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Barnes Group Inc. (B)
Q3 2012 Earnings Call
October 26, 2012 8:30 a.m. ET
William Pitts - Director, Investor Relations
Gregory Milzcik - President and Chief Executive Officer
Christopher Stephens - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance
Patrick Dempsey - Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President
Christopher Glynn - Oppenheimer & Co.
Edward Marshall - Sidoti & Company
Matt Summerville - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Scott Graham - Jefferies & Co.
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William Pitts
Good morning and thank you for joining us today. With me is Barnes Group President and CEO, Greg Milzcik; Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Chris Stephens; and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Patrick Dempsey.
If you have not received a copy of our earnings press release, you can find it on the Investor Relations section of our corporate website at bginc.com. During our call, we will be referring to the earnings release supplement slides, which are also posted on our website. In addition, we have posted a Synventive acquisition supplement to provide to with further details regarding this business.
Our discussion today includes certain non-GAAP financial measures which provide additional information that we believe is helpful to investors. These measures have been reconciled to the related GAAP measures in accordance with SEC regulations. You will find a reconciliation table on our website as part of our press release and in the Form 8-K submitted to the SEC.
I want to remind everybody that certain statements we make on today's call, both during the opening remarks and during the question-and-answer session, may be forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Please consider the risks and uncertainties that are mentioned in today's call and are described in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available through the Investor Relations section of our corporate website at bginc.com.
Today's call will begin with customary opening remarks from Greg, followed by a more detailed review of quarterly results and an updated outlook discussion by Chris. After that, we will open up the call for questions. So at this time, I will turn the call over to Barnes Group's President and CEO, Greg Milzcik.
Gregory Milzcik
Thanks, Bill, and good morning. During the third quarter we achieved a number of significant milestones for Barnes Group. First, we closed on the Synventive deal, the largest acquisition in the company's history. While I fully appreciate that we are early into integration process with this business and pleased with the initial operating performance delivered, the pace at which integration activities are progressing and the quality of the Synventive's team.
Second, we reached another record level of total backlog which now stands at $678 million, up 35%. While Synventive's contribution certainly helped to lift backlog, we also achieved a new record level without it. The backlog level is noteworthy as we move towards 2012 finish live as it provides a degree of support heading into what we believe should be a solid fourth quarter. As I mentioned in my second quarter remarks, the business environment remains uncertain. We have seen this for sometime in Europe and Brazil and we continue to believe these conditions will prevail for an extended period.
In the third quarter, we also saw a slowing that impacted some of our North American businesses, particularly distribution. These economic factors as well as unfavorable foreign exchange or FX, impacted our revenues in the quarter. Net sales of $306 million were up 2% from last year. Our sales growth included a 5% benefit or $16 million from the Synventive acquisition, offset by a 1% decrease in our organic sales. And a 2% or negative $5 million impact from foreign exchange.
Our reported earnings from continuing operations were $0.38 per diluted share. However, after consideration of certain Synventive acquisition related items, which negatively impact EPS by $0.06 per share, adjusted EPS from continuing operations was $0.44, in line with last year. Now turning our attention to third quarter segment performance.
Our aerospace business continues to reflect the current industry trend and outlook for commercial aircraft production and aftermarket services. Orders for our OEM business were up 7% year-over-year and led to a record OEM backlog of $540 million. We believe the industry's forecasted growth rate in commercial aircraft production is achievable and continues to be by supported by higher order backlog at both Boeing and Airbus. We support many aircraft platforms that are forecasted to see increased production, namely the Boeing 777 and 787. And we continue to work on future aircraft and engine platforms to achieve longer-term growth, such as the Airbus A350.
After two consecutive quarters of double-digit increases and aftermarket MRO sales, third quarter MRO sales were essentially flat. However, quarterly run rate throughout the year has been relatively stable. MRO sales have been impact by a weak European economy, reduced freight traffic and a slowing of growth in flight hours. Sales in our higher margin spare parts business, our revenue program, experienced some significant decline in the third quarter, indicative of a market trend we have seen for a couple of quarters now. This weakening reflects the same factors that impacted the MRO sales as well as continued inventory compression and cannibalization of retired aircraft engines.
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A Sikh, who was shot at and injured by unknown people, died at Nankana Sahib after one month on Friday.
Pakistan's reputed Daily 'The International News' reporting from Nankana Sahib said Mahandir Singh, father of three children, was seriously injured by the firing of unidentified people a month ago. After his death, hundreds of his relatives staged a demonstration and blocked Sheikhupura-Faisalabad Road by burning tyres for four hours.
After getting information, DPO Syed Ashfaq reached the spot and held talks with the protesters who continued their protest. They chanted slogans against the police and pelted buses with stones.
Sheikhupura RPO Zulfiqar Cheema also held talks with the protesters, which remained unsuccessful. Later, the district administration called MPA Rai Shahjahan Bhatti and it was only on his assurance that the Sikhs dispersed.
Later, they also staged a demonstration outside Gurdwara Janamasthan. Talking to journalists, Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee former presidents Sardar Mistan Singh, Sardar Bisham Singh, Dayal Singh, Nadan Singh and Ujagar Singh said that it was sheer negligence of the district police that could not arrest the accused even after one month. They said that they would protest outside the Punjab Assembly if the killers were not arrested in four days. Later, they performed the last rituals of the deceased.

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Which comes first: poverty or spanking? Friday news round up
The LA Times reviews a new Duke University study that tries to untangle spanking your kids from being poor. The study shows that poor children are way more likely to be spanked, but it also makes them more aggressive and slows their development.
It sort of asks the question – are kids spanked because they are poor and then become poor because they were spanked?
The study says parents often spank because they themselves are dealing with challenges – like being a young or single parent or living in poverty – and they also might reflect that poor parents are preparing their kids for a life full of these same challenges.
The UN and the World Bank are reporting that billions around the world are sinking deeper into poverty, with 1.3 billion people making less than $1.25 a day.
The Senate voted to continue a policy that would require able-bodied public housing residents to do 8 hours of community service a week if they're not working. Chicago already has a much more stringent policy in place, so it's not really news here. Most interesting, however are Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's comments about how we put requirements on public housing residents who get government money, but we haven't put any requirements for community service on Wall Street execs who got big bailout money from the feds.
I personally would like to see AIG executives in some sort of jumpsuit, picking up trash on the highway. Maybe just for personal satisfaction? They might be able to use a character-building activity.
Last but not least, the Poverty to Opportunity campaign talks about a new report on what it takes to be self-sufficient in Illinois. The results are pretty shocking. Here's a little snippet:
On average, an Illinois working parent of two has to make $49,030 to meet the family's most basic needs without any public or private assistance. Think that seems like a lot of money? You are not alone, as the report estimates that 1 million non-senior Illinois households make less than $49,030 a year.
Man, what chance do us regular people – janitors, police men, teachers (and journalists…) – have?
On that happy thought, enjoy your weekend. See you all on Monday.
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Although this article is attacking the poor circle of this society, lets not of generalize something that might be suited for the poor. Every family has different situation. In addition, I have never been spanked before but I wonder why sometimes why my mother did not do it. furthermore, its another story if the child was over spanked which in this case is not spanking but "Abuse".
I don't necessarily know if I agree with those who are poor automatically spanking their children, but I do believe that those who were spanked are more likely to spank. I've had numerous arguments with a past co-worker about Joe Jackson because she kept saying he didn't beat Michael Jackson, she just spanked him. She justified it by saying she does the same thing and they stop crying after awhile. I don't understand why spanking has such great lengths. I've talked to parents who used to use extension chords and tree branches and asked them do they realize how similar that was to slaves being whipped. Usually Black parents will think for a minute before responding. It's strange to me how someone can hate something being done to them as a child and then go off and do it to someone else. Another example: hazing in Greek fraternities and sororities, they'll hate the hazing process and turn right around and do it. Blows my mind.
Child buttock-battering vs. DISCIPLINE:
Child buttock-battering for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.
Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing, and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.
I think the reason why television shows like "Supernanny" and "Dr. Phil" are so popular is because that is precisely what many (not all) people are trying to do.
There are several reasons why child bottom-slapping isn't a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak,
The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson,
NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say
by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. There is an abundance of educational resources, testimony, documentation, etc available on the subject that can easily be found by doing a little research with the recommended reads-visit http://www.nospank.net.
Just a handful of those helping to raise awareness of why child bottom-slapping isn't a good idea:
American Academy of Pediatrics,
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Center For Effective Discipline,
PsycHealth Ltd Behavioral Health Professionals,
Churches' Network For Non-Violence,
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Parenting In Jesus' Footsteps,
Global Initiative To End All Corporal Punishment of Children,
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 26 countries, child corporal punishment is prohibited by law (with more in process). In fact, the US was the only UN member that did not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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F OLLOWING the acquisition of the Mexican Cession at the end
of the Mexican War in 1848, the government of the United
States recognized the necessity of connecting the Pacific
Coast with the settled regions of the nation. The discovery of gold
at Sutter's Mill in California aroused the interest of the public.
Texas newspapers of the time are filled with accounts of proposed
routes to California. From most of the states in the Mississippi
Valley overland routes were proposed, as well as routes by sea and
across various countries of Central America.
Early in 1849 Major General William J. Worth, commanding
the Eighth Military Department with headquarters at San An-
tonio, sent two reconnaissance parties to ascertain the practica-
bility of a wagon route to El Paso, with the object of establishing
a permanent military road from the Gulf Coast to California.
One group led by Lieutenant W. H. C. Whiting from San An-
tonio marked the more southerly trail that became known as the
lower route, while the other group led by Major Robert S. Neigh-
bors from Austin established the upper route. Both routes are fol-
lowed closely by modern highways. General Worth died of cholera
shortly before Major Neighbors arrived back in San Antonio, and
the Neighbors' report was made to Brigadier General William S.
Harney, who succeeded temporarily to the command of the Eighth
Military Department. Major Neighbors' report is given below.1
1Neighbors to Harney, June 4, 1849 (MS., Records of the War Department,
Letters Received 33/2-1849, National Archives, Washington, D. C.)
For additional information on the Neighbors expedition, see John Salmon Ford,
Memoirs (transcript, 7 vols.; Archives, University of Texas Library), III, 503ff.;
Senate Executive Documents, 31st Cong., 1st Sess. (Serial No. 562), Document No.
64; William C. Binkley, The Expanionist Movement in Texas, z836-z85o (Berke-
ley, 1925); C. L. Greenwood, "Opening Routes to El Paso, 1849," Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, XLVIII, 262-274; A. B. Bender, "Opening Routes across
West Texas, 1848-1856," ibid., XXXVII, 116-135; Kenneth F. Neighbours, "The
Expedition of Major Robert S. Neighbors to El Paso in 1849," ibid., LVIII, 36-59.
Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957. Austin, Texas. The Portal to Texas History. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101163/. Accessed May 31, 2016.


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News and updates on the DHS efforts to assist Minnesota's families and children.
May is National Foster Care Month. In 2015, foster parents provided family foster care to more than 12,000 Minnesota children. Approximately 68 percent of children who left out-of-home care were reunited with their birth parents, primary caregivers or other relatives. When possible, family foster care enables children to remain in their communities, close to their siblings, family and friends; in the same schools; on the same teams; and in the same cultural and social activities. The Minnesota Department of Human Services works to ensure children are placed in secure, safe, loving homes so that they may thrive until they can safely return home or become part of another permanent family. More information about foster care and becoming a foster parent is on the DHS website.
The Foster Care Work Group released its full report and recommendations. Recommendations included improvements in three areas of the foster care system: Improving recruitment, application and licensing processes; improving policies on the removal of children from their family homes; and improving the outcomes for children in the foster care system. Although the recommendations did not make it into the governor's budget this year, several have been used by other legislators in their own bills. The final report and recommendations can be found on the Minnesota Legislature's website.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services youth practice guide, Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning/queer (LGBTQ) youth (PDF), is now available in Spanish, Hmong and Somali. The practice guide has statistical information on LGBTQ youth, a glossary and resource list as well as information on preserving relationships and reunifying with birth families; engaging and building relationships with LGBTQ youth; ensuring LGBTQ youth safety; and considering circumstances for transgender youth.
A first-year evaluation of the state's Safe Harbor Program credits it with raising awareness and understanding of the sexual exploitation of young men and women in Minnesota and provides key information about the youth who are victims. The Safe Harbor First Year Evaluation Overview, released by the Minnesota departments of Health and Human Services, is the first report of its kind on Safe Harbor, the new statewide system for helping sexually exploited youth younger than age 18 years, which went into full effect in 2014. More information is in a news story about the report.
Children adopted from the foster care system and their new families, as well as those interested in adopting and supporting Minnesota's waiting children, came together at the 18th annual Celebrate Adoption: A Circus of the Heart event, highlighting recent and ongoing adoption efforts across the state, including the adoption of 686 children in 2014. More information is in a news release about the adoption event.
The fourth statewide Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate program at the University of Minnesota saw 31 students graduate Dec. 11 at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. Adoption experts from the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Center for Adoption Support and Education worked with the University of Minnesota's Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare to develop the competency program in 2013 to better prepare adoption and child welfare professionals, and mental health practitioners working with adopted children with special needs. More information is available on the University of Minnesota's Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare website.
Members of the public are reporting that they continue to receive unsolicited calls from what appears to be the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) toll-free information hotline number: 800-221-5689. The callers are requesting personal information offering assistance for filling out a SNAP application or other non-SNAP services such as home security systems. Never provide personal information or your credit card number over the phone to unsolicited callers. This outside entity that has spoofed the SNAP toll-free information hotline number is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service or SNAP. If you suspect that you are receiving illegitimate calls, you may file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. If you have already fallen victim to this or a similar scam, visit the FTC consumer webpage for more into formation on identity theft.
Two new advisory groups recently initiated efforts to improve services for children and families in the state's foster care and child support systems. The Child Foster Care Work Group is addressing concerns such as the shortage of qualified foster care providers and disproportionate number of African-American and American Indian children removed from their homes and placed in foster care. The work group has made initial recommendations on recruitment, applications, licensing, policies, staffing and resources, and final recommendations will be made by March 1, 2016. The 2015 Legislature formed the Child Support Work Group to review and create an equitable parenting expense adjustment formula, recommend changes to child support computation and recommend composition of a permanent child support task force.
Effective July 1, 2015, the Minnesota Department of Human Services began enrolling providers to deliver a new early intensive intervention Medical Assistance benefit for children and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and related conditions. Families and children will be able to access services later this summer. Under the new benefit, covered services will be designed to improve social interaction, communication and behavioral regulation skills at a critical time in development, promoting fuller participation by children in their family, schools and community life. Families interested in the new benefit should contact their county, tribe or managed care plan. More information is available in a news release and on the DHS website.
A recent study from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Participation in Parent Aware Ratings across Minnesota, shows that Parent Aware, Minnesota's voluntary quality rating and improvement system, is gaining ground across the state, but there is still work to do to recruit more programs. A four-year statewide rollout of Parent Aware was completed in January 2015, and will require more time to ensure every county has the desired number of participating programs. Parent Aware is a voluntary program that promotes research-based best practices among participating programs through training and coaching, then rates them on a scale of one to four stars. The full report, Participation in Parent Aware Ratings across Minnesota (PDF), is online.
In Minnesota, the share of children living in poverty increased by more than 50 percent over the past decade. The fact that there are more than 70,000 children in deep poverty, with family incomes below half the federal poverty limit, is particularly troubling. In April 2015, the department released the first-ever report on future trends for Minnesota children in poverty. Poor children are less likely to be ready for kindergarten and more likely to experience intergenerational poverty, involvement with the criminal justice system and more health risks, such as smoking and drinking. More information is in a news release on the study.
The Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children issued its final recommendations - focusing on children's safety as its top priority - to Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature. Recommendations included improving child protection screening guidelines and practices, examining a continuum of responses to allegations of child maltreatment, addressing racial disparities in the system, improving training for child protection workers, providing additional oversight of county performance, ensuring transparency in the system, and seeking additional resources to carry out the recommendations. Gov. Dayton's supplemental budget proposal set aside $52 million in new funding for children protection. The final report (PDF) is available online. The department issued a news release about the task force's work.
Research on a sampling of 4,700 youth, ages 14 to 17 years old, who spent at least 30 days in foster care, shows that nearly one in five foster youth experienced homelessness. The research also indicates youth who moved within the foster care system more often than their peers were more likely to be homeless at some point in their youth. The department matched data from the Social Service Information System with the Homeless Management Information System and Hennepin County homeless data between 2006 and 2012. More information can be found in a news release about youth homelessness.
Parents, families, hospitals and child care providers can help reduce the risk of sleep-related infant deaths by following simple, safe sleep practices. In Minnesota, over a five-year period beginning in 2009, there were 247 deaths in which an unsafe sleep environment, such as placing the infant in a tummy position, co-sleeping in adult beds or on sofas, or having infants sleep with pillows or blankets, was a contributing factor. Greater awareness about safe sleep practices can help turn around those numbers.


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Tallahassee, FL (AP) -Democratic Congressman Ron Klein has
lost his bid for a third term in a South Florida district.
Klein lost Tuesday to Allen West, a tough-talking retired Army
lieutenant colonel from Deerfield Beach. He will become the first
black Republican to represent Florida in Congress since the 1870s.
It was a rematch of their race two years ago in the 22nd
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My name is Darrin and I'm from Colorado. My wife is a personal trainer and road cyclist. About a year ago, I decided it wasn't very good "advertisement" for her to have a nearly 400 pound husband loafing around, so I started working out with her. I really began in earnest last May (2007) at a weight of around 375lbs. Since she was into cycling and teaching spinning classes...I thought I would try them out too. I have an old low end trek mountain bike that we did some riding on and I started attending her spinning classes regularly. The weight started coming off. Then I started going to her circuit training classes and more weight started coming off. Last August she road in the MS-150 in New Mexico and I became so inspired by her accomplishment, I decided to get in shape and try to do it this year with her. I am now down to 290 pounds and wanting to get down to about 225lbs. Probably and optimum weight for me as I'm a taller large framed man.
As a larger framed man with heavier weight, I'm looking to gather information on appropriate bikes, components, etc... for someone like me. I'm looking to share my success stories and read about others who have fought the battle of the bulge and won through cycling.
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Stellar News Feed Archive
|Diversity Of Short Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows From Compact Binary Mergers Hosting Pulsars
|Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 21:33
Short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) are widely believed to result from the mergers of compact binaries. This model predicts an afterglow that bears the characteristic signatures of a constant, low density medium, including a smooth prompt-afterglow transition, and a simple temporal evolution. However, these expectations are in conflict with observations for a non-negligible fraction of sGRB afterglows. In particular, the onset of the afterglow phase for some of these events appears to be delayed and, in addition, a few of them exhibit late-time rapid fading in their lightcurves. These facts have prompted speculation that the central engine activity continues to operate effectively for tens of seconds following the prompt emission. We show that these peculiar observations can be explained independently of ongoing central engine activity if some sGRB progenitors are compact binaries hosting at least one pulsar. The Poynting flux emanating from the pulsar companion can excavate a bow-shock cavity surrounding the binary. If this cavity is larger than the shock deceleration length scale in the undisturbed interstellar medium, then the onset of the afterglow will be delayed. Should the deceleration occur entirely within the swept-up thin shell, a rapid fade in the lightcurve will ensue. We identify two types of pulsar that can achieve the conditions necessary for altering the afterglow: low field, long lived pulsars, and high field pulsars. We find that a sizable fraction (≈20−50%) of low field pulsars are likely to reside in neutron star binaries based on observations, while their high field counterparts are not.
Authors: Cole Holcomb, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Fabio De Colle, Gabriela Montes
|Massive Stars Don't Make Good Neighbors
|Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 06:38
Big stars are bullies. When one dies, it does so spectacularly, exploding in a supernova with energy output equal to that of the Sun over its entire lifetime. However, a massive star's mischief starts much sooner. As it is born, it can steal gas from its neighbors. During its life, its strong radiation and winds plow through the neighborhood, wreaking havoc and disrupting the births of other stars. Is this feedback enough to explain why we see such a small fraction of the gas in stellar nurseries ending up in stars? New analysis using simulations investigates the details.
Read the full story on Astrobites
|NASA's Spitzer and WISE Telescopes Find Close, Cold Neighbor of Sun
|Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 11:13
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest "brown dwarf" known -- a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth's North Pole.
Images from the space telescopes also pinpointed the object's distance to 7.2 light-years away, earning it the title for fourth closest system to our sun. The closest system, a trio of stars, is Alpha Centauri, at about 4 light-years away.
"It's very exciting to discover a new neighbor of our solar system that is so close," said Kevin Luhman, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, University Park. "And given its extreme temperature, it should tell us a lot about the atmospheres of planets, which often have similarly cold temperatures."
|A long-term UBVRI photometric study of the pre-main sequence star V350 Cep
|Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 13:01
Results from UBVRI optical photometric observations of the pre-main sequence star V350 Cep during the period 2004-2014 are presented in the paper. The star is discovered in 1977 due to the remarkable increase in brightness with more than 5 mag (R). In the previous studies V350 Cep is considered a potential member of the groups of FUors or EXors eruptive variables. Our data suggest that during the period of observations the star keeps its maximum brightness with low amplitude photometric variations. Our conclusion is that V350 Cep is probably an intermediate object between FUors and EXors, similar to V1647 Ori.
Authors: Sunay Ibryamov, Evgeni Semkov, Stoyanka Peneva
|Red giant pulsations from the suspected symbiotic star StHA 169 detected in Kepler data
|Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 09:01
We present Kepler and Swift observations of StHa 169 which is currently classified as a symbiotic binary. The Kepler light curve shows quasi periodic behaviour with a mean period of 34 d and an amplitude of a few percent. Using Swift data we find a relatively strong UV source at the position of StHa 169 but no X-ray counterpart. Using a simple two component blackbody fit to model the combined Swift and 2MASS spectral energy distribution and an assessment of the previously published optical spectrum, we find that the source has a hot (~10,000K) component and a cooler (~3700K) component. The Kepler light is dominated by the cool component and we attribute the variability to pulsations in a red giant star. If we remove this approximate month long modulation from the light curve, we find no evidence for additional variability in the light curve. The hotter source is assigned to a late B or early A main sequence star. We briefly discuss the implications of these findings and conclude that StHA 169 is a red giant plus main sequence binary.
Authors: Gavin Ramsay (Armagh Observatory), Pasi Hakala (FINCA), Steve Howell (NASA Ames)
|Ancient story tells of star's variable nature
|Monday, April 21, 2014 - 15:16
Aboriginal people of central Australia appear to have known about the variable star Betelgeuse, long before modern European astronomers, according to a new study.
The discovery reported in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, was uncovered while examining the records of famous amateur anthropologist Daisy Bates.
Early last century, Bates spent 16 years living among the people of South Australia's Great Victoria Desert, recording their language, customs, and oral traditions, according to one of the study's authors, Dr Duane Hamacher of the University of New South Wales.
Hamacher and co-author Trevor Leaman collected Bates' published accounts and journal entries as part of an ongoing project to develop a complete picture of Aboriginal sky knowledge and star lore.
Read thew full story at ABC Science
|The Light Curve Shapes as a Key to Resolving the Origin of Long Secondary Periods in Red Giant Stars
|Friday, April 18, 2014 - 14:17
We present a study of OGLE light curves of red giant stars exhibiting long secondary periods (LSPs) - an enigmatic phenomenon commonly observed in stars on the upper red giant branch and asymptotic giant branch. We show that the light curves of LSP stars are essentially identical to those of the spotted variables with one dark spot on their photospheres. Such a behavior can be explained by a presence of a dusty cloud orbiting the red giant together with a low-mass companion in a close, circular orbit. We argue that the binary scenario is in agreement with most of the observational properties of LSP variables, including non-sinusoidal shapes of their radial velocity curves.
Authors: I. Soszynski, A. Udalski
|Cataclysmic Variables from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
|Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 14:47
We present 855 cataclysmic variable candidates detected by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) of which at least 137 have been spectroscopically confirmed and 705 are new discoveries. The sources were identified from the analysis of five years of data, and come from an area covering three quarters of the sky. We study the amplitude distribution of the dwarf novae CVs discovered by CRTS during outburst, and find that in quiescence they are typically two magnitudes fainter compared to the spectroscopic CV sample identified by SDSS. However, almost all CRTS CVs in the SDSS footprint have ugriz photometry. We analyse the spatial distribution of the CVs and find evidence that many of the systems lie at scale heights beyond those expected for a Galactic thin disc population. We compare the outburst rates of newly discovered CRTS CVs with the previously known CV population, and find no evidence for a difference between them. However, we find that significant evidence for a systematic difference in orbital period distribution. We discuss the CVs found below the orbital period minimum and argue that many more are yet to be identified among the full CRTS CV sample. We cross-match the CVs with archival X-ray catalogs and find that most of the systems are dwarf novae rather than magnetic CVs.
Authors: A.J. Drake, B.T. Gaensicke, S.G. Djorgovski, P. Wils, A.A. Mahabal, M.J. Graham, T-C. Yang, R. Williams, M. Catelan, J.L. Prieto,C. Donalek, S. Larson, E. Christensen
|Long-term photometry of the eclipsing dwarf nova V893 Scorpii: Orbital period, oscillations, and a possible giant planet
|Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 15:38
The cataclysmic variable V893 Sco is an eclipsing dwarf nova which, apart from outbursts with comparatively low amplitudes, exhibits a particularly strong variability during quiescence on timescales of days to seconds.The present study aims to update the outdated orbital ephemerides published previously, to investigate deviations from linear ephemerides, and to characterize non-random brightness variations in a range of timescales. Light curves of V893 Sco were observed on 39 nights, spanning a total time base of about 14 years. They contain 114 eclipses which were used to significantly improve the precision of the orbital period and to study long-term variations of the time of revolution. Oscillations and similar brightness variations were studied with Fourier techniques in the individual light curves. The orbital period exhibits long-term variations with a cycle time of 10.2 years. They can be interpreted as a light travel time effect caused by the presence of a giant planet with approximately 9.5 Jupiter masses in a 4.5 AU orbit around V893 Sco. On some nights transient semi-periodic variations on timescales of several minutes can be seen which may be identified as quasi-periodic oscillations. However, it is difficult to distinguish whether they are caused by real physical mechanisms or if they are the effect of an accidental superposition of unrelated flickering flares. Simulations to investigate this question are presented.
Author: Albert Bruch
|Chandra Resolves the T Tauri Binary System RW Aur
|Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 15:32
RW Aur is a multiple T Tauri system consisting of an early-K type primary (A) and a K5 companion (B) at a separation of 1.4 arcsec. RW Aur A drives a bipolar optical jet that is well-characterized optically. We present results of a sensitive Chandra observation whose primary objective was to search for evidence of soft extended X-ray emission along the jet, as has been seen for a few other nearby T Tauri stars. The binary is clearly resolved by Chandra and both stars are detected as X-ray sources. The X-ray spectra of both stars reveal evidence for cool and hot plasma. Suprisingly, the X-ray luminosity of the less-massive secondary is at least twice that of the primary and is variable. The disparity is attributed to the primary whose X-ray luminosity is at the low end of the range for classical T Tauri stars of similar mass based on established correlations. Deconvolved soft-band images show evidence for slight outward elongation of the source structure of RW Aur A along the blueshifted jet axis inside the central arcsecond. In addition, a faint X-ray emission peak is present on the redshifted axis at an offset of 1.2 +- 0.2 arcsec from the star. Deprojected jet speeds determined from previous optical studies are too low to explain this faint emission peak as shock-heated jet plasma. Thus, unless flow speeds in the redshifted jet have been underestimated, other mechanisms such as magnetic jet heating may be involved.
Authors: Stephen L. Skinner, Manuel Guedel
|GG Tau: the fifth element
|Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 09:48
We aim at unveiling the observational imprint of physical mechanisms that govern planetary formation in young, multiple systems. In particular, we investigate the impact of tidal truncation on the inner circumstellar disks. We observed the emblematic system GG Tau at high-angular resolution: a hierarchical quadruple system composed of low-mass T Tauri binary stars surrounded by a well-studied, massive circumbinary disk in Keplerian rotation. We used the near-IR 4-telescope combiner PIONIER on the VLTI and sparse-aperture-masking techniques on VLT/NaCo to probe this proto-planetary system at sub-AU scales. We report the discovery of a significant closure-phase signal in H and Ks bands that can be reproduced with an additional low-mass companion orbiting GG Tau Ab, at a (projected) separation rho = 31.7 +/- 0.2mas (4.4 au) and PA = 219.6 +/- 0.3deg. This finding offers a simple explanation for several key questions in this system, including the missing-stellar-mass problem and the asymmetry of continuum emission from the inner dust disks observed at millimeter wavelengths. Composed of now five co-eval stars with 0.02 <= Mstar <= 0.7 Msun, the quintuple system GG Tau has become an ideal test case to constrain stellar evolution models at young ages (few 10^6yr).
Authors: E. Di Folco, A. Dutrey, J.-B. Le Bouquin, S. Lacour, J.-P. Berger, R. Köhler, S. Guilloteau, V. Piétu, J. Bary, T. Beck, H. Beust, E. Pantin
|The oEA stars QY Aql, BW Del, TZ Dra, BO Her and RR Lep: Photometric analysis, frequency search and evolutionary status
|Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 08:38
New and complete multi-band light curves of the oEA stars QY Aql, BW Del, TZ Dra, BO Her and RR Lep were obtained and analysed with the Wilson-Devinney code. The light curves residuals were further analysed with the Fourier method in order to derive the pulsation characteristics of the oscillating components. All the reliable observed times of minimum light were used to examine orbital period irregularities. The orbital period analyses revealed secular changes for QY Aql and BW Del, while the Light-Time Effect seems to be the best explanation for the cyclic period changes in TZ Dra and BO Her. RR Lep has a rather steady orbital period. Light curve solutions provided the means to calculate the absolute parameters of the components of the systems, which subsequently were used to make an estimate of their present evolutionary status.
Authors: Alexios Liakos and Panagiotis Niarchos
|Light Echoes of Historic Transients
|Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 14:50
AAVSO councilor, Doug Welch, co-authors an interesting paper on light echoes of historic transients.
Light echoes, light from a variable source scattered off dust, have been observed for over a century. The recent discovery of light echoes around centuries-old supernovae in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud have allowed the spectroscopic characterization of these events, even without contemporaneous photometry and spectroscopy using modern instrumentation. Here we review the recent scientific advances using light echoes of ancient and historic transients, and focus on our latest work on SN 1987A's and Eta Carinae's light echoes.
Authors: A. Rest, B. Sinnott, D. L. Welch, J. L. Prieto, F. Bianco
Read the pre-print from astro-ph
Also see the article in Astrobites discussing the paper
|NOAO/Gemini: Sakurai's Object - Stellar Evolution in Real Time
|Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 07:39
Stellar lifetimes are measured in billions of years, so changes in their appearance rarely take place on a human timescale. Thus an opportunity to observe a star passing from one stage of life to another on a timescale of months to years is very exciting, as there are only a very few examples known. One such star is Sakurai's Object (V4334 Sgr). First reported by a Japanese amateur astronomer in 1996 as a "nova-like object," Sakurai's Object had been only a few years before the faint central star of a planetary nebula. In the 1990's Sakurai's Object brightened by a factor of 10000. This brightening has been attributed to a final helium shell flash. In this process the burned out core of the star at the center of the planetary nebula re-ignites.
The final helium shell flash is violent, ejecting a cloud of dust and gas that forms a thick cocoon around the star blocking all visible light. By 2000 the dust cloud was so thick that Sakurai's Object was not visible even with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Scientists at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) have been observing the sky in the area of Sakurai's Object waiting for infrared radiation to break through the dust cloud. Infrared radiation penetrates dust much more efficiently than optical light. A detection of the infrared light would mean that the dust cloud is breaking apart, ultimately permitting light from the star to escape.
Read the full story at either Gemini or NOAO
|A Mystery Star Wrapped in a Stingray
|Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 13:19
SAO 244567 is nestled in the heart of the Stingray Nebula, a tiny planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae are formed when an intermediate mass (roughly 0.6–10 solar masses) star enters the last stages of stellar evolution.
Observations of the Stingray Nebula in 1989 led astronomers to conclude that SAO 244567 was a post-AGB star, since it had already produced a planetary nebula.
But spectra taken in 1971 and analyzed in 1995 indicated the star was still evolving at the time, meaning it would have made the transition from giant to post-AGB in twenty years, which is far too fast for any known evolutionary models. Further, the 1971 observations yielded an effective temperature of 21,000 K for the star, but in 2002 different observations found the star to be at 60,000 K. Spectral observations in between those times support the star growing steadily hotter, though it appears lately (since 2006) to be cooling again slightly. That is a massive change in temperature in roughly thirty years.
Read the rest of the story on Astrobites
|Novalike Cataclysmic Variables in the Infrared
|Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 13:07
Novalike cataclysmic variables have persistently high mass transfer rates and prominent steady state accretion disks. We present an analysis of infrared observations of twelve novalikes obtained from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer All Sky Survey. The presence of an infrared excess at >3-5 microns over the expectation of a theoretical steady state accretion disk is ubiquitous in our sample. The strength of the infrared excess is not correlated with orbital period, but shows a statistically significant correlation (but shallow trend) with system inclination that might be partially (but not completely) linked to the increasing view of the cooler outer accretion disk and disk rim at higher inclinations. We discuss the possible origin of the infrared excess in terms of emission from bremsstrahlung or circumbinary dust, with either mechanism facilitated by the mass outflows (e.g., disk wind/corona, accretion stream overflow, and so on) present in novalikes. Our comparison of the relative advantages and disadvantages of either mechanism for explaining the observations suggests that the situation is rather ambiguous, largely circumstantial, and in need of stricter observational constraints.
Authors: D. W. Hoard, Knox S. Long, Steve B. Howell, Stefanie Wachter, Carolyn S. Brinkworth, Christian Knigge, J. E. Drew, Paula Szkody, S. Kafka, Kunegunda Belle, David R. Ciardi, Cynthia S. Froning, Gerard T. van Belle, M. L. Pretorius
|New SDO Image of X-Class Solar Flare
|Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 12:57
From SciTech Daily
This new image of an X-class solar flare was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 29, 2014.
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 1:48 p.m. EDT March 29, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
To see how this event impacted Earth, please visit NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government's official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.
This flare is classified as an X.1-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc.
Source: Karen C. Fox, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Image: NASA/SDO
|Theory suggests source of white dwarf pollution … and ominous fate for Earth
|Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 09:38
Hot, young, white dwarfs – the super-dense remains of sunlike stars – have atmospheres made essentially of pure hydrogen or pure helium. But these stars' atmospheres are contaminated by other elements, too – for example, carbon, silicon and iron – known to astronomers as metals. A decades-old space mystery is how the metals came to be in white dwarf atmospheres. And now an international team of astronomers led by Professor Martin Barstow of the University of Leicester in the U.K. say they have solved the mystery. Their solution points to an ominous fate for planet Earth. Professor Barstow said in a press release:
|OGLE-BLG-RRLYR-12245: An RR Lyrae Star that Switched from a Double to Single-mode Pulsation
|Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 08:40
We report the discovery of an RR Lyrae star that experienced a switching of its pulsation mode. OGLE-BLG-RRLYR-12245 was discovered as a double-mode RRd star from the observations conducted in years 2001-2006 during the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III). The OGLE-IV observations carried out since 2010 reveal that this object is now a fundamental-mode RRab star, with no sign of the first-overtone pulsation. The analysis of the OGLE photometry shows that the final stage of the mode switching occurred on a relatively short timescale of a few months in 2005. We study the behavior of the star during this process, showing changes of the pulsational amplitudes and periods. We also discuss possible causes for the mode switching in RR Lyr stars.
Authors: I. Soszynski, W. A. Dziembowski, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, R. Poleski, S. Kozlowski, P. Pietrukowicz, J. Skowron, P. Mroz
|Monday, March 24, 2014 - 12:40
Type Ia supernovae are among the best tools to measure cosmological distances. Thanks to their consistent peak brightness, these "standard candles" are used to map the expansion history of the Universe. In 1998 distance measurements using supernovae lead to the a paradigm shift in cosmology and fundamental physics: the expansion of the Universe is speeding up, contrary to the expectations from the attractive nature of gravitational forces: a mysterious new cosmic component, "dark energy", has been invoked to explain this unexpected phenomenon. This discovery was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.
"Since Type Ia supernovae are very rare, occurring only once every several hundred years in a galaxy like ours, there have been very few opportunities to study these explosions in great detail. SN2014J in the nearby galaxy M82 is a very welcome exception", says Rahman Amanullah a researcher at OKC.
Read the full press release at The Oscar Klein Centre blog
Download the paper (paywall) from IOP Science
|HD 54272, a classical lambda Bootis star and gamma Doradus pulsator
|Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 15:40
Another remarkable star, formerly misclassified as a lambda Bootis and RR Lyrae star, featured in a pre-print on arXiv
We detect the second known lambda Bootis star (HD 54272) which exhibits gamma Doradus-type pulsations. The star was formerly misidentified as a RR Lyrae variable. The lambda Bootis stars are a small group (only 2 per cent) of late B to early F-type, Population I stars which show moderate to extreme (up to a factor 100) surface underabundances of most Fe-peak elements and solar abundances of lighter elements (C, N, O, and S). The photometric data from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) and All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) projects were analysed. They have an overlapping time base of 1566 d and 2545 d, respectively. Six statistically significant peaks were identified (f1 = 1.410 116 c/d, f2 = 1.283 986 c/d, f3 = 1.293 210 c/d, f4 = 1.536 662 c/d, f5 = 1.157 22 c/d and f6 = 0.226 57 c/d). The spacing between f1 and f2, f1 and f4, f5 and f2 is almost identical. Since the daily aliasing is very strong, the interpretation of frequency spectra is somewhat ambiguous. From spectroscopic data, we deduce a high rotational velocity (250+-25 km/s) and a metal deficiency of about -0.8 to -1.1 dex compared to the Sun. A comparison with the similar star, HR 8799, results in analogous pulsational characteristics but widely different astrophysical parameters. Since both are lambda Bootis-type stars, the main mechanism of this phenomenon, selective accretion, may severely influence gamma Doradus-type pulsations.
Authors: E. Paunzen, M. Skarka, D.L. Holdsworth, B. Smalley, R. G. West
|An exotic eclipsing binary system composed of two classical overtone Cepheids in a 413-day orbit.
|Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 13:10
We have obtained extensive high-quality spectroscopic observations of the OGLE-LMC-CEP-1718 eclipsing binary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud which Soszynski et al. (2008) had identified as a candidate system for containing two classical Cepheids in orbit. Our spectroscopic data clearly demonstrate binary motion of the Cepheids in a 413-day eccentric orbit, rendering this eclipsing binary system the first ever known to consist of two classical Cepheid variables. After disentangling the four different radial velocity variations in the system we present the orbital solution and the individual pulsational radial velocity curves of the Cepheids. We show that both Cepheids are extremely likely to be first overtone pulsators and determine their respective dynamical masses, which turn out to be equal to within 1.5 %. Since the secondary eclipse is not observed in the orbital light curve we cannot derive the individual radii of the Cepheids, but the sum of their radii derived from the photometry is consistent with overtone pulsation for both variables.
The existence of two equal-mass Cepheids in a binary system having different pulsation periods (1.96 and 2.48 days, respectively) may pose an interesting challenge to stellar evolution and pulsation theories, and a more detailed study of this system using additional datasets should yield deeper insight about the physics of stellar evolution of Cepheid variables. Future analysis of the system using additional near-infrared photometry might also lead to a better understanding of the systematic uncertainties in current Baade-Wesselink techniques of distance determinations to Cepheid variables.
Authors: W. Gieren, B. Pilecki, G. Pietrzynski, D. Graczyk, I.B. Thompson, I. Soszynski, P. Konorski, R. Smolec, A. Udalski, N. Nardetto, G. Bono, P.G. Prada Moroni, J. Storm, A. Gallenne
|Discovery of an SU UMa-type eclipsing cataclysmic variable star inside the CV "period gap''
|Monday, March 17, 2014 - 09:48
IBVS 6097 on a recently discovered eclipsing cataclysmic variable
Authors: Cagas, Pavel; Cagas, Petr
|Stellar luminosity: The true brightness of stars
|Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 06:24
Nearly every star that you see with the unaided eye is larger and more luminous than our sun. Astronomers speak of a star's true brightness as its "luminosity."
Some stars look bright because they're near Earth. Others are truly extremely bright members of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers call the true, intrinsic brightness of a star its luminosity. The luminosity of any star depends on size and surface temperature. Some extremely large and hot stars blaze away with the luminosity of a million suns!
Read the full explanation at Earthsky.org
|VLT Spots Largest Yellow Hypergiant Star
|Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 07:38
ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has revealed the largest yellow star — and one of the ten largest stars found so far. This hypergiant has been found to measure more than 1300 times the diameter of the Sun, and to be part of a double star system, with the second component so close that it is in contact with the main star. Observations spanning over sixty years, some from amateur observers, also indicate that this rare and remarkable object is changing very rapidly and has been caught during a very brief phase of its life.
Read the full press release from ESO


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Born: 9/20/1898 (Brasil, São Paulo, São Paulo)
Died: 11/9/1966 (Brasil, São Paulo, São Paulo)
Sérgio Milliet da Costa e Silva (São Paulo, 1898 - São Paulo, 1966). Writer, art critic, sociologist, lecturer, translator, painter. Received his primary and secondary schooling in São Paulo. In 1912, he went to Switzerland, beginning a course in Economic and Social Sciences in Geneva and completing it in Bern. In 1916, he became a contributor to the magazine Le Carmel. He published his first books of poetry Par le Sentir, in 1917, and Le Départ Sur la Pluie, in 1919. He returned to Brazil at the end of 1920. Taking part in Modern Art Week of 1922 in São Paulo, he adhered to the modernist platform and became a defender and promoter of the new ideas on art and literature disseminated by the group. He returned to Europe in 1923, settling in Paris, where he accompanied the development of new theories of art. He contributed to the Brazilian magazines Klaxon, Terra Roxa, Ariel and Revista do Brasil, sending foreign texts for publication in Brazil and translating poems by Brazilian modernists for the magazine Lumière. He mixed with modernist Brazilian writers and artists until he returned to Brazil for good in 1925. In this year, together with Oswald Andrade (1890-1954) and Afonso Schmidt (1890-1964), he created the magazine Cultura. In 1927, he became the manager of Diário Nacional, the São Paulo newspaper of the Democratic Party, founded in this year. In 1935, he joined the group of intellectuals formed by Paulo Duarte (1899-1984), Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), Rubem Borba de Morais, Tácito de Almeida and others, who planned the creation of the Department of Culture of the Municipality of São Paulo, and was appointed head of the Historical and Social Documentation Division of this department.
From 1937 to 1944, he was a lecturer at the School of Sociology and Politics of São Paulo, with which he had been associated since its foundation, having held the position of secretary from 1933 to 1935. He met the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908- ), aiding the latter to organise his ethnographic expedition. From 1938 onwards, he wrote regular articles on art and literature for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, initiating a period of intense output of art criticism. He published Pintores e Pintura [Painters and Painting] (1940), O Sal da Heresia [The Salt of Heresy] (1941), Fora de Forma [Outside of Form] (1942) and A Marginalidade da Pintura Moderna [The Marginality of Modern Painting] (1942). Milliet intensified his contacts with São Paulo painters and began to paint. Between 1941 and 1944, he contributed to the magazine Clima. He travelled to the United States in 1943, and on his return, published A Pintura Norte-Americana [American Painting]. He became the director of the Municipal Library of São Paulo, promoting a series of cultural activities, such as lectures and round-tables, participants in which included Luís Martins (1907-1981), Lourival Gomes Machado, Osório César (1895-1980), Roger Bastide (1898-1974), Luis Saia (1911-1975). In 1944, he published Pintura Quase Sempre [Painting Almost Always] and the first volume of the Diário Crítico [Critical Diary], an anthology of ten volumes published until 1959. On the opening of the 1st Brazilian Congress of Writers in 1945, he inaugurated the Art Section of the Municipal Library, forming the first public collection of Brazilian modern art, becoming a militant of the Democratic Left in the same year.
One of the main figures behind the creation of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM/SP), created in 1948 and opened to the public in 1949, he was a member of its council for the painting and sculpture section. He took part in the meetings which prepared the return of the Socialist Party in 1947. He was one of the founders and the first chairman of the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA), created in 1949. He designed the retrospective exhibition of Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), held at the MAM/SP in 1950, for which he edited the introduction text for the catalogue. In 1952, he published Panorama da Poesia Brasileira [Panorama of Brazilian Poetry]. He was the artistic director of the MAM/SP from 1952 to 1957 and director of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th São Paulo International Bienal, between 1953 and 1958. He retired in 1959.
In 1967, the MAM/SP organised a retrospective exhibition of his painting. In 1981, the re-editing of the Diário Crítico was reinitiated, with the first volume containing a famous preface by Antonio Candido. By way of commemoration of the centenary of Milliet's birth, events were organised in 1998 at the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library of São Paulo, at the Museum of the Image and Sound (MIS/SP) and at the University of São Paulo (USP).
Critical Commentary
A literary critic and intellectual active within Brazilian artistic and cultural circles, especially in São Paulo, a major figure on account of the influence that he exerted both over the Modernist generation and over the generation of artists and writers who despontam/emerged in the 1930s and 40s. Greatly interested in the problems of his time, his critical reflections accompanied the development of Brazilian modern art from the 1920s until the start of the 1960s. He initially contributed to the media predominantly as a literary commentator. Influenced by the dominant ideas in the Brazilian socio-cultural milieu of the period, he adopted a stance in favour of a Brazilianism in artistic and literary output, albeit with reservations regarding the more nationalist stances.
The 1930s marked a shift of orientation, when he moved away from poetry to devote himself to critical activity. In 1932, the book Terminus Seco [Dry Terminus] was published, this being the name of his column in the Diário Nacional, which included articles on art criticism. In 1937, he published Marcha a Ré [Reverse Gear], a collection of commentaries on art and literature. His texts included reflections on problems of modern life, contemporary man and the crisis in which he was involved. Beside discussions on art, he dealt with political ideas and issues in the Brazil of the day, such as the so-called social literature. From 1938 onwards, he began to write for the daily newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo and his activities involving the visual arts became more regular. In the same year, he published Ensaios [Essays], a collection of texts on literature, the arts and social history, many of which had originally been published in the Revista do Arquivo or in his column in the Estado. His texts on art almost always referred to events of the day: exhibitions by emerging artists, salons, cultural themes in vogue, etc. Almost all of his books of criticism bring together articles, notes, essays or personal notes, generally published in newspapers. Having a highly personal, fluid, poetic, malleable style, he adopted the diary as his preferred form of expression, which was also influenced by the journalistic character of most of his output.
The newspaper was one more vehicle through which he established a dialogue with other intellectuals, involving himself in debates and polemics. One of the most famous of these was with the Concrete Artist Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973) during the 1950s. The reservations of Sérgio Milliet with regard to abstract art and the aesthetic project of concretism related to hermetism, the risk that artists run by emphasising formal exercise to excess, which compromises the communicability of the work. Cordeiro, who wrote articles for the newspaper Folha da Manhã, argued against this, accusing him of defending an official and traditionalist art. When the debate had cooled, Sérgio Milliet recognised the importance of the participation of Concretism in Brazilian art, but continued to warn of the danger of the inexhaustible exploitation of formulas, with him opposed for the same reason to so-called engaged art.
Until 1945, he was highly active in the field of the visual arts, marked not only by his written output, but able all by his involvement in many cultural events and movements on the São Paulo scene. One of his principal concerns was undoubtedly acting with regard to the public in a didactic fashion, seeking to free it from prejudices with regard to modern art and to bring it closer to the new aesthetic values. His critical output and activities in cultural circles were based on this premise. For him, the task of the critic is to inform, explain, clarify and understand a fact in accordance with its historical perspectives, to place these relationships and meanings within reach of the public, opening an understanding in multiple directions. His output was guided by the objectives of elucidating, guiding and stimulating the public.
Committed to introducing the understanding of modern art into society, he did not adopt a single theoretical position, but was moved more by the concern with revealing the different points of view. He found the ideal way of expressing his thought and impressions in the form of the Diário Crítico [Critical Diary], of exposing the transience and malleability of ideas, without adhering to one stance or movement. The diary allowed him to signal a reflection in progress, recording without obligation to reach a conclusion. In the ten volumes of the Diário Crítico, he revealed his understanding of the function of critic - the intertwining of reason and intuition, the relativity of arguments about facts and the central problems which concerned him: the communicability of the work of art, the capacity for transmission, the participation of the artist in society, the relationship of artists with the age in which they live, the social and cultural conditioning of the works, etc.
His work for the Municipal Library, clarifies the ethical and humanist orientation, present in his work, which aimed at dissemination as well as care of the preservation and record of the arts. Extending the restructuring work begun by his predecessor and friend Rubem Borba de Morais, during his administration, he organised the collections, made new acquisitions, promoted series of lectures and created the Art Section, which played an important formative role for a generation of young artists and the public in general.
The collection of art on paper in the Art Section, formed on the basis of European and American libraries, contains drawings, engravings and paintings. Sérgio Milliet and his assistant Maria Eugênia Franco gave priority to artists committed to the languages of the historical moment, including many of the young artists of the 1940s and 1950s.
The importance of his participation in the process resulting in the creation of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM/SP) should be highlighted. Since 1938, Milliet had argued in the press for the foundation of a museum of modern art in São Paulo, insisting on the importance of creating bodies to legitimate the various artistic movements of the day.
His activity of organising the first bienais revealed his critical project of a pedagogical character. The exhibitions which he organised, in addition to exhibiting contemporary output, reviewed the principal artistic movements of the 20th century in a clear strategy of familiarising the public with the course of international modern art.
His suspicion of orthodox positions, which freed his analysis from prejudice, at times made him too flexible and benevolent with the output of his time. For Sérgio Milliet however, flexibility and reticence with regard to rigid positions follow an overall orientation of a methodological nature, deriving from his contact with American sociology and anthropology, and his activity as a lecturer at the School of Sociology and Politics, as well as his choice of a relativist approach to artistic phenomena.
His lecture entitled The Marginality of Modern Art, presented at the 1st International Congress of Art Critics (Aica) in 1948, carried a reflection of a sociological character on art. In it, Milliet thematised the functionality of aesthetic taste in the organisation of society, based on readings of anthropology and sociology, questioning the influence of art in constructing a social consensus. On the basis of this approach, he constructed his interpretation of modern art, linking the formal characteristics of production to experienced aspects of the modern period, such as the multiplication of contacts between subjects, the freeing of conditioning, the uprooting caused by a rapid change in the social order. This led, in his understanding, to the marginal situation of modern art in relation to the predominant taste and the position of isolation of contemporary artists.
The articulator of organised action in favour of modern art, always involved with the practice of intellectual and artistic life, Milliet exercised an undeniable influence on the artistic and cultural development of Brazil and left an important contribution to criticism of the Brazilian visual arts.
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|Langston Morris-Walker Biography
Courtesy: Athletic Communications
Release: 07/01/2013
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CAREER: Finish his four-year Oregon State career with 613 points, 302 rebounds, 86 assists and 63 steals … Averaged 5.2 points, 2.6 rebounds, 0.7 assists and 0.5 steals in 118 games … Made 90 3-pointers … Scored in double figures 23 times … Grabbed double-figure rebounds three times … Posted two double-doubles … Had career highs with 22 points and 11 rebounds at Washington State on Jan. 17, 2015 … Made a career-high four 3-pointers at USC on Feb.14, 2015 … Dished out a career-high eight assists against DePaul on Dec. 18, 2014 … Got first career start against Quinnipiac on Dec. 29, 2013 … Made a game-winning layup against No. 7 Arizona on Jan. 11, 2015.
SENIOR (2015-16): Played in all 32 games and started 16 … Averaged 5.2 points, 2.4 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 0.6 steals in 16.8 minutes per game … Tied a career high with three steals at Arizona State (1/28) ... Tied a season high with six rebounds against Oregon (1/3), Quinnipiac (12/21), Tulsa (12/19) and Kansas (12/12) ... Tied a career high with three steals and had a season-high four assists against Quinnipiac (12/21) ... Made a season-high three 3-pointers against Tulsa (12/19) ... Tied a career high with one blocked shot against Loyola Marymount (12/2) ... Scored a season-high 17 points against Iona (11/17).
JUNIOR (2014-15): Played in all 31 games and started 30 … Averaged 9.3 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.0 steals and 0.1 blocked shots in 30.5 minutes per game … Scored in double figures in 16 games and grabbed double-figure rebounds in three games … Posted first career double-double in the season opener against Rice with 11 points and 10 rebounds (11/14) … Posted second career double-double with career highs of 22 points and 11 rebounds at Washington State (1/17) … Had career highs with eight field goals, 16 field goal attempts and three steals at UCLA (2/11) ... Also had three steals against Colorado (2/21) … Made a career-high four 3-pointers at USC (2/14) ... Played a career-high 39 minutes against Washington State (1/17) ... Also had career highs with nine free throws and 10 free throw attempts at Washington State ... Had a career-high eight assists against DePaul (12/18).
SOPHOMORE (2013-14): Played in 29 games and started 17 … Averaged 4.0 points, 2.1 rebounds, 0.3 assists and 0.2 steals in 18.0 minutes per game … Finished 10th in the Pac-12 in three-point field goal percentage at 39.5 percent (17-for-43) in conference games … Tied career highs with 11 points and nine field goal attempts, and set career highs with four field goals and seven three-point attempts at USC (2/27) ... Got first career blocked shot against Washington (2/22) ... Made a career-high four free throws at Oregon (2/16) ... Had career highs with two assists and nine field goal attempts and tied a career best with six rebounds against UCLA (2/2) ... Grabbed a career-high six rebounds against USC (1/30) ... Played a career-high 31 minutes against Oregon (1/19) ... Tied a career high with two steals against California (1/11) ... Scored in double figures for the first time with 11 points at Utah (1/4) … Got first career start against Quinnipiac (12/29) ... Made a three-pointer against SIUE (11/26) to put the Beavers over the 100-point mark.
FRESHMAN (2012-13): Played in 26 games … Averaged 1.8 points, 0.8 rebounds, 0.2 assists and 0.2 steals in 9.7 minutes per game … Had career highs with nine points, three field goals, three three-pointers and four three-point attempts against Washington State (1/26) … Had career-high two steals at USC (1/19) … Grabbed three rebounds against Chicago State (12/16) and Texas-Pan American (12/31) … Played season-high 24 minutes against Arizona (1/12) … Scored first career points on a jumper against Purdue (11/16) … Also pulled down first career rebound against Purdue … Made first career three-pointer against Howard (12/19) … Had first career steal against Grambling State (12/8) .. Dished out first career assist against Montana State (11/25) … Played four minutes in college debut in season opener against Niagara (11/9).
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif. in 2012 … Ranked the 29th best small forward and 139th best player in the nation by Rivals.com … Ranked the 126th best player in the country by Bob Gibbons, who annually publishes a ranking of the top 150 high school players in the United States … Named a three-star recruit by Rivals.com and Scout.com … Lettered four years and started three of those for head coach Damion McNeil … Averaged 21.3 points, 9.3 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.3 steals per game as a senior … Named Alameda/Contra Costa Athletic League (ACCAL) Most Valuable Player in 2011 … Selected to ACCAL All-League First Team after junior and senior seasons and Second Team after sophomore season … Named MVP at inaugural Yay Area's Finest All-Star Classic in 2012 and MVP at 2nd Annual and 3rd Annual Norcal Clash … Played AAU with the Oakland Soldiers.
PERSONAL: Born June 27, 1994 in Miami, Fla. … Mother is Dale Morris … Has four siblings: Miles Morris-Walker, Michael Durant, Taymar Turner and Julian Morris-Walker … Julian is twin brother and both were adopted at birth … Chose Oregon State because "the high character people, my teammates that I will play with, the small college town and Coach Robinson as a role model and mentor" … Biggest athletic thrill is "getting to semis in Nike Peach Jam and finishing as the No. 2 team in the country in AAU" … Started playing organized basketball in the seventh grade … Favorite athlete is Rudy Gay … Hobbies include photography, editing film and athletic training … Contemplated profession is a physical therapist/personal trainer … Majoring in Human Development and Family Science.
Points: 22 at Washington State (1/17/15)


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Behind the Mask
Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it. When there is a select committee on the Queen, the charm of royalty will be gone. Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.
Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution
HENRY HAD BECOME, in the rich but unflattering imagery of the French Ambassador, "not only a king to be obeyed on earth, but a veritable idol to be worshipped." 1 What Monsieur de Marillac did not perceive, however, was that it is far easier to worship a statue than to obey a flesh-and-blood monarch. In being transformed by society into the graven image of majesty, Henry, as a man, was in effect the first victim sacrificed upon the altar of his own divinity. Luther missed the point when he said that "Junker Heintz will be God and does what he lusts." 2 The gods are not free agents; they are owned by their worshipers and are slaves to their reputations. The paradox was neatly presented by Stephen Gardiner for the benefit of his sovereign when he wrote that "increase of wordly things make men poor and not rich, because every worldly thing hath a need annexed unto it." 3
Royalty was a glasshouse, for the cloak of majesty could only be seen when on display; remove the spotlight and kings stood nude and quivering like other men. If the rules of adulation for the devotees were minutely regulated, the behavior of the idol was even more carefully prescribed, and in the end Henry became the prisoner of the mumbojumbo and liturgy designed to translate the will of a man into the word of a god. That wonderful independence and absolute power of which he boasted were figments of the imagination. The divinity that doth hedge a king was dazzling silver for those who viewed it from afar,


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