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Odd Words: This week in literary New Orleans	April 11, 2016
Posted by The Typist in Book Stores, book-signing, books, bookstores, Indie Book Shops, literature, Louisiana, New Orleans, novel, Odd Words, Poetry, reading, spoken word, Toulouse Street, Writing.
This week in literary New Orleans:
& This coming weekend brings New Orleans first Poetry Festival, sponsored by local publishers Trembling Pillow Press and Lavender Ink Press. The event will host more than 60 poets from New Orleans and around the nation for a day of readings, panels and workshops, with a Small Press Fair featuring books by participants along with book-making demonstrations, tarot readings,
workshops and more. New Orleans poet and author Rodger Kamenetz will lead a workshop on dreams and poetry . Saturday brings a full day of panels and workshops, with the details available on the website. Highlight events include:
Poets with Bands, Friday night at SIBERIA, 2227 St. Claude Ave., featuring: Skin Verb, Bruce Andrews with Rob Cambre & Donald Miller, The Call Girls and Shock Patina.
Saturday night's reading at 7 pm at MAGS, 940 Elysian Fields, including poets Laura Mullen, Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyraffite, Niyi Osundare and Adeena Karasick.
The weekend closes with open mic at the Maple Leaf Poetry Reading at the Maple Leaf Bar at 3 pm. This is the oldest continuous reading series in the south hosted by Nancy Harris.
Information on the featured readers and panelists can be found here.
& Monday at 6 pm Octavia Books hosts Raif Shwayri's family history BEIRUT ON THE BAYOU: Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the Making of Modern Lebanon. Shwayri begins his family's story with his grandfather Habib Shwayri's arrival at Ellis Island in 1902 and making his way to relatives in New Orleans. There, he began peddling down the Bayou Lafourche, befriending the communities living alongside the water and earning the nickname Sweet Papa for his kindness and generosity. When he returned home to Lebanon in 1920, he invested the money he had made, from years of peddling, in real estate and died a wealthy man in 1956. Nicola's story, like the story of Lebanon itself, begins farther back in history. In its account of centuries of Ottoman rule, decades of colonial occupation, and years of internal political strife and civil war, Beirut on the Bayou intertwines a family narrative with the story of a people, of Lebanon in the making.
& Also at 6 pm Monday Garden District Book Shop presents William Joyce's Ollie's Odyssey. Can a beloved but lost stuffed rabbit save himself and other Losts from becoming the most feared designation of all: The Forgotten? Find out in this epic quest from the author of The Guardians series and the creative force behind The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Oswald is a favorite. Of all the toys in Billy's home, the stuffed rabbit takes top rank: everywhere Billy goes, so goes Oz. But being a favorite is more than a privilege—it's also fraught with danger. Because of Zozo. Zozo has never been a favorite. An amusement park prize who was never chosen, Zozo has grown so bitter that, when the amusement park closes, he seeks revenge on every toy lucky enough to be a favorite. He wants them all to become The Lost, and even better, Forgotten. When Billy accidentally leaves Oz under the table at a wedding, Oz finds himself on an unplanned adventure, kidnapped by the nefarious Zozo and his gang of creeps and faced with the momentous task of saving not only himself, but all the other stuffies who are "lost" as well…
& Also at 6 pm the NOLALIT Book Club meets at the Columns Hotel to discuss Susan Larson's The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans.
& Tuesday at 7 pm Antenna's Room 220 is pleased to present the New Orleans book launch for Carolyn Hembree's Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, a collection of her poetry published by Trio House Press. The book won the 2015 Trio Award, selected by Neil Shepard, and the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, selected by Stephanie Strickland. The event will take place at 2231 St. Claude Ave, the former Tete Auto Body Shop and soon to be new home of Frenchmen Art Market. Sara Slaughter will also read, and Maple Street Books will be on hand to sell copies of Hembree's books. Hembree is a poet and beloved teacher of English and creative writing at the University of New Orleans. Her first poetry collection, Skinny, was published by Kore Press in 2012 and her chapbook by Nous-zot Press in 2015. Her work has appeared in a variety of respected publications, including DIAGRAM, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, jubilat, and Poetry Daily. Slaughter is a poet and teacher of writing at Lusher Charter School. Her first chapbook, Upriver, was published by Press Street Press in 2014. Her work has recently appeared in New World Writing, The Cortland Review, and PANK.
& Also at 7 pm Tuesday the West Bank Fiction Writers Group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Edith Lawson Library in Westwego. Members perform writing exercises, discuss fiction and critique the writing of fellow authors. Gary Bourgeois moderates.
& Please join Octavia Books for a special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction Erik Larson when he presents DEAD WAKE: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. The event will take place at the JCC (5342 St. Charles Ave.) on Tuesday at 7 pm. To attend, you must purchase a ticket from Octavia Books. ABOUT THE BOOK: On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds"—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.
& Wednesday at 6 pm at Octavia Books meet Vivian Swift, author of Men>GARDENS OF AWE AND FOLLY…An engaging guide to gardens in locales ranging from Key West and post-Katrina New Orleans to Paris ('gardening capital of the world') and Marrakech . . . whimsical." </em?– Kirkus Reviews. Nine masterpiece gardens. Nine stories of grandeur, sorrow, disaster, triumph, discovery, and joy. From Scotland to Key West, from Brazil to Paris–even right next door–there is always something to learn about being human from a great garden.
& Also at 6 pm Wednesday Maple Street Book Shop hosts an evening with Courtney B Lance and Nikki D. Pope, the authors of Pruno, Ramen, and a side of Hope, a book of uplifting stories of innocent people who survived the ordeal of incarceration and were eventually set free. The event will be co-sponsored by the Innocence Project New Orleans. Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) is a nonprofit law office that represents innocent prisoners serving life sentences in Louisiana and Mississippi at no cost to them or their loved ones, and assists them with their transition into the free world upon their release. IPNO uses its cases to explain how wrongful convictions happen and what we can all do to prevent them. IPNO works with legislators, judges, lawyers, law enforcement and policymakers to protect the innocent within the criminal justice system.
& At the Alvar Library at 6 pm Wednesday there is a Poetry Reading with Louisiana Poet Laureat Peter Cooley. To celebrate Poetry Month, Dr. Cooley will headline a poetry reading, performing along with the participants of the workshop (held earlier on April 6). Local poet Lee Grue will MC the reading and introduce the poets.
& At 7 pm Wednesday Esoterotica presents "Our Fantasy Love Letters" at the Always Lounge. Esoterotica's local provocateurs invite you to a singualrly sexy and evocative night of original erotic fantasy all in the form of love letters. These are letters to those we have not yet met but hope to, to those we had not yet had the courage to write, for lovers from a past when we had not yet found our words, or lovers present about a future with them we hope to see.
& At 6 pm Thursday the Maple Street Book Shop Book Club features Eula Biss' On Immunity. Local author Anya Groner is guest facilitator. The book club choice will be available at 10% off at the store. Refreshments will be served.
& Also at 6 pm Thursday Katie Parla's Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City is featured at the Garden District Book Shop. ven 150 years after unification, Italy is still a divided nation where individual regions are defined by their local cuisine. Each is a mirror of its city's culture, history, and geography. Butcucina romana is the country's greatest standout. Tasting Rome provides a complete picture of a place that many love, but few know completely. In sharing Rome's celebrated dishes, street food innovations, and forgotten recipes, journalist Katie Parla and photographer Kristina Gill capture its unique character and reveal its truly evolved food culture—a culmination of 2000 years of history. Their recipes acknowledge the foundations of Roman cuisine and demonstrate how it has transitioned to the variations found today. Studded with narrative features that capture the city's history and gorgeous photography that highlights both the food and its hidden city, you'll feel immediately inspired to start tasting Rome in your own kitchen.
& Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan presents the gripping story of her defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act before the Supreme Court at a major community event at Temple Sinai on Thursday, hosted by Temple Sinai, Forum for Equality, and Federal Bar Association New Orleans Chapter. Doors open at 5:45 pm. Octavia Books will have copies of THEN COMES MARRIAGE: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA for sale at the event. Roberta Kaplan will sign books beginning at 6:00 pm before her presentation which begins at 7pm, and immediately following the presentation.
& Also at 7 pm Thursday the Nix Library Book Club meets to discuss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor.
& The East Jefferson Regional Library continues its celebration of National Poetry Month Thursday at 7 pm. Bill Lavender, a poet, novelist, editor and teacher living in New Orleans, will speak at 7 p.m., on Thursday, April 14. He founded Lavender Ink, a small press devoted mainly to poetry, in 1995, and he founded Diálogos, an imprint devoted to cross-cultural literatures (mostly in translation) in 2011. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in dozens of print and web journals and anthologies, with theoretical writings appearing in Contemporary Literature and Poetics Today, among others.
& Also at 7 pm at the East Jefferson Regional Library the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Writer's Group meets. The purpose of the group is to encourage local writers to create works of fiction based on science fiction, fantasy and horror themes. Participants submit manuscripts to be critiqued by others in the group. Open to all levels. Free of charge and open to the public. No registration.
& On Friday in Honor of Big Class's Pizza Poetry Project, Maple Street Book Shop will be serving pizza for lunch. The store will donate 10% of the day's sales to Big Class. The Pizza Poetry Project celebrates National Poetry Month and the power of youth voices by publishing poems by New Orleans' writers ages 6-18. Working together with Reginelli's, Pizza Delicious, Dolce Vita, Garage Pizza, Mid City Pizza, Theo's and G's Pizza (who generously donate 10% of their proceeds to Big Class's free youth writing programs). Big Class publishes poems of all kinds on pizza boxes, order from the previously mentioned locations for delivery and pick up on April 15 to receive a pizza box with a poem! Pizza eaters/poetry readers post their poems on Twitter and Instagram using #pizzapoetry16. learn more by visiting Big Class at: http://bigclass.org/pizzapoetry/ or follow our blog on Tumblr at http://pizza-poetry-blog.tumblr.com/.
& Saturday at 10 am at the East Jefferson Regional Library brings the Monthly Meeting of the Southern Louisiana Chapter of the Romance Writers of America features guest speakers who discuss all aspects of writing, editing and publishing. Topics frequently explore topics other than romance writing though they focus on subjects that make writers better at their craft.
& Saturday at 10:30 am The Octavia Books Book Club meets the third Saturday of each month. This month they are reading HALF OF A YELLOW SUN. All are welcome, and members receive 10% off book club selections.
& At 11:30 at Saturday Maple Street Book Shop will feature George Sanchez, author of the new mystery, A Place Unchanged. He will be reading from and signing copies of the new book, the third in the Jeff Chaussier series. "The third Jeff Chaussier mystery finds Jeff returning to New Orleans. This time he has marriage on his mind. New Orleans, though, is far too seductive a lady and too wrapped in secrecy for a straightforward narrative to unfold. Things seem hopeful at the start. Bryna no longer has her brother's child to care for. Jeff is tired of the life of an itinerant actor and is also unusually flush with money from a London engagement. Things are on track, even though the flight home (his least favorite form of transportation) has left him woozy from self-medication. He wakes to an uncertain morning, unclear whose bed it is he finds himself in. Luckily, it's Bryna who is obeying his mother instructions on what to do with him on arrival. Memory happily restored, Jeff lolls in bed as Bryna goes downstairs to prepare breakfast. Jeff expects a meal, not muffled screams and a slamming door. Dashing downstairs, he chases the intruders out the door, handicapped by his lack of clothing and irked that Bryna was taken in the same state. "
& Saturday at 11:30 pm Join the editor of and contributors to THE BAYOU BOGEYMAN PRESENTS HOODOO AND VODOO for a signing at Octavia Books. The night might have started as a normal camping trip, but it soon becomes a nightmare from the swamp when a group of students are joined by the Bayou Bogeyman! With their teacher missing and no way home, the children have no choice but to play the Bogeyman's twisted game: tell a campfire story spooky enough to satisfy the monster's appetite or get eaten alive! This supernatural collection features spine-tingling tales from nine different Louisiana writers, each with their own share of screams to add to the trove of Southern lore. Be warned: you may need to sleep with one eye open.
& Sunday at 2 pm Rheta Grimsley Johnson shares and signs THE DOGS BURIED OVER THE BRIDGE: A Memoir in Dog Years at Octavia Books. Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson uses a parade of beloved dogs to take readers on a colorful journey. It's not really a dog book in the Old Yeller sense; it's a personal story that uses dogs as metaphors for love, loss, and life. Meet Rheta's eccentric neighbors, her friends, her three husbands, and-best of all-her dogs. She introduces Monster, "a big galoot of a mutt, the variegated color of a hand-knitted sweater a dour aunt might give you for Christmas"; Humphrey, who spent much of one night in an apartment complex "patiently lining stolen shoes up at our back door like a clearance rack at Payless"; Mabel (pronounced May-Belle), the first of the dogs to be buried "over the bridge" in Rheta's sad little dog cemetery, who was "so beautiful that it never really mattered how much toilet paper she shredded, whose hairbrush she destroyed, where she sat or slept. . . . Scolding Mabel would have been stomping a rose"; and Pogo and Albert, who taught Rheta that "grief can kill you, whatever your species. It isn't pretty, and it's a walk you must take alone." There are other dogs as well, for hers has been a life that measures its quality in canines.
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Thanks. We made Odd Words: octavia book signing for Bayou Bogeyman this Sat at 11:30 am
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The 2018 Human Rights Film Festival
by Louis Proyect
Still from "Distant Barking Dogs."
In advance of the 2018 Human Rights Film Festival that opens on June 14th, I was able to preview three scheduled documentaries that would be of great interest to CounterPunch readers both for the subject matter and for their artistic merit. Given Hollywood's indifference to character development as it pursues blockbuster ticket sales based on special effects and car chases, your only recourse is to watch films like "The Distant Barking of Dogs", "Naila and the Uprising" and "The Silence of Others" that are deeply humanistic treatments of people living through the real dramas of our epoch, namely the struggle to live in a free and just society.
Like "A Sniper's War" that I reviewed for CounterPunch in February, "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is set in the breakaway eastern Ukraine and surprisingly compassionate in light of the massive propaganda campaign against Russia. Considering that the film festival is a project of HRW and partially funded by George Soros's Open Society, it has nothing in common with films made by Ukrainians anxious to make the case for Kiev's ongoing and senseless war to retake the eastern portions of the country. One of them was "Breaking Point", a film that swept Svoboda and the Right Sector under the rug. As the title implies, "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is a pacifist film whose title speaks to the feral nature of the fighting on both sides, even though it hardly does justice to man's best friend who bites rather than bombs.
Like last year's sublime "The Florida Project", "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is focused on the day-to-day shenanigans of children, in this case a 10-year old boy named Oleg, the main subject, and his younger cousin Yarik as they spend their days swimming, tussling with each other and even looking for trouble like the kids in "The Florida Project". The main challenge in an Orlando motel is trying to find ways to kill boredom when there is nothing around you except strip malls. For Oleg and Yarik, the main obstacle to a joyful summer's day is the constant shelling exchanges between the Ukrainian army and the separatist militias just a couple of miles beyond the village of Hnutove that was unfortunate enough to find itself near the front lines. When artillery can be heard in the distance, the two boys have enough youthful bravado to shrug it off but when the shells land close enough to shake the house they live in with their grandmother Alexandria, the terror kicks in.
Miraculously, Danish director Simon Lereng Wilmont gives you both the joys and terror of boyhood in a war zone. Like all the best films about growing up, including Richard Linklater's "Boyhood", the children are both as vulnerable as tots and wise beyond their years. We meet Oleg early on in the film as he pays respects at his mother's grave. From the minute we hear him, we know that we will be in the company of a exceptional 10-year old who wants nothing more than to live in peace. The director explains how he chose Oleg as his main subject:
In THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS, I follow 10-year-old Oleg, who lives with his grandma in a warzone in the eastern part of Ukraine, under a mile from the frontline. I spent time in the area researching, and I remember the first time I met him. He immediately stood out. I asked if he could describe how it felt to be scared. He looked at me and without hesitation and said, "If you can imagine a hand reaching in and grabbing your heart. When the first explosions sound, after the cannons have fired, the hand starts squeezing your heart. Then it gets all cold, too." It was then I knew I had found my main character.
"Naila and the Uprising" covers three interrelated subjects. It is first of all a portrait of Naila Ayesh, who has been a leading Palestinian activist for the past 30 years as well as a study of the importance of women in the Palestinian struggle generally. Finally, it is a very sharp critique of the betrayal (a hackneyed term on the left but in this case no other word suffices) by the PLO in the Oslo Accords in 1993 that was made possible in part by the exclusion of female Palestinian leaders.
Naila Ayesh became committed to the Palestinian cause when she was 8-years old. Sitting in a classroom, after she heard a distant explosion, her teacher announced, "The home of Ibrahim Ayesh has been demolished." That was her father.
Later on, she joined the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and married fellow member Jamal Zakout when they were studying in Bulgaria. Back on the West Bank, they had to deal with repression on a constant basis. She was jailed for simply being an activist while he was deported to Egypt.
Despite every attempt to quell the first Intifada through imprisonment, home demolition, beatings, and killings, Naila and many other women became instrumental to the movement's gains. Through the cover of food distribution, newsletters about upcoming protests were smuggled into houses all through Ramallah in breadbaskets.
Besides Naila Zakout, now 60, we hear from other women who were in the forefront of the Intifada. To some extent, they emerged as leaders because so many men had either been killed or imprisoned. But they also asserted themselves to challenge the patriarchal norms of Palestinian society. Among them is Zahira Kamal who was also in the vanguard of the women's and national liberation movements since the 1970s. Today, she serves as the General Secretary of the Palestinian Democratic Union Party – FIDA, the only female leader of a major political party in Palestine.
To a large extent, the film clarifies why the Palestinians have found themselves in such a predicament today. During the end of the George Bush's presidency, there was a serious attempt to address the grievances of the Palestinians that received a favorable hearing from the White House—relatively speaking. Bush was so annoyed with Israeli intransigence that he threatened to cut off funding. The presence of radicals, including women like Hanan Ashrawi, in the delegation meeting with Israeli politicians, made women like Naila Zakout and Zahira Kamal feel that Palestinians would finally given a state of their own.
They were then shocked to discover that Yasser Arafat and the PLO had bypassed them and agreed to the Oslo Accords that gave the green light to occupation of the West Bank under the control of the neocolonial Palestinian National Authority.
"Naila and the Uprising" is one of the most uncompromising statements of the aspirations of the Palestinian people, and especially the women fighters, I have ever seen in a film. Highly recommended, especially when the slaughter of Gazans on the border with Israel cries out for a new Intifada that will not be sold out.
Watching "The Silence of Others", I kept being reminded of Ward Churchill's point about those who win wars get to write the official history, as well as decide who goes on trial for war crimes. For example, when you visit Germany or Italy you will not find any streets named after or statues memorializing Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
But if you went to Spain in the decades following the death of Francisco Franco, you would find monuments to him and his fellow torturers and killers everywhere. That was because the Spanish legislature passed an amnesty law in 1977 that protected them from prosecution. Some of these criminals not only were ministers in Franco's government but in subsequent governments that were supposedly the embodiment of reconciliation.
The film tells the story of an ongoing attempt to prosecute them in Argentina using the same legal strategy that allowed Pinochet to stand trial in Spain through the efforts of a mass movement and the willingness of Baltasar Garzón to serve as a judge. When Garzón became part of the movement to put the fascists on trial in Spain, he was hounded by the state and the far right, and eventually suspended from judicial duties.
Argentina stepped into the breach and has been key to extraditing these killers and torturers so they can stand trial. Spain and Argentina have much in common that would prompt such collaboration, including the theft of babies from their "subversive" mothers and their adoption by families with ties to the respective dictatorships.
We meet a number of the people who will figure as plaintiffs in the case, including a man who lives on a street named after one of Franco's top generals. In addition, we see him standing in front of the apartment building where a notorious Francoist torturer nicknamed "Billy the Kid" lives. He asks how it is possible for such a man to enjoy freedom and not be punished for his crimes. When "Billy the Kid" is hauled before an extradition hearing, he is reminded that despite Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, some people are still on a combat footing to see justice served.
More articles by:Louis Proyect
Louis Proyect blogs at http://louisproyect.org and is the moderator of the Marxism mailing list. In his spare time, he reviews films for CounterPunch.


Find the most eye-catching element.
In many instances, you don't have to 'create' your focal point. You just have to find it in the room. Windows, for instance, make for perfect features to highlight, given that they offer good outdoor views, most of the time. Plus, the eyes naturally travel towards these. If you have large windows then, just build your furniture around it, in such a way that people would have the opportunity to bask in the good scenery. Just note that natural light may be too overpowering at certain times of the day. So make sure to choose smart window treatments, like motorized blinds or plantation shutters. Fair Haven, NJ-based interior designers opt for customized fixtures for bigger-than-normal windows. Another built-in design feature that's ideal to accentuate is the fireplace. Similar to your windows, build your seating furniture around it to frame it better and orient people's views instantly.
Give it some touch of art.
If there are no existing focal points in the room, you can create one. What you need is an artistic design piece. An accent wall, for example. Choose oner corner of the room, ideally the farthest from the landing spot of viewers, and paint it with a bolder color than your dominant hues. Or, if you're not into colors, go for eye-catching wallpaper patterns or a collection of photographs in different frame sizes. Another option is a piece of painting. This has to be big enough so that it can capture the eye easily. Make sure that it's positioned at eye level. If possible, install accent lighting near it so it can be further accentuated. The touch of art may also come in the form of a piece of statement furniture. For example, a chandelier in the living room or a chaise lounge chair at one corner of the bedroom.
A common concern homeowners have is if it's okay to have two or more focal points. No one can blame your house for having good outdoor views and a nice fireplace, right? In these instances though, it's best to just concentrate on one. There's a reason this principle is called 'focal point': you don't want to confuse people. If you have two or more elements highlighted, it becomes visual chaos. It keeps people from appreciating the beauty of the elements one at a time, given that everything's screaming for attention. So, when you have two or more good focal points, just highlight one, then downplay the others. Don't worry, as the people take in the focal point's aesthetics; all the other elements will come into the picture gradually as well, making a better impression.
Again, when filling up a huge, empty space, start with the focal point. From there, you'd find it easy to add in the other elements. Remember these tips as you design your space.


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Spring Fever (1983)
Frank Converse as Coach
Susan Anton as Mother
John F. Bassett
Joseph L. Scanlan
Fred Stefan
I have become fascinated by the newspaper ads for a new movie named "Spring Fever." Perhaps you missed them over the weekend. They showed two attractive young women holding a young man upside down on the beach. One of the young women is holding some sort of can. In some of the ads, it looks like a spray can. In others, it looks like a beer can. Whatever it is, she is using it to pour and/or spray an unknown substance all over that area of the male body once described by Groucho Marx as his netherlands.
The ad is just a mite misleading, because "Spring Fever" does not star anybody even slightly resembling any of the three people in the ad. Nor does it contain a scene in which two girls and a boy mess around at the beach. In fact, "Spring Fever" contains only one scene that is even set at the beach -- and it's one of those Semi-Obligatory Lyrical Interludes in which two good friends walk sadly by the surf while the sound track features a song titled, "Why Won't They Leave Us Alone?"
I am not concerned here, however, with the issue of accuracy in advertising. What I want to know is: What's in the can? If it is a pop-top can, it probably contains beer or pop. But in the illustration, it doesn't look like a substance is simply pouring out of the can. It looks like it's being sprayed, under pressure. What could it be?
That's not a simple question. It's been a long time since Frankie and Annette made the "Beach Party" movies, and standards have changed. Young people are more advanced today. Could the young ladies be trying to tell their male friend something of a personal nature? Does the spray can contain, perhaps, Right Guard? Raid? Instant starch? Perhaps they are concerned about all they've read in the paper about herpes and have a can containing a powerful disinfectant?
There are other possibilities. Maybe the can contains paint, and maybe they've taken a scientific attitude toward the crowded beaches "where the boys are," and want to mark this specimen and follow him around, like ornithologists. Or perhaps the can is one of those compressed-air blasters like you hear at football games, and they're just honking for curb service.
It's hard to say. What's easy to see, however, is that the distributors of "Spring Fever" are trying to rip off moviegoers by disguising their movie so it will look like the similarly titled "Spring Break," a big-budget beach movie that will be released in a few more weeks.
Anyway, "Spring Fever" (not its original title) was made a few years ago and shelved until now, and it's a sweet, innocuous, fuzzily photographed, harmless little movie about a Las Vegas showgirl (Susan Anton) and her daughter, who plays in the Junior Women's Tennis Tournament and encounters all sorts of prejudice and discrimination because her mom's a dancer. The daughter makes some friends and loses some friends and keeps getting framed by a spoiled little rich kid, and Anton falls in love with a British journalist, and there's a lot of bittersweet stuff about learning to trust people.
The movie's not great, but it's not awful, either. It's also not about spring fever, beaches, bikinis and spray cans. You know how it is. You win some, you lose some.
Cannes #10: And, at last, the winners are...
5/14: Swanky 3-D goggles for the chic cineaste
by Barbara Scharres


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The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year, also referred to as the "Calendar-year Grand Slam" or "Calendar Slam". In doubles, a team may accomplish the Grand Slam playing together or a player may achieve it with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year Grand Slam", while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a "Career Grand Slam".

The Grand Slam tournaments, also referred to as majors, are the world's four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of field, and the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), rather than the separate men and women's tour organizing bodies, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women's Tennis Association (WTA), but both the ATP and WTA award ranking points based on players' performances in them.

The four Grand Slam tournaments are the Australian Open in January, the French Open from late May to early June, Wimbledon in late June to early July, and the US Open in August–September, with each played over two weeks. The Australian and the United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on clay, and Wimbledon on grass. Wimbledon is the oldest tournament, founded in 1877, followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891, and the Australian in 1905, but it was not until 1925 that all four were held as officially sanctioned majors.

History

With the growing popularity of tennis, and with the hopes of unifying the sport's rules internationally, the British and French tennis associations started discussions at their Davis Cup tie, and in October 1912 organized a meeting in Paris, joined by the Australasian, Austrian, Belgian, Spanish, and Swiss associations. They subsequently formed the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF), holding their first meeting in 1913, joined by the Danish, German, Dutch, Russian, South African, and Swedish organizations. Voting rights were divided based on the perceived importance of the individual countries, with Great Britain's Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) receiving the maximum six votes. Three tournaments were established, being designated as "World Championships":
 World Grass Court Championships, played on grass courts.
 World Hard Court Championships, played on clay courts.
 World Covered Court Championships, played on an indoor wood surface.
The LTA was given the perpetual right to organize the World Grass Court Championships, to be held at Wimbledon, and France received permission to stage the World Hard Court Championships until 1916. Anthony Wilding of New Zealand won all three of these World Championships in 1913.

The United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) expressed disagreement over the power distribution within the ILTF and the designation of "World Championship" status to the British and French tournaments, and thus initially refused to join the Federation, choosing instead to be bystanders to their meetings. By the 1920s, with the World Covered Court Championships failing to attract top players and the growing success of American and Australian tennis, the ILTF worked to convince the USNLTA to join them, meeting their demand to drop the designation of "World Championships" from all three tournaments in March 1923, which led to the demise of both the World Covered Court Championships and the World Hard Court Championships. A new category of "Official Championships" was created for the national championships of Britain, France, Australia, and the US. By the 1930s, these four tournaments had become well defined as the most prestigious in the sport.

In 1933, Jack Crawford won the Australian, French, and Wimbledon Championships, leaving him just needing to win the last major event of the year, the U.S. Championships, to become the reigning champion of all four major tournaments, a feat described as a "Grand Slam" by sports columnist Alan Gould of The Reading Eagle, and later that year by John Kieran of The New York Times. The term 'Grand Slam' originates from the card game contract bridge, where it is used for winning all possible tricks, and entered tennis via golf, where it was used for the first time to specifically describe a total of 4 wins, specifically Bobby Jones' achievement of winning the four major golf tournaments three years earlier in 1930. "Grand Slam" or "Slam" has since also become used to refer to the tournaments individually.

At the time, only amateur players were allowed to participate in the Grand Slam and other ILTF-sanctioned tournaments. Amateur standing, regulated by the ILTF alongside its associated national federations, forbade players from receiving prize money, earning pay by teaching tennis, being contracted by promoters and playing paid exhibition matches, though expense payments were allowed along with certain monies from sporting goods companies or other benefactors. Amateurs who "defected" to become professional were banned from competing in amateur tournaments and dropped from their national associations. The first professional tour was established in 1926 by promoter C. C. Pyle with a troupe of American and French players, most notably Suzanne Lenglen, playing exhibition matches to paying audiences. Over the next decades many other head-to-head tours were run and professional tournaments established, with three, the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, French Pro Championship and Wembley Championships, standing out, and now considered to have been the professional majors and equivalents to the then-amateur Grand Slam tournaments. By the 1950s, largely due to efforts of player/promoter Jack Kramer, this lucrative parallel circuit was luring in most of the star amateurs on the men's side, much to the ire of the ILTF and organizers of the Grand Slam tournaments. It was an open secret that those that remained as amateurs were receiving under-the-table payments from their national associations to dissuade them from joining the pro ranks and secure their availability for the majors and Davis Cup, a practice derisively referred to as 'shamateurism' that was seen as undermining the integrity of the sport.

Tensions over this status quo, which had been building for decades, finally came to a head in 1967. In an experiment, the first tournament open to professional tennis players played on Centre Court at Wimbledon, the Wimbledon Pro, was staged by the All England Lawn Tennis Club in August, offering a prize fund of US$45,000. The tournament was deemed very successful, with packed crowds and the play seen as being of higher quality than the amateur-only Wimbledon final held two weeks earlier. This success in combination with large signings of top players to two new professional tours—World Championship Tennis and the National Tennis League—convinced the LTA on the need for open tennis. After a British proposal for this at the annual ILTF meeting was voted down, the LTA revolted, and in its own annual meeting in December it voted overwhelmingly to admit players of all statuses to the 1968 Wimbledon Championships and other future tournaments in Britain, "come hell or high water". The eventual backing of the USNLTA that came after a February 1968 vote forced the ILTF to yield and allow each nation to determine its own legislation regarding amateur and professional players, which it voted for in a special meeting in March 1968. This marked the start of the Open Era of tennis, with its first tournament, the 1968 British Hard Court Championships, beginning three weeks later on 22 April in Bournemouth, England, while the first open Grand Slam tournament, the 1968 French Open, was held in May.

Even after the advent of the Open Era, players including John McEnroe and Chris Evert have pointed out that skipping majors was not unusual before counting major titles became the norm, especially the Australian Open because of the travelling distance involved and the inconvenient dates close to Christmas and New Year. There were also the contracted professional players who had to skip some major events like the French Open in the 1970s because they were committed to the more profitable pro circuits. In one case, Australian players including Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and Roy Emerson who had contracts with George MacCall's National Tennis League were prevented from participating in the 1970 Australian Open because the financial guarantees were deemed insufficient.

Although it has been possible to complete a Grand Slam in most years and most disciplines since 1925, it was not possible from 1940 to 1945 because of interruptions at Wimbledon, the Australian and French Championships due to World War II, the years from 1970 to 1985 when there was no Australian tournament in mixed doubles, 1986 when there was no Australian Open, and 2020 when Wimbledon was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tournaments
The Grand Slam of tennis comprises these four major tournaments:

Australian Open

The Australian Open is the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, played annually in late January and early February. The inaugural edition took place in November 1905 on the grass courts of the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. It was held as the Australasian Championships until 1927 and thereafter as the Australian Championships until the onset of the Open Era in 1969, passing through various venues in Australia and New Zealand before settling at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club in Melbourne between 1972 and 1987. Since 1988, it has been played on the hard courts of the Melbourne Park sports complex, which currently uses GreenSet as its court manufacturer.

Managed by Tennis Australia, formerly the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (LTAA), the tournament struggled until the mid-1980s to attract the top international players due to its distance from Europe and America and proximity to the Christmas and holiday season, but it has since grown to become one of the biggest sporting events in the Southern Hemisphere and the highest attended Grand Slam tournament, with more than 812,000 people attending the 2020 edition.

Nicknamed the "Happy Slam" and billed as "the Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific", it has become known for its modernity and innovation, being the first Grand Slam tournament to feature indoor play and install retractable roofs on its main courts, the first to schedule night-time men's singles finals, and the first to substitute electronic line calling for line judges, using an expanded version of the Hawk-Eye technology known as "Hawk-Eye Live".

The tournament was designated a major championship by the International Lawn Tennis Federation in 1923. Nowadays, its draws host 256 singles players, 128 doubles teams and 32 mixed doubles teams, with the total prize money for the 2021 tournament being A$71,500,000.

French Open

The French Open, also known as Roland Garros, is the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, played annually in late May and early June. It was first held in 1891 on the sand courts of the Societé de Sport de Île de Puteaux, in Puteaux, Île-de-France, and repeatedly changed venues over the years before settling on the clay courts at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France, where it has been contested since 1928. Both the venue and the tournament are named "Roland Garros" after the pioneering French aviator.

Organized by the Fédération française de tennis (FFT), formerly known as the Fédération Française de Lawn Tennis until 1976, the French Open is the only Grand Slam tournament played on a red clay surface. It is generally considered to be the most physically demanding tennis tournament in the world.

Until 1925, the tournament was known as the Championnats de France (French Championships), and only French players and foreign members of French clubs were eligible to compete in it. Before then, the World Hard Court Championships was considered the premier clay championship in France as it admitted international competitors, and it is therefore often seen as the true precursor to the modern French Open. From 1925 onward, the French Championships became open to all international amateurs and was rebranded as Internationaux de France (French Internationals), and it was first held as an International Lawn Tennis Federation–sanctioned major championship in the same year.

Today, it has draws that host 256 singles players, 128 doubles teams and 32 mixed doubles teams, with the total prize money for the 2022 tournament being €43,600,000. The 2018 edition saw a record attendance of 480,575 spectators.

Wimbledon

The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known as Wimbledon, is the third Grand Slam tournament of the year, played annually in late June and early July. It was first held on 1877 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, at the time located off Nursery Road in Wimbledon, London, England. The tournament has always been contested at this club, which moved to its present site off Church Road in 1922 in order to increase its attendance capacity.

Wimbledon is organized by a committee of management consisting of nineteen members, with twelve being club members and the remaining seven nominated by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). As the world's oldest tennis event, it is widely regarded as the most prestigious tennis tournament, and it is known for its commitment to longstanding traditions and guidelines. It is one of few tournaments and the only Grand Slam event that is still played on grass courts, tennis's original surface, and where "lawn tennis" originated in the 1800s. Players are required to wear all-white attire during matches, and they are referred to as "Gentlemen" and "Ladies". There is also a tradition where the players are asked to bow or curtsy towards the Royal Box upon entering or leaving Centre Court when either the Prince of Wales or the monarch are present.

The tournament was given the title "World Grass Court Championships" by the International Lawn Tennis Federation between 1912 and 1923, and was designated a major championship following the abolition of the three ILTF World Championships. Since 1937, the BBC has broadcast the tournament on television in the United Kingdom, with the finals shown live and in full on television in the country each year. The BBC's broadcast of the 1967 edition was among the first colour television broadcasts in the UK.

Today, the event has draws that host 256 singles players, 128 doubles teams and 32 mixed doubles teams, with the total prize money for the 2021 tournament being £35,016,000, and 500,397 people attending the 2019 edition. The tournament has some of the longest running sponsorships in sports history, having been associated with Slazenger since 1902, and with the Robinsons fruit drink brand since 1935.

US Open

The US Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year, played annually in late August and early September. It was first held in August 1881 on grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The tournament constantly changed venues in its early years, with each discipline continuing to be held separately at various venues until 1923, when the tournament settled at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. In 1978, it moved to the hardcourts of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens, where it has been contested ever since.

Organized by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), previously known as the United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) until 1920, and as United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) until 1975, it is the only Grand Slam tournament to have been played every year since its inception. In 1997, Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest tennis stadium in the world with a capacity of 23,771 spectators, was opened. It is named after Arthur Ashe, the winner of the 1968 tournament—the first in which professionals were allowed to compete.

Over the years, the tournament has pioneered changes and promoted ideas that other tournaments later implemented for themselves, including the introduction of a tiebreak system to decide the outcome of sets tied at 6–6 in 1970, being the first Grand Slam tournament to award equal prize money to the men's and women's events in 1975, the installation of floodlights in 1975 in order to allow matches to be played at night, and the introduction of instant replay reviews of line calls using the Hawk-Eye computer system in 2006, the first Grand Slam tournament to do so.

The ILTF officially designated it as a major tournament in 1923. Today, the event has draws that host 256 singles players, 128 doubles teams and 32 mixed doubles teams, with the total prize money for the 2020 tournament being US$53,400,000, and a US television viewership of 700,000. Since 2004, the tournament has been preceded by the US Open Series, composed of North American hardcourt professional tournaments that lead up to and culminate with the US Open itself. The season is organized by the USTA as a way to focus more attention on American tennis tournaments by getting more of them on domestic television.

Grand Slam
The first player to win all four majors in a calendar year and thus complete the Grand Slam was Don Budge in 1938. To date, five singles players (two men, three women), nine doubles players (four men, five women) and one junior (boy) have completed the Grand Slam. In wheelchair disciplines, two singles players (one quad, one woman) and twelve doubles players (four men, eight women) have achieved it. Margaret Court is the only player to complete the Grand Slam in two disciplines, singles and mixed doubles (twice), while wheelchair players Diede de Groot and Dylan Alcott have completed one in both the singles and doubles disciplines of their respective classes.

Instances

Non-calendar-year Grand Slam

Terminology
In 1982, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) began offering a $1 million bonus to any singles player to win four consecutive major titles, even if they were won across two seasons. Although groups variously identified as the Men's International Professional Tennis Council, "abetted primarily by some British tennis writers", and "European tennis journalists" had advocated for the ITF to change the definition of "Grand Slam", ITF General Secretary David Gray made it clear that this was not going to happen. In a 1983 letter to tennis journalist Paul Fein, Gray clarified:

The ITF planned to offer the cash bonus for three years, apparently to encourage players to compete in all four major tournaments as much as to reward success at them.

Writing in 1982, before the ITF had announced their bonus, Neil Amdur said, "Now the sport spins nervously under the influence of big dollars and even bigger egos and tradition has almost gone the way of white balls and long flannels ... If the four major tournaments want to offer a $1 million incentive for any player in the future who can sweep their titles—and such talks have been rumored—that bonus would be a welcome addition. But changing what the Grand Slam is all about is like a baseball player believing that he 'hit for the cycle' after slugging a single, double and triple in the first game of a doubleheader and a home run in his first-time at-bat in the second game."

When Martina Navratilova won the 1984 French Open and became the reigning champion of all four women's singles discipline, she was the first player to receive the bonus prize in recognition of her achievement.  Some media outlets did, indeed, say that she had won a Grand Slam. Curry Kirkpatrick of Sports Illustrated wrote "Whether the Slam was Grand or Bland or a commercial sham tainted with an asterisk the size of a tennis ball, Martina Navratilova finally did it."

When Steffi Graf completed the Grand Slam in 1988, George Vecsey wrote, "Even the International Tennis Federation, which should have more respect for history, ruled in 1982 that winning any four straight majors constituted a Grand Slam—and offered a $1 million bonus for it ... But many tennis people, and most writers, and probably most fans, too, did not accept the new rules, and the ITF has dropped the gimmick."

When Rafael Nadal was on the verge of completing a non-calendar-year Grand Slam at the 2011 Australian Open, one writer observed, "Most traditionalists insist that the 'Grand Slam' should refer only to winning all four titles in a calendar year, although the constitution of the International Tennis Federation, the sports governing body, spells out that 'players who hold all four of these titles at the same time achieve the Grand Slam'." As of 2012, however, the ambiguity was resolved, with the ITF's current constitution stating "The Grand Slam titles are the championships of Australia, France, the United States of America and Wimbledon. Players who hold all four of these titles in one calendar year achieve the 'Grand Slam'."

Combining the Grand Slam and the non-calendar-year Grand Slam, only eight singles players on 11 occasions achieved the feat of being the reigning champion of all four majors, three men (Don Budge, Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic) and five women (Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams).

Instances
The following list is for those players who achieved a non-calendar-year Grand Slam by holding the four major titles at the same time but not in the calendar year. Players who completed a Grand Slam within the same streak as a non-calendar-year Grand Slam are not included here.

Career Grand Slam
The career achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline is termed a "Career Grand Slam". In singles, eight men (Fred Perry, Don Budge, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic) and ten women (Maureen Connolly, Doris Hart, Shirley Fry Irvin, Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams, and Maria Sharapova) have completed a Career Grand Slam. Four men (Emerson, Laver, Djokovic, and Nadal) and five women (Court, Evert, Navratilova, Graf, Williams) have achieved the feat more than once over the course of their careers.

Only six players have completed a Career Grand Slam in both singles and doubles: one male (Roy Emerson) and five females (Margaret Court, Doris Hart, Shirley Fry Irvin, Martina Navratilova, and Serena Williams). Court, Hart, and Navratilova are the only players to have completed a "Boxed Set", that is, winning all four major titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

Other related concepts

Boxed Set
A "Boxed Set" refers to winning one of every possible major title in the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles disciplines throughout a player's career. Only three players have completed a Boxed Set: Doris Hart, Margaret Court, and Martina Navratilova. Court's second Boxed Set, completed in 1969, spans the pre-Open and Open Eras, but she later completed a set entirely within the Open Era in 1973.  The Boxed Set has never been completed by a male player.
 The event at which the Boxed Set was completed indicated in bold.

Golden Slam
The term "Golden Slam" (initially "Golden Grand Slam") refers to the achievement of winning all four majors and the Olympic, Paralympic, or Youth Olympic gold medal in a calendar year. The phrase was coined in 1988, when Steffi Graf won that year's Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon Championships, and US Open, and Olympic gold medal in singles.
Graf is the only singles player to have won all five tournaments in a calendar year.

Diede de Groot and Dylan Alcott also accomplished the feat, for wheelchair singles and wheelchair quad singles respectively.

Similarly, the term "non-calendar-year Golden Slam" has been used since 2013, when Bob and Mike Bryan won the 2012 Olympics, 2012 US Open, 2013 Australian Open, 2013 French Open and 2013 Wimbledon Championships doubles titles consecutively. Their achievement was also dubbed the "Golden Bryan Slam".

Career Golden Slam
A player who wins all four majors and the Olympic or Paralympic gold medal during their professional career (or the Youth Olympic gold medal during their junior career) is said to have achieved a "Career Golden Slam".

Serena Williams is the only singles player to achieve the Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles with her singles gold at the 2012 London Olympics. Dylan Alcott, Diede de Groot, and Shingo Kunieda have since also accomplished it in the wheelchair discipline.

Super Slam
Soon after the Open Era began in 1968, the new professional tours each held a year-end championship (YEC), elite tournaments featuring only the top performers of the season. The return of tennis to the Olympics in 1988 gave rise to the notion of a "Super Slam" as a combination of the Golden Slam and YEC title. The YECs are currently the ATP Finals for the men's tour, WTA Finals for the women's tour, and the Wheelchair Tennis Masters for the wheelchair tennis tour.

In 2021, Diede de Groot became the first player to win all six titles in a calendar year, doing so in women's wheelchair singles. Steffi Graf achieved a "non-calendar-year Super Slam" in 1988 by the aforementioned titles consecutively, with her Golden Slam in 1988 following her victory at the 1987 Virginia Slims Championships, the women's year-end championship at the time.

Career Super Slam
A player who wins all four majors, the Olympic or Paralympic gold medal, and the year-end championship throughout their career is said to have achieved a "Career Super Slam".

Wheelchair tennis players Diede de Groot and Shingo Kunieda are the only players in history to have completed a career Super Slam in both singles and doubles.

Three-Quarter Slam
Several players have won three of the four majors in the same year, missing out on the Grand Slam by only one title, an achievement sometimes referred to as a "Three-Quarter Slam". In five notable instances, singles players won the first three events of the year and went to the final major tournament with the opportunity to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam but lost. These were Jack Crawford in 1933, Lew Hoad in 1956, and Novak Djokovic in 2021 in men's tennis, and Martina Navratilova in 1984 and Serena Williams in 2015 in women's tennis.

Surface Slam
Since 1978, when the US Open changed its playing surface from clay to hard courts, the four majors have been contested on three surfaces: clay, hard and grass. A player who wins a major title on each of those three current surfaces in a calendar year is said to have achieved a "Surface Slam". From 1978 to 1987, the Australian Open and Wimbledon were played on grass, the French Open on clay and the US Open on hard, but since 1988 the Australian Open has also been played on hard courts. In singles, the feat has been accomplished by two men: Rafael Nadal in 2010 and Novak Djokovic in 2021; and three women: Martina Navratilova in 1984, Steffi Graf in 1988, 1993, 1995, 1996, and Serena Williams in 2002 and 2015.

Channel Slam

Since their inceptions, the French Open has been contested on clay or sand courts and Wimbledon on grass courts, surfaces that favor very distinct play styles from each other. Wimbledon usually starts a few weeks after the end of the French Open, meaning that the players who have deep runs in the French Open have little time to recover mentally and physically and to adapt to the different surface conditions found at Wimbledon. This has thus made winning both tournaments consecutively in the same year considered to be one of the challenging feats in a tennis season. Players who do so are said to have achieved a "Channel Slam", in reference to the English Channel, the body of water separating France from the United Kingdom, the host countries of the French Open and Wimbledon. In singles tennis, this feat has been achieved by 12 men and 10 women. In the Open Era, Rod Laver, Björn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are the only players to accomplish the feat in men's singles, and Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams in women's singles.

Pro Slam
Before the start of the Open Era in 1968, only amateur players were allowed to compete in the four Grand Slam tournaments. Many male top players "went pro" in order to win prize money legally, competing on a professional world tour comprising completely separate events. From 1927 to 1967, the three tournaments later considered by some tennis journalists to have been the "majors" of the professional tour were:
 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships,
 French Pro Championship,
 Wembley Championships.

A player who won all three in a calendar year was considered retrospectively to have achieved a "Professional Grand Slam", or "Pro Slam". The feat was accomplished by Ken Rosewall in 1963 and Rod Laver in 1967, while Ellsworth Vines, Hans Nüsslein and Don Budge have won the three major trophies during their careers. The professional majors did not have a women's draw.

Grand Slam tournaments champions

Current champions
Each entry has an asterisk (*) linking to the tournament of that year.

Former champions
Per discipline

 Men's singles
 Women's singles
 Men's doubles
 Women's doubles
 Mixed doubles

 Boys' singles
 Girls' singles
 Boys' doubles
 Girls' doubles

 Men's wheelchair
 Women's wheelchair
 Quad wheelchair

Singles finals
 Men
 Women

See also

 List of Grand Slam–related tennis records
 Lists of tennis records and statistics
 Grand Slam (golf)

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links

 Official website of the Australian Open
 Official website of the French Open
 Official website of Wimbledon
 Official website of the US Open
 All-time Grand Slam tournament winners – Reference book

Tennis tours and series
Tennis terminology

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Removing the require-trusted-types-for and script-src stanzas makes the JS work again, but also makes the site vulnerable to XSS.
Anyone aware of a solution? I've tried script-src url-of-base-site'`
This one looked promising but may be old enough where require-trusted-types-for 'script'; wasn't a thing yet? When I commented that last tag out of the custom headers, seems like inline scripts starting working; but I am getting at best a B- on observatory.mozilla.org

A: When setting "script-src 'self'" all executing scripts must be loaded in .js files from the same source. Your site is not particularly vulnerable to XSS with such a strong script-src.
If some third party code causes issues with CSP you basically have to modify it or replace it if you want if you don't want to change the CSP. In your case I would be happy with "script-src 'self'" and rather invest time into securing something else, even though a CSP evaluator says my policy isn't optimal.

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Do you already have an iPod but covered by dust? It is time to take your iPod out for the purpose of listening to music, for example, when exercising our running outdoors.
And if you are the subscribers of Apple Music, have you ever played or synced Apple Music songs on your iPod? It is very easy to play or sync Apple Music songs to iPod touch, because you can download Apple Music app on touch directly, but not for iPod nano, iPod shuffle or iPod classic, because Apple Music songs are inserted with DRM protection which protect you from playing or syncing them on any other portable MP3 players.
But now, with the help of NoteBurner Apple Music Converter ( For Windows | For Mac), things will become easier. Here we look at how to sync Apple Music songs to iPod for enjoying with the help of NoteBurner Apple Music Converter.
With the Apple Music membership, you can access your music library on iPod touch as long as you're signed in with the same Apple ID and iCloud Music Library is turned on. Then go to Settings > Music of your iPod, and turn iCloud Music Library on.
Launch Apple Music Converter on Windows and then click "+" button on the left top corner. You can add Apple Music songs, albums or playlists you have downloaded.
Click the "Setting" button on the top right corner, and then there pops-up a window which allows you to set output path and output audio formats, like MP3, WAV, AAC and FLAC. In addition, you are able to set the output audio quality up to 320 kbps.
When all the settings done, click "Convert" button to start converting. After conversion, click the "History" button in the main interface to find the output audio.
Now you have got DRM free Apple Music songs, you can use iTunes or Syncios Free iPod Manager to sync these files to your iPod.
Step 1: Download and install Syncios Free iPod Manager, then launch it.
Step 2: Connect iPod to computer with USB drive. After Syncios detect iPod successfully, click "Media" button on the right panel and click "Add" button to select the converted Apple Music files to iPod.


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In 2009, HUD awarded funding to 23 Continuums of Care (CoC) to implement a demonstration program to implement a promising new homelessness intervention- rapid re-housing (RRH) for homeless families. As part of the language authorizing the program, HUD was required to evaluate the program, "in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the rapid re-housing approach in addressing the needs of homeless families." The basic research questions underpinning the evaluation included: what do rapid re-housing programs established under the demonstration look like, and what happens to households after they have received rapid re-housing. To address these questions, the evaluation included both a process evaluation, focused on describing the rapid re-housing programs established by each of the 23 grantees, and an outcomes study, with the primary goal of measuring return to shelter for families served through the demonstration program. Data analyzed included site visits, document review, HMIS data analysis of the majority of program participants, and survey data for approximately 200 families served by the program.
Documentation of the evaluation findings are presented in two parts. The first report, titled Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Families Demonstration Programs Evaluation Report Part 1: How They Worked- Process Evaluation, describes the rapid re-housing programs established by each grantee, including the target population, the housing/service package offered, and the challenges faced in establishing the program. The second report, titled Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Families Demonstration Programs Evaluation Report Part II: Demonstration Findings- Outcomes Evaluation presents the outcomes of households served through the program based on data collected from a cohort of 500 families enrolled in the demonstration program 12 months after the conclusion of their rapid re-housing assistance to assess the rate of return to shelter, housing mobility, income and employment, and indicators of family well-being.
Grantees varied greatly in all aspects of program implementation, including (1) structure and length of the housing subsidy, (2) breadth of the package of supportive services offered, (3) intensity of case management, and (4) target population.
Families had a low likelihood of returning to emergency shelter within the study period—a review of Homelessness Management Information System, or HMIS, data found that only 10 percent of households served experienced at least one episode of homelessness within 12 months of program exit.
Families were highly mobile following the end of program participation—76 percent of households moved at least once within the 12-month period following their exit from the RRHD program.
In addition to the two reports, the research team also developed three research briefs: 1) Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Families: The Role of Centralized Intake, 2) Rapid Re-housing for Homeless Families: The Role of Assessment Tools, and 3) Rapid Re-Housing Demonstration: Characteristics and Subsequent Returns to Shelter for Families Served.
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Rapid Re-housing for Homeless Families Demonstration Programs: How They Worked; Part 1: Process Evaluation Report
Rapid Re-housing for Homeless Families Demonstration Programs: Demonstration Findings; Part II: Outcomes Evaluation Report
Issue Brief #1: Rapid Re-Housing for Homeless Families: The Role of Centralized Intake
Issue Brief #2: Rapid Re-housing for Homeless Families: The Role of Assessment Tools
Issue Brief #3: Rapid Re-Housing Demonstration: Characteristics and Subsequent Returns to Shelter for Families Served


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Who is Anonymous and what is their mission?
May 16, 2013 Akashma Online News	Leave a comment
Originally published on April 3, 2013 on Coast Report
by Marivel Guzman | Staff Writer at Coast Report |
It is hard to describe in words what Anonymous really is. To most, it is a group of hackers who disrupt web pages and steal data. However, some think that they are doing good things for society.
The irony of the situation is that Anonymous is not a group that can be traced to a building or to a country. They are dispersed around the world — they have no offices, no leaders, they do not follow a strategy.
With its ever growing popularity, it has become a case of whether or not they can actually be considered criminals.
At Orange Coast College, most haven't heard of it, but the students who had agreed that while they are hackers, they do things that benefit society.
Jairo Navarete, 24, computer science major at OCC, said Anonymous is a group of Internet activists and it is good when the group exposes bad information about certain companies.
"The government should not punish them with long sentences, because what they do not affect the company's people — only the money," he said.
Another student said the group usually has the people in mind.
"They are a group that speaks in favor of society's best interest and only mean well," said Garret Smith, 19, a video-game science major.
Some students said releasing confidential information can be valuable for society.
"I know they expose information that would be valuable for the public to know, that otherwise is kept secret to fulfill the government's agenda," said 20-year-old Jimmy Wakem.
The Obama administration says organizations such as WikiLeaks and hacking group LulzSec may conduct economic
espionage against U.S. companies.
In fact, Anonymous members work independently but when they finish, they leave their calling card where they use their famous quote, "We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
Anonymous has millions of followers on the Internet. Their Youtube videos have millions of views and they have become a type of cyber heroes.
Heroes or villains, the government has doubled its efforts to stop Anonymous' activities, but it seems that the hacktivists are multiplying and Anonymous is growing every day.
Disclaimer: This article belongs to Coast report. The article was published on their print and online edition on April 3, 2013.
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Photography in Latin America
"La fotografía, lenguaje universal, puede colaborar para que comprendamos en qué medida nuestros destinos están entrelazados, más allá del color, la clase social o la raza, en qué medida nuestra esperanza -la esperanza del género humano -depende sólo de nuestra profunda toma de conciencia." (Sebastião Salgado)
This website, Zona Latina, carries several hundreds of photographs about Latin America. Those photographs were taken by many people during many trips to Latin America over the years. Our interest in photography is by no means anomalous. According to the 1998 Los Medios y Mercados de Latinoamérica study, 41% of Latin Americans between the ages of 12 and 64 own a camera. In the following table, we show the demographic characteristics of the camera owners. The camera is not a daily necessity and a good camera can cost a lot, and so it is not surprising to find that camera ownership increases with socio-economic level.
Demographic Characteristics of Camera Owners
Demographic Characteristics / Classes % Owned Cameras
Balance of Central America / Caribbean
Balance of South America
Socio-Economic Level
Level B
Level C
Level D
TOTAL 42%
(source: Los Medios y Mercados de Latinoamérica 1998)
A camera is a piece of equipment that requires camera film in order to take photographs. According to the 1998 Los Medios y Mercados de Latinoamérica study, 33% of Latin Americans between the ages of 12 and 64 had purchased camera film in the past 12 months. We should note that camera ownership is neither necessary nor sufficient to purchase camera film. According to the study, 71% of camera owners purchased camera film in the past 12 months. Among those do not own a camera, 7% purchased camera film, either as a gift or to be used on a borrowed camera or in the form of disposable cameras.
In the following table, we show the demographic characteristics of camera film buyers. Given the typical cost of camera film is high relative to the average wage, purchasing increases with socio-economic level. However, the cost of camera film is not prohibitively expensive as to be completely out of reach. For special occasions (such as baptisms and weddings), it is worthwhile to take photographs to commemorate.
Demographic Characteristics of Camera Film Buyers
Demographic Characteristics / Classes % Bought Camera Film in Last 12 Months
In terms of market share, the leading camera film brand is Kodak by far at 76% share, followed by Fuji at 15%. Fundamentally, this is not an easy business because one has to have an extensive network to sell a product that requires a trained technician to process on special equipment.
Kodak products for sale
Afogados de Ingazeiro, Pernambuco (population 29,617)
(photo credit: GAP)
The average camera film buyer will purchase more than 3 rolls of film per year. This makes for a huge business that involves the sales of hundreds of millions of rolls of film per year. What do Latin Americans take photos of? There is no simple answer to this question. Whereas people eat food to quell hunger and drink liquid to quench thirst, there is no single reason why people take photographs. In fact, we can probably list an indefinitely long list of reasons: news photos, wedding photos, birthday and quinceañera celebrations, funeral processions, family portraits, baby pictures, pet photos, tourist photos, postcards, celebrity photos, social commentary, photographic memoirs of vanishing cultures and peoples, photographic art of various forms and styles, book/magazine illustrations, advertising copies, identification photos, judicial evidence, medical records, insurance documentation, ethnographic records, political propaganda, pornography, etc.
The reasons why people take photographs are numerous as well as subtle. We cannot ask people to report their reasons directly, as those responses are likely to be quite superficial because people may not be cognizant of the underlying motivations (e.g. social pressures, psychological defense mechanisms, etc). To demonstrate this, we will just make a couple of points in the following.
Guatemalan girls
(photo credit: N. Thomas) Here are two paragraphs from Susan Sontag's book:
"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing --- which means that, like very mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.
Memorializing the achievements of individuals considering as members of families (as well as of other groups) is the earliest popular use of photography. For at least a century, the wedding photograph has been as much a part of the ceremony as the prescribed verbal formulas. Cameras go with family life. According to a sociological study done in France, most households have a camera, but a household with children is twice as likely to have at least one camera as a household in which there are no children. Not to take pictures of one's children, particularly when they are small, is a sign of parental indifference, just as not turning up for one's graduation picture is a gesture of adolescent rebellion." (Sontag (1977), p.8)
And here is anthropologist Deborah Poole describing what happens when she was called upon by peasants in the southern highland Peru to take family photos:
"I also marveled at the poses they chose. They were, of course, familiar with photographic portraiture. Calendars with photographs of everything from nude gringas to plumed Incas graced the walls of their houses. Newspapers, books, and magazines were treasured objects brought from Cusco or Lima. Some people had studio portraits or relatives or ancestors wrapped carefully in old scraps of textiles or tucked away in the niches of their homes' adobe walls. Despite the diversity of the photographs they had seen, the poses they chose for their own portraits were remarkably uniform. They stood stiffly with their arms down at the side, facing the camera, with serious faces. Photographs with smiles were usually rejected, as were the unposed, or what we would call 'natural' photographs I took on my own. My subjects were also committed to being photographed in their best clothes. I did a good deal of my interviews and other fieldwork while hanging around houses waiting for them to wash and braid their hair, scrub the baby, and even trim the horse's mane in preparation for the family portrait." (Poole (1997), p.4)
Farewell at El Dorado Airport,
(photo credit: P. Donato)
To quote Sontag (1977) again,
"... photography develops in tandem with one of the most characteristic of human activities: tourism. For the first time in history, large numbers of people regularly travel out of their habitual environments for short periods of time. It seems positively unnatural to travel for pleasure without taking a camera. Photographs will offer indisputable evidence that the trip was made, that the program was carried out, that fun was had ...
A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it --- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting the experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. The very activity of taking pictures is soothing, and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. Most tourists feel compelled to put the camera between themselves and whatever is remarkable that they encounter. Unsure of other responses, they take a picture. This gives shape to experience: stop, take a photograph, and move on. The method especially appeals to people handicapped by a ruthless work ethic --- German, Japanese and Americans. Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures." (p.9)
"Been there. Did that."
Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (photo credit: P. Verdin)
WORLD WIDE WEB PHOTOGRAPHY E-ZINES
AnteCámara (Mexico)
Brasil em Foco (Brazil)
Foto Mundo (Argentina)
FotoZoom (Mexico)
Photoart (Brazil)
Photos (Brazil)
RevelArte (Uruguay)
Revista FHOX (Brazil)
La Sombra (Argentina)
Vice Versa (Mexico)
Zona Zero (Mexico)
WORLD WIDE WEB LINKS
Aldo Sessa
Federación Argentina de Fotografía
Foto Club Buenos Aires
Photography in Mexico: Economic Aspects
PRINT REFERENCES
Roland Barthes (1982) Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Hill and Wang: New York.
John Collier, Jr., and Malcolm Collier (1986) Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, NM.
Amanda Hopkinson (ed) (1993) Desires and Disguises: Five Latin American Photographers. Serpents Tail.
Robert M. Levine (1998) Images of History: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Latin American Photographs as Documents. Duke University Press: Durham, NC.
Deborah Poole (1997) Vision, Race, and Modernity. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1995) Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir. University of Washington Press: Seattle, WA.
Susan Sontag (1977) On Photography. Farrar, Straus & Giroux: New York.
Louise Parkinson Zamora, Wendy Watriss and Fernando Castro (1998) Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America, 1865-1992. University of Texas Press: Austin, TX.
Mariana Yampolsky (1998) The Edge of Time: Photographs of Mexico. University of Texas Press: Austin, TX.


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Kat is an editor, writer and producer based out of Los Angeles. She seeks to amplify, celebrate and bring the stories of real women - women that are silly, boring, full-on gross, beautiful, imperfect and just funny - to the screen.
She is currently producing and editing The Curious Eater, a podcast by Real Food Real Stories. She also writes, directs, edits and stars in the web-series, The Adult Babies, with co-creators Raissa Reis and Maya Alvarez. Her work has been featured in the Asian Art Museum, published in Writing for A Real World, and has won a Mark of Excellence Award in In-Depth Reporting. She also got 8 retweets on a tweet one time. That was cool.


By awesome I assume you mean sports bars, beer n wingZ, tHuGlYfE clubZ and the risk of getting robbed/mugged/stabbed/shot after dark then yes the nightlife IS awesome.
There are a lot of good things about ILM but I wouldn't classify the downtown "nightlife" as one of them. I will also say that dining options have been on a decline here as of late - unless you like bar food/hot wings (which I don't care for).
I would say the previous post , while being partially true, isnt really that accurate or at least doenst paint the whole picture. I work downtown and live nearby. There is a lot going on in Wilmington and surrouding areas and if nightlife is soemthing that interests you, downtown gets pretty wild. But you can go have dinner and walk around the waterfront and shops well into the night and not feel unsafe. There are really good restaurants downtown...no chains to speak of, but several really great fine dining places and a pretty wide variety. If you do go out late aand want to party, then just be careful, travel in groups, park safely and leave before 2am so you dont get caught in the drunken bar crowds spilling into the streets.
Wilmington is great. Riverfront is really nice and a lot of the bars/hangouts are not that bad. When my wife and I go to Wilmington we like to go to the beach, but stay downtown for the bars and random activities at night.
Love it. It's a great little town with big city culture.
Let's see, where to start about my getaway town known as Wilmywood? When not deployed, I am stationed at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, aka "Fayettenam," North Carolina. Fayetteville is not my kind of scene, what with crime that makes Wilmington's issues look like a joke. Although, crime is no small potatoes thing in Wilmington either. I open-carry 24/7 in North Carolina anyway, so I don't even worry about that stuff.
Anyway, I really enjoy kayaking in the Wilmington, Winnabow, and Leland areas. I like shopping around at the pawn shops to get deals on guns, silver, tools, the works. I love eating at Flaming Amy's, and I like the old school feel of eating at K&W Cafeteria. Orton's Pool Hall, the oldest billiard hall in the area, is great, and quite haunted from what I hear.
Wilmington's history is pretty violent, colorful, and interesting too, nonetheless. There is just so much to like about Wilmington, and I love taking the short 1.5 hour drive down 87 and 76 to get away from Bragg for the weekend. It's my home away from home.
WinTheMindWinTheDay, you wouldn't be kayaking in Town Creek would you?
I am not too sure to be honest. My friends from Wilmington take me along.
Ok, you would know it if you have been there. Black water and lots of cypress trees.
I know there is this guide that puts in at the wildlife landing at town creek a lot.
He usually isn't a problem but one time I had to wait what seemed like forever to launch my boat while he gave kayaking lessons on the boat ramp.


With the treble themes of horse power, agricultural heritage and education, the fourth BHS Scotland working horse day took place in blazing Perthshire sunshine in early October with eighteen different rigs and over 200 members of the public attending.
The packed timetable covered field work; ploughing, carting, harrowing, horse logging, work for individual ponies including deer saddles for the Highlands and peat carrying creels for the Eriskay pony, showing, turnout and care.
The most popular feature demonstration being hay making by heavy horses from Dave and Robert Nelson, Benny Duncan and Ross Kinnaird along with all their helpers. They used hay mowers, turners, kickers and rakes put through their paces alongside a Tumblin Tam which brought hay to the hand made stack. The climax of the hay-making theme was the operation of a pike or ruck maker by Bill Allan, who had brought it all the way from Silloth in Cumbria to use in conjunction with a green crop loader behind Benny Duncan's pair of Clydesdales.
BHS Scotland was indebted to all our performers including; Robert Sibbald and team, Ruaridh Ormiston, Helena Macdonald, Maggie Macrae, Mary McGillivray, Janice Kirkpatrick, Jen Roy and Andrew Whitaker for bringing their amazing working horses and ponies, their machines and their harness.
The legendary BHs Scotland tearoom did a roaring trade in the traditional Scottish fare of soup and stovies.


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New Orleans-based entrepreneurial support organization The Idea Village has announced the nine startups selected for its four-month accelerator program, IDEAx. Each year, the program works with highly scalable startups with innovative, technology-enabled business models.
This 2019 IDEAx accelerator program includes: 3D Media, Dig Cargo, Don't Get Mad Get Paid, RentCheck, OrthoBistro, SAMPLECHAIN, Stilio, TrayAway, and UpScribed.
Over the course of the program, the companies are mentored by two Entrepreneurs-In-Residence (EIRs) with experience helping companies grow. EIR Soumitra Sengupta is a tech industry veteran who previously worked at Microsoft, and Mike Katz is a venture capitalist with a business development background.
Additionally, the organization's ENERGYx accelerator program will be running in tandem with IDEAx. Three startups that participated in the December Energy Innovators Bootcamp were invited to the ENERGYx program, including ARIX Technologies, Gulf Offshore Research Institute, and VPT.