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Yesterday Forbes published its list of the 'Highest-Paid Celebrities Under 30' and guess what? Women are ruling the roost - huzzah! Five female singers made the list including our very own Adele and crush-du-jour Rihanna. Kristen Stewart made the top 10 too thanks to being the Twilight Queen and also bagging the starring role in Snow White and the Huntsman alongside Charlize Theron. Just think of all the comfy trainers she can buy with the cool $34.5 million she pocketed last year!
But the number one spot was nabbed by country darling Taylor Swift who earned an eye-watering $57 million between May 2011 and May 2012. As Forbes notes, each of the 22-year-old singer's three albums have gone platinum at least four times, meaning that in these days of waning music sales, Swifty can be counted on to sell at least 4 million copies of every album. And let's not forget her concerts, which bring in an average of $1 million per night, as well as her work with CoverGirl. Blimey.
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One September night, running home from dinner to meet a babysitter, I took off my heels and hopped barefoot—it was raining—up Crosby Street, and so home. Hepatitis, I thought. Hep-a-ti-tis. I reached my building bedraggled, looking like death. The doorman—who'd complimented me on my way out—blushed and looked down at his smart phone. In the lobby, on a side table, sat a forlorn little hard-backed book. The World's Masterpieces: Italian Painting. Published in 1939, not quite thirty pages long, with cheap marbled endpapers and a fond inscription in German: Meinem lieben Schuler…. Someone gave this book to someone else in Mount Carmel (the Israeli mountains? the school in the Bronx?) on March 2, 1946.
The handwriting suggested old age. Whoever wrote this inscription was dead now; whoever received the book no longer wanted it. I took the unloved thing to the fifteenth floor, in the hope of learning something of Italian masterpieces. Truthfully I would much rather have been on my iPhone, scrolling through e-mail. That's what I'd been doing most nights since I bought the phone, six months earlier. But now here was this book, like an accusation. E-mail or Italian masterpieces?
As I squinted through a scrim of vodka, a stately historical process passed me by: Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo, Raphael, Michelangelo. Dates of birth and death, poorly reprinted images, dull unimpeachable facts. ("The fifteenth century brought many changes to Italy, and these changes were reflected in the work of her artists.") Each man more "accurate" with his brush than the last, more inclined to let in "reality" (ugly peasants, simple landscapes). Madonnas held their nipples out for ravenous babies and Venice was examined from many different angles. Jesus kissed Judas. Spring was allegorized. The conclusion: "Many changes had taken place in Italian art since the days of the great primitive, Cimabue. The Renaissance had opened the way for realism and, at last, for truth as we find it in nature."
To any reader of 2013 the works of 1939 may seem innocent. Though how jaded, how "knowing" we can think ourselves without knowing much of anything at all. I've worked my way through surveys like this before, and am still no closer to remembering who came first, Fra Angelico or Fra Filippo. My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions. But golden yellows and eggshell blues, silken folds of red and green, bell towers and lines of spruce, the penises and vaginas of infants (which, for the first time in my relationship with Italian masterpieces, I am able to judge on their veracity), the looks that pass between the Madonna and her son—these are the sort of things my mind accepts. And I was making my way through these details pleasantly enough when I was stopped short—snagged—by a drawing in charcoal. The whole stately historical procession dispersed. There was only this: Man Carrying Corpse on His Shoulders by Luca Signorelli (circa 1450–1523).
Man is naked, with a hand on his left hip, and an ideal back in which every muscle is delineated. His buttocks are vigorous, monumental, like Michelangelo's David. ("Undoubtedly indebted to the works of Luca Signorelli.") He walks forcefully, leading with his left foot, and over his shoulders hangs a corpse—male or female, it's not clear. To secure it Man has hooked one of his own rippling arms around the corpse's stringy leg. He is carrying this corpse off somewhere, away from the viewer; they are about to march clean out the frame. I stared at this drawing, attempting a thought experiment, failing. Then I picked up a pen and wrote, in the margins of the page, most of what you have read up to this point. A simple experiment—more of a challenge, really. I tried to identify with the corpse.
Imagine being a corpse. Not the experience of being a corpse—clearly being a corpse is the end of all experience. I mean: imagine this drawing represents an absolute certainty about you, namely, that you will one day be a corpse. Perhaps this is very easy. You are a brutal rationalist, harboring no illusions about the nature of existence. I am, a friend once explained, a "sentimental humanist." Not only does my imagination quail at the prospect of imagining myself a corpse, even my eyes cannot be faithful to the corpse for long, drawn back instead to the monumental vigor. To the back and buttocks, the calves, the arms. Across the chasms of gender, color, history, and muscle definition, I am the man and the man is me. Oh, I can very easily imagine carrying a corpse! See myself hulking it some distance, down a highway or through a wasteland, before unloading it, surprised at its ever-increasing stiffness, at the way it remains frozen in an L-shape, as if sitting up to attention. And it's child's play to hear a neck bone crack as I lay the corpse—a little too forcefully—upon the ground.
Imagining that reality—in which everybody (except me) becomes a corpse—presents no difficulties whatsoever. Like most people in New York City, I daily expect to find myself walking the West Side Highway with nothing but a shopping cart stacked with bottled water, a flashlight, and a dead loved one on my back, seeking a suitable site for burial. The postapocalyptic scenario—the future in which everyone's a corpse (except you)—must be, at this point, one of the most thoroughly imagined fictions of the age.
Walking corpses—zombies—follow us everywhere, through novels, television, cinema. Back in the real world, ordinary citizens turn survivalist, ready to scale a mountain of corpses if it means enduring. Either way, death is what happens to everyone else. By contrast, the future in which I am dead is not a future at all. It has no reality. If it did—if I truly believed that being a corpse was not only a possible future but my only guaranteed future—I'd do all kinds of things differently. I'd get rid of my iPhone, for starters. Lead a different sort of life.
What is a corpse? It's what they piled up by the hundreds when the Rana Plaza collapsed in Bangladesh this April. It's what lands on the ground each time a human being jumps off the Foxconn building in China's high-tech iPhone manufacturing complex. (Twenty-one have died since 2010.) They spring flower-like in budded clusters whenever a bomb goes off in the marketplaces of Iraq and Afghanistan. A corpse is what individual angry, armed Americans sometimes make of each other for strangely underwhelming reasons: because they got fired, or a girl didn't love them back, or nobody at their school understands them. Sometimes—horrifyingly—it's what happens to one of "our own," and usually cancer has done it, or a car, at which moment we rightly commit ourselves to shunning the very concept of the "corpse," choosing instead to celebrate and insist upon the reality of a once-living person who, though "dearly departed," is never reduced to matter alone.
It's argued that the gap between this local care and distant indifference is a natural instinct. Natural or not, the indifference grows, until we approach a point at which the conceptual gap between the local and the distant corpse is almost as large as the one that exists between the living and the dead. Raising children alerts you to this most fundamental of "first principles." Up/down. Black/white. Rich/poor. Alive/dead. When an Anglo-American child looks at the world she sees many strange divisions. Oddest of all is the unequal distribution of corpses. We seem to come from a land where people, generally speaking, live. But those other people (often brown, often poor) come from a death-dealing place. What a misfortune to have been born in such a place! Why did they choose it? Not an unusual thought for a child. What's bizarre is how many of us harbor something similar, deep inside our naked selves.
A persistent problem for artists: How can I insist upon the reality of death, for others, and for myself? This is not mere existentialist noodling (though it can surely be that, too). It's a part of what art is here to imagine for us and with us. (I'm a sentimental humanist: I believe art is here to help, even if the help is painful—especially then.) Elsewhere, death is rarely seriously imagined or even discussed—unless some young man in Silicon Valley is working on permanently eradicating it. Yet a world in which no one, from policymakers to adolescents, can imagine themselves as abject corpses—a world consisting only of thrusting, vigorous men walking boldly out of frame—will surely prove a demented and difficult place in which to live. A world of illusion.
Historically, the drift from representation toward abstraction has been expressed—by those artists willing to verbalize intent—as the rejection of illusion. From a 1943 mini-manifesto sent by Mark Rothko to The New York Times: "We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth." But what is "truth"?
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject matter is crucial and that only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Death, for Rothko, was the truth—the tragic and timeless thing—and it's hard not to read his career as an inexorable journey toward it. His 1942 Omen of the Eagle (inspired by the Oresteia—itself an agonized consideration of three corpses: Agamemnon's, Cassandra's, and Clytemnestra's) is the painting that apparently led to the letter, and it's clearly transitional, still depicting, within Rothko's famous strata, some recognizable forms: Greek tragic masks, bird heads, many surrealist feet.
By the time of the Rothko Chapel (he killed himself before its unveiling), the strata have emptied out—not only of forms, but of color, too. With those black-on-black, death-dealing rectangles (he found them a "torment" to produce), Rothko was explicitly aiming for "something you don't want to look at." Which is one way of accounting for their emotional power: like memento mori, they lead us to an intolerable, yet necessary place.
Rothko wanted us deeply affected by the thing we don't want to look at. But there exists another solution to our tendency toward illusion: affectlessness. Make the viewer feel like a corpse. For when images proliferate among themselves, as if running mechanically with no human involvement, the viewer will find he lacks a natural point of entry. Simulacra seem to run without us, as the world will continue to run without us, once we are gone. Meanwhile, the idea of the artist—and the viewer—as human subjects, capable of deep feeling, of "torment," grows obscure.
Art that plays with the idea of mechanical reproduction—the obvious example is the work of Andy Warhol—teaches us something of what it would be like to be a thing, an object. Warhol was also, not coincidentally, an enthusiastic proponent of corpse art, his Death in America series being strewn with dead bodies, all of which are presented with no whiff of human pity—although neither are they quite cold abstractions. On one level, the level at which they are most often celebrated, Warhol's corpses make you feel nothing. And yet your awareness of your own emptiness is exactly what proves traumatic about them. "How can I be looking at this terrible thing and feeling nothing?" is the quintessential Warholian sensation and it's had a very long afterlife. Uncomfortably numb: that's still the non-emotion that so many young artists, across all media, are gunning for.
Thinking of Warhol and corpses it's odd (to me) that I met—for the first time—the critic Hal Foster, on that September night, for it was a dinner at his apartment I was coming from. It's almost twenty years ago now that he wrote of the Warhol effect in The Return of the Real:
The famous motto of the Warholian persona: "I want to be a machine." Usually this statement is taken to confirm the blankness of artist and art alike, but it may point less to a blank subject than to a shocked one, who takes on the nature of what shocks him as a mimetic defense against this shock: I am a machine too, I make (or consume) serial product-images too, I give as good (or as bad) as I get…. If you can't beat it, Warhol suggests, join it.
There Foster is defining something called "traumatic realism," leaning on a Lacanian definition of trauma as "a missed encounter with the real." We mechanically repeat the trauma to obscure and control the reality of the trauma, but in doing so reproduce, obliquely, some element of the trauma. The real pokes through anyway, in the process of repetition. One of his examples—Warhol's White Burning Car III—has echoes of the Signorelli. Here is a corpse—thrown from a burning car and hanging upon a climbing spike in a utility pole—and here is a live man, strolling by, heading out of the frame. It's an appropriation of a tabloid image, originally published in Newsweek.
On the one hand, as with the Signorelli, I am viewing the abject, unthinkable thing (myself as a corpse) and this, for me—and for Andy—is a way of dominating and controlling the trauma (of this idea). The silk screen screens the truth from me. But not entirely. A Warhol image, as Foster brilliantly argues, just keeps coming at you, partly hiding the real from you but also repeating and reproducing it unbearably. The repetition of the image—an unstable tower, three reps stacked beside two—proves key. Somewhere along the line, the sequence begins to morph. Thank God it wasn't me starts becoming (perhaps in that final blank space) Oh Christ it will be me.*
This anxious double consciousness—it's not me/it will be me—may be part of the price we pay for living with, and around, machines. Whenever we enter a moving vehicle, for example, or a plane, haven't we always, already, in our minds, crashed and become corpses? Even before receiving our salty pretzels we see ourselves screaming and praying, falling through the sky, incinerated. And if we're in that Warholian moment, everything else is false advertising. That's another ongoing attraction of Warhol: whenever it's strongly implied that we are going to live forever (almost every ad, TV show, and magazine—in-flight or otherwise—does this) we can think of Andy (who used the commercial language of these mediums) and know, deep in our naked selves, that it isn't true.
Meanwhile the replication of nature at its most beautiful—beloved technique of Italian masterpieces—is the art best suited to sentimental humanism, allowing, as it does, the viewing subject to feel pity and empathy; to weep for all the beautiful people who have become or will become corpses (excluding me). Which is a response I would never entirely forsake, not for a half-dozen burning white cars. To look into the tender, unformed face of Titian's Ranuccio Farnese—twelve-year-old scion of the ancient Italian clan—and see a boy whose destiny it was to become a corpse! And this despite his red doublet's intricate embroidery, the adult sword hung about his narrow hips, the heavy weight of inheritance suggested by that cloak his father surely insisted he wear… All the signs of indelible individuality are here, yet none proved sufficient to halt the inevitable. (No amount of "selfies" will do it, either.)
Is my horror of corpses coeval with the discovery that I'm a time-bound "individual"? Before we were mere bodily envelopes, containing souls for a while, before these souls embarked on their journeys toward the infinite. In a culture that gives credence to eternal consciousness, corpses remain disgusting but aren't, in themselves, "tragic." The modern "trick" of portraiture—the arresting of a "single" moment in an individual life (made so much more poignant here, on the edge of adulthood)—may be an aesthetic illusion, but at least it helps remind us of what a large "event" a human life truly is, of how much is lost when corpsification occurs. We may be forever corpses—but once we were alive! It was the old masters that taught us the emotional power of individual representation. (And five hundred years later, space is still reserved in our newspapers for recent corpses—if they are one of "ours"—the dead furnished with stories as precise and elaborate as the Farnese embroidery.)
Of course, we learned our attitudes toward human suffering from them, too. Auden's famous words fit Warhol's burning car as snugly as they do Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus or Piero's Flagellation of Christ:
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But do all old masters do this equally well? The sheer technical skill, the perfected illusion, can sometimes be a block between (this) viewer and the useful emotion she is seeking. There are many beguiling Italian masterpieces. There are also moments when you have to remind yourself that the stable relationship they tend to configure, between me the subject and the painting-object (which I am contemplating as if it spoke of a truth that did not include me) is, in the final analysis, a gorgeous illusion.
The Signorelli, by contrast, stops you in your tracks. It has the gift of implication. It creates a triangular and unstable relationship—between you, the corpse, and the "someone else." Looking at it, I am not a woman looking at a man carrying a corpse. I am that corpse. (Even if this is an idea I entertain for only a few seconds, preferring to be the "someone else.") And I will be that corpse for infinitely longer than I have ever been an individual woman with feelings and ideas and arms and legs, who sometimes looks at paintings. It's not me. But it will be me.
* In a crypt in Rome the bones of some four thousand Capuchin monks, buried between 1500 and 1870, have been used to create mise-en-scènes: fully dressed skeletons praying in rooms made of bones, with bone chandeliers and bone chairs and ornamental walls covered in skulls. In the final room a memento mori is spelled out upon the floor: "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be." ↩
In a crypt in Rome the bones of some four thousand Capuchin monks, buried between 1500 and 1870, have been used to create mise-en-scènes: fully dressed skeletons praying in rooms made of bones, with bone chandeliers and bone chairs and ornamental walls covered in skulls. In the final room a memento mori is spelled out upon the floor: "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be." ↩


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Father Paul Murray, O.P., is a member of the Irish Dominican Province and a professor of spiritual theology at the Angelicum in Rome. He is Caldwell's honored guest at the weekend long celebration of the university's 75th anniversary that begins with this special preview program on September 18th.
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Friday, September 19
7 p.m. : Family-Oriented Activity (TBD)
10 p.m. : Homecoming Bonfire (Parking Lot)
Saturday, September 20
10 a.m. : Registration Open (Outside Student Center)
11 a.m. : President's State of the University Address (Alumni Theatre)
- Join President Nancy Blattner for the Homecoming and Family Day Kickoff event. This celebratory address will also include a special presentation by the Mayor of Caldwell, Alumni Association Awards, and Class Gift Presentations.
All Day: Alumni Art Exhibition (Visceglia Gallery)
All Day: 75th Anniversary Memorabilia and Archival Prints Display (Jennings Library)
12 p.m. – 4 p.m. : Homecoming Carnival and BBQ
- Festivities include performances by student bands and organizations, drum circle, game booths, face painting, pumpkin painting, teddy bear clinic, food trucks, street performers and more! Reunion classes will have special seating under the Alumni Tent.
12 p.m – 1:30 p.m. : Mini University – Faculty Lectures
- Go to the head of the class with 30 minute lectures by your favorite faculty members:
- 12 p.m. :
- Professor Robert Mann – "The New Golden Age of Television"
- Professor James Flynn – "The Morality Behind Whistle-Blowing on Your Work Organization"
- 12:30 p.m. :
- Professor Thomson Ling – "Falling or Failing in Love? The Psychology Behind Making Your Relationship Last"
- Professor Marie Mullaney – "New Jersey's Lost Stories: When Paterson Was Red"
- 1:00 p.m. :
- Professor Marnie Sperling – "The Use of Simulation in Nursing and Healthcare Education" (Tour of Nursing Facility to follow)
- Sister Barbara Moore – "The Bible As Story"
- Professor Rosann Bar – "Understanding the Punch Line: Some Insights on the Sociology of Humor"
12 p.m. : Women's Soccer v. Dominican College
1:30 p.m. : Veritas Lecture Series Presents (more information coming soon!)
2 p.m. : Men's Soccer v. Dominican College
2:30 p.m. : Golden Anniversary Tea (invitation only) (Gallery)
- The Class of 1964 will be welcomed by the past 50th Anniversary alumnae.
4 p.m. : Mass celebrated by Archbishop Myers and Father Bob Stagg (Newman Center Gym)
5 p.m. : Alumni Art Reception (Visceglia Gallery)5 p.m. : Alumni Soccer Game
- Breakaway to the soccer field with fellow soccer alumni for the annual alumni soccer match.
5 p.m. : Dinner in the Den (Cougar Den)
- Enjoy our award-winning dining experience with fellow alumni in the Cougar Den.
5 p.m. : Music Reception (Alumni Theatre Lobby)
6 p.m. : Music Series Concert: Faculty Favorites (Alumni Theatre)
- Faculty Favorites returns to Homecoming, featuring performances by our Faculty and recent alumni. Performers include: Rebecca Vega and the alumni flute ensemble; Nan Childress and Conner Brown Romanowski '09 with piano duets; Hae Sook Yook '96 will sing with Laura Greenwald; Dan Yates and Betsy Mackenzie Stubbs will perform "You're just in love"; composer/pianist Jeremy Rafal and composer/jazz saxophonist Rob Middleton. General admission $20; Seniors and students $15; Alumni and friends $10! (Caldwell students are always free.)
9 p.m. : Student Activity (TBD)
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JUDITH VALENTE, poet and correspondent for PBS-TV's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, will be speaking on "Contemplation in the Age of Twitter." Ms. Valente will be on hand following the program to sign copies of her recent book, "Atchison Blue." A light reception will occur after the event.
This event is a part of the university's year long 75th Anniversary celebration and is co-sponsored by the Caldwell University Department of English and the Tower Poets. Funding for this program is made possible through the generosity of the Sister Elizabeth Michael Boyle Poetry Fund.
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Via Engagdet: "The phone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap of previous mobile efforts from Microsoft, from the look and feel down to the underlying code—everything is brand new." Video:
Microsoft has officially unveiled its new mobile OS and wiped its slate entirely clean of the oft derided Windows Mobile platform. New code, new name, and a new experience that builds on that of the Zune. It's great to see Microsoft really do its own thing here and by the looks of it do it well. Looks like we may have three viable smartphone OSes now.
Microsoft's new UI makes the iPhone's actually look out-of-date and it's fantastic to see so much courage and innovation from them. I would actually be more excited about a tablet with this OS than the iPad. The official video:
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Interestingly it looks as there will be no Flash support in this release. Considering that Microsoft has a direct competitor to Flash in Silverlight this does make some sense. Adobe's announcement of AIR for smartphone platforms somewhat undermines another attempt at killing off the platform, however.
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The OS7 is a step forward for MS but 'courageous' is not the word I would use to describe a company that stubbornly puts aesthetics and usability at the bottom of their list. It feels like a new generation of MS designers has forced MS to change it's ways.
My UX observations:
The lack of iconography forces the OS to use a lot of words and pictures. This can be taxing on the screen real estate and foreign language porting.
There are a lot of multi-screen menus, drilling down to necessary data may be time consuming, I hope they can create short work for busy people (and our fingers).
Looking forward to the UX MAG review.
Not necessarily UX, but business minded individuals may not want the lifestyle menus and transitions to clutter their efficiency.
The Zune is a casual entertainment device, a Phone is a different tool, though it can be entertaining, there seems to be efficiency sacrifices being payed toward the god of 'cool'.
Overall, its an attractive experience, I hope they have the 'courage' to use it in their actual OS.


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Adrian Gonzalez delivered a walk-off RBI single in a 3-2 win over the Giants in 10 innings on Thursday.
Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reports the Astros have contacted the agent for David Robertson to express their interest in the free agent closer.
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John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle hears the Padres' offer to Pablo Sandoval is the highest the free agent has received thus far.
Mike Berardino of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that the Twins have won the bidding on Korean southpaw Hyeon-jong Yang.
Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that the White Sox and Adam LaRoche have agreed to a two-year, $25 million contract.
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Beef Blower. Usually refers to girls.
That girl over there is a major BB.
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A pet name for friends meaning 'baby'. An exclusive word that can only be used by people of certain ranking.
The word 'bb' originated in the mid New Hampshire Dartmouth area.
The word 'bb' originated in the mid New Hampshire Dartmouth area.
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Bare Back. Meaning not using a condom.
I'd like to have sex with my girlfriend BB but she is afraid of getting pregnant.
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Short for Beyond Birthday, who is a fictional character in Death Note's Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.
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As we all know, Brazilian Bruno Basso and British Christopher Brooke have been the engineers of the digital print revolution since the year 2004 when they emerged onto the scene via winning Colin McDowell's London fashion talent contest, Fashion Fringe. Since then, digital printing and the possibilities enabled thereby have become much more the norm than the something unusual, and so people like Basso and Brooke have had to raise their game by continually evolving their designs, often by layering on more and more complicated collages. For their S/S '12 collection they decided, not to pare down exactly, but to loosen up the positioning of their motifs. Very large images, both of flowers and of abstract, oil-on-water swirls in hyper vivid colours, were spread more haphazardly, and more organically over the garments. Patterns too had been loosened up, with ultra light chiffon, silk and sheer textures on flowing maxis, bias cut T shirt dresses and tailored short suits. The palette really sang, with clear aqua and turquoises, soft dove greys, tropical yellows, tangerines and limes and rich violets. The stand-out garment for us was the maxi dress with a huge pink V down the front and smaller prints smattered to either side. We also loved a cropped tuxedo jacket with oversized lapels – how neatly that would slot into our fashion week wardrobe, we thought as it sashayed past.
Backstage the design duo were visibly tired and adrenaline-pumped but talked enthusiastically of embracing asymmetry in this collection, the excitement of putting on a runway show and how a marathon car journey, from Britain to Beijing undertaken by Bruno had informed his dreams and imagination to come up with many of the ideas for this seasons prints. How marvellous!
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2014: 73-89, 4th in AL Central
There is no doubt that there is talent on the south side. Chris Sale and Jose Abreu are two of the best players in the league at their respective positions. The 2014 season was the final hurrah for White Sox legend Paul Korenko , who announced he would be retiring at the end of the season.
The White Sox will be looking to make the jump into playoff contention in the 2015 season. In order to make that jump the Sox will need to get contributions from the likes of Jose Quintana and up and comer Adam Eaton. If all goes to plan, superstars Sale and Abreu should be front runners for the CY Young and MVP.
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WASHINGTON - The Washington Capitals' next game is still more than three months away, but the Adam Oates era in D.C. is already off to a remarkable start.
The former Capitals captain finalized a deal late Tuesday morning to become the 16th head coach in team history, replacing former teammate Dale Hunter, who stepped down May 14. And hours after accepting his first ever head coaching position, Oates was one of four former players voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2012.
"Obviously it's an absolute fantastic day," Oates said Tuesday afternoon. "I don't know if that's ever happened before. I've got to go out and play Lotto I think.
"It's a huge honor - obviously I was very excited about the coaching job and then to be called to the Hall of Fame just makes it a special day for us."
Oates joins the Capitals after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils. Prior to that, Oates was an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2009-10.
The 49-year-old is expected to bring an up-tempo style to the Caps and help restore some of the offensive flair that was missing under Hunter.
Oates was no stranger to the offensive game during his 19-year playing career, finishing with 341 goals and 1,079 assists. He is sixth all-time in assists and 16th all-time in overall scoring with 1,420 points.
Not bad for a guy who was never drafted and signed with the Detroit Red Wings as a free agent in 1985.
"When the scouts look at the draft, they look at the big kids and the fast kids," Oates explained, "and I was a small guy and a late bloomer. I kind of slipped through the cracks but that allowed me to go to college Obviously I got to play 19 years in this league which was fantastic, but it easily could have gone in another direction."
Instead, Oates landed in Detroit, the first of seven teams he played for in his Hall of Fame career. The Toronto native also played for St. Louis, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Anaheim and Edmonton.
In the 1990s, Oates established himself as one of the game's best setup men and the numbers support the argument. From 1990-99, only Wayne Gretzky had more assists than Oates.
"Yes, Wayne Gretzky had the best numbers and was the best to ever play the game," fellow Hall of Fame inductee Joe Sakic said, "but I'll tell you one thing - in my era it was Wayne and it was Adam Oates for playmaking.
You remember going into St. Louis and watching Adam and Brett Hull and the magic they had and the chemistry they had But it wasn't just with Brett. He made everyone around him better and was one of the best playmakers of all time."
In addition to Oates and Sakic, Pavel Bure and Mats Sundin were also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The official induction ceremonies take place in Toronto Nov. 12.
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Energy Technology: Cultivating Clean Tech
New Models for Energy RD&D: A new 'Clean Energy Institute' could lead the industry's war on climate change.
strategy for achieving a comprehensive clean-energy program for the nation.
Each of these initiatives contributes a unique perspective, and as a whole, their visions and plans provide a broad private-sector mandate.
Funding Stability
Additional funds, funding consistency and sustainable new sources of funds all are key to the clean-energy future. Environmental advocates such as the Pew Center for Climate Change also argue that much greater funding is urgently required to support energy RD&D, particularly for the advanced coal combustion and carbon and capture sequestration (CCS) technologies. Both EPRI and Pew call for at least the doubling of current DOE funding for advanced coal options. Pew sets forth an even more aggressive program in its large-scale development scenario (see Table 1) .
Where will a sustained source of funds come from? The FutureGen cancellation dramatizes that an ambitious RD&D program subject to the variability of annual Congressional appropriations, and political rather than commercial leadership, will have neither the proper commercial focus, nor the year-to-year staying power required to sustain the development of a broad spectrum of the new technologies needed. The explosion of Congressional earmarks in recent years only heightens the concern that parochial rather than long-term national interests command first priority in federal budget processes.
As a result, new funding approaches will be necessary to provide both year-to-year consistency, as well as sufficient funding levels, to execute the robust RD&D program needed to complement current DOE programs. Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, suggests a surcharge based on kilowatt-hours of coal generation to pay for the program. Professor Ernest Moniz, chairman of the MIT Coal Study, proposes a surcharge of 1 mil/kWh to be imposed on the utility industry by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This would be modeled after the revenue stream for the Gas Research Institute (GRI), which was initially funded by a FERC-approved surcharge. Such a surcharge on coal-generated electricity alone would generate about $2 billion annually, an amount sufficient to support clean energy RD&D for new coal initiatives.
Bob Catell, chairman of National Grid (U.S.), was chairman of the American Gas Association (AGA) in the 1970s when AGA asked Congress and FERC's predecessor, the Federal Power Commission, to create the GRI model funded by a modest surcharge on interstate gas sales. These funds were invested in R&D managed by the private sector. At that time, pipeline companies could not fund adequate R&D because their regulatory model did not permit recovery of such costs. When the OPEC oil boycott created a natural gas shortage, the industry became acutely aware of the need to greatly expand R&D funding to expand resources and maximize their effectiveness.
Today, Catell says the need for new technology is much more critical than it was in the '70s. He argues the debate about global warming is over and that new models are needed to fund and manage R&D at the necessary levels. He points out that government funding for clean energy must compete with health care, education and many other political priorities, whereas a directed surcharge could fund energy


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Awards season is now in full swing, as we've had the Oscars noms, the People's Choice Awards on Wednesday and the Globes are on Sunday (squeal!) Last night Hollywood royalty got together for the Critics' Choice Awards, and there were of course some fab-ul-ous frocks on the red carpet.
So who was the best dressed of the night? Marion Cotillard looked divine in a Zuhair Murad floral dress, while Anne Hathaway sparkled in an Oscar de la Renta gown. Anne bagged the Best Supporting Actress gong for Les Miserables - which could be a nice little clue of which way Globes and Oscars will swing. Jennifer Lawrence won not one but two awards, and also won in the fash stakes in a black cut-out Prabal Gurung gown.
Emily Blunt went old Hollywood in a white Miu Miu dress - it had a simple embellished collar at the top but the drama was all in the back with criss-cross embellished straps. Emily was also rocking a new make up look with some killer red lippie. Amanda Seyfried went high fashion, with a blue Marios Schwab dress with a Beyonce style top knot. Meanwhile fashion darling Elle Fanning looked super pretty in a strapless white floral S/S 2013 Chanel dress with brave chunky platforms.
The oddest fash choice of the night was made by Best Director winner, Ben Affleck, who had childish scribbles all over his hands. Not the best ideas when all the photogs were snapping his two awards (Best Director and Best Film) in his paws. We're assuming this is the work of his daughters Violet and Seraphina and there is no deciphering what the scribbles are actually of. When he accepted his award he joked about his Oscars snub - 'I would like to thank the Academy. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.'
The Winners>>
Best Director - Ben Affleck - "Argo"
Best Comedy - Silver Linings Playbook
Best supporting actress - Anne Hathaway - "Les Misérables"
Best supporting actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"
Best actor in a comedy - Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best actress in a comedy - Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best actress in an action movie - Jennifer Lawrence - "The Hunger Games"
Best Actor in an action movie - Daniel Craig - "Skyfall"
Best action movie - Skyfall
Best song - "Skyfall" - performed by Adele and written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth - Skyfall


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[QUOTE=simijet;4455569]I'm headed to the Okanagan region of British Columbia - specifically Kelowna. While I've been to Vancouver several times and also to the Canadian Rockies, this will be my first time in Canada's desert. I already have a lot of outdoor activities planned, but I want to know if there is anything that is a "must see" or "must do" in the area.
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Are you flying in direct, or are you flying to Vancouver? If Vancouver, I would first off make suggestions about the drive. It is a beautiful drive, and I mean beautiful, but when you are traveling between Hope BC and Merritt BC (Merritt is where you will get off Trans Canada 1/highway 5(?) and continue onto Kelowna), you will be traveling the Coquihalla highway. It is a MUST that you find out what the weather conditions are on this stretch. Do not be fooled by the weather even in June...I cannot remember where the peak of the highway is, or whether you will be traveling through it, but what is happening at the bottom of the mountain is not necessarily what is happening at the top. Snow/rain/fog can be deadly up there. Also remember, that in many stretches of the highway between Vancouver and Kelowna, the roads literally go mountain, two lanes of highway, 800 feet down, with little/no guard rails.
If you have the means, I might suggest, if you are flying into Vancouver, taking the train. the scenery is breathtaking, as you wind through the valley and many times between all the mountains. There is even a VIA rail glass top train you can take, but it is EXPENSIVE.
EDIT: Actually, I just checked...you can't take the train directly. Use this link for information and call to find out more about where the train goes if desired:
Kelowna is on Okanagan Lake. There will be PLENTY to do if you are an outdoorsman. Biking, hiking, climbing, walking, golf etc...you name it. Just remember three things: Cougars, Bears, Elk. If I had a dollar for every tourist who tried to pet, touch, get pictures with, these animals when I lived in Banff. I am not saying you would do this, but you can get awe-struck when you see these animals in their natural habitat, and sometimes, common sense goes out the window. DON'T LET IT! :D
One thing to do while you are there is go and visit Mission Hill Wineries. It is located in the West area. This winery basically put the Canadian West on the map for wines. When they started producing wines back in the 1990's, the first chardonnay they made one Gold at the 1994 International Wine and Spirit Competition (I was lucky enough to get some of that wine!). The guy who opened it as a winery (its in an old estate) also owns Mike's Hard Lemonade. The tour is great, and try and eat there. I cannot remember the name of the restaurant they opened in the late 2000's, but it has been ranked by Travel and Leisure as one of the top restaurants in a winery in the world.
If you are a wine person, Burrowing Owl is one of the better wines in all of B.C. Tough to get here in Ontario....
Also, at the top of the lake is a city named Vernon. There, you will find Okanagan Springs Brewery. If you can't make it up there, at least drink their beers. Great products. Indulge in many of the beers from that area!
One other thing to DEFINITELY indulge in is the food. Other than Southwestern Ontario (because of our vast agricultural [re: rich soil] landscape), the Okanagan region produces some of the best fruits and vegetables in Canada. Not sure where you live Sim, but there is a vast difference when you can either a) pick it yourself or b) buy it from someone when the fruit travels only 10 miles, not 10,000. You should be able to find a heavy dose of Alberta beef....again, worth indulging, even if you are vegetarian.
That is all I have off the top of my head. Here is the link to tourism Kelowna below. Let me know if you have any questions about any thing else:
Tourism Kelowna
City of Kelowna
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