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Automating Tasks with Aap
Many people use a Makefile and shell scripts to automate tasks where a change to a file requires an action to be taken. You edit a file and then invoke make in the hope that all actions necessary to effect the changes are done. Often you need to tweak the Makefile to get it right and end up using touch to work around a missing dependency. As a result, when other people look at your carefully tuned Makefile, they have a hard time understanding how it works.
These tasks can be done more easily and reliably with Aap than with make. For example, Aap has built-in Internet support. Downloading and uploading is taken care of without the need to specify the commands or to keep timestamp files. Reliability is achieved by figuring out dependencies automatically and using signatures instead of timestamps. With Aap it is simpler to specify the work you want done, and you make fewer mistakes. You still can fall back on using shell commands where you want them. This article presents two examples of Aap in action, maintaining a Web site and building a program. Aap can do much more, of course, but these subjects should be sufficient to get you started.
To use Aap you need Python version 1.5 or later. In the unlikely event that you do not have Python on your system, download it from Python.org, or install it from your Linux distribution CD or update system.
Installing Aap can be done in four simple steps. Start by downloading the latest Aap zip archive (see the on-line Resources section). Then, unpack the archive in a temporary directory (unzip aap-1.053.zip). If you are root, run ./aap install. If you are a normal user, install the archive in your home directory with ./aap install PREFIX=$HOME. For more information about downloading and installing Aap, see Resources. Aap is distributed as open-source software under the GNU GPL.
With the current Aap software in place, let's look at using it in a basic example task. You have designed a simple Web site with HTML files and images. The files are on your local computer, and you need to upload them to the Web server. Listing 1 shows the Aap script, called a recipe, that does this.
Listing 1. Recipe for Uploading Files to a Web Server
# The list of files to be uploaded. Files = index.html info.html download.html images/*.png # The publish attribute tells where to upload to. :attr {publish = scp://my.server.net/html/%file%} $Files # When executed without a target: publish the files. all : publish
Store the recipe under the name main.aap. This file is what Makefile is to make—the default file to be executed. Running aap without arguments executes the main.aap recipe in the current directory.
Comments in an Aap recipe start with # and continue until the end of the line, as in a Makefile or shell script. The first effective line in the recipe is an assignment; the list of files to be uploaded is assigned to the Files variable. There are no back slashes nor punctuation to mark the end of the assignment. Aap recognizes command continuation by the amount of indentation used. This may appear strange at first, but you quickly get used to it. This method avoids the usual mistakes with punctuation and enforces a layout that is easy to read. Aap allows you to use either tabs or spaces to indent lines.
The :attr line is an Aap command. All Aap commands start with a colon to make them easy to recognize. This command adds the publish attribute to its arguments. The publish attribute tells Aap where to upload the files when they are published. The method used here is scp://, secure copy. Other supported methods are rsync:// and ftp://. The last argument of :attr is $Files, the value of the Files variable. The attribute is attached to each item in $Files.
When you run Aap without an argument, it updates the target all. The final line specifies that the default target all depends on publish. This is a special target, which tells Aap to upload all items that have a publish attribute.
You now can edit the HTML files, add pictures and view them locally. Once you are satisfied, execute aap. Aap figures out which files have changed and uploads them. Signatures (checksums) are used; thus, if you restore an old version of a file it still works properly. If you were using make, you would have to touch the restored file to update its timestamp.
If you want to try this example, but you don't have a server to upload to, you can use the publish attribute file:/tmp/html/%file%. With it, Aap creates the /tmp/html directory, if necessary.
A word of warning: Aap does not delete files on the server no longer in use. Then again, neither does make. You have to delete these files manually. Hopefully, automatic deletion will be added to Aap soon.
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For the third-game in-a-row, Bullard won via a shutout over a District 16-3A rival.
On Friday night the Panthers fileted the Bulldogs of Chapel Hill, 10-0, to run their record to 18-5, 8-1 in 16-3A.
Panther ace, Zach Eschberger was on his game on the mound once again, tossing a three-hitter.
Bullard jumped on starting pitcher Pat Day with three-runs in the first inning, and chased him with another run in the third stanza, trailing Bullard 4-0.
Eschberger meanwhile sat down nine of the fifteen Bulldog batters in the game and the Panther bats cranked out nine hits in the game.
The Bullard bats got two hits apiece from the Bryant brothers, Holden and Haden, and teammates Trevor Rumbelow and Weston Gray. Gray also added three steals among eight bases stolen by the Panthers.
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Zach Eschberger and Trevor Rumbelow. Pat Day, Melton (3),Wilson (4) and Morgan Skidmore. W – Eschberger. L – Day. SB – B: Holden Bryant, JP Hendrix, Haden Bryant, Jacob Shelton, Jesse Duplechin, Weston Gray 3. SAC – B: Jacob Proventer. LOB – B: 9. CH: 5.
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Chip Ward's first book, Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West, was decidedly grim, detailing his fight to keep the deserts of Utah from becoming a dump for toxins ranging from radioactive waste to defunct biochemical weapons. His new book, Hope's Horizon, gives us a brighter view of recent environmental battles, taking an optimistic yet clear-eyed look at efforts to heal tattered ecosystems and abandon dangerous technologies.
Organizing his stories around the key themes of
reconnection, restoration and abolition, Ward describes dozens of
environmental activists working to realize visions both large and
small. Central characters include conservation biologist Michael
Soulé and his Wildlands Project, which seeks to stitch
together chunks of wildlife habitat from Greenland to Mexico and
"rewild" the land (HCN, 4/26/99: Visionaries or Dreamers?), and
Corbin Harney of the Western Shoshone Indian tribe, who is fighting
nuclear waste storage at Nevada's Yucca Mountain (HCN,
7/2/01: Can Nevada bury Yucca Mountain?).
Ward manages to
convey hope while remaining realistic. He portrays anti-dam
activities across the West, focusing on physics professor Rich
Ingebretsen's crusade to drain Lake Powell and restore the
Colorado River (HCN, 12/22/03: Being Green in the Land of the
Saints). Although the flooding of Glen Canyon was a huge loss, it
may yet be undone: Even the Bureau of Reclamation admits that Lake
Powell loses more water to evaporation and its porous sandstone
walls than it saves, and Bureau scientists have thought seriously
about decommissioning the dam. Meanwhile, activists have notched up
victories over dams on Utah's Bear and Diamond Fork rivers,
and dam-busting proposals abound in Washington and Oregon.
In the end, Ward reminds us that all is not yet lost in
the natural world. He sees the stubborn spread of coyotes, despite
our best efforts at eradication, as emblematic of nature's
resilience and our often-futile efforts at control: "As Coyote is
here to say, sometimes Nature is our dog, and sometimes she is
God's dog."
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This week, Patch wants to know: Where is the best place for a fish fry in Macomb County?
That's the question in this week's Food Fight, where we ask you for your opinion on the best places to eat around the area.
You can let us know by leaving a comment below. We have tweaked the Food Fight format, and you now may submit comments until 5 p.m. Sunday.
From there, we will take the top three nominees and post in an article first thing the morning of Monday, March 5. Then it will be time to vote again to decide the Food Fight champion.
Voting will continue until Friday, March 9, at 5 p.m. Then, on Saturday morning, we will announce the winner.
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Face the cold.
I took this photo before I left London for Paris. We had a random cold spell so I just wanted to capture that. Being in East London it was hard to find a place that hadn't been touched and trampled. I really like this shot as the brightness of the car really contrasts against the snow.
Look out the window.
I take photos out of my window most nights, most are terrible. From time to time manage to capture something amazing. It reminds me that we get use to things quickly. That we should always keep looking. Maybe the next time we look we'll see something amazing.
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Life (magazine)
LIFE was an American magazine that ran from 1883 to 1972, published as a humor and general interest magazine. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name when it became a weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. LIFE was published weekly until 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 to 2000. After the monthly LIFE folded, Time Inc. continued to use the LIFE brand for special and commemorative issues. LIFE returned to regularly scheduled issues when it became a weekly newspaper supplement from 2004 to 2007.[1] The website life.com, originally delivered as one of the channels on Time Inc.'s Pathfinder service, was for a time in the late 2000s managed as a joint venture with Getty Images under the name See Your World, LLC,.[2] On January 30, 2012 the LIFE.com URL became a photo channel on Time.com.[clarification needed]
When LIFE was founded in 1883, it was similar to Puck and was published for 53 years as a general-interest light entertainment magazine, heavy on illustrations, jokes and social commentary. It featured some of the greatest writers, editors and cartoonists of its era, including Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell and Harry Oliver. During its later years the magazine offered brief capsule reviews (similar to those in The New Yorker) of plays and movies currently running in New York City, but with the innovative touch of a colored typographic bullet appended to each review resembling a traffic light: green for a positive review, red for a negative one and amber for mixed notices.
The Luce LIFE was the first all-photographic American news magazine and it dominated the market for more than 40 years. The magazine sold more than 13.5 million copies a week at one point and was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages. Luce purchased the rights to the name from the publishers of the first LIFE but sold its subscription list and features to another magazine; there was no editorial continuity between the two publications.
Perhaps one of the best-known pictures printed in the magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of a nurse in a sailor's arms, snapped on August 27, 1945, as they celebrated VJ Day in New York City. The magazine's place in the history of photojournalism is considered its most important contribution to publishing.
LIFE was wildly successful for two generations before its prestige was diminished by economics and changing tastes. Since 1972 LIFE has twice ceased publication and resumed in a different form, before ceasing once again with the issue dated April 20, 2007. The brand name continues on the Internet and in occasional special issues.[1][3]
Humor and general interest magazine[edit]
A cover of the earlier LIFE magazine from 1911
|George Cary Eggleston
|Former editors
|Robert E. Sherwood
|Humor, General interest
|Clair Maxwell
|Total circulation
|First issue
|January 4, 1883
|Final issue
|November 1936
|United States
|Based in
|New York City
LIFE was founded January 4, 1883, in a New York City artist's studio at 1155 Broadway, as a partnership between John Ames Mitchell and Andrew Miller. Mitchell held a 75 per cent interest in the magazine with the remainder by Miller. Both men retained their holdings until their deaths.[4] Miller served as secretary-treasurer of the magazine and was very successful managing the business side of the operation. Mitchell, a 37-year-old illustrator who used a $10,000 inheritance to invest in the weekly magazine, served as its publisher. Mitchell created the first LIFE name-plate with cupids as mascots; he later drew its masthead of a knight leveling his lance at the posterior of a fleeing devil. Mitchell took advantage of a revolutionary new printing process using zinc-coated plates, which improved the reproduction of his illustrations and artwork. This edge helped because LIFE faced stiff competition from the best-selling humor magazines Judge and Puck, which were already established and successful. Edward Sandford Martin was brought on as LIFE's first literary editor; the recent Harvard graduate was a founder of the Harvard Lampoon.
The motto of the first issue of LIFE was: "While there's Life, there's hope."[citation needed] The new magazine set forth its principles and policies to its readers: "We wish to have some fun in this paper... We shall try to domesticate as much as possible of the casual cheerfulness that is drifting about in an unfriendly world... We shall have something to say about religion, about politics, fashion, society, literature, the stage, the stock exchange, and the police station, and we will speak out what is in our mind as fairly, as truthfully, and as decently as we know how."[5]
The magazine was a success and soon attracted the industry's leading contributors. Among the most important was Charles Dana Gibson. Three years after the magazine was founded, the Massachusetts native sold LIFE his first contribution for $4: a dog outside his kennel howling at the moon. Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in LIFE's early days by such well-known illustrators as Palmer Cox (creator of the Brownie), A. B. Frost, Oliver Herford and E. W. Kemble. LIFE attracted an impressive literary roster too: John Kendrick Bangs, James Whitcomb Riley and Brander Matthews all wrote for the magazine around the start of the 20th century.
However, LIFE also had its dark side. Mitchell was sometimes accused of outright anti-Semitism. When the magazine blamed the theatrical team of Klaw & Erlanger for Chicago's grisly Iroquois Theater Fire in 1903, a national uproar ensued. LIFE's drama critic, James Stetson Metcalfe, was barred from the 47 Manhattan theatres controlled by the so-called Theatrical Syndicate. His magazine hit back with terrible cartoons of grotesque Jews with enormous noses.
LIFE became a place that discovered new talent; this was particularly true among illustrators. In 1908 Robert Ripley published his first cartoon in LIFE, 20 years before his Believe It or Not! fame. Norman Rockwell's first cover for Life, "Tain't You", was published May 10, 1917. Rockwell's paintings were featured on Life's cover 28 times between 1917 and 1924. Rea Irvin, the first art director of The New Yorker and creator of Eustace Tilley, got his start drawing covers for Life.
Just as pictures would later become Life's most compelling feature, Charles Dana Gibson dreamed up its most celebrated figure. His creation, the Gibson Girl, was a tall, regal beauty. After her early Life appearances in the 1890s, the Gibson Girl became the nation's feminine ideal. The Gibson Girl was a publishing sensation and earned a place in fashion history.
This version of LIFE took sides in politics and international affairs and published fiery pro-American editorials. Mitchell and Gibson were incensed when Germany attacked Belgium; in 1914 they undertook a campaign to push America into the war. Mitchell's seven years spent at Paris art schools made him partial to the French; there was not a a shred of unbiased coverage of the war. Gibson drew the Kaiser as a bloody madman, insulting Uncle Sam, sneering at crippled soldiers, and even shooting Red Cross nurses. Mitchell lived just long enough to see LIFE's crusade result in the U. S. declaration of war in 1917.
Following Mitchell's death in 1918, Gibson bought the magazine for $1 million, but the world was a different place for Gibson's publication. It was not the Gay Nineties where family-style humor prevailed and the chaste Gibson Girls wore floor-length dresses. World War I had spurred changing tastes among the magazine-reading public. LIFE's brand of fun, clean and cultivated humor began to pale before the new variety: crude, sexy and cynical. LIFE struggled to compete on news-stands with such risqué rivals.
In 1920 Gibson selected former Vanity Fair staffer Robert E. Sherwood to be editor. A World War I veteran and member of the Algonquin Round Table, Sherwood tried to inject sophisticated humor onto the pages. LIFE published Ivy League jokes, cartoons, flapper sayings and all-burlesque issues. Beginning in 1920 LIFE undertook a crusade against Prohibition. It also tapped the humorous writings of Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Franklin Pierce Adams and Corey Ford. Among the illustrators and cartoonists were Ralph Barton, Percy Crosby, Don Herold, Ellison Hoover, H. T. Webster, Art Young and John Held, Jr.
Despite such all-star talents on staff, LIFE had passed its prime and was sliding toward financial ruin. The New Yorker, debuting in February 1925, copied many of the features and styles of LIFE; it even raided its editorial and art departments. Another blow to LIFE's circulation came from raunchy humor periodicals such as Ballyhoo and Hooey, which ran what can be termed outhouse gags. Esquire joined LIFE's competitors in 1933. A little more than three years after purchasing LIFE, Gibson quit and turned the decaying property over to publisher Clair Maxwell and treasurer Henry Richter. Gibson retired to Maine to paint and lost active interest in the magazine, which he left deeply in the red.
LIFE had 250,000 readers in 1920[citation needed], but as the Jazz Age rolled into the Great Depression, the magazine lost money and subscribers. By the time Maxwell and Editor George Eggleston took over, LIFE had switched from publishing weekly to monthly. The two men went to work revamping its editorial style to meet the times, and in the process it did win new readers. LIFE struggled to make a profit in the 1930s when Henry Luce pursued purchasing it.
Announcing the death of LIFE, Maxwell declared: "We cannot claim, like Mr. Gene Tunney, that we resigned our championship undefeated in our prime. But at least we hope to retire gracefully from a world still friendly."[citation needed]
For LIFE's final issue in its original format, 80-year-old Edward Sandford Martin was recalled from editorial retirement to compose its obituary. He wrote: "That Life should be passing into the hands of new owners and directors is of the liveliest interest to the sole survivor of the little group that saw it born in January 1883... As for me, I wish it all good fortune; grace, mercy and peace and usefulness to a distracted world that does not know which way to turn nor what will happen to it next. A wonderful time for a new voice to make a noise that needs to be heard!"[5]
Weekly news magazine[edit]
Cover of the June 19, 1944 issue of LIFE with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The issue contained 10 frames from the Normandy landing by Robert Capa.
|Edward Kramer Thompson
|Weekly (1936–1972)
Monthly (1978–2000)
|Henry Luce
|Total circulation
|First issue
|November 23, 1936
|Final issue
|May 2000
|Time Inc.
|United States
|Based in
|New York City
In 1936 publisher Henry Luce paid $92,000 to the owners of LIFE magazine because he sought the name for Time Inc. Wanting only the old LIFE's name in the sale, Time Inc. sold LIFE's subscription list, features and goodwill to Judge. Convinced that pictures could tell a story instead of just illustrating text, Luce launched LIFE on November 23, 1936. The third magazine published by Luce, after Time in 1923 and Fortune in 1930, LIFE gave birth to the photo magazine in the U.S., giving as much space and importance to pictures as to words. The first issue of LIFE, which sold for ten cents, (worth $2 today) featured five pages of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures.
When the first issue of LIFE magazine appeared on the news-stands, the U.S. was in the midst of the Great Depression and the world was headed toward war. Adolf Hitler was firmly in power in Germany. In Spain, General Francisco Franco's rebel army was at the gates of Madrid; German Luftwaffe pilots and bomber crews, calling themselves the Condor Legion, were honing their skills as Franco's air arm. Italy under Benito Mussolini annexed Ethiopia. Luce ignored tense world affairs when the new LIFE was unveiled: the first issue cover[6] depicted the Fort Peck Dam in Montana photographed by Margaret Bourke-White.
The format of LIFE in 1936 was an instant classic: the text was condensed into captions for 50 pages of pictures. The magazine was printed on heavily-coated paper that cost readers only a dime. The magazine's circulation sky-rocketed beyond the company's predictions, going from 380,000 copies of the first issue to more than one million a week four months later.[7] It spawned many imitators, such as Look, which was founded just a year later in 1937 and folded in 1971.
LIFE got its own building at 19 West 31st Street, a Beaux-Arts architecture jewel built in 1894 and considered of "outstanding significance" by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission. Later it moved editorial offices to 9 Rockefeller Plaza.
Luce selected a stringer for Time, Edward Kramer Thompson, to become assistant picture editor in 1937. From 1949–1961 he was the managing editor and editor-in-chief until his retirement in 1970. His influence was significant during the magazine's heyday, which was roughly from 1936 until the mid-1960s. Thompson was known for the free rein he gave his editors, particularly a "trio of formidable and colorful women: Sally Kirkland, fashion editor; Mary Letherbee, movie editor; and Mary Hamman, modern living editor."[8]
In August 1942, writing about labor and racial unrest in Detroit, LIFE warned that "the morale situation is perhaps the worst in the U. S. ... It is time for the rest of the country to sit up and take notice. For Detroit can either blow up Hitler or it can blow up the U. S."[9] Mayor Edward Jeffries was outraged: "I'll match Detroit's patriotism against any other city's in the country. The whole story in LIFE is scurrilous ... I'd just call it a yellow magazine and let it go at that."[10] The article was considered so dangerous to the war effort that it was censored from copies of the magazine sold outside North America.[11]
When the U. S. entered the war in 1941, so did LIFE. By 1944, not all of the 40 Time and LIFE war correspondents were men, six were newswomen; Mary Welsh Hemingway, Margaret Bourke-White, Lael Tucker, Peggy Durdin, Shelley Smith Mydans and Annalee Jacoby, and Jacqueline Saix, an Englishwoman whose name is usually omitted (she and Welsh are the only women Times's publisher's letter, dated May 8, 1944, listed as being part of the magazine's team) reported on the war for the company.
LIFE was pro-American and backed the war effort each week. In July 1942, LIFE launched its first art contest for soldiers and drew more than 1,500 entries, submitted by all ranks. Judges sorted out the best and awarded $1,000 in prizes. LIFE picked 16 for reproduction in the magazine. Washington's National Gallery agreed to put 117 on exhibition that summer. LIFE, in its patriotism, also supported the military's efforts to document the war with artists. When Congress forbade the Military from using government money to fund artists in the field, LIFE privatized much of the programs hiring some of the same artists who were fired by the Military. Many works created by the LIFE artists were turned over to the DOD and its art programs, such as the United States Army Art Program, on December 7, 1960.[13]
The magazine employed the distinguished war photographer Robert Capa. A veteran of Collier's magazine, Capa was among the first wave of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. A notorious controversy at the LIFE photography darkroom ensued after a mishap ruined dozens of Capa's photos that were taken during the beach landing. The magazine claimed in its captions that the photos were fuzzy because Capa's hands were shaking. He denied it, and later poked fun at LIFE by titling his memoir Slightly Out of Focus. In 1954, Capa was killed while working for the magazine covering the First Indochina War, after stepping on a landmine. LIFE photographer Bob Landry also went in with the first wave at D-Day, "but all of Landry's film was lost, and his shoes to boot."[14]
Each week during World War II the magazine brought the war home to Americans; it had photographers in all theaters of war, from the Pacific to Europe. The magazine was so iconic that it was imitated in enemy propaganda using contrasting images of Life and Death.[15]
On May 10, 1950 the council of ministers in Cairo banned LIFE from Egypt forever. All issues on sale were confiscated. No reason was given, but Egyptian officials expressed indignation over the April 10, 1950 story about King Farouk of Egypt, entitled the "Problem King of Egypt". The government considered it insulting to the country.[16]
LIFE in the 1950s earned a measure of respect by commissioning work from top authors. After LIFE's publication in 1952 of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the magazine contracted with the author for a 4,000-word piece on bullfighting. Hemingway sent the editors a 10,000-word article, following his last visit to Spain in 1959 to cover a series of contests between two top matadors. The article was republished in 1985 as the novella The Dangerous Summer.[17]
In February 1953, just a few weeks after leaving office, President Harry S. Truman announced that LIFE magazine would handle all rights to his memoirs. Truman said it was his belief that by 1954 he would be able to speak more fully on subjects pertaining to the role his administration played in world affairs. Truman observed that LIFE editors had presented other memoirs with great dignity; he added that LIFE also made the best offer.
Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American woman to appear on the cover of the magazine in November 1954.
In 1957, R. Gordon Wasson, a vice president at J.P.Morgan, published an article in LIFE extolling the virtues of magic mushrooms.[18] This prompted Albert Hofmann to isolate psilocybin in 1958 for distribution by Sandoz alongside LSD in the U.S., further raising interest in LSD in the mass media.[19] Following Wasson's report, Timothy Leary visited Mexico to experience the mushrooms.
LIFE's motto became, "To see Life; see the world."[citation needed] In the post-war years it published some of the most memorable images of events in the United States and the world. It also produced many popular science serials such as The World We Live In and The Epic of Man in the early 1950s. The magazine continued to showcase the work of notable illustrators, such as Alton S. Tobey, whose many contributions included the cover for a 1958 series of articles on the history of the Russian Revolution.
The magazine was losing readers as the 1950s drew to a close. In May 1959 it announced plans to reduce its regular news-stand price to 19 cents a copy from 25 cents. With the increase in television sales and viewership, interest in news magazines was waning. LIFE would need to reinvent itself.
The 1960s and the end of an era[edit]
In the 1960s the magazine was filled with color photos of movie stars, President John F. Kennedy and his family, the war in Vietnam, and the Apollo program. Typical of the magazine's editorial focus was a long 1964 feature on actress Elizabeth Taylor and her relationship to actor Richard Burton. Reporter Richard Meryman Jr. traveled with Taylor to New York, California, and Paris. LIFE ran a 6,000-word first-person article on the screen star. "I'm not a 'sex queen' or a 'sex symbol,' " Taylor said. "I don't think I want to be one. Sex symbol kind of suggests bathrooms in hotels or something. I do know I'm a movie star and I like being a woman, and I think sex is absolutely gorgeous. But as far as a sex goddess, I don't worry myself that way... Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense... When we look at each other, it's like our eyes have fingers and they grab ahold... I think I ended up being the scarlet woman because of my rather puritanical upbringing and beliefs. I couldn't just have a romance. It had to be a marriage."[20]
In the 1960s, the magazine's photographs featured those by Gordon Parks. "The camera is my weapon against the things I dislike about the universe and how I show the beautiful things about the universe," Parks recalled in 2000. "I didn't care about Life magazine. I cared about the people," he said.[21]
On March 25, 1966, LIFE had the drug LSD, which was still not criminalized, as its cover story.[22]
In March 1967 LIFE won the 1967 National Magazine Award, chosen by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The prestigious award paid tribute to the stunning photos coming out of the war in Southeast Asia, such as Henri Huet's riveting series of a wounded medic that were published in January 1966. Increasingly, the photos that LIFE was printing of the war in Vietnam were searing images of death and loss.
However, despite the accolades the magazine continued to win, and publishing America's mission to the moon in 1969, circulation was lagging. It was announced in January 1971 that LIFE would reduce its circulation from 8.5 million to 7 million in an effort to offset shrinking advertising revenues. Exactly one year later, LIFE cut its circulation from 7 million to 5.5 million beginning with the January 14, 1972, issue, publisher Gary Valk announced. LIFE was reportedly not losing money, but its costs were rising faster than its profits. LIFE lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972. The magazine had purchased serialization rights to Irving's manuscript.
Industry figures showed that some 96 percent of LIFE's circulation went to mail subscribers, with only 4 percent coming from the more profitable newsstand sales. Valk was at the helm as publisher when hundreds lost their jobs. The end came when the weekly LIFE magazine published its last issue on December 29th 1972.
From 1972 to 1978, Time Inc. published ten Life Special Reports on such themes as "The Spirit of Israel", "Remarkable American Women" and "The Year in Pictures". With a minimum of promotion, those issues sold between 500,000 and 1 million copies at cover prices of up to $2.
As a monthly (1978–2000)[edit]
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In 1978, LIFE re-emerged as a monthly, and with this resurrection came a new, modified logo. Although still the familiar red rectangle with the white type, the new version was larger, and the lettering was closer together and the box surrounding it was smaller. (This new larger logo would be used on every issue until July 1993.)
LIFE continued for the next 22 years as a moderately successful general interest news features magazine. In 1986, it decided to mark its 50th anniversary under the Time Inc. umbrella with a special issue showing every LIFE cover starting from 1936, which of course included the issues that were published during the six-year hiatus in the 1970s. The circulation in this era hovered around the 1.5 million-circulation mark. The cover price in 1986 was $2.50. The publisher at the time was Charles Whittingham; the editor was Philip Kunhardt. LIFE also got to go back to war in 1991, and it did so just like in the 1940s. Four issues of this weekly Life in Time of War were published during the first Gulf War.
Hard times came to the magazine once again, and in February 1993 LIFE announced the magazine would be printed on smaller pages starting with its July issue. This issue would also mark the return of the original LIFE logo.
Also at this time, LIFE slashed advertising prices 34 percent in a bid to make the monthly publication more appealing to advertisers. The magazine reduced its circulation guarantee for advertisers by 12 percent in July 1993 to 1.5 million copies from the current 1.7 million. The publishers in this era were Nora McAniff and Edward McCarrick; Daniel Okrent was the editor. LIFE for the first time was the same trim size as its longtime Time Inc. sister publication, Fortune.
The magazine was back in the national consciousness upon the death in August 1995 of Alfred Eisenstaedt, the LIFE photographer whose pictures constitute some of the most enduring images of the 20th century. Eisenstaedt's photographs of the famous and infamous — Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, Marilyn Monroe, Ernest Hemingway, the Kennedys, Sophia Loren — won him worldwide renown and 86 LIFE covers.
In 1999 the magazine was suffering financially, but still made news by compiling lists to round out the 20th Century. LIFE editors ranked its Most Important Events of the Millennium. This list has been criticized for being overly focused on Western achievements. The Chinese, for example, had invented type four centuries before Gutenberg, but with thousands of ideograms, found its use impractical. LIFE also published a list of the 100 Most Important People of the Millennium. This list, too, was criticized for focusing on the West. Also, Thomas Edison's number one ranking was challenged since there were others whose inventions (the Internal combustion engine, the automobile, electricity-making machines, for example) had greater impact than Edison's. The top 100 most important people list was further criticized for mixing world-famous names, such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, and Leonardo da Vinci, with numerous Americans largely unknown outside of the United States (18 Americans compared to 13 Italians and French, 11 English).
It appeared that the money-losing magazine was just hanging on to make it into the 21st century, and it almost did. In March 2000, Time Inc. announced it would cease regular publication of LIFE with the May issue, seven months before the century's end. "It's a sad day for us here," Don Logan, chairman and chief executive of Time Inc., told CNNfn.com. "It was still in the black," he said, noting that LIFE was increasingly spending more to maintain its monthly circulation level of approximately 1.5 million. "Life was a general interest magazine and since its reincarnation, it had always struggled to find its identity, to find its position in the marketplace," Logan said.[23] The magazine also farewelled its core subject: in 1936 its first issue featured a baby named George Story with the headline "Life Begins" and over the years it updated its readers about the course of his life as he married, had children and pursued a career as a journalist. When Time announced its pending closure in March, George soon then died from heart failure on April 4, 2000. The final issue of LIFE was appropriately titled "A Life Ends".[24]
For LIFE subscribers, remaining subscriptions were honored with other Time Inc. magazines, such as Time. And in January 2001, these subscribers received a special, Life-sized format of "The Year in Pictures" edition of Time magazine, which was in reality a LIFE issue disguised under a Time logo on the front. (Newsstand copies of this edition were actually published under the LIFE imprint.)
While citing poor advertising sales and a rough climate for selling magazine subscriptions, Time Inc. executives said a key reason for closing the title in 2000 was to divert resources to the company's other magazine launches that year, such as Real Simple. Later that year, its parent company, Time Warner, struck a deal with the Tribune Company for Times Mirror magazines that included Golf, Ski, Skiing, Field & Stream, and Yachting. LIFE was not around when AOL and Time Warner announced their $184 billion merger, the largest corporate merger in history, which was finalized in January 2001.[25]
LIFE was absent from the U.S. market for only a few months, when it began publishing special newsstand "megazine" issues on topics such as 9/11 and the Holy Land in 2001. These issues, which were printed on thicker paper, were more like softcover books than magazines.
Newspaper supplement (2004–07)[edit]
Beginning in October 2004, it was revived for a second time. LIFE resumed weekly publication as a free supplement to U.S. newspapers. LIFE went into competition for the first time with the two industry heavyweights, Parade and USA Weekend. At its launch, it was distributed with more than 60 newspapers with a combined circulation of approximately 12 million. Among the newspapers to carry LIFE: the Washington Post, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Time Inc. made deals with several major newspaper publishers to carry the LIFE supplement, including Knight Ridder and the McClatchy Company. The launch of LIFE as a weekly newspaper supplement was conceived by Andrew Blau and he served as the President of LIFE. Bill Shapiro was the Founding Editor of the weekly supplement.
This version of LIFE retained its trademark logo but sported a new cover motto, "America's Weekend Magazine." It measured 9½ x 11½ inches and was printed on glossy paper in full-color. On September 15, 2006, LIFE was just 19 pages. The editorial content contained one full-page photo, of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and one three-page, seven-photo essay, of Kaiju Big Battel.
This era of LIFE lasted less than three years. On March 24, 2007, Time Inc. announced that it would fold the magazine as of April 20, 2007, although it would keep the web site.[1][3]
Partnership with Google[edit]
On November 18, 2008, Google began hosting an archive of the magazine's photographs, as part of a joint effort with LIFE.[26] Many images in this archive were never published in the magazine.[27] The archive is accessible through Google image search. The full archive of the issues of the main run (1936–1972) is available through Google Book Search.
Online presence[edit]
LIFE's online presence began in the 1990s as part of the Pathfinder.com network. The standalone Life.com site launched March 31, 2009 and closed January 30, 2012. Life.com was developed by Andrew Blau and Bill Shapiro, the same team that launched the weekly newspaper supplement. While the archive of LIFE, known as the LIFE Picture Collection, was substantial they searched for a partner who could provide significant contemporary photography. They approached Getty Images, the world's largest licensor of photography. The site, a joint venture between Getty Images and LIFE magazine, offered millions of photographs from their combined collections.[28] On the 50th anniversary of the night Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday" to John Kennedy, Life.com presented Bill Ray's iconic portrait of the actress, along with other rare photos. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty starring Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig portrays LIFE as it transitions away from printed material towards having only an online presence.[29] Life.com is now a redirect to a small photo channel on Time.com. Life.com also maintains Tumblr[30] and Twitter[31] accounts.
Well-known contributors since 1936 have included:
- Berry Berenson (photojournalist)
- Walter Bosshard (photojournalist)
- Margaret Bourke-White (photojournalist)
- Brian Brake (photojournalist)
- Larry Burrows (photojournalist)
- David Burnett (photojournalist)
- Robert Capa (photojournalist)
- Brad Darrach (film critic)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (photojournalist)
- Howell Conant (fashion photographer)
- Wheeler Winston Dixon (film critic)
- Alfred Eisenstaedt (photojournalist)
- Bill Eppridge (photojournalist)
- J.R. Eyerman (photojournalist)
- Andreas Feininger (photojournalist)
- Clay Felker (sportswriter, founder of New York Magazine)
- Ron Galella (photojournalist)
- Alfred Gescheidt (photojournalist)
- Bob Gomel (photojournalist)
- Allan Grant (photojournalist)
- Henry Grossman (photographer)
- Philippe Halsman (photographer)
- Dora Jane Hamblin (correspondent)
- Dirck Halstead (photojournalist)
- Mary Hamman (modern living editor)
- Bernard Hoffman (photojournalist)
- Jane Howard (correspondent)
- Henri Huet (photojournalist)
- Sally Kirkland (fashion editor)
- Will Lang Jr. (Bureau Head / chief Regional Bureau Director)
- Dorothea Lange
- Mary Leatherbee (movie editor)
- Lejaren Hiller, Sr., illustrator
- Henry Luce (publisher, editor-in-chief, 1936–1964)
- Hansel Mieth (photojournalist)
- Lee Miller (photojournalist)
- James Mills (reporter / associate editor)
- Gjon Mili (photojournalist)
- Ralph Morse (photojournalist)
- Carl Mydans (photojournalist)
- Gordon Parks (photojournalist)
- John Phillips (photojournalist)
- Normand Poirier (writer)
- Co Rentmeester (phojournalist)
- Paul Schutzer (photojournalist)
- Ronald B. Scott (sportswriter and later a novelist)
- Richard B. Stolley (foreign correspondent, assistant managing editor, founding managing editor of "People Magazine"
- Mark Shaw (photographer)
- Art Shay (photojournalist)
- George Silk (photojournalist)
- George Strock (photojournalist)
- W. Eugene Smith (photojournalist)
- David Snell writer and cartoonist
- Peter Stackpole (photojournalist)
- Edward Steichen (portrait photographer)
- Pete Souza (photojournalist)
- Karina Taira (fashion photographer)
- Edward K. Thompson (managing editor 1949–1961; editor 1961–1970)
- Thomas Thompson (novelist)
- John Vachon (photojournalist)
- Jeff Vespa (photojournalist and editor at large)
- James Watters (film critic)
- Leigh Wiener (photojournalist)
- André Weinfeld (portrait photographer)
- James M. Whitmore (photojournalist)
- Peter Young (foreign correspondent in Moscow and Paris, senior editor, later managing editor of "Saturday Review")
- Tony Zappone (photojournalist, Europe edition)
- John G. Zimmerman (photojournalist)
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c "Time Inc. to Close LIFE Magazine Newspaper Supplement" (Press release). TimeWarner. March 26, 2007.
- ^ Keith J. Kelly (23 September 2008). "Time Inc. And Getty Images Team Up To Renew Life Title". The Huffington Post. New York Post. Archived from the original on Sep 25, 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ a b "End comes again for 'Life,' but all its photos going on the Web". USA Today (New York). 2007-03-26.
- ^ "Full text of "The miscellaneous reports : cases decided in the inferior courts of record of the state of New York"". Archive.org. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
- ^ a b "Life: Dead & Alive". TIME. October 19, 1936.
- ^ French, Alex. "The Very First Issues of 19 Famous Magazines". Mental Floss. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ^ "Pictorial to Sleep", Time, March 8, 1937.
- ^ Dora Jane Hamblin, That Was the "Life" (W.W. Norton & Company, 1977), p. 161.
- ^ "Detroit is Dynamite". Life. August 17, 1942. p. 15. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal, August 17, 1942.
- ^ "Letters to the Editor". Life. September 7, 1942. p. 12. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ^ Thompson, Mark (March 27, 2013). "Cal Whipple, 1918-2013". Time. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ Marian R. McNoughten. "The Army Art Program". A Guide to the Stude and Use of Military Histor.
- ^ The Great LIFE Photographers, Thames and Hudson, paperback ed. 2009, ISBN 978-0-500-28836-8, p. 294
- ^ "Life and Death propaganda". Psywar. March 30, 2011. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
- ^ "Life magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk". South African History Online. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- ^ Michael Palin "Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure", PBS, 1999.
- ^ Joaquim Tarinas. "ROBERT GORDON WASSON Seeking the Magic Mushroom". Imaginaria. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
- ^ "Medicine: Mushroom Madness". Time. June 16, 1958. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ^ "Our Eyes Have Fingers", Time, December 25, 1964.
- ^ The Rocky Mountain News, November 29, 2000, page 1.
- ^ Life Magazine. "LSD - Cover". Psychedelic-library.org. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
- ^ "Time Inc. to cease publication of Life magazine". CNN. March 17, 2000.
- ^ Amy Wallace & others (2005). "Death (subsection 12 of Timely Deaths)". The Book of Lists. p. 443. ISBN 0-676-97720-0.
- ^ Columbia Journalism Review[dead link]
- ^ Ewen MacAskill in Washington (November 18, 2008). "Google makes LIFE magazine photo archives available to the public". Guardian. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
- ^ "Google gives online life to Life mag's photos". Associated Press. 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2008-11-19. "Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will include millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before."
- ^ "Life.com". Life.com. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
- ^ "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". waltermitty.com. 2013-06-28. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
- ^ "Tumblr". Life.tumblr.com. 1940-12-13. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
- ^ "Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Life (magazine).
- Life.com official site
- Full Life magazine issues from 1936 thru 1972
- Le magazine Life, la chronique de l'Amérique
- Life photo archive hosted by Google
- Life covers at CoverBrowser
- Magazine Data File: Life (1883)
- Online archive of the covers from Life, the humor magazine (1883–1936)
- Index to Life Issues with Swing Dance Content
- The Year 1947 in Life Magazine
- Renel Saint Jean L.I.F.E(Living Isn't For Ever)lifewebpage.com


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Recent and archived news articles by Kate Taylor of The New York Times.
Man's Death After Chokehold Raises Old Issue for the Police
Eric Garner, 43, died Thursday afternoon as plainclothes officers tried to take him into custody on charges of selling cigarettes, the police said.
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Cuomo Allies Plan a Political Party Focusing on Women
If the new party is established, it will have Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on its ballot, and could weaken his Republican opponent's chances and the power of the Working Families Party.
July 18, 2014, Friday
Leaders Named for Buildings Dept. and Police Review Board
Mayor Bill de Blasio named a commissioner to the Department of Buildings, which is responsible for making sure that the nearly one million buildings in New York City are safe.
July 18, 2014, Friday
Group Aiding de Blasio Spent $1.7 Million in First Half of '14
Campaign for One New York, a lobbying organization set up by the mayor's campaign strategists, got donations from unions, developers and people like Google's Eric Schmidt.
July 16, 2014, Wednesday
An E.R., Not a Hospital, Is Set to Open at St. Vincent's Site
The free-standing emergency room, Lenox Hill HealthPlex, is part of a trend that provides acute care but also helps a hospital's bottom line.
July 15, 2014, Tuesday
Lobbying Group Adopts de Blasio's Agenda
Created by Mayor Bill de Blasio's strategists to promote his plans for universal prekindergarten, Campaign for One New York has moved on to other issues dear to the mayor.
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Robert Decarlo, 26, was arrested on 13 charges in connection with a crash that killed a 12-year-old girl and injured her mother and sister.
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Jacqueline Haeflinger was walking her Boston terrier, Violet, in Chelsea when the dog broke loose from her, the police said.
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New York Towns Can Prohibit Fracking, State's Top Court Rules
The Court of Appeals affirmed a lower-court ruling, saying that local zoning ordinances may be used to ban the gas drilling process.
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Gloucester Daily Times
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Gloucester Harbor's geographic proximity to the wild fishing grounds of Stellwagen Bank, the Gulf of Maine and the northwest Atlantic situated it to become a fishing port.
The harbor's configuration and additional protection afforded by the Dog Bar Breakwater offer safe refuge, and generations of families built a robust financial engine that expanded to include numerous support businesses, a phenomenon now recognized as a marine cluster in a hub port.
Much of today's local economic structure is built upon this foundation of nature, industry, and culture. Fishing is at the core of the Cape Ann community.
Now, Gloucester Harbor's future is challenged by regulatory mismanagement that has thrown the fishing industry into an "economic disaster" as recognized by the Department of Commerce. There is a strong possibility that the loss of any one critical component will trigger a domino-like conversion of the working waterfront from sea-based activities to irreversible land uses that are not water dependent.
If some commercial boats can hold on until the catch limits are lifted and/or if innovative marine businesses are attracted here, there is a real question whether the harbor and needed waterfront infrastructure will be available.
Can we imagine Gloucester without any dockage for fishing boats to unload? Without any space to load ice, fuel and provisions, or without fresh seafood for local and regional consumers?
Most of the working waterfront is privately owned and not suitable for municipal operations. With notable exceptions, much of the private waterfront displays deferred maintenance; other property improvements remain pending as owners watch "what ifs" play out. To be user-friendly, however, a new tool should reinforce private endeavors by providing leverage and flexibility.
After much research, a private, agile, pro-active, not-for-profit community development corporation (CDC) has formed to be an additional resource. Our intent is to draw upon local knowledge and heritage to attract additional resources into Gloucester that will promote a progressive resurgence of the working waterfront.
Incorporated in mid-April, the Gloucester Harbor CDC's mission is simple: To increase capacity for strengthening Gloucester's working waterfront.
The vision is inclusive: A healthy, innovative, and sustainable ocean-based economy continuing to strengthen the community with knowledge, jobs, investment and tradition.
The directors and advisors are working with the National Development Council and others to develop appropriate financial resources that will encourage re-investment in the port's infrastructure, and we encourage your support as well.
Communications and tax-deductible contributions may be mailed to the GHCDC, P.O. Box 561, Gloucester MA 01930.
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Collier, Jaleah Amore, born Sept. 6 to Brishuna Collier of Warner Robins.
Sadowski, Isaac, born Sept. 9 to Joseph and Nicole (Bunker) Sadowski of Warner Robins.
Smith, Isaiah LaGrone, born Sept. 9 to Erica (Altman) Smith and Buefard Smith III of Bonaire.
Davis, Bobby Lee Jr., born Sept. 11 to Lacey Brackins and Bobby Davis of Warner Robins.
Richardson, Jacaya Cayann, born Sept. 11 to Jackie Richardson of Warner Robins.
Reed, Oriana Dasia, born Sept. 11 to Cortez and Selena (Johnson) Reed of Fort Valley.
Shoults, Michael Lee, born Sept. 11 to Michael and Purni (Monger) Shoults of Warner Robins.
Smith, Bryer Erin, born Sept. 11 to Joshua and Jessica (Ham) Smith of Byron.
Fulks, Maddyson Noelle, born Sept. 12 to Kendrick and Chantel (Hagan) Fulks of Warner Robins.
Williams, Trianna Nicole, born Sept. 12 to Despena (Grayson) Williams and Samuel Williams Jr. of Warner Robins.
Anders, Keever Sims, born Sept. 13 to Lance and Danielle (Martin) Anders of Bonaire.
Cochran, Baleigh Jean, born Sept. 13 to John and Casey (Foster) Cochran of Byron.
Tharpe, Caiden Alexander, born Sept. 13 to Angeline Bridges and Dylan Tharpe of Warner Robins.
Howard, Ayden Trovatney, born Sept. 14 to Sherrie Howard of Warner Robins.
Spencer, James Daniel II, born Sept. 14 to Desiray Gaudet and James Spencer of Reynolds.
Burse, Xavier Matthew, born Sept. 16 to Ryan and Lauren (Smith) Burse of Warner Robins.
Jaime, Jack Thomas and Lucy Eleanor, twins born Sept. 16 to Nicholas and Kelly (Jones) Jaime of Warner Robins.
Lewis, Ariane Kenyotta Michelle, born Sept. 16 to Sakemma Adkinson and Kenneth Lewis of Unadilla.
Newsom, Josiah Christopher, born Sept. 16 to Amanda B. Daniel and John C. Newsom of Warner Robins.
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Residence Life Campus Ministry consists of full time and graduate assistants who are persons of faith and commitment. As such, these campus ministers accompany, encourage and support students in areas of personal growth and spiritual development. Campus Ministers collaborate with the Residential Programs Staff to create welcoming communities where students can "learn, lead and serve" in keeping with the philosophy of the University. Campus Ministers, also, sponsor religious services and programs within each residential area that embrace faith and religious diversity.
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This is currently the configuration used by PyTrilinos developers to test the package, so it should be considered a safe way to build PyTrilinos.
Previously, you had to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH (DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on Mac OS X) in order to run PyTrilinos tests. This requirement has been lifted with the adoption of CMake.
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text: Japan's whaling practices have sparked international controversy. In July, a Japanese court convicted anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune on charges of assault, trespass, destruction of property, illegal possession of a weapon and obstruction of business for boarding a Japanese whaling vessel [JURIST reports] as part of an anti-whaling protest in January 2010. Berthune, who called the charges "bogus," was extradited to New Zealand, and he will not serve prison time unless he returns to Japan. Last year's annual hunt was ended prematurely due to protests from the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society [advocacy website; press release].


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Arthur E. Laidlaw
Dr. Arthur E. Laidlaw passed away peacefully on Nov. 19, 2012.
He is survived by his sons, A.E. "Tex" Laidlaw Jr. of Stratton Mountain, Vt., and Robert E. Laidlaw of Montrose, Colo.; four grandchildren, Sarah L. Wilde, Natalie
E. Laidlaw, Katherine B. Laidlaw and Willie A. Laidlaw; three great-granddaughters, Malin, Cate and Liv.
His wife of 68 years, Natalie E. "Bunny" Laidlaw predeceased him on May 9, 2011.
Art also leaves his fellow residents and the staff at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home.
He was born on April 14, 1915, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University and Yale Medical School. He also studied at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and
Columbia P&S at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
He served during World War II in the Army Medical Corps. After the war he practiced Pediatrics at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital from 1947 to 1949. In 1949, Art and his family moved to Keene, N.H., where he practiced until 1960. While in New Hampshire he was active in the Boy Scouts of America. He also was a trustee at the Laconia, New Hampshire State School for Handicapped Children.
In 1960, Art and Bunny returned to Cooperstown where he was a pediatrician at Bassett until his retirement in 1975.
He was a member of the Cooperstown Country Club and raced the Star Class Sailboat for many years. During retirement he and Bunny spent their summers in Cooperstown and winters on St. Simons Island, Ga. In Georgia, he volunteered to help the needy file their tax returns.
Art will long be remembered as a true gentleman and caring pediatrician.
There will be no calling hours, a service of remembrance will be held in the near future.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home, 48 Grove St., Cooperstown, NY 13326 or Friends of Bassett, 1 Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326.
Arrangements are under the guidance of Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.


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Thousands of crashes occur each year due to drivers falling asleep at the wheel. Learn the signs so that you know when you are getting drowsy, what puts you at risk for drowsy driving, and what to do to stay alert.
What Are the Signs of Sleepiness?
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety provides some warning sign to help you identify when you are getting too tired to drive. If you begin to experience any of these, it is time to stop driving and get some sleep:
- Trouble keeping your eyes open and focused
- Nod and can't keep your head up
- Daydream or have wandering, disconnected thoughts
- Yawn a lot or need to rub your eyes
- Find yourself drifting out of your lane or tailgating
- Miss road signs or drive past your turn
- Feel irritable, restless, and impatient
- Drift off the road and hit the rumble strip on the highway
Are You at Risk?
To determine if you are at an increased risk for a sleep-related traffic accident, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety asks the following questions:
- Are you aged 30 years or younger?
- Do you work long hours?
- Have you had six hours of sleep or less in the last 24 hours?
- Do you often drive between midnight and 6 am?
- Do you frequently feel drowsy while you are driving?
- Do you work the night shift?
- Are you a business traveler who spends a lot of time on the road and suffers from jet lag?
- Do you work more than one job?
- Do you have an undiagnosed sleep disorder?
In addition, analysis of sleepy driver crashes shows that having taken sleeping medication on a previous night was associated with subsequent crash. If you spend time on the road, don't use sleeping medications that could produce rebound sleepiness the next day.
What Can You Do?
Here are some things you can do to prevent drowsy driving:
- Get between 7–9 hours of sleep to stay alert during the day
- Schedule breaks every 100 miles that you drive—or every 2 hours during long trips
- Travel with a friend to share driving and conversation
- Avoid alcohol and sleep medications
Note: If you are relying on coffee to keep you awake, it is time to pull over and call it a night. The best strategy is to take a break from being behind the wheel.
If you suspect you have a sleeping disorder, talk to your doctor about your symptoms so you can get proper treatment.
In the meantime, it is important to remember that driving when sleepy may be as dangerous as drunk driving—for you and for others on the road.
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- Review Date: 08/2012 -
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i have a 94 explorer sport and have been thinking about subs but i dont kno what would sound good in my car
you;ve got a lotta air space to fill, i wouldn't do anything smaller than 2 momo 10's or something comparable (IDQ / alpine type R / etc etc) ... 300 - 500 watts each. thats just my opinion though -- it all depends on your taste as well as what else you have in the car -- if you have all factory speakers, then you may not want an elaborate sub setup.
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I have owned both a 91 and a 97 Ford Explorer Sport. I have used MOMO speakers and subs in both of them. I would personally suggest using two 10" subs powered by an MTX 81000d or a Viper Audio 1200.1. I have ran two 10" subs along with a pair of 6.5 and 5.25" components and was very pleased with the sound. You will get very good bass and amazing highs that work well together. In my 97 explorer I have been running 4 10" MOMO's using two MTX 6500d's. If you want hard hitting bass that will turn everyones head that is the way to go. Most people will tell you to use 12" subs, but I perfer using 10's. They are usually more accurate and have alot better punch than twelves. Good luck on whatever you decide.
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