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By Jesse Hassenger on Thursday 24th May 2007
In fact, the aspect of the British Office that Severance imitates most in its opening scenes is that show's occasional avoidance of actual satire in favor of invoking general malaise. We find members of the Palisades Defense sales team bussing their way to a team-building retreat; they're vaguely miserable, save for smarmy boss Richard (Tim McInnerny) and his suck-up assistant (Andy Nyman). But echoes of Brent and Gareth aside, this small group of sad-sacks looks like pretty much any other gang of Brit-com misfits: the slacker/stoner (Danny Dyer), the bumbling git (Nyman), the nerdy girl (Claudie Blakley), and the pompous guy (Toby Stephens). There's also a pretty American (Laura Harris) who all of the gents seem to fancy.
Spending build-up time with these people is not unpleasant, exactly; the prelude mayhem is far less tedious than in most slasher movies. And make no mistake: Severance is a slasher movie, with little Deliverance-style creepiness. The folks from Palisades wind up at the wrong retreat cabin in the wrong part of the woods, and a bunch of maniacs scarred by the military-industrial complex have at them accordingly.
That's where the satire comes in, I guess, but co-writer/director Christopher Smith doesn't dwell on it, to the point of forgetting why or if the slashing motivation matters (the various urban-legend versions of the bad guys' backstory, exchanged by the sales team, are more entertaining than whatever the movie decides is the truth).
His approach to squirm-inducing comedy is a bit more visceral, focusing on gory bits of slapstick rather than Office-style discomfort. He and his co-writer come up with a number of ghoulishly funny gag uses for bear traps, decapitations, and rocket launchers; you wonder if this (not the Office/Deliverance mix) was the impetus behind making the film in the first place. Like a lot of modern horror movies, Severance isn't particularly scary; unlike a lot of its competition, it is intentionally funny, though it never ascends/descends to the dark-comic levels of, say, Eli Roth.
Part of the problem is the victims, who seem chosen for sacrifice or survival more or less at random. They're neither satirical corporate drones nor jerks who deserve a comeuppance, which makes them merely more likable versions of slasher cardboard. The silent masked killers might be creepier if they didn't seem to be bought in bulk, possibly from the filmmakers behind Vacancy. The ensuing battle between the good victims of corporate ignorance and the evil victims of corporate negligence works for a few laughs, but cuts out way too early for anything more.
This wasn't in the employee handbook!
Year: 2007
Run time: 96 mins
In Theaters: Friday 25th August 2006
Box Office USA: $66.7k
Distributed by: Magnolia Pictures
Production compaines: Dan Films, Qwerty Films, HanWay Films, Isle of Man Film, N1 European Film Produktions GmbH & Co. KG, UK Film Council
Contactmusic.com: 2.5 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
Fresh: 57 Rotten: 32
Director: Christopher Smith
Producer: Jason Newmark
Screenwriter: Christopher Smith, James Moran
Starring: Danny Dyer as Steve, Laura Harris as Maggie, Toby Stephens as Harris, Tim McInnerny as Richard, Babou Ceesay as Billy, Andy Nyman as Gordon, Claudie Blakley as Jill, David Gilliam as George, Juli Drajkó as Olga, Judit Viktor as Nadia, Sándor Boros as Coach Driver
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The Panthers entered the locker room following practice and the mood was light and lively, with several players breaking into scattered wrestling matches around the room.
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''There was a great vibe at practice today,'' Newton said Wednesday.
The third-year quarterback said the Panthers approached the day eager to put Sunday night's 31-13 loss to the Saints behind them, but not forget the lessons that come with that disappointing and potential costly defeat.
''We can't dwell on it,'' Newton said. ''With this practice today it's great to know these guys are even more motivated.''
The loss snapped an eight-game winning streak.
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That chase continues Sunday with a home game against the New York Jets (6-7), another team with playoff aspirations.
''It's a great opportunity to go out and really prove to ourselves who we are,'' Newton said.
Coach Ron Rivera said earlier in the week that maybe the Panthers ''got a little full ourselves'' after the win streak.
Several players concurred with their coach.
''I feel like we did get a little ahead of ourselves as far as feeling good,'' defensive end Greg Hardy said. ''It happens to the best of us. When you get something that you really deserve it gives you a great feeling and you get kind of comfortable in a sense - not really complacent or content, but kind of comfortable.
''I feel like that is where we were for a second and we learned our lesson. We got our hand burned.''
Said cornerback Captain Munnerlyn: ''Maybe we needed a loss to come back down to Earth and play some great football again. This team is very hungry and our goals are still out there so we're very excited.''
The Panthers could clinch a playoff berth this week with a combination of a win over the Jets, losses by San Francisco and Arizona and a loss or tie by either Dallas or Philadelphia.
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Said Newton: ''Hey, no one is feeling sorry for themselves here. We have a job at hand and we have to be prepared for the task - and we will be.''
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will.i.am joins forces with pop megastar Justin Bieber in the futuristic¬†video¬†for 'Äú#thatPOWER.'ÄĚ The Black Eyed Peas leader storms cities across the world with a series of clones,performing¬†robotic dance moves in¬†the streets. He beams up a hologram Bieber, who lays down the catchy hook.
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WILKES-BARRE – The head of the city's Crime Watch Coalition said she's aware of a number of instances in the past year in which city cameras apparently failed to capture useful images of suspects or vehicles involved in crimes.
Charlotte Raup said the incidents, including a high-profile summer shooting on Jay Street in the city's Parsons section, have caused her to question how well the camera system installed in 2009 works.
Raup has long had concerns about the cameras, she said, but they came to a head after the Dec. 21 hit-and-run death of 5-year-old Kevin Miller.
At least five city cameras, operated by Hawkeye Security Systems, are located in the area the suspected vehicle traveled, including one camera directly across from the accident scene at West North and North Franklin streets.
That camera did not capture an image of the moment of impact, administrative coordinator Drew McLaughlin said, but it did get photos of the car that struck the boy.
Police chose to release other photos captured by cameras on private businesses, rather than the Hawkeye camera, because they provided the best image to identify the car, McLaughlin said.
It's not clear why the other cameras got better images of the vehicle. Raup said that issue, as well as other examples, raise questions about the system's effectiveness.
For instance, Raup said a police source told her that the suspect in the July 6 shooting of Kenyatta Hughston on Jay Street walked past a city camera.
That suspect, later identified as Shawn Hamilton, allegedly shot and killed three people in Plymouth the next day. He is awaiting trial for those deaths, as well as the death of Hughston, who died of his injuries several months later.
Raup said her source advised her that the city camera did not capture an image of Hamilton – information she says is corroborated by the fact police never released a photo of him even though he remained at large from July 6 to July 8, when he was captured in Philadelphia.
There was this big manhunt for this guy, she said. You would think they would put his picture in the paper. If they had it, they would have put it out there.
Raup also questions why police have not released a photo of a vehicle allegedly involved in a drive-by shooting Monday at a house on Hazle Avenue.
Raup said sources told her that vehicle sped past a city camera at Hazle Street and Wilkes-Barre Boulevard. Police have not released any photo of the car, leading her to believe one does not exist. If they had a picture, don't you think it would be on the front page of the paper? she said.
Raup also frequently hears calls over the police scanner in which officers ask if the city cameras captured an image of a suspect, and they're usually told no, she said.
Told of Raup's comment on the Hazle Street incident, McLaughlin said the city will not respond to allegations made by anonymous sources. The police department stands by its policy not to confirm the existence or release video images that might be part of an ongoing criminal investigation or prosecution, he said.
There have been numerous instances in which city cameras played a major role in helping investigations, McLaughlin noted. The most prominent case was the Operation Square Deal drug bust in September. City cameras were used extensively to record drug transactions that resulted in the arrest of 22 people, police said.
Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis also defended the city's camera system, noting it played a crucial role in disproving assertions that 14-year-old Tyler Winstead was killed last year in a drive-by shooting, as his friend had claimed. Police allege the friend made up the story to conceal the fact he accidentally shot Winstead.
As for the hit-and-run case, Salavantis said it's not surprising the camera nearest the scene was directed toward the intersection and not the middle of the road where the boy was struck. Nevertheless, that and other city cameras provided valuable information that led authorities to the suspect vehicle.
Obviously, no one can predict the exact location of where crimes will occur, she said.


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ABS-CBN Corp., led by the Lopezes, remains confident of earning a windfall from campaign ad placements in 2013, despite the possible negative effects of a Commission on Elections (Comelec) ruling that limits the airtime for politicians.
Officials on Thursday also said revenues from regular advertisers would also continue to surge, in view of the continuing growth of the economy.
"If you look at the first three months, it's significantly better than the last quarter of last year and even the same quarter in 2007," ABS-CBN chief financial officer Rolando Valdueza said, comparing the company's performance so far this year with 2007, the last time mid-term elections were held.
Earlier, ABS CBN reported a net income of P1.71 billion for 2012, down by 29 percent from P2.42 billion in 2011.
Removing the effects of the gain from the sale of investments recognized in 2011 amounting to P1.032 billion, its recurring net income rose by 23 percent.
"The growth in recurring income was fueled by strong advertising revenues and consumer sales," it said in a statement.
ABS-CBN posted a consolidated revenue of P31.7 billion from advertising and consumer sales, a 13 percent increase from year-ago level.
ABS-CBN's advertising revenue reached P19.1 billion, an increase of 8 percent from a year ago.
Consumer sales amounted to P12.7 billion, posting a 19 percent increase. Sky Cable remained a major driver of growth with revenue rising by 32 percent to P5.9 billion.
"The growth in revenues is partly attributable to the acquisition of Destiny Cable," the company said.
Total operating and other expenses increased by 12 percent to P26.2 billion brought about by increases in production costs, cost of sales and services, and general and administrative expenses. Paolo G. Montecillo
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2 workers shot dead at Chevron plant in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria - LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian soldiers shot two contract workers dead and injured four others at an under-construction Chevron Corp. plant, causing a riot that left several buildings destroyed and halted operations, officials said Wednesday.
Officials had restored order by Wednesday at the Escravos gas project in southern Nigeria, said Linus Chima, a Delta State government spokesman. Chima said local government officials also had begun to investigate what started the violence that began Monday afternoon and continued through Tuesday.
"It was a minor disagreement that got out of hand," he said.
On Monday afternoon, he said, a convoy of 15 buses began to travel around the plant, stopping at several security checkpoints inside the compound. One bus failed to stop at a checkpoint and the driver got into an argument with security guards at the plant's main gate, he said.
A group of Nigerian soldiers detailed to guard the plant arrived at the same time and fired shots at the crowd to try to get them to disperse, Chima said. The shooting left two Nigerian contractors dead and four others injured, Chevron said.
Workers responded by burning buildings and fighting with soldiers until being brought under control by local officials. Chima said construction operations at the plant ran without any problems Wednesday.
Chima said the fighting was not related to the activities of a militant group that operates in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Militants there have attacked pipelines, kidnapped petroleum company employees and fought government troops since January 2006. They demand that the federal government send more oil-industry funds to Nigeria's southern region, which remains poor despite five decades of oil production.
That violence has cut Nigeria's oil production by about 1 million barrels a day, allowing Angola to surge ahead as Africa's top oil producer.
Scott Walker, a spokesman for San Ramon, California-based Chevron, said that its subsidiary in Nigeria was providing support to the contractor to "handle the matter amicably."
Chevron Nigeria Ltd. "wishes to reaffirm that the safety and security of its employees and contractors are accorded priority attention in its operations," Walker said in a statement.
The Escravos plants, a joint venture between Chevron and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., are designed to process natural gas produced by oil exploration and turn it into diesel fuel. Chevron expects that the $2.8 billion Escravos gas processing plant, where Monday's shooting took place, will open sometime in 2010. Another $6 billion plant to change the gas into liquid fuel nearby is scheduled to open in 2012.
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she was a very handy player in her youth, not quite world class but not far off, but she is extremely rusty
she of course grew up playing with wooden rackets and the heavy graphite ones so weight has never been a problem before but I hit with her the other day and lent her one of my Redondo's and after about 10mins she said it was too heavy for her, but I worry that a light tweener with ooodles of power is going to far the other way
personally the redondo is one of the nicest rackets I have played with for a long time and after a year of playing with it I have decided i will stick with this racket for the forseeable, i would not call it powerful but i can generate my own so not an issue for me, very arm friendly even set up like I have with full poly
I fear that if she plays with a really light racket she will miss a bit of stability?
I used heavy rackets for years, can play ok with wood frames as well. Now using a leaded up tweener. If you're in the states you can always demo from TW. Swingweight & mass in the racket hoop are more important for stability than overall static weight. Frame too light or unstable? - easily fixed with $2 lead tape. I'd start with 4gm at 3&9 o'clock and go from there.
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1830s Korean Manuscript Map of Tongyeong, Korea
Description: A scarce early 19th century Korean map of the famous naval base at Tongyeong. The map covers the old naval base, at center, as well as many of the surrounding islands and seas. As with many East Asian maps of this period there is no defined scale. More important areas, like the naval base at center, are thus presented on larger relative to surrounding regions. Similarly, with no strong established distinctions between art and cartography in 19th century Korea culture, many parts of the map, such topography and buildings are presented pictorially. Maps like this were thus not intended for practical use and were instead prepared as presentation pieces for display in government and military offices.
Tongyeong, today an important Korean city and resort located at the southern tip of the Goseong Peninsula, was originally established by Admiral Yi Sun-sin as a naval bastion against the Japanese invasions of 1592 to 1598, also known as the Imjin War. Arguably the greatest naval commander of all time, Admiral Yi Sun-sin successfully defended Korea's shores against the numerically superior Japanese in repeated naval battles. The most famous of these was most likely the Battle of Hansan-do (on our map, the spider shaped island to the southwest of the main city) where Yi unveiled his legendary crane formation naval attack. The formation soundly defeated Japanese armada killing over 8000 invading marines with a loss of only 11 Koreans sailors. Battle of Hansan-do is still considered one of the greatest military battles of all time.
The large island at the bottom of the map is Mireuk-do (Mireuk Island), with the sacred Mt. Mireuksan presented dramatically at its center. The mountain is named for the Maitreya Buddha, who it is believed will manifest on the mountain at some future date. The mountain and foothills have been popular pilgrimage sites since the 16th century, possibly even earlier, and host numerous temples including Yonghwasa, Gwaneumam, Dosoram, and Miraesa.
This is a map of the utmost rarity. Early Korean cartographic material in general is extremely scarce, rarely appear on the market. Maps of this age and beauty are even less common. There is only one other known similar map, also of Tongyeong and housed at the Seoul National University. Our example seems to present the fort at a much earlier stage of development and therefore is most likely much older. That said, East Asian material of this period is exceedingly difficult to date because it is rarely dated and map construction methods, including inks, papers, and styles, changed little in the course of 500 years of mapmaking. Nonetheless, our analysis of this piece has enabled us to date it with some confidence between 1827 and 1850. One building on the map, identified as ChunChuk-Roo, is known to have been constructed in 1827, so the map must post date it's construction while at the same time preceding the construction of later missing buildings.
Date: 1830s (about)
References: Published: IMCOS Journal, Spring 2014, no. 136, Front Cover.
Size: Printed area measures 24 x 37 inches (60.96 x 93.98 centimeters)
Condition: Good. Soiling, some creasing.
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Code: Tongyeong-korea-1830s (to order by phone call: 646-320-8650)
Tags: Tongyeong , Korean Map , Pictorial Map , Imjin War , Battle of Hansan-do , Mt. Mireuksan


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30 witnesses to alleged voter improprieties regarding the recent Ward 3 city council election? Really?
Consider how much could be accomplished, in various categories, such as mentoring our youth, helping senior citizens and so forth--if these 30 individuals volunteered their services to the constituents of that ward. Isn?t service to the people the goal, officially or unofficially? Consider the impact that such a great humanitarian effort would have, Ms. Jackson, were the incentive spearheaded by you.
Contrast the above with a ?woe is me, see me cry? victim persona, one that is woefully lacking in the high self-esteem disposition that we seek to portray to our youth. Of course, there is the notion of ?fight for right.? We must acknowledge, however, that ?right? is most often subjective. In fact, laws are proposed, made and imposed by people. We just cannot act upon every perceived slight or even alleged legal infraction. We must exercise due diligence, discretion?in our finite wisdom.
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The Other Arbus
Photographer Diane Arbus was an accomplished artist and a troubled person. Two recent books disagree on the extent to which one led to the other.
Diane Arbus sounded giddy, recalling her visit to the projects on Manhattan's Upper West Side. At the School of Visual Arts in New York last month, the Aperture Foundation was playing a compilation of 1970s audio recordings of the photographer talking about her work at an event dubbed "A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus." The apartment buildings looked like any other public housing complex in New York, Arbus said, but behind the apartment doors was an unknown world. She found her time with the midgets there "terrific," she said. (The soundtrack to the slide show is the only original recording of Arbus that exists; it was drawn from an ICP lecture, a class talk at the Westbeth Artist Community and an interview by Studs Terkel for his book Hard Times.)
Arbus giggled. Her voice was loud and clear yet sweet and spontaneous. She talked fast, following her mind's rapid turns and twists, and suddenly stalled, in awe of her characters. "Oh, and that's just a family in Brooklyn," she said. Pointing to the Ideal Marriage book on the shelf to the husband's right in the photo, she added, "You could tell it didn't work very well." More giggles. A few minutes later she recounted her experience of walking around naked at a nudist camp. "I wish I could slip into something comfortable," she said she'd thought. Her audience roared in the background. Arbus comes across as naïve yet aware of her photographs' tragic dimensions, their blind spots and their absurdity.
Arbus, who committed suicide in 1971 at the age of 48, photographed people in society's margins. She was always on the lookout, excavating hidden narratives in unusual places: at nudist camps and diaper derbies, in circuses, freak shows, and mental institutions. Arbus was an adventurer. She wanted to go where no one else went, and her camera gave her the license to do so. Marvin Israel, her close friend and an artist, said her photographs were only trophies.
Two new books attempt to portray Arbus' life. Diane Arbus: A Chronology was co-authored by Arbus' older daughter, Doon, and Elisabeth Sussman, a photography curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The charming paperback edition features a selection of correspondence and excerpts from personal notebooks as well as two childhood "autobiographies" (first published as part of the catalog to the traveling Arbus retrospective "Revelations," which was on view from 2003 to 2006). A Chronology also contains 55 biographies of Arbus' family members, friends, and colleagues, from Marvin Israel and Lisette Model to August Sander and Richard Avedon.
"This is the closest thing you can find to a Diane Arbus autobiography," Lesley Martin, Aperture's publisher, said recently at an event introducing the volume at the School of Visual Arts. The book's eclectic assemblage, its circumspect selection of material, and its simple and elegant design pay tribute to a complex woman. But Arbus was much more than one could fit onto 192 pages: She was funny, intelligent, tragic, anxious, knowledgeable, naïve, adventurous, self-conscious, frivolous, independent, and depressed. She was aware of the larger artistic context she worked within, understood irony and metaphor, and knew that her public exposure of marginalized people was, in her own words, "two-faced."
Arbus came from a wealthy Jewish family and grew up sheltered from the ravages of the Great Depression. She craved adversity and was drawn to differences and oppositions. Her work is voyeuristic and morally complex. As an artist she interacted with her subjects: They posed for her, and she posed for them. (In fact, her subjects seem to remember almost as many stories about her as she did about them.) Her sitters look directly at her camera, and we are forced to confront their gaze. For Arbus, getting to know "the other" was a learning experience greater than getting to know herself. "Knowing yourself is not going to teach you anything," she once said. "It'll leave you with a kind of blank."
Arbus' daughter Doon, who manages her mother's estate, wrote that she chose to release the autobiographical material hoping it would "render the scrim of words invisible so that anyone encountering the photographs could meet them in the eloquence of their silence." But words and images invite discourse, leading to William Todd Schultz's recent psychobiography: An Emergency in Slow Motion—The Inner Life of Diane Arbus.
This book "superimposes" the artist's real and alleged psychological conflicts onto her work. Schultz argues that Arbus' obsession with secrets calls for a psychological approach because the pictures are her "internal world externalized."
Right off the bat he sounds mad at the Arbus estate, which he calls "famously closefisted, notoriously obstreperous if not outright adversarial." Clearly he didn't get the access to Arbus' material he had hoped for. His original material is sparse; most of his footnotes refer to Patricia Bosworth's awkward 1984 biography, Diane Arbus, and to the estate's Revelations, in which Arbus' chronology originally appeared.
Given Doon Arbus' wish for privacy and respect, and the amount of care with which she selected the material for A Chronology, Schultz's psychobiography feels ham-fisted. To him, Arbus' art is little more than a symptom of her pathological disorders. Schultz alleges that Arbus' parents' rejected her and that she had incestuous relations with her brother Howard. Arbus was subjected to negative emotions and developed an "insecure/anxious attachment style." Schultz believes that "her shots mimicked her own interior" and that her "queer, perverse pictures of freaks signified a queer, perverse household." Arbus was forced to isolate the good from the bad to keep negative emotions at bay. Schultz attributes her common themes of "splitting" and "integration"—in her pictures of twins and triplets, for example—to her psychological malaise. He describes how Arbus clung to her subjects (and to her therapist) to defend herself from separation and loss. These unequal relationships, says Schultz, allowed Arbus "to exert some control over her fraught emotional experience, always tenuously managed at best." Her sitters were a projection of her own inner torment, her work a "private version of exposure therapy."
This exposure therapy stopped working when Arbus began "Untitled," her photo series of the mentally retarded, which she produced from 1966 to 1971. These were people beyond manipulation, Schultz writes, who did not absorb Arbus' negativities as well as her previous subjects had. "Arbus was left with a lonely, empty feeling. She was thrown back on the one thing that remained—herself."
Arbus' work was not "restitutive" and didn't allow her to work through the trauma, Schultz writes. "Does her work prove her madness?" he asks mysteriously. "Did her work hasten her demise?" In other words, did photographing masked, retarded people drive Arbus to commit suicide?
I found Schultz's poetic language seductive, but I got lost in the tangents that crisscross the book's 256 pages like spider webs. Schultz's sign-pointing—"Later I explore in detail," "It's a scene I return to later"—does not stop the book from being disorienting.
With one exception, An Emergency contains little original reporting: Schultz, who teaches psychology at Pacific University in Oregon, prides himself on having gained access to Helen Boigon, the therapist who treated Arbus in the years preceding her suicide. Boigon, who died a few years ago, revealed information that was never supposed to leave the treatment room, a troubling ethical violation, as the patient's right to confidentiality continues after death.
Ethics aside, most of Boigon's information is vacuous: Arbus never talked about her family; she never discussed her art in therapy; she was searching for "experience" and, in Boigon's recollection, "feeling bad." Schultz stretches out the little he got from Boigon to ridiculous lengths; he even somehow manages to discuss Boigon donating her husband's organs to the hospital in which he died. Schultz did uncover one juicy detail: According to Boigon, Arbus came on to her during therapy, "with a somewhat slimy expression on her face."
To speculate that Diane Arbus killed herself because retarded people couldn't respond to her like her other subjects did is preposterous. Most people who commit suicide do so because they are depressed and their judgment is impaired. Arbus had suffered from bouts of depression for years. "And it is so goddamn chemical, I'm convinced," she wrote in a letter to her friend Carlotta Marshall in 1968, three years before she killed herself. "Energy, some special kind of energy just leaks out and I am left lacking the confidence even to cross the street."
An artist is not simply a puppet of her emotional state. One does not just click the shutter button (or pick up a pen) and deliver a portrait of one's soul. Arbus did have an emotionally ambivalent childhood. But she also had a first-class education, a familiarity with psychoanalytic theory and Greek myths, and a clear knowledge of historical and contemporary currents in art and literature. Diane Arbus was conscious, selective, and aware of her power over her subjects. She made people pose for her and prodded them. (The grimace of the boy with the hand grenade was a result of her exasperating him, she said in the 1970s slide presentation.) Arbus took an active part in her art and edited her work heavily. She didn't just capture reality; she created it. Out of a slew of photographs, she carefully selected the one that had all the elements she wanted.
I'm not opposed to stories about artists and writers' lives. I like them, but Arbus' art is much greater than a troubled woman's psyche; it stands powerfully on its own. Her photographs cannot be reduced to a symptom or any real or imagined private pathology. "A photograph is a secret about a secret," she once said. "The more it tells you, the less you know."
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Sinclair Community College Preble County's campus welcomed motivational speaker, Nora Stanger to speak at the college Monday, Feb. 17, regarding overcoming poverty to achieve a higher education.
Born and raised in Appalachia, Stanger, the author of the book Diamonds in the Dew, is an "expert" in poverty.
"I understand poverty, and that's not something that most people think is valuable," said Stanger.
Born and raised in the Appalachian region of Lawrence County, Ohio, Stanger was one of eight children and faced poverty from an early age. Her mother, armed with only a high school education, was tasked with raising her children single-handedly in a home which was purchased for $125.
Ridiculed, as divorce was seen as shameful, Stanger's mother faced criticism and harassment by men. Stanger on the other hand is a "daughter who cannot be loved by her father… Your daddy is supposed to be the one who fights for you, who protects you, who was there and provides. What was wrong with me? What was wrong that he could not love me?" Stanger said.
As a result of her "family situation" Stanger was denied friendship from other children her age, and describes her childhood as a "mom and her children against the world."
Aside from their financial and family situations, Stanger's mother was determined to have her children achieve a higher education. Hungry and mentally "tortured," Stanger describes the every day struggles she faced while in the classroom.
Hearing names called at her such as "white trash" and "welfare trash" she said, "I was well aware your daddy paid for my lunch," and said she knew she was a "burden to society."
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Of the eight siblings, six have a college degree, which includes five masters' degrees, one doctorate, and one law degree.
Rocked by the Industrial Revolution, the people of Appalachia became desperate for financial stability, and turning to the city for employment was the only option for survival. Adapting to their new lifestyle was difficult, as the people of Appalachia were accustomed to bartering, growing, or relying on their own skill sets to overcome adversity.
"The problem was, is they were working 12 to 16 hours a day, if you were 14 and older, you probably had a job, too. Education has never been a real priority in our culture, it's becoming that way more now. The focus was the family," said Stanger. The influence of the Industrial Revolution on families, caused them to separate.
However, the Great Depression also took a toll on Appalachian families, as it called "everyone back home," said Stanger. It was a rarity for the Appalachian culture to sell their farmland, and common for every member of the family to farm, as it is the trade in which they are most talented; "We could raise our food, we could take care of ourselves," said Stanger.
The coal mining industry and the "War on Poverty" also shaped Stanger's family life. Stanger tells of wealthy college students from big cities coming into more rural areas such as Lawrence County, and casted pity on her people.
"'Oh you all are so poor. That's just awful, here, you deserve this welfare check, you take it,'" said Stanger of the students.
"You know what they started doing to us? They devalued what was inherent in our history."
Stanger describes the trades which no longer are of value to society such as wood carvers, musicians who have not been taught a formal lesson, but of their heritage. "I'm not trying to be sexist here, but I'm telling you the truth: The best way to break a man's spirit is to take away his ability to provide for his family. And what our people were being told is, 'You don't live up to our standard, there's something wrong with you, take this check.' And I'll tell you what, if somebody's going to give me free money, I'm going to take it," said Stanger."But then you fall into generational."
Stanger speaks of the 60s era, in which she describes busloads of used clothes that "nobody was going to wear again" and of "commodities," similar to military rations.
"And then you were supposed to be grateful that they gave you that. But we had quit raising our own livestock, and we had quit working our land and we had lost our own pride," said Stanger.
Enduring troubling times as a child has prepared Stanger for her "big purpose" in life, and attributes what she has been through to the person she has become today. "Endure, overcome, persevere, because you will then be able to find, closer and closer to what your purpose is," said Stanger.
Stressing the importance of a higher education, Stanger noted, "You were created for something amazing, something really, really good. Fight for it, keep working for it. I don't care how tired you get. You don't give up, and believe me, there were many times where I was right on the edge of it," said Stanger.


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Spring Weekends at NYBG
The Garden comes alive in the springtime, and we're celebrating this year with a whole slate of events! Whether you're a kid or an adult, a wine connoisseur or a music lover, we've got something perfect for you.
Native Plant Garden Wine Weekend
May 2 & 3
In the Native Plant Garden
During this oenophile's weekend, purchase a souvenir wine glass to join us for a flight of palate-pleasing local wines from New York State vintners while experts on winemaking and viticulture invite you to join the conversation during presentations of their crafts. As you sip your wine, enjoy snacks for purchase and live acoustic music. Tours of the Native Plant Garden by expert guides will highlight the significance of the many plant species within and round out a weekend fit for sommeliers and casual wine fans alike.
The Native Plant Garden is a gift of the Leon Levy Foundation.
All-Garden Pass Pricing
Adult: $25
Student (with valid ID)/Senior (65+): $22
Children (2–12): $10
Members Free
Tasting glass for access to wine sampling area—Member and Non-Member: $5
Available for purchase onsite. (Must be over 21 to purchase; please bring valid photo ID.)
Mother's Day Weekend Garden Party
May 9 & 10
On Daffodil Hill
Treat mom to the day out that she deserves! In fact, bring the whole family for live music, games, picnicking, and more—all surrounded by the most spectacular spring landscape New York has to offer. Kids can make an afternoon of crafting Mother's Day cards or adding to giant chalk drawings. The young at heart can perfect their croquet game, relax over a cup of tea in the Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill, enjoy a special brunch, and view a dance performance on the Conservatory Lawn. Gather everyone together to purchase offerings from visiting food trucks, with beer and wine available for adults to toast the occasion.
Mother's Day Weekend All-Garden Pass Pricing
Adult: $30
Student (with valid ID)/Senior (65+): $27
Children (2–12): $15
Members Free
June 6 & 7
In the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden
Come June, the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden is a sea of warm color, flush with the reds, whites, yellows, and pinks of nearly 700 rose cultivars. In celebration of the delicate beauty that defines this collection, as well as the peak of its seasonal color, stop by for two days of live music, plant care demonstrations and tours with expert rosarians, and light summer refreshments in the shade of the garden's overlooks.
All-Garden Pass Pricing
Adult: $25
Student (with valid ID)/Senior (65+): $22
Children (2–12): $10
Members Free
June 20, 6:30–9:30
On Daffodil Hill
Bring a picnic blanket and set up under the stars for a relaxed evening of food, music, and the continued celebration of Mexican heritage at the heart of our spring exhibition, FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life. Dad won't want to miss this throwback to the heyday of Linda Ronstadt with a performance of her landmark album of traditional Mexican folk songs—the top selling non-English album in American history—by The Villalobos Brothers and Humberto Flores, featuring a special appearance by Gizel Xanath, other guest artists, and a full mariachi band. Pick up dinner for the family from Stephen Starr Events or visit their taco truck while you're here, and enjoy a complimentary cerveza or margarita included with your ticket to this Father's Day weekend concert.
Non-Member $40/Member $30
Advanced tickets recommended.