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AMMAN (Reuters) - The head of Syria's main opposition group resigned on Sunday, weakening the moderate wing of the two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule and complicating Western efforts to back the rebels.
The resignation of Moaz Alkhatib, a former imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus who had offered Assad a negotiated exit, could make the West more cautious in supporting the revolt. Alkhatib was seen as a moderate bulwark against the rising influence of al-Qaeda linked jihadist forces.
Syrian opposition leaders are due to attend an Arab League summit this week, Qatar said earlier on Sunday, looking for more support for their armed uprising.
Michael Stephens, researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in Doha, said Alkhatib's resignation throws a spanner into the summit.
"The premise of the summit is to determine whether the opposition has a legitimate right to sit with Arab states," Stephens said. "While Khatib may have blamed the EU summit, it is well known that the Arab League is meeting today, and his resignation will have a serious effect on the process."
Alkhatib was picked to head the Western and Gulf-backed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, which was formed in Qatar in November.
His resignation is seen as having been to some degree caused by Qatar, the main backer of his political foes in the coalition, and the country spearheading Arab support for the revolt as its geopolitical ramifications deepen.
The conflict pits Syria's Sunni Muslim majority against Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has controlled the country for almost five decades, deepening the Sunni-Shi'ite divide in the Middle East and raising tension between Gulf states and Iran.
Asked to comment on Alkhatib's resignation, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said in Doha: "We are very sorry for this, and I hope he reviews his resignation."
Alkhatib quit after the coalition berated him for offering Assad a deal and after the group went ahead, despite his objections, with steps to form a provisional government that would have further diminished his authority.
"I had promised the great Syrian people and promised God that I would resign if matters reached some red lines," Alkhatib said in a statement on his official Facebook page, without explaining exactly what had prompted his resignation.
"Now I am fulfilling my promise and announcing my resignation from the National Coalition in order to be able to work with freedom that cannot be available within the official institutions," he said.
U.S. Secretary John Kerry, on a trip to Baghdad, expressed regret at Alhatib's decision.
"With respect to Moaz Alkhatib, I am personally sorry to see him go because I like him on a personal level and because I have appreciated his leadership but the notion that he might resign has frankly been expressed by him on many different occasions in many different places and it is not a surprise," Kerry said.
He made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday and said he told Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of his concern about Iranian flights over Iraq carrying arms to Syria.
"Anything that supports President Assad is problematic," Kerry told reporters.
Last week, the coalition chose Islamist-leaning technocrat Ghassan Hitto as a provisional prime minister to form a government to fill a power vacuum in Syria arising from the revolt that has killed more than 70,000 people.
Hitto visited the Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo on Sunday to draw up a plan to restore services in parts of the city that have fallen to the opposition, according to a statement issued by his office.
Alkhatib, who had argued insufficient groundwork had been done to start forming a government, was weakened considerably, along with a moderate wing of the revolution as jihadist Salafists play a bigger role on the battlefield.
The rise of Salafists as the most effective fighting force, and their recent gains on the ground, have contributed to the coalition adopting a more hardline stance in recent weeks, rejecting dialogue with Assad except under strict conditions and ignoring promises to include more women and minorities.
Hitto, whose cabinet is supposed to govern rebel-held areas currently ruled by hundreds of brigades and emerging warlords, was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood and coalition Secretary General Mustafa Sabbagh, who has strong links with Qatar.
"Basically Qatar and the Brotherhood forced Alkhatib out. In Alkhatib they had a figure who was gaining popularity inside Syria but he acted too independently for their taste," said Fawaz Tello, an independent opposition campaigner.
"They brought in Hitto. The position of Alkhatib as leader became untenable."
The appointment of Hitto prompted nine people to suspend their membership in the 62-member body, saying that promises to reform the coalition and respect consensus have been discarded.
Earlier this year, Alkhatib floated an initiative for the opposition to talk to Assad's administration about a political transition, but said the Damascus government did not respond.
Moaz al-Shami, a leading activist in Damascus, said Alkhatib's resignation deprived the coalition, which consists mostly of exiles, of the figure best-known inside Syria, but that Alkhatib still could still play a major role in the revolt.
Alawite opposition activists called for Assad's overthrow on Sunday and urged their co-religionists in the army to rebel.
In the first meeting of its kind by Alawites who support the revolt, delegates distanced themselves from Assad.
"We call on our brothers in the Syrian army, specifically members of our sect, not to take up arms against their people and to refuse to join the army," the delegates said in a statement after two days of meeting in Cairo.
In the town of Adra on the outskirts of Damascus, opposition campaigners said Syrian government forces fired chemical weapons from multiple rocket launchers at rebels surrounding an army base, killing two fighters and wounding 23.
There was no independent confirmation of the attack. Video footage showed one man in a hospital bed with his hands shaking, while doctors were trying to stabilize another man. Another patient was shown with saliva pouring from his mouth.
(Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy and Tom Perry and Ulf Laessing in Cairo, Arshad Mohammed in Baghdad, Sami Abboudi, Bill Mclean and Regan Doherty in the Gulf; Editing by Stephen Powell)


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George Husack, on match: "The team played a very solid match today. Gonzaga was coming off a big win against UC Davis but we were ready for them. We also got some new guys in the lineup today. It was nice to get Steven (Benvenuto) and Kenzo (Hirakawa-Wong) in there. They had been doing well in practice."
Junior Robert Gallman, on win: "It was a nice win today because a lot of our guys were able to get on top of their opponents quickly. Getting a win like this is a nice confidence booster, especially since our matches were so tight the other day. We have played a lot of tight and close matches, and it was nice to have a day where everyone could feel really good about their games."
Gallman, on three-match winning streak: "I think everybody is feeling good; we are playing well and confidence is high. Saturday should be a pretty good match, but you never know what is going to happen in college tennis. We have to be ready to play right from the start."
Sophomore Tommy Hicks, on getting his first win: "I have been kind of on a slide and haven't been playing that well. It is tough when you lose over and over again, which has been happening because we have been playing really tough schools and there has been really no break in our schedule. Overall it feels really good to get a victory under my belt, and hopefully I can build from this win and use it as a stepping stone."
Hicks, on facing Oregon: "I am from Oregon, and it will be interesting since we are playing the Ducks and they know I am from there. Last year we lost to them, and this would be huge if we could get a victory tomorrow."
Hicks, on team's attitude: "It is really good, we have three ranked wins in a row, and we are in ranking now. We are looking to continue to build our program and do well. Personally, I just want to keep improving and working on things in my game; to continue to build on things, and work hard in every practice and match."


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The Demons stuck to their legs in the pool this weekend.
The Durango High School girls swimming team took fourth behind a pair of four-leg first-place finishes at the all-relay Southwestern League Relays on Friday and Saturday at the El Pomar Natatorium in Grand Junction.
Kaitlin Barela, Haley Cotgageorge, Bryn Joyner and Hannah Chapman combined their legs to win the 200 butterfly relay in 2 minutes, 5.46 seconds; Haley Warren, Allie Rodd, Cotgageorge and Anne Mummery won the 200 backstroke relay in 2:10.60.
Out of 12 teams, Durango finished fourth with 370 points behind meet-winner Montrose (522), Summit County (388) and Grand Junction (382).
The Demons also took second in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:59.59, the 500 freestyle crescendo relay in 5:18.55, the 200 breaststroke relay in 2:27.13, the 200 fly/freestyle relay in 2:04.15, and the 200 breaststroke relay in 2:26.10.
They took third in the 200 medley in 2:11.84, in the 400 medley relay in 4:44.32 and the 400 freestyle relay in 4:09.15.
Diver Katie Cunnion took third from the board with 156.20 points, and Bonne Matheson took fourth with the same score.
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Talent and treasures
Forty local artisans will display and offer for sale their handmade fine crafts and art work, such as: photography, painted furniture, jewelry and ceramics at the fifth annual MBBA Artist Market, taking place the first two Saturdays in June on the north end of the Town and Country Shopping Center parking lot. Don't miss the talent and treasures — from hummingbird feeders to placemats, from purses to watercolors, and so much more. Local musicians Tom Irwin and Pete Sander play during the market, and food and drinks are available for purchase. Learn more about the artists featured, including the likes of Jonathan Benning, Jenjen Bai and Tracy Moyer, at www.shoponmacarthur.com.
MacArthur Boulevard Business Association Artist Market
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In an exclusive television interview, the Chicago alderman told ABC7's Jessica D'Onofrio he has no plans to retire.
Mell is the second longest-serving alderman in Chicago's City Council.
Mell told ABC7 Friday morning that he is not ready to step down, contrary to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Mell said he admits he has mentioned retirement in the past, but he is just not ready to go yet.
"The next couple of months, no. Sometime, maybe, but not in the next couple of months," Mell said.
After 38 years as alderman of the 33rd Ward on the Northwest Side, Mell dispelled rumors that he will be stepping down in the next few months.
"I've talked about this for the last five years," said Mell. "When winter comes, I think about being down in Florida for a couple of months."
Mell said that he has no plans to go anywhere, despite the article saying he told his associates it's time to say good-bye.
The powerful and influential alderman, who was elected back in 1975, wants his constituents to know he is staying put.
"We'll be here shoveling snow for them, like we normally do if it's the winter," said Mell. "I've liked this job. I try to do the best I can. We've got a great ward. We got great people. It's a great city. There's a lot of things I'd like to accomplish yet."
The 74-year-old Mell was a central figure during the so-called "Council Wars" of the 1980s .
For the past 38 years he's been the quintessential deal maker but he denied reports he's working on a final deal to get the mayor to appoint his daughter, State Representative Deb Mell to take his place as alderman.
Deb Mell wrote on her Twitter account Thursday, "Whereas I am truly honored to receive so many wonderful messages, I am 100% focused and love my job as State Rep of the 40th district."
Former Alderman and current Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle served alongside Alderman Dick Mell for nearly 20 years.
"I've met Deb Mell and worked with her in Springfield. She's a smart and talented person. I think she'll be a great addition to the city council," she said.
"I think his hopes have always been that she would succeed him," Preckwinkle said.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel could make such an appointment if Alderman Mell leaves his seat mid-term the mayor danced around that question.
"Wherever she goes in public service she's going to be an addition," Emanuel said. "That said, no decision has been made by Dick Mell. And there's no decision or person to talk about before that."
"There's some credence that this may be a trial balloon, and they want to see if there's a violent reaction against it. But I think that this is in line with the way Chicago politics is done," ABC7 Political Analyst Laura Washington said.
"I would love to see that happen, but that's not necessarily a possibility," said Dick Mell. "If I stay the whole term, if she decides to run, there will be other people obviously running against her, and if I step out and she's appointed, which I'm not sure that she's going to be, and I'm not sure she wants to be, then there would be a special election."
If he does decide to leave in the future, Dick Mell said, it would be very hard for him to say good-bye to a job he has known for so long.
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Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd-person, open-world action shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction. Players will take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force. Throughout their fight for freedom, players will carve their own path, wreaking havoc across the vast, open-world environment of Mars, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos. Utilizing improvised weapons, explosives and re-purposed mining equipment and vehicles, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to tear through fully destructible environments in an unforgiving Martian landscape swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire. Red Faction: Guerrilla will also feature a robust multiplayer component, including several modes focused on destruction-based gameplay.
Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.
- Open World Guerrilla Warfare – You decide who, when, where and how to battle. Utilize guerrilla tactics, improvised weaponry, and modified vehicles to lead insurgent attacks on EDF targets.
- Launch attacks based on your own gameplay style, take on missions in any order you choose, or engage in destructive activities to weaken the EDF's grip on Mars.
- Strategic Destruction – Use destruction to your tactical advantage, setting ambushes or chain reaction explosions to attack enemy strongholds and permanently modify the game environment. Leverage fully-dynamic physics-based destruction to improvise on the fly: blow holes in a wall or floor to set an ambush or escape, take out a staircase to stop your pursuers, or drive vehicles through blown out walls.
- Evolving & Emergent Gameplay – Carve your path through an ever changing landscape as you improvise your combat tactics – mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives to defeat the EDF.
- Epic Sci-Fi Setting – Explore the huge, unforgiving Martian landscape, from the desolate mining outpost of Parker to the gleaming EDF capital city of Eos; then tear through the fully destructible open-world environments swarming with EDF forces, Red Faction resistance fighters, and the downtrodden settlers caught in the cross-fire.
- Multiplayer Combat – There is no place to hide when you put your guerrilla warfare skills to the test in a variety of highly destructive multiplayer combat modes.
Red Faction: Guerrilla for Xbox 360, and PS3 is scheduled to ship on June 2, 2009 (June 5 in Europe), while the PC edition will follow later this summer.
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WBBZ-TV will hold '"The Great WBBZ-TV Talent Search" Saturday, Nov. 9, from noon until 3 p.m., at the Eastern Hills Mall television studio (next to Macy's).
Do you have what it takes to appear in local television commercials, make appearances at station-sponsored events, or participate in locally produced programs? Then the "The Great WBBZ-TV Talent Search" is looking for you.
The event is free and open to the public. Applicants should be 18 years of age or older, be comfortable appearing on camera, have the ability to read copy, and bring the right personality to represent the station. Everyone who participates will be given copy to read for their audition, talk for a few minutes about themselves, and be interviewed by the judges. Individuals from some of Western New York's top advertising agencies, businesses, modeling agencies and media, will review candidates.
Applications will require a signature and only be available to those who visit "The Great WBBZ-TV Talent Search" event. Decisions of the judges are final, and no phone calls to the station will be accepted before or after the search. WBBZ-TV will announce up to four winners the week of Nov. 11 on the air and online at www.wbbz.tv.
WBBZ-TV Vice President and General Manager Bob Koshinski said, "This is a great opportunity for us to meet some of the top talent in our area, and support hometown talent on our hometown station."
WBBZ-TV is Western New York's only locally owned and operated station, located inside the Eastern Hills Mall at 4545 Transit Road in Clarence. The station airs classic television from the MeTV network; contemporary classics; and locally produced programs that include "The Fred Jackson Show" with Buffalo Bill running back Fred Jackson Mondays at 7:30 p.m.; "All Sports WNY" with Koshinski Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.; current affairs discussion on "Political Buzz" Sundays at 11a.m.; the feature magazine "What's The Buzz In WNY" with Kim Piazza Thursday nights at 7:30p.m.; and the nationally syndicated "Off Beat Cinema" Saturday nights at midnight.
WBBZ is seen throughout Western New York.
Participants are encouraged to learn more about the station by watching, and finding out more atwww.wbbz.tv.


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SELECT COUNT(*) is most common method (and exact) how to find out how many records is in table. There is also another method which is not exact but is way faster especially when you are expecting zillion of rows to be counted. This method is based on fact that SQL Server internally tracks how many rows is maintaned by each index.
There are two situations in table which are important for what I am talking about:
- Clustered index is present on table
- Clustered index not present on table, records are "organized" in heap. Other non-clustered indexes doesn't affect heap, they only point to records in the heap.
For both situations SQL Server knows how many records are contained either in the clustered index or in the heap. This information is held in sys.indexes system table and maintained by updating statistics. This is the reason why number of rows in sys.indexes table is not guaranteed – if statistics are not updated by any reason, this number is not actual.
Here's code:
USE AdventureWorks DECLARE @table VARCHAR(250) SET @table = 'Person.Address' -- name of your table SELECT rowcnt FROM sys.sysindexes WHERE id = OBJECT_ID(@table) AND (indid = 0 OR indid = 1) -- clustered index or heap


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Panthera pardus
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Common Name(s):
Felis pardus Linnaeus, 1758
|Taxonomic Notes:
|According to genetic analysis, nine subspecies are recognized, with all continental African Leopards attributable to the nominate form (Miththapala et al. 1996, Uphyrkina et al. 2001). These include:
Panthera pardus pardus (Linnaeus, 1758): Africa
Panthera pardus nimr (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833): Arabia
Panthera pardus saxicolor Pocock, 1927: Central Asia
Panthera pardus melas (Cuvier, 1809): Java
Panthera pardus kotiya Deraniyagala, 1956: Sri Lanka
Panthera pardus fusca (Meyer, 1794): Indian sub-continent
Panthera pardus delacourii Pocock, 1930: southeast Asia into southern China
Panthera pardus japonensis (Gray, 1862): northern China
Panthera pardus orientalis (Schlegel, 1857): Russian Far East, Korean peninsula and north-eastern China
The recognition of P. p. melas and P. p. nimr was based on very small sample sizes and is considered tentative.
Based on morphological analysis, Khorozyan et al. (2006) recognize P. p. tulliana (Valenciennes, 1856) in western Turkey and P. p. sindica (Pocock, 1930) in Pakistan, and possibly also parts of Afghanistan and Iran. They also consider P. p. ciscaucasica (Satunin, 1914) as the senior synonym for P. p. saxicolor.
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|Critically Endangered C2a(i) (Regional assessment) ver 3.1
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|Jdeidi, T., Masseti, M., Nader, I., de Smet, K. & Cuzin, F.
|Temple, H. & Cuttelod, A.
Mediterranean regional assessment: Critically Endangered C2a(i). There are fewer than 250 mature individuals in the region, each subpopulation is <50 and is completely isolated (from each other and from populations outside the assessment region). The regional population is undergoing continuing decline.
|Range Description:
|The leopard occurs across most of sub-Saharan Africa, as remnant populations in North Africa, and then in the Arabian peninsula and Sinai/Judean Desert (Egypt/Israel/Jordan), south-western and eastern Turkey, and through Southwest Asia and the Caucasus into the Himalayan foothills, India, China and the Russian Far East, as well as on the islands of Java and Sri Lanka (Nowell and Jackson 1996; Sunquist and Sunquist 2002; Hunter et al. in press).
In sub-Saharan Africa, leopards remain widely, albeit now patchily, distributed within historical limits (see Hunter et al. in press, and references therein). Ray et al. (2005) estimated that leopards have disappeared from at least 36.7% of their historical range in Africa. The most marked range loss has been in the Sahel belt, as well as in Nigeria and South Africa. They have been locally extirpated from areas densely populated with people or where habitat conversion is extreme (Hunter et al. in press). They are likely extinct on Zanzibar, where there have been no confirmed records since 1996 (Hunter et al. in press).
In North Africa, a tiny relict population persists in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco (Cuzin 2003), and there was a probable observation on the Morocco-Algerian border in Figuig in 2007 (F. Cuzin pers. comm.), while a population was recently found in the Ahaggar of south-eastern Algeria, a region from which they had not previously been recorded (Busby et al. 2006). Leopard are likely extinct in Egypt, although they may occur in the Eastern Desert (Hunter et al. in press).
A 2006 Arabian Fauna Conservation Workshop estimated there were fewer than 200 leopards remaining on the Arabian peninsula, in three confirmed separate subpopulations: the Negev desert, the Wada'a mountains of Yemen, and the Dhofar mountains of Oman. Presence in Saudi Arabia is uncertain (Breitenmoser 2006, Spalton and Al Hikmani 2006).
I. Khorozyan (pers. comm. 2008) compiled detailed country information on the distribution of the Endangered Persian leopard as follows:
Russian North Caucasus: mountain ridges in the headwaters of the Avarskoe Koisu and Andiiskoe Koisu rivers (Republic of Dagestan). Possibly exists in the Chegem River canyon (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic); Erzi Reserve, Assa River valley (Republic of Ingushetia); Armkhi River basin (Republic of North Osetia-Alania), headwaters of the Sharoargun and Argun rivers (Chechen Republic) (Akkiev and Mokaev, 2006; Khorozyan and Abramov, 2007; Lukarevsky et al., 2007).
Georgia: Vashlovani Reserve in the south-east; Arkhoti River canyon in the upper part of the Assa River basin and the headwaters of the Andiiskoe Koisu River in the north-east (Lukarevsky et al., 2007). Some anecdotal records from south-western Georgia are either unreliable or can be attributed to individuals coming from north-eastern Turkey (Arabuli, 2006; Khorozyan and Abramov, 2007).
Armenia: south-western and southern parts of the country from Khosrov Reserve to the Armenian-Iranian state border throughout the Geghama, Zangezur, Aiotsdzor, Bargushat and Meghri ridges. The range boundaries are the Azat River in the north-west; Vardenis Ridge in the north; semi-desert of the Ararat Valley in the west; state border with Azerbaijan and the alpine meadow/nival belt transition zone in the south-west and east; Arax River basin along the Armenian-Iranian border in the south. Until the early 1970s it lived also in north-eastern parts of Armenia (Khorozyan et al., 2005; Khorozyan and Abramov, 2007).
Azerbaijan: Talysh Mts. in the extreme south-east, Akhar-Bakhar Ridge of the Iori-Mingechaur Highland in the north-west and the Zangezur Ridge in the Nakhichevan Republic along the state border with Armenia in the west (Lukarevsky et al., 2007).
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic: distribution in Shushi, Mardakert and Hadrut districts and in the adjoining Kelbajar district was recorded in 1941-1967 (Alekperov, 1966; Sludsky, 1973). Up-to-date information on leopard status is impossible to obtain for the political tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan over this republic, even though it plays a vital role as a corridor between the southern (Armenia, Azerbaijan's Nakhichevan Republic), central (Iori-Mingechaur Highland in Azerbaijan and Vashlovani Reserve in Georgia) and northern (Russian North Caucasus) parts of the Caucasus (Khorozyan and Abramov, 2007).
Iran: virtually all country, except the vast deserts of Desht-e-Kevir and Desht-e-Lut in central and eastern parts. Particularly common in the Alborz Mts. along the southern fringe of the Caspian Sea. Quite common in protected areas (e.g., Tandooreh, Sarigol, Bafgh, Golestan, Kolah'ghazy, Touran, Kavir, Khojir, Khabr and Bamu national parks; Kiamaki and Naybandan wildlife refuges; Jahan Nama, Central Alborz, Varjin, Arasbaran, Dena and Bahram'gur protected areas) and some unprotected lands (Chapur-Ghoymeh, Safee Abad-Dozain or Minoo Dasht, Ramsar, Khaeez and Darestan-Rudbar) (Joslin and Shoemaker 1988; Kiabi et al., 2002; Farhadinia et al. 2007; Abdoli et al. 2008; M Farhadinia and A. Ghoddousi pers. comms., 2008).
Turkey: north-east (around the Artvin city), east (vicinities of Mt. Ararat or Agri) and south-east (Bitlis Ridge). Possibly exists in the mountains of the Black Sea coast and south-westwards to the Taurus Mts. (H. Diker pers. comm., 2008). It is unclear whether leopards still survive in western Turkey.
Turkmenistan: western Kopetdag Ridge, central Kopetdag Ridge, eastern Kopetdag Ridge, Badkhyz Reserve and Giaz-Gyadyk Ridge (Lukarevsky, 2001).
Afghanistan: central (Hindu Kush, Kohe Baba, Kohe Paghman and Safed Koh ranges of the central highlands), north-eastern (Wakhan corridor) and northern (Darkad peninsula of Badakshan) parts of the country (Habibi, 2004).
In the Central Asian republics, leopard distribution is poorly known. Historically, leopards had a wider distribution in Turkmenistan, and were found in parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. An old male leopard was killed by a local hunter in January 2000 in Kazakhstan, the first record of the species in this country, in a location over 600 km from possible occurrences in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and over 1,200 km from known occurrences in Turkmenistan. It is aplso possible that the leopard travelled along the foothills of the Pamirs, then proceeded via the Ugam and Pskem ranges into the Talas river valley. Habitat appears to be suitable, but the existence of any leopard subpopulation in any of these three countries is uncertain (Shakula 2004).
In Pakistan, the leopard is thinly distributed in montane areas, and there have only been a handful of confirmed records in recent years (Ahmed 2001).
Leopards occur widely in the forests of the Indian sub-continent, through Southeast Asia and into China, although they are becoming increasingly rare outside protected areas. They are not found on the islands of Borneo or Sumatra (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
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|The leopard is an adaptable, widespread species that nonetheless has many threatened subpopulations. While still numerous and even thriving in some marginal habitats from which other big cats have disappeared in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, in North Africa leopards are on the verge of extinction.
There are no reliable continent-wide estimates of population size in Africa, and the most commonly cited estimate of over 700,000 leopards in Africa (Martin and de Meulenaar 1988) is flawed. In India, based on pugmark censuses (a methodology which has been criticized as inaccurate), 9,844 leopards were estimated in 2001. Many populations are believed to be increasing, and there are high levels of human-leopard conflict (Singh 2005).
Several Asian subspecies are included on the Red List, with population information as follows:
Amur leopard P.p. orientalis CR C2a(ii),D: 14-20 (Anon. 2007)
Arabian leopard P.p. nimr CR C2a(I): <200 (Breitenmoser 2006, Spalton and Al Hikmani 2006)
Javan leopard P.p. melas CR C2a(i): 323-525, with <250 mature breeding adults (A. Ario pers. comm. 2007)
Sri Lankan leopard P.p. kotiya EN C2a(i): 700-950 (Kittle and Watson 2007)
Persian leopard P.p. saxicolor EN C2a(i): 871-1290 (Khorozyan et al., 2005; Lukarevsky et al. 2007)
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|The leopard has the widest habitat tolerance of any Old World felid, ranging from rainforest to desert. In Africa, they are most successful in woodland, grassland savanna and forest but also occur widely in mountain habitats, coastal scrub, swampy areas, shrubland, semi-desert and desert. They range from sea level to as much as 4,600 m on Mt Kenya (Hunter et al. in press). In Southwest and Central Asia, leopards formerly occupied a range of habitats, but now are confined chiefly to the more remote montane and rugged foothill areas. Through India and Southeast Asia, Leopard are found in all forest types, from tropical rainforest to the temperate deciduous and alpine coniferous (up to 5,200 m in the Himalaya), and also occur in dry scrub and grasslands (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
Leopards have extremely catholic diets including more than 90 species in sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from arthropods to large antelope up to the size of adult male Eland Tragelaphus oryx (Hunter et al. in press). Densities vary with habitat, prey availability, and degree of threat, from fewer than one per 100 km² to over 30 per 100 km², with highest densities obtained in protected East and southern African mesic woodland savannas (Hunter et al. in press).
A study in Thailand found a home range of 8.8 km² for a radio-collared female, and 17.3-18 km² for two adult males (Grassman 1998). Important prey species were hog badger Arctonyx collaris (45.9%), muntjac Muntiacus muntjak (20.9%) and wild pig Sus scrofa (6.3%).
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Throughout Africa, the major threats to Leopard are habitat conversion and intense persecution, especially in retribution for real and perceived livestock loss (Ray et al. 2005). In intact rainforest, the chief threat to Leopards is probably competition with human hunters for prey; the tremendous volume of wild meat harvests denudes forests of prey and may drive localized extinctions. Nonetheless, Leopard are somewhat tolerant of habitat conversion, and may persist close to large human populations provided they have suitable cover and prey (Hunter et al. in press).
Leopard come into conflict with people across their range. A rapidly increasing threat to Leopards is the poisoning of carcasses targeting carnivores, either as a means of predator control or incidentally.
The impact of trophy hunting on populations is unclear, but may have impacts at the demographic and population level, especially when females are shot. In Tanzania, which allows only males to be hunted, females comprised 28.6% of 77 trophies shot between 1995 and 1998 (Spong et al. 2000).
Skins and canines are still widely traded domestically in some central and West African countries where parts are used in traditional rituals and sold openly in villages and cities (Hunter et al. in press). Djibouti is an important conduit for Leopard skins from East Africa that are bought mainly by French military personnel and carried illegally to Europe.
In West Asia, small leopard subpopulations are threatened primarily by habitat fragmentation, killing in defence of livestock, and poaching for trade (Habibi 2004, Breitenmoser et al. 2006, Breitenmoser et al. 2007).
In Indo-Malaya, leopards are threatened primarily by habitat loss (deforestation) as well as poaching for illegal trade (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In India, leopards are feared for their attacks on people (Singh 2005).
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|Included on CITES Appendix I. Legal international traffic is limited largely to exports of skins and hunting trophies under a CITES Appendix I quota system by 13 African countries (2005 CITES quota is 2,590). Leopards are protected under national legislation throughout most of their range (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In Africa, although Leopards occur in numerous protected areas across their range, the majority of the population occurs outside of protected areas, necessitating a need for improved conflict mitigation measures (including livestock management, conflict resolution) (Hunter et al. in press). In West Asia, leopards are essentially restricted to protected areas, many of which are too small to support viable populations, and need expansion through buffer zones and connectivity through corridors (Breitenmoser et al. 2006, 2007). In Indo-Malaya and China, leopards need better protection from illegal trade in skins and bones (Nowell 2007).
|Jdeidi, T., Masseti, M., Nader, I., de Smet, K. & Cuzin, F. 2010. Panthera pardus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T15954A5328595. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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We all from time to time like joining doubles games. Frequently, players are picky about games they want to join, however. Lower ranked players (like myself) sometimes want to play doubles against higher ranked players, both for the challenge and the points oppurtunity. This is difficult however if your teammate isn't on at the same time you are. One way to get around this is to give your mate your password, so they can log in as you and join for you. But, here's my suggestion on it.
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Exhibitions » 2013 » Nate Page: Instituted Angles of Path and Display
Nate Page: Instituted Angles of Path and Display
Instituted Angles of Path and Display
Exhibition Date: July 7, 2012 - June 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
Armory's Main Stairwell
Armory Center for the Arts presents a temporary, site-specific installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nate Page in its central stairwell through June 2013.
Page's newest work, entitled Instituted Angles of Path and Display, challenges the ultra-functional design of the Armory's main stairwell. Page has removed one of the stairwell's two large metal handrails, turned it 90 degrees, and mounted it in the middle of the space on a pedestal-like structure that follows the crooked trajectory of the stairs and the landing. This simple gesture both highlights and alters the existing framework and prescriptive design of the space, which remains fully functional although visually distorted. Central to Page's practice is an interest in engaging elements of perceived and given space in built environments, often through objects dismissed as peripheral or incidental.
Page acknowledges that railings generally can serve two functions: one for handrail support, and the other as a boundary. By turning a railing on its side and using it to bisect the Armory stairwell, Page shifts our point of view what a handrail is for. Page has created a topography of the climber's passage and an opportunity for visitors to become aware of their physical and psychological relationships to the architecture by negotiating passage (stair) vs. path (boundary railing). Familiar visual and spatial rhythms are interrupted, inviting the viewer to reconsider the function of the space – and possibly, the artist hopes, to find more potential than what it is programmed for.
Nate Page lives in Los Angeles. His work has been seen at Lothringer Dreizehn Space for Contemporary Art in Munich, Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg Austria, Warsaw Academy of the Arts, Warsaw, John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts in Sheboygan, WI, No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, and at Cooper Union and Jen Bekman Gallery, both in New York. Page has produced many environments with Machine Project in Los Angeles including A Field Guide to LACMA at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and has shown nationally including Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery, Institute of Visual Arts at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. From 2001-2004, Page co-directed an experimental artist collaborative and exhibition space in Milwaukee called the Rust Spot. He received a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and attended the Warsaw Academy of Art in Warsaw, Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg Austria, and the New York Studio Program and the Summer Residency at The Cooper Union, both in New York City.
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Her Majesty and Prince Philip will be in attendance at the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance this evening at the Royal Albert Hall. The Earl and Countess of Wessex will be joining them as well as other members of the Royal Family.
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The '63 Chevy Impala is one of the most popular Lowriders of all time for a reason. Its unique box shape and back end have kept low and slow enthusiasts yearning for this Bowtie classic for decades. Such is the case for lifelong motorist Juvenal Montemayor, a member of Majestics who was smitten by this car at an early age. "I've been Lowriding since I was a kid, I had a Lowrider Bike when I was 12," Juvi says with pride via telephone from his Delano, CA home. Now proud to fly the Majestics plaque, Juvi worked hard to build a Chevy that could live up to his club's standards; if you don't believe me, check out this pictorial and judge for yourself.
"I always loved the '63, the body style, the difference in the back of the car, it's always been my favorite," Juvenal says wistfully. After paying his dues as a member of the Majestics Bicycle Club since he was 14, Juvi knew what his next move would be. I was in Majestics Bike club when I was fourteen but I always wanted to get my own car, which I did when I was 18," he says. "The club was happy for me, as I was one of the youngest members to have a car. They helped me out a lot in finding the parts and wheels I needed, and they also referred me to certain painters and engravers." With the teamwork of his club behind him, Juvi built his dream car.
"The paint was a tribute to an old-school car from the '80s, for me, that was just a special time coming up," the young rider says regarding the Chevy's unique Gold, Black, and Tangerine color scheme. While the paint is indeed impressive, it was one of the more time consuming aspects of this three-year build. Shuffling back and forth to the paint and chrome shops was a bit frustrating, but I didn't wanna give up because I wanted to see the car finished," Juvenal says with determination.
His persistence has certainly paid off with this incredible Chevy, worthy of this month's coveted center spot. The car even took home honors in 1st Place Mild for Best Murals and Best Paint at the Las Vegas Super show. "I wanna thank my car club for helping me out, and thank Sal for helping me put the car together," Juvi says with a smile. "Of course I'd also like to thank my family for helping me out as well. Still a very young man, it's clear that Mr. Montemayor has many years of cruising ahead of him, and with a build like this one, he's happy to let it breathe. "I'm so happy to own this '63 and I'm gonna enjoy it for quite a while. I want to let people see this one; maybe someday I'll do a convertible or something," he says. We, like the rest of the Lowrider world, will be waiting.
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Body/Paint: The '63 has a fully wrapped and molded frame, thanks to JR. Rodriguez of Advanced Body Shop of Delano, CA., and he also handled the other bodywork. The body also has a continental kit with a 42-inch moon roof. Paint on his classic was done by Sugar Bear of Silva's Auto Art in Earlimart, CA. He used a Copper/Tangerine/Flake combination with Black urethane paint. Pearl splashes and candy fade lines were added by vet Mike Lamberson of Draggin Lines out in Riverside, CA. Murals on this Chevy come courtesy of Alberto Herrera of Quality Art in Visalia, CA., who used a "Ladies' Night theme". Art Lopez, of Arts Restoration in Wasco, CA wrapped the interior in black fabric and vinyl. Custom engraving was added by Miguel Chavez in the form of a custom rear wishbone.
Sound System: Diego Montemayor worked out of Delano's Finest and installed an Alpine head unit with Alpine tweeters, mids, and 10-inch subwoofers.
Setup: A three-pump, full chrome, Pro Hopper setup was installed by Sal out of Bump and Bounce out in Kerman, CA. The setup features 8-inch front cylinders with 10-inch rear cylinders, with four switches, six Accumax Solenoids powered by four batteries. Peter, of Anaheim plating handled the chrome duties on the '63.
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Yes, the title character of "Frances Ha" is a New York woman in her 20s struggling with her professional life and the romantic and platonic tiers of her personal life. Still, don't ask Greta Gerwig, who plays Frances and co-wrote the film with director and Gerwig's reported boyfriend Noah Baumbach ("Greenberg"), how Frances would interact with the girls on "Girls." She doesn't see an overlap.
"['Girls' deals] with a slightly earlier moment of life, but for me I just feel like films and television exist in their own universes and they have their own rules," says the 29-year-old Sacramento native by phone while walking to her New York apartment. "I love 'Girls' and I think Lena's a genius, but I don't see the ability to place a character. [Laughs] … Frances only exists in this movie, and this is the only thing that we'll ever see of her."
Perhaps it's a testament to the specificity of the characters, despite their universal experiences. In "Frances Ha," opening Friday, 27-year-old Frances is familiar but unique, hoping her apprenticeship at a dance company will finally turn into a steady gig while wishing the dynamic with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner, Sting's daughter) could stay the way it was in college--when they were inseparable and didn't have to worry as much about being on different trajectories.
Speaking of trajectories: Gerwig ("Damsels in Distress," "Arthur") made the miniscule "LOL" and "Hannah Takes the Stairs" while living in Logan Square in 2006. With another likable, deceptively complex performance in "Frances Ha," she continues to chart upwards.
"Frances Ha" is a perceptive vision of people in their 20s. What's something you think people in that stage of life don't get enough credit for and something they deserve to be taken to task for?
I think that people in their 20s actually aren't given enough credit for their ambition. I think people see [them as] ... directionless or somehow lacking in ambition, and I don't think that's true at all. I feel like most of the people I know are incredibly ambitious, as is the character of Frances. It's just not necessarily working out for them, which is different than not having ambition at all. And I think they need to be taken to task for how entitled they feel. ... I think that's kind of a sad psychological state to be in because the universe doesn't owe us anything.
How new do you think that is? A lot of people think that entitlement has come along with the Millennial generation.
There's still this Wild West idea of getting rich quick or having everything being solved very quickly by a job or a pill or getting famous. And I don't think there's a lot of built-in reward or examples of persistence. Sometimes also the current generation absorbs the criticisms of the culture as a whole. It's just that the young people take the brunt of it because they seem to be the ones that aren't bringing it. [Laughs] I don't think that's necessarily true; I think we're living through a moment where there's a lot of instantaneous gratification. I think that that holds true for people in their 60s as well as for younger people.
So we can blame Mark Zuckerberg and move on.
Yeah, we can just blame Google and Zuckerberg. No, I don't know. [Laughs] I totally sympathize with it. Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it. [Laughs] I'm not above it. I think it's a general malaise.
The movie taps into the challenge of figuring out friendships as they develop in your 20s. How much did you relate to those struggles?
Noah and I wrote the script together, and while we were writing it—it took a long time to write, like a year to write—we were both drawing upon our experiences of friendship in our 20s and earlier, and for him later. And these moments of pretty painful transitions, which I think are not gender specific. Noah put a lot of his male friendships in, and I put a lot of my female friendships in. It's hard to even describe it to other people because I think that there's just not a lot of language to talk about what it means to stop being friends with someone or to have a friendship change. Because it's not a relationship that's codified in any way. You can't marry your friends! [Laughs] I mean, you could [Laughs], but there's no way that friendship is recognized in any legal way. It's not family; it's not marriage. It's something else, but it's just as powerful. And when it goes away it just feels like it's slipping away, but it doesn't feel as dramatic as a breakup, but it is internally. It's just that you don't have a way to describe it.
Do people deal with it in the cliché ways that they deal with a romantic breakup, like a pint of ice cream and sappy movies?
Yeah! We were talking about it in "Frances" in terms of—she starts drinking too much, trying to befriend another girl and make her the next one. She tries to drown her sorrows. She goes to Paris because she's heartbroken. [Laughs] That's the most rom-commy thing ever.
The movie plays with this idea of being undateable, which is sort of a joke or a measure of pride for Frances. Can anyone actually be undateable?
I think the way Frances means it is, like you said, a point of pride. I think it's more, like so many things in Frances' life, the thing that's a point of pride has now become something that's a problem. Her being an apprentice at the dance company when she was 21, that's a point of pride. At 27 it's no longer a great thing. I don't think anybody is actually undateable, but I think that people at different points in their lives can make themselves unavailable to that, and I think Frances is very much doing that. We were very aware of not wanting to make her sad girl who can't get a date. We wanted it to be something that was open to her but that she was just rejecting. I think she makes the decision to make herself undateable in the movie, but I don't think anybody can be inherently undateable.
If you tell a friend that you recognize some of them in Frances, will they take that as a compliment or something negative?
I don't know. I hope [she's] recognizable, but I think Frances is ultimately a character who experiences redemption and that she creates her own moment of grace. Despite her shortcomings as a person, I feel that if you were told you were like her, I would think that would indicate some kind of inherent ability to pull one's self up by one's bootstraps.
People have commented that "Frances Ha" has a different tone from Noah's recent directorial efforts—more warmth, less bitterness. How much credit do you deserve for that?
I think it was one of those really incredible collaborations. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, but it's hard to identify what's exactly Noah and what's exactly me. It feels like it's the movie that neither one of us could have written without the other or made without the other. I don't really credit myself; I credit the collaboration. If it feels different, I think it's because of the collaboration.
A movie she didn't understand when she was younger: "Turner and Hooch." "I thought it was so strange. I didn't know if it was supposed to be funny but I was kind of scared by it and it was too loud. It was confusing. [Laughs]"
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When Allen Ginsberg was a cute, soulful gay boy.
Read Fred Kaplan's "Life and Art" about "Howl."
You may think you know what Howl (Oscilloscope) is, but you don't. ("You" here being me before I walked into the movie.) You think it's a conventional indie biopic of the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, with an earnest but mannered lead performance by James Franco. Instead, it's a minimalist oddity, a full-length movie devoted to the recitation, comprehension, and appreciation of a single poem—that would be "Howl," of course, published by City Lights in 1957 and made famous in a landmark obscenity trial. *
The audience for this movie is going to be so tiny. Take the proportion of the population that knows or cares who Allen Ginsberg is—small, right? Then separate out the subset who would be willing to see a movie about Allen Ginsberg. Then subtract at least half of those people, and you have the number who would have any patience with this particular film. All right, then add in a few James Franco lovers. Howl is—and wants to be—the other Allen Ginsberg movie, a fact that in itself endears this slightly loony project to those of us who would love to see literature treated more seriously on-screen.
Good literature, of course, doesn't always—or even often—make for good cinema. And I'm not even sure Ginsberg's poem is good, exactly—but it's as powerfully iconic a work of American verse as Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" or Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." It's something we've been quoting from for too long to really hear anymore. And the image of Ginsberg in his later years, a bald, chubby, bearded imp twirling ecstatically in a dhoti, has eclipsed his early years as a cute, soulful gay boy, back-to-back on a New York park bench with his lifelong partner Peter Orlovsky (a photo that, like a few others, is reproduced faithfully by a shot in Howl).
To be sure, Ginsberg was never as cute as James Franco; only a sliver of the human population is. The actor's non-resemblance to the man springs periodically to mind as you're watching Howl, but it very soon becomes the least interesting thing about his performance. (The fact is, we wouldn't begrudge a less attractive actor his less-than-perfect resemblance to Ginsberg. Franco's curse is that he's so good-looking we can't believe he's any good.) What's most impressive about Franco's turn as Ginsberg is how many chances he passes up to hot-dog it. Speaking line after line from a real-life transcript, with no visible or audible interlocutor to bounce off of, must be a confounding actorly task, but Franco somehow convinces us that he's coming up with these ideas for the first time—and they're pretty big ideas, about art and honesty and the pathologization of same-sex love by the midcentury medical establishment. (Ginsberg spent time in an asylum being treated for homosexuality, an experience he recounts with harrowing detail in "Howl.")
The approach of the directors, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, is rigorously purist. There are no scripted dramatizations of real events, no imagined inner monologues; every word spoken in the film comes either from the poem, from a real-life interview with Ginsberg (mainly one he gave to Playboy in 1969 about his homosexuality), or from the court transcripts of the San Francisco obscenity trial. There are also some re-enactment scenes in which Jon Hamm plays the lawyer who defended Ginsberg's publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, while David Strathairn is the scandalized prosecuting attorney. Ginsberg's fellow Beat writers Jack Kerouac (Todd Rotondi) and Neal Cassady (Jon Prescott) appear in virtually nonspeaking parts as the two straight men who were Ginsberg's first unrequited crushes and who encouraged him to blossom both as poet and as a gay man. "Howl" was the place where he came out flamboyantly as both.
As a project, Howl is finally a little dogged, a little inert, a little—how shall I say?—high-fiber. And the choice to illustrate parts of the poem with fruity pornographic animation sequences was a mistake. (A sample image: Forests of penis trees burst from the ground, then shoot forth spermatozoa that wriggle up into the sky and turn into stars. I think this may happen more than once.) But even these sequences do accomplish something: They allow us time to listen to the poem, sometimes even repeating sections we've heard earlier in the movie in other contexts. By the time this movie's over, you've spent an hour and a half just working your way through the words of "Howl" and some related source material, and that turns out to be a surprisingly satisfying thing to do.
The recent spate of profiles chronicling James Franco's current fling with all nine Muses may make him look like an eccentric dilettante in other fields, but this media overexposure does nothing to lessen my respect for him as an actor. After that unfortunate period in which Hollywood tried to make him into the next James Dean (and during which he played Dean in a TV biopic), Franco's quietly established himself as both a gifted comedian ( Pineapple Express) and as a fine dramatic actor ( Milk). I really hope he doesn't take the low road of accepting too many bland romantic parts like the one he played in Eat Pray Love. As he's choosing among scripts, Franco should channel the voice of Ginsberg, that dirty-minded, resolutely honest trickster who roused the best minds of his generation by exulting, "O victory forget your underwear you're free!"
Correction, Sept. 24, 2010: The sentence originally misstated the publication date of "Howl" as 1955. Ginsberg first read the poem in 1955, but it wasn't published until 1957. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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NEW YORK (AP) — It's probably safe to say there aren't too many 29-year-old playwrights out there who could get Vanessa Redgrave to appear in their work. Let alone in only their second play.
But Jesse Eisenberg isn't any 29-year-old playwright — he's also one of the more justifiably buzzed-about young actors in Hollywood, with an Oscar nomination under his belt to boot. And he's snagged no less than a genuine legend to co-star with him in his quasi-autobiographical new play, "The Revisionist," a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production directed by Kip Fagan that opened Thursday at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
His luck is ours, because Redgrave gives a beautifully raw and affecting performance that energizes every minute of this quirky and sometimes heartbreaking meditation on the meaning of family, both across the generations and across the globe.
"The Revisionist" may sound like a reference to a sinister movie villain — Beware the Revisionist, coming to revise you! — but actually it's just a reference to David, the young, jittery, self-involved writer played by Eisenberg. And this actor knows what he's doing when it comes to playing young, jittery, self-involved types, as we saw with his memorable turn as Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network."
If David seems less interesting than some other characters Eisenberg has played, maybe it's just that he is so annoying, you want to slap him and send him to bed. At least with the young Zuckerberg, you knew he was going to become a major figure of our times. David, though, seems to think he eventually will, too.
We meet David as he arrives in Poland to visit his 75-year-old second cousin, Maria. Actually, it's only in Maria's wishful thinking that David is coming to see HER. As we soon learn, David doesn't care much to know Maria — he is suffering writer's block and simply needs a faraway place to work for a week, revising his novel.
Within minutes of meeting David, you want to shout, "Where are your manners, young man?" Maria's been waiting for him for hours in an excited panic, but all he wants to do is closet himself away with his Mac and smoke a joint. He declines conversation, and dismisses the chicken dinner she's prepared, saying he's a vegetarian.
Maria, though, seems to idolize her younger American relative, purely and simply because he is family. David learns that Maria has read his first book — twice! — and keeps The New York Times review in a frame in the living room. The dialogue that ensues will be familiar to anyone whose mother has saved a mediocre piece of schoolwork or an ugly photo.
"It was a bad review!" David says, stunned and embarrassed.
"My flesh and blood in New York Time," Maria replies in her broken English. "I put in frame. Is important newspaper. I was thinking maybe you sign it for me."
It's a quick exchange, but an apt illustration of the issue at the crux of this play, which is that this brash young American cannot conceive of what family means to this elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and the deaths of her immediate family.
It's illustrated too in the amusing scene where David happens upon the taxi driver Zenon (an effective Daniel Oreskes, speaking Polish here) blissfully shaving Maria's legs. When Maria explains that Zenon used to do it for his late mother, David's indignance is classic Eisenberg: "That's not really a sufficient explanation for what I just witnessed!" he positively barks.
In his first play, the 2011 "Asuncion," also directed by Fagan, Eisenberg examined the way people can be so sensitive in their political correctness as to be woefully insensitive. Here he examines a different sort of insensitivity: to the ties that bind families, across time and space. He has said he based this play loosely on a visit he himself once took to see a relative in Poland.
"The Revisionist" does not have a neat, happy ending. But you could say that the revisions do not merely occur in David's book. He and Maria, too, end up somewhat revised by their brief and uncomfortable meeting.