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Fine Arts Lecture Series (Part 2 of 3): Lecture by Ellen Burke
555 E Connecticut Ave
Southern Pines NC 28387
(Per Lecture) $15 ACMC & Weymouth Members/$20 Non-members
910-692-ARTS (2787)
Fine Arts Lecture Series (Part 2 of 3)
Presented by the Arts Council of Moore County & Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
Before the #MeToo movement or even the 1963 publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, a number of women artists astonished the art world establishment and public expectations with their talent and grit. These lectures will examine the accomplishments of five notable women who produced paintings and textile art that were every bit as original as the much-heralded art of their male counterparts. Two of the women were married to painters who led the first modern art movement in America, but Lee Krasner Pollock and Elaine de Kooning were undeterred by their husbands' celebrity and painted radically innovative work throughout their lives. A third, Frida Kahlo, began her career in the shadow of her famous husband, Diego Rivera, but today may be more widely recognized than he for paintings about her own life and Mexican heritage.
Lecture #2 – Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 5:30 PM | Lecturer: Ellen Burke
NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE: Portrait Painters – Alchemist of Humanity
"The self, we have it like an albatross around the neck." ~ Alice Neel
Portrait painter, Alice Neel, was not interested in "a pretty face." She turned her intense, no-nonsense gaze on her subjects, including herself, depicting the humanity in all of us. She used bold color and line to communicate our frailty, dynamism, intelligence, and passion, creating art that speaks to our soul rather than describing appearances. Join us as we explore some of the most intriguing modern portrait artists, including Robert Henri, Alice Neel, Frida Kahlo, Philip Pearlstein, Larry Rivers, and David Hockney.
ELLEN BURKE is an art educator with 37 years of experience as a studio instructor and fine and performing arts administrator. In addition to teaching in Massachusetts, she was an adjunct instructor in art education at the New Hampshire Art Institute. One of her great passions is engaging students in careful observation, reflection and discussion of works of art. Since moving to Pinehurst three years ago she has presented art appreciation discussions at Hollyhocks Gallery in Pinehurst and teaches small group art lessons to children and adults.
COST (per lecture): $15 for ACMC & Weymouth Members / $20 for Nonmembers
All Lectures will be presented at Weymouth Center (555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines).
Space is limited. Please register now with full payment at the Arts Council's offices (Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines) or by calling 910-692-ARTS (2787).
For additional information, call 910-692-ARTS (2787) or visit www.MooreArt.org.
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Andy Roddick sent the United States through to the Davis Cup quarter-finals on Sunday by dispatching Paul Capdeville 3-6, 7-6, 6-3, 6-3, to give the U.S. an insurmountable 3-1 lead over Chile.
Roddick improved his record to 12-0 when given the opportunity to close a Davis Cup tie, and Jim Courier earned a victory in his debut as U.S. captain.
"Let's not mistake me being 12-0 with me not getting nervous," said Roddick on the United States Tennis Association Web site. "When I hear stats like that it's gratifying for me."
Roddick was again a workhorse for the U.S., winning both his singles matches and improving his Davis Cup record to 33-11 but a modest 10-9 on foreign soil.
The United States will next host Spain, which beat Belgium on Saturday.

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Various Advantages and Disadvantages of Biogas
The idea of producing flammable gas from decomposing plant matter was brought up by the ancient Persians. The idea culminated in the building of the first sewage plant in 1859 in Bombay, India. The concept was then brought to the U.K. in 1895 when the generated biogas was utilized to light up street lamps. Further advancements in the biogas systems were witnessed in Germany and the U.K. at the onset of the 1900s for sewerage treatment purposes.
Centralized drainage systems spread across Europe, and anaerobic digestion was viewed as a means to minimize the amount of solid waste in the sewage. The resultant gas was sporadically utilized as an energy source to power vehicles.
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According to Britannica,
"Biogas, naturally occurring gas that is generated by the breakdown of organic matter by anaerobic bacteria and is used in energy production. Biogas differs from natural gas in that it is a renewable energy source produced biologically through anaerobic digestion rather than a fossil fuel produced by geological processes."
In the 1930s, farm manure was used to produce methane gas in Bombay. An improved design that used a floating steel gas drum was developed at the start of the 1960s, which became the cornerstone of the government of India's outreach program to offer villagers a convenient means to cook their foods.
In the same year, China rolled out the same initiative, and by 1980, there were more than 5 million biogas plants. The 1980s saw the replacement of the rectangular biogas plant design by the dome-shaped design. The biogas program was exported to Nepal, which is today known as the Biogas Sector Partnership (BSP).
The skyrocketing prices of oil in the 1980s led many people to embrace biogas. However, the prices of oil dropped later, which translated to a significant drop in electricity bills. This phenomenon reduced biogas enthusiasm, but few biogas plants managed to survive. The biogas programs in India, China, and Nepal have scaled up steadily over the years. Today, interest in biogas around the world has gathered momentum, and more people are setting up biogas plants to produce biogas.
India invests more than INR 6 billion each year in the biomass generation sector, producing more than 5000 million units of electricity in the process. The industry also creates annual employment of 10 million man-days in remote villages.
By definition, biogas is a kind of biofuel generated through the biological breakdown of organic matter such as food scraps, manure, wastewater sludge, and crop residue in the absence of oxygen. This breakdown of organic matter without the presence of oxygen is known as anaerobic digestion.
Anaerobic digestion takes place in a large tank commonly known as a digester. Inside this digester, bacteria convert these organic wastes into methane gas, a reliable source of energy.
Biogas is majorly a mix of methane and carbon dioxide. It may also contain traces of siloxanes, hydrogen sulfide, and moisture. The resultant energy in the anaerobic digestion (biogas) can be used directly for cooking by burning it in the presence of oxygen. It can also be converted into electricity by using it to convert water into steam, which turns a turbine connected to a generator.
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Just like natural gas, biogas can be easily compressed and used to power automobiles. Better still, biogas can be purified and upgraded to the natural gas standards when it's converted to biofuel known as biomethane. The process of anaerobic digestion leaves behind a nutrient-rich matter called digestate, which is commonly utilized as fertilizer.
Most organic matter begins the process of decomposition when it is exposed to oxygen and sunlight. However, organic matter can also decompose without any oxygen, by the process of anaerobic fermentation. This happens due to the bacteria present in the matter, which acts during the absence of oxygen.
Landfills see a lot of such decay, especially when the waste material becomes wet and receives little sunlight. As a result, a lot of methane and nitrous oxide are produced and released into the atmosphere. Biogas is the result of this decay, and it is an energy source like no other.
Advantages of Biogas
1. It's a Renewable Energy Source
2. It's Eco-friendly
3. Reliable
4. Reduces the Amount of waste Going to Landfills
5. Requires Low Capital Investment
6. Creates Green Jobs
7. Reduces Water Pollution to a Certain Extent
8. Minimizes Overreliance on Fossil Fuels
9. Improves Environment
10. Produces Enriched Organic Manure
11. Saves Women and Children From Daunting Household Chores
12. It Encourages Developing a Circular Economy
Disadvantages of Biogas
1. Little Technology Advancements
2. Contains Impurities
3. It Can't Work in all Locations
4. Not Economically Viable
5. Biogas Production is a Temperature-sensitive Procedure
The raw materials used in the production of biogas are renewable. Trees and crops will continually grow, which means manure, food scraps, and crop residue will continuously be available.
Production of biogas happens without oxygen, which technically means there is no form of combustion involved. No combustion means there is zero emission of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
However, carbon dioxide is produced in the biological breakdown process (anaerobic digestion), as well as in the course of using the biogas. The difference is the carbon dioxide produced is far less compared to that produced by fossil fuels.
In fact, the amount of carbon dioxide produced when using biogas is equal to the amount needed for plants to grow. This, in a way, balances the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The fact that it is produced from renewable sources makes it reliable. Other renewable energy sources like solar and wind depend on the weather patterns or day time factors to continually produce electricity. Biogas production continues regardless of the weather. The biogas production process goes on uninterrupted (24/7).
We all know that overflowing landfills cause environmental impacts such as foul smells and toxic liquids draining into underground water sources. Instead of disposing of these organic materials to landfills, they can be used to produce biogas.
The technology used to produce biogas is pretty cheap. Biogas plants can be developed right at home using locally sourced materials. The resultant gas can be used directly for cooking and generation of electricity. Biogas can also be compressed to achieve the quality of natural gas and utilized to power automobiles.
See also Various Advantages and Disadvantages of Biofuels
The raw materials used for the production of biogas such as manure, crop residue, food scraps and wastewater sludge are absolutely free. This makes the cost of biogas production significantly low.
Biogas plants have created millions of jobs in most countries, especially in the area of waste collection and biogas generation. For example, in India, the biogas industry creates more than 10 million man-days jobs each year in rural areas.
In recent times, water pollution has become a major source of threat to our sustenance. With every passing day, the amount of freshwater available for our usage is decreasing. At such a juncture, it is extremely crucial that we try everything that is in our power to reduce water pollution. Using biogas helps in doing exactly that.
Landfills do not only pollute the environment, but the decomposition of certain landfill wastes releases certain toxic materials into the ground. These materials then percolate to the underground water table and poison or pollute the water.
This water, when used or consumed without purification, can cause severe health hazards. But since using biogas also controls the amount of waste that goes into landfills, it also helps in controlling water pollution to a certain extent.
Many countries like India and China have invested a lot of money in the biogas sector. This has helped these countries cut back on fossil fuel use. This act has particularly helped China, the world's top consumer of energy, to cut back on the use of fossil fuel sources of energy like oil, gas, and coal.
Waste collection and management significantly improves in areas with biogas plants. More people get involved in waste collection in order to get a source of income. This leads to overall sanitation and hygiene of the areas.
The process of biogas generation leaves behind enriched organic manure (digestate), which is a perfect supplement or replacement of chemical fertilizers.
Chemical fertilizers can be harmful to the soil as well as for the environment as a whole. Thus, natural fertilizers are the best and the safest option available for us. The generation of biogas helps in this aspect too. It also produces organic fertilizers. In fact, it is a by-product of biogas production.
The fertilizers so produced are really helpful in accelerating the growth of the plants. Not just that, the use of these natural fertilizers also helps in preventing the diseases that would have otherwise been caused due to the toxic materials used in the chemical fertilizers.
Collecting and carrying firewood on a daily basis is a daunting task. Also, exposure to smoke from the firewood can cause health complications. Biogas provides a great reprieve from these activities. Also, biogas minimizes the time needed for cooking and cleaning utensils.
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Believe it or not, there is still a section in the society that depends on firewood and the likes of it to produce fire for cooking. This exposes them to several health hazards that could be really fatal for them.
Despite knowing these, they simply cannot afford LPG cylinders to help them with the process. For such people, biogas is both- a safe as well as a cheaper alternative. It really helps in making cooking a better experience for them.
Since the production of biogas requires simple technology, the investment required in the production of biogas is also not very huge. Thus, the production cost of biogas is minimal too.
If the production is small scale and meant for personal use, then the cost of production is really under control. Thus, what is produced is a self-sustaining kitchen system that supplies for itself. The economy of the household is well managed too.
What is interesting is that the materials that are required for the production of biogas for the home kitchen come from the home kitchen itself. Thus, the chain of products is circular and is always maintained. This is especially helpful in rural areas.
The systems used in the production of biogas today are not efficient. There are no new technologies yet to simplify the process and make it abundant and low cost.
This means large scale production to satisfy a large population is still not possible. Although the biogas plants available today can meet some energy needs, most individuals and governments are not willing to invest in the sector heavily. This aspect has led many people to put up biomass systems in their homes, which are short on capacity.
Biogas still contains impurities even after refining and compression. When utilized as fuel to power automobiles, it can corrode your engines and lead to extraordinary maintenance costs.
Biogas production is only feasible in certain locations where raw materials are in plentiful supply. Rural areas provide the best locations for building biogas plants. However, it's impractical to built biogas plants in large cities.
Compared to other biofuels, the production of biogas is not attractive economically, especially on a large scale. It's difficult to beef up the efficiency of biogas plants, which explains why people and most governments are coy about investing in this realm.
Biogas production, like the production of energy from other renewable and sustainable resources, is temperature sensitive and is affected by the weather.
The bacteria that are responsible for the production of biogas from the decomposition of organic materials need a specific optimal temperature. The aiding bacteria require an optimal temperature of 37oC to function properly. If temperatures drop below that, external heat has to be supplied to the digesters.
Introduction to Biogas
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Biogas as a source of energy


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Home For Parents My Childhood Memories – with Singer/Actress Maria Tecce
My Childhood Memories – with Singer/Actress Maria Tecce
We ask people in the public eye to share some memories and snapshots of their childhood. First up is singer and actress Maria Tecce, who recalls the freedom of growing up in Boston in the 1970s. Maria (40) has lived in Ireland for over a decade now and has built up a reputation both a singer and actress of note. She is currently working and touring with Irish musical comedy outfit, The Nualas.
From Cowgirl to Carlow to Certified Citizen!
Maria says: "If you had told me years ago that I'd go from moonlighting as a cowgirl in the wilds of Wyoming to suddenly being whisked off to Ireland by a Carlow man and subsequently finding myself as an international singer and actress in Europe, then I would have said that you were crazy. But that is what happened and, after 10 years of campaigning for my citizenship, I am now a passport-carrying, fully-fledged Irish citizen and resident of Stoneybatter in Dublin.
"Over the last seven years, I have toured Europe and the U.S.A., producing and performing my one-woman shows. My main gig was jazz for years, but I've recently been working with different genres, including guest spots singing with the RTE Concert Orchestra, hosting my own show on RTE Radio 1, touring my new show, Strapless, acting with The Gate Theatre and on BBC and Channel 4 television and now working with Irish musical comedy outfit The Nualas.
"One of my first acting jobs in Ireland was on Fair City in 2002 and my first singing gig was at Cork Jazz Festival. I've since shared the stage with artists as diverse as Dionne Warwicke to Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners, but I've a sneaking suspicion that things are really only just getting started…"
Snow Storms, School Days and a Stuffed Horse Called Charlie…
1) Whereabouts do you come in your family?
"I am the second to youngest out of five."
2) What is your earliest childhood memory?
"One of my earliest childhood memories is of building a snow fort in the big blizzard of '78. I remember the clean, soft smell of snow. The roads were impassable so we had to sled to the grocery store and get our 1 gallon of milk that was rationed to each family. The snow plows had built up a 5-6 foot mountain of snow at the end of our driveway, so we made a fort out of the snow drifts and pretended we were Arctic explorers."
3) Did you have a favourite toy as a young child?
"I loved my stuffed horse named Charlie."
4) What are your memories of your school days? Were you a good pupil?
"I wasn't fond of school and skipped out to be with the horses at our local stable more than once. I was a very shy. I got A's in music and English but D's in science and math. I loathed math."
5) Who was your best friend growing up?
"I was a total Tomboy growing up. My best friend as a kid was Skipper Arbuckle, a blonde Nordic wunderkind that lived next door. We got up to all kinds of mischief together and caught many a frog down at the streams around our neighborhood."
6) What was your favourite food/snack/drink as a child?
"I loved grape juice and peanut butter crackers."
7) Did you have any pets?
"Yes indeed: we had a dog, 3 cats, a squirrel, and a semi-tame racoon that hung out in our backyard."
8) What were your favourite games to play outside with friends?
"Tag or hide-and-seek. We also invented a game called 'Kill the Carrier', which involved trying to kill whoever was carrying the ball."
9) What did you want to be when you grew up?
"A veterinarian."
10) How do you think childhood now compares to childhood back then?
"We were a bit more innocent for slightly longer, I think. Back then, we would shoot off on our bikes in the morning and not return home til supper, go on all kinds of adventures, and no one worried about us. My mother was probably delighted to have us out of her hair for a few hours, to be honest. By the time I was 13, I was thinking that I knew it all and was so very worldly – I doubt that's changed very much!"
View The Nualas performing the hilarious Yummy Mummy Blues!
Did you grow up in the 1970s and do you agree with Maria that kids had more freedom back then?
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Bath time has become a lot of fun in our house lately. Why? Adelaide learned how to sit up this month, and she is no longer confined to an infant bather in the bathtub! That means the kids can have baths together, which they think is awesome - plus it uses half the water, and makes me smile because they're so adorable.
A lot of our squeeze bath toys recently met an untimely end when I discovered that they had grown mold inside (yuck). Until I have time to find a Pinterest-worthy solution to clean them, we don't have as many toys floating around in the water with the kids. This is convenient for me, too, since our master shower is broken and all four of us have bath supplies in this tub now.
So, what are the kids playing with in the bathtub? Right now, they unanimously agree that this set of Splish Splash Stackable Cups from Nuby is awesome.
There are tons of ways for a 2-year-old and a 7-month-old to put these cups to use. Here are a few ideas!
-Pour water on your baby sister's head.
-Steal from baby sister's grasp.
-Use them to give your bath toy truck a drink of water.
-Line them up in different orders on the edge of the tub (Mom, keep a towel nearby).
-Pour water on your sister's tummy.
-Wear them like a hat.
-Stack them inside each other, or in a big tower.
-Pour water from one into another.
-Scream when they are taken away from you.
-Beat them against the side of the bathtub.
-Wave them around in the air.
-Splash them in the water by your toes.
-Make puppy eyes at brother so that he will share.
I love the versatility of these cups and as always, feel safe with my kids using them since they are BPA free. They're great to use in a pinch to rinse someone off at bathtime (though we still love our Nuby Rinse Pail). Each cup has holes in the base so you can experiment with water in the bath, or in a water table. They can even be used as blocks in everyday play!
You can find the Nuby Splish Splash Bath Cups at many online and local retailers, including Buy Baby Direct, CookiesKids.com, Diapers.com, BabyEarth.com, Amazon, BuyBuy Baby, Tuesday Morning and Bealls. Make sure you follow along with Nuby on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram to keep up with all the latest products and promotions!
Love the suggestions!! Had to giggle at Addie's "chew on them" suggestions. What a fun tub toy!
The suggestions are great! I agree that these can be used for everyday play, not just bath time. My son carries his around the house. I keep finding them in random places, hahah!
I find them everywhere too!


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The Canadian Federal Government's Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit (PSTC) is primarily for foreign production and is 16% of Canadian labour costs.
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Groping Marlon Brando's Face: A Long-overdue Confession
In Private Viewing
by Sharon Rockey
I can't recall exactly what triggered the incident, but it started like this: I was leaning against a sofa in a dimly lit room . . . gazing down at the face of a sleeping Marlon Brando . . . unable to resist the urge to do the unthinkable.
Now, let me make one thing perfectly clear — none of what happened that night was my fault. I attribute my actions to all those years of exposure to high altitudes. If I had been dragged into court on assault charges, the judge would have simply brushed it off with, "What else can you expect when a small town starry-eyed Midwestern girl has to work all those long stretches between L.A. and New York at 35,000 feet and then finds herself facing a situation like this? Case dismissed!"
Innocence notwithstanding, perhaps I should explain how I ended up on Marlon Brando's sofa.
As a naive, fledgling drama queen working cross-country flights, I would occasionally create a blip on some high-flying showbiz exec's radar screen. I had no silly illusions about making it in "the business," but what adventurous twenty-something thrill-seeker could resist an opportunity to join an acting workshop at a major motion picture studio when it was offered to her?
One such offer got me past the gatekeeper at Paramount Studios. A couple dozen people were signed up for the workshop — a mix of small time actors, budding actors, wannabes, never gonnabes, and me. Joan, our acting coach had played a bit part in Brando's film, One-Eyed Jacks. As luck would have it, Brando just happened to be filming Mutiny on the Bounty on a nearby sound stage, so Joan promised to arrange a drop-in coaching session with the big man himself.
I dismissed the Brando drop-in thing as hype, a teaser to keep us coming back. I for one was hoping it was hype. I mean, what if Marlon Brando were to actually show up? Would I be expected to do something with him. . . like maybe speak in complete sentences? No, that would never happen. But to my shock, he did show up, — twice — once with dripping wet hair fresh from his role at sea as Fletcher Christian.
A few of the eager and more experienced classmates jumped at the opportunity to do little impromptu sketches while Brando directed. It was fascinating to watch, but I stayed safely out of sight in the back row where I could keep a low-profile and avoid making eye contact. There was a limit to the amount of personal drama I could digest.
After our second and last session with Marlon, he unexpectedly invited the whole class up to his home atop Mulholland Drive. I immediately searched for the nearest emergency exit but before I could escape, I got swept along in a dumbfounded daze — out to the studio parking lot and bundled into somebody's car. A minute later our small caravan was racing up the winding road.
Not much was registering in my brain. The crowded car, everyone talking at once, the head rush, my heart pounding, — everything was overlapping in and out of focus. Was I going to Marlon Brando's house? Me? No way! We reached the crest of the hill before I had even begun to process it all.
Brando was waiting to greet us near the end of the driveway. My reaction upon leaving the safety of the car must have been due to an inability to connect with reality, or maybe something was preventing me from bolting, whatever the reason, I started walking bow-legged in huge deliberate steps like a swaggering cowboy with some big score to settle.
If it was just an insane attempt to get Brando's attention, it worked. He looked at me quizzically and asked, "Where are you from?" My mind kicked into autopilot and I heard myself answer, "Illinois." He said, "Oh, yeah? I'm from the Midwest too. Nebraska. I've just never seen anybody from the Midwest walk quite . . . like . . . that."
Oh, sweet Jesus, help me quick!
We were ushered barefooted into a palatial Asian-style Hollywood showplace with highly-buffed dark teak floors, plush Oriental carpets and furnishings, and spectacular views.
Everyone congregated in the kitchen. The rest of the house was dark. Brando kept appearing, disappearing, reappearing. At one point, he perched himself on a tiled counter-top opposite me munching chocolate chip cookies from a bag, washing them down with diet strawberry soda. He said he was trying to watch his weight, but he looked fine to me in his T-shirt and jeans.
I was wearing a Bobby Brooks plaid wool skirt and matching vest left over from my home town back-to-school fall wardrobe sale — surely drab and conservative enough to set me apart even without the swagger.
Brando glanced over and said "What are you doing here? You don't look very acty." As if the mere fact that he had actually expected me to answer another question was not mortifying enough, had I also just been dealt a death blow to boot? He continued, "Every actor I know is in this business to try and compensate for something they think they don't have. You don't look like you are lacking anything."
Now, a normal woman with half a shred of brain would have recognized this as a compliment you can sink your claws into and run with. It was an invitation to engage in a meaningful dialog with one of the most enigmatic and famous screen icons on the planet. But alas, at that moment I was experiencing the full bountifulness of lack, particularly in the area of verbal communication skills. The most I could manage to squeak out was a dismal, semi-audible, "Oh, . . . . . really?"
No! Wait! Had I actually just heard myself say, "Oh, . . . . . really?" Apparently so, because in an abrupt scene shift, Brando disappeared again. Everyone else was still chatting in the kitchen when I quickly excused myself to seek refuge in the nearest powder room where I could lock the door and hide until it was time to leave. But as I passed through the dimly lit living room, I noticed him lying there . . . Marlon . . . stretched out on his sofa with eyes closed.
(Right about here is where my "questionable behavior due to high altitude exposure" excuse kicks in.)
I tip-toed over and leaned against the arm of the sofa. As I stared at him, I was stunned by the chilling realization that I was about to reach down with my finger and poke his face — just a quick light poke so as not to wake him. But my hand lightly brushed his temple, his forehead and down one cheek. I swear, that's all I meant to do. And then it hit me, "Wow, I am touching Marlon Brando's face!"
But was I? Really? Something about it didn't feel quite tangible enough. I wanted the full-blown experience of being there, to know I was actually feeling up this famous face. I guess I'd been too conditioned by the wide-screen illuminated version because here in the dark, lying on the sofa, it looked so . . . well, so small, almost insignificant. I just wasn't getting the satisfaction I was craving so I cranked things up with more of a "Get Marlon Brando's Face!" attitude. Like a blind man trying to describe an elephant, I began groping his face for something I could mentally hang on to and take away. Ah, yes, there . . . now I was starting to get it — and feeling dizzy with power.
He didn't move a muscle, not the slightest flicker of an eyelash. Just for the record, I've known men who can fall asleep waiting for their own other shoe to drop — men who could sleep through an invasion of armor-clad Vikings clashing their way to victory at the foot of the bed. But there was no way this particular man could have slept through my groping, my probing, my frenzied exploration of each and every feature of his face. No matter how tired he may have been from a day of prop sea-water drenching on the Bounty set, this inscrutable actor had to have been on full alert — wide awake behind those closed eye-lids, taking it all in, wondering silently, "What the hell is this bow-legged woman from the Midwest trying to do?"
As the shock of that realization hit me, a strange hush settled over the kitchen. I looked up to see everyone huddled in the doorway watching me with expressions of amusement and disbelief.
This could have gone on record as my most humiliating and darkest hour had it not turned out to be an opportunity for my finest performance — my chance to prove I could be as "acty" as the best of them. I stood up, regained my composure, and with an air of utter confidence, I breezed past them with a sweet and compassionate smile and whispered, "It's OK, he's sleeping now," jarring those smirks of amusement right off their wannabee-actor faces.
We all departed a few minutes later leaving our host still stretched out on the sofa. Not a word of the face orgy was mentioned on the trip back down the hill. Fortunately, the workshop was over and I would never have to see any of these witnesses to my madness again.
I never saw Marlon again either, but Marlon, wherever you are, thanks for the bizarre and twisted memory, thanks for the compliment, and thanks for . . . well . . . I guess the rest goes without saying.
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The BlackBerry Passport is coming to Australia, local pricing revealed
BlackBerry has confirmed its recently announced Passport device will receive an Australian release, with the Android app compatible device set to carry a local price tag of $899 outright.
While the new device has been available for pre-order for selected corporate and enterprise customers since October 1, it is now available to be ordered through any Optus store nationally.
Officially launched in late September, the device has garnered attention due to its 4.5-inch square screen and a full physical keyboard underneath. The device is powered by BlackBerry 10.3, and runs Android apps from the Amazon app store.
News of the local release comes as Canada's Globe and Mail reports BlackBerry chief executive John Chen told an MIT Enterprise Forum event Friday in Hong Kong demand for the phone has exceeded the company's expectations.
"I'm glad to have inventory issues. It shows that people want the phone. We took a very conservative approach and didn't order too many," Chen said.


Paul Farmer is a U.S. anthropologist and physician, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University, and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In May 2009 he was named chairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. His medical specialty is infectious diseases. Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health, an international health and social justice organization.


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The Equisapien Encounter – Reading Enrique Dussel In Boots Riley's "Sorry to Bother You" (Conor Ramón Rasmusen)
The following is republished from The New Polis, January 30, 2019. When Boots Riley's film Sorry To Bother You burst into U.S. theatres this past July, reviewers exclaimed that it was "going off the rails" and "crazy" but was absolutely adored by its viewers. While Riley's film is both deeply conceptual and simultaneously materially critical of…
Gender And Sexuality In The Animated Films Of Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki, Part 3 (Hiroko Miyashita)
The following is the third of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here, the second one here. Storylines and Narrative Forms of Disney and Miyazaki Finally, I examine the three animated films from the perspective of narratology. When watching these three animated films, it is simple to…
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here. In general, as Laura Mulvey argues, female characters in past, traditional stories were portrayed as quiet and weak. At that time, women were not considered as important as men in society, therefore the stories…
The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Hayao Miyazaki and Walt Disney are the two best-known and world famous directors in the history of animated film. Despite Miyazaki and Disney's differences in style, themes, and approach when making animated films, both are extremely popular both in the…
Baz's Bronx – Get Down Or Let Down? (Lachlan MacDowall)
On August 12 Netflix screened the latest project by Australian film director Baz Luhrmann. The Get Down is a twelve-part television series set in the Bronx in the 1970s that chronicles the birth of disco, punk and particularly hip-hop, through the lives of four teenagers. In one sense, the broad story of hip-hop…


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How Amazon's Cloud Infrastructure for VMware Could Find More Uses
Barb Darrow
AWS re:Invent 2016Barb Darrow for Fortune
One surprising thing about what Amazon Web Services has done to run VMware's popular virtualization software in its own cloud data centers is just how…un-cloud-like it seems.
Amazon is assembling masses of "bare metal" computers, which unlike the rest of the AWS servers, come with no virtualization. That's because VMware's software is built using its own flavor of virtualization and that, in turn, meant AWS had to offer VMware a phalanx of servers stripped of the Xen virtualization which runs the rest of Amazon's computers, known collectively as Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2.
As AWS head of product Matt Wood explained it to Fortune in November:
We partnered with VMware to bring their existing software stack over to EC2. Customers told us they wanted the benefits of AWS and all the benefits of VMware, but didn't want to run our hypervisor so we worked on a new part of EC2 that allows VMware to run natively on EC2.
Think of VMware as offering a peanut butter and jelly sandwich using its customers' bread. Now the customer wants to use Amazon's bread, except that the only bread Amazon offers comes with the peanut butter built in. Continuing this analogy, Amazon has agreed to strip the peanut butter from many loaves so VMware can craft sandwiches using its own special PB&J formulation on Amazon's bread.
In theory, that means all those big business customers—and there are many—that use VMware (VMW) to run their own data centers can more easily forklift their workloads over to AWS data centers using the upcoming product known as VMware Cloud on AWS. That's an attractive proposition for companies that just want to keep running their virtualized applications as is, instead of re-jiggering them to run on Amazon's infrastructure.
Virtualization, which lets one set of hardware run more than one set of tasks, is a key linchpin of cloud computing, which is why bare metal is seen as sort of uncloudy.
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When this bare metal work was announced in October, it was painted as a VMware-only option. But there are potentially other big uses for those Xen-free AWS servers. Bare metal, for example, tends to be faster than virtualized hardware for applications like databases that send a lot of data in and out of disk storage.
"There's also a growing trend to put containers on bare metal to save on virtualization licensing costs and overhead, but that's usually for private cloud," says Sebastian Stadil, chief executive of Scalr, a cloud management company. Containers are a modern way developers package up software applications that can run almost anywhere.
Bare metal is also useful for older, but still important applications that can't be virtualized for various reasons, he notes. Clearly, others have seen opportunity. IBM (IBM) and Rackspace offer bare metal along with other more heavily-virtualized cloud options.
When asked in November if AWS had other potential uses for these bare metal servers, Wood replied there was "nothing to announce at this time."
Opinion is mixed among AWS watchers if the company will parlay this bare metal capability beyond VMware or simply use it as a way to attract VMware customers to Amazon data centers and then—as some suspect—try to move them completely to Amazon (minus VMware).
"It would be reasonable to assume that, once those workloads reach AWS, there is value in beginning to rearchitect some (maybe even all, one day) of them to run natively on AWS' own infrastructure, without the overhead of a VMware license," says Paul Miller, a senior analyst with Forrester Research.
Sateesh Narahari, vice president of products for Managed Methods, a cloud security company, also views those VMware bare metal instances "as a transitional state to going full cloud."
It's possible that not even AWS execs know yet what will happen. The cloud giant is nothing if not pragmatic. If Amazon (AMZN) sees opportunity once VMware Cloud on AWS materializes in the middle of 2017, it will capitalize on it.
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"If AWS can make the economics and infrastructure management work—and they tend to be good at that—it does seem plausible that we'll see a generic AWS bare metal offering sooner rather than later," says Forrester's Miller.


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ATBs Take Over
Articulated Tug/Barge (ATB) sets now dominate
the coastwise refined products trade and are being designed and built on all four coast lines to handle liquid as well as dry bulk and unitized commodities. Looking back, it's hard to believe that the ATB concept was still under scrutiny just two decades ago when their building costs compared to a conventional tanker were still being questioned as was their ability to safely handle product along the open Pacific coastline.
Historically, the ATB is an offshoot of the earlier ITB, or Integrated Tug/Barge, which has seen limited use in both the chemical and dry bulk trades. Although the idea of mating a tug and barge so that the latter could be pushed rather than pulled was developed as far back as the 1880s the first true ITB seems to have been a little vessel called Carport that first saw light of day in the early 1950s when the vessel was introduced to service on the Great Lakes and along the New York canal system.
Although tugs were pushing barges with notched hulls by this time the introduction of Carport saw the tug locked firmly into the stern of the barge to achieve a faster running speed. The idea worked, with Carport able to move at a faster clip than towed barges on the Lakes, but its speed advantage was lost on the New York canal system and the idea was dropped, although Carport itself survived in other trades for another four decades.
ITB Concept Reborn
As US labor costs in the coastal trades increased during the 1960s, and towed barges continued to suffer substantial delays during heavy weather, particularly in the petroleum sector, the idea of a tug pushing rather than pulling a barge was examined again. Even though very large oil barges of up to 250,000 bbls capacity were being built and put into service, the hydrodynamic disadvantages of towing them was becoming highly evident. This brought a return of the ITB concept where a barge would be pushed rather than pulled to enhance both speed and maneuverability.
Because of the lower manning requirement for a tug, ITB owners could also expect a substantial reduction in operating costs. However, the tug designed to act as the open-ocean pusher looked very little like its kin. Some pushers made use of a catamaran hull, with inner hull contours that accepted a tongue from the barge, while others were monohulls that had indentations on each side to accept forks from the barge. In each case, the idea was to physically lock the two units together securely enough for a safe open-ocean passage.
Most were successful but not all shipowners were willing to gamble on the technology. For one thing, it was often difficult to separate the ITB tug from its barge, such as when drydocking was required, and, once separated, the tug often proved it was not designed to operate independently, at least not on the open ocean.
ITB Problems
One of the more prominent losses of an ITB while on open ocean transit was that of Oxy Producer, a catamaran-hulled tug mated to the barge Oxy 4102, both owned by the Occidental Petroleum Corporation. This vessel, one of three similar ITBs owned by Occidental, was being used to move super phosphoric acid from the US to the Soviet Union via the Mediterranean and Black Seas. In September 1981, on its second trans-Atlantic trip, Oxy Producer ran into rough weather off the Azores, which caused substantial movement between itself and the barge. Ultimately, the movement opened up holes in the twin hulls of the tug, which then became disconnected from the barge and sank, fortunately without loss of life.
In a less traumatic case, a similar catamaran-hulled ITB tug could not be delivered to its barge because it rolled and pitched too much, requiring that that barge be brought to it, and the two connected before it could be deemed sufficiently seaworthy enough to set off.
Other ITB tugs experienced difficulty disconnecting from their barges because long-unused and seized connecting devices made separation nearly impossible. For these and other reasons, including the fact that the US Coast Guard began to view the ITB tugs as "separable engine rooms" rather than tugboats, ITB units began to fall out of favor, although they are still being considered for some applications, including Gulf of Mexico oil shuttle work.
Development of ATBs
Steadily taking the place of the unwieldy ITBs have been the ATBs, which were introduced in the 1970s when modern coupling systems were developed to flexibly mate a tug to its barge. One of the first of these systems was ARTUBAR, developed by Florida-based naval architect Edwin Fletcher. ARTUBAR was the first "axial'" connecting system in which the tug rolled and heaved with the barge but pitched independently. It made use of large diameter pins, which were extended hydraulically from the tug's hull into holes located in the notch of the barge. These holes were positioned approximately 7 feet apart vertically, at the loaded and ballast draft lines of the barge.
Although first tried in Japan, where the use of notched barges had gained in popularity on the Inland Sea, the first ARTUBAR system was not successful for several reasons, including the fact that the vessels had to be ballasted properly to get the pins and holes to line up. The system also left a gap between the hull of the tug and the barge notch, which had to be filled with pads to prevent excessive wear and noise. The system, although pointing the way for most other ATB connectors, has not been used on a wide scale.
Coupling System Development
After studying the basic principals of ARTUBAR, a Japanese naval architect, Takeo Yamaguchi of Taisei Engineering, developed a new system called ARTICOUPLE that solved some of the earlier problems of ARTUBAR. Yamaguchi's system used the same hydraulically extended pins as ARTUBAR but at the end of each pin was a helmet with teeth. As the tug and barge connected, these teeth came hard against a vertical row of similar teeth attached to the notched walls of the barge. This arrangement allowed the tug and barge to be connected at virtually any draft and also dampened the side-to-side motion that had been experienced with ARTUBAR.
A major drawback of the original ARTICOUPLE system was that hydraulics were relied on to hold the tug in position in the center of the barge notch. Large side forces out at sea could put a tremendous load on check valves holding the rams out, and failure of a hydraulic hose could lead to an unwanted disconnection.
In addition, the total hydraulic system, including accumulators and hold piping, was complicated and somewhat difficult to maintain. Nevertheless, Taisei Engineering has sold more than 200 ATB coupler units worldwide since first equipping the 4,600-horsepower Japanese tugs Hachiko-maru and No.2 Hachiko-maru with ARTICOUPLE in the 1970s. These tugs were employed to push 8,950-dwt barges fitted with handling gear that carried logs from Siberia to Japan in the summer and from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to Japan in the winter.
Bludworth System
At around the same time as the ARTUBAL and ARTICOUPLE systems were being developed, Richard and Robert Bludworth were developing their Bludworth ATB system. This differed from the other two systems in that it used a clamp or caliper fitted to the stem of the tug, which attached to a vertical bar located at the head of the barge notch. Once gripped to the bar, the caliper became the pitching point for the tug. To take up space between the tug and barge notch two pads were mounted on the tug's hull at about midships position which were moveable. As the tug entered the barge notch the pads were retracted. Once the tug's bow clamp was engaged the pads were extended to fill the notch. This configuration allowed the tug to pitch about the bow clamp while the pads limited roll and sideways movement.
The Bludworth system began to be widely employed in the Gulf of Mexico during the latter half of the 1970s, particularly for the movement of oil barges. However, some operational flexibility is lost with this system because the tug cannot perform ordinary pushing work with the caliper attached to its stem while the bar at the head of the barge notch precludes non-caliper fitted tugs from easily moving it. In addition, the system requires a longer barge notch than the other systems, which adds to barge construction costs and decreases carrying capacity. Nevertheless, the Bludworth design remains among the most-applied ATB systems and is one of the easier coupling systems to retrofit to older equipment.
In the mid-1980's naval architect Robert Hill began working with Intercontinental Engineering-Manufacturing Corporation on yet another ATB coupling system: INTERCON. This system incorporated ARTICOUPLE's unlimited draft connection capability but eliminated the hydraulic ram as a means of extension, replacing it instead with a mechanical screw drive that wouldn't fail in case of a hydraulic hose rupture. The first ATB to use this system was Sonat Marine's tug Intrepid coupled to the barge Ocean 250. Since then many INTERCON devices have been sold while several other coupling systems have been introduced, including Finland's pneumatically actuated JAK pin system. At the same time, the older ARTICOUPLE and Bludworth systems have been modified and improved.
All of these couplers provide some sort of hinged connection which allows the tug to pitch independently of the barge yet are strong enough for open-ocean transit. Other simpler systems have been developed for sheltered water use and most ATB barges can be pushed in calm waters by any tug capable of handling it using stay and backing wires.
ATBs Take Off
The Oil Spill Act of 1990 (OPA 90) that followed the Exxon Valdez incident off Alaska in 1989 opened the door to ATB development as operators were forced to look at new equipment. By this time ATBs had proven themselves on most fronts as being equal to, if not better than, a traditional tanker in both construction cost and manning when overall speed was not a factor.
The North Pacific remained a question mark, but Crowley Maritime was sure the ATB could handle the job and began replacing its older coastal tankers with the tug/barge combinations shortly after the turn of the century and now operates one of the largest ATB fleets in the world. Some of these units feature 16,320-horsepower tugs pushing tank barges capable of carrying up to 330,000 barrels of petroleum, equal to the capacity of a modern coastal tanker.
As an indication of how quickly the ATB progressed in the US flag fleet once OPA 90 was enacted, 56 single-hull tank barges of more than 5,000 gt, with a total capacity of about 0.9 million dwt, were replaced by 106 new double-hull tank barges with a total capacity of about 1.7 million dwt by 2010 with almost all of the barges functioning as part of an ATB unit. At the same time 62 single-hull product tankers with a total capacity of about 2.5 million dwt were replaced by only 17 new double-hull tankers with a total capacity of 0.8 million dwt. Today there are more than 130 tank-type ATBs in service with a combined capacity of more than 15 million barrels and the ATB fleet is continuing to grow.
Newest ATB Construction
The latest additions to the ATB fleet will include a set of two 141-foot by 46-foot push tugs designed by Seattle's Guido Perla & Associates and being built by BAE Systems for SEA-Vista, which is also having a number of traditional product tankers built. The 12,000-horsepower ATB tugs will be the first of their type in North America to incorporate twin independently controlled and operated hydro-dynamic Van der Velden Barke rudders, which can be actuated either independently or synchronized. This is expected to give the two vessels enhanced maneuverability and excellent course keeping stability.
In the Great Lakes, Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin has delivered the 5,300 horsepower tug Barbara Carol Ann Moran and the 468-foot by 78-foot tank barge Louisiana to Moran Towing Corporation for operation along the Atlantic Coast and into the Gulf of Mexico. The delivery follows Bay Shipbuilding's earlier completion of an ATB set consisting of the tug Leigh Ann Moran and tank barge Mississippi for Moran and precedes a recently placed order for a 185,000-barrel capacity ATB barge and 8,000-horsepower tug to be delivered by late 2017, an order that also contains an option for a further ATB unit.
On the Gulf Coast, VT Halter Marine's yard at Pascagoula, Mississippi has delivered the 130-foot by 38-foot ATB tug Frederick E. Bouchard to Bouchard Transportation for operation in the Atlantic coastwise trades. The vessel, equipped with an Intercon coupler system, is powered by two EMD 12-710G7C-T3 engines producing 3,000 hp at 900 rpm each and driving twin screws to give a running speed of 14 knots and a bollard pull of more than 83 tons. Its delivery follows that of sister tug Morton S. Bouchard Jr, which was handed over earlier this year.
Many of the early ITB tank units have gone for scrap and when they do they go as a unit, as shown by the beached SMT Two, ex-Chemical Explorer, which has its "separable engineroom" still attached. Photo courtesy of Colton Co.
On the west coast, Vigor's Seattle yard has delivered the 95-foot by 38-foot, 3,000-horsepower twin-screw tug Dale R Lindsey to Harley Marine Services for operation in Alaska where it has been paired with the 20,000 barrel capacity oil barge Petro Mariner using an Articouple coupler system. Harley has also taken delivery of three 83,000-bbl ATB tank barges from the Vigor yard at Portland, Oregon and has recently ordered two Entech-designed ATB tugs from the Conrad yard at Morgan City, Louisiana, a yard that had earlier completed the ATB tugs Emery Zidell, Jake Shearer, and Barry Silverton to Harley.
The latest tugs from Conrad will be paired with two 82,000-bbl, 430-foot-long oceangoing tank barges to be built by the Gunderson yard at Portland. Gunderson previously delivered two 185,000-barrel capacity ATB barges to Kirby Offshore Marine which have since been paired with the 10,000-horsepower tugs Nancy Peterkin and Tina Pyne, both completed by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders on Whidbey Island.


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Today, David is studying bioengineering at the International University of Catalonia so that he can continue to help others.
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Talk: Breaking down barriers
David was born with Poland Syndrome, a congenital disease that prevented his forearm and right pectoral muscle from developing. At age 9, he created his first prosthesis using LEGO bricks to replace his right forearm. David continued to experiment and optimize his "product" and is now the internationally recognized creator of the MK range of prosthetic arms and the face of LEGO's global #RebuildTheWorld campaign.
An advocate for inclusion and innovation, David helps and inspires millions of people. His vision is a world where the stigma of disability is no more. But instead, total inclusion and acceptance of the simple fact of being different.message.
David will share his story and his future ambitions at the conference.
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