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PerfView Tutorial 1 - Collecting data with the Run command
Thanks Vance. I found the videos useful. I only recommend a better microphone.
Stephen Toub: Inside TPL Dataflow
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Hanselminutes on 9 - Why Aren't There More WinForms Talks with Rocky Lhotka
For vector graphics development, I find the WPF API clumsy. I am not happy with the memory use either. I am not comparing to windows forms, but to other vector graphics APIs.
Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics HardwareI am very, very happy to see the return of an immediate mode 2d API, Direct2D. I only wish it were available on all windows platforms. An immediate mode API is especially needed on low-end hardware.
Expert to Expert: Contract Oriented Programming and Spec#
The first question people have regarding contracts is, why bother? The speakers addressed this by explaining how much money Microsoft saved in manual testing time. But there are other savings as well.
By specifying assumptions explicitly, the design improves. You move from fuzzy verbal communication to concise, precise communication about the behavior and expectations of code. This has the same benefits as writing documentation before code, or writing tests before code. It clarifies the design.
Even without compile-time or run-time contract checks, a contract allows one to view classes or methods as black boxes with precise behavior, ignoring internal details. This helps to logically determine if a design functions correctly.
Another benefit is reduced debugging time. If you use only run-time contract checks, you eliminate the time normally spent trying to narrow down a bug -- you find it earlier, before it is manifested in peculiar ways. If you have compile time checking as well, as in spec#, the same bug would never occur -- it would spotted by the compiler.
The work done by the spec# group is important. I hope it goes into products as soon as possible.
Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Bertrand Meyer - Objects, Contracts, Concurrency, Sleeping Barbersfoostar wrote:I'm not convinced that SCOOP can work. The problem I see with it is that it allows for arbitrary sharing of state among concurrently executing objects. If it can be made to work then the compiler will probably have to make such conservative decisions wrto synchronization that performance will be a tiny fraction of the theoretical optimum.
Is this really true? My understanding is that SCOOP is very high level and there are a number of different ways it could be implemented internally. For example, it could be implemented on top of message passing?
I like the SCOOP concepts. Being a fan of design by contract for many years now, I like especially the way it works neatly with contracts. I would like to think foostar is incorrect in these assumptions.
Joe Duffy, Huseyin Yildiz, Daan Leijen, Stephen Toub - Parallel Extensions: Inside the Task ParallelFor those who like language extensions: you may like an extensible language instead:
Burton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of Parallelism
Message passing in games:
That is only distributed server stuff. It seems message passing would work well on clients as well, given that the game might be modeled as many independent actors interacting with one another.
Burton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of Parallelism
There is no way to tell if an efficient message passing system would be as fast or faster than transactional memory for your scenario, without building and trying it out. But I suspect there is some bias against the idea of lightweight processes and efficient message passing, because we see so few common implementations with that level of efficiency.
If you read some of the links I pointed out earlier, they explain how message passing is a lower level building block than transactional memory. Being lower level, it can be faster as well, when you do not need full transactions.
I have nothing against transactional memory except that it helps preserve existing serial ways of thinking. Share nothing, message passing concurrency, seems to balance and scale almost automatically.
Burton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of Parallelismsylvan wrote:
Frank Hileman wrote:
If you have decided by design that all messages to the barrel modify its state, and that all messages are dependent upon the state of the barrel (ie are invalid if the barrel has been modified), you have serialized access to the barrel by design. It does not matter what form of concurrency you use, locks, message passing, transactions, it is the same problem, and is the same problem a CPU has when determining the dispatch order of instructions that write to a memory location.
No, it's not serialized by design, in fact it's (deliberately) extremely parallel by design, with the occasional rare conflict. You have tens of thousands of objects, most of which don't care one bit about that barrel, but sometimes one of them does, and even more rarely two or more of them do.
The point is that the mere infinitismal possibility of conflicts cause 100% serialization when you use message passing, whereas with transactions you can run in parallel, and deal with those rare cases of conflicts when and only when they actually occur.
If it's just the case of a single barrel you may be able to hack your own optimistic transactional memory on top of the messages (e.g. you have one message which does not block that you can use to check if you need to update the barrel, and if so you just do it again with the atomic version - that way 99.9% of the objects would just decide that they don't care about the barrel at all and leave it alone), but it gets much worse in real world scenarios. In practice you'll often have each object want read N unspecified objects from the world, and modify M other unspecified objects in the world (which may or may not overlap with the N that you read). There is no way to know up front which objects you need to read/modify, you only know the exact set of objects that was needed after the operation has occured. All this has to happen atomically, naturally, which means that with message passing you'll be forced to have a single service guarding "The World", and each object's operations on the world will be entirely serialized. It's simply impossible to do this concurrently if your world is guarded by a message process, even though the number of actual conflicts that these atomic operations have are very very low.
And again, with transactional memory, the problem simply disappears and you get near linear speedup as you add more CPU:s.
Also, I didn't "design" the problem to be difficult for message passing, it just was difficult for message passing all by itself. Sometimes the thing you're simulating just isn't suitable to message passing. You can't blame the problem because the language doesn't offer a good way of solving it!
Look, I'm the biggest FP advocate there is. I like Erlang et al. as much as the next guy (though my favourite language is Haskell), but the fact of the matter is that there are real problems that can not be solved with message passing. In my experience, most applications that are actually concurrent by nature (servers, etc.) can use message passing good effect, but when you try to speed up non-concurrent applications the instances where your problems map nicely to threads and messages start to become more rare. We can't just ignore these problems (again, Almdahl's law won't let us), we need to provide a solution for them too. That's why we need many ways of doing these things. In most cases you can be data parallel, in some cases you need task based parallelism, and in yet fewer cases you can use threads and message passing, and in fewer cases still you need transactional memory. We can't leave any of these out though, as that would disqualify the language from being considered "general purpose" w.r.t. concurrency/parallelism, IMO.
Games work exceptionally well with message passing. As I discussed regarding your previous ai scenario, if the message to the barrel (change state) includes a "barrel state stamp" then the barrel knows it can change state, assuming that stamp matches the current barrel state. If this is hard to envision, imagine the barrel increments a private counter every time it changes important state (important to the message sender). That counter is the state stamp.
When the barrel receives your state changing message, it can process it as long as there is not other similar messages competing. If the state stamp has changed it must tell the sender that message was discarded, as it is no longer valid. Then the sender can recompute or abandon.
This is essentially what happens with transactions as well. The messages as I describe are a type of optimistic transaction. Scalability in games is probably acheived by minimizing choke points, regardless of the concurrency mechanmism used.
There is no more serialization with message passing than with transactions. If you have many processes modifying the same mutable state in your barrel, and all these modifications are dependent on the state of the barrel (ie invalid if state has changed) you have a contention problem that is not solved by any concurrency mechanism. Messaging does not make this worse. If most processes are not modifying your barrel state, they are not barrel state dependent, and there is no serialization problem as you describe. Then both messaging and transations work well.
Your second argument, regarding N reads and M writes, you claim is solved better by a transaction. All you are doing is breaking up the granularity. You can do the exact same thing with messages. Instead treating the whole world as one process, break up the writes into messages to M processes. If all must be done atomically, then you do need a transactional system built using messages. Ultimately such a transactional system must commit writes.
One way you might do it is a two stage commit. First the supervisor (modifying) process sends a message to each M process acquiring a lock. Assuming a message is sent back with succeed or fail, the next step is to send a message to each M process to actually mutate data. During that time each M process cannot be modified by anything else (ie is temporarily owned by the supervisor process). After mutation is complete, the lock is freed. This only requires two messages to each M process and one message back from each M process. This is a fine grained form of locking and does not block any other processes from modifying any other mutable data in the meantime. Nor do the locks prevent reading messages from being processed. Only a writing or lock acquiring message would fail, and only to those specific pieces of data.
The point is you can do anything you wish with message passing. It is a fundamental building block, and can scale as well as your design permits. If your design has no need for atomic composite commits, you can do that. If you do need atomic composite commits, you can do that as well.
Burton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of Parallelismsylvan wrote:How could these message be run in parallel, if each of these message requires atomic updates? I.e I need to do "Find position of explosive barrel, if I collide with it then explod it", it's no good if someon else does this at the same time and moves the barrel after I've read the position but before I explode it! How could you possibly know that two threads who both read data from the game world (for example) will not decide to write to the same place as a result of that read? Atomic access is key, and with message passing that means the accesses get serialised.
If you have decided by design that all messages to the barrel modify its state, and that all messages are dependent upon the state of the barrel (ie are invalid if the barrel has been modified), you have serialized access to the barrel by design. It does not matter what form of concurrency you use, locks, message passing, transactions, it is the same problem, and is the same problem a CPU has when determining the dispatch order of instructions that write to a memory location.
The description I gave previously of the ai and world processes applies to your barrel scenario. Ideally the game is designed so that serialization is not needed by design -- ie the barrel explodes regardless of whether it has moved. If you decide to create a choke point in your design, and all processes are hitting that spot at the same time, you have designed something that does not parallelize well, regardless of the concurrency mechanism.
Massively multiplayer games use messaging extensively, and probably avoid that type of "serialization by design".
Burton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of ParallelismAnyone interested in comparing message passing concurrency to other techniques may wish to read this:
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 14-year-old boy testified Monday that he was "freaked out" when a Saudi Arabian air force sergeant made sexual advances toward him in a Las Vegas hotel room on New Year's Eve but didn't know how to get away before he was raped.
The teen acknowledged that he willingly followed defendant Mazen Alotaibi (MAH'-zen ah-loh-TAH'-bee) to the room at Circus Circus in hopes of getting marijuana from him.
He said Alotaibi offered to pay him money for sex, and he only agreed to the offer in hopes of tricking the man and running away before anything happened.
Alotaibi, 24, has pleaded not guilty to nine felonies, including kidnapping, sexual assault and lewdness with a child. If convicted, he could be given life in prison. He is being held at the Clark County jail.
Alotaibi's lawyer, Don Chairez, has argued that if any sex happened, it was consensual. He does not believe any force was used.
The sergeant, who was in the U.S. for military training, told police that he met the boy in a hallway at the hotel on Dec. 31. He said the boy wanted marijuana and offered to exchange sex for money.
Nevada state law says children under 16 cannot consent to sex.
The boy accompanied Alotaibi to the hotel room where five other men were lounging on the morning before a New Year's Eve fireworks show on the Strip.
Prosecutor Jacqueline Bluth has said Alotaibi steered the boy into the bathroom and locked the door before groping him and forcing him into oral and anal sex. Bluth said a nurse at a hospital detailed injuries consistent with such an attack.
Police reported collecting DNA evidence from a used condom and a soiled towel found in the bathroom. The prosecutor said DNA swabbed from the boy's neck, ear, chest and other body parts was consistent with two people, including Alotaibi.
Chairez has said the DNA evidence was inconclusive and showed no link to Mazen.
Chairez also argued that Alotaibi was tired and intoxicated after traveling to Las Vegas from Los Angeles and staying up all night drinking cognac at a strip club. He also was too limited in English and too unfamiliar with U.S. law to waive his right to have a lawyer with him while he answered police questions, the lawyer said.
Alotaibi, sitting handcuffed in a police interview room, never asked for a translator and appeared at the beginning of the 70-minute videotaped interview to waive his right to have a lawyer present. He also said he didn't understand why he was there.
The boy had been visiting Las Vegas with his divorced father and initially told police he was on the way to meet a friend at a doughnut shop when he was abducted.

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Many teams set goals in the preseason to win their leagues and then make it to state. For the Skyline Lady Thunderbirds crosscountry squad, it is mission accomplished.
Many teams set goals in the preseason to win their leagues and then make it to state. For the Skyline Lady Thunderbirds crosscountry squad, it is mission accomplished.
A week after securing the HOPL team title, the Lady T-Birds nipped the host Meade Buffalos by one point for third place in Saturday's regional, thus punching their ticket to Wamego next weekend. Joining the girls on the big stage will be Roman Ibarra, who qualified as an individual by taking 7th (18:38) in the boys race.
Berean Academy scored 31 points to win the girls regional, followed by Stanton County with 47. The real drama came in the battle for third. When the dust settled, it was Skyline who had prevailed over Meade, 77-78.
Whenever a crosscountry race is decided by one point, everything that happened was important to the outcome, of course. But in this particular case, several things stand out that allowed Skyline to nip the Buffalos.
First of all, Brooke Fisher is beginning to return to form after an injury had kept her sidelined for most of the season. She captured 6th place (17:41) which set the tone for the T-Birds. Secondly, Allison Sanders had her best relative finish of the season. Her 15th place (18:41) represented one of her best efforts this year.
The other Skyline scorers packed up well. Megan Pyles (20th 19:17), Katelyn Kumberg (22nd 19:40) and Madison Moore (23rd 19:50) turned in solid races that were instrumental in putting Skyline in the hunt for a state berth.
Still, Skyline would not have edged Meade except for the performance of their pushers. In crosscountry, pushers do not score, but they can add points to the other teams by finishing ahead of their scorers.
That is exactly what Patty Ibarra (24th 19:55) and Abby Giles (31st 21:26) did. Counting only each team's first four runners, Meade was ahead. But by finishing ahead of Meade's 5th scorer, Ibarra and Giles added enough points to her score that Skyline was able to slip into the 3rd spot.
Skyline head coach Lynette Freeman said, "All the girls passed someone from Meade in the last half mile, so they all had a huge part in the team getting to go to state."
Roman Ibarra had to be taken to the hospital following his state qualifying effort, but is reportedly recovering nicely. Freeman remarked that Ibarra, who has been doing double duty as a runner and a football player this year, may simply have overdone it with a race on the day after a football game.
Freeman said, "I think Roman is going to take it easy from football this week so he will be ready to go at Wamego."
Skyline does not have enough boys to qualify as a full team, but three T-Birds other than the state-bound Ibarra ran at regional as well. After competing as JV for the majority of the season, Lucas Cason (38th 21:28), Khaleb Cason (47th 23:31) and Colin Kumberg (53rd 30:01) ran their final races of the year as varsity competitors.
Coach Freeman was pleased with the Thunderbirds efforts. "Regionals was a huge success for us. We get to take the full girls team and Roman to state. We are really looking forward to it."


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STOCKTON - A judge on Monday sentenced Aushua McDuff-Brown to 22 years to life in state prison for killing a toddler in a botched attempt to run down another woman.
STOCKTON - A judge on Monday sentenced Aushua McDuff-Brown to 22 years to life in state prison for killing a toddler in a botched attempt to run down another woman.
McDuff-Brown, 23, tried to ram her Ford Focus into a woman in a heated dispute but missed and mistakenly pinned 3-year-old Ruben Richard Ramirez between her car and a store building.
Ruben's mother, Deleshia Mason, says she relives the incident in nightmares every time she falls asleep.
She watched helplessly Oct. 3, 2011, as her son died moments after they arrived to Madison Market for a bag of chips, his reward for being a good boy while his mom ran errands that afternoon.
"I am a firm believer in God, but I'm afraid I will never see my son again," Mason said in a letter that a friend read at McDuff-Brown's sentencing.
And if she sees him again in the afterlife, she wonders, "Will he know who I am?"
"The defendant created my nightmare," the letter said, pleading for a long prison punishment.
The only way for Mason to hear his voice is to play a recording she saved in her cellphone.
Or in those terrible dreams.
"The defendant gets to see (her) kids grow," Mason's letter said. "My only child has been taken from me, so I will never get to experience or cherish these memories with Ruben.
"My pain will never end."
McDuff-Brown was found guilty by a jury in October of second-degree murder, attempted murder, hit-and-run resulting in death or injury and a weapons enhancement in connection to the murder charge.
Dressed in orange jail scrubs, she sobbed with her head down as victim statements were read in court at her sentencing.
McDuff-Brown also had a 3-year-old son when the tragedy took place. Since then, she has given birth to another child while in jail custody.
Defense attorney Edward Healey asked for Superior Court Judge Seth Hoyt Jr. to consider her lack of criminal record, her youth and the remorse she feels.
Healey said he had filed a letter with the court in which McDuff-Brown expresses her regrets.
Deputy District Attorney Mark Ott argued McDuff-Brown is sorry only that she was caught.
McDuff-Brown left the scene, dropped off her son at her parents' home and attempted to flee to El Paso, Texas, he said.
She was apprehended in Southern California after a Greyhound bus passenger recognized her.
After hearing the statements, Hoyt handed down the sentence and ordered McDuff-Brown to pay $9,000 in restitution for the murder.
"It is heartbreaking because as a society it really is our job to protect children," Hoyt said. "They are such a blessing to all of us."
McDuff-Brown could have chosen to control her anger and avoided a child's death.
"Unfortunately, Miss McDuff-Brown did not check herself that day," Hoyt said. "She's going to have to live with it for the rest of her life.
"Miss McDuff-Brown, good luck to you."
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An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver, A lecture and book signing with bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible, will be speaking about her new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which chronicles the year she and her family spent eating a locally-produced diet and avoiding food transported by the use of fossil fuel. Thurs., May 3 at 6:30pm. THE COOPER UNION, The Great Hall, 7 E. 7th St. at 3rd Ave. $10. 212-279-4200. www.ticketcentral.com.
Experiments 07 Play Reading Series, A public forum for the work of emerging and culturally diverse playwrights to be heard. Hear Too Fast Waltz by Debra Greenfield. Two men on the edge of life share a hospital room for 24 hours: a punk-rocker-would-be-suicide and a once-hallowed-thespian on his deathbed. Mon., May 14 at 7:30pm. LA MAMA E.T.C., 74a E. 4th St. 212-475-7710.
Pink Pony West Poetry Reading Series, Call for more information on upcoming readings. Takes place on Fridays at 6pm. THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE, 29 Cornelia St., bet Bleecker & W. 4th Sts. $6, includes one free drink. 212-989-9319.
Poetry Project Events, THE POETRY PROJECT, 131 E. 10th St. 212-674-0910. Check the website for upcoming events. www.poetryproject.com.
Social Justice Dialogue and Initiative, Homeless LGBT youth & young adults and Seminary students from New York Theological Seminary bring together religious leaders, scholars, community organizations, families and the community to Create In Us a Safe Space. Featuring keynote speaker Rev. Dr. Traci West from Drew University Theological School, as well as Rev. Pat Bumgardner from the Metropolitan Community Church of New York, Rev. Johnny Youngblood from St. Paul Baptist Church and Rev. Dr. Dennis Wiley from Covenant Baptist Church. Sat., May 12 from 10am - 1:30pm. JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH, 55 Washington Square South. Preregistration available at www.nyts.edu.
A Tale of Two Cities, A reading and discussion with novelists Jennifer Gilmore & Myriam Chapman and editor Paul Zakrzewski on the role of family, identity and success among immigrants in New York and Paris during the early Twentieth Century. Wed., May 9 at 7pm. ELDRIDGE STREET SYNAGOGUE, 12 Eldridge St., bet Canal & Division Sts. $6, $4 students & seniors. Reservations are requested. 212-219-0888 x302. www.eldridgestreet.org.
Ultra Violet: Superstar, Dr. Jacqueline Taylor Basker, Westbeth Artists Housing resident, will present Ultra Violet, artist, actress and author of Famous for Fifteen Minutes, who will share her secrets about Duchamp, Dali and Warhol. Thurs., May 3 from 7-8:30pm. NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Manhattan campus, 16 W. 61st St. at Broadway, 11th Floor Auditorium.
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Capricornis milneedwardsii
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Capricornis milneedwardsii David, 1869
Common Name(s):
Capricornis sumatraensis David, 1869 ssp. milneedwardsii
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Taxonomy of serows is not completely resolved; descriptions, range maps, and assessments of conservation status in the literature vary because sources differ on nomenclature and specific/subspecific status of the various taxa. Here, we follow the taxonomy of Wilson and Reeder, 3rd edition (2005). Thus, we recognize six species of Capricornis:
• C. crispus (Japanese Serow, restricted to Japan)
• C. milneedwardsii (Chinese Serow, but also occurring in southeast Asian countries)
• C. rubidus (Red Serow, restricted to Myanmar)
• C. sumatraensis (Sumatran Serow, in Indonesia, Malaysia and southern Thailand)
• C. swinhoei (Formosan Serow, restricted to Taiwan, Province of China)
• C. thar (Himalayan Serow, along the Himalayan range)
The genus Naemorhedus is recognized as referring to gorals. Note that this taxonomy differs from that of Wilson and Reeder, 2nd edition (1993), that of the 2007 IUCN Red List (IUCN 2007), as well as that adopted by the IUCN Caprinae Specialist Group (Shackleton 1997). Additionally, most Chinese sources consider serows in China as being N. sumatraensis (e.g., Wang 1998, Wang 2002).
This species may or may not be sympatric with Capricornis rubidus in Myanmar (Than Zaw and W. Duckworth pers. comm. 2006).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Duckworth, J.W., Steinmetz, R. & Pattanavibool, A.
|Harris, R. & Festa-Bianchet, M. (Caprinae Red List Authority)
Listed as Near Threatened because this species is believed to be in significant decline (but probably at a rate of less than 30% over three generations, taken at 21 years) due to hunting for food and medicine, making the species close to qualifying for Vulnerable under criterion A2d.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in much of Myanmar, Cambodia, south and central China (Himalayas and east Tibet, south Gansu to Zhejiang and south to Yunnan), Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam (Grubb, 2005). Originally widely distributed throughout Thailand, the species is now restricted to steep, forested limestone hills and cliffs, in areas relatively inaccessible to human encroachment and the range is highly fragmented (Kamchanasaka, in press, Department of National Park and Wildlife). The Thai range map accompanying this account is only indicative of the extent of occurrence and not occupancy of range. Lekagul and McNeely (1988) stated that even when the surrounding areas were completely taken over by cultivation, these steep hills remain covered with dense vegetation. Such areas act as miniature sanctuaries for the serow. In 1977, these authors also reported serow in the north and northeast Thailand, but Nakasathien (1986) suggested a much more conservative distribution. The dividing line between the ranges of C. milneedwardsii and C. sumatraensis is unclear, but is suspected to fall somewhere in the Chooporn or Suratchathani Provinces on the Thai peninsula. In Thailand the species is primarily confined to the mountainous areas of the north and west, with isolated populations, in hill areas in the east and southeast. The historic distribution of serow in Lao PDR almost certainly included the vast majority of the countries land area, the majority of which is hilly to mountainous (e.g. Deuve, 1972; Lekagul and McNeely, 1988; R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Currently in Lao PDR the species is still widespread due to extensive tracts of habitat, often over rugged terrain, especially along the Annamite mountain range of eastern central and southern Lao PDR (W. Duckworth and R. Steinmetz pers. comm. 2006; R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Cambodia the species is probably naturally restricted to the hill and mountainous terrain that surround the Mekong and Tonle Sap (lake) central plains, although confirmation of presence comes from relatively few areas, primarily as a result of survey bias (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008).
In Viet Nam the species was at least historically likely to have been widespread, except perhaps for the far southern Mekong Delta region, although this is not well documented, probably due to a historical bias towards surveys in the north (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Populations in the northern highlands are likely to be heavily depleted in number and fragmented, but are likely somewhat more numerous and contiguous along the Annamite (Truong Son) mountains of central and southern Viet Nam. Confirmed records, especially well documented ones, from the southern portions of this range are very few (Gia Lai and Kontum Provinces (Do Tuoc, 1990), Lam Dong Province (Pham Mong Giao, 1990) but this is likely primarily a reflection of the paucity of fieldwork, rather than the actual status of serow. The species has also been recorded from offshore islands of the north, e.g. Cat Ba (Ha Dinh Due et al., 1989; Le Hien Hao, 1973).
The general distribution in Myanmar appears to follow the forested mountain ranges surrounding the central plains. Its distribution in the northwest is believed to stretch through the Chin Hills from the border with India, probably as far south as 20ºN in the Arakan Yoma range. A larger distribution area occurs in the mountains in the north (Kachin state) and in the mountains east of about 96ºW, to Myanmar's borders with China, Lao PDR and Thailand.
C. milneedwardsii (as constituted here) is widely distributed through much of central and south-eastern China. The general distribution range may be taken to include all the area of the Southwest China Region from southern Gansu southward through Sichuan and most of Yunnan, and beyond into Myanmar. But the species is replaced in parts of northern Myanmar by Capricornis rubidus (Smith and Xie 2008), and probably by C. thar in parts of western Myanmar.
Records show a more or less continuous distribution along the ranges of the Hungduan mountain system. East of this region, populations occur in adjacent mountain areas of Qinling (Southern Slope), Shaanxi and Guizhou (Zhen, 1982). A few populations exist in the north-western Hengduan Mountains of Yushu and Nangqen (Qinghai) (Li et al., 1989). The species has a comparatively widespread distribution through western and southern Zhejiang, northern Fujian, most of Jiangxi (Shen et al., 1982), eastern Guizhou (Luo et al., 1985), northern Guangdong, eastern and south-western Guangxi, eastern and southern Yunnan, where it inhabits low mountains and foothills. It may also occur in south-western Sichuan, as indicated by specimens from the adjacent mountains of Jijiang.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Cambodia; China; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Myanmar; Thailand; Viet Nam
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|No total estimates of numbers have been made. Populations in southeast China south of the Yangtze river) are small and isolated, and its general distribution range falls within regions with relatively dense human populations which are well-exploited economic areas. Although no population estimates have been made in this area, numbers are believed to be decreasing and its distribution range is gradually being reduced. In Lao PDR, this species is still widespread, and despite heavy hunting, it is consistently present in areas of suitable habitat (W. Duckworth and R. Steinmetz pers. comm. 2006; R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Little is known about the species in Cambodia, although it is likely widespread in suitable terrain, which is extensive, particularly in the Cardamom range of the southwest (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Numbers in Viet Nam are probably low, although as in Lao PDR the species appears to persist remarkably well in rugged terrain and where suitable habitat remains extensive (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Accounts from throughout the species range report the species inhabits rugged steep hills and rocky places, especially limestone regions up to 4,500 m asl (e.g. Duckworth et al. 1999; Lekagul and McNeely 1988, Smith and Xie 2008). However, the species is also routinely recorded (by camera-trapping) in hill and mountain forest areas with gentler terrain (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008), and does occur in flatter areas marginally (Will Duckworth pers. comm. 2006). The species occurs on small offshore islands and has been reported swimming between them (Duckworth and Walston 1998) and in Cambodia appears to occupy small very naturally isolated karst limestone outcrops in the level lowlands of the Mekong plains (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008).
Feeds on a wide range of leaves and shoots, and visits saltlicks. It is mostly nocturnal and solitary.
It is likely to tolerate moderately degraded habitat well, due to its presence in natural karst scrubland, though it is unlikely to be present in heavily disturbed areas such as agricultural land (W. Duckworth pers. comm. 2006), and has been documented amidst secondary forests and swidden in at least one landscape mosaics of such habitats and 'primary' forest (W. G. Robichaud in litt. to R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). The species also appears to persist well in small habitat isolates, both naturally (i.e. Cambodia; R. J. Timmins pers. comm.. 2008) and due to habitat loss (i.e. Thailand; Lekagul and McNeely 1988). In parts of China it winters in the forest belt, ascending into alpine cliffs in summer (Yao, 1990). Elsewhere little is known of the species seasonal ecology.
|Major Threat(s):
The meat, fur and various parts of this serow are highly prized by local people for food and medicinal purposes, so it is heavily hunted especially in the northern parts of its range. Habitat loss primarily from agricultural expansion, but also piecemeal clearance for firewood and timber is also a serious long-term threat in some areas. It is threatened at least locally because habitat is rapidly being lost to deforestation and land clearing. In 1962, a die-off caused by an unknown epizootic was reported in the Tangjiahe area (Qingchuan County, Sichuan).
The main threats to serow in Cambodia are posed by hunting, and to a lesser degree habitat loss, but the species is relatively safe in this country compared to other range states. In Lao PDR, serow horns, frontal bones, leg bones and other body parts are used in local, traditional medicine and are readily available in shops in Vientiane and elsewhere. The meat is also eaten in rural areas; however, the extent to which hunting affects the population status of this species in Lao PDR is unknown. In Viet Nam, serow is frequently hunted for meat and for sale as live individuals in many local markets, while its bones and other body parts are valued for medicinal purposes (TRAFFIC, 1993). The inaccessibility of much of the species preferred habitats is likely to be the serow's main defence against eradication in most sites where it still occurs.
|Conservation Actions:
It is on Appendix I of CITES, and in Class II in China's list of protected species. This serow exists in many protected areas including: Sichuan-Baihe, Fentongzhai, Jiuzhaiguo, Labahe, Mabian Dafengdin, Meigu Dafengdin, Tangjiahe, Tiebu, Wanglag, Wolong and Xiaozhaiziguo; Shaanxi-Tabaishan, Fuping (Wu et al., 1986) and Takin Reserve; Gansu - Baishuijiang and Tou'ersantan; Yunnan - Fenshuilin, Gaoligongshan, Tongbiguan, Xishuanbangnan and Yulonghabaxueshan (Lijiang and Zhongdian); Fujian - Daiyunshan and Wuyishan; Zhejiang - Fengyangshan and Jiulongshan; Jiangxi - Jiulianshan and Wuyishan; Guangxi – Congzuo Xiling, Huaping, Qianjiadong, Shouchen and Yindinshan; Gu&hou - Fenginshan; Guangdung - Chebaling. Conservation measures proposed for China: 1) Reclassify serow as Class I in the national wildlife protection list. 2) Ban hunting and 3) the State Commercial System should be prohibited from purchasing products of this animal. 4) Conduct basic population surveys to determine distributions and numbers for development of conservation actions. 5) Undertake studies of ecology, population and management problems of this serow as part of the conservation management program for the giant panda.
It also occurs in many protected areas through the remainder of its range. Generally, has not been targeted for protection from hunting (or other conservation actions), as other species are much more threatened (W. Duckworth, pers comm. 2006). Legislation has successfully reduced hunting in Thailand (Anak Pattanavibool, pers comm. 2006). It is protected in Myanmar (Than Zaw pers. comm.., 2006).
Currently, Cambodian legislation (State Council No. 35 KR.C, Law Decree on Forestry) governs the use and management of forests and wildlife, and stipulates penalties for contravention. However, this legislation is only interim and is generally unenforceable. It is also only very general in scope and does not specifically include serow. Protection of serow lies within the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, and more specifically with the newly-created Wildlife Protection Office. Serow was known to occur only in Phnom Kravanh protected area, but this is located in a region which saw military conflict between 1980 and 1982, and possibly more recently. Conservation measures proposed for Cambodia: 1) Determine the serow's distribution and status in Mondulkiri Province. The Forestry Department planned to begin these censuses as soon as it became safe and feasible. International support will be required to fund both the census studies and the development of the subsequent conservation plans. 2) The Cambodian Government should create a broad conservation strategy, including a network of protected areas and supporting infrastructure to protect all the country's natural resources. The species likely occurs widely in the Cardamom range of the southwest, which is now well covered by national protected areas, and conservation management in several of these areas is already ongoing and starting to effectively control hunting (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). The species also likely occurs in several other areas of the country covered by protected areas, namely Rattanakiri province in Virachey NP and Mondulkiri Province (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Given Cambodia's exceptional concentration of highly threatened species, conservation of serow should not be considered a high priority nationally, and with effective conservation management of suitable protected areas, the species should be safe without the need for species specific conservation activities (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008).
Serow is included in Appendix II of the Endangered and Rare Species List of Viet Nam. However, it is not included in the list of 38 species covered by Declaration No. 276 of the Ministry of Forestry (2 June 1989) and Decision No. 18 HDBT of the Council of Ministers (17 January 1992) so serow can be hunted or captured. The species has been recorded from many protected areas and likely occurs in many others with extensive tracts of suitable habitat, the most significant populations remaining are likely to be found in the extensive tracts of habitat covered by protected areas in the Annamite (Truong Son) mountain chain, especially the extensive limestone formations of the central region and limestone formations in the north (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008). Effective management of suitable protected areas, especially controlling hunting, should be sufficient to conserve the species nationally, however, the majority of areas are still fall well below this level of management, although there is cause for optimism within a few (R. Timmins pers. comm. 2008).
In Myanmar, serow occur in Kahilu (an area of armed civil unrest, which suffers from poaching) and Kelatha Hill Game
Sanctuaries, and in Shwesettaw and Shwe-U-Daung Wildlife Sanctuaries. It also probably occurs in Tamanthi, Pidaung, and Mulayit Wildlife Sanctuaries. Serow is also reported in a number of proposed National Parks: Alaungdaw Kathapa, Kyaukpandaung, Natma Taung and Pegu Yomas. Serow was eliminated from Taunggyi Wildlife Sanctuary, probably as the resultof poaching and hunting by domestic dogs (IUCN, 1992b; WCMC, 1987). Conservation measures proposed for Myanmar: 1) Carry out surveys and censuses to develop conservation programs. 2) Immediate enforcement of protection against poaching, especially in protected areas.
Serow is also protected in Thailand. It is known or expected to occur in the following protected areas: National Parks – Chaloem Rattankosin (Than Than Lot); Doi Inthanon; Doi Khuntan; Erawan; Khao Chamao-Khao Wong; Khao Luang; Khao Pu-Khao Ya; Khao Sam Lam; Khao Sam Roi Yot; Khao Yai; Nam Nao; Namtok Phliu (Khao Sabup); Phu Kradung; Rhamkhamhaeng; Si Nakarin; Si Satchanalai; Thaleban and possibly Ao Phangnga. WiZdZifi Sanctuaries – Doi Chiang Dao; Doi Pha Muang; Huai Kha Khaeng; Khao Banthat; Om-Koi/Mae Tun; Maenam Phachi; Phu Khieo; Phu Luang; Phu Miang-Phu Thong; Salawin; Thung Yai Naresuan; Tong Nga Chang. Conservation measures proposed for Thailand: Determine the serow's status to assess the effects that logging and poaching are having on its distribution and numbers.
The taxonomic validity of this species, and its relationship to other species in the genus Capricornis needs to be assessed.
|Duckworth, J.W., Steinmetz, R. & Pattanavibool, A. 2008. Capricornis milneedwardsii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T3814A10101852. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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Resume: We measure the quantitative importance of labor mobility as a vehicle for the transmission of knowledge and skills across firms. For this purpose we create a unique data set that matches all applications of Danish firms at the European Patent Office to linked employer-employee register data for the years 1999-2002. The Danish workforce is split into "R&D workers", who hold a bachelor's or a master's degree in a technical field, and "non-R&D workers". We find that mobile R&D workers ("R&D joiners"') contribute more to patenting activity than immobile R&D workers. Furthermore, R&D workers who have previously been employed by a patenting firm ("patent exposed workers") have a larger effect on patenting activity than R&D workers without this experience. Patent exposed R&D joiners constitute the most productive group of workers: for firms that patented prior to 1999, one additional worker of this type relates to an increase in the number of patent applications of the new employer by 0.0646. This corresponds to a 14 percent increase in the mean number of yearly patent applications. We also find that mobility of R&D workers increases the joint patenting activity of the donor and recipient firms, confirming the importance of labor mobility for innovation in the economy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7704
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Posted on 11/06/2012 8:02:50 PM PST by kreitzer
So will the GOP and Conservative Inc. concede that joining the Left in ridiculing birthers and actively participating in the cover up of Obama's past was a failing strategy? All this time they could not even bring themselves to ask if Obama was ever a citizen of Indonesia. Will they concede that living in fear of being called racist by Candy Crowley is a losing strategy. I doubt it.
That or De Touqeville was right. Americans now prefer a soft tyranny.
We ain't done.
Smarmy poseur won't rest.
Birthers got nuthin' ...never did, never will.
The GOP has long been one and the same with the left. They have blood on their hands so there's no way they'll ever look at the NBC. The Constitution died tonight. Our founding fathers' America died tonight.
All I can say is....if you are not an Obama Birther...you are definitely an Obama Supporter
GOP Talk Radio, GOP Media should be ashamed for attacking Birthers and helping Obama get re-elected. Way to go attacking the Conservative base.
Obama should be sending Thank You cards to Hannity, Levin, Coulter, Malkin, and all the other ones who attacked Birthers and not took Obama Eligibility seriously.
It's the other way around. Obama's got nuthin.
In case you hadn't noticed, he was just reelected for 4 more f'n years. You should really trade in your birther law degree for a worthwhile hobby.
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In the four years this birther thing has been going around, I don't think either side has conclusively proven what the Framers meant by this, or even if they were of one mind on the issue. However, based on the text of the Constitution itself, where there are only two types of citizens mentioned, I lean towards the idea that a natural born citizen was meant to be understood as one who has not been granted citizenship through naturalization.
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Avoiding it didn't help him.
The Constitution means nothing. The truth means nothing. The rule of law means nothing.
That's what the left believes and they believe we're OK with it. (Well aren't we?)
After four more years it won't be soft.
"I don't think either side has conclusively proven what the Framers meant by this"
USSC despite the so called precedents never ruled on the issue of obama/soetoro and never will so we`ll never know.
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Father of Thacker Bros. arrested on FBI Warrant
Father of Thacker Bros. arrested on FBI Warrant
CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ark. —
Crawford County's Chief Deputy Jim Damante confirmed the father of Elvis and Jonathen Thacker was arrested in the last week for making threats.
Demante confirmed that a Federal Search Warrant by the FBI was exited on Gerry Thacker's home after a family member reported the threats to police.
Investigators said the father made threats about blowing up the Le Flore County Courthouse in Poteau, Okla.
His two sons are awaiting trial in the murder case of Brianna Ault.
Gerry Thacker was arrested on a warrant out of Sebastian County, investigators said.
The charges surrounding the threats investigators said have not been given yet.


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Baylor Students Try to Solve Real-Life Teaching Problems Through ResearchApril 15, 2014
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WACO, Texas (April 15, 2014)—Which is better for learning — small groups or full-classroom instruction? Does individual teacher attention really improve a struggling student's reading? How do you get rambunctious boys to behave?
Those were just a few of the questions that Baylor School of Education (SOE) seniors tackled as part of the 2014 Action Research Symposium. After designing and implementing research projects in the classrooms where they are teaching as full-time interns, 100 Baylor seniors presented their findings on April 1.
The teaching interns worked with mentor teachers in their classrooms to develop and implement the research, and many of those mentors were on hand at the Symposium, along with school principals and the superintendents from area districts.
Senior intern at Connally Elementary Alexa Samuel researched a question that Principal Nina LeBlanc suggested. She studied the difference in learning provided by whole-class instruction or small groups working at stations.
"In one class, I did only small groups, and in another I did whole-group instruction for four straight weeks," Samuel said. She gave a pre-test and a post-test and took notes during the four-week fifth-grade math unit on measurement.
While she found little difference in the overall results, there was a big difference depending on the particular math topic. "Anything having to do with area or perimeter did better in groups, and I think it was because they had been exposed to it before," Samuel said. "But I would want to test that out more."
Senior Danielle LaCoste also studied small groups of fifth graders; she was an intern at River Valley Intermediate in Midway ISD. LaCoste measured both test results and confidence level through two different kinds of groups. In one classroom, she paired high-achieving students with mid-level ones and mid-level ones with lower achievers. But in the other room, she paired students of similar abilities.
While all students gained confidence, LaCoste found that mixed groups provided more learning. In the mixed-ability groups, LaCoste said, "The higher-level students really stepped up into the teacher role, and as they explain the subject, they learn more."
LaCoste said she frequently assigns partner work, so she studied something she was curious about. That's the point of the Action Research Symposium and the reason it's called "The Science of Wondering," said SOE dean Jon Engelhardt, Ph.D. — for students to pursue something they are wondering about.
"Action Research is a form of professional development," Engelhardt said. "You don't depend just on a workshop offered by the school district. You are your own best professional development manager, and you do that by studying your own performance, asking questions and wondering about something. Then try to answer that question with good experiments, comparisons or close observations."
Doug Rogers, Ed.D., associate dean for undergraduate studies in the SOE, said the research project is a capstone experience for seniors. "Action research is the essence of what we expect of them as professionals — to study their own practice," he said.
While many students conducted whole-classroom experiments, Stephanie Limes at Hillcrest Professional Development School (PDS) in Waco ISD focused on individual students with reading problems to see if her attention would make a difference. One student, who had limited English proficiency, sounded like a proficient reader, Limes said.
"He had voice inflection and intonation," she noted, "but it was really hard for him to recall the facts." After Limes spent one-on-one time with him and provided incremental reading goals, his content recall improved, she said.
Limes' mentor, third-grade teacher and Baylor doctoral candidate Bianca Ochoa, said this student is an avid reader now. "He was doing everything to look like he was reading, but now he is really a reader," she said. "And it just gives you chills."
A couple SOE interns zeroed in on classroom problems dealing with boys. Senior Jenna Zerebny, who taught at Spring Valley Elementary in Midway ISD, said that upon entering her first-grade classroom, "The first thing I noticed was the large amount of talkative boys."
So Zerebny designed a seven-week study to see if "brain break" activities would improve the boys' behavior. She alternated weeks providing a short three-to-five-minute activity or not providing it. "I found that taking at least one brain break per day both increased the engagement of the students and decreased the negative behavior," she said. "I also saw that it improved as we went along; I got better at it."
Senior Kevin Sikes, an intern at Robinson High School, also noticed a negative dynamic among some boys in his classroom. "Every class has it — the buddies who want to sit together," he said. So Sikes created a seating chart that put the five boys in opposite corners of the room. "On average, grades went up 12.9 percent after the seating chart change," he said. "So we've been using the seating chart ever since."
Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
The Baylor School of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and consists of four departments: Curriculum and Instruction (preparation for classroom teachers and specialists); Educational Administration (post-graduate preparation for school leadership); Educational Psychology (undergraduate and graduate programs for those who are interested in learning, development, measurement, and exceptionalities); and Health, Human Performance and Recreation (preparing for sport- and health-related careers, athletic training and careers in recreational professions, including churches).The School of Education enrolls more than 1,000 undergraduate students and 300 graduate students, employs 70 faculty, and is one of the few school s in the State of Texas that offers a yearlong teaching internship.
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6-year-old killed in fatal ATV accident
6-year-old killed in fatal ATV accident
ALMA, Ark. —
Crawford County Sheriff's Department tells 40/29 news that a six-year-old boy died from his injuries after the Polaris ATV he was driving rolled over and landed on top of him.
Sheriff Ron Brown said emergency crews were dispatched Tuesday evening to Hamer Road, south of Alma.
The sheriff saaid the boy was driving a Polaris Ranger through a pasture and it flipped over when it crossed a large bump.
Brown said the boy's father and a friend were riding in seats next to him. The report stated all three were ejected.
The passengers received minor injuries and the 6-year-old was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
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The global financial crisis of the past decade did not result in sufficient reforms for consumers, governments and institutions due to the overwhelmingly interconnected nature of the entire sector, according to Kathleen C. Engel, associate dean for Intellectual Life at Suffolk University Law School.
Engel is an organizer of and will be a principal speaker at the Third International Business Complexity and Global Leader Conference to take place April 29-May 1 at Suffolk University.
The three-day conference, co-hosted by the Center for Business Complexity and Global Leadership at the Sawyer Business School and Suffolk University Law School, will examine the concrete and complicated components contributing to a single, complex and fluid financial system that was once marked by global borders as well as bricks and mortars. Today, those silos are long gone.
Thus the conference, "Rethinking Policy and Practice in Today's Financial System," is drawing global leaders in academic, government and business to outline the social, economic, political and technological factors that drive the realities of modern finance.
Engel, a national expert on mortgage finance and regulation, subprime and predatory lending, and housing discrimination, says the "daisy-chain effect" in place within the global financial community puts it at risk despite years of attempted reforms and corrections. Financial-services entities, including banks, continue to make and leverage deals with each other that create volatile risk not only for the host institution but for the other organizations, and thus the entire system.
"Firms not only risk their own failure, they are carrying risk of the others as well," she says. In addition, inadequate regulations and fragilities within markets result in a complex interconnectivity that leaves financial organizations vulnerable to "a domino effect. That problem has not been solved."
Professor Greta Meszoely, director of the Center for Business Complexity and Global Leadership and another conference leader, says that the recent fiscal woes in both Greece and Spain would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. And yet with the emergence of big data as well as these big dependencies, the near-collapse of both economies sent shock waves around the world.
"Who are the market makers?" asks Meszoely. "The policy leaders need to talk to the business leaders" to advance both agendas correctly.
Within the financial sector, Engel recommends transformations that include:
- The break-up of large banks
- Appropriate and adequate regulations and regulators
- Increased transparency for all stakeholders
- Consumer and community input
The last item bears interest in the United States, Engel says. Consumers are increasingly closing their wallets to the larger banks and turning to credit unions and community banks -- which are exempt from many of the regulatory reforms required by the landmark Dodd-Frank Act created as a direct result of the Great Recession.
"This is a concern," she says, adding that with the increase in activity in the lightly regulated private equity and hedge-fund arenas, "we don't know what will happen."
Other conference speakers include:
- Kirsten Moy, The Aspen Institute
- Tamar Frankel, Boston University Law School
- Dmitry Zinoviev, professor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Suffolk University
- Joe Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist, TD Ameritrade
- Alex "Sandy" Pentland, director of MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program
- Luciano Pietronero, professor of Physics, Sapienza – Università di Roma
The conference will be held at Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont St., Boston. Registration is free and open to the University community as well as to the public.


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Volume 78 - Number 50 / May 20 - 26 , 2009
West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since 1933
The A-List
Compiled by sarah norris
Courtesy David Zwirner, New York
George Arce, 1959 (Oil on canvas)
Widely regarded as one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century, Alice Neel (1900-1984) bucked the American avant-garde trend of the 1940s and 50s. Dubbing herself a collector of souls, Neel created unique portraits of downtrodden neighbors, poets, lovers and strangers. Two concurrent exhibitions focus on a selection of figurative paintings, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. Alice Neel: Selected Works can be seen at David Zwirner (533 West 19th Street). Alice Neel: Nudes of the 1930s can be found at Zwirner & Wirth (32 East 69th Street). May 14 June 20. For more information, call 212-727-2070 or www.davidzwirner.com.
Musical Theater
Photo by Tom Johnson
Will song & dance cast a golden glow on these gals?
Fans of Bea Arthur still hit hard from her recent passing, take heart to the rescue come four guys who dare to portray the Golden Girls weve come to love. Fun, frothy and unauthorized, Thank You For Being a Friend: The Musical is a sassy theatrical tribute to the sitcom whose repeats keep the WE and Hallmark channels relevant. With original music, parodies of Broadway songs and zippy choreography, these gals go where our much-loved sitcom friends never dared. Lets just hope theyve created a worthy tribute; or the shows rabid fans will let their dissatisfaction be known with pitchforks and torches. May 24th through July 12th, Sundays, 8:00p.m. at The Kraine Theater; 85 East 4th Street (btwn. 2nd & 3rd Aves). $20. To purchase tickets, call 212-352-3101 or visit SpinCycleNYC.com.
Photo by Nic Musolino
John Gardner, left, as Saul Kimmer and Edward Chin-Lyn as Lee
The next time you sublet your NYC apartment, make sure to ask whether the temporary tenants plan to stage an Asian-American production of True West while youre gone. Thats the lesson learned from Curious Frog Theatre Company, who invite you to their East Village sublet for this unique take on Sam Shepards perennial tale of two warring brothers. Odds are the audience and cast will see the plays themes take on a heightened intensity thanks to the crowded confines of this tiny common living space. Tues-Sun, through May 31, 7:30p.m. at 181 Avenue B, (btwn. 11th & 12th). $25 tickets can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/63066. Wednesday shows are $10, cash-only, if you bring a loaf of regular-sized bread. For more information on Curious Frog, www.curiousfrog.org.
Photo by Max Ruby
Flamenco dancers take to the stage
Now in its 14th year, the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts marks a fitting start to outdoor summer events in NYC. The eclectic, free, three-day arts festival puts a welcome accent on downtown talent featuring over 100 performing arts organizations, local and international celebrities, independent artists, poets, puppeteers, filmmakers and others. Itll cost you nothing to see jazz legend David Amram, talk show legend Joe Franklin and a bevy of handpicked young talent destined for legend status themselves. See them now and years from now, say I saw them when. Friday, May 22 through Sunday, May 24; in and around Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue). For the complete lineup and schedule, visit www.theaterforthenewcity.net.
Photo by BA Faiella
Barbara Maier, at home in Chelsea
Depression Brunch
In-demand 74-year-old voice coach and long-time Chelsea resident Barbara Maier gets her due with a ongoing series at Joes Pub. Maier counts the Broadway cast of Passing Strange and Deborah Harry among her provocative and loyal clientele. Now, shes producing a new series of Depression Brunches at Joes Pub. The inaugural productions theme is Idol Idle Idyll Worship Sacred and Profane. Expect dynamic performances from Tammy Faye Starlight, trans singer/pianist Our Lady J and Tony nominee Justin Bond. To help cut costs, audience members are encouraged to bring their own brown bag lunch (but order Joes Pub booze). Noon, May 31, at Joes Pub, 425 Lafayette Street (btwn. Astor & E. 4th St.). $15 cover, $12 minimum. Call 212-967-7555 or www.joespub.com.
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