Brandon Thomas' evergreen farce remains a classic and endearing example of the genre. When Jack and Charley, two Oxford students, seek a chaperone in order to propsoe to their would-be fiancees, they decide upon Charley's Aunt. But when she cancels her visit at the last moment, the boys have no choice but to force their friend Lord Fancourt Babberley into the role…. and a dress!
Charley's Aunt opened at Caistor Town Hall on 20th April 2009, and went on tour to Riverhead Theatre Louth, Red Lion Theatre Horncastle, Caistor Town Hall, Broadbent Theatre Wickenby, Burton-upon-Stather Village Hall, Fulstow Village Hall, Tattershall Hall, Enterprise Hall Sutton-on-Sea and EPPiC Theatre Sheffield.
The intimate Ecclesfield Theatre was the final night of a tour for Hambledon Productions's rendition of Brandon Thomas's farce.
Set in Oxford University in 1892, two young men, Jack and Charley have the ominous tasks of manufacturing a situation where they can propose marriage to their sweethearts. A lunch engagement, with Charley's aunt as chaperone is the ideal solution. When she is delayed however, their male friend Babbs, who happens to be dressed in drag at the opportune moment, is persuaded to step in.
John Hewer, who runs the Production company with his sister, Rachael, gives himself the plum role of Babbs, providing most of the laughs with plenty of slapstick, girly shrieking and facial gymnastics. Equally good are the more subtle performances from Adam Shannon and William Weir as Jack and Charley respectively. They have the unenviable task of stemming Babbs's histrionics and restoring the appropriate airs and graces of the era. They are also good at displaying the social awkwardness men feel when articulating their feelings to women. This is as true today in 2009 as it was in 1892.
Laurence Mager provides good support as Jack's dad. He has a formidable stage presence helped by his stature and girth in the ilk of Brian Blessed.
Helen Crawshaw also puts in a confident, measured performance as Kitty, who finally gets a proposal from poor stuttering Jack.
John Hewer also directed this successful romp with some great period costumes provided by Jane Blenkhorn and Bunny Stokes.
shazandlozcharleywhiteborderCharley's Aunt first appeared on the London stage a little over 100 years ago, proving a huge success and breaking all box office records at the time.
The farce has remained popular and some may remember the film version starring Arthur Askey, but this week Hambledon Productions took the opportunity to stage a revival at Louth's Riverhead Theatre.
Siblings Rachael and John Hewer founded the locally-based theatre company and for this production, John has adapted the script, assumed the part of director and cast himself in the title role.
The story unravels during the course of a single day in Oxford back in 1892; a time when young ladies required chaperones and young men could still be heard to utter 'By gad' and 'beastly'.
Adam Shannon and William Weir are ideal as the upper-class undergraduates Jack Chesney and Charley Wykeham intent on proposing to the genteelly played Kitty Verdun (Helen Crawshaw) and Amy Spettigue (Natalie Glew).
The impending visit of Charley's aunt solves the question of a suitable chaperone, until a telegram announces a delay in her arrival.
With typical student cunning, they persuade their friend and budding actor, Lord Fancourt Babberley, to dress up and impersonate the aunt.
Of course, in the true tradition of farce, this is the point at which the story descends into absurdity.
This early-day Lily Savage quickly attracts the amorous attentions of Jack's father, Sir Francis (Laurence Mager), and Amy's father, Stephen (David Turner).
Further complications arise when the real aunt, Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez (Sophie Skipworth), arrives on the scene.
John Hewer demonstrated superb timing and frenetic energy as Charley's aunt and dressed all in black, his disdainful looks became somewhat reminiscent of Queen Victoria.
Humour does not always survive the passage of time but in the hands of this cast, Charley's Aunt has retained its appeal.


There's a fund-raising dog parade downtown today with a Mardi Gras theme and due to various folks' disinterest or unavailability, I've been nominated to give out the award for "Finest Unofficial Nekkid Dog".
I'm probably the world's worst ad-libber, so I've enlisted my sister and her kids to help me out. She can be the voice if any cameras are involved and my niece and nephew can choose the winner (who's gonna argue with a cute kid, right?).
My friend in Delaware and her husband made the hilarious trophy; Alpo and Mighty Dog cans as the base and a upright dogbone and rubber ball on top to symbolize the sunsphere. There's also an engraved tag for the winner's collar and a frisbee.
I don't think the owners of the nekkid dogs know that there is a trophy involved, so it should be low-key.
27 degrees for the start of the parade. Very chilly. My husband woke up early and came along with our second dog. We met up with my sister and her kids. The first annual parade was a huge success! About 500 dogs were registered to walk. The money goes to a local animal shelter, so we are super happy.
I feel like I botched the selection process for the Nekkid Dog award. I had all the Nekkid Dogs gather in the park and I stood there with my posse and deliberated. We didn't really reach an official concensus (there were soooo many super cute dogs), but I had two of my posse finger the gorgeous husky and I pounced on the decision.
His name was Eiger. Very impressive dog.
All in all, the parade was a hit. I look forward to seeing it grow(L) in the coming years.
sounds like a blast! if willie was in town (he is with bio-dad this weekend) we would have surely gone. instead, sat. morning found me slurping down bloody marys at bistro brunch.
Aw, yeah, I saw that big husky. He definitely was a looker, even nekkid! I hope someone posts pics of the royal court somewhere; we didn't get to stay, our border collie was a little too tired and nervous.
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Whose Beach? Our Beach: A Readers' Guide to Shoreline Access
Marie Myung-Ok Lee September 1, 2017 | 4 min read
It's the waning days of summer, you've got your towel, your beach read, your canned rosé in an insulated Angry Birds lunchbox you stole from your child. But the question remains: where to set up camp?
Beaches are getting awful crowded these days, and "beach-spreading" is on the rise; writer Amy Rosenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the canopy-and-BBQ-grill-wielding beach spreaders' main victims are the "towel-and-a-book minimalists" (her delightful coinage).
Thus, while trying to avoid the point end of someone else's beach umbrella, you may be jonesing for a little more undisturbed quiet. What can you do if you aren't New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who famously closed all the state beaches on the beachiest of beach weekends, July 4, citing budget problems, and was subsequently photographed enjoying a beautiful state beach, Gilligan's Island-style, with just sand, surf, and his nuclear family.
But just as no man is an island, no beach is totally "owned" by someone. Even the famous stars in Malibu, with their yards fronting the beach, can't yell, "Get off my beach-lawn"—although they've tried. Yes, part of that beach belongs to you, Joan Q. Public.
Many people don't know this, but pretty much every state has at least some version of California's Public Trust Doctrine that codifies the public's free access to the beach. California's doctrine in fact decrees that there is no such thing as a private beach. Even walking in front of, say, Jennifer Aniston's house (we assume she lives on the beach), there will still be a strip of sand that his public, and often, way more than a strip (often, owners have to grant easements—i.e., more beach!—when they do things like overbuild).
I'll use California's beaches as an example because they are plentiful and because it's an income inequality issue: Los Angeles, land of the outdoors, ranks a pitiable number 74 (behind Reno Nevada!) for access to public park space. Compare that to New York City—-skyscraper town—where I live, which comes in at number seven. So what precious public park space there is, is mostly THE BEACH.
Yet many wealthy homeowners in coastal areas (but particularly wealthy areas like Malibu) actively want to mislead you into thinking you're the one trespassing by deploying things like NO TRESPASSING and NO PARKING signs, posting intimidating guards and co-opting local police. I remember doing a writers' residency where a walk along the seashore was a welcome way to end the day. But one day when I came around a bend that was usually underwater during high tide, I was surprised to see a guard. She told me I wasn't allowed to walk any further. There was also a huge sign saying the beach belonged to a ranch.
This was not true, I know now. In that state, the beach was public up to the high tide line, and so at low tide, there was a nice piece of beach for me to read on. Even if I hadn't been aware of these laws, "wet sand" is almost always considered public beach.
Most people are like me and don't know that there's a lot of beach out there, waiting for your towel and book. Thanks to organizations like LA Urban Rangers, who lead urban "safaris" and otherwise help educate the public about their rights of access, the tide is turning, so to speak, and the public is learning what they have been missing—or been illegally shooed away from—for years or decades. Most recently, this guy, a billionaire, just lost his case trying to keep one of the prettiest beaches in Northern California all to himself when he didn't even live on the property.
So how to you figure out what's what?
WET SAND: "is generally considered public land and the state holds it in 'trust' for the public benefit," according to Angela Howe, Legal Director of the Surfrider Foundation. After that, it's a specific state issue. You can check out Beachapedia for the laws in your particular coastal state.
Similar to wet sand, you will most likely be on a public beach if you pack your book and towel into a boat, a kayak, or a Huck Finn-type raft. According to Ms. Romans: If you arrive at a beach via boat or from the ocean side, you are staying within the public trust lands.
Basically, before you go, brush up on your state's laws.
Know your rights, but (a) keep in mind that even being right doesn't always win you the day; and (b) there've also been situations where the guards will call the police who will then show up and be unfamiliar with terms like "mean high tide line" and "public access."
Some beaches even have an app that can help you with access (and will have official documents you can show the guards/cops), e.g., Our Malibu Beaches, which comes with both iOS and Android versions.
There is also the YourCoast App that the California Coastal Commission created, and a print California Coastal Access Guide.
Okay: beach read, check; towel, check; rosé, check.
But what if you feel bad lounging and reading on the beach in front of some billionaire's house while his wide-eyed family stares at you? Well consider, besides the fact that people like David Geffen had promised to build a public access path to the Malibu beach next to his property in return for a remodeling permit—back in 1983!—and instead he has been spending all this time trying to keep people from lawfully accessing what has been acerbically known as "Billionaire's Beach." Spending money keeping people from a public beach is a particular crime in an urban area that has such little access to public green space—this small loss of privacy is a well compensated tradeoff for the loveliness and the guarantee of non-development that accrues to one lucky (and rich) enough to live in a house that abuts a public park. Can you imagine if rich New Yorkers tried to block access to Central Park with boulders (yes, someone did that to hide a beach access point) or complained about the noise from Shakespeare in the Park?
In Florida, when the state deposited tons of new sand on eroding shorelines, they declared this new, replenished land government property, and therefore public. It makes sense; we all have to share the consequences of our climate-change and rising sea levels, why not enjoy the beaches that our taxes pay to shore up?
It's your beach, people. Grab your book and get beach-reading.
Image Credit: Flickr/Anne Adrian.
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Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a staff writer for The Millions. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate, Salon, Guernica, Poets & Writers, and The Guardian. Her next novel is forthcoming with Simon & Schuster (when she finally finishes it). She teaches fiction at Columbia and shares a hometown with Bob Dylan.
George Saunders and the Question of Greatness
Elizabeth Minkel May 20, 2013 | 14 5 min read
The hype surrounding George Saunders's Tenth of December in the early days of the calendar year was kind of staggering. The backlash followed not long afterwards, when it was suggested that someone who can't seem to accrue enough pages to pen the Great American Novel couldn't actually be considered the writer of our time. This makes me cringe -- maybe because I'm beginning to suspect that it's true.
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This Labor Was Never for You: Sex and the Small Press
Kristina Marie Darling March 20, 2019 | 5 5 min read
More often than not, when we as women express intellectual interest, this curiosity is read through the lens of physical desire.
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What to Do After Decades of Teaching 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Wrong?
Andrew Simmons January 16, 2019 | 7 11 min read
We're tasked with teaching a book that doesn't live up to its longstanding responsibility of delivering a reckoning with American racism.
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Escaping the Waste Land: On Flannery O'Connor and T.S. Eliot
James McWilliams March 27, 2017 | 11 7 min read
Early in her novel Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor describes protagonist Hazel Motes, leader of the Church without Christ, by the silhouette he casts on the sidewalk. "Haze's shadow," she writes, "was now behind him and now before him." It's a strange way to situate a character — skulking between his shadows — but it's not unprecedented. In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot's narrator refers to "Your shadow at morning striding behind you/Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you." Coincidence? Nobody can say for certain. But in the rare case of a critic linking O'Connor and Eliot, Sally Fitzgerald (O'Connor's close friend) wrote that "it was Eliot and his Waste Land who provided for her the first impetus to write such a book as Wise Blood."
Harold Bloom, the literary critic who thrives on making such connections, famously argued that great writers, burdened by what he called the "anxiety of influence," subconsciously misread established literary giants to achieve originality. But in this case, O'Connor is not misreading Eliot. She's answering him. The Waste Land delivers a darkly poetic proposition. Every line relentlessly reiterates the theme that, in the wake of World War One, hope had been leached from life. Existence, in the poem's assessment, culminates in a word one rueful lover repeats in The Waste Land's second section: "Nothing . . . Nothing. . . nothing . . .nothing . . .Nothing."
O'Connor was a Catholic whose literary ambitions hewed to an active faith. For her, nothing could come from nothing. She embraced The Waste Land's despair but refused to accept its emptiness. In her essay "The Church and the Fiction Writer," she wrote, "I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe." This belief — informed by a desire to observe from a Christian angle — compelled her to both absorb the meaningless in Eliot'sThe Waste Land while, at the same time, offering a response. Of Hazel Motes, she once wrote, "His search for a physical home mirrors his search for a spiritual one, and although he finds neither, it is the latter search which saves him from becoming a member of the wasteland and makes him worth 75,000 words."
In both Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, O'Connor — as Harold Bloom would expect one to — evokes Eliot's wasteland by replicating its prominent themes. She transplants the desolate urban iconography of The Waste Land's to the small rural enclaves of the American South. O'Connor's southern landscape is the "upsidedown half of the world," a sad and painful sprawl of land where "each weed that grew out of the gravel looked like a live green nerve." At times her landscape seems on the verge of exploding into flames and, in least one instance, at the end of The Violent Bear it Away, does just that. But in the midst of this desolation and conflagration she confronts Eliot's dried-up nothing with a flood of something. Decisively, if jarringly, she proposes a vision — albeit a strange vision (Eliot once said of O'Connor, "She has certainly an uncanny talent of high order but my nerves are just not strong enough to take much of a disturbance") — of human redemption.
Eliot delivers the ruins. O'Connor preserves them, navigates them, and then, inspired by Catholicism, discovers in them an original form of grace.
Whatever anxiety O'Connor experienced over mimicking Eliot (probably not very much), she didn't attempt to hide it. In O'Connor's second (and final) novel, The Violent Bear It Away, the 14-year-old Francis Marion Tarwater receives from his aging uncle, with whom he lives in a countrified wasteland, careful instructions on how to bury his large dead body when he eventually keels over in their isolated abode. After digging what the uncle insisted had to be a proper hole ("I want it ten foot"), Tarwater was then, according to the uncle's directions, instructed to "prop me with some bricks so I won't roll into it and don't let the dogs nudge me over the edge before it's finished. You better pen up the dogs." In The Waste Land's single reference to burial, a soldier home from war in London sees a former comrade walking across London Bridge and asks, "That corpse you planted last year in your garden,/'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?" And then: "Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to man/Or with his nails he'll dig it up again."
In both instances, in both wastelands, dogs are banished from the graveside. They will not be set loose to complete Antony's famous order, delivered in Act III, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, at Caesar's funeral, to "let slip the dogs of war." That act would miss the point in these mirrored wastelands because, as both Eliot and O'Connor suggest, whatever justice is to be attained is, alas, pointless. The body is interred. The play is over. Death is death. Dust is dust. The dogs must be locked away.
Perhaps the only prospect worse than death is, for both authors, eternal earthly life. It's a prospect that both Eliot and O'Connor symbolize in the form of a shriveled, miniaturized body. The Waste Land opens with an epigraph that declares (in part): "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere." Translation: "Now I myself with my own eyes saw the Sybil of Cumae hanging in a jar." According to myth, the Sybil of Cumae asked Apollo for eternal life but, in so doing, forgot to ask for eternal youth. Wish granted, the Sybil ages forever, shrinking to the point that she fits in a glass jar. The image is reliably referenced later in the poem as a symbol of existential hopelessness ("You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique.")
What worked for Eliot worked for O'Connor. In Wise Blood, Enoch Emery, the trickster sidekick whose friendship Haze Motes rejects, steals a mummified dwarf (displayed in a glass case) from a local museum and delivers it to Sabbath Lily Hawks, the nymph lover of Motes, in a paper sac. Enoch wants Motes, despite his bad attitude, to have the desiccated and shrunken mummy as a "new jesus" symbol for his Church Without Christ. Earlier in the novel, when Enoch first sees the mummy, he approaches it cautiously, after reading a sign on the wall that tells him "he was once as tall as you or me." As with Eliot's Sybil, the mummy has diminished in size over time. The scene ends when a mother walks into the museum with two boys, both of who approach the glass and peer at the blackened figure.
O'Connor, again in Wise Blood, practically completes Eliot's scene for him. In Eliot's epigraph (which inexplicably switches to Greek), two boys approach the Sybil in the jar (some think this was the inspiration for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar), just as the boys do in O'Connor's museum. They ask her, "What do you want?" and the Sybil replies, in true Eliot fashion, "I want to die." O'Connor grants the Sybil her wish when, after Sabbath showed Motes the mummified new Jesus, he "snatched the shriveled body and threw it against the wall." Upon impact, "the head popped and the trash inside sprayed in a little cloud of dust."
Few words are more evocative of The Waste Land than that carefully considered word: dust (a mote of dust). If there is a line that best captures the depth of the poem's existential terror it comes when the narrator promises, "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" — or, as O'Connor suggests, maybe in the shattered head of a purloined dwarf.
O'Connor's novels also follow Eliot's lead on the theme of blindness. The inability to see, partially or completely, pervades The Waste Land. The "hyacinth girl," from section one, describes a moment of potential romantic happiness when the girl notes of her possible lover, "we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,/Your arms full and your hair wet." It's one of the poem's only moments of hope. But it's immediately dashed when the hyacinth girl recalls how, quite suddenly, "I could not speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither/Living nor dead, and I knew nothing." Later in the same section, the prophetess "Madame Sosostris," consults her "wicked pack of cards" — is there any hope in there? — and finds a Phoenician sailor with "pearls that were his eyes" as well as a "one-eyed merchant." The merchant on the tarot card carries something possibly significant on his back, but it turns out to be something for which Madame Sosotris must confess, "I am forbidden to see." Some prophetess — she's without foresight.
Sight, or lack thereof, is even more central to inner mechanics of Wise Blood. Hazel Motes, who can see normally when we meet him, eventually blinds himself in an act of spiritual rage. Motes's antagonist, the preacher Asa Hawks, also sees normally, but fakes blindness as a ruse to foster donations. When naming her characters, O'Connor must have had in mind "seeing like a hawk" and the biblical "why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" (And maybe even King Lear.) Either way, the theme of compromised sight is even in peripheral scenes. When Motes and Sabbath encounter a caged black bear at Tennessee gas station (don't laugh, I once saw a caged ostrich an east-Texas gas station), we learn that "the bear had only one eye." Enoch Emery's landlady was "almost totally blind but moved about by an acute sense of smell." Sabbath Lily says to her father about Haze, "I like his eyes. They don't seem to see what he's looking at, but they keep on looking."
The similarities continue in other areas as well. They appear when Tarwater is raped in The Violent Bear it Away, and in Tarwater's sadistic baptism (which results in drowning the feeble initiate). But, in the end, O'Connor isn't content with simply mimicking Eliot's hellscape of despair. Instead, she yanks us in the opposite direction — from a ghastly landscape to a strange paradise of redemption. And she does so in a way that, indeed, made her a true original — at once devout, humorous, and spiritual. It is in that last description of Motes's eyes — "but they keep on looking" — that O'Connor's faith intervenes, her Catholicism asks to be honored, and she lays an eccentric basis for hope.
Eliot ends his poem with a spiritual assessment of a wasted land that's so devoid of life (specifically water) that it even dries out any prospect of Christ's resurrection and, by extension, the rest of humanity. "After the agony in stony places/The shouting and the crying/Prison and palace and reverberation/Of thunder of spring over distant mountains/He who was living is now dead/We who are living are now dying." To be sure, Motes doesn't escape death. He dies in the back seat of a cop car. But before his death, after his blindness, as his spiritual vision intensifies towards something, he takes to staging his own crucifixion (wrapping himself in barbed wire and filling his shoes with rocks), and attempts his own conversion experience through a painful form of redemption.
The book ends with Motes's corpse propped in a chair at the home of his landlady. Her name — evoking the water that never quenched The Waste Land — is Mrs. Flood, and her final observation — that she thinks (with her eyes shut) she sees "a pin point of light" in his dead eye sockets — is the twinkle of hope that you can search for throughout The Waste Land and never find. It is O'Connor's way of answering, and escaping, The Waste Land. It is her way of resurrecting Motes, and ensuring that his quest for meaning never loses significance.
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Nobody Hearts L.A.: A Personal Los Angeles Canon
Colin Marshall September 12, 2011 | 10 10 min read
Reading Together Even While Reading Alone
Bryan VanDyke November 10, 2014 | 14 11 min read
You cannot remove a book from the List until you've read it entirely—because until the last paragraph, anything can happen.
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Chris Christie: New Jersey's Chimera
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My Tree and I: Writing in Nature in New York
Lee Matthew Goldberg August 31, 2017 | 3 5 min read
From April through November, Central Park becomes my office. Confined from writing indoors during the winter months, nothing makes me happier than when the sun peeks through and gives enough warmth to bring my laptop to an enclave off Cedar Hill and the 79th Street entrance, where my favorite tree awaits to perfectly contour to the groove of my back. This tree and I have written many books together, and while I have come up all with the ideas, it deserves a ton of credit too.
There are some authors who can just poke into a coffee shop and get their work done, but I am not one of them. I'd focus on the chatter around me too much, unable to really sink into writing. During the winter months, I'm lucky that the spectacular Rose Main Reading Room in the library on 42nd Street with its beautiful fresco ceiling is in walking distance. You'll be glared at if your phone rings, so there's no danger of distracting chatter. But somehow I'm just not as inspired as when I am at my tree for eight months out of the year.
I have a few stipulations to working outside. If it's over 90 degrees I won't do it (after nearly frying my laptop one summer and searing the hairs on my leg). The same goes for under 50 degrees, except for one relatively mild winter when I parked myself on a bench by the Great Lawn and wrote with gloves and an overcoat. I was developing a very dark book at the time that took place in the cold. I thought that the weather would help seep into the main character's struggles. I finished that book, but I doubt I'll write outside during sub-zero temperatures again.
Right now, I'm at my tree and it's chilly for a spring afternoon; but I'm bundled up in a sweater and toasty enough. The tree is located in a prime spot with a nearby bathroom off the Ramble and a hot dog cart selling overpriced water bottles. Behind me a well-worn path provides the white noise of runners and bikers sailing past. In front, stands a circle of trees that gives an effect of closing off the rest of Manhattan. I can see the elegant fifth avenue apartments winking between the trees' arms, but the racket of the city is kept at bay. There are no sirens, no car alarms. Birds chirp, I've even seen a hawk perched behind a thicket of leaves, and I'm transported to a forest setting with animals other than the standard city pigeons and squirrels. Sometimes the enclave is populated with those having picnics, or reading a book, but it's rarely overcrowded or loud.
My tree has long and sturdy branches that offer an ideal mix of shade and sun. I usually get here by noon and have lunch, go over my outline for what I'm working on and the scenes I'll tackle that day. Then from about 1 to 5pm, I write. I don't have Internet, except on my cell for research and any emails that need to be answered. A successful day means getting at least five pages done. Often I write 10 when I'm really in the thick of a book. A few times I've even written 15. And while I'm prolific at the library too, I've never written 15 pages there. New York City can be a hard place to think. Beyond its own non-stop clamor, the limitless possibilities and various things to do can make it hard to focus. In the park, I rarely have that problem.
As professions go, a novelist is a pretty solitary one. The majority of the day gets spent alone in my head, which is why I don't often write from home. I'm an extroverted introvert, and while I need time in my head, I crave people as well. Central Park is perfect for this. I have a few haunts in the park when the grass by my tree starts to wilt around September, or when someone else decides to use its trunk as support. I'll write on the benches by the Great Lawn like I did one winter. I'll write in this fenced-in grassy spot by Belvedere Castle. I'll go to Sheep's Meadow, which also has a few trees with good back support or fencing that suffices. But none hold a candle to my tree.
When I'm really into the throes of a project, I'll leave my body. It's hard to explain, but I've read other writers who've described a similar experience. I'll enter my book, either as an observer if it's written in third person, or a participant if it's written in first person. Sometimes I'm gone for hours and when I'm zapped back, the sun has moved across the sky and there may even be a chill in the air, which I hadn't noticed. No place but Central Park allows me to leave my body as easily.
For hundreds of years, writers have advocated the appeal and necessity of nature. Sir Walter Scott gardened to distance his mind from debt. Henry David Thoreau moved to a cabin to separate himself from the world. George Bernard Shaw crafted Pygmalion and Saint Joan in a small but modern writer's shed situated on a home-built turntable that rotated to catch the sun's rays in winter and the shade in the summer. Virginia Woolf lived on an overgrown plot of land that was turned into garden rooms and an orchard, featuring it heavily in her work. Annie Dillard won the 1975 nonfiction Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, raising questions about the horrors and beauties of nature while sitting on a sycamore log overlooking the creek.
Even though New York seems more crowded than ever due to luxury skyscrapers shooting up one after the other, between 1821 and 1855, it nearly quadrupled in population. As the city began expanding further north up Manhattan, citizens began flocking to the few open spaces, mostly cemeteries, to get a break from the noise and pollution in search of fresh air. In 1857, the state appointed Central Park Commission held a landscape design contest. Frederick Law Olmstead and his partner won. His design included a mix of his social consciousness and his belief in egalitarian ideals. He argued that the common green space must always be equally available to all citizens and could never become privatized. The need for public parks was a necessity so people wouldn't have to use cemeteries as an escape. I'm a born-and-bred New Yorker, and I can't imagine what the city would be like without miles of a park as a refuge.
While I'm walking in the streets or taking the subway, I've often thought of the Ezra Pound poem "In the Station of Metro" that states, "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough." At the time, Ezra Pound was in a funk and saw everyone in the Metro station as ghosts sliding by, but then they managed to morph into petals. Instead of the faceless apparitions he usually noticed; the crowd became something beautiful. It's easy to keep your head down, avoiding the traffic and crowded streets, but also missing the myriad sights the city has to offer.
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Student-athletes who literally go the extra mile were recognized at a special event on campus last week.
From the Toronto Blue Jays winning their first World Series, to Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman in space, to the world first SMS/text message -- 1992 was a year of firsts.
For the second straight year, IAN Talks gave select staff members from the AVP Students portfolio an opportunity to share innovative ideas and insights into their respective departments.
UBC Athletics and Recreation is once again offering a day camp on Thursday, June 12 -- a day of fun for your children during the upcoming one-day teachers' strike.


Saturday after I left Cochiti Lake was a nightmare day, so when I could stop at a truck stop with an abandoned RV park in the back, it was especially welcome and pleasant.
In my nice campground that morning, I noticed that my front driver's side tire on the motor home was low. I drove the car to the nearby Indian gas station, only to learn that they don't have an air compressor! The closest one is 15 miles toward the interstate highway! I was lucky to find an very kind old retired POW Vet Indian in a pickup truck who said he had a cigarette-lighter-operated compressor that might put air into the tire so I could get out of there. Not too surprisingly he had never used it before, so didn't know how it worked! Somehow we did get a bit of air into the tire, then I emptied and cleaned my holding tanks and filled the water tank with good drinking water and hit the road, forfeiting my next night's camping for which I had already paid.
I stopped again and got the tires properly pressured, then drove south through Albuquerque. My goal was a rural BLM free camping area, listed in the Ultimate Campground guide written by a camper I had met. But the open camping turned out to be on a tiny road for four-wheel-drives out in the desert, which was very rough, deep in sand and with virtually no place to turn around and go back! Nobody at all was out there. I admit that I was scared wondering how I could ever get back to civilization, but I finally did it. I found a wide spot and turned tight, without stopping or slowing down. Good thing I had a lifetime of experience driving in soft snow. I thought that if I stopped and got stuck, they might someday find my skeleton out there. My poor car was an inch deep in sandy dust, none of my ten tires were even black any more. I admit that although I was worried out in the desert, once i finally got headed out of there, I had to laugh out loud at my own stupidity and determination.
I hear that every RVer has some sort of adventure tale like this, but it's the first time I actually felt anxious. And it was my own fault, because there were signs in advance this was a bad idea and I ignored them. Live and Learn! Now I'll be much more cautious.


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Police: Man took nude pictures of woman
Gary D. Forry allegedly took 42 photos of a female while she was sleeping naked, police said.
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A Hanover man is awaiting a preliminary hearing after he allegedly took more than 40 nude and partially nude photos of a woman he knew without her consent, according to charging documents.
Gary D. Forry, 40, of the 300 block of North Franklin Street, allegedly took the photos Nov. 10 and 11 when she was sleeping in her bedroom, according to an affidavit filed with District Judge Dwayne Dubs. He took a combined 42 photos of her on her bed while she was either partially or completely nude, the affidavit states.
Daughter stole from dead mother, police say
Forry allegedly touched the woman for some of the photos.
She found the photos a few days later when she asked to borrow Forry's phone because hers was out of minutes, according to the affidavit. After finding the photos, she called police, the affidavit states.
Forry provided a statement to police admitting he took the photos, according to the affidavit. He allegedly told police he took them while she was sleeping because he would not have had consent otherwise.
Forry faces charges of aggravated indecent assault, invasion of privacy and indecent assault of an unconscious person, according to charging documents filed by Hanover Borough Police Department.
The players: York Co. Prison 'Fight Club' trial
He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Jan. 19, according to court documents. He had a fingerprint order issued at Dubs' office on Jan. 4 and was released on $150,000 unsecured bail.
No attorney information was listed for Forry in online court documents.


The early drafts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - a story that had been whirring away in Roald Dahl's Ideas Book since he was at school - are one of the highlights of the Roald Dahl Archive, which is housed at the Museum in Great Missenden, Bucks, UK.
'Perhaps more than any of the published chapters, 'The Warming Candy Room' demonstrates Roald Dahl's fascination with invention – not just creatively and imaginatively but in practical terms.
As the remaining five children enter the Warming Candy Room, the reader is given the impression of the engine room of a giant ship – Roald Dahl describes pistons and turbines, pressure gauges and dials, with the centre-piece of a boiler with white hot jets of flame.
'"Cold heat?" cried one of the fathers… "There's no such thing!"
This idea of invention and creativity was one of Roald Dahl's frequent themes, and echoed his own interest in gadgets and imagination. He would write his children's names on the lawn with weed killer to persuade them that fairies had visited. He would stretch his shoes by freezing them with plastic bags full of water which would swell when frozen. His Writing Hut, where he spent time every day constructing his stories, contained the chair and writing desk he had customised to be as comfortable and functional as possible. And perhaps most famously, his collaboration with his son's neurosurgeon and a local toymaker to invent the Wade-Dahl-Till shunt, led to the creation of a tiny shunt that could be inserted into the skulls of children with hydrocephalus, resulting in thousands of children gaining a better quality of life.
Back at the Warming Candy Room, then, the three naughty boys Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside and Terence Roper gobble down handfuls of the Warming Candy, with disastrous results. They are led off by the white-coated assistants and their "fluttering, fanning parents" to enormous refrigerators to cool down, and the tour of the Chocolate Factory, now down to two children – Charlie Bucket and Elvira Entwhistle (a prototype of Veruca Salt) – continues on to the Nut Room.
This month, as we celebrate both Roald Dahl Day and 50 years of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Vanity Fair publish 'The Warming Candy Room' for the very first time.


You heard it here first folks. Skiers are cnuts. Not only do they look slightly odd but they sure as hell don't see what name is on their clothes. I don't understand how you can look at a name and think, "Yeah, that'll be alright". All you have to do is to LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE BUYING and you won't appear to be a complete moron. Of course I can't help you on the ski front (short of beating it out of you) but this would be a small step on the road to not being hated.
This will be an everlasting memory. Hope you're happy now!
You truly are a massive cnut.


This season adidas Originals marks the return of a '70s basketball icon, bringing back the Nizza silhouette in a one-to-one reproduction of both its high-top and low-top iterations: OG shape, OG materials, OG colorway.
True to the shoe's original 1975 blueprint, the Nizza features a durable canvas upper in white, with blue embroidered 3-Stripe mark. Branding details on the tongue and heel add subtle pops of color, rounded off with the shoe's vulcanized rubber cupsole with blue foxing details and the Nizza's signature rubber toecap. With both the Nizza Lo and Nizza Hi restored in their full glory, it's the perfect revival of a casual summer classic.
The adidas Nizza High and Low will release at select adidas Originals retailers and online at adidas.com on June 29th, 2017. Retail price for the High is $80 while the Low will cost you $75. Below you can check out more photos of the two which will give you a closer look.


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MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 1, 2009) - The City of Mississauga and representatives from the federal and provincial orders of government will officially open Mississauga Transit's newly expanded Central Parkway Campus with new Bus Storage and Repair Garages.
The Campus Expansion Project was constructed between 2007 and 2009 increasing Mississauga Transit's operational facilities at its Central Parkway Campus to accommodate the additional buses needed to deliver the Ridership Growth Strategy. Developing a transit-oriented City is one of Mississauga's five strategic pillars for change.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 10 a.m.
Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion, C.M.
Inside Mississauga Transit's new bus repair garage and bus storage facility.
Displays at the event will feature the City of Mississauga transit projects including the Bus Rapid Transit Project, Hurontario Main Street Study and Smart Commute.
Limited parking is available in front of the Mississauga Transit Body Shop at 3585 Erindale Station Road. A shuttle bus will run from the Civic Centre (north entrance) at: 11:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1 p.m., 1:45 p.m. and. 2:30 p.m.


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What Makes #NeverAgain Different?
The protests calling for stricter gun control measures come on the heels of other youth movements, but the momentum they have gained makes them stand out.
"Children are dying." "I will fight every single day." "I just want to speak." "We call B.S." These students survived a shooting at their school. Now they're leading a national movement for stricter gun control. Just days after the shooting, they called for school walkouts around the country, traveled to the Florida State Capitol — "You failed us" — and planned a nationwide march. Some of them can't even vote yet. It's clear these students are doing things differently. Here's how. #NeverAgain is leveraging social networks to mobilize faster than most movements before it, according to experts who study the rise of social and political movements. One week after the shooting, the #NeverAgain Twitter handle is verified and has more than 81,000 followers. In just a few days, student leaders have crowdsourced more than $3 million through online campaigns and celebrity donations. They're also handling their own crisis control by directly responding to critics. "I lost a best friend who was practically a brother, and I'm here to use my voice because I know he can't." These survivors are presenting their personal stories of loss as part of their fight, converting grief into power by getting in the face of adults. "So, Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the N.R.A. in the future?" The #NeverAgain movement wasn't formed in a vacuum. It's riding on the most recent wave of youth activism, which picked up speed around 2010. Student protests ebbed after the antiwar movement of the '60s and '70s. "We are fed up." Young people today are getting involved to change systemic inequalities they were raised to believe had already been taken care of. The Dreamers, students against sexual assault, Occupy Wall Street, and the Black Lives Matter movement all had strong involvement by college-educated millennials. These groups have had modest success. President Barack Obama made sure campuses did more to investigate cases of sexual assault. And he later protected Dreamers from deportation. "You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law." It's too early to tell if the #NeverAgain movement will sustain the momentum it needs to bring tangible change. But it's an election year, so politicians might find their demands difficult to ignore.
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AbbVie Submits New Drug Application to U.S. FDA for Investigational Oral Treatment Elagolix for the Management of Endometriosis with Associated Pain
In clinical studies, elagolix demonstrated superiority compared to placebo in reducing three types of endometriosis-associated pain - daily menstrual pelvic pain, non-menstrual pelvic pain and painful intercourse- Endometriosis affects an estimated one in ten women of reproductive age and is associated with pain symptoms that can be debilitating
If approved by the FDA, elagolix will be the first new medical management treatment option for endometriosis-associated pain in more than a decade
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research and development based global biopharmaceutical company in cooperation with Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: NBIX), announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for elagolix, an investigational, orally administered gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist, being evaluated for the management of endometriosis with associated pain. In two replicate Phase 3 clinical studies, elagolix demonstrated superiority compared to placebo in reducing three types of endometriosis-associated pain – daily menstrual pelvic pain, non-menstrual pelvic pain and painful intercourse.
"The submission represents an important step forward for women suffering from endometriosis and physicians who are in need of additional medical treatment options to help manage this chronic and painful disease," said Michael Severino, M.D., Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer, AbbVie. "Elagolix has the potential to be an important oral treatment option for women suffering from the most prevalent symptoms of endometriosis and we look forward to working with the FDA throughout the review process."
The NDA is supported by data from the largest prospective randomized endometriosis clinical trials conducted to date, which evaluated the safety and efficacy of elagolix in nearly 1,700 women with moderate-to-severe endometriosis-associated pain. The data from two replicate Phase 3 studies demonstrated that, at month three and month six, both elagolix doses (150 mg once daily and 200 mg twice daily) resulted in a statistically significant higher proportion of responders for menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea) and non-menstrual pelvic pain associated with endometriosis as measured by the Daily Endometriosis Pain Impact scale versus placebo. Significant improvements compared to placebo were also observed at month three for the 200 mg twice daily dose in scores for painful intercourse (dyspareunia). A reduction in the amount and frequency of rescue pain medication use, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids, compared to placebo was also seen in the higher dose at month three and six. In clinical studies, elagolix treatment decreased endometrial proliferation in a dose-dependent manner after six months of treatment with no adverse endometrial findings.
The safety profile of elagolix was consistent with the partial hormone suppression associated with its mechanism of action. Findings were consistent across Phase 3 trials and prior elagolix studies. In the first Phase 3 study, the most frequently reported adverse events assessed over six months were hot flush, headache and nausea. The rates for hot flush were (7%, 24%, 42% for placebo, 150 mg once daily and 200 mg twice daily, respectively) and headache were (10%, 15%, 17% for placebo, 150 mg once daily and 200 mg twice daily, respectively). The majority of hot flushes were mild to moderate in severity. Elagolix treatment was associated with dose-dependent decreases in bone mineral density (BMD) in women with endometriosis-associated pain. After six months of treatment, all of the women had a BMD z-score above -2.0, within the normal age-adjusted range.1,2 The second Phase 3 study demonstrated similar results.
These data were first presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) annual meeting in October 2016 and published in The New England Journal of Medicine in May 2017.3 Extension studies permitted some women to be treated for an additional six months, data from which will be presented at a future meeting.
About EndometriosisEndometriosis occurs when tissue similar to that normally found in the uterus begins to grow outside of the uterus, leading to long-term pelvic pain (during or between periods), pain with intercourse and other painful symptoms.4 These growths are called lesions and can occur on the ovaries, the fallopian tubes, or other areas near the uterus, such as the bowel or bladder.2,5 Estrogen fuels the growth of lesions.3 There is no cure for endometriosis,6 and the associated pain is currently managed with oral contraceptives, progestins, danazol, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), opioids, and GnRH agonists, many of which are not specifically indicated for the treatment of endometriosis.3 In more extensive cases, surgical interventions (e.g., laparotomy or laparoscopy) are often pursued, and may not be curative for all individuals.7
About Elagolix
Elagolix, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist, is an orally administered, short-acting molecule that blocks endogenous GnRH signaling by binding competitively to GnRH receptors in the pituitary gland. Administration results in readily reversible, dose-dependent inhibition of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) secretion, leading to reduced ovarian production of the sex hormones, estradiol and progesterone, while on therapy. Elagolix is currently being investigated in diseases that are mediated by sex hormones, such as uterine fibroids and endometriosis. To date, elagolix has been studied in over 40 clinical trials totaling more than 3,000 subjects. AbbVie submitted a New Drug Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the management of endometriosis-associated pain in the third quarter of 2017. Phase 3 trials of elagolix for the management of uterine fibroids are ongoing.
About AbbVie
AbbVie is a global, research-driven biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative advanced therapies for some of the world's most complex and critical conditions. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to markedly improve treatments across four primary therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, virology and neuroscience. In more than 75 countries, AbbVie employees are working every day to advance health solutions for people around the world. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @AbbVieUS on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
Some statements in this news release may be forward-looking statements for purposes of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project" and similar expressions, among others, generally identify forward-looking statements. AbbVie cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, challenges to intellectual property, competition from other products, difficulties inherent in the research and development process, adverse litigation or government action, and changes to laws and regulations applicable to our industry. Additional information about the economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors that may affect AbbVie's operations is set forth in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," in AbbVie's 2015 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AbbVie undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements as a result of subsequent events or developments, except as required by law.
The International Society for Clinical Densitometry. 2015 ISCD Official Positions – Adult. https://www.iscd.org/official-positions/2015-iscd-official-positions-adult/. Accessed August 1, 2017.
Data on File, ABV RRTI 64932
Taylor, H. S. ,Giudice, L. C., Lessey, B. A.,Abrao, M. S., Kotarski, J., Archer, D. F., Diamond, M. P., Surrey, E., Johnson, N. P., Watts, N. B., Gallagher, J. C., Simon, J. A., Carr, B. R., Dmowski, W. P., Leyland, N., Rowan, J. P., Duan, W. R., Ng, J., Schwefel, B., Thomas, J. W., Jain, R. I., Chwalisz, K. Treatment of Endometriosis-Associated Pain with Elagolix, an Oral GnRH Antagonist. N Engl J Med. 377:28-40, 2017.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG Education Pamphlet AP013: Endometriosis. Washington, DC: September 2008. ISSN 1074-8601.
Giudice LC. Clinical practice: Endometriosis. New England Journal of Medicine. 2010; 362:2389–2398.
Greene, AD, Lang, SA, Kendziorski, JA, Sroga-Rios, JM, Herzog, TJ, Burns, KA. Endometriosis: where are we and where are we going? Reproduction. 2016; 152 (3):R63-78.
Mayo Clinic. Diseases & Conditions: Endometriosis Fact Sheet. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/endometriosis/diagnosis-treatment/treatment/txc-20236449. Accessed June 1, 2017.
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AbbVie Receives CHMP Positive Opinion for Upadacitinib (RINVOQ™) for the Treatment of Adults with Moderate to Severe Active Rheumatoid Arthritis
AbbVie Donates $55 Million to Three Education Nonprofits Supporting Underserved Youth in Chicago & Across America
AbbVie Presents Positive Phase 3 Data Demonstrating Investigational Elagolix Reduces Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in Women with Uterine Fibroids at 2018 AAGL Global Congress
AbbVie's MAVYRET™ (glecaprevir/pibrentasvir) Shows High Virologic Cure* Rates in Treatment-Naïve Hepatitis C Patients with Compensated Cirrhosis


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La projection authalique quartique est une projection équivalente pseudo-cylindrique créée après modification de la projection azimutale équivalente de Lambert. Les méridiens de limite sont bombés de manière assez excessive vers l'extérieur, ce qui entraîne une distorsion importante des formes près du contour de la carte. La projection quartique plane polaire de McBryde-Thomas est basée sur cette projection.

La projection authalique quartique a été présentée de manière indépendante par Karl Siemon en 1937 et par Oscar S. Adams en 1945. Les équations pour un ellipsoïde ont été développées chez Esri. Elle est disponible dans ArcGIS Pro 1.0 et versions ultérieures et dans ArcGIS Desktop 8.0 et versions ultérieures.

Propriétés de la projection
Les sous-sections ci-dessous décrivent les propriétés de la projection authalique quartique.

Graticule
La projection authalique quartique est une projection pseudo-cylindrique. L'Équateur et le méridien central sont projetés sous forme de lignes droites, l'Équateur projeté étant d'environ 2,22144 fois plus long que le méridien central. Les autres méridiens sont représentés par des courbes algébriques de quatrième ordre, bombées à mesure que l'on s'éloigne du méridien central et équidistantes. Les parallèles ne sont pas équidistants comme dans la projection azimutale équivalente de Lambert sous un aspect équatorial. Tous les parallèles sont des lignes droites perpendiculaires au méridien central. Les pôles sont présentés sous forme de points formant des bords saillants. Le contour est semblable à celui de la projection sinusoïdale. Le graticule est symétrique par rapport à l'équateur et au méridien central.

Distorsion
La projection authalique quartique est une projection équivalente (à surfaces égales). Les formes, les directions, les angles et les distances sont généralement déformés. L'échelle est vraie le long de l'Équateur et constante le long de toute autre latitude. Les distorsions sont modérées à proximité du centre de la projection. Les méridiens renflés génèrent une distorsion considérable vers le bord de la projection. Les valeurs de distorsion sont symétriques le long de l'équateur et du méridien central.

Variantes
Il existe deux variantes disponibles dans ArcGIS :

 La projection authalique quartique utilise le demi-grand axe en rayon et les équations d'une sphère. Elle ne prend en charge que les modèles terrestres sphériques. Elle est disponible dans ArcGIS Pro 1.0 et versions ultérieures et dans ArcGIS Desktop 8.0 et versions ultérieures.
 La projection ellipsoïdale authalique quartique prend en charge les modèles terrestres sphériques et ellipsoïdaux. Elle est disponible dans ArcGIS Pro 1.2 et versions ultérieures, ainsi que dans ArcGIS Desktop 10.4 et versions ultérieures.

Limitations
Seule la version ellipsoïdale de la projection authalique quartique prend en charge la projection pour les ellipsoïdes. La version authalique quartique ne conserve pas les surfaces lorsqu'un ellipsoïde est utilisé.

Paramètres
Les paramètres de la projection authalique quartique sont les suivants :

 Constante en X
 Constante en Y
 Méridien central

Les paramètres de la projection ellipsoïdale authalique quartique sont les suivants :

 Constante en X
 Constante en Y
 Méridien central
 Latitude de l'origine

Sources
Bugayevskiy, L. M. and Snyder, J. P. (1995). Map Projections: A Reference Manual. London: Taylor & Francis.

Snyder, J. P. (1993). Flattening the Earth. Two Thousand Years of Map Projections. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Snyder, J. P. and Voxland, P. M. (1989). An Album of Map Projections. NSRS Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.

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In their insightful book, The Millionaire Next Door, authors Stanley and Danko paint a picture of the "typical" millionaire – they live in older middle-class neighborhoods, drive late model vehicles, dress nicely but don't follow trends, and embrace lifestyle frugality at every turn. In other words, these folks don't necessarily stand out from the crowd in ways we think a millionaire should. They don't draw attention to themselves and they certainly don't talk much, if at all, about their wealth.
I was thinking about this mental image of the millionaire next door the other day and comparing it with an image of effective leadership that I believe has validity as well. As I have written about before, I believe a primary function of leadership is to design environments or cultures within which individuals are encouraged to become the best versions of themselves. It is the leader as designer metaphor that I find very helpful.
Much like many millionaires do not draw attention to their wealth, I have found that the most effective leaders do not draw attention to the positive cultures they have helped to shape.
Here is what I mean: If a CEO tells me that she encourages employees to provide her with critical evaluations of her work. If she says that she is proud of the "open and candid" culture that she has helped create for her team. If she talks about wanting "honest criticism." If she talks about these things, it usually means she doesn't really have them. It is not uncommon for me to hear from those in her care that she really doesn't want open, honest, candid, critical feedback – despite what she says!


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Premier League week 29 betting tips
EPL By: Ambrose Udeme | 18/03/2017
After a quiet week in the EPL due to FA Cup ties being played, we are back to regular scheduling this weekend as Manchester City versus Liverpool tie on Sunday headlines this weekend's list of Premier League fixtures.
West Bom v Arsenal
After losing three of their last four Premier League outings, Arsene Wenger and his men cannot afford any slip-ups against an Albion side that were well beaten at Everton last weekend. West Brom midfielder James Morrison will miss Saturday's game against Arsenal because of an ankle injury. Matt Phillips is still nursing a hamstring problem and remains out for the fourth game in a row. Mohamed Elneny should be available for Arsenal after making a quicker than expected recovery from an ankle injury while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs are both fitness doubts and will be assessed, while Santi Cazorla remains a long-term absentee.
West Brom's only win in the last 13 competitive meetings came at The Hawthorns last season. They could earn consecutive top-flight home victories against Arsenal for the first time since a run of six in a row from 1951 to 1956. While the Baggies could lose three Premier League games in a row for the first time this season, Arsenal have lost three of their last four league fixtures, as well as suffering two 5-1 defeats against Bayern Munich during that period. Arsenal have a mixed record at The Hawthorns with only one win in their past three league visits, and I fancy them leaving with three points this time with Bet9ja offering an impessive 1.76 winning odds in favour of the away side.
West Brom 1-3 Arsenal
Crystal Palace v Watford
Watford can make themselves safe in three successive winnable games before a big summer clear out that could include the head coach Walter Mazzari. For the home side, this is the first of four huge home six pointers for the Eagles against relegation rivals and they'll need 10 points from them. Crystal Palace defender Patrick van Aanholt has not recovered from an ankle injury so Jeffrey Schlupp is expected to start at left-back on Saturday. Striker Loic Remy has been ruled out until after the international break. Watford midfielder Etienne Capoue has been suffering from a fever this week and will be assessed. Nordin Amrabat is available after an ankle injury for the first time since New Year's Day, while Daryl Janmaat makes his return from a groin problem.
Watford have only won two of their last 13 matches against Crystal Palace in all competitions (D3, L8). However, those two victories have both come on their last two visits to Selhurst Park in 2013 and 2016. The reverse fixture between these teams was Sam Allardyce's first match as Crystal Palace manager. It finished 1-1 on Boxing Day. While Crystal Palace have the worst home record in the division, mustering 10 points and suffering an unrivalled nine defeats, Watford have won just two of their last 12 league matches. Nigeria's number one betting site Bet9ja offers an incredible 1.92 winning odds for the Eagles and I absolutely agree with them.
Crsytal Palace 1-0 Watford
Everton v Hull City
Everton left-back Leighton Baines should be fit after recovering from the back problem he suffered last weekend. Muhamed Besic lacks fitness after a lengthy lay-off and James McCarthy, who has a hamstring injury, is also out. Hull are without Everton loanee Oumar Niasse, who is ineligible against his parent club, while Evandro is again absent with a calf problem. Markus Henriksen is back in training after a shoulder injury but is unlikely to feature on Saturday. Michael Dawson, Dieumerci Mbokani and Ryan Mason remain sidelined.
Away from the reported exit of Romelu Lukaku who is poised to become the first Evertonian to hit 20 league goals in a season since Gary Lineker should he get on the score sheet against the Tigers. Hull who are unbeaten in their last three games against the Toffees, although two of those matches ended in draws only won away to Everton in a 2-0 win in the second tier in 1952. The Toffees' build-up to this game has been overshadowed by the news that leading scorer Romelu Lukaku has turned down a new contract but I don't see the Lukaku situation affecting the outcome of this game as they are favourites for this tie and I believe my claim is backed up by Bet9ja's 1.53 winning odds for Koeman's men as against the Tigers' 6.40.
Everton 3-0 Hull City
Stoke City v Chelsea
Chelsea's consistency is there to be admired by everyone. Eighteen wins and just one defeat from the last 21 Premier League games tells its own impressive story but they face a tough test against The Potters who have won this fixture in two of the last three seasons. Stoke defender Glen Johnson is absent with a shoulder problem but Marko Arnautovic should return after missing out in midweek because of illness. Xherdan Shaqiri is back after a six-match absence, while Wilfried Bony, who was ineligible against Manchester City, is available. Chelsea will assess a couple of unnamed injury doubts prior to Saturday's game. Wing-back Victor Moses is expected to be available despite being substituted against Manchester United on Monday.
Chelsea have only won two of their last seven games away to Stoke in all competitions. However, the Potters have managed just two victories in 17 Premier League meetings (D3, L12). The home side are unbeaten in eight league home games (W4, D4) -their best run since a 17-match streak in 2012, which ended with a 4-0 defeat by Chelsea but their record is rubbished by that of the Blues who have won 18 of their 20 Premier League matches this season against the teams currently outside the top five. Stoke showed with their 0-0 draw at Manchester City in their last game that they are capable of digging in against the top teams and I foresee a similar scenario playing out at the Britannia on Saturday. Bet9ja's odds for shared spoils is a stunning 3.90.
Stoke City 1-1 Chelsea
Sunderland v Burnley
Anything else against a team that's only taken two points on the road all season will have many declaring that another escape from relegation will be beyond Sunderland who surely need to head into the international break with the boost of a win. The Black Cats have been rocked by the news that Jan Kirchhoff has been ruled out for at least another four weeks. Darron Gibson is expected to overcome a minor niggle but fellow midfielder Steven Pienaar is still a doubt because of a calf problem. Burnley's Steven Defour could be involved for the first time since suffering a hamstring strain at the end of January. Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Dean Marney remain sidelined by knee injuries.
Sunderland are unbeaten in nine league meetings at home to Burnley since a Second Division defeat in December 1972 (W7, D2). Burnley's most recent top-flight win on Wearside came in October 1969. Burnley have yet to lose to Sunderland in three meetings this season, winning twice at home and drawing 0-0 at the Stadium of Light in the FA Cup third round. The home side have only won once in 10 league games, losing the last three without scoring and have failed to score in 12 matches this season, including five of the last six, The Clarets are on a run of five games without a win, although four of them have been away fixtures. I am going to tip Sunderland who are six points adrift of safety now to win this tie, meaning Bet9ja's 2.55 odds may just be the right way to spend your money this weekend.
Sunderland 3-0 Burnley
West Ham United v Leicester City
Leicester City have improved a lot since Shakespeare took over as interim manager. Buoyed by the excellent come-back win against Sevilla on the mid-week, the hopes are high as they travel away to the new London Stadium to take on West Ham on Saturday.
On the other hand, West Ham's recent form is totally opposite to their opponent. They are without a win in the last four and are coming after suffering back-to-back defeats. Also, they have only one win to show from the last 6 matches and conceded a massive 13 goals during the process
As offered by your number one betting site; Bet9ja, a 3.34 odds is on the cards for draw which is my prediction for this game.
Going for both teams to score has an equally good odds of 1.74 from Bet9ja
West Ham 1-1 Leicester City
AFC Bournemouth v Swansea City
AFC Bournemouth is now playing in a decent form with their 1 win and 1 draw last 2 games and now they are standing in the 14th place of the table with 30 points.
On their part, Swansea City is now standing in the 16th place of the table with 27 points after the same 28 matches played this season.
AFC Bournemouth has a good chance to win here over Swansea City who had only 1 win and 4 losses in their last 5 matches away from home.
The Cherries haven't managed to keep a clean sheet in any of their last ten matches and although we fancy them to pick up a win in front of their own supporters at the Vitality Stadium, we don't expect them to keep a clean sheet in this game either against a Swansea team that has found the net at least once in each of their last seven games
On Bet9ja, the Cherries have an odd of 2.10 to win straight. As reflected in analysis, Swansea are expected to score so GG is an option same as over 2.5 which have odds of 1.70 and 1.67 respectively on Bet9ja
Bournemouth 2-1 Swansea
Middlesbrough v Manchester United
Steve Agnew takes charge of Middlesbrough for this game following manager Aitor Karanka's sacking – and will hope to fare better than in his previous brief stint in caretaker charge.
Boro's league form since Christmas has been really poor, failing to win any of their last 10 matches and now they have only their North East rivals Sunderland below them in the table.
Things had been better in the FA Cup, but the Teessiders tamely lost their quarter-final 2-0 at home to Manchester City last Saturday and the scoreline would have been embarrassing but for a terrific show by goalkeeper Brad Guzan.
Apart from the possible renewed optimism brought about by the change of leadership, Boro do have a couple of other things going for them here.
On Bet9ja, Boro have a huge 5.05 odds to win but that looks like an expensive gamble, a leam scoreline of less than three goals should be a better option at 2.16
Boro 0-2 Manchester United
Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton
Goals are expected to flow freely in this match and Tottenham are fancied to boost their chances of going one better than last season by finishing second in the Premier League.
Although the only team to make a fight of it with eventual champions Leicester, Spurs eventually wound up third in the table behind their arch-rivals Arsenal and while it looks as though the title will elude them again, they have every chance of claiming the runner-up spot this time.
Tottenham's league form is excellent with only one defeat since mid-December and they are also through to the FA Cup semi-finals in which they will face Chelsea at Wembley, which would be a worry considering their poor European form this season at the national stadium.
The hosts are firm favourites to win and Bet9ja has a good bargaining odds of 1.70 from Bet9ja
Tottenham 4-2 Southampton
Manchester City v Liverpool
Arguably the star fixture for the weekend, Liverpool have a terrific recent Premier League record against Manchester City and are fancied to avoid defeat again by claiming a point at the Etihad Stadium.
Although it was City who got the better of the penalty shootout between these clubs in last season's League Cup Final, it has otherwise been the Reds with the upper hand in this head-to-head of late and they can show once more that they are at their best when taking on the top clubs.
For City, of course, this match comes four days after what must go down as a shock elimination from the Champions League considering they took a two-goal advantage to Monaco.
The only realistic chance of silverware now for Pep Guardiola in his first season at the club is the FA Cup, for City could kick off on Sunday afternoon trailing league leaders Chelsea by 13 points.
Though Liverpool have won five of the last six Premier League meetings between these club, a win for the host is predicted.
A bold prediction of City to get a straight win as an impressive 2.02 odds on Bet9ja
Manchester City 3-1 Liverpool
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A Pennsylvania man died after crashing a snowmobile in Killington on Feb. 22.
John McConomy, 64, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, was riding a rented 2014 Polaris Indy LXT snowmobile about 2 p.m. on the Juggernaut snowmobile trail in Killington near West Glade Road in Killlington, according to a news release issued by the Vermont State Police.
According to the police report, the investigation showed that McConomy had rented the snowmobile from Killington Snowmobile Tours and was on a guided ride with his wife, Judith McConomy, according to police.
While turning around, John McConomy accelerated too fast and lost control. The snowmobile hit a tree stump and both John and Judith McConomy were ejected from the snow machine, according to the police report.
Judith McConomy suffered non-life threatening injuries. John McConomy was transported by ambulance to Rutland Regional Medical Center. In transport, his condition worsened and he was sent to the operating room where he later died due to his injuries, the report said.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing, according to police.
Coyotes are again finding themselves caught in the middle of a management dilemma and the fur is flying as the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is left to referee the fight.
On one side of the debate is the "kill 'em all" crowd that believes the only good coyote is a dead coyote. These folks are generally the ones behind the contests that promote a whack 'em and stack 'em mentality, but honestly believe that killing coyotes is beneficial to deer and other species.
The opposite side, however, is the Bambi crowd, promoting the coyote as little more than cute and fuzzy critters. The extreme members of this group don't want any coyotes killed, but tend to focus their arguments on the lack of limits, management and studies.
A man fell to his death on Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park on Feb. 18.
Multiple media reports said John H. Stetson, 68, of Holden, Maine, fell more than 1,000 feet down icy slopes.
Stetson was part of a group camping in the park. Stetson and another hiker were attempting a summit of Mount Katahdin on the Abol Trail, according to Park Director Jenson Bissell.
Stetson lost his footing and fell, sliding more than 1,000 feet before coming to rest.
A woman from New York state was airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after the snowmobile she was riding crashed into a tree, according to Vermont State Police.
Police said Kerri L. Meagher, 37, of Patchogue, New York, was riding a 2008 Yamaha snowmobile at 1:21 p.m. Feb. 18 on Shunpike Road in Mount Holly.
Meagher's snowmobile hit a tree while she was riding on private property. Police said she was not wearing a helmet and suffered lacerations and abrasions to her head.
Police, Mount Holly Volunteer Rescue, Ludlow Rescue and the Mount Holly Fire Department responded to the scene and the DHART helicopter was called due to her injuries.
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department has announced that two fish caught in 2016 are new state records.
In a news release, the department said the new records were a freshwater drum and a bluegill, and both were certified as new state records.
The bluegill was caught out of Miller Pond in West Fairlee in August by John Konya of Bradford. The fish weighed 1.98 pounds and measured 12.24 inches in length and had a girth of 12.5 inches. The old record was 1.93 pounds and came out of Lake Champlain.
The freshwater drum was caught by Joseph Whalen Jr., in Lake Champlain in September. The fish weighed 25.54 pounds and was 34.5 inches long and a girth of 26.5 inches.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency has confirmed the presence of mountain lions in the state, an acknowledgement many Tennesseans have been waiting to hear.
Like many states in the eastern United States, residents of Tennessee have been claiming there were cougars for years. A TWRA spokesman said the agency had simply been waiting for conclusive proof. Now the state has nine confirmed sightings.
A dive team recovered the body of a second man from Lake Champlain on Feb. 16.
Police also identified the man, as well as another body that had been recovered Feb. 15, as the Vermont men who had been missing for a week after their snowmobiles went through the ice Feb. 9.
Police identified the two men as Brandon Barrett, 23, of Benson, Vermont, and Jonathan Ryan, 32, of Shoreham, Vermont.
A joint search effort had been underway for the past week by Vermont State Police and New York State Police.
Vermont State Police announced they have recovered a body from Lake Champlain in the area they were searching for two missing Vermont men.
The body of a male was recovered Feb. 15 in water between Orwell, Vermont, and Putnam Stateion, New York. The search will resume Feb. 16 in an attempt to locate the second person believed to have drowned.
Police have not identified the body, which was sent to the New York State Medical Examiner in Albany for positive identification.
Ice fishing is in full swing with anglers plying the hard water throughout the state, but the ice has not all been safe so far this winter.
A man lost his life on Lake Willoughby in January after breaking through ice that was reported to only be 1½ inches thick. Others have gone through the ice but were rescued or were able to get themselves out. Several vehicles have gone through the ice as well.
No fish is worth taking a risk on iffy ice.
A safe ice angler knows how to stay off bad ice, and how to survive an unexpected plunge.
James Vladyka runs Fish Hounds Outdoors in Benson. Not only does he guide clients on the ice, he fished most days he's not guiding.
Vermont State Police said a man who was lost off trail while snowboarding at Stowe Mountain Resort has died.
Brett Cohen, 22, of Needham, Massachusetts, was skiing with a friend when he reported him missing about 3:30 p.m. Feb. 13.


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Bruce Springsteen Remembers His Post-Born to Run Tax Troubles: "I Had About $20,000 to My Name"
In a wide-ranging talk at the Tribeca Film Festival, the singer spoke about his life and art with Tom Hanks (yes, that Tom Hanks).
Even when he's just riffing in conversation, Bruce Springsteen has a lyrical way of speaking. At the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, the rocker sat down for a career-spanning conversation with none other than American treasure Tom Hanks, talking about everything from his early rough-and-tumble days in New Jersey, to the making of his hit records, to his tax troubles in the 1980s.
"All artists like to happen to the world," Springsteen said. "We don't like the world to happen to us—because we've had enough of that already."
Springsteen, in all his deeply New Jerseyian glory, has certainly happened to the world many times over. In the talk—effusively moderated by Hanks, who often punctuated questions by reciting famous Springsteen lyrics and waiting for the bubbly, packed audience to sing out the rest—freely discussed his childhood. He recalled picking through trash with his electrician grandfather to find "anything electric," hating "every minute" of school, and how the "only honest work" he ever did was painting houses in the summer when he was 14 or 15 years old. "That was to get the money to buy my first guitar," he remembers.
In his early days, he was making pennies for performances in one of his first bands, the Castiles. "The first night we played . . . I made five dollars," he says. "I remember coming home thinking 'Jesus Christ, somebody paid me five dollars.' I wish I had that five now, because that to me, that was the best money I ever made—except for all the rest."
Speaking of money: Hanks, an exuberant fanboy unafraid to dig for details, also mentioned Springsteen's later financial troubles, which flared up after the singer found success with mainstream hits like "Born to Run" and simply wasn't paying taxes on all his financial success.
"We were Willie Nelson in reverse. First of all, I never met anyone in New Jersey who paid his taxes," Springsteen joked, saying that someone at the IRS eventually cottoned on.
"They came after us. I had to work for a couple of years for somebody else," he said, referencing his tours at the time. "Not only did I have to pay all the taxes that I hadn't paid, and then bills that I hadn't paid—I wasn't paying any bills either . . . and then we made records that were expensive, because we didn't know how to make records. This went on 'til 1980. In 1980, I think I had about $20,000 to my name, which sounded like a lot of money when I was 20. But when you're 30 and you've been doing it for a while—"
"That's like Castiles money," Hanks interjected. "Good Castiles money."
Springsteen also reflected on his artistic influences, noting the way film noir stars like Robert Mitchum played a part in the "cinematic" tone of albums like Darkness on the Edge of Town. They also discussed Born in the U.S.A., a title Hanks likens to a "Rorschach test—everybody who hears it hears what they wanna hear."
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"The whole record, I always have mixed feelings about," Springsteen admits. As they discussed the title track, particularly the references to the Vietnam War, the rocker handily speaks about the fact that he was a "stone cold draft dodger."
"I did everything in the draft dodger's textbook. Perhaps I felt guilty about that later on," he says. "I had friends who went and died."
As the night wrapped up, Springsteen reflected on the way music saved his life and has impacted his fans, but he stressed that life is ultimately about so much more.
"[Songs] can change the way you think, they can change the way you look, the way you dress, the way you approach your normal life," he waxed. "Or they can just thrill you with three minutes of bliss. But they can't give you a life. At the end of the day, we're all stuck on Earth here trying to carve out a life for ourselves. That took me a long time to learn . . . you gotta let the world in."
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Ultimate management of US ITASE will come from NSF/OPP and any other funding agencies. The US ITASE Steering Committee will not advise, recommend, or participate in funding decisions.
Ground-based sampling will be coordinated by a US ITASE Science Manage-ment Office (SMO). A considerably scaled-down version of GISP2 SMO is envisioned to be sufficient to provide an interactive focal point for coordination of science activities. Such an office will be necessary because ground-based sampling programs will not all be represented by a dedicated investigator, and the ground-based sampling experiments can be made considerably more efficient and scientifically productive with coordination.