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Climate change is a regular topic of discussion on Geekzone. It seems that climate change discussions always degenerate into a stalemate, with no views changed on any side of the discussion. I think the outcome is, in part, due to people holding different "facts" about the topic.
Therefore, I thought it might be interesting to state my current understanding of the science. I've studied climate science, as an amateur, for 25 years. Climate science has evolved greatly over that time. There is still much that we don't understand, especially about the feedback loops in the system, but there is also a lot that is well established. This understanding is, of course, subject to change given new evidence or correction of errors.
I don't expect to change anyone's views, but maybe the discussions can be a little more informed.
TL;DR: Earth's climate is warming. Humans have contributed by emitting greenhouse gases. The future path is uncertain, but it is likely to be further warming.
The greenhouse effect:
- Some atmospheric gases transmit visible and UV light from the Sun but absorb infrared light (directly from the Sun and reflected by the surface) - this is the "greenhouse effect", since the gases work much like the glass in a greenhouse.
- Without the greenhouse effect, Earth's average surface temperature would be about -18°C. That is, 33°C colder than the current average temperature of 15°C.
- The vast majority of life on Earth depends on the greenhouse effect to create a tolerable climate.
- By far the most significant greenhouse gas is water vapour, though CO2, methane, and some other gases also contribute.
Water vapour:
- Human activity has little direct impact on the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.
- Feedback effects due to temperature change may be important, but this is uncertain.
- For example, clouds reflect sunlight back into space, but clouds also trap heat in the atmosphere. The net effect is uncertain.
- Since the start of the industrial revolution, 250 years ago, humans have emitted 2 trillion tonnes of CO2.
- Around half of the emissions have been since 1975.
- We currently emit about 35 billion tonnes of CO2 per annum (or about 10 billion tonnes of carbon per annum - the two number are often confused).
- For 800,000 years prior to the industrial revolution, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere was in the range 170 to 300 parts per million (ppm) with an average of 240 ppm.
- For 2,000 years prior to the industrial revolution, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere was in the range 270 to 290 ppm.
- Global average CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is now 405 parts per million and rising at 2 ppm per year.
- CO2 has an atmospheric half-life of decades (subject to a large range of uncertainty, extending to hundreds of years according to some estimates).
- The long life of CO2 in the atmosphere is the main reason why it is important.
- All the rise in CO2 concentration is accounted for by human-related emissions of CO2.
- Methane is many times more potent than CO2, in terms of the greenhouse effect.
- The methane concentration has risen from 700 to 2000 ppm since the start of the industrial revolution.
- Methane cycles out of the atmosphere fairly quickly, with an atmospheric half-life of 7 years.
- The short life of methane makes it less important than its potency would otherwise suggest.
- Unhelpfully, some atmospheric methane oxidises to form atmospheric CO2.
Average global atmospheric temperature:
- Over the last 500 million years Earth's average atmospheric temperature has varied by about +/- 10°C, due to variations in three main factors: the Sun, Earth's orbit, and atmospheric composition.
- From about 20,000 to 10,000 years ago, the climate warmed by about 5 to 7°C as the planet emerged from the last ice age.
- From 10,000 years ago until around the year 1900, the global average temperature varied within +/- 0.5°C almost all the time. This period coincides with the development of agriculture, domestication of animals, and the rise of civilisations.
- Since 1900, average global temperature has risen by almost 1°C. This rise is consistent with the size of the greenhouse effect expected from the higher CO2 (and methane, etc.) concentration.
- Most of the rise in temperature has occurred since 1980.
Sea level:
- Sea level has varied radically over time, with a range of several hundred metres.
- Sea level rose by more than 100m (5 to 15mm/year) over the period from 15,000 years ago to 7,000 years ago, as the planet emerged from the last ice age.
- Sea level continued rising from 7,000 to 2,000 years ago, at around 1 mm/year.
- Over the 2,000 years before the industrial revolution, there was no significant change in average sea level.
- Over the last few decades, average sea level has risen by 2-4mm/year (with a lot of variation between locations), with an increasing rate.
- Over the long term, sea level change is driven mostly by the amount of ice on land (primarily Antarctica and continental ice sheets).
- Over the last 100 years, sea levels have risen by about 200mm.
- The recent rise in sea level is more-or-less evenly due to thermal expansion of water as the oceans have absorbed extra heat from the atmosphere and extra water due to melting land ice.
- If the Antarctic ice sheet melts, then it would raise sea levels by 60m - though that would take at least hundreds of years and more likely thousands of years.
Earth's orbit:
- Earth's orbit varies, with short and long (100,000+ years) cycles.
- Variations in the orbit produce variations in sunlight intensity, which is the primary cause of the ice age cycle.
- The variations are fairly well understood and occur too slowly to account for any significant part of the recent warming.
The Sun:
- The Sun provides almost all heat on Earth (the rest comes from gravitation compression of the Earth, drag from the Moon, radioactive decay, etc).
- Without the Sun, there would be no climate variation; the Earth would be a frozen, dead rock with a surface temperature of around -250°C to -210°C.
- The Sun's energy output varies over time.
- The size of the variation over the last 100 years is tiny: 1366 +/- 1 Watts per square metre at the top of the atmosphere. Too small to materially change average temperatures.
- Atmospheric temperature is related to the sunspot cycle, rather than energy output, for reasons that are not well understood.
- The number of sunspots varies in an 11 year cycle, with some cycles being more intense than others.
- Lower temperatures are associated with fewer sunspots.
- We are currently in a cycle that has low sunspot counts, which may be offsetting some warming that would otherwise occur.
- Some analyses suggest even lower sunspot counts over the next couple of decades.
- The "Maunder minimum", also known as "The Little Ice Age", occurred during a period of especially low sunspot counts, though the effect may have been localised to Europe rather than being global.
Climate models:
- Forecasting climate change, and effects like sea level change, is very difficult and subject to a lot of uncertainty.
- The Sun warms the Earth by around 210°C. The natural greenhouse effect adds another 33°C. Humans have added about 1°C over the last 100 years and will likely add 1-2°C more in the next 100 years.
- Essentially, the models are trying to forecast a relatively small effect in a system that is quite variable, very complex, and inadequately understood.
- The models inevitably get the details wrong, but the general patterns are clear: more greenhouse gases imply greater heat retention and hence higher average global temperatures.
- The warming tendency may be offset by low sunspot activity - though this is very speculative.
- Almost all climate models have over-estimated the warming trend over the last 20 years. The reasons for this are not well understood.
- The main source of modelling uncertainty is the magnitude of feedback effects in the system.
- Some feedback effects reduce warming (e.g. warmer atmosphere has more clouds, and clouds reflect visible light back into space), while others increase warming (e.g. less Arctic sea ice exposes water to sunlight, and water absorbs more heat than ice does).
- Subject to potential off-setting effects, and notwithstanding the tendency to over-estimate impacts, almost all climate models predict a warming trend if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise.


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He sees radiologists having more time with patients or to contemplate the information they've never had at their fingertips like genomics and patient history along with AI-generated information. "We'll escape the information vacuum, delivering much greater value along with greater job satisfaction. This will enhance what we can produce."
Behind the scenes, Tanenbaum is excited about AI algorithms balancing workloads (burning out burnout!) and triaging cases that need urgent attention or immediately notifying radiologists of urgent findings such as a stroke or pneumothorax. "I see value in simplifying analysis of cases that have multiple time points by assisting in the longitudinal analysis of interval change. Or in doing screening examinations, which should increase in volume, by facilitating the identification of normals as well as detecting early signs of malignancies too subtle for human perception but detectable by trained algorithms."
Gains will come too in operational and financial advantages efficiencies. Think better asset and staff utilization and effective billing by determining which claims will be rejected. Algorithms will determine the best deployment of assets, such as where a ultrasound system should be located, and offer recommendations on the likelihood of a patient's readmission to a hospital or developing complications or certain diseases.
Revolutionary will be AI's ability to change the amount of scan time necessary to create an MR image, for example, or the amount of contrast for contrast-enhanced imaging. "We're going to see the next generation of noise reduction in CT that's going to be more clever and allow even greater dose reduction. We're going to see smarter tools like reconstructions that will recognize motion." He also points to the ability to diagnose lung cancer multiple visits before a radiologist can detect it visually or detect fractures, hemorrhage, stroke or pneumonia and bring those cases to the top of the worklist.
But there are concerns too. "One of the biggest challenges to the growth of imaging AI is organizations adopting new strategies restricting data access," he says. "Typical privacy issues as well as concern over lost value [in data] may serve as a substantial retardant to advancement."
It is said that "radiologists will not be replaced by AI, but radiologists who don't use machine learning techniques will be replaced by those who do." In reality, Tanenbaum expects AI capabilities to ultimately integrate seamlessly into the radiologist's user interface and thus be unavoidable as we move forward.
His battle cry is to get ahead of the curve and stay on top of developments. "We need to strive to be early adopters so that we can rapidly integrate these new tools in our clinical practice settings."
That means having progressive infrastructure to support real-time medicine. "We have bottlenecks now that could very well retard our progress," he notes. "There is a good potential to share large volumes of data via the cloud. We're still suffering with bandwidth limitations. We need to seek out solutions to coax data out of locked silos and moving seamlessly."
Finding the right solutions in and adopting the right technologies to allow AI to succeed requires "a healthy dose of intellectual curiosity, an early adopter mentality and imagination as to what these tools can do," Tanenbaum says. "And a big healthy dose of caution and skepticism too. That's how we change care."


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11 hours of sculpturing summarized to 2 minutes. Yair Aharon sculptured 2 benches shaped as open books in a Be'er-Sheva high school with the students' participation.
On the completed sculpture appears the following inscription: "A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses" ― Robin S. Sharma.
Music: Silent Partner - Pickup Truck
Group Exhibition - Color Sound and Movement Celebration.
Sheba (Tel-Hashomer) Hospital, Autoimmune Center. 10 Dec. 2015 - 03 Jan. 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKR5LW3K8sQ
Curator: Beni Shari Rabbi
Music: Silent Partner - Lunar Landing
During the volunteering, the community garden of the WW2 veterans' was restored and plants were planted. Afterwards, the veterans accompanied the volunteers and sang songs.
Music by the soloists of the veterans' band.
This operation was the initiative of Itzik Helman, chairman of IDF pensioners' volunteer committee and Green Be'er Sheva NGO.


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Most people know the value of exercise and the physical benefits that come along with it. Working out regularly helps you manage weight, improve physique and maintain the energy to handle everyday life.
However, many people neglect exercise and suffer more consequences beyond what happens to one's physical appearance. It's vital for everyone to know and appreciate the value of exercise for improved mood and emotional health, especially when recovering from addiction.
Why Exercise?
People who exercise on a regular basis are generally healthier, happier and more energetic than those that do not. Exercising has scientifically proven benefits to mood and happiness. Research indicates that exercising for just 20 minutes has a positive effect on mood that can last up to 12 hours. Many studies also indicate that exercise is an effective treatment for anxiety disorders, depression and addiction issues.
Positive Effects on Brain Chemistry
Exercise also encourages endorphin production in the brain and reduces negative chemical levels, particularly cortisol and adrenaline. Cortisol is the "stress hormone" linked to inactivity, poor diet and psychological disorders like depression. Adrenaline is the "fight or flight" hormone that usually floods the bloodstream in response to fear and danger stimuli.
A person who does not exercise regularly has a harder time flushing these negative chemicals than a person on a regular exercise routine.
What Type of Exercise Is Best?
There is no "perfect" exercise routine that will work for everyone. A healthy exercise regimen is one that is challenging but possible, or "just right." Some people are more competitive than others and may enjoy competitive sports for exercise, such as tennis, basketball or football.
While sports such as those are fantastic methods of increasing your physical activity, very competitive people should try to focus on other, noncompetitive forms of exercise. The reason behind this is that the desire and motivation to win can actually limit the exercise's benefits on brain chemistry and sometimes turn it into a stressful experience.
Tips for Mood-Improving Exercise
If you already exercise but wonder if there are things you can change about your routine to reap greater mental health benefits, start by moving your workout outdoors. A half-hour on a treadmill or elliptical machine may be great for your body, but taking your exercise outdoors will have a much more positive impact on your mood.
If you live in an urban area, retreating to the quieter suburbs or rural areas for walks, hikes and runs will have a much more positive impact than attempting to get outside in the middle of the city. While some people enjoy running through busy city streets, urban environments have several drawbacks. There is more traffic congestion and thus a greater chance of suffering injury from drivers. There is also a higher concentration of pollutants in the air, which can have a negative effect on your respiratory and cardiovascular health.
Additionally, the noise and bustle of the city can be stressful for some people. Research indicates that exercise in quieter, more natural environments like state parks and rural areas helps you feel more relaxed and revitalized than exercise in densely populated areas. Keep that in mind as you exercise just to maintain your overall health or as a relapse prevention technique to keep addiction at bay.
Small Changes You Can Make at Home
If outdoor activity isn't practical for you, you can still make the most out of working out at home. Research shows that music has a profoundly positive effect during exercise, so create a playlist of your favorite feel-good, energizing tunes to listen to during your workout routine.
If you have a treadmill but dread spending 30 minutes on it three to five times a week, watch one of your favorite shows while you run or use the elliptical. Watching TV or movies can help distract you from the exercise and make the workout seem faster.
Sex is another great way to exercise at home. Exercise researchers report that the average person burns three to four calories during every minute of sexual activity, which counts as moderate exercise.
You and your significant other can enjoy the positive benefits of regular exercise through intimacy. Additionally, maintaining a healthy exercise regimen boosts sexual desire and stamina, which can be incredibly valuable in intimate relationships.
Changing Your Diet Is Another Small Change
Exercise and Addiction Recovery:
Join the Discussion with Your Advice
Do you have an exercise routine that works really well for you? Do you do any particular exercises for specific issues like depression or anxiety? Are you looking for tips to improve your exercise regimen in realistic ways?
The Fight Addiction Now Facebook group is a grassroots community of individuals who share their thoughts and experiences about addiction, including coping mechanisms and tips for leading healthier lives. Many people who have struggled with addiction and substance abuse in their lives have discovered the value of exercise and come together here or on our Facebook page to share their experiences.
Even if you have never felt the negative effects of addiction in your own life, you can still participate in our discussions and gain valuable insight from other members in the group. If you are interested in talking about the benefits of exercise with others in a constructive and supportive environment, feel free to get the discussion started in our new online forum.
For help in finding a professional addiction treatment program that incorporates exercise into its rehab process, whether you're currently struggling with substance abuse or it's your loved one, let Fight Addiction Now be your guide.


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Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World
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This is a book that picks up where The Four Agreements left off. Building on the principles found in his father's bestselling book, Ruiz, Jr. explores the ways in which we attach ourselves inappropriately to beliefs and the world.Ruiz explores the five levels of attachment that cause suffering in our lives. The levels are:*Authentic Self *Preference*Identification*Internalization*FanaticismAccessible and practical, Ruiz's exploration invites us to look at our own lives and see how an unhealthy level of attachment can keep us trapped in a psychological and spiritual fog. He then invites us to reclaim our true freedom by cultivating awareness, detaching, and discover our true selves.


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We're swiftly approaching our penultimate event of year! Where does that time go!?
For our November event we're treating our guests to a wonderful Middle Eastern inspired afternoon tea, where we'll be using the beautiful book, Sesame and Spice as our guide. Bakes hailing from the Middle East, across Europe and New York all feature and we think our guests are in for something special!
Let us know what you think!


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Bruce Norris shares with our entire database our latest TNG Economic Newsletter to celebrate our upcoming real estate market timing report, California Real Estate: On Borrowed Time.
December 18, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
To celebrate the launch of Bruce Norris' upcoming real estate market timing report, California Real Estate: On Borrowed Time, we open up one of our quarterly newsletters to our entire email list. Open typically only to our VIP Subscribers, Bruce covers a range of topics. This quarter, Bruce covers:
The newsletter is being released on Thursday, December 13th and the webinar will be held on Tuesday, December 18th at Noon PST. The invite is for anyone on our email list. Not on it?
Sign up for free access to our portal and get an invite.
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Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Sponsored Local High School Student to Participate in Economic and Community Development Program at Huntingdon College
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Wyatt Townsend of Fairhope was one of the 32 rising high school seniors who participated in the third annual Huntingdon College Economic and Community Development Scholars Program June 25-27.
The program is planned in partnership with and sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Association of Alabama, the Economic Development Association of Alabama, and the Alabama Department of Commerce, ECDS introduced young citizens who are poised to begin their professional journeys to the importance of economic and community development.
The students met with professionals seasoned in the processes of economic and community development and participated in a two-day economic development simulation. Participants "graduated" from the program wearing hard hats for ground-breaking and ribbon-cutting simulations.
Townsend was selected through the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership program where he became intrigued with his community and local government. "Participating in the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership Program, I became more interested in government and then now with this opportunity I realized this is really the pathway I would like to take," said Townsend.
"It's our goal to expose students like Wyatt Townsend to opportunities in our community to use their gifts and talents to lead our next generation," said Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Workforce Director Christina Hellmich. "It excites me to see students who go through the Youth Leadership program graduate with a fire to serve the community in ways that hadn't previously considered."
"We had an incredibly impressive collection of high school students on our campus last week," said Huntingdon senior vice president Anthony Leigh, an architect of the program. "These students are difference makers in their schools and their communities. I am confident they have returned to their communities enlightened about what economic and community developers do, and we hope that knowledge has given them an appreciation for the work of growing and bettering their community and our state."
Wyatt Townsend is a senior at Fairhope High School and plans to attend Huntingdon College after graduation. He would like to major in Political Science with a minor in Business.
About Youth Leadership:
The Youth Leadership Program is an intensive and elite, seven-month program designed to provide Eastern Shore high school students with the opportunity to gain a greater knowledge about their community, develop strong leadership skills and gain more self and social awareness. Participants engage in topic discussions including the history & geography of Baldwin County, law and government, business smarts, health and human services, and the environment. In addition to class sessions, students work in teams to develop small group projects that address and benefit a special community need.
- APR. 2020 - Community Outreach Resources
- APR. 2020 - Costal Alabama Community College Division of Workforce Development launches online custom built industry curriculum to upskill workers amongst the COVID crisis.
- APR. 2020 - With $349 Billion in Emergency Small Business Capital Cleared, SBA and Treasury Begin Unprecedented Public-Private Mobilization Effort to Distribute Funds
- MAR. 2020 - Breaking Down the SBA Loan For Small Businesses
- MAR. 2020 - Diagnostic and Medical Clinic evaluating all symptomatic persons beginning Monday, March 30
- MAR. 2020 - Emergency Food Distribution at Prodisee Pantry
- MAR. 2020 - Alabama's 20 Safest Cities of 2020
- MAR. 2020 - Baldwin County Residents Can Receive GED and Occupational Skills Training Online Through Coastal Alabama
- MAR. 2020 - News Release: USA Health Children's & Women's Hospital Forms New Partnership to Teach Community Classes
- MAR. 2020 - Remote Access and Best Practices
- MAR. 2020 - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources
- MAR. 2020 - 2020 Census to Make Big Difference for Alabama
- MAR. 2020 - Elsa Engeriser Named National Merit Finalist
- NOV. 2019 - Daphne High School to Host Career Fair
- OCT. 2019 - Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Workforce Development Director Graduates from U.S. Chamber Foundation Education & Workforce Fellowship Program
- JUL. 2019 - Eastern Shore Chamber Unveils the Featured Artwork for the 31st Annual Jubilee Festival of Arts
- JUL. 2019 - Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Sponsored Local High School Student to Participate in Economic and Community Development Program at Huntingdon College
- APR. 2019 - Baldwin County Named an ACT Work Ready Community
- MAR. 2019 - 2U Tire Named April Small Business of the Month
- JAN. 2019 - 2019 Baldwin County Career & Job Fair
- NOV. 2018 - 2018 Annual Award Nominations
- NOV. 2018 - City of Fairhope Holds Visual Preference Survey Process to Gather Feedback for Future Development
- NOV. 2018 - Hatch Fairhope Announces Grand Opening
- OCT. 2018 - YOUTH LEADERSHIP BLOG: History & Geography Day
- SEP. 2018 - Alliance Publishing Group Named Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Month
- JUL. 2018 - Eastern Shore Chamber Unveils the Featured Artwork for the 30th Annual Jubilee Festival of Arts
- JUN. 2018 - Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Wins Communications Excellence Award for Eastern Shore Elf Campaign
- JUN. 2018 - Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Publishes Updated Election Guide for Primary Runoff Races
- MAY. 2018 - 2018 Primary Election Guide
- MAY. 2018 - Old Tyme Feed: May Small Business of the Month
- MAR. 2018 - 2018 Annual Award Winners
- JAN. 2018 - A New Year: Where We've Been & Where We're Going
- SEP. 2017 - The Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Parts Ways with the Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival Foundation
- DEC. 2016 - Fairhope Music Opens New Location
- DEC. 2016 - Brandy Rhodes Coaching Now Open in Fairhope
- NOV. 2016 - Congressman Bradley Byrne Addresses Business Community Following the Presidential Election
- SEP. 2016 - Chamber to Offer Leadership Workshop for Members
- SEP. 2016 - Chamber Young Professionals to Host a Cornhole Tournament to Benefit the Spanish Fort Public Library
- JUL. 2016 - The Eastern Shore Guide to the 4th of July
- MAY. 2016 - May Newsletter
- APR. 2016 - Fairhope Resident Named SCORE Mentor of the Year
- APR. 2016 - The April 2016 Newsletter
- MAR. 2016 - Ribbon Cut for AltaWorx
- MAR. 2016 - Spring 2016 Youth Leadership Applications
- FEB. 2016 - Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance and Baldwin County Chambers of Commerce Host 16th Annual Job Fair
- FEB. 2016 - Specialized Therapy Services Opens in Fairhope
- FEB. 2016 - ESCoC Governmental Affairs Survey Results
- SEP. 2015 - Joe Hudson's Collision Center
- SEP. 2015 - BenchMark Physical Therapy
- SEP. 2015 - Sage Lebanese Cuisine & Café
- SEP. 2015 - Shux on the Pier
- SEP. 2015 - Tourism Executive Of The Year Award
- SEP. 2015 - The 27th Anniversary Jubilee Festival
- SEP. 2015 - Youth Leadership 14th Annual Seven-Month Program
- JUL. 2015 - January 2015 Morning Marketing Release
- APR. 2015 - Eastern Shore Magazine 2015
- SEP. 2014 - EASTERN SHORE CHAMBER HONORS ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD WINNER Tree Planted at Christ the King School
- SEP. 2014 - Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership Program Applications Available - Forty Students to be Selected to Participate in Class of 2015
- SEP. 2014 - EASTERN SHORE CHAMBER EGGS N' ISSUES June 10 TOPIC: "Economic Update for Baldwin County"
- SEP. 2014 - EASTERN SHORE CHAMBER TO HOLD CANDIDATES FORUM - For Baldwin County Commissioner Candidates
- Jun. 2014 - Eggs n' Issues
- Apr. 2014 - Candidates Forum
- Apr. 2014 - Eggs n' Issues
- Apr. 2014 - Celebrate the Arts
- Mar. 2014 - Eggs n' Issues
- Mar. 2014 - 30th Prayer Breakfast
- Mar. 2014 - Leadership Applications
- Mar. 2014 - Council Lucheon
- Feb. 2014 - Update on I-10 Bridge
- Jan. 2014 - Update on I-10 Bridge
- Nov. 2013 - Eggs N' Issues - Onespot
- Oct. 2013 - Student Art Competition
- Oct. 2013 - E.S.C. Seeks Local Artists
- Oct. 2013 - Candidate Forum Release
- Oct. 2013 - What's Going On in AL Legislature
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You, your group or company can SPONSOR this Awesome team
Like Ol' Man River, the Amity girls swim team just keeps rolling along. The Lady Spartans improved their record to 8-0 Thursday when they downed Sacred Heart Academy 102-76 at the Orange Community Center Pool. This meet was Anna Lu's turn to be in the spot light. In addition to winning both the 200-yard freestyle (1minute, 58.29 seconds) and the 500 free (5:18.05), Lu anchored Amity's winning 200 free relay. She teamed with Sydney Formica, Lauren Perrone, and Dana Chung to post a first place time of 1:47.43.
Madeline Snow placed first in the 200 individual medley (2:16.57) and joined with Mollee Lasto, Natalie Ambrosey, and Melissa Gulia for a winning time of 2:00.91 in the 200 medley relay.
Additional Amity winners include: Carly Young (diving—169.45), Dana Grindall (100 butterfly—58.11), and Chung (100 free–56.32).
Jamie Robinson was a bright spot for the visiting Pacers as she claimed both the 50 free (27.18), and the 100 breaststroke (1:19.27).
As usual, Amity built a big lead and then chose to swim exhibition in the meet's final three events.
This loss drops the Pacers' record to 6-3.
Amity returns to action on Tuesday, October 16th to swim Mercy at the Wesleyan University pool in Middletown.
If you'd like to sponsor the Swim Team for the rest of the season, call Terri at 203-506-1747
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Very Impressive!
Syndicate AQUOS is; powerful, has excellent flex throughout the rod for casting, setting the hook and fighting fish, and has the most comfortable cork and handle I have ever come across, makes it very easy to fish all day without fatigue! This is one fantastic stick ladies and gentleman!


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Your goals are important to us and knowing them will determine how effective your website will be at helping you reach them. Our web design process starts by getting to you know your purpose (why you do what you do) and identifying your near and long term goals. We kick-off your project with an extensive questionnaire that captures everything we need to know.
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Archive for the 'Movies' Category
The temple of doom
Note: I'm taking some time off for the holidays, so I'm republishing a few pieces from earlier in this blog's run. This post originally appeared, in a slightly different form, on January 27, 2017.
I think America is going through a paroxysm of rage…But I think there's going to be a happy ending in November.
—Steven Spielberg, to Sky News, July 17, 2016
Last week, in an interview with the New York Times about the twenty-fifth anniversary of Schindler's List and the expansion of the mission of The Shoah Foundation, Steven Spielberg said of this historical moment:
I think there's a measurable uptick in anti-Semitism, and certainly an uptick in xenophobia. The racial divide is bigger than I would ever imagine it could be in this modern era. People are voicing hate more now because there's so many more outlets that give voice to reasonable and unreasonable opinions and demands. People in the highest places are allowing others who would never express their hatred to publicly express it. And that's been a big change.
Spielberg, it's fair to say, remains the most quintessentially American of all directors, despite a filmography that ranges freely between cultures and seems equally comfortable in the past and in the future. He's often called a mythmaker, and if there's a place where his glossy period pieces, suburban landscapes, and visionary adventures meet, it's somewhere in the nation's collective unconscious: its secret reveries of what it used to be, what it is, and what it might be again. Spielberg country, as Stranger Things was determined to remind us, is one of small towns and kids on bikes, but it also still vividly remembers how it beat the Nazis, and it can't resist turning John Hammond from a calculating billionaire into a grandfatherly, harmless dreamer. No other artist of the last half century has done so much to shape how we all feel about ourselves. He took over where Walt Disney left off. But what has he really done?
To put it in the harshest possible terms, it's worth asking whether Spielberg—whose personal politics are impeccably liberal—is responsible in part for our current predicament. He taught the New Hollywood how to make movies that force audiences to feel without asking them to think, to encourage an illusion of empathy instead of the real thing, and to create happy endings that confirm viewers in their complacency. You can't appeal to all four quadrants, as Spielberg did to a greater extent than anyone who has ever lived, without consistently telling people exactly what they want to hear. I've spoken elsewhere of how film serves as an exercise ground for the emotions, bringing us closer on a regular basis to the terror, wonder, and despair that many of us would otherwise experience only rarely. It reminds the middle class of what it means to feel pain or awe. But I worry that when we discharge these feelings at the movies, it reduces our capacity to experience them in real life, or, even more insidiously, makes us think that we're more empathetic and compassionate than we actually are. Few movies have made viewers cry as much as E.T., and few have presented a dilemma further removed than anything a real person is likely to face. (Turn E.T. into an illegal alien being sheltered from a government agency, maybe, and you'd be onto something.) Nearly every film from the first half of Spielberg's career can be taken as a metaphor for something else. But great popular entertainment has a way of referring to nothing but itself, in a cognitive bridge to nowhere, and his images are so overwhelming that it can seem superfluous to give them any larger meaning.
If Spielberg had been content to be nothing but a propagandist, he would have been the greatest one who ever lived. (Hence, perhaps, his queasy fascination with the films of Leni Riefenstahl, who has affinities with Spielberg that make nonsense out of political or religious labels.) Instead, he grew into something that is much harder to define. Jaws, his second film, became the most successful movie ever made, and when he followed it up with Close Encounters, it became obvious that he was in a position with few parallels in the history of art—he occupied a central place in the culture and was also one of its most advanced craftsmen, at a younger age than Damien Chazelle is now. If you're talented enough to assume that role and smart enough to stay there, your work will inevitably be put to uses that you never could have anticipated. It's possible to pull clips from Spielberg's films that make him seem like the cuddliest, most repellent reactionary imaginable, of the sort that once prompted Tony Kushner to say:
Steven Spielberg is apparently a Democrat. He just gave a big party for Bill Clinton. I guess that means he's probably idiotic…Jurassic Park is sublimely good, hideously reactionary art. E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are the flagship aesthetic statements of Reaganism. They're fascinating for that reason, because Spielberg is somebody who has just an astonishing ear for the rumblings of reaction, and he just goes right for it and he knows exactly what to do with it.
Kushner, of course, later became Spielberg's most devoted screenwriter. And the total transformation of the leading playwright of his generation is the greatest testament imaginable to this director's uncanny power and importance.
In reality, Spielberg has always been more interesting than he had any right to be, and if his movies have been used to shake people up in the dark while numbing them in other ways, or to confirm the received notions of those who are nostalgic for an America that never existed, it's hard to conceive of a director of his stature for whom this wouldn't have been the case. To his credit, Spielberg clearly grasps the uniqueness of his position, and he has done what he could with it, in ways that can seem overly studied. For the last two decades, he has worked hard to challenge some of our assumptions, and at least one of his efforts, Munich, is a masterpiece. But if I'm honest, the film that I find myself thinking about the most is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It isn't my favorite Indiana Jones movie—I'd rank it a distant third. For long stretches, it isn't even all that good. It also trades in the kind of casual racial stereotyping that would be unthinkable today, and it isn't any more excusable because it deliberately harks back to the conventions of an earlier era. (The fact that it's even watchable now only indicates how much ground East and South Asians have yet to cover.) But its best scenes are so exciting, so wonderful, and so conductive to dreams that I've never gotten over it. Spielberg himself was never particularly pleased with the result, and if asked, he might express discomfort with some of the decisions he made. But there's no greater tribute to his artistry, which executed that misguided project with such unthinking skill that he exhilarated us almost against his better judgment. It tells us how dangerous he might have been if he hadn't been so deeply humane. And we should count ourselves lucky that he turned out to be as good of a man as he did, because we'd never have known if he hadn't.
The fairy tale theater
It must have all started with The Princess Switch, although that's so long ago now that I can barely remember. Netflix was pushing me hard to watch an original movie with Vanessa Hudgens in a dual role as a European royal and a baker from Chicago who trade places and end up romantically entangled with each other's love interests at Christmas, and I finally gave in. In the weeks since, my wife and I have watched Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe; The Nine Lives of Christmas; Crown for Christmas; The Holiday Calendar; Christmas at the Palace; and possibly one or two others that I've forgotten. A few were on Netflix, but most were on Hallmark, which has staked out this space so aggressively that it can seem frighteningly singleminded in its pursuit of Yuletide cheer. By now, it airs close to forty original holiday romances between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, and like its paperback predecessors, it knows better than to tinker with a proven formula. As two of its writers anonymously reveal in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:
We have an idea and it maybe takes us a week or so just to break it down into a treatment, a synopsis of the story; it's like a beat sheet where you pretty much write what's going to happen in every scene you just don't write the scene. If we have a solid beat sheet done and it's approved, then it's only going to take us about a week and a half to finish a draft. Basically, an act or two a day and there's nine. They're kind of simple because there are so many rules so you know what you can and can't do, and if you have everything worked out it comes together.
And the rules are revealing in themselves. As one writer notes: "The first rule is snow. We really wanted to do one where the basic conflict was a fear that there will not be snow on Christmas. We were told you cannot do that, there must be snow. They can't be waiting for the snow, there has to be snow. You cannot threaten them with no snow." And the conventions that make these movies so watchable are built directly into the structure:
There cannot be a single scene that does not acknowledge the theme. Well, maybe a scene, but you can't have a single act that doesn't acknowledge it and there are nine of them, so there's lots of opportunities for Christmas. They have a really rigid nine-act structure that makes writing them a lot of fun because it's almost like an exercise. You know where you have to get to: People have to be kissing for the first time, probably in some sort of a Christmas setting, probably with snow falling from the sky, probably with a small crowd watching. You have to start with two people who, for whatever reason, don't like each other and you're just maneuvering through those nine acts to get them to that kiss in the snow.
The result, as I've learned firsthand, is a movie that seems familiar before you've even seen it. You can watch with one eye as you're wrapping presents, or tune in halfway through with no fear of becoming confused. It allows its viewers to give it exactly as much attention as they're willing to spare, and at a time when the mere act of watching prestige television can be physically exhausting, there's something to be said for an option that asks nothing of us at all.
After you've seen two or three of these movies, of course, the details start to blur, particularly when it comes to the male leads. The writers speak hopefully of making the characters "as unique and interesting as they can be within the confines of Hallmark land," but while the women are allowed an occasional flash of individuality, the men are unfailingly generic. This is particularly true of the subgenre in which the love interest is a king or prince, who doesn't get any more personality than his counterpart in fairy tales. Yet this may not be a flaw. In On Directing Film, which is the best work on storytelling that I've ever read, David Mamet provides a relevant word of advice:
In The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim says of fairy tales the same thing Alfred Hitchcock said about thrillers: that the less the hero of the play is inflected, identified, and characterized, the more we will endow him with our own internal meaning—the more we will identify with him—which is to say the more we will be assured that we are that hero. "The hero rode up on a white horse." You don't say "a short hero rode up on a white horse," because if the listener isn't short he isn't going to identify with that hero. You don't say "a tall hero rode up on a white horse," because if the listener isn't tall, he won't identify with the hero. You say "a hero," and the audience subconsciously realize they are that hero.
Yet Mamet also overlooks the fact that the women in fairy tales, like Snow White, are often described with great specificity—it's the prince who is glimpsed only faintly. Hallmark follows much the same rule, which implies that it's less important for the audience to identify with the protagonist than to fantasize without constraint about the object of desire.
This also leads to some unfortunate decisions about diversity, which is more or less what you might expect. As one writer says candidly to Entertainment Weekly:
On our end, we just write everybody as white, we don't even bother to fight that war. If they want to put someone of color in there, that would be wonderful, but we don't have control of that…I found out Meghan Markle had been in some and she's biracial, but it almost seems like they've tightened those restrictions more recently. Everything's just such a white, white, white, white world. It's a white Christmas after all—with the snow and the people.
With more than thirty original movies coming out every year, you might think that Hallmark could make a few exceptions, especially since the demand clearly exists, but this isn't about marketing at all. It's a reflection of the fact that nonwhiteness is still seen as a token of difference, or a deviation from an assumed norm, and it's the logical extension of the rules that I've listed above. White characters have the privilege—which is invisible but very real—of seeming culturally uninflected, which is the baseline that allows the formula to unfold. This seems very close to John W. Campbell's implicit notion that all characters in science fiction should be white males by default, and while other genres have gradually moved past this point, it's still very much the case with Hallmark. (There can be nonwhite characters, but they have to follow the rules: "Normally there'll be a black character that's like a friend or a boss, usually someone benevolent because you don't want your one person of color to not be positive.") With diversity, as with everything else, Hallmark is very mindful of how much variation its audience will accept. It thinks that it knows the formula. And it might not even be wrong.
Quote of the Day
The way you people make movies is you start with character and build outward. I start with construction and then fill it in.
—Brian De Palma, in the documentary De Palma
The long night
Three years ago, a man named Paul Gregory died on Christmas Day. He lived by himself in Desert Hot Springs, California, where he evidently shot himself in his apartment at the age of ninety-five. His death wasn't widely reported, and it was only this past week that his obituary appeared in the New York Times, which noted of his passing:
Word leaked out slowly. Almost a year later, The Desert Sun, a daily newspaper serving Palm Springs, California, and the Coachella Valley area, published an article that took note of Mr. Gregory's death, saying that "few people knew about it." "He wasn't given a public memorial service and he didn't receive the kind of appreciations showbiz luminaries usually get," the newspaper said…When the newspaper's article appeared, [the Desert Hot Springs Historical Society] had recently given a dinner in Mr. Gregory's memory for a group of his friends. "His passing was so quiet," Bruce Fessler, who wrote the article, told the gathering. "No one wrote about him. It's just one of those awkward moments."
Yet his life was a remarkable one, and more than worth a full biography. Gregory was a successful film and theater producer who crossed paths over the course of his career with countless famous names. On Broadway, he was the force behind Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, one of the big dramatic hits of its time, and he produced Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, which deserves to be ranked among the greatest American movies.
Gregory's involvement with The Night of the Hunter alone would have merited a mention here, but his death caught my eye for other reasons. As I mentioned here last week, I've slowly been reading through Mailer's Selected Letters, in which both Gregory and Laughton figure prominently. In 1954, Mailer told his friends Charlie and Jill Devlin that he had recently received an offer from Gregory, whom he described as "a kind of front for Charles Laughton," for the rights to The Naked and the Dead. He continued:
Now, about two weeks ago Gregory called me up for dinner and gave me the treatment. Read Naked five times, he said, loved it, those Marines, what an extraordinary human story of those Marines, etc…What he wants to do, he claims, is have me do an adaptation of Naked, not as a play, but as a dramatized book to be put on like The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial…Anyway, he wants it to be me and only me to do the play version.
The play never got off the ground, but Gregory retained the movie rights to the novel, with an eye to Laughton directing with Robert Mitchum in the lead. Mailer was hugely impressed by Laughton, telling Elsa Lanchester decades later that he had never met "an actor before or since whose mind was so fine and powerful" as her late husband's. The two men spent a week at Laughton's hotel in Switzerland going over the book, and Mailer recalled that the experience was "a marvelous brief education in the problems of a movie director."
In the end, sadly, this version of the movie was never made, and Mailer deeply disliked the film that Gregory eventually produced with director Raoul Walsh. It might all seem like just another footnote to Mailer's career—but there's another letter that deserves to be mentioned. At exactly the same time that Mailer was negotiating with Gregory, he wrote an essay titled "The Homosexual Villain," in which he did the best that he could, given the limitations of his era and his personality, to come to terms with his own homophobia. (Mailer himself never cared for the result, and it's barely worth reading today even as a curiosity. The closing line gives a good sense of the tone: "Finally, heterosexuals are people too, and the hope of acceptance, tolerance, and sympathy must rest on this mutual appreciation.") On September 24, 1954, Mailer wrote to the editors of One: The Homosexual Magazine, in which the article was scheduled to appear:
Now, something which you may find somewhat irritating. And I hate like hell to request it, but I think it's necessary. Perhaps you've read in the papers that The Naked and the Dead has been sold to Paul Gregory. It happens to be half-true. He's in the act of buying it, but the deal has not yet been closed. For this reason I wonder if you could hold off publication for a couple of months? I don't believe that the publication of this article would actually affect the sale, but it is a possibility, especially since Gregory—shall we put it this way—may conceivably be homosexual.
And while there's a lot to discuss here, it's worth emphasizing the casual and utterly gratuitous way in which Mailer—who became friendly years later with Roy Cohn—outed his future business partner by name.
But the letter also inadvertently points to a fascinating and largely unreported aspect of Gregory's life, which I can do little more than suggest here. Charles Laughton, of course, was gay, as Elsa Lanchester discusses at length in her autobiography. (Gregory appears frequently in this book as well. He evidently paid a thousand dollars to Confidential magazine to kill a story about Laughton's sexuality, and Lanchester quotes a letter from Gregory in which he accused Henry Fonda, who appeared in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, of calling Laughton a "fat, ugly homosexual"—although Laughton told her that Fonda had used an even uglier word.) Their marriage was obviously a complicated one, but it was far from the only such partnership. The actress Mary Martin, best known for her role as Peter Pan, was married for decades to the producer and critic Richard Halliday, whom her biographer David Kaufman describes as "her father, her husband, her best friend, her gay/straight 'cover,' and, both literally and figuratively, her manager." One of Martin's closest friends was Janet Gaynor, the Academy Award-winning actress who played the lead in the original version of A Star is Born. Gaynor was married for many years to Gilbert Adrian, an openly gay costume designer whose most famous credit was The Wizard of Oz. Gaynor herself was widely believed to be gay or bisexual, and a few years after Adrian's death, she married a second time—to Paul Gregory. Gaynor and Gregory often traveled with Martin, and they were involved in a horrific taxi accident in San Francisco in 1982, in which Martin's manager was killed, Gregory broke both legs, Martin fractured two ribs and her pelvis, and Gaynor sustained injuries that led to her death two years later. Gregory remarried, but his second wife passed away shortly afterward, and he appears to have lived quietly on his own until his suicide three years ago. The rest of the world only recently heard about his death. But even if we don't know the details, it seems clear that there were many stories from his life that we'll never get to hear at all.
Mailer in Hollywood
"I would love to get out to Hollywood for several months," Norman Mailer wrote in a letter to an agent on May 10, 1948. "I have several ideas for novels now, but all of them are a little too small. The trouble with writing something like The Naked and the Dead is that you get frightened if your next can is smaller. And Hollywood, I think, would fit the bill." When Mailer wrote these words, he was just twenty-five years old, and his first novel had made him famous overnight, complete with offers for the movie rights, which he was eager to explore. In secret, he was planning to use the experience in other ways, as he later confessed: "I went to Hollywood four years ago because in the back of my mind was the idea that I would write a nice big fat collective novel about the whole works—the idea I suppose with which every young writer goes out." But he also had hopes of more tangible forms of success. He negotiated a deal with Warner Bros. to work on scripts with his good friend Jean Malaquais, to whom he optimistically wrote a few months after his arrival:
Hollywood-wise our position is not bad. I am not at all without hope, for in the last week a few small things have happened which lead me to believe that we shall reap the wind yet—the golden wind. Also I have a wonderful idea for a movie—just right for you and us. There is a young actor here who is in fabulous demand—Montgomery Clift, and he likes me, respects me, et al [sic]. My idea is that when he comes back to town in a couple of weeks, I will see him, and suggest the movie—The Red and the Black. It will be of necessity an extravaganza which means our pay would be higher.
The "extravaganza" never went anywhere, although Mailer and Malaquais worked on a script for Clift loosely based on Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West, and they seem to have considered a project inspired by the organized crime group Murder, Inc. (Most of this information, as well as all quotes from letters, comes from the recent book Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, an astonishingly rich volume that offers countless possible avenues for exploration. I've chosen the Hollywood thread at random, but I hope to dig into it in other ways soon.) By 1950, Mailer had grown disillusioned, writing to his sister Barbara: "We got out of Hollywood by brute force, i.e., we made a decision to leave and by gosh and by God we did. I still can't believe it. I thought I'd spend the rest of my life trying to produce that damn movie. Except I'm probably the only writer who actually lost money by going to Hollywood." His last remaining point of interest—apart from working on the novel that eventually became The Deer Park—was to sell the rights to his most famous book. A few years later, he wrote to his lawyer Charles Rembar that he hoped to get at least $100,000 for The Naked and the Dead, explaining:
If Naked is going to be bought and crapped up it makes sense only if I'll get real financial independence from it. Otherwise, I'd just as soon spare myself the heartache…The key to what I feel with all of the above is that the old saw about Hollywood psychology—if you don't want them, they want you—is very true, at least from my experience. And my other feeling is that if I have to hump for a living in a couple of years, it may not be the worst thing in the world for me. So I'd rather be big or little but not in between.
The Naked in the Dead was ultimately filmed by Raoul Walsh, and Mailer called the result, which I haven't seen, "one of the worst movies ever made." (It was evidently in development at one point for Charles Laughton to direct with Robert Mitchum in the lead, only to be scrapped by the failure of The Night of the Hunter—which has to count as one of the most intriguing unmade movies in an industry with no shortage of broken dreams.) But the experience left Mailer with some valuable insights. In 1966, he wrote to Tony Macklin, the editor of the magazine Film Heritage:
I think as a working rule of thumb, a novelist or playwright cannot hope for their work to survive in Hollywood. It can only be adulterated or improved, and since filming a good novel makes everyone concerned quite tense, and justifiably so, since no one wishes particularly to adulterate good art—there are a few rewards in heaven for that—I think if I were a director I would look for the kind of modest novel which can make a fine movie. I think the best example is The Asphalt Jungle.
Mailer never forgot this, and he wrote years later to his frequent business partner Lawrence Schiller, with whom he had collaborated on The Executioner's Song, to propose a few potential projects: "I think it can be said that any of Raymond Chandler's novels that are available would be splendid for movies, and I think I could do a lot with them in adaptation, since Chandler has marvelous plots and terrific settings, but is occasionally a little thing in characterization…While we're at it, it might be worth checking into Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett." None of these adaptations ever came to pass, and Mailer couldn't resist one more hopeful query: "What's the story on A Farewell to Arms? I can't remember when the last remake was done, but if that's around, it's a $30 million movie and the event of the year."
When you read through Mailer's letters on Hollywood, you're left with a depressing sense of one of the most important writers of his generation repeatedly failing to gain traction in an industry that stubbornly resisted all his talent, ambition, and charisma. His correspondence is filled with fascinating hints of what might have been, some of which might have better been left unrealized, as when he wrote to the producer Mickey Knox to propose a version of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King starring Orson Welles and Sonny Liston. (A decade later, he wrote to Peter Bogdanovich, who was interested in adapting his novel An American Dream, to ask if Welles would be interested in reading an unproduced screenplay by Mailer titled The Trial of the Warlock: "I agree it's hardly the sort of thing he'd want to do—why ever get into something like that at this point in his career?—but he might have quick insight into how to make it better, or approach the problem of the horror. I could use that. Truth, I'd be delighted to have him read it in any case just for fun." Nothing ever came of it, and to the best of my knowledge, the two great wunderkinds of the forties never even crossed paths.) Mailer worked with varying degrees of seriousness on scripts for Henry Miller's The Rosy Crucifixion and the story that became Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, and he eventually did write a couple of teleplays for Schiller, including the O.J. Simpson movie American Tragedy. For the most part, however, he concluded that he was better off making movies on his own, leading to such directorial oddities as Beyond the Law, Maidstone, and Tough Guys Don't Dance, the last of which is one of those films that has intrigued me for years without ever prompting me to actually watch it—and I have the feeling that it could hardly be other than a huge disappointment. And perhaps the final lesson is simply that writers, even the greatest ones, should adjust their expectations accordingly. As Mailer wrote to Tony Macklin: "A novelist or playwright sells his work to Hollywood not in order that the work shall survive in translation, but to purchase time for himself." And Mailer, like all writers, needed all the time that he could get.
Quote of the Day
A tip from Lubitsch: Let the the audience add up two plus two. They'll love you forever.
—Billy Wilder, to Cameron Crowe in Conversations with Wilder


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St. Pius Addition
The addition to the the St. Pius Church Faith Center is a new, one-story, 15,000 square foot building and some renovations to the church.
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Church
The new building for the parish of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha is 24,000 square feet and houses the church, a fellowship hall and ancillary spaces.
Regional Vocational Technical School for Aircraft Maintenance Technicians
The building is a one-story, 150' x 240', aircraft maintenance training facility with classroom, workshop, and hangar areas.
CREC Medical Professions and Teacher Preparation Magnet School
The 149,000 square foot school has three stories and three story oval windows which deliver light to the interior portions of the building.
Western Connecticut State University Student Center
The steel-framed three-story building comprises 53,600 square feet plus a rooftop mechanical penthouse.
Patterson Club
The new 30,000 sq. ft. clubhouse design is in keeping with the farmhouse look of the previous buildings and the surrounding Connecticut country side.
Ridgefield Boys and Girls Club Addition
The Ridgefield Boys Club was built in 1958. The new Boys and Girls Club is a complete reconfiguration of the original building and an addition with 18,000 square feet of new space.
SoNo Ice House
The one-story industrial building was a manufacturing plant for Nash Engineering for over thirty years when the new owner envisioned an adaptive re-use of the building, transforming it from industrial use to a state-of-the-art hockey and recreational facility with two indoor rinks.
Addition to National Hall
The Di Salvo Engineering Group was the structural engineer for the renovations and additions to the original building with similar structural systems in 1987 - 1994.
Millbrook School Girls Dormitory
The Girls Dormitory is intended to provide a greater amount of suitable housing on campus.
Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church (Phase 1)
The new church is designed to allow the congregation to move their services from an aging 1950s pre-engineered metal building to a gracious and soaring place of worship.
Hershey Building – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The Hershey building is designed to replace an aging farm building that had existing on the lab's campus and had outgrown, actually overgrown, its capabilities of being a world class research facility.


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The Board Game + Craft Beer Group
Play Games, Drink Beer (and Pop!)
Tabletop & Brews is an easygoing group of people that love board games and craft beer. We have weekly gaming nights at local taprooms and breweries to have fun, roll dice, and drink some of the best beer Chicagoland has to offer. You'll see all kinds of games at our game nights. Short bluffing games with a Spy in our midst, Cooperative games solving crimes or fighting disease. Classic euro games of growing and selling beans, strategic games of pillaging viking clans, and everything in between. You'll find all kinds of games at our game night.
Our hosts love teaching new games and welcoming new gamers into the group. Everyone is welcome regardless of game experience, and the majority of our game nights are kid friendly.
Besides our local events, we also have a Board Game and Craft Beer review series released through YouTube and Facebook.
See you at the table!


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Honda Rebel breaks cover in Long BeachHonda November 18, 2016, Comments Off 26
Honda is pleased to announce a brand new motorcycle for 2017 that offers a totally fresh take on custom cool – the Rebel.
Slim, blacked out to the max and with a low 690mm seat height, the Rebel mixes old and new school style to fire the imagination of a younger generation of riders. A new tubular steel frame draws fresh, contemporary lines into stripped-back, fat-tyred 'bobber' style, with mid-mounted footpegs and a relaxed and neutral riding position with gently outstretched arms.
The Rebel's lively, A2 licence-friendly 471cc 8-valve, liquid-cooled parallel twin-cylinder engine is drawn from Honda's popular 500cc trio. For cruising duties, revised PGM-FI fuel injection mapping has re-focused its character towards a more torque-heavy bottom-end output, while retaining a sporty feel to its smooth and linear power delivery, for a ride that is engaging as well as easy.
The Rebel will be available in three colours: Graphite Black, Matte Armored Silver Metallic and Millennium Red and make its public debut at the Long Beach International Motorcycle Show in California on November 18th.


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Servings: 4 as a side
Need a winter salad to serve with your favorite soup? Try this warm version of the steakhouse classic. Warning: This may become your favorite way to enjoy Brussels sprouts.
If you love anchovies, use the larger amount; if you want to make the salad vegetarian, use 1 Tbs. finely chopped capers instead.
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This was good but not great. I have several other Brussels sprout recipes I prefer.
This was excellant. The dressing was perfect.
This is absolutely De-licious! I added more anchovies in the dressing,making it even tastier. Such a healthful salad!
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