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heart 音標拼音: [h'ɑrt]
n. 心,心臟,中心,內心,感情,精神,心情,寶貝兒
vt. 把…放在中心
n 1: the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you
know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom" [synonym:
{heart}, {bosom}]
2: the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and
between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood
through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"
[synonym: {heart}, {pump}, {ticker}]
3: the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk";
"you haven't got the heart for baseball" [synonym: {heart},
{mettle}, {nerve}, {spunk}]
4: an area that is approximately central within some larger
region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into
the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the
storm" [synonym: {center}, {centre}, {middle}, {heart}, {eye}]
5: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [synonym: {kernel}, {substance}, {core}, {center},
{centre}, {essence}, {gist}, {heart}, {heart and soul},
{inwardness}, {marrow}, {meat}, {nub}, {pith}, {sum}, {nitty-
6: an inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a
change of heart" [synonym: {heart}, {spirit}]
7: a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top
and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on
playing cards and valentines; "he drew a heart and called it
a valentine"
8: a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); "a
five-pound beef heart will serve six"
9: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the
affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the
warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [synonym:
{affection}, {affectionateness}, {fondness}, {tenderness},
{heart}, {warmness}, {warmheartedness}, {philia}]
10: a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red
hearts on it; "he led the queen of hearts"; "hearts were
Heart \Heart\ (h[aum]rt), n. [OE. harte, herte, heorte, AS.
heorte; akin to OS. herta, OFies. hirte, D. hart, OHG. herza,
G. herz, Icel. hjarta, Sw. hjerta, Goth. ha['i]rt[=o], Lith.
szirdis, Russ. serdtse, Ir. cridhe, L. cor, Gr. kardi`a,
kh^r. [root]277. Cf. {Accord}, {Discord}, {Cordial}, 4th
{Core}, {Courage}.]
1. (Anat.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting
rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
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Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! --Shak.
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Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is
four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle being
completely separated from the left auricle and
ventricle; and the blood flows from the systemic veins
to the right auricle, thence to the right ventricle,
from which it is forced to the lungs, then returned to
the left auricle, thence passes to the left ventricle,
from which it is driven into the systemic arteries. See
Illust. under {Aorta}. In fishes there are but one
auricle and one ventricle, the blood being pumped from
the ventricle through the gills to the system, and
thence returned to the auricle. In most amphibians and
reptiles, the separation of the auricles is partial or
complete, and in reptiles the ventricles also are
separated more or less completely. The so-called lymph
hearts, found in many amphibians, reptiles, and birds,
are contractile sacs, which pump the lymph into the
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2. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively
or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the
like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; --
usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the
better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all
our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and
character; the moral affections and character itself; the
individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender,
loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
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Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain. --Emerson.
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3. The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and
within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or
system; the source of life and motion in any organization;
the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of
energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country,
of a tree, etc.
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Exploits done in the heart of France. --Shak.
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Peace subsisting at the heart
Of endless agitation. --Wordsworth.
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4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
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Eve, recovering heart, replied. --Milton.
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The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly
from one country invade another. --Sir W.
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5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile
production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
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That the spent earth may gather heart again.
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6. That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a
roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point
at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation,
-- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
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7. One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the
figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
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8. Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
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And then show you the heart of my message. --Shak.
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9. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. "I
speak to thee, my heart." --Shak.
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Note: Heart is used in many compounds, the most of which need
no special explanation; as, heart-appalling,
heart-breaking, heart-cheering, heart-chilled,
heart-expanding, heart-free, heart-hardened,
heart-heavy, heart-purifying, heart-searching,
heart-sickening, heart-sinking, heart-sore,
heart-stirring, heart-touching, heart-wearing,
heart-whole, heart-wounding, heart-wringing, etc.
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{After one's own heart}, conforming with one's inmost
approval and desire; as, a friend after my own heart.
The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart.
--1 Sam. xiii.
{At heart}, in the inmost character or disposition; at
bottom; really; as, he is at heart a good man.
{By heart}, in the closest or most thorough manner; as, to
know or learn by heart. "Composing songs, for fools to get
by heart" (that is, to commit to memory, or to learn
thoroughly). --Pope.
{to learn by heart}, to memorize.
{For my heart}, for my life; if my life were at stake. [Obs.]
"I could not get him for my heart to do it." --Shak.
{Heart bond} (Masonry), a bond in which no header stone
stretches across the wall, but two headers meet in the
middle, and their joint is covered by another stone laid
header fashion. --Knight.
{Heart and hand}, with enthusiastic co["o]peration.
{Heart hardness}, hardness of heart; callousness of feeling;
moral insensibility. --Shak.
{Heart heaviness}, depression of spirits. --Shak.
{Heart point} (Her.), the fess point. See {Escutcheon}.
{Heart rising}, a rising of the heart, as in opposition.
{Heart shell} (Zool.), any marine, bivalve shell of the genus
{Cardium} and allied genera, having a heart-shaped shell;
esp., the European {Isocardia cor}; -- called also {heart
{Heart sickness}, extreme depression of spirits.
{Heart and soul}, with the utmost earnestness.
{Heart urchin} (Zool.), any heartshaped, spatangoid sea
urchin. See {Spatangoid}.
{Heart wheel}, a form of cam, shaped like a heart. See {Cam}.
{In good heart}, in good courage; in good hope.
{Out of heart}, discouraged.
{Poor heart}, an exclamation of pity.
{To break the heart of}.
(a) To bring to despair or hopeless grief; to cause to be
utterly cast down by sorrow.
(b) To bring almost to completion; to finish very nearly;
-- said of anything undertaken; as, he has broken the
heart of the task.
{To find in the heart}, to be willing or disposed. "I could
find in my heart to ask your pardon." --Sir P. Sidney.
{To have at heart}, to desire (anything) earnestly.
{To have in the heart}, to purpose; to design or intend to
{To have the heart in the mouth}, to be much frightened.
{To lose heart}, to become discouraged.
{To lose one's heart}, to fall in love.
{To set the heart at rest}, to put one's self at ease.
{To set the heart upon}, to fix the desires on; to long for
earnestly; to be very fond of.
{To take heart of grace}, to take courage.
{To take to heart}, to grieve over.
{To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve}, to expose one's
feelings or intentions; to be frank or impulsive.
{With all one's heart}, {With one's whole heart}, very
earnestly; fully; completely; devotedly.
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Heart \Heart\ (h[aum]rt), v. t.
To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
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My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason. --Shak.
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Heart \Heart\, v. i.
To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
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476 Moby Thesaurus words for "heart":
Amor, Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Christian love, Dexamyl,
Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Eros, Methedrine, abatis,
abdomen, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, amphetamine,
amphetamine sulfate, angina, angina pectoris, anima, anima humana,
animating force, anus, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis,
apoplectic stroke, apoplexy, appendix, ardency, ardor, arrhythmia,
arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, atman, atrial fibrillation,
attachment, auricular fibrillation, axiom, axis, ba, backbone,
basics, bathmism, beating heart, being, bench mark, beriberi heart,
biological clock, biorhythm, blind gut, blood, bodily love,
boldness, bones, bosom, bottom, bowels, brain, brains, bravery,
breast, breath, breath of life, brotherly love, buddhi,
callousness, cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock,
cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, cardinal point, carditis,
caritas, cecum, center, center of action, center of gravity,
center of life, centroid, centrum, charity, chief thing,
chitterlings, chutzpah, climax, cocaine, cockscomb, coke, colon,
compassion, concern, congenital heart disease, conjugal love,
consideration, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, core,
cornerstone, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis,
courage, crisis, critical point, crux, crystal, cue, dauntlessness,
dead center, deepest recesses, desire, determination, devotion,
dextroamphetamine sulfate, diameter, diaphragm,
diastolic hypertension, distillate, distillation, divine breath,
divine spark, duodenum, ecstasy, ego, elan vital, elixir, empathy,
encased heart, endocarditis, endocardium, enthusiasm, entrails,
epicenter, equator, esoteric reality, esprit, essence,
essence of life, essential, essential matter, excitement,
extrasystole, fabric, faithful love, fancy, fatty heart, feelings,
fervency, fervidness, fervor, fibroid heart, fire, flame,
flask-shaped heart, flower, focal point, focus, fondness, football,
force of life, foregut, frame, frame of mind, free love,
free-lovism, frosted heart, fundamental, fundamentals, furor, fury,
generosity, giblets, gist, gizzard, goodness, gravamen,
great point, grit, growth force, gusto, guts, gutsiness, guttiness,
hairy heart, haslet, heart attack, heart block, heart condition,
heart disease, heart failure, heart of hearts, heart of oak,
heartbeat, heartblood, heartiness, heartlessness, heartstrings,
heat, hero worship, high blood pressure, high point, hindgut, hub,
humanitarianism, humanity, humor, hypertension,
hypertensive heart disease, hypostasis, idolatry, idolism,
idolization, impassionedness, important thing, impulse of life,
inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner, inner essence,
inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner mechanism,
inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost being,
insensitivity, inside, insides, inspiriting force, interior,
interior man, intern, internal, internals, intestinal fortitude,
intestine, intrados, inward, inwards, ischemic heart disease,
issue, jejunum, jiva, jivatma, jolly bean, kernel, keystone, khu,
kidney, kidneys, kindliness, kindness, kishkes, landmark,
large intestine, lasciviousness, libido, life breath, life cycle,
life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood,
like, liking, liveliness, liver, liver and lights, living force,
love, lovemaking, lung, magnanimity, main point, main thing, manes,
married love, marrow, material, material point, matter, mean, meat,
median, medium, medulla, metacenter, methamphetamine hydrochloride,
mettle, middle, midgut, midmost, midriff, midst, milestone, mind,
mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, mood, morale, moxie,
myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis,
myovascular insufficiency, nave, navel, nephesh, nerve,
nerve center, note, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos,
ox heart, palate, palpitation, paralytic stroke,
paroxysmal tachycardia, passion, passionateness, penetralia,
pep pill, pericarditis, perineum, physical love, pile, pith, pity,
pivot, pluck, pneuma, polestar, popular regard, popularity,
postulate, prana, premature beat, principle,
pseudoaortic insufficiency, psyche, pulmonary insufficiency,
pulmonary stenosis, pump, purple heart, purusha, pylorus, quick,
quid, quiddity, quintessence, real issue, recesses, rectum, regard,
relish, resolution, rheumatic heart disease, root, round heart,
ruach, salient point, sap, savor, sclerosis, seat, seat of life,
secret heart, secret place, secret places, sensibility,
sensitivity, sentiment, sentiments, sex, sexual love, shade,
shadow, shine, sincerity, sine qua non, small intestine, snow,
soul, spark of life, speed, spirit, spirits, spiritual being,
spiritual love, spiritus, spleen, spunk, stamina, state of mind,
stimulant, stomach, stony heart, storm center, stout heart, stroke,
stuff, substance, substantive point, sum and substance, sweetbread,
sympathy, tachycardia, temper, tender feeling, tender passion,
tenderness, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, the self,
thick, thick of things, thrombosis, ticker, tone, tongue,
toughness, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, tripe,
tripes, true being, true inwardness, truelove, turning point,
turtle heart, umbilicus, understanding, upper, uxoriousness,
varicose veins, varix, vehemence, vein, ventricular fibrillation,
vermiform appendix, verve, vis vitae, vis vitalis, viscera,
vital center, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force,
vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit, vitals, waist,
waistline, warmth, warmth of feeling, weakness, will, works,
worship, yearning, zeal, zest, zone
According to the Bible, the heart is the centre not only of
spiritual activity, but of all the operations of human life.
"Heart" and "soul" are often used interchangeably (Deut. 6:5;
26:16; comp. Matt. 22:37; Mark 12:30, 33), but this is not
generally the case.
The heart is the "home of the personal life," and hence a man
is designated, according to his heart, wise (1 Kings 3:12,
etc.), pure (Ps. 24:4; Matt. 5:8, etc.), upright and righteous
(Gen. 20:5, 6; Ps. 11:2; 78:72), pious and good (Luke 8:15),
etc. In these and such passages the word "soul" could not be
substituted for "heart."
The heart is also the seat of the conscience (Rom. 2:15). It
is naturally wicked (Gen. 8:21), and hence it contaminates the
whole life and character (Matt. 12:34; 15:18; comp. Eccl. 8:11;
Ps. 73:7). Hence the heart must be changed, regenerated (Ezek.
36:26; 11:19; Ps. 51:10-14), before a man can willingly obey
The process of salvation begins in the heart by the believing
reception of the testimony of God, while the rejection of that
testimony hardens the heart (Ps. 95:8; Prov. 28:14; 2 Chr.
36:13). "Hardness of heart evidences itself by light views of
sin; partial acknowledgment and confession of it; pride and
conceit; ingratitude; unconcern about the word and ordinances of
God; inattention to divine providences; stifling convictions of
conscience; shunning reproof; presumption, and general ignorance
of divine things."
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I'm too lazy to want to clean a juicer. My son used a blender for protein shakes and then would just leave the dirty thing in the sink expecting me to wash it. Nope, just moved it out of my way. He gave up blending. Course now he goes to those expensive juice bars for his protein blend. That's quite a racket!


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I'm putting together a blog of things I find interesting. Hopefully I will update it at least once a day, since I've always felt that is the sign of a good blog.
What a better topic to start with than the exciting results from the CDF experiment at Fermilab running on a particle super-collider called the Tevatron in Illinois. All high-energy physics experiments have confirmed the Standard Model (SM), which was discovered in the 60s, but some new results from CDF do not fit into this model! There could be many reasons for this, but it could be the signature of an unexpected particle! Considering that the SM has been perfect for the past 40 years, it seems quite likely that there is a more mundane explanation for the results (e.g. unexpected background noise), but that will not keep the physicists from theorizing about new potential particles.
Here is a basic explanation of the results:CDF Ghost Muons
Here is more detail from one of the experimenters: CDF publishes multi-muons!!!!
And here is the actual paper: Study of multi-muon events produced in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Another interesting phenomena is not only the physics involved, but also the physicists themselves and their communication. Many world-class physicists regularly post comments on other physics blog. (Is there another academic subject which has this same level of open communication??) And when physicists communicate sometimes there is fireworks. In the case about the CDF, one physicist accused another of getting leaked results of the CDF experiment and used it his paper which happens to coincide with the unexpected CDF results.
The author of the paper stated: "I can tell you officially we had no word on this [the CDF reuslts]. This blog is, in fact, the first I'd heard of it".
To which a CDF experimenter replies: "That is pretty hard to digest. Lepton jets with lifetimes. Come on. I think you owe it to the physics community to let us know where the leak came from."
Which then received a several paragraph diatribe scorning the skeptics and the blogging community: "I find your cynicism remarkable . . . at least most of us don't think of physics as a soap opera rife with rumor and innuendo, or spend the precious time we have cynically tossing around completely baseless and deeply offensive accusations."
You can read about this confrontation form one of the participants here: Nima Arkani-Hamed's letter on multi-muons – and my reply
All very entertaining in my opinion. Not be out down is of course the infamous Lubos Motl who is a String Theory researcher at Harvard, who compares one of the commenting physicists to "slightly retarded children". And accuses another of "attempting to spread rumors that Arkani-Hamed and Weiner may have heard about the upcoming experimental paper in advance." You can read his entertaining commentary here: CDF sees dark unified SUSY in lepton jets?
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Oil painting bought at a Spanish antique shop for $200 certified as early work by Dali
(L-R) Spanish artist Tomeu Lamo, Spanish art expert Carmen Sandalinas Linares, French expert of Salvador Dali's work Nicolas Descharnes and Spanish art expert Jose Pedro Venzal Placido pose next to a copy of an unreleased work by Spanish artist Salvador Dali titled "The Intrautirine Birth of Salvador Dali" during its presentation in Madrid. An oil painting sold at a Spanish antique shop over two decades ago for around 150 euros (200 USD) has been certified as Salvador Dali's first Surrealist work which he painted as a teenager, art experts said today. Tomeu L'Amo, a painter and art historian, found the canvas at a store in Girona in northeastern Spain in 1988 and suspecting it was a work by Dali he paid 25,000 pesetas, Spain's currency at the time, for it. AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN.
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An oil painting sold at a Spanish antique shop over two decades ago for around 150 euros ($200) has been certified as Salvador Dali's first Surrealist work which he painted as a teenager, art experts said Thursday. Tomeu L'Amo, a painter and art historian, found the canvas at a store in Girona in northeastern Spain in 1988 and suspecting it was a work by Dali he paid 25,000 pesetas, Spain's currency at the time, for it. "I was very happy. I felt like a kid in a candy store," he told a news conference in Madrid to discuss the conclusions of art experts who have studied the work. "When I saw its colours I suspected it was a Dali. That was my opinion but I did not have proof. I investigated and little by little I realised it was a Dali." "The Intrautirine Birth of Salvador Dali", which depicts angels floating in the sky over a volcano, bears the Spanish artist's signature below a short dedication. ...
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National Portrait Gallery in Washington adds pop star Katy Perry portrait to collection
Mafalda creator Quino awarded Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Tara Donovan, detail of Untitled, 2008. Polyester film installation dimensions variable© Tara Donovan, courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo courtesy Pace Gallery.
Pace Gallery
presents the final exhibition at its California pop-up: Tara Donovan: Untitled on view from May 22 to June 30, 2014. The exhibition surveys work by Tara Donovan from 2000 to present and features large-scale installations recently included in museum exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to Untitled, Pace Menlo Park, located in the former Tesla Headquarters, exhibits a wide variety of work by contemporary masters. A screening room featuring artists' films and a 1,000 volume art library is also available for use by visitors to the gallery. For the last 20 years, Donovan has used simple, mass-produced materials and objects to explore the transformative effect of their accumulation and aggregation. The result has been a body of work that creates through perceptual phenomenon otherworldly environments, invented topographies and seemingly organic structures from inorganic materials. Donovan has previously said abo ...
A 2010 painting of pop singer Katy Perry entitled "Cupcake Katy" by Will Cotton. The portrait will be on display at the gallery starting on June 18, 2014 and it is a promised gift of the James Dicke Family. AFP PHOTO/Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Thanks to the generosity of a US forklift truck dynasty, pop star Katy Perry will soon take pride of place in the dignified National Portrait Gallery in Washington. "Cupcake Katy," an oil-on-linen portrait by New York artist Will Cotton, will go up on June 18 as part of a rotating display of recent acquisitions, the museum said Wednesday. The painting, completed in 2010, is being gifted to the National Portrait Gallery -- part of the Smithsonian network -- by the James Dicke family, whose wealth and large art collection derive from a global forklift truck business based in the state of Ohio. In a statement, National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet said the tongue-in-cheek work "brings to mind a traditional European portrait of a bewitching 18th century bell -- Madame de Pompadour, perhaps?" Sajet added: "Sweet but no mere piece of 'candy,' the woman is ...
A file picture taken on August 30, 2009 shows Argentinian cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon (R), also known as "Quino", creator of comic strip character "Mafalda", posing next her sculpture made by Argentine sculptor Pablo Irrgang in Buenos Aires. "Quino" won the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities on May 21, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ALEJANDRO PAGNI.
The cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, known worldwide by his pen name Quino, has been bestowed with the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, as made public today in Oviedo by the Jury responsible for conferring said Award. The Jury for the Award convened by the Prince of Asturias Foundation was chaired by Víctor García de la Concha and made up of Inés Alberdi Alonso, José Antonio Álvarez Gundín, Alberto Anaut González, Luis María Anson Oliart, Juan Barja de Quiroga Losada, Adela Cortina Orts, Albert Espinosa i Puig, Soledad Fox Maura, Javier Garciadiego Dantán, Javier González Ferrari, Jordi Gutiérrez Roldán, Miguel Ángel Liso Tejada, José Narro Robles, Benigno Pendás ...
New exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford opens at White Cube Hong Kong
Joan Mitchell's The Black Drawings and Related Works 1964-1967 on view at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
MIA Fair is back: 180 exhibitors present established artists and emerging photographers
Circus, 2014 (detail). Mixed media on canvas© Mark Bradford. Photo: Josh White. Courtesy White Cube.
White Cube
Hong Kong is presenting a new exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford. Known for his multi-layered collaged paintings incorporating materials found in the urban environment, Bradford has created a series of new works about Hong Kong that explore structures of power and politics through the lens of urban planning, in the worlds most densely populated city. Using architectural floor plans for public housing in Hong Kong as a starting point, Bradford abstracts the formal compositions of the blueprints. Numerous layers of paper remnants of billboard posters found in his neighbourhood, along with digitally-printed colour sheets and newsprint are overlaid and then partially sanded, enabling the preliminary delineated forms to re-emerge. In works such as No More Pencils (2014) and Plan View 74 (2014), gestural passages of colour sweeping across the surface give way to an ...
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, c.1964, 10-1/2 x 8-1/4, charcoal and watercolor on paper. Photo: Courtesy of Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. © The Estate of Joan Mitchell.
In the spring of 1965, Joan Mitchell had her seventh and final exhibition at the historic Stable Gallery in New York where her career as a painter had been launched more than a decade earlier. Included in the exhibition were the first in a series of paintings that she described at the time as her new black paintings, although theres no black in any of them. It would not have been known at the time, but these paintings had companion drawings, and those works on paper, never before exhibited, are at the heart of our presentation nearly a half century after they were made. There is a series of small, bold works made on sketchbook sheets with a haze of charcoal covered with watercolor or oil. These are the closest in appearance to the black paintings, and like them, have no black to speak of. Larger and compositionally kindred is a series of charcoal drawings with ...
Tazio Secchiaroli, Sophia Loren fotografata da Richard Avedon, 1966, New print ai sali d'argento su carta baritata, cm 40x50, 1/5, courtesy Wave Gallery Corsini.
Its already time for
MIA - Milan Image Art Fair
, the international photography art fair conceived in Italy is now also ready to make its debut in Asia in 2014, aiming to become an all-important reference point for photography and art enthusiasts and collectors. After the event in Milan (Superstudio Più, Via Tortona 27) from 23rd to 25th May 2014, MIA Fair will be a double bill on the international exhibition art scenario with the opening - from 24th to 26th October 2014 - of MIA FAIR SINGAPORE. Now in its fourth edition, directed by Fabio Castelli, MIA Fair hosts the best of the world of photography under a format unique on the Italian art-fair scene, proposing one booth for each artist each artist with his/her own catalogue which, as from this year, will be in an innovative format, switching from the traditional hard copy to the e-book format. The event, with the patronage of Regione Lombardia, ...
The Wonder of Birds: Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery explores the cultural impact of birds upon mankind
Focusing on architecture and design, Christopher W. Mount Gallery opens in Los Angeles and New York
Renowned British sculptor David Nash focus of major exhibition at Meijer Gardens
Melchi or de Hondecoeter (c. 1636-1695), Fowl, 1668-70. Oil on canvas, 83 x 64 cm, © Nottingham City Museums and Galleries.
The Wonder of Birds will explore the cultural impact of birds upon mankind. Eliciting a wide range of emotions from awe to fear, and from pleasure to cruelty, birds have intrigued humanity since the earliest of times. With loans from local and national collections, this innovative exhibition will span the centuries and include some 220 works by major artists and illustrators, historical and contemporary, natural history, archaeology, fashion and social history. The exhibition comprises six sections, each highlighting a different aspect of birds, their meanings and our relationships with them. Every section will integrate art with taxidermy so the visitor is surrounded by birds wherever they look. The show begins by introducing the visitor to the breadth of this fascinating subject: what is a bird; what do they mean to us; how have we studied, portrayed, preserved, endangered and used them? This section will feature Hans Holbeins stunning Lady with a ...
Balthazar Korab (1926-2013), Eero Saarinen, TWA Flight Center New York, NY (Interior view from mezzanine level at night), 1964. Silver gelatin, 14 x 11 inches. Estate of Balthazar Korab.
Specializing exclusively in architecture and design material, the newly established
Christopher W. Mount Gallery
, with locations in Los Angeles and New York, opens to the public on May 23, 2014. Uniquely positioned among traditional American galleries, Mount Gallery presents drawings, sketches, models, photographs, prints, and art experiments by prominent figures engaged in the design arts. The Gallery offers the public the opportunity to view and acquire work collected by eminent institutions like The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Smithsonians Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, in New York. As recent auction results attest, this is a burgeoning field for collectors. The vibrant intersection between the fine arts and architecture and design will be ...
David Nash. Pyramid, Sphere, Cube, Incised, 2010. Partly charred cypress and charcoal on canvas. Photo courtesy Galerie Scheffel.
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
features the work of British artist, David Nash, in the large-scale summer exhibition, David Nash: From Kew Gardens to Meijer Gardens, which opens to the public May 23, 2014. Organized by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the artist in conjunction with Meijer Gardens, this broad and comprehensive presentation will feature sculptures, installations and drawings and will remain on display until August 17, 2014. In 2012, Nash was selected as the first artist-in-residence at the majestic Kew Gardens outside central London. For a year he worked onsite and installed work across the campus of the worlds most distinguished botanical garden. Such efforts are the foundation of David Nash: From Kew Gardens to Meijer Gardens. This presentation, exclusive to Meijer Gardens, will host more than 25 works by this British icon in the sculpture galleries, conservatories a ...
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Climate change and sea level rise are threatening historic US landmarks, from the Statue of Liberty to NASA's coastal rocket launch sites, and the nation needs to prepare, scientists said Tuesday. "The range and scale of impacts are alarming," said the report by the Union of Concerned Scientists that listed more than two dozen landmarks endangered by wildfires, coastal erosion and flooding -- events scientists say are being made worse by global warming. They include the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York Harbor, which was the entry point for 14 million immigrants from 1886 to 1924. Sea level has risen 12 inches (30 centimeters) around New York City over the past century, the report said. Then came Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which flooded most of Liberty Island and all of Ellis Island, destroying most of their infrastructure and forcing their closure for months. ...
Collection of first edition novels by the Brontë sisters sells for £111,600
A complete first edition set of the novels by the three Brontë sisters sold at
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
Important Books and Manuscripts, sale on Monday 19th May. The unique collection was formed by American lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, founder of Chadbourne & Parke. Bidders competed online and on the phone for the rare opportunity to take home the Brontë collection, which sold to a collector in the room for £111,600 [Lot 67] A highly desirable Chinese photograph album, circa 1860, demanded attention from buyers around the world. The collection boasted fascinating views of Shanghai Custom House, Anglo-Chinese artillery at Ningpo, riverside buildings before and after a typhoon, the steamer landing at Canton, bridges and a pagoda alongside portraits of Chinese sitters and a group of three Russian Orthodox priests, presumably members ...
Christie's to sell historic 1958 microchip designed by Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby
A Nobel Prize-winning artifact of computing history goes on sale at
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Pre-Columbian art from the Frost Art Museum's permanent collection on display
You can take a close-up look at artifacts, some of which are over 2,000 years old, in the Shards of the Past: Pre-Columbian Art from the
Frost Art Museum
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Katharina Grosse presents two new works at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
. For Katharina Grosse there are no limits to painting. Having started out in the tradition of colour-field painting, the artist has been expanding colour into space, architecture and landscape for more than two de-cades, defying material boundaries and taking the medium far beyond its traditional domain. Making colour manifest in space, she paints on a wide range of supports floors and façades, balloons and mounds of soil, textiles ...
China museum closed over fake exhibits: reports
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Scientist uncovers new links connecting environmental changes with spike in infectious disease
National Museum of Natural History
scientist Bert Van Bocxlaer and an international team of researchers revealed that anthropogenic changes in Africas Lake Malaŵi are a driving force behind the increase of urogenital schistosomiasis, a debilitating tropical disease caused by parasitic flatworms. Scientists estimate that 250 million people are affected by schistosomiasis worldwide, and 600 million more are at risk of contracting it. In some villages along the shorelines of Lake Malaŵi, 73 percent of the people and up to 94 percent of the schoolchildren are infected with urogenital schistosomiasis, one of several forms of the disease. Van Bocxlaers research suggests that this spike in infection is directly linked to an increase in human populations and agricultural activities near Lake Malaŵi, and may include a change in the dietary preferences of mollusk-eating fishes. Details ...
Smithsonian collects items from 20th Century Fox's X-Men movies
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National Museum of American History
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MSNBC distorts post-debate poll results to falsely depict Ron Paul as just barely winning
by Mike Adams
Thursday, September 08, 2011
A post-debate poll shown on MSNBC.com reveals Ron Paul to be the landslide winner of the internet survey, capturing 43.5% of the votes on the question, "Who do you think won the Republican debate at the Reagan library?"
The next closest candidate, Mitt Romney, received just 21.5% of the votes, or almost exactly half the number of votes received by Ron Paul. You might expect Mitt Romney's graph bar, therefore, to be half the size of Ron Paul's right? Nope. These poll results, it turns out, have been radically distorted to diminish the apparent lead of Ron Paul in the poll.
Here's how the mainstream media smears Ron Paul with dishonest survey graphics
The poll results shown on MSNBC.com are depicted with a horizontal bar for each candidate. The bar lengths are proportional for all other candidates except for Ron Paul, whose bar has been shortened by nearly half in order to falsely depict Ron Paul as being just "barely ahead" of Mitt Romney.
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A Friend of Mr. Lincoln marks a departure for the Austin-based writer. Just like his other books, this one quickly engages the reader's imagination with its deep perspective, rich historical authenticity and a lively cast of striving, imperfect humans.
By Joyce Sáenz Harris
Special Contributor
Of all American presidents, Abraham Lincoln is the one most often accorded something like reverence. Most of us were taught a grade-school version of his life that sketches his triumph over crushing backwoods poverty, his moral conversion to abolitionist beliefs, and his rise to become Father Abraham, the Great Emancipator, savior of the Union and martyr to the cause of freedom.
But in Stephen Harrigan's splendid new novel, A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, we meet a very different Honest Abe. This young Mr. Lincoln is a politically ambitious but socially awkward frontier lawyer of the 1830s and '40s, one who often falls victim to "the hypo," meaning depression and anxiety. He is driven by his concept of honor as if by Furies, yet he also relishes using his mercilessly sharp tongue to win at the law or the ballot box. He hates slavery but doesn't really believe in racial equality. He tells terrible, ribald jokes. He is a fatalist, wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove.
A Friend of Mr. Lincoln is written from the third-person viewpoint of Micajah "Cage" Weatherby, who meets the future president as a roughhewn youth during the Indian wars and later becomes one of Lincoln's bachelor cronies in Springfield, Ill. (Given that Harrigan wrote the superb historical novel The Gates of the Alamo, it may be no coincidence that "Micajah" also was the first name of an Alamo defender.) Cage Weatherby is a fictitious character, but Harrigan inserts him neatly and believably into Lincoln's social circle of real-life Springfield friends such as Joshua Speed and Billy Herndon.
Lincoln takes an immediate liking to Cage, in awe that he is a published poet who has traveled to Europe. Cage, meanwhile, knows there is something special about his new friend, no matter that Lincoln is shabbily dressed, reedy-voiced and awkward as a young stork. Ambition burns inside this man, Cage realizes, and he senses that Lincoln is destined for some sort of greatness: "Lincoln was a man people tended to develop a deepening fascination with." Yet for all the camaraderie they share, Harrigan's Lincoln remains a riddle even to his best friends.
"The interesting thing about Lincoln," Joshua Speed remarks to Cage, "is that he's both the most public man and the most private man I've ever known. He has to hover rather precisely between the poles of his personality. Any deviation might pull him apart."
The turning point in the men's friendship comes when Kentucky belle Mary Todd arrives in Springfield in 1838. Lincoln is bowled over by the fact that "she knows Henry Clay! She lived only a few miles from him in Lexington and used to visit him as a girl. … It's like living down the road from George Washington!"
Cage can't imagine that the refined Todds would ever consider the rustic Lincoln as a possible suitor: "The union of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd was as unlikely in theory that night as it would later prove to be in reality." But Mary is one of those people with a deepening fascination with Lincoln, and like Cage, she senses his potential for greatness.
Lincoln, in turn, knows he needs a political helpmate, and Mary is perfect on paper: a skilled hostess with charm, useful connections and an astute, calculating mind. Nevertheless, Lincoln is reluctant to commit, and the courtship is a long, rocky one. Cage's efforts to support his friend end up backfiring, and he learns firsthand just how vindictive Mary Todd Lincoln can be.
Harrigan's previous novels all have been set in Texas, so A Friend of Mr. Lincoln marks a departure for the Austin-based writer. Just like his other books, this one quickly engages the reader's imagination with its deep perspective, rich historical authenticity and a lively cast of striving, imperfect humans. His Lincoln is one of them: a young man subject to the same torments, infatuations, ambitions, enthusiasms and sexual appetites as other young men. But unlike the others, he is peculiarly fated to become a tragic, heroic figure whose best speeches are the immortal poetry he yearned to write.
After a century and a half, he also remains America's most beloved enigma. That homely face and those weary gray eyes guard a well of secrets so unfathomable that we, even as friends of Mr. Lincoln, have yet to plumb its depths.
Joyce Sáenz Harris is a Dallas freelance writer.
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Stephen Harrigan will speak Thursday, Feb. 4 at Highland Park United Methodist Church, 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas. The 7 p.m. talk is free; a 6 p.m. reception, which includes a signed book, is $30. Register at hpumc.org/ or 214-523-2240.
A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
Stephen Harrigan
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Available Tuesday, Feb. 2.
As one of those annoying people who would rather read a good book than do just about anything else, including work for a living, I have finally found a way to make my obsession semi-respectable: I am anointing myself as a book blogger.
To celebrate, here is the first of what I hope will be a series of blog tours with interesting authors. (And muchas gracias to my baby sister, the blogger known as the Little Fluffy Cat, for recently educating me as to what a "blog tour" actually is.) I'll continue to write about other subjects, too. But this venture promises to be fun for me, and I hope it will be for you, too.
With that in mind, let's start the fun now.
My inaugural blog-tour Q&A is with award-winning Austin novelist Sarah Bird, the author of one of my all-time favorites, The Yokota Officers Club (Knopf). Her seventh and most recent novel, How Perfect Is That, has just been reissued in paperback (Pocket Books, $15). Sarah is a regular columnist for Texas Monthly, and she is also [full disclosure here] a personal friend.
Backstory: I profiled Sarah for The Dallas Morning News shortly after Yokota was published in 2001. We spent a 110-degree summer day toodling around Austin, hitting some of her personal landmarks such as the LBJ Library, the University of Texas, and Seneca House, the real-life Nueces Street co-op that was the setting for Sarah's first comic novel, Alamo House.
Seneca House makes a major reappearance in How Perfect Is That, which The News called "a perfect, curl-up-with-a-margarita splash of summer fun…wickedly good." Its heroine, if you can call her that, is Blythe Young, a trailer-trash Cinderella who married up — way up — into Austin society, snagging Henry "Trey" Biggs-Dix III, "a scion of one of America's wealthiest dynasties." But now the marriage is kaput and Blythe has been pre-nupped into poverty. She's trying to maintain her social standing and make a living as a high-end caterer, and she's failing miserably. How miserably? She can't afford to get a Pap smear. And her plight gets worse, and skankier, and funnier, by the page.
Here's the fabulous Sarah Bird, on How Perfect Is That and other writerly topics:
Now that How Perfect Is That is out in paperback, is it safe for you to reveal to us how its hardcover readers reacted to it? Was there a love-hate thing going on there?
Joyce, hello! What a doll baby you are, in general, but in particular for allowing me to jump into your digital world like this.
It's quite interesting for me to talk about a book that was published a year ago. In that year, I've read all the reviews — I am definitely not one of those lofty writers who can hold themselves above the fray and ignore reviews — and had lots and lots of discussions about How Perfect Is That.
The one piece of the reaction to this book that is utterly different from any of my others is how stunningly polarized it is. More than anything else I have ever written, How Perfect does seem to be a love-it or hate-it read. This came across very dramatically for me in following the reviews on Amazon. Until yesterday, I had no — none, zero — four- or three-star reviews. All fives, twos and ones. (Oh, Joyce, I don't think I've ever gotten one star before, and reading those one- and two-starrers, I did wish I were an above-the-fray author who never bothered herself about such matters.)
This dramatic lack of middle ground has led me to two conclusions: One, if a book is foisted upon a reader as a "comic novel," if the foisterer promises that this will book will make you lose bladder control, and if the reader then does not find the book to be a laugh riot, that reader will be mightily irritated. Irritated enough to let Amazon know about it. Apparently, novels that are held out to be comic — unlike thrillers, romance, or even general mid-list literary fiction — don't miss by inches. They either synch up with a reader's sensibilities, what he or she thinks is funny, and are a dead-on hit, or they don't work at all.
Second conclusion: It can be a challenge to read about a character who makes moral choices that you, the reader, wouldn't. My "heroine," Blythe Young is a user and an abuser. A striver and a conniver. A climber and whatever rhymes with –imer. Bad two-timer? Annoying street-mimer? All right, not the last two, but she is a scoundrel. The big question hanging over the book is, "Can she be redeemed?" The bigger question that I was addressing was, "Can she be really funny in the process?"
A few months ago, when I needed to make myself feel confused and depressed, I did a bit of self-Googling. A series of random links led me to a site that proposed that my first novel, published in 1986, Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains, was the first chick lit book ever. Who knows? Though someday it might be remarked that How Perfect Is That was the first in another line: Bitch Lit.
Did your male readers react differently to Blythe than did females?
I'm going to do a dangerous thing and generalize: Females are much more likely to demand that a protagonist be someone she can relate to. Not necessarily like, but someone who would make pretty much the same moral choices that she would. I'd say that this is even truer if the protagonist and the author are female.
Why did you use your old Austin co-op's real name, Seneca House, this time around — why not make it "Alamo House" again?
Yay! Thank you, Joyce, for noticing. When I wrote Alamo House, I used the name of the co-op where I lived while going to graduate school at UT, Seneca House. Norton published that book and, fearing libel suits, had me expunge all ties to the real world. They told me I could call the co-op either Magnolia House or Kudzu House. Okay, that last is a joke, but New York at that time, early eighties, had a much harder time understanding that Texas was not the South.
I've was delighted that Knopf had no problems allowing me to use the real name of my old co-op, which I have a great deal of affection for.
Just exactly how much did you know about Austin high society, prior to writing How Perfect Is That? And how much did you have to exaggerate said society for comic effect?
How Perfect Is That involved a different sort of research than I'd ever done before. For the high-society sections, I had to go to school on fashion, shoes, handbags, which designers are in, which are out, what each one signifies, the whole semiotics of apparel. Fortunately, many kindhearted souls in high places helped me with the high-society research by sharing their worlds with me, allowing me to glimpse lives that are a round of charity galas, private jets, and Dom Perignon by the crate.
The low-society stuff was much easier since, like my heroine, I did actually live in a UT co-op boarding house called Seneca House while I was getting my master's at the University of Texas. But in that day and age, it housed female graduate students. It has since morphed into a co-ed, mostly undergraduate, sometimes feminist, mostly vegan, generally activist house which the current residents were kind enough to allow me to visit several times.
So both worlds had their own anthropology, and getting the anthropology right is one of my chief joys in writing. Mostly, though, I found it hilarious imagining what it would be like to have Barbara Bush as your mother-in-law. What a weekend with that whole crew might be like.
Pretty much everything was exaggerated.
Do you still get nervous before book signings? Are you finding that using "new media" (such as blog tours) has made promoting your books any easier?
Such a timely question since this is, literally, my very first day of book blogging ever and it is making me oddly nostalgic for the old ways and old days. Alamo House was published in the mid-eighties at about the same time that readings and signing started becoming popular. Prior to that, practically the only writers who toured had won Pulitzers. It just wasn't that common. So it took a while for me to get comfortable with this new public aspect of writing.
It started to fall into place for me when I started to think of signings as parties and I was the hostess. It truly all clicked for me with this book. Because of my heroine's fondness for all cocktails — be they grain-, fruit-, or chemical-based — I was inspired to ask Tito's Vodka to be my sponsor. They agreed, and my mantra became: A Buzz With Every Book.
Wow, Joyce, end of "nerves" for everyone. And, P.S., my apologies to your readers who came to signings in any non-indie bookstore, because, gosh darn it, those big corporations just could not get into my Buzz With Every Book program and let me serve cocktails.
So, at this point I don't know what effects new media will have. I am kind of sad, though, about anything that keeps people from getting out of their houses and having a cocktail.
Can you talk about the new novel you're working on? How about the film adaptation of Flamenco Academy — is it really happening?
Yes, I can! I am ecstatic that Knopf — my dream publisher, home to my dream editor — has given me a contract for the next one which should be out Fall 2010. It is about a single mom facing the prospect of an empty nest. She's worried about her daughter leaving home, and flat-out terrified that her only child won't go to college.
Joyce, here's what I say about all film projects I have ever been involved with: Don't buy your popcorn until you're in the lobby. I would love for that novel [The Flamenco Academy] to become a film. It's been optioned by a wonderful producer, Anne Walker, who produced most of Rick Linklater's films. I had a grand time adapting it. And now the script is in the hands of the gods.
Joyce, come back to Austin. We'll eat enchiladas at Curra's.
Sarah Bird is the author of six previous novels, and writes a regular column for the magazine Texas Monthly. Her features appear frequently in other magazines, including Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping, and she is also a contributor to Salon.com. She lives in Austin, Texas.


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Hubby and I watched the new show Life on NBC on Wednesday night. Technically, we watched Bionic Woman and since Life came on after and we were too lazy to change the channel, well, we watched the show.
Quick synopsis: Charlie Crews was a cop who was convicted of a homicide and spent 12 years in a Federal Penitentiary before he was exonerated. Everyone thought he was guilty. His wife divorced him pretty quickly after his conviction.
So hubby mentioned that if I was sentenced to life without parole, he would divorce me too. Even if he knew I was innocent. He would fight for a couple of years, but that was it.
I was astonished! He was incredulous that I wouldn't do the same.
I think he just doesn't want to change the cat litter.
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Tell me more about vocal fatigue
Vocal fatigue is an unwelcome component of many teachers' days. To fully explore the topic, a fictional teacher poses a few questions to our voice experts.
Q: You've talked about fatigue in the muscles and vocal fold tissues. But you haven't said anything about other vocal structures: cartilage, ligaments, tendons and joints. How well do they hold up?
A: Although they've been studied less, joints, cartilage, tendons and ligaments of the vocal system seem to be less prone to fatigue as compared to muscles and vocal fold tissues. An exception would be a teacher suffering from arthritis. An important joint of the vocal system - the cricothyroid joint - may stiffen and have less range of motion in a person with arthritis.
Q: You implied that the circulatory system helps vocal muscles recover from fatigue pretty quickly. So, is it reasonable to conclude that we recover from muscular fatigue quicker than tissue fatigue?
A: Yes. Muscles recover within a few minutes, but cell replacement in the vocal folds takes 2-3 days.
Q: Okay, so muscles recover quicker, but are they more prone to fatigue than tissues are? In other words, which type of fatigue should teachers be most worried about?
A: A teacher should probably be most concerned with tissue fatigue. It's usually fairly easy to take a 10-minute break to allow waste products to be swept away and nutrients to be carried into muscle tissues. It's much more difficult for a teacher to comply with 2-3 days of vocal rest!
Q: What should I do if I feel some of the signs of vocal fatigue coming on?
A: Ideally, a teacher will habitually avoid long monologues to prevent undue vocal tissue destruction. If you feel fatigue creeping in and your day of teaching is not yet complete, keep a stash of activities handy for students: ten minutes of quiet independent reading, group or partnered activities, work stations, or student recitations.
Q: Common sense tells me that under-conditioned respiratory muscles used for speaking could be strengthened with aerobic exercise, such as running. True?
A: It is true that "breathing is breathing" and well-conditioned intercostal and abdominal muscles benefit the teacher. However, consider the difference in the way we breathe for exercise and for speaking. In aerobic exercise, we breathe in and breathe out in approximately equal proportions. In speaking, however, we usually take air in fairly quickly, but then release air in a slow, controlled manner.
Q: I know there are different types of muscle fibers: some move rapidly, while others are best for sustaining movement. Would a certain exercise regimen improve the mix of muscle types used for prolonged speaking?
A: There is probably no better exercise for speaking than to speak. At the same time, you know that speaking too much or in an unhealthy manner can be destructive. What a balancing act! At the heart of this contradiction, consider:
- Know your own body and its limitations
- Correct unhealthy vocal habits
- Try to make your vocal environment as friendly as possible
Q: Okay, what else can I do to facilitate recovery from vocal fatigue?
A: Allow yourself be a "vocal coach potato" sometimes. Would you be surprised if a marathon runner insisted on recovery time after a big race? Along these lines of thinking, teachers may need to let their voices rest. Tell your family and friends that you need vocal downtime. Try to find activities geared toward relaxation and rest. We live in a busy and complicated society, but you may need to tell yourself it's okay to take a day to rest.
Q: So, does this mean I should whisper or talk very softly so I don't tire my voice too much?
A: Many experts may tell you that whispering is "bad" for your voice, yet we could find no definitive research to support that claim. Whispering is essentially talking without vibration of the vocal folds, and if the vocal muscles are fatigued, whispering won't allow them to rest. Whispering may also have a dehydrating effect. While there is some disagreement among experts about the wisdom of whispering, it is safe to say that whispering is not the same thing as vocal rest.
Q: We all know it's bad to burst a blister and that calluses form on your hands for a reason. Following that same line of thought, is it good or bad to remove vocal growths?
A: It depends. Vocal nodules may respond well to therapy, and thus, no vocal fold microsurgery would be needed. For stubborn nodules and most polyps, a combination of voice therapy and surgery may be recommended. Of course, these decisions should be made in conjunction with a physician and speech-language pathologist with experience in voice.


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Local Profile | "4 Questions with Susan Inguaggiato"
|Susan with her daughter Chiara
I was born in Anaco, Venezuela in a small Medico center literally in the middle of the Central Venezuelan jungle! My father was a mud Engineer with Dresser-Magcobar and they were drilling there at the time. I grew up overseas most of my younger years, living in Lagos, Nigeria for three years then moving on to live in Copenhagen, Denmark and then Oslo, Norway and Stavanger, Norway.
I have two sisters, I'm the lucky middle child. We had a great time growing up, traveling the world! My parents always tried to introduce us to the local cultures wherever we were and enrolled us in the local schools so we could learn how the locals really lived. It was a great childhood. We moved to Corpus Christi when I was in Jr. High and graduated from Mary Carroll High School. I remember it being a bit of a culture shock, coming from Europe, but it was fun and I enjoyed school.
2. How did your upbringing affect what you do for a living now?
|The First Home Birth Susan Attended
as a Student Midwife!
When I met my husband skydiving in Deland, Florida while going to the University of Central Florida, I knew we had a great life ahead of us! We literally "fell" in love! We opened Bellino's Italian Restaurant 10 years ago and have a great time sharing his culture, and our love of food, wine and good times with our customers!
My newest adventure is studying as a Student Apprentice Midwife! I guess my upbringing overseas helped shape the idea that birth is a natural process, not a medical condition. In Europe, Midwives are usually the primary caregivers for healthy moms and babies. Both of our children were born at home right here in Rockport with the loving support of our Midwife, Beth Overton, CPM. Since then Beth Overton has opened the Corpus Christi Birth Center, the only Licensed Professional Birth Center in Corpus Christi, Texas and it is so exciting that families now have an alternative to having a hospital birth. The Birth Center offers Moms-to-be the opportunity to have a natural birth in a safe, comfortable environment. I love seeing women seeking natural birth and believing and trusting in their bodies to birth their babies in a gentle, loving way.
It may take me many years working on and off as I raise my family to reach my goal of becoming a Midwife, but along the way, I will support Midwifery and breastfeeding moms who choose to naturally birth and raise their children.
3. What brought you to Rockport-Fulton (and how does it differ from where you have lived previously)?
Believe it or not, a Sicilian brought me to live in Rockport! My husband, Francesco and I had recently moved to Corpus Christi from Oristano, Sardegna where he played professional basketball for the Italian Leagues. He retired from playing and we came to Corpus to be close to my parents since I had lived away for so long. One day we were having lunch at Charlotte Plummers and talking about moving to California. We were driving back to Corpus after a nice lunch and saw what is now Bellino's Italian Restaurant, for rent. It had been a deli called Mobilicious and was empty and available. Francesco always dreamed of opening a small Trattoria and this place was so cute. So out of curiosity we stopped and called and before we knew it we were signing a lease! A year later we bought the building and land! We opened our doors June 2004 and the rest is history! We love Rockport, but it is very different from where I've lived previously! It is quiet, and quaint, and friendly and full of wonderful people! I've lived in many places in the world, from San Francisco, to New York City, but the 3 years prior to moving here, I lived in Italy with my husband and there are many differences from here! For one, you hardly ever see people out walking for pleasure, when my Mother-In-Law came to visit, she said, "Where are all the people?" I had to explain no one walks places here, it's all too far apart and it's hot. I miss the concept of the "center" of town & open markets, where all the people get out in the evenings and stroll the streets in the center of town, visiting and eating gelato ice cream and window shopping. In the heat of the day in Italy, the shops close and everyone eats and takes a nap! Naps are good! Wish we did that here too!
4. What are your passions?
I have many passions, my first passion is my family! My children, Alessandro 8 and Chiara 3 are our lives! My other passions include traveling, which we do whenever we can. Thankfully our kids love to travel too! I love to paint, to read, to be an advocate for women's rights and to educate women of the choices they have when it comes to childbirth. I believe in helping women begin their journeys as mothers with a village of loving moms around them, encouraging and supporting them! Gentle loving parenting is the best thing we can do for our children, they are our future! I believe passionately in living a life of joy, harmony, health, & happiness! I wish it for all!


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Shamash Alidina interviews Mirabai Bush in conjunction with the release of her new CD "Working with Mindfulness".
Click Here to listen to a sample of "Working with Mindfulness"
"In this episode, Mirabai Bush talks about how to integrate mindfulness into the workplace, using her experience of creating the mindfulness program at Google.
Most people today are asked to improve performance at work with fewer resources and tighter deadlines, all while dealing with equally stressed co-workers and clients. This toxic combination leads to employee burnout and harms organizations. While people may not have control over stressors at work, mindfulness-based exercises are a scientifically proven, natural way to manage one's responses to them.
Mirabai Bush's mindfulness trainings for the workplace are based on traditional Buddhist practices to help reduce stress, increase productivity, and encourage creative problem solving."
Mirabai is a Key Contributor to Google's Search Inside Yourself Curriculum.
She has released a new CD called "Working With Mindfulness" available on the Ram Dass webstore.
Below you will find links to podcasts with Daniel Goleman and Mirabai relating to material covered on her CD:
- Social Skills
- Self Awareness & Self Regulation
- Learning Emotional Intelligence: The Importance of Practice
Also visit her organization's website contemplativemind.org for lots of resources.


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This article assumes you are using Windows 10, but I believe it would work similarly on Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, though Windows 10 is the version that finally got Bluetooth right as far as I'm concerned.
Step 1 - Make sure you have a Bluetooth adapter and that it's running.
Whether it's a USB dongle like the the one below, or whether Bluetooth is built into your system, you should see a little Bluetooth icon on your system tray, located on the bottom right of the screen.
Clicking on the arrow on the system tray will show you the logo:
Click on the Bluetooth icon and choose "Show Bluetooth Devices" and you should see the Bluetooth settings screen similar to below. Notice I have my headphones already paired.
Step 2 - Allow Connections To Your PC
Windows 10 doesn't trust any Bluetooth devices out of the box, so first you'll need to click on "More Bluetooth options" and you will see this popup dialog box:
Step 3 - Get Your PC Ready To Share Files
Make sure the "Allow Bluetooth devices to find this PC" is checked and then press the OK button.
Next, choose the "Send or receive files via Bluetooth" option on the Bluetooth settings screen, and you will see a new popup:
For this example, I will be receiving files to my PC sent from my Android 6 (Marshmallow) phone, which is probably the most common usage.
At this point, Windows will wait for an incoming connection from my phone.
Step 4 - Share From Your Phone
Choose some files or photos to share on your phone, such as a photo of a cute little dog, like my Zoey.
Pressing the little share icon in the lower right hand corner, I get a list of a whole bunch of ways I can share this photo. For this example, you'll want to click the Bluetooth icon.
You should then see your PC on the list of devices to share with. In this example, only my PC shows up on the list, clicking on the device name will start the process of sending the files, but you still have to go back to your PC to receive them.
Step 5 - Receive on your PC
At this point you should see a box pop up on your PC showing you the files being downloaded, like so:
Once your files are received, you see the finish screen:
My photo of Zoey is now on my PC! Notice I could put the file(s) somewhere else, but I just clicked the Finish button and put the file in my Documents folder.


text: Hey.... Well I guess that it's much easier to judge what's evil and what's not. Typically all peoples that took part in the Enlightenment a scientific development came to similar rules, which you can find things like: - Universal Declaration of Human Rights - European Convention on Human Rights - as well as the human rights found in the constitutions of many western countries (as well as some others). It may sound arrogant, but what ever contradicts such rules or tries to abolish them is evil. But I guess this discussion leads to nothing.... so back to this special case... I'm not against religious software in Debian per se, but as with many other things that we do not accept (see Debian Multimedia) or patented stuff, it's always a big danger. Why don't we then include legally questionable packages like aacskeys or dumphd in Debian? Their license should be fine, and there are surely some countries around the world in which they're legal. It's always the question where to make the cut. Someone mentioned pornography as an example. I guess we allow this because it's legal in most countries. What would we do with a package "child-pornography" in Debian if the license is GPL? Many people feel discriminated even by seeing or living with religious people (e.g. in Germany and Europe there is the long standing issue of having the christian cross in schools). Would we e.g. accept it if all the Desktop wallpaper packages contain the star of david? Guess that the countries of some that argued here that Debian is for all, would be the first that completely forbid Debian... I think that computing itself an in the end also Debian originates from and grounds on top of the ideas of what I noted above: Enlightenment, natural sciences, et cetera. And all this is not (or should not be) under law of any god, or the pope, or Sharia or whatever. If something obviously fights those idea, it looses (IMHO) the right to take. Which leads me to close the circle and come to and end: If license is clearly against all in what we all (hopefully) believe, even if it's just the preamble or an upstream who seems to have the impression that we should bow to some other "rules"... then personally I'd prefer to close the doors. Ah and again, this is definitely not anti-Islamism... if I'd see similar things from other religions or creationism or e.g. Nazis,... I'd say the same. Bye (at least for this discussion), Chris.


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(Reuters) - U.S. state and local governments have about $1 trillion of unfunded retiree healthcare liabilities, a shortfall that is expected to pressure budgets in the near future even more than pension costs, two Federal Reserve Board of Governors senior economists said on Thursday.
"Because retiree health obligations are mostly unfunded, they exert pressure on state and local budgets long before the pension plans do, even though the size of the pension problem is significantly greater in the long run," wrote Byron Lutz and Louise Sheiner in a paper to be published in the next couple of months.
The future pension shortfall is about twice as large and will supplant retiree healthcare concerns in the long term, the two economists said.
The authors discussed their preliminary findings, which are their own opinions and not those of the Federal Reserve, at a municipal finance conference in Boston. They expect to release full results as a working paper later this year.
America's public pension systems have been in the spotlight as mounting costs threaten to crowd out services in areas where pensions are more poorly funded. Growing pension and healthcare costs are among the reasons behind municipal bankruptcies, such as the filing in July by Detroit, or the cases of Stockton and San Bernardino in California.
Retiree healthcare benefits have fewer legal protections than pensions, which are often protected by state laws. But such benefits are largely unfunded in the United States, with most states and cities paying as they go. By contrast, public pension funds are between roughly 60 to 73 percent funded on aggregate, depending on how they're measured.
Many public employees retire before reaching the age of 65, which leaves municipalities to pay for their coverage until they become eligible for the federal Medicare healthcare program for the elderly.
The city of Detroit is seeking to force retirees onto insurance exchanges created under federal healthcare reform in order to shed their healthcare liabilities. Also this year, Chicago proposed a plan to migrate most of its 30,000 retirees to the state exchanges by 2017.
The preliminary $1 trillion figure from Lutz and Sheiner is on par with previous estimates. Last year, the Pew Center on the States reported that the nation has a $627 billion unfunded retiree healthcare liability just at the state level.
Another Pew study in March found that 30 U.S. cities also had a $104 billion long-term shortfall in healthcare for retirees.
(Reporting by Hilary Russ in New York; Editing by Tiziana Barghini and Eric Beech)


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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Belle: Dark as Night in the Bedroom
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Love it! Very dramatic - in a good way.ReplyDelete
Its pretty, but I would find it depressing after a while!ReplyDelete
Love this:) Used this dark colour restaurants we done and it looks amazing!! I've also got two dark walls like this in our house, makes it feel clean and romantic.. Oh and love your bathroom how stunning!!ReplyDelete
I love seeing all of your ideas on the blog but now I'm getting antsy to see the finished product! I would have never thought to use black in a bedroom but I'm sure it's going to look amazing when you're through with it!ReplyDelete
It's going to be beautiful. I love the look of moodiness you have going in your whole apartment. I think it's going to flow very nicely!ReplyDelete
Awesome! Can't wait to see pix:)ReplyDelete
I am a big fan of a dark and dramatic wall color for the bedroom! We have Ben Moore/SOOT in ours and I love how it looks. Cannot wait to see the final product...ReplyDelete
I love the way your new space is developing! It's exciting to watch someone's style evolve. Can't wait to see how this turns out!ReplyDelete
Love the dramatic effect of the color. I used to think dark colors are a bit too moody... but I love how it's used in these rooms. I can't wait to see how you pull it off!ReplyDelete
It can be totally dramatic and sexy. I painted my bedroom a dark slate grey color, and with vaulted ceilings it definitely turned into the sleep-inducing cave I was expecting. The only thing I don't like about it, after having it for a little over two years, is how it absorbs all the light from any ceiling light/lamp. It makes things rather dim and unpleasant sometimes.ReplyDelete
Love the moodiness of these dark rooms.ReplyDelete
you should get this comforter from West Elm to go along with the dar walls. I just got this and I can totally see it in a dark walled-room. http://www.westelm.com/products/nile-duvet-cover-shams-b975/?pkey=call-saleReplyDelete


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Tracie Burlingame. They said her eyes were synonymous with a chameleon. The birth of her sons was synonymous with murder. Harlem. Harlem, New York. The city is a Mecca. It has long been a breeding ground for some of the most astounding talent, the world has ever seen. That was before. This is now.
When Tracie Burlingame becomes an unwitting pawn, drawn into a web of deceit as thick as quicksand, spun by a deranged mind, she finds herself sucked into a collage of insanity, and a world where nothing is as it appears to be on the surface. She is drawn into a realm, where the talents are being collected, starting with the youngest child she birthed, but the path is strewn with unimaginable evil, and The Unholy has clamped its sights firmly on Tracie Burlingame, pitting her between a psychopathic serial murderer and something much, much worse.
Expired is a voyage. It is a journey. It is the story of one woman's pain and every mother's nightmare, and how when push comes to shove, sometimes all a woman or a mother has, is her belief.
Expired is simply the end of all things. Or is it?
Dre & Soulja Boy Scene from Expired the Movie
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What People Are Saying
"Evie Rhodes is a writing DaVinci"
"I could see a movie, one with many awards"
"It holds the reader's attention as if the pages are magnetized"
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"Evie Rhodes has turned the horror genre upside down by creating a haunting hybrid of Bram Stoker's mythical monster blended with the social and spiritual concerns of James Baldwin. It's a roller coaster ride of terror, wildly inventive and ultimately a well-tuned morality tale of our chaotic times."
—Robert Fleming, author of Havoc After Dark: Tales of Terror


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A Putzy Card.....Yep about 3-4 hours worth!
A few of my blogger friends.....ahem.....Simone.......knows that sometimes my cards take me awhile. I putz, move things around, switch papers, add accents.....this card was no exception! I am not even sure I am crazy about it. I started with the Stampendous trees stamp. I colored them in with my Copics and added dew drops to the ornaments. At first I had it stamped on white paper. Then decided to cut each tree out. I have some on pop dots. Still not sure I am happy with it. I did some faux stitching with my white gel pen. (I was too lazy to actually use the sewing machine!) I liquid appliqued the snow and added some glitter. So yes, even after 4 hours of putzing, I am still not sure I like the card!
To those of you who left comments, I appreciate your kind words and support. I know many of you mentioned band and swim. He is currently in both and decided tonight to quit both. So we are back to square one. He is not in any other clubs. I feel at a bit of a loss. I am trying to let things ride a bit. I just worry. Again thank you for your support, it really means a lot to me!


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Lucy Hale: Send JJJ Questions for Sara Shepard
Popping in on Pretty Little Liars Facebook, Lucy Hale give a teeny preview of her new ABC Family series in a new video.
In the new TV series, four estranged best friends (Hale, Troian Bellisario, and Shay Mitchell and Ashley Benson) are reunited one year after their best friend and queen bee of the group, Alison, goes missing - only to discover they're receiving messages from an anonymous "A" who knows all their secrets.
Pretty Little Liars premieres Tuesday, June 8th @ 8PM ET/PT on ABC Family.


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Official: RAM 1500 for Australia
Full-size pick-up to arrive here for the price of a top-spec mid-size ute within months
https://www.motoring.com.au/official-ra ... ia-111634/
Congrats, my Australian visitors!The RAM 1500 pick-up will become available here for the first time via Australia's official RAM importer, Ateco Group, by mid-2018.
The move will make the RAM 1500 the first full-size pick-up to be offered in Australia for around the same price as a top-shelf mid-size ute.
With the most expensive versions of the top-selling Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger – and the Volkswagen Amarok and upcoming Mercedes-Benz X-Class – priced above $60,000, the RAM 1500 could start from as little as $70,000.
That will make it significantly cheaper than the bigger RAM 2500 and 3500 models that have been available via Ateco's national dealer network since 2015. The RAM 2500 is currently priced from about $130,000.
Ateco Group made it clear the RAM 1500 will directly target Australia's most popular utes in the country's fastest growing sales segment.
"The RAM 1500 will enable the RAM to compete in what is the largest segment of the ute market for the first time," it said in a press release this morning.
It said the RAM 1500 will be "a unique full-size American pick-up truck that sets new benchmarks for towing, cabin space and ability".
Full details of the first official RAM 1500 to be sold in Australia are yet to be announced, but it will be available in four-door crew-cab and double-cab forms, in two trim levels and with five or six seats.
Although its payloads will be similar to that of many existing 'one-tonners', the RAM 1500's trump card will be towing capacity, which will easily exceed the 3500kg offered by most mid-size utes.
Like the RAM 2500 and 3500, of which Ateco sold about 400 last year (up 36 per cent on 2016), the RAM 1500 should therefore appeal to the caravan, boating and equestrian sectors.
As well, Ateco says the RAM 1500 will deliver class-leading towing, power, cab size and cargo space, with a tub length of up to nearly two metres and options like the unique RamBox Cargo Management System.
There are only two catches. Initially the RAM 1500 will only be offered here with a "class-exclusive" 5.7-litre HEMI V8 petrol engine. However, we understand a diesel version will become available later.
And we're talking about the previous MY18 RAM 1500, not the all-new MY19 model revealed at the Detroit motor show in January.
Again, however, motoring.com.au understands the redesigned RAM 1500 will eventually become available here, but only after it extensive re-engineered as a right-hand drive vehicle.
Now on sale in North America alongside the 2018 model, which continues on sale, the more expensive 2019 RAM 1500 brings a host of technical advances including electric steering, for example.
Like the RAM2500/3500, the RAM 1500 will be converted from LHD to RHD – including fitment of a specific steering system and Australian-made dashboard — by HSV sister company American Special Vehicles in Melbourne.
Like Ford F-Series trucks converted and sold in Australia via Performax International and Harrison F-Trucks, which offers the F-150 only in high-spec guises such as the Raptor, RAM trucks come with full Australian Design Rule compliance.
But because Ateco is Australia's exclusive factory-backed RAM importer and distributor, it is officially classed as a remanufactured vehicle — not a conversion – and offered with a three-year/100,000km warranty backed by a national dealer network with more than 30 outlets.
Confirmation of the RAM 1500 for Australia comes just days after global RAM boss Mike Manley told us exclusively at last week's Geneva motor show that US factory RHD RAM production is now unlikely, effectively guaranteeing Ateco and ASV a long-term business opportunity.
With RHD production or local conversion of the Nissan Titan now also now unlikely, the RAM 1500's only direct full-size pick-up competitor in Australia will be the new Chevrolet Silverado 1500, which HSV is expected to eventually add to its remanufactured Silverado 2500/3500 range on sale mid-year.


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Pure war
Semiotext(e), 1997 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 186 pages
"Pure war" is the name of the invisible war that technology is waging against humanity. In this dazzling dialogue with Sylvere Lotringer, Paul Virilio for the first time displayed the whole range of his reflections on the effect of speed on our civilization and every one of them has been dramatically confirmed over the years. For Virilio, the foremost philosopher of speed, the "technical surprise" of World War I was the discovery that the wartime economy could not be sustained unless it was continued in peacetime. As a consequence, the distinction between war and peace ceased to apply, inaugurating the military-industrial complex and the militarization of science itself.
Every new invention casts a long shadow that we are generally unwilling to acknowledge in the name of progress: the invention of automobiles inaugurated car-crashes; the invention of nuclear energy, Hiroshima and Tchernobyl. The technologies of instant communications have invented another kind of accident: the extermination of space and the derealization of time. Instant feedback is shrinking the planet to nothing, and "globalization" is its ultimate accident. First published in 1983, this book introduced Virilio's thinking to the United States. For successive generations of readers, it remains one of the most influential and far-reaching essays of our time.
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