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Mark Ruffalo
|Mark Ruffalo
Ruffalo in June 2014
|Mark Alan Ruffalo
November 22, 1967
Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
|Manhattan, New York
|Actor, producer, activist, director, humanitarian
|Years active
|Sunrise Coigney (m. 2000)
Mark Alan Ruffalo (/ˈrʌfəloʊ/, born November 22, 1967)[1] is an American actor, director, humanitarian, social activist, and film producer. He made his screen debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse (1989), followed by minor film roles. He was part of the original cast of This Is Our Youth (1996), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Following was his roles in 13 Going on 30 (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Zodiac (2007), and What Doesn't Kill You (2008). In 2010, he starred in the psychological thriller Shutter Island and the comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right. For the latter, he received nominations for the SAG Award, BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also co-starred in the mystery films Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2 as FBI agent Rhodes.[2]
Ruffalo gained international prominence by portraying the Marvel Comics character the Hulk in The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). He starred in and was the co-executive producer of the 2014 television drama film The Normal Heart, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a TV Movie. The same year, he portrayed Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher, for which he was nominated for awards, including a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Infinitely Polar Bear and also received BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for his role in the drama Spotlight.
Early life[edit]
Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His mother, Marie Rose (née Hebert), is a hairdresser and stylist, and his father, Frank Lawrence Ruffalo, Jr., worked as a construction painter.[3][4][5] He has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott (died 2008).[3] His father is of Italian descent, precisely Girifalco[6] and his mother is of half French Canadian and half Italian ancestry.[7][8] He has described his upbringing as taking place in a "very big" family with "lots of love".[9] Of his father, Ruffalo has said, "He was an amazing, charismatic guy who was city high school wrestling champion three times. He was away a lot when I was growing up. It was very lonely for him."[4] "I [grew up with] three different faiths in my home—I had Catholicism, my grandmother was a evangelical and the rest of my family and my father [were] Baha'i."[10] Ruffalo attended both Catholic school and progressive[clarification needed] schools.[11] Ruffalo has described himself as having been a "happy kid,"[12] although he struggled from undiagnosed dyslexia and ADD as a child and a young adult.[13]
Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked. He competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia. Ruffalo graduated from First Colonial High School,[3] and then moved with his family to San Diego, California, and later to Los Angeles, where he took classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory and co-founded the Orpheus Theatre Company.[3] With the Orpheus Theatre Company, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays, and spent close to a decade working as a bartender.[14]
Ruffalo had minor roles in films like The Dentist (1996), the low-key crime comedy Safe Men (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War Western Ride with the Devil (1999). Through a chance meeting with writer Kenneth Lonergan, he began collaborating with Lonergan and appeared in several of his plays, including the original cast of This is Our Youth (1996), which led to Ruffalo's role as Laura Linney's character's brother in Lonergan's Academy Award-nominated 2000 film You Can Count on Me.[3] He received favorable reviews for his performance in this film, often earning comparisons to the young Marlon Brando, and won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Montreal World Film Festival.[3]
This led to other significant roles, including the films XX/XY (2002), Isabel Coixet's My Life Without Me (2003), Jane Campion's In the Cut (2003), Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), which is based upon two short stories written by Andre Dubus.[3] He appeared opposite Tom Cruise as a narcotics detective in Michael Mann's crime-thriller Collateral (2004).[3]
In the mid 2000s, Ruffalo appeared as a romantic lead View From the Top (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005).[3] In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! at the Belasco Theatre in New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.[3] In March 2007, he appeared in Zodiac as SFPD homicide inspector Dave Toschi, who ran the investigation to find and apprehend the Zodiac killer from 1969 through most of the 1970s.[3] In 2007, Ruffalo played divorced lawyer Dwight Arno, who accidentally kills a child and speeds away, in Terry George's film Reservation Road, based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz.[citation needed]
In 2008, Ruffalo starred as a con man in The Brothers Bloom with Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz and co-starred with Julianne Moore in Blindness. 2008 also saw Ruffalo in Brian Goodman's What Doesn't Kill You with Ethan Hawke and Amanda Peet, which was shown at the Toronto Film Festival. In 2009, he played a brief role in the film Where The Wild Things Are as Max's mother's boyfriend. In 2010, he co-starred in the Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island as U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, the partner of Leonardo DiCaprio's character Teddy Daniels.[15]
In 2010, he starred in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right, with Annette Bening and Julianne Moore. Ruffalo stated in an interview that he approached Cholodenko after watching High Art and said he would love to work with her. Years later, she called Ruffalo and said she wrote a script, and had him in mind for the part. His performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[16]
Ruffalo starred in The Avengers (2012), the sixth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, replacing Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner / the Hulk.[17] Ruffalo received critical acclaim for his performance and is under contract to reprise the role in any future film appearances of the character produced by Marvel Studios.[18] Ruffalo also made an uncredited cameo appearance as Banner in Iron Man 3, making him the first actor to reprise the character in a live-action film. He reprised the role again in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and will do so once more in the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok.[19]
In 2014, Ruffalo starred as Ned Weeks in a television adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era play, The Normal Heart; his performance earned him an Emmy nomination. He says he has had an outpouring of support for his performance:
I've never had so sincere and vulnerable a response from people for anything that I've ever done.... And of everything that I've done since I've been on social media, which hasn't been that long, by the way, I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing, man. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, "You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare."[20]
In 2015, Ruffalo received his second Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of wrestler Dave Schultz in the biographical drama Foxcatcher. Later in the year, he starred as a bipolar father-of-two in the independent comedy film Infinitely Polar Bear, for which he earned a Golden Globe Award nomination, and he also appeared as journalist Michael Rezendes in the drama film Spotlight, for which he earned his third Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award nomination.
He made his directorial debut with Sympathy for Delicious, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. On releasing the film, Ruffalo said, "I'm still looking for distribution. I have a couple offers on the table, but I'm holding out for something a little bigger. I've been screening it for a lot of groups, and people are really responding to it. I think they're scared of that movie."[21] About directing, he says,
I liken it to an actor gets to eat one slice, and a director gets to eat the whole pie. [laughs] You get to collaborate with gifted people who are good at their craft, so you're orchestrating all these different mediums. You're helping people through the script to realize their own talents. I find that really satisfying, and I felt like being in front of the camera is so intense and self-involved and personal, and directing isn't like that for me. It's a much more communal experience. Last year at this time, I was like, "I'm not going back to acting, man. No way, it's done." I haven't worked in a year. It's really taken me that long to get back to my love for what I do for acting. I would like to do 50-50, if I could. Really, I'd just be directing right now, but I can't support my family doing that at this moment, and I love acting. It's not a bad position to be in.[21]
Personal life[edit]
Since June 2000, Ruffalo has been married to Sunrise Coigney and they have three children: son Keen (b. 2001), and daughters Bella Noche (b. 2005) and Odette (b. 2007). They live in Manhattan.[22]
After completing work on the film The Last Castle, Ruffalo was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a type of brain tumor, and had surgery; the tumor was benign, but resulted in a period of partial facial paralysis.[4] He recovered from the paralysis; however, he became deaf in his left ear as a result of the tumor.[13]
On December 1, 2008, Ruffalo's brother, Scott, was shot at his Beverly Hills condominium,[23] with one report describing the shooting as "execution-style" in the back of the head.[24] Scott Ruffalo died on December 8, 2008. Police took two people into custody: a woman who is considered a suspect and a man considered a "person of interest".[25] An attorney for the female suspect told police Scott Ruffalo shot himself accidentally.[26][27] The female suspect died on January 6, 2012.[28]
Political views[edit]
On October 4, 2006, he appeared on Democracy Now!, a daily news program. He spoke against the War in Iraq, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, torture, and the Bush Administration. He also announced he would speak at The World Can't Wait Protest in New York City on October 5, 2006. Ruffalo contributed to the campaign of former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for President.[29]
He appeared on Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on August 14, 2008's episode entitled "World Peace". He said that "Peace looks like me and my kids and my wife laying in our bed on a Saturday morning... it's a love-in, y'know? John Lennon had it right, y'know?" [30]
In 2012, he endorsed Kathleen Kane, the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania Attorney General, due to her insistence on investigating the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the Hershey Trust for alleged improprieties, and for her opposition to hydrofracking.[31] Kane was elected and became Pennsylvania's first female Attorney General and Democrat elected to the post.
Ruffalo is pro-choice. He has explained his stance by saying,"I don't want to turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to resolve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room."[32]
On July 21, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, Ruffalo criticized the IDF for allegedly targeting Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.[33]
He pleaded for Elizabeth Warren to run for president in a video, but she declined on the Huffington Post Show in April 2015. Since then he has expressed his support for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.[34]
He is also a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.[35]
9/11 Truth[edit]
Ruffalo has given interviews to We Are Change, a 9/11 'truth' group, in both 2007 and 2011. Ruffalo stated: "I'm baffled by the way all three buildings came down. My first reaction was that buildings don't fall down like that. I've done quite a bit of my own research ...The fact that the 9/11 investigation went from the moment the planes hit to the moment the buildings fell, and nothing before or after, I think, makes that investigation completely illegitimate. If you're going to do a crime investigation, you have to find motive. We didn't follow that. It was quickly pushed away, obviously. There was no evidence at the biggest crime scene. None of us know what happened but I'm totally and completely behind reopening that investigation. Where is the money? Follow the money, guys!"[36]
In 2011, he added: "The Commission didn't really do anything about before the buildings were struck or afterwards. There just seems to be more questions left unanswered than anything else. I don't want to jump to any conclusions but I don't think it's ever been given its due diligence, considering that it's the largest crime ever committed on US soil. Building Seven – a lot of people don't even know about that ... The world has changed because of it and not in a good way. We've been militarised and lost many of our civil liberties. More people die from smoking cigarettes each year and we give this a lot more play than that."[37]
Zika theories[edit]
Ruffalo has suggested that the Zika virus is the inadvertent creation of a British biotech company that has been releasing genetically modified mosquitoes to combat dengue fever in Brazil.[38]
Opposition to fracking[edit]
In 2008, Ruffalo expressed concern that gas companies were eyeing his family's land in Callicoon, New York. After doing his own investigation, New York magazine wrote, he becomes "anti-fracking's first famous face."[39]
On October 4, 2010, Ruffalo appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss hydraulic fracturing and the The FRAC Act of 2009.[40] He claimed in the December 2010 issue of GQ magazine that after he organized screenings in Pennsylvania of a documentary about natural-gas-drilling called Gasland, he was placed on a terror advisory list.[41] The Department of Homeland Security denied the claim.[42]
On July 13, 2011, Ruffalo appeared on Countdown With Keith Olbermann to discuss fracking, particularly in New York. "This is an industry that is the dirtiest, slimiest, most arrogant, and negligent that you can imagine," he said. Ruffalo taped an "online segment extra" for Countdown, during which time Keith Olbermann offered him the opportunity to become an official Countdown Contributor. Ruffalo gratefully accepted.[43]
He has appeared on The Colbert Report and Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss his continued opposition to fracking.[44] His neighbors with a family house near his in Callicoon, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, mobilized their friends around the anti-fracking cause, and in August 2012 Artists Against Fracking was launched with Ruffalo and the two heading it. Alec Baldwin is a member.[39]
On April 25, 2013, Ruffalo laid out his case against fracking in a piece co-authored with Phil Radford on CNN.com, where he argued solar and wind are here now, and using fracked natural gas instead of cleaner sources of energy will result in more faucets on fire, methane leaks that cause global warming, groundwater contamination, and cancer-causing chemicals in communities.[45] That same year, he began promoting The Solutions Project along with Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and private equity investor Marco Krapels. The Solutions Project is presented as a way for the U.S. to generate 100% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2050.[46]
In 2014 Ruffalo played a role in a documentary film on the effects of a major oil spill.[47]
In 2016, Ruffalo narrated and produced 'Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution is Now', a documentary by director Jon Bowermaster which looks at President Obama's environmental tenure and legacy concerning the massive expansion of oil and natural gas drilling.[48]
Ruffalo's non-profit organisation Water Defense was criticised in 2016 for appointing Scott Smith as its "chief scientist" and "chief technology officer & investigator". Smith has suggested that the tap water in Flint is still dangerous and unsafe for bathing because other testers are only looking for lead rather than contaminants known as trihalomethanes.[49]
Awards and nominations[edit]
- ^ "Monitor". Entertainment Weekly (1182). Nov 25, 2011. p. 30.
- ^ "Now You See Me". May 31, 2013 – via IMDb.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Mark Ruffalo". Inside the Actors Studio. Season 13. Episode 6. 2007-03-19. Bravo!.
- ^ a b c Radar, Dotson (May 9, 2004). "I Wouldn't Give Any Of It Back". Parade. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ Baldassarre, Angela (March 4, 2007). "On the trail of a real-life serial killer". Tandem (Canada). Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ Grassi, Giovanna (June 18, 2015). "Mark Ruffalo: intervista con l'attore di Avengers". Elle. Retrieved July 24, 2016.
- ^ Wloszczyna, Susan (September 15, 2005). "Ruffalo ascends to the next level in 'Heaven'". USA Today. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
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- ^ Dudek, Duane (December 20, 2000). "United by loss: Ruffalo nails his role in drama about 2 siblings who share painful past". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on September 26, 2008. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ "The Deep Side of Mark Ruffalo". Relevant Magazine. April 29, 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ^ "Mark Ruffalo Speaks Out For Women's Reproductive Rights (Video)". Huffington Post. January 23, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ Pearlman, Cindy (February 25, 2007). "Working on a killer movie". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ a b Hiatt, Brian (May 4, 2015). "The Hulk: The Last Angry Man". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media, Ltd. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ^ Dumenco, Simon. "The Kid Stays In the Pictures". New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
- ^ "Shutter Island Opens Doors For Home Video". DreadCentral.com. April 19, 2010. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
- ^ "The Kids Are All Right interview". Mark Ruffalo Central. July 11, 2010. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
- ^ "TOLDJA! Marvel & Ruffalo Reach Hulk Deal". Deadline Hollywood. July 23, 2010. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
- ^ Finke, Nikki (2010-07-23). "TOLDJA! Marvel & Ruffalo Reach Hulk Deal". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
- ^ "Marvel Studios Confirms Stellar New Cast Members of the Highly Anticipated 'Thor: Ragnarok' - News - Marvel.com".
- ^ Gerard, Jeremy. "Mark Ruffalo After 'Normal Heart': 'If A Piano Dropped On Me Tomorrow, I Did OK". Deadline.com. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Page 2 – Mark Ruffalo is Doing "All Right"". Ifc.com. 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ Ellis, Josh. "Mark Ruffalo's Good Life Formula: 3 Kids, 1 Rabbit, 47 acres, 2,764 Miles From Hollywood", Men's Journal. June 2013; accessed April 26, 2015.[dead link]
- ^ Jones, Oliver (December 3, 2008). "Mark Ruffalo's Brother Shot in the Head". People.
- ^ "Scott Ruffalo still in critical condition". Boston Herald. December 5, 2008.
- ^ "Scott Ruffalo Dies from Gunshot Wound". People. December 9, 2008.
- ^ Dillon, Nancy (December 9, 2008). "Actor Mark Ruffalo's brother, Scott, died after playing Russian Roulette, says murder suspect". New York Daily News (New York City). Archived from the original on January 1, 2015.
- ^ "Autopsy scheduled for Scott Ruffalo". Los Angeles: KABC-TV. December 11, 2008. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014.
- ^ Blankstein, Andrew (February 29, 2012). "Death of Mark Ruffalo's brother: Key witness may have overdosed". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ "Election Center 2008: Mike Gravel". CNN. Retrieved September 20, 2007.
- ^ "YouTube – "World Peace" with Penn and Teller". YouTube.com. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
- ^ Ruffalo endorsement of Kathleen Kane; accessed April 26, 2015.
- ^ Kira Cochrane (August 19, 2013). "Mark Ruffalo's pro-choice stance on abortion rights sets a powerful example". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ "Mark Ruffalo on Twitter".
- ^ News, A. B. C. (August 11, 2015). "Meet Bernie Sanders' Top Celebrity Backers".
- ^ "Mark Ruffalo Reveals The Message Of "The Normal Heart" And The Personal Reason LGBT Equality Is Important To Him".
- ^ WeAreChange Los Angeles (November 3, 2007). "MARK RUFFALO questions 9-11" – via YouTube.
- ^ WeAreChange (January 20, 2011). "Mark Ruffalo: There are more questions than answers about 9/11" – via YouTube.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/americas/conspiracy-theories-about-zika-spread-along-with-the-virus.html
- ^ a b "Fracklash". New York magazine. Sep 10, 2012.
- ^ Mark Ruffalo Speaks Out Against Fracking Practices on The Rachel Maddow Show, commondreams.org, October 5, 2010.
- ^ Buchanan, Kyle (November 24, 2010). "Mark Ruffalo Is on a Homeland Security Watch". New York. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014.
- ^ Sanburn, Josh (November 30, 2010). "Does Pennsylvania Consider Actor Mark Ruffalo a Terrorist?". Time. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014.
- ^ "Web Extra: Countdown Contributor Mark Ruffalo on Fracking – Countdown with Keith Olbermann". Current.com. 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ "Mark Ruffalo". Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ^ "Don't Let America Get Fracked". CNN.com. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
- ^ 100% Renewable Energy, thesolutionsproject.org; accessed April 26, 2015.
- ^ Teitell, Beth (September 30, 2014). "Mark Ruffalo goes wading in the Charles River". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
- ^ Mark Ruffalo Oscar-nominated actor, climate change activist; Hero", Jon Bowermaster Writer/Filmmaker/National Geographic "Ocean (March 17, 2016). "Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution is Now".
- ^ Mathis-Lilley, Ben (May 23, 2016). "Mark Ruffalo Is Helping a Fake Scientist Use Flint to Promote His Sponge Business" – via Slate.
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- Mark Ruffalo – People in Film at Focus Features
- Mark Ruffalo interview clips on Inside the Actors Studio
- Mark Ruffalo producer profile for The 1 Second Film
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Life has a way of throwing you a curve every so often and that is what happened to us. Like twins, which we are not, we both had very serious health issues to conquer this winter and spring. Like survivors, which we are, we will both be 100% before long. We have too many Santas to create, too many friends to see and too many places to go to stop now!
Though we are sad that we cannot be with you, we wish you a very merry time in Rye, NY. Bill and Michael have some fabulous things up their sleeve for you to enjoy. When you go to dinner at night we hope you will feel in a small way, that we are there with you. Thanks to Bill and Michael for their confidence entrusting us with the surprise project.
August is the target date to be back in the studio. We'll be working and posting pictures, sending emails and building our sales page once again. Thank you to all for your support and your patience.
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Our latest Nodder Belsnickle, covered in antique velvet. Now on the Sales Page.
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The Sales Page Has Been Updated
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November 12 - Back to the Studio!
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Studio Closed
After an extraordinarily busy summer and fall, we are taking a couple weeks of respite to "fill up the well." Thanks to everyone who has made this such a successful season for Two Sisters. We'll be back in time to post and ship for Christmas!
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Haliburton County Studio Tour 2015
The 2015 Studio Tour started off on a cold and blustery day. After the warm summer temperatures lasted until the end of September we were all caught off guard! Never-the-less we got the grog heated and the ginger cookies out of the oven and our visitors all had a lovely time enjoying the new merchandise and the early Christmas decorations! We will be open next weekend too:
October 10-11 from 10AM to 4PM
October 10-11 from 10AM to 4PM
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Still Glowing
After a fabulous week in Lancaster, PA, hosted by Steve Wilt and Jim Morrison, we dragged ourselves home tired, but filled with enthusiasm. We learned so much from the museum room, the programs and the special exhibits. We spent an enchanted afternoon at the National Christmas Center in nearby Paradise, PA. We listened with awe as John Wernega coached the best from the Glow Christmas Carolers. We charmed as much money as we could from the ATM and spent gleeful hours room-hopping and shopping in the salesroom and Kris Kindl Markt. Thank you to all the volunteers who worked so hard to make this convention the best one yet. Every year The Golden Glow raises the bar and this year was no exception!
Many of you have requested that we move our sales page back to the familiar format of our website, so we have done it. We left a few things ready to be posted and you can find them on the Santas, Elves & Nodders For Sale page. In the next few days we will gradually add more as the pieces are completed.
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News From Two Sisters Studio
We owe everyone an apology for not posting here for such a very long time! Santa's elves have been too busy preparing for the Golden Glow Convention to do anything else. Who would have guessed a regular work week for Santa would be 80 hours a week?
Well, at least he has a smile on his face!
Well, at least he has a smile on his face!
Our new Nodder.
With some regret, we made the decision to close our shop on Doll Shops United (DSU). We had many friends there who were supportive and the sales were good, but we just cannot keep up the level of production to continue with an on-line shop. Further, a few of our true blue Christmas collectors didn't like the change. As a result, starting in August, we will go back to having our sales page right here. If you are on our mailing list, you will get an email about every two weeks and you can choose to follow the link or not. If you want to join our mailing list, please send your email address and your name to Lynn at firstname.lastname@example.com
We have the car packed and we are just about ready to leave the dogs in the care of their trusty sitters while we go to Kansas City for the UFDC National (doll) Convention, followed immediately by the Golden Glow Convention in Lancaster, PA. Thank heavens for house sitters and air conditioned cars.
Hope to see many of you soon. We will be set up in the Kris Kindle Markt and of course, our door will be open for room trading at the Marriott. Hope you will stop in to say hello!
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Linux Job Scheduling
The at and batch commands put jobs into the at queue. What is the at queue? Well, there is a directory, /var/spool/at, which is accessible only to the dæmon user and the superuser (everything is available to the superuser). For each job, there is a file in the directory. The file is a shell script that sets up the environment and umask, cd's to the working directory and then runs the programs specified to at/batch in succession.
The commands go into the shell script exactly as they were typed/piped to at. Each is run in turn. If you used &, && or ; to background jobs, or make jobs dependent on one another, these will be observed.
Important note! The shell /bin/sh is used to run these jobs. If you normally use some other shell, such as tcsh, be aware that you can't use the semantics of that shell because /bin/sh will be used instead.
At this point, documenting the dæmon is rather anticlimactic. The atd dæmon examines the /var/spool/at directory. The names of the files actually encode their runtimes, queues and batch vs. at status. These files are shell scripts that set up the environment and run the job as described above. Output from the jobs is temporarily stored in /var/spool/at/spool until the jobs are completed, upon which the output is mailed to the invoking user.
Potentially every user on the system has a crontab, which is a portmanteau word made from CRON TABle. The command to create, examine and modify crontabs is called crontab.
There are four ways to invoke crontab.
crontab <file> crontab -l crontab -r crontab -e
Generally, crontab works on your own crontab. All four forms accept the -u option followed by a user name. In most cases, you will be able to view and edit other users' crontabs only if you are the superuser. You might want to check your system security if you are able to edit another user's crontabs. You probably have some problems!
The first form stores the named file as the crontab, replacing any current crontab. The second form dumps the current crontab to stdout. The third form removes the current crontab. The fourth form opens the current crontab in the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variable.
If you want to experiment with your crontab, it's a good idea to do a
crontab -l working-crontab
to save your current crontab if any, then use
crontab -eto modify your crontab in your favorite editor. you can always use
crontab -r working-crontabto put everything back the way it was.
At this point, you may be wondering what a crontab looks like and what it does.
A crontab is a list of program command lines along with a specification of when to run that command line. It is a whitespace-delimited file with a newline between commands. Blank lines and lines beginning with a pound character (#) are ignored.
The fields are:
minute hour day of month month day of week command
Any of the time fields may be an asterisk (*), which means "every". Thus, an entry of:
* * * * * fetchmailWill run fetchmail once a minute, every minute of every hour, every day.
Ranges of numbers are allowed. So:
* 8-17 * * 1-5 fetchmail
will run fetchmail once a minute, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday (0 or 7 represents Sunday).
Lists are allowed. Thus:
0,20,40 * * * 1-5 fetchmail
will run fetchmail at the hour, at 20 past, and again at 40 past the hour every hour of the day, Monday through Friday.
Step values are allowed after asterisks and ranges. They are of the form <range>/<step>. So,
*/5 8-17/2 * * * cp /var/log/* /log/backup
will run that cp command (just in case you had started thinking you could run only fetchmail) every five minutes in the 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. hours of every day.
Finally, names may be used for months (jan-dec, case insensitive) and days of the week (sun-sat, case insensitive). The Red Hat man pages claim that you can't use names in ranges, but I gave it a try myself and it appeared to work correctly.
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The sheer quantity of events and exhibits planned for Los Desaparecidos/The Disappeared makes the collaboration noteworthy—and I'm willing to bet it's quality, too. This three-month-long series of exhibitions, films, readings, lectures, workshops, master classes and panel discussions is based on the lives and artistic works of those affected by a military-controlled Latin America. Los Desaparecidos is the collaborative work of the Disappeared Collaborative Project (DCP)—a regional partnership of nine Santa Fe and Albuquerque art and documentary organizations. The opening event is a conversation between Laurel Reuter, chief curator and founding director of the North Dakota Museum of Art, and Lawrence Weschler, essayist in The Disappeared catalogue and writer for The New Yorker, on Friday, Oct. 12, at the Lensic Theater (211 W. San Francisco, Santa Fe, 505-988-1234) at 7 p.m. The main exhibition of the same name opens on Friday at SITE Santa FE (1606 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, 505-989-1199) with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Also opening (daunting isn't it?) on Friday is Antonio Frasconi and War Paint at The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (108 Cathedral, Santa Fe, 505-983-8900) with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Both exhibits will be on display through Jan. 20, 2008. Keep an eye here for a review of one of these shows soon—I'll be sure to let you know if they're worth the drive to Santa Fe. (Again, I'm betting they are.) For more info until then, visit www.thedisappearedsantafe.org.
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America's culture is food. We sup to socialize. We chow down to celebrate. We stuff ourselves to suppress our flaws. We binge to bring ourselves joy. But what exactly is "American food"? Hamburgers, hot dogs and a well-fed man in a red apron tending a grill in a highly manicured yard is an image that comes to mind. America may not have a cuisine as well-defined as the motherlands many of us spring from, but we do love to eat. And eat. And eat. Key Ingredients: America By Food, a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution on display at the DeLavy House Museum, shows how what we harvest, prepare and consume defines our melting-pot culture—and just in time for our annual Best of Burque Restaurants poll.
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Communal worship binds Jews together. Parts of the liturgy, such as the Kedusha and Kaddish, may be recited only in a minyan, a gathering of ten adult Jews.
For some of us with disabilities, praying with a community is difficult. The synagogue may be inaccessible. Individuals who process verbal and written language differently from the "average congregant" might struggle to find and maintain their place in the prayerbook, keep pace with other worshippers, and switch between Hebrew and English.
Through websites like "The New Normal," we can help each other find innovative paths to inclusion in public worship. We can educate our clergy to make accommodations when possible.
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As this week's Torah portion "Va-et-chanan" (And I Pleaded) opens, Moses begs God to permit him to enter the Land of Israel with the people whom he has led for forty years. According to our tradition, he prays 515 times.
When his sister Miriam was punished with tsa-ra-at (often translated as leprosy, but actually a spiritual as well as a physical affliction,) Moses said "God, please, please heal her." It wasn't an elegant or poetic recitation, but God does not require fancy words.
In his Psalms, King David has a prayer for every mood: "The Lord is my light and my help, whom should I fear? " [27, 1] ; "My eyes are wasted by vexation, my substance and body too" [31, 10]; "The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone." [118, 22]; "I am more eager for God than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning" [130, 6]; "I do not aspire to great things, or to what is beyond me [131, 1.]
Private Prayer is Completely Accessible
In personal prayer, the Sanctuary is in one's heart. There's no need for ramps, interpreters, or Braille. No rule requires the worshipper to sit still or remain silent. One can pray briefly, at length, and at any time, without even speaking. Prayers may focus on the pray-er's needs, family concerns or on the suffering of innocents worldwide. In the absence of barriers, I am free, in my private prayer, to sincerely consider who I can be and what I can strive to accomplish.
Seeking Guidance
As one explores the realm of personal prayer, it is advisable to consult a rabbi, educator or scholar. What can our extensive literature teach us about liturgy? How does one react if, as in Moses's case, a personal petition is not granted?
Many of us will be turning to God during the upcoming High Holiday season. It is time to approach the sanctuary with no barriers, but from our own hearts, from which each of us, in his/her unique way, can seek God.
A native of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, Rabbi Michael Levy attributes his achievements to God's beneficence and to his courageous parents. His parents supported him as he explored his small home town, visited Israel and later studied at Hebrew University, journeyed towards more observant Judaism, received rabbinic ordination, obtained a master's degree in social work from Columbia University and lectured on Torah and disability-related topics.
As a founding member of Yad Hachazakah, the Jewish Disability Empowerment Center, Rabbi Levy strives to make the Jewish experience and Jewish texts accessible to Jews with disabilities. In lectures at Jewish camps, synagogues and educational institutions, he cites Nachshon, who according to tradition boldly took the plunge into the Red Sea even before it miraculously parted. Rabbi Levy elaborates, "We who have disabilities should be Nachshons --boldly taking the plunge into the Jewish experience, supported by laws and lore that mandate our participation." Rabbi Levy is currently director of Travel Training at MTA New York City Transit. He is an active member of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY. He invites anyone who has disability-related questions to e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Diana Cohen and Jackson Browne have been dating since 1993. [view couple]
Connect any celebrity with Diana Cohen to see how closely they are linked... romantically!
It was only legal tender if Jackson spent the night all of you, so don't call in the law on the comment below the border, thank you, val
In Oaxaca Mexico I arrived with others and asked a wall painter how they made the texture work....and a limo drove up to a hotel there in Oaxaca and I always thought it was Jackson Browne and Daryl Hannah getting out of the limo, so maybe someday, there will be a finding out here, was it them? were they lucky enough to see the beautiful city when I and others did? Also, there was a guy I spent the night with as a kid who might have been Jackson Browne, but he left early, To Late for the Sky, Jackson Browne, you know how they are, love Val.
I think Daryl shattered this man.He was in the prime of his life, thought he'd the love of his life,and she was a fraud. I never understood why she was living with Jackson and seeing JFK. If I could only get to him he would love me, and I dom't cheat. I never thought Hannah was very bright any way, she was looking for prestige when perfection was right there. Jackson you and I have had some rough spots when it comes to love, but in all honesty, you have no spark with this present woman.Holly
Perhaps Diana and Jackson do make a good couple. It just seems there is a certain look on Jackson`s face as though something is missing. A sadness about him. It could have nothing to do with his relationship with Diana. I wish them both well. Namaste
Diana Cohen has art work that is very different. I like some of it and not fond or impressed with other art work she has done with plastic. I would never wear plasitc clothing. Nothing personal about my comment on you and Jackson. You share the same cause, but something is missing in his life and he will have to find it in another woman. If you love him, set him free to fill the void you can not. That is if he decides to leave you to fulfill what is missing. He will find it one day soon.
Diana Cohen does not appear to be a perfect match for Jackson Browne. I am totally surprised that they have been a couple for so long. I think he will meet a more suitable woman for him in the future.


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K.C. in Jacksonville writes: Was forced to do the unthinkable this week. Sitting down a healthy Peyton for Kyle ORTON. Bizarro world! Would u do the same with the Colts facing that Ravens D?
Paul Kuharsky: Here is my thinking: You drafted him in the first or second round -- you've got to start him no matter what. Because the week he finally lights it up, if he's on your bench, that will hurt way more than any of his bad Sundays do.
Here's the context: I am 1-4 in two leagues, always seem to make the wrong decisions and have never won a league.
Mike in Philly writes: Texans are facing the Dolphins and their two-time unbeatable Wildcat formation next week. What are the Texans doing to prepare? What kind of personnel/formations can be used to stop it? Which teams were successful against Arkansas last year with McFadden and Felix Jones and why?
Paul Kuharsky: An excellent question. I assure you the Texans won't be offering me specifics of their countermeasures. But they'll spend a lot of time on it, and it's about time people figured out how to deal with it. It shouldn't be creating chaos the second, third and fourth time it's used. Here's a blog entry on the subject.
Dustin in Lebanon, TN, writes: Paul- With the Titans current success and dominating defense, does this mean Coach Schwartz will finally get the head coaching job he has always wanted and deserves? Who would be a likely replacement? McGinnis? Enjoy your appearances on The Zone! It doesn't get any better to hear you and Frank swap jabs back and forth.
Paul Kuharsky: Thanks, Dustin. I expect Schwartz to get a head-coaching job after the season. Jeff Fisher would put McGinnis there and hire a linebacker coach.
Guy from Round Rock, TX, writes: Paul, Where do the Texans go from here? I can?t stomach much more of this!
Paul Kuharsky: Nowhere to go but up, right?
They can beat Miami. But if they don't beat Detroit and Cincy, things are way worse than I thought.
Josh Cates in Nashville writes: Purple People Eaters ... New York Sack Exchange ... Steel Curtain ... Fearsome Foursome ... "Blue Blockers" for the Titans D ... thoughts?
Paul Kuharsky: Keep working on it? (Not sure they are nickname-worthy yet, but if you come up with the right one ...)
Mad Mike in Houston writes: Paul: This is a pretty simple comment. I still cannot believe what I witnessed Sunday at Reliant. This is something that could set the franchise back further than ever before. I think we will find out a lot about this team and this coach, this upcoming Sunday.....MM
Paul Kuharsky: And Miami is hardly the pushover we might have thought before the season.
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|Constance Janiga-Perkins
|Associate Professor of Spanish, Undergraduate Advisor of Spanish
|(205) 348-9909
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W 2-4, F 2:30-3:30 and by appointment
Degree Information
Ph. D. (Indiana)
Research Interests
Spanish American Colonial texts, Female Spiritual Autobiography, semiotics, the materiality of manuscripts, and Digital Humanities.
Current Projects
Digital Projects:
- Digital Critical edition of The Life Story of Jerónima Nava y Saavedra. In progress with UA Digital Humanities Center.
- The Madre Maria de San Jose Project: collaboration with UA Digital Humanities Center and the Graduate students of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics.
Book: Women's Spiritual Autobiography: language, materiality and meaning in Colonial Spanish America. In progress.
Selected Publications
José Juan Arrom, Discoverer of the Taíno People: The Case of the Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios (c1498) by Fray Ramón Pané. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.
Immaterial Transcendences: The Process of the Colonial Writing Subject in Brazil's Letter of Discovery (1500). NY: Peter Lang, 2001.
Diálogo Entre o Deus Momo e o Censor, Critical Edition. With Heitor Martins. VII Anuário do Museo da Inconfidencia e do Grupo de Museos e Casas Históricas de Minas Gerais. Brasilia: Ministerio da Educação e Cultura/SC/SPHAN/Pró-Memória, 1984, 9-85.
Selected Articles:
"Making meaning in Women's Spiritual Autobiography: Language, materiality and agency in Colonial New Granada". Semiotica. Accepted. Forthcoming 2013.
"Editing the Spiritual Autobiography of Jerónima Nava y Saavedra: the female search for wholeness at the end of the XXth Century." Letras Femeninas, 37.2 (2011):117-38
"Translation and Healing in José Juan Arrom's Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios (c 1498) by Ramón Pané. The Translator. Manchester, England: St. Jerome Press, Volume 12. Number 1. 2006.
"What Does It Matter Who Is Speaking?: Possessions of Self and Other in Knivet's Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes." South Atlantic Review. Athens, GA: SAMLA, May 1995.
"Un acercamiento a 'Sentido y contrasentido en la aplicación de conceptos y criterios europeos al estudio de la literatura hispanoamericana' de Paul Verdevoye." Centro de Información y Referencia sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1991.
"Escritura y transculturación: El cautiverio de Hans Staden y el 'otro' brasileño." Crítica y descolonización: El sujeto colonial en la cultura latinoamericana. Eds. Beatriz González Stephan and Lúcia Helena Costigan. Caracas, Venezuela: Columbian Quincentenary Committee of the Ohio State University, Academia Nacional de la Historia, 1992.
"Writing and/the Colonization: The Conquest of the Portuguese New World." Proceedings of the Colloquium "Cultural Readings of Latin American Texts and Literature." Colloquium at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies/NEH, Harvard University, June 8, 1990. Brown University, Providence, RI, 1991.
"Pero de Magalhães Gândavo's História da Província Santa Cruz: Paradise, Providence, and How Best To Turn A Profit." South Atlantic Review. Tuscaloosa, AL: SAMLA, May 1992.
"Pero Lopes de Sousa's Diário da Navegação: The Hero and Historiography." Luso-Brazilian Review. Madison, WI, Summer 1990.
"Sebastião da Rocha Pita's História da América Portuguesa: Literariness and the Imaginative Reconstruction of the Past." South Atlantic Review. Chapel Hill, NC: January 1990.
"Towards an Alternative Reading of Historical and Descriptive Prose in Brazil from 1500-1730." Ediciones Discurso Literario. Stillwater, OK, 1988.
"Pero Vaz de Caminha's Carta as Early Literary Expression in Brazil." Festschrift. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1987/90.
"Los infortunios de Alonso Ramírez: ¿La primera novela moderna en Hispanoamérica?" Proceedings of the Hispanic Literature Seventh Annual Conference. Indiana, PA: Indiana University Press, 1981.
"Uma chamada lírica de Luandino Vieira por uma literatura angolana." Lisbon. Africa: 3.11:28-34 (1981).
Courses/Teaching Interests
The Madre Maria de San Jose Project – digital edition of Volume II, in collaboration with Alabama Digital Humanities Center and the Graduate Students of SP 515 – Spanish American Colonial Texts.
Spanish Conversation
Advanced Grammar
Books Reviewed
Janiga-Perkins, Constance, J. Immaterial Transcendences: Colonial Subjectivity as Process in Brazil's "Letter" of Discovery (1500). Wor(l)ds of Change: Latin American & Iberian Literature 51. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 144 pp.
Janiga-Perkins' Immaterial Transcendences offers a close reading of Pero Vaz de Caminha's Letter of Discovery [Carta de achamento] that aims at uncovering rhetorical devices within the text that point to a (European or Portuguese) colonial subjectivity in crisis as it attempts to represent the newly encountered (Amerindian) Other. Janiga-Perkins argues that far from being a seamless narrative where Renaissance Europe takes textual possession of the New World and its inhabitants, the birth certificate of Brazil reveals the act of representation as 'process' whereby both subject and object are transformed into a 'third' or 'hybrid' entity. This particular insight opens up the possibility for new readings of this seminal text. In fact, the author treats Caminha's Letter both as historical and literary text, therefore her work is a cross between literary analysis and historiography, at the same time as it is nurtured by conceptual notions stemming from postcolonial theory, deconstruction, and to a certain degree, psychoanalysis.
More precisely, Janiga-Perkins suggests that there is a tense movement within the text that, in essence, reveals a struggle to bridge the gap between separateness and unity, as far as the relationship between the Portuguese and the Tupi is concerned. Thus, at one extreme of this contact zone there is a series of 'textual stutters' that occur in key segments of the document. These stutters would constitute unconscious rhetorical manifestations within European colonial discourse of the impossibility of taking possession of the Other. The author desires to determine when, how, where, and why these textual stutters occur. A large portion of Janiga-Perkins study is dedicated to analyzing these rhetorical manifestations.
At the other extreme of the Tupi-Portuguese contact zone would be instances of reciprocal acculturation where the distinction between self and Other begins to blur. This is most noticeable in reference to nudity. It is a well-known fact to readers of this foundational text that the Portuguese become most fascinated by the unselfconsciousness displayed by the Tupi with regard to nudity. This plain reality drastically subverts fifteenth/sixteenth century European notions of culture and civilization, and yet, as Janiga-Perkins affirms, the writing subject in the Letter of Discovery seems to be at least temporarily seduced into accepting the naturalness of the naked body. Hence, Immaterial Transcendences takes the reader through various passages within the Letter where one witnesses 'acts of transcendence,' in which the writing subject transcends the existential/cultural position where he is initially located as the narrative progresses.
Immaterial Transcendences offers one of the most suggestive as well as meticulous close readings available of Brazil's Letter of Discovery. Janiga-Perkins' book is successful in providing new critical ways of approaching one the most canonical texts within Luso-Brazilian literature and historiography. Most particularly, by absorbing various hermeneutical strategies and conceptual notions from contemporary theoretical currents such as postcolonialism and deconstruction, and effectively deploying them in her analysis, Caminha's Letter can now be read differently; no longer as a site of colonial stasis but as a site of contradiction, ambivalence, and resistance. This particular book exemplifies the considerable leaps in the critical reception of colonial texts since the pioneering philological work by Jaime Cortesao (in A Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha, 1943) and is more in line with thf more recent theoretically informed readings by critics such as Alfredo Bosi (Dialetica da colonizacao, 1992), even though Janiga-Perkin's work is not informed by Marxism as Bosi's work.
For its content matter and engaging theoretical approach Immaterial Transcendences should appeal greatly to literary critics and historians alike, Luso-Brazilianists, as well as Latin Americanists, and in general, scholars of colonialism.
As for its shortcomings, the author could have helped the reader by further clarifying the meaning of the book title. The author intimates as to its various shades of meaning but a more straightforward definition at the beginning would have been useful. Otherwise, the term "Luso-Brazilian," which is never used by the author, is in fact more appropriate when describing the "place of origin" of Caminha's Letter. It is as Brazilian as it is Portuguese and it was produced at a moment when the borders between both Portugal and Brazil were not clearly defined. The term "Conquest," on the other hand, has been traditionally used in reference to the Spanish experience of navigations and "discoveries" and not to the Portuguese. Yet, this conscious or unconscious semantic levelling of the Portuguese and Spanish expansionistic experiences on the author's part is suggestive and begs us to re-consider the terminology that is used to describe and ultimately to distinguish between historical realities that may not be as far apart as has been traditionally believed particularly within the realm of Portuguese historiography. These are rather small yet not unimportant critical observations that in no way undermine the rigor and originality of Janiga-Perkins' critical enterprise as a whole in Immaterial Transcendences.
Femando Arenas
University of Minnesota
Arenas, Fernando. Rev of Immaterial Transcendences: Colonial Subjectivity as Process in Brazil's "Letter" of Discovery (1500), by Constance Janiga-Perkings. Luso-Brazilian Review. Vol 39, Number 1. Summer 2002