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TAMPA, Fla. -- Getting Derek Jeter to cop to injury, or even discomfort, is rare.
Yet four months after surgery, Jeter made this admission Sunday morning regarding the left ankle he initially injured in early September:
"It was something that I hurt it, I continued to play on it, probably when I shouldn't have," he said. "But I continued to play on it and then eventually it broke."
That happened in Game 1 of the ALCS against the Tigers on Oct. 13 as he fielded a grounder to his left. Surgery took place a week later, propelling the 38-year-old shortstop into an offseason that he described, again somewhat uncharacteristically, as "absolutely terrible."
He said the experience was rough physically and also mentally.
"But more physical," Jeter said. "I was stuck on the couch for a good five, six weeks, where I couldn't really move around too much.
"I don't want to make it seem more dramatic than it is, but you've got to learn to walk again, so in that sense, physically it was a challenge, and then mentally it's a challenge when you're sitting on the couch, you can't get anywhere. So I had a little scooter to move around, but it was tough. It was not fun."
Last week at the team's minor-league complex, the shortstop began running on a treadmill, the first running he's done during rehab. He expects to run on the field perhaps as soon as Monday when the club has its first full-squad workout.
Jeter and the Yankees have maintained he'll be ready for Opening Day, and though he said "I'm going to have to push myself" in spring training for that to happen, there was no concession that it won't.
"Why wouldn't it be realistic?" Jeter said. "I broke my ankle in October. I'm right where I'm supposed to be up until this point. The ankle has healed perfectly and now it's just a matter of getting everything else in shape."
To use his words from last week, Jeter has received "the green light" to do everything he needs to do. It's up to Joe Girardi to manage things and make sure the shortstop doesn't overdo it.
Both agree Jeter isn't likely to play in an exhibition game the first week. When he is deemed ready, he'll be eased in as a designated hitter.
"There's no rush to get him in games," Girardi said. "Knowing Derek, I feel like he'll be ready , but we'll have to go through this and see."
Girardi said it was a "tussle" to get Jeter to agree to rest the ankle during the last month of 2012. Jeter said he was told he likely suffered a stress fracture at some point before the ankle finally snapped.
"Initially, it was a bone bruise and it progressed from there," Jeter said. "But after it was originally diagnosed -- maybe four or five weeks before it [the break] happened -- they told me it was a bone bruise, and I'm not going to ask them again to look at it again. Just keep playing. And then eventually it turned into a stress fracture and broke in half."
To avoid any confusion, general manager Brian Cashman said later Sunday that the team didn't knowingly send Jeter onto the field with a stress fracture and that it wasn't clear exactly when that progression occurred.
"If you can play, you play," Jeter said. "Like I've always told you before, I don't think you ever really talk about injuries, because then it's an excuse. I was told I was able to play, so I played. Unfortunately, it broke. But I would do the same thing over again if I had to."
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(Phys.org) —The unusual properties of water, including its anomalous thermal expansion and density anomaly, have intrigued researchers for decades. These properties are notoriously hard to investigate experimentally owing to the inherently small length scales and complex interactions that appear to govern the physics of these materials. Studies of small particles (colloids) dispersed in solvents, known as colloidal suspensions, used as models for atomic and molecular liquids have shown that some of these anomalies can be engineered in colloidal suspensions of soft particles.
A report published in Physical Review Letters describes research carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory that elucidates the arrangements and mobility of soft nanoparticles in dense suspensions that mirror the anomalies observed in complex liquids like water. This discovery, which is the first instance of experimental observation of such behavior in a colloidal suspension, allows for an extension of the toolbox of the experimental physicist interested in employing suspensions to mimic molecular liquids, with the added advantage of readily accessible length and time scales.
The research team, with members from Cornell University and Argonne, synthesized soft nanoparticles by densely tethering small polymers onto the surface of silica nanoparticles. Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) measurements were carried out at X-ray Science Division beamlines 12-ID-B and 8-ID-I at the APS to reveal the equilibrium structure and the characteristics of particle motion, respectively.
It was found that the particle arrangements become more disordered and move faster when more particles are added into the suspension beyond a critical particle volume fraction, coinciding with a sharp increase in the resistance by the system of grafted nanoparticles to physical deformations.
This is in contrast to the usual situation where increasing the concentration of particles in a dilute suspension decreases the space available for placing new particles, thus increasing particle ordering and slowing them down.
"It becomes easier for any particle in these suspensions to diffuse when they are more surrounding by their neighbors; the counterintuitive nature of this situation can be illustrated with the following analogy - it is easier to make a run and score a touch down when the opposing team has fifteen people in defense," said Samanvaya Srivastava, a senior graduate student at Cornell University and lead author of the Physical Review Letters article.
The anomalous behavior of particles suspended in water and other complex liquids has been long argued to exist for systems with soft repulsion, which is characterized by a potential energy that exhibits a finite width over which particle interaction occurs. These empirical findings lend support to an emerging consensus from simulation studies and provide for a model system for studying systems with soft repulsive interactions.
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Samanvaya Srivastava, Lynden A. Archer, Suresh Narayanan, "Structure and Transport Anomalies in Soft Colloids", Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148302 (2013). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.148302

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Trimble and Autodesk, Inc. entered into an interoperability agreement to improve current data exchanges, aimed at saving customers' time and reducing project costs typically associated with workflow inefficiency across different suppliers' technologies. This will benefit architects, engineers and contractors, and importantly, project owners by enabling more freedom to optimize technology workflows needed to meet the complex requirements of today's construction projects.
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In early June, Topcon Positioning Group and Bentley Systems unveiled a new level of direct communication between Bentley's design applications and Topcon's mobile work force products found in the forthcoming release of its MAGNET 4.0. With direct communication from MAGNET Enterprise to Bentley's ProjectWise, users of Topcon's family of MAGNET and 3D-MC software solutions can now, while working in the field, access or receive i-models created by Bentley's OpenRoads design modeling technology. To find out more about the agreement and how MAGNET works with Bentley applications, AECCafé Voice spoke with Dustin Parkman, Bentley's vice president of product development.
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Eniko Paulo, business development manager for GRAPHISOFT, spoke on the new release of Archicad, Archicad 20. The new release seeks to extend user information usage to the information management stage, looking at how can we involve BIM way in the early stages in the design. BIM is part of the whole lifecycle and the BIM model is used by those not even using BIM software.
How to Integrate Data Capture, BIM, CIM, GIS and CADMonday, June 6th, 2016
At an industry session held at SPAR3D 2016 in April in The Woodlands, Texas, Lou Bush, Director of Survey, Bowman Consulting Group, and Steve Hutsell, Chief, Geospatial Section U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Seattle District, gave a talk entitled: "Integrated Data Capture, BIM, CIM, GIS and CAD – Owner and Industry Perspectives on Products, Processes and Policies for Informed Decision Making."
From the Exhibit Floor: AIA Convention 2016Thursday, May 26th, 2016
At the AIA Convention 2016 held in Philadelphia last week, the Exhibit Hall showcased software, hardware and all types of building materials.
Emphasis for AEC technology this year is on reality capture or modeling, building information modeling, zero carbon energy initiatives, conceptual modeling and the inclusion of metadata in projects.
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Celebrity keynoters Kevin Spacey, Neri Oxman, and Rem Koolhaas will be among the numerous highlights of the AIA Convention 2016 held in Philadelphia next week. Learn and keep up with the latest from leading experts on topics including resiliency, business management, ADA compliance, LEED, green building, design and health, and more. Register for an in-depth workshop or pack your schedule with challenging seminars. Nearly 800 exhibitors will also be on hand with the latest products and technologies in the industry. Philadelphia is always a treat to visit so attendees will find a lot to entertain them after the conference lights dim.
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ARM stand at Mobile World Congress, Hall 6, Stand 6A31.
With analysts predicting that over 1 billion smartphones will ship in 2013, how can scale, diversity and differentiation be achieved in the market?
At MWC ARM will show how low power and high performance CPUs and GPUs are central to the continued innovation of mobile devices and key to improving user experiences. Technology leadership from the ARM ecosystem is helping to shape the mobile society; at MWC it will be present in everything from the latest smartphones and tablets to the trusted security systems and infrastructure networks supporting them.
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The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year 2012 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The bill includes a total of $39.6 billion in regular discretionary funding, which is $8.6 billion or 18% below last year's level. Included in these reductions are cuts back to the fiscal year 2008 levels or below for certain operations and assistance accounts. The bill also includes $7.6 billion designated as Global War on Terror funding, which is $1.1 billion below the President's request.
The FY 2012 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations legislation contains funding for diplomatic operations and foreign assistance activities – including programs to promote security and stability in the developing world; activities to fight illegal drug trafficking and crime; and security assistance to U.S. strategic allies, including assistance for Israel. The bill also includes significant reforms to improve the oversight and management of precious tax dollars, and supports important policy provisions to ensure the respect for life around the world.
"This bill provides essential support to secure and stabilize some of the most critical areas of the world – including Iraq and Afghanistan. However, we have to be extraordinarily careful when using precious American tax dollars around the world, and must protect against wasteful spending and prevent these funds from falling into the wrong hands. This bill includes strong and significant oversight measures to keep a tight grip on the management of these funds, and helps ensure that each and every dollar is being spent wisely and for the benefit of the American people," Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said.
State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee Chairwoman Kay Granger echoed Rogers' statement, saying:
"This bill reforms and refocuses the way we spend our foreign aid. We have established tough oversight and accountability measures that will make sure my constituents' tax dollars are not wasted overseas while making sure we support our national security priorities and key allies. In this difficult geopolitical and economic climate, the American people deserve policies that are based on our principles."
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Bill Summary:
International Security Assistance – The bill provides $8 billion in discretionary funding for international security assistance, a decrease of $61 million from last year's level and $167 million from the President's request. This includes funds for international narcotics control, nonproliferation and anti-terrorism programs, peacekeeping operations, foreign military financing, and international military education and training. The bill fully funds the $3.075 billion commitment in the United States-Israel Memorandum of Understanding. It also supports security initiatives in Mexico, Colombia, and Central America to assist ongoing counter-narcotics and law enforcement efforts.
Bilateral Assistance – The legislation contains a total of $17.7 billion for bilateral economic assistance, a decrease of $3.5 billion below last year and $4.8 billion below the President's request. This includes funding for global health programs, international disaster assistance, refugee assistance, the Peace Corps, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and various economic and democracy promotion programs.
Multilateral Assistance – The legislation provides $1.6 billion for multilateral assistance, a reduction of $729 million below last year and $2.1 billion below the President's request. This includes significant cuts to many international organizations and programs, including the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, and several other international financial institutions. In addition, the bill eliminates funding for the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund. The bill does not provide funding for the requested General Capital Increases for multilateral development banks, which remain unauthorized.
Export and Investment Programs – The bill provides $266 million for export assistance programs, a reduction of $84 million from the request. The bill also includes $1.5 million over fiscal year 2011 for the Export-Import Bank Inspector General to provide robust oversight over the agency. The Trade and Development Agency – which promotes U.S. trade interests abroad – is level funded at $50 million, the same as last year.
State Department Operations and Related Agencies – The bill contains a total of $11.9 billion in discretionary funding for operational costs of the State Department and related agencies – a decrease of $3.9 billion below last year's level and a $3.1 billion below the President's request. This includes funding for programs such as diplomatic and consular affairs, embassy security and operations, assessed contributions to international organizations, and international broadcasting. The bill also eliminates temporary pay raises for overseas officers.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Operations – The bill contains $1.04 billion for USAID – a reduction of $488 million from last year's level and $705 million below the President's request. The bill halts new hiring at USAID and stops expansion of facilities overseas associated with that hiring.
Global War on Terror – The bill includes Global War on Terror (GWOT) funding for efforts and activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Iraq, GWOT funds will support security forces and police previously funded by the Department of Defense. GWOT funds will also support civilian programs in support of the military's counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan.
Increased Oversight and Management – The bill includes several provisions to increase oversight of taxpayer dollars and tighten the reins on the Administration's management of programs, including:
Important Policy Provisions – The bill supports important policy provisions to ensure the respect for life around the globe. For example the bill:
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Environmental Protection; Coastal Management Act; Regulation of Structures Below High Tide Line; Whether Trial Court Properly Determined that State and Local Authorities have Concurrent Regulatory Roles Regarding Shoreline Flood and Erosion Control Structures. The plaintiffs, who own property on the Connecticut River approximately four miles upstream from Long Island Sound, installed a seawall along the riverbank in order to control erosion. General Statutes § 22a-359 (a) authorizes the department of environmental protection (DEP) to regulate the erection of structures "in the tidal, coastal or navigable waters of the state waterward of the high tide line." General Statutes § 22a-361 prohibits construction of structures below the high tide line without prior authorization. After inspecting the plaintiffs' shoreline and considering one-year frequency tidal flood elevation data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the DEP concluded that a substantial portion of the seawall had been constructed below the high tide line without prior authorization in violation of § 22a-361. The DEP further determined that the seawall was a shoreline flood and erosion control structure constructed within the coastal boundary and that it had been installed without the approval of the local zoning authority in violation of General Statutes § 22a-109 (a) of the Coastal Management Act (Act). In addition, the DEP found that the seawall was built upon a coastal bluff or escarpment, both of which are shoreland areas protected by the Act. Finding that the seawall constituted a public nuisance, the DEP ordered the plaintiffs to remove the entire structure. The plaintiffs appealed to the trial court, which affirmed the decision. The court concluded that the DEP acted within its authority in deeming the structure a public nuisance under General Statutes § 22a-108 and in issuing the removal order. It agreed with the DEP that the plaintiffs should have filed a coastal site plan with the local zoning agency in order to comply with § 22a-109 (a) and that the seawall had been built, in part, below the high tide line in violation of § 22a-361. The court also ruled that the DEP shared regulatory authority with the local zoning agency over the seawall as a shoreline control structure, at least to the extent that it was built below the high tide line. In addition, the court rejected the plaintiffs' claim that the DEP's use of the USACE data in establishing the high tide line constituted impermissible rule-making because the use of that data as a standard has not been authorized by statute or regulation. The court found that the methodology used by the DEP in this case to determine the high tide line was consistent with the methods for making that determination contained in § 22a-359 (c). Finally, the court concluded that it was within the DEP's discretion to order the seawall's complete removal, including the portion located landward of the high tide line, because that part was built within the coastal boundary without local zoning approval.


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Roger B. Chaffee letter and postcard, 1967 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
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Scope and Contents: The letter dated July 24, 1965 is from Roger Chaffee to his parents. On the reverse is a July 25, 1965 note from Martha Chaffee to her in-laws in which she signs, "Roger, Martha, Sheryl and Steve." In the letter, Roger discussed an upcoming flight and the astronaut's rotation as capsule communicators (CAPCOMS). He mentions Gus Grissom, Gene Cernan, Jim McDivitt, Buzz Aldrin and Dave Scott. Both Roger and Martha discuss recent family activities at home. The postcard, dated July 1965, was sent by Roger from Iceland to his parents.


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An unmanned SpaceX cargo capsule left the International Space Station and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean over the weekend.
SpaceX, as the privately owned, California, company is known, is one of two firms hired by NASA to fly science experiments and supplies to the $100 billion station, a project of 15 countries, after the shuttles' retirement.
Following a successful test flight in May, SpaceX launched its first operational Dragon cargo ship on Oct. 7 and reached the station three days later.
On Sunday, as the station soared 255 miles (410 km) over Burma, Dragon was released by the station's robot arm to begin the return trip back to Earth.
It splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico's Baja California at about 1920 GMT.
Unlike the Russian, Japanese and European freighters that also ferry cargo to the station, Dragon was designed for round-trip flights.
It returned with 1,673 pounds (759 kg) of equipment and science samples, including hundreds of frozen urine and blood samples from the crew.
"It was nice while she was on board," station commander Sunita Williams radioed to Mission Control in Houston.
"Literally and figuratively, there is a piece of us on that spacecraft going home to Earth."
She leads a six-member crew that includes Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Yuri Malenchenko; U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
SpaceX's next supply run is expected in January.
Orbital Sciences, NASA's second cargo hauler, plans to debut its Cygnus capsule in February or March.
Combined, the companies' contracts with NASA are worth $3.5 billion.
SpaceX also is working under a separate $440 million NASA contract to upgrade the Dragon capsule and its Falcon 9 launcher to carry astronauts.
The company plans a test flight with its own employees in 2015.
Boeing and privately owned Sierra Nevada, also have investment funds from NASA to develop alternative space taxi designs.
NASA hopes to be able to buy rides for its astronauts by 2017, breaking Russia's monopoly on crew ferry flights, a service that costs the United States more than $60 million a ride.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in nine months, evidence that the job market is improving.
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications dropped by 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 381,000. That's the lowest number of applications since late February. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell for the ninth time in 11 weeks to 393,250. That's the lowest average since early April.
Applications that drop below 375,000 - consistently - tend to correlate with a steady decline in the unemployment rate. There are some signs that the economy and job market are improving modestly. The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent in November, the government said last week, down from 9 percent the previous month.
That's the lowest rate in two and a half years. Still, the unemployment rate dropped last month in part because more people gave up looking for work. Once the unemployed stop looking for jobs and drop out of the work force, they are no longer counted as unemployed. Employers added a net total of 120,000 jobs last month.
The economy has generated 100,000 or more jobs five months in a row - the first time that has happened since April 2006. The report on hiring gains followed other positive signs. Manufacturing firms are boosting output and retailers reported a strong start to the holiday shopping season. Consumer confidence jumped in November to the highest level since July, and Americans' pay rose in October by the most in seven months.
Many economists expect growth to accelerate in the final three months of the year, to about a 3 percent annual rate. That would be an improvement from 2 percent growth in the July-September period. But the U.S. economy is vulnerable to shocks from overseas. European leaders are struggling to contain a two-year old debt crisis and the 17 nations that use the euro may already be in recession, economists say.
That could slow U.S. exports and cut into overseas profits earned by U.S. multinationals. Most economists are penciling in slower U.S. growth next year, partly because of Europe's slowdown.
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WORCESTER — The Grafton Street roundhouse site was abandoned and sold in the 1950s, when steam locomotives no longer held sway.
In 2004, this site became a Shaw's Supermarket, which closed two years later.
The land once formed the southern boundary of the railroad complex that culminates at Union Station. Tracks feeding in from the northeast culminate at Union Station for the passenger section of the tracks today; freight trains use the freight yards on Franklin Street.
While freight has always passed through Worcester on trains, as long as the trains have been used for that purpose, passenger cars had a sketchier history in Worcester.
Though passenger railroads began in the mid-1800s and continue today, there was an interval when travelers from Boston to Albany were the only ones passing through; no Boston-Worcester daily commuters used the line from 1975 until it was reinstated in 1994, when a few rush hour trains began to operate.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has gradually added more trains, as well as more stations between Boston and Worcester, for a growing commuter population.
Ownership of railroad lines and mergers of railroad companies has been the name of the game for the railroads in Worcester, and most of us are familiar with the names of the companies.
Starting its life as a combination of the Boston-Worcester line and joining with a New York State-Connecticut-Western Massachusetts line, the Boston and Albany later became part of the New York Central Railroad system, then Conrail and then CSX, which it remains today. The MBTA operates the commuter line.
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James Franco: Not Dating Ashley Benson!
James Franco has spoken out about reports he is dating Ashley Benson, saying there is no truth to the rumors.
"I also hear that I've been dating Selena Gomez, Kristen Stewart and Ashley Benson. Hot damn, am I a lucky guy," the 34-year-old actor wrote in a piece for Huffington Post.
"I wish I had actually gotten closer than the 13th row of the theater in Toronto where Kristen gave her On the Road Q and A, but I didn't; not only did I not talk to her, I didn't even go to the SoHo house where I supposedly asked her out on a date. As for Gomez and Benson, those are [Justin] Bieber's girls and I wouldn't dare tangle with the Biebs. I heard he wants to kick my ass. Yikes!"
James and Ashley were caught cuddling at Universal Studios Hollywood last week and were also spotted on a romantic stroll in New York City's Washington Square Park.


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House GOP Question Changes In Flood Insurance Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The effort to delay huge increases in insurance premiums for homeowners in flood-prone areas faces a skeptical House chairman who is largely standing behind the changes Congress oversaw in the nation's flood insurance program less than two years ago.
The Texas Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, Congressman Jeb Hensarling (HEHN'-sur-ling), wants "free-market alternatives" to the government-run program.
Hensarling and other House Republicans aren't inclined to back away from changes meant to deal with a program that is $24 billion in the red. It's been bailing out at-risk homeowners whose flood insurance has been subsidized by taxpayers and other policyholders for decades.
Increasing tensions over the issue is a 67-32 bipartisan vote Thursday in the Senate to delay some, but not all, of the changes approved in 2012.


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There are many things in life that I can't quite make my mind up about. For example The Horrors are they an innovative exciting band or just rehashing old Kraut Rock riffs with the odd 80s power pop interlude. And Lime Pickle. Is it the culinary equivalent of bungee jumping or the only real accompaniment for a poppadom. I don't …
10 Men's Trophy Jumpers to warm your winter wardrobe
Bit chilly out, isn't it? If you're still running about in flip-flops and short sleeves then a) You're mental and b) take a look at the calendar, it's the middle of October! Global warming may be jumbling up the seasons like a misguided game of drunken Twister, but winter's definitely kicking in now. If the change in weather has caught …
Diesel Underdenim underwear is for low slacks, not "Never Nude" dudes
Under…denims? That's the new underwear push from Diesel, who've put together a new range of "Underdenim" trunks for men who like to wear their slacks low with a bit of cheek on show, otherwise known as the "Most Dumbest Fashion Fad Eva". Misleading marketing be-damned, they're made of cotton rather than denim (which we're certain your knackers will be thankful …
Marc Jacobs Menswear for 5 More Years (which is 5 more Christmases!)
DNR reports today that Marc Jacobs International has signed a contract with Staff International (a part of Diesel founder Renzo Rosso's fashion empire) that will see Marc by Marc Jacobs Menswear expand over the next five years. Already in Rosso's couture stable are Dsquared2, Viktor & Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela and Vivienne Westwood.
Diesel's Dirty Thirty jeans
The massive queue, deep in denim conversation.
As we arrived to Neal Street this morning the queue outside the Diesel shop snaked around Earlham Street and almost spilled out onto Seven Dials.
The fuss was for Diesel's Dirty Thirty limited edition jeans, created to celebrate thirty years of diesel, modelled by Daisy Lowe and retailing for just £30 you can see why so many people turned up for the one-day only sale.
Life begins at (Dirty) Thirty
Life begins at 30, or so they say- I'm 24 and I beg to differ. Come my 30th birthday I will become a recluse until my 50th and can rejoin society with a cane and pipe, middle age just isn't cool. However for a denim brand a 30th birthday is the prime of its youth so lets all send our warmest birthday wishes to Italian denim fiends Diesel.
Diesel not working with Hedi Slimane
When word first spread of Hedi Slimane working on a Diesel red campaign, it originally looked like Diesel had pulled off the fashion scoop of the century. The idea of Diesel, the brand more associated with premiership footballers than fashion icons, working with Hedi Slimane was too weird to be true. Apparently Hedi thought so too, putting out a statement saying that he had "no interest at all in Renzo Rosso's group, let alone Diesel". Ouch. He could have just denied it.
Adidas Originals denim by Diesel
The Adidas originals range tends to throw
up interesting collaborations from time to time and this is no different. The originals
denim by Diesel range is an interesting mix – if only for the fact that you
wonder why Diesel agreed to it. It's not bad in any way, it's just that the
pieces are just Diesel jeans with some Adidas branding attached.
Hedi Slimane back?
According to the rumours via DNR, Hedi Slimane is in talks with his old backer, Bernard Arnault, about launching a brand new collection under his own name.


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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Ducks in Paris
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Carol, I really appreciated your offer to let me draw from your window and of course for the nice lunch you made for us. I am also pleased that you were inspired to draw your wonderful rooftops. (your drawing is so much better than mine!)ReplyDelete
Love the post. The yellow rubber ducks, your drawings... happy Easter from London:-)ReplyDelete
Love your new hairdo.ReplyDelete
HI Carol...love the haircut...and the pictures , especially the bridges...ReplyDelete
you have got to be kidding me about the paperclips...mon dieu.
You always look great:)ReplyDelete
How fun to have a painting buddy pop by..you do have a great view..who would have known about the no paper clips?
Love the art work as always..
I have ducks on my street sometimes...So cute how they waddle along..
So much beauty! Comment belle vous êtes!!ReplyDelete
The French Visa office is funny. There are so many details that it always seems necessary to visit more than once. I believe that it is a way to ensure that you deserve to stay in Paris! Your hair looks lovely. I am thinking of getting mine cut short for summer.ReplyDelete
So Paris has Lemon Tart Week? I will be making future plans. :)ReplyDelete
... I love my posts from Paris ... they are just delightful .. so glad you are doing well with them.ReplyDelete
Karen in VA
- Brunie1:34 PM
it's hard to compare NYC to Paris, they are both wonderful inReplyDelete
different ways....I love NYC but Paris, I adore. It's more intimate and embraceable.....
....impossible to do with New York....Replies
The book, Paris vs. NEw York does it best.Delete
This is just my POV
Thanks! ;))
Carol, having a superior lemon tart for breakfast sounds absolutely grand. I loved those funny little soft boiled eggs with soldiers, too. (Admit I haven't yet taken any choc photos, but there's still some time left before Sunday. NYC has again turned cold so crossing my fingers that the weather will be good for The Parade.)ReplyDelete
I do love the view from your window, and think it must look wonderfully different during morning, afternoon and early evening.
May I applaud your ability to get up and get going so early in the morning! I think of myself as a morning person, but my strange work schedule seems to have sort of reset my inner clock.
The new coiffeur is a terrific style for you!
Love your rooftop watercolor... Hair cuts can be scary, your instincts were correct... Beautifully done. I've seen mallards along the east river. Always amazes.ReplyDelete
- Michelle L3:22 AM
Love your new haircut by the way. super chic. And your day at the prefecture. Of course you were missing a piece of paper. That's what they told me every time I went for 2.5 years. They seek out what you don't have on purpose to make you go away hahah. But you'll get there. Well doneReplyDelete
One step forward, 2 steps back: while the shop owners finally seem to realize how vital it is to provide you unencumbered access, apparently the government hasn't yet caught on! They are endangering the economic recovery if they don't grant your visa extension!!! Why would anyone go to Paris if they had not been reading Paris Breakfasts?ReplyDelete
Work with me here.Replies
Darling PBers,Delete
They make it difficult for EVERYONE here!
No favorites for blogs or otherwise.
Equalite pour tous !!
- Anonymous12:30 AM
Carol, how does it go......" Stay Calm, and Carry On "? Sorry you will be making another trip to the Visa offices, but know it will all happen for you, and SOON. Anyone who paints, in both words and pictures, the pleasures and delights of Paris as you do should receive an automatic star on all official papers!!!!!!!Thank you for sharing your city with all of us! LeslieReplyDelete
darling haircut~ Paris suits you so well; and you make it sound more inviting all the time~ loved the MM tourReplyDelete


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Haiti After the Earthquake
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haiti's radio journalists, many of whom have long experience of operating under dictatorships and elected governments with little tolerance for critical press coverage, know a thing or two about adversity. But nearly a month ago, when Haiti's capital was devastated by an earthquake that leveled large sections of the city and killed at least 150,000 people, local reporters were suddenly faced with a whole new set of challenges."We try and orient people to where aid is being distributed, and every day we announce messages about people who are still missing," says Wendell Theodore, the silken-voiced news director of Radio Metropole in the capital's Delmas region. His own home destroyed, Theodore now broadcasts the names of the missing from under a tree in the radio station's yard, next to the tent he has slept in since his house collapsed."I saw our building shake," says Rotchild Francois, director of the capital's RFM radio in the Pétionville district, who was at his desk in the studio when the earthquake struck and dashed into the street with a dozen other employees. The station lost a reporter in the quake and was knocked off the air for five days. Reporters from Radio Galaxie, Radio Magic 9, and Radio Télé Ginen were also killed. Francois now spends his days combing the capital, trying to paint an audio picture of what is happening and to get information on the air about where aid is being distributed, the location of feeding and medical centers, and other important information. Many of the station's employees, fearful of aftershocks, refuse to enter the building.
"People come here to send messages to their relatives that they are OK or to have people call to say that they are OK," says Francois. "We do that every day."
Why journalists might be fearful was illustrated vividly when I was in the studio of Radio Kiskeya interviewing its director general, Marvel Dandin. As Dandin explained how the station, which had been knocked off the air for a week, had resumed broadcasting on an abbreviated schedule, a brief aftershock set the damaged, cracked building trembling and sent people running from the studio into the street.
Radio has historically played an important and politically significant role in Haiti's civic life, where newspapers are few and far between and difficult to decipher for a population often unable to avail themselves of proper schooling.
Radio Soleil, a Catholic station, played a key role in spreading information during the ouster of the Duvalier family dictatorship, which ruled Haiti from 1957 until 1986, during which time freedom of the press was practically nonexistent.
Independent journalism was a dangerous business during the revolving military juntas that controlled the country after the Duvalier regime collapsed. Under the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in office from 2001 until 2004, reporters were physically attacked by government partisans while covering demonstrations; they were also imprisoned and forced to flee the country as a result of threats against their lives.
Several journalists have been killed in Haiti in recent years, among them Radio Haiti-Inter Director Jean Dominique in April 2000, Radio Echo 2000 reporter Brignol Lindor in December 2001, and Jacques Roche, a TV host, poet, and an editor at the daily newspaper Le Matin, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2005.
But despite powerful forces arrayed against independent reporting, Haiti's journalists have persisted in the face of such adversity—good preparation, some might say, for today's challenges.
"I ran to my house and found that my wife had died," says Marcus Garcia, director of Radio Mélodie FM, a station that has continued broadcasting with the aid of generator despite the lack of electricity or telephone service. "But life has to continue, and if my wife was alive, she would want me to continue as I am doing, working for the people."


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Skip to comments.Hatch vs. GOP Staff: Democrats play fast and loose with ethics, Republican gets thrown overboard.
Posted on 02/06/2004 10:01:35 AM PST by xsysmgr
Manuel Miranda, the Senate staffer who until today was Majority Leader Bill Frist's top adviser on judicial nominations, has left his post with a massive parting blast that should put to shame Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch.
The substance of his contentions that Democratic senators engaged in violations of the public trust that may be legally actionable makes Hatch's utter capitulation to Democrat demands look craven by comparison.
Miranda's letter to the Senate ethics committee, drafted earlier this week and delivered this morning, alleges that a series of Democratic memoranda that were not (and have not been) leaked will show evidence of leftist groups' "direct influencing of the Senate's advice and consent rule by the promise of campaign funding and election support in the last mid-term election."
One source not the Miranda letter says that the unreported memos also contain more examples of the merely distasteful variety of comments, as in pointedly noting for whatever reason that now-confirmed nominee Dennis Shedd is "a Southern white male."
Miranda's complaint of Democratic ethics violations comes on top of 14 previously leaked memos that Republicans say show collusion between Senate Democrats and those leftist groups. In one of those first set of memos, Democrats indicated former federal judicial nominee Miguel Estrada should be opposed because "he is Latino."
Here's where Hatch's judgment comes into question. First, let it be understood that the substance of the infamous 14 Democratic memos is highly embarrassing to Senate Democrats, and serious enough in itself that Hatch should have ordered an investigation into the Democratic activities described therein. But now we learn that Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle, under Hatch's direction, has possession of a hard drive containing dozens, perhaps even more than a hundred, other memos, including some that Miranda says are even more damning than the reported memos. And what was Hatch doing?
Investigating only the Republican staff for its alleged role in leaking the documents, without publicly giving a second thought to looking into the Democratic skullduggery as well.
The Nov. 20 letter Hatch sent to Mr. Pickle demanded an investigation so broad-ranging as to virtually hand the keys to the kingdom, as it were, to ranking Judiciary Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Hatch demanded the "retrieval of the old hard drives of the servers that were recently replaced," and asked "that Senator Leahy and I be given an opportunity to review and comment upon the scope of work contained in any contract you negotiate" in pursuance of the investigation. In short, in the course of trying to find out which Republican accessed the Democratic memos, Hatch might effectively allow the Democrats to review Republican documents as well.
In the same Nov. 20 letter, Hatch repeatedly condemns, in advance of the investigation's own findings, the leaking of the Democratic memos. Noting complaints from Democratic Sens. Leahy, Kennedy, and Durbin, Hatch wrote: "I agree with their assessment that this is a very serious matter which deserves immediate attention." Later he confesses "the serious nature of the allegation." And Hatch's public comments have repeatedly echoed these condemnations.
Which may be all well and good. One man's noble "whistleblower" may be another man's unprincipled political operative. But nowhere not once did Hatch demand an investigation of the major improprieties evidenced in the Democratic memoranda themselves.
Miranda's allegations are serious. And they raise this question: If Hatch (and Frist, for that matter) is willing to forfeit Miranda's scalp to the Democrats, why did he not demand a scalp in return? Or, better yet, why not demand that the Democrats relinquish a hostage? "You want Miranda?" he should have asked. "The man doesn't appear to have broken any laws. I'll give you Miranda only if you agree to drop your filibuster of one of our nominees."
All of which, of course, applies only if Hatch and Frist were willing to sacrifice Miranda at all.
Nobody knows for sure, of course, what the Pickle investigation will say about Miranda's activities. But it's already clear from the published memos that the Democrats used sleazy methods aplenty to block judicial nominees. And if Miranda's new allegations are accurate allegations that Pickle can easily check if he's ordered to do so then the unpublished memos could show still worse Democratic behavior.
If Hatch doesn't play a little hardball of his own, he'll have lots to answer for. Conservatives will have a field day putting his letter to Pickle, so obsequious to Democratic sensibilities, next to Miranda's letter alleging Democratic activities far worse than "leaks" of unclassified, unprotected documents.
The whole battle over judicial nominations long ago turned sleazy, with plenty of allegations back and forth. Why Orrin Hatch should sweep the Democrats' sleaze under the rug is both a mystery and a shame.
Quin Hillyer is an editorial writer and columnist for the Mobile Register.
It isn't if you understand that Hatch has been compromised over such things as BCCI & others. He acts no different than ole Newt after his infidelity was under qustion. And don't doubt that all of these pols that get assigned to chairmanships have backgrounds that the elites can expose at any time. But unlike the dems they will be thrown out as Newt, Livingston, Lott,etc. Remember if you are a conservative & promote that agenda to the point of making it a reality you will be ostracized. The elites will never allow conservativism to flourish as they pull the purse strings.
Unless there was an issue of National Security at stake, those memoes should never have been leaked. Private communication between DemocRATS is still protected under privacy laws, no matter how vile and damning the content may be.
How many Freepers here were howling about the laws that John and Alice Martin broke when they taped Newt Gingrich's private cell phone conversations and turned them over to the Dims, and how many were howling over the content of the tapes?
|At least one source close to the issue says they may have no choice in the matter."
I think it is out of their hands now. Both the Washington Times and Quin Hillyer are signalling Frist that they have the memos, the memos are hot, and they will be made public.
Hilyer's piece, and the WTimes, are letting Frist know that Hatch is not in charge of this investigation anymore. They are. Frist can choose to join Hatch on the gallows when the bribery stuff comes out, or he can distance himself now by removing Hatch as chairman of the Committee. That is a very tough thing for Frist to do, but he won't be able to say afterwards that he wasn't warned.
The Sergeant-at-Arms is not the only guy with copies of the memos. Those things have been leaked all over Washington now. People far more partisan than Orrin Hatch know what's in them. Hatch is covering up for some Serious Stuff here. It's too late to save Hatch; he's toast. The only issue is whether Frist wants to go with him. Frist is being politely warned, and given time to position himself on shore before the shelling of Hatch and his Democratic buddies begins.
This is gonna be fun, folks. Get your popcorn ready.
So tell us, Senator. On what day did you first become aware that certain Democratic members of your committee were accepting bribes in return for obstructing these nomineees? I see. And whom did you tell when you found this out?
I can see your point. Should we then join the DemocRATS in calling for Cheney to reveal the names of the people he had on his Energy Policy committee?
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Kendrick Lamar, "good kid, m.A.A.d city" (Interscope Records)
Kendrick Lamar is an up-and-coming rapper hailing from Los Angeles with a reputation already built through the underground scene as one of hip-hop's best lyricists.
With the backing of Dr. Dre, the socially conscious emcee continues to enhance that stature on "good kid, m.A.A.d city," a cohesive album filled with classic gems. He takes his storytelling ability to a higher level on his major label debut, a follow-up to his 2011 independent release, "Section.80," that received positive reviews.
On his new offering, Lamar's rap cadences are finely in sync with the stellar production by Pharrell, Tha Bizness, Hit-Boy, Just Blaze and others. The album is an open book of soulful stories that are intertwined through entertaining and thought-provoking skits, with Lamar telling several compelling moments of his upbringing in Compton, the gritty city southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Lamar recalls when he was engulfed in a persuasive environment, running the streets with disobedient friends on "The Art of Peer Pressure." That song seamlessly connects with "Money Trees," where 25-year-old Lamar and guest Jay Rock eloquently rap in detail about a young man's mentality to commit home invasions with the hope of becoming a rap star.
"Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst," which is 12 minutes long, is a combination of two songs that brilliantly tells three different emotional stories. Lamar is also strong on songs like "Real," "(Expletive), Don't Kill My Vibe," "Swimming Pools (Drank)" and the Drake-assisted "Poetic Justice," which samples Janet Jackson's "Any Time, Any Place."
CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: On the bonus track, "Black Boy Fly," Lamar pays homage to NBA player Arron Afflalo and rapper The Game, recognizing them for successfully breaking out of Compton.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Residents remained bundled up and growers in the Central Valley again took measures to protect their citrus crops Sunday, as California's cold snap entered its fourth night.
Alerts predicting freezing temperatures and frost were becoming familiar in much of the state, with new high wind warnings in place for the mountains around Los Angeles beginning early Monday.
In Hollywood, film fans brought heavy coats and scarves as they waited along the red carpet hoping to catch glimpses of stars arriving for the Golden Globes ceremony. Some of the actors shivered but they weren't complaining.
"I'd rather be nippy than boiling hot," said actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who arrived in a strapless dress. "No, I'm not wearing any leggings or long underwear."
Farmers hoped for another night of successful crop protection, as they ran wind machines and water to shield their fruit.
Spokesman Paul Story of California Citrus Mutual, a growers' trade association, said so far most orange and lemon crops probably avoided significant damage despite temperatures early Sunday in the high 20s.
"For the navel oranges, that's not cold enough to do a measurable amount of damage," said Story.
He said more sensitive mandarin oranges may have suffered some minimal damage.
In the Los Angeles area, famously torrid Woodland Hills, which usually makes news for its triple-digit temperatures, hit a low of 30 degrees Sunday morning. That was warm compared to Lancaster in north Los Angeles County, which hit 15 degrees.
Temperatures reached the low 20s in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In the East Bay city of Walnut Creek, the National Weather Service reported a low of 23 degrees, while in the Santa Clara County community of Scotts Valley, the temperature dropped to 26.
Meanwhile, in the Sierra Nevada, temperatures plunged below zero overnight, and after a day in the 20s, another subzero night was expected.
In San Diego, zookeepers offered extra heat and shelter for some animals.
The cold air was flowing east into neighboring Arizona, where metropolitan Phoenix was approaching the halfway point in a four-day cold snap that's expected to mark the coolest stretch the area has seen since 1988. Temperatures late Saturday dipped to 30 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and 25 degrees.
Low temperatures across Arizona included 23 at Tucson International Airport and 7 below in Flagstaff.


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We've seen several Orcas (Killer Whales) in the comic so far. Though at the top of the food chain in Antarctica, Orcas are not the biggest threat to penguins as their diet consists mainly of fish and secondly of seals. Penguins are pretty quick and kind of small to be worth their effort. However penguins are still careful to stay clear of them and out of the water when they are near.
So… there is another creature that loves him some penguin, also at the top of the Antarctica food chain, and that is the Leopard Seal. Named for its massive jaws and its spotted fur, it is the most ferocious looking of seals, these guys even feed on other seals. This is the true predator of penguins. Their head is often described as being reptilian. They sort of slither low on the ice and spend most of the time in the water. In fact, Osbourne is really not in much danger here, his little waddle is much more efficient on the ice compared to the sluggish Leopard Seal out of water. In the water would be another story.
I know seal clubbing is kind of a serious issue for some, so I apologize to those sensitive to the subject. You'll have to excuse Wally's ignorance. It is unfortunate that Canada still practices the art of seal pup massacre for their skins to this day.
Sorry to leave on a sad note. There'll be another funny comic tomorrow to put a smile back on your face.


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Tim Burton at the "Frankenweenie" exhibit at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Link
A scene from Tim Burton's original 1984 "Frankenweenie" short film, starring Barret Oliver and Shelley Duvall. (El Capitan Theater)Link
Victor, voiced by Charlie Tahan, and his pet Sparky in a scene from "Frankenweenie." (Disney)Link
"Frankenweenie" director Tim Burton. (Disney Enterprises)Link
Variations of Sparky in the sculpting department for the movie "Frankenweenie." (Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" director Tim Burton and producer Allison Abbate review character maquettes in the Puppet Hospital. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" animation director Trey Thomas, left, holds up the Mom puppet for director Tim Burton. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" puppet modeler Sam Holland works on a Victor model. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
Nadine Petterson, a crew member for "Frankenweenie," touches up an Edgar puppet in the Puppet Hospital. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" hair modeler Alex Williams, left, and supervising puppet modeler Andy Gent work in the Puppet Hospital. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" production designer Rick Heinrichs. (Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" production designer Rick Heinrichs. (Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" producer Allison Abbate reviews characters in the sculpting department with Ian Mackinnon. (Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" lead puppet modeler Angela Pang reviews Sparky's eyelids in the Puppet Hospital. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" lead puppet modeler Valma Hiblen works on a puppet in the Puppet Hospital. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
Puppet modeller Angela Kiely works on a Sparky puppet for "Frankenweenie." (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
"Frankenweenie" director Tim Burton reviews a puppet mold in the Puppet Hospital. (Leah Gallo / Disney Enterprises)Link
Tim Burton (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Link
Tim Burton at the "Frankenweenie" exhibit at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)Link
Tim Burton signs autographs before the world premiere screening of "Frankenweenie" on Sept. 20 during Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. (Jack Plunkett / Associated Press)Link
It was only Wednesday, but sitting at a small table in the restaurant at the Chateau Marmont, Tim Burton looked a little defeated by the week, and not simply because of the sling supporting his arm. A fall in London in December fractured his shoulder — a nasty injury that he said will likely limit his range of motion for about a year — but it was a recent bout of Hollywood glad-handing that had the filmmaker most excited to return to his home in England.
Two days earlier, Burton had attended the Oscar nominees luncheon – his most recent film, "Frankenweenie," is up for the Academy Award in the animated feature category. That evening, he'd appeared at the American Cinematheque for a screening of the movie, a black-and-white love letter to Universal horror films and his Burbank youth, along with an earlier stop-motion project, 2005's "Corpse Bride."
Those kinds of public appearances aren't easy for the filmmaker: "I'm not a very social person, I'm quite sort of reserved," he said, awkwardly attempting to stir his green tea.
It was an effort to help bring more attention to "Frankenweenie" that had the director venturing into the spotlight. The movie, which opened last October, was hailed as Burton's best work in years, but it grossed only about $35 million in its theatrical run. Some attributed its lackluster performance to the fact that Burton chose to make the movie in black-and-white, though he dismisses that theory as too simplistic.
"I've heard that. I can't really pin it on that. I hope not. I wouldn't have done it any other way. If they had said, 'We'll let you make this, but it has to be in color,' I just would have done something else. What is so strange, when I talk to kids, they forget it's in black-and-white. None of them mention it, and a lot of them actually like it. That's the thing about kids, they're quite emotionally sophisticated. I was that way. I always felt like I was 80 years old. They're more intuitive than they're given credit for."
Based on his own live-action short from 1984, "Frankenweenie" tells the story of young Victor Frankenstein, a bright, solitary boy who loses his beloved pet Sparky when the dog is hit by a car. Inspired by his teacher Mr. Rzykruski (voiced by Martin Landau), Victor hits upon a scientific way to resurrect his pal and sets in motion of a series of surprising events in the sleepy hamlet of New Holland.
The movie has all the classic hallmarks of Burton's work — a lovable outsider; a kooky cast of supporting characters; sly, sweet humor and a touch of subversive satire pointing up the fundamental oddities of modern life. It's the third stop-motion feature from the director, but he associates it most strongly not with predecessors such as "Corpse Bride" or "The Nightmare Before Christmas," but with his 1994 biopic "Ed Wood."
Like "Frankenweenie," that film was shot in black-and-white and featured a memorable turn from Landau as legendary actor Bela Lugosi. It was also a project that grew out of Burton's childhood fascinations, winning over critics and nabbing Landau an Oscar, even as it largely failed to connect with a broad base of mainstream moviegoers. It seems that "Frankenweenie" might now be poised for a similar fate.
"I do feel like people were scared of that concept of death," he said. "There is a moment of sadness — it is a quiet moment and it probably makes some parents uncomfortable. I've never met a kid who's seen it who's had a problem with that at all. It's what the story is. It either happens to a grandparent or a parent or a dog — at some point as a child you deal with it. It's a part of life. This is the most sort of life-affirming, fun, positive version of that."
As a boy, Burton knew the work of Ray Harryhausen, Ishiro Hondo and Ed Wood before Orson Welles. Harryhausen, of course, was the special-effects wizard whose stop-motion artistry brought to life all manner of otherworldly creations and ignited the imaginations of a generation of future filmmakers.
"I remember seeing 'Jason and the Argonauts' on the big screen," Burton said. "It was at the [Avalon] Theatre on Catalina Island. It's one of those old theaters with beautiful murals inside. It's designed like a weird seashell kind of thing. Seeing that movie there, I remember that. That one definitely had impact on me."
So too did the Rankin and Bass stop-motion holiday specials from the '60s and '70s. "I have such a fond burning feeling for those things. It's part of your energy; I remember every year getting excited to watch them," Burton said. "The Christmas specials, they're so tactile, they burn in your memory, those movies. It's a weird thing to say but there's a reality to the medium. There's something tangible and handmade."
Landing an animation job at Disney after graduating from CalArts, Burton made his most famous early stop-motion effort, the 1982 short "Vincent," an adorably macabre little tale about a young boy who's obsessed with Vincent Price movies. But his most widely beloved stop-motion brainchild — if the inescapable presence of Jack Skellington lunchboxes and hoodies are any indication — remains "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
Fellow CalArts alumnus Henry Selick directed "Nightmare," but the story of the misunderstood Skeleton King who longs for something novel to shake up his routine is entirely Burton's. He was insistent that the movie be made using stop-motion; his goal was to evoke the same feelings in others that he'd had watching the Christmas specials. But it wasn't an easy sell — "I remember these discussions with Disney," Burton said. "I seem to recall them being disturbed that the lead character didn't have any eyeballs."
Fifteen years passed between the release of "Nightmare" and Burton's subsequent stop-motion movie, "Corpse Bride," which was based on a Russian folk tale about a Victorian era groom-to-be who inadvertently finds himself wed to a lovely dead woman from a day-glow underworld. By that point, "Nightmare" had grown from a marginal success into a pop-culture touchpoint — its characters achieving the same kind of immortality as red-nosed Rudolph and his friend Hermey, the bicuspid-obsessed elf – but "Corpse Bride" didn't catch fire in the public imagination in quite the same way, though Burton and co-director Mike Johnson were nominated for an Oscar in the animated feature category for the film.
"Frankenweenie" is in the rather unusual position of being nominated in the category alongside two other stop-motion movies ("ParaNorman," "The Pirates! Band of Misfits") and two computer-animated films ("Brave" and "Wreck-It Ralph"). (Asked if he's prepared an acceptance speech, Burton quite plainly said, "No.")
Despite all he's done to advocate for the art form, Burton is still reluctant to take real credit for the resurgence of stop-motion. "Let's put it this way," he said. "I see the reality of the fact that there weren't a lot of stop-motion movies out there. We got to make 'Nightmare,' and from that point on there's been more stop-motion animated movies, which is good."
It hardly takes a studied glance to see recurring motifs in Burton's filmography. For the director's ardent fans, he creates with a consistency of voice and vision; to detractors, his movies have a disappointing sameness. Unlike such filmmaking contemporaries as Ang Lee or Danny Boyle, one could argue that Burton is retelling the same fundamental story over and over: the outsider longing for connection in a strange, lonely world, a tale deeply rooted in his personal experience.
"Once you feel that way in your life, you always do," Burton said. "You think maybe one film sort of exorcises that, but it doesn't. It's sort of an ongoing trauma or character trait. Whether it's Edward Scissorhands or Ed Wood or Sweeney Todd, you try to make [the audience] feel for those characters. Emotionally investing yourself in those characters, it's a kind of catharsis. You're able to release how you felt and how you feel. For me, stop-motion is a more pure way to release those certain kinds of emotions."
As for the idea that the movies he makes are perhaps too dark for younger viewers, Burton bristled in frustration.
"I've been told that my whole life," he said. "'Batman' was too dark. Now it looks like the TV show. 'Beetlejuice' was too dark. Even 'Pee-wee' was too dark. I've heard that from day one and it's so not true. In retrospect, I'm Mr. Lighthearted."
If anything, Burton might have more in common with a director such as Universal Studios showman James Whale, who crafted the ultimate wounded outsider story with Boris Karloff in "Frankenstein," than some of his Hollywood A-list brethren.
"His mixing of humor and horror and emotion, 'Frankenweenie' owes a bit to that," Burton said of Whale. "I think that influenced me quite a lot. I remember 'The Invisible Man' being so weird and visual and sad and emotional and funny and scary."
Burton directed two movies last year, "Frankenweenie" and the cult-TV adaptation "Dark Shadows," and produced a third, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." He said that working at such a rapid clip left him ready for a break, and that he hasn't settled on what film he'll do next — though some reports have suggested that he'll try his hand at a different kind of puppet story in "Pinocchio."
"It's a project I'm interested in, definitely," Burton said. "I'm a little put off on a personal level. All the fairy-tale movies are kind of freaking me out. When did that become a thing?"
Maybe after Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" made more than $1 billion at the box office?
"I know," Burton allowed. "I kind of feel bad about it. I'd like to make a public apology."
Turning more serious, Burton said there are a number of factors playing into his decision about what projects to tackle, including the death last year of his longtime producing partner, Richard Zanuck. "I've underestimated how much that emotionally affected me," he said.
He was optimistic that he'll make a film this year, though he wasn't quite ready to commit to any one thing. When the time is right, inspiration will strike, he said.
"I'm just taking a deep breath," he said. "You've really got to feel what you want to do. I don't know what that feeling is. The feeling will come. I'm confident of that."
— Gina McIntyre
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The Fish & Wildlife Department will host the first three of five annual deer management public hearings beginning on March 25. The hearings will cover last year's harvest results and the prospects for the 2013 season. Two more hearings will be held in the northeast and southwest regions of the state in May.
These hearings will also be an opportunity for the department to seek additional hunter input for Vermont's comprehensive deer management review plan. The department has already hosted one set of meetings on the review plan in January, and plans to host two more sets of meetings in May and July. In addition to these public meetings, the department will also review public input surveys and develop three regional working groups to discuss deer management and hunting regulations in Vermont.
Hunters are invited to attend one of the following public hearings, held from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
March 25 Springfield - Riverside Junior High School Cafeteria, 13 Fairground Road, Springfield
March 27 Montpelier - Montpelier High School Cafeteria, 5 High School Drive, Montpelier
March 28 St Albans - St. Albans Town Educational Center Cafeteria, 169 South Main Street, St. Albans, VT (This is a NUT FREE zone)
Anyone interested in learning more about Vermont's comprehensive deer management review process and the regional working groups should visit the department's website www.vtfishandwildlife.com.
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