
But you know what? No special bailout was needed for that. Citibank spotted the opportunity to make money by providing the liquidity, and bought out the banking half of Wachovia. The brokerage half is still independent and seems fine. The FDIC provided some help, but within their existing authority; Congress didn't have to do a thing. The system works.
Now, I do think it might be time to adjust the deposit insurance limit upward. (And Dave, if you're reading this, that's an update to my answer on what alternatives might be good.) I really don't think new powers for the Treasury secretary or any new authorizations of money are needed, though.
On October 3rd, 2008 02:29 am (UTC), (Anonymous) commented:
(This is Tom N.)
I don't think I said in my blog post that we *should* have the "bailout," I just pointed out that we would likely have a depression if it wasn't passed. I'm of a mixed mind about it. On the one hand, John Mauldin (an investment advisor whose opinions I generally trust and understand, and who is generally very much a free market kind of guy) says that something like the bailout is needed because otherwise businesses will have their lines of credit closed down (something which has already started), which could have lots of bad consequences throughout the economy (including very high unemployment). On the other hand, I do agree that moral hazard is something to be avoided.
Right at this moment is, to me, the starkest realization of the brink between super-inflation and deflation I've felt we've been on for the last couple of years. By some measures, we've had high inflation. By other, things have been deflating. As the credit bubble collapses, we should get massive deflation. But there are so many pressures for the government to print money to get itself out of the hole we're in, that at some point we should see large-scale inflation. If you believe we'll have inflation, you should buy gold. If you believe we'll have deflation, you should hold cash. But which will it be?
On October 3rd, 2008 04:11 am (UTC), psychohist replied:
You did not actually say we should have the bailout, and I apologize if it reads like I thought you did. The article you linked to basically did say we should have the bailout, and to a large extent it's that article I'm responding to here.
One thing that we need to recognize here is the distinction between a recession and a depression. The cycle of excessive lending, loans going bad, credit tightening, layoffs to reduce costs, improved profit margins, and hiring again is the normal business cycle - that describes a recession, not a depression. Recessions are okay. The economy needs a recession now and then, and we shouldn't risk our future and our childrens' future to avoid a couple years of pain.
Depressions are different. There, people lose their jobs and never go back to work. There's more to a depression than a recession; there are fundamental shifts that economically disenfranchise entire generations. Depressions are not just big recessions.
So one thing I would ask of your friend is whether, when he's thinking of "high" unemployment, he means 8% or 80%. Anything under 10% and he's just thinking about a recession. Over 20%, and it might be a depression, at least in an industrial economy.
By the inflation measures I watch - primarily CPI inclusive and exclusive of food and fuel - it's been creeping up under Bernanke, and more than creeping this year. It hasn't been high enough for long enough for inflationary expectations to really set in, though. That is the biggest inflation risk, because once those expectations are set, it's very hard to rub them out. Which measures have you seen that are actually deflating?
I've been thinking about a post I've been planning on how depressions work. While discussing it with my wife just now, though, I realized that my thoughts - maybe our thoughts - were morphing from "here's some things that are common to various historical depressions" to "here's how those various things fit together". It just seems so obvious now that I can't believe no one has put it together before, though; I feel like I must be missing something. I feel like I need to bounce it off more people to see what I'm missing - people like your wife, and others who may be familiar with the agricultural depressions of the 1800s.
Um, does this post mean you're not the anonymous that posted above?


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When writing a gift letter for a mortgage down payment, state that you are not loaning the money but are giving it as a gift, and you do not expect repayment, according to Quicken Loans. Include your name, address and phone number, your relationship to the recipient, the gift amount in dollars and cents and the date you gave the recipient the funds. Include the address of the property the recipient is purchasing, and sign your name.
As of 2015, for loans such as those the Federal Home Administration insures, a donor must give the lender a bank statement and a gift letter, explains Quicken Loans. FHA loans allow home buyers to use gift money for their entire down payment, but they can only use the money for purchasing their primary residences.
The bank statement shows the source of the gift funds and that the donor's funds are sufficient to make the gift, according to MyMortgageInsider.com. When home loan borrowers need gift money letters, loan officers typically give gift letter templates to the borrowers for the donors to use. The mortgage industry refers to monetary gifts for home down payments as seasoned if they are in the recipient's account for 60 days or more. Mortgage lenders consider that seasoned gift money belongs to the recipients, so the letters may be unnecessary.


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My mom and sister are flying in from Michigan so we can all be together for Mother's Day for the first time in three years. My mom is excited to have both her girls together and I wanted to find a way to pamper both of them and couldn't imagine taking them anywhere but Gene Juarez.
When I moved to Seattle a little over two years ago, I was overwhelmed that I had to start from scratch when it came to my glam team. I'll be honest. I was very intimidated by Gene Juarez thinking it was only for high society clients that had no budget when it came to their hair.
We did a promotion with The Wolf where a group of Gene Juarez's finest came in and pampered the entire morning show with manis & pedis. Everyone was so nice and down to earth! But what really sold me was after my recent hair emergency and my experience at their downtown location.
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LOWELL -- When Nelson Perez is at his best in the ring, boxing is a non-contact sport.
A slick stick-and-move fighter, the Marlboro resident has proven to be an elusive target throughout the Golden Gloves Tournament.
After a nine-year hiatus from amateur boxing, Nelson, 26, decided he wanted to put up his dukes again and has been front-and-center on the canvas, taking on all comers, each and every week at this winter's Golden Gloves Tournament at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.
With each victory the stakes get higher for Nelson, and he continues to rise to the occasion. Nelson won a Central New England/Greater Lowell Novice championship last week and now he's closing in on a regional crown.
Nelson left nothing to chance while punching his way to a unanimous decision victory over Southern New England's Kevin Walsh of Brockton in their 141-pound New England Novice Tournament semifinal bout at the Auditorium Thursday night.
The New England Novice finals will be held at the Auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 15 with the first bout scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
"This win means a lot," said Perez, who improved his record to 10-4. "I've been really working hard for this. Especially for my kids, Levi and Nelson. This is for them.
"I've fought every show. I like to stay busy. It's helped me stay sharp. I like to fight. When I don't have a fight I'm training. The big one is next week. That's what I've been doing all the training for.
Perez attacks at angles. He gets inside and delivers his punches and then steps out of harm's way. Walsh, a gritty boxer from Brockton, is a powerful puncher. He tried to load up and tag Nelson with punishing blows, but failed to consistently land clean shots.
"He doesn't get hit much," said A.J. Thomas, who trains Perez at UpperKuts Boxing Club in Ashland. "That's the object of what we work on in the gym. Take the least amount of punish as you can. In this sport you don't want to be taking punishment. There's no need for it if you do the right things in the ring. So we try not to get in too many wars."
Walsh, 25, has a 9-2 amateur record. He earned his berth in the New Englands by slugging his way to the Southern New England title. Walsh pursued Perez from start to finish, never taking a step backward. But Perez did a great job keeping Walsh at bay with his jab.
"He a tough kid," said Walsh. "I've been training hard. But I wasn't ready for his speed or his power. He's slick. He's hard to hit clean.
"I learned a lot from this. Coming to Lowell to fight in the Golden Gloves, I knew I was in for a tough one."
In the third round, Walsh and Perez did stand in the center of the ring and trade and some violent toe-to-toe combinations. But Perez simply wasn't going to be denied a berth in the New England finals.
"I traded with him because he was coming at me a lot," said Perez. "He has power, but I have power as well."
Perez certainly has staying power as the Auditorium has become a place where everyone knows his name.
"He's definitely earned his spot in the finals," said Thomas. "He comes here every week ready to fight. He'll be right back in the gym tomorrow. With him there are no days off. The biggest thing in this sport is being consistent."
In this year's Golden Gloves Tournament, Perez has been a consistent winner.
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What the 'Fork' Really Means
In the last 36 hours we have witnessed an attack on The DAO. An attacker utilized the "Recursive Call Exploit" in the `splitDAO()` function to withdraw 3.5M ETH while burning only a small amount of DAO tokens.
Luckily, the funds are not under his control. They are locked in a childDAO.
We Slock.it are fully supporting the solution as outlined in Vitalik's post.
- The Soft Fork:
A stated in the blog post: "A software fork has been proposed, (with NO ROLLBACK; no transactions or blocks will be "reversed") which will make any transactions that make any calls/callcodes/delegatecalls that reduce the balance of an account with code hash0x7278d050619a624f84f51987149ddb439cdaadfba5966f7cfaea7ad44340a4ba (ie. the DAO and children) lead to the transaction (not just the call, the transaction) being invalid, starting from block 1760000 (precise block number subject to change up until the point the code is released), preventing the ether from being withdrawn by the attacker past the 27-day window."
In other words, this would freeze all ether in all DAOs using our DAO framework. The attacker, as well as anybody else, would not be able to withdraw any funds from any DAO.
This only solves the first half of the problem, as it forbids the attacker to withdraw his stolen funds, but the same is true for actual token holders in the main DAO.
This is already implemented as a pull request in geth and parity
As stated by Vitalik: "This will provide plenty of time for discussion of potential further steps including to give token holders the ability to recover their ether."
We suggest the second step:
2 — The Hard Fork
- Move all funds from contracts with the code hash 7278d050619a624f84f51987149ddb439cdaadfba5966f7cfaea7ad44340a4ba to a new contract "RefundDAO" (we can loop through the proposal list in the main DAO to find all split DAOs)
- replace the contract at the main DAO with a simple refund contract with only one function. This function takes one parameter (address of childDAO), to determine a combined balance of mainDAO and childDAO and then pays back ether accordingly (in order to also pay back DAO token holders who did already split)
With this solution, 100% of the funds can be refunded, because not a single wei has been going out of the DAOs yet. No rollback of blocks or transactions is required.
This is important: Usually when people think about hard forks, they imagine about rollbacks of entire blocks, undoing unrelated transactions (similar to bitcoin hard forks). But in this case,the hard fork is far more elegant and easier to implement, as there is no need to roll any blocks back, or to undo any transactions that have nothing to do with the DAO.
In fact, a typical ethereum user will not feel anything from that hardfork, besides a minor client update.
For these reasons, we think hard forking is the way to go forward.
It is part of the ethereum protocol that a majority of the miners/community can do an upgrade/split if they think something isn't working as intended. This does not take anything away from decentralization, since no one can decide about the fork except of the miners and the community themselves — and *no one else*. We as software developers can only suggest forks by providing code listings.
Thanks for your support so far, and we look forward to progress on this matter rapidly!
About the Author
Christoph's background is in theoretical physics, where he developed optimized software solutions for high performance computing on specialized hardware.
Christoph has been part of the Ethereum project since 2014 as Lead Tester, securing and shaping the core protocol while working on the backend of the C++ client.


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The first photo of a notably slimmer Russell Crowe in costume on the set of Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood" has emerged over at USA Today.
"He doesn't have the old Robin Hood tights. He's got armor. He's very medieval. He looks, if anything, more like he did in Gladiator than anything we're used to seeing with Robin Hood" said producer Brian Grazer describing Hood's new costume.
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I remember the 1950's when children could get secret decoder badges from Captain Midnight and the Secret Squadron. All you had to do was cut out the paper covering over your jar of Ovaltine (drink of power for little investigators) and send it straight to the Captain and he would send you the badge, free of charge. Oh, wondrous day when that prize appeared in your mailbox and you could finally interpret the mysterious messages that Captain wanted to send you over the little black and white TV your parents owned.
Move ahead in time by about 60 years, and we find a new captain and new secret messages, but where is our decoder badge? Captain Newt Midnight and his Secret Squadron, want you to understand their secret codes, but they forgot the decoder apparatus, leaving it to the "elite media" (myself) to do the decoding for you.
When Captain Newt gets on the airwaves he likes to refer to the "food stamp president." The decoded message he wants to convey is that President Obama wants to give away the nation's wealth to the poor and to racial minorities, no doubt because he is also a racial minority and because his mother, during one difficult time period, collected food stamps.
Caption Newt also likes to say that "poor children lack a work ethic" by which he intends his audience to know that the poor and non-lily white among us don't get ahead in life because they are lazy. He intends to remedy this situation by putting our school's hard- working custodians out of business and turning over the cleaning and minor repairs to the the children in poor schools. Of course if you you attend a tax enriched school district, you could stay in the classroom and learn. However, if you are one of the deserving poor, there is no need for you to learn much at all, since you will grow up and become a recipient of food stamps, while your counterparts on the Main Line go to Harvard and Yale.
The Captain informs us that President Obama adheres to a "Kenyan anti-colonial worldview." We certainly need our decoder badges to understand this statement. Kenya is in Africa and Africans are black people. An anti-colonial worldview means that black people must have a chip on their shoulders against the whites who came unbidden to their county and proceeded to act as though the country weren't already owned. Therefore, we are supposed to understand that our President has a vendetta against Caucasians, never mind that his mother was Caucasian and that he barely remembers his father.
Newt likes to refer to those ideas and activities that are "fundamentally alien to the American tradition." That means that if the founding fathers didn't come up with the idea, that we shouldn't favor it either. That includes gay marriage, Medicare, Social Security, a woman's right to own her body, and tacos and the people who eat them.
The Captain speaks of the "radical European socialist agenda" of Mr. Obama. By this, he means to say that Europeans enjoy universal health care, among other humane benefits of a civilized society. Newt fails to mention that when someone isn't covered by health insurance and needs to go to the emergency room, that the taxpayers pay for that person's care anyway.
Captain Newt and the Secret Squadron are happy to tap into the underlying resentment that a certain portion of the Republican party has towards the poor and the racial minorities. They know, however, that they can't come right out and say exactly what they mean because that would be too overtly classist and racist, so they use euphemisms that skirt just on the edge of the unacceptable. They know their intended audience will "get it" and indeed they do, judging by the uproarious applause they produce when he coyly opines his views to his chosen people.
It was most interesting for me to learn that more than 20 years ago, Newt wrote a booklet on the effective uses of propaganda that he sent out to his fellow Republicans. The title of the booklet was "Language, a Key Mechanism of Control." This missive told what positive words and phrases to use when running for office and referring to yourself, and it highlighted the negative language to use when you want to refer to your opponents. Some of the words to use when you speak of your worthiness to hold office, are flag, liberty, hard work, and prosperity, but when it comes to anyone who is running against you, you must make sure to say they are anti-(flag, family, jobs) as well as use words such as liberal, radical, and collapse. The National Teachers of English were so impressed with the booklet that they awarded it the Doublespeak Award of 1990. I believe that we can agree that Newt retrieved this gem from his attic, dusted it off, and has found it very useful here in 2012.


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Is It Possible to Bodybuild for Vegans?
A person is facing a dilemma when he is a bodybuilder and he wants to be a vegetarian. He will think that he is going to reduce some protein and fats intake. On the other hand, it is good in applying a vegetarian lifestyle because there will be abundant benefits that one can get. Yet, any bodybuilder or athlete still can do one's regular activity in exercising and bodybuilding.
Being a vegetarian will not stop anyone to keep enlarging or strengthening one's muscles through bodybuilding activities. Some people think that they will lose their ability and half of their power in gaining muscles because of the reduced amount of nutrients and proteins. Basically, a vegan is still able to get good resources of proteins and other nutritious food in which one can get it from soy and dairy products as well as eggs. It is better to eat both the yellow and white eggs so that there will be higher protein that one will get.
Fruits are also essentials because a vegetarian still needs more vitamins from fruits. They can get higher immune system by consuming fruits which are rich of antioxidants like kiwis, oranges or avocados. As a vegetarian, carbohydrates are also needed because when they are broken down, they will become glucose which can stimulate muscles and energy for adding abodybuilding activities routine.
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- Fats
Good fats such as polyunsaturated and monounsaturated are good for the heart, cholesterol and overall well-being. This is also a requirement in bodybuilding.
Foundations in Vegetarian Bodybuilding
Vegetarian diet can be formulated to achieve the same results as meat-based diet, perhaps with better long-term health consequences. There are four foundations in vegetarian lifestyle that is very important in bodybuilding and these are stated below.
- Protein
Proteins help the muscles to grow and recover quickly before and after the workout. The problem in bodybuilding as a vegetarian is that protein is typically found in meats. Therefore, vegetarians have already lost the chance to gain proteins from one of its best sources. However, vegetarians are fortunate enough as there are soy products, eggs and dairy, nuts, legumes and grains which are good alternative sources of proteins for vegetarian bodybuilders.
With the proper amount of consumption of the nutrients stated above, being a vegetarian bodybuilder is possible. Many bodybuilders today are already vegetarian, and they keep their body firm and well-structured by getting all the nutrients above, including protein, from fruits and vegetables.


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Chinese tourists are now the biggest holiday spenders in the world. In 2012, 83 million Chinese spent a mind-boggling $102 billion on traveling, well above American's $83.5 billion. Furthermore, each year more and more tourists visit China. Industry experts predict that by 2020 the country is likely to become the world's largest tourist destination. In the past ten years, the number of foreign tourists increased from eight million to 48 million.
These trends mean big business for China. Retail investors can also get their share of the travel boom by investing in stocks with heavy exposure to the tourism industry. As the largest consolidator of airline tickets and hotel rooms in China, one-stop travel service Ctrip.com International (NASDAQ:CTRP) is set to benefit enormously from the tourist boom. One of China's top three airline stocks, China Eastern Airlines (NYSE:CEA), together with Home Inns & Hotels Management (UNKNOWN:HMIN.DL), a popular choice for domestic destinations, could also have plenty of upside. What's the best way to get exposure to China's tourist boom?
Ctrip's competitive advantages are highly attractive
Online since 1999, Ctrip has become the leading travel service provider in the country. The company targets frequent independent travelers, a fast-growing segment that has been traditionally under-served in China. Furthermore, by offering one of the most complete hotel guides and fast customer service, Ctrip has managed to build pricing power despite increasing competition from Priceline and Elong.
The best part of the story is that Ctrip has plenty of growth catalysts left. First, the tourism boom is set to improve the company's long-run top-line performance. Furthermore, considering that call centers still handle half of the company's travel reservations, operating profit is set to increase as Ctrip continues making progress with the automatization of its booking system. Perhaps this is why Jiong Shao, head of China strategy at Macquarie Securities, considers Ctrip a top pick for next year.
China Eastern Airlines will benefit from increasing domestic demand for flights
Up 12% in the past month, China Eastern Airlines is China's second-largest carrier by passenger numbers.
With a fleet of more than 300 aircraft the company serves over 150 destinations, including 120 throughout China, from its hub in Guangzhou. Considering that in 2012 domestic revenue per passenger kilometers comprised 70% of total traffic, the company could benefit enormously from a long-term increase in domestic demand for flight tickets.
Notice that the company targets the emerging middle class by providing cheap tickets, and offers great customer support. It was recognized as one of the 50 most valuable Chinese brands by WPP in 2012.
Why Home Inns & Hotels Management is up 33% since May
Home Inn was the first budget hotel chain established in China in 2002. The company now manages more than 1,900 leased and franchised locations in 271 cities, and has become one of the best known hotel brands in the country.
According to the latest earnings call the company is experiencing top-line improvement, and it is also becoming increasingly profitable. In the latest quarter revenue increased 11% year-over-year, while adjusted net income increased 29%.
This is consistent with the ongoing domestic demand shift to economy hotels. In 2011, economy hotels occupied 33% of the total demand for hotels, up 25 percentage points since 2005. Furthermore, the combination of a leased-and-operated business model with a franchised model provides the company with balanced revenue growth and margin expansion.
Final Foolish takeaway
China's tourists have become the biggest tourism market in the world. Moreover, the country is set to become the most popular tourist destination by 2020. From investing in online travel agencies, to getting exposure to the ongoing internal demand shift to economy hotels, China's tourism boom brings several attractive investment opportunities to the table.


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We carry furniture for every room in your home including, adult bedroom furniture, dining room furniture, home entertainment furniture, living room furniture, kids bedroom furniture, home office furniture, we even have a great selection of area rugs, mattresses, and accessories to make every room in your home uniquely your own.
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(ซับไทย) Shihei ตอนที่ 1 โดย Pondloso (ดูออนไลน์/Download)
(English Subtitle) Shihei Episode 1 by SKEvolution (Watch Online)
Will this be subtitled? Pretty pleaseeeee.
please make the subtitle for this drama, especially eng sub please…
thank you very much
SKEvolution has subbed it 🙂
Anyone knows the name of the song that plays from minute 16 to minute 17 please need to know!!!!!
that is actually the opening theme of this drama
Kin no ai gin no ai by SKE48 ^^
(Centered by leadactress Matsui Jurina ^^ )


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Facebook revamps Friendship Pages, shows off your online relationships
Facebook don't ever sleep, they don't ever rest, and are continuously tuning their social network, day and night. Today brings a change in terms of the visual look of its Friendship Pages, which highlights the time you've spent with a family member, partner or friend.
They've now auto-created a perfect Timeline-like profile page for couples, which gets filled with events, photos, likes, mutual friends and statuses that the two have shared. Friendship Pages works between you and any friend, not just for those with a significant other, but if you're in a relationship, Facebook.com/Us will automatically direct you to a Friendship Page of your and your partner. I just tried it and it directed me to a page about my wife and I.
The new update is rolling out today, but I have yet to have received the new-look page unfortunately. There's an included button on the page that lets you "Share Friendship", which is nice.


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I love a good salad. Something about all my favorite veggies thrown together in a bowl with a really good dressing gets me all excited. And when those veggies are not just veggies but include things like watermelon and feta and the most addicting sweet/tangy balsamic pomegranate chicken ever, you better watch out.
With all sorts of graduation parties/summer bbqs/Memorial Day parties/let's hang out outside because it's beautiful type gatherings coming up, it's always nice to have a few quick recipes ready to go for when you need to bring something other than your face to the party. And this salad should be at the top of the list.
If you've never had pomegranate molasses, now is the time! It is basically a super reduced down pomegranate juice with a very concentrated tangy fruity flavor. It works great in salad dressings and sauces and it also makes a great marinade and glaze for meat. The chicken for this salad gets marinated in a balsamic/pomegranate/garlic combo and then brushed with a pomegranate and honey glaze towards the end of cooking. The sugars in the glaze caramelize a little bit and it is just so so good. I would guess that this chicken would also be really great on the grill or in grill pan where the glaze would be able to caramelize and char even more.
The chicken then gets tossed into the salad along with all of the good salad things. Cucumber, red onion, avocado, cheese and, my very favorite, watermelon. I would like watermelon on all future salads, please and thank you.
Finally, it gets finished with a pomegranate molasses dressing. Since the molasses is on a tanginess level with vinegar it makes a great addition to a vinaigrette. I still add a splash of vinegar, to tone down the flavor just a touch, but the pomegranate molasses does most of the work. I also add some mustard and a little bit of honey for sweetness. I think I say this every time I make a new dressing, but it really is my new favorite.
And I'd be willing to bet that when you show up to your summer pool/bbq/backyard party it might just be everyone else's favorite too.
Summer Chopped Chicken Salad with Pomegranate Molasses Dressing
| Ingredients |
For the Pomegranate Chicken:
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses, divided
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp. honey
For the Pomegranate Molasses Dressing:
- 2 tbsp. pomegranate molasses
- 1 tbsp. rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp. stone ground mustard (or dijon)
- 1 tsp. honey
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- salt and pepper
For the Salad:
- 1 head romaine lettuce, chopped
- 1 cucumber, diced
- 1/2 red onion, diced
- 1 avocado, diced
- 1 cup watermelon, diced
- 1/2 cup feta cheese
| Instructions |
- In a large ziploc, combine balsamic vinegar, 2 tbsp. pomegranate molasses, oil and garlic. Add chicken breasts and rub the marinade into the meat. Seal and let sit in the refrigerator at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400. In a small bowl, whisk together 2 tbsp. pomegranate molasses and honey. Set aside. Place chicken breasts in a shallow baking dish. Bake 30-35 minutes, until cooked through. In the last 10 minutes of baking, brush chicken with the pomegranate honey mixture, coating both sides. Let cool and cut into bite size pieces.
- To make the dressing, whisk the first four ingredients in a bowl. Slowly stream in the oil, whisking until emulsified. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- In a large bowl, toss romaine with the cucumber, onion, avocado, watermelon, feta and chicken. Add dressing to taste or serve on the side. If you are not serving it immediately, it works best to arrange the ingredients on top of the lettuce, tossing at the last minute to avoid any sogginess.


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This project includes installing new lighting and signage improvements at five interchanges along I-95 in Volusia and Flagler counties. The interchanges are at LPGA Boulevard, U.S. 1, Old Kings Highway, S.R. 100 and Palm Coast Parkway. The intent of the project is provide highway and pedestrian lighting at the five interchanges with the local roadways.
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SATANIC HARMONY serves as a sketch for a performance of tritones: dissonant chords that were once considered blasphemous to play, or indicated the presence of evil in the context of religious music. Each individual plate describes different tones with musical and theoretical diagrams, and all three plates triangulated create a space to imagine the diabolical.
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