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During an election period, Government Departments are restricted in the announcements that they are able to make or the information that they are able to publish.
The ongoing communication between NHS England and the Patient Advocacy Groups (PAGs) about implementation of the Managed Access Agreement (MAA) has recently been focused on identification of hospitals with the right expertise to treat eligible adults who have SMA with Spinraza (nusinersen).
As a part of the process hospitals were invited to submit an 'expression of interest' to include setting out both their expertise in treating patients with SMA and their potential ability to administer nusinersen.
This exercise has now concluded and at this stage, eight hospitals have met NHS England's criteria for delivery of this service and have been selected:
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- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
NHS England has advised these hospitals that they can now start to set up their MAA nusinersen treatment service.
It is important to note that NHS England is currently investigating whether these hospitals will be able to offer treatment to all eligible adults across the country. This includes considering geographical coverage (particularly East and South West) and any gaps. If the needs are not fully satisfied then a further selection exercise may be conducted.
Whilst NHS England and the PAGs are well aware of the travelling challenges presented if more hospitals are not added to this list, NHS England must ensure that any hospital they commission can meet the criteria set and fully meet the needs of people receiving the treatment. Their overarching aim is to ensure quality and equitable access of service. In the coming weeks, NHS England will be talking with the providers who do now have contracts about what coverage they can offer, as well as with other potential providers about addressing the possible service gaps.
We are aware that adults have been waiting patiently for news and of the level of anxiety about access and the possibility of having to travel for treatment. However, we support NHS England to follow through with their plans which should result in a clearer picture of adults' nusinersen treatment delivery by the end of December. At this point we should also have the answers to the many questions raised in July about the MAA and how it will work for children, young people and adults.

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Zoe on the red carpet for the MoMa film benefit gala honoring Baz Luhrmann in NYC. This dress is covered in more detail in this post as Cheryl Cole wore it on last Saturday's X factor in the UK.
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Zoe on the red carpet for the MoMa film benefit gala honoring Baz Luhrmann in NYC. This dress is covered in more detail in this post as Cheryl Cole wore it on last Saturday's X factor in the UK.
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Wow just WOW! Jessica Biel looked possibly the best I have ever seen her in this outfit at the 'MoMa Film Benefit Gala Honoring Baz Luhrmann' in NYC. Here is how to get her look.
Posted in angelina jolie, tagged adrianna, angelina jolie, asymmetrical, black dress, chloe, crepe, fit and flare, hollywood, jersey dress, jumper dress, kung fu panda dvd launch, lbd, marc by mar jacobs, mini, nude heels, one shoulder, quantum sweater dress, red carpet, ruffle front, simple 3/4 sleeve, warehouse on November 10, 2008| 1 Comment »
Now she does look too thin to me but the dress is divine.
Look below for other super simple little black dresses you can funk up with coloured heels and statement accessories, or wear simple with nude heels like Angelina.
You can view nude heels in previous post, so here is my pick of shoes to wear with an lbd:
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Posted in Jessica Biel, tagged bandeau, bangle, bracelet, celebrity, christmas parties, cleavage, fashion, festive, Jessica Biel, red carpet, rome film festival, silver, silver column dress, silver cuff, strapless, style on October 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Jessica Biel wore this gorgeous dress at the 3rd Annual Rome International Film Festival and looked stunning.
While most of us don't have the need for full length silver dresses most of the time, with the holidays coming up there is no harm in taking inspiration from this show stopping look and seeing what the high street has to offer.
I found the dress below online for a teeny amount, wear with a chunky sparkly cuff and simple makeup – smokey eyes (see previous post) and nude lips!
I really love the silver cuffs from Terrano Designs if you don't know where to start looking, enjoy!
Posted in jennifer love hewitt, tagged academy awards, asymmetrical, dorothy perkins, jennifer love hewitt, one shoulder, oscar dresses, red, red carpet, red dress, sequins on October 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This is the best she has looked in a long long while:
The dress is really lovely, a beautiful vibrant tone and is a classic too.
Red ruled the red carpet back at the 2008 Academy awards (see below).
My fave high one shoulder red dress however is a steal at £65 and unless you are about to walk an actual red carpet, would advise you up the hemline and add some sparkle like this bargain dress at Dorothy Perkins.


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What does big data really mean in PR? Asks Hotwire's Brendon Craigie
Opinion 3 minute read
Big data has exploded over the past few years, or at least the now infamous term has. A Google Trends search reveals around a tenfold increase in interest between 2011 and today. We coined it as one of our Digital Trends for the year and indeed it is. But somewhere throughout the actual development of big data services and the general interest in it, it has become a phrase that raises more than a few eyebrows.
Big data with many industries is clearly something that can help deliver exceptional results that were unthinkable before, but I've also seen many problems with it, especially in PR.
As PRmoment's Ben Smith highlighted in his blog, the problem for PR agencies is that we simply don't have access to the level of census-wide data needed to make an impact. The bigger agencies that are part of conglomerates might have the access to research agencies, but then there are still legal and consent issues as well.
Aside from Smith's point, my concern is that big data is becoming an excuse for not knowing what you're talking about. Simply dropping the buzzwords du jour "big data" into a client conversation or a pitch is all well and good if you follow through on it, but how many times does that actually happen?
The new emerging debate over big data and small data is something that resonates strongly with us. We use Listening Post to map out social connections between a specific and small network of individuals. This isn't a stab in the dark at the hundreds of millions of users active on social media, it's the mapping of a very small data set – and it produces incredibly useful results that quickly make up part of campaign strategy.
And to me that's what this whole big versus small approach comes down to. Big data is like sifting the ocean to find a fish, whereas small data is going to a rock pool in Somerset because you know that's where the fish lives. The knowledge you have through experience and specialist expertise will never be replaced by big data, despite how powerful it is, because the experts will already know what they're looking for.
When talking about a seemingly science-fiction future, we only have to think back to the film Minority Report to consider the possibilities. The crime-prediction software outlined in the film is remarkably like one developed by the University of Pennsylvania a few years ago that analyses huge amounts of data plugged into an algorithm to predict those who are most likely to offend. Big data is clearly a force that can bring a lot of good to our lives, but it is not the answer to all of the world's problems.
The understanding you get from actually doing the job is far more valuable in helping clients to achieve their goals. Even in the most technologically advanced areas, big data is not an automatic process; it requires human interaction to get the most from it and to understand the output. And this is something that many don't seem to understand when they're talking about how everything they "do" is big data.
What this comes down to is that when I hear someone say they've got a reliance on big data in PR, it implies that they don't really know what they're on about.
Brendon Craigie, Group CEO, Hotwire


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Anna Soubry has contacted Severn Trent Water after emergency sewage works on Regent Street in Beeston brought traffic to a standstill.
Severn Trent have now agreed to halt the road works until they can find a better way to maintian the sewers and reduce the disruption to local people and businesses.
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"Beeston's businesses and residents have had to put up with considerable disruption caused by the tram works over the last few years and Severn Trent themselves closed Queen's Road for sewage works earlier this month. There must be better communication and a better way to complete the works without creating so much chaos".


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JIMI HENDRIX' new archival album, People, Hell and Angels, has debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart selling 72,000 copies. It marks Hendrix' highest-charting album since 1968, when Electric Ladyland spent two weeks at No. 1. Hendrix most recently visited the top 10 of the chart when another from-the-vaults album, 2010's Valleys of Neptune, debuted and peaked at No. 4.
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The Victorian School of the Arts provides a spread of graduate analysis programs across a breadth of disciplines. For example, the a famous artist, Joseph Cornell, created small bins that housed compositions of curious objects including outdated toys and parts of toys, mirrors, sea shells, trinkets, fragments, posters, theatre tickets and publish cards.
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The day I sat in Emma Thompson's kitchen and accused her of stealing my movie
Charming: Emma Thompson is planning a film about Victorian scandal involving John Ruskin, his wife Effie and the painter John Everett Millais
She answers the door of her surprisingly modest house with a gracious smile. 'Hello!' she says in that lovely voice I have heard from countless movie screens. Intimate and cool all at once.
'Hello,' I croak, hopelessly out-charmed. I am, frankly, enchanted, and it's the last thing I want, because I have come to Emma Thompson's house in West Hampstead to discuss what I believe to be - she continues to smile at me so openly - the misappropriation of my work by her and her husband Greg Wise. They deny it, of course.
How does one begin to address so rude a concept in the face of such world-class star power?
The long road to Emma Thompson's door had begun six months earlier, in April 2009, when Ludovica Villar-Hauser, who directed the Off-Broadway and West End productions of my play The Countess (and to whom I am now married) contacted a major film producer in London to pitch my screenplay The Countess.
The screenplay, like the play, deals with the Victorian scandal involving John Ruskin, the art critic and philosopher, his wife Effie and the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.
I remember Ludovica coming into the room after her telephone conversation with the producer. 'They said they're already doing a film on the subject, called Effie, written by Emma Thompson.'
I thought she was joking.
'Would you like some tea or something?' Emma asks politely.
'No, thank you.' Then, because I must, I find a way to at least give a nodding glance to the elephant in the room. 'This is all very embarrassing,' I say as we walk to her kitchen table.
She seems relieved. 'I'm embarrassed too,' she confides.
What's so embarrassing to us both is that I contend Emma Thompson and Greg Wise had been sent copies of my play and my screenplay The Countess before the appearance of their screenplay Effie.
By sending Emma's producers a registered letter, with a copy to a lawyer at the Dramatists' Guild in New York, I was able to secure a copy of Effie and felt it was distinctly related to my own screenplay in its time-frame, character development, structure and tone.
I notice Emma's blue eyes. Beautiful. She's much prettier in person, I think. I have been asked by my sisters - actually, just about every woman I know - to note what she is wearing. Black stretch pants and a long white sweater with brown flecks. The colour is oatmeal, I am later informed.
'Are you staying in London?' she asks.
I nod. 'Southwark. I walked here,' I tell her. I don't tell her it's because I hoped the long walk would calm my nerves.
'That must be at least six miles!' She looks impressed. 'I walk miles too.'
I ask her if she gets stopped often. 'Never. If you want to get stopped, put on dark glasses and get a bodyguard.'
Original? Gregory Murphy contends that Thompson's planned movie is based on his play, The Countess. Above: Alison Pargeter as Effie Ruskin, Damian O'Hare as Millais, and Nick Moran as John Ruskin
We sit at her kitchen table. The kitchen is small, but it all looks state-of-the-art in a serious way - the kitchen of someone who really knows how to cook.
There is a beautiful piece of meat on the counter with fresh vegetables, some already cut, and something baking in the oven. Mince pies. She tells me she's making a dinner for her son, who's expected home from university that day. The house is comfortable, but spare.
I glance out of a nearby window and see the garden - trees and grass, all trim and, like the house, inviting. Radio 4 plays quietly in the background.
Emma begins by saying she would like to assure me that my play and screenplay were not used in any way in the creation of Effie.
I ask - very nicely I think - why then were my play and screenplay not returned to me, if she and her husband were working on a screenplay dealing with the same subject?
Theatre: Murphy is certain that a copy of his screenplay was sent to Thompson through a mutual friend
Although I am sure my play and screenplay were sent to her through a mutual friend and to her husband through the casting director for the West End production of The Countess, she seems alarmingly confident that she, at least, has never seen either of them.
Her hands press down hard on the table; she leans forward, eyes blazing: 'I feel as if my integrity is being impugned!'
The spell is broken and all I see now is a woman in an oatmeal sweater. One who is used to getting her way. I look at her speechlessly and wait for her to show me the door. I have been with Emma Thompson less than five minutes and it's over. But she doesn't move, just continues to stare through me with those furious blue eyes.
'How would you feel,' I finally venture - not so nicely this time I think - 'if you sent your play to Greg Wise to play John Ruskin and your screenplay to Emma Thompson to play Lady Eastlake [Effie Ruskin's friend and confidante] and they came forward with a screenplay called Effie in which they are to play John Ruskin and Lady Eastlake?'
She looks at me for a long moment and I wonder if she's thinking if this unpleasant American is now going to push for a casting credit.
'Where is the screenplay Richard [our mutual friend] sent me?' She shrugs. 'I've never seen it.'
If there is no change in her position, she seems willing, at least, to admit that we are at a serious impasse.
'How do you think we can resolve this?' she asks.
There is only one way, as I see it, for an amicable resolution. 'We could collaborate on a screenplay.'
Interesting, her expression seems to say. 'And I have no problem sharing credit [on a joint endeavour],' she says, very affably, from which I gather she's willing to give the idea some consideration.
I tell her I think collaborating could be difficult and she expresses her own reservations. She did try it once apparently, and tells me it was a disaster.
I think to myself that I like the grit Emma has in her screenplay, but I feel she's flattened out the character of Effie Ruskin, and it was Effie who first inspired me to write The Countess.
Effie Ruskin was an unusually beautiful woman, tall with auburn hair and heavy- lidded, grey-blue eyes. She was Scottish to the core. When she attended Avonbank school at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Scottish girls were forbidden to associate with one another for fear they would never lose their déclassé Scottish burrs. Effie was determined never to lose hers, and she never did.
Star choice: Orlando Bloom and Saoirse Ronan are favourites to appear in Thompson's film
She was a superb horsewoman, a concert-level pianist and spoke five languages. Her letters, which I read while researching the play, reveal a woman of charm, humour and generosity. She was not universally liked, however. The novelist Elizabeth Gaskell detested her as a ferocious flirt. Gaskell claimed she once saw Effie enter a room, to emerge two hours later with three proposals of marriage.
And there may have been some truth in Gaskell's allegations. John Everett Millais recalled begging for an introduction to her at a ball, only to have the statuesque beauty of 17 dismiss the pimply 16-year-old with a barely concealed expression of disdain as men twice his age danced attendance on her.
This is not the Effie found in Emma's script and probably the point on which our screenplays most diverge. I find Emma's Effie a sweet character, but to me at least, not the kind of woman who would attract the interest of two of the giants of her time.
Emma agrees she will obtain a copy of the latest version of my screenplay. I had already seen her screenplay - after sending her producers the registered letter - and we'll talk the following week.
I take out a box of cough drops I have for a sore throat. Emma looks at the cheap brand in horror: 'Oh, don't take those.' She disappears into her bathroom and returns with Strepsils. 'These are much better,' she says, handing them to me. How kind, I think.
It is the disastrous Ruskin marriage that is firmly at the centre of our two screenplays.
All those men panting with desire for Effie and she finally chooses to marry John Ruskin, a man who wouldn't touch her on her wedding night or any night thereafter.
Ruskin, whose credo exhorted his legion of devoted followers to 'Go to Nature in all singleness of heart and walk with her . . . rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing' apparently found much to reject, select and scorn in his beautiful young wife's body.
She was eventually reduced to begging him to sleep with her so that she might at least have children. But the more she pleaded, the harder he pushed back.
Finally he felt compelled to tell her - with becoming reluctance, no doubt - that he feared she had an 'internal disease'. His young wife, ignorant in all sexual matters, appears to have believed him. Effie nursed her shame in silence, never breathing a word of it to anyone, not even her mother, to whom she was extremely close.
A perfect metaphor for the idealisation and oppression of women, I thought when I began to write The Countess. Effie was beautiful, but would never be the idealised, unchanging beauty that Ruskin sought.
The oft-repeated explanation for Ruskin's failure on his wedding night is that, having only seen naked women depicted in paintings or marble statues, he was appalled at the sight of his young wife's pubic hair. But this theory, first espoused by Ruskin's supporters, who sought to portray him an innocent, doesn't hold up.
Ruskin, as he himself pointed out, lived in close quarters at Oxford with men, who coarsely discussed every aspect of female anatomy. A more probable explanation might be that, raised by overbearing parents, Ruskin had never progressed beyond a kind of pre-adolescent sexuality and was simply terrified.
We know the marriage was never consummated because Effie had to have a court doctor attest to her virginity before she could have her marriage to Ruskin annulled.
Even after Effie left him, Ruskin, desperate to pin his own shortcomings on his wife, stated rather viciously in a court document that, 'though her face was beautiful, her person was not formed to excite passion'. Her 'person', though, did nothing to dampen Millais's ardour. He wrote Effie passionate letters expressing his physical longing for her. They were later to have eight children together.
I spent years researching the background of the Ruskin - Millais calamity, eventually travelling to London, the Highlands, and Venice where its principal events took place.
Lady Eastlake is perhaps the most modern character in the saga. She forswore marriage and travelled the world, writing books about her adventures. She paid the usual price for her independence and strong views, disparaged as a 'tigress in petticoats', a 'she-man' and trivialised as a bluestocking.
After Effie fled the Ruskin home, it was Lady Eastlake who went knocking on doors and haunting coffee houses to spread the truth about Ruskin's behaviour. Still, obscene jokes with Effie as the punchline started circulating almost immediately. As the scandal grew, Queen Victoria became seriously displeased, though she could never quite understand its finer points. The last straw was when Effie married Millais and the Queen banished her from Court.
Even today, Effie is often portrayed as more gargoyle than woman: shallow, materialistic, a social climber who destroyed the lives of two great men.
As we sit at her kitchen table, I tell Emma: 'I went looking for Lady Eastlake's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery.' As I speak, I wonder if it's because Emma has a daughter that, in her screenplay, she has given Lady Eastlake several - and whether Emma will be open to portraying Lady Eastlake as her true childless self, should we collaborate.
I then relate how I spent three hours on a grey midwinter Sunday among the lichen-covered headstones and crypts sinking into the ground, by which time Ludovica was almost catatonic with depression. I was ready for another three hours.
'I love walking through cemeteries,' says Emma enthusiastically.
'I think it's as close to Heaven as we can get on Earth,' I say.
She smiles slyly and I think it might be fun, after all, collaborating on a screenplay with her.
We speak a bit longer. She tells me she is working on a remake of My Fair Lady, I wish her well. 'Eliza Doolitte!' says Emma. 'Such a great role for a young actress.'
We stand. She asks if I would like some mince pies she has been baking to take with me and quickly wraps three. As we walk towards her door, I am surprised to find that almost two hours have passed and we agree that, to our great surprise, we have enjoyed our meeting. Once outside, we see a woman across the street, who appears to be sweeping her front garden.
'That's my mum,' Emma tells me and we walk over and speak to Phyllida Law, who impresses me as the person most people would want to be like when they reach a certain age: striking, vital and not someone to get on the wrong side of.
For a moment, as we talk, it all seems so neighbourly and normal, then I spy someone out of the corner of my eye. We continue talking, but I sense the shadowy figure begs to be acknowledged. I turn and see an elderly woman, who appears to be having a religious experience.
'Are you the famous actress?' the woman asks Emma breathlessly, with a bit of an accent.
'I'm an actress,' says Emma with becoming modesty, then flashes the woman a winning smile. The woman simply nods and continues to stare at her with a rapt expression.
I shake Emma's hand. We confirm that we will talk the following week and I walk away recalling the look of utter adoration on the elderly woman's face.
What must it be like to have a perfect stranger look at you like that, and to have that experience happen probably every day, perhaps over and over during the days, weeks and years? How must that change a person? How it must make one feel omnipotent.
Femme fatale: A portrait of Effie, painted in 1851. Effie Ruskin was an unusually beautiful woman, tall with auburn hair and heavy- lidded, grey-blue eyes
Rivals: Effie was married to John Ruskin, left, for six years. In 1855 she married John Everett Millais, right, with whom she went on to have eight children
The next afternoon I email the producer of Effie, who had suggested and arranged my meeting with Emma in the hope that we might find a solution to our dispute. I write that my meeting with Emma had been a great success and that we have agreed to consider collaboration. Within minutes I receive an email back from the producer telling me that Emma loved meeting me very much as 'I knew she would'. I get a sinking feeling.
Unfortunately, the producer continues, the production's lawyers would not allow Emma to read my screenplay. 'They are quite determined on this and neither she nor I can change their minds.'
Emma Thompson . . . not change their minds? 'Emma, however, understands the frustration you must feel . . .' Does she? 'And has authorised a payment of £10,000 to you and will see to it that you are given a special mention and a thank you in the credits at the end of the film.' She hopes I agree that Emma has 'not in any way breached copyright or trust'.
I wonder if my 'special thank you' will appear before or after 'no animals have been harmed in the making of this film.' I stare at my computer screen. Not allow Emma to read my screenplay? I decide to have nothing further to do with Emma or her producers.
Harvey Weinstein and Sarah Jessica Parker had, at one time, expressed interest in a film based on The Countess. Unfortunately, at the time, Ludovica and I, flush with the success of the play, thought we were going to make our own independent film.
Perhaps Weinstein or Parker might still be interested. I decide that, if Emma's film Effie should move closer to actual production, I will see a lawyer about my options.
I am surprised, however, when less than two weeks later, I receive another email from Effie's producer asking if I've had a chance to think about the £10,000 offer and 'special mention'.
I ignore the email. A month later another email arrives asking if she can assume that my 'silence means agreement' - I am astounded - 'and shall I ask my lawyer to draw up a very short agreement between us'.
I respond that if she seriously wishes to settle the matter, any discussion-will have to include payment for the rights to my original play and screenplay and a screenwriting credit.
Two months later, Effie's lawyers ask my lawyer what will settle the case. The reply is an amount in the low six figures and a screenwriting credit. Effie's lawyer finds this 'quite unacceptable' and 'difficult to take seriously' and tosses in a word or two of Latin to underscore the level of his contempt.
Months later, however, I am offered in writing a choice of either of two credits: 'Screenplay by Emma Thompson, Greg Wise and Gregory Murphy' or 'Based upon the play The Countess by Gregory Murphy' and a fee in the low six figures (admittedly, lower than the original number my lawyer named). Effie's lawyer also agrees to a mention in the closing credits of the film acknowledging the originating New York production of The Countess.
At last, a dispute that has been raging for almost two years seems on the verge of resolution. Lawyers on both sides are writing friendly - almost giddy - emails to one another. The champagne corks seem ready to fly, when my lawyer mentions one small thread that still needs to be tied up. When will the money be paid? When the film goes into production, is the response.
My lawyer is forced to point out it is usual and customary for a writer to be paid 50 per cent at signing, the remainder to be paid on the first day of principal photography. Effie's producers say they cannot afford this.
They are making a film with several international stars, my lawyer counters (it has been reported they want to employ Orlando Bloom, Saoirse Ronan, Imelda Staunton and Thompson herself). And they cannot afford so negligible a sum? No.
Disgruntled: Playwright Gregory Murphy, author of 'The Countess' at the Lamb's Theatre on W. 44th St., New York City. His dispute with Emma Thompson over the film rumbles on
They want to tie up all the rights in The Countess play and screenplay indefinitely without spending a dime? Apparently they do. My lawyer insists on 50 per cent at signing. Effie's lawyers walk away without further explanation.
I receive a letter from a new lawyer putting me on notice that all previous negotiations are hereby disavowed, followed by seven pages pointing out all the ways in which the screenplay of Effie differs from my play The Countess (for some reason, my screenplay is referred to as an alleged entity). I ask for some explanation for this curious turn of events but receive no reply.
Two months later I am awakened by the service of a summons from Effie's producer seeking a court order against me, by which means the producer hopes to have the purity of the Effie screenplay adjudicated and proclaimed by the United States District Court of New York, so that filming on Effie can begin this August. Affidavits and briefs have been filed on both sides and now we must wait to see how the case will be resolved. It will probably take months.
I understand that Emma is not currently commenting on the case. According to her agent, she is on sabbatical. However, I can say from her court papers that she firmly contends that Effie is a fiction created from her imagination and is based on real people and actual historical events.
She states that Greg Wise, who has a degree in architecture, became aware of Ruskin and his writings while at university and that over the years she and Greg had discussed working together on a project based on John Ruskin.
Emma further contends that she is now aware that a production of my play The Countess was mounted in England, which she notes in her affidavit 'received uniformly bad reviews'. She says she has never seen the play nor read its script, and that nor has she received a copy of The Countess from a mutual friend, who is now ready to state under oath that he never gave her the screenplay.
All similarities between her screenplay and my screenplay are coincidental, she says, and the result of the fact that both screenplays are based on real events.
Emma writes in her affidavit: 'I even met with Murphy at one point, hoping that a personal approach might advance matters. I told him that I had never received his screenplay and when he insisted that I had, I asked if he thought I was lying. He protested that he did not mean to say that. Nothing came of this meeting.'
My lawyer tells me there may be an oral argument to which all the participants are permitted to attend. I'll be there and perhaps Emma Thompson will as well. People ask me if I will say anything to her. After two years, it's all been said.
Perhaps, in the end, there's a kind of insane symmetry to it all. Effie Ruskin went to court to prove her virginity, Emma Thompson's Effie is now in court to prove its virginity, and maybe it will - with enough money and power most things are possible - but I contend this Effie has a past.
Gregory Murphy is a playwright and novelist. His first novel Incognito will be published by Berkley Books in July.
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The Major League Baseball season is heating up, and division races are starting to take shape in both Leagues. It is becoming more clear as to who the true playoff contenders are, and what teams will be sellers at the trade deadline. Let's take a look at a few top betting picks from this weekend's MLB slate.
Saturday, June 23rd:
Washington Nationals vs. Philadelphia Phillies: National League East rivals will meet this weekend in our Nation's capital as the Washington Nationals host the Philadelphia Phillies. Both teams are trying to chase down the Atlanta Braves in the division standings. The pitching matchup on Saturday favors the Phillies in a big way. Aaron Nola will make the start for Philadelphia and he has been one of the top pitchers in baseball this season. The Nationals will counter with young Erick Fedde, who has struggled in his three starts this season. The Washington Nationals have been playing better of late, but it's hard to pick against Aaron Nola. The Philadelphia Phillies are the pick on Saturday.
Boston Red Sox vs. Seattle Mariners: The Boston Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners are squaring off this weekend in a battle of two top AL Teams. The Mariners are the surprise team in baseball, but face a tough task at Fenway Park on Saturday. The Red Sox will send Eduardo Rodriguez to the mound looking to improve upon his 9-1 record. Seattle will counter with veteran Mike Leake (7-4), but the Red Sox have a clear pitching edge in this game. Look for the Red Sox offense to provide enough run support for Rodriguez in this one. The Red Sox are the favorites to beat the Mariners on Saturday.
New York Mets vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: The New York Mets are suffering through another rough year, but Jacob DeGrom continues to be one of the best pitchers in baseball. Jacob DeGrom will get the start against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday at Citi Field. The Dodgers will be sending young Caleb Ferguson to the mound for his 4th career start. The Dodgers might be the better team in this matchup, but DeGrom is too good to bet against. If the Mets are able to score even just one run on Saturday, it might be enough for DeGrom. The Mets are the pick over the Dodgers in this game.
Sunday, June 24th:
Houston Astros vs. Kansas City Royals: The defending champion Houston Astros are hosting the Kansas City Royals this weekend at Minute Maid Park. The Astros have been on fire in the month of June, and are taking on a rebuilding Kansas City team. Houston will be the favorite in every game this weekend, but Sunday might be their biggest advantage as Justin Verlander will be making the start. Verlander is 9-2 with a 1.60 ERA so far this season, and appears to be the frontrunner to start the All-Star game for the American League. The Astros should have little trouble defeating the Kansas City Royals in the series finale on Sunday afternoon.
Milwaukee Brewers vs. St. Louis Cardinals: The Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals will be wrapping up their four game series on Sunday afternoon at Miller Park. The Brewers came into this series with one of the best home records in baseball, and appear to be a real threat to the Cubs in the Central division. The St. Louis Cardinals struggle to score runs, and their struggles might magnify on Sunday. The Brewers will be sending Jhoulys Chacin to the mound, and he has been one of the hottest pitchers in baseball since late May. Chacin has won 5 of his last 6 starts and should be able to outduel the Cardinals' Luke Weaver. The Brewers are for real, and they are the pick to beat the Cardinals on Sunday.
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"OWECOP's great advantage is that it can calculate the wind energy potential and perform a quick and clear cost analysis for every square kilometre offshore," explains ECN's Manuel de Noord. "The program combines a mathematical model with a geographical information system. The model gathers geographical information from a data base which contains details such as wind speeds, water depths, measurements of wave height and distance to shore. The model then calculates the investment necessary in material, preparation, management, turbine maintenance and the net energy output."
ECN researchers have applied the program to the Dutch sector of the North Sea, the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Some 10,500 square kilometres of the EEZ were recently appointed by the government as priority areas for offshore wind energy. Using this entire area could, in principle, supply all the electricity needed by the Dutch, some 110 TWh. Furthermore, between 10 to 15 TWh can be generated in the Dutch North Sea at a production price of EUR 0.10/kWh or under, based on Dutch renewable energy policy and technology that will be state of the art in 2005.
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The software program could provide a much-needed boost to investor confidence in an area which is plagued by uncertainty. The Dutch government has given the go-ahead to two offshore projects: the 99 MW near shore wind farm (NSW) pilot to be built some 12 kilometres off the coast by a consortium of Shell, Nuon, NEG Micon, and NoordzeeWind; and a 120 MW truly offshore plant, Q7WP, to be built by a consortium comprising E-Connection, Vestas, Smit Maritime, ABB and Fortis Bank. But some 2.5 GW of further projects applications have been put on hold for three years while a concession system is worked out.
"At the moment it is not clear where we can build wind farms in the preferred areas. Current policy is to build on the first government identified priority area and when that is full you can apply for the second, but there is no agreement about what is full. According to criteria of no-go areas, such as shipping lanes, only one-fifth of the first priority area is actually available for wind development," says De Noord. This amounts to 300 square kilometres. Nevertheless, De Noord believes the government target of 6000 MW by 2020 is possible, "OWECOP shows that the potential of the first and second priority areas alone is in double figures. For 12.5 TWh you would need about 4 GW of installed capacity, around 8% of the total priority area."
Race for licences
As the race for offshore licences heats up -- and the interest is keen -- demand for OWECOP analyses is likely to grow, for not all sites within the priority areas are suitable for commercial wind production, says De Noord. "Within the priority areas there are sections where the water is around thirty metres deep. Obviously the most economically attractive wind energy will be generated in areas nearer to the coast and in shallower waters."
Because the program relies on a fairly complex linkage between an Excel work book program and a geographical information system (GIS), OWECOP will not be made commercially available. Instead interested parties will have to go to ECN for detailed analysis of potential sites. In principle the system will be available for analysing other national waters, "but then we will need detailed geographical information. When this is available the model can easily be adapted to assess costs and potentials in other countries," says De Noord.


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Jean-Christophe Carbonel was born in 1959 and wrote his first modelling article in 1977. He graduated from the University of Paris I: Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1979 and followed up with a diploma from Sciences Po in 1981. He currently is a senior auditor at Le Groupe La Poste. His first solo work in English language was in 1991 for the British magazine Collecting Scale Models. He admits that part of his knowledge of the English language came from reading the Airfix instruction sheets, which were, at the time still English-only. Since then, he has pursued a writing career specializing in model kit history and in the history of aviation projects, prototypes, and early experimentals. Jean-Christophe has more recently specialized in French designs of all eras. Writing for various magazines on both sides of the Channel, French Secret Projects 2 is at least his thirteenth book. You can check him out at his LinkedIn page, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-christophe-carbonel-13540111/ .
The cover painting by Daniel Uhr depicts a Nord-Aviation "mother" aircraft launching a strategic missile as part of the Minerve long range strategic bomber program. The rear cover features a color photograph of the Breguet Br 941 prototype flying over the Alps, a Dassault Minerve IVB strategic bomber desk model, and a the SE 161 Languedoc carrying a flying scale model of the proposed NC270 jet bomber. I counted 120 black and white photographs, 53 color pictures, 17 color drawings, and 341 black and white drawings (general arrangement, cutaways, promotional, etc.) on 264 glossy pages. Each design discussed is also accompanied by a short specifications table calling out wingspan, length, gross wing area, t/c ratio, gross weight, power plant, maximum speed/height, and armament where known.
Jean-Christophe Carbonel follows his 2016 book, French Secret Projects 1: Post War Fighters, with a tome covering France's post war bombers, trainers, helicopters, and other military aircraft. Gaining access to French manufacturer's archives (notably Dassault, Nord, and SNECMA) has resulted in a treasure trove of documents and photographs that are included in this volume. This includes wind tunnel and promotional models, period drawings and promotional art, along with the photographs.
Jean-Christophe Carbonel kicks off with an introduction that addresses the French design involvement in German projects in World War Two. Chapter One opens up with France's first attempts at heavy jet bombers after the end of the war and covers the proposals Arsenal, Breguet, Matra, Nord, SNCAC, SNCASE, and SNCASO. The next chapters see the French industry improve their focus by pursuing twin engined strike aircraft that evolved into the Vautour. The Armee de l'Air still wanted their supersonic bomber though, which led into the Dassault Mirage IV and its plethora of upgrade proposals. The apex of French bomber design was the Minerve Programme, a super-duper top secret program whose goal was to carry and launch a nuclear missile (see Daniel Uhr's front cover painting). Strike and trainer aircraft are addressed next, including the ECAT story and what would end up being the Jaguar operationally. All of your favorites are here, plus much, much more. You want flying saucers? Got it! How about atomic powered aircraft? Got that as well! Just take a look at the following table of contents to see for yourself.
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Jean-Christophe Carbonel groups the myriad of projects by class and then by company to tell this story. I was impressed with the organization and depth that Carbonel was able to apply to this subject. It's hard to pick a favorite section, but the chapter on 'Atomic Power' was quite interesting. Given that politically, France was never interested in strategic bombers, it is amazing that this effort lasted for nearly a dozen years. One proposal studied was an ultra-long-range cruise missile under Project Attila. One of the concepts studied under this project was a direct cycle nuclear ramjet where the jet exhaust would have been highly radioactive, hence like Attilla, 'the grass would not grow again where it had passed'.
Jean-Christophe Carbonel's research is in depth and follows the thought process as each design progressed. Navigating the somewhat confusing and seemingly ever-changing company names is welcome, at least from this American's point of view. Carbonel is able to weave in a tremendous amount of information on the design studies from the competition as a whole in conjunction with the political drama of the day and still manage to provide a compelling and readable storyline. The inclusion of many 'first person' quotes and perspectives is just the icing on the cake. Impressive!
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A barbecue party in Lincoln had to call in the firefighters after the fence and trees caught fire on Sunday evening.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue were called to Chedworth Close in Lincoln at 7.21pm on July 8 after a BBQ tipped over and embers ignited surrounding trees.
Neighbours could see a 5m conifer hedge alight, as well as the wooden fence around the property engulfed in flames.
Three wheelie bins also caught fire.
The Lincoln North fire crew extinguished the blaze using two hose reels.
There were no reported injuries.
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Leonard Filgate is best known for the artwork and books he created based on the RIP SQUEAK® characters he and his wife, Susan Yost-Filgate developed for a successful series of children's books and images. Filgate's work is collected around the globe and he has exhibited in many venues across the US and Canada, including a solo exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum in 2005/2006. In 2003, he was the featured illustrator for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and the Edward James Olmos Family Festival. His work is included in the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance's "Every Picture Tells a Story" exhibition, which has traveled to the Bremen Museum in Atlanta, the Spertus Museum in Chicago, the Indianapolis Children's Museum, and other museums. Filgate was inducted as an artist member of the New York Society of Illustrators in 2006. For more information visit http://filgateart.com.
Susan Yost Filgate is co-creator and author of RIP SQUEAK® and other books for children. She is also a book designer, graphic designer, and art and museum educator. Susan has a bachelor's degree in art education (with an emphasis in museum studies) from the Pennsylvania State University. For over ten years she worked closely with husband Leonard Filgate as the Creative Director for Rip Squeak, Inc., a book and art publishing company. Susan is currently the Education Director for the Fresno Art Museum (FAM) in Fresno, California where she creates and manages educational programs for both adults and children, working closely with the Fresno County Office of Education. She also annually curates a special exhibition at FAM focused on children's book illustrations and illustrators. For more information visit http://filgateart.com.


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Mystics run past the Sun behind Hill's career night
The Washington Mystics mad sure that there wouldn't be an encore performance for Alex Bentley or the Connecticut Sun. The Sun won on Friday night at their house, but the home team returned the favor in this one. It was Washington's eighth home win of the season and their 13th overall, putting them just one and a half games behind the East leading New York Liberty. Washington used a balanced scoring effort from start to finish to beat the Sun 84-73, their defense was notably different than Friday night. They held Bentley to just two points on the afternoon, she had 29 more of those points up in Connecticut a few days prior.
One of the players that doesn't get a ton of credit in Washington is small forward Tierra Ruffin-Pratt (TRP), she's one of those "glue" players. It doesn't always show on the stat sheet, but she always leaves and impact on the game. She's one of their better perimeter defenders, if not the best and their best slasher. The Mystics opening basket came from her and Stefanie Dolson working the two-man game on the weakside of the floor, before Dolson found Emma Meeseman for a midrange jumpshot that hit the bottom of the net.
The Mystics got TRP and their two All-Star bigs involved early on, the three of them touched the ball early and often. It resulted in Washington jumping out to a 10-2 lead, with Dolson scoring six of those points. The Sun would tighten up on defense to close the gap on Washington heading into the second quarter. Connecticut's Shekinna Stricklen led the way for her team with seven points in the period. Alex Bentley got her first and only basket about midway through the quarter, hitting a tough fall-away over a double-team.
There it is! With that jumper, Alex Bentley went over 1,000 points! She now has 1,001 for her career. #LetsGoSun
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Connecticut really made a stand at the start of the second quarter, digging in on the defensive end and getting baskets to cut the deficit. Washington's lineup after subs were made, struggled to get the ball to the post players. Namely Kia Vaughn, whenever her and Sanders are in the game she's the one that establishes deep post position, while Sanders pops out a bit more. Vaughn did a great job coming into the game and establishing position, but the Sun ball pressure kept the Mystics guards (Hartley & Hill at the time) from getting the ball inside.
The Mystics would respond, Coach Thibault kept Vaughn and Sanders in the game while changing out all three perimeter players. Natasha Cloud came in and had a pretty drive and kick with TRP as Washington bounced back on the offensive end to quell the Sun run. Cloud started on the wing, lost the handle, then regained it and drove to the basket. Upon getting to the baseline it was clear that she drove with full intentions on kicking out to a shooter. She drove on the left wing, then fired a pass out to TRP who was in the right corner and buried the triple. Ruffin-Pratt would then follow up that three pointer with a huge block on Alyssa Thomas, that turned into a nice inside score from Dolson. A three from Ivory Latta extended the lead to 15, TRP would get the second of her three blocks on the night shortly after Latta's triple. Washington would take a 12 point lead into the half, it was a low scoring affair to that point (34-22).
One of the main reasons the Mystics held the 12 point lead was their ability to get to the line, they were aggressively attacking the basket. Taking 16 trips to the charity stripe in the half to Connecticut's six. They were also winning the battle on the glass, 22-12.
Like the start of the second quarter, the Sun started the third period with a triple from Camille Little. Then Kelsey Bone (19 points, 3 rebounds) started to go to work, she and Dolson are two of the few old school bigs in the league. In the sense that while they have touch on the perimeter, they like to bang on the block in their heart of hearts and the officials were letting them play. The two went toe-to-toe at the start of the quarter, but the Mystics would start to pull away thanks to two luxuries they had.
Washington let Cloud run the team to start the half, Latta clearly was playing more off-ball. That really put added pressure on the defense as Ivory's one of the league's better shooters from distance. That was the first luxury, the second was Tayler Hill. The former first round pick has carved out a role on this team by being a super-sub, a sixth starter if you will. She came off the bench in the first half and immediately scored four points, in the second half, she erupted.
Alyssa Thomas (14points, 11 rebounds) tried to start the comeback for her team by carving out room on the offensive glass and scoring for her team. Hill was just too much, she is far more than the "shooter" label she detests. She took defenders off the dribble at will and also hit four of her five attempts from deep. Cloud got in the act in that quarter as well, she's known as a pass-first player and teams are starting to play her as such. The problem is she's a six foot guard, so when she is operating the pick-and-roll, if the defense is sitting in the passing lane they are giving a clear driving lane to a player with very good size. She hadn't took advantage of it much this season, but it was clear there was an emphasis on it as she attacked the basket several times throughout the game which cause the defense to play the pick-and-roll honestly, giving the big involved even more space after Cloud started getting to the basket.
She wasn't the only Mystic to give the Sun a lesson in how to run a pick-and-roll, Latta didn't score double-digits, but she made plays for others in those situations. She found Vaughn, Dolson, and Meesseman a couple of times for easy layups. Teams play Latta much different than Cloud in those situations, they'd rather keep her from scoring. Which means if, well when she makes the pass to the big, they are often high percentage shots.
With Bentley not having a great night, Jasmine Thomas took it upon herself to pick up the scoring slack down the stretch. She hit a couple of triples to cut the deficit to single digits. Washington got a little sloppy on offense late and Connecticut took advantage of it. They cut the lead to 10 with two minutes left, but Washington responded with a dagger. The person who twisted the dagger? None other than Tayler Hill, she nailed her fourth triple of the night off of a nice screen from Dolson. The Mystics would finish the job at the foul line, winning 84-73.
- Rising. The Mystics still haven't reached their peak, they might need to get there soon with the tough schedule ahead. They possess one of the most talented rosters in the league and they still haven't started rolling on all cylinders
- Consistency. Coach Thibault mentioned that word several times when addressing the media after the game. As of now the only thing that is known about the Mystics at this point is that they have a deep and talented roster. They haven't played to their best ability in a stretch of consecutive games thus far, Thibault is trying to push his team to get to that level of consistency
- Balance. Washington had four players in double-figures, they continue to be unselfish. Sharing the ball to the tune of 18 assists
- Tayler Hill. She's one of the few players on the second unit that has found some sense of consistency, once the others get going this team will be a force to be reckoned with. She's been playing like a top five pick as of late. She had a carer high with 20 points
- LaToya Sanders. She took an incredibly hard fall in the second quarter when trying to block a shot, she's been a great addition to the team. A seamless transition, she's averaging nearly three blocks a game


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Fashion editor and street-style star Giovanna Battaglia-Engelbert frequently gives her 545,000 Instagram followers sneak peeks at her chic adventures around the globe—a recent post placed her in magical Capri, Italy—but her home base is Stockholm. On the city's Djurgården island, she shares a stylish apartment with her husband, Oscar Engelbert, which they renovated together. Navigating the design process solo (the couple didn't use an architect or designer) had another benefit besides resulting in an ultra-personalized home: It helped Battaglia-Engelbert discover some of Stockholm's best local spots, from impressive architecture sites to beautiful home-decor shops. She recently shared some of her must-visit places on AD's Instagram feed. Together, her posts make the perfect insider's guide, if you happen to be visiting the Nordic city anytime soon.
Giovanna Battaglia-Engelbert exploring Stockholm by boat.
Before a day of sightseeing and shopping, Battaglia-Engelbert recommends stopping at the local bakery Valhallabageriet for breakfast.
Itching to go shopping? Head to interior design company Svenskt Tenn's flagship store. Imagine a sofa covered in one of these graphic prints!
Yayoi Kusama's "In Infinity" exhibit at the city's Museum of Modern Art is her first major retrospective in the region.
Bookworms and design lovers should visit the Stockholm Public Library, designed by Gunnar Asplund. You can't miss it—the building is a vibrant orange hue on the outside.
Designer Christian Halleröd created the warm wood interiors of jeweler Engelbert Stockholm's flagship shop.
The Art Nouveau–style Operabaren, where Battaglia-Engelbert likes to grab post-show eats, is more than 100 years old.
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Springfield College Department of Visual and Performing Arts Hosts Game Lab and Career in the Arts Day Workshop
The Springfield College Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Digital, Web, and Multimedia Design Program hosted a free Game Lab and Career in the Arts Day Workshop on Saturday, Nov. 9 on the campus. The program is designed for high school students who have an interest in becoming a game designer or working in the arts.
The workshop introduced individuals to video game design experts, and allowed guests the opportunity to experience the field first-hand. Attendees also had the opportunity to be a part of a panel discussion with industry experts who discussed career options in game design, digital design, art teacher, art therapist, and community art coordinator.
The event included a panel of industry experts representing multiple careers in the arts including: Co-Founder of Pioneer Valley Game Developers Pat King, Designer for Interactive Media Creath Carter, City of Easthampton Arts Coordinator Pasqualina Azzarello, Trauma Informed Care Clinic Art Therapist Alicia Shibley, and Multimedia Artist and Art Educator Michelle Shibley.
For more information about the day, check out springfield.edu/artcareers.
Springfield College is an independent, nonprofit, coeducational institution founded in 1885. Approximately 4,100 students, including 2,500 full-time undergraduate students, study at its main campus in Springfield, Mass., and at its regional campuses across the country. Springfield College inspires students through the guiding principles of its Humanics philosophy – educating in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others.


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At 5 p.m. on April 24, students gathered in clusters around the tables in upper Montgomery Hall lobby, eating pizza, drinking soda and chatting. At the front of the room stood a podium and a projector screen, where students would soon present the prose, poetry and art that is compiled in the Spring 2019 edition of AVATAR, St. Mary's College of Maryland's (SMCM) literary magazine.
The event started out with some light-hearted banter between Club President Kimberly Boenig ('19) and Club Adviser Jerry Gabriel, admonishing him for speaking out of turn. Boenig then went on to give her thanks and acknowledgements for those who participated in the making of AVATAR, submitters and executives alike. "I also want to thank Oreos," Boenig added, citing them as the unofficial club mascot. She then introduced the three new executive board members who will be heading the club next year: Alyssa Hawkins ('21), Danielle Harris-Burnett ('21) and Vera Armstead ('20).
As there were some technical difficulties with getting the slideshow to function, Boenig warmed up the crowd of about 30 students with some stand up comedy, tellings jokes about the meat of a walnut and a magical French dog to lukewarm response. "My jokes are as funny as a tank with a kickstand or a submarine with sliding glass doors," Boenig admitted with all the eloquence of a great writer. With that, the reading began.
Boenig first introduced the cover of the magazine, a photo of a yellow flower taken by Lindsey Wooleyhand ('19) titled "Island Jam." While minding readers to take heed of the content warning key that designates which pieces involve sensitive subjects like mental health or sexual assault, Boenig then read the list of works from the table of contents, inviting the authors in attendance to come read or talk about their pieces before the audience.
What followed was a mix of poetry, prose, and art that showcased the very best of SMCM students. The pieces ranged from deeply moving to delightfully lighthearted, and covered a wide variety of topics ranging from Ruby Turner's poem about police brutality that left the room breathless to Andrew Sonnenburg's ('22) hilariously relatable piece about always buying too much at Target. The magazine held beautifully unique free verse from poets like Liz Spencer ('19) and James Pollard ('19) as well as impressive rhyme scheme from Ifeanyi Ndolo ('21). Poetry did not completely steal the show, however, with amazing prose from Marie Keller ('19) and Danielle Harris-Burnett. In addition, there was spectacular photography from Ziling Guo ('20) and gorgeous art from other students.The reading closed with a heart-wrenching, tear-inducing "Eulogy for a Cat" by Boenig herself for her cat, Princess Tigerlily, who passed in 2018. The eulogy left the audience with a note of bittersweetness, reminding us all to spend time with our loved ones while we can.
Overall, the reading was a fantastic demonstration of the art and writing talent that exists at SMCM. For those interested in participating in AVATAR, either as a submitter or a member of the executive or review board, keep an eye out for more information on InsideSMCM, and consider a donation to help keep the college's remarkable literary magazine around for years to come.


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Out on a hike with his grandsons one day, Perry Huston got a bit ahead and started dropping coins along the trail. The chirps of delight as Dylan and Evan found the coins brought back fond memories for his daughter, Holly Krueger. When she was growing up, Perry was the dad who always sought out adventure and strived to bring joy into his kids' lives. Now, he was doing the same for his grandkids. "He was the best grandfather because he was a big kid himself," Holly says. Adventure has always been part of Perry's life. Born Jan. 4, 1933, on a farm in northern Missouri, he grew up mostly in Rolla, Missouri. His mother, Delia (Purdy) Huston was a homemaker and his father, Clark Watson Huston, was a highway patrolman back in what Holly calls the "Bonnie and Clyde days." Perry grew up hearing wild stories of his dad's days on patrol and still loves law enforcement tales, such as police shows on TV.
Perry was popular, a good-looking boy with an excellent singing voice. During the summers, he would often go to his mother's family farm and play with his cousins. The rest of the year he had a happy small-town existence with his sister, Janet. Perry was the captain of the football team and played piano in a band. When he went to the University of Missouri, his fraternity nominated him for a Homecoming King-like contest called "Jack of Hearts." Since his fraternity then burned down in a fire, Perry stood on top of a fire truck to campaign. He won. At college, Perry also won over his first wife, Kathryn Roth. They married in 1955, within about three months of meeting each other, and later moved to Chicago. A pre-med major, Perry found medical school wasn't for him and went to work as a pharmaceutical representative. The couple had daughter Holly in 1956 and son Tracy two years later. "They were real fun-loving," Holly says of her parents. They had a lot of friends and parties with other families in the area. The house was also full of animals – dogs, cats and fish to name a few. While Perry may not have been a "change-your-diaper" kind of guy, he made a point to take the kids out on adventures on the weekend to give their mother a break and to just have some fun. Holly remembers in later years going horseback riding and boating with her dad.
In the early '60s, the family moved to Kansas City so Perry could do an apprenticeship with his father-in-law in art conservation. While Perry finally found a career he was passionate about, the time was also one of transition for the family. Perry and Kay got divorced and Perry moved to Fort Worth, where he would go on to become a nationally renowned conservator. In 1971, he began working for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and then started his own preservation company. A year after Perry's move, his kids Holly and Tracy moved to Fort Worth to live with him. Perry got a lake house and loved to take the kids boating, driving and hiking up in the mountains. He nurtured his love of "miniature war games," which involved intricately decorated miniature lead soldiers and days-long tournaments with what Holly affectionately calls "war nerds." Perry also thrived in his career. Collections around the country sought his expertise, and his firm won a government contract to restore more than 100 murals in the Library of Congress. The Chicago Tribune in 1993 marveled at the work that Perry and his team were doing, carefully removing decades worth of dirt to reveal vibrant murals, some as large as 30 feet across, depicting themes such as Justice and Peace. "We're working on something that's irreplaceable -- like a life," Perry told the newspaper at the time. Perry also painstakingly documented the work, leaving the library a collection of photos showing the murals before, during and after renovation from 1985 to 1994. It's listed in the library records as the "Perry Huston Collection." From 1980-82, he served as president of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. And through it all, he devoted special time to training, taking on a lot of interns and volunteering in his field.
"He was very charismatic and very giving -- he was a real leader in his field," Holly says. "He had a big set of admirers." In 1981, Perry married Jean Turman and remained devoted to her until her death in 2012, spending every day with her when she needed to go into a nursing home at the end of her life. Around the same time, he began his own battle with dementia and a couple years ago, he moved into the Silverado facility in Fort Worth. The fun-loving side of Perry still glimmers through. Every night in Fort Worth, he would play the piano for the staff and residents. He had three songs he remembered; then one day he remembered a fourth. Now that he's living in the Silverado in Alexandria, Va., Holly's hopeful that there will soon be a piano he can play again. Because Perry has always loved bringing joy to others.


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That's got his own"
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Distance Learning Program
This program in basic museum studies is offered to museum personnel for a reasonable fee and is subsidized by the Association for those within the Commonwealth. It is based on a course of studies developed by the Canadian Museums Association and reviewed and amended by CAM, and is administered by the CAM Secretariat. - the only distance learning course for museum workers with secondary education and directed specifically to international participants. There have been 40 graduates to date. It is currently slated for a major revision to update with museum thinking and practice and improve relevance to all areas of the Commonwealth.
Bulletin (Under 'Publications')
To keep members informed, CAM periodically produces a bulletin and invites contributions from members on current happenings and current topics of interest to museums.
CAM has maintained a very small website for several years with the assistance of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - the current website has been significantly expended and is more up-to-date and responsive as well as including much more information on the Association and its activities.
Publications (Under 'Publications')
- Occasional Papers - In 1993, the first issue was published to provide an opportunity for the publication of serious and lengthy articles on museums in post-Colonial societies. Papers are solicited from members and others which will contribute to our knowledge of the issues which face museums in the larger world.
- Declarations from Meetings - these resolutions are drawn up by the participants of theme program meetings and are based on the principle that by recording some of the principles and ideas for action, we can assist in maintaining our focus on how we wish to carry forward and follow up programs with concrete actions. While they may lie dormant for period of time, they stand as a reference point or springboard to continue as resources permit.
- Conference, Workshop and Symposia proceedings and reports - Papers from these meetings are published in whatever form may be deemed appropriate. Some may be available in PDF format on the website.
Facilitation of international connections, visits, meetings, etc.
CAM participates in a variety of initiatives to encourage dialogue among members. Study tours and internships have been arranged for individuals, especially as follow-up to the Distance Learning Program for graduates and as contact opportunities for members. The Association supports regional workshops as it has funds and facilitates and assists others in co-operative ventures to create opportunities for international communication with emphasis on building ongoing relationships.
Workshops, Seminars, etc. (Under 'Member Activities')
CAM organizes both Commonwealth wide and regional workshops, seminars, professional development sessions as funds are available and according to association priorities. These have occurred approximately 2 or 3 times in a 3-4 year period between major General Assemblies. The opportunity is usually taken at a Commonwealth wide meeting to hold the Triennial General meeting and two Executive Council meetings. Annual General Assemblies and Executive Council meetings may also be held on a formal or informal basis in conjunction with other professional gatherings as feasible.
Canadian Government Internship Program
(Young Canada Works, Building Careers in Heritage)
Funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage and administered by the Canadian Museums Association, this program for young unemployed or underemployed Canadians entering the museum field has benefited CAM members, the interns (19) and the Association. Interns are placed in Commonwealth museums and participate in the activities of the host museum usually within the context of a CAM program or theme. There have been Canadian interns in the Bahamas (2), Barbados (3), Botswana (3) Kenya (4), Malawi(2), Mozambique (1), South Africa(1), the U.K.(2) and Zambia(1)
The interns have supported the Group for Children in African Museums, the Distance Learning Program, CAM contacts, museums and communities, children's programming in general and support for local museum development and networking.


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Arvind Subramanian proves the value of industrial policyAugust 11, 2009
Arvind Subramanian writes at the Center for Global Development about "The Uphill Flow of Skill-Intensive Goods and FDI from Developing Countries":
We tend to think of globalization in the following way: the rich world exports financial capital, technology, sophisticated goods, and entrepreneurial and managerial skills in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries; the latter, in turn, export people, resources, and low-skilled goods to the rich world.
[…] Think of Indian TATA's takeover of the UK's Jaguar, China's Lenovo's acquisition of IBM, Brazil's success exporting commercial aircraft to high-income countries, and the growing exports of skilled services from Israel and India to OECD markets, and it's clear that something significant is happening… What are the consequences for countries that send goods and services uphill? Our preliminary work suggests that such countries experience positive economic growth as a result.
First of all… that first paragraph: well, yes, and is it any surprise that therefore lots of people think the current model of globalization is messed up, if it helps lock in this state of affairs? And, re the second graf, is anyone really surprised that exporting high-value-added, domestically manufactured stuff is good for a country's economy?
Secondly, left unsaid is the fact that the three companies cited above (Tata Motors in India, Lenovo in China and Embraer in Brazil) are all able to export and compete internationally in part because they are beneficiaries of strong industrial policy – that is, their countries at some key points in time did not follow the prescriptions of the current model of trade and globalization. I don't necessarily know enough about the specific cases to say this with certainty, but I would imagine that for these companies, the road to international competitiveness would have been blocked long ago had it not been for prudent steps that their respective governments took to (are you ready for this word?) protect their markets.
Here's what I do know: In India, Tata Motors evolved from a railroad company that itself evolved from an iron and steel company, which benefitted from both government procurement contracts and explicit trade protections (read more here). In China, well, it's China; China has never really followed neoliberal mandates, for better or worse; and Lenovo's largest shareholder is the government (note to self: do some research on Lenovo). In Brazil, Embraer started not just as a protected, but as a state-owned enterprise, and cut its teeth making military aircraft for the Brazilian air force (Tata has also made military vehicles).
Point being, these are all companies that probably wouldn't be where they are today if their governments had followed the free-trade orthodoxy often pushed by folks like, yes, the Center for Global Development.
Subramanian has a whole new paper on this topic, which I haven't read yet. It's on my list.
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