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Andrew Barton Paterson (* 17. Februar 1864 in der Nähe von Orange (New South Wales); † 5. Februar 1941 in Sydney), genannt Banjo Paterson oder The Banjo, war ein australischer Jurist, Schriftsteller und Journalist.

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Andrew Barton Paterson wurde auf einer Schaffarm im australischen Bundesstaat New South Wales geboren. Nachdem seine Eltern 1874 aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen die Farm verkaufen mussten, wurde Paterson zu seiner Großmutter nach Sydney geschickt, wo er dann zur Schule ging.

Nach dem Abschluss der Schulausbildung trat er 1880 als Schreiber in eine Anwaltskanzlei ein, studierte nebenbei Rechtswissenschaften und legte 1886 erfolgreich die Anwaltsprüfung ab. Danach wurde er Teilhaber der Anwaltskanzlei, die nun den Namen "Street & Paterson" führte. In seiner Freizeit durchstreifte er das australische Outback, zeichnete unter dem Pseudonym The Banjo die Abenteuer und Erlebnisse von Landstreichern sowie Buschläufern auf und beschrieb die Landschaft Südostaustraliens, die er, wie auch selbstverfasste Gedichte, in einer beliebten Wochenzeitschrift veröffentlichte.

Während eines Aufenthalts bei der Familie seiner Verlobten Sarah Riley in der Nähe von Winton schrieb Paterson, inspiriert durch die Geschichte eines Schafscherers beim großen Schafscherer-Streik von 1891, sein wohl bekanntestes Werk Waltzing Matilda, das sich zur inoffiziellen Nationalhymne Australiens entwickelte. Ein Verhältnis zwischen Paterson und Sarah Riley's Schulfreundin Christina Macpherson führte zur Lösung der Verlobung und zur Abreise von Paterson.

Er veröffentlichte danach 46 seiner besten Balladen unter dem Titel The man from Snowy River and other verse. Durch die Veröffentlichung wurde Paterson auch international bekannt. Die Londoner Times verglich ihn mit Rudyard Kipling, der sich auch persönlich mit Paterson in Verbindung setzte. Er beurlaubte sich aus der Anwaltskanzlei und bereiste Nordaustralien, wo er zur Jagd ging und für die Eastern and Australian Steamship Company Reisebeschreibungen verfasste. Anschließend nahm er als Kriegsberichterstatter am Burenkrieg in Südafrika teil. Er lernte dabei zahlreiche Persönlichkeiten des britischen Empire kennen, z. B. Winston Churchill, Cecil Rhodes und Rudyard Kipling. Im Jahr 1900 wollte Paterson nach China reisen, um über den Boxeraufstand zu berichten. Er kam jedoch zu spät und beschrieb zunächst das Leben auf den Philippinen. Danach bereiste er dann doch noch China, wo er sich u. a. in Shanghai aufhielt. Sein Plan, mit der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn nach Sankt Petersburg zu reisen, scheiterte am Wintereinbruch. Stattdessen fuhr er mit dem Schiff nach London.

Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Australien gab er 1902 endgültig seine Tätigkeit als Anwalt auf, um als Redakteur bei der Sydney's Evening News zu arbeiten. 1903 verkaufte er seine Rechte an Waltzing Matilda und anderen Werken für 5 Pfund an seinen Verleger. Im gleichen Jahr heiratete er die Schaffarmerstochter Alice Walker, die er während einer Vortragsreise kennengelernt hatte. Das Ehepaar Paterson ließ sich in Sydney nieder. Paterson arbeitete hier als Redakteur für verschiedene Zeitungen, u. a. als Berichterstatter von Pferderennen für den Sydney Sportsman. In den folgenden Jahren hielten sich die Patersons für vier Jahre auch noch auf dem Lande auf. Im Ersten Weltkrieg diente Paterson als Major bei der Armee und war für die Ausbildung der Pferde für den Einsatz im Nahen Osten zuständig.

Nach dem Krieg wohnten Paterson und seine Frau im wohlhabenden östlichen Vorort Sydneys. Er schrieb weiterhin Gedichte und Balladen, die aber nicht mehr an den Erfolg seiner frühen Werke anknüpfen konnten. 1930 setzte sich Paterson schließlich zur Ruhe.

Andrew Barton Paterson starb am 5. Februar 1941 im Alter von 76 Jahren in Sydney.

Sein Bildnis und die 104 Zeilen der Ballade The man from Snowy River zieren die australische 10-Dollar-Banknote.

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen

 Commander of the Order of the British Empire, britischer Orden

Werke

 Clancy of the Overflow (erschienen im Dezember 1889 im Bulletin)
 The man from Snowy River (erschienen 1890 im Bulletin)
 Waltzing Matilda, 1895
 An answer to various bards
 Riders in the stand
 A Mountain Station
 Come by chance
 The Geebung Polo Club
 With the cattle

Verfilmungen
 1982: Snowy River (The Man from Snowy River)

Literatur
 Lorna Ollif: Andrew Barton Paterson. Twayne, New York 1971 (= Twayne's world authors series; 120)
 Colin Roderick: Banjo Paterson. Poet by accident. Allen u. Unwin, St. Leonards 1993. ISBN 1-86373-292-6
 Clement Semmler: A. B. Banjo Paterson. Oxford Univ.Pr., Melbourne 1965.
 Clement Semmler: The banjo of the bush. The life and times of A.B. "Banjo" Paterson. 2. Aufl. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia 1984. ISBN 0-7022-1756-5

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Australopithecus (Betonung auf dem pi) ist eine nur aus Afrika bekannte, ausgestorbene Gattung der Menschenaffen aus der Gruppe der Australopithecina, die vor rund 4 bis 2 Millionen Jahren lebte. Die Gattung Australopithecus wird der Tribus der Hominini zugeordnet, der auch die Gattung Homo einschließlich des modernen Menschen angehört. Richard Leakey zufolge handelte es sich bei allen Arten der Gattung Australopithecus ausweislich ihres kleinen Gehirns und aller anderen anatomischen Merkmale um "aufrechtgehende Affen", abgesehen von ihrer Körperhaltung am ehesten vergleichbar mit den heute lebenden Steppenpavianen.

Namensgebung
Die Bezeichnung der Gattung ist Australopithecus ist abgeleitet aus lat. australis ("südlich", wegen des Fundortes im südafrikanischen Ort Taung) und griech. πίθηκος, altgr. ausgesprochen píthēkos ("Affe"); Australopithecus bedeutet sinngemäß also "südlicher Affe". Diese Bezeichnung wurde 1925 von Raymond Dart gewählt. Das Epitheton der Typusart, Australopithecus africanus, verweist auf den Kontinent, auf dem die Schädelknochen des ersten Fossils der Gattung entdeckt wurden. Auch späterhin wurden Fossilien der Gattung ausschließlich in Afrika gefunden.

Erstbeschreibung
Holotypus der Gattung und zugleich der Typusart Australopithecus africanus ist das so genannte Kind von Taung, ein fossiler Schädel, der im Herbst 1924 in der heute zu Südafrika gehörigen Ortschaft Taung entdeckt und im Februar 1925 von Raymond Dart wissenschaftlich beschrieben worden war.

Merkmale
Die Arten der Gattung Australopithecus werden vor allem anhand der unterschiedlich geformten Kauflächen ihrer Zähne, der Ausformung ihrer Jochbögen sowie der Ansatzstellen eines Kaumuskels (des Musculus temporalis) gegeneinander und von den Vorfahren der heutigen Schimpansen abgegrenzt. Weitere Unterscheidungsmerkmale ergeben sich u. a. aus dem Bau der Wirbelsäule, des Beckens und der Hüftgelenke.

Das Gebiss weist – wie das des Menschen – kein Oberkiefer-Diastema auf. Es besteht also in der Regel keine Zahnlücke zwischen dem seitlichen Schneidezahn und dem Eckzahn, was wiederum anzeigt, dass die Eckzähne des Unterkiefers – anders als beispielsweise bei den männlichen nicht-menschlichen Menschenaffen – nicht dolchartig verlängert waren.

Aus dem Bau und den Abriebspuren der Bezahnung wurde abgeleitet, dass sich Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus sediba sowie die Arten der Gattung Paranthropus überwiegend von pflanzlicher Kost ernährten.

Gehirnvolumen und Körpergröße

Das Gehirnvolumen der Australopithecus-Arten war mit etwa 400 bis 550 cm3 ein wenig größer als das eines Schimpansen oder Bonobos, jedoch kleiner als bei den ältesten Vertretern der Gattung Homo, deren Gehirnvolumen mit 600 bis 800 cm3 angegeben wird.

Die Körpergröße fossiler Arten kann selbst anhand intakt gefundener, langer Beinknochen nur grob geschätzt werden; deshalb variieren die Angaben hierzu in der Fachliteratur erheblich zwischen ca. 1,00 m und 1,60 m. Für Australopithecus africanus werden in einem Übersichtsartikel beispielsweise – bei einem mutmaßlichen Körpergewicht von 30 bis 40 kg – 1,38 m für männliche und 1,15 m für weibliche Exemplare angegeben. Damit waren die Australopithecinen so groß wie ein aufrecht stehender Schimpanse. Umstritten ist, wie ausgeprägt der Geschlechtsdimorphismus war; gelegentlich wird in der Fachliteratur argumentiert, dass unterschiedlich große Individuen womöglich zu unterschiedlichen Arten gehörten, die gleichzeitig im gleichen Gebiet lebten.

Der aufrechte Gang
Als gemeinsames Merkmal der Gattung Australopithecus galt in älteren Publikationen der aufrechte Gang. Diese Befähigung wurde abgeleitet von südafrikanischen Funden (Australopithecus africanus), von Fossilien aus Hadar (Australopithecus afarensis) sowie von den rund 3,5 Millionen Jahre alten bipeden Fußspuren aus Laetoli.

Doch 1991 hatte der israelische Paläoanthropologe Yoel Rak von der Universität Tel Aviv darauf hingewiesen, dass Australopithecus afarensis höchstwahrscheinlich eine "Fortbewegungsweise ganz eigener Art" besaß. Immer mehr paläontologische Funde haben die anfängliche Vermutung widerlegt, dass schon die frühen Vertreter der Hominini in offenen, mit modernen Steppen vergleichbaren Landschaften lebten ("Savannen-Hypothese"). Begleitfunde der fossilen Knochen weisen durchweg auf einen Lebensraum hin, der vorwiegend aus lichten Wäldern und Galeriewäldern bestand. In diesem Lebensraum – so die neuere Deutung – dürfte die ursprüngliche Lebensweise der Menschenaffen noch beibehalten worden sein: ein häufiger Aufenthalt auf Bäumen, insbesondere zum Schlafen, und nur gelegentliches aufrechtes Gehen auf dem Boden. Die Auffassung, "dass die Australopithecinen hinsichtlich ihrer Lokomotionsweise weniger menschlich waren, als man zunächst vermutete", hat sich weitgehend durchgesetzt. Gleichwohl waren Hüftknochen und Hüftgelenke vermutlich schon so gut an das aufrechte Gehen angepasst, dass weniger kraftvoll in Bäumen geklettert werden konnte, als dies beispielsweise die heute lebenden Schimpansen vermögen.

Alter
Die Arten der Gattung Australopithecus lebten – belegt anhand von Fossilienfunden, die Australopithecus zugeschrieben werden – vor rund vier bis vor rund zwei Millionen Jahren in Afrika. Von wann bis wann eine fossile Art existierte, kann aber in aller Regel nur näherungsweise bestimmt werden. Zum einen ist der Fossilbericht lückenhaft: Es gibt meist nur sehr wenige Belegexemplare für eine fossile Art. Zum anderen weisen die Datierungsmethoden zwar ein bestimmtes Alter aus, dies jedoch mit einer erheblichen Ungenauigkeit; diese Ungenauigkeit bildet dann die äußeren Grenzen bei den "von … bis"-Angaben für Lebenszeiten. Alle publizierten Altersangaben sind daher vorläufige Datierungen, die zudem nach dem Fund weiterer Belegexemplare möglicherweise revidiert werden müssen.

Aus einer bis heute nicht sicher bestimmten Art der Gattung Australopithecus gingen – dem heutigen Forschungsstand zufolge könnte dies Australopithecus afarensis gewesen sein – durch Anagenese die Arten der Gattung Homo hervor; daher kann für diese Gattung kein "Aussterbezeitpunkt" festgelegt werden.

Werkzeuggebrauch
Inwieweit Australopithecus Werkzeuggebrauch über das Niveau von Schimpansen hinaus betrieb (vergl. Werkzeuggebrauch bei Tieren), ist noch nicht abschließend geklärt. Häufig wird der Gebrauch von bearbeiteten Steinwerkzeugen (Geröllgerät) sogar als vorrangiges Kriterium genannt, bestimmte Fossilfunde als Homo habilis zu bezeichnen und nicht als "Australopithecus habilis" der Gattung Australopithecus zuzuordnen.

Australopithecus afarensis ist ungefähr 500.000 Jahre älter als die ältesten bekannten Werkzeuge, und auch für Australopithecus africanus sind keine gesicherten Werkzeugfunde belegt. Hingegen wurden im Zusammenhang mit Paranthropus-Fossilien sowohl Steinwerkzeuge vom Oldowan-Typ als auch Knochen mit abgenutzten Spitzen entdeckt, die möglicherweise zum Graben oder zum Angeln von Termiten dienten. Da in den gleichen Schichten auch Homo habilis gefunden wurde, ist die Zuordnung aber ungesichert.

Systematik

Die Gattung Australopithecus ist ein paraphyletisches Taxon, aus dem nach heutigem Kenntnisstand die Gattungen Paranthropus und Homo hervorgingen.

Allgemein anerkannt ist der Art-Status heute für Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus garhi und Australopithecus sediba. Die verwandtschaftliche Nähe der Arten zueinander und zu den Gattungen Paranthropus und Homo ist weitgehend ungeklärt. So schlug beispielsweise John T. Robinson 1972 vor, Australopithecus africanus in Homo africanus umzubenennen.

Als sehr wahrscheinlich gilt jedoch, dass Australopithecus anamensis und Australopithecus afarensis zeitlich aufeinander folgende Schwester-Arten infolge Anagenese sind. Dieser Deutung zufolge sind die anamensis-Funde vom Turkana-See (aus Kanapoi, Alter: rund 4,1 Millionen Jahre, ferner aus Allia Bay, Alter: rund 3,9 Millionen Jahre) sowie die afarensis-Funde aus Laetoli (rund 3,6 Mio. Jahre) und Hadar (3,3 Mio. Jahre und jünger) zeitlich aufeinander folgende Überreste von Populationen einer einzigen Entwicklungslinie.

Im Jahr 2015 wurde vorgeschlagen, den 1948 benannten und später als Synonym von Australopithecus africanus bewerteten Artnamen Australopithecus prometheus als Artnamen des Fossils StW 573 ("Little Foot") wiederzubeleben.

"Grazile" und "robuste" Arten
Aus den bisher entdeckten Fossilfunden von Vertretern der Hominini aus der Zeit vor rund 2,5 Millionen Jahren lassen sich zwei unterschiedliche Formen der evolutionären Angepasstheit rekonstruieren, die heute meist als Antwort auf Klimaänderungen gedeutet werden und einerseits zu den "robusten", andererseits zu den "grazilen" Australopithecinen führten. Diese Habitat-Theorie der Makroevolution wurde erstmals von Elisabeth Vrba ausgearbeitet.

Das südliche Afrika wurde damals zunehmend trocken und kühl, weswegen die Wälder mit ihrer weichen Früchte- und Blätternahrung verschwanden. Stattdessen breiteten sich Savannen aus, die ein relativ hartes Nahrungsangebot zur Verfügung stellten (z. B. Gräser, Samen, Wurzeln). Die sogenannten "robusten" Australopithecinen – sie werden heute der Gattung Paranthropus zugeordnet – spezialisierten sich den Fossilfunden zufolge auf solche hartfaserigen Pflanzen, denn sie bildeten extrem kräftige Kaumuskeln und auf den Backenzähnen extrem vergrößerte Kauflächen aus; Paranthropus boisei wird daher gelegentlich auch als "Nussknacker-Mensch" bezeichnet. Die "robusten" Australopithecinen starben vor ca. 1 Million Jahren aus, weil sie nach einem neuerlichen Klimawandel hin zu gemäßigteren Temperaturen vermutlich der Nahrungskonkurrenz anderer Arten nicht mehr gewachsen waren:

"Am Beginn der Besiedelung neu entstandener Savannengebiete besaßen die robusten Australopithecinen durchaus Selektionsvorteile. Jedoch hatten sich vor ca. 1 Million Jahren in Afrika einerseits spezialisierte Pflanzenfresser unter den Großsäugern (zum Beispiel Schweine und Antilopen), andererseits effiziente, durch effektive Werkzeugbenutzung unterstützte Allesfresser unter den Hominiden etabliert. Die dadurch entstehende Nahrungskonkurrenz führte zum Aussterben der robusten Australopithecinen zu einer Zeit, als mit Homo erectus die Gattung Homo bereits ihren Siegeszug bis nach Asien und Europa angetreten hatte."

Die frühesten der Gattung Homo zugeordneten Fossilien – genannt Homo rudolfensis und Homo habilis – gingen aus jenen Australopithecus-Arten hervor, die von den Paläoanthropologen zu den "grazilen" Allesfresser-Arten gerechnet werden; ob die Stammesgeschichte direkt von Australopithecus afarensis zur Gattung Homo verlief (wie ein Teil der Forscher annimmt) oder von Australopithecus afarensis über Australopithecus africanus zu Homo (wie andere Forscher vermuten), ist allerdings unklar. Als zumindest sehr wahrscheinlich gilt jedoch, dass im Formenkreis der "grazilen" Allesfresser-Arten – als Alternative zum muskulären Kauapparat der "robusten" Australopithecinen – die Tradition des Werkzeuggebrauchs (die Oldowan-Kultur) entstand.

Die Australopithecus-Arten im Überblick

 Australopithecus anamensis lebte vor rund 4 Millionen Jahren in Ostafrika.
 Australopithecus afarensis lebte vor rund 3,8 bis 2,9 Millionen Jahren in Ostafrika. Zu dieser Art gehört u. a. das Fossil Lucy sowie das Fossil DIK 1-1 ("Selam").
 Australopithecus deyiremeda lebte vor rund 3,5 bis 3,3 Millionen Jahren in Ostafrika. Die bisher einzige Fundstelle ist Woranso-Mille.
 Australopithecus africanus lebte vor rund 3,0 bis 2,5 Millionen Jahren in Südafrika. Zu dieser Art gehört u. a. das Kind von Taung, das erste beschriebene Fossil der Gattung Australopithecus.
 Australopithecus bahrelghazali ist nur aus der 3,5 bis 3,0 Millionen Jahre alten Fundstelle KT 12 im heutigen Tschad bekannt. Die Einordnung des Fundes als eigenständige Art ist umstritten, er wird von einigen Forschern als regionale Variante von Australopithecus afarensis interpretiert.
 Australopithecus garhi lebte vor rund 2,5 Millionen Jahren im Gebiet des heutigen Äthiopien.
 Australopithecus sediba lebte vor rund 2,0 Millionen Jahren in Südafrika.

Einige Paläoanthropologen ordnen auch die Arten der Gattung Paranthropus als späte Vertreter von Australopithecus ein:

 Paranthropus aethiopicus
 Paranthropus boisei
 Paranthropus robustus

Umstritten ist ebenfalls die Zuordnung einiger Fossilien zur Gattung Kenyanthropus, da auch diese Fundstücke von vielen Forschern als bloße Variante der Gattung Australopithecus gedeutet werden.

Ferner wurde Ardipithecus ramidus von seinen Entdeckern 1994 zunächst als Australopithecus ramidus bezeichnet und erst später als Art der neu eingerichteten Gattung Ardipithecus ausgewiesen.

Schließlich wird Homo rudolfensis von einigen Forschern nicht als frühester Vertreter der Gattung Homo gedeutet, sondern als später Vertreter der Gattung Australopithecus und von diesen Forschern daher als Australopithecus rudolfensis bezeichnet – ein Zuordnungsproblem, das bei mutmaßlichen Übergangsformen nicht ungewöhnlich ist.

Siehe auch
 Liste homininer Fossilien
 Stammesgeschichte des Menschen

Literatur
 Paige Madison und Bernard Wood: Birth of Australopithecus. In: Evolutionary Anthropology. Band 30, Nr. 5, 2021, S. 298–306, doi:10.1002/evan.21917.
 William H. Kimbel und Brian Villmoare: From Australopithecus to Homo: the transition that wasn't. Review-Artikel in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Band 371, Nr. 1698, 2016, doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0248. (freier Volltext)
 Yves Coppens: Lucys Knie. Die prähistorische Schöne und die Geschichte der Paläontologie. München 2002 (deutsche Fassung von Lucy´s Knee).
 Robert Foley: Menschen vor Homo sapiens. Warum und wie unsere Art sich durchsetzte. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-7995-9084-6.
 John T. Robinson: Meganthropus, Australopithecines and Hominids. In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Band 11, Nr. 1, 1953, S. 1–38, doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330110112.

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Ausgestorbener Menschenaffe
Paläoanthropologie
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Hogan said he had not discussed or negotiated the details of his proposal with leaders in the Democrat-controlled General Assembly ahead of the session, outside of broad discussions, Pamela Wood and Bryn Stole of the Sun report.
Bryan Sears of the Daily Record reports that families who apply for the earned income tax credit will receive $750 in additional payments while individuals will receive $450. A total of 400,000 people would be eligible, and no application would be necessary. The governor's plan also calls for the elimination of all state and local income taxes on unemployment payments, an amount totaling about $180 million.
Hogan said he is submitting the proposal as emergency legislation and that he will ask the legislature to pass it on the very first day of the session. And, he said, that even though he and legislative leaders are in general agreement on the need to pass COVID relief legislation, it is still possible that some disagreements over the proposal may arise, Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter reports.
84 STATE LAWMAKERS ASK HARRIS TO RESIGN: Adam Pagnucco of Seventh State writes that a group of state legislators including 13 state senators and 71 delegates has called on District 1 Congressman Andy Harris to resign. In a letter addressed to Harris, the legislators tell him, "You have for months joined in cynical, politically motivated attempts to undermine the legitimate, free, and fair election that selected Joe Biden as the next President of the United States."
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OPINION: HARRIS SHOULD RESIGN: In an opinion piece for the Sun, Peter Jensen writes that if "honor meant anything" to U.S. Rep. Harris, "he would recognize his misdeeds and tender his resignation right now. Not because he is a Republican. Not because he is politically conservative. Not because he has long been a fawning toady to President Trump (district voters presumably endorsed his servile obedience to the liar-in-chief when he was reelected by a 63% to 36% margin in November). But because he blatantly rejected his oath of office and obligation to defend the Constitution in attempting to overturn the election."
REP. HARRIS LOSES DONORS MARRIOTT, COMCAST: Marriott International Inc., the world's largest hotel company, and Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, was for years a steady contributor to the reelection campaigns of U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County Republican. Jeff Barker of the Sun reports that the Bethesda-based hotelier and the communications giant say they are suspending contributions to the 147 Republican lawmakers, including Harris, who refused last week to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
INSURRECTION BRAGGARTS DELETING SOCIAL MEDIA TRAIL: In Maryland and beyond, those who once bragged about overrunning the Capitol are now deleting their photos and falling silent, including the adult son of a Maryland police chief and the former chairwoman of the Howard County Republican Central Committee, Tim Prudente of the Sun reports.
ARUNDEL OFFICER SUSPENDED DURING CAPITOL BREACH PROBE: The Anne Arundel County Police Department has suspended an officer with pay as the agency works with federal authorities to determine what involvement the officer may have had in the breach of the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, Ovetta Wiggins reports for the Post.
So far, Anne Arundel County is the only department in the region to identify an officer who may have been involved in the deadly Wednesday siege, when rioters broke into the Capitol building following a rally by President Trump, McKenna Oxenden of the Sun reports.
BILLS TAKE AIM AT RACIAL DISPARITIES: Democratic leaders in the state Senate unveiled a package of recommendations Monday aimed at addressing some racial disparities in environmental policy, health and access to government contracts, among other issues, Bryn Stole of the Sun reports.
House Speaker Adrienne Jones, Senate President Bill Ferguson and Attorney General Brian E. Frosh have all convened workgroups to study the issue of racial equity in recent months and this week released their respective legislative agendas, reports Hannah Gaskill in Maryland Matters.
AFSCME SETS LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES: Maryland's chapter of the nation's largest public employees' union will prioritize telework reform, higher education bargaining rights and essential worker protections in the coming legislative session, the union announced Monday morning, Johanna Alonso of the Daily Record reports.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 3, the largest union representing Maryland government workers, released its list of prioritized legislation Monday, writes Hannah Gaskill in Maryland Matters. Two of the three bills included on the list directly relate to working conditions seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
OVERRIDE OF KIRWAN VETO MAY BE DELAYED: Democrats intend to override Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of a 10-year multibillion-dollar education reform effort, but it may not happen until the middle of the General Assembly session, writes Elizabeth Shwe in Maryland Matters. Known as the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, the monumental bill aims to rebuild the state's public school system through modified funding formulas and expanded programs recommended by the so-called Kirwan Commission.
MD SENATE GOP LEADERS PLAN COLLABORTION WITH DEMS: The Maryland Senate's new Republican leaders are more conservative than their predecessors — but say they still plan to collaborate with their Democratic colleagues during the 2021 legislative session, writes Bennett Leckrone in Maryland Matters.
SPENDING BOOST FOR TRANSIT URGED: For the second year in a row, elected leaders from Central Maryland are urging the General Assembly to dramatically boost spending on the state's existing bus and rail system, writes Bruce DePuyt in Maryland Matters. Those leaders say that without a three-quarters of a billion dollar infusion of new funds, commuters and employers in the Baltimore region would remain hamstrung by a transit network that is not reliable.
BILL WOULD OK BA CO LIBRARY WORKERS TO UNIONIZE: A bill pre-filed by Del. Cathi Forbes, who represents the Towson area, and another cross-filed by Sen. Shelly Hettleman, who represents portions of northwest Baltimore County, would authorize the county library's 578 part-time and full-time employees to form a union and collectively bargain, Taylor DeVille of the Towson Times reports.
METRO MULLS NOT ASKING STATES FOR MORE CASH: Newly cash-infused Metro has gone from an agency on the financial brink to cutting its funding partners a break, writes Justin George in the Post. Metro is proposing to forgo asking Metro's main funders – including Maryland – for an increase in its annual subsidy commitments next fiscal year, according to a Metro plan released Monday.
GILCHRIST AMONG EX GOP CONGRESSMEN URGING TRUMP IMPEACHMENT: Two dozen former Republican members of Congress — including the Eastern Shore's former Rep. Wayne Gilchrest — are encouraging their successors to "protect American democracy by impeaching President Donald J. Trump." The letter was sent Monday and circulated by the nonpartisan watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, writes Danielle Gaines in Maryland Matters.
'MRS. O,' GOV. O'MALLEY's MOTHER, DIES: Barbara A. O'Malley, mother of the former governor of Maryland and a beloved Capitol Hill institution known as "Mrs. O" during her more than three-decade career as a member of Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's staff, died Wednesday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former longtime Rockville resident was 93, Frederick Rasmussen of the Sun reports.
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Superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all, in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series.
Stranded in Mexico after nearly capturing the leaders of SPYDER, thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley desperately needs to take a shower. But even more so, he and his spy school friends need to come up with a new plan to defeat their enemies, their only clue a key that opens…something.
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Instant New York Times bestseller · Hilarious stories and advice about the ups and downs of growing up, from a popular YouTube artist and storyteller.
Like any shy teen turned young adult, YouTube star James Rallison ("The Odd 1s Out") is used to being on the outside looking in. He wasn't partying in high school or winning football games like his older brother. Instead, he posted comics on the Internet. Now, he's ready to share his hard-earned advice from his 21 years of life in the funny, relatable voice his fans love.
In this illustrated collection, Rallison tells his own stories of growing up as the "odd one out": in art class with his twin sister (she was more talented), in the middle school locker room, and up to one strange year of college (he dropped out). Each story is filled with the little lessons he picked up along the way, serious and otherwise, like:
* How to be cool (in seventh grade)
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Filled with fan-favorite comics and never-before-seen material, this tongue-in-cheek take on some of the weirdest, funniest parts of life is perfect for both avid followers and new converts.
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These two couples are just too cute!
Janel Parrish took to Instagram on Sunday (March 10) to reveal that she and husband Chris Long are spending the day with Sasha Pieterse and her husband Hudson Sheaffer in Disney World!
"#disneydoubledate," Janel captioned the two photos of the couple – one of them smiling for the selfie, and they second of the couples kissing.
Janel and Sasha have become close friends over the years after working together on Pretty Little Liars and now starring on the spinoff series The Perfectionists.
The series premiere of Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists airs on Wednesday March 20th on Freeform!
Sasha Pieterse & Hudson Sheaffer Are Married!
Sasha Pieterse is married woman!
The 22-year-old Pretty Little Liars married longtime love Hudson Sheaffer on Sunday afternoon (May 27) in Glaslough, Ireland, People reports.
Sasha went glam in a custom Christian Siriano gown, XIV Karats necklace, and Zadig & Voltaire bracelets.
Sasha's 28-year-old now husband popped the question back in 2017.
Sasha Pieterse opened up on last night's Dancing With The Stars about her Most Memorable Year — 2016 — the year in which she got engaged to Hudson Sheaffer.
Speaking later with reporters, the Pretty Little Liars alum opened up about her upcoming nuptials and revealed that they do have a wedding date, but she still hasn't bought her dress just yet.
Sasha also shared that she hasn't bought her wedding dress just yet, but hopes that pro partner Gleb Savchenko will be choreographing their first dance.
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The former PLL star and DWTS contestant made it a date night out with Hudson, who she's been engaged to since 2015.
Speaking with People recently, Sasha opened up more about her brand new show, The Perfectionists.
Sasha is even game to get her DWTS partner Gleb Savchenko on the show somehow.
Bella Thorne & Sofia Carson Have a Spooky Night at Knott's Scary Farm!
The start of the Halloween season in Hollywood is always marked by the opening of Knott's Scary Farm and stars like Bella Thorne and Sofia Carson joined lots of other celebs for the big event!
The actresses both hit the red carpet for the celebrity night on Friday (September 29) in Buena Park, Calif.
Some of the other stars who stepped out for the event and went through the haunted mazes inside Knott's Berry Farm's seasonal experience included Britt Robertson, Riverdale's Madelaine Petsch and boyfriend Travis Mills, Sasha Pieterse with her fiance Hudson Sheaffer and Dancing with the Stars partner Gleb Savchenko, Transformers' Isabela Moner, Dance Moms' JoJo Siwa, YouTube star Bethany Mota, 90210's Shenae Grimes, and Hayley Hasselhoff.


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Nothing's Better Than Winning In Dota Underlords By Deliberately Losing
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Jul 3, 2019, 10:00am
Sometimes the best way to win is by losing. Deliberately.
That's not wholly true in the case of Dota Underlords, of course. But I've been messing around with a variation of the idea, where you forcibly tank every single one of the first ten rounds, sans the neutral waves.
It's an odd, risky way to approach Underlords. It inevitably guarantees that by the time you have a serviceable army, you'll be at least 40 to 50 HP behind by the 10th round, possibly even more.
But it also means you'll have the best economy going into the mid-game, collecting full interest by as early as the 10th round. It's hands down the riskiest way to play the game, but it's also one that leans into the pure randomness of Underlords — your luck in pulling the heroes you need from the shared pool, and some good fortune with the matchups you draw once your army starts ramping it.
In rounds four to nine, you'll basically be doing this: pulling your entire squad off the board. One alternative is to leave a couple of heroes on the board so you can get a kill or two, reducing the damage you take, but still ensuring that you won't interrupt that crucial gold from consecutive losses.
How it generally works is this. You buy a hero, usually a tankier one, and maybe lock the rest of your hero roster if duplicates of your first hero appear. The most effective way to stabilise is by upgrading the lowest tier heroes you have — Tusk, Batrider, Axe, anything that generally costs one gold.
In the first three neutral waves, there's one item in particular that you'll absolutely want above all else: Silver Lining. A tier two item, it grants you a free gold every time you lose a fight. In the context of this strategy, that's an extra seven gold from the losses alone, not to mention the extra gold you collect by moving up interest tiers faster.
Other global items can help you stabilise after those first ten rounds though: the bonus for Knights makes your entire army much more durable. That won't necessarily stop you from losing, but it can help you kill an extra enemy hero or two on the board, which reduces the amount of damage you take every turn (giving you more turns to build your preferred composition).
A key part of this strat also involves making sure the basic heroes are at least two star, if not three star, by round 20 and beyond. Because your chances of pulling higher tier units increases every time you level, it's also important to focus on rerolling for basic heroes instead of upgrading your player level.
It's such a highwire strategy, and a lot of the time, it's too close for comfort. I've lost count of the amount of games where I've dropped to below 10 HP, which is the end of the line after the 20th round. But consequently, I've had games where I've persisted on a bee's dick worth of health, facing the prospect of being the first player out of the game, only to hang around to the final two or three.
Throughout this article, I got right to the wire: 4 HP. And slowly but surely, the pieces all came together, including Kunkka's big boat, to save the day.
There are some things in Underlords that you can't plan for. You might have finally arranged a good setup with a couple of damage dealers in the back — Luna, maybe Troll Warlord — and then just right when the battle looks like it'll turn your way, an assassin teleports behind enemy lines and all that attack speed, that kill you desperately needed, goes out the window.
Sometimes the gamble doesn't pay off. You don't get the mix of defenders you need, or everyone else in the server doubles down on a similar composition to yours, and so you end up burning more money than you really have on rerolls just to stay competitive.
Eventually, everyone runs out of steam. And when you're burning the candle at both ends of the stick, a single change — should you pick up that 1-star Engima or Lich at the very end of the game, hold out for something that will maximise the synergies you've got, or just focus on repowering up your economy — could be the end of the game.
And then sometimes you spend all of this time only for the Wi-Fi to drop out, your mobile internet goes to shit, and you lose the whole game and 25 to 30 minutes of progress without ever knowing what happened.
Ah well, that's the fun of Underlords. But then there's the reward, where you spend the whole game clawing back from sitting on 4 HP to go on a massive win streak to win the game, like I did as I was writing this article.
Isn't Underlords great?
ghostnerve @ghostnerve
I've won games on 1hp doing this. Honestly it's a bit too good. There isn't really any reason not to do it.
AngoraFish @angorafish
A better strat would be to roll a 10 sided dice, taking the result as your final rank. Let's call the game Dice Underlords. Every time you roll a 1 pat yourself on the back about how talented a player you are.
If you want to go really hardcore buy a bunch of 10 sided dice and try them all a few times to see if any feel like they have a statistical bias towards ones. Once you find one, feel even more pleased about how much natural talent you have.
Ultimately, Dice Underlords is a much quicker game, and you can get back much sooner to hacking away at the hundreds of unplayed games with more substance sitting around from the last dozen bundles, Steam sales and Humble Monthlys.
Alex Walker @alexwalker
are you ok angora
vaegrand @vaegrand
Jul 3, 2019, 12:55pm
In Team Tactics its best to lose heavilly at the start to try and guarantee pick control in order to either get spatulas or push for t3s. Its one of the many things that makes TT fundamentally flawed.
Jul 3, 2019, 1:20pm
The way the drafting works would empower that strat even more, too.
I literally aim to lose the first four rounds as bad as I can while saving as much gold as I can, it should place me around 50-60 and then you just power through the mid game like its nothing.


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The eldest son of Sir James MacDonald and Lady Agnes Campbell, Archibald received a charter for lands forming a part of the barony of Bar in Kintyre on 5 May 1564 from Mary, Queen of Scots. He took over the lordship after his father's death following his capture during the battle of Glentaisie and imprisoned in Ireland in May 1565.

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Distinguished guests, Professor Sunstein, Cynthia McCaffrey, Alexandra De Filippo, colleagues from UNDP, UNICEF and sister agencies. Good afternoon.
UNDP is honoured to join UNICEF in welcoming Prof Cass Sunstein to the UN during the General Assembly. This September it has been almost three years that the Sustainable Development Goals came into effect. It has been ten years that the ground-breaking book 'Nudge' was published.
For example, SDG 12 on responsible production and consumption lists targets that require individual changes to our daily nutrition intake. To successfully address global health challenges, such as obesity or excessive personal consumption patterns of water or energy, we need to address policies and education, among other things. In light of the #metoo movement it is also increasingly clear that attitude changes and associated behaviour are essential to empower women and girls and eliminate sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse.
Approaching human behaviour with a pragmatic view on the complexity of our decision-making processes has not always been at the core of public policy and development programme formulation. The Homo Economicus, that uber-rational, self-interested prototype posited by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, has long influenced how policies were formulated. Evidently, there is a lot more driving us than competitive self-interest—and this has implications for development and public policy.
The work of behavioural scientists like yourself, Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman and others is increasingly influencing how governments and development organizations design interventions.
Over the past five years, UNDP has been investing in applying findings from behavioural science in its programme design and its support for policy formulation. What began as a first experiment to support the Government of Moldova with improving the adherence rate of tuberculosis patients, matured into an emerging service line of the organization.
Behavioural Insights in the development context can be understood as a two-pillar approach. The first pillar consists of investing in context-specific behavioural drivers and barriers, while leveraging insights from behavioural science. The second pillar entails designing experiments that are based on rigorous monitoring and evaluation systems.
For the past four years we invested in a portfolio of country-based experiments, with the generous support of the Government of Denmark. We designed and scaled behaviourally-informed interventions to address environmental protection in China and Mongolia, to address gender-based violence in Egypt, Georgia and South Africa, to increase tax compliance in Moldova and Armenia and to improve our cash-transfer system to poor households in Bangladesh – to name a few.
These trials, based on a behavioural insights approach, are part of a larger approach in UNDP to embed innovation and experimental ways of working in how we do business and in how we support partners. With a portfolio of over 140 experiments in 85 countries, our data shows that partners from governments and the private sector chose to contribute additional resources in 60% of this portfolio – a first proxy for scale. These initiatives also attracted 50% more private sector partnerships than the average UNDP project. For every dollar invested, additional 2.1 dollars were mobilized on the country-level.
These country-level innovation experiments have led to the emergence of new service lines around alternative finance, data innovation, public policy labs, tech and behavioural design.
These are important achievements but it not enough. In UNDP, we are entering a new phase of innovation. A key challenge we are addressing is scaling, not only solutions, but also processes. We are working on embedding principles of experimentation, adaptive management and user-centric methods in how our organization operates – as well as in the mindsets of our staff.
A key component of innovation is humility: acknowledging that we do not have the full understanding of the complexity of development challenges and that no single actor can have solutions to complex problems. Partnerships are essential to address the challenges of our time and I am delighted that UNDP and UNICEF are committed to collaborating closely on the corporate level. For the past years, our organizations already have been working closely together on innovation – exchanging lessons, designing joint work on the ground and jointly growing the UN Innovation Network.
Today, I look forward to a discussion that helps us better understand our own biases and heuristics, and to listen to experiences on how experimental ways of working were introduced in governments. We are committed to embedding behavioural insights as a key approach in our toolbox to address complex development challenges. In July, we co-organized the first 'UN Behavioural Insights Day' during the High-Level Political Forum. Together with UNICEF, UN Women and UNITAR we had Prof Dan Ariely with us and advocated for behavioural design. Today we are following-up and are focusing on how to institutionalize this approach. Later today, a small group of colleagues from various agencies will discuss this in more detail with Prof Sunstein and I expect concrete recommendations and steps from my entrepreneurial team!
On this note, I would also like to thank the moderator of our event today, Alexandra De Filippo. For the past years, Ms De Filippo and colleagues from the Behavioural Insights Team, have been working with UNDP Country Offices and our Innovation Facility on the design and implementation of trials as a trusted partner.
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Embodied Consent: Where is your "yes"?
One of my favorite truisms about consent is that a true "yes" is not possible without the option for a true "no." That being said, one of my primary objectives in this workshop is to help people find their "yes" – to open up possibilities, take chances, and make room for greater joy.
So, if we've confronted our cultural reluctance to say no, and been able to identify and locate what our "no" feels like so we can use it, then we are one step closer to being able to employ our "yes" without fear.
Because while the possibility that a "no" won't be heard or respected is terrifying, the prospect of hearing or giving a "yes" can also be daunting. What does "yes" mean? What am I agreeing to? What does the person saying "yes" expect from me once they've agreed? What if one of us changes our mind?
Part of dealing with all of these possibilities is the same process as the "finding your no" exercise: embody it. Imagine something you said "yes" to wholeheartedly, and remember it in as vivid sensory detail as you can.
What does "yes" feel like in your body? Warm or cool? Expansive, or small and delicate, or like a cozy sweater that fits your body perfectly?
What does "yes" look like? What image comes to your mind? Are you glowing with light, or is the "yes" in a tiny box inside your chest? What color is it?
Does your "yes" have a sound? Loud or soft? For all to hear, or just for you? Is it a shout, a sob, a laugh, a song?
Where is your "yes" located in your body? Everywhere at once, or mostly in one place? Are there other parts of you that are still unsure?
Exploring and locating your "yes" in this way doesn't completely remove its potential complications, but it helps you meet it and talk with it, which makes its possibilities more flexible. It makes it possible to go from a vague "yes to everything" to a more nuanced dance, where you can check in with yourself moment to moment and see what the borders, contours, and limits of your "yes" are.
More than that: when you are clearer about what both no and yes are like in you, your partner can get a better sense, too – not just because your communication will be clearer, but because your whole self will be. I'll explore more on this next week.


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Thank you for all your entries for our St Patrick's Day/Green challenge. I was absolutely delighted when I realised I could see all of your lovely entries using the thumbnails. Unfortunately what I didn't realise was that I picked the tiniest one so it was really hard to see them! Ah well, you live and learn.
I actually have a Top 4 this week, I just couldn't narrow it down further.
Our new challenge is Shakespeare or Poetic quotes or if you're not able to go for that you could use Anything Goes and over at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' we're always Anything Christmas Goes.
Thanks for picking my green card!! All cards are fab!!


Villanova, PA, October 17, 2013 – Villanova University will join universities nationwide October 23 in celebrating Campus Sustainability Day (CSD), an initiative started by The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). This year marks Villanova's first CSD, demonstrating the University's ongoing commitment to integrate sustainability programs into its curricula, scholarly research, academic and community events, as well as its institutional policy and practice.
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Clas Ohlson to close seven UK stores
As part of the next step in the optimising of the UK store network, Clas Ohlson is planning to close a total of seven store locations during financial year 2016/17.
"We are in the process of optimising our network of stores in the UK market to improve long term profitability of our UK business. As part of this development we are now taking the opportunity to exit a number of stores that have not met expectations in terms of sales and profitability. However, our commitment to the UK market remains solid. It is our intention to continue our expansion by adding new stores in the London area", says Klas Balkow, President and CEO of Clas Ohlson.
Closure of five stores are confirmed, being Cardiff and Norwich (June 2016), Doncaster (September 2016), Watford (no later than March 2017) and the store in Croydon that is closing as a consequence of the redevelopment of the shopping centre (closure date to be confirmed). Another two store locations are pending closure subject to negotiations.
"We will do our best to support affected employees in finding new employment opportunities, including offering job openings in other Clas Ohlson units where possible", says Klas Balkow.
Cost related to the restructuring of the UK store network is estimated to 107 MSEK being booked as a non-recurring item in the fourth quarter 2015/16. Yearly savings is estimated to 70 MSEK when in full effect as of financial year 2017/18.
Following the opening of the new smaller format stores in St Albans and Ealing earlier this year, where omni channel between stores and e-commerce makes Clas Ohlson's offer more accessible for customers, the plan is to open an additional one to two stores in the London area during financial year 2016/17.
Source : Clas Ohlson Press Release
http://about.clasohlson.com/media/press-releases/2016/clas-ohlsons-next-step-in-optimising-uk-store-network/
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Apple is having a special event on September 9, 2008 where they are expected to reveal new iPod models. The iPod nano is expected to make a return to its tall and narrow form factor from previous generations.
We'll have to wait and see. The event is scheduled for 10AM on September 9, 2008 in San Francisco.


Rose McGowan Writes Powerful Response to Critic of Renee Zellweger's Face: "What You Are Doing Is Vile"
"You are an active endorser of what is tantamount to harassment and abuse of actresses and women."
In a piece written by new Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman titled "Renee Zellweger: If She No Longer Looks Like Herself Has She Become a Different Actress?", Gleiberman uses Zellweger as a jumping-off point from which to discuss plastic surgery in Hollywood. Except, you know, he uses lines like this to justify his "critique": "Zellweger, with pillowy cheeks and quizzically pursed lips and that singular squint, was beautiful, but not in the way that a Nicole Kidman or a Julia Roberts was" and "Zellweger was no flash in the pan" and "It may sound like I'm being patronizing," to which, yeah you *do* sound like that, Gleiberman. I'll give you that one.
McGowan goes on to replace the entire article with men's names, to point out the inherently sexist and privileged take on Zellweger's appearance. She ends with: "You are simply a bully on semiglossy paper."


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Issue of Sep. 28 – Oct. 4, 1995
Never the Sinner
by Lawrence Bommer September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
Never the Sinner, Victory Gardens Theater. Ten years after its premiere at Stormfield Theatre, John Logan's behind-the-bars look at boy killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb remains a tautly provocative if divided thriller. Logan is equally effective at probing the twisted dependency between the two would-be supermen and at showcasing the enduring arguments of defense […]
by Jack Helbig September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
Cloud Tectonics Goodman Theatre and Teatro Vista at the Goodman Theatre Studio When did Los Angeles–that sprawling, auto-choked, culturally diverse, ethnically divided, malled, and suburbanized city–become model and metaphor for all America? I suspect it happened sometime in the late 70s, when so many SoCal ideas infected the popular culture: worship of the body, fascination […]
Profiles in Failure
by Ed Matusek September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
Really enjoyed David Futrelle's "Marx on the Skids" (Reader, September 15), and think you've hit on something. Futrelle–a self-described "failed socialist"–proved himself up to every cheap psychologism available in traducing the legacy of that wicked Karl Marx. How about a whole Reader series of pieces, by failures, castigating their intellectual betters? You could call it […]
Harry Sparnaay
by John Corbett September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
At certain moments in the history of an instrument, a single player comes along and opens a whole new can of worms. Such is the case with Harry Sparnaay, the Dutch virtuoso whose astounding facility on the bass clarinet has inspired such heavyweights as Iannis Xenakis, Isang Yun, Morton Feldman, and Brian Ferneyhough (along with […]
The Sports Section
by Ted Cox September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
For Chicago baseball fans, September is usually a month of calm and good cheer rivaled only by March and April for optimism. By the last month of most seasons both our teams have been all but eliminated from the pennant races, yet the grieving is over, acceptance has come, and with it an influx of […]
by Bill Wyman September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
The Spy Who Came to Dinner
by William A. Pelz, PhD September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
Dear Reader, In his fine story on "Dangerous Women" in the September 8th issue, Jeff Huebner notes how the Chicago police kept radical Lucy Parsons "under constant surveillance" for 30 years. It is worth noting, however, that Chicago's finest were not alone in following the activities of Lucy Parsons. As I document in my forthcoming […]
Trashing Day
by Nina Sandlin September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
It's that time of year again, and the alleys are overflowing with free stuff.
by Peter Margasak September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
EDWIN McCAIN 9/29, OTIS' A protege of Hootie & the Blowfish leader Darius Rucker, Charleston's Edwin McCain peddles the same heart-on-sleeve cardboard sentiments as his mentor, within an equally sleepy folk-rock setting. "Solitude," the first single off his bland debut, Honor Among Thieves (Lava/Atlantic), is a weepy duet with Rucker that seems to be about […]
Known as the "barefoot diva," 54-year-old Cesaria Evora hails from Sao Vicente in Cape Verde–a group of islands off the coast of Senegal that were colonized by Portuguese slave traders more than 500 years ago. A bit of a late bloomer, she recorded her first album in France in 1988, and over the course of […]
Derf's Hate List
by Luis Perenna September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
To the editor: Isn't it time for your paper to rid itself of "Derf" and his "comic" the City? Isn't there quite enough hate in this world without having him adding babies, parents and would-be mothers to his long list of people to despise [September 15]? His emotional level is embarrassing, his humor the sort […]
Almost Blue, Next Theatre Company. An homage to the noir tradition, Keith Reddin's semithriller began life as a teleplay–a fact that sadly still shows. Though Almost Blue is energetically performed by a well-cast quartet in Steve Pickering's taut and evocative staging for Next Theatre, the play remains a formulaic actors' exercise, soaked in atmosphere but […]
Chicago String Ensemble
by Ted Shen September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
About a decade ago the Chicago String Ensemble's chief maestro Alan Heatherington left for Buffalo, and the ensemble ended up cobbling together a couple of uneven seasons with guest conductors. Then Heatherington returned and built the CSE into a well-regarded orchestra distinguished by imaginative programming. In August Heatherington again severed his ties with the group, […]
by George Grass September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Chicago Symphony Orchestra, September 23 and 24 Xerxes Lyric Opera, through October 21 H.L. Mencken thought Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg was Western civilization's single greatest work of art. English critic Ernest Newman described it as "the greatest of all comedies in music." And Georg Solti in his introductory note to […]
Group Efforts: art cars on parade
by Cara Jepsen September 28, 1995 August 20, 2021
It's a blustery day, and a group of people have taken shelter in Nancy Bromberg's Gallery a Go Go art bus. With its festive animal-print seat covers, fur pelts, stuffed rodents, and mounted animal heads, the interior brings to mind an over-the-top version of Elvis's Graceland Jungle Room. Outside, the vehicle is a glorious collage […]
Singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada conquers heartache on her debut Marchita


Find out from those who know what it takes to make it in the creative arts industry.
Inside Tracks is a recurring interview and performance event that focuses on growing your career in media arts. Students are introduced to successful professionals who have forged their own paths and adapted to the ever-changing media landscape. In addition to chatting about their careers, philosophies and art, guests also give advice to budding artists, business professionals, producers and engineers. The guest artists often perform, either solo or with their full band, and students run the sound and lights for each performance.


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Jeff Daniels to Star as Former FBI Director James Comey in CBS Studios' 4-Hour Limited Series
By Michael Ausiello / October 7 2019, 8:30 AM PDT
Courtesy of Shutterstock, Hulu
Hillary Clinton Talks President Trump's Impeachment Inquiry, Deems Phone Call With Ukraine 'Embarrassing'
The Manifest Crew Talks Cut President Trump Reveal, Teases How in Season 2 'Ben and [Spoiler] Become Even Closer'
Jeff Daniels is once again getting the attention of the Feds.
The Emmy-winning actor has been tapped to star as former FBI Director James Comey in a forthcoming CBS Studios limited series based on Comey's bestselling book, A Higher Loyalty. Daniels, coincidentally, recently played another noteworthy G-man — former FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill — in Hulu's similarly ripped-from-the-headlines miniseries The Looming Tower.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, Shattered Glass) penned the adaptation and will direct the as-yet-untitled project, which is being exec produced by Alex Kurtzman, Shane Salerno and Heather Kadin.
The cast also includes Brendan Gleeson (Mr. Mercedes) as President Trump, Michael Kelly (House of Cards) as Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Jennifer Ehle (A Gifted Man) as Comey's wife Patrice.
CBS executives will decide closer to the limited series' TBD airdate whether it will air on Showtime or CBS All Access (or potentially both).
"Jeff is so perfect for this part," declared Ray in a statement to TVLine. "Great actor, instant integrity, loads of warmth, intelligence, complexity and gravitas. We talked backstage after I saw him in To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway, and I knew I was looking at the only person who could play Jim Comey. Lucky for me, he said yes."
As research for the project, Ray traveled to Washington, D.C. and several other cities to meet with Comey, his family, and many other key players, including prominent journalists, FBI agents, government officials from both political parties and others.
In A Higher Loyalty, Comey recounts his tumultuous 2013-2017 stint as the nation's seventh FBI director, during which he oversaw the Hillary Clinton email investigation as well as possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. The book also details Trump's very public firing of Comey in May 2017.
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Eye 85, Russian Picture Books & 'Ravilious: Submarine'
Cover of 'Hunting' by Vladimir Lebedev, 1925
I was very excited to come home last night and find a copy of Eye 85 waiting for me - my phone is unwell so I can't post photos of it just yet. For readers not involved in the heady world of graphic design, Eye is a beautifully crafted, eclectic, entertaining magazine aimed primarily at inhabitants of that world. It says something both for the vision of editor John Walters and for the level of interest in 20th century illustration and design that I was commissioned to write something on lithographed children's books for this issue: you'll find 'Puffins on the Plate' on page 62, with an online extract here.
Vladimir Lebedev, Yesterday and Today, 1928
The feature looks great, with the gorgeous old Russian and French books shown by art director Simon Esterson as the time-worn artifacts they are - Clare Walters' related feature on wordless children's books is also beautifully laid out. What readers of Eye might not grasp is that my article is based on research I carried out for my latest book, 'Ravilious: Submarine', the first half of which is devoted to the history of 20th century artist lithography, or auto-lithography, and in particular its use in the production of children's books.
Barnett Freedman, Advert for Baynard Press
'Ravilious: Submarine' features work by Nathalie Parain, Feodor Rojankovsky and Vladimir Lebedev as well as lovely illustrations made by Barnett Freedman, Pearl Binder, Edward Bawden, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Helen Binyon and others - the pictures in this post are all included. One of the main aims of the book is to show how Ravilious came to make lithographs, and it became very clear as Tim and I were working on the book that he was part of a widespread and energetic movement.
Pearl Binder, A Restaurant in Brick Lane, 1932
Thanks to left-leaning friends like Peggy Angus, Ravilious knew about the children's books pioneered in the early days of Soviet Russia, and owned several titles; as soon as he tried lithography for himself he was hooked. Finding a kindred spirit in publisher Noel Carrington he transformed 'High Street' from a book of wood engravings (as was first intended) into a dazzling collection of lithographed shop fronts and interiors; Ravilious started work on a Puffin Picture Book but was lost in action before he could turn his glorious watercolours of chalk figures into a lithographed book. He did, however, create the beautiful Submarine Series, which is reproduced in full in the book, alongside some lovely preparatory drawings.
Eric Ravilious, Submarine Dream, 1941
The pictures in this post are taken from 'Ravilious: Submarine', published by The Mainstone Press. Copyright remains with the artist's estates.
Posted by James Russell at May 23, 2013 2 comments:
Labels: 'Ravilious: Submarine'., #Eye85, Barnett Freedman, Eric Ravilious, Noel Carrington, Pearl Binder, Vladimir Lebedev
The Unsophisticated Genius of Barbara Jones
Bateman the Opticians, Croydon, from 'The Unsophisticated Arts'
Since I first came across Barbara Jones' extraordinary book 'The Unsophisticated Arts' a few years ago I've been wondering when somebody would reissue it, and now independent publisher Little Toller Books has gone a step further. I asked Gracie Burnett, who co-owns and runs Little Toller with Adrian Cooper, how they came to publish this new edition, which is rather different from their previous nature classics...
We decided to re-issue because we love Barbara Jones and have always done so. It seemed we were talking more and more with friends about her and I guess we were prompted by these conversations to go for it and republish the book. Simon Costin who curated the show at the Whitechapel was key and whilst drinking tea with him at a cafe in Dalston we got to talking about the exhibition and the book. We felt confident and so the journey begun.
It is a departure for us. But we have always said to ourselves that we should publish what we like and to take the odd detour away from the Classics.
Barbara Jones enjoying her work - what is that peculiar ornament on the bookshelf?
As with their previous titles Little Toller haven't simply reprinted the original edition but have substantially redesigned it, decluttering a spread here and updating an illustration there. Gracie again:
The design is very different. Adrian spent hours trawling through Barbara Jones's studio in Hampstead and discovered so much that we wanted to include in the new edition, especially as we wanted to bring more colour to the book - the original is mostly black and white. We also wanted to show her working process, hence the inclusion of sketches and early paintings.
Her studio has remained largely untouched since her death; most of the artwork has gone, but her sketchbooks and ephemera remain. We spent hundreds of hours cleaning up the images and making them good for publication. it was a joy to work on because you look so closely at every single image and you see each page in a new way.
The new edition is lighter, brighter and more colourful than the original, which was printed on paper made out of recycled porridge (it was 1951, after all). A little of the chiaroscuro of Jones's vision is lost - the photos of roundabout horses are not quite as black and sinister as they were previously - but all in all this is a fantastic book. Buy it now!
No detail too small... Interior of a canal boat, from 'The Unsophisticated Arts'
I meant to write a post on Joan Eardley last week, after reading Christopher Andreae's wonderful new book, but time got away from me. Neither Eardley nor Jones lived as long as they should have, and both had a fascination for the local and particular that went down badly with critics of the time but which now makes them - to my mind - seem doubly valuable as fine artists and chroniclers of everyday life. While Eardley became well-known for her paintings of children from now-vanished Glasgow slums, Jones is now recognised as one of the most significant arbiters of modern taste.
In a Foreword to the new edition, Peter Blake notes that 'I have no doubt that discovering Barbara Jones was one of the more important things that happened to me, and helped form the way I work.' In her books and in her almost unclassifiable 1951 exhibition 'Black Eyes and Lemonade', Jones introduced what she called 'the vernaculars' to a culture desperate for some alternative to pretentious, soulless modernism. She wasn't worried about distinctions between folk and machine-made art but stuck them altogether, choosing work that was, as she put it 'bold and fizzy.'
Never judge a book by its cover? Maybe in this case...
Her books show a similarly eclectic spirit. 'The Unsophisticated Arts' combines chapters on tattooing and the seaside, amusement arcades and taxidermy, each illustrated with a mixture of photographs, line drawings and paintings. It is disorderly, intensely personal and obsessive, but at the same time the book hangs together perfectly.
Ravilious would have loved this, from 'The Unsophisticated Arts'
It helps that Jones was also an excellent writer, the kind who (I imagine) wrote down words as she would have spoken them. Like her contemporary Olive Cook she writes seriously about her subject in a way that an intelligent child could understand perfectly - and enjoy too. I love this introduction to the chapter on Roundabouts:
When the Romans left England there were a thousand dull years filled only with ballads, pipe and tabor, folk dancing and maypoles. Gradually, however, the fairs emerge from the manuscripts, the tumblers and dancing bears begin to perform, and at last there is something to look at.
from 'Recording Britain', early 1940s (V&A)
Here and there you hear echoes of earlier books like 'High Street', as in the chapter on shopkeeping, where we visit a butcher's that Ravilious would have recognised, complete with 'butcher's cat, noticeably sleek, and apparently unmoved even by the sale of liver'. It would have been fun if Jones had written the text of 'High Street', given her eye for the aesthetics of shops:
He makes beautiful patterns with carcasses and joints and festoons of sausages or, when meat is scarce, he hangs up sheets of paper by their corners, cut into patterns if he has time, and heightened with loops of black pudding.
Interior of saddler's shop, Croydon, from 'Recording Britain' (V&A)
I wonder if this was her Dad's place, as he was a successful Croydon saddler.
Born in 1912 a decade later than Ravilious, Bawden, Peggy Angus and Enid Marx, Barbara Jones trained at the RCA in the 1930s and cut her teeth on the 'Recording Britain' project during the early part of World War Two. Among the myriad pictures of old houses, pubs and quintessentially English scenes, Jones's work stands out. She was clearly much more than a topographical painter, imbuing her subjects with personality. A light touch and a sure eye were hers from the start.
St Mary's Homes and Chapel, Godstone, 'Recording Britain' (V&A)
Fairground litho, 1946 (V&A) - there's a detailed chapter on this subject in 'The Unsophisticated Arts'
I suspect that many artists besides Peter Blake owe a debt to Barbara Jones; she looked about her with keen eyes, found subjects no-one had bothered with before and took her discoveries seriously - but never too seriously. One of her more extraordinary achievements was the book 'Design for Death', in which she expanded on the final chapter of 'The Unsophisticated Arts', exploring all the 'beautiful, vulgar, frightening and propitiatory things that people make when confronted by that shocking and unwelcome reminder, the death of another'. The cover alone is remarkable, both beautiful and grotesque; I hope that her own death in 1978 was commemorated in suitable style.
An extraordinary cover for an extraordinary book...
On a lighter note... an illustration from 'The Unsophisticated Arts'
Recently, Barbara Jones has become known to a wider public, thanks in part to the tireless Ruth Artmonsky and her 2008 tribute 'A Snapper Up of Unconsidered Trifles'. Gracie adds:
She's become popular I think because of a new audience today, and because of the revival in artists of that time and the influence they have today. There's a new breed of artist who are deeply inspired by people like her, Bawden and Ravilious. etc etc.
At the moment The Whitechapel Gallery are hosting an exhibition about 'Black Eyes and Lemonade', and in June there's going to be a selling show of work from Jones's own collection at Burgh House in Hampstead. The pieces below will be featured. Meanwhile, if you want to know a bit more about her books, there's a nice page at Ash Rare Books.
Original artwork for 'Gift Book', on display at Burgh House, Hampstead, June 2013
Original artwork from 'The Unsophisticated Arts' - also at Burgh House
Stook Duck Houses, Calbourne Water Mill, Isle of Wight
She was the author of three important books that significantly affected the taste and perception of her contemporaries in ways that more famous artists have never succeeded in doing. The first, The Unsophisticated Arts (1951), opened people's eyes to the art in everyday life … and that the enjoyment of art was not restricted to an educated few, but was available for the enjoyment of all. It is difficult to over-emphasise her work in this area, but one can see the effects in the displays in almost every museum and gallery throughout the country today. The second, Follies and Grottoes, developed an entirely new field for architectural and building historians, and led to the founding of an international society … The third, Design for Death (1967), sparked a similar fashion for the study of funeral customs, cemeteries, and artifacts associated with death … How many other artists and writers can boast of having achieved so much in changing the perception and temper of succeeding generations? … The roll-call of English artists in the twentieth century is not so lengthy that we can afford to overlook such a distinctive figure. (BC Bloomfield – The Life and Work of Barbara Jones [1912-1978] via Ash Rare Books)
All work shown is the copyright of Barbara Jones's estate.
Posted by James Russell at May 16, 2013 12 comments:
Labels: 'Black Eyes and Lemonade', 'The Unsophisticated Arts', 1951, Barbara Jones, Little Toller Books, Peter Blake, Whitechapel Gallery
The Big Apple at Blossomtime
Dark clouds above, cider within...
Having not been able to get to The Big Apple Blossomtime Festival in Putley (Herefordshire) last weekend I dug these photos of a previous visit out of the archive. The weather doesn't seem that different to now!
In the heart of perry country, a much-loved village hall.
Is it bigger on the inside?
Thirsty?
An ironing board put to good use for once...
There's something about corrugated iron...
Is that a scene from a David Inshaw painting in the background?
Meanwhile, back at the Hall, the Leominster Morrismen enjoy the sunshine.
Love the violinist's jacket...
Pears for heirs - a lovely old perry pear tree growing within sight of May Hill, as they're supposed to.
You can find more about the Big Apple and similar festivals, not to mention a rather nice photo of the Leominster Morrismen in The Naked Guide to Cider.
Labels: 'The Naked Guide to Cider', Leominster Morris, orchards, Putley, The Big Apple
Eric Ravilious, Waterwheel, 1938 (Brecknock Museum)
Early in 1938 Eric Ravilious spent several weeks at the Welsh hamlet of Capel-y-Ffin, previously home to artists Eric Gill and David Jones. You can read all about his experiences in 'Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist', but I thought I would post a few pictures of the place. You have to imagine the constant sound of rushing water and the sense of being somewhere close to the edge of the world...
Possibly painted here...
More haybales than houses... Y-Twmpa (Lord Hereford's Knob) in the background
Rav stayed here - there wasn't much competition
St Marys Church, the approach from Hay-on-Wye
Eric Ravilious, Wet Afternoon, 1938 (private collection)
He wasn't quite so lucky with the weather.
The gravestones in the churchyard seem to have been hand-picked...
Close-up of stone above
Sometimes the lichen makes the lettering clearer
The monastery, home in the 1920s to the Gill clan, including David Jones
Baptist Chapel, with gravestones and Y-Twmpa...
Capel seems to have more ecclesiastical buildings than houses, hence its name I suppose
It's go go go in Capel-y-Ffin
'Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist' is published by The Mainstone Press.
Labels: 'Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist, Capel-y-Ffin, St Marys Church, The Waterwheel
Eric Ravilious: Chalk Paths
Eric Ravilious, Chalk Paths, 1935 (private collection)
Between the wars the Downs became synonymous with freedom. Then, as now, the chalk hills fascinated people whose homes lay in lowland towns and cities, and they came in increasing numbers by rail, or by car, or by Green Line Coach from London, to experience the wide skies and breezes. As early as 1903 Edward Thomas had written enticingly of the Sussex Downs in The South Country, describing his escape from London by train to 'this pure kingdom of grass and sky'. To Thomas, the chalk paths were filled with mystery and promise.
'The long white roads are a temptation', he wrote. 'What quests they propose! They take us away to the thin air of the future or to the underworld of the past.
Eric Ravilious once remarked that he never knew the date at Furlongs, and he was not alone in relishing the freedom of life there. Here he conveys the airy, open quality of the landscape, and the lure of the white road, although this vision of freedom seems circumscribed by the taut black barbed-wire fence that separates us from the path. We may be unwise to look for a meaning in this fence, but its presence adds to the painting a certain quality of unease.
Subjects like this seemed plentiful in the country around Furlongs, a landscape that fascinated and inspired Ravilious like no other. Experiencing it, he told Peggy Angus, changed his whole outlook and his way of painting, 'I think because the colour of the landscape was so lovely and the design so beautifully obvious.'
He got up early, often at dawn, and set off carrying his drawing board in a large brown canvas satchel made for him by Tirzah. A tall figure, with a brown round-brimmed hat pulled firmly down on his head, he would stride off across the Downs, stopping to work either standing, at a light sketching easel, or else seated with the board across his knees. Returning to Furlongs at midday, he ate mutton or eggs for lunch and rested for a while before going back to work more on the painting he had begun earlier; he had an uncanny ability to retain his intense first impression of a subject, however the light or weather might change.
Often, pressure of time or vagaries in the weather meant Ravilious had to finish drawings in his caravan-studio - or even back in Essex - from notes pencilled onto the paper. But this seemed if anything to enhance his vision, in which a topographer's eye was combined with an uncanny sense of the visual possibilities in a landscape. The creative power of memory allowed him to get beyond geographical details and, as he does here, capture the spirit of a place.
This is an extract from my book 'Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs', which is published by The Mainstone Press.
Labels: 'Chalk Paths'., 'Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs', Eric Ravilious, The Mainstone Press
Some Pictures of Submarines
Last week I gave a talk at the National Maritime Museum about 'Ravilious: Submarine', which was illustrated with various pictures borrowed from the Imperial War Museum's online collection. They have the most astonishing array of images, and I'm very grateful that they allow non-commercial use. Anyway, here are some of the photos...
Not fun: a trainee submariner learns how to use Davis Submarine Escape Apparatus at HMS Dolphin, Gosport
New recruits arrive at HMS Dolphin, Gosport
L-class submarines, HMS Dolphin
Control Room, WWII submarine
Submariners worked, ate and slept wherever they could - note hanging teacups
The Ward Room - the officer in the middle is Peter Young, in peacetime Penguin's production manager
Motor room, with engine room beyond
The Commander of HMS Snapper hard at work
Occasionally someone else had a go, in this case the Bishop of Liverpool
Successes were recorded on the Jolly Roger carried by every sub -
That's what happens when you label submariners 'pirates' as Admiral
Arthur Wilson did early in the century...
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Labels: 'Ravilious: Submarine', Eric Ravilious, HMS Dolphin, Imperial War Museum, World War II
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