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Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Dead At 91
Dave Brubeck, the legendary jazz pianist and composer whose experimental and complex yet accessible and commercially successful mix of jazz and classical elements skyrocketed him and his quartet to fame in the 1950s, died at Norwalk Hospital Wednesday morning.
He was 91, one day short of his 92nd birthday.
Brubeck was still in the habit of playing piano every day in the cozy lower level music room in his home, an idyllic refuge of 20 acres where the jazz superstar composed acclaimed works and rehearsed with and entertained his celebrated collaborators as if they were part of the family. Most importantly for this man devoted to family and faith, home is where he and his wife and onetime college sweetheart, Iola, a gifted lyricist and sometime collaborator, have raised their five sons and one daughter.
Although most famously celebrated for his piano playing in his historic Dave Brubeck Quartet, the lifelong urge to compose inspired him to write such classic jazz standards as "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke" to genre-crossing works. Among these are oratorios and cantatas, ballet suites, chamber ensembles, pieces for solo and duo piano, violin solos, orchestral works, a musical devoted to Louis Armstrong, a mini-opera inspired by John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" and much more, including what might well be the first 12-tone scale rumba.
Even his improvised piano solosexude a kind of long-range sense of permanence, an overall architectural feel for structure and form.
The modest musician was lionized in his later years. Jazz lover and film director Clint Eastwood produced a feature-length documentary, "Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way," to honor his 90th birthday. It included interviews in Brubeck's home at his piano, film clips from a Walter Cronkite interview and a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2007.
In 2009 Brubeck was a Kennedy Center honoree and was feted on stage by his sons. His Kennedy "class" included Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks and opera singer Grace Bumbry.
He also had a huge fan in singer-teacher Dianne Mower at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. During the Olympics she took her Real Ambassadors to London to entertain the athletes. The group's name comes from the musical "The Real Ambassadors," composed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Dave and Iola Brubeck. It paints a portrait of the U.S. State Department's use of jazz musicians as unofficial ambassadors of goodwill.
Brubeck appeared with the choir in previous performances. Mower, in turn, became a crusading booster of the Brubecks' "The Real Ambassadors," waging her own personal campaign to get it the sort of recognition she says the musical richly deserves.
When the group performed at the White House they sang, for the first time ever in public, the title tune from the musical. They sang "The Real Ambassadors" theme song again in London, along with Brubeck's "Unsquare Dance."
Brubeck was also a friend of the Litchfield Jazz Festival. He performed there and in August, 2010, as a "Living Legend" (named by the Library of Congress), he talked about jazz with the festival's artist-in-residence, Matt Wilson.
Early Days
After Brubeck graduated from College of the Pacific (now the University of the Pacific), in June 1942, he and Iola dated all summer until he enlisted in the Army. While he was on a three-day pass, he and Iola married in Carson City, Nev., Sept. 21, 1942. The newlyweds had time for just a one-day honeymoon before Private Brubeck had to report back for duty to a post near Los Angeles.
An enlistee, he served for four years both as a bandleader, who broke down racial barriers by integrating his military band, and a rifleman who saw combat and the deaths of comrades while serving in Patton's Army in Germany.
Although he traveled around the world and was often on the road 250 nights a year at the peak of his popularity, he remained faithful to Iola, a brainy, literate writer with movie-star good looks, who would be his collaborator as a lyricist for many of his compositions.
Not even Brubeck's alto saxophonist and greatest collaborator, Paul Desmond, a notoriously high-living philanderer, heavy drinker and ingenious pleasure seeker, could budge his straight-arrow pal and boss to stray down any sort of primrose path.
Part of Brubeck's famously unhip, even "square," 1950's character — his profound sense of idealism, devotion to family and the democratic principles of fairness — may well have been due to his all-American youth spent as an apprentice cowboy on a cattle ranch managed by his father in the foothills of the Sierras in California.
His father, Pete Brubeck, was a genuine Marlboro Man, a rugged, leathery, harmonica-playing, much respected cattleman and champion rodeo roper. Pete hoped that Dave, who was a budding virtuoso at riding, roping and branding, would one day grow up and become a hard-working cowboy just like him. Failing that, Pete believed that Dave would at least become a veterinarian who could help ranchers by caring for all creatures great and small in the idyllic valley that looked like the setting for a Hollywood Western.
One thing this real cowboy — a genuine man's man who was anything but "all hat and no cattle"— didn't want was for his son to become a jazz musician, a maker of what he later called "the damnedest noise I ever heard."
But young Dave, who first studied piano with his mother, a classically trained pianist who had once dreamed of becoming a famous concert pianist, was hooked on jazz. Even before puberty, Brubeck, who was born Dec. 6, 1920, in Concord, Calif., had been seduced by the sensational jazz piano playing of Fats Waller, Earl Hines and Art Tatum that he first heard on the family radio.
"I think my mind was always on music, whether I was riding a horse, or what," Brubeck told his biographer Fred M. Hall in "It's About Time: the Dave Brubeck Story" (University of Arkansas Press, 1997).
Before Brubeck mania swept across college campuses of America in the 1950s, the pianist, who had studied with the famous avant-garde classical composer Darius Milhaud at Mills College, stirred up interest with his innovative Dave Brubeck Octet. Although critically acclaimed, the octet, because of its highly experimental nature, made only a few recordings, and landed hardly any paying gigs. It was, in the argot of the time, "too far out."
Brubeck had made his mark as a serious, bold, intellectual musician with a sophisticated, working knowledge of both jazz and contemporary classical music. Already, he had acquired a reputation for knowing how to incorporate improvisation with textured orchestration and blend modern, edgy dissonance with contrasting, assuring assonance.
His lanky, 6-foot-2 frame, aquiline profile, customary suit-and-tie attire for concert hall gigs and, most particularly, his horn-rimmed glasses, which became a signature piece of the iconic Brubeck image, made him look like the embodiment of the jazz musician as an intellectual in the 1950s.
But button-down shirts and narrow ties never reflected a button-down, narrow imagination for Brubeck.
Instead, he wanted his music to stretch-out over and beyond conventional boundaries and even, as in his extended religious, morally-rooted, sometimes patriotic formal compositions, to shake up conventional indifference about such issues as war, peace, justice and racial equality for all.
After his critically acclaimed but financially feeble octet disbanded, Brubeck formed a trio, which included Cal Tjader and bassist Ron Crotty. It was a temporary way station to greatness.
When Desmond, one of Brubeck's old Army buddies, showed up and insisted on joining the trio in 1951, the pianist/bandleader's dramatic trajectory to fame, fortune and creation of a priceless artistic legacy began with the formation of the Dave Brubeck Quartet (DBQ).
Brubeck and Desmond, one of the great alliances in jazz history, spoke fluent counterpoint to one another, constantly inventing off of one another's ideas.
It was a perfect partnership even if, at first glance, it seemed to be a most unlikely pairing, a musical mismatch with Brubeck, a mighty maximalist, sure to drown Desmond, a sweet-voiced minimalist. For sure, you'd think a round of Brubeck's power-packed, musical boilermakers would easily overwhelm Desmond's finely wrought, extra wry servings, which were once famously compared to an extra-dry martini.
Brubeck loved to play thick, complexly voiced modernist chords, dramatically escalating the tension in his solos that swelled to a thunderous, balcony rocking level. With his large, powerful hands, he unleashed dissonance, a Germanic Sturm und Drang, taking listeners through dark, dense sonic forests, then out of the wilderness and into the light.
In marked contrast, Desmond, an incurable romanticist — a lyrical John Keats to Brubeck's roaring Walt Whitman — immersed his playing in introspective, melodic invention, creating new, lovely colors and silken lines spun from both old and new tunes.
Brubeck and Desmond seemed about as likely a combination as a musical wrestling match between Wagner and Mozart.
Yet, in the quartet format — particularly in "the classic DBQ" with bassist Gene Wright and drummer Joe Morello — the peerless pair worked beautifully.
This close, mutually inspiring partnership generated a significant slice of Brubeck's enormous discography, which includes collaborations with such other noteworthy reed players as the great Gerry Mulligan (then a fellow Connecticut resident), Jerry Bergonzi, Bill Smith and, in the most recent DBQ configuration, Bobby Militello
Just as Wynton Marsalis helped make jazz "cool" for young listeners in the 1980s, so Brubeck and Desmond made jazz "chic," maybe even "radical chic," on American college campuses at the height of the culturally staid Eisenhower Era.
The DBQ became a rage as it began nationwide tours of college campuses and recording a series of albums of its live performances. It opened a whole new, lucrative market with smart, young demographics with such hit albums as "Jazz at Oberlin" (1953), Jazz at the College of The Pacific" (1953) and the quartet's debut on Columbia Records, "Jazz Goes to College" (1954), the first of 50 albums it recorded for Columbia, a powerhouse label.
That same year Brubeck benefited from a dramatic media jolt when he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
A then much coveted publicity coup, the Time cover — a portrait of the rising, young jazz genius, horn-rimmed glasses and all — marked only the second time that a jazz musician was so honored. (Louis Armstrong, one of Brubeck's boyhood idols, was the first in 1949.)
Besides seizing the imagination of a whole new generation of collegiate jazz fans, the early DBQ albums set high standards and contained what would become the quintessential elements in the maestro's style.
Along with jazz improvisation, the DBQ immersed itself in classical forms and techniques, including polytonality (Brubeck loved to play in one key with his right hand, another with his left), polyrhythms and polyphony, improvised voicings playing against each other like furious Bach fugues.
On "Time Out" in 1959 — a breakthrough album — the DBQ took a giant step into its trademark rhythmic turf, playing with odd time signatures, moving away from the jazz staples of 4/4, the heartbeat rhythm, and the occasional 3/4 of jazz waltzes.
The album, which includes Desmond's mega-hit "Take Five," a classic in 5/4, and Brubeck's "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (a blues written in rondo form in Turkey with a title playing off of Mozart's "Rondo a la Turk") in 9/8.
More time-bending adventures followed with such releases as "Time Further Out: Miro Reflections" (1961), "Countdown: Time in Outer Space" (dedicated to astronaut John Glenn) (1962), "Time Changes" (1963) and "Time In" (1965).
Over the decades, Brubeck continued to compose, record and tour throughout the world. Yet he always found time to perform frequently in Connecticut, including festivals in Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven and many other statewide concert venues a convenient drive from his Wilton home.
Although still in love with his native California, Brubeck, who lived for decades in the Nutmeg State, became an unofficial Connecticut Yankee. His ties to the state were officially recognized when he was granted the Connecticut Arts Award in 1987. His mini-warehouse full of awards range from his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 to his induction into the California Hall of Fame in 2008.
In one memorable performance in recent years at a Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz concert before thousands of fans in Hartford's Bushnell Park, Brubeck, a by then silver-maned, elderly but far from frail figure, drew a thunderous standing ovation for his vigorous performance.
The pianist, who was one of impresario George Wein's mainstays at the Newport Jazz Festival, playing there most recently in August 2011, and a pivotal force in launching the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958, had performed in major international festivals and received standing ovations at top venues around the world, even at the White House and Carnegie Hall. Yet he seemed genuinely moved by the overwhelming Hartford response.
Not that it was all roses for Brubeck in his more than six-decade career, despite his detractors' claim that his fame was both undeserved and came far too quickly.
Although he was much favored by the public, some critics took a dim, skeptical, even a savagely sarcastic view of his music, finding it both overwrought and overrated.
Even his enormous popular success seemed to be resented by ideologically correct critics, who equate commercial success with selling-out. Similar critiques — a common form of sniping in the jazz world — were also aimed at such contemporary moneymakers as Miles Davis and Erroll Garner.
What got overlooked, however, was that Brubeck's "instant success" was actually a much more slow moving, Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches story, one filled with the worst of times long before the miraculous arrival of the best of times. Heavy dues were paid, both by Brubeck and his then struggling, just-starting-out, young family.
When Brubeck was nearly 80 and still an industrious, quite bankable product, he recalled that when he was discharged from the Army in 1946 that times were so tough that he had to resort to selling sandwiches on the streets of San Francisco.
"At one point I even told Iola I was thinking about becoming a garbage man," he told The Courant.
"I used to go shopping for my family's groceries at dented-can food stores. Joe the Butcher would do me a favor. So I wouldn't be embarrassed when he gave me leftovers for free, he'd say, 'Dave, I saved some stuff for your dog,' and hand me a package of meat. Only we didn't have a dog.
"The worst thing that happened was when I bought a case of cut-rate baby food that had been in a fire, thinking I'd really scored. But the kids wouldn't eat it. It tasted terrible. They took one swallow and spit it out. I had to eat it," he said.
"There were times when I was almost completely in tears for what I had put the family through," he said as he sat in his elegant living room, not far from a splendid grand piano.
Bad times, bills, laboring in noisy, smoke-filled gin mills, playing on out-of-tune pianos night after night to ill-tempered, even loaded patrons -- nothing could stop Brubeck, a WWII vet who had survived the bloody Battle of the Bulge, narrowly escaping death amid the massive destruction and turmoil of the fighting.
Even deep into his 80s, despite having had heart by-pass surgery and suffering from chronic, often agonizing back pain from a nearly fatal swimming accident in 1951, the resilient, stoic performer was still running full steam ahead, never once thinking about "taking five."
Typically, Brubeck celebrated his 80th birthday while touring Europe, a rigorous trek winding up in late December with a birthday bash celebrated by the maestro and his musical sons performing in London with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Also quite typical of the tightly knit family, the Brubecks hurried back home to the States just in time to celebrate Christmas with all the family in their Wilton homestead, a light-filled, California-style, glass and steel-reinforced nine-bedroom mansion where the six kids grew up.
This sort of all-in-the-family closeness was reflected not just in the sanctity of the home, but also, to Brubeck's obvious delight, in the father-and-son collaborations on recordings and in concert halls.
In the 1970s, Brubeck, as the family patriarch and caring mentor formed Two Generations of Brubeck, which featured three of his sons, Darius on keyboards, Dan on drums and Chris on bass and trombone. Later, Matt, a cellist and the youngest of the musical brothers, would also become a professional musician, adding yet another voice to the Brubeck dynasty.
Although Brubeck enjoyed a lifetime affair with the piano, one of his greatest passions was composing, both ballads and extended, formal pieces, including ambitious orchestral and choral works.
Always modest, even self-deprecating no matter how famous he became, he often described himself not as a pianist but as "a composer who played the piano."
His many ballad compositions include "In Your Own Sweet Way," a melodic delight; "The Duke," a salute to Duke Ellington; and, in a personal vein, "Weep No More," his first ballad, written for Iola after he returned from the war.
What he experienced in the war, including the loss of friends in battle, evoked a spiritual awakening in him, leading eventually to his joining the Catholic Church in 1980 shortly after he completed a major liturgical work, "Mass: To Hope!"
Among his many other large-scale, serious works is "The Light in the Wilderness" for baritone vocal solo, choir and organ, an oratorio on Christ's teachings. "The Gates of Justice," a cantata, mixes scripture with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Truth Is Fallen," another cantata, is dedicated to the memory of the fallen victims of the Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings of May, 1970.
His massive, varied serious oeuvre includes orchestral and ballet scores and two jazz operas, "Cannery Row Suite" and "The Real Ambassadors," with lyrics written for both shows by his wife Iola. In 1988, as part of Northeast Magazine's (then The Courant's Sunday magazine) "Art for All" project, he created four compositions for high school choirs.
Low-key, unassuming and unpretentious, the master musician never blew his own horn, an avocation for which he had no talent and no desire to pursue.
When it came to self-promotion, or even explaining his enormous popular success or what motivated him to always push himself relentlessly to the outer limit, Brubeck, a congenial man with a bona fide, cowboy background, could be quite laconic, the Gary Cooper of the jazz world.
Asked once what made him run so hard, so far and so productively way beyond any normally recognized retirement age, Brubeck simply said, "I love to play."
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Welllll Mr. Fancy Baseball and Politics Man knows nothing about the Oscars, apparently! He thought that Taraji Henson would win Best Supporting Actress and Mickey Rourke would win Best Actor. Silver's calculations excluded several important factors, including: 1) Penelope Cruz is very hot and 2) Sean Penn starred in a feel-good Issues Movie that concerns an issue that many people in Hollywood care about. Nate Silver must be publicly shamed, his statistics license revoked, and his $700,000 book advance donated to a math academy of his choice. [New York Magazine, OSCAR.com]
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V572625694 Re: item 1, the nearly unbearable hottitude of Ms Cruz: truer words were never spoken.
Serolf Divad Ha! Proof that Obama engaged in voter fraud to win the presidency! Someone subpoena the president of ACORN.
tehbenton Right or wrong, the man makes all of my gay geek no-no places tingle.
And I have a lot of them.
Cape Clod He was hedging about the supporting actress Oscar on Olberman. His 'maths' and 'numbers' told him to pick Taraji Henson, but you could tell he wasn't willing to bet the farm against Penelope Cruz.
Rourke would have won if he hadn't shown up at the awards looking like David Carradine's coke dealer. -
shanemacgowan Wouldn't the voting block interested in issue #2 be uninterested in #1.
ManchuCandidate Only if Nate used this equation:
OSCAR WIN = Acting Ability (%) X Sexy Accent – Tom Cruise + Muy Caliente Body * Number of Nude Photos on Internet
Giant Robot How accurately did Nate Silver predict me not giving a shit about anybody winning anything? I hope Benjamin Button breaks records at the Razzberries though…
tacdab Nate Silver is now, at last, qualified to be a meteorologist.
ignatius_riley Rourke was robbed! He should "wrestle" Silver, to punish him, for his bad maths.
Bruno To our evangelical 'cousins': This proves the science and the maths is rong an agains GOD.
Giant Robot Did anyone else rent Bandidas thinking that it might have some valuable social commentary? It could have been alphabetical order that landed it on the same shelf as Barb Wire and Barbarian Queen.
norbizness He'll at least have to turn in those rented sideburns.
shortsshortsshorts Ya but who really won Florida?
Mustang Mickey Rourke looked like he was seriously wasted or otherwise sedated. I'm not so sure he would have been able to negotiate his way to the stage if he had won.
ericblair My predictions were more accurate, http://pamelazoslov.blogspot.com, though I also thought Taraji Henson would get supporting.
Could I be the next Nate Silver?
Giant Robot Rourke didn't win because the academy realized that by portraying a burned out loser he actually didn't have to do any acting.
Mahousu Not to be too critical, but this post would have been improved with a different picture. Something like this, perhaps.
WadISay Is it just me, or has Nate gotten more scary and oracular lately? He was on Maddow about a week ago, and he looked lit from beneath, with incense burning on either side and opening his eyes only to speak.
4tehlulz [re=249145]Giant Robot[/re]: It's funny because it's true.
OReillysVibrator In Nate's defense, Nate's simulations accurately took into account that the Academy would give Best Actor to a movie that thoroughly involved latent and patent homo-eroticism, and gave a slight edge to The Wrestler.
MysteriousTraveller I think Nate only makes love to spreadsheets and his bong.
wheelie Silver was in good company – just about every dang pundit I read was declaring . . um . . Mickey Rooney (?) the winner. I'm glad they were all wrong. Sean Penn was terrific. Justice for my people!
Mr Blifil He obviously sampled the wrong Jews.
frumious_bandersnatch Well, if he is emotionally crushed by this, I personally vote that two uberhot twinks and a pitcher of margaritas be immediately provided to assuage him. I would appreciate video.
Mr Blifil [re=249136]ignatius_riley[/re]: This guy agrees.
King of Pants Math academies are the best sorts of academies.
King of Pants Also: Nate Silver did not actually take any surveys of the actual Academy voters, and therefore sucks.
Giant Robot [re=249137]Bruno[/re]: The only godly way to use math is to figure out the Barack Hussei Nobama = 666
SayItWithWookies So a reasonable grasp of random statistics isn't sufficient to predict the behavior of a secretive and capricious cabal of industry executives? I guess I may as well toss these elaborate calculations that show the Burmese junta will be cornering the tungsten market and invading Malaysia. Crap.
jagorev Well, now that he has gotten something wrong, every prediction he has ever made has been retroactively discredited, and NOOBAMA is no longer our President. Hurray! Let us do to Nate what we do to all failed statisticians (ritual disembowelment).
[re=249151]wheelie[/re]: Your "people" being gay San Francisco politicians?
Scott-san I'd bet Sean Penn could do a great Santenelli.
InsidiousTuna Ha! What a failure.
Now, I was drunk last night, so tell me, did Wall-E win?
magic titty So. Who's the lady over there in the latest swimsuit?
jarais Everyone knows you have to break up with Tom Cruise to get an Oscar. And I'm sure all those rumors about HOT LESBIAN SEX with Salma Hayek helped.
Gorillionaire [re=249146]Mahousu[/re]: Thank goodness my office door is closed.
MathewBrooks [re=249125]tehbenton[/re]: You are not alone.
Vulpes82 Let him be stripped, bent over, and spanked very, VERY hard for being a naughty, naughty statistician. Please?
Mustang [re=249168]InsidiousTuna[/re]: I was drunk so I don't remember.
Fear of a Black Reagan Penelope Mouseface Cruz is not hot at all. Also, her gay Spanish movies suck. Tomei wuz robbed, the end.
Mustang [re=249144]ericblair[/re]: I dunno. Are you attractive to gay men but not to hetrosexual women?
Mr Blifil I was interested in seeing Milk, as I have liked plenty of stuff that Sean Penn has done, most notably his stage performance a while back in David Rabe's Hurlyburly (the film performance was a major disappointment).
But then I saw the clip where he plays a scene on the grand staircase in SF city hall, or wherever, and proceeds to mince around like a figure out of a Sean Delonas cartoon. Now I'm wondering if I shouldn't just take a pass, since Harvey Milk is an actual important figure in American history, and I might start getting mad at Mr. Van Zandt, for attempting to simultaneously honor/appropriate the Milk legacy. Meh, I'll probably end up seeing it anyway.
Lionel Hutz Esq. Slumdog Millionaire : Uplifting movie of hope set in slums of Mumbai, or nightmarish vision of America's dystopic future, circa 2011?
El Pinche Maybe Nate needs to upgrade from his Pentium 2 386 with 4 MB memory and tube monitor to something a little bit more modern.
wheelie [re=249166]jagorev[/re]: My people are those who want to avenge the murder of the great gay activist, Heath Ledger.
norbizness Alternate picture caption from 1985: Max Perlich is non-plussed with the new Apple II/e!
IslandGirlFL I am very disappointed in our Nate. My husband about had me committed last night as I yelled at the teevee. RECOUNT RECOUNT!!!!! I have no one left to believe in…….
mercure Ha ha, where are your Gaussian distribution schema now, Silver?
Elm Hugger [re=249146]Mahousu[/re]:
My morning is now a bit brighter, god bless america for giving a poor starving actress an opportunity to shine! Someone say amen!
AxmxZ [re=249182]Mustang[/re]: Heeeey, Nate is plenty attractive to heterosexual women!
tiny mexican [re=249182]Mustang[/re]: I can confirm that Nate appeals to The Women (not the PUMAs though, their statistasexual object of desire must be James Carville or someone). Although the mix of Penelope Cruz vs Nate lust here is quite a contrast indeed.
Fivetree I can honestly say that I went 6 for 6 against Natey-poo on the categories he predicted. The Winslet, Ledger and "Slumdog" wins were slam dunks. That leaves the two he missed (and that I got right). Yes, the "hottitude" factor is relevant and party explains Penelope Cruz winning, add to that the fact that this award is usually where they honor comedic performances. Then there's the Sean Penn win. Let's face it, Mickey Rourke has been a burnout throughout most of his career in Hollywood. You have to be totally fucking brilliant to win one of those tschotckes if you have the added burden of being an asshole working against you. Technical people get to vote on these awards and they don't like waiting around for actors to show up, sober up, remember their lines or what have you. Remember this in future years when you are wondering why Christian Bale has never won an Oscar. He could turn the phone book into Hamlet squared and he will never get an Oscar. Because he reamed out a cameraman. End of story. Back to politics, Nate.
Plus liberal Hollywood feels guilty about Prop 8 so they had to show a little love to "Milk" and this is where they did it (along with giving that award to that CUTE Lance guy).
DustBowlBlues What Nate didn't calculate (and why I won the family's glam oscar party vote on this category) was the fact Mickey Rourke won the Golden Globe and, therefore, could not win the Oscar:
The Globes put Mr Creepy on the interview-and-talk-show-circuit and gave him lots of chances to remind the Academy voters why they didn't like him in the first place. A monkey could have recognized that "Mr. Comeback" would throw it all away again, fast as he could. Plus, while Prop 8 rage scorched Hollywood, he was using slang like f*g.
I'll probably rent the movie because I like Darren Aronofsky. (I even rented "The Fountain.")
Nate obviously doesn't read EW.
Mustang [re=249248]tiny mexican[/re]: Hey! I'm a girl. Admittedly, I like to channel surf, and I hate to shop, but I'm a girl. I don't see the Nate Silver thing. I'm more attracted to slobby guys who eat whole bags of chips with dip and act goofy. Thats' probably not a good thing, though.
DustBowlBlues [re=249168]InsidiousTuna[/re]: Wall-E only won the lame Best Animation but should have won everything–plus actor and actress. They are just so cuuuuute. I love Wall-E and EV-A. My favorite critic, Lisa Schwarzbaum, made it her number one movie of 2008. Definitely best love story–and best acceptance speech was the producer explaining how Hello Dolly became a featured part of the movie.
Links Oscars are only the most predictable awards in the entire universe. Why would anyone need to use statistics to predict the results? The only category where there was uncertainty was the best actor category this year. It turns out, the one thing Holywood likes more than a comeback story is a timely teh gays movie.
QuestionEvil What Nate failed to take into account is that the Golden Globes and many of the other awards are voted upon by people outside the industry. Mickey Rourke has been a complete A-Hole to everybody for the past twenty years. No mater how good your performance may be if you piss in the porridge of the people voting on the awards you're likely to walk away with little more then a dead dog and a strangely Gary Oldmanesque new look.
Also he even said Best Supporting Actress was a pure tossup, he just hedged his bets on Taraji over Penelope.
hobospacejungle [re=249284]Fivetree[/re]: along with giving that award to that CUTE Lance guy
What? I though that was Crispin Glover. I was wondering what he was doing at the Oscars.
tiny mexican [re=249301]Mustang[/re]: Shrimpy dweebs out of Central Casting for some, Kevin James for others. That's America.
Fivetree [re=249473]hobospacejungle[/re]: Crispin Glover NOT. Not even 20 years ago. BTW whatever happened to him?

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Sync (street artist)
Sync (or Syn as he is sometimes called) is a street artist, operating out of Melbourne, Australia.
At the start of Sync's career he was heavily into doing sticker art. He started doing stencils in 1996 in Adelaide but only to help himself mass-produce stickers.
In Adelaide, Sync worked for some years as a bike courier, so he knew all the back-alleys and side streets. All he did for a period of some years in 1998 was to create stickers and take them out to the streets.
In Melbourne, he is just as driven. Although he had been producing street art for a number of years, it wasn't until 2003 that Sync started making multi-layered stencils.
He is a member of the Everfresh Studio.[1][2]
Sync and the rest of the Everfresh Studio painted a large mural on a wall in Fitzroy from February 2009 to September 2009. The mural is on the wall of the Nightcat bar, and brands the suburb with "Welcome to Sunny Fitzroy, Everfresh".[3]
Sync is featured in The Everfresh Black Book published by Miegunyah Press, released August 2010.[4]
Sync and his work appear in the documentary film Rash (2005), Australia's first feature documentary film on street art and graffiti. The film explores the cultural value of street art and graffiti in Australia.
Sync was included in "Space Invaders" an exhibition of renowned and respected Australian street artists, which showed at the National Gallery of Australia. The works are from the NGA's own collection and toured nationally over the following two years.[5][6]
See also[edit]
- List of Australian artists
- List of people from Adelaide
- List of people from Melbourne
- List of street artists
- Spray paint art
- Types of graffiti
- ^ http://www.everfreshstudio.com/blog/?page_id=1593
- ^ http://www.streetstudiobook.com/artists
- ^ http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/photos/everfresh-create-a-fitzroy-landmark.aspx
- ^ http://delightfulgoodness.com/graffiti/everfresh-black-book/
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Green Field Trips And More
Mon 06 Feb 2012Story by Penny Dietz
Field trips are a great way to provide students with �real world� experiences that allow them to apply concepts learned in class. At Cotswold Elementary in Charlotte, NC, we are taking the concept of field trips one step further by greening them or at least one of them. That�s right, students are getting the privilege of walking approximately one mile to Chipotle Mexican Grill, where they learn firsthand about happy farms, �food with integrity� and what that means for their health and that of our environment.
For the third graders who have been recently studying the body, the food pyramid and making good food choices, the timing of this trip could not be more perfect. While at Chipotle Mexican Grill, they learned about the color of real cheese, which is not orange but white, as well as the natural habitats of free roaming animals as compared to many of the mass produced caged animals. Of course, the free roaming animals were noted as living on �happy farms�. Also discussed was the use of fresh ingredients in making a meal. So, instead of reaching for a can or box of pre-made and highly processed food � such as guacamole for example, gather ingredients � ex: fresh cilantro, avocados, garlic, etc� to make guacamole from �scratch�. In return, you get a higher nutritional value and a better understanding of what makes up your food.
�Food with integrity� is how Chipotle describes their �commitment to finding the very best ingredients raised with respect for the animals, the environment and the farmers�. As such, whenever possible, they use meat from animals raised without the use of antibiotics or added hormones. Similarly, they use dairy from cows not raised using synthetic hormones. The point being � know your food source and how it is raised because it does have an impact on you � most notably on your health.
From the second we left the school to begin our green field trip, the students got firsthand insights as to what sustainable transportation looks and feels like. Since walking everywhere is not always feasible, we talked about taking buses as well. Sustainably was further emphasized at the restaurant, where they shared that �local produce� is grown on farms within 350 miles of their restaurants. After all, the smaller the carbon footprint we made the better for us and everyone around us!
So what are the student�s saying about their experience? One said, �I never knew organic stuff could be so good. I can�t believe what people do to poor cows (put them in cages).� While another commented �You helped us understand to eat more freshly raised animals. We learned that most farms have animals in cages that they don�t have room to move. So I think all farms should have animals running free.�
After an interactive question and answer session with the Chipotle employees, the students enjoyed a healthy meal compliments of Chipotle. By the end of the school year, all of our Cotswold elementary students will have had an opportunity to participate in this green and healthy field trip, which is just another way of complimenting what they�re learning and planting seeds for the health of our future.
To check out another food adventure featuring local and sustainable practices check out this article on acknowledging the benefits of having dinner as a community.
About the author: Penny Dietz is a Charlotte based Mom-preneur and founder of green i am, which focuses on the benefits of living well while living responsibly. To learn more visit green i am's website.
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This is a county recreation area - roads are paved, most sites are fairly level, albeit very close together. We were in Blue Jay 6, plenty long enough for our 36' coach and toad, but the trees made it the hardest back in spot we've been in our RV'ing history. Being July, the parks was full; we could only get one night. Lots of wildlife, too. Scenery was great but the lake is very low. Hiking trails all warn of bears and mountain lions. We saw lots of deer. Extra charge ($3.50 ea.) for our two dachshunds. No over-the-air TV or Verizon. - renodick
We stayed in Blue Jay site 10. The wildlife was phenomenal. When we registered, 5 deer walked in front of the rig. Saw numerous deer and turkey all weekend. The only negatives are the road traffic next to the campsites and a sewer backup that did not allow me to finish dumping my tanks. I think the sewer backup was just due to the volume of people emptying tanks prior to leaving today. We will be going back, hopefully into an odd numbered site in Blue Jay, they are away from the road. - RE:Todd
This is a great place depending on which site you are in. Some bigger areas are overcome with kids and loud music from what we saw. We didn't have a view of the lake but had a nice quite site. It was on a hill but our site was level. A good warm place to stay if the fog is in at Pismo Beach. - GandM


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I'm trying to have a batch of mead ready for a wedding in 3 months and I don't know if it's possible. This will be my first attempt at brewing and I'm not sure how long it will take. I have seen recipes claim 3 weeks until drinkable and others that recomend 1 year. Can anyone suggest a recipe and technique for brewing that will get it done by mid July? Thanks and I look forward to hearing!
Yes, use Joes Ancient Orange Mead, but do it EXACTLY like the recipe says. Just do a search for it, its very popular. I personally haven't yet tried it, so maybe someone else can chime in here. 3 months is cutting it close though. good luck. mike
I made Joe's Ancient Orange mead last summer, and it's still pretty "hot". Yes, it's done fermenting but it still tastes a bit like hot cough syrup. I hate to be negative, but I think mead is a one or two year commitment. It takes a long time to ferment out and then to mellow. Maybe someone else made the JAO and found it to go quicker. I just don't think mead can be rushed.
I let my Ancient Orange go for 3-4 months (don't remember at this point) and it was quite good.
I've yet to hit that balance between a good mead (body, flavor, and alcohol content) and quick mead (which for me comes out watery, weak, and useable for topping off only). mike
Everyone here will tell you I'm wrong, but I made Papazian's Antipodal mead with raspberries (yeah, yeah, melomel) and it was done and drinkable in two months. Everyone I've given it to seems to love it. I used like 4 packets of yeast though, and about 3/4 of an ounce of yeast nutes... so maybe that helped.
We made a 5 gal. batch of JAO on 4-9-06 and bottled it on 5-28-06. We tried it on 8-26-06 and found it wasnt very good. We opened the next bottle on 2-14-07 and found something completely different. It was very good, the flavors have blended and settled, the bite was very nice compared to the previous tasting. Only judging from ours I would say brew it and let it alone for at least 9 months before you try the first bottle, I sure wish we had. I'm still not happy with it but the ladies all love it.........good luck and like everyone on this board told us when we started brewing mead, it takes time for mead to be good. We now believe this to be fact and our next meads will be in bottle for at least 9 months before we ever try them.
I'm not sure if you're looking for a sack mead or not but I do have a recipe that I loved after only 3 months. The recipe is here http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthre...050#post275050 in the recipe database. I started this on 30 Sept of last year and was drinking it for Christmas with my wife.
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The charity for troubled youths started by convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky said Monday that it will postpone a plan to shut down and transfer programs and assets to a Texas ministry until lawsuits against the charity are resolved.
The Second Mile had petitioned a judge to allow it to shift programs and millions of dollars in assets to Houston-based Arrow Child & Family Ministries Inc. The charity said it will seek to halt the transfer until the resolution of any damage claims filed by lawyers for Sandusky's victims.
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"Our goal is to ensure that the at-risk children who benefit from The Second Mile programs continue to receive the support they need while also being mindful of Jerry Sandusky's victims and the horrible abuse they suffered," said David Woodle, chief executive of The Second Mile. "Both The Second Mile and Arrow feel that staying the petition at this time will better serve all involved as it limits further stress on the victims and avoids unnecessary litigation costs."
The Second Mile, the state attorney general's office and lawyers for four of Sandusky's victims are listed on an agreement filed Monday in Centre County Orphans' Court. It requires court approval.
The Second Mile was financially crippled by the child sex abuse scandal involving Sandusky, its founder and onetime public face. After a six-month internal review, the State College-based charity concluded in May that it could not continue.
Woodle said Monday that The Second Mile plans to continue operating programs using its cash reserves.
Sandusky, Penn State's longtime defensive coordinator, started The Second Mile in 1977 and later used it to find his victims. He was convicted in June of 45 counts of sexual abuse of 10 boys and awaits sentencing. He has maintained his innocence.
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I want to notate some piano songs that I have written. My problem is that I can't find a program that will record the pitch and the rhythm of the note. In every program that I've seen, you have to manually enter the duration of the note. I have a MIDI keyboard and a MIDI-USB cable. I have computers that run Windows (XP, 7), Linux (Ubuntu), and Mac (PowerPC 10.4). I have tried Anvil Studio, Finale Notepad, and Musescore so far. Thanks!
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This is possible in any notation program I'm familiar with. In Finale (my choice), you use the HyperScribe function, outlined here: http://www.finalemusic.com/usermanuals/finale2012win/content/finale/ID_MAINTOOL_HYPERSCRIBE.htm I'm fairly certain Finale Notepad has this function. |
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Research Area/ Scholarly Interest:
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- Duncan, J.M. (2011). Defining rigor in family and consumer sciences. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education, 29(1), pp.1-12. Can be retrieved from http://www.natefacs.org/JFCSE/v29no1/v29no1Duncan.pdf
- Duncan, J. M. (2011). Rooted in mission: Family and consumer sciences in Catholic universities. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 14(4), pp. 391-412. Can be retrieved from http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/catholic/article/view/1675
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- Looking Back, Moving Forward: Exposing the AAFCS Legacy to Develop Future Leaders, at the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Indianapolis, IN, June 2012. Co-presented with Carol Pariani, Patricia Schodrowski, and Deborah Williams.
- Pilates for Professionals: Strengthening Our Core Using the FCS Body of Knowledge Model, at the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Indianapolis, IN June 2012 [research completed by Monica Dickens, M.A.].
- Beyond the Standards: Modeling Critical Curricula Through FCS, at the 7th Annual Educating for Change Curriculum Fair: Creating Spaces for Social Justice in an Era of Standardized Testing, St. Louis, MO, October 8, 2011
- Reaching Beyond "Context": Preparing FCS Professionals for a Multilingual Society, at the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Phoenix, AZ, June 2011. Co-presented with Daniel Duncan
- Defining Rigor in Family & Consumer Sciences, at Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education/MOEFCS Summer Pre-Conference, Springfield, MO, July 26, 2010.
- Leadership Strategies for the Next Generation: Fostering Capacity of FCS Undergraduates, at the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Cleveland, OH, June 24, 2010. Co-presented with Cheryl Houston, Ph.D., R.D., L.D.
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Crap...this stuff flakes off when dry and I got tired of picking bits off my face. The bits got on my pillows and in my eye. luckily I got this as a sample...
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I bought this too under the name Hydrolyze. It did nothing at all for my skin. I also bought Hydroxatone and while it was very expensive, saw no real results with their products.
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I'm glad I tried a sample of this before I purchased it. I do not have sensitive skin, so I was surprised that this burned my skin and turned it red almost instantly. Splashing my face with water didn't help, and I actually had to wash the stuff off. Horrible!
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Have used this product since February. Received my 30 day sample and then all of a sudden I had 2 more jars that you get every 60 days at $75.00 a pop...very expensive. It did not work on my dark circles but it did keep my puffiness down the whole time I used it. When I called to cancel my subcription the person on the other end tried to convince me that the product didn't work because I using the wrong other products to clean my face with..yea right. Went to using Oley Pro-X Eye Restoration complex at $40 which works even better.
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Serves 8; 2 tablespoons per serving
Four sources of onion team up to create a robust dip reminiscent of the traditional onion soup party dip, but with much less sodium. Serve with colorful raw vegetables for dippers.
2 tablespoons dehydrated minced onion
2 tablespoons water
½ cup fat-free sour cream
¼ cup fat-free plain yogurt
1 medium green onion (green and white parts), chopped
2 tablespoons grated sweet onion, such as Vidalia, OsoSweet, Maui, Walla Walla, or Texas 1015
2 tablespoons shredded carrot
2 tablespoons light mayonnaise
1 tablespoon salt-free onion-and-herb seasoning blend
½ teaspoon sugar
¼ to ½ teaspoon red hot-pepper sauce
⅛ teaspoon garlic powder
⅛ teaspoon salt
In a small bowl, stir together the dehydrated onion and water. Let stand for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, stir together the remaining ingredients. Stir in the rehydrated onion. Let stand for 10 minutes. Serve at room temperature or cover and refrigerate for up to two days. The dip will thicken during the refrigeration time.
(per serving)
Calories 39
Total Fat 1.0 g
Saturated Fat 0.5 g
Trans Fat 0.0 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.5 g
Cholesterol 4 mg
Sodium 87 mg
Carbohydrates 5 g
Fiber 0 g
Sugars 3 g
Protein 2 g
½ carbohydrate
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I have a semi-dwarf Clementine Mandarin tree that was in a pot for a year or so and then was replanted in the ground a few months ago. When in the pot last year, the tree was healthy and produced a decent amount of fruit. After the first month or so in the ground, I noticed that the tree wasn't doing well and started checking the moisture level of the soil with a kelway meter. I found that the soil was not draining well and contained a fair amount of clay. I then built a raised bed and replanted the tree again, using citrus/palm soil. For irrigation, I am using a drip line with 4 emitters (.9 GPH each) in a circle around the rootball, about 6-7 in radius from the trunk. I water twice a week for about an hour and a half, resulting in approximately 10.8 gallons of water per week. The moisture readings around the rootball from the kelway are around 55-65% just before watering. I have fertilized the tree once since planting in the raised planter using EB Stone Citrus fertilizer. I have attached a picture of the tree. The tree has no new growth and no blooms since being moved from the pot into the ground and then the raised planter. Most of the leaves are also cupped. Not sure is this is normal or not. So, I am wondering if there is anything else that I should be doing, or do I just need to wait and give the tree time to acclimate itself. I live in San Diego, CA, Zone 10. Any advice on this would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Looks ok to me. It is probably in shock a little bit. I would get rid of the wire and whatever that other ring is so you can inspect it better. If the tree hasn't rooted yet you could pull it out and raise it up a little and create an elevated mound. Many professional experts say do not amend clay soil with mixes for pots or any other additiives. When I planted my in ground citrus I dug deep holes and added large amounts of DG and gypsum into the holes and the soil around the rootball. I think it helped with drainage but i have no way of knowing how it would have drained without the additional DG and gypsum. I wouldn't fertilize if the tree is in shock and/or isn't taking up water etc… |
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But the Upanishads say that even if it is so, yet it is necessary to know the truth; even if it is true that there is nothing within, yet it is worth knowing it, because the outcome of knowing the truth is very significant. But on searching deeply, however, it is found in the end that no, man is not just an accumulation of clothing, man is not just layers upon layers upon layers; there is something within the layers which is different. But we only come to know of that when by removing all the layers we arrive within ourselves. That element which remains in the end is called by the Upanishads sakshi, the witness.
This word sakshi is very beautiful and very valuable. The whole philosophy, genius and wisdom of the East is implied in this small word. The East has contributed no other more important word than sakshi, the witness, to the world.
What does sakshi mean? Sakshi means the seer, the witness. Who is this who is experiencing that "I am not the body"? Who is this who is experiencing that "I am not the mind"? Who is this who goes on denying that "I am not this, I am not this"? There is an element of seeing, of watching, of the watcher within us which sees, which observes everything.
This seer is the sakshi, the witness. What is seen is the world. The one who is seeing is who I am, and what is being seen is the world. Adhyas, the illusion, means that the one who is seeing misunderstands himself to be all that is seen. This is the illusion.
There is a diamond in my hand: I am seeing it. If I start saying that I am the diamond, that is an illusion. This illusion has to be broken and one has to come, finally, to that pure element which is always the seer and is never the seen. This is a little difficult. The one who is the seer can never be seen, because by whom will it be seen? You can see everything in the world except yourself. How will you see yourself? - because two will be needed for seeing: one who sees and the other who is seen. We can grab everything with a pair of tongs except the tongs themselves. That effort will fail. We may find it puzzling that when the tongs grab everything, why can they not grab themselves?
We see everything, but we are not able to see ourselves. And we will never be able to do so. Whatsoever you can see, know well that that is not you. Thus take one thing to be certain, that whatsoever you are able to see is not you. If you are able to see God, then one thing has become certain, that you are not God. If you have seen light within you, one thing is conclusive, that you are not light. If you have an experience of bliss within you, one thing is determined, that you are not bliss. Whatsoever has been experienced, you are not that. You are that which experiences.
So whatsoever becomes your experience, you are beyond it. Therefore it will be useful to understand one difficult point here: spirituality is not an experience. Everything in the world is an experience, but not spirituality. Spirituality is reaching towards that which experiences all, but which itself never becomes an experience. It always remains the experiencer, the witness, the seer.


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Identification of functional variants within candidate AD susceptibility genes, which can reliably be replicated in multiple independent series, can ultimately be utilized to detect at-risk populations. Furthermore, discovery of such variants will shed light on the details of the underlying pathophysiology of this common, complex disease and could potentially provide therapeutic targets.
In our laboratory, candidate AD genes identified from linkage and association studies are assessed thoroughly to identify functional susceptibility alleles as follows:
Our current research focuses on the analysis of a number of candidate AD genes, including leucine-rich repeat transmembrane protein 3 (LRRTM3) and alpha-T catenin (VR22) genes on chromosome 10. AD is characterized by the invariable deposition of senile plaques predominantly composed of the amyloid ß peptide (Aß) and intracellular accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles made of hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein, tau. Earlier studies on early-onset familial AD have led to the identification of autosomal dominant mutations in the amyloid precursor protein, and the presenilin genes, all of which affect the processing of Aß and most of which lead to elevated Aß levels which can be detected in plasma.
Our previous work aimed at the analysis of plasma Aß levels in late-onset AD (LOAD) families led to the realization that plasma Aß is a highly heritable trait substantially affected by genetic components. Using Aß as a quantitative biomarker, we mapped a locus on chromosome 10 in LOAD families, which was also mapped independently by others using AD as a risk trait. Subsequent to the identification of this novel AD risk locus on chromosome 10, which likely acts via affecting Aß, we analyzed a number of candidate genes on chromosome 10, including alpha-T catenin (VR22).
VR22 is located at the chromosome 10 linkage locus and is a binding partner of ß-catenin, which itself binds presenilin. VR22 is a large gene that harbors another entire gene in its intron, LRRTM3, which is a neuronally expressed gene that is transcribed in the opposite direction to VR22 and that has functional implications in Aß production and synaptogenesis. VR22 and LRRTM3 are therefore both excellent positional and functional candidate LOAD genes.
Our studies on VR22 led to the identification of variants within this gene, which strongly associate with Aß42 levels and account for most, if not all, of our Aß42 linkage signal on chromosome 10. These variants also appear to confer risk of AD in LOAD case-control series. We also analyzed LRRTM3 as an AD risk susceptibility gene. This analysis already led to the discovery of LRRTM3 variants with replicable association with AD. Importantly, the LRRTM3 variants act independently of those within VR22.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Thailand)
กระทรวงการต่างประเทศ |
"The Seal of the Crystal Lotus" is the Ministry's seal.
Ministry overview | |
Formed | 14 April 1840 |
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Jurisdiction | Government of Thailand |
Headquarters | Sri Ayutthaya Building, 443 Sri Ayutthaya Rd. Phaya Thai, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400 |
Annual budget | 7,902,200,000 Baht (2012) |
Ministers responsible | General Tanasak Patimapragorn (Military), Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Ministry executive | Sihasak Phuangketkeow, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry |
Website | www.mfa.go.th |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Thai: กระทรวงการต่างประเทศ; RTGS: Krasuang Kan Tang Prathet; Abrv: MFA) is the principal government department in charge of foreign relations in Thailand. The ministry is headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs; who is also a member of the Cabinet of Thailand, he is appointed by the Prime Minister. The Ministry is primarily in charge of formulating and executing foreign policies for the Kingdom of Thailand. The Ministry is also in charge of managing and maintaining Thai diplomatic missions around the globe. The post of Minister of Foreign Affairs has been held by General Tanasak Patimapragorn, who is also Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters, since August 2014. He is aided by a deputy minister.
- Kromma Tha and Phra Khlang redirect here
Prior to the creation of the Ministry, much of the country's foreign relations were handled exclusively by the absolute monarchs of the day. During the Kingdom of Ayutthaya foreign relations were handled by the "Krom Phra Khlang" (Thai: กรมพระคลัง) (or the Treasury Department). The Head of the department was known as "Phra Khlang" (Thai: พระคลัง) and occasionally referred to as "Berguelang" or "Barcelon" by foreign authors. The famous 17th-century Siamese Ambassador to France Kosa Pan was the younger brother of King Narai's "Phra Khlang" Kosathibodi. Soon after a sub-department was created primarily to deal with foreigners called "Kromma Tha" (Thai: กรมท่า, "Port Department").
During the Bangkok Period most of these features were retained. For instance, the Chau Phaya-Phraklang in his capacity as Minister of State on behalf of Jessadabodindra[1] negotiated the Siamese-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1833 with Edmund Roberts in his capacity as Minister of the United States on behalf of President Andrew Jackson.
In 1840, King Mongkut, the successive king, founded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Siam, which was administered directly by the king. The responsibilities and roles of the old "Krom" were shifted to this ministry. Chao Phraya Bhanuwong became the first Foreign Minister of Siam in 1871, appointed by King Chulalongkorn. In 1881 Prince Devavongse Varoprakarn was appointed to replace him. Known today as the father of Thai diplomacy he reorganized and modernized the Ministry to meet 19th century standards. The Ministry was then permanently established at Saranrom Palace, east of the Grand Palace. The Ministry was divided into 7 divisions:[2]
- Senabodi Division (Ministerial Division)
- Under-Secretary Division
- Translation Division
- Reception Division
- Accounts Division
- Filing Division
- Diplomatic Division
- Consular Division
Foreign affairs advisers[edit]
From 1892 to 1924, the Siamese government retained the professional legal services of lawyers skilled in international law.
- Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, an international legal scholar, served as Adviser-General from 1892 to 1902.
- Edward Strobel, a Harvard Law School Bemis Professor of International Law, served as American Adviser-General from 1906 until his death in 1908. He was followed by Harvard Law Professors Jens Westengard, Francis B. Sayre and Eldon James.[3][4]
After the Revolution of 1932, the Ministry came under civilian control and the Minister was made a member of the constitutional government of Siam. The first Minister under this new system was Phraya Sri Visarn Vacha.[5]
See more at: Foreign relations of Thailand
Most of the offices of the Ministry were moved to a new grand building complex; Sri Ayutthaya Building, 443 Sri Ayutthaya Rd., Ratchathewi, Bangkok in 1992. This building is on the same premise where the Office of the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) used to stand.
- Office of the Minister
- Office of the Permanent Secretary
Functional Departments[edit]
- Department of Consular Affairs
- Department of Protocol
- Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency
- Department of International Economic Affairs
- Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs
- Department of Information
- Department of International Organizations
Regional Departments[edit]
- Department of European Affairs
- Department of American and South Pacific Affairs
- Department of ASEAN Affairs (for cooperation under the framework of the ASEAN group; bilateral relations between Thailand and each ASEAN member is under the East Asian Affairs Department)
- Department of East Asian Affairs
- Department of South Asian, Middle East and African Affairs
See also[edit]
- Foreign relations of Thailand
- Cabinet of Thailand
- List of Government Ministers of Thailand
- Government of Thailand
- ^ Roberts, Edmund (Digitized October 12, 2007) [First published in 1837]. "Chapter XX―Division of Time". Embassy to the Eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat : in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock ... during the years 1832-3-4 (Digital ed.). Harper & brothers. pp. 310–311. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
[T]he capital [is] called Si-a-Yuthia, (pronounced See-ah-you-té-ah....)
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(help) - ^ http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2680.php
- ^ Obias, Peter B. (1972). "Treaty Revision and the Role of the American Foreign Affairs Adviser 1909-1925" (PDF). Journal of the Siam Society (Siam Society). JSS Vol.60.1e (digital). Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ^ Thamsook Numnonda (1974). "The First American Advisers in Thai History" (PDF). Journal of the Siam Society (Siam Society). JSS Vol.62.2f (digital): image 5. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
The eventful forty-two year reign of King Chulalongkorn of Thailand (1868-1910) was a landmark in Thai history. It was the period that Thailand began to develop herself into a modern state, with the abolition of extrality (extraterritoriality), the negotiations of treaties, the reform of law and judicial administration, and the reorganization of governmental agencies. The achievement of these aims was, in fact, partly due to the work of the "foreign advisers" who shared roles in the affairs of this small Asian country.
- ^ http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2682.php
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External links[edit]
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Official Website in Thai
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Official Website in English


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Hero takes the Merchant on a trip of what he and the Scholar are attempting to achieve. Things turn for the worse when the Church declares the Scholar a heretic.
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When the Young Merchant arrives to Demon Queen's home, he notices Demon Queen is not herself until Hero arrives to reveal that Maid Ane is using a ring to disguise herself. Hero takes Young Merchant and transports the two of them near Gate City. Hero points out that Gate City is one of the few places where demons and humans co-exist. A young dragon lady arrives to inform Hero that she will prepare a fiery banquet. Elsewhere, Demon Queen finds Female Mage and her companions. In the banquet, Hero asks Young Merchant how fine the Dragon Lady's bosom looks. Hero proposes to sell Gate City to Young Merchant if the Young Merchant helps Demon Queen achieve her goals.
At Demon Queen's castle, Demon Queen and Head Maid arrive to a special room. She asks her maid to slay her if Demon Queen goes berserk. Over at Winter Pass village, Female Knight pledges her soul and sword to Hero.
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This award leverages existing NSF funding, including a recent NSF-MRI award, for which Dr. Strauf is co-PI, supporting the purchase of an ICP etcher. Work will also be carried out at Brookhaven National Lab under a granted user proposal. Graduate student researchers, supported in part by this CAREER Award, will work at both Stevens and Brookhaven's world-class facilities.
"Prof. Strauf is doing research at the forefront of physics, and this CAREER award implies that his peers in the scientific community fully recognize the high quality of his work," reports Dr. Knut Stamnes, Department Director for Physics and Engineering Physics. "He has built a first-class research laboratory at Stevens, mentors six graduate students with whom he publishes his work in letter journals, and motivates and inspires all members of our department and the Stevens nanotechnology community through his dedication, persistence, and perseverance."
As part of Stevens large effort in nanoscale research, the university offers the interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Graduate Program, in which Dr. Strauf is actively involved teaching core courses. His CAREER Award will further support the development of a Nanophysics Summer School, which will introduce nanotechnology research in physics to undergraduates as well as regional K-12 science teachers. Dr. Strauf's program inte
Contact: Dr. Stefan Strauf email@example.com 201-216-5639 Stevens Institute of Technology Source:Eurekalert |