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VIRTUALLY ALL conclusions in NIST's official report into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers were reached in the UK three years ago, engineers have claimed.
A major report Safety in tall buildings was published in July 2002, just 10 months after the towers collapsed (NCEI August 2002). It was published by an Institution of Structural Engineers-led panel, which included ICE senior vice president and Jacobs Babtie director Gordon Masterton.
As recommendations are similar to those published by NIST. These included calls for buildings to be designed to survive complete burn out, include "robust, resilient and durable passive fire protection" and allow large-scale evacuation.
It also called for regular independent audits of fire protection systems.
"The interesting thing is that the more you read the more it looks similar to what we did in the UK after 9/11, " said Masterton. "Of the 30 recommendations 24 are identical messages to those contained in our report.
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Misha Klein. Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. xiii + 256 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3987-9.
Reviewed by Monica Grin (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Published on H-Judaic (September, 2013)
Commissioned by Jason Kalman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion)
Ethnic and Racial Purities and Impurities: The Challenge of Being Jewish in Contemporary Brazil
In Brazil, the field of Jewish studies has recently experienced a significant change in its analytical assumptions. During the last two decades, new approaches have emerged which have moved away from both "memorialization," typical of the first generations who sought to register the history of Jews in the Brazilian Diaspora as if it were a history of another wandering people, and from studies that saw "evidence" of anti-Semitism everywhere in Brazil. New research, carried out especially in history, the social sciences, and literary criticism, has been increasingly interested in understanding the specifics of Brazilian society and culture as a sine qua non condition to seriously approach the field of Jewish studies in Brazil. Reversing the Old World's typical analytical emphasis on binary oppositions--for example, assimilation/exclusion, insiders/outsiders, hegemonic culture/subordinated cultures, philo-Semitism/anti-Semitism--recent tendencies have opened new possibilities for representing Jews in the Brazilian cultural context. While in European modernity the Jewish experience of social interaction has been a source of anguish, subjective shattering, and vigorous regulation, in Brazil the emphasis on sociability in primary relations, which it should be emphasized are little regulated, is an invitation for the diluting of trauma and rigid differentiations.
It is important to note that Jewish studies in Brazil draws on questions raised in mainstream Jewish studies in international academic contexts. The connections between the multiculturalism-driven themes present in cultural studies and the actual dimensions of the ways in which continually reinvented ethno-racial identities are expressed in the Brazilian context have formed the background to research in this area during the last two decades. In the case of studies about Jews in Brazil, the greatest challenge has been to decipher Brazilian culture, its languages, its enigmas, and its ambiguities, and to understand how Jews have become integrated in Brazilian society at different times. However, this task is not simple. The contribution of Brazilianists, especially U.S. scholars, to Jewish studies in Brazil has been notable in recent decades, although some have been less than sensitive to the impact and challenges that the Brazilian cultural universe imposes on Jewish studies in Brazil.
Kosher Feijoada, by Misha Klein, is representative of this new perspective which sees the paradoxes of the maintenance of Jewish identity in Brazil as a phenomenon that cannot be separated from either those of the Jewish Diaspora in the broadest sense or the ethno-racial paradoxes present in Brazilian society. It is a sensitive ethnography of the Jews of São Paulo (the largest Jewish community in Brazil) and the dilemmas they face in maintaining their ethnic particularity in a cultural context symbolically marked by discomfort with ethno-racial differentiations, or even more so, with threats to national hegemony. The intertwining of the sense of Jewishness and the sense of "Brazilianness," in its various levels of meanings, translates the analytical challenge that Klein assumes in a dense ethnography of the São Paulo Jewish community.
The title of the book, Kosher Feijoada, originally Klein's doctoral dissertation, is emblematic of an improbable mix: the appropriation of the "impure," feijoada (the key ingredient of the recipe is pork), by the rules of purity kashrut (dietary laws). While, on the one hand, this braiding of "pure" and "impure" evokes for the non-Jewish world a type of Brazilianization of Jews who give in to the seduction of feijoada, on the other hand, for the Jewish world, it evokes the Jewification of the most important Brazilian cultural symbol, feijoada. In her ethnography, this interweaving is continually reinvented, through relations of Jews with Brazilian culture; through relations in the Jewish community, for example, between Ashkenazim and Sephardim; through the city of São Paulo and the microcosms it houses; through identity games between nation and transnationalism, or between races and ethnicities; or through social classes and the social inequality in which they are structured.
From the macro-city, São Paulo, to the micro-city, the Hebraica club (where she carried out her ethnography), Klein explores different layers of understanding this braiding, almost always highlighting the Jewish community and its institutions in a living process of the continual negotiation of identities, which interlinks different cultural and "racial" segments. Kosher Feijoada involves a direct dialogue with classical themes and cosmologies from Brazilian anthropology: racial relations, miscegenation, feijoada, the house and the street, Carnival, and domestic workers. Klein observes the formation of the Jewish-Brazilian identity, seduced and challenged by these questions.
In her first chapter, "Departure," Klein, through a direct conversation with anthropology and Jewish studies, defines the concepts and categories that she uses in her ethnography. In relation to Jewish identity, her greatest concern is to make even clearer the question of ambivalent belonging, which is at times guided by national ideology, at times by transnational values associated with the Diaspora, and sometimes by both. In this chapter, her focus, like that of many U.S. scholars who study Jews in Brazil, critically falls on the values associated with the myth of three races, the racially harmonious nation without prejudice which assimilates and integrates the "other" to the specificities of its ethno-racial dynamic. Her study is oriented by the following question: how can the expressions of Jewish identity with a transnational vocation be understood in the middle of a national culture that wants to be at the same time inclusive and hegemonic?
However, it is in the comprehension of the impact of the symbolic and effective expressions of ethno-racial relations in Brazil on Judeo-Brazilian identity that is the major strength of Klein's study. For Klein, on the one hand, the possibility of Jews exercising multiple identities results from the fact that in Brazil there is a greater identity fluidity that does not demand exclusivity. On the other hand, there is an emphasis on Brazilianness and national belonging, which function as imaginary brakes on manifestation of the affirmation of differences. Nevertheless, a weakening of the emphasis on ethno-cultural purity or subordination to national hegemonic classes can be witnessed today. This identity ambivalence between Jewishness and Brazilianness makes Klein's study one that is not insulated in the field of Jewish studies; on the contrary, her study is an invitation for reflection about how the study of Jewish identities in Brazil can be shown to be a fertile and alternative path for the understanding of the strength of certain values and markers of Brazilianness.
Her ethnography was carried out by using participant observation and formal interviews with different individuals from the Jewish community of São Paulo (men and women, young and old, immigrants and third generation, rich and poor). The privileged locus of her research is the Hebraica social club, whose members are Jews of all types and backgrounds (it has around thirty thousand members). It is a club solely for Jews, but also increasingly it is referred to as a club for the São Paulo city's elite.
São Paulo was not chosen by chance. The history of Jews and the constitution of their strong community overlap with this megalopolis's modernization period over the twentieth century. The growth of São Paulo is also the growth of the immigrant communities that are part of it. This interlacing of the process of the urbanization of São Paulo with the development of immigrant communities produced a Jewish community with its own characteristics. To be a São Paulo Jew conjures a specific identity construction, which, for Klein, is a legitimate and relevant subject of her study.
What challenges the author and leaves her nervous, and seems to me to be her most important theme, is the way in which Jews and Jewish communities have contemplated and incorporated the racial question in Brazil. This is the topic of chapter 3, "Kosher Feijoada," which gives the book its title. Klein, in a relevant contribution that helps to understand the diversity present in the Jewish community, enters more deeply into the racial question by proposing that racial relations in Brazil function as a metaphor for the relations between the Ashkenazim and Sephardim in São Paulo's Jewish community. Regarding the question of racial relations in Brazil, white and black are racial categories that do not necessarily make racial intermixing infeasible or impose rigid barriers against it. This is not rhetorical data. The ideology of Brazilian racial intermixing is corroborated by the 2010 census data which shows that 43 percent of the Brazilian population is mixed.
Ashkenazim and Sephardim are, in the universe of the Jewish community, two different "races," which, as in Brazilian society, have intermarried despite prejudice. However, there is a stronger barrier that the Jewish community rarely crosses and that Klein does not question deeply enough in the discourse of her informants: mixing with nonwhites of Brazilian society. While within the Jewish community marriage between "whites" (Ashkenazim) and "blacks" (Sephardim) is not a taboo, in wider society marriage between Jews (whites) and Afro-descendents (blacks), is almost nonexistent. In this aspect, it can be stated that Jews (Ashkenazim and Sephardim) act in the matrimonial market as a white elite. Is the almost total absence of intermixing between Jews ("whites") and blacks a question of social class or is it a racial question? Nevertheless, the national ideology that is cultivated and celebrated in Brazil is that Brazilians, because they mix easily, are considered one of the most tolerant peoples in the world. The irony is that, as Klein skillfully points out, "what is unique here is that the particular ideology in question is one that these Jews celebrate as being specially favorable to the inclusion of the Jews in the national landscape" (p. 82).
From this perspective, it is very common, as her informants stressed, for anti-Semitism to be seen as not being very effective in the Brazilian case, although in the chapter "Doubly Insecure," Klein's narrative slips into the classical themes of anti-Semitism: the imaginary Jew, abstract prejudice, etc. However, in addition to the belief shared by Brazilian Jews that Brazil is a racially tolerant country, leaving the ideological factor aside, there is also an effective barrier against racism: a specific law that punishes racial prejudice as a crime for which there is no bail. The little opening that the Jewish community has to the "outside" has been the subject of estrangement, but also of a certain type of curiosity, as if Jews were a socially integrated group, but one that was little available in the matrimonial market. Klein identifies exclusionary practices of Jews that betray the Brazilian ideal of miscegenation, and for this reason they may activate a latent anti-Semitism.
Notwithstanding the sensibility of her arguments for a better understanding of the identity dilemmas present in Brazilian society, there is an aspect that seems to limit the reach of her analysis of Jews in São Paulo. The chapter "Doubly Insecure" falls below the analytical intentions of her study and is even somehow apart from her most fundamental points. Klein identifies two forms of insecurity among São Paulo Jews: urban insecurity (which is a common concern in the city, especially for elites) and international anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli insecurity. Without any great evidence in Brazil that can justify a feeling of terrorist-related insecurity among Jews, Klein looks to the case of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina attack in Argentina (the bomb explosion in the Argentinean Jewish Mutual Aid Association in 1994 which killed eighty-six people), a reference to an insecurity that affects all of Latin America. Such insecurity in relation to violence complicates Klein's claims about the unique dynamics of Jews in Brazil. If this dual insecurity exists in Brazil, it can be implied there is nothing that can differentiate Brazilian Jews from any other Jews living in large cities. Since Klein's analytic aim is to ascertain that even being transnational, Brazilian Jews experience the interweaving of constantly re-signified layers of cultural identity, which guarantees this group a specific appearance in Brazil, not found in other contexts, then this chapter negates her argument to some extent.
What is involved, however, is not the celebration of Jewish identity in Brazil for what it represents of the vitality of the process, even when counterpoised to Jewish identities generated in the Old World. While, on the one hand, the "massive" integration of Jews in Brazil can, in the contingent meeting with those from other cultures, enrich humanism, tolerance, and solidarity in relation to the wider society, on the other hand, it can also stimulate its closing, indifference, and orthodoxy. Klein's study is a clear contribution to rethinking the Jewish experience in Brazil as a phenomenon that involves adaptation, negotiation, and heterogeneity in terms of a "situational ethnicity," vis-à-vis the equally varied stimuli in the national context. "Situational ethnicity" reveals in practice the forms in which individuals negotiate and reform their various identities in accordance with the situations with which they are confronted.
Finally, Klein's study fills, although it does not exhaust, an important gap that deserves more attention in the field of Jewish studies in Brazil. It brings about a greater dose of sensitivity to the rather unsystematic debate between blacks and Jews. This dialogue is of crucial importance in various ways: in a country with a slaveholding past, such as Brazil, the tragic dimension that modernity brought for both Jews and blacks must be better understood; the impact that the multiculturalist paradigm, increasingly influential in Brazil, has produced in the Jewish community and the black movements must be politically and sociologically assessed; and how affirmative action policies have resulted in an interesting debate about "race" and racialization and how this debate affects the way Jewish identity is incorporated in an increasingly biracial cosmology (whites and blacks) must be addressed.
Klein's study is an important starting point for a new sensitivity to identities that may reorganize the field of Jewish studies in Brazil with new questions, new themes, new sources, and new problems. For these reasons, I strongly recommend the reading of Kosher Feijoada.
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Monica Grin. Review of Klein, Misha, Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life in São Paulo.
H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews.
September, 2013.
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Ying Zhu: Can you please tell us a little about the history of the Carnegie Studios and some of the artists who lived and worked there?
Josef Astor: The history is extraordinary for many reasons. The first is that almost no one knows about it. The studios were not part of the original concert hall. The concert hall was built in 1891 by Andrew Carnegie, and designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill. In 1895, Andrew Carnegie in conjunction with the founder of The Art Students League, Howard Russell Butler, got together and decided to put artist studios on top. Andrew Carnegie obviously wanted to make sure there would be an income to support the hall and at the same time he wanted to provide a place to house a creative community. With influence from Howard Russell Butler and designed by renowned architect Henry J. Hardenberg (architect of the Dakota Apartments and the Plaza Hotel), no wondered the studios looked like artist ateliers! Many had 20-foot ceilings with special skylights and windows that provided good natural light for painters and photographers. Some studios had beautiful sprung wood floors for dancing, some individual studios had perfect acoustics for musicians. Each studio was unique and no two were alike. There were 170 of them, which was shocking, because most people who walked by Carnegie Hall didn't see anything. They were tucked away in the back; there was a south tower and a north tower, and there was a block of studios on the roof, which all can't be seen from the street.
And as for the artists who lived and worked there, Enrico Caruso made his first recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor) in studio 826 because the acoustics in that studio was so beautiful. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts was one of the first tenants, and Cecil B. DeMille was a student there in the turn of the century; we have a picture of him in the film. Isadora Duncan lived and rehearsed new dance works there. Marlon Brando lived in one of the studios. Agnes de Mille choreographed "Oklahoma" in studio 61; can you imagined how big that studio was? Studio 61 was the most famous ballet studio in all of New York City. Leonard Bernstein was there, Marilyn Monroe, Skitch Henderson, Jerome Robbins, Don Shirley, Bill Cunningham, a photographer for the New York Times, the list goes on and on, there is a roster of tenant artists at the end of the film.
YZ: What was the selection process and what was required for someone to get a space in the Carnegie Studios?
JA: That's a very interesting question, I came late, I moved in 1985, and I was one of the newer people. There weren't that many new tenants being signed on. The older tenants told me that there used to be a very strict quota system. I think that in the beginning, it was arranged so that there was a balance of businesses and artists, in another word, yes there can be businesses, but there also had to have a quota of artists. As they raised the rent year after year, it was harder for artists to afford these spaces. So towards the end, the tenants were architects, graphic designers, and art related businesses.
YZ: How did you find out about this available space?
JA: [chuckles] I'm only laughing because this was the question I asked everybody in my film: How did you get to Carnegie Hall? You know the joke, practice, practice, practice. I asked people, "How did you find your studio?" Almost everybody said that they were drawn to the building by various sort of introductions or "forces." I found mine by just being in a bar during happy hour down in the East Village. I was talking to someone who I've never met in my life, who told me that he was moving out of his space. Sometimes, Carnegie Hall would put out advertisements for a vacant studio; one of the tenants in my film says that she found her studio from an ad in the "Village Voice," the ad said: "Live and work in a Carnegie Studio."
YZ: What was it like to live in such a unique community full of artists and musicians?
JA: I had been accustomed to living downtown in the East Village, and when I moved to midtown, I had no friends, and nowhere to go and nothing to do except for do my work. And what I didn't realize at first was that I wasn't just renting a studio, I was being adopted by this community of artists in the building. And that was the real surprise and bonus for having a studio there.
One of my dear friends from the building is Donald Shirley. He is a concert pianist, played many many solo concerts, as he puts it, "downstairs," don't you love that? [smiles] He was up in his studio and said, "I like my Carnegie studio, because you know I play downstairs in the main hall and I come back upstairs to sit in my bathtub and drink Champagne by myself." [chuckles] He played with Duke Ellington and Duke Ellington's orchestra in the main hall; it was just extraordinary! He is in his eighties now, but he was up there with his Steinway Grand, he named "Black Bessie," since the early 1950s.
I know I wasn't there during the hay day, but there were still lots of activities in the studios. There were ballerinas running around in the hallways on my floor, in their tutus, and there was this massive pipe organ in the studio next to me; I talk about this in the film, this was one of my first recollections of being in the studio. I heard this pipe organ one day and I thought, "Oh my Lord! I realized my studio is on top of the concert hall, but I didn't think I could hear the concerts below!" I was not hearing the concerts below; it was a woman next door, with a pipe organ. I only found out later when she asked me to change a light bulb for her. Her name was Emilia Del Terzo, and I nearly died when I saw the organ; it was massive! She was a famous organist and a protégé of Pietro Yon; he was the organist in the St. Patrick's Cathedral. This was his studio, and after he died, she took over the space.
The community was full of creative souls, and eccentrics, it was inspiring to be in such a place!
YZ: And now it's all gone! How did this happen?
JA: Sanford Weill, a billionaire and the former head of Citigroup, is the chairman of the board of trustees in Carnegie Hall. His son in law was appointed as the architect for the studio renovations. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the renovation plans to demolished the interior spaces, including the rooftop skylights.
In the late 1950's, the entire building was threatened with demolition when the New York Philharmonic defected to the new Lincoln Center. And when it was saved, thanks to the protests organized by the studio tenants, the city bought it and a charter was put in place in 1960 to insure nothing would ever happen to this historic building again. The Carnegie building itself is owned by the City of New York, not Carnegie Hall. But the City Council never held a public hearing.
YZ: Ah...the city owns it. How can you fight against that!
JA: Exactly! And here is an important point to bring up. There were the elderly rent-control tenants who were paying close to the rent they were paying when they moved in, but the other tenants were paying very close to market rate. Many people thought, "Why should we have any sympathy for all these artists who are being subsidized by Carnegie Hall?" They assumed something that was absolutely not! There were only seven tenants who were subsidized by Carnegie Hall, and the rest of us were not.
By the time I moved there, of the 170 artist studios that were original built, there were only about 45 studios occupied by artists, so the numbers were greatly reduced. People thought it was a natural evolution, "Oh well, it had its time, I guess it's over now. There were only a few people and they are old now. It was going to disappear anyway, so who cares..." That's absolutely incorrectly! It was a definite, deliberate plan to diminish the artist community, repossess the spaces, and convert them for some other use; this goes against the charter and it was an illegal act as far as I'm concerned.
And it wasn't just about us; it was also about the history of these studios and the historical architecture. If they had moved all of us out and kept the spaces, this would be a very different story.
YZ: I'm so sad that they demolished those beautiful skylights and replaced it with a plain roof garden and canopy.
JA: It was criminal, if you ask me. I attended the Landmark preservation hearings; this is a landmark building and they had to approve everything. When we saw their presentation, all our worst fears were realized. The man started out by saying, "Andrew Carnegie always wanted a roof garden."
YZ: Did that man have any proof?
JA: He just showed buildings from that period that had roof gardens.
YZ: That doesn't mean that Andrew Carnegie wanted one!
JA: Thank you! If he did, he would have built one, but he built artist studios!
They were bending the history in order to convince the landmark commissioner.
The man who gave the presentation, they called him a historian, we called him a lobbyist, he was from a firm who worked with all the fortune 500 companies, and if those companies wanted to get around landmark rules for construction projects, they go to this firm. The man also pointed at the skylights, and said, "These are not originally materials." The skylights were there for over 100 years, but they were renovated in 1986 with new glass and new hardware without changing the structure. But the man managed to made it sound like the skylights were not original, or historical.
It was only the shell that they were concerned with, not the spirit, nor the history. And one terrible loophole they had was this: the skylights can't be viewed by pedestrians on the streets, and therefor not important.
We were abled to get signed letters from world-class architects like Robert A. M. Stern and a few others who said this is absolute blasphemy and it should not be done, but the commissioner didn't listen.
YZ: [Sigh] What was your studio like and how did that space and being in that environment contribute to your art?
JA: I was so excited to find this space; it was a dream studio. I didn't think anything like that existed here. It was more of a European style; it looked just like a set on La Bohème! It had 20-foot high ceilings with a pitched roof, and a skylight facing north, and a living loft, and a little stair. It was really like being on a set of an opera, I couldn't believe it!
At the time, the subjects I was photographing were not celebrities. I was doing portraits, portraits of people in the arts; I was photographing writes, actors, dancers, and musicians. When they came to my studio, they just felt comfortable. They felt that they were in a creative environment that was down to earth and stimulating. It wasn't a white cube, like most modern photo studios. The special responses I got from artists, and the type of portraits I was able to capture in that studio, I don't think would have happened in another place, so it was an ideal space for me.
YZ: Why did they call you "Birdman?"
JA: [smile] The tenants in the Carnegie Studios came to call me 'Birdman' because I was always with my parrot Zoltan. It was a rite of passage in a way for a tenant in the Carnegie Studios - there was the Merry Widow of Carnegie Hall ( Jeanne Beauvais ) and the Duchess of Carnegie Hall ( Editta Sherman) and The Phantom of Carnegie Hall, and now Birdman.
YZ: When did you start filming, and what inspired this project in the beginning?
JA: Another perfect question and here is why, people who have seen the film asked me, "When did you decide to make a film about this terrible evictions of Carnegie Artist Studios?" I said, "I never decided to make that film."
When the woman, the organist next door had died, she was in her 90s, I felt a terrible regret that I had never taken her picture. I wasn't filming back then, but I wished that I had taken a still picture of her and her pipe organ. I felt bad about it and thought, well, there is still quite a bit of activity going on here, and maybe I should start documenting some of it. It didn't feel like the studios were ever going away, it looked like a place that was intended to be there forever, so I didn't even think about that. But it's a photographer's impulse I suppose, to preserve something that feels like it was on the course of fading away. That's why I started filming.
YZ: You've captured some intimate moments with these artists, how did you get people to forget that they were in front of a camera?
JA: It was 2001 when I started casually documenting, and it wasn't until 2007 that we got the eviction notices. By that time, people were accustomed to see a camera there all the time. The responses you see in the film are very genuine and everyone is very open and spontaneous because I am filming the story while it's happening, and I was a part of this story.
From the point of technique, this is what they call direct cinema, meaning that this is not the typical style of most documentaries, which is mostly done in hind sight, or a reporter comes into a situation and they do interviews and shoot some footage, this film was filmed from the inside and not from an outsider's point of view, by somebody who was also getting evicted. I felt like I had a very privileged and unique access to the people, and they were my friends and they trusted me. Because it was not a happy situation or a comfortable time for most of those people when I was filming the eviction, you can imagine; I did need their trust. And at the same time, I think they felt that this was an important story to be told and that they wanted their voices to be heard. Many of them told me that there were times when they struggle to keep their studios, but this time it felt different, this felt like the last fight.
YZ: Were there spaces, dramas, events, and people you wish you had filmed or would have filmed if you knew the studios would be demolished one day?
JA: Well, there were some amazing stories I have heard from few of the older tenants that I wish we had footages of. Here is one from Bill Cunningham, I was in his studio and he said: "Josef, it used to be like a big college dorm, there were things going on all night long with crazy activities in the hallways, and some nights, I just couldn't sleep." He pointed outside his windows towards the roof of Carnegie Hall, and said, "Do you see that roof? It was three in the morning and I would wake up and hear singing all night long, and it was Judy Garland, singing like crazy."
Bill Cunningham told me also that before he was a photographer, he designed hats and had a hat shop. And when Actors Studio was there on the same floor, the 10th floor, Marilyn Monroe and some of the actors would visit his hat shop during their breaks to try on hats.
These stories are just a tiny little sample of what it was like and that's the part that I feel I missed.
YZ: What was your fondest memory living there?
JA: I can't say there was one fondest, but here is a fun memory: They were doing some repair work on the ceiling of the concert hall, and my studio was right there on top of the concert hall, on the eighth floor. There was a trap door, in the hallway, next to my door, where the workmen would go in. They had left it open one day, for the whole weekend, so some friends of mine and I, went under the trap door, in between the dusty pipes, and heard Montserrat Caballe's sing. She was a Goddess!
That was a really fun adventure and older tenants told me that in the old days, it used to be like a sieve, you could go into the concert hall from many of the places from the studios.
YZ: That's pretty cool! Do you still keep in touch with some of the artists and has there been any effort to somehow maintain this artist community?
JA: A few of us tried to organize something, maybe find another building, and we can call it Carnegie Studios Annex [smile], you know, something that would continue the spirit, because it seemed a shame that this community would be lost along with the historical spaces, but you can imagine, with a group of eccentric, very individualistic artists, and with the elderly rent-control tenants transported to other buildings, it was very difficult.
I keep in touch with almost all of them, and some of them are in these modern high-rises. To an ordinary person, looking up at these high-rises, one might think that it's a step up for these elderlies. But that's not how it looks to them, they are bohemians, they are like fish out of water. Editta Sherman kept saying, "Where is my studio? How do I take photographs in this space?" Bill Cunningham said, "Josef, I don't know how to behave in a building like this." Don Shirley still hasn't unpacked all the boxes stacked up in his living room. It's a lot of work for someone his age and it's not easy to help him, because everything has to be in a specific place.
YZ: We might need to organize an unpacking party for Don Shirley.
JA: Yes, I will let you know if we do.
YZ: Thank you for giving us a glimpse of what it was like to live in the studios above Carnegie Hall. What do you hope to achieve by distributing this film and how can people help the effort for distribution?
JA: The distribution is important, so the story can spread. I should start by saying that we had some success in film festivals, and that I got to see first hand how this story touched people on an emotional level that even surprised me. I think people realized that this isn't just a little story about an artist community on top of Carnegie Hall. This film represents a bigger problem that's happening everywhere: money and greed, corruption in government and the influence of politicians can destroy the soul of a city. Artists come to a city and contribute to the life and soul of the city, and pieces of these souls are being lost.
There aren't places for artists to go anymore. There always used to be a place, even if it wasn't a very good place. When I see the Bowery... do you remember the Bowery? The Bowery always meant...that was the place where, when you were falling through the cracks, and things didn't go well, maybe you became an alcoholic, everything is terrible, there was that place to fall down to. The Bowery now is very chic...there is just no place to go for the struggling artist.
I hope this film will bring attention to this fragile state of our cultural ecology in a way that will help others in preventing similar tragedies. I also hope that this film will preserve the legacy of the Carnegie Artist Studios as well as its remarkable tenants.
If people are interested to see the film and want to help us put the message out there, they can visit our Kickstarters page; any amount will be greatly appreciated.
YZ: What do you miss the most about that lost bohemia?
JA: It has to be the community; it's something that accumulates over time. In another words, when the studios opened, they didn't fill it with artists and then all of a sudden you have a community. It's something that evolved, and it morphed over time into something that I don't think could ever happen again. There was a cross pollination of artists that you didn't expect. For example, I did the photograph for Don Shirley's first CD, and the poet Elisabeth Sargent would come and help me with some ideas for photos, and it was that kind of interaction that I didn't expect when I moved into the building. I thought I was just renting a beautiful studio, but what I got was this community, and that is something you can't put a price on, and that is what I miss the most.
Elisabeth Sargent said: "We had a community there, people don't understand that. We knew other people like ourselves were there and they supported me for many years. You can't buy that...and I hope you can't sell it!"
Here is a timeline of the history of Carnegie Hall (http://www.nypap.org/content/carnegie-hall)


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ONStor's virtual NAS for SAN convergence
With Fibre Channel now mature, and the storage winner everywhere but the low end, NAS is now more of an island than SAN ever was. So says Peter Tarrant, marketing VP at NAS-on-SAN developer ONStor, which has just brought its SANfiler systems to the UK.
Napster opens Canadian outpost
Napster rolled out its online music service out to Canadian consumers yesterday, announcing an exclusive, "multi-year" tie-in with Molson to provide the brewer with song downloads.
NHS workers trial hi-tech panic buttons
UK health service workers are to be tagged with electronic tracking devices in a pilot scheme designed to promote the safety of NHS staff who regularly work on their own, such as district nurses.
Broadband killed the TV star
European TV broadcasters are losing viewers to the Web, a medium they must embrace as broadband roll out presses on.
Call centre company gets £2m boost
It was five years ago today...These days, offshoring British call centres to India is a contentious issue. Back in the last century, the home-grown, phone-based customer services operative was "the backbone of UK economic prosperity". No, really:
Hardware vendors descend on Taipei
Computex PreviewThe annual hardware-fest that its Computex kicks off in Taipei next week, with local players, major and minor, and multinational operations coming together to demo their latest products across a diverse array of market segments.
AMD targets low-end Athlon 64s at new markets
AMD is preparing a low-cost Athlon 64 chip, the 2600+, it has emerged.
BT wins Suffolk e-gov contract
BT has won a ten-year contract to set up and manage the online services for Suffolk county council and Mid Suffolk district council. The deal covers public access, and behind-the scenes infrastructure.
Canadian, 16, on Randex worm rap
Canadian police have charged a 16 year-old youth with writing and distributing the damaging computer worm Randex.
Danish IT firm gives workers free Net porn
Forget luncheon vouchers, Danish IT outfit LL Media has set a new benchmark in worker welfare by handing its workers free subscriptions to Net porn sites. The company hopes that the freebies will stop randy Scandinavian employees from accessing Web smut while at work.
SiS churns out PCI Express parts
SiS has begun volume production of its PCI Express South Bridge chip, the SiS965L, Taiwanese sources claim.
Apple Euro music licence win signals mid-June launch?
Apple could be ready to launch its iTunes Music Store (ITMS) in Europe by the middle of June, sources said to be familiar with the company's plans have claimed.
Cisco outs really big router
Cisco marked its 20th birthday this week by unveiling a new router platform for telecoms firms.
Boffins trumpet horn shaped universe
Researchers in Germany have been looking carefully at the after glow of the big bang and have decided that the universe is shaped like a trumpet bell, or as some would have it, the Eiffel Tower. And in a twist of fate that will have Star Trek fans in a state of near apoplectic glee, the particular topology that best fits the observations is called Picard.
Sony to ship portable video, MP3 player next month
Reg Kit WatchHaving admitted this week that Apple beat it to offering the "Walkman of the 21st Century", Sony is fiercely fighting back to recapture the title.
Cingular kicks off 3G trial in Atlanta
Cingular Wireless is to trial 3G services in Atlanta and has selected Lucent to provide the networking equipment.
Dixons buys MicroWarehouse UK
Dixons Stores Group subsidiary PC World Business has bought MicroWarehouse UK, one of Europe's longest-established direct resellers, from its US parent, MicroWarehouse, inc.
Windows worms tax ISPs
Computer worms will cost European ISPs an estimated €123m this year, according to a study by Sandvine. The Net traffic management firm says its study shows attacks on European service providers are now a daily occurrence.
Boffins build room-temperature nano transistor
A collaboration between German and US scientists has yielded a single-electron transistor with a vibrating silicon arm 200 nanometres long, just tens of nanometres across, and tipped with gold.
Xerox to fight patent validity ruling
Xerox is to appeal against a US District Court ruling that this week declared invalid a text-entry patent it holds and used to sue PalmOne in 1997.
UK scientists seek silent aircraft
Today saw the launch of an ambitious £2.5m, three-year project led by Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) - the Silent Aircraft Initiative (SAI). Its plan is pretty simple: to produce aircraft "whose noise emissions would barely be heard above the background noise level in a typical built-up area".
NTT DoCoMo flees 3 UK
NTT DoComo is offloading its 20 per cent share of 3 UK to majority owner Hutchison Wampoa for £120m ($218m).
Taiwanese engineer 'assisted Chinese hackers'
Are international law enforcement authorities finally mounting a concerted clamp-down on virus writers? A Taiwanese computer engineer was arrested on cyber-crime charges today following the arrest of a teenage virus writing suspect in Canada and the capture of two alleged VXers in Germany earlier this month.


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Monday, January 6, 2014
Saturday morning, I enjoyed a lovely brunch with a few of my best friends. We decided to go for brunch at Claire's at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Choosing a place to go for brunch on the weekends is pretty easy when you live in such a gorgeous place....and restaurants with beautiful ocean views like Claire's are no exception.
A brunch with my foodies at Claire's at the Museum wouldn't be complete without a Mimosa or a Bloody Mary! We were sure to start with a simple cup of coffee, but very soon after, we got to the good stuff. The mimosas were perfection, and the Bloody Mary was uniquely delicious (it has cucumbers in it if you can tell).
I decided on the Country Breakfast...complete with scrambled eggs, house potatoes, bacon, sausage, toast, and fresh fruit. It's everything you could ask for in a breakfast. The best part of the meal would have to be the potatoes...once I added a pinch of salt and pepper, they were perfection. Having potatoes with red and green bell peppers and onions is always a good idea.
The only other breakfast dish I have tried from Claire's was the Breakfast Burrito...and that does NOT disappoint! If I were to choose between the Country Breakfast and the Breakfast Burrito, I'd definitely go with the Breakfast Burrito -- only because the fruit wasn't the freshest, and the sausage wasn't my favorite. But all in all, it was a beautifully delicious breakfast with even better drinks.
And the best perk of all: it's connected to a museum!
Just wanted to share a few of my favorite pictures from the brunch. If you go on a clear day, the view is breathtaking. I hope you all had a lovely weekend...and for those of you on the East Coast: I hope you're staying warm and safe!
Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and Twitter -- I update there daily :)
Labels: bacon, bloody mary, breakfast, brunch, claire's at the museum, coffee, food, food blog, foodie, instagram, long beach, long beach museum, mimosa, museum, outdoor seating, personal, restaurant, restaurants, sunglasses
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wow it looks absolutely amazing and so yummy :) Great photographs!ReplyDelete
Looks so yummy!ReplyDelete
With A City Dream
Everything looks sooo yummy! LIke DELISH esp the potatoes!ReplyDelete
xoThe Beckerman Girls
Great photos , looks really yummy xReplyDelete
Pretty photos!! The carrot (???) on that Bloody Mary is a bit intimidating though.ReplyDelete
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In an Oct. 5 story about a Korean Air plane that was diverted to Istanbul's Ataturk airport, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the plane made an emergency landing.
An airport official initially told the AP that the plane made an emergency landing, and later explained that the Airbus 330, bound for Tel Aviv from Seoul, changed its course for Istanbul because of a crack on its windscreen. Korean Air says the plane did not declare an emergency to the control tower when it obtained approval for the unscheduled landing.


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We need a stable oil price – but we're at the mercy of Opec
David Strahan, Independent
BP famously "doesn't do" oil- price forecasts. After 18 months in which crude has ricocheted from just under $100 per barrel to an all-time high of $147, then down to less than $40, and now up to $73 again, you can see their point.
But at the launch of its annual Statistical Review of World Energy last week, its chief executive, Tony Hayward, came close when he ventured "there is a rational argument to say that somewhere between $60 to $90 a barrel is the right sort of level". At the same time, BP continued to claim that there is no geological shortage of oil, and sought to blame the recent volatility on Opec's refusal to open up to Western investment. These arguments are wrong, partial or beside the point.
... One fundamental problem is that although the economy may be about to rebound, the oil supply probably will not. The precipitous collapse from $147 per barrel has caused upstream investment to slump by $100bn, or 21 per cent. Developing a new field usually takes around six years, so if nervous companies continue to delay investment decisions as the recovery gathers strength, when Opec's current spare capacity is exhausted demand will again outstrip supply and produce another damaging price spike. Shell's chief executive, Jeroen van der Veer, recently warned that this "may already be in the making".
Even if investment conditions were perfect, it is doubtful we could avoid repeated booms and busts; there are more fundamental forces at work than money.
(14 June 2009)
Also David Strahan's site.
Peak Coal, Global Warming Policy and Exponential Math
Jim DiPeso, The Daily Green
Three reports say coal is not nearly so abundant, or cheap, as we think it is.
Rising gasoline prices brings usually bring bouts of worry about "peak oil," the idea that petroleum supplies will peak and then inexorably decline, leading to price shocks.
Recent studies have stirred up similar concerns about peak coal. Stop right there. Peak coal? Why would anyone worry about peak coal? Haven't we been told that the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal, with a domestic supply exceeding 200 years?
Maybe not, if new information from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is on the mark. In December, USGS reported the results of its detailed look at the mammoth Gillette field in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the most productive coal region in the country.
Total coal in place is an estimated 201 billion tons, USGS estimated. That's enough to supply 182 years of domestic use, at current consumption rates.
The news goes downhill from there. Much of the Gillette coal is unavailable, because it's physically inaccessible or because people's stuff is in the way - inconvenient highways, railroads, and cities, for example.
Recoverable coal, then, totals 77 billion tons. That's still enough for 70 years at present burn rates.
The 77 billion tons could be recovered if money were no object. But for coal companies, and any other energy business for that matter, money is the object. They will extract coal to the extent that sales will yield an acceptable rate of return.
(14 June 2009)
Rising oil prices will buy off democracy
William Rees-Mogg, Times (UK)
States such as Iran and Russia do not have to listen to their people when they are resource-rich
... The swing of effective demand to the emerging countries is not in dispute, but there are different views about an even greater shift in the oil market, so-called "peak oil". That is the point in time when flows of new production are fully cancelled out by declines in existing production. That does not mean that oil is running out; but it does mean that demand will outstrip new supply, as has happened in the North Sea and North America. This time it will be a universal shortfall.
Many experts believe that the recession has indeed passed its low point; in that case demand for oil will recover in the countries worst hit, but will also continue to increase in the emerging countries, particularly the Bric countries. Much of the discussion in Yekaterinburg will centre on the future of oil supplies and particularly on the possible diversion of Russian oil from Europe to China.
If the peak oil theory does prove correct, the present recovery in prices will only be the beginning. Those oil economists who accept the peak oil argument tend to expect the price to reach $150 a barrel, probably in 2010.
This might be accompanied by a rise in the gold price above $1,000 an ounce. Oil and gold prices tend to move together, and the emerging countries have larger dollar reserves than they would altogether like. Gold is the one real alternative to paper currencies as a reserve asset.
The old assumptions are being undermined. It is only too clear that most politicians are still living in the 20th-century world, the world in which they grew up. The peak oil market may already have been reached, but in any case it will be reached eventually. The only question is when. Power is passing from the North West to the SouthEast, from the US to China.
Europe and the euro are very different from what they were. The euro is an oil-poor currency; oil-rich emerging currencies have the edge. Unfortunately, the natural logic of liberal democracy does not fit the natural logic of the oil market. Countries tend to become more liberal when the people are rich and the state is poor.
(15 June 2009)
How Much Oil Is In The Arctic?
Chris Nelder, The Business Insdier: Green Sheet
One way to know that the end of the Age of Oil will soon be upon us is the current excitement and chatter about going—literally—to the ends of the earth to find more oil.
The Arctic Circle, which circumscribes about 6% of the earth's total surface, is one of the last regions of any significant size to be explored for oil, and for good reason: It's locked in ice for much of the year, far from support and distribution lines, and is one of the most extreme environments on earth. Whatever oil and gas is extracted from the top cap of our planet will be the most expensive and difficult oil ever produced.
Yet the prospect of new oil production from the Arctic is attracting renewed attention as the world becomes increasingly cognizant of the end of cheap, easy oil, and the security and economic risks associated with the expensive, difficult oil that remains. Exploration opportunities are diminishing every year, as the world continues its 40+-year-long slide down the backside of the exploration bell curve.
With global warming causing the polar ice pack to break up and retreat, it has become possible to sail ships through the Northwest Passage for the first time in recorded human history.
(13 June 2009)
[1] http://energybulletin.net
[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/we-need-a-stable-oil-price-ndash-but-were-at-the-mercy-of-opec-1704577.html
[3] http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=291
[4] http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/republican/peak-coal-47061401
[5] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/william_rees_mogg/article6499039.ece
[6] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-oil-is-in-the-arctic-2009-6


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Those who Hunt Elves volume 1
Alternative Title: Elf wo Karu Monotachi
Written By: Yu Yagami
Publisher: ADV Manga
Release Date: December 2003
Genre: Comedy/Semi-Action
Additional Notes
- Black and White
- 218 Page Count
- Age Group: 15+
First Volume Review:
What do you get when you read about an actress, military nut and a martial arts expert who gets transported to a mysterious world, and the only way to get back to their world is to strip elves?
Story: Target Aquisition (Part 1)
Junpei Ryuzoji (martial arts experts), Akiri Komiyama (actress), Ritsuko Inoue (military nut) were living there life like the unusual, all of a sudden they are magically transported to a magical world. Of course they have to get back to their world. Celcia Marieclaire the head of the Common Elves of Carmegan region offers to help. Unfortunately the restoration ritual doesn't go as expected, the spell is broken into fragments and scattered all over the mysterious world. You see the spell had to be translated and reprinted on Celcia's bare skin, Junpei being the idiot that he is interrupts the ritual and everything goes wrong. Now the fragments of the spell are imprinted on the bodies of five other elves across the land. So what's a group of desperate home-sick humans to do, but go out and strip some elves. Celia refuses to help our lost friends at first, since it wouldn't be appropriate for the head of the Common Elves of Carmegan to go around stripping elves. She does decide to help them after awhile, but under the disguise of a dog. Our team picks up a name: the Elf Hunters, after stripping 100 elves to no avail. So any elf with strength is after their heads, luckily Ritsuko brought her Model T-74 tank with her.
Story #1: Target Aquisition (Part 2)
Now their first elf to actually have a fragment of the spell isn't ready to take her cloths off so easily: Gabriella of the Dark Elf Clan. Gabriella has a bad attitude with the foxy body to match. She brings her entire army of goblins to kill Celia, who she believes betrayed elves (especially her) by helping the elf hunters strip elves. Gabriella doesn't expect much of a challenge from the elf hunters; she built up quite a reputation as good fighter. Unfortunately for Gabriella the elf hunters prove to be her match, I won't ruin the actual fight scene for you. So as part of their agreement, Gabriella takes her cloths off after loosing the battle, and there it was, one fragment of the spell on her left boob in the form of a spot. Celia chants a spell to transfers the fragment onto her body: in her dog form. Afterwards Celia realizes that once she has a fragment on her body (in whatever form) she can't change into another. So Celia is unable to return to her formal self until she retrieves all of the fragments and sends Junpei and friends home. So now our elf hunters have Celia in her dog form to walk around with: she was renamed Spot, because the fragment was transferred over her left eye. With one of the fragments acquired, our team is now more than determined to return and with Spot's help they should be able to reach their in no time.
Story #2: The Man Who is After Akiri
This segment is about Edwin, a male hot shot that uses his good looks and Book of Seduction: handed down from his father to him. Edwin sees Akiri walking, and takes on the challenge of removing all of her garments. Akiri doesn't seem to fall for his sleazy tricks, which just entices him to continue his mission. After all of his attempts he realizes that true love isn't won by playing games with a person, but by noble acts. This segment doesn't really have much in it, some character development, but nothing to do with the story. It does give you some helpful hints on what to do on dates though. ^^
Story #3: Ritsuko, the T-74 Tank, and…
The T-74 runs out of gas on the middle of a bridge, the group makes the decision to just leave it and move on. Ritsuko is broken hearted that she has to leave her tank behind, but understands that it's for the best. She decides to stay back and give her last respects while the others head to the nearest town, and try to find some other means of transportation…
While in town the team comes across a giant teddy bear: possessed by a cat spirit. The villagers are familiar with this certain cat spirit. The team decides it's not their business to meddle with other people affairs. The villagers were able to get rid of the giant teddy bear that was just having some fun by destroying the village they set it on fire and the cat spirit went away.
…back at the tank, Ritsuko is ready to part with the tank. When out of no where a stuffed dog that meows pops up, Ritsuko immediately falls in love with the dog. Could it be the same possessing cat from the village? I won't spoil the story for you.
Story #4: The Elf Who Wants to Get Stripped
With a new and improved Tank (at end of chapter 3 something amazing happens to Ritsuko's Tanker), the team heads off to find the other four elves. They come across an elf by the name of Milia. Three years ago a monster attack their village, to save the village from destruction Malia placed on the cursed armor. After defeating the monster Malia realized why the armor is said to be cursed: she couldn't take it off. She heard about the elf hunters, found them and asked them to strip her. Of course our team is puzzled, but agrees to help in return for a present from Malia's grandfather. After some interesting attempts at getting the armor off, the team is reading to give up. Before they leave they asked the grandfather what the reward would be. Grandfather decides to let them in on what this secret object passed down from generations was… You'll laugh once you find out what the reward was.
First let me explain a few things about this book (and the review): the book is broken up into separate stories, each offering some part to the overall story or character development, that's why I book it up and gave a review for each chapter since they are all dramatically different than the other.
This seems to be a magna series I can get addicted too. The team is made up of a bunch of different characters; which make for a good laugh when forced to work together, especially when Celia and Junpei get into their usual fights. Junpei happens to be my favorite
There is partial nudity is this series, but it isn't sex or anything. Compared to other Japanese nudity mangas and animes the girls' breasts don't take up half the page. It isn't something I recommend smaller ones to read, but it doesn't encourage sex. The only thing it encourages is the obvious, and that's stripping elves to get back home.
The story is easy to pick up on, the characters are interesting and there it's really funny to read. Those Who Hunt Elves will be another dent in my wallet, but I'll be happy: the money will go to good waste. This series is also out on DVD, I'm more of a fan of the Black n' White, but if you prefer watching to reading buy this series you won't regret it.
By Cherubim


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Being the chocolate addicts we are it's almost impossible for any of us in the team to go abroad without trying some unique local chocolate to bring back to wow the rest of the team. Recently of the team went to Bulgaria and found a whole new variation of their favourite UK bar - the Nestle Lion. Far from it that they actually found something totally unique :) they got rather partial to these during their time there, and luckily we managed to sneak a pack of these Nestle Lion Pop Choc for a review for the site.
The Nestle Pop Choc packs weigh 36.0g which is actually a lot lighter than the usual Lion which weighs in at around 52.0g. The branding was totally familiar despite the obvious language differences. The English logo was still utilised with the roaring golden beast prominent on the front. Opening the pack up the initial aromas were very biscuity with the chocolatey smells on later picking up intensity on closer inspection.
Overall despite one of our team coming back and singing the praises of these Nestle Lion Pop Choc we sadly couldn't make it a consensus that these were all that great. The lack of caramel was a real issue for these, it meant they not only lacked an integral part of the Nestle Lion proposition, but also that they lacked real flavour and that made them a pretty unsubstantial product on the whole. Nestle Lion lovers will likely be disappointed by these - one of the team summed these up well by saying they were like Nestle Kit Kat Pop Chocs but without the flavour.
5.2 out of 10