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Age UK welcomes plan for compulsory care training
The charity Age UK wants the enforced care worker training to teach staff how to notify authorities about suspected abuse or the poor treatment of the elderly by colleagues.
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We also need to make sure that staff with the right values are recruited into caring roles and that they remain supported by a system that values and rewards the important work they do.
The push for training comes after a series of scandals in which elderly and disabled adults have been mistreated in NHS hospitals and private care homes.
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Napoli have started their Serie A campaign with two solid wins: a 3-0 away at Palermo, and a 2-1 home victory over Fiorentina. But the solid -- although slightly uninspiring -- win over the Viola was marred by the condition of the pitch at the Stadio San Paolo. At times, it looked as though the players were treading through sand. Suggestions were made that the field was kept in such a condition to give the partenopei an advantage, but while Castel Volturno might be near the beach, I'm fairly certain the players aren't actually training next to the waves. Besides, they looked just as perturbed as the visitors.
Rumour has it that the grass has grown, so this time, all attention will be on the football. And the football should look just fine, with youngster Lorenzo Insigne making supporters forget all about that traitor Argentine that took off to Paris, and with Marek Hamsik seemingly determined to compete with Edinson Cavani for the most goals scored in an azzurri kit this season.
Parma had to start their season off against Juventus, who taunted them by flaunting their top goal scorer of last season, Sebastian Giovinco, in front of their faces, before going on to win 2-0. At home before the international break, however, the gialloblu wiped out their negative goal difference with a 2-0 win against Chievo Verona. The visitors barely threatened, however, so it's almost certain Parma will have a more difficult time of it this week.


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Anne, like the others, finds it difficult hiding in the Secret Annex. They can never go outside, and always have to be careful. It's very tense. Anne uses her diary to get her frustrations off her chest.
As well as the Frank family there are four other Jews in the Secret Annex: Hermann and Auguste van Pels with their son Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer. Four of Otto's employees help them. Everyone lives in constant fear of discovery. And it's certainly not easy for eight people to live in such close quarters.
From Monday July 6, 1942 the Frank family goes into hiding...
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The profile mostly reads as a history of RIM, which Lazaridis co-founded in 1984, but there are some interesting nuggets about his thoughts on the company's transition to a new CEO:
- Lazaridis said he had been planning to step down for years, and has been grooming new CEO Thorsten Heins since Heins joined RIM about four years ago. (This is despite the fact investors have been clamoring for a leadership change for some time now.)
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Belief in "millions" of years is substantiated only by propaganda. We have written historical records that confirm the age of the earth to be thousands of years. There is nothing — no eye witness account, no evidence, only conjecture — to support the earth's even being here millions of years ago, let alone supporting life. I don't care about the scientific talk. Talk is cheap. All evolutionary scientists are doing is interpreting the evidence without written historical records to back them up. Interpretation of data does not count as evidence. Anyone can insist on interpreting facts in a way that goes against reality. But to actually substantiate evidence, you need to have eye-witness accounts. You need to have written historical records. Evolutionists have none, because there is nothing behind their beliefs but a desire to deny God. Basically, if you insist on being foolish enough to think there is no divine authority, you will have to put forth fiction as fact. But you cannot actually change facts by merely altering people's opinions. Evidence is plentiful enough of design ... so plentiful, in fact, that Richard Dawkins frequently has to correct evolutionists who accidentally admit there is design and tell them that it is only an "appearance" of design.
We have historical written records that go back 6,000 years. Beyond that, you're getting into conjecture, unless you can get personal, first-hand, eye-witness testimony. Evolutionists will never have it, because their theory is just conjecture justified by speculation.


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Obsessed with the Now: Douglas Rushkoff and the threat of 'Present Shock'
Douglas Rushkoff is a man ready to talk. As a media theorist, he has a lot of ideas about everything, and he'd like to share them with you. His new book, Present Shock, is his effort to describe "right now," whatever that is — and how we deal with it. What's most surprising about the book is perhaps the fact that he wrote it all. He mentions the difficulty he had, with all the hustle and bustle of current society distracting him, and is very grateful to any theoretical reader for ignoring that noise long enough to make it through all 266 pages. It's entirely counter to the way he sees our society exchange and consume information these days. ("A book? Really? How anachronistic!"). He assumes you're much more likely to receive its ideas in a blog post or magazine review — much like this one you're about to read.
In Present Shock, Rushkoff describes our current state of information-saturated, always-on, technology-conformed being. He defines a number of syndromes or symptoms of this problem, and gives them fancy names like "Digiphrenia" and "Fractalnoia." They sound like mental disorders, which is sort of the point.
"Prophecy no longer feels like a description of the future."
The term Present Shock is a direct reference to Alvin Toffler's Future Shock published in 1970. Rushkoff and many others believe the futurism of the 20th century, most spectacularly displayed in the space race, has given way to a myopic obsession and focus on the present in the 21st century. He writes, "Prophecy no longer feels like a description of the future, but, rather, a guide to the present." The danger of futurism was an overwhelming consideration of what could be, the danger of presentism is an overwhelming consideration of what is.
His first chapter focuses on what he calls "Narrative Collapse," a result of our short attention spans and need for instant gratification. It's better in concept than the evidence he gives for it. He lumps most of modern entertainment (including, oddly, Seinfeld and Beavis and Butt-head) into something he calls "Now-ist Pop Culture," that's more concerned with making sense of the present, with self references and cyclical plots, than conveying the traditional Western story arcs we've known since Homer. We go for "heightened states" and problem solving in lieu of narrative.
It's an odd assertion to make at a time where narrative television is just hitting its stride — thanks to DVRs and Netflix, an audience is able to enjoy a television equivalent of a novel, instead of a self-contained half hour sitcom with no continuous plot line. Even the NFL uses narratives — the two coaches are brothers! — to sell itself. But Rushkoff would argue that most emergent narratives are insulated and present-focused because a "captive audience" is increasingly anachronistic (he points out the word "entertainment" means "to hold within").
The solution, he says, is to allow the audience to become a part of the narrative. New forms like video games and Twitter let passive viewers become active participants.
Of course, there's a danger to becoming part of the narrative. Humans, he explains, live in linear time, while the internet and our computers can do everything at once, and so in the digital, everything happens at once (many of Rushkoff's thoughts on time vs. humans parallel Nicholas Carr's writings in The Shallows). He calls this sensation "Digiphrenia." It's like "a dance partner who doesn't see or feel us," he says, and we're frustrated as we try to sync up.
Messages arrive on everyone else's schedule rather than our own
Similarly, all information is available to us simultaneously, so it can begin to feel similarly weighted. A single Google search can present a Tweet from 15 seconds ago alongside a heavily researched article on the topic. We get emails and text messages that don't matter to us simultaneously with — and in the same box as — ones which do. "Messages arrive on everyone else's schedule rather than our own."
For Rushkoff, the way to deal with these problems is to differentiate "storage" and "flow" — an idea you might've heard of back in 2010 as "stock and flow" from Robin Sloan. Something like Twitter, Rushkoff echoes, is a flow of data, which can't be dealt with comprehensively, only dipped into. A slower medium like email can work as storage, where each item can be given its appropriate amount of attention in time. "The digital can be stacked; the human gets to live in real time." It's the difference between adhering to a television programming schedule and using a DVR to watch shows at a time convenient to you.
Similarly, Rushkoff thinks we need to pay more attention to the rhythms of our bodies (as opposed to the CPU clock), the unforced conversations of consumers (as opposed to top-down corporate messaging), and try not to bite off more than we can chew. He encourages us to take our eye off the ball at times to see the bigger picture. To take the time we need to understand and react.
And then, of course, we're lead to another problem: we simply have too much data, and too many connections between those points of data, to make sense of it all. Rushkoff calls it "Fractalnoia." One succinct way to put it: "The ultimate complexity is just another entropy."
After talking to Rushkoff for an hour, I still can't tell if he thinks we'll win this war with the machines. In Present Shock he quotes himself from another book, Media Virus: "the spread of a particular virus depends no more on the code within the virus than it does on the immune response of the culture at large." So far, our culture doesn't seem to have much immunity to these new mediums. As I mention in my interview, much of what he describes manifests in my own life as stress. I hope to use some of his coping mechanisms as weapons and his definitions as armor when I return to the internet and have to fight these problems once more.
"I suggest we intervene on our own behalf — and that we do it right now, in the present moment."
Present Shock seems like it was written frantically, and some of its topics and examples seemingly chosen at random. The book's style seems a symptom of this cultural attention deficit / overstimulation he describes — almost like it was written in an attempt to capture the "now" before it slipped out of even Rushkoff's careful hands. I think some of his examples suffer because of this, which is a pity, because I really enjoyed chewing on his big concepts and well-named syndromes. Ultimately, the book is more for armchair theorists than a primer on our present technology-conformed culture — a high level book like Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, or a blow-by-blow account like Sherry Turkle's Alone Together, might be a better introduction to the state we find ourselves in.
Still, I loved Present Shock for its audacity and attempts to succinctly describe the cumulative effects technology has on us. Rushkoff's not as much listing problems he sees, as he's describing our reaction to and attempts to cope with those problems. I found the book worth taking a few hours away from video games and Redbox to finish. And that's Rushkoff's greatest hope for humanity, as he writes in his preface:
"I suggest we intervene on our own behalf — and that we do it right now, in the present moment. When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause. We have time for this."
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Heralded by Sound and Light, Madame Tussaud's Faux Famous Figures Arrive in Times Square
The latest sign of the transformation that has overcome New York's Times Square is the arrival of Madame Tussaud's, of wax celebrity and statesperson fame. Here, one can mingle and pretend to hobnob with everyone from Brad Pitt to Al Roker to Marie Antoinette. As long as patrons can restrain themselves around the aforementioned Mr. Pitt, the experience is fun in the comfortably G-for-Giuliani-rated realm. At $19.95 a pop ($15.95 for children), admission prices may be steep, but they're certainly cheaper than tickets to The Lion King, which resides next door. And The Lion King doesn't feature the friendly spectacle of two — count 'em — Whoopi Goldbergs.
All kidding aside, Madame Tussaud's New York is a major undertaking: a $50 million project, years in the making, which takes up about 85,000 sq. ft. of a new 42nd Street building, and which includes around 200 wax figures. It's one of those massive projects contributed to by scores of companies and individuals, and rather difficult for even the participants to sort out. But one thing is clear — despite all of the architectural and interior design, lighting, sound, and complex systems that went into the project, it's still about the figures. Or, in the official terminology of Tussaud's, the portraits.
"The portraiture comes first, and the surroundings have to come second," says Caroline Elliott, creative director on the project for Tussaud's Studios in London. "I think people are fascinated with wax, and given the quality of our work, the portraits don't fail to meet expectations. Trying to create an environment that works together with the portraits is probably the biggest challenge, because you don't want the environment to upstage what everyone's coming to see; you need them to seamlessly, inextricably match. The best environment is one that the audience steps into and becomes lost."
Yet first you have to find a space to create these environments, which was no small task. "The idea to bring Madame Tussaud's to New York has been alive since about 1979, linked to the 42nd Street regeneration program," says Simon Opie, director of Tussaud's Studios and London-based project director on the New York facility. The process accelerated during the 90s, until a site was chosen about three years ago. Key players over the years included developer Forest City Ratner, architects Ian McGonigal of Architecture IMG and Deborah Fantera of Ohlausen DuBois, and building construction manager Sciame.
The October 2000 opening did not mark Madame Tussaud's American debut, however. That would be Madame Tussaud's Las Vegas, which opened at the Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in 1999. The Tussaud's Group is not just a wax museum developer; the organization operates such varied attractions as the London Planetarium, Warwick Castle, English theme parks, as well as wax establishments in Amsterdam and Hong Kong. The Tussaud's (on English tongues, rhymes with Maude's) Studios is design central for the corporation; here, figures are modeled and environmental concepts are created. To develop the New York space, Opie and Elliott worked with a team of four staff designers — Graham Cooke, Nigel Woods, Mike Roberts, and costume designer Mette Udsholt. Eventually, lighting designers Mark Henderson and Stephen Wentworth, and John Leonard of Aura Sound Design, were brought in on a freelance basis, and worked on this side of the pond with Production Arts, Fourth Phase, Signal Perfection, Ltd., and other PRG companies.
The first step, says Opie, was to determine what Americans would like to see. "We developed a number of different concepts and we did some fairly extensive market testing with them," he says. "From that, we refined the ideas that were finally developed for the site. By the time the building was identified, we had a pretty good idea of how much square footage was needed, and we'd worked through a vast number of alternative concepts to a pretty good idea of our strongest contenders."
"Early on, we talked to a lot of American designers, because we wanted to create an exhibition that was right for the American market," says Elliott, whose design career with the Studios goes back 15 years. "We took a lot of advice. I suppose in England, where Tussaud's has been going for almost 200 years, we're rather more traditional in our approach. Tussaud's in England is very famous for its grand hall, for instance, which could never be copied anywhere else in the world because it's such a huge space, with lots of portraits in it. We didn't want to try to copy that approach; we didn't want it to be like just a franchise in another country. It needed to be designed for the place it was going, and for the people."
What the designer arrived at was more or less five distinct areas. After leaving the lobby, where they're greeted by the first Whoopi figure, guests are whisked by elevator up 10 flights to the top floor, and enter The Opening Night Party. This celebrity-studded nighttime fete is being held in an Italian Baroque — style garden setting, complete with cherubs, and with RuPaul splashing in a centerpiece fountain. The unexpected thing here is the lack of barrier between visitors and figures; you're invited to walk right up and touch Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Yoko Ono, Larry King, Oprah, the second Whoopi, and Mayor Giuliani himself. The emphasis, naturally, is on American and, specifically, New York figures. "We needed to have an area where a group of portraits, the A-list I suppose, could come together," Elliott says. "A party environment, where you're not putting them behind ropes, is a great way of doing that."
Why an Italian baroque theme? "It's completely different from anything you would expect coming in off of 42nd Street," says the creative director. "It's fairly tongue-in-cheek. I mean, the whole idea of Madame Tussaud's is pretty kitsch. But kitsch is fashionable, and it's fun to go along with it and enjoy the joke. That's why I wanted to do something fairly flamboyant and camp, and why RuPaul is in the middle of the fountain. It could have been an Ian Schrager-ish architectural space similar to the lobby, but you see that everywhere in New York. That might have been more real, but it being Madame Tussaud's, we went for something more theatrical and fun."
Leaving the party, one enters a hall of mirrors, which provides an introduction to Madame Tussaud's Story. And quite a story it is. Briefly, Marie Tussaud, née Grosholtz, was born in 1761 and rose to prominence as a wax modeler just prior to the French Revolution. At one point, Marie was forced to make death masks from the decapitated heads of King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, among others. One area — into which children or the faint of heart are warned not to venture — demonstrates a beheading, while another provides a creepy tableau of the graveyard where Marie searches through corpses to recover prominent heads. After fleeing to England in 1802, Mme. Tussaud toured the country with her collection, establishing a permanent museum only in 1835. She died in 1850, leaving her collection in the care of her family, which constructed the current Baker Street building in 1884.
The informational portion of the tour continues with Behind the Scenes, where the work-in-progress portrait of Al Roker is used to let visitors in on the really remarkable sculpting and modeling work done by Tussaud's Studios. Here, one learns that more than 250 precise measurements and photographs of a subject are taken (if, that is, said subject agrees to a sitting; the figures of those who don't are apparent); that a clay portrait is molded in plaster, and only the head is cast in wax, while the body is cast in fiberglass; and that the six — month creation of a portrait includes painstaking hours spent inserting each individual hair and sewing red silk thread into eyes to suggest veins. Everyone from a subject's dentist (for teeth moldings) to tailor can get in on the process. For Madame Tussaud's New York, the head of portraits was Judy Craig, with Sue Day in charge of hair and coloring.
The last stop on the 10th floor is The Gallery, a more traditional display that mixes portraits of Presidents past and present (poor Al Gore being consigned to storage in favor of George W., natch), world leaders ranging from the Dalai Lama to Fidel Castro, and such high achievers as Albert Einstein, Louis Armstrong, Picasso, Hemingway, and Annie Leibovitz. The setting here provides, in Elliott's words, a "slightly surreal feel," placing marbled and columned colonial-style architecture against a cloudy blue sky. "It's both an exterior and interior," she says. "Madame Tussaud's plays with tricking the eye, with what's real and what's not, so I took that as a theme."
An interactive multimedia section sponsored by A&E's Biography and designed, fabricated, and installed by Scharff Weisberg, includes a videowall, three Internet browser stations, and a video replay kiosk. The videowall shows a promo piece for Biography that blends imagery and sound; it consists of 16 standard 29" monitors plus an Electrosonic Vector video processor running C-Through for Windows software. According to Scharff Weisberg president Josh Weisberg, the processor provides "excellent image quality and allows the control of four video sources. As an additional safeguard against less-than-desirable image quality, Fast Forward Omega decks were specified rather than the typical DVD format." Bill Kneissel served as project manager for Scharff Weisberg.
The Biography section leads down a spiral staircase into the exhibition's big showpiece — Popular Culture. This meandering timeline starts in the 1920s, and through a series of pods provides glimpses of each succeeding decade with the aid of evocative sounds and lighting, graphics, and, of course, pertinent cultural, political, and sports-world figures from each period — Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth, Glenn Miller and Billie Holiday, Judy Garland and Jackie Robinson, Elvis, Lucille Ball, and Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles and Muhammad Ali, Richard Nixon, Tina Turner, and Michael Jordan.
In terms of space design, Elliott says, "We took a few risks in the Popular Culture area; it's fairly abstract. Rather than trying to create many decades through interior spaces, which wouldn't have been very imaginative, we felt it was important to tell a story with the people, the music, and the graphics. As long as the portraits are really good, you get a strong sense of each of the decades." This is one area in which the designers felt portraits could be placed on podiums or otherwise separated from visitors, "because it creates height in the space and gives it a more abstract feel." It also helps protects certain fragile elements from prying hands. "We could put Madonna up high, since she's one of the people who gets grabbed a lot, especially with her wearing Gaultier."
A key piece of designing any museum or themed attraction is creating proper flow of patrons. "We had to get 1,200 people an hour through this building," says Elliott. "You have to create a route that people don't realize they're taking, but which gets everybody in the same place at the end. In Popular Culture, it's a series of pools of light and sound." It was here, therefore, that the talents of sound designer John Leonard and lighting designer Stephen Wentworth really took over. Neither were originally slated to work on this portion of the attraction, but over the two to three years that intensive design was taking place on Madame Tussaud's New York, people and ideas tended to fall by the wayside.
Elliott shared her scale models, complete with 1:100 models of the figures, with Leonard and Wentworth, who started from there. Leonard designed sound for the entire museum, with the exception of "It Happened in New York," a computer-generated film presentation, created by Evans & Sutherland, which ends the tour. "Caroline told me, 'These are some of the sounds that we want to incorporate, and we need music.' I asked, 'Can we afford a composer?' and they said yes, so I got a good friend of mine, Colin Towns, who can write anything. The jazz that you hear in Opening Night Party is Colin, the French Revolution music you hear is Colin, the nice ambient stuff you hear in The Gallery is Colin."
But in Popular Culture, Leonard had to come up with a series of sound collages to go with each decade. "I did a demo for them of the 60s," he says, "and they said it was far too long at three minutes, so I cut it down to two. Then I scripted every area, found the music, found the sound effects, and put it all together. There were things we had to have" — such as certain music tracks and indispensable elements like Neil Armstrong's moonwalking "giant step for mankind" words. "Other than that, I had pretty much free rein to choose out of anybody's catalog that I wanted to use. The exception was Bob Dylan, whose people wanted some obscene amount of money. So I had to find a track that Dylan sang, but that he hadn't written."
The crucial piece of equipment Leonard used was Richmond Sound Design's AudioBox™, which features either eight — or 16 — track audio playback, a 16 × 16 matrix, and built-in delay, equalization, and programmable input, output, and crosspoint fades. While four 8 — track AudioBoxes cover the 10th floor, four 16 — track units are used just for Popular Culture, affording several capabilities. "Each sound you hear in every section of the AudioBox is a separate cue," says Leonard, who used DigiDesign's ProTools editing software to create the tracks. "The exhibition is not static, it changes. In order to change the music for one figure, you can simply load another piece of music in, program the show control, and it's done in about 10 minutes." This is exactly what happened when, at the last minute, Cher was moved from The Opening Night Party into the 90s pod of Popular Culture. "I rushed out, bought a copy of 'Believe,' and popped it in," says the sound designer. Aura show programmer Scott George helped facilitate the process.
Since the AudioBox runs on separate cues, it also got the exhibition over some copyright hurdles. "We were told that we could not do a two — track mix, because then we would be creating a new piece of music using other people's music," says Leonard. "So we just did everything separately. Obviously, they paid standard music playback charges, as everybody does."
Additional audio equipment includes a wide range of JBL Control speakers, QSC CS Series amplifiers, a Yamaha SPX-1000 reverb/echo unit, Richmond's ABEdit software, and even a smattering of Countryman and Shure microphones. The Audioboxes are triggered by an Alcorn-McBride show controller, and in certain sections, send MIDI commands to the ETC Expression lighting controllers, synching up with High End Systems Color Pros® and Power Scan™ 250MRs used in the 80s and 90s pods, for example.
Wentworth, who has worked on many Tussaud's projects, approached Popular Culture by using a different palette on each decade. "I start in sepia in the 1920s, and when we come to the Second World War, it's more black and white, or actually blue and white," he says. "When you get to the 50s, it's quite bright and almost fluorescent-type lighting in places, with lots of greens and yellows." The 60s moves into a more psychedelic look, complete with moving oil light, while the 70s is illuminated by a twirling, mirrored disco ball. In the 80s, moving lights are introduced, and the 90s, according to Wentworth, just "takes the 80s one step further." Still to be developed is the 21st century.
The designer's lighting package in Popular Culture, divided into individual grids over each pod, is largely made up of many dimmable, UL-listed Thomas Birdies, plus some Selecon low-voltage profile spots, and PAR-36 spots for recent decades. "The beauty of the Birdie is that you can put an 8° lamp in it and get quite a nice beam, or you can put a 60° lamp in it, so it becomes almost a flood," he says. Such flexibility is important when changes are continually occurring, and when you're lighting both environments and figures, particularly of the wax variety.
"It took me a long time to learn how to light wax figures to their satisfaction," says Wentworth of Tussaud's. "A) Wax can't take a lot of light, or it starts looking like wax, and B) You can't put color on the faces — wax doesn't react like skin does, it just looks like colored wax. If you're doing the Spice Girls, you want to put some color in, but you have to use it for backlight; you can't just slap red on the faces." (Elliott says the use of color is similarly important in scenic backgrounds to wax portraits — blue is good, yellow is bad.) "Also," Wentworth continues, "half the people at Tussaud's — the sculptors — want portrait lighting, and the other half want theatrical lighting. So you've got to balance that."
Wentworth was also responsible for Madame Tussaud's Story, where the graveyard scene was more clearly a theatrical challenge. That was lit from 6' pipes containing two ETC Source Fours and three Birdies. Source Fours are the primary fixtures in The Opening Night Party, which, along with The Gallery, was lit by Mark Henderson. "The lighting grid in there is relatively high," says Henderson of The Opening Night Party. "I wanted to use units that could focus tightly around each figure, leaving everything else relatively dark, for a nighttime feel." Strings of pea-lights are draped around the room, to distract the eye from the open grid in the ceiling.
Henderson was planning to employ a similar setup with a high grid and Source Fours in The Gallery. But budgetary concerns nixed that scheme in favor of dropped-down Selecon track-mounted profile spots. "Caroline wanted that to be a brighter, more open area, so it wasn't such a problem dropping it all down," says Henderson. "Each figure is individually lit, but not quite as tight as it would have been with the Source Fours." The blue-sky surround is lit by Source Four PARs from a grid in the ceiling.
Especially in The Opening Night Party, Henderson employs a moody lighting style that's closer to the theatrical projects for which he's better known. "Mark tends to hit the figures with one or two lanterns," says Wentworth. "He'll spend his money on Source Fours to do that, whereas I always put four lanterns on each figure. When you're just working on paper before the exhibition opens, you have no idea which way a figure's going to be pointed. It's got to be looking into the room, but you could go 45° either side. Therefore, if I put four lamps per figure, I know I'm going to get something straight on the face, two sides, and one back."
Overlapping with the paperwork part of the design on Madame Tussaud's was the actual construction and installation part of the process. Michael Lay, working in tandem with his Tussaud's counterpart Tim Coucher, was PRG's project manager for all of the lighting systems specification, coordination, and installation. "We were originally hired to prepare the facility impact drawings for the building," says Lay, who also worked on the sound systems with SPL's Mark Hoffman. "Then we produced a set of bid documents for the building based on the lighting designers' plots, and they went out for a bid. After the ducks were in a row, we started supplying lighting equipment and project management while the building was going up."
Rod Hickey's company, Big Show Construction Management, was in charge of installing the interior walls and scenery. "We were essentially the production managers for all of the themed areas," he says, "But it was a little strange, because while they were looking for somebody to do this, they had started bidding out and buying the scenery. So there were two production teams. Ted Irwin, the guy in London, would buy the scenery [most of which was manufactured at Westsun Scenic Edge, in Toronto] and oversee the construction, and essentially at the loading dock of the scenery contractors, it became mine."
The third major piece of the installation is supplied by Pook Diemont & Ohl, the company in charge of building the infrastructure — pipe systems, grids, and so forth — into the facility, and coordinating all of it with the visible elements of the attraction. After the raw building was delivered by Forest City Ratner, construction on Madame Tussaud's began in August 1999.
"We started building the walls, and putting in the mechanical systems, and then five or six months after that, we started putting in the scenery," says Hickey, whose previous projects include technical direction for Cirque du Soleil's O at Bellagio in Las Vegas and construction management on Rockefeller Center's NBC Experience. "By that time, the top floor was pretty much defined in scenic terms. We finished the top floor, and then worked our way down."
Not that it was an easy process. "The scenery came in big chunks, 8' wide and 18' tall," Hickey says. "One of the difficulties was, there's not really a freight elevator in the building — they call it a freight elevator, but it's only 9' long. So we chain-hoisted everything up 10 flights in an empty elevator shaft. It was an adventure, bringing an 18' flat up through a big hole without bending or breaking it." Since the ceilings on both floors are about 23' high, generally only a few feet remained above the scenery for plumbing, HVAC, and sprinklers. Squeezing became the order of the day, every day.
"One of the bigger challenges was that we wanted to tie all the themed entertainment systems together as one," says Lay. "So we had to put in enough cabling overhead, without being excessive, to go from the top floor through the building to the lobby, and stop in all the other spaces. The whole place runs, basically, under three buttons — one labeled 'day,' one labeled 'night,' and one labeled 'cleaning.' We worked a long time getting the show control together."
Little cultural clashes between the English and the American halves of the teams kept cropping up. For one thing, says Lay, "The lighting designers would specify European lighting fixtures every time and send them over. We'd say, 'Guys, these aren't UL-listed.' So we had a fixture specialist to find six things that were sort of like what they specified." Then there were what the Tussaud's people perceived as staggering costs on things like electrical contractors and building subcontractors and union labor. "This was of a scale in New York that is unusual," Hickey points out. "We did this entire thing with union carpenters and steam fitters and iron workers and electricians. These guys are used to building office or apartment towers. What we would consider sort of a normal level of change, they found very different."
Changes there were, ongoing and until the last minute. "There was a lot of redesign work for either budgetary or artistic reasons," says Lay. "And every little change causes a ripple. We lost 2' off one room, 2' off a mezzanine; now this lighting fixture doesn't fit, and we're going to need some more power over here….There was a lot of that."
For Leonard's part, he not only had to move Cher, he had to modify the sound design in Popular Culture towards the end of the process. "The original brief," he says, "was to make it so you were aware there was sound in the exhibition, but in each part, you should be able to hear precisely what's going on in there, and nothing else. Then the general manager came down and said, 'The thing is, you don't hear anything outside the pods.' So we turned everything up. Which now means that your hear crosstalk from each area."
The final piece to be installed at Madame Tussaud's New York was the most important — the wax portraits, which are spiked down with steel pins through their feet. But they, of course, represent the most changeable element at the attraction. Costumes may be donated by the subject, as in the case of Ivana Trump, or designed to evoke rather than copy a famous dress, such as that worn by Marilyn Monroe, or perhaps contributed as an original by a design house. And they don't remain in perpetuity. "We've had situations where people have come in regularly and asked for changes of costume," says Elliott. "The same with hair, obviously. Katie Couric's hair has changed about three times in the last month. It's difficult to make hair grow, though, once we cut it."
Maintenance is also an issue, even if it just means wiping kisses off of Brad Pitt. "It used to be that you couldn't walk among them," says Elliott says of the portraits, which at their best are quite eerily lifelike. "I fought very hard to change that in London; it took a long time to persuade them that was what it was all about, getting close to famous people."
In some cases, perhaps too close. "It's very spooky being there at night on your own," says Leonard. "I kept apologizing. You'd be walking around, you'd bump into somebody and say, 'Oh, sorry.' Then you'd realize you'd just said sorry to a Brad Pitt waxworks."
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The Seattle Sounders were thought to come out of the draw for the CONCACAF Champions League knockout stages worse off than any other club. They drew Santos Laguna, who had rolled through the group stage and were one of Mexico's best teams done the stretch of the Apertura en route to a place in the Liguilla final. If there was a team in the competition that no one wanted to be drawn against in the quarterfinals, it was Santos.
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East Lancashire house price slump continues to slow
5:00pm Friday 3rd January 2014 in News By Michael Morrison, Hyndburn reporter
THE house price slump in Blackburn, and across East Lancashire, is continuing to slow, according to new government figures.
Prices are now falling at a fraction of the rate they were two years ago, figures from the Land Registry showed.
In Blackburn with Darwen, prices fell by 3.1 per cent last year, compared to four per cent in 2011/12.
And in the rest of the county, prices fell by 1.6 per cent last year, compared to 4.3 per cent in 2011/12.
In November, houses prices rose to an average to £103,572 in the Lancashire County Council area, and £70,313 in Blackburn.
In stark contrast, homes in London are worth an average of nearly four times as much at just short of £400,000.
Estate agent Craig Pickles, from Proctor's Estate Agents in Preston New Road, Blackburn, said: "The market is levelling and people are more confident than they were this time last year or the year before.
"The one thing that will stop prices from rocketing around here is that people are still restricted on what they can borrow, and the lenders are still keeping it tight.
Mr Pickles said public perception had changed, with prospective buyers adopting a more positive outlook on the market. He added: "If people think prices are starting to increase then they will want to buy now before they do increase."
The figures also revealed a huge spike in the number of more expensive homes worth £2million-plus being sold.
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Michael@ClitheroeSinI agree there is no bubble in the market up in East Lancs. Kids are tied up with other debts these days. There is a lot of misinformation in the press about the market but if you want to fully own something warm and tidy its going to get expensive, esp. retirement bungalows.
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It was a created slump, people wanted to buy houses but could not get a mortgage.
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After spending a day working hard on building the barn and cleaning cow feces, the G8 members talked about their families as they welcomed the new year. Besides Kara's Kang JiYoung, the other members who are living in dorms expressed feelings of missing their parents.
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The Constitution Annotated runs 2,860 pages, weighs 10 pounds and costs $290.
But the document is now available for free in an app released on Tuesday in honor of Constitution Day, the Washington Post reports. The app, available from iTunes for iPhones and iPads, includes case law and analysis. An Android version is also being developed.
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I put the best book of the last few years years down for a moment and turned on the television last night (I am writing on the morning of Wednesday, June 4th, 2008). It was Barack Obama, who has become something like Ronald Reagan (whom the conservative Obama has praised again and again during this presidential campaign) to me at this point. I personally find him very hard to watch.
I know this will offend some readers – some ZNet folks are caught up in the Obama phenomenon, I know – and to such readers I apologize, but I can't lie. I can take about three minutes of him before I have to turn the television off or switch the station. I could only stand two minutes of Reagan.
Sorry. Bear in mind, I live in Iowa, where we started getting hit by the candidates in April of 2007. I'm just as tired of Hillary Clinton and I'm sure if John Edwards had somehow survived (impossible given his strange insistence on talking about class inequality and on praising the labor movement), I'd be nearly as sick of him as well by now.
It's getting very old to me. Sort of like Obama's language, which is often remarkably unoriginal in ways few of his many youthful supporters would have reason to know.
It's not his fault, completely. It's what they have you do when you run for president and he happens to be very good at recycling vacuous rhetoric.
He talks about "charting a new direction for the country" —a rather vapid phrase used in 1968 by Robert F. Kennedy, as John Pilger recently pointed out (John Pilger, "From Kennedy to Obama: Liberalism's Last Stand," ZNet Sustainer Commentary, June 1, 2008).
Here are some other Obama phrases he and his speechwriters have recycled from past presidential candidates and their speechwriters:
* "politics is broken" (used by Bill Bradley in 1996 and George W. Bush in 2000)
* " you need a president who will tell you what you need to know, not what you want to hear" (Geraldine Ferraro, 1984)
* "this is a defining moment in our history" (Elizabeth Dole, speaking for Bob Dole in 1996)
* Washington as a place were politicians come to "score political points" (Bill Clinton in 1992 and George W. Bush in 2000)
* "lifting this country up" instead of dragging or tearing it down (Bob Dole, 1996)
* "we're going to take this country back" (Howard Dean, 2004)
* "we can disagree without being disagreeable" (Gerald Ford, 1976)
* "unity over division" (Jesse Jackson, 1992)
* "hope over fear" (Bill Clinton, 1992 and John Kerry, 2004)
* "choose the future over the past" (Al Gore, 1992)
* overcome our "moral deficit" (Bush and Gore in 2000 and New Gingrich, 1994)
* move "beyond the divisions of race and class" (Bill Clinton, 1992)
* "the story of our country" (Ross Perot, 1992)
* "the genius of our country" (Bush, 2000)
* "the wonder of our country" (George H.W. Bush, 1988)
* "ordinary people doing extraordinary things" (Perot, 1992; Bush I, 1992; Bush II, 2000; Ronald Reagan, 1984).
I'm sure there are many more examples.
The big corporate-crafted Hillary-Obama duel — now finally concluded — would have seemed at least partially meaningful if it had been more focused (maybe I should say if focused at all) on issues and policies that really matter. To an amazing extent the big battle was a soap opera squabble over who one likes or identifies with the most on the level of personality, looks, body language, character and of course on the level of race, ethnicity, and gender.
It wasn't about issues. It wasn't about substance. It wasn't about policy. To a shocking exctent, it was about the candidates themelves and their images and perceived qualities. It's about who was rude to who. Who lied and therefore can't be trusted. Who's wanted to president since they were five years old. Who's tough and who isn't. Who has a strong sense of themselves and who doesn't. Who has a good relationship with their spouse and who doesn't. Who you'd like to have a beer or glass of wine with. Who you want to play basketball or go on a date with. Who can control their temper and who can't. Who's bitter and who's balanced. Who can control their facial muscles and who can't. Who's cool and who's square. Who's nerdy and who's hip. And so on.
Blame corporate marketing and media, those essential forces shaping U.S. campaigns.
Sometimes differences emerged that seemed a little more substantive but really weren't . In numerous little squabbles they had, a little investigation showed that corporate candidate X did or said exactly what they accused corporate candidate Y of doing or saying.
* Bill Clinton said Obama's antiwar history was a "fairy tale." It pretty much was but so was Hillary's claim to be antiwar.
* Hillary said Obama was squishy and mealy mouthed and disingenuous on NAFTA and globalization and trade. But so was/is she. They're actually both strong neoliberal "free traders."
I could go on.
If you listened closely to the debates and studied their policy positions and you connected their comments up with their broader behavior and statements, it may have finally sunk in. Barack and Hillaty were joined at the moral and ideological hip. Sorry, folks, but it was a battle bewteen two conservative, tepid, centrist, corporate-imperial Democrats with little if any substantial ideological and policy difference between them. It was Oballary 1 vs. Oballary 2 as far as politics and ideology were concerned,As president, both HC and BO would:
* keep a large U.S. force structure in Iraq for the life of their administrations, continuing the Holocaust we have imposed on that nation in the name of freedom.
* support Israel against the Palestinian people and the Arab world pretty much no matter what.
* sustain the bloody occupation of Afghanistan.
* talk about making certain small adjustments to NAFTA and CAFTA and the WTO and so forth but leave the basic structure and practices of corporate globalization fully intact.
* leave the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations in fundamental control of the health system.
* make noises about supporting labor and environmental causes and ending special interest domination but respond mainly to the giant corporations that have the most money and power to influence politicians and policy.
* talk against racial injustice and poverty but fail to undertake significant civil rights and social justice initiatives to tackle the deeply entrenched structures and practices of white supremacy and class oppression.
* reject the counsel of Dr. Martin Luther King by refusing to go after the gigantic and bloated so-called defense budget that sustains more than 720 overseas bases located in nearly country in the world and which accounts for half of the world's military expenditures even while millions of Americans live in what poverty researchers now call "deep poverty" – at less than half the federal government's notoriously inadequate poverty level.
* leave the basic top-heavy wealth structure of the country intact, doing relatively little or nothing about the fact that the top 1 percent owns 40 percent of the nation's wealth - a fact that makes real and substantive popular democracy essentially impossible for reasons that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison used to worry about.
* line up with Columbia and the international business agenda against Venezuela and independent left nationalism in Latin America.
* make aggressive noises and threatening moves toward Iran and its nuclear program real or imagined but say and do nothing about the dangerous and provocative nuclear arsenals of Israel and India.
* exploit the militarization of U.S. politics and use real and/or imaginary dangers abroad to justify assaults on civil liberties at home.
I returned to the best book of the last few years, a study of what its author Sheldon Wolin calls "the specter of inverted totalitarianism." Under the corporate-crafted system and doctrine of what Wolin terms "managed democracy,"
"the citizenry, supposedly the source of governmental power and authority as well as a participant, has been replaced by the 'electorate,' that is, by voters who acquire a political life at election time. During the intervals between elections the political existence of the citizenry is relegated to a shadow-citizenship of virtual participation. Instead of participating in power, the virtual citizen is invited to have 'opinions': measurable responses to questions predesigned to elicit them."
The corporate-managed "inverted totalitarianism" that passes for "democracy" in post-9/11 America finds its "culminating moment," Wolin notes, in "national elections when the attention of the nation is required to make a choice of personalities rather than a choice between alternatives." By Wolin's account, "what is absent is the political, the commitment to finding where the common good lies amidst the welter of well-financed, highly organized, single-minded interests rabidly seeking governmental favors and overwhelming the practices of representative government and public administration by a sea of cash."
The new corporate-totalitarian system, Wolin writes, would "survive even if the Democrats were the majority in control of both the presidency and the Congress," something that is indicated by "the timidity of current Democratic proposals for reform."
The real and deeper problems are "systemic" in ways that incorporate and go beyond partisan shift changes in elite office-holding.
It's not about who you support in these corporate-managed elections, people. It's deeper than that, as Dr. Martin Luther King knew.
Speaking of King and Obama's favorite word "Hope" (also a big word for a previous corporate triangulator named Bill clinton, by the way), here (below) is an interesting formulation from a 1968 King essay (published after King's execution) titled "A Testament of Hope":
"Millions of Americans are coming to see that we are fighting an immoral war that costs nearly thirty billion dollars a year, that we are perpetuating racism, that are tolerating almost forty million poor during an overflowing material abundance. Yet they remain helpless to end the war, to feed the hungry, to make brotherhood a reality…In these trying circumstances, the black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws – racism, poverty, militarism and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced." [ Martin Luther King Jr., " A Testament of Hope" [1968], p. 315 in Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.. edited by James M. Washington (San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1986)].
Haunting, yes?
So is the book I've been mentioning: Wolin's Democracy, Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism.


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Apple's overzealous removal of threads isn't just limited to talking about unfixed bugs. In 2010, a negative Consumer Reports article about the iPhone 4 (because of its antenna problems) sparked a slew of threads on the Apple forums. Many were deleted, but a few survived. "We've heard so many reports about [Apple deleting discussion board threads on topics that are unflattering to Apple's products] that it seems safe to call this standard operating procedure for Apple's discussion boards," wrote T.J. Luoma on Tuaw.com at the time.
And even as far back as 2007, when Jack Schofield of the Guardian discussed the issue, he mentioned that thread removal had by then been a long-established tradition for the Apple forums.
"It's always possible that Apple is removing 'rants' that are not helping users solve their problems," Schofield wrote. "It's also possible that Apple is unusually touchy, given that its 'switch' advertising might mislead innocents into thinking that Mac users really don't have any problems."
Not everyone believes Apple is wholly out of line for deleting complaint-laden threads from its boards. "Since there's no freedom of speech on someone else's dime, that's the way it goes," wrote Rene Ritchie at iMore.com. But he was convinced the concern over the antenna issue was entirely warranted, and that there were better ways to deal with the problem.
The "Community etiquette" page for the Apple Support Communities states that posters should "post only technical support questions and answers, unless otherwise noted" and "Avoid speculation and rumors." But if a great many people are having the same problem, and can't help but bring it up when looking for an answer, that hardly seems like justification to throw a wet blanket over the whole issue.
This story, "Apple censors Lawrence Lessig's discussion of iOS 7 Wi-Fi problems," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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A special called meeting was held illegally Monday at the council's chambers, led by mayor James "Pee Wee" Richardson. All members of the council were present with the exception of District 3 council member Terry Mason and District 5 council member Suzanne Atkins, who appeared directly after the so-called meeting adjourned.
According to the Alabama Open Meetings Act, Section 3 (b), "Unless otherwise specified by law directly applicable to the governmental body, notice of a meeting ... shall be posted as soon as practicable after the meeting is called and in no event less than 24 hours before the meeting is scheduled to begin ..."
Members discussed and voted to allow male inmates in the city's jail to work with Allen May, head of the street department, on picking up litter on the roadsides and working at the city's swimming pool as long as May and/or a police officer is present.
District 2 council member Jack Dunn made the motion to dismiss the city's current attorney Charles Stephens Jr. and hire attorney Steven Thomas in place of Stephens. Dunn said the motion was made due to not being able to get in touch with Stephens when necessary.
Richardson said the city council would first have to end the contract with Charles Stephens Jr. Dunn replied, saying the city didn't have a contract with Stephens. Richardson then explained the next step would be dismissing Stephens as the city's attorney and then hiring Thomas as his replacement.
All agreed to pay Thomas $160 an hour, which was the same amount Stephens worked for in representing the city, and voted with Richardson abstaining from the vote. Thomas accepted the position.
Shortly after voting, another topic of discussion was going to be brought to the council's attention by District 4 council member Mark Chambers; however, when Chambers was about to make a motion to go into executive session, Richardson said they couldn't.
"You have to give a 24-hour notice in writing, posted. ... We discussed the workshop [at the last regular meeting], but this is not a workshop. So, this one right here [the council meeting] is really not legal," Richardson said.
He then asked if a notice was posted, and city clerk Janice Pendley said, "No, we just called everyone and told them."
Mayor pro tem James "Jimbo" Bray Jr., after noticing there was no posting about a meeting, said "It was supposed to be posted. I didn't know that it wasn't."
The council agreed to reschedule the meeting for today at 5 p.m. in the council's chambers. Richardson said the council will go through the same agenda, with the possibility of adding more items, discuss the items and then vote, making it a legal meeting.


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by Jack Landsman, Wed Sep 22, 2010 at 12:53:09 PM EDT
(Announcement: The original FP entry was somehow deleted. I'm hoping it was due to yours truly in an incompetent attempt to edit the post (although I don't remember moving that fast; besides before you can delete a post, a confirmation prompt will automatically pop up) or some issue with the MyDD server. At any rate, my deepest apologies, dear readers. I know a lot of thought went into the 30+ comments that appeared under the original "Just Desserts for Chocolate Carter.")
The past week produced a string of events that, added up, have grave implications for the trajectory of the Obama administration.
To begin, there was the Christine O'Donnell triumph over a lame liberal Republican called Mike Castle of Delaware. Unable to grasp the enormity of the failure of this current Democratic Party, the media establishment was characteristically late to the realization that O'Donnell was serious. Without skipping nary a step, the same folk rushed to their keyboards to inform us—the impressionable, unsophisticated preponderance—that the advent of Christine O'Donnell torched the GOP's tenuous aims at a Senate majority. A funny thing happened on the way to this presumption: In the ensuing days, a number of alarming polls put numerous other Democratic seats in increasing jeopardy. Given the extraordinary trend that will only intensify as voters see more of the unemployment figures and a hapless president, my feeling is that Republicans will capture both houses. Always ahead of the curve, I've already purchased my Election Night spirits to help me through the pain of seeing Sharron Angle's, et al., arm raised in victory.
There's also the Gray Revolution that erupted in Barack Obama's neighborhood. Adrian Fenty, D.C.'s mayor—smart, energetic, cute, coddled by wine track liberals—will be eligible for unemployment benefits after the inauguration of the man who ousted him, Council Chairman Vincent Gray. (Mayor Fenty, however, is unlikely to become a 99er.) As will his school chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's been said before, and it bears repeating here, that Mr. Fenty is remarkably similar to President Obama. These two capable black men rode to power on ridiculous postracial pretentions and governed with even more ridiculous technocratic ones. Some of us have long predicted this story of a president named Obama wouldn't end well. Now we've been given a suitable precursor to point to. It helps the credibility.
We've also got Velma R. Hart who had the rare temerity to ask a modern president an actual question. This was huge because it was another reminder of how plastic our media environment otherwise is. I like how many progressives stopped kvetching about the White House's media manipulation, image-making, and insulting faux-events once George W. Bush packed up all of his things and left the keys to the Executive Mansion to Barack Obama. Watching Obama, who is simply dreadful extemporaneously, made me yearn for Bill Clinton—though Bubba's not any better than Barry on substance.


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Portraits are everywhere throughout the history of art, from Johannes Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" to Jim Borgman's popular contemporary face poster "How Are You Feeling Today" to "Time" magazine's moving and memorable cover collection of famous and infamous faces from around the world.


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