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New album: Hot Lunch
Artist: Hot Lunch
Label: Teepee Records
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
It's a sad reality, but mainstream rock and roll is as dead as a bag of hammers. The old school bands that can still get it done can't get airplay because they're old, and any young band with an ounce of vitality can't get airplay because they're not already well known.
The only way for a new band to get any backing is to play mandolins and to dress like they just came from Tom Joad's funeral. Guys with electric guitars and Orange amps that go to 11 have gone the way of the jazz musicians: They exist, but you may have to go on an Indiana Jones-esque trek to find them. Thankfully, Teepee Records — the label that brought us Earthless and Aqua Nebula Oscillator — has brought the band Hot Lunch to the surface.
Fused together with shards of the bands Parchman Farm, The Fells and Mensclub, Hot Lunch generates fuzzed out rock with the energy of punk. Frontman Eric Shea's thick, unsteady vocal style is reminiscent of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott, while Aaron Nudelman (guitar), bassist Charlie Karr and drummer Rob Elper kick out epic garage jammage in the tradition of the MC5 and Blue Cheer.
Recorded on 2-inch tape to capture that analog glow, the "Hot Lunch" album isn't nearly as subtle as a dump truck plummeting down the side of an erupting volcano. Album opener "Handy Denny" is the type of ditty Black Sabbath would have put down in 1970 if it were a skate/punk band. All the requisite aggression is here, but these guys can actually play, albeit with the proper dose of abandon.
"She Wants More" and "Monks on the Moon" are the kind of heavy-groove riff rock that fans of Kyuss have been longing for. The album's biggest curve ball is a blistering cover of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Knife Edge" (yes, it works). Any band that can cover a prog classic and make it simmer deserves a spot at the table, but these guys seem to be having so much fun, that they'd do it whether you like it or not.
Hot Lunch will never do Maroon 5 level business, but thank God the band exists. If you're even mildly interested in keeping true rock alive, pick up a copy of this album and help the guys keep the lights on.
Classic album: Hot Tuna
Artist: Hot Tuna
Label: RCA
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
The band Hot Tuna began as a side project for Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitar/vocals) and Jack Cassidy (bass). Their 1970 debut album (recorded the previous year) is a live recording of a show the duo performed at a Berkeley area coffee house, free of the building drama and doom that would soon knock the Airplane off course.
The spotlight tended to focus on vocalists Grace Slick and Marty Balin within the confines of Jefferson Airplane, but Hot Tuna proved to be a great showcase for the talents Kaukonen and Cassidy. Consisting mostly of blues standards with a couple of Kaukonen originals thrown into the mix, the debut album from Hot Tuna isn't incredibly exciting, but what's there is expertly executed.
Intimate and full of charm, the actual recording is a nearly fascinating time capsule of the flickering West Coast vibe of the late 1960s. The crowd is warm and receptive, but even the quiet spots between songs have a heaviness about them. With the drug casualties mounting and the Altamont tragedy looming, it seemed that Kaukonen and Cassidy needed to hit the reset button and exchange the flower power for the eternal rock that is the blues.
The interplay between Kaukonen's acoustic guitar work and Cassidy's fluid electric bass is even more stunning in this setting than in their main gig with the Airplane. Without multiple vocalists to contend with, the duo breathes life into standards by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton ("Don't Leave Me Here," "Winin' Boy Blues") and Leroy Carr ("How Long Blues"). The diamond of the set — a take on the Rev. Gary Davis classic "Death Don't Have No Mercy" — makes the hippy anthems about rabbits and flowers seem a bit rickety by comparison.
Hearing the clink of empty beer bottles from either the bar or audience during "Uncle Sam Blues" is proof positive of the evening's laid back feel. The only negative aspect of the album is the similarity of much of the material, no matter how soulful and skilled the playing is. A few of the performances are interchangeable, but at the time this was a side project, so it's no immortal sin.
The album closes with the Kaukonen original "Mann's Fate," which is the most exciting performance of this set. The fiery interplay between Cassidy and Kaukonen captured here most certainly made its way to the ears of Dave Matthews when he started to set up shop. An entire album of material as strong as "Mann's Fate" would have matched or even eclipsed the duo's work with Jefferson Airplane.
"Hot Tuna" isn't a revelatory debut, but it is a solid one that led to greater future works.
Jon Dawson's album reviews appear every Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Purchase books, music and Kanye West 'Leggo My Ego' building blocks at jondawson.com.


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SEC official Elisse Walter chosen to lead agency
Monday - 11/26/2012, 2:46pm EST
By MARCY GORDON
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has chosen Elisse Walter, one of five members of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to head the agency. Chairman Mary Schapiro will leave next month after a tumultuous tenure in which she helped lead the government's regulatory response to the financial crisis.
Walter will take over at a critical time for the SEC, which is finalizing new rules in response to the 2008 crisis. She can serve through 2013 without Senate approval because she's already been confirmed to the commission.
Obama will need to nominate a permanent successor before Walter's term ends in December 2013. News reports have suggested that Mary John Miller, a top Treasury Department official, might be a potential candidate.
Walter, 62, a Democrat, was appointed to the SEC in 2008 by President George W. Bush. Earlier, she was a senior official at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the securities industry's self-policing organization. She served under Schapiro at FINRA, who led that group before becoming SEC chairman in January 2009.
"I'm confident that Elisse's years of experience will serve her well in her new position," Obama said in a statement.
Walter is likely to follow the path Schapiro established at the SEC, experts suggested.
At FINRA, Walter was Schapiro's "right-hand person," said James Cox, a Duke University law professor and expert on securities law. And as an SEC commissioner, Walter consistently voted with Schapiro on rule makings and other initiatives.
Cox said he wasn't surprised that both of Obama's choices to lead the SEC have come from an industry self-regulatory organization.
The Obama administration "is not an eager regulator of the securities markets," he said.
Still, Schapiro's challenges have probably been the most difficult any SEC chairman has faced, said John Coffee, a professor of securities law at Columbia University.
Schapiro took office after the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme and the financial crisis had eroded public and congressional confidence in the SEC. Since then, the agency has struggled with budgetary shortfalls.
"The Madoff scandal made Congress reluctant to fully fund the agency," Coffee said.
Coffee said he thought Walter's leadership of the SEC would closely resemble Schapiro's.
Schapiro "has to be commended for working incredibly hard and against high odds" to maintain the agency's budget, Coffee added. Still, the agency is "underfunded and overworked, and that's not about to change."
Schapiro will leave the SEC on Dec. 14. She was appointed by Obama in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. She also took over after the agency failed to detect the Madoff scheme.
Schapiro, 57, is credited with helping reshape the SEC after it was accused of failing to detect reckless investments by many of Wall Street's largest financial institutions before the crisis. And she led an agency that brought civil charges against the nation's largest banks.
In a statement Monday, Obama said, "The SEC is stronger and our financial system is safer and better able to serve the American people _ thanks in large part to Mary's hard work."
But critics argued that Schapiro failed to act aggressively to charge leading individuals at those banks who may have contributed to the crisis. Consumer advocates questioned Schapiro's appointment because she had led FINRA.
Under Schapiro, the SEC reached its largest settlement ever with a financial institution. Goldman Sachs & Co. agreed in July 2010 to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that it misled investors about mortgage securities before the housing market collapsed in 2007. Similar settlements followed with Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and others.
The Goldman case came to symbolize a lingering critique of Schapiro's tenure: No senior executives were singled out. The penalty amounted to roughly two weeks of earnings at Goldman. And Goldman was allowed to settle the charges without admitting or denying any wrongdoing, as were other large banks that faced similar charges.
Among the leading critics was U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who questioned how the SEC could allow an institution to settle serious securities fraud without any admission or denial of guilt. Rakoff later threw out a $285 million deal with Citigroup because of that aspect of the deal.
Lawmakers and experts say Schapiro made the SEC more efficient, and they note that she fought for increased funding needed to enforce new rules enacted after the crisis. She often clashed with Republican lawmakers who had opposed the 2010 financial overhaul law and wanted to cut the SEC's budget.


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The sky in North Africa isn't clear blue. It's subdued and hazy. One might say it's laiteuse; blue with a touch of milk, or yogurt. Unlike the beaches of the Pacific, you're not stunned by the sky as much as you are aware that it's relentlessly bearing down on you. The heat can be intense and unlike Paris, where folks scramble to sit in any patch of sunshine that they can find even during the unfiltered heat of summer, in Tunisia, one is always fleeing the heat.
Often that will mean resting in a café sipping a glass of fresh orange juice, or maybe taking a dip in the ocean, or refreshing with a glass of iced wine, all of which I can personally attest to as being equally effective means of beating the heat of Africa.
During my visit to Djerba, a Tunisian island just off the North African coast, come afternoon, when the sun bore down fully on the island, I often found places completely desolate.
Shops roll down shutters and people retreat indoors. Or in my case, head to the beach, where I found myself under an umbrella with a good book, often nodding off while the gentle surf provided the soundtrack for a good snooze.
It never occurred to me to go to Tunisia and most of the people I met there were confounded to meet a real American. It's likely because there aren't many flights from the states, and Morocco is the country in North Africa that most North Americans land in. I toured Morocco a few years ago, which was fascinating (especially Fez, which I'd love to go back to) but the constant harassing by local touts, affixing themselves to your side the minute you stepped out of your hotel, using every possible means of persuasion to get you to buy something you didn't want (fake old coins, cheaply dyed carpets, etc), got old quickly.


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DHS, DoD asking OMB for sequestration reprogramming authority
Friday - 4/19/2013, 5:50am EDT
Several agencies are about to or already have submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget to reprogram funds that would soften across-the-board cuts under sequestration.
Homeland Security, Defense and USDA are among the departments going down this path.
OMB has encouraged agencies to use every tool in the toolbox to deal with sequestration cuts. Now that the 2013 spending bill is completed, many departments are reviewing where their accounts could be manipulated to ease cuts elsewhere in the agency.
Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, follows the DoD budget closely. He said the Pentagon has a $4 billion cap under this transfer authority.
"The general transfer authority is between accounts so you may have some within account transfers that can be accommodated, as I understand it, without bumping up against the $4 billion ceiling. So that's another factor that needs to be worked into the conversation," Etherton said Wednesday at the Coalition for Government Procurement's conference in Arlington, Va. "I know a few years ago in one of the reports, the Appropriations Committee was bemoaning the fact the department, the year before, had actually requested transfers of $15 billion, which is well above their general transfer authority. Again, they were able to do that in some cases by using the authority within the accounts to move money around and so I think that may, around the edges, make it a little more manageable."
He said that is one of several pieces that still needs to fall in place to really understand the impact of sequestration on DoD. He said by mid-June several of those pieces should be completed, including how Congress will deal with the debt ceiling, once again.
A request to OMB for more details on how many agencies or which ones have requested reprogramming authority was not answered.
Homeland Security in same boat as DoD
DHS is facing a similar situation as DoD. It's the largest civilian agency with a budget request for fiscal 2014 of $60 billion, including $48.5 billion in discretionary spending.
Janet Napolitano, secretary, Department of Homeland Security
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said for the third straight year DHS' budget request is lower than the enacted budget of the current year. She told the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday that the 2014 request is more than $800 million less than 2013.
Part of how DHS is doing more with less is through a risk-based approach across all of its mission areas.
But sequestration will take about a $3 billion bite out of the 2013 funds, affecting every directorate.
"We've already gone through the sequestration legislation, the budget that was finally appropriated with the add-on for the Customs and Border Protection," she said. "We've identified some reprogramming requests we'd like to add to that. We hope to get those complete and into the OMB by the end of the week, and move that process along as quickly as we can."
The reprogramming request, in part, will try to further minimize the effect sequestration cuts would have on Border Patrol agents, including cuts to overtime and furloughs. Congress offered some relief in the 2013 spending bill.
Napolitano couldn't give lawmakers a time table for when the reprogramming of funds would be available to deal with sequestration issues.
A request to the DHS press office for more details on the reprogramming request was not returned.
At the Labor Department, while it has not requested reprogramming authority, it's still trying to figure out how cuts from sequestration will impact employee furloughs.
Alex Bastani, the American Federation of Government Employees union representative for Labor employees, said by email the agency and union have a memorandum of understanding about furloughs, but the exact number of employees that will have to take time off still is being firmed up.
He said about one-third of Labor's programs face furloughs, but that could increase as the 2013 budget requires all but two of the agency's programs to cut an additional 1 percent so there may be some more furloughs expected.
"Those plans are at OMB right now, so we may not know about the additional furloughs until May 1," he said.
Even with the reprogramming requests, agencies will feel the bite of the sequester.
Napolitano said the Coast Guard's work to stop drugs from coming into the country is under pressure.
"How do we compensate for that? We are working with DoD we are trying to leverage more with state and local entities, but make no mistake, if sequester continues, by definition there will be an effect on the drug interdiction capability of the Coast Guard," she said.
More broadly, Napolitano said sustained cuts at sequester levels would affect contracts, mission and its people.
The morale of DHS' workforce came up at the hearing as well. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking member of the committee, wanted to know what Napolitano was doing to change the mood of employees for the better.
The most recent Employee Viewpoint Survey ranked DHS at or near the bottom in many categories.
"We have done a number of things in that regard including forming an executive steering committee just on morale. We've actually gone back and re-questioned some of our employees because the morale survey is pretty generic, so we want to get down below it," she said. "One of the things we found out, for example, is in the department many people had been promoted to be a front-line supervisor because they were good at their operational front line job, but they hadn't necessary received any training on how to be a front-line supervisor. That makes a big difference. That's an additional skill-set. Now we are providing that kind of training."
DHS also is getting more employee input into the decisions of the department.
St. Elizabeth's campus construction in 2014 budget request
One challenge every DHS secretary has faced is the disconnected nature of the department in terms of office space.
So, DHS headquarters at St. Elizabeth's campus in Washington comes back into focus in the 2014 budget request. DHS asked for almost $93 million for construction, including supporting phase 2 of the renovation of the center building complex for the secretary and other key headquarters functions, such as command, control and management.
DHS also would like to take over the management of the ports of entry from the General Services Administration from a landlord perspective.
Napolitano said DHS continues to look for administrative savings. She said the work started in 2009 to make the department more efficient would save another $1.3 billion in 2014 with a big chunk coming from the consolidation of 18 grant-making programs.
DHS, which has saved or avoided spending $4 billion since 2009, continues to spend too much on administrating the assortment of grant programs, Napolitano said.
Napolitano said the consolidation would save money and help focus the grants on risk and gaps in the state and local communities. This is the second consecutive year it has made the request to consolidate the grant programs.
One area where DHS is having success convincing Congress to spend more money is cybersecurity. DHS is asking for $800 million for the National Protection and Programs Directorate's cyber efforts in the proposed 2014 budget.
For example, DHS is requesting $27 million for the new Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis. This entity would take the data from the Office of Infrastructure Protection and the Cybersecurity and Communications Office and analyze it for threats and vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure systems.
"It's really designed to help us meet our responsibilities under the executive order and President's Policy Directive, and that is information sharing with the private sector and the government," she said. "Part of that is in NPPD and part of that is in other parts of the department, and we really want to centralize in one place given our central role in the analytics involved in cyber. The office probably will be larger than the $27 million office, but that is the number we put on to make sure that's what we actually had."
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Ben was a confident and friendly boy. He loved standing on the BUAV investigator's shoulders and flopping into her neck. "He enjoyed his food and you could tell! He was always the first onto my lap and the last to leave." Ben was killed on 22nd August 2013 after being used in two experiments.
Blackberry was a sweet female cat, she was shy at first but then she started to climb up our investigator's back and sit on her shoulder. Blackberry was also killed on 22nd August 2013 along with Ben after being used in two experiments. Her little body was dumped in a bin as waste.
Kittens arrived at the laboratory at just 8 weeks old.
Rollie was ginger and white. He was nervous to start with but his confidence soon grew.
Simba was a sweet ginger kitten. He was the most nervous and cautious out of the group.
Toby was a small tabby cat. He was inquisitive and enjoyed being stroked.
This is George, a shy tabby cat.
These kittens were killed at 6 months, their little bodies dissected and dumped in a bin as waste.


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Happy Day Everybody
Today, I'm wearing Shalimar EDT from the Golden Sixties bottle I received yesterday:
A sweet textured drydown that was surprising for an EDT concentration!
Happy Day Everybody
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-- Martin Buber
Hi everyone !
Carnal Flower today !Getting over jetlag .
For sale. Carnal Flower and Vero Profumo Onda.
Good morning all. Today it's Missoni - a calorie-free chocolate hit - perfect!
Eau de Parfum
by Jeanne-Marie Faugier
Parfums Frapin & Cie
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
Good morning! I'm wearing Habanita today again. Still love.
SoTA ~
No perfume as yet. I am glued to the television watching the amazing
scenes as the Chilean miners begin to be rescued. I must admit I burst into tears
when I saw no.6 coming out of the shaft and being re-united with his family,
it was so emotional.
A woman without perfume is like a flower without a scent.
Good morning! My SOTD is Chanel Egoiste Concentree.
Top notes: Mandarin, Rosewood, Coriander
Middle notes: Rose, Carnation, Cinnamom
Base notes: Sandal, Vanilla, Ambrette
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Kewart - It's incredible, isn't it? Bless them.
Lorenzo Villoresi Musk
Take care, all!
"I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume." - Jacques Guerlain
Rahat Loukoum SL
L'Occitane Eau d'Iparie -- as inspired by Petra Ichor's post and Warum's PM a few days ago. It is love! Now that I have checked the availability, my question would be: Where do you nice people get it from? Seems like it is sold out in 125, 75 or 20ml everywhere.
Q., thanks for your explanation of the video.
E., you were smelling nice all day yesterday in both La Perlas and then in Patou. Have never had a chance to say this, so here goes.
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Cuir de Lancome.
I need a comfort scent today. Serge Lutens Un Bois Vanille.
Creed Ambre Canelle this morning
These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
Good morning everyone!
I'm wearing Samsara by Guerlain today.
I so agree with you Kewart, I've been watching the rescue too, very emotional!
Wearing CB Scents Vetiver & Orange Blossom. It makes me want to be in Florida (waving to MikePerez).
Also feeling very moved by the Chilean miners' rescue. Thank God!
Good morning everyone!
I'm in a bit of vintage Bois des Îles parfum, plus a light mist of the current edt.
Thanks Wolfie - that's very nice of you to say! I must admit I was feeling rather pretty and pleased with myself until Fiancé said, referring to the 1000, "You're not thinking of wearing that for the wedding, are you?"...lol!
Y'all have a fantastic day!
Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. ..Carl Sagan
Tabac Original.
Red Delicious by DKNY
Violette In Love...finally, a violet that I actually can wear and not just appreciate! The fragrance remains green, even during the powdery drydown. I think that "saves" it for me.
DK Gold for today.
Hello all. Caron 3rd Man.
Penhaligon's Lily & Spice
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Comme des Garçons Wonderwood.
I don't know much about medicine, but I know what I like. -- S.J. Perelman
I'm wearing the very last few drops of my 80's Mitsouko Parfum de Toilette.
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I've used up the last bit of my sample of Idylle edp today. Same impression I had the first time I wore this, loads of lily of the valley opening it.
I think I like it a bit more than I did before, but still not enough to actually buy any!
I'm also transfixed by the miners' rescue operation!
Hello everyone Had a rather interesting and challenging day at work today. Was asked by my "mentor" to call a psychiatric clinic in FRANCE and get hold of a doctor. At least the patient that it was about gave me some idea about which doctor that spoke at least a bit of english. Very proud of myself that I managed to make myself understood on first french and then a mix of both. But I was really NERVOUS! After that I also had to have two appointments with some patients alone because my "mentor" got ill. So proud of myself for actually surving the day without huge mistakes Sotd is Feminite du bois.
Congratulations on your professional successes, ineespenes! I love hearing your excitement as you embark on your career life!
I just bought the solid of Pacifica's new fragrance, Indian Coconut Nectar. The packaging is adorable. The fragrance is very subtle after the mega-coconut burst at the beginning. We'll see how it works for water aerobics. :-)
Great day all-
Philtre D'Amour tempted me today - I'm afraid I rather oversprayed for a workday (dang those bulb atomizer sprayer thingies)
Oh well! I smell divine.
Sync'in and Think'in in 2015!
Siifter - lol, thanks for the compliment! You smell gorgeous too, you know. Apparently, my ballet instructor shares our love of Chanel. She mentioned my fragrance for the second time this morning and said that although she normally discourages the use of fragrance in her classes, she'll make an exception for me as long as I keep wearing Chanel (the other time she complimented me was for No.22, so I think I'll be able to adhere to her rules!)
Alas, BdI didn't survive my hot shower, so I'm feeling all rosy-cozy in Rose Kashmirie now.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. ..Carl Sagan
Haven't decided on what I'll wear today. I will also need to pack some things to wear for a trip -- maybe some samples to test and something very comforting and uplifting for a workshop I will be giving. So I am scentless yet, but not for long.
Sorry about Eau d'Iparie being out of stock, Wolfie!
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Have been enjoying the ambient company of DSH Modern Iris.
For skin, I'm going with Dark Amber & Ginger Lily again.
Have a dandy day, dears.
In a world where 6 million people are added each month, every landscape matters.
Revisiting my sample of Dzongkha by L'Artisan Parfumeur and finding the pickles and salad notes long gone, thank goodness!
Twolf, the 75ml D'Iparie is online in the UK, but I'm sure my local branch has the diddy ones on the shelf. Yell if you ever need a transatlantic restock!
Out here we are running for the wide open spaces, the road-smell after the rain.
It's already afternoon here. I've been watching the miners also, bless them.
Am wearing Cologne du 68 by Guerlain.
SotE Habanita.
I'm wearing Dior Addict today.
Mitsuoko today, all day.
Long day.
And we had a rare earthquake (rare for OK) this morning, 9:06 am... magnitude 5.1! (they measured it at 4.5 minutes after it happened, but the OGS upgraded it to 5.1 later.) It was very short, but a sharp noisy shock that shook the building, my desk, and our nerves for just a few seconds. First one I've felt while awake, even though I lived in Seattle area for a number of years. My office building is about 2.5 miles from the epicenter, and a coworker who has a house very near the epicenter said his wife was in the shower when the quake happened and she watched the tiles cracking! (no damage here at home or at work, and no injuries reported except for a fellow who fell off his ladder when the quake hit, and broke his ankle.) Pretty exciting thing for a "hump day" otherwise busy but tedious morning.
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Art: Actias luna's other hobby - along with some impromptu "performance writing" here on Basenotes!
I'm in Creed Himalaya tonight.
These things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, the Truth--Buddha
Checking in...my surgery Monday went very well. I'm doing great.
Busy week with my honey home for a short visit, doctor appointments, meetings at school, "drama" at school...not so much fun when the drama is coming from the adults. Beautiful weather, happy tuxie kitty cats, housing restoration project moving right along.
My STOD yesterday was YSL's "Y" edt and today was my husbands' favorite Chanel Coco edt.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville
RHM, you "sound" great! Glad it went well and that everything else is moving along swimmingly!
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Luna! Glad all is well. Who would have expected a shaker in OK!
My SOTE is Weil de Weil
Sync'in and Think'in in 2015!
Glad you are feeling better, RHM!
New frag purchase today: my first brand-new box of Creed:
Closest thing to my beloved long lost Heartfelt I've found: only about $120 more expensive!
Good to finally catch up; server seems to be allowing me on longer than 60 seconds at a time tonight.
Forever in search of Heartfelt....
Congrats on your new bottle of Fleurissimo, JeanieE, it's a beautiful fragrance!
Uomo? Moschino
SotD was 31, rue Cambon
SotE:Paloma Picasso
"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future."
"Three essentials for a good life: Someone to love, somewhere to go, and something to look forward to."
Hey my Beautifully Scented Lovlies! I've missed you guys. School has got me tied up. I peek in every now and then.
OMG! I loooooove the Fall! Tonight it was nice and crisp! I'm wearing one of my favorite roses "So In Love" by Victoria's Secret. OMG! it smells so good in the brisk night air. I love this stuff!
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NBA's Greene to Help Out at Top 100 Camp June 22-24
June 3, 2011
MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Pfeiffer University men's basketball coach Jeremy Currier is excited to announce the Carolina Top 100 Camp on June 22–24, 2011 inside the Merner Gym. The camp will feature one NBA's Rising Stars, Donte Greene from the Sacramento Kings. Greene, originally drafted as the 28th pick by the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008, was dealt to the Houston Rockets, before finally landing on the Sacramento Kings in 2008.
As a 6'11'' wing for the Kings, Greene averages 6.5 ppg, 2.4 rpg in his career to go along his 18 minutes/game. Greene went to the University of Syracuse and averaged a team leading 17.7 ppg to go along with his 7.2 rpg, 2.0 apg, and 1.29 apg in 2007-2008. His 620 total points, as a freshman, ranks him second in Syracuse history behind Carmelo Anthony. In 2007, Donte Greene was invited to play in the FIBA World Championship where Team USA earned the Silver Medal.
"We are thrilled to have Donte be a part of our upcoming camp at Pfeiffer," said Currier. "Donte is a rising star in the NBA that will give our campers insight into the amount of hard work and dedication it takes to succeed on and off the court. Having Donte be a part of the Pfeiffer basketball camps is an amazing opportunity for the kids."
Additional speakers at the Carolina Top 100 Camp will be Pfeiffer University Head Coach Jeremy Currier, and coaching staff, North Carolina State assistant coach Rob Moxley, Hargrave Military Academy assistant coach Thomas Carr, and many more.
Being a part of the Carolina Top 100 Camp is an opportunity to ensure good competition, quality coaching, and a safe place to learn and play. Space is limited so sign up today.


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Add barcode readers, augmented reality, fax, language translation, heart rate monitor, and more to your iPhone or 4th gen iPod touch
The range of creative and practical apps that use the camera in unusual ways is astonishing. Who would have thought that you could use it as a heart rate monitor or a business card reader? There's even an app for those who are colorblind, to show them the colors present in any object you photograph.
Apple made a brilliant decision when it let developers create apps that access the camera input and use it in non-traditional ways. In this month's column, I offer a roundup of some of these apps.


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Tim Allen did it three times in "The Santa Clause."
Edmund Gwenn, Sebastian Cabot and Richard Attenborough did it once, but in three versions of "Miracle on 34th Street."
And Billy Bob Thornton did it naughty, not nice, in "Bad Santa."
Now, Alec Baldwin has joined the long list of Hollywood actors who have played Santa Claus. He voices the character in the animated film "Rise of the Guardians," which opens Wednesday.
The film is based on a series of children's books written and illustrated by William Joyce, who came up with the idea when his then-14-year-old daughter asked him a simple question: "Does Santa Claus know the Easter Bunny?"
That question has been answered in a fantasy film that brings together a superhero group of iconic characters, including Santa Claus, Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) and Jack Frost (Chris Pine) to battle a boogeyman known as Pitch (Jude Law).
Baldwin's Claus is unlike other incarnations of the jolly fat man. As drawn, Baldwin's Santa is a fierce warrior who speaks with a bellowing Russian voice, sports tattoos on both forearms and wields a pair of razor-sharp swords.
Baldwin, a two-time Oscar winner for his portrayal of Jack Donaghy on the TV series "30 Rock" and an Oscar nominee for his work as a casino boss in the 2003 film "The Cooler," tells us what he plans to do when "30 Rock" ends its seven-year run this year, why he has become the standard-bearer for liberal politics in Hollywood and how he spent the $9 million he's made from those incessant Capital One commercials.
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: Although we are doing this interview on Nov. 4, the story won't appear until the week of Thanksgiving, so would you mind playing along with something?
ALEC BALDWIN: Sure, Barry, whatever you want.
Q. Hey, how about that election?
A. (laughs)
Q. You have always been the point man for what is often referred to as "liberal Hollywood." Where did that interest in politics start?
A. I've always wanted to run for office. It's what I've wanted to do my whole life. I was headed to law school to have that kind of a life, and then I fell into this whole other thing.
Q. How did you fall into this whole other thing called show business?
A. To be very honest with you, in the beginning, I did it for money. My dad died when I was 25 years old and I had to support my family. I had to pay and pay and pay for my family to live. I have five brothers and sisters who later started to work but in the beginning, I inherited a lot of responsibility. So I did this to make a living, but I don't want to mischaracterize it. Very quickly, I grew to love and respect this business. The idea to leave it and go back to what I originally wanted to do was out of the question because I loved it so much. But I still fantasize about that other life.
Q. You and I spoke a while back when you were going through some difficult personal problems ...


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Weekly Insight ArchiveKingman Area Chamber of Commerce News Newswire Mar 9, 2015 | 23:00 pm
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What is a Chamber of Commerce?
First of all - you should know something about the organization for which you are a Member.
Your Chamber is NOT a part of the city, county or state governments; a political party or faction; a civic or social club; a social service or welfare agency. It is a Business Organization made up of dues paying members.
The Chamber of Commerce has the responsibility of the economic well-being of our community to preserve our business system, to promote business growth and development. The Chamber of Commerce is a dynamic living process because its people are working for the betterment of the Kingman area.
It is primarily an organization of business, industry and professional men and women who have joined together to work for the solution of their mutual business and community problem/needs. In Kingman, as in every other area, there is a distinct need for an organized group such as the Chamber of Commerce. There are problems and opportunities which an individual by himself / herself cannot possibly solve; but by working with others, pooling time and resources, important accomplishments can be made.


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I watched a special tonight on CBS called The Lord's Boot Camp.
The show follows 3 teen-aged girls through this camp that features evangelical Christianity and hard labor. The students get to pick their own course of study. Two opt for missionary work and the other one picks proselytizing. The one that picks evangelism wants to save 300 souls on her mission. Her name is Taylor and she's real bossy and quite the in-your-face type. There's a scene when she at the fair grounds in Indiana and goes up to people and asks them if they want "to take a survey." Among the questions is "Do you know of a man named Jesus?" and "Do you believe you'll go to heaven when you die?" At one point, a mother and daughter who are both Mormons, are accosted by her. She starts to evangelize to the girl, who appears slightly older than Taylor, when an elderly man who is part of their team takes the mother aside so Taylor can do her magic on the girl. Then she says on camera that it was a good experience to help her find Jesus because she didn't realize the strange things Mormons believe. Yeah, she said that. She also "saves" an elderly women in a nursing home.
When Taylor grows up, she'll be a Republican and support war and bans on abortion and gay marriage. She'll either run for president or have her own megachurch.


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November 8, 04
Vol. 20 , No. 05
Policing Urban America in the 21st Century
The twenty-first century presents a complex array of problems for law enforcement officials in the nation's major urban centers. This is especially true in metropolitan Los Angeles, one of the most economically, ethnically, politically and culturally diverse regions on the planet. Greater Los Angeles is also the street gang capital of the nation and its size and importance make it a major potential terrorism target.
With a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca emphasizes proactive, progressive problem-solving leadership styles at all organizational levels to develop solutions for urban crime problems such as drug addiction, domestic violence, crowd control, homelessness, gangs, illiteracy, at-risk youth, parenting, and the quality of neighborhood life. With over 15,000 sworn and professional staff, LASD is the nation's largest department— and operates the largest local jail system. LASD provides law enforcement for 51 incorporated cities, 90 unincorporated communities, 9 community colleges, Metropolitan Transit Authority, and Rapid Rail Transit District. LASD also manages the Youth Athletic League Centers after-school programs for at-risk youth that feature academic support, sports, and cultural arts. Sheriff Baca has encouraged education in his own department by developing with five area universities the LASD University, where over 900 members are enrolled in bachelor and master degree programs.
Sheriff Baca is the director of Homeland Security Mutual Aid for California Region I, containing 13 million people. He entered the LASD in 1965 and was re-elected sheriff with over 72 percent of the vote in March 2002. Sheriff Baca's Athenaeum lecture, second in the series Issues in California Criminal Justice, is sponsored by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
Arab-Israeli Conflict and Peacemaking
Dr. Stephen P. Cohen combines scholarship and peacemaking in a unique fashion. As a leading social psychologist he pioneered in the development of the technique known as problem-solving workshops. As a dedicated peacemaker he used these workshops to bring together influential Palestinians and Israelis in a setting with tasks that would allow them to develop mutual under-standing, grasp possible solutions to their conflict, recognize barriers to peace, and find new ways of overcoming them.
For more than three decades Cohen has been actively engaged in bringing Palestinians and Israelis together. These meetings— confidential, unpublicized, composed of those who were and would become influential— helped lay the ground for the breakthrough in the Oslo accords. They continue to offer a way of breaking the cycle of violence and loss that now marks Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Among his activities, Cohen is National Scholar at the Israel Policy Forum. He and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance founded the Institute for Middle East Peace at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Institute is supported by Arab, American, and Jewish business leaders and has received the assistance of the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Agency for International Development.
Dr. Cohen's Athenaeum lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights as part of the series Torture, Human Rights, and the Geneva Convention.
International Law and America's War on Terrorism
Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the U.S. Government has abandoned its traditional treatment of terrorism as a matter of international crime, to be prosecuted under the rules and safeguards of due process and human rights law. It has instead characterized the confrontation with international terrorism as "war." Despite the questionable nature of this characterization, however, the United States has been reluctant to apply even those minimum legal protections and safeguards that ordinarily apply in armed conflict. Professor Weiner will discuss the application of international human rights and the international law of war to the current conflict against international terrorism, including the prolonged detention of those designated as "enemy combatants" at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba and elsewhere, as well as the recent Supreme Court decisions concerning those detentions.
Allen S. Weiner is the inaugural Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy, a chair held jointly by the Stanford Institute for International Studies and Stanford Law School, and associate professor of law (Teaching) at the Law School. His expertise is in the field of public international law and the foreign relations law of the United Stares. His focus is on the effect of international law on the conduct of foreign relations and the behavior of states, courts (both national and international), and other international actors. Current areas of research interest include the use of force in response to contemporary security threats, the influence of international law norms on U.S. foreign policy decision-making, international criminal tribunals; and universal jurisdiction and the enforcement of international law norms in national courts. Before coming to Stanford, Professor Weiner served for 12 years as a career attorney in the U.S. Department of State. He served in the Office of the Legal Adviser in Washington, D.C. (1990–1996) and at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague (1996–2001), most recently as Legal Counselor, in which capacity he served as the U.S. Government's principal day-to-day interlocutor with the international legal institutions in The Hague, including the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal. Professor Weiner received his B.A. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Professor Weiner's Athenaeum lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights as part of the series Torture, Human Rights, and the Geneva Convention.
The Myth of the Racist Republicans
LUNCH, 11:45 a.m., LECTURE, 12:15 p.m.
One of the most pervasive and tenacious new storylines in U.S. politics is that the Republicans became a majority party by pandering—with a wink and a nod — to Southern white racists who had been alienated by Democratic support for civil rights starting in the 1960s. This story of the GOP's "Southern Strategy" has become a staple of journalism, scholarship, and campaign speeches. Even many conservatives suspect that their party might have a dirty little secret in the South.
Gerard Alexander argues that the evidence strongly suggests this story is more rhetoric than reality. He has examined two kinds of evidence— where and when the Republicans won Southern votes, and the policies they offered to do it— that support a rival explanation. He concludes that the GOP won the South by winning over its least racist voters and became the dominant parry in the South in the least racist phase of the region's history.
Alexander is associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia. He is author of The Sources of Democratic Consolidation (Cornell University Press, 2002) and scholarly articles in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Revista Espanola de Ciencia Politica. His articles have also appeared in The National Interest and The Weekly Standard. His current research focuses on the trajectory of conservative political movements in Western Europe and the United States.
Professor Alexander's lecture is sponsored by the Salvatori Center at CMC.
Incompetence, Idiocy, Ideology, Paralysis, and Neglect: The Two Major Parties and the National Security of the U.S.
ThURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004
More than three years after 9/11, Mark Helprin suggests that American strategy is shiftless, reactive, irrelevantly grandiose; our war aims undefined; our preparations insufficient; our civil defense neglected. The polity is divided into support for either a hapless and increasingly feckless administration, or an irresolute opposition, preoccupied by its longing to appease America's rivals, critics, and enemies.
With fearless logic and sparkling prose, Mark Helprin criticizes President Bush, the Democratic nominee, and the 9/1 I commission for failing to formulate a clear vision of how to fight terrorism. Mr. Helprin, the renowned novelist, short-story writer, and strategic analyst, argues that President Bush has embarked upon an ill-considered, messianic attempt to transform an entire region. As long as our war aims stray from the disciplined, justifiable, and attainable objective of self-defense, America will be courting failure.
In short, the United States is threatened by unprecedented dangers, warns Helprin, and neither the political parties nor the American people have faced those dangers squarely and rationally.
Mark Helprin is the author of A Soldier of the Great War (1991), Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Founding (1990), and most recently, The Pacific and Other Stories (2004). Raised on the Hudson and in the British West Indies, he received degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and he did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford, Princeton, and Columbia. Helprin served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. He is also a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. His lecture is sponsored by the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World.
So . . . How was Iraq?
LUNCH 11:45 a.m., LECTURE 12:15 p.m.
We've heard the pundits, the politicians, and the professors discuss the situation in Iraq, but very little has been heard from the soldiers themselves. Sergeant Adam Kokesh of the United States Marine Corps matriculated to CMC in 2001 after deferring college for a year so he could complete his Marine Corps training. He served as a reservist for his first two years of college, bur when the war broke out in Iraq, he volunteered to go. He spent two and a half months stationed at Camp Falluja and 18 days in combat during the siege of Falluja. His appearance at the Athenaeum is to answer the questions we all have about Iraq from the perspective of someone who has been there.
Kokesh is on the Marine Corps' Civil Affairs team, whose mission, "is to minimize interference of the civilian population with military action especially that which would put civilians at risk, and to allow the civilian population to aid military operations when possible." During his time at CMC he studies Psychology, plays for the men's rugby team, and is a member of Civitas.
Sergeant Kokesh will be speaking from a strictly personal perspective and will not be representing the United States Marine Corps, the Department of Defense, or any of its agencies in any way.
Picking Up the Pieces: Archeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq
Magnus T. Bernhardsson teaches modern Middle Eastern history at Williams College. He was born in Iceland and received a B.A. from the University of Iceland, a M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1999. A specialist on the political and cultural history of modern Iraq, his first book, Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq, will be published in 2005. His research focuses generally on the political and religious history of the modern Middle East, specifically Iraq, and he is currently studying the relationship between the United States and Iraq between 1920-2003.
In his Athenaeum address, Bernhardsson will discuss how Iraqi national identity has evolved from its establishment in 1921 until the war in 2003. He will specifically address the role of archaeology in the formulation of Iraq nationalism, especially as a tool to challenge foreign control of the country and to convince Iraqis of the legitimacy of the various Iraqi governments.
Professor Berhardsson's lecture is the first in the series The Islamic World: Past and Present, to be continued in spring semester 2005.
Challenges to Peacemaking in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Dr. Howard Wolpe is the director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. The Africa Program started in 1999 to promote dialogue among policymakers and academic specialists on both African issues and U.S. policy toward Africa. The program holds public forums and directs the Congressional Education on Africa Program, which teaches Congressional staff member about issues in Africa. The Africa Program also directs a capacity-building intitiative in war-torn Burundi. The Woodrow Wilson Center was established by Congress in 1968 as a memorial to President Wilson. It is a nonpartisan institute supported by public and private funds that encourages the study of national and international affairs.
Before becoming director of the Africa Program, Wolpe served seven terms as a member of Congress from Michigan. He was the Presidential Special Envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region and served as chair of the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Wolpe is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Howard Wolpe received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has taught at the University of Michigan. He was a visiting fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program of the Brookings Institute. He is the recipient of the African-American Institute's Star Crystal Award for Excellence, of the Michigan Audubon Society's Legislator of the Year Award and the Sierra Club's Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr Wolpe is currently working on a book detailing his experience as a diplomat in the Burundi peace process and directs a major post-conflict leadership training program in Burundi.
What Will Happen? The Path to Compromise and Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
LUNCH, 11:45 a.m., LECTURE, 12:15 p.m.
Meron Benvenisti makes no claim to divine inspiration, but there is little doubt that he has become one of Israel's most significant secular prophets. As an authority on the Prophets put it, "The situation of being immersed in the prophets' words is one of being exposed to a ceaseless shattering of indifference, and one needs a skull of stone to remain callous to such blows."
Benvenisti specializes in ceaselessly shattering indifference, ours and his own. For a decade and more, Benvenisti has maintained that the two-state solution was dead, leaving only the choice between apartheid and a single binational state. Or, as New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, put it, "Meron leaves us with these three options: Will it be a continuation of the shepherds' war between peoples fated to share the same sidewalks, but who want it all. Or will it be the shepherds' pie, divided, slice by slice, not in equal shares but in shares based on the power relationship between the parties—meaning that the Jews will get the lion's portion, the Palestinians the beggar's bowl. Or will it be some third option—the Benvenisti option—call it shepherd's stew, in which Israelis and Palestinians some-how learn to share equally the territory of historic Palestine west of the river Jordan."
It did not begin that way. Son of an early Zionist family, Benvenisti was trained as a geographer and historian. From 1971 to 1978 he served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek and administered largely Arab East Jerusalem. In 1982 he established the West Bank Database Project. A frequent contributor to Haaretz, Israel's largest newspaper, Benvenisti is the author of numerous books, including Conflicts and Contradictions (1986), Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (1995), West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israeli's Policies (1984), and Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (2000).
Meron Benvenisti's visit to Claremont is sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies and the Dean of the Faculty at CMC.
String Quartets in C Major "Dissonance" K465 by Mozart and in E-flat, Op. 51 by Dvorak
DEBORAH BUCK, violin
KATHRYN LOCKWOOD, viola
ASTRID SCHWEEN, cello
MARIA BACHMAN, violin
Back by popular demand, the Lark Quartet returns to the Athenaeum to once again wow the audience with their versatility and artistic integrity. Masters of both the traditional string quartet repertoire and the works of recent artists who delight in bending the "Classical" mode, the artistic energies of this unusual foursome are fueled by this contrast of stylistic extremes. According to the Los Angeles Times, "The Lark Quartet convincingly showed that grace lyricism and sense of order ... were what the composer valued most highly in the end."
The quartet consists of viola player, Kathryn Lockwood, who moved to the U.S. from Australia in 1991 and has won numerous prizes, including the Pasadena Instumental Competition. Maria Bachman plays the violin and was hailed by The New York Times as "a violinist of soul and patrician refinement." Cellist Astrid Schween is a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and was recently appointed Visiting Professor of Cello at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Deborah Buck plays the violin and was awarded the prestigious 1996 Leni Fe Bland Career Grant, the Corwin Foundation Scholarship given by the Los Angeles philharmonic.
Theatre de la Chandelle Verte: Six Short Plays by Jean-Michel Ribes
CHRISTINE IADEROSA, director
The Theatre de la Chandelle Verte, featuring Francine Conley and June Miyasaki, presents a collection of six short plays by one of France's leading contemporary playwrights, Jean-Michel Ribes. These pieces, chosen from Ribes's Theatre Sans Animaux (2001) and Sans m'en apercevoir, are inventive and adventurous, funny and sad; together they offer the spectator an unexpected view of the world amid novel twists of language. Ribes was named the Director of the Theatre du Rond-Point by the Mayor of Paris and the Minister of Culture in 2001, and in the same year was granted the Plaisir du Theatre award for his oeuvre. In 2002, he won the prestigious Grand Prix Theatre de l'Academie Francaise.
Vaudeville is the framework for this show, a theatrical form which aptly permits the imaginative juxtaposition of the expected and the unexpected by taking an ordinary event or moment and turning it into something extraordinary by framing it as stage comedy. In this selection of Ribes' work, the text takes an extraordinary event— a moment— and attempts to frame it in ordinary settings. "I love sparks from a short-circuit, buildings that fall, people who unexpectedly slip or fly off, those sudden bursts of energy. These delicious little moments that tell us the world is not completely anticipated and that there are still some places where reality has not closed its gates upon our heads," says Ribes about this work. Each of the six texts presented here are "scraps" of ideas, sewn together by the vaudevillian's wink and smile. Christian Dumont of Theatre-en-Scene writes: "Jean-Michcl Ribes excels in the art of provoking laughter by creating, in several little scenes, a succession of curious accidents that arise from the derailing of everyday events that decide to follow strange and hilarious side routes where an impeccable cast frolics and flirts with glee."
Inspired by the galvanizing spirit of Ubu in Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (1896) who exclaims at every turn, "De par ma chandelle verte!," the Theatre de la Chandelle Verte is a troupe committed to the educational mission of promoting French-language theatre to university audiences nationwide, and to the creation of performances that are visually spectacular and intellectually stimulating. Since 2001, the company has created and toured innovative interpretations of works such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos (1944) and Pierre Corneille's L'illusion comique (1636). The company was founded by four Ph.D. French graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including Jodi Samuels, Francine Conley, Christian Haugh, and June Miyasaki (of CMC), all specialists in French and Francophone literature and/or theatre, who had been collaborating since 1991 on a variety of French and Francophone productions. Audiences are guaranteed to learn about the vital and imaginative place of French theatre today. Performance is in French.
Is Atlanticism Dead? Transatlantic Relations after the U.S. Election
LUNCH, 11:45 a.m., LECTURE, 12:15 p.m.
Can the political institutions that once formed the backbone of the anti-Soviet alliance long endure after the fall of the common enemy? Did the crisis of 2002–03 concerning the war in Iraq portend the demise of the Atlantic partnership? If so, what are the likely consequences?
In this talk, Professor Andrews, who witnessed the recent erosion of Atlantic relations while living in Europe as Senior Research Fellow in Transatlantic Relations at the European University Institute, takes on these questions. Regardless of where blame lies for the current malaise, the project of building and maintaining an Atlantic community is at serious risk. The Alliance's strategic purpose is unclear and its domestic support greatly weakened in a number of key countries. The simultaneous fading of strategic clarity and erosion of domestic support is no accident. Only a rearticulation of the partnership's central meaning, in terms that correspond more closely to the desires of citizens and of organized interests on both sides of the Atlantic, will suffice if the Alliance is to thrive in the new century.
David M. Andrews is associate professor in the Department of Politics at Scripps College, adjunct professor at the Claremont Graduate University, and founding Director of the European Union Center of California. He spent the last two years at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, as Senior Research Fellow in Transatlantic Relations. His numerous scholarly and policy-oriented articles have been published on both sides of the Atlantic. His most recent book is an edited volume, The Alliance Under Stress: Atlantic Relations After Iraq, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (2005).
Mexico at the Crossroads: Moving Towards Reform or Into Gridlock?
Just days before the September terrorist attack on the United States, Mexico had reached a new pinnacle in the history of the bi-lateral relations between the two countries. Mexico has not enjoyed that position since 2001. Peter Ward, who directs the Mexican Center at the University of Texas, Austin, a leading, international center for the study of Mexico, will explore why our southern neighbor's political gridlock and incapacity to engage in effective institutional reform are leading to a 2006 presidential election likely to be the defining moment in determining Mexico's future democratic consolidation, its development, and ultimately its capacity to pursue an effective bilateral agenda with the United States.
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The big day finally arrived. The Leaches loaded up in the minivan and headed to the hospital, ready to welcome their new daughter into the world.
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The next stop for the global art worlds moveable feast is the 53rd Venice Biennale, which has its professional preview June 4-6, 2009, before opening to the general public for a six-month run, June 7-Nov. 22, 2009.
Once a supreme status symbol of international success, with over 300,000 visitors and pavilions for more than 70 nations, the biennale seems to have succumbed this year to a certain avant-garde vulgarity and sensationalism.
Bruce Nauman and Steve McQueen, the artists selected for the U.S. and Great Britain pavilions, respectively, are both known for their taste for sadism, Nauman with his evil clowns and "fun from rear" neons, and McQueen with his prize-winning movie celebrating Irish hunger-striker Bobby Sands.
In the Russian pavilion is Paris-based artist Andrei Molodkin, whose sculptures of word-shaped vessels fed by snaking tubing, all filled with black oil, have been a hit at recent global art fairs. Molodkin made news last week by claiming he had a process to turn human corpses into oil that he would use in his work.
But the biennale is a big show, and theres plenty of tamer fare on hand. Representing France is Claude Lévêque, who specializes in poetic light installations. Across the way at the German pavilion is Liam Gillick, who makes in colorful, designy sculptures and 3D concrete poetry. Yes, Gillick is English, and his presence in the German pavilion represents the art-worlds "assault" (such as it is) on the outdated notion of the nation-state.
Similarly, the collaborative art duo of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset are organizing both the Nordic and the Danish pavilions, apparently to resemble collectors homes. E&D are famous for set pieces such as the Prada Store they plopped down in the desert outside Marfa, Tx., and the full-sized replica of a subway system they installed in the basement of the Bohen Foundation in Manhattan.
Aging rock start John Cale, once guitarist for Velvet Underground and now living in Los Angeles, is representing Wales with an "audiovisual piece" that explores Welsh identity, located in an old brewery on the Giudecca. Nearby is apavilion for Palestinian artists, the first in the global art show.
Other artists include Silvia Bächli and Fabrice Gygi (Switzerland), Miquel Barceló (Spain), Martin Boyce (Scotland), Shaun Gladwell (Australia), ilvinas Kempinas (Lithuania), Elke Krystufek (Austria), Rafi Lavie (Israel), Mark Lewis (Canada), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Iván Navarro (Chile), Fiona Tan (Netherlands) and Miwa Yanagi (Japan).
Daniel Birnbaum, the curator of the international exhibition, launches a series international series of press conferences this month (Rome, Berlin, Paris, London, New York), though the advance word is that he plans to concentrate on painting and drawing -- what an idea! Birnbaum has his work cut out for him in any case, considering the hostile reception that typically greets these shows (not least from previous curators, as when the hapless 2007 curator Rob Storr was scoured by the abrasive Francesco Bonami, organizer of the 2003 installment, in the letters pages of Artforum).
Meanwhile, back in New York: Despite last weeks upward bounce of the stock market, art dealers are overcome by a sense of abiding economic dread. "You can taste the fear," said one uptown dealer.
Nonetheless, many artists remain sought after, if you can believe the red dots. In its final report, the Armory Show reported sales of works by Anish Kapoor ($1 million and $700,000), Louise Bourgeois ($1 million), Sigmar Polke ($340,000), Werner Drewes ($170,000) and Nick Cave ($45,000). Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin sold two copies of Paola Pivis neon reading "Stop the complaint, we just bought it" for $32,000 each.
Up on Madison Avenue, all the hauntingly beautiful drawings by the late folk artist James Castle on view at Knoedler & Co. were sold or on reserve, at prices between $10,000 and $30,000. And downstairs, in Knoedlers Project Room, the Irish artist John Gerards uncannily detailed digital animation of a wire-screened oscillating fan, made in a video edition of 12, was half-sold-out at $25,000 per.
Speaking of Knoedler, its sister business on West 57th Street, Hammer Galleries, famous for realist painting, is facing some changes, as the building has been sold. Stay tuned.
Kitsch corner: Thomas Kinkade, "Painter of Light™," has teamed up with the Walt Disney Company to market a charming new print titled Pinocchio Wishes upon a Star, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Walt Disney Pinocchio cartoon. Whats more, according to Kinkade, hidden within the picture -- in the style of contemporary painter Mark Tansey -- are a portrait of Walt Disney, countless images of Mickey, 25 hidden letter "N"s (for Kinkades wife Nanette), and a portrait of Kinkade and his wife and four daughters. Pinocchio Wishes upon a Star is published in multiple editions and sizes, and ranges in price from $175 to $2,250.
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