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As Tears Go By: The Soap Opera as Inspiration in Drama Queens
by Melissa Anderson
Ride to Da Club (2002)
In a 1977 essay, high priestess of film theory Laura Mulvey praised the melodramas of Douglas Sirk for "probing the pent-up emotion, bitterness and disillusion well known to women." Sirk's impossible-love weepie, All That Heaven Allows, starring Jane Wyman as a middle-aged widow who falls for her much younger gardener (Rock Hudson), serves as the urtext of MOMA's clever, ambitious series devoted to this surfeit of feeling—and its dismantling—in an often-overlooked source: avant-garde film and video from the past 70 years.
Besotted with Hollywood, Andy Warhol wryly recapitulated Tinseltown excess, glamour, and off-screen scandal. In Soap Opera (1964), Baby Jane Holzer, a honey-maned, 23-year-old Park Avenue socialite, silently performs a lover's spat over the telephone; the mute, emotionally overwrought segments of Warhol's movie (which also includes face-slaps and crotch-rubbing) are interrupted by footage from old TV commercials pitching char-broiled steaks and Pillsbury cake mix. More loony incongruities abound in Hedy (1967), featuring Mario Montez, Warhol's first drag-queen superstar, as Hedy Lamarr, the MGM goddess who had recently been arrested for shoplifting. "I must be beautiful because I am the most beautiful woman in the world," Hedy imperiously declares to her plastic surgeons. While the camera rapidly zooms in and out, Jack Smith leers in the background, the Velvet Underground tunes up off-camera, and the past-her-prime starlet endures handcuffs and humiliation, wondering, "Where are my husbands now?"
Where Warhol found inspiration in lurid Hollywood Babylon, others in the series become the stars of their own unhinged fantasy-worlds. Supremely bonkers yet always engrossing, Eleanor Antin's 1976 video The Adventures of a Nurse (Parts I and II) stars the artist, dressed in an all-white nurse's uniform, manipulating (and, in her Bronx bray, providing the voices for) foot-high, hand-painted paper dolls—her "actors" in a romantic saga about altruistic Nurse Eleanor and her many swains, including a fragile poet, a Harley biker, and a louche French ski instructor. Antin's work revels in sudser codes as much as it critiques the cliché of the self-abnegating heroine. Kalup Linzy, another creator and star of unclassifiable soapy spectacles, mines the bathos of the cell-phone conference call in Ride to da Club (2002), part of his Conversations wit de Churen series. A five-minute piece filled with memorably monikered hyphenates—Big-Dick Johnny, Cross-Eyed Ray—Ride boasts more knowing, hilarious back-stabbing, sexual intrigue, and eye-rolling than Tyler Perry could ever hope to squeeze into a Madea feature.
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on June 1, 2011
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John Coltrane – Program and Handout From Coltrane's Memorial Service
An original program and handout from John Coltrane's funeral service, held on July 21, 1967 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City, four days after the jazz giant's tragic passing....
Artists: John Coltrane
$2,500.00 US
Sex Pistols – Steve Jones Owned 'Who Killed Bambi ?' 1977 Film Script (Cancelled Russ Meyer Film)
Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones' personal script for the aborted Pistols film Who Killed Bambi?. Who Killed Bambi? was Malcolm McLaren's planned Sex Pistols film, intended to help break the band in...
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Sex Pistols – Two 1977 UK 'God Save the Queen' Handbills, designed by Jamie Reid
Two unused UK Sex Pistols handbills/gummed stickers, designed by Jamie Reid and used to promote their 1977 single "God Save the Queen." "God Save the Queen" was released during Queen Elizabeth II's...
David Bowie – Letter & Ziggy-Era Royalty Agreement, Signed Using Legal Name D.R. Jones
A David Bowie-signed letter to his lawyer, Stan Diamond, regarding an agreement with production company Trident Records, and a file copy of a related royalty agreement. Bowie signs the letter, dated April...
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David Bowie – Original Mick Rock Ziggy Stardust-Era Photograph 8″ X 10″ (with Rock's Studio Stamp)
A stunning original photograph of David Bowie in 1972, during his Ziggy Stardust prime, by Mick Rock, the photographer most closely associated with him. This print was made from the original negative,...
Rolling Stones – Bill Wyman's Personal 'Black and Blue' Test Pressing LP, with His Handwritten Track Listing, Fully Documented (Artist Owned)
A rare test pressing of the Rolling Stones 1976 album Black and Blue from the collection of longtime Stones' bassist Bill Wyman, with his handwritten notations and track listing on the front...
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The Cramps – 1980 Seattle Concert Poster Showbox Theatre
A very rare concert poster advertising a show by The Cramps and The Debbies at Seattle's Showbox Theatre on May 18, 1980; and upcoming appearances by Gang of Four and D.O.A.. Printed...
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Thelonious Monk – Beautifully Signed 1966 Detroit Jazz Festival Program (Also Signed by Charlie Rouse & George Wein)
A program for the 1966 Detroit Jazz Festival, beautifully signed by Thelonious Monk (who adds "Good luck always"). This is one of the most extraordinary signed Monk items we've seen; his large...
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Bob Dylan & Joan Baez – 1965 Vintage Photograph Published in New Musical Express
A vintage 8" x 10" photo of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on a park bench in London, taken during Dylan's 1965 UK tour. This print, made near the time the photograph...
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Rolling Stones – Mick Taylor's Australian "Sticky Fingers" Gold Record Award / From Bill Wyman's Legendary Archive (Artist Owned)
A beautiful custom Australian gold record award for the Rolling Stones 1971 classic album Sticky Fingers, presented to guitarist Mick Taylor. This was part of Stones bassist Bill Wyman's legendary Rolling Stones...
Grateful Dead – Jerry Garcia-Owned Skull & Roses' Acetates / 2 LP's, With Perfect Provenance, 2 Letters of Authenticity (Artist Owned)
Jerry Garcia's personal acetates of the Grateful Dead's 1971 self-titled double album, better known as Skull and Roses. These acetates were sold by Garcia's widow, Deborah Koons Garcia, at a Bonhams auction...
Artists: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia
Joni Mitchell – Signed Self-Portrait Lithograph of "Both Sides Now" Album Cover
A signed Joni Mitchell lithographic self-portrait, used on the cover of her album Both Sides Now. In 2000 Mitchell released this album of "classic love songs" performed with a full orchestra, and...
Artists: Joni Mitchell
Joy Division – Extremely Rare 'Unknown Pleasures' UK Promotional Poster / From Manager's Archive
A large and extremely rare UK promotional poster for the 1979 release of Joy Division's debut album Unknown Pleasures. Legendary graphic designer Peter Saville based the Unknown Pleasures album cover on an...
Artists: Joy Division
New Order – 1981 Berlin Concert Poster "New Order Were Joy Division"
A superb concert poster for an early New Order concert in Berlin, Germany at SO 36, on May 27, 1981. At the time of this show, New Order had only released one...
Artists: Joy Division, New Order
New Order – UK Technique Promo Poster, Designed by Peter Saville / From Rob Gretton Archive
A 1989 UK Promotional poster for New Order's Technique album, from the archive of longtime Joy Division/New Order manager Rob Gretton (1953-1999). Designed by the great Peter Saville, it is in excellent...
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New Order – 1981 Factory Records UK 'Movement' Promotional Poster (Joy Division)
A stunning promotional poster issued by Factory Records UK in 1981 to promote New Order's debut album, Movement. Designed by the legendary Peter Saville, this is beautifully screenprinted on textured blue...
Slaughter & The Dogs – Dame To Blame UK Promo Poster / From Manager's Archive
A UK promotional poster for Slaughter & The Dogs second single, Dame to Blame; the band was Joy Division/New Order manager Rob Gretton's first management client. Slaughter & The Dogs were the...
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Jim Morrison – 1971 "Paris Journal" Manuscript / Notebook, With Letters of Authenticity from The Doors management, Roger Epperson
Jim Morrison's legendary Paris Journal, possibly the last major work he completed before his death in Paris on July 3, 1971. The green composition notebook has "Paris Journal" written on the cover...
Artists: Jim Morrison, The Doors
$85,000.00 US
Nico – Unknown 1968 Interview Tape with Danny Fields (Pre-Marble Index) Velvet Underground)
A unique and unpublished/undocumented tape of Elektra Records 'house hippy' Danny Fields interviewing his close friend Nico, in advance of the release of her 1968 Elektra album The Marble Index. We purchased this...
Artists: Nico, Velvet Underground
John Mayall & Eric Clapton – UK Mono Unboxed Decca Blues Breakers LP
A beautiful NM-/NM mono UK 1960's pressing of Blues Breakers by John Mayall with Eric Clapton, on Decca Records. This is a circa 1967/68 pressing of this classic album, with ungrooved red...
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Congressman Tom McClintock likes to say "what makes Ford great is General Motors." The idea of competition allows the consumer, in this case of education, the choice of programs that work for them, not the masses. Education is mass producer, but the consumer is an individual.
"Supporters of Rocketship, who specializes in taking kids from low income households and turns them into top flight students in five years, provides a welcome alternative to the often failing traditional approach to education as practiced in the Golden State. There is so much excitement about Rocketship in Antioch that it already has a waiting list of families trying to get their children enrolled in the school.
While government schools throw money at their facilities, charter schools, like Rocketship, throw hard work, challenging curriculum, discipline (no restorative justice at Rocketship or other charter schools). Give minorities and those in low income households and opportunity for a great education—one that is best for the child, not the masses.
February 23rd was a joyous occasion in Antioch California. Utilizing bonds from the State, ground was broken on the construction building the new home for Rocketship Charter School. It was all smiles as Mayor Sean Wright and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Richard Pagono led the brigade of gold shovels celebrating the new campus set to open this fall.
Supporters of Rocketship, who specializes in taking kids from low income households and turns them into top flight students in five years, provides a welcome alternative to the often failing traditional approach to education as practiced in the Golden State. There is so much excitement about Rocketship in Antioch that it already has a waiting list of families trying to get their children enrolled in the school.
Rocketship Public Schools, which has branches throughout California, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Washington D.C., places its emphasis on students learning English, Math, and Science first. Physical education and recess time are limited with their aggressive academic agenda. Such a rigorous schedule often means students eating their lunch in the classroom and a school day which is a couple hours longer than traditional educational models.
Where does this extra time go? The two additional hours spent at Rocketship are primarily used in computer labs where learning is done individually at the pace of how material is absorbed by each individual. This blended learning time outside of the classroom is supplementary to what is done there. As such licensed teachers are not supervising every aspect of the lab sessions.
This is one of the main criticisms that the California Teachers Association has for the Rocketship model of education. With them, results are often less important than the teaching methods utilized. Even more important to the union is that most teachers at Rocketship do not belong to their group. This point of contention provides a great deal of friction because Rocketship consistently outperforms its competition in public schools in producing students who are set up to be successful in the middle grades, high school, and beyond.
In addition to the emphasis on academics, Rocketship also puts pressure on parents to participate in their children's education. Volunteering is encouraged although it cannot be demanded by law. As part of their jobs, teachers regularly visit their student's homes to meet with families and build the bond between the kids and their schooling.
As such the Rocketship approach is not for everyone. Reading, math, and the developing of critical thinking take priority over everything else. As it is a public school where no one is forced to attend, this Charter School does not feel compelled to be like the rest of their competitors. Rocketship is the very essence of school choice that Antioch wants to offer to their community.
Fifteen miles down the road in Concord, things are much different. The Mount Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) with strong backing from the CTA, has opposed to Rocketship from the start. When they applied with the District three years ago to put in a campus that catered to Hispanic kids from disadvantaged households, the MDUSD pulled out all the stops to prevent them from setting up shop.
They hired heavily academically qualified experts that tried to refute Rocketship's high test scores as not representing real learning skills. Criticism of special education, lack of arts, and developing well rounded individuals, were topics of discussion at public meeting at the District, County and State levels.
In fact in blocking Rocketship's application with the County, school teachers protesting while wearing yellow shirts which read, "No Rocketship" This same group used the same tactics and attire while unsuccessfully blocking the charter school, when they gained approval from the State Board of Education to open a branch in Concord.
In 2016, barely 100 students were enrolled in Rocketship's inaugural class. The MDUSD, following their minimum legal responsibilities, placed them in a location that made it difficult for parents to delivery and pick up their children. Using attorney's to do their talking; the school district was accused of denying the new charter access to common playgrounds and cafeteria facilities that first year.
Apparently, some families prefer academic achievement for young kids as opposed to allegedly having more life skills, diversity, and transparency that the school district offers.
Money is being diverted from the district to charters they don't control. The CTA believes this weakens public education in general even though a similar amount is spent per capita for each student.
These same arguments are used to discredit almost all charter schools throughout the state. Curiously enough, advocates of school choice have never said their path of education is what everyone else should be following. This is countered by anti school choice people saying that it is selfish for parents to want their own kids to attend better schools at the expense of others. Such thinking pushes forth the notion that education funds belong to school districts rather than families who are served.
And so the battle rages on where the CTA continues to say "We are in it for the kids" when their conduct tells us a different story. If everything was so great in California, why is the achievement level so low that 90% of public school students in the United States end up having better learning skills than in the land of high tech, diversity, political correctness, and restroom choice?
The contrast of experiences in Antioch and Concord are typical of what goes on throughout the entire state of California from San Diego to the suburbs of Sacramento. Fixing such a sad state of affairs will not be easy especially with a legislature that is a virtual captive and shill of the Teachers Union.
Next week why does everyone hate Betsy Devos and why is education a blue versus red issue.
Rocketship Charters are likely doing some good things; finding credible and comparative achievement results is challenging. Just saying, for example, "Reading, math, and the developing of critical thinking take priority over everything else," sounds great but how they actually do that in the real academic setting would be more interesting reading. If you say it enough, people start believing it; doesn't mean it's true, please. We are not going to make education great again by simply repeating spurious claims.
I am a retired high school math teacher. I substitute teach several times a week in public and charter schools. I simply do not see the academic rigor that most charter schools claim time and again compared to many public schools; the same folks who keep espousing how great charter schools are would do well to go and spend a whole day or two in these schools they say are so superior.


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'These Are Felonies': Lawyers React with Horror to Reports of Post Office Removing Mail Sorting Machines
Colin KalmbacherAug 13th, 2020, 5:11 pm
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has reportedly started to remove mail sorting machines from Post Offices across the country.
The process of removing those machines has stoked fears that President Donald Trump and his allies in the executive branch are intentionally sabotaging mail operations in order to diminish the capability of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to sort and deliver mail-in ballots in a timely fashion for the 2020 general election.
"Tampering with the mail and federal elections are crimes no matter who does it," federal criminal defense attorney Tor Ekeland told Law&Crime. "Just because you run the bank doesn't mean you get to steal the money. This reeks of mail and election fraud–the scheme to defraud using the removal of mail sorting machines without reason as a means to inhibit mail in voting. These are felonies and should be investigated and prosecuted appropriately."
According to Vice News's Aaron Gordon, union officials and postal workers say that "facilities around the country" are being stripped of mail sorting machines "without any official explanation or reason."
The outlet claims 19 such machines have been decommissioned–or will be decommissioned in the immediate future–from at five mail processing facilities. And apparently none of the day-to-day workers or leadership have been given any clue about what's going on.
Per that report:
Even to local union officials, USPS has not announced any policy, explained why they are doing this, what will happen to the machines and the workers who use them. Nor has management provided a rationale for dismantling and removing the machines from the facility rather than merely not operating them when they're not needed.
"I'm not sure you're going to find an answer for why [the machines being removed] makes sense," said Iowa Postal Workers Union President Kimberly Karol, "because we haven't figured that out either."
With a likely unprecedented upsurge in vote-by-mail due to the still raging novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic this fall, the prospect of displacing the machines used to sort those incoming ballots without notice or explanation quickly drew condemnations and concern that DeJoy's actions were somehow not above-board.
"Who knows whether this has benign reasons," mused Civil Rights attorney and administrative law expert Sasha Samberg-Champion. "But at this point, we can't assume anything is on the up-and-up."
Westchester County District Attorney candidate Mimi Rocah (D), a former federal prosecutor, was similarly askance that there was any good excuse here.
"If this is being done at the direction or suggestion of the President to intentionally slow or minimize voter participation, in other words to sabotage the election, then it's a clear abuse of Presidential power," she said in an email. "Congress must act and the press must hold elected Republicans accountable for not stopping this."
Many critics believe the report is clear-cut evidence of a White House plan to manufacture an enforced shortage of such machines–all in order to intentionally frustrate the USPS's ability to accommodate the likely millions of mail-in ballots that will be cast by voters.
"If you can't see what's happening here, I don't know what to tell you," CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, a former federal and state prosecutor, told Law&Crime. "Trump has made clear that he will pull every lever of power available to him – legal, borderline, or illegal – to prevent mail-in balloting this fall."
The 45th president has repeatedly rubbished mail-in voting and recently said he intends to resist Democratic Party demands for increased USPS funding–directly linking the intentional effort to starve the agency of money with his administration's longstanding desire to keep fewer people from voting by mail.
"They need that money in order to make the Post Office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," Trump told Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo on Thursday morning–in reference to congressional demands for $25 billion in additional funding for the USPS. "[T]hat means you can't have universal mail-in voting, because they're not equipped."
National security attorney Bradley P. Moss urged caution.
"Although there could very well be entirely legitimate bases for taking these actions, the current political environment – and particularly the public remarks by the president – warrant serious caution and the need for a clearer explanation from the USPS," he said in an email. "The sanctity of the voting process is paramount."
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white "pen" sand (formerly used in hotel ash trays), high intensity miniature lights, poetry, video projection.
The images seem to be crumbling, the sound becomes increasingly ominous, brooding tension builds and the tension develops to the point where it reads: 'One of us had to hit first, cushioning the other. And it happened to be me... I implode quietly.' With a burst of sound and imagery, we, like Icarus, fall crashing back to Earth.
that would sometime be home.
But now its presence has become painfully obvious.
focused on the dilating spot.
and it happened to be me.
I wish you as much luck next time.
The video component of the work consists of images filmed by a skydiving cameraman, the text of the poem, and earth views as recorded by Landsat satellites. Approximately seven hours of film footage was borrowed from NASA, and images that dealt with the suggestion or sensation of falling were culled. These images were passed through a video digitizer to transform the film into small squares and the result was colorized. Not only did this achieve the desired abstracting effect, but also it masked undesirable technical problems with the films: scratches, dust, and the occasional jumpiness caused by the film projection loop being too small during the transfer of the film to video. The text of Ms. Sewell's poem appears in the video as a visual element.
Radio transmissions, electro-magnetic, and various other types of radiant energy are ever-present in our atmosphere, a medium that to human observers appears to be relatively uninhabited. Hundreds of dramas between pilots and control tower personnel are carried out in the skies over airports every day. With radio operator K05P, several hours' worth of radio transmissions were recorded at Houston's Intercontinental Airport to create the sound track for Beyond the Shadow. The sounds used in the edited version of these transmissions start with a pilot communicating his altitude. The video continues with various pilots communicating their altitudes, descending from 6,000 feet to point of impact. Also included in the sound track are wind noises altered in post-production.
The pattern of lights on the floor is a simulation of the Nantucket, Massachusetts, airport.
Beyond the Shadow was installed at the University of Texas at Arlington as part of their 1992 Center for Research and Contemporary Art (CRCA) series. A companion publication was produced. Funding was partially provided by the Independent Production Fund, a National Endowment for the Arts/American Film Institute program.


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Blown into Town [SAMAEL]
Re: Blown into Town [SAMAEL]
by Martyr on March 11th 2017, 2:40 am
Ashley laughed. "Freaking Metas man. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but man. They've gotta get a handle on that whole situation, am I right?" He said, obviously trying to cover something up horribly.
He nodded, "You know, I don't think I'll hate you either Sammy. You certainly aren't as bad as my old roommate." He looked around, trying to show that he was joking about being completely serious. "The voices in my head." Ixtab grunted about how stupid the joke was, and that he was completely useless.
"I've got the Ashleymobile. It's pretty sweet, to be honest."
by Samael Christensen on March 11th 2017, 2:54 am
"I hear ya. Luckily I haven't been stuck in any of those dust ups that involved city blocks being leveled." Samael explained, remembering a story about one of them on the news and it was not something that he wanted to get dragged into. It reminded him that there were more than demons that could cause him some real trouble. "Would like to see something done about that though." He then added, thinking about the food he would be eating in a few minutes, and his stomach began to rumble in anticipation.
He couldn't help smirking when the male said something about not hating him, just liking the thought of that. Not that being hated was anything new to him, though he preferred to avoid any unwarranted hostility towards him. A statement about voice in his head followed, though all he did was narrow his eyes behind the tinted glasses. "Handsome and crazy, quite the roommate I have." He said with a bemused tone, subconsciously following anyone that walked about.
"Could probably upgrade you to a hotel room if….The Ashley mobile isn't always up to your speed." The grin remained for a few seconds. "Was planning to pay for one anyway, so a second occupant won't bother me too much."
by Martyr on March 16th 2017, 2:52 pm
Ashley shrugged as the woman brought them a basket of breadsticks. He liked Sammy, and it was starting to get a little cramped in the Martyrmobile, so he nodded. "Sure. I do like having a bed to sleep in." He said grinning.
The food came, and Ashley immediately dug in. It had been a while since he had had something this good, and hoped that his last job had been enough to pay for something like this. It was just a little spark, what could happen, you know?
Little did he know, that the person he had sold spark to had gone to Seattle where they had dropped the spark into a sewer grate. They had gotten so upset at the loss of their spark; that they had manifested a strange meta gene. They became a living apartment complex complete with free wi-fi. Oddly enough, this person would quickly become infamous for running away during super fights. The legend of Rook was born.
But that's a story for another day.
Martyr poured a metric ton of Parmesan onto his chicken, after stating that there just was not enough on it despite the menu stating it was chicken Parmesan. He seemed indignant at the very thought.
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by Samael Christensen on March 16th 2017, 4:44 pm
Samael personally much preferred a soft bed to whatever a vehicle could offer, and his back usually thanked him more in the long run. Something that Ashley likely shared with him in that regards, and he would have liked any excuse to get to know more about his future roommate. This was of course to avoid potentially shacking up with anyone that would lead to the building spontaneously exploding. "Don't we all?" he asked in a rhetorical fashion, cheeky grin and arced brow giving that away well enough.
Quickly enough their food came however, the smell hitting him full force and making him salivate. Enhanced senses had their uses, though he tried not to focus on the individual ingredients in this case, as that tended to ruin the too human experience. While Ashley drowned his in parmesan, Samael enjoyed his meal as was, and appeared to enjoy it quite a bit.
"Do ya want more chicken with that parmesan?" Samael quipped, jabbing the fork into his mound of angel hair pasta, twirling the instrument into a nice wad and jamming it into his mouth, chewing it up and swallowing. " Because I think it stops being Chicken parrmesan after some point."
by Martyr on April 25th 2017, 4:31 pm
"Heh. I guess I like cheese, huh?" Ashley said trying his best to cover up his mistake, while scraping the cheese onto the plate beside the chicken. "So what do you do for work, Sammy?"
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As It Passes 1 Billion Users, WhatsApp Will Finally Start Making Facebook Investors Money
Source: WhatsApp
Is Facebook the most unstoppable company in tech?
Though other tech giants like Apple , Alphabet , and Amazon deserve mention as well, Facebook's business momentum, especially as of late, is impressive to say the least.
And though its core business remains the rocket largely propelling its soaring share price, Facebook's budding messaging empire is also firing on all cylinders, as another major milestone from WhatsApp demonstrates.
WhatsApp passes 1 billion users
No, you didn't misread that. In a recent blog post from the company, WhatsApp disclosed that the most popular messaging service on the planet had recently surpassed 1 billion users. For clarity's sake, WhatsApp doesn't specifically cite this audience milestone as reflecting Monthly Active Users (MAUs) or simply total registered accounts. However, data from trusted media sources points to the fact that WhatsApp's 1 billion user figure indeed represents MAUs. Beyond its headline growth figure, several additional usage stats further speak to the performance's truly gargantuan scale.
42 billion messages sent daily
1.6 billion pictures shared daily
250 million videos shared daily
Over 1 billion total groups have been created
These seem like they should be typos, especially for a company that's a mere seven years old, but they aren't. Perhaps even more impressive, WhatsApp, which operates as an autonomous subsidiary of Facebook, only employs a mere 57 engineers to support a service of this capacity. However, per commentary from management, WhatsApp surpassing 1 billion users also brings with it an important business milestone for the company's budding monetization efforts.
The 1 billion user club
Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have long made it clear that their approach to creating lasting communications platforms emphasizes growth before monetization. However, the Facebook chief also cited 1 billion users as a critical juncture where monetization can now become a greater priority for WhatsApp's management, as you can see in a Facebook post from from Zuckerberg from earlier this week.
Image source: Facebook.
For context, WhatsApp announced in late January that it would officially drop its historic subscription model. Instead, like its Facebook-owned communication brethren Messenger , WhatsApp will gradually begin to build tools that allow corporate clients to engage with WhatsApp's burgeoning user base. For example, earlier in January, Facebook enacted a partnership with ride-sharing start-up Uber that allows users to hail an Uber from within Messenger. Other revenue-generating applications Facebook has layered in Messenger include customer service support and booking confirmations from travel companies all occurring within the communications app. So, as it slowly moves to monetize WhatsApp, expect founder Jan Koum and his team to follow a similar path that carries with it two benefits.
The first perk of employing this monetization strategy is that it avoids generating revenue through advertisements, which I think we can all agree ranges anywhere from benign to outright annoying depending their integration within a given service. In addition to not annoying its users, layering third-party apps and service onto its platform actually makes WhatsApp's platform stickier over the long term. Beyond the pull of being able to communicate with their friends and family, users will be less likely to stop using platforms like Messenger and WhatsApp if they'll lose an easy point of contact with customer service for companies they use frequently. This is just one of the many examples of the kinds of applications that can help make WhatsApp a more engaging platform, while also helping drive profits for Facebook investors.
Now that it sits in the enviable ranks of the 1 billion users club, expect WhatsApp to begin slowly switching its efforts from growth to monetization.
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Review: The Power of the Dog
Directed by: Jane Campion
Written by: Jane Campion
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Simplicity and human emotion do not make for the easiest pair. It comes with a distinct shrouding not made clear until looking far below the surface, even if it involves some pricking in the process. In a sense, Jane Campion's newest treat for us to devour does something quite similar where it builds something that becomes hard to decipher until everything becomes explicitly clear and once it all comes together, it makes for such a satisfying experience.
Rancher brothers Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Burbank (Jesse Plemmons) make a stop at a local town on their way back home. Upon their stop, George becomes infatuated with a local innkeeper Rose (Kisten Dunst) and upon marrying her, brings Rose and her son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) home, much to the disdain of Phil.
The layers operating in The Power of the Dog make for such gratifying viewing because the story never hides what it wants to be about but we get so lost in everything Campion does visually that the final impact still lands like a hammer blow. Almost like a magic trick where when examining the whole project as a whole, the machinations of her trick were left for us to see in plain sight. The journey getting there ultimately amplifies the experience and it all comes from the characterization of Phil Burbank.
One of the larger themes of this narrative lies in the ideals of toxic masculinity, the way it gets portrayed in Phil shows a sense of bravado seeped in overcompensation. This ultimately gets to the heart of where toxic masculinity comes from, a sense of trying to show out a sense of manliness, especially in the effort to upend another person. Phil, who evidently studied classical arts in university, constantly presents himself as someone who's just like the other ranchers around him, almost daring anyone else to step up for a figurative measuring contest. This sense of unease begins to build around him, because he proves to be quite the fraud, but not to the men around him.
This then compounds with the relationship he builds with Rose's son, Peter where it starts out in trying to humiliate the young man and then something much more intriguing. Emanating from the homoeroticism latently presented in the narrative as well as the blatant homosexual feelings happening, it tackles the idea of masculinity in such a fascinating way. Much like Brokeback Mountain, it takes a lifestyle and profession so steeped in being a "man," which tended to lean into being heterosexual and flipping it completely. This, of course, comes together in a subtle manner until it all gets laid out right in front of you in such a brilliant manner.
The magic harbored by this feature comes from the enrapturing setting and the glorious technicals allowing us to get wrapped into this tale of torture and love. The stunning cinematography by Ari Wegner makes for so many stunning images through the use of shadows and hues. The mountain and views of Montana have never looked better and continue to suck us in. It makes the outside feel so incredibly vast while making the indoor settings so constricting and horrifying, especially when it comes to Rose's experience with Phil. Such a stark contrast, which continually sets the mood and allows for the performances to absolutely shine.
From an acting perspective, this film provides such a wonderfully different range of performances, which all starts with Benedict Cumberbatch. Casting him in this role feels almost too perfect because Cumberbatch trying to pass off this bravado very much matches what Phil attempts to do as a character. Even so, Cumberbatch digs into the harsh exterior of this man and what he tries to hide, especially in regard to Bronco Henry. Cumberbatch really does it all thus making it his finest performance to date in the way he embodies such a hateable individual with much more going on under the surface than what one initially expected. Excellent casting and a performance to match it.
The other trio of principal cast members each serves their roles in perfect ways as well. Jesse Plemmons receives the least to do but the man hits every note perfectly from the moments of quiet affection with Rose to the ever-present discomfort he evokes whenever Phil speaks about Bronco Henry. Then you have Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee absolutely dazzling as supporting figures. Dunst captures the inner anguish of a woman on the verge of a massive breakdown due to Phil's torment. From showing out as a strong woman owning her own business to being stuck under the thumb of someone trying to make her go mad and leave runs the gamut of emotions and gives the opportunity for Dunst to show out here. Smit-McPhee takes on the very calculated and sneaky performance of portraying Peter. Something about his performance from the beginning comes with a level of mystery, but just like Cumberbatch, the layers of his work become even more discernibly brilliant the more you sit on it, especially upon a rewatch.
Coming back to grace us with her endless talent is Jane Campion and she has not lost a step in the way she tells this story. Her precision in adapting this literary tale into something visually and emotionally astonishing left me stunned on more than one occasion. Operating in the world of subtlety but also incredibly direct. I mean, the very first words of the feature truly say it all, don't they? The emotional and psychological maze she puts the audience through here demonstrates once again why she deserves endless praise.
Multiple viewings add to the immersive experience The Power of the Dog seeks to portray and ensure the legacy of this feature will only continue to grow. An astonishing piece of work and another example of what a visual adaptation can do for a piece of literary work. I am glad to welcome back Jane Campion with open arms as she delivers unsurprisingly once again with this tortuous, cerebral, and emotional Western.
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Q: Write string variable to the clipboard I'm going to admit, right off the bat, that I'm Pascal-inexperienced, to say the least. So, any help I can get will be greatly appreciated. :)
As part of a larger program, I need to write a string variable to the clipboard. I've created a new project in Lazarus (version 1.0.12) so I can try to figure out how to do so without the complications caused by extra, unnecessary code, which I have included below:
program varToClipboard;

uses Clipbrd;

var
    textToCopy:string;

begin
    textToCopy := 'Test text from Pascal';

    Clipboard.AsText := textToCopy;
end.

Using the above code, along with a required LCLBase dependency, I'm getting the following error in CMD when running the compiled EXE:
An unhandled exception occurred at $000000000043D45E :
EAccessViolation : Access violation
  $000000000043D45E  CLIPBOARDREGISTERFORMAT,  line 98 of ./include/lclintf.inc
  $000000000043C35B  PREDEFINEDCLIPBOARDFORMAT,  line 185 of lclintf.pas
  $0000000000415B0C  TCLIPBOARD__SETASTEXT,  line 452 of ./include/clipbrd.inc
  $0000000000401802  main,  line 12 of varToClipboard.lpr

According to the documentation, I seem to be doing everything right. Although, I have found the documentation to be... lacking on more than on occasion.

Also, what do I have to do so that I can run the compiled EXE (which will just generate and write a string to the clipboard) without the console window popping up?

A: You were doing it right. The problem here is that clipboard class doesn't somehow encount to be used in console applications. Your application failed on the following line from the lclintf.inc file, where the WidgetSet object is going to be accessed. That fails because the WidgetSet variable is nil while you're in console application just because console application doesn't need any widgets:
function ClipboardRegisterFormat(const AMimeType: string): TClipboardFormat;
begin
  Result := WidgetSet.ClipboardRegisterFormat(AMimeType);
end;

To workaround this you may add the Interfaces unit to your uses clause and add the LCL package dependency to your project:
program Project1;

uses
  Clipbrd,
  Interfaces;

begin
  Clipboard.AsText := 'Hello, I''m a text from clipboard!';
end.

But according to your additional question it seems that you want to make the application, which will just copy certain text to the clipboard and terminates. That's what the console application type is not a right choice because of that console window shown for a short time. For that sort of application I would make the formless window application (please note that I know this trick only from Windows platform):

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*Create a new application through menu File / New..., select Project / Application in the dialog's tree view and create a new project by clicking OK

*Now let's remove the only unit (with a form) from your project; go to the menu Project / Remove from Project and in the newly opened dialog select unit1.pas and click OK

*Now you have a unitless (and formless) application, so what remains is to write a code to copy the text to the clipboard; so now let's open the project source from menu Project / View Project Source and as the project source paste a code like this (this is the shortest possible form):

program Project1;

uses
  Interfaces, Forms, Clipbrd;

begin
  Application.Initialize;
  Clipboard.AsText := 'Hello, I''m a text from clipboard!';
end.


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 * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
 * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
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package turtletanks;

/**
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 * @author bowin_000
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public class TurtleTanks {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here
    }

}


Switch was a really late bloomer. By October 9, 2018 a total of 64 mins had been logged. By December 31, 2018 a total of 9124 mins had been logged. That is 151 hours in 12 weeks, or 755 mins per week.
Edited by carlsson, Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:16 PM.
i can't help feel like in a way i'm partly responsible for that- I picked up my Switch 11-27-18. i'm not sure if I'm proud or ashamed, lol.
The Uber game - 14 min.
I played some Drawception again, or, rather, looked at how my games turned out. Then I played Surviv.io which is a war game in overhead view where your goal is to fall last of all players. Then there's The Uber game which is a kind of multiple choice adventure where you play a Uber driver who has to make quite a few decisions during a week of work.
A spasm of co-op games this weekend with the original Overcooked leading the way . . .
It looks like I'm going to be helping contribute to the Nintendo Switch time on the tracker in a major way, because this past week was a really big week for the Switch around here!
You may notice that most of the times are rounded to 5 minute increments, since starting Tuesday I decided to use the Nintendo Switch parental controls mobile application on my Android tablet to track my gaming time instead of tracking it manually. It's a shame that there isn't a daily gaming time tracker built into the Switch like there was on the 3DS, but the mobile app works well enough even if it isn't perfectly precise. In any case, I really dived into my library of Switch games this week and spent a fair bit of time enjoying most of the Switch games I currently own.
First up was DOOM, which I'm now nearing the end of my second play through of (this time with the difficulty turned up to Ultra Violence). I had such a great time playing through it the first time that I decided to go back and do a second play through to try and find every collectible and earn every weapon and armor suit upgrade. I'm only two levels away from the end at this point and I've already succeeded in finding every collectible and upgrading all my armor and weapons to max, the only exception being the rocket launcher for which I still have one weapon mastery challenge left to complete. It's been a ton of fun all around and I'm sure I'll end up playing through DOOM one more time later in the year before it's sequel DOOM: Eternal comes out.
While I was working on DOOM I also did a full play through of Sonic Mania Plus, and hot darn is this ever a great game! It really feels like the Sega Genesis sequel to Sonic & Knuckles that I've been waiting for since 1995. It's not a perfect game, since most of the levels do feel overly long to me and kinda drag on, the giant ring entrances to the special stages are a little too well hidden compared to the ones in Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles, and I find the new special stages that you have to complete to earn chaos emeralds (which are very similar to the special stages in Sonic CD) to be way too difficult. So I've definitely got some complaints about Sonic Mania, but in spite of those gripes I still think it's a phenomenal game that plays just like the Genesis originals and is chalked full of charm and nostalgia. I can definitely see why a lot of fans consider Sonic Mania to be their favorite entry in the series, but for me I still like Sonic 3 & Knuckles a bit better.
Next up was Night in the Woods, which my wife and I actually played together. This is a difficult game to describe but in many ways it's kind of like a cross between a side scrolling platformer and a choose your own adventure book. The basic gist of the game is that you play as a 20 year old anthropomorphic cat who just dropped out of college and is making the shameful return to her small rural home town to move back in with her parents. You control her as she goes about her days walking around town, catching up with old friends (most of whom have moved on to bigger and better things during the 2 years she was away at college), and just generally dealing with post-adolescent angst and depression as she tries to figure out what exactly to do with her days now. There's a lot of light platforming, a few Guitar Hero style rhythm mini games tossed in, and a pixel art rogue-like game you can play on her computer; but the majority of the game is just spent reading dialogue and making decisions about how to respond to it. I don't want to spoil any story details, but suffice it to say the game's story is absolutely hilarious, extremely relatable, and very touching all at the same time. It's a pretty weird game, but if sounds like your cup of tea then I'd highly recommend giving it a try.
Wrapping up the week, I ended up activating a 7 day free trial of Nintendo Switch Online to check out the Switch's NES emulator and Tetris 99; and I definitely think the service is worth 20 bucks a year. The selection of NES titles is pretty nice, Tetris 99 is just insanely cool (especially considering that it's 100% completely free), and the ability to do online multiplayer and backup all your save game data to Nintendo's cloud storage system makes Nintendo Switch Online a pretty worthwhile investment to me. As far as next week goes it'll probably be a lot more of the same around here, though the misses is planning on getting back to Quake II on the PlayStation at some point and she's looking forward to trying out some Switch games as soon as the 8BitDo adapter she ordered off Amazon to let her use her Wii arcade stick with the Switch (along with an original Game Boy styled 8BitDo SN30 Pro controller for me) arrives in the mail next week.
Until next time and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours!
Edited by Jin, Mon Mar 4, 2019 4:58 AM.
I picked up a few digital games this week because I couldn't resist. Ape Out is an unexpected gem with a pretty cool soundtrack, and OutRun makes me feel like I'm back in the arcade at the machine.
It's a long story on how i actually got the game, but I finally picked up Disgaea 1 complete yesterday- all the memories of hours playing this game on the PS2 came flooding back.
I was sick a couple of days, so that meant extra Zelda time! I've done some pretty crazy stuff in the game, and just lack one Divine Beast and the fight with Ganon himself to finish.
Monaco is such a great game. I really enjoyed playing it!
Thanks for the comment. I had heard great things, but never played it before. My wife and I tried it out as a 2 player co-op, and I'm not sure we really experienced the game's potential. She had a lot of trouble just reading the map and understanding what the graphics were trying to depict. "Which way is that guy supposed to be facing?" "Is there a door for this room on this wall?" Stuff like that. We also struggled with what to do when guards started chasing us and really didn't have much fun with it at all. Are we doing it wrong? Do you have a recommendation about which characters to use when only playing with 2 players? Any general advice?
PS4 Dirt 4, 150 minutes.
GameCube Soul Calibur 2, 30 minutes.
When I was playing, it seemed like it was largely situational- the best overall roles i thought were Mole, Locksmith, and Hacker.
The Cleaner comes into his own because he can greatly simplify the game on the crowded later levels. The noise is not an issue unless you need to clean 4-5 people in a row. Lookout helps you see coin placement and lets you know when you can ignore security measures/run around because there aren't any shooting guards nearby.
Locksmith is useful in reducing safe cracking time but most of the later levels have C4, wrenches, and rocket launchers. Redhead can be faster getting through locked doors.
You can see the exact total minutes played of an XOne game if you go to your profile on XBox.com > choose My Games and then click on the game > Achievements. Along with the achievements, it displays the minutes played and other stats.
I'll do the stats tomorrow (depending which time zone you're in) but I can hint already now that we/you have obtained a new record in total minutes tracked, and we still have some regulars left to post.
Trying it, but the website seems borked or something. Won't let me log in or go to "my account". Every time I click on it, it gives me an error. Request took too long. HTTP Error 400.
Edited by Eltigro, Mon Mar 4, 2019 8:08 PM.
Just some more Civ this week. Looked like I was going to pull out a science victory in my Maori game, but the Americans won with a culture victory 2 turns before that. D'oh, I don't remember the last time I've lost at endgame (I've lost/given up plenty of times mid-game), so that was interesting. Tried building my culture to hold it off, but it didn't quite work out. Started another game with Aquitaine (France) on a real world Europe map. Currently allied with England and Scotland and not getting along well with Spain.
1. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch) - 1924 min.
2. Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 (Xbox One) - 1519 min.
3. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) - 1276 min.
4. Overcooked (Xbox One) - 1116 min.
5. DOOM (Switch) - 866 min.
6. Civilization VI (PC) - 811 min.
7. Sonic Mania Plus (Switch) - 435 min.
8. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Xbox One) - 330 min.
9. Night in the Woods (Switch) - 290 min.
10. Tetris 99 (Switch) - 238 min.
1. Xbox One - 4423 min.
2. Switch - 4163 min.
3. PC - 811 min.
4. PS4 - 150 min.
5. Xbox 360 - 53 min.
6. Browser based - 40 min.
7. Gamecube - 30 min.
Total 9670 minutes and 23 different games on 7 different systems.
As promised, this is a record week going by total number of minutes. While the old records of number of games (29) and systems (11) remain untouched, the old play time record of 7837 minutes is ... not sure if "obliterated" is the right word but something similar. Spectacularly the Classic tracker had unusually low figures the same week.
Well, if we concentrate on the actual games this week, Breath of the Wild takes the title, with Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 in second place after a recount. On the systems side, it is a two system battle Microsoft Xbox One vs Nintendo Switch. In a regular week, either of them would have ruled the list but here it is a tight battle with only 260 mins (4 1/3 hours) inbetween.
On the all-time stats, PUBG just exceeded 40K minutes (40344) and the tracker itself just exceeded 250K minutes (250397). A total of 428 games have been tracked so far, some as little as 2 minutes.
Crazy thing is, not 15 minutes after I "fixed" the error problem on the Xbox website, it quit working again. Same error.
Microsoft wants to keep it a secret from you how much time you spend on playing games.
I've had this on my Steam wishlist for a while, but just picked it up for under $5 on XBox. Fun board game style of game with cards and dice, and some replay value with different characters and win conditions.
Not big into fighting games, but enjoyed the first game's story mode, and this version is fun, too, though I'm not a fan of the lootbox style upgrade system they've incorporated.
My wife and I managed to get full stars on all of the stages in Overcooked and we finished the story mode of 'Lovers.' Road Knight is a bit of an oddity as it is one of the XBox creators or community games or whatever. It was free and looked like Spy Hunter. It is now uninstalled - LOL.
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I don't know what I'm doing to myself, but i bought the Zelda DLC this weekend. I've also been messing around Tetris but certainly not enough to win Nintendo's 'competition'.
We bought Lego Harry Potter and Just Dance 2019- my non-gamer daughter absolutely LOVES my Switch, too!


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La dipendenza di Ross comprende un'area dell'Antartide (e altre terre emerse comprese nell'Oceano Australe) rivendicata dalla Nuova Zelanda.

Geografia
Il territorio è delimitato da una sezione circolare avente origine al Polo Sud e passante per i meridiani 160°E e 150°O. La rivendicazione termina con il parallelo 60°S. La dipendenza prende il nome da Sir James Clark Ross che ha scoperto, tra gli altri, anche il Mare di Ross.

La Dipendenza include parte della Terra della regina Victoria e buona parte della Barriera di Ross. L'Isola di Ross, le Isole Balleny, l'Isola Roosevelt e la piccola Isola di Scott completano la geografia del territorio.

Ghiacciai
Ghiacciaio Evans
Ghiacciaio Gabites
Ghiacciaio Gentle
Ghiacciaio Geodetic
Ghiacciaio Haselton
Ghiacciaio Herbertson
Ghiacciaio Morning
Ghiacciaio Terra Nova
Ghiacciaio Topside
Ghiacciaio Trepidation
Ghiacciaio Simpson
Ghiacciaio McCann
Ghiacciaio Priddy

Insediamenti
La base scientifica Scott (Nuova Zelanda), la Stazione McMurdo (USA) e la Stazione Mario Zucchelli (Italia) formano attualmente gli unici insediamenti permanenti sul territorio. Una pista di neve e, a seconda delle condizioni climatiche e del periodo dell'anno, due piste di ghiaccio all'aeroporto di campo Williams garantiscono una piena accessibilità alle strutture sia agli aerei con carrello "tradizionale" che a quelli con carrello a slitta per tutto l'arco dell'anno.

Basi
 Dal 1969 al 1995 la Nuova Zelanda ha installato la stazione Vanda (estiva) ubicata nella valle McMurdo.
 L'Italia mantiene nella regione la stazione Zucchelli, una base estiva a Baia Terra Nova
 Anche Greenpeace aveva nell'area una propria base: si tratta della stazione World Park nell'Isola di Ross. Operante dal 1987 al 1992, in quanto base di organizzazione non governativa, la politica ufficiale delle nazioni firmatarie del trattato antartico era di non dare alcun supporto o assistenza agli occupanti.

Giurisdizione
Il governo britannico ha preso possesso del territorio nel 1923 assegnandone la gestione al dominion della Nuova Zelanda. In base a quanto stabilito dal trattato antartico, siglato anche dalla Nuova Zelanda, nessun paese può rivendicare la sovranità sui territori del continente antartico. Se la rivendicazione fosse possibile (anche se relativamente piccola se comparata con quelle degli altri paesi), la Dipendenza di Ross sarebbe il più esteso territorio della Nuova Zelanda, più esteso dell'Isola del Nord e dell'Isola del Sud messe assieme.

Il governatore generale della Nuova Zelanda ha competenza anche per il territorio di Ross. Ufficiali del governo visitano la dipendenza di Ross con cadenza almeno annuale.

Verso la fine degli anni ottanta una nave di ricerca non governativa britannica, la Southern Quest affondò nel mare di Ross. Elicotteri della United States Coast Guard salvarono l'equipaggio portandolo nella stazione McMurdo. I sopravvissuti (tra cui alcuni neozelandesi) denunciarono abusi verbali da parte del comandante della base. L'indignazione dell'opinione pubblica neozelandese spinse il governo di Wellington ad emettere una protesta formale dichiarando che cittadini neozelandesi che si trovano in territorio neozelandese possono essere interrogati da autorità neozelandesi.

Nel 2006 la polizia neozelandese dichiarò che un difetto di giurisdizione gli impediva di obbligare un teste statunitense che soggiornava nella dipendenza di Ross a testimoniare per il caso del presunto omicidio per avvelenamento di Rodney Marks avvenuto al Polo Sud.

Bandiera

Attualmente la bandiera nazionale della Nuova Zelanda è l'unico vessillo utilizzato nella Dipendenza di Ross, con l'unica eccezione della bandiera postale neozelandese presente presso l'ufficio postale della base Amundsen-Scott. Tuttavia il vessillogista neozelandese James Dignan ha comunque disegnato una bandiera che è stata utilizzata nella Dipendenza in modo non ufficiale.

Francobolli
Durante la spedizione britannica del 1908 le poste neozelandesi sovrascrissero 23.492 francobolli con il nome dell'epoca della Dipendenza: Terra di re Edward VII. Lo stesso Ernest Shackleton, capo spedizione, giurò come postino.

Anni dopo il New Zealand Post Office ha emesso francobolli sotto la denominazione "Ross Dependency" per essere utilizzati dagli scienziati stanziati nella dipendenza. L'emissione di francobolli venne sospesa nel 1987 dopo che l'ufficio postale alla base Amundsen-Scott venne chiuso a causa di una politica di razionalizzazione dei costi. Le richieste dei collezionisti spinsero però la Nuova Zelanda a riprendere le emissioni nel 1994.

Note

Voci correlate
Isole sub-antartiche della Nuova Zelanda
Ghiacciaio Stewart

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Il governo della Dipendenza di Ross sito ufficiale.
  Antartide neozelandese Informazioni sulla Dipendenza di Ross

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Reflecting his soul
Alex Coolman
Newton Wayland is cooking musical stew, stirring up the ingredients of a
dish called Ray Charles.
Charles comes to the Orange County Performing Art Center to play with the
Pacific Symphony Pops tonight and Saturday. And Wayland, the conductor
for both evenings, has put together a program intended to illustrate the
Georgia crooner's roots.
The 69-year-old singer has been called "the genius of soul," for his
powerful, gospel-tinged vocal style and his seemingly unlimited powers of
composition.
But Charles didn't emerge from nowhere. Wayland hopes the tunes he has
selected for the first half of the program will help listeners understand
just what it was about American music in 1930 that was such fertile
ground for Charles' development.
"I'm a history buff," Wayland said. "I like to explore the roots of
stuff, and that's what I'm doing, with a minimum of time."
Packed into the first 30 to 40 minutes of the concert are tunes by the
likes of Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin and Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the
first prominent American composer to use Latin American and Creole
rhythms in his compositions.
The point of this tour through American musical history, Wayland said, is
to articulate the lineage that lead up to Charles.
In the "Grand Walkaround" melody that will be performed from Gottschalk's
"Cakewalk," for example, Wayland is emphasizing the importance of 19th
century African American music to Charles' style.
The cakewalk was a dance performed on plantations, Wayland explained. Its
essential forms were transmitted from these rural roots into the stage
environment of minstrel shows.The music then filtered through ragtime and
into jazz.
"Eventually," Wayland added, "you end up with Ray Charles."
But Charles' style is complex and eclectic. It draws not only on blues
and jazz traditions, but also those of gospel, which are integral to the
sound of "soul."
"[Gospel] is a big thread, especially in Charles' singing," Wayland said.
"He was one of the first singers to be commercially successful with that
kind of gospel shout and then to take it into the jazz idiom."
In his compositions -- which range from rock to soul and from blues to
county -- Charles draws on this challenging mixture of styles. Though he
had his start as a performer by narrowly imitating the mannerisms of Nat
King Cole, the mature Charles is a character who can't be pinned down in
any single mode or manner.
"That's always impressed me -- that he didn't get stuck in one groove and
that he was successful somehow in putting his imprint on these songs and
getting them across to the public," Wayland said.
The performer's wide-ranging body of work is a good match for Wayland's
own personality, the conductor said. Wayland has been conducting pops
symphonies for years -- in Boston, Denver, Houston and elsewhere --
precisely because he likes to be involved with music that has a broad
"I've always been a populist in that I try to reach a general rather than
an elitist audience," he said.
Though Wayland has an enthusiasm for composers he considers
"fuddy-duddies" -- such classical musicians as Sergey Prokofiev -- his
overwhelming desire is to gain a sort of coherent picture of musical
history. "Filling in the gaps of my eclecticism," he calls it.
And that's where Charles comes in. He'll fill the gap under the labels:
Soul Genius, Survivor and Star.
* WHAT: Ray Charles with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra
* WHEN: 8 p.m. today and Saturday
* WHERE: Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive,
* COST: $14 to $54
* PHONE: (714) 740-7878


In his book, Alcott Memoirs, Dr. Frederick Llewellyn Hovey Willis spends much time describing the special relationship he shared with Bronson Alcott, and the profound effect Bronson had on Dr. Willis' life. As a teenage boy, Willis spent many hours in conversation with Bronson and recorded some of these in his journal. Thus we have a recorded conversation with Bronson from the point of view of one of his students.
In a previous post, I had written about John Matteson's description of Bronson's conversations (found in Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father). His delightful depiction made me long for some written account that captured the essence of these conversations. I have found such in Alcott Memoirs.
This is just a short example.
Even in my youth Mr. Alcott seemed to me always strangely out of place in the midst of the practical utilitarianism of the 19th century, and out of place, too, clad in modern broadcloth. He should have been of the days of Socrates or Seneca and worn the flowing robes of classic Greece or the toga of ancient Rome. He was possessed of a captivating yet almost childlike simplicity of manner and bore about with him an air of serene repose, contrasting sharply with the bustling, business-like manner of most of the literary men of those days.
"They are the light that lighteth every man that cometh in the world," he replied; "they appeal to every consciousness. It is not because men mistake them that they build upon them errors of philosophy or religion, but because they seek to bend these simple truths to suit conditions that do not accord with them. That is, they endeavor to take these foundation stones out of the Temple of Truth and fit them into a structure of their own. I will give you two or three principles that will be sufficient for your guidance through life, but will be of no avail unless you strive to fit them to your life and make them the foundation stones upon which to build your character.
First: The Infinite Supreme, the creator of all life. God, our Father, and His inseparable co-relative man, our brother.
Second: The divine in the human. This is the undying force within every human soul and its means of growth. It is the destiny of this divine spark to glow and finally shine forth in splendor. There is no power nor circumstance here or here after, that can control the development of this force.
Mr. Alcott believed it was upon these principles, true in themselves, that false structures, false theological conceptions, among them total depravity, an endless hell of physical torture, immediate sanctification that permitted a murderer from a scaffold to enter the highest heaven, had been built. The result of all these he believed to be the shaping of the future into unnatural condition ; a dead future separated from a living present. As he spoke, he became wonderfully radiant, I well remember. He defined the soul as an entity that, after the body was dead, lived on subject to a higher strata of the same moral, social, and intellectual laws as governed the body ere dissolution. For Jesus the man, Mr. Alcott manifested a loving admiration and a tender regard. It was not worship.
One day I asked him if he thought Jesus held any vital relation to the living present. I cannot recall the details of his reply and my journal does not record it; but I remember that he believed Jesus held as real and significant a relation to humanity as He did when He died centuries before; and unfaltering faith in all the attributes, faculties, and power of the spirit of man compelled him to believe in the interpenetration of two spheres of being; that the law of sympathy alone was sufficiently possible to bring a man under the individual guidance and influence of Jesus Himself.


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Will Barnet is dead
Will Barnet died yesterday in Manhattan at 101. According to Ken Johnson's obituary in the NYTimes, Barnet is "survived by his wife, as well as his sons from his first marriage — Peter, a painter; Richard, a sculptor; and Todd, a lawyer — and the daughter from his second marriage, Ona, who owns and operates an inn in Maine; and seven grandchildren."
Known for his inspired early abstraction and later figurative work, Barnet continued painting until the end of his life. Last year I saw his retrospective at the National Academy, and at "Signs & Symbols," a terrific show organized from the Whitney's permanent collection that was up through October 28, I saw Male and Female, one of his sublime abstract paintings from the 1950s. Here's an excerpt from the Whitney's "Watch and Listen" audio tour.
Will Barnet is interested in the tension between certain colors and forms, and the sense of resolution in the painting as a whole.
Barnet has said that his artistic heroes are the Old Masters—Giotto, Daumier, and Ingres. Despite the relative abstraction of Male and Female, Barnet's commitment to classicism shines through in the painting's balance and composure. The vertical forms in Male and Female also bear a certain resemblance to Northwest Coast totem poles. Barnet, like many artists of his generation, was very impressed by Northwest Coast Native American art. He was part of the group known as the Indian Space Painters—so-called because of the patterned, all-over composition that they based on Native American textiles and pottery.
Image above: Will Barnet, Male and Female, 1954, oil on canvas. Image © Will Barnet/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Courtesy Alexandre Gallery
In this video, taped when Barnet was 99, watch him at work in the studio. His son, Peter, who taught painting at Montclair State University, talks about what it was like growing up with Barnet.
Also watch: President Obama bestowing the 2011 National Medal of Arts on Will Barnet, at The White House, February 13th, 2012. Barnet receives his medal at 8:11.
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Der Distrikt Tambogrande (auch Distrikt Tambo Grande) liegt in der Provinz Piura der Region Piura im äußersten Nordwesten von Peru. Der Distrikt hat eine Fläche von 1442,81 km². Beim Zensus 2017 lebten 107.495 Einwohner im Distrikt. Im Jahr 1993 betrug die Einwohnerzahl 63.183, im Jahr 2007 96.451. Verwaltungssitz ist die am rechten Flussufer des Río Piura gelegene Kleinstadt Tambogrande.

Geographische Lage
Der Distrikt Tambogrande liegt im Nordosten der Provinz Piura, lediglich der angrenzende Distrikt Las Lomas liegt weiter nördlich. Der Distrikt Tambogrande liegt nordöstlich der Regionshauptstadt Piura. Er liegt am Fuße der peruanischen Westkordillere. Der Fluss Río Piura durchquert den Südteil des Distrikts in westlicher Richtung. An der nördlichen Distriktgrenze liegt oberhalb der Stadt Las Lomas der Stausee der Talsperre San Lorenzo.

Der Distrikt Tambogrande grenzt im Norden an den Distrikt Las Lomas, im Osten an die Provinz Ayabaca, im Südosten an die Provinz Morropón, im Südwesten an den Distrikt Castilla, im Westen an den Distrikt Piura sowie im Nordwesten an die Provinz Sullana.

Geschichte
Ende der 1990er Jahre plante das – damals noch bestehende – kanadische Bergbauunternehmen Manhattan Minerals Corp. im Umland von Tambogrande den Abbau von Kupfer- und Goldvorkommen. Die Bürger von Tambogrande und vor allem die Bauern rundum wehrten sich dagegen, weil sie schwere Umweltschäden befürchteten und das Ende des ertragreichen Limettenanbaus. Im Februar 2005 gab Manhattan Minerals Corp. das Vorhaben auf.

Weblinks

 Municipalidad Distrital de Tambogrande
 Landkarte (8 MB) bei escale.minedu.gob.pe

Einzelnachweise

Distrikt in der Provinz Piura
Distrikt in Peru


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