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Miss Temple & Graham Greene
Shirley Temple and her movies received a lot more attention in Commonweal in the 1930s and '40s than I would have expected when I began a search for more information on Graham Greene's notorious (and ultimately libelous) review of her 1937 vehicle Wee Willie Winkie – an incident that has merited mention in a number of the obituaries after her death this week. More on Greene's transgression (and what followed) in a moment, but here's some of what Commonweal was saying at the height of "Miss Temple's" fame.
Richard Dana Skinner in August 1934:
Certainly in Baby Take a Bow [Shirley Temple] manages to be vastly ingratiating, in spite of being pictured as one of the most absurdly spoiled imps of the American home. Being "cute" is not necessarily good acting, nor is playing the part of a little show-off a real test of straight dramatic ability. What little Miss Temple needs, in justice to herself, is a part far removed from musical comedy formulae, something comparable to Chaplin's The Kid, in which the quality of downright sincerity can show through. My guess is that Shirley Temple has that quality, but that it is in imminent danger of being throttled by the overexploitation of cuteness. At her age, the more sensitive the good qualities, the more easily they can be misdirected and warped. One might add the hope, too, that as a star of films for children, she will not always be surrounded by enough gun-men and sentimentalized ex-convicts to conjure up a succession of nightmares.
And, a year later, Grenville Vernon:
[Curly Top] is only another of Miss Temple's vehicles, and one of the most saccharine yet. It fairly drips sentimentality. Of course it gives Miss Temple the opportunity to be arch, and charming, to make people happy, to dance and sing, and even to impersonate an old lady. This is all to the good, when done by Miss Temple, but how much better it would be if we could feel that she was not just being made to show her talents like a sort of child on a flying trapeze! That she swings through her stunts in a perfectly marvelous manner is of course true. But then she couldn't help it--she is Shirley Temple!
And from May 1940, the editors on Temple's "retirement":
Miss Temple gives every token of being a gifted screen artist and (what is not necessarily the same thing) a very nice little girl. In the first capacity, she has enlisted us among those innumerable beneficiaries who have to date paid twenty million dollars to see her perform. In the second, she leaves us rather glad that she is retiring (to grade school) at the ripe age of eleven, with all her garlands and honors about her. As far as one can judge from a strictly outside viewpoint, Shirley's parents and managers have guarded her from some of the worst effects of a movie career involving precocious stardom; she still seems simple and happy, and she is universally believed to be so. But no effort or care can annul the essential abnormality of such a life--the consciousness of being the center of a vast system of production, publicity, adulation; the killing hours before the camera, especially (as has latterly been the case) when pictures are multiplied to catch the vanishing graces of childhood. So we feel that the leading female box-office star of the world has won the right to retire.
Running through those excerpts is a note of concern for the well-being of the child who would appear in dozens of movies by the time she was a teenager. I'm not sure I'm prepared to say it's the same kind of "concern" expressed by Greene, some of whose words, if you haven't read them recently, were rather more direct:
The owners of a child star are like leaseholders—their property diminishes in value every year. … Miss Shirley Temple's case, though, has peculiar interest: Infancy is her disguise, her appeal is more secret and more adult. … Now in Wee Willie Winkie, wearing short kilts, she is completely totsy. Watch her swaggering stride across the Indian barrack-square: hear the gasp of excited expectation from her antique audience when the sergeant's palm is raised: watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity. Adult emotions of love and grief glissade across the mask of childhood, a childhood skin-deep.
It is clever, but it cannot last. Her admirers—middle-aged men and clergymen—respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.
Satire? One of the first instances of a critic meaningfully addressing the "sexualization of children in film"? Careless writing, or evidence of Greene's own fetishes? The Internet debate is on.
Regardless of how people read it now, the review constituted libel in the eyes of Chief Justice Gordon Hewart of the King's Bench, which awarded Twentieth Century Fox £3,500 in damages, £3,000 of which was to be paid by Night and Day, the magazine in which the review appeared, and the remainder by Greene himself, who was literary editor. The suit sank the publication, but by that time Greene had left England. The magazine Mental Floss makes explicit the link between the review and Greene's career as a novelist in an article that is actually headlined "How Shirley Temple's Lawyers Launched Graham Greene's Career."
[The suit] was the start of a journey that would take Greene from Manhattan to New Orleans to San Antonio and then deep into the jungles of Mexico—and eventually, after much suffering and pain, provide him with the material needed to write The Power and the Glory, his masterpiece….His decision to travel to Mexico in 1938 was no accident, nor was it spontaneous. The West had fascinated Greene for years—in particular, a pair of states in the Mexican highlands, Tabasco and Chiapas, where a long anti-clerical campaign had left hundreds of priests dead, all but eradicating any trace of Catholicism. Greene wished to chronicle what he called, "the fiercest persecution of religion anywhere since the reign of Elizabeth."
The shuttering of Night and Day and the libel suit were all the impetus he needed. He convinced his publisher to give him a modest advance for a travelogue, then set about planning his itinerary, a short stay in Mexico City and a tour of Tabasco and Chiapas, ending in the mountain town San Cristóbal de las Casas, where he had heard Catholicism was being practiced in secret.
Of course, Greene eventually found himself admonished (in 1953) by the Vatican's Holy Office for what it saw in The Power and the Glory as signs of an "abnormal propensity toward situations in which one kind of sexual immorality or other plays a role." After meeting with Greene, Westminster Cardinal Griffin later wrote, without mentioning the author specifically, "Novels which purport to be the vehicle for Catholic doctrine frequently contain passages which by their unrestrained portrayal of immoral conduct prove a source of temptation to many of their readers." Of course, Temple herself went on to do much more after the retirement Commonweal commented on in 1940, a piece that ended with these words: "So good-bye, Shirley--may you, for your own sake, be happily anonymous from now on."
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I posted and then removed the YouTube video of Shirley Temple singing "The Good Ship Lollipop." The more I viewed it, the more uncomfortable I began to feel viewing a bunch of adult men with goofy looks on their faces passing around this little ca. 4-year-old girl in very short dress that showed her cute little panties. In the words of the song, I say: "ooh, ooh."
I was quite surprised to find our a few years ago that the good ship was a plane and then it was explained to me that we didn't have a word to describe a means of transportation that went through the air.
I must admit my favorite Shirley temple movie is "The Little Princess."
(Spoiler Alert: It brings tears to my eyes when she meets Queen Vitoria and asks her help to find her Daddy who is fighting in the Boar War.)
I liked Heidi.
Greene was reacting to the pedophiliac subtext of items like the Good Ship Lollipop, which seems startlingly obvious today,
As great a novelist as Greene is, he has never been famous for his portrayal of children, as, say, Dickns was,A Fallen Idol is a very good movie about a child -- but only one. I wonder if he understtood them very well. And he certainly didn't understand the general appeal Shirley Temple had for people of all kind. Odd that, consiering that he wrote some of the greatest screenplays ever.
My favorite scene is Shirley tap-dancing on the staircase with Bo-Jangles. One of the grestest scenes in all movie, I'd say.. Was there nothing that child couldn't do eminently well? RIP.
It just occurred to me == might her portrayals of mere girls who could do anything extrememly well have inspired some of the feminism of the 60s? Her contemporaries were the right age to be inspired -- she gave us strong images of girls prevailing in spite of all adversity :-) Thanks, Shirley.
"The sexualization of children" certainly seems to be the point of the image linked to by Abe Rosenzweig and "The Good Ship Lollipop" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLLSqpYyPD8). I had no idea of this aspect of the Shirley Temple craze, but had imagined her as something like Hayley Mills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Mills). Graham Greene comes back to the topic in The Power and the Glory where he presents the priest's daughter Brigitta as precociously sexualized (if I remember correctly).
A Daily Mail review of Richard Greene's "Graham Greene" (2007) sees the Temple piece as indicative of GG's obsessions, and adds: " An alcoholic, he abandoned his wife and two children for affairs with a series of married mistresses. And though he vehemently denied rumours of bisexuality, his closest male friend was a homosexual who daily preyed on young boys, while there is clear evidence that Greene regularly seduced under-age teenage lads on the Italian island of Capri" and much else. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-539011/The-decadent-world-Graham...
Terry Eagleton gets a far more sympathetic picture of Greene from the same book, and also refers to the Temple review (saying Greene saw Temple as "bait for pedophiles"). http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/22/biography.grahamgreene
I was never a fan of Shirley Temple and her opus. Didn't dislike her, just wasn't a fan. But really, for whatever reason, a female star in 1930's musicals was often surrounded by only male performers. Perhaps they didn't want other women taking away attention. At the same time, tap dancers wore short skirts. A tap dance in a burqua really doesn't come off very well. Personally, I would ascribe Greene's assertions in this case to his anti-Americanism and dour nature. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Can't little girls just be cute?
Since they are female and not male, and since men tend to regard females differently from males, and since little girls will grow up to be women, it seems to me that when they are cute and charming (like Shirley Temple was in her films), if you try to analyze too deeply their appeal, you are getting into the realm of sexuality. Then you are talking about adult men, little girls, and sexuality. And then you may think you are talking about pedophilia. But male appreciation of cute, charming little girls is not pedophilia. It's pefectly normal, although for various reasons, nowadays it makes people uncomfortable.
I was watching some clips of Shirley Temple, and what struck me is that she was a teriffic little dancer, but she really can't sing. Or rather, she sings just like a little girl. If a girl that age were to appear on one of the big talent shows today and sing like that, she could not possibly win. What makes her singing charming is that she sings like a little girl. She is not a miniature adult along the lines of Jon Benet Ramsey.
" But male appreciation of cute, charming little girls is not pedophilia. It's pefectly normal, although for various reasons, nowadays it makes people uncomfortable."
Also there is an appreciation by all adults of all children. I grew up quite conscious of sex as all males. But I never thought of Shirley Temple as a sex object in any way. So I agree that Green should have been severely criticized. for his observations. It said more about him than it did about Shirley. It is a sorry aftermath of the pedophilia crimes that hugging a young boy or girl is now verboten. At the same time it is true that too many adults do not realize that children oftentimes do not like adults even taking innocent liberties with them.
Margaret Farley is big on showing respect and doing justice in sexual relations. Although it is not sexual (we pray) it is important to show respect to children while showing affection. A balance which too many violate.
I just watched "The Good Ship Lollipop" and I share Helen's discomfort. What is "cute" about this scene? That it is a little girl who is behaving like a young adult woman. Replace her figure by that of an 18-year-old and the sexual innuendo becomes obvious.
Of course there are many ways in which little girls or boys can be "cute", that are not sexual. I think that this scene is not one of them.
Sometimes a cute little tapdancing girl is just a cute little tapdancing girl.
Replace her figure by that of an 18-year-old and the sexual innuendo becomes obvious.
Replace a 6-year-old girl sitting on an adult man's lap (or an adult woman's lap, for that matter) with an 18-year-old, and you have an entirely different situation! There is simply no hint that the men in the scene in which Shirley Temple sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop" are relating to the little-girl character in any way other than as a little girl.
If you are going to imagine all little girls and little boys interacting with adults as 18-year-olds, then many things that are not sexual at all will seem sexual. And of course it would be bizarre to claim that there is nothing sexual at all about little girls interacting with adults. Little girls are feminine. Adult males will respond to their femininity. Little girls and little boys are not interchangeable. It is extraordinarily difficult to imagine a little-boy equivalent of Shirley Temple charming adult women. Of course there is something sexual going on. But it is not pedophilia!
Ah, well, what do I know. This is a thread where, by exception, men know better.
What amazes me about Shirley Temple is that she did not seem to be ruined by her early fame. She had a stable marriage that lasted 55 years; raised 3 children apparently as a "stay at home mom"; no alcohol problems or sex scandals; and a rather remarkable, competent ambassadorship to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.
For the record she started her movie career in "Baby Burlesques." ( I am not implying anythiing here.)
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udoUZHB78MY
P.S. I still think that the men in the Good Ship Lollipop, routine are goofy looking.
Claire, hopefully it will make you feel less ganged-up on to know that my last post was written before you posted and was not a response to your post. At any rate, I would never associate the names of Shirley Temple and Grahame Greene and this blog posting was an interesting read.
"...men know better." ???
Not always.
I am thinking about Julie Hess, parochial school principal, whose letter to the diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph described the many concerns of parents and teachers about Fr. Shawn Ratigan's conduct around children, especially young girls, and his refusal to abide by the personal boundaries. Six months later pornographic pictures of young girls were found on his computer.
As a little girl I was completely baffled by the appeal of Shirley Temple to grown-ups. She always seemed to be imitating some show-offy grown-up who had trained her to wink and pout on cue, in a mysterious, grown-up way that would have not gone down well with the nuns at Ursuline Academy.
Shirley's movie version of Heidi gave me nightmares, though later on, when I read the book, I loved it. I don't know whether it was all that fresh air, the bread and cheese lunches on the mountains--or the goats--but that was fun I could appreciate. And the nuns probably wouldn't have minded it either.
My thoroly Catholic mother dressed me in Shirley temple dressed....chubby size
Shirley turned out alright. Not so for so many impoverished young women who are exploited and believe their only way out is to sell their bodies. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/opinion/kristof-when-emily-was-sold-fo...
In a Women's Studies group I sometimes attended in college (early to mid 1970s), Shirley Temple, Child Star, was viewed by some as emblematic of the kind of strict gender roles we foist on women (the frilly dresses and fancy panties). Others saw her as perfectly well-adjusted and happy with her single father, grandfather or some other avuncular caretaker ("The Littlest Rebel," "Heidi," "Little Miss Marker") and ready to come to their defense--that is, a budding little feminist. There was never any discussion that Temple was the object of sexual desire.
But we live in times now, and it's sad. The fathers of the kids I grew up with took us girls all over the place until we could drive--to the beach, to the drive-in, to the snack bar, to the fabric store to buy supplies for our home ec projects. Dads were usually less tight with a dollar than our mothers were, and far more willing to change plans if we said, "Hey, let's stop in here on the way home." A favorite pastime was going to the dump with my uncle, who was single most of his life, to see the rats!
I mentioned this to a much younger colleague, and she said, "You'd never see people doing that now. I'd never let some man take my daughter anywhere, even with a bunch of her friends.
Maybe this is just prudent now, but what a horrible state of affairs.
Jean --
I agree. My uncles and fathers took us nieces places and a good time was had by all. But times have indeed changed. These days, sex -- the healthy kind -- is often considered just premium entertainment, so it's not surprising that some men would act out their perversions thinking, "Oh, well, it's all just entertainment". I also think that the radical feminists have left scars on the psyches of younger women. Nowadays many women think that no man can be trusted. Sad, sad, sad.
"Nowadays many women think that no man can be trusted. Sad, sad, sad."
I am thinking about how many men think the same about women.
Love that burqua reference--funny.
When I read Greene's review, I thought it said more about him than about Shirley Temple. Obviously, in addition to being anti-American and dour, he saw her as a sex object. Ew.
My parents are the same age as Shirley Temple, and based on what they tell me I believe that children like them were the target audience for most of her films. She reportedly lifted many people's spirits during the Great Depression. That's why her movies were so popular, because families with children went to see them. They weren't stag films intended to be shown at bachelor parties.
My mother, who was the same age as Shirley, was given tap dancing lessons because of her. Most of the girls in her tap class were there for the same reason. She didn't end up with a showbiz career, but she did enjoy the lessons.
I see that scene as a deliberate parody or imitation of the burlesque/adult musical scenario. The point is to say;look at this;it's just like an adult version except it's just a little girl.It's cute yet consciously alludes to ,points to, reminds us of,the other adult sexualized scene.The men actors are actually responding to her feminine cuteness, which I agree is not the same as pedophlia, but we the audience are reminded of the adult version where the scene is the same except the singer,dancer is an adult woman, which this is imitating. So sex is aluded to by the scene itself but is not present in the actual scene;the men love her cause she's cute,not cause they're pedophile's getting a sexual thrill by her.The men actors are aware of this.That's my take.Kind of like seeing a puppy in a baby carriage;a puppy is not what you expect in the carriage[scenario] but is cute in itself; a child is not what you expect to be doing that burlesque like scene with the men, but the child is cute in that scene nonetheless. It changes the norm of the scene[mesmerized men surrounding and supporting the female singer/dancer] but becomes another scene; adults love the adorable child.
I just "love the adorable child" and I am taking "innocent liberties" with her! See a remark of J. Kincaid in one to the links I posted.
Oops, the link is in the main article. "James R. Kincaid writes that Greene's Wee Willie Winkie review "is talk as brilliant as it is dangerous to let loose. … All Greene did was to specify the fantasy.""
Shirley Temple films don't appeal to folks as much in this day and age. A lot of people don't get the Three Stooges, either. Monty Python reruns don't seem so cutting-edge anymore. And frankly, Shakespeare's comedies aren't all that funny. I guess some things age better than others.
Helen --
I agree about many men not trusting women, but I think that's been the case a long, long time -- "womanly wiles" and all that. I suspect that this non-trusting has something to do with the dimming of romance, but I can't say exactly why. Look at the movies these days -- how many are romantic comedies? Oh, sure, lots of sexy movies, but few romances. Romance takes a lot of old-fashioned values like trust, hope, possible committment. Sigh.


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Because of an injury sustained during rehearsal this past weekend,
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Mikhail Baryshnikov regretfully is forced to postpone his entire
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Burlington, Vermont on September 29 and to conclude on November 3 in Madrid, Spain. The postponement includes rescheduling his appearance in Holyoke, Massachusetts as part of MIFA/the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts.
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date will be known within the next week.
Mr. Baryshnikov said, " I feel devastated to have to withdraw from
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Baryshnikov injured; cancels tour
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Posted 24 September 2003 - 03:22 PM
I distinctly remember Baryshnikov telling Larry King during his Feb. 2002 interview that there are certain choreographic movements asked of him and he'll say, "If you make me do that, this knee will scream." It seems those knees are the real achilles heel for so many dancers. We can work around almost anything, but those particular joints are key.
Posted 24 September 2003 - 04:20 PM
I must have been lucky when they handed out the knees, and some of that rotation. But I can work up all kinds of sympathy for Baryshnikov, as we're practically of an age, and I certainly know how things stop working around now! :sweating:
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Something New *My Hand Drawns* - 02-06-2009, 04:40 PM
Okey doke. I just started Hand Drawing last night so some CC seems to be in order. I was already told that the shading was off so I tried to fix it, let me know if I can do better or whatever, lol.
.....1st Attempt: ...................2nd Attempt: ..................3rd Attempt:
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Base came from TDP
Edit: In the 3rd Attempt I tried Haley's advice and colored in the dress and started from scratch...I don't know, I still like the 2nd Attempt much better....but then again, I don't wear shirts that have horizontal creases and shading. I mostly stick to ones that are skin tight ^_^"
Wow! Those are very good for first hand drawns! ^^
Way better than my first attempt, and even my newer ones. xD
The animation is really good, I think some people don't think to animate their hand drawns, like me.
Thanks! I don't think most people think to animate it either, none-the-less glitter it. I can't tell you how hard it was for me to not glitter it, lol. (You know how I am Pixie, lol). I don't know, it just seemed wrong or forbidden cause no one else does it o.0.
I have looked at tuts and am hoping to learn a lot more! Thanks for your input!
These are excellent first attempts. What you are getting at with the shading of the third doll is correct, but if you look at the crease of the leg, there is no shadow there. There will be a light shadow there.
I'd offer critique on the hair, but I'm not good at explaining those things. I suggest looking for hair tuts, they will make a lot more sense than my rambling.
Also, one small thing related to the big bubble, then is a random crease of sorts in the middle. I feel it would look smoother like a bubble if that wasn't there, but this is an excellent attempt at pixel art as well. Keep up the good work
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You don't have to keep editing the original one; just keep things in mind when you do the next one. That's a pretty hard pose, and like I said earlier, it's a good start.
Just to make sure it wasn't all in my head I tried on my tight shirts. All of them had a dip where my belly button was. I can admit though that a bulk of them DID have creases and folds that I was not aware of, one did not, but it's one of those pull down over your pants shirts the creases and folds were where the jeans touched the shirt.
I will look at the tuts for creases in shirts. That will be necessary since most shirts do have them.
My husband walked in on me while I was trying on the multiple shirts and he looked confused, lol. I asked him if he could see my belly button and he said yes and laughed at my ridiculous experiment .
I like to keep editing the first one though. I may never get if perfect but I feel that going on to something else would be useless in this case. A different pose has different creases. I want to learn this pose, it's cute. Plus I've nothing else to make, I'll have to wait for the next contest for a newer challenge.
Thanks for your input!
P.s. I see what you mean about the bubble Kitty, that middle thing does distract from it's bubbleness, lol.
Have you checked out any tutorials yet? Those are always good to look over. They'll also steer you away from "base-shading".
And easy way to not base shade is that as soon as you finish the outline, colour it in with white. Then, you'll have no base inside the outline to guide your shading. You can tell you base shaded since you can see the darkness around the belly button. Look at your clothes and tell me, Can you see your belly button? I don't think it's possible to see from under your clothes, silly. xD It's a common mistake. I mean, look at my dolls. Before I tried tutorials, I used to base-shade too.
Be careful though, pillow shading is also not good. Look at this:
This is an example of what do to, and what not to do. The first one is an example of proper shading. The second is base-shading, the third is pillow shading, and the fourth is pillow shading w/ folds. Tutorials will hopefully steer you away from the not so good ones, and help you develop your own style of proper shading. You first doll is very good. I'm looking forward to big things from you. ^^
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Whoot! All finished! Okey-doke, must explain first: 831 means "8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning - I Love You" This number is very special to us (my husband and I), as well as all it's varients (138 813 318 381). Everytime the time is 1:38 or 8:13 or 8:31 and we see it, we're always sure to say I love you. And August 31st is like a second Valentines Day for us. ^_^
Anywho. That's me and my husband. I had a VERY difficult time with it. Both hair (especially mine for some reason...) was difficult. I hate pants, you can see why. I have checked out tuts for it and the hair, but failed miserably. I DID shade this time, but the stinking design faded it out even though it too is shaded. I was going to have the hearts float up and burst, but I messed up without noticing it, then 2 hours later realized that I'd eiter have to start over or do something more simple. My headache chose the latter, lol. Anywho CC and Kudos are welcome!
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Recent and archived news articles by William H. Honan of The New York Times.
Claiborne Pell, Ex-Senator, Dies at 90
Mr. Pell, a six-term former senator from Rhode Island, created the college grant program that bears his name.
January 2, 2009, Friday
Mortimer Levitt, 98, Clothier And a Patron of the Arts
Mortimer Levitt gave generously to the world of arts and made a fortune selling custom-made shirts to celebrities.
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Researchers Rewrite First Chapter for the History of Medicine
An art historian and a medical researcher say they have pushed back by hundreds of years the earliest use of a medicinal plant. Until now, the earliest known use was around 1000 B.C., with visual and written evidence for the myrtle, the lily, the...
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Jack and Jane Meador, Figures in Stolen Wartime Art Case
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October 30, 2003, Thursday
A Silence Broken
IT'S taken us this long to speak openly about his death. The problem for more than half a century, you see, has been that the death of Donald Kinsey seemed so incongruous with everything else that we knew about him. He was abundantly cheerful,...
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The Twilight Outlaws of Foley Sq.; When Courts Close, Doo-Wop and Daredevils Emerge
When the sun dips low on the horizon, and the judges, lawyers, clerks and stenographers head for home, other New Yorkers take over Foley Square in Lower Manhattan: skateboarders, doo-wop singers and, of course, the homeless. Foley Square, named...
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Court Ruling Leaves Hitler's Paintings in U.S. Hands
A federal judge in Washington has all but brought to a close a 20-year fight over the ownership of four watercolors signed by Adolf Hitler and a huge archive of photographs, some of which were used by prosecutors at the postwar Nuremberg trials. ...
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Beyond High C, High Technology; A Tenor Turns to Restoring Opera Recordings
For the love of opera, Stefan Zucker trained to reach the upper limits of the tenor's range. For the love of opera, Stefan Zucker spent 12 years of Saturday nights as the host of ''Opera Fanatic,'' a radio show on WKCR-FM that featured rare...
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Dino Yannopoulos, 83, Director With Long Tenure at the Met
Dino Yannopoulos, a prominent stage director at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere, died April 6 in Philadelphia. He was 83. In a career of more than 50 years, he was principal director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1945 to 1977.
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So maybe I'll downvote my own deal. I was psyched when I saw this. Check out the trailers:
Kirkman seems into it, but I've played a couple of games from Telltale and was not impressed. I like the look they went with for the game, and per Kirkman, you won't be a main character from the comic/TV show, so as not to re-hash the story you already know. It's not going to be a first-person shooter a la Left4Dead, etc.
Sounds cool, hope it goes to PS3
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Women are finally earning almost as much as men. It's been 40 years since the Equal Rights Amendment failed in Congress, but today, the Pew Research Center finds, Millennial women aged 25-34 are earning 93 cents to the male dollar. (If you're counting everyone, the wage gap is still stuck at 84 cents to the dollar, however.)
This is great news, although there's still a lot more work to do on parity. As Pew reports, the gap gets wider with age. "Recent cohorts of young women have fallen further behind their same-aged male counterparts as they have aged and dealt with the responsibilities of parenthood and family." In other words, as women begin having children, they find themselves taking time off because it's so hard to balance being a mother and having a career. And the time off puts a ding in the pay raises.
While women have made progress, another story about working this week caught my eye —- a public media series on the working poor. The third installment was about Bridget, a 30-year-old in Cleveland who is living in her parents' basement. Bridget, who has a BA in English, is back in school after a stint in law school (and $25,000 in school loan debt), and is working part-time in a work-study position. She's not eligible for financial aid, she says, and she was fired from a job in a call center and unable to collect unemployment. She applied for food stamps and was eligible for $15 a month. She's living on $300 a month. "All my money goes to health insurance and my cell phone, so I have no money to give anyone for bills or rent, or anything."
"It's surprisingly hard to find part-time work or low-wage work when you have a degree," she says. "I applied at McDonalds, I applied at Walgreens…I applied at all these different minimum wage jobs, and they would laugh at me. `You have a bachelor's degree, why are you here? You're just going to quit!'
Luckily, her parents had a basement. Not everyone is as lucky. The working poor in this country are increasingly young adults. According to number crunching by the Economic Policy Institute, the typical person working minimum wage, for example, is a woman in her early 30s, works full-time, with a family to support. Minimum wage is not enough to lift someone above the poverty line, even working full-time.
Perhaps Bridget should become a tutor to the rich. As a recent CNBC segment reported, the wealthy spare nothing to ensure their children get into the right schools. One tutor earns six figures making sure his clients' children pass the tests. Another family paid a tutor $1250.00 per hour. The most recent job opening is in Singapore and comes with an apartment, a driver, and a personal assistant.
In other words, as people like Bridget and millions of others in the disappearing middle class struggle to pay their college loans and earn enough for their own one-bedroom, the 1% are paying six figures to ensure their kids get into Stanford. Yeah, that's the American way. The arms race is a live and well.


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I was frying onions and garlic the other day and the paste turned green. I had bought the onions/garlics many days ago (20-30 days) I guess. Could that be the reason? There was no fungi or something suspicious when I cut them by the way.
I've also had this happen when cooking an onion-garlic paste. I've found several web pages where the phenomenon is discussed, listed below. In summary, it's normal and happens due to certain chemical reactions between the garlic, cooking utensils and water. In your case, it's probably not due to the age of your garlic or onions though, as one source suggests it is less likely to occur with aged garlic. I've only seen the paste turn green myself, though interestingly you could also get blue garlic:
Some other pages where this is discussed: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/471608, http://www.cheftalk.com/forum/thread/45254/onions-turned-green-while-frying, http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/bluegarlic.htm.


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What do you guys think of alternative career paths in physics away from academia free from the usual academic shackles?
Examples: Garrett Lisi who spends his time surfing and skiing while not working on E8.
Or Daniel Bedingham who is able to support himself part-time as an investment banker when not working on quantum mechanics.
Or Julian Barbour who supports himself by translating Russian journal articles into English when not working on quantum gravity.
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5 Cities That Will Be Wiped Off the Map by Natural Disasters
No matter how technologically advanced humans become, we'll always spend a good portion of our time pathetically flailing at nature and the various disasters it attempts to grind us down with. Which makes it all the more awesome that many have actually chosen to live right on the bulls-eye of mother nature's bazooka practice target. As we all go blithely about our daily lives, just remember ...
#5. New York Is Due for a Hurricane Worse Than Sandy
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There's no shortage of hazards that can be associated with New York: Muggings, terrorist attacks, and terrible celebrity chef restaurants are all par for the course when it comes to the Big Apple. Yet the most dangerous of them all tends to go unmentioned ... right until it throws a skyscraper at you. Most of us were shocked to find out that New York was in hurricane territory at all, then all of a sudden the city gets sideswiped by Irene and Sandy. They flooded subways, collapsed quite a few buildings and dealt billions in damage. And they were nothing compared to what is (eventually) coming.
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Like David-Ortiz-gets-elected-mayor bad.
Both of those storms were only Category 1 when they hit, meaning that they were not that powerful -- even though they still tore up plenty of shit in the region, some of which still hasn't been fixed. Which is to say that it could have been much worse. As in, Roland Emmerich worse.
Whoa, whoa, let's not be hasty. Have we forgotten how bad 2012 really was?
In fact, New York City has a pretty good chance of being hit by a category 3 Hurricane this very decade. And the next one. And, in fact, each and every decade. A Category 3 hurricane, in case you were wondering, is defined by the phrase "Devastating damage will occur." We're talking demolished houses, damaged skyscrapers, and destroyed infrastructure, here. We're talking JFK airport under 19 feet of water, according to the people who study this sort of thing.
Because of New York's unique geography (and in case anyone needed an extra reason to dislike New Jersey), Northeast New Jersey and Western Long Island form a bottleneck for hurricanes to pass right into. Essentially, any storm with great intensity has a decent chance of a direct hit. This, incidentally, subjects the city to far worse things than just a "mere" Category 3: New York's near future can very well see a full-on "Oh shit" hurricane of the Category 5 classification. Destruction wise, this storm would be a dozen times worse than a Category 3.
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Leading us to wonder why it's not a Category 36 hurricane.
So, What Can Be Done?
Luckily, New York City is prepared for pretty much anything. And when we say prepared, we mean they know precisely how screwed they're going to be.
Using a Category 4 hurricane as a sort of average of terror, authorities have calculated that a massive hurricane would do about $500 billion worth of foreseeable damage -- that is, four times as much as Hurricane Katrina managed. Hell, a mere Category 2 would turn the subway into an aquarium in 40 minutes, with Grand Central and Penn Stations flooding as well. There is also the matter of the 15-foot wall of water expected to hit three of the five N.Y. boroughs with all the havoc a mini-tsunami with New York attitude can wreak.
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"HEY- I'm floodin' here."
Bottom line for hurricane survival in New York: When it hits, be in Cleveland. Though it could be worse...
#4. Amsterdam Lives in Constant Dread of Drowning
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Amsterdam is the capital of Netherlands, and the Red Light Districted obligatory rest stop for backpackers who want to take pictures of each other giggling nervously over a ridiculously oversized and overpriced blunt. It is a beautiful city with hundreds of years of history and wonderful art museums, with the added bonus of hash bars freaking everywhere.
It's also about to be eaten by the ocean, every single minute of the day.
Most of Netherlands resides below sea level, and if anything -- anything, anywhere, at all -- goes wrong, Amsterdam will take an entire ocean right in the face. Subsequently, the map of the Netherlands would look a little something like this:
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But the weed shops are OK, right? RIGHT?!
See the black blip labeled "Amsterdam" that's right in the middle of the fucking blue? That's what happens if just one of the various, intricate failsafe barriers and dams surrounding the country goes down. Not only the city (highest point: seven feet above sea level), but in fact much of the entire country (lowest point: minus 23 feet) is at constant risk of being claimed by the sea.
The good news is, Amsterdam's an old hand at fighting water and the authorities have actually set up the elaborate not-getting-drowned network that is keeping them safe. The bad news: They absolutely blow at keeping said network up to date. In fact, only 50 percent of the defenses are somewhat capable of handling their task of keeping people's feet dry. The Netherlands had their latest hazardous flood defense failure in 2010, and rest assured there will be more: Many experts are not even sure some of the dams will hold if they get just the tiniest of hairline cracks.
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In fact, The defenses keeping Amsterdam turning from pot paradise to Waterworld are so leaky, maintaining and improving them (what with the rising sea levels) add up to around 1 billion euros a year. Oh, and that's just for ocean level preparedness. If the sea level rises sufficiently, their rivers can also fuck them up.
So, What Can Be Done?
Not a lot, really. There is a century-spanning multibillion-dollar plan to fortify the country's defenses, sure, but even its makers acknowledge the absurdity of attempting to plan so far into the future.
Still, before you rush mailing bong-shaped lifeboats to random Amsterdam dwellers, it's worth keeping in mind that this is a situation that has been going on for centuries. The country has been flooded dozens and dozens of times, including a great 1953 flood that essentially turned Amsterdam into Venice for a while.
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Visit New Venice! We have marijuana and hookers!
So, they might be going under, and facing insurmountable odds against saving themselves from that fate, but at least they're fully aware what they're up against. Also, this situation goes a long way toward explaining all the pot.
#3. Greater Seattle Will Be Drowned by a River of Hot Mud
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Poor Seattle can't catch a break. We've already covered how the mild-mannered city is particularly prone to giant earthquakes, but it gets even worse: the entire Greater Seattle is at the risk of being buried under a sea of mud.
The area lies downstream from Mount Rainier, which carries the questionable honor of being one of the most dangerous volcanoes in existence. However, this particular danger doesn't come from soot and magma -- sure, there would be some if it was to erupt, but that would be just the icing on the horror cake. The true killer would be a lahar, whose nerdy name betrays its potential for destruction. Lahars are giant flows of hot mud, trees and water, rolling forward with the consistency of a zillion tons of wet cement and at speeds up to 60mph.
"Slow down! You're devastating like a bat out of hell!"
And they can get big: Urban Seattle could be facing a Lahar as tall 600 freaking feet. How do we know? Because it's happened before! Around 5,000 years ago, a giant lahar called the Osceola Mudflow filled a part of Puget Sound with three cubic kilometers of hot, steamy, gooey mud. What was once a pristine sea was, in a matter of hours, suddenly 200 square miles of new land. For comparison, the disastrous 1985 Nevado del Ruiz lahar that killed 25,000 people in Colombia only had 2.5 percent of the volume of the Osceola Mudflow.
So, What Can Be Done?
A lahar detection system was installed in 1998, but it remains loose and incomprehensive. To make matters worse, these mud tsunamis (mudnamis!) are a right bastard to detect: a lahar doesn't need a volcanic eruption as an excuse to kick in: A sector collapse or some magma leakage could be enough to send a mudnami the size of Godzilla into Seattle.
We'll just get Matthew Broderick to stop it. No matter what happens, we win.
If just the Puyallup Valley lahar (the purple one in the above picture) sparks off, material damages alone could be as high as $13 billion. Also, a non-volcanic lahar could easily spread from one to several of the six (six!) Mount Rainer lahar systems, multiplying the destruction.
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The changes they have made to VB.NET allow you to take advantage of dynamic programming without having to write a ton of System.Reflection code and turning Option Strict On or having to turn Option Strict Off.
Writing System.Reflection code and turning Option Strict On to do dynamic programming in VB.NET requires writing a lot of code every time you want to do something dynamic.
Turning Option Strict Off lets you do dynamic programming, but you lose the benefits of compilation, taking performance hits (runtime type resolution) and reducing the ability of the compiler to detect coding errors.
Oh and trying not to be rude here, but maybe next time have someone familiar with dynamic programming and VB.NET do the interview. That way, you can spend more time in the interview actually showing what improvements they made to the new version of VB.NET to enable better dynamic programming and not spend so much time educating the interviewer on why it is important.
Unless that was the intention, in which case, ignore my advice. I guess I was expecting a 300/400- level video, not a 100/200- level one.
Ken, thanks for the reply.
I guess the funny looks Paul and Erik shot you at some of your questions at the beginning of the interview gave me the impression that they thought the talk was going to be an advanced talk, too. Once you guys got on the same page though, the interview went better. I viewed the video before the downloadable version was available so I couldn't skip ahead to the parts that interested me. That's no one's fault.
JChung2006 wrote:Ken, try not to take the negative criticism too much to heart. Scoble makes it look easy, and interviewing is not easy.
We want Chris & Ari and the Head!
Now, that i see this type of programming, i could think to stay a couple of years more with vb.net. This type of examples helps to contruct Object Oriented clases, same as Java (familiared with).
I could see a scenario were this type of declaration , would help you to define a runtime type of variable, and prevent exceptions, threads that will conduct to a system crash.
Now the other things that boders me is that, vb wont be around, cause we all know that csharp it´s a better language.
Do you see this as an alternative?
I am from Mexico, excuse my spelling. (No time for editing)
The extreme latebinding was and is still missing from VB.Net and it's good to know that the next release (after 2005) will have this feature. This feature is available in Visual Foxpro since it's origin.
|What I was hoping to see here was a interactive programming shell like Monad but with Visual Basic syntax instead of the rather cryptic perl like syntax, VB might have some potential here, but instead what I saw scared me. Please take that compiler away
from them before they hurt someone.
The first poster mentioned the possiblility of something like:
> messagebox.show(person.(Form1.textbox.text))
Ouch! this feature is a hackers dream. External data should be assumed to be untrusted the last thing you want to do is blindly execute whatever the user types in.
For example say your textbox is on a web form and the web application has access to a database that with a little insider knowledge or trial and error he uses the web applications credintials to connect to the local database on the web server and deletes some data such as.
New SqlCommand("Delete * from CustTable", New SqlConnection(...).ExecuteNonQuery()
After deleting all your customers (and all cascading relations) you'll probably get an exception such as the method or property 1238 (the result of executenonquery ie number of records deleted from the table) on person does not exist. Even if this were perhaps a query from some xml meta data about person object the application must be extreamly careful to ensure that whatever gets evaluated in the () is safe to execute. Assuming you knew what it was you were executing between the () they why not just put it there if you don't know what will be in the () then you probably shouldn't be executing it. It might be useful in some ad-hoc one off scripting such as and administrative WMI query or something like that but I would never ever use it in a production code.
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The International SPA Association will present Jane Iredale with the 2014 ISPA Visionary Award at the 24th annual ISPA Conference & Expo at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nev. from October 13 – 15, 2014.
"Jane has been a supporter and leader of the spa industry since day one," said ISPA President Lynne McNees. "She has made great strides in reaching women of all ages and nationalities and working to improve their self-confidence."
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In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Ford Mustang, OPI is premiering a new collection of lacquer this July. The collection's hero shade, Race Red, is a tribute to one of Mustang's most iconic colors. Over the last five decades, Mustang has gained worldwide popularity and has become an enduring part of pop culture with more than 9.2 million Ford Mustangs sold and roughly 3,000 appearances on film and TV.
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Sam Villa's HairShow Blowout Bar: The HairShow Blowout Bar will offer fashion-forward trendsetting services in a contemporary salon setting. All stylists are trained by Sam Villa, known as the "hairdressers' hairdresser," whose credentials include 30 years of teaching experience, winner of "Favorite Platform Artist/Educator" at the prestigious Stylist Choice Awards in 2007, 2011 and 2012, education artistic director for Redken 5th Avenue and chairman of his namesake digital education and styling tools company. All beauty professionals taught by Villa are known for speed, consistency and creative finishing services. The blowout bar will feature upside-down parasols hung from the ceiling to offer a chic look. Patrons can choose from a selection of services, including Blowouts ($40), Updos ($70), Wedding Up-Style with consultation and trial ($140),The Starlet Blowout for children 12 years or younger ($30), as well as upgrade options such as Sam Villa's Signature Treatment ($35), Redken Chemistry System ($20) and more. A HairShow monthly membership and Blowout Bundles are available for purchase. To book appointments, visit www.samvillahairshow.com.
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Sunless Tanning by Chocolate Sun: Professionally trained spray tan artists will deliver safe, high-quality, sun-kissed Chocolate Sun tanning treatments within two dedicated suites. Chocolate Sun created the first all-natural, organic sunless tanning solution and retail collection, presenting products that are made with organically grown botanicals and herbs, pure essential oils and all natural preservatives.
The Mezzanine Lounge: The Mezzanine Lounge is designed as an ideal setting for bridal parties, social events, product launches, trunk shows and educational seminars that highlight the latest trends within the ever-evolving beauty industry. The lounge also functions as a photography studio for glamorous portrait shots.
Makeup Lounge: Skilled makeup artisans will create the perfect look for day, night or special occasions. Seating up to four guests at once, the lounge will include unique specialty products for all-over face coverage, eyes and lips as well as lash applications and skin care consultations.
Salon Loft: Salon Loft will feature eight stylist stations to offer haircuts and colors while providing an overlook of the trendsetting venue.
The Beauty Boutique: The Beauty Boutique is a retail floor offering a wide selection of beauty products for hair, skin, nails and body. Brand such as Kérastase Paris, Shu Uemura Art of Beauty, Pureology, Redken, Moroccanoil, SkinCeuticals, Sothys Paris and essie will be available for purchase.
LOOK Café: Inspired by a classic French bistro, LOOK Café will seat 12 and serve gourmet Nespresso, Suja Juice, Harney & Sons Fine Tea, a curated selection of artisan chocolates and bakery items from Chocolate and Spice Bakery.
In addition, LOOK will continue to better service its clientele with an expansion slated for this spring. Phase two of the beauty destination's opening will feature personal consultations for non-surgical and laser face and body cosmetic procedures at The MedSpa by Dr. Orna Fisher, M.D.; waxing services, facials and anti-aging treatments at The Skin Spa, and precision haircuts and creative styling by highly sought after hairstylists in the private SOCIETY Suites & Stations.
To book a reservation or for a full list of services and products at LOOK Style Society, please call 702.712.4345or visit http://www.LOOK-StyleSociety.com.
To book a reservation or for additional information regarding Sam Villa's HairShow Blowout Bar, please call 702.712.4348 or visit www.samvillahairshow.com.
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Dermalogica Opens New Hybrid Learning Center in Atlanta
More than 200 members of the Dermalogica "tribe" in Atlanta, GA celebrated with the brand's visionary co-founder and owner, Jane Wurwand as well as other company leaders at the recent gala opening of the new hybrid Learning Center located in the historic Atlantic Station area.
During her opening remarks to welcome the guests, Wurwand expressed enthusiasm for the importance of immersing retail customers in the brand experience, and allowing them to see the professional in training and in action. "The professional skin therapist, not our ingredient formulations, is the hero in our industry," she said. "Great products are important, but even the best formulations in the world will not help you achieve the desired results if you don't know how to use them. We have brought the expertise of the skin care therapist out of the treatment room and into the spotlight! We're very excited about our transparent business model, which invites the consumer to observe classroom learning and allows the consumer to be educated in the process."
Local stockists, professional skin therapists, students preparing for their licensing exams, skin care industry professionals and media from the area gathered at the 2,500 square foot space on 19th Street on the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta to celebrate the innovative new consumer-centric location which merges consumer education, sales and professional training all under one roof. Representing both Dermalogica and The International Dermal Institute, Wurwand was joined by Dr. Diana Howard, Vice President of Research and Development and Global Education, and Heather Hickman, Senior Director of U.S. Education. The Dermalogica team mingled with guests, who enjoyed hors d'oeuvres, gift bags, complimentary Face Mapping and product sampling at the Skin Bar. Hickman commented, "Everybody wins with Dermalogica's hybrid approach. We are proud to give skin therapists the respect they deserve, and we are confident that customers will learn a great deal about their skin in the process."
The new learning center located at 232 19th Street NW, Suite 7130, Atlanta, GA 30363 opened in late January, 2014. The space includes a 1,200 square foot classroom and 600 square foot retail area, situated on the historic site of the Atlanta Steel. The large interactive classroom features smartboard technology, with Apple TV video streaming, Wi-Fi access and energy-conserving LED light fixtures. Dermalogica is expected to announce the opening of additional hybrid locations in cities across the U.S. in 2014.
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Spa News: Aveda Founder Horst Rechelbacher Dies
Horst Rechelbacher, founder of Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients died at the age of 72 following a battle with cancer.
Rechelbacher's career in beauty and skin care spanned nearly 60 years, beginning when he was only 14 years old. The young Austrian native took on a three-year apprenticeship in the hair industry, after which he decided to spread his wings and take his chances as a stylist in the U.S. It was there that he would come to found Aveda, the global, plant-based cosmetic company with roots in Ayurvedic principles. "He brought holistic beauty to the industry, connecting hair, face and body as one," said Dominique Conseil, global president of Aveda. After two decades of growing Aveda into a world-renowned brand, Rechelbacher sold the company in 1997 to Estee Lauder for $300 million.
In 2008 Rechelbacher launched health and beauty company Intelligent Nutrients. The company is committed to delivering products with organic, non-toxic, food-based ingredients.
In addition to being an industry leader, Rechelbacher was also an established author, having written four books on the beauty philosophies and principals in which he so strongly believed--Minding Your Business, Rejuvenation, Aveda Rituals and Alivelihood. Some of Rechelbacher's additional achievements include:
• October 2009—The President of Austria awards him the "Decoration of Honour in Gold for Service to the Republic of Austria" for his exemplary representation of an Austrian business leader
• 2009—speaker at TEDIndia
• 2008—Inducted into Minnesota Business Hall of Fame by Twin Cities Business Magazine as one of Minnesota's most accomplished business leaders of all time
• 2007—Presented with Crystal Award from the International Congress of Esthetics and Spa
• 2007— Received the Rachel Carson Award for a Lifetime Commitment to Environmental Ethics & Integrity
• 2007—Honored as an Industry Innovator & Legend for lifetime contribution to the cosmetology industry by the Spa & Salon Professional Association Incorporated
• 2005 and 1995 —Voted one of the most influential environmentalists in the U.S. by Vanity Fair magazine
• 2004—Founding member of the Organic Center for Education, Research and Promotion
• 2004—Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Hairstyling Awards
Rechelbacher is survived by his wife, Kiran Stordalen; his daughter, Nicole Thomas, Nicole's husband Peter Thomas; his son Peter and wife Mindy Rechelbacher; and his grandchildren, Emma, Richard, Ruby and Jada.
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The following code supposed to add copyitem.aspx file to SitePages. I go to the subsite via SP Designer.
I can see "Site Objects" on the left navigation. I click on Site Pages and I get "The Document Library view cannot be displayed for this Web site.". However, I click on All Files (under site objects), I see a "SitePages" with Folder icon and sure enough CopyItem.aspx is there.
Please suggest.
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When I try to open Trello in IE9 on one particular computer I get this... "Your browser was unable to load all of Trello's resources. They may have been blocked by your firewall, proxy or browser configuration." I can open it fine on other computers running IE9. I have compared privacy settings and they all seem to be the same. Any ideas?
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You would see this if Trello was unable to load its resources from its CDN.
Try visiting
You should get a page that says
If you can't load that page, then something about your setup is interfering with resources from cloudfront.net.
From Trello's help page.


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The 5 Most Horrifyingly Wasteful Film Shoots
Whether you're watching a bunch of environmentally conscious shows during NBC's "Green Week" or taking in cautionary tales like The Day After Tomorrow, it's obvious Hollywood cares about our fragile environment.
Or at least they want us to think they do. When it comes time to getting just the right shot, wiping out a big hunk of ecosystem is considered a small price to pay. For instance ...
#5. Apocalypse Now Nuked Acres of Forest
As ridiculous film shoots go, few can top Apocalypse Now. There was the mental breakdown and near death of Martin Sheen, the troubles filming in an actual war zone and a typhoon that destroyed an entire set.
"CUT! Hey, stop bleeding, asshole. We still have two more takes."
But then there's the most iconic shot in a film full of iconic shots, the opening scene of the palm trees burning under a storm of napalm as Jim Morrison wails over the top about Oedipus and the transient nature of existence. Most people are probably too distracted by one of the finest opening shots in film to actually contemplate how it was achieved.
After all, it's an impressive special effect for 1979. How did they go about making it look like a huge section of forest had been burned to the ground?
Surprise! They did it by actually burning a huge section of forest to the ground.
That's pretty much it. Around 1,200 gallons of gasoline were poured over the splendid palm trees and then set alight. Tires were also burned to generate more smoke for the shot, while canisters were dropped onto the area to look like falling napalm. Acres of the forest were destroyed in a matter of seconds. Fitting, for a shot that was supposed to visually demonstrate the mindless, indiscriminate destruction of war.
"Now we'll highlight the tragic reality of unwanted puppies by throwing this sack in the river."
The sequence was shot in the Philippines, and it was fortunate for the production that all those pesky tree-huggers were an ocean away -- or as Francis Ford Coppola put it, "They'd never let you [do it] in the U.S., the environmentalists would kill you."
Then again, this was the 1970s. Hollywood learned its lesson in the decades since, right? Well ...
#4. Leo DiCaprio's The Beach Destroyed a Paradise
You're nobody in the entertainment industry if you haven't attended at least one fundraiser for the environment, or at least made a movie about it. Likewise, the studios themselves know they have to stay on the cutting edge of the cause. Universal Studios has added solar-powered carts for employees on the lot. Warner Bros. has a sustainability page of their website that explores "waste reduction" and "green building" ideas for filming. So it's clear the industry sees itself as something of a leader when it comes to teaching the world to give Mother Nature a hug, and possibly a sensual massage, depending on the type of movie they're making at the time.
"Fronds with Benefits? No, that probably sucks."
So, when the creators of the 2000 film The Beach came to shoot on the idyllic location of Maya Beach in the Phi Phi Islands off Thailand, they knew their responsibilities were not only to make a great film but to also take excellent care of the local ecosystem ... two tasks at which they failed miserably. In a fitting twist, the message of The Beach is ostensibly that trying to preserve an untouched paradise is futile. A message they wholeheartedly endorsed by laying waste to one of the most pristine islands in all of the South Pacific.
The island was initially chosen by location scouts for Fox Studios not because of its astounding natural beauty, but because of its potential for a landscaping rethink.
"What this virgin paradise really needs is some Hollywood razzle-dazzle."
The script called for a clearing on the beach large enough to play football, so they bulldozed a whole heap of the native trees and vegetation. Now it's possible they didn't know that actual ecosystems don't function the same way as film sets; you can't just tear down a whole section and not expect some horrific recourse by Mother Nature, but more on that in a second. They also planted a hundred non-native palm trees just to get the right look, essentially introducing an exotic species to the island that could threaten to take over and effectively change the habitat forever.
"That bulldozer really complements all the dead monkeys."
While the whole thing was an eyesore for anyone who wasn't looking at it through the camera lens, the real damage didn't come until the filmmakers left the island. The usual seasonal storms hit the beach, but this time the sand dunes didn't have the protection of their natural vegetation. They collapsed immediately and washed out to sea, damaging the fragile coral reef on their way out.
Environmentalists were outraged and accused the filmmakers of bribing the Thai government to get around pesky legal issues; for instance, the National Park Act, which was specifically designed to prevent this exact sort of thing. The ugly back story is that Fox donated the equivalent of $100,000 to the Royal Forestry Development in Thailand; the normal fee for filming on the island is less than one percent of that. Magically, they were allowed the freedom to remodel the island as much as they pleased after the money changed hands.
And then tourists swamped the island, which isn't bad for a book that rails against that kind of thing.
Environmentalists were understandably furious. They sought legal action against Fox Studios, its local coordinator Santa International and Thai government officials. Seven years later, the court penalized the film company for unnecessary ecological destruction and ordered them to repair all environmental damage to Maya Beach, which is a nice sentiment until you consider that that's not just planting a couple trees. They're expected to rebuild the marine life population they wiped out, and these are people who couldn't tell the difference between types of palm trees.
#3. A Jacques Cousteau Documentary on Sea Life Blows the Shit Out of It
Ecologist, explorer, author and fish whisperer Jacques Cousteau was famous for his environmental work and for giving everyone in the world their first intimate view of ocean life through his countless documentaries. In fact, his documentary The Silent World was the first to ever win the Palme d'Or Award at Cannes in 1956 and also picked up an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
And the Craziest Smile Award.
It inspired a generation of marine biologists by offering a glimpse into the world of swimming with sea turtles, exploring coral-covered shipwrecks and blowing up hundreds of fish with dynamite.
Wait, what?
During the film, Cousteau decides to do a complete census of the local marine life in a coral reef, which is exactly the sort of educational study we'd expect from our genial explorer. What we don't expect is for him to do it by killing everything in sight with explosives.
As far as we understand it, a census is used to determine exactly what's living in a particular area, so killing it all sort of negates the practice. But we also don't have fancy titles like "oceanographic technicians," so maybe we're off base.
"Science has a price. And that price is all the fish."
And it's not like The Silent World smooths over the killing -- during the census scene, we hang on the image of a puffer fish slowly exhaling buckets of water and dying on top of a pile of corpses.
In another scene of unprovoked ocean mutilation, we see a sperm whale that has been inadvertently hurt by the film crew's boat. The animal, now seriously injured, is mercifully put out of its misery by the crew. A group of sharks are then attracted to the dead mammal and begin to feast on its remains. Such is the circle of life, except the members of Cousteau's team decide to attack the sharks with axes, tuna hooks and crowbars, killing every last one of them for no good reason at all.
"It's a newly discovered species, so we don't know if that panicked wheezing is normal or not."
Cousteau later realized the error of his ways and became much more environmentally friendly -- he won the UN's International Environmental Prize in 1977 -- leaving his fish-exploding past behind.


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The NL10EDC and the NL12EDC were mainly utilized for regional and long distance transport tasks, but was also the natural trucks for construction site operation or special transport demands.
Under the aerodynamic bonnet of the NL10EDC and the NL12 EDC were more efficient versions of Volvo´s 10- and 12-litre engines, now with EDC (Electronic Diesel Control) to ensure low fuel economy, optimal performance, modest exhaust emissions and low noise level.
In 1999, the NH12 succeeded the NL10 EDC and the NL12 EDC.


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Let $M$ be a homology sphere. Suppose $P=M\times SU(2)$ is the trivial $SU(2)$ principal bundle. Let $R$ be all reducible connections on $P$. Here $A$ in $R$ is reducible if the gauge transformation group acting on $A$ has nontrivial stable subgroup. I want to see that the only flat connection in $R$ is the product connection.
I think the statement is that in a principal $SU(2)$-bundle $P$ over a connected manifold $M$ with $H_1(M;\mathbb{Z})=0$, every reducible flat connection has trivial holonomy and therefore trivializes $P$.
For a Lie group $G$, gauge transformations $u$ that stabilize a $G$-connection $A$ are covariant-constant, and therefore determined by their value $u(x)$ at a point $x\in M$. Since $u$ commutes with the parallel transport defined by $A$, it centralizes the holonomy group $H_A\subset G$ (the image of the holonomy representation $\rho\colon \pi_1(M,x)\to G$). This sets up an isomorphism between the stabilizer of $A$ and $C_G(H_A))/Z(G)$, where $C_G(H_A)$ is the centralizer of $H_A$ in $G$ and $Z(G)$ the center ($\pm I$ for $G=SU(2)$). See Donaldson-Kronheimer's book.
The centralizer of a non-central element in $SU(2)$ is a circle $\mathbb{T}$ (to see this, observe that any element is conjugate to a diagonal element, or else consider rotations in $SO(3)$). The centralizer of any non-abelian subgroup of $SU(2)$ lies in the intersection of two different circle-subgroups, and is therefore just the center.
When $H_1(M)=0$, every non-trivial homomorphism $\pi_1(M)\to SU(2)$ has non-abelian image, since the abelian ones factor through $H_1$. For any flat connection $A$ with non-trivial holonomy, the centralizer therefore equals the center, which makes $A$ irreducible.
The following is probably well known. For example, one can find it in Fukaya's notes on Floer homology, $A_\infty$-categories and topological field theory.
Let $P$ be the trivial principal $SU(2)$-bundle on $M$ and let $\mathcal{A}(M)$ (resp. $\mathcal{A}^{\textrm{flat}}(M)$) denote the space of connections (resp. flat connections) on $P$. For $a\in\mathcal{A}(M)$ let $\mathcal{G}^a$ denote the stabilizer of $a$ under the action of the gauge group $\mathcal{G}(M)$. Then $\mathcal{G}^a=\pm 1, U(1)$ or $SU(2)$.
One can elaborate on a proof of this later. May be from this one can deduce that there are no flat connections with stabilizers $U(1)$ and the ones that have full stabilizers are the ones that you're looking for. On the other hand, following what Dan had said before, one has the following :
$\mathcal{A}^{\textrm{flat}}(M)/\mathcal{G}(M)\cong \textrm{Hom}(\pi_1(M),SU(2))/SU(2)$.
Here the right hand quotient is to be interpreted as all homomorphisms up to conjugation. Again, this may lead to some proof but it's been a while since I have seen these things. I'll put up something once I think it through a bit.


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UTICA - So much for avenging a loss in their meeting.
Scoring on the opening kickoff and recovering a fumble in the endzone in the first three minutes of the game, gave the Utica Redskins the start they needed, registering a surprisingly easy 45-20 over the visiting Buckeye Local Panthers in the season opener Friday night.
It was the head coaching debut for veteran Phil Pest. The first-year Panther head coach replaced Anthony Barsch after last season, but is no stranger to the gridiron. Pest has over 30 years of coaching experience, Friday night was the first time he opened a season as the head coach.
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Buckeye returns to action on Sept. 2 with its home opener at Memorial Stadium, entertaining Pittsburgh Westinghouse.
Winning in their season opener, coach Randy Felumlee's club will return to action on Friday at Granville.
Utica wasted little time avenging last season's 33-16 loss at Buckeye Local. Senior Briar Mueller took the opening kickoff at his 19, found a seam in the middle and rambled untouched on an 81-yard scoring run. Greg Kiger booted the PAT for a 7-0 lead with just 12 seconds off the clock.
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Utica 45, Buckeye Local 20
Buckeye Local 0 0 6 14 - 20
Utica19 13 6 7 - 45
U: Mueller 81 kickoff return (Kiger kick)
U: Vickers recovered fumble in endzone (pass failed)
U: Hays 19 run (run failed)
U: Baldwin 1 run (pass failed)
U: Hay 5 run (Kiger kick)
B: Marshall 36 run (run failed)
U: Vickers 2 run (run failed)
U: Vickers 52 run (Kiger kick)
B: Stock 24 pass from Kirk (Flaherty run)
B: Tustin 13 run (run failed)
RUSHING: Buckeye Local 44-171 (Marshall, 7-64-1, Hopkins, 6-12, Flaherty, 9-27; Stock, 5-14, Agnew, 1-11, Mosser, 3-7, Tustin, 5-32-1, Kirk, 3-5, Beall, 4-20). Utica 44-308 (Edmister, 5-15, Baldwin, 15-66-1; Vickers, 6-84-1; Hays, 5-66-2; Taylor, 3-1; Piazza, 2-4; Moran, 1-45; Cooper, 1; Trombley, 7-36).
PASSING: Buckeye Local 4-11-123-1-1 (Hopkins, 2-6-67; Kirk, 2-4-56-1-1; Miller, 0-2-0-1-1). Utica 6-7-86-0-0 (all by Vickers).
RECEIVING: Buckeye Local: Duncan, 2-86; Stock, 2-37-1. Utica: Hays, 2-51; Davidson, 106; Mueller, 1-37; Baldwin, 1-(-7); Sparks, 1-(-2)
FIRST DOWNS: Buckeye 14 Utica 18
PENALTIES: Buckeye, 3-22 Utica, 8-60
FUMBLES: Buckeye, 1-, Utica, 1-1
Two minutes later, the Redskins took advantage of a Panther miscue as Trent Vickers pounced on a Buckeye fumble, the result of a snap that sailed over the head of the Panther punter. Vickers recovery in the endzone boosted the hosts lead to 13-0 with 9:45 on the clock.
With 6:07 on the first-quarter clock, Mitchell Peck landed on another Panther fumble, this time at the Utica 27. The Redskins proceeded to put together another scoring drive covering 73 yards on eight plays. A 45-yard pass from Vickers to Ben Hays set the stage for Hays' 19-yard run for the score with 2:07 on the clock.
In the second frame, the hosts stopped a long drive by the Panthers at the six, then proceeded to put together another long drive that featured 14 plays all on the ground capped off by a one-yard scoring plunge by Travis Baldwin with 5:07 on the clock.
Utica closed the half with third fifth score of the night on a five-yard Hays run with 0:43 on the clock. Kiger booted the PAT for a 32-0 lead.
In the second half, Buckeye tried to bounced back by scoring four plays into the third frame. Featuring a 13-yard Chase Hopkins to Andy Stock pass, the Panthers would score with 10:18 on the clock on a superb 36-yard run by speedster Austin Marshal to close the gap to 32-6.
With 3:13 on the board, the Redskins would add another score on a two-yard run by Vickers. The run for a PAT was stopped.
Vickers would strike again with a dazzling 52-yard scamper with 11:47 on the fourth quarter clock. Kiger booted the PAT for a 45-6 lead.
Buckeye would score twice in the final session as Stock hauled in a 24-yard pass from Nathan Kirk with 10:23 left. With 1:56 remaining, Shawn Tustin ran in the final tally from the 13.
"That kickoff return and the way they started had us on our eels early," Pest said. "We had been caught in the backfield for losses of seven and eight yards, but we missed a lot of tackles and they seemed to have the quickness to turn it into big gains.
"I was disappointed with our tackling tonight. We need the seniors to step up and lead these kids.
"We need these kids to improve on their intensity and give us more effort. There were times we could have had them third and long and instead they picked up big yardage.
"I was impressed with the effort from of the younger kids. That was bright spot for us."


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Mike Frengel earned a B.A. in electroacoustic music from San Jose State Univeristy, where he studied electronic music and composition with Allen Strange. He completed M.A. studies in electroacoustic music composition at the Bregman Studios at Dartmouth College, where he studied with Jon Appleton, Charles Dodge, Larry Polansky and Christian Wolff, and Ph.D. studies at City University in London, where he studied composition with Denis Smalley and Simon Emmerson.
Frengel was a prize winner in the 2000 Luigi Russolo Composition Competition. His works have been included on the Sonic Circuits VII, ICMC'95, CDCM Vol.26 and 2000 Luigi Russolo compact discs. His music has also been performed at various music events around the world, in addition to being broadcast over American, Canadian, French and Slovak radio station and the internet. Frengel is a founding member of the Electronic Arts Focus in London. He is currently a faculty member of the music department at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in music technology and composition.
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AAA offers winter weather driving tips
AAA Carolinas urges motorists to stay off the highway during icy and snowy conditions unless the trip is absolutely necessary.
Winter Driving Tips:
· Increase your following distance from 3-4 seconds to 8-10 seconds. On dry pavement at 20 mph it takes about 20 feet to stop. On ice-covered roads at 25 degrees, it takes 145 feet to stop - seven times further. Keep your speed appropriate to the needed stopping distance.
· Brake gradually with steady pressure on the brake. If you begin to skid, steer in the direction you want to go. If you do not have anti-lock brakes, gently depress the brake pedal. Do not slam on your brakes; it can cause you to lose control. If the brakes lock, release the brake and gently brake again while keeping your heel on the floor. This is known as "threshold braking." Depress brake pedal again and repeat process until you regain control.
· If you have anti-lock brakes, keep the brake firmly engaged, since the brakes will not lock up. Remember that the kickback from the pedal is the braking mechanism releasing and rebraking in milliseconds.
· Be especially wary on hills. Observe how other vehicles are reacting. Build momentum at the bottom of the hill and reduce speed when cresting the hill.
· On snowy four-lane highways, stay in the most recently cleared lane. Avoid changing lanes because of potential control loss when driving over built-up snow between lanes.
· Avoid using cruise control in slick or snowy conditions.
· Be careful crossing bridges and overpasses as these freeze before the regular roadway.
· Traction is greatest right before the wheels start to spin. Press gently on the accelerator and use a higher (second or third) gear when first getting started.
· Wear sunglasses during the day as glare may increase when reflected off of ice and snow.
· At stoplights or intersections watch out for polished or packed snow, which can make halting more treacherous. Heavy-footed drivers also spin their tires when starting, which worsens the problem. If possible, stop or start safely on a slightly different line. Fresh snow or less polished areas almost always offer better traction. Slow down sooner and gradually when approaching an intersection to allow yourself more time to react.
· Keep your lights on. Using your headlights improves visibility, both yours and other drivers.
Winter Preparation Tips:
· Take the time to have your battery's charge and cold cranking amps checked.
· Check your battery's connections for corrosion. When starting your car in the morning, turn on electricity first and wait 30 seconds for the battery to warm up before starting.
· Keep your gas tank at least half full to avoid freezing gas lines.
· Thinner grades of oil are better for colder weather; opt for 5W-30 over 10W-30.
· Check tire pressure every one to two weeks as low temperatures can reduce tire pressure and will limit control on slick roads.
· Never use wiper blades to clear ice or frost as this damages the blades. Use a scraper or can de-icer. Make sure all windows are clear for best visibility.
· Never warm up your car in a closed garage; carbon monoxide poisoning is possible. In some counties, it is illegal to warm up a car parked on public streets when the driver is not in the car.
· Keep an emergency kit in your car. Make sure it includes a mobile phone, car charger, blankets, flashlight with extra batteries, a first aid kit, drinking water, a small shovel, a sack of sand or cat litter for traction, windshield scraper, battery booster cables, emergency reflectors and non-perishable snacks.
During winter weather conditions, AAA service could be hampered and AAA's emergency road service may be limited to circumstances where someone is in imminent danger or a dire situation.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas City, Kan., voters chose Mark Holland as their new mayor.
Holland defeated Ann Murguia in Tuesday's election by a margin of 56 percent to 43 percent.
After his win, Holland vowed to continue the city's recent economic progress, while also addressing challenges in underdeveloped areas of the city.
Holland, a United Methodist pastor, will succeed Mayor Joe Reardon, who chose not to seek a third term. He will be sworn in April 25.