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I want to suggest to a gardener to plant trees for reducing pollution and poisonous gases emitted from a factory. Which species is preferable to plant in the area around the factory?
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I was curious about which trees absorb the most CO2 and Googled for this a while back. I found that there are several websites that list trees that are good in absorbing carbon, e.g. this website and this website. Both sites list trees like:
However, there is one site1 that has an entirely different list:
As also mentioned by theUg and Blue_hat in their comments below, the first list probably applies to temperate climates, and the second one to tropical climates.
Note that for good sustainability you will have to consider more things than simply the amount of CO2 a tree can absorb.
First of all not all trees grow in all places. The tree you have in mind should be appropriate for the region and climate. If you have to water it, add fertilizer regularly or package it during cold winters to survive, etc. then it will be less sustainable. If the factory does indeed exhaust poisonous(?) gases as you said, then trees may not grow at all near it.
Second, think about what will you do with the trees once they are mature. If you harvest them and plant new trees then you can capture more CO2. But if let the tree fall down and rot or if you burn wood from harvested trees, then the captured CO2 will be released again.
1 update Jan 2015: sadly the link has died, but I found the same list in this forum post along with some statistics on how much CO2 the trees take up
Basic chemistry here. Plants consume carbon dioxide and water to produce glucose. They then polymerize the glucose to create cellulose. In general, the amount of biomass that a tree produces is dependent on its net carbon uptake. If all you are trying to do is ensure that you take some CO2 out of the air, you want to plant fast-growing trees, ideally which are harder than softer.
Edit: one more thing to keep in mind: particulates.
One of the best things that trees are good at is removing particulates from the air, particularly if you have frequent rain. The particulates stick to the leaves and are washed off by rain. This is actually a function of the leaves since it means that trees get to catch floating sources of nutrients (for example, animals grinding dung into dust that then ends up in the wind). So one of your most effective reasons to plant around factories is to reduce particulate pollution.
The factory will pollute much more than can be undone by planting trees (up to a reasonable number). Any approach that reduces the pollution of the factory will be more effective than planting trees as counter-measure.
It is true, however, that, say, a forest around the factory would help clean the air and absorb much of the pollution, so that planting trees is always a good idea, of course.
Trees absorb carbon dioxide to grow and build biomass. If you want to absorb much CO2 you need a tree that grows fast at your local conditions - consult with your gardener about that.
Note that this will not solve problems with other pollutants, and will only put a rather symbolic dent into wordwide CO2 emissions.
Gingko Biloba has high pollution tolerance! (speaking from a biology perspective, it's also my favorite)
Plant bamboo. Its also an excellent biofuel. Pines and evergreens collect pollutants on their leaves/spines/firs but are unable to drop them and assist in decomposition. this is why the bottom of a pine forest is always devoid of other plants. Bamboo is an excellent "growth" plant in terms of CO2 absorption as well as allowing pollutants to biodegrade within the lower level detritus.
Well, I know the question is more about outdoor plants (Trees) but I found a Wiki page on NASA's study about Indoor plants, which help remove toxic agents like benzene, ammonia etc. from air. NASA Clean Air Study has the details.
I'm a gardener who is always interested in these topics. I discovered Birch trees absorb a lot more pollution than most other trees but tend to prefer cooler climates. They will grow in the south of England but with a shorter life expectancy. If the soil is acidic and the summer is cool enough they should multiply on their own. To absorb street pollution from roads small trees would be more effective as the leaves do all the work. For a factory the planting needs to be diverse and well placed.
Short and sweet answer is Bamboo and plants from that family. You can also reuse them as sustainable fuel.
Avoid the conifer and pines as they kill everything that lives beneath them due to toxified leaf (in their case needle) litter.
I do not understand why nobody says that in order to capture CO2 you need your trees to grow forever? Do you understand that, once tree dies, it is digested by microorganisms, which means that all accumulated C is released back in the process of such decay?
The photosynthesis process of growing tree is to take CO2 from the air + water H2O from the soil and convert into the biomass, the carbon C + hydrogen H2 + free oxigen O2. The biomass of the plant is C+H and, because H weights nothing, it is mostly carbon C. The wood contains energy because C+H tends to re-join with O2, as electrons on one pole of the battery want to re-join with protons on the other. Basically, the wood is a battery. Burning the wood, you close the circuit. This can drive some mechanisms or animals moving. This is what happens when tree dies. It effectively burns, C + H + oxigen O2 -> CO2 + water H2O. This is because CO2 is more stable than C + O2 alone and C eventually reunites with the oxigen. This is opposite to what you want. So, when you grow a deep forest, you capture some carbon from the air. Once it dies (whether naturally or you cut it will go rotten ultimately even if you do not burn it immediately), the process goes backwards and tree (C) will look for the free oxigen to restore the CO2 you wanted to "consume". The net effect is 0. The forest does release as much CO2 as it consumes.
The idiocity of the proposed solution is immense. Consider other problems. Imagine the pristine Earth - everything is covered by green forests. The new trees in the forest consume exactly as much CO2 as there is emitted by dying ones. I have explained that there is a dynamical balance - CO2 stays at constant level in the air. Now, you come with your "industry" and start burning (c)oil deposits from under the ground. How do you think the trees will consume your extra CO2?
Certainly, you can prevent the tree decomposition by conserving the grown ups. But this is stupid: you'll need to care about the storage (waste labour, energy and other resources to mantain it) and, secondly, growing plants depletes the soil. If you store the trees instead of letting them composted in the place where they are grown, your soil will loose fertility after a couple of generations. Nothing will grow on your soil after a while. Is it what you want?
You could plant more trees but all the surface of the planet is green already (remember, the planet was as green as it can be when people appeared on the Earth)! Furthermore, every year your "factory" emits additional CO2 so that you need a constantly increasing forest lands! You have no place for the forests to start with but you need infinitely more! Do you see the problem? Where do you take the lands from? Are you going to be sustainable by sacrificing the biodiversity, replacing original plants with ones recommended here? What do kill to compensate your next year emissions?
Next, it must be considered how stupid it is to consider curing the harmful effects of your economy, based on the insustainable idea of consumption (cars and private houses) to burn fossil fuels. You cannot be sustainable as long as you consume the oil at such pace. Remember, the largest consumer of the oil is not your factory, it is your car (that you need for your individual house). I have explained the only way our civilization can operate sustainably.
It means that you need to give up your private house with polished loan, give up your car and migrate into a large city. This would free a lot of space from the cottages for the forests and cut the oil losses orders of magnitude. Without this measure, all talks about CO2 is a self-delusion.
Identically, you do not want to emit the poisonous gas in the first place. It is stupid to accumulate the poisonous gas in the plants because you will contaminate the soil, you will get the contaminated plants, which you will need to store somewhere (storage will cost you additionally wasted labour, fossil fuels and more poisoned air and soils), you will get the soils depleted with minerals or rich with poisons and, moreover, you suggest that you will breeze the poisoned air yourself. Sounds as a good rational plan? That is not sustainable. Stop driving your car.
some useful suggestions here. i think understanding how it all started is important in finding the right solution to today's emission problem.
if we go back in time when the planet was inhospitable. all the early living organisms that came into existence eventual died and became trapped somewhere underground cos the planet was unstable at that time. in time they become fossil fuel loaded with Carbon and Hydrogen. this was ideal because all the excess CO2 was removed from the atmosphere (early living organisms on the planet were different from what we are today). anyway, this cooled the planet and it became more hospitable for our kind to thrive and flourish.
but in the last couple of centuries, human found an ingenious way to release all that CO2 trapped in the fossil fuel back into the atmosphere. so if we do not reverse this trend, then we will be the next store of fossil fuel for a different kind of life form on the planet. planting trees definitely helps, but its hardly the global solution we need. more research into harvesting hydrogen and using it as a substitute will be the solution i feel. if not we have to find ways to trap CO2 underground somehow. the kyoto protocol was a good global response, but nobody gives a damn.
recently, i was in the maldives. from the air, the horizon is no longer the picture perfect destination that travel brochures sell. for hundreds of miles all around, i could only see haze. its sad. the blue skies we were used to seeing as a child will be just a myth to our children and grandchildren.
check this out http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-06/installing-plastic-trees-help-environment
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United States Charges Waterbury, Connecticut Man with Robbing Putnam County Savings Bank
|U.S. Attorney's Office May 13, 2010
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; GEORGE VENIZELOS, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"); and DONALD B. SMITH, the Sheriff of the Putnam County Sheriff's Department ("PCSD"), announced the arrest yesterday of DENNIS WILSON on charges of robbing the Putnam County Savings Bank on Route 6 in Brewster, New York.
According to the Complaint unsealed yesterday in White Plains federal court:
On September 9, 2009, WILSON entered the Putnam County Savings Bank on Route 6 in Brewster, brandished what appeared to be a black handgun and robbed the bank. He stole approximately $26,000.
PCSD investigators later recovered a BB gun that appeared to match a witness's description of the gun used during the robbery and a clothing tag that was traced to a shirt which matched the witness's description of the shirt worn by the robber. Approximately two days before the robbery, WILSON's debit card was used at a Waterbury area Walmart store to purchase a shirt bearing the same bar code number as the clothing tag and a BB gun with the same manufacturer and model number as the BB gun found by the PCSD.
WILSON, of Waterbury, Connecticut, was charged with one count of armed bank robbery. That charge carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
WILSON was presented on the charge before United States Magistrate Judge PAUL E. DAVISON and held without bail pending a detention hearing before Judge DAVISON at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 18, 2010.
Mr. BHARARA praised the outstanding investigative work of the FBI, the PCSD and the Waterbury Police Department.
This case is being handled by the Office's White Plains Division. Assistant United States Attorney DOUGLAS B. BLOOM is in charge of the prosecution.
The charges contained in the Complaint are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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Admit it: there's nothing quite like looking at fabulous photos of unique houses. We buy lots of house magazines in this country – it's almost a national sport.
Who lives in some of the more exotic houses, we wonder. And would we, given the chance? Why were they designed that way?
In fact, as the authors say in their introduction, the relationship between architects and their clients can be a confession of personal priorities.
So, when we look at those houses we are given revelations into those clients' characters (and possibly the architect's too).
And, sometimes we really wonder…
There are 60 houses in this wonderfully thick, beautiful book and distinguished writing that matches the marvelous Reynolds photos – writing that takes us inside the client's and architect's heads in a knowledgeable and descriptive way.
John Walsh says the 60 houses are the tip of the iceberg; the more than 600 members of the NZ Architects Association were invited to submit their recent designs and many had to be left out.
He writes that the final choices were made after asking: Was the project an interesting take on a type? Was it demonstrative of a practice's approach or design philosophy? Was it indicative, in some way, of the state of this country's residential architecture? Was it engaging or at least intriguing?
These houses answered all of that and more.
Some of these houses are extraordinarily beautiful; some incredibly ugly. One that stood out for me in particular, in south Otago, so melds with the landscape that it appears as a wriggly line on a clifftop.
Many are black, which is odd, as Walsh points out, "the suspicion remains that architects who like to paint it black are exhibiting not modesty but the hieratic tendency to which the profession is prone. All priestly castes have their mumbo jumbo".
He also notes that the global financial crisis means renovations are included; that being the major work architects have done for the past several years.
And he admits to a black hole: the super private enormous homes being built for billionaires around our coastlines.
"Dangling Patrick above estates in central Otago and the Bay of Islands would blow the cover of a few mansions – if not lift their lids – but what would be the point? This type of house is as different from the debate about directions in contemporary architecture as its exemplars are remote from the public."
Hmm, that seems a bit like equivocation to me … are we just talking about taste?
The book shows how architects meet interesting challenges – in Auckland, for instance, where the shortage of housing has meant the new Auckland Council has opted for intensification.
One of the Auckland homes in this book is built tall in a character neighbourhood and the design looks a little odd on the offset bottom floor but the apartment on top was clearly worth the effort.
A remarkable number of the houses have big open living areas in most areas. Clearly, the owners must have cleaners.
Myself, I want to see at least one house designed by an architect for messy people, who don't want to reveal their kitchens to the world, not to mention their children-inhabited chaotic living rooms.
Which reminds me: these houses are all beautifully modelled: it might be nice to see one where someone has dumped their handbag and keys on mailbox handouts; a few dog hairs on sofas…. Tiny handprints on glass doors…
In all fairness, two of the houses remind me of Middle Eastern homes: plain on the outside (often without windows or decoration) with the design and living all internal. They are certainly private but both seems a little claustrophobic.
This book is a good, long read: buy it now and argue over it for months. I know which house I would choose to move in. Which one would you choose?
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The following flowchart illustrates the different types of motion sensors.
Optical motion sensors capture the image data and triangulate the 3D positioning of an object using multiple cameras at varying angles to the object. The markers that are attached to the object make this positioning possible. The markers (i.e., the motion sensors) are attached directly to the surface of the object being captured. Passive markers are coated with a retro-reflective material that can reflect the light source. This technique is important for making sure that only movement is tracked. Software is integrated to help model the 3D image after receiving data on movement of the object. In relation to the fictional character Gollum, the actor creating the movement for this character was dressed in a suit attached to reflective markers. The video cameras recording the actor's movements for a particular scene in the film 'The Lord of the Rings', captured the motion data from several different angles allowing the software to monitor the movement of the markers on the actor and to use this data to program sliders (camera movement system) to help animate the character.
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Schools also were closing early in Iowa Falls, North Tama, Independence, Centerville and other districts.
Hot weather is expected to continue through the weekend.
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In order to avoid deficits for fiscal year 2014 and beyond, the Contemporary Arts Center on Monday laid off four employees and Director/Chief Curator Raphaela Platow announced other cost-saving measures.
The four positions were associate curator of education,
exhibitions director, development director and director of communications and
community engagement. Additionally, Platow herself took a 20 percent salary
reduction for the upcoming fiscal year.
Platow said cost-saving decisions were approved by the Board of Trustees in April. The board has mandated that the CAC reduce its dependency on its endowment for operational expenses by roughly $60,000 a year for the next five years. The CAC estimates that cutback, as well as an expected drop in support from major funders, would create an operating-budget deficit for the next fiscal year without these moves. The operating budget for the current fiscal year, which ends in August, is $3.1 million.
She also said there are no plans to raise admission fees or reduce hours of operation.
While the four eliminated positions represent 16% of the institution's staff, there will be several new hirings of "redefined and reorganized" job descriptions, she said. "By redefining, I mean changing to a different skill set and position, sometimes on a very different salary level. This is what we have to do to move forward," Platow said.
A previously announced new curatorial hire, Steven Matijcio, arrives from North Carolina in June and will be involved in announcing the 2013-2014 exhibition season on June 26.
(More information will be included in The Big Picture column in the May 29 issue.)
This weekend is the opener for Covedale Center's production of Legally Blonde, the show that kicked up controversy in a Loveland High School staging last fall that led to the firing of a dedicated director. I still shake my head over what could offend anyone about this PG rated piece of musical theater, but you can check it out and decide for yourself at the Covedale. It's about a young woman who won't take "no" for an answer and becomes her own woman in the process — outshining everyone at Harvard Law School. It's kind of crazy, but a lot of fun. No one will get fired over this one, I suspect. Box office: 513-241-6550
The Otto M. Budig Theatre at the Carnegie in Covington is in the midst of a run of Jason Robert Brown's Parade. My schedule and the theater's haven't matched up yet, but I'm eager to see it — I'm headed there for the Sunday matinee this weekend. Set in the sweltering intolerance of 1913 Atlanta, Parade is the story of Leo Frank, a northerner and Jewish factory manager, wrongfully accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in his employment. Despite media frenzy and public outrage, his courageous wife struggles in vain to clear his name. The show won 1999 Tony Awards for best book and best score. This is an off-campus production by the musical theater program at UC's College-Conservatory of Music, and it's been given high marks by the judging panel from the League of Cincinnati Theatres: for the ensemble, for musical direction by Steve Goers, for featured actor Noah Ricketts and for lighting design by Alan Hanson and Wes Richter. It's onstage through April 21. Box office: 859-957-1940
Untethered Theater is midway through it's run of Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A, presented at the Clifton Performance Theatre on Ludlow, a few blocks east of the Esquire. It's about a once idealistic young woman who has been disillusioned in just about every aspect of her life. The show is an exploration of faith and hope in today's world, described as "an uncynical play about cynics in cynical times." Through April 27. Tickets: 513-939-0599
He is a subject whose resonance is great for both Smith — whose 2010 National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids, recounted their friendship as young people in New York's art world and is being made into a film — and the CAC, which famously faced (and beat) obscenity charges in 1990 for showing the Mapplethorpe retrospective The Perfect Moment.
"It's very much a rumination on the life and death of Robert Mapplethorpe," Ludwig said of the exhibit. "So there are a lot of objects in the exhibition that very much relate to his life. We've received things like Robert's slippers that have his initials on them, and photographs of Robert from throughout his life. So it really focuses on the relationship between these two artists.
"There are medals, necklaces that Robert wore," Ludwig continued. "There is an inkwell. There are small elements that will be presented in cases in the exhibition. It's presented very much like an art installation. They're not necessarily presented as historical objects but as elements that are part of Patti's life."
"And we have an installation within the show called 'Infirmary,' which is all steel beds that are references to the beds Robert spent the end of his life in and that many people who died from AIDS passed away in. They are actual steel beds acquired by her." (Mapplethorpe died from AIDS in 1989.)
The show will have several photographs by Mapplethorpe with text by Smith – of the sea, a boat and a sculpture. (None was in The Perfect Moment.) "They're very beautiful," Ludwig said.
In this week's Big Picture column, there is an item that Matt Distel — long active on the local contemporary art scene and current executive director of Northside's Visionaries + Voices center for artists with disabilities — had been named adjunct curator of contemporary art at Cincinnati Art Museum. Today comes the announcement he will leave V+V to be exhibitions director at The Carnegie in Covington, effective in June. He replaces Bill Seitz, who announced his retirement last month. His adjunct position at the art museum will continue.
"Matt is the perfect person to build upon the successes we've had in the galleries and we are honored to have him join our team," said Katie Brass, Carnegie executive director, in a press release. "His personality, his connection to local artists, and background all make him the ideal candidate to run the Carnegie Galleries and to grow programming."
In that same release, Distel said, "To be part of the legacy the Carnegie has for supporting local and regional artists, it's very exciting. The Carnegie is one of the premier arts organizations in the region and Bill [Seitz] has established a great framework for me to continue to build an exhibition program that plays a compelling role in the arts community."
The Playhouse will open the season in September with Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan's Fly, the powerful story of World War II's famed Tuskegee Airmen. The production, staged by Khan, combines live action and video projections with a tap dancer who offers insights into the hopes, fears, angers and triumphs faced by the airmen as they fight two wars — one in Europe and another back home against a rising tide of racism. Following Fly (which will run Sept. 12-Oct. 5), the Playhouse will present Kander & Ebb's classic musical Cabaret (Oct. 24-Nov. 16), a show with iconic choreography and unforgettable songs. It's set in pre-World War II Berlin, where a rising storm of Nazism swirls outside the decadent Kit Kat Club. This one will be staged by Broadway director and choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge, nominated for a Tony and Drama Desk awards in 2010 for her much-praised revival of Ragtime.
Robison says, "Fly is a truly unique play that brings the important and inspirational story of the Tuskegee Airmen alive for adults and young people alike. Cabaret marks the return of the big Broadway musical to the Marx stage. I've always loved Kander and Ebb for their ability to explore characters and stories in depth while entertaining the heck out of you."
On Monday, Cincinnati Art Museum announced the resignation of James Crump, its chief curator and photography curator. He arrived at the museum in 2008. A press release said he would "pursue independent projects." The press release also included high praise for Crump from Aaron Betsky, museum director:
"We are so grateful for the great work James has done here in Cincinnati. His exhibitions and acquisitions have made us a center for photography, and we look forward to building on his extraordinary achievements."
One of those achievements, the exhibition James Welling: Monograph, just opened Feb. 2. Crump was also a leader in the organization of last year's multi-venue FotoFocus photography festival, and Cincinnati Art Museum sponsored two of its biggest shows — Herb Ritts: L.A. Style and Doug and Mike Starn's Gravity of Light.
The museum said an interim chief curator will be named soon.
Recently, the Italian art-book publisher Damiani launched a new line of Damiani / Crump books. It begins in March with Empire Falling, photographer Elena Dorfman's study of Midwest rock quarries.
Know Theatre is finally getting around to its first full-fledged production of the season, Andrew Bovell's award-winning drama, When the Rain Stops Falling. (The playwright's Speaking in Tongues was a much admired production at the Cincinnati Playhouse a year ago.) An intricate fabric of overlapping connections, Bovell's 2010 script moves seamlessly through time and across continents between the years of 1959 and 2039. In a world where the rain rarely stops falling, four generations of a family search for truth and hope to mend broken connections. What they discover is the impossibility of escaping the past. The production should be all the more interesting since it's being directed by Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's Brian Isaac Phillips and features a cast of nine excellent actors, four of whom are CSC regulars. It will be onstage through March 16. Box office: 513-300-5669.
To see another award winner, you need to head up I-75 to Dayton where the Human Race Theatre Company is offering the regional premiere of Eric Simonson's bio-play, Lombardi. Set in 1965, it's a portrait of the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers through the eyes of a young reporter assigned to follow the sports icon, a man full of passion and drive without equal. The show had a recent run on Broadway, and I expect it will attract an audience not normally drawn to the theater. Through Feb. 24. Box office: 937-228-6830
Falcon Theater, which presents its shows in the tiny Monmouth Theatre in Newport, is staging the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, a success on Broadway, at the Cincinnati Playhouse, and on movie screens. It's the provocative story of a starchy nun who thinks it's possible that a priest has abused one of her students. Although she's not sure, her accusations have dire ramifications. Through Feb. 23. Box office: 513-479-6783
Finally, a blast from the past at UC's College-Conservatory of Music: William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Set in October 1939 in a run-down waterfront dive bar on the docks of San Francisco, the script is full of colorful, eccentric characters and portrays the love and follies of human nature. It's being staged by veteran faculty member Diane Kvapil with a cast of 29. This production has a short run (one weekend, wrapping up with a performance in Patricia Corbett Theatre on Sunday at 2 p.m.) Box office: 513-556-4183
By the way, there's apparently such anticipation for Freud's Last Session, which features local actor Bruce Cromer, that tickets are selling out for some performances. As a result, even before the show opens on Jan. 23, ETC has extended the show's run by a week, to Feb. 16. Box office: 513-421-3555
If you haven't yet caught Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's staging of Richard II, you really should make a point of doing so. In my review, I pointed to Brent Vimtrup's multi-faceted performance. I'll add here that there are strong supporting performances from Jim Hopkins, Nick Rose and Giles Davies (this longtime CSC favorite is back in town for a few productions). This show isn't often produced (it's the first time for Cincy Shakes in its 19-year history), but this staging will make you wonder why. It's bursting with poetry, and there's lots to look at with beautiful 14th-century-styled costumes. An Acclaim Awards panel cited Vimtrup's performance as well as Andrew Hungerford's lighting design; I gave the production a Critic's Pick. Need any more encouragement? Tickets: 513-381-2273, x1
Elsewhere, you'll find a production of Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter by Untethered Theater at Clifton Performance Theatre. This is a chilly drama about a weird love triangle. It's a great piece for three young actors. Look for a review in the next issue of CityBeat. (Tickets: 513-939-0599) If you want something a little lighter, consider Moonlight and Magnolias at Mariemont Players, a very dependable community theater on Cincinnati's east side. The show is an amusing reconstruction of the behind-the-scenes shenanigans involved in writing the script for Gone with the Wind. It's told with a lot of slapstick that will have audiences laughing out loud. (513-684-1236)
All rooms were jam-packed with people in imaginative costumes, and in the ballroom the DAAP Girls (outfitted for the night as the DAAP Witches) belted out a funky, soulful, garage-rock version of "Ghostbusters" far better than the cutesy original.
Best of all, for those who remember coughing and hacking their way through the old Southgate House, the place was non-smoking for this event and had signs up everywhere to enforce that. If it can keep up the pleasant smoke-free environment, Thompson House might just become the nightclub that counts in Greater Cincinnati. Still not sure if that will make me turn out for the upcoming Dying Fetus/Malignancy concert, but the place is definitely back on my radar.
Carnevil's turnout also proved that FotoFocus, as an event, was on people's radar. There had been some questioning of that earlier in the week, after moderate turnouts for two appearances by nationally significant photographers at Cincinnati Art Museum's Fath Auditorium.
Laurel Nakadate gave the prestigious FotoFocus Lecture there on Oct. 24, presenting a slide show of the past 12 years of her sometimes-eyebrow-raising performative-video and still-photography work.
For one project, she wandered around truck stops and invited truckers to dance with her in their cabs. In another, she traveled across Canada by train and threw her underwear out the window each day, photographing the colorful results. (As far as I know, she did not get arrested for littering.) Someone asked about the inherent danger in some of her early work, which involved putting herself in erotic situations with strange men. "I look back at my early work and fear for my life," she said. "But I'm really glad I made that work."
Incidentally, one of her more recent projects — for which
she showed slides — was to photograph herself crying everyday for one year. The
"one year" motif seems to be such a strong one that some curator somewhere
should devote a show to its variations. There's plenty of material right here.
At Michael Lowe's Downtown gallery, site of the "Using Photography" FotoFocus
exhibit featuring work by 1970s-era (and beyond) Conceptual Artists, there is
an example of On Kawara's "I Got Up" series. For 11 years (1968-1979), he sent
friend picture postcards stamped with the time that he arose each day.
And when Todd Pavlisko was in town last week to plan for his "Docent" rifle-firing project that occurred Monday at Cincinnati Art Museum, he said that one piece in his resultant museum show next year will be displaying all the loose change he's collected in a year. (He will gold-plate the coinage.)
At the other appearance of a photographer at CAM last week, Chief Curator James Crump discussed the future of photography books with Minnesota photographer/publisher Alec Soth and Darius Himes, a gallerist whose Radius Books publishes unusual photography creations.
Some in the audience wished the event would have featured much more of Soth and his fascinating photojournalistic work. He did discuss a current project, in which he and Brad Zellar are photographing election-eve everyday life in Michigan for his LBM Dispatch, which tries to quickly publish and distribute photo essays. (The work will then be displayed at Detroit's Cranbrook Institute.)
But Himes did express admiration for the strangest Conceptualist book project I've heard of in a long time. That would be photographer Mishka Henner's printed-on-demand Astronomical, twelve 506-page volumes representing, in total, a scale model of the solar system from the sun to Pluto. Many of the pages are blank, representing the great distances between planets in space. Himes did not say if you must order the whole set or just your favorite volume, but you can find out more at here.
I was able to spend some time last week with Barry Andersen, photography professor emeritus at Northern Kentucky University who has been a strong, forceful advocate for the importance of this form as both an artistic medium and a critical societal observer. His own show, the now-concluded Sky, Earth and Sea at Notre Dame Academy in Park Hills, served as a satisfying retrospective of thirty years of his work. Especially lovely were his gorgeous aerial-shot" Cloudscapes," vivid inkjet prints from negative scans.
And as a curator, he put together a superb, sadly also now-concluded, show at NKU called Reporting Back, which surveyed the work of 14 documentary photographers whose thematic interests covered the globe. Each one's work was presented as a series of photographs, a thematically related suite, to remind us of the journalistic impact of the photo essay. Ashley Gilbertson's quietly moving "Bedrooms of the Fallen" visited the bedrooms of soldiers slain in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their solemnity was balanced by Jim Dow's colorful portraits of idiosyncratically appealing, retro-Americana buildings. You can learn more about the show — and be introduced to some fine photographers — here.
FotoFocus has the potential to shine a lens on fine Cincinnati photographers of the past whose reputations could use a revival. One of the best shows to achieve that goal this year was Cincinnati Museum Center's Photographic Legacy of Paul Briol: 1909-1955, which closes Thursday. Briol's black-and-white images of the rhythms and architecture of Cincinnati life have a dreamy beauty, partly because he was not adverse to stripping in more dramatic skies and otherwise heightening an image's dramatic effect.
The populism and humanism in his work are evident — Lewis Hine perhaps was an inspiration. An elderly African-American couple sits while the woman peels a potato; children in what seems to be an aged urban schoolroom pose with their stuffed animals. Those, along with images of the skyline, a roller coaster, Fountain Square, the riverfront, Rabbit Hash, Ky.'s general store, give life to that era's Cincinnati.
Actually, the photo of his that moved me the most was in a different show, the concluded Images of the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of Ohio. It was by far the best thing in that exhibit. His contribution, an extraordinarily composed photo from 1935 called "Waiting for Work," shows the looming shadows of men against a room's wall. A sign reads, "Dirty Men Will Not Be Sent Out." Briol may have arranged this image rather than just observed and captured it, but no matter. It magnificently speaks to the despair and denigration that the Depression brought.
One hopes 2014's FotoFocus will find room to spotlight a few other Cincinnati photographers of the past who could use rediscovery — perhaps Nelson Ronsheim or George Rosenthal. Or, if you have ideas, send them along to me at email@example.com. In the Nov. 14 Big Picture column in CityBeat, I'll address some suggestions for how we can keep the momentum going now that the interest level for photography has been raised.


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April 11, 2012
This plugin adds a "Send to OmniFocus" button to each story in Pivotal Tracker that, when clicked, opens a pre-filled OmniFocus quick entry panel.
- Google Chrome users -- get the extension
- Firefox users -- get the userscript
In my opinion, Pivotal Tracker is not a todo list, at least not in the GTD sense. It's actually an inbox!
The tracker's stories are by far not granular enough to be actionable. So you need to break them up into bits that you, yourself consider convenient. That's why I copy all stories from Pivotal to my private task management system.
As I'm trying out OmniFocus for a change, I wanted a quick way to get Pivotal stories to my inbox -- so I made this extension (OmniFocus's Web Clipper works expectably ungood with Pivotal Tracker).
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DOE, CERN and Microsoft Research have teamed up to make CERN multimedia accessible through the ScienceCinema multimedia search engine (see the press release). CERN is one of the world's leading particle physics laboratories and has its headquarters in Geneva. Now, in addition to DOE R&D multimedia, CERN videos are every word searchable, delivering exceptionally precise and time-saving results. ScienceCinema was developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to make multimedia of some of DOE's most exciting research more visible to researchers and the public.
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U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Robert Menendez, D-N.J., joined with 14 colleagues Friday in calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Labor to investigate fees and practices associated with prepaid payroll cards, which some employers use to pay employees instead of checks or direct deposits.
Mr. Casey and Mr. Menendez sent out a joint news release Friday stating the cards often come with fees for ATM usage, balance inquiries, swipe purchases, overdrafts and inactivity that pose a real financial risk, especially to low-wage workers. They may also violate existing consumer regulations.
Mr. Casey's call came more than three weeks after a former employee sued the owners of a Shavertown McDonald's for paying workers with only payroll debit cards.
The Shavertown fast-food restaurant is one of 16 in a locally owned McDonald's chain. Last week, the chain's owners - Albert and Carol Mueller of Clarks Summit - said they would end the controversial practice and give employees the choice of being paid by check, direct deposit or payroll card.
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|Release Date: March 19, 2004
|Running Time: 108 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
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|Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Romantic Comedy
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The ASIFA-Colorado Best Animated Short Award
Winner: MacPherson, directed by Martine Chartrand
Inspired by a real-life friendship and featuring a first-rate musical soundtrack, MacPherson is the story of the relationship between Québec poet Felix Leclerc and Jamaican-born chemical engineer Frank Randolph MacPherson.
In bestowing Martine Chartrand with the ASIFA-Colorado Best Animated Short Award, the jury stated: "This year was extremely difficult for the ASIFA-Colorado Best Animated Short Award jury. The animations were all very well crafted and containing delicate stories that were handled wonderfully. However, the judges found that the vibrant images and interwoven poetry and music bringing to life an uncommon story using an uncommon animation technique of painted glass gave them the ability to claim the ASIFA-Colorado Best Animated Short Award for the film MacPherson, directed by Martine Chartrand." The competition was sponsored by Mighty Fudge Studios.
The jury was comprised of Pat Mallek - Animator / Partner, Mighty Fudge Studios; Kim Mallek - Creative Director / Partner, Mighty Fudge Studios; Evert Brown - Animation Director; Ed Desroches - Media Arts Specialist; Wes Price - Illustrator.
Liberty Global International Student Short Award
Winner: Of Dogs and Horses (Germany), directed by Thomas Stuber
In a last-ditch effort to pay for his beloved dog's surgery, Rolf bets everything he owns at the horse track. Of Dogs and Horses is a film about luck, courage, and the blind magic of desperate hope.
The jury stated: "For it's inspired performances - both human and animal - its fatalistic humor, & the immersive world it creates, the jury gives the Liberty Global International Student Filmmaker Award to Of Dogs and Horses."
The jury also stated: "For it's stylish cinematography and its unflinching & nuanced portrait of a complicated man in a tense situation, we give a special jury prize to The Tobacco King (Zambia)". Directed by Daniel Koehler, the provocative documentary explores race, history, and work in postcolonial southern Africa.
The jury was comprised of Penelope Rose Bartlett - Shorts Programmer, Chicago International Film Festival; John Korn - Shorts Programmer, Frameline/Sundance; Robert Leighton - SVP Programming, Liberty Global.
Screenplay Awards
Feature Screenplay Winner: OJ's Eleven, written by Lawrence Riggens
The jury stated: "A well crafted insight into a "conspiracy of dunces." The unfolding of this story in all it's absurd twists and turns is unthinkably based on true events. A look into the contagion of celebrity and the Faustian ordeals that come with it. The jury gives the inaugural Feature Screenplay Award to OJ's Eleven."
Shorts Screenplay Winner: Becoming Lana Liu, written by David Schroeder
The jury stated: "We love the collision of the East and West, traditional and popular culture. This script is economical and disciplined with wonderful snapshots and imagery. The title character is precisely articulated in an unpredictable way. The jury gives the inaugural Shorts Screenplay Award to Becoming Lana Liu."


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On April 19, the Sun Journal printed a Letter to the Editor from a VMFA-115 Marine pilot who complained that it was naughty for a Marine pilot to make a playful video while on an overseas combat air patrol. What a terrible, terrible waste of government resources. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
My, oh my, how times have changed. In 1968/69, my squadron flew alongside VMFA-115 in Vietnam. During the 13 months I was there, VMFA-115 had half of its F-4s shot down (eight) and one-fourth of its pilots and radar intercept officers killed (10). Of those who survived a 13-month combat tour with VMFA-115, most of the pilots flew more than 300 combat missions and most of the radar intercept officers flew more than 500.
Everyone was very, very busy doing a high risk job on a daily basis. If they spent some of their �down time� flying under bridges, drinking �flaming hookers,� hanging upside down from the bar by their knees while chugging shots, then so be it. All were volunteers. The country was fortunate to have such unprofessional, arrogant, devil-may-care guys.
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With the wintery weather reaching its month-long crescendo in January, you're probably looking for plenty of indoor activities to enjoy. Why not indulge in that classic escapist fun of reading a good book? After all, there's no better way to exercise your mind and visit far-off locales with memorable characters. Whether you pick up a brand new award-winning biography or pick a few trusty favorite novels off the shelf, you're in for a great time. But what if you could take this perfect wintertime activity one step further by crafting the perfect wintertime room design to match? A cozy library with hardwood floors could be just what you need to organize your book collection and encourage more reading in general! Consider how these tips could lead you to a stylish and comfortable home library.
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The most important thing to note is that a home library needn't be a full room, much less one of those grand multistory spaces you see in ancestral manors and movies. A corner of a home office or living room can do, given just enough space and some clever room design.
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When it comes to flooring, there's really no better option than hardwood floors. Consider the Haversham collection from Anderson Floors. These engineered oak boards are an inspired sight, full of soft earthy and pastel hues that give this floor the versatility to match a variety of room designs - meaning it can perfectly blend the two halves of a room that's part library and part another space.
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Once everything else is set, it's time to bring in the books. While you'll surely want to fill the shelves with your favorite volumes from childhood or college, make room for all the books you've yet to buy or read!
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President Obama's fundraising swing through the Seattle area Tuesday will include a high-priced dinner event benefiting a Democratic super PAC.
The event is at the Hunts Point home of former Costco CEO Jim Sinegal and his wife, Jan, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by The Seattle Times.
The price tag for the event is $25,000 per person, with proceeds going to the Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic group that accepts unlimited donations.
As a candidate, Obama has railed against U.S. Supreme Court rulings that opened up a flood of unfettered political spending through nonprofits and super PACs.
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But Obama has come to embrace super PACs on his side of the political divide, especially as he campaigns for Democrats in the 2014 midterms.
He headlined his first super PAC fundraiser, for the Senate Majority PAC, last month in New York.
The event at Sinegal's home is in addition to an earlier scheduled fundraiser at the Seattle waterfront home of Bruce and Ann Blume, who were fundraising "bundlers" for Obama's 2012 campaign.
The afternoon event will benefit the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Obama is expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon at Boeing Field and leave later that evening.
It's unclear how his two political events on opposite sides of Lake Washington will impact traffic already affected by lane closures on Interstate 90. But a presidential motorcade rolling across the Highway 520 bridge could further congest the evening commute.
A letter accompanying the dinner invitation pleads for donors to help avert a Republican takeover of the Senate.
"A mere six seat shift would alter the makeup of the Senate, allowing the GOP to control everything from choice to federal judge confirmations and the Supreme Court. We cannot afford to let this happen, and we need your help," the letter to donors for the Sinegal event reads.
However, in a feat of legalese probably designed to appease campaign-finance regulators, the letter says Obama would only be appearing as a special guest and is "not soliciting funds for this event or acknowledging your contribution at any point."
By law, super PACs are independent-expenditure organizations and are barred from directly coordinating with candidate campaigns or political-party committees.
Senate Majority PAC has raised more than $30 million for the 2014 elections and spent about $20 million so far on key Senate races, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Both the Sinegals and the Blumes are familiar hosts for Obama, as they also welcomed him for fundraisers during his 2012 re-election campaign.
Bruce Blume is founder and CEO of The Blume Co., a commercial real-estate firm. In addition to raising money for Obama's campaign, he and his wife gave $50,000 to help pay for Obama's first inauguration party.
Sinegal, who retired as Costco CEO in 2012, has been a longtime Democratic patron, donating at least $875,000 to party candidates and committees since the 1990s, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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No official events have been announced as part of Obama's visit, and he's expected to fly out Tuesday night to San Francisco to continue his West Coast fundraising tour.
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Queensland's premier has denied receiving a hefty feed-in tariff for installing solar panels on his home, with his treasurer denouncing the Labor bonus scheme as benefiting the latte set.
Treasurer Tim Nicholls has sparked an overwhelmingly negative response on talkback radio and online comments for telling parliament the solar initiative was designed for "champagne sippers and the latte set".
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Sorry Newf...but there are no facts in your position. Only opinions.
That's what you're leaving out.
Because DK is the last domino to fall, doesn't mean his absence caused the end result.
You mention the team winning without TT and DS. The B's also beat the Flyers without DK?
Do you think if TT had been able to play, CJ would have stuck with Tuuka for 4 straight Bruin losses?
Of course not.
Philly scored 15 goals in those final 4 games, which incidentally they all won. That's an average of almost 4 goals per game. Somehow, a goalie has to find a way to achieve a better GAA, or else 99 times out of 100, the team loses. TT would not have had to play that well to do much, much better, and he would've had 4 chances to do it once.
Boston didn't lose that series because they couldn't do without DK's offense(or his defense either). Their goalie conked out. Based on everything that's happenned over the last 3 years...had Thomas been healthy and available to play those last 4 games, knowing he only had to stand on his head for a maximum 1 game....and he was allowed to lose 3....it's certainly fair to believe he would have made a difference.
That difference would have put them in the conf finals.
Sure DK was a huge loss, no one is arguing that, but the B's scored plenty enough goals. They scored 4 in game 4, and were up 3-0 in game 7. Game 5 they got hammered, so unless #46 was in on 5 goals, nothing changes there. If he's in on a couple in game 6, the B's win. Other than that, it's all goaltending.
TT has 4 realistic cracks at changing history. In the playoffs, it doesn't matter how good a team is. It must have superb goaltending to advance. In this case we didn't have it.
Why is it so unreasonable to suggest the NHL's best goalie 2 of the past 3 years(2 for 2 when healthy), couldn't have had more impact than the leagues 27th best center ?


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WASHINGTON -- A new study finds a teenage driver's risk of dying in an accident increases dramatically when there are other teens in the car.
The study by AAA's Foundation for Traffic Safety finds that, compared to driving alone, a 16- or 17-year-old driver's risk of death increases 44 percent when carrying one passenger younger than 21 and no older passengers. The risk is double with two young passengers and four times as great with three or more.
But the researchers also find that the risk plummets by 62 percent when there's an adult watching the teen.
Researchers have long known that the presence of other teens is distracting to novice drivers and state driving laws began changing in the mid-1990s. Since then, every state has adopted a "graduated licensing" law that places restrictions on teen drivers, such as not allowing teens to drive with passengers under age 21. Other typical restrictions include limiting the number of young passengers to and barring nighttime driving.
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Nora Ephron Says Stay Together For Your KidsSierra Black
Heather wrote a great piece yesterday about how kids growing up with divorced parents can turn out just fine. What really matters, according to the scant literature we have on the subject, is the emotional climate around a divorce. Do the parents treat each other and the kids fairly? Is the family system happy overall, rather than stressed and angry?
That makes sense. What kids need is a loving, stable home. The relationship between their parents shouldn't matter that much, right?
My own parents had the most amicable of divorces. I never saw them fight when they were married, and haven't ever seen them be anything but warm to each other in the 25 years since they split. We even went on family vacations together after their divorce.
Still, I couldn't agree more with Nora Ephron's post on Huffington Post today, where she exhorts parents to stay together for their kids.
Ephron writes:
…unless the parents are beating each other up, or abusing the children, kids are better off if their parents are together. Children are much too young to shuttle between houses. They're too young to handle the idea that the two people they love most in the world don't love each other anymore, if they ever did. They're too young to understand that all the wishful thinking in the world won't bring their parents back together. And the newfangled rigmarole of joint custody doesn't do anything to ease the cold reality: in order to see one parent, the divorced child must walk out on the other.
A good friend of mine put this best to me, as we watched another friend go through a particularly hard stretch in her marriage: "Either you get to live the life you want, or your kids do."
My parents lives are so different now, it's hard to imagine they were ever married. How did these people even know each other? My dad lives in the mountains outside Tucson, where he makes crystal jewelry and listens to local jazz bands. My mom lives on the ocean in Massachusetts, and commutes to Boston where she's an executive at a big health care company. They would never meet, today.
Given how different they are it's impossible for me to wish them back together, or regret the choices they made. All our lives would be so unimaginably different, I couldn't even be me writing this.
But it's worth noting that as excellent as they were at loving my sister and I and keeping us close to both of them after the split, their divorce still hurt us. I'm *still* unearthing ways it affected me, more than two decades later. Kids really depend on the stability of their home and family.
Most kids get a stable home, actually. Divorce isn't as prevalent as a lot of us believe. Ephron says divorce has been increasing since the 1960s, but that's wrong. Tara Parker-Pope's recent book on marriage, For Better, shows really solid data that the divorce rate has been decreasing steadily since the early 80s, especially among parents.
Obviously, not every couple will stay together. If a marriage is abusive, it's best for everyone to get the kids and the abused parent into a safe living situation. Plenty of non-abusive marriages end, too, just because the partners lives change.
There are days when my differences with my own husband seem pretty irreconcilable. As a child of divorce, I'm vastly more likely to get divorced myself. I remind myself of that when I'm tempted to walk out the door. And then I walk back in and do my level best to make things right with him.
"Irreconcilable differences" are a real thing. It behooves parents to make an extra effort to reconcile theirs, though. Once you have kids together, it's not simply your own health and happiness in the equation.
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