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Dr. DeMatteo is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Law, and Director of the JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology. His research interests include psychopathy, forensic mental health assessment, drug policy, and offender diversion. Dr. DeMatteo's research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, and American Psychology-Law Society. He teaches several graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Psychology, and several law courses at the School of Law.
Dr. DeMatteo received a BA (high honors) in psychology from Rutgers University, an MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from MCP Hahnemann University, and a JD (magna cum laude) from Villanova Law School. At Villanova Law School, he was Executive Editor of Villanova Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. He has co-authored several books and dozens of articles and book chapters on forensic psychology, psychopathy, diversion, and related areas. He is an Associate Editor of Law and Human Behavior, on the Editorial Boards of several journals, and a reviewer for numerous scientific journals. Dr. DeMatteo was Chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee on Legal Issues (2011), and he is currently Council Representative to APA for the American Psychology-Law Society (Div. 41 of APA). He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and he is board certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania, where he conducts forensic mental health assessments of juveniles and adults on a variety of legal issues.
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Coming Up on WBGO 88.3 FM: Week of July 30th
July 28, 2015. Posted by Josh Landes.Add new comment | Filed under: christian mcbride, gary walker, Interviews, Live Music, michael bourne
Here's what to look forward to in the coming days on WBGO...
Midday Jazz w/ Rhonda Hamilton - 10 am til 2 pm: Featuring the music of pioneering guitarist Charlie Christian
SportsJam with Doug Doyle 7:30 pm: guest – Donnie Joseph; New Jersey Jackals relief pitcher Donnie Joseph talks about his MLB days with the Kansas City Royals and his first season in New Jersey.
Jazz Night in America – 6:30 pm: Jazz Prodigies; JNIA explores jazz prodigies from different eras, including 11-year-old pianist, Joey Alexander.
Evening Jazz w/ Awilda Rivera – 8pm – 1am: a tribute to the late big band leader Nancie Banks.
Midday Jazz w/ Rhonda Hamilton - 10 am til 2 pm: Featuring the music of saxophonist and composer James Spaulding
Song Travels w/Michael Feinstein – 6:30 pm: guest David Hyde Pierce
Evening Jazz w/ Awilda Rivera – 8pm – 1am: Happy Birthday to a singer (Kevin Mahogany) & 2 reedmen (James Spaulding & David Sanborn)
Midday Jazz w/ Rhonda Hamilton 10 am til 2 pm: featuring a birthday tribute to pianist Hank Jones
Portraits in Blue w/ Bob Porter – 6:30 pm – Jimmy Witherspoon Albums Vol.7
WBGO Journal – 7:30 pm: The race for the Republican nomination for U.S. President shifts into high gear next Thursday night in Cleveland. That's when and where the first of a possible twelve GOP debates takes place. WBGO's Bruce Johnson speaks to noted Rutgers University Political Science Professor Dr. John Glascock about the crowded field; WBGO's Thad Komorowski reports on the NY Poetry Festival; Ben Sidran and his son Leo Sidran report from the Newport Jazz Festival.
Evening Jazz – 8pm – 1am: Nicole Sweeney is in for Awilda Rivera
Portraits in Blue w/ Bob Porter – 7 am: Erskine Hawkins Vol. 4
Rhythm Revue w/ Felix Hernandez – 10 am til 2 pm: the "All Request" show
Saturday Afternoon Jazz w/ Monifa Brown - 2 pm til 6 pm: SONGS OF COURAGE- Standing ovation For James Spaulding. Honoring the brilliant saxophonist, composer and living legend who celebrates his 78th birthday this week. We'll feature some of his landmark collaborations with Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter, among others as well as his dynamic sessions as a leader.
Sunday Night Music Mix w/ Eulis Cathey – 7 pm: featuring the music of Airto & Flora Purim
The Checkout w/ Simon Rentner – 11 pm: Encore broadcast of Tuesday's program
WBGO In France: Yes, We Cannes!
July 24, 2015. Posted by Lezlie Harrison.Add new comment | Filed under: France, Jazz Alive, Lezlie Harrison, WBGO Travel
Yes we Cannes! WBGO is up and ready for another splendid day on the French Riviera.
With our sunscreen and hats on - temperatures hover around one hundred degrees, with an ocean breeze - we make our way to the farmers market for a bit of shopping.
Back on the WBGO bus, we take an amazing ride through the spectacular Alpes-Maritimes mountains, to reach the medieval town of Grasse, which is known as the "Perfume Capital of the World."
We visited the one of the oldest factories, the historic Parfumerie Fragonard. We learned about the history and process of making perfumes.
Composing scents is similar to composing music. Base notes are the strongest part, heart notes is where the harmony is created and the peak notes are your first impression one smells that last about twenty minutes.
Smells like music to me!
Yes, we have worked up a bon appetit! Our next stop - Auberge des Gorges du Loup, the "Wolf's Gorges Inn!"
What kind of house dessert does a wolf serve? Feast your eyes on this panacotta delight!
Our waiter thought my napkin looked better as a "crown"! Que pensez-vous?
Our next stop - St. Paul du Vence. One of the oldest medieval towns on the French Riviera filled with art galleries, contemporary art museums shops, and magnificent views.
The town square hosts some exciting games of pétanque, which is the French cousin of bocce!
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I see a mailbox with my name on it - en français - in the future!
We head back to out headquarters - the Mediterranean Sea - for tonight's concert, featuring Al Jarreau and Melody Gardot.
Magnifique! A demain...
WBGO in Saint Tropez: The Early Birds
July 22, 2015. Posted by Lezlie Harrison.Add new comment | Filed under: Jazz Alive
In jazz as in life, the early bird gets the worm. WBGO's early birds catch the ferry to Saint Tropez!
We arrived in St. Maxime just in time to board the scenic ride to this coastal town on the French Riviera.
We cruised past the estates and villas of some of the world's richest executives and celebrities. One of the most famous and celebrated residents of the island is Brigitte Bardot, the French actress, model, and singer turned animal activist.
Pullling in to the port of St. Tropez, we passed some very impressive private yachts including ones with helicopters!
Our walking tour takes through the old quarter of St. Tropez, known as La Ponche, which is next to the Vieux Port harbor basin and below the Citadel of St. Tropez.
We wound our way through the old quarter's narrow streets, alleys and inlets filled with orange and rose colored buildings and shops, and stumbled across this this fabulous fish market:
Some of us climbed the hill to get a view of the harbor from above.
After a walking up and down hills all morning in the hot Mediterranean sun, we had worked up an appetite. Time for my favorite part of the day - LUNCH - served at Le Girelier:
What's a "Tarte Tropézienne," you might ask? In a word, delicious. For those of you who want to know more about what you're missing, here it is:
We returned to Juan les Pins with our bellies full and our skins sun-kissed. After a dip in the sea. it was time for the evening's concert featuring violinist and composer, Thomas Enhco, and jazz vocalist Lionel Richie!
Another hard day on the Côte d'Azur. Tomorrow we are off to Cannes!

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Obsidian's Project Eternity has seen a great deal of hype and success already just by how many people have chipped money into the pot to see the game created. It was a Kickstarter darling, raising over $3 million towards the development of the game and, apparently, beyond. In a new interview with Obsidian's Chris Avellone he discusses the grand vision for Project Eternity and how they would like it to expand well beyond just the first Kickstartered game and spawn a new series that would go on for the foreseeable future.
Their plan as of right now is to deliver Project Eternity and then be working on the expansion to Project Eternity right away, all while gauging the interest in future games in the series and how well the game is selling. They are hoping that by the time they've delivered the expansion for Project Eternity, all will be full-steam ahead for a sequel to the game and that they'd be able to continue on like this for as long as possible. This is good for fans of isometric hardcore RPGs, is it not?


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Ford Finalizes $1.4 Billion Russian Joint VentureJune 8, 2011 8:58 am | News | Comments
DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. has finalized a deal with Russian automaker Sollers to build and sell cars and other vehicles in Russia, a key part of Ford's ambitious overseas growth plan. Ford said Wednesday that the two companies have lined up $1.4 billion in long-term financing from Vnesheconombank, the Russian development bank, for the 50-50 joint venture called Ford Sollers.
Committee To Visit S.C. For Labor Lawsuit Against BoeingJune 8, 2011 8:55 am | by Meg Kinnard, Associated Press | News | Comments
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A congressional committee is traveling to South Carolina later this month to hold a hearing over a federal labor lawsuit that claims Boeing Co. moved manufacturing facilities from Washington state to avoid unionized workers. The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government planned to announce Wednesday that it will hold a June 17 hearing in North Charleston, home to Boeing's new 787 passenger aircraft assembly line.
GM Invests $49 Million In Indiana PlantJune 8, 2011 8:52 am | News | Comments
BEDFORD, Ind. (AP) — General Motors Co. is investing $49 million in its Bedford, Indiana, plant, a move that will help to create or keep 91 jobs. Wednesday's news is part of an effort GM announced May 10 to create or retain about 4,000 jobs by investing $2 billion in 17 factories in eight states.
Is The 'Cloud' Safe?June 8, 2011 6:48 am | Videos | Comments
With more technology companies pushing their products onto the "cloud" — the distributed network that is powered by thousands of high-performance servers in dark data centers around the country — many are getting more concerned about security. When sensitive information takes flight on the cloud, it can more easily be hacked and taken.
Tearing Down A Hard DriveJune 8, 2011 6:24 am | Videos | Comments
Bill Hammack, also known as the "Engineer Guy," is back, and this time, he opens up a computer to see how a hard drive is engineered. As with many things he tears down, the level of sophistication is incredible, like the small tolerances between the head, which reads and writes data, and the platter of the hard drive itself.
Blowtorch Your Hand Without A WinceJune 8, 2011 6:24 am | Videos | Comments
GelTech Solutions, based in Jupiter, Fla., has been marketing FireIce for years now, and seems to be on the precipice of a breakthrough. Their product is a fire suppressant gel that can protect skin from a 2,000 degree blowtorch, or say, a house from an approaching wildfire. In addition, it washes away quickly, and has no impact on the environment.
Flaming Faucets: When Fracking Goes WrongJune 8, 2011 6:23 am | Videos | Comments
By now, it's a pretty common story. A natural gas drilling company offers a great deal to rural landowners to build a drill and pump out the gas from shale, deep beneath the ground. But some those who accepted the offer, like Sherry Vargson, are now experiencing numerous issues, like "flammable" water and increased concentrations of radioactive materials in their drinking water.
Air Filter Maker To Invest $7 Million In N.Y. FacilityJune 8, 2011 5:04 am | News | Comments
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A North Carolina air filter manufacturing company says it will put its northeast production facility in upstate New York, creating 180 new jobs. State economic development officials say Flanders Corp. will invest $7 million in the Columbia County town of Greenport, near Albany.
Chrysler Could Face $200,000 In Worker Death FinesJune 8, 2011 4:40 am | News | Comments
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — State regulators have issued $200,000 in fines against Chrysler for safety violations found during the investigation of a worker's death at a central Indiana factory. The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration's investigation began in January after 62-year-old Claude Brock Jr.
China Gives State-Run Miner Monopoly On Rare EarthsJune 8, 2011 4:36 am | News | Comments
SHANGHAI (AP) — China is giving its biggest, state-owned rare earths miner and producer a monopoly for the northern part of the country in reforms aimed at bringing the strategically important sector that's crucial to advanced manufacturing under tighter control. The Ministry for Industry and Information Technology said in a statement seen Wednesday on its website that Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) Hi-Tech Co.
GM, Ford Scramble To Reassure Investors On ProfitabilityJune 8, 2011 4:33 am | by Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writers | News | Comments
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and Ford are trying to reassure investors that their sales and profits will keep growing despite a weaker U.S. economy and slower auto sales Carmakers have been hit with a string of bad news this spring, from the March 11 earthquake in Japan that left dealers short on cars to rising gas prices and unemployment.
Eight-Alarm Tears Through Abandoned R.I. Rubber MillJune 8, 2011 4:29 am | News | Comments
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) — A massive, eight-alarm fire tore through a 112-year-old mill in northern Rhode Island on Tuesday, leaving one firefighter injured, forcing some residents to be evacuated and leaving hundreds without power, officials said late Tuesday. Firefighters were called to a blaze at the former Alice Mills Rubber Manufacturing Plant in Woonsocket, just miles from the Massachusetts state line at about 7:30 p.
Eight Workers Hurt, One Burned In Ariz. Intel BlastJune 8, 2011 4:24 am | News | Comments
CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say one employee is severely burned and three others are hospitalized after a substance ignited in a chemical-storage room at Intel's plant in Chandler. They say the flash fire occurred in a self-contained room containing petroleum-based solvents used for cleaning.
Numerous Accidents Illuminate Perils Of 'Bounce Houses'June 7, 2011 9:22 am | by Frank Eltman and John Seewer, Associated Press | News | Comments
OCEANSIDE, N.Y. (AP) — They look like harmless fun — fluffy, inflated castles, ships and slides filled with children jumping around carelessly, their parents letting their guard down a bit during playtime. But an accident that sent three of the huge toys aloft on a breezy afternoon on New York's Long Island, left a woman seriously injured and hurt 12 other people is drawing attention to the little-known hazards of the inflatable...
NJ Recycler To Turn 900 Illegal Guns Into ArtJune 7, 2011 9:03 am | by Samantha Henry, Associated Press | News | Comments
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Workers at a recycling plant in northern New Jersey figuratively turned guns into plowshares Tuesday, accepting more than 900 illegal weapons that will be shredded and melted for use in the creation of a "Peace Angel" statue. The statue will be donated to the New York City Police Department's lower Manhattan headquarters.
U.S. Challenges China's Subsidies In WTO CourtJune 7, 2011 8:58 am | by Matthew Pennington, Associated Press | News | Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday called for China to disclose all its government subsidy programs as Beijing backed down in a trade dispute between the world's two leading economies over clean energy technology. Washington filed a case with the World Trade Organization in December over grants provided by the Chinese government to wind turbine manufacturers that used key components made in China rather than purchasing imports.
WHO: Time Running Out To Find E. Coli SourceJune 7, 2011 8:53 am | by Maria Cheng, Associated Press | News | Comments
LONDON (AP) — An expert at the World Health Organization says time is running out for German investigators to find the source of the world's deadliest E. coli outbreak, which has spread fear across Europe and cost farmers millions in exports. German officials are still seeking the cause of the outbreak weeks after it began May 2.
Stocks Eagerly Await Bernanke Speech On EconomyJune 7, 2011 8:51 am | by Pan Pylas, AP Business Writer | News | Comments
LONDON (AP) — Stocks mostly recovered Tuesday as investors awaited a key speech from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke for any insights into U.S. monetary policy following a run of weak economic news. Fears over the global economy have risen in recent weeks after a raft of underwhelming economic indicators, particularly out of the U.
Ford Hopes To Double Global Sales By 2015June 7, 2011 8:47 am | by Dee-Ann Durbin, AP Auto Writer | News | Comments
DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it wants to expand its global sales by 50 percent by the middle of this decade, mostly through growth in Asia. The company planned to present its plans at a meeting for investors later Tuesday in New York. Ford sold 5.3 million vehicles last year, but wants to sell 8 million in the next five or six years.
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After making the rounds in Astoria, is George Clooney heading over to Ridgewood?
TriStar Productions announced that scenes for its upcoming financial thriller "Money Monster" starring Clooney and Julia Roberts will be filmed at Broadway Stages located at 1019 Irving Ave. from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. It wasn't known as to whether Clooney or Roberts were part of the shoot.
Directed by Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster, "Money Monster" tells the story of a television personality (Clooney) who is taken hostage while on the air.
Scenes will reportedly be filmed both inside and outside the studio, and parking on nearby streets will be prohibited as of 10 p.m. Thursday in order to accommodate production vehicles. The affected streets are Irving Avenue between Halsey and Covert streets and Covert Street between Wyckoff and Irving avenues.
Any vehicle found parked on these blocks after 10 p.m. will be towed away and relocated nearby; reportedly, there is no cost or penalty to the vehicles' owners.
Money Monster previously filmed scenes at Kaufman Astoria Studios. Amid production, Clooney dined with Bill Murray at Taverna Kyclades, a Greek restaurant in Astoria; Murray had lunch there with director Sofia Coppola the previous day.
Exterior scenes for Money Monster were to be filmed today along Broadway in Astoria.
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The other day over at the Black, White, and Gray blog, Bradley Wright wrote about some implications of discerning mastery goals from performance goals for spiritual matters:
[Heidi] Grant Halvorson distinguishes between "performance" goals and "mastery" goals. Performance goals are goals in which we prove our abilities in an area, for example getting an "A" in class or running a marathon in a given time. These goals tend to be tied to our sense of self-worth and they have an all-or-nothing quality, for either you accomplish them or you don't.
It turns out that this type of goal—which up until now has characterized the most of my own personal goals—works well with activities that aren't too difficult or complex, but when things get difficult, people may conclude that they don't have the ability to meet the goal and give up. Presumably most New Year's resolutions are cast as performance goals, which might explain their common futility.
In contrast are mastery goals. Here the goal is stated in terms of developing skills or ability. For example, a student might set a goal of constantly improving in their courses or a runner might aim to always run faster. This type of goal puts the focus on cultivating progress, rather than expressing existing competence, and this offers a distinctive advantage in tough times. Namely, with these types of goals, people explain difficulties in obtaining goals more as a lack of effort, rather than innate inability, and so they are more included to work hard when they meet obstacles. So, mastery goals provide resilience, and, in addition, they have been found to lessen depression.
So, in Grant Halvorson's terms, "the bottom line is, whenever possible, turn your goals from being good to getting better"… focus on expanding your skills and taking on new challenges."
It's interesting the ways that this distinction plays upon spiritual matters. For example, "progress not perfection" is a cornerstone belief of twelve-step programs, a mindset that might help explain their effectiveness, for the person in recovery faces no end of difficulties.
Also, there is "mastery" language in the Bible. Philippians 2:12 writes "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling," a verse that speaks of the progress and development nature of salvation.
I find that this distinction between "performance goals" (being good) and mastery goals (getting better) is key for living faithful to the imperatives of the Sermon on the Mount. Glen Stassen has done the church a great service in showing how the Sermon is made up of gracious, transforming initiatives, rather than a list of thou-shalt-nots. Yet, I find it still a temptation–even knowing the graciousness of the commands–to reduce the Sermon into a checklist for the virtuous, and when I find that I have failed to be loving toward enemies (or friends!) or to chasten my lustful eye, I fall into the depression which Wright observes. It's all-or-nothing thinking. This is especially true for someone like myself who believes that we cannot divorce who we are from what we do. The way of life Jesus preaches in the Sermon constitutes salvation. It is what "being saved" looks like in real time.
I find that I tend to reduce the teachings of the Sermon to propositions. "If A, then B." Of course, by placing the imperatives in very real, flesh-and-blood sorts of circumstances–when your eye offends or when you are struck on the right cheek–he is actually calling us away from propositions into a very concrete and particular set of ethics. By reading the Sermon through a "performance goals" lens, I tend to picture myself in moments when I will need to be reconciled or love an enemy. And I view the task like running a marathon, something gargantuan. Problem is, we are not every day placed in the spot of reconciling a conflict or loving an enemy as an event. Rather, we are being habituated toward or away from peaceful resolutions or impartial hospitality.
And in this process of habituation, we can never understate the role of a faithful community. One thing that troubles me about a lot of popular forms of the church, especially here in America, is that they tend to treat the church as incidental to discipleship and salvation, rather as the context and environment necessary for them. Bradley Wright mentioned Philippians 2.12: "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." In English, "your own" is read very individualistically. But in the Greek, the verb is second person plural. Salvation is not only a process, it is one that the church undertakes as a body. The same sort of idea obtains in the Sermon. In Matt. 5.48, where Jesus says, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," is likewise addressed in the second person plural.
Living faithful to the Sermon is a process and it is a group effort requiring a willing community.


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Gresh & Zo: Bring On The Montreal Canadiens
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To kick things off, Gresh & Zo get pumped up for tonight's big match up against the Montreal Canadiens. This will be the first meeting between the Boston Bruins and the Motreal Canadiens since the Zdeno Chara hit and emotions are running high. The guys touched on Mark Recchi's comments on Felger & Mazz yesterday. Plus, did Montreal trigger these high emotions coming into tonight's game?
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Davidotunga D., please stop spamming articles to this idiot doctor's website.
Thank you!
I have a whole lot of more important issues than reproductive. Give me a good job and I can and will pay for my own!
good on them!!! I agree with the text on the signs....
Thank goodness. Now we know the celebrities agree. What a relief. Carry on everyone.
When will men get out of MY uterus???????
MY body, MY choice!
@Grace A. A morning in the Chinese province of Hunan brings an unimaginable sight of cruelty and horror. Lying in the gutter of a bustling main road is the tiny, twisted body of a dead baby girl. She is naked, surrounded by only dirty pieces of hospital gauze. Buses and bicycles speed past the corpse, spraying it with mud.
Nameless and unwanted, the newborns been dumped by the roadside during winter. Few of the locals hurrying by give her a second glance. To them, she is just one of thousands of baby girls abandoned each year as a result of Chinas ruthless one-child policy. I think the baby had just died, says a woman who was the only person to attempt to rescue the infant. I touched her skin, and it was warm. Blood was still coming out of her nose.
Under Chinas strict family-planning laws, couples in urban areas are allowed only one child; couples in most rural regions can try for a second if their first-born is a girl. Those who have an illegal baby are subject to crippling fines, sterilization, and other severe penalties. To avoid punishment, many parents go to the desperate measure of deserting their illegal offspring. If their child is a girl--considered less valuable than boys in rural, traditional parts of China, like Hunan--the chances of this heartbreaking fate are immeasurably higher.
Is this what you want to see in the USA?
Democrats are the real Pro-lifers. We care about the unemployed finding jobs so they can feed their living children. We care about giving them affordable medical care so those living children can grow up healthy. We want them to have security in their old age so they don't have to worry themselves into an early grave wondering how they're going to pay for their medication AND eat at the same time. We care about the future of those living children and support finding new ways to provide clean power instead of relying on oil and coal.
I don't think I've ever heard the word environment cross Romney's lips. In fact his plan to drill and mine for more oil and coal suggest otherwise. How can you truly be Pro-Life if you think it's okay to poison people? Especially children, which includes Mitt's.
I would rather spend millions on helping the living who need that help instead of fighting against doctors removing a cluster of non-sentient cells. Get your priorities straight. Take care of those American children who go to bed every night hungry and the older ones who need a decent education so they can escape that world.
It would be very interesting and educational to have study/poll done to see what percentage of the so-called "pro-lifers" are truly against ALL war, murder, the death penalty, starvation, disease, and all other issues that result in the death of any humans, by other than natural/old age means.
Katariina L, you are so right. Thank you for sharing. I wish our politicians understood the situation as well as you do.
With proper education and treatment as well as contraception, there would be fewer unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, which would mean fewer abortions. When with the GOP get that through their heads?
If men have the right to have sex whenever, wherever & with whomever they want, why are women being punished for the same behavior? No sex education, no contraceptive measures, no rights whatsoever.
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Alright.... So I've decided that I want to run TW tunes, mainly based on what I've read in this forum!! I don't need people replying and telling to go with TW!!!! I've already made up my mind about that. And the reason I'm posting these questions is because every time I search, I just end up with a bunch of threads that say "Get TW tunes, they're the best". Eventually, I'd like to do injectors and a different turbo and whatnot, so the free reburns is a bonus!! But for now, I just want a good economy tune, a good towing tune, and a good performance tune.
Okay, so my questions are actually about the tunes themselves.
I'm obviously going to go with the "Extreme" tune for performance. Although this is a daily driver and tow rig... I still like to play with it every once in awhile.
Is there any point in getting the "Stock" tune, other than to feel the difference in power?
What's considered a good towing weight for the "Tow" tune and for the "Heavy Tow" tune....? I don't know which one would be better for me? I mostly tow my big mud truck around (6500lbs or so?).
But for economy, I'm curious how much economy actually increases over stock? And how much does it improve fuel economy over the "Daily" tune or one of the tow tunes?
And where's the better place to order from? I've dealt with Stealth Auto before, so I was thinking of ordering from there... But will I have to wait longer to get it from there?
I am also curious as to what exactly these tunes change? I'm the type of person that likes to understand everything. So I know the tunes increase the fuel going in to increase power... But obviously they do more than that. Do they retard or advance the timing? Does it change the tranny shift points? Stuff like that? I realize most of you probably can't answer these questions, and Tony Wildman is probably who I should be asking, but I figured I'd ask in this thread just incase! Haha!
Thanks a bunch guys!!!!
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I havent got mine yet but from what i understand you want a stock. Cause when you first start it you want to let it warm up before you drive it. I wasnt going to get it and just start it in fuel economy and let it run for a few min, then switch to hi idle. But I have been convinced otherwise. I am not sure about the tows. Economy is for highway driving, daily is same but adjusts shifts for stop and go driving in town. Im going to go with hi idle, stock, daily, economy, street race, extreme. Just my .02
I got Daily, Street, Tow, Smoke, High Idle and Stock. Street is freaking awesome, Extreeme did nothing for me really, street is where it is at, smoke is also a waste without injectors and things to match it. Daily is quite fast and is a little smoky, just the way I like it.
my brother has a 6 position chip, but it always stays in extreme. It's what he uses for a daily driver, and for towing. It also gets the best economy in extreme. All you have to do is keep the exhaust temperature down. It isn't a problem. All you have to do is not hammer the snot out of it while pulling a trailer from a stop, up a hill.
The transmission shifting is the best in extreme too. I don't know too much about the other tunes he has on there, since they are not run that much. I know that he has an economy tune (that doesn't deliver that great of economy), a towing tune (that is pretty weak and pathetic), a heavy tow tune (that works alright and keeps the temps down more than extreme), a smoke tune (that doesn't smoke with stock injectors), extreme, and stock. Stock is important when you have to leave your truck in some one else's care, and you don't want them messing it up. Like at a tire shop, or when you are getting it inspected (in texas).
I say no point in stock setting.
Tony says tow is for 10k and under, heavy tow is 10k and over.
I have economy but mine has a problem. It will never shift into OD in the economy tune. I will have Tony look at it, in daily I get 17mpg mixed driving all the time.
I ordered from Stealth and Raul is a great guy. I would do business with him again.
*** Mine is on an OBS, just for clarity, same characteristics apply in the tunes on OBS and Super Duty ***
Also Tony tweaks shift points, fuel pressure, timing, torque converter lock-up, remove rev/speed limiters, etc..
I would ask Tony and he will know for sure all the aspects of his tuning.
It usually takes one reburn to get things just right, that is what it should be imo. You get to try it with regular tunes and figure out what you want changed and then send it back... Comes back and is awesome.
Thanks for all the replies!! I really appreciate it.
Okay, so I'm surprised that Tony's tunes aren't designed idle when you first start the truck? Or at least, that's what Kyle is saying?
I live up north (CANADA), so my truck does a lot of warming up in the winter time. So I started thinking that I might want the "High Idle" tune? How does that tune work if the truck is fired up in high idle? Will the truck idle normally for a few minutes and then go up? That would be perfect for me, since I fire up the truck by remote in the winter time. But if the truck goes straight to idling high, that would probably be no good, right? I suppose I could request something like this to be done, if it's not setup that way.
So economy is for highway, and daily is for around the city. I suppose I'll need both tunes then. Or is it worth getting both tunes? Should I just get daily and do my highway driving in daily?
Sounds like I don't need the "Heavy Tow" tune... I have yet to tow anything over 10k. So the "Tow" tune it is.
On Total Diesel, it says that "Street Race" is for those pesky imports with the coffee can exhausts, and "Extreme" is for the track. So, is Extreme not as good as Street Race for playing around? Or, is he required to say that, since "Extreme" just doesn't follow emission laws or something like that? Which one should I go with?
So the price is the same at Stealth, as it is at Total Diesel... My only concern is the fact that it asks for a PCM code at Total Diesel, and on the Stealth site, Raul doesn't ask for that. Will the PCM code help Tony at all? I'm hoping I don't have to send mine back, since I'm shipping mine all the way from Canada, but I will if I have to.
TDP is tonys site, raul sells his chips for him as well. I got mine through raul. With any computer type thing it needs tweaking, everyones truck is different even if they are identical lol.
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"There is a lot of information gathering and planning that has to happen first,†said Mark Smith, station military housing manager. "Even after the program is officially put in to action most families won't be affected. If you're living a normal, conscious lifestyle you won't have anything to worry about.â€
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[ The next two Tuesdays I'm delighted to be running this interview that Evan O'Neil conducted with noted urbanist Jeb Brugmann. Here's part one – Aaron. ]
We must become "masters of a stable, just, and ecological urbanism" writes Jeb Brugmann in Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World (Bloomsbury Press, 2009). His book combines detailed street-level research in the style of Jane Jacobs with analysis of the city system on a planetary scale to explain the forces that are shaping our urban future. For Brugmann, urbanism is not some grand theory but rather the process by which a community taps into urban advantage to build a district of mutual benefit. He and I corresponded by email about these issues. –Evan O'Neil
Is globalization driving or displacing bottom-up urbanism? On the one hand we have the organic and productive industrial urbanism of slums like Dharavi, while master-planned projects aim to bring in the bulldozers and build sterile high-rises. Who will win this competition?
Globalization has been quite abstractly understood as processes, networks, technologies, and laws. But materially, globalization is the emergence of a new geography. Look at the Earth from space at night. You can see this extended, lighted urban geography that I've called the global City. This City is organized at many scales—from streets to districts to metro regions to urbanized continents.
At each scale, the production of urban space provides the human enterprise with two advantages. The first advantage is what I've called the "natural economies" of urban settlement—economies of density, scale, association, and network extension, which make the infrastructures that we associate with globalization, like the Internet and air travel, economically viable.
The reasons I call these economic advantages of cities "natural economies" is that they are accessible to all; they are a classic public good. Even the most repressive police state cannot fully control the poorest person's access to the economic potential created when so many diverse activities and so many diverse people are concentrated into a space, which is more time-, transport-, and cost-efficient than rural and suburban settlement.
The second advantage of urban space is its entirely plastic nature—its underlying economic potential can be designed, by anyone, in myriad ways to achieve specific industrial, criminal, social, or ecological objectives.
This brings us to the question of whether we build robust urbanisms that serve the strategic purposes of specific user communities, or whether we build generic, standard-issue urban "products" offering a basic utility to general, typically higher-income consumer segments. Both are fair game in the ever-plastic City. My argument is that if we want to achieve strategic purposes like poverty reduction, then we need to customize forms of urbanism that specifically create the economics that serve those purposes.
What we so often dismiss as "slums" are in fact specialized forms of urbanism that allow the world's poorest people to leverage the natural economies of an urban location to create impressive wealth on a cash-economy basis. I think we need to support the self-building process of those urbanisms, improve them with better materials and technology, and bring greater capital investment into them at their earlier stages of development.
Meanwhile, in response to the enormous demand to build new urban space for another 3 billion people, most of the formal property development industry and government planning agencies are focused on high-volume production of higher-end, single-purpose products—apartment buildings and condominiums, office towers, shopping malls—at basic standards. The self-organized production of urban space by migrant poor communities has conflicted with the scaled, institutional-industrial production of urban space for other segments of society. The result is often all-out conflict, which ends up being mediated by criminal organizations.
But because urban space is fundamentally plastic, we could also develop new forms of urban space production that ameliorate these tensions and serve the different strategic objectives of quantity, standards, and qualitative solutions to poverty.
What are zones of autonomy? Where do they form? Should they be encouraged?
Zones of autonomy develop when one form of urban space production, including its commercial life, is geographically marginalized or isolated from the dominant form and commercial life of the city. At one end of the spectrum we find large, informal, so-called slum districts, which establish their own legal, governance, financing, business, and social arrangements because they are intentionally isolated by conventional law, government investment, services, and police from the "mainstream" life of the city. At the other end of the zones of autonomy spectrum are industrially produced gated communities where the richest population segments pull back from the mainstream life of the city.
Zones of autonomy confound a city-region's strategic development because they represent user communities whose interests and modus operandi have been separated from the rest of society. This does not mean that they should be razed by bulldozers, because the real challenge is to forge new kinds of urbanism that better align the interests of these separated user communities with those of the mainstream city. If you just clear them and replace them with substantially inferior urban space, as we did in the U.S. era of "urban renewal," you get a worse outcome. That is why we are dynamiting the high-rise barracks slums of 1960s public housing today. Those developments neither served the strategies of their residents nor the interests of wider cities that hosted them.
Corporations and wealthy countries are experimenting with building cities from scratch, many designed along sustainable principles. What must they do to make these places interesting and not just empty green office parks?
The industrial production of urban space and facilities, with no matter how many bells and whistles, is not the same as the more self-built production of an urbanism by a city-building community. An urbanism, as I define it, is the ways that specific city-building communities design, build, govern, and co-locate activities in customized places to support their specialized forms of production and living. In other words, robust urbanism is user designed and often user built.
Think of our central business districts, port districts, university districts, entertainment districts; or of the bazaar districts of Asia. These are the true centers of commerce, culture, and often political power in our societies. There was no build-it-and-they-will-come aspect to them. They were built with purpose, and strategy, and with a honed sense of what makes them thrive and what undermines them. It is great to be a big company or big government and to have the capital and muscle to launch a big idea about some new kind of urban product on a piece of urban soil, but that does not often engender the formation of an urbanism, or what you might call a living, interesting place.
We're seeing the emergence of municipal foreign policies. Does this operate at some level other than attracting investment? Can cities advance international cooperation on problems like climate, rights, human trafficking?
Cities have been involved in foreign policy since they first came into existence. The urban economic process that I've described as extension—using the robust economics and commerce of a city to pursue worldwide strategic interests—is core to what cities are all about. Cities are vehicles of strategy in human enterprise. Think of the origin of Chicago. The Chicago project was always about, and continues to be about, a commercial-political community creating a hub of global commerce—whether involving the construction of a hub for the Great Lakes shipping system, for the American railroad system, or for global air travel.
What has changed is that city governments and other urban organizations are getting strategic together about their foreign policy ambitions in addition to their commercial ones. This activity, which started in the United States in the 1980s, when the term "municipal foreign policy" was coined, reflects the emergence of the global City as a highly connected self-aware system. "Think Global, Act Local" is another, popular expression of this awareness in highly urbanized societies. Cities are now connecting to achieve strategic political and social purposes.
This reflects our knowledge that the City is the system that needs to be changed. For instance, if you want to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent internationally, you'd better be working in coordinated fashion to change the City system that accounts for 60 to 70 percent of global energy end use. For legacy reasons, city governments are closer to the levers of the required change than the national governments that negotiate international climate policy, so city governments have been taking coordinated action together since 1989, before the UN-sponsored negotiations began, and long before the popular recognition of the problem in this decade.
Note that all this municipal foreign policy—cities creating policy-driven sister city relationships, divesting from Apartheid South Africa, developing local climate action plans—began before the Internet was a functioning system even in the United States. The story is similar in other areas of global strategic concern.
This article originally appeared in Policy Innovations. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives license. The original article can be viewed here.


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Lush Lifeby Richard Price
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It's a given that fans of Price's earlier novels will rush to read Lush Life. In addition, fans of the HBO series The Wire — or anyone who enjoys a gripping read, period — won't want to miss this fantastic novel, which peels back the shiny surface of the new-and-improved New York to find not only the grime lurking (and working) beneath, but also its rich, multifaceted history. In typical Price fashion, the characters are compelling, the dialogue so rich you want to act it out loud, and the plot is irresistible.
Richard Price is a professional. His genius is in, among other things, the vernacular — he does his research and he knows his lingo. Overall, this is a top-notch New York cop novel: the scenes are tight; the plot is well crafted; and the characters come to life.
"[A] vivid study of contemporary urban landscape. Price's knowledge of his Lower East Side locale is positively synoptic, from his take on its tenements, haunted by the ghosts of the Jewish dead and now crammed with poor Asian laborers, to the posh clubs and restaurants, where those inclined can drink 'a bottle of $250 Johnnie Walker Blue Label' or catch 'a midnight puppet porno show.'" Stephen Amidon, The Washington Post Book World (read the entire Washington Post Book World review)
"Lush Life is a good, worthwhile, and in many ways satisfying novel. No matter how routinely and highly praised it may be, Price's ear for dialogue, his ability to capture and reproduce the rhythm, tone, and evanescent vocabulary of urban life, cannot be overpraised: with all due respect to Elmore Leonard, Price is our best, one of the best writers of dialogue in the history of American literature." Michael Chabon, The New York Review of Books (read the entire New York Review of Books review)
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Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the "other" Lower East Side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city in this brilliant and kaleidiscopic portrait of the "new" New York.
"Master of the Bronx and Jersey projects, Price (Clockers) turns his unrelenting eye on Manhattan's Lower East Side in this manic crescendo of a novel that explores the repercussions of a seemingly random shooting. When bartender Ike Marcus is shot to death after barhopping with friends, NYPD Det. Matty Clark and his team first focus on restaurant manager and struggling writer Eric Cash, who claims the group was accosted by would-be muggers, despite eyewitnesses saying otherwise. As Matty grills Eric on the still-hazy details of the shooting, Price steps back and follows the lives of the alleged shooters — teenagers Tristan Acevedo and Little Dap Williams, who live in a nearby housing project — as well as Ike's grieving father, Billy, who hounds the police even as leads dwindle. As the intersecting narratives hurtle toward a climax that's both expected and shocking, Price peels back the layers of his characters and the neighborhood until all is laid bare. With its perfect dialogue and attention to the smallest detail, Price's latest reminds readers why he's one of the masters of American urban crime fiction. Author tour. (Mar.)" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Richard Price's new novel is set in 2002 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a neighborhood that is not so much a melting pot as a cauldron of volatile elements that can be set off with the slightest spark. Among its uneasy mix of gentrifying yuppies, Chinese immigrants and beleaguered Latino and African-American residents, the peace is kept by the NYPD, whose Quality of Life Task Force implements... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) the city's zero tolerance ethos under the motto 'Everyone's got something to lose.' In the electrifying opening chapters of 'Lush Life,' one person turns out to have everything to lose: Ike Marcus, a young white bartender at a swank local restaurant. After a long night of drinking, Ike, a would-be writer, is gunned down when he answers a mugger's demand for his wallet by saying, 'Not tonight, my man.' (A detective wryly refers to this sort of bravado as 'Suicide by mouth.') Accompanying Ike were two other East Village scenesters, an aspiring actor named Steven Boulware, who survives the attack apparently because he was falling-down drunk, and Eric Cash, the manager at Ike's restaurant. Eric, whose frustrated literary ambitions have left him saddled with an 'unsatisfied yearning for validation,' provides the police with the initial account of the crime, claiming to have escaped Ike's fate because he turned over his wallet. His testimony is sufficiently sketchy to raise the suspicion of Matty Clark and Yolonda Bello, two veteran detectives who catch the case. Eyewitnesses also challenge Eric's account. In a gripping interrogation sequence, Yolonda and Matty slowly wear down the stunned witness, ultimately accusing him of killing the younger man in a burst of booze-fueled envy. Eric is so unnerved by their going-over that he can only respond by doing 'something that genuinely shocked Matty. With his mouth locked in a rictus grin, he rose to his feet and extended his wrists.' It would seem to be an open-and-shut case, but this is Richard Price, who in novels such as 'Clockers' and 'Freedomland' has shown himself to be more interested in exploring the complex social and psychological ramifications of crime than in simply cuffing the perps. Soon after Eric's arrest, Boulware wakes from his blackout to tell a tale of his own, while the eyewitnesses who implicated Eric in the crime turn out to be less than reliable. After keeping the reader in the dark for the first third of the book, Price reveals the truth of the matter, transforming his narrative from a whodunit into a police procedural where the mystery is not what happened, but what will happen next. It is a move that keeps 'Lush Life' from achieving the gut-churning power promised in those fine opening chapters. Perhaps if Price had not dangled the prospect of a mystery before us, his decision to abandon it so early would not have produced the sense of deflation that ultimately pervades the book. That said, 'Lush Life' remains a vivid study of contemporary urban landscape. Price's knowledge of his Lower East Side locale is positively synoptic, from his take on its tenements, haunted by the ghosts of the Jewish dead and now crammed with poor Asian laborers, to the posh clubs and restaurants, where those inclined can drink 'a bottle of $250 Johnnie Walker Blue Label' or catch 'a midnight puppet porno show.' In this 'Candyland of a neighborhood,' where kids from all over the nation come to 'walk around starring in the movie of their lives,' it is hardly surprising that an ambitious suburban boy believes he can front up to armed muggers and live to write a treatment about it. Price's ear for dialogue is equally sharp. When a young student who witnessed the murder expresses shock that the detective interviewing her can quote T.S. Eliot, the beleaguered cop deadpans that 'the apes that raised me were surprisingly intelligent.' Officer Lugo, a member of the Quality of Life Task Force, explains to a just-arrested drug addict that he will cut him some slack only if the suspect gives up another criminal. 'We keep wanting to help you out, man. ... But it's a two-way river.' When another suspect complains to Lugo that his sidekick is 'like half-retarded,' the cop immediately wonders: 'How about the other half?' In the end, 'Lush Life' is most effective as a study of sudden crime and its lingering aftermath. Price depicts the corrosive effect of Ike's murder upon his family, particularly his father Billy Marcus, who lurches between anger and depression as he searches for some sort of redemption, never understanding that 'there would be no relief for him from that grinding sense of anticipation he'd carried in his gut for the last few days, that no matter what came down the line, what measures of justice were ultimately portioned out, what memorials or scholarship funds established, whatever new children would come into his life, he would always carry in himself that grueling sensation of waiting: for a tranquil heart, for his son to stop messing around and reappear, for his own death.' Near the book's end, Billy forms a surprising emotional connection with the unsentimental Matty, who uses Billy's grief as inspiration to reach out to his own estranged sons. In this most diverse of neighborhoods, Price suggests that violence and the sorrow it creates are the only sure ways to bring people together. Stephen Amidon's most recent novel is 'Human Capital.'" Reviewed by Stephen Amidon, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"The method employed by Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment serves Price's purpose — and then some — in his wrenching eighth novel....There oughta be a law requiring Richard Price to publish more frequently. Because nobody does it better. Really. No time, no way." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Price's investigation is no mere police procedural, scouring away layers of self-defense in all of his vividly drawn characters. Such is his talent that we care about them all equally....
"No one writes better dialogue than Richard Price....
"Reading Lush Life...is a lot like watching a great movie, with the author as director and cameraman....Price's people talk with the flair and rhythms of real speech...giving his books a soundtrack you hear as much as read." Hartford Courant
"A compelling urban drama....The book, which doesn't lag for even a sentence, is a dialogue-driven, thoroughly riveting examination of how an investigation unfolds and the emotional toll it takes on everyone involved." The Miami Herald
"Lush Life is vivid, authentic, beautiful and rugged....If you don't know Price yet, this book is a great entry. You'll leave the space most authors occupy and move into the realm of masterpiece." Paste Magazine
An illicit romance at one of America's most esteemed colleges leads to tragedy in Robert Stone's most compelling novel since the bestselling Damascus Gate.
"Robert Stone is a vastly intelligent and entertaining writer, a divinely troubled holy terror ever in pursuit of an absconded God and His purported love. Stones superb work with its gallery of remarkable characters is further enhanced here by his repellently smug professor, Steve Brookman, and the black-haired girls hopelessly grieving father, Eddie Stack." — Joy Williams
In an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must extract himself from his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always late and too long yet always incandescent. But Maud is a young woman whose passions are not easily contained or curtailed, and their union will quickly yield tragic and far-reaching consequences.
As in Robert Stones most acclaimed novels, here he conjures a complex moral universe where nothing is black and white, even if the characters—always complicated, always compelling—wish it were. The stakes of Brookman and Mauds relationship prove higher than either one could have anticipated, pitting individuals against one another and against the institutions meant to protect them.
Death of the Black-Haired Girl is a powerful tale of infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight.
A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
"Fast-paced [and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently great American novelists." — Madison Smartt Bell
"Brilliant." — Washington Post
At an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must end his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always late yet always incandescent. But Maud is a young woman whose passions are not easily curtailed, and their union will quickly yield tragic and far-reaching consequences.
Death of the Black-Haired Girl is an irresistible tale of infidelity, accountability, the allure of youth, the promise of absolution, and the notion that madness is everywhere, in plain sight.
"At once unsparing and generous in its vision of humanity, by turns propulsive and poetic, Death of the Black-Haired Girl is wise, brave, and beautifully just." — Boston Globe
"Unsettling and tightly wrought—and a worthy cautionary tale about capital-C consequences." — Entertainment Weekly
"A taut, forceful, lacerating novel, full of beautifully crafted language." — Los Angeles Review of Books
About the Author
Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers and Freedomland. He has received an Academy Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and shared a 2007 Edgar Award as a cowriter of HBO's series The Wire.
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Johan (John) Zoffany (1733-1810) was born in Germany and was the son of a court cabinetmaker and architect. He studied in Rome with Agostino Masucci, the most important portrait painter in Italy in the mid 18 century. He came to London about 1760 and was supported by the great actor, David Garrick.
His theatrical pictures helped spread his fame, and added to his training in portraiture in a natural manner. He was made a Royal Academician (RA) in 1769 by George III. Queen Charlotte paid for Zoffany to go to Florence where he stayed from 1772-78 before returning to London, via Parma, in 1779.
While in Florence he painted The Tribuna of the Uffizi for the Royal Family, a painting which is still in the Royal Collection. He later travelled to India where he painted the Indian Princes and expatriate Britons.
He returned to England in 1789. He spent his last years at Strand-on-the-Green, West London. He died in 1810.
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