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Category Archives: Father’s Day My Mom and I made these when she came to visit a while back. We used glass rocks (1″) that are flat on one side, cut pictures of each of her grandchildren, and glued them on. Then we added a magnet to the back. I made them for my Mother-in-law as well and she loved […] Father’s Day is coming up fast. Here is a fun treat idea for Dad this year… a yummy Candy Letter! So fun and easy to make, the kids will love finding and attaching the candy. It’s a great way to make a personalized gift for Dad this Father’s Day or for his Birthday. This is […] Just a little treat idea for all those wonderful dads out there for Father’s Day. We made these for all the men at our church to hand out on this coming Father’s Day…. You can find the printable over at Sister’s Suitcase Blog! Supplies: Printable (download HERE) Small Clear baggies (found at the craft store […] Father’s Day is just around the corner. If you are trying to think of a fun treat to make I’ve got the perfect idea for you…a Shirt and Tie cake. It’s really simple to make too! You will need: Marshmallow Fondant (find recipe HERE) 9×13 cake (We just baked a yellow box cake flipped upside […] Here’s a cute idea for a Father’s Day gift or Valentine’s Day gift for daddy!! A candy bouquet…would be great as a teacher’s gift as well, maybe put a sign on it that says “your the sweetest!” Gather your supplies…. variety of candy bars, sticks, whoppers, Styrofoam(or extra whoppers), tissue paper or other embellishments… Cut off […] *All images, content, and other information on this blog are copyrighted and owned by Taya @ EatPrayCreate.com. Please do not share without approval. (sharing 1-2 photos and a link back to my blog is ok)

Email Newsletters Woodridge volleyball team turns practice into fundraiser for Bolingbrook hospital By SUBURBAN LIFE MEDIA Nov. 13, 2013 Photo provided Caption Bolingbrook Hospital Foundation Executive Director Derek Cazeau (standing, far left) poses with members of the St. Scholastica School eighth-grade girls’ volleyball team. The team raised more than $600 for the Foundation during a “Serve-A-Thon.” WOODRIDGE – Sometimes finding a way to make volleyball practice educational and fun is a challenge but when the St. Scholastica School eighth-grade girls’ volleyball team made a fundraiser out of practice, the girls found a way to combine both. On Oct. 24, the Woodridge school's team hosted a “Serve-A-Thon” to raise money for the Bolingbrook Hospital Foundation. For every serve made over the net, a parent, grandparent, community member or friend pledged to help with the cause. The girls raised more than $600 for the Bolingbrook Hospital Foundation, whose mission is to develop lifelong relationships with donors to secure philanthropic gifts that enhance and support the mission of Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital. “We love seeing children who want to get involved with philanthropy,” said Derek Cazeau, executive director of the Bolingbrook Hospital Foundation. “No matter who you are, how old you are or how involved you have been with the hospital in the past, you can always make a difference. "These girls are an inspiration to other youth in their communities because of how selfless they were in finding a way to make a difference. We are blessed to have young philanthropists like this in our community.” One player, Sarah Baran, came up with the idea for the fundraiser. She made 48 out of her 50 serves. “Two of our teachers were diagnosed with breast cancer and they are now survivors,” Baran said. “They inspired us to give back because we know the money we raise will help others in need.” Each teammate knows a friend or family member who received help at a hospital. This common story inspired the girls to give back. “When the girls came up with the idea, we thought it was a great opportunity for the community,” said Brian Stankus, St. Scholastica School athletic director. “The girls were so excited to give back in a way they could all work together. It really shows how much these eighth-grade girls have grown together and how they can continue to inspire others.” Get the Downers Grove city government newsletter Get the inside scoop on what Downers Grove government is up to and how it affects you

I came home from coupon class and discovered my beloved Rite Aid has changed their coupon policy. I was scared- what could they have changed? Was I going to have to change my opinion and make CVS my favorite drug store? Fortunately the changes are small. One sad one is that you can not use a Buy One Get One Free coupon in conjunction with a Buy One Get One Free promotion anymore. You can still use cents or dollars off coupons on the purchase though, but the value cannot exceed the selling price. Another HAPPY change is that Rite Aid will accept UP TO 4 identical coupons for the same number of qualifying items as long as there is stock to satisfy other customers. This means that someone can not walk in and buy 30 of the same item! This should help keep the shelves stocked for those of us who aren’t there when the doors open on Sunday.

Reports: Christopher Hill to Be US Ambassador to Iraq News outlets in the United States are reporting that Christopher Hill, the lead American negotiator on North Korea, is expected to be nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq. There has been no official confirmation of the reports Monday on CBS, ABC, the Associated Press and Reuters, which quote unnamed officials who say Hill is expected to be the nominee. Hill is currently the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Hill has previously served as ambassador to South Korea, Poland and Macedonia. He was also special envoy to Kosovo. Before he started his career in the foreign service, Hill served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. If nominated and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Hill would replace another career diplomat, Ryan Crocker, as Washington's top diplomat in Iraq.

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..... nufnang nuffnang Thursday, May 31, 2012 ABS-CBN interrupted its regular programming to give way to the live coverage of the historic impeachment trial via “Ang Hatol: Chief Justice Corona,” which most Filipinos watched yesterday when the senator-judges finally delivered their verdicts as it hit a national TV rating of 18.5% against GMA (11.8%), GMA News TV (3.1%), and TV5 (2.9%), based on data from Kantar Media. Tuesday, May 29, 2012 THERE is a buzz going the rounds of financial executives regarding the offer of a possible buy-in into GMA 7 network of a big conglomerate that could alter the media industry’s landscape in the country. The buzz about the planned buy-in was reportedly sparked by the payment of the conglomerate of P10 billion. The reports gained traction with the pronouncement earlier of GMA 7 top honcho Felipe Gozon that another conglomerate, outside of the group of Manny V. Pangilinan, is interested in the network. The MVP group is said to have offered between P40 billion and P45 billion for the company. With improved and overwhelming Television Ratings for GMA-7, Philippine Entertainment Portal, a subsidiary of GMA Network, now revived the release of AGB Nielsen's Household Ratings. It can be remembered that a few years ago the said Internet Portal rested the release of the Household Ratings in favor of People Ratings amidst strong competition from ABS-CBN. But with GMA's renewed strength in Mega Manila, the public may now enjoy AGB's Household Ratings which is more comparable with Kantar Media's National Urban Household Ratings. Tuesday, May 22, 2012 GMA-7's newest primetime series, LUNA BLANCA, has made a fine debut in Mega Manila, scoring a trivial lead over closest rival, Princess and I. AGB Nielsen reported Luna Blanca (LB) garnering 26.3% household rating, up by 0.5 percentage points from Princess and I with 25.8% in Mega Manila. However this might just be a temporary success as series debut usually has a slight boost in viewership due to viewer's curiosity. The real score of the battle is to be seen in the coming days as LB's plot progresses. ABS-CBN has once again recaptured leadership in Daytime! at least in the weekends. Latest National Urban TV Ratings show kapamilya programs dominating almost all time slots from Salamat Doc all the way to primetime where margins grow in favor of the Kapamilya Network. Only Kapuso Movie Festival and TAPE's Eat Bulaga made a significant win for GMA-7. MANILA, Philippines - CIGNAL, the Philippines ’ fastest growing satellite TV provider and TV5 sister company, will launch the Weather Information Network ( WIN ) – the country’s first dedicated 24/7 weather and public information channel. The launch is opportune as the country prepares for the onset of the rainy season which according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) starts the middle of May this year. PAGASA Chief Dr. Nathaniel Servando singled out TV5 and lauded its commitment to improving weather news broadcasting. “TV5’s continuing improvement in their weather broadcasting system and closer cooperation with PAGASA will contribute significantly to the reduction of damages and casualties due to severe weather events,”. “The longstanding collaboration between PAGASA and the media, TV5 in particular has served the public very well specially during extreme weather events by communication accurate weather information in a timely and prudent manner to the public,” he added. This has to be a blind item as of now. Before the year ends, probably end of November, a giant merger will be announced in a grand (as in “fabulous!”) style. The event is calculated to send shock waves through the entertainment industry, bound to radically change the landscape — for the better, hopefully! The merger will be cemented with a song in the heart and in the name of brotherhood. Friday, May 18, 2012 Jennifer Lopez has cried wolf before--last year, she hinted that she might leave "American Idol" after her first season--but sources are now telling E!'s Marc Malkin that she is planning to quit the show after Season 11 ends next week, because she is "too busy." A rep for Fox declined to comment on E!'s story at this time. Publicly listed firm GMA Network experienced a 5% drop in airtime revenues to P2.707 billion for the first 3 months of 2012. This was despite claiming TV Ratings supremacy over close rivals ABS-CBN and TV5. Core business unit GMA Channel 7, which accounted for 90 percent of total airtime revenues, fell 6% year-on-year to around P2.44 billion. This has caused the company to incur a 27% decrease in profits to P388 million from P534 million netted a year earlier. This has been among the lowest profit level of GMA for the past 9 years which is largely attributed to the maturing market and stiffer competition from TV5. Rival ABS-CBN Corp. reported a 4% increase in airtime revenue and a 1% increase in recurring net income, while TV 5 remained red. Wednesday, May 16, 2012 MANILA, Philippines - (UPDATED 2:15 p.m.) The chairman of GMA Network Inc. said another conglomerate is interested in acquiring the broadcast company. During GMA Network's annual stockholders meeting, Felipe Gozon said a second company apart from the PLDT group has expressed interest in buying into the broadcast firm. He however refused to divulge the identity of the new suitor. "There were others who expressed interest. Of course, Filipino conglomerate. GMA is very attractive and desirable not only to MVP," Gozon said, referring to Manuel V. Pangilinan, who chairs Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. The PLDT group has been reported to have offered to acquire GMA Network, but talks have stalled on an acceptable price for both parties. With improved National TV Ratings in the first quarter of 2012, ABS-CBN has implemented a hike in adverting rates early this year, citing an article from ABS-CBN News. However, despite this increase (in ad rates) ABS-CBN managed to post a 4 % growth in airtime revenues from P4 billion in 2011 to P4.2 billion in the first three months of 2012.The increase in rates proved to be reasonable as subscriptions from large advertisers remained strong. An official of GMA Network Corp. said all major shareholder groups said have agreed to sell GMA-7 at the right price, as matured market and rising costs pull company profit down. In the first 3 months of the 2012, the net income of GMA-7 was down over 27% to P388 million from P534 million in the same period in 2011. This has been among the lowest net income of the company since 2003. This profit drop was despite the company's effort to control cost and protect revenue flow through an early booking scheme which calls for advertisers to seal early subscriptions to GMA Programs for the entire year. MANILA, Philippines – Tales of the supposed escape of Anastasia Romanov from Russia have gripped thousands for decades, fueling speculation that a daughter of Russia’s last sovereign ruler survived the revolution that obliterated her immediate family. But as far as science is concerned, Anastasia never escaped: She died along with her parents Czar Nicholas II and Alexandra, sisters Olga, Tatiana, Maria and brother Alexei. The emergence of TV5 as a strong third player is already sending shock waves to industry leaders GMA-7 and ABS-CBN as the latter's shares in the advertising market continuously shrink. One solid proof are the latest financial disclosures of both GMA and ABS-CBN noting a significant drop in advertising revenues since 2011. Manuel V. Pangilinan-led television network Associated Broadcasting Corp. (ABC), operator of TV5, saw its market share grow substantially in 2011, establishing itself as a serious player in the broadcast sector. In an interview with "Umagang Kay Ganda" on Monday, Santiago said he and his wife are sorry for the incident that happened at Ninoy Aquino International Terminal 3 last May 6 but they won't say sorry for allegedly cursing Ilagan because it never happened. In a press briefing ABS-CBN chief finance officer Rolando Valdueza admits that weak ratings in its noontime block offset growth in its advertising business. Valdueza stressed that in spite of a 4% growth in its Advertising Income for the first quarter of 2012, the increase would have been better if not to the weak advertising income from its noontime block. ABS-CBN suffered drastic decrease in ratings on its noontime block in 2010 when it canceled Wowowee and Willie Revillame for the alleged disrespect to the Network's Executives. Since then ABS-CBN lost its National Leadership to rival GMA-7 due to the significant drop in Daytime Ratings. Monday, May 14, 2012 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) - Multimedia conglomerate ABS-CBN Corp. reported a consolidated net income of P306 million for the first quarter of 2012. This is 69% lower than the net income of P976 million for the first quarter of 2011 which included a one-time gain from the sale of Sky Cable PDRs last year. Excluding the one-time gain of P674 million, ABS-CBN's first quarter net income would have been 1% higher than last year's recurring income of P302 million. It’s May, 2009. I’m on holiday with my husband and son in St. Petersburg, Russia, with a mission to trace my Russian roots and hopefully reunite with relatives of my Russian grandmama. Getting ready to leave my hotel room for more sightseeing, I’m on the phone with my hysterical mom who’s halfway across the world in Manila. She asked that I call her immediately after receiving pictures I e-mailed her from the previous day’s visit to Catherine’s Palace. GMA Films' much hyped horror movie, THE ROAD, which debuted in 50 US cinemas has failed to lured interest from American viewers as it only raked P2.6 million or $61,200 according to the international tabulator BOX OFFICE MOJO. Although the Film allegedly recieved positive reviews from international critics as claimed by GMA, it has somehow failed to appeal even to almost a million Filipino citizens residing in US and Canada. Is the hype for the said movie just media frenzy?

"I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a LIVING SACRIFICE, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect." Romans 12:1-2 Sunday, December 01, 2013 Advent: Waking Augustine, and Us St. Augustine and his mother St. Monica, By Ary Scheffer (1846) (First Sunday of Advent-Year A; This homily was given 30 November, 2013 at St. Mary's Church, in Carolina, R.I.; See Romans 13:11-14 and Matthew 24:37-44) One of the most remarkable and well-known conversions in the history of the Christian faith is found in the story of St. Augustine.As a brilliant young man and accomplished philosopher, Augustine’s intellect brought him farther along than most of the men in his day, and his weakness for the sins of the flesh brought him further from God than he could have possibly imagined. In this regard, the sorrow and bitter tears of his mother, St. Monica, are iconic.She spent entire years of her life weeping for his conversion and crying out to God, and anyone else who would listen, if only someone could convince her son how desperately he needed God.Monica believed that her son’s willful separation from God and his sinfulness, if unchecked and unchanged until death, would result in the loss of eternal life (one of the great tragedies of our culture is that there are no longer as many Monica’s who weep and lament the possibility of such things, but that is another homily for another time). Augustine himself would later concur with the conviction of his mother when, in his autobiography, The Confessions, he expresses in great detail the human drama of being utterly lost and the divine humility that sought him out with breathtaking and undying love. At one point in his own story of conversion Augustine relates how, although he had come full circle on an intellectual level with regard to the Christian faith and had begun to surrender his heart to God in earnest, he found himself at an impasse when it came to leaving behind the sensual pleasures that had so captivated him as a young man.Indeed, earlier he had openly admitted that he was “a slave of lust” (The Confessions, Book VI, 15.25).Late now, but not too late, he became enamored of the desire to be set free. Augustine relates how he was held back by vivid memories and the weight of all that he was to leave behind.He could certainly imagine himself becoming fully immersed in God some time in the future, but he lamented the inability to do so presently.Overcome by emotion, he burst out of the house in which he was staying and sat down in an adjoining garden.His face wet with tears, Augustine began to pray to God, “Why not now?Why do I not put an end to my shameful conduct from this hour forward?”(The Confessions, Book VIII, 12.28). At that very moment he began to hear the sound of a child’s voice from a nearby house.The voice was playfully singing, “Tolle, legge.Tolle, legge,” Latin for “Pick it up and read it.Pick it up and read it.”He paused and tried to think if he had ever heard of a child’s game that used those words; if there was one, he could not recall it.All the while that child’s voice continued melodiously: Tolle, legge.Tolle, legge. It finally dawned on Augustine that, whatever game the child next door was playing, God was speaking directly to him through that voice: You, Augustine, pick it up and read it!Picking up the Sacred Scriptures that were beside him, he opened them at random and came to the thirteenth chapter of St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans.It is the very same passage that we have been given this weekend in our Second Reading for the First Sunday of Advent.“Why not now?,” Augustine had asked.Suddenly St. Paul answers: You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and lust, not in rivalry and jealousy.But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh. —Romans 13:11-14 From this moment forward St. Augustine would have the strength provided by God to embrace the call of God not only of chastity but also of celibacy for the Kingdom of God.His mother, St. Monica, had prayed fervently that he would be baptized a Christian and be able to embrace a life of chastity but she never imagined that he would become a priest and finally a bishop.In a moment of grace St. Augustine had become awake and alive to all that God was calling him to. This Advent, are we? “You know the time,” St. Paul urges us on.“It is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand” (Romans 13:11). Advent is about waking up to the presence of God in our lives and being alert to the power of God that transforms us and, through us, transforms the world around us.Are we awake and alert for that? Jesus Christ, in our Gospel this weekend, warns us not to be spiritually slothful, like the people in the days of Noah.They were totally occupied with marriage, eating, drinking, celebrating—all good things, no doubt—but they let themselves be distracted from the unum neccesarium, the one necessary “thing”: God. “Therefore, stay awake!Jesus warns us.“For you do not know on which day your Lord will come” (Matthew 24:42). When the Lord came to Bethlehem, and then to Galilee and Jerusalem, so very many people missed Him.When he comes again, the Sacred Scriptures tell us, many will be spiritually asleep.When he comes to us this Christmas, will we be awake? The Latin word for “coming” is Adventus.It is where we get the name for this season of preparation for the coming of Christ in just a few short weeks.I would suggest this weekend three particular tried-and-true ways that we can be more fully awake and alert for Jesus Christ this Advent.They come to us from the lives of the saints and have stirred the souls of Christians for centuries.They may already be a part of your daily spiritual regimen, but we can always use a reminder. Firstly, I would suggest the Morning Offering.One of the best ways to be awake to God is by giving ourselves to God the moment we wake.A well-known Morning Offering used by many of the saints begins: Lord Jesus Christ, I offer You all the prayers, works and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of your most Sacred Heart. It can be that simple, but also that meaningful, for us and for God.We are saying to God that all the good we will accomplish—our prayers and works, our gifts and achievements, our virtues and victories—are being offered to Him, in faith, in advance. Also, we are saying that all the challenges and crosses we will encounter—our sufferings, our setbacks, the contradictions that we may never have anticipated—are all being offered to Him in faith, as well.“I am awake for you today, Jesus.All day.”What a beautiful way to wake up to God each day! Secondly, I would suggest that we take a page from St. Augustine’s book, literally!Tolle, legge!Take it up and read it! The prayerful reading of Sacred Scripture has been the staple of the saints from the inception of the Church until now.Perhaps we could begin with just a minute or two each day, taking up the Bible and slowly letting it shape and form us, speaking to God whatever comes to mind when we spend that time with Him in the Sacred Scriptures.One passage from the Letter to the Romans was able to transform St. Augustine and make him fully awake and alive in Christ.Imagine what God’s word will do in our lives this Advent! Finally, I would recommend the Daily Examen.Not only at the beginning of the day but at the end of each day we follow the example of the saints who come before God each evening and take two minutes to review the time that has transpired since that Morning Offering. For one minute, think of those several things for which you are grateful, or of graces that you were most open to, or moments that God touched your life in a significant way.It might be that friend you encountered at the market or the difficult errand that was accomplished without a hitch; it might be your health or your family or some other grace. Next, we take a moment to think of those times in which we were not as awake or alert to the presence of God as we could have been.We think of those sins that have perhaps set us back or moments of weakness where we said or did something for which we are sorry.We bring our repentant hearts before God, seeking His mercy and forgiveness, which is so totally abundant and resplendent whenever we turn to Him. These methods and practices of our Christian lives sound so simple and basic but they have the power to profoundly open our hearts to God, making us alive, alert and awake in Jesus Christ.And that is the point of Advent.Jesus Christ wants to wake us up and fill us with His life and grace, so that we can then go out and bring His presence to all those we encounter this week. There are so many people—perhaps people we meet on a daily basis—who may never walk into the Catholic Church this Advent.Perhaps they are afraid that they are not truly loved by God or have done something in their lives that could never warrant forgiveness; perhaps they do not believe that there is anything in the Church for them or that their lives are sufficient without God or His Church; perhaps they are so busy and occupied that they cannot imagine something so remarkably awesome and super-substantial as the Eucharist being the greatest experience of their earthly existence. Whatever the case may be, you and I may be the most radiant and real experience they will have of the presence of God this Advent.But that can only happen if we are fully awake and alive in Christ.May this Advent find us watchful and ready for the coming of Jesus Christ into our lives, and then through us, into the lives of all we encounter this Advent season.

The countdown has begun to this year’s Leyland Festival - and organisers are already predicting the showpiece could be the best ever! Last year’s Superheroes theme was a huge success. Each year the event - taking place on June 17 - begins with the traditional vehicle parade through Leyland ending at Worden Park. The popular parade features businesses and local community floats, marching bands, dance troupes and heritage vehicles. The parade will get under way at noon, starting in King Street and passing Hough Lane, Towngate, Leyland Cross and Worden Lane, and ending at Worden Park. There will be colourfully-decorated floats, marching bands, dance troupes and heritage vehicles - all cheered on by the thousands of locals that line the route each year. After the parade, there will be lots of fun to be had in Worden Park, and entry is £2.50 in advance, £3 on the day from 11am onwards. Under 16s go free. Every year, the spectacular gets bigger and better and, with the addition of a new arts and crafts activity area, a bigger sports arena and more stalls, this year will be the star act. There will be a car show - with prizes on offer for the fanciest vehicles - a fairground, food stalls, live acts on the Main Stage and the hugely popular dog show, plus much more besides. Visitors will be able to park in Churchill Way, Ecroyd Street and Sumner Street. The King Street car park will not be in use on the day until 1.30pm. Parking for disabled motorists available at Worden Park, and more parking spaces are available at Runshaw College. Organisers put this message out on the festival Facebook page this week: “Everything is coming together nicely for this year’s Leyland Festival! We have a feeling it’s going to be the best yet!” Martin Carlin, of the Leyland Town Team, which organises the festival, predicted the event to be “bigger and better” than before. He said: “Last year was a great success. “To my knowledge last year was the best. From what I witnessed it was bigger and better by far. The walking procession last year, I’ve never seen so many people. I didn’t realise there were so many people in the South Ribble area. The streets were lined with people.”

Perspective: All ministry is important During the Christmas season, my office received a call asking if it were true that all the money given to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goes directly to the mission field. I wanted to know that I had given the correct answer, so I had a discussion with David Steverson, vice president for finance of the International Mission Board (IMB). I also needed to know if the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is accounted for in separate accounts. Mr. Steverson affirmed that the accounts are separate and that all the money supports missionaries on the field, but in fairness, needed to be clear that at any given time a significant group of missionaries are on stateside assignment. Mr. Steverson is an Okie and one of the finest men I know. I trust him totally. I could not be more grateful that the IMB has a vice president for finance of such high integrity. Be assured, your Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering dollars are handled with the utmost integrity. I told Mr. Steverson I appreciated his candor, and then told him my personal view that I want to share with you. While I believe stating that all the money from the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goes to the international field is good public relations and done with total passion for the nations, I do not think we as Southern Baptists ought to be concerned. I believe that the work of the IMB, whether stateside or on the field, is vital to the mission cause of the Gospel! For me, the statement is an unnecessary dichotomy I believe committed Southern Baptists do not need to embrace. I believe that every part of Kingdom work is vital to the task of sending the Gospel to the nations and indeed our own nation. Mr. Steverson and his accounting staff (small by industry standards) are essential to the whole mission enterprise. Without them, the dollars would not be received, dispersed and accounted for. Missionaries would not receive support. The support staff in Richmond is a part of the great Southern Baptist international mission work as much as the missionary on the field. The money spent in Richmond must be kept in balance as it has been throughout our history. These faithful servants do all they can to make sure our missionaries do not have to worry over a myriad of issues, and our missionaries can concentrate on their task of mission engagement. What is true at the IMB is true across the spectrum of our Gospel mission. Without camps like Falls Creek that call out the called, Baptist Collegiate Ministries on college campuses that disciple and engage students in missions, colleges like Oklahoma Baptist University that train mission students, and seminaries that prepare potential missionaries to do the work of the Kingdom, we would have far fewer missionaries on the field. Maybe you need to consider this on a deeper level. The real bedrock is the ministry of the local church, which is the resource for people being saved, called, and funded. It is the broad and impactful ministry of the church on the local church field that gives wings to missions around the world. My position is not to call for us to do less for world missions; I am in favor of giving more. Sacrifice must be made by all of us from the church to the farthest missionary. All of us are important to the task. Kingdom ministry is important no matter where it is done. There is an interesting story in I Sam. 30. David had gone into battle against the Amalekites. Two hundred of the men were so exhausted from previous battles that David left them with the supplies, women, and children. David defeated—no he put a whoopin’ on ‘em—and great was the plunder. When he returned, some of those who went into battle were upset that David was going to share the spoils equally with those who had stayed and those who had gone to the front lines. David told them their way was in error because it was God who had given the victory and plunder. Listen to his words: “The share of the one who goes into battle is to be the same as the share of the one who remains with the supplies. They will share equally.” And it has been so from that day forward. David established this policy as a law and an ordinance for Israel and it continues to this very day. I am proud that the IMB is frugal on stateside ministry and pushes the largest amount of Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon dollars to the mission field. It is right headed to do so! But as for this Southern Baptist, I would give just as generously to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering even if some of it was used to pay stateside expenses. I am just as happy to turn the lights on in Richmond as to provide a tract in Malawi. Both are essential to our Gospel mission. Oklahoma Baptists - Sharing life through the Cooperative Program. The Baptist Messenger website is supported through Oklahoma Baptists' gifts through the Cooperative Program. Find out more about how the Cooperative Program impacts the world for Christ by visiting the CP Home Page.

Professional cameras, like DSLRs, give you fine control over the manual settings of shooting video and allow you to achieve the shallow depth of field (background out of focus) that people rave about. While they're primarily used for photography, DSLRs are incredibly small, work great in low light situations, and pair with a wide range of lenses — making them perfect for video. However, DSLRs do require some training (and additional purchases) of lenses. Have a look at your current customer base. How can you profile them? What pain point are you solving? Where do they spend time online? This is the foundation of who you’ll target and how you will communicate your message. If you still have not hit the audience you’re aiming for, consider profiling your target audience based on the ideal customer. Ensure that they are in fact in need of your product or service and that you meet this need in a unique way within the market. Vimeo is not as popular as YouTube or Facebook, but its affordable paid subscriptions allow you to upload and customize your videos for placement on your website, landing pages, or email campaigns. A paid subscription removes ads and suggested videos after your clip ends. At BJC Branding, we opted for a paid Vimeo plan, so we could upload video content to our website and share via email marketing. Publishing your video across all your owned channelsExtended ArticleHow to Distribute Your Video on Owned ChannelsIf you know content is king, you probably know distribution is queen. Creating amazing, engaging video content is difficult, but distributing it can be… Read More is probably the easiest way to distribute your video, and the one method that cannot be ignored. It includes every channel you own, like your website, PDFs, digital documents, email lists, ecommerce pages, apps, and more. These channels are the primary sources of information about your company and brand, so use every single one you can intelligently and with purpose. Opinions vary greatly among sound engineers on the best method and equipment for recording audio with a DSLR. You've likely seen many videos that use a lavalier microphone — the small piece that clips below the collar of the talent's shirt. Lavaliers come in both wired and wireless options. However, lavaliers can be a bit obtrusive both for the talent (who has to have a wire threaded down his or her shirt) and for the viewer (who has to see a microphone for the whole video). On the other hand, you also need to give the creatives behind your videos enough space and freedom to produce excellent content rooted in your initial audience and competitor research. This involves coming up with creative approaches to turn those audience insights into artistic expression generating the desired emotion, thought and behaviour in the right people. Testimonial videos are one of the strongest types of videos Extended Article11 Powerful Customer Testimonial Videos Done RightPicture This You’re a small business owner and you’re trying to nurture your leads into becoming customers. You’ve already attracted an audience, engaged them on… Read More you can make; they show past or current satisfied customers talking about their positive experience using your product or service. How can you optimize the video you already have? Can you add a stronger call to action? Can you share it on another platform? Think creatively about how to further your video’s reach and effectiveness. If you want more exposure, sharing your video on a new channel could help. If you’re underwhelmed by your click-throughs or conversions, see if you can add an end card with a bigger CTA, adjust the description copy, or create an incentive for clicking through, like a limited-time discount or some kind of contest. Before you start filming, set a music budget and research your local copyright laws. Copyright law can be very difficult to decipher, especially when you're dealing with digital content. Bottom line: Most music isn't free. If you use another artist's music without permission or proper licensing, you risk video removal and legal action. In order to avoid copyright infringement, you'll need to find royalty free tunes or pay a composer to create an original score. Royalty free songs aren't free to use; they're quality songs available for a single flat fee. This means you don't have to worry about paying additional licensing fees or royalties in the future. YouTube, Pond5, and PremiumBeat are all great sites to find royalty free music. Next, consider your audience and the overall mood for your production. Are you targeting a small audience that will appreciate the newest, underground hip-hop track, or do you need something that will appeal to many demographics? Are you creating a practical product tutorial or an upbeat event recap? Be sure to choose music that enhances the overall tone of your video. For any "attract" video, avoid speaking too much about your product. Instead, let your brand values and personality be your north star(s). Finally, because these videos can live on a variety of channels, keep in mind the strategies of each platform. For example, a Facebook video might have a square aspect ratio and text animations for soundless viewers. Try to keep social content videos under 30 seconds. Pay attention to aspects unique to social media, like muted autoplay and video looping; you can actually use these tools to your advantage by playing with silent audio and creating seemingly endless loops. Also take advantage of highlighting positive customer feedback in your social videos — this increases your credibility and spreads positive word of mouth. The benefits of a planned marketing strategy are numerous. Business owners often rely solely on their intuition to make business decisions. While this informal knowledge is important in the decision-making process, it may not provide you with all the facts you need to achieve marketing results. A marketing strategy will help you define business goals and develop activities to achieve them. Did you know that 65% of your audience are visual learners? One of the most powerful methods you can use for video marketing is to educate your audience. And the great thing is that education comes in many forms. For example, you can teach your customers how to use your product or service and provide useful tips on how to make the most of it. Or you can create a webinar to showcase your industry knowledge, position your brand as a thought leader, add value to your consumers’ lives and collect leads in the process. 2. The content quality is very important, but the production quality is not that important. Production quality and technical aspects have to be OK but not world class. Better production quality is correlated with more trust, but it can’t make up for the lack of substance. So, Facebook Live videos, webinar recordings, and other video material with good enough production quality will work as long as the content itself is engaging. Extras are unique to your needs — you might benefit from behind-the-scenes footage, a quick photo session, or certain types of b-roll. Get it done! Any content you can create on set during production will only benefit you. It can add more long term value to your clients and give you more content to post. If you work with an agency, ask them what they can do. You might even ask for raw video footage so you can continue editing and repackaging your video for future use. Think about your needs and see what you can do! If you’re here, it’s because you know the importance of video marketing. Brands can no longer get by using written content and images alone — nowadays, that’s uninteresting and unengaging for consumers who are inundated with live streaming, interactive 360 videos, augmented reality, and more. In the United States, digital video marketing Extended Article67 Video Marketing Stats You Need to Know for 2019It’s hard to believe, but 2019 is here and that means your marketing strategy calendar should be in full effect! That’s twice as true… Read More is a $135 billion industry. That means brands everywhere are realizing the value of video and investing in its creation and distribution. Explainer videos are videosExtended ArticleWhat Is an Explainer Video? Here's Everything You Need to KnowIf you find yourself researching a new product you recently heard about, you’re in luck - there’s probably a video for that. Most companies… Read More that teach your audience more about your company, brand, product, or service. Like social content videos, almost any video can be an explainer video, the only requirement is a focus on how your company solves a particular problem. What does it take to do that? Simply put, you have to take a step back for a moment. You have to analyze and understand the basic mechanics of your message and how to effectively reach a larger audience without losing your shirt. The secret to all of this? No matter what marketing strategy you use, if you don't have an effective sales funnel and optimize your conversions, you'll just be throwing money away. YouTube is also (surprise, surprise!) highly addicting. 83% of viewers prefer YouTube over any other video platform. Once viewers are on the platform, they usually stick around to watch another video … or 20. This can make it difficult to drive traffic back to your site from the platform. Despite these barriers, YouTube is a great platform for hosting videos and growing your audience.

Exact breakdown of Cleveland layoffs to be announced Monday Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. WEWS Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. WEWS Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. CLEVELAND - Due to state-imposed budget cuts, the city of Cleveland is laying off between 350 and 400 workers. The hardest hit departments will be fire and police. For ten years John Conway has been a firefighter in Cleveland's busiest fire engine company at Harvard and Union. But a decade on the job will not be enough to save his job, if more than 27 firefighters are laid off Monday. "There have already been some sleepless nights over this, the uncertainty, what's the summer going to be like, how long, how many affected the unknown," Conway said. Up to 400 city workers from all departments will be laid off delaying garbage pick up, street repairs and building inspections. How recreation centers, parks and pools that serve Cleveland's youth will be affected this summer will be discussed during a news conference at city hall Monday. "These are state-imposed budget cuts and It's an ugly time for people to be worried about their own personal lives and their families," said Martin Flask Safety, director for the city of Cleveland. While police and fire unions worry response times will slow down with layoffs, Flask, who worked for many years as a Cleveland police officer, said police and fire chiefs will meet all weekend on a plan to keep Cleveland safe. "The chiefs have a charter requirement to deploy safety resources effectively we know what's coming we have an estimate but there's a lot of last minute changes because of retirements and reassignments but by Monday morning we should have everything finalized," Flask told NewsChannel5's Paul Kiska. Jason Salupo owns the popular West Park Station home of the famous Italian sandwich, a restaurant in Cleveland's West Park neighborhood, which is home to many police officers and firefighters. "The restaurants and bars will feel the impact as well because we're a big cop and firefighters area so with everybody getting laid off at the same time when we're on an upswing well we see how that affects our economy," Salupo said. Some fire stations will also close. All of the layoffs will take affect by the end of the month. Dozens of police cadets graduate June 24, they'll be laid off the same day because of the state imposed budget cuts. Some of them could get hired back after others retire. However, after Cleveland trained the police cadets, they could end up looking for jobs in other city police departments. The fire union was notified Thursday that the exact number of layoffs will be announced Monday. Also on Thursday, 37 workers with Cleveland Municipal Court were received layoff notices. Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

What is a bump stock, how does it work and is it legal? According to law enforcement authorities Monday, the man who killed 59 concertgoers had a dozen devices that could have converted semi-automatic firearms into weapons that are fully automatic. Police told The Associated Press they found 12 bump stocks when they searched the room of shooter Stephen Paddock. They said they are not sure Paddock used the devices in the attack on people at the Highway 91 Harvest country music festival Sunday. Paddock fired at an area some 400 yards away from his hotel room in the Mandalay Bay Hotel located on the Las Vegas Strip. What is a bump stock and how does it work? Here’s a look at the device. What is a bump stock? A bump stock replaces the weapon’s gunstock (the part of a rifle to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached). The bump stock has a "support step" that covers the trigger opening. The bump stock works when the shooter holds the pistol grip with one hand and the barrel of the gun with the other. The support step holds a person’s finger in place when the gun is fired. A spring mechanism in a bump stock causes the rifle to bounce forward with every shot. The recoil of the gun pushes it back “bumping” the shooter’s finger causing it to continuously push on the trigger, potentially allowing the weapon to fire in a rapid sequence. Is it legal to own? The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives have sent letters to two manufacturers of bump stocks, according to an article in Popular Mechanics, saying the device is legal partly because they “[perform] no automatic function when installed." While the device can make a weapon fire many rounds in a short period of time, it does not technically make a rifle an automatic weapon. To be an automatic weapon, a rifle must be able to fire continuously by having the shooter press the trigger once. With bump stocks, a shooter’s finger actually bumps against the trigger to fire the weapon. How hard is it to get an automatic weapon? Semi-automatic weapons are relatively easy to purchase. However, the only automatic weapons legal to purchase for civilians in the United States are the ones that have been registered between 1934 and 1986. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, an automatic weapon is considered a machine gun. No new machine guns can be made or sold to civilians. Automatic weapons have been heavily regulated since the National Firearms Act of 1934. Taking possession of such weapons requires paying a $200 federal transfer tax, filling out an application to register the weapon, submitting passport photos, getting your chief law enforcement official to sign your application, and submitting to an FBI background and fingerprint check. Those weapons are hard to come by and generally pretty expensive. You do not want to violate the Firearms Act. If you do, expect to sit in prison for 10 years as you figure out how to pay the $100,000 fine. A semi-automatic weapon can be converted into an automatic weapon with some devices, or by altering the gun in certain ways. It is illegal to make the gun into an automatic weapon. Paddock had 23 guns with him at the hotel, along with 12 bump stock devices according to the Associated Press.

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United States Real estate Latham & Watkins LLP¬†provides ‚Äėunparalleled organization, attention to detail and thoroughness‚Äô. It is adept at handling M&A, corporate and traditional real estate company transactions, borrower and lender-side finance, private equity and advice on public REITs. Areas of expertise include acquisitions and dispositions, land use, development projects and ground leases, joint ventures, loan enforcement actions and restructurings and workouts. Client sectors include hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, multi-family housing and condominium developments, industrial, office, retail and mixed-use projects. Chicago-based¬†Gary Axelrod¬†recently advised Loews Hotels on a $300m joint venture PPP with Kansas City and several other government entities. Another highlight included representing Walton Street Capital in relation to its acquisition of a class A office building in Chicago as well as a new flagship Apple store for $370m.¬†Robert Buday¬†and¬†Rachel Bates, who are also based in Chicago, co-led in representing Hyatt Hotels on the sale of the Andaz Maui, the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, and the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa to Host Hotels & Resorts for $1bn. A further highlight included acting for Phillips Edison Grocery Store REIT I on its $2bn merger with Phillips Edison Grocery Store REIT II, a public non-traded REIT; this created a national portfolio of 323 shopping centers with a value of roughly $6.3bn. New York-based Michelle Kelban¬†advised Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank as the lender in $300m worth of construction loans for multifamily condominiums in Houston, Orlando and New York City.¬†Michael Haas¬†joined as co-chair of the real estate practice in New York from Jones Day. San-Diego-based James Mann¬†was promoted to partner in January 2018. Los Angeles-based associate Pablo Clarke¬†is also recommended. James Hisiger¬†retired. Other clients include Stepstone Real Estate Partners, Starwood Capital Group, Lineage Logistics and ACORE Capital. United States: Antitrust Cartel The¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†antitrust team 'is very good about communicating and setting expectations'; its lawyers 'are responsive to their clients' concerns, whether it is about staffing, strategy or¬†budgeting'. On an individual level, San Francisco's 'seasoned attorney'¬†Niall Lynch¬†is noted for his 'wisdom, patience and strategic guidance', and¬†Ashley Bauer¬†is 'outstanding in many ways' and 'is always on top of every fact of the case'. The 'exceptionally knowledgeable, commercial, user-friendly and responsive'¬†Elizabeth Prewitt¬†recently joined the team from¬†Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP,¬†while¬†Farrell Malone¬†and¬†Kirsten Ferguson¬†were promoted to the partnership in Washington DC and San Francisco, respectively. Key clients include Toshiba, Ocean Spray Cranberries and Union Pacific Railroad. Named attorneys are based in Washington DC unless otherwise stated. Civil litigation/class actions: defense Latham & Watkins LLP¬†provides 'thoughtful and sound case strategy' and global co-head¬†Christopher Yates¬†'has a sense for clients' needs' and stands out through his 'outstanding experience not only in antitrust, but litigation as a whole'.¬†Daniel Wall¬†and¬†Sadik Huseny¬†are currently collaborating with him to advise Apple on putative class action suits challenging the legality of Apple's restrictions on third-party applications via its App Store. The US Soccer Federation appointed a team including New York's¬†Lawrence Buterman¬†and Washington DC's¬†Gregory Garre¬†to defend it in a claim brought by the NASL alleging that US Soccer and other professional leagues conspired to exclude NASL from the top divisions to monopolize the market. Also notable in Washington DC are¬†Jennifer Giordano¬†and¬†Margaret Zwisler, while¬†Al Pfeiffer¬†sits in the San Francisco office. They recently acted for high-profile clients in the healthcare, telecoms and media sectors, such as Highmark and Cox Communications.¬†Amanda Reeves¬†co-heads the department in Washington, D.C., and was part of the team which defended Genentech in a suit filed by Russian biotechnology company Biocad alleging the client and other drug manufacturers engaged in predatory pricing and unlawful tying arrangements to prevent Biocad from competing in the US market. Named individuals are based in San Francisco unless otherwise stated. Merger control The 'excellent' antitrust team at¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†'has outstanding knowledge of the agencies, is efficient in its work process, and fields a deep bench of more-than-capable associates'. Global practice co-head¬†Amanda Reeves,¬†Jason Cruise¬†and counsel¬†Alan Devlin¬†'are superstars; they are smart, efficient and practical'. Agrium (now Nutrien) appointed a team led by¬†Michael Egge, recently promoted partner¬†Farrell Malone¬†and Reeves to obtain clearance for its merger of equals with Potash. In San Francisco,¬†Karen Silverman¬†and client-recommended counsel¬†Jason Daniels¬†are currently representing home security company Ring in the antitrust aspects of its acquisition by Amazon for over $1bn. Also notable are counsel¬†Sydney Smith,¬†who advised Siemens on the US aspects of its merger of equals with Alstom, and San Francisco's Christopher Yates,¬†who co-heads the global practice with Reeves. United States: Dispute resolution Appellate Latham & Watkins LLP‚Äôs practice, which has handled numerous high-profile appeals, often adopts a proactive approach in working with trial specialists before an issue even reaches the appeal stage, for which it attracts praise from clients. ‚ÄėTerrific‚Äô practice head Gregory Garre¬†successfully defended the United States Soccer Federation against claims brought by appellant North American Soccer League (NASL) before the Second Circuit, which denied the NASL a preliminary injunction reinstating its Division II designation. At the US Supreme Court, Garre argued for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in a dispute with the State of Georgia over water rights and the equitable division of two rivers originating in Georgia. At the Ninth Circuit, Richard Bress¬†and Philip Perry¬†led the group in representing agricultural biotech company Monsanto joining as intervenor-respondent in support of the EPA in proceedings reviewing the EPA‚Äôs registration of the herbicide dicamba. Washington DC-based duo Melissa Arbus Sherry¬†and Scott Ballenger¬†acted for Union Pacific Railroad in the Ninth Circuit‚Äôs case of Wells v Union Pacific Railroad Co, which focused on property rights in Union Pacific‚Äôs rights of way. In a pro bono case at the Eleventh Circuit, Garre and Ballenger presented arguments on behalf of petitioner Cory R. Maples, and convinced the Court that the client was denied effective assistance of counsel during his death penalty trial. Other noteworthy highlights included the group‚Äôs successful representation of Pandora Media and iHeartMedia in a class action copyright lawsuit at the Ninth Circuit (currently pending at the California Supreme Court), as well as a victory for client DWA Holdings as plaintiff-appellant at the Federal Circuit. In February 2018, counsel¬†Susan Engel¬†joined the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has an impressive record in domestic and multi-jurisdictional investigations and white-collar criminal defense. The group is jointly chaired by¬†Steven Bauer¬†in San Francisco,¬†Kathryn Ruemmler¬†in Washington DC and New York's¬†Benjamin Naftalis. Alongside¬†Alice Fisher¬†and¬†Anne Robinson¬†(both in Washington DC), Bauer represented Dow Chemical in a multibillion-dollar FCA suit, successfully obtaining a motion to dismiss from the District Court for the District of Columbia. In another highlight, Ruemmler is representing Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications in a New York Attorney General investigation into its alleged misrepresentation of broadband performance to consumers. In terms of individual representations, New York's¬†Chris Clark¬†was retained by Elon Musk, following fraud charges filed by the SEC in relation to the client's misleading tweet about taking Tesla private; the matter culminated in a quick settlement, which involved improvements to corporate governance and the payment of a monetary penalty. White-collar defense and securities litigator¬†Eric Swibel¬†and former federal prosecutor and white-collar specialist Terra Reynolds¬†were appointed joint heads of litigation for the Chicago office in early 2019. Also of note,¬†Elizabeth Prewitt, who focuses on international cartel matters, investigations and litigation, joined the team from¬†Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. Financial services litigation Leveraging the expertise of strong financial services regulatory, white-collar and securities litigation practices,¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†provides a 'top-notch' service to investment and commercial banks, funds and accountancy firms on many of their highest-stakes disputes. Benefiting from the expertise of numerous former high-ranking government lawyers, the team has a strong degree of credibility before the agencies, and excels at defending clients embroiled in multi-pronged agency investigations/enforcement actions and follow-on private litigation. Washington DC-based partner¬†Andrew Clubok, who joined the firm in December 2017 from¬†Kirkland & Ellis LLP, is representing UBS in several matters, including as a defendant in a short-selling dispute, and as a plaintiff in a case brought against Highland Capital, arising out of a failed restructured transaction for the securitization of collateralized loan obligations and credit default swaps. New York-based¬†Richard Owens¬†has a strong reputation in the market and continues to represent the British Bankers' Association in all US litigation regarding allegations of Libor manipulation. Also based in New York,¬†Jeff Hammel¬†is assisting Owens in the aforementioned matter and is a key member of the team, which also includes Washington DC-based¬†Kathryn Ruemmler, who excels at agency enforcement matters, and New York-based partner¬†Miles Ruthberg, who has a particular niche defending accountancy firms. General commercial disputes Household name corporations and financial institutions turn to the trial-ready lawyers at Latham & Watkins LLP, who are well versed in cases with potential liabilities exceeding the $1bn mark. Facebook retained San Francisco-based Elizabeth Deeley and¬†Andrew Clubok and counsel¬†Susan Engel in Washington DC to represent the company in several matters, including in five consolidated putative nationwide class action lawsuits filed in the Northern District of California involving claims of unfair competition. In a major victory in federal court, a trial team led by¬†Thomas Nolan in Los Angeles acted for CashCall and its CEO in an enforcement action by the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) concerning CashCall's servicing of certain unsecured installment loans; the court rejected CFPB's claims, and the agency has appealed the ruling to the Ninth Circuit.¬†James Brandt and¬†Miles Ruthberg in New York receive praise. Other key figures in the team include Sean Berkowitz¬†in Chicago, New York-based Joseph Serino and¬†Laura Washington in Century City. International trade Latham & Watkins LLP's eight-partner Washington DC-based team provides 'succinct analysis and guidance on how best to resolve trade issues',¬†primarily with regard to export controls and sanctions matters, from¬†both¬†a compliance and enforcement perspective.¬†Its clients include many global corporates in highly regulated sectors, including life sciences and financial services. The 'customer-oriented and responsive'¬†Les Carnegie¬†and¬†William McGlone¬†have 'significant knowledge of the regulations, as well as strong ties with theregulators'.¬†In addition to standalone mandates, the team also picks up a huge amount of work by virtue of the firm's vast deal engine, in terms of¬†both¬†ad-hoc evaluation of compliance risk and CFIUS advice on M&A. Carnegie and¬†Edward Shapiro¬†are involved in the most significant CFIUS work handled by the team, on behalf of US target businesses and overseas acquirers (where it is well positioned as a result of its vast international network of offices). Shapiro recently acted for US-based energy exploration company Armstrong Energy in connection with the $400m sale of its Alaska North Slope Assets business to New Zealand-based energy firm, Oil Search.¬†Eric Volkman¬†is recommended for the investigations and enforcement side of export controls and trade sanctions cases. M&A litigation: defense Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has an outstanding reputation in M&A litigation cases in¬†Delaware and across the US involving both public and private companies.¬†Michele Johnson¬†in Orange County and¬†Blair Connelly¬†in New York, who is 'the person to go to for complex cases', lead the practice and were the key lawyers in one of the standout cases of the year: the firm acted for¬†ExamWorks in a Delaware Chancery Court case based on allegations of a flawed buyout process, and achieved a rare award of sanctions against the plaintiffs for discovery abuses in advance of trial. Connelly also worked with San Francisco-based partner¬†Peter Wald¬†in the defence of a shareholder derivative case against Oracle's board of directors, which alleged breaches of fiduciary duty causing the company to overpay for NetSuite Inc. The firm has a deep bench of respected partners, including Los Angeles-based¬†Brian Glennon, who worked with Johnson to defend Avago Technologies in matters arising from its $37bn acquisition of Broadcom;¬†James Brandt¬†in New York; and¬†Colleen Smith¬†in San Diego. Co-headed by Gwyn Williams¬†in Boston and Thomas Heiden¬†in Chicago, the ‚Äėsuperbly diligent and clear-headed team‚Äô at Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has a strong track record representing clients from the automotive, tobacco and sports industries. Together with the ‚Äėexceptional strategist‚Äô Kenneth Parsigian¬†based in Boston, Williams has been acting for longstanding client Philip Morris as global coordinating counsel in a lawsuit filed by the South Korean National Health Insurance Service, which claims damages for health care benefits paid to smoking patients and dependents. In Chicago, Mark Mester¬†advised the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a number of class actions consolidated in a multi-district litigation (MDL) regarding allegations that plaintiffs have suffered adverse consequences as a result of participating in athletics at NCAA member institutions. The team also continues to represent Chevron in a series of class actions in the high-profile¬†Hot Fuels¬†litigation. Product liability, mass tort and class actions: toxic tort - defense The ‚Äėsuperbly diligent and clear-headed‚Äô product liability, mass tort and consumer class actions practice at Latham & Watkins LLP¬†is headed by Thomas Heiden¬†in Chicago and Gwyn Williams¬†in Boston. In recent work, Chicago-based Mary Rose Alexander¬†and Robert Howard¬†in San Diego represented Monsanto in an ongoing public nuisance claim filed by major West Coast municipalities and several states seeking to compel defendants to remediate vast water bodies. Other highlights include defending Chevron in a C-137 release contamination case, and acting for Southern California Gas Company in regulatory agency matters involving the natural gas leak at the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility. Kelly Richardson¬†in San Diego is another name to note. Securities litigation - defense Latham & Watkins LLP's securities litigation and professional liability group had a successful year in 2018, having handled precedent-setting cases for a growing roster of blue-chip clients, which include Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions and large accounting firms. An example is its work for Apple in a securities class action in which the plaintiffs allege that the company is liable as a 'control person' for allegedly false and misleading statements made by one of its third-party suppliers.¬†Miles Ruthberg¬†and up-and-coming partner Jason Hegt¬†in New York, along with Matthew Rawlinson¬†in Silicon Valley, were the lead lawyers in that case. Rawlinson, Jeff Hammel¬†in New York and Andrew Clubok¬†in Washington DC lead the practice.¬†Veteran litigator James Brandt¬†in New York and Robert Perrin¬†in Los Angeles are representing PG&E in class actions arising from the¬†wildfires in northern California in 2017. The firm's work in the life sciences sector includes defending a class action for biopharmaceuticals company Aratana Therapeutics, in which New York partners Kevin McDonough¬†and Jamie Wine¬†secured a dismissal with prejudice. United States: Finance Capital markets: debt Latham & Watkins LLP‚Äôs ‚Äėextremely broad sector coverage‚Äô and ‚Äėvery deep bench‚Äô translates into a comprehensive national debt practice, which packs a punch in both issuer and underwriter mandates. The global corporate group is chaired by¬†Marc Jaffe,¬†who is widely revered as ‚Äėthe go-to specialist for capital markets‚Äô. New York-based Jaffe acted alongside Erika Weinberg, also based in New York, to advise JP Morgan, as lead underwriter, on Teleflex‚Äôs $500m senior notes offering. On the issuer side, New York‚Äôs¬†Senet Bischoff¬†assisted¬†Mattel with its $1bn issuance of senior notes and its subsequent $500m tack-on offering. In Washington DC, Patrick Shannon¬†and Leakhena Mom¬†advised Novolex, a portfolio company of the Carlyle Group, on its $500m private placement of notes to support its acquisition of Waddington Group. New York partners¬†Michael Benjamin¬†and Stelios Saffos,¬†and Washington DC-based Jason Licht¬†are also noted for debt matters. Counsel Jason Ewart¬†joined in New York from Paul Hastings LLP. Capital markets: equity offerings The ‚Äėstandout tier-one practice‚Äô at Latham & Watkins LLP¬†really ‚Äėcovers the waterfront for capital markets deals‚Äô, according to sources. Widely recognized for its ‚Äėspectacular senior partners‚Äô and ‚Äėcollaborative style‚Äô, the team had a banner year, which saw it rank among the top two firms for US equity offerings by deal value for both issuers and managers. The technology sector, in line with market trends, was a primary source of instructions over the past year, but the diverse group also secured high-profile mandates relating to the life sciences and retail industries. Among its recent headlines, global corporate chair Marc Jaffe, held up as ‚Äėthe go-to specialist in the capital markets space‚Äô, teamed up with Gregory Rodgers¬†and Benjamin Cohen¬†to advise Spotify Technology on its groundbreaking direct listing on the NYSE. Jaffe also acted alongside global capital markets co-chair Ian Schuman¬†(‚Äėan immense deal-maker‚Äô) and the London office to assist¬†Farfetch with its $1bn IPO and private placement. On the manager side, Washington DC-based Rachel Sheridan¬†advised Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan as underwriters on Carbon Black‚Äôs $174.8m IPO. The group also includes¬†Michael Benjamin¬†and Senet Bischoff¬†and up-and-coming partner Nathan Ajiashvili. Named partners are based in New York, unless otherwise stated. Capital markets: global offerings ‚ÄėAmong the best¬†worldwide for capital markets‚Äô, Latham & Watkins LLP¬†is also credited as ‚Äėone of the top three firms in the technology space‚Äô and as ‚Äėa¬†leader in equity transactions‚Äô. Indeed, peers comment that they ‚Äėsee this group everywhere‚Äô, due in no small part to its sizeable global network, which includes platforms across 14 countries. The group‚Äôs premier high-yield debt practice and ‚Äėgreat balance between issuer and manager representations‚Äô are other notable characteristics. An impressive equity performance during 2018 saw the firm earn top roles on a run of major IPOs. Most notably, Sweden-headquartered¬†Spotify Technology turned to the team for its groundbreaking direct listing on the NYSE; the deal, which valued the company at $26.5bn, was led by widely revered global corporate chair Marc Jaffe¬†(‚Äėan institution‚Äô; ‚Äėtruly tremendous‚Äô) alongside¬†Gregory Rodgers¬†and Benjamin Cohen, all of whom are based in New York. In another technology highlight, Jaffe and New York-based global capital markets co-chair Ian Schuman¬†(‚Äėgreat in both debt and equity capital markets‚Äô), with support from the London office, advised UK-based Farfetch on its $1bn IPO. Jaffe and Schuman paired up again to advise the underwriters on Canada Goose‚Äôs $624.2m secondary offering. On the debt front, Washington DC-based partners Jason Licht¬†and Shagufa Hossain¬†assisted Shandong Ruyi Technology Group with its $1bn notes offering. The group also includes ‚Äôextremely strong‚Äô global capital markets co-chair Witold Balaban, who is based between New York and London. Latham & Watkins LLP‚Äôs ‚Äėfirst-class group‚Äô strikes an enviable balance between issuer and underwriter representations, with clients and peers alike asserting it is ‚Äėone of the most well-rounded practices in the market‚Äô. The team, which is noted for its ‚Äėbroad sector focus‚Äô and ‚Äėextremely deep bench‚Äô, ranked among the top two firms by total deal value for both issuer and manager-side high-yield corporate bond offerings during 2018. Global corporate chair¬†Marc Jaffe¬†is ‚Äėan institution in the capital markets space‚Äô and recently paired up with ‚Äėexcellent‚Äô Ian Schuman¬†to advise¬†Jefferies on Nathan‚Äôs Famous‚Äô $150m senior notes offering. Houston-based David Miller¬†is ‚Äėa very productive counterparty‚Äô and, together with Houston‚Äôs Michael Chambers,¬†advised Goldman Sachs on Endeavor Energy Resource‚Äôs $800m cash tender offer and also on its new issuance of $1bn worth of notes. On the issuer side, Houston‚Äôs Debbie Yee¬†advised Sunoco on its $2.2bn notes offering, while Century City‚Äôs Steven Stokdyk¬†advised Churchill Downs on its $500m senior notes offering. The group also benefits from the senior experience of Michael Benjamin¬†(‚Äėa great all-around lawyer‚Äô), Washington DC-based Patrick Shannon¬†and Senet Bischoff. Named lawyers are based in New York, unless otherwise stated. Commercial lending Latham & Watkins LLP¬†is one of the premier choices for borrower and lender work, with top-notch teams of lawyers spread throughout its US network of offices. The borrower side of the practice, which is particularly active in Washington DC thanks to its relationship with Carlyle Group, acts for a broad mix of private equity houses and corporates. Recently, the team advised CommScope, a US communications cable maker backed by Carlyle, on the financing of its $7.4bn takeover of Arris, the UK-based entertainment and networking equipment maker. Other key clients include Caesars Resort Collection, which it advised on a $1.7bn bond offering to finance existing debt. The firm's cross-border capabilities and strong banking relationships were demonstrated by its advice to JPMorgan Chase, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and MUFG Bank as lead arrangers on the $30.9bn bridge credit facilities to Takeda Pharmaceutical Company to partly fund its acquisition of Shire. Other banking clients include Credit Suisse, Citibank, and Antares Capital. New York-based banking practice chair¬†Daniel Seale¬†jointly leads the top-tier team alongside vice chairs¬†Greg Robins¬†in Los Angeles and¬†Stephen Kensell¬†in London. Other key figures include New York managing partner¬†Mich√®le Penzer,¬†Christopher Plaut,¬†Melissa Alwang, and Scott Gottdiener¬†on the lender side. Jeffrey R. Chenard¬†and Joshua Tinkelman¬†are also recommended for their borrower side advice. Financial services regulation The largely New York-based at¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†impresses with its 'breadth and depth of¬†knowledge', and¬†is able to tap into significant international financial services regulatory expertise as a result of having lawyers based in key financial centres, including a team in London that is¬†growing¬†rapidly. Its clients include¬†traditional banks, broker-dealers and fintech entities and it handles both standalone advisory matters and regulatory issues associated with transactions in the sector. Benefiting from an 'immense amount of knowledge and experience',¬†Alan Avery ¬†is able to 'provide a valuable perspective' to domestic and foreign banks on the impact of US federal and state banking laws on their global operations. Avery is particular adept at assisting foreign banks on US bank regulatory requirements related to entry or expansion of existing operations in the US market. As well as representing Bank of China on its US resolution planning requirements, he provides the regulatory overlay to National Bank of Canada's subsidiary¬†Fiera Capital on its US financial services M&A mandates.¬†Dana Fleischman¬†has an 'excellent reputation' on the broker-dealer front; she recently advised Bank of America Merrill Lynch on the regulatory aspects associated with the sale of its global research index platform to Intercontinental Exchange. As part of his wide-ranging practice,¬†Stephen Wink¬†has developed significant expertise on the regulatory aspects of work at the intersection of fintech and broker-dealer law; he is advising peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange Airswap on the various regulatory issues surrounding cryptocurrency exchanges in a domestic and global context. Other recommended practitioners include Washington DC-based partner¬†Todd Beauchamp, who heads the payments practice, and¬†Courtenay Myers Lima, who has a focus on broker-dealer matters. Named attorneys are based in New York, unless otherwise indicated. Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate Latham & Watkins LLP¬†specializes in representing distressed companies and acquirers in the sale and purchase of distressed assets.¬†The growing debtor practice was boosted by the additions in New York of George Davis, who acts as global chair of the restructuring, insolvency and workouts practice, and Andrew Parlen,¬†both from O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Also leading the team are¬†global vice chairs¬†Jeff Bjork, who joined the Los Angeles office from Sidley Austin LLP, and Chicago-based¬†Richard A. Levy. Other contacts in the team include¬†Peter Knight¬†and¬†Jim Ktsanes¬†in Chicago, New York's¬†Mitchell Seider¬†and¬†Ted Dillman¬†in Los Angeles. The practice is acting for Citibank as administrative agent for PetSmart‚Äôs first lien term loan of approximately $4.5bn, in the ongoing challenge to PetSmart‚Äôs out-of-court reorganization and financial restructuring. In another highlight, the department is representing Blackhawk Mining in the out-of-court restructuring of the company‚Äôs capital structure, including its asset-based lending, first lien term loan, and second lien term loan credit facilities. The team also continues to represent Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in litigation related to the 2016 Chapter 11 plan agreed for online mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio. Structured finance: derivatives and structured products Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has 'a deep bench of multidisciplinary experts' and is regarded by some of its peers as 'perhaps the market-leading equity derivatives group'. Indeed, the team is among the market's most active equity derivative groups on the issuer side and the manager side.¬†Rafal Gawlowski¬†is a key contact for equity-linked derivatives. Another figure in the team is¬†Courtenay Myers Lima, 'a trusted business partner', who specializes in linked notes transactions. Myers Lima acted for Credit Suisse, as issuer, in multiple index-linked notes issuances, and also assisted several foreign banking groups with regulatory matters associated with their US operations. The team also has experience in the development of proprietary trading indices. Also recommended is¬†Melissa Alwang, who specializes in leveraged finance. Structured finance: securitization Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has strengths in manager-side CLOs and ABS, where it is active across a range of asset classes and has recently expanded into rail car, container and solar asset securitization. Further, practice head¬†Kevin Fingeret¬†and¬†Loren Finegold¬†acted for Guggenheim Securities, as initial purchaser, in the first-ever data center securitization. Additionally, Fingeret and¬†Graeme Smyth¬†advised Vivint Solar on its $466m private placement of notes backed by a pool of residential solar generation contracts, which marked one of the largest solar securitizations to date.¬†The CLO practice includes key figures¬†Vicki Marmorstein,¬†Dominic Yoong¬†and¬†Douglas Burnaford. Clifford Capital, Black Diamond Capital Management, Ares Management and AXA Investment Managers are among the CLO team's key clients. Also recommended is Chicago-based¬†Ellen Marks, who has experience in a range of structured finance transactions and also advises on swaps and securitization regulation. United States: Government Government contracts Based in Washington DC,¬†Latham & Watkins LLP's practice handles a variety of matters in the government contracts space, from bid protests, contract disputes and False Claim Act matters to general counseling and transactional work, supporting the firm‚Äôs corporate and banking and finance departments. The firm acts for clients in the aerospace and defense, healthcare, technology and IT sector. Under the lead of practice head David Hazelton, the team successfully represented Cerner Corporation, a supplier of health information technology solutions,¬†before the Court of Federal Claims and the Federal Circuit Court¬†as an intervenor defendant in a bid protest relating to a contract awarded to it by the Veterans Affairs for electronic health record services. In the False Claim Act arena, partnering with the firm‚Äôs environmental group, Anne Robinson¬†represented Dow Chemical in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit. Counsel Kyle Jefcoat¬†and associate Dean Baxtresser¬†are the other key team members. United States: Industry focus Energy regulation: conventional power Latham & Watkins LLP's DC-based power industry department represented Energy Capital Partners in its $5.6bn acquisition of Calpine. As regulatory lead partner, Natasha Gianvecchio¬†assisted the client in obtaining approvals at both federal level and state level. On the contentious side, a group led by practice head David Schwartz¬†represents Avangrid in two class action cases pertaining to alleged market manipulation. The actions were prompted by a white paper published by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) which claimed that the client's abuse of the market increased electricity prices so that ratepayers paid approximately $3.6bn extra over a three-year period. Michael Gergen¬†is the name to note for advice on policy and transmission-related work. Energy regulation: oil and gas Regulatory work for Latham & Watkins LLP's oil and gas clients is handled by the oil and gas industry group in conjunction with the energy regulatory and markets group, with David Schwartz¬†acting as the key contact for both teams. Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil Pipeline and Santa Fe Gas are some examples of notable clients of the practice. In an ongoing matter, J. Patrick Nevins¬†serves as counsel to the $9bn Delfin Midstream LNG export project on a range of issues, including obtaining FERC approvals for the onshore components of the project; once completed, this will be the first deep-water port LNG export project in the US. Nevins has both 'deep regulatory knowledge' and 'commercial acumen on par with transaction specialists at other firms'. Elsewhere, Eugene Elrod¬†and others are acting for PTE Pipeline in rate proceedings at both the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and FERC. Energy: renewable/alternative power Latham & Watkins LLP¬†advises developers, sponsors, financing entities, governments and export credit agencies on financing, M&A, project development and regulatory matters. Jointly headed by David Kurzweil¬†in the New York office and Washington DC-based¬†David Schwartz,¬†the energy and power industry group¬†has experience of projects involving a range of energy sources in the renewables space, including biofuels, biomass, ethanol, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind. Another key contact in New York is¬†Eli Katz, who assisted Sempra Energy with the $1.5bn sale to Consolidated Edison of Sempra Solar Holdings, a US portfolio of solar and wind assets consisting of 981MW of operating renewable electric production projects, and shares in 379MW of jointly owned projects. Also recommended are¬†Matthew Henegar,¬†Jonathan Rod¬†and¬†David Penna, all of whom have particular expertise in project finance and are based in New York. Energy: transactions: conventional power Latham & Watkins LLP‚Äôs global power industry group is jointly headed by New York-based David Kurzweil¬†and Washington DC-based¬†David Schwartz.¬†The team advises developers, sponsors, financing entities, governments and export credit agencies on the full spectrum of issues in the conventional power industry, including commercial transactions, secured lending, corporate finance and project development. In one standout matter,¬†Kurzweil and Los Angeles-based managing partner Jeffrey Greenberg¬†led¬†a multidisciplinary team that acted for¬†Energy Capital Partners, as¬†shareholders, in connection with Vistra Energy‚Äôs $1.7bn all-stock acquisition of Dynegy. Other recommended practitioners in the New York office include¬†Paul Kukish¬†and Edward Sonnenschein, who focus on M&A and joint ventures, and Matthew Henegar, who specializes in project finance.¬†Barclays, Citigroup Global Markets and Sempra Energy are also key clients. Environment: litigation Clients rely on Latham & Watkins LLP¬†because the lawyers are ‚Äėuniformly excellent and extremely knowledgeable and seasoned‚Äô in all areas of environmental litigation, including climate change, air quality, toxic tort, water quality, insurance coverage, policyholder disputes, and energy and natural resources projects. The firm is assisting the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in an important water rights case filed against the State of Georgia seeking an equitable apportionment of waters to remedy environmental, ecological, and economic harms caused by over-consumption of water by the defendant in the Chattahoochee and Flint River basins. In another highlight, it is acting as counsel to Weyerhaeuser in seven putative class actions relating to the client‚Äôs sale of joists coated with a formaldehyde-based resin formulation.¬†In San Diego,¬†Robert Howard¬†chairs the environment, land and resources department, and¬†Kelly Richardson¬†is noted for his chemical engineering background and ability to ‚Äėsee the big picture‚Äô. ‚ÄėTerrific‚Äô Kegan Brown¬†is recommended in New York, as is chair of the office‚Äôs environment, land and resources department, Gary Gengel, who leads ‚Äėdisparate groups from chaos to cooperation to success‚Äô. In Chicago, Mary Rose Alexander¬†is global environment litigation practice chair and Robin M. Hulshizer¬†and Thomas Heiden¬†are other notable practitioners. Washington DC-based key contacts include Janice Schneider, Tommy Beaudreau, Steven Croley, Joel Beauvais,¬†Julia Hatcher, and Robert Wyman, the last of whom divides his time between Washington DC and Los Angeles. Andrea Hogan left the firm in February 2019 to become senior counsel of the environmental and safety law group at Chevron. Environment: regulatory Latham & Watkins LLP¬†is valued for its ‚Äėexcellent depth of experience‚Äô and its focus on ‚Äėlistening to what the client needs rather than over-reaching with its own agenda‚Äô. The sizeable team advises on issues such as hazardous substances and property contamination, climate change, toxic tort, and product liability in the context of transactional diligence, permitting, regulatory compliance, agency rule-making and legislation, and enforcement actions for high-profile clients. The firm is acting as lead counsel to FivePoint Holdings and Newhall Land & Farming Company in relation to the Newhall Ranch development, a masterplanned climate neutral city in southern California integrating a greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategy designed by the firm, which allows the project to obtain regulatory and judicial approval and compliance with other state and federal laws. The firm is also retained by Monsanto with regards to numerous environmental law matters including the Endangered Species Act, the Plant Protection Act, and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act; the team also represents the client and before the Department of Agriculture, the EPA, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ‚Äėphenomenally well respected and very smart and accomplished‚Äô Janice M. Schneider¬†rejoined the Washington DC office as global vice-chair of the environment, land and resources department after almost three years as assistant secretary for land and minerals management at the Department of the Interior (DOI). Los Angeles-based Robert Wyman¬†is another highly regarded practitioner. San Diego-based Kelly Richardson¬†is ‚Äėawesome';¬†'he sees the big picture, knows where the client wants to end up, and maps out a strategy to get there‚Äô. In New York, Kegan Brown¬†and co-chair of the environmental regulation and transactions practice Gary Gengel¬†are ‚Äėtop of the line, consummate professionals‚Äô. Also in Washington DC, Stacey L. VanBelleghem¬†and Tommy P. Beaudreau¬†(former chief of staff at the DOI) are also recommended. Environment: transactional Focusing on private equity, energy, chemicals and manufacturing, and working closely with the firm‚Äôs international network, Latham & Watkins LLP¬†is involved in high-end transactions, which recently included advising the Carlyle Group on the environmental aspects of its ‚ā¨10.1bn acquisition of Akzo Nobel‚Äôs specialty chemicals business. In addition, the team advised US-based power plant operator ContourGlobal on negotiations with the Government of Kosovo regarding a ‚ā¨1.4bn project to develop, finance, construct, own and operate a state-of-the-art lignite-fired generation facility to replace current generation. The key figure in the team is¬†James Barrett, who co-chairs the environmental regulation and transactions practice, and acts as chair of the Washington DC environment, land and resources department. Barrett¬†is ‚Äėprofessional to a T‚Äô; he is ‚Äôdiligent, commercial, and easy to get along with‚Äô. New York‚Äôs Jean-Philippe Brisson¬†advised Leonard Green & Partners on its $2.2bn acquisition of Pro Mach, a designer, manufacturer, and seller of packaging and processing products. Also recommended is Houston-based Joel Mack, who advised Silver Run Acquisition Corporation (an energy-focused SPV of Riverstone Holdings) on its $3.8bn acquisition of Kingfisher Midstream, a private provider of midstream services, and Alta Mesa, an independent exploration and production company. Healthcare: health insurers The healthcare practice at¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†handles M&A transactions on both a corporate and regulatory level, while also advising clients on government investigations, financing, compliance, fraud and abuse, program reimbursement, licensure issues and managed care matters. In a major highlight, Washington DC partner¬†Daniel Meron¬†successfully advised UnitedHealthcare on its challenge to an administrative payment rule within the Medicare Advantage program which determined overpayments on the basis of adequate documentation within patients' medical charts.¬†Daniel Settelmayer¬†in Los Angeles assisted Molina Healthcare on the sale of multi-state service provider Pathways Health and Community Support to Atar Capital. Healthcare: life sciences Considered by clients as ‚Äėsuperior‚Äô,¬†Latham & Watkins LLP's life sciences practice¬†stands out for its ‚Äėexpertise, breadth of capabilities, diligence and customer focus‚Äô. Washington DC‚Äôs regulatory expert John Manthei¬†acted for pharmaceutical manufacturer Alvogen, obtaining a temporary restraining order preventing the State of Nevada from using medication distributed by the client in an execution. Manthei and Ben Haas¬†(who is also based in Washington DC) assisted Endo and its subsidiary Par Sterile Products with a challenge to FDA‚Äôs implementation of the 2013 Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) in relation to the regulation of pharmaceutical compounding by outsourcing facilities. Silicon Valley‚Äôs¬†Alan Mendelson¬†represents emerging and public growth life sciences companies in a number of business transactions, including M&A, private placements and public offerings. The ‚Äėfully engaged and very accessible‚Äô Nathan Ajiashvili, who is based in New York and specializes in capital markets, and Washington DC‚Äôs associate Eitan Bernstein¬†are also recommended. Healthcare: service providers The healthcare practice at¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†advises on all aspects of M&A and private equity transactions, as well as providing regulatory advice and representation in government investigations and whistleblower actions, fraud and abuse claims and other types of litigation. A major highlight for the Los Angeles practice was¬†Daniel Settelmayer's work for DaVita on the $4.9bn sale of DaVita Medical Group to UnitedHealth affiliate Optum, while in Washington DC, Stuart S. Kurlander¬†assisted Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on the regulatory aspects of three separate service provider acquisitions, each in the billion-dollar value range. On the contentious side, San Diego-based¬†Katherine Lauer¬†advised Tenet Healthcare Corporation on a False Claims Act qui tam action concerning an alleged referral of Part B ambulance services to providers at below-cost rates. In 2017, the healthcare white-collar practice was boosted by the arrival of former¬†Paul Hastings LLP¬†counsel¬†Terra Reynolds, who joined as a partner and local co-chair of the litigation and trial department in Chicago. Sport Latham & Watkins LLP's¬†entertainment, sports and media practice is noted particularly for its transactional experience, and counts the National Collegiate Athletic Association,¬†Tencent Holdings and the¬†National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) among its clients.¬†Joseph A. Calabrese¬†is acting for the International Olympic Committee, alongside Brussels-based Marc Hansen, in connection with preparations for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, including advising on matters ranging from host city contractual relationships and commercial matters to digital rights, real estate, sponsorships, and governmental relations.¬†Calabrese jointly heads the practice alongside Adam J. Sullins¬†who leads advice to Facebook on its acquisition of sports distribution rights, including its $600m bid for Indian Premier League cricket rights in India and its¬†acquisition of media rights for the 2018-2021 UEFA Champions League soccer competitions in Latin America. In another impressive work highlight¬†New York-based counsel Michael Kuh, Paul Tosetti¬†and Russell Sauer, Jr.¬†(who is a key name for litigation) acted for the United Bid Committee of Canada, Mexico and United States in its successful bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Another key name to note is associate Kendall Johnson, who has experience across a range of transactions. Christopher Brearton‚Äôs departed to an in-house role at MGM, and corporate lawyer Justin Hamill arrived in the New York office from¬†Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. United States: Intellectual property Patents: licensing Leveraging an expansive global footprint,¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has in-depth expertise of the life sciences and technology sectors and more importantly has strong track record in a range of patent transactions. In a recent highlight, Silicon Valley-based practice head¬†Judith Hasko¬†advised biotechnology player Prothena on a global collaboration agreement with Celgene, aimed at developing new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and involving the US and Irish jurisdictions. Additionally, Hasko assisted Revolution Medicines with its exclusive worldwide partnership with Sanofi to develop and commercialize new treatments for lung cancer and other types of cancer. Mapi Pharma, Codexis and Puma Biotechnology also feature on the client roster. Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission) The 'high-level professionals' at¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†impress with their 'polished demeanor', and continue to grow their practice, most recently with the addition of 'top shelf' litigator¬†Jamie Underwood¬†from Alston & Bird LLP. The group recently succeeded in defending Arista Networks in its ITC litigation opposite complainant Cisco Systems after Arista had received adverse decisions from the ITC; the client ultimately prevailed using rulings from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and an enforcement action trial. Additionally, Comcast relied on the team for its defense against an ITC investigation filed by Rovi, again weaving in CBP tools to allow the previously forbidden import of redesigned products. Other instructions came from Nautilus Hyosung, Amphenol and Ford. Practice head¬†Bert Reiser¬†and¬†Kevin Wheeler¬†are also recommended. Patents: litigation (full coverage) Latham & Watkins LLP¬†is rated for its 'deep bench of talent', 'deep litigation expertise', and its 'responsiveness, business acumen, industry knowledge and zealous advocacy'. The group is 'not afraid to take calculated risks' and 'thinks creatively', making it an 'excellent choice' for litigation mandates. Recent standout matters show the practice's wide-ranging sector expertise, including an impressive caseload of pharmaceuticals and life sciences litigation. With expertise in district court and ITC litigation alike, the group recently advised Xperi on several cases brought against Samsung regarding 23 patents covering various technologies, including three suits in the Eastern District of Texas, two in New Jersey and one in Delaware Federal Court, in addition to one case at the ITC. Honda instructed the team to advise on its infringement case against Intellectual Ventures, which is pending in California and at the ITC. Major pharmaceutical highlights including the representation of AbbVie Biotechnology in litigation against Amgen and Boehringer Ingelheim, which involved biosimilar versions of blockbuster drug Humira; against Novartis in a 13-patent case involving Hepatitis C drug patents; and against AstraZeneca over blockbuster breast cancer drug Imbruvica. San Diego's¬†Jennifer Barry, Chicago's¬†David Callahan¬†and Washington DC's¬†Michael Morin¬†direct the practice. The 'tough and tenacious'¬†Maximilian Grant, also based in Washington DC, 'adeptly orchestrates all of the assets on the battlefield, but is always focused on the big picture'. Silicon Valley's¬†Douglas Lumish¬†is 'one of the top litigators in the country'. Also of note,¬†Tara Elliott¬†and counsel¬†Rachel Weiner Cohen¬†joined in Washington DC from¬†WilmerHale. Other clients include Arista Networks, Zimmer Biomet and Alvogen. Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters) Latham & Watkins LLP¬†acts on the defendant and plaintiff sides of trade secret disputes and has a notable focus on the technology sector. Los Angeles -based¬†Daniel Schecter¬†and D.C based¬†¬†Kathryn Ruemmler¬†acted for the UAE bank¬†ENBD in a dispute in which stored value cards provider InfoSpan claimed that the client misappropriated its trade secret for the development of its payment system¬†SpanCash. Perry Viscounty¬†works from the San Francisco office and represented¬†supplement-maker Metagenics in a trade secrets dispute in which a former employee allegedly used confidential information to set up a rival business. Trademarks: litigation At Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco-based Perry Viscounty¬†is representing Tesla in a lawsuit filed by Nikola Corporation concerning the client‚Äôs new electric semi-truck. The matter concerns purported trade dress rights and several design and utility patents relating to the fuselage, door and windshield. In San Diego, Jennifer Barry¬†defended Funko in litigation issued by Gibson Guitars pertaining to the client‚Äôs POP! range, namely the shape of guitar models accompanying several rock band figurines. Craigslist is another notable client, recently engaging the team for representation on several cases, including a successful claim for damages and a permanent injunction against Instamotor. Michael Morin¬†in Washington DC and Chicago-based David Callahan¬†lead the team alongside Barry. United States: Investment fund formation and management Private equity funds (including venture capital) Noted for its 'deep expertise and insights into the fund formation and private equity business', Latham & Watkins LLP¬†handles a broad range of fund formation mandates, with energy-focused funds being a particular sweet spot. In New York, Andrea Schwartzman¬†handled the formation of Searchlight Opportunities Fund via a hybrid structure of debt investments and equity-related securities; in another matter,¬†Kathleen Walsh¬†and Matthew Chase¬†assisted¬†Onex Partners Manager with forming its fifth¬†large cap private equity fund, which raised $7.2bn in commitments.¬†In Washington DC, Barton Clark¬†advised¬†Juniper Capital Partners on forming Juniper Capital III, a fund investing in the oil and gas space. Another key figure is¬†Nadia Sager, who splits her time between the San Diego and Los Angeles offices. United States: Labor and employment Latham & Watkins LLP‚Äôs ‚Äėoutstanding‚Äô practice group is headed by¬†New York‚Äôs Bradd Williamson¬†and is particularly active in the energy, technology and asset management industries. Recent highlights¬†included New York-based Lori Goodman¬†handling the equity compensation plans in connection with Spotify‚Äôs $26.5bn direct IPO listing on the NYSE. Additionally, San Francisco-based¬†Julie Crisp¬†and Los Angeles-based¬†Laurence Seymour¬†are advising T-Mobile on the benefits and compensation issues arising from its impending $126bn merger with Sprint Corporation; this deal will create the second largest wireless carrier in the US. In Silicon Valley, James Metz¬†handled CH2M Hill‚Äôs ¬£3.3bn sale to Jacobs Engineering Group, while David Taub¬†in Los Angeles assisted Energy Transfer Equity and Energy Transfer Partners with its $1.8bn subsidiary sale to USA Compression Partners. Michelle Carpenter¬†is ‚Äėa true pleasure to work with and leaves no stone un-turned‚Äô; also based in Los Angeles, she advised Impact Biomedicines on its $7bn acquisition by Celgene Corporation. Also recommended are Washington DC-based¬†Adam Kestenbaum, who has experience of equity transactions in the oil and gas sector, and associates¬†Nikhil Kumar¬†in Washington DC and Jordan Salzman¬†in New York. Vice chair of the global tax department David Della Rocca¬†also has a particular focus on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. Corporate governance Recent highlights for¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†included¬†Orange County-based¬†William Cernius¬†and Andrew Gray¬†acting for Realty Income Corporation in relation to an alleged bear raid by Spruce Point Capital Management. In Houston,¬†Ryan Maierson¬†is instructed by TechnipFMC, a British company listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext, but not a foreign private issuer.¬†William O'Neill retired. M&A: large deals ($1bn+) Latham & Watkins LLP has an outstanding national and international presence, enabling it to develop tight connections to corporates and be in the frame for one-off bet-the-company M&A engagements. Ranging from high-value to middle market deals, the firm has a substantial pipeline of deals, which feeds a sizeble team. Clients include T-Mobile USA, Dell Technologies,¬†DXC Technology Company,¬†Novelis and¬†Phillips 66 Partners. In the large-cap space, the firm has impressed in a number of transactions, including advising the committee of independent directors of T-Mobile on the company's proposed $146bn combination with Sprint. In another headline deal, the firm advised the special committee formed by the board of directors of Tesla on evaluating its $71.6bn going-private transaction. Charles Ruck has built an enviable record in large-cap deals, especially in the life sciences and telecoms sectors, and now splits his time between Orange County and New York. Luke Bergstrom is a big name in Silicon Valley, particularly in technology and life sciences deals, while Mark Gerstein and Bradley Faris are the senior figures in Chicago. Having joined the firm in 2017 to bolster the New York office Peter Harwich has advised on a series of headline deals DXC Technology Group, including its $6.5bn reverse Morris trust transaction involving the tax-free spin-off of its US public sector business and three-way merger with Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions to form Perspecta. Private equity buyouts Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has an extensive private equity team, backed by a range of complementary skills from around the firm, such as leading acquisition and leveraged finance, regulatory and antitrust expertise. The firm has a close association with The Carlyle Group and a range of other private equity houses including BC Partners, KKR, GTCR, Hellman & Friedman, Leonard Green & Partners and Odyssey Investment Partners. The team provides 'extremely commercial counsel', 'endless energy', 'strong customer service' and 'identifies the right commercial outcome'. It has 'broad expertise and deep domain experience' and 'is comprised almost entirely of good, committed, moral and rational people who ably and zealously advocate for their clients'.¬†The New York and Washington DC offices dominate the practice in the US; the firm has an unrivalled standing in Washington DC where it manages relationships with the likes of Carlyle, Onex Partners and Platinum Equity. The sizeable team in New York is a match for most competitors in the city and has developed an especially strong reputation in the energy sector, often working with colleagues in Houston, on deals for the likes of ArcLight Capital and Energy Capital Partners. The Chicago and Boston offices are building their presence in the market, while the firm has successfully targeted West Coast-based clients such as Leonard Green & Partners and Platinum Equity. The firm's outstanding international presence was in evidence when Washington DC partner David Dantzic led a multi-office team that advised Carlyle Group and GIC on the ‚ā¨10.1bn acquisition of the specialty chemicals business of AkzoNobel. In another cross-border deal, the firm advised Leonard Green & Partners on its acquisition of CPA Global, the leading intellectual property management firm, from Cinven; after a hotly-contested auction, this was Leonard Green's first leveraged buyout in the UK.¬†Howard Sobel and Washington DC's¬†Daniel Lennon are the firm's most senior private equity names in the US, with Lennon noted for his longstanding connection to Carlyle. David Allinson is 'smart, extremely knowledgeable and incredibly experienced' and 'always provides thoughtful, cogent advice and a phenomenal service'.¬†Thomas Malone¬†is 'an extraordinary attorney who is best characterized by his dogged work ethic and fierce client advocacy'.¬†Paul Kukish,¬†Washington DC's¬†Paul Sheridan¬†and Chicago partner¬†Shaun Hartley¬†co-chair the global private equity practice; the latter two are 'very strong commercial thought partners, strong negotiators, and truly understand clients' businesses'. Alexander Johnson¬†has joined from Hogan Lovells US LLP.¬†The named partners are New York-based unless stated otherwise. Shareholder activism: advice to boards Latham & Watkins LLP¬†regularly acts for company boards in the defense of activist campaigns. Mark Gerstein¬†and Christopher Drewry¬†in Chicago, and Scott Herlihy¬†in Washington DC, advised Owens-Illinois on an activist campaign brought by Atlantic Investment Management. Gerstein and Michael Dillard¬†in Houston advised QEP Resources on an investment in the company by Elliott Management. In Silicon Valley, Tad Freese¬†and Josh Dubofsky¬†acted for e.l.f. Beauty in its relations with Marathon Partners, while Dubofsky, Ruck, Mark Roerder¬†and Alan Mendelson¬†advised Mellanox Technologies on its relationship with Starboard Value. Other clients include Aratana Theraputics and Cars.com, the latter of which the team advised on an investment in Starboard Value by Drewery, Aslani Far and Gerstein. Other key figures include¬†Dennis Craythorn¬†and Adel Aslani-Far¬†in New York,¬†Peter Handrinos¬†in Boston, and¬†Patrick Pohlen¬†in Silicon Valley, the last of whom advised Calix on a campaign brought by Voce Capital Management. Venture capital and emerging companies International law firm Latham & Watkins LLP's¬†'practical and responsive' team has¬†a strong focus on the start-up, emerging company and venture capital sectors, and is well known for advising clients on the whole life-cycle of an emerging company. Recent work for the group includes advising¬†Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, a rare-disease therapeutics company, on its $63.5m Series B financing. The client roster includes¬†Ginkgo BioWorks, ArcherDX, 4D Molecular Therapeutics and Impossible Foods. Key partners include Alan Mendelson, who is global chair of the life sciences industry group, and¬†John Chory¬†and Benjamin Potter, who share leadership of the emerging companies practice.¬†Patrick Pohlen¬†is also recommended. United States: Media, technology and telecoms Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection) Latham & Watkins LLP's¬†data privacy and security team is headed by Washington DC‚Äôs Jennifer Archie, San Francisco‚Äôs¬†Michael Rubin¬†and New York‚Äôs Serrin Turner. Archie has been advising consumer electronics company Vizio on global data privacy and security matters, including the client‚Äôs potential expansion of smart television sales outside the US and into markets with different data protection laws. Rubin and Serrin have been assisting Facebook as leading global counsel with the investigation, preparation and handling of regulatory submissions and litigation in relation to the client‚Äôs September 2018 data breach. The client portfolio also includes Apple, Lyft and LG Electronics. Fintech Latham & Watkins LLP's¬†multi-disciplinary fintech industry group marries the firm's deep experience in handling technology transactions with financial regulatory expertise. The group has a good track record acting for emerging companies, and recently advised Blockchain Luxembourg on the company's $40m series B preferred stock financing. Another client is Thesys CAT regarding advice on legal, governance and compliance matters relating to¬†its work on the US Securities and Exchange Commission's¬†consolidated audit trail (a database designed to track the life cycle of transactions on the US equity and options markets.) New York-based Stephen Wink¬†is leading advice to blockchain company ConsenSys on¬†range of regulatory, tax and technology matters concerning the formation of its venture capital and Token Foundry businesses.¬† In another work highlight, the practice assisted Dynasty with the establishment of its real estate trading platform.¬†The firm's already impressive bench was further bolstered by the arrival of Todd Beauchamp¬†from Paul Hastings LLP¬†to lead the payments and emerging financial services practice from¬†Washington DC. Former practice head Vivian Maese¬†left the practice to¬†Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. Media and entertainment: litigation Marvin S. Putnam¬†leads¬†Latham & Watkins LLP's entertainment, sports and media litigation offering based in¬†Century City.¬†He and recently promoted partner¬†Laura Washington¬†are handling a range of matters stemming from¬†Harvey Weinstein‚Äôs alleged sexual misconduct, including representing¬†Miramax in several related class actions and defending ex-independent director of¬†The Weinstein Company Holdings, Tim Sarnoff, in both the aforementioned class actions and several additional claims. Other clients include Ticketmaster, author Michael Pollan and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); the team is advising the latter in a defamation dispute brought against President Donald Trump, including on media coverage and public interest issues relating to subpoenas for unaired The Apprentice¬†footage, as well as assisting with internal investigations into¬†allegations of misconduct on certain reality TV shows. Alongside Putnam, Jessica Stebbins Bina¬†jointly leads a team including associate Robert Ellison,¬†in the representation¬†of MGM. Media and entertainment: transactional The Century City-based entertainment, sports and media practice at¬†Latham & Watkins LLP¬†boast impressive experience in the sector with strong cross-border capabilities. In a recent work highlight, practice head¬†Joseph A. Calabrese¬†advised Hollywood Foreign Press Association on the negotiation of an agreement for the US broadcast rights to the Golden Globe Awards on traditional network television and various new media platforms. Alongside Robert D. Haymer¬†he also¬†acted for¬†Skydance¬†in connection with Tencent‚Äôs acquisition of a minority interest in the company. Nancy A. Bruington¬†handles a range of financing transactions and assisted¬†Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) with the refinancing of its existing revolving and term loan credit facility and execution of a new second lien term loan facility.¬†The group also frequently advises Lions Gate Entertainment,¬†Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix;¬† Kenneth T. Deutsch¬†in Los Angeles led advice to the latter on the structuring and negotiation of co-production and distribution arrangements for the upcoming motion pictures Klaus¬†and Over the Moon, which were co-produced with parties in Spain and China respectively. Changes to the team include Christopher Brearton's departure to an in-house role at MGM, and Justin Hamill's arrival in the New York office from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Outsourcing Latham & Watkins LLP has been particularly active in the tourism, media, telecoms, banking and healthcare industries, where it is often involved in IT outsourcing arrangements and transactions that involve management and business administration processes. Key contacts in the practice group include Silicon Valley-based department head¬†Anthony R. Klein, San Francisco-based¬†JD Marple¬†and Jeremiah M. Wolsk, who practices in the firm's Washington DC office. Highlights include advising Charles Schwab on agreements with¬†Accenture in relation to BPO outsourcing projects. OpenTable, Clorox Company, PacifiCare Health Systems and Broadcast Music are also among the team's clients. Technology transactions Latham & Watkins LLP is well known for handling commercial technology and IP licensing transactions in industry sectors including financial services, retail and telecoms. Recently promoted partner¬†Ghaith Mahmoud, who is based in Los Angeles, has been advising Tencent Holdings on contractual risks involved with certain IP licensing and software distribution arrangements. San Francisco-based J.D. Marple represented the fintech company Digital Asset Holdings in contractual negotiations with the Australian Stock Exchange to replace the post-trade settlement system with a blockchain solution. The team is also acting for prominent grocery store operator Safeway in the sale of its Canadian division to the retailer Sobeys, which involves the negotiation of a transition services agreement pursuant to which the client will provide IT services to the purchasing party. Silicon Valley-based practice head Anthony R. Klein is also recommended. Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory Latham & Watkins LLP's¬†full-service practice handles significant regulatory and transactional work for a roster of¬†high-profile¬†clients.¬†Matthew Brill, 'one of the top lawyers in town', according to clients,¬†recently¬†secured a victory¬†for¬†Charter¬†at the Second Circuit in a case concerning the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and set a precedent relating to the definition of an automated telephone dialing system.¬†Brill¬†also acts for Charter in a lawsuit brought by the New York Attorney General's office regarding Time Warner Cable's alleged misrepresentation of the broadband speeds provided to customers, alongside the firm's white-collar crime team. The practice is led by direct broadcast satellite and emerging technologies specialist¬†James Barker, along with Brill and New York-based transactional specialist¬†James Gorton.¬†Satellite expert¬†John Janka¬†is serving as lead counsel to ViaSat in a range of strategic and regulatory matters, including contested spectrum proceedings and non-geostationary orbit satellite network applications.¬† Barker recently led the regulatory team advising T-Mobile on its acquisition of Level 3 Communications, while Gorton headed the transactional team. Another key mandate for the firm has been its representation of the independent board of directors of T-Mobile in its merger with Sprint, working on transactional, regulatory and national security issues. Other notable names in the practice include¬†Matthew Murchison, who has done¬†'great work on some complicatedlitigation' as well as providing regulatory counsel,¬†and has significant experience in TCPA and broadcast licensing matters; and of counsel¬†Elizabeth Park, who is experienced in both regulatory and transactional telecoms matters. Murchison recently represented Comcast and the West Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association in their challenge to state and local one-touch make-ready laws, along with Brill, and appellate specialist¬†Melissa Arbus Sherry. Telecoms and broadcast: transactional Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has significant experience in satellite, telecoms and broadcast transactions, for¬†both¬†financial clients investing in the space and¬†established industry players. The firm recently advised CommScope on its $7.4bn acquisition of ARRIS International, as well as advising on related financing issues. Practice co-head¬†Matthew Brill¬†advises telecoms as well as private equity clients on their transactions, and recently assisted LogMeIn with its $350m acquisition of cloud-based communications provider Jive Communications. Fellow co-head¬†James Barker¬†handles spectrum work for clients, particularly concerning spectrum auctions and transactions, and recently acted for Blackrock Financial Management and ADK Capital Partners in connection with the FCC's AWS-3 spectrum auction. Barker and Brill are key contacts for the T-Mobile committee of independent directors, which they are advising in connection with T-Mobile's proposed merger with Sprint, in one of the wireless sector's largest recent transactions. Other recent highlights for the firm include work for Viasat in various spectrum proceedings, representing Hytera in its acquisition of Sepura and its US subsidiaries, and assisting JP Morgan in the debt financing of Sirius XM. Satellite and broadcast specialist¬†John Janka¬†serves as regulatory and transactional counsel for Viasat along with of counsel¬†Elizabeth Park.¬†All lawyers listed are based in Washington DC. United States: Real estate Land use/zoning Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has expertise across the gamut of zoning mandates, with particular strengths in California and the Western states. The firm often combines its land use and zoning expertise with its environmental know-how, an recent example of which included advising Newhall Land & Farming on the development of Newhall Ranch, the first climate neutral city proposed in southern California; the firm's work in this matter focused on designing a greenhouse gas emissions strategy, and negotiating a settlement with a federally recognized American Indian tribe concerning certain permits. In Los Angeles, the firm is instructed by Aerial Rapid Transit Technologies in relation to its proposed $150m aerial gondola system for Dodger Stadium, which will be initiated through a mobility partnership with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Further, the practice group is acting for the California American Water Company in relation to the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project. Chair of the environment, land and resources department James L. Arnone, co-head of the project siting and approvals practice Lucinda Starrett, and George Mihlsten¬†are ‚Äėheavyweight‚Äô attorneys in Los Angeles. In Washington DC, the 'outstanding‚Äô Janice M. Schneider¬†acts as vice-chair of the environment, land and resources practice, and is ‚Äėvery familiar with how government works and how to approach issues in a manner to get support from officials‚Äô. Also recommended is San Diego-based¬†Christopher Garrett, who co-heads the project siting and approvals department. United States: Tax International tax Latham & Watkins LLP¬†advises an assortments of the world's largest companies and private equity firms. Practice lead Nicholas DeNovio¬†in Washington DC advised¬†Mattel on amending its credit agreement to provide, among other things, provision of guarantors and grants of liens by certain Mattel subsidiaries if its debt rating is ever downgraded. New York-based¬†Jiyeon Lee-Lim¬†advised Spotify on its direct listing on the NYSE, valued at $26.5bn. Jocelyn Noll¬†in the New York office recently advised¬†BC Partners on its $2.8bn joint venture with Medina Capital. Samuel Weiner¬†in Los Angeles is also notable. US taxes: contentious Applauded for 'deftly assisting' clients, the team at Latham & Watkins LLP¬†is involved in a number of large tax litigation matters. Well-respected Jean Pawlow¬†is representing¬†Citigroup in the US Court of Federal Claims, seeking a refund of taxes in excess of $400m. Pawlow also represents¬†Siemens Corporation in US Tax Court litigation involving the gain on the distribution by a US subsidiary of an automotive parts business to its German parent. Group lead Miriam Fisher¬†represented actor Johnny Depp in relation to tax issues arising from a lawsuit against his former financial managers; the case was resolved successfully. Alongside¬†Brian McManus¬†in Boston, Fisher is also representing Palace Exploration against¬†allegations of abuse by the State of New York¬†in a test case on appeal to New York's Supreme Court.¬†DC-based counsel Andrew Strelka¬†works with numerous clients, including Siemens and Weyerhaeuser Company. Kimberly Eney¬†joined as a counsel in Washington DC in July 2018 from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. US taxes: non-contentious The tax practice at Latham & Watkins LLP¬†has developed a reputation for its expertise in private equity deals, and is often involved in large M&A and capital markets transactions. Of late,¬†Jiyeon Lee-Lim¬†and Matthew Dewitz¬†acted for Spotify¬†in relation to the cross-border tax analysis leading up to its IPO and listing on the NYSE valued at $26.5bn. 'Highly regarded expert'¬†David Raab¬†is acting for The Carlyle Group in relation to its ‚ā¨10.1bn acquisition of AkzoNobel‚Äôs Specialty Chemicals business. In Chicago, chair of transactional tax¬†Joseph M. Kronsnoble¬†handled a number of significant acquisitions on behalf of Leonard Green & Partners, such as the purchase of majority stake in MDVIP, CPA Global and Troon Golf. Looking west, San-Francisco-based Kirt Switzer¬†structured the merger between client IXYS Corporation and Littelfuse as a tax-free reorganisation, and ‚Äėoutstanding specialists‚Äô Samuel Weiner¬†and Pardis Zamorodi¬†are contacts in the Los Angeles office. Other key figures include Chicago-based¬†Diana S. Doyle, and Washington DC-based¬†Andrea A. Ramezan-Jackson¬†and counsel Kimberly Eney, the latter of whom joined from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. All named individuals are based in New York unless specified. After more than 20 years since joining the Milberg brand, under which she honed her skills and earned a solid reputation as a highly regarded and successful national litigator and business leader, Ariana J. Tadler is proud to announce the launch of her new firm, Tadler Law LLP. Ms. Tadler will be joined by talented partners, including AJ de Bartolomeo, Henry Kelston, and Melissa Clark, as well as key professional staff, whom she has known and worked with for years. Upon Ms. Tadler‚Äôs departure from Milberg Tadler Phillips Grossman LLP (‚ÄúMTPG‚ÄĚ), MTPG will continue as Milberg Phillips Grossman LLP ("MPG"), under Glenn Phillips‚Äô direction. A recent landmark decision by the First Hall of the Civil Court has confirmed for the first time that in order for a precautionary warrant to remain in force, it must be preceded or followed (within 20 days), by a court case filed in Malta or in the European Economic Area (EEA). Criminal liability of corporations is a hot topic worldwide. From financial institutions to global corporations, almost daily we hear about a large corporation being investigated, signing a Deferred Prosecution Agreement or being convicted, usually for money laundering, tax evasion or bribery. MSCI Inc., a New York-based provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, has announced that its subsidiary, MSCI Barra Suisse S√†rl, has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Carbon Delta AG, a Swiss based environmental fintech and data analytics firm. The UK government intends to introduce a new register of People with Significant Control over Overseas Companies, ‚Äúthe PSCOC Register‚ÄĚ, in order to improve transparency of beneficial ownership for foreign entities which own UK properties. The Bill will be introduced to Parliament in 2019 and is intended to become operational by 2021. Protection of financial market investors and prevention of unlawful disclosure of inside information and financial market manipulation is provided and guaranteed by the EU Market Abuse Regulation (Regulation 596/2014) (MAR) and the Directive on criminal sanctions for insider dealing and market manipulation (Directive 2014/57/EU) (CSMAD), which collectively replace the previous Market Abuse Directive (MAD) and together is known as MAD II.

Hollywood actor Tom Hanks says he takes up film projects that “challenge” him. Be it as Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story series, Chuck Noland in Castaway (2000), Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan (1998) or Robert Langdon in the adaptations of Dan Brown’s books — Tom Hanks has played some of the most memorable characters in Hollywood. He is a two-time Oscar winner, and has been nominated for three others since he made his acting debut in 1980. Tom Hanks in a still from Saving Private Ryan (1998). Interestingly, the star has been playing Langdon for a decade now. Ask him if there are any similarities between him and the character, and Tom says, “There are certain similarities. Like Langdon, I believe that even the most daunting present-day problems, such as overpopulation, can be tackled. I am a pragmatist. I’m not cheery for the sake of being cheery. I don’t jump to conclusions, and I dig a little deeper to find out the root causes [of problems]. And, I study history.” Tom Hanks plays Robert Langdon in the upcoming film Inferno. Tom has often teamed up with directors such as Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard to create successful franchises. “All of [my associations with] them start off at the same place. We ask ourselves, ‘Is there something here we can crack?’ Because otherwise, I’d stay at home and play with the kids, rather than go off and make a movie that isn’t going to confound and challenge us every single day. It’s always about the material,” he says, adding, “Actually, it’s been more than 30 years since Ron and I teamed up, and I am happy that our approach to film-making hasn’t changed since the very first time we worked together.” An increasing number of popular books are being adapted for the screen, but it is often thought that such movies are rarely as good as the books. But Tom says “readers and audiences get to discover brand new things” in these movie adaptations. “Those who don’t know the story will also be entertained by an engrossing, topical movie,” he adds. Langdon’s character is, perhaps, one of the longest on-screen adaptations that exist in Hollywood. The books are set in historical locations across several cities in Europe. Tom reveals a comic incident that took place at one of the locations. “The filming of the series took us to some extraordinary places. I once changed my clothes, [including] my pants, in front of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre (Paris, France) at 3am,” he says. The actor also reminisces about other incidents, saying, “We also got to hang around at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) and run around [the premises]. We weren’t allowed to walk into the Pantheon in Rome (Italy), but we shot outside it. And, in one case, we were inside the actual Palazzo of the Hall of Five Hundred (Palazzo Vecchio), while shooting in Florence (Italy). So, [in terms of] life experiences, all this is great.” The 60-year-old is known to have played ‘the nice guy’ in a lot of films during his career, but lately, we have seen the actor in action sequences and physically challenging roles. “A lot of them (movies) are physically demanding. But, you know, they keep you in shape. And it ends up being kind of fun,” he says, adding, “For example, I was shooting for Inferno in Florence… we were running away from a drone. I had to run on those ancient cobblestones. [There were] a lot of stairs to run up, a lot of walls to jump over, and you’re being chased around. It was hot, and I was wearing suede shoes, which were completely flat with no ankle support. It was not easy!” says Tom.

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The first details about this year's Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios were released at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday. Look for scenes and personalities from the Silent Hill video games and films to be incorporated into one of the haunted-house mazes of the event, which begins Sept. 21. "For the first time ever, we're tackling a video-game franchise and bringing it to life at Halloween Horror Nights," Jim Timon, senior vice president of entertainment at Universal Orlando, said in a video announcement available on YouTube. Silent Hill environments and characters, including Pyramid Head, Fog World, Otherworld and the nurses will be seen, John Murdy, creative director at Universal Hollywood, said in the video. Silent Hill will be used in Halloween Horror Nights on both coasts. “We can’t wait to watch our guests actually walk into the hell that is Silent Hill,” Timon said in a news release on Monday. "We are very excited to create an unparalleled, all-new level of horror for our guests,” he said. There have been several versions of the video game produced, and it spawned a 2006 feature film, which earned about $100 million. A sequel called "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D," starring Sean Bean, Adelaide Clemens, Carrie-Anne Moss and Malcolm McDowell, is set to debut Oct. 26.

Camouflaged Encounters Blurb Blitz Tour Camouflaged Encounters by David J. Englund Forget what you think you know. How well do you really know your neighbors or fellow workers? Do you trust your boss? What about politicians? The fabric of our society is under attack. Our way of life, our livelihood, our very existence is under full assault. No one even realizes that it’s happening. Disguised as horrible natural disasters on the news, the world is caught unsuspecting as events draw us ever nearer to extinction. As “natural disasters” escalate and tensions between nations mount, one man hears a whisper. It has begun . . . Two people sat in large cushioned chairs facing each other. An attractive woman in her thirties with dark hair and a conservative dress initiated the interview. “So doctor, you’re saying that the birth rate in this country is declining? What makes that such an alarming story? If it’s true, wouldn’t that be a good thing? Especially if the food shortages were to become a long-term problem?” The fiftyish dark-skinned, handsome man with salt and pepper hair, looked official in his dress shirt and tie, wearing a white lab coat. “It would certainly be a good thing, especially in the long run. If it was planned.” She looked up from her note cards. “You’re now saying . . . wait, what exactly are you saying?” “I’m not saying that people aren’t getting pregnant. Pregnancies are actually at an all-time high. I’m saying babies are simply not being born alive. Couples are experiencing stillbirths on an unprecedented, unexplainable scale. In fact, ahem, nationwide there has not been one single birth in the last two days.” “No!” The reporter paused. “That can’t be so.” “I’m afraid it is. That is why I asked to come on your show.” She put her cards down and went off-script. “I-I find that difficult to believe.” The doctor took a confident, condescending tone. “Check out the facts for yourself. Do a little digging into the story. Ask your colleagues in the media to join you. I cannot find any records of any births anywhere in the country since the day before yesterday and there were precious few births that day. I hope you can prove me wrong. Please do. This is something I don’t want to be right about, but the facts do not lie.” David Englund is a storyteller (science fiction author) and teaches economics at North Dakota State University. His first three titles, Upsetting the Tides, UNSEASONAL WAR, and Camouflaged Encounters are available on Amazon. Camouflaged Mischief is in progress.

Main menu Category Archives: Treatises Here at Stanford we haven’t shown our students Shepard’s in print in at least a decade. And we have long since stopped using the digests in print as well. So it was good to see these decisions validated in an article from the latest issue of Mississippi College Law Review, “Are We Teaching What They Will Use? Surveying Alumni to Assess Whether Skills Teaching Aligns with Alumni Practice,” by Sheila F. Miller. The article wasn’t surprising to me, except the evident reluctance by law school alumni to use low-cost tools made available to them, namely Casemaker and Fastcase. As can be seen from the frequency of usage chart, Lexis and Westlaw continue to be the most popular choices for online research. This finding is not significantly different depending on the size of firm, or year of graduation. This data is similar to a 2007 survey of Chicago lawyers in which 87% of attorneys surveyed who had practiced for zero to five years did “most” of their research in Lexis or Westlaw. Casemaker provides free research for members of both the Ohio and Indiana Bar Associations. 43 Yet, only 16.9% of respondents used Casemaker often, very often, or always, and only 13.5% used it at least sometimes. This was a surprising number given the number of the respondents in small offices. In the follow-up interviews there was some criticism of Casemaker. For example, attorneys stated Casemaker is “too slow” and Casemaker is “not as easy as Westlaw, and I have an unlimited subscription for Ohio law.” From Footnote #43: Fastcase provides basically the same service for some other states, and we asked in the survey about Fastcase as well. The numbers were so low on Fastcase use that I did not include them in the tables of results. By Jonathan Abel, in Volume 101, Issue #5 of The Georgetown Law Journal (June 2013). Here’s the abstract: The prison law library has long been a potent symbol of the inmate’s right to access the courts. But it has never been a practical tool for providing that access. This contradiction lies at the core of the law library doctrine. It takes little imagination to see the problem with requiring untrained inmates, many of them illiterate or non-English speakers, to navigate the world of postconviction relief and civil rights litigation with nothing more than the help of a few library books. Yet law libraries are ubiquitous in American prisons. Now, in light of a technological revolution in legal research methods, prison libraries face an existential crisis that requires prison officials, courts, scholars, and inmates to reconsider the very purpose of the prison law library. This Article takes up that challenge by providing a novel historical account of the prison law library’s development. This Article uses original historical research to show how prison law libraries arose, not as a means of accessing the courts, but rather as a means of controlling inmates’ behavior. By placing the origin of the prison law library in the first decades of the twentieth century–half a century earlier than typical accounts–this Article shows how the law library evolved to take on a new purpose in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Supreme Court and other courts first began to fashion a law library doctrine. The central argument of this Article is simple: The courts’ attempts to graft an access-to-courts rationale onto a law library system that had developed for other purposes led to a law library doctrine riddled with contradictions and doomed to failure. This historical account helps explain a prison law library system that never really made sense in terms of providing access to the courts. As prisons look to update their law libraries in light of sweeping technological changes, it is all the more important to understand the history of the law library system so that authorities can plan for its future. United Nations Databases and Web Sites for Legal Research and Education Steven Robert Miller (Indian Univ. Law Library) Res Gestae, The Journal of the Indiana State Bar Association Vol.54 # 3 , pp.12-20 (October 2010) Nice article providing an introduction to major UN databases, such as UNTS, UN-I-QUE, and the UN AudioVisual Library of International Law, ASIL’s ILEX database of U.S. cases, and IALS’s FLARE index of Treaties. All web sites are free. “WIPO Lex is a one-stop search facility for national laws and treaties on intellectual property (IP) of WIPO, WTO and UN Members. It also features related information which elaborates, analyzes and interprets these laws and treaties. It provides streamlined access to reference material of key importance for optimal information on the global IP System.” Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Relations has produced a Digital Library of Argentina Treaties from 1811. The treaties are available in PDF format. The database includes historical documents, bilateral and multilateral treaties, and inter-institutional agreements. They can be searched by title, citation, date, subject, country, and signatory. Currently, it is not possible to search by keyword across all agreements. This treaty database will be useful to historians and legal researchers. The search interface is exclusively in Spanish. In honor of the bicentenary of Argentina’s independence, the Foreign Ministry has created a website with some 10,000 historical documents that can be copied, downloaded, printed or sent via e-mail. Cabinet Chief of the Chancellery of Argentina, Alberto D’Alotto, officially launched the new portal that provides copies of international treaties and national historical documents that can be downloaded by citizens who require it. The Digital Library of Treaties took about five years of work. It includes a total of 10,000 documents, including bilateral, multilateral, and historical documents (international and national). Many of the documents are scanned and can be viewed in their original form with signatures, for example, by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Tomás Guido, Rufino de Elizalde, Carlos Tejedor, Bernardo de Irigoyen and Roque Saenz Peña. Ocean Law Publishing maintains online research resources for international fisheries law. Of particular interest is “Fisheries Treaty Database” available at the Internet Guide to to International Fisheries Law. . . . the three-volume “Art Law,” by Ralph E. Lerner and Judith Bresler, carries a Kindle price of $220 instead of the $275 print list price, while the Kindle edition of “Copyright Law: A Practitioner’s Guide,” by Bruce P. Keller and Jeffrey P. Cunard, is priced at $236, a 20% discount from the $295 print price. . . . The PLI said 67 of its 90 titles are now available in the Kindle format. “Our average book is easily over 1,000 pages, and a number are multivolume sets, . . . . . . Traditionally, lawyers buy PLI books whose binders allow them to insert new material and discard the old. PLI customers typically receive annual supplements priced at $125. With the Kindle, users will be able to delete old versions of their texts and substitute new books. The digital editions are also searchable. “Although plaintiffs had no role in authoring the pocket part, defendant West made it appear that they had indeed authored the pocket part, with aid from members of the publisher’s staff,” Fullam wrote. “To make matters worse,” Fullam wrote, “the quality of that particular pocket part was not up to standard.” Fullam found that “few if any relevant court decisions were included in the publication,” and that readers were “not informed that some cases cited in earlier volumes had since been reversed or modified.” ‘ Here’s the full opinion: IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA DAVID RUDOVSKY and : CIVIL ACTION LEONARD SOSNOV Plaintiffs are well-known law professors who, in 1987, contracted with the defendant West Publishing Corporation to publish a book on Pennsylvania criminal procedure, entitled “Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure: Law, Commentary and Forms.” They also undertook to provide annual updates (“pocket parts”), and such updates were in fact provided each year until 2007, with the exception of the year 2000, when a second edition of the entire publication was issued. When the time came for a 2008 update, the parties were unable to agree upon the financial terms pursuant to which plaintiffs would provide the pocket part, and the contractual arrangement between them was terminated. Defendant nevertheless issued a 2008-2009 pocket part, in December 2008, but that publication was entitled “By David Rudovsky … and … Leonard Sosnov.” Below their names, in smaller print, were added the words “and the publisher’s staff.” Thus, although plaintiffs had no role in authoring the pocket part, defendant West made it appear that they had indeed authored the pocket part, with aid from members of the publisher’s staff. To make matters worse, the quality of that particular pocket part was not up to standard. Few, if any, relevant court decisions were included in the publication; and the reader was not informed that some cases cited in earlier volumes had since been reversed or modified.’ Plaintiffs thereupon filed this lawsuit, seeking equitable relief as well as damages. By the time of the preliminary injunction hearing, the defendants had taken some further steps to remedy the situation. Eventually, defendants informed their subscribers that the plaintiffs had not had any part in the preparation of the 2008-2009 pocket part, and that the pocket part contained errors and omissions which would be remedied in the subsequent pocket part. Subscribers were also advised, in rather small print, that upon request, they would be given a financial credit against subsequent pocket parts. The issue now before this Court is whether further interim relief should be ordered. On the basis of the evidence thus far available, it seems clear that plaintiffs have established a right to some form of remedy — damages to reputation come to mind — but it would seem that the harm has already been done, and that, if plaintiffs do require further injunctive relief in order to complete their remedy, such relief would be just as effective after final hearing. Plaintiffs argue, for example, that the defendant should be required to disclose more prominently and with greater clarity and emphasis that plaintiffs were not involved in the preparation of the offending pocket part. Plaintiffs also argue that the defendants should be required to extend to all subscribers an offer to refund the cost of the offending pocket part. But I am not persuaded that plaintiffs’ entitlement to this kind of relief is so clear that it would be appropriate to order it preliminarily. In short, I am inclined to believe that the likelihood of further irreparable harm pending final outcome of this litigation has not been established with sufficient clarity. I recognize that reasonable minds might well differ as to whether the corrective measures taken by the defendants were adequate. And it may well be that the defendants may, in their own self-interest, decide that further interim corrective measures should be taken, in order to minimize plaintiffs’ claims for damages. But I am not persuaded that the situation is sufficiently clear as to warrant further preliminary injunctive relief. An Order will be entered. BY THE COURT: /s/ John P. Fullam John P. Fullam, Sr. J. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA DAVID RUDOVSKY and : CIVIL ACTION LEONARD SOSNOV v. WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION, : WEST SERVICES INC., and : THOMSON LEGAL AND REGULATORY : INC. t/a THOMSON WEST : NO. 09-cv-00727-JF ORDER AND NOW, this 23rd day of April 2009,upon consideration of plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction, and defendants’ responses, IT IS ORDERED: That the motion for preliminary injunctive relief is DENIED. BY THE COURT: /s/ John P. Fullam John P. Fullam, Sr. J. An ugly dispute has erupted between West Publishing and two law professors who claim they were falsely identified as the authors of an annual supplement to a treatise on Pennsylvania criminal law even though they had nothing to do with writing it. In a federal lawsuit, professors David Rudovsky of the University of Pennsylvania and Leonard Sosnov of Widener Law School claim that the December 2008 supplement, or “pocket part,” to their book, “Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure — Law, Commentary and Forms,” was so poorly researched that it will harm their reputations if allowed to remain on library shelves.

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Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme grew up in Saint-Anselme and in the nearby village of Buckland, whose curé, Pierre-Célestin Audet, took him under his wing and taught him the rudiments of Latin. In September 1862 he was admitted to the Petit Séminaire de Québec, where he was noted for doing well in music and science. Awarded the baccalauréat ès arts in 1868, he immediately entered the Grand Séminaire. After obtaining a licentiate in theology – the doctorate would follow in 1873 – he was ordained priest on 6 Oct. 1872. Impressed by his intelligence, the authorities at the seminary had won his loyalty and had steered him into teaching science. In 1870 he was asked to replace Abbé Louis-Ovide Brunet* as instructor in natural history at the Petit Séminaire. He was also invited to take the science courses offered by Abbé Thomas-Étienne Hamel and François-Alexandre-Hubert La Rue* at the faculty of arts in the Université Laval. In 1874 he accompanied Hamel, who had become superior of the seminary and rector of the university in 1871, to a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Hartford, Conn. Satisfied with his progress, Hamel handed the teaching of physics over to him in 1875. He was appointed to the chair of mineralogy and geology in the faculty of arts that year. To complete his scientific training the seminary sent him to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., for a course in theoretical and practical aspects of geology in1877. Laflamme is known primarily as a teacher. He taught physics at the seminary and the university until 1893, botany until 1900, and geology and mineralogy until just before he died. He was careful to keep abreast of developments in the sciences, and he enhanced his classes with demonstrations and experiments made possible by the physics laboratory and the collections of specimens, which were also in his charge at the university. In 1881 he published in Quebec Éléments de minéralogie et de géologie, a textbook for classical colleges which was reprinted three times during his life and again in 1919. A prolific writer, he put his name to a number of short, popularizing articles in L’Abeille, the seminary’s periodical, as well as in the press of the day. In 1880 Laflamme had a good opportunity to expound his views on education in the sciences. The first conference of classical colleges affiliated with the Université Laval was held at Quebec that year and almost simultaneously a national convention of French Canadians, called by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, met there. As a member of the committees studying the teaching of science both inside and outside the classical colleges, Laflamme proposed innovative reforms, such as broadening science instruction in the baccalauréat curriculum and adding it to all levels of the course of study, instead of restricting it to the last two years of the classical program (Philosophy). He further urged that state-controlled technical schools be created in which “people would be trained for diverse careers in industry and science” and for civil engineering. He also advocated that the state offer scholarships to students wishing to continue their education abroad and that science courses be included in the primary school curriculum. Laflamme was ahead of his time: a number of these reforms were introduced in Quebec only after 1920, and then under pressure from Adrien Pouliot* and Brother Marie-Victorin [Conrad Kirouac*]. At the seminary and the university, Laflamme’s responsibilities kept growing. Director of the minor seminary from 1881 to 1883 and dean of the faculty of arts from 1891 to 1909, he was twice superior of the seminary and rector of the university, from 1893 to 1899 and 1908 to 1909. Since the quarrel with Montreal over the universities [see Ignace Bourget*; Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau*] had died down, his first term as rector was marked only by repercussions from a dispute over a provincial statute of 1890 that allowed people with a baccalauréat unconditional admission to study for the legal, notarial, and medical professions. There was strong and continuing opposition from professional bodies and a portion of the public to this legislation. His second term, though cut short by illness, enabled him none the less to support a campaign that would see a school of forestry established at the Université Laval in1910. Laflamme was well known beyond the confines of the seminary and university as a result of the lectures he gave before the Société Médicale de Québec, the Institut Canadien in Quebec, and the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. A brilliant speaker and able popularizer, he acquainted the public with new inventions such as the magic lantern, the phonograph, electric lighting, the telephone, and X-rays. As much from personal inclination as from the need to represent the Université Laval, he travelled a great deal and was active in scientific societies. In 1881 he visited the exposition on electricity in Paris. He participated in a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Montreal in 1884, and in international geological conferences in 1891 in Washington and in 1897 in St Petersburg, Russia, where he represented Canada. He also played a leading role during an international conference on American studies at Quebec in September 1906. President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1891, he was a member of the Société Géologique de France, the Société Française de Physique, the Société Scientifique de Bruxelles, and the Geological Society of America. In 1893 he was named apostolic protonotary by Rome, and in 1898 he was made a chevalier of the Legion ofHonour. Laflamme had taken part in the founding of the Royal Society of Canada in 1882 [see Sir John William Dawson*]. At that time he established closer contacts with scientists from across Canada, and in particular with those from the Geological Survey of Canada. In the summer of 1883 Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, its director, asked him to study the Saguenay and Lac Saint-Jean region for the survey. The collaboration continued in the following years, enabling Laflamme to explore the north shore of the St Lawrence from the Saint-Maurice to Anticosti Island, which he visited in 1901. His observations on the geology and physical geography of these regions, which were published in the reports of the Geological Survey and the transactions of the Royal Society, form the core of his scientific achievement. They reveal an observer attentive to the forces that had shaped the Laurentian landscape, who chose to work within the framework laid down by Sir William Edmond Logan* and the geologists of the survey. A number of Laflamme’s studies deal with practical aspects of the science; of particular interest are those on rockfalls or landslides in the province of Quebec, the gold-bearing deposits in the Beauce, and the natural gas in the Louiseville region. Some of these studies had been undertaken at the request of the Quebec government. French Canada’s first geologist, Laflamme used his abilities as an educator and popularizer to make his community more aware of the scientific and technological progress of the time and prepared the groundwork for the reforms in education that Quebec would experience in the 20thcentury. [Most of the documentation on Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme and his work can be found in Irénée Trottier, “Bio-bibliographie de Joseph-Clovis-K. Laflamme” (travail présenté pour le cours de bibliothéconomie, univ. Laval, Québec, 1961). r.d.] We acknowledge the support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage. Nous reconnaissons l’appui du gouvernement du Canada par l’entremise du ministère du Patrimoine canadien. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canadian Museum of History through the Online Works of Reference Program funded by the Government of Canada.Nous reconnaissons l'aide financière du Musée canadien de l'histoire à travers les œuvres du programme de référence en ligne financés par le gouvernement du Canada.

Symlinked MySQL Configuration File Problem Say you are me and you are updating your MySQL configuration. Say that, for purposes of backup and version control, you replace /etc/mysql/my.cnf with a symlink. Say you stop MySQL and start it up again, and you receive a failure message. You might venture to look at the service startup log file, perhaps /var/log/upstart/mysql.log. You might discover this error message: Fatal error: Please read “Security” section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root! You might, if you were me, spend several hours fruitlessly reading that manual and altering parts of the configuration files willy-nilly, to no avail. At some point, you might become frustrated and just search for that error message, say on Google. That actually wouldn’t help much, because everyone else receiving the error appears to be receiving it for a different reason. Eventually, you might guess that the symlinking caused the problem, and you would revert that step. And then MySQL would start to work. This might be enough to satisfy you, but say you want to know exactly why. You might do another Google search, and come across a page entitled MySQL Not Reading Symlinks for Options Files my.cnf. You might be surprised to find that the symlink strategy fails because MySQL is run using AppArmor, and AppArmor is blocking MySQL from reading the symlinked file. So you might edit the AppArmor configuration files to allow for access to the symlinked configuration file, and you might find that the error goes away. Also, say you noticed that, for MySQL, there is both an upstart configuration file and a System V init.d file. You might wonder why both are included in the MySQL distribution. Luckily, you would quickly find that the System V file is not in any of the rc*.d directories, so it is never executed.

This is the 163th podcast and a special podcast for me as it is the first time that Vassilena Serafimova appears featured in the cover made by Save My Kiwi of the some Intro by The XX. Hope you enjoy the podcats :) made by Adams Save My Kiwi - Intro (feat. Vassilena Serafimova) Yelle - Safari Disco Club Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir Givers - Up Up Up This Club - I Won't Worry Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver Interpol - Evil Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) The Horrors - Count In Fives The Horrors - Sheena Is A Parasite Dry The River - Bible Belt Joe Goddard - Gabriel (Feat. Valentina) This is the 162th Music is Power Podcast and i want to say with it that Putin will teach you how to learn the motherland!!! GO PUSSY RIOT!!!! google.com Pussy Riot - Путин научит тебя любить родину Willy Moon - I Wanna Be Your Man Oh Land - White Nights Oh Land - Wolf & I The Japanese Popstars - Shells of Silver feat. James Vincent McMorrow Chrome Sparks - All There Is (Feat. Steffaloo) Clams Casino - I'm God (instrumental) Plaid - At Last Wintercoats - Working On A Dream Alarmist - Vitamin Saturday Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands - Miracle Candle

Come Make Some Noise With Us In Brooklyn On June 21st! We've brought the stillness of Philip Glass to the heart of bustling Times Square. We've made the Manhattan Bridge literally roar. And for this year's edition of Make Music New York — a one-day festival that transforms the city into a movable feast of music on every summer solstice — NPR Music has commissioned a new song that will transform the iconic steps of the Brooklyn Public Library into a raucous street party. Even better: We want you to come play with us. We've asked Sunny Jain, the inventive drummer, composer and founder of one of our very favorite celebration-minded bands, Red Baraat, to create a new work called 100+ BPM that we'll premiere on the iconic steps of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. Jain will lead New York-based professional musicians and amateur performers in the world premiere of 100+ BPM, on Saturday, June 21 starting at 4:30PM ET. As Jain notes, the name 100+ BPM is meant to reflect its joyous mission. "The title, he says, "carries a double entendre of tempo for the piece, beat per minute, and community building through music: Brooklyn Public Music." One of Make Music New York 2014's marquee events, 100+ BPM promises to reflect the dynamism, creativity and diversity of Brooklyn itself, just as Red Baraat merges the sounds of north Indian bhangra with jazz, go-go, funk and hip-hop. Jain's scalable composition will allow for moments of "scripted improvisation" and audience participation. If you're a brass player or percussionist — amateur, student or professional — and you'd like to take part in the premiere of 100+ BPM, you should arrive at the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201) familiar with the piece, warmed up and ready to play by 4:30PM ET. Next week, on May 21st, we'll be posting the PDF of the 100+ BPM score here at NPR Music as well as on the websites of Make Music NY, Brooklyn Public Library and Red Baraat. The collective performance will be documented for a video that will be premiered later this summer as part of our Field Recordings series. To warm you up for a hot summer's groove, check out the Tiny Desk Concert by Red Baraat. As Bob Boilen wrote, "They're the best party band I've seen in years ... If the drum is the messenger, the brass is the message. Uplifting melodies emanate from baritone and soprano saxophones, bass trumpet, trombone and sousaphone. This is a band that jazz lovers can appreciate and rock fans can dance to. ... Of all the concerts that have come to my desk, this seemed to be the little-known band that won over the most hearts."

Azzinaro Talks Young Defensive Line Defensive line coach Jerry Azzinaro met with the media on Thursday, talking about the young Eagles along the line, including rookies Bennie Logan and David King, as well as second-year DT Fletcher Cox ...

Friday, November 5, 2010 Highway Safety and The Apocalypse HOV - The Living. So it's a beautiful shot - lone survivor entering the city of Atlanta on horseback. The charred remains of cars in the traffic jam from hell: the failed exodus from a zombie apocalypse. It just oozes tragic ennui. The director, Frank Darabont, must have wet himself composing this sequence since it became one of the teaser posters for the series. But it's the worst thing about the first episode and mars what is otherwise a meticulously researched show that owes its lineage to the Max Brooks' school of zombies. Why strive for realism, Frank, if you're going to throw it away on one cheap Independence Day style shot? Here in Washington DC, we have a little thing we like to call rush hour. Perhaps you have it in your city too. It happens twice a day, and can last upwards of five hours both morning and night. It's a soul crushing experience where otherwise reasonable people - the type that religiously change the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors - will accelerate wildly to eighty-eight miles an hour, change two lanes without a blinker and slam on the breaks just to gain three car lengths. And they'll do all this on a cellphone with their precious six month old in the backseat. It's a lawless, near anarchic time of day. Yet Frank Darabont wants us to believe that should traffic backup during the zombie apocalypse, people would patiently wait their turn to merge while the five inbound lanes sit pristine and unused. That people who will drive in the emergency lane to get home for Dancing With The Stars wouldn't drive on the wrong side of the highway to avoid zombies eating their brains? Give us a fucking break. Apparently Hollywood hasn't learned anything since Independence Day. Remember the scene where Jeff Goldblum sped from New York to DC while refuges stuck in traffic waited to be turned into crispy Pop Tarts. Is that how Hollywood thinks Americans go out? Stuck in traffic? Forget that shit. Sayonara suckers, see you in hell. We'd be doing eighty-eight on the wrong side of the highway without a moments hesitation. We're happy to take the points on our license, but you'll have to mail us the ticket 'cause we ain't stopping. And we wouldn't be alone. Sorry if that fucks up your shot, Frank Darabont, here's a number you can call to complain:

Odds & Ends Add a new page Although a Jedi’s greatness does not derive from his combat ability, some threats to peace and justice can only be met with martial force. While all Jedi receive some training in combat, a few make fighting the central focus of their union with the Force. These Jedi are weapon masters, adepts of various styles of melee combat. The best Jedi Weapon Masters choose their martial path early, dedicating years to perfecting one form of combat. Such Jedi are not especially violent or angry, for all Jedi know that such attitudes lead to the path to the dark side. Instead, they have simply found that they are closest to the Force when practicing and perfecting a particular style of combat. Jedi Weapon Masters were most common during the time period described in Tales of the Jedi, when violence was frequently a way of life. As the Republic became more settled and less dangerous, Jedi Weapon Masters grew less common, though some Jedi always focused on combat more than their kindred did. Deflect (Defense) A Jedi learns to deflect blaster bolts and other projectiles with his lightsaber, thereby providing a dodge bonus to Defense against such attacks. You must be carrying an active lightsaber to use this special ability. Deflecting an attack is a reaction that costs the Jedi a move action in his next round. The Jedi must indicate he is using Deflect (Defense) when an opponent declares an attack against him, but before any attack rolls are made. When used in this fashion, the Jedi gains the dodge bonus against all ranged attacks directed at him in the round. For example, if Sen Udo-Mal uses his activated lightsaber to deflect any number of blaster attacks in round three of combat, in round four Sen Udo-mal loses a move action to account for the effort expended to deflect the attacks in round three. Each time the Jedi gains Deflect (Defense), it provides a +1 dodge bonus to Defense when he uses his lightsaber to block ranged attacks. Deflect (Defense) can be used in conjunction with total defense for even greater protection, providing the dodge bonus for deflecting the attack and the +4 dodge bonus granted by using total defense. In this case, Deflect (Defense) isn’t a reaction; it’s an attack action used in a round when the Jedi expects to come under heavy fire. Increase Weapon Damage A Jedi Weapon Master learns to deal additional damage with particular types of melee weapons. At 2nd, 5th, and 9th level, a weapon master gains the ability to deal an additional +1d8 points of damage with any one type of melee weapon with which he is proficient. It is possible to select the same type of weapon more than once, gaining an additional 1d8 each time. A Jedi Weapon Master may select the lightsaber or any other melee weapon, including unarmed attacks (if the Jedi Weapon Master has the Martial Arts feat). Deflect (Attack) A Jedi learns to deflect blaster bolts with his lightsaber to redirect the attack towards a target within one range increment of the Jedi’s position. (The type of blaster determines the range increment.) You must be carrying an activated lightsaber to use this special ability. Deflecting and redirecting an attack is a reaction that cost the Jedi a move action in his next round. The Jedi must indicate that his is using his Deflect (Attack) when an opponent declares an attack against him but before any attack rolls are made. Deflect (Defense) and Deflect (Attack) can be used together in the same round (though the Jedi can decide not to use the defense if he wants a better chance of redirecting the incoming attack). The Jedi can deflect and redirect a number of attacks equal to one-half his Jedi level, rounded up. The redirected attack must miss the Jedi by 5 or less; any attack that hits the Jedi or misses by 6 or more points can’t be redirected. If the Jedi can redirect the attack, the Jedi immediately rolls an attack roll using his lightsaber attack bonus and applying a – 4 penalty as described below. If this roll is high enough to hit the target, the redirected attack deals damage to the target (the type of blaster determines the damage dealt by a redirected attack). Each time the Jedi gains Deflect (Attack), the penalty associated with the redirected attack is lessened by 1. Weapon Mastery At 3rd, 5th, and 10th level, a Jedi Weapon Master gains one of the special weapon master abilities detailed below. Each ability applies to a specific type of melee weapon selected when the ability is chosen. Each ability may be taken multiple times, but it must apply to a different type of weapon each time it is selected. Devastating Strike: With this ability, a Jedi Weapon Master can make an attack with an increased chance of scoring a critical hit. This ability can be used a number of times each day equal to the character’s Jedi level. The use of Devastating Strike must be announced before any attack rolls are made. The threat range of the weapon making a Devastating Strike is doubled. For example, a lightsaber usually threatens a critical on 19-20 (two numbers). When making a Devastating Strike, the lightsaber threatens a critical strike on 17-20 (four numbers). Making a Devastating Strike is a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity. This ability does not stack with the Elite Trooper’s deadly strike. Martial Arts Kata: Once per day, when a Jedi Weapon Master uses his selected melee weapon to make a full attack against a single target, he gains an additional unarmed attack against the same target. This unarmed attack uses the Jedi Weapon Master’s highest attack bonus and deals his normal unarmed damage. Alternatively, this unarmed attack can be used to perform a disarm or trip attack. If used to disarm, the attack gains a +4 competence bonus on attack rolls. If used for a trip attack, a failed trip attempt does not allow the target to automatically attempt to rip the Jedi in return. Rapid Strike: With this ability, a Jedi Weapon Master can make an additional attack with the selected melee weapon each round at his highest attack bonus. However, both the additional attack and all other attacks the Jedi Weapon Master makes in that round take a -2 penalty. Superior Weapon Focus: With this ability, a Jedi Weapon Master gains a +1 competence bonus on attack rolls with his selected melee weapon. This attack bonus stacks with any other attack bonuses he may have, including bonuses form the Weapon Focus feat. Weapon Specialization: Weapon Specialization adds a +2 competence bonus on damage rolls with a chosen type of weapon. The Jedi Weapon Master must have Weapon Focus with that melee weapon type to take Weapon Specialization. Deflect (Extended Defense and Attack) At 6th level, a Jedi Weapon Master learns to extend his defensive and offensive deflection skills to others whining 2 meters of the Jedi’s position. You must be carrying an active lightsaber to use this special ability. Now the Jedi can provide a dodge bonus to anyone within 2 meters of his position, and he can deflect and redirect ranged attacks made against anyone within 2 meters of his position. All the rules associated with Deflect (Defense) and Deflect (Attack) apply; the only difference is that now the Jedi can extend this ability to help those nearby. Block This is a modified version of deflect that allows the Jedi to deflect a ranged attack without the use of a lightsaber. If the Jedi does not have some sort of protective gear (such as an armored gauntlet), or an item that can withstand the ranged attack (such as an energy shield or suitably dense material), the Jedi must spend a Force Point to use this ability. (Force Points spent in this way do not add the usual bonus dice to d20 rolls that the Jedi makes in the subsequent round.) Block doesn't allow the Jedi to extend the defense beyond the Jedi's position, and all other rules concerning deflect (defense) and deflect (attack) apply. A Jedi gains this ability when they gain Deflect (Defense) at +2.

Related Links Audio: LoVullo on gardening timing Audio: Urban Roots: container garden Related Articles Related Galleries Forget the Christmas shopping season. This is the time of year Bryan LoVullo ramps up his planning for gifts he is about to receive. His bounty in the many weeks ahead will come from his garden. LoVullo spent the winter preparing seeds, and he already has some of them planted in trays and cups near his south- or west-facing windows. Other seeds – including for root vegetables and sugar snap peas – will go into the ground in the next few weeks. His indoor tomato and pepper seedlings are slated for outdoor planting about Memorial Day, when he's pretty sure he won't have to contend with spring frosts. “Timing is everything,” he said, and if you time things the right way, you can get three or four harvests during the local growing season. For the health-conscious eater, not everyone is as resourceful as LoVullo, yard manager and plant specialist at the Urban Roots growing cooperative on the West Side. But the good news is you don't have to know anything about gardening to share in the treasure trove of local fruits and vegetables during the next six months. You can stop at the organic produce sections of conventional grocery stores, for one. But there are many other choices, and advance planning can save you money and provide you with the freshest, most healthful whole foods possible. 1.Go the garden route – The most cost-effective way to have good food is to grow your own, and this is a good time to do so in Western New York. Resources in the region for starting your own garden are vast and readily accessible. “We're all learning from each other,” said Patti Jablonski-Dopkin, general manager at Urban Roots. “Growing your own food is, I don't want to call it a trend, because I think it's going to stay for a long time. Food prices are expensive, people are questioning the types of food and how food is grown, and so they are growing their own.” Dozens of local garden stores will open in the coming weeks, and Grassroots Gardens of Buffalo already is working with city residents on nearly 70 community gardens. Meanwhile, Urban Roots at 428 Rhode Island St., is ready to help city and suburban dwellers alike plan and produce container gardens or gardens on small patches of land. The cooperative sells seeds, supplies and week-to-week gardening books, as well as down-to-earth advice on growing techniques that limit pesticide use. The shop also offers “heirloom” seeds for the kind of veggies your grandparents used to grow, before many plants were grafted and genetically modified, and free or cheap gardening workshops. 2.CSAs – An option for those who can buy their vegetables upfront for an entire growing season. Nine Community Supported Agriculture farms in the greater Buffalo area, and twice as many in the Rochester area, are listed. Arden Farm outside East Aurora is among them, and it grows about 80 varieties of vegetables on 10 acres. A single couple pays $450 to $650 and a family $650 to $950 a growing season, then visits the Billington Road farm weekly to collect enough fresh vegetables for a week. By the first week in June, there are about a half-dozen things coming out of the ground, and in September and October, “everything is coming in,” said Dan Roelofs, farm owner. Roelofs said this approach to fresh food “costs less than wholesale.” 3.Health food stores – These include the Lexington Co-operative Market on Elmwood Avenue and Feel Rite in five locations across the region. The co-op – which features 50 to 65 varieties of fresh fruit and 80 to 100 veggie varieties, depending on the season – also offers gardening and healthy eating classes, including canning classes at the end of the growing season that will keep you in fruits and veggies throughout the winter. 4.U-pick – Find more than three dozen U-pick farms in Erie and Niagara counties alone; scroll toward the bottom for a regional county-by-county breakdown. 5.Farmers' markets – The Clinton-Bailey, Horsefeathers and North Tonawanda farmers' markets are among year-round stops, and a slew of markets will begin to open in mid-May. Go early in the day for the best selection and late in the day for better deals.

China, Vietnam to resolve disputes by consultation Updated: 2011-08-29 22:54 (Xinhua) BEIJING - China and Vietnam pledged to resolve disputes in the South China Sea through consultations and negotiations on Monday. The pledge came out of a meeting between Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie and Vietnamese Vice Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh. "China is willing to work with Vietnam to firmly safeguard the two countries' common strategic interests and overall relations as well as peace and stability in the South China Sea by strengthening communication and consultation as well as preventing outside provocation that could spoil the two countries' relations," Liang said. "China opposes complicating and internationalizing the issue of the South China Sea and insists on resolving disputes through consultations and negotiations," Liang added. "Currently, both sides should make efforts to actively promote joint development, increase mutual trust through cooperation, and enhance stability by increasing mutual trust," he said. Nguyen Chi Vinh said Vietnam attaches great importance to developing a comprehensive strategic partnership with China and hopes to work with China to strengthen communication and cooperation in all areas between the two countries and their militaries so as to safeguard regional peace and stability. He said the two countries should resolve disputes in the South China Sea through mutual trust and friendly consultations, and not allow any outside forces to spoil Vietnam-China relations by intervening in the disputes.

Artist: Markus Perttula Markus Perttula is a Finnish singer-songwriter born in Seinäjoki. Now based in Turku, he has worked as a musician with influences ranging from Jeff Buckley to Jonna Tervomaa. His Finnish material has been compared to Ultramariini whereas his English works have brought comparisons to Muse and Coldplay. His voice can be heard in an indie pop band called Sans Parade, alternative rock band Despair Academy and a Finnish rock group Victoria.

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Seth MacFarlane Comedy Western, New X-Men Get Casting Directors In case you haven't noticed, we're currently in the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in recent memory. We've got the H3N2 main strain, dominating once again after a decade off; some terrible 24-hour stomach thing that has hit the Backstage/THR office pretty hard, and was probably your hangover's best cover story yesterday; and a whooping cough outbreak, because people listen to Jenny McCarthy. But there is another particularly virulent strain, native to Hollywood, that has reared its head once again this year: the copy-cat bug. We have the new "Godzilla" reboot on the heels of "Pacific Rim," two competing JFK pics in "Parkland" and "The Kennedy Detail," two Hercules projects with "Hercules: The Thracian Wars" and "Hercules 3D," and now two comedy Westerns. Wait, what? Yes, it's true. Just last week I told you about Adam Sandler's next film, comedy Western "Ridiculous 6." So here comes a competing project from Seth MacFarlane called "A Million Ways to Die in the West." It will star MacFarlane as a farmer whose girlfriend leaves him due to his cowardly nature, so he tries to win her back with the help of an outlaw's wife. Since MacFarlane is pretty much a human ATM, it's a safe bet that this movie will make a mint. However, I'm going to make the perhaps controversial call that "Ridiculous 6" will be funnier. Like I said, I just think that a parody of "The Magnificent Seven" is a good idea, and I think Sandler still has the capability to make a hilarious movie. MacFarlane, on the other hand, might be on the point of realizing that he can put out anything and make money, so he doesn't have to try. I call it Lil Wayne Syndrome. MacFarlane's equivalent of "Rebirth" will be cast by Sheila Jaffe ahead of an April start in New Mexico. In other news, I am out of jokes, takes, anecdotes, etc. about comic book movies, so this is going to be dry, but "X-Men: Days of Future Past" is going to begin shooting in April in Montreal. The stars of "X-Men: First Class," including Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Ellen Page, are all contractually obligated to return for the sequel. Bryan Singer will direct from a script by who cares. Their costumes will all probably look different from "First Class," indicating in the diegetic world that super heroes just like to update their uniforms periodically, like "This needs a more metallic sheen, and I should probably airbrush some abs on here." Roger Mussenden will be the casting director.

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Boy, 14, held in double homicide at suburban Atlanta park Money and marijuana taken from 21- and 23-year-old victims, police say POWDER SPRINGS, GA. | Police in suburban Atlanta say they believe two men were killed in a park northwest of Atlanta during a drug deal. A 14-year-old boy is being held on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault in connection with the Sunday night shooting. It happened at the Wild Horse Creek Park Sunday night in Powder Springs, a Cobb County community about 20 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. An arrest warrant obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution states that the boy took money and marijuana from the men during a drug transaction. Killed were 21-year-old Sterling Hargrave and 23-year-old Terrance Banks.

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If u buy resale u are limited to using your points. At Disney vacation club villas only. But if u are buying it for Disney use only the. It's no biggie. I bought resale and have notice no difference as of yet they are talking about changing the rules again where u can use resale points only at your home resort If u buy resale u are limited to using your points. At Disney vacation club villas only. But if u are buying it for Disney use only the. It's no biggie. I bought resale and have notice no difference as of yet they are talking about changing the rules again where u can use resale points only at your home resort Click to expand... Now THAT would suck! I'd even be ok with a 5 or 6 month booking window for resale non - home resort. In addition to the Disney Vacation Club Resorts, Members who purchase directly from Disney, have access to a large selection of vacation experiences and resort destinations available through our Member Getaways program. Every Member Getaways option falls into one of the following collections: The Disney Collection features Resorts at Disney destinations worldwide. Stay at select Disney hotels in proximity to Disney Theme Parks in Florida, Southern California, France, Hong Kong and Japan. Or sail aboard Disney Cruise Line. With the Concierge Collection, take a truly stylish family vacation and enjoy luxury accommodations at some of the finest hotels in the world. All accommodations across the collections are subject to availability. Another thing resale members will not be able to take part in are the Member cruises. So, if someone wants to take part in any of these activities above, points would have to be purchaced directly through Disney. Many feel that using points for the items noted above are not a good use of thier points. Many buy direct because they want to use points for one of the options not available for resale points. Cruising on points is especially popular (even though it may not be a particularly good economic choice). Many buy direct to take advantage of the financing offered by Disney. Many buy direct because they are not aware of the resale market or believe it is "safer" to buy directly from Disney. Since it seems resale is considerably cheaper, what are the advantages of buying directly through Disney? Click to expand... CarolMN pretty much laid it all out there. I bought resale. I couldn't afford what we wanted buying direct. I did NOT want to finance it. However, many do and they get decent rates to finance it through disney. Financing is the biggest reason I see in buying direct. When you purchase resale, you do have to find a contract that fit your needs, and they may not be available, or it could take some time for one to come along. When you do find one and agree to terms with the seller you then have to wait 30 days for disney to decide on ROFR, then you can close, then disney puts you in their system. That whole process can't take 6-8 weeks minimum. Buying direct the points are yours and you're in the system almost immediately. My wife and I bought a smaller contract of 125 points that suits our needs. We only use them to stay at WDW so resale was a no brainer for us, but everyone has to decide what's best for them. I'm going on pure memory, but there are a few things that were guaranteed to all DVC members, regardless resale/retail. 1) Your points could be used to stay at DVC participating resorts 2) While the point per night of an accommodation can fluctuate from year to year, the total points on a point chart can never change.(meaning they can increase a studio on November 20th from 40 to 44 points, but they would have to reduce another night by the same 4 points) 3) Another option will always be available to the owner should they decide to not want to visit DVC resorts. So, any perks that we get were never guaranteed. Disney collection, ABD, etc...never guaranteed(and those point charts can change any way they want them to). So this rumor that they want to limit using at your home resort would probably be a breach of contract by DVC. Not to say that there isn't a creative way to do that. They could easily call all the New resorts from GFV on, DVC2 resorts. Then they could limit existing DVC resale members from using them. The could also change the booking windows to 11-month home resort, 7 month all other resorts for retail, 5 month all other resale. Thats why everyone on these boards always says BUY WHERE YOU WANT TO STAY. Most likely, any restrictions that do come up will be ADDITIONS to retail customers, rather than subtraction to resale customers. Again, everything I've written above is off pure memory of the contract, and the wording is obviously changed. In addition, the restrictions are just pure speculation to further illustrate to the OP what the differences between retail/resale are, or might be....Not trying to start a panic The only reason I am considering purchasing retail again, is that I am looking for a small contract with my current Use Year, and For the past 3 months I have not been able to find on resale market. Many buy direct because they want to use points for one of the options not available for resale points. Cruising on points is especially popular (even though it may not be a particularly good economic choice). Many buy direct to take advantage of the financing offered by Disney. Many buy direct because they are not aware of the resale market or believe it is "safer" to buy directly from Disney. I can't think of any other reasons people choose to buy direct. Click to expand... One other reason would be for small point contracts (50) for particular UY and resorts when there isn't much if any availability on the resale market. If you buy from Disney, you get your points immediately and can make a reservation right away. With resale, it's a longer process. Also, your guide can sometimes help you make your first reservation for a time/room that is otherwise all booked up. So, if you already have a trip planned for the near future, you may be able to rebook it in your DVC resort and apply your vacation dollars to DVC. Of course, given the difference between resale and direct from disney, you still come out ahead financially in most cases by keeping your cash pay reservation, buying resale and waiting for that first DVC stay for your next trip. The only reason I am considering purchasing retail again, is that I am looking for a small contract with my current Use Year, and For the past 3 months I have not been able to find on resale market. Click to expand... i am going through the same exact thing i want to start adding 25 points at a time i dont want to finance or go out on the hook for 10 to 15k for a big contract. someone told me a very good point also for small ones since there is high demand you pay a little bit extra and the closing costs can get up to 400 bucks. so take a 70 per point for 25 points plus 400 in closing your at 2150. i was just quoted 25 at bwv or bcv for 2850 and they back date to my use year so i have 25 points to bank right away. yes your paying a bit more per point but no hassel i am going through the same exact thing i want to start adding 25 points at a time i dont want to finance or go out on the hook for 10 to 15k for a big contract. someone told me a very good point also for small ones since there is high demand you pay a little bit extra and the closing costs can get up to 400 bucks. so take a 70 per point for 25 points plus 400 in closing your at 2150. i was just quoted 25 at bwv or bcv for 2850 and they back date to my use year so i have 25 points to bank right away. yes your paying a bit more per point but no hassel Click to expand... What do mean by "back date"? If you are in the 2012 UY for the one you are buying, you are simply getting the points due you. For example, I have a June UY. So I'm in my 2012 UY still. If I add on between now and May 31 I get the 2012 points because I'm still in my 2012 UY. i am going through the same exact thing i want to start adding 25 points at a time i dont want to finance or go out on the hook for 10 to 15k for a big contract. someone told me a very good point also for small ones since there is high demand you pay a little bit extra and the closing costs can get up to 400 bucks. so take a 70 per point for 25 points plus 400 in closing your at 2150. i was just quoted 25 at bwv or bcv for 2850 and they back date to my use year so i have 25 points to bank right away. yes your paying a bit more per point but no hassel Click to expand... While we bought resale, I don't think I would hesitate to purchase a small 25 point add on directly through disney. A small purchase like that I would want to be my current use year and those small contracts on the resale sites go fast and they usually go for asking price or higher. It's not just the size, but the UY that could take a really long time to find.....if ever. I have watched the resale listings and as a BLT owner with June UY, I don't see a ton of June UY at all regardless of the # of points. just emailed my "guide" asked about the price increase and if they were extending contracts for BCV and BWV he told me he could not confirm or deny the rumors. sounds like a big yes to me. he also said being on the wait list means i get the current price not sure about the extended years.

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The new processor will include Rambus interfaces called FlexIO Processor Bus and XDR RAM for memory. Together these interfaces provide up to 100 gigabytes per second of aggregate CPU bandwidth, said Rich Warmke, director of marketing for the memory interface division at Rambus. At 4GHz with eight logical processors, this thing or some derivative is undoubtedly going to be in the next PowerMac. This seems to be a multicore Power5 derivative--or the converse. Since this has been in development since 2001, it could be that the Power 5 SMT features are derived from Cell! The new processor will include Rambus interfaces called FlexIO Processor Bus and XDR RAM for memory._ Together these interfaces provide up to 100 gigabytes per second of aggregate CPU bandwidth, said Rich Warmke, director of marketing for the memory interface division at Rambus. While the Cell chip can have a number of different configurations, the workstation and PlayStation 3 version of Cell consists of one "Processing Element" ("PE"), and eight "Attached Processing Units" ("APU"). The PE is based on the POWER Architecture, basis of their existing POWER line and related to the PowerPC used by Apple Computer and others. The PE is not the primary processor for the system, but acts as a contoller for the other eight APUs, which handle most of the computational workload. Each APU is a VLIW 128-bit vector processor with a 1024-bit external bus. The bus is attached to an 8MB high speed memory, one for each APU, which is also visible to the PE to be loaded with data and programs as needed. The APU's memory is also connected to the next APU in line, allowing data to be processed by one APU and then handed off to the next at very high speed. In general use the system will load the APUs with small programs, known as apulettes, chaining the APUs together to handle each step in a complex operation. For instance, a set top box could load up apulettes for reading a DVD, video and audio decoding, and display, and the data would be passed off from APU to APU until finally ending up on the TV. Each APU is expected to give 32 GFLOPS of performance, thereby giving the entire Processing Unit 256 GFLOPS of performance. and, Quote: Cell allows for multiple processing units to be put onto one die, and the patent (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...XT&p=1&p=1&S1=) showed four on one die, called the "Broadband Engine", potentially giving over 1 Teraflops of performance. It is unclear how many processing units will be incorporated into either the PlayStation 3 or workstations. Sorry to kill the ambiance here, but I am not sure at all that the Cell is really a desktop chip. If you look at his architecture, it's a fantastic multimedia chip, perfect for MP encoding for example, but I doubt it's perfect for let's say bureautic applications or applications who do not use parallelar code. The cell is perhaps the paradigm of the RISC architecture : simple units (the power PC architecture are not really simple) working in parallelar at very high speed. But if you put complex code, the emulator would have to break it in many Apulets, and I think that we might see an huge performance penalty : adios the 256 gflop. Remember that the chip in the PS2 have many gigaflops of power, but it do not say it all. Cell architecture is may be not for tommorow in macs. The PPC 64 bit line, have a lot of room to increase. A dual core PPC 970, seems more a logical choice for 2006. This Cell chip could mean bad news for Apple hardware sales. Why? Because Sony and Toshiba will be selling Cell-based consumer level hardware that should in theory be able to run OSX and should be very price competitive with anything Apple can offer. I suppose you could have a 'mini grid' of cells for a Desktop machine but I reckon it would be impracticle and expensive over the current technology. A PS3 will use Cell technology but a PS3 isn't a very flexible machine. This doesn't mean it can't be adapted for the Desktop but I'm sure there will be major coding changes to use the cell effieciently/normally. I will be a bit more attentive to both MS and Intel reports on future software/hardware paths as they will certainly be able to size up if the cell technology is a threat or not. Originally posted by TidrisThis Cell chip could mean bad news for Apple hardware sales. Why? Because Sony and Toshiba will be selling Cell-based consumer level hardware that should in theory be able to run OSX and should be very price competitive with anything Apple can offer. Glass half empty. Apple's smaller base and Hardware Abstration for OSX makes it "easier" for them to move to another hardware platform. You guys are missing real point. Intel and AMD are the ones that need to be back pedaling and launching FUD campaigns. If Cell tech provides average general computing and Gonzo multimedia it's still a better option as multimedia is going to be where the future profits are. He's a mod so he has a few extra vBulletin privileges. That doesn't mean he should stop posting or should start acting like Digital Jesus.- SolipsismX Originally posted by TidrisThis Cell chip could mean bad news for Apple hardware sales. Why? Because Sony and Toshiba will be selling Cell-based consumer level hardware that should in theory be able to run OSX and should be very price competitive with anything Apple can offer. I have a hard time seeing much bad news for Apple here. Whether or not Apple ends up using the Cell chip itself, the fabrication and research on this chip are going to find there way into the PowerMac sooner or later. This just shows that IBM is a great partner when it comes to hardware--not falling behind like Motorola did. Originally posted by TidrisThis Cell chip could mean bad news for Apple hardware sales. Why? Because Sony and Toshiba will be selling Cell-based consumer level hardware that should in theory be able to run OSX and should be very price competitive with anything Apple can offer. Originally posted by TidrisThis Cell chip could mean bad news for Apple hardware sales. Why? Because Sony and Toshiba will be selling Cell-based consumer level hardware that should in theory be able to run OSX and should be very price competitive with anything Apple can offer. OMG no. Apple is fine. There is a whole lot more than the CPU in a computer. We don't even know if a CELL can replace any of Apple's CPUs or if it is just a coprocessor based on the PPC instruction set. It is very possible that OSX can run directly on the Cell chip's PPC core processor. Whether it can address the 8 SPE's ("synergistic processing units") through Tiger's Core services is something only Apple's system engineer's know. I don't expect to see any Apple product sporting a Cell chip until next year at the earliest, however I do expect the next generation of the 970 to appear in time for a Powermac this Summer followed by a low power version for the Powerbook. The next PowerPC for Apple will benefit from the Power5 features that are mentioned in the Cell. Cell runs a flavor of Unix and has Altivec. Cell is going into HD TVs made by Sony. It's also described as ideal for audio, video and graphics. The rumored Tiger OS may have support for many parallel processors. Perhaps someone at Apple has noticed. I doubt we'll see an actual Cell processor in a Mac anytime soon (if ever), but I do think we'll be seeing Power, and Cell derived PowerPC processors fairly soon. I posed the question months ago if IBM had been working on cell based processors for a few years now, wouldn't we be seeing benefits of what they have learned from this technology in upcoming Power, and PowerPC processors? I think all the years of testing on multiple cells, and multiple cores alone puts IBM at an advantage when producing a multi-core PPC processors. With all that testing, and prototyping that must have been done I'm sure they have learned a few lessons, and found a few pitfalls that they now know to avoid. I'm sure they have discovered more than that alone, but my point is that they are at a great advantage in dealing with multi-core, technology. If only they would take one lesson from AMD and throw in that on-die memory controller everybody keeps talking about that is so highly regarded as being the key to the overwhelming performance of the Opteron processors. Originally posted by onlookerI doubt we'll see an actual Cell processor in a Mac anytime soon (if ever), but I do think we'll be seeing Power, and Cell derived PowerPC processors fairly soon. This really doesn't make sense to me. What does "Cell derived PowerPC" mean? The Cell contains a Power processor, so how would you derive a Power processor from it? Any why wouldn't we see a Cell processor in a Mac? Assuming Apple can see how nicely their CoreXXXX technologies map onto a bunch of really fast vector processors (duh!), and once this thing gets into production (or a variation that has the balance of components that Apple wants... maybe 2 Power cores and only 4 SPUs, for example). Cell is really about the System-on-chip and the small specialized cores so that you can afford a lot of them. Careful chip design and you get some pretty impressive clock rates and power consumption numbers. cell is a powerpc. it need a brand new mainboard (that need a new kext) but ic can now run os x from 10.0. to 10.4. but it run like a g3 @ 4GHz. to use the vector unit apple must made the dirt work and make it accessible to developer like an altivec extension (if spu are altivec is esier) noe look in prospective: insert a multicore power (for application that can' t be parallelized) and more spu (for all core image apps).... Originally posted by DaveLeeI thought the PS2 already had two vector processing units in addition to the core processor within the Emotion Engine? But anyway, all this tech will never be bad news for Apple. The question is at what point will we see some of this filter into the computers? Your correct. LSI's processor design, and vector processing unit is not Altivec, and is probably closer to the design that will be used in the PS3. Motorola has patented their design heavily. If however the Playstation is using the Altivec design this time I'm sure Motorola is getting paid for it. Or will be when they find out. Originally posted by onlookerYour correct. LSI's processor design, and vector processing unit is not Altivec, and is probably closer to the design that will be used in the PS3. Motorola has patented their design heavily. If however the Playstation is using the Altivec design this time I'm sure Motorola is getting paid for it. Or will be when they find out. I know that when the PS2 was launched, and for some time after the games programmers made little use of the vector units (the novelty?) in a similar way to the issuse which faced Apple and coding for the Altivec unit on the G4. With that in mind, and if the VMX unit in Cell is similar enough to Altivec, what are the specific implications for a general code base which use these units (in games and in future software)? Does code require specificity for it's use or can it be 'ported' around for various different software applications? I seem to remember reading an online article showing IBM's recent patents and one of those related to a compiler that could optimize code for, I think it mentioned, multiple processes or threads or something. I'll look again, but this could be interesting times ahead. just waiting to be included in one of Apple's target markets.Don't get me wrong, I like the flat panel iMac, actually own an iMac, and I like the Mac mini, but........... So Programmer, what do you think the odds are for Apple to drop Altivec support from the G6 and to simply forward such calls to a dedicated Cell CPU? This would reduce the G6 complexity and cost. You could treat Cell like an old math coprocessor. This way the Power5 to G6 transition is simpler (no bolting on Altivec). This way it is easier to cram multiple cores into a single G6 die because you have reduced the complexity of each core. This way you don't have oddly redundant Altivec units on both the main CPU and the Cell CPU. This way you could probably squeeze some extre MHz out of the G6 because you don't have to time your communication with the Altivec registers/etc. Thoughts? I'm not up to date wrt the latest G6 rumors, all I know is that is is two cores on the die. Originally posted by YevgenySo Programmer, what do you think the odds are for Apple to drop Altivec support from the G6 and to simply forward such calls to a dedicated Cell CPU? This would reduce the G6 complexity and cost. You could treat Cell like an old math coprocessor. Zero. What is the one word that processor designers never mention when introducing their latest and greatest chips? Latency Quote: This way the Power5 to G6 transition is simpler (no bolting on Altivec). Given that they have at least 2 VMX implementations now, I don't see how that is a real problem. Especially with IBM's automated design tools. Quote: This way it is easier to cram multiple cores into a single G6 die because you have reduced the complexity of each core. Why have multiple G6 cores when you can have even more SPUs? Most problems that can be made parallel also benefit from using vector units. Quote: This way you don't have oddly redundant Altivec units on both the main CPU and the Cell CPU. People keeping saying "why have both" or "these are redundant"... but they are not. There is good reason to have both and they fulfill different purposes. Quote: This way you could probably squeeze some extre MHz out of the G6 because you don't have to time your communication with the Altivec registers/etc. No more so than with the GPR/FPR files. The VMX unit doesn't slow down the chip -- you just have to look at all 9 cores on the Cell to see that! Quote: Thoughts? I'm not up to date wrt the latest G6 rumors, all I know is that is is two cores on the die. [/B] There are no G6 rumors. There are dual core G5 rumors. If I had to start one I'd say G6 == Cell. BTW: IBM was an equal partner in the initial VMX development so I'm quite sure that they do not pay Motorola/Freescale (or Apple for that matter) a cent. Altivec uses ~10-12 million transistors, depending on implementation. It's not a millstone around the PowerPC's neck, and it becomes a less significant addition with every processor generation. By contrast, the execution logic of a Cell SPE takes up 7 million transistors. It can also do tricks that no other SIMD unit (that I've heard of, and including the SPE's in Cell) can do. And finally, it was designed to be integrated into the core of a PowerPC. It needs the low latency because the work it's used for frequently involves use of the scalar units as well (e.g., computing array indexes and pointer offsets). Isolating AltiVec as a separate core makes no sense. This is why the SPE's are a new design rather than being derived from AltiVec. . . . BTW: IBM was an equal partner in the initial VMX development so I'm quite sure that they do not pay Motorola/Freescale (or Apple for that matter) a cent. I believe it depends on the agreement, or contract, these three companies made. If all three had equal share in development of the vector unit, it could be wise to share equally in license fees. This way, if Sony and Toshiba produce these chip, IBM, Freescale and Apple will be paid equally for its use. For that matter, both IBM and Freescale may have been paying fees all along. Then again, the three inventors may have free use of the patent for products they manufacture. This would leave Apple out in the cold financially, however. BTW, I think you are right about the cell being the G6 or whatever Apple wants to call it. The cell chip changes everything. For example, the G4 might have been Apple's low end CPU, and the G5 used in higher performance Macs. Now, I believe the Cell will be in everything. The low end Macs will have a lower performance version. It's just a question of when the transition takes place. I think Tiger may already have capability of using the SPEs, or SPUs, for the core services. If not, Apple is working on it now. Apple may be involved as VMX (aka AltiVec) was an Apple initiative, with this the PPE core should boot OS X with little modification. Looks like some architectural changes have been made since the patent application: * Local Memory sizes have increased, they are now 256KBytes. * Local memory is also referred to as "locking cache" so it may have the functionality of a cache as well a "local memory". The patent explicitly stated it was not a cache. * The internal 1024 bit bus was not implemented, there is an internal bus system which runs at up to 96 bytes per clock. * SPEs appear to contain an MMU and a DMA controller. Patent application did not mention a MMU in the SPEs. Looks like IBM is finally going to use a low-k dielectric for the 90 nm fab. Combined with dual-liner strained silicon, a svelt Powerbook G5 will be very possible. For Cell, it's not exactly a panacea. Depending on what the PPE architecture is like, it could be a worse performer at scalar ops than the G4 is. Also, 221 sq mm die running in excess of 2 GHz. It must be a concidence than no power numbers are bandied about for the entire chip. 100+ Watts for a 3 GHz chip? Can't wait to see the box that Sony will ship the thing in.

Become a VoteWatch Europe supporter VoteWatch Europe is a small, independent not-for-profit organisation. Our goal is to promote better insight into EU politics by making information on the decision-making process of the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers available in a user-friendly, searchable format. We rely on grants, paid services and donations to maintain and improve our core activities. You can help us by making a donation, however small. Round-up of the elections: Liberal-Conservative turn for the Netherlands Despite losing some seats, the current PM and leader of the People’s Party for Progress and Freedom (VVD), Mark Rutte, comes out as the clear winner of the consultation. While this is mostly good news for Europe and the liberal order, a closer look at the results and how we’ve got here is needed to understand the likely policy of the next Dutch government. In order for Rutte’s VVD to remain the first party, it had to give in to the pressure from the far-right and stiffen its discourse vis-a-vis the governance of the EU and the Eurozone. It remains to be seen if Rutte will maintain a more “Euro-critical” discourse now that the elections are behind him, but the fact that his party did lose seats in absolute terms and that the European elections, where the anti-EU parties usually perform better than in general elections, are just 2 years from now gives an indication that things are more nuanced than they look through the cup of yesterday’s victory. This report looks at the positions of the Dutch parties on EU governance and forecasts the likely positions of the next Dutch government. It also addresses the implications of yesterday’s results for the upcoming elections in key EU countries, such as France, Germany and Italy. — This is the third victory in a row for the Liberal Conservative party, which does not seem to suffer too much from its long permanence in government. Usually, the wide political offer for Dutch electors makes it difficult for a party to cling to power for too long, as dissatisfied voters can easily find an alternative to parties in government. At the same time, this is a big defeat for VVD’s junior coalition partner, the Labour Party, which lost more than 20% of votes and handed over the leadership of the centre-left to the Green-Left party. The poor score of the centre-left party also undermines the clout of the first VP of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans (a member of the PvdA), who is not likely to pursue a second mandate as the Dutch Commissioner. Also the position of the head of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem (also from the Labour Party), is now at risk. In addition to the Green-Left, social-liberal D66 and the Christian Democrat CDA also performed well, although, in the case of the latter, the latest polls were suggesting the possibility of an even stronger performance. Yesterday’s results are also a lackluster performance for the Party for Freedom led by Geert Wilders. Although there were some inflated and excessive expectations regarding the performance of the PVV, it is true that this anti-Islam and Eurosceptic party had led the polls for several months and, until the recent weeks, it was expected to collect more than 20% of votes (it ended up with only 13%). Nevertheless, when looking at the overall outcome of the elections, we noticean overall shift to the right in the Dutch political landscape, also considering that parties such as VVD and CDA have already hardened their discourse about migration and the multicultural society during the electoral campaign, as a way of countering the rise in the polls of Wilders’ party. VVD is also critical on the European Defense Union and the establishment of a budgetary capacity for the Eurozone. The Christian Democrats are very critical about the Ukraine-EU agreement and their leader even promised to scrap it in case of a victory in the elections. Therefore, the next Dutch Parliament will be more Conservative than the previous one, which also means that not every proposals coming from Brussels will be welcomed. Good leadership and clear positions on social values boosted the performance of the pro-EU Green-Left and D66, but this can hardly been depicted as a success for the social liberals forces, given the dramatic fall of the Labour Party. Our previous report on the Dutch elections outlined the policy impact of the potential coalitions emerging from the consultation. The next government will be either a centre-right coalition (VVD, CDA, D66, CU) or a centrist arrangement (VVD, CDA, D66 and Green-Left), although other alternatives are still possible, depending on how the consultations will play out. Dutch government will be more unstable than in the past, given the increased number of parties within both the government, but also the Dutch political landscape as a whole. As outlined by our previous analysis, a centre-right government would be the most homogenous on economic issues (shared free-market attitude), whereas tensions might arise on social issues, in particular between D66 and the Christian Conservative parties. In case of a coalition with the Green-Left, the political views of the coalition will be more mixed, although tensions might arise on economic issues, as well as on trade. – Dutch vote should not be seen as a referendum about the EU However, it would be simplistic to frame this election as a victory of the European Union and a defeat for Euroscepticism. Obviously, the vote has clear implications for the European Union and the almost certain participation of the pro-European D66 will enhance the pro-European credentials of the next Dutch executive. Nevertheless, political observers should not fall in the trap of interpreting every political consultation in Europe as a referendum about the EU. The European Union was hardly an important subject during the Dutch electoral campaign. The diplomatic row with Turkey and the shift to the right in its rhetoric about the integration of migrants can better explain the success of VVD than its rejection of Euroscepticism (as mentioned before, VVD is one of the least friendly towards Brussels among the Dutch mainstream parties). All in all, the predictive power of this election for future consultation is rather limited given the different cultures and political landscapes of European countries. As the US and UK- based media were wrong in forecasting a success for the anti-EU forces and expecting the Dutch to follow the political trends of the Anglophone world, European media should avoid making a similar mistake, when expecting other European countries to reject populist rhetoric in the same way as the Dutch did. For this reason, particular attention should be paid to the next election in France and Italy, where economic woes mingle with a general disaffection for mainstream political parties, whereas the outcome of the next German elections, despite the expected weak performance of fringe parties, will be key in determining the future of the Eurozone.

Black Ops Problems Are Not Widespread – Treyarch Treyarch has recently addressed the claims that certain version of their latest game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, are experiencing problems. In defense of the game, the developer claims that the large majority of players haven’t experienced the problems that are being complained about. These are “edge cases” Mark Lamia told in a recent interview with Kotaku. “We know this for a fact, that the vast, vast majority don’t have these sorts of experiences and they’re out there playing this game,” “To the extent that there are issues we are unaware of, we are committed to trying to work to make sure the experience is good, that’s the most important thing. We are making the game for everyone. The game is robust, huge, we want to make sure if there are any issues they are addressed. “That’s not to say there aren’t edge cases. When we do hear of something, we’re not like not doing anything.” “The answer is that we have a huge team that is just committed to making sure that Black Ops, period, on whatever platform it is out on, that people have a great experience,” the developer stated. “We have our own internal test team that are the largest we’ve ever had. We don’t even rely on Activision’s test teams. We have Activision’s test team support, but actually at Treyarch we’ve invested in testing to the point where we have full test teams testing all of these platforms and making sure we are doing all of this stuff. “We hear about something that bothers us and we make sure it’s fixed and addressed. Which is why you’ve seen aggressively us addressing things we hear about. So when we hear about something, we actually reach out to players sometimes in the community to see if we can replicate it. “If there is something out there that we’ve never seen, obviously we’re going to work with players to see if we can work it out.”

Ya know...it's just a toss up Andrea. I've done both...where I take some and leave some. I would pick the most developed pods now...and leave the ones you aren't sure about on there...see if they can "ripen" some more. I hate that for you.....so frustrating!!! On 11/19/08, andreah <[email protected]> wrote: > > irritated. We had our first freeze last night, very rare for this time of > year. My white datura seeds are not ready. Only a couple of pods have split > and the rest are just sitting there. The purple and white has been ripening > gang busters. > Opinions-should I go ahead and harvest the pods on the white one or wait > and > keep checking them? > Thanks! > A > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off this list, send email to [email protected] with the > message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT > > -- Jesse R. Bell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [email protected] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT

Main menu Category Archives: Uncategorized Post navigation It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I needed to take a break from my creative work. Funny though, I found that I missed cataloging my adventures. So, here I am with my newest crafting adventure, boro stitching. Google it. The images are so yummy! I’ve been wanting to take this class with Jody Alexander for some time, but my schedule never matched. Jody is an artist, bookbinder, librarian, and teacher who lives and works here in my home town of Santa Cruz, California. Here is her current listing of classes. I’ve taken her book binding class and fell in love with book binding all over again. Recently, she published a book with Blurb Books, The Boro Aesthetic: Books, Bags, Zakka and Zokin. Well, I couldn’t resist and it has been AWEsome! Here are some of my pages from the book I did following her easy step by step instructions. I’m going to try a boro bag next. Drop me a line and let me know what have you been up to this week. I’m super interested in your crafting and adventures. I learned how to make my own font this week. I highly recommend ‘Create Your Hand Drawn Font‘ with Jenn Coyle on SkillShare. I started out by sketching my font in pencil and then filling it in with pen. Then I scanned it into PhotoShop and cleaned up the letters. Lastly, I imported them into Illustrator made them into vector files. I made both a lower and an upper case. Lastly, I imported them into Glyphs, which I got for free for 30 days. Happy me. Here is what it looks like in word. Here is what it looks like in a drawing. Love that it matches my style of hand drawn art. So, I’ve been looking for fun things to cheer myself up and I found two design competitions that may be of interest to fellow designers. The first pattern contest is with TigerPrint. They were formed in 1996 with ten people that worked out of a small office in Brighouse, West Yorkshire designing cutting edge card and wrap designs. They now have over 200 employees and offices in Bradford, London and Hong Kong. TigerPrint has a monthly brief and this month it is called Characters Everyday. The competition is all about designing characters for Tigerprint’s Everyday range. Think male, female and love. Characters could be people or animals or objects brought to life. Check out the link for the brief. The deadline for patterns is June 15. The second set of contests is with Spoonflower. They have a weekly contest and have two great briefs called Lemonade and Llamas in June. Lemonade – Fresh lemon juice, water, and sugar come together to make this very delicious, very thirst-quenching summer drink. Do you like it sour or sweet? Deadline for entry is Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015. Voting will open Thursday, June 25th, 2015. Llamas – It’s time to travel to the South American Andes mountains to show your llama love! Give a go at creating a lovable llama themed design. Deadline for entry is Tuesday, June 30th, 2015. Voting will open Thursday, July 2nd, 2015. I’ve been working on technical repeats on paper (PhotoShop is next module), patterns in PhotoShop, buisness logo, and coordinated presentation sheets. This surface pattern class called The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design with Beth Kempton and Rachel Taylor has been super fun. It’s said because this is the last week and I’ve had a lot of fun checking out the daily homework posts and having fun networking with other pattern designers. Here is some of the work I’ve been doing this week. Below is my original line drawing of a poppy from pippin lane. I took it and repeated in PhotoShop. Loving the colors; it’s simple and clean. The one below here has a middle eastern flair. Again I took my original line art and uploaded it into PhotoShop. I researched the trending colors for fall and decided to use them as they were rich and full, perfect for fall. Below is a presentation sheet showing a collection of coordinated patterns. It’s my original line work and was super fun to do! Can you see this on a set of flannel sheets, curtains or pillows? I shared last week that I’m taking a surface pattern class called The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design with Beth Kempton and Rachel Taylor. Wow, what a fun week of pattern making. I’ve been learning how to use Photoshop and Illustrator, mark making, and creating repeats. I’m seeing patterns everywhere, in everything. Below are two pictures made with pen and ink. I’ll scan these into Photoshop and have fun with them later by adding color and doing repeats. The next two patterns I made with this AWEsome new, FREE app on my iPhone called Adobe Ideas. I LOVE it. You can simply draw on the fly with as many layers as you want. You can also use your own photos like I did with the buttons. And lastly, just because it’s spring and I’ve been loving the flowers.

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Getting Started with the Command Line Interface This topic provides a walk-through of the commands required to launch a Linux instance and a Windows instance. This tutorial includes working with a compartment, creating a virtual cloud network, and launching instances. About the Command Line Interface (CLI) The CLI is a tool that lets you work with most of the available services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The CLI provides the same core functionality as the Console, plus additional commands. The CLI's functionality and command help are based on the service's API. Getting Help with Commands You can get inline help using the --help, -h, or -? keywords. For example: This response to the oci os ns get command shows the standard output, which is returned in JSON format. JSON objects are written as key/value pairs, with the key and value separated by a colon. For example: Before You Begin As a best practice, complete the tasks in this tutorial in a test environment. This approach ensures that your configurations do not affect other environments in the tenancy. At the end of the tutorial, you can safely delete the test resources. Working in a Compartment In this tutorial, you use one compartment for all your resources. When you are ready to create a production environment, you will most likely separate these resources in different compartments. You can either use an existing compartment (recommended), or create a new compartment. Keep track of the information that's returned when you run commands. In several cases, you need this information as you work through this document. For example, the preceding command returns the OCID for the tenancy, which is also the root compartment. When you create a VCN, a default security list is created for you. However, the Windows instance also requires inbound traffic enabled for port 3389. The preferred approach is creating a second list that addresses the Windows port requirement. You use the --security-list-ids option to associate both security lists with the subnet when you create it. Note Passing JSON Strings in the CLI The next command passes complex input as a JSON text string. For help with formatting JSON input, especially when working in a Windows environment, see Passing Complex Input. To create a new security list and configure the ingress rule for port 3389, run the following command. In this next step, you have to provide the OCIDs for the default security list and the new security list. If you didn't record these OCIDs, use the oci network security-list list command to get a list of the security lists in the virtual cloud network. Before you create a subnet, you have to find out which availability domains are available to create the subnet in. To get the availability domain list for your compartment, run the following command. The information in the previous response shows that there is a route table without any rules: "route rules":[]. Because the table exists, you create a rule by updating the table. When you run the next command, you get a warning about updates to route rules. Any update to the route rules replaces all the existing rules. If you want to continue and process the update, Enter "y". Launching a Linux Instance Now you're ready to launch a Linux instance based on the configurations you prepared. Use a Public/Private Key Pair to Connect to the Instance When you launch an instance using the CLI, you need an existing key pair to access the instance. (This key pair is not the same as an API signing key.) Launch the Instance Help: oci compute instance launch -h Warning In this example, the --ssh-authorized-keys-file parameter references a file that contains the public key required to access the compute instance. If you don't provide this key when you launch the instance you can't connect to the instance after it's launched. After the lifecycle state changes from "PROVISIONING" to "AVAILABLE" you can attach the volume to the Linux instance. Tip Finding out the Lifecycle State You can find out the lifecycle state for the block volume using the oci bv volume get command for the volume you created. You can also query other resources such as compute instances and VNICs, to find out their lifecycle state. Attach the Block Volume to the Instance Help: oci compute volume-attachment attach -h To attach the block volume to the Linux instance, run the following command. Launching a Windows Instance Launching a Windows instance follows the same pattern and requires the same information as launching a Linux instance. The only significant differences are the operating system and shape, as shown in the following commands. Connecting to Your Instances Although the Public IP address is required for connecting to Linux and Windows instances, that is the only thing the two have in common. Some of these differences include: authentication, port configuration, and desktop client programs. All destructive actions, such as detaching and deleting resources allow you to use the --force parameter, and the resource is removed without requiring confirmation. As a best practice, use the y/N option instead of --force. Confirm the deletion. No response is returned after the resource is deleted.

Seek advice and support Dr Parvathi Kumaraswami explains why her top tip for early researchers is to gather a support network. Learn from others Many successful academics credit the advice they received from a more experienced academic early in their career as being invaluable. If you are concerned about asking for help, think about your academic research and how it develops - you test out your ideas by presenting your work to others, and seeking feedback and comment. Consider applying the same philosophy to your career goals, your longer term research strategy or any aspect of your daily work - find someone you respect, ask if you can bounce ideas off them and listen to, and learn from, their responses. Useful links Is there any formal support available? Your supervisor should offer support for your development, but some doctoral researchers feel they would benefit from an additional or alternative sounding board. Your institution may have a formal mentoring programme for doctoral researchers - ask your supervisor or those who look after training for researchers. If you are a member of a professional or scholarly association, they may offer a mentoring programme. Take advantage of whatever student support services your institution offers - most are open to postgraduates as well as undergraduates. If you are concerned about your career, your university Careers Service may be able to help - particularly useful if you want to discuss, confidentially, the possibility of moving away from academia. There may be a Counselling Service or support for those with disabilities for other personal issues which may impact your academic career. Dr Parvathi Kumaraswami talks about the informal group of mentors she has gathered in her academic career. Dr Caroline Bowsher explains how her informal network has helped her. Where could you get informal support? Traditionally, early career researchers tend to find informal mentors themselves. Where someone acts as an informal mentor, it is unlikely that there will be any agreement on how often you will meet or what the process is. It is quite possible that neither of you will realise that you have been in a mentoring relationship until later in your career. Ideally you want someone you trust, who knows you, who understands the type of issues you are dealing with but who can also view these issues objectively (mentors from outside your immediate field can sometimes be very helpful). If you have a good relationship with your supervisor, they may act as a valued informal mentor throughout your academic career. However, even if this is the case, most academics have more than one person to whom they turn to discuss ideas. You're not looking for a substitute parent or a life partner - a support network can be just as effective as an individual academic counsellor. Who are the people you respect and admire, and what is their particular expertise? If you want to develop your teaching practice, find out who are the excellent teachers in your field and ask if you can observe them. If you want to develop links beyond your department, talk to the academics in your field who have a track record of developing strong collaborations, and learn how they did this. The people you turn to for support don't have to be senior academics. Your peers or those with just a bit more experience may be just as helpful for certain issues, and the value of this network will grow as you all progress in academia or beyond. Professor Adrian Armstrong explains how his mentor helped him learn the conventions in his new Department. What help could you get from a mentor? Many early career researchers internalise anxieties about their research, their achievements (or perceived lack of them), their future. A mentor can help you avoid getting trapped in a never-ending internal debate by acting as a sounding board, offering their experience as an example, and giving guidance on both intellectual and career problems. A good mentor often asks the right questions rather than providing ready-made answers. Mentors can also be extremely helpful with helping you understand how a new institution or department operates - the unspoken but critical cultural norms or simply important administrative minutiae. If you have a good relationship with an informal mentor, they may be prepared to offer you feedback and coach you with your written work - publications, grant applications etc. Whilst any co-authors (your supervisor or other collaborators) will want to discuss content, improving your writing style may be something where a mentor is more helpful.

MSU hosts university food services conference Chefs from across the Midwest came to MSU during Spring Break for the 2014 Annual Culinary Competition for the National Association for College and University Food Services, or NACUFS. ? The Culinary Competition featured nine college and university chefs who were chosen from the NACUFS Midwest Region members. The competing chefs had an hour to prepare a fresh lobster dish. “(The chefs competed) for the chance to represent the Midwest Region at the national NACUFS conference Culinary Challenge in July. The national conference will be hosted in Baltimore,” said Jenna Brown, Communications Manager of MSU Culinary Services.? Representing MSU was Chef Emily Swirsky of The Gallery at Snyder and Phillips halls. Though she did not win first place, Swirsky did receive a certificate of participation for the 2014 Culinary Challenge. Last year, Swirsky earned a bronze medal at the conference.? MSU Culinary Services showcased Brody Square and South Pointe Case dining halls to the attendees of this year’s event. ? “MSU Culinary Services strived to showcase as many local and regional foods as possible,” Brown said. “The conference features many important events including the keynote speeches as well as the American Culinary Federation certified Culinary Challenge for college and university chefs, (and) interest sessions that educate college and university food service professionals to better serve students.”

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Prayut congratulates Trump Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has congratulated US President-elect Donal Trump and expressed hope that the Thai-US ties would be strengthened under the new president. “On behalf of the people of Thailand, I wish to extend my warmest congratulations to you and Governor Mike Pence for being elected the next President and Vice President of the United States of America. Your victory is remarkable and clear evidence that the American people have placed their trust and confidence in you to lead the country forward. I offer you my best wishes and support in this regard,” Prayut said in his message to Trump. In the message, Prayut said bonds of friendship between peoples of the two nations have always been strong and enduring. “I truly believe that the relationship between Thailand and the United States will be strengthened under your leadership. I look forward to working closely with you and Vice President- elect Pence to reinvigorate the mutually beneficial relationship between our two countries and peoples, and advance the strategic partnership between ASEAN and the United States,” the message said.

Frozen fruit and veggies are absolutely a wonderful alternative to field-fresh. They are picked at the peak of ripeness/freshness and then flash frozen within hours. If you don't have access to fresh, or its off-season, frozen is the way to go. Just be sure to look at the ingredient list, and make sure only the fruit/veg is listed; no additives like sugars or salts.

Bush Will Pair Veto With New Cell Initiative This is an interesting article from the New York times regarding President Bush’s veto of the stem cell research bill, and a new executive order that he will issue intended to encourage scientific advances in regenerative medicine. Here is a experpt from the article: WASHINGTON, June 19 — President Bush will issue an executive order intended to encourage scientific advances in regenerative medicine, according to senior White House officials who said Mr. Bush would announce the initiative on Wednesday, just as he vetoes a measure promoting embryonic stem cell research. The embryonic stem cell measure has widespread public support, and the veto would be the second time Mr. Bush has rejected it. By pairing the veto with a new scientific initiative, the White House clearly hopes to blunt the inevitable criticism that Mr. Bush will face from researchers, advocates for patients and politicians, including many in his own party. In interviews on Tuesday, two senior administration officials said Mr. Bush would direct his health and human services secretary to promote research into producing cells with properties akin to those of human embryonic stem cells, without destroying embryos in the process. Mr. Bush has said embryo destruction is a moral line that he will not cross. Like this: LikeLoading... Related This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 4:27 pm and is filed under Stem Cell. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Delaying any decisions on future climate action until 2015 or 2020 will bring a rapidly increasing risk in costs and threatens the likelihood of the world being able to keep global warming to below 2 degrees C, the Climate Action Tracker warned today in its Durban update. We are heading toward a global emissions pathway that will take warming to 3.5degC, and far from a cost-optimal pathway to keep warming below 2degC, according to the latest analysis from the Climate Action Tracker, a joint project of Climate Analytics, Ecofys and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

I feel very privileged that we have such an international, culturally diverse group of friends and family. Friends' weddings have brought us to many exotic places over the years - India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Morocco, and just last weekend, Helsingborg in Sweden. Since Helsingborg is a seaside town that's very close to the Danish border, we combined the trip with a couple of days in Copenhagen. Before I start, can I just take a second to say I was really impressed with Norwegian Air's in-flight wifi? Ok, it was a bit patchy, but still pretty amazing, don't you think? I had actually been to Scandinavia before, but as barely a teenager, I didn't really appreciate the trip fully. The only memories I had were eating a lot of crayfish, and that all the places we visited were super quiet compared to the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover a buzzing Copenhagen this time! With its pretty canals and people-friendly cycle lanes, the city reminds me a lot of Amsterdam. Everyone we met was friendly and spoke immaculate English, which made exploring the city that much easier. Copenhagen is pretty small, so apart from taking the train between the airport and the hotel, we just walked everywhere with one exception... we did a Segway tour!!! Jimmy suggested we do the Segway tour after spotting it in the streets and finding out that it was the second most highly rated activity on TripAdvisor. If I'm completely honest, I was a bit scared of riding the Segway. I mean, I'm not exactly the most outdoors-y person. I don't drive or know how to ride a bicycle (don't judge me...), and "Mr Segway" himself died after falling off the cliffs on one of his own electric, two-wheeled scooters! So when the hubs was having a snooze, I secretly looked up "is the Segway scary" on Google... After reading many reassuring reviews though, I decided to be adventurous, and I'm so glad I did! Tour guide selfie time! We were told to arrive 10 minutes early for safety briefing and training in an off-street area, and were given helmets fitted with a radio system so that we could listen to the guide throughout the one hour tour. It took me a couple of minutes to get used to balancing, but before long I was zooming around. The tour took us through some of Copenhagen's top attractions - Nyhavn, Strøget, Amalienborg Palace, Frederik's Church (aka Marble Church), etc. It is the perfect way to hit all the sights if you don't have much time, and I now wish we'd done the 2 hour tour instead! I have to admit though, between looking out for traffic and snapping photos on my iPhone, I didn't really take in too much of the guide's commentary... oops! We also did a canal boat tour from Gammel Strand, walked through Strøget (one of Europe's longest pedestrian shopping streets), drank Danish beer and ate Smørrebrød (open faced sandwich on rye bread) in Amagertorv, strolled along the colourful houses in Nyhavn, and visited the Little Mermaid, etc. I'm no good with words though, so I'm going to bore you with a million photos instead. Enjoy! x

R9 Fury DisplayPort 1.2 issue can't do 4k at 60hz So I recently build my Ryzen 1700 system and The first thing I noticed is that my R9 fury won't do 4K at 60hz anymore. Ofc. The first thing that came to mind was the cable. Been using the Displayport cable that came with the monitor for almost a year without issues. Bought a new one and to my surprise it didn't change anyting. Stuck at 4k@30hz. If I put my fury in my old i5 system it does 4k at 60hz np. Enabling GPU scaling seems to make things even worse. My current link settings are 2.7 Gbps x4, I know this should be higher but not much else than that. I guess this is DP 1.1 speeds? My monitor is set to run at 1.2 and it does work with the same card in my old i5 system but not in my ryzen system. So I talked with a friend of mine, and he agreed to help me find out what is wrong... well long story short, took my fury out put in his gtx 980ti and 4k@60hz worked flawless.. so this is probably a software related issue... well anyway I can't wait this long for a fix... I didn't build a new system only not being able to run my display at native resolution and refresh rate... will be selling my R9 Fury... this is seriously annoying and should not have happened...

By putting the job in the hands of Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton — a Republican appointee and a primary-season rival who attacked him from the right on foreign policy — Obama has effectively given realists and liberal hawks partial ownership of whatever happens in Iraq between now and 2011. In a best-case scenario for progressives, Gates and Clinton will play the role Colin Powell played in the run-up to the Iraq War (except with a better final outcome, obviously): Their association with the policy will help keep non-progressives on board when things get dicey, and then once the job is done they'll be pushed aside and someone like Susan Rice will take over Obama's post-occupation foreign policy. Obviously I don't really think it will work out quite like that. But just as the neoconservative agenda was better-served, at least in the short run, by having Powell as one of the public faces of Iraq War hawkery (rather than, say, John Bolton), I think there's at least a plausible scenario in which the progressive movement ends up being better off in the long run if Hillary Clinton, rather than someone to her left, is at the helm when a spasm of violence pushes Iraq back on to the front pages, and Republicans start accusing the Obama Administration of squandering the Bush-Petraeus gains with a too-precipitous withdrawal. My own problem isn't with one or two of Obama's rumored appointees, but with the fact that his team doesn't seem to have even token representation from the liberal wing of the party. That said, though, I think Ross is right about this. If the Iraqi parliament approves the SOFA agreement later this week, then Obama will have almost perfect cover for withdrawing from Iraq: he'll be doing it under a deal approved by George Bush, and the withdrawal itself will be implemented by Republicans and centrist Democrats. Under the circumstances, it will be virtually impossible for conservatives to accuse him of "losing" the war in Iraq. There's no telling if this is actually what Obama has in mind, or if he's putting together a centrist foreign policy team because he genuinely wants a centrist foreign policy. It could be a bit of both. And in any case, in the end Obama's foreign policy will be set by....Barack Obama. Tea leaf reading will have to wait a while longer, I guess.

Look Like Grambling, Play Like Grambling, Time to be Georgia The Georgia Bulldogs attended their own funeral Saturday and dressed for the occasion. The black no longer serves as inspiration, it serves as a symbolic metaphor foretelling the day’s outcome. In fact, with the amount of yellow being thrown the Dawgs way, one could easily mistake this team for Grambling. The differences between the Georgia football team and Grambling’s are small and shrinking. I have no idea what, if any, effect the black had on the players, but I can assure you if did not elicit a positive reaction from the more seasoned fans. The students appeared to like it. The rest of us had an eerie feeling Coach Richt had just shoved us “all-in” and the deck was stacked against us. There was no getting away from this one. Fifty years from now, Gators will be talking about the “black hat” game. I love the University of Georgia and will never be embarrassed by it. No flags were lowered by this Dawg. Surrender is not forthcoming. I am disappointed, to be sure. More disappointment may be coming with four games remaining. Auburn and Tech have yet to take their shot at the Bulldogs. Kentucky will take any win they can get against us, there will be no asterisk indicating it was against the “black hat” team. We will get the Wildcats’ best effort. Thankfully, homecoming is against Tennessee Tech. Winning two is a must in order to go to a bowl game. I do not care which bowl game, but I am certain we must go to a bowl game. Missing a bowl game is more than money for the program, it is much needed practice time for the younger players, the very players we are counting on to pull us out of this tail spin. We have seen much promise from these young pups. We have talent. Unfortunately, we lack experience at the most important position on the field. Bowl practice is needed now more than ever. Failing to secure a bowl game will place the Georgia Bulldog football program behind the eight-ball. I don’t even want to consider recruiting. The stakes are high in these final four games. More than the pride of rivalries, the very essence of our football lives is at stake. Despite the unis, I saw glimpses of good Georgia football Saturday. Despite the turnovers and penalties, there were moments of sound football played by the Dawgs. The “coach-able moments” were once again plentiful. This time some of those moments were positive, a foundation to build on. We ran the ball pretty well against a very good defense. Our defense was victim to some big plays and several penalties, but showed some moxie. Walsh and Butler are simply brilliant. Let’s build on it and make something of these last four games. Let’s turn them into five!

Botanist: self-proclaimed by its sole mind, Roberto "Otrebor" Martinelli, otherwise known as "The Botanist," as "eco-terrorist black metal." His first effort, I: The Suicide Tree/II: A Rose From The Dead appeared back in 2011 like a gargantuan banyan tree falling over onto the roof of a multimillion-dollar mansion. All of a sudden there appeared in the black metal scene a bizarre, hyper-environmentalist mixture of vocals, drums, and hammered dulcimer… notably quite a lot of that last one, actually. Otrebor would go on to refine the spontaneous and dulcimer-laden sound of his debut with last year's III: Doom In Bloom, which as the title suggests, had a lot more of a doom-ish vibe to it, with a more cohesive sense of composition as well. And now, in 2013, Otrebor is back, ready to assault your senses once more with his bizarre form of one man black metal and joyous songs of mutant plant creatures crawling into your eardrums. Pretty horrendous. Somehow I got the premonition beforehand that a MechanisT-Botanist symbiotic relationship's never to be, but it turned out worse than expected. Almost made me go completely carnivorous on my diet, but ah whatevs.

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Hip-Shaking History Randy Fox’s new book spotlights legendary Excello Records The many reasons Nashville’s nickname is Music City, as opposed to Country Music City, is made abundantly clear in Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story, the new book by East Nashville music writer (and managing editor of The East Nashvillian) Randy Fox. Shake Your Hips documents the extensive history of the legendary Nashville-based R&B label and its affiliated labels (Nashboro, Nasco, A-Bet, etc.) and shines a light on an important, but often overlooked part of the city’s music history: the vibrant and influential R&B scene that had its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s. Although Fox, who has contributed historical pieces to Goldmine, Vintage Rock, Record Collector, The East Nashvillian, and Nashville Scene, had not previously written about Excello, he was familiar with the label’s rich history when he was approached by Scott Bomar of BMG books about possibly writing a book for their RPM series on important independent record labels. “Scott told me they had this idea for a series on labels and asked if I’d be interested in doing one,” Fox recalls. “I said, ‘Yeah, and I think the most obvious choice is Excello.’ He loved the idea, so we went for it.” In addition to Fox’s exhaustive research of historical documents, Shake Your Hips relies on first-hand interviews with a number of people who played a part in the label’s history, including Mac Gayden, Ernie Winfrey, Glen Snoddy, Bob Wilson, Freddie North, and Rob Santos to tell Excello’s story. Fox opens the book with a story illustrating the far-reaching and monumental influence the label had on popular music: It was the fall of 1961 when a couple of British teenagers, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, got together to listen to and talk about the blues. Among the records Jagger took to Richards’ house that day were some with the bright orange and dark blue Excello label. Concrete evidence of the label’s influence on them came three years later on the Rolling Stones’ debut album, which included a cover of the A-side of Slim Harpo’s first record for Excello, 1957’s “I’m a King Bee.” A few years later, the band would cover another of Harpo’s Excello releases on their masterpiece, Exile on Main Street; the song with which Fox’s book shares a title, “Shake Your Hips.” If you are familiar with the Excello story at all, you know the name Ernie Young and Ernie’s Record Mart. You may also know that with the help of the Ernie’s Record Parade show hosted by legendary deejay John Richbourg, aka John R., on the pioneering R&B radio station WLAC, Young built Ernie’s Record Mart into a mail-order powerhouse for R&B and black gospel recordings, which is how Jagger came to have some of the label’s releases. As Fox notes in the book, for British teens like Jagger and Richards, “a goldmine of American blues, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll was just a stamp and a money order away from their doorstep.” As did many of the best-known artists associated with Excello, Harpo came to the label via a relationship begun in 1955 with Louisiana-based independent record producer Jay Miller. “Most of the previous scholarship on Excello Records has focused on the Louisiana recordings,” Fox explains. “So there was a lot that wasn’t known about the earlier, pre-Jay Miller stuff, and the Nashville material recorded concurrently with Miller’s productions.” Shake Your Hips is a deep dive into the entire history of Excello’s parent company, Nashboro Record Company, from its beginning in 1951 to the renaissance it enjoyed in the ’90s when much of the label’s catalog was released on compact disc. Fox’s research for the book quickly led him to the realization that there was much more to the Excello story than he had realized. “The story of the subsidiary label Nasco and how (Young) had this flirtation with trying to score pop hits was new to me,” Fox says. “And very little of the story of the post-Ernie Young period had been told.” The post-Ernie Young period began in the summer of 1966 when Young sold the entire business — record store/mail order business, record labels, and publishing companies — to the Crescent Company, which would own the business for 14 years before selling it to AVI. As Fox delineates in the book, one of the company’s first moves under Crescent’s ownership was to begin construction of a state of the art studio at 1011 Woodland St. in East Nashville. Christened Woodland Studios, the facility housed two recording studios, as well as the recording and publishing divisions of the company. From there, Excello’s new owners looked to expand the label’s horizons, releasing soul and funk recordings, most notably Funky Music Machine, the 1972 album by former James Brown saxophonist Maceo Parker, billed as Maceo and All the King’s Men. It was also during the ’70s the company moved into an area genuinely surprising to Fox. “Another thing that fascinated me — even though it’s a minor point — was their experiment with signing prog rock bands, such as the Electric Toilet and the Whalefeathers. It was just kind of a crazy wild period,” he says with a laugh. In spite of the company’s occasional forays over the decades into other genres, Excello made its mark as a purveyor of authentic blues and R&B. That’s the music that influenced Jagger, Richards, and so many others, and that’s the music that makes Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story such an important book. As Fox relates, after signing the Stones to Atlantic Records in 1978, founder Ahmet Ertegun spoke to Excello’s lasting influence in an interview with Esquire: “I think Jagger would have liked to be on a funky label,” Ertegun said. “I think Jagger would have liked to be on Excello. We were the closest he could get to Excello and still get five million dollars.” Archives Archives About us We are a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the uniqueness of East Nashville & Inglewood with a focus on events, charities, businesses and people in the local area. Written by East Nashvillians, for East Nashvillians! Read more . . .

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned Walkthrough & Strategy Guide Once you have the truck, it's time to head to your destination, which is on the Algonquin side of the Booth Tunnel. You'll see a cutscene of the guy you have to fake-spring from police custody being escorted from a nearby jail. So, begin driving to your destination on the far side of Booth Tunnel, following the route laid out for you by the GPS. Once you arrive in the tunnel, you'll realize that you need to be on the other side of the tunnel (as if you were heading with traffic back into Alderney). Follow the on-screen prompt and park your car along the two lanes there, fitting it into the arrows as shown on-screen. Once you do that, the cops will show up in their prisoner caravan. Since your truck is blocking the road, they immediately know something's up and come out with guns drawn. You'll begin behind your truck, well-covered, so begin firing when you feel comfortable, taking out the cop in front of you and a few other stragglers before switching to your RPG. Be absolutely certain you don't target the prisoner truck, but detonate everything else, especially the cop cars. This will kill several cops and effectively eliminate their cover. Once all enemies are eliminated (the cops will show up as red dots on your HUD), jump in the prisoner truck. It's time to make our escape.

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Former Terp, Current Hokie Seth Allen Did an Amazing Thing WASHINGTON — Seth Allen was a guard for the Maryland Terrapins for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons. He then transferred to Virginia Tech and sat out the 2014-15 season, then he resumed his play for the Hokies. Now in his senior season and averaging 11.4 points on a career-best .564 shooting while putting up a career-high 3.4 assists per game, Allen is having a fine season for the 14-4 Hokies. On Wednesday, he scored 17 points on 6-for-9 shooting while playing 29 minutes off the bench against Georgia Tech. He also canned the game-winning layup, capping a very strong evening for the Woodbridge, Va. native. But no game-winning shot is going to top the unusual maneuver he pulled off early in the second half. Just watch this thing. Seriously, how do you even think about trying that? At what point do you commit to it? What if you miss? That could have been such a disaster, but instead it was among the coolest things to happen in 2017 sports so far.

Without Messi, Argentina's Opportunity Passed to the 2018 World Cup Threatened Losing Lionel Messi in four matches is a major disaster for the Argentine national team. Albiceleste threatened not to qualify for the 2018 World Cup finals. Messi has just been sentenced to a four-match ban by FIFA. The 29-year-old footballer was punished for harassing a line judge on the game against Chile last week. Argentina national team has declared its intention to appeal the sentence. If the penalty will not change, Messi should miss the 2018 World Cup qualifier against Bolivia, Uruguay, Venezuela and Peru. The new Messi can return to play in the last qualifying match against Ecuador in October. Argentina currently occupy the third rank in the standings with 22 points from 13 matches. The Tango team is eight points clear of Brazil leading the table and a point behind Uruguay. Argentina's position is still far from safe because the teams below them are also not far behind. Colombia are in fourth position just behind one point, while Ecuador and Chile are two points apart. Only the top four teams will qualify automatically for the 2018 World Cup finals, while the fifth-ranked team will go through the play-offs. If you consider the material of Argentina national team player, coach Edgardo Bauza actually still have many other top attackers. Bauza can count on Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero, and Paulo Dybala. He can also give an opportunity to Mauro Icardi who has been marginalized. However, Argentina have a bad record when Messi is not in the field. In seven World Cup 2018 qualifying matches without Messi's presence, Argentina only won once. While in six other games they are four draws and two defeats. Compare with when Messi appeared in six other qualifying matches. Argentina won five times and only lost once from Brazil. In six games, Messi scored four goals. 83% - Argentina have won 83% (5/6) of their 2018 World Cup qualifiers with Messi, only 14% without him (1/7). Suspended.

A Cleveland priest is facing public indecency charges after being arrested for soliciting while being HIV+ (a specific crime in Ohio), masturbating in a crowded parking lot and abusing harmful intoxicants. The Rev. James McGonegal of Cleveland's St. Ignatius of Antioch Church reportedly told an off duty ranger that he was "cruising" for sex in his Jeep, before offering the ranger $50 to "get him off." McGonegal then began to masturbate in his vehicle, the final straw that lead to his arrest. While handcuffed in the police car, the priest explained to officers that he was HIV+ and was asked to describe the bottles of poppers and cock rings found in his Jeep. McGonegal was released on bail Saturday morning. On Sunday, his parish made no mention of his absence other than a prayer offering: “Today we pray for this parish, and our pastor.” I realllllly hope Cleveland police are not in the midst of a gay sex sting operation. Yeeeeeah, HIV criminalization is gross. Also, attaching stigma to sex work is gross. If the person hadn't been an officer, but was instead an actual sex worker, this transaction would have been just fine and dandy. I think the lesson here is that criminalizing behaviors that have no business being criminalized is stupid. Though he certainly shouldn't have been jacking off in a crowded parking lot. C'mon, guy. That's what they make bathhouses and bars called "Eagle" for. Treat him the same as anyone else who was soliciting sex.. his health has nothing to do with it ... there are all kinds of unhealthy people out there paying for, and selling sex ... so you can't act like his disease is any worse than anyone elses' out there any more. the fact that he is a member of the church shouldn't protect him or be used against him. The sooner we all start treating EVERY ONE the same the sooner we can stop with the bull shite.

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A gameplay trailer premiered during the event showed an open-world Metal Gear Solid featuring a new bread of stealth (hang on the side of a horse!), real-time weather (like dust storms), various modes of transportation (like tanks), unparalleled strategic freedom, and realistic passage of time. Just at a first glance, I don’t care for the “new breed of stealth”. It’s kind of bullshit, really. I mean, who in their right mind wouldn’t go, “What the hell?” if they just randomly saw a horse riding past them? There are hardly any “wild” horses, so I don’t buy it. Someone would investigate that or think it’s pretty weird to not see someone riding it. EDIT: Also, as much as I enjoy the realtime weather effects, you mean to tell me he can simply walk through a dust storm without it affecting his vision? Of course it affects the player’s vision, but he should have goggles for this particular setting to make it more realistic. Nobody is going to go through a storm like that without protective eyewear (and no, the eyepatch doesn’t count, lol). PrinceHeir yeah i think it would be cool if he added the goggles getting buried by the sandstorm :D but eh there’ still limitations, and yeah the eyepatch he doesn’t get blinded by the sand :P as for the horse, well sometimes you might not notice it, maybe both the soldier were having a conversation and didn’t notice the horse past by Zackasaur Yay! Getting this for PS4. Bob Obb Still kinda looks like a PS3 game but at least it’ll be 1080p60 on PS4 :) DarthNemesis Great I will be getting this for PS4 then its in too many platforms though. rainelee Wow…so getting this first day. For PS4. new_tradition Seeing children in cages… I guess this is what they meant about mature themes? Child soldiers aren’t new to the franchise, but I think see such graphic depictions is something that will hit people hard ;A; Anime10121 My god this game looks GLORIOUS! ALL OF MY WANTS (PS4 version anyway)!!! But yeah, that looked breathtaking, and Kiefer actually sounds pretty good as Snake :) King-Prodigy-X You Sellout!!! Kojima first you get a different voice actor and then you come out on to that stage to announce for Xbox One knowing that it’s also coming to the PS4. I expect a 5 min demo at Sony press conference. >:( Nice Boat Just “Emmerich”? So the doctor “Huey” sold his first name and bought a last name? GhostNomad As excited as I am for this, hearing Snake talk was just… Not right. zweii Is it just me or is the only woman shown here was Quiet. And whats unique about her is that she is a sniper who can’t talk? So as a sniper you won’t see her and won’t hear her. But I maybe overthinking what Kojima wanted here. Jontaku Is that Chandler Riggs as Eli? They look awfully similar. DrForbidden Everything in the trailer is classic Kojima. It’s going to be a long time before I get used to Sutherland’s voice, though…

The Listings Published: April 15, 2005 KEN JOHNSON * 'EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA', Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, (212)288-6400 and at the Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, (718)592-9700 both through June 5. Also, "Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now," Queens Museum of Art through June 5. "Edge of Desire," spread over two venues, is a highly selective, multi-generational survey of different kinds of contemporary art being made in India. The senior figure here, K.G. Subramanyan, born in 1924, has over the years embraced craft, folk, and tribal traditions, as well as popular culture and academic modernism. The show does the same in work from mid-career figures like Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram, to newcomers like Shilpa Gupta, Swarna and Manu Chitrakar, and L.N. Tallur. The smaller portion of the show is at Asia Society; the more expansive and varied section in Queens. Also in Queens is "Fatal Love," a lively but subtle showcase of young artists, many of them women, many living in New York. This show alone is worth a trip to Flushing Meadows. Park Avenue location hours: Tuesdays through Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission: $10; 65+, $7; students with ID, $5; members and under 16, free. HOLLAND COTTER "MAX ERNST: A RETROSPECTIVE" remains at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212)535-7710, through July 10. Max Ernst (1891-1976) is one of modernism's mystery men. He is everywhere in the history of European art between the wars, closely associated with two of the century's wild-and-craziest movements, Dada and Surrealism, yet he never quite materializes. Both despite and because of his elusiveness he remains an artist of some interest, and there are intriguing things in this large survey. They range from some of the earliest paintings to be officially labeled Surrealist, to near-abstract images generated by chance techniques, to examples of the collage-style books some consider Ernst's masterworks. On the positive side, his refusal of a signature style is evidence of his anti-authoritarian instincts. Too often, however, it produced art that looks like brilliant busywork. Only when he is responding to specific events, like war, does his art snap into focus. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER * TIM HAWKINSON, Whitney Museum of American Art, Madison Avenue at 75th Street, (212)570-3676, through May 29. On the gee-whiz meter, Tim Hawkinson skews high. His midcareer retrospective, like a mad scientists' fair of screwball contraptions, hopscotches from one dexterous tour de force to the next. Each requires some head-scratching decipherment, inviting admiration for its doggedness, while not straining too hard to earn a viewer's love. Feats of physical fancy, when so dizzily executed, can be their own justification. Mr. Hawkinson's larger purpose, you might say, is simply wonderment. At the same time the art borrows a healthy strain of ludicrous wit from Samuel Beckett, who knew a thing or two about how to clown around smartly. Hours: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday 1 to 9 p.m.; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission: $12; students and 62+, $9.50; children 12 and under, free. KIMMELMAN * 'HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2004: RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA,' Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, (212)423-3500, through May 11. For his Guggenheim solo show, Rikrit Tirvanija, winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss prize, has built a low-power television station from inexpensive materials in one of the museum's galleries, and papered the walls with instructions on how anyone and everyone can do the same. What looks like a glorified science-fair project comes with specific social context. The airwaves, which carry transmissions, are technically United States government property. Unlicensed broadcast is illegal and licenses are hard to get. Federal control of its communications resources has further tightened in recent years, inspiring a wave of illegal transmissions from stations like this one, which could contribute to grassroots protest against perceived restrictions on first amendment rights. Here, Mr. Tiravanija's art-linked-to-life aesthetic moves outside the art-world to the real world, a significant, potentially far-reaching shift. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER 'LITTLE BOY: THE ARTS OF JAPAN'S EXPLODING SUBCULTURE,' Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street (212)832-1155, through July 24. With Godzilla and Hello Kitty presiding, this eye-boggling show traces the unexamined legacy of World War II as played out in Japan's popular culture and its high incidence of mushroom clouds, bionic heroes, building-crunching monsters and hyper-cute cartoon characters. Masterminded by the artist-writer-entrepreneur Takashi Murakami (of Vuitton bag fame), and organized in collaboration with the Public Arts Fund, it reveals how this culture was twisted and darkened by the otaku, or geek, subculture, which has in turn influenced the work of younger artists like Yoshitomo Nara, Chinatsu Ban and the artist currently known as Mr. ROBERTA SMITH 'PORTRAITS OF AN AGE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1900-1938,' Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, (212)628-6200, through June 6. More than 100 faces make up the cast of this show. The portraits were shot by 35 photographers active in the two countries, among them Lotte Jacobi, Josef Albers, Gisele Freund, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and August Sander. Their images not only give a sense of the rich cultural life in Austria and Germany before the Nazis but also help trace the history of photography during the period. More important, this savvy show homes in on the changing ways people presented themselves in an era of rapidly turning social values. GLUECK * 'CY TWOMBLY: FIFTY YEARS OF WORKS ON PAPER,' Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, (212)570-3676, through May 8. Despite the "works on paper" label, this is basically a show of paintings. It starts in the 1950's, when Mr. Twombly, closely entwined with the artist Robert Rauschenberg, developed a personal anti-aesthetic in which scribbling was a form draftsmanship, gouging and scratching was gestural painting. After moving to Italy, words appeared frequently in the work: obscenities, the names of gods, quotations from Roman epics, scraps of Romantic poetry. It was as if Western cultural history was unfolding on the walls of a toilet stall. Closer to the present the work turns lush and perfumed, into a kind of horticultural expressionism that is both appetizing and uningratiating. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER Galleries: Uptown PETER HOWSON, 'CHRISTOS ANESTE,' Flowers, 1000 Madison Avenue at 77th Street, (212)439-1700, through May 7. Working with a sharp pencil on small square panels in a profusely detailed, expressionistic and sometimes hallucinatory style that harks back to the Northern Renaissance, this British artist brings impressive skill and tragi-comic verve to subjects like the trials of Jesus, the temptation of St. Anthony and the delusions of Don Quixote. His small, brushy and comparatively sentimental paintings are disappointing, but there are fewer of them. JOHNSON Galleries: SoHo * '3 X ABSTRACTION: NEW METHODS OF DRAWING BY HILMA AF KLIMT, EMMA KUNZ AND AGNES MARTIN,' The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, (212)219-2166, through May 21. This fascinating and beautiful exhibition presents mostly abstract, geometric drawings by three women thought to have been motivated largely by spiritual purposes. The Swedish af Klimt and the Swiss Kunz were mystics for whom drawing was a way to represent or channel supernatural dimensions of the universe. Martin, on the other hand, was a Modernist more interested in the Zen-esque experience of the here and now in art and nature. JOHNSON Galleries: Chelsea ERIC FISCHL, Mary Boone, 541 West 24th Street, (212)752-2929, through April 23. Like the ones in his last show at this gallery, Mr. Fischl's paintings are based on his own photographs of hired models behaving like jaded sophisticates during a daytime love-making session or at home after a late night party. The paintings are suavely made with wide brushes in muted colors and they capture complex patterns of light broken up by venetian blinds. But a frustrating vagueness about what is going on in the pictures limits the psychological intrigue. JOHNSON MARK HEYER, Lohin Geduld, 531 West 25th Street, (212)675-2656, through April 23. Mr. Heyer's small, folksy narrative paintings of subjects like a tornado approaching a Midwestern farm, a circus act under the big top and sexy women getting dressed in their rooms look as if they were made in the 1920's and 30's by a simple-minded colleague of Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield. That they are actually clever Postmodernist simulations does not prevent them from being nostalgically enchanting. JOHNSON 'IAN KIAER: THE GREY CLOTH' Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 521 West 21st Street, Chelsea (212)414-4144, through April 30. Inspired by a little-known 1914 novel by the German architecture critic Paul Scheerbart, the five installation pieces in this show work quite well as a neurasthenic environment whose arrangements of pale monochromes and pale found objects abjectly elegize the building blocks of modernism. SMITH JONAS MEKAS: 'FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE,' Maya Stendhal, 545 West 20th Street, (212)366-1549, through April 30. Born in Lithuania in 1922, Mr. Mekas survived a Nazi forced labor camp to become one of the most influential and revered members of the New York avant garde film-making community. This retrospective sampler presents short and long, typically low-production, diaristic films from the past five decades on video screens. Also, a cacophonous, 12-monitor installation shows 24 hours in the life of the artist and his family, a piece that was inspired by an idea of Ferdinand Leger's. JOHNSON HERVÉ DI ROSA: 'THE SOLO GROUP SHOW,' Haim Chanin, 210 Eleventh Avenue at 24th Street, (646)230-7200, through April 23. An antic chameleon of an artist, this French Neo-Popster presents more than 500 small, framed paintings and drawings in four large clusters. Mr. di Rosa's ability to imitate many different styles -- including underground comics, geometric abstraction, Surrealism and realism -- is impressive, but it is the gleeful irreverence and love of absurdity holding it all together that wins you over. JOHNSON MAGNUS VON PLESSEN, Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street (212)206-9300, through April 23. In the artist's eagerness to suggest fluctuating moods and rapid shifting of perceptions, and to avoid the "literalness" that painting can fall into, he puts down fugitive images (often derived initially from photographs) that are done in by paint or the lack of it. One example is "Discontinued," a large teetery structure that amounts to a suggestion of a building with most of its vitals left out. Paint, or its strategic omission, the artist seems to say, trumps imagery. In more talented hands, this is often true, but not here. GLUECK Last Chance JOHN ALTOON: 'PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, 1961-67,' Luise Ross Gallery, 568 Broadway, at Prince Street, SoHo, (212)343-2161, closing tomorrow. In the last years of his short life, Altoon (1925-1969) broke out of the freewheeling West Coast mode of Abstract Expressionism to zero in on more personal images -- some dreamy, others explicitly sexual, still others biomorphic doodles -- that floated through his fantasy. One of the most amusing -- and accessible -- of these works is ''Untitled (Bathtub)'' of 1967. It depicts a woman bathing as a poodle awaits her emergence. But her attention is riveted on a small demonic man who has set fire to her bath water. Altoon's deft, light touch mates well with his fine sense of the silly. GLUECK ALYSON SHOTZ, 'MOMENT IN TIME AND SPACE,' Derek Eller, 526-30 West 25th Street, Chelsea, (212)206-6411, closing tomorrow. This resourceful sculptor has hung an expansive, undulating, floor-to-ceiling curtain in the middle of the gallery. It was made by stapling together thousands of ovals cut from plastic magnifying sheets. The kaleidoscopic optical effects are delightfully confounding. JOHNSON STANLEY WHITNEY, Esso, 531 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212)560-9728, closing tomorrow You might not have thought the tired old genre of grid-based abstract painting still had in it works as buoyantly radiant as these. Painted with a dry, flat and slightly brushy touch, Mr. Whitney's blocks of near-pure color, separated by horizontal bands like books on a bookshelf, have a syncopated chromatic rhythm that is a pleasure to behold. JOHNSON "> Theater A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway shows this weekend. Approximate running times are in parentheses. * denotes a highly recommended show. + means discounted tickets were available at the Theater Development Fund's TKTS booth for performances last Friday and Saturday nights. ++ means discounted tickets were available at the TKTS booth for last Friday night. Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/theater. Broadway + 'ALL SHOOK UP' Compared to its sickly cousin, ''Good Vibrations'' (that's the Beach Boys musical), this synthetic jukebox musical, inspired by the songs of Elvis Presley, looks like Jose Canseco at his steroid-plumped peak. But the relative slickness of ''All Shook Up,'' which features the appealing Cheyenne Jackson as an Elvis-like roustabout, only highlights the emptiness of this ''Mamma Mia!''-style story of a pleasure-challenged small town, directed by Christopher Ashley. In a pint-size theater with a campy young cast, ''All Shook Up'' might be a moderate hoot. Inflated to Broadway proportions, it's a mind-numbing holler (2:10). Palace Theater, 1564 Broadway, at 47th Street, (212)307-4100. Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $19.55 to $100. BEN BRANTLEY 'JULIUS CAESAR' Those cruel forces of history known as the dogs of war are on a rampage in Daniel Sullivan's carnage-happy interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy. Dripping blood and breathing smoke, these specters are chewing up everything in their path: friends, Romans, countrymen, blank verse and even the noblest movie star of them all. That's Denzel Washington, who plays the conflicted Brutus. As the most important passenger on this fast, bumpy ride of a show, Mr. Washington does not embarrass himself. But despite several moving evocations of Brutus's ambivalence, he can't help getting lost amid the wandering, mismatched crowd assembled here. The cast includes the classically polished Colm Feore as Cassius (2:40). Belasco Theater, 111 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $51.25 to $101.25. BRANTLEY * 'DOUBT, A PARABLE' (Pulitzer Prize, Best Play 2005). This tight, absorbing and expertly acted play by John Patrick Shanley is far more complex than surface descriptions might suggest. Set in the Bronx in 1964, it is structured as a clash of wills and generations between Sister Aloysius (Cherry Jones), the head of a parochial school, and Father Flynn (Brian F. O'Byrne), the young priest who may or may not be too fond of the boys in his charge. The play's balance of conflicting viewpoints, its austere institutional setting and its sensational front-page subject at first bring to mind those tidy topical melodramas of truth and falsehood that were once so popular. But Mr. Shanley makes subversive use of musty conventions. ''Doubt'' hews closely to its reassuringly sturdy, familiar form, the better to explore aspects of thought and personality that are anything but solid. And under the eloquently reserved direction of Doug Hughes, Ms. Jones and Mr. O'Byrne, both superb, find startling precision in ambiguity (1:30). Walter Kerr Theater, 219 West 48th Street, (212)239-6200. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $26.25 to $90.25. BRANTLEY +'THE GLASS MENAGERIE' Memory, which is notorious for playing tricks on people, pulls off some doozies in this narcoticized production of Tennessee Williams's classic drama. Staged by David Leveaux, this revival suggests that to recollect the past is to see life as if it had occurred underwater, in some viscous sea through which people swim slowly and blindly. Folks drown in this treacherous element. Unfortunately, that includes the show's luminous but misdirected and miscast stars: Jessica Lange, who brings a sleepy, neurotic sensuality to the role of the vital and domineering Amanda Wingfield, and Christian Slater, who is a red-hot firebrand as her poetical son, Tom (2:30). Ethel Barrymore Theater, 243 West 47th Street; (212)239-6200. Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $71.25 to $91.25. BRANTLEY +'JACKIE MASON: FRESHLY SQUEEZED' Jackie Mason and ''Spamalot'' make an odd Broadway pair facing off across 44th Street, but reactions to the two shows are remarkably similar: lots of laughter, much of it indiscriminate. Mr. Mason's new show is being promoted as a feast of exclusively new material, and this is not false advertising. But it's Mr. Mason's style and not his subject matter that signifies. Mr. Mason has so cunningly manufactured and marketed his dyspeptic comic persona -- the herky-jerky movements used to embellish the routines, the voice that's like a sinus infection with a bad back -- that he may soon be able to refine all actual jokes out of his act, and still slay 'em. That's chutzpah. and quite a talent, too (2:05). Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $81. 25. CHARLES ISHERWOOD 'MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT' This staged re-creation of the mock-medieval movie ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' is basically a singing scrapbook for Python fans. Still, it seems safe to say that such a good time is being had by so many people (including the cast) that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity and irreverence will find a large and lucrative audience among school-age children and grown-ups in touch with the nerdy, nose-thumbing 12-year-olds within. Directed by Mike Nichols, with a cast that includes Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria and the toothsome scenery chewer Sara Ramirez (2:20). Shubert Theater, 225 West 44th Street, (212)239-6200. Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $36.25 to $101.25. BRANTLEY +'STEEL MAGNOLIAS' In Robert Harling's freeze-dried comedy, people speak in the kinds of sentences that wind up embroidered on decorative pillows: ''There is no such thing as natural beauty,'' or, ''I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.'' Cute and sassy or sweet and soggy, the dialogue sometimes achieves the distinction of being all these things. But despite an ensemble featuring high-profile veterans of stage, film and television (including Christine Ebersole, Delta Burke and Marsha Mason), sitting through this portrait of friendship among Southern women, set in a beauty parlor in small-town Louisiana, is like watching nail polish dry (2:20). Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th Street, (212)239-6200. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $46.75 to $86.25. BRANTLEY Off Broadway 'CALIGULA.' Playing the famously vainglorious Roman ruler Caligula reinvented as a postmodern actor-cum-director, gasbag moralist and irreverent critic of biographies about himself, Andre De Shields is phenomenal. This particularly gifted and disciplined actor blasts Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner's play onto an electrified plane where histrionic egomania and sweaty petulance seem like the only ways to fill a stage. A Classical Theater of Harlem production directed by Mr. Preisser, this Caligula is an original work, not an adaptation of Camus, and like the company's 2003 hit production of Genet's ''Blacks,'' the show makes resonant use of a generalized, shabby circus setting and interactions with the audience that deliberately risk offense. Consistency of ideas isn't the show's strength, but the diminutive Mr. De Shields makes it all worthwhile, towering over the 13 other actors with his outsized energy and charisma (1:25). Classical Theater of Harlem at the Harlem School of the Arts Theater, 645 St. Nicholas Avenue, between 141st and 142nd Streets, (212)868-4444. Tickets: $25. JONATHAN KALB 'DECO DIVA' Kara Wilson makes her entrance in an emerald green evening dress. She is the Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka, living in Paris in 1939. In the course of the play, Ms. Wilson paints a copy of Lempicka's ''Beautiful Rafaela,'' which feels like a parlor trick but adds needed texture to this stylish but lightweight work. After her daughter was born, Lempicka took up painting, in the new Art Deco style, finding both career satisfaction and financial success. Ms. Wilson, who is likably insouciant as Lempicka, occasionally breaks into song. The show ends with a little Kurt Weill, which seems appropriate (1:05) 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, (212)279-4200. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:30 p.m.; Sundays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2:30 p.m.; Sundays at 3:30 p.m. Tickets: $25. ANITA GATES +'THE FALSE SERVANT' Decked out in a smart black tailcoat and shiny leather boots, her hair styled in a sleek blond cap, Martha Plimpton cuts a debonair figure in the Classic Stage Company's revival of this unusually chilly Marivaux comedy. Ms. Plimpton's dashing performance imbues the proceedings with a bright, puckish spirit, but Mr. Kulick's efficient but mechanical staging emphasizes the nip that never leaves the air. Its stark simplicity underscores the sensation that we might almost be watching a Shakespeare comedy unfolding in a cold-storage warehouse (2:00). Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, East Village, (212)279-4200. Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; this Sunday and May 1 at 3 p.m. Tickets: 45 to $50. ISHERWOOD ++'GOING TO ST. IVES' Questions of life and death are probed and settled over pots of tea in Lee Blessing's thoughtful, tidy two-hander. May N'Kame (L. Scott Caldwell), the mother of a bloodthirsty African dictator, and Dr. Cora Gage (Vivienne Benesch), a respected British eye surgeon, are brought together by circumstance: May's eyesight is failing. Their relationship will have fateful consequences for both. Mr. Blessing has a handy knack for domesticating seemingly unruly subject matter: the violent legacy of colonialism, the responsibility of Western governments to confront the carnage in Africa, the moral argument for sacrificing one life to save many. But if the play's structural and thematic niceties are intellectually pleasing, they also imbue it with a hollow, manufactured quality that fine performances cannot entirely disguise (2:00). Primary Stages, 59E59Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, (212)279-4200. Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; Wednesday at 2 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $55. ISHERWOOD +'BONNIE PARKER' In the middle of her deadly one-woman show, Dixie Lee Sedgwick suddenly does a cartwheel. And at one point she inexplicably gets down on the floor and poses like the young woman in Andrew Wyeth's ''Christina's World.'' There is probably a lot of rich material in the psyche of Parker, who made her name as the bank-robbing partner of Clyde Barrow in Depression-era America and died with him at 23), but Ms. Sedgwick gives her audience only a one-dimensional character, a young Texas woman who is bored before she meets Barrow and dissatisfied afterward, and the exposition is consistently awkward, This is not to say that Ms. Sedgwick does not have ability or promise, only that this is an immature work (2:00). John Houseman Studio Theater, 450 West 42nd Street, (212)868-4444. Mondays, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:30 p.m. Tickets: $49.95. GATES 'THIS IS HOW IT GOES' Ben Stiller, famous in movies as an everyklutz, is the ideal guide for escorting audiences through the slippery maze of Neil LaBute's extended ploy of a play, directed by George C. Wolfe. In this story of an interracial romantic triangle, Mr. Stiller gives an artfully layered, deceptive performance that leaves you thinking it's a pity he had to portray a moral construct instead of a character. The same might be said of Jeffrey Wright as his surly rival. Fortunately, the wonderful Amanda Peet, exuding an aura of fractured confidence, is allowed to exist outside of the confining dimensions of a sermon (1:30). Public Theater/Anspacher Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, (212)239-6200. Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets: $60. BRANTLEY 'WHAT OF THE NIGHT' A solo show starring Jane Alexander as Djuna Barnes, the literary adventurer best known for her spooky modernist novel ''Nightwood,'' this theatrical curio combines some of the standard facets of dead-celebrity stage plays with the more rarefied and often inscrutable behaviors endemic in the world of performance art. Conceived by Ms. Alexander, choreographer and director Birgitta Trommler and Noreen Tomassi, it provides a sense of Barnes' strange, hallucinatory prose, but remains a confusing amalgam of biography and literary homage: a morass of cranky chitchat, pointless stage business and arcane oration (1:15). Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, (212)279-4200. Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; Wednesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets: $55. ISHERWOOD Off Off Broadway 'THE AUDIENCE' This new musical turns the footlights on Rows A through E at a fictional Broadway production. Conceived and directed by Jack Cummings III, the show has been assembled from contributions by a few dozen writers, composers and lyricists. Whiplash-inducing fluctuations in quality and style are not a problem, however: while there are moments both sentimental and funny here, most of the contributors seem to have obeyed an official mandate to stick strictly to stereotype (1:40). Connelly Theater, 220 East Fourth Street, East Village, (212)352-3101. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $19. ISHERWOOD 'FINNEGANS WAKE' The idea of basing a musical on James Joyce's epic and near-impenetrable feast of language, ''Finnegans Wake,'' sounds perilously close to material for a skit on ''Saturday Night Live.'' But to the credit of Barbara Vann, who adapted the piece for the stage, her Medicine Show Theater Ensemble presents pure Joyce. If some of the tedium of the original comes through, so does the music of its language; and if the performance is uneven, it offers moments of beauty and insight, as when all the characters come under a veil that suddenly recasts itself as the sheet of Finnegan's bed as he, dreaming through an epic that seeks to explore human consciousness at night, begins to wake up (2:30). The Medicine Show Theater, 549 West 52nd Street, (212) 868-4444. Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sunday nights at 7. Tickets: $15. ANNE MIDGETTE 'PLAY IN A PUB' It can be thrilling when one performance in an earthbound double bill about love and desire abruptly takes off, pulling the enterprise into the realm of feeling and belief. As a wry young Frenchwoman who chooses an ex-G.I. as her first lover, Kelli Holsopple persuades you that you are not in a restaurant bar in the East Village watching Romulus Linney's one-act play ''Can Can,'' but in France, with her. The evening opens with ''A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot,'' a revealing burlesque by Tennessee Williams about two lonely women of a certain age and their hunger for at least an encounter with the opposite sex, if not happiness. Phoenix Theater Ensemble's ''Play in a Pub'' runs through April 28 at the Bacchus Room, Bona Fides Restaurant, 60 Second Avenue, at Third Street, East Village, (212)352-3101. Sunday at 3 p.m.; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. Tickets: $15 plus one drink minimum. ANDREA STEVENS Last Chance +* 'DEMOCRACY' Michael Frayn's glorious study of the mutations of politics and the men who practice it, directed by Michael Blakemore, is one of those rare dramas that don't just dare to think big but that fully translate their high aspirations to the stage, with sharp style and thrilling clarity. The well-oiled, highly polished 10-actor ensemble is led by James Naughton and Richard Thomas. You're likely to find yourself echoing the sentiments of a government functionary caught up in the surge of tension and relief in a closely fought voting session. ''Never mind football!'' he exclaims. ''Try parliamentary democracy!'' (2:30). Brooks Atkinson Theater, 256 West 47th Street, (212)307-4100. Tonight at 8; tomorrow at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets: $60 to $95. BRANTLEY +'HIDING BEHIND COMETS' The dynamics of the guy-walks-into-a-bar play are tricky. Inject a set of twins into the mix, as Brian Dykstra does in his play, and you've pretty much doomed the venture. The twins here are a male-female pair, 20-somethings named Troy (Robert Mollohan) and Honey (Moira MacDonald). They mind their father's dingy bar. The stranger who intrudes is Cole (Dan Moran), an elliptical older fellow with a temper. After much verbal sparring, and a lot of sex talk that isn't very sexy, the point emerges: Cole was supposedly at Jonestown during the mass suicide there in 1978, and he has dropped by the bar to force Honey and Troy to rethink their parentage. Mr. Dykstra's script sounds as if it's banking on the shock value of Jonestown, hoping that the audience, like the idiot twins on the stage, will not have heard of it. Way too early for that (1:45). 29th Street Rep, 212 West 29th Street, (212)868-4444. Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.; tomorrow at 3. Tickets: $35; $40 for Fridays and Saturday evenings. Closes April 17. NEIL GENZLINGER 'RADIUM' Alex S. DeFazio's unfocused drama operates on the ''now that I have your attention ...'' principle. The first scene is of two naked men simulating anal sex. One is the play's would-be hero, Alexis (as in Alex S., one presumes). The other, J., is the play's most interesting creation, a devastatingly good-looking guy whose favorite game is picking up men and then refusing to satisfy them sexually. ''I've never been rejected, not as I am,'' he says. Unfortunately, ''Radium'' isn't about J. The play does have an inventive Pinteresque structure, but basically Mr. DeFazio has written two acts of college-boy poetry about being gay, looking for emotional connections and feeling uncomfortable about it all (1:40). The Jewel Box Theater, at the 42nd Street Workshop Theater Company, 312 West 36th Street, (212)868-4444. Tonight and tomorrow and Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets: $25, $15 for 65+ and students. GATES Movies A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy movies playing this weekend in the New York metropolitan region. * denotes a highly recommended film. Ratings and running times are in parentheses. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. 'BEAUTY SHOP' Directed by Billie Woodruff. Starring Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Bacon and Djimon Hounsou (PG-13, 105 minutes). Less a sequel than an old-fashioned sitcom spinoff, this loose and genial comedy moves the ''Barbershop'' franchise to Atlanta, and gives the ladies a turn at the warm, salty banter that made the first two installments so popular. Queen Latifa plays Gina, who quits her job at an upscale salon (run by Mr. Bacon's character) and opens her own establishment. Staffed by a group of boisterous women, along with a token male, the place soon becomes a neighborhood institution. Various subplots pop up now and then, but like its predecessors, this movie runs less on story than on the relaxed, playful humor that accompanies serious hair care. A.O. SCOTT 'THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE' Written and directed by Rebecca Miller. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis (R, 112 minutes). The Jack of all trades in this new film, played by the brilliant actor Daniel Day-Lewis, is no ordinary man. A proud survivor of the 1960's and its utopian promise, Jack lives alone on an island with his only daughter, Rose (Camilla Belle). Shrunk to near-skeletal size, his bones poking right angles through his clothes, Jack suffers from two heart conditions. One will soon put him six feet under. But before that, the other may send the terminal outsider and his daughter down the path of disaster, though one shaped more by the tao of Oprah and Dr. Phil than the tragedy of Lear and Cordelia. A story about the limits of love, ''The Ballad of Jack and Rose'' is also about the limits of idealism as well as, rather unfortunately, those of its restlessly ambitious writer and director. MANOHLA DARGIS 'GUESS WHO' Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. Starring Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher and Zoe Salda?PG-13, 103 minutes). This loose, pointless remake of ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner'' at least suggests that American racial attitudes have relaxed since 1967, when Spencer Tracy worried about Sidney Poitier marrying his daughter. This time, the worried father is played by Mr. Mac, and the suitor by Mr. Kutcher. Mr. Mac plays Percy Jones, a truculent suburban patriarch deeply suspicious of Simon Green, the amiable, spazzy stockbroker played by Mr. Kutcher. He and Ms. Salda?who plays Percy's older daughter and Simon's fianc? is charming and attractive, but her role is quite secondary to what is at bottom an interracial buddy comedy. Or would be, if the squad of screenwriters had bothered to write any funny jokes. SCOTT * 'FEVER PITCH' Directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly. Starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon (PG-13, 98 minutes). To watch ''Fever Pitch,'' the new, thoroughly winning if not especially good romantic comedy by Peter and Bobby Farrelly, is to appreciate, yet again, that the great loves of our lives are rarely perfect. That is, of course, not big news. If Hollywood has taught us anything over the last century it is that every so often a seemingly ordinary commercial enterprise can afford us fleeting access to the sublime. And for my money, there are few movie moments right now more sublime than the image of Drew Barrymore running across a major league baseball field and, with that famous jaw jutting into the wind, dodging ballplayers and storybook clich?to save the windup of this imperfectly true romance. Based on the memoir by Nick Hornby, the film doesn't fully work, but I ended up rooting for it anyway, partly because Ms. Barrymore and her costar Jimmy Fallon make a nice fit, partly because the Farrellys bring so much heart to their movie. DARGIS 'HOSTAGE' Directed by Florent Siri. Starring Bruce Willis and Kevin Pollak (R, 113 minutes). More than sad, it's slightly sickening to consider the technology, talent and know-how squandered on this pile of blood-soaked toxic waste dumped onto the screen in an attempt to salvage Mr. Willis's fading career as an action hero. The star plays a former hostage negotiator who has exiled himself to a quiet southern California town after a botched standoff. He springs back into action when the cliff-hugging mansion of a crooked book-cooking corporate accountant (Mr. Pollak) is simultaneously invaded by a posse of teenage punks and by a S.W.A.T. team of high-tech gangsters. The fiery demolition of this architectural monstrosity in which the accountant lives with his two children is the only thing worth applauding in this mess of film. STEPHEN HOLDEN 'KUNG FU HUSTLE' Directed by Stephen Chow. Starring Mr. Chow (R, 95 minutes, in Mandarin and Cantonese, with English subtitles). Recent Chinese-language action epics like ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' ane ''Hero'' have been somber, almost operatic, so it is nice that the prolific Mr. Chow has supplied the latest reminder that the martial arts tradition has plenty of room for clowning. This kinetic, exhausting, relentlessly entertaining film throws scraps of a half-century of international pop culture into a fast-whirling blender -- western, Looney Tunes, and several generations of Hong Kong chopsockery. Some old stars have been coaxed out of retirment, most notably Yuan Qiu, who plays a chain-smoking, leather-lunged Landlady -- imagine a combination of Lucille Ball, Thelma Ritter and the Tasmanian Devil -- and who upstages even the most extravagant computer-generated special effects. There is sure to be a sequel, but it's hardly necessary, since the concussive action sequences induce a kind of amnesia. You could watch this movie again and again, which is another way of saying that, in the end, it isn't very memorable. SCOTT * 'LOOK AT ME' Directed by Agn?Jaoui. Starring Marilou Berry, Ms. Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri (PG-13, 110 minutes; in French, with English subtitles). Ms. Jaoui follows her marvelous first feature, ''The Taste of Others,'' with an equally delicious comedy, as tart as it is sweet, of ambition, miscommunication and egoism. Set in a Paris that seems to be populated entirely by artists and writers (some of whom also have beautiful houses in the country), the film affectionately tweaks the bad manners and complacency of France's intellectual elite. Mr. Bacri plays a famous novelist whose cavalier neglect of his slightly overweight daughter (Ms. Berry) is the moral pivot on which the complex plot turns. Ms. Jaoui plays the young woman's voice teacher, who husband is an up-and-coming novelist and who is either the film's most honest character or its most thorough-going hypocrite. SCOTT 'MELINDA AND MELINDA' Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Radha Mitchell and Chloe Sevigny (PG-13, 99 minutes). The same story, more or less, told two different ways -- as serious drama and as comedy. Though the drama lacks emotional intensity and the comedy lacks funny jokes, Mr. Allen interweaves them deftly enough and provides some of the members of his large cast with opportunities to do some crisp, old-fashioned stage-style acting. The link between the two tales in Ms. Mitchell, who plays Melinda in both -- an unhappy woman who throws the romantic, professional and social lives of a group of articulate Manhattanites into mild turmoil. In the tragedy, she chain-smokes and fidgets, while in the comedy she has an ing?e's golden glow. Some of the actors fare better than others -- Ms. Sevigny and Mr. Ejiofor seem best suited for Mr. Allen's anti-naturalistic approach to acting, while Mr. Ferrell's shambling geniality make him a poor choice for the inevitable role of Woody Allen surrogate. In any case, the movie is most powerful as an extended piece of real estate pornography, depicting a seductive fantasy New York (though filmed in the real one) where struggling filmmakers and out-of-work actors live in fabulous lofts and labyrinthine prewar apartments. SCOTT * 'MILLIONS' Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Alex Etel (PG, 97 minutes). When it comes to making movies, Mr. Boyle is usually up to no good, which is something this visual stylist does with great ostentatious flair. Best known for ''Trainspotting,'' a grungy entertainment about the gleefully down and out, and for the shiver-filled zombie flick ''28 Days Later,'' Mr. Boyle is the sort of creative type in whom the milk of human kindness often seems to curdle rather than flow. Given the gaudy violence that frequently moves his stories forward and keeps them jumping, it may come as something of a surprise that he has directed a heartfelt, emotionally delicate children's movie about life and death and all the parts in between. Pegged to a motherless child named Damian (Alex Etel, making a sensational debut), ''Millions'' is about the secret world of children, in particular that miraculous, tragically brief interlude when the young imagination -- not yet captive to crippling adult conventions like time, space and rational thought -- takes boundless flight. DARGIS 'MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS' Directed by John Pasquin. Starring Sandra Bullock (PG-13, 100 minutes). Wading through this junky sequel to her genial goofball hit ''Miss Congeniality,'' Ms. Bullock looks as if she would rather be shoveling pig waste, though of course in some respects that is exactly what she's doing. Set a mere three weeks after the first film, which was released in 2000, this sequel finds Ms. Bullock as the charmingly clumsy F.B.I. agent Gracie Hart, vainly fending off unwanted celebrity. On her last assignment, Gracie infiltrated a beauty pageant by metamorphosing from duckling to swan, a mission that earned her legions of fans across the country. After her cover is blown during a bank heist, endangering her and the other agents on her team, the powers that be decide that she should become ''the face of the F.B.I.,'' the idea being that flouncing about in designer threads will be better for Gracie's soul and career and, by extension, this movie than pushing pencils. It isn't. DARGIS 'THE PACIFIER' Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Vin Diesel (PG, 97 minutes). In the primary visual gag of ''The Pacifier,'' a Navy Seal, on a top-secret babysitting mission, retrofits his gun and grenade holders to keep baby formula and diapers at the ready. Despite the specter of boogeymen, Disney's new family flick remains chipper and occasionally clever, as it sends up the high-tech know-how required in 21st-century parenting. As a special-ops warrior with a heart-thawing assignment, Mr. Diesel succeeds as a genre-switcher through the help of an able ensemble. The mayhem should delight kids, just as the imposed order will please parents. Anyone else, however, might feel as though they are, in Mr. Diesel's words, merely ''burning daylight.'' NED MARTEL 'THE RING TWO' Directed by Hideo Nakata. Starring Naomi Watts (PG-13, 111 minutes). It was only a matter of time before the Japanese horror auteur Hideo Nakata went Hollywood and so he has at last as the director of, yes, ''The Ring Two,'' the inevitable sequel to the American remake of his original hit. (Got that?) Once again, Ms. Watts plays Rachel Keller, a journalist and a single mom to a young son, Aidan (David Dorfman), recently relocated from Seattle to a small coastal town in Oregon. In ''The Ring,'' Rachel escaped the marauding ghost in the machine and now thinks she has entered a new chapter. No such luck; she is actually mucking about on a slag heap of recycled scares, dumb lines and predictable entanglements, including some static with a potential boyfriend replacement (Simon Baker) and some weirdness with an asylum inmate (Sissy Spacek in a fright wig). Once again, blood pools, water flows and the ghost comes calling through the magic of video, scaring to death anyone foolish enough not to have made the move to DVD. DARGIS 'ROBOTS' Directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha. With the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry and Robin Williams (PG, 89 minutes). Like so many other non-Pixar computer-animated family movies, this one, from Fox's Blue Sky Studios, runs on visual novelty and narrative familiarity. The setting, a world made entirely for and by clanky mechanical gizmos, is rendered with impressive skill and imagination, as are the characters, an assortment of dented heroes and sleek, silvery villains. Otherwise, it's the usual junkyard assemblage of celebrity voices, lame pop-cultural allusions, cool soundtrack music and heartwarming lessons about being yourself and following your dreams. There is, it must be said, a certain honesty to the story, which suggests that recycled, second-hand junk is superior to the latest high-tech upgrades, a moral the movie at once upholds and refutes. SCOTT 'SAHARA' Directed by Breck Eisner. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penelope Cruz, Lambert Wilson, Glynn Turman, Delroy Lindo, William H. Macy and Rainn Wilson. (PG-13, 130 minutes). It may not be ''Raiders of the Lost Ark,'' but ''Sahara,'' the screen adaptation of Clive Cussler's sprawling African adventure yarn, is a movie that keeps half a brain in its head while adopting the amused, cocky smirk of the Indiana Jones romps. A fusion of old and new, it both is and isn't a delirious escape into adventure-serial heaven. Amid its madcap derring-do, the movie inserts clear, simple alarms about environmental protection, African despotism, global interdependence, and bureaucratic cowardice. Its dressing up of an old-fashioned adventure fantasy in contemporary threads is an experiment in juxtaposition that gains in assurance as the film bounds along. As the swashbuckling comic hero Dirk Pitt, Mr. McConaughey at last gets a clear shot at stepping into Harrison Ford's $20 million trekking shoes, but those shoes may not fit. HOLDEN * 'SCHIZO' Directed by Guka Omarova. Starring Olzhas Nusuppaev. (not rated, 86 minutes, in Russian, with English subtitles). This modest neo-realist film from Kazhakstan is both tough and tender, and it illuminates the lives of its characters with bracing clarity and understated empathy. Schizo is a teen-aged boy living with his mother and her boyfriend in a desolate area of vast fields and ababandoned industry. After helping his would-be stepfather recruit fighters for illegal bare-knuckle boxing matches, Schizo gets involved with Zinka, a local woman whose husband has died in the ring after a brutal bout. Their friendship is sweet and a little improbable, but as the movie follows the conventions of a crime-tinged coming-of-age story it achieves a rough, convincing poetry made of the hard circumstances of real life. SCOTT 'SIN CITY' Directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. Starring Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen and Bruce Willis (R, 126 minutes). There are eight million stories in the naked city and almost as many crammed into ''Sin City.'' Based on the comic book series of the same name by Mr. Miller, this slavishly faithful screen adaptation tracks the ups and downs of tough guys and dolls recycled from the lower depths and bottom shelves of pulp fiction. Instead of Raymond Chandler, though, these hard-boiled tales owe a debt to the American primitivism of Mickey Spillane and comic book legends like William Gaines. ''Sin City'' has been made with such scrupulous care and obvious love for its genre influences that it's a shame the movie is kind of a bore. In recent years, Mr. Rodriguez has been a careless craftsman, but he went to great lengths to honor Mr. Miller's vision. Alas, in an effort to make a faithful adaptation, Mr. Rodriguez put his own movie sense on hold, not even bothering with a real script. DARGIS 'THE UPSIDE OF ANGER' Directed by Mike Binder. Starring Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell and Alicia Witt (R, 116 minutes). The upside of this deeply flawed attempt to marry midlife romantic comedy with domestic farce is that it provides a platform for Mr. Costner and Ms. Allen to do some marvelous work. Both performances are somewhat familiar: Mr. Costner, once again, is an athlete past his prime, and Ms. Allen is a brittle, unhappy suburban housewife, but the actors slip into their characters with ease and wit, and complement each other beautifully as they explore a haphazard friendship that turns into a love affair. The downside is that Mr. Binder does not give them enough of a dramatic context to work in, and undermines their efforts with a surprise ending that very nearly destroys the whole movie. Ms. Witt, Ms. Christensen, Ms. Wood and Ms. Russell play Ms. Allen's daughters, but their characters are as thinly conceived as figures in a television pilot, and it is hard to believe that the four of them and Ms. Allen add up to a family. SCOTT Pop A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy rock and pop concerts in the New York metropolitan region this weekend. * denotes a highly recommended concert. Full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. THE BRAVERY, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111. This cheerfully ridiculous neo-wave band comes armed with plenty of pseudo-disco basslines and gobs of eye makeup. This combination has earned the band a bunch of fans and perhaps an even bigger (or, at any rate, more vocal) bunch of detractors, including the lead singer of another neo-wave band, the Killers. For entertainment's sake, here's hoping some detractors sneak in among the fans during this concert -- rock bands don't get booed often enough. Sunday night at 8, with Ash and alaska!; tickets -- $16 in advance, $18 at the door -- are sold out, but returns may be available. KELEFA SANNEH T BROUSSARD AND THE ZYDECO STEPPERS, Satalla, 37 West 26th Street, (212) 576-1155. Bryant (T) Broussard has Lousiana musicians on both sides of his family. He's the accordionist and singer of a hard-working zydeco band. This show on Sunday, presented by Let's Zydeco, starts with dance lessons at 1:30 followed by the band from 2:30 to 6; admission is $18. JON PARELES DAMON AND NAOMI, the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006. Damon and Naomi used to be in Galaxie 500, and on their own they have held onto the old group's hushed tone and searching simplicity; their group includes Kurihara from the Japanese band Ghost. Sunday night at 7, with Adrian Crowley and the writer Rick Moody, doing a reading, opening. Admission is $12. PARELES DJ LE SPAM AND THE SPAM ALLSTARS, S.O.B.'s (Sounds of Brazil), 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212)243-4940. This party imported from Miami puts a disc jockey together with live musicians, mixing Latin rhythms with electronic beats. Tomorrow night, midnight to dawn; admission is $10. PARELES OSCAR D'LEON, Copacabana, 560 West 34th Street (212) 239-2672. Oscar D'Leon, a suavely forceful singer and a bass-twirling bandleader from Venezuela, leads a high-powered dance band that holds on to the best aspects of 1970's and 1980's salsa. Tomorrow night at 10 p.m., trading sets with Raffy Matias; admission is $25. PARELES C. GIBBS, Rodeo Bar, 375 Third Avenue at 27th Street, (212)683-6500. Christian Gibbs, who played lead guitar for Modern English and Foetus before starting his own bands, never settles down. As his lyrics detail surreal and troubled visions, with titles like ''Oversized Pin Cushion'' and ''Superficial Flesh Wound,'' the music wanders amid countryish rock, cracked cabaret oom-pah and elaborate, Beatles-flavored ballads. Tonight's first set starts at 10; free. PARELES CHARLIE GRACIE, Rodeo Bar, 375 Third Avenue at 27th Street, (212)683-6500. In 1957, Charlie Gracie was a rockabilly singer from Philadelphia whose hit, ''Butterfly,'' topped Elvis Presley on the charts. Years later, he still works his guitar hard. Tomorrow night's first set is at 10; free. PARELES THE KLEZMATICS, Satalla, 37 West 26th Street, (212)576-1155. The Klezmatics love the laughing, moaning melodies of traditional klezmer music. They also love jazz, rock and downtown improvisation, and they bring all of them to bear on their music, which can be raucous, hypnotic, reverent and dizzying, sometimes all in one quick-changing piece. They carry klezmer's itinerant, idea-gathering spirit all the way into present-day New York City. Tomorrow night at 7:30 and 10; tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. PARELES MOFRO/CYRO BAPTISTA AND BEAT THE DONKEY, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212)533-2111. Mofro, a pair of guitarists from Florida, play bluesy songs that revel in swampy roots. Cyro Baptista, a Brazilian percussionist who's fond of melody and humor as well as rhythm, leads a troupe of percussionists and dancers in Beat the Donkey, his 10-member mini-carnival, playing instruments and rhythms that are both traditional and newly concocted. Tomorrow night at 9; tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. PARELES * NELLY , the Theater at Madison Square Garden, 7th Avenue at 32nd Street, (212)465-6741. Still counting the money from his ambitious and charming recent pair of albums, ''Sweat'' and ''Suit'' (Universal), Nelly comes to town to celebrate his continuing success -- and, perhaps, his neat feat of making a video (''Over and Over,'' with the country star Tim McGraw) that plays on both BET and CMT. He is to be joined by a strong line-up of rappers: the energetic heavyweight Fat Joe and, best of all, the slick but ferocious Atlanta kingpin T.I. Tonight at 8, tickets are $45.50 to $75.50. SANNEH NINA NASTASIA, Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, near Delancey Street, Lower East Side, (212)358-7503. In her clear voice, Nina Nastasia sings visions of desolation and unflinching love -- ''dirty hands and dirty feet and all'' -- with melodies that can hint at the symmetries of Appalachian music and a homespun backup from instruments like accordion and banjo. Tomorrow night at 8, with Richard Milner opening; tickets are $12. PARELES OF MONTREAL, Northsix, 66 North 6th Street, Williamburg, Brooklyn, (718)599-5103. Of Montreal, which emerged with the Elephant Six collective of neo-psychedelic bands in Athens, Ga., plays giddy, optimistic, harmonically rambling songs by Kevin Barnes, who's clearly a Beach Boys and Beatles fan. Tomorrow night at 9 with St. Thomas and the Bluffs opening; admission is $10. PARELES * ONEIDA, the Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street, TriBeCa, (212)219-3006. Oneida, a New York band, leans hard on the keyboard-driven minimal rock of the early 1980's for songs that are joyfully relentless. It revs up frantic, obsessive patterns to carry thoughts about history, sex, drugs, rock and roll and a dystopian future, with a drive that's both obsessive and ecstatic. Tomorrow night at 11:30, with Magnolia Electric Co. and Oakley Hall opening; tickets are $10 in advance, $12 tomorrow. PARELES * THE SCUMFROG, the Sullivan Room, 218 Sullivan Street, near Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, (212)252-2151. This party celebrates the three year anniversary of this cozy dance club. The headliner is the Scumfrog, a house producer and D.J. who pays tribute to disco in his own weird way, emphasizing dirty synthesizer lines and tinny vocals; the result is an appealing, free-floating sleaziness. Tonight at 10, with Alex Pearce, Kind Nick and 3 Speaker High; admission is $15. SANNEH SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA, Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, (212)840-2824 or (212)545-7536. Anyone who's heard a salsa band in New York City has probably seen some of the members of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra: They're the virtuosic journeymen who are one of New York City's great musical resources. As the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, they reclaim salsa classics under the direction of the keyboardist Oscar Hernandez, who has worked with Ruben Blades and Paul Simon. Tonight at 8; tickets are $30 and $35. PARELES ROD STEWART, Continental Airlines Arena, the Meadowlands, Route 120, East Rutherford, N.J., (201)935-3900. The soulful scratch in Rod Stewart's voice has carried him through boozy rock, rootsy coming-of-age tales, nostalgic rock and, lately, standards. He's unafraid to be a self-parody as long as it pleases the crowds. Tonight at 8; tickets are $37.50 to $95. PARELES * JESSE SYKES AND THE SWEET HEREAFTER, Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212) 260-4700. A cold wind seems to blow through Jesse Sykes' voice as her songs face desolation and mortality, while her band, the Sweet Hereafter, plays in poised slow motion. There's country in the music, with brushes on the drums and pedal-steel guitar wafting in from above; there's also a sighing viola and a touch of surf-guitar reverb. It's spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow. Tomorrow night at 11, with Great Lake Swimmers at 10, the M's at 9 and Jennifer O'Connor at 8; admission is $12. PARELES * DANNY TENAGLIA, Spirit, 530 W. 27th Street, near 10th Avenue, Chelsea, (212)268-9477. Mr. Tenaglia is one of the city's greatest and most reliable -- and most relentless -- dance music D.J.'s. At this party celebrating, um, a party he threw a year ago, expect a long, delirious night: Mr. Tenaglia is beloved not only for his catholic approach to house music (from clattering rhythm-only tracks to sleek electronic confections), but for his extraordinary stamina, too. Tonight at 11; tickets are $30 in advance, $40 at the door. SANNEH PAUL VAN DYK, Crobar, 530 West 28th Street, near 10th Avenue, Chelsea, (212)629-9000. When this wildly popular German progressive-house producer and D.J. comes to town, you can expect a precise set full of the usual dancefloor-pleasing devices: heroic synthesizer lines, sudden (or gradual) volume changes and lots of wooshing sounds. Tonight after 10; tickets are $40 in advance, $50 at the door. SANNEH Cabaret A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy cabaret shows in Manhattan this weekend. * denotes a highly recommended show. Full reviews of recent cabaret shows: nytimes.com/music. BARBARA CARROLL, Oak Room, Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, (212)419-9331. The Lady of a Thousand Songs is back in the Oak Room for Sunday brunch and evening performances. This elegant red-headed musician and singer is a poised entertainer whose impeccable pianism belongs to the school of jazz that maintains a sense of classical decorum at the keyboard. Even when swinging out, she remains an impressionist with special affinities for Thelonious Monk and bossa nova. Vocally, she belongs to the conversational tradition of Mabel Mercer, with a style that's blas?ut never cold. Sunday at 2 and 8 p.m. cover: $55 at 2, including brunch at noon; $42 at 8, with a $15 minimum. (An $80 dinner-and-show package is available.) STEPHEN HOLDEN * BLOSSOM DEARIE, Danny's Skylight Room, 346 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212)265-8133. To watch this singer and pianist is to appreciate the power of a carefully deployed pop-jazz minimalism combined with a highly discriminating taste in songs. She remains the definitive interpreter, at once fey and tough, of the pop-jazz satirist Dave Frishberg, as astute and unforgiving a social critic as exists. The songs -- her own and other people's -- date from all periods of a career remarkable for its longevity and for Ms. Dearie's stubborn independence and sly wit, which have never gone stale. Tomorrow night at 7; Sunday night at 6:15. Cover: $25, with a $15 minimum; a $54.50 dinner-and-show package is available. HOLDEN * DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER, Le Jazz au Bar, 41 East 58th Street, (212)308-9455. This singer's brilliant but exhausting two-hour show, ''J'ai Deux Amours,'' makes a compelling case that every American performer would profit by taking an extended sabbatical in Paris. That's where Ms. Bridgewater has lived for the last two decades. Her expatriate perspective encouraged the one-time rhythm-and-blues singer from Flint, Mich., to refine the far-flung musical vocabulary that infuses this bilingual program of mostly familiar, mostly French-originated pop songs. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 and 9:30 (tickets: $65), and Sunday at 7:30 (tickets: $50); all shows have a two-drink minimum. HOLDEN Jazz A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy jazz concerts in the New York metropolitan region this weekend. * denotes a highly recommended concert. Full reviews of recent jazz concerts: nytimes.com/music. KENNY BARRON SEXTET, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, (212) 258-9595; www.jalc.org. Mr. Barron, the pianist who has been a widespread presence in jazz over the last three decades, seeks out collaborators of various generations and styles and works energetically on the bandstand. This band includes Vincent Herring, Dayna Stephens, Eddie Henderson, Kiyoshi Kitigawa, and Victor Lewis. Sets through Sunday night are at 7:30 and 9:30, with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow; cover charge is $30, plus a $5 minimum at the bar, $10 at the tables. BEN RATLIFF * GEORGE CABLES PROJECT, Smoke, 2751 Broadway at 106th Street, Manhattan, (212)864-6662. With quiet intensity, Mr. Cables solidified his reputation as one of the best mainstream-jazz pianists during the 1970s; he doesn't lead bands in New York that often, so this is a chance to see him with a particularly good one, including the saxophonist Gary Bartz, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Jeff Watts. Sets are tonight and tomorrow at 9, 11 and 12:30; cover charge is $25. RATLIFF EDMAR CASTANEDA SEXTET, Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212)255-3626. A young Colombian musician, Mr. Castaneda plays the harp, which has, obviously, rarely been used in jazz; but once you see his percussive technique you might wonder why this is so. Sets are Sunday at 8 and 10; cover charge is $15, and there is a $10 minimum. RATLIFF BILL CHARLAP TRIO, Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212)255-4037. For about eight years, the pianist Mr. Charlap has had a steady trio with the bassist Peter Washington and the drummer Kenny Washington; his performances have become extraordinary displays of discipline and improvisation in the language of mainstream jazz -- the wonders of an organized, creative mind. Sets through Sunday night are at 9 and 11; cover charge is $30. RATLIFF CARLA COOK, Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue South, at Bleecker Street, West Village, (212)255-3626. A soulful singer who reaches outside jazz into pop and gospel to get what she needs; usually she has an excellent jazz group backing her up. Sets are tonight and tomorrow at 8, 10 and midnight; cover charge is $20 and there is a $10 minimum. RATLIFF ELI DEGIBRI QUARTET, Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212)929-7565. A young tenor saxophonist from Israel, Mr. Degibri is starting to be known in New York; he commanded some attention when he toured with Herbie Hancock several years ago. Don't miss him. He is a very modern improviser, super-artful; his creations are spiky and fractured, but immaculately sculptured. With Ben Monder on guitar, Ben Street on bass, and Bill Stewart (today) or Adam Cruz (tomorrow) on drums. Shows begin at 10 p.m. Cover, $10 and there is a two-drink minimum. RATLIFF MARK FELDMAN-SYLVIE COURVOISIER/IKUE MORI, The Stone, Avenue C and 2nd Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com. Tonight at 8, the violinist Mr. Feldman and pianist Ms. Courvoisier play the music of John Zorn; at 10, Ikue Mori plays a solo show involving laptop computers and percussive electronics. Admission is $10. RATLIFF SHELLEY HIRSCH-ANTHONY COLEMAN/ELLIOTT SHARP ORCHESTRA CARBON CONDUCTED BY BUTCH MORRIS, The Stone, Avenue C and 2nd Street, East Village, www.thestonenyc.com. Tomorrow at 8, the vocalist Ms. Hirsch and the pianist Anthony Coleman play a program called ''In and Around Kurt Weill''; at 10, Mr. Sharp's 13-piece band, as well as the conductor Butch Morris, crams into the new club's little stage area to perform a piece called ''Quarks Swim Free.'' Admission is $10 per set. RATLIFF * DAVE HOLLAND BIG BAND, Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, midtown, (212) 581-3080. This big band is a relatively new 12-piece outgrowth of the bassist Mr. Holland's more widely known quintet. With the frighteningly well calibrated quintet, you know what you're going to get: careful compositions based on ostinatos, odd metered funk and counterpoint. The big band does more. Loud and fairly traditional, its arrangements for booming horn sections mix influences from postwar Count Basie and Duke Ellington, as well as Thad Jones; it's also music of a different temperature and mood, accommodating more slow tempos, along with some old-fashioned, take-your-time, knock-it-out-of-the-park solos. Sets are tonight and tomorrow at 9 and 11; cover charge is $40, minimum, $10 . RATLIFF * JAZZ COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE FESTIVAL, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212)576-2232. A worthy cooperative organization that has produced many concerts and brought forth a lot of good jazz records, the collective deserves your attention because of its tacit insistence on merging different approaches to playing and thinking about jazz -- as well as resurrecting old figures like Herbie Nichols and Lucky Thompson. Tonight, the pianist Frank Kimbrough's Trio, and the Herbie Nichols Project; tomorrow, Ben Allison's New Quartet, and a new band, the Lucky Thompson Project; Sunday, saxophonist Michael Blake's quartet. Sets through Sunday night are at 7:30 and 9:30, with an 11:30 set tonight and tomorrow; cover charge is $25 and $20 on Sunday. RATLIFF * 'JAZZ CUBANO REUNION' Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, South Village, (212)242-1063. The two young Cuban musicians Yosvany Terry (saxophones) and Dafnis Prieto (drums) get together with a few other mid-90's arrivals to New York's new Latin music scene -- the pianist Luis Perdomo and the bassist Alex Hernandez. Tonight and tomorrow at 9 and 10:30; admission is $15 per set. RATLIFF * KATE McGARRY QUINTET, Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village, (212)539-8770. A lot of jazz singers are good at a few devices and punch them out song after song; Ms. McGarry, who is slowly becoming known around New York, has a deeper supply. You'll find shades of pop singers like Suzanne Vega and Rickie Lee Jones in her voice; you'll also find some of the highest refinements of great jazz singing. She has a breadth of material that runs from jazz standards to traditional Irish ballads to a version of the Kinks' ''(So) Tired of Waiting for You.'' Her new record is ''Mercy Street'' (Palmetto), and she'll be playing new material, with the pianist Fred Hersch as guest. Tonight at 7:30; cover charge is $15. RATLIFF * NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA, DIRECTED BY IRVIN MAYFIELD, Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, Manhattan, (212)721-6500. A 17-piece band from New Orleans led by the young, dynamic trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, who spends part of the year playing party music of the New World with Los Hombres Calientes and part of the year composing his own music, including the Wynton Marsalis-influenced suite ''Strange Fruit,'' just released on Basin Street records. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30; remaining tickets are $100. RATLIFF TRIBUTE TO FRANK SINATRA, Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212)475-8592. A jazz musicians' gathering to honor the Voice, with contributions from the incomparable pianist Hank Jones, as well as Jim DiJulio, Mark Taylor, Eddie Bert, and others. Sets through Sunday are at 8 and 10:30; cover charge is $30, minimum, $5. RATLIFF Classical A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy opera and classical music events this weekend in the New York metropolitan region. * denotes a highly recommended event. Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. Opera 'CARMEN' Straightforward and streamlined, nipped and tucked to bring it in at three hours, City Opera's production of Bizet's classic seems livelier than it last did. Katharine Goeldner is a fine singer, and if the production didn't help her get far past your standard-issue Gypsy mannerisms, that was fine too. John Bellemer, a good-looking tenor with a soft-grained voice that sometimes hardens under strain, is singing his first performances with the company as a callow Don Jos?also new is Malcolm MacKenzie, an appropriately burly Escamillo. Gary Thor Wedow conducts, adequately. Sunday afternoon at 1:30, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212)870-5570. Remaining tickets: $32 to $65. ANNE MIDGETTE 'DON GIOVANNI' The Metropolitan Opera's successful revival of its year-old production of ''Don Giovanni'' is playing again tomorrow night. The company has assembled a gang of good Mozarteans though not always ones bearing big names. Gerald Finley and Tamar Iveri are very good as the Don and Donna Anna. Samuel Ramey takes the unaccustomed role of Leporello and does well with it. Michael Yeargan's sets are simple and to the point. Philippe Jordan is the bright young Swiss conductor. Tomorrow at 8:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212)362-6000. Remaining tickets: $215. BERNARD HOLLAND 'MADAMA BUTTERFLY' The essentials of Puccini's opera are well-served in Mark Lamos's spare, attractive production, in which a magnified and uncluttered version of a traditional Japanese house fills the stage. A new cast joins the production tomorrow. The cast includes Marc Heller as Pinkerton, Jee Hyun Lin as Butterfly, Michael Corvino as Sharpless and Kathryn Friest as Suzuki. Atsushi Yamada conducts. Tonight at 8, New York City Opera, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212)870-5570. Tickets: $37 to $105. ALLAN KOZINN 'LES P?HEURS DE PERLES' With Zandra Rhodes's vividly colored sets and faux-native costumes, New York City Opera's new production of Bizet's early, pretty and slightly sluggish opera set in ancient Sri Lanka evokes the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Mary Dunleavy, the Le?, has a lovely clear soprano; Yeghishe Manucharyan, as Nadir, a small, pushed, but reasonably fluid tenor; and Emmanuel Plasson captures the languorous sensuality of the lovely music. Still, it's an opera in which not much happens, but takes a long time to do it. Tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212)870-5570. Sold out, but returns may be available. MIDGETTE TOSCA. The young Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra made a last-minute debut at the Metropolitan Opera in May of 2002, substituting for Luciano Pavarotti in Puccini's ''Tosca'' on what was assumed (incorrectly, it turned out) would be Mr. Pavarotti's farewell to the Met. On that night, Mr. Licitra, who was 33 at the time, seemed an immensely gifted tenor with an exciting but raw and unfinished voice. He is back at the Met for the first time since his dramatic debut, again as Cavaradossi in ''Tosca.'' Unfortunately, as an artist and singer he remains a work in progress. He still boasts a dusky-toned and powerful voice and sings with youthful energy and fervor. But he was vocally cautious on the first night of the Met's revival of Franco Zeffirelli's 1985 production and his phrasing was sometimes labored. His Tosca, the veteran soprano Maria Guleghina, as is her way, sacrifices beauty of sound and lyrical elegance for the sake of hard-edged power and dramatic intensity. The veteran baritone Frederick Burchinal takes over the role of Scarpia. James Conlon conducts. Tonight at 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212)362-6000. Remaining tickets: $200. ANTHONY TOMMASINI Classical Music AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA In addition to championing forgotten composers, Leon Botstein and his orchestra have often presented fascinating but neglected music by figures we know well. Such is the case for this season-concluding program devoted to Richard Strauss's choral music, little known by even ardent Strauss admirers. Mr. Botstein will lead the orchestra and the Concert Chorale of New York in, among other works, ''Wanderers Sturmlied,'' ''Die Tageszeiten,'' and the ''Olympische Hymne,'' which Strauss conducted at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Sunday at 3, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500. Tickets: $25 to $53. JEREMY EICHLER ARTEK This early music ensemble is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, but it has changed greatly since its early days as a forum for Baroque keyboard works. Now its focus is more general, with vocal music -- especially vocal music that lends itself to dramatic presentation -- as a particular specialty. Even so, for old time's sake, the program tomorrow evening includes concertos for two harpsichords by J.S. Bach and two of his sons, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. Gwendolyn Toth and Dongsok Shin are the harpsichord soloists, and the accompanying period instrument ensemble is to be conducted by Robert Mealy. The program also includes selections from J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 51 and an arrangement of Boccherini's ''Fandango,'' complete with castanets. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., St. Michael's Church, Amsterdam Avenue at 99th Street, (212)967-9157. Tickets: $20. KOZINN BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC They're calling it ''Brooklyn's Ode to Joy:'' the ever-struggling, ever-scrappy Brooklyn Phil is offering Beethoven's Ninth along with a new work the orchestra has commissioned, Jennifer Higdon's ''Dooryard Bloom,'' based on poems by a Brooklyn boy, Walt Whitman. The soloist in this first-ever performance of Ms. Higdon's piece is Nmon Ford; Michael Christie will conduct. Tomorrow night at 8, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, (718)636-4100. Tickets: $20 to $60. MIDGETTE SARA DAVIS BUECHNER Besides being a nimble and elegant pianist, Sara Davis Buechner has a wide-ranging interest in overlooked repertory. Her Koch International recording of piano works by the operetta composer Rudolf Friml was an unexpected pleasure of 2003. So it's no surprise that the recital program she will play at the Greenwich House Music School tonight is rich with intriguing and little-known fare. After beginning with Mozart's Fantasy and Sonata in C minor, she offers works by Elliot Weisgarber, Yukiko Nishimura and Joaquin Turina. On Sunday afternoon she presents a master class at the school, open to the public. Recital tonight at 8; master class Sunday at 3 p.m.; Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, West Village, (212)242-4770. Tickets: $15, $10 for students for the recital; $7 for the master class. TOMMASINI CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER For its final program of the season, the Chamber Music Society offers the premiere of Lalo Schifrin's ''Letters From Argentina.'' The instrumentation (double bass and bandone?oining a more typical chamber ensemble) and the composer's own description suggest an autobiographical work inspired by the aural memories of his Buenos Aires childhood, including tango and folk music. Sunday at 5 p.m., Tuesday at 7:30, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, (212)875-5788. Tickets: $27.50 to $48. EICHLER DAPONTE STRING QUARTET David Del Tredici has written operas and orchestral works and won a Pulitzer Prize, but until recently he had never written a string quartet. The impetus for changing that was the DaPonte Quartet, four Juilliard- and Peabody-trained players who went to Maine in the 1990's on a rural residency grant from Chamber Music America and ended up settling down there. ''Settling'' doesn't preclude ''concertizing,'' and the quartet, which has played around the country, is making its New York debut tonight with pieces by Schulhoff and Beethoven, as well as Mr. Del Tredici's Quartet No. 1 in its New York premiere. Tonight at 8, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800. Tickets: $30. MIDGETTE ENSEMBLE WIEN-BERLIN Compared to all those quartets and piano trios, woodwind chamber music seldom gets much time in the spotlight, but at least for this weekend the Ensemble Wien-Berlin will redress the imbalance. Consisting mainly of principal wind players (current and former) from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, the group offers a ''Czech Winds Weekend'' with works by Dvorak, Janacek, Martinu, Pavel Haas and others spread over two programs. Tomorrow night at 8 and Sunday at 3 p.m., 92nd Street Y, (212)415-5500. Tickets: $35. EICHLER FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WINNERS Big competition victories no longer guarantee professional success or even much exposure. The Metropolitan Museum is therefore trying to reward selected winners by presenting them in recital, in several cases for the first time in this country. The five remaining programs in this series will take place throughout the weekend: Severin von Eckardstein plays tonight at 8; Boris Giltburg is tomorrow at 3 p.m.; Alexei Grynyuk plays tomorrow night at 8; Giuseppe Albanese is Sunday at 3 p.m.; and Antti Siirala closes the festival Sunday night at 8. Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (212)570-3949. Tickets: $20 each, or $80 for all concerts. EICHLER FELICITY LOTT AND ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER Schumann's song cycle ''Frauenliebe und -leben,'' settings of poems by the German Romantic poet Adelbert von Chamisso that deal with the lives and loves of women, is a landmark of the song repertory that is probably performed too often for its own good. But the soprano Felicity Lott and the mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager have found what looks to be a fresh way to present that work in context with other songs dealing with themes of a woman's life from girlhood to old age. The less familiar setting of the Chamisso poems by Karl Loewe will also be performed, along with songs by Brahms and Mendelssohn, all dealing with themes of women. Graham Johnson is the pianist. Sunday at 2 p.m., Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500. Tickets: $48. TOMMASINI VIKTORIA MULLOVA This Russian violinist won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982, but earned bigger headlines when she defected to the West not long afterward. She is an energetic, focused player who some listeners find chilly and others virtuosic and precise. But her partner in this recital is the French pianist Katia Lab?e, a firebrand (and sometime jazz pianist), and it's hard to imagine Ms. Lab?e signing on for a performance that threatens to be icy. The repertory includes a couple of novelties -- Clara Schumann's Romance in D flat and a work by an English composer, Dave Maric -- along with Stravinsky's ''Suite Italienne,'' Schubert's Fantasy in C (D. 934) and the Ravel Violin Sonata. Tonight at 8, Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800. Tickets: $23 to $74. KOZINN NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Riccardo Muti, who usually can't get enough of his homeland, must be relieved to get away from Italy for the moment, after the travails leading up to his resignation as music director of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan on April 2. New Yorkers have taken a special interest in the fracas, since the Philharmonic, which courted Mr. Muti avidly but vainly before hiring Lorin Maazel, will, barring any further extension of Mr. Maazel's contract, soon be back in the market to replace him in 2009. Here Philharmonic audiences will get another look and listen at close hand, as Mr. Muti conducts Liszt's ''Faust Symphony'' and a work by Goffredo Petrassi. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500. Tickets: $25 to $90. JAMES R. OESTREICH 'SEPTETS AND OCTETS' This is the last in a series of concerts at the Miller Theater that has been pairing masterworks from the chamber music repertory with comparably great works from the 20th and 21st centuries. Tomorrow night's program presents Schubert's popular Octet in F with Schoenberg's inventive Septet Suite in E flat, Op. 29. The starry roster of performers, many of whom play regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, includes, in part, the clarinetist Charles Neidich, the hornist William Purvis, the violinist Ida Kavafian, the cellist Fred Sherry and the pianist Christopher Oldfather. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights, (212)854-7799. Tickets: $25. TOMMASINI ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA With his orchestra's labor problems in abeyance, David Robertson brings the St. Louis Symphony to Carnegie Hall. The talented Mr. Robertson is American and relatively young, and his program reflects both situations. The music of Ives begins and ends the evening with first ''The Unanswered Question'' and last the Second Symphony. In between come Copland's ''Lincoln Portrait'' with none other than Paul Newman as narrator and John Adams's ''Century Rolls.'' St. Louis seems eager to have Mr. Robertson, and it offers him an excellent place to learn the American orchestra business at his own pace. Sometimes the right people find each other at the right time. Tomorrow night at 8, Carnegie Hall, (212)247-7800. Tickets: $24 to $82. HOLLAND ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER You can not brand classical music as elitist when there are so many free or affordable concerts to take in all over New York, notably the ''Free for All at Town Hall'' series. On Sunday afternoon this essential series of free concerts presents the rich-voiced and intelligent mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in a recital program with the pianist Bengt Forsberg, her longtime colleague. The program offers songs by Mozart, Haydn and Schubert as well as Haydn's solo cantata ''Arianna a Naxos.'' Interspersed among the vocal works Mr. Forsberg will play solo pieces by J.C. Bach and Schubert. Sunday at 5 p.m., Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212)707-8787. Tickets are available for free (two per person) at the Town Hall box office starting at noon. TOMMASINI Dance A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy dance events this weekend in the New York metropolitan region. * denotes a highly recommended event. Full reviews of recent performances: nytimes.com/dance. * LES BALLETS GRANDIVA These winsome male ballerinas will perform a repertory that includes affectionate spoofs of dance by Gerald Arpino, Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine and Fokine, Petipa and others in two programs. Tonight (Program A) and tomorrow (B) at 8 p.m., Symphony Space, Broadway and 95th Street, Manhattan, (212)864-5400. Tickets: $25; $15 for students, children and 65+. DUNNING * HAROLD (STUMPY) CROMER AND FRIENDS Mr. Cromer, who has been tap-dancing since 1929, will be joined by Megan Haungs, Traci Mann and Toes Tiranoff, with Frank Owen on the piano, in ''The Truth Lies Here,'' a salute to April. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Cobi's Place, 158 West 48th Street, Manhattan, (516)922-2010. Tickets: $20. DUNNING CHRIS FERRIS AND DANCERS A concert of five dances created within the last two years features dynamic movements within intricate spatial designs. Ms. Ferris's pieces explore contrasts between improvised and set choreography, the way interruptions cause a bouncing sequence to grow erratic and differences between falling into partners' arms and falling to the floor. Tomorrow and Sunday at 8 p.m., Merce Cunningham, Studio, 55 Bethune Street, West Village, (718)672-6965. Tickets: $15. JACK ANDERSON FLAMENCO LATINO You don't have to be Spanish to dance flamenco. That might be the motto of the company, directed by Aurora Reyes and Basilio Georges, which will perform in the closest thing they could find to a taverna. Tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 and 11 p.m., Alegrias at La Nacional, 239 West 14th Street, West Village, (212)399-8519. Admission: $10 cover charge. DUNNING * MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY The current crop of Graham dancers may not look like the ones who originated their roles in the dances from the 1930's into the 50's that will be performed this weekend. These are different times. But this generation suggests that Graham's choreography can be simultaneously exalting and entertaining, particularly in Program B (tonight and Sunday afternoon). In this closing weekend, the company will present a family matinee tomorrow with a post-performance ''Meet the Dancers'' session Martha Clarke's new ''Suenos'' may be seen, along with Graham pieces, tomorrow and Sunday nights. Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m., City Center, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan (212)581-1212. Tickets: $24 to $80. DUNNING NEIL GREENBERG Mr. Greenberg's new ''Partial View,'' with music by Zeena Parkins and video by John Jesurun, isn't quite so magical as his last video and dance piece. But it is handsome looking and begins with a haunting solo danced by the choreographer. Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212)924-0077. Tickets: $25; $15 for students and 65+. DUNNING * LINCOLN CENTER 'NEW VISIONS': TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY This trend-setting modern-dance troupe will celebrate its 35th anniversary with two programs. The first (tonight) explores Ms. Brown's choreographic collaborations with Robert Rauschenberg. The second (tomorrow night) includes two New York premieres and the recent ''Geometry of Quiet.'' Tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m., Rose Theater, Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, Broadway at 60th Street, Manhattan, (212)721-6500 or www.lincolncenter.org. Tickets: $45. DUNNING DAVID NEUMANN Mr. Neumann, one of downtown dance's most intriguing performers, teams up in his new ''tough, the tough'' with the filmmaker Hal Hartley and the playwright Will Eno in a work that ''exposes the cognitive maps and geopolitical boundaries that define imaginary landscape inside us and out.'' Consider yourselves warned, possums. Tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 p.m., Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street, East Village, (212)674-8194. Tickets: $15 or TDF voucher. DUNNING * NEW YORK THEATER BALLET A discreet little pearl in the oyster of New York dance this weekend, the program features such little known works as Frederick Ashton's 1930 ''Capriol Suite,'' Antony Tudor's ''Main Gauches'' and ''Judgment of Paris,'' Sallie Wilson's ''Romeo and Juliet'' balcony scene and Ron Sequoio's ''Rondo for Seven,'' as well as a tribute to Bobby Short by Lois Bewley and a new ballet by company member Danielle Genest. Tonight and tomorrow (and next Friday and Saturday) at 7:30 p.m., Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street, Manhattan, (212)307-4100. Tickets: $30; $15 for students and 65+. DUNNING NORANEWDANCECO Nora Stephens, a choreographer and video artist, collaborates with composers Ryan Smith and Jeff Snyder on a multimedia program featuring ''Finding You When,'' a new work that concerns connections and misconnections during the course of a lifetime. Tonight and tomorrow at 8, University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side, (917)843-9470. Tickets: $12. ANDERSON * NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE A company established in 1990 to preserve India's 2000-year old dance traditions offers a program featuring Odissi, the oldest of India's classical dance forms performed by an ensemble of six dancers, three instrumentalists and a singer. Originally a sacred ritual, Odissi conveys spirituality through a sensuous flow of movement marked by lyrical curving gestures that bring to life ancient Indian sculptures. Tonight at 8, tomorrow at 7 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212)242-0800. Tickets: $38. ANDERSON LESLIE SATIN AND DANCERS A choreographer known for her rigor offers the premiere of ''Under Cover,'' a collaboration with the video artist Andrew Gurian that evokes a mysterious disturbing moment through a succession of elusive details. The production features three dancers; Iris Rose, an actress who recites a complex text by Ms. Satin, and Roy Nathanson, a saxophonist. Tonight and Sunday at 8, Construction Company, 10 East 18th Street, Manhattan,(212)924-7882. Tickets: $15. ANDERSON * STREB S.L.A.M. Ms. Streb's Frequent Flyers -- she's not kidding -- will soar, crash and dodge through dances new and familiar for two more weeks at her Brooklyn studio-theater. Popcorn served. Tonight and tomorrow at 7, Sunday at 3 p.m. Through May 1., S.L.A.M., 51 North First Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718)384-6491. Tickets: $15 adults; $10 children; free for children under 4. DUNNING ANDREA WOODS/SOULOWORKS Ms. Woods combines live performance solos with her videodances in a program called ''Bird of Pray,'' with guest artist Hattie Gossett. Tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 p.m., Thalia at Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, Manhattan, (212)864-5400. Tickets: $21; $18 for students and 65+. DUNNING YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX 2005 For those who can't get enough of international ballet competitions, this one was created by former Bolshoi Ballet dancers Gennadi (now at American Ballet Theater) and Larissa Saveliev and offers scholarships for ballet training to dancers from 9 to 19, with the grand prize a contract to the ABT Studio Company. Tonight (contemporary dance round) from 6 to 11 p.m.; tomorrow (classical ballet round) from noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday (final round) from 5 to 7 p.m., Martin Luther King High School Auditorium, Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street, Manhattan. Admission: $10 per round at the door. The competition ends with a gala in which winners perform with dancers from companies including the Royal Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and MOMIX. Monday at 7:30 p.m. City Center, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan, (212)581-1212. Tickets: $15 to $100. DUNNING Art A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy art, design and photography shows at New York museums and galleries this weekend. At many museums, children under 12 and members are admitted free. Addresses, unless otherwise noted, are in Manhattan. Most galleries are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but hours vary and should be checked by telephone. Gallery admission is free unless noted. * denotes a highly recommended show. Full reviews of recent shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums * 'DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS,' Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212)535-7710, through May 30. Arbus could be cruel, but tenderness and melancholy were her finest modes of expression, the emotions that reveal themselves after her best pictures leave their first impression, which is often alarm. She captured a moment, the anxious 1950's and 60's, and -- this probably applies as much to Arbus as to any other photographer of the second half of the last century -- she captured New York. Appropriately, she is given the royal treatment at the Met, including some maddeningly dark, dense and absurdly theatrical galleries, like chapels, of memorabilia. That said, it touches her favorite subjects with grace. Even the shocking photographs of retarded women are sympathetic, implying that the world is full of wondrous things, if our eyes are open enough to recognize them, and that in the end we are all drawn together by our different flaws. Hours: Sundays, Tuesdays through Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays until 9 p.m. Admission: $15; students, $7 and 65+, $10. MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 'DANIEL BUREN: THE EYE OF THE STORM,' Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 88th Street, (212)423-3500, through June 8. The latest artist to be given Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim to play with, Mr. Buren has devised a lumbering construction, 81 feet tall, the corner of what would be a cube large enough to enclose the rotunda, mirrored floor to ceiling. Imagine a glass office tower slammed through the front of the building. The spiraling ramps and circular roof complete themselves in the mirrored reflections, which predictably shift and shimmy in slightly queasy-making fashion along with your movement up or down the ramp. There is not much to the work beyond that. The museum's ramps are empty. Alternative panes of the circular skylight are colored with magenta gels, making a kind of checkerboard pattern. This is pretty. Short kelly-green stripes of tape are stuck below the outside rim of the rotunda's parapet. These are not attractive. A suite of Mr. Buren's colored striped paintings from the late 1960's and 70's are eccentrically aligned, Salon style, on adjacent walls of the museum's High Gallery and reflect through the gallery's doorway in the mirrors. They are at once boring and precious. Hours: Saturdays through Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admission: $15; students and 65+, $10. KIMMELMAN 'CHERISHED POSSESSIONS: A NEW ENGLAND LEGACY,' Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, 18 West 86th Street (212)501-3000, through June 5. More than 100 choice objects from that vast attic of family relics, Historic New England (formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities), appear in this show, from such humble objects as a relic box containing two worm-eaten pieces of 17th-century bread to a grand Copley portrait (1793) of Richard Codman, a handsome profligate from Boston known for his wit, charm and lavish spending. What makes the show different from hundreds of others devoted to American antiques is that, thanks in no small part to bright captioning, it does convey a sense of family connection with the objects. And it gets into the 20th century with modernist furnishings from the Massachusetts home of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, who left Hitler's Germany in 1938 for a teaching post at Harvard. Hours: Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admission: $3. GRACE GLUECK SUE DE BEER, 'BLACK SUN,' Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, 120 Park Avenue at 42nd Street, (800)944-8639, through June 24. Shown in a simplified, walk-in, pink castle, "Black Sun" is a Paul McCarthyesque video projected on two screens about teenage girlhood that alternates passages of lyrical visual beauty and emotional poignancy with periods of aimless tedium. Though it is tempered by irony, the psychological urgency suggests that Ms. de Beer, who is in her early 30's, is still wrestling with her own adolescent conflicts about being good, being bad and being loved. Hours: Mondays through Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Admission: free. KEN JOHNSON * 'EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA', Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, (212)288-6400 and at the Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, (718)592-9700 both through June 5. Also, "Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now," Queens Museum of Art through June 5. "Edge of Desire," spread over two venues, is a highly selective, multi-generational survey of different kinds of contemporary art being made in India. The senior figure here, K.G. Subramanyan, born in 1924, has over the years embraced craft, folk, and tribal traditions, as well as popular culture and academic modernism. The show does the same in work from mid-career figures like Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram, to newcomers like Shilpa Gupta, Swarna and Manu Chitrakar, and L.N. Tallur. The smaller portion of the show is at Asia Society; the more expansive and varied section in Queens. Also in Queens is "Fatal Love," a lively but subtle showcase of young artists, many of them women, many living in New York. This show alone is worth a trip to Flushing Meadows. Park Avenue location hours: Tuesdays through Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission: $10; 65+, $7; students with ID, $5; members and under 16, free. HOLLAND COTTER "MAX ERNST: A RETROSPECTIVE" remains at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212)535-7710, through July 10. Max Ernst (1891-1976) is one of modernism's mystery men. He is everywhere in the history of European art between the wars, closely associated with two of the century's wild-and-craziest movements, Dada and Surrealism, yet he never quite materializes. Both despite and because of his elusiveness he remains an artist of some interest, and there are intriguing things in this large survey. They range from some of the earliest paintings to be officially labeled Surrealist, to near-abstract images generated by chance techniques, to examples of the collage-style books some consider Ernst's masterworks. On the positive side, his refusal of a signature style is evidence of his anti-authoritarian instincts. Too often, however, it produced art that looks like brilliant busywork. Only when he is responding to specific events, like war, does his art snap into focus. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER * TIM HAWKINSON, Whitney Museum of American Art, Madison Avenue at 75th Street, (212)570-3676, through May 29. On the gee-whiz meter, Tim Hawkinson skews high. His midcareer retrospective, like a mad scientists' fair of screwball contraptions, hopscotches from one dexterous tour de force to the next. Each requires some head-scratching decipherment, inviting admiration for its doggedness, while not straining too hard to earn a viewer's love. Feats of physical fancy, when so dizzily executed, can be their own justification. Mr. Hawkinson's larger purpose, you might say, is simply wonderment. At the same time the art borrows a healthy strain of ludicrous wit from Samuel Beckett, who knew a thing or two about how to clown around smartly. Hours: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday 1 to 9 p.m.; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission: $12; students and 62+, $9.50; children 12 and under, free. KIMMELMAN * 'HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2004: RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA,' Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, (212)423-3500, through May 11. For his Guggenheim solo show, Rikrit Tirvanija, winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss prize, has built a low-power television station from inexpensive materials in one of the museum's galleries, and papered the walls with instructions on how anyone and everyone can do the same. What looks like a glorified science-fair project comes with specific social context. The airwaves, which carry transmissions, are technically United States government property. Unlicensed broadcast is illegal and licenses are hard to get. Federal control of its communications resources has further tightened in recent years, inspiring a wave of illegal transmissions from stations like this one, which could contribute to grassroots protest against perceived restrictions on first amendment rights. Here, Mr. Tiravanija's art-linked-to-life aesthetic moves outside the art-world to the real world, a significant, potentially far-reaching shift. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER 'LITTLE BOY: THE ARTS OF JAPAN'S EXPLODING SUBCULTURE,' Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street (212)832-1155, through July 24. With Godzilla and Hello Kitty presiding, this eye-boggling show traces the unexamined legacy of World War II as played out in Japan's popular culture and its high incidence of mushroom clouds, bionic heroes, building-crunching monsters and hyper-cute cartoon characters. Masterminded by the artist-writer-entrepreneur Takashi Murakami (of Vuitton bag fame), and organized in collaboration with the Public Arts Fund, it reveals how this culture was twisted and darkened by the otaku, or geek, subculture, which has in turn influenced the work of younger artists like Yoshitomo Nara, Chinatsu Ban and the artist currently known as Mr. ROBERTA SMITH 'PORTRAITS OF AN AGE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1900-1938,' Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, (212)628-6200, through June 6. More than 100 faces make up the cast of this show. The portraits were shot by 35 photographers active in the two countries, among them Lotte Jacobi, Josef Albers, Gisele Freund, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and August Sander. Their images not only give a sense of the rich cultural life in Austria and Germany before the Nazis but also help trace the history of photography during the period. More important, this savvy show homes in on the changing ways people presented themselves in an era of rapidly turning social values. GLUECK * 'CY TWOMBLY: FIFTY YEARS OF WORKS ON PAPER,' Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, (212)570-3676, through May 8. Despite the "works on paper" label, this is basically a show of paintings. It starts in the 1950's, when Mr. Twombly, closely entwined with the artist Robert Rauschenberg, developed a personal anti-aesthetic in which scribbling was a form draftsmanship, gouging and scratching was gestural painting. After moving to Italy, words appeared frequently in the work: obscenities, the names of gods, quotations from Roman epics, scraps of Romantic poetry. It was as if Western cultural history was unfolding on the walls of a toilet stall. Closer to the present the work turns lush and perfumed, into a kind of horticultural expressionism that is both appetizing and uningratiating. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER Galleries: Uptown PETER HOWSON, 'CHRISTOS ANESTE,' Flowers, 1000 Madison Avenue at 77th Street, (212)439-1700, through May 7. Working with a sharp pencil on small square panels in a profusely detailed, expressionistic and sometimes hallucinatory style that harks back to the Northern Renaissance, this British artist brings impressive skill and tragi-comic verve to subjects like the trials of Jesus, the temptation of St. Anthony and the delusions of Don Quixote. His small, brushy and comparatively sentimental paintings are disappointing, but there are fewer of them. JOHNSON Galleries: SoHo * '3 X ABSTRACTION: NEW METHODS OF DRAWING BY HILMA AF KLIMT, EMMA KUNZ AND AGNES MARTIN,' The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, (212)219-2166, through May 21. This fascinating and beautiful exhibition presents mostly abstract, geometric drawings by three women thought to have been motivated largely by spiritual purposes. The Swedish af Klimt and the Swiss Kunz were mystics for whom drawing was a way to represent or channel supernatural dimensions of the universe. Martin, on the other hand, was a Modernist more interested in the Zen-esque experience of the here and now in art and nature. JOHNSON Galleries: Chelsea ERIC FISCHL, Mary Boone, 541 West 24th Street, (212)752-2929, through April 23. Like the ones in his last show at this gallery, Mr. Fischl's paintings are based on his own photographs of hired models behaving like jaded sophisticates during a daytime love-making session or at home after a late night party. The paintings are suavely made with wide brushes in muted colors and they capture complex patterns of light broken up by venetian blinds. But a frustrating vagueness about what is going on in the pictures limits the psychological intrigue. JOHNSON MARK HEYER, Lohin Geduld, 531 West 25th Street, (212)675-2656, through April 23. Mr. Heyer's small, folksy narrative paintings of subjects like a tornado approaching a Midwestern farm, a circus act under the big top and sexy women getting dressed in their rooms look as if they were made in the 1920's and 30's by a simple-minded colleague of Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield. That they are actually clever Postmodernist simulations does not prevent them from being nostalgically enchanting. JOHNSON 'IAN KIAER: THE GREY CLOTH' Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 521 West 21st Street, Chelsea (212)414-4144, through April 30. Inspired by a little-known 1914 novel by the German architecture critic Paul Scheerbart, the five installation pieces in this show work quite well as a neurasthenic environment whose arrangements of pale monochromes and pale found objects abjectly elegize the building blocks of modernism. SMITH JONAS MEKAS: 'FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE,' Maya Stendhal, 545 West 20th Street, (212)366-1549, through April 30. Born in Lithuania in 1922, Mr. Mekas survived a Nazi forced labor camp to become one of the most influential and revered members of the New York avant garde film-making community. This retrospective sampler presents short and long, typically low-production, diaristic films from the past five decades on video screens. Also, a cacophonous, 12-monitor installation shows 24 hours in the life of the artist and his family, a piece that was inspired by an idea of Ferdinand Leger's. JOHNSON HERV?DI ROSA: 'THE SOLO GROUP SHOW,' Haim Chanin, 210 Eleventh Avenue at 24th Street, (646)230-7200, through April 23. An antic chameleon of an artist, this French Neo-Popster presents more than 500 small, framed paintings and drawings in four large clusters. Mr. di Rosa's ability to imitate many different styles -- including underground comics, geometric abstraction, Surrealism and realism -- is impressive, but it is the gleeful irreverence and love of absurdity holding it all together that wins you over. JOHNSON MAGNUS VON PLESSEN, Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street (212)206-9300, through April 23. In the artist's eagerness to suggest fluctuating moods and rapid shifting of perceptions, and to avoid the "literalness" that painting can fall into, he puts down fugitive images (often derived initially from photographs) that are done in by paint or the lack of it. One example is "Discontinued," a large teetery structure that amounts to a suggestion of a building with most of its vitals left out. Paint, or its strategic omission, the artist seems to say, trumps imagery. In more talented hands, this is often true, but not here. GLUECK Last Chance JOHN ALTOON: 'PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, 1961-67,' Luise Ross Gallery, 568 Broadway, at Prince Street, SoHo, (212)343-2161, closing tomorrow. In the last years of his short life, Altoon (1925-1969) broke out of the freewheeling West Coast mode of Abstract Expressionism to zero in on more personal images -- some dreamy, others explicitly sexual, still others biomorphic doodles -- that floated through his fantasy. One of the most amusing -- and accessible -- of these works is ''Untitled (Bathtub)'' of 1967. It depicts a woman bathing as a poodle awaits her emergence. But her attention is riveted on a small demonic man who has set fire to her bath water. Altoon's deft, light touch mates well with his fine sense of the silly. GLUECK ALYSON SHOTZ, 'MOMENT IN TIME AND SPACE,' Derek Eller, 526-30 West 25th Street, Chelsea, (212)206-6411, closing tomorrow. This resourceful sculptor has hung an expansive, undulating, floor-to-ceiling curtain in the middle of the gallery. It was made by stapling together thousands of ovals cut from plastic magnifying sheets. The kaleidoscopic optical effects are delightfully confounding. JOHNSON STANLEY WHITNEY, Esso, 531 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212)560-9728, closing tomorrow You might not have thought the tired old genre of grid-based abstract painting still had in it works as buoyantly radiant as these. Painted with a dry, flat and slightly brushy touch, Mr. Whitney's blocks of near-pure color, separated by horizontal bands like books on a bookshelf, have a syncopated chromatic rhythm that is a pleasure to behold. JOHNSON Photos: MOVIES -- Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon star in the Farrelly brothers' ''Fever Pitch,'' Page 24. (Photo by Darren Michaels/20th Century Fox); DANCE -- New York Ballet Theater presents a program of little-known works like Frederick Ashton's 1930 ''Capriol Suite'' -- as well as a tribute to Bobby Short -- at Gould Hall in Manhattan this weekend, Page 26. (Photo by Richard Termine); ART -- Aya Takano's ''Night Walk -- A Pink Moon Emerged'' is on view at Japan Society, Page 26. (Photo by Kaikai Kiki) KEN JOHNSON * 'EDGE OF DESIRE: RECENT ART IN INDIA', Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, (212)288-6400 and at the Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens, (718)592-9700 both through June 5. Also, "Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now," Queens Museum of Art through June 5. "Edge of Desire," spread over two venues, is a highly selective, multi-generational survey of different kinds of contemporary art being made in India. The senior figure here, K.G. Subramanyan, born in 1924, has over the years embraced craft, folk, and tribal traditions, as well as popular culture and academic modernism. The show does the same in work from mid-career figures like Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram, to newcomers like Shilpa Gupta, Swarna and Manu Chitrakar, and L.N. Tallur. The smaller portion of the show is at Asia Society; the more expansive and varied section in Queens. Also in Queens is "Fatal Love," a lively but subtle showcase of young artists, many of them women, many living in New York. This show alone is worth a trip to Flushing Meadows. Park Avenue location hours: Tuesdays through Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission: $10; 65+, $7; students with ID, $5; members and under 16, free. HOLLAND COTTER "MAX ERNST: A RETROSPECTIVE" remains at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212)535-7710, through July 10. Max Ernst (1891-1976) is one of modernism's mystery men. He is everywhere in the history of European art between the wars, closely associated with two of the century's wild-and-craziest movements, Dada and Surrealism, yet he never quite materializes. Both despite and because of his elusiveness he remains an artist of some interest, and there are intriguing things in this large survey. They range from some of the earliest paintings to be officially labeled Surrealist, to near-abstract images generated by chance techniques, to examples of the collage-style books some consider Ernst's masterworks. On the positive side, his refusal of a signature style is evidence of his anti-authoritarian instincts. Too often, however, it produced art that looks like brilliant busywork. Only when he is responding to specific events, like war, does his art snap into focus. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER * TIM HAWKINSON, Whitney Museum of American Art, Madison Avenue at 75th Street, (212)570-3676, through May 29. On the gee-whiz meter, Tim Hawkinson skews high. His midcareer retrospective, like a mad scientists' fair of screwball contraptions, hopscotches from one dexterous tour de force to the next. Each requires some head-scratching decipherment, inviting admiration for its doggedness, while not straining too hard to earn a viewer's love. Feats of physical fancy, when so dizzily executed, can be their own justification. Mr. Hawkinson's larger purpose, you might say, is simply wonderment. At the same time the art borrows a healthy strain of ludicrous wit from Samuel Beckett, who knew a thing or two about how to clown around smartly. Hours: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday 1 to 9 p.m.; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission: $12; students and 62+, $9.50; children 12 and under, free. KIMMELMAN * 'HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2004: RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA,' Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, (212)423-3500, through May 11. For his Guggenheim solo show, Rikrit Tirvanija, winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss prize, has built a low-power television station from inexpensive materials in one of the museum's galleries, and papered the walls with instructions on how anyone and everyone can do the same. What looks like a glorified science-fair project comes with specific social context. The airwaves, which carry transmissions, are technically United States government property. Unlicensed broadcast is illegal and licenses are hard to get. Federal control of its communications resources has further tightened in recent years, inspiring a wave of illegal transmissions from stations like this one, which could contribute to grassroots protest against perceived restrictions on first amendment rights. Here, Mr. Tiravanija's art-linked-to-life aesthetic moves outside the art-world to the real world, a significant, potentially far-reaching shift. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER 'LITTLE BOY: THE ARTS OF JAPAN'S EXPLODING SUBCULTURE,' Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street (212)832-1155, through July 24. With Godzilla and Hello Kitty presiding, this eye-boggling show traces the unexamined legacy of World War II as played out in Japan's popular culture and its high incidence of mushroom clouds, bionic heroes, building-crunching monsters and hyper-cute cartoon characters. Masterminded by the artist-writer-entrepreneur Takashi Murakami (of Vuitton bag fame), and organized in collaboration with the Public Arts Fund, it reveals how this culture was twisted and darkened by the otaku, or geek, subculture, which has in turn influenced the work of younger artists like Yoshitomo Nara, Chinatsu Ban and the artist currently known as Mr. ROBERTA SMITH 'PORTRAITS OF AN AGE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1900-1938,' Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, (212)628-6200, through June 6. More than 100 faces make up the cast of this show. The portraits were shot by 35 photographers active in the two countries, among them Lotte Jacobi, Josef Albers, Gisele Freund, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and August Sander. Their images not only give a sense of the rich cultural life in Austria and Germany before the Nazis but also help trace the history of photography during the period. More important, this savvy show homes in on the changing ways people presented themselves in an era of rapidly turning social values. GLUECK * 'CY TWOMBLY: FIFTY YEARS OF WORKS ON PAPER,' Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, (212)570-3676, through May 8. Despite the "works on paper" label, this is basically a show of paintings. It starts in the 1950's, when Mr. Twombly, closely entwined with the artist Robert Rauschenberg, developed a personal anti-aesthetic in which scribbling was a form draftsmanship, gouging and scratching was gestural painting. After moving to Italy, words appeared frequently in the work: obscenities, the names of gods, quotations from Roman epics, scraps of Romantic poetry. It was as if Western cultural history was unfolding on the walls of a toilet stall. Closer to the present the work turns lush and perfumed, into a kind of horticultural expressionism that is both appetizing and uningratiating. Hours and admission: see above. COTTER Galleries: Uptown PETER HOWSON, 'CHRISTOS ANESTE,' Flowers, 1000 Madison Avenue at 77th Street, (212)439-1700, through May 7. Working with a sharp pencil on small square panels in a profusely detailed, expressionistic and sometimes hallucinatory style that harks back to the Northern Renaissance, this British artist brings impressive skill and tragi-comic verve to subjects like the trials of Jesus, the temptation of St. Anthony and the delusions of Don Quixote. His small, brushy and comparatively sentimental paintings are disappointing, but there are fewer of them. JOHNSON Galleries: SoHo * '3 X ABSTRACTION: NEW METHODS OF DRAWING BY HILMA AF KLIMT, EMMA KUNZ AND AGNES MARTIN,' The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, (212)219-2166, through May 21. This fascinating and beautiful exhibition presents mostly abstract, geometric drawings by three women thought to have been motivated largely by spiritual purposes. The Swedish af Klimt and the Swiss Kunz were mystics for whom drawing was a way to represent or channel supernatural dimensions of the universe. Martin, on the other hand, was a Modernist more interested in the Zen-esque experience of the here and now in art and nature. JOHNSON Galleries: Chelsea ERIC FISCHL, Mary Boone, 541 West 24th Street, (212)752-2929, through April 23. Like the ones in his last show at this gallery, Mr. Fischl's paintings are based on his own photographs of hired models behaving like jaded sophisticates during a daytime love-making session or at home after a late night party. The paintings are suavely made with wide brushes in muted colors and they capture complex patterns of light broken up by venetian blinds. But a frustrating vagueness about what is going on in the pictures limits the psychological intrigue. JOHNSON MARK HEYER, Lohin Geduld, 531 West 25th Street, (212)675-2656, through April 23. Mr. Heyer's small, folksy narrative paintings of subjects like a tornado approaching a Midwestern farm, a circus act under the big top and sexy women getting dressed in their rooms look as if they were made in the 1920's and 30's by a simple-minded colleague of Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield. That they are actually clever Postmodernist simulations does not prevent them from being nostalgically enchanting. JOHNSON 'IAN KIAER: THE GREY CLOTH' Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 521 West 21st Street, Chelsea (212)414-4144, through April 30. Inspired by a little-known 1914 novel by the German architecture critic Paul Scheerbart, the five installation pieces in this show work quite well as a neurasthenic environment whose arrangements of pale monochromes and pale found objects abjectly elegize the building blocks of modernism. SMITH JONAS MEKAS: 'FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE,' Maya Stendhal, 545 West 20th Street, (212)366-1549, through April 30. Born in Lithuania in 1922, Mr. Mekas survived a Nazi forced labor camp to become one of the most influential and revered members of the New York avant garde film-making community. This retrospective sampler presents short and long, typically low-production, diaristic films from the past five decades on video screens. Also, a cacophonous, 12-monitor installation shows 24 hours in the life of the artist and his family, a piece that was inspired by an idea of Ferdinand Leger's. JOHNSON HERVÉ DI ROSA: 'THE SOLO GROUP SHOW,' Haim Chanin, 210 Eleventh Avenue at 24th Street, (646)230-7200, through April 23. An antic chameleon of an artist, this French Neo-Popster presents more than 500 small, framed paintings and drawings in four large clusters. Mr. di Rosa's ability to imitate many different styles -- including underground comics, geometric abstraction, Surrealism and realism -- is impressive, but it is the gleeful irreverence and love of absurdity holding it all together that wins you over. JOHNSON MAGNUS VON PLESSEN, Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street (212)206-9300, through April 23. In the artist's eagerness to suggest fluctuating moods and rapid shifting of perceptions, and to avoid the "literalness" that painting can fall into, he puts down fugitive images (often derived initially from photographs) that are done in by paint or the lack of it. One example is "Discontinued," a large teetery structure that amounts to a suggestion of a building with most of its vitals left out. Paint, or its strategic omission, the artist seems to say, trumps imagery. In more talented hands, this is often true, but not here. GLUECK Last Chance JOHN ALTOON: 'PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, 1961-67,' Luise Ross Gallery, 568 Broadway, at Prince Street, SoHo, (212)343-2161, closing tomorrow. In the last years of his short life, Altoon (1925-1969) broke out of the freewheeling West Coast mode of Abstract Expressionism to zero in on more personal images -- some dreamy, others explicitly sexual, still others biomorphic doodles -- that floated through his fantasy. One of the most amusing -- and accessible -- of these works is ''Untitled (Bathtub)'' of 1967. It depicts a woman bathing as a poodle awaits her emergence. But her attention is riveted on a small demonic man who has set fire to her bath water. Altoon's deft, light touch mates well with his fine sense of the silly. GLUECK ALYSON SHOTZ, 'MOMENT IN TIME AND SPACE,' Derek Eller, 526-30 West 25th Street, Chelsea, (212)206-6411, closing tomorrow. This resourceful sculptor has hung an expansive, undulating, floor-to-ceiling curtain in the middle of the gallery. It was made by stapling together thousands of ovals cut from plastic magnifying sheets. The kaleidoscopic optical effects are delightfully confounding. JOHNSON STANLEY WHITNEY, Esso, 531 West 26th Street, Chelsea, (212)560-9728, closing tomorrow You might not have thought the tired old genre of grid-based abstract painting still had in it works as buoyantly radiant as these. Painted with a dry, flat and slightly brushy touch, Mr. Whitney's blocks of near-pure color, separated by horizontal bands like books on a bookshelf, have a syncopated chromatic rhythm that is a pleasure to behold. JOHNSON ">

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4 Answers 4 It's the progressive passive; a combination of the progressive aspect and the passive voice. It does have a subject, which is lasers. But being passive the subject is the patient rather than the agent of the verb. There're two passive forms in English. Lasers are used. Lasers are being used. This latter uses the progressive aspect in a passive construction. The progressive passive (and later the related progressive-of-be, which is another form of "are being") was one of the bêtes noires of some 19th Century grammarians, but is now completely accepted. (Bar some general dislike of the passive in some quarters, though even they tend to dislike it rather than claim it is ungrammatical). (The other passive construction is much older, and raised no such objections). There's a degree of irony, in that while some complaints from that time that persist to this day are about forms that were in the language for many centuries before some people decided they were incorrect, this form actually was quite new, and nobody complains about it. A big part of the reason is that we don't have as much use of the passival any more. Once upon a time we could say something like "lasers are using to treat different skin conditions" to mean the same thing. Only we couldn't really because Einstein didn't develop the theory behind lasers until 1917, and that form was pretty dead then. It would be considered ungrammatical today, though the remnant persists in some middle voice constructions ("the dinner was cooking", "the document was printing"). Yes, it's grammatical. It's a passive construction in which the subject is lasers. You perhaps meant that there is no agent (we don't know who the lasers are being used by), but that is not unusual in a passive construction.

Header Quick Links Menu The Andean: A Tale of Two Bike Fits Jordan Rapp has raced triathlon professionally for the past 10 years. He is the 2011 ITU Long Distance World Champion and a six-time Ironman champion, and holds a mechanical engineering degree from Princeton University. Upon first glance, the Andean seems like a bike designed to do one thing and to do it very well – go really fast in a (mostly) straight line. This was my own impression as well when I first got on the bike, though I suspect that more of that than I realized was informed by frame sizing. Due to production scheduling, I was on an XL frame to start the year. The XL frame has more stack and reach than I prefer, which manifested itself in some seemingly small (but in hindsight more significant) changes in hand-position due to needing to use different extensions than I was used to. But the big change in feel came from the difference in front-center. Front-center is – in my experience – the single most critical impact in terms of whether or not you like how a triathlon/TT bike handles (it’s less critical for road bikes). Stack and reach – and in particular reach – determines how a tri-bike fits. But that’s only part of the story. I have ranges for both stack and reach that put me in my sweet-spot. The first is a range of 410-425mm for reach. I’ve ridden bikes with less reach than this – I had to ride a size medium Specialized Shiv Tri (reach 405). But I don’t like it. And really, within that range, 415-420mm is preferable to me. 410-425 is “good enough.” 415-420mm is ideal. Within this range, I end up with a stem that provides appropriate handling characteristics and my elbow pads end up in the right spot. The Andean in XL has a reach of 430. The Andean in L has a reach of 415. It was easy to figure out the reach I liked best, because I have had a pretty immutable set of fit coordinates for some time now. Reach is more imperative than stack because stem length affects handling in a way that stem height (or pedestal height for elevated pads) does not. But stack is still important from a comfort standpoint. On the stack side, I like anywhere from 530mm to 550mm, though mostly I just need a stack that allows me to use an aerobar I’m comfortable with. For most of the start of my career, that was the original Zipp Vuka Aero (2008-2012). Since late 2012, it was the Zipp Vuka Stealth. There are four fundamental aspects of bar geometry that matter to me. One is the horizontal reach to the brake hoods. The second is the vertical drop to the brake hoods. The third is the position of the elbow pads. And the fourth – and overwhelmingly most important – is the vertical and angular position of my hands relative to my elbows. I’ve ridden 40deg ski-bend extensions for 10 years now. I’m just not going to change that. I’ve tried others. I just can’t do it. Maybe if I was a young’un again. But not now. Because of this, I need the extensions to mount basically right underneath the elbow pads. I like my hands to be up high. But not too high. Mostly, I just want them to be the same as they’ve been. The Andean in L has a stack of 543mm; the XL is 568mm. The XL was always going to be a bit large for me, but I knew with some creativity, I could get my elbows – but not my hands – where they needed to be. I had to compromise on hand position – something I thought I was more comfortable with than I was until I switched back to my old setup on the L. But I didn’t realize how much my impression of the bike was to be affected by front-center. Part of this is a lack of direct comparative experience. I’ve never ridden the exact same bike in two different sizes before. But doing so, I realized just how critical front-center is to my experience. Trail: the horizontal distance between a point dropped straight down from the front axle and a point projected along the angle of the fork. For those of you scratching your head, let’s talk about exactly what front-center is. Front center is the distance from the center of the bottom-bracket to the center of the front-wheel axle. As a quick aside, trail goes hand-in-hand with front-center when it comes to defining ride quality, but trail typically does not change within a given bike model, whereas front-center does. For more on trail, read on. Trail is defined by fork-rake and head-tube angle, both of which also play a huge role in bike handling. However, fork-rakes and head-tube angles vary less, especially with TT bikes, than front-center numbers do. The industry has pretty well coalesced around 72.5deg for head-tube angle. And fork rakes (aka offsets) of 45mm. Because of this, front-center is the only thing that really changes a lot and so it’s really become a proxy for “this is how this bike rides” in my mind when it comes to bikes with aerobars. Fork Rake (Offset): The horizontal distance between a point centered along the steering axis and the actual center of the front axle. Adding offset decreases trail, which makes handling more nimble or more nervous (depending on your perspective). This is the reflected by the gap between the circles. Head Tube Angle (Steering Angle): the angle at which the fork is pitched. Reducing (slackening) head tube angle increases trail. Front-center impacts weight distribution – more front center will reduce the proportional amount of weight on the front wheel – which has a huge impact on handling. Without devolving too much further into the nuances of bicycle and motorcycle geometry, for a TT/tri-bike – where your weight is overwhelmingly on the front wheel – front-center is much more impactful than it is on a road bike. And, conversely to what you might expect, just because more front-center alleviates weight on the front-wheel, it doesn’t necessarily make handling better, it just makes it more predictable. This is neither good nor bad. It just is. And it’s goodness or badness depends on the type of riding you like to do. And how you are positioned aboard your bike. For me, a bike with 610-615mm of front-center is ideal. This is part of why I was happy on the Specialized Shiv Tri in size medium – this has a front-center of 609mm – but the Shiv TT in size L – which I had ridden before and which has a front-center of 616mm. These bikes are actually, because of this, closer than they might seem when looking at stack and reach numbers. The Andean in XL has a front-center of 637mm, which is by far the most of any bike I’ve ever ridden. The L, on the other hand, has a front-center of 614mm, right exactly where I am happiest. This made a huge difference in one particular aspect that proved critical to enjoying the Andean out on the road – ascending. When you climb, you automatically have more weight on the rear wheel. As a result, a bike with an overly long front-center ends up with an overly light front end that makes the bike feel like a dog when climbing. The Andean in XL felt biggest when I would climb on it. Given that the Andean is a relatively heavy bike for aerodynamic reasons, it was easy to think that it was not a good climber. But it was not because of weight. It was because of geometry. Reconnoitering one of the Norseman climbs pre-race on my Large frame. The Andean in size L is not appreciably lighter. But it does have appreciably less front-center. This gives it a more typical weight distribution that makes the bike feel a lot lighter when climbing. In my experience, when people talk about a bike that climbs well, they think they are talking about weight, but what they are really talking about is weight distribution. Bottom bracket stiffness also plays a role (more so, in my opinion, than torsional stiffness, unless you are standing, which you shouldn’t be doing much of in a triathlon), and I think this is why the Andean – as a bike – is more enjoyable to climb with than its weight might imply. When I was riding the XL I had some initial reluctance about taking the Andean to race Norseman. But after switching the L, that ambivalence disappeared. The roads around where I live – and I do most of my TT bike riding heading northwest, into the Santa Clara River Valley – are rolling. The Andean had always been great on the flatter roads along the coast. If I lived in the Midwest, it still might be my preferred size. It’s extremely stable on straight and flattish roads. But when I took it inland - and up - it wasn’t until I was on a size L that I was happy. On a size L, the Andean became a bike that could do it all, in terms of tri courses, that is. Because the Andean is a big bike, that’s relatively heavy and which has a fair amount of surface area, I think it’s more sensitive to sizing properly than other bikes. I really value that I got to ride the XL because the experience of riding the exact same frame in two different sizes drove home what had formerly been an overwhelmingly academic understanding of bike geometry. I liked the Andean in XL. But I really love it in size L. Diamondback has recently introduced an updated fit calculator designed to help users pick the right size frame. If you find yourself between sizes, I hope that understanding how the difference in geometries unrelated to fit affect the riding experience can help you make the right choice. The Andean is a great bike that really go fast on any course.

Drinking deeply of the Living Word Tag: Managing stress I don’t have it all together. There I said it. My teenage daughter has taken to asking me if I have my keys before she will even close the door of my car, because I have locked the keys in the car more than one or two times. Before we leave to go somewhere she… Read More Having it all together is overrated I remember playing this game when I was a child. Did you ever play it? One person was “it”. She got to give the commands: “Red Light!” And everyone had to stop. “Green Light!” And everyone got to go again. The first person that reached the person who was “it” got to be “it”, and… Read More Red Light! Green Light! The other day I looked up a French word that popped into my head just like that. Tracasser. Tracasser means to worry or bother, and the reflexive form means to worry or fret. Interestingly, for me at least, “trac” is another French word that means stage fright or nerves. And “casser” is a word which… Read More Cast anxieties on Him Who cares for you I am weak. A lot of people view me as strong, but the strength they actually see in me is God’s strength. Me? On my own, I am weak. Sometimes I forget that, but then the Lord reminds me by allowing some trial like the one I mentioned in my last post, Saul vs. David… Read More Beneficial Weakness – Where my Strength Begins I have a neighbor who gives me a bit of insight into what David felt like being so hated by Saul for no fault of his own. She dumped on me today for the first time in a long time; I normally try to avoid her because nothing good ever comes out of my talking… Read More Saul vs. David — God wins This story took place in March of 1992. After being delayed at the pharmacy and starting off late in the car for my college class, I thought, “I feel stressed out; I need something to laugh about.” I had driven about four blocks when I suddenly discovered that my cola was spilling all over my… Read More Daffodils in trials

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Swidget 1.0 Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Today, my home phone rang and before I could get to it to answer, the machine picked up. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was from our son's school (Zachary, our youngest, he's in 5th grade). I immediately hear his counselor on the other end of the machine, leaving a message that she needs to talk to me about Zachary. From her tone, I could deduce that it wasn't an emergency. But, I got the sinking feeling that he probably did something bad at school. Oh great! While I'm trying to mentally prepare myself to return her call, my cell phone rings (which happened to be in my hand). It's the school calling. Dreadfully, I answered the phone in my most chipper voice. It's the counselor and I figure I'm about to find out what kind of shenanigans my boy has been up to. She proceeds to tell me that he and another boy were talking very inappropriately during computer lab yesterday. She never really came out and told me exactly what they were saying. Only that it involved "lady parts" and that it wasn't nice at all. And that it apparently offended some of the other kids who happened to overhear. Oh great! I'm now hanging my head in shame. Trying to maintain my chipper voice. My kids are not perfect by any means. But, for the most part, they just do not get into trouble at school. Of all my kids, Zachary is probably the most talkative and mischievous. He can be a little rambunctious and loud. We've had issues recently with him saying bad things (i.e. "shut up" or "freakin" or "that sucks"). So, he has been admonished at home several times for this kind of thing. While I listen to the counselor tell me the details of his punishment (he has to write an apology letter to the computer teacher and the kids who were "offended" and have study hall instead of recess for two weeks) I'm trying to tell myself that he's just a boy being a boy and it's not a big deal. But, actually, I'm mortified. I'm embarrassed to even have to have this conversation with his counselor (who I've known for years because she taught my other two boys when they were in 4th grade). I'm mad that he acted in this way when I know he's been taught better. I feel like I'm the one being scolded by the counselor and I feel about two feet tall. She wasn't rude or unkind, but still I feel ashamed that my child has acted in an ugly way that others found disturbing. When the phone call ends, I immediately start the blame game....blaming myself. If only I didn't let him play so many video games, if only we went to church on a regular basis, if only I didn't let him spend so much time with the older boys, if only I wasn't so lenient with him because he's our baby, if...if...if... I'm just so mad at him and also at myself because I feel like I should've somehow done better. Anyway, we decided that his punishment at home had to be pretty severe. When he came home from school, I shamed him quite a bit and let him know how disappointed we were with his behavior. He genuinely started crying and I felt bad (for just a second) because I know he was truly ashamed of himself. (By the way, my husband was working a 24 hour shift at the firehouse so we discussed this on the phone, but at home, I'm flying solo). After talking with him about the incident and letting him know our expectations, I laid down the sanctions he would have to face for his offense: 1) No video games or computer for one month 2) No fun outings or friends over for one month 3) Strict lights out bedtime at 9:00 pm for one month 4) Extra chores around the house 5) Extra study time at home (i.e. reviewing multiplication tables, reading, etc.) 6) Any deviation from the above punishments extend them for another month Thanks for listening to me vent; I would love to hear your thoughts. Have you ever had times when your kids misbehaved at school? Were you able to take it in stride or did it leave you feeling as mortified as I'm feeling? I am a family/lifestyle blogger. You will find me dishing about family life and parenting, raising teens, and other lifestyle topics including movies, tv, music, books, shopping, and product reviews & giveaways.

Healing is what happens when Pastoral Practitioners minister, enabling people to receive restoration to health of body and mind through God's great love and mercy. This restoration of health is part of what is meant by the "abundant life" which the Lord promised. The Medicalization of Pregnancy Women have permitted doctors and pharmaceutical companies privileged access to their fierce and primitive drive toward protecting a pregnancy. They have been made to feel fear, convinced that they need the support of the apparatus of allopathic medicine to get them through this perilous trial. You want to do everything right for your child, and would never knowingly allow someone to inject a neurotoxin into your infant. Before getting a flu shot, you need to know this: MERCURY is a NEUROTOXIN. What You Need to Know Last January 2017 a close family relative suffered a serious medical emergency requiring hospitalization. His condition was so critical his kidneys shut down. While in the hospital he was given extremely potent drugs in an attempt to stop life threatening abnormal heart beats. A week later his wife received a letter from his cardiologist’s office informing of the need to monitor his liver function via blood tests after his release. The drug he was receiving that required monitoring was Amiodarone. We researched Amiodarone online and were shocked by what we discovered. Sayer Ji, Founder, June 13th 2015 Since biblical times, dates were to believed to possess profound healing properties, but only now is science catching up to confirm our distant ancestors knew exactly what they were talking about. The Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed in an 8-1 ruling that, in a case about a pregnant woman who used cocaine and thus endangered her unborn child, the world child in state law includes "an unborn child," which therefore "furthers the State's interest in protecting the life of children from the earliest stages of their development." The adverse reproductive effects of the plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) have once again been demonstrated in the scientific literature. Researchers from Stanford University in California found that the more BPA circulating in a pregnant woman's bloodstream, the greater her chances of having a miscarriage. If you are a man, the odds are stacked against you. Today's world is a literal toxic minefield of feminizing chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) and fluoride that overload men's systems with estrogen, potentially leading to low testosterone. And a new study has revealed that men's exposure to such chemicals while in the womb can permanently alter their baseline testosterone levels as adults, leading to a lifetime of hormone-induced health problems.

T-Mobile's latest offer for BlackBerry users seemed to be successful for everyone but BlackBerry. According to TmoNews, T-Mobile's BlackBerry trade-in campaign resulted in 94 percent of old BB devices being traded for smartphones made by the company's competitors. It isn't clear exactly how many customers participated in the promotion. Last month, T-Mobile presented a $200 trade-in offer for BlackBerry users that aimed to get them an iPhone for a great price. This led to a lot of fuss from BlackBerry fans and BlackBerry CEO John Chen, who called the promotion "inappropriate and ill-conceived." T-Mobile tried to make it right by offering an extra $50 for users who decided to trade-in an old BlackBerry device in favor of a new one like the Z10 or Q10. However, that extra $50 didn't seem to make much of a difference. A vast majority of old BlackBerry trade-ins ended up favoring other brands. The offer ended today, and T-Mobile noted in an internal memo that the promo led to a 15x increase in BlackBerry trade-ins. BlackBerry really didn't need to lose any extra customers at this time, considering the company is already having major troubles. To make matters worse, fewer than half as many BlackBerry Enterprise Servers (BES) were in use as there were three years previous, and market capitalization had fallen from $83 billion USD in mid-2008 to a mere $3 billion USD late last year. Overall, BlackBerry devices represented less than 1 percent of global smartphone shipped in the final quarter of last year. But Chen remains positive and is looking to turn his company around. Chen -- BlackBerry's third CEO in just two years -- said he will focus on the enterprise once again, which is what BlackBerry has traditionally done best.

RAMADAN BUKA PUASA 2015 MUSIC PLAYER AT BOTTOM ♪♪♪ OUR MUSIC PLAYER IS AT THE BOTTOM IN PINK. TO VIEW THE SONG LIST - CLICK ON MENU ICON AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT ... THE MUSIC PLAYER IS NOT AVAILABLE ON MOBILE PHONE OR TABLET ♪ ♪ ♪ TO GET UPDATES IN YOUR E-MAIL PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS Wednesday, 14 June 2017 Why A Picture Of Indonesian Fisheries Minister Caught Having A Nap Has Gone Viral Susi Pudjiastuti, Indonesia's Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, caught the attention of Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio for tightening regulations at Indonesian waters, and protecting its oceans, that he even deemed her a brave woman who inspired the world. “Fisheries Minister Susi ramped up monitoring efforts, held illegal fishers accountable and is leading the way to a new era of transparency in fisheries management by making Indonesia’s Vessel Monitoring System available to the Global Fishing Watch platform, which my foundation was very proud to fund and launch,” DiCaprio, who is a known environmentalist praised the minister during World Oceans Day event on June 8 in New York. And perhaps, the hardworking woman’s efforts were not gone unnoticed by fellow Indonesians as a Facebook user named Jim B. Aditya posted a picture of her sleeping on a couch at the JFK Airport VIP Lounge after the event. He wrote a message saying: “The strong women should be named the mother of Indonesian Ocean. Falling asleep at VIP Lounge of JFK Airport, New York, after attending the UN Conference on the ocean in New York, the United States, the day before.” “I wish health on you and courage to manage the country which is in shambles thanks to corruptors, Bu Susi,” Jim relayed. According to TEMPO.CO, Susi was one of the panelists in New York who spoke about fishery management and illegal fishing that has depleted Indonesia’s marine resource stock. Between 2003 to 2013, illegal fishing caused Indonesia to lose 30 per cent of fish supplies. In her speech, she called on other UN country members to wage a war against illegal fishing and restrict fish quota. When Susi took over as minister, she issued anti-illegal fishing policies, which include the moratorium on foreign fishing vessel permits, bans on transshipment, and bans on environmentally-unfriendly fishing equipment; resulting in increased fish supplies from 6.5 tons in 2014 to 12 tons in 2016. And her stern stance in combating illegal fishing, had also won her a Seafood Champion Award in the category of leadership for the Seaweb Seafood Summit held in Seattle, the United States. On the Facebook shared photo, netizens were quick to praise Susi saying: "This is an official who cares about her people, especially fishermen. Bravo, Mrs Susi." “Strong woman…out of this world. May you always be in good health.” “Every step she takes and her intentions are only for Indonesia. Keep striving Bu Susi, may you be protected from slander, envy and jealousy.” “This is the image of a tough woman who takes a short break to work longer. Stay healthy always Bu Susi. Jim’s posting also garnered over 23,000 likes and 3,000 shares at the time of writing, while the minister’s photo made it in the local dailies as well as on Indonesian news networks. Susi is known as an unconventional politician, as she is a high school dropout without any previous political experience. Coconuts Jakarta highlighted, she has become one of Indonesia’s most adored and trusted leaders due to her honesty, and her proven ability to do her job well. Based on a survey in 2015 by Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI), Susi also had the highest approval rating as the best-performing minister in President Joko Widodo’s Cabinet.

(...) See the admin guide. In OpenLDAP you add schema by modifying a schema below cn=schema,cn=config, and you set 'olcAttributeTypes' rather than 'attributeTypes'. Makes sense... Although the error message is extremely misleading :/ Yes, OpenLDAP could use an effort to improve error messages. Ok, get it. It would be cool (tm) that OpenLDAP accepts direct modifications of the schema through LDAP requests. Eh? You can, that's why cn=config exists. Just set up some DN to have write access to it. Normally a rootdn for database config. It's just that you can't modify cn=subschema directly - then slapd wouldn't know in which schema entry to store the attribute. Look at ldapsearch ... -LLL -b cn=schema,cn=config -s one 1.1 which has one entry per schema file originally loaded into slapd. In principle, one could modify cn=schema by using back-relay and a slapo-rwm that maps "cn=schema" to the appropriate "cn=config" node, and attributeTypes to olcAttributeTypes.

Breakfast and brunch in Graz Good morning taste buds. Just as you can dream sweetly in our beds, you can have a heavenly breakfast here too. The finest local delicacies and choice international cuisine are our epicurean morning greeting. At an early hour or later, if you prefer. A heavenly start to your day. Just the name of our breakfast room literally melts in our guests’ mouths: Engelreich! Realm of the angels. Sounds heavenly, and it really is. Finally, your eyes can breakfast too. Feel free to enjoy the unique room around you while you’re having your morning feast. A splashing fountain on a floor steeped in history is just a little appetizer here. A breakfast like a hallelujah. In our Engelreich you can look forward to a breakfast buffet with many home-made specialities. To name just two very special delicacies, our Weitzer muesli and our Sterz – we could explain what that is, but you’d do better to just try it for yourself. After all, it’s said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. That’s why quality and freshness call the shots, and not fifteen cheese varieties that all taste the same. Otherwise you could just stay in an ordinary hotel. But that’s not what you’re doing. Begin your day with all your senses and for €17.00 per person. Just book at the same time as your room, or notify reception when you check in. For brunch on cloud nine. Here, late risers don’t have to come back down from the clouds just because they’ve missed breakfast in the Engelreich. Why else do we have our own Kaffee Weitzer? Exactly, for the best brunch in town and so you can have breakfast à la carte until 7 pm. Yes, you read that correctly: till seven o’clock in the evening! And if you’ll allow us to make a devilishly good recommendation: The Turkish coffee in Kaffee Weitzer is not only unparalleled in Graz’s Old Town, but is also guaranteed to waken even the most tired spirits. Location, perfect overlooking the river Mur, no traffic noise, very central. « from UK about „Das Weitzer“ » Very good breakfast and good service. « from South Africa about our breakfast » Wonderfully attentive staff who are an absolute pleasure. « from UK about „Das Weitzer“ » What a pleasant experience! … to use the famous words of the region’s most famous man: “I’ll be back!” « from Norway about „Das Weitzer“ » The really great thing about this hotel is the staff: they range from being delightfully charming and absurdly helpful to merely friendly and efficient and that’s about as good as it gets really! « from Sweden about our staff » For 69 euros (2013) you can rent the hotel’s vintage Mercedes convertible for the day and it’s hard to imagine a nicer day out than cruising around the spectacular scenery to be found south of the city towards the Slovenian border. « from Sweden about our Mercedes Benz SL » The Tapas was delight! The beef tongue perfect on the tapas menu. All the rest as well. Very modern and light Austrian cuisine. « from Israel about the restaurant „Der Steirer“ » Excellent food and place. I loved the Styrian tapas! Reservation is recommended.

Abstract: Support for medical and recreational marijuana legalization is on the rise, with more than half of states having passed medical marijuana laws, and recent polls showing the majority of the U.S. in support of legalization (Marijuana Policy Project, 2016). While critics of these laws often claim that they will lead to more crime, supporters assert the opposite- that allowing legal sale of marijuana would decrease crime by shrinking the illegal drug market. Previous research has analyzed the effects of the implementation of medical marijuana laws on crime rates, but this paper is the first to study how the size of the medical marijuana market affects crime rates. By using the medical marijuana patient registration rates across states from 1995 to 2015, I use a difference-in-differences approach to find that a one percent increase in medical marijuana registration rates decreases murder and robbery rates by 0.03% and 0.02%, respectively, and has no significant effect on other types of crime. These results show that increasing the legal availability of marijuana through medicalization could decrease murder and robbery rates, two crimes highly associated with the illegal drug trade.

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With puppies, "warm and fuzzy" is almost always a good thing. With movies, not so much, film critics being as fond as they are of withering sarcasm. But in "Marley & Me," the big-screen adaptation of newspaper columnist John Grogan's bestselling account of his family's life with an incorrigible but lovable Labrador (subtitle: "Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog"), it's as apt a description as you're likely to get. In this case, though, it shouldn't suggest a film that's eye-rollingly maudlin. Rather, "Marley & Me" is tail-waggingly heartwarming, due in no small part to the chemistry that stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston enjoy on-screen. (To say nothing of the "awwww" factor of the 22 dogs who play Marley over the course of the film's 13-year time frame.) Marley the dog lunches on the family sofa in 'Marley & Me.' MARLEY & ME 3, stars out of 4 Plot: The based-on-real-life accounting of a family's attachment to its incorrigible but loving Labrador. Based on the book by John Grogan. What works: With nice chemistry between stars Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, the film does a good job of capturing the heartfelt emotion that has made Grogan's book a best-seller. What doesn't: It flirts with maudlin at times, and as the story shifts to real-life issues midway through, it sags, losing its footing briefly. Although the movie, directed by David Frankel ("The Devil Wears Prada"), flirts early with mawkishness -- feeling at times as if it will never elevate itself above a glorified Hallmark movie of the week -- it becomes a genuinely moving story as it unfolds. Inspired by a series of articles Grogan wrote while working as a columnist at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the film starts with the newly married main characters adopting a Lab puppy. It becomes evident early that this is no ordinary dog. Untrainable and unmanageable -- but unconditionally lovable -- Marley is a four-legged wrecking crew that turns the Grogans' lives upside down. He chews furniture, he chases anything, and he eats everything. At one point, he even gets kicked out of obedience school (by a dictatorial instructor played nicely by Kathleen Turner), an event that prompts Wilson's character to declare, "You are now officially the world's worst dog." But he's their dog, and as the Grogan family grows, so does their love for Marley, as he repeatedly proves to be an invaluable part of it, warts and all. Stocked with both heart and humor -- provided largely by Wilson's boyish charm and on-screen boss Alan Arkin's brilliant dry wit -- Frankel's film serves double duty as an ode to man's best friend and a big-screen recognition of the richness pets can add to the lives of their human masters. It's a touching and memorable story, and well-told, with a not-a-dry-eye-in-the-house final act. A lot of that emotion, however, is derived from some heavy real-life issues, a fact parents of young children should be aware of before succumbing to the wide-eyed puppy on the movie poster. Though the book on which the film is based was adapted for younger readers, as "Marley: A Dog Like No Other" and the picture book "Bad Dog, Marley!" among other titles, many parents likely won't see the film as necessarily appropriate for all ages, regardless of what the 20th Century Fox marketing department seems to think. The film also sags a bit in the middle as it transitions from its cuter-than-a-pen-of-puppies beginning and its tear-jerking end. Still, it's a lovely adaptation of Grogan's book, a dog tale even cat people can appreciate.

Yearly Archives: 2019 Introduction Boundary value analysis, tests the functionality of a program at the extreme boundaries. When checking a range of values, after selecting the set of data that lie in the valid partitions, next is to check how a peace of code behaves at the boundary values of the valid partitions. … What Is Benchmarking? Process benchmarking is an activity done with the objective of comparing the processes of an organization to: Processes of leading organizations in the same industry Processes of leading organizations in a different industry or Best practice processes, due to their superior performance and wide acceptance. Benchmarking offers … REQUIREMENT ELICITATION TECHNIQUES what is Elicitation? Elicitation is a procedure to bring out the intelligence information from people as part of human intelligence Elicitation Technique. There are different elicitation techniques to gather requirements or to collect the information. There are different types of Requirement Elicitation Techniques as follow 1. Brainstorming … SDLC Model and Methodologies SDLC Model: Software development life cycle model, it describes the all phases involved in different stages. To make a project success, the project requires a right SDLC model according to the requirement of the project. SDLC models are used for better deliver of project. SDLC … Regression Testing: Software regression is any unwanted change that happens after changes are made to the system. Now the system change can have some software code that is changed in order to implement new feature or to fix certain defects. This decay in the software can be either functional or … SMOKE TESTING, also called as “Build Verification Testing”, is a kind of software testing that contains of a non-exhaustive set of tests that ensure the most significant functions work. In other words, smoke testing is the preliminary check of the software after a build and before a release. This kind … Introduction: One of the most crucial step in software development is software testing, there are number of software testing technique used and boundary value analysis (BVA) is a widely used software testing for checking errors or bugs on ranges in boundaries. Equivalence partitioning plays a vital role in boundary value … Benchmarking is the process of comparing something or someone with best practice. Best practices are collections of activities within an organisation that are done very well and recognised as such by others Or Benchmarking refers to a process of comparing agencies,operations and performance against recognised standards and improving those operations … What is business process? Every business is operating with collective activities or steps or works in a defined manner to achieve their goal called business process. Business process always have inputs, and will use their resources in order to get a specific outputs for their target customers or market. Outputs …

30 Day Anime Challenge Just posting an announcement as to my inclusion into a popular challenge going around called the 30 Day Anime Challenge. Apparently there’s a list of 30 prompts asking the person to list and explain their answers to the prompts mostly in regards to that person’s favorite so and so in anime but some other entries such as saddest death and best animation. You’re supposed to come up with an answer to one of the questions, in order, once a day over the course of 30 days. Looks like a difficult yet fun challenge, so I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE, PERSON WHO STARTED THIS. I decided that I will start this on November 1st because it’s nice enough to have exactly 30 days in it. Here’s the challenge listing as reference and if anyone else wants to pick this up, but I will update with an official page to archive the links as well. Direct Your Eyeballs and Cursors to Some Awesome Blogs Copyright Information All images, videos and music used on this website are copyright of their original owners. I claim no ownership for any media besides the reviews themselves unless otherwise stated within the respective posts. A humble, but mostly less than half-assed, blog of a pessimistic Otaku that was saved by Anime first, Manga then, just to be saved once again by Light Novels and Visual Novels; and thus wishes to share the beautiful world that is 2D. Yet, you will find mostly rants. Also available at 7thStyle.

Jerusalem Capital of Israel Nir Barkat is the richest politician in Israel and was mayor of Jerusalem for a decade. He recently decided to jump from local to national politics. He already ranks highly at number 9, in the ruling Likud party’s list for the next parliament. In further signs of the burgeoning relationship between Israel and Brazil, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Monday that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Brazil to attend the inauguration of Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. The Elia Photography store in Jerusalem’s Old City Christian Quarter is a hidden gem. Run by the same Armenian family for more than a century, the store is a treasure trove of images of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. A Jewish-Home sponsored law requiring a two-thirds supermajority of 80 Mks to approve any agreement that calls for the transfer of territory to any foreign entity was approved by lawmakers in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

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