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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Sep. 2)
What action, if any, the United Nations was taking to secure the immediate release of two Israelis held captive by the Syrian authorities since a hijacked Trans-World Airlines was brought down on Damascus Airport last Friday was not disclosed today.
(In Washington, State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey said today that the United States was actively continuing efforts to achieve the release of the two Israelis aboard the hijacked TWA airliner remaining in Syrian custody.)
(In Rome, F.C. Wiser, TWA president, said that moves to secure the release of the two Israeli passengers were "being pursued at the highest diplomatic levels." Mr. Wiser, who visited Damascus yesterday to inspect the damaged, hijacked plane, said "we are making approaches to all possible sources." He said the plane's pilot, Capt. Dean Carter, would remain in Damascus pending further developments.)
(in Jerusalem, the Foreign Ministry said today that there were no new developments in the continued detention of the two Israelis. A Ministry spokesman said Israel was maintaining contact with the situation through the U.S. embassies in Jerusalem and in Rome and with TWA. The U.S. has no diplomatic relations with Syria and its affairs in Damascus are handled by the Italian Embassy. The Syrian government still claims that the two Israelis are being held for "investigation". No other reason for their detention has been received from any other source, the Ministry said.)
A spokesman for Secretary-General U Thant said he had no information as to whether Mr. Thant had been in direct or indirect contact with the Syrian authorities to secure the release of the two men. Mr. Thant himself left for Mexico on Sunday and will not be back at UN headquarters until tonight. He is to leave on Friday for Africa. Up until shortly before Mr. Thant's departure on Sunday, Ambassador Yosef Tekoah of Israel had been in close touch with him on the situation.
The spokesman disclosed receipt of a cable from Olav Forsberg, president of the International Federation of Airlines Pilots Associations, advising the Secretary-General of the position his organization had taken with regard to the hijacking of the TWA plane and the Syrian detention of its Israeli passengers, and asking him to receive an IFALPA delegation. The spokesman said Mr. Thant had not seen the message before his departure and would deal with it on his return.
The UN spokesman drew attention to statements issued for Mr. Thant last Saturday describing the hijacking as "a deplorable and irresponsible act which could serve no useful purpose," and again, on Monday in which he expressed the hope that the two passengers still held in Syria would be released soon "in the interest of international law and order and security in air travel."
Meanwhile, Trans-World Airlines issued a new statement today stressing that it had no intention of abandoning its service to Tel Aviv. A statement issued Monday said that TWA had no plans "at this time" to change the Tel Aviv service schedule. The statement today emphasized that "TWA has no plans what soever to change its pattern of scheduled service to Tel Aviv." The modified statement was issued by John Corris, TWA director of public relations in Washington.


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Name suppression ends for last Featherston accused
The fifth person charged in relation with the killing of Featherston man Glen Jones can now be named.
She is Tariana Hineteanaurangi Jones, 32, of Masterton.
Jones was granted temporary name suppression by Judge Bruce Davidson at an appearance at Masterton District Court last week.
The suppression lapsed at 4pm today.
She joins four others already named in relation to the death of the supermarket worker, whose body was found at his Fitzherbert St flat in the early hours of January 12.
They are: Matthew McKinney, 28, Hayden Ranson, 27, Kristofer Jones, 23, and Toni Miller, 22.
Tariana Jones and Miller were released on bail last week, while the remaining three are being held in custody.
All are charged with entering Jones' home with a wooden bat and an axe handle.
The group are yet to enter pleas to the charges and will reappear in court next month.
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BWW JR: Spring Flash
Now that the warm weather is setting in...I mean continuing…it might seem counter-intuitive to sit your kids down in a dark theatre in the middle of the afternoon. But trust me, by the time Spring break rolls around, you'll have seen one playground too many and both you and your kids will be hungry for something more. That's when it's time to take advantage of being in (or close to) New York City and take in some awesome family theatre. Here are my top picks for Spring 2012. I've carefully selected shows that are geared towards younger kids but not 100% annoying to parents. I'll be posting reviews on many of these productions as I catch them over the next few months, so watch this space for the low down on BroadwayWorld Jr.'s 2012 SPRING FLASH!
It's no secret to readers of this column that I'm a huge fan of everything Vital Theatre Company has to offer. I'm especially excited about this one because of it's awesome book writer and lyricist Sammy Buck, who's clever, modern, hilarious style is sure to make STINKY KIDS something parents and kids can enjoy together.
The show is geared towards kids ages 3-12, and tells the story of StinkyKid Britt who never gets in trouble and loves making everyone happy. She's convinced her parents to take her friends to the opening of the new MegaJumper 3000. But when Britt gets a massive wad of gum stuck in her hair, she must rely on her friends to help her get out of the sticky situation before her parents find out and cancel the trip! STINKYKIDS, THE MUSICAL is based on the award winning StinkyKids® books and StinkyKids® characters.
For Tickets visit http://www.vitaltheatre.orgor call (212) 579-0528
TheatreWorks Tour MARTHA SPEAKS
This is another show I'm psyched for mainly because of the brilliantly cool folks behind it. Actress and funny lady Jill Abramovitz wrote the lyrics to her husband Brad Alexander's compositions. The two of them make up one of the most talented song-writing duos I know, and add to that bookwriter Kevin Del Aguila (He wrote Alter Boyz).
Martha was an ordinary dog until the day she ate a bowl full of alphabet soup. Something unusual happened: all those letters went up to Martha's brain instead of down to her stomach. And she became literally outspoken! When she correctly answers a trivia question on a radio call-in show, she wins an all-expense-paid family vacation. But when the official award notice arrives in the mail, it contains Martha's least favorite words: "no dogs allowed!" Will her family go on vacation without her?
The show is based on the books by Susan Meddaugh and the popular animated PBS television series, and the tour schedule is as follows:
• March 21, 2012: Montclair NJ – Memorial Auditorium, Montclair State University at 10am and 12:30pm
• March 23, 2012: Queens NY – Kupferberg Auditorium, Queens College at 10am
• March 26, 2012: Hempstead, NY – Adams Playhouse, Hofstra University at 10:30am
• March 27, 2012: New York, NY – Town Hall at 10:30am
• March 29, 2012: Tarrytown, NY – The Music Hall at 10am
For more information or to purchase tickets call 1-800-497-5007, or visit http://www.TWUSA.org.
The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater
It's finally here! The first festival created for the development of children's theatre in New York is happening next month, and they've just announced their fab lineup of original, family-friendly shows!
It took a panel of over 30 industry professionals to make the picks, including Kevin ("Elmo") Clash, Cheryl Henson (President, The Henson Foundation), John Tartaglia (Emmy, Tony, and Drama Desk Award nominated actor, producer, puppeteer), Thomas Schumacher (President, Disney Theatrical Productions), and Michael Jung, (Vice President, Theatrical Development, Walt Disney Imagineering).
The festival will premiere April 20 and run through May 5. For tickets call 866-811-4111 or visit www.newyorkchildrenstheaterfestival.org/tickets.html. To read my BWW Jr article on this Fab Festival, click HERE.
Manhattan Children's Theatre
My Little Guy and I took in our first Manhattan Children's Theatre production last month when we saw Knuffle Bunny. It was clear to us that this is a company dedicated to producing quality family theatre that entertains kids without annoying adults. This new production is inspired by one of the last remaining, fully enclosed phone booths in Manhattan (at 100th and West End Avenue). The fantasy explores the story of an old friend who is forgotten then rediscovered.
Once, everyone used the phone booth and it loved all the attention it got. Then one day it noticed people talking into little boxes in their hands, and soon no one came to the phone booth any more. Everyone was using cell phones! No one needed the phone booth and it became lonely. It watched other phone booths being hauled away to the dump, and feared it might be next. Can anything save the faithful phone booth?
The show runs April 7 – April 29, Saturdays & Sundays @ 12:00 & 2:00pm. For tickets, call (212) 352-3101
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If you're a pre-order bonus kind of person you're going to be a bit flustered by what THQ has done with
Red Faction:Armageddon
as they have four separate pre-order programs for you decide between. Here's the overview of the different programs:
GameStop - Free copy of
Red Faction:Battlegrounds
along with the Commando pack which includes a new uniform and two new weapons (Plasma Thrower and Laser Pistols)
Best Buy - Recon Pack - special uniform and two weapons (Arc Welder and XNG-5000 nanite gun)
Amazon - Free copy of
Red Faction:Battlegrounds
Walmart - 24 page illustrated comic book, mini-strategy guide, stigma of buying your video games at Walmart.
To be honest it looks like Gamestop appears to have the better of the four bundles as you're getting Battlegrounds and a free kit. If you're not a Gamestop fan then I'd probably head to Best Buy or Amazon.
AGOURA HILLS, Calif., March 28, 2011 – Before Red Faction®: ArmageddonTM explodes onto the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC on May 31, those anxious to revisit Mars can pre-order a number of exclusive incentive items from participating retailers to immediately enhance their Armageddon experience, THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) and its internal studio, Volition, Inc.® announced today.
At GameStop, those who preorder Red Faction®: ArmageddonTM will receive a free downloadable copy of Red Faction®: BattlegroundsTM arcade game on either Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, or PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, a $10 value. Players will also receive the Commando Pack that includes the armored Commando uniform and adds two new weapons to their arsenal. Players will spray an unforgiving stream of destruction with the Plasma Thrower, or slice and dice the infestation with dual Laser Pistols.
At Best Buy, players will receive the Recon Pack that includes the clandestine Recon uniform, constructed specifically for Red Faction snipers and spies. Unleash two new weapons on your foes, including the Arc Welder, which immobilizes and electrocutes clusters of enemies, and the XNG-5000, which launches devastating Nanite-filled projectiles that seek out targets and dissolve them.
At Amazon.com, players will a free downloadable copy of Red Faction: Battlegrounds arcade game on either Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, or PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Red Faction: Battlegrounds pits four players either locally or online in a variety of game modes, including Survival, Annihilate and Flag Frenzy. Players rank up and are rewarded with a unique bonus weapon that will be playable in Red Faction: Armageddon.
At Walmart, players will receive the limited edition Red Faction® 24-page illustrated comic book that follows Darius Mason as he chases down a gang of murderous bandits in a tale that takes place just before the events of Red Faction: Armageddon. The comic will also include a mini-strategy guide from Prima Games, the world's leading publisher of strategy content, for use with Red Faction: Armageddon.
Red Faction: Armageddon is scheduled to be available on May 31 in North America for a suggested retail price of $59.99. To preorder now, please visit www.redfaction.com/buy
About Red Faction: Armageddon
Half a century after the Red Faction resistance freed Mars, the red planet again becomes a battleground. Colonists struggle for survival in the underground mines after the surface is rendered uninhabitable. When Darius Mason, grandson of revolution heroes Alec Mason and Samanya, unknowingly releases a long-dormant evil, Armageddon is unleashed on Mars. As settlements are torn asunder, only Darius and the Red Faction can save mankind. The battle will take them to the core of the storm-blasted planet through ice caves and lava flows until they are face to face against the unspeakable threat. Red Faction: Armageddon expands on the critically acclaimed, best-selling franchise with new, groundbreaking challenges. You are humanity's last hope for survival.
About Red Faction: Battlegrounds
The signature destructive gameplay from Red Faction: Guerrilla comes to the downloadable arcade with Red Faction: Battlegrounds! Jump into your favorite tank or mech using your Gauss Cannons, Rocket Launchers and Singularity Bombs to destroy the competition, and environment along with it. Battle your way through treacherous Martian deserts, terraformed enclaves and more in a variety of different multiplayer modes and single player challenges. Rank up by defeating the competition and unlock new content including maps, vehicles, weapons and even items for the upcoming Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system and PC game, Red Faction: Armageddon.
About THQ
THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. The company develops its products for all popular game systems, personal computers and wireless devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product through its global network of offices located throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. More information about THQ and its products may be found at www.thq.com. Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Red Faction: Armageddon, Red Faction: Battlegrounds, Volition, Inc., THQ and their respective logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc.
About Syfy
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently more than 98 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
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Forget about a white Christmas. What consumers really want this year is a black Christmas, according to the nonprofit National Foundation for Credit Counseling, or the NFCC. The idea of a black Christmas is a spin on the term "Black Friday," which refers to the day after Thanksgiving when retailers traditionally expect their sales figures


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Aung San Suu Kyi looks to Singapore as model
By Rachel Armstrong and Laura Philomin, Reuters Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 12:08 am TWN
SINGAPORE--Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi cemented Singapore's role as a major economic partner and model for her country on a five-day trip to the island, taking home what she said were valuable lessons on education policy and anti-graft measures.
But her endorsement of the wealthy city-state came with a caveat — Myanmar could do without the materialistic and high-pressure society that has accompanied Singapore's decades-long transformation from tropical backwater to economic powerhouse.
"I want to learn a lot from the standards that Singapore has been able to achieve, but I wonder whether we don't want something more for our country," the Nobel Peace laureate told reporters on Monday evening as she prepared to return home.
She added: "Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life."
Despite that reservation, Suu Kyi's first visit to Singapore is seen as affirming Myanmar's close ties with the city-state as it seeks investments and aims to tap technocratic expertise to help its transformation to democracy from dictatorship.
Suu Kyi, 68, met Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, chief executives from some of the world's biggest companies, and visited Singapore's successful anti-corruption bureau. She was able to see the fruits of the island's success at two of its universities and also took in a Formula 1 race on Sunday.
Suu Kyi, the daughter of the hero of the campaign for independence from Britain, has shifted from democracy icon to opposition boss in the country's parliament after her party won a landslide in by-elections last year. She had been kept under house arrest for 15 out of 20 years after the junta ignored the results of a 1990 election won by her party.
She said many of her country's people believe Singapore could provide them with the key planks of their development model as it grapples with huge challenges, ranging from decrepit infrastructure to ethnic violence.
"A lot of Burmese look to Singapore when they think of economic reforms in our country because they see the success of Singapore, and many of our young people are getting their education here so these are the sectors where many of our people feel they can learn from," she said, referring to Singapore's education and anti-corruption policies in particular.
Singapore was a major proponent of maintaining diplomatic relations and providing humanitarian aid to Myanmar under the military junta that was shunned and sanctioned by the West. In 2001, it established a center in the commercial capital Yangon to provide education for public servants, giving them training in English, trade, finance and information technology.
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A motorcycle passenger who was killed in an accident Saturday morning on Indianapolis' Southeastside has been identified.
Teresa Wilson, 59, Indianapolis, was killed in crash around 10:50 a.m. at the intersection of Southeastern Avenue and Acton Road, said Officer Rafael Diaz, a spokesman for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
Wilson was transported to Eskenazi Hospital, where she died of her injuries a short while later, Diaz said. The male driver of the motorcycle, who has not been identified, also was taken to Eskenazi with "sustained lower leg injuries," Diaz said, and was in serious but stable condition as of late Saturday afternoon.
The accident occurred when the driver of a Honda sedan traveling westbound on Southeastern tried to turn south on Acton and collided with the motorcycle, which was traveling eastbound on Southeastern.
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Washington news undercut corn Thursday. The weekly USDA Export Sales report met expectations, which left the corn market open to weakness spilling over from the soybean market. Moreover, late-morning news that two Senators had introduced bipartisan legislation to eliminate the U.S. ethanol mandate weighed heavily. Conversely, the late bounce from midsession lows was impressive. March corn futures fell 5.0 cents to $4.3425/bushel at their Thursday close, while May lost 5.25 cents to $4.425.
Technical selling seemingly sent the soy complex lower. The weekly Export Sales report seemed quite supportive of the soybean market, since the sales total easily topped industry forecasts. However, the nearby contracts apparently failed at pivotal levels on their respective charts, thereby triggering aggressive selling from antsy traders worried about large South American crops. January soybeans dove 20.25 cents to $13.2375/bushel in late Thursday trading, while January soyoil dropped 0.41 cents to 39.99 cents/pound, and January soymeal plunged $8.8 to $430.1/ton.
The wheat markets joined the crop market decline. The wheat sales total on the weekly USDA report also proved unremarkable, which may have opened the market to selling spilling over from soybeans. The fact that winter wheat futures were leading spring prices lower may have reflected late reports that snow cover is protecting U.S. crops from the severe cold. March CBOT wheat futures tumbled 7.0 cents to $6.3375/bushel late Thursday afternoon, while March KCBT wheat futures sank 6.5 cents to $6.7825, and March MWE futures slid 4.5 cents to $6.64.
Bullish cash expectations reportedly boosted cattle futures Thursday. Short-term cash market expectations seemingly turned more positive today, which translated into rising Chicago prices. However, the midsession beef report stated choice cutout sharply lower, thereby reflecting a breakdown in rib values (likely due to the end of grocery industry buying for Christmas dinner entrees). That probably limited the CME rise. February cattle futures settled 0.30 cents higher at 133.10 cents/pound Thursday, and April futures added 0.30 to 134.12. Meanwhile, January feeder cattle leapt 1.40 cents to 167.07 cents/pound, while March feeders surged 1.05 to 166.55.
Hopes for renewed seasonal strength seemingly supported hog futures. Cash market losses late last week and earlier this week apparently weighed heavily upon CME futures, particularly with pork prices also under pressure. However, talk of firming cash quotes and improved demand sparked increased optimism in the CME swine pit Thursday. February hog futures bounced 0.22 cents to 88.00 cents/pound as trading wound down Thursday, while June rose 0.20 to 99.80.


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Patients seen at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) clinics receive better overall quality of care, chronic disease care, and preventive care than those seen at other community sites. The VHA has championed a more coordinated system of care since the early 1990s, when they initiated a sophisticated electronic medical record system, measurement of performance on several quality measures, and a system-wide commitment to quality improvement, explains Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D., of RAND Health.
In a study that was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS09463), Dr. McGlynn and her colleagues compared the quality of care at 26 clinical sites in 12 VHA health systems with care received by a random sample of adult males older than 35 years of age in 12 communities between 1997 and 2000. The researchers used a chart-based quality instrument consisting of 348 quality of care indicators targeting 26 conditions ranging from asthma and urinary tract infection to diabetes, depression, and preventive care. After adjusting for clustering, patient age, number of visits, and medical conditions, VHA patients scored significantly higher than those at other sites for overall quality (67 vs. 51 percent), chronic disease care (72 vs. 59 percent), and preventive care (64 vs. 44 percent) but not for acute care.
The VHA advantage was most prominent in processes targeted by VHA performance measurement (66 vs. 43 percent) and least prominent in areas unrelated to VHA performance measurement (55 vs. 50 percent). To date, the VHA has not targeted acute care as part of its performance measurement system. These findings suggest that VHA performance measurement efforts are indeed contributing to better quality of care at VA clinics.
More details are in "Comparison of quality of care for patients in the Veterans Health Administration and patients in a national sample," by Steven M. Asch, M.D., M.P.H., Dr. McGlynn, Mary M. Hogan, Ph.D., and others, in the December 21, 2004, Annals of Internal Medicine 141(12), p. 938-945.
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Rivals Batter Romney in Feisty South Carolina Debate
Rick Santorum, left, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich at Monday's GOP debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Photo by Charles Dharapa/Getty Images.
The five Republican presidential candidates met in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday night for what became a feisty forum showcasing four hopefuls trying to dent Mitt Romney's front-runner armor.
The former Massachusetts governor struggled with several answers, ultimately saying he'd release his tax returns in April and detailing his hunting exploits. His rivals attempted to land punches, aided at times by a booing audience, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul was able to use his increased speaking time on the stage to outline his policy viewpoints on defense spending and the drug trade.
The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty and Philip Rucker frame the evening as Romney being thrown "off balance."
Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times, meanwhile, write that Romney's fellow competitors "failed to goad him into losing his composure or making any major mistakes, and [Romney] devoted nearly as much attention to President Obama as he did to the candidates on stage with him."
The overall nasty tone isn't a huge surprise given this week could mean game, set, match for the non-Romney candidates. And after all, Myrtle Beach was the scene of that uncomfortably tense debate between then-candiate Barack Obama, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton nearly four years ago.
The Democratic National Committee clipped some of Romney's halting responses in a new web video, pushing the organization's preferred storyline that the front-runner can't give a straight answer.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is going on the attack against Romney in a new television ad that starts airing Tuesday and includes a narrator's warning, "Why would we ever vote for someone who is just like Obama?"
It's worth noting this is one of the first ads that mentions President Obama's health care law was based on what Romney implemented as governor of Massachusetts. The spot also knocks Romney over his support for the Wall Street bailouts and his "liberal" positions on social issues.
Paul also is spending on a new television ad, a 60-second spot that targets Gingrich, Romney and Santorum. It calls Gingrich a serial hypocrite, Santorum a counterfeit conservative and Romney a flip-flopper. "Three men: One vision, more big government, more mandates, less freedom," a narrator intones.
Even with his shaky debate performance, Romney still remains the prohibitive front-runner for the Republican nomination, as a new national poll released Tuesday by the Washington Post and ABC News shows him with a two-to-one advantage over his closest rivals.
Romney received the support of 35 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents nationwide. He is followed by Gingrich at 17 percent, Paul at 16 percent, Santorum at 13 percent and Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 9 percent.
The rise in Romney's national standing over the past few months has coincided with an uptick in support from voters who identify themselves as strong Tea Party backers, Evangelical Christians, independents and very conservative.
And there is yet more good news for Romney: Nearly six in 10 of Republicans see him as the Republican candidate best able to defeat President Obama in November. In the Post-ABC poll released in mid-December, Romney held a 10-point advantage over Gingrich on the electability metric. Romney's margin has swelled to a 47-point margin in the past month.
If there is one development from the survey that might be cause for concern in Romney's Boston headquarters, it is that an increasing number of Republicans have a negative impression of the front-runner's private-sector business experience. Slightly more than a third of GOP voters — 34 percent — view Romney's work at the private equity firm Bain Capital unfavorably, up from 20 percent in last month's poll.
That shift has come as Romney's work buying and restructuring companies has come under intense scrutiny by his Republican competitors, especially Gingrich and Perry, as well as the president's re-election team. And while a majority of Republican voters still view his private-sector experience favorably, the Bain attacks are not likely to go away so long as voters are telling pollsters they have questions about that piece of Romney's background.
Santorum may have captured support from key evangelicals, but with just a few days until voters make their choices in South Carolina, his backers don't seem to be doing much. After the split decision over the weekend, the Morning Line called around in hopes to get a Santorum endorser to outline any grassroots activity.
Officials from Focus on the Family, which doesn't endorse, did not attend the meeting in Texas because in 2000 and 2008 the group was fractured, said Tom Minnery, the group's senior vice president. (Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has decided to back Santorum on his own, but there are no announced plans yet to campaign for the former senator.)
"I was surprised that a consensus grew, and to the extent that helps Rick Santorum that's a good thing," Minnery told the Morning Line. But he stressed that he thinks Romney can win over evangelicals and pointed out how well the front-runner did in New Hampshire with faith-driven voters.
"What that tells me is that this is a year in which primary voters are taking this all very seriously. They really, really want a candidate who will be victorious in the fall and the question of who can go the distance is a good one," Minnery said.
Minnery said he thinks social conservatives "could live with" Romney as the GOP nominee, but cautioned there are still voters uncomfortable with his Mormon faith: "He may want to revisit a speech about religion. I think some people will have a hard time voting for a Mormon, but many will understand the policies that he stands for are [better] when compared to President Obama."
We discussed the evangelical meeting on Monday's NewsHour.
Tune in Tuesday night to the NewsHour for a look at spending in South Carolina. On the topic, Eliza Newlin Carney writes in Roll Call that a "healthy percentage" of the super PACs' spending goes "into the pockets of friends, family members and business associates who serve as consultants and vendors to the political action committees."
"In some cases, the people cashing in on lucrative super PAC contracts are the friends, colleagues and even relatives of the people running and advising those same PACs. And unlike on conventional, candidate-run campaigns or at political party committees, no politician or official is watching where the money goes or answering to regulators," she writes.
President Obama will attend a fundraiser Thursday night at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. Donors in attendance will hear performances by Al Green and India.Arie with Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Americans for Prosperity is spending $6 million to put this ad focused on the Solyndra loan controversy up in six states: Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. They are calling it the first major general election push against President Obama.
Could Santorum edge out Romney and actually claim a victory in the Iowa caucuses? The Washington Examiner's Byron York reports: "One campaign source says the vote count as of midday Monday showed Santorum ahead by 80-something votes. If that number holds through certification of the last precincts, Santorum will win. Of course, there is always the possibility that some of the final precincts will contain discrepancies that put Romney back on top. It's just not clear."
Stephen Colbert's super PAC buys time on South Carolina airwaves and urges voters to choose Herman Cain.
The Boston Globe's Matt Viser (@mviser) reported on Twitter that Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom had a simple explanation for his boss' absence from the Huntsman endorsement speech: Huntsman didn't ask.
The DNC put together a compilation of Huntsman's criticism of Romney over the course of the campaign.
TPM made a video montage bidding farewell to Huntsman and his pop culture references.
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Occupy Protesters plan to welcome Congress back to Washington.
The Washington Post explains the fight over SOPA.
Lawyers expect a grand jury to bring indictments soon against a dozen employees and legislators on charges related to favoritism in the state Probation Department, the Boston Globe reports.
The NewsHour's Margaret Warner interviews the Washington Post's Rachel Manteuffel about her successful push to get the inscription at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial changed.
Wisconsin Democrats are canvassing the state in a final push before Tuesday's deadline to gather enough recall petitions for their effort to oust Gov. Scott Walker.
The group must file at least 540,208 petitions — 25 percent of voters in the 2010 elections — to get the recall on the ballot, according to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.
The recall is being organized by United Wisconsin, which describes itself as "a non-partisan registered PAC and grassroots organization." The group's officials seem confident they will far outpace the required number of petitions. The effort stemmed from a fight during Walker's first few months in office, when the Republican sought to curb collective-bargaining rights for state workers in an attempt to make up for a $3.6 billion budget deficit.
Democrats also have eyes on recall votes for Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four GOP state legislators.
To get up to speed on the issue, check out our coverage. Jim Lehrer spoke with Frederica Freyberg of Wisconsin Public Television last spring during the legislative session, and she covered the story last fall as petitions were being collected.
The Tea Party Express had made the recall its primary focus in recent weeks, soliciting donations under the banner of defending against President "Obama's campaign machine and his radical union mobs." In a fundraising email sent Monday, the group accused Mr. Obama of attempting to use the recall as a way of engaging his supporters for his re-election.
Top White House officials are warning liberal and labor leaders to brace themselves for President Obama's budget proposal, The Hill reports. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/204435-obama-warns-left-you-will-not-like-my-budget
NewsHour political desk assistant Alex Bruns contributed to this report.
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Clowning Around: 'It' Remake Will Take Inspiration From 'Stranger Things' Despite Snubbing The Duffer Brothers
In some ways it's ironic when a producer working on a remake of an references a modern day as a barometer for what the said remake will be like. But that's exactly what It remake producer Dan Lin has done, citing Stranger Things as an indication of the tone of Pennywise's new adventure.
The original TV miniseries from 1990 was based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, and has earned a cult following in the year's that have passed. Tim Curry's wide-eyed stare, open-mouthed grin and sinister clown make-up combined with erratic sewer dwelling to create a character that has continued to live on in nightmares.
With such an iconic character, news of Andy Muscietti's remake was met with a sigh of trepidation; it's a rarity for a , and for some, it's seen as lazy and creativity shortcut. So the question is: What will it take for the It remake to be a success?
Can It Be A Hit?
The project has already been passed on like recently roasted jacket potato. Cary Fukunaga was originally signed on to direct, but fell out with the studio over creative differences. That led to Muscietti taking control, but also meant that Will Poulter — who had signed on to play Pennywise — was then replaced by Swedish actor Bill Skarsgard.
Now filming has begun, the uncertainty should've settled, and we can begin to look forward to what It can offer that will both differentiate it from the original, but retain the same level of creepiness and intrigue. In an interview with Collider, producer Dan Lin provided the interesting comparison. He said:
"I think a great analogy is actually Stranger Things, and we're seeing it on Netflix right now. It's very much an homage to '80s movies, whether it's classic Stephen King or even Spielberg. Think about Stand by Me as far as the bonding amongst the kids. But there is a really scary element in Pennywise."
While citing Stranger Things is in itself a little… strange, delving a little deeper makes it an odd comparison to make. The genius behind the hit Netflix show, the Duffer Brothers, confirmed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that they had actually asked Warner Bros. if they could direct the feature — they were turned down. Matt Duffer said:
"We asked, and that's why we ended up doing this, because we'd asked Warner Brothers. I was like, 'Please,' and they were like, 'No.' This was before Cary Fukunaga. This was a long time ago."
A Good Template To Follow
However, this could be good news for the franchise. Rather then deviate too far from the original tone, the remake will serve itself well by sticking to classic tropes, which the Netflix show achieved to such a high level. After all, there is a reason the original worked. If the remake can build on that, while providing a fresh perspective, It could work.
There's also a common thread between both. Finn Wolfhard — one of the standout young actors of the Netflix show playing Mike Wheeler — is also in the cast of It. The child actors were heavily lauded for their likability and authenticity, and it's a coup to have Finn on board. Lin's comparison to Stand By Me is also interesting, considering how much the movie had an imprint in Stranger Things.
The bond of the juvenile crew are crucial to the telling of the story. Pennywise preys on young children, and the group of outcasts named The Losers Club take on the mission of destroying him. The chemistry between the young cast is essential, and an area Lin feels confident about. He added:
"Really great chemistry is always a challenging thing with a movie like It because you're casting kids who don't have a ton of experience, but it ended up being really natural.
"Each kid, like a Goonies or Stand By Me, has a very specific personality and they're forming the loser's club obviously. And now finally the evil force is coming into our movie. We've spent a few months getting the kids to bond and now they're going to fight this evil, scary clown."
So, swap in Pennywise for the monster in Stranger Things and you have a feature film that could take all the best bits and plonk them in a different setting. In theory, it could work, but maybe Warner Bros. should've given the Duffer Brothers the job? But then if they did, Stranger Things wouldn't have happened.
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#1. I was reading a tutorial at www.webmonkey.com (yes, I know I'm a traitor ) on PHP/MySQL, and it gave an example of how to display all the records in a table. Here's part of the code:

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$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM employees",$db);
if ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
do {
printf("%s %s
n", $PHP_SELF, $myrow["id"], $myrow["first"], $myrow["last"]);
} while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result));
Now, I always knew that in an if/while statement you always used ==, !=, etc... to test, and not = by itself. = is supposed to define/change the variable.. (I even checked php.net) What I'm wondering is, why does this work? Does it check for whatever is after = (for the if/while statement) and also store the results to $myrow on the side? It doesn't make sense..
#2. I checked the manual at php.net to try to understand when to use print, printf, or echo, and couldn't figure it out. From what I understood, there's no reason for print, since echo can output 1+ strings... Now, printf apparently can get variables from somewhere and then you use them to output data. How does it work? In summary, what's the difference between echo & print (is there a reason print exists?), and how do you use printf?
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This modern, stylish men's haircut combines elements from several classic men's looks. The hair is tapered at the temple and around the ears, while the layering in the nape and crown is even and ends in a blocked off, finish that is beveled to a round edge.
The top section graduates to a longer fringe, as in the collegiate cut, but the whole is textured with a feathering technique that makes it possible to create the cockscomb effect shown here.
Style the look with mousse and sculpting paste in conjunction with your blow-dryer and brush. A extra dab of wax at the finish will draw the tips of the fringe upward to peak at the forehead.
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Society of Professional Journalists criticizes NBC for "checkbook journalism" in David Goldman coverage
Watch NBC's Today show this morning and you saw another detailed report in a seemingly endless array of stories about New Jersey dad David Goldman, whose years-long quest to recover his son from a Brazilian stepdad has turned him into a cable TV news fixture.
What you won't see in all that detail, is a look at one of the perks the network provided Goldman as he finally secured custody of his son last week; a private jet, paid for by NBC to ferry Goldman and his son Sean from Brazil to America.
The network had interview footage with the father and video from the flight at a time whn Goldman wasn't talking to other media. Today's Meredith Vieira had an interview with Goldman, and this morning's show featured an interview with Goldman in New Jersey, with no mention of the network's part in facilitating the father and son duo's return to the states.
The Society of Professional Journalists released a statement Monday criticizing NBC's move, calling it and example of "checkbook journalism."
SPJ's statement also said: "By making itself part of a breaking news story on which it was reporting — apparently to cash in on the exclusivity assured by its expensive gesture — NBC jeopardized its journalistic independence and credibility in its initial and subsequent reports....NBC's ability to report the story fairly has been compromised by its financial involvement."
The plane rental is just the latest evolution in the increasingly inventive ways news organizations have developed for compensating sought-after interview subjects without paying them directly.
Subjects are paid "licensing fees" for photographs or background material they provide, or are flown into New York for in-studio interviews, lodged at nice Manhattan hotels and given meals.
Bad as such arrangements are -- clearly providing compensation to people at the heart of big news stories for access to their information -- they also are not disclosed by the journalism outlets in their reports, giving consumers no way to judge the veracity of the information presented or the news outlet's involvement with the source.
That's why SPJ has suggested NBC come clean by describing its hand in securing the plane and any other perks for Goldman "and invite dialogue with the pulbic over journalistic conduct."
Judging by the Today show's own conduct so far, I'm not expecting to see those details in its deluge of Goldman coverage any time soon. See the Today show story below:
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void main(){
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wheel->x =0;
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the error i get when i run the program is :Code:
#define MAXWSIZE 200
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Re: Louisiana Redfish and Specled Trout
I use a BVK 8wt for ther June and July Redfish, and have had no real worries with fish up to 14 pounds. I have also used the TFO TiCrX and an Orvis Helios in 8wt. IMHO I think the 8's are perfect. We tried some 7wt rods (a loomis NRX and a TiCr) but they were lacking a bit when we had to keep a big fish away from a weed bed.
We basically stayed with the Spoon Flies....there was never any reason to switch. A floating line is best in the Marshes as the water is rarely over a couple feet deep. Rio's Redfish taper is good, but the Outbound Short and Titan Taper are awesome. Fluorocarbon leaders are the norm due to their better abrasion resistance. I used Rio's redfish tapered leader in 20#, and tied on Seagar Grand Max 18.5# Fluor tippet. A micro swivel between the leader and tippet kept my line from twisting with the dpoon flies. Best advice I can give is practice casting while balancing on a stool. I tend to shift my weight when I cast, and if you rock the boat it will spook the reds in that shallow water.
If you want to try and throw some big top-water poppers, I recommend you go up to a nine or ten wt rod. If there is any wind, the extra line weight will help get that big wind resistant fly out there. Good luck! I absolutely love Louisiana, specifically the Cocodrie area.
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Aussie scholar says historians are neglecting storyteller roleHistorians in the News
Award-winning historian Peter Cochrane is urging his colleagues to look to the narrative techniques of literature to recreate the past in a vivid and lively way.
Cochrane, an inaugural winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, said historians should be able to cross freely into the territory of novelists and poets to use their techniques of plot, character, and imagination.
"We spend a great deal of our time on the intricacies of analysis, evidence evaluation and argument while we tend to neglect the literary side of history writing," he says in a speech prepared for this week's Australian History Teachers Association annual conference in Brisbane.
"This, I think, is an old, ingrained prejudice. Historians tend to see themselves as social scientists, as scholars whose job it is to 'write up' or report on their findings, rather than as writers whose job it is to create or imagine the past, to captivate anaudience.
"We should be crossing boundaries and borrowing what we can from fiction, or at least from fiction writers ... in terms of structuring and vivifying a story."
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Herbert Barger - 5/21/2009
Historians should write what they consider history in a truthful and WELL researched manner. Some recent historians writing books on the Jefferson-Hemings DNA Study are completely "out on a limb", YET they win fancy book awards.Is it familiarity with the subject or the book judges that are misleading the public? If interested in truthful and detailed inside reporting on this controversy please click on: www.tjheritage.org and www.jeffersondna.com.
Please watch for a hard hitting behind the scenes book, "In Defense of Thomas Jefferson, The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal." The book is due out June 9, 2009.
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Gregory Canellis - 10/1/2008
There has always been a fine line between good historical analysis and exciting story-telling. Here in the USA, my pet peeve are journalists who think they are historians. They have at their disposal the best editing teams money can buy. The result, exciting narrative with less than standard historical methods. Some academic historians, however, tend to lean the other way: good historical methods coupled with dull writing. What historians must remember is their responsibility to teach history through good story telling, and stop concentrating so much on writing for their fellow historians.
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LAGOS, Nigeria (eTN) – Nigeria needs an aviation museum that will preserve Nigeria's aviation history and promote tourism, Ikechi Uko, organizer of Akwaaba Africa Travel Market (AfTM) has said.
Uko said the aviation museum will warehouse some of the disused aircrafts in the country.
Nigeria has recorded more than 15 plane crashes since its first plane crash on November 20, 1969, when a Nigeria Airways BAC VC 10 crashed-landed in Lagos and killed 87 passengers.
In 2012, Nigeria recorded 3 plane crashes, which involved two helicopters and a commercial plane; more than 230 lives were lost in the 3 air mishaps.
"Nigeria needs an Aviation Museum with a hall of fame that will inform, preserve, and promote the aviation history of Nigeria, the players, and the incidents that have shaped the industry over the years," Uko said in a press statement seen by eTurboNews.
Uko, who is also the Project Director of Seven Wonders of Nigeria, says it is part of the ideals set out to present Nigeria in a new light to grow national pride and generate tourism income.
"An aviation museum, the first-of-its-kind in the west African region, will attract tourism traffic and will educate and empower a new generation of aviators," Uko said.
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Does Abundance of Natural Resources Impair Investments in Education? Case of Russian Regions
Using panel data for Russian regions in 2004–2009, I find some evidence that everything else (including per capita GDP) being equal natural resource abundance is associated with lower public spending on education in Russian regions. Meanwhile I don't find any connection between the total (including private) spending on education and natural resources wealth.
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The LOCH FLEET departed London 29 August, 1880 and arrived in Auckland on 20 December, 1880. Captain Clachrie was in command.
Transcribed from New Zealand Herald, Tuesday, 21 December, 1880, Page 4.
Loch Fleet, barque, 713 tons, Clachrie, from London, with general cargo.
Passengers :—
Edward Woodward,
Henry Pilling,
James White,
Thomas Wilson,
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AMESBURY'S Ancestor sculpture is returning to Glastonbury Festival this year.
The giant sculpture of ancient man on his knees welcoming the sunrise, which normally sits at Solstice Park to welcome people to the Stonehenge landscape, is returning to the world's largest Greenfield festival to reign as 'lord of the dance' at Silver Hayes, the dance area.
The 24ft, six-tonne sculpture will be broken down into five pieces to be transported on Tuesday and will be placed on top of two shipping containers and a plinth constructed from the old Pyramid Stage to create an impressive 36ft entrance to The Blues.
The Ancestor was created by local artist Andy Rawlings and Michelle Topps. Rawlings said: "It's an incredible opportunity, we have to keep pinching ourselves. We never thought he would become a centre piece at Glastonbury.
"Last year they lit him up like a giant Moroccan Lantern and gave him a laser display, we can't wait to see what effects he'll have this year."
This is the second time the Ancestor has visited Glastonbury, he has also appeared at the summer solstice at Stonehenge in 2010 and 2012, greeted the Olympic Torch in Salisbury and became a main stage attraction at the Greenman Festival in Wales.
The sculpture will be back in his spot in Amesbury in July.


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Angelo Bucci, Baeta house, Concrete Movement, DOMUS 943, Francisco Rebolo Gonzales, House of Triangles, João Vilanova Artigas, Mário Gruber, Rubens de Mendonça House, Waldemar Cordeiro
The houses for Olga Baeta (1956-57) and Rubens de Mendonça (1958- 59) belong to the second phase of the work of João Vilanova Artigas (1915-1985), the most important modernist architect of São Paulo. They were done at a particularly active moment in Brazil's history, a time that saw the competition for and the construction of the new capital, Brasilia. The country was experiencing an intense phase of democracy under the guidance of Juscelino Kubitschek (1902-1976), president from 1956 to 1961. It was, however, a contradictory democracy in that the Communist Party continued to be outlawed, a status to which it had been relegated in 1947 by a Superior Electoral Court decision, under the accusation of being an instrument of Soviet domination. In terms of architecture, there was an intense, ongoing debate about how the profession might best contribute to the social transformation of the country. Following in the footsteps of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and his slogan "Architecture or Revolution" (1), there were many who felt a responsibility for constructing a new environment that would be able to effect change in people's lives. In the early '50s, Vilanova Artigas and Niemeyer, both militant communists, shared numerous points of view including recognising the futility of an architecture whose only contribution to capitalist society were reforms and repetitiously slapped-together buildings. They also asked themselves what they could do, professionally, while waiting for the revolution. Niemeyer rejected the idea of standardised architecture because, in a capitalist system, simplifying the appearances of buildings in order to facilitate their identical reproduction would lead to a lowering of quality without, however, helping the poor. He defended his freeform architecture because his aim as an architect was the advancement of technology, and as a citizen, he wished to engage in social revolution (2). In the first phase of his career, from 1937 to 1944, together with Duílio Marone, Artigas's studio and contracting business were very active. He made about 200 houses for private clients, clearly inspired by the Prairie Houses of Frank Lloyd Wright. Being a member of the Brazilian Communist Party since 1945 implied a certain level of doubt and self-criticism: "Where do we stand? What should we do? Should we hope for a new society by doing what we've always done? Or should we leave the profession and devote ourselves entirely to revolutionary life?" (3) With this dialectical approach, in addition to the struggle for a new society, he proposed a critical stance with regards to his profession as a way to achieve "a new spontaneity" created "as a direct interpretation of the real demands of the people" (4).
Starting in the late '40s, Artigas began taking an interest in the free forms of Affonso Eduardo Reidy (1909-1964) and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, he embarked on a search for originality of expression, which is clearly perceptible in some of his works, such as his second home (1949) and the bus station in Londrina (1950): elongated volumes with formal variations concentrated solely in the roofline. The quest for spontaneity was the basis for his houses. According to Artigas, "The city is a house and the house is a city." He liked to repeat how "in German, the verb 'to build', in its most ancient linguistic form, means both 'to be' and 'to live'"5. In the Baeta House, he calls into question two canons of modernist language in Brazil: the continuous flow between the street and interior space; and the removal, or concealment, of a sloping roof. In this case, there is a radical separation between the house and the urban environment, achieved by placing the garage and a blank wall at the front. The resulting form resembles that of a house with a traditional roof. The opacity of the walls stands in contrast to the openness towards the gardens, the visibility of the different levels, and the transparency between the various living areas. Only the bedrooms are closed off and private. The clear intent was to create a refuge, a special universe conceived and articulated according to non-traditional logic. In order to achieve a height of 4.5 metres in the living room and mezzanine without any internal supports, the structure of the house was held up by 3 parallel "porticoes" placed in a row. Two of them were square, structural walls within the concrete facades. The third, in the middle, was a system of pillars and beams connected to a central, reinforced concrete support column. Due to poor execution, the support column was later replaced by an improvised pillar on the house's exterior.
In 1988, the Baeta house was restored by Angelo Bucci, who rearranged the spatial division of the kitchen, bathroom and servants quarters, the latter having become obsolete. New, nearly full-height windows were inserted in the exposed concrete partitions, offering a solution that, beyond its aesthetic effect of great beauty, ensured a large amount of light and effectively sealed off odours. During a routine inspection of the walls while under construction, however, Bucci and his team discovered that the beam designed as a structural support for the central square had never been completed, therefore rendering the "portico" useless in terms of structure. Referring to Artigas's original sketches, they went back to the logic of the structure as originally planned, replacing the structural concrete with steel supports in order to showcase the different remodelling instances over time. This made it possible to extend the glazing over the entire surface of the side wall, which had been closed off to hide the improvised external support. In turn, it opened up a 360-degree view of the garden, lightening the overall composition, and also brought in more light to the mezzanine and living room.
The project observed the original colour scheme: blue for the structural elements (columns and walls), yellow and red for nonload- bearing walls, and a return to white for the entire ceiling in the living room, which had been partially painted brown in an earlier remodelling scheme. The gods of architecture were certainly in a good mood when, in 1996, the house was bought by Bucci's brother. Then he hired his sibling architect to work on the renovation. He accepted this difficult task and was able to return the house to an even more faithful version of the original design. Vilanova Artigas had always maintained close ties with the plastic arts.
The Rubens de Mendonça House, also known as the "House of Triangles", was the fruit of his collaboration with Mário Gruber (1927), Francisco Rebolo Gonzales (1902-1980), who made the fresco on the façade, and Waldemar Cordeiro (1925-1973), the leader of the Concrete Movement, who landscaped the garden. Concrete art used primary forms and colours only, and refused metaphors, abstractions and representations in artwork. Objects were meant to be exactly (concretely) as we see them, without alluding to elements from the "real world". Constructed on a sloping site, the Mendonça House was built on pillars of varying heights. The side entrance is located on the mezzanine, which immediately accentuates the rich interaction of space above and below the entrance hall, and the various dimensions of the interior volumes.
Like in the Baeta House, the opacity of the outward-facing, windowless facades contrasts starkly with the transparency and airiness of the double-height ceilings and windows overlooking the gardens. The "House of the Triangles" celebrates geometry in every detail: from the volumes of the spaces to the fresco on the front façade, from the flooring pattern to the sections of the eight pillars, the walls and even the lawn in the garden. This Brazilian work of total art finds parallels and contrasts in two other Latin-American buildings: the Planchart House (1954) by Gio Ponti in Caracas and the Central Library of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Mexico City (1952) by Juan O'Gorman, Gustavo Saavedra and Juan Velasco. The refined detailing in the Mendonça House closely associates it to Ponti's house in Venezuela, but the use of repetition places it in direct opposition to Ponti's quest for originality and individual symbolism in that same house.
The monumental artwork on the walls of the Mendonça House is similar to what O'Gorman did with the library, but where Artigas aspires to visually dynamic space, the library flaunts gargantuan figurations that were intended to serve the doctrine-driven propaganda that was then popular. The Baeta and Mendonça houses demonstrate how the pursuit of spontaneity brought Artigas to the conclusion that buildings must "renounce their immediate function, in favour of expressing that which is richest and most extraordinary about humankind, that is to say, the poetic vision of space".
Beyond their intrinsic value, these experiments were forerunners of what would prove to be the focus of his later work: the visual expression of structure, emphasis of the work's physical weight and the effort needed to support it, and the abolition of a syncopated rhythm consisting of solids and voids, replacing it with large windowless surfaces and the creation of transparency. Lauro Cavalcanti
1. Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture, Paris, G. Crès, 1923.
2. Lauro Cavalcanti, Moderno e Brasileiro: a história de uma nova linguagem na arquitetura (1930-60), Zahar, Rio de Janeiro, 2006.
3. João Vilanova Artigas, Os Caminhos da Arquitetura Moderna, 1952.
4. Idem op. cit.
5. João Vilanova Artigas, Arquitetura e Construção, magazine Acrópole no. 368.
Born in 1915 in Curitiba,
João Vilanova Artigas
graduated as an engineer architect
in 1937 from the
Polytechnic University of São
Paulo. In 1944 he joined the
Communist Party; in 1948,
he was among the founders
of the School of Architecture
and Planning of São Paulo
(FAU-USP). In 1953 he
travelled to the Soviet Union,
but his disappointment with
the country led him into a
sort of personal crisis. After
the military coup of 1964,
Artigas was arrested and
exiled to Uruguay.
Only in 1979 did he return
to teaching at FAU-USP.
He died in 1985.
Architect and social anthropologist, Lauro Cavalcanti is the director of the Paço Imperial Museum in Rio de Janeiro. He has curated numerous exhibitions on modern Brazilian architecture, with particular attention to the work of Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx. He is the author of the book When Brazil Was Modern: A Guide to Architecture, 1928-1960 (2003).
Angelo Bucci, Baeta house, Concrete Movement, DOMUS 943, Francisco Rebolo Gonzales, House of Triangles, João Vilanova Artigas, Mário Gruber, Rubens de Mendonça House, Waldemar Cordeiro


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Sharp Focus: A reception and presentation to celebrate the acquisition of the Michael L. Carlebach Photography Collection
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Reception 6:30 p.m. | Program 7:00 p.m.
Please join us for a special evening with University of Miami Professor Emeritus, photojournalist, and author, Michael L. Carlebach, along with University Professors J. Tomás López and Michelle I. Seelig, for a lively and insightful conversation on the influence of his work and the art and function of visual communication.
Carlebach's photographs have been published in Time, People, The Miami Herald, and The New York Times. He has written several scholarly histories of photography, including American Photojournalism Comes of Age and Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes. His latest book, Sunny Land: Pictures from Paradise, features a compilation of his unique view of life in South Florida. An exhibition of his work is currently on display in the Richter Library.
J. Tomás López, MFA, is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History and head of its Electronic Media program at UM. A renowned photographer, his images are included in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, among them, the Library of Congress and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Michelle I. Seelig, Ph.D., is a professor and the program director of Visual Journalism for the School of Communication at UM. Her published scholarly works and research interests address the responsibilities of content producers in visual communication and examine the environmental photographer's use of images to build awareness and evoke meaningful action.
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Experimental stem-cell treatment has been credited with saving the life of a 2-year-old girl who was born without a windpipe.
The Associated Press reported that the treatment involved extracting cells from the girl's own hip bone marrow. The cells were then seeded on a plastic base, and left for a week to multiply and grow. They grew into a windpipe, which was subsequently implanted on the girl, Hannah Warren, in a nine-hour surgery on April 9, AP reported.
Until her operation, the girl — who was born in South Korea in 2010 — had not been able to breathe or eat without medical assistance. She had spent her entire life in a Seoul hospital, awaiting death — until being transported to the United States for the experimental treatment.
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Doctors said Tuesday she will likely be able to lead a normal life, AP reported.
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Kurt Neumann's 1950 Rocketship X-M may be the progenitor of space exploration films, at least if you believe the claims its video box makes for it. If this is true, then it's a wonder the space-mission movie genre ever caught on: the box-copy fails to mention how god-awful Rocketship X-M is, a movie founded on the jaw-droppingly ridiculous premise that the first ever crewed mission to the Moon flies to Mars by mistake. Whoops.
As the rocket's flight crew begins their trip to the Moon, or Mars, or wherever, the navigator (Hugh O'Brian) watches the Earth recede through a porthole and sweet-talks one of the crew's scientists (Osa Massen). "It's a marvelous sight, isn't it?" he says. "You study maps and globes and try to visualize, but the actual experience… it's hard to express it." Never mind that the awe-inspiring spectacle is in fact a cloudless globe hanging on a wire. In a movie conceived seven years before Sputnik made orbital photographs of Earth possible, Rocketship X-M's Blue Planet looks from space to be a literal version of what map-makers restricted to ground-based data and maybe unaware that the thin vapors of Earth's clouds might be visible from orbit had long imagined it might be.
Mission to Mars
Brian De Palma
Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell
Fifty years, several moonshots, and thousands of orbital missions later, Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars reminds us that the practice of shooting terrestrial metaphors into space is pretty durable. Rocketship X-M projects its era's Cold War preoccupations into the universe at large by giving us a Martian utopia done in by atomic conflict. Mission to Mars exploits millennial interest in tabloid theories and wrath-of-God-style Armageddons by proposing that the "face" earthlings think they see on Mars is real, and by giving us a Martian race scattered throughout the cosmos by an asteroid blast. Like Rocketship X-M, Mission to Mars also features an awe-inspiring sight that defies description: a three-dimensional model of the solar system that a doe-eyed, Close Encounters-ish alien uses to illustrate the asteroid strike that ended Martian society. Never mind that this special effect is essentially an interactive planetarium. With Rocketship X-M, Kurt Neumann taught us a half-century ago that cinematic science fiction, when at a loss for better ideas, isn't afraid to hitch earthbound cosmological visions to a rhetoric of speechless wonder. Neumann and De Palma both forge the illusion of exploration and discovery without really creating anything new.
Mission to Mars opens with a yard party to celebrate the imminent launch of the first crewed Mission to Mars, "Mars I," which is being sent to explore a portion of the Red Planet known as Cydonia. When an unknown force demolishes Mars I, "Mars II" is sent to investigate. This second mission bears married couple Terri Fisher and Woody Blake (Connie Nielson and Tim Robbins), Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise, looking none the worse after being grounded with the measles in Apollo 13), and Phil Ohlmyer (Jerry O'Connell). Mars II encounters some problems and is also destroyed, while still in orbit around Mars.
The remaining crewmembers find their way to the Martian surface in a stunningly improbable way, and retrieve the only survivor of the ill-fated Mars I, Luke Graham (Don Cheadle, Boogie Nights's stereo salesman). Luke babbles a fair bit about the "secret" that destroyed his ship and crew, prompting his rescuers (who are, incidentally, just as marooned as he is) to doubt his sanity. They become believers when Luke shows them a gigantic stone face near the site where the original crew was killed. The face also broadcasts radio signals that are decoded to resemble a strand of human DNA with some of the information missing. At first the crew believes this signal to be a map of the Martian genetic structure, a self-portrait of whatever created the face. They later discover that it really is incomplete human DNA, a sort of authenticity check the Martians issue to make sure that only humans come knocking. When the crew broadcasts a reply containing the missing information (using a cuter, perkier version of the Pathfinder probe), the passcode is provided and a door opens up on the side of the face. One half-expects to learn the movie was underwritten by the Human Genome Foundation.
It makes sense that De Palma cocoons his extraterrestrial mystery in a pale reflection of humanity. He reduces the human species to a product placement, in a foreshadowing of the DNA plot when Phil arranges a zero-gravity helix of floating M&Ms in the air. After Jim flicks some of the M&Ms away, Phil's genetic model provides the flash of inspiration the crew eventually needs to figure out the purpose of the Martian signals. The M&Ms are even superimposed on the screen when the crew realizes what the alien signal is, in case the audience missed the connection: just like Phil's name-brand sculpture, the signal is simply an incomplete encoding of humanity, waiting for humans to come along and complete it. The Mars II crew unlocks the signal not by thinking outside the boundaries of human civilization, but by examining humans exhaustively, completing the signal with the aid of a comprehensive catalog of human DNA. Encyclopedic knowledge of one's own species seems a reasonable prerequisite when, later on, the friendly Martian immerses the crew in a little virtual solar system, a planetarium. Sure, we'd have to know ourselves perfectly before learning the secret of the universe, as long as this secret turns out to be simply a reiteration of the same universal view we've had all along.
The crew expresses their sense of oneness with the alien species through product placement, also, with a gut-churningly cheesy evocation of an "I'd like to buy the world a Coke"-style ethos. The planetarium pays off, horrendously, as the Mars II crew holds hands around a holographic Earth. "They're us," says Terri, meaning the Martians, "We're them." But I think Rocketship X-M summed up this fatuous view of universal oneness a little better fifty years ago. The mastermind of Rocketship's moonshot, Dr. Ralph Fleming (Morris Ankrum), explains that scientists have turned their attention to the Moon because "they visualize the successful lunar expedition as the first step toward practical interplanetary travel. Today, there is even the possibility that an unassailable base could be established on the Moon to control world peace." Mission to Mars pretends to embrace a dream of cosmic love when all it's really doing is restating a standard, solipsistic view of the universe. Rocketship X-M is at least a little more upfront when its space-flight engineers "envision" an outer space conquered by and enforcing Western science: what the engineers in fact envision is a night sky in which all earthlings see is other earthlings, looking back.
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