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The 'CEO-Mayors' Who Care About Cities Instead of Profits
Dan Gilbert of Detroit is just one example of what a CEO determined to help their communities can accomplish.
By Peter Harkness | Founder, Publisher Emeritus
One of the most compelling urban tales I've encountered in recent years is about Dan Gilbert, the entrepreneur who decided five years ago to move his company and all its employees from the Detroit suburbs into downtown as the city was sliding into bankruptcy. A risk-taker in business, he was willing to make one huge bet on a historic urban revival.
Gilbert's company is Rock Ventures, better known for one of its subsidiaries, Quicken Loans. It has been enormously successful, to the point where Gilbert's net worth has doubled in just the past year to almost $4 billion, according to Forbes. Gilbert is reported to have purchased as many as 40 buildings in the downtown area and moved more than 12,000 of his employees into them while recruiting other companies to fill more.
In a city as down and out as Detroit, you can imagine what kind of clout this new "CEO-mayor" now wields. He seems intent on marketing not only his conglomeration of companies, but also his city, because the fates of both are now deeply intertwined.
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Gilbert's business decision sets him apart from another breed of urban CEO described in an informative new book by Sam Williams, the legendary chamber of commerce leader in Atlanta, who for two decades has been immersed in the challenge of making urban areas more economically vibrant. Williams' book The CEO as Urban Statesman provides five poignant examples of current or retired top company executives who devoted their time, talents and accumulated knowledge to their communities, not to enrich themselves or their companies, but to improve the quality of local life.
The contrast is important. If Gilbert and his company succeed, chances are much greater that Detroit will survive and perhaps become economically vibrant once again. It's the company that matters. The urban statesmen that Williams describes have a different goal -- solving problems or achieving specific results for their cities, with little thought given to their own companies or personal gain. Gilbert is doing well by doing good; the others are doing good by harnessing the skills that made their companies and careers do well.
I always have been concerned that the divide between the public and private sectors is too wide in this country. There is one obvious exception: the legislative process -- from the U.S. Congress to the county council -- where the business lobby often is quite effective. But at the executive and managerial level, both sides need to learn more about each other. So Williams' book, which is instructive as well as descriptive, contributes important information and analysis at an opportune time.
One of the five stories I found particularly compelling because it was so unusual was about Columbus, Ga., and John Turner, whose family owns the W.C. Bradley Co., a diversified local institution since 1885 now in real estate, fishing gear and outdoor equipment. After an effort that took 15 years, Turner's public-private partnership successfully created the world's largest urban whitewater course on a 2.5-mile stretch of the Chattahoochee River that crosses the Alabama-Georgia line. Getting this done required navigating a series of obstacles represented by two state governments, two cities (Columbus and Phenix City, Ala.), four federal agencies, and a range of environmental and civic groups. It was complicated further by the need to purchase two old electric power dams.
Construction to remove most of the old infrastructure and restore the river's traditional rapids began in 2010 after years of preparation and was largely completed in two years. Scores of permits were required at every stage. "Permitting to do anything in the river," Turner said after the project, "is typically your worst nightmare." Still, the first year of the whitewater course's operation was a rousing success, attracting thousands of tourists and winning praise from USA Today as one of the 12 "greatest man-made adventures on the planet." And everyone is agreed that it was John Turner's savvy and patience, along with the full cooperation of the Army Corps of Engineers, that got the job done.
The other four stories in Williams' book are about Atlanta, Houston, Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City. All involve the familiar roadblocks presented by regional and intergovernmental tensions, uncertain funding and so on. But all had positive endings. The one clear difference from Dan Gilbert's Detroit effort is that some of the CEOs involved could not have done what they did while still in their jobs. They had to be retired to take on the role of urban statesman.
The question is whether this corporate involvement will continue at a time of business consolidation and globalization. It's a question that should be discussed beyond the halls of chambers of commerce.
Peter Harkness | Founder, Publisher Emeritus | pharkness@governing.com
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Jimmie Vaughan - 'The Pleasure's All Mine'
Posted October 2020
Long time Boomerocity readers know that not only are we huge blues fans, but we are also big ol' fans of Jimmie Vaughan!
Our first interview with Jimmie was last year (here) wherein we discussed his then new album, 'Baby Please Come Home'. We also talked about the untimely passing of his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as the state of the blues and the music business.
This time around, we discussed his new album, 'The Pleasure's All Mine', the history of the blues as he knows it, and how the pandemic is affecting the music business.
The viewer on the lest is a slide show enhanced audio of our latest chat. As with all of our interviews, they're laid back and intended for you to feel that you're right there with us, listening in on the conversation. After listening to it, please tell your friends about it and invite them to listen to it, as well.
Below the video of the interview is the press release for 'The Pleasure's All Mine'. It's chock full of background information about the album. To order the album, just click on the album cover, below. Keep up with the latest on Jimmie at JimmieVaughan.com.
The Boomerocity Interview With Jimmie Vaughan
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A decade ago, Jimmie Vaughan released his definitive album Blues, Ballads and Favorites. It was a stunning collection of 15 of his favorite songs, from Billy Emerson's "The Pleasure's All Mine" to Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away," and featured guest vocals from band members Lou Ann Barton and Bill Willis. Vaughan followed the album up in 2011 with More Blues, Ballads and Favorites, digging deep into the music that had helped shape his life in the blues.
On October 30, 2020, the Last Music Co. will release a special 3-vinyl LP set of these two albums titled The Pleasure's All Mine, spotlighting the music of one of the true pioneers in showcasing the roots of American music. It will also be available on a 2-disc CD collection.
"When I talk about country and blues, they're the same thing," Vaughan says. "Muddy Waters and Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and Jimmy Reed. When I was a kid, I didn't understand the difference. Everybody was always asking me, 'Why do you want to play blues? Why don't you play country?' But I would listen to the country guys and they would be doing a Jimmy Reed song. They're playing the same lick. And Ray Charles, Little Milton, Guitar Junior, Lonnie Brooks, B.B. King — they all did country songs. Is Bob Wills country blues or jazz? And the answer is, it's American music. I'm tired of trying to pigeonhole everything. I want to bring it together; it comes from the same place."
When Jimmie Vaughan was a young teenager in Oak Cliff, Texas, his father told him to take guitar lessons if he wanted to really learn the instrument. But when Vaughan's teacher told the guitar student it wasn't going to work because the student "was too far gone" to learn from the lesson books, Jimmie knew he was on his own. Which was perfect for him, because the blues would be his teacher for life. For those who find themselves living inside this true American music, it becomes a way of life, something that provides a musical force to follow forever.
Vaughan became possessed by his instrument, and the blues songs played on the Black radio station in Dallas. It has been that way ever since: more than a half-century of playing the blues the guitarist hears in his head and feels in his heart. When something this strong takes over, there is no way out. Rather, it becomes a pursuit that goes deeper and deep inside.
When Jimmie Vaughan first heard songs like Phil Upchurch's "You Can't Sit Down," The Nightcaps' "Wine, Wine, Wine," and B.B. King's many hit songs in the early 1960s, he knew he had found his music. And ever since then, it's been a constant quest to play blues, whether it was in early 1970s Austin bands like Storm and then the Fabulous Thunderbirds, or later with brother Stevie Ray Vaughan on their Family Style album, and on his own releases throughout the 1990s and in 2001.
Then the solo albums stopped, until in 2010 Jimmie Vaughan had an idea to start recording the Great American Blues Songbook and found a home with Proper Music in the U.K. to release the music. He assembled the kind of band most musicians can only dream about and began recording his dream set list at the Top Hat and Wire Studios in Austin. Never one to back down from a great idea, in 2011 Vaughan and band went back into the same Top Hat Studio and recorded a second collection of some of his favorite songs, zeroing in on the music's ability to light a fuse wherever it was heard.
To help celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the first album's release and setting the stage for Vaughan's 70th birthday in March 2021, the Last Music Co.'s Malcolm Mills wanted to mark the special occasion with these undeniable collections. Also included for release on the same date is the vinyl reissue of 2016's Jimmie Vaughan Trio featuring Mike Flanigin, and the Live at C-Boy's release, which featured songs recorded at the venerable Austin nightspot that Vaughan and crew call home when they are in town.
In true Texas fashion, Jimmie Vaughan has helped give new life to the music that has been his lifeline all these decades, becoming a hero to those who know the life-giving strengths of America's real gift to musical history. Even better, Vaughan still feels like he's just getting started, devoted to making sure he is able to give back to the music that has given him so much. The blues is in his blood and has been there since the start. And will stay there forever.

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On a dry sunny day you can take your drawing practice out into the light and maybe get a yummy treat too! Piggyback drawing with some of your favorite activities like sunshine, hanging out and eating! Dave, my all around tech and design guy, and I went out to a coffee place with outdoor seating and tables (alright, it WAS a Starbucks - but in a very retro building!). In the back of the patio where we landed, there were trees casting shadows on the table and thus on my drawing paper. It was a bright, cool, sunny spring like day where we could sit outside and draw and sip latte. With a friend along, you can talk and draw and eat - alone you can draw and contemplate and sip your tea.
The Ah-Ha: When you get out, you leave all your distractions behind and it becomes some quality drawing practice time - the stuff that you may otherwise never find time to do!
Place your paper on the ground, on a table or even taped up to a wall. Any of this will work as long as there are shadows being cast onto the surface of your paper. I've also included some transparent stuff like cellophane, a clear plastic cup and art supplies to look at too. These are all blocking light in various ways making different effects on the paper with their shadows. It is so awesome to play with making the shadows show up differently with their darker shapes and patterns on the surface of your paper by flipping and turning the objects and moving them on your paper.
I'm going to use the shadows from a tree that is farther away from our table. The tree casts larger shadows with less distinct edges. The tree tall and is about four feet away from the table that my paper is on so it makes lighter and less obvious shadows.
By contrast, an object that is set directly on your paper like the clear plastic cup will have crisp edges in the shadows that are right up against the cup. As the shadow moves further away from the cup the shadows edges also get less distinct as other light bounces into the shadow. The clear cup or any glass make wonderful patterns in their shadows that you can copy right on the paper.
With vine charcoal OR soft drawing pencils you can make soft marks on your paper right on top of the shadows that "fall" on your paper. You get to have fun drawing on top of an image (the shadow) that is already there for you to follow. Start by lightly drawing right on top of the darker areas. You will get a truer copy of the shadow by NOT placing an outline around the edge of the shadow. This might be really hard for you to STOP yourself from doing. Practice NOT circling the shadow shapes. Work out from the center of the shadow out towards the edges of the shadow.
From time to time bring your drawing OUT from "under" the shadow and take a look. The first drawing here was done in pencil. After I pulled it away from the shadow, I started doing some smearing of the graphite. I probably continued with smearing and then put it back into the shadow - possibly in a different position and drew on it again using vine charcoal.
The shadows here are far from the tree that is blocking the sunlight. When light is blocked by something that is farther away from the surface of your paper, the resulting shadow has FUZZY edges that are NOT crisp. It would actually be hard, with the shadow cast from the tree, to see where the edges of these fuzzy shadows are exactly. Hopefully realizing this will keep you from "clearing the matter up" by pressing a crisp, dark line into the fuzzy edged value of the tree branches on your drawing paper. Work in layers of lightly drawn value from the inside of the shadow out to the edges. This method will give you a way to make a drawing that involves the true nature of the shadow that you are drawing on.
When I got the vine charcoal drawn, I then I smeared that down too. (It doesn't have to be smeared!) You get to draw and explore and learn about applying value to your paper with different materials. Try whatever you like and whatever comes to mind!
Remember that the earth moves and the shadows change more quickly than you might expect!
For the last drawing step, I used a juicy ink pen (See: Ezine Seven, "Pen, Ink and Wash".) I used the pen to make the black lines. Lines that line up in as sequence of intervals with space initially in-between each line is called hatching. When the lines get crossed they are called CROSS-HATCHING. You could draw any way you want here with the pen or charcoal or pencil - or add in any other media that you like. Cross-hatching on top of you drawing might be a good way also to start to experiment with cross-hatching. You could also go into your drawing with a "find a new format" viewfinder (See: Ezine Ten, "Draw, Cut and Place".) Have FUN!
And why not some cross-hatching?
Just draw over the shadows like you're sweeping with a broom or a brush across the shadow. Move from fuzzy edge to fuzzy edge and back again without lifting your pencil or charcoal. Keep your hand and pressure on the pencil or charcoal soft and light. Make lightly applied, continuous marks. Experiment to make a shadow that is drawn from a smooth group of marks. Avoid making dark zigzag lines that have a high contrast to the white paper.
Using this shadow method allows you to practice drawing in a way that is very relaxed. You can draw without worrying about how your drawing is turning out. You are trusting in the designs of the shadows to give you your shapes and values. You can enjoy drawing with any and all inner critics turned OFF. Practice drawing without expectations!


Monday, October 4th, Posh Restaurant in Scottsdale, hosted "Chef 4 a Night" featuring a menu prepared and created by Tony Morales of Desert Smoke BBQ.
The menu featured 3 courses for $29, and we can't tell you how excited we were to sit down at this dinner… you'll see why.
Yum. After this, we knew we were in for a treat. Everyone at our table begged for another serving even after the meal was over!
I'm already a big fan of Desert Smoke BBQ's Sweet & Spicy Sauce, so this dish had already won me over. But, the love didn't stop there. It was everything I love in a dish… and a classy take on Southern barbecue. Getting it all in one bite = Heaven.
TO DIE FOR! Bacon, maple syrup, and waffles… you can't go wrong there. My only complaint? I wish there had been more… and more… and more and more. The waffle was so light and fluffy, I could have had these all on their own. The maple bombs added a fun-quirky element to the plate and were the talk of the crowd (literally!). Delicious.
The verdict: Tony is a genius and we'll most definitely be present the next time he's cheffing. And, we'll start a petition to have his 3rd course make a second appearance.


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EISCAT_3D: Did you miss the Midnight Solar Eclipse?
A few weeks ago, we reported about a very special partial solar eclipse of the midnight sun, which occurred in the night of 1st/2nd June 2011. This was possible because of the northern hemisphere summer and its long polar day during which the sun does not set at all for many weeks. Of course our Friday picture feature of that week showed a couple of photos of the eclipse. Also the KAIRA blog featured photos of the eclipse, taken from a hilltop not far from Sodankylä.
Just recently, however, we were made aware of a phantastic time lapse film of this eclipse, taken in Norway, by Eivind Kolstad. Enjoy!
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Heaven, Hell, & Alder Hey
Atul Gawande, MD, made what I consider a devastating point, though in passing, during some recent podcast (here), called to my attention by an article in Crisis (here). It was a tale of two nineteenth-century inventions that changed the practice of medicine, unquestionably for the better: anaesthesia and antisepsis.
The first demonstration of the ether gas was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in October, 1846, by a Boston dentist, William T. G. Morton. For the first time, surgical operations could be performed painlessly. Within two months, the invention was known and being applied in every capital of Europe, and in little more time it became commonplace internationally. The number of surgical operations vastly increased, as it was no longer necessary to hold patients down, and act very quickly.
Joseph Lister first used carbolic acid (phenol) to perform sterile surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in August, 1865. This would have the effect of vastly increasing the survival rate from these now commonplace surgical operations. But the news took years to circulate, and by the twentieth century surgeons were still working with infected equipment in filthy environments. Indeed, I have read accounts of the horrors of battlefield medicine in the First World War: men with survivable injuries, lost by the hundred thousands from ignorant, unnecessarily unhygienic medical procedures.
As Dr Gawande points out — in passing — both advances made life easier on patients. But the second saved lives on a — vastly — greater scale. The first was unique, in making life easier for doctors, who no longer had to operate on screaming, writhing customers. This also, incidentally, hugely increased their trade, and thus their income. Washing up, effectively, only added nuisance.
I already knew this history — my mommy was a ward matron, after all — but until the comparison was spelt out, the full significance was lost on me. I had read the "official" versions in several standard medical histories. They assume the slow spread of antisepsis was a problem of communications. Gentle reader will note that this is a lie. Methods of communication did not slow in the generation between the two inventions.
And I mention this with some animus, having read a few outraged emails from doctors defending the staff at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, who in their "disinterested, empathetic" way were eager to terminate the existence of the baby, Alfie Evans, "to ease his suffering," in defiance of his parents' plainly expressed wishes. (The child was comatose and not in pain.)
It is forty years since the book, Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health, was published and "progressively" ignored. The author, the thoughtful Catholic anarchist Ivan Illich, went to considerable trouble to document all of the surprising allegations he made against modern, over-professionalized, institutional medicine, and the phenomenon of Iatrogenesis (doctor-created ills) that followed from the "medicalization" and "pharmaceutical invasion" of modern life. I could tell first-hand stories myself to curl my reader's ears.
The book is worth revisiting because Illich studied these phenomena with the breadth that is rarely accorded to them. He stepped beyond mere technical questions to the larger issue of how we deal spiritually with sickness and death, yet without once lapsing into bathos.
We hear clichés crediting modern medicine with the reduction of the death rate — such that by the mid-twentieth century life expectancy had been restored to what it had been in the parish records of the High Middle Ages. (It plummeted through the Renaissance.) Some of this was due to medical and pharmaceutical advances. But most of it was attributable to improvements in hygiene — to the tradition from Pasteur and Lister. The accomplishments of hospitals and "public medicine" have been relatively modest, though incredibly expensive; fundraising requires that they be wildly overstated.
Alder Hey was a hospital caught in a huge scandal over the sale of baby parts from abortions, only a few years ago. This is an extremely profitable business, conducted at the edge of the law. I'm sure many good and conscientious doctors and nurses have worked and still work in that hospital, and so many like it. God bless all who work tirelessly for causes that are genuinely humane. But please do not tell me that the well-paid agents of modern bureaucratic medicine are all saints. It spoils my breakfast.


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Q: Cannot Update string to Date object in mongodb 4.2 I have a string field which consists of date, I am trying to run following command mentioned in Update string to Date object in mongodb
db.getCollection('rft').updateMany(
  {},[{ "$set": { "createdate": { "$toDate": "$create_date" } }}]
);

Getting an error:
Error: Failed to execute script.
Error: the update operation document must contain atomic operators
Details:
DBCollection.prototype.updateMany@src/mongo/shell/crud_api.js:625:1
@(shell):1:1
Can someone please help in updating the records to get new field with date time.

A: Your query seems to work as expected , check playgroud unless something different is expected ...

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Q: Verify the rarefaction wave solution of a general convex scalar problem I am self-studying Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws by Leveque. I've been stuck on Exercise 3.7 for a while.
Question
Consider a general conservation law
$$
u_t+f(u)_x=0
$$
where $f(u)$ is convex. Suppose we have initial data
$$
u(x,0)=\begin{cases}
u_l &\text{if } x<0\\
u_r &\text{if } x>0
\end{cases}
$$
where $u_l<u_r$.
Show that the rarefaction wave with $v=(f')^{-1}$
$$
u(x,t) = \begin{cases}
u_l &\text{if  } ~x<f'(u_l)t\\
v(x/t) &\text{if  } ~f'(u_l)t\leq x \leq f'(u_r)t\\
u_r &\text{if  } ~x>f'(u_r)t
\end{cases}
$$
is a solution in the weak sense, i.e. it satisfies
$$
\int_0^\infty\int_{-\infty}^\infty \left[\phi u_t + \phi f(u)_x\right]dxdt = 0
$$
for $\phi \in C_0^1(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^+)$ or, integrating by parts
$$
\int_0^\infty \int_{-\infty}^\infty\left[\phi_t u +\phi_x f(u)\right]dxdt=-\int_{-\infty}^\infty \phi(x,0)u(x,0)dx
$$
Comments
This question is similar to How to test the weak solution to a hyperbolic conservation law but different enough to warrant a new question, I think.
I originally was going to write up my attempt, but it boils down to splitting up the integrals and performing several substitutions and integrations by parts, and then comparing all the terms to see if they cancel. It's such a mess that I'm not sure anyone would even read it all. Somewhere, I'm messing up my application of integration by parts, or I'm not swapping the integral order correctly.
If it would be better, I can include my full attempt. Please let me know.

A: Split up the integral by considering the domain in $xt$ space. The figure below considers $f(u)=\frac{1}{2} u^2$.

The location of the rarefaction wave trailing edge is defined by $x=f'(u_l)t$, and the leading edge is defined by $x=f'(u_r)t$. The left side of eq. 1 can be written
\begin{align*}
  \int_0^\infty \int_{-\infty}^\infty\left[\phi_t u +\phi_x f(u)\right]dxdt
  &= \int_{-\infty}^\infty \int_0^\infty\phi_t u~dtdx+\int_0^\infty\int_{-\infty}^\infty\phi_x f(u) dx dt\\
  &=I_t+I_x
\end{align*}
First consider $I_t=\int_{-\infty}^\infty \int_0^\infty\phi_t u~dtdx$.
\begin{align*}
  I_t&=\int_{-\infty}^\infty \int_0^\infty\phi_t u~dtdx\\
  &=\int_{-\infty}^0 \int_0^\infty\phi_t u_l~dtdx+\int_{-\infty}^\infty \int_0^\infty\phi_t u~dtdx\\
  &=\int_{-\infty}^0 -\phi(x,0)u_ldx\\&~~~~~+\int_{0}^\infty\left[\int_0^{x/f'(u_r)} \phi_t u_r~dt+\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)} \phi_t v(x/t)~dt+\int_{x/f'(u_l)}^\infty \phi_t u_l~dt\right]dx
\end{align*}
where we have used $\phi\in C_0^1(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^+)$ to assert that $\phi(\infty,0)=0$.
Then, for convenience, define the following
\begin{align*}
 I_{tl}&=\int_{x/f'(u_l)}^\infty \phi_t u_l ~ dt=-\phi(x,x/f'(u_l))u_l\\
 I_{tm}&=\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)} \phi_t v(x/t)dt\\
 I_{tr}&=\int_0^{x/f'(u_r)}\phi_t u_r~dt=\phi(x,x/f'(u_r))u_r-\phi(x,0)u_r
\end{align*}
Now consider $I_x=\int_0^\infty\int_{-\infty}^\infty\phi_x f(u) dx dt$.
\begin{align*}
 I_x&=\int_0^\infty\int_{-\infty}^\infty\phi_x f(u) dx dt\\
 &=\int_0^\infty\left[\int_{-\infty}^{f'(u_l)t}\phi_x f(u_l) dx+\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi_x f(v(x/t)) dx+\int_{f'(u_r)t}^{\infty}\phi_x f(u_r) dx\right]dt
\end{align*}
So
\begin{align*}
 I_{xl}&=\int_{-\infty}^{f'(u_l)t}\phi_x f(u_l) dx=\phi(f'(u_l)t,t)f(u_l)\\
 I_{xm}&=\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi_x f(v(x/t)) dx\\
 I_{xr}&=\int_{f'(u_r)t}^{\infty}\phi_x f(u_r) dx=-\phi(f'(u_r)t,t)f(u_r)
\end{align*}
Now apply integration by parts to $I_{tm}$ and $I_{xm}$. Then
\begin{align*}
I_{tm} &=\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)} \phi_t v(x/t)dt\\
&=\phi v(x/t)\big|_{t=x/f'(u_r)}^{t=x/f'(u_l)}-\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)}\phi v'(x/t)(-\frac{x}{t^2})dt\\
&=\phi(x,x/f'(u_l))v(f'(u_l))-\phi(x,x/f'(u_r))v(f'(u_r))+\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}dt\\
&=\phi(x,x/f'(u_l))u_l-\phi(x,x/f'(u_r))u_r+\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}dt
\end{align*}
where $v(f'(\nu))=\nu$ by the definition of $v$ as the inverse of $f'$. (Note, by the assumed convexity of $f(u)$, its inverse exists.)
\begin{align*}
I_{xm} &=\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi_x f(v(x/t)) dx\\
&=\left.\phi f(v(x/t))\right.\vert_{x=f'(u_l)t}^{x=f'(u_r)t}-\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi f'(v(x/t))v'(x/t)\frac{1}{t}dx\\
&=\phi(f'(u_r)t,t)f(v(f'(u_r)))-\phi(f'(u_l)t,t)f(v(f'(u_l)))-\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}dx\\
&=\phi(f'(u_r)t,t)f(u_r)-\phi(f'(u_l)t,t)f(u_l)-\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}dx
\end{align*}
where $f(v(f'(u_r)))=f(u_r)$ by the definition of $v$ as the inverse of $f'$.
Let's summarize what we have.
\begin{align*}
 \int_0^\infty \int_{-\infty}^\infty\left[\phi_t u +\phi_x f(u)\right]dxdt &= I_t+I_x\\
 &= \int_{-\infty}^0 -\phi(x,0)u_l dx+ \int_0^\infty \left[ I_{tl}+I_{tm}+I_{tr} \right]dx+\int_0^\infty\left[I_{xl}+I_{xm}+I_{xr}\right]dt
\end{align*}
Looking at the results for each of these integrals, we might hope that everything will cancel nicely with an appropriate substitution. Consider $\int_0^\infty I_{tl} dx$ and $\int_0^\infty I_{xl} dt$. For the $I_{tl}$ integral, let $w=x/f'(u_l)$, so $f'(u_l)dw=dx$.
\begin{align*}
 \int_0^\infty I_{tl} dx &= -\int_0^\infty \phi(x,x/f'(u_l))u_l~dx\\
 &= -\int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_l)w,w)f'(u_l)u_ldw\\
 \int_0^\infty I_{xl} dt &= \int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_l)t,t)f(u_l)~dt
\end{align*}
Not quite cancellation, but maybe we can work with it.
$$
\int_0^\infty I_{tl}~dx+\int_0^\infty I_{xl}~dt=(f(u_l)-f'(u_l)u_l)\int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_l)w,w)~dw
$$
Similarly, consider $\int_0^\infty I_{tr}~dx$ and $\int_0^\infty I_{xr}~dt$. Let $w=x/f'(u_r)$, so $f'(u_r)dw=dx$.
\begin{align*}
 \int_0^\infty I_{tr}~dx &= \int_0^\infty \phi(x,x/f'(u_r))u_r~dx-\int_0^\infty\phi(x,0)u_r~dx\\
 &= \int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_r)w,w)f'(u_r)u_r~dw -\int_0^\infty\phi(x,0)u_r~dx\\
 \int_0^\infty I_{xr}~dt &= -\int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_r)t,t)f(u_r)~dt
\end{align*}
So
$$
\int_0^\infty I_{tr}~dx +\int_0^\infty I_{xr}~dt = (f'(u_r)u_r-f(u_r))\int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_r)w,w)~dw - \int_0^\infty \phi(x,0)u_r~dx
$$
Now consider $I_{tm}$ and $I_{xm}$. Again, make the substitution $w=x/f'(u_*)$.
\begin{align*}
 \int_0^\infty I_{tm}~dx&=\int_0^\infty\left[\phi(x,x/f'(u_l))u_l-\phi(x,x/f'(u_r))u_r+\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}dt\right]~dx\\
 &=\int_0^\infty\left[\phi(f'(u_l)w,w)f'(u_l)u_l-\phi(f'(u_r)w,w)f'(u_r)u_r\right]dw+\int_0^\infty\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}~dtdx\\
 \int_0^\infty I_{xm}~dt&=\int_0^\infty\left[\phi(f'(u_r)w,w)f(u_r)-\phi(f'(u_l)w,w)f(u_l)\right]dw-\int_0^\infty\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}~dxdt
\end{align*}
Note that
\begin{align*}
 \int_0^\infty I_{tm}~dx+\int_0^\infty I_{xm}~dt
 &= (f(u_r)-f'(u_r)u_r)\int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_r)w,w)~dw\\
 &+(f'(u_l)u_l-f(u_l))\int_0^\infty \phi(f'(u_l)w,w)~dw\\
 &+\int_0^\infty\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}~dtdx-\int_0^\infty\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}~dxdt
\end{align*}
I claim that
$$
\int_0^\infty\int_{x/f'(u_r)}^{x/f'(u_l)}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}~dtdx=\int_0^\infty\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t}\phi v'(x/t)\frac{x}{t^2}~dxdt
$$
Both of these integrals have the integrand $\phi(x,t)v'(x/t)x/t^2$ and are over the region between the trailing and leading edge of the rarefaction wave in $xt$ space. By Fubini's theorem, they are equal.
Finally, by examining all of the integrals computed so far, we can see that
\begin{align*}
 \int_0^\infty \int_{-\infty}^\infty\left[\phi_t u +\phi_x f(u)\right]dxdt &= I_t+I_x\\
 &= \int_{-\infty}^0 -\phi(x,0)u_l dx+ \int_0^\infty \left[ I_{tl}+I_{tm}+I_{tr} \right]dx+\int_0^\infty\left[I_{xl}+I_{xm}+I_{xr}\right]dt\\
 &=-\int_{-\infty}^0 \phi(x,0)u_l~dx-\int_0^\infty \phi(x,0)u_r~dx\\
 &=-\int_{-\infty}^\infty \phi(x,0)u(x,0)~dx
\end{align*}
which is precisely what we wanted to show.

A: Note that $u$ is continuous, hence its first derivatives include jumps, but no higher-order singularity such as Dirac deltas. Therefore, one might prefer using the original weak formulation directly, which reduces to proving $$\iint (u_t+f(u)_x)\phi\,\text{d}x\,\text{d}t = 0$$ for all well-behaved test function $\phi$ with compact support (the weak formulation in OP is derived from the present one using integration by parts). Also, one observes that $u_t$ and $f(u)_x$ equal zero outside the domain defined by $\lbrace 0\leq t, f'(u_l)t\leq x\leq f'(u_r)t\rbrace$, in which we have $u = v(\xi)$ with $\xi = x/t$ and $v = (f')^{-1}$. Furthermore,
\begin{aligned}
\int_{0}^{\infty}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} u_t \phi\, \text d x\,\text d t &= -\int_{0}^\infty\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t} v'(\xi) \frac{x}{t^2} \phi\, \text d x\,\text d t ,
\end{aligned}
\begin{aligned}
\int_{0}^{\infty}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(u)_x \phi\, \text d x\,\text d t &= \int_{0}^\infty\int_{f'(u_l)t}^{f'(u_r)t} \underbrace{f'(v(\xi))}_{x/t} \, v'(\xi) \frac{1}{t} \phi\, \text d x\,\text d t .
\end{aligned}
Therefore, the sum of these two integrals vanishes, thus ending the proof (via integration by parts on the left-hand side).


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There's a band that has been making its mark in the European metal scene for quite sometime, but is waiting to bust out and see worldwide success, and that band is Adept.
While currently signed to Napalm Records, the band has seen some management changes and lineup changes throughout their career. They have shared the stage with the likes of As Blood Runs Black, Caliban, For Today, and August Burns Red, and has performed for two years at the world famous Impericon Festival.
Adept has released three full length albums under Panic & Action Records, and have released "Sleepless" under Napalm Records in 2016. Under the "Sleepless" record, their videos for "Dark Clouds" and "Carry The Weight" have a combined 700,000 hits on YouTube, this is while maintaining a solid underground European fanbase, however, they have yet to translate over to stateside.
Madness To Creation's take: I really enjoy the metalcore sounds of Adept. I feel that this suits them better as opposed to the post-hardcore sound that they were known for previously. Adept is an absolutely resilient band that it's plain to see why they have success in the European metal world. Their guitars are sleek and the vocals are really solid based upon my initial impressions of Adept. Based upon the video posted above, I will be looking forward to more offerings from Adept. Madness To Creation gives them an 8 out of 10 star rating.
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We're hurtling toward the end of 2014, and you know what that means: All the big, heavy-hitting movies come out! In December, studios try to take advantage of holiday movie-going crowds and enter the Oscar race at the last minute. So that means we've got some watching to do.
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. Written by Nick Hornby. Based on the book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, and Gaby Hoffman. Opens December 5.
Why should you see it? There's a great team behind Wild: Jean-Marc Vallée had a critical hit with Dallas Buyers Club last year. Screenwriter and novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy, Fever Pitch, A Long Way Down, etc.) is one of my favorite observers of human emotion. Wild book author Cheryl Strayed won awards from NPR to Entertainment Weekly with her memoir. And Reese Witherspoon is on an indie run, taking interesting roles with interesting directors (Atom Egoyan, Philippe Falardeau, Jeff Nichols, Paul Thomas Anderson).
Who should you bring with you? Your friend who is always trying to get you out of the movie theater and on big outdoor adventures.
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon. Starring Jena Malone, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Michael K. Williams, Owen Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Katherine Waterston, etc., etc., etc. Opens December 12.
Who should you bring with you? Anybody who appreciates absurdity.
Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jeffrey Caine and Steven Zaillian. Based (loosely?) on the Hebrew Bible's Book of Exodus. Starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Paul and Sigourney Weaver. Opens December 12.
Why should you see it? Exodus: Gods and Kings is spectacle. $140 million's worth of spectacle from a director who knows how to make interesting blockbusters (Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down). Even before opening, the film has caused controversy with its mostly white cast playing Egyptian and Middle Eastern Jewish characters. I don't hold this type of film to historical accuracy; it's more a case of a culture—big studio Hollywood—re-telling a compelling myth in their own image. (A practice that is as old as the Exodus story itself.) The larger problem is the way Hollywood is lagging behind the American population in terms of diversity. Why aren't there any Middle Eastern or Egyptian actors who can green-light a big-budget film?
Who should you bring with you? Biblical scholars and cultural critics who can discuss the big issues afterward…and a little sibling or cousin to yell "Awesome!!!" at the action.
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Why should you see it? You've come this far. You can't possibly stop now! The Battle of the Five Armies will end The Hobbit trilogy. We can only hope Jackson will now take on The Silmarillion.
Who should you bring with you? Your Tolkien friends who have been to every other Middle-Earth extravaganza at your side.
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Directed by Will Gluck. Written by Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the Thomas Meehan stage play and the Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. Starring Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale and Cameron Diaz. Opens December 19.
Why should you see it? It stars Quvenzhané Wallis, the girl who charmed the cynical film world with her debut in Beasts of the Southern Wild two years ago. Plus, it's Annie. Don't you want to hear "It's a Hard Knock Life" 21st-century-fied? I know I do.
Who should you bring with you? Musical lovers and anyone who had to listen to toddler-you belt out "Tomorrow" in the grocery store. Looking at you, Mom and Meg.
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Directed by Ava DuVernay. Written by Paul Webb. Starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Common, Martin Sheen, etc. Opens December 25 (limited).
Why should you see it? For one, it's covering important American history that we could all stand to revisit and learn from, especially as the shooting in Ferguson laid completely bare the problems we still face. It's also encouraging to see an award-winning female indie director helm a big, Oscar-buzzing historical drama. DuVernay got everyone's attention with her sophomore feature The Middle of Nowhere in 2012, and she's putting that momentum to powerful use with Selma.
Who should you bring with you? Everybody.
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Why should you see it? The story is one of the most incredible I've ever read. The book was hard to put down, and its intensity should translate well on-screen. Add to the amazing true-life plot a good director in Jolie, an interesting cast, and the Coen brothers to boot, and you've got a hard-to-beat film.
Who should you bring with you? A member of the Greatest Generation, so you can hear their real-life stories afterward, too.
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Directed by Rob Marshall. Written by James Lapine based on the musical by Lapine and Stephen Sondheim. Starring Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, etc. Opens December 25.
Why should you see it? This witty (and sometimes wicked) musical take on fairytales has been a hit since it opened on Broadway in 1987. In the sure hands of Marshall (Chicago, Nine) and a stellar cast (Meryl!), it should make for fun holiday viewing.
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by Jason Hall, based on the autobiography by Chris Kyle. Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Luke Grimes. Opens December 25 (limited).
Why should you see it? Eastwood is a spare, sober director (Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Letters from Iwo Jima) unafraid at looking complex issues right in the eyes. If the movie plays out like the trailer, expect American Sniper to address the moral weight of being named "the most lethal sniper in U.S. history." I'm curious to see Bradley Cooper in this role. I've liked him in conflicted characters before (A Place Beyond the Pines), but he hasn't completely won my trust as a dramatic leading man yet. Hoping for good things.
Who should you bring with you? Action-genre watchers who also like to think.
Directed by Tim Burton. Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Starring Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz and Krysten Ritter. Opens December 25.
Why should you see it? Tim Burton! Amy Adams! Christoph Waltz! A truth-is-weirder-than-fiction story! Creepy paintings of children with big eyes! What more can you want, really? What more can you possibly want?
Who should you bring with you? Aspiring painters and fans of Burton's peculiar aesthetic.
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Into the woods looks great and I really want to see Men, women and Children!
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British starlet Knightley played Elizabeth Swann, who at the time was best known for Bend It Like Beckham.
Depp later revealed that he was not 100 percent happy with his kissing scene with Knightley, which took place in the 2006 sequel, Dead Man's Chest.
He told TMZ: "Any kind of scene like that whenever you're doing that sort of thing, it's always unbelievably awkward, especially having met Keira when she was 17 years old."
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Knightley revealed in an interview: "I couldn't ask for a better kissing scene with Johnny Depp actually.
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Knightley doubled down on her pleasure during another interview where she was asked about her on-screen kissing history.
Out of all the actors she has locked lips with in cinema, she pointed at Depp as her favourite.
She said: "Johnny Depp certainly wasn't bad."
Knightley joins the ranks of the many actors who worked with Depp that have nothing but praise for the American star.
Will Turner actor Orlando Bloom later commented on working with Depp across the trilogy of pirate movies.
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Mr Gibbs actor Kevin McNally recently praised the star as well, while adding he wants Disney to reinstate Depp's position in the franchise.
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NYRA Announces Saratoga's 2020 Race Schedule
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From the NYRA Media Team:
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today formally announced that the 2020 summer meet at Saratoga Race Course will mirror the 2019 schedule that resulted in record wagering and paid attendance that again surpassed the one million mark. The 2020 meet will feature 40 days of world-class thoroughbred racing primarily run across a five-day week that will open in mid-July and conclude on Labor Day.
The 2020 season will begin with a four-day Opening Weekend, Thursday, July 16 through Sunday, July 19. Following Opening Weekend, racing will be conducted five days per week, Wednesdays through Sundays. The final day of the season will be Labor Day, Monday, September 7.
The announcement follows a thorough review and analysis of the record-breaking 2019 meet at Saratoga Race Course, which occurred across the same schedule and generated more than $700 million in all-sources handle for the first time in the history of the Spa – despite a pair of weather-related cancellations that included a full Saturday card of racing. Paid attendance at Saratoga also surpassed one million fans for the fifth consecutive season.
"The changes we made to the 2019 season received an overwhelmingly positive response from our horsemen, fans and the community. We asked the local and racing communities for their feedback to these changes following the conclusion of the meet. Given their support, and to maintain consistency and stability for our fans and stakeholders, we will conduct a similar racing schedule in 2020," said NYRA CEO & President Dave O'Rourke.
The Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce endorsed the decision, citing support from the local business community, including the Saratoga Downtown Business Association and Saratoga Convention & Tourism Bureau.
"We assembled a group representing local hotels, restaurants, retailers and entertainment and recreation destinations to meet with NYRA following the summer meet. By the end of the discussion, everyone understood why two dark days is best going forward and agreed that keeping those two days consistent with this past summer offers the best chance to attract more visitors. We appreciate NYRA's collaboration with our local hospitality partners to make a decision in the best interest of the community," said Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce President Todd Shimkus.
The Saratoga Local Advisory Board also expressed its support.
"We appreciate the constructive and ongoing dialogue with NYRA and enthusiastically support the five-day racing schedule moving forward," said Saratoga Race Course Local Advisory Board Chairman Joseph A. Torani. "Nothing is more important to the local economy than Saratoga Race Course, and we look forward to the continued success of thoroughbred racing at the Spa."
NYRA will issue a complete stakes schedule for the 2020 summer meet at Saratoga Race Course in the near future.
For more information, visit www.NYRA.com/Saratoga.
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IPL 2022: Focus on Gaikwad as CSK face SRH in battle of strugglers
By Press Trust of India on 12:31 am April 9, 2022 No Comment
Navi Mumbai: Battling poor form, opener Ruturaj Gaikwad will be under the scanner when strugglers Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad face off in the IPL here on Saturday, looking to register their first win.
Three successive losses have put new skipper Ravindra Jadeja under immense pressure and he would hope his teammates can script a turnaround against the Sunrisers, who too are smarting from two reverses.
One of the most decorated teams in the history of the IPL, CSK have endured a tough season so far, with the team struggling on multiple fronts, especially batting.
Gaikwad, last edition's leading scorer, has struggled with his footwork and his scores of 0, 1,1 has put CSK under pressure at the top.
The Maharashtra batter, who had scored 635 runs across 16 matches in 2021, will look to find his rhythm against Sunrisers. The good thing for Gaikwad is that he has the backing of his captain.
"We need to give him (Gaikwad) confidence as we all know he's a very good player. I'm sure he will come good," Jadeja had said after their last match.
There is a lot of experience in CSK's batting but it didn't help them against Punjab Kings as they could muster just 126 while chasing 180.
While Robin Uthappa had scored a fifty in one of the games, the likes of Moeen Ali and Ambati Rayudu have failed to capitalise on their starts.
Skipper Jadeja, too, will need to give a better account of himself, even as 'de facto' captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni looks to keep guiding the team.
In CSK's last outing, Shivam Dube's entertaining fifty was the only bright spot for the 'yellow brigade', and the team will expect him to deliver again.
In bowling, all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, IPL's leading wicket-taker, has been the most successful bowler for CSK as he returned with three wickets against PBKS.
Along with death-overs specialist Chris Jordan (2 for 23), Bravo had squeezed the run flow and pulled things back in the back 10 against PBKS, but they need support from others.
The absence of injured pacers Deepak Chahar and Adam Milne have affected CSK's plans, while rookie Mukesh Choudhary has struggled with the new ball.
The Sunrisers have failed to chase down targets on two occasions, resulting in a 61-run loss against Rajasthan Royals and a 12-run defeat at the hands of new entrants Lucknow Super Giants.
Among the bowlers — pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, foreign recruit Romario Shepherd and spinner Washington Sundar — all have been among the wickets.
But their batters have not complemented the bowlers with skipper Kane Williamson failing to play an inspiring innings so far. The likes of Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi and Nicholas Pooran too have not been able to convert the starts.
Aiden Markram and Washinton Sundar played a good innings against RR but couldn't stay longer against LSG.
IPL 2022: Focus on Gaikwad as CSK face SRH in battle of strugglers added by Press Trust of India on 12:31 am April 9, 2022
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Sisters of St. Joseph of BostonPress ReleasesSisters of St. Joseph Celebrate Transition of Leadership: A Ministry of Collaboration
Sisters of St. Joseph Celebrate Transition of Leadership:
A Ministry of Collaboration
BRIGHTON, MA: On June 24, 2018, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston participated in the Transition of Leadership for their Congregation. Over 500 sisters, associates, colleagues, friends, and family members were present at the CSJ Center at Fontbonne Academy, Milton, Massachusetts, for the celebration. The sisters who have been elected by the Congregation to serve in the ministry of leadership for the next five years are: Lee Hogan, CSJ, Catherine Clifford, CSJ, Marian Batho, CSJ, Judith Costello, CSJ, Betsy Conway, CSJ, and Denise Kelly, CSJ.
Lee Hogan, CSJ, moves into her position as President of the Sisters of St. Joseph from her current position as Treasurer of the Congregation. Members of the Leadership Team completing their terms are: Rosemary Brennan, CSJ, Maureen Doherty, CSJ, Margaret L. Sullivan, CSJ, Roseann Amico, CSJ, Gail Donahue, CSJ, and Patricia E. McCarthy, CSJ.
During the past year, Sisters of St. Joseph, Associates, Agrégée Candidates, and partners in mission entered into a year of prayer, discernment, and contemplative conversation called "Chapter 2017-2018." A chapter year, which takes place every five years, is a time when all members of the Congregation evaluate the past and envision the future. The theme of Chapter 2017-2018 was "Impelled by God's Inclusive Love." This theme helped set the direction for the Congregation to continue to strengthen mission, strengthen relationships for mission, strengthen the spiritual, and tell the story of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
In her reflections during the prayer service, Sister Lee Hogan spoke with conviction and enthusiasm saying, "The half-century since Vatican II has presented many gifts and many challenges to apostolic religious life. Writers tell us that we are living in 'middle space' or 'middle time' between a past that is over and a future that is not yet. While none of us can see clearly the future of this life, we know and take it as our responsibility that we are shaping that future as we live our lives today. Yet we know that it is our God who beckons us to come into that future – a future full of hope, and challenge, and opportunity.
This ministry of leadership is one of collaboration. It is about working together to set our faces forward, to continue the journey, extending our charism to the wider world through prayer and ministry, and walking in the confidence that it is our God who calls us to that future."
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston is a Congregation of vowed religious women of the Church, rooted in gospel values. They are committed to living as women of unity, reconciliation, and inclusive love of neighbor without distinction. Fidelity to this vision is at the heart of their mission.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston is a religious community of vowed apostolic women with a contemplative stance toward life, whose mission is to realize the prayer of Christ that all may be one. Their special focus, their mission, is to work for unity and reconciliation where there is brokenness, to help people become whole and holy, individually and together. Since arriving in Boston in 1873, they have staffed more than 130 educational institutions, worked in more than 30 healthcare ministries and participated in more than 85 service ministries within the Archdiocese of Boston. You will meet Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston in schools, parishes, hospitals, nursing homes, retreat, and campus ministry centers, refugee services, literacy programs, shelters, food pantries, and more. In community and prayerful contemplation, they listen to the Spirit and move always toward profound love of God and love of neighbor without distinction. For more information visit www.csjboston.org.
Contact: Joanne Gallagher, CSJ, Director of Communications, joanne.gallagher@csjboston.org 617.746.2110
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Categories: Germany, Hungary
History and Geography of the Danube River
by Rick Price - Tuesday, July 27, 2010
By Rick Price, Ph.D.
You probably learned in 7th grade geography that the three most important rivers of Europe are the Rhine, the Rhone, and the Danube – but that is likely the extent of your knowledge. Unfortunately for most Americans our knowledge understanding of world geography stopped with those kinds of simple, unconnected facts.
So this brief essay is both a refresher course on the importance of the Danube River. On our bicycle tour along the Danube you'll learn that the Danube River is something like 2880 km (1780 miles) long. It is not only Europe's longest river – more the twice the length of the Rhine and nearly three and a half times the length of the Rhone – but it flows through or forms the boundary with eight different countries.
The Danube rises in Germany's Black Forest, flows through the heartland of Austria, forms the border with Austria and Slovakia, then Slovakia and Hungary, before flowing through Hungary, into Croatia and Serbia, to then form the boundary between Serbia and Romania, then Romania and Bulgaria, where it finally empties into the Black Sea.
Over the centuries the Danube has been less important as an economic corridor than the Rhone or the Rhine, but is has been one of the most significant cultural and historic boundaries in Europe. During Roman times the Danube River was the northernmost boundary of the Roman Empire and as late as 454 AD the full length of the Danube formed the boundary between a crumbling Roman Empire and the barbarian invaders from the steppe lands of Ukraine and Central Asia.
The Roman legacy bestowed upon the Danube its importance as a Medieval trade route, whether by boat on the river or along its banks. This role created important trade and transportation centers all along it, including Regensburg and Ulm in Germany, Linz and Vienna in Austria, Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, Budapest, capital of Hungary, and Belgrade, the former capital of Yugoslavia and now the capital of Serbia. Beyond Belgrade, the Danube enters the "Iron Gates," a great corridor through the Carpathian Mountains and the Balkan Mountains and then it spills into the plains of the ancient Roman province of Wallachia. Flooding has been a problem there since Roman times (and still is) – because of the floods, no major cities developed on the Danube downstream of Belgrade. Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is 80 km (50 miles) uphill from the Danube, well protected from the spring floods.
Historically this trade corridor along the Danube gave rise to two major empires, the Austrian and Hungarian, which merged under Austria in the early 19th century, becoming the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867. Further downstream the flood-prone plains of Wallachia effectively formed a significant boundary between modern Romania and Bulgaria, allowing for a significant cultural boundary between these two regions. In fact, the lower Danube became a critical cultural border region between Austria and the Ottoman Empire. To this day Romania and Bulgaria reflect their respective and separate histories with Romania having a Romance language and Bulgaria demonstrating key historic affinities in architecture and religion with the Ottoman Turks.
A bicycle ride down the Danube River takes you through seven countries and at least as many language regions, not counting local dialects. You'll experience fully four language families: Germanic, Western Slavic (Slovak, Croat, Bosnian, Serb and Bulgar), Hungarian (a family all its own), and Romance (Romanian, related to French, Italian and Spanish.)
Imagine the variety in food, architecture, and history that goes with each of these languages and cultures and you have a real panorama of two thousands years of European history as you travel the length of the Danube. Join us, won't you?
Danube (Panther) by Claudio Magris (Author) – A comprehensive history and travel book about the Danube by Italian scholar, Claudio Magris. Sometimes ponderous, in the style of Italian writers, it is worth a read BEFORE you depart. Don't try to carry it with you!
Tags: Bicycling Germany, Bicycling Hungary, Danube River
Rick Price - Rick Price, and his wife, Paola Malpezzi Price, founded Bike Across Italy in 1972, Italian Specialty Tours, Inc. in 1985 and ExperiencePlus! Specialty Tours, Inc. in 1993, though they passed the latter to their daughters Monica and Maria Elena in 2008. Rick holds a Ph.D. in Geography and has designed bike tours in many countries around the world. In 2006 he founded Bike Fort Collins together with other local bicycle advocates and in 2007/08 he joined the board of the Fort Collins Bike Co-op where he launched the Fort Collins Safe Routes to School Program. For five years, beginning in 2010 Rick wrote a monthly column on Smart Cycling for the Fort Collins, Coloradoan. Paola retired as department head of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Dept. at Colorado State University in 2014. Since then the adventuresome couple has bicycled in Albania, Mongolia, Cuba, France, and Italy and has travelled broadly in China, Uzbekistan, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Canada and the western US, including Alaska. If you would like to contact Rick or Paola you can e-mail them at Rick(a)ExperiencePlus.com.
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Review: Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion [Book Review]
Nancy Frankenberry
Process Studies 28 (3/4):359-360 (1999)
Keywords Pragmatism Neo-pragmatism Religion
DOI 10.5840/process1999283/417
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Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion.Warren G. Frisina - 1997 - New York: Lang.
Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion.Nancy Frankenberry - 1999 - Process Studies 28 (3-4):359-360.
Three Types of American Neo-Pragmatism.Jon Avery - 1993 - Journal of Philosophical Research 18:1-13.
Perspectives on Pragmatism: Classical, Recent, and Contemporary.Robert Brandom - 2011 - Harvard University Press.
Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism: Lessons From John Dewey.Larry A. Hickman - 2007 - Fordham University Press.
Neo-Pragmatism, Communication, and the Culture of Creative Democracy (Review).David O. Kasdan - 2011 - Education and Culture 27 (1):69-72.
Pragmatism, Realism, and Religion.Michael R. Slater - 2008 - Journal of Religious Ethics 36 (4):653-681.
Vulgar Rortyism.Susan Haack - 1997 - The New Criterion.
4. Neo-Pragmatism Without Pragmatism.Sandra B. Rosenthal & Rogene A. Buchholz - 2000 - The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics:50-65.
Pragmatism and Radical Behaviorism: A Response to Leigland.John C. Malone - 2004 - Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2):313 - 315.
The Pluralistic Universe of Law: Towards a Neo-Classical Legal Pragmatism.Susan Haack - 2008 - Ratio Juris 21 (4):453-480.
Comment: The Private and Its Problems—Pragmatism, Pragmatist Feminism, and Homophobia.Bart Schultz - 1999 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (2):281-305.
On the Very Idea of Brandom's Pragmatism.Tadeusz Szubka - 2012 - Philosophia 40 (1):165-174.


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Russian army developing cyberattack defenses
Andréi Lvóv
special to RBTH
The Russian Defense Ministry seeks to create a special network command that will keep track of potential cyber threats. Source: RIA Novosti / Sergei Pivovarov
With cyber viruses posing a threat to state networks, the Russian Ministry of Defense has decided to create a specialized network command to protect the information structures of the Russian state.
Experts say cyber viruses are no longer a threat only to home networks, but are increasingly being used as dangerous weapons aimed at state networks. In this context, the Russian Ministry of Defense has decided to create a specialized network command to protect the information structures of the Russian state.
Russian specialists uncover a new cyberweapon
Russian army to increase information security
Russian authorities step up cybersecurity
According to media reports, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu recently gave the General Staff several months to complete proposals for the creation of an army "cyber command."
With reference to its sources in the Russian General Staff, Izvestiareported that, if the proposal is presented on time, a basic-level cyber command will appear by the end of the year.
"But, in any case, this won't be some enormous bureaucratic military office with a bunch of rights and no liabilities," Izvestiaquoted its source as saying.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously ordered the Federal Security Service to protect the information structures of Russian state authorities against possible network attacks.
This is nothing new for the armies of developed nations. Back in 2007, the U.S. Air Force established a temporary, special command responsible for dealing with "hostilities" in the global network. Currently, America operates a permanent, unified command named USCYBERCOM (United States Cyber Command), which is subordinate to United States Strategic Command and is responsible for the use of strategic nuclear forces, ABM systems and space operations.
This was a far-sighted decision by the U.S. military. The network covers all continents and currently identifies the key parameters for the operation of modern society — from the payment of wages to the control of troops. There is already a "Matrix" that is involved in the takeoff and landing of every plane, the operation of every industrial facility and transfer of any army unit. Control of this network is virtually priceless.
According to recent reports, the U.S. plans to increase the USCYBERCOM staff to 5,000 specialists.
"You can't do without adequate protection of cyberspace at the state level," said the head of EEMEA Research Center at Kaspersky Lab, Sergei Novikov, in an interview with Voice of Russia radio station. "In the past two or three years, computer viruses have reached a whole new level of national security and cyber wars. Computer viruses are no longer those infecting home computers, but a serious threat to crucial state facilities."
"The high-profile cyber scandals of the last two or three years include the Stuxnet worm, Duqu, Flame and Gauss Trojans," he added. "These are examples of cyber weapons that countries use against each other."
"Stuxnet is an example of a malicious code targeted exclusively against critical infrastructure —specifically, uranium enrichment facilities," Novikov said. According to him, Stuxnet was the first case ever to involve viruses and malicious codes targeted at critical infrastructure.
It was not the last case, however. Kaspersky Lab has recently identified a purely cyber-espionage virus dubbed Red October, which attacked networks of government agencies and defense research centers around the globe.
"The current level of development in telecommunications, electronics and computer software — and their growing role in the management of infrastructure and social systems, on the one hand, and the vast potential for the creation of malicious software, on the other — call for efforts to take information security to a new systemic level," said Dmitry Troshin, a research associate at the Institute for Economic Security and Strategic Planning at the Finance University.
"This level envisages the capability to repel cyber sabotage, cyber terrorism and, ultimately, cyber warfare," he added.
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Sunday, September 5 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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How do we think about work? How is it different from play? What is the nature of our (mostly) volunteer labor at East Shore. Board President Mike Radow and Rev. Furrer will explore these matters with the awesome participation of Eric Lane Barnes.
• To virtually attend, please Zoom in using room number 989 3107 9078, passcode: chalice.
• To phone into the service, call 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 989 3107 9078.
For those joining, please mute as soon as you enter the room, so everyone can hear. Please note, the services will be recorded, but at this time, there are no plans to share the recording.
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Service is followed by Coffee Hour.
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by Mike Radow & Rev. Stephen H. Furrer
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In the US, tomorrow is a Labor Day. A day for workers to rest and to honor them, or, in a more modern tradition, drive home from vacation, and while I have promised to talk about our volunteer work here at ESUC, I need to say several words about the organized labor movement and labor unions.
The rest of the world celebrates Labor Day in May, a day associated with an international labor movement, or Communism, and therefore not sanctioned here as a holiday.
The efforts of laborers to organize themselves, has come first and foremost to gain job security, to prevent wage cuts or firings for arbitrary reasons. Yes, bread and roses, but bread first, the 8-hour day, health benefits and sick leave come too, but later.
The constant threat to job security is competition from cheaper labor. And of course, there has always been a ready supply of cheaper labor here. The cheapest labor is free labor, by, by which I mean enslaved Africans a\who literally built this nation and its vast wealth.
I read recently read the history of the family is in part, the history of unpaid female labor. Think about that for a minute More exploitation.
Our whole national quest for empire, from sea to shining sea, was pushed along by those who wanted free soil, meaning a lack of competition from indigenous peoples, or from formerly enslaved people. The claims of non-white labor 'taking our jobs' have never really ceased. In the words of historian Walter Johnson "pitting white and Black workers against one another has been THE principle of industrial labor management. In wartime WWI, black workers were almost always employed in unskilled positions Discriminatory hiring and whites only contractors and whites only unions sent an unmistakable message about the wages of whiteness, the skin privilege."
This didn't change until World War 2 when a threatened march on Washington, like the one which did happen in 1963 forced Pres. Roos to ending discrimination in hiring into defense industries.
Thus, even on Labor Day, to discuss labor is a troubled and complicated undertaking, bringing up untold history and reminders of current conflicts. But the point must be made, when we celebrate those who labor we don't count the developer or the investor, we count those closer to the actual production of goods. And yet we apportion wealth and value in almost reverse order…. Who gets the most out of amazon, the driver, the warehouse worker, or the ones who design the systems which then rely on these workers?
Most recently we were told who was essential and who wasn't. Pretty enlightening. Essential for whom? Essential enough to be forced to work, in unsafe conditions, because they were told to and needed to in order to pay bills. These people are and were, those who care for the elderly, day care workers, doctors, nurses, dentists and the car mechanics, the electricians, the plumbers, [bus drivers] and especially, those plant, pick, process, pack, transport, and serve food. And there's more.
There's an attitude about toil. I was raised on what was called the protestant ethic. Idle hands are the devil's playground, that hard work provides meaning and purpose to life, even happiness. We are asked what we do, and the inferred meaning is what do you do to earn money. There's the notion that hard work is its own reward
But a counter narrative holds here too. What is thought to be the dignity of honest, sweaty toil – is also thought of as servile as if it is somehow demeaning to get your hands dirty. That attitude lingers. My organic farmer friend in tri cities says he cannot find asparagus pickers who aren't immigrants. And so, when we celebrate Labor Day tomorrow, we might be thanking those who do what we don't want to.
Labor, whether unionized or not, is naturally opposed to capital, and if labor gets one day, capital surely gets the other 364, it is after all called capitalism. Another moment of gratitude please
As important as all that is, for us now equally vital is OUR labor, our work at East Shore, what do we do? What might we do?
For me, the most critical element of our work is that it is not forced. not paid, not required, it is entirely voluntary, chosen, arbitrary. Some might say that makes all our work low stakes. What will happen if I don't join a ministry team. What will happen if the board doesn't fully monitor progress toward our church goals really nothing happens. Heads don't roll. So why do anything, why does it even matter? What are we here for?
The notion of work is that something comes of it. In physics, work has a specific meaning. Work is done When force is applied to a mass, and it moves in the 'intended, direction. if I try all day to pick up a two-hundred-pound rock and can't budge it. No work has been done, if it tries to push it forward and it moves sideways, again, no work has been done.
I'd like to use that definition here. Work has a visible outcome, and it must be in the intended direction. The product of our work is supposed to be to fulfill, enhance, our mission to do more of it, to make the words of our covenant real.
So, it we are not intending that, we aren't doing proper work, and if we aren't making inroads in any of those directions, we aren't doing work at all. Otherwise, we are just running around staying busy. Maybe even feeling virtuous for being active.
So, what work shall we choose? There is the do-nothing approach.
Those in this camp might feel their work is only to show up. BUT that is not nothing, "simply" being here does something real in creating a community, it reminds us that we are in this together, that we are not alone. And there is a lot of truth in that.
Again, there is something more. And this happens when we do show up, and act together,
One of my mentors, an educator known as Schauff would say, "Hey Redeye, (a tortured pronunciation of my last name) Can you pick up the other end of this board and help me carry it?
What a lesson. Something magical happens when we join forces. as the song we are about to sing says, many stones can build an arch singly none, singly none.
I have found that an experience unshared is less fulfilling than one shared. If I read a great book and have no one to tell about it, what is accomplished? So, I suggest for us that what we do together is ultimately more satisfying. And more effective.
Working together: co-labor, it is where our word collaborate comes from, not just going along, but actively participating, helping in the solution, partnerships like that are what I am striving for among us and with the broader community.
This fall, I, we will be asked by the ministerial search team, to show up together.
To show up on the first and second of October, for a UUA workshop Beyond Categorical Thinking. Chance to open our minds about who we might accept as a called minister for ESUC.
We'll be asked to show up and complete a survey
To show up for a cottage meeting, which is likely to be virtual
To show up at a focus group
Please do It all
All summer long we got advice,
Janine said build trust and then address a social justice issue
Bill Graves said we should Influence the shapers of the commonwealth to do the common good
Rev bailey asked us why there aren't 3 million UUs, not 300,000 and what we could do to make real inroads, real connections outside our doors.
Rev. Steve says, Nicole can get them in these doors, I might be able to keep them for three or four more weeks with good sermons, but if they are going to stay, it is because I, you, we, US, the members, collaborate in creating something that keeps people wanting to show up. What is that something? And how can I do/prepare for it.
I'll close by suggesting my work is to take the words of our mission to heart. Doing something new is risky and uncomfortable. Being willing to be changed or putting ourselves in situations where we might change takes courage. So, stay for coffee hour and meet someone new. as Plato says, anything worth doing is seldom easy.
And when people ask us what we do, maybe we can say with MLK, we try to uplift humanity,
Maybe we will say we try to practice more love, explore more spirituality, build more community, promote more justice.
Thank you and enjoy your Labor Day.
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Robbery - The Harassing Wife
Friday investigates a woman's claim that her husband is an armed robber.
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Home / Stories / Inga Swenson may have been Lorne Greene's favorite wife on Bonanza
Inga Swenson may have been Lorne Greene's favorite wife on Bonanza
She played Hoss' mom in two episodes.
December 29, 2021, 11:55AM By MeTV Staff
For Bonanza fans in the 1960s, the biggest request they made of show writers was to finally introduce them to Ben Cartwright's wives, the three mothers of his three boys.
In 1961, writers appeased these fans with "Elizabeth, My Love," which introduced Adam Cartwright's mom. Then in 1963, "Marie, My Love" introduced Little Joe's mom.
Between these two episodes was "Inger, My Love," which arguably cast Ben Cartwright actor Lorne Greene's favorite actor to play one of his wives.
Inga Swenson — whom reporters in the Sixties called a "miraculous girl" whose acting was a "joy bordering on revelation" — came to the Bonanza set to play Hoss' mom, Inger. Lorne Greene never wanted her to leave.
"Inga is such a wonderful girl," Green told The Birmingham News in 1963. "I wonder: why do we have to get rid of her?"
Swenson started acting in the 1940s as a stage actor, and though she thoroughly enjoyed doing television work, the stage remained her greatest love.
She told The Clarion-Ledger in 1975 that she preferred stage acting to all other acting, because "you can act with your eyelashes."
And she told The Oakland Tribune in 1964 that she knew she wanted to be an actor when she was only eight years old and wrote in her diary, "I think I'm going to be an actress" after a local director told her that he "can see it in my eyes."
"I always wanted to be the princess in the castle," Swenson said.
Lorne Greene tried to quit Bonanza after only 16 episodes
That's why she grew her blonde hair long, because, she said, "you can't be a princess in the castle without long, blonde hair."
As a kid, Swenson hid her desire to act, but when her dad passed away, she mustered up the courage to tell her mom about her dream.
Her mom wasn't so sure that her daughter could handle the tough industry and told her sympathetically, "Let's see first if you really have the ability."
Of course, Swenson did have the ability, and then some, and when her big break came in 1956, she toured the country with a production and soon got linked up with an eager agent.
"I have a new agent, just a kid and really a character," Swenson told The South Omaha Sun in 1963. "But there's one thing about him: he thinks I'm great."
This led Swenson to do Bonanza, as well as roles on a variety of TV dramas through the 1970s.
Then in 1979, she joined her first TV show cast when she became a chef on the sitcom Benson.
Swenson said she never knew what roles she'd get because her look has always been so distinct, and her height — 5' 9" — made her less desirable for daintier roles.
"Let's face it," Swenson said. "I'm not easy to cast. They can't dress me up in a tailored suit and high heels to play a secretary."
But she was just right to play Hoss' mom on Bonanza.
A reporter for The Clarion-Ledger wrote in 1975 that Swenson "has the fresh-faced, clear-eyed look of someone who just came in from feeding the chickens."
After Swenson appeared in "Inger, My Love," she returned to the show one last time for a second episode.
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When Swenson was doing TV, she wasn't the kind of actor who lived in a big city and waited around for parts.
She was actually a housewife living in New Jersey, raising her two boys, where she felt she stuck out even more than she did at casting calls.
"All my neighbors must think of me as the crazy actress with the false eyelashes and the fur coats," Swenson told The Star-Gazette in 1968. "I'm sure they don't understand me, and while I like them, I don't understand them."
When opportunities like the Bonanza episodes arose, she'd make no big fuss about it.
"I simply packed a bag, kissed my husband and the children goodbye, and headed for the airport," Swenson said.
She also had no hard feelings about only doing two episodes of the hit TV Western despite her popularity behind the scenes.
"It's a sequel, but in this one, they're going to kill me off," Swenson reported nonchalantly about her second episode.
Her passion remained stage acting, although she appeared onscreen until 1998. She's a life member of The Actors Studio, but not much is known about her whereabouts today.
We can be sure that the love of acting sparked during her youth has stayed with her, though, and in her career, she was nominated for two Tony Awards, surely making her mom proud that she encouraged her to act from a young age.
Swenson said her mom continued to be the audience member whose attention she remembered craving most.
"Actors never forget their childhood," Swenson said. "We never get over playing dress-up, putting on fancy clothes in the attic and saying, 'Look at me, mommy.'"
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HeleneNeiman 17 days ago
I cant believe there is no mention of her operatic singing voice ! She was originally in Musical Theatre, and she played the lead in the musical " 110 In the Shade ", the musical version of the play " The Rainmaker ", which was a movie with Katherine Hephern and Burt Lancaster. I used to have the record album of " 110 In The Shade ", and her voice was glorious, like Julie Andrews and Florence Henderson.
Pegs 17 days ago
FWIW, Inga Swenson also played Helen Keller's mother (Kate) in the film version of The Miracle Worker.
RPniewski 19 days ago
Her appearances on "Bonanza" were by far the best of the "wife" flashbacks. "Elizabeth, My Love" was ok, but really rather badly performed; "Marie, My Love" didn't match in any way the backstory that had been set up for Joe's mother in earlier episodes (with implications that she had been a prostitute); but "Inger, My Love" allowed Hoss's mother to be as close to a three-dimensional and realistic a character as network television would allow at the time. Both of her episodes are superior.
tvnutt76 21 days ago
Before Benson she was in a few episodes of Soap. She played Ingrid Swenson, the maid of Jessica and Mary's parents. The sisters had a brother (played by Bernard Fox) who was hiding in South America because he got Ingrid pregnant and the family ran him out of the country. We learn that Jessica adopted the baby as the Tate's second child, Corrine. Also Inga was not the chef in Benson. Gretchen Krause was the head housekeeper.
Andybandit 21 days ago
I liked inga in Benson. I wish MeTv would air Benson and some new old shows instead of the same shows over and over again.
stephaniestavr5 22 days ago
Inga Swenson's smile in the photo, belies the fact that behind it, lies the soul and attitude of Gretchen Krause! You couldn't tell by looking at that smile, that she could be that type of character. She could stand toe to toe w/Benson. He could take whatever she dished out and vice versa. They remind of Alice and Ralph Kramden. There were moments when one would give into the other, but not many. Of course, by eps end, the 4 would have come to some sort of reconcilliation.
cperrynaples stephaniestavr5	22 days ago
Stephanie did you realize today was her birthday? She's still alive at 89, and of course I remember her as the cook on Benson!
Pacificsun stephaniestavr5	22 days ago
1988 Last picture I could find of her. But I certainly remember her in Benson. An outstanding character!
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