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Scrum Sevens
Falling at the final hurdle
Tom Hamilton
March 16, 2013
England and Scotland contest for the ball during their match in 1891 © Getty Images
Wales hammered England 30-3 on Saturday to conclusively end Stuart Lancaster's team's dreams of winning their first Grand Slam since 2003.
Scrum Sevens, perhaps somewhat morbidly from an English point of view, looks back at the occasions where England's bubble has burst with the clean sweep tantalisingly close.
England opened the 1891 Home Nations tournament with a 7-3 triumph over Wales in front of 9,000 supporters in Newport and backed that up with a 9-0 win in Dublin against Ireland. They went into the final match of the championship full of confidence but came up against a resolute Scottish outfit.
The crowd packed into Richmond's Athletic Ground with The Times putting the attendance at 18,000. Scotland took the match 9-3 with the newspaper reporting: "The great success achieved by the Scotch fifteen at Richmond on Saturday afternoon was the result of much excellent forward play and well-finished passing behind the scrummage." England's half-backs struggled meaning "such good players as Alderson, Christopherson and Lockwood were compulsorily idle for a great part of the game".
England were denied the clean sweep and they experienced this again four years later in near identical fashion. They defeated Wales in Swansea and then Ireland in Dublin but fell to Scotland in Richmond 6-3.
England opened their 1954 Five Nations campaign with three wins from three but between the men in white and the Grand Slam lay the French, who were smarting from losing 19-13 to Wales. England travelled to Colombes and came up against a French whirlwind playing at a pace that, at the time, was not associated with Les Bleus. Peter Wilson, writing for The Daily Mirror, said it was like "seeing one of those films which have been speeded up to super-spring pace."
Andre Boniface and Maurice Prat scored for the home side while Tug Wilson went over for England with France eventually taking the game 11-3. The win meant that the Five Nations was to be shared three ways between England, France and Wales - it was the first time Les Bleus had their name on the trophy having made their championship bow in 1947. It was a seminal moment in French rugby and the English journalists at the time admitted it was hard to not feel some admiration for their cross-Channel rivals.
Wilson wrote: "Even if your great-great-great-great-grandfather fell at Waterloo - and, considering how slippery some of the platforms are, who could blame him? - you couldn't begrudge the French their victory."
England had last tasted Five Nations success in 1980 but the rest of the decade was a grim time for English rugby. In contrast, France had scooped six titles during that ten-year spell but in 1990 they faced a rejuvenated England side which featured the likes of Will Carling, Jeremy Guscott and the Underwoods - albeit they were playing behind a pack in the twilight years of their careers. They breezed through their first three matches of the tournament and with Scotland also going into the final round with a perfect record, it was all tantalisingly poised for a Grand Slam shootout at Murrayfield.
In the run up to the match Scotland coach Jim Telfer adopted a hard line approach to training, as Tom English recalled in his book The Grudge. "'We're doing fifty scrums,' he stated, 'and if they're not right, we're doing another fifty and another fifty. We don't leave until everything is perfect because, boys, this Saturday you have a chance to write your names in history and I won't let you f*** it up by being soft.'"
And come the match itself, England's ageing pack came under the microscope while skipper Carling's decision to turn down four kickable penalties was criticised post-match. For Scotland, captain David Sole's slow and methodical walk onto the Murrayfield turf upped the ante and after one of the most passionate renditions of 'Flower of Scotland' it looked destined to be a match that the home side were never going to lose. Scotland took the game 13-7 and in the process achieved their first Slam since 1984. The Daily Express at the time described it as a match that was "one in the eye for cocky England and one in the eye for the Government down South" - a reference to the Margaret Thatcher's controversial Poll Tax.
The last championship before the Millennium seemed destined to end in a Grand Slam for England. They were playing some stunning rugby with 19-year-old fly-half Jonny Wilkinson at the fulcrum of their developing side. Up to that point Clive Woodward's men had dispatched Scotland and France at Twickenham and Ireland at Lansdowne Road. Wales, playing at Wembley while the Millennium Stadium was being finished off, only had one win from three so the wind was firmly behind the men in white.
England outscored Wales three tries to two on the day with Steve Hanley, Dan Luger and Richard Hill all burrowing over, but the difference between the two teams was Neil Jenkins - with then Wales coach Graham Henry saying afterwards that, "If the posts had been two metres apart instead of ten, Neil Jenkins would still have kicked all his points."
But it was a match that is remembered best for Scott Gibbs' try two minutes into injury time. Wales trailed 31-25 and the England contingent in the stand were already celebrating the Slam. Gibbs had other ideas and crashed over in the corner of the pitch much to the delirium of the Welsh fans. Jenkins nailed the touchline conversion and after a tense couple of minutes, including a missed Mike Catt drop-goal, Shane Howarth booted the ball into the crowd and Wales had their victory - a win that meant it would be Scotland who lifted the last Five Nations trophy.
Andy Nicol celebrates Scotland's win over England © Getty Images
Lightning couldn't strike twice, could it? Well it did - England fell at the final hurdle for the second time in two years. This time it was to Scotland but unlike the previous year, Woodward's men still lifted the Six Nations trophy in the first year of the expanded format. By the time they travelled to Murrayfield, England had already run in 19 tries, with Ben Cohen and Austin Healey contributing five each.
But Scotland rallied and beat England for the first time in ten years. Duncan Hodge was the toast of Edinburgh as he contributed all of Scotland's 19 points in their 19-13 win but it was a collective effort with everyone from 15 to 1 shining. Amid the inclement conditions, Scotland coach Ian McGeechan reflected on the result and, perhaps with more than just a hint of tongue-in-cheek, said: "The perfect result, eh? England get the championship and we get the Calcutta Cup. We both go away happy."
It was a bizarre championship in 2001 with an enforced six month hiatus, due to foot-and-mouth disease, halting England's momentum between their fourth and fifth matches. Their fourth game of the tournament against France saw them come away with a 48-19 triumph and England seemed destined to complete the Grand Slam.
James Haskell takes in England's loss to Ireland © Getty Images
But due to the agricultural disease wrecking havoc in and around the United Kingdom, England's championship bid was delayed until October. Ireland's charge for the clean sweep had already come unstuck in round four with Scotland defeating them 32-10 in September but they could still put the spanner in England's works.
In the end they managed to secure a 20-14 triumph, with Keith Wood scoring for Ireland and Austin Healey going over for England. When the full-time whistle sounded England suffered the embarrassment of having to watch Ireland do their celebratory jig around Lansdowne Road. It was England's third Grand Slam failure in as many years.
It all looked to be going so well for Martin Johnson's England. They had gone to Wales and won and then put 59 points on Italy in round two. They had backed it up with a hard fought 17-9 triumph over France and they teed up a possible Grand Slam with a nervy 22-16 win over Scotland. In their way, like 2001, lay the Irish.
Ireland had collected two wins from their four matches and went into the game as underdogs. But in front of the Dublin faithful they produced the performance of the championship with Brian O'Driscoll at the heart of everything they did well. He grabbed their second try with Tommy Bowe crashing over for their first while Jonathan Sexton added the rest of their 24 points with the boot.
Johnson and the rest of his England backroom staff watched on powerless as the men wearing emerald green cantered to a 24-8 triumph, leaving Nick Easter to pick up the Six Nations trophy in a Dublin hotel later that evening rather than in front of their supporters as they had to wait on the outcome of Wales' game in Paris later in the day.
In the end Warren Gatland's side fell to the French and England's name was etched onto the famous trophy, but it was an underwhelming end to the championship for Johnson's side.
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First-time Seabourn Cruiser - Page 2by Paul Motter | 10.28.11
My first sailing experience with Seabourn Cruises finally filled a gap in my cruise experience that has haunted me for the last five years. So, how did it go?
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The Importance of Seabourn Reputation
Seabourn has been rated the highest of all in reader's polls conducted by prestigious travel magazines like Condé Nast and Travel and Leisure, also Doug Ward's Berlitz Guide to Cruising. So making the claim "Best Cruise Line in the World," is a fully warranted statement. I found this to be impressive and an inducement to my curiousity. I truly wanted to try Seabourn.
Importantly, Seabourn just introduced three brand new ships into its fleet, and ship inaugurals are events that I usually cover without fail. Some of the recent inaugurals to which I was invited include Oasis and Allure of the Seas, Oceania Marina, Disney Dream, Silversea Silver Spirit, Carnival Dream, Celebrity Solstice (Equinox, Eclipse and Silhouette), Cunard's Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth (where I was flown to the Italian shipyard first and then in the presence of Her Majesty for the naming ceremony in Southampton soon after) - and most Princess, Holland America and NCL ceremonies in the last few years. In all of these cases (except NCL) I traveled at the cruise lines' expense to the U.S., The U.K., Holland, Spain, Venice (Italy - twice), France, Germany, Florida and New York...
But for some reason Seabourn never invited me or my staff to any of their inaugural ceremonies, even though I was sure to say I hoped to attend all three. Now, Seabourn has hosted several of my staff-members on various cruises in the past, and they did invite me to sail on Odyssey in 2009, the first of the new ships, if I happened to be in Europe post-inaugural, but it didn't work out.
This is important to this review because I have a preference for press trips. I prefer to have company representatives present so I can ask questions and so I don't miss important details. If you owned a company, and had a query from a reporter, you would probably also choose to have a spokesperson present - especially if that is what he requested.
The June 2011 inaugural of the third and final Seabourn Quest came and went. I was disappointed, but in September a Seabourn Public Relations representative generously called me and agreed to give me a stateroom for this recent 12-day New England/Canada cruise from Quebec to Fort Lauderdale on Sojourn, and even paid for my airfare. I would be without a company representative during the cruise, sailing as a regular passenger, which is not my first preference but still an opportunity for me to see how well Seabourn, and especially how well it communicates with its guests.
I did my pre-cruise research. I waded through tomes of gushing accolades, many of them fluff (all too common in this business), looking for research on the company. Seeing so many declarations of Seabourn as the best cruise line in the world; especially for food and service, I expected smooth sailing, and for the most part I was not disappointed. My conclusion was basically that the service was so flawless I had nothing to worry about. But I want to point out that these articles are dual edged swords, setting the expectation bar so high that it is all too easy to be disappointed.
Now, why did I just bore you with that story? Because I have gotten wind of a certain blogger who has already written a great deal about my comments on this trip - before I have even written this article. I have not read the rant in question, but I hear this person claims I am so deranged and unethical that I would come to this beautiful ship, at company expense, solely prepared to criticize it mercilessly because... well, frankly I don't understand why he thinks I would do that.
Let's be logical. Why would I unfairly "trash" any cruise line that treats me (and my staff members) so well, especially the best cruise line in the world? I would have to be so demented and anti-social that I couldn't even see the harm I was doing to myself by acting that way. How long do you think I would last in my position? Chances are I would wither and die as a cruise reporter.
I took over the job of editor of CruiseMates in 2006, and although I started with a mere one-year contract my parent company has kept me on for over five years now. I added another outlet, FoxBusiness.com, in 2010 and just recently I was promoted to having the sole cruise column for the FoxNews.com travel section, one of the top three news networks in the country.
Furthermore, if I was truly so unethical, self-centered and devious wouldn't I be more likely to gush about this same cruise line in hopes of getting more freebies in the future? Of course I would, I deal with a lot of cruise reporters, and I can't even begin to tell you how ethically dishonest some cruise industry people can be, including everyone from company presidents to mere travel agents. Even the ones who appear to be impartial are not nearly as honest as they seem if you examine what they don't say. But I take great pride in my honesty, wherever it may lead me.
So, enough focus on demented, deflecting drivel - and let's get on with reviewing this ship!
Luxury Cruising Defined
One clever but common cruise review axoim is to define luxury cruising as "attention to detail." Seabourn staterooms have self-closing drawer latches that don't go "bang" in high seas. The cabinet doors have hidden switches to illuminate automatically when opened. Get the idea? Luxury style isn't a fireworks display, it is candlelight dinner; appreciation of the finer details. It is pillow and soap menus, fine bath products, fresh fruit and drinks in the stateroom, comfortable furniture, etc.
The title "World's Best Cruise Line" is high praise for Seabourn, but it is a bit lofty in terms of scope. What is the point of comparing Seabourne to a mainstream cruise line? But if we limit the context to just the category of "luxury cruise lines" then reviewing Seabourn becomes more useful. But for the benefit of those who don't know, let's first define "luxury cruise lines.". We start by eliminating (approximately) 95% of the cruise industry as competition; a Volkswagen is not in the same league as a Rolls Royce.
How do we define a luxury cruise line? Let's start off by saying everyone is entitled to their own opinion about what makes the best luxury line, but for now let's name the accepted members of the "luxury cruise line" category. The member lines are Crystal, Regent Seven Seas, Seabourn and Silversea. There are other contenders with elements of luxury that we will mention when we have a reason to do so.
Luxury cruise lines are now simpler to define since Crystal is set to go "inclusive" in 2012. Including Crystal post-2011, luxury cruise lines include all beverages including wine, beer, alcohol and soda in the cruise fare. They also include gratuities for the staff, rather than making you stuff envelopes with tip money for your room steward, waiter, maitre D' and busboy at the end of the cruise. A luxury cruise line tends to feature smaller ships and a high crew to passenger ratio. More crew members per guest generally means more personalized service, and better cuisine. With more crewmembers you can avoid taking shortcuts and make the best of the cruise experience for each guest.
Now, while specific numbers for staff to guest ratio, or sq. footage per guest have some bearing, they are also misleading indicators. Any ship, whether it is 10,000-tons or 80,000-tons only requires one captain, one food & beverage manager, one cruise director, one hotel director, one stage band, one magician per night, etc. What really counts more is the number of people cruisers come into direct contact with per cruise; room stewards, butlers, tour guides, waiters, cooks, etc. The same is generally true for passenger space ratio. No ships break out the amount of sq. footage just for passengers, (not counting crew and engine space) so a measurement of total tonnage per passenger is meaningless. There comes a point where enough is enough.
Ship size and the abundance of square footage can matter when it affects the experience. But most of the time, it isn't the size of the boat, it's what you do with it that counts.
Luxury cruise lines offer staterooms starting at about 40% larger than mainstream cruise lines and then adding additional suites, usually including a bank of penthouses plus owner's suites, presidential suites, etc. Most luxury cruise lines include butler service in all or some suites. (Only Seabourn does not provide any butler service).
Luxury cruise lines tend to sail around the world rarely repeating a single itinerary back to back. This makes it convenient and logical to stay onboard for one to four cruises in a row and never repeat a port of call. Most luxury cruise lines also offer a world cruise every year on one of their ships
Luxury cruises tend to cost two to four times the cost of a mainstream cruise, but you get more for your money; larger staterooms, better food, more personalized service, more space per passenger.
This puts Seabourn and other luxury cruise lines in a completely separate league from larger cruise ships like Celebrity, Princess, Holland America and especially Carnival, NCL and Royal Caribbean. There are other advantages to larger mainstream ships – bigger and more diversified entertainment, a larger variety of food options per meal (but of lesser quality) and special facilities for kids. But this 95% of the mainstream cruise market is not the Seabourn milieu – so we can dismiss all of that now.
Comparing Seabourn to Other Luxury Cruise Lines
The only logical comparison for Seabourn is with other luxury cruise lines in the same price category and offering a similar experience. Figure about $500/day per person and with the focus of the cruise being fine cuisine and personalized service. These tighter parameters make the comparison margins far smaller and put the differences in the finer details.
In this regard, I would personally say there are elements of Seabourn that are better than any other cruise line, and there are some elements where I would say other lines are better, or so close you can barely draw a distinction. But Seabourn has been dubbed "the best" more often, so let's consider why this happens?
The Unique Seabourn Experience
Seabourn was started in 1986; earlier than most luxury cruise lines still in service. During those first 20 years it was basically a small ship cruise line of three ships of only 200 passengers and 135 crewmembers per ship. (There were also even smaller ships of 100 passengers that were sold off years ago.) Seabourn has always specialized in great cuisine and personalized service, which is much easier to accomplish with smaller passenger loads. On those small ships the crew would learn every guest's name by the first night, a waiter could quickly change an order or retrieve a special item from the kitchen, and the chef could spend more individual time plating course, making sure it was perfect in every case.
For people who don't know, people make friends much faster on smaller ships because of the familiarity factor. When you see the same faces day and night you tend to get acquainted more easily. Seabourn enjoyed 20 years of presenting this style of cruising, and eventually the regular passengers and crew members all became like one big family.
Who belonged to this family? Seabourners tend to be wealthier. It is common for people to take a private car in ports rather than sign up for shore tours. This also conveys an independent streak in Seabourn cruisers. Although such figures aren't divulged, the vast majority of them are retired, meaning they have the free time to do pre-cruise research and don't mind spending money for special experiences in ports of call.
To show the average age of Seabourn cruisers - a random shot on a galley tour.
After nearly 20 years of high quality, small-ship cruising it is not surprising that Seabourn became the mirror cruise line for their clientele's cruising style. Like married people who adapt to the habits of their spouse, Seabourn found yachters who do more research; there was no port lecturer onboard Sojourn to explain what the tours for the next port of call included, for example, although I was told the company is planning on bringing on PowerPoint demonstrations and possibly port lecturers.
Why Do These People Consider Seabourn the Best?
Most of the people I asked described the Seabourn food and service as excellent. This is reflected in the Condé Nast poll. But by far this opinion was unfailingly expressed by the Seabourn regulars who had started on the smaller Seabourn ships. While most said they liked the bigger ships, to a one, each one of them said they couldn't wait to get back to one of the small ships.
To me it appears the legend of Seabourn was created while it had just three small ships. I heard stories of waiters knowing what people wanted without having to ask, descriptions of "synchronized service" in the dining room, also known as "butterfly service," where each entrée remains covered until manned by a separate waiter, and then all plates are revealed in concert on cue. I did not see this on my Seabourn cruise.
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List Rules These are the ladies who can look amazing, regardless of whether they just rolled out of bed on three hours of sleep or spent three hours dolling themselves up.
The hottest natural beauties include actresses, models, and singers who seem to have that incredible, effortless beauty that comes from within. Sure, they glam it up with the best of them, but these celebrities without makeup and hair products are still stunningly gorgeous, beautiful natural women. They don't have to rely on all the products to look great. While this list includes a lot of famous natural beauties, it is in no way complete. Feel free to add your favorite natural beauty here, and vote for your personal favorites!
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Lawyers involved in the fight over the future of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will be busy in the coming weeks.
A federal appeals court in New York has set Jan. 14 as the date for oral arguments in the appeal of a federal judge's order last January saying the state could not force Vermont Yankee to shut down.
Two days later, the Vermont Supreme Court will hear a claim by the anti-nuclear group New England Coalition.
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Senate is key to fate of credit union wish list.
In that spirit and as a public service to those wanting to learn about exotic cultures, this column will try to explain a society inhabited by strange men and women whose rituals and mores can be puzzling.
We aren't talking about the Bushmen of Kalahari Desert or an Amazon tribe.
Today's subject is much closer home: the United States Senate.
The last two major initiatives credit unions fought for--expanding their charter and increasing the on member business loans--died that chamber, and not because lacked the support of a majority members
In fact, the Senate isn't about majorities. To pass a measure that chamber, whose 100 members think of themselves as being part the world's greatest deliberate body, you need 60 votes.
Now, as a credit union professional or regulator who has reasonably good math skills, you are to yourself "That's not the math learned in school." You are probably also thinking that when you studied politics or social studies, the guiding principle taught about governing that it's more often than not about majority rule.
Don't worry, even veteran politicians, especially those who serve in the U.S. House, are puzzled and annoyed by the Senate.
"The Republicans are our opposition. The Senate is our enemy," Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said earlier this year.
For credit unions, it's not quite that bad. However, when the Senate considered a bill that created a $30 billion fund for community banks to tap into to make more business loans, Senate leaders wouldn't rock the boat by adding an amendment to raise the cap on MBLs.
Apparently, the 60 votes weren't there to stop a likely filibuster, which would have been led by the allies of community banks. That happened despite the fact that two key members of the Democratic leadership--Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer--were strong backers of raising the MBL cap.
Lobbyists for CUNA and NAFCU, who are usually astute observers of congressional goings-on, are often at a loss to predict or explain the Senate. Even though the political action committees of both CUNA and NAFCU have contributed handily to key senators--including CUNA's independent expenditure on behalf of Reid--that doesn't guarantee anything.
The filibuster means that 41 Senators, who can represent as little as 12.3% of the population, can wreak havoc on credit unions' ability to attain items on their legislative list. If the Senate were Santa Claus, it would be giving out lots of coal.
The use of the filibuster has vastly increased in recent years. According to a study by Steven Smith, a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, even though the Democrats have controlled the chamber during the past two sessions of Congress, they have had to invoke cloture (a move requiring 60 votes) to pass every major piece of legislation.
"Daily floor action now resembles hand-to-hand combat," Smith wrote in a recent paper.
The Senate rules have always sought-unlike those of the House--to ensure that the rights of the minority party are protected. Te Senate's slow process for considering legislation was, some argue, what the nation's founders intended.
In the possibly apocryphal story, George Washington is credited with explaining to Thomas Jefferson (who was in France while the Constitution was drafted) that "we pour our legislation into the Senatorial saucer to cool it."
At times, however, the Senate has become more like a freezer.
Long gone are the days when Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson could cajole, arm-twist and occasionally bully members (including Republicans at times) to go along with him. Johnson, who was more than six-feet tall, often hovered over colleagues while talking to them and wasn't afraid to poke them in the chest.
Even though Reid is a former boxer, it's difficult to imagine him literally or figuratively trying to strong-arm his colleagues.
The Senate has changed in other ways.
These days, filibusters no longer resemble the marathon talk fests famously depicted in the 1939 film classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Tat means we aren't often treated to oratorical gems like the filibuster speech of Jimmy Stewart's character Jefferson Smith.
However, even if the Senate were still a venue for high-flown rhetoric, member business lending and secondary capital don't exactly lend themselves to such language.
Therefore, credit unions need to do a better job of conveying the values and mission of credit unions, and why they are better than banks.
They could take an example from another Stewart movie, It's A Wonderful Life. Stewart's character, Bailey Building and Loan Association executive George Bailey, criticizes the values of people who are only motivated by profits. His foil is businessman Mr. Potter, played devilishly by Lionel Barrymore, the majority shareholder of the building and loan.
"You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider," Bailey says.
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More links from this week:
- Interesting discussions at George Colligan's blog this week. An informed opinion on the charge that music schools produce "cookie cutter" musicians. Some thoughts on sight reading, that misunderstood skill among the jazz community. And a low brass forum erupts.
- At the WBGO blog, there are interviews with master drummer and educator Charlie Persip and saxophonist Kenny Garrett, who you may know has recently put out a new studio album. Also, memories of Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette from the JazzSet vaults.
- Capsulocity is a short video interview series with young (mostly jazz) musicians in New York. We mentioned it earlier this week but only in passing.
- This week in Esperanza Spalding: JazzTimes cover story. From one of A Blog Supreme's newest contributors.
- Guitarist Vernon Reid briefly talks Spectrum Road, the new jazz-rock supergroup with Jack Bruce (of Cream), John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana.
- Pianist Myra Melford is one of five winners of the 2012 Alpert Awards in the Arts. The award is worth $75,000.
- Lester Young, clarinetist. He was known as a tenor saxophonist, of course, but also kept a cheap metal clarinet on his arsenal. From Aesthetic, Not Anesthetic, who also recontextualizes, say, early cornetist Red Nichols.
- A new film about jazz in India is out. And the Times article manages to avoid all "Calcutta Cutie" references.
- The Jazz Gallery, a New York venue supporting emerging artists, needs to move and raise a whole bunch of money to do it. (NPR Music has recorded live from the Gallery in recent years.) Howard Mandel reports.
- More on Cecil Taylor, who is being feted this month in New York. Seth Colter Walls reviews an early tribute.
- At last, an obituary for iconic jazz matron Phoebe Jacobs.
- Bix Beiderbecke's prep school dorm room is being destroyed.
- Destination: Out posts a rare Cecil Taylor bit.
- The Jazz Session spoke with pianist George Colligan and saxophonist Steve Lehman.
- The Checkout features student jazz ensemble recordings, from WBGO's celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month.
Elsewhere at NPR Music:
- Endangered Blood: Tiny Desk Concert.
- JazzSet features a Miles Davis/Gil Evans tribute from the Monterey Jazz Festival.
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz features Daryl Sherman's tribute to Johnny Mercer.
- Violinist Scott Tixier is featured on Song of the Day.
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Music Industry Lawyer Upset That Sites Are Able To Point Out The RIAA Took Down Content
from the a-look-inside... deptHere's another quick little look into the way the minds of certain entertainment industry lawyers think, courtesy of Chris Castle, a music industry lawyer who we recently discussed concerning his views that only musicians can discuss music industry business models. Now he's got a post complaining about how internet sites respond to a takedown notice:
Note to self: Next time you do a content license for an online company, make sure that when the content owner terminates the deal the content can't be replaced with some inflammatory cutesey-ism. Down means down. Gone. Vanished. Not there. Not replaced with: "Hey idiot, the running dogs of the RIAA made us take down stuff because they wouldn't take our hillbilly deal."(Update: It appears that some time between me opening Castle's post in a tab and writing and posting the story, Castle took down the post. I guess he's trying to demonstrate what he means by "Down means down. Gone. Vanished. Not there.") Now, I'm sure that this is Castle just venting after yet another bad move by one of his clients has backfired into a public relations nightmare (something like this perhaps?). If he actually thinks that simply pulling content down with no explanation whatsoever will make users happier then he's completely lost -- and I don't think he is.
But the key is that this does give yet another glimpse into the mindset of the typical legal professionals at work on some of these issues. It's not about openness, it's about secrecy ("Down means down. Gone. Vanished. Not there.") It's not about working out a reasonable deal that benefits everyone, it's about trashing the service provider for offering a "hillbilly deal." And, of course, it's never about the user at all. Who cares if they're wondering what happened to their content? The user doesn't matter at all.
And that is why the entertainment industry is in trouble.
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Tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th of June, the Knicks will know whether or not Jeremy Lin and Steve Novak will be granted with Early Bird rights. If so, the Knicks would be able to re-sign each player without using a cap exception, such as the Mid-Level Exception or the Bi-Annual Exception. The NBA Players Union has challenged the league's stance that Bird Rights, as well as Early Bird Rights, are lost when a player is waived. This court ruling also will affect other teams in the league, such as the Clippers (with Chauncey Billups) and the Portland Trail Blazers (with JJ Hickson). Here is how Howard Beck of the New York Times explained the Union's stance:
In the union's view, Bird rights should expire only when a player clears waivers, because he is a free agent at that point who can choose a new team and sign a new contract.
The union contends that the entire rationale for allowing Bird rights to transfer was to protect players who changed teams against their will, a principle that could apply to both trades and waiver claims. (The section of the uniform player contract that deals with waiver claims, in fact, cross references the rules governing trades.)
I do not believe that the Union is going to win this claim. The NBA's legal representation feels confident that the rule as stated is pretty cut and dry, and I tend to agree. Here is the explanation from the CBA expert Larry Coon on both Bird Rights and Early Bird Rights, as they pertain to the wavier process.
On Bird Rights – "To qualify for this exception a player essentially must play for three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent"
On Early Bird Rights – "To qualify for this exception the player must play for two seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent"
I do not necessarily disagree with the claim of the Union, in that I would be okay with the rule being altered to grant Bird Rights to players that have been waived. However, the Union did agree to this set of rules when this latest Collective Bargaining Agreement was ratified. I believe the rule is very clear, as it pertains to waived players. I'm not a lawyer, but I do not see any glaring rationale to suggest that the arbitrator would rule in favor of the Union. Obviously strange things can happen in the legal world, but I do not see the Union winning this case.
What does that mean for the Knicks?
For starters, you can kiss any Steve Nash hopes goodbye. Not that the Knicks were ever going to get Nash, but a Union loss in this case would force New York to use most, if not all, of its Mid-Level Exception to re-sign Jeremy Lin. The Knicks would likely lose Steve Novak, unless both he and the Knicks came to terms on the Bi-Annual exception of $1.9 million. There is a possibility that the momentum generated by Novak during the regular season was put to a screeching halt by both Miami's defense and the Knicks first round playoff departure. However, I believe somebody will offer the league's best 3 point shooter more than $1.9 million and steal him away from the Knicks. In the event of a Union loss, the Knicks would only be able to offer Lin and Novak 120% raises without using any cap exceptions.
If the Union were to win the arbitration case, the Knicks would be able to retain both Lin and Novak for a league average salary (about $5.3 million) without using any cap exceptions. This would allow them to use both their Mid-Level Exception and Bi-Annual Exception to fill some of their many other needs.
The Knicks really do need this ruling to be in the favor of the Union. Having the ability to retain Lin and Novak without using any cap exceptions would be huge. I don't see the Union winning this case, but that doesn't mean they won't. I mean, didn't some judges rule that Timothy Bradley beat Manny Pacquiao over the weekend? Casey Anthony trial? You never know with arbitrators and judges. Maybe there is some loophole in the CBA that nobody in the media knows about. Who knows? I think if there was some weird loophole, we would have heard about it. Doesn't mean it isn't there, but all signs are pointing towards a loss for the Players Union.
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Today was yet another great day.
Last week I was informed by @aku in Qaiku about onizou Idea Nomads visiting Helsinki. I wrote them a mail, and soon we had a meeting arranged.
The meeting took place at Netprofile office (yep, Office Nomad host this month) and was a bit special since there was no agenda for the meeting. It was not a problem though.
The discussion was lively, it was such exciting to hear about how onizou had studied both urban nomadism and true nomads during their journey. Gladly onizou had lot of interest in the officenomadism and open organization thinking. This was a discussion that brought me many new ideas for both officenomadism and also Ekana way of working.
After the meeting we continued to browse the city for some design, electronics and more coffee. Oh, and helped onizou to get connected with some more people.
I really enjoyed the meeting today and hope to start some new cool projects with onizou in the future.
To get an idea about the people behind the idea nomads, you can check out the video we recorded today.
Good luck with your journey, let's keep in touch! 🙂
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Selected Publications
Spagnolo, J.F., E. Rossignol, E. Bullitt, K. Kirkegaard (in press). Enzymatic and non-enzymatic functions of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerases within oligomeric arrays. RNA.
Adding "dead" polymerase increases the enzymatic activity of wild type polymerase, showing an additional, non-enzymatic role for the polymerase as a scaffolding protein.
Li YF, Poole S, Nishio K, Jang K, Rasulova F, McVeigh A, Savarino SJ, Xia D, Bullitt E. Structure of CFA/I fimbriae from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 30;106(26):10793-8. Epub 2009 Jun 10.
Pili expressed on bacteria that cause traveler's diarrhea have been analyzed using hybrid microbiology/biochemistry/electron microscopy/x-ray crystallography methods. Assembly of the helical filaments occurs via a trans-cis isomerization of a proline residue just after the N-terminal extension.
Mu XQ, Savarino SJ, Bullitt E. The three-dimensional structure of CFA/I adhesion pili: traveler's diarrhea bacteria hang on by a spring. J Mol Biol. 2008 Feb 22;376(3):614-20. Epub 2007 Nov 1.
Survival of bacteria in the gut is aided by the spring-like structure of the long, thin, helical filaments that attach the bacteria to the epithelium.
Mu XQ, Bullitt E. Structure and assembly of P-pili: a protruding hinge region used for assembly of a bacterial adhesion filament. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jun 27;103(26):9861-6. Epub 2006 Jun 16.
Bacteria that cause urinary tract infections involving the kidneys express pili with the "traditional" donor-strand exchange mechanism, whereby the N-terminal beta strand fits into a groove of the preceding subunit. The pilin subunit exits the bacterium vertically through a pore in the outer membrane, and rotates to an approximately horizontal orientation in the mature helical filament.
Mu XQ, Egelman EH, Bullitt E. Structure and function of Hib pili from Haemophilus influenzae type b. J Bacteriol. 2002 Sep;184(17):4868-74.
Lyle JM, Bullitt E, Bienz K, Kirkegaard K. Visualization and functional analysis of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase lattices. Science. 2002 Jun 21;296(5576):2218-22.
Assembly of polymerases into a two-dimensional lattice provides a replication "factory" in which the availability of RNA is enhanced by its proximity to this polymerase surface, thereby improving the efficiency of replication.
Bullitt E, Makowski L. Structural polymorphism of bacterial adhesion pili. Nature. 1995 Jan 12;373(6510):164-7.
Adhesion pili can unwind to greater than five times their original length, to facilitate survival of bacteria in their preferred microenvironment.
Kendall A, McDonald M, Bian W, Bowles T, Baumgarten SC, Shi J, Stewart PL, Bullitt E, Gore D, Irving TC, Havens WM, Ghabrial SA, Wall JS, Stubbs G. Structure of flexible filamentous plant viruses. J Virol. 2008 Oct;82(19):9546-54. Epub 2008 Jul 30.
Verger D, Bullitt E, Hultgren SJ, Waksman G. Crystal structure of the P pilus rod subunit PapA. PLoS Pathog. 2007 May 18;3(5):e73.
Poole ST, McVeigh AL, Anantha RP, Lee LH, Akay YM, Pontzer EA, Scott DA, Bullitt E, Savarino SJ. Donor strand complementation governs intersubunit interaction of fimbriae of the alternate chaperone pathway. Mol Microbiol. 2007 Mar;63(5):1372-84.
Jiang ZG, Gantz D, Bullitt E, McKnight CJ. Defining lipid-interacting domains in the N-terminal region of apolipoprotein B. Biochemistry. 2006 Oct 3;45(39):11799-808.
Mu XQ, Jiang ZG, Bullitt E. Localization of a critical interface for helical rod formation of bacterial adhesion P-pili. J Mol Biol. 2005 Feb 11;346(1):13-20. Epub 2004 Dec 18.
Frenkiel-Krispin D, Sack R, Englander J, Shimoni E, Eisenstein M, Bullitt E, Horowitz-Scherer R, Hayes CS, Setlow P, Minsky A, Wolf SG. Structure of the DNA-SspC complex: implications for DNA packaging, protection, and repair in bacterial spores. J Bacteriol. 2004 Jun;186(11):3525-30.
Cheng W, Bullitt E, Bhattacharyya L, Brewer CF, Makowski L. Electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction studies of Lotus tetragonolobus A isolectin cross-linked with a divalent Lewisx oligosaccharide, an oncofetal antigen. J Biol Chem. 1998 Dec 25;273(52):35016-22.
Bullitt E, Rout MP, Kilmartin JV, Akey CW. The yeast spindle pole body is assembled around a central crystal of Spc42p. Cell. 1997 Jun 27;89(7):1077-86.
Bullitt E, Jones CH, Striker R, Soto G, Jacob-Dubuisson F, Pinkner J, Wick MJ, Makowski L, Hultgren SJ. Development of pilus organelle subassemblies in vitro depends on chaperone uncapping of a beta zipper. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Nov 12;93(23):12890-5.
St Geme JW, Pinkner JS 3rd, Krasan GP, Heuser J, Bullitt E, Smith AL, Hultgren SJ. Haemophilus influenzae pili are composite structures assembled via the HifB chaperone. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Oct 15;93(21):11913-8.
Bullitt ES, DeRosier DJ, Coluccio LM, Tilney LG. Three-dimensional reconstruction of an actin bundle. J Cell Biol. 1988 Aug;107(2):597-611.
Weisel JW, Stauffacher CV, Bullitt E, Cohen C. A model for fibrinogen: domains and sequence. Science. 1985 Dec 20;230(4732):1388-91.


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Ann Truax Judson Moench, 72, of Hurley, Mo., died Jan. 8.
She was born Sept. 2, 1940, in Lyons to John and Eloise Cockley Truax. The family moved to Manhattan and then Emporia where Ann graduated from high school.
She married Dean Judson on Aug. 21, 1959, in Emporia and raised four children. She was employed early at Newman Memorial Hospital and later as office manager for Brinkman and Hagman Architects, as well as often working at the family business, Emporia Bowl.
She moved to Las Vegas in 1982 and later married Bob Moench. After retiring in 2004, they moved to Hurley, Mo.
Ann is survived by her husband, Bob Moench of Earlville, Ill.; three sons, Jeffrey Judson and Jamen Judson of Emporia and Jerald Judson of Kansas City, Mo., a daughter, Jorinda McCubbin of Sabetha; and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Grace United Methodist Church, 2 Neosho St., Emporia.
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text: So, I don't really want to buy a brand new copy of a game I already played and own, and the only copy they had was pre-owned. Well, apparently, the person who owned it before me didn't even delete his save file, but took out the code to register the game with. I deleted the save file, and I can't register. I've tried finding a QR code online, but no luck. Tried contacting Customer Support; again, no luck. There is nothing on the game case or inside it resembling a QR code or any sort of code at all, linking or otherwise. I don't know how to prove to Square Enix that I own this game, because I can't link it at all; they won't let me without a QR code, nor will they let me talk to them. Thanks in advance if you're not cruel.


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Sign of the times to come?: The Woodlands opens sales office on the Downtown Mall
On Wednesday, Gropen sign and display company employees Darrell Muler (standing) and King Scott were busy putting the finishing touches on The Woodlands latest marketing move– a swanky new sales office across from the Mudhouse, which will join the Ryan Homes sales office with an address on the Downtown Mall. The office opening came just in time for Wednesday's groundbreaking for The Woodlands, a $60 million luxury gated condo resort community south of town on Sunset Avenue extended, which is being marketed almost exclusively to wealthy college students...or rather, their wealthy parents.
As readthehook.com/blog reported, the local Woodlands is one of seven nearly identical 'Woodlands' developments that the Atlanta-based Dovetail Companies have been promoting in college towns in Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Texas. Featuring 24-hour security, swimming pool, state-of-the-art weightlifting and cardio studio, movie theater, tanning salon, practice putting green, sand volleyball courts, and a shuttle bus to cart students to and from UVA, The Woodland's appears more like a spring break destination than student housing.
Atlanta-based developer Nathan Metzger and partner Coran Capshaw did the same thing in 2003–opened an off-site sales office on the Mall (where the Charlottesville Community Design Center is now) when they were developing the Riverbend Apartments on Pantops and Walker Square in Fifeville. At the time, we were in the midst of a luxury apartment complex boom of sorts, as developers believed there was money to be made renting luxury units. Six upper-end complexes containing close to 1,300 units had been planned, built, or were under construction between 2002 and 2003– more units in one year than the previous 12– including Barclay Place on Georgetown Road, Lakeside on Avon Street, Carriage Hill on Pantops, Jefferson Ridge on Sunset Avenue extended, Stone Creek Village on Route 20 South, Avemore on Stony Point Road, and Riverbend and Walker Square.
However, almost as soon as they were built, local developers began to worry.
"I think the market is way overbuilt– and getting worse," Metzger told the Hook in March of 2004.
And even before that, developer Rip Cathcart, who built the first of these luxury developments–Lakeside and Carriage Hill– had his doubts. "Nobody would deny we're going to be in an overbuilt situation here," he said in the spring of 2003.
Those predictions turned out to be true. Still on the tail end of a hot real estate market, developers began frantically converting their rental apartment complexes into condos and selling them. In fact, Cathcart says he sold 108 of his units at Carriage Hill in the last year, and says he counts 11 such conversions of apartment developments. Ironically, this trend during the last few years has turned the situation in 2003 upside down.
"The rental market, as far as landlords are concerned, has improved dramatically," says Cathcart, explaining that the condo conversion trend has lowered the inventory of available rental properties, while the slumping real estate market has more people looking to rent. According to Cathcart, all his remaining rental properties are occupied, and the overall occupancy rate in the area is around 98 percent. Meanwhile, though condo sales have been robust compared to residential sales, it's the developers trying to sell condos who are feeling the squeeze.
So how might The Woodlands expect to fare in this new market?
"The student market may not have slowed as much as the non-student buyers' market," says Cathcart, who admits he's not as familiar with the student market, "but I can't imagine it's going to go gangbusters."
Still, he thinks The Woodland's idea of promoting the "kiddie-condo" strategy, something he says has been going on in town for years (parents buying a small place where their kid and his friends can live for fours year, then either keeping it as an investment or selling it to parents of incoming students), might just work.
And, of course, corporate developers like The Dovetail Companies and Ryan Homes, who are loath to take risks and fiercely protect their bottom lines (they wouldn't be corporations if they didn't), wouldn't be installing fancy sales offices on the Mall if their accountants and marketers didn't think the numbers would add up.
As one savvy readthehook.com/blog commentator, a.k.a "Stormy," pointed out, the Jefferson Ridge and Eagles Landing condo communities are both already on Sunset Ave Ext., and College Park/University Place is over on Old Lynchburg/5th St. Ext. Plus, the Biscuit Run development is coming to that side of town.
"If someone were smart," says 'Stormy,' "they'd try to open some nice retail on that end of town"Š maybe the county and Capshaw can get together on the 5th/Avon connector and get the retail built back in there."
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I continue to predict that this venture will fail, as UVa kids do not want to live miles away from grounds, and there's been a building blitz as of late in "the core" area back behind The Corner.
In two years they'll be selling these units as condos.
I was born and raised in Martinsville, VA. When I finished Albert Harris High in 1962 I requested an application to UVA and was told by my guidance counselor "No. Your parents will be charged with a felony. You must be white to apply to UVA." In the spirit of the still standing Republican Old Dominion I say, good luck to all the rich kids attending UVA who have their expensive cars battered by [insurgent] teenagers as they drive to to and from their upscale apartments and condos. I feel their pain. Selah.
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Jefferson Ridge and Eagles Landing are both out there already on Sunset Ave Ext., and College Park/University Place is over on Old Lynchburg/5th St. Ext. This isn't really close to Azalea Park, and it's a bit of a haul to get there. That's a dead-end road out there because Sunset Ave doesn't extend through to JPA. If you bike it isn't too bad, but the cars will just add traffic, mostly to the south of I-64 on 5th street, just in advance of the Biscuit Run development. If someone were smart, they'd try to open some nice retail on that end of town"Š maybe the county and Capshaw can get together on the 5th/Avon connector and get the retail built back in there. "
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I live in Eagles Landing, and they've apparently already started clearing trees for this development. The interesting thing is that to get back to the EL/Jefferson Ridge/brand new pricey apartment complex area, you have to drive past some not-so-great areas, including one place where a group of lovely teenagers got their kicks throwing large rocks at the cars driving by for awhile. I believe they were eventually caught and arrested.
I wonder how Daddy will respond when little precious' Mercedes gets broken into or the window is shattered by a flying rock.
There's already a discussion about this going on at cvillenews.com, but jeez, you'd think with the number of young professionals and college students from middle-class families in this area, there would be some market for lower-priced rentals. Those seem to be disappearing. It seems that UVa would want to have some stake in all this development, since not every student can afford to live in some of the pricey places being built these days.
Traffic isn't too bad on Old Lynchburg, the route used to get from EL and JR, but it will get worse, and the residents are already complaining about speeders.
It's the ultimate irony. Selling characterless housing in the part of town (the mall) with the most character. Selling a people-less landscape in the most peopled landscape in town. Selling vynil sided plastic houses from a well constructed historic store front. Do people not see the rediculousness of it all......stop the madness in this Community. Say no to more sprawl!
wouldn't be nice if UVA let the students drink like they used to. Seems like UVA was alott cooler when they were all f-d up. Now there all snotty
Eagle's Landing already tried to sell its units as condos. No one wanted to buy them. I work in at Bodo's and at least five of my coworkers all live in Eagle's Landing. Another four live over at University Place. It is some of the only affordable housing in town.
Those teenagers you're referring to probably all lived in that area long before any of the people from even Redfields moved in. Think of it as their way of protesting development and a bunch of rich people speeding through their neighborhood. Also, that row of houses you pass right after the Oak Hill Store mostly contains all of one extended family who's lived there for more than a generation.
If you call the number on the website and ask about Leasing, they are actually pretty reasonably priced. My friends that live on 14th street pay $200 a month more than what I was quoted for leasing a condo at the Woodlands. The places on the website look gorgeous-- I am from Knoxville, and they built a Woodlands at the UT campus, and it has exploded. I think the one at UT is over 2 miles from campus, but has still been incredibly popular. Will be interesting to see how Charlottesville fairs. I think it will be huge, but that's just my opinion. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Meg, Eagles Landing is currently advertising their conversion to condos and claim to be 86% sold. I haven't talked to the Jefferson Ridge developer recently to know if he's thinking about going condo. It's just a ton of development back a number of small "country" roads that aren't designed to handle that much traffic. Is the county going to get proffers to improve Sunset Avenue Extended?
Thanx Meg! You've hit on center target. Big Val has had personal dealings with one of the previous mentioned developers'; out of those dealings came the realization that the "new" had little or no understanding and resultant respect for the "old," figuratively and literally. Ya'll, we are witnessing a battle among competing egos to purchase, develop, and change the fabric of an historic place. They care not for sustaining life. Trees, elderly widowed property owners, historic and spiritual places, artists and other folk...all expendable so that we may enjoy the beauty of their cheap, contrived "progress" which has had the predictable consequence of fewer places with reasonable rents. Another prediction: the vinyl-sided boxes with an ironic and extremely amusing flourish of columns and Palladian windows will become projects (already known among locals as the "Train Yard Projects)". Big Val's talkin' CURB APPEAL. Big Val loves trains as much as the next person but not in her own front yard. Yep, ya'll itsa TRAIN WRECK!
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|This finding aid was encoded by Eric Shannon November, 2012
|Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Library
|Peter Guille Jr. Gift
|Bulk, 1943-1948
|Inclusive, 1927-1955
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|This series contains receipts, correspondence, Robert Sterling Clark's lawsuit against his brothers over their inheritence, and RSC's diaries from 1941 through 1948. The entries recount his daily life in New York City, Cooperstown, Virginia, and Paris.
Arrangement noteLetters of correspondence are arranged in the order in which they were received. All folders are arranged in their original order. The folder containing the typed diary entries from Feb 29, 1948-May 10, 1948 is positioned before the bulk of the handwritten diary entries beginning in 1941. The handwritten diaries are arranged chronologically, in the order in which they were received. Minor changes were made when pages were out of order.
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Collection includes correspondence, diary entries and Robert Sterling Clark's Supreme Court Case of NY complaint dated January 14, 1927 and answer dated May 16, 1927. The correspondence letters are between art dealers, horse breeders, and business associates between 1941 and 1943. The diary entries are from 1945 to 1948 with one entry dated from 1941. Entries recount friendships; disputes; meals and cooking; parties; financial investments; the purchase of artwork and silver; Clark's relationship with various art dealers; his thoughts and opinions about art and collecting; his and Francine's health; horse breeding and racing; politics; and the other subjects that make up a lifetime.
Biographical note
Born in 1877, Robert Sterling Clark, along with his three brothers, was heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Their father, Alfred Corning Clark, was the son of Edward Corning Clark, Isaac Singer's business partner. RSC attended Yale University and graduated in 1899 with a degree in engineering. He joined the army and his service during the Boxer Rebellion earned him the commission of first lieutenant. In 1908, RSC undertook an expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in a remote area of northern China. He intended to carry out ethnographic and zoological research, as well as conduct surveys and create maps. His partner in this undertaking was Arthur de Carle Sowerby. Sowerby, in addition to being a naturalist, explorer, artist and editor, collected specimens for the British Museum and other museums of natural history in the United States and China. The expedition came to an abrupt end when Hazrat Ali, their translator and surveyor, was murdered.
Shortly thereafter, RSC moved to Paris. In 1909 he inherited various pieces of art from his family and these pieces became the foundation of the collection he was to build over the ensuing decades. He made his first purchases in 1912 and was initially attracted primarily to Dutch, Flemish and Italian old masters. Soon, his interests expanded to include silver, prints and drawings, rare books, and more contemporary artists such as Renoir, Degas, Sargent and Homer.
During this time RSC met Francine Clary. Formerly an actress with the Comedie Francaise, Francine was the mother of a daughter, Viviane Modzelewska. Francine and RSC began seeing one another in 1910, but didn't marry until 1919. Their relationship was a source of tension with RSC's family and eventually led to a rift between him and his brother, Stephen. Stephen, the youngest of the Clark brothers, had shouldered the daily administration of the family's fortunes. RSC felt that he was at a disadvantage because of the way the Singer trusts were constructed. Should something befall RSC, the money would pass back into the Clark family rather than to Francine and her daughter. When he was unable to resolve the issue within the family, he and Stephen had a falling out that would never be mended and RSC sued unsuccessfully in court to break up the trusts.
RSC and Francine were partners in assembling the collections that would eventually be housed at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, visiting galleries and dealers together. Another keen interest was horse breeding. RSC owned large operations that bred, raised and trained racehorses, first in Belgium and then in Virginia. In 1951, his horse, Never Say Die, won the Epsom Derby, the first American-bred horse ever to do so.
After considering various options for the eventual disposition of their artworks and objects, including donation to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and founding a museum in New York City, RSC and Francine decided to locate their collections in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1950 and continuing through RSC's death late in 1956, their lives were focused on building the Institute, both physically and administratively.
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[Cite the item (as appropriate)], Peter Guille Jr. Gift, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1940-1952 Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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This collection was gifted to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute by Peter Guille Jr. in September 2012.
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This collection was processed by Eric Shannon. All staples and ties were removed and all bundles rehoused in paper sheaths in acid-free folders.
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On the occasion of the Clark Art Institute's 50th anniversary, the Clark published: The Clark brothers collect: impressionist and early modern paintings / Michael Conforti ... [et al.] ; with additional contributions by Daniel Cohen-McFall ... [et al.], Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2006.
This collection fills the gaps of missing diary entries in the Sterling and Francine Clark Papers Diaries Series, which can be found here. http://maca.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p15001coll3/id/26 Some of the items have been digitized and can be found in the Peter Guille Jr., Gift Digital Collection located here. http://cdm16245.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16245coll4/id/104 Additional related or similar material can be found in the following series in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Correspondence Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Financial Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Images Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Personal Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; and Realia Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Records and Papers of David Brooke; Institutional Oral Histories.


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When most people think of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, they recall the film that launched Richard Dreyfuss as an often-annoying, occasionally endearing fixture of mainstream American film. But before it became Mr. Dreyfuss' opus, Duddy was Mordecai Richler's mid-century Canadian novel, and its contribution to filmmaking was more inspirational than actual. One of the funniest episodes in the book, which chronicles the early career of an endearing, annoying flim-flam man named Duddy Kravitz, occurs when Kravitz hires blacklisted filmmaker P. J. Friar to make a bar mitzvah documentary on commission. Though he doesn't know the first thing about producing documentaries, Kravitz sees a fortune to be made in cornering the event videography market in Montreal's Jewish community. Friar's first effort nearly ruins him—then almost proves him right.
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I could see the parents of the bride cringing through that segment of the video as we watched it in their living room, clearly disappointed that they'd paid for such a mismatch, and frustrated that it was their only document of this wondrous event. How could the videographer have botched the job so egregiously? they wondered. But I knew better. Someone not familiar with Duddy Kravitz would have assumed the videographer hadn't even listened to the song, picking it only for the title. In truth, he was simply aiming higher. This was arty contrapuntalism of the Leni Riefenstahl school; and what better opportunity for an homage to Riefenstahl and her signature work—the enormously influential Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will—than a video of an orthodox Jewish kiddushin shot on a kibbutz in Israel? Which probably qualifies it as meta-contrapuntalism; Riefenstahl (not to mention P. J. Friar) would have been proud.
Okay, maybe I'm giving the guy too much credit. Maybe he was just careless, or unskilled in the marriage of song and marriage. Perhaps successful event videography of the esoteric art-variety remains an esoteric art, but the technology side of it is more accessible than ever. Thanks to DV, DVD, and powerful entry-level NLEs, event video consumers can also become event video producers. Still, there's a wealth of professional work in this area, and a thriving market for talented and skilled event videographers with the know-how and equipment to do it well. DV is a remarkable unifying force and a miraculous format in the quality it delivers cheaply and simply, but there's much more to great camerawork than plant-the-'pod and shoot. (And most pro event work we've seen still involves neither DV nor DVD.) There's lighting, sound, storyboarding, and expert execution, which are exactly the sort of things that the most demanding video clients in the world—mothers-of-brides commissioning not only the wedding they never had, but the wedding video they never had—will finance as needed to get the job done right.
And of course there's more to succeeding in event videography than owning and knowing the tools, even if the month-to-month content of a technology-centric magazine like EMedia might suggest otherwise. Most event videos don't boast the "artistry" flaunted in a horrific hodge-podge like Happy Bar-Mitzvah, Bernie! But there's certainly an art to the business of event videography, and to constructing a viable business model, from issues of staffing to online marketing to knowing what to buy and what to rent, how to spec and price and package a job, and how to let a client know what will work without telling them what they want.
Ron Miller's "The Scope of Videography," in this issue, is a series of business profiles of commercial facilities specializing in event videography. The article represents a departure for EMedia in that it focuses almost exclusively on the business side of technology, rather than technology itself. If the tools of video production are the engine of the digital studio and the producer is its driver, then the business model is its roadmap, and that course is well worth tracking. We can all learn something from the business models of folks who are succeeding in the business—even the master meta-contrapuntalists among us.


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