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SCH tree removal is vandalism
As a Houston family member living abroad, I was unaware of the vandalism at Springside School until my current visit to Chestnut Hill.
I am horrified to see that all the perimeter trees on Willow Grove Avenue and Cherokee Street have been destroyed. There seems to be little appreciation by the board of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy for their physical environment.
Do you think that Lawrenceville School with its Frederick Law Olmstead landscape would have been so shortsighted as to tear down the landscape? They understand that the parents want the beautiful environment.
My grandfather, Samuel Frederick Houston, as chairman of the Houston Estate, preserved the trees for 67 years. His daughter, Edith Houston Brown, preserved the trees for a further 30 years, making a total of more than 100 years of protection for those trees. By the way, Springside School has never acknowledged her gift of The Lawn of the Druim Moir to Springside School with a plaque. Maybe the Springside-CHA board might do so now.
In my opinion, the SCH board needs to consider the following:
1. Willow Grove Avenue is one of the principal avenues of Chestnut Hill. An avenue is lined with trees in the French-Beaux-Arts tradition. Historically Willow Grove Avenue has been lined with trees from the gates of Druim Moir to St. Martin's station.
The big trees need to be replaced with equally large trees (not like the puny ones across the street at SCH). The pattern established by the Philadelphia Cricket Club with its brick wall and lines of trees could be repeated for the rest of Willow Grove Avenue to the gates of Druim Moir.
2. When Mr. Frank Steel, principal of CHA, was planning the new Science Building, I asked him to place the parking at the back of the site by Springfield Avenue. Instead he placed the parking lot on Willow Grove Avenue. Who ever heard of wasting a prime spot on Willow Grove Avenue on parking?
3. The track at SCH was given by my mother, Eleanor Houston Smith, and her sisters for outdoor recreation. But parking has been allowed to encroach on the track area against the intentions of the Houston family.
4. Another eyesore is the line of four telephone poles on Cherokee Street. Why have the poles not been taken down and the wires put underground instead of destroying the trees? There is enough public agitation over the vandalism for the schools to raise the money to put the wires underground. Springside Chestnut Hill Academy would be making an important contribution to the environment if they removed telephone poles instead of trees.
5. Chestnut Hill has recently been voted one of the 30 most beautiful towns in the United States. This is partially the result of all the trees planted by the Houston family, the preservation of open space at the Cricket Club, the trees opposite St. Martin's Church, Pastorius Park, and the trees planted on Seminole Avenue amongcountless examples.
6. As a reminder of what could possibly happen to the SCH board, I recently successfully went to the Orphans Court to stop the Schuylkill Center for Enrichment Education board from trying to sell some of the SCEE land and handing over the Eleanor Houston Smith building to the Green Woods charter school, as I was fed up with people blatantly trying to break the wills of the Houston family. As a result of the court action, the Charter School is gone and SCEE cannot sell its land without permission from the courts.
We could contemplate further action unless the newly formed SCH school takes responsibility for improving the green environment by replacing the large trees with large trees and removing the telephone poles.
Eleanor K. Houston Smith Morris
Chestnut Hill
Thanks for partnership on SCH campus
If you have driven through the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy campus recently, you have no doubt seen the transformation of our outdoor athletic fields and the laying of brick pathways connecting our 62-acre campus.
We are thrilled to be nearing completion of this project, and anxiously await the arrival of over 226 trees and formal landscaping at the end of the month that will put the final touches on Phase I of our Campus Master Plan.
On behalf of our entire school community, I would like to thank the partners who have stood with us as we revitalize our playing fields and created pathways that will serve our students and the larger community. Without support from the Friends of the Wissahickon, Chestnut Hill Historical Society, Chestnut Hill Community Association, Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia Water Department and the City of Philadelphia, this work would not have been possible.
We would also like to thank our neighbors who have supported and worked with us on the planning and execution of this significant project. We hope you will visit the campus soon.
Priscilla G. Sands, Ed.D.
President, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Green Party vote is beyond belief
I was sorry to read Lawrence Geller's commentary about why he will vote for the Green Party this November. Whatever his argument, it is clear he is not a woman, and definitely not a poor woman.
A win by the Republican Party this year, according to their own statements, will bring serious policy changes for women's health issues, and long-term change in the Supreme Court, and in my opinion will lead to great suffering.
Why Mr. Geller is willing to risk the long-term suffering of others (not his) for what he himself describes as a "lost cause," simply in order to feel better about himself, is beyond my understanding.
Peggy MacGregor
Mt. Airy
Black and White Gala a big success!
Oh, what a night, late
October of 2012
What a very special time for us.
As I remember, what a night!
What a Gala, what a night!
This past Saturday evening, the CHCA, CHCF and Chestnut Hill Hospital held a very successful Black and White Gala on the grounds of the hospital, where there was much to celebrate. By all accounts, the event was extraordinary. It was built on vision, partnerships and commitment.
The generosity throughout this community was overwhelming from auction donations to sponsorships. We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our committed and hardworking committee, volunteers and staff who lent their time, expertise, relationships and resources to the event.
Without everyone's dedicated assistance – particularly that of our fabulous committee members and staff – this event would not have been possible. We are truly grateful for everything you each contributed to making this a wonderful evening and a beautiful event!
Dawn Timmeny – Honorary Chair
Kevin M. Boyle, CEC – CHH
Cathy Brzozowski – CHH
Julie Byrne
Michala Costello
Patrician M. Cove
Nancy Evans
Scott Friend – CHH
Lisa Howe
Caroline Estey King
Laura Lucas
Nancy McGettigan
Kathie Meadow
Adeline Mandel
Janice Manzi
Jonna Naylor
Chris Padova
Marilyn Paucker
Paula M. Riley
Bob Rossman
John Scanlon
Glenna Stone
Arianna Neromiliotis
Aurora Neromiliotis
Paul Heinsdorf
Angela Conway
Tyler Perry
Staff Members
Celeste Hardester – CHCA
Noreen Spota – CHCA
Ray DeJohn – CHL
Selma Elbana – CHCA
Cheryl Massaro – CHL
Rachel Spota – CHCA
Ellen Clinton
Thank you all and see you on the Avenue and at the next Black & White Gala!
Black & White Gala
Co-Chairs – 2012
Susan Bray
Marianne Dwyer
Jane M. Piotrowski
'A nice lady'
I am so sorry to read in this week's Local that Jane Lenel had died. That was a nice article you wrote. I recently learned that she lived at Cathedral Village and was glad to see her byline again in the Local, and had hoped I'd run into her. She was great to work with and was a nice lady. (She did some proofreading/copy editing as well.)
Katie Worrall
'Lack of vision' at the Local
I challenge Len Lear's contention that "Rev. Bev" is "progressive" in her sexuality ("Minister's one-woman show…from Eggbeaters to Vibrators," Local Life, Oct. 18). What does "progressive" mean in this context? Is sexual "progressiveness" what we used to call promiscuity?
The Sexual Revolution has utterly trivialized life in the United States and led to the infantilization of discourse in America. Folks today can't even send their boys to the Boy Scouts without being accused by the politically correct of being "homophobic." ("Boy Scouts brave, clean and reverent {and homophobic}" Mike Todd's "Over the Top" column in the same issue.)
I'd like to tell Mike Todd, Len Lear and "Rev. Bev" that there is a good reason for confining sexuality to marriage and for preventing homosexuals from destroying the Boy Scouts. Rev. Bev is right in one sense: sex is all-devouring biology. But she's wrong in her conclusion. It is precisely the social defense against biology (i.e., marriage) that needs to be protected for the sake of long-term achievements. And as for one's children: protecting them from sexual exploitation is among the first duties of any decent parent.
Have we become so corrupted in our opinions that there can be any doubt in this matter?
The attempt of the Chestnut Hill Local to pander to the Sexual Revolution by grabbing at its tattered coattails in these weak and conformist articles speaks volumes for the lack of vision and leadership in the Local and in our wider society. I will not long maintain my subscription if this is to be the new dispensation.
Caryl Johnston
Pizza article needed more information
I enjoyed your wonderful article about Barb Gunning and her extraordinary pizza store. My husband and I have been faithful clients of Mom's Pizza, now Chestnut Hill Bake at Home, for years and were delighted to see Barb get such good publicity. One item I noticed missing was her address, email and phone number. That information distributed by the Local would certainly help this local and worthy business prosper.
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Hundreds of researchers descended on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center for the 27th annual NIH Research Festival, which showcased some of the important and life-changing research NIH scientists do every day. This year's festival, held Nov. 6-8, 2013, commemorated the 60th anniversaries of the NIH Clinical Center and James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the DNA double helix.
Participants attended symposia, toured the NIH Clinical Center, cheered at a ribbon cutting for the new academic center at the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences and networked with colleagues.
"It was really great to see such a diverse group having those person-to-person interactions and learning about 500 of the projects NIH's intramural program is doing," said Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). He co-chaired this year's festival with Luigi Ferrucci, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director at the National Institute on Aging.
During the festival's poster session, research trainees and postdoctoral fellows described their current research to other attendees.
Matthew LaFave, Ph.D., along with a team of five others, conducted research that could lead to safer gene therapy. Gene therapy is the process of replacing or modifying genes to treat a disease. The procedure requires clinicians to insert retroviruses into genes. In past procedures, the retroviruses sometimes inserted in the wrong parts of the gene, causing patients to develop additional disorders and diseases. Dr. LaFave's and his colleagues developed a technique that will help predict where a retrovirus will insert in a gene, thus reducing the risk of complications due to gene therapy. To read more, go to http://researchfestival.nih.gov/2013/posters.cgi?id=GEN-18
Yong Jun Choi, Ph.D. and his colleagues are researching chemotherapeutic agents that can target specific cancers in the future. The team also found molecules that can reduce the damaging effect chemotherapy and radiation have on cancer cells. To read more, go to http://researchfestival.nih.gov/2013/posters.cgi?id=MOLBIO-8
Kai Ying, Ph.D., worked with three others to develop a new method of finding how many copy number variations are in a genomic region. Copy number variations are the number of times a particular genomic region shows up in a genome. They can play a role in the development of diseases such as autism, Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Examining copy number variations helps clinicians see what diseases and disorders a person may be at risk for developing. His team's new method is more sensitive to aberrations in a genome than previous methods and can produce more accurate results. To read more, go to http://researchfestival.nih.gov/2013/posters.cgi?id=COMPBIO-24
Recent Washington University in St. Louis graduate Robert Burnett worked on a six-person team to find a more humane approach to conducting mouse model research of Type 2 Gaucher Disease (GD). Currently, scientists extract brains from mouse fetuses to find a mouse with the genetic mutation that causes GD. Burnett and his colleagues replicated the mutated gene so researchers won't have to use multiple mice to find a mouse that may develop the disease. Burnett also found specific antibodies that can aid companies in GD research. To read more, go to http://researchfestival.nih.gov/2013/posters.cgi?id=GEN-31
To learn more about this year's research festival, go to http://researchfestival.nih.gov/2013/

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Michele Ragusa Joins 'Young Frankenstein' Tonight, 8/5
Beth Leavel, Michele Ragusa and Kelly Sullivan become the new leading ladies of Mel Brooks' award-winning Young Frankenstein this summer at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St), joining original cast members Roger Bart,Shuler Hensley, Fred Applegate and Christopher Fitzgerald. . Michele Ragusa (Adrift in Macao) takes over the role of Elizabeth on Tuesday, August 5th. For tickets and information, visit Ticketmaster.com or call (212) 307-4100.Megan Mullally will departed after the Sunday, August 3rd performance. Young Frankenstein was named Best Broadway Musical 2008 by the Outer Critics Circle Award and won 5 Broadway.com Audience Awards, including Favorite New Broadway Musical.Clive Barnes of the New York Post called Young Frankenstein, "the Broadway musical at its dizziest, glitziest and funniest" while Pat Collins of MY 9 News declared Young Frankenstein "a monster hit." Jeffrey Lyons of WNBC TV said "this riotously funny musical will knock you clear across 42nd Street" and Roger Friedman of Fox News called it simply, "utter genius."Beth Leavel (Frau Blucher) most recently received the 2006 Tony Award, Drama Desk, N.Y. Outer Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Drama Critics Award for her performance as The Drowsy Chaperone in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other Broadway credits include Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street; Tess in the original company of Crazy For You (with Susan Stroman); Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War; Ellie in Hal Prince's Showboat, and Anytime Annie (her Broadway debut) in 42nd Street. Ms. Leavel was also seen in City Center's production of No No Nanette. Numerous Off-Broadway, commercial and T.V. appearances! MFA from UNC-G and proud member of Actor's Equity. Michele Ragusa (Elizabeth) recently played Lilli/Kate in Kiss Me, Kate at Paper Mill Playhouse. Prior to that she received both Lortel and Drama League Award nominations for her performance as Corinna in Christopher Durang's Adrift In Macao at Primary Stages. Broadway: Urinetown (Penny/Hope cover), Ragtime (Evelyn), A Class Act (Mona), Titanic (Caroline), Cyrano (The Novice). Other NYC: The Audience (Transport Group.), Like You Like It (NYMF), Tintypes (Melting Pot), Bloomer Girl (City Center). National Tours: Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel (Hodel); West Side Story, Vienna/United Nations (Maria); Nunsense II (Sr. Leo). Regional Credits: Corinna in Adrift In Macao (Philadelphia Theatre Co., Barrymore Award); Bad Dates (Studio Arena); Amalia in She Loves Me (Paper Mill Playhouse); Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (Dallas Theatre Center, Rabin Award); Belinda in Noises Off (Studio Arena); Side Sondheim (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Tom Jones (World Premiere, North Shore/NYMF); Nunsense (Sacramento Music Circus); Eliza in My Fair Lady (Westbury/Valley Forge); Lend Me A Tenor (Portland Stage); Jacquie in Me and My Girl (Goodspeed); Nellie in South Pacific (Dallas Theatre Center); L'il Abner (Goodspeed); Christine in Phantom (Jupiter Theatre/Artpark); Julie in Carousel (Conn. Rep. Theatre); Magnolia in Showboat (Artpark). Film/ Television: Heart of Spider (NYU/IFC), "Law and Order SVU," "Guiding Light," "One Life to Life," "All My Children." Kelly Sullivan (Inga). Broadway: Contact, Bells Are Ringing. Off-Broadway: Burleigh Grimes. Regional: Steel Magnolias, Chicago, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Carter's Way, Anything Goes, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, Private Lives, In the Beginning, Married Alive. Television: "Law & Order: C.I.," "As the World Turns," "One Life to Live." Film: The Producers, upcoming releases: The Ice Grill, Winter of Frozen Dreams, My Father's Will, Love on Line, Greta. Based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, Young Frankenstein is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks. When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania from his grandfather, deranged genius Victor Von Frankenstein, he faces a dilemma. Does he continue to run from his family's tortured past or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his grandfather's mad experiments reanimating the dead and, in the process, fall in love with his sexy lab assistant Inga? Unfolding in the forbidding Castle Frankenstein and the foggy moors of Transylvania Heights, the show's raucous score includes "The Transylvania Mania," "He Vas My Boyfriend" and the unforgettable treatment of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz."For information, visit YoungFrankensteinTheMusical.com.
Photo of Beth Leavel by Craig Brockman
Photo of Michele Ragusa by Walter McBride
Photo of Kelly Sullivan by Genevieve Rafter Keddy


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We are going to try something new tomorrow: as we record Episode 37 of the Hinderaker-Ward Experience from 11 to 12 central time, 12 to 1 eastern, we will also broadcast the podcast live, like a radio show. I will post a button or something shortly before the broadcast begins that you can play to listen to the show live. Afterward, of course, it will be available as a podcast.
If you are a member of Ricochet, you can go to the Ricochet chat room to comment on the show and ask questions. We will be monitoring the chat room and will respond to selected questions and comments. If you are not a member of Ricochet, you can become one for a mere $3.67 a month.
Barring unforeseen technical obstacles, we are planning on broadcasting future episodes of the Hinderaker-Ward Experience live as well. In honor of the occasion, we have lined up two great guests, Senator John Thune and Michael Barone, to talk about the aftermath of the election and about the fiscal drama that is now unfolding in Washington. So plan to tune in tomorrow!


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Sound bites – Autism tidbits from IMFAR 201
There is a lot of talk about the need for therapies for adults with autism. A review of emerging adolescent therapies suggests that many can be applied to adults with minimal adaption. Testing/validating what we have will be a lot less costly than developing something new.
Stem cell research may ultimately hold a key to autism, as we learn to grow brain sections of mice in the lab. That skill may translate to humans within a decade.
More and more, scientists agree that autism is the result of genetic predisposition and a trigger. Many hoped the "trigger" was a simple chemical like mercury, but we are realizing there are both environmental and disease triggers. Unfortunately, knowing they are there does not make them any easier to find. Identifying pathways into autism for a large part of our population remains an elusive goal.
One of the things that pleased me most at this year's IMFAR conference was the way that advocates and journalists who were formerly opponents are finally coming together and finding common ground. As Thinking Person's Guide to Autism editor Shannon Rosa said, science doesn't have a hidden agenda . . .
This year's Science Competition drew over 100 technical and engineering students to develop tools to help people with communication disabilities. For me, the most important take-away was not the entries themselves but the realization that we have so much to gain by drawing technical people from other fields, like industrial design and computer science into autism research.
For some time we have known that that therapies like ABA teach behaviors, not feelings. For example, we (autistic people) can learn to read a face and realize, "he's happy," but that logical knowledge does not often translate to us experiencing the feeling. At this year's IMFAR Susan Bookheimer of UCLA spent quite a bit of time showing me what imaging studies are teaching us about how we may soon help autistic people feel that happy message and thereby feel happy themselves. That will represent a quantum leap in the power and effectiveness of therapy.
I've heard comments about "the rolling walk of autistic people" before. This year I saw results of a study from the University of Fairfield that actually quantified differences in gaits between autistic and NT people. Why do we walk in a sawtooth pattern where NT people walk in a straight line? The researcher had some ideas, but the fact is, why remains a mystery.
For years people have looked at nonverbal people (autistic or otherwise) and wondered . . . what's going inside their brains? If a person can't talk, they can't take a conventional IQ test, and rightly or wrongly, many have been presumed intellectually disabled for lack of evidence to the contrary. Today, researchers are using both high precision EEG and fMRI imaging to measure brain patterns in response to stimuli. For example, when a person sees a cat and hears the word cat there is one characteristic pattern of activity. When the person sees a cat and hears dog, the mismatch causes a different activation. We can measure those responses, even in people who don't talk, and thereby gain insight into how much they are perceiving and thinking, and how fast. Understanding is the precursor to therapy.
This year many scientists who have family members on the spectrum proudly wore stakeholder ribbons on their name tags. At the stakeholder lunch, we discussed the balance between funding community services and funding science. Without science, all we have to care for the disabled is faith and compassion. The addition of science-based medicine is what's taken us from life in the Middle Ages to where we are today. Science provides the foundation to make community and family services work better. That's why we need it.
When I spoke at the luncheon yesterday, I reminded people that we are all sitting here in safety, but in the middle of our country, one hundred million pounds of water are flowing past Red River Landing on the Mississippi River every single second, and the rate is rising still. That flood could cause the loss of the Old River Control Structure, which is what keeps the Mississippi from changing course and flowing to the Gulf at Morgan City instead of New Orleans. If that happens as a result of this historic flood (already greater than any we've seen in 80 years) our country could be facing the worst natural disaster in its history.
If you're a praying person, now is the time to pray for all those people in the Mississippi floodplain. As much as I believe in science and engineering, if I had to lay money on the Army Corp of Engineers or Nature, I'd have to choose nature.
Why Nature? In the world of autism, the brain nature has given us provides the most complex puzzle man has ever attempted to solve. Out on the river, this flood shows once again how all our science and technology sometimes fades to insignificance before the natural world. Yet we go forward with faith that science will bring us the solutions we need, both on the river and in our heads.
On a personal note, I was pleased to see grad students and researchers whose work I have supported through my participation in review boards bringing the fruits of their work to IMFAR. It made me feel like I had a small part in the collective success of our group, and that feels good.
I was also thrilled to see that Alex Plank (a young man with Asperger's) was filming the conference and he'll be sharing it soon on the wrong Planet website and elsewhere.
In closing I'd like to thank all the friends I've made in this community, and also the folks at INSAR and Autism Speaks, who made it possible for me to attend this conference. I'll see you next year in Toronto!
John Elder Robison
Author of Be Different (2011) and Look Me in the Eye (2007)
Author of Be Different (2011) and Look Me in the Eye (2007)


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Release date: 2018-11-15
Limited Scandinavian edition 1000 copies, yellow vinyl, gatefold sleeve. Fifth edition.
A1. Älgen
A2. Duvan
A3. Kelly
A4. Elefanten
A5. Went To War
B7. Velodrom
B8. Yellow Moon
B9. Black Fish
B10. Pink Amason
Digital bonus tracks:
1. The Moon As a Kite
2. Clay Birds
Catalogue number: NGRD055
"Sky City" is the debut album from the Swedish band Amason. The band is comprised of Gustav Ejstes of DUNGEN, Pontus Winnberg of MIIKE SNOW, Amanda Bergman of IDIOT WIND, Petter Winnberg and Nils Tornqvist from LITTLE MAJORETTE. With lyrics in both their native Swedish and the Swedish musical language of choice, English, Amason create in the moment, record almost instantaneously, and soon after scan the horizons for a stage, where the music truly comes alive, where they can share their collected collective moments. They fill their together time with sound, with music-making, with production and lyric-crafting and the joy of the song. Not to say that they don't have to work to create what they get. Bringing five busy people together and getting crafted songs down in a state of permanence is a mammoth undertaking in and of itself. But as the old adage goes, where there is a will, there is a way. And the Amason will, the Amason way, is celebrated and magnified and revolves around the power of music.


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Philippe Bertho Art GalleryView Philippe Bertho Gallery
Represented by The Collection Shop Updated on Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Sometimes it takes awhile for an artist to find himself. Such is the case with French-born, Philippe Bertho. He has been a lumberjack, a salesman, a warehouseman and more. But when a true artist finds his voice, the results can be nothing short of masterful. And masterful is the best word to describe this extraordinary artwork. Philippe Bertho is classically trained having enrolled in art school in Reims, France in the early 1990s. There, he spent considerable time studying decorative trompe l oeil painting. Tromp l oeil ("to fool the eye") is a technique used by artists to create the illusion of a 3rd dimension on a flat surface. As a technique with which Bertho has grown adept, it is obvious from his artwork that he fools more than the eye - he draws one in by the heart and also quite frequently by the funny bone. Despite his ability to perfectly render reproductions of master works, Bertho was drawn to the world of fantasy and illusion. As his style developed, he drew inspiration from renowned contemporary trompe-l oeil artist, Jacques Poirier. In his early work, Bertho exhibited ingenuity by including unusual materials in his paintings. Employing objects that other s found useless corrugated iron, rusted metal boxes, old light bulbs he was fascinated with his ability to bring his art alive by creating dimension either by the addition of these items directly onto his canvas or later through the technique of trompe l oeil. In 1995, Bertho s artwork garnered accolades at the Regards sur les Arts salon show - a new talent showcase in Lamballe, France. He was well on his way to developing his unique approach to trompe l oeil painting. The style that he developed cast a new look on everyday objects, transporting the viewer into an imaginative and rich world. It has been said that Bertho s paintings create a world where the whimsical meets the witty, a juncture between the fanciful and the eccentric. And into his paintings, Bertho inserts mischievous characters climbing, searching, running, thinking - each painting evolving into a "hyper-realist" world, little scenarios of his own ingenious invention. Most recently, his attention has turned towards Pop Art. Using a combination of narrative figuration and Pop inspiration, the result has become the basis for his simple, thought-provoking artworks. It is as if these works define the phrase, "the more you look, the more there is to see." In an artistic sense, his technique is precise, crisp and masterful. In an imaginative sense, the surreal nature of his artwork begs the question, "What was the artist thinking when he painted this?" Perhaps the question should be, more accurately, "What are we thinking when we view his artwork?" The tiny characters that inhabit the bizarre world created by Bertho s paintings seem to nonchalantly accept the ridiculous situations they find themselves in, as if it is perfectly normal to read a newspaper or do a tap dance while perched inside of a bubble. Others seem determined to explore the illusory three-dimensional space of the canvas - climbing in and out of spheres as children do on a playground. It seems absurd that they are not dismayed at their surroundings - or is it absurd that we are?


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Isolation engulfed Dimity Knight after she became a fulltime carer for her autistic son. Through writing poetry in the moments of silence, she found a way to seek comfort and share her struggles and joys with those travelling on the same journey.
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"I really began writing as a way to escaping all of the demands of autism."
After reading some of her works, an editor approached her to compile a book on poems specifically dealing with her experiences of the condition.
What evolved was a collection of stories that drove into the depths of her heartbreak, frustration and pain, to the elevation of joy and pure love that she has experienced since her son's diagnosis.
Their journey into autism
Dimity's son was quite advanced in his development by the age of two.
"He was speaking in nine-word sentences, quite social, loved to be read to," Dimity recalled.
At around the age of two and a half Dimity remembered her son approaching her to tell her something.
The words came out jumble.
He tried again, with the same result.
What followed was five months of unexplainable withdrawal and regression.
"He went from being a playful boy with normal language skills, to being mute and withdrawn and seriously autistic."
The only thing that Dimity could link the sudden changes to was a series of ear infections that were treated with antibiotics which resulted in gut infections.
The infections complicated her son's existing food allergies.
The antibiotics and infections created metabolic imbalances for her son, which resulted in a high level of nitrogen in his system.
With high levels of nitrogen causing neurotoxicity, it's possible the combination of infections and antibiotics may have triggered events.
"We can't know for sure, but that was a period of bad health, and following that he had this regression into autism."
Joined at the Fingertips
The title of Dimity's book comes from the period of time that followed after her son's diagnoses, and the feeling of helplessness as she witnessed the son she once knew disappear.
"It really felt to me as if this son that I knew, who was so vibrant and outgoing, was slipping away from me; as if he was going into some dark place where I would lose him.
"And it felt as if I was holding on to him by the tips of his fingers, trying to keep him."
Her son never came back, but as Dimity now points out, he is a different child.
"He is still a beautiful, wonderful child who brings us a great deal of joy."
The different stages of their journey are reflected in the poems within Dimity's book.
"In so many ways his uniqueness is delightful, and his innocence is like a breath of fresh air."
Dimity Knight will launch her book "Joined at the Fingertips" on Wednesday 20 March 2013 at Ashford Special School, 87 Anzac Highway from 7:00pm till 9:00pm.
There is also a second launch, Friday 22 March 2013 at the Chapel at Tabor Adelaide, 181 Goodwood Road, Millswood, from 7:30pm.
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It was only a couple of months ago that I did an article on SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO."s rejuvenated brewery tours.
Realizing what a tourist attraction the brewery is and how many people are drawn in for a visit, Sierra Nevada created a 90-minute tour that highlights more of its inner workings, sustainable ways and the layout of the brewery. It"s a good tour for a non-beer drinker too.
All that work hasn"t been overlooked. This past week, travel website TripAdvisor named Sierra Nevada among its top 10 brewery tours in the U.S.
Living with a famous brewery in the backyard and not being a beer drinker, I have to admit still not getting it.
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"Tough match tonight on the men's side," head coach Andrew Harris said. "ETSU played more complete matches and we had some various moments throughout the afternoon but unfortunately, we just couldn't string together enough points. What I do know is that tomorrow we will come out with a renewed sense of urgency against Upstate."
Lipscomb's only win for the day was at No. 3 doubles.
Junior Colby Shaw and sophomore David Salazar took down Jesus Bandres and Rogerio Ribiero 8-4.
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Junior Oliver Strecker and sophomore Miguel Cortez fell just short of victory at No. 1 doubles, losing to Sander Gille and Robin Asker 9-7.
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Cortez was also just short of picking up a win, falling in three sets to Roger Prdeig 6-7, 6-0, 10-7.
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The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer (model 5150) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, licensed from Microsoft for the PC and PCjr. They are known as Cassette BASIC, Disk BASIC, Advanced BASIC (BASICA), and Cartridge BASIC. Versions of Disk BASIC and Advanced BASIC were included with IBM PC DOS up to PC DOS 4. In addition to the features of an ANSI standard BASIC, the IBM versions offered support for the graphics and sound hardware of the IBM PC line. Source code could be typed in with a full screen editor, and very limited facilities were provided for rudimentary program debugging. IBM also released a version of the Microsoft BASIC compiler for the PC, concurrently with the release of PC DOS 1.10 in 1982.
IBM licensed Microsoft BASIC for the PC despite already having its own version for the company's mainframes. Don Estridge said, "Microsoft BASIC had hundreds of thousands of users around the world. How are you going to argue with that?"[1]
IBM Cassette BASIC[edit]
|Microsoft (for IBM)
|First appeared
|IBM Disk BASIC, IBM BASICA, GW-BASIC
IBM Cassette BASIC came in 32 kilobytes (KB) of read-only memory (ROM), separate from the 8 KB BIOS ROM of the original IBM PC, and did not require an operating system to run. Cassette BASIC provided the default user interface invoked by the BIOS through INT 18h if there was no floppy disk drive installed, or if the boot code did not find a bootable floppy disk at power up. The name Cassette BASIC came from its use of cassette tapes rather than floppy disks to store programs and data. Cassette BASIC was built into the ROMs of the original PC and XT, and early models in the PS/2 line. It only supported loading and saving programs to the IBM cassette tape interface, which was unavailable on models after the original Model 5150. The entry-level version of the 5150 came with just 16 KB of random-access memory (RAM), which was sufficient to run Cassette BASIC. However, Cassette BASIC was rarely used because few PCs were sold without a disk drive, and most were sold with PC DOS and sufficient RAM to at least run Disk BASIC—many could run Advanced BASIC as well. There were three versions of Cassette BASIC: C1.00 (found on the early IBM PCs with 16k-64k motherboards), C1.10 (found on all later IBM PCs, XTs, ATs, and PS/2s), and C1.20 (found on the PCjr).
IBM Disk BASIC[edit]
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IBM Disk BASIC (BASIC.COM) was included in the original IBM PC DOS. Because it uses the 32 KB Cassette BASIC ROM,[2] BASIC.COM did not run on even highly compatible PC clones such as the Compaq Portable.[3] The name Disk BASIC came from its use of floppy disks as well as cassette tapes to store programs and data. Disk-based code corrected errata in the ROM-resident code and added floppy disk and serial port support.
Disk BASIC could be identified by its use of the letter D preceding the version number. It added disk support and some features lacking in Cassette BASIC, but did not include the extended sound/graphics functions of BASICA. The primary purpose of Disk BASIC was as a "lite" version for IBM PCs with only 48K of memory: BASIC.COM would then have about 23K free for user code, whereas BASICA would only have about 17K. By 1986, all new PCs shipped with at least 256k and DOS versions after 3.00 reduced Disk BASIC to only a small stub that called BASICA.COM for compatibility with batch files. Even with all this excess RAM, BASIC would still only allocate and manage just under 61K for user programs (whether it was Cassette BASIC, BASIC.COM or BASICA).
IBM Advanced BASIC[edit]
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|IBM Cassette BASIC, IBM Disk BASIC
IBM Advanced BASIC (BASICA.COM) was also included in the original IBM PC DOS, and required the ROM-resident code of Cassette BASIC.[2] It added functions such as diskette file access, storing programs on disk, monophonic sound using the PC's built-in speaker, graphics functions to set and clear pixels, draw lines and circles, and set colors, and event handling for communications and joystick presses. BASICA would not run on non-IBM computers (even so-called "100% compatible" machines) or later IBM models, since those lack the needed ROM BASIC.
BASICA versions were the same as their respective DOS, beginning with v1.00 and ending with v3.30. The early versions of BASICA did not support subdirectories and some graphics commands functioned slightly differently. As an example, if the LINE statement was used to draw lines that trailed off-screen, BASIC would merely intersect them with the nearest adjacent line while in BASIC 2.x and up, they went off the screen and did not intersect. The PAINT command in BASIC 1.x begins filling at the coordinate specified and expands outward in alternating up and down directions while in BASIC 2.x it fills everything below the starting coordinate and then after finishing, everything above it. BASIC 1.x's PAINT command also makes use of the system stack for storage and when filling in complex areas, it was possible to produce an OVERFLOW error. To remedy this, the CLEAR statement can be used to expand BASIC's stack (128 bytes is the default size). BASIC 2.x does not use the stack when PAINTing and thus is free of this problem.
Compaq BASIC 1.13 was the first standalone BASIC for the PC (that did not require Cassette BASIC to run) as well as the only version of BASIC besides IBM BASICA 1.00 and 1.10 to use FCBs and include the original LINE statement with intersecting lines (the PAINT statement in Compaq BASIC 1.13 worked like in all later versions of BASICA/GW-BASIC, using the new fill algorithm and no stack).
Early versions of PC DOS included several sample BASIC programs demonstrating the capabilities of the PC, including the BASICA game DONKEY.BAS.
GW-BASIC is identical to BASICA, with the exception of including the Cassette BASIC code in the program, thus allowing it to run on non-IBM computers and later IBM models that lack Cassette BASIC in ROM.
IBM PCjr Cartridge BASIC[edit]
A ROM cartridge version of BASIC was only available on the IBM PCjr (shipped 1984) and supported the additional graphics modes and sound capabilities possible on that platform.[4] It is a superset of advanced BASIC.[5] Cartridge BASIC can only operate within the first 128k of memory on the PCjr and will not work with expansion RAM (e.g. the DEF SEG function cannot be used to point to memory segments above &H1FF0)
Cartridge BASIC is activated by typing BASICA at the DOS prompt. Conversely, IBM BASICA versions 2.1 and up will refuse to run if it detects a PCjr (but can be patched to work around this).
Cassette BASIC loads when a PC or PCjr is booted without a bootable disk or cartridge. Disk BASIC and Advanced BASIC load when their command name (BASIC and BASICA respectively) is typed at a DOS command prompt (except PCjr, which activates Cartridge BASIC instead), with some optional parameters to control allocation of memory. When loaded, a sign-on identification message displays the program version number, and a full-screen text editor starts (see images, right). The function keys are assigned common commands, which display at the bottom of the screen. Commands may be typed in to load or save programs, and expressions can be typed in and executed in direct (immediate) mode. If a line of input starts with a number, the language system stores the following line of text as part of program source, allowing a programmer to enter in an entire program line by line, entering line numbers before each statement. When listed on screen, lines are displayed in order of increasing line number. Changes can be made to a displayed line of program source code by moving the cursor to the line with the cursor keys, and typing over the on-screen text. Program source is stored internally in a tokenized form, where keywords are replaced with a single byte token, to save space and execution time. Programs may be saved in compact tokenized form, or optionally saved as DOS text ASCII files that can be viewed and edited with other programs. Like most other DOS applications, IBM BASIC is a text-mode program and has no features for windows, icons, mouse support, or cut and paste editing.
GW-BASIC, launched in 1983, was a disk-based Microsoft product distributed with non-IBM MS-DOS computers, and supported all the graphics modes and features of BASICA on computers that did not have the IBM Cassette BASIC.
The successor to BASICA for MS-DOS and PC DOS versions was QBasic, launched in 1991, which was a stripped-down version of the Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler: QBasic was an interpreter and could not compile source files while QuickBASIC could compile and save the programs in the .EXE executable file format.
- ^ Curran, Lawrence J., Shuford, Richard S. (November 1983). "IBM's Estridge". BYTE. pp. 88–97. Retrieved 19 March 2016.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ a b Williams, Gregg (January 1982). "A Closer Look at the IBM Personal Computer". BYTE. p. 36. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ Dahmke, Mark (January 1983). "The Compaq Portable". BYTE. pp. 30–36. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ^ Readers' Feedback: IBM BASIC Versions, Compute! Magazine, No. 78, November 1986, p. 8, retrieved December 23, 2011
- ^ IBM. PCjr Cartridges Announcement Letter. 1983-11-01 ([1]).
External links[edit]
- A brief history of the development of BASIC www.phys.uu.nl/~bergmann/history.html (archived)
- PCE - IBM PC Emulator which emulates IBM Cassette BASIC and IBM Cassette Interface with connected third party cassette drive
- POPBASIC & RUNBASIC which invokes & copies IBM Cassette BASIC


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PoS agency yet to get dues paid by Civic bodyTelangana | Written by : Suryaa Desk
Hyderabad: Violating norms, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been using the services of a private agency, that has been maintaining hand-held PoS-based devices for Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) to monitor the details of around 22,000 outsource workers in the city.
Officials claimed that as per norms, the corporation entered into an agreement immediately after finalising the tenders. A year has passed but the corporation is yet to sign a Memorandum of Underst-anding (MoU). Besides this, the corporation has been not clearing the bills of the private agency that has been maintaining the PoS machines and the agency has decided to stop the services in a couple of days.
According to the GHMC officials, Analogics Tech India Ltd. had bagged the project for Rs 8 crore after participating in the tender process. As prescribed in the bid document, the corporation has to pay about Rs 79 lakh per month for a period of five years from the date of agreement. However, the corporation is yet to sign the MoU and clear the dues. Citing this, sources said that the private agency will stop their services in a couple of days.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, August 21, 2006
A Walk in the Woods
I'm a little ashamed to admit, I haven't read a lot of books in recent years. Newspapers, magazines, blogs - yes. Books, no. So when good friend and neighbour Carl gave me Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods for my birthday this year, I was a bit daunted. Had I lost the ability to read an entire book? I decided to put off diving in until I went away to the cottage last week.
Well, let me tell you, this book is an absolute joy to read! I can't recommend it enough. It had me laughing out loud, thinking deep thoughts and reading passages to anyone who would listen. Carl got me this book because a walk in the woods is part of my daily routine. I take my dog, Zero, out to one of the many nearby trails after lunch each day for an hour of squirrel chasing, tree marking, and bush whacking. I transport this activity to the rather more isolated trail network near the cottage we rent each summer in Haliburton. There are no bears around where we live, but lots and lots around the cottage. I'm always a little nervous hiking those remote areas alone, and reading the following passage didn't exactly help:
Now imagine reading a nonfiction book packed with stories such as this - true tales soberly related - just before setting off alone on a camping trip of your own into the North American wilderness. The book to which I refer is 'Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance', by a Canadian academic named Stephen Herrero. If it is not the last word on the subject, then I really, really, really do not wish to hear the last word. through long winter nights in New Hampshire, while snow piled up outdoors and my wife slumbered peacefully beside me, I lay saucer-eyed in bed reading clinically precise accounts of people gnawed pulpy in their sleeping bags, plucked whimpering from trees, even noiselessly stalked (I didn't know this happened!) as they sauntered unawares down leafy paths or cooled their feet in mountain streams. People whose one fatal mistake was to smooth their hair with a dab of aromatic gel, or eat juicy meat, or tuck a Snickers in their shirt pocket for later, or have sex, or even, possibly, menstruate, or in some small, inadvertent way picque the olfactory properties of the hungry bear. Or, come to that, whose fatal failing was simply to be very unfortunate - to round a bend and find a moody male blocking the path, head rocking appraisingly, or wander unwittingly into the territory of a bear too slowed by age or idleness to chase down fleeter prey.
This week; illustrations selected to accompany short passages from A Walk in the Woods © Bill Bryson 1997.
7 comments:
Awesome imagery!ReplyDelete
No nookie in the bush?!
Whar's Rene gonna do?
Great stuff Leifer
Thanks buddy! For truely awesome imagery, people should check out Jeff's site at http://www.jeffnorwell.com/ReplyDelete
Hi Leif,ReplyDelete
Great blog you've got over here! The stuff you're showing brings back a lot of memories. As a kid I learned a great deal by drawing from the Famous Artists School-series my father owned. The work of Albert Dorne, Al Parker and Robert Fawcett are etched in my mind for ever. All the basics are in there. Later I went to art school and they really looked down on all that stuff. But I always felt that I'd learned fundamental things from those books.
I think it's a good thing you and others are archiving commercial art from the past. It contains a huge amount of craftsmanship from which we can learn.
But I'm also critical towards the growing interest in commercial art from the 40's and 50's. There are loads of illustrators who are not only inspired by the craftsmanship of the past but are also copying the exact styles from these periods creating nearly exact replicas and indulging themselves in nostalgia. The art that was made in the 40's and 50's fitted that period perfectly. I guess we would have missed out on some great stuff if Al Parker had decided to become a Retro Kid copying the exact styles of his predecessors.
Looking at the work of all those great known and unknown commercial artists from the 40's, 50's or whatever period fills me with joy and inspires me to investigate new ways to express ideas and feelings that are relevant today. In the knowledge I can always fall back on my predecessors for good advice.
Marco; Many thanks for your long and thought-provoking comment! I appreciate especially your suggestion about what might have happened if Al parker hadn't been such an innovator. But I disagree that there are many illustrators imitating the 40's/50's period. Its a topic worth discussing in greater detail, and you've inspired me to put together a post about it in the near future - I hope you will contribute to the discussion!ReplyDelete
Thanks again - L ;-)
The copying I'm referring to doesn't so much concern the realistic styles from the past as the more cartoon-like styles. (Like in the book 'Krazy Kids' Food!') But I'll be awaiting you post on this topic.ReplyDelete


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Welcome to Fairfield County, which Connecticut Yankees consider an extension of metropolitan New York rather than part of New England. The bluebloods of Greenwich couldn't care less. They're quite content living in the best of both worlds. Corporate chieftains work at head offices here or in Stamford or commute to Manhattan from large estates, some of which face Long Island Sound and others luxuriating in the bucolic "back country." A novel sight is the uniformed policemen directing traffic at busy intersections along Greenwich Avenue, the main shopping street that's the local version of Rodeo Drive.
The Bruce Museum at 1 Museum Drive is a family-oriented arts and science museum. Fifteen miles of nature trails are available at the Audubon Center in Greenwich, 613 Riversville Road, a 522-acre wildlife sanctuary.
Bush-Holley Historic Site, 29 Strickland Ave. This treasured 1732 saltbox in the Cos Cob section became a boarding house for writers and artists attracted to Connecticut's first art colony. From 1890 to 1920 at the Holley boarding house, more than 200 art students studied with leading American Impressionists Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir and Theodore Robinson. The collection of fine early American furniture and American Impressionist art make this one of the finest historic house museums in New England. A visitor center and additional galleries are located in an 1805 storehouse. (203) 869-6899. Open March-December, Wednesday-Sunday noon to 4. January-February, Saturday and Sunday noon to 4. Adults, $6.
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Homestead Inn, 420 Field Point Rd., Greenwich. (203) 869-7500
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Restaurant Jean-Louis, 61 Lewis St., Greenwich. (203) 622-8450. Click here to read capsule review.
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As far as Fairfield County suburbanites are concerned, Stamford is "the city" and they don't mean New York. High-rise downtown Stamford, headquarters of more Fortune 500 companies than any city other than New York, is where the Gold Coast glitters most. The Whitney Museum of American Art maintains its only branch outside New York at 400 Atlantic St. Leading New York stores anchor the Stamford Town Center, New England's most fashionable downtown shopping mall. Bargain hunters prefer the United House Wrecking Co., a tourist attraction in itself, with five acres of antiques, relics, nostalgia and junk at 535 Hope St. Stamford is also where residents head for entertainment, at the Rich Forum, the Palace Theatre and the Stamford Center for the Arts.
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The waterfront area of South Norwalk, nicknamed SoNo, is being revitalized as boutiques, galleries and restaurants and their attendant throngs move in. This is now primarily an entertainment district, but a bit of the maritime heritage of what once was the oyster capital of the world remains. It still has a model shipbuilding company, sailmakers, a large wooden boat builder, a floatable dock manufacturer and, yes, oyster boats. A 44-passenger ferry departs from the Hope Dock next to the Maritime Aquarium for a 30-minute cruise through Norwalk harbor to the outermost of thirteen Norwalk Islands and a visit to the Sheffield Island Lighthouse.
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, 10 North Water St., South Norwalk. This growing establishment developed in the late 1980s as the catalyst for SoNo's revitalization occupies a restored 19th-century foundry along the west bank of the Norwalk River. It's part aquarium, part IMAX theater, part history exhibit and part re-created working waterfront. A showcase for the maritime heritage and marine life unique to Long Island Sound, this is a high-tech, hands-on place of particular appeal to the younger set. The aquarium features twenty marine habitats containing more than 125 species indigenous to Long Island Sound with a bit of a stretch to the open ocean and "travelers from the tropics" in the biggest shark tank. Oysters, river otters, sea turtles and a "Jellyfish Encounter" are highlights along the way. Connecticut's only IMAX theater has a movie screen six stories high and envelops the audience in sights and sound. Outside along the river dock is the R/V Oceanic, the aquarium's research vessel, which gives excursions through the harbor into the Sound to view marine life in season. (203) 852-0700. www.maritimeaquarium.org. Open daily, 10 to 5, to 6 in summer. Adults $8.75, children $6.75.
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, 295 West Ave., Norwalk. Pre-dating Newport's famed mansions, America's first chateau was built in 1864-68 as the country residence of a Norwalk-born stockbroker. The partially restored, 60-room granite structure features frescoed walls, parquet floors, inlaid woodwork and a 42-foot-high skylit rotunda. A collection of Victorian music boxes is a highlight. Guided tours of the first and second floors are offered on the half-hour. (203) 838-9799. Open mid-March to mid-December, Wednesday-Sunday noon to 5. Adults $8, students $5.
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The Aldrich Musem of Contemporary Art, 258 Main St., Ridgefield. Founded by clothing manufacturer Larry Aldrich in 1964, this is one of the finer small museums of modern art all the more remarkable for its location in a white Colonial house that stands coyly like a wallflower among its residential neighbors. You have to go around back to see the monumental and modern pieces of sculpture rising in a two-acre sculpture garden. They stand in startling contrast to the antiquity of the museum building itself. The interior of the 1783 building was gutted to provide broad expanses of white walls to display the works of contemporary artists to best advantage. The museum mounts quarterly exhibitions of contemporary paintings, sculpture, photography and mixed media.
(203) 438-4519. www.aldrichart.org. Open Tuesday-Sunday noon to 5, Friday to 8. Adults, $5. Sculpture garden, free.
The Keeler Tavern Museum, 132 Main St., Ridgefield. A British cannonball fired at the Keeler Tavern during the Revolutionary War remains embedded in an exterior corner post. It's one of the features of this museum, which evolved in 1966 after a career starting in 1713 as a farmhouse, tavern, post office, hotel and home of noted architect Gilbert Cass. Ridgefield's most historic building, furnished like an 18th-century tavern, reflects life as lived in Ridgefield for nearly 300 years.
(203) 438-5485. Guided tours, Wednesday and Saturday-Sunday 1 to 4. Adults $4. Closed in January.
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Yale University, the major presence in New Haven, gives the city its cultural, artsy flavor. Its graceful Gothic revival Hotchkiss Tower is a New Haven landmark and the pealing of its carillon is the city's signature sound. Yale's snug greystone campus edges up on two sides to the New Haven Green, a sixteen-acre expanse of greenery in the heart of the city. Its three historic churches are outstanding examples of Gothic, Federalist and Georgian design. The city's downtown and entertainment district flanks the other sides of the green. The storied Shubert Theater is a favorite venue for pre-Broadway tryouts. Long Wharf Theatre is nationally known for producing prizewinning plays, including the premiere of Connecticut resident Arthur Miller's "The Crucible." The Yale Repertory Theatre also has a wide following. The Yale campus is of sufficient interest that students lead fascinating, hour-long tours weekdays at 10:30 and 2 and weekends at 1:30 from the Yale Visitor Information Center, 149 Elm St. The center occupies the 1767 John Pierpont House, an historic residence that housed British soldiers in the Revolution and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Yale is home to several museums for special interests, including the Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds 600,000 rare books and manuscripts, including a Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455, one of only 22 surviving copies of the first printed book.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. Founded in 1977 and the last building designed by architect Louis I. Kahn, this exceptional museum houses the treasures collected over 40 years by Yale graduate Paul Mellon, the philanthropist, art collector and anglophile. The 1,200 paintings, 10,000 drawings and 20,000 prints represent the largest collection of British art outside Great Britain. Not all are on view at the same time, but many of the most interesting are, arranged chronologically to show the development of English art, life and thought from the Elizabethan period to the present. While the permanent collection is displayed on the museum's fourth floor, the second and third floors are devoted to changing exhibitions.
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Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Diagonally across the street from the Center for British Art lies the oldest university art gallery in the Western Hemisphere. It was founded in 1832 with a gift of more than 100 paintings by Connecticut patriot and artist John Trumbull. The gallery shows a wide range, from 600 Greek and Roman vases and the Griggs Collection of Italian painting and medieval art to the Ordway Collection of modern art with works by Picasso, Pollock and Calder. Antiquities from Yale's excavations at the site of a Roman outpost in the Syrian desert are displayed.
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This content is excerpted from New England's Best, by Nancy and Richard Woodworth, copyright 2002, published by Wood Pond Press.


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Speculation was rife that the Scot, who led Oldham to a stunning 3-2 win against Premier League side Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday, faced the sack this morning due to the club's miserable form in League One.
They have drawn one and lost seven of their last eight games to sit a point above the relegation zone, but Corney told BBC Breakfast: "I think Paul's okay for the time being.
"Paul and I have a great working relationship and Paul puts pressure on himself. If you lose seven out of eight games (in the league) then you're going to be under pressure.
"Hopefully this will be the kick-start and we won't be talking about Paul's job again."
Corney handed Dickov a vote of confidence on New Year's Eve despite placing assistant manager Gerry Taggart, reserve team boss Lee Duxbury and fitness coach Paul Butler on gardening leave.
He then refused to offer assurances over Dickov's future after full-time on Sunday, saying: "We know we have poor form in the league and things need to be changed.
"Football changes. People are very fickle, fans are very fickle, everyone is very fickle. Nothing will take away from the fact I need to change things to stay in this division.
"Let's see what happens. Nothing has been decided and I couldn't tell you any more than that.
"If you asked 1,000 people last week if we should change the manager, 999 would have said yes. Today 999 would say no."
A first-half brace from Matt Smith and Reece Wabara's superb header after the interval did the damage against Liverpool before the Latics survived waves of pressure to hold on for a famous win and set up a fifth-round home tie against Everton.