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M, unwilling to lose his best man, is persuaded to give him one last chance: an impossible mission far removed from his usual duties. Bond heads to Japan and a mysterious residence known as the "Castle of Death", where he encounters an old enemy and, perhaps, his own end at last.
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I downloaded this book because I am huge James Bond fan but I had never read the original books. Its really interesting to me how you can see how the writers used certian things from the book in not only this particular movie but other James Bond movies as well. It was a good listen. The reader is the same guy who reads the two Stieg Larsson books. I got this listen on sale and its worth the sale price for sure.
The action-oriented espionage classics by Ian Fleming are always an enjoyable read, or in this case, listen. The audio is great, and the narrator's voice and accent create an enthralling, believable production of the literature.
Crescendo into a fierce Bond classic this story is rich in Japanese history and culture. it flirts with romance in a warm primal flash. in the true Fleming dedication to the service it takes Bond back into the lonely danger of his superior agent embodiment of existence.
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Vance expertly delivers one of Fleming's less excellent but enjoyable Bond stories, tinged with philosophy.
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If you thought On Her Majesty's Secret Service was good, then this book will blow your mind.
Truly epic story of revenge.
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Be it known by all curious readers that Fleming wrote excellent books that are much better than most of the Hollywood movies. Well done.
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The story is great. I love how the author gets into the psychology of the characters.
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Great story and characters. Superb storytelling by Vance, as usual. The Blofeld trilogy is Bond at his best. Word Minimum
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Love Simon Vance. This is a good installment of a great series. Maybe my favorite Bond ending with some great lines.
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You Only Live Twice was published posthumously and I believe it is the final novel the author finished. There is one more, The Man with the Golden Gun, but if memory serves, that was a draft and not ready for submission.
James Bond goes to Japan. Bond, a complete wreck from years of torture, self-abuse (not the Catholic kind), stress, and his bride-of-one-day getting a bullet to the skull, is sent to Japan to retrieve some secrets from their government, what is considered an impossible task. But M does it to give Bond a sense of purpose. No one expects him to succeed and they figured it would be therapeutic.
The head of the Japanese secret service, Tiger Tanaka, takes a shine to Bond and decides upon a quid pro quo: you take care of this strange gai-jin who lives in a fortress surrounded by poisonous plants, sulfur springs, and deadly insects and reptiles, and we'll give you the information you want.
It seems that Japanese by the hundreds are going to Dr. Shatterhand's to have an easier seppuku. It is getting out of hand. Since he isn't breaking laws, the Japanese cannot do anything about it. But they don't like it. So why not have an English (Bond is technically British, being from Scotland, how is that for revealing how pretentious I am) agent do the dirty work.
The book is fun in the sense of travelogue (Fleming is pretty good at his exposition by now) with his upper-crust derision for both the decline of Britain's importance in the world and any culture but his own.
The story itself is odd and not terribly surprising. Fleming was on his second heart attack by now and probably rushed it to leave more money in his estate
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, May 3) Deardorff Family Farms is bringing the Tasti-Lee tomato to the West Coast.
Oxnard, Calif.-based Deardorff will grow and market the Tasti-Lee, a proprietary variety introduced on the East Coast in 2011, for Western markets, said Vasken Khanjian, Deardorff's recently-hired new business development director, who will oversee the company's launch of the Tasti-Lee.
The Tasti-Lee was developed by the University of Florida Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences' Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Balm.
Research by U.S. Department of Agriculture and University of Florida scientists rated the Tasti-Lee higher in lycopene than other varieties and found that consumers preferred the Tasti-Lee over all other tomatoes in taste tests.
"Yields and shelf life are comparable to our other vine ripe varieties, but Tasti-Lee is bred to be able to be harvestable and shippable at higher ripening stages," Khanjian said.
East Coast growers of the variety include Martinez Farms, Ruskin, Fla.; Red Diamond Farms, Wimauma, Fla.; Flavor 1st Growers & Packers, Mills River, N.C.; and Wm. P. Hearne Produce, Wimauma.
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Only Twitter and Sonic.net earn perfect scores on the EFF's six criteria. Verizon and MySpace also got perfect scores -- they went 0 for 6. Everyone else landed somewhere in between.
The EFF scores largely rate how transparent these companies are about their data-sharing practices. They're less about how successful they are at keeping the feds out of our business. For example:
- Do these companies publish the guidelines they use to determine what kinds of user data they share with law enforcement and under what circumstances? Facebook and Foursquare are among the dozen who do; Apple, AT&T, and Yahoo do not.
- Do they require a warrant before handing over your data? Google, Dropbox, and nine other companies do; Comcast and Verizon are among those that don't.
- Do they fight for user privacy rights both in court and in congress? Only four companies meet both of those criteria: Amazon, Google, Sonic.net, and Twitter.
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I don't think EVERYONE on here is a KOOK. Stupid concept anyway. It's all about having fun. People have to learn somewhere. If someone asks what you believe is a stupid question, answer it. It's probably not stupid to them. That's how this sport is taught, and how the next generation learns.
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TMZ.com has reported that Ron Jeremy and his nine-inch penis are both currently in critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital.
The famously out-of-shape porn star, who has been one of the most famous faces in the business since the 1970s, was experiencing chest pains earlier today. He subsequently drove himself to L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai hospital, where doctors discovered an aneurysm near his heart.
The 59-year-old Jeremy has porked an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 women over the course of a career that has seen him appear in over 2,000 adult movies. He is currrently heading into surgery. Assuming everything goes okay, look for him to wake up post-operation, lumber off the operating table, and promptly bang the living shit out of two candy-stripers a third of his age, not to mention weight.
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Jan 30, 2013 at 12:55pm
Well, we sure hope it goes that way, but the survival rate is not good for a ruptured aneurysm. We're all crossing our fingers here in LA and hoping our friend comes through.
Jenny Tailya
Jan 30, 2013 at 1:26pm
I was one of those 5000 :( Get well.
Jan 30, 2013 at 2:03pm
He made good time getting to the hospital, though his dong got there two minutes before.
Jan 30, 2013 at 3:11pm
May his recovery be long and hard
Tracey Fitzgerald
Jan 30, 2013 at 3:14pm
I was shocked to read this on TMZ today. I told my family and we are all praying for Ron. He is a super nice person and the world isn't ready to see him go anytime soon.
Diane Rennehan
Feb 5, 2013 at 9:10pm
Maybe he porked too many ... hard on the heart at his age
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Feb 8, 2013 at 11:17pm
Thumbs down on some of the above expressing sincere wishes for someone to live?
Pat Crowe
Feb 9, 2013 at 8:26am
His penis came out of its burrow and saw only a shadow of it's former self?
Early spring...yeah!
Get well soon to the Hedgehog.
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Feb 9, 2013 at 11:12am
Okay, just to be clear, my last comment was expressing surprise and dismay that anyone would give a thumbs down on comments expressing wishes for a guy to live, to survive a health problem and get out of the hospital alive.
So. I checked back several hours after posting that and lo and behold my comment has two thumbs down! Alright haters, why don't you show yourselves and tell us why exactly you think it's bad for people to hope a guy gets well? Is Ron Jeremy evil? Why?
Feb 9, 2013 at 1:40pm
Yeah. But, Hedgehog Jeremy is not just the ill human being Ron Hyatt, he is also iconic and representative of an industry which many people of good will absolutely despise on moral and ethical grounds. (And he is reportedly not even well liked in that industry.)


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An often cold and rainy growing season should not greatly affect the size or timing of Ohio vegetable deals, grower-shippers said in late May.
Willard, Ohio-based Buurma Farms Inc. began shipping radishes in the second half of May, and expected cilantro, greens, green onions, parsley, kale and other vegetables to follow in June, said Loren Buurma, co-owner.
So far, the season has been "normal," Buurma said, if by normal you mean not normal at all.
"The weather's been unusual, as most years are," he said.
The growing season started off dry, only to be followed by a long wet period, Buurma said. Despite the challenges, Buurma Farms was able to get most crops in the ground.
Some plantings were pushed back a week, but customers may not even know it, if the weather improves.
What the company misses on the front end, it can make up on the backside, Buurma said.
"The trend the past few years has been a later start in the spring and a later end in the fall," he said.
The weather turned out to be manageable for North Fairfield, Ohio-based Doug Walcher Farms, said Ken Holthouse, general manager.
"There was a little rain delay, but nothing major," he said. "We're pretty well on schedule."
Walcher Farms expects to begin shipping zucchini and yellow squash in mid-June, right on time, Holthouse said.
Cucumbers should follow in late June, and bell peppers in mid- to late July, he said.
Jim Wiers, president of Willard, Ohio-based Wiers Farms Inc./Dutch Maid, agreed with Walcher that Mother Nature didn't throw anything insurmountable in his company's path.
"We're pretty much on schedule," he said. "We've had good growing conditions, good moisture and we're looking forward to a good season."
Wiers Farms began shipping radishes in mid-May, with greens, romaine, leaf lettuce and other commodities following later in the month, Wiers said.
In June, the company will follow those crops up with production of dill, cilantro, curly and plain parsley, beets, yellow squash, green onions and other crops, he said.
Sweet corn, peppers, cucumbers and other vegetables will follow in July, with acorn, butternut and spaghetti squash, and jalapenos, poblanos, anaheims and other hot peppers in August, Wiers said.
Wiers Farms, like many other Ohio growers, is growing roughly the same amounts of the same crops it did last year, Wiers said.
"We really don't change our mix very much," he said. "Our customer base is dialed in. They know what they want from us."
Jamestown, Ohio-based GroCo Farms Inc. expects to begin shipping squash June 15, with cucumbers following about July 4 and peppers July 10-15, said Mark Guess, president.
Acreage on all three commodities is similar to last year, he said.
For the most part, GroCo has been able to scale the hurdles Mother Nature has put in its way this spring with relative ease, Guess said.
"It's been pretty normal," he said. "It's been a little cool, a bit on the wet side, but we have the plantings in that we'd like to have in."
While it was too early in mid-May to predict what markets would be like when GroCo's vegetable deals get underway, it's no mystery what market signs Guess will look for when that time nears.
"The bearing will be, when our window opens up, what are the prices in Georgia?" he said.
For Don Bettinger, president of Bettinger Farms Inc., Swanton, Ohio, there's been an overriding question this season.
"When's the weather going to change?" Bettinger said. "It's been extremely cold and rainy."
Bettinger expects to begin harvesting his sweet corn July 20, give or take a week or two, depending on Mother Nature's willingness to cooperate. But in mid-May his thoughts were at a much earlier stage in the process.
"We've got to get it in the ground here," he said, citing the wet and cool conditions that have made planting a challenge all spring.
Bettinger Farms plans to plant corn continuously up until July, with shipments beginning to wind down in September. The company is forecasting similar acreage as last year, Bettinger said.
While Bettinger Farms was having trouble getting the crop planted this year, some fields were faring better than others.
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TPW Commission Approves $400,000 Grant for Off-highway Vehicle Park
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife commission recently approved a $400,000 grant for the development of the Escondido Draw Recreational Area, a new off-highway vehicle park located near Ozona in Crockett County.
Several years ago, the 78th Texas Legislature enacted Senate Bill 155, which closed almost all navigable stream beds in Texas to motorized vehicles, except for some parts of the Canadian and Red Rivers. The law also required the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to "facilitate development of sites for motor vehicle recreation other than protected freshwater areas."
The 79th Texas Legislature enacted Senate Bill 1311, which directed TPWD to establish and maintain a public system of trails and other recreational areas for use by off-highway vehicles (OHV).
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You can also use #tellHWD to share your feedback on social media or go to healthwatchdorset.co.uk Patients, relatives, visitors and staff are invited to tell them what they think about the hospital and its services. Healthwatch will tell the hospital what people think is good; what people think is bad; what needs improving and how improvements could be made. Healthwatch will also be working with the hospital's governors to develop other opportunities to hear from both the public and staff.
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Course Outline
TTC This four-week course is a profound experience that helps to establish a firm
foundation of inner discipline. The course is based on the traditional gurukula system ('guru's house') in which students live and study with the teacher. The Teachers Training Course (TTC) is an intensive and transformative experience taught by disciples of Swami Vishnudevananda. The curriculum includes instruction in asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation, chanting, mantras, yoga philosophy, diet, kriyas (cleansing exercises to purify the body) and study of the Bhagavad Gita.
A sincere desire to learn and openness to yogic techniques is required - a basic knowledge of yoga postures and philosophy is preferred, but not essential.
Students will develop the skills to teach yoga asana as well as improve their own personal practice.
An internationally recognized certificate from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre (ISYVC) organization is awarded on successful completion of the course. The diploma is entitled 'Yoga Siromani'.
Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Courses are officially certified by the worldwide Yoga Alliance in the USA for the 200 hours standard for registered Yoga Schools (RYS).
Daily Schedule
05:20 hrs Wake up06:00 hrs Satsang
08:00 hrs Asana, pranayama class
10:00 hrs Brunch
11:00 hrs Karma yoga
12:00 hrs Bhagavad Gita lecture or chanting class
14:00 hrs Main lecture
16:00 hrs Asana, pranayama class
18:00 hrs Dinner
20:00 hrs Satsang
22:00 hrs Lights out
Attendance of the entire TTC daily schedule is mandatory.
Students are given one day off per week, usually Friday but this may change according to the course program.
Definition of Terms
Satsang: Satsang consists of silent meditation, chanting and a talk or reading on the philosophy of yoga and Vedanta. It will help you develop a strong and steady meditation practice.
Lecture: Talks covering the 4 paths of yoga, "The 5 Points of Yoga", Vedanta philosophy and other topics in yoga.
Asana Class: Two classes, one giving you the chance to develop your own practice.
Sun salutations and the twelve basic postures will be taught along with advanced variations. The second class is devoted to 'How to Teach" incorporating:
- How to teach beginners the sun salutation and the twelve basic postures
- How to teach the basic open class
- How to teach children, the elderly and prenatal yoga
- The theory and practice of shat kriyas (the six cleansing techniques)
Pranayama: Basic practice of kapalabhati, anuloma viloma (alternate nostril breathing) with an introduction to advanced pranayama.
Karma yoga: Karma yoga is the practice of selfless service which helps guests to feel part of the ashram. You are expected to do up to one hour of selfless service per day within ashram.
Bhagavad Gita: Considered one of the greatest spiritual texts of the world and the bible of yoga.
Chanting (kirtan): Opens the heart and purifies the mind. Correct pronunciation of Sanskrit and a devotional attitude is important.
Main lecture: Topics include:
- Vedanta Philosophy
- The four paths of Yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga (the path of devotion, Raja Yoga (mind control), and Jnana Yoga (the path of wisdom and realization).
- Program psychology of the spiritual aspirant
- Karma and reincarnation
- Kundalini yoga
- The three bodies and their functions
The main lecture requires a daily homework summary.
Anatomy and Physiology:
The effects of asana on the major body systems. Yogic diet and fasting.
Meditation: Guideline to meditation. Benefits of meditation. The use of mantras and mantra initiation.
Brunch/Dinner: Simple Indian style vegetarian meals.
Recommended texts
Sivananda Training Manual - by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre.
- The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga - by Swami Vishnudevananda
- Bhagavad Gita (with commentary by Swami Sivananda)
- Sivananda Companion to Yoga - by Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre
- Meditation and Mantras - by Swami Vishnudevananda
These texts are not included in the course donation.
The texts are usually available in the ashram boutique or can be purchased from any of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres (ISYVC) or order from the catalogue of the London Centre.
Kindly note, the spoken and teaching language of the ashram is English. An International TTC course with translation is offered in January at Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram, Neyyar Dam depending on demand. Please enquire before making any travel plans if you do not have a good command of both written and spoken English.
Dorm Accommodation is simple, mainly dormitory space.
A small number of shared twin rooms with private bathroom are available. We cannot guarantee twin room bookings. Those requiring twin rooms should book early. Couples are not allowed to share rooms during the course.
Separate dormitory space for men and ladies.
Single accommodation is not available.
Two sheets, a pillow, pillowcases, and mosquito net are provided.
Course Dates and Donations: For a list of upcoming course dates and donations click here.
See How to Register for instructions on applying and paying for courses and programmes.
Dates and donations are subject to change without notice. For all programs, guests are subject to the suggested donation in effect at the time of final payment.
To maintain the spiritual atmosphere we ask all ashram guests to comply with the ashram rules. Kindly refer to the Ashram Rules & Guidelines for more information. The ashram reserves the right of admission and students may be asked to leave if their behaviour goes against the ashrams rules and teachings.
Refund Policy
If you cancel your registration before the start of the course we will refund your original payment less an administration fee of $150.
For a no show, no refund will be issued.
Once the course starts, if you decide to leave within 5 days, we will refund your original payment less an administration fee of $ 450. After 5 days no refunds will be issued.
Students leaving the course before completion are required to return all teaching materials and uniforms.
What to bring
Comfortable clothes, sandals, toiletries, personal items, meditation shawl for cool evenings, yoga asana mat or pad, meditation cushion, notebooks, pens, towels and a torch.
These items can usually be purchased in the ashram boutique.
Two uniforms and a TTC Manual are included in the course donation.
Foreign Nationals are required to bring their original passport with a valid visa for India.
Further Sivananda Courses
TTC graduates may be interested the Advanced Teachers Training Course and Sadhana Intensive that are open only to TTC graduates.


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- Nervousness over Canada's outlook and falling house prices have cast a cloud over Mark Carney's last few months as Bank of Canada governor.
- Cyprus is still waiting for international funding, despite having requested a bailout seven months ago — there are fears in the EU that the island is a haven for Russian dirty money.
- Herman Van Rompuy will unveil a compromise proposal for the EU's long-term budget today and creative accounting is set to play a role in reconciling British demands for a budget freeze and French calls for more robust spending. Also to be decided is Europe's future commitment to creating a new European-controlled version of America's GPS.
- John Brennan's confirmation hearing could provide a rare moment of public scrutiny over the topic of drone strikes.
- The surge of diplomatic, commercial and scientific activity that has accompanied the melting of Arctic ice is unleashing a scramble to exploit oil and gas deposits.
- Jemima Khan explains how Julian Assange alienated his supporters: "The problem is that WikiLeaks… has been guilty of the same obfuscation and misinformation as those it sought to expose…"
- A video of a labourer being stripped and beaten outside the presidential palace has brought attention to the lack of reform in the Egyptian police force. They have been weakened, caught between the people and the institutions of the country.
- Rebecca Rosen has examined how hundreds of homing pigeons, released between 1968 and 1987, disappeared and never found their way home.
- Rather than drowning in the sewers after Hurricane Sandy, New York rats have just relocated, further inland.
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TOUR Down Under's race director has rebuffed fresh criticism of the millions of Australian taxpayer dollars Lance Armstrong received in 2009-11, and angrily defended the exemption he was granted to make his comeback in Adelaide.
With the South Australian government under renewed pressure to declare how much it paid Armstrong, Tour boss Mike Turtur - a former Union Cycliste Internationale executive who was instrumental in luring the American to Australia - said the decision on disclosure was not his to make.
The conservative estimate of what Armstrong commanded over three years is $3 million. The upper estimate is an enormous $9 million but, until he was proven as a drug cheat, government and Tour Down Under chiefs have celebrated what they claimed as a bargain given the attention Armstrong brought.
''The government own the race, it's a decision that the premier has to make,'' Turtur told Fairfax Media on Wednesday on the topic of disclosing Armstrong's appearance fee.
''I'm not responsible for the contract arrangements in terms of the legal aspects of it.''
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has lamented his government has no legal recourse to recoup funds from Armstrong due to the contractual arrangements struck by his predecessor, Mike Rann.
That fact has been criticised by anti-doping expert Michael Ashenden, who said there was ''plentiful [incriminating] evidence'' against Armstrong available in 2009. He said that should have prompted the South Australian government and Tour Down Under to at least indemnify themselves in their dealings.
Asked about the criticism regarding due diligence, Turtur retorted: ''What diligence? What? Give me a break, really, it's ridiculous.
''He was under the same regime as every other licensed rider, he was under the same [drug] testing regime, he had no issue, he had a current licence, so where's the due diligence?'' Armstrong, in fact, won special exemption from the UCI to resume racing in 2009 - a bending of the rules that was decried last year by Anne Gripper who was the UCI's anti-doping boss in 2009.
UCI anti-doping regulations state a retired rider needs to give six months' notice before returning to elite competition. Armstrong fell 13 days short of the criteria when he started Tour Down Under in 2009, but the UCI waived the difference citing ''progress made in its anti-doping program since 2004.''
Turtur, who in 2009 was still president of the UCI's Oceania Confederation as well as Tour Down Under race director, said: ''He raced six days early or whatever it was. That six days was not going to achieve anything. It wasn't going to give them any more information. I think you're trying to make an issue out of nothing, really.''
Until this week the state government has said it would never reveal how much it paid Armstrong - a stance it has repeatedly rationalised by citing commercial in confidence. Ashenden said that was a ''lame'' excuse from ''faceless bureaucrats''.


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YOUNG people struggling with emotional difficulties over the festive period have been urged to share their problems.
Papyrus is a national charity which aims to provide support for young people and help reduce the number of young people who commit suicide, and has called on anyone who feels like they are struggling to contact them.
Jo McDonough, of Gate Helmsley, near Stamford Bridge, has campaigned to raise awareness of the charity since her husband, Chris, committed suicide in 2009.
She said: "Christmas is a difficult time for many people, for many different reasons. Not only with rising costs to meet and presents to buy, but it's a time when we remember loved ones who have passed away.
"Things can sometimes become a little too much and overwhelming for us to handle. But there's always someone there. Someone to listen and someone to help and well someone who just 'gets it'.
Papyrus did this for me after losing my husband to depression over three years ago."
To help raise awareness of Papyrus, Jo has taken part in a sponsored sky-dive, and completed the Great North Run on two occasions.
She said that no matter how bad things may seem in the moment, talking about problems can help, particularly over Christmas, and she urged anyone who felt overwhelmed to contact the charity.
Jo said: "Sometimes we just need to talk and the team at Papyrus are there to listen, just like they were for me. If only everyone contemplating suicide would open up and talk to someone they could see things are never that bad."
Ged Flynn, chief executive of Papyrus, said: "We don't want to spoil anyone's fun but vulnerable young people can feel overcome by pressure to be happy and this can push them further into a dark place of quiet despair.
"They may be acting the life and soul of the party but secretly feeling a mess.
"Alcohol and recreational drugs can add to existing low mood and cause young people who are at risk of suicide to act impulsively. If you have the lightest concern that you or a young person you know could be feeling suicidal, it is vital that you seek help."
HOPELineUK, the Papyrus national helpline, is open throughout the holidays, and the charity now has an email and text service. For more information, email email@example.com or text 07786 209697.


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Monday 21 Aug 2017
Jonathan Brown on
A study of the paintings made for Philip IV's Torre de la Parada
You can't tell this book by its cover. The subject is the creation of a royal hunting lodge known as the Torre de la Parada, situated in the mountains of El Pardo, a vast game reserve north of Madrid. The structure itself was small, consisting of nine rooms. Like almost all of the buildings commissioned by Philip IV (reigned 1621-65), the Torre has been destroyed. Were it not for the pictorial decoration, executed for the most part by Rubens and assistants with a small contribution by Velázquez, the Torre would have faded into oblivion.
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:55:00 GMT
Anna Somers Cocks on
"Thea Porter, 70s Bohemian Chic", Fashion and Textile Museum in London, until 3 May
For anyone young in the late 1960s and early 70s, the exhibition of Thea Porter's clothes at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London (until 3 May) is pure nostalgia. There are those sumptuous fabrics again, the flowing abayas and kaftans so infinitely more romantic than the dolly mini dresses the straights were wearing at the time. The music is the Stones, the Doors, the Kinks, the Beatles, and all that is missing for a complete Proustian anabaptism is the once ubiquitous smell of weed, grass, pot, hash, kif or whatever you called it.
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:21:00 GMT
Nate Freeman on
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva present muted films in Milan
When the Lisbon-based artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva were choosing a name for their beguiling and potent new retrospective at HangarBicocca in Milan, they found themselves intrigued by the word papagaio—Portuguese for parrot, the bird that repeats whatever it's told. The trick of false mimicry is easy, so to do the concept one better, Gusmão and Paiva have the parrot on screen totally silent, despite having familiar words—in this case "good morning"—said aloud for the bird to repeat dumbly.
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:21:00 GMT
Anna Somers Cocks on
"The Things of Life/The Life of Things [Franco Vimercati]", Residenzschloss (Royal Palace), Dresden, until 27 July
A supremely elegant exhibition has opened on the piano nobile of the semi-derelict castle in Dresden of the Electors of Saxony (until 27 July). No one has visited these rooms for 70 years, which barely survived the bombing on 13,14 and 15 February 1945.
It is an exhibition of the photographs of the Italian, Franco Vimercati, who died in 2001. His studies, all in black and white, are of glasses, bottles, but most often a battered soup bowl of vaguely antique appearance, which he presents in every gradation of shadow and definition.
Tue, 06 May 2014 15:16:00 GMT
Claudia Barbieri Childs on
"Lucio Fontana Retrospective", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, until 24 August
Lucio Fontana's "spatial concept" slash paintings are now such a staple in gallery shows and art sales that they seem almost clichéd as an expression of Modern art cutting to the quick, discarding the detritus of culture and history. But the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris's current survey of the artist proves there is more to Fontana than that.
Raised in a comfortably middle-class Italo-Argentinian family of monumental sculptors, Fontana arrived at the Arte Povera movement via a classical training and forays into primitivism, futurism, abstractionism—and fascism.
Mon, 05 May 2014 03:49:00 GMT
Cristina Ruiz on
Scandinavian artists Elmgreen and Dragset's first vinyl record, released as part of "Biography", at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, until 24 August
Anyone who has heard a conceptual artist making music may regard Elmgreen and Dragset's latest initiative with a degree of trepidation. All too often artists' musical offerings tend to be an all-out assault on auditory sensibility which suck every ounce of pleasure out of the experience of listening.
Happily the Scandinavian duo, who have just released their first vinyl album entitled "Too Late", are bucking this trend.
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:45:00 GMT
Anna Somers Cocks on
Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images, by Julian Stallabrass, ed Photoworks, 228pp, £19.95 (pb)
This is a demanding book: it demands that we tune our moral sense and wake up to the realities behind visual images, because, willy nilly, we are exposed to more of them now than were created in all the previous history of mankind. It is also a denunciation of our wars from Vietnam onwards.
If the first casualty of war is truth, here we have first-hand accounts of how the truth of war can be turned into a lie by a photograph—or its absence.
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:29:00 GMT
Paul Carey-Kent on
"Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group, 1913-63" at the Ben Uri Museum & Gallery, London, until 2 March
This mixed bag of 39 paintings and 11 sculptures provokes several questions. Why are they here – in the modest St John's Wood premises of London's Jewish Museum of Art? The 50 chronologically arranged works celebrate the centenary of the still-extant artists' exhibiting society, the London Group, the glory years of which were its first 50. Only the works by Bomberg and Kossoff are owned by the Ben Uri Gallery, but its chairman claims the common aims of the group and the gallery in supporting potentially marginalised artists, especially migrants.
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:15:00 GMT
Bonnie Kemske on
"On White: Porcelain Stories from the Fitzwilliam Museum" at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, until 23 February 2014
It takes patience to come to terms with Edmund de Waal's ceramic installations and museum interventions; it takes the very silence or "stopping still" that he often talks about in his work. Greeted by three immaculate white vitrines holding numerous thin porcelain cylinders, de Waal's true medium, the visitor to this exhibition must negotiate their way into a depth of form and meaning that the artist seems reluctant to reveal.
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:30:00 GMT
Sophie Rou Davies on
"Madre" at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina, until 28 February 2014
"Unflinching" may be the art critic's favourite overstatement, but the word is apt for "Madre" at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. This photo essay by the celebrated Argentine photographer Marcos Adandia captures the faces of the mothers whose sons and daughters "disappeared" during the military dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s, the later years of which became known as the "Dirty War".
Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:15:00 GMT
Jon Whiteley on
"Daumier: Visions of Paris" at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, until 26 January 2014
The catalogue of the current exhibition of Daumier's work at the Royal Academy is a welcome addition to the literature. If one had to choose only one book on Daumier, it would not be this but, with four lively essays by Catherine Lampert, Michael Pantazzi, Judith Wechsler, and Edouard Papet, it usefully supplements what has been written before, notably in the catalogue of the memorable 1999-2000 exhibition to which both Wechsler and Papet contributed.
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:00:00 GMT
Humphrey Wine on
"François-André Vincent (1746-1816). Un artiste entre Fragonard et David" at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, until 19 January 2014, then at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, 8 February -11 May 2014
An artist reborn before his due date! So often monographic exhibitions tie in with a centenary of an artist's birth or death that one might have expected that devoted to François-André Vincent (1746-1816) three years hence. Fortunately the organisers have dispensed with this convention. Instead the catalyst has been a more significant event, namely the publication by Arthena of Jean-Pierre Cuzin's catalogue raisonné of the artist's work – hence an exhibition hand-list, but no exhibition catalogue as such.
Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:05:00 GMT
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"Pearls" at the Victoria and Albert Museum, until 19 January
Qatar is now a developing Middle Eastern cultural hub with shiny skyscrapers and gleaming new museums, but for centuries it was the hub of the natural pearl trade. Kokichi Mikimoto's invention of the cultured pearl in the early 20th century put paid to that profitable industry. A poignant black and white film documenting the last-ever pearl dive in Qatar in 1972 shows a boatload of fishermen plunging into the waters of the Arabian Gulf to gather oysters from the seabed.
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:45:00 GMT
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"Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain" at the British Library (until 11 March)
How do you make an exhibition visually exciting when so many of the works on show are monochrome pages of minute type or throwaway items such as adverts, tickets or receipts? The British Library has come up with a clever solution by commissioning a series of collages consisting of enlarged details of Georgian prints with a few tongue-in-cheek modern additions, which serve as backdrops to the objects in the display cases.
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:20:00 GMT
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"Smyrna in the 18th and 19th Centuries: a Western Perspective" at the Fondation Arkas, Izmir (until 29 December)
Pictures can be more valuable as historical records than creative expressions - especially if they depict places, or people, which have since become unrecognisable. The impressionists' Paris has changed relatively little. Istanbul and Izmir, however, have been transformed since they were painted by Orientalists. At the Arkas Art Center, Izmir, "Smyrna in the 18th and 19th Centuries: a Western Perspective" is the first major historical exhibition held on Smyrna (until 29 December).
Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:07:00 GMT
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"Donald Judd: Stacks" at the Mnuchin Gallery (until 7 December)
Donald Judd was a relatively unknown artist when Bruce Glaser interviewed him, Frank Stella and Dan Flavin on WBAI-FM, a New York public radio station, in February 1964. Though he had had a solo show at the Green Gallery the previous December, the only other had been at the Panoras Gallery in 1957. At the time, he was better known as a critic than as an artist, and he felt somewhat insecure about his works: some time after the Panoras show, he referred to it as a "stupid" exhibition.
Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:59:00 GMT
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"James Wyatt: Architect to the Crown and Designer of Complete Interiors" at Sybil Colerfax & John Fowler, London (until 6th December)
Colefax and Fowler in association with the Georgian Group are celebrating the bicentenary of James Wyatt (1746-1813) with an exhibition at 39 Brook Street, in the Yellow Room, which was created by his nephew, Jeffry Wyatville between 1821 and 1823. It has been designed by George Carter and includes furniture from Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, a series of watercolours of Wyatt interiors painted this year by Royston Jones, silver by Matthew Boulton and an architectural model of Fonthill Spendens.
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:00:00 GMT
Sophie Rou Davies on
"Meetings/Tensions: Latin American Contemporary Art" at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires (until 10 February 2014)
The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires's wide-ranging exhibition "Meetings/Tensions: Latin American Contemporary Art" is a double-edged sword, delighting the visitor with the sheer breadth of artistic styles on display and confusing her by jamming too much in. The curators say that the exhibition, which is laid out on seven "conceptual axes" which include Postmodernism, Conceptualism and Neo-Dadaism, aims to show continuity and tradition between artists and movements.
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:10:00 GMT
Donald Lee on
"Tecumseh, Keokuk, Black Hawk: Portrayals of Native Americans in the Times of Treaties and Removal" at the Albertinum, Dresden (until 2 March 2014)
The long and sad history of the North American Indians - from the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, through the miseries of their degradation and displacement to recent attempts to make amends for their maltreatment - is well known to Americans, Canadians and, to some extent, the British. It may come as a surprise to some readers then that, uniquely among continental Europeans, Germans have also taken a long and deep interest in the American Indians.
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:00:00 GMT
Kareem Estefan on
Iran Modern at the Asia Society, New York (until 5 January 2014)
Now and then, geopolitics moves at lightning speed, making one wonder which tempo is more manufactured: the suddenly effective drive of high-level diplomacy or the customary standstill in efforts toward rapprochement. In the weeks leading up to and including the United Nations General Assembly, official relations between the US and Iran appeared to take a sharp turn. Seeking to mend ties his predecessor severed, the newly elected Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, sent Rosh Hashanah blessings to Jews around the world, freed a number of prominent political prisoners, published a conciliatory op-ed in The Washington Post, and made known his optimism about a private epistolary dialogue with President Obama.
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:31:00 GMT
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The Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence, 1400-1460 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (until 6 January 2014)
The Louvre is currently hosting a mind-bogglingly wonderful exhibition devoted to the art of the Early Renaissance, above all but not quite exclusively as it was practised in Florence. Many of the most spectacular loans come from Florence itself, which may mean that the impact it made at its previous venue, that city's Palazzo Strozzi (where I did not see it), was fractionally less dazzling. On the other hand, even there it is not usually possible to admire Ghiberti's Saint Matthew (Orsanmichele) and Donatello's Saint Louis of Toulouse (Santa Croce) cheek by jowl, nor indeed to see them in the company of all manner of major pieces both celebrated and obscure from both sides of the Atlantic.
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:10:00 GMT
Pac Pobric on
Matthew Day Jackson: Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue, Hauser & Wirth, New York (until 19 October)
Eclecticism is everywhere in contemporary art. Few artists today would say that they work exclusively in a single medium and much of the art being shown in New York's contemporary galleries is "multimedia": painting and sculpture and sound and video and everything else all mixed up together. Proponents say that this approach broadens horizons and allows for new ways of thinking, which is certainly true of the process.
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:05:00 GMT
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"Stradivarius", Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (until 11 August)
Within the last 30 years there has been a number of specialist exhibitions displaying celebrated violin makers' work. A large exhibition of Antonio Stradivari's instruments was held in Cremona in 1987. Now a more select group is being exhibited in Oxford, and most of them were not available for the 1987 exhibition. One important feature common to all the exhibits is that they are all in outstanding preservation, and, a large number come from Stradivari's "Golden Years", namely 1700-1720.
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 09:45:00 GMT
Pac Pobric on
"Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907" at the Neue Galerie, New York (until 2 September)
In an 1898 review of the second Viennese Secessionist exhibition, the critic and playwright Hermann Bahr wrote that the designer Koloman Moser was "Austrian through and through" in that "his inventions seem to dance, to hover". Yet the enthusiasm Bahr found in Moser's work was troubled: "occasionally one perceives a gentle melancholy, like the merest shadow of a cloud, but it's gone in an instant." But a hushed disquiet crops up in the work again and again, as becomes quite clear throughout Moser's current exhibition at the Neue Galerie.
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:15:00 GMT
Pac Pobric on
Enrique Martínez Celaya's "The Pearl" at Site Santa Fe, until 13 October
"Every once in a while, we get requests that only a space like ours can accommodate," says Irene Hofmann, the curator at Site Santa Fe. Enrique Martínez Celaya's new project at the museum, The Pearl, which opened on 13 July, is one such exhibition. Taking over the entirety of the gallery's 12,000 sq. ft exhibition space (the site of a former beer warehouse), the artist has designed an immersive installation that explores our understanding of home and memory.
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:06:00 GMT
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"Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbarán" at Guggenheim Bilbao, until 6 October
The exhibition presents a unique way of looking at art and art history by exploring the parallels between Baroque and contemporary art. The curator Bice Curiger presents around 100 works drawn from museums, galleries and private collections that are unrelated and displayed in a non-chronological way, as demonstrated in the subverted title "From Cattelan to Zurbarán".
The curatorial thesis compares the exuberant driving forces of contemporary art with the great popular themes of the Baroque, inviting visitors to unravel the conceptual links between works that speak different artistic languages from across time.
Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:15:00 GMT
Oliver Soden on
"Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure" at the National Gallery, London, until 8 September
This exhibition is a triumph of lighting design – both inside and outside of the frames. Marjorie Wieseman has beautifully organised 25 pictures (chosen for their evocations of Dutch Golden Age musical culture) in four pleasingly dark rooms; the works glow in their frames and are carefully spotlit from above in such a way that they do not reflect a blinding dazzle. Similar spotlighting occurs within the paintings.
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:55:00 GMT
Jamie Mulherron on
"Nello Splendore Mediceo: Papa Leone X e Firenze" at the Museo delle Cappelle Medicee, until 6 October
For all Vasari's fresco cycle in the Palazzo Vecchio, for all Pietro Santi Bartoli's series of prints on his life and exploits, and for all the many excellent things in this exhibition, Giovanni de' Medici, Pope Leo X (1475-1521), remains an inscrutable character. We never get a feel for him as we do with his predecessor Julius II through anecdotes (such as his beating of Michelangelo), or even his of relation the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I (1519-74), whose personality comes over in abundance in the many portraits and allegories of him.
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:30:00 GMT
Bernhard Schulz on
"Bronze Age: Europe without borders from the fourth to the first millennium BC" at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg until 8 September
Human history can also be viewed in terms of the speed at which knowledge is disseminated. The further back we look, the slower the transfer processes we observe. Knowledge and use of bronze took one and a half millennia to travel from the Middle East to Egypt and from there via central Europe to the northern part of the continent. Bronze, an alloy of nine parts copper and one part tin, became the material used for weapons, cult objects and everyday objects for centuries.
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:45:00 GMT
Laurie Rojas on
"Apestraction" at the Freud Museum, London, until 1 September
"Apestraction" at the Freud Museum in London shows works by the Mexican-born, Berlin-based artist Damian Ortega (b. 1967). Originally a political cartoonist, Ortega is now associated with conceptually-driven sculpture and installation "school" of his teacher, Gabriel Orozco. Often playful and spectacular, Ortega's work is mostly driven by a curiosity about how things work. In the context of the Freud Museum the work takes an esoteric, intimate and enigmatic turn.
Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:50:00 GMT
Alain Quemin on
"Dynamo: a Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013" at the Grand Palais, Paris, until 22 July
For the first time, the Grand Palais has dedicated all of its exhibition space—around 3,700 sq. m on two levels—to this show of works by nearly 150 artists. The result is worthy of the means. The subtitle of the exhibition, "A Century of Light and Movement in Art, 1913-2013", explains the perspective adopted by the organisers. A fundamentally historic stance is maintained throughout, whereas a lighter, more whimsical approach could also have suited the nature of many of the works on show.
Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:45:00 GMT
John Leigh on
"Houghton Revisited: the Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage" at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, until 29 September
When, in 1779, Robert Walpole's superb collection of Old Masters was sold to Catherine the Great, its departure is said to have unleashed a national outcry. No doubt prompted by an uncharitable mixture of Schadenfreude and sour grapes, reports that the collection had been dashed to pieces in a shipwreck en route duly ensued. In 1838, long after the works had safely landed at the Hermitage, John Sell Cotman, with possibly the only painting ever to have been inspired by a rumour, lent this wholly unjustified fantasy some substance by depicting the cargo descending picturesquely to its watery grave.
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:30:00 GMT
Julia Michalska on
"Polish Art Now Presented by Abbey House" at the Saatchi Gallery, London, until 9 June
On the face of it, an exhibition of Polish contemporary art hosted by the Saatchi Gallery can only help to bolster the burgeoning art scene in Poland. But "Polish Art Now" (until 9 June) does the country no favours.
Some visitors might be led to believe this is a Saatchi show—like those of contemporary Chinese art in 2008 or Russian art this year—but the space is rented and has virtually nothing to do with the Saatchi team.
Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:00 GMT
Franco Fanelli on
"When Attitudes become Form: Bern 1969, Venice 2013", Ca' Correr della Regina, until 24 November
Think of all the most famous examples of Arte Povera, Process art and Conceptual art: the ones illustrated in the histories of contemporary art, some of them the seminal images of their time.
Well, most of them were all together in the Bern Kunsthalle from 22 March to 27 April 1969 (then in the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld and the ICA in London the same year) in an exhibition that was to make history.
Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:00:00 GMT
Donald Lee on
De l'Allemagne, 1800-1939: de Friedrich à Beckmann, Musée du Louvre, until 24 June
This is an extraordinary exhibition. In the first place, the numbers attending have taken the Louvre by surprise. By the time of writing, it had been seen by more than 50,000 people since opening on 28 March (on average, 4,400 visitors a day), 81% more than anticipated. It is hard to say why this has become a blockbuster, except, perhaps, the novelty of it: here are 200 works of art, almost all of which will be unfamiliar to the general public, French and international.
Wed, 08 May 2013 13:38:00 GMT
Duncan Fallowell on
"David Bowie is", the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, until 11 August (pre-booking strongly advised)
British Rock burst upon the world with a spectacular ferocity comparable to that of the Ballets Russes 50 years earlier. The Russian ballet created complex intellectual works of collaborative genius—rock was always more individualistic and star-driven—but both were powerful performance arts that revolutionised taste, and rock music had much the greater impact on social and political change. (There is a big exhibition that ought to be mounted somewhere: British Rock 1963-93—from the Beatles to Dance.
Wed, 08 May 2013 10:32:00 GMT
William E. Wallace on
"Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line", St Louis Art Museum, and "Federico Barocci: Brilliance and Grace", the National Gallery, London, until 19 May
Federico Barocci (1526-1612) has not been a well known artist. Even specialists might have been hard pressed to name one of his masterpieces or more than a half dozen pictures. Barocci was born and lived in Urbino, a charming city in the Italian Marche far removed from the artistic centres of Florence, Rome and Venice. One might, therefore, legitimately ask why Federico Barocci deserves a major international loan exhibition – the first monographic showing of his paintings and drawings outside Italy.
Wed, 08 May 2013 08:21:00 GMT
Colin Renfrew on
"Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind", the British Museum, London, until 26 May
Art was born suddenly, about 40,000 years ago, in the Ice Age of Europe. That art could be so old was not indeed realised until 1879, when the cave paintings of bison at Altamira in North Spain were first recognised and authenticated. The cave paintings of France and Spain can only be visited there, at the famous sites like Lascaux (in the Dordogne) and Altamira. But the remarkable small carvings on bone or ivory which are found in such caves, often of animals or the celebrated "Venus" figurines of nude women, are more portable, and they have been found more widely .
Wed, 08 May 2013 08:18:00 GMT
Carey Gibbons on
"George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life", Royal Academy of Arts, London, until 9 June
This is the first monographic exhibition of the American artist, George Bellows, 1882-1925, in 30 years and the first ever in Britain. Although Bellows' artistic career was ended in 1925 by his early death, aged 42, he produced an oeuvre that is remarkable for its variety of style and subject matter. His work was exhibited frequently and rewarded with positive reviews and prizes during his lifetime, but Bellows has received little recognition after his death, largely due to the focus on the Abstract Expressionists at the expense of earlier American modernists.
Wed, 08 May 2013 08:13:00 GMT
Peter Crack on
"Bellini, Botticelli, Titian: 500 years of Italian Art", Compton Verney, Warkwickshire, until 23 June
This didactic display of 40 works on loan from the Glasgow Museums sticks to a well worn path. The organisers have chosen to trumpet the presence of three artists—Bellini, Botticelli and Titian—all born within 60 years of each other. Otherwise, the exhibition tells the story of Italian art from the 15th to the 19th century, in traditional, chronological order.
An isolated St Lawrence, of around 1370–75, by the Sienese artist, Niccolò di Buonaccorso, the start of the exhibition, represents the new dawn in Italian painting.
Wed, 08 May 2013 07:51:00 GMT
John Chu on
"George Catlin: American Indian Portraits", National Portrait Gallery, London, until 23 June
In the summer of 1830, the American painter George Catlin (1796-1872) embarked upon the first of five journeys deep into the Indian territories that stretched west of the Mississippi River. Having abandoned a burgeoning law career and failed to establish himself as a society portraitist, this Pennsylvanian was busily reinventing himself as an artist-ethnographer possessed of an urgent mission to document the "looks and modes" of the Native American peoples before they were overtaken by the geographic encroachments of the United States.
Wed, 08 May 2013 06:47:00 GMT
Clare Backhouse on
"Painted Pomp: Art and Fashion in the Age of Shakespeare", the Holburne Museum, Bath, until 6 May
This one-room exhibition concentrates on nine full-length portraits that represent the pomp of elite English clothing in the early 17th century. Alongside these articles of Jacobean dress, information panels invite us to imagine the expense and labour involved in constructing such appearances in real life. Commissioned from the artist William Larkin (around 1580- 1619), the portraits are thought to celebrate a dynastic marriage between the Howard and Cecil families in 1614.
Wed, 08 May 2013 06:43:00 GMT
Clare Heath on
"Moore Rodin", the Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire, until 27 October
Set within the sculpture park of Henry Moore's 50 acre-estate in rural Hertfordshire, this exhibition brings together Moore's sculptures with works by Auguste Rodin. To my mind, the Frenchman comes out on top.
Seeing Rodin's majestic Burghers of Calais, 1889, cast 1908, transported from its site outside the Houses of Parliament to Moore's self-landscaped grounds gives an opportunity to reconsider this work.
Wed, 08 May 2013 05:37:00 GMT
Catherine Spencer on
"Pistoletto Politico", Luxembourg & Dayan, London, 12 February-12 April; Giuseppe Penone, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, until 11 August
The overlap of the Michelangelo Pistoletto exhibition "Pistoletto Politico" at Luxembourg & Dayan and Giuseppe Penone's Bloomberg-commissioned Spazio di Luce, 2012, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery allowed formal and conceptual comparison to be made between them.
The burnished steel surfaces of Pistoletto's Mirror Paintings from the 1960s, four of which featured in "Pistoletto Politico", explore the mirror's incorporation and exclusion of the viewer, correlating its ability to unify, multiply, and split the subject with the contradictions of political consciousness.
Wed, 08 May 2013 05:30:00 GMT
Julie Solovyena on
"Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: Art from Russia", the Saatchi Gallery, London, until 9 June
"Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: Art from Russia" brings together works by artists who are Russian, or of Soviet origin, more often than not now working outside of the country, notably Yelena Popova, Daniel Bragin and Dasha Fursey. There are also those, such as Jānis Avotiņš, who belong to the so-called "networked" Russia from former Soviet satellites.
Contemporary Russian art is paradoxical, as it is made by artists whose national identity is often shaped and reflected by their physical distance from the homeland that often seems all too eager to reject them.
Wed, 08 May 2013 04:20:00 GMT
Jane Masséglia on
"Life and Death: Pompeii and Herculaneum", the British Museum, London, until 29 September
British Museum curator Paul Roberts and his team have constructed a lively and accessible exhibition which leads the visitor through a model Roman house, before its sudden destruction by Vesuvius's eruption of AD79.
The "Life" of the exhibition title is primarily domestic. Aside from for a series of objects illuminating the role of women in the public life, the opening space, given over to commercial life, feels brief and lacks atmosphere.
Wed, 08 May 2013 03:24:00 GMT
Niccola Shearman on
"Schwitters in Britain", Tate Britain, London, until 12 May
This exhibition is part of the Tate's occasional series on the British context of international artists, and it tracks an artist whose sheer creative resilience turned the deprivation of exile into a scavenger hunt.
Leaving Germany in the wake of the Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937, Kurt Schwitters first settled in Norway before arriving in Britain in 1941, only to be interned on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien.
Wed, 08 May 2013 02:12:00 GMT
Elizabeth Kutesko on
"Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Fabric-ation", the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, until 1st September
"Fabric-ation" is about Yinka Shonibare's ideas of cloth as a system of cultural signs and ethnic stereotypes. With more than 30 exhibits, all made between 2002 and 2013, it is the largest exhibition of his work to date. It includes sculpture, photography, film, painting, music and performance, as well as textiles. Shonibare's recent public sculpture, especially his Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, 2010, displayed in Trafalgar Square, London from 2010 to 2012, was a suitable, large scale preamble to this Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) show, where his two open-air pieces, the six-foot Wind Sculptures make their debut.
Wed, 08 May 2013 01:03:00 GMT
Julie Solovyena on
"Cold Sun", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, until 20 May
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The Palais de Tokyo presents an esoteric underbelly
"Cold Sun", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, until 20 May
When the Palais de Tokyo re-opened last April after a massive renovation and extension, its ambitions flew high. It would set off on a mission to present challenging, experimental and forward-thinking art.
The Palais, the former 1937 World Fair building, has also been a cinema, an archive and a squat.
Wed, 08 May 2013 00:55:00 GMT
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THE family of a Bournemouth man who murdered his wife and never revealed what he did with her faces an agonising wait to see whether he will remain behind bars.
As reported in the Daily Echo yesterday, Samantha Gillingham, daughter of Russell Causley, is trying to block his bid for freedom until he reveals what he did with her mum Veronica Packman's body.
Yesterday, Samantha, along with her son Neil, Causley's grandson, attended a parole hearing.
Samantha was given a chance to make a statement at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire, where Causley is incarcerated, but now has to wait to find out what will happen.
She had appealed for him to attend the hearing, but he did not.
Speaking to the Echo, Samantha said: "We've got a judge, who is chairing the panel, which we're pleased with, as he's a judge, and two lay people.
"My father had a barrister there; my father didn't attend. I've been trying for years to ask for him to communicate, but he won't.
"We will get a decision within two weeks and after that it will go to the Secretary of State to ratify it.
"I do feel that my mother is being forgotten now. I understand you can't make him talk, but what you do is keep him where he is until he does speak.
"How can you say he's any different now than he was in 2004, or 1996, or 1993?
"They (the panel) said did I have anything else to say and I said 'What about my mother?'"
Causley, now 71, was one of the first people in the UK to be convicted of murder in the absence of a body. He was found guilty of the same offence twice, having been released on appeal in between.
Veronica Packman, known as Carol, went missing from the family home in Ipswich Road, Westbourne, in 1985 shortly after visiting a solicitor to enquire about getting a divorce.
About a year before Mrs Packman went missing, her husband moved his mistress Patricia Causley into the house in Westbourne.
Samantha, then only 16, remembers coming back from a day in London with her father in June 1985 and finding her mother's wedding ring in the kitchen with a note saying she had left.
She found her mother's clothes, jewellery and Rolex watch were still in the bedroom and a favourite red evening dress had been deliberately ripped.


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Rename to Potions Master?
In LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World it is referred to as "Potions Master." I know it's third-tier canon, but I'm not sure on the rule when it comes to something like capitalisation. ProfessorTofty (talk) 00:51, July 25, 2012 (UTC)
- An admin has to move the page, unfortunately. --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 22:27, February 18, 2013 (UTC)
- I approve of the move, but an admin has to do it (just thought I'd let everyone know). --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 01:36, April 15, 2013 (UTC)
- It is also capitalised in the chapter name "The Potions Master", therefore there is also first-tier canon supporting this. --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 00:16, May 11, 2013 (UTC)
- Could an admin please move this? --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 18:41, July 5, 2013 (UTC)


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text: Show Hide image Politics 21 March 2013 Personally, I blame Fergie Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column. Sign up for our weekly email * I made the most awful mistake last week. Not as serious as Fergie's, but pretty embarrassing. Almost as embarrassing as that plastic-coated leather maxi coat the colour of light caramel I bought in the Sixties in Carnaby Street after a drunken lunch. Now that was embarrassing. But the bigger mistake was giving it away to a charity shop. Would have been a period piece by now. Comme moi. That Downshire Hill house in the best part of Hampstead. I went to an auction in 1980 and could have got it for £57,000, but didn't. What a mistake. But things we didn't buy and stupid things we did buy, those are just normal, run-of-the-mill, routine mistakes. This was a professional mistake. I was doing a piece about Gareth Bale and wanted to name his daughter. Really, just to impress my wife. She is always asking me how John Terry's twins are getting on, and Stevie Gerrard's three daughters, as if I should know. She never watches a game but knows vital details about the Prem stars. Well, she is an hintellectual. I went on the net, no sign of Gareth's daughter's name. So I contacted a good friend at Spurs, long-serving, senior person who should know such things. Took him 24 hours but he emailed back to say the baby was called Ava. I rushed upstairs to where my wife was working, her Conway Stewart fountain pen in hand, opened her door and said, guess what. "I am working," she said. No, you'll be interested. I know the name of Gareth's baby! "It'll keep," she said. Over our lunch, I said three guesses. Failed totally. I gave a clue – it begins with an A. She got it. And added that John Prescott's granddaughter is also called Ava. Then, bloody hell, five days later there was a piece in all the back pages in which Jermain Defoe talked about Gareth's daughter – Alba Violet. Oh my God, what have I done? My credibility as a totally ace football expert is buggered. I contacted my Spurs contact, who apologised profusely. One of his assistants had got it wrong, presumably misheard Ava for Alba. The point of this story is that it was not my fault, OK? Just as it was not Fergie's. He totally blamed the ref who gave a red card to Nani for Man United's embarrassing defeat by Real Madrid. I personally totally blame Fergie for what happened next. He frothed, he steamed, he ran down steps, shouted at the ref, went red in the face, even redder than normal, and lost it . Because of his loss of concentration, he ignored what was happening on the pitch – which was total confusion and chaos among his players. Now, it is a manager's job, however stupid the ref has been, to keep calm and instantly reorganise his team, depending on which player has been sent off, or get them to stay solid and do what they are supposed to do in such circumstances. Surely they have practised playing with ten men enough times. That's what training is for. He did nothing when the players needed him most, and then for ten minutes they acted as stupidly and blindly as he had done. Meanwhile Mourinho reacted at once, not sending on Karim Benzema, whom he'd lined up, but instead Luka Modric, who waltzed around the midfield, taking advantage of all the space and United's panic. Fergie is old, in his seventies, poor sod. But come on – get a grip. Forgot to say, John Terry's twins are called Georgie John and Summer Rose. Gerrard's daughters are Lilly-Ella, Lexie and Lourdes. And, oh God, another awful mistake. She's just told me it's a Waterman pen not a Conway Stewart. Hunter Davies is a journalist, broadcaster and profilic author perhaps best known for writing about the Beatles. He is an ardent Tottenham fan and writes a regular column on football for the New Statesman. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 18 March 2013 issue of the New Statesman, The German Problem More


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Hello Everyone…
Thanks for a wonderful session @ Kshitij , IIT Kharagpur. We were overwhelmed by the organization, co-ordination and enthusiasm.
As hoped, we wish that the three hours of interaction was productive and compelling to switch gears to the Flash Platform.
As promised during the session, here is a list of all resources and tutorials to go through.
- http://fmsguru.com
All the discussion related to FMS : Forums and Support.
FMS Video tutorials for each small action.
- http://flashcomguru.com
Posts and updates on latest happenings along with few tweaks
- http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations
All the happening in and around Adobe, a one stop information portal.
- http://blogs.adobe.com/flashmedia/tag/fms
covering information regarding FMS and its ecosystem.
- http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/
Special blog for mobile programming for Flash
- http://blogs.adobe.com/ktowes
Directly from the Product Manager.
- http://blogs.adobe.com/streamindia
Streaming India blog site.
- http://facebook/adobe
- www.actionscript.org
you can take a look at this.
- www.creativecow.net
An interactive and active forum for streaming discussions
- www.flashsecrets.com
A blog well maintained.
- http://blog.728media.com
A blog on FMS with examples and illustrations
- www.askmeflash.com
A very good question-answer discussion portal
- www.workingbase.com
A very good project portal.
- http://david.realeyes.com
A FMS user, and a serious eye opener on technology and its usage.
- http://active.tutsplus.com
A very good site to learn rich actionscripting
- www.bytearray.org
A high level and passionate flash player programming
- http://www.flashrealtime.com/
Another blog for flash and FMS programming
List of all the other resources.