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The Art of War
The paintings of Tom Lea, Life magazine's artist-correspondent during World War II.
- By Rebecca Maksel
- AirSpaceMag.com, February 06, 2009
Tom Lea
November 18, 1943: "It's cold as hell—I wish I had brought some warm clothes. I spent the morning with Tex Hill and his fighter group and made some drawings at one of his alert shacks. He has really got some good boys flying his P-40s. The charcoal stove in the alert shack was very comforting—it was miserable trying to sketch outside in the cold." November 20: "I'm all squared away in China now and hope to leave here and go over the Hump to Assam tomorrow….If I do get my ride this will be my last night in China…. I am in no way sorry to go; yet I am sure that when I am on the other side of the world, the days I have spent here will rise in my memory, and I will feel around me sharp and clear the vast unbreaking tide of China's life."
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What an excellent well written account of the life and works of Tom Lea who is an underappreciated artist and writer of the World War II era.
Posted by Margaret Kurtin on February 15,2009 | 01:53 PM
The pictures and the captions tell us a lot about the man himself. A worthy representative I think, of a very worthy generation.
Posted by Mike Houlding on August 26,2009 | 11:05 PM


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-' ^~," .r •-'=•: FREEPORT BiULDWIN ROOSEVELT MERRICK B UcHRicrC no 44th YEAR, No. 31 LEABER FREEfORT'S QFIIURi NEWSPAPER FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 29. W79 PRICE 20* PER COPY Village Plans To Spend $435,00 I Memorial Senrice Studies Pro/ecfs For Use A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY WM oflan mad* by Lillian GI«Mr, former prealdttht of the Freeport Utatortcal Muteum, who paaaad away Novertber 19 at the age of 86. In 1976, Mra. Gtaser rode In thla old , carriage |njha annual Toyland Holiday Parade./A Memorial Service for her wiU beheld at the Churcfi '61 theTraniflguratlofi Wedneaday. -December 5,8pn\I'./ .^•-.'•.-,'% w ,A"v"~ -^ • -^ Recreation ^nter Saturday FREEPORT • A &ee Holiday Festival fbt^both Children and adulu will be heldat the F^rceport Recreation Center. Sunday, December 2. to 5 pm. The Festival, which replaces the Freeport Chamber of Commerce's annual Toyland Parade, is being co-spons6red1s; Recreation Department and the Chamber of Commerce, -In keeping with the season. Santa Claus will spend the afternoon at.the Center.talking with the children.He will-be accompanied by Mrs. Merry Christmas 1979. linda Bracco. and children diessed b storybook costumes. Free balloons wQl be given to ail >-oangsters ' An opportunity to see how the holidays are spent in Sweden will be provided by the Freeport Meadowbrook Scandinavian Society. The group, which meets at the Freeport Memorial Ubrary. has arranged for the Long Island Vasa Folk Dancers, -^and its children's unit, the Junior Wings, to perform the traditional dances and songs of Lucia Day, the begtilning of the holiday season in Sweden. Swedish custom calls for a young giri of the family to be diosen to portray Saint Loda. Dressed in white with' a crown of •Egfated candlrs and accompamed by yoonger girls dimlarily dressed, she goes from room to 'mora handing out sweets. This •ceremony will be duplicated in theCenter'agymnasium. Tbepro-gram will begin at 2 pm. Children in the audience will be invited to participate in the hour and a half of dance and song. At the conclusion, punch, coffee and Swedish pastries will be "served. Among the other highlights of the day, weather permhting, will be free ice skating for all ages from noon to 2 pm. A limited number of rental skates will be available at no cost but skaters are ad^-tsed to bring their own if possible. A.barbershop quartet will aba be on hand throughout the afternoon, while the senior dfi^ zens of the Center will offer for sale handcrafts, plants and homemade foods in the Senior Lounge, - from ixxm to 5pm. '^ The Hdiday Festival will end with the playing pf Christmas Cands by memi>ers of the Free-port Fire Department Band in the Ccnter'slobby. - KHters Of Alice May Sentenced . . MINBOLA - Tbe seoood of two ODoyicted kiPery «<f. • » ' dde^' - FreepoEt wooac wss sfliteaoea to ' 18 years to Efe tnti sveck.' • '< Nassau Comrfy'Codtt Jtidgr Kkbard I>^n« spring t&at 22 year cid Ucky C r o ^ sbowed iio ^Bof flf tanotse Cor Ins part in tbe BOor- ,der of 74-j^ar old. Afice lr(«y. c^Ded Cbe BrooUyn man "« cniel • Crasl^ anolS-year old Jamie 'PattfTiOH, also of BrooUfn, had been fiwad gmlty of the murder of McK. May. Tbe long-tuae ^eqnrter was betotng b ber toB GeJarie's North Mabi. Street tlalfcinery irtoc^ oo 'JtaoMXf 21 when tbe two TOUths stteinpted to bold it np. Ite;:^^ Mar ««* totted to Ge oa ^ fiodc oo ber badk tad tb«n shot, betweea tbe eyes, from s ift^T*^ of-appcosasatdy two tttL " • ' . .- For this cxiae, Defia had pceykcriy'sentrocrd Pattezaoo, wfao was £aond 0uU]r of tbe actoal sboodttg. to S yean to life. D(£n, at that tioe, caOe^I tbe . »<Cont. on P»Q« 15) Planned For Lillian Glaser FREEPORT - A Funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday evening, December S, for longtime Freeport resident Lillian Glaser. Mrs. Glaser, who had been a charter member and past-. president of the Freeport Historical Society, died November 19 of .cancer, at South Nassau Communities Hospital. The Mass for the 86 year old former publisher, who had M^ed that at her death her body be donated to the Cornell Medical Unhrersity. will be celebrated by the Bev.- Marc.Olhrer at the Cbntdi.of • the' .Tratuflguratlaa, ' Sbntb-li^nB^-BMdir'Avenoe'.and'.x PineS^S^MBfW;-:"., ^^'T., ' <-; -During tfie past week. *« word - of Mrs. Glaser'a death travelled -. around the.village, one word from her many-friends, and acqnaint-antes predominated: dedication. . Frecport • Mayor, William H. White coinntented that what is always needed in this world are • iinteerg^lilre Mrx. filaser whose dedication to the Freeport Hlstor: ical Society and Museum he described as Vday to day. 24 hours a day." He remembers that -"no matter where she ran into me, she would butionho1eTne-»nd-the-vil'— lage is the better for it." Besides her activities with the Freeport Historical Society and Museum. Mrs. Glaser was a past president of the Friends of the Freeport Memorial Ubrary. A former publisher of" children's books, she alwap maintahied her interest in the field- Active in the Nassau County Historical Society as wen as the local one, she continued to attend all their meetings until she became ill. . Mrs. Glaser first came to Frec- • port i i her early teens. Bom in SayviUe, she moved here and lived with a cousin, Mrs. Charles Mack, to shorten the commuting into New York City .according to a ' teenage friend. Mrs. .Kfanorie Wallace, a resident of this village. "Unian and I were frieiuls from our early teens," Mrs. Wallace : said tins week. "She loved Ufe aad people. She bad enthusiasm • -for.wbat she did with her work "•and tor tlie i-ieeport Historical Society. She war always ready for a'aood time or to beito those ia need." First emplc^ed as a teenager. . b y Doobleday, Page and Co., ttie Garden Cty pobCshing ''hcRise, tbe then LiQian Gerard '. worked herself a|p to assist- •at to Nelsoo DooUeday. president and son of tbe fooodtr.F . 'After ber iaarriage to WiOiuB QH. Glaser. ^ left Pkwbleday amd to«tber . tbey operated . W3iiaa C.D. Glaser, UtbogE^i' crs. In Long bland Ctx- Tbe Of Two Guy^ Money FREEPORT • Proposals for the use of the funds derived from the sale of the Two Guys Department Store were outlined by Community Development Agencv director Eric Hemphill at the last VlUagc Board of Trustees meeting Monday night. November 26. Hemphill noted that the proposal was based upon a public hearing held the week before, recommendations of' the • Community Development Task Force and a meeting of -the Community Development Citizens . Committee. At last week's public hearing,' requests for fiinos were in the areas of walerfroot hnnrove* ments such as patUng and sign- . logi signs for the Freeport Mall, aid -totithe Freeport Memorial' Ubtasy. to -tenibye ar^ttttfctytal - baniets tm the baadkappt^; aU^' Tidr « l Hello Child, l5»y .Care . Cutter..fiuida to piuehaae land ' and jilstorical buudiaia;~aad a brick buffer wall between Liberty Park and Two Guys. THose attending the meeting also learned that the fiinds available for use were S612.325. CosU of site improvements, sudr as trafllc liglifc, fliffric and water con- ;mBdSS.OOQ Nelchbbr- Areaa :-4.2^ nections, had tot been deducted from the 11^,781 purchase price, Hemphill explained that 10% of the $6l2i25 U allowable for "contlngenciwbr -local options (561,000): and another SI16.000 was to be allocated, under the proposed application, for administration and ptannrng. From the $435,000 (or 40% of the total purchase price received by the Community Develop-meht Agency for the sale of the land), 5100,000 was suggested for use for spot improvements on North Main Street; $15,000 for Code Enforcetnent and Education; $80,000 for the Alexander Avenue Expansion, which would connect Two Guys to tbe Freeport )A»3X puUag field; S60,000 for expanded Mall parking, promised' as pari of tDA's contribution when the new Tax Assessment Distri^ was set up: 515,000 for the tcnwval of arehltectural barriers'In publie boUdlnn: 5100,000' (or the Ubetty Park plav area, to ladude baikieiban coiua, tables,-b>Ad-' •ban cootts. a cbndreb's. ~ -area, 'itaA. • -additteaal'a fZOjOOaVteT ; StabttttaliaB "for mt^ "i\B hood'—-"^^ mad 3 Following HempunVjueseoU-rion. Tnistee-Tltnotfiy Petemann asked about parUay fbr the waterfront -area. Heaiphlll explained that the Cbmlnunlty Development Task Force had "nonrogsejted-moniesbe used for that purpose because past years' allocaUons of 5300,000 in that area had not yet been used. But Petemana asked if it was known if that amount was a "feasible amount to do what we want to do there?" Later Petemana explained that he was "botheted about intensifying the frustrations" of the waterfront people who had made their requests ' at tbe • first public hearing. Hempb'ill expUbed additional monies could come from contingencies or parking could be provided as far as the money would allow. Village Clerk Tom DeVincenzo. a Task Force (Coni.'onPagelB) (Cont.onPag«9) YOUNOrilfTOWY BUFF. WUfridt. Mortn,dlrKtoro* tM ftmpBtX MmnoiMi Lttyary. prmmA* • clMck for $90 to Cathy Pomcrfco. as an 4 « v d for tb« Hiraf'RMdings in American History. Tba nbemf* Young AdtJit Ubr«rtar», Anlu Gordon, adds her eong«tuWto«- Cathy mat tbe raqulremanu of the program by rtading, from tha library's coHactton, 25 books with an American History background.
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I was told by a lawyer that I can file a wage claim against the startup I've been working with for the last 3 years. I am in the middle of equity talks with the owners of the startup. I want to use the wage claim as leverage during equity talks because the owners do not believe my argument that I was underpaid during my first 3 years at the startup; thus, their equity offer is below what I believe it should be.
I helped start an online startup 3 years ago. I have run the operations at the startup since inception. We're an online educational startup selling training programs in a particular field. The startup is fully owned by two people (not me). I was working for these two people at another company they owned 4 years ago. A year in we started the online startup. Basically, the two owners developed content for a training program used for employees at the original company I worked for, and the online startup idea was to put the content online and sell it to people outside of the original company. My job in the startup was to turn the training program into something that would work for people online, sell it, market it, and train and manage trainees and developers (most everything).
At first, I never worked out equity with the owners, because I was still focusing on my job at the original company (a job in which I never made a dime), but now I only work on the startup. In my first year I agreed to take a small commission, 5% gross, from the sale of training programs I sold to people online, with no base salary. Several months later the owners agreed to give me 1k of the first training program I sold along with 5% commission; which moved to 7% commission if I sold 5 training programs or more. I made around 18k my first year and 24k my second year off commission in the startup (since I made no money off the original job, I was struggling to get by those first 2 years).
In the 3rd year the commission moved to 10%. I sell training programs every month now so they moved me to a base salary structure instead of giving me 1k of the first training program sold. Now I get a base salary of 1.5K every month along with my 10% commission.
The lawyer I talked to claims that I was supposed to receive at least 24k a year as a base salary for the startup to be exempt from minimum wage or overtime and other state & federal law. I never really had a base salary my first 2 years. Even now my base is only 18k. The lawyer claims that the commission I made on sales does not count towards the base salary as well. The only exception to the 24k base salary minimum would be if I owned 20% or more of the company (or if I was in the service industry).
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The conviction and imprisonment of 21 female protesters, after they participated in a peaceful pro-Morsi demonstration shows the Egyptian authorities' determination to punish dissent.
Two prominent activists in Saudi Arabia have been questioned today on as yet unspecified charges as the continuing crackdown on independent human rights work in the country intensifies.
A Russian court has for the first time ordered a non-governmental organization to register as a "foreign agent" under a sinister law that is being used to crush independent civil society in the country.
27 November 2013
Bahrain's authorities must immediately release Nabeel Rajab, a prominent human rights activist jailed for taking part in an anti-government protest last year.
26 November 2013
Afghanistan's proposed reinstatement of atrocious punishments would mark a dangerous return to legalized state brutality, Amnesty International said today as it urged the authorities to reject such plans.
25 November 2013
Amnesty International supporters worldwide today begin a 16-day global campaign challenging violence against women and girls exacerbated by increasingly militarized societies or "militarism".
The Government of Zimbabwe must guarantee all human rights enshrined in the new Constitution, Amnesty International said in a Human Rights Agenda issued as President Robert Mugabe approaches the 100th day of his new term.
The UN must take full account of the human catastrophe of epic proportions unfolding in the Central African Republic (CAR) when considering the options presented by the UN Secretary-General on peacekeeping in that country, Amnesty International said.
A new law placing broad restrictions on protests in Egypt is a serious setback that poses a grave threat to freedom of assembly and gives security forces a free rein to use excessive force, including lethal force, against demonstrators, Amnesty International said today.
22 November 2013
The provisional release of housing rights activist Yorm Bopha does not go far enough, Amnesty International said, after Cambodia's Supreme Court today released her on bail and sent her case back to the Appeals Court.
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The Indiana Department of Workforce Development, working with the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, is offering a new program to help Hoosiers pay the tuition of a two-year college program, books and fees. The program, called the Workforce Acceleration Grant, uses federal stimulus funds to pay up to $3,000 per year for a student's expected family contribution, unfunded tuition costs, books and fees in an associate degree or vocational training program.
Workforce Acceleration Grant recipients can pursue areas of study at more than 50 colleges and universities in Indiana that provide occupational training leading to an associate degree or certificate program. General studies, liberal arts, baccalaureate and graduate programs are not covered. A complete list of eligible schools can be found at www.IN.gov/dwd.
"Governor Daniels insisted on making the best investment possible with these one-time funds and nothing compares to helping Hoosiers acquire the college education or training they need to excel in the 21st Century workplace," said Teresa Lubbers, Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education.
Workforce Acceleration Grants are open to Hoosiers, aged 18 or older, who have a legal right to work in the US, AND meet one of the two below criteria:
Hoosiers interested in applying for a Workforce Acceleration Grant should visit their local WorkOne Center to determine their eligibility. Approximately 9,000 current students may qualify for a Workforce Acceleration Grant. Hoosiers can find their nearest WorkOne Center by visiting http://www.workoneworks.com/
With today's increasingly competitive job market, thinking ahead has never been more important. The good news is that Indiana juniors are still making plans for their pursuit of careers, according to Results of Indiana's Annual Career and College Information Survey.
Learn More Indiana surveyed 59,394 ninth-grade students and 47,299 eleventh grade students across the state about their plans for life after high school. Survey results show that more juniors, class of 2012, are taking action to prepare them for their pursuit of careers and necessary education after high school. Results include:
While this is exciting news, there is still work to be done to ensure a bright economic future for Indiana. Here's what you can do to help; join Indiana's College Success Coalition and help get kids in your area on the right track for success. Local organizations are coming together through this Coalition to share lessons learned, coordinate college and career success efforts and raise awareness of available resources. Visit www.learnmoreindiana.org/coalition to join and find out more.
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In addition to free career resources, Learn More Indiana also provides information to students, teachers, parents and counselors about the steps it takes to get into and successfully complete college. Visit http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/ for advice on how to do better in high school, plan for college, apply for financial aid and more. Hoosiers can request free publications to keep them on track for college, including helpful checklists and magazines, by calling 1-800-992-2076.
Learn More Indiana is a partnership of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, the Indiana Department of Education, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development and the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana, with additional support from Indiana's colleges and universities, USA Funds and the Lumina Foundation for Education—all working together to provide information that supports learning.
The Indiana Department of Workforce Development recently promoted IndianaCAREERconnect.com, the State of Indiana's number one source for available jobs, at the 2009 Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration. The Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration is a two-week long celebration of African-American heritage and culture. Visitors to the exhibit hall were able to check out local merchants, get information on a variety of programs and sample the latest consumer products. Attendees stopped by the DWD booth to pick up the latest information on www.IndianaCAREERconnect.com, Hoosier Hot 50 Jobs, and other programs and initiatives available through the WorkOne.
During the past year, the unemployment rate for the nation and the state has received wide coverage in the media. Many people ask DWD how the unemployment rate is calculated and mistakenly believe that it only counts people who collect unemployment insurance benefits.
DWD calculates the monthly unemployment rate using a statistical model provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This model is specifically designed to determine employment levels by utilizing a combination of factors. Data input into this model includes:
The BLS requires each state to use the same model to calculate labor and employment estimates (including the unemployment rate) so the data is consistent and comparable across geography and time. For more information on how the unemployment rate is calculated visit http://www.bls.gov/Lau/.
Like many Hoosiers in the Elkhart area, Vicki McGlinsey was employed in the RV industry and became a dislocated worker. After experiencing some tough times initially, Vicki got the help she needed at her local WorkOne office.
"I ended up in the dislocated workers program," said Vicki. "I went through the WorkKeys assessments in South Bend and some of their workshops such as resume writing and interviewing. They also helped me to understand that I was eligible for unemployment."
During her initial process, Vicki admits she wanted to give up. She credits WorkOne supervisor Nancy Leighty for motivating her to keep a positive attitude.
"She seemed to truly want to hear my story," said Vicki. "She said she was new. She seemed to really care about me.
"Half way through she went and talked with Danielle Gyuriak and came back to tell me that Danielle would be my caseworker. Danielle took me to her office. She got me into the system and she even called MapleTronics to see if any spots were open for the class I wanted to take.
"Danielle was so sweet!"
Vicki will complete computer training in October but she is also taking other positive steps in her search for employment by utilizing www.indianaCareerconnect.com.
"I search the site about twice a week for any jobs that I may be qualified for," said Vicki. "I have put in for about 100 jobs and have had three interviews since January."
Vicki has some simple advice to anyone going through tough times - never quit.
"I encourage anyone who had trouble with the old system to not give up," she says. "I did not and, thanks to the training I am getting, I feel hopeful that I will be successful in getting a job in a field that I love."
Jenna Johnston, the Local Veterans Employment Representative (LVER) at the Gary WorkOne Center has been named the American Legion National Economic Commission's Indiana LVER of the year for 2008. The award recognizes her for excellent services providing job counseling, testing and placement assistance to unemployed and underemployed veterans.
"The criterion for this award is the same as the other service organizations," said State Veterans' Coordinator Ricky St. John. "Veteran Staff who go beyond the normal duties of the position they are assigned to are recognized for outstanding service to our Hoosier Veterans."
Johnston was awarded on July 11 at the American Legion's National Headquarters Convention in Indianapolis.
This is the fifth award Jenna has received for her dedication and outstanding employment services. In 2008, she won the On-the-Spot performance award, the Veteran's of Foreign Wars State of Indiana LVER of the year and the State of Indiana Individual Incentive Award. This year, she was awarded the Appreciation Trophy from Portage High School.
Jenna is a Navy veteran, who served as a Hospital Corpsman from 1993-1997. She has been a LVER since July of 2007 and has gone above and beyond on a daily basis, earning local, state and national recognition for her service. Congratulations Jenna and keep up the good work!
Scott Sanders is the Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Workforce Development and oversees all financial aspects of the agency. Scott brings many years of financial management experience to DWD from his years working in several executive and financial management positions at Guardian Life Insurance Company/First Commonwealth in Chicago. He earned his MBA at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and received his undergraduate degree in accounting at Miami University.
Scott and his staff are responsible for all DWD budgeting, employer tax audits, employer unemployment insurance taxes, facilities management, grant accounting, payroll, and procurement. He and his team have worked very hard to make DWD as efficient as possible and to stretch every dollar in these tough economic times.
The main goal for Scott and his staff is to improve relationships with DWD business partners. Scott said, "It is our intention to become more customer focused with our partners and to improve our operations through measurement and reporting."
Of course, probably the most important thing you should know about Scott Sanders is that he roots for "Da Bears" and believes this is the year the Cubs will win it all!


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Assassin's Creed: modern day game doubtful, closure of Connor's story unlikely says Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag developer Ubisoft Montreal has taken to Reddit to answer a slew of fan questions. The team has poured cold water on hopes that a modern day entry to the series could happen.
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Some staffers from 2K Marin, devs on The Bureau, held an Ask Me Anything on reddit an hour ago, and despite the fact that a lot of folks tend to tie the identity of the XCOM franchise to a gameplay genre that this prequel is looking to skirt a bit, there was a question about the canonicity of next week's title.
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Microsoft's community figure Major Nelson has stated that the company will not block your library of Xbox One games should your Xbox Live account become banned. The statement was given at E3 last week and comes as confusion clouds the matter.
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Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, has once again visited Reddit in order to answer questions about his game and The War Z. As expected, he doesn't pull any punches when giving answers. Hall discusses the responsibility of consumers, his anger towards The War Z, and accusations from his family in decent length.
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Notch: 'Minecraft mod used to threaten my vision' – Minecraft creator speaks
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Niko Tamurian is Sports Director for CNY Central.
All season long, the Syracuse Orange offense has potent, and at times unstoppable.
On Saturday night, the Minnesota Golden Gophers finally solved the riddle.
The Gophers held Syracuse to just 10 points, 350 total yards and forced 4 turnovers as they beat the Orange 17-10 at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
The Orange actually outgained the Gophers by 13 yards, but made too many costly mistakes, including an interception inside Minnesota's 5 yard line in the 3rd quarter.
Ryan Nassib finished 21-32 passing for 228 yards and one touchdown, but had two interceptions.
Jerome Smith and Prince-Tyson Gulley combined for 100 yards on the ground.
The loss, no doubt, is devastating for the Orange which drops to 1-3 on the season now heading into its first bye week of the season.
After that bye week, SU hosts Pittsburgh on a Friday night in the Carrier Dome that game is set for 7 p.m. on October 5th.


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Spring Breakers
Director : Harmony Korine
Screenplay : Harmony Korine
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 2013
Stars : James Franco (Alien), Selena Gomez (Faith), Vanessa Hudgens (Candy), Ashley Benson (Brit), Rachel Korine (Cotty), Gucci Mane (Archie), Heather Morris (Bess), Ash Lendzion (Forest), Emma Holzer (Heather), Lee Irby (History Professor), Jeff Jarrett (Youth Pastor)
Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine's latest attempt at art-house outrage, is an admittedly canny mix of exploitation sleaze and mainstream subversion. Packaged as a raucous teen bacchanal and released when most of the country is actually on Spring Break, Korine's film, unlike his previous efforts, is designed to lure in an unsuspecting audience who, like his characters, are just looking for a good time, and then slap them upside the head. Those looking for skin, sun, and sin will find plenty of all three in Spring Breakers. But, they will also find healthy dollops of Korine's artistic pretensions, unexpected violence, and what I can only take as finger-wagging, deconstructive social commentary about the dark side of our culture's sexual and material obsessions. The subject of the film is the perversion of youth, and its greatest achievement (if one can call it that) is how it somehow manages to pander to a youth audience while also cinematically chiding them. It's a confused endeavor, to say the least.
The story centers around four college girls—Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson), and Cotty (Rachel Korine)—who want to break away from the dim doldrums of their gray, generic university setting and cut loose on the sparkling Florida Gulf Coast during Spring Break. Lacking funds, they do what any group of desperate coeds would do: They rob a restaurant at gunpoint (in one of the film's more pointed jabs at pop culture mindlessness, they tell themselves to pretend like they're in a video game or a movie before pulling the heist). Faith, befitting her all-too-obvious name, is the good girl of the group, which Korine is incapable of depicting except via ludicrous scenes of her attending a hyped-up Christian prayer group and standing in front of a stained glass window. Why Faith would spend any time with the raucous (and apparently criminal) likes of Candy, Brit, and Cotty is a mystery, but then again, Spring Breakers isn't the kind of film that trades heavily in logic or coherence. It's all about the fever-dream effect.
The girls manage to make it to St. Petersburg—ground zero for Spring Breakers—where they join the throngs of twentysomething revelers who gyrate, strip, drink, sniff, and suck themselves into oblivion. Korine and French cinematographer Benoît Debie (who lensed the searing images in Gaspar Noé's Irreversible and Enter the Void) capture the widescreen action with hypersaturated primary and fluorescent hues, as if the film itself has been baking in a sun-drenched vat of beer. There is something to be said for the intensity with which they depict the anything-goes debauchery of the Florida beach in March. Jagged editing and pulsating techno beats make the silicone-jiggling, six-pack-ab flouting hedonism more rattling than prurient, although it feels at times like Korine was having too good of a time capturing the action, seduced by the raunch on parade into thinking he was actually making a Girls Gone Wild video, rather than satirizing it.
The films' wafer-thin plot doesn't fully kick in until the girls are arrested at a hotel party and face the prospect of several days in county jail (for either titillation or humiliation, they actually stand in the courtroom in their bikinis). They are bailed out at the last minute by Alien, a self-styled gangsta with silver teeth, tattoos, and cornrows played with wicked, gonzo abandon by James Franco (here he truly is Oz the Great and Powerful, and the girls are no longer in Kansas). Alien takes the girls under his wing and brings them into his world of guns, money, and drugs, which Korine visually emphasizes the same way he emphasizes the debauchery on the beach: by repeatedly showing us the same images over and over and over again, thus ensuring that we make the connection between Spring Break revelry and hard-core criminality. It's a fine line, so they say, and several of the girls cross over it quite easily, although whatever drama there might be is sapped by the fact that they had already proven their criminal chops long before setting foot on the beach. They aren't so much corrupted as they merge their corruption with Alien's (he refers to them as his soul mates, and after they force him to fellate two gun barrels simultaneously, he confesses that he just fell in love with them).
Since writing the screenplay for Larry Clark's scandalous adolescent AIDS exposé Kids (1995) at age 22, Korine has carved a niche for himself in independent cinema with a series of gritty, grimy, would-be provocations about small-town perversity with titles like Gummo (1998), Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), and Trash Humpers (2009). Some see him as a subversive genius, while others see little more than a canny exploiter of the cinematic dark side. Spring Breakers feels more like the latter, especially in its use of former Disney Channel princesses Selena Gomez (The Wizards of Waverly Place) and Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical). (And if Korine thinks he's doing something new and provocative here, remember that Roger Avary cast James Van Der Beek at the height of his Dawson's Creek fame as a college sociopath in The Rules of Attraction back in 2002.) If there had been more substance to the film's ideas about the waste and corruption of youth culture, its wanton excesses might have been more stirring and less grating, especially since they feel so much of a piece with the very subject that's supposedly being critiqued. Of course, that could very well be Korine's game—his idea of how to make everyone and no one happy—and in that regard the film can only be deemed a success.
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Johnny Depp says he had a mishap while riding a horse during filming of "The Lone Ranger" that could have left him "horrifically mangled," but he lived to tell the tale. The actor told his side of the equine story on "Late Show With David Letterman" in February 2013.
"The horse was unaware that the saddle I was wearing to sit on top of it was jury-rigged, kind of faked ... to give the effect that I'm riding bareback," he said. "So basically it's not very tight on the horse. So when we came down, the saddle slipped and I went to the left and had the reins here and somehow had the wherewithal to grab the mane of the horse. All very calm for some reason, I figured that fear would kick in but it didn't. I was waiting," he said with a laugh. The horse dragged him for about 25 yards, but only clipped him with its back legs, and Depp was just a bit sore after the whole thing. MORE: Johnny Depp recounts brush with death on 'Lone Ranger' set |
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This is the text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks at an event organized by the Air Force Association at the Capitol Hill Club on June 6, 2012. Bruce Klingner of the Heritage Foundation also took part.
June 6, 2012
by Christopher Ford
Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here at the Capitol Hill Club for another AFA breakfast event. As usual, my thanks go out to Peter Huessy for giving me the chance to join you today. With his permission, I'd like to talk a bit about China, and about U.S. strategic nuclear policy.
In my 2010 book – The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations – I discussed China's ancient view of political power as a hierarchical concept, and a phenomenon that derives from the virtue of political leaders. Traditionally, this "virtuocratic" conception of authority has been at the core of China's Sinocentric worldview, for in this schema truly virtuous rule in one country will produce a world-system in which all others turn in awestruck deference towards that center.
In this hierarchical conceptual scheme, someone else's failure to look upon you as their superior could mean only one of two things: either you are deficient in your own virtue, or he is malicious and malignant, deserving of chastisement. Virtuocracy did not necessarily demand to rule all others, but it cared a lot about politico-symbolic superiority. To refuse to give such deference, in fact, was not just an insult but could actually threaten the virtuocratic regime's internal stability, since its political legitimacy depended not elections but upon pretensions to the merit of an unquestionable virtue.
Ancient China did not, of course, always get such acknowledgement from other players in the world around it, and the Empire was not always in a position to administer proper chastisements to rulers who thumbed their noses at such pretensions. (Patience is a virtue, and where China had to, it gritted its teeth and suffered such insults, at least for as long as it had no choice.) Since I argued in the book that some such ancient virtuocratic notions seem to have survived into the present day, however, my book raised – but did not pretend to answer – questions about how important these themes would be the China of the future if its wealth and power continued to grow.
How, I asked, might a future "strong China" behave later in this century? Would it by then have internalized Westphalian norms of sovereign equality – not just in the narrow juridical sense of leaving every state free to manage its "internal affairs," but in the broader moral and political sense of accepting a world that is not fundamentally arrayed in a hierarchical status-order around some presumptive civilizational monopole? Or would China, if raw power gives it more freedom of action, resume its ancient agenda of building a status-hierarchical political order around itself – at least in its region, and perhaps even farther afield?
That jury, of course, is still out – and I'm not much when it comes to prophecy. Nevertheless, I would like to offer what I hope is a thought-provoking case study of how a relatively strong China changed its behavior just a few years ago vis-à-vis another country when it came to be perceived that the balance of power had shifted in Beijing's favor, and when the internal legitimacy crises of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led it to encourage narratives of an oppositional foreign "Other" as part of its propaganda discourse. After telling this story, I'd like to speculate about the implications of that case study for American strategic policy.
This case study is about Japan. Seen from China's perspective, Japan in the 1980s seemed like a rising economic superpower. It was clearly a country from which Deng Xiaoping's newly-opened China needed to learn as it endeavored to engineer its own rise back to something of the global status it had enjoyed of old.
Significant anti-Japanese sentiments existed in Chinese society, of course, which is hardly surprising given their war-torn history. Nevertheless, in the controlled media environment of modern China, the Party-State's official narrative subordinated such sentiments to the imperatives of engaging with and learning from the advanced, modernized, and profitably capitalist Japanese. Deng's famous admonition to his colleagues to "bide your time and hide your capabilities," after all, counseled non-confrontational circumspection, not just with respect to the United States, but with regard to Japan and other East Asian neighbors as well. Economic modernization was the key to China's future strength, and China's all-important return to global status required breathing space and congenial engagement with countries from which China could learn the ways of modern development.
But this balance between competing elements in China's images of Japan changed in the 1990s, producing a period of intense (and ongoing) anti-Japanese emphasis in China's official discourse and developing behavior. This occurred, I think, for three reasons.
In the mid-1990s, however, there were limits on how well the United States could serve as this "Other." America, after all, still reigned supreme as the world's sole remaining superpower, our high-technology economy was booming, and our military prowess was truly breathtaking. During this period, Beijing clearly still needed a great deal of non-confrontational "breathing space" vis-à-vis the U.S. "hyperpower" before China's economic development made it strong enough to have any more options. Nationalist fervor couldn't yet be permitted to focus too much on America, therefore, lest this imperil the profitable economic and technological engagement China still needed to become strong.
Japan, however, fit the bill nicely – and from 1994 onward the CCP's "patriotic education" campaign focused increasingly upon whipping up anti-Japanese sentiment. (As Susan Shirk recounts in her 2008 book, China: Fragile Superpower, a posting on the government-sponsored "Strong Nation Forum" website summarized things nicely: "It is alright that our relations with Japan deteriorate to the worst. However, we must not damage our relations with the United States!") Since that time, China has also been increasingly willing to permit such anti-Japanese sentiments to translate into more assertive and confrontational behavior – such as in signaling to its netizens the permissibility of (and thus encouraging) violent anti-Japanese protests in 2005 in a diplomatic dispute over Japan's history textbooks, or in imposing a temporary embargo of rare-earth metals during a dispute over maritime boundaries in 2010.
The evolution of China's approach to Japanese relations from the 1980s through the 1990s thus offers an illustration of how a "strong China" may behave toward a foreign country as their relative positions are felt to shift as a result of: (a) China's continued growth and increasing power; (b) the other country losing its previous attraction as a model of modernity to be emulated; and (c) CCP efforts to gain domestic legitimacy by positioning itself as the champion of China's national interests and moral position vis-à-vis a selfish and unvirtuous foreign "Other."
If these three factors sound familiar to you, it means you're paying attention. Some of this familiarity may be because a dynamic not entirely unlike this may have been underway in 2008-10 with respect not to Japan but to the United States itself – at least for a while, anyway, before officials in Beijing seem to have had some second thoughts, becoming concerned that they may have jumped the gun by being too provocative too quickly. Today, Chinese elites seem divided on the issue of whether or not it is – or when it will be – the right time finally to abandon Deng Xiaoping's "bide your time" approach. Perhaps they will opt for caution for a while longer. But the Japan case suggests that given a sufficient shift in the perceived balance of power, China may indeed be tempted to assert for itself – in its region or more broadly – something somewhat more like the Sinocentric global status privileges that its ancient traditions and virtuocratic pretensions encourage it to desire.
Don't get me wrong. It is hardly it a given that comparable conditions will occur with respect to the United States. China's economy might well falter, or its political system collapse under its own corrupt and oppressive weight. Nor is it a given that the United States will indeed actually decline as it has become so fashionable to predict. But the possibility that a "strong China" will indeed adopt an analogously more adversarial and Sino-hierarchical approach has implications for American strategic policy.
For one thing, the possibility of such an adversarial turn has real military implications. China has for years been engaged in a steady buildup, not merely of modern conventional forces but of nuclear ones as well. According to last year's U.S. Defense Department report to Congress,
According to the Pentagon, moreover, "there remains uncertainty about how China will use its growing capabilities." This uncertainty is itself problematic, because "China's modernized military could be put to use in ways that increase China's ability to gain diplomatic advantage or resolve disputes in its favor."
Chinese leaders insist that their country's rise should be threatening to nobody, and that China will never seek "hegemony" no matter how strong it becomes. I hope this is true, but it's hard not to worry about the Japan example. It is also hard to forget that in traditional Chinese usage, molding a global system around the dominance of a supremely virtuous power doesn't count as "hegemony" in the first place. (Hegemony, after all, is what states try to seize when they possess power but lack real virtue. It would not be "hegemonic" for a benevolent giant with a superior civilization to insist upon the status, deference, and global agenda-setting role that it simply deserves as part of the natural order of things.)
Accordingly, on the off chance that we might not ourselves recognize the behavior of a future, truly "strong China" as indeed being benevolently non-hegemonic, our strategic interests require a posture that would be useful in the face of such possibilities. Let me suggest two main points in this respect.
First, we should not let any remaining disarmament enthusiasms lead us down a path that would leave our own nuclear deterrent inadequate in the face of unwelcome future eventualities – either because we have reduced our numbers to the point that we become vulnerable to (or indeed actually encourage) a Chinese "sprint to parity," or because we have through inattention or stinginess permitted our infrastructure to decay or our systems to become outdated relative to the threats we face.
Somewhat to my surprise, and no doubt somewhat grudgingly, the Obama administration has proven willing at least to begin the process of modernizing U.S. nuclear delivery systems. Even if our numbers are to be reduced at all further, however – in fact, especially then – this process must continue, and must receive vigorous support. Promises made during "New START" ratification for serious infrastructure modernization funding must be kept: neither the White House nor Congress can be permitted to drop that ball, though there are signs that both will. Nor can we permit political squeamishness to dissuade us from ensuring that our nuclear warheads incorporate state-of-the-art safety, security, and reliability features, and are capable of no more catastrophically destructive effects than their anticipated potential missions require. Having such devices will do more for our security – and, frankly, for global nuclear safety – than any amount of diplomatically-pleasing fidelity to politically-correct taboos about "new" designs.
In addition, we must resist the temptation to try to salvage the ill-judged and ill-fated "reset" of relations with Russia by restricting the development of strategic defenses. Missile defense is no panacea for strategic challenges, but it is an indispensable part of the strategic mix – providing some crisis-stability insurance against limited accidental launches or false alarms in great-power relations, as well as very significant security benefits vis-à-vis nuclear proliferators.
So that's the "hawkish" side of the agenda. But there's a more "engagement"-focused side too. We should, I think, also be unstinting in our pursuit of the kind of arms control engagement that could reduce the need for more hawkish hedging postures by helping eliminate the worrisome uncertainties presented by Beijing's ongoing buildup. It doesn't look like there's much of a future right now for China-inclusive numerical arms control, but we should do more to broaden our arms control focus to include Beijing in transparency and confidence-building measures (T/CBMs). Beijing has so far resisted this kind of thing, fearing that "transparency" means no more than something like "tell us where all your missiles and warheads are located so we can target them." T/CBMs, however, don't have to create new vulnerabilities. We can surely learn many lessons from the history of U.S. practice and precedent – with the Soviets and more recently with Russia – in the areas of information-sharing, interactions on doctrinal and conceptual issues, technical inspection visits, approaches to crisis-management questions, strategic communication, and so forth. The future of arms control, I'd wager, lies along this axis rather than with yet another "try again harder" round of arms control haggling with Moscow.
Pondering the possibility of a "strong China" with a taste for Sinocentric order suggests the need for a "hedge-and-engage" approach to strategic policy that would, on both counts, represent an improvement over Obama Administration policy. To my eye, Obama is both too wobbly on modernization and too fixated upon a stale, "play it again, Sam" arms control agenda with Russia to get the mix right. We need more emphatic and robust hedging, and we also need more focused and effective transparency and confidence-building engagement with Beijing. Let's hope we get them from someone.
Thank you. I look forward to our discussion.
Christopher A. Ford was formerly Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Technology and Global Security at Hudson Institute.
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Good to see you're going through with this, I'll be keeping my eyes open from these songs once RBN launches, I'll be getting these for sure.
The preview also looks pretty good, I agree that hopefully you'll do a bit with the animations, but like JPSChampagne said, I'm sure that isn't your top priority. Looking forward to seeing the final product and hopefully some of CJ's other songs in the future.


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Beautiful Beachfront Home on Lake Huron - Spectacular Views in Oscoda
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 11
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type House
- community
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 1,000 - $ 2,750 / week
vacation rental description
This 2200 s.f. beachfront home is set deep into a private wooded lot
on gorgeous sugar sand Lake Huron Beach. This lovely well furnished
home includes a fully equipped kitchen, dining area, family room with
natural fireplace, living room, a recreational room, and 3 bedrooms
(master with king, #2 bdrm with double/twin bunk and a set of twin
bunks, #3 bdrm with queen bed. A twin mattress, a twin rollaway and
a double pull out are also available upon request. The master bdrm,
living room,
family room, dining area and kitchen all share spectacular views of
Lake Huron.
From this perfect location you can stroll for miles along the sandy
beach or lounge and relax. The site is in line with a large sand reef
and is shallow for several hundred feet with numerous sandbars -
great for young swimmers and water games. Minutes from canoeing,
great golf courses, shopping, antiques, and numerous state park
property availability
Last modified on 12-2-2013 at 11:55 AM.
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Shelly Ervin 248-891-4975
house rental amenities
Wheelchair accessible.
Wireless Internet.
Fire pit on beach, outdoor Tahiti shower, volleyball, horseshoes,
basketball net, gas grill, & patio furniture.
The game room includes air hockey, bumper pool, foosball, darts, and
board games.
Two TV/VCR/DVD and one TV/DVD.
Microwave, refrigerator, coffee maker, blender, dishes, pots & pans,
glasses & silverware. Washer/Dryer. City water (tap).
Wooded drive with circular driveway that accommodates plenty of
activities and attractions in Oscoda Michigan
Swimming, boating (DNR launch 3 miles N), boat rentals, Canoe or
Kayak the AuSable, Snorkeling / Diving, Sailing, Paddlewheel River
Boat, Antiquing, Fishing,and numerous State Park attractions.
Golf: Lakewood Shores is approximately 12 miles away and has many courses to choose from: The Gailes (Golf Digest rated it #1 Best New Course in the US for 1993 and in 1996 rated it the #1 Public and Resort Course in the State of MI), the Blackshire, and the Serradella. They also have the Wee Links, an 18 hole pitch & putt course. Other nearby golf courses are: Greenbush, Red Hawk, Tawas Creek, White Pine and Whicker Hills.
vacation rental rates
Nov 2011 - May 2012 - 550 weekend, 1000 weekly
Jun 2012 1000 3 night minimum, 1900 weekly
July & August2012 - 2750 weekly
Please email for holiday rates.
50% deposit to reserve, balance is due 1 month before arrival.
$500 security deposit.
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Countryside Council for Wales Landscape & wildlife Please note - A new body, Natural Resources Wales has taken over all functions and services previously carried out by Countryside Council for Wales. While the Natural Resources Wales website continues to be developed, some online services will continue to be provided on this web site.
Hafod Garregog is a quiet, isolated reserve. It includes a large area of woodland established on rocky crags and areas of wetland on low-lying land between the crags. It is also designated the Coedydd Dyffryn Nanmor SSSI.
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You can walk in some of the woods or wander down to the river. The views from here back to the mountains are particularly fine.
The road is quiet and has some gentle hills (up to 1:10 for short stretches).
Photographs, ©CCW
The track leading to the river is level, and runs alongside the Welsh Highland Railway line currently under construction.
The reserve is located 6.5 kilometres north of Porthmadog on the A4085 midway between Penrhyndeudraeth and Beddgelert.
There is informal car parking at the end of the tarmac road which leaves the A4085 at Pont Talyrni, about 5.5km south of Beddgelert. Limited car parking also exists at Hafod y Llyn Uchaf farmyard, which you can reach from a minor road leaving the A4085 on a hairpin bend about two miles south of Beddgelert.
Public Transport A bus runs along the A4085 from Penrhyndeudreath to Beddgelert. For more information contact Traveline Cymru on 0871 2002233 or visit www.traveline-cymru.org.uk
Look out for details of the new Welsh Highland Railway service from Caernarfon (and eventually Porthmadog). The track is currently being built and more information will be available nearer completion.
There are no facilities on the reserve.
The nearest accessible toilets are in Beddgelert or at the National Trust car park at Pont Aberglaslyn on the 4085 near Nantmor.
The National Trust owns the reserve (along with the adjacent farmland which includes the Glaslyn river) and manages it with CCW. Contact the National Trust Welsh Regional Office on 01492 860123. You can also contact CCW's Northern Team via our enquiries helpline, 0845 1306229, e-mail, email@example.com or write to us under the 'Contact the team' section on this website.
There is a wide range of habitats here within a relatively small area, supporting a wide variety of plants and animals.
The woodland is a fine example of the Atlantic sessile oakwoods characteristic of this part of Wales. Birch and rowan mix with the oak in places and there is a sparse understorey of hazel and holly.
The ground layer consists of flowers such as sweet vernal grass, sheep's fescue, cow-wheat, bluebell, bracken and a variety of mosses and liverworts and lichens. The wood is also important for its diversity of tree lichens.
There are also areas of acidic mire. Plants here include bogmyrtle. In less acidic areas there are bog-mosses, sundews, bog asphodel and white-beak sedge.
Photo by Mike Bailey, ©CCW
The reserve is also notable for its variety of insects, some of which are extremely rare, such as the silver studded blue butterfly and the uncommon damselfly Ceriagron tenellum.
Countryside Access Mapfor a more detailed map of the area showing access information including: Promoted routes, national trails, and CROW access land. Protected Sites Mapfor a more detailed map of the area, also showing special sites including: national parks, reserves and Areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONB).
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VIA has announced the launch of its new website at http://linux.via.com.tw for later this month. The site will give programmers access to drivers, technical documentation and source code for the VIA CN700, CX700/M, CN896, and VIA VX800 chipsets. The executive director of the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin said that he was "delighted" about VIA's announcement in the press release here stating that "This action will open up exciting new opportunities for accelerating open source innovation around VIA platforms and ultimately delivering a better user experience."
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