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News Corp cuts are a massive blow to communities – MEAA
MEAA, the union for Australia's journalists, says the closure of mastheads and the job losses announced by News Corp Australia this morning represent a huge loss for communities in regional and suburban Australia.
MEAA chief executive Paul Murphy said: "We are still waiting for clarity from the company on how many editorial staff will be affected by these changes across the News Corp network. We are determined to see proper consultation and fair treatment for any affected staff.
"The closure of so many mastheads represents an immense blow to local communities and, coming off the back of hundreds of previous regional closures during this period, it underlines the seriousness of the crisis facing regional and local journalism," Murphy said.
MEAA will be requiring News Corp to engage in full consultation over these major changes to the workplace.
MEAA will be holding meetings with members.
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God's not asking for us to change the way we act, he has so much more for us than that. He wants to heal our broken hearts, comfort us in difficult times, rejoice with us in good times and be our constant companion. He wants us to not only know but to experience the power of His perfect love for us. He wants His unique love for each of us to wipe away our insecurities and fill us to the point that we're gushing over, pouring Him on those He puts around us.
Lord let the reality of your perfect love for me direct this day. Help me put my insecurities aside by resting in the fact that in You I have all that I need. Help me not look to others for the things I can only get from You and allow me to love out of the wealth of our relationship. The implications of Your love are astonishing, please help me catch a glimpse of them.
Good morning sweet Lord. I don't know what today may bring but You do. I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle everything that comes my way but You can. There's going to be times I doubt whether I'm loved today but your love for me will be constant. Together can we please make a difference in someone's life today? I love You so much.
We've been out of town for the past week and we've heard "welcome home" at each place we've stayed. It's a wonderful sentiment and did make us feel warmly welcomed. But it didn't take long to realize that no matter how nice the place was, it was not home. As much as we take it for granted, there is no place like home. It's good to get away every now and then to be reminded how good home is. The even better thing to know is that this isn't our home either, how much better will that be?
One of the great joys in life is experiencing the power of friendship. There are few things better than reconnecting with friends where time and circumstance have caused separation and finding that the friendship is as warm and real as ever.
Sometimes we get giving and sacrifice confused. Sacrifice always costs a lot, giving can but they aren't necessarily the same thing.
I've also had the chance this week to see someone face their fears and boldly try a lot of new and dangerous things. I've learned much. In a world created by The God who doesn't do things twice, it's very valuable to be able to try new things in spite of your fears, to trust Him enough to take a step when you don't know what comes next. Thank you for the lesson.
Fourteen years ago one of my all time favorite sons was born. The circumstances leading up to that day caused us to cling to God like never before and every day since Max, you've brought us joy, caused our trust in The Lord to remain strong and been such an incredible blessing to everyone that knows you. Thank you for being who you are, thank you for your soft heart and thank you for the love you share so freely.
If you've visited here regularly you've probably come across something I've written about smiling. Yesterday I had the opportunity to test out my belief in the power of a smile. We were around a ton of people from every walk in life and from all over the world. We must have heard twenty different languages. Never was a smile not returned and in many cases you could see a drastic change in countenance as returning a smile seemed to release the concern of the moment. I'm going to try it again today.


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Young Thug Net Worth | Bio, Age, Height, Weight & Career 2022
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Young Thug Age, Height, & Weight
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Jeffery Lamar Williams, popularly known as Young Thug, is a singer, rapper, and songwriter from the United States. He is regarded as a generational influencer, with his songs influencing the present style of hip hop and trap songs.
Young Thug, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, was born on August 16, 1991, in Atlanta, Georgia. Having eleven children made his mother's life extremely difficult as she fought to sustain them all.
Growing up in a difficult area, he became engaged in a violent act, drugs, and gambling.
He was committed to juvenile imprisonment for four years since he was in grade 6 after breaking his teacher's arm.
He did not return to school after that and began to become more interested in gambling with his siblings. He became a parent at the age of seventeen, developed his love for rap music, and concluded he no longer wanted to live in abject poverty.
He has 6 children with four women, three boys, and three girls, with his first kid born when Thug was still a baby. In April 2015, he married Jerrika Karlae, a costume designer whose mom manages Young Dolph.
Thug purchased his first property in September 2016 following the release of his album Jeffery. The residence is located in Buckhead, Atlanta.
Being born in 1991, on the 16th, of August "Young Thug" age is 30 years old as of today date and his height is 6 feet 2 inches tall, (1.91 m) and his weight is 76 kilograms and (167 lbs) in pounds as of 2022.
He was detained in February 2014 for drug possession, dangerous behavior, reckless driving, and continuing to drive without a safety belt. Young Thug was jailed at his Atlanta residence in July 2015 on drug and gun allegations. Officers arrested him with felony possession of cocaine, felony marijuana possession, and three counts of criminal drug crimes after searching his residence. The arrest comes only days after Young Thug and Birdman were charged in connection with a plan to assassinate Lil Wayne.
Young Thug was detained in his house in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood in May 2022. Young Thug was one of 28 persons accused in an 88-page indictment that followed the indictment, with claims ranging from illicit street activity to conspiracy to violate the RICO act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization act). According to the indictment, Thug and 27 additional people acting as "Young Slime Life" committed the killing, aggravated assault, theft, narcotics possession, armed robbery, and other crimes between 2012 and 2020. Young Thug was suspected of being a founder of Young Slime Life. One of the charges in the allegation is that in April 2015, a claimed YSL member called Jimmy Winfrey fired at Lil Wayne's bus tour.
Gucci Mane quickly began signing Young Thug to his record company after discovering him, and he believed his unique gift was worth it.
One of the tracks from his latest mixtape was named to 'Spin's list of the top songs of the year 2013' and 'Rolling Stone' in 2013. Soon after, he started working with industry heavyweights such as Danny Brown, Travis Scott, and Alex Tumay.
It was revealed in 2014 that he had inked a management agreement through Cash Money Records. Since then, he's released many mixtapes as well as his debut studio album, "So Much Fun."
In 2015, He launched (Slime Season).
In 2015, He launched (Barter 6).
In 2016, He launched (Slime Season 3).
In 2017, He launched (Slime Season 4(.
In 2019, He Launched (So Much Fun).
In 2020, He launched (Punk).
In 2017, He Won MTV Video Music Awards For Best Editing.
It is estimated to be $8 million, but it is exceedingly questionable given that he has $2.2 million in rent arrears, according to Heritage Select Homes' complaint. However, Young Thug's net worth in 2016 was $6 million, up from $5 million in 2015. It is estimated that he currently makes between $1 million and $2 million each year. The majority of his money is derived from the sale of music CDs, concerts, and sponsorship arrangements.
Young Thug is among the most talented rappers of the future, and he is clearly on the list of artists to watch in 2018 and the next years. Despite the fact that he has been detained multiple times for possession of firearms and narcotics, we hope he does not wind up like Meek Mill.
Young Thug highlighted to radio DJ Big Boy how postponing performances and festivals costs musicians on his stage millions of dollars in the aftermath of the 2020 coronavirus. He elaborated:
"Let's assume I make $500,000 from concerts. That's $5 million if I don't perform these ten concerts."
He went on to explain that he loses about double the amount because he needs/wants to maintain his costs constant:
"I might spend a million, two million dollars simply on quarantine. Like, I've got my mum and dad, and all these people, goddammit. 'Y'all remain in the home,' I say. 'Yeah,' they say. They're sick of the house every week; they want a penthouse; they'll stay at a hotel. That garbage costs money, and you don't get paid for your concerts. Whatever money I lose on a program is likely to be the same quantity of funds I lose when I spend my money."
Young Thug is presently among the most prominent rappers of our time, having made his identity well-known since the start of his career.
Young Thug's personal wealth is $8 million at the age of 26 and is expected to rise further.


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Rating the Boulevard Year-Rounds as Midwest College Basketball Teams
Boulevard Brewery has become one of the best craft breweries in the United States over the past decade.
I love the NBA. However, I still do appreciate college basketball. While I feel the NBA is head and shoulders a better product than the college game these days, I still enjoy a lot of the nuances of the college game as well as the diversity of teams across the nation. In the Midwest, the college game remains supreme with the number of established programs (Kansas, Indiana, etc.) and lack of big-time NBA franchises (the major ones reside in the coast with the exception of Chicago; Milwaukee, Indiana, Minnesota are small-town Midwest NBA franchises).
So, it is important to focus on the college game every now and then here at Flannel, PBR and PER. And it's also important to impart some of the college game into Kansas City culture, especially craft brewery culture, which continues its boom and recognition on a national basis. One of the best craft breweries in the nation has to be Boulevard, which resides here in the heart of Kansas City, near the Liberty Memorial and World War I Museum. Founded in 1989, Boulevard has grown to not only be a major player in the crowded Kansas City and Midwest brewery scene, but on a national level as well. In fact, it seems Boulevard is on its way to becoming the Midwestern "Samuel Adams", a boon for Midwesterners who have typically been thought of as the "American Light Lager"-drinking community (typical because Budweiser was founded in St. Louis and Miller in Milwaukee). But with Boulevard's excellent variety of quality craft selections (their Smokestack Series really is phenomenal), they are proving that you don't need to resort to the coasts for great, quality beer.
I could spend this whole post just talking about every single Boulevard Beer from the Year-Round collection to the Smokestack Series. That being said, that post would be like 10,000 words, so I'll keep it short and just focus on the Year-Round selection. So, let's take a look at Boulevard seven-beer collection as Midwestern College Basketball teams.
(Also, I'll be ranking them in order of preference, so the first listed will be my favorite and the last one will be my least-favorite.)
80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer: Butler Bulldogs
80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer is Boulevard's most complete beer out of their year-round selection. The beer is an innovative mix between an IPA and a Wheat and is a classic Midwest (known for Wheat Beers) meets Coastal (which is known for IPAs, especially on the West Coast). The result is a beverage that will satisfy IPA fans while also catering to those who typically don't have the palate for the Hoppy-ness of IPAs and Pale Ales. When beers go hybrid and try to satisfy multiple tastes, it can fall flat on its face. 80-Acre not only avoids such a pitfall, but actually rises to the top as the brewery's best-tasting year-round beer.
I compare 80-Acre to the Butler Bulldogs because the Bulldogs have been one of the best basketball teams in the Midwest the past decade. Since 2007, they have only missed the NCAA Tournament twice and have been to the National Title game twice (2010 and 2011). They are also one of the more innovative teams in basketball (much like 80-Acre is one of the more innovative beers of the year-rounds and at Boulevard in general) as former coach Brad Stevens eschewed traditional coaching techniques (i.e. always yelling at refs or players) and employed advanced statistics in helping develop game strategies and player development. Though Butler certainly has had their share of moments against my alma mater (i.e. Gonzaga), the Bulldogs have been one of my favorite college basketball teams to follow in the Midwest as of late.
80-Acre doesn't seem to get the distribution or publicity like other Boulevard selections such as Boulevard Wheat, Pale Ale or even Tank 7, and Butler may not roll across the tongues of Midwest college basketball fans like Kansas, Indiana or Iowa State. However, both have proven that they are quality and are probably the better in their respective venues than most people would give them credit for.
Boulevard Wheat: Kansas Jayhawks
Boulevard's best-selling and most popular is exactly what you would expect from a Midwestern beer. It is refreshing, light, with a cool finish and hints of citrus and it is the perfect beer to drink with barbecue either at a restaurant, a festival or just your own backyard. Wheat beer, in my opinion, exemplifies Midwest living and flavor (easy, laid back and not fancy, but still of strong quality), and Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat proves to be the epitome of what Wheat Beer should be from the Midwest.
(I know some people are on the fence with this one, as many say a lot of imported Wheat or "Wit" beers are better or other craft breweries have produced better quality Wheats; I think Boulevard deserves some credit for being the first to really push Wheat beer's popularity in a primarily Pilsner or Lager territory, and while it may not have the "flash" or "boldness" of some modern Wheats or Imported Wheats, it's contribution to Wheat beer popularity in the Midwest and its still strong flavor after all these years to me merit the high praise.)
When I think of Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat, I think of the best qualities of the Midwest. Kansas Jayhawks basketball represents the best qualities of Midwest college basketball: consistency, success, strong history of talent, dedicated talent, and all kinds of strong roots in tradition (i.e Allen Fieldhouse, James Naismith, etc.). With the exception of perhaps Indiana, the Jayhawks seem to be the "Midwest's Team" and this has earned them all kinds of praise and derision from people all over the nation (much like the mixed feelings I spoke of about Unfiltered Wheat in comparison to Wheat beers above). As a newer resident of the Midwest, I can appreciate what Kansas (and Unfiltered Wheat) has to offer, but they are a little bit too-mainstream and "traditional" for my tastes. I can appreciate quality and history, but I will take the more innovative flavors (in both beer and basketball) in the end, and that is why Kansas and Unfiltered Wheat don't match 80-Acre and Butler.
Single-Wide IPA: Marquette Golden Eagles
When you think of the Midwest, you don't think of IPAs. Maybe that is just me growing up in California and the Pacific Northwest, where there are many breweries that specialize in crafting hoppy India Pale Ale varieties (such as Sierra Nevada in Chico and Bridgeport in Portland), so I am a little hesitant to think that the Midwest can produce quality IPAs like the ones that I have been exposed to back in my original home states. While I jumped on board on the 80-Acre and Unfiltered Wheat's immediately, it took me some time to warm up to Boulevard's Single Wide IPA, out of fear that I would be disappointed.
Surprisingly though, Single Wide is a great representation of what a "Midwest" IPA should beer. There's a great hoppy flavor to it, thought it is not as strong as the more traditional IPAs that I have had before. There is a lot to admire in the boldness of what Boulevard tried to do here with Single Wide. They knew it would be tough to cater to the "IPA Crowd" (especially transplants like myself coming from more "IPA-Heavy" states) but they created one anyways in a fashion that pays tribute to the traditional IPA, while still maintaining that "easy drink-ability" that caters more to Midwestern beer drinkers' tastes. It's not quite the balanced hybrid that 80-Acre is, but Single Wide is a surprising tribute to the IPA created by Boulevard.
Single Wide is ambitious, different (for the Midwest) and of pretty solid (though a shade below the 80-Acre excellent) quality. Marquette echoes a lot of similar characteristics in the college basketball world. They are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is as Midwest as it can get (Liberal Midwest, but Midwest nonetheless). And yet, Marquette feels more like an East Coast team with their bold uniforms (I have always loved their racing stripes down the sides and they are a Jordan-Brand team, which always is a nice little honor in basketball style circles), history of producing NBA players (Dewayne Wade, Jae Crowder, Steve Novak, Jimmy Butler, just to name most recent…I could go on forever with the ones who played for Al McGuire), and tough, physical play which has resulted in frequent NCAA Tournament appearances (though last year was an off-year in Wojo's rookie campaign as head coach). Marquette doesn't rank up there with the Midwest blue bloods, but they certainly are a shade below and have the kind of "cool" factor that one normally doesn't associate with Midwest traditional Blue Blood programs.
Much like Single Wide won't make people forget about Sierra Nevada IPA anytime soon, Marquette will not be replacing the elite of Midwest College basketball any time soon. They still are overshadowed by Kansas, Indiana and even in-state neighbor Wisconsin as of late. However, much like Single Wide IPA with beers, they get fan points and respect for their boldness in bucking the trend of what is expected from a Midwest college basketball team, even if they don't completely succeed compared to the other "established" programs in the Midwest.
Pale Ale: Missouri Tigers
Boulevard Pale Ale is one of the other major-selling year-round beers next to Unfiltered Wheat. In fact, it is quite common to see the Pale Ale variety always tagging along with Wheat in some way. Farmland has Boulevard flavored Brats in Wheat and Pale Ale varieties. Unfiltered Wheat and Pale Ale are the only Boulevard varieties that come in 20 bottle packs. It seems like Pale Ale is always attached to the hip of Unfiltered Wheat, and for good reason. Pale Ale is a quality beer. It's quality crafted, English style ale with a nice balance of hoppyness and deep, dark flavor and it really is a good complement to the lighter, crisper Unfiltered Wheat.
But, I just can't help but feel that Pale Ale is the "little brother" to Unfiltered Wheat, much like Mizzou basketball is to Kansas. I'm not trying to knock Mizzou or the university itself by any means, but it's obvious football matters more at Mizzou and basketball means more at KU. And no matter what Missouri tries to do, even during years where there teams are competitive (not last year that's for sure), they still seem to always pale (another PUN!) in comparison to their neighbors west of the Kansas border in Lawrence. There were some great seasons under Norm Stewart, and I enjoyed the Mike Anderson/Demarre Carroll era quite a bit. But in terms of basketball, relevance? The Tigers just cannot match what the Jayhawks do on an annual basis.
I know that's tough to stomach for a lot of Mizzou fans. But, just like Pale Ale will always be in the shadow of Unfiltered Wheat, the Tigers just seems to always be the "little brother" to KU Hoops. That is not to say that Mizzou or Pale Ale aren't good. However, that stigma of unfortunate attachment prevents either from being taken more seriously in their respective circles.
Pop-Up Session IPA: Iowa State Cyclones
Session IPA's seem to be the new "Big Thing" in craft brewery fandom circles. And, it makes sense, as Session IPAs seems to be a nice introduction for those who don't like the bitterness of traditional IPAs. That is an understandable and completely fine thing. But, I don't know. I just can't get into Session IPA's, despite their boldness in trying to cater to their target of beer drinking palates (i.e. traditional pilsner beer drinkers who think hoppyness is bitterness). It obviously tastes better than a traditional lager, but it surprises me that they categorize them as IPAs, since to me it just doesn't have that taste or finish of what makes IPAs so enjoyable to consume.
Pop-Up is Boulevard's bold take on it, and while I appreciate it's ambitiousness in taking on crafting a Session IPA for Midwest beer drinkers, it falls flat with me in comparison to other Pop-Up Session IPAs. It's got kitsch factor, and some nice colors and some interesting flavors, but it just really pales (PUN ALERT) in comparison to the other beers Boulevard offers from their year-round lineup. I want to like it. Logic tells me I should like Boulevard's take on the Session IPA. But in the end, I just end up disappointed (though not completely dissatisfied; after all, it's still comes in 5 out of 7).
Iowa State, at least under Fred Hoiberg, were the "hip" team to like in the Midwest and college basketball the past few seasons. Hoiberg ran an "NBA" offense. He got the most out of transfers looking for a second chance. The Cyclones became a relevant team again in the Big 12 and the best team in the state of Iowa (any chance to better the Hawkeyes was welcome in Ames). Hoiberg's nickname was "The Mayor" for chrissakes! That's the best nickname for a college player/coach in all of college basketball!
And yet, the Cyclones never seemed to grasp with me as much as other Midwest basketball fans. Their squads never really endeared to me, even though I liked the freedom Hoiberg gave his team. They always underachieved in the Tournament, and they seemed to be a hard team to predict, as they had periods of inconsistency during the year where they would beat Kansas, but then lose to a Texas Tech or TCU.
The Cyclones and Session IPA have garnered a lot of bandwagoners as of late. In fact, when I go to concerts, it's common to see Session IPA on tap, which displays the surge in the popularity of Session IPAs in KC. But, for both ISU and Boulevard, I just can't swing on either of those bandwagons with any kind of eagerness.
Bully Porter: Kansas State Wildcats
Bully Porter probably has the coolest label of all the Boulevard Year-Round varieties. I mean, it's a Bulldog, in a tuxedo, with a monacle. How there isn't a gold medal on the bottle saying "Bottle Design of the Year" to me is one of the great mysteries of our time. If the beer was just average, I would think it would be the greatest beer ever just because of the label. In fact, if I could have a poster of that and put it on my wall, I would.
(This is a bad habit of mine, as sometimes I will be swayed a beer is good simply by labeling. This is especially true with lager varieties; for example, I enoyed Sol simply because I loved their "peeking" Sun logo. However, once they changed the logo, and I had it again, I somehow liked it a lot less. Amazing how things like graphic design can actually change your palate in mysterious ways.)
Despite my affinity for the label art, I struggle liking porters in general. Unless a porter really has a special something, it's difficult for me to really enjoy one. Porters simply toe that line between beer and coffee too much, and not in a way I find satisfying or appetizing. Unfortunately, Boulevard's Bully Porter doesn't really excel in the taste department. It lacks that special "boldness" that separates it from the typical porter, and hence, this one simply fall flat and remains a forgettable selection of the Year-Round varieties.
Kansas State basketball falls in the same kind of boat. They have good looking uniforms and colors, a cool arena nickname ("The Octagon of Doom") and had Frank Martin screaming up and down the sideline for a good while (great entertainment on its own, though he hasn't been as good or angry in South Carolina). They had Michael Beasley put up one amazing season that got him drafted No. 2 overall in the NBA Draft. Unfortunately, everything else about Kansas State, especially in terms of their on-court success, is forgettable. They have had good teams in the past, but if you think about it, to the college basketball fans nationally, Kansas State simply doesn't stick out or really burn in anyone's psyche. It's too bad because they have had some good teams, just like the Porter isn't bad by Porter standards. It's just that there is nothing that stands out about either except the gaudy appearances.
KC Pils: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Formerly "Boulevard Pilsner", KC Pils is Boulevard's take on the American Domestic Lager. This beer caters to what is typically liked by most Midwest Beer Drinker's tastes: a refreshing, crisp beer in the mold of traditional domestics like Miller, Budweiser and Coors. Unfortunately, KC Pils, re-branding and all, suffers from two major issues that prevent it from escaping the basement of the Boulevard year-rounds.
First, while KC Pils isn't bad by any means, it doesn't really distinguish itself from the typical American Lager varieties. There's a little bit more body to it than a Budweiser or Bud Light, but it's not considerably fuller tasting or crisper than anything you generally would get on the market. Second, KC Pils is priced as high as any other Boulevard Year-Round, which makes it difficult when you're competing with bigger Breweries who can offer the same kind of beer for a lot cheaper. So, Boulevard's Pilsner variety ends up falling in "No-Man's" land of sorts, with the price and market (i.e. crowded) being a huge factor in preventing it from being more successful. And to be honest, I really don't think of Boulevard when it comes to American Lagers. If I want one, I would rather go Coors or PBR, High Life or Rolling Rock if I wanted to save a couple of bucks.
Nebraska Cornhusker basketball suffers from many of the same issues as KC Pils. The product is not very good and hasn't been traditionally that good in their history (sans a couple of years ago when they made the NCAA Tournament). But worse than that, there is a lukewarm attitude about Cornhusker basketball with Cornhusker and Midwest fans. While Nebraska football is religion, basketball is a side-attraction when the local high school team is not playing. Basketball is just not a priority in the state of Nebraska (heck, high school and college wrestling is more attended than college basketball). Considering that they play in a conference that is a major player in the basketball scene (i.e. Big 10) and in a geographic area near the premiere program of the Midwest (i.e. Kansas), and it makes sense, like KC Pils, how Nebraska basketball gets lost in the shuffle in its relevance.
KC Pils isn't bad tasting. Nebraska basketball has gotten better under Tim Miles. But, there are just a whole lot of better American Lager and Midwest Basketball options out there than those two…and considerably so.
So that's the list and the ratings. Agree? Disagree? Think I picked the wrong team? Think I was too hard on K-State? Think Session IPAs are the greatest thing in the history of craft brewing?
Kevin O'Brien	Kansas City Culture	Leave a comment July 20, 2015 July 20, 2015 13 Minutes
Food Truck BBQ, Growlers and Sour Beer: The Joy of Cinder Block Brewery
Cinder Block is a relaxing place for great, unique beers in Northtown
Craft breweries are becoming a bigger and bigger thing in the psyches of warm-blood, alcohol-consuming Americans. Samuel Adams started the trend of the "popular" craft brewery, but across the nation, craft breweries are growing in popularity and name recognition. Many breweries are doing well that they are rightfully representing the cities they brew in, even amidst the "major breweries" that brew nearby. New Belgium and Blue Moon Brewing Company are well-known nationally despite being in Coors territory (New Belgium and Blue Moon brew in Denver while Coors brews in Golden, which is not too far). And despite Anheuser-Busch being across the state in St. Louis, a pretty solid craft brewing culture is developing here in Kansas City. In fact, while it may be lacking in years of tradition or presidential visits, the craft brewing culture here is so strong that it is giving Kansas City another thing to be known for other than BBQ (though BBQ is pretty damn good here).
The most major craft brewery is Boulevard and rightfully so. Created in 1987, Boulevard has really done an excellent job bringing different varieties of quality beers to the mainstream here in Kansas City. Whether it's the popular year-rounds such as Boulevard Wheat, KC Pilsner, Bully Porter, the Single-Wide IPA or the 80-Acre Wheat (their best year-round beer; it combines the best aspects of a Wheat and IPA beer and the result is really refreshing) or their Smokestack series beers such as The Calling, Tank 7 or variety of limited edition seasonal beers (their Chocolate Ale was so popular that people would buy it in bulk from bars because it was so difficult to find in liquor stores), Boulevard has the variety and taste to be mentioned in the best craft breweries in America discussions. I most likely will do a whole post on Boulevard and their beers, but I figure any Kansas City beer discussion merits the mention of Boulevard to start off.
But one of the best, most underrated and slowly gaining steam craft breweries has to be Cinder Block in North Kansas City. I am not going to lie: most of my life in Kansas City has been in Kansas City, Kansas. I love KCK and Wyandotte county and for my first two years living here, I was hesitant to really frequent a drinking establishment beyond the Strawberry Hill area (much love to 403 and Chicago's). But when I moved north of the river, one of the reasons I have enjoyed my migration to the Missouri side has been because of this place.
First and foremost, this is not a bar, but a brewery with a taproom. I know it sounds really "ticky-tack" when I describe it like that, but it's important to know. They do not serve wine or hard alcohol drinks. Hell, they don't always have every beer available every day. But the amount of variety they offer will suit even the most discriminating of beer drinkers. So if they don't have a variety you want? Well, they got enough on tap to give you the diversity you would want from any craft brewery tap-room.
Cinder Block wins one over with their charming, relaxing decor, which is designed with a bar, a variety of high and low tables and stools, and a couple of couches in the corner with a coffee table between them (there are some board games like Jenga if you come with a crowd and want to go beyond just talking about the beer). There are only two televisions, but believe me, this is a place where you won't notice the lack of viewing spectacles. With the quality of the beer, as well as the dozens of barrels racked in the far end of the taproom, there is plenty to observe that missing an inning or two of the Royals game will be hardly noticed. Some breweries try to go over the top in really giving off that "brewery" feel. Cinder Block does a good job of making the place welcoming but authentic: in fact, the brewery really speaks to the industrial demographic of North Kansas City in general, as gray and brown stands out the most in the taproom area, giving it a blue-collar but chic feel.
Thursday through Saturday the Back Rack BBQ food truck sits in front of the brewery and serves food to customers who are looking for a bite to eat amidst tastings. Kansas City is known for BBQ, but Back Rack can compete with the best, with a simple, tasty but affordable menu. Back Rack offers everything from BBQ staples (ribs, pulled pork, brisket, beans, slaw) to BBQ Pub Food hybrids (Brisket nachos, Smoked Salmon sandwich) and the crew doesn't just serve quality, filling dishes, but they do so quickly and actually deliver to you in the bar (you don't have to pick it up from the truck). While everything on the menu rates as above average for BBQ fare, the burnt ends and onion rings stand out as Back Rack's signatures items.
Burnt Ends are common in BBQ places here in Kansas City, but they vary in consistency from place to place, ranging from good to bad depending where you go. Candidly speaking, Back Rack's Burnt Ends rate as some of the best I have had from any BBQ place in Kansas City. Unlike some of the major places, these ends aren't sauced ahead of time or chopped up, but are juicy, cubes of BBQ beef goodness served on white bread with sauce on the side. These burnt ends offer a nice balance of lean and fat, important since burnt ends needs to stand out from their brisket counterpart (after all, burnt ends traditionally were saved for the pitmaster and his crew while the brisket went to the guests…that's right, Burnt Ends were bogarted by the cooks, which shows you how good they are). The sauce is a tangy, sweet, not as thick or tomato-based as a traditional Kansas City sauce, but closer to a Carolina-style considering its tangier and more liquidey consistency. The sauce, burnt ends and white bread make a perfect trio that will satisfy even the most peculiar of BBQ enthusiasts.
The onion rings though probably stand out though as Back Rack's best item. Battered in Northtown Native beer, the onion rings are crisp and fresh and will go quickly whether consumed in a group or solo. Onion rings tend to be a difficult dish for me to enjoy. Way too often I found out that the onion rings come from the frozen, Sysco-produced variety, and they often feel like a waste of money. The onion is too soggy. The batter is not crispy enough. There is no flavor but bland, watery onion, and halfway through you end up regretting not just sticking with the fries. But these onion rings buck that trend, and made a fan out of a guy who normally would rather just save the buck or two on french fries. If you want to get a side for yourself or to share, get the onion rings. In the words of James Lipton from Inside the Actors Studio, "It is a delight!"
That being said, while Back Rack is a nice benefit of visiting Cinder Block on the weekend, the reason to go there is for the beer. Cinder Block offers a variety of what is expected from a craft brewery: Pale Ale (Prime Extra), IPA (Block), Porter (Pavers) and a Wheat (Weathered Wit). Of their year-round selection, the Northtown Native is my favorite, a California Common that is a delicious hybrid of an Ale and Lager. It goes down smooth, but it has a distinct taste that is usually missing in the common American Lager. If I were going to compare the Native to anything, it reminds me of the Boston Lager from Samuel Adams (which I like, but not as much as the Native).
Another plus of Cinder Block is they offer growlers, which I think is secretly my favorite aspect of craft breweries. There is something special about going into a brewery with an empty jug and asking for it to get refilled. I mean, in what other forum could you carry in a big jug of something that could also be used as an instrument in a how down and see it filled with the refreshing nectar of the Roman gods? (I say Roman because we always use the Greeks in this kind of analogy; it's pretty much the same thing and the Roman gods need their due too; go Mars!) Craft breweries…and yeah I am done at that. I mean, I know Shatto Milk offers milk refills with their milk jugs, but getting my milk refilled in a Whole Foods makes me feel like a 38-year-old husband who works at Sprint and lives in Overland Park and sends their kids to the Olathe Public School System. That isn't for me.
To get back to the point, yes they have growlers, which are all kinds of wonderful and great because I can take my beer home, in a massive quantity and in a cool-looking jug. They offer three kinds of growlers: the traditional glass, a plastic and some kind of hybrid plastic, graphite-ish…thing (I don't know, it looks like it used to store plutonium, not beer). Go with the traditional glass. You'll bring out your inner logger inside and that will have all kinds of benefits down the road.
And lastly, one of the phenomenons Cinder Block turned me onto was the existence of sour beers. I had never had a sour beer until a couple of days ago, where I tried the KC Weiss. A lot of their sour beers are brewed in chardonnay barrels, which I believe contributes to some of the sour flavor of the beer brewed (I base this on no research or Googling of sour beers prior to this post). The KC Weiss was unbelievable beyond measure. I had to take a look at it every couple of sips to just bask in what the hell I was drinking. It was as if a great wheat beer and a top-shelf chardonnay made love to Keith Sweat's "Twisted" and their baby was delivered into my glass. Constantly I was in flux with every sip ("Is it a beer masking as a chardonnay? Or a chardonnay masking as a beer?") slowly appreciating the sour beer more and more until its completion. For a person who loves beer and appreciates chardonnay, the Weiss sour beer hit on all cylinders for me. (I know that statement will elicit all kinds of comments considering not many men drink chardonnay but keep in mind this: it's cold and it doesn't stain your teeth, an important thing to remember if you are at a function of some sort that only serves wine; last thing you need is for people to not just see you sloshed, but looking like Hannibal Lecter after he surprises the cops when he gets out of his handcuffs to escape his cell in "Silence of the Lambs" and bites into one of the cops…yes gross, just like red wine stained teeth). Today, I had the Peach Sour Beer (can't remember the name, started with a "V", which I will update soon), which also shared the same sour but refreshing qualities of the KC Weiss. I do plan on making sour beers a more regular staple of my beer rotation. They are pretty much like the Shannyn Sossamon's of beers (hat tip if you understand my reference; if not just enjoy the picture).
Cinder Block is a mecca for beer enthusiasts and a pretty damn good place to go to for anyone else who likes beer and likes cool places in different areas of Kansas City. For Northlanders, Cinder Block requires visiting on a regular basis, and if you are not in the Northland, it is worth the trek for their venue, their beer and Back Rack BBQ if you happen to be there on a weekend. Kansas City is becoming home to a great beer scene. And Cinder Block, both its brewery and tap room, are a testament and shining representation of that scene that is growing on a national basis.
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Structural Study of Piezo Channel, a Unique Family of Eukaryotic Mechanosensitive Channel
Kamajaya, Aron (2017) Structural Study of Piezo Channel, a Unique Family of Eukaryotic Mechanosensitive Channel. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9JQ0Z00. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07182016-144756449
Piezo is a unique family of eukaryotic mechanosensitive (MS) channel. With over 2500 amino acids per subunit, intact Piezo channel is one of the largest ion channels known to date. Two versions of Piezo can be found in vertebrates, namely PIEZO1 and PIEZO2. PIEZO1 appears to play roles in processes which control physiological homeostasis, whereas PIEZO2 assumes roles in mechanical somatosensation. A number of mutations mapped onto PIEZO1 or PIEZO2 are found in several hereditary human diseases, such as Dehydrated Hereditary Stomatocytosis, Gordon syndrome, and Distal Arthrogryposis. Although biochemical and functional studies provided many insightful findings, structural study of Piezo was very minimal. Herein, I described the structural investigation of Piezo channel. In the first study, we isolated a conserved soluble domain of Piezo (C-terminal loop 2, CTL2) from the C. elegans homolog, and provided the first molecular glimpse into this enigmatic MS channel. Subsequently, I described challenges that are associated with the expression and protein preparation of the full length Piezo channel. Recently, the full length mouse PIEZO1 structure solved by single particle cryo-EM revealed trimeric arrangement of the intact channel. CTL2 domain forms an extracellular cap which makes up the central core in this Piezo model. Lastly, we isolated a stable C-terminal fragment of Piezo. This fragment corresponds to the entire central core of Piezo channel and a few upstream transmembrane helices. This fragment can be localized to the plasma membrane. Further investigation is needed to look at the functionality of this fragment.
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Piezo channel
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Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
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Lester, Henry A. (chair)
Clemons, William M.
Chan, David C.
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For other people named William Chase, see William Chase (disambiguation).
William Merritt Chase in 1900
(1849-11-01)November 1, 1849
Nineveh, Indiana
National Academy of Design;
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich,
Portrait painting; landscape art
Philadelphia Centennial Exposition medal
William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons School of Design.
1 Early life and training
2 Chase's roles: father, artist, teacher
3 European Summer tours
4 Style and subject matter
4.1 Portrait painting
4.2 Landscapes
4.3 Still lifes
5 Honors and late career
Early life and training[edit]
Self portrait, 1915–16, oil on canvas, Richmond Art Museum
William Merritt Chase was born on November 1, 1849, in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to the family of Sarah Swain and David H. Chase, a local businessman. Chase's father moved the family to Indianapolis in 1861, and employed his son as a salesman in the family business. Chase showed an early interest in art, and studied under local, self-taught artists Barton S. Hays and Jacob Cox.
After a brief stint in the Navy, Chase's teachers urged him to travel to New York to further his artistic training. He arrived in New York in 1869, met and studied with Joseph Oriel Eaton for a short time, then enrolled in the National Academy of Design under Lemuel Wilmarth, a student of the famous French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
In 1870, declining family fortunes forced Chase to leave New York for St. Louis, Missouri, where his family was then based. While he worked to help support his family he became active in the St. Louis art community, winning prizes for his paintings at a local exhibition. He also exhibited his first painting at the National Academy in 1871. Chase's talent elicited the interest of wealthy St. Louis collectors who arranged for him to visit Europe for two years, in exchange for paintings and Chase's help in securing European art for their collections.
"Keying Up" – The Court Jester, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
In Europe, Chase settled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, a long-standing center of art training that was attracting increasing numbers of Americans and attracted Chase because it had fewer distractions than Paris.[1] He studied under Alexander von Wagner and Karl von Piloty, and befriended American artists Walter Shirlaw, Frank Duveneck, and J(oseph) Frank Currier.
In Munich, Chase employed his rapidly burgeoning talent most often in figurative works that he painted in the loosely brushed style popular with his instructors. In January 1876 one of these figural works, a portrait titled "Keying Up" – The Court Jester (now in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) was exhibited at the Boston Art Club; later that year it was exhibited and won a medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, and this success gained Chase his first fame.
Photo by Noel Rowe of William Merritt Chase in his studio on Tenth Street New York which he held from 1875-1895
Chase traveled to Venice, Italy in 1877 with Duveneck and John Henry Twachtman before returning to the United States in the summer of 1878, a highly skilled artist representing the new wave of European-educated American talent. Home in America, he exhibited his painting Ready for the Ride (collection of the Union League Club) with the newly formed Society of American Artists in 1878. He also opened a studio in New York in the Tenth Street Studio Building, home to many of the important painters of the day. He was a member of the Tilers, a group of artists and authors, among whom were some of his notable friends: Winslow Homer, Arthur Quartley and Augustus Saint Gaudens.
In 1881, friend and artist William Preston Phelps travelled back to Europe to team up with Chase to go on a working tour of Italy, Venice, Capri then back to Germany.[2]
Chase's roles: father, artist, teacher[edit]
Studio Interior, c. 1882, Brooklyn Museum
Lydia Field Emmet, 1892, oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum
Chase cultivated multiple personae: sophisticated cosmopolitan, devoted family man, and esteemed teacher. Chase married Alice Gerson in 1887[3] and together they raised eight children during Chase's most energetic artistic period. His eldest daughters, Alice Dieudonnee Chase and Dorothy Bremond Chase, often modeled for their father.
In New York City, however, Chase became known for his flamboyance, especially in his dress, his manners, and most of all in his studio. At Tenth Street, Chase had moved into Albert Bierstadt's old studio and had decorated it as an extension of his own art. Chase filled the studio with lavish furniture, decorative objects, stuffed birds, oriental carpets, and exotic musical instruments. The studio served as a focal point for the sophisticated and fashionable members of the New York City art world of the late 19th century. By 1895 the cost of maintaining the studio, in addition to his other residences, forced Chase to close it and auction the contents.
Mrs. Chase in Pink, Figge Art Museum
In addition to his painting, Chase actively developed an interest in teaching. Initially he took on private pupils, among his first being Dora Wheeler, a student from 1879 to 1881 who became a professional artist and a lifelong friend. Dora's mother Candace Wheeler wrote in her memoirs of Chase's contagious enthusiasm, "the most generous of teachers, not only giving exhaustively of his stored knowledge of how to do things, but fostering as well the will to do it. Later, somewhat against his will, he was persuaded to take charge of an art-school at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island . . . "[4]
At the instigation of Mrs. William Hoyt, Chase opened the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on eastern Long Island, New York in 1891.[4] He taught there until 1902. Chase adopted the plein air method of painting, and often taught his students in outdoor classes. He also opened the Chase School of Art in 1896, which became the New York School of Art two years later with Chase staying on as instructor until 1907. Chase taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1896 to 1909; the Art Students League from 1878 to 1896 and again from 1907 to 1911; and the Brooklyn Art Association in 1887 and from 1891 to 1896. Along with Robert Henri, who became a rival instructor, Chase was the most important teacher of American artists around the turn of the 20th century. In addition to his instruction of East Coast artists like George Bellows, Louise Upton Brumback, Kate Freeman Clark, Jay Hall Connaway, Mariette Leslie Cotton, Charles Demuth, Silas Dustin, Lydia Field Emmet, George Pearse Ennis, Marsden Hartley, Annie Traquair Lang, John Marin, M. Jean McLane, Frances Miller Mumaugh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leopold Seyffert, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, Joseph Stella and Edward Charles Volkert, he had an important role in influencing California art at the turn of the century, especially in interactions with Arthur Frank Mathews, Xavier Martinez and Percy Gray. He also had an important role in influencing Texan Impressionism: he also taught painter Julian Onderdonk.
European Summer tours[edit]
After stopping his work at Shinnecock Hills, Chase began taking groups of students overseas in the summer months to tour the important European art centers. In 1903 they visited Haarlem in the Netherlands, where Chase was inspired by a schutterstuk by Frans Hals. He made a self-portrait of himself in the role of one of Hals' schutters, choosing his look-alike Johan Claesz Loo featured in The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633.[5]
Style and subject matter[edit]
Chase worked in all media. He was most fluent in oil painting and pastel, but also created watercolor paintings and etchings. S.G.W. Benjamin said of his style in a contemporary review:
A noble sense of color is perceptible in all his works, whether in the subtle elusive tints of flesh, or in the powerful rendering of a mass of scarlet, as in his notable painting of the "Court Jester". In the painting of a portrait he endeavors, sometimes very successfully, to seize character, although occasionally rather too impressionist in style.[6]
Portrait painting[edit]
A Friendly Call, 1895. National Gallery of Art
He is perhaps best known for his portraits, and his sitters including some of the most important men and women of his time. His portrait of painter Lydia Field Emmet in 1892 depicts Emmet in a pose typically reserved for men in old masters' paintings. Emmet's hand is on her hip and she looks over her shoulder at the audience.[1]
Chase also frequently painted his wife Alice and their children, sometimes in individual portraits, and other times in scenes of domestic tranquility: at breakfast in their backyard, or relaxing at their summer home on Long Island, the children playing on the floor or among the sand dunes of Shinnecock. In an 1895 painting titled A Friendly Call, his wife is depicted wearing a yellow dress and entertaining a caller dressed in white.[7]
Landscapes[edit]
Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, c. 1896, Princeton University Art Museum
In addition to painting portraits and full-length figurative works, Chase began painting landscapes in earnest in the late 1880s. His interest in landscape art may have been spawned by the landmark New York exhibit of French impressionist works from Parisian dealer Durand-Ruel in 1886. Chase is best remembered for two series of landscape subjects, both painted in an impressionist manner. The first was his scenes of Prospect and Central Parks in New York; the second were his summer landscapes at Shinnecock. Chase usually featured people prominently in his landscapes. Often he depicted woman and children in leisurely poses, relaxing on a park bench, on the beach, or lying in the summer grass at Shinnecock. The Shinnecock works in particular have come to be thought of by art historians as particularly fine examples of American Impressionism.
In 1903 Chase rented the Villa La Meridiana near Careggi, Florence, to which he would return to paint each summer. Later he bought the Villa Silli, south of the city.
Still lifes[edit]
Still Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Chase continued to paint still lifes throughout his career as he had done since his student days. Decorative objects filled his studios and homes, and his interior figurative scenes frequently included still life images. He was particularly adept at capturing the effect of light on metallic surfaces such as copper bowls and pitchers. Perhaps Chase's most famous still life subject was dead fish, which he liked to paint against dark backgrounds, limp on a plate as though fresh from a fishmonger's stall. He was known for purchasing the dead fish at the market, painting them quickly, and then returning them before they spoiled.[1]
Honors and late career[edit]
Portrait of Chase by John Singer Sargent (1902) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chase won many honors at home and abroad, was a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, and from 1885 to 1895 was president of the Society of American Artists. He became a member of the Ten American Painters after John Henry Twachtman died.
Chase's creativity declined in his later years, especially as modern art took hold in America, but he continued to paint and teach into the 1910s. During this period Chase taught such up and coming young artists as Wilhelmina Weber Furlong,[8] Arthur Hill Gilbert, and Edward Hopper.
At Carmel-by-the-Sea from July through September 1914 Chase taught his last summer class, his largest with over one hundred pupils and his most problematic. His former student, Jennie V. Cannon, in conjunction with Chase's business manager C. P. Townsley and Carmel's co-founder Franklin Devendorf, persuaded the esteemed painter to visit the Pacific Coast with promises of generous financial returns.[9] Suffering from declining health (cirrhosis of the liver), Chase took the opportunity shortly after his arrival to meet with the directors of San Francisco's forthcoming Panama-Pacific International Exposition to secure his own exhibition gallery, which he had been denied earlier.[10][11] He was adored by his Carmel students, several of whom published extensive descriptions of his lectures and teaching methods. Chase found the art colony at Carmel too confining socially and moved his residence to the nearby luxury Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, where he negotiated several important portrait commissions. In mid-August one of his students, Helena Wood Smith, was brutally murdered by her Japanese lover, which caused the cancellation of several classes, near violent hysteria in the art colony, and the early departure of some of his students. Chase continued with his regular teaching schedule, held meetings with important regional artists, such as William Ritschel, painted several local scenes, and experimented with monotypes.[9]
Chase died on October 25, 1916, at his home in New York City, an esteemed elder of the American art world.[12] He was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Today his works are in most major museums in the United States. His home and studio at Shinnecock Hills, New York, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as the William Merritt Chase Homestead.[13]
The Moorish Warrior, ca. 1878. Brooklyn Museum.
The Mandolin Player, ca. 1879. Painted as the mandolin reemerged internationally.
Mrs Chase Playing the Piano, 1883
Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler, 1883
A Modern Magdalen, 1888
Open Air Breakfast, 1888
Back of a Nude, 1888
Girl in a Japanese Costume, ca. 1890. Brooklyn Museum
A Sunny Day at Shinnecock Bay, c. 1892
In The Studio, c. 1892-3
An Afternoon Stroll, c. 1895 San Diego Museum of Art
Study of a Girl in Japanese Dress ca. 1895 Brooklyn Museum
First Touch of Autumn, 1898
At the Seaside, circa 1898, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Song, 1907
A Venetian Balcony, 1913, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art
List of William Merritt Chase artwork
^ a b c "Meet William Merritt Chase, The Man Who Taught America's Masters". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
^ http://www.monadnockart.org/history-william-preston-phelps.html
^ Tinterow, Gary, Geneviève Lacambre, and Deborah L. Roldán. 2003. Manet/Velázquez: the French Taste for Spanish Painting. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 524. ISBN 1588390403
^ a b Candace Wheeler (1918). Yesterdays in a Busy Life. Harper Brothers, NY. p. 245.
^ "Search the Entire Collection Database - Heckscher Museum of Art". heckscher.org.
^ S.G.W. Benjamin, Art in America: A Critical and Historical Sketch, Harpers, 1880
^ "National Gallery of Art". Retrieved 7 April 2013.
^ The Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong: The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm by Clint B. Weber, ISBN 978-0-9851601-0-4
^ a b Edwards, Robert W. (2012). Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, Vol. 1. Oakland, Calif.: East Bay Heritage Project. pp. 122–123, 132–159, 177–179, 260–261. ISBN 9781467545679. An online facsimile of the entire text of Vol. 1 is posted on the Traditional Fine Arts Organization website ( "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-06-07. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)).
^ San Francisco Chronicle, 6 September 1914, p. 54.
^ New York Herald, 27 June 1915, p. 5.
^ Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Directory, Volume 14. The American Federation of the Arts. p. 321.
^ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
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Q: Enum equalization with other classes I've created a class that only takes Enums as parameters. I figured I could create a third Enum where I would manually put every option so they have a better naming.
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I search for the line of the film from amidst a mountain of impressions, annotations and intuitive connections. To get there, each of the best moments receives a digital "3×5 card" with a title, impressions, tags for scene type, songs and characters, and a summary transcript or translation. With just the best material, I have 422 index cards—too much to parse. So I slice further to just the scenes that send shivers down my spine.
I must be easily impressionable because after the latest cull I still have 129 "so great it has to be in the movie!" scenes…
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They wanted to start something new. When they bought this old property, David Anderson and the live-in staff at A Rocha knew this was going to be a multi-generation project.
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Why Text Becomes Literature
A comment I made at a recent speaking gig (about video being the highest-bandwidth pathway to the brain) got me thinking about why literature is what it is.
Words can be so rewarding – text becoming literature – I think precisely because they form such a narrow-bandwidth pathway to the brain. The slow trickle of words forces a constraint on the brain that leads to rich associations and images. And when – in the case of Shakespeare and other great artists – the gentle architecture of their words begins to collect into a bigger whole, the reward is unspeakable, so beyond what seems possible from such a singular narrow trickle of text. This fragile lattice of words takes such genius to construct that I wonder that it's possible at all.
Images are so much easier. Film is an embarrassment of images. The systems and symbols are so overly rich the mind has to filter out rather than strain to construct (as with text). Literature stretches the mind to build from the abstract; still images stretch the mind to explore, abstract and imagine more; while motion pictures stretch the mind to filter out the unnecessary and focus on what's worth more of my attention.
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Seth Godin in NYC
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Marketers are not Advertisers – Seth Godin, 2010 Contagious Conference from Storyspark on Vimeo.
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of filming Seth Godin in New York as part of a series of videos for the upcoming Contagious Conference. We had a great time during the interview, with Seth sharing lots of insight and new ideas about marketing, gift culture, and what it means to be a Linchpin . If you'd like to see the full interview… well, you'll have to come to the conference for that :)
This is round two or three of a series of projects that have quietly launched my new venture, Storyspark. If you haven't already, head over to the website to check out what it's all about.
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Vision in Motion eBook Released!
I've been itching to tell everyone about this for months… and the day's finally here! I've written an eBook for readers interested in stepping into the world of motion picture storytelling. The full title is Vision in Motion: A Photographer's Introduction to Digital Video, and it's available for $5 from Craft and Vision (Just $4 if you use the discount code MOTION4 before June 27th).
Though targeted at photographers, the eBook is for anyone who's interested in the world of motion picture storytelling. With the explosion of video-capable stills cameras, many are considering dipping their toes into moving images. But while there are many resources out there on how to operate a video camera, what does it take to create a visual story that moves people? We talk some about gear, but mostly about process. What is story? How do you build a story? How do you connect images together to build towards a climax? What are the differences between composing a shot for a still image vs. motion?
It's tough to pack all that into one eBook, but feedback so far has been positive. It's gotten people excited to give video a try and get started with motion pictures storytelling. Go check it out!
VISION IN MOTION is a downloadable PDF. USD $5.00
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Sartre on Story
…everything changes when you tell about life… things happen one way and we tell about them in the opposite sense. You seem to start from the beginning: "It was a fine autumn evening in 1922. I was a notary's clerk in Maromme." And, in reality, you have started at the end…
The end is there, transforming everything. For us, the man is already the hero of the story… we feel that the hero has lived all the details of this night like annunciations, promises, or even that he lived only those that were promises, blind and deaf to all that did not herald adventure.
We forget that the future was not yet there; the man was walking in a night without forethought, a night which offered him a choice of dull, rich prizes, and he did not make his choice.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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Henry Jenkins on Transmedia – November 2009 from niko on Vimeo.
Author of "Convergence Culture," talks about Transmedia. A great five-minute watch.
(h/t cinematech)
Tags story, transmedia, Video
Wall•E – The Shot Tells the Story
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It's no secret that I'm a big Pixar fan. Their focus on "story first" has resulted in a long string of engaging hits and memorable characters.
© 2008 Pixar Animation Studios / Walt Disney Pictures.
I'm preparing for my next short film, and beginning the process of storyboarding. I ran across Karen J Lloyd, whose site is an excellent storyboarding resource. While the site's focus is professional artists, she recently completed a series on Wall•E which I'm reading through now: The Shot Tells the Story. While Wall•E works on many levels, the shot selection is a big part of the storytelling in a movie with no dialogue (much like my next project).
Take a look if you're interested to see how shots break down to tell the story of Wall•E.
Tags filmmaking, Pixar, short film, story, storyboards
Tim Brown on Opportunities
Once again it was an example of the power of storytelling to open up opportunities.
— Tim Brown, commenting on The Girl Effect's presentation at TED
Tags featured, story
Heart to the Storyteller
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Our minds are relatively open, but we guard our hearts with zeal, knowing their power to move us. So although the mind may be part of [the] target, the heart is the bull's-eye. To reach it, the [storyteller] must first display his own open heart.
— Peter Guber, The Four Truths of the Storyteller
But feelings are pesky critters, cropping up inconveniently, and then disappearing just when you want them. And the thing both terrible and wonderful about feelings is that they change… In fact the more you let yourself feel whatever you are actually feeling, the more available you are to a new feeling.
The director is in a position to do violence to [these] delicate emotional mechanisms.
— Judith Weston, Directing Actors
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Temporary solution to Russian-Belarusian gas dispute
On 2 July, the Russian company Gazprom and the Belarusian gas company Bieltransgaz agreed to raise the transit fee for the transmission of Russian gas across Belarusian territory, and to raise the wholesale price of gas for customers in that country. This formally ends the bilateral gas dispute which in June led to Russia limiting gas transmission to Belarus for three days. However, this agreement is only temporary in nature, as the most important points of contention in the two states' relations, both concerning gas and crude oil, still remain unresolved.
The parties agreed to submit changes to the contract for supplying gas to Belarus over the period 2007-2011, in accordance with which Gazprom will pay US$1.88 for every 1000 m³ of gas transmitted over 100 km. This means that the Russian monopolist has agreed to pay US$32m of debt for transit for 2010, which was one of Minsk's demands. It was also agreed that Bieltransgaz (50% of whose shares are owned by Gazprom) will raise the wholesale price of gas for Belarusian customers, and in the period 2011-12, it will limit to the minimum that part of its profits which is assigned to the Innovation Fund of the Belarusian Energy Ministry, which Gazprom had previously called into question (since this move had reduced its income).
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Triad is a word to refer to a group of three elements. In philosophy and religion, triads, triangles, and trinities are prominent. H. P. Blavatsky said: "Everywhere antiquity slows an unbounded reverence for the Triad and Triangle--the first geometrical figure."
This trinity resolving itself into unity, — a doctrine as old as the world of thought — was seized upon by some early Christians, who had it in the schools of Alexandria, and made up into the Father, or generative spirit; the Son or matter, — man; and into the Holy Ghost, the immaterial essence, or the apex of the equilateral triangle, an idea found to this day in the pyramids of Egypt.
This "Be-ness" is symbolised in the Secret Doctrine under two aspects. On the one hand, absolute abstract Space, representing bare subjectivity, the one thing which no human mind can either exclude from any conception, or conceive of by itself. On the other, absolute Abstract Motion representing Unconditioned Consciousness.
Thus, Be-ness, Absolute abstract space, and Absolute abstract motion (also known as the Great Breath) form the "metaphysical triad . . . the Root from which proceeds all manifestation".
Considering this metaphysical triad as the Root from which proceeds all manifestation, the great Breath assumes the character of precosmic Ideation. It is the fons et origo of force and of all individual consciousness, and supplies the guiding intelligence in the vast scheme of cosmic Evolution. On the other hand, precosmic root-substance (Mulaprakriti) is that aspect of the Absolute which underlies all the objective planes of Nature.
Parabrahmam radiates from the Logos, and manifests itself as the light and energy of the Logos. Now we see the first manifestation of Parabrahmam is a Trinity, the highest Trinity that we are capable of understanding. It consists of Mulaprakriti, Eswara or the Logos, and the conscious energy of the Logos, which is its power and light; and here we have the three principles upon which the whole cosmos seems to be based.
Mulaprakriti (the precosmic root-substance) is a radiation of the Absolute abstract space, the unmanifested Logos (or Pre-cosmic Ideation) is a radiation of the Great Breath, while the "light of the Logos" (called Daiviprakriti) is Parabrahman (the Be-ness) radiating through the Logos.
This is "the highest trinity that we are capable of understanding" since the absolute triad "transcends the power of human conception and . . . is beyond the range and reach of thought").
The cosmic triad is regarded as the basis for the trinities of different religions, often represented in an anthropomorphic way.
In the Theosophical literature the cosmic (or manifested) triad consists of Cosmic Ideation, Cosmic Substance and Cosmic Energy (or Fohat), which are manifestations of the pre-cosmic Ideation, the pre-cosmic Substance, and the "light of the Logos" (or Daiviprakriti), respectively.
The human Triad (sometimes called "higher triad" or "upper triad") is formed by the three higher principles, Atma, Buddhi and Manas, the fruition of the latter assimilated by the first two after every terrestrial life. In other occasions, H. P. Blavatsky says that the triad corresponds to "Âtmâ-Buddhi and the "Envelope" which reflects their light, the three in one", the "envelope" referring to the auric egg. This is the perennial individuality that reincarnates in different personalities.
Matter, force, and motion are the trinity of physical objective nature, as the trinitarian unity of spirit-matter is that of the spiritual or subjective nature.
↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 333.
↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 90 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), ???.
↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 14.
↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 15.
↑ Tallapragada Subba Row, Notes on the Bhagavad Gita, (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1978), 21-22.
↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 237.
↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 338.
↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 90 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 283.
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Tzidkatekha (hébreu : צדקתך « Ta justice ») est une série de versets commençant par ce mot, récitée après la répétition de la prière par l'officiant lors de l'office de min'ha du chabbat. Récité en mémoire de trois justes décédés ou enterrés lors de l'après-midi du chabbat, il marque la fin de l'atmosphère joyeuse de ce jour.

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