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There's a scene in Richard Linklater's Boyhood in which a divorced father known only as Dad (Ethan Hawke) is spending the weekend with his two kids, Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), and trying to show them a good time. But no matter what he asks them — "How's school?" "How's your mom?" "How are things going?" — he can't get anything out of them other than "Fine" or "Good" or a shrug.
So Dad dramatically pulls the car over to the curb, tires screeching, and pleads to his kids, who have entered the phase of adolescence in which they withdraw into their own world, to just talk to him. He's not asking for much: He only wants them to respond, to connect, to share what is going on in their lives with him.
For many viewers, the scene will ring true from either side of the argument — nagging fathers or sullen teens. Parents will smile in recognition of both perspectives, especially trying to bond with a child starting the torturous process of puberty who regards grown-ups as aliens. It's a small, miraculous moment in a movie filled with them, capturing a sliver of day-to-day reality without contrived drama. Like the rest of Boyhood, which opens Friday, the exchange is a reflection of life, simple and unadorned, projected large on a movie screen, something that has become sadly rare in Hollywood pictures.
Although the scene, like the rest of Boyhood, feels loose and improvised, everything about it was carefully planned and constructed. Shot over a period of 12 years, during which the director and his cast would get together in Austin to rehearse for a week and shoot for three or four days, Boyhood is the latest — and best — cinematic experiment by Linklater, who launched his career with the 1991 comedy Slacker. That film floated from person to person as they told their often-strange stories to the camera in the style of a documentary. The movie's cult success launched a body of work split between Hollywood studio productions ( School of Rock, The Bad News Bears, The Newton Boys) and independent, more avant-garde fare ( Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Tape).
But until now, Linklater was best known as the director of the Before trilogy ( Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight) which drops in on the lives of a couple (Hawke and Julie Delpy) in nine-year intervals. Those films, which are comprised entirely of dialogue and picturesque locations, lacked the artifice and cutesy plots of most movie romances. Watching them, you felt as if you were seeing two people getting to know each other — and fall in love with each other — in front of your eyes.
The combination of precision and improvisation in that trilogy informs Boyhood, which is epic in length (two hours and 45 minutes) and astounding in its wisdom and intimacy. Linklater conceived the project after he became a father in 1994. Raising his daughter Lorelei stirred long-forgotten memories and feelings.
"Parenthood puts you back into the mindset of a kid," says Linklater, 53. "It reminds you of your own childhood. As Lorelei got older, I wanted to express something about that feeling — something about the limitations of a young person — but I couldn't pinpoint an exact idea. They were all spread out. I spent two years thinking about it until I asked, 'Why couldn't you film a little bit every year and capture the whole thing?' It felt like an exciting way to approach narrative. Film is 119 years old now, but I've always felt there's still wide open space for new ways of storytelling."
With the financial support of IFC Films, a small distributor of American independent movies, Linklater embarked on his cinematic experiment: Find a young boy, cast two actors as his parents, and then film them as he aged from 7 to 18.
After auditioning hundreds of children, Linklater settled on Ellar Coltrane, who was 6 when he got the part of Mason. The director cast his daughter as Mason's sister.
"Casting Ellar is probably the single biggest artistic choice I've ever made," Linklater says. "I tried not to put any pressure on myself, but I met a lot of kids and kept bringing him back to get to know him. He struck me as a thoughtful, ethereal, mysterious kid. I thought he would be perfect."
Coltrane, now 20, was so young he can't remember the first year of shooting. But he does recall Linklater encouraging him to do a combination of acting and investing his own personality into the character — an observant, quiet, artistic kid.
"Although I remember myself as being a lackadaisical child, I was very invested in the movie from the very beginning," Coltrane says. "A lot of what Rick did early on was to form a bond and find a place where me and Lorelei felt comfortable being ourselves and becoming these characters."
Linklater cast Patricia Arquette as Mom, Hawke's ex-wife, who has bad luck with men and struggles to raise their kids even with the help of her former husband. Although there was no set script — each year, the actors and director would decide what direction the story would take depending on what was happening in their lives — she says committing to a 12-year cinematic experiment was more exciting than it was frightening.
"My dad was an improvisational actor, so I grew up playing games and understanding the process," Arquette says. "That primed me to be not so frightened that there was no full script. From the beginning, Rick told me of some of the changes my character would go through over the course of the film. But a lot of it was also plain trust and rebonding every year when we would talk about people we knew and how they moved through their lives. It was a big experiment, and we jumped in blind. Most directors would not have hired this kid. He's not turning it on for the camera, he's not charming you, and having his real parents on the set meant incorporating their own interesting perspective into the film. The biggest danger is what if he starts thinking of himself as a child star? That could have been a disaster."
Although the film is called Boyhood, Arquette admits it could have also been titled Motherhood, since her character's experiences are critical to Mason's emotional development and view of the world, the way parents can't help but shape their children's personas. Although Mason is the center of the film, we see enough of Hawke's and Arquette's lives to experience their growth and maturation, too.
From the start, Linklater was intent on avoiding anything that would pull the viewer out of the movie — that would break the illusion you were watching real life instead of fiction. There aren't even any markers signaling the passage of time: The only signposts are simple things, like Mason losing his baby fat, the songs heard on the radio or Lorelei's sudden growth spurt.
"If the audience is going to accept this family as a reality, then there has to be no artifice," Linklater says. "Early on, I thought I would have a score, but then I decided that would make the movie feel like there was an author behind it. Anything that felt like an authorial touch, like a title card that said 1986, I stayed away from. It's a lot of work to achieve that, because the whole thing is constructed. This movie is more or less an accumulation of intimate moments. I didn't want the film to ever guide you. I wanted you to come away from it with your own observations."
Despite the risk inherent in a 12-year film shoot, Linklater says it was remarkably smooth (the only hiccup: One year his daughter asked if her character could die, because she didn't want to dress a certain way, but her pop said no).
"When Rick approached me about 'the 12-year project' I said yes right away," says Jonathan Searing, president of IFC Films. "I likened it to the only touchstone I could think of — Michael Apted's Up series [a number of acclaimed documentaries that checks in on a family every seven years] — but Rick was very clear this would be different. My wife and I have three sons, one of whom was 16 at the time and the others 5 and 7, so I felt like not only had I lived already through this as a parent, but I was about to embark on this adventure again. Looking back on it now, it seems like an insane proposition, but as I have told Rick, if he had said he want to make the film for 24 years, I would have still hopped on board."
Francois Truffaut checked in on Antoine Doinel, the teenage protagonist of The 400 Blows, in three subsequent films to see how he had turned out as an adult. But those pictures were spaced out by several years. They don't have the you-are-there immediacy of Boyhood.
Like he does in most of his films, Linklater avoids coincidences and freak occurrences: There are no shocking twists, no sudden accidents, no unexpected tragedies. The movie doesn't even show us the things you'd expect, such as Mason's first kiss or the loss of his virginity. Linklater purposely avoided the stuff audiences are used to, focusing instead on the mundane moments of life and mining the simple beauty in them.
"I love Italian Neorealism [movies such as Rome, Open City, which depicted real life as a way of social and political commentary], but they're very dramatic and they're always making a lot of points," he says. "That's what most movies do. But in this case, if I ever went there, I would lose the reality I was trying to create with these people. Childhood is dramatic enough. Just getting through life is hard enough. The stakes are high enough already. I've watched the movie with audiences who gasp when the kids start throwing a sawblade around, because they immediately assume there's going to be an awful accident. That's what movies have conditioned us to expect. But that's all plot artifice. To me, this film replaces plot with structure — the way time passes and reveals itself and the way we deal with it when we confront it."
Although Coltrane has a manager now (and has played small roles in several other Linklater films), he hasn't yet decided whether he's going to pursue acting. He also was not allowed to watch a single frame of Boyhood until the film was completed, because Linklater didn't want him to feel self-aware or awkward. When he finally saw the finished movie, his reaction was understandably complex.
"Pretty much every year in the movie reminds me of something in my life," he says. "The early years are hard to remember, but throughout it's very nostalgic. It reminded me that as a child, you're living in your parents' world. And your perception of them is what they want you to perceive of them. As you become a teenager and become your own person, you start to see the humanity in your parents and their flaws. That can be hard to accept at first. That's a difficult part of growing up. To me, that's one of the most interesting aspects of the film — the passage of time and the maturation process. It's eerie how much of myself I still recognize in that 7-year-old boy on screen."


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Lilly Diabetes supports Diabetes Scholars Foundation with $100,000 donation in 2013
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INDIANAPOLIS and ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For a second year in a row, Lilly Diabetes will donate $100,000 to the Diabetes Scholars Foundation (Foundation) scholarship fund. The contribution will support the Foundation's mission to empower young people with type 1 diabetes to live their lives to the fullest. The Foundation will use the donation to fund the Lilly Diabetes Tomorrow's Leaders Scholarships for students with type 1 diabetes as well as conference scholarships for families to attend the 2013 children with DIABETES® Friends for Life® conference in Orlando.
In 2012, the Lilly Diabetes scholarships went to support 21 students pursuing higher education as well as 10 families who attended the 2012 Friends for Life conference.
"We are so pleased that Lilly Diabetes continues to support our mission to empower people with type 1 diabetes," said Mary Podjasek, president, Diabetes Scholars Foundation. "Life with diabetes is never easy, but through successful partnerships like these we are able to help even more young people with type 1 diabetes follow their dreams."
Supporting people with diabetes and their families through this donation is an example of Lilly Diabetes' commitment to providing personal solutions for everyday life.
"Our company and employees believe that people with diabetes should never stop pursuing their dreams, and we are so proud to have helped the standout students selected by the Foundation in 2012," said Steve Sugino, vice president, Lilly Diabetes. "It will remain a priority for us to continue to support and encourage a new batch of up-and-coming students as they demonstrate at home, school and in their communities that having diabetes doesn't have to stand in the way of achieving their goals."
College scholarship award criteria include community involvement, activities, advocacy, and leadership. Applicants must also be incoming freshmen at an accredited college or university in the fall of 2013. Scholarships are not based on financial need; and not solely on academic achievement. Applicants must provide an essay and letters of recommendation from both a physician treating their diabetes and a high school counselor/teacher. This results in scholarships that benefit an impressive group of young students with diabetes.
"The fact that this scholarship exists proves that people really care about diabetes and believe in what people with type 1 can achieve," said Dan, a 2012 recipient of the Lilly Diabetes Tomorrow's Leaders Scholarship. "I highly encourage high school seniors who have type 1 diabetes to apply – it really is an honor to receive this award."
Applications, available online at www.diabetesscholars.org, are due May 15, 2013. Recipients will be announced by the Foundation in June.
Applications for conference scholarships for families to attend the 2013 children with DIABETES Friends for Life Conference are also available online at www.diabetesscholars.org. Conference scholarship applications are due April 15, 2013, and recipients will be announced by the Foundation in May.
For more information about the Foundation and its scholarship program, visit www.diabetesscholars.org. Additional information about Lilly Diabetes' patient support programs can be found at www.lillydiabetes.com.
About the Diabetes Scholars Foundation
In 2004, a group of parents who have children with type 1 diabetes created the Diabetes Scholars Foundation. Their goal was to lessen the burden of diabetes through education and give those affected by it tools they need to cope with the disease. Headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Ill, it is the only foundation that funds college scholarships open to all students in the United States with type 1 diabetes. In the past five years, the Foundation has awarded over $500,000 in college scholarships and over 250 scholarships for families to attend children with DIABETES Friends for Life conferences. In 2012, the Foundation received more than 600 college scholarship applications from 49 states. Information about the Foundation is available at www.diabetesscholars.org.
About Lilly Diabetes
Lilly has been a global leader in diabetes care since 1923, when we introduced the world's first commercial insulin. Today we work to meet the diverse needs of people with diabetes through research and collaboration, a broad and growing product portfolio and a continued commitment to providing real solutions–from medicines to support programs and more–to make lives better. For more information, visit www.lillydiabetes.com.
About Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY)
Lilly, a leading innovation-driven corporation, is developing a growing portfolio of pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from its own worldwide laboratories and from collaborations with eminent scientific organizations. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., Lilly provides answers—through medicines and information—for some of the world's most urgent medical needs. Information about Lilly is available at www.lilly.com.
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A study has been released through Brown University regarding battle expenses. The study asserts that the wars America has fought since 2001 could up to trillions of dollars. The final expense of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq may add up to $4 trillion, and might have resulted in the deaths of up to 250,000 people. Article source - Wars cost American taxpayers almost $4 trillion in past decade by Newsytype.com.
All those that lost their lives
According to Reuters, the expenses of war since the 2001 September 11 attacks are being added up by scholars from Brown University. "Costs of War" was the name of the project. The Watson Institute for International Studies released the project. There's a website for the findings, which were compiled by almost two dozen scholars from multiple universities. The study goes off of what Obama said the battle would expense. He said that about $1 trillion would be put into it. It could turn out to be between $3.4 and $4.4 trillion when you count the cost of the Afghanistan and Iraq battles. There were about 250,000 people killed. Al Jazeera reports that the English journal The Lancet, as well as others, was criticized for inaccuracy on death estimates. Still, there were almost 125,000 Iraqi civilians killed during this time, according to states.
The cost of just an interest payment
The interest payments have been very hard for the country to handle with the Bush and Obama administrations borrowing for war. So far, there has been at least $185 billion in payments made. The Reuters news agency, according to CBS, estimates a further $1 trillion will be spent paying down battle debt. The president's quote of $1 trillion for war spending is partially accurate; an estimated $1.3 trillion was appropriated for direct battle spending. Since the Department of Defense has not yet unveiled its battle expenditures, additional expenses are left out of that figure. The amount of cash spent just on veterans who were injured in combat is at $36 billion. By 2050, it might be around $900 billion instead though. Other veteran expenses, and expenses to their families, also have to be paid. That will cost an extra $400 billion. As reported by USA Today, there were 181,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battle veterans receiving disability benefits from the Veterans' Administration in 2008. As of 2006, 947,000 Vietnam vets were receiving comparable benefits.
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Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Finding Alice
Very much enjoyed a nostalgic weekend back in Oxford, and meeting a wonderfully responsive audience at the Sunday Times Literary Festival. The only disappointment was that the bookshop ran out of copies of Chanel (apologies to all those who queued, only to be turned away; it was as frustrating for me as it was for those who had been kept waiting).
Calm was restored when I found the secret door to Alice's garden (see above; needless to say, it remained locked) and the portrait of Lewis Carroll/ Charles Dodgson in the Christ Church Great Hall (now world-famous as Hogwarts, but hugely impressive for its own extraordinary academic, literary and political history). Time for tea afterwards at the Randolph hotel, and a chance to admire Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for Max Beerbohm's novel 'Zuleika Dobson'. (Not my favourite Oxford novel -- Brideshead Revisited can never be bettered -- but Zuleika, for all the damage she wreaks, deserves some celebration, as the femme fatale approaches the age of 101).
From the Randolph, back to Christ Church to hear Andrew Marr's talk on The Diamond Queen (as entertaining as his television series on the subject), and then a fortuitous meeting at dinner with Bettany Hughes, who told me about her new documentary on the hidden history of women and religion (apparently there were female bishops in the early Christian Church, and a deaconess named Phoebe, mentioned only briefly in the Bible, but intriguing nevertheless).
Alice, Zuleika, goddesses, and the Queen; what more could one ask for? All that was missing was a chance to dance the Lobster Quadrille, but walking across Tom Quad at midnight was almost as magical...
8 comments:
- kairu said...
It sounds like a wonderful weekend, Justine. (Is that a gleam of white moonstone on your hand, caught against the dark of your jacket like the moon reflected in a midnight pond?). You certainly look much happier than Dodgson in his portrait!
- 3 April 2012 at 18:01
- enid said...
What a great report back and lovely photo of you. I too spotted the white moonstone on your hand. You are so lucky to travel to so many interesting places and we are lucky to join you via the blog . I was thinking of rereading Brideshead as it was such a wonderful read.
- 4 April 2012 at 07:20
- Ellen said...
I have blogged about your talk http://imellenc.blogspot.com Thank you once again, thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm now an avid reader of your blog!
- 4 April 2012 at 08:47
- Justine Picardie said...
Perhaps I should have tried the gleam of a moonstone as a key to the secret garden? Does anyone remember Tom's Midnight Garden? I loved that book as a child.
Thanks, Ellen, for your blog; and welcome to this one.
- 4 April 2012 at 15:23
- enid said...
Tom's Midnight Garden was a group reading book when I taught and I loved it but the kids didn't identify with it. Another book was Green Knowe by Lucy Boston. I think it's sad that most kids would rather read about vampires and books like The Hunger Games. When I did find a child who liked Secret Garden or Tom's Midnight Garden I was really happy. The Narnia series was always so popular. Oh how soothing our favourite books from childhood can be in times of trouble.I loved Girl of the Limberlost and still reread it. Happy Easter.
- 5 April 2012 at 04:37
- Lilac In May said...
Love Toms Midnight Garden, just thinking about stepping out into the moon (stone) light brings me out in shivers. Love the new photo Kairu.
- 6 April 2012 at 09:58
- Minerva Black said...
Love Oxford, so magical and timeless.
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The first notes of Nicki Minaj's "Starships" boomed from the giant outdoor speakers, and the sweaty crowd on Montreal's Jacques-Cartier Pier cheered and whirled their glo-sticks. On stage, dancers in neon Lycra pranced in unison behind the fluorescent pink-bewigged singer. Except it wasn't Ms. Minaj. In fact, it wasn't even a woman.
This was Mascara, La Nuit Des Drags (Night of the Drags), billed as the biggest drag-queen show on earth. The three-hour-long glitterfest, with female impersonators channeling icons like Marilyn, Liza and Britney, is the highlight of Montreal's weeklong celebration of LGBT diversity, Divers/Cité. It's one of more than 100 festivals taking place in the city year-round — with the season peaking in the summer. After those long, cold, dark winters, Montrealers are looking for any excuse to get outside and party.
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You'd have to look pretty hard to find a bad meal in the city; even in touristy Old Montreal there are several gems. At Les 400 Coups — which GQ's Alan Richman named 2012's Best Restaurant "North of America" — the menu is hyper-seasonal and hyper-local; summer specialties include a velvety chilled cucumber and avocado soup and a "green" dessert concoction of apples, pistachios and cilantro over white chocolate yogurt.
An even unlikelier culinary oasis can be found inside the TGI Friday's-like Mechant Boeuf, steps from the Old Port on Saint Paul West. Skip the meat- and poutine-heavy items and grab a seat at the raw bar, where you'll find young chef Jason Nagy whipping up an assortment of homemade cocktail sauces and mignonettes, including a sweet chili, ginger and cilantro and a raspberry and mint that pair unexpectedly well with freshly shucked oysters.
One of the newest (and priciest) hotspots on the culinary scene is Daniel Boulud's Maison Boulud, part of the revamped Ritz-Carlton hotel on Sherbrooke Street West. The best tables are on the flower-filled outdoor patio, where you can dine on beautifully plated fare such as grilled octopus with piquillos and marcona almonds, and veal filet with delicately fried sweetbreads. Desserts here are architectural wonders, like the wedges of pine-nut biscuit topped with goat yogurt sorbet and finished with a triangle-shaped sliver of crystalized violet.
The more budget-minded can go straight to the source: one of the city's many year-round public markets, which are stocked with delicacies mostly grown or made locally. Everyone has a favorite market, but we opted for the indoor/outdoor Atwater Market, in the newly christened hip neighborhood of Little Burgundy.
Under tents, produce of the season is displayed like jewels — tomatoes of every size and color, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, melons. Inside, there are more kinds of pâté and cheese than you could possibly sample in a month, let alone a weekend. And if you get there early — before 9 a.m. — you might score the bread of the day at the boulangerie. (On both our visits, the raspberry bread had sold out.)
As for boozing, Montreal is still very much a beer and wine kind of town — most cocktails are sweet and fruity and designed to get clubbers drunk fast. But there are a handful of bespoke cocktail joints, most in the groovy Mile End neighborhood. That's the case at Sparrow, on Boulevard Saint-Laurent, where the basil gimlet with fresh lime juice (and my choice of poison, gin) was perfectly balanced and a bargain at just $8.
Perhaps the only place that can rival it is the nearby Café Sardine, on Fairmount Avenue, where drinks, cleverly served in a 5-ounce measuring glass, include a smoky Whiskey Smash, garnished with a grilled lemon slice, and the Bee's Knees, a mix of gin, lemon, honey and bee pollen embellished with coltsfoot blossoms.
But our favorite spot for a cocktail wasn't in a bar at all. It was on an old ferry boat turned floating spa, Bota Bota. Relaxing in a robe on one of the five decks, after completing a water circuit that alternated between dry saunas and warm whirlpools, we sipped Cryotinis (apple ice wine and vodka with lychee and apples) and soaked up fantastic views of the city and the St. Lawrence River.
In the distance we could hear thumping lines of a bass. It was the sound of — you guessed it! — another festival.
Montreal's biggest parties — the International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs — have already taken place, but there are plenty more to look forward to through the fall, and even into snow-tire season.
1. Fierté Montréal Pride (Aug. 13-19) culminates in a massive parade through the gay village (easy to find, with strands of pink balls strung across the main street, Sainte-Catherine).
2. The International Reggae Festival (Aug. 17-19) will pay special tribute to Jamaica's 50 years of independence.
3. Omnivore Food Fest (Aug. 17-20) features collaborative dinners of up-and-coming visiting and local chefs, including Michel Marek and Seth Gabrielse who hail from the hippest new spot in the city, Foodlab.
4. David Byrne, Deerhoof, St. Vincent and Gotye — these are just a few of the more than 600 artists who will play in venues across the city at Pop Montreal (Sept. 19-23).
5. Igloo Fest (Jan. 17- Feb. 2, 2013) presents live DJs and electronic music out on the quays along the St. Lawrence River in the dead of winter. Sounds fun!
For more information on festivals in the city, visit tourisme-montreal.org.


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International scholars to memorialize late law professor Jon Van DykeUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Interim Assoc Dean for Stu Srvcs, William S Richardson School of Law
Andrea Maglasang, (808) 255-5566
A three-day symposium, "He Haliʻa Aloha No Jon – Memories of "Aloha for Jon," will honor and memorialize the life and work of the late Hawai'i Law Professor Jon M. Van Dyke, and will bring to Hawai'i a prestigious line-up of international scholars and experts on the Law of the Sea, as well as on international environmental and nuclear law, sea level change, and human rights.
The symposium opens Wednesday, January 30, with an evening reception at the Hawai'i Supreme Court, and runs through Friday, February 1. It is free and open to the public and includes continental breakfast and lunch. Register online at: http://blog.hawaii.edu/lawreview/symposium/rsvp/. Registration will help to ensure adequate quantities of programs and meals.
To honor the work of Professor Van Dyke, the symposium will bring together scholars from around the world, particularly from areas where Van Dyke's influence was directly felt such as China, Korea, Japan, Turkey, Guam, Palau, and the United States. Outstanding faculty members from the host institution where Van Dyke taught for 35 years – the William S. Richardson School of Law (WSRSL)– will participate on the eight cutting-edge panels dealing with challenging global issues.
"Jon Van Dyke is truly irreplaceable as a scholar, teacher, mentor, lawyer, and colleague and we miss
him terribly," said Dean Avi Soifer of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. "Nonetheless, this conference highlights the extraordinary breadth of his accomplishments and the real difference he made across the globe."
Attorney Sherry Broder, director of the newly-formed Jon Van Dyke Institute of International Law and Justice, and the widow of Professor Van Dyke, has been a leader of the symposium advisory committee.
Professor Broder notes that bringing together scholars of this caliber to reflect on and discuss issues of global significance is an important way to carry on her husband's work.
"Jon never stopped working on issues that touch us all," said Broder. "With this institute in his name, these areas of concern will remain at the forefront of action and help inspire others to move forward."
Van Dyke died of a heart attack in November 2011, at the age of 68. He was an internationally recognized legal scholar and lawyer dealing with Native Hawaiian and human rights, environmental, ocean, constitutional and international law. Deeply compassionate, Van Dyke spent a lifetime fighting for the underdog and breaking new legal ground in his battles for justice and equality.
The symposium's principal sponsor is the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)
along with the WSRSL, the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Supporting sponsors include: Carlsmith Ball LLP; the East-West Center; the Hawai'i State Bar Association, International Law Section; UH School of Pacific and Asian Studies; UH Center for Korean Studies; the WSRSL Alumni Association and the WSRSL Law School Student Bar Association.
Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald and Dean Soifer will offer opening remarks.
The first of three keynote conference addresses will be given at 7 p.m. on January 30 during the opening dinner reception at the Hawai'i Supreme Court Building by Harry N. Scheiber, the Riesenfeld Professor of Law & History and Co-Director of the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of California Berkeley Law School, in tandem with Jane Scheiber, Research Associate, Center for Law and Society, Berkeley Law School. Their remarks are entitled: "Military Government, Internal Security, and the Constitution: Hawaiʻi Under Martial Law."
A second keynote address, entitled "The Legacy of Jon Van Dyke in Legal Scholarship," will be given at 1:15 p.m. February 1 in the Moot Court Room at the WSRSL by David Caron, Professor of Law and Co-Chair of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at Berkeley Law School.
The third keynote address took place on January 14, two weeks before the symposium, in cooperation with the WSRSL's January-Term seminars offered by visiting scholars. Jerome Cohen, Professor and Director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University Law School, reflected on recent human rights cases in his presentation, "A New Era for Chinese Justice, Reflections on the BoXilai and Chen Guangcheng Cases." His talk was recorded and will be available electronically on the Law School's Law Review Website at www.hawaii.edu/lawreview/symposium The website also offers additional information about the symposium.
The eight conference panels include:
Panel 1 – East Asian Seas –
Conflicts, Strategies for Peaceful Resolutions and Accomplishments
Panel 2 – International Environmental and Nuclear Law
Panel 3 – Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Panel 4 – Emerging International Regimes to Control Environmental Impacts
Panel 5 – Protecting the Ocean and Its Resources
Panel 6 – Human Rights in Asia
Panel 7 – Utilizing Indigenous Tradition and Custom in Decision-Making
Panel 8 – International Law and the Development of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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University of Montana Western student Ryan Backus will be directing Tom Griffin's comedy "The Boys Next Door" from Thursday, Nov. 1 through Saturday, Nov. 3.
All performances will begin at 7:33 p.m. in the Beier Auditorium on the Montana Western campus.
The play portrays several boys with mental disabilities in an assisted living home. Backus — a secondary education, English and drama major — describes the play as a comedy with heartstring moments.
"It's a story about some amazing guys who may have more in common with people than they would like to admit," Backus said of the play. "This is a story about our humanity, about that part of us that we all share regardless of ability or opportunity."
Tickets are $8 for the public, $5 for high school students and free to UMW students.


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My jaw dropped this morning when I read the news: Adobe will begin charging a 9% revenue share on revenue above $50k for using some "premium features" in Flash Player. The new pricing goes into effect for apps launched after August 1st that use both of the following features:
- ApplicationDomain.domainMemory
- Stage3D.request3DContext, when using hardware acceleration
These features are used together by the Unity and Unreal engines and allow console-quality games to be played in the browser. They could also be used together inadvertently by developers rolling their own optimizations; for example, using domainMemory for code optimizations and Stage3D for rendering would also fall under the new terms.
Up until today, developers like me have assumed that, like everything else in Flash Player, these features would always be free.
So, what exactly does "9% of net revenue" mean for social game developers? In the cutthroat, thinning-margin social games business, it probably means that no one will be able to afford to use the new features. Dropping your effective LTV from $3 to $2.73, when you're paying $2.50 to acquire that user, means you now have 54% less money to cover both marginal costs (hosting and support) and fixed costs (initial and ongoing development). That's huge.
I suspect we'll see a few developers give it a shot, but in the longer run this is going to push more people to HTML5 / WebGL and contribute to the eventual abandonment of Flash as a platform for social games.
I can only assume that the Flash Player team is doing this because they've been told they have to figure out a way to pay for themselves. But I hope they figure out a different way–perhaps taking a revshare on tools like Unity instead of games themselves–so that the Flash gaming ecosystem can continue to live and grow.
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Robert Francis (1901-1987) was born in Upland, Pennsylvania. Francis studied at Harvard (A.B., 1923; Ed.M., 1926). He taught at summer workshops and conferences and lectured at universities across the United States. His works include Stand with Me Here (1936); Like Ghosts of Eagles: Poems 1966-1974 (1974); a novel, We Fly Away (1948); and an autobiography, The Trouble with Francis (1971). He won the Shelley Memorial Award in 1939.
The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.


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The Canadian Sheep Federation (CSF) and the Canadian sheep industry at large are facing an exciting time in the evolution of the sheep value chain. Huge opportunities exist today to grow markets, increase value for all stakeholders, and secure the prosperity of the industry for the future.
CSF plays a central role in coordinating efforts to make this happen, including resources like this website that are intended to help existing lamb producers and new entrants find the information and contacts they need to grow and prosper. If you don't find what you're looking for, please contact the CSF office.
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Usually you can't get enough lighting from indoor shots; built-in flashes are more for filling in shadows from bright sunlight, not illuminating indoor areas.
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Which 10-year-old hits with a force equivalent to the weight of 130 elephants, or the landing pressure of an Airbus A380? The answer is the Atlas Copco HB 10000, the world's largest serial hydraulic breaker. Since its launch in 2007 this giant machine has been one big success story, helping users worldwide to achieve exceptional productivity in rock excavation.
The launch of the HB 10000 was an important step towards serving an emerging market segment – the use of hydraulic breakers as cost-efficient production machines for primary breaking and as a true economic alternative when drilling and blasting is restricted.
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The sheer breaking power of the HB 10000 has become legendary. The power generated in a single impact between piston and working tool corresponds to a weight force of around 760 metric tons, and impact frequency is up to 380 blows per minute. Tasked with handling 34,400 cubic meters of bulk rock excavation on a site in New York, one US contractor said: "The HB 10000 hits like a freight train. It's borderline unbelievable what that breaker can do!"
Jim Dupuis, Managing Director and owner of Erthmoving Contractors Pty Ltd (EMC), in Brisbane, Australia, adds: "The HB 10000 is breaking out more than double compared to our existing seven ton breaker. If you work that out over an hour, day, week, month or a year – that is a massive production increase."
Looking back, Torsten Ahr, Vice President Marketing Hydraulic Attachment Tools, says: "As early as the prototype phase, it was clear the HB 10000 was going to be a hit. We received several firm inquiries from operations where our prototypes had been tested even before the production model went on sale."


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The Art of Taxation: Joseph Hémard's Illustrated Tax Code
Despite a few extreme images, it does not appear that Hémard was ideologically anti-tax.
Tax codes are notoriously dull reading. They are devoid of interest to anyone but professionals trained in the arcane language of the tax laws who, even then, never actually consult them except when required by a specific task at hand. The idea of a lengthy, commercially published tax code, profusely illustrated with humorous cartoon-like drawings full of puns and whimsy, beautifully hand printed in color, seems almost unimaginable. But such an incredible book exists. Add to this the facts that the book was printed in occupied Paris near the end of World War II and that it contains numerous risqué and decidedly anti-authoritarian images, and one begins to appreciate how truly fantastic this book is.
Code Général des Impôts Directs et Taxes Assimilées (General Code of Direct and Related Taxes), illustrated by the prolific book illustrator Joseph Hémard, was published on February 15, 1944, a mere six months before the liberation of Paris. The book was a joint venture of two publishers, Éditions Littéraires et Aristiques and La Libraire "Le Tryptique," and printed by the company E. Desfossés. The text consists of national, regional, and local tax laws of France, divided into three main divisions or "books," containing a total of more than 419 articles. The tax laws included in the book run the entire spectrum from income taxes on businesses and salaries of individuals, to property taxes on real and personal property, to taxes on mines and trade license fees, to taxes on mortmains (lands held by ecclesiastical and other entities), and even to municipal taxes on dogs. The text also includes administrative provisions and punishments.
Hémard's Code contains a total of 183 illustrations ranging from small drawings used at chapter headings or ends to four full-page illustrations. The illustrations are lively,
almost cartoon-like drawings of unmistakably French persons and scenes—as is typical of Hémard's work. Nearly all the illustrations are visual puns or whimsical illustrations of tax provisions. For example, real property depreciation is illustrated by a child with a slingshot running away from a freshly broken window. Notable depreciation from unforeseen events, the equivalent of our casualty loss, is depicted by a house blown up by a volcano while a ship founders nearby in a raging storm.
A number of illustrations deal with administrative provisions. For example, a provision addressing error in imposition of the tax shows a vagrant at the tax collector's office holding a tax bill clearly issued by mistake. Several illustrations depict the plight of the taxpayer more metaphorically. An illustration for a supplemental tax for regional and local governments depicts a taxpayer literally being squeezed in a large press to extract the few remaining coins from him. Others are pure whimsy, such as an illustration for a tax on noncommercial businesses, which depicts a mushroom grower and a beekeeper being attacked by a swarm of bees. Similarly, the illustration for abandonment of marital domicile depicts a young woman, carrying a suitcase, being led off by Cupid as she waves adieu to her husband.
Finally, there are full-page illustrations at the beginning of the code's main divisions, each depicting five ordinary French citizens. In the first illustration the citizens are dressed in their street clothes with hats, coats, vests, and umbrellas. With sad looks on their faces, they methodically begin to undress, throwing their clothing in a pile before them. Although there is no caption, the metaphor is clear: The citizens' giving up their clothing represents the compulsory payment of taxes to the authorities. In the next illustration the citizens continue to undress as the pile grows. In the third illustration they are in their nightclothes and underwear or just stockings, which they are dutifully continuing to discard. In a final illustration, they are totally naked, walking off with sour looks on their faces while a tax collector with angel wings holds their discarded clothes over one arm and brandishes a sword in the other. This last illustration bears a caption, "Consummatum est!" ("It is finished!"), the final words of Jesus on the cross from John 19:30. Hémard thus not only depicted the collection of taxes as the methodical confiscation of all property from the public, but also analogized this supposed goal of the tax collector to the crucifixion of Jesus.
Despite a few such extreme images, it does not appear that Hémard was ideologically anti-tax. Rather, his illustrations simply reflect his humorous and light-hearted view of the plight of the taxpayer engaged in an eternal battle with the emotionless tax collector.
Code Général des Impôts Directs et Taxes Assimilées was not Hémard's first foray into the world of illustrated law books. In 1925 he illustrated the family law provisions in the Code Civil. In about 1941 he also illustrated the Code Pénal. Those works closely resemble Hémard's book on the tax code, with similar humorous illustrations of French citizens caught in the grip of the criminal or family law interspersed throughout the text, also published in limited editions in color.
Although it might at first seem surprising that Hémard's Code, with its risqué and anti-authoritarian illustrations, was published during the repressive German occupation of France, it is in fact consistent with the nature of German censorship at the time. As long as publishers avoided books containing works by Jewish authors and specific works deemed anti-German, they "were theoretically free to publish what new works they pleased providing these were not injurious to the Germans." The mildly erotic nature of Hémard's illustrations and their anti-tax collector message would have caused little concern to the German authorities, who have been described as letting the French "choke on their culture," and who in fact actually tolerated pornography.
Finally, there is the question of the book's intended audience. The fact that the 800 copies were a lavish and expensive production intended to be custom bound by the purchasers leaves no doubt that the book was intended for the enjoyment of wealthy book collectors and not for routine use by lawyers and accountants. Nevertheless, it seems likely that tax professionals, whether book collectors or not, would have found the book irresistible.
In a brief preface to the Code, Hémard observed that, given "the complexity of the tax system," it is understandable that some must rely on qualified persons to comply with their tax obligations, and that others, although essentially blind to the tax laws, choose to handle their tax obligations themselves, "strengthened by the illusion that a dark night does not offer more perfidious obstacles to the blind man than the perceptive one." He then expressed his hope that the "especially arid matters covered by the general Code of direct taxes would receive some useful light through the art of the illustrator." Hémard brilliantly achieved his goal; his illustrations bring the sterile world of the tax code to a vibrant and wonderful life, filled with humor and populated with peasants and shopkeepers, children and relatives, lovers and crooks, wealthy businessman and vagabonds, all being squeezed for their last sous by the relentless and merciless tax collector.
For More Information About the Section of Taxation
- This article is an abridged and edited version of one that originally appeared on page 163 of The Tax Lawyer, Fall 2006 (60:1). The complete text of the original article, including 19 delightful color illustrations by Joseph Hémard (a first for The Tax Lawyer), is available at www.abanet.org/tax/pubs/ttl/601fa06/3--KAT.pdf.
- For more information or to obtain a copy of the periodical in which the full article appears, please call the ABA Service Center at 800/285-2221.
- Website: www.abanet.org/tax.
- Periodicals: NewsQuarterly, quarterly newsletter; The Tax Lawyer, quarterly journal; The Practical Tax Lawyer (published by ALI-ABA in cooperation with the Section), subscription available to Section members at a significant discount.
- Books and Other Recent Publications: Effectively Representing Your Client Before the "New" IRS: A Practical Manual for the Tax Practitioner with Sample Correspondence and Forms; Sales and Use Tax Deskbook; The State and Local Tax Lawyer; Property Tax Deskbook; A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Consumption Tax Proposals; State and Local Taxation of Banks and Other Financial Institutions; Value Added Tax: A Model Statute and Commentary.
Farley P. Katz is a partner at Strasburger & Price, LLP, in San Antonio, Texas. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Per Cristoderos blog. TB gets rights to Malone and Roberts for the 4th from the Richards deal. Pick becomes a 3rd if Malone is signed.
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OT: UCF ice hockey
Just to throw this out there, on September 21st at 11PM, the UCF Golden Knights will play USF in the season opening game at the RDV Sportsplex in Maitland.
It's free for UCF students, 5 dollars for everyone else. If you don't mind being out late and want to watch some hockey, come on out.
For mapquest purposes, the address of RDV is:
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Player movement.Submitted by Murderworks on June 20, 2007 - 20:30
Seeing all the talk about what we should do with our lines recently, there are two names out there I would LOVE to see in Tampa. The first is Huselius, and the second is Straka. I think either one of these guys could be deadly on a line with Richards. I think Huselius would be more costly on the trade front, but we have a deep ammount of goalies/defensemen that I think have some pretty decent value. He has a really nice cap number at 1.4 mil. Great hands, and perhaps he could move to the first line with Vinny, and move MSL back to the second line to wing with Richards. Huselius seems to be more of a passer to me which would make things odd with him and Richards being the playmaking type.
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Trade between Tampa/AtlantaSubmitted by Murderworks on February 1, 2007 - 15:46
Erik Erlendsson of the Tampa Tribune reports:
First the trade…
Lightning have traded Andy Delmore and Andre Deveaux to Atlanta in exchange for Stephen Baby and Kyle Wanvig. All four players will remain in the minors for now, Delmore and Deveaux to Chicago while Baby and Wanvig will be assigned to Springfield.
Of note, apparently Delmore may more than likely stay in the minors as Philadelphia is ready to swipe him off waivers if he is put on recall, so there is a good chance that Delmore won't come back to bite the Lightning as a member of the Thrashers this season.
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TB sends '08 4th rounder to LA for G Ryan MunceSubmitted by Murderworks on January 20, 2007 - 21:15
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Kings have traded goaltender Ryan Munce to the Tampa Bay Lightning for a fourth-round draft choice in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi announced Saturday.
Munce, 21, has played in 17 games this season with Reading of the ECHL and has a 5-6-4 record, a 3.30 goals-against-average and a .884 save percentage. He was most recently with the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League but had not appear in a game with the Monarchs this season. He was originally selected by the Kings in the third-round (82nd overall) of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
Update- Pete
Source: LAKings.com.
Update Two-Pete
Ryan Munce has been added to the prospects page and his profile has been created with his basic biographical information.
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Charlie Webster, Chair of the Maine Republican Party:
In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who's black. How did that happen? I don't know. We're going to find out….
I'm not politically correct and maybe I shouldn't have said these voters were black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that's sleazy.
As a Democrat, let me say how much I love this version of the Republican Party. Can I suggest a prominent speaking role for Webster at the 2016 Republican National Convention?


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A.Miguel, on 08 November 2011 - 07:25 AM, said:
Congratulations; this looks to be an amazing extension. I am a newbie on Yii so that I am still struggling on it.
I have a few questions to ask you about giix. Let's assume we have the following scenario:
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One Order has many Products and one Product can belong to multiple Orders.
1: When should I use GiixModel Generator instead of normal Model Generator?
2: Is the order from which the models are generated relevant?
3: Is it supposed for Giix to generate proper MANY_MANY relation and set the correct pivot table on pivotModels method?
// Order model 'products' => array(self::MANY_MANY,Products , 'tbl_order_products(order_id, product_id)'),
I did some tests here and ended on changing the relations manually.
4: For the scenario presented above the Giix extension would apply as well? If you noticed there is an extra field in tbl_order_products where user can set the product quantity for a specific order. Will the saveWithRelated work fine with multiple fields?
A tutorial would be a very good complement to this great extension. I believe there are several other features that we would appreciate on this extension.
Thanks a lot,
Does anyone suggested a solution step by step how to manage this situation? I didn't find any..


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The American Institute of CPAs' Nov. 29, 2012 comments to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) support the Service's proposed amendments to Circular 230, the Regulations Governing Practice before the IRS.
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Sprint's variant will arrive on June 21st with Google Wallet in tow. The pricing will match the $199 and $249 price points for the 16GB and 32GB variants, respectively. Preorders will go live tomorrow, June 5th, ahead of the June 21st release date.
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