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September 13, 93
Vol. 09 , No. 01
The Legacy of Wallace Stegner
In 1960 Ken Kesey arrived at Stanford as a student in Wallace Stegner's writing class. He had been a theater arts major at the University of Oregon and a state wrestling champion before receiving a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study writing at Stanford. While at Stanford he wrote a novel that has become an American masterpiece, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). Kesey worked with Wallace Stegner, Malcolm Cowley, and Frank O'Connor. Stegner and Kesey had a powerful and tempestuous relationship. Kesey's classmates included Larry McMurtry and Robert Stone, who also went on to become major American novelists.
By 1964 Kesey had published his second novel, Sometimes A Great Notion, regarded by many as his best work. He was 26. Within the year, Kesey and a group of his friends from Stanford and Oregon known as "The Merry Pranksters" transformed a schoolbus from yellow to day-glow rainbow, dubbed it "Furthur," and headed on a tour around the United States. The controversial, psychedelic quest for expanded consciousness became the subject of Tom Wolfe's bestseller The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test (1987).
Kesey retreated to his farm in Oregon in the 1970s where he wrote another novel, Demon Box (1987), and a collection of essays about the bus tour, Ken Kesey's Garage Sale (1973). Recently, Kesey has returned to the novel with Sailor Song (1992) and a work soon to be published about the legendary Pendleton Rodeo, co-authored with fellow prankster Ken Babbs.
In 1992 Ken Kesey was the CMC commencement speaker. Kesey returns to CMC to reflect on his experiences as a student writer. And this time he's bringing The Bus. Kesey and his pranksters have taken their new play, Twister (1994), on the road. Kesey calls it "an apocalyptic ritual reality in four acts," which draws on legends of the Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, and Elvis Presley. It will be performed at the Grove Theater in Upland on Wednesday, September 15 at 8:00 p.m.
Mr. Kesey's presentation will be held in McKenna Auditorium and is open to all without charge. Due to the popularity of this event, the dinner at the Athenaeum before the program is open to CMC persons only.
Fascism in Italy: Origins and Ideology
Recent news accounts have, with disconcerting frequency and in unsettling detail, provided all to many indications that Fascism never completely died out. When we read or hear of wilderness communes that serve as havens for (nominally Christian) white supremacists, or of the marauding of gangs of youths (American and European) who carry out their often violent-always hateful-demonstrations in the name of "national pride," we have more evidence than we need that the monster that is Fascism has survived all of the world's best attempts to eradicate it.
Of what was Fascism born? How and why does it endure? To discover the answers to these questions and to provide insight into the issues surrounding them, Dr. Myra Moss, professor of philosophy at CMC and Associate director of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, has devoted an academic seminar and supporting Athenaeum speakers series to examining the ideological roots and current manifestations; of 20th-century European Fascism. Charles F. Delzell will deliver the first in a series of five presentations on the origins of one of our century's most baneful threats to basic human rights and liberties.
Professor Delzell, adjunct professor of history at Vanderbilt University, first won recognition as a pioneer in the study of European resistance movements with the 1961 publication of his Mussolini's Enemies. He has received many awards and citations over a distinguished career of teaching and writing on complex historical problems, particularly those related to the beginnings and early ascendancy of Italian Fascism.
We look forward to your joining us for what promises to be a most enlightening presentation on issues that continue to have profound and far-reaching implications.
The Political Struggle Over National Health Care Reform: Making Sense of It
"Most Americans, it is now clear, regard health care as a right of citizenship not a privilege of wealth."
For the past thirty years, Professor Theodore R. Marmor, a professor of public policy and management at Yale School of Organization and Management, has been involved in the national debate over Medicare and health care issues. He feels that acceptable health care reform will have to draw upon elements of all the major proposals that are currently set out against one another. His studies have also led him in extensive research of the Canadian National Health Insurance policy.
Professor Marmor received his BA from Harvard in American history and literature. He remained at Harvard and in 1966 earned his doctorate in politics and history. He has been a professor at University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, and is currently a professor at Yale University. He has received several awards, including the Flinn Foundation Distinguished Scholar in Health Care Management and Policy, as well as being honored for the "best health article" by Policy Studies Annual.
Professor Marmor was also the editor of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, and has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and The Financial Times, among others. Professor Marmor has also written eight books on subjects such as Medicare, poverty, and health care. His most recent book is America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Continuing Realities (1990).
As the first speaker in the Athenaeum series "Health Care: Hope and Reality" Theodore Marmor will provide insight into this complex issue.
Signs of Disorder: Peasant Uprisings in Traditional and Contemporary China
China has a centuries long tradition of peasant upheaval and collective action. How has this influenced the modern forms of protest and dissent the world has witnessed in recent years? What does this say about the potential of peasants as actor agents throughout the modern industrialized world?
Dr. Frederic Wakeman, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley, will try to relate past to present and offer some insight on recent political upheavals in China.
Professor Wakeman, one of the most distinguished China scholars in the country, has been pivotal in promoting Chinese studies and scholarly exchange with the People's Republic of China. He served as educational advisor for the U.S. negotiating team in 1978 and became the first area scholar to serve as president of the Social Science Research Council. In 1992 he was elected president of the American Historical Association.
Among his most well-known works are a monograph titled Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 (1966) and an intellectual biography of Mao Tse-tung titled History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought (1973). His most recent work is focused on Shanghai and the Shanghai police.
Please join us for an evening which presents the opportunity to learn more about a part of the world that for many, until now, has seemed remote and obscure.
Jazz: The Breath of God
JUNIUS COURTNEY, trumpet
NAT COURTNEY, drums
TERRY HILLARD, bass
GEORGE SPENCER, saxophone
"It is my honest belief that the sound of the voice of God was as the sound of music, that is the harmonies of the birds, the rhythmic pounding of the heart of living creations, the sound of the water against land, and the climactic peak of the hills and mountains. All give birth to musical sounds that amalgamated jazz in its earliest form."
Junius "Baron" Courtney conveys his spiritual connection to the music of jazz through words as well as performance. In the first of a series of programs titled "Jazz, an American Treasure," Mr. Courtney will speak briefly about the history of the development of jazz and then perform with a small ensemble made up of musicians from his Bay area based "Society Jazz Orchestra."
Junius E. Courtney was born in the jazz capitol of the world, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he spent his formative years playing the trumpet at the age of 12 and leading orchestras at the age of 17. He was influenced by his association with the great jazz musicians of the era, which included Duke Ellington.
After moving to California in 1945, Mr. Courtney continued his music studies at U.C. Berkeley, Laney College, and privately under Jerry Cournoyer. Having first been denied entry to the Richmond Local Musician's Union because of his race, he went on to become the first African American member of the Union and has since held administrative offices within the organization, where he remains an active member. The city of Richmond, California, recently honored Junius Courtney with a certificate and trophy for his outstanding contribution to the world of music.
Whether you are a jazz aficionado or a novice, you won't want to miss the opportunity to meet this wonderful musician.
Charismatic Leadership: Contrasting Views of the Guru, East and West
In April of this year, some seventy people in Waco, Texas, captured the attention of the world. David Koresh and the Branch Davidians frightened many Americans into taking a closer look at the cult phenomenon in the United States. Indeed, the tragedy in Waco caused many to question what cults are and why people follow the cult leaders so faithfully, sometimes even to their death.
For Professor Cynthia Ann Humes, studying cults is nothing new. An assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Claremont McKenna College, Professor Humes has focused on the cult phenomenon in the United States, as noted by her class entitled "Cults: Wisdom of the East in the West." Having spent three years studying and living in India, Professor Humes explores why accepted Eastern traditions and religions become feared cults in the United States.
As a graduate from, the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in the history of religions, Professor Humes has received numerous graduate study awards. Moreover, she has written several articles on religion in India, is a contributor and co-editor of Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context (1993), and is currently completing her book, Glory to the Great Goddess: The Life of the Devi-Mabatmyz.
Cults and their charismatic leaders are a rather mysterious part of our contemporary society for those of us in the mainstream.
The Henry Kravis Leadership Institute and the Athenaeum are sponsoring this lecture which should be both insightful and timely.
Women and Minorities in Government
"The bridge into a new time must be a bridge of light, all colors, all races, All Our Relations must be included in that bridge for that rainbow to form and to arch across the chasm."
-Brooke Medicine Eagle
Many people, including our President, feel that the 90s is a bridge into a new time, a time of change. Politically this change entails encouraging more women and minorities to get involved and make themselves heard by becoming involved in government.
Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke represents a woman who stands for change. She has been involved in government since 1966 when she served as a California Assemblywoman. Since then she has served as Los Angeles County Supervisor twice, and is currently County Supervisor of the Second District of Los Angeles. Moreover, Supervisor Burke holds the honor of having been the first African American woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from California.
A Los Angeles native, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke attended Manual Arts High School, earned an undergraduate degree in political science from UCLA, and a juris doctor's degree from USC. She was admitted to the California Bar in 1956. Supervisor Burke has received many honors and awards, including being named one of Time Magazine's "America's 200 Future Leaders," and nominated as "Woman of the Year" by both the Los Angeles Times and UCLA. She is also a Fellow of Yale University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The Crisis in the Criminal Justice System
He is an attorney, author, former mayor, and is currently a councilman of Beverly Hills-Robert K. Tanenbaum does it all! From prosecuting Mafia members in New York to running for Los Angeles County District Attorney, Councilman Tanenbaum knows the justice system. In fact, he knows it so well that he has written about it in eight fictional novels on the legal world.
Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Tanenbaum attended UC Berkeley. Following graduation he continued his education at Boalt Hall School of law at UC Berkeley, where he earned his law degree. Councilman Tanenbaum is a member of the State Bar of California, New York, and Pennsylvania. In New York he served as Deputy Chief of Homicide Bureau, Chief of Felony Trial Bureau, and Chief of the Criminal Courts Bureau. Currently he has a private legal practice in Beverly Hills.
His novels have been critically acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times, Larry King, and Publishers Weekly. His latest books are Reversible Error (1992) and Immoral Certainty (1991).
If this author/attorney/politician can find the time to visit CMC, then there is no excuse for missing what is sure to be a fascinating lecture.
The Private Lives of Our Public Figures: The Art of Biography
Is nothing-and no one-sacred to the biographer? In today's voyeuristic culture is historical perspective compromised in order to satisfy the public's need to know the sordid side of the lives of famous people?
Historian, scholar, and one of America's most respected presidential biographers, Doris Kearns Goodwin, will address some of the key issues which biographers have been debating for the past two decades.
In 1967, while a candidate for a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Doris Kearns became a White House Fellow. She joined the White House staff of President Lyndon Johnson when protests over the war in Vietnam were at an all time high and witnessed President Johnson's withdrawal from the upcoming Presidential election. Four days later on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
After President Johnson left office, he asked Doris Kearns to return to Texas with him to work full time on his memoirs and assist in establishing the presidential library and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin. From this came the landmark volume, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1991). Doris Kearns Goodwin is currently finishing a biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II and a book on the Kennedys.
The Athenaeum and the Salvatori Center are pleased to host this distinguished guest, Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Director of the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
In the February 1986 issue of the Fortnightly, John Roth, then director of the Athenaeum, wrote a fitting tribute to Marian Miner Cook and her husband, the late John Brown Cook. In his article, Professor Roth made reference to Mrs. Cook's wish that the Athenaeum would provide Claremont students with the kind of "intellectual challenges and excitement" that she and her husband had experienced in their life together.
The charge to challenge the intellect continues to be central to developing themes and planning programs for the Athenaeum. What better place to examine and debate controversial viewpoints than in this academic forum, where one of the paramount commitments is to ensure the free exchange of ideas.
The first program of the semester is the first in a series, The Wallace Stegner Legacy, which brings to campus writers who also happen to be former students of renowned author Wallace Stegner. Ken Kesey will reflect on his student days with Wallace Stegner as well as read from his own work.
Other themes being developed are Jazz, an American Treasure; Law and Social Change; The Nature of Prejudice; and Health Care: Hope and Reality. The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies is sponsoring five lectures in a series tided The Roots of Fascism in Europe.
You will be interested in knowing that the programs featured in the Fortnightly and which are hosted in the large Security Pacific dining room are only part of the Athenaeum's service to the College community. In addition, each weekday smaller groups of students and faculty gather at lunch and dinner in the Parents and Freeberg dining rooms. The Athenaeum also sponsors the very successful Open Forum Lunch every Wednesday which allows for informal exchange between CMC students and faculty. And don't forget that you are invited to tea every afternoon, Monday through Friday, at 3:00 p.m.
Programs at the Athenaeum are a reflection of the myriad interests of CMC faculty, students, and friends of the College. Therefore along with inviting you to participate in the activities at the Athenaeum, I solicit your suggestions.
I hope you will want to join us for dinner; of course, this means you will be attending the lecture. If your plans arc uncertain you may always drop by at 6:45 p.m. for the talk. Once you have sampled the cuisine of Chefs David and Sid, you will realize that coming a bit earlier and dressing a bit nicer for dinner is well worth the effort!
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It's debatable as to which is the real news — the new law saving air traffic control jobs across the country, or Congress passing that law in less than a week.
Either way, both happened, and now the tower at the Global TransPark will remain open, along with 148 other locations in the country, with controllers working under contract from the Federal Aviation Administration. The legislation also ends furloughs of workers in towers at busier airports.
U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Mark Udall, D-Colo., introduced S. 853 — the "Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013" — Thursday. Senators had first, second and third readings of the bill, sending it to the House of Representatives the same day by unanimous consent.
The FAA ordered contracts terminated and controller furloughs as part mandated federal budget cuts and then delayed making a final decision on staffing of air towers like the one at GTP until June.
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., co-sponsored the bill.
"The people of our state shouldn't have to pay the price of partisan gridlock in Washington," Hagan said in a statement. "I continue to seek bipartisan solutions that will reduce spending, grow our economy and help put North Carolinians back to work."
The House passed the bill Friday and it now heads to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign the bill into law.
"The furlough of critical FAA controllers is quickly becoming a national crisis and now is the time to end it," U.S. Airways CEO Doug Parker said in a statement.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolfeReports.
Breakout Box
'Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013'
U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo.
Passed Senate (Thursday), House of Representatives (Friday)

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Occupational Asthma
Medical Author:
Irina Petrache, MD
Medical Author:
Christopher James Huffer, MD
Medical Editor:
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Occupational asthma facts
What is occupational asthma?
Asthma is a chronic lung disease characterized by reversible inflammation of the airways (bronchi). In asthma, white blood cells infiltrate the walls of the airways, increased mucus accumulates within the airways, and the muscles surrounding the airways tighten (constrict or "twitch"), resulting in an overall narrowing of the airways. This narrowing of the airways is responsible for the shortness of breath, wheezing, and chest tightness patients with asthma experience during their attacks. Occupational asthma is a type of asthma that is caused by exposure to a particular substance in the workplace. Occupational asthma is not the same as previously diagnosed asthma that is worsened by being at work (this condition would be called work-aggravated asthma).
There are two main types of occupational asthma: one type caused by an agent that stimulates the body's immune system that then triggers asthma (immune-mediated); and another where the agent directly irritates the airways (irritant-induced). Immune-mediated occupational asthma typically has a period of time (latency period) between the workplace exposure and the beginning of symptoms. This latency period can be from a few weeks to several years. In contrast, irritant-induced occupational asthma usually causes symptoms immediately after exposure.
A severe form of irritant-induced occupational asthma is called reactive airways dysfunction syndrome (RADS). This is a condition where the patient suffers a single exposure to a very high concentration of a noxious chemical, usually a gas. A person suffering from RADS will have shortness of breath and chest tightness severe enough to seek medical attention within 24 hours of the exposure. After recovery from the initial massive exposure, the patient will likely have airways that remain excessively responsive or "twitchy" to stimuli from the agent that caused the initial symptoms or other agents. Almost all patients with RADS will have excessively responsive airways for three months, and 50% to 60% will still have excessively responsive airways 18 months later.
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"Running Man's Bible" in St. Paul was when it all clicked for me.
A new song off Mojo, "Running Man's Bible" reads like the midnight ruminations of a man looking back over a lifetime spent on the highway between the centerline and the ditch and lived to tell the tale.
"You're with me tonight on this dark highway
We've run it together
So many times
We've run it for money
We've run it for music
We've run it to pay for our innocent crimes"
And standing in the last row of the arena tonight, it suddenly dawned on me that "Running Man's Bible" isn't only a retrospective on days gone by, but also an ode to longevity and resilience.
"Here's one to glory and survival
And stayin' alive
It's the running man's bible."
And the band certainly has not only survived, releasing a celebrated hit new album (#2 on the chart this week!) that the fans on this tour have really embraced.
But of course it's the classics that still inspire the crowd most. As the Heartbreakers cranked out hit after hit from their three-decade-plus catalog in St. Paul Tuesday night, fans hugged and high-fived each other while seemingly reliving the first time they heard each song. Eleven thousand voices rose up to sing along to "Free Fallin'" and "Learning to Fly," but it wasn't until the "American Girl" finale that the Xcel Energy Center truly exploded, erupting into a blast of energy, sound and light.
Opening the show was the fantastic Drive-By Truckers, who will be joining us on the road through Pittsburgh next month. Make sure to come early and check these guys out!


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Drugs and gangs are a definite problem in LaGrange, the LaGrange Police Department's Civilian Police Academy learned during its second class Tuesday.
Sgt. Mark Cavender of LPD's Special Investigation Unit (SIU), began the class by describing the duties of his SIU team, which includes investigating gambling, trafficking, prostitution, alcohol and drug incidents.
A sample of seized drugs and drug paraphernalia, which included methamphetamine, cocaine, smoking devices and close to a pound of marijuana were shown to the class.
Cavender explained that possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana is considered a felony, along with possession of any amount of methamphetamine and cocaine. In addition, anyone in possession of any prescribed narcotics such as Xanax and Hydrocodone without having a prescription will be charged with a felony.
"Prescription drug abuse today is slowly overtaking all other drug abuse in this country," said Cavender. "Because it's so easy to get and so cheap to get."
The effects drug abusers are getting from drugs like hydrocodone and oxycontin have the same effects as with the use of heroine and is just as addictive, he said. Many of these people are "doctor shopping," going to different doctors for prescriptions, which he said is considered a felony in Alabama, but is legal in Georgia.
These drug shoppers typically sell the pills. Pills like Lortab, he said, are being sold on the street for up to $30.
In cases like these, the SIU can set up undercover operations for purchases of drugs to catch the dealer in act.
Aside from physical drug possession, Cavender said that someone can be charged with methamphetamine possession even if a glass pipe, used to smoke methamphetamine, is found in their possession. Blood tests can also be used to charge someone with possession of methamphetamine.
New drug names are beginning to surface among teens. Cavender warned that teens are now referring to methamphetamine and marijuana as "Tina" and "Beth," and a new form of ecstasy referred to as "Molly" is beginning to become a common drug among teens.
Investigator Ray Ham then talked about how local gangs play a huge role in drug crimes in the city. He stated that a gang is "an existence of an organization that may be established by any common name, signs, symbols, tattoos, graffiti or ties."
Up to 96 percent of all violent crimes committed in larger cities are by criminal gangs.
"Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the street crime in many small communities like LaGrange," said Ray.
Most of them occur during drug sales and aggravated assault, armed robbery, drug trafficking, auto theft and murder are common crimes committed by gangs.
Due to the severity of their crimes, gang warrants have normally a minimum five year sentence in Georgia for each charge.
"These guys are a serious danger," said Ham.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been 19 gang-related shootings in LaGrange where 13 were actually shot, said Ham.
In LaGrange, police have possibly encountered 12 to 20 groups of individuals that meet the criteria of a gang, with possibly up to 150 to 200 members.
LaGrange Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies meet once a month to focus on gangs.
"We are coming together to make gang cases, it makes sense for us to compliment each other to make cases against gang members," said Ham.


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James Miller is Chair of Liberal Studies and Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. His latest book, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche, has just been published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. The book's introduction and the chapter on Seneca can be found here. To read a review, please click here.
He is the author of five other books: Flowers in the Dustbin: the Rise of Rock & Roll, 1947-1977, winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award and a Ralph Gleason BMI award for best music book of 1999; The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993), an interpretive essay on the life of the French philosopher and a National Book Critics Circle Finalist for General Nonfiction, which has been translated into nine languages; "Democracy is in the Streets": From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (1987), an account of the American student movement of the 1960s, also a National Book Critics Circle Finalist for General Nonfiction and recently recommended by Michael Kazin as one of the 5 essential books to understand the roots of the Occupy Wall Street movement (to read the article, please click here); Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy (1984), a study of the origins of modern democracy; and History and Human Existence - From Marx to Merleau-Ponty, an analysis of Marx and the French existentialists.
The original editor of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (1976), he has written about music since the 1960s, when one of his early record reviews appeared in the third issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Subsequent pieces on music have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times and Newsweek, where he was a book reviewer and pop music critic between 1981 and 1990. Pieces on philosophy and history have appeared in The London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review. In 2000, the magazine Lingua Franca published his best-known essay, "Is Bad Writing Necessary? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Language."
Besides publishing in such peer-reviewed academic journals as History and Theory and Political Theory, he has contributed to a variety of reference works, from Encyclopedia Britannica and A New Literary History of America, published by Harvard in 2009, to the Dictionnaire de philosophie morale edited by Monique Canto-Sperber in 1996.
From 2000 to 2008, he edited Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an NEH Fellow twice, and in 2006-2007 he was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A native of Chicago, he was educated at Pomona College in California, and at Brandeis University, where he received a Ph.D. in the History of Ideas in 1976.
Take a look at some other essays by James Miller:
"Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche" Talk delivered at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 27, 2010
Forthcoming: The first annual New School Arts Festival, Noir Now.April 2011The term "noir" was coined in 1946 by a French film critic who, viewing some American films for the first time after World War II - The Maltese Falcon; Double Indemnity; Laura; and Murder, My Sweet - focused on their similarities, and labeled what he saw noir, or "black."
Noir thus became the name for a genre of morally-ambiguous crime films (directed by John Huston and Billy Wilder, among others) and the sometimes frankly nihilistic novels that inspired them (written by Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain,among others). Yet with the passage of time, it has become ever clearer that noir is not just a matter of moody lighting and cynical gunplay. From our own standpoint, the fearful sensibility at play in noir is as elemental as classical tragedy - and as contemporary as a new film by the Coen Brothers, Todd Haynes or Guy Maddin.
Today one even hears talk of noir fashion, noir design, noir poetry, noir comics - the list goes on. So what if anything does this French adjective, so promiscuously deployed, actually mean? One can start with a set of evocative and emblematic phrases: "darkness visible," "the imp of the perverse," "the naked city," "the killer inside me." But to discover more about what noir means today, the New School presents a one week arts festival, April 1 - 8, featuring a variety of art exhibits, theater productions, concerts, screenings of films, and free public events featuring Academy Award winning actress Frances McDormand; directors Guy Maddin and Todd Haynes; jazz guitarist Marc Ribot; composer Paul Moravec; playwright and graphic novelist Ben Katchor; poets Frank Bidart, Robert Pinsky, and Robert Polito; novelist Mary Gaitskill, cultural critics Mary Haskell, Greil Marcus, Luc Sante, Susie Linfield, and James Naremore; and a variety of new plays and art works by New School students at Parsons, in Media Studies, and throughout the University.
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But one look changed it all. Granted a bulk of her face was masked, but I could see the look in her eyes. She was appalled at the state of my oral hygiene.
"Listen. I don't mean to scare you, but if you don't do something about your teeth… You might not have any left as you grow older…"
Me? Live with stinking dentures? Oh God please no! So I asked her what I should do. Instead of telling me to splurge a bomb and a half on weekly teeth cleansing sessions, she told me to get an electronic toothbrush. I was never a fan of sticking anything "gadgety" in my mouth. I was mighty proud of my brush! It was doing a great job. Or so I thought…
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I took the dentist's advice and went hunting for Oral-B 8850 Professional Care 3D Toothbrush online. And now, 3 months down the road, my dentist has a look of delight on her face whenever she takes a look at my mouth (they're weird, they actually feel joy by looking at nice teeth).
I reckoned there may be quite a few people who might want an electronic brush of their own, so I decided to write a nice little review.
What You Should Know Before Buying
For starters, the Oral-B 8850 comes with a charger indicator and a charger. And this makes complete sense. If it was operated using normal batteries, odds are the battery compartment would be flooded in no time. The indicator is swell as well. I never have to second guess the time required to charge the brush.
This electric toothbrush is surprisingly high tech. Who'd have thought so much thought would be given to a brush? The packaging says the provides tens of thousands (a quick search online showed it to be 40, 000 in fact) little vibrations when it's in your mouth. This feature's fantastic! It's supposed to gently dislodge those disgusting accumulations of plaque. And based on my experience, that's exactly what's been happening. -> Read what other customers are saying about Oral-B 8850 – CLICK HERE
Plus, the brush even has a little oscillation feature (Google told me it's nearly 9000 times) that plays the role of the sweeper… All this, just to get rid of plaque!
Here's something new for me. I never knew that the ideal amount of time we should brush for is 2 minutes. I mean, I don't spend a decade in the bathroom, but I used to take about 5-7 minutes each morning. Not like that worked. But anyway, yes. Its 2 minutes. That's all you need. And the brush comes with a nifty little built in timer that tells you when to stop.
Did you dentist ever tell you that you brush too hard? And that you're hurting your gums? Mine did. But I was like, "I'm trying to clean my teeth here!" Well a little research proves that I was once again wrong. You really shouldn't brush too hard. And thankfully, the Oral-B 8850 made this really easy for me as well. If I go too hard, it automatically stops. If I'm hurting myself, it'd have stopped. If… You get the picture.
I'm the type of person who, to save time (or maybe I'm lazy) brushes in the shower. Because this is electronic, I was a little tentative at first. But gradually, I found out that no harm will come my brush's way.
Ah, now this feature is really important. The brush head is round. The design confused me at first. But after my first brush, I was blown away. The Oral-B 8850 actually surrounds each of my teeth to give it a squeaky clean. And to ensure that you don't hurt yourself, it even comes with 3 modes. Polish, sensitive and clean.
Review Conclusion
Fact! The Oral-B 8850 is a great, great brush. And the only downside I've experienced is the formation of mildew on the rubber grip. I was quite perturbed at first. But this is nothing a thorough warm water wash can't solve.
But hey, nothings perfect. And at just $66, this is something anyone could live with. Rating, 4.5/5.
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I don't get what's some horrid about the name... someone explain it to me?
New Orleans Pelicans-Seattle Seahawks-Atlanta Braves-Anaheim Ducks
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This fits HunnyB/FlyGirl so well- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzTiSEfM00
The colors in the state flag are irrelevant. Gayle Benson said on air that they originally wanted red, gold, and black. But the league rejected black because the league already had "too many blacks" (lol!); so they settled on navy as a substitute. Blue (the primary color of the Louisiana state flag -- actually the state flag is regular blue, not navy blue), was merely a compromise.
It was later spun by the league that these were simply the Bensons' "preference," and that the rebranding process had not yet begun. But if the process had not begun, how could the NBA reject black as a color, as Gayle Benson stated???
I get the impression that, not only has the process begun, but that it's pretty much over and done with.
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Example: How many retirees with time to go to games and money to buy tickets are reacting to this on twitter? Is this the only group that matters? No. But they need to be in the mix in the right amount. The same goes for kids who nag their parents to take them places, etc. etc.
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It's not rock solid, but it makes alot of sense.
I've never spent a single second on twitter.
People on the Internet and in Social Media are mostly idiots. Benson should name the team what he wants, not form a committee on tumblr.
lol espn. "Anthony Davis is a big game changing Pelican"
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Pelicans is such a {Mod edit-Inappropriate} name that i think it will drag people away from joining the team. Thats how bad this name is.
Just something to throw in, I'm sure Stern and the league office have had discussions with Benson et al and they apparently agree with Benson that it is an acceptable representation of the league. People will get used to it, life will go on, and it will be for eternity.
My little reach to satisfy someone who was dead set on that was:
Crusaders can be shortened to Cru, which sounds like Krewe.
Benson went to St. Aloysius which became part of Brother Martin, whose colors are a kind of red and gold. Add in the black, the change to blue, keep it as an accent, and there you go.
Not advocating, just trying to make sense of how that could be since we had some `insider' who just knew it wasn't Pelicans. He was told.
It is unscientific I agree but I still wouldn't put it past them to test those waters. I also still find the fact that this yahoo article came out on the eve of Dave Stern being in NOLA interesting.. At the very least could mean they've been recently discussing a reband a good bit leading to a face to face based on the timing of Yahoo's info.
Another one I was messing around with a few weeks ago for the front of the jersey
And if you maybe read the post i replied to, then you'd see I was playing Devil'd advocate to what he said.... he said no one should complain because New Orleans finally has a consistent team, so I was saying how that doesnt affect me
I have grown so tired of ESPN and watch nothing but their 30 for 30 Series, World Series of Poker - the real one and an occasional game.
The more I say it, the better it sounds to me. I think it's probably the best name they can come up with. They can make some awesome merch with the name based around a La/NO(fleur de lis', French/Acadian, gulf coast etc) theme. It fits.
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Pantazis76 is right. That's how bad this name is. He think it will drag people away from joining the team. Man, it got that bad that the team got him to think that. Man. That's crazy.
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New European regulations on animal testing have come into force in the UK this week after being debated in Parliament last month. Since European Directive 2010/63/EU was passed by the European Parliament in 2010 the BUAV has been calling for a ban on the most severe experiments permitted by the Directive and for more openness to be introduced into the UK system. Regrettably the Government has failed to act on either issue.
The failure to ban the most severe experiments means that animals could be subjected to repeated electric shock treatment to induce 'learned helplessness' or be forced to carry out physical activity until they suffer from exhaustion.
The BUAV strenuously called for reform to Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which enables details of animal experiments to remain secret. The Government had previously said that Section 24 was incompatible with the new Directive, but opted not to make any changes before a separate consultation, which is expected in the coming weeks.
It was initially feared that a ban on the use of stray cats and dogs in experiments would be removed by the new regulations, but after a campaign by the BUAV which was supported by over 100 MPs from all political parties the Government was forced to include a full ban in the new legislation.
The BUAV will continue to press the Government to ensure that the new regulations improve the plight of animals in laboratories including in the upcoming debate on transparency.
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A "Competitiveness Index" for capturing competitiveness in state legislative elections
By Geoff Pallay and Leslie Graves
If you wanted to know whether the state legislative elections in a state, or across the country in a given year, were more or less competitive, what factors would you look at to answer that question?
There are a number of features of state legislative elections that could be said to illuminate relative degrees of competitiveness. A case could be made for each of them.
When we sat down to figure out what factors we should use in constructing a Competitiveness Index that captures the extent of electoral competitiveness exhibited in state legislative elections, we ended up selecting three factors for our Competitiveness Index.
Below, we discuss the three key competitiveness factors we chose in constructing the Competitiveness Index, as well as some that we didn't ultimately choose. We give our reasons for choosing the ones we did.
Three competitiveness factors
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Factor 1: Is the incumbent running for re-election or not?
We chose to include this factor in our Competitiveness Index because when incumbents run, they enjoy significant advantages over their challenger. This is why, at all levels of politics, incumbents who are running for re-election defeat their challenger more than 90% of the time, even in years, such as 2010, when voters poll as having a high degree of anti-incumbent sentiment.
Everything else being equal, if you're looking at a state legislative chamber with 100 seats, and 100 of the incumbents are running for re-election, you have what we consider to be a "less competitive" election than if only 50 or 75 of the incumbents are running for re-election.
In the 2010 elections, our study showed that overall 86.6% of incumbents who were legally able to run in the election chose to run. Thus, only 13.4% of seats are considered open, with no incumbent running for re-election. We did a separate set of statistics for states where state legislators are term-limited, since this is going to have a significant impact on the relative number of open seats from state-to-state. However, in our overall chart that ranks all 46 state legislative chambers with 2010 elections, we straightforwardly include the term limited states. Although the number of open seats in those states is more due to term limits than to any other factor, it still results in a more highly competitive electoral environment.
Primary challenges
Factor 2: If the incumbent does run for re-election, does he or she draw a primary challenge?
We've collected data that measures "If an incumbent is running for re-election, does he or she have a general election opponent" and "How many incumbents running for re-election had no opponent, either in the primary or in the general?", and we think these figures are extremely important to consider. (We are also somewhat shocked at the number of incumbents who had no electoral competition at all in 2010.)
But, for the purposes of the Competitiveness Index, we've elected to use an analysis of incumbents with primary challengers, versus incumbents without primary challengers. This factor shows interesting variance from state-to-state.
In our view, a state where relatively more incumbents face a primary challenge is clearly a more competitive electoral environment than those states with very few (and some, with no) primary challenges to incumbents.
Note that our 2010 study shows that in 2010 state legislative elections, only 22.7% of incumbents running for re-election actually faced a primary challenge. That means that 77.3% of incumbents running for re-election faced no primary opposition. Of the 1,130 incumbents who faced a primary challenge, only 88 lost their primary. This is 7.8% of the 1,130 incumbents who had primary opposition.
No major party competition in the general election
Factor 3: Are there two majority party candidates in the general election?
If a Republican or a Democratic candidate doesn't have a Democratic or Republican general election competitor, then 98% or more of the time, he or she is virtually guaranteed a win in November. A state where there are many legislative candidates without major party competition in the general election is clearly a state with a much less competitive electoral environment than states where most or all legislative candidates do have major party competition in the general.
There are 7,384 total state legislative seats -- 1,971 state senators and 5,413 state representatives. Nearly 100% of those legislators are either Democrats or Republicans
Partisan breakdown of state senators
This chart of the party affiliations of state senators as of September 2010 shows that only 3 are other than D or R. (The 49 non-partisan state senators are the 49 members of Nebraska'a Unicameral.)
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Partisan breakdown of state representatives
This chart of the party affiliations of state representatives as of September 2010 shows that only 21 are other than D or R.
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In most states, a large majority of the time, third party and independent candidates do not represent significant electoral competition to Republican and Democratic candidates.
For this factor, therefore, we simply counted how many Republicans have a Democratic opponent on November 2 and how many Democrats have a Republican challenger. We realize that there are some districts where a Republican or a Democrat does have serious competition from a third party or independent candidate but we believe that the number of these cases is so small as to not skew our overall results appreciably.[1]
We intend to prepare an analysis of the competitiveness in state legislative elections in the years to come, and would very much appreciate commentary and feedback on our Competitiveness Index. Are there other factors that are more important that we didn't consider? Are we giving too much weight to the factors we did choose?
Please e-mail Geoff Pallay or Leslie Graves with your thoughts.
If you write about our Competitiveness Index on your website, we'll probably run across it, but just in case we don't, we hope you'll let us know.
Also, we decided to embark on this project as an outgrowth of our empirical observations about the 2010 legislative elections, which appear to us to have a surprisingly low degree of competitiveness, especially when contrasted with 2010's federal and state governor elections.
That said, we suspect that some scholars and researchers have done papers on this subject that we have yet to read and if we had read them, we might have made some different choices in constructing our Index. If you know of such papers, we hope you'll send us that information.
Research staff
The data we used in assembling our Competitiveness Index and Analysis for 2010 was collected with the help of a wonderful team of summer interns:
...as well as with the devoted and careful work of our Ballotpedia staffers who focus primarily on state legislative content:
These individuals know more than they could have ever wanted to know about how often lists of candidates change and to them, we owe our undying appreciation.
See also
- 2010 state legislative elections analyzed using a Competitiveness Index
- Seats with unchallenged incumbents in the 2010 state legislative primaries
- Major party candidates with no major party challengers in the November 2010 state legislative elections
- Open seats in the 2010 state legislative elections
- ↑ However, we'd be happy to take a look at individual districts where there are serious independent or third party candidates and to make note of those in our final report.


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For this analysis, I found a New York Times article about illegal internet gun sales that was posted on NICAR's Extra, Extra! blog.
This story draws on online postings for gun sales, criminal records, and past interviews/articles to flesh out this story. The reporter had to have some knowledge of searching databases to find the criminal records and interviews, Also, the reporter would have to have some knowledge of general search skills if they didn't know about online gun retailers like Armslist before reporting this story.
This story used interactive graphics primarily to show some of the online ads for weapons it describes through text. Some words in the descriptions of these ads are highlighted with a little picture of a camera next to it, which is how the reader would know its a graphic. Upon clicking on it, a small box with the ad will pop up on the page, allowing the reader to see the original ad without having to navigate away from the page. These graphics are interesting, because they give the reader to see how casual these arms dealers are in their online interactions in a way that just text really wouldn't be able to convey.


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Starting as an enlisted man over twenty-five years before meeting Team Avatar, Fong originally fought against the Fire Nation on the front lines where his "no fear" attitude won him high praises from his superiors. Fong worked his way up the ranks, eventually becoming an officer. He was different from the other officers, having a less formal education, but this set him apart and helped him on his path to becoming a general. Since General Fong started at such a low rank, the men under his command considered him one of their own and they were extremely loyal to him.[2]
In 100 AG, General Fong was given the responsibility of providing Aang and company an escort to the Earth Kingdom city of Omashu. Bent on stopping the Hundred Year War, during Aang's stay at his fortress, he informed Aang that if he could just trigger the Avatar State, he could defeat the Fire Lord and end the War immediately. After many failed attempts at triggering Aang's Avatar State, he decided that he would have to activate it using force by putting Aang in genuine danger. To this end, he directed his soldiers to attack the Avatar.
The soldiers' attack on Aang did not succeed in triggering the Avatar State, so Fong fooled Aang into believing he had killed Katara by burying her underground. This caused Aang to enter the Avatar State after all, much to his satisfaction but also his fear. Afterward, General Fong was knocked unconscious by Sokka after he stubbornly thought of more plans to trigger the Avatar State.[1]
After Team Avatar learned that the firebenders would be powerless on the Day of Black Sun and told the Earth King, the Council of Five decided that the invasion of the Fire Nation would be launched from Fong's fortress.[3] However, due to the fall of Ba Sing Se,[4] General Fong was not an active participant in the invasion on the Day of Black Sun. He did, however, send some of his available troops to assist the invasion force.[5]
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- Fong was considered one of the most aggressive generals in the Earth Kingdom Army.[6]
- Fong was the only known general from the Earth Kingdom who was not in the Council of Five.
- Although Aang dismissed Fong's suggestion that he go into the Avatar State to defeat Fire Lord Ozai, it was only by doing so that Aang was able to defeat him.[7]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ehasz, Aaron, Ehasz, Elizabeth Welch, Hedrick, Tim, O'Bryan, John (writers) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (March 17, 2006). "The Avatar State". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 1. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com (link). No longer updated.
- ↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante, Konietzko, Bryan (writers) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (December 1, 2006). "The Guru". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 19. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Ehasz, Aaron (writer) & DiMartino, Michael Dante (director). (December 1, 2006). "The Crossroads of Destiny". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 20. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante (writer) & Volpe, Giancarlo (director). (November 30, 2007). "The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 10. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Avatar Extras for "The Avatar State" on Nicktoons Network.
- ↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante, Konietzko, Bryan (writers) & Dos Santos, Joaquim (director). (July 19, 2008). "Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 21. Nickelodeon.


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There has been a lot of talk about rationality on this
board and how that is a basis for people rejecting
religious beliefs. What occurred to me was that we haven't
given much thought to another element of intelligence,
which has also been at the heart of some discussions in this
regard, and that is critical thinking. Participating in this
forum has brought this issue in to sharp relief!
Well, the cat is out of the bag. I've reveled myself as a
college prof so I might as well leverage on that to raise
this issue. Critical thinking is something we, in academia,
spend no small amount of time trying to "teach" our students.
Except possibly for those few corrupt professors that Wot is
convinced run amok in Florida (and I guess elsewhere), the
rest of us try to challenge students to spot inconsistencies,
question unsubstantiated claims, and remain skeptical of
authoritative pronouncements not backed up with evidence.
That is the idea anyway. Critical thinking must play a part
in someone's ability to make rational judgements about
religious, doctrinaire claims, and, in keeping with Sam's
theme, result in rejection of the unsubtantiable. This means
that individuals who practice critical thinking are more
likely to eschew religion in favor of science (and yes I do
mean either/or). Please note, I am NOT talking about
the sense of spirituality when I speak of religion. I leave
that to each individual to find and keep meaning. I'm strictly
talking about the truth claims made in religious doctrine that
cannot be backed up with evidence.
Now here is the crux of my dilemma as an educator. I am not
convinced that we are really able to "teach" critical
thinking in any meaningful way. I see the top 1/5th of
students with respect to high school performance and SAT
scores, so I don't see the average student as a rule. Each
year I get to know approximately 60 - 70 undergraduates well
enough to be able to make a judgement about their critical
thinking abilities (at least I "believe" I'm able to make
those judgements). I see about 30 graduate students which
come from the top 1/10th of the population in comparable
measures. Of all of these students, I have noticed (and I
want to make it clear this is NOT a scientific claim, only
a rough observation) that fewer than a third of the undergrad
students and only about half of the grad students demonstrate
critical thinking skills in the assignments I give.
An inference that seems reasonable is that a very large majority
of people in the American population (and actually I see no
small number of international students) do not have critical
thinking skills adequate to make judgements re: religious
claims. But, moreover, they do not greatly develop these
skills as they progress through the education system!
There are two possibilities of course. First we may simply
not know the right way to teach it. Ever since I have been
teaching, however, there have been endless approaches to
pedagogy with respect to critical thinking being evolved and
tested. You would think we'd have found a universally
successful method by now. The other possibility is that it
is not learnable by a fair number of people, at least not to
the extent it is needed. This gets us back to the innateness
question. I'm perplexed and stumped.
Any comments, observations, evidence one way or the other?


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I have been using Forever And Ever Dior perfume for a number of years & receive a lot of positive comments about the fragrance. So this is my one & only perfume that I wear at all times..
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Dior's forever and ever is my all time favourite perfume. I have now bought 4 bottles and can never find it available in Australia so I search the net for it all over. People say to me "you smell so nice what is it you are wearing".... makes me feel good and i will never get sick of forever and ever dior.
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Is it real, or is it art?
That's the question you might ask yourself while viewing the latest exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, overlooking the majestic Pacific Ocean in La Jolla.
You might say the group show "Lifelike" is a case of art imitating life. Or, it could be more complicated than that – art that looks realistic and mundane, like boxes, paper bags and a dumpster, but is actually commenting on notions of authenticity and mass production versus the handmade.
Through May 27, MCASD is presenting an international, multi-generational group exhibit that explores reality, artifice and the slippery spaces in between. "Lifelike" features a number of well-known artists, including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Ray, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Gerhard Richter, Ed Keinholz and Ai Weiwei.
But the exhibition also showcases some artists that are not so well known in Southern California, such as Dike Blair, James Casebere, Eteban Pastorino Diaz, Ugo Rondinone and Catherine Murphy. The exhibit was organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and curated by Siri Engberg.
For the uninitiated, much of the work on view here is conceptual art, or art in which the ideas and concepts behind the making of the piece are as important or more important than the actual finished product.
The artists in "Lifelike" owe a lot to Marcel Duchamp, the French-born artist and theorist who shocked the art world with "Fountain" (1917), a urinal bowl he signed "R. Mutt" and submitted to an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. The "readymade" was rejected, however, it wound up having a profound influence on 20th century art. "Fountain" challenged the values by which art was judged and adored, and even stood the very notion of "art" on its head.
Clearly, many of the artists in "Lifelike" are trying to achieve the same goals as Duchamp. But, because of the meticulous handiwork and craftsmanship required to create some of these objects, one could call this show a collection of post-readymades.
"Lifelike" starts with a 2011 dumpster by Kaz Oshiro that looks like it's made of steel and tagged with spray paint. It's actually made of acrylic on stretched canvas with caster wheels. Although the viewer cannot see the back of the piece, it's supposed to be hollow, like much of Oshiro's work.
The Japanese artist has a couple other contributions to this show – "Sony Bookshelf Speakers" (2003-04) and "Zero Case Spinner (gun metal – torn FRAGILE stickers)" (2011). They are basically a set of six speakers arranged vertically on a gallery wall, and a scuffed black suitcase. But again, the actual materials used are the surprise: acrylic and Bondo putty on stretched canvas. It's amazing, yet also perplexing, that Oshiro was able to transform typical artist's materials into objects that are commercial, mass-produced and generally created from wood, plastic and metal.
Along similar lines is the sculpture, "Paper Bag" (1968), by Alex Hay. At nearly five feet tall, it looks like an unusually large, flimsy paper bag, but in actuality, it's hard as rock, made of Fiberglas and epoxy, with spray lacquer and stencil on paper. As the conceptualists might observe, there is a difference between perception and reality.
Another interesting piece is Celmins' "Eraser" (1967), which is in the collection of the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. It looks like a large "Pink Pearl" eraser, but it's actually a piece of balsa wood painted with acrylic.
Celmins, a Latvian American artist who taught at UC Irvine from 1967 to 1972, could easily serve as a poster child for "Lifelike." Many of her paintings and sculptures are careful, faithful re-creations of photographs, landscapes or actual objects. She has drawn numerous ocean scenes with a mere pencil. In fact, it's often difficult to tell if her works are photos or hand-rendered, which is part of Celmins' success and mystique.
Another superstar of the art world – Rauschenberg – plays with the idea of readymades with his work, "Cardbird Box II" (1971), which consists of cardboard, wood and offset printed paper. A label on the box says "Anaheim Boulevard, Anaheim." One wonders if the late artist found this box or made it; the exhibit catalog suggests he did a little bit of both.
One installation that is sure to delight the kids is an untitled work from 2001 by Italian Maurizio Cattelan. The piece features two identical mini-elevators, each about 33 inches tall, with operating doors and floor lights. There's a sense of play and make-believe as the elevator doors open and close. Visitors will speculate if the cabs inside actually travel up the blank gallery wall (I was informed they do not).


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Breed Group:
Approximately 4-5 kg (8-10 lbs)
The Papillon generally stands from 20-28 cm (8-11 inches) at the withers.
White, black, and brown.
Papillons have a thick, flowing coat of long hair (although hair around the head is shorter).
Papillons are energetic and affectionate dogs who will usually attach themselves to one member of a family. They are loyal and intelligent. They enjoy human interaction and seem to be particularly partial to people who talk or play with them frequently. This breed makes an excellent pet as they are very easy going and care requirements are minimal.
Country of Origin:
There is some controversy here. They originally came from Spain or Belgium and were brought to France.
Believed to be one of the oldest toy breeds, the Papillons history can be traced through art as far back as 1542. Several artists, including Venus of Urbino, Watteau, Gonzalez Coque, Fragonard, and Mignard are known to have painted Papillons and there is at least one famous painting of Louis XIV with a Papillon pet. In fact, one famous story indicates that Marie Antoinette carried her Papillon with her to her guillotine execution.
Papillons were popular as pets throughout Europe, especially in England, France and Belgium. They are an athletic breed that has often been used as show/competition dogs in categories such as speed and agility.
In French, Papillon means "butterfly." It is thought that since their ears look like a butterfly, they were given this name.
Papillons are small but fearless. They often behave like large dogs – they show no fear of larger dogs and they have astounding athletic ability. They are extremely fast and love to run. In addition, this breed is very intelligent and loving. They usually interact well with an entire family but will bond more closely to the person who they interact with the most.
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Papillons are extremely energetic. It is not uncommon for them to be able to run for several kilometers and they do require regular exercise. Since they are so small, they don't need a lot of space to fill these requirements. A small yard or even a house that they can run around is usually sufficient. In addition, they are very agile allowing them to jump, run, weave, and turn quickly. Because they are so intelligent and active, continued training and monitored exercise is important.
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Santal de Mysore
I am smelling like an 'Indian kitchen' but only until the beautiful sandalwood drydown appears.
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Santal de Mysore
I am smelling like an 'Indian kitchen' but only until the beautiful sandalwood drydown appears.
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Snarky is as snarky does.
Hilde SolianiVecchi Rossettifrom a sample
Profumum Fumidus
Vintage Giorgio for Men (1984)
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A rich mossy woods chypre that was my signature scent for more than
twenty years and, many fragrances later, is still my holy grail.
Top notes: Orange, Carnation, Cinnamon
Middle notes: Patchouli, Amber, Vanilla
Base notes: Benzoin, Honey, Oakmoss
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, ...... I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Miller Harris L'Air de Rien, last drops of the sample
"Wovon man nicht lesen kann, darüber muss man schreiben."
Heavenly dark mint chocolate with a heart: A*Men.
Nino Cerruti
Top Notes: Bergamot, Galbanum, Green Notes, Lemon, Mint, Juniper Berry
Middle Notes: Carnation, Cinnamon, Fruit Notes, Jasmine, Pine, Thyme
Base Notes: Amber, Benzoin, Cedar, Balsam, Moss, Musk
Very green and slightly soapy. I like this one because it keeps a tradition alive that seems almost to have died out. It smells good, fresh and green, and it backs that up with a good, solid construction. The foundation of this in woody oriental notes give it presence and lasting power. The middle notes with jasmine and carnation are sweet and spicy, which makes for a kind of "romantic" feel to this scent. Moss and fir in the base make the drydown a little different from today's usual. This is an older, fresher style of woody-oriental accord.
Yr good bud,
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Guerlain Mouchoir de Monsieur
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Chant d'Aromes extrait
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Have I told you about the scent of jasmine? Have I spoken about the smell of the sea? The earth is scented. And I perfume myself to enhance what I am. That's why I can not wear a perfume that bothers me. Perfuming is an instinctive wisdom. And like all art, it requires some knowledge of yourself..."
Clarice Lispector ( 1920-1977) - Perfumes da Terra / Earth Perfumes
Paco Rabanne pour Homme
I love cologne.
Amouage Jubilation XXV
YSL Body Kouros.
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Something is amiss in this well-mannered flanker. The essence of what makes Opium homme parfume ticks is drastically pared down. So what remains is still a respectable, nice-smelling scent minus the berry notes which I love so much in the parfume. But why settle for a carbon copy when you can have the beautiful sexy beast that is Opium pour homme edp?
Acqua di Parma Colonia Assoluta
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SotD is Ormonde Jayne Champaca. This is bottleworthy.
These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
Wow, long week - happy for Friday! Looks like it's going to be a sunny, perfect FL day. Costume National Scent Intense for me.
DIOR Homme
"Perfume is the dream that carries me."
There is always the sky to look at
Hmmm... what to wear...
Maybe A*men? Maybe Aoud Roses Petals...? Maybe a day of Black Aoud?
Decisions decisions...
As above, so below.
'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.'
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Lagerfeld Kapsule: Woody
Jules by Dior
Rochas Macassar
Creed Orange Spice, to cheer me up on a grey rainy day.
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II est de forts parfums pour qui toute matière/Est poreuse. On dirait qu'ils pénètrent le verre.
Domenico Caraceni
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (Keats)
Versace Man Eau Fraîche (2006)
by Versace
Oh thank you Versace Man Eau Fraiche, you started my love affair with fragrance. Now a year later, I still enjoy you every bit as much!
The starfruit note just picks you right up and makes you smile!
Morning: Tom Ford For Men
Afternoon: Paco Rabanne Pour Homme
Evening: Geir Ness Geir
Patyka Fougère for me.
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
Oscar for Men
Ferrari Passion. 1st time today. It reminds me of Swiss Army a little. It's OK for a casual Friday.
Current faves: Aventus, Green Irish Tweed, MFK Masculin Pluriel, Dior Homme Eau
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Encre Noir
Serge Lutens
Tubereuse Criminelle
Santal - L'Artisan Parfumeur
A big surprise. Thought it had zero longevity, but its always there, with soft yet intense wafts coming through, even 6 hours after. Understated class.
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