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Saturday Volcano Art: Frederic Edwin Church, 'Cotopaxi' (1862) 4 April 2009Posted by admin in Saturday volcano art, volcano art, volcano culture, volcano images, volcanoes.
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The Ecuadorean stratovolcano Cotopaxi has a violent history of frequent explosive eruptions generating pyroclastic flows and lahars. Between 1803 and 1895 there were over thirty such eruptions, with the largest, the VEI=4 event of 1877, producing lahars which swept through adjacent valleys, destroying much of the city of Latacunga with many fatalities, and ultimately reached as far as the Pacific coast, 270 kilometres to the west.
The painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), who had been a pupil of Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and was by the late 1840s a noted painter of American landscapes, was drawn to South America by the geological and natural history writings of Alexander von Humboldt, who had travelled through the continent from 1799 to 1804. Church visited South America twice, in 1853 and 1857, and was inspired by the mountains and volcanoes of the northern Andes to paint some of his greatest landscapes. Cotopaxi, which Humboldt had discussed at some length and which was one of the most aesthetically striking volcanoes of the region, as well as being one of the most active and formidable, was a natural subject for his art. Church's earlier paintings of Cotopaxi depicted the volcano's snowy cone rising placidly above a lush tropical landscape, steam rising gently from its summit, a living but benign presence. The painting shown here, executed in 1861-2, has a very different atmosphere. In this other-wordly scene we are presented with a staggering display of nature's power, as the volcano violently erupts against a blood-red sunset, exploding upwards and spreading its dark smoke like a banner across the sky.
Church takes the volcano as a display of nature's power and intensifies every aspect of it to suggest a cataclysmic conflict between the forces of darkness and those of light. All around are evidences of vast, incomprehensible energies: the roaring volcano, the blazing sun, the huge waterfall plunging into a rocky canyon, whose steep sides represent vast stretches of geological time. Yet the green foliage of the trees, the sparkling waters, the light of the sun penetrating the ashy gloom of the volcano's clouds, indicate that even these awe-inspiring forces are ultimately under the control of a beneficent providence. Cotopaxi embodies the great natural energies driving the forces not only of destruction but of creation and renewal.
Frederic Edwin Church's 'Cotopaxi' (1862) can be found at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
For all 'Saturday volcano art' articles: Saturday volcano art « The Volcanism Blog.
Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2002)
Frank Baron, 'From Alexander von Humboldt to Frederic Edwin Church: Voyages of Scientific Exploration and Artistic Creativity' (2005)
William Gerdts, 'The worlds of Frederic Edwin Church' (2008)
David Huntington, The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church (New York: George Braziller, 1966)
David Huntington, 'Church and Luminism: light for America's elect', in John Wilmerding (ed.), American Light: The Luminists Movement 1850-1875 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980)
Katherine Manthorne, Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985)
Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 (1980; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)


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As Obama Signs DADT Repeal, Activists Argue Over Next Steps
President Obama signed a repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell on Wednesday, bringing to a close 17 years of legal persecution of gays in the military. But even as the ink dries there are wild differences of opinion for going forward, from conservatives who actually hope to repeal the repeal, to gay rights activists who insist there should be no delay in implementation.
President Obama smiled widely on Wednesday as he signed the repeal of DADT that surprised many by passing the Senate last weekend. In remarks accompanying the signing, Obama said, "I say to all Americans, gay or straight, who want nothing more than to defend this country in uniform, your country needs you, your country wants you, and we will be honored to welcome you into the ranks of the finest military the world has ever known." And, he referred to what had been to many the basic grounds for repealing DADT: that it forced a service based on honor to tell outright lies. "No longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie, or look over their shoulder in order to serve the country that they love." He said. "This is a good day.... This is a very good day."
So now what? White House spokesman Barry Gibbs told reporters that implementation of the repeal would be "a matter of months," and President Obama said that, "We are not going to be dragging our feet to get this done." Still, the law awaits certification and a subsequent 60-day waiting period, during which the Pentagon will make plans for adapting a range of practices, from sexual harassment training to barracks assignments. Even so, the Palm Center, which studies the intersection between gender, sexuality and the military, has issued a study suggesting that there is no substantive reason not to simply end the policy immediately. "When you read the Pentagon's 87-page implementation plan, you see that the transition requirements can be boiled down to just two things: strong leadership and simple rules," said Palm Center director Aaron Belkin in a press statement. "This really isn't rocket science."
Even if there is a delay in implementation, the momentum of excitement behind the DADT repeal seems unstoppable. Yet the anti-gay group the Liberty Counsel has threatened to try to repeal the repeal and reinstate DADT in the next congress. "This action will be overturned in the next Congress because it breaks the bond of trust that must exist between the military and those who oversee the armed forces in the Pentagon and Congress," they said in a statement. The Family Research Council, another conservative Christian organization, has claimed that Senator John McCain (R - Ariz.), who fervently fought the repeal, has offered to help them reverse it by closely evaluating, and challenging, its implementation.
Good luck with that. Even McCain seems to accept that what's done is done; a source of his has denied the Family Research Council's claim. And repeal is so popular that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - Nev.) immediately tweeted news of his success to Lady Gaga (with whom he has carried on a lively Twitter back-and-forth over the fate of DADT). "We did it!" he tweeted, "DADT is a thing of the past."
As President Obama signed the repeal in a ceremony on Wednesday, the entire room lost control and whooped, shouted, hollered and generally offered their appreciation to a clearly joyful president. Watch the historic signing for yourself:


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White Pike isn't the first liquor brand that creative agency Mother New York has worked with. But it is the first liquor brand they've owned.
"We've always been interested in creating our own brand," explains Mark Aver, a Design Director at Mother. "We do so much for existing clients but we never get to really live the business." The agency launched White Pike, a clear whiskey designed to compete in the crowded craft liquor market, in March. Suddenly, Mother found themselves in a role typically occupied by their clients. And as Aver and Mother partner Andrew Deitchman recently told Co.Design, the experience has changed their perspective as a company.
Mother's first foray into the business side of things came in 2005, when they launched a good-for-you-fast-food cart called Dogmatic. After rousing success as a mobile truck, the stand later opened up permanent shop in Union Square (it's still going strong, with 3.5 stars on Yelp). As partial owners, Mother's partners found themselves tackling a complex industry from the perspective of both the client and the agency. The firsthand experience with the ultra-competitive restaurant industry ended up being invaluable with their other clients–and they wanted to know more.
So the team went looking for their next product venture. They found it in craft liquor, a market nearly as competitive as food trucks. Working with Finger Lakes Distilling, a third-generation company in upstate New York, the team developed a whiskey that stands out in its simplicity: a clear, mixable whiskey, aged for 18 minutes total.
How does a creative agency go from branding liquor to owning a liquor brand? Not without a steep learning curve. "You really have to come together as a team," says Deitchman, who led the project. "You have to reach out to government agencies to get the bottle approved, you have to run the distribution–you dig into it, and you figure it out."
And manufacturing and bottling the stuff was only the beginning. Marketing a whiskey in the New York nightlife scene proved to be a huge challenge. Support from bartenders and restaurant owners is the lynchpin of a successful liquor brand, and most vendors already stock dozens of whiskeys. After a certain amount of trial and error, though, things started to click–right now, there are about 70 White Pike vendors in the city alone.
Next to launching it as a business, branding White Pike was a comparatively simple process. Aver explains that having the latitude to experiment led to an aggressively pared down logo, based on the shape of the bottle itself. "Typically, you'll spend weeks and weeks and weeks refining a logo that looks good on paper, then apply it to the product. We flipped that around, and put the emphasis on the bottle." White Pike comes in a tall, thin-necked bottle–half clear (better to show off the contents) and half blacked out.
"As a designer, you get used to suggesting things like that, and eventually being disappointed when it doesn't happen," says Aver of the matte black bottle. "But when you're acting as the client, you really have to go through the paces to figure it out–things like going out to the bottle factory for meeting after meeting about it." But ultimately, dealing with how to manufacture and sell the product itself is more rewarding than simply sending off a set of image assets to a client. "It's a cool moment, when people understand that."
Right now, White Pike is mainly available at New York bars and restaurants. But according to Deitchman, all of Mother's clients will get a taste at meetings. "Any time you can get a client drunk," he adds, laughing, "it makes them that much more malleable."


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Making Monsters roars into Northern Ontario
Short horror filmmakers Justin Harding and Rob Brunner have partnered with Buck Productions once again, this time on their first feature film.
Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough roll on latest feature
The horror film I'll Take Your Dead is currently shooting in Orillia, ON.
Buck wraps on sci-fi feature Astronaut
Written and directed by Shelagh McLeod, the Hamilton, ON-shot feature stars Colm Feore and Richard Dreyfuss.
Production, post revenues reach $5B in 2013: StatsCan
The film, television and video production industry generated $4.2 billion in operating revenue in 2013, while the post industry pulled in $784.1 million, new reports from StatsCan say.
New Montreal studio to open in April
The facility in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood is jointly operated by Soner Rock Films and Blackboard Pictures.
Transporter series gets new showrunners Brad Turner, Tim Lea
The Canadian-France co-production has resumed shooting in Toronto and France after a long hiatus due to an on-set injury and production hurdles.
William F. White names Paul Roscorla to top job
The Vancouver exec is promoted to EVP and COO, overseeing nationwide operations at the production equipment supplier.
Interactive Ontario launches X-Summit conference
Coproduced by the Computer Animation Studios of Ontario, the cross-platform media conference is set for October in Toronto.
Alberta juices local production fund with new dollars
Alberta has bolstered its Multimedia Development Fund and is expected to tell the Banff World Media Festival this week that a long-awaited Calgary film and TV studio is to be built.
Life With Boys enters production
Nelvana Studio's new live-action comedy from Hannah Montana co-creator Michael Poryes will begin principal photography at the CBC studios in Toronto.
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U.P. Police has already released the notification for the post of Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector with a total of 3307 vacancies for different posts. Today, we are sharing the U.P. Police Sub-Inspector (S.I.) Eligibility Criteria in detail - age limit, qualification, physical standards & percentage required for U.P. Police S.I. 2017 exam. The U.P. Police S.I. 2017 Exam will be conducted in three phases that are written, Physical Standard Test (PST) and Physical Efficiency Test (PET).
The eligibility for U.P. Police S.I. 2017 exam is the most important thing. As the eligibility helps you to determine whether the person who wishes to appear for the exam is eligible or not. The candidate must meet the requirements that the U.P. Police S.I. eligibility criteria demands. A Candidate who fails to meet, the candidate would be rejected.
U.P. Police SI Eligibility Criteria 2017
Age Limit Criteria
The Minimum age of the candidate applying for the post of UP Police SI should not be less than 21 years and the Maximum age of the candidate should not be more than 28 years as on 1st July 2016.
This means that the candidate who wish to appear for the U.P. Police S.I. exam should not be born before 1st July 1988 and not later than 2nd July 1993.
Candidates can also seek for the upper age relaxation subject to the following:
Age Limit (in Years)
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Different level of educational qualification is required for the distinctive posts mentioned under the recruitment of U.P. Police S.I. The mandatory and minimum qualification required for the different posts under U.P. Police S.I. exams are stated below:
Sub-Inspector, Platoon Commander and PAC Posts: -
As per the norms established by Government by India, a Bachelor's degree in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks from a recognised university recognized by the Government of India is mandatory for the post.
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As per the norms established by Government by India, a Bachelor's degree in science stream with a minimum of 50% marks from a recognised university approved by the Government of India is required.
UP Police SI Physical Standards 2016
The candidates are required to complete the minimum physical measurements that have been prescribed by the examination board.
Height (in cm)
Chest (in cm)
Male (General, OBC, SC)
79 cm (Relaxed)
84 cm (Expanded)
Female (General, OBC, SC)
Male (ST)
Female candidates should have a minimum weight of 40 kg.
5 cm of chest expansion is essential for male candidates.
U.P. Police S.I. Nationality 2016
To Complete the nationality for the upcoming U.P. Police S.I. 2017 Exam, a candidate must be either:
A citizen of India, or
A Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (Formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar) with the intention of permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (2) and (3) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
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So I've got the flu and it's doing my head in badly. Like I don't even know what to take because everybody (and their mother) has something to say like they went to the Flu Med School.
As if I didn't have enough to deal with, a certain someone suggested going down on a lady to make the flu go away; I have not tried it yet at the point of writing this, but I cannot assure you that I will not consider it afterwards; if I can get a volunteer here that is.
This is the part of being a bachelor that I do not like. I believe, emphasis on 'Believe' that a married man down with the flu will get some special treatment from the wife. Like a feet rub and the likes with no fuss or nagging.
Talking about nagging – Is nagging accepted in a court of law as a basis for seeking divorce? I mean how can a man go to work, spend the whole day thinking about ideas that will improve sales and on getting home, the first thing you hear is "Where are you coming from?" and no, "the office" is never an expected answer.
I think some men go to 'recreation' clubs after work not because they are interested in any game but because it provides them with a "waiting area" so that when they get home, their wives would be asleep.
God will protect us from bad men and women.
Sunday March 20, 2011.
So standing in front of me was a woman and the girl I used to know as Ada. She was wearing a short dress revealing enough cleavage to make a man want to sell his entire village.
I wasn't sure of what to say with the invite in my hand and the sudden reaction in my boxers.
It was not late but it would have been unfair if I had told her that she wouldn't be able to spend the night .We had something and there was no way I was going to throw her out just like that without considering what we had.
Ada: Buzor, You are not going to say something to me?
Nobs: Something like?
Ada: Anyi aga ano ebe all night.
Nobs: Maybe.
Ada: Biko zianu
Nobs: Please come in.
Ada: So do we stay in your living room because I guess things are no longer the same?
Nobs: No, You'll stay with Chisom.
Ada: I'll like to ask for something, Can we talk?
Nobs: When you are ready, I'll be in my room.
Ada: Okay. Ana'm abia.
I went back to my room with the image of the new Ada making me restless. She was about to become someone's wife and I had the opportunity of being her first. I'm really not a huge fan of being someone's first but maybe sleeping with Ada will teach Iyke a bitter lesson.
8: 20pm.
I must have drifted off to sleep because when she tapped me, I thought it was a dream.
Ada : Nna ngwa kuni te
Nobs : Kedu ife na aku?
Ada: Past 8
Nobs: have you eaten?
Ada: Yes, Chaa gave me food.
Nobs: Are you okay?
Ada: You are still like this, always asking, "Are you okay?"
She sat down on the bed and from the angle she was sitting I could see her panties and I liked it. There's something about seeing a lil bit of a chic's panties. It's not a crime; it's just a hobby.
Nobs: Only married people change
Ada: Ibia kwa
Nobs: Oya, sorry.
Ada: I missed you
Nobs: No, you didn't. How's your husband?
Ada: He's fine but that's not why I'm here.
Nobs: Well, I have to ask about him
Ada: Tell me, are you going to come for my wedding?
Nobs: At this moment, I'm still thinking about it.
Ada: Buzor, this is so wrong to say but I still think I'm about to get married to the wrong man because my heart belongs to you and you alone. I may regret all these tomorrow but right now all I want to do is sleep beside you.
I was moved and all I wanted to do there and then was take her clothes off and hold her close to me. I just wanted to stop her from saying more with my mouth.
I witnessed the whole 'spirit being strong and body being weak' philosophy; though I, frankly do not belong to that school of thought.
Nobs: Ada, you belong to another now and you have to let go
Ada: I know. I'm trying
She then started to cry; I couldn't watch her cry without doing anything. So I moved to hold her. I held her close to my chest. She smelt so nice. I could tell she only just had her bath. She turned and her lips met mine. That was it
We kissed like we've not kissed before. I was only wearing my boxers and a tee shirt.
It was obvious that I was hugely turned on and when my hands grabbed her boobs, I quickly moved my hands to unzip her dress. She was wearing no bra and she stood up to take off the dress.
There she was standing with no dress on, her hair covered with a hair wrap and nothing more. I was confused and I couldn't think straight.
Ada: Buzor, make me a woman.
Nobs: Ada, it's not that simple but
She placed her finger on my lips to stop me from talking
Ada: biko zie. I've always dreamt of this moment and how special it would be.
Nobs: Ada
Ada: Buzor, If I call it off with Iyke will you marry me?
At that point, all the comments on memoirs flashed through my mind and I lost my erection and the drive to continue.
Nobs: Ada, we have to stop now. We can't do this. You will bring shame to your family and your mother will never forgive me.
Ada: Buzor, don't break my heart.
Nobs: Ada, we just have to stop.
Ada: So are you asking me to dress up?
Nobs: Yes, please
She dressed up, left the room without saying anything to me.
The following day when I woke up for work, my sister told me that Ada left at about 6am and that she cried all night
I didn't have any answer for her and still don't.
This was very emotional for me and maybe we are really meant for each other.
It's about 2 weeks to her wedding and I can make her stop now, what do you think?


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As reported by Pensions & Investments, the Arkansas Teachers Retirement System has committed $30 million to an alternative asset manager specializing in appraisal opportunities. Further highlighting the focus on appraisal, the Fund committed an additional $30 million to a different fund, but agreed to expand that fund to include appraisal.
As we've blogged about before, appraisal can be both a critical investor protection and a viable way for investors to increase returns in M&A deals. The past several years have seen more institutional investors getting involved in appraisal – something some have suggested is part of the duties they have to their beneficiaries.
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About S. Slade Sundar
I've successfully held C-Level and Executive roles in Product Development, Operations, Brand Marketing, Strategy, and Business Development leading the efforts for startups from 1MM to 100MM+.
Currently, I help startups that need an experienced C-level Executive (CEO, CMO, CTO, COO) or an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) to tackle short term projects.
Silicon Valley + Beyond
In 2016, I began working discreetly as an operational "fixer" for startups that were on the verge of collapse in Silicon Valley, NYC, London, and Paris. I went hands-on to rework culture, operations, and product while re-training Founders how to succeed.
Prior to that, As COO, I helped grow a software and research startup called Achieve into one of the top three companies providing endurance event registration and nonprofit crowdfunding SaaS to companies and nonprofits ranging from Nike to Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
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User talk:Esn
Packaging is the fact of creating a package. :) Normally this imply a limited amont of work. But there is a team "upstram" that continue to work on it and where bug can be reported (or I can be a "bridge")
Porting mean a lot of work (at least in my head). What does Pickle is usually porting, things like : - translating GL to GLES - hard work on resolution (change textures + a lot of code) - optimizing for arm - etc Usually those who have ported will also fix the bugs (as they are largely involved in the code). Chance that the "upstream" code to be merged later is small (That's why we have mame4all and mame106. The later is a port from a newer release). So in some way it's a fork. (Tuxrace is a clear fork of extreme tuxracer)
I hope that clarify all. -- Sebt3, 02:54, 1 November 2010
unreleased software
On the games,software projects and emulator lists there is alot of "Unreleased" stuff. Could the open source projects be moved to port requests? I'm not sure what to do with the proprietary ones like caster or homebrew ones like Onee-sama Tasukete! Maplesugarlover 15:01, 17 January 2011 (MET)
- I replied over here, because it's relevant to that page, so best to keep the discussion there probably... Esn 01:12, 18 January 2011 (MET)
Ironically , I didn't add any port requests, but I did update all 3 listsmaplesugarlover 03:05, 18 January 2011 (MET)
Missed releases
I was looking through the pandora developer's corner for pandora on gp32x and I found some stuff you missed
You are welcome maplesugarlover 21:07, 23 January 2011 (MET)
will x run on the pandora ?
blue protoman removed port requests that are on will x run on the pandora ? Just thought you should know. Also , I went on a deleting spree maplesugarlover 18:14, 5 February 2011 (MET)
- Ok, thanks for letting me know. Seems okay... Esn 05:50, 7 February 2011 (MET)
cool ideas
what if there was a new page called cool ideas. put things like the repo spec, new pnd format, tinxl and http://pandorawiki.org/Easy_pnd_maker there. It might also make sense to put it on the main page maplesugarlover 04:02, 15 February 2011 (MET)
- never mind we haveProposals and cool ideas
though you could add them to front page maplesugarlover 22:04, 17 February 2011 (MET)
there is an timidity installer pnd , but timidity is on port requests. Could timidity be removed from port requests ? maplesugarlover 17:20, 20 February 2011 (MET)
- I think so, yes. Esn 01:06, 21 February 2011 (MET)
I removed TiMidity maplesugarlover 01:07, 21 February 2011 (MET)
CSS+JS Extensions for Template:Languages
Hi Esn,
did you already tried to adapt the CSS and JS as we talked about at User_talk:ABC? --ABC 23:46, 26 April 2011 (MEST)
- Not yet, sorry, I've been a bit busy in the non-internet life. I'll try to do it soon, though. Esn 03:13, 27 April 2011 (MEST)
port requests goals
abc started a discussion. He wants to get rid of port requests, spread the stuff out. Apparently the page is to hard for devs. I would like your input [1] maplesugarlover 03:47, 29 April 2011 (MEST)
- I'm not exactly updating port requests that much.... maybe you could? maplesugarlover 19:55, 10 June 2011 (CEST)
- Well, what techniques do you use to update it? As in, where do you look? I can't make promises, since I already have my hands full, but maybe I could do something sometimes... Esn 23:47, 14 June 2011 (CEST)


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Frieze New York is a commitment. Now in its sixth year, with more than 200 galleries showing Modern and contemporary art from 30 countries, this fair is like a small city set up in a lavishly sculptural tent on Randalls Island. Yet its organizers have realized that visitors generally come for only one day. So this year Frieze is shorter, opening to the public on Friday and running through Sunday.
Where Frieze has expanded is in its attention to 20th-century art and in its deeper coverage of Latin American art, especially from Brazil. On the subject of Latino and Latin American art in the giant fall exhibition "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA," at the Getty Museum and other institutions across Los Angeles, Frieze has organized a symposium with the Getty and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
Frieze also feels more politically reflective this year: Claudia Rankine, a poet who examined race in the book "Citizen: An American Lyric," is among the speakers in the Frieze Talks series (Sunday at 11:30 a.m.), and an initiative to help save the National Endowment for the Arts has been mounted. Emerging-art action is still prevalent in two sections: "Frame," which features galleries founded after 2009, and "Projects," which focuses on special installations. Here are some highlights.
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BRUCE SILVERSTEIN GALLERY In the "Spotlight" section, showcasing a single artist in each booth, Bruce Silverstein is exhibiting three spectacular canvases from the 1970s by Alfred Leslie, a painter who started off as an Abstract Expressionist and later turned to figurative realism. "Americans, Youngstown, Ohio" (1977-78) is three conjoined canvases with figures dressed in everyday clothes and lit from below, while "A Death in the Family" (1976) features a corpse, but also a plate of eggs with a cigarette butt. Odes to banal America, the paintings feel like Caravaggio or Georges de La Tour for the '70s recession era.
GALLERY YAMAKI FINE ART Also in the "Spotlight" section, Gallery Yamaki from Kobe, Japan, is showing works by the octogenarian artist Kimiyo Mishima, who is best known for her ceramic pieces. The booth includes a wonderful mesh trash can filled with replicas of ripped-up cardboard boxes. Carefully painted with product logos and text, they are like fragmentary ceramic versions of Warhol's "Brillo Boxes." Also in the booth are several of Ms. Mishima's collage-paintings from the 1960s, which include texts and images in both Japanese and English, creating a cross-cultural, East-West mash-up.
GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE A Dubai gallerist, Isabelle van den Eynde, is showing the work of one of the leading Emirati artists, Hassan Sharif, who died last year at 65. Mr. Sharif was best known as a Conceptual artist, but his command of color is on full view in a large-scale work made with pieces of painted cotton rope, titled simply "Colours" (2016). His playful approach to abstraction can be seen in the humble sculpture "Mask" (2014), with bits of rug rolled around white rope and mounted on the wall like a Richard Tuttle work.
THE APPROACH Bill Lynch had a show at White Columns in New York in 2014, organized by the painter Verne Dawson, a classmate at Cooper Union in the 1970s. Mr. Lynch, a schizophrenic, died at 53 in 2013. Now his wonderful, curious paintings on wood panels are on view in the booth of the London gallery the Approach, coinciding with the release of a new book dedicated to his work. Landscapes and still lifes morph into abstraction. At all times, Mr. Lynch's paintings look breathless, effortless and artless.
PROYECTOS ULTRAVIOLETA A Guatemala City gallery, Proyectos Ultravioleta won the Focus Stand Prize at Frieze London in 2016, and thus the opportunity to show in New York. It has brought Akira Ikezoe, who has created an environment with his paintings, live plants and sculptures that are assembled from hardware and household parts, fly swatters and other odds and ends. Somewhere between Ikea and Magritte, Mr. Ikezoe's aesthetic feels like an industrial designer existentially adrift.
SILVIA CINTRA AND BOX 4 This booth from Rio de Janeiro has an impressive display of work by Amilcar de Castro, an artist involved with the Neo-Concrete movement in Brazil in the 1950s. A wall of his small steel sculptures features pieces reminiscent of those by Brazilian artists like Lygia Clark or Lygia Pape, whose fantastic retrospective is now on view at the Met Breuer. Some of the other Brazilian booths to seek out are A Gentil Carioca; Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel; and Galeria Luisa Strina.
JON RAFMAN An exhibition organized by Cecilia Alemani for the nonprofit "Projects" section of Frieze is Jon Rafman's "Dream Journal, May 2016 — February 2017," an hourlong animated video loop screened inside a small theater with seats covered in resin, paint and other materials. "Dream Journal" may have started in Mr. Rafman's mind, but it eventually merged with internet subcultures. The overlap with pornography is obvious, both in the way it was traditionally viewed (24/7 in small, seedy theaters) and because digital culture simultaneously expands and exposes the limits of human fantasy, with computer-generated fetishes proliferating in the form of avatars and wildly hybrid creatures.
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CANADA Marc Hundley's apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is about the same size as his gallery's space at Frieze this year, so he more or less swapped them. He outfitted the booth with some of the custom furniture with which he accompanies shows of his paintings and prints; his friends' art — notably a striking abstract painting from Matt Connors, and two handsome aluminum wedges from Noam Rappaport — and several pieces borrowed for the occasion, including a dewy 1947 Grandma Moses painting, "A May Morning." It's a model home at once utopian and sinister — filled with inspiring art but open on two sides to all comers.
XAVIER HUFKENS The most Instagram-worthy feature of the large group exhibition in the booth of the Brussels-based gallerist Xavier Hufkens is a series of gothically creepy mixed-media heads by the sculptor David Altmejd. The Frankenstein-like chaos of colors and textures would be unsettling enough, but Mr. Altmejd ups the grotesqueness by severely disfiguring the pieces, in two cases cutting crystal-lined holes right through their features. An Abraham Lincoln with giant golden ears and half his face missing seems particularly pointed.
MISAKO & ROSEN This Tokyo-based gallery's three-person exhibition includes brash paintings by Trevor Shimizu and five appealing color photographs of sushi, omu-raisu and other household staples, by a Prix Pictet winner, Motoyuki Daifu, sprawled across compositions that are halfway between advertisement and still life. From Ken Kagami come 24 bleakly hilarious ink-on-paper meditations on the relationship between Charles M. Schulz's classic comic-strip characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown. The series reaches an apotheosis of banal profundity with an image of Snoopy reclining on his master's disembodied, planet-like head.
GALERIE MEYER OCEANIC ART This Parisian gallery's exhibition of 39 extraordinary Papuan "spirit boards," ancestral wooden figures carved in low relief, stands out not just in contrast to a tent of mostly contemporary Western art but also for the works' effortless aesthetic achievements. The pieces, sometimes made from discarded canoes, show faces, navels and stripey abstract patterns of lines, all of them rendered with a simplicity that seems to split the difference between sincerity and formal sophistication; the faces are usually smiling.
SIMONE SUBAL This Lower East Side gallerist's booth is given over to paintings, drawings and a single yellow breast, made of enamel and fiberglass and hanging from a nail, by the Austrian artist Kiki Kogelnik, who died in 1997. Ms. Kogelnik's paintings feature bright colors, figures and simple geometric shapes, under which she compressed enormous emotional and formal complexity. In the 1972 painting "Express," a barefoot female figure with blown-out cheeks and a sex-doll mouth is an incandescent vision of anger and control.
GROSVENOR GALLERY This gallery in London anchors an exhibition of fine drawings by the South African artist Dumile Feni, who was born in Cape Province in 1939, emigrated to London and died in New York in 1991, with an eight-foot-high charcoal called "Jazz Musicians, April-December 1968." He drew sinuous, polished figures that might bring to mind the work of Egon Schiele if they weren't so smooth, and if he didn't model them with crosshatching so glittering and tight that it almost resembles fabric. His three musicians, all naked, look like buoyant dolls wrapped in thread.
P420 GALLERY This gallery from Bologna, Italy, devotes its booth entirely to Irma Blank's gorgeous "Eigenschriften" (or "Self-Writings") series, made between 1968 and 1973 in Siracusa, Sicily, where this German-born artist moved in the 1950s. Each drawing is made up of a larger or smaller rectangular block of squiggly ink or pastel lines, which mimic cursive writing. Ms. Blank came up with an array of different squiggles, and within each drawing, minor variations build into an entrancing, wavelike effect.


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Sometimes creative success comes upon me by happenstance. Today I was on my way to the studio to do some painting and as it was a nice morning I decided to walk through the river valley and take my camera with me. As I was leaving I realized that I didn't have a polarizing filter with me but I did have my neutral density filter so I changed plans and decided I'd focus on some long-exposure camera motion abstraction,since it had been awhile since I'd done any photography in that vein.
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Admitting our ignorance: unexpected earthquakes under the magnifying glass – Reportaje
In addictions the first and toughest step is admitting our fault. The same applies in science: assuming our ignorance pushes us beyond the starting line, ready to delve into the unknown. So when in May 12th, 2008 a devastating earthquake struck the Sichuan province in Southwest China -labeled as 'moderately quiet' in terms of seismicity-, it caught scientists by surprise and they had to admit their lack of understanding of seismic hazard in continental interiors.
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My eight-year old Mae is a bit birthday obsessed right now. It started on March 1. Shortly after she woke up, some of her first words were, "Can we celebrate my birthday all month long?" Her birthday is March 25. That's a lot of build-up. She caught me off-guard; we haven't done month-long celebrations in the past. So, I said, "Uhhh . . . make a list of things you would like to do for your birthday and then we'll see." (I have found that asking for a list is a great way to get the kids to leave me alone about something. It buys me valuable time to think. I also secretly hope that after the list is made, they will come to their senses and realize how greedy/unreasonable/unrealistic they are being. This hasn't happened yet.)
There was one thing I already knew Mae wanted for her birthday. Back in January, she asked if she could take cupcakes to school. She had discussed it with a classmate whose birthday is the day before and they agreed that their moms should bring cupcakes. Then, I met the clasmate's mom on a field trip. She and I talked and agreed that we would
grant their request do as we were told. Since then, Mae has said to me at least twice that she wants cupcakes but they should be cookies instead. I haven't figured out what this means, and I'll sort it out closer to the date.
Meanwhile, I'm planning an overnight stay for her and me in New York for the weekend after her birthday. She is super excited about this, and I'm getting hit with all kinds of questions about what we're going to do in the city. Yesterday, though, she said to me, "we've been talking a lot about my birthday, but we haven't talked much about presents. Am I still going to get presents from my family and friends?" I began my annual spiel about how birthdays are not about presents.
Me: Birthdays are about celebrating life and spending time with family and friends.
Her: I know, I know. But, present control is important.
Those are her actual words: "present control".
I don't even know what that means. She continued talking about presents. I heard more words coming from her in the back seat but I can't tell you what she said. I was asking myself over and over, "Did she really just say "present control"? Then, my mind went to how hard I've tried to emphasize people and relationships over things; gratitude; not taking things for granted; and all that good stuff. And, lo and behold, she's trying to implement "present control," whatever that is.
Three years ago, when she turned six, she had a birthday party and we asked the guests to bring a gift for the children's hospital in DC instead of for Mae. A few weeks later, she and I delivered the gifts to the hospital. That was too long ago, and it's time for another
attitude gratitude shift.
She's too busy during the week right now with homework, but during the summer, I hope we can find a regular volunteer activity that will help her gain a greater appreciation for what it means to have and have not.


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The Presidio is a former military outpost located in San Francisco. The land the Presidio stands on was inhabited by Native Americans of the Ohlone-Costanoan tribe for thousands of years. In 1776, Spanish forces built a fort made out of adobe here and named it the Presidio. Between 1776 and 1821, the Spanish military used this outpost to guard the harbor and prevent other settlers from using its resources. The soldiers' families lived there too, and they s..
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For many of us, the Presidio of San Francisco may only be 10-40 miles down the road. Perhaps you drive through it from Lombard to get over the GG Bridge. However, ever since the Inn at the Presidio opened a few years back, my wife and I have spent a few weekends each year staying at this historic hotel … right in the middle of the Presidio of San Francisco.
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Rdio brings its music streaming service to 20 new markets, now up to 51 countries worldwide
Rdio is now available in 20 new markets around the world, greatly increasing the reach and potential user base for its cross-platform, on-demand music streaming service.
The new regions are: Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Rdio is now available in 51 countries, spanning six continents around the world. Today's expansion marks its first entry into Africa, and makes Rdio the second largest music streaming service – Deezer still holds that mantle – in regards to the number of countries where listeners can tune in.
We're expecting a high-profile announcement from Spotify, arguably Rdio's biggest competitor, later today. The WSJ reported that it would be launching a free, ad-supported version of its service for mobile users, which would be a vital differentiator against Rdio and Deezer.
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Formula of hit songs
BBC has a series of documentary called "Seven Ages of Rock" It is an overview of rock music scene from 1963 to 2007. Watching this program probably makes you analytical and I suddenly had a view of the formula of hit songs.
#1 comfort of similarity to ordinary life
#2 represented realization of inner desire
#3 sympathy for your existence and inner feeling of isolation, alienation, and frustration in life
When life filled with uncertainity #2 looks attractive. This can be broken down to...
#2A miraculous glamorous life
#2B destructive thug life
Here are some examples (sorry about old references) :
#1: John Denver, Bananarama
#2A: Motley Crue
#2B: many gangsta raps
#3: Metallica, Nirvarna
Now I am wondering same formula can be used to make hit content in other type of media....


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Jack and the Beanstalk:
- Jack and his mum were in an economic tight spot when they decided to sell that cow. Jack had always been unsuccessful when seeking gainful employment away from the farm, so why did Jack's mum think he was the best man for the job of selling the cow? I haven't a clue. I can be fairly certain, however, that if you are having trouble finding a job in town, maybe you aren't the best person to negotiate the sale of your only remaining asset.
- However, if you are going to negotiate the sale on your own (unwise considering your abilities) do be sure to seek all pertinent information. What good are beans that germinate and grow overnight? What is the crop? Is it saleable? Who cares if the beans grow overnight if it can't be turned into cash? Remember, you are in financial straits. Getting flush again is the whole point, and usually not remedied by a fast-growing pie-in-the-sky concept.
- If you meet someone who readily admits to eating people like you for breakfast and doesn't mean that as a euphemism, GET OUT. RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
- If you do happen to get away from the one who would have had you for lunch and find that it has enriched your purse, don't get greedy. Don't go back, pressing your luck. One of these days you'll run out of luck. It would be a real shame if you discovered this in the casserole dish.
- More dos and don'ts about deal-making. When you are negotiating a deal, particularly with an untrustworthy and unsavory character, (come on! Are you stupid or what?) be absolutely certain that you know what is "fair" and what is "foul" according to the terms.
- Furthermore, negotiate from a position of power. If your father is the great and almighty Sea King, don't be cowed by the underbelly of the sea. They don't know you don't have permission to make the deal. Drop Daddy's name if you have to, just don't be tied to a no-win deal.
- Honey, if your skin is that sensitive, I'm wondering if you aren't a hemophiliac. See a doctor.
- Also, all modern day princesses should be aware that any "prince" who demands only the most "sensitive" of princesses, likely doesn't deserve one. How smug and superior to insist on some ridiculous measure of a princess and not care one bit for her cleverness or her leadership skills! I suggest to you that a real Prince wouldn't make any lady suffer the torture of a whole night's poor sleep, particularly when she came to the castle in dire straits to begin with. He's a sicko, a sadist. Steer well clear of him.
- All men are slimy frogs in the beginning. Some men can shed the slime when kissed by the right woman. However, this means that all princesses have to kiss a lot of frogs before they find one with the potential for metamorphosis. Since a considerable amount of slime-kissing is in your future, prepare yourself with a layer of protection in the form of a sturdy, waterproof lipgloss.
- Stop dropping your prized possessions in the well, you twit! If you prize it, don't be so capricious in the care of your treasure.
Little Red Riding Hood:
- Stick to the plan and the schedule. Don't be lured off of the path and procrastinate with the seductions of strawberries, butterflies, and flowers. Only simpletons are so stupid in a forest filled with dangerous animals.
- If it doesn't look like Grandma, sound like Grandma, or smell like Grandma...it might not actually be Grandma. Ask a question that only Grandma knows the answer to, for cripes sake! Don't doubt your own initial instincts or it could land you in the belly of the beast.
- The actions of a man speak louder than his words. If a suitor keeps his promise to you and has proven himself to be a kind man, you must also keep your word to him. Else, you'll be branded a heartless beast yourself and end up with someone much less deserving.
- All men seem to be beasts in the beginning. They are rough around the edges and in need of domestication. However, in time, all animals can be trained. Just keep an eye on the rugs during the training process, and don't forget to reward positive behavior with treats.


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This article originally appeared on http://jenclapp.blogspot.com (now defunct).
Today we'll start with the upcoming movie Twilight. First off, please don't comment on the actual Twilight books past the first one, because we haven't finished them all yet. Unfortunately, this one has a lot of space/time continuum exceptions, because (and it's probably a good thing), Natalie and I aren't all that knowledgeable of the current teen acting population, barring Hannah Montana and the cast of High School Musical (and I'm totally speaking for myself on HSM, Natalie has not seen them).
I do give away some details of the book just trying to explain our choices, so if that's going to bother you, don't read this…
Now, on to the movie. Here is the real cast for this December's release:
Bella: Kristen Stewart
Edward Cullen: Robert Pattinson
Jacob: Taylor Lautner
Charlie: Billy Burke
Carlisle: Peter Facinelli
Esme: Elizabeth Reaser
Rosalie: Nikki Reed
Alice: Ashley Greene
Jasper: Jackson Rathbone
Emmett: Kellan Lutz
James: Cam Gigandet
Laurent: Edi Gathegi
Victoria: Rachelle Lefevre
Mike Newton: Michael Welch
There are more characters, but let's be honest, these are the people we care about.
Last night while we walked (four miles; woohoo!), here are some of the alternatives we came up with:
Bella: We couldn't really think of anyone, but neither of us really care for Kristen Stewart. Natalie said that she's growing on her. I conceded that after seeing In the Land of Women, she's definitely teen angst-y enough. We'll let her slide, even though she's awkward looking. I guess Bella is, too. Honestly, I don't care for Bella as a character. The Cullens, however, have the Superfriends quality. Like a crossover TV show…all your favorites in one place!
Edward Cullen: Cedric is pretty much right on target, actually. The Russian kid from Charlie Bartlett would have been good, too, I think, but Natalie pointed out that he looks a little young…
Jacob: Sharkboy is an okay pick, I guess. We couldn't think of anyone that would be better. I have some serious drawbacks about Sharkboy as Jacob when thinking ahead in the story, but I can't get into it now because Natalie hasn't finished book 2. But…if you have, you probably feel the same way…
Charlie: Billy Burke is way too pretty, even though he can be described as Daniel and Billy Baldwin smushed together. Natalie suggested Bill Pullman, to which I replied "20 years ago." I would vote for someone like Jeffrey Dean Morgan if they made him gain ten to 15 pounds. Charlie's supposed to be, what, like…36 (19+17)?
Carlisle: We both agreed that Peter Facinelli doesn't work here for two reasons: 1. He looks awful as a blond and 2. he's too old. When they make dark featured people blond in movies, it's like they come down with Freddie Prinze, Jr. Syndrome (think Scooby Doo)…they're really washed out. It's like Draco Malfoy past the first movie. Carlisle is 23…so…we suggested the blond Nordic guy from House. This guy. He'd be awesome, particularly seeing him this way. Another amazing Carlisle, to me, would have been Neal McDonough, 15 years ago (although, judging by looks and not age, let's place it at 30 years; NM has lived a rough life, apparently).*
Esme: I can't remember what the book says, but Natalie pictures someone small, curvy and dark, like Salma Hayek. I picture someone small, cute and fair, like Kristen Chenowith. Either way, neither of us pick the crazy from Grey's Anatomy.
Rosalie: When I see the character in the book, I see Ali Larter (Natalie added "10 years ago). I don't think I'll be able to convince myself of Nikki Reed as a blond.
Alice: Natalie thinks this Ashley Greene girl, who we've never seen before, is too blocky. When I see Alice in the book, I think of the bulimic girl from Centerstage and Drive Me Crazy (maybe…five years ago). Except that she smiles. When I think about a blocky girl playing Alice, I think about the awful choice of who they got to play Tonks (I associate these characters in my head). Boo. Natalie would have liked Winona Ryder circa Dracula, but they still haven't perfected time travel.
Jasper: This is my favorite character, btw. We've had trouble with this one, because while there are some great candidates (Robert Sean Leonard**, 15 years ago; Boone (from LOST)), none of them are blond. And we can't go pulling a Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Emmett: Two words, one character. Smith Jared. He'd be awesome; especially if it were 2003 (meaning, if he were five years younger). The guy playing him now isn't quite "big" enough. Natalie uses the adjective "corn fed," which pretty much nails it. Emmett should look like a farm hand, pretty much, a really hot farm hand. While Smith Jared is pretty much the best choice, I need to throw out Tyler Hilton, since I already mentioned the movie Charlie Bartlett. BTW, when did Tyler Hilton grow up?
James: This guy has Freddie Prinze, Jr. syndrome. Boo. We couldn't really think of anyone who wouldn't be pretty enough (to blend into the woodwork, as they mention in the book). Today, though, I thought maybe Luke Perry, 15 years ago. Natalie, today, thought of Tobey Maguire, which is a pretty great call-not remarkable looking, but tough looking. And he wouldn't even have to look younger…Natalie also thinks Jason Dohring, from Moonlight, would be a good choice.
Laurent: I've only seen the pictures, and the guy playing this character is pretty hot. I'm making no changes. Natalie has no suggestions, but isn't really happy with this guy.
Victoria: I love Rachel Lefavre ever since What About Brian. I'm making no changes. To me, she's perfect, in that she has a pretty soft look, which makes her shocking as a vampire. Natalie and I talked about this some, but didn't come to any specific conclusions.
Mike Newton: Looking at this guy, who I'd never heard of, he looks pretty spot on. When I read the book, though, I picture Draco Malfoy.
So there you have it…our pics for the cast of Twilight. Now…someone hire us to cast a move…STAT!
*For the record, Natalie thinks Neal McDonough looks like he's in his late-30s. So I guess I'm just a shallow jerk.**It is perfectly acceptable to bookmark this post and read it regularly as an excuse to come stare at Robert Sean Leonard. Sigh.


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Home & Hearth & Hallowed Halls
Amid a spate of campus construction plans, we visit McKee Gymnasium, the historic heart of MU women's athletics.
The stately three‐story building with a slate roof and white limestone walls sits behind a row of oak trees, halfway between Memorial Union and Rollins Street on Hitt Street's east side. Hundreds of students walk past McKee Gymnasium every day. Few know its story.
College campuses are a whirlwind of change around a few iconic buildings. At Mizzou, the Columns will always remain, unchanged. Everything else must keep up with the times. Accordingly, several campus landmarks — Swallow Hall, Stewart Hall, Lafferre Hall — are undergoing major renovation.
In February, the Board of Curators approved $1.2 million to hire Cannon Design Inc. to design a STEM‐focused building that would take the place of McKee Gym. Those plans have been put on hold, however, because of a lack of funding.
Nevertheless, the notion got us thinking about McKee and the central role it played in the history of women's athletics.
Women's athletics at Mizzou started modestly, in 1889, with the first physical education class for women. Each semester, 100 women performed calisthenics in Jesse Hall, carefully maneuvering around three posts that ran through the middle of a converted classroom. By the early 1920s, 650 women per semester took turns jumping and stretching in the makeshift space.
The men, meanwhile, had an entire gymnasium to themselves. Rothwell Gym, built in 1906, was off‐limits to women except on Saturday mornings and two evening hours per week. Even then, women were not allowed to use the lockers or baths.
Meanwhile, interest in women's sports started to kindle. The 1910s saw the start of field hockey, indoor baseball, and track‐and‐field clubs for women, though participation was low. Then, in 1923, Mizzou women got a gym — the $150,000 New Women's Gym. In the same year, MU hired the building's future eponym, Mary McKee, as professor of physical education and head of physical education for women. Women's athletics began to flourish.
Equipped with a pool, a basketball court, dressing rooms, lockers and "subtle art deco style," the New Women's Gym was home to an upsurge in athletic activity.
The Mermaids Club, a women's swim club, formed in 1926. They gave annual exhibitions with the men's swimming team that proved so popular that ticket sales from the inaugural event paid for a new set of bleachers in the gym.
Women's sports continued to expand, and, by the early 1950s, included basketball, folk dance, modern dance, soccer, tennis, volleyball, table tennis and softball.
It wasn't always easy, though. "Miss McKee," as she was known, oversaw and advocated for physical education for women for 35 years. In an interview during the late 1960s or early 1970s, she recounted difficulties women faced in gaining equal treatment.
Male students would take over the women's tennis courts and athletic fields and refuse to leave. "The fraternities would come over, and they would tear down our archery targets and play baseball there. If we came out for [archery] class, they'd say, 'So what?' " McKee said.
McKee Gym also helped precipitate the launch of Mizzou's gymnastics team. Early in her career, in the late 1950s, Marge Meredith, BS Ed '53, M Ed '59, assistant professor of physical education, inherited the duties of teaching "stunts and tumbling."
"The first years we had gymnastics, I knew nothing about it," she says. But at a national physical education conference in St. Louis in the early '60s, she was introduced to the uneven bars, balance beam, vault, and other equipment of the sport.
Meredith grew up in a do‐it‐yourself family, so when she got back to Columbia, she and a few students constructed their own balance beam. They thought it was fine, but "the first time schools came and competed in our gym and had to perform on that beam, they just thought it was below par because it looked homemade," she says. They ordered a factory‐made beam after that.
The first official Mizzou gymnastics team formed in 1966. They competed as a club sport with no money for uniforms, travel, lodging or food. Consequently, they carpooled to competitions and slept on the floors of members' relatives whenever they could.
One of the earliest gymnasts was Elaine List Kent, BS Ed '70, M Ed '96. She fell in love with gymnastics during her senior year at Columbia's Hickman High School, too late to be a top competitor herself. But she threw herself into the sport at Mizzou, practicing five days a week, and attended workshops and summer camps at Meredith's urging. Later, she made gymnastics the centerpiece of her physical education teaching career in Columbia Public Schools.
As a student, List Kent didn't live in the dorms and wasn't in a sorority. Her four years on campus centered on McKee Gym and the people there. It was her campus home.
"It's a building worth remembering," she says.
Today, Mizzou no longer segregates athletics facilities by gender, and McKee has been converted into offices and a fine‐arts stage.
Meanwhile, decades of rising enrollment have put an ever‐increasing demand on classroom space. That demand is especially strong for lab space, accelerated by a national focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.
It's been many years since McKee has been used as a gymnasium. The pool was drained in the '70s or '80s — no one is quite sure when — and later covered. Losing the structure itself would mark its final chapter.
But even if that happens, McKee won't be forgotten. A student named Rachel who took classes in McKee was interviewed in 2011 as part of a campus project documenting the building. "I think it would be nice to have the history more widely known throughout campus," she said. "Jesse Hall and [Ellis] Library have a great history, and so does this building. I love to play softball, and I think it's pretty cool, as a girl, to know that I am in a building that started making girls' sports important."


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Why I Decided To Take Over The Liberty Papers
This site published its first post on November 22, 2005. I was part of the original team recruited for this group blog. Many things have changed in those nearly nine years.
From a personal standpoint, I've certainly had my own ups and downs. I've been married and divorced, entered professional politics and then left it, failed at a business venture, struggled with depression, in the meantime launched a successful career as a professional blogger and commentator, and entered the think tank world as well. All this before I turned 30.
Now to dispel any rumors before they begin, I have no plans to leave IJ Review or the R Street Institute, both of whom I write for for my day job. In fact, I'm sure you'll see pieces I write for both (along with other publications I occasionally write at such as Rare) linked here and in on our Facebook and Twitter pages. By the way, you should like and follow us on both.
This site has undergone many changes as well. In the initial e-mail our founder, Eric, sent to a select group of libertarian leaning bloggers back in 2005, this is what he invisioned:
The goal is for it to be a group setting similar to Catallarchy (http://www.catallarchy.net/) author's note: Catallarchy moved here and published its last post in January 2013, but for classic liberal thinking rather than anarcho-capitalist. You know, us folks who think radical libertarian anarchy can never happen in the real world, but who do think that the Founding Fathers got it right and would like to see a rejuvenation of the Constitution, individual liberty, classic liberal thinking, values and politics.
Of course some of the contributors, both past and present, are philosophical anarchists to an extent, but there has always been a realistic approach towards liberty and classical liberalism that we have tried to promote. To take liberty from merely an intellectual discussion and help influence the culture and politics and ultimately policy. This is what I have tried to do in my professional career as a commentator and writer. Sometimes I get it right, other times I get it really wrong and I'm sure that will continue to be the case. I look forward to rededicating this blog's mission to align with that original goal and bring this blog back to its glory days.
Change is the one constant in this world and the world has changed from 2005, and to be honest it has been mixed for liberty. We elected Barack Obama president in 2008 and reelected him in 2012 and he has been a disaster for liberty. We have watched government grow harming both the prosperity and the liberties of the American people. America is now firmly on the road to nationalized healthcare. This government now claims the authority to kill Americans overseas without any kind of due process and to detain Americans indefinitely, without charge. Finally, this government openly claims the right intercept and read e-mails and listen to phone calls without warrant. We have seen free speech and the right of someone to earn a living come under threat as a result of mob action in the name of political correctness. And that's not going into things that have been proposed but not enacted yet such as internet kill switches, hate speech laws, and new gun bans.
However, there have been some positive trends towards liberty as well. The American people are generally more reluctant to use military force than they have been in decades. There is a clear libertarian current in American politics, especially among the right, than has been seen in decades. Part of it is due to, and credit where credit is due, to the Presidential campaigns of Ron Paul and the work his son, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), have done since 2008. Gay marriage is now legal in most of the states in the country and will likely be legal nationwide by the end of the decade. Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington and the trend in drug policy is either towards decriminalization or legalization. The American people now generally believe we're facing problems with our $17 trillion national debt and massive budget deficits and are for (at least in theory) spending cuts. School choice, either in the form of school vouchers or charter schools, is gaining more acceptance across the country. Finally, with the rise of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, there is now an increasingly viable alternative to government fiat currencies for global e-commerce. You may have heard a lot of things about this industry, but you can only have a fair view if you know more about it. With this being said, it could be as simple as searching for something like what are Bitcoin trader risks? (or Bitcoin Trader mit Risiken verbunden? if you speak German) and starting the research from there. The more you know in an industry like this, the better.
These currencies are becoming more accessible to a wider audience. By looking into a platform like coinbase, you'll get a better understanding of how and why selling cryptocurrency is so important. Cryptocurrencies can be used in multiple ways and can be spent on practically anything. They can be used to make purchases on the web, or they can even be used for trading and investing purposes. As long as people who have bought, or are buying, bitcoin and cryptocurrency know exactly what they're getting, their investments and purchases could prove successful. Sites like cryptoevent.io can help people understand how investing cryptocurrency and what's involved.
With humble gratitute, I humbly accept the responsibility of renewing this blog. We have already added new social media sharing options and the Disqus comments section. We're going to be expanding our social media presence. Finally, I will be adding some new faces, to compliment some of us who have been here from the beginning.
This blog was my first break into blogging from a free Blogspot page. I've watched Doug Mataconis go on to great success at Outside The Beltway, essentially making that site synonymous with him. Jason Pye took over United Liberty and made it one of the top blogs on the internet, before moving on to FreedomWorks recently. Stephen Gordon has become a nationally successful political consultant. This site has launched some careers and I hope it will launch more over the next few years.
Now I will just say this, fasten your seat belts and lift up your tray tables. Sit back and enjoy the ride, because I think it'll be worth it.