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Chimaera introduces a new complex blockchain-powered ecosystem which represents a distributive gaming backend which features scalability, security and high level of reliability. The constantly developing platform enables developers to utilize instruments which allow introduce innovative market concepts faster and cheaper. The Chimaera project provides players with opportunity to take advantages of widespread immersive game environments thanks to the implementation of healthy economy, gameplay and in-game deals based on the principles of faithfulness as well as real possession of assets and in-game items, while having the possibility to buy and sell things on a trustworthy basis.


First of all: moderate your volume. Listening to music so loud that people around you can clearly hear it booming from your earphones isn't pleasant for anyone involved. The person sitting beside you in the library will definitely not be impressed with you and your eardrums will be equally as displeased. Try listening to music at a moderate level. Not only is it better for your ears, it has been proven to aid concentration. Secondly, make a playlist or multiple playlists of songs that are 40-50 minutes long. When your playlist ends, this will remind you to take a break. Everyone loves study breaks and they are 100% proven to make you more productive. Multiple studies have shown that the optimal work-break ratio is 52 minutes of work to 17 minutes break and breaks are best taken away from your work area. Now, you may be wondering, "but Caoimhe, what music should I put in my playlists?" Well, I'm here to give you some suggestions.
According to scientists and psychologists (who definitely know more about this than I do), listening to songs which contain the sounds of nature enhances mental performance. Personally, I find listening to rain drops or wind for an hour straight quite boring – and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Instead, I opt for something like Ben Howard's Every Kingdom or Bon Iver's 22, A Million. I wouldn't necessarily say these albums explicitly contain the "sounds of nature" but to me, they at least allude to them. The melodic nature and the lyrics of both albums do the trick. Plus, Ben Howard's Every Kingdom was, at least in part, recorded in the outdoors, in barns and in sheds – so if that isn't a nod to the "sounds of nature" I don't know what is.
Another recommended genre is that of instrumental or classical music – in short, music with no lyrics. I know a lot of people, like myself, find classical music a little boring (controversial, I know). However, TV and film scores can be a bit more exciting. Some of my favourites are Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein's soundtrack to Stranger Things, Hans Zimmer's Inception and Interstellar scores and Howard Shore's pieces featured in The Lord of The Rings and Spotlight. If you're into the heavier side of things, local prog-metal band Aponym have got you covered – both their EPs Deus Incognitus and Ingress are available on Spotify. Another good option is to find instrumental versions of popular songs – there are endless numbers of playlists on Spotify so you are sure to find some of your favourites.
The most important thing to keep in mind when compiling your perfect study playlist is to choose songs that don't distract you, songs that you can simultaneously listen to and enjoy while also being productive. I find that shoegaze or dream-pop works really well for me. Think Slowdive, Beach House, Cocteau Twins or even My Bloody Valentine. Another good option is to listen to albums that you know really well – so well that you don't have to think twice about them. For me, a good example would be Paramore's After Laughter or Joy As An Act of Resistance by IDLES. Something that almost sounds like it is actually wired into your brain because you've listened to it so much is less likely to distract you from your studies.
On the flip side, listening to an album that you don't really care about or are ambivalent towards can work too. I'm not saying listen to something you don't like, but something that you wouldn't mind having on as background noise. Everyone obviously has different tastes but for me, something like Mac Demarco's Salad Days works well. I like it but I only know three or four of the songs really well. It's easy listening (apologies to any Mac Demarco fans that I have offended).
At the end of the day, the most important thing is that you actually study. It's very easy to spend hours on end perfecting your perfect playlist and using it as an excuse to procrastinate (trust me, I know). Try not to give in to this temptation – challenge yourself to make a banger of a playlist in half an hour or even twenty minutes, don your favourite headphones and hit the books.


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Easy-to-use Touch Panel Control Screen:The control panel of the Needham Coding S-Series was created with the end-user in mind, making tasks such as importing graphics, laying out barcodes and messages quick and easy. This Needham Coding S-Series provides a variety of options, including multi language support, and you don't have to be a computer whiz to make it do exactly what you need.
Sizable Ink Capacity:With ink cartridges that hold 110 mL of ink, coupled with an ink saver mode and the option of "outline" fonts, the operation of the Needham Coding S-Series has multiple ways to help your company save money.
Flexible Font Options:The Needham Coding S-Series provides True Type fonts with Unicode support. This means that printing can be accomplished with any font and/or language you desire.
Standalone Capability: If you have no need to connect your system to a network, it can function as a standalone unit with ease.
Network Connectivity: Although the unit can be used as a standalone high resolution printing system, PC connectivity can be utilized by the use of an Ethernet cable and the on-board Ethernet Adapter Program. This gives you the option of easily integrating it into your existing network.
Designed to provide low-cost printing and coding in high quality.
The use of a large capacity ink cartridge, along with additional efficiency options, lower the amount of ink being used which, in turn, saves money on high resolution printing needs.
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Bed bugs are good at hitchhiking and can, in practice, hitch a lift with us almost anywhere. A single fertilized female is all that is needed for a new infestation to breakout. Bed bugs like living close to food, and 9 times out of 10 we find bed bug infestations in beds (or where we sleep). The higher turnover of guests a hotel, B&B, hostel or bed has, the greater the risk of that place being affected by an infestation of bed bugs. Problems can also occur in public environments such as on trains, buses and aeroplanes, even cinemas and waiting rooms, etc., places where we humans spend time.
Essentially, bed bugs are spread via our belongings, e.g. bags and furniture. And because they are drawn to our scent and want to be near us, they can be spread by any object that carries our scent. E.g. sofas, suitcases, handbags, rucksacks, shoes, sweaty tracksuits, banking books, soft toys, mobile phones, leather wallets or leather wristbands etc. The list goes on.
After an infestation has been established and as the number of bed bugs increases, the risk of them spreading to other places in the room and adjacent rooms or apartments, as well as to public environments, also increases. The sooner we can detect, or better still, prevent, an infestation and the quicker a treatment can be made, the less risk there is of spreading. We always recommend that anyone affected by bed bugs hires a professional pest control company as soon as there are signs of an infestation.
Where do bed bugs like to dwell?
Bed bugs want to be close to us and they are experts at hiding. They hide in dark confined spaces, cracks and crevices, for most of the time and only come out to feed on us. This usually happens at night when it is dark, which makes it even harder to discover an ongoing infestation early.
The fact that they are more attracted to dirty and untidy rooms is a myth, and this has often made victims of an infestation not only feel uncomfortable about the actual bed bugs, but also about what it suggests about their own standards of hygiene. But this is not true, even clinically clean homes have places for bed bugs to hide without detection, e.g. under beds, behind wall mouldings etc. The only condition required for a bed bug to exist is for a person to be in the bed/room. It is not possible to remove an infestation of bed bugs only by cleaning.
Those who travel frequently or come into contact with people a lot (i.e. those who host overnight guests or who sleep away from home often), and especially those who buy a lot of "second hand" furniture are at higher risk of encountering bed bugs. Storage or jumble sale finds can pose a risk of bed bugs! The businesses that run the highest risk of bed bug problems are those that offer overnight stays, e.g. different types of short-term residencies such as student housing and hotels.
Early detection and immediate control measures are crucial when it comes to a bed bug infestation, partly to reduce the risk of spreading and partly because of discomfort and suffering, including costs or reputational damage, to the victim.


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Table of Contents » Title 44. Military and Emergency Laws » Chapter 3.2. Emergency Services and Disaster Law » § 44-146.19. Powers and duties of political subdivisions
Title 44. Military and Emergency Laws
Chapter 3.2. Emergency Services and Disaster Law
§ 44-146.19. Powers and duties of political subdivisions.
A. Each political subdivision within the Commonwealth shall be within the jurisdiction of and served by the Department of Emergency Management and be responsible for local disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Each political subdivision shall maintain in accordance with state disaster preparedness plans and programs an agency of emergency management which, except as otherwise provided under this chapter, has jurisdiction over and services the entire political subdivision.
B. Each political subdivision shall have a director of emergency management who, after the term of the person presently serving in this capacity has expired and in the absence of an executive order by the Governor, shall be the following:
1. In the case of a city, the mayor or city manager, who shall appoint a coordinator of emergency management with consent of council;
2. In the case of a county, a member of the board of supervisors selected by the board or the chief administrative officer for the county, who shall appoint a coordinator of emergency management with the consent of the governing body;
3. A coordinator of emergency management shall be appointed by the council of any town to ensure integration of its organization into the county emergency management organization;
4. In the case of the Towns of Chincoteague and West Point and of towns with a population in excess of 5,000 having an emergency management organization separate from that of the county, the mayor or town manager shall appoint a coordinator of emergency services with consent of council;
5. In Smyth County and in York County, the chief administrative officer for the county shall appoint a director of emergency management, with the consent of the governing body, who shall appoint a coordinator of emergency management with the consent of the governing body.
C. Whenever the Governor has declared a state of emergency, each political subdivision within the disaster area may, under the supervision and control of the Governor or his designated representative, control, restrict, allocate or regulate the use, sale, production and distribution of food, fuel, clothing and other commodities, materials, goods, services and resource systems which fall only within the boundaries of that jurisdiction and which do not impact systems affecting adjoining or other political subdivisions, enter into contracts and incur obligations necessary to combat such threatened or actual disaster, protect the health and safety of persons and property and provide emergency assistance to the victims of such disaster. In exercising the powers vested under this section, under the supervision and control of the Governor, the political subdivision may proceed without regard to time-consuming procedures and formalities prescribed by law (except mandatory constitutional requirements) pertaining to the performance of public work, entering into contracts, incurring of obligations, employment of temporary workers, rental of equipment, purchase of supplies and materials, levying of taxes, and appropriation and expenditure of public funds.
D. The director of each local organization for emergency management may, in collaboration with (i) other public and private agencies within the Commonwealth or (ii) other states or localities within other states, develop or cause to be developed mutual aid arrangements for reciprocal assistance in case of a disaster too great to be dealt with unassisted. Such arrangements shall be consistent with state plans and programs and it shall be the duty of each local organization for emergency management to render assistance in accordance with the provisions of such mutual aid arrangements. Except where a mutual aid arrangement for reciprocal assistance exists between localities, no locality shall prohibit another locality from providing emergency medical services across local boundaries solely on the basis of financial considerations.
E. Each local and interjurisdictional agency shall prepare and keep current a local or interjurisdictional emergency operations plan for its area. The plan shall include, but not be limited to, responsibilities of all local agencies and shall establish a chain of command, and a provision that the Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund shall be contacted immediately to deploy assistance in the event of an emergency as defined in the emergency response plan when there are victims as defined in § 19.2-11.01. The Department of Criminal Justice Services and the Virginia Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund shall be the lead coordinating agencies for those individuals determined to be victims, and the plan shall also contain current contact information for both agencies. Every four years, each local and interjurisdictional agency shall conduct a comprehensive review and revision of its emergency operations plan to ensure that the plan remains current, and the revised plan shall be formally adopted by the locality's governing body. In the case of an interjurisdictional agency, the plan shall be formally adopted by the governing body of each of the localities encompassed by the agency. Each political subdivision having a nuclear power station or other nuclear facility within 10 miles of its boundaries shall, if so directed by the Department of Emergency Management, prepare and keep current an appropriate emergency plan for its area for response to nuclear accidents at such station or facility.
F. All political subdivisions shall provide (i) an annually updated emergency management assessment and (ii) data related to emergency sheltering capabilities, including emergency shelter locations, evacuation zones, capacity by person, medical needs capacity, current wind rating, standards compliance, backup power, and lead agency for staffing, to the State Coordinator of Emergency Management on or before May 1 of each year.
G. By July 1, 2005, all localities with a population greater than 50,000 shall establish an alert and warning plan for the dissemination of adequate and timely warning to the public in the event of an emergency or threatened disaster. The governing body of the locality, in consultation with its local emergency management organization, shall amend its local emergency operations plan that may include rules for the operation of its alert and warning system, to include sirens, Emergency Alert System (EAS), NOAA Weather Radios, or other personal notification systems, amateur radio operators, or any combination thereof.
H. Localities that have established an agency of emergency management shall have authority to require the review of, and suggest amendments to, the emergency plans of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult day care centers, and child day care centers that are located within the locality.
1973, c. 260; 1974, c. 4; 1975, c. 11; 1978, c. 495; 1982, c. 5; 1990, cc. 404, 945; 1993, cc. 621, 671, 781; 2000, c. 309; 2003, c. 622; 2004, c. 302; 2005, cc. 6, 205; 2006, c. 138; 2007, cc. 97, 129, 138; 2009, cc. 222, 269; 2012, c. 418; 2018, c. 228; 2020, cc. 94, 1021.

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1930: Abraham Sinkov reported to work at SIS.
11 April 1930: Abraham Sinkov reported to work for William Friedman at SIS, becoming one of the original four - with William Friedman, Solomon Kullback, and Frank Rowlett. Sinkov was inducted into the NSA/CSS Cryptologic Hall of Honor in 1999. Read the full entry regarding his career and accomplishments via the link below. In the photo: The Signal Intelligence Service about 1935. Seated: Louise Newkirk Nelson. Standing, left to right: Herrick F. Bearce; Solomon Kullback; Capt. Harold G. Miller, U.S. Army; William F. Friedman; Abraham Sinkov; Lt. L. T. Jones, United States Coast Guard; and Frank B. Rowlett.
In 1930, William Friedman, a senior civilian in the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) was authorized to hire three civilians, at $2,000 per year -- a fairly good salary in the early period of the Great Depression. On April 1, Frank Rowlett, a mathematics teacher from Virginia, reported for duty. Later that month, two mathematics teachers from Brooklyn came to Washington to work as cryptanalysts, Abraham Sinkov and Solomon Kullback. In addition to his successes with SIS and also with the Central Bureau, in 1954, Dr. Sinkov became the second NSA official to attend the National War College (the first was Dr. Louis Tordella). Upon his return, he became Deputy Director for Production, effectively swapping jobs with his old colleague Frank Rowlett. Dr. Sinkov retired from NSA in 1962.


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Egypt and the IMF Battle
Abdelmonem Said
These days, one Egyptian eye is focused on the coronavirus battle that is raging across the world, but that is declining in Egypt as the country has entered a state of a "new habit" — a return to normal life conditioned by a high degree of precaution, alert, and control of the pandemic so that it does not affect the development process.
The other eye, meanwhile, is watching the dangers that affect Egyptian national security, whether they come from terrorism and threats in neighboring countries — especially in Libya, where Turkey interfered, or in Ethiopia's obstinate stance in negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Amid this group of challenges, Egypt won the battle to maintain its financial balance when it used its rights to obtain US$2.77 billion in loans to deal with emergency circumstances and allow for sustainable recovery, according to a statement the International Monetary Fund made regarding the loan.
Shortly after, Egypt secured another loan of $5.2 billion, and started to return to the right path again. The first signs of success came when Egyptian foreign exchange reserves increased to more than $38 billion, reversing a downward trend. This money was used to counter the virus.
Within a few weeks, the Egyptian pound regained some of its value, moving closer to pre-pandemic levels, which were lost due to the scourge.
These were the first signs that the Egyptian economy was recovering, since it was one of the fastest growing economies among the world's emerging countries before the crisis. With regard to the loans, there was no battle with the IMF, in part because it had not been long since the completion of the $12 billion IMF loan obtained by Egypt, which was accompanied by a radical program of economic reform.
Egypt had the courage to take difficult decisions with regard to the reform program, the positive effects of which were manifested in Egypt's increasing ability to deal with difficult crises, and in the rise in the international financial community's confidence in Egypt's good management of various issues and its ability to recover economically.
There was no battle between Egypt and the IMF because in the previous loan there were three reviews that resulted in positive reports on the Egyptian economy, and a final review in which Egypt came out through flying colors.
It was clear that Egypt, like other countries in the world, was facing an exceptional situation that caused great embarrassment for richer and more developed countries, and that affected Egypt's basic and hard currency resources, whether through tourism, remittances from workers abroad, international trade passing through the Suez Canal, exports, or other things that cannot be underestimated.
Egypt has not lost its balance, and has continued to do its best while maintaining the safety of its citizens until it is ready to start again.
The IMF knew very well that before the pandemic, Egypt did not want to borrow again. It wanted to listen to technical advice and benefit from the lessons of other countries. It did not need new loans.
The battle that Egypt went through, however, was with an alliance of enemies who tried to intervene to stop the IMF loans, using all the tools of propaganda and intellectual terrorism.
Eight multinational "human rights" groups requested that the fund turn down Egypt's requests for the loans. The claim was based on a well-known list of accusations, in addition to accusations of "corruption" and of directing the loans to the Egyptian armed forces.
The Qatari channel Al Jazeera and a group of Muslim Brotherhood channels in Istanbul, Doha and London took the allegations and started repeating them morning and night. And this while engaging in the well-known cycle where Human Rights Watch relies on Brotherhood sources, since they know the truth in Egypt, and then the Brotherhood circulates what the American organization says, on the basis that what comes from Washington cannot be wrong.
The general coordinator of the trick is the Brotherhood, which suddenly became a supporter of democracy and equality between people, and a supporter of Arab nationalism, inclusion, transparency, and the poor.
Notice that none of these read or referred to any of the previous IMF reports, which are many, or the reports of the World Bank and many private international institutions that issue periodic international reports on the Egyptian economy. None of these people looked at such reports throughout their failing attempts, from the time when they first attacked the new Suez Canal project, until just a few days ago when they attacked the opening of the Baron Empain Palace.
They disregarded six years of continuous development in the country's infrastructure, maintaining the financial balance of the country, reducing unemployment and inflation rates, and boosting the Egyptian pound, after years of humiliation.
The only number that everyone rants about is the figure announced by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt, which states that 32 percent — or 32 million — of Egyptians are poor.
They don't mention other figures, including that 18 million of Egyptians have social protection, and that the inflation rate went down from 34 percent to seven percent, while unemployment fell from 14 percent to eight percent and the growth rate rose from 1.8 percent under the Brotherhood to 5.6 percent just before the pandemic. According to a classification, this is the highest growth rate in the Middle East, and the third in the world after China and India.
Fortunately, the IMF knew all of this, and since it was not one of its tasks to listen to what the Brotherhood and their followers from other groups say, it followed the institutional rules regarding UN member states.
But that is not what the group wants, as it wants special treatment for Egypt. Take, for example, Amy Houston Holmes, who wrote an article for the American Foreign Policy journal titled "The IMF loans will further deepen corruption in Egypt." Holmes was described as a visiting fellow at Harvard University and is now an assistant professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo.
In the article she places the well-known list of the Brotherhood, Al Jazeera channel and its followers, and above it requests special treatment for Egypt by the IMF by forming a special body to monitor the spending of money in Egypt. What was stated in the article reflects first, complete ignorance of how the IMF works, because if she had known she would have realized that granting IMF loans to Egypt represents a global certificate of acquittal from all the accusations she mentioned. Second, it reflects a complete ignorance of what's happening in Egypt and how things are going outside the walls of the American University.
Holmes originally does not want to know anything about "Egypt Vision 2030," which the pandemic stalled slightly, but which Egypt will resume again. Egypt won and attained victory in the battle with the fund, while Al Jazeera, the Muslim Brotherhood and Holmes, who does not know Egypt or the fund, lost.
Image: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen ahead of the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, U.S., April 8, 2019. (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo)
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Ingested organisms cause invasive colitis.
Identify evidence of peritonitis, sepsis, or shock.
Tender abdominal mass mandates workup for liver abscess or ameboma.
Digital rectal exam shows gross or occult blood in >70% of patients.
Stool microscopy is <60% sensitive and no longer the test of choice.
Suspect amebic brain abscess if patient with known amebiasis has altered mental status or focal neurologic findings.
Colonoscopy with biopsy provides definitive diagnosis of amebic dysentery, colitis, ameboma, and amebic stricture.
Always follow systemic therapy with a luminal agent to eradicate intestinal colonization (erythromycin, iodoquinol, nitazoxanide, paromomycin, or tetracycline).
Refer to gastroenterologist for colonoscopy with biopsy.
Repeat serology in 7 days.
Consider empiric course of metronidazole if high suspicion for amebiasis and patient is critically ill.
Add IV antibiotic directed against anaerobic and gram-negative bacteria.
If imaging demonstrates an abscess but serology is negative, treat with amebicides and repeat serology in 7 days.
Consider abscess drainage by surgeon or interventional radiologist in conjunction with amebicidal therapy.
If symptoms do not improve after 5–7 days of empiric amebicidal therapy, consider fine-needle aspiration to rule out bacterial abscess or hepatoma.
Use metronidazole with caution in 1st-trimester pregnancy, but do not withhold if patient has fulminant colitis or amebic abscess.
Use erythromycin or nitazoxanide as intestinal amebicides along with metronidazole.
Erythromycin or nitazoxanide may be used alone for mild dysentery in 1st-trimester pregnancy.
Chloroquine, iodoquinol, paromomycin, tetracycline, and tinidazole are contraindicated.
Chloroquine and iodoquinol are contraindicated.
Use erythromycin or nitazoxanide only.
Consult surgery if evidence of peritonitis, toxic megacolon, colonic perforation, or liver abscess.
Gastroenterology and infectious disease follow-up in 7 days for repeat serology and possible endoscopic evaluation.
Physical exam in 14 days to assess for treatment effectiveness and for development of complications or extraintestinal disease.
Always give double therapy with both a systemic amebicidal (metronidazole, tinidazole, or chloroquine) plus an intestinal amebicidal (erythromycin, iodoquinol, nitazoxanide, paromomycin, or tetracycline) unless contraindicated.
Always be vigilant for high-mortality complications such as fulminant colitis or extraintestinal disease.
Amebiasis is a sample topic from the 5-Minute Emergency Consult.
Rosen, Peter, et al., editors. "Amebiasis." 5-Minute Emergency Consult, 5th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307133/all/Amebiasis.
Amebiasis. In: Rosen P, Shayne P, Barkin AZ, et al, eds. 5-Minute Emergency Consult. 5th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2016. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307133/all/Amebiasis. Accessed April 23, 2019.
Amebiasis [Internet]. In: Rosen P, Shayne P, Barkin AZ, Wolfe RE, Hayden SR, Barkin RM, Schaider JJ, editors. 5-Minute Emergency Consult. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2016. [cited 2019 April 23]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307133/all/Amebiasis.


The Current Hotel purchased one of Andy Hahn's paintings for their art-themed boutique hotel experience in Davenport, Iowa.
Hahn uses texture and color to explore emotion while maintaining an aesthetic integrity. Hahn usually begins with thin layers of acrylic paint, laying darker pigment over lighter pigment. He then begins his process of manipulating and often removing paint to expose the light hidden within. To do this, Hahn uses his own hands, rags, or non-traditional materials.
I will be exhibiting some new modern abstract art this June in Webster Groves, Missouri at the Webster Arts Fair.
Webster Arts Fair is one of the best art fairs in the Midwest, attracting artists from over 23 states. This year it was juried by: Amanda Verbeck, owner of Pele Prints, painter and publisher, Randi Chervitz, owner of Uncommon Threads, professional metal smith and jeweler, and Garry McMichael, an accomplished St. Louis are painter and photographer, who has been published in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, TIME, NEWSWEEK, FORBES, BICYCLING and dozens of other national publications.
This year's Webster Arts Fair, June 2-4, 2017, is set on the oak-shaded grounds of Webster University/Eden Theological Seminary in the heart of historic Webster Groves, Missouri (63119), just 10 minutes west of downtown St. Louis.
Webster Arts Fair, is a one-of-a-kind fine arts fair, set in the beautiful park setting of Eden Theological Seminary, in the heart of historic Webster Groves, Missouri. It is conveniently located near Downtown St.Louis and Clayton. Webster Arts Fair is continually noted as a favorite fair among artists, because of unmatched hospitality and amenities, showcases many varieties of art, while offering delectable food, top-notch musical performances, and unique creative activities for the whole family.
Each year, over 105 juried artists participate at Webster Arts Fair, which is often noted as one of the best art fairs in the Midwest. The artists come from across the U.S. and Canada, with a third of them coming from outside the St. Louis metropolitan area.
I am really looking forward to the show, and exhibiting new art never before seen by the public!
Come by and say hello, this is a great opportunity for me to see my collectors in person!
I recently made a trip to the big apple…speaking of Apple, I couldn't miss their advertisement when capturing the Empire State Building from my hotel room. Good ad placement!
I got a chance to see a few sites including Times Square and Central Park. It was cold and some snow left from a prior storm, but the city truly is amazing.
One of my favorite parts of New York are all the great galleries and museums. I spent some time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and saw some amazing art. Here are a few that I photographed.
In 1948, Barnett Newman began painting in a new and unique format. Abandoning the use of various other abstract elements on the canvas, Newman instead laid down one or more vertical bands usually with the help of masking tape. As you can see here, the tape was never removed. Makes you wonder, was it intentional or just because it wouldn't remove cleanly like the newer blue painters tape that is loved by present day artists and home owners alike. Anyway, these "zips," as he came to call them, became the organizing principle behind the work, the decisive elements that structure the entire picture.
Concord was painted during Newman's most prolific year. It was shown at the artist's first solo exhibition, at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1950, which was installed with the help of his friend, you may know of him… Mark Rothko (one of my personal favorites). The picture's green layer of paint is uncharacteristically brushy, and it was perhaps with its atmospheric wash in mind that Newman titled the painting after the town famous for Henry David Thoreau's Walden, where he and his wife, Annalee, had honeymooned fourteen years earlier.
Named for the day on which it was completed in 1956, this is the largest of ten grandly scaled paintings de Kooning exhibited at Sidney Janis Gallery that spring. In his review of the exhibition in Artnews, the critic Thomas Hess likened the works to "abstract urban landscapes"; indeed, in its highly textured surface, swooping lines of paint, and glimpses of newspaper transfers, Easter Monday seems to reference the whirling pace and gritty detritus of the modern city. The transferred newsprint, particularly visible at the bottom and top right, remains aligned with the edges of the canvas, enforcing the tenuous grid structure of the painting. Shot through with Rubensian fleshlike pinks and vivid blues and yellow, Easter Monday is a tour de force of de Kooning's 1950s style.
Let me know which you like, please comment or socially share below.
The St. Louis Artist Guild has a new juried show starting Nov. 20 and going through Jan. 02. Elements of Abstraction is an all-media juried exhibition curating works of art that use the elements of art; line, shape, form, space, texture, value, and or color as a main component of the final product.
Claire Ashley is the juror and works as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Contemporary Practices, Drawing and Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
If you haven't see their new gallery space, you should, it is really nice! Here is a pic below from their site.
If you are interested in purchasing abstract art from me, check out what I have for sale on Etsy or you can commission art from me as well.
Let me know what you think about my new painting.
I have been super busy ever since I exhibited at Webster Art&Air. I met tons of people who want me to do custom paintings for them here in St. Louis. As a St. Louis artist, it is great to see this much passion and demand for local and modern art. I have been doing, sometimes multiple, art consultations every week, and producing a lot of renderings and working with my collectors to produce one-of-a-kind modern art that is perfect for there homes.
Today I want to share with you some renderings I did for a couple here in St. Louis. They wanted a painting to go over their fireplace in their living room.
They wanted a piece that was sized just right and that incorporated some of the colors in the room. I put together these renderings and presented the concepts to them.
I will let you know which one they picked and show you the final piece soon.
But for now, please tell me which one you would have picked and why.
And…if you or someone you know needs help getting a piece of art that is just right for their space, please contact me about doing some custom art!
New multi panel art available in my Etsy store…Plus 15% off!
Due to popular demand, I have added multi panel paintings to my Etsy store. Now you can mix and match pieces to make any combination or arrangement you want. These were so popular last fall when I exhibited at the Shaw Art Fair, that I sold out of them.
Starting at just $95 for a single panel, these are a great value. Plus the versatility of them really make them a great find. Hang this art vertically or horizontally or in pairings of four or six to fit any space.
I am thinking about adding additional colors and styles, so let me know what else you would like to see!
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Biografia
Nato nell'Essex, si conosce piuttosto poco riguardo alla sua gioventù: amante di musica e poesia, gli sono state riconosciute alcune composizioni al pianoforte.

Nel 1876 si trasferì a Londra, guadagnandosi da vivere come illustratore, con lavori commissionatigli, fra gli altri, anche da Godman e Salvin (per i quali illustrò la Biologia Centrali-Americana): durante questo periodo, strinse un legame di amicizia con George Robert Crotch ed in particolare con John Obadiah Westwood, al quale dedicherà in seguito il primo volume del suo magnum opus, Icones Ornithopterorum, dedicando invece il secondo a Walter Rothschild.

Astemio e molto religioso, contrario alle punizioni corporali ed alla pena di morte, Rippon ebbe due figli, una femmina di nome Faithful ed un maschio di nome Edrick Victor, che seguirà le orme paterne interessandosi in entomologia e malacologia dopo essersi trasferito a Toronto.

Rippon acquisì numerosissimi campioni di animali in vita, operando soprattutto in Birmania e Sud-est asiatico: alla sua morte, la vedova cercò di vendere la collezione al British Museum per 1000 sterline, cifra giudicata eccessiva dalla figlia di Richard Bowdler Sharpe, che ne attestò invece il valore a circa la metà.
La parte entomologica della collezione di Rippon (comprendente oltre 105.000 reperti) venne infine acquistata da Lord Rhondda, che in seguitò la donerà al National Museum of Wales: ignoto è invece il fato della parte ornitologica della collezione.

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Altri progetti

Ornitologi britannici
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First Time Buyers are wealthier and older
Analysis of the official English Housing Survey by UK Finance found that longstanding demographic factors have led to changes in the characteristics of first-time buyers (FTBs).
According to the 2015-16 data there are fewer very young (16- to 24-year-olds) and older (55 or over) first-time buyers compared with 10 and 20 years ago.
The results also showed that owning a home was becoming increasingly restricted to just the wealthiest people.
Two-thirds (66%) of first-time buyers came from the top 40% of earners, compared to just 58% a decade ago, while three-quarters were from dual income households (up from 66%).
Strong aspirations
UK Finance (previously the Council of Mortgage Lenders) noted that despite all of this, aspirations among those in the private rented sector have not been dented, as 59% of private renters expected to buy at some point in the future.
It said this proportion had remained stable since 2006-07. And was in-line with its own research.
Affordability is the chief concern among potential first-timers with 70% of private tenants who do not expect to buy citing affordability constraints.
And half of those (47%) who had considered applying for a mortgage but had not done so felt they did not have a large enough deposit.
Many factors
UK Finance added that many of the demographic factors changing the characteristics of first-time buyers pre-dated the financial crisis and included:
•	Strong inward migration into the UK since the late 1990s, especially among younger age groups;
•	An ageing population, with the median age in the UK expected to increase by 6 years by 2080, and the share of over 65s to exceed a quarter of the population;
•	Couples marrying later than in previous generations, and having children at an older age;
•	And individuals remaining in higher education for longer and forming households at a later age.
There has also been a sustained and significant shortage of new properties being built underpinning these demographic changes during this time
Rob's comments: This may be true but let us remember that in the 90's a large majority of F.T.B's came from people buying their council house. These house were cheaper, mortgages smaller and didn't require a deposit. Now with R.T.B's gone the data that shows people being wealthier and older makes since.
Categories: House And Home, Interest Rates, Mortgages, Property Market Tags: FTB, mortgage, mortgages


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Here we go — Ducks opener tonight
jimmerdenhollander	Dells Ducks/USPHL Premier, Uncategorized	 September 25, 2020 September 25, 2020 3 Minutes
The Dells Ducks will kick off its 10th season of play in a big way this weekend at the Lake Delton Ice Arena.
Ducks fans will get a chance to reminisce about the team's past triumphs while seeing a Dells Ducks 2.0 rebirth under the leadership of the team's original coach.
Many of the team's greatest players will be in town for the weekend with a few events planned, [including alumni contests preceding the 2020-21 team's first two regular season contests.
The new Ducks will open the season with a pair of home games against the Chicago Cougars and the opponent couldn't be better for a night like this.
Behind the bench for the Ducks will be the original Head Coach, Shaun Falzone – now back as the team's Head Coach/General Manager and Co-Owner. Beside him will be another original – Anthony Rohde, a member of the original Dells Ducks (2011-12) crew and now the team's Assistant Coach. Brian Guevara, the team's Goaltending Coach is also expected to be in town for the opening matches.
On the opposite bench, the Chicago Cougars will have Josh Dallman as its Head Coach. Dallman of course, was the Ducks Head Coach for the 2019-20 season and scouted for the team before that. Along with Dallman will be Johnny Schwarz, another of the Dells Ducks original team members. Schwarz went on to play 125 games over three seasons with the Ducks.
Game time for both contests will once again be 7 p.m.
On both Friday and Saturday, a pair of Alumni teams will hit the ice for some fun contests starting at 5 p.m. Many of the fans favorites from the past decade will be in town for these contests. While most of our players have found success at the College level and beyond in the business world, there are a pair of players that have garnered legit 'celebrity' status heading into the weekend.
Colin Cross, 26, was one of the best penalty killers and defensive players through the first 10 seasons, playing for the Ducks in both the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons. Cross pretty much wrapped up his hockey career with the Ducks and has taken the next step in his life, as a recording artist living in the capital of County Western music, Nashville, Tennessee. 'Crosser' is scheduled to perform after the Ducks-Cougars first game on Friday night just down Progressive Drive at Bobber's. Cross, who will also perform the national anthem for the 7 p.m. game, hits the stage at Bobbers at 10 p.m.
Also Alex Radcliffe will be playing. Radcliffe, a member of the 2015-16 National Championship team, is also part of the crew on the reality television show Below Deck Mediterranean.
The games will include five former team captains: Kevin Salinas (Saturday); Tyler Jacobson; Jake Stima; Ian Wood and Chris Vella.
Team 1: Forwards – Brian Holappa; Cory Schwarz; Tyler Forest; Kristian Casella; Anthony Rohde; John Recek; Matt Raimondi; Chris Vella; Kevin Salinas.
Defense – Alex Radcliffe; Dylan Parshall; Alex Gunnar; Josh Krueger (only Wisconsin Dells resident to play for the Ducks, actually played a forward with the junior team).
Goaltenders – Dan O'Leary
Team 2: Forwards – Ian Wood; Joey Bower; Colin Cross; Brady Hefner; Layne Martin; Brett Johnson.
Defense – Johnny Schwarz; Tyler Jacobson; Chuck Marcoe; Jake Stima; Bradley Hefner; Connell Totten; Danny Roe and Mike Sullivan.
Goaltenders – Robbie Meadows and Jared Young.
Bush Cup Champions 2016
Along with the two games and the music at Bobber's there is a plan in the works for a golf outing, likely on Saturday.
Honorary Coaches for the Friday night game will be Ducks' superfans Chris Pelisek and Bill Pettit. Coaches for the second game Kaden and Kamron Morris will be behind the bench.
Another throwback will see the team' original play-by-play guy, Matt Panure stepping back behind the microphone.
In keeping with the way the world is operating now, the Ducks will ask fans to wear masks and practice social distancing as much as possible. A couple masks featuring the new Dells Ducks logo ill be available for sale at the game as well.
Admission is $6 for Adults and $3 for seniors, children, students and Military/Vets.
Alex Radciffe
Bobbers Island Grill
Chicago Cougars
Colin Cross
Published September 25, 2020 September 25, 2020
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The highly anticipated extension of the right to request flexible working to all employees will not come into force on 6 April 2014. It has been postponed following the slow progress of the Children and Families Bill through Parliament. The proposed extension, which will take effect after the Bill receives Royal Assent, which will allow all employees with 26 weeks' continuous service to request flexible working.
Currently, only employees who have children aged 17 or younger (or 18 or younger where the child is disabled) and those employees who act as carers have the right to request flexible working. Once the new proposals come through, which should be later in the year, this right will extend to all employees who meet the qualifying period of service regardless of their personal circumstances.
In addition to extending the right to request flexible working, the Government has proposed to replace the statutory procedure followed by employers when considering such requests with a more informal process. ACAS has already published a final draft of its code of practice and guidance on handling requests.
As a reminder, employees have a right to request flexible working and not a right to flexible working.


Your contract has been accepted, and now it's time to have the home inspected! Now what?
Your realtor will recommend a home inspector for you to use. The size of the property and or the complexity of the report can determine how expensive this can be. Typically it will be in the $300-$500 range. You can expect your report back to you within a day or two of the inspection.
While you can see for yourself many flaws in a house, the practiced eye of a professional inspector can probably spot more, especially in areas not accessible to the home buyer. Specific information could even reduce the price of the house if the seller will agree the price has not already been discounted for defects.
If no serious problems are found, inspection can pay off indirectly in assurance that you are making a soundful investment.
Should you be there for the inspection? You can if you like. I've found that being there allows the inspector to explain things to me. I've asked questions like how to change the air filters in the heating/cooling system, and the inspector has shown me where it was. Ask things like where's the water shut off for the house, where's the electrical box, etc. Don't ask them things like "How expensive will it be to repair that", though while he may give you a ballpark, when that professional comes in, he may find the problem much more extensive, or not that big of a deal making that ballpark not accurate. Knowledge is power, and the more knowledge you can obtain about your property, the better. But be sure to stay out of his way and let him do his work. Your inspector will give you time to ask questions.
What if there's a major problem? Your real estate agent should get the report from the inspector (as well as you'll get a copy) and you can go over with them the problems. Some minor problems would be easier if you just addressed, but if there's a major problem (think roofing, plumbing, etc), your agent may recommend asking the seller to repair them.


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What flashlights give me is a chance at normalcy. What my eyes cannot see, they can – illuminating shadowy stairwells, sidewalks and roadways after sundown.
I am a 68-year-old female, diagnosed as legally blind 15 years ago. I had been losing my vision long before that, but didn't honestly notice – until people and objects started carelessly bumping into me, and cars began suddenly and rather dangerously leaping into my path as if from nowhere.
How sad, you might say, for just as I have been legally blind for 15 years, I have also been unable to drive for the same period. This was a big blow. The doctor was less than sympathetic, simply telling the secretary as I was leaving the office that the ministry should be informed and my licence revoked. It was over.
Which brings us to flashlights. If you could see my current collection of wide-beamed beauties, single-beamed army-issue flashlights, and the brilliant but tiny key-chain light that I carry at all times, you would know that flashlights have become my friends. With an eye condition that destroys night vision and peripheral vision, even a dimly lit room can be a challenge.
Dinner at a romantic restaurant can be a daring adventure if objects are outside my field of vision. The eyes of my beloved twinkle as we laugh – one more time – over the spilled wine, the trail of candle wax, or the occasional explosion of glass on an unrelenting floor. These are inconveniences, not only for me, but for the people I love, strangers, store clerks and the tangle of people I simply cannot find my way out of.
What flashlights give me is a chance at normalcy. For what my eyes cannot see, they can – illuminating shadowy stairwells, sidewalks and roadways after sundown, and all manner of curious obstacles that might otherwise bring me to my knees.
It has been a humbling experience learning to live with a disability, asking for help when needed, turning it down when not. I stumble a lot, and others may see me as awkward, but by the same token, many don't even notice and are shocked when I say I have a visual impairment. It's a trip; of that you can be sure, a journey if you like, just as it's a complete bore and a constant burden. But my slim bright friends have opened up new ways of "seeing" the world, with just a little more resolution and perhaps even a touch of compassion.
Pat Mayberry is a retired hospital social worker living in Ottawa. She is living with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative genetic eye condition that affects roughly one in 4,000 people.


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Instead, the most time he would serve in prison is 15 years if found guilty of manslaughter.
Authorities say Wonder shot Pettit after they were involved in a road rage incident that escalated. Pettit's 12-year-old daughter was with him when he was shot.
It took the grand jury less than two days to reach a decision after hearing testimony from Pettit's child and law enforcement officers. The judge then granted Wonder's attorneys' motion for a reasonable bond, allowing their client to return to his Miramar home and await trial there.
Wonder has a serious kidney disorder, which may have also contributed to the judge granting a reasonable bail amount.
"Mr. Wonder is a frail man who was confronted and feared for his safety, " Entin said.
"The facts will come out in a public trial or the state will drop the charges. We will not accept any plea deals."
Police classified the incident as road rage after details of the case were released. They say the men got caught up in a heated exchange that led to the shooting.
Wonder and Pettit got into a shouting and finger-pointing match on Pines Boulevard near Dykes Road in Pembroke Pines before Wonder pulled into a post office parking lot. Pettit, who worked as a polygraph expert, pursued him into the parking lot and parked his unmarked car near Wonder's Dodge Charger, leading to the showdown, police say. Pettit left his gun in his car when he got out to confront Wonder.
Wonder went to the post office to mail some letters, said his other attorney, Frank Maister. Pettit's actions will prove that he was the aggressor, he said.
"No one has told me why Mr. Pettit was in the post office. He drove in there to confront Mr. Wonder, " Maister said.
After Wonder shot Pettit, he sped away, arriving at his appointment at a Davie dialysis treatment center. He left the center, went home, hid the gun, changed his hair color and rented a car to hide his involvement in the shooting, police say.
Anderson, Cooper spark ninth-inning rally for Marlins' first walk-off win in 2019
Outfielders Garrett Cooper and Brian Anderson connected for back-to-back hits in the ninth inning to give the Miami Marlins' their first walk-off win of the season against the San Diego Padres.


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08) Shop Local. Eat Local.
5th year of the Manly Men Wild Women Hike the Hills on New Years Day was well-attended, attracting many new visitors.
6th year of Brush Bash cleared the area near the outdoor classroom of 142 yards of brush.
6th year of Trout Lily Walk with Jim Varnum was the best ever thanks to the lilies themselves that showed up in huge numbers.
Mayor Betsy Price and FW City Council issued a Proclamation recognizing the 9th annual Prairie Fest.
9th year of Prairie Fest (dubbed a Down-home Green Shindig by GreenSource DFW) was the farewell fest for Don & Debora Young as co-directors. The torch was gently passed to Jen Schultes & James Zametz and their new dream team of volunteers to help re-imagine Prairie Fest #10.
4th year of Kids on the Prairie saw a growth spurt in 2014 with the debut of the new and improved Field Journal that exceeds STEAM standards. Significantly, science test scores at our adopted school have risen steadily over those years. About 300 new kids now know what a prairie is.
Friends of Tandy Hills co-sponsored the Native Prairies Association of Texas state conference in Fort Worth and hosted a filed trip to Tandy Hills.
Don & Debora Young led the best-attended hike ever at Tandy Hills for about 100 congregants from Unity Church of Fort Worth.
FOTHNA co-founder, Debora Young, published her 116 page filed guide-art book titled, Prairie Wildflowers Illustrated.
The Native Plant Society of Texas presented Friends of Tandy Hills with the first, Silver Star Award.
A second Outdoor Classroom project was announced by future Eagle Scout, Henry Grunow.
S&S Trails of Austin with help from Friends of Tandy Hills volunteers and FW-PACS began a long-term trail system makeover with a beautifully designed new trail.
With help from the Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT), FW Chapter, a new annual event dubbed the, Sunset Hike, was inaugurated.
A talk/slideshow on the 10-year history of FOTHNA was delivered by Don & Debora Young at the October meeting of the NPAT-FW Chapter.
Prairie Notes, the Friends of Tandy Hills newsletter penned and pic'd by Don Young hit the 10 year mark in August. Milestone issue #100 will arrive in April 2015.
Fundraising for Friends of Tandy Hills hit a new high in 2014. Our debut showing at the North Texas Giving Day raised a respectable number of donations. We also received generous support from Unity Church of Fort Worth via church member tithe offerings. The FASH Foundation endowed FOTHNA with a Kids on the Prairie grant for the 3rd straight year. Starbucks Foundation, awarded FOTHNA a generous donation through their Community Service Program, matching employee donations at a local store managed by Joe Vano. Prairie Fest Sponsorships and General membership were also up. We are VERY grateful to all!
Flnally, John Lewis Tandy, whose family settled this area in 1854 and once owned our namesake prairie, moved back to Fort Worth from Los Angeles in 2014. He instantly became an enthusiastic, key volunteer for FOTHNA and has taken it on himself to record every event this year with his movie camera. John has also generously allowed use of the 1911 family home for meetings. Thank you John!
The Tandy Hills prairie itself, our raison d'être, had a beautiful year as well. The future is looking good!
The Oak trees down in the hill creases are still aflame with Fall color but the prairie is changing with the approach of the Winter Solstice. (December 21) Here are a few pics from my Fall Notebook of what I observed at Tandy Hills during the month of November.
Red Oak trees in full Fall color brighten up the landscape.
Beautiful prairie hills under a big blue November sky.
Twilight time is the right time to be at Tandy Hills.
Additional nominations can be made at the meeting by anyone who has a Paid 2014 Membership. All members are invited to attend. RSVP.
Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area is honored to be a new certified member of, Teaming With Wildlife: True to Texas, a coalition of groups and businesses supporting wildlife conservation in Texas. The natural world of our state has been fragmented and plundered beyond belief. State government, big business and many citizens have made the state an unfriendly place for wildlife. This needs to change.
As the crazy shopping season descends upon us, Prairie Fest co-Director and Keep Fort Worth Funky founder, James Zametz has an important message for you. Whenever possible please consider the environment when shopping this year. Shopping local makes a difference. Remember to use these hashtags: #shopfortworth #eatfortworth and #shopsmalleveryday.
Graphic artist, Jen Schultes, has issued the first teaser graphic promoting the 10th Anniversary Prairie Fest. Check it out!
"Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude...If we destroy Creation, it will destroy us"


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Any Other Business: Part XXXI
Filed under: Talking Books,Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 5:17 pm
Tags: BBC 2, David Benioff, DB Weiss, Elbow, Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, HBO, Julian Barrat, Later...with Jools Holland, LOST, Monsieur Gustave, Neil Gaiman, Newsnight, Noel Fielding, Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Mighty Boosh
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When you play the game of thrones, you watch or you win
I gave up on Game of Thrones after suffering thru 3 seasons. I was unwilling to continue torturing myself to 'keep up to date with pop culture'. So I'm quite amused at everyone now having a LOST-style meltdown that the show wasted their time for 8 years. In retrospect it was probably insane of HBO to greenlight a TV show based on an ongoing book series that the author clearly had no interest in finishing. I've long been comparing George RR Martin to a stand-up comic who 10 minutes into a 12 minute shaggy dog story loses interest and wanders off stage, leaving the poor fools in the audience outraged that he just wasted 10 minutes of their time, and even more outraged when Neil Gaiman walks by to chastise them for feeling outraged that his good friend George wasted their time – he doesn't owe anybody the punchline to a shaggy dog story.
But now I wonder if there was another more conniving strand to his literary inaction. By refusing to finish writing the books Martin has got the poor saps Benioff & Weiss to test an ending for him to gauge reaction to it. So now Martin just has to say his books would have done it all … differently, and continue to never finish them, but do more fun things like attend sports events and fan conventions like a conquering hero, and he'll go to his grave with that taunt irrefutable. When did he realise that by not finishing he can eternally be better than the TV ending without ever having to actually furnish his ending?
Jazz Trances, real and fictional
Happening across The Mighty Boosh late at night the other week I suddenly remembered Howard Moon's jazz trance, something which I saw just a few years prior to a 2011 live episode of Later with Jools Holland featuring a bona fide jazz trance. Jools was trying in his inimitably (and endearing) ramshackle way to keep the show on track for time given that Newsnight was prepping to air live too once his show stopped. And standing waiting in the shadows was a 40 piece choir ready to join Elbow in a rendition of a meisterwerk, but unfortunately he'd put on a jazz band led by an aged jazz legend just before, and all four of them had gone into a proper eyes closed working out their melodies by feel jazz trance. The camera captured a nervous looking Jools baffled at how to get them to stop as he couldn't make eye contact with any of the players: a moment of panic that reduced Dad and I to helpless laughter. At last one musician opened his eyes and Jools was able to flag him down. He stopped. And then another musician opened his eyes wondering why he'd stopped, and saw, and stopped too. Only for our man, the legend, to misinterpret this, in his jazz trance, as his merry men waiting on him to change key, which he duly did, until the third musician stopped, and then he opened his eyes, and lo, the jazz trance was broken. And a mightily relieved Jools rushed across to stop it starting up again and hurried Elbow and their 40 piece choir into action.
Any Other Business: Part XXX
Filed under: Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 12:41 pm
Tags: Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Alan Yentob, Any Other Business, BBC, Bradford Young, Casablanca, Fabian Wagner, Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, Hallmark, Humphrey Bogart, Janina Ramirez, Jazz 625, Leonardo Da Vinci, Matthew Arnold, Netflix, Oscars, Robert Elswit, Roger Moore, The Battle of Winterfell, The Longest Night, Variety, Velvet Buzzsaw, Wired
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The night is always darkest just before it's totally black
Game of Thrones' latest episode has garnered much criticism for being less an adaptation of the work of George RR Martin and more that of Matthew Arnold:
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
But it made me think about Robert Elswit's work on Velvet Buzzsaw, not least because of its cinematographer's curious defence. Fabian Wagner, as reported by Variety, blamed the poor saps who shelled out a cable premium to watch this underlit farrago. It's all down to "viewers' home devices, which he says aren't fit for the show's cinematic filming. 'A lot of the problem is that a lot of people don't know how to tune their TVs properly, ' he said … 'Personally I don't have to always see what's going on because it's more about the emotional impact. Game of Thrones is a cinematic show and therefore you have to watch it like you're at a cinema: in a darkened room. If you watch a night scene in a brightly-lit room then that won't help you see the image properly.'" But but but Fabian, this is a TV show, you're not meant to light it as if it was a movie, because people can't watch it as if it was a movie. I loved Bradford Young's work on Ain't Them Bodies Saints, but I completely understood the objections of some critics about its sepulchral lighting. I have never seen it on television, and I can imagine it would lose much impact and become quite frustrating on the small screen because, and pay attention here Fabian, it was lit for cinema viewing – which doesn't just mean that you watch it in the dark, but that you watch it on a big screen in the dark. A BIG screen, hence Roger Moore's disquisition on the value of a raised eyebrow because it shoots up about 12 feet on a proper cinema screen. [As for the idea that you don't need to see what's going on because it's about the emotional impact of what's going on that you can't see – arrant nonsense.] I had the very odd sensation watching Velvet Buzzsaw that something was off about Robert Elswit's normally glorious cinematography; and I felt he'd got caught in an existential crisis. Here he was working on something that Netflix wants everyone (especially the Oscars and film critics) to accept is a proper movie damn it, and yet aware that this might be shown at a single film festival and then watched by nearly all of its (usually undisclosed number of) viewers on a small screen. If a movie is made to be watched on the small screen, and not to be watched in a cinema on a big screen, then what makes it different from a Hallmark TV movie other than its star power, budget, and attendant style?
Yes, Renault, I smoke, there's no need to be so shocked about it.
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there
The BBC has got my goat in the past few days with their irritating nonsense. Multiple times on Friday night's tribute to Jazz 625 we were treated like small impressionable children with no more free will than a Pavlovian dog by being warned that footage of the original 1960s show would contain people – gasp – smoking – clasp your pearls in horror, there's worse to come – indoors -gasp for breath as if your lungs were being filled with secondhand smoke from a 1960s image and fall to the floor writhing in agony! Thank you Auntie, but I am capable of realising that the 1960s is not the 2010s. But there was worse on Thursday night when Janina Ramirez warned us that footage of Alan Yentob talking about Leonardo Da Vinci in 2003 would contain Yentob – gasp – smoking – clasp your pearls in horror, there's worse to come – indoors – gasp for breath as if your lungs were being filled with secondhand smoke from a 2000s image and fall to the floor writhing in agony! Oh for Christ's sake…. The repetition of the phrase 'it was a different time' clearly means this is some sort of policy at the BBC to lecture the audience at every opportunity, but as so often with this kind of approach it was counterproductive because Yentob simply had a half-smoked cigarette in one hand while he spread out notebooks by Da Vinci on a bar counter. I would not have noticed the cigarette if my attention had not been drawn to it, if I had seen it at all I might have mistaken it for a short pencil. Well done, BBC, well done. This is the kind of policing impulse that shares a mindset with the fools who want all old movies rated 18s because they feature smoking, and it both cases it betrays a mind that wishes to excoriate when it doesn't forget the past in order to smugly bask in the wonderful nature of the present. Oblivious to the fact that the present will no doubt be excoriated in similar manner in the future, most likely for what it is most smug about right now.
Any Other Business: Part XV
Filed under: Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 2:26 pm
Tags: Any Other Business, Aubrey Plaza, Blindspot, Brian Finch, Craig Sweeny, Dan Stevens, Elementary, Emma Thompson, Ennis Esmer, FX, Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, Jake McDorman, James Spader, Legion, Limitless, Martin Gero, Marvel, Nationwide, NBC, Noah Hawley, NZT, Pulp Fiction, Red Reddington, Rich Dotcom, Robert Doherty, RTE 2, Sherlock, Sky One, Stranger than Fiction, The Blacklist, Wes Anderson, X-Men
What is one to do with thoughts that are far too long for Twitter but not nearly long enough for a proper blog post? Why round them up and turn them into a fifteenth portmanteau post on television of course!
His Faults Are Legion
Decorum is important. So is the stylistic and aesthetic goal of urbanity. One might go so far as to call it an ethical goal too. But then Legion season 2 hoves into view… I had never seen any of Noah Hawley's Fargo TV show, but I tuned into season 1 of Legion because it starred Dan Stevens and Aubrey Plaza, who have featured prominently hereabouts in best acting nods. 3 episodes in, my notes were: "great verve with music, offbeat as hell, style to burn – literally nothing has happened". That was a fair judgement. Because, despite highlights such as Plaza shouting "Unhand the reptile, space captain!", this is an FX show where the only FX are the cable logo. It's like all the money for action was spent on the pilot, and Hawley was left wondering how to hide its absence for the remainder of the episodes. His solution? Take Wes Anderson's X-Men to heart, apparently. Almost zero content was hidden with funky stylistic affectations, endlessly repeated scenes, and an industrial quantity of psychobabble. When you see as many analysis and interrogation scenes as in this you can be sure something has gone badly wrong in the writers' room. This is a show pretending to be deep and smart that is in fact entirely empty, and incredibly slow-moving and boring. Even Dan Stevens' charisma wilts under the strain, Plaza alone remaining undimmed by the tedium to the end. And then there's the pretension to high art and social conscience with the 'treatment of mental illness'. … The only reason this show exists is because he does have superpowers. Pretending that it's a serious treatment of schizophrenic delusions is tacky and almost irresponsible. I will not be watching season 2 because I have rarely seen a show disappear up its own arse so quickly. Sherlock at least took three seasons. Apologies for failures in decorum and urbanity.
Photo by Virginia Sherwood/NBC
"I could wear a hat!"
Among the many pleasures of Blindspot is Ennis Esmer's recurring character of Rich Dotcom, hacker supervillain turned hacker supervillain on a tight leash. Rich has managed in season 3 to pull off to a degree what he proposed in season 2 when he memorably pitched the set-up of The Blacklist to the Blindspot characters, with himself in the Red Reddington role of supervillain CI; hence his desperate final gambit as he was led back to prison – "I could wear a hat!" Rich's misadventures this season have included getting sidetracked from stopping an arms deal by live-snarking Boston's new boyfriend, outwitting Reade's insistence he not go to a hacker party by insisting a secret meet with an unwitting criminal happen at said party making it a work event, where there just happen to be high quality pharmaceuticals on tap, but he's sniffing because the carpet is activating his allergies. This is the kind of stress for which you might put in a request for a therapy llama, to say nothing of the fear that leads you to keep a bag of clean urine strapped to your leg at all times. When you have as lunatic a character as Martin Gero has created, "You're using JFK against me?! He was way sluttier than I am!!" it is wise to use him sparingly; as that kind of lunacy at the centre of a show would turn the whole show as mad as if Brian Finch on NZT was-
Brian Finch on NZT maketh a show as mad as he
It Never Got Weird Enough For Limitless
I caught the The Bruntouchables episode of Limitless on RTE 2 last night, not long after star Jake McDorman was interviewed eating al fresco in Cork by an RTE presenter apparently unaware this charming American was an actor. The sheer barrage of whimsy, madness, and fun that is Limitless made me recall what in retrospect seems a huge blunder that at the time was not obvious at all. On its initial run on Sky the episode with Pulp Fiction style chapters following different characters ended on Hill Harper's Boyle, and with minimal dialogue in these scenes we were instead given an Emma Thompson-Stranger Than Fiction-style voiceover about his activities. Unusual, but hardly crazier than most of the show's conceits; after all shortly after my sketch about its creator Sweeny and Elementary show-runner Robert Doherty surreptitiously ghost-writing the end of Game of Thrones by recording a drunk George RR Martin, Limitless travelled to Russia and a key plot point was getting George RR Martin on the phone to narrate the end of Game of Thrones. It was only later that I suddenly wondered, what if there wasn't supposed to be an Emma Thompson-Stranger Than Fiction-style voiceover for that final chapter? What if someone had accidentally turned on audio description while flicking switches to go to ad break? Stranger things have happened… But it says something for Limitless that something so bonkers could seem unremarkable.
How Will Game of Thrones End?
Filed under: Talking Books,Talking Nonsense,Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 12:40 pm
Tags: A Song of Ice and Fire, Alexander Pope, Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, F Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Bagel, George RR Martin, GRRM, Jon Snow, Kings Landing, Melisandre, Raymond Chandler, Targaryen, The Big Sleep, The Great Gatsby, The Night's Watch, Westeros
It should be obvious by now that George RR Martin is never going to finish his series, because he patently has no interest in writing it when he could be having far more fun not writing it. But if he did write it, how would he actually end the saga?
Now, Friedrich Bagel (which I strongly suspect of being an assumed name) is a man who knows something about not finishing a writing project; we have been assiduously not finishing our masterly screenplay for the great Irish short film for some nine years now. Moved by Martin's plight he has suggested some endings, and I have helped out some. So, for the consideration of the blocked GRRM, here are some ways to fill the blank page of the final page…
Hard Boiled Manner
What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Jon Snow was. But the old Targaryen didn't have to be. She could lie quiet in her canopied bed, with her bloodless hands folded on the sheet, waiting. Her heart was a brief, uncertain murmur. Her thoughts were as gray as ashes. And in a little while she too, like Jon Snow, would be sleeping the big sleep.
Last, o'er the urn the sacred earth they spread,
And rais'd the tomb, memorial of the dead
(Strong guards and spies, till all the rites were done,
Watch'd from the rising to the setting sun). 1010
Kings Landing then moves to Cersei's court again,
A solemn, silent, melancholy train:
Assembled there, from pious toil they rest,
And sadly shared the last sepulchral feast.
Such honours Westeros to her hero paid, 1015
And peaceful slept the mighty Jon Snow's shade.
Elegiac
And as I sat there brooding on the old, and new, gods, I thought of Melisandre's wonder when she first picked out the white fire hidden in Jon Snow's afterlife. She had come a long way to this Iron Throne, and her dream must have seemed so close that she could hardly fail to grasp it. She did not know that it was already behind her, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond Kings Landing, where the dark fields beyond the Wall rolled on under the Night's Watch.
Melisandre believed in the white fire, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning –
So we charge on, knights against the dragons, borne back ceaselessly into the Targaryens.
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small, and the ones that the Feds give you make you Sherlock Holmes for twelve hours
Filed under: Talking Nonsense,Talking Television — Fergal Casey @ 9:18 pm
Tags: 4th Wall, Ben Edlund, Boris, Bradley Cooper, Brooklyn, CBS, Clyde the Turtle, Craig Sweeny, Deadpool, Elementary, FBI, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fourth Wall, George RR Martin, Hill of Beans, James Patterson, Joan Watson, Limitless, NYC, NZT, Robert Doherty, Robert Jordan, SAG, Sherlock Holmes, Supernatural, The Wheel of Time
INT.HILL OF BEANS PRODUCTION OFFICE, BROOKLYN-DAY
CRAIG SWEENY, writer/producer, clenches and unclenches his fists as he walks along a corridor. He slows as he approaches the office at the end of the corridor from which we hear two loud voices. He gulps. Sweat trickles off his unclenched fist.
TITLE: 18 MONTHS AGO.
Sweeny slowly pushes open the door, and hovers in the doorway while ROBERT DOHERTY jumps to his feet to bellow at a phone on speaker emitting a dial tone.
DOHERTY: AND GOOD DAY TO YOU TOO, 'SIR'!
Doherty picks up the phone and throws it off the desk. The receiver lands on the hard wooden chair on the supplicant side of the desk, while the body dangles in mid-air as the cord is attached on the other side of the desk.
DOHERTY: (looks up at Sweeny) Telemarketer.
SWEENY: Oh. Uh, hey, uh, Robert, do, uh, do you have, uh, a minute? Maybe?
DOHERTY: What? A minute? Oh, yes, certainly. Take a seat. In fact, it's great that you're here, Craig, I want to explain to someone a fantastic wheeze I just concocted.
SWEENY: Well, actually I-
DOHERTY: I said sit down sir!
Sweeny dives into the supplicant chair, and ends up sitting on the receiver. He tries to subtly move it out from under him while Doherty relaxes back into a leather armchair.
SWEENY: SO… I got this offer-
DOHERTY: If we get cancelled I have come up with a golden parachute to beat the bank. Have you read any of the Game of Thrones books?
SWEENY: No.
DOHERTY: Ah! Neither have I, and one of us needs to, so that means you. Read them all in the next week and report back to me then. Also make some character notes. And some notes on the house style employed.
SWEENY: I-
DOHERTY: Don't interrupt! Now, George RR Martin is a decrepit old man. We all know this. What we all know but are too hidebound by bourgeois niceties to say is that, like Robert Jordan, he is going to die before he finishes writing the novels. Indeed he may well die before he even finishes the next book as he clearly has no interest in actually writing it. But, and how many times have I tried to impress this on you Sweeny, never present just a problem, always present the solution too. So! The solution – we pull a Patterson.
SWEENY: What?
DOHERTY: Would you stop interrupting me?! Now, if James Patterson can come over all medieval craftsman and give anonymous people 50 page treatments which they then flesh out and he later okays before putting it out under his own name, then why can't we do the same for decrepitly old George RR?
DOHERTY: He tells us, verbally, so that he doesn't have to strain himself with the idea of committing something to paper, his ideas on what happens next, be they e'er so vague. We secretly record it, as the whole occasion will happen in front of a roaring fireplace as we get him roaring drunk. You transcribe it, I read it, work up a treatment, give it you, and you write it all up with the help of whoever we can keep on from the writers' room.
SWEENY: Alright…
DOHERTY: And everyone's happy. A new novel appears, it seems RRish enough to be going on with, and it's been done fast, so nobody's dead, and nobody's left millions of fans howling at him for wasting a good chunk of their lives.
SWEENY: Right…
DOHERTY: Now we just need to pitch it to his publishers. If only I had the requisite confidence you need in these situations… (gazes abstractedly at the roof)
SWEENY: Um, Robert?
DOHERTY: Oh, I thought you'd gone. Why haven't you gone?
SWEENY: I've been offered another gig.
DOHERTY: What? You traitor! Where??
SWEENY: CBS.
DOHERTY: You double-dealing traitor! I have nursed a viper in my bosom! (He goes to throw the phone at Sweeny, realises he's already thrown it, makes a few attempts to lean over his desk and grab it, but grabs only air, and slumps back in his chair)
SWEENY: They want me to develop Limitless.
DOHERTY: … The Bradley Cooper film?
SWEENY: Yes.
DOHERTY: I don't see it as a TV show.
SWEENY: Well. I thought it might make for a good procedural.
DOHERTY: How so?
SWEENY: Well, suppose that we have Cooper appear in the pilot as a Senator. Suppose he wants NZT kept on the down-low, but suppose the Feds know about it, and then suppose that he cultivates a guy inside the Feds to keep them guessing.
DOHERTY: A healthy amount of supposition! So, set-up. What's the week by week?
SWEENY: Why would the FBI keep a guy around? NZT makes you smarter. So he can see patterns nobody else can, the drug makes him the best analyst they have!
DOHERTY: (lilts) One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small, and the ones that the Feds give you make you Sherlock Holmes for twelve hours. (mutters) Haha, said the title.
DOHERTY: Some day, Sweeny, you may join myself and Deadpool in an elite club. Yes, I think I can see this working qua show.
SWEENY: So, are you okay with me working on it?
DOHERTY: Yes! I see great possibilities. I was talking to a network lawyer and he said that he's fairly sure that with a bit more screen-time he can get Clyde the turtle a SAG card, and then we can all share the health benefits with a nod and a wink to a tame doctor. Do you think you can give your hero a pet turtle that he uses for expository purposes?
Before Sweeny can answer BORIS sticks his head in the door.
DOHERTY: NO! THAT LINE REMAINS! DAMN TASTE AND DECENCY! YES! WATSON CAN DIRECT ANOTHER EPISODE IF SHE REALLY MUST! AND IT HAS TO BE PURPLE! PURPLE! PURPLE! PURPLE! IF HE CAN'T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN PURPLE AND MAUVE HE SHOULDN'T BE A PRODUCTION DESIGNER!
Boris nods at the answers to the three questions he didn't get to ask, and sidles away. No matter how many times Sweeny sees Doherty do this, he is always amazed.
SWEENY: How did you?
DOHERTY: Do you need to ask? Honestly, Craig, this is the level you need to be at to ascend to show-runner. Incidentally I have an idea for a Ferris Bueller episode.
SWEENY: That sounds more like a season six conceit.
DOHERTY: AHA! I'm so proud, I knew you had it in you. My tutelage is second to none. Well of course it's a season six conceit, but I have no confidence in getting that far so let's put it in your show.
SWEENY: WHAT?! I haven't written a final draft pilot script! I can't start putting nonsense conceits in the show from the get-go.
DOHERTY: Nobody's saying make the pilot bonkers, or the first regular episode barmy, wait till about episode 7. Also, I'll be coming aboard your ship if mine sinks.
SWEENY: (suspiciously) As what?
DOHERTY: It's nearly Thanksgiving, I might come as a turkey. (beat) (beat) (Doherty waits for raillery from Sweeny) (beat) (realises it's not coming) Sorry, my mistake I thought we were doing something there that we weren't actually doing. Creative Consultant.
SWEENY: Will you actually just be a creative consultant? Or will you try and be a backseat show-runner.
DOHERTY: Creative Consultant. Advise and Consent. A hopeless yes-man. I am a shy and retiring individual, as you know.
Boris sticks his head in the door again.
DOHERTY: F****** LILAC?!!! IS THIS SOME ILL-CONCEIVED APRIL FOOLS' DAY PRANK?!!
Bret Easton Ellis: Page to Screen
Filed under: Talking Books,Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 12:41 pm
Tags: Amber Heard, American Psycho, Andrew McCarthy, Arbitrage, Austin Nichols, Bartender, Bennington College, Bill Sage, Billy Bob Thornton, Brad Renfro, Brandon Routh, Bret Easton Ellis, Buffalo Soldiers, Camden College, Christian Bale, Cocktail, David Cronenberg, Dorsia, Erasure, F Scott Fitzgerald, Genesis, George RR Martin, Glamorama, Go Fish, Gregor Jordan, Guinevere Turner, Headstuff, Headstuff.org, Huey Lewis, I Shot Andy Warhol, Ian Somerhalder, Imperial Bedrooms, James Van Der Beek, Jared Leto, Jessica Biel, Joan Didion, Jon Foster, Josh Lucas, Justin Theroux, Kim Basinger, Kip Pardue, Lauren Hynde, Leonardo DiCaprio, Less Than Zero, Little Creatures, Los Angeles, Louis Farrakhan, Luna Park, Magnolia, Mary Harron, Michael Cristofer, Mickey Rourke, MPAA, Nicholas Jarecki, Oliver Stone, Patrick Bateman, Paul Denton, Pulp Fiction, Robert Downey Jr, Roger Avary, Ronald Reagan, Russell Sams, Sam Shepard, Sean Bateman, Shannyn Sossamon, Simon & Schuster, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Talking Heads, The Cure, The Great Gatsby, The Informers, The Rules of Attraction, Tom Cruise, Tomandandy, Victor Ward, Willem Dafoe, Winona Ryder
Bret Easton Ellis has written seven books, four have been filmed, and two of those have been set in Los Angeles. And yet they are by far the weakest of the Ellis adaptations… Here's a teaser of my piece for HeadStuff on those adaptations.
"I stand back from the unfinished canvas. I realise that I would rather spend my money on drugs than on art supplies" – The Rules of Attraction (novel)
While Hollywood was premiering his debut, mangled to appeal to perceived Reaganised teenagers, Ellis published his sophomore novel The Rules of Attraction, in which the influence of Reaganism is present in the Freshmen wanting a weight room and vetoing Louis Farrakhan as a speaker. Camden College life in the 1985 Fall term is narrated in short vignettes by Sean Bateman, Paul Denton, Lauren Hynde, and some secondary characters. An unreliable picture emerges from their overlapping experiences at parties, cafeteria lunches, hook-ups, classes, and trips to town. Denton narrates a secret affair with Bateman, Bateman narrates a minor friendship with Denton, Bateman and Lauren hook up for a disastrous relationship which both record very differently, and Bateman's secret admirer (who he thought was Lauren) kills herself when he sleeps with Lauren. STDs and abortions are the frequent price of the casual sex merry-go-round of Camden's never-ending party, and Lauren pays in full. Ellis' dialogue is a marvel, with one-liners aplenty in concisely captured conversations, while the trademark pop culture references (everybody is listening to Little Creatures) are married to more nuanced narration. Denton, the most self-aware and self-critical character, eschews auditioning for the Shepard play because his life already is one. Spielberg is memorably critiqued for being secular humanism not rigorous modernism, but mostly these intelligent characters play dumb because excess is what's expected.
"What does that mean? Know me? Know me? Nobody knows anyone else. Ever. You will never, ever know me" – The Rules of Attraction (film)
Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary adapted and directed the novel, and Ellis dubbed the 2002 film "the one movie that captured my sensibility in a visual and cinematic language." The rise of independent cinema meant Avary could cast James Van Der Beek as Bateman without bowdlerising the novel. The film is alternately shocking (it opens with the rape of Shannyn Sossamon's Lauren), hilarious (Denton [Ian Somerhalder] and Dick [Russell Sams] perform an entirely improvised dance to 'Faith' in their underwear), and romantic (an extended split-screen sequence shows Bateman and Lauren finally meeting at their Saturday morning tutorial). Avary stylishly plays out the climactic 'End of the World' party from three viewpoints before winding back to the start of term, and situates Camden in a temporal twilight zone; with broadband internet but a 1980s soundtrack of The Cure and Erasure. Avary radically changes Lauren's character, by throwing many of her traits onto loose roommate Lara (Jessica Biel). Lauren is now a virgin, waiting for Victor to return from Europe, whereas in the book she waited on Victor while sleeping with Franklyn. From being a mirror of Bateman, who sleeps with her friend while being in love with Lauren, she becomes a Madonna. There's no longer an alienated road-trip with Sean ending with an abortion, just as Sean's affair with Denton is reduced to one split-screen scene implicitly showing Denton's fantasy. Avary's changes make more violent and consequential Bateman's successive breaks with Lauren and Denton, when she tells Bateman he will never know her, and he repeats her lines to Denton. Denton and Lauren's snowy encounter after the 'End of the World' party, scored by Tomandandy with electronic eeriness, becomes a haunting summation: "Doesn't matter anyway. Not to people like him. Not to people like us." Lauren's momentary self-condemnatory thought, unsaid in the novel, is spoken and brings things close to Gatsby's "careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money."
Click here to read the full piece on HeadStuff.org.


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Nicolaides ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Cristino Nicolaides (1925–2011), argentinischer General
 Kypros Nicolaides (* 1953), britischer Gynäkologe und Geburtshelfer