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Monday, March 26: Filming Locations in Wilmington, L.A., NYC & many more including info for Writers, The Client List, & Now You See Me
Here's a look at what's filming on location on Monday, March 26, 2012:
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Filming in California:
The Asset (pilot) is filming around 600 S Spring St, Los Angeles (7:00 AM – 10:00 PM) and 449 S Broadway (5:00 AM – 10:00 PM).
Save Me (pilot) is filming at 506 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles (7:00 AM – 10:00 PM) and 1335 Willow St (6:00 AM – 12:00 AM).
Mistresses (pilot) is filming at 6703 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles (5:00 AM – 4:00 PM).
Like Father (pilot) is filming at 710 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles (5:00 AM – 12:00 AM).
In A World (pilot) is filming at 1335 Willow St, Los Angeles (7:00 AM – 12:00 AM), S Santa Fe Ave & Palmetto St, S Santa Fe Ave & Willow St (7:00 AM – 10:00 PM) and 1317 Willow St (7:00 AM – 10:00 PM).
The Untitled Mandy Moore Project 9pilot) is filming around Riverside Dr & Riverside Terrace, Los Angeles.
County (pilot) is filming at the former Daniel Freeman Hospital in L.A.
Castle is filming in studio (Raleigh Studios, L.A.).
The pilot Applebaum is filming around Coliseum St and Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles.
The Client List is filming at Orion St and Erwin St, Van Nuys.
Filming in Georgia:
Trouble with the Curve, starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, and Justin Timberlake, is filming at Amicalola Lodge on Hwy. 53 West in Dawsonville.
Royal Pains is filming at St. Marys' Howard Gilman Memorial Waterfront Park.
A.C.O.D., starring Jane Lynch, is filming at No. 246 in Decatur.
Filming in Illinois:
Chicago Fire (pilot) is filming at N. Franklin Street and W. Institute Place, Chicago.
Filming in Louisiana:
Ender's Game, starring Harrison Ford, is filming at the Michoud Assembly Facility.
The Last Exorcism 2 is filming at S Broadway and Willow St, New Orleans.
Treme is filming around Bienville St & N Peters St, New Orleans.
Django Unchained, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is filming on location in New Orleans today so be on the look out!
FYI: Oblivion (The Untitled Tom Cruise Project) begins filming today in Baton Rouge!
Filming in Massachusetts:
Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks, is filming at Matlock Farm in Lincoln this week.
Filming in New Mexico:
The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp, is filming at Albuquerque Studios.
In Plain Sight is filming in studio (1-25 Studios, Albuqerque).
The Untitled Las Vegas Project (pilot), starring Dennis Quaid,is filming at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe.
Filming in New York:
Gossip Girl is filming at/around the Empire Hotel (44 West 63rd Street, NYC) again.
30 Rock is filming in studio at Silvercup Studios, NYC.
Law and Order: SVU is filming in studio Chelsea Piers, NYC.
The Untitled Roland Emmerich Pilot is filming around Executive Blvd and N Broadway, Yonkers.
Person of Interest is filming around Columbia University, Broadway and W 120th-122nd, NYC.
The pilot Americana is filming around W 11th and Washington St/West St, NYC.
Blue Bloods is filming in studio (Broadway Stages, Meserole and Moultrie St, Brooklyn). (Thanks @DW_GrlStacey)
Golden Boy(pilot) is filming at Eisenhower Park, around Hempstead Turnpike an d Park Blvd, East Meadow.
The pilot Trooper is filming at S Broadway and Hamilton Rd in Irvington.
666 Park Ave (pilot) is filming at 157th and Riverside Drive in NYC.
Elementary (pilot) is filming around 3rd Ave and 16th – 19th St in NYC in the morning and them moving to Leonard St and Powers Street, Brooklyn. (Thanks @cheerioo)
Kill Your Darlings, starring Daniel Radcliffe, filming around Lenox Ave and 122nd – 131th, NYC. (Thanks @BadGirlTechna, Steph)
Boardwalk Empire is filming at The Players Club at Gramercy Park. Filming signs posted all around Gramercy Park and at Park and 18th. (Thanks @HereInNYC , @JohnnyBombola)
Now You See Me, starring Jesse Eisenberg, is filming under the 59th St Bridge at First Avenue and York Ave in NYC and making a company move to the Times Square Subway Station. (Thanks Det Movie Buff)
Lucky Dog (The Untitled Christmas Tree Project), starring Paul Rudd, is filming at at 17 Nassau Avenue, at N 15th St, in Brooklyn. Signs also posted around Driggs Ave and Eckford St Brooklyn.
For information about any of the pilots filming, visit our guide here.
Filming in North Carolina:
Writers, starring Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connolly, is filming on Front Street, near Nick's Dinner, 127 N. Front St, Wilmington, at The George, 128 S. Water St., and Cape Fear Community College.
Filming in Pennsylvania:
After Earth, starring Will Smith, is filming at Sun Center Studios in Chester Township.
Thanks to Bethany for sharing this photo with Community's Danny Pudi and Kevin Farley at Marquette University Saturday night! If you have celeb photos to share, let us know at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
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Joellen March 25, 2012 at 9:03 pm
does anyone know where spring breakers is filming?!?!
FYI: Blue Bloods might be filming on E 17th St. near 3rd Ave in NYC in the morning
Peter March 25, 2012 at 11:45 pm
This Wednesday Julia Roberts' Snow White movie is having a premiere in NYC….the Daily News had a contest in their Sunday paper, but did not disclose the location.
nevermind…found this very quickly
https://www.producersguild.org/events/event_details.asp?id=222611
Sue March 26, 2012 at 1:29 am
When does white collar begin filming in new York?
Christine March 26, 2012 at 11:02 pm
sorry was thinking of Royal Pains, they are filming in studio tomorrow
meistershake March 26, 2012 at 8:11 am
Anyone know whos on set for Gossip Girl?
not sure but trailers are on 8th and 9th ave between 61st & 62nd
ABC March 26, 2012 at 10:28 am
The pilot Golden Boy is filming at 2 different locations near Park Blvd, East Meadow New York.
Roger March 26, 2012 at 10:31 am
"Mist" is filming around hollywood & vine.
@eiriz123 @olv I think this is Chicago fire pilot filming on Chicago and Franklin in downtown Chicago. https://pic.twitter.com/r6xCEm9h
Liv March 26, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Any idea if Chicago Fire will still be filming on Friday and over the weekend? Thanks.
Cris March 26, 2012 at 12:06 pm
The gossip girl filming in new York every weak ?
week*… sorry ! =)
Teri March 26, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Americana will be filming at St. Barts (setting up now, so not sure what time) – 51st and Park Avenuem NYC
Howard March 26, 2012 at 1:55 pm
They are filming "Guilty" tomorrow nr Chambers andLlafayette. Do you know who's in it? I am not sure if its a movie or pilot.
its a pilot, details in the guide I created, link in post above Thanks!!
Radcliffelover March 26, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Just checked kill your darlings set and daniel michael c hall and elizabeth olsen were on set but elizabeth wrapped her scene just minutes igot there but i did get to see her leave in her car so im eexcited. Yay it made my day
Just checked kill your darlings set and daniel michael c hall and elizabeth olsen were on set but elizabeth wrapped her scene just minutes igot there but i did get to see her leave in her car so im eexcited.
Lokyfanatic March 26, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Isla fischer shooting running a chase scene with mark ruffalo and common on top of 59st bridge. Paparazzi going crazy and causing problems and they are not allowing public to see. Its not fair
P.S. would love pics of MCH on set 🙂


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New site, more retail for planned parking garage in Camden
Jim Walsh
The Courier-Post
CAMDEN - A mixed-use parking garage planned for a site near the city's Waterfront now is to rise next to the Rand Transportation Center.
The state Economic Development Authority, which is helping to fund the project, approved the new location and other changes at its monthly meeting Tuesday.
The revised plan calls for a smaller garage with an increased emphasis on retail space at South Broadway and Federal Street, according to the EDA.
The now-vacant site is next to the city's transportation center, which is expected to be the focus of a future redevelopment project. The roughly 1.5-acre lot is across Federal Street from City Hall and Camden County's Aletha Wright Administration Building.
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"The new site will play a pivotal role in expanding the Eds and Meds corridor with Rutgers (University-Camden) as the main leasing agent for parking spots," said Camden County spokesman Dan Keashen, who noted the garage project is being undertaken by the city's parking authority.
The building initially was expected to rise on a 3.3-acre surface lot off Delaware Avenue, between Federal Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
The two sites are about a half-mile apart.
The original site was scrapped after talks reached an impasse with its owner, the Delaware River Port Authority, according to Keashen.
The changes will not affect EDA funding of $14 million, the authority said.
But it said the project's overall cost now is expected to be $30.8 million, down from $42 million.
When the EDA initially supported the project in June 2016, plans called for a 381,000-square-foot building with 1,300 parking spaces at the Delaware Avenue site.
The revised proposal envisions a 217,000-square-foot structure with 740 parking spaces, according to the EDA.
The new plan also calls for about 20,000 square feet of retail space, compared to a mere 800 square feet at the original site.
In contrast, the new plans include no office space, compared to 28,000 square feet at the Delaware Avenue site.
According to the EDA's meeting agenda, Camden's parking authority already owns the Broadway tract.
Representatives of the parking authority and the DRPA could not be reached for immediate comment.
Jim Walsh: @jwalsh_cp; 856-486-2646; jwalsh@gannettnj.com

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See Where Ireland Ranks In The 2017 Top Airlines In The World Awards
by Sarah Glascott · June 22, 2017
The top airlines in the world for 2017 have been announced by Skytrax, a review website for airlines and airports.
Qatar Airways tops the list after reclaiming the number 1 position for the fourth time. The airline, which recently launched a new route between Dublin and Doha, was also crowned Best Airline Business Class, and placed in the top ten for Best Cabin Staff, Best In-Flight Entertainment, World's Cleanest Aircraft Cabins, Best Airline Economy Class and Best Airline First Class.
Looking closer to home and Aer Lingus holds a very respectable place at number 38, improving on its 2016 ranking on 49.
Ryanair also makes it into the top 100 following its 2016 ranking of 108. The airline has jumped to number 76 for 2017.
The awards are based on customer reviews and are known as the Oscars of the aviation industry. More than 320 airlines were surveyed before the top airlines were chosen. Check out the top 10 below:
3. ANA All Nippon Airways
5. Cathay Pacific
6. EVA Air
9. Hainan Airlines
10. Garuda Indonesia
To see the full list of the World's Top Airlines for 2017, visit the World Airline Awards' website here.
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Minuscule 77 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A143 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has complex contents and full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels with a commentary on 302 leaves (size ). The parchment is thin. The biblical text written in 21 lines per page, the text of commentary in 54 lines per page. It is written in very neat minuscule letters. The initial letters are in colour.

The text is divided according to the  (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the  (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections – the last in 16:8), and references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena, lists of the  (tables of contents) are placed before each of the Gospels. Lectionary markings (for liturgical use) and synaxaria added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Matthias Corvinus, the great King of Hungary (1458-1490) (as codex 78). It was collated in 1773 by Treschow, and by Alter. Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.

It is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 154), at Vienna.

See also

 List of New Testament minuscules
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

Greek New Testament minuscules
11th-century biblical manuscripts
Biblical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library

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История
В 1926 году состояло из 342 хозяйств. В национальном составе населения того периода преобладали русские. В административном отношении являлось центром Усть-Ишинского сельсовета Сростинского района Бийского округа Сибирского края.

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Согласно результатам переписи 2002 года, в национальной структуре населения русские составляли 98 %.

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Cats and dogs living together…Mass hysteria!
The unthinkable finally happened last night in San Francisco: the Tea Party shared a protest with the Occupiers, both groups angry with the same person.
And who was this unifier, the only man who can bridge the divide and bring together all sides of the political spectrum? Why, President Obama, of course.
Both movements have a bit in common. Their aims are diametrically opposed, but some of their complaints are the same. Tea Party is pissed that the government seems to be bought and paid for with their money and is growing out of control and beyond the ability of the voter to control. The occupiers are pissed that the people that bought and paid for government are getting the hand-outs, not them. So they are angry at the same government for a lot of the same problems, just for different reasons.
That said, when the left and the right are both angry at the same actions, it might behoove the folks in power to pay a little more attention before things get even more ugly.
I am all for a new Constitutional Convention.
What's wrong with the existing one?
It is too old for this age. I could write a thick book on what and why. maybe later.
Do you, like Justice Ginsburg, prefer the Canadian Charter of Rights of Freedoms? Or is it something else that you disagree with? The Constitution is not static, and can and has been amended over the years.
Not sure aboot the Canadian thing. Though they seem to be in worse rights & freedoms shape lately than we are.
It would be nice if the existing US Constitution were being observed. But … there is so much Old context and reliance on penumbral decisions that lawmakers are basically free to do what they want with impunity; and we are left holding the invoice.
A new Constitution would allow laws to be Observed in a contemporary context while clarifying the very few but key vagaries in the old one. Unfortunately, I don't think we can rely on the same club of clowns to write a new Constitution either.
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Interestingly enough, the concept of burglar alarms dates back thousands of years to a time when dogs were used to warn humans of an intruder like today's burglar. Their barking was the alarms that alerted the people around them that something may be amiss. After a while, people began using chimes as burglar alarms. Today, these security systems have become extremely elaborate thanks to technological advances and innovations.
The first of these modern day burglar alarms was invented in Boston in 1852 by a gentleman named Edwin Holmes. His design was very basic and involved the use of a tripwire which powered a solenoid with electricity and caused a gong to be struck once it was activated. At that point in time he moved to New York to start his business. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company purchased Holmes' business in 1905. By using the city's more advanced electrical grid, AT&T was able to link a person's alarms to local fire and police departments.
Beginning in the 1970's, motion sensors were added to a number of burglar alarms on the market. They employed very simple ultrasonic technology which was emitted by the sensors and then reflected back. If a burglar entered a person's home, and tripped one of the sensors, it would cause a change in the sound and trigger the alarms. Further advancements in the 1980's introduced the use of infrared technology so that sensors could avoid false positives.
Electrical components that were more sophisticated and employed superior technology enabled the advent of full home security systems. The prices of burglar alarms began falling during the 1990's and many companies started including the installation of these systems in the price of them. Many of these companies also began including a monthly monitoring fee that was then paid to the service who handled that part of the equation.
Today, burglar alarms come in a variety of sizes and types based on whether you want a system that is directly wired into your home's electrical, known as a hard-wired system or you can purchase wireless systems. Additionally, the systems available today have integrated with a number of different safety services as well as with phone support from the companies themselves.
With all the technological advancements and innovations that have developed with burglar alarms in recent years and their declining prices, many homeowners today have a number of viable options to choose from for protecting their homes. Although today's burglar is smarter than what they were years ago, these alarms are still a wise decision as a means to protect one's family and home.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Nov. 20, 2018) – The Indiana Bond Bank announced today the launch of The Gap Avoidance Program (G.A.P), which is designed to bridge funding shortfalls faced by recipients of Community Development Block Grants, that is administered by the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs.
"The Indiana Bond Bank created G.A.P. in response to financing shortfalls threatening to stall critical community development projects across Indiana," said Mark Wuellner, Indiana Bonk Bank's Executive Director.
The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs identified cities and towns who are facing financing gaps after being awarded funds as a part of their Community Development Block Grant projects. These funding gaps can cause project delays and force communities to find new funding sources in a short period of time.
"As this trend began to emerge, we found a great partner in the Indiana Bond Bank to help us provide an option for cities and towns who need additional funding," said Jodi Golden, OCRA Executive Director.
The Indiana Bond Bank built G.A.P. off its years of experience structuring statewide pooled financings. In a pooled financing transaction, multiple entities with similar financing needs come together in one transaction to achieve economies of scale.
Golden said that by allowing communities from across the state to come together to achieve better results, G.A.P. feels like a natural extension of the ongoing conversation on the power of regional solutions.
The Gap Avoidance Program will be operated as a pooled loan program, with notes repayable on terms of up to ten years. Notice of intent to participate in G.A.P. is now available at http://inbondbank.com/gap-avoidance-program-gap/. Applications for the first round are due January 15, 2019.
The Indiana Bond Bank was established as a self-supporting quasi-government entity by the Legislature in 1984. A seven-member board oversees the Bond Bank, with the Indiana State Treasurer serving as the board's chair, the Public Finance Director of the Indiana Finance Authority is statutorily appointed, with the remaining five members being appointed by the Governor. The Bond Bank's vision for Indiana is one of thriving local institutions, thriving communities and thriving Hoosiers. The Bond Bank fosters community vitality by delivering targeted financial solutions to local challenges, through tools such as: pooled financings, funding of cash flow deficits, infrastructure financing, essential equipment purchase and insuring against fuel price volatility. Additional information can be found at inbondbank.com.


It's safe to say that entrepreneurship is a high-risk occupation. However, are you ever intrigued by other high-risk jobs?
When you're looking for your dream job, one aspect to consider is the reward you get from the efforts you put in. The reward is usually in the form of salary or wages. For example, some high-risk jobs pay very well. However, the element of danger in high-risk jobs is quite high.
The risk might be due to the high number of injuries and even the risk of death. But what can you do to get that extra zero on your pay check? Top earners in the category of high-risk jobs enjoy six-figure salaries. What's more, in some cases they don't need a college degree.
Today we look at some high-risk jobs and what makes them so dangerous. Then you can decide whether to pursue them or not.
Flying might be a safe way to travel compared to driving. However, sometimes gravity manages to win. The good thing is that the number of flights that go down is few. Nonetheless, due to the high level of risk, you get quality training. Plus, pilots earn a six-figure salary for a few hours of flight each day.
This career also proves to you that it is not only the "dirty" jobs that come with risks. Even those jobs you most admire can be high-risk jobs.
Working on an oil rig comes with multiple dangers. The heavy equipment that you use on a daily basis is a danger in itself. Couple this with the grueling hours spent working in remote areas, plus tough conditions. At a minimum, the risk doubles.
Oil rig workers often find themselves working 12-hour shifts hundreds of miles offshore for a week or two at a time. If anything goes wrong, their life lies with the rescue teams that work these areas. What's more, help might take hours to arrive. On the other hand, this is one of the high-risk jobs that will provide you with the maximum benefits for your injury or illness while at work.
Diving for a living is very different from diving in a pool. Commercial divers have to go deep into the water. What's more, they face various risks. This even includes nitrogen poisoning if they dive deeper than 100 feet. This can severely interfere with their judgement if they descend more than 100 feet.
Then, too, there is decompression sickness. This can occur when nitrogen gets into the diver's blood and saturates his or her tissues. If the diver makes the mistake of ascending too quickly, these bubbles grow in size. They can then lodge in the arteries and organs. This condition is painful and sometimes even fatal.
You might be surprised to realize that nursing is a high-risk profession.
That's because nurses are exposed to illnesses and injuries as they work. What's more, most of their injuries relate to overexertion. However, studies show that as much as they suffer from overexertion, they still tend to miss fewer work days due to injury and illness compared to other workers.
Many people fail to realize how lucrative the security business is. As a private security contractor, you are employed by corporations to guard facilities, personnel, and other property. You are always armed and given the necessary apparatus to stay safe.
However, security contractors put themselves in the line of fire. Therefore, we can consider these positions to be high-risk jobs. These jobs are in high demand, however, as the monetary rewards are high.
When the major part of your job is to exercise and compete with other people on a regular basis, your body gets run down. Moreover, professional athletes sometimes suffer life-threatening injuries. In other words, these high-risk jobs can even be fatal.
Earning good money for what you do to make a living is a great thing. However, if whatever you are doing is dangerous, you need to understand the risks. Moreover, you need to weigh those risks against the rewards before you jump in.


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Move with the times
Published on July 15, 2019 | Leave a response
The World Cup showed why cricket needs to update its laws if it wants to continue to appeal to fans, writes WADE PRETORIUS.
This isn't a plea to get all 'Millenial' on the game. Rather, it's a viewpoint after taking in what felt like months of 50-over cricket.
ODIs remain the unsexiest format – it hasn't got the lights and gung-ho style attached to T20s or the purist qualities of a Test match. It's somewhere in between and needs to adapt if it wants to maintain its place in the spotlight.
The World Cup final was a perfect advertisement with hours of ebb and flow. Wickets tumbling and big names bashing boundaries. And then it ended in a tie. After nine pool games and a semi-final, the two best teams finished level after 100 overs.
Only cricket could deliver that kind of drama. Nothing to separate the fighting qualities of the Black Caps and England's power batting and pace arsenal.
Super Over! Yes, a fairly new introduction to the game. And then, quite incredibly, the teams could not be separated after six balls each way.
Another Super Over? No. The match is over. Finished with two teams equal in regulation and extra time. The winner is the team that scored the most boundaries in the match. Social media was quite rightly outraged. How on earth is that possible?
Rugby has extra time and sudden death before a kicking competition finally settles it. Soccer has extra time – with variations of a golden goal and silver goal – before penalties settle it. Golf's playoff system eventually brings about a winner decided not on the amount of eagles or birdies in the final round or tournament itself.
But cricket goes and shoots itself in the foot with this archaic rule. Sure, both sides knew the consequences of a tied Super Over and can't have any complaints as you play the game to the predetermined set of rules.
But now is the time to make a change. To improve the product and rid itself of unnecessary talking points.
READ: Five talking points from final
When you are fighting with the likes of Wimbledon (you will note the new fifth set tie-break rule introduced) and the Scottish Open (it took three playoff holes to have the winner crowned) for eyeballs on the TV then you need to make sure your product adapts to modern times.
Quite simply, play another Super Over – what a jackpot for those in attendance – to determine the winner.
When teams reach the final, everything is left in the past. Net run rates, wins and losses and boundaries hit to that point all fall by the wayside. It's a new day, a once-off battle to be crowned the champions of the world.
And much like how everything prior is forgotten, then surely when the match is tied you move into the Super Over decider with everything in the 100 preceding overs forgotten in context.
Cricket has been slow to change but has good examples of making progress. DRS – although flawed in some respects – has brought about change for good. The addition of powerplays has also helped increase the run flow throughout the contest.
If the game wants to keep its current fans and attract new ones, it must modernise its rules. Sure there were plenty of old men in jackets and ties at Lord's yesterday but they are the minority when it comes to the target audience. They and perhaps the relieved English fans would probably be the only ones who believe the rules are fine as they are.
How can boundaries hit be the best possible manner of settling the outcome? Imagine, for a second, a Soccer World Cup final between France and Croatia is drawn 2-2 in normal time with no goals in the 30 minutes of extra time. Both teams score four of their five penalties and the ref blows his whistle.
That's the end of the contest. He talks to his support team, who head to the VAR room and count up all the corners gained by France and then all the corners secured by Croatia.
France are declared the winners with five corners as opposed to Croatia's three.
Can we all now see how utterly ridiculous this rule is?
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Moon will be in conversation with cultural critic and author Collier Brown, discussing the connection between the animal world and the human world, their artistic practices, and more. After the discussion, Moon will sign copies of her book.
Beth Moon, a New York–based photographer, has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum-palladium prints. Her bestselling books include Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time and Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees.
Collier Brown is an internationally-recognized photography critic and poet.


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A Response to Terry Eagleton's The Event of Literature
Dear Professor Eagleton,
I recently finished reading your book The Event of Literature, and would like to present you with a detailed response. Before I begin, I want to say how much I enjoyed your book; a timely and valuable addition to modern criticism of literary criticism.
Two principle topics will be addressed:
the nature of literature
the relationship between literature and politics.
Prior to entering the detailed discussion, I will attempt to provide enough context to make my comments meaningful, as I am far more familiar with you than you are with me, having been an anonymous student of yours for some time. I have read the following books of yours (title/year read):
Literary Theory - 1995
Ideology of the Aesthetic - 1999
Ideology - 2003
After Theory - 2004
Sweet Violence - 2004
The English Novel - 2005
Illusions of Postmodernism - 2007
Reason, Faith and Revolution - 2009
Event of Literature - 2012
Concerning the first topic, you wrote on page 24:
We have seen that from a family-resemblance viewpoint there is no need for every object we call a work of art to display the same property or set of properties. There will be a criss-crossing and overlapping of such features. Yet to arrive at a definition of art as such, it must be possible to specify which of these common features are taken to be constitutive of the class itself; and the fact is that art is made up of too amorphous a set of objects for this to be done with any great plausibility.
In response, I would like to provide the definition of art I developed in my (unpublished) book The Literary Novel: Why (and How) You Should Write One, by an Unpublished, Unknown and Very Successful Novelist. You will find a copy of the chapter titled 'Definition of Art' included with this letter. I believe the definition holds up to the scrutiny and criticism you presented in The Event of Literature, perhaps superseding the 'family resemblance' approach you advocate.
To put the enclosed chapter in context, there are a few things you should know about my book, The Literary Novel. From the introduction:
This book is a polemic: it argues that art is done primarily for the sake of the artist; that within a fully autonomous life the creation of art is fundamental; that within the sphere of art literature stands foremost; and within literature, the novel; that each aesthetically capable individual should write at least one, and that by doing so, that individual will fill the spaces that surround an otherwise empty, futile, and ephemeral existence, and may even, with the completed work, contribute something of value to the human universe.
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Only the literary novel can express the deepest, the grandest, the most profound vision of human existence, and only a few individuals in any society have the ability, the desire, or the opportunity to participate in this creative activity.
And you may be interested to know that your thoughts reside at the very center of my argument in The Literary Novel:
Which brings the discussion back 'round to the center of our concern: the literary novel, and the imperative to write one. According to Terry Eagleton, what the novel "reflects most importantly is not the world, but the way in which the world comes into being only by our bestowing form and value upon it. The novel on this view is most deeply realistic…because it reveals the truth that all objectivity is at root an interpretation." This view supports the notion that our particularly individual lives owe their unique existence to that which we have created. Eagleton does not consider this particularly good news:
"If the only world we know is one which we have created ourselves, does not all knowledge become a pointless tautology? Aren't we simply knowing ourselves, rather than a reality independent of ourselves? Don't we only get back what we put in? Anyway, if form is what we impose, how can it have authority? The fact that I help to bring the world into existence makes it more precious; but it is also what threatens to undermine its objective value…."
Terry Eagleton has revealed the nexus, the fundamental core, the salient point of this entire discussion, as the moons of consciousness and spirit revolve in a frighteningly tight orbit around the solid planets of 'value' and 'meaning', the only substantial entities within the human universe. Eagleton goes on to say,
"If value and meaning reside deep inside individuals, then there is a sense in which these things are not really 'in' the world at all. This leaves value arbitrary and subjective. It also reduces [actuality] to a realm of objects which have been drained of meaning. But if the world is drained of meaning, then human beings have no place in which they can act purposefully, and so cannot realize their value in practice. And the less they can do this, the more they begin to disintegrate from the inside. As [actuality] is bleached of value, so the human psyche begins to implode. What we are left with is a human being who is valuable but unreal, in a world which is solid but valueless. Meaning and value are driven from the public world, which is now just a soulless expanse of neutral facts, and thrust deep into the interior of the human subject, where they all but vanish. The world is thus divided down the middle between fact and value, public and private, object and meaning."
This divide creates "the alienated condition of the modern age, which the novel reflects in its inmost form." And the novel not only reflects this condition, the writing of one acts as a potent antidote to the fundamentally nihilistic nature of actual existence:
"Alienation is the condition in which men and women fail to recognize the objective world as their own subjective creation. Yet the very act of writing a novel offers an alternative to this condition, since a novel's 'objective' vision of the world is one rooted in the subjectivity of its author. The act of writing crosses the border between subjective and objective. The novel is one of the few objects in a reified society which manifests in its every detail the subjective freedom in which it was born. In this sense, its very existence can be seen as an imaginary solution to the social problems which it poses."
Or, to turn Eagleton's coin over and view the flip side, it might be said that the actual writing of a novel can be considered as a real solution to our imaginary social existence.
That should provide a decent introduction to my thinking and make the included chapter fully meaningful, should you choose to read it.
Reconsidering the entire question of 'definitions' while reading your book (I wrote the enclosed chapter several years ago) made me ask, 'Why do we (the two of us, if few others) consider it important to define such things as 'literature' and 'art'?
In answer, considering similar attempts to clarify the genuine nature of 'tragedy' may prove helpful. I recently re-read George Steiner's Death of Tragedy and Walter Kaufmann's Tragedy and Philosophy. In both works, the authors discuss the essential nature of 'tragedy', and the range of their disagreement is vast. I found both works intellectually satisfying, but in the end, favored Steiner's argument, because he convinced me that there was something unique and important that originated with Aeschylus, and perfected perhaps by Sophocles. Steiner demonstrated why genuine 'tragedy' could no longer be written after Shakespeare, whereas Kaufmann believes otherwise.
In a similar fashion, we are unlikely to agree on a definition of literature; instead, we will likely leave the discussion retaining a conviction that there is something special and important about art and literature, and it's worthwhile making an effort to identify what it is.
Instead of attempting to identify something essential about 'tragedy' or 'literature', another approach might be to simply use the words categorically, in the sense that anything we tossed into that particular category was, by definition, whatever we labeled the category. We could do this with tragedy, if we defined the term to include any of the extant plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and nothing else. Doing so would ignore the immense range of subject, meaning, form and structure that exists within the works of those three men, and necessarily exclude Shakespeare (and anyone else). Adopting this approach would render the word 'tragedy' devoid of significance, as it becomes a simple label, and unworthy of serious discussion.
Something analogous occurs when people assert things like, 'Art is whatever I say it is,' or 'art is whatever hangs on a museum wall.' Yet clothes are what they are, and sometimes the emperor is truly naked, and it bears saying so.
When attempting to define art, many people begin with a conglomeration of objects routinely labeled 'art' and then proceed to search for common features. Starting with the objects to be defined prior to defining essential characteristics will always confuse the matter, as one must wonder how an object attained admittance to the class without first establishing any criteria. Circular and impossibly open-ended.
In the case of art, the effort has proven understandably futile, as many of the objects considered as art aren't art to begin with, and therefore, share nothing commonly definable. Absent a working definition of art, it will remain impossible to distinguish art from non-art.
But you are right to address the question, because there is something truly special and unique about 'art', something far more important than is generally recognized, something deeper than a loose family resemblance. You hint as much when you write on page 203:
Some of what we do, like clearing a windscreen of ice or having one's wisdom teeth extracted, is indeed purely instrumental; but there are other activities which are undertaken primarily for their own sake, and these are arguably the most precious.
When it comes to novels, though, I am perfectly content to use the term as a label, and include just about anything that resembles a 'novel'. The important distinction, in my opinion, is captured in my definition of art.
For me, attempting to identify something essential about 'novels' proved impossible, as I couldn't come up with anything outside the physical form (and even that distinction has been broadened with the advent of ebooks). When we discuss 'typical' novels, we may think of 19th century works such as Middlemarch, or The Brother Karamazov, or Jane Austen. But then you consider works that differ as much as Clarissa, Don Quixote, Tristam Shandy, and such unclassifiable miracles as Wuthering Heights (a work I recently discovered, and can't believe a young woman the author. The only comparable accomplishment in terms of youthful audaciousness is Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Wuthering Heights is the most Dostoevskian of English novels, for me the highest praise. It's hard to understand how Emily Bronte and Jane Austen reside within the same time, literary tradition and gender. The sensibility of the two could hardly be more different).
In my critical view (one that differs markedly from the norm) Proust wrote the last great 19th century novel. And the greatest novel of all time. And yet his name and Joyce get co-mentioned constantly, as if they were somehow related. Where Proust represents the epitome of one tradition, Joyce begins another, albeit far less successfully. The two authors reside in utterly different literary traditions, and the only time their names should be mentioned in the same sentence is when the sentence means something like, "Although their lives crossed on one (un)memorable occasion, and they lived and wrote in the same decades on more or less the same continent, no two novelists could be more different within the Western literary tradition than Marcel Proust and James Joyce."
As far as exceptions go, the only work that I would exclude from the category 'novel' that is routinely included is Finnegan's Wake. It can't be read and understood – by anybody. Deciphered, perhaps, but not read. That may be the only requirement a novel has: it must be linguistically coherent, with readers somewhere that can read and understand the text. That doesn't mean I don't consider the Wake art, because I do; clearly Joyce arranged the words of that work carefully, with intent and meaning (when my daughters want a quick laugh, they open it up at random and read a paragraph or two). If I had to classify it, though, I would suggest that it be considered a long prose poem, and leave it at that.
Which brings me to some modern examples of novels that re-define boundaries (or indicate that precise boundaries are simply unnecessary): Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, and to a lesser extent, Roberto Bolano's Savage Detectives and 2666. In my experience, there was nothing written prior to these works that would reasonably occupy the same category, in terms of form, structure and content. They are categorically unique. We can expect further examples as the age rolls on, and I remain content with readily applying the label 'novel' to such future works.
Slightly off-topic, I must mention a recent discovery of mine: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Published in 1937 and rediscovered by Alice Walker in the 60's, I consider this novel the preeminent work of American literature in the first half of the 20th century. I believe it superior to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and would place it next to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn on the top shelf of American fiction. As a middle-aged white American male, I can extol the virtues of this work without prejudice, as it was written by and about black Americans, with a woman by the name of Janie Starks at its center. In the on-going conflict between women within the Western patriarchal institution of marriage, Janie shames such literary heroines as Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina and Dorothea Brooke, as they come off sadly pathetic in comparison.
Reading and studying Their Eyes Were Watching God has illuminated for me how imbued I am with black American culture. Given that much of it was written in dialect, I don't believe it could ever be properly translated, but for me it sings. Non-American readers of English may have difficulty with it, in the same way I would have difficulty reading something written in Scottish English (I use this example because once while visiting Edinburgh I couldn't understand a bus driver, and somebody had to translate).
To complete a sketch of my literary preferences, I consider Heller's Catch-22 as the best American novel of the latter half of the 20th century (primarily due to its unique presentation of the absolute lunacy of terror bombing, and the absurdity of modern mechanical warfare). I consider John Cowper Powys the most neglected novelist in the English language, and count A Glastonbury Romance a 20th century masterpiece. I marvel at the prose-woven worlds of Powys, ones that only Proust and Musil can match (for me, at least).
I consider Ulysses highly over-rated, as I believe it fails the most basic requirements of a literary novel (that it should be interesting and/or compelling and/or profound and/or deeply moving. Joyce accomplishes none of these things, at least for me). Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a mediocre novel that sports a banal theme raised to ridiculous heights by the critical community. Not that it's a 'bad' novel, simply unworthy of so much attention.
As for contemporary novelists (although I don't read much contemporary fiction – too much great stuff still to discover from the past), I favor Kazuo Ishiguro and Jeanette Winterson (oddly, both of whom are from your side of the Atlantic).
Concerning the second major topic—the relationship between literature and politics—you have consistently mixed your political philosophy in with your literary theory and criticism. I have always found this quite odd. In comparison, the Marxist critic Walter Benjamin never makes overt political statements, or anything specifically economic anywhere within the four volumes of his collected works. He employs Marxist terminology, and he closely associated with members of the leftist Frankfort school, but he doesn't make one substantive statement that touches specifically upon a political object. He appears to be something of a 'cultural Marxist', and writes within a Marxist historical paradigm, but never writes explicitly of political economy. Another example I can cite is George Steiner: after reading eighteen of his books, I couldn't guess at his political preferences. Perhaps a sensitive reader of Steiner could make a case for one political party or another, but he never writes anything explicitly political.
More so than any non-political economist I read, you are quite specific in advocating a political agenda. For example, on page 179 you write (and this is just a recent example – I could go back to any of your books and find plenty more):
The most desirable future is one in which we would be less in thrall to practical necessity than we are at present. If this is more than a wistful yearning on Marx's part, it is because he believes that the resources accumulated by the drearily pragmatic narrative of class society might finally be made available for this end. The wealth which at present we toil to produce might be used to free us from toil.
I never understood why this was so, why you would infuse such political commentary within a literary context. In my view, political philosophy is distinct from aesthetic theory. They could be studied, written about, and appreciated quite separately, so it seemed odd to find such blatant political content in books primarily about literature. Your recent book helped me understand why this might be so, why you so readily express your political vision (this from page 60):
…if the work of art is morally exemplary, this is not least because of its mysterious autonomy—of the way it seems freely to determine itself without external coercion. Rather than stoop to some external sovereignty, it is faithful to the law of its own being. In this sense, it is a working model of human freedom.
And this, from page 142:
[Works of art] incarnate the essence of human freedom not by pleading for national independence of promoting the struggle against slavery, but by virtue of the curious kind of entities they are. One should perhaps add that as images of self-determination, they reflect less the actual than the possible. They are exemplary of what men and women could be like under transformed political circumstances. If they point beyond themselves, what they point to is a redeemed future. In this view, all art is utopian.
What follows is not intended to engage in debate, or attempt to alter your political stance, but simply to identify my own, so that you will understand my conclusion concerning the relationship between political theory and art. I am certain that you will find nothing new in what follows. The foundation for my political philosophy is contained in the following statements:
J. S. Mill:
The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle... That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Ayn Rand:
Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use.
My definition of evil:
An evil act is one committed deliberately by a person that knowingly results directly in unwanted and unjustified pain, suffering and/or death to another human. The greater the pain, suffering and death caused by the unwanted and unjustified act, the greater the evil.
My view of the Nation-State:
The greatest threat to any society (outside of natural disasters) is the Nation State (Canada, the United States, Russia, Uganda, Iraq, Israel, etc.). In fact, the only justification for the existence of Nation States is to protect its citizens from other Nation States. In other words, if we didn't have Nation States, we would need any.
Within this context, if asked what I want the most, I would say: anything that leads to the reduction of evil. As far as my personal political affiliation goes, I consider myself radically apolitical, and refuse to support any collective that assumes authority over myself. For example, voting legitimizes the current political system, rendering me morally obligated to accept the results of any given election, along with the political decisions that emanate from it, so I don't do it.
You assert on page 54 that "Political theory, to be sure, is supposed to guide our action in the world." Alternatively, I would assert that political theory represents the method of getting one group of people to compel another group of people to do something that they would otherwise not do: give up their resources in the form of taxes and levies (used in ways many citizens find reprehensible – foreign wars, drug intervention, for example); prevent them from engaging in one form of activity or another (gambling, marrying the wrong people, starting a business, traveling to a different state, entering into mutually beneficial arrangements the state takes exception to [prostitution, for example]); forcing them to give up their land or property (eminent domain).
How would the application of these principles translate to today's world? A couple of examples (in every case, practical implementation might take years, a generation in some cases): all drugs would be legalized; all US combat units would return to the continental United States, and all foreign bases turned over to local sovereigns; social security would be abolished; the postal service would be privatized; all education would transition to private ownership; all tariffs and duties would be abolished; industry regulation would be limited to the management of harmful externalities and employee treatment; taxes would be drastically lowered; immigration/emigration would be streamlined and barriers lowered; all marriage laws would be amended to allow all forms of civil union, including same-sex and multiple parties; gambling and prostitution would be allowed; major units of the state and federal bureaucracy would be dismantled (FDA, DEA, Dept. of Ed).
Does this make me some form of anarchist? Not at all; anarchy leads to the following (I consider this the classic statement):
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent of the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
If you consider a political scale with totalitarian communism at one end (a society where all individual thought, action and behavior is determined and controlled by the state) and anarchy at the other, I would assert that a genuinely free human society, one devoid of political coercion, resides at the golden center.
The government in this hypothetical free state would own the monopoly in the use of violent force. That government would use its monopoly to ensure the safety of the citizen's persons and property; run the courts to manage disputes; regulate industry externalities. That's about it.
But you don't agree with any of this, or believe it desirable. You believe the state represents some form of ultimate salvation. You believe that if the state employs some form of Marxist/socialist solution, humans will be able to fully fulfill their potential, and be the better for it. You believe that the proper application of a socialist economy will reduce the burden of mindless toil on the multitude, allowing more quality time for self-fulfillment.
But from a practical perspective, this can only come about by radical means, by the application of systematic violence, both to bring such a state into being, and to maintain its existence once it becomes viable. And in that effort to bring about such a political solution, and to maintain it, any artistic expression, particularly literature, is profoundly important. Certain things must be honored and celebrated, and others repressed. Some attitudes are constructive, and others damaging to the cause.
For me, artistic expression is always a free activity (or should be) completely unhindered by the attitude of others. Any others. "[Works of art] incarnate the essence of human freedom…" Exactly.
For you, however, every work is potentially supportive of your agenda, or a radical critique. So like Plato's Republic and Stalin's Soviet, all art must be carefully controlled, if it's allowed to exist at all. And that's why your literary literature is strewn with overt political theory. Final example, from page 224:
Is every literary work the handmaiden of a governing ideology, resolving conflicts in ways it finds convenient? To imagine so is to take far too negative a view of them. The work of art, whatever its capacity to collude in forms of oppression, is an example of human praxis, and therefore of how to live well.
All my fiction is a radical critique of that which is. I am not sure how anyone engages in serious literature without questioning the world in which they live. My work is overtly political and philosophical, but that doesn't make them works of political philosophy, because they are not tracts; they are works of literary art. If a serious critic were to comment upon them, I would expect a judgment of artistic value (to the extent that any existed), not a political or philosophical critique.
"What of works that resist a sovereign power?" you ask on page 224. I say those are of the utmost importance, and the first to disappear should your political desires be fully realized. You, like Plato's Socrates, would not be welcome in the world you envision, as you are far too bright, original and sincere.
The study and enjoyment of literature should remain utterly separate from political theory. Not that they don't on occasion contain each other, or reference each other, but the nation of art should forever remain sovereign and untouched by the practical elements of structured institutional violence, or any threat thereof.
Anthony Wheeler


I used to be a person who worked the room at a party, sprinkling laughter around as I moved from conversation to conversation. People often commented that I relished being social, like talking to people was a vocation for me. In fact, this is part of the reason I became a therapist — I seemed to have a knack for engaging with people, hearing their stories and reflecting their light. If you had known me as a teenager or in my 20s, you would never have understood that this persona, this social bravado was something of a mask. I have always battled with anxiety and a sense of failing to fit in. I have carried a fear of others judging me harshly, of saying the wrong thing and of being mortified publicly. I achieved social success in early life with a paradoxic solution and it came to me with relative ease. Amazingly, people bought it. I am noticing now in my later 30s, with mounting responsibilities and a collection of profound life events behind me, the person who really just wanted to be home under the covers, the person on unsure social footing has re-emerged. And yet, when I fumble around for that outgoing mantle, the trusty suit of charm offensive, I can't seem to find it. Or when I do, it keeps slipping off. When I was a kid, I was described as socially precocious. I could hold my own at an adult dinner party, and was expected to perform in those situations, at times literally. Once, a friend's parents actually hired me to sing a medley of show tunes (no joke at all) at their New Year's Eve party in front of 500 guests. My memories of that evening are storms of emotion that include terror and elation. Mind you, I was 7 years old, maybe even 6. In retrospect, I don't have the first clue about how I pulled something like that off. What reserve of preternatural confidence did I draw upon to make that happen? The person I am now grapples with chatting up a familiar colleague at a professional networking event. Who was that little girl and where did she run off to?
In adolescence, I don't have to describe the tempest of feelings, the cauldron of concerns that befell me. This is implied in the word, "adolescence." Incongruously, this was the period in which I honed my craft. By about age 15, I could have taught a master class at the Actor's Studio. My singular focus in that era was to entertain others and deflect attention from the awkwardness of the pariah I imagined myself to be. In a hackneyed teen movie archetype, I was the class clown (oh sure, check the yearbook), the person in the corner of the room shouting "LOOK AT ME, I'M DANCING!" I would do anything for a laugh and would risk any kind of consequences to help a friend. I fought so fervently against the advancing insecurity that I presented as radically carefree. My antics as court jester/supporting actress in a leading role once landed me in the Vice Principal's office where he told me without mincing words that my future hung in the balance. That grim meeting followed an incident in which I was performing an ill-timed, but spot-on impression of our AP Economics teacher just as she walked back in the classroom. I recall very little of Keynes, but I can still hear her exact words as she pointed to the door, "Sarah, this is my classroom, not yours. Do not pass go on your way to the office." Mercifully, that was followed two weeks later by an offer of admission from the college of my choice.
Although in college the social anxiety would keep better pace with me, I redoubled my efforts. I immediately accrued a boyfriend (during orientation week, didn't even wait for the first day of classes!), surrounded myself with friends and became immersed in activities. I was a consummate "joiner" in those days - sports teams, singing groups, volunteer organizations and the like - whereas now I can't even bring myself to participate in an essentially anonymous Mommy list serve. In my sophomore year, exhausted from the chase, I finally succumbed to symptoms I could no longer fend off and landed in therapy. The next decade or so would find me toggling between a brilliant capacity to shine in the spotlight and struggling to even answer the phone when a friend calls.
In my current life configuration, I have all the usual excuses for why my facility for being social has suffered. Like everyone on planet earth, I am tired all the time, have way too much on my plate and am just trying to make it through the week. I am also depleted from many consecutive years of major life changes, some tragedies and some losses. But I have to ask myself, what is the alternative? I had an "Aha!" moment last night when my husband wanted to discuss potential plans with friends later in the week. I was prepared with every justification as to why I wouldn't be able to make it…the baby, chief among them. My husband had a response to every barrier I constructed (including a babysitter) and capped it off with, "I would like to spend some time out with my wife." It suddenly occurred to me for the first time that being wrapped up in my own head, folded in on myself has real impact on this person I love. There was no getting around his matter-of-fact request and I felt a little ashamed that my self-indulgent fears would come at the expense of his social life. I am not sure what about this interaction tipped the scales, but in an instant, I was confronted with how much I have regressed on this issue in the past few years. Stopped in my tracks, I agreed to an evening out. A small thing, to be sure, but an important shift.
I am on the hunt again for that brassy girl of my youth who enjoyed costuming and talent shows. That girl bucked authority, won debate competitions and was the glue holding her group of friends together. She left the house for a night out utterly prepared to experience something magical. And I know I have opportunities to reignite that energy all these years later. I can approach professional events, teaching floral classes, meeting with clients and vendors with a new zeal. I can exude competence in that realm and pay special attention to building relationships through my business. I can employ all the mental gymnastics required to tamp down nerves with friends and acquaintances, which these days mostly involves reminding myself that I am just not that powerful…nobody is noticing the things I think are vulnerabilities. People are busy with their own lives and just want to connect. Nobody can take a lifetime of negative self-talk and swirling doubt and transform herself into a reality TV diva. But somewhere in there I have expertise in "acting as if," which has often lead to me to a steady state of being. If you see me out on Thursday wearing a fabulous top and a broad grin, be sure to give a wave from across the room.


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A group of legendary skiers is introduced to the crowd during the opening ceremony. FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek. Vail Resorts has announced it will pay all employees a minumum of $10 an hour.
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"I don't think this will cut into their profits," he said.
"But it is a big step forward and will not be the last step we take, even for this upcoming season," he wrote.
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Creditors' voluntary arrangement ("CVA")
Large CVA
Referred by: Accountant
Industry sector: Manufacturing
Employees: 330
Invoice discounters owed £2.8 million
This Norfolk based manufacturer had traded for 27 years. Since scaling up the operation with a move to a substantial 120,000sq ft new manufacturing facility it had made large trading losses which had been funded by refinancing buildings and fixed assets. It had run out of cash and was threatened, not for the first time, with a winding up order by HMRC. In addition the invoice discounter, concerned about the level of HMRC arrears, had reduced its advance against book debts and suppliers were putting the company on stop.
We were introduced to the company by its local accountants. In addition to the immediate cash flow crisis there was:
No identifiable business strategy
No clear leadership or management structure
Virtually no day to day production planning and controls
A mountain of creditor arrears
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Part of the plan was that the company would go into a CVA which bought a breathing space for the new MD to negotiate new supply terms with the main creditors. Using our turnaround business angel network ("T-BAN") we also introduced an investor who injected £500,000 alongside the founding shareholder/directors who injected a further £100,000 each.
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With a business campus, a shopping gallery and a bustling outdoor esplanade in the heart of Montreal, PVM is an architectural gem that has become a city symbol. It is a symbol of modernism, interactions and innovation.
It is a hub where ideas converge and multiply to take us to new heights.
"Clearly, we are dealing here [at PVM] not with an isolated enclave but with a zone of maximum exposure, an intrinsically public place, whose active participation in the mainstream of civic life is irrevocably preordained. This all-important fact has preoccupied our consciousness from first to last and lies at the root of the design in all its aspects."
Henry Cobb
Head architect of Place Ville Marie
Redefining the urban experience in Montreal
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Creation of a glass pavilion to offer a striking entrance that provides access to the shopping gallery and to Montreal's underground city
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"This building not only enriches Montreal, but also beautifies it with a boldly designed work of art that lives up to the city's dynamic nature."
Jean Lesage
Quebec Premier, speaking about PVM at its inauguration on September 13, 1962.
PVM, building relations since 1962
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Culture. Commerce. Community.
Remaining modern after 50 years, PVM is constantly evolving to exceed tomorrow's expectations and continues to provide new, enriching experiences.
A Canadian National train emerging from Place Ville Marie.
Canada Wide Photo, Place Ville Marie archives
The Place Ville Marie inauguration in Fall 1962. Festivities took place on the 41st floor with a breathtaking view of Montreal.
David Bier, Place Ville Marie archives
As the largest business complex in the world at the time it was built, Place Ville Marie has played a major role in defining Montreal as a bold and modern city.
VM94-A432-028, Ville de Montréal archives
"PVM is the heartbeat of Montreal. It's a network of creators and visionaries that are shaping the future on a daily basis. We are proud of this transformative project that will provide a reinvented urban experience to our tenants, visitors and neighbours alike."
Annik Desmarteau
Vice President, Office, Quebec, Ivanhoé Cambridge
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