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The Arts Beat: Masters of Arts
BACK IN JANUARY 2009, Brandeis University shocked the art scene (or at least the local slice of it) when it proposed closing its Rose Art Museum and selling off the 6,000-piece collection. Pitchfork-wielding alums and an alarmist press helped save the struggling Rose, but that fiasco served notice to other school museums: In these days of crunched budgets, either stay relevant or face the chopping block. No other gallery has reacted to that warning with the brio of Wellesley College's Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
First, there's its current Francis Alÿs show. This Mexico-based Belgian multimedia artist is at the top of the contemporary-art world, with a major retrospective opening in May at MoMA. Then on March 30, the museum welcomes Ghanaian-Nigerian artist El Anatsui, who creates mind-boggling tapestries and sculptures from recycled materials such as liquor-bottle caps. His 60-piece showcase will be an inaugural exhibit at New York's long-awaited Museum for African Art, which opens in the fall.
"[The Rose controversy] opened up a conversation again about the role academic art museums have on campuses — that there's a lot more at stake than the bottom line," says Davis director Lisa Fischman. Just as important, she says, is preserving the works that have fostered so many enriching moments for students past and present. And if that supports the Davis's ambition to showcase world-class contemporary artists, so much the better. "We want the Davis to be a hub of aesthetic and intellectual activity," Fischman says. "There's a whole new chapter here."
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ROCKPORT — There were no reports of injuries when a two-day winter storm socked Cape Ann last week, yet the nor'easter still claimed a victim.
The Nemesis, a 21-foot Novi vessel made in Nova Scotia, sank off T-Wharf in Rockport Harbor sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning, during the snowstorm. And on Saturday, owner Andy Arnold of Beverly — a commercial scuba diver who salvages sunken boats for a living — led the effort to haul it back to the surface.
Arnold tied air bags to the boat underwater as Ron Zabilski, Arnold's longtime friend and Beverly neighbor, helped him from the surface, ferrying air tanks and other supplies by skiff.
Rockport lobsterman Steve Budrow, whose boat Margaritaville was moored nearby, arrived to help with the operation. The Margaritaville served as a base of operations, and once Arnold had raised the Nemesis and tied a rope to it, Budrow used a motorized winch to pull the Nemesis alongside the Margaritaville. From there, they finished the salvaging operation.
The bow came out of the water first. When the stern was finally above water, Arnold jumped onboard and immediately started using a bucket to bail out the water.
Arnold said he received a call at 7:30 Friday morning informing him that his boat had sunk.
"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," Arnold said of his luck, shaking his head.
Arnold said he had checked the boat Thursday afternoon, and it looked fine. He said he didn't know how it sank, but he speculated that the heavy snow weighed the boat down and blocked the scupper holes on the sides of the boat.
The scupper holes, when clear, allow water to drain out. If the scupper holes were blocked, as Arnold guessed, any surf that splashed up onto the boat would be trapped in it, along with the approximately 18 inches of snow that fell during the storm, and weigh the boat down.

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text: High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 6. Will an apple a day keep the food desert away? http://www.hcn.org/issues/46.1/will-an-apple-a-day-keep-the-food-desert-away Reinventing the Garden of Eden in the Emerald City. No publisher Kevin Taylor Gardening Food Agriculture Permaculture Sustainability Seattle Food forest 2014-02-05T15:11:54Z News Article Out in the cold http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.22 When Julene Bair sold the family farm, she severed her lifelong connections with a sense of place and her own childhood. No publisher shaungibson Property Gardening Julene Bair Harold Bair Land Family farms Agriculture Farm auctions 2010-02-05T10:26:34Z Issue Out in the cold http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.22/out-in-the-cold When Julene Bair sold the family farm, she severed her lifelong connections with a sense of place and her own childhood. No publisher Julene Bair Land Gardening Julene Bair Property Harold Bair Family farms Agriculture Farm auctions 2010-02-05T09:16:49Z News Article Love and tomatoes -- a natural combination http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.14/love-and-tomatoes-a-natural-combination Diamonds aren't always a girl's best friend; sometimes a fresh, ripe, local tomato is. No publisher Jeremy N. Smith Marriage proposals Gardening Montana life Rural life Engagement rings Jeremy N. Smith family Agriculture Tomatoes Love stories 2012-08-24T13:32:31Z News Article How to play the gardening game http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-to-play-the-gardening-game Now is the time to get out the seed catalogs and start planning this year's garden. No publisher Ari LeVaux homegrown Gardening farmers' markets vegetables locavores seed catalogs tomatoes 2010-02-05T21:35:14Z News Article How to heat-proof your garden http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-to-heat-proof-your-garden In a spring so hot and dry that it's breaking records, backyard gardeners might considering using edible living mulch to protect the soil. No publisher Ari LeVaux record-breaking temperatures vegetable gardening Gardening climate change carrots small farmers global warming garlic farming green mulch compost organic farming edible living mulch drought 2012-03-28T13:08:41Z News Article


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The apparel retailer blamed the problem on its supplier.
"The ingredients, weight and longevity qualities of the women's black luon bottoms remain the same but the coverage does not, resulting in a level of sheerness in some of our women's black luon bottoms that fall short of our very high standards," the company stated.
Now, the supplier has fired back.
Eclat Textile Co. of Taiwan said that the Lululemon yoga pants that it shipped were not "problematic," according to The Wall Street Journal.
"All shipments to Lululemon went through a certification process which Lululemon had approved," Eclat Textile CFO Roger Lo told The WSJ. "All the pants were manufactured according to the requirements set out in the contract with Lululemon."
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The city of Bonita Springs sends a strong message to Lee County - clean up, or pay up.
The county got a citation for not keeping up a piece of land it owns off Imperial Parkway near the corner of Nomad Drive and Stardust Drive.
While it appears the county has taken some steps to clean the area up, Bonita Springs feels it can to a better job at keeping it that way.
The plot of land sits at the end of Rita Casanova's block. It's littered with bottles, boxes of beer and cigarette butts.
"You drive by and you see the county isn't taking care of the grass, not cutting it, and trash everywhere," said Casanova. "It makes everyone else say 'they don't care, why should we?'"
County Lands Director Karen Maguire says Lee County purchased the property to pave Imperial Parkway.
"We try to keep track, but unfortunately these parcels get dumped on," said Maguire.
This particular bit went unused.
"There's no interest or need on the part of the county," she said. "It's just a remainder piece. We've checked"
It's up to Lee County's Department of Transportation to maintain it.
Bonita Springs City Manager Carl Schwing says if the county doesn't want the small piece of land, others do.
One non profit has a big plans for it - starting with a park, and community soup kitchen.
"Café of Life would use that for 15 percent of the time in the week," Schwing said. "Residents would use it the rest."
A park is what Casanova wants to see replace this litter.
Lee County's property appraiser puts the value of the land at 88-thousand dollars.
The county's lands director wants to meet with Bonita Springs City officials next week to discuss what options they have.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Cardboard and duct tape were put to the test once again -- but the test was cut short for a time by severe weather.Students from Jeffersontown High School took to the pool for their annual Cardboard Boat Regatta.
Students researched, designed and built boats with just two key materials: cardboard and duct tape. They're graded on whether their boat makes it across the pool and back without sinking -- and it's no easy task.Once thunder and lightning was heard in the distance, all the boats were taken out of the water and students, staff, and onlookers took shelter.
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This section lists the major astrological organizations in the United States as well as other countries.
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How do you determine which planet is stronger when looking at aspects? How do you quickly find the strongest planets in the chart? Or which planets may pose more challenges even if they aren't aspected or mainly have trines? Classical astrologers used essential dignities and debilities.These were their building blocks for interpretation.
An article in the Washington post notes that there is a rare conjunction of Venus and the Sun coming this May and June:
It's a setup of cosmic proportions. May starts with super bright Venus extraordinarily high in the western sky, but the planet falls out of view by month's end, leaving us earthlings positioned for one of nature's rarest of events: A transit of Venus across the sun on June 5 and 6.
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It is not rare that private nursing homes are accused of making extra money by conducting Caesarian Section (CS) operations even in cases normal deliveries were possible.
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The Birmingham Police Department is investigating a shooting that happened around 3 p.m. in the Smithfield community on Friday.
Officers found a victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound at 1049 5th Street North, near the west elbow of Malfunction Junction today. Police believe the shooting occurred nearby at the intersection of 5th Place N. and 10th Court N. and officers are currently at both locations collecting evidence.
The victim is considered to have suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Trauma Unit at UAB Hospital. Police currently do not have a suspect in custody.
ABC 33/40 has a crew at the scene and we will provide updates as more information is made available.
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Vikings' rookie report: Week Eight
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They Said It: Vikings Thursday edition
Here are quotes from Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier, special-teams coordinator Brian Murphy and RB Adrian Peterson, transcribed by the Vikings' P.R. staff.
Vikings-Cardinals matchup of the day: Thursday
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Five questions with Vikings beat writer and PFW correspondent Judd Zulgad
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Titans awarded WR Moss on waivers
The Titans were awarded former Vikings WR Randy Moss on waivers Wednesday, the team confirmed.
Favre surprised by Moss release but ready to move on
Vikings QB Brett Favre said he was surprised to learn that the team had waived WR Randy Moss but that he and the rest of the team now must pick up the pieces and move on.
Vikings activate WR Rice from PUP list
Vikings head coach Brad Childress announced Wednesday that WR Sidney Rice has been activated from the physically-unable-to-perform list.
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Week Eight: Did Brett Favre earn his money?
Each week we examine whether Vikings QB Brett Favre, who is being paid more than $1 million per game this season, earned his paycheck. Let's take a look at the Week Eight loss to the Patriots.
Report: Moss' behavior led to his release
Randy Moss recently embarrassed himself and his former team with some boorish behavior at a team function, which might have led to the Vikings releasing him, Yahoo! Sports' Michael Silver is reporting.
Vikings-Cardinals matchup of the day: Wednesday
Here's a key matchup heading into Sunday's Vikings-Cardinals game in Minnesota.
Childress releases statement about Moss
Right at the start of the Monday night game between the Colts and Texans, Vikings head coach Brad Childress released a statement regarding the impending release of WR Randy Moss.
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Two men have been charged in U.S. federal court with child trafficking.
23-year-old Jordan Christiansen and 47-year-old Michael Sackett have been were charged Tuesday with the crimes.
According to federal court documents, the crimes happened Saturday and Sunday in Williams County.
Court records say the men attempted to recruit, entice, transport, obtain or maintain a girl they knew was under 18 years old to engage in a commercial sex act.
Christiansen is from Fairview and Sackett is from Williston.
The men made their initial appearance yesterday at the US Federal Courthouse in Bismarck.
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5 Services Stocks Dragging The Sector Down
Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our modelAll three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 79 points (0.6%) at 14,527 as of Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 12:49 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,808 issues advancing vs. 1,104 declining with 127 unchanged.The Services sector currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.4%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Best Buy (BBY), down 3.4%, Moody's Corporation (MCO), down 1.3% and Comcast (CMCSA), down 0.7%. Top gainers within the sector include Liberty Global (LBTYA), up 2.9%, Las Vegas Sands (LVS), up 2.9%, Walgreen Company (WAG), up 2.7%, Dollar Tree Stores (DLTR), up 2.1% and Marriott International (MAR), up 2.1%.TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today:5. Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) is one of the companies pushing the Services sector lower today. As of noon trading, Sears Holdings Corporation is down $1.09 (-2.1%) to $50.31 on light volume Thus far, 203,091 shares of Sears Holdings Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 978,500 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $49.97-$51.81 after having opened the day at $51.68 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $51.40. Sears Holdings Corporation operates as a specialty retailer in the United States and Canada. The company's Kmart segment operates stores that sell merchandise under Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer labels; and Sears brand products, such as Kenmore, Craftsman, and DieHard. Sears Holdings Corporation has a market cap of $5.5 billion and is part of the retail industry. Shares are up 24.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are no analysts that rate Sears Holdings Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.TheStreet Ratings rates Sears Holdings Corporation as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself, generally high debt management risk and poor profit margins. Get the full Sears Holdings Corporation Ratings Report now.It's Official: Action Alerts PLUS beats the S&P 500 with Dividends Reinvested! Cramer and Link were up 16.72% in 2012. Were you? See what they are trading for 14-days FREE
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A funny anecdote about meeting Cox, his Kadri knowledge, and his disturbing lack of faith.
Damien Cox does not know the CBA very well and wants the Leafs to spend up to four first rounders to get Cory Schneider.
The Toronto Star's Damien Cox has long passed in relevance. It's time that you unfollow Damien Cox.
Damien Cox gets e-mailed a lot of questions. I give those people much better answers.
Answering Damien Cox's mailbag so you don't have to read it.
He didn't mind at all when a group of players caught planning a helicopter ride to Manhattan for an evening of partying the night before a game in New Jersey ended up receiving exit visas. He didn't mind waving farewell to a player he liked to call the "NBC Page" (30 Rock reference) for his propensity to have constant groups of friends and family touring the Leaf dressing room.When will bloggers stop irresponsibly spreading rumours? It is disgraceful that Ian White, Matt Stajan, Niklas Hagman, Jason Blake, Vesa Toskala and Jamal Mayers have all been slandered by this comment. If this blogger ever gets near a press box he should have to put up a $10,000 bond. Not to mention, who is the NBC Page? I have to know who they are calling Kenneth (note: I assume that the blogger in question does not watch 30 Rock and cannot use Google). Who is this irresponsible rumourmonger? Who else.
Oh look, Damien Cox put his foot in his stupid mouth again.
IMHO, Twitter NOT just avenue for the gutless (PPP and girlfriends) to take more anonymous shots from their basements. Blocked every time.Cox's Tweet Oh man. Damien Cox 'gon cut you so bad.... You 'gon wish... You 'gon wish he no cut you so bad.
Laich, a native of tiny Wawota, Sask., pop. 591, grew up a Maple Leaf fan with a Doug Gilmour No. 93 jersey, and even religiously used Gilmour's stick pattern growing up. His grandfather once ventured east with buddy Bert Olmstead to try and make the Leafs, so there's an emotional connection to the Toronto franchise and all the Canadian teams.Another Spring is going to pass without the Stanley Cup returning to Canada. I could not care less unless it's Toronto but Damien Cox has a theory on the reasons behind the drought. He speaks to Brooks Laich who incidentally will become an unrestricted free agent next summer.
I laugh when I read there's a consensus out there that the Leafs did poorly in the Kessel deal. We don't even know where that draft pick will be yet! In Boston, where the Bruins can't score, there's heat on the organization for letting a 36-goal scorer walk for draft picks. I think Boston wanted to find a way to keep Kessel or get something viable now for him. But they got boxed in.Damien "The Omen" Cox, in a Q&A earlier Monday. Dare I hope he's been lurking around on here and saw the light?
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Oracle Announces Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2
Key features of new Oracle Kernel release include: Btrfs filesystem, improvements in performance, scalability, virtualization and others.
Oracle has announced the release of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 (2.6.39). This is Oracle's second major release of its optimized operating system kernel for Oracle Linux 5 and Oracle Linux 6.
According to Oracle's Linux Blog, the RPM packages are now available from the Unbreakable Linux Network and the public yum repositories. This kernel can be installed on both Oracle Linux 5.8 and newer as well as Oracle Linux 6.2 and newer. By simply updating the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, Oracle Linux customers can benefit from the latest improvements without having to re-install their distribution or applications.
According to the announcement, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 is based on mainline Linux 3.0.16 and includes a few selected patches from other mainline Linux versions. The source code is available from the public git source code repository. Some key features of this release include: Btrfs filesystem, improvements in performance, scalability, and virtualization, transparent "Huge Pages" and memory compaction, improvements to Cgroups and OCFS2, Linux Containers, and updated device drivers.
More information is available from the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 features and benefits document.
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PHP Attack Puts WordPress and Drupal at Risk
All websites that use these popular CMS tools could be vulnerable to denial of service attacks if users don't install the updates.
Heartbleed Bleeds On
According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
Drone Brain Goes Open Source
DARPA and NICTA release the code for the ultra-secure microkernel system used in aerial drones.
Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
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Most smith matchine squat racks have those hooks that rotate to release from off pins and vice-versa to safely catch pins.
When doing pulls or just about any other exercise , if that's the only bar and rack you have
Problem is the hooks often get in the way or catch the pins when I don't want it to.
So how do you easily keep the hooks out the way?
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That's easy enough when the weight is light. Prob is when it gets heavy, try it.
There must be another solution besides of course find another rack.
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on Aug 8, 2013 at 9:38 pm
If PAHC was so concerned about low-income seniors who need housing now, why did they allow 20 out of 24 senior BMR units at Moldaw to go unfilled for 3 years? And only now renegotiate to fill them, now that the heat is on? Why have been claiming that the need is because 20% of seniors live below the poverty line, but their proposed development has at it's lowest income level an income that is considerably higher than anyone living below the poverty line could pay so no one below the poverty line will live there?
Dear Friends in Palo Alto: You will hear a lot of convincing lies coming from PAHC and the City in the coming months. We do not want a 50-foot building in the middle of our neighborhood across from our park, with only 47 parking spots for 60 units, employees, and visitors, when the existing zoning only allowed a 30-foot building. The City keeps making threats about what would go there, they have been proven false and ridiculous. Those nearest here are almost unanimously against the rezone.
I hope no one else has to go through a process where the City Council treats your neighborhood and the safety of your kids like they're some kind of weird pre-text for NIMBYism, especially if you have as much affordable housing development in your neighborhood as we do already in ours. I am so disillusioned with the City Council and PAHC. Please support us. We are just neighbors. They will outspend us many times over, and if history is any guide, City staff will act as bald-faced advocates for the project, and all of them will play fast and loose with the truth.
on Aug 8, 2013 at 9:43 pm
They keep saying it WILL be developed and it's NOT going to be a community orchard.
Why is no one stepping forward to save this last remnant of orchard in Palo Alto, across from an existing park, facing the hills, with 100 established, beautiful trees on it? City Council will never listen to the neighbors, but money talks.
Isn't there anyone who will step forward and save the trees?
on Aug 8, 2013 at 9:48 pm
The Compadres site was vacant forever, it seems. There are properties up and down El Camino they could have purchased instead that would be more appropriate for density, and cheaper. Why do they have to destroy the character of our neighborhood with this overwhelming project?


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MR. WARMKESSEL: Oyez, Oyez, Oyez, all manner of persons having anything to do with the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, here holden this day, let them come forward and they shall be heard. God save the Commonwealth and this Honorable Court. Please be seated.
PRESIDENT JUDGE MCGINLEY: Good morning. On behalf of my colleagues on the Court and personally, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the annual Bar Ceremony in memory of those members of the Bar who passed away during the previous year.
The Court recognizes Attorney Dan McCarthy, the President Elect of the Bar Association of Lehigh County.
MR. MCCARTHY: Thank you, Your Honor. May it please the Court, the Honorable Judges of the County of Lehigh, other distinguished parties, colleagues, friends, family, on behalf of the Bar Association of Lehigh County, I welcome you.
We gather today for one of our great traditions, the Annual Bar Memorial which dates back to at least the time of the creation of the Bar Association in 1905. The Bar Memorial celebrates the lives of members of our Bar who have passed away this past year. We thank the Court for its continued commitment, for clearing the court calendar to join us and assist as we pay tribute to our members. We would also like to thank Attorney John Baker who has for many years worked diligently and wholeheartedly at organizing this celebration.
It is my honor and my privilege to join with you this morning to celebrate and reflect on the lives and careers of our members who leave a legacy of commitment to the law, to the profession and to the community. They were fine lawyers. They were colleagues, leaders, mentors and friends. They were a credit to the profession and served as role models for younger lawyers to aspire to.
Today we gather to honor the memory of Edward McGee who will be remembered by Stephen Wiener; and Herb Rafner who will be remembered by Joseph Holko; and John McKeever who will be remembered by Margo Wiener, although I think my notes belie accuracy, it will be Margo Wiener who will be honoring Ed McGee today. Having said that, Margo, a few words.
MS. WIENER: Thank you. And I am married to a Steve Wiener, but not that Steve Wiener.
May it please the Court, I am honored to speak about my first mentor and employer Edward Hugh McGee. While women now are present and excel in every aspect of legal life, as recognized by our President Judge and other members of our Bench, there were just a handful of female attorneys when I started. Ed McGee offered me a job, and I worked for him for seven years. In those early years, Ed McGee backed me up, always treated me with respect and made sure that the other attorneys did as well.
I learned the basics of practicing law from Ed, but I believe that I learned more about the benefits of maintaining an intellectual curiosity throughout one's life, being decent and honest with the people that you work with and your clients, maintaining a sense of humor, and, most importantly, treasuring your family.
Ed McGee was born on September 30, 1930, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and died on August 27, 2010, just short of 80 years. His father died when he was only 8 years of age. He grew up poor during the Depression era, but had a large and supportive Irish Catholic family. Ed became an Eagle Scout and was an excellent student. One of his uncles, who was doing well in business, said to him and his brothers and cousins: "Provided you get all A's, I will help you through school," and Ed took him up on it. Ed was able to attend and was graduated from Lehigh University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Ed earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1955. He was drafted into the U.S. Army and served principally in Germany where he learned the language. He returned to Allentown and began his practice working for Butz, Hudders and Tallman. Always the individualist, Ed later started his own practice and remained a solo practitioner for the rest of his career.
Ed was a generalist; the breadth of his practice was so varied: municipal work, insurance defense work, divorce, estates, personal injury, a little bit of criminal. He enjoyed the personal contact with clients and spent a lot of time thinking about solving people's legal problems, whether large or small. He loved being a lawyer and continued working until just two years ago.
Ed was devoted to his wife Helga of 47 years and to his children who are here today, Sean, Helena, Carol, as well as his son Gary; and he was devoted to his grandchildren. Always his intellectual equal, if not superior, Ed met Helga during her year as a Fulbright teacher from Germany.
Ed was extremely active in his children's lives. My first experience with the McGee family was joining them when Sean, Helena and Carol were just kids on a family canoe trip on the Delaware River. This was just one of the many adventures that the McGee Family shared. Ed spent many years traveling with Helga and the children to ski in Switzerland in the winter and to travel around Europe, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. in a Volkswagen camper bus in the summer. These trips were not lavish; I recall Ed explaining to me that they hung a salami out of the window of their hotel room during their ski trips in Switzerland to keep the salami cold for lunches.
Ed and Helga carefully shepherded their children's school careers. Helena and Carol were graduated from Wellesley College and Sean was graduated from Lehigh University. Helena and Carol are lawyers practicing in Washington, D.C. Sean earned an MBA and is a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch. Helena and her husband John McCarthy have three sons, and Sean and his wife Susan have a son and a daughter. Gary has a daughter. The McGees' family life was filled with activity and with joy.
If Ed McGee is going to be described, his sense of humor must be mentioned. In my beginning years, Ed's jokes might now be considered "off color" or "not PC." He was a great storyteller and loved to share his jokes. Through the years, he would call me as my "Uncle Eddie" just to share a joke. After the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Ed did clean up his jokes, at least with me, and I promised that I would never tell anybody the jokes he told me. Sean reports that to the end of his life, Ed continued to tell jokes, even during his last illness in the hospital.
Finally, Ed set personal goals for himself and met them. He learned to ski when he was in his 40's, and I'm told he was a very good skier. He took ten years to complete the Appalachian Trail. Sean accompanied him on some of those trips and they were bonding experiences. In the later years, Ed, Helga and their friends faithfully walked in Trexler Park every day. Ed lived his life to the fullest and that is a tribute.
MR. MCCARTHY: Thank you, Margo.
Herbert Rafner will be remembered by Joseph Holko.
MR. HOLKO: Thank you, Dan. Thank you, John. May it please the Court, President Judge McGinley, the Judges of the Court, friends and colleagues of Herb Rafner.
Herb began practicing law in lower Manhattan in 1949. Those were the days of two martini lunches. Herb said he would have two martinis and a shrimp cocktail for lunch; and if he ever needed to lose weight, he would have to give up the shrimp cocktail. Herb knew a man who continued to lose weight and his tailor kept taking in his trousers until his pockets touched in the back.
Herb graduated from New York University School of Law in 1948 and was on Law Review. He practiced in New York City for many years; and then at the behest of one of his many friends, joined the Lehigh Valley Railroad, headquartered in Bethlehem, and rose to become its vice president and general counsel.
While he was there, he met Richard Stevens and retained Dick to handle a matter for the Railroad. Soon they became close friends, and when Herb retired from the Railroad at the young age of 62, Dick asked him to join him at Butz, Hudders and Tallman.
In the late summer of 1982, Herb moved his many papers, notebooks and smoking pipes into an office on the third floor of 740 Hamilton Mall. For the next 21 years, he worked with Dick and others there, always dressed in a suit or sport coat, always wearing a tie, or an occasional bow tie. He wore overshoes during inclement weather; and when I asked him about it he said once his father stopped paying for his shoes, he started protecting them.
In his early years at Butz Hudders, he joined Dick Stevens, Bill and Jack Hudders, Ed Lentz, Gary Figore, Dennis Feeley, Frank Procyk and me on the third floor. Bob Tallman, Bob Johnson, Jack Johnson, Dick Schaffer, Joe Fitzpatrick, Joe Bubba, Blake Marles, Ollie Foucek, Tom Sadler, Frank Baker, Ed Fedok, Jim Holzinger, Gil Negrete, Mike Loomis, and Bill Fitzgerald were all there too, spread out on the second and fourth floors. Jim Martin, Bob Thornton and Howard and Tim Stevens would join Butz Hudders later. Herb enjoyed the collegial atmosphere and the camaraderie there. Like the character George Bailey played by Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life, Herb changed everyone he met for the better.
Herb loved to go to lunch. Back then Hess's, Zollinger's and Leh's Department Stores were all thriving on Hamilton Mall and there were many lunch places to choose from. There was the A & B Luncheonette, Sal's Spaghetti House, the Linden Hotel, Kenny's, Michael's, the 7th Street Deli and the All American Diner. Later there was Isaac's, The Good Spirit, The Bay Leaf, Pastaficio and a place behind Hess's on Linden Street that had many names but Herb loved them all.
Leon, Herb's son who lives in California, told me that when he would return to Allentown to visit his parents, Herb would point out the sights and all the places he liked to go to lunch, and he would tell Leon about the people here. It was during the many lunches with Herb that we learned the most about him and his life before moving to the Lehigh Valley.
He was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and was raised in Paterson in the same neighborhood where the comedian Lou Costello was growing up. As a kid, Herb saw Babe Ruth play for the Yankees. Herb loved W.C. Fields. Fields said about marriage that "No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, by making a dog play dead."
Herb loved to tell a joke. He loved to tell a story. His wife Wanda, after being married to Herb for over 50 years, remarked that Herb never ceased to amaze her with a joke or a story she had not heard before.
He learned most of his jokes from family outings to vaudeville theaters when he was young accompanied by his father, who was an insurance adjustor, his mother, and his older brother Harold who would later go into the insurance business.
Herb claimed to have dated a woman who later became one of Milton Berle's wives. Apparently, Milton Berle was married something like five times, twice to the same woman. So I'm not sure who Herb dated, but that was like Herb to say something to make you think or ask him about it.
Herb lived an interesting life before coming to the Lehigh Valley. He graduated from Eastside High School at the age of 16. Below his picture in the yearbook was: "He'll do very well if he ever gets serious." He attended New York University and studied economics. After graduation, he went to work at Pratt & Whitney as a propeller inspector.
After Pearl Harbor, he gave up his defense job and enlisted in the Army. At that time, the Signal Corps, the communications, command and control arm of the military, needed quality recruits with high aptitudes and intelligence to operate the sophisticated communications equipment and to train others to do so. The war was to be fought on four continents and across the seas. Communications, weather forecasting and aviation were key to winning the war.
Herb was selected for the Signal Corps because of his intelligence and his experience as a teenager building radios. He had a First Class FCC Radio Engineer License, having passed the test in record time, the examiner couldn't believe he was done. Herb quickly became a sergeant and a Signal Corps instructor at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
His son Leon, now a nuclear engineer in southern California, after marrying his wife Andrea, found out that Andrea's father this would be Leon's father in law was actually in Herb's Signal Corps class at Fort Monmouth.
Leon told me that as a child growing up, he spent a lot of time with his father learning how to fix radios and TVs, and that experience led Leon to become an engineer and not a lawyer.
When the Army ran out of things to keep Herb busy, they sent him to Drexel University to take some courses there. During the war in Europe, he was sent to England. While he was there, he got to attend the University of Manchester. Later he was placed in charge of a town in Germany in the area occupied by the United States at the end of the war. That was one thing he didn't talk about.
After the war, Herb became interested in studying law. When he went to law school, Ed Koch, who would later become mayor of New York, was in his class at NYU. Herb was a democrat. He called himself a "Yellow Dog Democrat," a term dating back to the late 19th century. He explained to me that if the democrats ran a yellow dog for office, he would vote for a yellow dog before he would ever vote for a republican. There's a rumor that he may have voted for Ronald Reagan the first time. If that was true, that was the only time that he ever voted for a republican.
Herb worked on some of the most complex and interesting cases alongside Dick Stevens from 1982 until 2003. He had an old style notebook and he kept meticulous notes about every case. He could always tell you a lot about New York law, but quickly learned how to use Lexis as a research tool.
Leon told me that his dad didn't talk much about his cases, always maintaining the strictest attorney/client confidentiality; however, Leon recalls two cases in particular that his father shared with him. One involved a products liability case against a contact lens company where Herb and Dick's client had lost sight in one eye and had diminished sight in the other from wearing her contacts while swimming but using goggles over them so she wouldn't lose them. Apparently, the pool water got behind her contacts and caused an infection that led to her blindness, and there was no warning about that provided with the product even though the manufacturer knew about it.
The other case involved a motorcyclist who was seriously injured in an accident with a car that turned in front of him. The automatic headlight feature on the motorcycle had been disabled by the dealer before the motorcycle was sold to the client. The jury found that the daylight accident was caused by not being able to see the motorcycle as well without it.
According to Herb's former secretary, Leona, Herb was a "walking encyclopedia" and always got his own coffee telling Leona: That's not your job. Leona told me that Herb was never rattled by anything except when he attended the deposition of Martin Appel who killed three people and seriously wounded a number of others during a robbery of a branch of the First National Bank of Bath in 1986. Appel told police he had planned the robbery for about a month and planned to kill everyone in the bank in order to leave no witnesses. When Herb came back from that deposition, he was visibly shaken and told Leona that in all of his years he had "never met a man who had no regard for human life until [he] met Martin Appel."
Herb claimed he never lost a "Rule to Show Cause," where you would appear in court just to request a date for a hearing. He also was proud of the fact that he never lost an uncontested motion, although there were a few times where it almost happened.
Frank Procyk recalls a time when Herb was asked by Dick Stevens to go to a district justice hearing to present a case against a party who was representing himself. Herb lost and came back and announced that his winless record against pro se litigants remained intact.
Herb handled an adoption for a client who wanted her husband to adopt her child, fathered after a one night stand during a convention in Chicago years before. The client had forgotten the name of the man she met there; however, she remembered he was from Baltimore.
When Herb was able to obtain a fuzzy copy of the birth certificate, the name appeared to be Peter Ignatius. Herb located nine men with that name living in Baltimore, and diligently tried to determine who the likely father was in order to gain his consent and subpoena him to appear before Judge Coyne. None of them were at the convention and most had never been to Chicago.
When Judge Coyne heard that Herb could not produce the father for the adoption hearing, he told Herb to keep looking. A better copy of the birth certificate indicated that it wasn't Peter Ignatius after all, but "Pater Ignotus," the Latin for "Father Unknown." Thereafter, the adoption went through.
Herb loved reading the law and attending trials. When F. Lee Bailey's partner, Aaron Broder from New York, came to try a case here in Lehigh County, Herb and I went and watched together.
Howard Stevens reminded me of a funny Herb story. This is the way Howard remembers it: "After getting a verdict in his client's favor, the attorney picks up the phone and calls his client and says, 'Justice triumphs!' The client replies, 'Appeal at once!'"
Herb earned his pilot's license after he retired from the Railroad and flew with his son who is also a pilot. According to Herb, obtaining his pilot license was harder than passing the Bar Exam. Herb was the consummate gentleman. He stopped practicing at age 83 to care for his beloved wife. Wanda predeceased him in 2006; they were together for 58 years.
After Wanda died, he moved to California to be closer to his only and, as he always said, his favorite son Leon. Although his many friends had predeceased him, he still received a call every Friday from his good friend Bobby Dresser.
Herb was known for reading the New York Times and driving to Wally's to get the paper on Sunday. He kept up to date with current events and he continued to read the Times until Alzheimer's took its toll. He continued to play "Rabbit" with his son, competing to be the first one to say "Rabbit" to the other on the first day of every month.
Dennis Feeley remembers Herb as always having a smile on his face, never complaining; and although he was years older than most of those he worked with, he never had a problem fitting in and was willing to pitch in. He was a credit to our profession.
Herb was a good listener and loved learning about you and your family. Herb had a terrific memory and a big heart. According to his son, his sense of humor was the last to go. He was still telling stories and jokes Leon had not heard before up until the last couple of weeks.
Herb died on June 25, 2010, at the young age of 90 in Mission Viejo, California. Steve Kreglow, the only person to have signed Herb's Morning Call online obituary summed Herb up succinctly, "A scholar, a worthy opponent, a true gentleman." He was my mentor and my friend.
Leon and Andrea couldn't be here today; but I know that they know how special Herb was as a lawyer, a husband, a father, and a friend. And now you do too. Thank you.
MR. MCCARTHY: Thank you, Joe.
John McKeever will be remembered by Stephen Wiener.
MR. WIENER: Thank you. Judge McGinley, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, family and friends of John McKeever.
John was born in Allentown in 1925. A graduate of William Allen High School, and then went on to serve in the United States Air Force as a second lieutenant during World War II. He served as a navigator on a B 29. On his return from the war, he graduated from Princeton University, and then went on to the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Like Ed and our other honoree this morning, he started his legal career, as he said it, with Butz and Hudders in 1952. Shortly thereafter, he joined his father's accounting firm of McKeever, Kershner and Zimmerman. Following that, John decided to open his own practice of law from which he practiced for more than 35 years.
In 2000, John joined Wiener and Wiener in a step towards slowing down his legal career, trying to spend less time practicing law and more time spending his numerous interests outside of law.
John's outside activities and civic interests were as extensive and varied as his legal practice. He was a past president of the Lehigh Valley Club; served as president of First Lehigh Bank; a board member of Lake Harmony Association; a former treasurer and one time solicitor of the borough of Walnutport; a member of numerous clubs in Walnutport and Danielsville; and very proudly among those honored, a member of this Bar Association for over 50 years.
John was also a private pilot for over 40 years and often regaled his friends and colleagues about his annual trip island hopping through the Bahamas and the Caribbean Islands as well as flying to Alaska. He also enjoyed snowmobiling in upstate New York during the wintertime, and when he could, fishing and sailing at Lake Harmony.
I had the privilege of knowing John for most of my legal career and was very much enriched by the five plus years during which he practiced at our firm. John's involvement and his interest in his clients is probably best evidenced by a discussion I had with John about two years after he had joined our firm.
It was late one afternoon, I believe on a Friday. We were discussing John's desire to spend less time in the office and more time on his personal interests and spending time with his wife Helen with whom he had celebrated his 29th anniversary last year. John explained that while it was his plan to spend less time in the office or more time at Lake Harmony or, in the winter, in the Bahamas, he just kept finding it difficult to say no to clients.
He explained that these were clients he had represented for almost 40 years; and many times he handled matters for their parents, their grandparents and their extended families. Not only were many of John's friends his clients, but the clients become long time friends and John a part of their extended family.
Typical of John's quiet demeanor was his decision to retire from the practice of law. One day in December, John came in my office and said that he was headed to the Bahamas to enjoy his annual trip to the islands for his island hopping, but he thought this year he would spend maybe a month or two or maybe a little longer. He explained that he had no definitive plan of where he would be, but he would let us know what was going on.
He made sure that everything was taken care of before he left and reviewed open matters, and was comfortable that I could handle all of the open issues. Unlike many of those who go on vacation today with a cell phone or checking e mail; when John left the office, he left the office. He honestly took a vacation. He didn't call to check in; he relaxed.
It was early spring until John called and said he had returned from the Bahamas, and having given it some more thought, he told us that he had decided it was time to retire. And he'd find some time in the next few weeks to stop in and make it official.
While many have found the transition from retirement after such a lengthy and active legal practice to be difficult, John was thrilled to be able to spend more time with his wife Helen and his family. Working on projects, working at his wood workshop, spending time snowmobiling, and, of course, whenever he got a chance, flying anywhere anyone was interested in going.
His devotion and genuine interest in his clients and his desire to assist them and their family stand out to me the most when I think about John. While his legal career covered a period in which lawyers were essentially sole practitioners, handled a much broader area of practice than we are accustomed today, John's keen business acumen and combination of his accounting background provided him with a varied and extensive business and estate practice.
He leaves our legal community and our entire local community in which he touched and impacted so many better for all that he did and for how long he did it for so well.
MR. MCCARTHY: Thank you, Steve.
I want to thank all of the speakers for taking the time to express their thoughts, their experiences and their memories of their colleagues and contributing to the celebration of their lives. I want to thank the family members for sharing in our tradition, and the audience and our colleagues and friends here present for joining in our tradition.
On behalf of the Association, I invite all of you to stay for refreshments just outside the courtroom. Judge McGinley?
PRESIDENT JUDGE MCGINLEY: Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. We would like to note the presence and recognize the Honorable William H. Platt, Superior Court Senior Judge and also the presence of Senior Judge Lawrence Brenner.
And the Court wishes to express our thanks to the Bar Association for continuing this tradition, to John Baker, Esquire, the chairman of the committee for his hard work in making this and previous bar memorials a success, and to all the speakers who have memorialized our departed colleagues. They have helped to continue a great tradition and allowed us to share in the lives of our departed members and the rich history which our departed members have bequeathed us.
The official court reporter is directed to transcribe the notes of this proceeding and to make a digital copy of the memorial available to the Bar Association of Lehigh County. This has been done since 2002. The Bar Association publishes these transcripts on its home page at lehighbar.org. Anyone interested in a copy will be able to read, print or download it from that site.
I also wish to note that all my colleagues, Judges Reibman, Ford, Steinberg, Johnson, Banach, Anthony, Dantos and Varricchio extend our condolences to the families and the loved ones of our departed colleagues, and we thank you for being here today to remember them.
Mr. Warmkessel, we will adjourn the ceremony and remind everyone that they are invited for social time in memory and respect for our departed colleagues out in the hall.
MR. WARMKESSEL: All rise please. Court is adjourned.
(Whereupon, the memorial ceremony concluded.)
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I hereby certify that the proceedings are contained fully and accurately in the notes taken by me of the above cause, and that this is a correct transcript of the same.
The foregoing record of the proceedings in the within matter is directed to be filed.
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Below, we've done the same with the thesps: five actors and five actresses who we wish got more traction than they did. Any of your own favorites left out here?
Given how unsparingly unlikable protagonist Mavis Gary seemed on the page, we weren't surprised when Charlize Theron failed to get much awards attention for her turn in Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody's "Young Adult." But that doesn't take away from the quality of the performance, one that stands with, and arguably even surpasses, her Oscar-winning turn in "Monster." Theron embraces the unsympathetic quality of the character, but crucially, manages to make her a figure of pity, and even empathy, rather than, well, a monster. Furthermore, she also got to be funny, something that (her guest spot on "Arrested Development" aside) she's rarely been allowed to do on screen (unless you count "Aeon Flux" as a comedy). Even though she was left without an Oscar nod this year, we can only hope that she'll end up with more opportunities to display her funny bone in the near future.
Quite rightly, Christopher Plummer has won most of the praise for his performance in "Beginners," and looks to finally pick up an Oscar on Sunday night; it's one of the few wins that everyone will agree on. But it's a little sad that Plummer's turn has overshadowed his cast members. Melanie Laurent was something of a revelation, proving she's much more than just Shosanna from "Inglourious Basterds," but the true surprise here was Ewan McGregor. The actor has been stuck in substandard fare like "Cassandra's Dream," "Deception" and "Angels and Demons" for too long now, but he got a real showcase as Oliver, the surrogate for director Mike Mills. Dry and soulful as the self-sabotaging romantic, he gives the film an earthiness where some would have let it drift off into quirksville, and his chemistry with both Plummer and Laurent was excellent. He might have been overlooked, but with "The Corrections" and "The Impossible" on the way, things are certainly looking up.
The trend apparently was short lived. Last year, Jennifer Lawrence's arresting turn in the 2011 Sundance hit "Winter's Bone" launched her and the film out of the indie ghetto and onto the Oscar stage, earning a somewhat rare nomination for an indie. It was a real coup as everyone knew the performance was great, but figured the small film with tiny distribution (Roadside Attractions), couldn't earn a nomination. Fast forward a year to (once again) the Sundance Film Festival when a much bigger medium-sized studio, Fox Searchlight, buys the oblique and haunting "Martha Marcy May Marlene," featuring a breakthrough, star-making turn by Elizabeth Olsen. Her performance wins her raves, but Oscar talk around Olsen pretty much zipped shut right around the beginning of the season. Why? Well, it was an incredibly crowded field, and any year Meryl Streep yawns onscreen, she pretty much scores a nomination. But even a lock of a nod doesn't diminish Olsen's turn. Essentially playing two characters, the before and after of a person victimized by a cult -- one naive and open, the other frighten and scarred -- Olsen put in an unforgettable performance this year that deserved to be honored.
Ordinarily, when you're playing an iconic writer, you get a whole biopic tailored around you. But the supporting cast of "Midnight in Paris" had no such luck, being given only a handful of scenes to make an impression as the parts. And as well as Tom Hiddleston, Alison Pill, Kathy Bates and Adrien Brody do as the Fitzgeralds, Gertrude Stein and Salvador Dali, it's the relatively unknown Corey Stoll who walks away with the film, as the hard-living Ernest Hemingway. Other actors have come unstuck as Hemingway before (*cough* Chris O'Donnell...) but Stoll, previously best known for theater work and starring on "Law & Order: LA," takes it on with both fists flying, a stubborn, arrogant, quick-tempered firecracker who livens up the entire film, so much so that he's sorely missed after he heads off to warmer climes. Stoll never really got any momentum in the awards season -- he was even neglected by the SAG's Ensemble Award nomination, due to being billed too low down the cast list -- but he certainly ensured that Clive Owen has a tough act to follow when he stars in HBO's "Hemingway and Gelhorn" in a few months.
With SAG and even Globes nods, it seemed like a Best Actress nomination for Tilda Swinton was in the bag this year -- remarkably, it would have been her first in the category, although she won in Supporting for "Michael Clayton." Alas, the film proved too difficult for Academy members, but she still gives a performance for the ages in the film. It's a turn that centers on that trickiest thing for an actor to pull off successfully: ambivalence. Ambivalence to her suburban surroundings, to her lifestyle, to the path that she's ended up on, to motherhood and, most crucially, to her devil-spawn son. Swinton is able to show both the way in which Eva is baffled by how her child has turned out, and the genes that she shares with him, and having her at the center is Lynne Ramsay's greatest advantage in the film. So often cast as asexual, almost otherworldly beings, it's a great reminder that Swinton is capable of playing down-to-earth just as convincingly.
There appeared to be a certain amount of revisionism after Albert Brooks was snubbed by the Academy (having also missed out at the SAGs): people cropping up saying that the performance was overrated, and he didn't deserve a nomination. The hell he didn't: Brooks was terrific in the film. You always get bonus points if you're a comic actor playing against type, but even if Brooks had spent a lifetime playing heavies, it'd still be a remarkable turn. When you first meet Bernie Rose, he's genial and wisecracking, almost like a favorite uncle, but you always sense that something's wrong with him on a very fundamental level. And it becomes increasingly clear that as reasonable as he is, and as much as he seems to want to avoid violence, once it comes, a monster is unleashed; the way Brooks meticulously replaces the knife he's used to kill Bryan Cranston in a terrifying-looking collection is positively chilling. He's a darker mirror of Ryan Gosling's central character, and one of the most memorable villains to come along in a long time. Hopefully Brooks will find another showcase for his dramatic chops soon.
Like Olsen, young British ingenue Felicity Jones came out of Sundance a freshly-minted star, with an award under her arm thanks to her performance in Drake Doremus' heartbreaking romance "Like Crazy." But with the film underperforming, Jones never got the traction, which is a shame, because no matter what you might think of the film, she gives a hell of a performance, one that arguably deserves to be in the final five more than some other nominees. Her luminous star quality is instantly recognizable -- she's just inherently watchable, and it's easy to understand why Anton Yelchin's Jacob would cross continents to be with her. But there's a reason that veterans like Warren Beatty and Ralph Fiennes are lining up to work with her next -- she makes a part that could so easily have been a pixie dream girl archetype into a complex, fully-rounded human being. Starting off as a fiercely intelligent young woman who's also more than capable of being entirely immature and silly, she grows and changes in front of our eyes, even as she's never quite able to let Jacob go. That she, along with the rest of the cast, improvised much of the dialogue only makes it more impressive.
It's become something of a tradition for the best performance of the year to get overlooked by the Academy, and that's exactly how we thought of Michael Fassbender as Brandon in "Shame." As good as the work put in by Steve McQueen, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie and everyone else involved is, the film is nothing without Fassbender, so much so that it's nearly impossible to imagine anyone else anchoring the picture. It might have been impossible to empathize with a sex addict, but Fassbender effortlessly shows his burning, desparate desire to reach a satisfaction that never comes, and his inability to form a normal human relationship is positively heartbreaking. Considering that Brandon's a man of relatively few words, it's all the more impressive. The actor put in several excellent performances in the last year (he easily could have managed a nomination for "Jane Eyre" too), but this is the one that will be remembered as putting him into the big leagues.
Sam Levinson, the son of the great Barry Levinson ("Diner," "Good, Morning Vietnam," "Rain Man") made a terrific debut film in 2011. It was called "Another Happy Day," and centered on a deeply dysfunctional family and the troubled matriarch who desperately tries to keep it together. Sadly, despite rave reviews, no one noticed and it didn't seem to break out at the arthouse the way it deserved. Starring an excellent supporting cast of Ellen Burstyn, Ezra Miller, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church and Kate Bosworth (the latter three being surprisingly good in the film after many strings of mediocre roles), the woman who anchors it all is Ellen Barkin in what is easily the best performance of her career. In a year that didn't include a rather average Meryl Streep performance, or perhaps with a better distributor, Barkin would most certainly be spending time basking in the Oscar-nomination glow (she's never been nominated and, sadly, the way women's roles go with age, who knows if she'll ever be afforded such a wonderful opportunity again). As Lynn, the abused and discarded ex-wife of Paul (Church), Barkin is essentially a doormat to everyone around her including her wicked, insolent and drug-addicted son (Miller), the ultra-bitch that is Paul's new wife (Moore) and her overbearing mother (Burstyn). Lynn tries to tip-toe around and manage her oppressive extended family while trying to coddle her fragile daughter (Bosworth), recovering from a suicide attempt from their callous and ill-tempered relatives. She's belittled, ill-treated and attacked, but all the while takes on a quiet dignity that makes her situation utterly heartbreaking to witness. If you've ever wanted to see how a mother can be neglected and taken for granted, this is the picture, and Barkin imbues this character with a searing humanity and empathy that is just breathtaking to watch.
If Michael Fassbender's sex-addicted Brandon Sullivan character in "Shame" is a 8.5 on the functional addict scale, Woody Harrelson's veteran police officer Dave "Date Rape" Brown is a 3. Sure, it's hard to compare oranges and apples of addictions. Dave's are myriad -- sex, women, drugs, pills, and a seemingly wanton desire for self-destruction -- but a tightly-wound Harrelson conveys the alarming toxicity levels of the soul nonetheless. Fassbender not receiving a nomination simply based on the quality scale is an utter travesty, and only a hair behind is Harrelson, if only just because "Rampart" seemed to become even more ignored than the NC-17 film was. And pardon the pun, but that's a gigantic shame. Harrelson is an armpit and a sewer of a man, a police officer who abuses every notion of upholding the law. Barely functioning at all, he's been caught on tape beating a man in Los Angeles for a traffic violation and it's only the beginning of the end for this excruciating portrait of a man experiencing slow-motion disintegration. Harrelson's been outstanding under the guidance of Oren Moverman (he earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for their last collaboration, "The Messenger"), but here in "Rampart," he is simply something else -- a crumbling officer that we barely recognize as the congenial Harrelson you may have seen on screen over the years. This is something much more chiseled, vile and deplorable, and Harrelson simply embodies that character down every step of the line.
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Chris | February 26, 2012 8:23 PM
I agree that Charlize Theron should have been nominated. No other performance from last year (aside from Viola Davis's work in The Help) affected me like Theron's. It takes a gifted actor to take a dispicable character and make you feel disgust, anger, sympathy, empathy and sadness for her all at the same time. She literally brought life to a character that stayed with me long after the credits rolled.
Anais | February 26, 2012 6:04 AM
With Charlize's performance in 'Young Adult', how can you not give her an Oscars nod? But I still hope that she'll turn up at the Oscars ceremony tonight!
Sue | February 26, 2012 1:04 AM
Brendan Gleeson in 'The Guard' is shameful omission.
Richard | February 25, 2012 10:01 AM
Adepero Oduye and Kim Wayans for "Pariah", Michael Shannon
For "Take Shelter", and agree with Tilda Swinton for "We Need To
Talk About Kevin".
Helen | February 25, 2012 2:17 AM
Charlize Theron should have been nominated. Her performance was really good. Michelle Williams and Meryl Streep are both overrated. Hopefully they are not going to win!
Fenil | February 24, 2012 11:32 PM
Brooks had very little screen time, although he was great in it.
maybe that is the reason he didn't get a nom.
jt | February 24, 2012 4:43 PM
Charlize should have been nominated over overrated Michelle Williams.
Alex | February 24, 2012 3:53 PM
Props to you for highlighting Another Happy Day and Barkin's flawless performance in it. That was a real ass kicker of a film, and, yes, with (much) better distribution, Barkin could've very well been the frontrunner for Best Actress.
See that film.
Karen | February 24, 2012 3:06 PM
Charlize Theron acted circles around the other nominees this year. None... and I mean none (yes, even Davis) compared to Theron's performance in Young Adult. I hated the film when I first saw it... it made me so damn uncomfortable but her performance stuck with me for weeks. I can't say any of the other nominees came close to that sort of impact. Hell, this is the most forgettable bunch in years. It SHOULD have been: 1) Theron 2) Swinton 3) Davis 4) Olsen 5) Binoche
Jake | February 24, 2012 2:11 PM
Shame? really? I've seen better film on teeth.
Brad | February 24, 2012 1:13 PM
I was more heartbroken in Like Crazy for Jennfifer Lawrence's Sam then I ever was for Felicity Jones Anna. Yelchin, and Jones characters both seemed more indecisive and flaky then ever really in love with each other like the advertsising for the film suggested. It was a good performance, but not the equal of any of the actresses who got nominated in my opinion.
Briggs | February 24, 2012 12:45 PM
Michael Shannon, "Take Shelter." Nothing short of stunning.


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Downed power lines were reported across Highway 52 in Cross Plains in Robertson County.
Hail was also reported in parts of Middle Tennessee, including north Nashville and the Williamson County side of Spring Hill.The Williamson County Sheriff's Office reported downed trees throughout the county. A tree reportedly fell on a home in the Fairview area. No injuries were reported.
Trees also fell throughout Jackson County and Smyrna in Rutherford County, where at least two trees fell on separate homes on Chestnut Street and Cumberland Drive.
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Driven mainly by advancements in presentation and display technology, corporate events are becoming bigger and more sophisticated, yet the typical, small-staging venue continues to be an industry mainstay. The temptation to use such technologies and techniques in these intimate settings is great among industry professionals. Sometimes, though, the industry lags behind in its adoption of innovative technologies, but in the case of high-definition video in small venues, slow adoption has more to do with expense than any lack of desire.
Even though HD is a hot topic in the A/V industry right now, it's not something normally used in small venues for live events. HD is especially prominent in the high-end consumer and broadcast television industries, with a great deal of time and money spent producing shows using HD equipment. However, HD is probably the most expensive and challenging content to display in a live setting, and there's rarely a budget for a full-blown solution in small venues. In addition to cost, there are other obstacles standing in the way of HD gaining a foothold in this space.
I recently spoke to some designers and engineers to find out why HD hasn't yet caught on in the small venue market. I'm always interested to hear from people who keep their finger on the pulse of what's going on in the industry. In our discussions, the price of HD was a common complaint, but other factors came into play, as well.
"Small" is defined more by budget than venue
From the start of my research and discussions with industry experts, it became clear how much more expensive it is to deliver HD over standard definition — a 2:1 to 3:1 differential. Everything, including cameras, playback decks, digital media servers, switchers, converters/scalers, and projectors are in the neighborhood of two to three times as expensive to buy, which equates to at least a 2 to 3 times higher rate for rental (before discounting).
In some instances, "small" is defined more by budget than venue. Mark Lovelace, director of operations at Stager Solutions, San Diego, addresses this point, particularly when it comes to HD.
"Once the HD trigger is pulled, the budget has to increase proportionally," Lovelace says. "My experience is that the limited supply of true HD engineering equipment leaves little room for price shopping."
Stager recently conducted a high-definition show for a supplier of HD hardware in a small venue with a very limited attendance. "We needed a full HD chain, from camera to projector, to showcase their high-def gear," Lovelace says. "As it turned out, HD engineering gear was relatively hard to find during the production season, particularly on the West Coast. For this show, we had to put together separate components, rather than the usual engineering racks, as the racks were on extended rental to the network guys. Again, there was little room for budget considerations as we had to take what was available."
16:9 projectors
Virtually all projectors today, from the least expensive to the highest priced, offer compatibility with most common high-definition sources in analog and/or digital format. That is not to say they are pixel-to-pixel capable of HD display, but rather, that they can accept and process most common HD inputs and map them to the resolution of the projector. This processing involves letter-boxing, or windowing, where the 16:9 image is displayed somewhere within the 4:3 or 5:4 aspect ratios of the images, resulting in lower than native HD resolutions on the screen.
There are not many true 16:9 projectors on the market just yet. At the high end, there are some 2k (2048×1080) DLP projectors being introduced, but they are priced far too high for almost all small-venue work. There are also some wide-aspect LCD products coming into the market and some wide-aspect, single-chip DLP projectors already in operation, but projectors designed for use in event staging aren't readily available just yet. We can certainly expect more movement in this direction by the projector manufacturers as more content becomes available, and as the price of HD hardware comes down. Eventually, the market will demand more cost-effective, wide-aspect projection.
From a projection standpoint, if the decision is made to go the HD route in a small venue, your choices are normally either LCD or DLP. Which choice is best? While LCD projectors put out a lot of light for the buck, they commonly suffer a blue/green shift due to the LCD technology and lamps used. This isn't acceptable to most designers, so DLP is selected more often than not.
Mark Lovelace recently worked on a big show in Las Vegas that wasn't in HD, but he still needed to decide between LCD or DLP.
"Our initial idea was to get LCD projectors in here, however, given the nature of the show, we decided to go with Christie X10s, as we felt the LCD look was unacceptable," he explains. "So if an analog show like this forces us to make a decision like that, why would I want an LCD projector on a full HD show?"
It's truly amazing what some engineers will do to incorporate an HD look into a show, however. Bob Baker, service manager at AVHQ/Show Solutions in Norcross, Ga., and his colleagues have been known to tinker with this approach for clients.
"Right now, we are in the process of planning a small show [100 people] in a draped off section of an arena which will use a 25×40 [Vista Systems] Montage screen," says Baker. "We have had clients use the Montage full screen vertically, using 1280×1024 projectors with wallpaper on the unused edges. We have also had people insist on 16:9 images using 15KHz video (4×3 aspect ratio), which is not HD material, but definitely provides an HD feel."
Some designers have even used digital cinema projectors, which are definitely not small-venue projectors — a testament to how creative stagers can be when a situation demands it.
The issue of screens is usually managed by masking existing screens or acquiring screens from any number of manufacturers or suppliers. Relatively easy to find are 16:9 screens, unless you are looking for a significantly large size. In that case, the search for custom screens begins. Screen Works, Da-Lite, and Stewart all make a number of standard 16:9 screens, and many screen manufacturers offer custom manufacturing to suit virtually any need.
What it all means
HD is likely not your best alternative for small-venue productions. Rather, it's most appropriate for those who want or need a truly exceptional image that is clearer, more colorful, and more detailed. Of course, having access to the necessary funds to pull off an HD production helps, but there are very few companies with the financial resources willing to do this.
Bob Lockley, director of video operations at Stage Right in Mettawa, Ill., says it best, "Once the pricing structure of HD equipment decreases to the point where it offers a better price to performance ratio, I'm confident the A/V staging industry will more seriously consider it as a small-venue option."
In other words, most industry insiders believe HD eventually will become the preferred solution for staged events of all sizes.
Gary Fuller serves as director of sales rental/staging and global product manager, rental/staging, for Christie Digital Systems. A projector industry veteran, Fuller spent nearly seven years at Proxima in product management and sales and was one of those responsible for the development and execution of Proxima's successful plan to move into the Pro A/V channel. Fuller has also served as an adjunct faculty member for the ICIA Institute. Email him at email@example.com


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Terrebonne Parish, La. -- Some Louisiana restoration projects are nearly shovel-ready, but the RESTORE Act money isn't flowing in yet.
The RESTORE Act has been law for one year, and it directs 80 percent of penalty money from civil trials related to the BP oil spill to restoration projects in the Gulf states.
One particular project is based in the Houma Navigational Canal. As easily as boats float out of the canal, saltwater can flow in and destroy marsh land.
"It's the industry's highway to get their goods out to market. Unfortunately that highway runs both ways," said Simone Maloz, executive director of the non-profit Restore or Retreat. "It allows saltwater to come into the channel, and so we need to control that and we can best do that with a structure on the channel."
A barge structure was completed on the canal in April, in time for this hurricane season. It addresses the immediate need to block the flow of water.
However, $500 million of RESTORE money could turn the barge into the marsh land's savior, according to state officials. Initial plans would incorporate the barge into a larger restoration complex, involving a lock. It would redirect freshwater into areas that need it while allowing the continuous flow of traffic.
"I honestly believed I might not be able to ever see the lock built up but for that," said Reggie Dupre, executive director of the Terrebonne Levee and Conservation District. "So I think this is a huge, huge issue for us."
The lock has been in the planning stages for years, but there has never been a big enough check to foot the bill.
Soon the state will get a percentage of the RESTORE Act money. The problem is they don't know how much money that will be, or when the money is coming.
There's already $320 million from the Transocean settlement ready to be distributed, but it's held up in the U.S. Department of Treasury while officials decide on how they will release the funds.
"We want these rules and regulations out as soon as possible," said U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana).
Landrieu spearheaded the RESTORE Act and says it's unfortunate the Department of Treasury seems to be dragging its feet. She was also hoping for a quick BP settlement. Since that hasn't happened, the bulk of the money is tied up in the ongoing civil trial.
"We've had projects, we've had a plan. What we haven't had is money. Now we've got the political will, we need the money to turn dirt and fix our coast and restore it" said Landrieu.
No one is sitting on their hands as they wait for the money.
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council is in charge of 30 percent of the RESTORE money. The council's executive director, Justin Ehrenwerth, sent FOX 8 this statement:
Due to uncertainty around a variety of factors associated with ongoing litigation, the ultimate amount of funds that may be available to implement the Plan and the timing of their availability are currently unknown. Despite these challenges, the Council continues to make progress to ensure that it is ready to move efficiently and effectively to implement a comprehensive restoration plan once funds are received. In order to ensure robust public input throughout the development of the Plan, the Council has held several rounds of public meetings and listening sessions in each of the Gulf States, and will continue to seek public input throughout the process.
While the council works on plans to prioritize funding, state officials set their own priorities.
It's why those involved continue to go over lock design plans.
"We don't want to sit on the money. We've been saying for a lot time we've needed the money, so we definitely don't want to sit on the money when it comes in, saying we're still planning and designing. We want to be ready to go," said Maloz.
The outcome of the BP civil trial will have the biggest affect on the RESTORE funds. For example, an outcome finding BP of being negligent versus BP being found grossly negligent could mean the difference of billions of dollars.
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