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|November 15, 2012, 10:44 AM
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I don't post much, and I know this is a long read, but it makes a point I have been trying to make clear for a long time. I have since learned that it doesn't matter what you tell someone…if they are against it, they will have an unwarranted, un-backed rebuttal. Either way, this is how I see it:
There are two types of laws…pre-emptive laws, and punitive laws (these are opinions…not facts). Pre-emptive laws are to prevent, punitive laws to punish after the fact.
Pre-emptive laws only work on those that follow the law….I will repeat (never enough times it seems), pre-emptive laws are for those that follow the law. They do not work on criminals, in most cases. You might have a borderline criminal, that might decide to go the 'law abiding' direction based on what the punitive stance is on a pre-emptive law, but in MOST cases…a criminal will not follow the law.
SO, pre-emptively controlling, banning, regulating guns does NOT work!!!! A criminal does not care what the law says about the type, amount, or capability of legally owned weapons…they are not law abiding….they don't plan to own it legally! If a criminal is going to break the law, they obviously don't care about it! Find me one story about a criminal who is planning a home invasion, or bank robbery, who stops and says "Wait, I can't do this…I don't have a legally owned weapon to use in the crime." Pre-emptive laws will not stop the criminals….just the law abiding.
Punitive laws (which is where I think the effort needs to be concentrated) is how to stop criminals. We will NOT stop them from having a gun, no matter how strict the pre-emptive laws are, BUT we can discourage the illegal use of them by enforcing strict punitive laws. Using the above example, something that you do hear about is where the same criminal says "Wait, I can't do this…I don't want to end up tied to an electric chair and put out of my misery!"
I won't drag this out, but I think I made the point. Regulating law abiding citizens will not stop the criminals. Less tolerance on crime can!
Ok…rant over!
|November 15, 2012, 11:02 AM
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If I learned anything from this past election its 1. Just how libertarian I am and 2. Everything revolves around money and power.
Antis know that gun control doesn't affect crime. They tried it and tried it but it doesn't work. Exactly how is the crime rate in South Central L.A.? Chicago? Oakland? Camden, NJ? It is about power and money.
Also realize that a lot of anti gunners propose tons of new laws. I suspect one reason to be because of the view that guns should not be in the hands of criminals. The more laws you pass, the increased amount of guilty people their will be (saying this in the sense that if there were absolutely ZERO laws, there would be ZERO outlaws/criminals. If there are 10,000 laws, there will be a lot more than zero outlaws/criminals.) The more criminals you have, the less number of people can own guns legally. Thus is another way for gun control. Eventually everyone or enough people will become criminals that there will not be enough support to maintain a firearms industry.
Then who knows, maybe they'll say, "well if you were a criminal, you can't drive because you were exposed to too much stress from your arrest and court trial." Look at that! Cutting down on emissions now! Way to go environmentalists!!
This whole thing is a crock. By trying to limit what law abiding citizens can purchase and expecting a different group of people (law breaking citizens) to follow is silly, even to an elementary school kid.
And look at this murder in Belize with that McAfee on the run. The victim was shot in the head with a flare gun. Should their be an outlaw on flare guns even though the majority of thugs and criminals do not own boats, or go adventuring into the woods?
These anti people are trying to dummy/child proof the everyday life of people to make it that perfect world where there is no danger, but at the same time they want to do so that they can flex their muscle and say "We did this" when something goes right and say "We need more regulation" when something does not go their way. It is about them gaining power over people to instill their views over everyone.... NOT very Democratic.
Gun control activists are like people throwing gasoline on a fire. The more they through the gasoline on the fire, the more it gets worse and the more they feel the need that more gasoline would put the fire out. Doesn't quite make sense does it?
|November 15, 2012, 12:30 PM
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|November 15, 2012, 12:53 PM
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Malum in se offenses such as murder are vastly different than malum prohibitum offenses such as possessing a firearm in Illinois without a FOID card.
|November 15, 2012, 02:32 PM
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Gun control is indeed about control and power, as stated; governmental control. Let us cut to the chase. If one looks at the original intent of the Founders, an armed populace was to insure freedom; externally from opposing powers, and internally from any government which seeks to limit the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution. There are indeed those in our government who fear us; freedom loving gun owners. They do indeed seek to, ultimately, seperate us from our weapons, and have incrementally succeeded. Historically, once a population is disarmed, tyranny follows close upon its heels. I hope and pray that we do not have to relearn this lesson,for it will be very painful. We live in a country deeply divided, and we could be thrown into chaos by any one of a number of things. I am certain of one thing; if we lose the right to our weapons, this country is gone, if not forever, for a very long time. The light of true freedom will be extinguished and we will be responsible for its death.
|November 15, 2012, 07:12 PM
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While I'm mostly against arbitrary gun restriction (type of gun, mag capacity) there was one thing I found out recently about a local gun advocacy group that bothered me.
They successfully helped kill a bill in NC that would have required a mental health check for those buying guns (not sure if it was only handguns or any gun) if they don't have a concealed carry permit.
I'm actually FOR a mental health check....rarely are people suffering from mental illness aware of it, and I don't think someone who is clinically depressed/bi-polar/etc should be handling a firearm.
Is there a reason why that viewpoint is out of line or anti-gun? I think any right-minded adult should have a gun...but we are having a serious problem with massacres in this country with firearms by mentally ill people that I think could be prevented if those people are identified.
|November 15, 2012, 07:30 PM
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Because as a veteran who was "pinged" for being at risk of suffering from PTSD, in all likelihood, I would be precluded from buying a gun.
The problem isn't allowing the mentally ill to shoot or purchase guns, the problem, as I see it, is "who" gets to decide what constitutes mental illness.
The BATFE? The DOJ? Local or state government?
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|November 15, 2012, 07:34 PM
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I object to requiring some sort of mental health test before someone can purchase a firearm. I don't mind folks who have been adjudicated as mentally unfit being barred from firearm purchases.
|November 15, 2012, 07:36 PM
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At the end of the day this just adds to the cost and makes buying a firearm much more difficult which I suspect is part of the motivation. I also doubt that any of these routine mental health reviews would even do any good.
The trick is to determine how to handle people that have been identified as actually exhibiting behavior that is of concern. Many of the people involved in recent high profile incidents had previous run-ins with the mental health system, but nothing was done to prevent them from buying a gun. Now, how to balance the rights of these individuals against the concern for what they "might" do is an entirely different subject all together…
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|November 15, 2012, 08:17 PM
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Also, once someone acquires a "label", it tends to follow them forever, whether the mental illness is gone or not. I'm a recovering alcoholic, for instance. I imagine I would have been labeled as totally insane back in my drinking days, and rightfully so. Now that I'm 20+ years sober, would I be allowed to purchase guns because of that label I acquired back there? Who knows...
|November 15, 2012, 08:33 PM
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mhuxtable you ask a reasonable question, and your conclusion that mentally ill folks should not have weapons is one that is used all the time by those who would restrict the ownership of guns by imposing some sort of means testing. I think we can all agree that criminals (insane or not) are a threat to society. Rather than deal with that reality it is far easier to blame guns.
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|November 15, 2012, 08:34 PM
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I'd go along with the mental health check if it also applied to voting. (disqualified from voting on advice from mental health community)
What are the chances THAT would fly?
|November 15, 2012, 09:46 PM
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1) Using mental illness "clinically depressed/bi-polar/etc.: as the standard by which to deny someone a fundamental, individual constitutional right is a slippery slope. Who, exactly, will make that determination? What, exactly are to be the standards? As a general matter, it becomes fairly easy to designate a politically unpopular group as "mentally ill," and begin stripping them of their rights. E.g., "Communists? Why, only the mentally ill could believe such a system could work." Next step, disarm the communists.
2) Mass murders using guns make big news in the mainstream media. However, never forget that there are something like 65 MILLION gun owners in this country who didn't kill anyone today. Run the numbers on how many total gun owners there are in this country, and compare that to the number of them who actually go on shooting sprees, and then consider whether it constitutes a "serious problem."
I'm a lawyer, but I'm not your lawyer. If you need some honest-to-goodness legal advice, go buy some.
|November 15, 2012, 09:54 PM
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There are some restrictions I would support:
Ban on stupid people
Ban on laws aimed at law abiding citizens
Ban on judges which don't enforce the laws already on the books
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|November 15, 2012, 10:21 PM
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Many of the very people you're hoping to filter out are the most adept at acing those sorts of tests. I've met a sociopath. They do a great job of appearing normal, happy, and friendly. He'd get a gun.
Meanwhile, a guy who listens to Nick Drake, reads Rod McKuen, and gets in a bit of a funk sometimes gets denied for borderline depression or whatever. Despite being an empathetic, moral person, he doesn't get a gun.
Then there's the question of who defines the criteria and limits. What exactly defines "too depressed" to pass? Is there an appeal for denials?
It simply won't do what's intended, and it will deny guns to folks from whom we've got nothing to fear.
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|November 16, 2012, 01:27 AM
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As pointed out, a "mental health check" is not just a slippery slope, its the Highway to HELL.
Not much more than 50 years ago, homosexuality was a recognised mental illness. It was listed in the medical texts as such. While it seems implausible, it is not impossible that should enough like minded doctors and "mental health professionals" get together, gun ownership (or the desire to own a gun) could be listed as a mental illness.
A lot of people in the old Soviet Union were tried for "crimes against the state" and when not outright convicted, found to be "mentally ill", and sent to "treatment" in re-eduication camps.
Along the the all too real possibility of individuals making the "mental health" determination having personal agendas of their own, there is an ever present problem with any evaluation of mental health.
And that is two fold, firstly, it must rely entirely on the answers given by the interviewee. And second, (and possibly even more importantly) it can all too easily become a "when did you stop beating your wife" situation.
If you don't answer all the questions the "right"way, you are found mentally ill. AND if you DO answer all the questions the "right" way, you are gaming the test, and found to be mentally ill. The real potental for it to all too easily become a lose/lose situation makes any (supposedly) "objective" mental evaluation test for firearms ownership a very, very risky thing.
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.
|November 16, 2012, 07:05 AM
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Firearm ownership is a right. If we require a pre-test, it isn't a right. Someone can loose their right through the court system. They can be convicted as a felon or adjudicated as mentally unfit but we don't need people's rights taken away without courts being involved.
|November 16, 2012, 08:14 AM
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What about people you use shooting sports as theropy for depression? I was diagnosed with PTSD years ago and found shooting and firearms to be a great theropy. If we had a mental check, I'd most likely never be able to buy a gun and get into shooting
|November 16, 2012, 08:25 AM
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A doc wants me to take a pill for anxiety? That's a mental health issue, not a legal one.
|November 16, 2012, 10:12 AM
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Sometimes I think we try and explain away pure evil by using mental incompetence as an excuse.
Therefore, we label those who are just plain evil as mentally ill. It helps us rationalize to ourselves how someone could commit horrendous crimes.
Should we simply have a "firearms means test" that determines if one is evil rather than mentaly ill?
Slippery, very slippery.
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|November 16, 2012, 11:54 AM
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I would suppose restrictions that keep the prices of guns and ammo lower... Not much else however.
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|November 16, 2012, 12:56 PM
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Also - most people diagnosed with a mental illness do recover. Should someone who was briefly depressed ten years ago, but who recovered after a short round of treatment, be prohibited from owning guns for the rest of his life?
Also - laws or regulations that discourage mentally ill people from seeking treatment are a Bad Thing in and of themselves. If someone's feeling a bit crazy, I want them to race over to the doc's office and get treatment before they snap -- which they will not do if there's a law saying we'll take your guns away if you need treatment. I don't want them to hide their symptoms. I want them to fix what's wrong before they decide to take a samurai sword to the local school and chop the heads off all the kindergartners, or before they decide to nail the doors shut at a popular nightclub and set the place on fire. I want these guys seeking treatment, not hiding the crazy until someone's dead of it.
Also - Just as mentally ill people do usually recover with treatment, healthy people sometimes come down with a case of the crazies. How often would you want to check that all existing gun owners are still sane, and how many of their basic human rights are you willing to trample to make that happen?
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|November 16, 2012, 01:49 PM
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i don't believe a large number of gunowners want the mythical "gunshow loophole" "fixed". All my gunowning friends prefer selling their legally owned property without government interference.
All the anti-gunners jump on the "gunshow loophole". Most of the mass murderers bought their guns from licensed gun dealers. i can't think of one who bought his gun from a private individual.
IMO: This modern day Daniel Webster is absurd to the extreme. This explains it all:
|November 16, 2012, 01:59 PM
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I think articles like the above sell as many "AR's" as the gun magazines, much as the Clintons motivated me to buy my EBR back in the day. I don't mind having to behave myself, but this domestic violence thing is a factor, and has made me modify my behaviors. People who CC understand how important it is to conduct yourself. The fact that misconduct can separate us from our rkba is no laughing matter. A lifetime ban for an infraction (misdemeanor) as trivial as raising your voice is one of the unlooked for consequences of a law that had good intentions. Then there's that road to hell paved with good intentions.
Can we get some freedom from good intentions?
|November 16, 2012, 02:05 PM
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See how easy it it would be to abuse such a 'law'?
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Tips for preparing for the Hocking Hills hike can serve as a guide for winter hikers throughout Ohio this winter.
The date of the annual Hocking Hills Winter Hike is Jan. 18.
The six-mile hike from Old Man's Cave to Ash Cave annually draws thousands of hikers. Hikers start between 9 and 11 a.m. Bean soup is served at the midway point at Cedar Falls for a donation. A shuttle bus return's hikers to the starting point.
Hiking in Hocking Hills in winter offers views of snow-covered and crystallized rock formations, cliffs, gorges and waterfalls.
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Tips for preparing for the Hocking Hills hike can serve as a guide for winter hikers throughout Ohio this winter. The tourism association suggests these tips for winter hiking.
1. Stay on the trail.
2. Choose proper footwear.
3. Wear multiple pairs of socks.
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5. Stay hydrated and eat energy bars.
6. Cover your hands and face.
7. Layer your clothes.
8. Know the weather forecast.
9. Don't hike alone.
10 Bring a camera or phone with a camera.
Hocking Hills is 40 miles southeast of Columbus. For information on the hike, visit ExploreHockingHills.com or call 1-800-HOCKING.
The "High-Mileage Hike" planned by Stark County Park District on Nov. 30 will come two days after Thanksgiving and is appropriately named a "Turkey Burner."
Hikers will meet at 9 a.m. at Crystal Springs Trailhead and trek seven miles along the Ohio & Erie Towpath and Olde Muskingum trails. Hikers are advised to wear comfortable hiking shoes for this strenuous ranger-guided hike and dress for the weather. For information, call 330-409-8096 or visit www.StarkParks.com.
Ohio's young hunters can hunt during the state's 11th annual youth white-tailed deer hunting season Saturday and Sunday, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
The youth deer-gun season is open statewide. Hunters must hold a valid youth hunting license and a deer permit. Deer can be hunted with plugged shotguns using slugs, muzzleloaders .38 caliber or larger, handguns .357 caliber or larger, and bows.
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BELMONT, N.C. – The Coker women's tennis team sweep through the Belmont Abbey women on Sunday afternoon with a 9-0 win in Conference Carolinas women's tennis. The win improves the Lady Cobras to 3-8 overall and 1-3 in conference play.
The Lady Cobras took home a pair of 8-1 victories at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles, while a forfeit at No. 3 doubles gave Coker the 3-0 sweep in doubles play.
The Coker women then picked up four straight set wins at singles play with Alyssa Blanchard (Columbia, S.C.) winning 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 singles, while Stephanie Medley (Sumter, S.C.) won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2 singles. Kendall Sigmon (Hilton Head, S.C.) won 6-4, 6-0 at No. 3 and Brittany Yando (Sumter, S.C.) won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 4. Stephanie Harrelson (Hartsville, S.C.) and Emma Hayes (Hartsville, S.C.) each earned wins at No. 5 and No. 6 singles thanks to forfeits.
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OUTLINE: Patients are stratified according to protease inhibitor treatment (yes vs no), prior paclitaxel (yes vs no), and prior doxorubicin or daunorubicin (yes vs no).
Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 3 hours on day 1. Treatment continues every 2 weeks for at least 1 course in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients who previously received paclitaxel receive no more than 1 course during this study.
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AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Springfield College used a late surge to overcome a five-point MIT lead with three minutes left to come away with a 56-53 win in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference men's basketball play this evening. Senior James Burke (Scotch Plains, N.J.) hit 5-of-10 three-point attempts and led the Engineers with 18 points. Alex Berthiaume led the Pride with 21 points.
Springfield (11-4, 2-0 NEWMAC) took the early advantage as Robbie Burke scored four of his 11 points over the first three minutes as the Pride took an early 9-2 lead. MIT (10-3, 1-1 NEWMAC) regrouped and charged back into the contest, going on a 17-5 run over a six-minute span. Sophomore Matt Redfield (Los Altos, Calif.) started the run for the Engineers with a put back of a missed shot before James Burke hit back-to-back treys that tied the game at the 13:04 mark at 12-all. Senior Mitchell Kates (Colts Neck, N.J.) and freshman Russell Johnson (New York, N.Y.) then sandwiched a pair of threes around a Springfield basket that pumped the MIT lead up to 19-14.
Springfield came back, however, answering a trey from freshman Ryan Frankel (New York, N.Y.) with one from Jordan Rote that cut the Engineers lead down to one at 22-21. Berthiaume then hit a fast break bucket that put the Pride back on top. He followed that with a pair of free throws to increase the lead to three with 4:22 left, a lead that Springfield maintained the rest of the half as it took a 29-27 advantage at the half.
MIT could not make a dent in the Springfield lead over the first 10 minutes of the second half. The Pride led by as many as nine after a pair of free throws from Robbie Burke made it 42-33 with 12:33 left. Springfield still led by eight with 8:27 to play when James Burke caught fire for the Engineers. He went on a personal 9-1 run against the Pride, finishing things off with back-to-back treys that tied the game at 48-48 with 5:23 left.
MIT continued on, surging ahead to a 53-48 lead after a steal and ensuing layup by Kates with 3:13 to play. Berthiaume then turned the tied for Springfield. He broke a four-minute scoreless streak by the Pride with a pair of free throws with 2:50 to play and then connected on a layup after an MIT turnover that brought Springfield within one with two minutes left.
A pair of free throws by Robbie Burke put the Pride back on top and his layup after a missed three by Frankel provided the final margin for Springfield. Senior Will Tashman (Atherton, Calif.) missed on a game-tying attempt from behind the arc as time expired.
MIT hit on 10 of its 23 three-point attempts, but the Pride out shot MIT overall, 49 percent to 40 percent. Led by Redfield's 10 rebounds, the Engineers held a slim 30-28 edge on the boards. Burke was the only player to reach double figures in scoring for MIT, with Redfield adding nine and Frankel connecting on 3-of-4 three-point attempts for nine points as well. Rote also reached double-figures for Springfield, chipping in 10
It will be home for the first time in a month for MIT as it hosts Coast Guard on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. Springfield will also play on Thursday as it travels to Babson College for a 7:00 p.m. contest.


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Well, this is great. The timing of your first period, while previously linked only to bleeding through your gym shorts on seventh grade dodgeball day, may be an indicator of your risk of adulthood cardiovascular disease and obesity. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death amongst women in the United States and yet, because it manifests later in women than it does in men, researchers have long struggled to find a way to tell which females are more at risk. A recent study by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, however has possibly found a link between heart disease and the onset of menarche.
Says Medical Doctor and Master of Public Health Caroline S. Fox:
"The purpose of this study was to examine whether female reproductive risk factors -– including onset of menarche, number of births over a lifetime (called parity), onset of menopause, and menopausal status –- are associated with indices of body fat composition. We found that earlier onset of menarche is associated with overall adiposity [fat], whereas parity and menopausal age were not associated with adiposity measures. Post-menopausal women also had higher levels of overall adiposity, though this appeared to be mostly due to age and not menopausal status."
In other words, women who first got their period at a younger age are more likely to have a larger body mass index and waist circumference in adulthood than those who began menstruating in their early teens.
The study, featuring 1,638 women over the age of 40 who weighed less than 352 lbs., explored the relationship between visceral adiposity (belly fat) and subcutaneous adiposity (the fat under the skin) with "female reproductive factors after adjusting for age, smoking status, alcohol intake, physical activity index, hormone replacement therapy and menopausal status. Results of the study showed the timing of the first menstrual cycle was associated with generalized but not regional body fat depots."
According to the leader of the study Dr. Subbulaxmi Trikudanathan:
"This research suggests that select female reproductive risk factors, specifically onset of menarche, are associated with overall adiposity, but not with specific indices of body fat distribution. Ultimately, the important question is whether female reproductive risk factors can be used to target lifestyle interventions in high risk women to prevent the metabolic consequences of obesity and cardiovascular disease."
And this may put even more pressure on girls who get their periods at a young age — whereas once their biggest worry was trying to smuggle a tampon out of class, they now have to think about heart disease, too.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has suffered its first fatality from the Middle Eastern respiratory virus, its official news agency reported Thursday, a day after the first cases in Islamic Republic were publicized.
The IRNA news agency quoted Health Ministry official Mohammad Mahdi Gouya as saying the virus killed a 53-year-old woman in Kerman, a city in southeastern Iran. On Wednesday, the daily newspaper Hamshahri quoted Gouya as saying two sisters in Kerman contracted the virus.
"The women's immune system had with the disease due to chronic illness. (They were) unable to fight the virus." Gouya told IRNA.
It remains unclear how the two women became infected with MERS and authorities have given no further details.
MERS is part of the coronavirus family of viruses, which includes the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. MERS can cause symptoms including fever, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
The virus, first reported in Saudi Arabia, has seen cases spread across the world since its discovery two years ago. The World Health Organization said Wednesday that it had documented 636 laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS worldwide, including 193 deaths.
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by Jeffrey Bishop
On a recent trip to New York, as is my pattern, I combed over every major museum from Brooklyn to the Guggenheim and those in between, as well as many galleries. On the insistence of several artist friends, I spent the morning viewing Hilma af Klimt's paintings at the Guggenheim.
I was enraptured with her turn of the last century's work, precursing the know figures of Modernism-Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. A relatively unknown (to the world, but not in her native Sweden) artist with a definite spiritual bent, complete with séances and mystical writings. But most importantly were the bold paintings of shapes and patterns that are very contemporary and defy definition. They are truly innovative and fresh; they remained with me for days afterward. I highly recommend the show. As Roberta Smith noted in the Times, "a rapturous exhibition." The best show I saw. Until April 23rd.
As a shooter of film for forty years, it has been a struggle to grasp the impact of the digital age and the Internet on of the status of photography in our world. The act of shooting has become an indulgent, social event.
Henry Wessel, sadly recently deceased in California, was a profound photographer, mentor, professor and thinker on photography, especially on the American West.
"Pressing the shutter is saying yes to the world.'" One of his most poignant quotations which set me back; upon arriving at LAX, he commented on the light intensity, "it looked like you could lean against it." He was honored by many museum exhibitions from Szarkowski's at Moma, to Eastman House, to Cologne. He was instrumental in the photo program at the San Francisco Institute, joining its faculty in 1973.
Lee Friedlander called him the "Photo Buddha." I could mention Walker Evens or Cartier Bresson as his inspiration, but he embarked further into the ordinary terrain of life. This plots a direct collusion with Instagram and Facebook imaging. He was concerned about the proliferation of pictures and it's deterioration of the import of the photograph.
"People don't pay much attention these days to the descriptive, expressive and suggestive facts found in a good still photograph.
"The process of photographing is a pleasure: eyes open, receptive, sensing, and at some point connecting. It's thrilling to be outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts."
That's picture taking.
I cannot help to be critically drawn to the narcissistic nature of people's images – selfies, food, pets and fronting famous objects. Nothing to do with image making but all about themselves. Sadly that is our future.
RAUSCHENBERG: The 1/4 Mile
October 28, 2018 – June 9, 2019, at LACMA
One of the most pioneering artists of the last century, Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) produced a diverse body of work characterized by experimentation, the use of varied mediums and methods, and cross-cultural exchange. Rauschenberg's monumental The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece (1981–98) exemplifies these tenets of his artistic practice. Created over 17 years, the work is composed of 190 panels that, combined, measure approximately a quarter mile in length. An eclectic array of materials comprise the piece: textiles, mass media images, and photographs by the artist intermingle with bold passages of paint, while everyday objects such as chairs, cardboard boxes, and traffic lights add sculptural depth. Rauschenberg incorporated materials and photographs from the U.S., Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Northern Africa, including audio of ambient street sounds recorded during his travels.
The 1/4 Mile reveals the broad scope of Rauschenberg's practice through the multitude of mediums and techniques employed, and serves as a self-contained retrospective of his oeuvre. This presentation is the first time The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece will be exhibited in its entirety.
ANDY WARHOL: From A to B and Back Again
Nov 12, 2018 – Mar 31, 2019, at Whitney Museum of American Art
Few American artists are as ever-present and instantly recognizable as Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Through his carefully cultivated persona and willingness to experiment with non-traditional art-making techniques, Warhol understood the growing power of images in contemporary life and helped to expand the role of the artist in society. This exhibition—the first Warhol retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989—reconsiders the work of one of the most inventive, influential, and important American artists. Building on a wealth of new materials, research and scholarship that has emerged since the artist's untimely death in 1987, this exhibition reveals new complexities about the Warhol we think we know, and introduces a Warhol for the 21st century.
The exhibition positions Warhol's career as a continuum, demonstrating that he didn't slow down after surviving the assassination attempt that nearly took his life in 1968, but entered into a period of intense experimentation. The show illuminates the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of the artist's production: from his beginnings as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s, to his iconic Pop masterpieces of the early 1960s, to the experimental work in film and other mediums from the 1960s and 70s, to his innovative use of readymade abstraction and the painterly sublime in the 1980s. His repetitions, distortions, camouflaging, incongruous color, and recycling of his own imagery challenge our faith in images and the value of cultural icons, anticipating the profound effects and issues of the current digital age.
JEWELRY: The Body Transformed
November 12, 2018 – February 24, 2019, at
The Met
What is jewelry? Why do we wear it? What meanings does it carry? Traversing time and space, this exhibition explores how jewelry acts upon and activates the body it adorns. This global conversation about one of the most personal and universal of art forms brings together some 230 objects drawn almost exclusively from The Met collection. A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts, necklaces and rings will be shown along with sculptures, paintings, prints, and photographs that will enrich and amplify the many stories of transformation that jewelry tells.
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI: Sculpture
July 22, 2018 – February 24, 2019, at MoMA, NY
Poet Ezra Pound spoke of artist Constantin Brancusi's work as providing "the master keys to the world of form." Over a career that spanned half a century, Brancusi's innovations transformed sculpture as it had been known, and influenced generations of artists to come. After moving to Paris in 1904 from his native Romania, Brancusi affected the appearance of a Romanian peasant—a long beard, work shirt, and sandals—while embedding himself in avant-garde art circles. He soon began pushing modernist sculpture to the threshold of abstraction, developing a new, simplified vocabulary of graceful crescents, gleaming ovoids, and rough-hewn blocks that often evoked rather than resembled the things named in their titles, such as Bird in Space or Fish. He put the natural properties of his materials on display, carving directly into wood and stone and polishing metal to high reflectivity. The bases for his sculptures were often built of stacked elements—wood cubes, cylindrical slices, pyramidal blocks, or cruciform stones—becoming an integral component of the work itself and hinting at the possibility of infinite rearrangement, an idea that would prove fertile in future decades.
VIDEOGAMES: Design/ Play/ Disrupt
September 8, 2018 – February 24, 2019, at
The Victoria and Albert Museum
The show will open in the Fall of 2018 and will examine the most diverse and eclectic manifestations of gaming, including indie productions, eSports, and politics. The stated goal is to fully and deeply explore the social, cultural, and artistic impact of games. It is a relief to hear that the exhibition won't follow a chronological order, opting instead for a thematic display of artworks. Artifacts will cover a twenty year period (2000-2018).
Organized into three sections - hence the subtitle, Design, Play and Disrupt - the exhibition will cover aspects related to the production of innovative original narratives like The Last of Us and Journey, the ascent of bedroom and indie coding, the new DIY arcade scene (represented, for instance by Robin Baumgarten's Arcade Backpack), and the typologies of game spaces.
It will also juxtapose traditional/modern art with modern interpretations, for instance Rene Magritte's 1965 painting La Blanc Seing will be shown beside a section of the 2013 Cardboard Computer's game Kentucky Route Zero, which it inspired. There will be also interactive installations of spectacle and performance.
CELEBRATING TINTORETTO: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
October 16, 2018 – January 27, 2019, at The Met
Jacopo Tintoretto was one of the preeminent Venetian painters of the sixteenth century, renowned for his monumental narrative scenes and his insightful portraits of patricians and citizens. In celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth, this exhibition explores an innovative and little-studied aspect of Tintoretto's portraiture: small-scale, informal portrait heads characterized by immediacy, intense observation, and startling modernity. These works capture both the appearance and the spirit of the sitter, and are painted with the artist's famous prestezza, or quickness.
The exhibition brings together for the first time approximately ten portrait studies from European and American museums and private collections, drawing them into a larger discussion of the artist's portraiture and approach to painting. The exhibition also highlights significant facets of artistic practice in the Tintoretto workshop, in particular the dynamic relationship between Jacopo and his son Domenico, through a series of figural drawings and a painting in The Met collection, The Finding of Moses.
October 5, 2018 – January 27, 2019, at The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Travel back in time to early 20th-century Berlin at an exhibition at Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique that portrays the horrors of the first world war, the excitement of the Golden 20s and the crises thereafter. There is particular emphasis on how society was changing and the various (short-lived) utopian movements, through paintings, sculptures, photography and film by Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, Kazimir Malevich and others.
The exhibition "The New Berlin" focuses on politicized art and the urban challenges of the modern but war-scarred metropolis between 1912 and 1932. Through paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and films by artists such as Otto Dix, Raul Hausmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, … the key movements and creative minds of this gripping period come alive again.
Berlin, a cosmopolitan, mythical artistic hotspot, and the capital of the first German democracy, was synonymous with artistic pluralism during the interwar. In Berlin, at a crossroads between East and West, art was closely linked to an everyday reality that was marked by crisis, social change, and decadence, but also by a short period of welfare known as the "Golden '20s". It was a city where artists often painted a gloomy reality, despite the hope of a revival and a desire for peace after the First World War. A war that some had anticipated and others experienced at the front.
Based on the specific example of Berlin as the cultural metropolis of the '20s and on the various links between the Belgian and German art scene, this exhibition pays special attention to the society's changes and utopias: the New Man, the New Woman, the New Objectivity, the New Building, the New Vision…
October 2, 2018 – January 13, 2019, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
2019 sees the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c 1525/30 – 1569). To mark the occasion the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is dedicating the world's first ever major monograph exhibition to the artist widely regarded as the 16th century's greatest Netherlandish painter.
Just over forty paintings by Bruegel's own hand have been preserved to this day. The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna owns by far the largest collection, with twelve panels. This is due not least to the fact that, already in the 16th century, Habsburg collectors had recognised the exceptional quality and originality of Bruegel's imagery and endeavoured to acquire his prestigious works. Bruegel's popularity is also down to the stunning compositions themselves, which are often moralising and always teeming with characters, inviting the viewer to reflect on the multi-layered complexity of the image contents.
In museums and private collections, Bruegel's works are rightly held to be among the most precious, but also the most fragile inventories. To date, the vast majority of the wooden panels have never been loaned for exhibition purposes. So once the collection at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is complemented by many paintings on loan from international museums and private collections, the overview of Bruegel's entire oeuvre is set to be nothing short of sensational.
REMBRANDT: Britain's Discovery of the Master
July 7, 2018 – October 14, 2018, at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
This exclusive new exhibition, which will only be shown in Edinburgh, reveals how the taste for Rembrandt's work in Britain evolved over the past 400 years. From early beginnings around 1630, it grew into a mania that gripped collectors and art lovers across the country, reaching a fever pitch in the late-eighteenth century. The exhibition also reveals the profound impact of Rembrandt's art on the British imagination, by exploring the wide range of native artists whose work has been inspired by the Dutch master, over four centuries, right up to the present day.
The exhibition brings together key works by Rembrandt which remain in British collections, including Belshazzar's Feast (c.1635) from the National Gallery London, and Girl at a Window (1645) from Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as star paintings now overseas, such as The Mill (1645/8) from the National Gallery in Washington, which left Britain when it was sold to a US collector for the staggering sum of £100,000 in 1911.
Rembrandt is renowned for the penetrating realism of his self-portraits and there will be some particularly fine examples in this show, including the extraordinary Self-Portrait, aged 51 (on long-term loan to the Scottish National Gallery) and Portrait of the Artist as Young Man (c.1629-31) from the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, which was the first painting by the artist to leave Holland and the first to enter a British collection, when it was presented to Charles I in the early 1630s.
It was Rembrandt's portraits and landscapes that most attracted British collectors, and which had a particularly powerful impact on British artists. The exhibition will include his only portraits of 'British' sitters, Rev Johannes Elison and his wife Maria Bockenolle (both 1634), on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and key landscapes including The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1647) from the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Although they were painted in Amsterdam, the Boston portraits depict a Dutch couple who lived in Norwich, and the paintings were in Britain by 1677. They are one of only three pairs of full-length portraits painted by Rembrandt, and have not been seen in the UK since 1929.
May 10, 2018 – September 16, 2018, at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
When we think of the wanderer as a painterly motif, the famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich of circa 1817 comes to mind. This exceptional loan from the Hamburger Kunsthalle forms the starting point for a special exhibition held at the Alte Nationalgalerie, which follows this surprisingly central theme in art throughout the nineteenth century and all the way to Hodler and Gauguin.
With Rousseau's call to get "back to nature!" and Goethe's Sturm und Drang poetry, wandering around 1800 became the expression of a modern awareness of life. As part of a reaction against the rapid social changes that began in the French Revolution, a new form of decelerated self- and world knowledge developed, whose presence can still be felt today.
Since the Romantic period, artists have discovered nature for themselves, exploring it on foot and looking at it from new angles. Wandering, in art, came to stand for life's journey, for symbolic pilgrimage. For the traveller, the self-determined journey on foot brought with it a new, intensified encounter with nature and a form of world-appropriation that was both sensual and physical.
The works shown in the exhibition, including masterworks by Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Blechen, Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Johan Christian Dahl, by Gustave Courbet, Ferdinand Hodler and Paul Gauguin, show just how powerful and fruitful the motif of the wanderer was in art throughout the nineteenth century, not only in Germany but in many places, from France to Norway and from Russia to the USA.
AFTERMATH: Art in the Wake of World War One
June 5, 2018 – September 16, 2018, at the Tate, London
Tate Britain marks the centenary of the end of the First World War with a major exploration of how artists responded to the impact of the conflict. The horrors of war became a catalyst for a great amount of social change, but it was also a time of creativity and artistic reflection. Works by big names like Picasso will be shown alongside lesser known artists such as Winifred Knights, C.R.W. Nevison and Otto Dix.
ANDY WARHOL: After Munch
May 26, 2018 – August 26, 2018, at Munch Museum, Oslo
Edvard Munch was one of Andy Warhol's favourite artists, and he visited the Munch Museum in 1983. The gallery is returning the favour this year with Andy Warhol – After Munch, an exhibition of his take on famous Munch works, including drawings, silkscreen prints and paintings. They include his versions of The Scream, and Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm and Madonna, plus a screening of his 1963 film Kiss.
J. Paul Getty's first museum was on the shores of the Pacific Palisades in the 1970's, at his home, which he acquired in the f1950's, now called The Getty Villa. I first visited it in the seventies, driving up the steep driveway in my VW bug, and walking through the Italianate structure with a mishmash of stuff. Upon his death, the Trust took on a new venture, the purchase of swath of over one hundred acres above the Santa Monica Hills. Getty hired the then reigning architect, Richard Meier, to deign the modernist structure. After an alleged one billion dollar expenditure, it opened to the public in 1997. Rumor has it that the endowment, estimated at $3.2 billion, is larger than all the other museums in the world combined. Hence the power to Acquire Everything! My interest is in the photographic collection.
This publisher's recent visit to the Center brought nostalgia to mind. Upon my first viewings in the 1990's, I complained that the buildings interfered with the collection, and it's ostentatious design distracted from the appreciation of the extensive collection. Separate buildings stood like soldiers to be saluted. I have admire Meier's work at a distance, from the High Art Museum in Atlanta to his homes. But on this visit, I feel it is wearing very well; the travertine structure is warm and inviting, and aging with a lovely patina after twenty years. The public space with the columns and luscious gardens invite the public (free admission) to enjoy the complex and the surrounding spectacular view. Hear-hear to money well spent!
A recent Flaneur sighting in San Francisco! This fetching show featured 40 Impressionist paintings and pastels, including key works by Degas—many never before exhibited in the United States—as well as those by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and 40 exquisite examples of period hats.
Best known for his depictions of Parisian dancers and laundresses, Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) was enthralled with another aspect of life in the French capital—high-fashion hats and the women who created them. The artist, invariably well-dressed and behatted himself, "dared to go into ecstasies in front of the milliners' shops," Paul Gauguin wrote of his lifelong friend.
We have celebrated The Boulevardiers raison de'tre for five years now, founded on the French pre-occupation of strolling and window gazing in Paris, and London, and Rome. This Publisher was struck by a newly found term, "Faire du Lèche-Vitrines," which is crudely translated as "window licking." Now knowing the decorum of the French, I am convinced that they would not apply this term to their promenading in the trendy section, the Marais, of Paris, which is the center of all that is cool, hip and expensive. The original center of Paris, built in the 13th century by the Knights Templar, much has remained, avoiding destruction by City decree in 1964. The Boulevardiers strolled through this section last summer on the way to L'Orangrie and gazed covetously at the many shops, bakeries and patisseries... and could very well appreciate this phrase.
Guest Musing from The Boulevardiers "Muse" Sally Steele:
Never let it be said that the Boulevardiers don't celebrate all who wander in search of inspiration, or in daily observation. A recently published book, The Flâneuse, is a lively tome focusing on the French flâneuse, the feminine of flâneur: defined as a woman who is or who behaves like a flaneur; who is defined as an idle man-about-town.
Author Lauren Elkin: "The portraits I paint here attest that the flâneuse is not merely a female flâneur, but a figure to be reckoned with, and inspired by, all on her own…She is a determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk."
For some time, I have been lamenting whilst walking my town, enviously observing the abundance of hipster bistros and coffee bars populated all day and into the evening by those lucky enough to grab the time to simply sit and watch the world go by. But how oh so boring that would be!
Recently perusing the tales of Diego, the sire of Galapagos tortoises, I smiled having "met" Diego in the Galapagos several years ago. And when reading about the rich arts scene in Milan, funded mostly via the largesse of the fashion houses, my head was full of images of days spent wandering there, not so long ago. As I poured over my travel photos I saw Los Angeles, Lima, and Santiago; New York, Maui and Athens; Venice, Istanbul, and Marseilles; Cannes, Sydney, and Tokyo, and so many more. I walked for miles in for London, from my favorite museum, The V&A, to Harrod's, to the trendy parts of town with all the big name galleries. Ditto for New York. And Rome, major renovations to ancient and Renaissance sites currently underway, again due to the largesse of the world's fashion leaders. And oh, Paris, strolling in the Tuileries in the drizzle after a glorious morning spent at l'Orangerie. Then there were some standout strolls on La Croisette amidst the excitement of the awards season. I live a fanciful life!
I'm lucky enough to be partner to the ultimate flâneur, who has so graciously guided me into becoming a full-fledged flâneuse.
Here's to women everywhere, and to living a life that takes the good walk, and turns it into the truly great walk.
More reflective of how important this closing was than the claim that, 'the owners let it go,' were the results of the auction this week of items from the restaurant. The items went off the hook pricewise. The sign alone, estimated at $5-7,000 sold for $96,000! The ashtrays went for $10,000! (A fifteen-hour marathon auction!) This enthusiasm for artifacts, not only harkens back to the MAD MEN ERA, but also revered to very recently, indicates the longing for a place where the elite and the common folk, albeit New Yorker's of means, can mingle and gawk at one another in a gorgeous setting. I had my last martini there, last fall.
This Publisher had the fortunate experience to eat there a few times, both with Time Inc. Editors, and with my parents. My Dad exclaimed…"$6.00 for carrots!" once in the POOL ROOM. I did not give it a second thought. I always coveted the chain ball curtains that lined the Grill Room windows to the outside. I intended for years to install them in my home, and even tried to source them at one point unsuccessfully. But the spirit of the restaurant was unique. There was the mention in the Metropolitan Section of the New York Times, of a conversation overheard by the Maître D' on the phone when asked to forward a message to a patron at the bar who was Indian. He inquired, Dot or Feather?
Everything about the place bespoke of power and success. The NY times recently published the seating chart of the patrons. A veritable who's who of the publishing and financial world of the US. It did shift occasionally over the years since its opening in 1959, from various power brokers and intuitions. A number of the items were reserved for the Metropolitan Museum's collection. This included the mid-night blue sofas designed by Philip Johnson. Martha Stewart was in attendance. She blurted out that she wished the nickel wine coasters, designed by the infamous architectural critic, Louie Huxtable, to be used at her 'next' wedding. A notable Saarinen Tulip table went for $36,000!
There has always been this murky history to the restaurant's design. The renowned Mies van der Rohe designed the Seagram's Building for the liquor magnate family, Bronfman. At that time, Philip Johnson was his assistant. Johnson claimed later to be a partner in design which has been disputed, but he was definitely involved in the design of the Four Seasons, which came a few years later.
Mr. Niccolini, the restaurant owner, who used salty language to refer to the building owner, ended the auction carrying a platter of pink cotton candy, a signature desert for the eatery, across the Pool Room upon which various patrons pulled off sections. A patron who flew up from Charleston to pick up 'whatever' she could proclaimed, "A place like this won't happen again!"
Source: The New York Times
Italian Fascism finally dies…with the recent death of supporter Licio Gelli. I must say I have a weakness for Fascist architecture. Visiting the Valle de los Caídos ("Valley of the Fallen"), a Catholic basilica and a monumental memorial to the dictator Francisco Franco of Spain shot chills of fear and admiration through my veins. Talk about "reductivism" at its purist, even the most libertarian minded person gasps at this monument. The scoundrel was convicted numerous times for bank fraud and embezzlement but never did hard time, due to his "health" but managed lived till 96 years of age. He personified the glorious phrase only Italians could invent, "dietrologia" which means that the widely held suspicion that behind official government narrative lurks a more sinister explanation.
His political and financial shenanigans set the bar for the unbridled greed that we see on Wall Street today.
The raking light of fall brings out the Flaneur in me, the season of Flanerie. Elaine Sciolino reminds us of the first establishment of this pastime in literature, "Tableau de Paris," a twelve volume set of observations the gestalt the of 'street' in Paris. Half a century later, this sites' figurehead, Charles Baudelaire, demarked the 'wander-spectator' activity as flaneur. "The crowd is his habitat, as is air for the bird or water for the fish" he quoted.
This activity is so important to the French, that Hermes created a pop-up museum on the left bank to honor its significance. The artistic director of the project, Pierre-Alexis Dumas also created an illustrated book on the subject. It's a small single room structure with four window displays, including from the collection of a past president, Emile Hermes.
To observe yes, to interact no. The sounds, the smells and the visual jewels glistening in the shop windows- draws us to the streets of Paris, or London or our favorite ville, Roma. And of course, the most animated of them all – the people who stroll and sit and observe in the cafes, not the harried New Yorkers who are irritated by strollers in their path. Years ago, I proposed a story for Life Magazine, on the important promenades of the world, but to no avail. Sadly, it is not an American occupation.
Whether I imagined it as a child or I actually saw the magazine HOLIDAY, I knew it was a gem of graphic design and photography. I knew Slims Aarons was a rock star, even when I was a young photographer. Though I was more interested in 'real' journalism, I admired the veneer he lay over celebrities and glamour, locales-who did not want to be there? A few art directors changed the face of magazines - the "golden age of magazines": Alex Brodovitch, Frank Zachary and Roger Black. They produced a short-lived magazine, Portfolio in 1949, regarded as the "definitive graphic magazine" by The New York Times. Zachary died at age 101 yesterday in East Hampton, NY.
Brodovitch changed the thinking on typography, especially for Harper's Bazaar, that I subscribed to for years just to see his work (overlaying type); Zachary changed the importance of photography in magazines. The weeklies were in full bloom in the 1960's & 70's, Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Town and Country and Esquire were employing photographers and giving them extravagant exposure. Zachary assigned the greats: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and Arnold Newman.
Born to a Croatian immigrant parents (1914), named Frank Zaharija, his father a steel worker in Pittsburgh, Zachary never attended college, he climbed his way up through hard work. He art directed at Holiday (1951-1964) including being managing editor, Town and Country, Modern Photography to which I subscribed as a child, Travel and Leisure.
I think his brilliance is best described by a friend, Owen Edwards, "Like any good anthropologist, he studied this particular tribe, figured out what most interested them and their habits, and found writers [including Faulkner] and photographers who could show their world in the most entertaining way."
Publisher's Musings: Dateline Saigon ~ January 26, 2015
As publisher, I have vowed not to include politics. But after visiting the War Remnants Museum here, which brought tears to my eyes, I think my renewal of the power of photography urged me to reflect on this exhibition, which covers the second floor, of heart wrenching imagery. In an era that has eroded the value of images with self-indulging selfies, seeing photos by some of my heroes, Larry Burrows, Robert Capa and Phillip Jones Griffith (whom I met) rocked me to the core. Burrows and Capa died here. Visitors seemed unable to focus on them.
Life Magazine is well represented here with large reproductions. As an Air Force cadet, I was frightened by what I saw. The images contributed to my request for a Conscientious Objector status. It was considered the first 'live' coverage of a war. I remember clearly one issue with tiny pictures of the 58,000 men who died. Both the imagery of the devastation of incursions wreaked on the Vietnamese and the impact the war had on the shooters, it was the darkest period of U.S. history. In the name of stopping Communism, our inexcusable use of Agent Orange is illustrated in the museum in unfathomable images. It is the power of this photography that is widely considered to be what initiated President Johnson's withdrawal from the war. Despite the pain, it was life-affirming to see the power of photography!
This is Picasso's umpteenth fifteen minutes of fame:
His renovated mansion in Paris, Musée Picasso Paris, has just re-opened after an exorbitant five year renovation, ribbon cut by François Hollande himself, but under the dark shadow of the Cultural minister, Korean-born Fleur Pellerin, who declared she has not 'read' a book in years and could not name a book of the recently awarded Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Patrick Modiano, France's fifteenth in the category.
Back on home turf, there are two private gallery showings of his work that rival any museum exhibitions, in fact many of the pieces were loaned from museums. They almost seem to challenge one another, since they are both top tier galleries, The Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea and Pace Gallery, both in New York. The Gagosian is a photograph-based exhibition, titled "Picasso & the camera" curated by an old friend of his, John Richardson, designed by a Las Vegas show designer David Korens. There are many images of his various mistresses, s well as films. Despite his reputation as a misogynist, the museum's president, Anne Baldassari, denies this but claims he only had difficulty maintaining relationships. I saw the MoMa exhibition in the 1990's of his with a room dedicated to his various wives and mistresses and the progressive horrification of their faces as he lost interest in them. Quite revealing. The Pace exhibition focuses in a different direction. On his enduring relationship with his last wife Jacqueline Roque, until his death, with tender imagery and a loving hand.
As an artist, I cannot help but to admire his vitality and fecundity. I read a memoir of life in the South of France, especially the summer jaunts to the country with the likes of Francoise Gilot. To top off the adoration, the exhibition at the Met of Lauder's Cubist collection (Interesting Openings below) features many of his paintings from that period.
On every trip to NY, I visit one of my favorite urban spaces, The Grand Central Oyster Bar. Between my passion for oysters and my adoration for Guastavino's tile craft, this is my ideal spot. We traveled to 103rd Street this last trip to enjoy a beautifully illustrated and informative exhibition at The Museum of New York, of his sumptuous tilework throughout New York employed by McKim, Mead and White, and NY City (including the recently uncovered bottom to the Queensborough Bridge, now a Farmer's Market).
Guastavino tile is the "Tile Arch System" patented in the United States in 1885 by Valencian (Spanish) architect and builder Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908). Guastavino vaulting is a technique for constructing robust, self-supporting arches and architectural vaults using interlocking terracotta tiles and layers of mortar to form a thin skin, with the tiles following the curve of the roof as opposed to horizontally (corbelling), or perpendicular to the curve (as in Roman vaulting). This is known as timbrel vaulting, because of supposed likeness to the skin of a timbrel or tambourine. It is also called "Catalan vaulting" and "compression-only thin-tile vaulting".
Guastavino tile is found in some of New York's most prominent Beaux-Arts landmarks and in major buildings across the United States.
The 166-million-year-old extinct squid relative Belemnoteuthis antiquus had a large, internal shell that likely made it slower than its modern-day, shell-less relations.
Credit: Courtesy of Jonathan Jackson and Zoë Hughes/NHMUK
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences:
The ancestors of octopuses and squid once sported hard shells, but when did they lose their "mobile homes" and become agile, soft-bodied swimmers? A new study finds that this change may have occurred during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Squishy creatures like squid and octopuses rarely leave behind well-preserved fossils. That has left scientists perplexed over when in the creatures' evolutionary history these cephalopods lost their shells. Researchers have now used a mix of fossil and genetic models to solve the puzzle.
The reason? The loss of shells made the ancient relatives of the modern-day octopus, squid and cuttlefish nimbler, a feature that likely helped these animals catch prey and evade predators, Vinther said.
The heavy shells led to the demise of many cephalopod ancestors, because they couldn't "keep up with the 'new [shell-less] kids on the block,'" Vinther told Live Science.
The researchers made the discovery using a molecular clock technique, which helped them determine when different cephalopod branches sprouted on the family tree.


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>Where can I find ebony flooring in Toronto?
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>What is the difference between a varnished, laminated and pre finished floor?
>If a pre-sanded v-groove hardwood floor is laid, buffed and varnished 3 times, how much of a 'groove' will you see/feel?
>How do I prepare my sub floor?
>Tongue and groove flooring over concrete?
>Should we remove some of the multiple layers of subfloor before installing?
>Should a water vapor barrier be put down if the hardwood flooring is to be installed over osb over a full unfinished basement? How should the flooring be laid? Parallel or perpendicular to the floor joists?
>I'm planning to install 3/4" Hardwood in our rooms, but there are some uneven spots. Is there any kind of leveling compound we can use?
>Do I have to remove the old flooring in the kitchen for the transition to the rest of the house without having to put a subfloor under the rest of the house to bring it up to level with the kitchen floor or can I use some sort of transition strip?
>I understand that we have to install solid hardwood over 3/4" plywood. I'd like to install the plywood now and paint it. Can I later put hardwood down over the painted plywood?
> I installed 3/4 OSB directly over a concrete slab, above grade, with a vapor barrier Rosen paper and Nailed down 3/4 Maple. What problems can I look forward to?
>Is it possible to put something overtop the particle board before putting down carpeting or hardwood to help with sound proofing?
>Is it good to put a new oak floor over an old one, or is it better to tear up the old one and put new plywood boards and then the new oak floor?
>Can we lay the plywood over the parquet? (And a bit about bamboo!)
>Should I install laminate over hardwood?
>How can I level out the subfloor with the cement lips for installation?
>How do I correct the uneven, downhill slant in my floor before installing?
Ripping out Old Floors & Salvaging
>How do I remove an old floor?
>I want to salvage some oak flooring from a house that is being torn down.What is the best approach to avoid spliting and cracking of the flooring?
>How do I safely salvage a gymnasium floor?
>How do I tear up these floors without damaging them further?
>Should I remove the glue on the parquet I tore out before I install it somewhere else?
>How do we remove the plywood sheeting and tiles that are on top of our hardwood?
>My foyer has 1/4 inch plywood glued down over the old hardwood. How do I remove it?
>I'm in the process of removing laminate floor titles that had been glued on oak hardwood floors in the dining room. eventually, I'll be getting the floors in the whole house sanded and refinished, but until then, is there aneasy way to get the sticky glue residue off without harming the wood? Or canI at least put something down that won't be a problem come sanding time butwill keep me from sticking every time I walk on it?
>How do we get the old lanolium off the floor to get to the wood?
>How can we remove carpeting which was glued to wooden steps about 30 years ago?
>Installing damaged salvaged maple flooring?
>How do I remove tile to install a hardwood floor?
>How and how long do I dry this salvaged maple?
Radiant Heat and Sound Proofing
>Can I install hardwood over radiant heat?
>We have some concern about noise/sound insulation. what is the best product to use? How should it be installed?
>I would like to have my floors redone so there will no more uneven floor and sound proof a little in the process. What do you suggest here?


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The Narration of Kab al-Ahbaar
This narration is from Ka`b al-Ahbaar, who was known as Abu Ishaq. Ka`b was of the learned scholars of the Jews and during the blessed lifetime of the Holy Prophet (s he lived in the land of Yemen. He did not accede to the honor of true faith during the Prophet's (s) lifetime, but only thereafter, during the Khalifa of Abu-Bakr as-Siddiq, or, according to other accounts, during the time of `Umar (r). He is referred to in some of the hadith related by the honorable companions of the Holy Prophet (s). One of these companions, Sahif bin `Umar al-Ansari (r), claims to have heard from his father Amr:
During the Holy Prophet's (s) lifetime I became acquainted with Ka`b and I used to meet him in a number of assemblies. It was his intention to come and attend the association of the Holy Prophet (s), and without yet having met him, he confirmed that he was indeed the Seal of the Prophets; he frequently described his characteristics to us. One day he told us that this was going to be the Holy Prophet's (s) last year, and that he very much wished he could make ready and go to meet him on time. He hastened his preparations and set out on the journey. There came one night, however, when he was seen to dart in and out (of the tent) at frequent intervals during the night, gazing intently at the night sky and weeping copiously.
As it dawned, I addressed him and said: "Oh, Abu Ishaq, what has befallen you? How is it that you have spent the night gazing at the sky and weeping? What hidden wisdom is there in your action?" He turned to me and answered:
During this night the Holy Prophet (s) at Madinah al-Munawwara was transported from this world to the next. I looked at the skies and saw that the gates of Heaven were opened wide to receive him, and I saw all the angels stand in attendance and celebrate his coming with songs of praise and honor. And on the whole earth there is no better place than that place where his blessed remains are to be buried; it is the choicest of all spots in this world. Thus he spoke and swore by Allah.
I was completely dumbfounded by this explanation and therefore took exact note of the very date and hour when he uttered these words. So when we actually arrived in Madinah, we heard that it was indeed on that very night that the Holy Prophet (s) had departed from this passing abode to that of permanence. But at that time, I did not meet Abu Bakr as-Siddiq; only later, after his death, during the Khalifa of `Umar, when I went to see the Khalifa at Madinah, I heard that he was there. I met him and gave him Salams. He looked at me and recognized me, and he honored me by admitting me into his close company.
I then told him and all those assembled of what I had observed of Ka`bu 'l-Ahbaar. Everyone present marveled at this, saying he must be a sorcerer, a wizard. But Ka`b who was there with me spoke up and said: "God forbid, I am neither sorcerer nor wizard, Allahu Akbar!" and he took from beneath his seat a small box which resembled a white pearl, fastened by a golden lock which was sealed with a golden seal. He broke the seal and opened the box that revealed a piece of green silk folded up in many folds. "Do you know what this is?" he asked the assembly. "I dont know," I answered him. He said, "In this is wrapped (a volume) of the divinely revealed books of the Torah and the Injil (Old and New Testaments) in which the signs and characteristics of the Holy Prophet are set down by the revelation of the Almighty." Thereupon we all cried out: "Oh Abu Ishaq! May Allah Almighty have mercy on you! Do tell us of the very beginning of creation, when the Prophet was created!" We entreated him and he began to speak:
وعن كعب الآخبار قال لما أراد الله تعالى أن يخلق محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم أمر جبريل أن يأتيه بالطينة التى هى قلب الأرض وبهاؤها ونورها قال فهبط جبريل فى ملائكة الفردوس وملائكة الرقيع الأعلى فقبض قبضة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من موضع قبره الشريف وهى بيضاء منيرة فعجنت بماء التسنيم فى معين أنهار الجنة حتى صارت كالدرة البيضاء لها شعاع عظيم ثم طافت بها الملائكة حول العرش والكرسى وفى السموات والأرض والجبال والبحار فعرفت الملائكة وجميع الخلق سيدنا محمدا وفضله قبل أن تعرف آدم عليهما السلام،
Verily, when Allah Almighty intended to create the most noble of all the sons of Adam (as), He spoke to Jibra'il (as), the trustworthy angel, ordering him to bring a sufficient quantity of clay from the purest and most exalted place, the "heart of the earth". Jibra'il (as), being the highest in command of the sublime heavenly assembly, descended down to earth, and took a handful of clay from the site of what is now the Holy Prophet's (s) fragrant resting place, as there can be no better place on earth than this site, and the clay was white and shining.
He then took this bit of clay and mixed it with the waters of the river Tasneem which flows in Paradise. He formed something akin to a white pearl. Subsequently, the pearl was dipped into all the various rivers and streams of Paradise and endowed with their outstanding properties and it shone with a brilliant light. The angels then circumambulated that lighted substance around the Throne, al-`Arsh and the Footstool, al-Kursee, and in the all seven layers of the heavens and the earth, the mountains and the oceans, amid showers of praise and glorification it was made known to all dwellers of Heaven and earth that this substance had found acceptance and high honor in the Divine Presence, and they knew it was our master Muhammad (s) and he was honored before Adam (as) was even known.


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Vinehout, of Alma, said Thursday she is going to spend the next six weeks traveling the state and speaking with people about the possibility of her getting into the race. Vinehout says she still plans on making a decision by early next year.
Former Trek Bicycle Corp. executive Mary Burke announced her campaign earlier this month. Burke is a millionaire who has already garnered the backing of former Sen. Russ Feingold's group Progressives United and the national group EMILY's List. That group spent nearly $5 million last year to help elect Tammy Baldwin as senator.
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Contact: Castro Valley Library (510) 667-7900
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