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Roy Lichtenstein:
A Modern Master
At first glance, the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein might seem simplistic and easy to describe and define. Many art texts seem to find it easy to explain his work in a couple of lines and move on. In my opinion Roy Lichtenstein is a fascinating and complex artist. He is a serious artist with legitimate aims and has a philosophy of art that encompasses many things.
The World Book Encyclopedia says of this artist that his work "shows his interest in mass-produced commercial illustrations, especially comic strips." One art history textbook says of his work that "he makes giant cartoon-like paintings. Often, he pokes gentle fun at the melodrama of the comics and the national fascination with them."[1] Another art history text says that the dialogue in his paintings "represents what the artist considered to be the trivial dialogue between couples in soap operas."[2]
Most of the above statements are not untrue. Lichtenstein, however, disagreed with some of them. After researching this artist for years and reading several books about him I can only say as I read these statements, "There's so much more to it than that!" To describe an artist in almost dismissive terms like these do an injustice to his work. Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most fascinating artists I have ever read about. The more I learn about him, the more respect I have for him and his work.
Unlike some artists, not much is known about his personal life. He is a very personal man. Not much is written about his wife and family. It is significant to me that we know more about his work and techniques than we do the gossip about him. The first thing that is impressive to many about Roy Lichtenstein was his work ethic. He was, simply stated, a very hard worker. In fact one biography remarks that his was "not art for art's sake but art as evidence of a work ethic, validated by intensity of production and the pace of coherent change."[3]
His studio was characterized by absolute precision. Materials were laid out in meticulous order. He would "begin work at his studio each morning by nine, eat lunch at the same hour every day, and then continue working until seven in the evening – or even later."[4]
Roy Lichtenstein, along with Andy Warhol and others changed the art world in 1961 when they began including straightforward images from ads and comics and other sources from popular culture. They were painting what they saw, and what they saw was banal and vulgar to the established art world.
Lichtenstein's first Pop Art painting was of a comic found in a bubble gum wrapper. Lichtenstein made a drawing of that wrapper. He then made a painting based on his drawing. He enjoyed making images that were several times removed from their original source. He was trying to make his own paintings look mechanical, with no artistic pretensions. There are no beautiful brushstrokes. They appear to be mechanically made.
He says that after he made his first pop art painting, "Look Mickey!" in 1961 that "he couldn't do any other kind of painting."[5] Everything else he attempted to do appeared to "look like mush" to him. His friend and gallery owner Alan Kaprow encouraged him, telling him not to worry about it "not looking like art." "If it's part of you, it will be there," he said. Within weeks there appeared within the same gallery works in a similar spirit by Warhol and Rosenquist. People began to recognize that this was the beginnings of a movement.
Lichtenstein was fascinated by images used in advertising. He purposely sought out images that appeared to be crudely drawn. "Advertising is a tremendous force and it's also a very new force," said the artist. "It's a very big part of our culture – the new part." How could art be modern and ignore this visual part of our surroundings? This new style realized that to be truly modern this new cultural imagery had to find a place in "high art".
Beginning in the early sixties he used an iconography of household objects, drawn particularly from the kitchen. In paintings like "Electric Range", "Roto Broil" and "Electric Cord" he presented images from a product catalog. One writer explains it this way: "The object is presented in its completeness, with no modifying objects around it and no plane for it to stand on. It occupies the picture-plane emblematically, centralized and head-on."[6] The mundane becomes monumental.
Comic Books
Lichtenstein liked the clichés he found in comic books. "This work can be looked at as cliché or it can be looked at as classicism. The ideal head is a classical idea. The idea of drawing this girl the same way or 'Brad' – an ideal… it's standard, but it's not looked up to when it's isolated."
Forcing the viewer to examine something that they wouldn't have given a second thought if they had seen it in a different context also intrigues him. For instance, when we read a comic book we are looking at pictures that were drawn strictly for the purpose of telling a story. We accept these images as real, but when this artist enlarges them, we see how artificial and abstract they really are.
"I try to look for something that says something mysterious or absurd or extremely simple or extremely complicated," said Lichtenstein about how he chose source material from comic books. "Something that when its part of a painting will strike you as funny."
One writer explains the appeal of the comic book paintings this way: "Lichtenstein intends to raise images from popular culture to the level of high art by transforming it in his work. He takes devalued forms of visual communication, redeems them, and possesses them through recreating them in his paintings. Because he has considered and minutely adjusted every line, form and color area, his art breathes finesse and refinement."[7]
Changing the context of the images he found forces the viewer to examine them. The face is made of red dots. The girl has really yellow hair. It's not just changing the context that made it art to Lichtenstein, though. It was also organizing the marks in a way that they interact with each other. When commercial art is made the artists aren't really thinking about the formal qualities.
"What I do is form," explained the artist, "whereas the comic strip is not formed in the sense that I'm using the word; the comics have shapes but there has been no effort to make them intensely unified. The purpose is different, one intends to depict and I intend to unify. And my work is actually different from the comic strips in that every mark is in a different place, however slight the differences seem to some. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial." [8]
"Because you're starting with somebody else's art," he went on to say, "It says something about communication. You're not looking at a nature garden or something. You're taking known symbols and styles of things and recreating them."[9] Images were mediated by the exploitation of preexisting symbols. The subject of his art is the artificiality of communication.
When viewers first saw his work many were so outraged by the source of subject matter that they could not begin to appreciate the formal qualities of the work. Lichtenstein himself said, "I always think that it's the formal part that gets neglected and that usually people talk about what the subject means. And when they do that, it sounds fairly obvious. I think it's the formal part that nobody understands. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing in the realm or art. For most people the formal part is not what they see. One may be influenced by the sense of form and think it's really all right without understanding why. But the understanding of form is limited because I think people don't tend to see it unless they are artists."[10]
When asked about the mysteriousness of his iconography, he said that critics were confused as to what his attitude toward the comics was. "I think of it as an ironic look at and use of what is usually called vulgar art," he explained. "It's using those symbols to make something else. It's really the art we have around us; we're not living in the world of Impressionist painting."[11] He seemed to take mischievous delight in using material many insisted was inappropriate. "For me, it has a 'you're a bad boy copying comics' thing because our art teacher told us not to copy, and if you did copy, it certainly wouldn't be commercial art." What he saw in mechanical production of artwork was a lack of nuance. There is red and there's 50% red. They don't care what kind of pink is used. He aimed to take the least elegant thing he could find and tried to make something elegant out of it.
Lichtenstein developed through a series of highly distinctive stages. His style has remained constant, however. The black lines, primary colors, Ben Day dots and stencils have remained part of his art, as if he were enthralled by it. He abandoned his comic book images for a while to make paintings of isolated brush strokes, mirror reflections and works that referred to icons from art history.
Art History
When he paid tribute to an art history icon from the past, he didn't refer directly to a Picasso, for instance, but looked at a poor reproduction of one.
As he sought to find ideas to rework in his own image he investigated the age-old question of what constitutes art. While doing so in his homage to other artists he was conscious of his own place in art history. He sees himself as part of a continuous line of descent beginning with Medieval Art. Art began as only religious but began to include common people, beggars, still lives and landscapes. Cubists then began to use bits of newspaper and wallpaper. He sees this "vulgarizing" as a part of recent art history and as crucial – of things becoming more vernacular. In all his work, he poses the question, "What makes one mark art and another not? Why is this so good? I pursued that interest."[12]
Thus far I've only been able to present a brief overview of Lichtenstein's art and philosophy. I would like to look a little deeper by looking at specific paintings.
"Okay, Hot
This particular image exists nowhere in any one comic. The sources are actually four different images put together. The reference to 'pouring' is an art world in-joke. It refers to Morris Louis' brand of modern painting, using poured paint. [13]Lichtenstein delighted in the double take. "Okay, hot shot, okay! I'm pouring!" Was this Lichtenstein's humorous answer to the critics who attacked his work? Was this his tongue in cheek reaction to others insisting that if he were making real art, he would be pouring the paint on the canvas to make nonobjective designs?
Other works of his resemble more closely a single source material. One scholar states that he purposely did this to challenge the belief that one could not copy and still be original. "Copying from another's artist's work had been out of style for a good part of the twentieth century; the avant-garde had increasingly set store by invention. In resorting to old-fashioned copying (and of such "unartistic" models), Lichtenstein did something characteristic: he made it so obvious that he was copying that everyone knew it. In effect he threw down the gauntlet, challenging the notion of originality as it prevailed at that time. [14]
This is one of Lichtenstein's rare drawings that were not done as a study for a painting. Lichtenstein was fond of visual puns and this is one example of one. Though it is called "Conversation", there is no speech balloon. It was about this time that he stopped using them for a while in his work. He emphasizes the harsh angular lines in the man's face and emphasizes the soft curves in the woman's. The man's expression is obscured from view, but seems calm, while the woman appears to be in shock. This is more than a man copying comic books. He is presenting our stereotypes of men and women and forcing us to think about them. Have men been told to hide their feelings? One scholar explains his art "translates the simplistic naturalism and melodrama of the comics into a pictorial structure of a high order." [15]
Conflict in male / female relationships is a recurring theme in his artwork. In "Forget it! Forget me!" he approaches it in a similar way. Again, the man's face is more than half obscured by cropping of the picture frame. The woman appears distraught as the man walks away.
In "Conversation, he emphasizes the dots between the faces in such a way that the shape refuses to recede into the background as it should. It becomes a focal point. The picture plane is all-important, as he felt that that was what made painting modern.
One can tell that from the sketches that he labored over each line. He would create several different versions and studies preparing for the major canvasses. The contour line itself was drawn in outline and then filled in, giving it a distinctly object-like character. Lichtenstein insisted that the line both described the object and exists in its own right. "I think Matisse is like that; the mark is just the mark and it may be part of the same arm, but you can see how he does think about it as separate."[16]
When Lichtenstein's work appeared, critics couldn't get past the subject matter. These were the same critics who told us that a subject matter wasn't necessary. Over time, however, some have been willing to give his work a second look. In discussing this artist and the philosophy behind his work, I hope I've persuaded the reader to do so as well.
[1] "Discovering Art History"
[2] "Themes and Foundations in Art"
[3] "Masterworks"
[4] "Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist at Work"
[5] "Portrait of an Artist: Roy Lichtenstein" , a video by Public Media Home Vision. 1991.
[6] "Modern Masters Series"
[7] Masterworks
[8] Masterworks
[9] Masterworks.
[10] Masterworks.
[11] Masterworks.
[12] "Portrait of an Artist".
[13] Smithsonian Magazine.
[14] "The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein"
[15] "Masterworks."
[16] "The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein"
The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, by Bernice Rose. 1987, the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Modern Masters Series: Roy Lichtenstein, by Lawrence Alloway, Abbeville Press, New York. First Edition, 1983.
Discovering Art History,. 1997, Davis Publications.
Themes and Foundations in Art, by Katz, Lankford and Plank. 1995, West Publishing Compnay, New York.
Portrait of an Artist: Roy Lichtenstein, a video by Public Media Home Vision. 1991.
"High and Low" modern art meets popular culture" by Phill Patton, Smithsonian Magazine, November 1990.
Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist at Work, by Lou Ann Walker. Copyright 1994, Lodestar books, New York.
Andrew Wales is from
Athens Pennsylvania and has a B.A. in Art Education. He currently teaches
elementary school art and works as a freelance artist and writer.


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A local group at the University of Central Arkansas earned an award recognizing them as a role model for their efforts over a five-year period.
The UCA Chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, is the 2012-2013 winner of the Ruth Hubbard Cousins Chapter Award, an award that comes with $3,500, according to a news release.
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The Ruth Hubbard Cousins award goes annually to the one chapter that best accomplishes Psi Chi's mission. That mision includes "encouraging, stimulating and maintaining excellence in scholarship and advancing the science of psychology," according to the group's website.
The award recognizes the chapter's accomplishments over the past five years, which include five consecutive Model Chapter awards, a Regional Chapter award, a Regional Advisor Award and more than $30,000 in grants, fellowships and awards to undergraduate and graduate members.
The Ruth Hubbard award means the chapter gets money and a plaque with the chapter's name, advisor's name and chapter president's name. The award also gives the chapter travel expenses for one chapter officer to attend the convention to receive the award and make a presentation on "how to become a successful Psi Chi chapter," according to the website and news release.
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I work from home while my children are roaming about the house. Most days, I have try to make this situation work for everyone, and I have to admit, the system is almost flawless…almost. It is only when the phone rings that the system breaks down.
Though my clients are aware that I work from home, and that my children are probably somewhere in the background, I try to maintain an air of professionalism. It isn't that difficult to pull off until a child comes running into my office, loudly requesting a snack, without checking to see if I am on the phone. This is where my version of sign language has come into play…well, not really sign language. It's more like an interpretive dance.
If I'm waiving my hand wildly in the air, they know to stop speaking and wait until I've finished my conversation. I know I look ridiculous, but I've tried other tactics – reminding them to look before talking, closing the door, etc. – nothing so far has been nearly as successful as the wild hand dance.
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Between the 21st and 23rd of September, as the God of Light is defeated by the God of Darkness and the Mother retreats in preparation for a new cycle of life to begin, the celebration of Mabon - also known as Harvest Home or Autumnal Equinox - begins. Mabon is centered around the theme of balance, harvest, and reaping rewards for our actions and deeds - good or bane - throughout the months prior. Magic involving security, protection, and prosperity is often conducted on this occasion of equal day and night.
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Ideally, celebrations would begin on Mabon Eve, occurring within the fields being harvested rather than in wooded areas. Between Lughnasadh and Samhain, harvesting activities keep us busied, while games, feasting, and festivities are interlaced as often as time permits. Customarily, a portion of the bounty is left unharvested as thanks to the Earth Mother.
Social activities may include various outdoor games, attending the county fair, hay rides, barn dances, parties for canning and preserving, or a harvest parade. Traditionally, folks may have gathered to attend to the needs of a neighbor's broken fences or leaking roof, taking turns swapping labor from farm to farm.
For ritual, a rustic basket of fallen leaves may be gathered prior to the ritual (to be sprinkled within the circle later). Nuts, fruits, pine cones, and berries may decorate the westward-facing altar. A white or light blue altar cloth makes a pretty backdrop for the golden candles and bright colors of fall. The Goddess figure may be crudely crafted from ripened wheat, with the "ears" forming a crown. Chrysanthemums (sacred to the Goddess) may encircle her figure as well. Apples may be cut in half crosswise, revealing the "star" and used during ritual. Participants may choose to wear work clothing or white dresses.
Herbs and Flowers:
Chrysanthemums (Marigolds), Yarrow, Rue, Chamomile, Sunflower, Oak leaves, Rosemary, Saffron, Hollyhock, Rose, and Wheat.
Cinnamon, Clove, Oak Moss, Frankincense, Myrrh, Pine, Apple blossom, Sweetgrass, Jasmine, Sandalwood, Benzoin, Rosemary, and Sage.
Food and Drink:
Wine, Apple juice, Apple cider, Beer (Hops), Walnuts, Corn, Berries, Bread, Apples, Carrots, Squash, Potatoes, Meat, Fish or Poultry. Recipes may include such things as Vegetable Barley Soup with Beef, Whole Wheat Honey Bread, Apple Butter, Roast Beef or Goose, Pecan Pie, Potatoes with Garlic and Herbs, and Cornbread.
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Make an Apple Doll Head. It will be perfectly shriveled and ready by the time Samhain arrives! Fully illustrated instructions are given.
How to Make a Corn Husk Doll. SacredSpiral gives step-by-step instructions and photos to help you create realistic-looking Corn Husk Dolls.
Make a Grapevine Wreath. This is a very easy project and wreaths can be easily decorated and re-decorated to match the occasion. You may choose to make small ones to surround candles, create centerpieces, and more.
Mabon Cooking: Recipes from the Kitchen. Recipes for everything from Apple Butter to Autumn Beef Stew and Stuffed Grape Leaves.
Share your own Mabon Rituals, Photos, Activities, Recipes, Graphics, Links, Verses, and more with our readers...either in the comments section below or by contacting me for inclusion into this original post for a link back to your own site or blog!______________________________________________________________
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Former "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw hasn't been one of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's biggest fans. In fact, he's been a vocal adversary of the GOP presidential nominee.
However, during an appearance on MSNBC, the liberal media icon stunned many when he praised Trump's campaign, calling it the blueprint for future politics in America.
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"The next couple of weeks, when he ought to be doing something completely innovative, and should be showing vulnerability as a person, he's not going to do that," Brokaw added about Trump. "He's going to go back to his old form, and it's always somebody else's fault."
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"This is a decent movie which attempts to cover its subject well. The anti-British bias of the movie hurts its accuracy. For one, the Zulu Kingdom was not some innocent, put upon people. Shaku Zulu had spend years creating a brutal tribal kingdom that was under his complete control. His seccessors were no less brutal. King Catayweo may have been marginal less dictatorial than Shaku, but only by degrees. Despite this flaw, the movie is still worthwhile. Peter O'Tool lays it on thick by making Lord Chelmsford look the arrogant fool. This was not quite the case. Burt Lancaster does a nice job as Durnsford, and Simon Ward is great as the young gent recruit in the native horse.
The battle scene at Ishlandwana is impressive, but almost totally inaccurate. For one thing the British firepower kept the Zulus pinned for quite a while. The movie shows them charging forward ever invincible. Only when the Britsh fire slackend were they able to surge forward and break the line. The movie does not show this. Also the Zulu prisoners reporting the British position back to the main Impi is pure fantasy! This never happened and is another attempt by the movie to make the British look cruel and stupid! There are some other flaws, but to me these are the most serious.
The production quality is first-rate, and the attention to the flow of historical events is well done, if a little confusing at times. Those not familar with the campaign may have problems following it. Although portrayed as one of the most serious defeats ever in British military history this is also an exaggeration. The Zulu campaign was a embarrassment in some ways for the British, and also an un-wanted conflict, but the ultimate result was a crushing British victory a few weeks later under Chelmsford. Those who want a truly crushing victory of the natives over the Europeans should check out the fate of the Italians in Ethiopia in 1896! That was a true debacle. The British endured their set-back and came back for the final win as they often did. A flawed movie, but worthwhile."
Great Entertainment, well made fascinating story line
Stuart Gardner | Fair Lawn, NJ | 02/27/2006
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"It's suprising so many comments are tailoured on the accuracy of the film rather than the entertainment value. This is an exciting film, with a good plot, good acting and is more entertaining to watch than most new releases.
The battle scenes are spectacular.
If the film were 100 percent accurate it would be unwatchable. One of the outcomes of this battle was that boy soldiers ("
Enjoyable film marred by a poor transfer
Bill Allcorn | 04/24/2006
(2 out of 5 stars)
"I'll leave it to others to comment on the film itself, but I do want to warn potential purchasers that the DVD transfer leaves a lot to be desired. The original film is 2.35:1; the DVD is 16:9 letter boxed (not anamorphic)so about a third of the film is missing and it is clearly obvious in quite a few scenes. The quality of the transfer itself, while not awful, is not particularly good either."


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Payrolls in the U.S. increased more than forecast in October, a sign that employers were optimistic the world's biggest economy would weather the effects of the federal government shutdown.
The addition of 204,000 workers followed a revised 163,000 gain in September that was larger than initially estimated, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 91 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 120,000 advance. The jobless rate rose to 7.3% from an almost five-year low.
The figures indicate companies adhered to hiring plans with an outlook for stronger sales in the aftermath of the 16-day budget impasse and a debate over raising the nation's debt ceiling. Treasuries and stock futures fell on speculation the report will prompt an earlier reduction of asset purchases by the Federal Reserve.
"The government shutdown really didn't have a material impact on employment," said Brian Jones, senior U.S. economist at Societe Generale in New York, whose forecast for a payroll gain of 175,000 was the highest in the Bloomberg survey. "The labor market is actually quite healthy, regardless of what people may think. The economy is doing better."
The contract on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index expiring in December dropped 0.3% to 1,739.80 at 8:51 a.m. in New York. Treasuries lost the most in two months, pushing up the yield on the 10-year Treasury note 12 basis points, or 0.12 percentage point, to 2.72%.
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Payrolls increased at manufacturers by the most since February, retailers added about twice as many workers as the month before, and leisure and hospitality employment was the strongest in six months.
Bloomberg survey estimates ranged from increases of 50,000 to 175,000. Revisions to prior reports added a total of 60,000 jobs to overall payrolls reports in the previous two months. The report, delayed by the shutdown, was originally slated for Nov. 1.
The difference between today's outcome on payrolls and the average estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 3.4 times larger than the poll's standard deviation, or the average divergence between what each economist forecast and the mean. That was the biggest surprise since April.
The unemployment rate, derived from a separate Labor Department survey of households rather than employers, was forecast to rise to 7.3% from September's 7.2%, according to the Bloomberg survey median. The household figures showed more Americans dropped out of the labor force.
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The participation rate, which indicates the share of working-age people in the labor force, decreased to 62.8%, the lowest since March 1978, from 63.2% a month earlier.
As many as 800,000 federal workers were furloughed during last month's government shutdown. The Labor Department, in its survey of 60,000 households, extrapolated the effects of the impasse to arrive at the unemployment rate. Americans who weren't working during the week spanning Oct. 6 to Oct. 12 were counted in the household survey as unemployed, even if they received, or anticipated getting, pay retroactively, based on a statement from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The separate survey of employers referenced the pay period that includes the 12th of the month, and anyone receiving pay for any part of the period was counted as part of the payroll tally, the Labor Department said.
Private employment, which excludes government agencies, rose 212,000 after a revised advance of 150,000. They were projected to rise by 125,000, the survey showed.
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This is a very interesting story in Wired. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant It focuses on what the author believes was one of the key contributors to all of the purchases of leveraged toxic assets. This isn't the only reason we are in this position. As with most big failures, it is usually made up of a series of small ones. The information in this story sheds some light into why the rating agencies rated the CDOs as they did, though I don't know that even this is the entire answer. Some of it also comes down to the fact that the issuers of the CDO's are the ones who pay to have the ratings in the first place. I do believe there were other things like relaxed lending standards, and probably, most importantly, housing prices reverting to the mean. I hope we learn from our mistakes. Transparency and a accessible exchange should help.


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Dean Borg, longtime host and moderator of Iowa Press, will host the panel discussion. Panelists include:
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I have seen some incredible flops in my day, Potato Nation. I've watched nearly 1000 hours of World Cup soccer, I spent two summers in the 90′s at the Vlade Divac School of Basketball, and I even made it through the first 40 minutes of Cloud Atlas before I faked a stroke to get out of that God forsaken theater. But believe me when I say that nothing, nothing I've come across compares to the flop that took place during former Atlanta Falcons defensive end Ray Edwards' most recent boxing match.
Edwards — who was released by the Falcons in November — was actually competing in his third professional boxing match last Saturday. But like Kimbo Slice and more notably Aleksander Emelianenko before him, the opponents being put before Edwards all seem to be suffering from various degrees of sudden onset narcolepsy. Here's a video of Edwards' second fight against Corey Briggs, a man I can only assume has since lost at least a foot to diabetes. And if you think that looked fishy, just wait until you see his most recent farce.
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According to Edwards' Wikipedia page, the portly trout seen taking an Oscar-level dive here goes by Nick "Turbo Tax" Capes, who is both Edwards' accountant and was "knocked out with a stuff breeze" for filing his client's taxes incorrectly. And while some of this information is clearly the work of an anonymous — not to mention genius — troll out there, we'd like to congratulate Capes for not only creating a new category for this year's Potato Awards (Flop of the Year) with his effort here, but for already securing both the first and last place on the list of nominees.
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10.24.14 – Will & the Bushmen, and Willie Sugarcapps play at the Saenger Theatre
10.25.14 – Drowning Pool plays at Soul Kitchen
10.26.14 – Miss Tess & the Talkbacks play at Callaghan's Irish Social Club
10.26.14 – Super Funk Fantasy plays at Woofstock
10.27.14 – Andy McKee plays at Azalea Manor
10.28.14 – Ray LaMontagne plays at the Saenger Theatre
Wherever you go, whoever you see – the music forecast is looking good! Be sure to subscribe to this blog or follow @VisitMobileBay on facebook, instagram or twitter because we haven't even told you about November yet!!


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SANTA ANA – The decision in People v. Naposki, where a former NFL football player is charged with plotting with his former lover to murder her millionaire boyfriend in 1994, is in the hands of the jury.
After more than three weeks of testimony that included 37 witnesses and 240 exhibits and seven hours of final arguments by prosecuting and defense attorneys, the jury in Superior Court Judge William R. Froeberg's 10th-floor courtroom began deliberations Wednesday afternoon.
The jurors have been asked to decide if Eric Naposki, now 44, conspired with his former girlfriend, Nanette Johnston, now 46, to kill her much older boyfriend, William Francis McLaughlin, 55, who was shot to death in his luxury home in the gated community of Balboa Coves on Dec. 15, 1994.
The jury deliberated for three hours Wednesday without reaching a verdict. Deliberations resume Thursday.
Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy insisted during four hours of summation that Naposki was a cruel, heartless bully who planned the murder with Johnston for financial gain.
The prosecutor agreed with defense attorneys that Johnston was a "horrible, diabolical, manipulative woman" who stood to benefit from McLaughlin's life insurance policy and his will after McLaughlin was dead.
"She's the worst person on planet Earth," Murphy said, (but) "the shooter is sitting right there."
Murphy told the jury that Naposki was a greedy man who thought he would share in Naposki's windfall after McLaughlin was murdered, and was "too stupid to realize that the woman he was in love with made him do something horrible."
Defense attorney Gary Pohlson however, told the jury Wednesday that Naposki, who played parts of two seasons in the NFL as a linebacker, was a "nice guy" who consistently acted the way an innocent person would act and who had an alibi for the time of the shooting.
Pohlson contended that Johnston was more likely the shooter who pumped six shots from a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun into McLaughlin's chest. Naposki, he said "got taken advantage of by this manipulative, vicious woman …
"Please, as much as I wanted anything in my life, I want you to find him not guilty," Pohlson begged the jury, "because this man is not guilty."
Johnston, who is also known in court documents as Nanette Packard, is also charged with McLaughlin's murder, but her trial has been postponed until Nov. 4.
Both are charged with special circumstances first-degree murder for financial gain, which could land them in prison for life without the possibility of parole if convicted.
They were suspects in McLaughlin's murder in 1994, but no charges were filed at the time and the investigation went stale over time.
District Attorney's investigator Larry Montgomery re-opened the cold case investigation in 2007, and Naposki and Johnston, who split up about a year after McLaughlin was murdered, were arrested and charged with McLaughlin's murder in 2009. Both have been held without bail since then.
Murphy presented evidence during the trial that Naposki bought a 9 mm handgun similar to the murder weapon in 1994, and later lied about it to police when questioned. That gun is unaccounted for, Murphy said.
Witnesses also testified that Naposki had two keys made at a Tustin ACE hardware that were similar to the key that the killer allegedly used to gain access to McLaughlin's home. That freshly-minted key was found stuck in the lock of McLaughlin's front door after the killer fled into the night.
Murphy also pondered for the jury why Naposki, who claimed he never met McLaughlin, had a notebook where someone had printed the license number to McLaughlin's Mercedes Benz that was parked in the garage of the Balboa Coves home.
But Pohlson insisted that Murphy "didn't prove it," and that his client was in his car driving to his job as head of security at a Newport Beach nightclub at the moment McLaughlin was shot to death.
"He didn't have time to do this," Pohlson said. "The person who most likely committed this crime is Nanette…He (Naposki) was a patsy (and) the patsy-maker was Nanette."
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What might come as a surprise to you is that in the Catawba Valley area the number of hours that we need to warm our homes is actually greater than the number of hours that we need our air conditioner. Here's a way to look at it from the heat pump's perspective: assume an indoor temperature of a comfortable 72 degrees. When it's 92 outside, the heat pump has to remove 20 degrees of heat to make your home comfortable again. When it's 35 outside, the heat pump has to move 37 degrees of heat inside to get to 72, or almost twice as many degrees. This is why the heating efficiency is technically more important than the air conditioner efficiency when comparing numbers in our area of the country.
Minimum requirements for efficiency are set by the Department of Energy. Don't forget – something to take into consideration is that if you buy the least efficient equipment available, you are buying the worst efficiency you can purchase by law. Over time, your higher monthly energy costs could easily grow bigger than the upfront cost difference between the two units. Your HVAC technician should be able to show you the projected energy savings over the life of the unit.
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No matter how many years of experience an HVAC contractor has, it is not possible to simply look at a home and know what size unit it needs. A qualified heat and air conditioning contractor will perform what's called a "load calculation" for your house, or a survey of your home's construction including things like the size, how many windows there are and what direction they face, how much insulation the home has, whether there's a crawlspace, basement or attic, etc. This information is entered into special software that tells the contractor how big the system has to be to meet the heater and air conditioner needs, or load, of the house. This report is also referred to as a load calc or a Manual J and is required by the N.C. Building Code whenever a unit is replaced or for new construction.
This is probably one of the most overlooked items and is probably more important than anything else you need to consider. You are about to replace one of the most expensive pieces of your house and it's going to be with you for at least the next 10 years if it's any good. ALL of the air inside your house will be passing through it. It will provide you with warmth and cooling every single day. It will cost you money to run every single day it's on (a lot of money if it isn't very efficient or it's not installed properly.) And it has the ability to harm or even kill you or your family if there's something wrong with it. With all of that on the line, doesn't it seem logical that you should take at least a little time to check the qualifications and references of the company you are trusting with this installation?
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Most units come with a 2, 5 or 10- year parts warranty. Something breaks and you get the replacement part for free. Cool enough. However, what isn't covered is labor. As a system ages, bigger parts can wear out and repairs become more complicated. It might be a $13 part or a small piece of wire that gives up the ghost. But it's the three hours of technician time to find the problem and get at that little piece buried in the middle of the unit that's going to cost you more than the part. Or the $1800 part that's going to take 2 technicians half a day each to replace. This is what an Extended Warranty is designed to help you with. It will cover parts AND labor usually for up to 10 years. By the time it expires, efficiencies have improved enough that it makes sense to consider replacing the system again instead of making the costly repair.
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Shocker: This Nightstand and Other Hotel Room Drawers
What is this?
This is a photograph of the drawer in the nightstand next to my bed at the Embassy Suites in Herndon, VA.* When opened, the drawer in the other nightstand looked the same. So did every other drawer in the suite -- in the desks, the dressers, and by the kitchenette. Empty.
I know all these drawers were all empty because I opened all of them. Very empirically rigorous of me, dontcha think?
If I hadn't already been sitting on the bed when I opened the first drawer, I probably would have sat myself down hard. As it was, I felt a bit stunned and then a bit sad. Was this an anomaly or the way things are these days? Was I looking at some kind of regional something? A hotel chain policy?
What is this?
This a photograph of the drawer in the nightstand next to my bed at the Embassy Suites in Herndon, VA. Tell me, do you see what I didn't see?
*Big thanks to the staff at the Alexandra and Arlington Districts of the United Methodist Church who invited me to deliver a social media training workshop during the Bi-District Training Day.
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Yes, no Gideon's Bible. It's not there any more. I have seen that too at some hotels. Times have changed...ReplyDelete
"Gideon checked out; and he left it, no doubt, to help with good Rocky's revival."ReplyDelete
I guess Rocky took it with him.
In Canada there have been legal challenges against the Gideons by secularists so the Bibles aren't as readily available as previously.ReplyDelete
I've been in a lot of hotels in the past six or so months and this is the first time I noticed the absence of the Bible, although people are tell me this has been the case for a year or so? So odd, but then, I'm from the "school prayer" generation. But wait, didn't I turn out okay?ReplyDelete
well, Meredith...ummmm...ReplyDelete
I have been to acouple that had both a Bible and the Koran!ReplyDelete
This is why I mostly choose Marriott. There's a Book of Mormon, yes, but always a Bible.ReplyDelete
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2008-2009 Phoenix Suns Season Preview
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The Phoenix Suns (55- 27) played an unconventional form of basketball that resulted in a second-place division finish. Coach Mike D'Antoni focused on offense more than defense. The result was that the club won by hitting threes at the rate of 39.3% and twos at 53.8%. They led the league in both categories as well as in offensive efficiency, which came in at 111.2. They weren't that bad on defense, earning 16th –place in D-efficiency. They were unable to force turnovers and were the only team last season to allow teams a shot on every possession. The extreme lack of defense made bunches of people uneasy, including the guys in the front office.
As the season progressed, team president Steve Kerr seemed set on making the Suns a more conventional club. He brought in Shaquille O'Neal in a trade with Miami that gave the Heat Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks. Everyone wonder how O'Neal would fit into the fast-paced Phoenix system. The answer was that overall he didn't. In the trade, the team gave up All-Star front-man Marion for an aging and often ailing super star. After all was said and done, coach D'Antoni was allowed to look for other work and Terry Potter was hired as the new coach.
Rookie swingman Robin Lopez, who played for Stanford, brings a penchant for tough, energized defense. But he won't offer much offense. The rest of the comings and goings to and from this team are composed of fairly nameless players leaving while other equally nameless players sign-on. O'Neal was the big deal and that happened last season.
Amare Stoudemire is the foundation of the frontcourt. He averaged a team high 25.2 PPG and grabbed 9.1 RPG. Center O'Neal will play his 17th NBA season. He had 9.1 RPG and scored an average of 13.6 PPG. The future Hall of Famer has slowed down and gets injured easily. There are a bunch of question marks in the front. Grant Hill, who is in his 14th professional season, put in 13.1 PPG and Raja Bell hit for 11.9 PPG. Boris Diaw can offer some minutes, baskets and rebounds. The fact is that this frontcourt is much weaker without Marion.
Guard Steve Nash has been at it for a dozen years and he is still an amazing force on the floor. Nash, who played in 81 games last season, scored an average of 16.9 PPG and dished off an average of 11.1 APG. His field goal success rate was 50%, three-point rate was 47% and free throw rate was 91%. But as the team focuses on "D," Nash may have problems. Leandro Barbosa shot 46% from the floor, averaging 15.6 PPG.
There's a lack of depth and a bunch of aging guys on this team. New coach Potter is expected to slow things down considerably. He'll go to a more conventional offensive scheme while ensuring his team plays defense. The Suns were simply exciting last season. This season, they may be more efficient on defense, but they will also a bit boring. The result looks to be second-place in the Pacific Division and sixth within the conference.
To see how the Phoenix Suns stack up against the rest of the Pacific division read our previews on the Warriors, Clippers, Lakers, and Kings.
2008-09 NBA Division & Team Previews
Maddux Sports presents its annual 2008-09 Season NBA preview sorted by divisions. To the right we have listed the 6 divisions, click on the division of your choice for our team projections and order of finish. Click here to return to the main NBA season preview page.
08-09 Division Previews
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On the forex side it's all been about the AUD today, with further signs that the RBA's recent change to a neutral stance seems fully justified. In terms of data, the value home loans in December fell 1.9%, however the market overlooked this and went straight through to the more current NAB business confidence and conditions, with both metrics continuing to increase.
The underlying quality was pleasing as well, with forward orders sub-component swinging from -2 to +6 and the employment sub-component moving from -4 to +1. You can also look at Q4 house price index, which gained 9.3% on the year.
AUD looking more compelling of late
Throw this all together and you get an AUD which is starting to look rather compelling to hold, not just from a carry perspective (i.e. getting paid to hold the currency), but also from a pure speculative vehicle. Against the greenback the AUD rallied to 0.9015 and looks good for a move to 0.9079 (the 38.2% retracement of the October to November sell-off), where a break here should bring 0.9156 (100-day moving average) come into play. I prefer playing the ever-changing divergence dynamic at a central bank level and thus I like to be long on AUD against currencies which have low or falling inflation. I feel AUD/CAD longs look good for a move through the October high of 1.0048, adding to positions on a close through 1.0126. EUR/AUD shorts look good and I would look to add on a close through 1.50.
It really is starting to shape up that we are in a period of AUD outperformance. You can look at better Australian data of late, good buying from Japanese funds over the last three months, positioning, and Australia's 21% jump in two-way trade; leaving China and AUD bears running for the hills.
The ASX 200 (when it wasn't closed for a technical glitch) has seen a ramp up in companies either reporting or coming to market with a trading or operational update. It's really all been about banks today, with ANZ reporting a quarterly cash profit of $1.73 billion. This, when extrapolated into 1H earnings, is above the consensus forecast. Asset quality was strong, while cost growth was below expectations.
Naturally the market took this that CBA will report fairly good numbers in tomorrow's earnings report and you know when the financial sector puts on 1.2% the broader market is going to do nicely. MQG is the exception to the rule despite coming out with an update which was in-line with expectations, although it seems given the current valuation that it needs to do better than that and really has to impress.
COH was smashed after producing a poor 1H14 result and guiding the market to a full year earnings expectation 16% below previous guidance. Bad news generally follows bad news, so I would stay cautious on this name and sell rallies, especially after the June 2013 trend break. The bulls will however take heart from the fact that COH seems to be holding the June 3 low of $52.71.
Japan is closed today, although we are seeing modest gains in the China CSI 300 and 1% gain in the Hang Seng. China takes centre stage this week, not just because gains in the Chinese stock market generally have positive ramifications for other regional markets (notably emerging markets) , but also US futures, commodities and bloc currencies too. Data comes in thick and fast this week and as mentioned yesterday, we should see a good rebound in a number of the key credit readings.
Gold also looking more compelling
We've seen better buying of gold of late and the precious metal looks good for a test of $1300. Having broken through $1278 (the 38.2% retracement of the August to December sell-off), gold is now trading at a new yearly high. Perhaps this is a view that Janet Yellen is likely to verge on the dovish side in today's address to the House. We need to remember that Janet Yellen is speaking on behalf of the Fed collective, and given narrative of late from the likes of Charles Plosser (also speaks tonight), Richard Fisher, Dennis Lockhart, Charles Evans and even the ever-dovish Eric Rosengren, anyone looking for the new Chairman to deviate from the Feds recent thinking and give hints they may curb its tapering program may be mistaken.
European markets should see buyers on open and while traders will focus more closely on Janet Yellen's speech, it will also be interesting to look at the NFIB small business optimism, which is testing multi-year highs. On the stock side Barclays report full-year earnings with the market consensus for NPAT (adjusted) at £3.94 billion, on revenue of £28.14 billion. There has been a fair bit of speculation of late about cuts to the balance sheet of Barclay's investment banking division.


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Bangkok is no doubt a place for those who love shopping. When I visited, one of my main things to do was to go shopping. There are tons of malls, markets, shops, etc. all over Bangkok. There are lots of cute stores all around Bangkok too, but I didn't get a chance to visit many of them. However, I did see a couple of them while I was there. You can find many cute stores at the mall, night market and even at the train stations. They're everywhere, and most of the time the prices are really good.
Here are the 5 Cute Shops in Bangkok I visited:
1. Notto
Notto is a shop located at the Siam BTS station, this shop carries cute character items like Rilakkuma, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc.
2. Ookii Ookii Village
Ookii Ookii Village is a shop that sells Rilakkuma and friends items. This store is located inside the Siam Paragon mall.
3. Hello Kitty House Shop
The Hello Kitty House Shop is located at the Siam Square One mall. This shop sells Hello Kitty items, and there's a Hello Kitty House cafe as well on the same place.
4. Daiso
Daiso is a Japanese franchise store that sells many cute items and other goods. Daiso is located at the Siam Square One mall.
5. View & Beauty
View & Beauty is a shop located in the Talad Rot Fai night market (which is famous for retro and vintage goods). This shop sells cute clothing for women.
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Sai Korrapati buys 'Savithri' ceded rights for a fancy priceMar 24, 2016 03:55 AM
Sai Korrapati is one of the few top producers who encourage small movies. Apart from producing big and medium budgeted films, earlier he distributed successful movies like 'Raju Gari Gadhi', 'Jatha Kalise' etc. Now this 'Legend' producer has bought the Ceded distribution rights of 'Savithri' for a fancy price.
This Nara Rohit starrer has been making good buzz in the recent past and the promos are very good. Pavan Sadineni of 'Prema Ishq Kadhal' fame is the director of this movie, which also stars Dhanya Balakrishnan in an important role.
The film is going to have a release on March 25th.


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Country drummer, Richard Vanaugh, who played and recorded with a number of country legends, has died at the age of 61.
Vanaugh had a terminal liver disease and didn't have much time to live following his diagnosis. In late May, friends and family held a benefit concert at the Nashville Palace to raise money to cover Vanaugh's medical expenses. The event drew more than 400 musicians and friends.
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Vanaugh began his professional career in the mid-70's, drumming for the legendary country artist Charlie Louvin. His career included stints with a number of notable artists, including Kitty Wells, Mel Tillis, Dottie West, Lorrie Morgan, Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely.
In 1998, Vanaugh became a member of the Time Jumpers, a Nashville-based Western Swing outfit that includes Vince Gill. He also played drums on Gill's album Guitar Slinger.
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In his August 2007 Bright Lights article "The Elusive Pleasures of Irene Dunne," Dan Callahan explained that "the reasons for Irene Dunne's continuing, undeserved obscurity are fairly well known. Nearly all of her best films from the thirties and forties were remade and the originals were suppressed and didn't play on television. She did some of her most distinctive work for John Stahl at Universal, and non-horror Universal films are rarely shown now. Practically all of her movies need to be restored; even her most popular effort, The Awful Truth (1937), looks grainy and blotchy on its DVD transfer, to say nothing of things like Stahl's When Tomorrow Comes (1939), or Rouben Mamoulian's High, Wide, and Handsome (1937), two key Dunne films that have languished and deteriorated in a sort of television/video purgatory." (Image: Irene Dunne publicity shot ca. 1938.)
Although Callahan's article is a must-read for Irene Dunne fans – or any fan of classic movies – I don't quite agree with several of his statements. For instance, for over a decade a couple of dozen Irene Dunne movies have been available in decent (or better) prints on Turner Classic Movies, whose parent company Time Warner owns the RKO movie library. Dunne was an RKO contract player from about 1930 to 1939; during that period, she received two Best Actress Academy Award nominations for her work in RKO releases: Wesley Ruggles' epic Western Cimarron (1931), with Richard Dix, and Leo McCarey's romantic comedy-drama Love Affair (1939), opposite Charles Boyer. In addition, Dunne earned two more Oscar nods for the Columbia screwball comedies Theodora Goes Wild (1936), directed by Richard Boleslawski and co-starring Melvyn Douglas, and The Awful Truth (1937), also directed by McCarey and co-starring Cary Grant. (Check this out: Irene Dunne was one of the many deserving women bypassed by the Academy's Honorary Oscar.)
I should add that Rouben Mamoulian's musical High, Wide and Handsome, co-starring Randolph Scott and Dorothy Lamour, was restored in the 1990s – unfortunately, it's hardly one of Irene Dunne's best films or performances. And bear in mind that the very Catholic, very Republican Dunne's private life was considerably more complex than Callahan's article implies. Once again: my few qualms notwithstanding, Callahan's six-year-old Irene Dunne piece is a must-read.
Best Irene Dunne movies and performances
Irene Dunne – lively, pretty, hilarious in comedies, achingly sincere in dramas – was one of the best, most versatile Hollywood actresses of the 1930s and 1940s. Curiously, Dunne made the transition from stage to film in her early 30s, an age when many Hollywood actresses back in those days were being pushed into retirement. (Admittedly, Dunne and/or RKO did lie about her age. Her birthdate was variously listed as 1907, 1904, or, more recently, 1901. She was actually born on December 20, 1898, in Louisville, Kentucky.)
Recommended Irene Dunne movies include John M. Stahl's Back Street (1932), with Dunne suffering as The Other Woman in love with married man John Boles; James Whale's musical Show Boat (1936), with Dunne suffering and singing as the Woman Left Behind by Allan Jones; John Cromwell's Anna and the King of Siam (1946), with Dunne's Anna quietly stealing the show from Rex Harrison's mannered Siamese King; Michael Curtiz's period family comedy Life with Father (1947), with Dunne's Mother living with and trying to convince Father William Powell to get himself baptized; and George Stevens' family drama I Remember Mama (1948), with Dunne as the Academy Award-nominated Mama of the title – her fifth and final Oscar nod.
Irene Dunne movie remakes
Irene Dunne movies later remade with other actresses include Cimarron (Maria Schell, 1960), Back Street (Margaret Sullavan, 1941; Susan Hayward, 1961), The Age of Innocence (Michelle Pfeiffer in Martin Scorsese's 1993 version), Roberta (Kathryn Grayson in Lovely to Look At, 1952), Magnificent Obsession (Jane Wyman, 1954), Show Boat (Kathryn Grayson, 1951), and The Awful Truth (Jane Wyman in Let's Do It Again, 1953).
Here are a few more titles: Love Affair (Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember, 1957; Annette Bening in Love Affair, 1994), My Favorite Wife (Doris Day in Move Over Darling, 1963; Marilyn Monroe in the unfinished Something's Got to Give, 1962), A Guy Named Joe (Holly Hunter in Steven Spielberg's Always, 1989), and Anna and the King of Siam (Deborah Kerr in The King and I, 1956; Jodie Foster in Anna and the King, 1999).
Later years: Irene Dunne mini-bio
Irene Dunne's last movie was Arthur Lubin's box office disappointment It Grows on Trees (1952), a comedy featuring Dean Jagger. Later in the decade, Dunne was one of president Dwight Eisenhower's appointed U.S. delegates to the United Nations. Throughout her life a supporter of various Catholic, Republican, and charitable causes and institutions, she founded the Irene Dunne Guild at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. According to their website, "the Irene Dunne Guild is instrumental in raising funds to support programs and services" at St. John's.
Dunne was married to Dr. Francis Griffin from 1928 to his death on Oct. 15, 1965. The couple, however, lived apart for long stretches. After years in ill health, during which time she underwent painful treatments, Irene Dunne died on September 4, 1990, at her home in Los Angeles' posh Holmby Hills district.
Irene Dunne movies more widely available
A number of Irene Dunne movies have become more widely available in recent years. The Awful Truth has been restored and a pristine print can now be found on DVD. Dunne's Universal release Show Boat has been shown on Turner Classic Movies, along with her Columbia movies (Theodora Goes Wild, Together Again), while Dunne's version of Magnificent Obsession has been available on DVD for some time. Co-starring Richard Dix, Stingaree (1934), unseen for decades, has been restored and presented on TCM.
And finally, Love Affair looks like it has been upgraded as well. According to film historian Joseph Yranski, who was friends with Irene Dunne, she had an excellent print of Love Affair in her private movie collection.
Note: A version of "Remembering Five-Time Best Actress Oscar Nominee Irene Dunne" was originally posted in August 2007.


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Wednesday, 19 April 2017
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Mmmmmm so peaceful!ReplyDeleteReplies
Towards the end of the day, very peaceful.Delete
And I'm sure the 'artist' put it there just for William! ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
But of course! lolDelete
It looks gorgeous there!ReplyDeleteReplies
3 miles of sandy beach, not a bad place to live ;)Delete
Dear Ann, I love all the photos in this post and your blog. They make me smile and happy. I particularly love looking at a beach or nature. Keep enjoying your painting and photography. Your watercolour has a mood.ReplyDelete
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Thanks Sadami, there is always inspiration here at the beach for my art.Delete
Too bad William doesn't enjoy a romp at the beach (-;ReplyDeleteReplies
It is, you would think he'd at least be happy ;)Delete
I love your photos, I like being on a vast, deserted beach alone with my dog too. That could almost be our seascape here :) I'm sure William put the posts to very good use :)ReplyDeleteReplies
It is lovely on the beach when most people have gone, nobody to disturb our walks :)Delete
The pictures really say so much - Can I say for the millionth time how jealous I am that you have such a beautiful place to enjoy? :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
You can say, and we appreciate being here. Every day is different, and on a wet Tuesday in February it can be 'challenging' to say the least when the weather is sending storms straight at us, but somehow it is still good living here :)Delete
Now I'm homesick again.....ReplyDeleteReplies
Aww, at least you get to see my pics :)Delete


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Etihad Airways Medical Centre signs partnership with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Etihad Airways Medical Centre, the UAE's first aeromedical facility, and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), Ireland's oldest post-graduate medical training body, have announced a new partnership to provide the airline with educational, training, research and operational excellence opportunities in the field of Occupational Medicine.
The collaboration, which is the first of its kind in the Middle East, will enable Etihad Airways to enhance the medical and broader wellbeing services it provides, whilst also marking a significant step in the airline's vision to be the global leader in Aviation Medicine.
The partnership will form a key part of the airline's commitment to ensuring the highest safety standards for its crew and passengers, in line with Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 to develop a robust, world-class healthcare system in the Emirate. Etihad Airways Medical Centre, the Faculty and RCPI are committed to raising the understanding and role of Occupational Medicine within the airline industry, and across society as a whole.
As part of the innovative agreement, the Faculty will hold specialised training courses and educational programmes to optimise and develop the skills of Etihad Airways' staff and the medical services offered by the airline. A 'visiting expert' programme will be introduced to allow both parties to exchange and transfer field experts to enhance knowledge-sharing. Research findings and medical scientific inventions, where applicable, will also be exchanged under the new agreement.
The Faculty will develop a programme to prepare Etihad Airways Medical Centre to become an accredited training centre of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and RCPI. A training programme will also be created with the aim of qualifying the first occupational health nurses in the UAE.
Dr Nadia Bastaki, Vice President Medical Services at Etihad Airways, said: "Today is indeed a remarkable day for Etihad Airways Medical Centre and the field of aviation medicine. It is with great pride that we announce our partnership with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Etihad Airways is leading the drive to raise standards in aviation medicine globally. It is therefore a natural step for us to join with the RCPI, a world-renowned training body, to ensure that we continue to innovate across our business and the industry as a whole."
Dr Declan Whelan, Dean of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland said: "We are honoured and delighted to collaborate with Etihad Airways on their occupational health strategy. Our agreement with them represents international recognition by a world-renowned airline of the high quality of Occupational Medicine in Ireland.
"We must commend Etihad on recognising the value of engaging with a professional body such as ours to ensure that its employees have access to the best possible occupational health services. We look forward to working with them on their mission to safeguard employee health and well-being."
Etihad Airways' Abu Dhabi based employees already have access to world-class medical care at the Etihad Airways Medical Centre. The facility provides full laboratory services, physiotherapy, radiology, dental care, nutrition counselling, ear, nose and throat services, primary care, and aviation health services.