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Sir Richard Southwell
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- subject matching 'On display at the Gallery'
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- Tudor and Jacobean Portraits Database
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Tudor and Jacobean Portraits Database
Sir Richard Southwell
after Hans Holbein the Younger
oil on panel, late 16th century, based on a work of 1536
18 in. x 14 in. (457 mm x 356 mm)
New Date: Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.
Key findings: The portrait has the appearance of a highly competent English workshop and data from the board matched that of wood from London or the South-East of England.
Historical summary
Purchased from Mr Jean-Luc Bordeaux of California in 1974 after it was offered by him to the Gallery in a private transaction in 1972. Before this the portrait had appeared in the Sotheby's sale 21st July 1971 and was bought by French and Co. Between 1971 and about 1866 nothing is known by the Gallery of the whereabouts of the portrait. In about 1866 it was owned by Mr H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton.
Notes on likely authorship
The portrait has the appearance of a highly competent English workshop. Data from the board matched that of wood from London or the South-East of England.
Commentary on painting style, technique
The portrait is finely painted, and the paint layers vary in thickness across the surface. Various areas, particularly the face, show a refined technique, especially in the way lines are softened for shading effects. The hairline is softened and made less solid by many regular short brushstrokes at the edge. The sleeves are smoothly modelled from dark to light. Traces of rich black glaze (some containing red pigment) in some shadows indicate that contrasts would have been more pronounced, and the fabric would have appeared richer and more luxurious.
The background is extensively restored, but paint sample analysis has identified the original blue pigment used as blue verditer (also known as blue 'bice'), an artificial copper carbonate.
Justification for dating
The technique and materials in use are entirely consistent with a work from the period. Dendrochronology suggests the portrait was painted after 1588, and the picture probably dates from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.
Drawing and transfer technique
The underdrawing seems to have been executed with a brush using red lake. Very little carbon-based underdrawing was evident with infrared reflectography. Red brush outlines appear in parts of the composition, for example, they are visible through the paint of the shirt, and around the edges in various places. It is possible that a tracing was used, transferred to the panel, and red lake used to reinforce the lines, with almost none of the original tracing material remaining.
Relevance to other known versions
- the original Holbein portrait is now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- another version is in the Louvre
- Ganz makes reference to a version with a landscape background in a private collection in Rio de Janeiro
- Holbein's preparatory drawing is in the Royal Collection at Windsor, RCIN 912242
Ganz, Paul, The Paintings of Hans Holbein, 1950, p. 246 (no. 88)
Penny, Nicholas, Patronage and Collecting in the Seventeenth Century: Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, The Ashmolean Museum, p. 195 (no. 53)
Roberts, Jane, Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII: drawings and miniatures from the Royal Collection, Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 1994, p. 64
Scharf, George, A List of the Most Noteworthy Pictures in the National Portrait Exhibition at South Kensington, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1866 (no. 108)
Starkey, David, and Susan Doran, Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, The British Library, London, 2009, p. 175 (no. 172)
Trapp, Joseph, and Hubertus Schulte Herbruggen, 'The King's Good Servant' Sir Thomas More, 1477/8 - 1535, National Portrait Gallery, 1977, p. 109 (no. 212)
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Compare high-resolution images against the painting - mainly x-ray and infra-red photography images, but sometimes UV or raking light images - side by side with the ability to zoom in on details.
The painting is in reasonable condition, although it has been extensively restored, especially in the background. The texture of old damage can be seen around the edges of the paint surface and in the sitter's right hand. The widespread retouching in the background is visible. There is craquelure along the wood grain, as would be expected. There are slightly blanched streaks/scratches in the varnish.
The background has been heavily restored and much of it is overpainted. Other areas have not been retouched to the same extent, although the texture of damages under overpaint can be seen around the edges.
Number of boards: 1
Panel Orientation: Vertical
Panel condition observations
The panel is in good condition, but with a slight convex warp. The lower-left and top-right (from back) corners are chipped. The lower-left corner has split and been mended in the past. A nail holding the pieces together can be seen in the x-ray (see X-ray). There is a label stuck to the back of the panel, and a red wax seal. There is some damage around the seal, as if someone has tried to remove it. There is paper tape around the edges, and the remnants of another label at the left (from back) edge.
Dendrochronology (what's this? )
An examination of tree rings, which can help to provide the earliest possible felling dates for the wood used for the panel. The technique can also indicate the geographical origin of the wood.
Number of boards: 1
Last date of tree ring: 1578
The single board is made with English oak and the tree-ring series matched data from London and the South East. The last heartwood ring was found to date from 1578 and as no sapwood was present a terminus post quem date can be applied to the panel. Adding the minimum expected number of sapwood rings suggested that the tree used for the board was felled after 1588. However, because of its source a non-standard manufacturing process is likely and it is therefore inappropriate to attempt to apply LEHR-usage range calculations to this panel.
X-radiography (what's this? )
A technique used to identify changes in composition beneath the surface of the paint layers and to understand the physical structure of a panel or canvas.
Broad brushstrokes in various directions are visible across the surface in the x-ray image, and are probably associated with a priming/preparation layer. The x-ray also shows a great deal of damage; there are areas of loss around the edges and to the right of the face, and small isolated losses elsewhere (see x-ray mosaic 01).
The wavy and irregular grain of the panel is clearly visible in the x-ray. A nail can be seen embedded in the wood in the lower-right corner of the panel (see Support), and the seal on the back of the panel can be seen as a white circular shape in the face.
The x-ray also provides information about the handling and technique in the paint layers: the subtle modelling of the fabric of the sleeve can be seen much more clearly in the x-ray, because the addition of lead-white - which blocks the x-rays - makes the contrast between the grey and black much greater in this image. The flesh paint - especially the hands - appears to be more thickly painted than other areas, with a lot of lead white in the paint mixtures. However, the inscription is only very faintly visible in the x-ray image, indicating that it does not contain a significant amount of either lead white or lead-tin yellow.
Infrared reflectography (what's this? )
A technique used to observe the layers beneath the paint surface which can reveal underdrawing and changes to the initial design.
Very little was detected with infrared reflectography. This seems to be because any carbon-based drawing was painted over or reinforced with red paint (see Surface examination) (see IRR mosaic 01 and IRR mosaic 02).
A Holbein drawing for the original version of this painting exists (Windsor - Royal Collection). This drawing matches the outline of the painting almost exactly when tracings of the drawing and painting are compared. The Royal Collection drawing has very definite metalpoint lines, presumably drawn for a transfer process, over the chalk lines of the drawing.
Paint sampling (what's this? )
Investigation into microscopic pigment samples or samples of other media in order to help with dating, to reveal the order of the paint layers and help to understand the painting techniques used.
Paint samples were taken to analyse the pigments and layer structure of the painting in 2008.
Preparation layers
There is a chalk ground and pale grey priming.
Blue verditer is confirmed to be in the background. Libby Sheldon questioned whether the background was originally blue. It has been overpainted or restored with a green mixture containing bright yellow and a blue which appears to be prussian, and traces of black and red - giving a dark green hue. Azurite was evidently available to the painter, as the ring is painted with this pigment. This raises the question as to whether the choice of blue verditer for the background was due to aesthetic or economic choices.
Analysis undertaken in 1973
Paint samples were taken and analysed by Joyce Plesters in 1973. Her analysis found that:
- the ground is chalk mixed with animal glue
- the paint medium has the characteristics of drying oil - probably linseed
Most areas were painted using materials and techniques of the time and similar to those found in paintings by Holbein, with the exceptions of:
- the background, which appeared green when examined, but cross-sections showed a moderately thick layer of blue, and a thin lead white layer over the ground. The pigment was found not to be natural azurite, but the manufactured version, blue verditer. This was available at the time, but was not used in Holbein's pictures. Blue verditer would have been cheaper than natural azurite.
- the clothing, in which a mid-tone that appeared black was found to be a mixture of red, brown and black pigments: vermilion, ochre, crimson lake, charcoal black. This could be an attempt to copy the maroon/purple seen in some Holbein portraits. However, this colour had a tendency to discolour, and Plesters supposed that the colour here might have been copied from such a picture after it had already discoloured.
Surface examination (what's this? )
An examination of the construction of paint layers, glazes and condition often using a microscope. This method provides important evidence concerning an artist's technique and paint handling and can reveal a specific artist's characteristic painting style.
Painting style and method
The portrait is finely painted and the paint layers vary in thickness across the surface. Restoration makes it difficult to assess the technique in some places, particularly the background. Various areas, particularly the face, show a very refined technique, especially in the way lines are softened for shading effects.
Preparation layers
There is a thick chalk ground which seems to have been laid on in two sessions, as indicated by the slight traces of a division noted in paint sample cross-section.
Joyce Plesters (1973) found a thin lead white layer under the blue background. Libby Sheldon (2008) has confirmed that the priming contains mostly lead white with occasional traces of black and dark brown; it would probably have been pale grey.
In various places in the face, blue/green paint can be seen protruding through the surface (see micro 07). It is possible that this is associated with the background, but continues under the paint of the face. The extent of this layer is not clear.
Very little underdrawing was detected with infrared reflectography (see Infrared reflectography). This seems to be because very little carbon-containing medium was used, and instead the majority of the underdrawing seems to have been carried out with a brush using red lake paint (see micro 12). This is visible through the paint of the shirt, and around the edges in various places. A loss in the cuff on the right shows this red lake in the layer structure (see micro 14). Paint sample cross-sections show that the red lake lies over the grey priming.
It is possible that a tracing was used, transferred to the panel, and red lake used to reinforce the lines, with almost none of the original tracing material remaining. Red lake drawing has been noted in Italian sixteenth-century paintings (noted also in the Italo/Flemish, 'Adoration of the Shepherds', in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, where black underdrawing is also present). Red lake underdrawing has also been noted in later portraits, such as the portrait of Sir Thomas Pope (T03029) at Tate by an unknown seventeenth-century painter circa 1635, where black painted underdrawing outlining the face appears to strengthen an initial brush drawing in bright red lake (visible with microscopy at the right corner of the mouth).
Paint layer structure
Flesh paint - face and hands
In the areas of flesh paint, very many black particles seem to be lying on the surface (see micro 01). It is probable that these are everywhere across the surface, but are more visible in these light areas. These might be residual carbon particles brushed away during the transfer process. The flesh paint contains lead white, red lake and vermilion. No blue pigment was noted in the whites of the eyes (see micro 01). The paint varies in thickness in the face, with a variety of brushstrokes used for different effects. For example, the thick pink highlight under the eye on the right contrasts with the thinner passages around it, but is blended into the surrounding paint with fine brushstrokes. The painted outline of the nose has a double line, which are both 'combed' through, either with a brush or tool, to feather and soften the line (see micro 06). A similar technique can be seen in the nostril (see micro 05), and the same fine blending is evident in the ear. Many of the shadows in the rest of the face and neck seem to be created with subtly blended hatching. The hairline is softened and made less solid by lots of regular, short brushstrokes at the edge.
There are many small round holes in the paint surface (see micro 03). These are probably where lead soaps have formed, worked up through the paint layer and have been knocked out during cleaning.
Although very little underdrawing was detected with infrared reflectography, some sections seem to be outlined with paint. The lips appear to have a vague painted outline around the edges and where they meet (see micro 04). The line between the lips is then painted with a line of red lake. Red lake paint in the lips looks to have been dragged with a dry brush to blend.
White shirt
The laced shirt and white cuffs are delicately and skilfully painted (see micro 13), and in places a pale priming layer might have been allowed to show through as a mid-tone. The shadows are thinly painted, and the highlights more thickly painted (see micro 15).
Gold Chain
The chain visible at the front and at the shoulder has abraded gold, and there are also painted lines (see micro 16). There are the remains of a warm glaze, containing red lake, over the gold. This appears to have been applied in fine lines. The section at the shoulder appears to have a mid-tone of greyish blue underpaint. However, no blue was found (see Paint sampling) and this layer was found to be a medium-rich grey layer. The paint sample from this area shows that there is a red glaze over the gold, consisting of two layers of brown, the upper one with a high proportion of red lake with some black. The gold lies underneath this. The lower brown layer is lighter, more orange in colour, forming a kind of impasto. The mid-tone grey layer lies beneath the lower layer.
The blue used in the ring gem is natural azurite (see Paint sampling). There are traces of gold with a warm thin glaze containing red lake over it (see micro 18).
Hat badge
There is worn gilding with a warm glaze, containing red lake over it, which appears to have been applied in fine lines as with the chain (see micro 21).
Black sleeves
These are smoothly modelled in black and shades of grey, worked up from dark to light. There are traces of a rich black glaze in some of the shadows, which would have made these even darker, the contrasts more pronounced, and the appearance of the fabric more luxurious. In two paint samples analysed in 2008 the black was found to be composed of reds with black.
Black/brown robe
Analysis in 1973 found two paint layers, each with a mixture of red, brown and black. The lower one is granular with brown ochre, particles of vermilion, charcoal black and occasional red lake. The upper has a higher proportion of very dark brownish red lake with some black and brown particles (see Paint sampling).
Red tablecloth
There is a great deal of restoration but some original is visible. The red is pure dry-process vermilion.
This has been extensively restored, but some parts of the (probably very abraded) original background can be seen amongst the overpaint (see micro 08). This original appears to contain azurite and white (see Paint sampling from 1973 analysis, which found the blue to be blue verditer (synthetic azurite)). This was confirmed by Libby Sheldon's analysis in 2008. There are traces of a darker old overpaint in places. Comparison with the Holbein original (Uffizi) indicates that NPG 4912 would probably originally have had a cast shadow on the left-hand side. No trace of this remains.
The inscription has been repainted/regilded at least once. The gold on the surface now is shell gold, applied with a brush. On the left-hand side, a slightly raised layer can be seen beneath the current lettering - this could be the original mordant or painted lettering (see micro 09). On the right-hand side, no such original layer is visible (see micro 10). As the inscription shows up only very faintly in x-ray (see X-ray), it is probable that the original layers do not contain lead-tin yellow, or a high proportion of lead white.
Order of construction
- Chalk ground
- Pale grey priming
- Red lake outlining of composition, probably to strengthen tracing of a pattern
- First layers for flesh
- First layers for costume
- Detail on face and hands
- Modelling on costume
- Red tablecloth
- Background
- Inscription
- All the gilding could have been applied last, as it overlaps some areas already painted, such as the badge on the hat
- Red glaze was applied over the gilding on the costume.
Lead white, black, red lake, vermilion, blue verditer (artificial copper carbonate), azurite, earth pigments, lead-tin yellow
Ultra violet examination (what's this? )
A method which helps to reveal past restoration and the extent of varnish layers.
In ultra violet light the varnish has a slightly milky, blueish fluorescence. Extensive retouching can be seen as dark spots over the varnish, especially in the background. There is less retouching elsewhere: a few isolated spots in the face, and some in the costume (see UV 01). A slightly orange tone to the fluorescence was evident in the lower part of the sleeve on the left, and the jacket appears slightly brown under the ultra violet light.


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About Eric
Could do what some other places do and leave the comments as editable for x amount of time (generally a few minutes)
I dont think microsoft has abandoned silverlight, considering it is the main development platform for the new Windows Phone 7 OS (along with XNA for games)
All i can say is this is one of 3 sites i like enough to purposely turn off my ad block for.
Not all of the posts here are perfect, but this is an blog, not a .... well, i'd say newspaper, but apparently they don't do a huge amount of fact checking lately either.
Google can't be a 'free rider' tho, it pays the ap already
I just happen to think it would be smarter business to wait till your competition has actually taken themselves out of the game before advertising yourself as an alternative, otherwise the competition "may" notice how stupid they are being and not destroy themselves.
also of course, what was said about shareholders of reuters also owning large parts of ap is probably true too
what would happen if google just stopped linking to any of the the publications that dont want them to. I imagine if they did, those sites advertising revenue would drop dramaticly. Sometimes you just have to prove your point.


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If you're looking for something to do this weekend, that doesn't include raking leaves or going to see Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol a full 50 days before Christmas, might I suggest reading a book? No, it's not pronounced boe-ock, it's bOOk; it sounds like crook. Books are the things on shelves in that small corner of the library? Yeah, the shelves behind the computers, magazines, and media center, there you go, you found them, those are books.
I know books are antiquated pieces of kitsch that you vowed never to touch again once you left high school or college, but I've found two pretty good ones if you can tear yourself away from your plasma, your laptop, or your Xbox. Plus, they can help you drift away from Sunday's defeat, and get you excited for Sunday's victory. The two great reads are "That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Sent it on the Path to Glory" and "The Official Vince Lombardi Playbook: His Classic Plays & Strategies, Personal Photos & Mementos, Recollections from Friends & Formers Players". They're both quick reads and one even has pictures for those of you looking for something visual to keep you interested. The later even includes Saint Vince's plays written on legal pads which are fantastic. The former gives excellent insight into what guys like Starr, Hornung, and Kramer thought of Lombardi upon his arrival, it's safe to say these guys were impressed…and nervous.
No, I can't promise you a personal pan pizza if you read these two books, but I can promise you a renewed respect for the Packers and what Lombardi meant to them. Even if you don't get to read them this weekend, pick them up. I read them at work, granted, I work in a library, so it might have been a bit easier for me, but if you can pull yourself away from the interweb (Believe me, I know it's cool. just watched this 23 times) or your TV, you will be happy.
PS: Christmas Carol is a book. By Dickens, not Jim Carrey or even Scrooge McDuck. I promise.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Reading: The Lost Art
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The Book It program! Holy crap, that brings back memories...ReplyDelete
From what I understand, Franklin practically invented the Book It program. There's no telling what year it started though as he is, for lack of a better term, timeless.ReplyDelete
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Lutherans Split on Whether to Leave Over Gay Clergy
MINNEAPOLIS – Even though the Rev. Mark Chavez believes the leaders of his church made a decision in direct contradiction of the Bible by lifting a ban on sexually active, monogamous gays and lesbians as clergy, he's staying with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
"I'm not leaving," Chavez said Friday night, promising an effort to keep the church from moving even further toward what he sees as an embrace of behavior condemned by Scripture.
Chavez, of Landisville, Pennsylvania, is director of Lutheran CORE, a conservative group within the ELCA that fought the gay clergy policy. The group will hold a convention in Indianapolis in September to review its next steps, but Chavez said he thinks some ELCA clergy, congregations and individual members will walk away from the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S.
Under the new policy, individual ELCA congregations will be allowed to hire homosexuals in committed monogamous relationships as clergy. Until now, gays and lesbians had to remain celibate to serve as clergy.
The change to gay clergy policy passed with the support of 68 percent of about 1,000 delegates at the ELCA's national assembly. It makes the group, with about 4.7 million members in the U.S., one of the largest U.S. Christian denominations yet to take a more gay-friendly stance.
"I have seen these same-gender relationships function in the same way as heterosexual relationships — bringing joy and blessings as well as trials and hardships," the Rev. Leslie Williamson, associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Des Plaines, Illinois, said during the hours of debate. "The same-gender couples I know live in love and faithfulness and are called to proclaim the word of God as are all of us."
But the change may be too much for some Lutherans. Conservative congregations will not be forced to hire gay clergy, but opponents nevertheless warned there could be spiritual consequences for a church that strays from Scripture.
"This will cause an ever greater loss in members and finances. I can't believe the church I loved and served for 40 years can condone what God condemns," said the Rev. Richard Mahan, pastor at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Charleston, West Virginia. "Nowhere in Scripture does it say homosexuality and same-sex marriage is acceptable to God. Instead, it says it is immoral and perverted."
Mahan said he believed a majority of his congregation would want to now break away from the ELCA.
Other leaders indicated they might leave as well. The Rev. Tim Housholder, pastor of St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, described himself during the debate as a rostered ELCA pastor "at least for a few more hours." The Rev. Marshall Hahn, pastor at St. Olaf Lutheran Parish in Dubuque, Iowa, said he'd need to talk to his bishop "to discuss what this means for my future with this church."
Other Christian denominations in the United States have struggled to remain united in the face of such debates. In 2003, the 2 million-member Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, a move that alienated American Episcopalians from its worldwide parent church, the Anglican Communion. The divide has led to the formation of the more conservative Anglican Church in North America, which claims 100,000 members.
But ELCA supporters of its denomination's change said failure to ratify it ran just as great a risk of alienating large portions of the membership, particularly younger ones.
The Rev. Katrina Foster, pastor at Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church in The Bronx, a borough of New York City, said Lutherans heard similar warnings about flouting Scripture when they made past changes that are now seen as successful — chiefly, the ordination of women.
"We can learn not to define ourselves by negation," said Foster, a lesbian. "By not only saying what we are against, which always seems to be the same — against gay people. We should be against poverty. I wish we were as zealous about that."
Under the new policy, heterosexual clergy and professional lay workers must still abstain from sex outside marriage. The proposed change would cover those in "lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships."
ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson said after the vote that he would commit himself to keeping opponents of the new policy within the ELCA fold.
"For those that did not prevail tonight, are you willing to stay engaged in the conversation?" Hanson said. He added, "I'm pleading with people to stay in there with us in this conversation."


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Q. I am having a hard time understanding the rule on how to size the circuit breaker/fuse for a motor that has separate overload protection. Can you please explain this rule?
A. Sure. The motor branch circuit, short circuit, and ground-fault protective device must comply with the following:
• A motor branch circuit, short circuit, and ground-fault protective device must be capable of carrying the motor's starting current. [430.52(B)]
• Each motor branch circuit must be protected against short circuit and ground faults by a protective device sized no greater than the percentages listed in Table 430.52. [430.52(C)]
Example: What size conductor and inverse time circuit breaker are required for a 2-hp, 230V, single-phase motor?
Step 1: Determine the branch-circuit conductor [Table 310.16, 430.22(A), and Table 430.248]: 12A x 1.25 = 15A
A 14 AWG copper conductor is rated 20A at 75°C [Table 310.16]
Step 2: Determine the branch circuit protection [240.6(A), 430.52(C)(1), and Table 430.248]: 12A x 2.50 = 30A
Q. We drove a ½-in. ground rod with a tested resistance of less than 10 ohms. We are now being told that this rod needs to be 5/8 in. in size because it isn't listed. If the rod yields a reading of less than 25 ohms, do I really have to remove it and install a larger rod?
A. Well, unlisted ground rods made of stainless steel, copper coated steel, or zinc coated steel must have a diameter of at least 5/8 in. Listed ground rods must have a diameter of at least ½ in. Therefore, your inspector is correct. [250.52(A)(5)(b)]
Q. We have been written up for installing 15A receptacles on the 20A circuits serving a residential kitchen. Have we been doing this wrong for all of these years, or is this a new rule?
A. Where connected to a branch circuit that supplies two or more receptacles, receptacles must have an ampere rating in accordance with the values listed in Table 210.21(B)(3). Remember that a duplex receptacle has two contact devices on the same yoke [Art. 100], which means even one duplex receptacle on a circuit makes that circuit a multi-outlet branch circuit. That said, a 15A duplex receptacle is allowed to be installed on a 20A branch circuit.
Q. Does the Code tell us the largest size conductor we can splice with a twist-on type wire connector?
A. Not really. The closest thing you are going to find is 110.14, which tells us that conductor splicing devices must be identified for the conductor material, and they must be properly installed. The answer to how many conductors and what size can be installed in a wire connector is simply "whatever the connector is listed for."
Q. We installed a 2-wire, 20A circuit plus a twisted pair of 18 AWG THHN/THWN conductors for data signal inside of a raceway serving some gasoline dispensers. Now we are being told that we have four current-carrying conductors inside of the raceway and need to de-rate the conductor ampacity as per 310.15(B)(2)(a). Do we really have to do this?
A. No, the ampacity doesn't have to be adjusted because the twisted pair cables are not considered current-carrying conductors. See 725.51(B).
Q. Do I need to provide the same working space requirements discussed in 110.26 for a fire alarm control panel?
A. Yes, you do. For the purpose of safe operation and maintenance of equipment, sufficient access and working space in accordance with 110.26 must be provided. Remember that Art. 110 contains the general requirements of the Code, which are applicable to all installations covered in Chapters one through seven (such as fire alarm systems noted in Art. 760). Because nothing in Art. 760 supplements or modifies [90.3] the general rule of 110.26, compliance is mandatory.
Note: Where special permission is granted in accordance with 90.4, working space for equipment that operates at not more than 30VAC or 60VDC can be less than the distance in Table 110.26(A)(1) [110.26(A)(1)(b)].
Q. We cut our wire too short in a few outlet boxes so I spliced on a couple inches of conductor to make sure I had the required 6 in. of free conductor at each location. The inspector says the free conductor must be "unspliced." Is he right?
A. No, he is not. He is correct that the NEC requires at least 6 in. of free conductor be available from the point in the box where the conductors enter the enclosure [300.14]. However, nowhere in this rule does it require that the free length of conductor be unspliced.
Q. In a one-family dwelling, I have a hot tub disconnect located 15 ft from the hot tub. The disconnect is plainly visible from the tub. Someone told me the disconnect is required to be visible from the motor as well. Is this true?
A. No. The maintenance disconnecting means for hot tubs must be readily accessible and located within sight and at least 5 ft from the hot tub unless separated from the open water by a permanently installed barrier that provides a 5-ft reach path or greater. This horizontal distance is measured from the water's edge along the shortest path required to reach the disconnecting means [680.12].
Note: For other than one-family dwellings, a clearly labeled emergency shutoff or control switch to interrupt power to the circulation pump is required. This emergency shutoff must be located within sight and within 5 ft of a spa or hot tub [680.41].
Q. We paralleled two sets of 500kcmil phase conductors on the secondary side of a customer-owned transformer. How do I size the equipment grounding conductor for each raceway, if the raceway is flexible metal conduit?
A. An equipment bonding jumper must be run to the secondary system disconnecting means. Where the secondary equipment grounding conductor is of the wire type, it must be sized in accordance with Table 250.66, based on the area of the largest ungrounded secondary conductor in each raceway or cable [250.30(A)(2) and 250.102(C)].
Example: What size equipment bonding jumper is required for each flexible metal conduit containing 500kcmil secondary conductors? As per Table 250.66, the answer is 1/0 AWG.
A reader recently wrote in with a question concerning the derating of conductor in a wireway, as discussed in the April 2009 edition of EC&M magazine in "Code Quandaries." In the answer to the first question on page 38, the text stated that the derating of 310.15(B)(2)(a) is only required when the number of conductors exceeds 30. Although that is correct for metal wireway, as discussed in 376.22(B), the reader suggests this is not the case for non-metal wireway. He notes that 378.22 says, "the derating factors specified in 310.15(B)(2)(a) shall be applicable to the current-carrying conductors up to an including the 20 percent fill specified above." In short, conductors in non-metal wireways should be treated the same as conductors in a conduit, and 310.15(B)(2)(a) applies. Mike Holt, NEC expert and author of "Code Quandaries," confirms this analysis is correct. We apologize for any confusion this inadvertent error may have caused.


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Economy cabins contain seats that are 17 inches wide with pitches ranging from 30 to 35 inches depending on the aircraft. On board passengers are provided with blankets and pillows. Children's toys and baby kits are available upon request. In-flight meals include European and Asian cuisine as well as a range of beverages. Entertainment is subject to the type of aircraft. Bowing 747-400 aircraft feature cabin screens offering films and short movies. On Airbus A330-200, A330-300 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft, seats feature 9 inch touch screens with video on demand systems.
Executive cabins contain seats 19 to 21 inches wide with pitches ranging from 41 to 58 inches depending on the aircraft. Flat bed seats are available on Airbus A330-200 and A330-300, and feature a 74 inch seat pitch and in-seat laptop power supply. On board passengers are provided with blankets, pillows, stationary and an amenity kit containing a tooth brush set, comb, mouth freshener, slumber mask, moisturizing lotion and mini eau de toilette. Children's toys and baby kits are available upon request. In-flight meals include a choice of European and Asian main meals, midnight snacks and a range of beverages. Entertainment is subject to the type of aircraft. The Airbus 330-300 and A330-200 feature seats with in-armrest 11 inch LCD touch screens with video on demand systems.
Executive passengers are allowed 1 piece of 7kg hand luggage, and 1 piece of 30kg checked baggage.
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The Garuda Frequent Flyer program allows members to earn points when they fly with Garuda Indonesia. Accumulated points can be used to purchase award tickets and upgrades. Depending on their membership level, members are also given priority treatment and privileges such as special check-in counters, extra baggage allowances and access to Garuda Indonesia airport lounges.
Garuda Indonesia Executive Lounges are located at Soekarno Hatta International Airport and Ngurag Rai International Airport. Lounges feature fully equipped business centres, relax rooms, refreshment areas complete with showers, luggage rooms, prayer rooms and complimentary wireless internet access. Executive passengers, Executive Card Plus members and Garuda Frequent Flyer Gold and Platinum card members can access the Executive lounges.


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So, for many years I always thought the term "jeep" for perhaps one of the most iconic vehicles used by the Allies during World War II (which you can see below) derived from the government-given acronym "GP," short for "General Purpose" or "Government Purpose" vehicle.
[This is also the same the same way that the contemporary "HMMWV" vehicle, short for "High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle," became known as the "Humvee."]
Yet in the process of reviewing the storied history of this military vehicle to help illustrate the photo you see at right, snapped during a one-of-a-kind classic car show organized for "Living History Day" at Sugar Pines State Park on the shores of Lake Tahoe, CA, this past weekend, I discovered there's something of a dispute over the origins of the word "jeep."
[And if you are a "classic car" buff, click here to see photos of the other historical vehicles on display.]
You can read more details about that controversy by clicking here, but I'll provide a quick summary below.
First is what's been dubbed an "alternative view" of how the jeep name came to be launched by R. Lee Ermey on his television series Mail Call. He said that the vehicle never was referred to as "General Purpose" as it instead was designed for specific duties such as reconnaissance. Ermey also said that it would've been highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI [another government acronym, this time for "General Infantry," that is also now iconic in its own right] would ever have been familiar with the "GP" designation.
Ermey instead posited that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after the comic strip character "Eugene the Jeep," a hardy and lucky "jungle pet" of Popeye that sailor that first appeared in 1936. Since the jeep didn't formally come onto the military scene until 1941, this is certainly plausible.
A second theory is that "jeep" derived from Ford Motor Co.'s abbreviation for the vehicle: GPW, which with the "G" standing for "government use," the "P" designating its 80-inch wheelbase, and the "W" for its "Willys-Overland" designed engine.
[For fun, check out the short film "Autobiography of a Jeep" below made back in 1943; a history of how the jeep came to be but told from the jeep's perspective!]
As an aside, here's an interesting twist to the "GPW" theory: Ford never designed this vehicle at all. Rather, the famous jeep was the brainchild of freelance specialist Karl Probst who got hired by the bankrupt American Bantam Car Company to create a vehicle design per a government RFP [short for "request for proposal," yet another charming acronym.]
Probst's design – for the Bantam Reconnaissance Car or BRC – won the day, but because Bantam was bankrupt, the U.S. government gave the design and the production contract to Ford and rival Willys-Overland, which went on to build "Pygmy" and "Quad" variations, respectively, of the BRC.
Finally, there's a third "alternative" version of where the "jeep" name comes from – in this case from a broader military slang term.
In the book Words of the Fighting Forces by Clinton Sanders, a dictionary of military slang published in 1942, the term "jeep" described a wide range of equipment: four-wheel drive vehicles of one-half to one- and one-half-ton capacity for reconnaissance or other army duty; bantam-cars and occasionally other motor vehicles in the Air Corps; in the armored forces, the half-ton command vehicle; any small plane, ship (a la the Navy's "jeep" aircraft carriers), helicopter, or gadget.
But how did this one vehicle and term end up becoming so inseparable? That part of the story is below.
In early in 1941, Willys-Overland demonstrated the vehicle's off-road capability by getting test driver Irving "Red" Haussman to motor it up the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Haussman, who had recently heard soldiers at Fort Holabird referring to the vehicle as a "jeep," relayed that name to syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News. Hillyer's article, published nationally on February 20, 1941, included a picture of the vehicle and referred to the vehicle as "the Army's new scout car, called 'jeep' or 'quad'" in her story.
From that point on the name "jeep" got stuck on that little 4x4 Willys-Overland quad ... and got stuck for good.


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The Bathroom of the Future
Ever since you were young, you've heard (and heeded) the warning: water and electricity don't mix. As you learned in science class, the minerals and other impurities suspended in water conduct electricity, so a blow dryer and a bathtub make for a bad combination.
That's not to say that electronics are banned from the bathroom, though. In fact, technology has been seeping into the loo nearest you and new gadgets suggest a promising potential for connected bathrooms. Automatic-flush toilets have been around for a while, but what about toilets that autonomously lift and lower the lid, heat the seat, and clean themselves?
Emerging innovations suggest that bathrooms of the future will be more environmentally and water-conscious. Even if a certain member of your household takes hour-long showers, new shower heads with eco modes and timers can help reduce water consumption. For public restrooms, there's an iPhone app that plays a continuous flushing noise to cover up any—er—offensive sounds that might come from your toilet stall, saving both embarrassment and extra water-wasting flushes.
WaterSense, a partnership program by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, puts its seal on water-efficient products, giving consumers a quick way to make smart purchasing decisions. To earn the WaterSense label—which many of the items featured in this story have—a product must be at least 20 percent more efficient than a conventional one while performing on par with it.
What's more, bathrooms are not just a room to get clean in anymore; customizable features make the experience more spa-like. If you haven't already, you'll likely soon encounter a bathtub that fills to your preferred temperature, a toilet with an integrated bidet that sprays at your desired setting, and a showerhead that rains down at just the right pressure. Connected scales and toothbrushes will monitor your personal health and hygiene metrics and can even send reports to dentists and doctors.
Read on to learn about more of the technologies trickling into our water closets and the possibilities they may engineer in the near future. Once you're done in the bathroom, be sure to check out what kitchens of the future might look like—just make sure you wash your hands first!
1 Kohler Moxie Showerhead + Wireless Speaker
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The Board mirrors the wide-ranging and diverse nature of the Global Partnership and includes members from developing country governments and all development partners: donors, civil society organizations, private sector and foundations, and multilateral agencies and regional banks.
The responsibilities of the Board include: reviewing annual objectives of the Partnership, mobilizing resources, monitoring financial resources and funding, advocating for the partnership, and overseeing the secretariat budget and work plan.


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Note: This is a speculative article, written BEFORE opening weekend box office numbers came in.
M. Night Shyamalan's adaptation of The Last Airbender hits theaters this week and upon closer examination, I dare say that there's a lot at stake in regards to how this film performs at the box office - and not just in regard to Shyamalan's career as a filmmaker.
Early critical reaction is that The Last Airbender is THE big movie fiasco of 2010; however, if the film manages to connect with audiences this weekend, it would seem that we'll have another Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on our hands, and that would be a development that could steer Hollywood further down a path that many avid movie fans do not want to follow.
If you haven't read our official Screen Rant review of The Last Airbender, let me sum up our official standpoint on the movie: it's terrible. If you're thinking to yourself "Well Screen Rant, that's just your opinion," then I hate to be the bearer of bad news by pointing out that the collective critical opinion (pretty much across the board) is that this film is terrible. Just pop on over to Rotten Tomatoes and have a look for yourself, or check out our review HERE to learn about everything that went so terribly wrong with this movie.
So, by all critical accounts The Last Airbender is a failure that just might be the final nail in the coffin that M. Night Shymalan's career is waiting to be buried in. The film should also be a sign to Hollywood that cheap (or non-existent) storytelling, flashy effects, and ticket price-hiking gimmicks like post-production 3D conversion are not enough to fool the masses and mask a glaring failure in movie making.
However, we've been here before, haven't we? Just a year ago around this time Revenge of the Fallen was widely blasted by critics for being the reeking pile of cinematic failure that it was. The critics who tore it apart then kicked back, content that they had done their job exposing a lame duck, and waited for the public to send a message to Michael Bay and Hollywood: "We expect better!"
And then a strange (and terrible) thing happened: Transformers 2 made crazy amounts of money.
Revenge of the Fallen cost about $200 million to make (thank the HD IMAX sequences), and in a sane universe would've never been able to recoup that budget. However, the final tally of the film's receipts counted out to about $400 million domestic and another $400 million overseas, culminating in $800+ million total.
Not only did the returns shock every critic (or critical movie goer) who thought Revenge of the Fallen was crap, those figures actually spawned a new faction of movie fans who were animate in their belief that a blockbuster need not have a deep story, big brains, character development or anything else beyond flashy effects, big action, hot eye-candy and the most juvenile sort of humor - so long as it was "entertaining," of course. ;-)
This new fan-faction was quick to make its opinions heard, telling critics they had fallen out of touch with "average" movie fans, and even going so far as to suggest that if a movie like The Dark Knight (which was critically acclaimed) made $1 billion and Transformers 2 could still make $800 million, that there was little difference between a "smart" and "brainless" blockbuster. That debate is still raging in comment sections on our site a full year later.
If The Last Airbender blows away the box office competition over the July 4th weekend and somehow manages to generate a sizeable profit for itself, not only will advocates of the "big brainless fun blockbuster" have a new stock of ammo for their guns, Hollywood execs will have all the justification they need to keep peddling crap movies as if they're gold - complete with shoddy gimmicks like 3D conversion and inflated ticket prices.
And don't expect Inception to reverse that perception; if Last Airbender does well and Inception does well, that's just further evidence that there's little difference between smart and dumb blockbusters, right? (At least that's what "brainless blockbuster" types will say.) But if Last Airbender does well and Inception's brainy ideas fail to lure a mass audience... well... I don't even want to think about that scenario. :-(
To all you movie fans (of every kind) out there: You need to pay attention to what happens at the box office this weekend. You may think I'm being dramatic (and drama IS my middle name), but mark my words: we're currently standing at a fork in the path, and where movies go from here will be (in part) determined by what happens with The Last Airbender.
I know Shyamalan is probably in a bunker sweating bullets right about now, and Paramount (the studio behind both The Last Airbender and Transformers 2) is hoping and praying that lightning strikes twice. Should be interesting come next Tuesday, when the holiday box office receipts get tallied.
What do you think - will The Last Airbender be the 2010 Transformers 2, or is there no way the movie will be able overcome its glaring faults to claim box office glory? And how do you think Last Airbender and Inception will affect the debate over smart vs. brainless blockbusters started by Revenge of the Fallen and The Dark Knight? Let us know how you feel in the comments.
The Last Airbender is currently in theaters.
Inception will be in theaters on July 16th.
Turn on a cable premium channel and you can waste 2.5 hours watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at your leisure.
Sources: Rotten Tomatoes, Box Office Mojo


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Well, my boys noticed a pattern. Their dad brought them home at least three or four souvenirs a piece from both trips. I received gifts too. The occasions of his returns seemed like Christmas!
On the day that my husband was to return from his Utah trip, both boys started talking about the gifts they would receive. (Yes, I guess they are a bit spoiled!). However, their dad wasn't due home until 12:30 a.m.--way past their 9-9:30 p.m. bedtime. We went through the bedtime routine as usual and I went back downstairs to create and print out programs for the Tribute Walk that was to occur the next afternoon.
I had been in the middle of a painting job on my oldest son's room so that my husband wouldn't have to deal with the chaos that surrounds such work. He's not a big fan of new paint jobs. Transforming a room from blueberry blue to rice paper white (as requested by my son), has been no easy task.
Preparing the room with tape, etc. and putting on two coats of primer took much longer than I thought. I had to suspend the work on Saturday so that I could work on details for my big event the next day. This meant that both boys were tucked in together in my youngest son's small bedroom. (As of today, clean up from the paint job and the job of putting back bedroom furniture still needs to be completed.)
Is it needless to say that my boys that couldn't settle down? I tried my best to get them to go to sleep, but I needed to focus on my work as much as possible. All I can say was thank goodness the next day was Sunday. We didn't have to worry about getting up for school!
What happened when their dad returned just after 12:30 a.m.? My husband and his boss (who drove him home) were greeted by two giggling, happy boys in pajamas. They actually ran out to the car! The oldest gave him a welcome home card.
The boys received t-shirts with Utah logos (as did I), and three other gifts that suited their personalities. My youngest received a wooden animal and Native American set, a small box of shiny rocks and a small stuffed bear. My oldest received a wooden frog pen, a small stuffed frog and a paper back children's book. I received a Deer Christmas Ornament from Antelope Island (in the middle of the Great Salt Lake) and I believe my teal t-shirt was from the island as well.
Yes, the boys slept in the next morning. I was out of the door to chalk out the directions for the memorial walk by 8:30 a.m., but my husband said they didn't get up until 10:30 a.m. My little night owls definitely did not transform into early birds the next morning. I suppose that was a blessing. Smiles--jml.


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Tough choices, dimming chances for lawmakers seeking fiscal crisis solution
No longer in search of a "grand bargain," lawmakers and President Obama seem to have rapidly scaled down their expectations for a bill that averts -- or at least shrinks -- the looming fiscal crisis. They're now talking about doing the bare minimum.
But with less than a week remaining to pull a bill together, they still face some very tough choices. Lawmakers must determine what the bare minimum entails and, perhaps more importantly, how they will muster enough votes to pass it.
None of this is a sure thing, and the down-to-the-wire negotiations have only upped the chances of a sweeping tax hike hitting in the new year. Senior House Republicans are trying to put the onus on the Senate to act, yet Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid does not have a bill.
A Gallup poll released Wednesday showed Americans' optimism is fading that lawmakers will reach a deal before Jan. 1.
On Wednesday night, Obama flew out of Hawaii, where he spent Christmas with his family. He is expected to arrive in Washington early Thursday. House Speaker John Boehner is also expected to return to Washington soon -- it's not clear when -- as the Senate comes back into session Thursday. Reid is already in Washington.
Obama aides and lawmakers are now talking about a scaled-down package as the most likely vehicle for solving the problem, something that could at least prevent most of the scheduled tax hikes and maybe extend jobless aid. Then lawmakers could renew the debate early next year over the most contentious issues of entitlement cuts and tax reform.
But figuring out what to include in a scaled-down package could prove just as vexing as before. The first challenge is to determine who, if anyone, will see a tax hike next year.
Obama first demanded taxes rise for all households making more than $250,000. Then he offered a deal that raised the threshold to $400,000. Boehner, after previously opposing any tax rate hike, countered with a plan setting the income threshold at $1 million -- that plan died in the House. Any tax hike deal would likely fall somewhere between those two goalposts, though it's unclear where.
Obama has indicated he still prefers an increase for those making over $250,000.
And Boehner continues to resist tax hikes.
"The American people re-elected President Obama on Election Day. They also re-elected a Republican majority in the House," Boehner said last week. "In doing so, they gave us all a mandate. It was not a mandate to raise tax rates on families and small businesses. It was a mandate for us to work together to begin solving the massive debt that threatens our country's future."
Beyond that, there are a host of other provisions that may or may not be addressed. Lawmakers will have to determine whether to extend long-term unemployment benefits, which are expiring for 2 million people. Medicare payments to doctors are also set to shrink by 30 percent next year unless Congress acts. A 2-point payroll tax cut is set to expire. And a short-term fix to something known as the alternative minimum tax is also set to lapse, which could lead to a nearly $4,000 tax hike for millions of families.
On top of all those provisions are the $110 billion in automatic spending cuts -- half of which would hit the Pentagon -- scheduled to hit next month.
Drafters of any fiscal crisis bill would have to make difficult decisions on which of these provisions to avert, and which to allow.
After that would come the politics and logistics of a vote. Boehner, who according to sources lost 40 Republicans on his Plan B proposal last week, would likely need some Democrats to pass any package that raises tax rates. But any move to pass a bill with too few Republicans could spur an uprising among conservatives.
Reid, too, faces a balancing act -- Democrats do not have enough votes in the chamber to hit the 60 votes it takes to overcome a filibuster. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell would either have to allow a simple-majority vote for something to pass, or Reid would need to peel off a few Republicans to reach 60 votes.
In the face of all these challenges, it is possible lawmakers will simply do nothing -- allowing the tax hikes and spending cuts to hit, and perhaps returning next year to try cleaning up the mess. Prolonged inaction, though, could lead to another recession, the Congressional Budget Office warns. Lawmakers could also pass a short-term bill extending current rates in hopes of reaching a bigger deal next month.
Since Friday, virtually nothing has happened on the fiscal crisis front. A spokesman Boehner said the president and the speaker did not talk over the weekend. Representatives for the Republican and Democratic Senate leaders both said Monday they had "nothing" to report.
One administration official suggested there was a bit more contact in recent days between White House staff and Senate Democratic leadership staff, indicating that new legislation, if proposed, could come from the Senate side.


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Case Number 33-3866
Case Date: May 4, 1976
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
County: Lawrence
Location of Crime: Rural Lawrence County, Indiana
Circumstances: On May 4, 1976, Bennett Brown was last observed in Chicago after completing his freshman year at Northern Illinois University, in Dekalb, Illinois (west of Chicago). Brown was believed to have been wearing blue jeans, white Adidas style tennis shoes and a red, hooded, front zipper type sweatshirt. Brown indicated he was leaving Chicago to go work at a boys' camp, but the name of the camp and address is not known. Brown's body was found in rural Lawrence County near the end of May. Evidence indicated Brown had been stabbed multiple times.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past isn't even in theaters yet, but the team over at Fox's X-Men movie division have been talking up some ambitious future plans. With people like Bryan Singer (X-Men), Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class), X-Men movie producer Lauren Shuler Donner and comic book creator Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) all acting as Marvel-style shepherds, the plans for Fox's X-Men movie universe include more franchise sequels (X-Men: Apocalypse and Wolverine 3), big team-up films (X-Force), and of course, another crack at solo character spinoffs (still waiting on you, Deadpool...).
In a new report, Kinberg and Donner are opening up about some of the goals they have in mind - particularly for the solo film spinoffs. Deadpool has been the biggest name fans have been clamouring for, but recently we've heard that a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum starring could be in the design. Today we can add another character being discussed for a solo project: Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique. Said Kinberg: "I love what Jen Lawrence has done with her, and I feel like because she is in such a crowded ensemble, there's so much more opportunity if you were to follow her solo."
In X-Men: First Class, the backstory of shape-shifting mutant Mystique was given way more depth and importance to the X-Men franchise. In Singer's first two films, the blue-skinned vixen (played by beige-skinned vixen Rebecca Romijn) was little more than Magneto's henchwoman (and implied concubine). She had some impressive espionage and combat sequences, but there was little of the complex character from X-Men comics to be found. First Class admittedly bucked comic book canon in order to position Mystique as a surrogate sister to Charles Xavier - a girl whose own identity issues formed one of the better character arcs of that film. In Days of Future Past, it seems that Mystique has stepped out of the shadows of both Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender), in order to carry out a mutant agenda of her own - one that could forever alter the course of the future, leading to the extinction of mutantkind.
While we have little idea where the events of Days of Future Past will ultimately leave Mystique, based on early speculation about the nature of this new X-Men movie universe, the filmmakers could in fact position the character for an interesting solo film.
In the comics, Mystique's origin revolves around her lover Destiny (Irene Adler), a mutant with the ability to see the future. Mystique and Destiny's mission for most of the 20th century was deciphering the vague prophecies in Destiny's diary while attempting to prevent those futures that would be the most devastating to mutantkind or the world in general. From what we've seen of Days of Future Past, JLaw's Mystique is on a mission whose dire ramifications she is seemingly oblivious to. Maybe by the end of the movie her motivations haven't changed - only her method of approach? With the simple introduction of the Destiny character, there's definitely room for a Mystique movie to explore an interesting sci-fi hook like trying to shape the future (see: recent examples like Looper or the upcoming Edge of Tomorrow). Add in mutant powers and some key appearances from other X-Men universe characters, and you have even more clay from which to mold a compelling solo movie.
Furthermore, Mystique has led her own teams in the comics, including The Brotherhood of Mutants and Freedom Force. She's also been a member of the government's X-Factor mutant squad, discovered and raised Rogue, and has run covert missions for Charles Xavier - all in addition to furthering her own future-pruning ends. Any one of those story threads would be ripe enough to sustain a solo film - let alone a combination of several of them.
Even though an EW poll shows that Mystique is one of the top characters fans would like to see in a solo film - after Deadpool, Gambit, Storm and X-Force - it's safe to say that the hardcore fanbase hasn't exactly been fighting for this project tooth and nail. It stands to reason that it is Fox that needs some kind of incentive to lock down Oscar-winner and Hunger Games franchise icon Jennifer Lawrence in their X-Men universe - because supporting roles in these crowded ensemble films are not likely to lure her back many more times. So, while the incentive could be motivated by offscreen politics, the opportunity is nonetheless there to embrace the source material and offer a compelling Mystique movie to fans.
Of course, to hear Lauren Shuler Donner tell it, new creative opportunities are the studio's only focus in this new era:
"There was a regime [at the studio] that didn't see the worth in [spin-offs], and the current people who run Fox understand, embrace it, and we're going to do right by it. I'd like to do Gambit. I'd like to do Deadpool. We'll see. There's a lot of really great characters."
While this all sounds interesting (and potentially fun), we can't escape the nagging reality that X-Men: Days of Future Past still has a big hill to climb before ANY of these plans for the X-Men cinematic universe move forward. DoFP is arguably one of the most expensive superhero movies ever made, and the X-Men brand is not nearly as strong at the box office as competitors like Marvel Studios or Sony's Spider-Man franchise. The Days of Future Past trailers have been okay, but tie-in marketing has not done much to inspire the hardcore fanbase, and even casual viewers have been put off by the sight of hokey promotional campaigns like these:
...So maybe we should wait and see how Days of Future Past fares before we get too far ahead of ourselves, yes?
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X-Men: Days of Future Past will be in theaters on May 23, 2014.
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