The Chestnut Street Theatre, also known as "The New Theatre" and "Old Drury," opened in 1794 and served as a home base for numerous Philadelphia playwrights. Modeled after the Theatre Royal in Bath, England, the 1,165-seat theater was widely known as one of the grandest and most elegant in the United States. Due to unknown causes, the Chestnut Street Theatre burned down in 1820. It was rebuilt twice but was ultimately demolished in 1913. This watercolor painting by David J. Kennedy portrays the original exterior of the theatre.
Born in Philadelphia in 1906, Clifford Odets was an influential American playwright, actor, and director. His affiliation with Group Theatre, a company of stage craftsmen based in New York City, aided in the group's success as an influencer of the American stage. He joined Group Theatre in 1923 as one as its original members. This photograph was taken in 1937 at the height of his career.
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, founded in 1997, began as a five-day festival in the Old City section of Philadelphia to give contemporary artists, including playwrights and actors, the opportunity to connect with their audiences in a new and exciting environment. Sixty performing groups showcased their work in venues including theaters, galleries, alley ways, and abandoned buildings.
After its founding, the Fringe Festival grew immensely and moved in 2013 it moved to a new home in a former fire truck pumping station renovated into versatile studio space on Columbus Boulevard. The FringeArts building, pictured here, serves as a headquarters for the festival and welcomes over a thousand artists annually for the two-week duration of the event.
Philadelphia served as the setting for political satires by American novelist, essayist, and playwright Gore Vidal (1925-2012), shown in this photograph. Vidal's most notable play, The Best Man, premiered on Broadway in New York City when Vidal was just 34. The setting of the play is a fictional Philadelphia political convention at which the delegates debate the relative merits of patrician William Russel and Senator Joseph Cantwell. This political satire, which mirrored Vidal's criticism of the 1960 political conventions, was very successful and went on to be made into a feature film in 1964.
Edwin Forrest, pictured here, was a successful Philadelphia-born actor who later went on to produce theatrical productions. He was born to William Forrest and Rebecca Lauman on March 9, 1806. At an early age, Edwin's father recognized his interest in rhetoric and provided him with elocution lessons. During his teenage years, Forrest begin performing with an amateur thespian society. In 1820, he made his stage debut at the Walnut Street Theatre. His performance as Young Norval in John Home's tragedy Douglas attracted notice from the press, and it was not long before he joined a professional theater company in New Orleans. With this company Forrest played Iago in Othello and Malcolm in Macbeth.
Forrest returned to Philadelphia in 1825 and joined William Gilfert's company in Albany, New York. With this company he worked alongside London actor Edmund Kean. As Forrest matured as an actor, he developed a deep appreciation for Kean's work and modeled many of his own practices after his. In 1826 he played Othello in New York City and earned great praise by audiences and critics alike.
Later in his life, Forrest was at the center of two major scandals. The first took place in New York City, when a misunderstanding caused a disagreement between him and English actor William Macready. This caused an uproar among Forrest supporters. In May 1849, while Macready was performing at the Astor Place Opera House, they surrounded the theater. The militia was called, and the riot left twenty-two people killed and thirty-six wounded. The event tainted Forrest's reputation in the theater community. Two years later the actor became involved in another scandal in which he accused his wife, Catherine Sinclair, of adultery. After 1852 Forrest's presence in the acting community decreased significantly and he spent most of his time alone in his Philadelphia mansion, which later became the Freedom Theatre on North Broad Street. After his death in 1872, Forrest left most of his money for the establishment of a home for aged actors.
The Philadelphia Story was written in 1939 by Phillip Barry (1896-1949). Despite not being from Philadelphia, Barry was known for writing comedies about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. The wealthy suburbs of Philadelphia, a hub of economic growth prior to the Great Depression, offered a perfect setting for Barry's play.
The Philadelphia Story centers on Tracey Lord, a wealthy heroine who has divorced her husband and plans to marry another man. While planning her wedding, she is interrupted by intrusive reporters, her ex-husband, and her estranged father. With this play, Barry explored many contemporary social issues, such as divisions between social classes in the United States, adultery, and divorce. The play's central character was portrayed by Katharine Hepburn, as seen in photograph of the 1940 film with James Stewart, and helped to launch the actress's career. The play premiered in New York at Broadway's Schubert Theatre in 1939 and ran successfully for more than a year before it was adapted for film and television.
Upon first glance, it may seem odd that in Philadelphia, the intellectual heartland of the American Enlightenment, the first drama did not play until April 1754, over seventy years after the city's founding. That play, The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718), was licensed for twenty-four performances, with the warning that the license would be revoked if anything in the production was deemed indecent or immoral. But the show proved so popular that, rather than revoke its permissions, Governor James Hamilton (c.1710-83) extended its run for an additional six performances. The Fair Penitent ran for ten weeks and sparked a desire for the theater in the city that long continued. The local theater scene inspired homegrown talent and served as a setting for local writers and others from farther afield who have drawn on the city's historical centrality—realistically or allegorically—to craft compelling American drama.
In the early years of Philadelphia theater, transatlantic influences featured prominently. In the tradition of Shakespeare and Nicholas Rowe, Thomas Godfrey (1736-63) borrowed freely from older classical works to write The Prince of Parthia (published 1765). This romantic tragedy in blank verse played at the Southwark Theatre in 1767 and marked the first time an American-authored play was staged by a professional company. Like the popular British Renaissance and Restoration revivals that dominated the American stage throughout the eighteenth century, Parthia centers on a romantic complication among the upper classes, with a bit of heroics thrown in for good measure.
The first generation of Philadelphia dramatists took a page from Godfrey, but they also were intent on incorporating the city's history into their works, often at the Chestnut Street Theatre. Among those who established their careers there, Susanna Rowson (1762-1824) came to the city from London to be part of the Chestnut's first company of players and playwrights. She wrote the comedic melodramas Slaves in Algiers; or, a Struggle for Freedom (1794) and The Female Patriot; or, Nature's Rights (1795); the opera The Volunteers (1795); and The American Tar, or the Press Gang Defeated (1796). Philadelphia-born James Nelson Barker (1784-1858) began writing plays while a teenager. Like Rowson before him, Barker did not hesitate to write across genres and focused almost exclusively on the American experience. He too found a home at the Chestnut, where his earliest works—the social comedy Tears and Smiles (1807) and the romance The Indian Princess (1808)—were staged. These plays did well enough, but the tragedies Marmion (1812) and Superstition (1824) were among his more successful works. Tragedies by Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-54) were also well received, particularly The Gladiator (1831), produced by noted Philadelphia thespian Edwin Forrest (1806-72). Organized around a Roman slave revolt, this play has been read as a commentary on the nature of slavery in late antebellum American society. With a nod to Horace, Bird chose satire to critique contemporary Philadelphia society for the theater-going public. His The City Looking Glass (1828) makes light of the attempts of a confidence man to play social reputations against each other to his benefit. The protagonist's efforts to advance his own social standing through marriage, and to disparage the reputations of those around him, reflected a larger trend in Philadelphia drama of that period. Although Forrest produced all of Bird's plays, their personal relationship disintegrated over a dispute about whether Bird was being fairly compensated for his playwriting.
From the twentieth century onward, plays set in Philadelphia, by local writers or others, devoted pronounced particular attention to rank: be it social, political, or some combination of the two, often in the setting of the American Revolution. Period plays included Brooklyn-born Louis Evan Shipman's (1869-1933) Revolutionary War-era comedy D'Arcy of the Guards (1901); The First Lady in the Land (1911) by Indiana-born Charles Frederick Nirdlinger (1862-1940), set during the highly contested presidential election of 1800; Valley Forge (1934) by native Pennsylvanian Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959), a verse play set in the brutal winter of 1778; and the Tony Award-winning musical 1776 (1969). These plays all concern political figures and portray a vibrant city, rife with intrigue. Although 1776 was not the first Broadway effort at dramatizing the War for Independence (Rodgers and Hart, for example, completed The Dearest Enemy in 1925), it became one of the most enduring. The action follows Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin as they attempt to make their case for violent revolution. Often treating the Founding Fathers with humor, 1776 remained a popular show for revivals.
Gore Vidal (1925-2012) brought a heaping dose of cynicism into the Philadelphia political play. His The Best Man (1960), set in Philadelphia and mirroring Vidal's criticism about the 1960 political party conventions, proved very popular and was made into a feature film (1964). Although not strictly speaking a history play, The Best Man is a commentary on character assassination as a tool of anti-intellectualism and a cautionary tale about marginalizing party stalwarts who possess any degree of integrity.
In addition to plays with political themes, Philadelphia served as a setting for dramas that explored working-class experience with a new, heightened realism. Chief among the playwrights to write about this previously marginalized America was Clifford Odets (1906-63). Born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents, his relationship with New York's celebrated Group Theatre resulted in some of the most influential plays in the twentieth-century canon of American drama, including Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake and Sing! (1935), and Golden Boy (1937). However, there was little room for "agitprop" (agitational propaganda) realism in plays set in the city at this time. Philadelphia native George Kelly (1887-1974) got his start writing and performing one-act skits on the vaudeville circuit, but he eventually turned those bits into full-length plays. Although Kelly became best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Craig's Wife (1926), The Show-Off (1924), set in North Philadelphia, is among his most revived plays.
In Kelly's plays, as with Odets's, those who undertake physical labor might be honored, but they are seldom rewarded. Riches are reserved for the dreamers, setting something of a standard for the screwball comedies that became most associated with Philadelphia despite having been written by non-local playwrights. The Philadelphia Story (1939), written by Philip Barry (1896-1949) for Bryn Mawr alumna Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), placed Hepburn in the role of Tracy Lord, a Main Line socialite. The play resurrected Hepburn's career, provided her first Broadway hit, and established Barry as a major presence on Broadway. Some years later, The Happiest Millionaire (1956) by Kyle Crichton (1896-1960) tread a similar path with some success. Based on My Philadelphia Father (1955), a biography about Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (1874-1948), the play features alligators in the mansion and lavish parties tempered by service to country and loyalty to family.
Several local writers contributed to a more diverse landscape of American theater through their association with the Yale School of Drama (established 1955) and the advent of the Off Broadway movement, also in the 1950s. Classmates Albert Innaurato (b. 1947) and Christopher Durang (b. 1949), both with Philadelphia-area connections, collaborated on The Idiots Karamazov (1974) while at Yale. Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013) is set in Bucks County, and the Innaurato comedies Gemini (1977) and Passione (1980) both bring working-class South Philly to the stage. Bruce Graham explored an urban terrain similar to Innaurato's in the comedy Burkie (1984), the political satire Belmont Avenue Social Club (1993), The Philly Fan (2004), and North of the Boulevard (2012).
The Black Arts Movement also found theatrical expression in Philadelphia, especially through Freedom Theatre, which emerged as a prominent voice on the local and national theatrical scenes following its founding in 1966. Located beginning in 1968 in the former home of Philadelphia actor Edwin Forrest, Freedom Theatre produced plays by local writers, including works by co-founder John E. Allen, Jr. (1934-92), whose Clara's Ole Man is set in South Philly; the city's first Poet Laureate, Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934); Ed Bullins (b. 1935); Bill Gunn (1934-89); and Charles Fuller (b. 1939), who was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Soldier's Play. The action of Fuller's play opens with the mysterious murder of Sergeant Walters by two gunshots, which come from offstage. Captain Davenport arrives to investigate the murder and is immediately exposed to the racism on the base. After being told that a black officer will never be allowed to arrest a white solider, should the murderer prove to be white, Davenport interviews several soldiers before one comes forward as a witness to the murder. The suspenseful nature of the play, coupled with its commentaries on the racial politics of the United States, made it an enduring classic, widely revived throughout the country.
Freedom Theatre was among the first companies to support local talent, but not the last. In 2012, Michael Hollinger (b. 1962), Quinn Eli, and Jacqueline Goldfinger launched The Foundry, providing creative and business mentoring for local emerging playwrights. Hollinger's playwriting credits include Ghost-Writer (2011), Opus (2006), and Red Herring (2000), all winners of the Barrymore Award, given annually for excellence in professional theater in Greater Philadelphia. A writer of long- and short-form drama, Eli became perhaps best known for plays confronting racial and sexual stereotyping, including the satire Hot Black/Asian Action (2006) and My Name is Bess (2006), which won top honors at the Trustus Playwrights' Festival in Columbia, S.C. Goldfinger authored Skin & Bone (2014), The Oath (2009), the terrible girls (2011) and the Barrymore Award-winning Slip/Shot (2012). Several of Goldfinger's plays premiered in Philadelphia at Azuka Theatre, which along with InterAct Theatre and other local companies, encourage new playwriting. Azuka, founded in 1999 with a mission to give "voice to the people whose stories go unheard," earned LAMBDA and Barrymore awards. InterAct Theatre Company, founded by Seth Rozin in 1988, focused on curating new plays. Rozin, perhaps best known on the local theater scene for his award-winning directing, also wrote several plays: the comedy Men of Stone (2001), Missing Link (2000), the satire Black Gold (2007), Two Jews Walk into a War (2011), and The Three Christs of Manhattan (2015).
Rozin's direction of 6221: Prophecy and Tragedy (1993) introduced Thomas Gibbons—and contemporary historical drama—to a wider audience. This piece, dramatizing the MOVE organization and the 1985 bombing that occurred in West Philadelphia, was the first of several historical dramas by Gibbons, who subsequently became a playwright-in-residence at InterAct. Gibbons's other topics included a consideration of artificial intelligence, in Uncanny Valley (2015), and the battle for the Barnes collection in Permanent Collection (2003). A. Zell Williams, awarded the Philadelphia Theatre Company's Terrence McNally New Play Award for The Urban Retreat (2016), also found a home with InterAct. The company produced the Barrymore Award-winning Down Past Passyunk (2014), dealing with bigotry and cheesesteaks, and In a Daughter's Eyes (2011). The plays of James Ijames also reflected historical events and trends. The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (2014) showcases Ijames's technique of problematizing historical figures, and presenting his characters with apparently insoluble moral questions. His plays frequently cross lines of generic and stylistic convention, engaging audiences in the questions with which the characters themselves must struggle. Similarly, Colman Domingo (b. 1969) explores the impact of Alzheimer's on a West Philadelphia family in his comedy Dot (2016).
A new outlet for playwriting in the city emerged in 1997 with the founding of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival (later renamed FringeArts), which often featured works set in the city by new artists. Bucks County's Bruce Walsh (b. 1977) earned a reputation as the leading site-specific theater maker both on his own and in collaboration with other area practitioners. Works include The Wounded Body (2000); The Guided Tour (2004), set aboard a Philadelphia trolley; Northern Liberty (2005); Old Bill (2005); Whiskey Neat (2009); and Chomsky vs. Buckley (2012).
The city continued to nurture new talent and serve as a setting for local and non-resident playwrights. Although the city's role as a dramatic locale changed over time, sociopolitical concerns remained central to works set in the city and written by Philadelphians.
Elizabeth Mannion's publications on modern drama include The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre: Beyond O'Casey (Syracuse University Press, 2014). Kenny Roggenkamp is an adjunct professor of English at the County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey, and an alumnus of Villanova University's English Department.
Burton, B.J. The Philadelphia Connection: Conversations with Playwrights. Wilmington, N.C.: Intellect Books, 2015.
Gibbs, Jenna. Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Pop Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Pollock, Thomas Clark. The Philadelphia Theater in the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: Penn University Press, 1933.
Richards, Jeffrey H. "Politics, Playhouse, and Repertoire in Philadelphia, 1808." Theatre Survey 46.2 (2005): 199-224.
Roppolo, Joseph Patrick. Philip Barry. New York: Twayne, 1965.
Wasserstein, Wendy. "George Kelly: the Playwright." Three Plays by George Kelly. New York: Limelight, 1999.
Theatre Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia.
FringeArts, 140 N. Christopher Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia.
New Freedom Theatre (former home of Edwin Forrest), 1346 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia.
Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.


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We provide both outpatient and inpatient services for the diagnosis and management of dermatological conditions. At least six dermatology outpatient clinics are opened weekly to manage a host of medical and surgical dermatological conditions.
Outpatient procedural suites, specialised dermatological nursing and miscellaneous service expansion are also in the pipeline.
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Widely considered the CSU system's top school by reputation and in national rankings, Cal Poly hopes to compete against some of the best schools in the country.
UC Berkeley and UCLA each notched a 71 percent four-year graduation rate, according to a U.S. News and World Report review published this year. And in recent years, those schools have consistently reported six-year graduation rates that hover around the 90 percent mark, according to their websites.
Cal Poly has developed a multifaceted plan to improve and hasten students' ability to complete their degrees. It includes adding faculty and high-demand classes, tracking student progress, offering coaching and giving seniors priority class registration.
To assist the effort, a "student success fee" was implemented in fall 2012, after approval from students in an advisory vote. It provides about $14 million a year for additional faculty, tutoring and other costs to support areas that directly impact student graduation rates.
The university's incentives for hastening students' graduations include the ability to grow enrollment by moving students through faster. That in turn means they can graduate more students with science majors, Armstrong said.
For families, shortening the time to graduation can mean saving many thousands of dollars.
During the past decade, Cal Poly has nearly doubled its number of applicants from 27,062 in 2004 to this year's total of nearly 52,000.
To answer that demand, Armstrong has projected enrollment to grow by as many as 5,000 students over the next decade, but not without meeting certain conditions to facilitate the expansion — including improved graduation rates.
• On the teaching front, Cal Poly is seeking to hire about 100 new faculty members.
• A Freshman Success Program, which started in 2010, provides coaching for students placed on academic probation in their first quarter. When students complete 75 percent of their coursework, the university will send notices with expectations that they graduate within a year.
• Seniors headed toward graduation are now given priority course registration. In past years, some seniors had used up their priority registration, requiring them to have to wait another quarter or two to finish.
Another initiative the university is undertaking aims to reduce the minimum number of units required to graduate to 180.
Cal Poly has 65 degree programs, and 22 of them required students to complete more than 180 units at the time of the CSU board's vote in 2012, said Mary Pedersen, Cal Poly's associate vice provost for academic programs and planning.
Pedersen said some accreditation standards outside the CSU's jurisdiction make it virtually impossible to limit those programs to 180 units.
As part of an initial phase, the university reduced five of the 22 programs to the required 180 units, including agricultural science, and has petitioned the chancellor's office to drop the totals of six other degrees to between 184 and 188 units.
The petition was submitted in April 2013, Pedersen said.
A second phase dealt with 11 Cal Poly degree programs with significantly higher unit requirements. Each of those, including multiple engineering degree programs, previously required more than 192 units. All have been reduced by four to nine units since 2012 but still don't meet the required 180 units.
The university petitioned the chancellor on these programs in January. The chancellor's office has not yet responded to either petition.
Cal Poly's six-year graduation rates have mostly improved: The 2000 freshman class saw 67.0 percent graduate; among the 2002 freshmen class, 69.4 percent graduated; in the 2005 freshman group, 74.6 percent graduated; while in the 2006 freshman group, 72.2 percent graduated six years later.


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Q: Is possible to the tabs functionality of Zurb Foundation within Divshot? I've got a Divshot project setup to use the Zurb Foundation framework. It appears to be using Foundation version 5.02. Although tabs are a valid component of 5.02 (sections were removed), they do not show up in the component library on the right side in Divshot (while sections are still available).
I was able to copy in a basic tabs example form the Foundation documentation (vertical tabs)

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Tab 2

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Panel 2 content goes here.

Panel 3 content goes here.

Panel 4 content goes here.

This code generates the appropriate tabs from an appearance perspective, however, they do not actually function. The top left of Divshot shows that elements with different ID selectors are active as I click each of the tabs, however, the tab content doesn't change appropriately.
Is the tabs functionality for Foundation 5 broken or simply not included in Divshot?

A: I believe that all the components that require Javascript are not supported by default. I've only just started using Divshot so I don't know if there is a way to enable them.
Alternatively you could export your project from Divshot and then add the javascript - following the instructions provided in the Foundation documenation.


Reporting directly to the Director of Operations, this position provides an adequate, safe and culturally-based environment for children who are approximately 1 to 4 years old. The Manager will have several employees under their supervision. Day care schedule is in accordance to policy with hours of operation from 7:30am-4:30pm Monday to Thursday, Friday 3:30 pm. Closure is in conjunction with the school for weather and when directed by the Director of Operations.
Provide literacy programming for children including such activities as music and singing, story time, season appropriate craft activities, games and physical movement activities.
Create a positive warm environment so children may feel free to express themselves and choose activities appropriate for age and personal preferences.
Engage the children in the Mi'kmaq language to support them in learning Mi'kmaq and also support first language learning.
Maintain contact with parents or guardians through informal meetings as needed to discuss each child's progress and needs.
Maintain records of each child's progress and suggest ways in which parents can stimulate their child's learning and development at home.
Keep and maintain a tidy and clean area.
Willingness to support and participate in related professional development opportunities as it pertains to position.
Supervise staff and implementing training as needed.
Child Development or Early Childhood Education Diploma is preferred, but not required as an equivalent, or related work experience, in a childcare setting will be considered.
Must complete a Child Abuse Registry Check and pass a Criminal Records Check.
Must be willing to participate in mandatory training and workshops.


Beverly of homeschooling.about.com is hosting this week. Great job Beverly!
With the birth of my grandson this past week and expecting a granddaughter in March, I thought I'd go with the theme of Celebrating New Life. Julee Huy (my daughter) of Homeschool Daze Blog shares about homeschooling with a New Baby!


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BeanQueen asked For those who believe in the bible, how could the Noah story happen?
How did he get 2 of each animal on earth? He was in the middle East. How could he have gotten polar bears, penguins, armadillos, koalas, etc.? How could he prevent the carnivores from eating each other? How could he carry enough food for them all? What about temperature control? He would have had to keep it warm for the reptiles and cold for the arctic animals. Any ideas?
In Genesis 11:1 after the flood at the tower of Babel people were still living in a relatively small area as they were before the flood. It says "the whole earth had one language". Whole earth means the area where humans are living not the entire globe. The Great Flood only had to be a local flood with local animals in order to wipe out the human race.
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Skills Sharing
Hokusai's 'The Great Wave' (and the differences between all 111 of them)
'The Great Wave'
Did you know there are 113 identified copies of Hokusai's The Great Wave?
I know the title says 111, but scientist Capucine Korenberg found another 2 after completing her research. What research was that? Finding every print of The Great Wave around the world and then sequencing them, to find out when they were created during the life cycle of the woodblocks they were printed from. This involved painstakingly documenting visible signs of wear to the keyblock that made the Great Wave, and tracking these visible changes as the keyblock continued to be used (fun fact; scholars estimate there were likely as many as 8000 prints of The Great Wave originally in circulation).
If all this sounds a little confusing, don't worry. Sit back, relax and learn how a scientist's growing passion for Hokusai changed the way we look at his most famous work.
Content Warning: You'll never look at this print the same way again.
Double Content Warning: This video will make you question if you brush your teeth for long enough every day.
Credits: All Great Waves are either British Museum, Public Domain images or used with the kind permission of the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa.
Adachi Woodcut Prints kindly let us use their GIF images to show the different coloured woodblock impressions.
The Paul Sacher Foundation have kindly given us permission to use the image of Claude Debussy from their Igor Stravinsky Collection.
The British Museum Research Laboratory was founded in 1920. The Laboratory's scientists provide insights into the past through research on the collection. Using both traditional and the very latest methods and equipment they are able to answer questions that help with the interpretation and understanding of the collection. Their discoveries can tell us what objects from the Museum's collections are made out of, how they were made, when and where they were made and what that tells us about their history.
Multispectral Imaging & the Study of Archeological Textiles
Discovering a 4,500-year-old olive oil factory in Jordan
Depicting the dead: ancient Egyptian mummy portraits

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Royal Wootton Bassett and the fallen
Post subject: Royal Wootton Bassett and the fallen
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:19 pm
Location: Sussex, England
Short audio, with stills, from the BBC.
Seamus Murphy used some footage he shot in Wootton Bassett, as it was known then, for the 'Let England Shake' films.
The coffins of 355 fallen military personnel passed through Wootton Bassett between spring 2007 and summer 2011. Close to RAF Lyneham where the bodies were repatriated, the High Street became a focal point for families and friends of the deceased.
The town has since been renamed Royal Wootton Bassett, in recognition of the respect and support it gave to the lost military personnel and their families.
As one of the guest editors of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, comedian Al Murray went to Wiltshire to meet some of those who played a part in the repatriation ceremonies - including 96-year-old Ken Scott.
The former Desert Rat collected dozens of the personal tributes left by service families. He says the moving scenes he witnessed in his town have left a lasting impression on how he views war.
Wiggins is so superbly unassuming, he looks like he's about to say 'Pop the gold medal in the post, I'm nipping out for some biscuits'


More than a year has passed since the iPad's launch, yet magazine publishers' enthusiasm for offering tablet-friendly versions of their publications has not dulled. And there's plenty of excitement about the upcoming launch of Amazon's new tablet computer. Even before the device's scheduled revealing on Wednesday, Hearst, Conde Nast and Meredith have all agreed to sell digital versions of their publications on the new tablet, according to sources cited in a report by All Things D.Time Inc. has yet to reach a publisher agreement with Amazon to sell subscriptions on the new device. This is similar to what happened with Apple as the company also failed to reach an agreement with Time to sell subscriptions, allowing it to only sell individual titles through Apple's App Store. The agreements with other publishers are expected to be similar to Apple's, in which publishers retain about 70 percent of all sales and the retailer, in turn, shares some customer data with publishers. The percentage may vary about or below 70 based on the title and customer offer.
Sources have indicated that publishers have already prepped some titles for the seven-inch Amazon tablet, to be run on the Android operating system, set to be introduced Wednesday. Publishers are also preparing for when the retailer rolls out a larger version more comparable to the iPad's size, a move that is expected to occur next year.
And while some publishers have been skeptical to move their titles to the tablet market (we're looking at you, Rolling Stone), the launch of a credible iPad competitor seems to have reignited interest among other major publishers seeking a broader audience for the digital editions of their titles.


She snuck in through a basement window, sticking to the shadows. Hearing sounds of a battle above, she pulled out a small unit to track the best way to get to said battle. Jesus. Who knew a museum had so many back tunnels. This is ridiculous…thank god for global keys… There were times when working for a very large agency with a mission to stop terrorism came in handy. She pulled out a thin card and began twisting through the back hall ways, avoiding large groups of people.
Jenna pulled out a small, handled mirror similar to the ones used by dentists, and used it to peek around the corner. Reflected in the tiny polished circle was a woman dressed in black, fluffed wool with a blue bow and two men in loose, black clothing. Between the two men was a man she knew well, slumped and lifeless, his feet dragging along the floor.
"Damn," she muttered to herself. "Black Sheep." She was about to whip herself around the corner when she heard more footsteps. The mirror, this time, revealed that four more men had arrived from the other direction, and they were questioning the wool-attired mercenary on her acquisition. As quietly as she could, Jenna keyed her comm to the global channel and reported on the situation.
Topside, Kardiac and Capin looked at each other from across the horde of Ak-Fet Sur's minions as they heard Silhouette's message. A thousand words were conveyed with that single look and Kardiac, being only a dozen feet from a basement skylight, broke away from the fight. Sur's Dogs attempted to pursue, only to find themselves tripping over the flowing tendrils of Capin's outstretched cloak.
"Godspeed…" the dapper detective muttered quietly as he continued to clear the field of Sur's fanatics.
Kardiac closed his eyes and reached out, looking for the bio-signs of those in the building, even as he crashed through the street-level skylight and into the basement. He charged towards those he felt nearby, eight people tightly grouped, one unconscious, and a ninth standing about twenty feet closer to him than the others, slightly off to one side. That had to be Jenna. And she was seriously outnumbered.
Rounding the corner to see the criminals and their captive, Kardiac charged his hands and feet, leapt to the ceiling, skittered another couple of feet, then launched himself down upon the surprised throng. Black Sheep extended her shepherd's crook and wheeled to face the vigilante, presenting her back to Silhouette. Her hirelings turned with her.
Before the Russian assassin could bring her weapon around to take a swing, two pulse bolts from Silhouette's side-arms stuck her in the center of her back. Black Sheep dropped to the ground almost instantly, and her two thugs turned to face the new threat, even as Sheep's contacts endeavored to hold off Kardiac's onslaught.
Kardiac glanced over his shoulder at Silhouette as she stepped out into the hallway. "What took you so long?" he asked, though her shots had come less than three seconds after he dove into his opponents.
"I had to finish my book," she said, opening fire on one of the men who had made his way behind Kardiac. The two men who had turned to face her were shaking off their shock, having dropped Bluewolf, and were starting to draw their weapons.
"The Butler did it," Kardiac replied, giving one of his foes a sound kick in the abdomen. "Shoot your own problems… I've got this," he said, glancing sideways at the two men, just out of reach, who were pulling guns on Jenna. If he could just reach them…. before he could leap, however, two of his remaining three opponents tried to tackle him from opposing sides, knocking the air from his lungs and leaving him well out of range to bring down the two gunmen.
Jenna took a deep breath. It had been a long time since she'd reached inside of herself this deeply, and she hated to do it, but there was too much going on to drag out the fight. She summoned her deepest fears, all of her loss, everything that had ever caused her to hide beneath her covers as a child. As she focused on those emotions, shadows crept from across the room, gathering around her and reaching out with tendrils towards her opponents.
Forcing away the sounds of battle, Silhouette grabbed the fear she'd forced to the surface and pushed it away… along those very tendrils of shadow that were beginning to envelope the two men raising handguns in her direction. Immediately, their faces changed countenance, they dropped their weapons, and fell to the ground in a whimpering, cowering heap.
"That's new," Eddy said, genuinely surprised, as he wrestled with his three remaining opponents. He reached out and grabbed the one farthest to his right, simultaneously grappling the one farthest to his left. Jenna raised her gun at the one between them.
She stared at him, still a bit stunned at his action, her mouth slightly open. She wasn't sure what she wanted to say, but when words finally started to form, he interrupted her. "Capin's got it handled topside. Get Blue out of here… I'm going to check on Midnight." And without another word, he was on his feet and charging away from her down the hallway.
Silhouette watched him go for a split second before shaking the kiss off and verifying the situation with Capin. There was a weak groan from Aaron as he began to come around to a state of half-consciousness. "I got you," she said as she pulled Bluewolf to his feet, draped one of his arms over her shoulder, and helped him towards the exit.


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While the rally led by the leader of the Opposition Surya Kanta Mishra began from Y Channel of Esplanade in Kolkata, Left front veteran Biman Bose headed a rally from College Square. Indiscriminate lathi-charge left hundreds injured at Burrazaar. CPM leader Md Salim was hit on the head during the scuffle. However, the agitators dared the attack and continued their sit-in program.
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47Soul: Shamstepping Across Borders
Palestinian "shamstep" band 47Soul talks to us about their origins, freedom of movement, and their new album.
47SOUL, an electro Arabic dabke band, is composed of four musicians from within Palestine and the diaspora: Z the People (vocals, synths), El Far3i (darouka, Mc/Vocals), Walaa Sbeit (percussion, Mc/vocals) and El Jehaz (guitar, vocals). Though each member has highly individual tastes and talents, their cohesion is a result of a specific sound, which they have dubbed shamstep. Forming in Jordan in 2013, they have since performed at several renowned festivals around the world, amassing a following through their frenzied, energetic live performances, as they preprocess the traditional Levantine dabke with electronic hip hop and a mixture of English and Arabic lyrics.
Their latest album, Balfron Promise, has already received acclaim and was The Guardian's January pick for world music album of the month. The album does not veer from the band's reputation of providing politically charged messages as they hope to generate more crossover appeal in the United Kingdom, in addition to their audiences in the Middle East. The name of the album is a reference to the Balfour Declaration, and the Balfron Towers in London, where they once resided, combining Palestinian politics in the 20th century with 21st century gentrification in London.
During their recent tour to Egypt supporting Balfron Promise, we joined 47Soul for a brief respite from the Cairo chaos, in the peaceful treehouse of Bardo Clubhouse. We talked to them about their origins, forming their own sound, and their new album.
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Will Hyperscale Cloud Companies (e.g. Google) Control the Internet's Backbone?
Posted on April 25, 2019 by Alan Weissberger
Rob Powell reports that Google's submarine cable empire now hooks up another corner of the world. The company's 10,000km Curie submarine cable has officially come ashore in Valparaiso, Chile.
The Curie cable system now connects Chile with southern California. it's a four-fiber-pair system that will add big bandwidth along the western coast of the Americas to Google's inventory. Also part of the plans is a branching unit with potential connectivity to Panama at about the halfway point where they can potentially hook up to systems in the Caribbean.
Subcom's CS Durable brought the cable ashore on the beach of Las Torpederas, about 100 km from Santiago. In Los Angeles the cable terminates at Equinix's LA4 facility, while in Chile the company is using its own recently built data center in Quilicura, just outside of Santiago.
Google has a variety of other projects going on around the world as well, as the company continues to invest in its infrastructure. Google's projects tend to happen quickly, as they don't need to spend time finding investors to back their plans.
Curie is one of three submarine cable network projects Google unveiled in January 2018. (Source: Google)
Powell also wrote that SoftBank's HAPSMobile is investing $125M in Google's Loon as the two partner for a common platform, and Loon gains an option to invest a similar sum in HAPSMobile later on.
Both companies envision automatic, unmanned, solar-powered devices in the sky above the range of commercial aircraft but not way up in orbit. From there they can reach places that fiber and towers don't or can't. HAPSMobile uses drones, and Loon uses balloons. The idea is to develop a 'common gateway or ground station' and the necessary automation to support both technologies.
It's a natural partnership in some ways, and the two are putting real money behind it. But despite the high profile we haven't really seen mobile operators chomping at the bit, since after all it's more fun to cherry pick those tower-covered urban centers for 5G first and there's plenty of work to do. And when they do get around to it, there's the multiple near-earth-orbit satellite projects going on to compete with.
But the benefit both HAPSMobile and Loon have to their model is that they can, you know, reach it without rockets.
AWS's Backbone (explained by Sapphire):
An AWS Region is a particular geographic area where Amazon decided to deploy several data centers, just like that. The reason behind a chosen area is to be close to the users and also to have no restrictions. At the same time, every Region is also connected through private links with other Regions which means they have a dedicated link for their communications because for them is cheaper and they also have full capacity planing with lower latency.
What is inside a Region?
Minimum 2 Availability Zones
Separate transit centers (peering the connections out of the World)
How transit centers work?
AWS has private links to other AWS regions, but they also have private links for the feature AWS Direct Connect – a dedicated and private & encrypted (IPSEC tunnel) connection from the "xyz" company's datacenters to their infrastructures in the Cloud, which works with the VLANs inside (IEEE 802.1Q) for accessing public and private resources with a lower latency like Glacier or S3 buckets and their VPC at the same time between <2ms and usually <1ms latency. Between Availability Zones (inter AZ zone) the data transit there's a 25TB/sec average.
From AWS Multiple Region Multi-VPC Connectivity:
AWS Regions are connected to multiple Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as well as to Amazon's private global network backbone, which provides lower cost and more consistent cross-region network latency when compared with the public internet. Here is one illustrative example:
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From Facebook Building backbone network infrastructure:
We have strengthened the long-haul fiber networks that connect our data centers to one another and to the rest of the world.
As we bring more data centers online, we will continue to partner and invest in core backbone network infrastructure. We take a pragmatic approach to investing in network infrastructure and utilize whatever method is most efficient for the task at hand. Those options include leveraging long-established partnerships to access existing fiber-optic cable infrastructure; partnering on mutually beneficial investments in new infrastructure; or, in situations where we have a specific need, leading the investment in new fiber-optic cable routes.
In particular, we invest in new fiber routes that provide much-needed resiliency and scale. As a continuation of our previous investments, we are building two new routes that exemplify this approach. We will be investing in new long-haul fiber to allow direct connectivity between our data centers in Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina.
As with our previous builds, these new long-haul fiber routes will help us continue to provide fast, efficient access to the people using our products and services. We intend to allow third parties — including local and regional providers — to purchase excess capacity on our fiber. This capacity could provide additional network infrastructure to existing and emerging providers, helping them extend service to many parts of the country, and particularly in underserved rural areas near our long-haul fiber builds.
Venture Beat Assessment of what it all means:
Google's increasing investment in submarine cables fits into a broader trend of major technology companies investing in the infrastructure their services rely on.
Besides all the datacenters Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are investing in as part of their respective cloud services, we've seen Google plow cash into countless side projects, such as broadband infrastrucure in Africa and public Wi-Fi hotspots across Asia.
Elsewhere, Facebook — while not in the cloud services business itself — requires omnipresent internet connectivity to ensure access for its billions of users. The social network behemoth is also investing in numerous satellite internet projectsand had worked on an autonomous solar-powered drone project that was later canned. Earlier this year, Facebook revealed it was working with Viasat to deploy high-speed satellite-powered internet in rural areas of Mexico.
While satellites will likely play a pivotal role in powering internet in the future — particularly in hard-to-reach places — physical cables laid across ocean floors are capable of far more capacity and lower latency. This is vital for Facebook, as it continues to embrace live video and virtual reality. In addition to its subsea investments with Google, Facebook has also partnered with Microsoft for a 4,000-mile transatlantic internet cable, with Amazon and SoftBank for a 14,000 km transpacific cable connecting Asia with North America, and on myriad othercable investments around the world.
Needless to say, Google's services — ranging from cloud computing and video-streaming to email and countless enterprise offerings — also depend on reliable infrastructure, for which subsea cables are key.
Curie's completion this week represents not only a landmark moment for Google, but for the internet as a whole. There are currently more than 400 undersea cables in service around the world, constituting 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles). Google is now directly invested in around 100,000 kilometers of these cables (62,000 miles), which equates to nearly 10% of all subsea cables globally.
The full implications of "big tech" owning the internet's backbone have yet to be realized, but as evidenced by their investments over the past few years, these companies' grasp will only tighten going forward.
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How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
Nearly 750,000 miles of cable already connect the continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. Companies have typically pooled their resources to collaborate on undersea cable projects, like a freeway for them all to share.
But now Google is going its own way, in a first-of-its-kind project connecting the United States to Chile, home to the company's largest data center in Latin America.
"People think that data is in the cloud, but it's not," said Jayne Stowell, who oversees construction of Google's undersea cable projects. "It's in the ocean."
Getting it there is an exacting and time-intensive process. A 456-foot ship named Durable will eventually deliver the cable to sea. But first, the cable is assembled inside a sprawling factory a few hundred yards away, in Newington, N.H. The factory, owned by the company SubCom, is filled with specialized machinery used to maintain tension in the wire and encase it in protective skin.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/10/technology/internet-cables-oceans.html
Update: Google building 1st subsea cable between Europe, Africa
Google has announced Equiano, a new private subsea cable that will connect Portugal and South Africa. The cable will be built by Alcatel Submarine Networks and the first phase of the project is scheduled for completion in 2021. In April, the WSJ first reported the company's plans for this cable.
This is the company's third private cable after Dunant between Europe and the U.S., and Curie, which spans between the U.S. and Chile. In addition, Google is also a partner in a number of cable consortiums that operate cables that span the globe.
Equiano, which was named after Nigerian writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, will be the first subsea cable that uses optical switching at the fiber pair level. This makes it easier to allocate capacity as needed.
Google also stresses that this new cable is able to carry about 20 times the capacity of the last cable that was built to serve this region. The cable will feature numerous branching units that it can then use to connect lines to other countries along the way. The first branch will connect the cable to Lagos, Nigeria. Other branches will follow in the future.
Unlike some of its competitors, Google does not currently operate any data centers on the African continent and has yet to share any plans to do so. This makes fast connections to Europe even more of a necessity, though it's also possible that Google is putting this new cable in place to prepare for a data center launch in South Africa, for example.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/28/google-is-building-a-new-private-subsea-cable-between-portugal-and-south-africa/
Stretching from Europe all the way to Africa, Google is introducing its new private subsea cable called 'Equiano'
Fully funded by Google, Equiano would start in Western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa with branching units along the way that could be put to use to extend connectivity to additional African countries and the first phase of the project is expected to be complete in 2021.
"'Equiano' would be the first subsea cable to incorporate optical switching at the fiber-pair level, which would greatly simplify the allocation of cable capacity, giving us the flexibility to add and reallocate it in different locations as needed," Google wrote in a blogpost on Friday.
Named for Olaudah Equiano, a Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist who was enslaved as a boy, the Equiano cable is based on space-division multiplexing (SDM) technology, with approximately 20 times more network capacity than the last cable built to serve this region.
The contract to build the cable with Alcatel Submarine Networks was signed in Q4 2018.
According to the post, between 2016 and 2018, Google invested $47 billion in capex and Equiano is further expected to enhance the world's highest capacity and best-connected international network.
"We're excited to bring Equiano online and look forward to working with licensed partners to bring Equiano's capacity to even more countries across the African continent," the post added.
Unlike some of its competitors, Google does not currently operate any data centers on the African continent and has yet to share any plans to do so. This makes fast connections to Europe even more of a necessity, though it's also possible that Google is putting this new cable in place to prepare for a data center launch in South Africa, TechCrunch reported.
https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/google-building-1st-subsea-cable-between-europe-africa/70006762
Athena Carey says:
There is definitely a great deal to find out about this issue of who will control the Internet backbone. Looks like the hyperscale cloud companies are in better position than the global telcos (AT&T, NTT, BT, Telia, etc). I like all of the points you made. Many thanks
Alan Weissberger says:
"The goal here is to work with the carriers," explained Sunay Tripathi, Google's new director and head of products for telecom and the "distributed cloud edge."
Tripathi, who spoke at a 5G Future Forum event here, typified the new trend: He cut his teeth at Sun Microsystems before helping to found software-defined networking company Pluribus Networks. For the past three years, he was the CTO of Deutsche Telekom's MobiledgeX. According to his LinkedIn profile, he joined Google in July. "We are rearchitecting a lot of the underlying network, and that creates a lot of opportunity," Tripathi explained.
Google, Microsoft and Amazon have long played in the telecom industry as software, IT and cloud suppliers. And like most modern enterprises across all industries, mobile network operators have increasingly pushed their IT operations into the public cloud.
But during the past two years, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all begun developing cloud computing products specifically designed to host wireless providers' network functions. Whether it's Microsoft's Azure for Operators or Google's Anthos for Telecom, it's intended to get network operators to put their crown jewels – their core network functions – into a hyperscale cloud.
And it's something all three cloud companies are serious about, judging from their telecom hiring sprees or their acquisitions in the space. Microsoft, for example, last year spent an estimated $1.8 billion buying longtime telecom vendors Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch Networks.
New ideas and new disruption
According to analysts, the entry of the public cloud hyperscalers represents a major new strategic turn in the industry, considering network operators have historically retained tight control over their networking systems. And though most have been moving toward cloud technologies they own and operate, few have agreed to run their networking software in a public cloud operated by a hyperscaler.
"In outsourcing the infrastructure to cloud providers, telcos risk losing control of different aspects of their network and technology roadmap over the long term," warned analyst Frank Rayal of Xona Partners in a post to his website titled "How telcos outsourced their brains."
Nonetheless, there are increasing indications that operators around the world are more than open to the idea. "The technologies that we will build [with the cloud] will let others consume our network," explained Luciano Ramos, SVP of network development, planning and engineering for Rogers Comunications in Canada.
Indeed, AT&T recently announced it would transition its 5G core network operations into Microsoft's cloud over the next three years. And Dish Network plans to run all of its network operations in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
According to Rakuten's outspoken mobile chief, Tareq Amin, it's ultimately necessary. He said he designed Rakuten's mobile network in Japan to natively run in the cloud, and that it required a major shift in his team's thinking. "I wanted to pick the right mentality" when staffing up Rakuten Mobile, he said. "It was easier to deploy cloud because the Rakuten people wanted to be open to new ideas," he said. "They were open to new ideas and new disruption."
Amin made his comments during a keynote address at the MWC LA show here. He made sure to point out that Rakuten Mobile in Japan now counts around 5 million customers, and boasts leading network metrics. It was essentially Amin's victory lap after announcing his plan to build such a network just a few years ago, at the MWC Barcelona show in 2019.
https://www.lightreading.com/service-provider-cloud/that-time-public-cloud-hyperscalers-invaded-mwc-la/a/d-id/773111?
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Griffith Foods was honored and recognized for the company's impact on the Midwest food industry at the 2016 Midwest Food Matters Awards Gala on Tuesday, May 24 in downtown Chicago. Griffith was presented the 2016 Leadership Award at the event.
The annual gala celebrates the Midwest's role in food production, innovation and manufacturing in feeding the United States and the world. This year's event was held at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, and brought together leaders, suppliers and service providers to the food industry.
Brian Griffith, chairman of the board at Griffith Foods, accepted the award on behalf of the organization, and reflected on the importance of collaboration to meet future challenges. "By 2050, there will be nine billion people on earth; that's a 25 percent increase over today's population," Griffith said during his remarks. "In the Midwest, we have unique access to natural resources, agricultural, top research institutions and technology, and we will need to work together to develop innovative solutions. Fundamentally, these challenges offer unique opportunities for those who are willing to make a difference."
Griffith Foods is a global developer and producer of customized food ingredients and is headquartered in Alsip, Illinois. The company maintains a presence in over 30 countries, and employs nearly 4,000 associates worldwide.
The event was hosted and managed by the Global Midwest Alliance (GMA), a business-led economic development group for the Midwest Region. This year's gala raised over $250,000 to support GMA's vision to transform the Midwest into an internationally recognized leader in innovation and business growth.
A portion of the proceeds raised also benefit the Global FoodBanking Network and Feeding America, food banking organizations which Griffith Foods also supports. GMA focuses on fostering crucial connections among innovators, funders and business leaders, especially within manufacturing, clean technology, energy, water, logistics and food.
On Wednesday, May 25, Global Midwest Alliance held a half-day seminar focused on navigating today's consumer expectations in the areas of food and nutrition. The seminar included experts in economics, business development, nutrition, food science and food manufacturing and development.
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queen Dolly Parton used royalties from Whitney's version of I Will Always Love You to support a Black neighborhood, calling it "the house that Whitney built" https://t.co/HgJfqnHFSD
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 31, 2021
Per the Washington Post:
… Parton, who is estimated to have earned millions of dollars in royalties for writing the song in 1973, revealed this week how she spent her money from the songwriting credit for Houston, who died in 2012: She invested in a building located in a historically Black Nashville neighborhood.
"I bought my big office complex down in Nashville, and so I thought, 'Well, this is a wonderful place to be,' " Parton said Thursday during a wide-ranging interview on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen."…
Parton purchased the 6,317-square-foot Mission-style complex in Nashville in February 1997, according to property records. David Ewing, a longtime Nashville historian, told The Washington Post that Parton's investment came when many recording artists did not look toward the Sevier Park neighborhood, now known as 12 South, to set up their businesses.
"We're just hearing now, because of the Black Lives Matter movement, how down for the cause Dolly has always been — even when others in the music industry weren't," Ewing said. "Dolly Parton could have built and bought any piece of property in Nashville. But you would have to have gone out of your way to buy in the 12 South neighborhood, because no Realtor would have shown Dolly that lot to buy."
At the time, the neighborhood was "African American funeral homes, businesses and churches," Ewing said. Now, 12 South is one of the hottest neighborhoods in Nashville, he said.
"But it really kind of all began to be put on the map when Dolly quietly invested in the area," Ewing said…
"Vote them out." Country music legend Willie Nelson led over a thousand spectators in song from the steps of the Texas Capitol, in a rally to support of Democratic state legislators who bolted for Washington to block GOP-backed voting restrictions. https://t.co/qLLqxnje5G
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 31, 2021
Country music legend Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing "vote them out" Saturday from the steps of the Texas Capitol during a rally wrapping up a four-day march in support of Democratic state legislators who bolted for Washington two weeks ago to block GOP-backed voting restrictions…
The march began Wednesday and ended Saturday when participants walked up to the doors of the Texas Capitol building in a rally sponsored by activist group Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. It was led, in part, by Beto O'Rourke, the former Democratic congressman and presidential candidate who has not ruled out a run for Texas governor in 2022. Earlier this week, O'Rourke and marchers shut down the frontage road of Interstate 35 during the morning rush hour, funneled between restaurants and cut a path from Republican-controlled statehouse districts to Democratic ones…
Tomorrow marks my one year anniversary as a military retiree. I'm looking forward to kicking off the book tour on @CBSSunday and finally telling my entire story. https://t.co/ZJ84pMh6XS
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) July 31, 2021
A week ago, MyKayla Skinner thought her gymnastics career was over. Now she's an Olympic medalist. https://t.co/1r5KrTek99
Simone Biles plans to return for balance beam final to conclude her Tokyo Olympicshttps://t.co/gJxqlJgUBw
— Emily Giambalvo (@EmilyGiam) August 2, 2021
… On beam, however, Biles's routine does not include many twisting elements. Her eponymous dismount is a double-twisting double tuck, but even if she chooses to perform a simpler skill instead, she could still be a medal contender. For Biles, this routine might be less about a medal and more about ending her time in Tokyo on a positive note…
After Biles received a flood of encouragement and empathy on social media, she tweeted, "The outpouring love & support I've received has made me realize I'm more than my accomplishments and gymnastics which I never truly believed before."
In the qualifying round, Biles earned the seventh-highest score on beam (14.066) after she took several steps backward out of her dismount. Even with that mistake, Biles's mark was fewer than two-tenths of a point away from the third-highest score. At the 2016 Games, Biles won a bronze on beam in addition to four golds in other finals. She is a three-time world champion on the apparatus. Biles will compete in the final alongside teammate Sunisa Lee as the gymnastics competition in Tokyo concludes.
During all of the individual finals, Biles has cheered from the stands with the other U.S. Olympians who weren't competing. Lee won the all-around gold medal and a bronze on bars, and MyKayla Skinner, a close friend of Biles, earned a silver on vault. Skinner thought her gymnastics career had ended a week before when she didn't advance to any finals, but Biles's withdrawal opened up a spot in the medal competition that Skinner filled as the alternate.
"She's just been so awesome the last couple days," Skinner said. "After everything she's gone through, it's really cool to see how strong she's being."
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Does anyone not love Dolly?
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
@Steve in the ATL: Me, but I really really really like her.
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Happy Monday all!
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Willy Nelson hit the right note with "vote them out." It's always good to run on a positive policy platform, and I expect Texas Democrats will next year. But "turn the rascals out" can be a potent rallying cry. Voter suppression measures offend all but the most partisan Republicans. These, and the perilous state Republican leaders left Texans in during February's freeze, will produce anger among Texans that Democrats can tap into next year.
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Hope so,
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A local Progressive I know commented that Dolly's purchase was really just gentrification. Not sure what to do with that, except it would have happened anyway, since builders here will throw up a building on any patch of grass they can find. Anywhere.
@Steve in the ATL:
She really is amazing. I said last night, I wish she would let Biden give her the Media of Freedom.
…even when others in the C&W music industry weren't wouldn't ever, ever support anything by those people.
While TCM's "Summer under the Stars" has long since passed its sell-by date, will mention that this Thursday (6 a.m. through to 6 a.m. Friday, Eastern time) is movies with Margaret Rutherford (of varying quality, needless to say, though she's never a minus). Includes a real odd duck, one of those betwixt and between movies which can't decide what it wants to be, an antic vehicle for roustabout Frankie Howerd or a trifling mystery, The Runaway Bus at 5 p.m. on the 5th (also includes a young Petula Clark).
@Baud: A medal would be nice, also.
She is amazing.
I meant what I said. :-\
satby
@Low Key Swagger: Does that "local progressive" prefer run-down red-lined neighborhoods? Because the people actually living in them don't; their property value matters to them too.
@Low Key Swagger:
I think gentrification requires displacement of traditional residents. Not sure if that's the case here, but mere investment doesn't cut it.
ETA: Autocorrect is kicking my ass this morning.
Monday morning music. How to lose 5 pounds in 7 minutes.
@NotMax
Sigh. Fingers not cooperating. Linky fix.
@Baud: Well the article said that prior to the purchase, the neighborhood consisted of African American businesses, funeral homes (why the distinction? It's also a business) and churches. You may well be right about displacement, I'm just quoting the article.
Yeah, the article doesn't says what the neighborhood is like now.
@satby: Let me be clear that this person did not frame this in a altogether negative way. She asked the question, and I think it's fine to discuss how investors tend to swoop in, buy everything in sight, and raise rents to a level that drive poor working folk out. As I said, it would have happened, eventually, regardless of Dolly's actions.
@Baud: Well, I don't go there much (hell, I don't go anywhere much) but it is a trendy neighborhood now. Restaurants I wouldn't like, specialty shops I wouldn't frequent. But it is completely transformed.
Historically segregated blocks of Philadelphia saw crime rates drop by nearly 22% after even just a single home on the block received city-funded repairs, according to research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the research found that when a home got a structural fix such as a roof rehab through Philadelphia's Basic Systems Repair Program, total crime dropped by 21.9% on that block. As the number of repaired houses on a block increased, instances of crime fell even further.
It's because people move back in once the houses are repaired, so the houses are no longer vacant.
They're starting to look at whether the increase in murders (shootings, really) in the last two years are due to the pandemic-induced cessation of all of the anti-crime measures that are NOT just "throw more funding at police". Apparently a lot of the community-based programs were paused during the pandemic, and that might have contributed to the uptick in murders.
Fascinating.
The 1992 crime bill has become somewhat infamous, but IIRC a part of that bill involved community based crime prevention measures.
germy
Last year:
If a little Hillbilly singer like my big sister Dolly can invest in the vaccine then why the hell can't some of you old moldy politicians pitch in a few million yourselves? I noticed you started getting vaccinated right away while people are starving and dying you Aholes.
— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) December 19, 2020
I haven't heard of one Televangelist donating one damn cent to the research fund but they sure can fleece the flock and try to cast out demons when they are possessed themselves!
@germy:
Damn. Who knew Dolly was the less awesome Parton sister?
First we find out she had helped with the mRNA vaccine development, and now this investment in helping revitalize an African-American neighborhood. She is an absolute treasure.
Dolly once remarked she'd like a three-way with Jennifer Anderson … well, I don't know Anderson but I do know a Jennifer (my girlfriend. ) So I'd certainly be willing and I know my girlfriend would love the chance, as well.
I think they're both great.
Dolly is more diplomatic though. Stella is more jackalesque.
Caelab Dressel seems like a really nice guy. I hope we don't find out later he's a Trumper.
I like the surcharges suggested in this response:
More of this, please. pic.twitter.com/HaOHLJDKBp
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) August 1, 2021
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
Off to the orange apron place, you all have a nice morning.
@Low Key Swagger: Parton bought the building in 1997, almost 25 years ago. Been a couple of boom/busts in real estate since then. But speaking as a person who has lived in mostly poorer /working class neighborhoods most of my life, anything that helps improve the value and living conditions in them is mostly welcomed by people there. We point out that people in small towns in red states are angry when their lives and towns seem devalued because no one wants to live there, so why is making an urban area a place where people want to live and work a bad thing? As long as there's provision made for lower income housing for current residents who might be priced out of the market, which has been lacking for renters.
I wish someone would gentrify the abandoned house across from me where I feed the ferals. The ceilings have started to fall in in the front rooms.
Right and they wouldn't have a baseline because the programs have been around so long- to see the effects you'd have to pause them. So shootings "would have been up 10%" (perhaps) w/out the programs and we got that experiment. They're personal contact intensive – "high touch" – so a pandemic would make the whole approach impossible.
Looking at his Wiki page, he doesn't seem to have accomplished much. //
I like their "medical excuse" reply: "Then you shouldn't be in a bar during a pandemic."
What I am most bitter about today?
The dispatches from the Children's Hospitals around the country that are filling up with children who are COVID infected and couldn't get the vaccine. My rage knows no bounds when I try think about them. When I realize that, even if they make it through, CHILDREN
Could be inflicted with life-long COVID symptoms.😡
to see the effects you'd have to pause them.
We should thank Republicans for advancing the cause of science.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/12/04/jennifer-aniston-responds-dolly-partons-outrageous-threesome-joke/2209346002/
I got a lot of helpful feedback last night when I posted that we were thinking about adopting a dog. After great input from the jackalariat we deduced 1. we need a smaller dog, 2, we need to wait until after a mid-sept wedding that we could not take it to, 3. we're going to foster a doggie that's in a vet right now
Holy shit I just found out this little thing was in the paper last week for being extremely, and I mean extremely, abused.
We should start calling them fetuses. Then maybe more people would care.
@raven:
@Baud: The 1992 crime bill has become somewhat infamous, but IIRC a part of that bill involved community based crime prevention measures.
It did. It's how I became a Vista volunteer, during the Summer of Safety push to establish community policing Chicago.
@satby:
You've led an interesting life, satby.
@Immanentize:
Morning Imma 🤗
Hope that Little Imma is doing well 😊
Woohoo! Washington County made the front page of the STL Post Disgrace:
In this rural Missouri county, the vaccination rate is low and opposition high
As the coronavirus has picked up pace in recent weeks, she is among only 23% of Washington County residents to be fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. That's among the lowest county vaccination rates in Missouri, where just 41% of the population is fully vaccinated.
On Wednesday, the large sign in front of the health department didn't mention the vaccine was free and available, Monday through Friday at 520 Purcell Drive. Another sign out front by the road advertised a farmers market that's meeting every Wednesday in a nearby pavilion.
Mark Stevens, 46, was over there, selling sweet corn, watermelons, green beans and tomatoes out of the bed of his pickup. He wouldn't walk across the parking lot to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
"You'd have to drag me dead or alive," said Stevens, who's 6 feet 2 inches, weighs 340 pounds and throws around a lot of other numbers he's gleaned from Newsmax, a conservative cable network and website. Stevens said he watches less of Fox News since it started leaning too far left.
"Why trust your life in the hands of an administration that lies about everything," he said as one of many reasons why he's not getting vaccinated.
Exhibit A, he said, was the presidential election results, followed by lots of hypocrisy. "(President Biden) supports abortion. … Your body, your choice. But he wants to make us get the vaccine?"
Debbie Boyer, one of his customers, said she got vaccinated after her sister-in-law died from COVID-19. Now, she's having second thoughts. She's upset with the priorities of the federal government championing vaccination while ignoring other hot-button issues.
"They are so afraid of COVID, yet the border is open," she said. "Are they vaccinating those people? No. They are letting them go anywhere they want. It's not that I am this dead set Trumper. It's that this is so blatantly in your face."
"We've got half of America that agrees with us," Stevens said.
😡😡😡😡
Richard Daily, MD & Benzie (@rdaily) tweeted at 10:53 AM on Sun, Aug 01, 2021:
Arkansas just let 80,000 doses of COVID vaccine expire after failing to find anyone to take them.
(https://twitter.com/rdaily/status/1421861640329437186?s=03)
"They are so afraid of COVID, yet the border is open," she said. "Are they vaccinating those people? No."
And she'd be angry if they did.
You are good people 🙂
@rikyrah: This is new ground. I think I'm glad I didn't realize this pup was the one in the paper when we decided to give it a whirl. The person placing her works closely with my wife on the dog parade and it really committed to pet issues (she's also a law prof).
ixnay
@raven: Wise set of decisions.
@rikyrah: He is doing great! 👍 Thanks.
Next Sunday or Monday we are setting off on our road trip from Boston to Houston to get him (and my old car) back to college. I'm looking forward to it!
@raven: Wonderful! Yay you guys!
@Baud: I get bored and change it up. I'm the human equivalent of a seven year itch.
@raven: Prof. L.M.? If so, she's kinda famous in the animal welfare world.
@satby: I don't disagree, but "As long as there's provision made for lower income housing for current residents who might be priced out of the market, " is a heavy lift and rarely happens. In my rural community, I've seen this again and again. Affordable rentals are bought up by builders/investors. House is torn down, nicer house is built. Rents tripled. We have trailers renting for 1000 a month. Not even nice trailers. I haven't lived in an urban area for quite some time, so I don't have any first hand observations, but yes I do tend to believe that proper investment in a neighborhood as a whole would indeed be welcomed by most residents.
It'll be nice if they get some credit- if the reduction in crime over the past two decades was partly due to their slow, steady neighborhood level work rather than the "one neat trick" explanations of lower blood lead levels or "broken windows" policing.
The much-maligned midnight basketball may make a comeback :)
Our juvenile delinquency is way, way up. I thought it would be. They don't have anywhere to go so they get into trouble. People bitch about public schools sports funding but even if they're not stand out players it keeps them busy and they need to stay busy. I can't wait until they ramp up the whole list of after school programs again. They were missed.
zhena gogolia
I'll bet good money that person went to a fancy private school.
Wow, I love this woman! Thanks for tipping me off to her.
inorite?????
"One neat trick"ism will be the death of us.
@zhena gogolia: I was betting a suburbanite 😂
Assumptions, we all make them 😆
The fastest man in the world is a Black man named Lamont from ITALY 😳😳
Lashanda Walker (@majesticbeauty5) tweeted at 11:26 PM on Sun, Aug 01, 2021:
Black Jesus said he gonna run around the track a little bit before he takes us home https://t.co/BYpC8WSQuW
(https://twitter.com/majesticbeauty5/status/1422051156768051202?s=03)
@Immanentize: Yep, she lives down the street. I'm thinking about doing a bleg here for this pup.
@Baud: He's a Gator!
I'm fine with dragging him dead.
Autoincorrect never sleeps. It just waits patiently, then BAM!
@rikyrah: All I can say is for a guy to go from a 10.0 runner to a 9.8 runner in a year is … really remarkable.
@debbie: At 340 pounds, you better bring a tractor and logging chains.
@raven: please do! Poor little guy.
It's somewhat amazing that Dolly Parton's spouse has managed to stay so resolutely out of the spotlight. I watched a documentary about her recently. (Maybe on Netflix? Can't remember…) Anyhoo, it suggested that he's always been very supportive of her career and is happy to hang out with Dolly's celebrity friends when they visit, but he wants nothing to do with the spotlight himself, and she supports him in that. Good for them!
@Betty Cracker: just like you and your husband!
@Low Key Swagger: My neighborhood seems to be on the upswing a bit, and I don't think everyone is happy about it. It is a historically Italian and working-class neighborhood, and there are still a few long-timers. My neighbor across the street is an old man, speaks next to no English, and maintains his property immaculately. However, two doors down, there's another longtime family who has let their detached garage fall into terrible condition. It's probably a fire hazard and we've seen animals in it. Anyway, the neighborhood is becoming simultaneously more middle-class with more professionals, and more diverse, with a small-but-growing Latino population and Muslims. Property values are going up and the business area is changing to hip restaurants and yoga studios and video gaming. Our neighbor two doors down is not happy about it. He's an asshole. But as these houses get improved, there is going to be more pressure on him to clean up his property or leave. I don't want to drive anyone out, but I also want him to clean up his shit.
@Immanentize: Yep! If you subtract the talent, fame, fortune, altruism and boobs, the similarities are eerie!
@Betty Cracker: nit picking critics can soak their heads.
JL Cauvin did a funny bit on that, but since I'm being accused of being mentally ill for linking to him, I won't.
News flash, all you society rejects, full of rage; Trump lost the election by 10 million votes. Sleepy Joe beat his a** hands down. Grow a pair and get in line and get the F**k over yourselves!— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) August 1, 2021
Happy Monday
You are a sick, sick man.
Jane Mayer has more of (her usual) great work on the continuing threat to election systems:
Many experts on democratic governance, however, believe that efforts to upend long-settled election practices are what truly threaten to rip the country apart. Chad Campbell, a Democrat who was the minority leader in the Arizona House of Representatives until 2014, when he left to become a consultant in Phoenix, has been shocked by the state's anti-democratic turn. For several years, he sat next to Karen Fann when she was a member of the House, and in his view she's gone from being a traditional Republican lawmaker to being a member of "Trump's cult of personality." He said, "I don't know if she believes it or not, or which would be worse." Arizona, he added, is in the midst of a "nonviolent overthrow in some ways—it's subtle, and not in people's face because it's not happening with weapons. But it's still a complete overthrow of democracy. They're trying to disenfranchise everyone who is not older white guys."
The Big Money Behind the Big Lie. Viewing this as "fringe" is incorrect, IMO. This is the majority of the Republican Party and they have serious financial backing. The warnings should be taken seriously.
@Immanentize: I assume you'll be stopping at every Stuckey's along the way? Pecan logs across America!
Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the country's foremost election-law experts, told me, "I'm scared shitless." Referring to the array of new laws passed by Republican state legislatures since the 2020 election, he said, "It's not just about voter suppression. What I'm really worried about is election subversion. Election officials are being put in place who will mess with the count."
Richard Hasen is not generally considered to be an alarmist. He's like..an election law nerd :)
@Suzanne: Can the neighbor afford to fix that garage? If so, and they just don't do it, I would think the city would eventually fine them or make them tear it down or repair it. Could be wrong tho.
@Betty Cracker:
MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g —
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail
— Rob Dubbin (@robdubbin) July 28, 2019
(via Popehat)
glory b
@Baud: It absolutely did, job training, and anyone remember midnight basketball? It was part of keeping activities available for longer periods of time, giving younger people something to do in a controlled environment.
One of the worst things that happened in 2016 was the demonization of the crime bill, PEOPEL WHO LIVED IN THOSE NEIGBORHOODS WANTED IT! DEMANDED IT! Russian bots did more harm than a lot of us realize by telling young black people to teach Hillary a lesson and refuse to vote. A lot of our media betters (Eddie Glaude, Michael Harriott, etc.) got caught up in that.
I was so disappointed that the MSM didn't report on the actual history of the bill. Also, hanging it around Hillary's neck (who was the first lady at the time) and ignoring that Sanders actually voted for it, along with the vast majority of the Congressional Black caucus. Too many blacktivitsts acted like it was used to just round up and throw into jail a bunch of black people.
I am old enough to remember that our neighborhoods were like war zones, getting the crime rate down did A LOT of good for us.
Also, the economic improvements wrought by Clinton increasing taxes on rich people. I remember companies doing job fairs at prisons, the guys in there got educations and they were telling them to come get hired when they got out.
The crime rates dropped exponentially after it was passed. I remain infuriated, especially in light of the things Allan spoke of earlier.
Have I had too much coffee today? Maybe…
ObOpenThread – CNN:
(CNN)If you've been watching the Olympics this year, you may notice an unfamiliar abbreviation, ROC.
It stands for the Russian Olympic Committee, and it's essentially a loophole that allows Russian athletes to compete in the Olympics while their country is banned from the Games because of its doping scandal.
There are some specific rules the ROC has to follow to make clear it is not representing the country of Russia.
Well that seems perfectly sensible and fair and not corrupt at all. //
(sheesh)
("Who is probably the last person here to notice this.")
Gentrification is complicated. If a historically black neighborhood has depressed values, then the residents don't have an asset to finance moving for better opportunities, or retirement or give their kids a stake. They can only hang on and they are trapped. They also don't have equity and banks can't make loans against a valueless property. It's a trap.
If the neighborhood has decent values, then the owners can make normal choices which does mean take the money/profit and move somewhere cheaper or more expensive their choice. That inevitably means after a while, some different people will live their than before. also if values go up, so do property taxes. This means fixed income people may need to move. The thing is, that happens everywhere, and is normal background in say a white middle class neighborhood. You need to keep that in mind when reacting to the word gentrification.
It is a problem if their is a physical limit to houses and a larger number of people who desire to live their such as New York City or San Francisco. It can be made worse by out of date building codes and plans. Only building high end houses causes problems too. I believe they are more profitable for the builders, but we need all levels of house.
@gvg: Yes to all of this. It is a very complicated issue and I like discussions about it. Could be some workable solutions will come about.
@gvg: +1
Neighborhoods always change (unless they become "historic districts" or something). What matters is what happens to the people. Zoning and housing assistance has to change with the times or there will be other costs…
I've mentioned before that my MIL came to DC from MN to get a job in the summer of 1941. She lived with several friends in a boarding house on P Street for several months, maybe even a few years, until she could get a place of her own. (Housing in the area was very tight in the buildup to the war, and during the war.) The building is still there – it's nice apartments or condos now. I occasionally see houses around here in NoVA that seem to be rented to several young workers (lots of cars) for a few months before they're sold.
People have to be able to find a way to live somewhere affordable reasonably close to where they work. If localities refuse to provide the infrastructure for that, then landlords will rent rooms. If localities don't want that, then they need to lobby for housing assistance so that people can pay the market rates. Either way, something must be done – economies can't work without workers.
@Low Key Swagger: i wouldn't actually call noted nashvillian — & onetime gore 2000 campaign grunt — kkklay travis a progressive. troll, though..?
@glory b: the crime bill was hillary's until it was biden's.
#ourrevolution & justice democrats can't even be consistent in their ratfucking.
@Another Scott: i still see republic of china.
even though i still otherwise call it formosa.
@glory b: Great comment!
@MontyTheClipArtMongoose: Nah, didn't refer to her as a troll. Just that she brought it up as a question. It was actually a friend of mine, well, online friend who isn't a "shit on Democrats" kind of Progressive.
Marc McKenzie
@glory b:
All of this. Every freakin' word.
Origuy
@Low Key Swagger: Funeral homes, barber shops, and beauty salons were traditionally businesses that African Americans could open without competition from white-owned businesses. White people didn't want to learn how to deal with black hair or touch black bodies, dead or alive.
Does anyone know anything about The Defense Post?
They followed me on twitter and I have no reason or understanding as to why. I get very, very few followers that I haven't had any comments with or about and I've never heard of them. My bit of research has really given me nothing other than they have a website.
OK that cracked me up.


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