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Since her film debut in 1998 in the David Schwimmer comedy Kissing a Fool, Judy Greer has been working steadily, appearing in more than 20 movies in the past six years. Most recently she shared the screen with Jennifer Garner in the romantic fantasy 13 Going On 30, and she had a hilarious recurring role on Fox Television's absurdist sitcom Arrested Development. Yet it's her brief but memorable appearance as the waitress Nicolas Cage awkwardly hits on in Adaptation. for which most people seem to recognize her. And while she may not be a household name yet, a number of high-profile projects are in the works that are likely to elevate her from "Hey, it's that girl" status to bona fide star.
The day after she spoke with Back Stage West, Greer was heading to Kentucky to star in Cameron Crowe's new dramedy, Elizabethtown, in which she will play daughter to Susan Sarandon and sister to Orlando Bloom. And opening this week is The Village, the latest twisty thriller from horror maestro M. Night Shyamalan, about a community in the 1800s threatened by strange creatures living in the surrounding woods. So let's ask the question everyone wants to know. "The ending is…," Greer whispers conspiratorially before breaking out into laughter. "No, the truth is that I have no idea how it ends. Hopefully, Night won't kill me for saying this, but they recently re-shot the ending, and I honestly have no idea how it ends." Shyamalan is notoriously protective of his films, there have been virtually no screenings of the movie, and Greer received a script with her name printed on every page so it couldn't be copied. "I was so afraid my car would be robbed, and someone would steal it, and I'd be blamed for leaking the script," she says.
To prepare for the role of Kitty Walker, the eldest daughter of characters played by William Hurt and Jayne Atkinson, Greer spent two weeks of intensive rehearsal learning about life in the 1800s. She and the rest of the cast spent the first week on farms that were maintained as though in the 19th century. "We wore long skirts and corsets and hats and boots that took a long time to get on and off," recalls the actor. "We sheared sheep, baled hay, and milked goats. The second week, he actually moved us to a vacant Girl Scout camp, and we all lived together, waking up at 6 in the morning to start the fire and attend classes." While some actors would balk at such stringent preparation, Greer claims she welcomed the opportunity and found it helped her performance. "You really get to know your cast mates, and relationships are created," she observes. "And you see how people sort themselves out and become intertwined in a weird way. The relationships did come together the way I think they would have in the village."
Greer also became close to her on-screen sister, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, the daughter of Hollywood mogul Ron Howard—who also happens to be an executive producer of Arrested Development. "Her parents came to visit, and we were eating lunch one day, and I realized, 'This is my boss, this is my friend's dad, and this is a director I desperately want to work with. How do I relate to this man?'" she recalls. "I chose 'friend's dad,' because that's what he was that weekend." Greer also had nothing but raves for Hurt, her on-screen father, although she admits to being initially intimidated by him. "There's something about working with someone whose talent is bigger than all the stars combined; I was so scared," she recalls. "But he completely blew me away. I think a lot of younger actors, myself included, tend to get caught up in the fun and games and summer camp feeling of moviemaking, and it's easy to lose sight of what you're really doing. And he doesn't for a second."
Head of the Class
Greer grew up in the Detroit area and describes her background as "kind of boring." It wasn't until she attended college at DePaul University that she began to pursue performing as a career. And while she values her time at the university, she also believes in holding on to her individuality. "I know I learned a lot about acting and how to act, but I'm not always sure it's so important for actors to learn how to act, because I think you start to get in your own way then," she explains. "I've known people who apply to medical school, and they say that when you apply, schools are looking for creative, dynamic individuals. Then, once you get there, they strip it all away, and you become medical school robots. And that's what I think theatre school does, in a way. I don't think they nurture you as much as programs could. They strip away your accent, the way you talk, your vocal tones, the way you approach a character. I was talking to Susan Sarandon at rehearsal, and she had a great take on it. She was saying she felt the best thing an actor can do is to figure out who they are as a person and then act through that."
The day after her college graduation, Greer landed her part in Kissing a Fool, followed shortly by a lead role opposite Rose McGowan in the dark comedy Jawbreaker. Greer seems almost embarrassed by how quickly she began landing parts. "I'm probably the worst person in the world to ask for advice because, knock on wood, I've had a pretty good time of it," she admits. "But I do see friends struggle, struggle, struggle, and I see how unhappy they can get. I think you just have to find ways to act all the time. You have to audition for every single thing; you can't stick your nose up at it. When I first moved here, I auditioned for everything. Any audition I could get, I went on it."
Greer still studies acting; her teacher in L.A. is none other than Jeffrey Tambor, also a cast member of Arrested Development. "I was in his class and then got cast as his mistress," she says with a laugh. "That was a little weird."
Material Girl
While some actors with prospering film careers would balk at doing television, Greer loved her time on Arrested Development, which she refers to as a "perfect" sitcom. There is a chance her character may return, but Greer also recently shot a sitcom pilot for NBC titled Nevermind Nirvana, in which she plays a woman living with an Indian man and his entire family. The project is produced and directed by Schwimmer—a friend of Greer's since Kissing a Fool—and created by Ajay Saghal. Their involvement, along with the strong material, convinced Greer to pursue a television career despite her busy film schedule. "I always figure that if something is well-written, that's the most important thing," she says. "I've been shooting movies for six years now, and I'm doing a lot of great parts, but I'm seeing the roles kind of start to become the same thing. So my question was: Would I be able to move up to that next level in my career? And if I can't get there in film, maybe I can do it in television. I feel like the line has really been erased between TV and film actors, so it doesn't make me nervous."
While Greer has been stealing scenes in films such as What Women Want and The Wedding Planner, she's open to taking on the leading-lady role. "What I truly feel is that if this is the way things stay for me, you'll never meet a happier girl," she says. "But if there is a window and a chance for me to try to move into that category, I'd like to try it. I can't think of an actress who doesn't want her Annie Hall, you know what I mean? It's so much easier for men in any age, size, or look to have a leading role than it is for a woman. I'd love to star in a romantic comedy; I can't imagine what would be more fun."
In the meantime, Greer doesn't mind continuing to audition for roles—she prefers it. "When I audition I feel safer, because sometimes it's an awkward role and I'm so nervous, because I feel like I'm not giving the director what he wants. So it makes me feel safer, because he knows what I've got, and if they give me the part after that, we're all on the same page," she says. "And sometimes when I'm auditioning for something, I know I'm so wrong for it because the words don't feel right coming out of my mouth." And in her rare free time, the actor believes in keeping herself busy. "The people I see who are struggling but happy are the people who are continuing their education all the time," she observes. "When I have downtime, I always take classes—in anything. Sometimes it's better not to take acting or theatre classes, to take a mythology class or learn a language. Because the more well-rounded you are as a person, the more you have to offer when you walk in the room." BSW


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German Armed Forces Research 1918-1945
World War II Axis Military History Day-by-Day: June
June 1st
June 1st, 1940: In the West, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk continues, with another 64,400 men taken off the beaches. The British destroyers Keith, Basilisk and Havant and the transport Scotia are sunk by Luftwaffe dive bombers.
June 1st, 1941: The last British troops (15,000) are evacuated from the island of Crete which is now completely in German hands. The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid (110 bombers) on Manchester. In the Mediterranean, Stukas sink the British cruiser Calcutta off Alexandria.
June 1st, 1942: The RAF launches another 1,000-bomber night raid against Essen in the Ruhr, but with minimal effect. In the East, the siege of the Crimean fortress of Sevastopol by 11.Armee (von Manstein) continues with a round-the-clock bombardment by heavy artillery and Luftwaffe bombers. Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan.
June 1st, 1943: BdU (C-in-C U-boats) adopts a new policy of fighting back at Allied sub-hunting aircraft with the U-boats' own AA guns while crossing the Bay of Biscay on the surface; this tactic proves to be largely unsuccesful and is soon abandoned. In the East, the Red Air Force attacks German rear communications and airfields at Smolensk, Orel and Bryansk.
June 1st, 1944: In the West, Allied air forces continue to carry out heavy attacks against strategic bridges and rail lines in France. In Italy, the British Eighth Army (Alexander) captures Frosinone SE of Rome.
June 2nd
June 2nd, 1940: At Dunkirk, 26,200 British and French troops are evacuated from the beaches. The luftwaffe carries out raids on Lyon and targets in the Rhone valley.
June 2nd, 1941: Hitler and Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass on the German-Italian border to discuss the progress of the war.
June 2nd, 1944: First shuttle raid (Operation Frantic) by 130 B-17s of the US 15th Air Force based at Tripoli that attack railyards at Debrecen< Hungary, and then fly on to Soviet airfields at Poltava in the Ukraine. Beginning of secret negotiations between the Rumanian government of Marshal Antonescu and representatives of the Soviet Union at Stockholm, Sweden, while the Bulgarian government seeks terms of surrender rom the Western Allies.
June 3rd
June 3rd, 1940: In Norway, British and French forces (24,000 men) abandon Narvik, while the last Allied troops are evacuated from Dunkirk (in all, 218,226 British and 120,000 French).
June 3rd, 1944: In Italy, German forces withdraw from Rome which has been declared an 'open city'.
June 4th
June 4th, 1940: German troops enter Dunkirk, taking 40,000 French prisoners and huge quantities of abandoned British equipment: 84,000 vehicles, 2,500 guns and 650,000 tons of supplies and ammunition. French bombers carry out night raids on Munich and Frankfurt, with negligible results.
June 4th, 1941: Luftwaffe bombers carry out a night raid on the port of Alexandria in Egypt.
June 4th, 1942: Hitler flies to Finland to meet with the Finnish head of state, Marshal Mannerheim.
June 4th, 1943: In the East, Luftwaffe bombers attack the great tank-producing plants at Gorki.
June 4th, 1944: The US Fifth Army (Clark) enters Rome. U-505, patroling off Cape Blanco on the West African coast is forced to the surface by depth-charges from the US destroyer escort Chatelain, captured intact and towed to Bermuda by the escort carrier Guadalcanal.
June 5th
June 5th, 1940: Beginning of Fall Rot (Operation Red), the second stage of the German invasion of France, also called the Battle of France (119 divisions, including 10 armored). Heeresgruppe B (von Küchler), with 50 divisions, opens the offensive on the Somme against the fortified positions of the Weygand Line. Hptm. Mölders, leader ofIII/JG 53 and Germany's top air ace (25 kills) is shot down near Compiegne and taken prisoner.
June 5th, 1942: The United States declares war on Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria.
June 5th, 1943: U-513 (Kptlt.. Sohler) sinks 4 ships off the coast of Brazil.
June 5th, 1944: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France, is postponed for one day because of rough seas in the English Channel. The RAF carries out heavy night raids against German coastal batteries and fortifications in Normandy.
June 6th
June 6th, 1940: In the West, 7. Panzerdivision (Rommel). advancing W of Amiens, penetratees 20 miles into French territory. U-46 (Kptlt. Sohler) sinks the British armed merchant cruiser Carinthia off the west coast of Ireland.
June 6th, 1941: Hittler issues a directive for the implementation of the Kommissarbefehl (Commissar Order) which calls for the summary execution of all Soviet political commissars attached to the Red Army; this order is tacitly disobeyed by most German army and corps commanders who deem it contrary to German military custom and tradition.
June 6th, 1944: D-DAY. - In the early morning hours, the Allied Expeditionary Force of American, British, Canadian, Polish, and Free French troops begins Operation Overlord, the long-awaited invasion of 'Fortress Europe', as the Germans call it. After an intensive naval and aerial bombardment, the first wave of 5 divisions (156,115 men) are landed at designated beaches in Normandy named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, preceded by some 12,000 paratroopers of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions behind the German lines on the Cotentin peninsula and the British 6th Airborne Division near Caen. These forces are supported by 1,213 warships, including 7 battleships and 23 cruisers, 1,600 auliary ships, and 4,126 landing craft, as well as several Allied air forces flying 14,674 sorties. Opposing them in their bunkers on the beaches are 5 lowgrade German infantry divisions with about 50,000 men and 100 tanks and assault guns. Despite some heavy casualties, especially at Omaha Beach, the German defenders, stunned and surprised by the massive onslaught, are progressively overwhelmed, and most of the Allied objectives are reached and secured by nightfall. There is little opposition from the Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine.
June 7th
June 7th, 1942: In the East, 11. Armee (von Manstein) begins the final assault on the Soviet fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea.
June 7th, 1944: In the West, US forces landed in Normandy link up with elements of the British 6th Airborne Division South of Caen.
June 8th
June 8th, 1940: In Norway, the evacuation of British and French troops (24,000 men) from Narvik and Harstad is completed. The British aircraft carrier Glorious is sunk by the German heavy battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau SW of Narvik. King Haakon and the Norwegian government leave Tromsö for England.
June 8th, 1941: British and Free French forces invade Lebanon and Syria against stiff resistance by Vichy French troops.
June 9th
June 9th, 1940: In the West, German forces of Heeresgruppe A (von Küchler) advancing S from the Somme capture Rouen on the Seine.
June 9th, 1942: 6. Armee (Paulus) launches a counterattack against advancing Soviet forces in the Charkov area.
June 9th, 1944: The Red Army begins an offensive against Finnish positions in the Karelian Isthmus N of Leningrad. In Normandy, US forces advancing from Utah Beach capture St. Mere-Eglise.
June 10th
June 10th, 1940: In Norway, the remaining troops of the Norwegian Army surrender. Italy declares war on Britain and France and begins an offensive along the coast of the Riviera.
June 10th, 1942: In the East, 6. Armee forces the withdrawal of Soviet forces from the Charkov area and captures Volchansk and Kupyansk. In Libya, the Afrikakorps (properly, Panzerarmee Afrika) finally captures Bir Hacheim, a strongpoint fiercely defended by Foreign Legionaires of the Free French Forces. The British Eighth Army (Ritchie) retreats toward the Egyptian border.
June 10th, 1943: Beginning of a coordinated air offensive by the US 8th Air Force (Doolittle), flying precision bombing missions by day, and RAF Bomber Command (Harris), flying area saturation missions by night, against major German cities.
June 10th, 1944: In the West, German counterattacks against Allied invasion forces are unsuccessful for lack of armored reserves in the area.
June 11th
June 11th, 1940: In the West, German forces capture Rheims. The French government of Premier Reynaud leaves Paris for Tours. The RAF carries out raids on Genoa and Turin in Italy. The British cruiser Calypso is sunk by an Italian submarine off Crete.
June 11th, 1941: The Raf begins a series of 20 consecutive raids against targets in the Ruhr, the Rhineland, as well as Hamburg and Bremen.
June 11th, 1942: German U-boats begin laying mines off Boston, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay.
June 11th, 1943: The US 8th Air Force raids the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven (200 B-17s), while the RAF attacks Münster and Düsseldorf.
June 11th, 1944: US forces landed at Utah Beach capture Carentan.
June 12th
June 12th, 1940: On orders from General Weygand, C-in-C of the French Army, the French forces opposing the advance of Heeresgruppe A withdraw to the south, offering little resistance. The Soviet Union issues an ultimatum to Lithuania which is soon followed by the occupation of the country by the Red Army.
June 12th, 1941: The German pocket battleship Lützow (formerly Deutschland) is attacked and damaged by RAF aircraft off the southern coast of Norway.
June 12th, 1942: The British convoys Harpoon and Vigorous bound for Malta and Alexandria from Gibraltar are attacked by Axis aircraft which sink 6 merchant ships and 6 escort vessels. The Italian cruiser Trento is sunk by British naval aircraft.
June 12th, 1943: The RAF launches a heavy raid on Bochum in the Ruhr, while the Luftwaffe carries out a night attack against Plymouth.
June 12th, 1944: The five Allied beachheads in Normandy link up together; thus far, 326,000 men and 54,000 vehicles have been landed.
June 13th
June 13th, 1940: In the West, German troops reach the northern outskirts of Paris which has been declared an 'open city'. Italian bombers attack the French naval base at Toulon. The British auxiliary cruiser Scotstown is sunk by U-25 (Kptlt. Beduhn) off the Irish coast. The German raider Orion lays mines off Auckland, New Zealand.
June 13th, 1941: The Luftwaffe carries out a raid on the British naval base at Chatham, but with little success.
June 13th, 1942: In the battle for Tobruk, German tanks and anti-tank batteries (88mm) of the Afrikakorps destroy 138 enemy tanks, leaving the British Eighth Army with only 75 armored vehicles operational.
June 13th, 1944: Launching of the first V-1 robot bombs from the Pas de Calais against London causing shock and near-panick among the civilian population. In the battle for Caen, a single Tiger tank from 12.SS-Panzerdivision (Obstuf. Wittmann) destroys 25 tanks and other vehicles of the British 7th Armoured Division near Villers-Bocage.
June 14th
June 14th, 1940: German troops enter Paris which has been evacuated by most of its inhabitants. Heeresgruppe C (von Leeb), with 24 divisions, prepares to cross the upper Rhine to attack the Maginot Line in Alsace. The French government leaves Tours for Bordeaux. All remaining British troops in France are ordered to return to England.
June 14th, 1941: In Libya, the British Eighth Army begins Operation Battleaxe to lift the siege of Tobruk, but the Afrikakorps conterattacks three days later and the operation is abandoned. President Roosevelt orders the freezing of all Axis assets and those of the occupied countries. Hitler meets with his top generals to discuss matters concerning the upcoming campaign against the Soviet Union. Croatia joins the Tripartite Pact of Germany, Italy and Japan.
June 14th, 1942: Two German U-boats land teams of saboteurs on Long Island and near Jacksonville, Florida; within days, they are all captured, and six are executed after trial.
June 14th, 1943: RAF Coastal Command begins daily patrols over the Bay of Biscay by aircraft equipped with new detection devices to locate and destroy German U-boats leaving and entering their bases on the French coast.
June 14th, 1944: The RAF launches heavy attacks (600 bombers) against Le Havre and Boulogne.
June 15th
June 15th, 1940: In the West, German forces of 7. Armee break into the Maginot Line and capture Verdun. 30,600 British and Canadian troops are evacuated from Cherbourg, Brest and St. Malo.
June 15th, 1941: In Libya, the British Eighth Army abandons Gazala.
June 15th, 1942: In the North Atlantic, U-552 (Kptlt. Topp) sinks 5 ships of Convoy HG-84.
June 15th, 1943: The German raider Michel sinks 2 ships off the west coast of Australia.
June 15th, 1944: Heavy V-1 attacks on London.
June 16th
June 16th. 1940: In the West, German forces, supported by heavy artillery and Stuka dive bombers, continue their assault on the Maginot Line on a broad front. Units of IXX.Panzerkorps (Guderian) reach Besancon on the Swiss border. The French government of Paul Reynaud resigns and is replaced by one led by Marshal Petain. 57,000 British troops are evacuated from Nantes and St. Nazaire. U-101 (Kptlt. Frauenheim) sinks the British merchant ship Wellington Star in the Bay of Biscay. In the Baltic, the Red Army occupies Latvia and Estonia. Tens of thousands of "hostile' natives and their families are rounded up and deported separated from one another to NKVD prison camps in the Soviet Union.
June 16th, 1941: The US State Department orders the closing by July 10 of all German consular offices and tourist agencies in the United States.
June 16th, 1942: The British light cruiser Hermione is sunk by U-205 (Kptlt. Reschke) South of Crete in the Mediterranean.
June 16th, 1944: Another 244 V-1s are launched against London. In Italy, the British Eighth Army (Alexander) approaches Perugia.
June 17th
June 17th. 1940: In the West, German troops cross the Loire near Orleans. The French premier, Marshal Petain, requests Germany's and Italy's terms for an armistice.
June 17th, 1942: Leaving behind a garrison of some 30,000 troops, the British Eighth Army withdraws from Tobruk.
June 17th, 1943: The British battleships Valiant and Warspite are transferred from Scapa Flow to Oran and Alexandria in North Africa in preparation for Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily.
June 17th, 1944: German troops evacuate the island of Elba off the west coast of Italy.
June 18th
June 18th, 1940: In the West, German troops capture Le Mans and Cherbourg; the garrisons of Belfort, Metz and Dijon surrender. General de Gaulle forms the French National Committee at London and vows to continue the war on the side of Britain.
June 18th, 1941: Germany and Turkey sign a ten-year nonaggression pact. Free French troops occupy Damascus in Syria.
June 18th, 1942: In the East, infantry units of 11. Armee (von Manstein) break into the outer defenses of the fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea. In Libya, the British Eighth Army evacuates Sidi Rezegh and El Adem.
June 18th, 1944: In Normandy, the US First Army (Bradley) cuts off and isolates the German forces defending Cherbourg. In Italy, the US Fifth Army (Clark) captures Prugia.
June 19th
June 19th, 1940: German troops capture Brest, Toul and Strassburg.
June19th, 1943: The RAF carries out a raid on the Schneider armaments works at Le Creusot.
June 19th, 1944: A violent storm in the English Channel wrecks the Allied artificial 'Mulberry' harbors at Omaha Beach and Arromanches.
June 20th
June 20th, 1940: German troops capture Lyons. The German heavy cruiser Gneisenau is damaged by a torpedo from the British submarine Clyde.
June 20th, 1941: President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress, denounces the sinking of the American merchant ship Robin Moor by U-69 (Kptlt. Metzler) as 'an act of piracy'.
June 20th, 1943: 60 RAF bombers launch the first British shuttle raid: after bombing the radar works at Friedrichshafen, they fly on to Algiers to refuel and then return to England.
June 20th, 1944: In the East, the Red Army captures Viipuri on the Soviet-Finnish border.
June 21st
June 21st, 1940: Franco-German armistice negotiations begin at Compiegne in the same railroad car of Marshal Foch where the German delegates received the Allied armistice terms in November, 1918. Hitler issues a proclamation announcing the end of the war in the West, and orders flags to be flown throughout Germany for ten days.
June 21, 1941: General Auchinleck replaces General Wavell as C-in-C of the British Eighth Army in Libya.
June 21st, 1942: The Afrikakorps captures Tobruk, taking 33,000 British prisoners. In the East, German infantry and combat engineers of 11. Armee (von Manstein) are gaining ground in their assault on Sevastopol. The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid on Southampton.
June 21st, 1943: The RAF launches a heavy raid on Krefeld in the Ruhr (44 aircraft lost).
June 21st, 1944: In the East, the Red Army begins an offensive between lakes Ladoga and Onega on the northern front. The US 8th Air Force carries out raids on Berlin and the synthetic fuel plants at Leuna-Merseburg.
June 22nd
June 22nd, 1940: An armistice between France and Germany is signed at Compiegne. Its terms, read out loud to the French delegation by Generaloberst Keitel, provide for the occupation of the entire Channel and Atlantic coastlines, all major industrial areas, Alsace-Lorraine (to be returned to Germany). Most of southern France will remain unoccupied, with a French administrative center at Vichy; the French Army and Navy is to be demobilized and disarmed; France is to bear the cost of the German occupation, and all French prisoners of war are to remain in Germany until a peace treaty is signed.
June 22nd, 1941: Beginning of OPERATION BARBAROssA, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. At 3:15 a.m. CET, German, Rumanian and Finnish forces comprising 183 divisions (3,500,000 men), 3,350 tanks, 7,184 guns and 1,945 aircraft launch the biggest military operation in history on an 1,800-mile front from 'Finland to the Black Sea' (title of the German Army campaign song). Three army groups supported by powerful Panzer armies and Luftwaffe bomber fleets, Heeresgruppe Süd (von Rundstedt) with Panzergruppe 1 (von Kleist), Heeresgruppe Mitte (von Bock) with Panzergruppen 2 (Guderian) and 3 (Hoth), and Heeresgruppe Nord (von Leeb) with Panzergruppe 4 (Hoepner) go into action against 132 Soviet divisions (2,500,000 men), 20,000 tanks and 7,700 aircraft. The overall objective of the campaign is to destroy the Soviet forces in western Russia by fall and to occupy the European part of the Soviet Union up to the line Archangelsk - Urals - Volga - Astrachan. In the first few hours of the attack, the Luftwaffe destroys 1,500 Soviet aircraft on the ground at 60 airfields and 300 in the air. The Red Army forces along the border seem unprepared for the assault and offer only limited resistance. At London, Winston Churchill announces Britain's support for the Soviet Union, thus making the Bolshevik state her much-needed ally.
June 22nd, 1944: On the central front in the East, the Soviet 1st Baltic and 3rd Belorussian Fronts (Vassilevsky) and the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts (Zhukov) begin Operation Bagraton, a massive offensive against Heeresgruppe Mitte (Busch) on a 300-mile front between Polotsk and Bobruysk. The German forces of 63 divisions, 900 tanks and 10,000 guns are facing vastly superior Soviet forces of 124 divisions, 5,200 tanks, 30.000 guns and 6,000 aircraft. The Luftwaffe launches a surprise night raid (60 aircraft) on the US 8th Air Force's shuttle base at Poltava in the Ukraine, destroying 44 B-17s and 500,000 gals. of fuel. In the West, US bombers carry out a saturation on besieged Cherbourg. President Roosevelt signs the GI Bill of Rights which promises generous benefits for returning US servicemen.
June 23rd
June 23rd, 1940: Hitler makes a brief sightseeing visit to Paris; motoring through nearly empty streets, he makes a special point of viewing Napoleon's tomb, ending his tour at the Eiffel tower.
June 23rd, 1941: In the East, German forces of Heeresgruppe Süd cross the river Bug in southern Poland and capture Brest-Litovsk. Slovakia declares war on the Soviet Union.
June 23rd, 1942: The Afrikakorps reaches the Egyptian border near El Alamein.
June 23rd, 1944: Generaloberst Dietl, C-in-C of 20. Gebirgsarmee on the Arctic front in northern Finland, is killed in an air crash.
June 24th
June 24th, 1940: An armistice is signed between France and Italy at Villa Indusa near Rome.
June 24th, 1941: In the East, German troops of Heeresgruppe Nord capture Kaunas and Vilna in Lithuania. Hungary breaks off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
June 24th, 1942: First of a series of Luftwaffe night raids on Birmingham. In Yugoslavia, beginning of an offensive by German, Italian and Croatian forces against Tito;s partisan army.
June 24th, 1943: The RAF launches a heavy raid on Elberfeld in the Ruhr.
June 25th
June 25th, 1940: At 1:35 a.m. CET, all acts of war between the French and German armed forces cease officially.
June 25th, 1941: German armored forces of Panzergruppe 1 (von Kleist) capture Lutsk and Dubno in eastern Poland (UssR territory).
June 25th, 1942: The Afrikakorps captures Sidi Barrani, Sollum and Halfaya Pass in Libya. The RAF launches a 1,000-bomber raid on Bremen which causes heavy damage to the Focke-Wulf plant and devastates 27 acres of the inner city (49 aircraft lost). Major-General Eisenhower is appointed C-in-C of US forces in Europe.
June 25th, 1944: In Normandy, the British Second Army (Dempsey) begins a major offensive in the area of Caen (Operation Epsom). In the East, 40,000 troops of Heeresgruppe Mitte are surrounded by the Red Army in the area of Vitebsk. General Koenid is appointed C-in-C of the Free French forces.
June 26th
June 26th, 1941: In the East, German forces of Heeresgruppe Nord capture Dünaburg in Latvia. The Luftwaffe carries out raids on Leningrad. Finland declares war on the oviet Union.
June 26th, 1942: Generaloberst Rommel, C-in-C of the Afrikakorps is promoted to Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal).
June 27th
June 27th, 1941: In the East, German forces encircle several Soviet divisions near Minsk and capture Riga, Bobruisk and Przemysl. Hungary declares war on the Soviet Union.
June 27th, 1944: The Red Army recaptures Orsha on the Dnepr and destroys the German pocket near Vitebsk.
June 28th
June 28th, 1940: Following an ultimatum to the Rumanian government, the Red Army occupies Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
June 28th, 1941: German troops of Heeresgruppe Mitte capture Minsk.
June 28th, 1942: Beginning of the first stage of Fall Blau (Operation Blue), the new German summer offensive on the southern front in Russia. From the area of Kursk, the German 2. Armee and 4. Panzerarmee, with 50 divisions, advance toward Voronesh on the upper Don.
June 28th, 1944: In Normandy, Operation Epsom designed to break through the German defenses near Caen is halted by the fierce resistance of the I. and II. SS-Panzerkorps.
June 29th
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Don't dump cans and aerosols – recycle them.
That is the message being given to school pupils across Hampshire schools like those at Our Lady and St Joseph Primary School in Lymington.
Recycle for Hampshire is a scheme by Hampshire County Council and Project Integra, which encourages residents to recycle, and they have been visiting schools to promote the recycling of tins, cans and aerosols.
Education officers have been visiting schools and explained to children that the average household uses 600 food cans and 380 drinks cans each year and they are all recyclable.
The campaign includes an Internet video of animated metal items being re-used and how they could make old tins into fun characters.
Councillor Leslie Keeble, chairman of the Project Integra Strategic Board said: "Teaching children about recycling is really important as they can take the messages home to their parents and carers as well as continue to recycle in the future."


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It's been too long. Not since I've had wine, but since I wrote and shared about it. I have wine JUST about every night. Often times I am so wrapped up in enjoying it, that I forget to write down my notes. I decided not to do that today.
After a fabulous day at the beach, SANS BEERS, we came home to relax. After a quick nap, I decided to take The J to see Speed Racer. I had *NO* desire, but I took him anyway. Well, after less than an hour he decided he was scared and wanted to go. We came home and Robin knew how to make it all better. Robin had half a glass of the red from last night left over, and she wanted some more to sip on before dinner. CMS got the call up. It was time for The Show. She laid out some Brie and french bread, and I cracked a bottle of CMS Red. The J didn't partake, but I did make a J-Tini out of Sprite and "Cherry Syrup".


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Mets recall Duda, option Valdespin to Triple-A
Mets recall Duda, option Valdespin to Triple-A
"He cares a lot," Collins said of Duda. "Going into Spring Training, there was a lot said about his importance and what he needed to do production-wise. When he started to struggle, he got frustrated, and again, that's human nature. He needed to go back and be the guy that got here. Be the same guy that hits the ball all over the field. ... The power will always be there. The power will come with good contact."
Duda batted .260 with three home runs and eight RBIs during his four-week sojourn in Buffalo, and Collins freely said that he didn't necessarily earn his promotion based on his numbers. It was more on the feel, said Collins, and the Mets have gotten good reports from Buffalo manager Wally Backman.
"Sometimes guys get sent out and they don't think they belong there. It's tough for them to get motivated again," said Collins. "I talked to Wally enough times. He said, 'Look, he's swinging better. He looks better at the plate.' Lucas Duda is a really good player and a big part of this thing. We need him back in the lineup. That's why he's here."
Duda, for his part, said he's happy to be back and fixated on salvaging his season with a hot September. He said he's happy to play wherever and hit wherever the Mets want him to, and he also said that he was initially disappointed by his demotion, but ultimately understood the reasoning.
"I didn't produce and I didn't play well. I would've done the same thing to myself," Duda said. "At the time, I was kind of disappointed, but at myself more than anything else. I was given this opportunity to play every day and I didn't make the most of it. I was definitely disappointed in myself, and a couple days later, I understood what was going on. If you don't produce, you don't play."
Valdespin, batting .242 with eight home runs in 75 games, will head back to Buffalo for a week and will return in September when rosters expand. Valdespin, said Collins, was caught in a roster crunch.
"He'll be back in a week. We needed a spot," Collins said. "Lucas is going to play. I said, 'Look, go down there and play. Get yourself in the lineup.' I want him to play some second base, too. I don't want him to just stick in the outfield. I want him to move around a little bit."


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Len McCluskey, the leader-designate of Unite, has urged British Airways to resume negotiations over a bitter industrial dispute with the Unite trade union, as tensions between both sides threatened a new cabin crew strike ballot.
Unite warned BA yesterday that the prospect of a new strike ballot had moved closer after the airline suspended an employee for holding a Christmas collection for sacked and suspended crew. McCluskey said Unite members made clear their support for crew who have embarked on 22 days of strikes so far this year. "In the election the BA dispute was raised by everyone, and they said they would expect our union to give them support in the same way as we have supported BA cabin crew."
BA has laid the blame for the prolonged dispute at the feet of Unite, claiming that it is unable to control its cabin crew branches. That view gained momentum from the moderate candidate in the Unite election, Les Bayliss, who said that the way the union had conducted the dispute had lowered its "standing and reputation". Bayliss added that at times the row over reductions in crewing levels resembled Life on Mars, the 70s-set BBC drama. McCluskey said the BA strikes, which affected hundreds of thousands of passengers during 22 days of walkouts earlier this year, were driven by a "duty to respond" to members.
"Les Bayliss has not got a great deal of experience so I can forgive him. When service workers in the private or public sector take industrial action ordinary members of the public suffer. That is a tightrope to walk: should you be concerned with the union's image in the eyes of the public, or is it your duty to respond to the needs and requirements of your members? I have no hesitation in saying we are here to support our members."
A BA spokeswoman said: "Unite said last month that the proposals we put forward after prolonged discussions, assisted by the TUC and ACAS, would be recommended as the best available through negotiation.
We continue to believe that these proposals address all cabin crew's concerns and represent a fair resolution of this dispute."
McCluskey expressed disappointment at the poor turnout for the leadership election, which saw leftwing candidate Jerry Hicks beat Bayliss into second place in an election that failed to excite Unite's estimated 1.5 million members.
However, McCluskey secured just 101,000 votes or 7% of the membership, with an overall turnout of 16%. "I don't think anyone can be pleased with that and that is one of the challenges I have with other general secretaries," he said.
"We have to connect better with our members. It is an interesting fact that when our members vote for their shop stewards, or a pay rise or industrial action, they regularly get 80 to 90% turnouts. There is an obvious disconnect. We obviously have to work harder at making ourselves more relevant to the rank and file membership."


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The musical "Urban Cowboy," already battling negative reviews and dropping attendance, is fighting to ensure its eligibility for a Best Score Tony nomination.
The concern arose after a meeting of the awards' administration committee on Thurs., April 24. The group met to address various topics, from classifying productions to considering producers' special requests for positioning actors for leading or featured nominations. Since 1996, at least 50% of a Broadway musical's songs must be written expressly for the stage, and, Tony spokesman Keith Sherman told Back Stage, the committee believed that the "Urban Cowboy" score failed to meet the standard.
"On the title page of the opening night program there is no credit for score; on the page beyond it is a list of the songs with credits," Sherman said. "The committee made a ruling on that, and now the producers of the show have said to the committee, 'Wait a minute, that's wrong; our score should be eligible and we always thought that our score should be eligible.' And now it's going to be brought up in the next committee meeting." The season-ending rule-making session is scheduled for May 8.
Various press outlets have reported since the April 24 meeting, in addition, that anywhere from nine to 14 of the song titles—written by Jason Robert Brown, Jeff Blumenkrantz, and Bob Stillman, among others—were written for the show.
The rule dates back to 1996, when only four songs from the Broadway version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "State Fair" were considered Best Score-eligible. That action prompted producer David Merrick to launch a $2 million lawsuit against the Tonys that was dismissed only days before the ceremony.
Meanwhile, the committee issued a flotilla of additional rulings. Among them: Antonio Banderas, star of the hit revival "Nine," will be the show's only performer eligible for a lead acting Tony Award. Based on Fellini's classic film "8fi," "Nine" centers on a creatively blocked filmmaker (Banderas, the sole adult male in the cast) and the panoply of women in his life. The producers asked the group to name the legendary Chita Rivera eligible for a leading musical actress nomination, thus easing possible competition with fellow performers Jane Krakowski and Mary Stuart Masterson, among others. The committee demurred; all the women in "Nine" are eligible for featured actress nods.
And despite the entire cast being billed above the title, just two of the four actors in Yasmina Reza's "Life x 3"—John Turturro and Helen Hunt—can receive leading actor nominations; co-stars Brent Spiner and Linda Emond can only be recognized in featured slots. Ditto the actors in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg": Eddie Izzard and Victoria Hamilton are the show's only potential contenders in leading actor categories. Paradoxically, while the cast list of the aforementioned "Urban Cowboy" is billed below the title, the committee said Matt Cavenaugh and Jenn Colella, the show's two young stars, would be eligible nominees for leading performances.
And in yet one more ruling, the committee said "A Year With Frog and Toad" could be nominated for Best Musical.
With regard to one of the Tonys' newest categories—Special Theatri-cal Event—the group ruled at their last meeting in January that "Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam"—which announced this week it would close May 4—would be a potential nominee. Now, the group has added "The Play What I Wrote" and "Prune Danish" to the list. The former is a British comedy-variety import directed by Kenneth Branagh, written by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley, and Eddie Braben, and featuring McColl, Foley, Toby Jones, and a special weekly guest star. Under the rules, none are eligible for individual Tonys. "Prune Danish" was comic Jackie Mason's most recent solo turn.
Finally, one big question remains on hold: Will the three rotating casts of "La Bohème" be eligible for Tonys, or only the cast that performed opening night? In January, it was ruled that Puccini's opera, while never before on Broadway, is a "classic" work and thus eligible for Best Revival of a Musical.
Rulings, Rulings, Rulings
However voluminous and contentious last week's rulings were and are, it was only one part of a process that began in the fall and continued throughout the winter. Back in January, for example, the committee declared "Movin' Out" eligible for Best Musical but "Imaginary Friends," the now-closed hybrid musical play by Nora Ephron, eligible for Best Play. Still, they classified the songs from "Imaginary Friends," by Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia, eligible for Best Score, along with the production's orchestrations and choreography.
The committee also said at the time that the revival of "Flower Drum Song" (now closed) could be a musical revival nominee; the group acquiesced on the question of whether David Henry Hwang's all-new script could be nominated for Best Book, giving that notion a green light.
And looking back to the season's start, the committee acknowledged in September that "Fortune's Fool," the 1848 Ivan Turgenev play, had been, at best, a strange nominee for a Best Play Tony last season. As a result, they effectively redefined what's considered a new work for Broadway and what's a "classic"—thus a more appropriate candidate for the revival category.
The ruling reads: "A play or musical that is determined by the Tony Awards Administration Committee (in its sole discretion) to be a 'classic' or in the historical or popular repertoire shall not be eligible for an award in the Best Play or Best Musical category but may be eligible in the appropriate Best Revival category."
Even at this late date, it's unclear how the ruling will affect the Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune." The play successfully ran Off-Broadway in the early 1980s and lasted through much of the current season, first starring Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci, and later, Rosie Perez and Joe Pantoliano. While the play had never been on Broadway, if it chooses, the nominating committee could deem "Frankie and Johnny" a "classic," thereby rendering McNally ineligible for a Best Play Tony, although the actors could still be recognized in acting categories.
The Tony nominations will be announced Mon., May 12 at Sardi's; Melanie Griffith and two-time Tony winner John Lithgow will read off the list. The awards themselves will be presented Sun., June 8 and televised live on CBS.


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The Invisible Ones
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England, in modern times…
"A lot of people don't realize there are still Gypsies living on the road in this country… They like to think that Gypsies are something from the past…. Picturesque maybe, but essentially gone."
Private investigator Ray Lovell knows for a fact that there are still Gypsies around, because he is one himself, although no longer a traveler. As THE INVISIBLE ONES opens, Ray lies in a hospital bed, immobile and suffering from amnesia. With the passage of time, bits and pieces of his memory slowly trickle back to him. He remembers a woman, but not who she is. He does not remember driving his car through a fence and has no idea where he had been coming from before he crashed. Then, finally, he remembers the case he was working before his accident.
"Stef Penney brings her Gypsies to life, showing how passionate they are about the lifestyle they have chosen, how strong the family bonds are that they form, and how they scoff at those who prefer to live in buildings."
Ray's name attracted Leon Wood, a man wanting to hire someone who would understand "their kind". A non-Gypsy could never be trusted, so he turned to Ray. It seems that Leon's daughter Rose went missing nearly seven years past and Leon has, at long last, decided to try and find her. Naturally, the trail is cold after so many years have gone by. But, although most people by now have assumed Rose died since there has been no attempt to contact her family, Ray agrees to give it a shot.
As he knows, in the world of Gypsies, women don't have such an easy life. Once they become daughters-in-law, they occupy pretty much the lowest rung on the ladder. And Rose had double strikes against her when you consider the port wine mark covering a portion of her face. Why her father waited years before hiring someone to find her is anybody's guess. Maybe he was experiencing guilt pangs, having married Rose off to Ivo Janko in a rush, without regard for her desires. To him, the Janko family seemed like a good opportunity. After all, they are genuine Gypsies, living in their trailers, eschewing brick and mortar. But who could blame Rose if she skipped out soon after the wedding?
The curious thing is that there was a child. Would she really have left him and never looked back? What mother would do that? Ray begins the arduous journey to discovering what happened to Rose and why. The answers he finds are shocking.
Another Janko child, JJ, intertwines the story of his family with Ray's working of the missing person case, lending another perspective and a nomadic flavor to the mystery. This little Gypsy boy has closely observed his mother and his uncle Ivo --- Rose's husband --- his great uncle and grandparents, as they live in their own tight community. JJ knows that they harbor a secret, but he can't quite understand what it is. With the innocence of youth, he wants to help Ray find out.
Between the two viewpoints, a richly textured picture takes shape. Stef Penney brings her Gypsies to life, showing how passionate they are about the lifestyle they have chosen, how strong the family bonds are that they form, and how they scoff at those who prefer to live in buildings. Besides a darned fine story, wow, what an ending.
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King's Lynn Town boss Gary Setchell insisted the ChromaSport Trophies United Counties League Premier Division…
….underdogs can claim a major FA Cup scalp after landing a Fourth Qualifying Round trip to Blue Square Bet Premier side Tamworth in last Monday`s draw.
Setchell will relish the chance to take his side back to one of his former clubs on October 29th bidding for a place in the First Round proper.
The Linnets' chief is under no illusions Lynn will need to rely on some of the fabled magic associated with the world famous competition to help them progress against the Lambs.
"Of course not many will give us a chance," he said. "We'll be massive underdogs on the day but this is what the FA Cup is all about. And we all know David has his day in this competition on a regular basis. I either wanted a step one or a step four club. If we had got a step two or three I don't think there is any real romance or cup magic in one of those ties.
"Tamworth have been at that level now for a number of years. They are a hardened Conference outfit, they have got the experience, but from my point of view we can actually go and enjoy the game because it'll be one of the few times this season when there is no pressure on us and we are not expected to win. They will have to have an off day and my players will need to show the same levels of desire and commitment that we showed last weekend against Stratford Town."
Setchell knows from first-hand experience what to expect at The Lamb after making eighteen appearances at the start of the 2003/04 season prior to re-joining his home-town club.
"I played three years at that level and it is probably one of the most hostile grounds you can go to in non-League football," he said. "The fans are right on top of you and they let you know so I'll be bringing the tin hat with me. It will be a great experience for our lads and they deserve a decent tie and I believe we have got one. I wanted a Conference side as a reward for what we had done in the competition to get that far.
"They are tenth in the Conference Premier and with a game in hand on the sides around the play-off spots. I don't know for sure but you don't get into that position unless you are a full-time set up so that underlines the scale of the task."
Setchell expects Lynn's loyal fan base to travel in large numbers.
"It's a great one for the fans," he said. "If you speak to the hardcore ones who have followed King's Lynn week in, week out for years they would say there is a real non-League rivalry that has built up with Tamworth. I know last season we had one going with St Neots Town but Tamworth is a game they will look forward to and I know they will travel in big numbers. Of course it would have been nice to be at home again but I guess on the law of probabilities we were going to have to go away at some time."
Lynn booked their Tamworth tie with a comeback win against Baker Joiner Midland Alliance outfit Stratford last weekend. Midfielder Danny White's 87th minute winner clinched a fifth consecutive home victory in the cup competition.
"Stratford were a decent side who have massively underachieved this season," said Setchell. "I was speaking to their manager after the game and they have a more than decent budget and he still feels they are capable of winning their own league. At 1-0 down so early on we could have folded but the boys really responded."


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Charter school gives students boost in getting education
�I would probably be a high school dropout, pregnant, dead or something,� the 17-year-old said. �I was into gangs; I was just a very bad teenage child.�
Jessica grew up with her mom, stepfather and younger brother in what she describes as �a very, very bad trailer park,� but her mother always gave her everything she wanted, she said.
And one thing Jessica definitely did not want was to attend Parker High School.
�I think I went there a total of six to seven days, full days,� she said. �I�d go there and skip at lunch.�
Today, Jessica is well on her way to earning a high school equivalency degree. She hopes to graduate in fall and go to college to become a veterinarian.
�(The school) has helped me so much,� she said.
Students at Rock River Charter School have all kinds of reasons for being there. Many, for one reason or another, couldn�t handle life at a typical high school. Some are teen mothers who need flexible schedules to take care of their babies. Others dropped out of school to get jobs.
Whatever their circumstances, students find a variety of options at the charter school to ensure they earn their high school diplomas, giving them an important boost in the fight to escape or stay out of poverty.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time employees with high school diplomas earned an average of $604 a week in 2007, 41 percent more than the average weekly earnings of someone with no diploma.
The charter school is �a huge solution� in the fight against poverty, said Angela Lynch, social worker at the school.
�At least half of these students would have dropped out, easily,� she said.
About 130 students attend five different programs in the school building at 31 W. Milwaukee St., taught by 16 teachers and staff members. Some students end up returning to their home schools, while others graduate from one of the charter school programs.
The lower student/teacher ratio allows teachers to develop relationships with the students and tailor lessons to their individual needs, Lynch said. It�s also a lot easier to maintain control in a 130-student school, and behavior problems tend to be minimal, she said.
�It�s just a more respectful situation,� she said. �(Students) have told us that they feel like this is a home.�
Indeed, many students don�t have stable homes outside the school. More than a third of the students don�t live with their parents, and more than 40 percent receive free or reduced lunch�the school district�s measure of poverty.
Poverty was the reason Anna Rodriguez, 20, dropped out of Parker High School six years ago. Money was tight among her parents and two younger brothers when she was 14, she said.
�I dropped out because I just needed to help my parents out,� she said. �They didn�t tell me to drop out, but I really thought it would be better if I would start working to buy my own things and help them out.�
Today, Anna is working toward a high school equivalency diploma at the charter school. She goes to class three hours every weekday morning, giving her time her to take care of her 3-year-old son, Diego, and work a part-time job. Her husband and parents help where they can.
The charter school isn�t the answer for every student, Lynch said. Some students never graduate, but the majority do, she said.
Anna learned about the charter school through her older brother, who attended for a time but didn�t graduate. Anna hopes to graduate in September or October and go on to Blackhawk Technical College, she said.
She explains the paradox the charter school tries to solve:
�If you don�t work, you don�t have money, can�t help out. If you don�t have an education, you can�t get a good job.
�My kid will understand when I get older that I had to work and get my (diploma).�
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Brownstoner is seeking an intern. If you have a passion for all things Brooklyn and own a digital camera, we would like to hear from you. Journalism grad school students are especially welcome, though that is not a prerequisite. The position is unpaid but the hours will not be onerous. Please email gabby [AT] brownstoner.com if you're interested in applying.


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Porcelain chairs
I'm endlessly fascinated by sculptures that utilize trompe l'oeil, which is why I love this line of 9 chairs by Sam Durant and handmade by talented people at the Jiao Zhi studio in Xiamen, China. Durant adopts those widely used and familiar "mono-block resin chairs" and remakes them out of porcelain. The artist explains that no single company holds patents or copyrights on the the methods, techniques, or design of these chairs which are easily mass produced. These factors explain the chairs ubiquity as "probably the cheapest and most universal piece of furniture, found in nearly every country in the world." With his chairs, the artist is conveying a multitude of criticisms and comments, which I think is worth reading in full:
In producing a ceramic copy of the resin chair several "transformations" take place, allowing the viewer to make comparisons between the functional original and the "copy" (artwork). These comparisons might extend to the economic, political and aesthetic systems in which both the mono-block resin chair and the artwork on which it is based are embedded. Utterly functional in terms of its cost-benefit ratio, western standards of taste obviously assign very little aesthetic value to the resin chair. By hand crafting it in porcelain and rendering it as a unique art work the original functionality and following low aesthetic value of the resin chair are brought into comparison with the value added status of the artwork. I titled each of the chairs with its color and the names of all the workers involved in their construction to ensure that this information will never disappear as they circulate in the art world. Foregrounding the fact that the chairs were made by Chinese fabricators introduces more comparisons for the viewer. Globalization and the liberalization of China's economic system have enabled the spread of mass-produced goods throughout the "West". The label "made in China" has become synonymous with cheap and low quality. Apparently standing in contradiction to this stereotype, the hand made porcelain chairs status as objects of aesthetic value rest on the fact that they are Chinese goods, conceptually and physically. Viewers with even a modest grasp of history know that China has been producing masterpieces of ceramic art for centuries, far longer than any comparable tradition in the "west". This contrast between China's "cheap goods" and its unmatched ceramic art might open another line of questioning. There is also the issue of authorship, of how my position as a recognized North American artist creates value for any work attributed to me, and especially in this case of "outsourced" fabrication. Because I contracted with Chinese producers have I engaged in the same type of exploitation that global corporations do? Through these questions and comparisons the work's relationship to modernism and design, to globalization and trade, to cultural history and to systems of aesthetic value and cultural capital will hopefully come into focus.


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Slot right, sprint right, 378. It's a play that may live forever in Sachem East football lore.
With 10 seconds showing on the clock, Flaming Arrows quarterback Danny Wolff rolled to his right, threw it to the end zone where Ryan Dippel made a spectacular leaping catch over two defenders to complete a 20-yard scoring play as Sachem East scored a shocking 33-28 upset Saturday of host and No. 1 seed Connetquot in a Suffolk I semifinal.
"I just threw it up there and was hoping for a miracle," Wolff said. "Ryan made the greatest catch I've ever seen."
The play concluded a 49-yard drive that began in nearly as miraculous fashion when Brian Balsamo recovered an on-sides kick with 48 seconds left. Sachem East tailback Steven Casali cleared out several players in the scrum, allowing Balsamo to make the key scoop.
Casali was a workhorse all afternoon, anchoring the defense and carrying 44 times for 237 yards and two touchdowns. His 5-yard burst up the middle with 51 seconds left brought Sachem East (6-4), which faces Floyd for the county championship next weekend, to within 28-27. But he was stopped short on a bold two-point conversion try by several Connetquot tacklers.
"I promised my teammates in the huddle that I would make it. It's my mistake that I didn't," said Casali, who hardly could be faulted since the Thunderbirds (8-2) and nearly all of the estimated 3,000 noisy fans knew who was getting the ball.
There was no secret that an on-sides kick was coming but even after Sachem East recovered, it was a difficult trek to the end zone because it had no timeouts remaining, rendering Casali, its primary offensive weapon, virtually useless. He carried just once for seven yards on the drive, which featured a 12-yard completion to Balsamo and a key pass interference penalty in the end zone against Connetquot.
For a moment, Sachem East coach Mark Wojciechowski considered trying to run the ball in the middle to set up a field goal. "But this worked out much better," Wojciechowski said with a broad grin. "Ryan Dippel has done everything for us and been clutch all year."
Never has he been so clutch as he was yesterday. He ran a fade route but couldn't get completely clear. "I saw the ball up there and I didn't think, I just reacted," Dippel said. "I couldn't believe I caught it. I'm at a loss for words."
Even amidst the joyous celebration among Sachem East players and coaches, including a water-bucket dousing of Wojciechowski by Casali and Connor Farrell (three sacks), there were others struggled to explain what they just witnessed.
"I was blocking on the play. I see Danny throw it and Ryan catch it," Casali. "That's the best catch ever. I love that kid. I don't know what to say. I'm speechless."
The game-ending play obscured a superb effort by Connetquot, which was playing only its second game on a brand-new turf field that was unveiled last weekend. Ryan Harvey carried 24 times for 163 yards and three touchdowns, including a brilliant 50-yard run on a well-conceived draw play that put the T-birds up 28-21 with 5:18 left.
Quarterback Brian McKean completed 15 of 22 passes for 163 yards. Tyler Nason caught seven passes for 59 yards. On most days and for most of yesterday's game, Connetquot's offensive output was enough for a victory.
But that final minute, like the final play, has a permanent place in Sachem East lore. "Coach is always telling us to believe and play to the last whistle," Wolff said.
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Sometimes reality overtakes the novel of our lives. Julie Metz was married to Henry, and, as marriages go, it was ticking over pretty well. Both writers, the pair shared house space in a rational way, and their little daughter Liza was the adored center of their small universe. Henry and Julie didn't like everything about each other, but marriage can become that way, a little frayed around the edges, after 12 years. Can't it?
Then Henry died suddenly of a heart attack, and Julie's world crashed in ways she never could have suspected. Or could she?
Within hours after Henry's demise, people close to Julie expunged hundreds of passionate emails that he had rattled off to his several amours, often consulting with one about the other, rarely mentioning his wife or her feelings. So the only jarring notes that penetrated Julie's grief in the early days of widowhood were the sound of a woman screaming in the next room and the sight of her friend Cathy weeping inconsolably at Henry's funeral. What was that about?
The revelations began to trickle in to her numbed consciousness a few months after Henry's death. One friend told her about one of Henry's women. Then another, about another. The total picture, emerging gradually over the course of this well-crafted memoir, was damning. Henry had been having sexual affairs from the beginning of their marriage and most of the way through, the worst of which involved Cathy. Cathy was supposedly Julie's buddy, part of a couple among the couples who lounged around the pool, her daughter the best friend of Julie's Liza.
Painfully, the newly widowed Julie was forced to find a way to forget, if not forgive, Henry. All the while she found herself "haunted" by the spirit of her departed spouse, who she believed was rueful and longing to confess. Julie decided to contact each of Henry's women, a process that was slow, agonizing and sometimes surprising. Most of the ladies expressed their culpability and made humble apologies to the wronged wife, except Cathy, a poisonous personality in Julie's estimation, capable of keeping up the pretense of friendship for years while having sex with Henry, sometimes in the house while Julie worked, unheeding, in her writer's study.
The contacts made with Henry's women formed the basis for a healing process that Julie had to go through in order to take the next steps in her life. She talked to Christine by phone; from the other side of the country, Christine tried to explain away her affair with Henry and befriend Julie, but this attempt rang hollow. With only one of the many females on Henry's list was Julie able to bond --- a dark, New Age-y type about whom Henry obsessed and pouted. Julie learned that she could accept some of Eliana's mystical mumbo-jumbo along with what seemed genuine remorse. Unlike the other women embroiled in Henry's life, Eliana saw in Henry's death a mandate to change her promiscuous ways and learn to face consequences. In improving herself, Eliana offered a strange solace to the woman she wronged.
Most women seek protective long-term mates, while many men derive ego satisfaction from philandering, experimenting, or, as Henry described it, "risk." A charming liar, Henry believed he could conjure up the perfect woman, a petite brunette like Julie who would excite him like Cathy and mentor him like Christine. Too bad. He never found his ideal. And left a wife and daughter to comb through the mess he left behind, searching for clues to his doomed and damaging explorations.
Metz's chronicle, subtitled "A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal," is a fitting tribute to marriage, a dear-bought finding on what it means to make vows and try to keep them. It is also a passionless examination of why the battle of the sexes continues to rage, with each side having a different view of the ultimate and desired outcome. Metz finds resolution with a new partner, after many trial relationships and a long period of mourning, humiliation, anger and shock.
Anyone who has been betrayed in love will empathize with the author's anguish and take comfort in her resolve to let the past go and cherish the present moment, which carries its own depth charge of perfection. "Men and women can't live with each other easily," she concludes, "but we must live together, otherwise we'll all die out. So we must muddle along…." Henry was unwilling to muddle along, but Julie has learned how.
Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott on May 2, 2011
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So the American people have spoken. We have re-elected a president who backs gay marriage, is strongly pro-abortion, has violated his oath to protect the laws of this land by directing the attorney general to not defend the Defense of Marriage Act, is not a friend of Israel and has taken this country on a course that is radically different from the Judeo-Christian principles it was founded on.
Additionally, Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana, and Maine, Maryland and Washington voted to legalize gay marriage.
People danced in the streets with jubilation over their "victories."
Leading up to Nov. 6, Christian leaders urged believers to fast and pray for the election. Perhaps now, these leaders will realize that, even though we must be involved in the political process and vote with a biblical worldview and pray for our civil leaders, government is not the answer to our crumbling society. Never has been. Never will be.
Perhaps Christians will realize that we must concentrate our energies on praying for a revived church. God is the answer, and as we can see throughout history, He uses His church as an instrument of change in society.
The church needs revival, big time. We've been too busy remaking the church into something Jesus never intended — shallow, compromised, spineless and unholy.
A revived church is passionate, knowledgeable, bold, fearless, uncompromising and loving. A revived church is saturated with the Holy Spirit, sold out to Jesus and empowered to build the Kingdom of God.
Church, we are at a crossroads. Will we be the Nineveh in the book of Jonah that heeded God's call to repent and were spared judgment, or the Nineveh 100 years later in the book of Nahum that did not and was destroyed?
Will we finally wake up and start crying out to God in repentance for our own sins and the sins of our nation? Church, God is calling us back. He desires to use us. Revival is our only hope. We need a third Great Awakening.
Which Nineveh will we be?
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David Koepp Writing 'Men in Black 3'
Although we already reported that Sony has been planning on making Men In Black 3 (or MIIIB) ever since Men in Black II came out in 2002, we now have new information that veteran writer David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man) has signed on to re-work the original draft of the script, penned by Etan Cohen.
MIIIB will be filmed in native 3D with co-stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones returning, with the welcome addition of Josh Brolin (playing a late 1960s Jones), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and the peerless Sacha Baron Cohen. Barry Sonnenfeld will once again direct, with Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald producing, and Steven Spielberg executive producing.
Production on MIIIB will begin this fall, though Universal isn't planning a release until May 25th 2012. That means the studio will be moving Battleship, their Peter Berg-directed adaptation of the Hasbro game, up a week, to May 18th, where it will compete with DreamWorks Animation's scheduled Madagascar 3. Those films join a number of other high-profile studio projects planned for release in summer 2012, including The Avengers, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek 2, the Spider-Man reboot, and Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie.
Summer 2012 is still a long way away, but for now, enjoy this bootlegged teaser of Will Smith in full MIB regalia, bragging that he's going to make 3D "look good."


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Your donations keep RPGWatch running!
RPGWatch - 2008 Game of the Year closed
by Myrthos, 2009-01-04 11:51:45
The Game of the Year contests are now closed, we are processing the results and will get back to you in the next days with the results.
As far as prizes are concerned: RPGWatch puts forward some of the games that fell on their doorsteps and remained to be unopened. They are actually 2007 releases and they are European versions, but we'll ship anywhere :)
- Medal of Honor: Airborne
- Lost planet: Extreme Condition
- Resident Evil 4
- Stranglehold
And 1C makes 2 downloads available from their collection of games, including King's Bounty.
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Probably the most daunting task an owner of a Keurig Brewer will encounter is to choose among the K Cups.
Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Your single cup coffee maker experience.
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Five laureates find new ways of looking at old problems
On 29 March, five laureates will receive the L'Oréal-UNESCO award for Women in Science, which comes with prize-money of US$100,000. They will be joined by this year's 15 international fellows and one special fellow in life sciences.
The focus of the laureates' research is on medicine and, for one of them, on 'resurrection plants'. As Günter Blobel, President of the jury and Nobel laureate in Medicine (1999), put it, 'the laureates have all uncovered new ways of looking at old problems.'
Prof. Jill Farrant is the laureate for Africa and the Arab States. She holds the Research Chair in Plant Molecular Physiology at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and has been recompensed for discovering how plants survive under dry conditions. Prof. Farrant is the world's leading expert on resurrection plants, which 'come back to life' from a desiccated, seemingly dead state when given water. Her team's ultimate goal is to develop drought-tolerant crops to nourish populations in arid, drought-prone climates, notably in Africa. Her research may also have medicinal applications.
Prof. Ingrid Scheffer is the laureate for Asia−Pacific. A paediatric neurologist at the University of Melbourne (Australia), she has been recompensed for identifying genes involved in certain forms of epilepsy, a brain disorder characterized by seizures and other symptoms that can be extremely disruptive to the lives of the 50 million sufferers. She has also described several new forms of epilepsy. She and her colleagues were the first to show that sodium channel genes caused febrile seizures, for instance, leading to a Belgian discovery that mutations to these genes caused Dravet Syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy. Her findings have already improved diagnosis and treatment for many patients and may lead to new therapies.
Prof. Frances Ashcroft is the laureate for Europe. A Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Oxford (UK), she has been recompensed for advancing our understanding of insulin secretion and neonatal diabetes. In 1984, she discovered a protein that acted as the link between blood−glucose levels and insulin secretion. As a result, people with a rare inherited form of diabetes can now simply take an existing drug in pill form, rather than enduring daily insulin injections. The drug has improved their blood glucose control and thereby reduced the risk of diabetic complications such as blindness and kidney disease; she is now studying why 25% of these patients also have neurological problems. Prof. Ashcroft is also exploring what goes wrong with insulin secretion in adult-onset (type 2) diabetes, which affects 336 million people worldwide.
Prof. Susana López is the laureate for Latin America. Based at the National University of Mexico, she has been recompensed for her studies on rotaviruses, which cause gastroentiritis and affect nearly every child on Earth under the age of five. Every year, 600 000 children in developing countries die from the resulting diarrhoea. The rotavirus was discovered in 1973 but there is still no antiviral drug to control the infection, antivirals being available so far only to prevent the replication of such viruses as HIV, herpes and influenza A and B. With her colleagues, Prof. Lopez has developed new diagnostic tests, isolated several new rotavirus strains and contributed to efforts to find a vaccine.
Prof. Bonnie Bassler is the laureate for North America. A Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Squibb Professor at Princeton University (USA), she has been recompensed for showing that bacteria 'talk' to one another using chemicals as their words. About 1250 g of bacteria live in the gut and on the skin of every human body. Although bacteria live as single cells, Prof. Bassler was convinced that bacteria were ineffective on their own and had to work as co-ordinated 'armies' to keep us healthy (such as by digesting food) or make us sick (by causing disease). To act in unison, groups of bacteria had to communicate with one other. Her startling discoveries may someday lead to new antibiotics that interfere with bacterial conversations as well as many other applications, such as infection-resistant surgical implants.
In 2011, UNESCO celebrated the International Year of Chemistry, which marked the cententary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Marie Curie The Special Fellowship "in the footsteps of Marie Curie" was created the same year by UNESCO and the L'Oréal Foundation. The Special Fellowship is awarded each year to a former international fellow who, through her outstanding career, incarnates the future of science. See the map for the full list of this year's 16 fellows.


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My Nonprofit Reviews
Review for Beauty's Haven Farm and Equine Rescue, Inc., Morriston, FL, USA
Beauty's Haven Farm & Equine Rescue set the standard in equine rescue & rehabilitation. They are a knowledgeable, hands-on, 24/7 facility who remain dedicated to the quality of life once a horse appears in their sights. They tirelessly rehabilitate, working closely with vets, farriers, equine dental experts, acupuncturists and any other professional who can bring relief, comfort, healing & health to their patients. They are arguably the most transparent non-profit one could ever donate to and are never, NEVER arrogant or rude to those who support them! A class act all the way!
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Review for Beauty's Haven Farm and Equine Rescue, Inc., Morriston, FL, USA
Beauty's Haven Farm & Equine Rescue is the quintessential rescue for horses. This farm is professionally managed & exquisitely run. BHFER tirelessly cares for each horse. They give daily updates, with photos, of the care each horse gets. They network with area horse professionals to do what they need to do in order to give the very best of care & rehab to each horse. Any money donated is acknowledged & an end of the year report for tax purposes is promptly sent to each supporter. Beauty's Haven has only the very best interest of each horse in mind. Donations are gratefully received and used for the specific purpose of caring for the horses & improving the farm for the sole purpose of the horses' care, comfort & safety. When one donates their hard-earned dollars to BHFER, they can be assured that their money is going to a great cause, and $5.00 is as appreciated as $500, as it all comes from the heart. From the moment BHFER brings rescued horses onto the property, they are loved and cared for immensely. When the time comes that the horse can no longer live comfortably, BHFER is there to gently & lovingly help that animal cross. Beauty's Haven Farm and Equine Rescue is a class act. Donate & volunteer with pride & confidence.
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Daily updates, before, during and after photos of rescued horses & end of the year tax documentation.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Provided I had the funds, I'd buy up adjacent acreage, add more fencing, shelters & barns & send more volunteers to help. All these "changes" would merely enhance an already existing wonderful operation!
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
I see my money is going to a GREAT cause and the horses get the very best loving care they so desperately need.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
...completely dedicated to the cause of rescuing as many horses as possible & giving them the very best of care.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
...continue operating as they are but on a much larger scale. The animals would be the biggest benefactors!
Ways to make it better...
...I could be sure that there are other rescues of this caliber.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
..there is not enough time in a day & not enough volunteers.
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...I wish Theresa could clone herself & that horse owners could have half the heart that Theresa does.
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Woman Jumps to Escape Wrestler Husband, Dies
A champion arm wrestler is being held without bail, charged with the manslaughter of his wife, who authorities say jumped out of a second-story window to escape him.
According to police, his wife Lisa Stilkey, 44, jumped out of the window to flee her husband after a violent disagreement Thursday night. According to reports, she threw a pillow down first to try and break her fall, and then proceeded to jump out of the window of their Douglas, Mass., home.
Allen Stilkey, 40, was arraigned just before 8:00 p.m. in Uxbridge District Court in Massachusetts, pleading not guilty to charges of manslaughter, battery, assault and threat to commit a crime, WFXT-TV reported.
Lisa Stikely was taken to the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester suffering from extreme injuries, and was pronounced dead early Friday. Outside the courthouse Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said her autopsy showed "various bruising and severe injuries, including many rib injuries."
Just before jumping Stikley reportedly made a frightened call to her son. "(The son) heard Mr. Stilkey say, 'When you get off the phone, I'm going to kill you,'" Early said.
According to reports she told told her son, "If I'm dead, he did it." Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said when Stilkey was arrested, it appeared as if he had been consuming alcohol.
In 1995 Stilkey was the International Arm Wrestling Federation's Arm Wrestler of the Year, champion left-handed wrestler in the 199-220 pound weight division.
Over the weekend he was held on $500,000 bail, and his lawyer says his client was not to blame for his wife's death. Just before her death, Early says a $250,000 life insurance police had been taken out on Lisa Stikely and passport photos had been updated. The couple had only been married for two years.


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