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First Fasab Quiz Of 2015.
January 5, 2015 December 31, 2014 fasab Questions, Tests	3rd Molars, acid, alkali, alternative name, ancient city, answers, argus, bird, Cantons, chemical symbol, circle, common name, Common Salt, compound, diameter, discus, disease, drinking dirty water, easy, education, elements, Entertainment, fe2o3, federal state, fuel, general knowledge, Geography, give birth, golden, heaviest land animals, history, infection, international news, intestine, jet aircraft, Jonas Salk, killer disease, Lady Amherst, lay eggs, liquid, live offspring, Machu Picchu, mammals, meters, minutes, month, music, nature, Oxford, paper, Pluto platter, questions, quiz, quizzes, River Thames, Robyn Fenty, science, silver, snakes, sodium, stage name, test, tests, tongues, vaccine, Walter Frederick Morrison, week, year
Hello and welcome to the first fasab quiz of 2015.
Twenty questions that cover history, geography, science, music and nature and maybe more.
Some of them are quite easy though, so don't be alarmed.
And as always, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Q. 1: By what more common name are the 3rd Molars known?
Q. 2: What do snakes use their tongues for?
Q. 3: What is the diameter in meters, of the circle from which a discus is thrown?
a) 1.5 meters b) 2.5 meters c) 3.5 meters
Q. 4: What disease is an infection of the intestine caused by drinking dirty water?
Q. 5: Which federal state consists of 26 Cantons?
Q. 6: What is 9 percent of 9?
Q. 7: What is the more common name for the chemical symbol 'fe2o3'?
Q. 8: What are the only 2 mammals to lay eggs rather than give birth to live offspring? (You get a point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get both correct.)
Q. 9: What killer disease very prevalent in past centuries was controlled by Jonas Salk's vaccine?
Q. 10: What type of fuel do jet aircraft use?
Q. 11: How many minutes are there in a week?
Q. 12: Common Salt is a compound formed from 2 elements, one is sodium what is the other?
Q. 13: Which bird has 'golden', 'silver', 'Lady Amherst' and 'argus' varieties?
Q. 14: What alternative name is given to the River Thames as it passes through Oxford, a name that has been very prominent in the international news recently for a very different reason?
Q. 15: What is the second month of the year to have exactly 30 days?
Q. 16: What kind of paper is used to test whether a liquid is acid or alkali?
Q. 17: What are the two heaviest land animals? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 18: The ancient city of Machu Picchu is in which country?
Q. 19: Walter Frederick Morrison invented the 'Pluto platter' in 1948, but what is it more commonly known as today?
Q. 20: What is the better known stage name of Robyn Fenty?
A. 1: Wisdom teeth.
A. 2: Hearing.
A. 3: The correct answer is b) 2.5 meters.
A. 4: Cholera.
A. 5: Switzerland.
A. 6: It is 0.81.
A. 7: Rust.
A. 8: Duckbilled platypus and the spiny anteater (will accept just 'anteater').
A. 9: Polio.
A. 10: Kerosene.
A. 11: There are 10,080.
A. 12: Chlorine
A. 13: Pheasant.
A. 14: It is called the 'Isis', the name also used for the militant Islamic terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
A. 15: June.
A. 16: Litmus.
A. 17: The elephant and the hippopotamus.
A. 18: Peru.
A. 19: The 'Frisbee'.
A. 20: Rihanna.
Did You Know? More Interesting Facts To Ponder
July 30, 2013 July 28, 2013 fasab Factoids	active volcanoes, Arkansas, average American, bananas, beavers, blimps, canada, Canadians, capital city of Korea, celebrate, citizens, Did You Know, Dodge engines, dog and cat owners, drinks, Dutch people, education, England, Entertainment, European Space Agency's Olympus, Expo 67, fact, factoid, facts, first Wal-Mart, Ford cars, Fred, fur trade, goddess Athene, goddess of victory, gowns, Graeme Ferguson, Greek Mythology, Gul Mohammed, IMAX film system, India, Interesting Facts, invented, Italy, Ivrea, Japan, lead pencil, Lent, meteor, Misc, Miscellaneous, Nike, oldest known goldfish, paper, Pets, pictures, pollsters, Queen Elizabeth I, Random, Robert Kerr, Rogers, Roman Kroitor, Saguaro Cactus, same height as the US flag, satellite, Seoul, smallest man ever, sodas, South-western United States, state, state flag, tallest people in Europe, Texas, throwing oranges, United States, volcanoes, wallets, William C Shaw
Another delve into the fasab fact file today.
If you are interested in facts, information or trivia there will hopefully be something in here for you.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 43 years of age.
Its name was Tish.
There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
Nine of them are in the United States.
In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadians
Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw
and premiered at Expo 67.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The typical lead pencil can draw a line
that is thirty five miles long
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners
carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
A meteor has only destroyed one satellite,
which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
When Queen Elizabeth I of England died
she owned over 3,000 gowns
The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India,
who measured 1 feet, 10 inches
Before the fur trade had started in Canada,
it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers
In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, Arkansas
The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States
does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.
Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes
and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world
The Dutch people are known to be
the tallest people in Europe
The word Nike comes from Greek Mythology.
Nike is the goddess of victory and was often depicted
as a small winged figure carried by the goddess Athene.
The long fibers that are found in the banana plant
can make paper approximately 3000 times stronger than regular paper.
The city of Seoul has been the capital city of Korea
for more than 600 years
In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent
by throwing oranges at one another.
Can You Believe It? I've Run Out Of Puns!!!
June 27, 2013 June 10, 2013 fasab comedy, Humour, Language, Puns	3D, a bottle in front of me, a frontal lobotomy, advert, amusing, Andrex tissues, artist, B-1, Bach, bad jokes, beverage, bottom, burger, bus, bus companies, chickens, circle, coffee, colleague, Crap, current affairs, draw a cube, electrical synapse, elevators, escalators, feathers, flip flops, fun, funny, gloomy forecasts, got drunk, helium, Humor, Humour, internet bride, joke, jokes, Kim Jong-un, leader of North Korea, lost in fog, mad, making friends, mental block, mining equipment, mist, Mozart, mugs, nerve, non-alcoholic, office, Ohmosexual, pampers, paper, pencils, points, proof, pun, puns, raisin, Rap, relish, resistors, riot, rock bottom, shorts, silly jokes, slow decline, Smirk, stationary, stock market, stupid jokes, stupid people, sun, switches, The Hole - Now in 3D!, Three dyslexics, tycoons, vitamin, weatherman, White Out, wife, WiFi, word play, word plays, working
Okay, wipe that smirk off your faces.
Of course I haven't run out of puns. Whoever would believe such a thing.
And just to prove it, here are some more.
Enjoy, I know you will.
I ate the burger with relish.
Q: Why did Mozart kill all his chickens ?
A: Because all they would say was " Bach , Bach ………Bach , Bach"
You say that this beverage is non-alcoholic.
But where is the proof?
The best vitamin for making friends is B-1.
When they said I was mad I went out and got drunk.
I guess it was a choice between having a bottle in front of me
or a frontal lobotomy.
When the artist tried to draw a cube he had a mental block.
Coffee is for mugs
Just been on bigbustycoons.com
Damn, those guys have really good bus companies.
My wife shouted upstairs, "The sun's just come out."
I thought great, threw on some shorts and
flip flops and shot down the stairs.
I was rather shocked when I got down to find
our lad holding hands with his mate Michael.
There's no denying it, Rap is 75% Crap
I just saw an advert for the new film: 'The Hole – Now in 3D!'
Well, surely it has to be in 3D otherwise it's just a circle.
You invented White Out didn't you?
Correct me If I'm wrong….
A lot of stupid people who don't keep up with current
affairs still don't know who Kim Jong Un is.
Duhhh, she is the leader of North Korea.
An unnamed weatherman has reacted angrily to being
sacked because he always gives cold gloomy forecasts.
So I guess it's no more mist and ice guy.
Q. What makes a riot?
A. Three dyslexics.
A colleague just burst into my office
while I was busy working
and demanded to know what an
electrical synapse in the human body was.
The nerve.
Did you hear about the guy who got his thrills
by shoving resistors up his bottom.
He definitely sounds like an Ohmosexual to me.
My internet bride got delivered today.
She's the WiFi always dreamed of.
If you were lost in fog, would you be mist?
Finally some news from this week on the stock market.
Helium was up, but feathers were down.
Paper was stationary, but pencils lost a few points.
Elevators rose but escalators continued their slow decline.
Switches were off and mining equipment hit rock bottom.
The raisin market has dried up.
Pampers remained unchanged while Sun peaked at mid-day.
Andrex tissues touched a new bottom.
More Random Samples From The Fasab Fact File
May 21, 2013 May 20, 2013 fasab Factoids, Humour, Unusual	100 yard dash, 100 years or older class, 101, 3rd century AD, 5-cent bill, alcohol, America, American anthem, americans, amusing, Ancient Egyptian tombs, avoiding reality, Aztec emperor, banned, best-known western names, British pilots, bucket, burn their houses down, caffeine, Canadian anthem, Canadians, captured, chemically addictive, China, Churchill, clans, coffee, college, comics, company, competition, concentrated, cotton growers, Cuitlahac, dated, dinnerware, Donald Duck, drink, eat, eat your plate, education, Elvis Presley, Entertainment, escape, fact, factoid, facts, feed, filters, Finland, fish, gas masks, hemp farmers, Humor, Humour, husband, illegal, Indian, information, Jesus Christ, Kemo Sabe, ketchup, killer whales, killing, Kleenex tissues, knitted socks, knowledge, Lady Astor, Larry Lewis, little pecker, Marijuana, mass, medicine, Misc, Miscellaneous, money, Montezuma, mummy, Name, Navajo, nephew, new world's record, nicotine, orca, pants, paper, pill, playing cards, plenty of excrement, poison, ran, Random, revenge, Richard Nixon, runners, sense of touch, soaked in water, Soggy Shrub, solar system, spit out, sun, Taiwan, The Lone Ranger, to get fired, tons, Tonto, trivia, unfolded to reveal a map, unwanted people, US, wheat, wife, Winston Churchill, WWII
If its facts you want we have them!
So here is another selection.
If you can't find something you don't know in here then you know far too much.
"Kemo Sabe", the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger
means "Soggy Shrub" in Navajo Indian.
The Tonto in Spanish means "a fool".
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
Killer whales have such a good sense of touch
that if you dropped a pill into a bucket
and feed it to the orca
it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs
have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Oh mummy!
Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969,
there by setting a new world's record
for runners in the 100 years or older class.
He was 101.
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem,
but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem,
but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
99% of the solar system's mass is concentrated in the sun.
There is a company in Taiwan makes dinnerware
out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
About 70% of Americans who go to college
do it just to make more money.
(The rest are just avoiding reality for four more years.)
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
The Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew named Cuitlahuac,
whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Now there's revenge for you!
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of
their unwanted people without killing them
used to burn their houses down
– hence the expression "to get fired."
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland
because he doesn't wear pants
– the little pecker!
Marijuana is not as chemically addictive
as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today
is because in the 1930's cotton growers lobbied against
hemp farmers whom they saw it as competition.
Special playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII.
If captured, they could be soaked in water
and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
The three best-known western names in China are
Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill,
'If you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'.
To which Churchill replied,
'If you were my wife, I would drink it'.
I Don't Know How They Do It But Every Week They Seem To Get Worse!
January 14, 2013 fasab Bloopers, comedy, Humour, Quiz Show Answers, tv, Uncategorized, Unusual	$20, amusing, autumn day, bicycle, Bob Barker, buy, car, Christmas, colonial, Comedy, computer, Entertainment, famous Australian, famous sex symbol, fools, fruit, funny, gallon, gas, human, Humor, Humour, husband, idiots, important city, invention, Jeans, kids, large family, larger size, London, Misc, Miscellaneous, morons, movie, New England, paper, parents, pasta, People, pet, Peter Pan, quiz, quiz show, quiz show answers, quiz shows, radio, Random, set, show, Snow White, stairs, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, Sweet tarts, tarts, television, television quiz show, television quiz shows, temperature, tv, vet, Virginia, wheel, who wants to be a millionaire, Wilma
Yes, I really don't know how they do it, but every week they do seem to get worse. Where these answers come from or why shall always be a mystery, but they are fun and that's what we like here, especially on a Monday!
You gotta start the week with a smile 🙂
Q: The perfect temperature for an autumn day
Q: An important city during colonial times
A: Virginia
A: New England
Q: Name something parents yell at their kids to finish
A: "Get off that computer"
Q: Name a movie people love to watch at Christmas
A: Snow White
Q: Name a type of fruit found in tarts
A: Sweet tarts
Q: Name something you buy by the set
A: Paper
Q: Name something you buy in a larger size if you have a large family
A: Jeans
Q: Name something a woman sees that would make her tell her husband to stop the car
A: A bicycle
Q: The most you could afford to pay for a gallon of gas
A: $20
Q: Name a way you would treat a pet like a human
A: Take it to the vet
Q: Name something London is famous for
A: Pasta
Q: Name a famous Australian
A: Peter Pan
Q: The name of a famous sex symbol
A: Wilma
Q: An invention that has replaced stairs
A: Wheel
Q: Name something associated with the show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"
A: Bob Barker
Day Two 2013, Are You Scared Yet?
January 2, 2013 fasab Humour, Medical, Phobias, Uncategorized, Unusual	a penis, alcohol, algophobia, amusing, bald people, beards, becoming bald, being eaten, being in love, being rained on, belly buttons, birds, childbirth, children, cold, color purple, crowds, daylight, dental surgery, disease, dolls, Domatophobia, dreams, drugs, education, Eicophobia, everything, eyes, fear of birds, fear of crowds, fearns, feathers, feet, Fever, figure 8, fire, flying, fools, Friday the 13th, frost, funny, ghosts, glaring lights, health, Heaven, heredity, house, Humor, Humour, ice, idiots, imaginary crimes, kissing, lice, Life, light, medical doctors, mental-health, mind, Misc, Miscellaneous, mobs, mother-in-law, Novercaphobia, Obesophobia, ochlophobia, ochophobia, octophobia, Odynephobia, oenophobia, oikophobia, olfactophobia, ombrophobia, Ommatophobia, ommetaphobia, omphalophobia, oneirogmophobia, oneirophobia, onomatophobia, oophobia, ophidiophobia, ophthalmophobia, opiophobia, optophobia, ornithophobia, orthophobia, osmophobia, Osphresiophobia, ostraconophobia, otophobia, ouranophobia, overworking, pagophobia, pain, panophobia, panthophobia, Pantophobia, papaphobia, paper, papyrophobia, paralipophobia, paraphobia, parasites, parasitophobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, parthenophobia, Parturiphobia, pathophobia, Patroiophobia, Peccatophobia, Pediculophobia, Pediophobia, Pedophobia, Peladophobia, pellagra, Pellagrophobia, Peniaphobia, Pentheraphobia, People, Phagophobia, Phalacrophobia, Phallophobia, Pharmacophobia, Phasmophobia, Phengophobia, Philemaphobia, Philematophobia, Philophobia, Philosophobia, philosophy, phobias, Phobophobia, Phonophobia, Photoaugliaphobia, Photophobia, Phronemophobia, Phthiriophobia, Phthisiophobia, Placophobia, Plutophobia, Pluviophobia, Pneumatiphobia, Pnigerophobia, Pnigophobia, Pocrescophobia, Podophobia, Pogonophobia, Poinephobia, poliomyelitis, Poliosophobia, politicians, Politicophobia, Polyphobia, Ponophobia, Porphyrophobia, Potamophobia, Potophobia, poverty, Proctophobia, progress, property, Prosophobia, Psellismophobia, Psychophobia, Psychrophobia, Pteridophobia, Pteromerhanophobia, Pteronophobia, punishment, Pupaphobia, puppets, Pyrexiophobia, Pyrophobia, Random, rectums, responsibility, running water, sexual perversion, shellfish, sinning, smells, smells or odors, smothered, Snakephobia, snakes, spirits, stupid, stupid people, stuttering, sunshine, swallowing, taking medicine, teeth, telephones, the Pope, thinking, tombstones, tuberculosis, Uranophobia, vehicles, video, virgins, wealth, weight, wet dreams, wines, young girls
If you aren't scared yet the chances are you are not afflicted with anything on the following list of phobias or irrational fears that seem to grip some unfortunate people. For them 2013 will be as frightening as 2012. Imagine, for example, spending the whole year with proctophobia – what a bummer!
In today's list are the 'O's and the 'P's.
Obesophobia……….fear of gaining weight. (Pocrescophobia)
Ochlophobia……….fear of crowds or mobs.
Ochophobia……….fear of vehicles.
Octophobia ……….fear of the figure 8.
Odontophobia……….fear of teeth or dental surgery.
Odynophobia or Odynephobia……….fear of pain. (Algophobia)
Oenophobia……….fear of wines.
Oikophobia……….fear of home surroundings, house. (Domatophobia, Eicophobia)
Olfactophobia……….fear of smells.
Ombrophobia……….fear of rain or of being rained on.
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia……….fear of eyes.
Omphalophobia……….fear of belly buttons.
Oneirophobia……….fear of dreams.
Oneirogmophobia……….fear of wet dreams.
Onomatophobia……….fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
Ophidiophobia……….fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
Ophthalmophobia……….fear of being stared at.
Opiophobia……….fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients.
Optophobia……….fear of opening one's eyes.
Ornithophobia……….fear of birds.
Orthophobia……….fear of property.
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia……….fear of smells or odors.
Ostraconophobia……….fear of shellfish.
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia……….fear of heaven.
Pagophobia……….fear of ice or frost.
Panthophobia……….fear of suffering and disease.
Panophobia or Pantophobia……….fear of everything.
Papaphobia……….fear of the Pope.
Papyrophobia……….fear of paper.
Paralipophobia……….fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
Paraphobia……….fear of sexual perversion.
Parasitophobia……….fear of parasites.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia……….fear of Friday the 13th.
Parthenophobia……….fear of virgins or young girls.
Pathophobia……….fear of disease.
Patroiophobia……….fear of heredity.
Parturiphobia……….fear of childbirth.
Peccatophobia……….fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
Pediculophobia……….fear of lice.
Pediophobia……….fear of dolls.
Pedophobia……….fear of children.
Peladophobia……….fear of bald people.
Pellagrophobia……….fear of pellagra.
Peniaphobia……….fear of poverty.
Pentheraphobia……….fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
Phagophobia……….fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
Phalacrophobia……….fear of becoming bald.
Phallophobia……….fear of a penis, especially erect.
Pharmacophobia……….fear of taking medicine.
Phasmophobia……….fear of ghosts.
Phengophobia……….fear of daylight or sunshine.
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia……….fear of kissing.
Philophobia……….fear of falling in love or being in love.
Philosophobia……….fear of philosophy.
Phobophobia……….fear of phobias.
Photoaugliaphobia……….fear of glaring lights.
Photophobia……….fear of light.
Phonophobia……….fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.
Phronemophobia……….fear of thinking.
Phthiriophobia……….fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)
Phthisiophobia……….fear of tuberculosis.
Placophobia……….fear of tombstones.
Plutophobia……….fear of wealth.
Pluviophobia……….fear of rain or of being rained on.
Pneumatiphobia……….fear of spirits.
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia……….fear of choking of being smothered.
Pocrescophobia……….fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
Podophobia……….fear of feet.
Pogonophobia……….fear of beards.
Poliosophobia……….fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
Politicophobia……….fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
Polyphobia……….fear of many things.
Poinephobia……….fear of punishment.
Ponophobia……….fear of overworking or of pain.
Porphyrophobia……….fear of the color purple.
Potamophobia……….fear of rivers or running water.
Potophobia……….fear of alcohol.
Pharmacophobia……….fear of drugs.
Proctophobia……….fear of rectums.
Prosophobia……….fear of progress.
P-P-P-P-P-Psellismophobia……….fear of stuttering.
Psychophobia……….fear of mind.
Psychrophobia……….fear of cold.
Pteridophobia……….morbid fear of fearns.
Pteromerhanophobia……….fear of flying.
Pteronophobia……….fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia ……….fear of puppets.
Pyrexiophobia……….fear of fever.
Pyrophobia……….fear of fire.
How are you after all that? Are you developing symptoms or are you feeling good?
We'll Call Today 'Sneaky Sunday'
November 18, 2012 fasab Humour, Questions, Tests, Uncategorized, Unusual	american satellite, bibliophile, bibliopole, Big Ben, born in a hospital, easy, education, electric train, England, english word that ends in mt, Entertainment, first American satellite in orbit, hard, hold your breath, human body parts, I met a man with seven wives, kill yourself, London, los angeles, Misc, Miscellaneous, New York City, novel, on my way to St. Ives, paintings, paper, planet, question, questions, quiz, Random, rhinoceros horn, Robert Zimmerman, rotates clockwise, royal palace, sharpen your pencils, six official languages of the U.N., smoke, solar system, St. Ives, Sunday, test, the United States of America, train, tricky, typewriter, U.S. President, US dollar bills, Vincent Van Gogh, word that ends in mt, ZIP code
Why is today Sneaky Sunday?
Because this Sunday there is a test for you. They're no good unless they sneak up on you by surprise. This way there's no time get a sick note or prepare another excuse.
Some of the questions are easy, some of them are hard, some of them are tricky, and some are a combination of one or more of the above.
So sharpen your pencils and whatever else you need to do and begin when you are ready.
(As usual the answers are waaaaaaaay down below, but no cheating!)
Q 1: Launched on February 1, 1958 what was the name of the first American satellite in orbit?
Q 2: Most people know what a bibliophile is, but what is a bibliopole?
Q 3: Train 'A' leaves from New York City heading toward Los Angeles at 100 mph. Three hours later, train 'B' leaves from Los Angeles heading toward New York City at 200 mph. Assume there is exactly 2,000 miles between Los Angeles and New York City. When they meet, which train is closer to New York City?
Q 4: There is the only royal palace in the United States of America – where is it?
Q 5: What sort of paper are US dollar bills made out of?
Q 6: What does the ZIP in "ZIP code" mean?
Q 7: Nowadays they go for tens of millions of dollars each, but how many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell during his entire life?
Q 8: A certain five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is the word?
Q 9: What is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise?
Q 10: What is a rhinoceros horn made of?
Q 11: Name an English word that ends in "mt"
Q 12: What was the first novel ever written on a typewriter?
Q 13: If an electric train is traveling northwest at 95 miles per hour, and the wind is blowing southwest at 95 miles per hour, in which direction does the smoke blow?
Q 14: Who was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital?
Q 15: How long would you have to hold your breath before you kill yourself?
Q 16: What are the six official languages of the U.N.?
Q 17: "Big Ben" in London, England is what?
Q 18: There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long. What are they? (And you know them all)
Q 19: Who is Robert Zimmerman?
Q 20: While on my way to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks; Each sack had seven cats; Each cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, wives; How many were going to St. Ives?
A bibliophile is a collector of rare books, and a bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
Two answers are allowed to this one, either
When they meet, they're both exactly the same distance from New York City.
if you consider "meeting" to be nose to nose, the one that left from New York City is closer to New York City by a train length.
Honolulu, Hawai
US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
Zoning Improvement Plan.
Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting during his lifetime, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
Compacted hair
Dreamt
Smoke? It's an electric train, there ain't no smoke!
You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath, with the best will in the world, even if you held you breath long enough to pass out your body reflex would then take over and you would start to breathe again involuntarily
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic
Many people mistakenly think it is a clock. Actually, it's the bell.
Eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman
Read it again, it was only you who was going to St Ives, so the answer is one
Did ya do good???


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Missouri › Eastern District of Missouri › 1952 › Securities & Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co.
Securities & Exchange Commission v. Ralston Purina Co., 102 F. Supp. 964 (E.D. Mo. 1952)
US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - 102 F. Supp. 964 (E.D. Mo. 1952)
102 F. Supp. 964 (1952)
SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION
RALSTON PURINA CO.
No. 8212(2).
United States District Court E. D. Missouri, E. D.
Thomas B. Hart, Alexander J. Brown, Jr. and Robert J. Sugrue, Chicago, Ill., for Securities and Exchange Commission; Louis Loss, Associate Gen. Counsel, Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C.
Thomas S. McPheeters, St. Louis, Mo. (Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts, St. Louis, Mo., of counsel), for defendant.
HULEN, District Judge.
This action, initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, resulted in a *965 preliminary injunction, by agreement, restraining defendant, Ralston Purina Company, from proceeding with the offering and sale of its $25 par value common stock. Plaintiff, after trial, seeks to have the injunction made permanent.
Section 5(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 77e, prohibits the offer or sale of any security in interstate commerce or through the mails unless a registration statement as to such security is in effect with the Securities and Exchange Commission, plaintiff in this action. Section 4(1) of the Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 77d(1)[1] provides that transactions by an insurer not involving any public offering are exempt from the provisions of Section 5(a) (1) of the Act. Whether the stock issue in question was public or private is the issue in this case. Defendant claims it was not a public offering.
There is no conflict in the evidence. Defendant was organized in 1894. It had a small beginning. It manufactures and sells mixed feeds for poultry and livestock, and cereal for human consumption. It now has thirty-six feed mills, six soybean processing plants, three cereal plants, many warehouses and grain elevators and seventy-nine retail feed and farm supply stores. Approximately seven thousand people are employed. Net sales for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1951 exceeded $340,000,000.
Since 1942 the company has offered stock ownership to employees who could meet its test of "key employees". The company has from time to time paid a "President's bonus" to certain "key employees", and such employees, with rare exceptions, used the bonuses to purchase stock offerings made to them.
Defendant's Executive Vice-President gave the following as explanatory of what defendant means by the term "key employees", i. e., "those who were officers, department heads, assistants to a department head, or other employees whom the Company considered eligible for future promotion to a position of greater responsibility in an administrative, production, personnel, advertising, sales or research department one who was ambitious and likely to develop and grow with the Company's business and who exercised special influence upon other employees and was a leader and advisor to other employees and was sympathetic to management."
To carry out its purpose of selling stock to "key employees" the defendant made known to its various managers and heads of departments a proposed stock offering. There was never any solicitation. The managers were depended upon to select "key employees" in their various departments, below their rank, after the company executives had conferred with the managers and outlined the matters to be considered in making selections. After the selections were made a notice was given of the stock offering. From the exhibits offered we conclude that since 1947, with total employees of approximately 7,000, purchases were made in 1947 by 243 employees; in 1948 by 20 employees; in 1949 by 414 employees; in 1950 by 411 employees. For 1951 there were applications to purchase by 165 employees. It is the latter sales that were stopped by this litigation. There were applications made by employees to whom no sales were made. There were offerings made each year to a larger number than ultimately purchased. Offerings were made orally. It is conceded the mails were used in carrying out this plan. Defendant kept no record of those to whom offerings were made and who did not purchase. It estimates the offering for the year 1951 to be approximately 500 "key employees", or 5 to 8% of the total employees.
The defendant's common stock is unlisted but there are over-the-counter sales to the public. Sales to "key employees" compare with estimated sales to the public, *966 based on month of September for each year, as follows:
Yearly Sales
(based on September          Yearly Sales
sales of                       to "Key
Year        each year)                    Employees"
----       --------------------         -------------
1947        8,844                           243
1948        1,200                         1,120
1949        3,204                        10,000
1951       11,184                         3,769
One reason given by defendant for selling stock direct to its "key employees" was that if they attempted to make like purchases over the counter, such demand would force the price up artificially.
Defendant at no time has sold stock to its employees to procure needed finances. Such sales were only for purpose of securing stock ownership by certain selected employees. In 1945 the defendant sold $10,000,000 in preferred stock to the public, by a public offering, after proper registration with the plaintiff. There is no evidence of any complaint from plaintiff or any stockholder, preferred or common, as to the character of financial statements of defendant.
Employees purchasing stock during the following years sold their stock thereafter as follows:
1947   317
1948   None
1949    89
Sale of stock by employees, represented above, in most instances was by persons who left defendant's employ at time of sale.
Since 1945 defendant has sent to all stockholders its annual balance sheet statement. This statement was filed with the Commission. The defendant printed bimonthly bulletins. These were sent to all the branches, warehouses and stores and they were either posted or made available to all employees. Such bulletins showed the amount of tonnage which the company was currently producing and selling. Profit and loss statement was not shown by these bulletins.
The resolution providing for the stock issue in question, similar to resolution providing for stock offerings in previous years, is as follows: "Resolved, that Mr. Donald Danforth, Mr. Lewis B. Stuart or Mr. E. R. Siler be and each of them is hereby authorized to sell at $80 a share, not to exceed 10,000 shares of the authorized but unissued common stock of Ralston Purina Company to employees of Ralston Purina Company or Ralston Purina Company of Canada, Ltd. who shall, without any solicitation by the Company or its officers or employees, inquire of any of them as to how to purchase common stock of Ralston Purina Company; provided, however, that if such officer is able to purchase such stock for less on the open market he is authorized to purchase stock for such employee on the open market at such lesser price; provided further that this authorization shall terminate December 31, 1951."
No common stock was ever sold to any employee except those who were designated as "key employees". In 1951, when the managers and plant and department heads were advised of the stock being made available, in accord with the defendant's custom, only "key employees" were advised by manager and plant and department heads that such stock would be available for purchase by them.
Payroll classification of employees, determined by defendant at various times of stock offerings, as being "key employees" are: artist; copywriter; maintenance foreman; maintenance trainee; order-credit trainee; mill office clerk; loading foreman; chemist; research consultant; veterinarian; assistant in animal pathological department; secretary to production manager; stenographer to staff manager; clerical assistant to accounting manager; electrician-maintenance department; supervisor, mail section; millwright foreman; production trainee; shipping clerk; traffic clerk; and stock clerk.
Plaintiff's principal argument is based on committee reports and administrative rulings of plaintiff, as to the meaning that should be ascribed to the word "public" in the exemption clause of Section 4(1) of the Act. We are urged to follow *967 these extra-statutory pronouncements in determining the meaning of the statute. The practice does not appeal to us. We think it should be resorted to only in cases of extreme necessity when the recognized rules for statutory construction fail of their purpose. Language used by Congressional Committees is often loose. That observations of Congressional Committees will thereafter be used by the Courts to determine the meaning of laws passed by Congress cannot be said to have been in the minds of the Committee at the time of their pronouncements. Congress does not purposely pass a vague law. Committee declarations are not intended to be used for the purpose of determining the meaning of Congressional Acts by Congress. They do not represent any expression of either House of Congress. Committees of the two Houses may not agree upon the conclusions to be placed upon their actions. The latter is the case here. In 1934 the Securities Act was amended. At that time a proposal was made in the House to exempt stock issue sold to employees of the issuer. In Conference Report the House managers of the bill stated as a reason for rejection of the amendment: "[employees] may be in as great need of the protection afforded by availability of information concerning the issuer for which they work as are most other members of the public."
But when the same amendment was before the Senate the author of a like Senate amendment had the following colloquy with a member of the Senate Committee which considered the amendment:
"I agree that when the Senator submitted his proposed amendment it struck me as being entirely reasonable, fair and just. I took it that way. And I can see what he proposes in a favorable light. But when the bill went to conference the House Conferees insisted that there was, first, no reason for the amendment * * *
"The contention was, and it seems to me that it is almost unanswerable, that an offering to employees solely, as provided in the Senator's amendment, is not a public offering. The argument was made that there was no occasion for this amendment, because under the law there would not be a public offering when the stock was offered simply and solely to employees. And that was the effect of the Senator's amendment. His amendment is limited, as will be seen by its language, which is
"`The term "public offering" shall not be deemed to include an offering made solely to the employees'
"`I do not believe under the law it really does.'
"Senator Hastings. May I inquire and I make this inquiry because it may be helpful in the future whether the Senator can say that that was the judgment of the conference itself, or is he speaking only for himself?
"Senator Fletcher. Yes; that is the judgment of the conference itself; that there is no reason why employees should not subscribe for stock, and stock be subscribed for by employees under the law as it is. And certainly there is no question in the world that the Commission has the authority to declare that such an offering would not be a public one."
The proceedings of the two Houses of Congress are in such conflict as to furnish no ground to recommend them as a help in determining the meaning of the Act before the Court.
In 1933 the Federal Trade Commission issued a release to the effect "Where a substantial number of persons is involved it would seem imprudent to rely on the exemption of Section 4(1) of the Act." Then in 1935 the plaintiff issued a release and again stressed numbers as determinative whether a stock offer by a corporation is private or public. And so plaintiff's brief informs us that it has consistently interpreted the term "public offering" as contained in the exemption clause to mean an offering to a substantial number of offerees. We find nothing in the statute and statutory scheme making number of offerees the sole test as to whether a stock offering is public or private.
The exemption statute was before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Securities and Exchange Commission v. *968 Sunbeam Gold Mines Co., 1938, 95 F.2d 699, 701. In the Gold Mines case the stock offering was made to all stockholders of two goldmining companies that were consolidating. The sole purpose of the offering was to raise finances to effect a consolidation. On the facts the authority gives little aid in the present case. But the opinion calls for serious consideration because of the position taken by the plaintiff as to the proper interpretation of the exemption statute a position that is not now urged before this Court. We believe it far more plausible to believe that Congress has accepted the reasoning of the Gold Mines case as to the meaning of the statute and as the reason for failure to amend the Act and clarify its meaning, than that Congress accepted the administrative ruling as the reason for its non-action, as urged by plaintiff.
Based on the Gold Mines case we conclude defendant relying on the exemption has the burden of proof. The statute is designed to protect the investing public by providing "full and fair disclosure" and information as to the securities to be offered, which shall be available to the public and upon which it can base a decision as to purchase of stock offering. Therefore an exception to the general policy of the statute must be strictly construed against the claimant of the exemption. That plaintiff has conditioned registration on such terms and conditions as to make it expensive and time-consuming for defendant cannot be made of concern to this Court. Our province is only to interpret the law. Its reasonableness is not before us.
In the Gold Mines case the Court adopted certain norms of construction of the exemption in the Act which were there urged by the plaintiff: "* * * the word public `is one familiar to everyone, but of the most varied and indefinite connotations. In its broadest meaning the term "public" distinguishes the populace at large from groups of individual members of the public segregated because of some common interest or characteristic. Yet such a distinction is inadequate for practical purposes; manifestly, an offering of securities to all red-headed men, to all residents of Chicago or San Francisco, to all existing stockholders of the General Motors Corporation or the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, is no less "public", in every realistic sense of the word, than an unrestricted offering to the world at large. Such an offering, though not open to everyone who may choose to apply, is none the less "public" in character, for the means used to select the particular individuals to whom the offering is to be made bear no sensible relation to the purposes for which the selection is made. For the purposes of an offering of securities, red-headed men, residents of San Francisco, and stockholders of General Motors are as much members of the public as their antithetical counterparts. To determine the distinction between "public" and "private" in any particular context, it is essential to examine the circumstances under which the distinction is sought to be established and to consider the purposes sought to be achieved by such distinction.'"
We think this line of reasoning more in harmony with the statute than the arbitrary one of numbers, wholly absent in the Gold Mines case, and which plaintiff now asks this Court to adopt. An examination of the "circumstances under which the distinction is sought to be established" by the defendant and "the purposes sought to be achieved by such distinction" should be examined. We also consider is there a "sensible relation to the purposes for which the selection" is made by the employer?
The circumstances of the offering under examination are plainly and frankly spread before the Court. They involve no promotion or cash-raising scheme by the defendant. They are the same circumstances that have surrounded a like activity for several years past. Defendant has followed a consistent policy of securing its managerial and executive personnel by promotion within the organization. Without competent management any business must fail. The success of defendant testifies to the soundness of its policy. It desires to continue the policy.
The sole purpose of the "selection" is to keep part stock ownership of the business *969 within the operating personnel of the business and to spread ownership throughout all departments and activities of the business. No greater tie, to secure loyalty, could be forged between the corporation and its employees than part ownership in the business by the employees. It is an appeal to the employees' self-interest, but a commendable one. Defendant could confine stock offerings to those high in the executive positions but that would not accomplish its long range purpose of bringing from the ranks those who represent good prospects for company management. Defendant chooses to call such prospects, together with those who are in executive positions, "key employees". Doubtless the name was suggested by the thought that such character of employees are the key to the company's success, past and present. We have examined defendant's definition of "key employee" and see nothing hypercritical or evasive in it. We do not need expert testimony to understand the purpose of the definition and its application to a private enterprise. Both are in accord with sound public policy. Under the definition it calls for an observation of employees whom the company considers "eligible for future promotion to a position of greater responsibility" in the various departments. They consider whether the prospect is "ambitious and likely to develop and grow with the Company's business" and who has a beneficial or "special influence" among other employees, and one who is "sympathetic to management" and has the interests of the employer at heart. No better way has been suggested to find "key employees", that is employees who look like good prospects as part owners to carry on and promote the success of the Company. What motive could the defendant have for such a policy other than the one announced? None has ever been suggested. The purpose of the selection bears a "sensible relation" to the class chosen.
We take it from the tenor of plaintiff's brief that if defendant had restricted its selection of "key employees" to less than 100, plaintiff would have no objections to the stock-offering as being a private one. Thus the issue is narrowed is the stock-offering a public one because made to not to exceed 500 rather than not to exceed 100, out of 7,000 employees? To rule that it is would result in an arbitrary holding that any stock-offering made to offerees in excess of 100 would be public. Neither the statute nor any Congressional report suggests such a standard. It appears to have originated solely with plaintiff. But then what becomes of the test urged by plaintiff and set forth and approved in the Gold Mines case. Plaintiff may abandon the "common interest" and "sensible relation" doctrine but the Court of Appeals decision still stands binding on this Court unless clearly erroneous. We do not think it is clearly erroneous.
If the circumstances of this offering were such as even to suggest this corporation was taking advantage of its employees by either a false financial statement or failure to give any, we would have a different situation. If the circumstances surrounding the offering indicated it was being used to raise finances, we would have a different situation.[2] Defendant issues yearly financial statements. They go to all stockholders. They are filed with the plaintiff. The request to purchase stock for the year 1951 (Pre-Trial Exhibit F) is typical of the previous sales. We find five representatives of the financial department making applications to purchase stock. Their applications are in amounts proportional to the applications in other departments. Various departments are represented in the applications and the applications for the various departments we find usually are confined to those in a supervisory, managerial or executive capacity. Salesmen from the various divisions represent an exception. Such a diversification of stock ownership cannot be said to lack "sense" from the corporate viewpoint.
The circumstances of the plan of offering stock to "key employees" lacks the slightest suggestion of a device to evade the *970 law invoked by plaintiff. The offering has a lawful purpose entirely independent from the objective of the law.
Plaintiff emphasizes the failure of the resolution by terms to confine the offering to "key employees". This is the same type of resolution defendant has used for like offerings in previous years. The resolution is not the offering it is authority for the offering. What was done the facts regarding the manner and reason for the offering, rather than the resolution, show the nature of the offering to be private. Those facts are not in dispute.
We find the stock offering described in the complaint is private and not public under the terms of the Act.
We conclude that the offering is exempt from the provisions of the Act.
Decree may be submitted dismissing plaintiff's complaint and dissolving the temporary injunction.
[1] "The provisions of section 77e of this title shall not apply to any of the following transactions:
"(1) * * * transactions by an insurer not involving any public offering; * * *."
[2] $35,918,134 in earnings were retained for use in business as of 1951; total assets $121,190,602; stockholders equity $78,173,030; cash on hand and in bank $10,297,569. (See Def. Ex. M)

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Aesthetics and Memory in the Post-Truth Era. "No Looking Back, Okay?" at UGM Maribor Art Gallery
Dorian Batycka
Francis Alÿs, project Lada Kopeika, Sankt Peterburg, 2014 (in colaboration with brother Frédéric, Constantin Felker and Julien Devaux), single channel projection, 17 min, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
The exhibition "No Looking Back, Okay?" attempts to construct a nonlinear trajectory of history and memory, a post truth form perfectly calibrated to a post truth era.
Memory is like an always-departing body with its own history and timeframe, its own delimiters and politics, deeply sensual, personal, like a moving vehicle propelled by paper documents, images, ephemera, realia, and other physical and nonphysical remains.
The notion of "cultural memory"—that is, a culture (i.e., a people) presided over by a governing body (i.e., the state), which maintains jurisdiction over written accounts, activities that are helpful for storing and retrieving information (i.e., memory)—is either going through a renewal or extinction in contemporary art, depending on who you ask.
In Slovenia, a small central European country known just as much for its mountains and ski-resorts, as well as being the home of Slavoj Zizek, the idea of attending a show about memory and migration seemed a curious choice.
Concomitant with the rise of cultural memory, the so-called "end of history" has been predicted for decades, if not centuries—from Hegel to the French philosopher and mathematician Antoine Augustin Cournot. As early as 1861, Cournot referred "to the end of the historical dynamic with the perfection of civil society." While more recent accounts by those such as Francis Fukuyama, the acclaimed American political philosopher, prophesied the "end of history" — a belief that, after the fall of communism, free-market liberal democracy had won out and would become the world's "final form of human government."
However such predictions have been challenged in recent years with the rise of ethno-nationalism and a far-right resurgences, particularly in Europe, where the European Union has been forced to come to terms with an emergent, populist, illiberal wave, challenging Europe's long-standing socialist democratic traditions.
Tanja Lažetić, Smash an Eye, 2018, courtesy of the artist, photo: Damjan Švarc
Francis Alÿs, Lada Kopeika Project, St. Petersburg, 2014, courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zürich
Nataša Berk, I can't draw, but…, 2018, courtesy of the artists, photo: Damjan Švarc
Agnieszka Polska & Witek Orski, Pistols, 2014, single channel video, 5 minutes and 47 seconds, courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Cao Fei, Rumba II: Nomad, 2015, video, 14 minutes and 16 seconds
Allora & Calzadilla, How To Appear Invisible, 2009, Super 16 mm film transferred on disc, single channel projection with sound (Blu-ray Disc), 22 minutes 36 seconds, © Allora & Calzadilla, courtesy of Lisson Gallery
In Slovenia, a small central European country known just as much for its mountains and ski-resorts, as well as being the home of Slavoj Zizek, the idea of attending a show about memory and migration seemed a curious choice. For one, Slovenia remains a welcoming place for refugees. Although the population is not homogeneous, the majority is Slovene, the country has fared relatively well with integrating refugees, while many of its neighbours like Hungary and Austria, face the emergence of a growing wave of identitarian politics, fearful, it not outright antagonistic to refugees.
It is against this backdrop that the exhibition "No Looking Back, Okay?", at the UGM Maribor Art Gallery, aims to tackle the manifold ways in which the past is increasingly politicized today. Curated by Simona Vidmar (together with curatorial assistant Jure Kirbiš), the exhibition includes 18 artists and duos, organized according to definitions of memory with many numerous adjacent themes to today.
In Adel Abdessemed The Sea (2008), for instance, a single channel projection video projection documents the artist's absurd efforts to spell out the phrase "politically correct." While balancing on a wooden dingy at sea, the inanity of this gesture lies in the fact that it is an almost impossible task. With waves crashing around him, the 10 second loop touches on the brutally enforced, and often failed immigration policies that, in the last several years, have begun to take shape in Europe. Touching on themes like exile and displacement, Abdessemed's work references the idea of memory as an identitarian project, one that is often used by right-wing groups in Europe who promote fear of the Other as a means of stirring ethnic-nationalism.
Hrair Sarkissian, Homesick, 2014, two channel video with sound, 11 minutes 17 seconds / 8 minutes 14 seconds, courtesy of the artist
Jasmina Cibic, Tear Down and Rebuild, 2015, single channel HD video, 15 minutes and 28 seconds, stereo, commisoned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, courtesy of the artist
Nina Mangalanayagam, Lacuna, 2009, single channel video, 11 minutes, courtesy of the artist
While in Homesick (2014) by Hrair Sarkissian, the lived memory of architecture and its power to construct a sense of belonging is given scale. In a two-channel video projection, the artist recreates and subsequently destroys an architecturally exact model of the apartment building in Damascus where his parents live.
As a counterpoint to some of the more serious and politically charged works in the exhibition, humour is also another feature. Case in point being Francis Alÿs's Lada Kopeika Project, St. Petersburg (2014), which documents being behind the wheel of a Lada, the famous brand of car produced during the Soviet Union, while speeding through the courtyard of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, eventually crashing into a tree.
As a symbol, the car references progress and modernity, but in Saudi Arabia — where until last year women were barred from driving — the car also symbolizes a markedly contested space. In Sarah Abu Abdallah Saudi Automobile (2012), for instance, the artist imagines a new interior for a depilated car. However, rather than fixing it and restoring its original functionality, the artist instead envisages it almost as a domestic, inhabitable space.
In Allora & Calzadilla's How to Appear Invisible (2009), memory is treated with reference to well-known political symbols of the former GDR. The video takes place around the former GDR headquarters in Berlin, albeit shown from the perspective of German Shepard dog walking around the ruins wearing a collar fashioned from an American fast-food container. As the camera follows the dog trekking happily through the rubble, the political symbols of the former Soviet empire are laid bare, in sweeping, iconoclastic shots, the video seems to comment on the idea of memory as a contested space.
Al Solh's work reminded me of Tolstoy's famous maxim that he wanted to write fiction because he thought it would allow him to get closer to the truth. Today, in an era arguably marked by post-truth dichotomies confusing fact and fiction, a nonlinear aesthetic has seemingly emerged.
In art and politics, iconoclasm is a frequent subject of debate. Iconoclasm, if taken at face value, harbours an incisiveness towards objects and their symbolic value, which are then destroyed or altered to suit the ideology of an incoming party (or, in some cases, a single fascist leader). In contemporary art, as in politics and history, the act of discombobulating an idol, physically speaking, by destroying it, rejects the values or established beliefs that the object or image is thought to embody.
Historical fiction and satire is also a theme in the exhibition. In Mounira Al Solh's large-scale paintings, by far my favourite work in the exhibition entitled Reclining Man with Sculpture 1−5 (2008−2017), the artist combines real political figures from the Middle East and places them in ludicrous, oftentimes humous situations. The large-scale paintings employ healthy doses of irony and camp, poking fun at political leaders depicted in moments of excess, surrounded by the trappings of plunder and wealth.
Vadim Fishkin, Don Quixote Pact, 2010/2012, wind turbine generator, 5 electric fans, fiberglass construction, 300 x 250 x 400 cm, courtesy of the artist and Gregor Podnar Gallery, Berlin
Tanja Lažetić, Smash an Eye, 2018, instalation
Here, with distinctions between fact and fiction blurred, the limits of memory—and with it the expansive concept of history—underscored by the exhibition's title: "No Looking Back, Okay?", asks us to look forward, rather than back, formulating a new prospectus of history and memory, but not in the Fukuyamaian sense (i.e. 'an end of history'), but rather as a kind of counter-position to the seemingly endless feedback loop of history and memory as a narrated aphorism on stage with the dwindling concept of the nation state.
The exhibition, as such, attempts to construct a nonlinear trajectory of history and memory, a post truth form perfectly calibrated to a post truth era. Indeed, it is, like Mark Fisher writes in Capitalist Realism, "what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics."
Artist Adel Abdessemed, Sarah Abu Abdallah, Allora & Calzadilla, Mounira Al Solh, Francis Alÿs, Nika Autor, Morten Barker, Nataša Berk, Ana Dana Beroš, Jasmina Cibic, Cao Fei, Vadim Fishkin, Tanja Lažetić, Nina Mangalanayagam, Emeka Ogboh, Agnieszka Polska & Witek Orski, Hrair Sarkissian, Massinissa Selmani
Exhibition No Looking Back, Okay?
Place / venue UGM Maribor Art Gallery
Dates 30 November 2018 – 17 March 2019
Curated by Simona Vidmar
Website www.ugm.si/en/
Index Adel Abdessemed Agnieszka Polska & Witek Orski Allora & Calzadilla Ana Dana Beroš Cao Fei Dorian Batycka Emeka Ogboh Francis Alÿs Hrair Sarkissian Jasmina Cibic Massinissa Selmani Morten Barker Mounira Al Solh Nataša Berk Nika Autor Nina Mangalanayagam Sarah Abu Abdallah Simona Vidmar Tanja Lažetić UGM Maribor Art Gallery Vadim Fishkin
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Q: C# - Recreating Battleship within a console app. Where do I call a method in this situation? The CheckInput() method works as it should and validates the user input is entered within the needed format (A1B1 or letter number letter number). Now I need to be able to check the ship length because almost all Battleship ships have different lengths. I want to separate this into another method that ensures the user is giving the correct length for a specific type of ship depending on where it's being placed on the map.
For example, D3H3 would be valid for the largest ship, a Cruiser, because it's 5 spaces long on the map. In this case, it would place the Cruiser vertically 5 spaces, on point 3, from point D to point H.
The Issue
If the user has already validated their input past the CheckInput() method, then if their ship length is incorrect I need the user to reset what that ships initial placement is.
I know how to validate that its the correct length, but if its not, I don't know how to reset the original user input and make them input again, essentially going backwards through the program.
I made a method (CheckShipLength()) to check a specific ship type's length per user input.

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*If I call the method at the end of CheckInput() it doesn't work at all.

*If I call the method after I call CheckInput() it only works once and then after checking the ship length one time, it will just move on to the next CheckInput() call.
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public static class Dialogue
    {
        public static string placementInput;

        public static string carrierPlacement;

        public static string battleshipPlacement;

        public static string cruiserPlacement;

        public static string submarinePlacement;

        public static string destroyerPlacement;

        //Sets each variable to user inputted coordinates.
        //Example: A1A5 - where A1 is the coordinate of the stern and A5 is the coordinate of the bow.
        public static void PlacementPrompt()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\n\nEnter your ship placements below using the format 'A1A5'\n" +
                "where the first 2 characters represent the coordinate of the stern,\n" +
                "and the second 2 characters represent the coordinate of the bow.");

            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter your Carrier's coordinates: ");

            carrierPlacement = CheckInput();

            //CheckShipLength(); works once and moves on to next line of code after attempting to validate once.

            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter your Battleship's coordinates: ");

            battleshipPlacement = CheckInput();

            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter your Cruiser's coordinates: ");

            cruiserPlacement = CheckInput();

            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter your Submarine's coordinates: ");

            submarinePlacement = CheckInput();

            Console.WriteLine("\nEnter your Destroyer's coordinates: ");

            destroyerPlacement = CheckInput();

            Console.WriteLine(carrierPlacement + battleshipPlacement + cruiserPlacement + submarinePlacement + destroyerPlacement);
        }

        //Validates that the input given matches the needed format.
        static string CheckInput()
        {
            char[] validInputs = new char[] { 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 't' };

            while (true)
            {
                //Get input
                var placementInput = Console.ReadLine().ToUpper();

                //Run validations
                if (placementInput.Length == 4 && Char.IsLetter(placementInput[0]) && Char.IsLetter(placementInput[2]) && Char.IsDigit(placementInput[1]) && Char.IsDigit(placementInput[3]))
                {
                    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
                    {
                        if (Array.IndexOf(validInputs, placementInput[i]) != -1)
                        {
                            continue;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine("Invalid entry.");
                        }
                    }

                    return placementInput;

                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Invalid entry.");
                }
                //CheckShipLength(); does not work at all.
            }
        }

        //Validates that the length between one end of the ship to the other matches the ship types fixed length.
        static void CheckShipLength()
        {
            //Horizontal length check
            if (carrierPlacement[1] - carrierPlacement[3] != 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Your Carrier's length is incorrect to its ship type, re-input ship coordinates.");

                carrierPlacement = CheckInput();
            }
        }
    }
}

A: You could make CheckShipLenth to returntype bool. Then you could do this as long as it returns false. Your code would look something like this:
    static string CheckInput()
    {
        char[] validInputs = new char[] { 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 't' };

        while (true)
        {
            //Get input
            var placementInput = Console.ReadLine().ToUpper();

            //Run validations
            if (placementInput.Length == 4 && Char.IsLetter(placementInput[0]) && Char.IsLetter(placementInput[2]) && Char.IsDigit(placementInput[1]) && Char.IsDigit(placementInput[3]))
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
                {
                    if (Array.IndexOf(validInputs, placementInput[i]) != -1)
                    {
                        continue;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("Invalid entry.");
                    }
                }

                return placementInput;

            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Invalid entry.");
            }
            bool isValid = false;
            while (isValid == false){
                isValid = CheckShipLength();
            }
        }
    }

    //Validates that the length between one end of the ship to the other matches the ship types fixed length.
    static bool CheckShipLength()
    {
        //Horizontal length check
        if (carrierPlacement[1] - carrierPlacement[3] != 0)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Your Carrier's length is incorrect to its ship type, re-input ship coordinates.");

            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

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Sounds of battle. KING HENRY enters with soldiers, EXETER, and others.
But all's not done. Yet keep the French the field.
We have done well, my valiant countrymen. But it's not over. The French are still fighting.
The duke of York sends your Majesty his respects.
5I saw him down, thrice up again and fighting.
From helmet to the spur, all blood he was.
Is he still alive, good uncle? Three times in an hour I saw him down, and three times up again and fighting. He was covered with blood from his helmet to his spurs.
10The noble earl of Suffolk also lies.
That bloodily did yawn upon his face.
15And cries aloud, "Tarry, my cousin Suffolk.
My soul shall thine keep company to heaven.
20Upon these words I came and cheered him up.


Leading provider of property and casualty insurance.
Travelers is a leading provider of commercial property and personal insurance in the United States. The company's diverse business lines offer its global customers a wide range of coverage in the auto, home and business settings. The company has over 7.7 million personal insurance policies in force.
The company is the second-largest writer of commercial U.S. property casualty insurance and the third-largest writer of U.S. personal insurance through independent agents.
- Personal insurance offers a wide variety of products including automobile, homeowners, renters and condominium policies. We also offer coverages for boats and yachts, floods, identity theft protection, and valuable items.
- Business insurance offers a broad array of coverages to businesses of all sizes, including workers' compensation, property, general liability, product liability, commercial auto, and business owners' package policies. We also offer surety and fiduciary products to businesses and self-employed professionals, and a wide variety of products tailored to the unique needs of individual industries including oil & gas, construction, agribusiness, transportation, and ocean marine coverages.
- Financial, Professional & International Insurance includes surety and financial liability coverages, as well as property and casualty products specially targeted to international customers.
The company has 13,000 trained Claim professionals located in 30 Claim field offices serving every state, as well as a self-contained dedicated Catastrophe Response Team that can move into a disaster area within hours. Customers can report claims 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
In 2012, Travelers reported revenues of $25.7 billion, up 1% from the previous year, and net income of $2.47 billion.
The company's headquarters are in NYC but major offices are in St. Paul, MN with Insurance Operations headquarters in Hartford, CT.
1864 - First company in America to insure against accidents.
1897 - Issued the first automobile insurance policy.
1903 - Opened the first school to train insurance agents.
1904 - Organized the first corps of safety engineers.
1907 - Organized to write property coverages.
1912 - Offered first combination auto policy.
1936 - Launched a drivers' education program.
1953 - Developed the first automobile simulator for driver education purposes.
1956 - Installed first computer, an IBM 650.
1956 - First insurer to establish its own weather research center.
1966 - Held first transcontinental conference call.
1968 - Set up the first employee-staffed claim "hot lines."
1971 - Established the first insurance office of consumer information to answer customers' questions about their policies.
1980 - Developed the first interactive company/agency computer system.
1996 - Developed the first automated fraud detection system as a potent new weapon in the battle against insurance fraud.
1997 - Launched the first insurance policy to protect individuals using personal computers for online banking.
1997 - After Hurricane Andrew, the company developed the industry's first catastrophe response vehicles, self-contained claim offices on wheels.
1999 - Introduced industry-first identity fraud expense reimbursement coverage; insurance protection to consumers for cost of clearing their name and correcting their financial records if they are victim of the growing crime of identity theft.
2003 - Launched MyTravelers.com, allowing customers to pay their bill, check claim status, and view policy information online.
2004- Travelers became part of St. Paul Travelers, creating a new company with 285 years combined experience in managing risk with integrity, innovation and discipline.
In 2007, the company purchased its familiar red umbrella logo from Citigroup and changed its name from St. Paul Travelers to Travelers Companies in 2007.
Travelers was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index in June 2009.


Engine harness for LS2/LS3 Vortec 58 tooth engine shown. Actual product may vary.
Our stock harnesses are 4 feet from the rear of engine passenger side.
Available options Transmission, Electric Fans, Air conditioning and Upgraded Braided loom.
Please call for custom ECM and/or Fuse Box Location, extra Length.
Please call for harness package with programmed computer and pedal $1095 add transmission controller (4L60e/4L65e/4L70e/4L80e) for $200 more.
An engine management harness is pretty much what you will find from most wiring harness companies. Basically, it contains all of the necessary functions to make the engine start and run, while also supplying any necessary signals from the computer such as speedometer and tachometer.
Our engine management harness contains any fuses and relays that will be needed, and the required splicing on the consumer's end of it is fairly basic. There are no main power feeds required for this harness, just a single switched ignition power will switch a relay in the harness that in turn, supplies 12V power to all of the required engine sensors and the ECU.
These harnesses are designed for the hot rod, or project car that will be using aftermarket or mechanical gauges. There is no output wire for oil pressure or temperature gauges since the aftermarket usually supplies sending units and wiring for these. The harness will have provisions to plug in to the stock oil pressure and coolant temperature sensors on the engine for use with OBD scanners/gauges.
All of our harnesses, whether it is a complete custom harness, or our engine management harness, come with an easily accessible DLC (Data Link Connector) that is usually long enough to be mounted in the passenger compartment. This allows for easy access to the ECU via a laptop or standard scan tool.
Harnesses come covered in standard OE split loom. Optional braided loom available for an extra charge.
The Fuses and Relays for our harnesses come in a compact OEM looking Fuse/Relay center where all of the components are in one central location. The fuse/relay center style is shown below. All of the fuses and relays are labeled on the underside of the covers just like a factory vehicle.
Not sure if you have VVT or DOD/AFM features?
2007 and up 58x engines have the option of Variable Valve timing to alter the camshaft timing while the engine is running. You can look for a few things to indicate if you have VVT. First, the plug on the front of the engine pointing downward on the driver's side will have 5 wires going to it. A non-VVT engine will have 3 wires.
Front timing cover with 5 wire connector for VVT, and bulge in the timing cover under the water pump are indications that the engine you are working with has VVT.
Engines with AFM/DOD have a 5 pin connector next to the oil pressure sensor in the valley cover under the intake. This should be noticeable from the back of the engine. Also, raised vanes should be visible on the valley cover instead of it just being flat and smooth as on non-DOD/AFM engines.
View from back of engine showing DOD/AFM connector.


NEW ORLEANS – You probably used to watch him on the TV classic show Different Strokes.
He was Willis Jackson. He is actor Todd Bridges.
And he's in New Orleans to go to church with Pastor Gus Brown at Interfaith Christian Fellowship. And it starts Friday July 28 at 1pm. And if you're interested, the event is free.
It's at the Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, 198 West 2nd Street, Laplace, LA 70068.
Todd has lived and worked amongst some of the most famous and influential individuals in the world. For over twenty-five years, he has victoriously survived a rapidly changing business. He experienced his second rise to fame, as "Juice" on The Young and the Restless (1973). Todd's career began and rocketed when he was only six years of age, forcing his family to relocate from a quiet, friendly neighborhood in San Francisco to the fast-paced stardom of Los Angeles, California in the early 70s.
Todd Bridges has been clean and sober for nine years. He is a working actor, director, and producer and is well on his way to the rebirth of a promising television and motion picture career. Together, Todd and his brother, James Jr., have partnered to establish their own production company, "Little Bridge Productions".


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Well here we are, folks. It's election day, and no matter the outcome tonight, many of us will be left feeling dissatisfied, disgruntled and downright dirty. This election has easily been the most contentious race in living memory. Forget the candidates, the electorate have been doing their own mud slinging. From literally electrifying yard signs to prevent thievery, to out-and-out brawling in the streets, Americans have never been so up-in-arms over a presidential race.
So now that it's almost over (please dear lord let it be over soon) it's time to start figuring out our new normal. We need to get back to living together in peace. Leave your angry memes behind and strike out on a new path, one of kindness and brotherhood. Start un-ironically asking "What would Jesus do?" and just do that. Because we are one nation, indivisible, even after all this mess. So, with that in mind, here are 10 things you can do to cure your post-election blues.
Have coffee with your neighbor.
Don't talk about politics. Talk about the HOA and just when the hell are they gonna fix the jogging trail? Talk about the most recent local football game and who won. Talk about things that make you remember that life goes on.
Take a walk somewhere beautiful.
It's Fall after all, grab a sweater (or sunglasses if you live in Texas) and take a stroll outside in nature. Admire the changing leaves if you're fortunate enough to live where the leaves change, or just enjoy the silent solitude of being surrounded by creation.
Rake up a bunch of leaves and jump in them.
I'm totally serious about this. If you've got kids, get them involved. It will be fun, I promise.
Speaking of kids, go hang out with some kids.
Children are a blessing to all of us. They do not care who wins the presidential election. They do not care about politics, or healthcare, or immigration reform. They care about cartoons, and superheroes, and magical fairy princesses. Finding a leftover piece of halloween candy is like winning the lottery to them. So whether you hang out with your own kids, your best friend's kids, or your nieces and nephews, it will put everything into perspective.
Adult coloring books are a thing now, and coloring has been shown to have therapeutic properties. They make them in all kinds of fun types. There are Harry Potter adult coloring books, and swear word coloring books, in addition to intricate abstract design coloring books.
You deserve it. Besides, we've all been losing sleep over this election.
The weekend really isn't that far away. Take a couple days and go somewhere fun. It doesn't have to be a long road trip, just get out of your daily grind and have a mini vacation.
Studies have shown that hugging releases oxytocin. Oxytocin has several attachment effects on the human body, not the least of which is lowering our heart rate and cortisol (stress hormone) level. It also increases the feeling of trust, which is something we have all been lacking in over the last few months.
Not only is it fun to bake, but when you're done, you've got something delicious to give to someone you care about! Share the love. Make some cookies. Cupcakes are good too. They also work as peace offerings for someone you might have run your mouth off to recently.
When all else fails, have a drink.
Alcohol can lower your blood pressure and have all manner of health benefits. Red wine and whiskey have both been shown to be good for us when taken in moderation. Just don't go overboard or you'll end up like your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving ranting about the election and crying into your glass. Take my advice. Stop at one.


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Sibi Pulpally is a photographer from Kerala, India. In 2009, he won the Kerala Lalithakala Academy Award for his photo Kaalukal urangunnilla (English: Legs never sleep). He worked as the researcher and one of the producer of documentary Have You Seen Arana? which has won several awards internationally. He also worked as the still photographer for the film Guda, the first film in the tribal language of the Kattunaikkars.

Personal life
Sibi Pulpally was born in Pulpally, Wayanad district. He runs a photography studio called Sibees Studio in Pulpally.

Awards
 Kerala Lalithakala Academy Award 2009
 Kerala State Photography Award 2019: Consolation Prize
 Kodamana Satyanath Photography Award by Premji Smaraka Samiti
 Victor George Award

Solo exhibitions
 Sthree jeevitam (English:Women's Life): Lalithakala Academy Art Gallery, Mananthavadi, Wayanad

References

External links
 ഒറ്റ ഫ്രെയിമിലെ ചിന്ത എന്ന വെല്ലുവിളി (English meaning:The Challenge of Thought in a Frame): An article by Siby Pulpally (Language: Malayayalam)

Living people
Photographers from Kerala
1973 births

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I'm here at Lullwater Preserve on the Emory University campus.
I serve as a senior technical advisor in the division of global HIV/AIDS at CDC.
the field of global Human Resources for Health, or HRH, for the past decade.
expanding HIV service provision, and maternal and newborn centers.
newborns, requires innovative workforce strategies.
acceptable HRH approaches to expanding healthcare delivery.
global health initiatives including maternal and newborn health.
present relati, relevant policy implications.
task sharing, and distinguishing the difference between these two approaches.
task sharing in maternal and newborn care.
the HIV virus, an intervention commonly known as PMTCT.
policy implications regarding cash shifting and cash sharing.
the World Health Organization spear headed global consensus.
HRH, the world would fail to meet the millennium development goals for health.
formulating new workforce strategies for delivering health care.
This strategy was officially termed task shifting.
shifting: global recommendations and guidelines.
where appropriate, to health workers with shorter training and fewer qualifications.
existing human resources and eases bottle necks and service delivery.
who receive specific competency based training.
medicine's report preparing for the future of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
professional collaboration when providing care.
upon the collective input of the health unit or health team.
contract according to need as befitting low resource environments.
specific research regarding this approach is still emerging.
this term unless task sharing approaches are specifically noted.
pediatric HIV care and the voluntary male medical circumcision program.
HIV acquisition by at least 60%.
coincided with decreased HIV prevalence among circumcised males in the area.
>> Western Kenya has the highest HIV/AIDS burden in the country.
has been proven to dramatically reduce the risk of contracting HIV.
Jhpiego helped their 100,000th client get circumcised.
a father of 2, living in Homa Bay County in Western Kenya.
at his home to talk about the benefits of voluntary medical male circumcision.
facility where Joash met up with other men who are waiting to get circumcised.
Joash was told more about the procedure.
A counselor explained how to care for himself in order to hear properly.
learned how to protect himself against HIV by using condoms in the future.
The very next day, we found Joash in the market with his friends.


The Venice Biennale is a spectacular extravaganza. La Biennale includes art, architecture, cinema, dance, music and theatre. Most popular are the International Art Exhibition that occurs every other year, and the International Film Festival. Founded in 1895, it is avante garde and cutting edge. I can't do an explanation justice, so click here for the link to the Biennale's website.
This is the fourth time I've attended the Biennale Art Exhibition. I was first introduced to it a number of years ago through the Chicago based, non-profit art organization, Art Encounter. A Sedona friend and artist, Ellen Kamerling, is one of the founders and also the travel director of Art Encounter. My first two Biennale experiences were under the knowledgable, watchful, and astute eyes of Ellen and her co-founder Joanna Pinsky. The experiences were life changing for me and fed my love of modern art. Michael and I attended the Biennale 2 years ago while still living in the US, because I was missing the charms of Venice and wanted him to experience the magic.
This year, living in Roma, I couldn't imagine being so close, actually in the same country! and not going, so last weekend Michael and I took the train to Venice and spent the weekend. In hindsight, I regret that I didn't do my homework before attending and look online to learn more about the main exhibition and the numerous ones that are found throughout the city. A weekend is hardly enough time to view the 2 main exhibitions at the Arsenale and Giardini. There are over 150 artists from 37 countries represented in these two venues, plus there are 44 collateral events around town representing 88 "national participations" (their words, not mine). It's overwhelming.
I have to admit, I didn't LOVE it. I've loved past exhibitions. Talked about them for years. Committed some art to memory. This year, not so much. Don't get me wrong, there were some fabulous exhibits at both main venues and the ones we dropped into around the city. Some too that we didn't see, that my Austrailian friend Margo called to my attention from this website, Yellowtrace, which provides a nice highlight of the author's favorites from the Biennale.
But this year's theme brought many more paintings, very small paintings and lots of them, that were difficult to see. It was near to impossible to read the information cards about each exhibit because they were written in tiny script and in some parts of the exhibition hall there were so many different things displayed you couldn't tell who's work went with what description. I missed seeing the beauty of the Arsenale building. So many fake walls had been erected to hold the zillions of little paintings, that I didn't feel I was in this magical place. Sometimes the fake walls were used well, like when exhibiting R. Crumb's 250 comic drawings of the Book of Genesis. And saying that this year's exhibition was about "obsession" was an understatement. You just have to see the work of the American artist Sarah Sze to understand the meaning of the word. Mama Mia!
I think I need to go back, to see what I didn't see the first time. Not sure that I will, though. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the following photos of some of the art from this year's Biennale.
An email came across my desk a week ago through the AWAR (American Womens Association of Rome) Resources line. It said that the Whiffenpoofs would be in Rome and were performing a concert at John Cabot University. They were looking for other concert venues and/or would be willing to sing in exchange for a meal. I love to cook and entertain, so I thought well how hard can that be? Let's invite them for dinner!
Ok, so if you don't know already who or what a Whiffenpoof is, let me tell you. The Whiffenpoofs (Whiffs for short) are the oldest collegiate a cappella group in the US. They are all college seniors at Yale University. There are 14 of them, chosen each academic year by the previous group of Whiffenpoofs. This year's group appeared on the US TV show Glee. The Whiffs are known for upholding the tradition of generally performing in a tux with tails or a suit, and they don't do any "beat boxing" which is making instrument sounds with their voices. They perform about 100 concerts a year to raise funds for their "World Tour" and this year most of them took the academic year off because of the rigors of their concert schedule. This summer they are visiting 25 countries in 87 days! Click here and watch the video clip, where Mike of the Whiffenpoofs introduces themselves.
My Michael thought I was nuts when I suggested the idea, but I was so tickled by the thought of it that I just moved forward with the planning anyway, trusting that it would be a great evening. We invited about 15 local friends, a mix of Italians, Americans, an Australian, a Spanish/Canadian and an Irish thrown in, to make it interesting! I asked friends to bring a bottle of wine, and I spent Sunday afternoon in the kitchen whipping up pasta sauce, salads and some munchies.
The Whiffs started to arrive a bit before our other guests. They were hot and sweaty from sightseeing, but polite, sweet and very appreciative of our air conditioning and the prospect of a free home cooked meal. Michael and I scurried to open the wine we had available before friends brought more. For the next hour or so, friends streamed in and we all got to know each other a bit. The Whiffs happily sang a few songs before we ate, then gave us a longer concert after dinner. We had thought to take them out to the Re di Roma park nearby to sing for the locals, but as you will hear in the clips below, the accoustics were so good in our living room, and the wine was close by, so we just stayed put.
Unfortunately, no one got a full video of their performance. We have some pictures, audio files and a few video clips which you can see my clicking on the name of the songs below. If you ever get a chance to see them live, it will be a treat that you will long remember. You can visit their website by clicking here and click here to see them performing in concert. Their singing brought tears to my eyes and it's been days now that I can't get the songs out of my head. Thanks again guys for a wonderful evening and safe travels!
Rome is home to the famous movie studios at Cinecitta. Started by Mussolini in 1937 and later made famous by the Italian director Federico Fellini, the studio became the home of Italian cinema. I wrote about the studio last year for the blog ItalianNotebook, during a strike by studio employees who were trying to save a part of it from becoming a theme park. You can view that post here for a bit more background on the studios. Recently, my new Australian friend Margo asked me to accompany her on a studio tour, so off we went.
Each day there's an English language tour at 11:30, but we arrived earlier so we could enjoy the self tour beforehand. The self tour includes several really cool exhibits that showcase the history of the studio and the process of filmmaking. There are displays highlighting the different departments that work together to make a movie, such as costumes, props and set design, etc. Margo's daughter works in Australia in TV helping to procure props, so her knowledge of the process helped make the tour even more interesting. You get to walk onto a set of a submarine and to experience how real it feels to be inside, complete with working parts and sound.
The guided part of the tour took us onto the back lot. We toured Stage 5, which was home to Fellini and all of his movies were made there. It is so big that it was possible to recreate full streets, like Via Veneto, inside. Currently, a film about Fellini and his relationship with a news writer is being made inside Stage 5. We got to walk through some of the sets being used for this movie. It was amazing to experience the level of detail that goes into making it all look so real. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take any pictures inside Stage 5.
We next toured one of the 3 permanent sets on the lot. This set is a re-creation of an ancient city and was used for the filming of the BBC/HBO series Rome and The Passion of the Christ. It looks real, but the buildings are actually constructed from fiberglass and what look to be heavy stones are made from styrofoam. The set is multifunctional, as it can be a setting for a movie taking place in ancient Rome or Greece or Egypt. There are also parts that are made to look like 15th century Italy. These sections were used to film the BBC production of the Borgias, which is available on Netflix and is very different from The Borgias available on Showtime.
Next we walked through an "urban" set, which is constructed from tall scaffolding that can be fronted to look like a variety of cities, as you can see in some of the photos below. This set was used for The Gangs of New York. The guided tour ended at this point and before we left, we also viewed the final "permanent" set, viewable on the self tour, which is the recreation of a street in a small Italian village that is used for a popular Italian TV show. It was a delightful morning at the movies!
Ah, London with the sun shining for 5 days straight is a glorious thing! I'd only seen her in the cold and damp. This time, the temp was in the high 60's during the day and just a few fluffy clouds in the sky. Michael had a few days of meetings in the London and Brighton offices, but we arrived over the weekend and took advantage of some of the city's treasures. We enjoyed great meals at Bibendum, Zuma and The Botanist (our favorite place in Sloan Square where we befriended one of the bartenders, Janus, who remembered us from our previous visit in January!). We hung out on Kings Road and at the SouthBank where there were food festivals and beer gardens along the Thames. We drank really yummy margaritas. We went to see Merrily We Roll Along, a revival musical featuring music by Stephen Sondheim, and stayed up way past our bedtime dancing at a private club, Home House, with new friends.
While Michael worked, I shopped around at new and familiar stores, explored more of the city including Covenant Garden; treated myself to lunch outside at a Greek restaurant and explored a small part of the British Museum.
I enjoyed cocktails at The Botanist with the windows open to the street; tried and failed to get into Westminster Abbey (they were preparing for a 60th Jubilee celebration for the Queen) and saw a great exhibit of contemporary Soviet art at the Saatchi Gallery, some of which I'm sharing with you below. I must admit, it was difficult to get myself back on the airplane this time to return to Rome.


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