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Pictures of the Jazz Age
Regina Marler
A glittering roster sat for portraits by Berenice Abbott, including Jean Cocteau, Djuna Barnes, and André Gide
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
by Julia Van Haaften
Norton, 634 pp., $45.00
Paris Portraits: 1925–1930
by Berenice Abbott, edited by Ron Kurtz and Hank O'Neal
Steidl/Commerce Graphics, 368 pp., $70.00
The Unknown Berenice Abbott
edited by Ron Kurtz and Hank O'Neal
Steidl/Commerce Graphics, five volumes, 1,231 pp., $350.00
Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
Berenice Abbott at her studio on the rue Servandoni, Paris, 1928
The celebrated photographer Berenice Abbott, who began her career as Man Ray's darkroom assistant in Paris from 1923 to 1926 and shot her first portraits on his studio balcony, does not appear in his four-hundred-page autobiography, Self-Portrait (1963). This omission was "rather dirty," Abbott felt, even "bitchy," and seemed to show that Man Ray was still miffed at her early success, as Julia Van Haaften recounts in her comprehensive new biography, Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography. Abbott and Man Ray had been good friends for years, meeting soon after her arrival in New York from Ohio as a journalism student in 1918; they were so close in New York, in fact, that Man Ray had asked if she would do him the favor of being named as co-respondent in his divorce case.
She had starved in New York and was starving in Paris when Man Ray hired her for his darkroom. It was Abbott's idea. He had complained about his latest "know-it-all" studio assistant, and Abbott jumped in: "What about me? I don't know a thing." Her rapid learning surprised them both. "I liked photography. Photography liked me," she recalled. Eventually Man Ray suggested that she take some portraits with his camera during lunch and after work. "It was his way of giving her a raise at no cost to him," writes Van Haaften. Abbott always insisted that Man Ray "had never shown her how to take a picture: 'Never once. Not with lighting or anything else. In fact, I didn't want him to show me. Somehow, this was a new adventure…something I was doing.'"
Starting with her friends, a glittering roster of Jazz Age Paris sat for Abbott, including Sylvia Beach, Jean Cocteau, Djuna Barnes and her lover Thelma Wood (Abbott's ex), André Gide, Buddy Gilmore, Max Ernst, Marie Laurencin, and Janet Flanner. Abbott agreed to charge the same amount as her employer and to reimburse him for supplies. Their arrangement went smoothly until Peggy Guggenheim asked that Abbott, rather than Man Ray, take her portrait. And thus a star was born—or at least forced to set up shop independently in a different part of Montparnasse.
It must have vexed her former employer that another of Abbott's early portrait commissions was James Joyce, in his post-surgical eyepatch, a sitting at his apartment that he would further immortalize in Finnegans Wake: "Talk about lowness! Any dog's quantity of it visibly oozed out thickly from this dirty little blacking beetle for the very fourth snap the Tulloch-Turnbull girl with coldblood kodak shotted the as yet unremunderanded national apostate, who was cowardly gun and camera shy." Joyce had earlier sat for Man Ray—a publicity shot for the 1922 publication of Ulysses, commissioned by Sylvia Beach. One looks in vain for signs of Man Ray's influence on Abbott's work. Her portraits of Joyce (from two different sessions) seem to convey more of the writer's personality than Man Ray's grainy, tightly cropped profile and three-quarter-view shots—perhaps an effect of the natural light she used or her greater depth of field. The classical composition of her best-known image of Joyce (with the hat) from the second sitting also displays his beautiful, long hands, a revelation.
In other instances when Abbott and Man Ray photographed the same subject, such as their portraits of the dancer and choreographer Helen Tamiris, the differences are just as pronounced as one would expect: Man Ray's portrait is eye-catching and stylized, with the sitter's hair whirled into a black meringue above her head, while Abbott's is understated. Instead of confronting the camera, Tamiris leans in from the side of the frame and looks back over her shoulder.
Soon, Janet Flanner began to promote Abbott's photography in her "Letter from Paris" column in The New Yorker, and Abbott's first exhibition—at a Left Bank gallery, Au Sacre du Printemps, in June 1926—was enthusiastically reviewed. The Herald described her as Man Ray's pupil, then declared that she was now "his serious rival." Abbott told the Herald's reporter that women, "because of their native intuition and ability to give attention to details, make especially good portrait photographers."
Although frequently exhibited, Abbot's Paris portraits have only recently been brought together, in a handsome clothbound volume, Paris Portraits: 1925–1930. The collection is edited by Ron Kurtz, who purchased Abbott's archive in 1985 and opened a licensing agency for her images called Commerce Graphics (which co-publishes Paris Portraits); and by the music producer Hank O'Neal, her friend and former assistant. Julia Van Haaften helped assemble biographical notes. A few New York portraits, such as that of the Harlem entrepreneur and arts patron A'Lelia Walker, have also been included. The novelty of this volume is that each photograph is first shown with Abbott's original crop and then full-frame, printed from the original glass plate negatives, now held by the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. "I never tried to take portraits that would use the entire negative," Abbott explained. "I was more interested in spontaneity and expression and I didn't want to fool around too much with mechanics that might make a sitter uneasy or bored."
Paris Portraits is part of an impressive series of Steidl volumes on Abbott (co-published with Commerce Graphics), all with introductions by Kurtz and essays by O'Neal that are full of new information and personal memories. Anyone interested in twentieth-century photography or fine art publishing will want to see, touch, and smell these books. They include images from each of Abbott's four innovative bodies of work: her portraiture; her classic book of urban photography, Changing New York; her science pictures; and her documentary photographs on the road across America. Volume three of the five-volume collection The Unknown Berenice Abbott—the book of her logging photographs from 1943 and 1967, Deep Woods—proves unexpectedly moving, the immense trees (standing or fallen) presenting the same formal challenges as the influential pictures she took of New York streets and skyscrapers, interspersed with her typically direct images of working men.
Abbott worked quickly as a portraitist. For her photo of the dashingly butch Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson's partner and the co-editor of The Little Review, Abbott captured what she needed in two exposures, but pretended to take more to put her sitter at ease. Nor would she schedule more than one sitter a day: "Five or six exposures, [it's] exhausting to take a portrait of somebody you have to sort of turn yourself inside out to get through to. You can't just snap one after another, you'd be doing it mechanically." This sounds like the confession of an introvert, something to keep in mind when reading contemporaries' accounts of Abbott as "odd, very odd," with a "slow way" and an "attitude."
Abbott's empathy for her sitters may have resulted from her own modeling experiences. Unlike most of the male artists in her circle, Abbott knew the lens side of the camera fairly well. Perennially hard up for cash, she had modeled (clothed) for life drawing classes in Ohio, and eventually modeled both draped and nude in New York. Around 1920, she posed for a moody, graceless nude taken by Man Ray titled Nue sur un lit. Van Haaften mentions the session but does not discuss or reproduce this particular image, now part of the Man Ray archive at the Pompidou. Man Ray does not seem to have printed it at the time, and one can see why. Some awkwardness, some resistance on Abbott's part undermines his typical panache here. Nue sur un lit seems to shrug off the traditional, gendered subject/object dichotomy that he exploited so fully in his work: woman as plaything, as object of desire, as a collection of fascinating parts. Van Haaften describes Abbott as "elfin but somber" in this series. I would add "androgynous," a quality Man Ray did not generally seek out in his female models, despite the occasional short-haired muse.
With her prominent blue eyes and characteristic forward-swept pixie cut, Abbott was normally photogenic—even, in some early images, mesmerizing. Man Ray won ten dollars for a portrait of her (Portrait of a Sculptor) that he'd entered in 1921 into the annual photography competition sponsored by Wanamaker's department store. There is no practical reason why the young Abbott, poor and artistically directionless, could not have become a fine model. Since abandoning her journalism program at Ohio State and arriving in New York, she had been drawn into the center of the Greenwich Village art community—her first room, on MacDougal Street, was next door to the Provincetown Players—but could not get her footings financially or artistically. Was she a journalist? An actress? A sculptor?
Though she drank with the Millay sisters (and with nearly everyone else), shared an apartment at 86 Greenwich Avenue with Malcolm Cowley, Djuna Barnes, and others, and stumbled into a half-hearted dalliance with Kenneth Burke, Abbott's closest friend and roommate in the Village was the legendary Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who also modeled for quick money. A Dadaist poet and performance artist, the baroness has been recently revived as the possible originator of the idea to submit a urinal entitled Fountain by Marcel Duchamp to the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. Some of Abbott's other modeling photos survive; they are unremarkable, and in a different category from the baroness's playful, loopy extravagances for artists like Duchamp and Man Ray. A 1920 nude of the baroness—again by Man Ray—looks like an early movie still from an art world melodrama, all chiaroschuro and pantomimed dread.1
Berenice Abbott/Commerce Graphics/Getty Images; Museum of Modern Art/Scala/Art Resource
James Joyce, Paris, 1926; photograph by Berenice Abbott
In her remarks to Hank O'Neil about the two exposures she made of Solita Solano, Janet Flanner's great love of sixty years, Abbott maintained her conventional concealment of same-sex relationships, referring to the sitter as "a good friend of Flanner's." The biographical notes in Paris Portraits correct these evasions, though with some lapses: the bookseller Adrienne Monnier is described as "a close friend of Sylvia Beach," coy wording for a decades-long romance. More significantly, there is no mention of Abbott's love affair with Princess Eugène (Violette) Murat, who broke her heart in France in 1930 and may have made it easier, as a result, for her to dismantle her Paris portrait studio and return to America, where her next great work awaited her. (After a holiday fling in New York, Murat had paid Abbott's passage back to France so that Abbott could set up a transcontinental photographic enterprise but then "dumped" her and withdrew financial support.) Abbott did not make this loss explicit in her comment on the portrait she made of Murat:
This is a strong woman; a strong portrait taken in New York in 1930. I had met her briefly in Paris, she was the granddaughter of Napoleon III, but I got to know her better in New York. She was responsible for introducing me to Harlem and the dancing at the Savoy. She was simply smoking a cigarette when I took this; there was another negative but it has been lost. I should have taken more of her. She was a good subject and I don't know why I didn't, except that I rarely went back to photograph the same people again.
Among the French artists Abbott discovered in Paris, she developed a special regard for the street photographer Eugène Atget. Man Ray shared her interest, although it was Abbott who convinced Atget to pose for her in the spring of 1927. His sudden death that August shocked her. She wrote at once to his executor to see if his studio contents had been preserved. Not long after, she borrowed 10,000 francs (about $10,000 at the time) from her then girlfriend, Julie Reiner, to buy the entire archive. Although motivated by a "near-daughterly attachment to Atget," as Van Haaften writes, Abbott also assumed she could turn a quick profit by selling his prints in America. Instead, she saddled herself with the Atget archive for decades, tirelessly hawking his original prints and reprints, supervising his exhibitions, and pursuing one failed project after another. Her association with him often overshadowed her own creative work and reputation, particularly in light of her documentary focus on New York City in the 1930s.
A 1929 trip back to New York upended her career in Paris: "When I saw New York again, and stood in the dirty slush, I felt that here was the thing I had been wanting to do all my life." In the midst of an economic boom, the city was transforming itself. Abbott began a photographic exploration of New York—first at random, then systematically—with an increasing sense of urgency. Sometimes she would identify an old building of interest, only to find it razed when she returned with her camera. Her initial sharply angled, modernist shots gave way to a straightforward, realist documentary style as she upgraded to a larger-format 8×10- inch view camera that "allowed her to correct distortions of perspective." At this time, Abbott's aesthetic shifted away from the more consciously "artistic" architectural photography of her peers, such as Margaret Bourke-White, whom she knew slightly. Abbott's clean lines and her responsiveness to the city's dynamism later attracted the influential critic Hilton Kramer: "Many of Miss Abbott's finest pictures of old New York derive from this perspective of an impending and impersonal change threatening to sweep everything before it."
"Trading her smaller cameras' speed and flexibility for the large format's greater detail and control had forced a change in shy Berenice's street photography practice, from nimble anonymity to awkward conspicuousness," Van Haaften notes.
The whole procedure—erecting the tripod, deploying the camera, assembling plates for exposures, ducking her head in and out from under the huge black focusing drape—could not help but attract passersby. The first time she tried, she packed up and left. "But I knew I had to do it and I made myself come back."
With this larger camera, Abbott captured some of her most acclaimed images, like New York at Night (1932) and her dizzying view from above of the fifty-six-story Chanin Building (circa 1929). To nail this shot, Abbott had the building guard hold on to her while she leaned perilously out the window with her camera. When Douglas Levere set out to rephotograph Abbott's New York images at the end of the century (published as New York Changing in 2005), he found it impossible to recreate Henry Street (1935), even though he was using the same type and brand of view camera, and standing in the same place she had set her tripod. Eventually he realized that Abbott had removed part of the lens assembly and customized her equipment to get the desired perspective.
One benefit of Van Haaften's exhaustive detail in her book is that it reminds us how many rejections even the most successful and well-connected artists face. No one would pay Abbott to complete the New York project. She privately funded her work for five years during the Depression until she finally gained support from the Federal Art Project (WPA) in 1935. The project was published as Changing New York in 1939 and has never been out of print.
Van Haaften, founding curator of photography at the New York Public Library, knew Abbott well, and is able to supplement the already rich historical record with her own conversations with the artist. She seems to have a soft spot for Abbott's elegant science photography and her photographic inventions, like the amusing "Abbott Distorter" and her camera lumina, "Super-Sight," with which she captured very close, detailed images, like Fish Head (1944). In 1939, Abbott argued that science needed photography by skilled artists: "It needs the vivification of the visual image, the warm human quality of imagination added to its austere and stern disciplines." She became photographic editor of Science Illustrated in 1944; she was also teaching at the New School and elsewhere, trying to make ends meet. Fourteen years later, she landed her dream job at the Physical Science Study Committee at MIT, tasked with explaining scientific concepts through photographs. Her ingenious images like Light Through a Prism (circa 1958) and A Bouncing Ball in Diminishing Arcs (1958) fascinated a generation of American students when they appeared in a 1960 physics textbook published by Heath.
"I was a rebel," said Abbott in old age. This rebellion could take subtle forms—not only her artistic independence and nonconformity, but a prickly manner, an argumentative streak, and a distaste for "cliques," which meant that she held herself aloof from some friends and colleagues who might have benefited her. Some of this Abbott blamed on coming from a broken family. When her parents separated, they divided the children between them. Her mother and scattered siblings so neglected her that she washed up on the shores of bohemia almost as an orphan. She could be petty. She could also be exceptionally kind, as when she offered her own assistant Hank O'Neal to the elderly, reclusive Djuna Barnes, the Trevi Fountain of verbal abuse. (This gesture was kind only to Barnes, I should clarify. O'Neal's tragicomic memoir of his three years trying to help Barnes is a jaw-dropping coda to mythologizing accounts of lesbian frolics in Paris between the wars.2)
Abbott is sometimes described as openly lesbian—probably due to her unconcealed affairs among the lesbian demimonde in Paris—but as Van Haaften accurately observes, she was semicloseted for the rest of her life. Abbott insisted that scholars skip all but the sparest biographical account in their books about her, including O'Neal's 1982 monograph and Julia Van Haaften's 1988 volume for the Aperture Masters of Photography series (which was redesigned and expanded in 2015). She never spoke publically about her sexuality, and while proudly feminist, showed no interest in the emerging gay rights movement. She had been slow to accept her own feelings for women, or any sexual feelings at all, and had battled with internalized homophobia before coming to terms with her sexual identity in the arms of Thelma Wood, Tylia Perlmutter, and other women. (Perlmutter once pretended to caution a young friend against lesbians, urging her to "avoid being alone in a car with one: '[I]f she gets her leg onto your lap, you're done for.'")3
When Abbott left the relative freedoms of Paris for 1930s New York, she adopted the habitual secrecy of lesbians of her generation who hoped for professional or social acceptance, or to stay out of jail.4 In her wild Parisian youth, Abbott was in fact carted off with Gwen La Gallienne in a police raid on a gay-friendly dance hall, but she more often attracted police attention for public drunkenness. When she did form a lasting partnership with the art critic Elizabeth McCausland, they enjoyed an active but discreet gay social life in their across-the-hall studio apartments at 50 Commerce Street. McCausland served as Abbott's secretary, collaborator, sparring partner, and booster for thirty years until her death in 1965, yet Abbott was not mentioned in her obituary.
Abbott moved to Monson, Maine, full-time after her companion's death, becoming the village eccentric: drinking beer while she drove, dancing in redneck bars, and installing bidets ("the wonder of the county") in some log cottages she had built on Lake Hebron. She lived long enough to successfully sell both Atget's archive and her own, and to watch her reputation skyrocket. Finally, she was financially stable, and if there were no loves to replace McCausland, there was a steady stream of young assistants, journalists, aspiring photographers, and film crews eager to hear her story. "Time, place, and circumstance," she told one interviewer: "They are like three balls that you toss in the air, and they control your life."
Notes from the Inside
More by Regina Marler
Carson McCullers: A Connoisseur of Yearning
Al & Georgia & Beck & Paul
Two recent books examine the lives of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe and their astonishingly productive marriage.
Shock Artistry
Donovan Reynolds
Abbott's Absence
Regina Marler is the author of Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom. She edited Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America on to Sex and Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell. (July 2020)
This image can be seen on the cover of the baroness's collection, Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (MIT Press, 2011), edited by her biographer, Irene Gammel, and Suzanne Zelazo. Djuna Barnes had been the baroness's friend and literary executor, and instrumental in preserving her legacy. ↩
Hank O'Neal, 'Life Is Painful, Nasty & Short…': Djuna Barnes, 1978–1981: An Informal Memoir (Paragon House, 1990). ↩
An engaging recent memoir of lesbian bohemians in Paris, Renate Stendhal's Kiss Me Again, Paris (IFSF, 2017), takes the story through the 1970s. Stendhal was the artist Meret Oppenheim's assistant. Classic works in the field include Andrea Weiss's Paris Was a Woman (HarperSanFrancisco, 1995) and her 1996 film of the same name, and Shari Benstock's Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900–1940 (University of Texas Press, 1986). See also much of Terry Castle's work, including her priceless London Review of Books review of Diana Souhami's Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks (St. Martin's, 2004). ↩
Among many other restrictions in the pre-Stonewall years, the State Liquor Authority prohibited homosexuals from congregating in New York bars until 1966. Police raids and entrapment were rife. Sodomy remained a crime in New York until 1980. ↩
Francis Haskell
Mozart in the Stacks
Hilton Kramer
A Visionary Cubist
Impressions of Degas
V.S. Pritchett
Mocking the Immemorial


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2021 Prosper Portland diversity and inclusion grant recipients
Thirteen local businesses representing Portland's targeted industries – green cities, athletic and outdoor, technology and media, and metals and machinery, will receive grants to support their work to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Out of the thirteen selected, five are Athletic & Outdoor businesses. The Inspiring Diversity Grant, now in its third year, is a Prosper Portland program intended to encourage private employers to incorporate creative, equity-related best practices around workforce, marketing and communications.
Prosper Portland's business and industry strategy is focused on helping leading traded sector companies become more inclusive, recognizing that the fundamental equity challenge in Portland's traded sectors is lack of access to good jobs. The city's four targeted industry clusters pay wages well above the average for the City of Portland and are among the best employment opportunities in the region. Yet people of color, who represent 30 percent of Portland's population, hold only 12-18 percent of cluster jobs.
Prosper Portland executive director Kimberly Branam said, "Our efforts to stabilize and support local businesses focus on the importance of inclusion and a strong racial equity lens in economic development work across industries. The Inspiring Diversity grants are building a learning community that helps the business recipients and their peer companies become more competitive through diversity and inclusion best practices."
The agency received more than 80 applications for the grant, which prioritizes traded sector companies that sell many of their products and services to people and businesses outside the Portland region, nationally and globally.
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Spent an hour at the NRA shooting range putting rounds through my M&P 9 and P-3AT.
Took my old, broken, cat-hair-encased recliner to the dump.
Bought a new (used) leather recliner from a friend and got it moved into the apartment.
Dropped by a Circuit City, just to see the chain's last-hurrah.
Assembled and installed a trunk organizer in my car.
Took both cars to the car wash.
Adjusted our property and life insurance plans.
Installed security cables on our two small gun safes.
Washed my two bikes and performed some general maintenance.
Went biking; had a nice 30-mile warm-up ride, now that the weather has turned nice again.
Upgraded the operating system on my BlackBerry Bold (9000).
And I managed to do all that with one less hour of sleep than I should have had, because of all this Daylight Saving Time gibberish. You know, if we eliminated Daylight Saving Time then maybe the reduced daylight would help mitigate 'global warming' and 'climate change' ;-).


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Oakley Hall Hotel (Hilsea College, Oakley Hall)
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HCC Site ID: 1623 Parish: Fareham
Designations: SINC, SSSI Area: 30 ha
Access: Public Access Ownership: Fareham Borough Council
Oakley Hall Hotel is approximately 6 miles to the west of Basingstoke and south of the B3400 Road to Overton, Whitchurch and Andover, on rising land with views over the Deane valley. It is situated in a mosaic of arable farmland, managed parkland and mixed woodland where there is limited intrusion from people, traffic and noise. The southern boundary of the historic parkland is skirted by the main Southampton to London railway line with public rights of way between the line and the boundary (B & D LCA 2001 online).
Oakley Hall is a medieval site dating from the thirteenth century (AHBR 1971, 20858). The present Mansion was built in 1795, on the site of a former manor house, and altered in 1860 (Pevsner & Lloyd 1967, 363). It stands in the midst of a well-wooded park, covering 198 hectares, which extends from Deane into Church Oakley Parish. The main South Coast to London railway runs through the south of the park.
Until the eighteenth century it was called Hall Place or the Hall and it formed part of the manor of Deane. The Withers family acquired the Hall in 1620. It remained in their family for the next 100 years, when the daughter of Charles Wither inherited, and it then passed to the Beach family. Charles Wither was the Surveyor General of the Royal Woods and Forests who directed the construction of the 'Serpentine' (1727-1731) at Hyde Park, under Bridgeman (Bigg-Wither 1907). It is thought that he may have been responsible for creating the early informal parkland, although there is no direct evidence of this. In 1839, when the tithe map was drawn, there were blocks of woodland to the south, and clumps of trees in the park to the south east. A path led to a mount that projected into the parkland where a ha-ha now forms three sides of mount. The ha-ha has a decorative triangular coping and runs parallel to the earlier path. It is uncertain when the ha-ha was constructed. A walled kitchen garden was situated to the south of the Hall (HRO 21M65/F7/59/2). In the mid-nineteenth century Edward Milner designed the pleasure grounds with a sunken garden, rose and water gardens and a network of pathways to the mount. The walled kitchen garden was moved to the south west of the house; and a stable block, courtyard and water tower were added (Pevsner & Lloyd 1967, 363). By the end of the 19th century two lodges had been built adjacent to the road (OS map 2nd ed. 1896).
The house and estate were offered for sale in 1933 and sold (HRO 8M61/279; Oakley Manor, Church Oakley, 1989). Between 1940 and 1942, the Hall and its grounds were owned by Hilsea College. An extra classroom and swimming pool were added, and the grounds were used for sporting activities (Platt 1985). In 1993, Forest Care took over the management of the estate, and two years later the Hall opened as a nursing home, which is now known as Oak Lodge Care Home. The care home buildings were mainly arranged around the stable block where a staff bungalow had been added.
The structure of the mid-nineteenth century garden remains, as does the earlier mount, ha-ha, and later walled kitchen garden. The stables and outbuildings have been refurbished and are a care home for the elderly. In 2003, the main Hall became a conference centre and wedding venue, which will be extended if the Nursing Home moves to the old farm site as planned by the owners (Minall 2009). The land to the south east of the Hall still retains its parkland feel and has public rights of access.
An eighteenth-century informal parkland was created, possibly designed by Charles Wither, the owner, who was also Surveyor General of the Royal Woods and Forest. By 1839 a mount, walled kitchen garden, and possibly a ha-ha were in place. During the mid-nineteenth century alterations were made to the Hall and adjacent buildings, and the pleasure gardens were designed by Edward Milner. From 1940 until 1992 the park and Hall accommodated Hilsea College with the grounds used for school activities. The Hall is a hotel and conference centre, vestiges of the former park and gardens remain.
HGT Research: December 2001, updated December 2009
Hampshire Record Office (HRO)
21M65/F7/59/1 & 2 Deane Tithe map and awards 1839
8M61/279 Oakley Hall estate Sales particulars 1932
1896 2nd ed. OS 25" & 6" (HCC)
Bigg-Wither, Rev R.F., 1907, The History of the Wither Family, Winchester, Warren & Sons. Pevsner, N., Lloyd, D, 1967, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Middlesex, Penguin Books. Other Sources
Minall, H., 19 March 2009, 'Re: Visit', Email to: Researcher
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Archaeology and Historic Buildings Records (AHBR) No. 20858, 1971 'Excavated Medieval buildings at Oakley Park, Deane' all at HCC or on-line.
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Tonsil stones, also known as tonsilloliths, are caused by an accumulation of sulfur-producing bacteria and debris that become lodged in the tonsils. The debris, which can include mucous from post nasal drip, putrefies in the back of your throat and collects in the tonsil crypts (small pockets which appear on the surface of the tonsils).
A simple combination of oxygenating solution and nasal sinus drops will effectively dissolve tonsil stones without unnecessary tonsil surgery. Also, the occasional use of an oxygenating spray will help to immediately neutralize the anaerobic sulfur-producing bacteria on contact. The Bad Breath Bible states that if you truly want to prevent bad breath then you must use oxygenating toothpastes and mouthwashes, and ideally a tongue scraper to effectively neutralize the anaerobic bacteria from the very back of the tongue. When you use such an oxygenating toothpaste and mouthwash, you will experience a residual effect from the oxygenating tablets and nasal sinus drops solution, and it will stop the tonsil stones from ever forming again.


NeoDoc is seeking to recruit a CDI (permanent contract position) System and Security Administrator (M/F). NeoDoc, founded in 2004, expert in software for writing, translation, publication, and dissemination of complex documents for both large and small companies. In 2018, with a team of 7 people in Startup mode, we launched the Calenco SaaS solution, accessible to all companies and communities in France and internationally. The position is based in Venelles, France (13 770).
As part of our service team, you are first and foremost responsible for the proper functioning of the company's internal computing services, as well as for SaaS infrastructure for our clients. In addition, you may give our clients "on premises"service for their Calenco installation, and write all security documents related to Calenco infrastructure.
With post-graduate education (possibly with validation of prior experience), you have significant experience (>5 years) of system administration on Linux. Passionate about IT security, you have mastered passive and active protection tools. You have already played a part in the deployment of critical infrastructures and have already documented the associated security documents.


The Philippines plans to relocate military camps to a former US naval base northwest of Manila to gain faster access to waters contested by China.
MANILA — The Philippines plans to relocate major air force and navy camps to a former US naval base northwest of Manila to gain faster access to waters being contested by China in the South China Sea, according to the country's defense chief and a confidential government report.
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Sunday that as soon as relocation funds are available, the government plans to transfer air force and naval forces and their fleets of aircraft and warships to Subic Bay, which has become a busy free port since the 1992 departure of the US Navy.
"It's for the protection of our West Philippine Sea," Gazmin said from South Korea, where he was on a visit, using the name adopted by the Philippine government for the disputed South China Sea.
"We're looking now for the funding," he said.
Subic Bay is a natural deep harbor that can accommodate two large warships acquired recently by the Philippines from the United States, a defense treaty ally, he said, especially compared to shallower harbor at the naval fleet base at Sangley Point in Cavite province, south of Manila.
The first US Coast Guard cutter was relaunched as the Philippines' largest warship in 2011. President Benigno Aquino III will lead ceremonies on Aug. 6 to welcome the second ship at Subic, the Philippine navy said.
A confidential defense department document obtained by The Associated Press says Subic's location will cut reaction time by fighter aircraft to contested South China Sea areas by more than three minutes compared with flying from Clark airfield, also north of Manila, where some air force planes are based.
"It will provide the armed forces of the Philippines strategic location, direct and shorter access to support West Philippine Sea theater of operations," the document said.
The report said the cost of repairs and improvements for an air force base in Subic would be at least 5.1 billion pesos ($119 million). It said that compares with an estimated 11 billion pesos ($256 million) that it would cost to build a new air force base, because the vast Subic complex about 80 kilometers west of Manila already has a world-class runway and aviation facilities.
Relocating about 250 air force officers and men to Subic, along with "increased rotational presence of foreign visiting forces" would bolster business and trade at the port, the military document said.
Subic's international airport has been underutilized since US courier giant FedEx transferred its lucrative regional hub from Subic to China in 2009, officials said.
The Philippines plans to grant visiting US forces, ships and aircraft temporary access to more of its military camps to allow for a larger number of joint military exercises than are currently staged each year.
A larger US presence could be used for disaster response and serve as a deterrent to what Philippine officials say have been recent aggressive intrusions by China into its territorials waters.
The Philippines has backed Washington's efforts to reassert its military presence in Asia as a counterweight to China's rise. While it has taken diplomatic steps to deal with China's sweeping territorial claims in the South China Sea, the Philippines has struggled to upgrade its military, one of Asia's weakest.
Philippine vessels backed off from the disputed Scarborough Shoal last year after weeks of a tense standoff with Chinese surveillance ship, a move that gave China effective control over the vast fishing ground off the country's northwest.
Many fear the territorial conflicts in the South China Sea, which also involve Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan, could set off a serious conflict that could threaten Asia's growing economies.


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package com.khorn.terraincontrol.customobjects;

import com.khorn.terraincontrol.LocalBiome;
import com.khorn.terraincontrol.LocalWorld;
import com.khorn.terraincontrol.configuration.WorldConfig;
import com.khorn.terraincontrol.configuration.io.SettingsReader;
import com.khorn.terraincontrol.util.ChunkCoordinate;
import com.khorn.terraincontrol.util.Rotation;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Random;

/**
 * UseWorld is a keyword that spawns the objects in the WorldObjects folder.
 */
public class UseWorld implements CustomObject
{
    @Override
    public void onEnable(Map<String, CustomObject> otherObjectsInDirectory)
    {
        // Stub method
    }

    @Override
    public String getName()
    {
        return "UseWorld";
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canSpawnAsTree()
    {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canSpawnAsObject()
    {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean spawnForced(LocalWorld world, Random random, Rotation rotation, int x, int y, int z)
    {
        for (CustomObject object : world.getConfigs().getCustomObjects())
        {
            if (object.hasPreferenceToSpawnIn(world.getBiome(x, z)))
            {
                if (object.spawnForced(world, random, rotation, x, y, z))
                {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean spawnAsTree(LocalWorld world, Random random, int x, int z)
    {
        // Pick one object, try to spawn that, if that fails, try with another
        // object, as long as the objectSpawnRatio cap isn't reached.

        WorldConfig worldConfig = world.getConfigs().getWorldConfig();
        CustomObjectCollection customObjects = world.getConfigs().getCustomObjects();

        if (customObjects.isEmpty())
            return false;

        boolean objectSpawned = false;
        int spawnattemps = 0;
        while (!objectSpawned)
        {
            if (spawnattemps > worldConfig.objectSpawnRatio)
                return false;

            spawnattemps++;

            CustomObject selectedObject = customObjects.getRandomObject(random);

            if (!selectedObject.hasPreferenceToSpawnIn(world.getBiome(x, z)))
                continue;

            // Process the object
            objectSpawned = selectedObject.spawnAsTree(world, random, x, z);

        }
        return objectSpawned;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean process(LocalWorld world, Random rand, ChunkCoordinate chunkCoord)
    {
        // Pick one object, try to spawn that, if that fails, try with another
        // object, as long as the objectSpawnRatio cap isn't reached.

        WorldConfig worldConfig = world.getConfigs().getWorldConfig();
        CustomObjectCollection customObjects = world.getConfigs().getCustomObjects();

        if (customObjects.isEmpty())
            return false;

        boolean objectSpawned = false;
        int spawnattemps = 0;
        while (!objectSpawned)
        {
            if (spawnattemps > worldConfig.objectSpawnRatio)
                return false;

            spawnattemps++;

            CustomObject selectedObject = customObjects.getRandomObject(rand);

            if (!selectedObject.hasPreferenceToSpawnIn(world.getBiome(chunkCoord.getBlockXCenter(), chunkCoord.getBlockZCenter())))
                continue;

            // Process the object
            objectSpawned = selectedObject.process(world, rand, chunkCoord);

        }
        return objectSpawned;
    }

    @Override
    public CustomObject applySettings(SettingsReader settings)
    {
        // Not supported
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasPreferenceToSpawnIn(LocalBiome biome)
    {
        // Never, ever spawn this in UseWorld. It would cause an infinite loop.
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canSpawnAt(LocalWorld world, Rotation rotation, int x, int y, int z)
    {
        return true; // We can only guess
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canRotateRandomly()
    {
        return true;
    }

}

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These Items are in good working condition, unless otherwise specified.
2000 Vintage 38' gooseneck. The trailer is burgandy in color and looks nice. I will try to send some pics if you are interested. The trailer has 4 base cabinets, 2 double door closet style storage cabinets, 5 overhead cabinets, new parts washer, new 10 x 20 stand alone awning/shelter. 4 2' x 8' ATP runners, new winch (uninstalled). I have not installed floor covering in the back of the trailer yet, It is still painted plywood, so the ATP runners have not been installed. The front of the trailer has rubber flooring. I have not installed the electrical package however. The trailer has a passenger side pit door, driver side escape door, and beavertail with fold down ramp in rear. The cabinets are installed in a way that gooseneck storage is not affected. I can park golf cart with lift kit and big tires in front, Outlaw 10.5 mustang in with a 4 wheeler at the back. The D-Rings are loose and can be installed any place within the trailer. I have mainly used the trailer for storage, and it has not been to the track since I put in all the cabinets etc. I will take $11k this is far less than the trailer is worth. I just need something bigger.
will not seperate engine parts $1500.
Holset HT 60 Turbo - Excessive Impeller shaft endplay, needs to be freshened up. 5 1/2" Air Inlet, 5" Exhaust Outlet, 3" "ID" Air Dicharge Best for large cubic inch lower rpm motor. Will make 30#'s+ of boost. No wastegate included.
Procharger Air to Air Intercooler 3" Inlet and Outlet.
Both items are used, intercooler needs nothing, but turbo must be freshened before using as excessive endplay will allow oil to blow back through the intake tract and cause detonation. Freshening it up really is not that expensive, I just decided to go a different direction so these items are now for sale.
I also have a ton of AN fittings / residual valves, and misc. small items left over from my SSO car, so email me with anything you might need, and I will look and see what I have.
Canton T style 302 Road Racing Pan (used) $75.
2002 mustang 25.1 D double framerail, firewall backhalf c/m funnycar cage,all steel with hood,bogarts,16x33,9"fab housing,strange spool,40 spline gundrilled ,alum ctr,arospace front & wilwood rear brakes,4 link,lexan windows,aeromotive 2000 pump,alum fuel cell,kirky seats,car has been run in slower bracket styleclasses the last 2 yrs. as driver was not certified for quicker ET. This car finished #2 in Pro series in 03,won ffw Bristol Mod Motor race in 04,very sharp car can email pics.4 more info call Lew 7404041559,Asking 32500 or best offer. This car has a Pro C/M 4-Link, and sway bar as well as Koni double adj rear coil overs. The front has removaBLE CENTER k-fRAME, AND ALL FRONT SUSPENSION IS C/M AS WELL, front struts are QA1 adj.The car has been run with a mild 514 BBF, as well as with a modular 5.4 with powerglide. That is how it is configured now. Turbo mod motor races should consider this chassis, as well as smallblock NOS cars, as I believe it weighed around 2500 lbs.
Car will be sold rolling and cost twice this to build. I can personally vouch for the fact the chassis has bever been stressed.
I am trying to talk him into teaming up and using my motor for this year, but he really needs to sell car.


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Calculate the area and volume of a regular hexagonal pyramid of height 3 cm, whose base is a regular hexagon of 2 cm each side and the apothem of the base is 4 cm. Solution First you must calculate the apothem of the pyramid (AP), which is the only missing data.
Determine the area of any pyramid-like solid with our pyramid volume calculator. Choose between two options: calculate the volume of a pyramid with a regular base, so you need to have only side, shape and height given, or directly enter the base area and the pyramid height.
How to Calculate the Volume of a Hexagonal Pyramid. How to Calculate Volume of Truncated Pyramid. how to find the volume of a rectangular pyramid? Related Formulas. Find the Volume of a Rectangular Pyramid. Finding the Volume of a Square Pyramid. Related Calculators. Pyramid Volume Calculator.
Hexagonal Prism Calculator Calculate volume of a regular hexagonal prism surface area, base perimeter, apothem length, and surface to volume ratio. A prism is a polyhedron with two congruent bases, and having parallelograms as additional faces. ... A hexagonal prism is a prism with a hexagonal base.


This Ornate Wall-Mount Console Table by Sally Sirkin Lewis for J Robert Scott is no longer available.
An ornate wall-mount console table with a cream-colored carved fiberglass base and black marble top by Sally Sirkin Lewis for J Robert Scott. USA, circa 1980. Base is designed to appear like stone. Dimensions: 57.5 inches L x 18.5 inches D x 34 inches H.
A gold-finished iron demilune shaped console table with glass top and twisted iron rope accents. Imported, circa 2010.
Fantastic, clean as a whistle. Made from three sheets of heavy glass with a pair of steel rods for stretchers with brass plated end-caps.
A La Barca folding console / dining table by Cassina, Italy, circa 2010. Features a dark espresso finish on oak wood. Console folds open to serve as a dining room table.
Art Deco style gilt console by J. Robert Scott, circa 2000s.
Rococo style console table made with wrought iron, gilt metal leaf decoration and green serpentine marble top on ornate metal base. Entry hallway table.
"Round leg console table", wall-mounted in copper and gunmetal with inset black glass top, by Karl Springer, American, 1980s (signed on side "Karl Springer").
Paul Evans wall-mounted Cityscape console table, American, circa 1960s.


The Ford Fiesta is Ford's newest small family car. Although the Ford Fiesta production model is yet to be formally unveiled at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show in March, Ford said that the Fiesta will take on the look of their Verve Concept car which was previously shown at the North American Auto Show.
The Ford Fiesta will be the global name of the company's small car. Production for the Ford Fiesta in Europe will start in Fall of this year while it will be launched in Asia and North America between 2008 and 2010.


You know witches? Well, there's a reason we burned them. They're terrible! Here's some more evidence of that with the trailer for The Witch, the debut feature from writer-director Robert Eggers. The film won Eggers Best Director at Sundance, and it quickly earned him a deal directing a Nosferatu remake, so it is probably a pretty good witch movie. Have a look at our creepy new Hocus Pocus sequel with the trailer below.
\n\nYou know witches? Well, there's a reason we burned them. They're terrible! Here's some more evidence of that with the trailer for The Witch, the debut feature from writer-director Robert Eggers. The film won Eggers Best Director at Sundance, and it quickly earned him a deal directing a Nosferatu remake, so it is probably a pretty good witch movie. Have a look at our creepy new Hocus Pocus sequel with the trailer below.


Get the idea? Sometimes I wonder how many people truly have a mental disorder, because it can feel like there is an epidemic in certain corporate settings. So I googled What percent of adults have a mental disorder?. This brought me to a site that shared the information that in any one year 28-30% of adults experience mental or addictive disorder. Of that group, only 5.4% have a serious disorder that is likely to last beyond a year.
Usual Behavior: Candid and matter-of-fact, minimal self-conscious feelings, outspoken and unevasive, at ease with superiors.
Any of these sound familiar? When we back people into a corner (low resources, threat of job loss, inconsiderate teammates, no communication, lots of long hours) some strange behavior often results. The Birkman Method has been a great tool for leaders I work with to help them see the sources of their stress and deal with it.
There are some people that genuinely need professional help to address things they are feeling. But beware of labeling without first understanding. If someone is in a corner, that COULD BE the reason for their behavior.
As I watch the opinions pour out after the announcement of Steve Jobs stepping down from the CEO role, it makes me wonder if we are talking about the right things. The re are certainly lots of worries about not having him leading Apple. Whether you are a shareholder, a reseller, a supplier, or an Apple lover worrying about future technology, this is certainly the changing of the guard at Apple and future success for the company is a big question.
As of today I do not own any Apple products (that might change tomorrow with an iPhone purchase) and up until I read the Fortune article about Apple several months ago I did not know much about him as a leader.
What did you learn from your time away from Apple that allowed you to be successful the second time around?
How has cancer impacted how you live and how you lead?
On a recent family vacation I dragged my family 30 miles off a main road in Iowa to visit the birthplace of John Wayne in Winterset, Iowa. It was partly because I was interested in seeing it and partly because I wanted to hear my kids complain for years about what a crazy Dad they had. I love his movies, got a kick out of the memorabilia that adorned this small house, and the complaining exceeded expectations. But the thing that impacted me the most was some letters on the wall that came from stars asked to record some memories to put on display in the museum/home that opened shortly after his death. In a quick summary, George Burns said he "was tall" and Ronald Reagan said he "made great movies". I left wondering – That was it?
With Steve Jobs there is lots to talk about and a lot that I don't know about him, which is all fine. I just think there is a lot more to him than the touch screens, easy to use products, and well integrated services.
Steve, thanks for trying again and not giving up.
I grew up in a community of scientists. I went to school with lots of engineers. While science is not my passion, connecting the dots for people by finding a way to simplify big things is how my brain is wired. I see a need to understand what stress looks like for leaders in transition, people trying to self-manage through over promised and under resourced projects, individuals starting a new company, and a host of other situations. More than understand, a key life skill is to figure out how to get unstuck and moving forward. This is resilience.
Through personal trials, coaching, walking with friends, leading, and a host of other experiences I've settled on an equation I use to represent resilience.
When the > (greater than)sign switches and the right side takes over our personality changes. Is it normal for the equation to change on occasion? Yes. That's life. Is it healthy to let the right side dominate too long? No.
This has been talked about before. In Good to Great Jim Collins talked about the Stockdale Paradox. Admiral James Stockdale's(a prisoner of war) presented the survival method of acknowlodging the brutal facts of a situation but never losing faith that he would prevail. This is resilience.
As leaders, we need to take care of ourselves. Exercise. Prayer. Vacations. Healthy Diet. Reading. Naps. All of the above.
Remember that your resilience will rub off on your organization. When you are leading from the right side your stress behaviors come out and your ability to react/flex your leadership style to manage others goes away. The Birkman Method assessment identifies these as stress behaviors. When we name them, we have a chance to manage them.
In a slow economic recovery, resilience becomes as important as cash.
Executive coaching – A safe place to process, reset, and plan to move past it.
Peer network – Few things are more comforting than knowing you are not alone in your challenges. ALL managers and above NEED to develop this for themselves. Don't wait for your employer or HR team to do it for you.
Read how others have done it – Like #2, finding a person with a good perspective can be comforting and will help you process things.
Spouse/Best Friend – Having a 'here is where I am' discussion with someone who cares for and understands you is priceless.
Being alone with a challenge is not a good place to stay. Go find a friend.
People are often shocked when we review the results of their Birkman assessment and it identifies a need to recharge. Those with opposite results are often surprised people need quiet time. The really confused people work 15 hour days so they will be there when everyone leaves and they can have time to work without interruption.
In swimming they call it tapering.
In running it is called a recovery run.
In Europe it is called holiday.
In business it is too often called 'something HR told me I have to do'.
Everyone needs time to step back and recover/reset their mind.
The serial decision maker needs to review which decisions they made that should have gone to their team.
The CFO needs to focus on a few items that the CEO graciously granted their request for more time, even if it only means an extra hour.
The super achiever needs to think when they smiled last – and realize they answered four calls from customers with abrupt, matter of fact responses. At least one customer is offended.
Silence isn't equal to doing nothing. Silence in resilience is about cleaning the lists off the mental whiteboard and only putting one or two things back on for a short time so they get attention.
Training for resilience requires recovery at some point.
I have had several opportunities to lead and participate in group discussions at retreat weekends. When I lieten to people share at the end of the weekend the message of I was encouraged to hear that I was not the only one struggling with ___________always appears. People find comfort in knowing that what they are feeling is common to others. All too often leaders are told or tell themselves they have to act more like a superhero than a person. While it is true that leaders should not run around like Chicken Little every time something unexpected happens (people do look to leaders for inspiration in the form of strength), that is not the transparency that I am talking about. Transparency is about admitting we are surprised or stressed, and then getting back to the work of dealing with whatever knocked us off-balance.
Resilience is not about not being rattled, it is about how quickly we recover. Someone I look to as a great voice in this is Doug Silsbee. Doug tells the story of a martial arts master who was once asked why he never seemed to be knocked off-balance. The master replied that he was constantly being knocked off-balance, but he had learned through practice to return to center very quickly. For the master who looked impenetrable, being transparent was about being honest when asked. Imagine the impact on those who came to him to learn? The students left that day recognizing the importance of practice in their own quest for mastery.
With an economic world that is so interconnected, there will constantly be events that surprise us/our businesses and knock us off-balance. Learning to absorb those blows and get back to center is a skill that people/leaders at all levels need. This path to resiliency starts by being willing to admit that, no matter what people see, we get shaken like everyone else.


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What are Tool's Chances of Winning a Grammy Award?
January 8th, 2020 at 11:15am Vince Neilstein
Tool are up against Candlemass & Tony Iommi, Death Angel, I Prevail and Killswitch Engage in the "Best Metal Performance" category.
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Revolver Says These Are the 25 Best Metal Albums of the Decade
December 26th, 2019 at 10:45am MetalSucks
Featuring Deftones, Tool, Ghost, Slipknot, and more.
Poll Results: Metalsucks Readers Say These Are the Best Metal Album of 2019
December 11th, 2019 at 9:39am MetalSucks
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Killswitch Engage Add Light the Torch to 2020 Tour
December 3rd, 2019 at 2:24pm Vince Neilstein
Howard Jones and Jesse Leach, both Killswitch vocalists, united on one tour package!
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New Study Says Killswitch Engage Are the Hardest Working Band in Metal
November 27th, 2019 at 12:53pm Axl Rosenberg
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance analyzed a bunch of factors and decided all other metal bands are lazy assholes.
And the Nominees for This Year's Bullshit "Best Metal Performance" Grammy Are…
November 20th, 2019 at 9:34am Axl Rosenberg
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Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta Releases New Songs with Jesse Leach (Killswitch Engage) and Matt Heafy (Trivium)
November 6th, 2019 at 9:45am Axl Rosenberg
Listen to "Strength to Draw the Line" and "When the Contagion Is You." Both will appear on The Lost Chapters, Vol. 2, out December 13.
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Killswitch Engage Announce New Tour Dates with August Burns Red
November 5th, 2019 at 11:18am Axl Rosenberg
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Killswitch Engage Have Their Own NASCAR Chevrolet Now
September 18th, 2019 at 10:17am Axl Rosenberg
Tyler Riddick will be behind the wheel.
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Howard Jones on a Possible Blood Has Been Shed Reunion: "Eventually We May Get on the Same Page"
August 22nd, 2019 at 9:01am Axl Rosenberg
Will we ever be able to use a photo of this band in which Justin Foley doesn't appear to be in the early stages of puberty?
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Watch: Jesse Leach and Howard Jones Appear Side-By-Side in the New Video for Killswitch Engage's "The Signal Fire"
August 20th, 2019 at 9:24am Axl Rosenberg
What they're actually screaming in that image is, "I thought you said YOU were gonna bring dessert!!!"
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Shit That Comes Out Today: August 16th, 2019
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Your guide to this week's nastiest new metal, including Killswitch Engage, Uniform/The Body, Shadow of Intent, and more!
Album Review: Killswitch Engage Have Nothing To Apologize for on Atonement
August 14th, 2019 at 11:47am Jeff Treppel
On their new album, Killswitch don't step far outside their comfort zone but they prove why they've had so much staying power.
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Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach Is Tracking Vocals for the Next Times of Grace Album
August 5th, 2019 at 11:00am Karen Espronslayer
The vocalist says he expects to finish recording this year.
Killswitch Engage Bassist Mike D'Antonio Talks Collaboration with Ex-Vocalist Howard Jones
August 2nd, 2019 at 11:55am Karen Espronslayer
Both Jesse Leach and Jones sing on the song "Signal of Fire" on Killswitch Engage's new album Atonement.
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July 16th, 2019 at 11:02am Vince Neilstein
Jesse Leach has called the track one of the most important of his career.
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July 16th, 2019 at 12:02am MetalSucks
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Earthquake hits southeastern Japan
ANI/RSS
2021 Dec 03, 8:50, Japan
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A 5.4 magnitude earthquake has hit the southeastern part of Japan's biggest island of Honshu, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported on Thursday.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located at the prefecture of Wakayama, at a depth of 20 kilometers (over 12 miles). The tremors were felt in 23 prefectures, including those on the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku.
There are no reports about any victims or damage caused by the earthquake. No tsunami alert has been declared.
Japan is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. The 2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the following tsunami killed over 15,000 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster
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LITTLE Seashell Cards have just added a new, unique, minimal sailboat love card to their love and Valentine's 2017 collection.
Blank inside, the front message reads You Float My Boat on the 5.5x4.25in designs, that are printed on FSC-certified 12pt card stock, hand embellished with a simple crystal rhinestone.
The Canadian-based publishers ship to the UK with the wholesale price at £1.91 ($2.38) and suggested retail price £3.90 (£$4.75).


Social realism, an international art movement, encompasses the work of painters, printmakers, photographers and filmmakers who draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and the poor; social realists are critical of the social structures which maintain these conditions. While the movement's characteristics vary from nation to nation, it almost always utilizes a form of descriptive or critical realism.
In Russia Peredvizhniki or "Social Realism" was critical of the social environment that caused the conditions pictured, and denounced the "evil" Tsarist period. Ilya Repin, said that his art work was aimed "To criticize all the monstrosities of our vile society" of the Tsarist period. Similar concerns were addressed in 20th-century Britain by the Artists' International Association, Mass Observation and the Kitchen sink school.


Former NBA player Ruben Patterson, who reportedly earned more than $36 million during his 10-year professional basketball career, pleaded guilty today to non-support of dependents in Butler County Common Pleas Court, according to Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser.
Patterson, 43, of Cincinnati, owes $106,834 in child support, according to the prosecutor's office. He entered the guilty plea to a fifth-degree felony. Judge Jennifer McElfresh set sentencing for May 23.
The plea came just days away from his trial scheduled to begin Monday. He was indicted in 2016 on two charges of non-support and the second charge was dismissed. He remains free on his own recognizance.
The maximum sentence is 12 months in prison, but jail time is unlikely in the low level, non-violent offense.
"Accountability is what is important in this case," Gmoser said.
After playing at the University of Cincinnati, Patterson played professionally for several NBA teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets.
Since retiring from the NBA, Patterson has maintained a presence at NBA games and events and resides in Las Vegas and Jacksonville, Fla., according to the prosecutor's office.


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Donny van de Beek sent warning over Manchester United role by Dutch legend Ronald de Boer
Metro Sport ReporterWednesday 6 Jan 2021 6:51 pm
Van de Beek has struggled to nail down a starting berth at Old Trafford (Picture: Getty Images)
Ronald de Boer has warned Donny van de Beek that he may have to consider a move away from Manchester United if he can't be given assurances over his playing time at the club.
The midfielder's role at Old Trafford has been limited since joining from Ajax back in the summer for £40million.
Van de Beek has started just twice in the Premier League and didn't even make it off the bench in United's last three league games.
The midfielder is better suited to Spanish football, says De Boer (Picture: Getty Images)
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has insisted that the Netherlands international needs time to settle in and will eventually go on to become an important player for the club.
However, with Euro 2020 just six months away, De Boer believes now may be the time for the 23-year-old to hold talks with United over his role going forward.
The Dutch legend admitted that if those discussions aren't progressive, Van de Beek may have to think about going out on loan or even seeking a permanent switch away from Manchester.
'The European Championship is coming, he will undoubtedly want to be there,' De Boer told AD.
'Maybe it would be good for him to discuss with the club exactly what they want with him. If the view on playing time does not improve, he may have to declare that he should be rented or even sold.
'You have to be lucky every now and then. Of course it doesn't look great now, but with a great performance it can suddenly change completely. We also don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
'Perhaps they have made certain agreements with his transfer, they will get him ready for next year this season. That always remains a bit of a guess.'
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Van de Beek was also linked with a move to Real Madrid before joining United, and De Boer feels the style of play in La Liga is a more natural fit for the midfielder compared to the Premier League.
'I think his playing style is better suited to the Spanish league than to the English,' De Boer added.
'In the Premier League it is often run and fly, in Spain more combination football is played. Donny is physically fine. But he comes into his own better in the Ajax game.'
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ISIS Insurgent Unsure if Those Donuts Are Fair Game or Being Saved for a Meeting
"Do these have jelly?" asked Kassem.
Following a bloody rampage in the Northeast region of the Syrian countryside, ISIS fighter Abu Abdul Kassem is reportedly hesitant to eat one of the dozen donuts on the conference room table in fear they might be "for something specific."
Kassem, a mid-level employee of DAESH, is relatively new to the militant group. "I don't want to step on any toes you know?" Kassem said. "A global Islamic caliphate only really works if we all work together. I wouldn't want to eat someone else's snack."
The fighter, who has committed himself to the efforts of Sunni rule in Iraq, Syria and the Levant, did note to a fellow militant rebel that "the donuts have been sitting out for a while," and was reportedly overheard asking, "no one would notice if I just took half of the one with the sprinkles, right?"
"I checked around and the only group plans are at four when we're shooting AK-47s in the air from the beds of trucks while proclaiming a theocratic state under Sharia rule," Kassem said.
Kassem, who splits his time between ethnic cleansing in Iraq and kidnapping foreign journalists, isn't supposed to eat trans fat according to his doctor, but believes that he has earned a cheat day after "the week he's had."
At press time, the known fundamentalist terrorist determined he will eat one of the donuts if they're all still there by the end of the Judgment Day.
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