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Women In Love, D. H. Lawrence, 1920
Haha yeah! Make art! Smash the patriarchy!
Women In Love, D. H. Lawrence, 1920
(artists have always been assholes)
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence, 1920
This is as much a book about art, and the end of the Victorians and Edwardians, as it is about women, or men, or love. The characters are raptly attentive, and sensitive, to the crumbling of the old world and the approach of the "roaring" twenties—the women are liberating themselves, the young men are either stepping back to allow them to do so, or in transports of rage about the girls stepping out of place. Industry is ripping the countryside open, and industrial businessmen are grinding the peasantry down into the machine-parts of the new age. It's fascinating and incredibly identifiable, if over-unctuous.
It's also REALLY gay. Wow.
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do you put your doodle pages up for sale? I'd legitimately buy this stuff
Well jeez, I hadn't thought of it. All these are on the same page…would you want them trimmed apart or the whole page?
literally every time i post something bad obama did/is doing, i lose 1-5 followers.
ahahhahahaha you liberal dunkasses
"That the charges in the trials often referred to events that had occurred decades earlier, that witchcraft was made a crimen exceptum, that is, a crime to be investigated by special means, torture included, and it was punishable even in the absence of any proven damage to persons and things - all these factors indicate that the target of the witch-hunt - (as it is often true with political repression in times of intense social change and conflict) - were not socially recognized crimes, but previously accepted practices and groups of individuals that had to be eradicated from the community, through terror and criminalization.
In this sense, the charge of witchcraft performed a function similar to that performed by "high treason" (which, significantly, was introduced into the English legal code in the same years), and the charge of "terrorism" in our times. The very vagueness of the charge - the fact that it was impossible to prove it, while at the same time it evoked the maximum of horror - meant that it could be used to punish any form of protest and to generate suspicion even towards the most ordinary aspects of daily life."
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation
yes. YES.
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1. sorry dude, "cunt" is a gendered insult and "banana tree" is not. false equivalency. "cunt" means "vagina" and it means "vagina" in a totally negative way. it's exactly the same as using "faggot": it's short for "you are homosexual and it is self-evident that being homosexual is bad, ergo i am insulting you". swap "homosexual" for "female" in that sentence and it's the same* thing. it's not my definition. it's the literal definition. like, the actual dictionary definition.
2. telling girls they "should" or "should not" wear makeup (or do anything) because in that guy's opinion, they are suitably physically attractive to him and therefore, ladies, stop wearing lipstick because i don't like it, is a dumbfuck opinion worthy of denigration and sarcasm, which is exactly what the reply entailed. the entire construct of "hey ladies, i'm a dude and let me tell you what i find attractive and then you should do it" is a bunch of patronizing garbage, no matter what the instructions are. the reason is that it still frames the whole exchange in terms of what women should or should not do in order to be attractive to men. it's like saying "ladies, i am a feminist, that's why i dig fat chicks—real women have curves!" dude in the "fat chicks" example might think he's being cool and progressive or whatever, but what he's actually doing is projecting his beauty ideals (and instructions about how to achieve them) onto women yet again. it also makes the sort of laughable assumption that the only reason women wear makeup, certain clothes, high heels, or anything else, is because they are trying to attract men, and/or because they're trying to plaster over some gaping hole in their self-esteem/personality. neither of these things is true, obviously, and making the assumption that they are true casts women and girls as meek, half-witted supplicants at the altar of male opinion.
hope that clears things up about why space boy is a jerk, why the reply from the woman was correct, and also why using "cunt" as a pejorative is not cool any more than using "gay", "faggot", "queer", etc.
*not exactly the same thing but pretty darn close
how about a shirt that just says "nipples" on it in Papyrus
I have a lot of good line drawings that would make excellent shirts, it's just that the majority of them have nipples on them. I assume that would negatively impact sales. I'm not sure if I give a shit or not.
Miami police kill naked man who bit off victim's face - Yahoo! News (via 3liza)
Police said an overdose of a powerful new form of LSD could have prompted the attack.
"Whenever we see that a person has taken all of his clothes off and has become violent, it's indicative of this excited delirium that's caused by an overdose of drugs," Armando Aguilar of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, told WSVN-Fox 7.
"What's happening is inside their body their organs are burning up alive."
I like how random jackhole cop spouts unfounded speculation and it's just uncritically presented as some kind of "expert" opinion in the news report.
They're dead, they're all messed up.
Night of the Living Dead cop knew how to keep it simple.
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haha yes i loved that, because that's something LSD even does. "you see his organs were burning and that's why he ate the other guy's face. drug facts." - the police, 2012 AD
edit: reminder also that it's nearly impossible to get real LSD in the US since the CIA stopped manufacturing it. it takes a chemistry phd and a real ass lab to make it without killing yourself/others
Women In Love, D. H. Lawrence
Everyone in this book is constantly rolling around on the ground in transports of angst. It's both luscious and ludicrous.
I learned about it from this post.
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I'm not sure if you are keen on this method, but deleting the original post still allows other to reblog w/you as the original poster, but only from other sources who've reblogged you. You won't get notifs anymore, but the post won't be on your blog.
Unfortunately this doesn't work. I know because the original post IS deleted from my blog, and I still get notifications for it.
A Montreal riot cop speaking about his relish for beating the student protesters. If you don't know what's happening in Canada right now, it's not surprising: just like the mass media blackout of Occupy events, the student protests against tuition rate increases (tens of thousands of protesters strong [and not all of them students, either]) in Montreal and Toronto are being covered up as best as the Canadian government and media can manage it.
I'm posting this just to demonstrate that cruel, stupid, and bloodthirsty police are found everywhere, that they are the rule and not the exception, even in "peaceful", "socialist" Canada.
does ANYONE have a reliable way to mute certain tumblr post notifications? i have a few megapopular posts that flood my dash 24/7
Tumblr Mute for Greasemonkey does not appear to function as of the new dashboard, and is no longer being supported, as far as I can tell.
edit: Tumblr Saviour does not disappear reblog/likes notifications as far as I know.
edit edit: okay turns out i am an idiot baby moron with an ass for a brain. i needed to hit ENABLE on my Greasemonkey dropdown because the Greasemonkey UI designers thought this was a good way to design their fucking menu:
god damn it
EDIT 3: Tumblr Mute doesn't remove reblog notifications anyway. FUCK. FUCK ME IN THE GOAT ASS
I have been reading books on philosophy and psychology and fanfiction on the web. I've also been spending a lot of time reading blogs on the internet, ranging far and wide. These things have become tangled and I think they are very much related.
My son has a friend that lives three houses away. He will text my son and arrange internet game playing. He won't walk down the street. He won't even use his voice on the phone. A text is preferred. I have been trying to understand this behavior, by reading.
This essay, like many of the other considerations of "the internet" by people older than 30 (or people raised in the manner of people older than 30), fails to check its very premise: that the internet is "not real". That writing a text is somehow, magically, less authentic than, say, passing a note in class. Or even whispering in someone's ear. That those of us raised online can't decipher tone or feeling in even the most offhanded typing of our friends and loved ones. That our refusal to "use our voices on the phone" makes us emotional, social, even experiential cripples.
I understand the urge to simplify the new social experience this way, and at a first or even second reading it appears sound, but I deplore the almost flippant conclusions reached by our loving, well-meaning, but ultimately uninformed elders.
This assertion—that the Internet, text messages and so on aren't "real", that they somehow "don't count"—doesn't stand up to examination, except in the very biological, reductionist sense. If you stand on the belief in a sort of "chemical communication" between adjacent physical bodies, pheromones that somehow sign off on every human exchange face-to-face, stamping a big rubber [AUTHENTIC SOCIALIZING] on every bit of small talk, then sure. But what this steps over entirely is the fact that every mode of communication has its accompanying set of falsehoods, either in projection or perception of the message.
If a friend walks up to me in the street and invites me to a party the next day, my perception of the message benefits (in clarity) from the data contained in their tone of voice, their posture, and their cadence (for example), but suffers from the distraction of being outside, of being in a hurry, of having to pee, of being bored (these are my failings) and also of their lying to me, of their having a cold that makes their voice strange, of their being distracted by their own simultaneous experience there on the street. Each of these facets of the exchange are traded for ones of equal weight when the conversation is moved online. My friend sends me a text, Facebook message, wall post, or Tumblr ask, inviting me to a party. At once I am examining their message for clues—the lack of, or inclusion of capitalized letters, the use of specialized argots within our shared social group, the use of emoticons, injokes, or HTML formatting.
My ability to read—and misread—these clues is as robust, if not moreso, than when confronted with the same exchange in person. The message remains the same. My methods of reading it, of deciphering it, flow from medium to medium, but in no sense is the party invitation "less real" for having come via SMS.
The other issue here, which benefits the digital alone, is the ability to master your own expenditure of time. I just finished reading Ada again, so I've been considering Time for days. While my friend approaching me physically on the street is intrusive, in that we both must compromise whatever we are doing in order to fit the exchange into a sort of tyrannical bit of gristle between our separate Timestreams (not that my friend is intruding on me, or even I on them, but more that we both must see the chance to have this exchange about the party invitation, and then both must take it simultaneously in order for the conversation to occur, like two world leaders turning two keys on a nuclear launch authorization, or even a shuttle crew waiting for the right orbital window) which, briefly, allows us to talk. If my friend had sent the invitation via SMS, the message would remain perfectly preserved as it left their fingers, and crash on my shores intact, waiting for me there whenever I most wanted to read it, when I could devote the best eyes to it, when I could think about it most clearly. Digital communication, if not freeing us from Time, certainly lets out our leashes a bit.
To put it another way, digital communication allows my friend to communicate through time with me, which goes a long way towards making sure the meeting of minds occurs when both participants are at their best.
The original essay touches on this, but frames it as an "inferiority complex" issue, which leads inevitably to bullying and trolling, and that children like the author's son cannot "handle" that the friend that lives a mere three doors down is "too real" to interact with. I think this is not giving the kid enough credit, when he's clearly smart enough to take advantage of the flexibility in the new (and no less devoted) friendships of his generation.
And truly, the same things were said of the telegram, the telephone, the letter, the parchment, the clay tablet, the cave painting…


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There were concrete plans to have all nuclear shut down around that time, since the early 2000s. Those were made by the back then green party / social party government. The right wing party government just reversed these plans a short time ago.
Now that the http://amarragessansfrontieres.com/viagra-prescription outcry of the people got louder and louder they finally stop buckeling to nuclear lobbyists and went back to the original plan.
Futhermore germany does not get one quarter of it's electric energy from nuclear. It's much less, since most of the time about half the nuclear plants are shut down for maintenence. Really it's more like 15%. And we still export energy to other countrys, even with all those plants switched off at the moment, just fyi.
It's also false that the gas plants will replace the nuclear plants. Those will be offset by renewables by 2022. The gas plants are there to replace old cole power plants, to secure the base load.
"All paid off" nuclear power plants really don't mean anything to the population in terms of energy or energy costs. They only mean big profits for the energy companys.
For the people it means that there are old nuclear power plants running that you could fly into with a sporting aircraft to purchase cialis produce a catastroph. That's right you wouldn't even need a jet to do it.
Not to mention that incidents are piling up in these old things anyway.
I guess you are american. A lot of americans really love the free market. Don't know if you are one of them but the odds are probably good.
Did you know that no insurance firm would ever insure a nuclear power plant? If those are so save why wouldn't they? It would be easy money. They would never have to pay out.
The answer is simple. Because they are not save. A big Tschernobyl or Fukushima like incident might only occur every 20 years, but when it does, the damages are massive. In a small country like germany such a big percentage of land would be unuseable, that the economy would collapse. No ensurance company could ever pay those damages.
The free market has spoken. Nuclear power is not save.
And minimal waste? Do you have any idea how much it costs to transport and properly store this minimal waste? I give you a hint: It's a lot.
Besides do the energy companys pay for that? No the tax payers do. Otherwise nuclear power would be the viagra from mexico most expensive power there is. So nuclear power is socialism.
I always found it funny how republicans can ramble against socialism, but in the same breath promote nuclear power.
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One word: waste. Nuclear waste is terribly volatile and takes thousands upon thousands of generic cialis online years to degrade into safer isotopes. Germany still does not have a safe storage site for nuclear waste. One fear of nuclear waste is that we will accidentally destroy the surrounding environment with it. Water is cialis by mail a great conductor of nuclear waste. Once it's in water, everything in contact with it has radiation and cialis cheapest nothing is safe to consume for fear of bio-magnification. Another problem with nuclear waste is the fear of terrorist attacks. One could simply bomb one of the many insecure nuclear waste storage sites and wreak havoc upon the surrounding land when the radiation is released and spread. Nuclear power is just way too dangerous with our current technology. There are so many more alternatives that are just as clean and far less dangerous.
In addition to all of this, some scientists argue that nuclear power has a negative net energy cycle. Producing power from nuclear energy is not a 1-step process. The uranium must be mined (destroying the surrounding land and risking contamination), transported, processed to cialis order remove impurities, transported, finally used in a reactor and then transported once again to be unsafely stored. The only reason that nuclear energy appears attractive in the US is because it is subsidized heavily. This makes the net energy cycle look positive.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge will close again this week for scheduled maintenance.
According to the Department of Transportation, the bridge will close Thursday, October 11 at 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. One lane in each direction will close Friday, October 12 at 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. to prepare for weekend closures
The entire bridge will close again Friday, October 12 at 8 p.m. and will re-open Monday, October 15 at 5 a.m.
The bridge was also closed Wednesday, October 10 and Thursday, October 11 from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m.
The bridge will be closed to all traffic during these times. Detours will be in place to direct traffic.
Motorists can use the following signed detour route:
Dawson Street to Oleander Drive to South College Road to MLK Parkway to U.S. 17.
The department also suggests the following alternate routes:
Motorists traveling on U.S. 421 South: Use I-140 East to I-40 East to College Road.
Motorists traveling on U.S. 421 North from Carolina Beach: Use College Road to I-40 West to I-140 West. Also, motorists traveling south or west from Carolina Beach can use the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry.
According to the DOT, the weekend closure is necessary so the contractor can finish replacing aging cables that raise and lower the bridge. There are a total of 64 cables on the bridge, 32 of which were replaced in September. The additional 32 cables will be replaced this weekend.
The DOT said the U.S. 17/U.S. 421 southbound left turn lane onto U.S. 74/N.C. 133/ Isabel Holmes Bridge will be closed on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and at other times as needed throughout the weekend.
The N.C. Department of Transportation's Ferry Division will add four departures at the Southport-Fort Fisher route Sat., Oct. 13 and Sun., Oct. 14, to assist with traffic while the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge is closed for electrical and mechanical repairs.
This weekend schedule is the same one the Southport operations runs during the summer, with 32 departures daily. The schedule will be as follows:
• Departing Southport at: 5:30 a.m., 7, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10, 10:45, 11:30, 12:15 p.m., 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 4:45 and 6:15 p.m.; and
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Typically, you would have to be aged 62 or more and own your own home to be eligible for a reverse mortgage. Usually, the home must be your main residence (6 months of the year or more).
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The terms of a reverse mortgage are different for each individual. Which is why at Responsible Reverse Mortgage we aim to offer you a personal service to make sure you get the terms that are right for you.
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The recent economic events have taken their toll on retirement and savings funds, leaving retirees with little options when it comes to retirement finance. A reverse mortgage may be a good way to make up the shortfall some people experience when they retire.
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Health & Balance
Acupuncture Gains Acceptance in Western Health Care
Cancer seems to be among acupuncture's few therapeutic limitations, says Cyrus: "We don't treat cancer. ... Once someone has cancer, there's very little someone like me can do except to treat quality of life. We manage side effects of chemotherapy or radiation therapy quite well. And that goes a long way in terms of the patient's quality of life. Also, [acupuncture] can help keep white blood-cell count elevated."
In fact, every patient's acupuncture experience seems to be different. "No two patients react the same way to this in terms of number of visits, in terms of reaction to treatment," Cyrus tells WebMD. "Sometimes we see miraculous changes. I've had patients who in one visit, it took care of their problem. I've had some come every week for two years."
Certain people should not have acupuncture, including those who are pregnant; who have heart-valve diseases, bleeding disorders, pacemakers, irregular heartbeats, or epilepsy; or who use blood-thinning medication.
And there's a slight chance of side effects: "Some first-time patients may experience what we call needle shock. ... They get dizzy, may get somewhat nauseous," Cyrus says. But this rarely happens, he says, and when it does, it's mainly just a reaction to the needles. "Basically, it's anxiety," he says.
During treatments, he tells WebMD, "you'll feel something, but I wouldn't describe it as pain. ... You do get certain sensations, like an electrical-type sensation shooting through the body, the area may become warm." It's those sensations that tell acupuncturists whether what they're doing is effective, Cyrus says. "We have this concept of 'deqi' -- the arrival of chi at the acupuncture point. It's a very definite sensation that both the patient and I feel as I hold the acupuncture needle."
But how do the patients know that what the practitioners are doing is effective -- can you trust every chiropractor, every physician, who hangs out an acupuncture shingle?
While acupuncture generally won't hurt you, if you head to the acupuncturist without first seeing a Western-trained physician, you miss the Western diagnosis, says C. James Dowden, executive administrator of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. "The problem is, the patient has done the diagnosis and come up with treatment," he says. "And the question is, whether the patient was correct. The appropriate treatment [method] may or may not be acupuncture.
"Acupuncture is an option to the physician, but not the only option. We believe in combining the best of both Eastern and Western worlds of medicine. And clearly that would not be true of someone licensed in only acupuncture. That doesn't mean they are not well trained," he says.
Doctors can get an acupuncture license after 200 hours of training. Accredited schools also offer 2,500-hour training programs in acupuncture for non-physician students as a master's level program. All physician and non-physician practitioners must meet their state 's licensing or registration requirements.


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Riviera Theatre
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This theater was opened in 1925, at the southwest corner of Adams Boulevard and Longwood Avenue, just east of La Brea Avenue in the then-fashionable West Adams district of Los Angeles. The owner was a Mr. Miguel Montijo. It was independently operated and was open in the early 1940's but had gone from listings by 1950.
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I have searched on Terraserver for the address 5002 W.Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, and the fairly recent USGS aerial photograph of the area displayed shows a building at that address which certainly looks as though it once housed a theater. I have not been able to find what the current use of the building might be.
The theater building is still there. It's painted red. No way to tell what kind of business, though. I took some pictures.
Featured on 6/26/35 – "Society Doctor" and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street".
Here are some photos from June 2007:
Looks from the pictures like this is another building converted to a single use and thus probably using a single address. If that address is 5000 W. Adams (I can't find a current listing for 5002 W. Adams), then the current occupant is a home & garden-related shop going by the strange but euphonious name Chestnuts Papayas.
No, it turns out that it's called Chestnuts & Papaya and its business is furniture and accessory rentals for film productions.
Function should be retail.
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Obama pushed for passage of the
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Obama called for a 20 percent tax credit to companies that scale back foreign operations and bring jobs back to the United States.
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Hiccups (cont.)
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Because most cases of hiccups resolve themselves either spontaneously or with self-administered treatment, complications are extremely rare.
In severe and persistent cases, where hiccups disturb eating and sleeping patterns, weight loss or sleep disturbances may occur.
Rarely, cardiac arrhythmias and gastroesophageal reflux have been noted in severe cases of hiccups.
Can hiccups be prevented?
Hiccups cannot always be prevented. Avoiding overeating, eating too quickly, or drinking too much can help prevent hiccups.
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2 U.S. Code § 932 - Definitions and applications
As used in this chapter—
(2) The definitions set forth in section 622 of this title and in section 250 of BBEDCA [2 U.S.C. 900] shall apply to this chapter, except to the extent that they are specifically modified as follows:
(3) The term "AMT" means the Alternative Minimum Tax for individuals under sections 55–59 of title 26, the term "EGTRRA" means the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (Public Law 107–16), and the term "JGTRRA" means the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief and [1] Reconciliation Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–27).
(A) The term "budgetary effects" means the amount by which PAYGO legislation changes outlays flowing from direct spending or revenues relative to the baseline and shall be determined on the basis of estimates prepared under section 933 of this title. Budgetary effects that increase outlays flowing from direct spending or decrease revenues are termed "costs" and budgetary effects that increase revenues or decrease outlays flowing from direct spending are termed "savings". Budgetary effects shall not include any costs associated with debt service.
(B) For purposes of these definitions, off-budget effects shall not be counted as budgetary effects.
(C) Solely for purposes of recording entries on a PAYGO scorecard, provisions in appropriation Acts are also considered to be budgetary effects for purposes of this chapter if such provisions make outyear modifications to substantive law, except that provisions for which the outlay effects net to zero over a period consisting of the current year, the budget year, and the 4 subsequent years shall not be considered budgetary effects. For purposes of this paragraph, the term, "modifications to substantive law" refers to changes to or restrictions on entitlement law or other mandatory spending contained in appropriations Acts, notwithstanding section 250(c)(8) of BBEDCA [2 U.S.C. 900 (c)(8)]. Provisions in appropriations Acts that are neither outyear modifications to substantive law nor changes in revenues have no budgetary effects for purposes of this chapter.
(5) The term "debit" refers to the net total amount, when positive, by which costs recorded on the PAYGO scorecards for a fiscal year exceed savings recorded on those scorecards for that year.
(7) The term "PAYGO legislation" or a "PAYGO Act" refers to a bill or joint resolution that affects direct spending or revenue relative to the baseline. The budgetary effects of changes in revenues and outyear modifications to substantive law included in appropriation Acts as defined in paragraph (4) shall be treated as if they were contained in PAYGO legislation or a PAYGO Act.
(8) The term "timing shift" refers to a delay of the date on which outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise occur from the ninth outyear to the tenth outyear or an acceleration of the date on which revenues would otherwise occur from the tenth outyear to the ninth outyear.
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By: Arvin Steinberg
When the city of New Orleans is mentioned, what thoughts come to mind? Jazz or The French quarter? Creole or Cajun cuisine? Cast iron fences or maybe above ground cemeteries? Yes, New Orleans has all is of that, but did you know that New Orleans is gaining a reputation as a center for the visual arts?
There are approximately 200 art galleries in the metro New Orleans area. And in August, 2003 two new major arts projects became available to art enthusiasts in New Orleans.
First, on August 18, 2003 the Renaissance Arts Hotel opened in the heart of the New Orleans historic Warehouse/Arts District. I visited this amazing 217-room hotel during its first week of operation.
As I entered the marble lobby foyer, three colorful, fun-filled hand blown glass, chandeliers immediately caught my eye. These orange, yellow, and blue chandeliers were created by world-renowned glass sculptor, Dale Chihuly. And, looking straight ahead past the chandeliers against a blue tiled wall, are five oversized ginger flowers whose brass petals first fill with water and then spill the water into a pool below. This interesting creation is the work of New Orleans sculptor, Lin Emery.
Also on the ground floor of the hotel is a 2,000 square foot art gallery of sculptures and paintings, all abstract impressions. The first exhibition includes works by the late New Orleans sculptor, Ida Kohlmeyer. The exhibitions will rotate every two months.
There is also a sculpture garden on the second floor of the hotel in an atrium with skylights. It was here that I spoke with Arthur Roger, whose Arthur Roger Gallery is considered one of the finest contemporary art galleries in New Orleans. Rogers told me that that ten years ago people would have made fun of a contemporary art hotel. He said that people are more open now, and that art is something people want in their lives.Roger commissioned works from several fine artists to complete the décor of the hotel.
The carpeting throughout the hotel is brilliant with all shades of blue, gold, red, and green fantastically displayed in all shapes and designs.
The hotel's La Cote Brasserie is a hot new seafood restaurant featuring the talents of acclaimed chef, Richard;Bingo Starr, formerly the executive chef at Cuvee in New Orleans. My dinner at the Brasserie was wonderful. The seafood offerings by Chef Starr are exceptional. The Yellowfin Tuna Carpaccio with Caponata relish was superb.
What also makes the hotel so exceptional is that it is within walking distance of the French Quarter, only seven blocks, and about four blocks from Harrah's casino.
Harrah's is the only land-based casino in Louisiana. The casino is huge. And even if you don't care to play the games of chance, Harrah's offers an outstanding buffet for $13.13 until 4 p.m. and $21.95 after 4 p.m.
In addition to being present for the opening of the Renaissance Arts Hotel, a few days later on August 23, 2003, I witnessed the opening of the magnificent Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans. This is a five-story 67,000 square foot modern structure also located in the New Orleans historic Warehouse/Arts District. At the opening ceremonies, many of the artists whose works appeared in the inaugural exhibition were on hand to be recognized and also to be available to visitors to explain and answer questions about their art on exhibit. It was delightful to be able to discuss the wonderful works of art with the artists themselves.
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is the first museum in Louisiana to be affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Here you will find the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of Southern art in the world. The core of the museum's collection are 1,200 works from New Orleans businessman and philanthropist Roger H. Ogden's nationally-respected private collection made available to the University of New Orleans Foundation in 1994. Since Mr. Ogden's original donation, the museum's collection has more than doubled to over 2,750 works including Southern art from 15 Southern states and the District of Columbia.
The Ogden Museum certainly enhances the growing national recognition of Southern art. It tells the story of the South; its past, present, and into the future. I especially enjoyed watching an excellent video in a theater at the museum. The video explained how Southern art reflects the culture of the South from small town community life to the traditions of big cities. How Southern art is about history and memory, not concentrating on possessions, but rather on whom Southerners are. From family reunions to football games, from hard times, accepting change, sometimes slowly, to celebration and spirit.
The inaugural exhibition does all of that. It takes visitors on a visual journey through time in the South, tracing the history of the agrarian South through World War I, the Great Depression, the Jazz Age, the Civil Rights era, and into contemporary works.
Southern art is unique. It is interesting. It is memorable. For example, I particularly liked one sculpture at the museum that was done by New Orleans native, Willie Birch. It is entitled: Going Home. The sculpture depicts an African American family that migrated north and now, with bags packed, is going back home to the South.
And, art abounds throughout New Orleans. The luxurious Windsor Court Hotel, an Orient-Express Hotel, just a few blocks from the French Quarter, has one of the most outstanding assemblies of British art outside of a museum. The collection has been valued at eight million dollars, and murals valued at one and one-quarter million dollars are now being completed in the hotel's Grill Room.
There are several wonderful paintings in the lobby of the hotel, such as Charles II's Last Sunday by artist W. P. Frith, and Portrait of the Prince of Wales and His Sister by artist Nicolas de Largilliere.
Although I wasn't staying at the hotel, I enjoyed having a cocktail in Le Salon just off the lobby where I listened to live jazz and could view the many paintings including Queen Victoria on Horseback by artist Thomas Thornycroft.
Just a couple of blocks from the Windsor Court Hotel and Harrah's casino is an outstanding exhibit that I would recommend as a must see while in New Orleans. It's not an art exhibit, but it is beautiful, interesting, educational, and lots of fun for the entire family. It's the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas.
The aquarium begins on the first floor of this modern building where you walk through the Caribbean Tunnel. In this tunnel, hundreds of multi-colored exotic Caribbean fish are not only swimming on both sides of you, but also overhead. After visiting the colorful fish of the Caribbean Reef, you continue to the second floor and through the Amazon Rain Forest where brilliantly colored Macaws are on perches overhead. This lush recreation of a tropical rainforest is the habitat for Piranha and other amazon fish.
The walking tour then takes you through a penguin exhibit of two species of swimming penguins, a touch-pool where you can pet a baby shark, a collection of electric eels, a unique seahorse exhibit, an exhibit of frisky swimming sea otters, and an eye-level view of Louisiana's native white alligator as you stroll among moss covered cypress trees.
The tour concludes on the first floor with one of the largest collections of jellyfish in the country, and a shark tank where big sharks are on the prowl in the Gulf of Mexico exhibit.
If you will be in New Orleans for just a few days, I would also recommend the two-hour Super City Bus Tour offered by Gray Line Tours for $24.00. I thoroughly enjoyed the bus tour. It gave me an appreciation of the entire city and an opportunity to see parts of the city that most visitors would not see.
The bus tour begins in the French Quarter. The tour guide points out the landmarks and architecture that made New Orleans famous. The bus stops for a walking tour of the St. Louis Cemetery N0. 3 where the above ground burial system is explained. The tour continues to and through the immense 1,500 acre City Park where the New Orleans Museum of Art is located and on to the beautiful homes in the suburbs and to Lake Pontchartrain. The campuses of Tulane University and Loyola University are also on the tour as well as the exclusive Garden District.
There are many fine restaurants in New Orleans, but I especially enjoyed Brennan's Restaurant at 417 Royal Street. Where else, but in New Orleans can a restaurant be famous for breakfast? Breakfast at Brennan's is world famous. My selection at breakfast at Brennan's was Eggs Sardo, a tasty creation of pouched eggs, spinach and hollandaise sauce. And to top off the sumptuous cuisine, one of the waiters, Kevin Rouchell , an accomplished opera singer, sang two enchanting arias for a magnificent finale to my breakfast and my visit to New Orleans.
For more information about New Orleans, call the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau at 800-672-6124 or log on to their website at www.neworleanscvb.com.
Photos by Phyllis Steinberg
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Dr. House vs 'RoboCop'? Hugh Laurie is On Call
Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop didn't have a sexy, star-studded cast by any means. Peter Weller still isn't much of a household name. The RoboCop reboot seems hell bent on not taking the same route by boasting a formidable cast around Murphy lead Joel Kinnaman. House star Hugh Laurie may soon add his name to the heavyweight list as the cyborg cop's chief adversary, according to Variety.
If Laurie enlists his services, he'll join recent signees Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson and Abbie Cornish in providing recognizable talent for Jose Padiha's film. Laurie is an outstanding candidate for this role of the head Omni Corp villain, who builds his own android police force. His attitude seen as the wise-cracking doc displayed on House each week is perfect for the dark, slightly sarcastic backdrop showcased in the bleak futuristic Detroit landscape of RoboCop.
At first, I was peeved Oldman wasn't brought on board as a villain, but Laurie is so much better for this type of character. A salesman type antagonist with considerable sway, who can convince anyone to conduct evil deeds on his behalf. Bravo to MGM if they can put a bow on Laurie here.
RoboCop version 2.0 is set to hit theaters on August 9th, 2013. And while, a remake of this story wasn't in high demand, movie fans like myself sure do appreciate the effort.


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The recent recession has had a profound effect on the length of successful job search. From 1994 through 2008, roughly half of all unemployed jobseekers found jobs within 5 weeks, compared with 38.9 percent in 2009 and 34.0 percent in 2010.
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Two soldiers were killed and four injured when gunmen stormed a border guard headquarters in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Thursday.
Eyewitnesses said gunmen exchanged fire for 30 minutes with army personnel manning the HQ before storming the building, located on the Arish-Sheikh Zuweid Road.
According to medical sources, two injured soldiers are currently in critical condition.
The area was cordoned off by army troops in the wake of the attack.
As of the filing of this report, there was no comment on the incident from Egyptian authorities.
On Wednesday, a soldier was killed while manning a security checkpoint in Arish, the capital of Egypt's North Sinai Governorate.
In a separate attack the same day, a policeman was killed and another injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in central Arish.
At least 35 people, both civilians and security personnel, have been killed in a spate of attacks in Sinai since July 5, two days after the military ousted Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president.
Moscow says it will protect the rights of the Russian-speaking population in east Ukraine but denies sending arms to the rebels fighting Kiev troops there.
Obama stressed that airstrikes would be the central U.S. contribution to the fight against ISIL, along with coordinating a coalition that he said now includes more than 40 countries
The five women and four men were among 167 sympathisers of the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) who were rounded up in 2003
The interview of Rouhani at his palace in Tehran comes ahead of his visit next week to the United Nations in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly
The negotiations are expected to run until at least Sept. 26 on the sidelines of next week's annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.
He said "Full readiness (is required). We can't believe anyone, especially the Russians."
Turkish-born SNP district chairman Sitki Nalci said a vote to leave the United Kingdom would attract Turkish investors to Scotland.
The team, all independent experts from the U.N.'s Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture, said they had also been barred from completing work at some sites to which they had been initially admitted.
During the meeting, Abbas said that recent Palestinian activity at the United Nations aimed to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and reinforce the notion of two states living side by side in peace and security.
It is said that Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who was the first dictator to be toppled in 2011's 'Arab Spring' revolutions which was ironically sparked by social media activists, is planning to return to Tunisia.
Rajoy's centre-right government has been trying to quell calls in the northern Spanish region of Catalonia for a vote on breaking away on November 9.
Russia, the world's second-largest arms exporter, has sought to boost its military ties with Egypt after relations between Cairo and its long-standing ally Washington soured.
"The Algerian military leadership fears the possibility of Libyan terrorist groups targeting foreigners in Algeria in the event of western military operations against Jihadist groups in Libya," a source said.
A spokesman for the Islamic Community, that hires and pays imams, said: "No one is above the law and if there is proof that our employees have threatened the constitutional order then everyone is equal before the law."
Detained Uighur activist, Dr. Ilham Tohti, has arrived in a court in China's autonomous East Turkestan region capital Urumqi on the first day of his trial regarding allegations of separatism.
The latest talks, which had until now focussed on submitting proposals, would now move into "structured negotiations", United Nations envoy Espen Barth Eide said.


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My skin gets really oily under and around my nose, and i get these guly blackheads . Does anyone have any remedies for this? Thanks so much! :***
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Look at my regimen in my signature, maybe take away the zinc, but the other components should keep your blackheads under control. Nothing you'll do topically will make a difference in the long run.
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