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30% facility
The 30% facility is a tax measure for employees from abroad and employees sent abroad by the University. Under specific conditions the employer is entitled to pay out a maximum of 30% of your income in the form of an allowance for a temporary stay in the Netherlands or abroad. This allowance for so-called extra-territorial expenses is tax-free.
Incoming employees
The Service Centre International Staff (SCIS) is responsible for handling the application for the 30% facility. The final decision regarding your eligibility lies with the Tax Authority. The 30% facility can be applied under the following conditions:
- Prior to your appointment you lived for at least 16 months at a distance of more than 150 km from the Dutch border.
- You possess expertise that is scarce or unavailable on the Dutch labour market.
If you are appointed to an academic position, you should possess specific expertise. This requirement also applies if you are appointed to a non-academic position with a minimum taxable income of 37.743 (2019) or – if you are younger than 30 – € 28.690 (2019).
New job
If you change employer, you still may be eligible for the 30% facility. The employment contract with the new employer must then be concluded within 3 months after the end of the work at the previous employer. You and your new employer must also apply for a new decision with the Tax Authority.
Outgoing employees
If you are sent abroad, you may also be eligible for the 30% facility. In that case you should be stationed abroad for at least 45 days within a period of 12 months.
To apply for the 30% facility, please contact your supervisor, who will make the request on your behalf at the PSSC Service Point. In order to do so, your supervisor needs your destination and the length of your stay.
Outgoing employees do not require a decision from the Tax Authority in order to be eligible for the 30% facility.
Consequences of the 30% facility
Application of the 30% facility results in a lower gross income. This is due to the fact that 30% of your taxable income is paid out as a tax-free allowance. A lower gross income may have consequences for your pensionable pay and any benefits or allowances, such as unemployment or housing benefits. When the ruling ends, you may expect a decrease in your net income.
If you qualify for the 30% facility, you do not have to pay tax on the following:
- the costs incurred in the removal, temporary storage and transfer of your household effects.
- the costs incurred in a visit to the Netherlands to become acquainted with the company at which you are going to work.
- the costs incurred in the application for or conversion of a work permit.
You will need permission from the Tax and Customs Administration to apply the 30% facility. We will help you submit your application. If you are seconded abroad and wish to make use of the 30% facility, you can submit the application yourself.
Marie Curie Fellows
If you are a Marie Curie Fellow, you can choose to make use of the 30% facility or have your actual costs reimbursed. You are not allowed to make use of both facilities, because this would mean a double untaxed allowance. You decide for yourself which facility suits you best. If you need help, please contact your HRM department.
If you do choose to make use of the 30% facility, your extraterritorial costs will no longer be reimbursed. However, you may still qualify for tax-free allowances that do not relate to the extraterritorial costs. This could mean the general commuting allowance, allowances for fixed expenses and removal expenses.


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N/NE Quadrant SAC #4: Meeting Summary
The N/NE Quadrant Project Stakeholder Advisory Committee held a successful meeting on Thursday, January 20th, setting the stage to move on to the next phase of the planning process - development of preliminary alternatives for the future of this quadrant of the Central City. Highlights from the meeting include:
- The project goals and scope were finalized. These will be used to shape recommendations made by the Committee during the planning process. The scope sets parameters for what will be addressed by this project.
- A preliminary set of Issues, Opportunities and Constraints in the planning area were presented by staff and discussed by committee members. This information represents a synthesis of input received from a broad range of stakeholders, including feedback collected at public events.
- A discussion of the next phase of the planning process, which will result in preliminary concept alternatives about how the quadrant should grow and change over the next 25 years. Preliminary concepts are expected to be ready for public review and discussion in May.
The meeting agenda and materials are available here. Full notes from the meeting will also be available on the Stakeholder Advisory Committee's (SAC) page on once they're approved at the next SAC meeting.
Upcoming meetings include joint meetings of the Land Use and Transportation Subcommittees on February 9 and March 2 (tentative), and the full SAC on March 10. See the calendar for times and locations.
Special thanks to the Calaroga Terrace Retirement Community, which donated the meeting space and refreshments for this meeting. Calaroga Terrace is located within the N/NE Quadrant Project's planning area.

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MELBOURNE, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Second-seeded Roger Federer and No. 3-ranked Andy Murray both rolled to first-round wins Tuesday at the Australian Open.
Federer won three-quarters of the points on serve in a 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 win over Benoit Paire. Federer saw only three break points -- one after the first set -- and saved them all. He cashed in half of his 12 break-point opportunities.
Murray opened Tuesday's schedule with a solid 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 defeat of Robin Haase. He piled up eight breaks and won 53 percent of the points off Haase's serve while taking two-thirds of those on serve.
Sixth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro and No. 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also advanced in straight sets. Del Potro was on the court only 76 minutes in dispatching Adrian Mannarino 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 and Tsonga got by Michael Llodra 6-4, 6-5, 6-2.
Tsonga's French countryman Gael Monfils ousted 18th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 6-3 in one of four upsets Tuesday. Also, Jarkko Nieminen edged No. 19 Tommy Haas 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 8-6; Daniel Brands advanced over 27th-seeded Martin Klizan 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; and Blaz Kavcic eliminated 29th-seeded Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.
Ninth-seeded Richard Gasquet, another Frenchman, beat Albert Montanes 7-5, 6-2, 6-1 while No. 12-seeded Marin Cilic defeated Marinko Matosevic 6-4, 7-5, 6-2. No. 13th-seeded Milos Raonic got by Jan Hajek 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (7-0) and No. 14-seeded Gilles Simon rallied to beat Filippo Volandri 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in other matches with high seeds.
Other seeded players moving into the second round with wins Tuesday were No. 17 Philipp Kohlschreiber, 21st-seeded Andreas Seppi, No. 25 Florian Mayer and 30th-seeded Marcel Granollers.
Unseeded winners Tuesday included: Bernard Tomic, James Duckworth, Go Soeda, Joao Sousa, Jesse Levine, Ivan Dodig, Jeremy Chardy, Benjamin Becker, Ricardas Berankis, Nikolay Davydenko, Amir Weintraub, Lu Yen-Hsun, Alejandro Falla, Rajeev Ram, Lukas Rosol and Denis Istomin


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The Accounting Historians Journal
Vol. 9, No. 1
Spring 1982
Dale A. Buckmaster, Editor UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
Lawrence Robert Dicksee. Business Methods and the War (Cam-bridge: at the University Press, 1915, pp. 71); The Fundamentals of Manufacturing Costs (2d ed., London: Gee & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1928, pp. 39); and Published Balance Sheets and Window Dressing (London: Gee & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1927, pp. 62). Reprint ed., three vols, in one. New York: Arno Press, 1980, $18.00.
Reviewed by William L. Talbert Georgia State University
Business Methods and the War is a reproduction in book form of four lectures delivered in 1915 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The author directs that the lectures should be regarded "in the light of a few suggestions as to how business men might, with great advantage to themselves, take to heart such lessons as the war may have to teach them. After all, war is a busi-ness, and business—like life—is one long battle."
In the first lecture the author discusses business, military, and labor organization, including an interesting history of organization through ancient, mediaeval, and modern times. He concludes that business has much to learn from the military, and that the Accounts Department of a business should occupy a position similar to that of any other staff department, and that operational personnel "should be brought up to regard them as friends and allies, rather than as natural enemies." In the other three lectures he treats such topics as business training and technical education (comparing them to military drill), the value of accounting as a means of bene-fiting by experience, waste products and by-products, and war prices and balance sheets.
The Fundamentals of Manufacturing Costs is a handbook whose object is "to draw attention to, and to emphasize the importance of, a Report issued by the Federal Trade Commission of Washington,


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I am looking for some help on rk4 and coulomb repulsion.
It is a technical question but one has to go through the story to understand what I am tyring to achieve. Thank you already.
I am trying to simulate the Coulomb repulsion between charged particles. I am using RK4 to do this which requires a function. The physics formula of the function is:
dx/dt = k*qi*(xi-xj)/sqrt((xi-xj)^2+(yi-yj)^2+(zi-zj)^2)
where qi is the charge of the i-th particle, xi, yi, zi are the
coordinates of the i-th particle and xj, yj,zj are the coordinates of the j-th
As an input for the initial values of the positions and charge for each particle, I am using arrays (currently only for 4 particles):
q[4] = { 1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0 } charge
x0[4] = { 1.0, 2.3, 3.2, 4.0 } init posn x
y0[4] = { 1.0, 2.4, 3.0, 4.0 } init posn y
z0[4] = { 1.0, 2.5, 3.3, 4.2 } init posn z
and by using two "for" loops I can loop through each particle and compute the value of the total effect of all the particles on eachother. My question is: since there are two values for each coordinate (i and j), how can I write the function in an acceptable form for RK4?
I did try the following:
however, I am not convinced this is correct (at all).Code:int func (double t, const double y[], double f[], void *params){ double mu = *(double *)params; double dx = (y[0]-y[1])/r; double dy = (y[2]-y[3])/r; double dz = (y[4]-y[5])/r; f[0] = mu*y[6]*dx/(r*r); f[1] = mu*y[6]*dy/(r*r); f[2] = mu*y[6]*dz/(r*r); return GSL_SUCCESS; }
I would appreciate any feedback.


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DIY Baby Shower Candy Buffet
Oh sweet baby! This past weekend I put together the most vibrant and gorgeous candy buffet table for a baby shower. Filled with DIY projects, this creative candy buffet was a hit with the guests! I loved the final product so much that I couldn't wait to share it with you. I hope that it provides you inspiration for your next baby shower or candy buffet.
The inspiration for this candy buffet came from this adorable Pink Safari baby shower invitation from Party City.
I loved the invitation because it shyed away from the ordinary by encompassing a fuchsia, pastel pink, white, and black color palette plus 2 different patterns – zebra print and leopard spots. I knew this was going to be a fun challenge for me to combine these various components together cohesively in a beautiful candy buffet.
First I searched around for appropriate "candy jars" and decided to go with a variety of different shapes, heights, widths, and sizes. I purchased vases from Walmart, Dollar Tree, and Michaels since I found them to be the best retail options. (I also purchased some from a wholesaler I have membership to called Shinoda's.) DIY alert: To add additional height to 2 of the cylinder vases, I simply purchased a glass candlestick holder from the Dollar Tree and glued it to the base of the vase. For added accents, I bought various ribbons matching the theme colors and patterns and hot glued them to the vases. (The best way to do this is to tape one end of the ribbon to the vase, wrap it around and then hot glue the other end of the ribbon to the overlapping ribbon base. This way you can always pull off the ribbon and reuse the vase for a future event.)
Note: remember when you are looking for vases for a candy buffet you don't want to get anything with a skinny neck that would make using tongs or a scooper difficult for your guests to grab the candy.
Next, being a big DIY fan as you know, I decided to make a tissue paper tassel garland and make the banner, instead of purchasing one. Thanks to HGTV's DIY instructions I was able to pull off a beautiful complimentary tissue paper garland tassel for the candy buffet table. It is really easy to make, cost effective, and a gorgeous decoration addition to any event or themed table. I am sure this won't be the last one you see from me.
For the banner I came up with a creatively cute idea, instead of the typical "It's a Girl" or "Baby Shower", I came up with "Oh Sweet Baby", which I thought was the perfect word play to tie together the event and the candy buffet. I made the letters on my computer, cut them, and then adhered them to patterned scrapbooking paper. Then I punched holes in the top and strung ribbon through each letter. It came out beautifully and was a perfect addition to the backdrop for the candy buffet table. Lastly, adding a few paper pin wheels from Party City along with the banner made for an amazing backdrop.
A huge plus for this gorgeous candy buffet were the fitted white rectangular linen and the fuchsia table runner from Linen Tablecloth. The quality of the linen was amazing and elegant plus it just looked so much better than a paper or plastic tablecloth would have. The satin table runner had the perfect brilliant fuchsia color making everything on the table pop! At only $2.39 it is a steal of a deal! I really do recommend purchasing linens from Linen Tablecloth because they are really affordable (usually cheaper than renting) and they provide quality linen that you can re-use over and over again. If you don't believe my raves then head over to their site www.linentablecloth.com – read the reviews and try for yourself!
Last but not least, in addition to the candy I added elements like fuchsia boa's from the Dollar Tree, extra tissue paper tassels, a picture frame, small vase with carnations, candy scoopers, and matching favor bags from Party City with Thank You stickers. Take a look at how it all came together beautifully! (Make sure you check out my tips for pulling off a beautiful candy buffet table below.)
For my first candy buffet table I was really blown away with the results once I was able to visually see everything blend together beautifully. I encourage you, especially my DIY readers, to do a candy or dessert buffet and share the photos with me, I'd love to see your creation and I'm always looking for beautiful content and DIY projects to share on the blog! Please contact me if you have something you think would be perfect to share on 3D-Memoirs!
Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment below! I'd also love it if you could be so kind as to PIN the photos on Pinterest and/or share the post on FB or Twitter! Also, if you didn't know 3D-Memoirs is now on INSTAGRAM! Follow me @3DMemoirs for lovely wedding inspiration, party ideas, and more DIY projects! I look forward to connecting with you soon!
Here are a couple of tips for a successful candy buffet table:
- Add height and depth by utilizing various vases/jars, staggering on the table, and/or adding decorative boxes or crates for some of the vases to sit on
- Make sure you buy enough candy to fill the vases/jars at least 3/4 of the way
- Add fillers to the table that matches the theme of your occasion (i.e. crystals, toys, flowers, feathers, etc)
- If you have a 6 ft table you'll probably need 12-15 vases/jars for it to look full and complete
- If you can get candy that fits your color palette it always looks awesome but it is not a requirement
- Don't forget the scoopers, tongs, or favor bags for your guests
- If it is going to be outside and it's a hot day, it is best to avoid having chocolate
- Use a table runner, garland, backdrop, banner, tags, or decorate the vases to add beautiful touches to your table
If you love my work and would like to see more, please check out my portfolio. If you are interested in hiring me to plan or make decor for your next event, please email me at 3DMemoirs{at}gmail.com!


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Damn you work quick! Ignore my earlier statements. I think this is perfect just the way it is. The colors really make him stand out. They seem a little brighter than the actual jango, but this is not a bad thing at all.I'm hoping mine looks this good. Great job.
One of the best Jangos I have ever seen, period end of story. Great job the paint apps are nice and smooth, and the parts choices are great.
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Teachers' Evenings - 27 November 2015
A series of free Teachers' Evenings designed to showcase some of what's on offer from arts and cultural organisations for London schools.
A New Direction has been collaborating with a variety of arts and cultural organisations to showcase some of what's on offer for London schools. English National Ballet, Graeae Theatre Company, Half Moon Theatre, Handel & Hendrix In London and Natural History Museum have all opened their doors to teachers working in London schools. We still have 2 more Teachers' Evening coming up at London School of Economics and Half Moon Theatre.
Our Teachers' Evenings are a great opportunity to explore and experience each
organisation's shows, exhibitions and projects. Members of the education
team at each organisation will be present to provide information about their
offering to London schools and how your school can get involved.
So far this year teachers have experienced a dress rehearsal at The English National Ballet and taken part in the development of Graeae's new performance piece. Coming up…
Teachers' Evening at London School of Economics
Date and time: Wednesday 15th June 2016, 4:30-6:30pm
For more information and to book your free place, go here
Teachers' Evening at Half Moon Theatre
Date and time: Thursday 7th July 2016, 4.30-7pm
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Flik is in search of "tough warriors" in which of these Disney Pixar productions?
Following the success of "Toy Story," Disney took inspiration from Aesop's fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper" and began work on "A Bug's Life." It was not long before competitors at DreamWorks Animation accused Disney of using the story line from their production of "Antz."


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Download The Song of Roland Study Guide
(Critical Survey of Literature for Students)
The boy Roland grows up far from his home country and lives with his penniless mother in a cave formerly occupied by a lonely monk. Nevertheless, his mother teaches him that someday he should be a brave hero like his father, Milon, and serve with the great army of Charlemagne. When he asks his mother to tell him the story of his birth, he learns that through his father he is descended from great heroes of old, Trojan Hector on one side and Wotan, king of the Norse gods, on the other. When his father, Milon, incurs the wrath of Charlemagne for taking the king's sister, the Princess Bertha, as his wife, he goes to Italy and dies there fighting pagans in single-handed combat.
One summer, when Roland is still only a lad, he meets his friend Oliver, the son of a local prince, and the two watch the coming of the great Charlemagne into Italy, where the king is to receive the blessing of the pope at Rome. Roland is impressed with the royal pageant but not overawed. That night, he walks into Charlemagne's banquet hall and demands his own and his mother's rights. Amused by the boy's daring, Charlemagne orders that Bertha be brought to him. When the emperor recognizes his long-lost sister, he rejoices and gives her and her son a place of honor in his court.
Roland's boyhood years pass quickly and with increasing honors. At first he is merely a page in the court—attending the ladies, carrying messages, and learning court etiquette. He is permitted to accompany the king's knights during war with the Saxons, and he is present when the swan knight, of the race of Lohengrin, appears at the court of Charlemagne.
When Roland is fourteen years old, he becomes a squire and makes the acquaintance of Ogier the Dane, the son of Duke Godfrey and a hostage prince at Charlemagne's court. The two boys become great friends. When, urged on by a new queen, Ogier's father plans a revolt against Charlemagne, the emperor in retaliation threatens to kill Ogier. Roland intervenes and saves his friend's life.
When barbarians attack Rome, Charlemagne, in an effort to save the pope, ignores the rebellion of the Danes and sets off to the south, taking Ogier with him as a prisoner. The great army is assisted on its passage across the Alps by a magnificent white stag that appears and leads the army through the mountain passes.
In the battles that follow, Charlemagne's army is divided. One force, led by the cowardly son of Charlemagne and the false knight Alory, attempts to retreat, thus placing the emperor's life in jeopardy. Roland and Ogier, aided by other squires, don the garments of the cowards and save the day. Charlemagne knights them on the battlefield.
One of the pagan knights proposes a personal combat. In this encounter, Ogier and a son of Charlemagne named Charlot meet two barbarians, Prince Sadone and Karaheut. The pagans trap Ogier and threaten to put him to death, but Charlot escapes. Karaheut, who was to have fought Ogier, rebels against the unchivalrous action of his pagan prince and surrenders to Charlemagne, to be treated exactly as Ogier would be treated. Reinforcements come to the pagans, among them the giant king of Maiolgre. In a dispute over the marriage of Glorianda, a Danish prisoner, Ogier fights for Glorianda and puts his enemy to rout. Charlemagne attacks at the same time, and as a result Ogier and Roland are reunited, and the pope is restored to his throne.
Roland is invested with royal arms. His sword is the famous Durandal; his battle horn is the horn of his grandfather, Charles the Hammer. None but Roland can blow that horn. His armor is the best in the kingdom.
A new war begins when Count Gerard refuses homage to the emperor. Oliver, grandson of the count, is among the knights opposed to Charlemagne. After the French besiege the fortress of Viana for seven months, it is decided to settle the war by encounter between a champion from each army. Roland is chosen to fight for Charlemagne. Unknown to him, his adversary is to...
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — At 16, he had the long, tapering swimmer's muscles that made it impossible for anyone who saw Brian Job in a pool to miss what he was — a budding champion, who that year would win a bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City — or to imagine what he would one day become: homeless.
Job, who pronounces his name like the Bible's long-suffering character, had become the first high school swimmer to break the one-minute barrier in the 100-yard breaststroke on March 29, 1968. Forty-five years later to the day, Job was released from the Santa Clara County main jail after his arrest for interfering with firefighters, who, according to a Palo Alto Police Department spokesman, were attempting to extinguish a fire Job had built in a restaurant parking lot. Job insists he and some of his fellow "outdoor citizens" were merely having a late-night barbecue.
Already on probation for disturbing the peace, with at least a half-dozen arrests for petty crimes pending against him, Job suffers from bipolar disorder and assorted addictions,
according to his family. Job is convinced his family has spent years plotting against him and maintains he is resolutely "unipolar." The things he accomplished to become a star for the mighty Santa Clara Swim Club —overcoming a club foot, months in a painful body cast, a broken neck, going headfirst through the windshield of a car — were so remarkable that sorting out fact and fiction is nearly impossible.
One thing is certain: In the four decades since he gave up competitive swimming, Job gradually moved from the world he once inhabited — based on long, grinding hours of practice and split-second victories — to an alternate reality where he is in complete control.
At some point, the rush of water and adrenaline that made Job a star at the Santa Clara International Swim Center, and later for Stanford University, was transformed into a torrent of words, flowing from him unchecked by the customary brakes of logic or circumspection.
"He's mentally ill and totally delusional," says Lisa Uzzell, Job's sister. "We had to get a restraining order to keep him away from my parents' house after he almost burned it down when he caught the rug on fire. He's manic-depressive, but he thinks nothing is wrong with him, so he doesn't take his medication."
But if Job has fallen far from his former Olympian heights, his landing on the streets has been mercifully short on self-awareness. He says he has given away a fortune that, by his own accounting, would amount to billions, perhaps trillions, of dollars. He owns very little, and needs less, including food and sleep. The token of his life's greatest moment, the Olympic bronze medal, remains at his parents' home in Los Altos. He has touched it exactly once since 1968.
When he was 18, with the whole world chasing him, Job dreamed of putting himself so far ahead of the churning contrail of his competition in the 200 breaststroke that no one could possibly get near him. He was obsessed with putting the world record out of reach, "where nobody can touch it," and in 1970 he did just that, obliterating the old mark by nearly 2 seconds. That same year, during his freshman season at Stanford, he lowered the U.S. mark every time he entered the pool at the NCAA and AAU championships, 10 records in two weeks.
He would continue to impose his will on the rest of the world for another two years, until an untimely debacle at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, where Job went from holding the world record to not even getting to swim in the finals of his event. Even his world record was wiped out in Munich by his Santa Clara Swim Center teammate, John Hencken, who took the gold medal Job had been favored to win.
Job's only memories of Munich, where members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed by terrorists, are clearly a figment of his overheated imagination — a le Carré-like tale of "going over the wall with the terrorists, thinking they were Israelis." But he has no recollection of his own disaster in the pool, where he inexplicably failed to get past a qualifying heat in the event he was favored to win. Today, he says he was swimming cautiously to avoid disqualification and simply didn't post a time good enough to advance.
"I don't remember, to tell you the truth," he says, closing his eyes for a moment. "I'm rolling the tape back and I'm getting a blank stare."
Job often draws blank stares as he jabbers at people passing by along El Camino Real, or in Lytton Park downtown, where he is a regular. Whether he is there, or buttonholing passengers at the Caltrain station, Job often dons special sunglasses that he says double as a video camera. "People are not really supposed to know what I look like, because I'm the most dangerous person in the world order," he says in a low voice. Then he mentions a "trillion-dollar company" that he owns, and explains his Spartan existence is the result of giving away all his money.
Before he supposedly invented 3-D printing, gave Apple's Steve Jobs the domain name "me.com" — "Steve called me to apologize for screwing it up," he says — and provided the impetus and inspiration for dozens of Silicon Valley's most famous ideas, Job was, in actual fact, a Santa Clara Swim Club teammate of Mark Spitz and Don Schollander, who won 14 Olympic gold medals between them. Spitz was a natural in the pool in every discipline and distance, but if he hadn't enlisted Job as his study partner at Santa Clara High, he might never have graduated. No lie, says Job's sister.
Like Spitz, who moved from the Central Valley to swim for legendary Santa Clara coach George Haines, Schollander came from Oregon as a teenager, and Job moved west from Ohio at age 15. "He was being pushed," Job's sister Brenda told Sports Illustrated in a 1970 article about the exploits of the entire family. The shove came from their mother, Mary Job, who made all four children swim laps in the lake they grew up on, morning and night. "I hated it with a passion," Brian told the magazine. "It got to the point that we were crying while we were doing our laps." His brother and sisters all quit swimming, but Brian felt obligated to carry on for his mother's sake, and continued to suffer bizarre injuries. At one point, a horse fell on him.
Last week, Brian Job said, "What our parents did to us would be considered child abuse now," and his sister Lisa theorized that their mother, who was their coach, may have suffered from the same manic-depression that she believes afflicts Brian. Lisa became a national age-group champion, Brenda was a state swimming champion in Ohio and their older brother, Stephen, swam with Schollander on a national champion medley relay team at Yale University.
When Schollander returned to Santa Clara in 2006 for a reunion of the swim club and its Olympic stars, he hadn't seen Job in years. "He was dressed very nattily," Schollander recalls by phone from Lake Oswego, Ore., where he became a real estate developer. "He was a very dandy-looking guy — kind of eccentric."
As they stood on the pool deck, Job told him about his years at Harvard Business School, followed by Silicon Valley startups Networked Picture Systems and Via Video, where he was founder, chairman and CEO — all true, apparently, though Job's claim that he had become a venture capital investor wasn't. It's likely that when Schollander returned to his hotel that night, Job returned to one of the many squats he has occupied since becoming homeless.
"He told me all these things that he had done successfully in terms of startup companies and high-tech companies," Schollander says. "I came away from that thinking, 'God, that guy's probably the most successful one of all.' I did!"
Even now, old friends from Job's days as a top swimmer find his predicament hard to believe. "He's really a brilliant guy, which is why this is so sad," says Anne Cribbs, who won a gold in the 4×100 medley relay at the Rome Olympics in 1960, and has been a mainstay of amateur sports on the Peninsula. "I had a lot of conversations with him on the phone. He took to calling some of us in the middle of the night, so it got to where you didn't answer your phone. It's just so sad."
According to Job's resume — which is available at the website created for his current, more fanciful operation, called Job 1 — he "retired" from running companies in 1987. That was around the same time that his sister says he lost his Sunnyvale home to foreclosure, blowing wads of money on a Ferrari, a huge satellite dish, and stereo speakers so enormous they needed helium tanks to run. "He started getting goofier and goofier," Uzzell says.
When he was still on top of the world in 1971, Job seemed to see his own shadow at the bottom of the pool, and in it a glimpse of the fate that awaited him. "If you … have ability, you can get better," he said. "But it's so darned easy to blow it."


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Merle Bassett: "Fashion illustration came so easily for me..."
I never imagined that one day, nearly 60 years after that article was published, I would receive a note from Merle Bassett himself! Last October, with the help of TI list member Daniel Zalkus, I connected and began corresponding with Merle Bassett. Merle shared many details about the early days of his career as a fashion illustrator in 1950s New York. Today, I'm very pleased to share those details with you, in Merle's own words...
"My name is Merle Bassett, I'm now 83 and living in Cambria, California. Since retiring here 22 years ago, I have satisfied my ambition to paint and am now passionate about digital photography."
"My days as a fashion illustrator are long gone, but I'm most grateful for being part of the 1950s illustration scene... a kinder, gentler scene!"
"I began drawing (scribbling?) at age 3. I was very fortunate to be encouraged to draw and my interest in art was supported by family and teachers. My favorite childhood "visual inspirations" were George Petty's pinup art and later, Jon Whitcomb's glamorous illustrations."
"Also, as a child I remember Cosmopolitan being in the house and seeing the great illustrators work in the '30s and '40s. I seem to recollect a Bradshaw Crandall (?) and John LaGatta being among them. As a teenager I went to a Saturday morning drawing class at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I looked forward to that class all week! In high school my abilities as an artist were recognized—I did football posters, painted and did cartoons for the yearbook."
(Above and below, artwork by Merle Bassett, age 17)
"Later, at Chouinard Art Institute in LA, I began to formulate my ambition to be a fashion illustrator. I was particularly inspired by a NY fashion illustrator named Tod Draz who did beautiful full page newspaper ads for Franklin Simon, a now defunct department store. He was a great draftsman and I related to that as I was honing my skills as a draftsman... "
"I felt good drawing was the foundation for all excellent illustrations. "
Even most of the Abstract Impressionists (except for Jackson Pollock, who couldn't draw) were excellent draftsmen before they did abstract work. I admired the story illustrators work but I didn't feel qualified to compete in that market. I was very comfortable and adept at doing fashion drawings... even at Chouinard during life drawing I'd get bored and draw fashion figures next to my drawing of the model. Once, the fashion illustration teacher, while looking at my drawing, said "well, I can see I needn't try to teach YOU anything!."
"I only completed a year of art school and needed to find work quickly at the end of that year. I knew somebody who had connections at Joseph Magnin and I got a job interview there. They hired me, so at 21 & just out of art school I was able to start making a living. As a magazine story illustrator, that would not have happened and I chose not to struggle trying to succeed as a fine artist. I needed to make money NOW."
"Fashion illustration came so easily for me... I almost intuitively knew what to do, whereas I felt intimidated by story illustration or fine art work. Back then there was little competition in fashion illustration and there was a need for young people like me who knew how to draw. I never had to struggle the way many talented people do today. It just came so easily and I went with the flow."
"I worked with Betty Brader, who did poster type fashion illustrations at my first job as "junior artist" (I was 21) in SF at Joseph Magnin (also a defunct department store) in 1947."
"I learned fashion illustration on the job and was being inspired by Eric and Bouché in the fashion magazines. They were fine artists and not really commercial artists so their work was on a higher level than most fashion art being done at the time."
"I left SF and Joseph Magnin because Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas had asked me to come work there. I worked with the art director, Charles Gruen and we were represented in several Art Directors Annuals."
"It was a great time in my life because I was drawing every day AND getting paid for it. It was all new and fresh. Each day was an adventure — I never knew what I'd be illustrating when I came to work. We were allowed to experiment and do things that had not been done before in newspaper advertising. "
"Neiman Marcus was getting a lot of attention and so were the artists involved. Up until then, retail store illustrators were really not well respected and never represented in the AD annuals."
"We changed all that and were very proud of our accomplishments."
"Not many illustrators wanted to relocate back then, but I had nothing keeping me in SF and the prestigious Neiman Marcus was a step up in my career."
"I spent 3 happy years as a staff artist in that store before I decided to seek my fortune in the Big Apple! I had nothing and nobody waiting for me in NY... I was simply fearless and ambitious at 24! However, I had done some very good work at N-M and advertising people had seen it. I got work virtually as soon as I set up a little studio."
"I have a lot of memories of New York in the 50s... some good and some not so good. It was a very exciting time for me... my style of illustration was in demand and I had no trouble finding freelance work soon after I arrived in that great city in 1951. Art directors had seen my Neiman Marcus drawings and I started getting newspaper and magazine assignments very quickly. Success came early - maybe too early. But I have no regrets, as I was quite fortunate to be in the right place at the right time."
"My first days in NY were very exciting... I was thrilled at being in that wonderful city. The Plaza Hotel with the elegant New Yorkers coming and going — I went to Broadway plays, checked out the store windows on Fifth Avenue, galleries, the Metropolitan Museum and started responding to the NY energy. It was 1951 and everything was happening in NY -- I was so happy -- feeling that I was a part of that."
I was fortunate to have Jack Potter as a friend during those years — on the nights that he was not available to teach his class at the School of Visual Arts, he asked me to sit in for him. I had great respect for him as an artist and certainly as a teacher after he retired from illustration. He inspired and motivated countless artists/professionals - and wannabe professionals!
(Below, an early-1950s photo of Merle Bassett taken by his friend, Jack Potter)
"I knew my limitations as to what kinds of assignments I was qualified to accept. As a result, I made a name for myself as a competent fashion illustrator and made a lot of money over the years. I didn't really fully express myself as an artist until retirement. Then and only then did I draw and paint to please only myself."
"In order to make money, I had to please art directors and clients... I did not please myself and grow as an artist during my career."
"I did not struggle the way so many of today's young illustrators do. I was kept busy freelancing for nearly 20 years. When my days as an illustrator were over, I moved to LA and worked as a layout artist until retirement in 1988."
"I was conflicted about commercial art versus fine art... I really admired the great painters. So I pursued a career as a fashion illustrator, which paid the bills and put fine art on the back burner until retirement. I guess Bob Peak, Jack Potter and the rest of the great illustrators of that era had a different agenda than mine. I had and still have, great respect for their work."
"After moving to Cambria, I had a great time doing watercolors and enjoyed being a "Fine Artist" and not having to please an art director or a Sales Promotion Director!"
"Thanks, Leif, for the opportunity to go back in time to the "glory days"! The world was such a very different place back then — now I keep busy with photography."
Many thanks to Merle Bassett for sharing the story of his career with us - and to Daniel Zalkus for putting us in touch with each other!
* You can see some of Merle's photography at this site.
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Leif, These stories of how illustrators navigated their way are wonderful! Many thanks! All the best, KevinReplyDelete
Did Merle's story shed some light on the questions you posed the other day? Or were you thinking more about artists from today?
Very cool to see all this work in one place. I had seen a few of his illustrations but not all of them. The drawing he did for Darbury stands out to me.
Leif,it's a pleasure to hear the artist describe his experiences.Nice drawing throughout!Judging from his high school drawings and the black cat drawing,he must have had an interest in cartooning as well.I was wondering if he was drawing a girl named Jo on the page of cartoon heads,or is it just a friend's name?ReplyDelete
Loved the interview. Very interesting to read how careers got made and the display of work is very inspiring, the commercial and non commercial alike. Thanks for this! Will check out some more on your blog!ReplyDelete
Kevin and Eva, thanks for your kind words -- I'm delighted that you enjoyed this presentation of Merle's work.ReplyDelete
Steve, thanks as well - I've sent merle an email asking about the cartoon heads and will post his reply if I get one. :^)
Not really - if anything, it sort of reinforces my confusion (that might not be exactly the right word) about what motivates someone to specialize in fashion illustration. I get that it may be perfect for an artist of a certain personality, as with any artist who settles into a specialty - but to my mind, fashion illustration is a very limiting specialty.
I don't think your earlier comparison to a comic artist or storybook artist is quite accurate. Comic artists and storybook artists may work within a limited style - but they have the opportunity to explore a huge range of subject matter, conceptual work, compositional, colour and narrative variation.
In my mind, I would equate the level of specialization I see in fashion illustration to, say, an automotive artist - the one who paints only the cars, not the people and surrounding environments. I think Tom Watson expressed a similar feeling to mine in his description of the time he was offered a position as a fashion illustrator and turned it down.
All that being said, I have the greatest admiration for fashion illustrators. I don't mean to disparage them - I'm in awe of their abilities! -- its just not something I personally would find particularly compelling to do day in and day out over the course of a decades-long career. :^)
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I think it would be a wasted effort to try to explain to those who would make a connection of fashion illustration and automotve illustration, as it would be to explain "style". They simply would not get it.ReplyDelete
Like referring to the black cat illustration as a cartoon. It was a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek capture of the essence of the name of a Lanvin perfume My Sin Black cat? White kittens? Duh
- Anonymous1:36 PM
Great article and FANTASTIC art work. I LOVE fashion illustration and wish it was as easy to get freelance work as a fashion illustrator today.ReplyDelete


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Domhnall Gleeson has revealed it wasn't easy getting into Frank Sidebottom's head in Frank.
The Irish actor was required to don the fibreglass headgear, normally worn by Michael Fassbender, in one scene in the black comedy, which is loosely based on writer Jon Ronson's experience performing with the mask-wearing creation of comedian Chris Sievey.
"There was a scene where I was meant to slide on the head to see what it looks and feels like. It turned into quite a long scene. I wasn't really able to get it past my nose, because apparently, my head is quite big," he admitted.
"No one else had trouble trying it on. People wanted to have a go. Everybody wanted to try on the head and do the funniest move - there was a little bit of that - but the only person who really made it work is Michael," he added.
Michael Fassbender stars as frontman Frank, who hides his identity inside a massive cartoon head, just like Sidebottom's, while Domhnall plays keyboard player and aspiring songsmith Jon.
"I hadn't heard of Frank Sidebottom, and in a way, I don't think that was any harm," Domhnall said.
"The problem we'll face with some people who do know Frank Sidebottom, is that they might come to the movie expecting it to be about him. That'll be a hurdle to get over, as it's not about him. It's in the spirit of one of his crazy songs, maybe, but there's no biographical connection with our Frank in the movie and him - apart from the fact that he wears a head."
Domhnall, who has been cast in the new Star Wars film, Episode VII, added: "So it didn't really matter that I didn't hear of him before."
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In this lesson, students participate in an activity Dr. Currence refers to as Tableaux With a Twist. A tableau is a dramatic activity where a group of students are asked to physically construct a significant scene from literature through body placement, facial expressions, and the use of a few props. This "freeze frame" invites students in the audience to identify the scene, its importance, and the significance of the characters, their actions, and reactions. Dr. Currence's Tableaux With a Twist invites students in the audience to tap a character in the scene, hearing what they have to say. The tapped characters in the scene explain what they are doing and why they are doing it. This activity focuses on characters' actions and motives, allowing students to walk in the characters' shoes. This is particularly important for the students' current unit of study, historical fiction, in which they are expected to see how realistic characters change when some element of history influences their lives. Tableaux helps kids become part of the book, create personal responses to the literature, and connect with the characters, conflicts, and plot in a meaningful way.
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More parents of special-needs children opt out of public schools
For thousands of Texas parents, the start of the school year has taken on a new meaning: an end to the conflicts, struggles and disappointment with the public school system.
A growing number of parents of special-needs children are opting out of public schools, deciding instead to home school or to pay for pricey private schools.
The number of secondary students who left public schools to home school increased 50 percent from 2003 to 2010, reaching 2,040 7th- through 12th-graders, according to the Texas Education Agency. The number of middle- and high-school special education students who withdrew for private school increased 75 percent, reaching 772 in 2010.
That's not to mention thousands of younger students whose reasons for leaving public schools aren't recorded, or the countless families who give up on public school before their child receives a needed "special education" classification. With Texas' diagnosis rate falling to an all-time low of 8.8 percent in recent years - the lowest in the nation - the label and its accompanying services are harder than ever to come by.
"It's the free market at work. People are voting with their feet," said Tim Lambert, president of the Texas Home School Coalition. "Parents just get frustrated with the bureaucracy of the public school."
A record 300,000 Texas children are being home-schooled, and an increasing number of them have special needs, prompting the creation of support groups and specialized curriculum. Some families who don't feel equipped to handle home-schooling a child with special needs search out one of the dozens of specialty private schools, often paying the equivalent of Ivy League tuition.
Leslie Phillips pulled her son out of a Katy school when he was in second grade, opting to pay a $30,000-a-year tuition bill rather than continue fighting for the services she felt he needed. The family viewed tuition as a better investment than a legal battle they were unlikely to win. To add urgency, her son, who has an autism disorder, was coming home with bruises that no one could explain.
Lack of resources
"They just didn't or couldn't respond quickly enough to get us in a situation that was safe for him," said Phillips, whose son, now 12, is thriving at a private school. "I have probably more sympathy for school districts than many parents. ... They're left with this explosion of children with a high level of need and they can't scramble fast enough to get the resources and training."
Considering the autism and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder epidemics, Texas' shrinking number of special education children seems questionable, she added.
Some education officials, however, argue the decline is a positive sign that public schools are identifying and remediating learning disabilities faster, reducing the need for special education.
Cynthia Singleton home-schooled her son, who has autism, for several years before enrolling him in Johnston Middle School in the Houston ISD, where he's an eighth-grader in advanced classes. It's the lack of attention to the social needs of special education students that will likely leave her scrambling for alternatives for high school.
"They don't have even half of the resources they need to handle the kid with disabilities," she said. "They turn a blind eye to the social needs."
A niche group of lawyers defends school districts against parents' special-education legal claims, making it difficult for parents to prevail without spending considerable time and money.
'Find an alternative'
"When you get into a fight with a school, it's like a divorce," Singleton said. "I'd rather take my energy and money and find an alternative."
Claudia Wanczyk pulled her son out of Katy ISD when he was rezoned to a different school with a new teacher at the start of fourth grade. The family has spent thousands of dollars on therapy in addition to home-schooling the 12-year-old.
"He's made more progress" at home, she said.
Rebecca Rex's son is starting Lone Star College this month after being home-schooled throughout K-12. She showed up for kindergarten registration 15 years ago intending to enroll him in public school, but she had immediate concerns about administrators' reaction to her son, who was born with lead poisoning.
Rex's son is now an avid photographer and a skilled swimmer. He's well traveled and a talented artist.
"It just became a way of life for us," she said. "I guess I'm happy the school system ran me off, to be honest."


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While You're Gone
Sadness fills your eyes.
Tears fill mine.
Our love is so true,
So sweet, so divine.
In your arms I feel so helpless
Yet at the same time so safe.
Of all in the world
There will never be another to take your place.
I remember our first glance,
Our first touch, and first kiss.
With all that's being taken from me
It's your warmth I will miss.
I'll be here when you get back,
And all our dreams will come true.
But don't forget, while you're gone,
I'll always love you.


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Gear Star's 4L60 Gets The Jump On A TH400
Some things have been commonplace for too long. Times are changing, and some of it is for the best. There probably aren't too many people out there faced with the question of having a three- or four-speed automatic in their truck who would opt for three, but again, there might not be too many people who have thought about it. The 4L60 transmission has been around long enough to prove itself, and it is a shoe-in to replace a Turbo 350 or 400, plus it can be found in a non-electronic controlled version that'll work behind a Chevy motor in almost any old truck. Cruising down the freeway while floating the valves keeping up with traffic isn't much fun, and that fourth gear sure would be nice.
Gear Star is a company that's been around for over 20 years in the custom-built transmission business, and it is a firm believer in the 4L60 as a workhorse that'll take a floggin' and keep on joggin'. The 4L60 also has an electric fourth-gear lockup that totally eliminates any slippage in the torque converter and results in a 30-percent overdrive ratio via the lockup's mechanical connection to the motor, which will also help the tranny stay cool and lubricated for long periods on the road. All of this is a benefit of a trans that'll withstand up to 700 horsepower thanks in part to a super-streetable Yank Racing 10-inch converter that behaves like the best 12-inch converter off the line, but can take all the abuse your foot can dish out.
Gear Star transmissions are built to order by one of a few master mechanics with over 20 years under their belt; they don't have an "off the shelf" package. That same guy tears down, pulls the parts, builds, and dyno's each tranny. Their Level 3 transmissions have many of their own upgraded parts, such as output shafts five times stronger than stock thanks to the 300M hardened steel many of their parts are made from. Once this sucker is in you won't break it or worry about it. According to Gear Star's Zack Farah, each comes with a 4-month/24,000-mile warranty to back it up.
Replacing the old TH400 with Gear Star's Level 3 4L60 in a '72 Chevy C-10 was basic, but care needs to be taken while adjusting the TV cable to ensure the right change in line pressure inside the tranny to coincide with how much your foot is on the gas pedal. Your driveshaft might have to be shortened like ours was by local shop O.C. Driveline or a new one made depending on the application and if it's a one- or two-piece unit. We also opted for a new tranny crossmember from Performance Online that makes for more room between the frame-rails thanks to its simple yet effective design.
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Recycle, reuse, reboot!
It's a mantra that Hollywood studios have taken to heart in recent years.
Check out the movies dominating the July 4 holiday box office: "The Lone Ranger," "Despicable Me 2," "Monsters University" and "Man of Steel."
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If those titles don't provoke a sense of deja vu, how about "Star Trek Into Darkness," "Fast and Furious 6," "The Great Gatsby" and "Iron Man 3."
All are sequels, prequels, reboots or reinventions. And with May and June delivering record-setting numbers at the domestic box office thanks largely to "Iron Man 3," "Man of Steel" and "Monsters University," it's a trend not likely to end anytime soon.
"The good old days - the late 1960s, '70s and '80s - when a studio could take a chance on a movie, those days are few and far between now," says Scott Mantz, resident film critic for Access Hollywood Live. "I wouldn't say they are completely gone, but it is a very rare situation when you find something that is a risky move that hits big. The last thing I can really think of that did that was 'The Matrix' in 1999."
According to Mantz, blockbusters have become so expensive to produce and publicize that for studios to minimize their risk, they opt for reboots of known franchises or movies based on popular comic book characters.
Yet simply basing a big budget film on an existing character or beloved story is no guarantee of ticket sales. Subject familiarity may help during the pre-release marketing campaign but proof of success ultimately lies in box-office returns.
"Among these reboots, the ones that perform best at the box office are those that put a fresh spin on the material – if the movie feels stuck in a different era, audiences are less inclined to give it a shot," said Ray Subers, editor of Box Office Mojo. "It also helps when there's some distance from the previous version – for example, few prospective audience members are likely to remember Robert Redford's Gatsby movie from 1974."
That distance certainly paid off for director Baz Lurhmann's re-imagined "The Great Gatsby" which has grossed over $300 million worldwide since its debut. It's a scenario Disney is no doubt hoping to replicate with their costly remake of "The Lone Ranger."
"'The Lone Ranger' is a huge gamble because most people who know the character are older. And older movie goers are not usually the type of people who go out and see a movie on the first weekend," says Mantz. "The challenge for Disney is to make 'The Lone Ranger' cool and fun and family friendly to justify its production budget, which unfortunately for the studio has topped $250 million, and that's not even including the $150 million it's reportedly costing them to market and publicize the film."
The Lone Ranger character has been with us for more than 80 years, first arriving via radio in 1933 before riding to success on television in the series that ran from 1949 to 1957. He's graced the silver screen in a trio of films - "The Lone Ranger (1956), "The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958), "The Lone Ranger" (1981) - and returns this summer with Armie Hammer fighting wrongs from behind the mask and Johnny Depp by his side in the role of Tonto.
"We knew that it was time for 'The Lone Ranger' and westerns to be reborn," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer in the film's production notes. "Just as [director] Gore [Verbinski] and I knew that it was time for pirate movies to be resurrected when we first developed 'Pirates of the Caribbean' for the screen a decade ago."
Bruckheimer does know a thing or two about successful franchises. But only time and audience engagement will reveal whether "The Lone Ranger" can rustle up the kind of returns the "Pirates" franchise has delivered. Collectively, the four "Pirates" films to date have brought in $3.7 billion at the worldwide box office.
For Mantz, the origin of this current trend of rebooting or reinventing can be traced back to characters as equally oddball and fond of masks as Tonto and the Lone Ranger.
It was following the success of Marvel's "X-Men" in 2000 that Hollywood began returning again and again to the well of franchises and cherished characters. The film relaunched interest in the superhero genre and that interest was sustained through a slew of follow-up X-Men sequels and prequels, the Spider-Man franchise (which received a second reboot with last year's "The Amazing Spider-Man") and the Dark Knight trilogy of Batman movies, before culminating in "The Avengers'" 2012 record-breaking haul.
"Last summer when 'The Avengers' made over $1.5 billion worldwide it basically sealed the superhero genre in stone for years and years to come," continues Mantz. "This year 'Iron Man 3' has made $1.2 billion worldwide - another reason the studios want to keep making superhero movies because they are doing well and that there is a built in awareness."
And with "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" soaring onto screens in 2014 along with the return of "Captain America," "Transformers 4," "Fast & Furious 7," "Expendables 3," "Night at the Museum 3" and another outing for James Bond, plus "Avengers 2" and a raft of new "Star Wars" and "Terminator" flicks being rolled out annually beginning in 2015, audiences can expect a steady diet of reinvention well into the next decade.


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The trial of a South Florida man accused of raping and killing his adoptive mother began on Monday.
Gerard A. Lopes, 23, is charged with premeditated murder in the death of 43-year-old Natalie Belmonte, whose bludgeoned body was found in a marsh near their Pembroke Pines home in July 2011.
Prosecutors claim Lopes, who has pleaded not guilty, sexually assaulted his adoptive mother before killing her. In a hearing held last week, state prosecutors sought approval to introduce DNA evidence they say shows the motive was sexual assault.
An autopsy showed that semen found in Belmonte matched Lopes' DNA, but Lopes' attorneys argue it's not relevant because the sexual relationship was consensual.
During that hearing, the state called a DNA expert, Dr. Martin Tracey, to the stand. Tracey testified the level of integrity of the DNA found shows the semen was deposited at the time of the murder.
"We know from other kinds of studies that I'm familiar with and teach at the university, the survival time for semen is about 3 to 5 days," Tracey said.
But during opening statements on Monday, the prosecutor didn't introduce that argument.
Before the trial began, the lead detective in the case told the judge he overheard a jail conversation between Lopes and one of his attorneys, where Lopes allegedly said that he was going to say it was a consensual sexual relationship.
That attorney, Samantha Epstein, testified on Monday that "he asked questions such as, 'So they have to prove that it wasn't consensual?' — which is not at all the same as, 'I am going to say it was consensual.'"
Prosecutor Adriana Alcalde-Padron said he "strangled her, beat her, killed her and threw her away with no panties."
Police said security video from a neighbor's house shows Belmonte and Lopes, who was 21 at the time of his 2011 arrest, leaving in the same car and stopping at a Walgreens before heading to a party.
The car returns with both individuals around 2:48 a.m. A short time later, Lopes is seen dragging a bag across the driveway and loading bags into the trunk. Belmonte's body would be found three days later near their Pembroke Pines home.
During last week's hearing, prosecutors called Belmonte's sister Michaela Teixeira to the stand and asked point blank about the possibility of a consensual sexual relationship.
"There's absolutely no way she had a consensual sexual relationship with her son," she said.
Broward Circuit Judge Matthew Destry had ordered two prerequisites. If the state can establish a sexual relationship has serious negative consequences on Lopes, and secondly that the semen was deposited at or near the time of death, he'll admit the evidence. He also warned that if the state presents the argument into opening statements but fails to prove relevance, he'll grant a mistrial.
Belmonte's daughter Brianna said her mother treated Lopes "like a son."
Defense attorney Jose Reyes said, "There is no evidence of ill will."
Lopes' clothing was found in a dumpster with Belmonte's blood on it.
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Across Taiwan, the government is involved in land speculation in an attempt to save the economy. The combined hidden debt of central and local governments has reached about NT$15 trillion (US$513 billion), an amount that will take more than 60 years to pay back.
Despite this, the government is continuing to add to the debt by initiating large public construction projects on a build-operate-transfer basis. Together, the government and private enterprises have invested more than NT$33 trillion in such projects, with the result that huge amounts of capital have been pouring into the real estate market.
This is an updated version of traditional developmentalism, that is focused on speculation.Encouraged by their superiors, as well as local government leaders, the authorities in charge of the various industries targeted by the central government, such as the National Science Council and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, have proposed many such development projects.
The Cabinet has then categorized these projects as "major national construction projects" and demanded that the agencies in charge implement them. This kind of construction project used to be a guarantor of public benefit, but they are now being seriously undermined by underestimating of project costs and exaggeration of their benefits.
For example, the occupancy rate at the Central Taiwan Science Park is a mere 51 percent and its administration has debts amounting to about NT$136.3 billion. Meanwhile, 1,246 hectares of land at the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park remain unused.
Despite this, those in charge of the evaluation of the fourth-stage development project for the Central Taiwan Science Park remain markedly upbeat.
Local governments are in control of land utilization plans, such as urban and zonal planning. Using development permits for the preparation, changes to, expansion and zoning of these urban plans, local governments are able to convert large areas of farmland and low-usage land into land for construction.
However, the supply of land for urban planning significantly exceeds demand. A report from the Control Yuan clearly states that there is a gap of 6.78 million people between the population quoted as being involved in local governments' urban planning and the actual population of the involved areas.
According to the Control Yuan, this makes it clear that the population figures quoted in the plans are either false or inflated. Yet, local government continues to exaggerate the numbers in order to be able to redesignate land use.
As the interests of central and local governments and businesses collide, the authorities use their development project plans and land usage plans to achieve their goals. Most of the land involved in both development projects and land use planning is private.
For the sake of land speculation, the government does not hesitate to resort to regular and zonal expropriation, the redesignation of public land and urban renewal, all of which are potential violations of human rights.
As a result of this behavior, many farmers and other citizens have been deprived of land that has belonged to their families for generations, forcing them to leave their beloved homes.
Today, large construction projects mean massive land speculation and forced relocations.


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Just look at these two little magicians, aren't they the most? I just want to tie them together and use them as a flying carpet and ride into my dreams. Also, if you're feeling like giving up, just mute this video on repeat while listening to Wilson Phillips' classic "Hold On." After a few viewings, you'll either throw yourself off the nearest building or conquer the world. It's a crapshoot, but I think it's a good one.
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Speedy Ortiz keeps getting louder, gnarlier and ballsier, and it is utterly satisfying and brain-rattling.
Every song has its moment. The back third of "American Horror" burns everything down and leaves a cloud of guitar fuzz. The chords get particularly dissonant on "Oxygal," as Sadie Dupuis drops her voice into a lower, darker place, only to pitch up into a near-whine for the chorus. A shivering and queasy guitar at the beginning of "Shine Theory" gives way to some crushingly heavy riffs.
And the pain of the past hasn't gone away. "I wanna want him so bad / But I don't recognize the charms that he has / 'Cause my heart looks in on itself / And he'd be better by someone else / Who cares about a face." Or how about the simple, "Now we better part ways so nobody sees / Sucking up the mist, I guess it was real."
It's still whip smart, too. Just read through the lyrics for "Oxygal." It's bursting with hallmarks of a songwriter who studied poetry at M.I.T. and Barnard. All of the lyrics need some untangling and decoding, and you may never work it out, but all the better. Even in the absence of explicit meaning, you can feel them like a gut punch.
Real Hair proves that, for all the similarities to Pavement or Dinosaur Jr., Speedy Ortiz is its own band with its own ideas, thoughts and feelings. Plus, substance and ambitions aside, they'll blow your hair back.


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There's something very unassuming about Fading Parade, Papercuts' fourth album proper, and first for Sub Pop. It's neither gaudy nor timid, but there's a quiet familiarity about Bay Area local Jason Quever's ten shimmering pop songs. My instant initial association (whether well-founded or not) was actually with Miracle Fortress's 2007 debut Five Roses, an album that came to soundtrack a summer without any real knowing or say-so on my part. Its Beach Boys influences, and begging for the use of the phrase 'reverb-soaked' as an adequate descriptor soon became inseparable from those hazy summer late-afternoons spent busying myself around and about my hometown. It's something that Fading Parade seems intent on doing itself, slyly carving itself a place on the stereo over the calmer days of the approaching summer months.
'Do You Really Wanna Know' immediately asserts that Californian nostalgia, a plucked guitar line anticipating a full band entry that feels like a splash into a body of water, that same body that you're then suspended beneath for the record's duration. Even Quever's featherweight vocals (which often expand into rich Sixties harmonies) have something of the aquatic about them, something muffled and obscuring that suggests they've floated through liquid rather than air. As a consequence of this spacious and resonant quality, it's often hard to decipher exactly what's really intended to be communicated. Only a few distinct phrases and gestures seem to filter through (namely, those that suggest serious, but ultimately inconsequential reflections: talk of "dreams and doubts" on 'Do You Really Wanna Know'; the assertion that "home is where you run to" on 'Do What You Will' - never anything too close to the bone.)
Undoubtedly, it's the roomy echo and sustain applied to the layers of capacious percussion and rolling organ waves that defines the texture of Fading Parade. What's great about this, though, is that Quever seems to be well aware of the boundary between an intentionally viscous sound and an incessant sludge that'll weigh the listener down. Take, for example, the transitions between the seabed pressure and syrupy density of the songs like 'White Are The Waves' into the airy, floating waltz of 'Wait Till I'm Dead'. It's something that's also evident from a closer perspective, where shorter, lighter bridge sections come to divide songs such as 'I'll See You Later, I Guess' and 'Do What You Will' into more traversable pieces of music. It's undeniably something that saves the record from drowning beneath its own weight.
This self-awareness, however, isn't going to stop me for criticizing Fading Parade for being a record stuck in one gear. Save for a few exceptions, the record doesn't often seem to push pass a lethargic march (which, as it's just struck me, may be an intentional nod to a dominating theme – that of the Fading Parade). Either way, it wasn't an issue that irritated me until I really came to sit and listen to the album, to pay attention to its finer details. Again, I can't help but feel that it's best not to award too much concentration to Fading Parade, but simply let it unfold at its own pace. 'Winter Daze' is one notable standout from the collection, with a shift in instrumentation offering some welcome variety. While the songs offers little change in terms of pacing and form (Quever's sunny, major-key melody, draped over a slow, quiet march), a more pronounced reliance on acoustic instruments - based on a simple drums, piano, acoustic guitar, bass setup - makes this an entirely different landscape to those that precede it.
The key to Quever's wide-eyed songwriting seems to be that each element contributes to one overall sound – they're washed in with one another on a pallete, rather than presented alongside each other on canvas, and it's this undefined, hazy quality that makes Fading Parade perfect for filtering through your subconscious. It's no good for serious contemplation, but then I doubt that's what it's intended for – definitely one to keep handy for a sleepy August afternoon.
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