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Worst Injuries in the History of Baseball
by Editorial team August 16, 2021
Sports has had lasting moments of joy, triumph, and celebration for players and fans alike since the beginning. Yet, all diehards agree that injuries are the vicious and despairing times that take away the best players from the game they love. No matter what level of sport, team, or individual, injuries are the real deal. Despite constant advancements in technology and safety equipment, they truly never go away and are the source of so much pain and frustration. Treatments such as therapy, yoga, and stretching have provided some level of decrease in injuries, but they are still a factor. Whether it be a season-long ACL tear, Tommy John Surgery (Baseball fans know this one all too well), or a simple cramp, injuries are a bug that continues to bite. There's no doubt you've watched a baseball game in awe, whether on television or at a professional ballpark, disgusted by a gruesome injury that just unfolded. Let's take a look at some of the most eye-opening and jaw-dropping injuries in the history of Baseball. Prepare yourself.
Ray Chapman's fatal fastball
The only deadly in-game injury in the history of Baseball took place back in 1920. A hall of fame shortstop, Ray Chapman, played for the Cleveland Indians. New York Yankees pitcher Carl Mays threw a fastball that struck the head of the 29-year-old. He would go on to suffer a three-inch depressed fracture in his head and a lacerated brain from a broken skull. The unfolded injury led to a long list of rule changes and player protection, many rules that still stand today. Baseballs were required to be cleaned before the first pitch. Somebody described the ball thrown by Mays as dirty, and it was also extremely dark outside. The "spitball" was also renounced, a pitch that used to be common.
Bobby Valentine's spike scare
The year was 1973. An outfielder for the California Angels was looking to make an over-the-wall grab against the Oakland Athletics. He had a .400 batting average in April and was in full pursuit of a promising season. Valentine didn't catch the ball as he climbed the wall instead of catching the spike of his cleat in the chain-link fence near the end of the wall. He suffered a compound fracture in his leg and was out for the remainder of the year. At just 23 years old, he lost his power and grit. The rest of his career was spent as a utility player for three teams, a sad reminder that Baseball's worst injuries can put a dent in an otherwise promising player. After years of managing the New York Mets, Texas Rangers, and Boston Red Sox, Bobby V now serves as the athletic director for Sacred Heart University. As a result of his gruesome injury, the MLB decided to eliminate chain link home run fences and metal cleats (for the most part).
Mickey Mantle's knee injury
Mantle was perceived as one of the best athletes in all sports, and undoubtedly one of the top ballplayers on the diamond suffered a career-changing catastrophic injury. As just a 19-year-old rookie, Mantle tore the cartilage on his knee. He was tracking a ball hit by Willie Mays in the World Series (game two). Surprisingly, however, his knee was neither reconstructed nor repaired. The New York Yankees outfielder continued to play and would play for 17 more years, despite the injury. He went on to win the 1956 Triple Crown, two gold glove awards, hit the longest home run in MLB history (565 feet), and became a Hall of Famer.
Tony Saunders Pitching Arm
This Tampa Bay Rays flamethrower had his career taken away due to his pitching mechanics. Up against the Texas Rangers, the first pick in the 1997 MLB expansion draft threw a pitch that led to him falling to the ground in pain. He snapped a bone in his pitching arm and was sidelined for the year. The very next season, he broke his pitching arm, once again. At only 26 years of age, Saunders was forced into retirement. This was a reminder to pitchers worldwide: the importance of having the ideal form and mechanics.
Atrocious All-Star Injury
One of the most competitive athletes to tie his cleats, Pete Rose, did significant damage at the 1970 MLB All-Star Game. Literally. These games are meant for the best and brightest to come together and compete under little to no pressure. Stakes are low at the fanfest event, but for Rose, they must have seemed high. In the final inning, he raced towards home plate in pursuit of the winning run. The only one in the way was Oakland Athletics catcher Ray Fosse. Fosse was run over in a collision that separated his shoulder and cut his career almost exponentially. This was proof that injuries can combat an event even as harmless as the all-star game.
Brian Roberts Disgusting Elbow
Watching a gruesome injury leads to many "Oh My" moments if you're anything like me. This one was a prime example. Back in 2005, the Baltimore Orioles' second baseman suffered a season-ending injury. His arm bent entirely behind his back, following a collision with the New York Yankees Bubba Crosby. In comeback fashion (literally, how did this guy not get a comeback award named after him), Roberts played in 138 games the following season and posted a batting average of .286. Should he be the next avenger? We sure think so.
Doc Powers Catastrophic Case
In Baseball and throughout sports, the "hustle plays" often go unnoticed. Unfortunately, many of these plays can result in genuinely damaging injuries, though the effort put in is worthy of applause. For Oakland Athletics Catcher Doc Powers, this was spot-on. The Pittsfield, MA native and Notre Dame graduate chased down a ball when he crashed into the wall behind home plate. The injury he sustained would later require multiple surgeries when internal bleeding was found. Powers passed away a month later.
The Curse of Dave Dravecky
Like Tony Saunders, Dravecky was a victim of an unfortunate arm injury. This time, though, it had a happy ending.
The San Francisco Giants pitcher, in 1988, found out he had a malignant tumor in his throwing arm. Following successful surgery, he headed down to the minors. There, he suffered another arm injury, breaking his arm against the Montreal Expos. Dravecky broke his arm a second time in a celebration following the Giants NLCS victory in a whirlwind of events. Going through surgery for his arm, doctors found that his cancer had returned. Like the many arm injuries, the inspirational pitcher fought through the scare and overcame cancer. He became a motivational speaker and shared his story with the world.
Chris Snyder fractures his stones
We went nuts when we saw this one. No pun intended, sorry, everyone. This Arizona Diamondbacks catcher was in for a rude awakening. Corey Hart of the Milwaukee Brewers fouled off a ball to the balls of Snyder. The team announced that he would head to the 15-day disabled list for a broken left testicle. Yikes.
Tony Conigliaro's Cheek
We end with a feel-good story, one that started with a gruesome injury.
Former Boston Red Sox and California Angels outfielder Tony Conigliaro was an all-star and home run leader making a name for himself. In 1967, during his tenure with the Red Sox, he was hit by a pitch from Angels pitcher Jack Hamilton. The pitch landed on his left cheek, ultimately cracking his cheekbone. He also dislocated his jaw and damaged the retina in his eye. He missed the entire 1968 season, and his vision was beginning to fade.
However, he returned and received comeback player of the year honors as he hit 36 home runs and had 116 runs batted in.
The Road to Recovery
The road to recovery following a brutal injury often is shown to spark hope within individuals, proving there is a light at the end of the tunnel. For many of these players, that light was eventually found, though some, in this case, were faced with life-threatening or career-ending blows. Sports is consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous professions globally (see No.20), and they only appear to be getting more difficult. So, what has been done to prevent even more long-lasting damages amongst athletes?
New methods of participating and watching sports have come about, such as Esports. The gaming platform is changing pace from the more traditional, hard-hitting sporting venues while still drawing in plenty of eager fans. No longer is the world at a place as back in the Roman days with gladiators and 'fight till the death' mantras. Besides, sporting equipment has evolved to provide a safer and more comfortable fit (along with more rules and regulations). Still, that same durability has led to stronger and more evolved athletes. Think D.K Metcalf and Connor McGregor.
Nonetheless, sports will always have some inherent danger. It is what makes for an exhilarating performance. It's what makes every snap, pitch, dribble, and jump worth watching.
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Last week we had a visit from a little human-pup called Elyse and her humans.
Elyse is 6 years old and came over with her humans from Yorkshire in England to enjoy a few days holiday here in the South of France.
Elyse calls me 'Zowhlllah' in her sweet Yorkshire accent.
Elyse loves the beach and got up for super early morning playtimes and sunrises with me.
I could see my friends arriving whilst the humans were talking.
My human can be such a chatterbox!
She watched me digging for treasure..
…and thought she would try it out too!
Satisfied and all worn out after playing, it was time for a nice bowl of cold water.
…and of course some other goodies!
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American roots-rock duo William Pilgrim & The All Grows Up return with a brand new episode of Live at the Ice House, the duo's socially conscious ongoing music web series. In the latest installment, titled "Rock & Role Models," Ishmael Herring, aka William Pilgrim, and his musical cohort PM Romero, take the show on the road to East West Studios in Hollywood, CA, where they are currently finishing a new record for Orange County-based label, Moonlight Graham Records that is scheduled for release in early 2014.
In this episode, William Pilgrim and PM Romero are joined by the legendary Blind Boys Of Alabama, and other friends from previous Live at the Ice House segments including Modern Poet and Renaissance Man David "Judah 1" Oliver from Episode 3, singer Lesedi Lo-Fi from Episode 2, and Exene Cervenka of the celebrated band X, who narrated the series' debut episode that focused on teen homelessness. Social and political blogger/author Kevin Alexander Gray also stops by for a heated but good natured and insightful discussion with Pilgrim and Romero.
The Blind Boys of Alabama are notably featured on a track on William Pilgrim & The All Grows Up's forthcoming sophomore release, titled Epic Endings. The five-time Grammy Award winning gospel group was in the process of cutting tracks at East West Studios and, drawn to the message of Live at the Ice House, asked to join in the roundtable discussions. The Blind Boys' soulful style and spirituality prove an ideal complement to William Pilgrim's haunting, bluesy vocals. X singer Exene Cervenka is also featured in a duet with William Pilgrim on the upcoming release and in this Live at the Ice House episode she speaks on the inspirations and meanings behind that song.
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Doubling of capacity at organic peroxides plant in China
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10 Oct 2017 - News
AkzoNobel's Specialty Chemicals business has entered the next phase of a major expansion at its organic peroxides facility in Ningbo, China, which will increase production capacity by more than 100% by the third quarter of 2018.
The company's Ningbo site produces dicumyl peroxide (DCP), an organic peroxide used as a crosslinking agent in the manufacture of polymers. Capacity at the site was boosted by 40% in August, following the completion of an initial project, and is set to double to a capacity of 38,000 tons per year.
"The market for DCP is strong and continues to grow globally," says Johan Landfors, Managing Director of AkzoNobel's Polymer Chemistry business. "This new expansion is necessary to meet that demand, and is also a visible demonstration of the company's continued commitment to invest in the future of the Specialty Chemicals business."
DCP is used in the production of a variety of polymers that need to have exceptional durability. These polymers can be found in many different products, including shoe soles – a market which is growing significantly, especially in developing countries. DCP is also used in polymers for insulating high voltage cables, which are increasingly in demand for upgrading electricity networks, connecting offshore wind parks and other sources of renewable energy.
"The continued development in Ningbo is a clear sign to our customers that we are dedicated to retaining our leadership position in the organic peroxides industry," adds Werner Fuhrmann, AkzoNobel's Executive Committee member responsible for Specialty Chemicals. "By continuing to invest in our production sites and focusing on operational excellence, we will be better positioned to accommodate the growth of our customers."
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The problem considered is the determination of the heat transfer in fully developed turbulent flow of a radiating optically thin gas in a circular tube. The radiation problem is formulated in terms of the Planck mean and the modified Planck mean coefficients and the temperature profiles and Nusselt numbers have been determined. It is shown that the simple constant shear, constant heat flux formulation yields results that are in very good agreement with more complex calculations.
Landram CS, Greif RR, Habib IS. Heat Transfer in Turbulent Pipe Flow With Optically Thin Radiation. ASME. J. Heat Transfer. 1969;91(3):330-335. doi:10.1115/1.3580166.


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Gegist bestek is  een schatting van de positie die vanuit de vertrekpositie aan de hand van de koers en afgelegde afstand bepaald wordt. Deze methode wordt gebruikt als er nog geen directe plaatsbepaling mogelijk is.

Voor gegist bestek is het noodzakelijk de koers, snelheid en het tijdsverschil zo nauwkeurig mogelijk te bepalen, evenals de mogelijke storende invloeden daarop. Dit kan een navigator zelf doen, maar tegenwoordig zijn er systemen die zelf een gegist bestek bepalen aan de hand van richting- en afstandsensoren. Een voorbeeld hiervan is traagheidsnavigatie.

Om een voldoend nauwkeurig gegist bestek te verkrijgen, moet rekening worden gehouden met de vorm van de Aarde. Deze wordt wel benaderd door de bol, maar een referentie-ellipsoïde volgt deze vorm over het algemeen beter. Het gegist bestek kan daarbij worden bepaald met grootcirkelnavigatie of loxodroomnavigatie.

De gegist bestek-methode wordt wel als een aanvullend systeem gebruikt bij satellietnavigatie.

Voertuignavigatie
Bij voertuigen kan dit eenvoudig gebeuren door sensoren die in het systeem geïntegreerd zijn. De afgelegde afstand wordt bijvoorbeeld bepaald door middel van een wielsensor of odometer. Deze telt het aantal omwentelingen, die het wiel maakt sinds het object het vertrekpunt verlaten heeft. Om de richtingveranderingen te bepalen kunnen verschillende technieken worden toegepast.
 het gebruik van een kompas;
 wielsensors in de voorwielen. Doordat in een bocht het binnenwiel langzamer ronddraait dan het buitenwiel kan bepaald worden welke hoek wordt gemaakt en dus in welke mate de richtingverandering plaatsvindt;
 een hoeksnelheidssensor (gyroscoop).

Vaartuigen
Ook bij vaartuigen kan de verplaatsing ten opzichte van het omringende water worden bepaald door middel van een log. Deze meet de vaart, g.w.z. de snelheid, wat afhankelijk van het type log de vaart door het water is, de vaart over de voorsteven of de vaart over de grond. De afgelegde weg of verheid is hiervan af te leiden.

Onderzeeboten maken gebruik van deze techniek als zij lange tijd onder water varen en geen radio-ontvangst hebben. Als niet rechtstreeks de vaart over de grond wordt bepaald, moet nog wel voor de stroming van het water worden gecompenseerd. Vooral in de buurt van een riviermonding kan dat problemen opleveren.

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TX Ct. App.
Kyle Kirby, Appellant, v. Rhonda Marie Kirby, Appellee.
Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi-Edinburg.
NUMBER 13–13–00718–CV
Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Perkes
Appellant, Kyle Kirby, appeals from a final divorce judgment. By four issues, appellant contends that (1) the trial court abused its discretion when it denied his motion for continuance, (2) the trial court lacked jurisdiction to divide property belonging to a nonparty,1 (3) the trial court lacked jurisdiction to order him to transfer the registration of firearms belonging to the community estate, and (4) the trial court abused its discretion by denying his motion to disqualify appellee, Rhonda Marie Kirby's, trial attorney. We reverse and remand in part and affirm in part.2
I. Motion for Continuance
By his first issue, appellant contends that he timely filed motions for continuance when good cause existed and that the trial court improperly denied his motions.3 Specifically, appellant argues that his motions for continuance should have been granted because (1) he could not be present at the December 3, 2013 divorce trial, and (2) he needed more time to conduct discovery.
We will reverse a trial court's ruling on a motion for continuance if there is a clear abuse of discretion. Villegas v. Carter, 711 S.W.2d 624, 626 (Tex.1986) (explaining that the record must show a clear abuse of discretion before the appellate court will disturb the trial court's action on a motion for continuance). A trial court abuses its discretion if it acts in an arbitrary and unreasonable manner or without reference to guiding rules or principles. McAleer v. McAleer, 394 S.W.3d 613, 617 (Tex.App.—Houston 2012, no pet.); see State v. Crank, 666 S.W.2d 91, 93 (Tex.1984). We may not substitute our own judgment for that of the trial court in matters committed to the trial court's discretion. McAleer, 394 S.W.3d at 617. Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 251 provides that a motion for continuance cannot be granted "except for sufficient cause supported by affidavit, or by consent of the parties, or by operation of law." Tex.R. Civ. P. 251.
First, appellant argues that his motion for continuance should have been granted because he was not able to attend the trial. When a continuance is sought because of the unavailability of a party, the rules governing unavailability of witnesses apply. In re Guardianship of Cantu de Villarreal, 330 S.W.3d 11, 27 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 2010, no pet.). Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 252 governs whether a continuance may be granted on the basis that a party or witness will be absent. Id. "A trial court is not required to grant a motion for continuance just because a party is unable to be present at trial." Id.; Hawthorne v. Guenther, 917 S.W.2d 924, 929 (Tex.App.—Beaumont 1996, writ. denied) (citing Humphrey v. Ahlschlager, 778 S.W.2d 480, 483 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1989, no writ)). Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 252 states:
If the ground of such application be the want of testimony, the party applying therefor shall make affidavit that such testimony is material, showing the materiality thereof, and that he has used due diligence to procure such testimony, stating such diligence, and the cause of failure, if known; that such testimony cannot be procured from any other source; and, if it be for the absence of a witness, he shall state the name and residence of the witness, and what he expects to prove by him; and also state that the continuance is not sought for delay only, but that justice may be done; provided that, on a first application for a continuance, it shall not be necessary to show that the absent testimony cannot be procured from any other source.
Tex.R. Civ. P. 252.
Here, only appellant's second motion for continuance stated that he sought a continuance on the basis that he would not be able to attend the trial due to his work schedule. However, appellant did not state that his presence and testimony at trial was material, he made no offering of what testimony or evidence he planned to present, and he did not show that any such evidence could not be procured by means other than his attendance at the trial. See In re Guardianship of Cantu de Villarreal, 330 S.W.3d at 27 (concluding that appellants had not shown that the trial court abused its discretion by denying their motion to suppress because, although the appellants claimed that they were unavailable for the proceeding, "appellants did not argue that their presence and testimony at the [proceeding] was material, they made no offering of what testimony or evidence they planned to present, and they did not show that any such evidence could not be procured by means other than their attendance at [the proceeding]"). Accordingly, we cannot conclude that the trial court clearly abused its discretion by denying appellant's motion for continuance on this basis.
Next, appellant argues that the trial court should have granted his motion for a continuance because he needed more time for discovery. In Joe v. Two Thirty Nine Joint Venture, the Texas Supreme Court set out that, when deciding whether the trial court had abused its discretion in denying a motion for continuance seeking additional time to conduct discovery, it had considered a nonexclusive list of factors which included the following: "the length of time the case has been on file, the materiality and purpose of the discovery sought, and whether the party seeking the continuance has exercised due diligence to obtain the discovery sought." 4 145 S.W.3d 150, 161 (Tex.2004).
In his first motion for continuance, appellant alleged that further discovery was required because both he and appellee had filed claims for reimbursement. However, at trial, appellee abandoned her claim for reimbursement, and the trial court did not award her any reimbursement. Therefore, discovery regarding appellee's claim for reimbursement was not material to the issues at the trial. See id. Appellant also sought discovery of his own claims of reimbursement from appellee's separate estate to his separate estate, reimbursement from the community estate to his separate estate, and reimbursement from appellee's separate estate to the community estate. However, in his first motion for continuance, appellant neither argued nor showed that he had exercised due diligence to obtain the discovery sought.5 See id.; Grace v. Duke, 54 S.W.3d 338, 343 (Tex.App.—Austin 2001, pet. denied) ("A motion for continuance seeking time for discovery must comply with rule 252, and must, among other things, describe the evidence sought, explain its materiality, and show the party requesting the continuance has used due diligence to obtain the evidence.") (citing Tex.R. Civ. P. 52; Hatteberg v. Hatteberg, 933 S.W.2d 522, 527 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1994, no writ); Texas Dep't of Human Servs. v. Green, 855 S.W.2d 136, 147 (Tex.App.—Austin 1993, writ denied)). Accordingly, we cannot conclude that the trial court clearly abused its discretion by denying appellant's first motion for continuance on that basis.
Appellant did not allege in his second motion for continuance that he needed more time for discovery. However, at a hearing held on his second motion for continuance, appellant's trial counsel orally stated that the parties' claims for reimbursement required further discovery necessitating a continuance. This argument was made without a supporting affidavit, as required by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. See Tex.R. Civ. P. 251 (requiring that a motion for continuance shall only be granted on sufficient cause supported by affidavit). Accordingly, we cannot conclude that the trial court abused its discretion by denying appellant's oral motion for a continuance on that basis. Having determined that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying appellant's first and second motions for continuance, we overrule appellant's first issue.6
II. Division of the Property
By his second issue, appellant contends that the trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to award property that belongs to a non-party and to order him to post a $3500 bond until such property has been returned to the non-party. Appellee concedes that the trial court erred and requests that we reverse the judgment on that basis. Accordingly, we sustain appellant's second issue. See Chesapeake Operating, Inc. v. Denson, 201 S.W.3d 369, 373 (Tex.App.—Amarillo 2006, pet. denied) ("A trial court lacks jurisdiction to enter judgment for a non-litigant; to do so constitutes fundamental error on its part if the error is apparent from the face of the record.").7
III. Registration of Firearms owned by the Community
By his third issue, appellant contends that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to order him to transfer the registration of firearms owned by the community estate to his name. Appellee concedes that the trial court had no jurisdiction and requests that we reverse this portion of the judgment. Accordingly, we sustain appellant's third issue.8
IV. Motion to Disqualify
By his fourth issue, appellant contends that the trial court abused its discretion by denying his motion to disqualify appellee's trial counsel. Specifically, appellant argues that, although not a party, in a prior proceeding, appellee's trial counsel acquired confidential information from him.
"[B]ecause disqualification is a severe remedy, the trial courts must adhere to an exacting standard so as to discourage the use of a motion to disqualify as a dilatory trial tactic." In re Chonody, 49 S.W.3d 376, 379 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth 2000, no pet.). To show entitlement to a motion for disqualification,
the movant must prove by a preponderance of the evidence the existence of a prior attorney-client relationship in which the factual matters involved were so related to the facts in the pending litigation that it involved a genuine threat that confidences revealed to his former counsel will be divulged to his present adversary or used to his disadvantage.
Here, appellant does not allege that a prior attorney-client relationship actually existed and argues instead that an attorney "is disqualified in engaging in representation against a person with whom that person believed an attorney-relationship existed." Appellant cites no authority, and we find none, supporting appellant's argument. Moreover, appellant points to no evidence in the record that the factual matters involved in the prior proceeding were so related to the facts in the pending divorce litigation that it involved a genuine threat that confidences revealed to his former counsel would have been divulged to his present adversary or used to his disadvantage. See id. Therefore, we cannot conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in denying appellant's motion to disqualify appellee's trial counsel. See NCNB Texas Nat. Bank v. Coker, 765 S.W.2d 398, 400 (Tex.1989) (explaining that the trial court's "failure to apply the proper standard of law to the motion to disqualify counsel was an abuse of discretion"). We overrule appellant's fourth issue.
We reverse in part those portions of the trial court's judgment awarding property to a non-party, requiring a $3500 bond, and requiring that appellant transfer the registration of the firearms belonging to the community to himself and remand for entry of a judgment consistent with this opinion. The judgment is affirmed in all other respects.
1. The trial court ordered the distribution of property belonging to appellee's son in the divorce decree.
2. As this is a memorandum opinion and the parties are familiar with the facts, we will not recite them here except as necessary to advise the parties of the Court's decision and the basic reasons for it. See Tex.R.App. P. 47.4.
3. Appellant filed two motions for continuance in the trial court. On appeal, appellant generally challenges the trial court's denial of his motions. Thus, we have reviewed both motions for purposes of this appeal.
4. Regarding further discovery in his first motion for continuance, appellant stated the following: "Both Petitioner and Respondent have asserted claims for reimbursement. Discovery needs to be under taken to determine the basis for these claims." That is the extent of appellant's discovery argument in his motion.
5. Appellee points out in her brief, and the record reflects, that on November 26, 2013, the trial court held a hearing on appellant's motion for continuance. However, appellant has not provided this Court with a transcript of that proceeding.
6. On appeal, appellant has not argued that he exercised due diligence to obtain the discovery sought. See Tex.R.App. P. 38.1(i).
7. We note that error is apparent from the face of the record because appellee's son was not a party or litigant in the divorce proceeding.
8. Appellant states that there is no mechanism in Texas which allows, directs, mandates, requires, or enables a gun owner to transfer, register, or document a change of ownership of a firearm after an initial purchase. Appellee agrees with appellant stating that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to order appellant "to perform an impossibility, i.e., transfer the registration of certain firearms owned by the community into [appellant's] name only."
Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Valdez


I was a 19-year-old student at Columbia University in New York when I first met Lou Reed in 1968. I was chatting with Lincoln, a friend of his who had been his college roommate at Syracuse University, when Lou dropped by.
Little did I know of the intensity that lay ahead of us as we launched his solo career. Our relationship would last five years. We were engaged for several of those years, although we were officially married for less than one.
It wasn't love at first sight. He wasn't my type, but he was interesting. My first impression was that he had a serious ego, but I was perceptive enough to know that this often implies, in truth, quite the opposite. He was disarming, because he was the kind of guy who let you know how he felt about you, didn't play any games.
I found out he was in the Velvet Underground when he took me out a couple of times for dinner, before I left for six months in Europe with friends. He was extremely stressed out, because they were breaking up, and he was embroiled in some conflict with a member of the band. When he learned I had returned from my trip, he got back in touch with me through Lincoln.
At that time, Lou was going through quite a transition. After he left the Velvet Underground, he moved back home with his parents on Long Island. These years have been called his "lost" years. Hardly. Lou came from a marvellous, supportive family, and going home gave him the safety and security to find himself again. He was writing and typing some of it up, as he worked as a typist in his father's firm. He published several poems in Harvard's literary magazine.
By 1970, he had left his parents' home and we moved into our first apartment on the Upper East Side. We were married at home in 1973. I wore white satin bell-bottoms, a strand of classic pearls, a navy blue cashmere sweater, and a smashing pair of red, seriously high platform heels. Lou wore an all-white suit.
The goal of our relationship was to launch his career. I promised I would help him to make it, and put my everything behind him. I was an idealistic kid and in love. I believed in him, his talent and work. Anyone who knew Lou will tell you he trusted very few people, personally or professionally. But he trusted me. I had been embraced by his family, and he knew I wasn't in it for the money. We were in this together: we were going to make him a star.
He put out three albums during our relationship: Lou Reed(1972), Transformer (1972) and Berlin (1973), with national and international tours to support these albums. After our first US tour, I became his lighting designer/director. I loved lighting and illuminating him and his work. We made a great team. Everyone knew that something important was happening with Lou.
After Transformer was released, the audiences in the US and Europe went wild. They'd never seen or heard anything like him. Before Lewis, the LGBT community were oppressed and completely disenfranchised. He gave a voice to them.
"Walk on the Wild Side" changed everything. Lewis was determined to make it on a worldclass scale. He always believed the Velvets should have made it on that level, but they had failed. He was determined that would never happen to him again. The period around Transformer was a great time in our relationship, but launching an international solo career can be exhausting. Lewis was writing and recording albums. We were rehearsing for the road shows that supported them, touring constantly.
Perhaps I did that for him but, for me, the operative lines are, "You keep me hanging on, you just keep me hanging on," – not only did Lewis depend upon me to keep him straight, his management team did, too.


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The myth of the Hispanic Republicans
One of the chief reasons for the quick and dirty defenestration of Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader was to induce more black voters to cast their ballots for Republicans. To that end, President Bush went so far as to issue a "Happy Kwanzaa" greeting from the White House and this week was preaching on the virtues of Martin Luther King to a black audience in Maryland.
None of the above will gain many black votes. But an even more important phantom that haunts the Bush White House is the fantasy of the emerging Republican Hispanics.
Just after last fall's elections, the GOP's spin artists warbled gaily about how many Hispanics the party had fetched into the voting booths. Party officials and their propagandists boasted that "Hispanic voters were a driving force" behind the Republican victories in House and Senate. Conveniently, a massive election-day computer failure at the Voter News Service, which usually tabulates such results from exit polls, allowed these claims to evolve into unquestioned axioms.
Now the axioms are being questioned good and hard. UPI [and VDARE.COM!] political analyst Steve Sailer has long challenged the claims of an emerging Hispanic Republican majority. Only last week an entirely new study, by political scientist James Gimpel of the University of Maryland, hurls yet another torpedo into the myth's hull.
The Gimpel report, published by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington and based on Fox News election day polls in 10 states, found that the Hispanic vote for the Republicans was about the same in 2002 as in previous years: Approximately one-third of the nation's Hispanics voted Republican, though gubernatorial candidates did somewhat better by winning nearly half the Hispanic vote.
But the study also found that the Hispanics who voted last year tended to be higher in income and education than the Hispanic electorate as a whole. Hispanics of lower income and education showed much lower voter turnout in 2002, which may explain why Republicans won as many of their votes as they did: "Latino voters who identify themselves as 'independents' are, in fact, likely to vote Democratic. The fact that many of these independents stayed home in 2002 helped Republicans." [Latinos and the 2002 Election | Republicans Do Well When Latinos Stay Home, By James G. Gimpel, Center for Immigration Studies]
Hispanic voting behavior is important not only because of its national political impact but also because of what it means for immigration policy. Republican and conservative supporters of mass immigration say Hispanics will vote Republican - if only the party gives up on trying to crack down on immigration. Hence, the party has muted immigration reform for the last several years, abandoning an issue that has demonstrated mass appeal to its natural base among white native-born Americans.
But giving up on immigration control has gained the Republicans little, if analysts like Mr. Sailer and Professor Gimpel can be believed. In fact it has brought them losses they may never make up.
By refusing to control the mass immigration that has swollen the Hispanic bloc, the Republicans may have created yet another solid Democratic constituency — a low-income, low-education, racially conscious bloc that wants bigger government and more stuff from taxpayers.
But Professor Gimpel argues that there is no "Latino" voting bloc as such, one based simply on ethnicity. Hispanics in his view vote along party, income and educational lines, just like all other voters. Controlling for these variables, "there is no difference between Latino voting and the voting patterns of non-Hispanic whites in either the Senate or gubernatorial races of 2002."
That may be, but if Hispanic immigrants tend to be low-income and low-education, they will, simply by those variables, wind up voting for the Democrats like similar income and education categories.
Last year's voting patterns tend to bear this out: If the Republicans won about a third of the Hispanic vote, the Democrats win about two-thirds. If Republicans did well in some races because Hispanic turnout was low, how will they do when Hispanic turnout rises - as it surely will in the future?
The Republicans' idea of wooing Hispanics is to spend more money on TV ads in Spanish and to campaign with a few salsa bands strumming on the podium — the equivalent of appealing to black voters by praising Kwanzaa and Martin Luther King.
The Democrats gain these groups' votes because they give them things — more benefits, more privileges, and more attention as victims of "racism."
The Republicans can start winning Hispanics when they're willing to throw overboard entirely their party's conservative principles and get down in the mud with the Democrats.
It would make a lot more sense for the Stupid Party to forget about Hispanics as a bloc they could win from their rivals, start thinking about how to control immigration, dump the ads in Spanish and start speaking the language of the white middle class that really keeps them in office.
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Marginalised young adults hold key to Britain's looming labour shortage, new business coalition urges
With labour shortages looming in construction, agriculture and retail, a cross-sector coalition is today calling on business to target talented, marginalised young people outside the mainstream labour market.
The new coalition comprises FTSE companies - including the Berkeley Group and M&S - academics, professional institutes and youth charities.
Despite record levels of employment, research shows nearly 500,000 young adults aged 16-24 are not in education, employment or training (NEETS) and not looking for a job; and nearly 40% of them don't have a single individual in their household in full-time work.
Meanwhile, results from the Labour Force Survey show that hundreds of thousands of 16-18 year olds are simply classified as 'unknown', indicating the number of young people not in education or employment could in fact be much larger than reported.
£90 million investment recently announced by the Prime Minister to help tackle inequalities in youth unemployment highlighted by the Race Disparity Audit.
A new guide launched today (Monday 16 April) by a business coalition aims to help major employers bring talented, marginalised young people into full-time work. It draws on the experience of companies such as M&S, BAE Systems, and the Berkeley Group, as well as the Movement to Work, a collaboration of leading UK employers providing work placements for young people struggling to get their first step on the career ladder.
The Berkeley Foundation supports Street Elite, an initiative delivered by the Change Foundation, which uses the power of sport and mentoring to help young people on the edge of gangs and crime back into work or education, Since 2012, Street Elite has worked with over 300 young adults from estates across London, of which 74% have successfully found jobs or a place in college.
M&S run a programme called Marks & Start which supports around 3,000 people a year. This has supported one young single mum who had struggled to find a shift which would allow her to look after her kids. She had been out of work for four years but is now employed in one of their stores: "My shifts are really good - 7am to 12pm - and the kids can see how much happier I am now I'm working. I feel 100 times more confident because I realise now I'm just as good as anyone else."
The coalition behind the new guide is challenging companies not just to engage with young people who might be temporarily unemployed but with talented young adults from a range of backgrounds who might face significant barriers to work. This would complement the £90 million investment recently announced by the Prime Minister to help tackle inequalities in youth unemployment highlighted by the Race Disparity Audit.
Peter Cheese, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development said:
"Endlessly hiring mini-me's may be easy but it's unsustainable, not least because the traditional talent pools are over fished. Reaching young adults who are outside the system demands conviction and effort but it brings different insights and thinking to your organisation, as well as fulfilling a wider social purpose."
Rob Perrins, CEO of the Berkeley Group and Chairman of the Berkeley Foundation, commented: "People ask us, why recruit someone who might not be an easy fit? The answer is, these young adults bring a whole new dimension to our business and we need different kinds of talent, not just more of the same. I also believe they have a right to have a chance and companies like us can have a transformational impact on society if we choose."
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Federalist No. 72 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton and the seventy-second of The Federalist Papers. It was published on March 19, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius. The paper discusses executive re-eligibility and is the sixth in a series of 11 essays discussing the powers the Executive branch.
Executive re-eligibility
In Federalist No. 72, Alexander Hamilton argues that re-eligibility is essential to executive power. He believed that the Presidency must attract the most ambitious individuals and re-eligibility ensured that they would not attempt to extend their term in office unconstitutionally.
Hamilton believed that executives should be eligible to serve as many terms as the American people allow. He argued that limits on re-eligibility would hamper an experienced president to use his past expertise. In addition, Hamilton argued that term limits prevent an executive from utilizing experience gained in special emergency situations in other terms and that term limits restricts stability within the executive.
The twenty-second Amendment to the Constitution imposed the present two-tier term limit on the executive branch. Today, U.S. presidents can only serve two terms, or a succession has taken place, ten years, as president of the country.
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'Dear Evan Hansen' trailer: Ben Platt reprises titular role
The phenomenal and award-winning Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen is finally a movie! Universal Pictures has recently released the trailer for the movie adaptation starring Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt who reprises the titular role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Watch the official trailer below and catch the movie in cinemas soon.
Helmed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Wonder), Dear Evan Hansen: The Movie is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner Steven Levenson with music and lyrics by the show's Oscar®, Grammy and Tony-winning songwriting team of Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman).
Dear Evan Hansen will feature the Grammy winning songs, including the iconic anthem "You Will Be Found," "Waving Through a Window," "For Forever" and "Words Fail," Dear Evan Hansen stars six-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams, Oscar® winner Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart), Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give), Colton Ryan (Apple TV+'s Little Voice), Nik Dodani (Netflix's Atypical), DeMarius Copes (Broadway's Mean Girls) and Danny Pino (NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit).
The ensemble cast includes Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, Danny Pino, Julianne Moore and Amy Adams.
In Dear Evan Hansen, a high school senior suffers from social anxiety disorder which leads him to struggle at school. His journey of self-discovery and acceptance begins following the suicide of a fellow classmate.
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Kristi Miller-Saunders, with Fisheries and Oceans Canada Pacific Biological Station, is leading genomic research for the initiative.
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In 2013, the Pacific Salmon Foundation embarked on a remarkable partnership with Genome BC and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This partnership called the Strategic Salmon Health Initiative was started for a variety of reasons, the primary one being the high mortality rate of juvenile salmon during their early ocean migration. There is a strong belief within the scientific community that infectious disease may be a significant factor in this mortality, but not enough is known about what disease agents might affect Pacific salmon in their natural habitats. What is known comes almost exclusively from observations of cultured fish (both in hatcheries and aquaculture).
The initiative intends to clarify the presence and/or absence of microbes in Pacific salmon. Recently, as part of the SSHI, something was discovered in the tissues of some aquaculture salmon that were being sampled. It was an outbreak of Heart and Skeletal Muscle Inflamation (or HSMI) in fish from one farm. The lesions in the fish are the same as those previously identified by the same histopathologist in farm audit samples collected from farms during 2011-2013. The HSMI finding was formally reported to the industry and Fisheries and Oceans Canada as per the scientific protocol for the project and announced by Fisheries and Oceans Canada <click here for the release>. As HSMI is not an OIE reportable disease, it was not reported to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. A slide presentation on the HSMI finding can be viewed here.
A new scientific study was released in 2018 showing Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) may cause disease in west coast Chinook salmon. The results of this study are significant because they show– for the first time – strong evidence that the same strain of Piscine orthoreovirus that causes HSMI in Atlantic salmon is likely to cause disease in at least one species of Pacific salmon. Read our news release to learn more or download the study.
The initiative is a four-phased program to discover the microbes present in Pacific salmon that may reduce the productivity of our Pacific salmon. The initiative reached a milestone in July of 2015, when the Phase 2a platform evaluation was reviewed by the National Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS), which coordinates the peer review of scientific issues for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).
Their review was very positive and approved the use of the technology platform for Phase 2b of the project. The details of the review can be found at: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/publications/sar-as/2015/2015_039-eng.html. A one-pager summarizing the findings can be downloaded here.
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Who Won New York's Spring Auction Week? Here Are 9 Important Takeaways From the $1.3 Billion Resurgence of the Art Market
From the emergence of a talented new auctioneer, to the biggest flop of the week, here are our parting observations from last week's extravaganza.
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Auctioneer Adrien Meyer fields bids during Christie's 20th Century evening sale. Christie's Images Ltd. 2021.
The world-altering shutdown of last spring is officially a distant memory at the summit of the auction market.
Last week, Christie's and Sotheby's carved up the art trade's schedule to rake in close to $1.3 billion in sales across three nights in New York. Put that gaudy total next to fresh memories from the previous week's in-person return of Frieze New York, and for many art professionals, it felt like old times.
Still, several factors pushed this auction cycle into the territory of the "new normal" instead of the plain old "normal." Christie's and Sotheby's kept their salesrooms far south of their full capacity, leaving even some stalwart east coast bidders to the remote experience. And earlier this year, Phillips opted to reschedule its 20th-century and contemporary New York art sale for June, meaning one less evening auction to jockey for supply and demand in a crowded week.
And then there were the actual results. The bids certainly flew high and fast at times, but not always for the works observers expected. To help make sense of the ups, downs, and all-arounds, the Artnet News Pro team (Katya Kazakina, Eileen Kinsella, Nate Freeman, and Tim Schneider) has returned to hand out its bi-annual auction awards.
Biggest Winner: Christie's
Christie's at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Courtesy of Christie's.
In the dollar-value duel between the premier houses, Christie's came out ahead—again—with a total of $691.6 million for its sales of 21st-century art ($210.5 million) and 20th-century art ($481.1 million). Christie's recently introduced the new sale categories in response to what it said were the demands of the market and shifting tastes, noting that the contemporary field had gotten quite large over time. It's notable, however, that for the first time in a while, the larger sale total was for the classical works, as compared with the contemporary offerings.
Meanwhile Sotheby's reported a total of $597 million, about $95 million lower than Christie's, following a three-sale night on Wednesday that skewed more heavily to contemporary works if one looks at the total for the collection of the late Anne L. Marion, which realized $157.2 million and was heavy on Postwar art stars like Richard Diebenkorn, Clyfford Still, and Andy Warhol. Aside from this, the split on the sale categories was $218.3 million for the contemporary art evening sale and a slightly higher $221.3 million for the Impressionist evening sale.
Priciest Work: Pablo Picasso's Femme assise près
d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932)
Pablo Picasso, Femme assise près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932). Courtesy of Christie's Images, Ltd.
One pandemic later, the king remains the same: No one has dethroned Pablo Picasso as the bellwether artist of the marquee evening sales.
While Basquiat made quite a splash this week, with two canvases each selling in the mid-to-upper eight figures, only one painting made it to the nine figures. That would be Picasso's gigantic portrait of his great muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Femme assise près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932), which rose from a opening bid of $45 million and then steadily went up and up and up, with Christie's specialists Vanessa Fusco and Max Carter battling it out on the phones, each besting one another until Fusco's client offered $90 million, where it hammered. With fees, it was $103.4 million, easily the biggest lot of the week.
Biggest Flop: Christopher Wool's Untitled (1990)
Installation view of Christopher Wool's painting at Christie's New York, ahead of the sale. Photo: Katya Kazakina.
The result for Wool's chunky black-on-white text painting (spelling "OH OH") was summed up best by writer and artist Greg Allen on Twitter: "UH-UH."
Estimated at $8 million to $12 million, the work was one of 19 pieces consigned to Christie's by financier Thompson Dean. The house guaranteed the group, and found third-party backers for many of the individual works… but not this one. Now, after the painting attracted zero bids on sales night, Christie's is stuck with it while Wool's market continues its downward trajectory.
Last year, auction sales of his paintings totaled $14.3 million, down nearly 87 percent from their peak in 2015, according to the Artnet Price Database. Zoom out to consider Wool's auction lots in all media, and roughly 37 percent failed to sell in 2020—a striking reversal of fortune for an artist who used to ignite bidding wars and occupy pride of place on investors' wish lists.
Strongest Gate-Crasher: NFTs
An algorithm-derived set of images made by Larva Labs. Photo courtesy Christie's.
It's staggering to many industry veterans that Christie's even offered a set of digital works with non-fungible tokens in its glitziest evening sale since November 2019. When you add in that the lot in question—Larva Labs' 9 Cryptopunks: 2, 532, 58, 30, 635, 602, 768, 603 and 757—attracted a presale-estimate-shattering bidding war that settled just shy of $17 million, it practically puts the result into the realm of science fiction. (Sources said the winner was a consortium of investors led by legendary NBA gambler and current Dallas Mavericks executive Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris.)
Nonetheless, this episode is the strongest evidence yet that, love them or hate them, NFTs are gathering staying power at the stodgy old summit of the art market.
"Battle of the Basquiats" Winner: In This Case (1983)
Jean-Michel Basquiat, In This Case (1983). Image courtesy Christie's Images Ltd.
Both Christie's and Sotheby's scored a trophy painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat for their marquee auctions, and both were estimated at around $50 million. In This Case (1983), which depicts a large skull on red background, soared to $93 million at Christie's on May 11. The following evening, Versus Medici (1981), which portrays a male figure with exposed anatomy, went for $50.8 million at Sotheby's.
Why the difference? Brett Gorvy, who sold plenty of Basquiats during his time at Christie's, said that the works appealed to two entirely different audiences. "One is the wow painting," he said. "The other is more intellectual."
In This Case was positioned as one of the three big skulls by Basquiat, one of which holds the $110.5 million auction record for the artist. It's "all about the skull," Mary Rozell, global head of the UBS art collection said on Instagram.
There's also the appealing provenance. The work was consigned anonymously by Giancarlo Giammetti, a partner of fashion legend Valentino Garavani (who celebrated his 89th birthday the day of the auction). "Darling, GG plus Valentino Red = 93," collector Inga Rubenstein, a friend of Giammetti's and Garavani's, said on Instagram.
Most Sizzle: Young Artists
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Diplomacy III (2009). Courtesy of Christi'es Images, Ltd.
Sure, a few grade-A works by decades-dead standbys like Basquiat, Claude Monet, and Picasso triggered healthy bidding. But last week's most manic buy-side frenzies fixated on works by creators still on the rise.
Five artists under age 45 set new auction records after heated competition in Christie's and Sotheby's evening sales: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye ($1.95 million), Nina Chanel Abney ($990,000), Salman Toor ($867,000), Jordan Casteel ($687,500), and Alex da Corte ($187,500). All of them also happen to be of color, continuing a demographic trend that has helped shape the market in recent years.
The number of records by fresh faces rises to six if you also throw in Matt Hall and John Watkinson, the cofounders of Larva Labs and co-creators of the CryptoPunks. Their inclusion would caveat the narrative above in at least two ways, given their status as crypto-developers rather than traditional artists, and their identity as two white dudes. Still, they only reinforce the fact that the hottest thing to be in the auction market this spring was young.
Charity Works: Millions for COVID Relief and Land Preservation
Dana Schutz, The Fisherman (2021). Courtesy of Christie's Images, Ltd.
Amid this giddy orgy of unchecked spending—nine figures on Picassos, record prices on speculated-upon new artists, cryptocurrency on digital cartoon heads—a few lots actually did more than just make their sellers richer.
At Christie's, three fabulous artists—Rashid Johnson, Urs Fisher, and Joel Mesler—all donated work to be auctioned off to benefit Sean Penn and Ann Lee's disaster relief charity CORE, which is centering its COVID relief efforts on getting mobile vaccination trucks to marginalized neighborhoods. The three works raised $7.2 million in total, and Mesler's and Johnson's works set new auction records for the artists.
What's more, the last lot in the Christie's 21st-century evening sale was Dana Schutz's The Fishermen, which was sold to benefit the land conversation organization Art for Acres. The masterful artwork sold for nearly $3 million, and with partnering organizations pledging to match the funds, the total amount donated was $9.8 million.
Biggest Resurgence: Robert Colescott
Robert Colescott, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook (1975). Image courtesy Sotheby's
It's no secret that many formerly overlooked and under-appreciated Black artists are finally getting their due, but the run-up in the auction market for the late Robert Colescott last week is still staggering.
When the massive 1975 painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook came on the auction block Wednesday evening, it soared to $15.3 million, compared with an estimate of $9 million to $12 million. It smashed the previous (and not even three-years-old) Colescott auction record of $912,500.
After bidding opened around $7.8 million it was chased by two Sotheby's specialists on the phone with clients, until it reached $10.8 million and a third specialist jumped into the action, eventually winning it on a hammer price of $13.1 million. Following the sale, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by Star Wars film director George Lucas, confirmed that it was the proud new owner of the record-breaking painting.
Best New Auctioneer in Town: Gemma Sudlow
Auctioneer Gemma Sudlow fields bids during Christie's 21st Century evening sale in New York in May 2021. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2021.
When the gavel rapped at the podium to mark the start of Christie's 21st-century evening sale, the presiding auctioneer wasn't Christie's global president Jussi Pylkkanen, who usually jumps into the cockpit for the big sales. It was Gemma Sudlow, head of private collections and decorative arts, who's been with Christie's since 2004, but was a new face to many contemporary art folk.
The house didn't explain the switch up, though the Art Newspaper hinted at some issues with the Brits getting work visas to enter the states—notably, Pylkkanen was not in New York, though he appeared via satellite from London on Thursday to buy Warhol's Nine Multicolored Marilyns for a client.
Regardless, Sudlow was a hit, moving things along as a steady, if not brisk, pace. And she pulled through when it mattered: for six minutes, Sudlow ably egged on bids from her colleagues on Jean-Michel Basquiat's In This Case ("Keep going! Take a look! One more bid!") until it hammered at $81 million, miles ahead of its $50 million estimate.
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Motivation. Everyone wants to know how they can stay motivated. Whether it's motivation to hit the gym, to eat right, to work on their business or to study. All you hear is people complaining, "I just don't have the motivation to do what you do".
Well, friends. The truth is that motivation is not what keeps people going. The key to any success is being DISCIPLINED. Motivation is a temporary state when you are excited to do something. But eventually that will wear off and you will have to practice self-discipline to remain consistent in your endeavours.
As an example, when you first begin training in the gym or for a sport, you are very excited and full of drive to train. However, over time, it may become monotonous and some days you may not have that same drive. It is in this case that the person who follows their motivation will keep skipping their sessions and eventually fall back into bad habits; since the motivation is not always there. On the other hand, the guy who is self-disciplined will train and eat right NO MATTER WHAT, and he will be able to keep progressing and improving, having the results to show for it.
Without discipline, you will never be able to maintain consistency with any of your pursuits. As you simply will not always feel like doing it. But the one with the ability to do it anyway, whether he feels like it or not, will always come out on top.
Remember this. Motivation comes and goes. Discipline will see you through all the way, from A to B. So get started today and build your self-discipline. No excuses. No complaints. Just do it, whatever it takes. Build your business with consistent, daily work. Build your body with consistent, progressive training. Build your intelligence, with regular reading and knowledge seeking.
No-one is going to give it to you. Discipline yourself. Get off the video games, the endless Netflix shows and the Junk food that slows you down. Take cold showers every morning, lift weights 3 days a week, save your money.
Whatever you want, is yours for the taking. All it takes is a little discipline and CONSISTENCY. One more step forward, EVERY SINGLE DAY!


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Fan Game: Sonic the Hedgehog 3D
The fan community is at it again, this time with a Sonic the Hedgehog game created on the famous Build engine.
Sporting Windows, Linux, and Mac support, this game is available for free from the Mod DB. Inspired by the MegaDrive and Sonic Adventure series of Sonic games, this 3D fan creation has been in the work for the last two years. Spearheaded by Zykov Eddy, the game started as a personal project, but was then expanded to include a small team to meet it's release.
The game can be downloaded here.
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Full 3d environment, with 3D models and hi-res textures
Four playable characters, each with different abilities;
8 levels inspired by classic Sonic games;
Unlockables and special stages;
Hidden secrets and easter eggs;
Extensive configuration, including joystick support;
MAC and Linux support;
Written by admin · Categorized: 1MoreCastle, Writing · Tagged: Build engine, homebrew, linux, Mac, Mod, pc, sonic, windows


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Can we all agree that a mobile phone can be a helpful device to have? For sure! The phone in your pocket is really helpful when you're stuck in traffic and you've gotta let your wife know you're going to be late for dinner! Do you realize, though, that mobiles can be just a tad bit more helpful than that?!! Mobile phones are being used to help diagnose and treat patients, improve poor farmers' income, bring democracy, coordinate disaster response, teach students in rural areas, etc.
Jesus' final command to His disciples was to go and make disciples of all the peoples and yet today, some 2000 years later, nearly a third of all people groups (6000 out of 16000 distinct ethnic groups constituting over 2 billion individuals) are considered as unreached- having little to no access to Jesus' good news- the gospel. Although the gospel has yet to be made known and penetrate into the lives and societies of these two billion plus people Coca Cola, McDonalds, Nokia, etc. have all made great strides in getting their products and services into these peoples' lives. Soft drinks and hamburgers have a rather limited potential for bringing the gospel to the unreached but mobile phones offer an amazing number of possibilities for getting the gospel a hearing among the unreached.
In communicating the gospel across cultures it seems to me that a well done audio or video presentation may be worth several thousand of our linguistically challenged words.This was certainly my experience in going from stumbling through trying to tell the gospel story with my nomad neighbors to being able to share it via dramatized, musically accompanied, poetry enhanced audio presentations of the gospel.Later, when sections of the same material were put into videos, I found people even more affected and held by what was being shared.


The Moon is rising on Wednesday at 8:07 pm NSW time, let's hope the sky is clear.
Super-moons happen 4-6 times a year and appear up to 14% larger and more intense. This upcoming Super Full Moon in Gemini is the last Super-Moon this year.
'The Super-Moon of December 14th is remarkable for a different reason: it's going to wipe out the view of the Geminid meteor shower.
Bright moonlight will reduce the visibility of faint meteors five to ten fold, transforming the usually fantastic Geminids into an astronomical footnote. Sky watchers will be lucky to see a dozen Geminids per hour when the shower peaks.
When the Moon and Sun occupy opposite signs, in this case, the Sun is in Sagittarius and the Moon in Gemini, we see a bright Full Moon reflecting the Sun's light.
This is a short but very intensive time with high internal pressure and we tend to have interrupted sleep, feel more impulsive and emotional than usual. This is particularly so when the Full Moon aspects a personal planet in our birth chart, illuminating an area in our life which which would benefit from our attention.
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The past is always present, as an email from our good customer Susan Wineberg reminded us recently. "I just bought this letter from 1839 on eBay. It's on foolscap!" she began. Although I knew foolscap was some kind of old paper, I had to look it up online to learn that it refers to a size, 8.5" x 13.5", which was the traditional standard before the 20th century.
West Park, once the site of Noble's nursery, looking east towards downtown Ann Arbor today.
Although records don't go back that far, Noble is believed to have lived in this house which was owned by his brother, a well-known abolitionist, a decade later.
Noble goes on to list thirteen ornamental plants that he's seeking for his nursery in this small Midwestern city that just fifteen years earlier had been nothing but wilderness. Seven are bulbs: 100 tulips, 100 hyacinths (once even more popular than tulips), "50 to 100 dahlias of choice varieties, double assorted" (a reflection of the already booming popularity of dahlias which were first grown in US gardens just a few decades earlier), 25 tiger lilies (also relatively new, having arrived from China in 1804), 25 anemones (probably A. coronaria), 25 ranunculus, and 25 crown imperials – but no daffodils, whose heyday was yet to come.
Completing the list of ornamentals are 120 roses, 40 scented-leaf geraniums, 25 each of three shrubs – snowballs, honeysuckle, and double flowering almond – and 10 each of horse chestnut and mountain ash trees as well as "Lonicera flexuoso" (probably the now invasive Hall's Japanese honeysuckle).
1929 plaque mounted on a boulder in the park to mark "an old Indian trail plainly visible" then.
Since he's writing in March, Noble also asks his Detroit colleague "what time may we expect the Lake to be open" – that is, ice-free – so the dahlias and so on can be delivered with "as little delay as possible," apparently from the extensive wholesale nurseries near Buffalo, at the far end of Lake Erie.
Noble's nursery was the first of a series of nurseries and greenhouses that for over 100 years occupied a stretch of low-lying land just five blocks north of OHG's world headquarters. Today most of the land is a large city park with some magnificent old native oaks and a creek that's been partially "daylighted." This past summer, I spent many happy hours walking our new dog Toby there, even before I knew anything about its history – which I've since learned includes a Native American trail still visible in 1929 and a flower-filled grade-school garden in the early 1900s.
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Just outside the park's eastern entrance, Noble's small Greek Revival house still stands today, and as Toby and I meander through the park now I keep looking for plants that might be survivors from this pioneering colleague's nursery. Although I haven't found anything yet, we'll keep walking and looking and enjoying – each in our own way – things we can't actually see.


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"To combat some of the largest drivers of ill health in this new century, we need doctors to be advocates, not just healers." Image: Getty
2018 is forcing doctors to be advocates as well as healers
Jin Russell | Guest writer
Treating the types of conditions and injuries which present in this era requires doctors to become advocates as well as healers, writes Dr Jin Russell.
Last Thursday, the National Rifle Association (NRA) posted a deeply provocative and surprisingly idiotic tweet about doctors in the United States.
This move was a retaliation against an email from the Annals of Internal Medicine, a high impact medical journal issued by the American College of Physicians (ACP), highlighting firearm-related research and the release of the ACP's most recent position paper on firearms. The NRA article accompanying the tweet accused the medical profession of "respecting their own rights and opinions far more than they do those of law-abiding gun owners" and, shockingly, of publication bias in favour of gun-control.
There's a saying about letting sleeping dogs lie. Better yet, there's the Hogwart's motto from Harry Potter – "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus", or, "Never tickle a sleeping dragon". The NRA would've been better to have left the Medical Dragon alone.
The tweets which started #itisourlane
Physicians were furious. Over the next 72 hours they flooded Twitter with posts expressing their outrage, creating the hashtag #ItIsOurLane.
Esther Choo, emergency physician and associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University, retorted "We are not anti-gun: we are anti-bullet holes in our patients."
Others, such as Mary Brandt, a paediatric surgeon in Houston, posted multiple links to scientific papers on gun regulation.
But some of the most effective and hair-raising tweets came from a large number of physicians who testified to the carnage wreaked by guns that they had personally witnessed. The stories of their patients. Horrific photos of blood-soaked gauze, the aftermath of trauma surgery on gunshot victims. It makes for grim reading.
Even the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Paediatrics used their official twitter feeds to publicly commit to advocacy on the issue. Closer to home, Australian physicians have made headlines while advocating for the removal of children and their families from the offshore detention centre, Nauru. In 2015, over 1000 doctors, nurses and clinical support staff from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne protested against the Australian Government's policy of keeping children in detention. Physicians were at the forefront of bringing eyewitness testimony to the attention of the public.
The hospital's head of general medicine, Dr Tom Connell, speaking to the media, described the effects of detention on children's wellbeing: "Our team see children with nightmares, bedwetting, and severe behaviour problems… anxiety and depression. It's become so common that it's almost normal in children from detention to have these symptoms."
Dr David Isaacs, a paediatrician at Westmead Hospital who has treated refugee children both on Nauru and on Australian soil, has been a vocal critic of Nauru detention policy. He shared harrowing stories of children he treated on the island detention centre. "I saw a six-year-old child who tried to hang herself with a fence tie. I saw a 15-year-old brave lad who'd sewed his lips up and his parents were cross with him for doing it, and he was cross with them because when he collapsed they let the medical staff cut the ties on his lips," he recalled to the media in 2015.
In September of this year, the president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Tony Bartone, wrote directly to the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on behalf of its membership urging a change in detention policy. The plea was rejected. Then just last month almost 6,000 Australian doctors, as well as 16 medical professional bodies, signed an open letter calling for the transfer of refugee children and their families off Nauru as part of the #KidsOffNauru campaign initiated by World Vision Australia and backed by over 300 organisations. Shortly afterwards on the 31st October, the Australian Government committed to relocating all the children on Nauru to Australia by the end of the year.
The nature of medical work is increasingly technical and hurried. This leaves little time for physicians to advocate to challenge the structural determinants of poor health – those 'wicked' injustices that arise from the way in which our society is organised, rather than from a bacterial toxin, a rampant virus, a genetic quirk. But the medical profession is, as the Hogwart's motto imagines, a sleeping dragon. When provoked, its reaction is a pretty mighty spectacle to behold. It roars with harrowing stories, with compelling data, and with images of bloodied theatre floors. It upholds a professional ethic that binds doctors to being completely for the other. If we see violence, we must testify to that violence.
Doctors are ideally positioned to advocate. Aristotle described various elements of persuasion: ethos – the credibility of the presenter; pathos – the ability to appeal to emotions; and logos – the ability to appeal to the logical mind, sometimes with facts and figures.
Doctors can use all three. We have the privilege of hearing people's stories first-hand, we are eye-witnesses to their suffering. We are trained to interpret data and to contribute to scientific research. Since the Hippocratic Oath, doctors have pledged to live according to a shared ethic of care and concern for others rather than self. We treat and heal wounds as we are able; we will treat anyone who needs help.
To these, add organisation. And this is the real dynamite. We often lament the extent to which we are externally regulated, but the fact is that our medical societies and professional bodies result in highly organised communities of doctors, sharing new knowledge and fostering empathy and action towards shared concerns. Our membership fees fund staff positions for policy and advocacy committees housed within these organisations for which doctors can volunteer their time. Advocacy campaigns can zip through medical networks like (and forgive me for the cheesy medical metaphor, please just go with it) an action potential along a nerve cell axon. Like a bundle of purkinje fibres. We are not left advocating as individuals. We can advocate through highly organised medical institutions.
This 'quartet of medical advocacy' – ethics, scientific evidence, stories and images, and organisation – means that when doctors do speak up on issues, we can be highly effective advocates.
The surgeon who sews up the gunshot victim is at their best. The physician gently asking after the psychological wellbeing of a refugee child is at their best. But we are all at our best when we are advocating for our patients, with one voice.
The surprising thing I have learnt about medical advocacy, however, is that it is therapeutic for doctors themselves. Doing medicine within our speciality silos, living in medical 'tribes' – the day-to-day life of a medic can sometimes feel as if we are at war with one another, battling over a deluge of patient referrals and vexing clinical decisions. However, we can all agree that it is wrong to keep children in detention and deny them medical treatment. Just as we advocated for seatbelts to prevent injuries from motor accidents, and for pool fences to prevent child drownings, we can advocate for safer regulation around who can purchase guns, what guns can be purchased, and how those guns can be stored. Advocacy can unite the medical profession in a way that our day-to-day work is often unable to.
This should in no way suggest that doctors are the only health professionals who are positioned to effectively advocate for their patients. Nurses, midwives, and other health professionals have taught doctors a thing or two about advocacy on more than one occasion. Indeed, nurse and midwifery organisations are powerful partners of the #KidsOffNauru campaign for instance.
Here in Aotearoa there are issues that require urgent health advocacy. Harms that are done to our patients that we witness first-hand. The wounds of poverty, of food insecurity. The devastation of homelessness. The scars of domestic violence. The terrible sound of an infant battling whooping cough. To name but a few.
"Advocacy is about speaking up for people with no voice," Dr David Isaacs stated when reflecting on why he advocates. "I have not been a good enough advocate before and I've decided it was time I was."
To combat some of the largest drivers of ill health in this new century, we need doctors to be advocates, not just healers.
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RECORD REVIEW | "SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF" BY MUDHONEY
as a paean to all things sonically BLOWN-OUT and DISTORTED to high hell, MUDHONEY's iconic debut EP SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF (SUB POP, 1988) fittingly takes its name from the much celebrated and sought after UNIVOX SUPER FUZZ and ELECTRO-HARMONIX MIG MUFF guitar pedals. prominent users of both range from PETE TOWNSEND (THE WHO), ALEX LIFESON (RUSH), ROBERT FRIPP (KING CRIMSON), ACE FREHLEY (KISS), CARLOS SANTANA, DAN AUERBACH (THE BLACK KEYS) STEVE HOWE (YES) and DAVID GILMOUR (PINK FLORD) to J MASCIS (DINOSAUR JR), KEVIN SHIELDS (MY BLOODY VALENTINE), RIVERS CUOMO (WEEZER), JACK WHITE (THE WHITE STRIPES), BILLY CORGAN (THE SMASHING PUMPKINS), DIMEBAG DARREL (PANTERA) and KURT COBAIN (NIRVANA) among countless others over the years. with its CHAOTIC, barely controlled sonic DISSONANCE, it makes sense that this EP and its lead single "TOUCH ME I'M SICK" basically kicked off in the popular consciousness the SEATTLE ALTERNATIVE ROCK explosion, otherwise known as GRUNGE, that was followed in quick succession by INFLUENTIAL releases the next year by peers in SOUNDGARDEN, TAD and NIRVANA and later ALICE IN CHAINS, MOTHER LOVE BONE and THE MELVINS among others. its not that MUDHONEY was the originator of this regional PACIFIC NORTHWEST sound (as such had percolating in various forms for years in acts like SKIN YARD, MALFUNKSHUN, GREEN RIVER, U-MEN among others), more they were among the first out of the gate to make a cultural impact outside of SEATTLE, it could be argued with SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF.
listening to SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF now it is hard to not be taken aback by how CONCISE the songwriting and ENERGETIC the performances are on tracks like "TWENTY FOUR," "CHAIN THAT DOOR" and "NEED." singer and main songwriter MARK ARM may seem a bit wavering and lackadaisical in his vocal delivery, but he is definitely on point when he provides forward momentum and SPARK to the songs with his interesting turns of phrase. it all feels intentional like a NOISY, FEEDBACK-LADEN hybrid of PUNK ROCK and POWER POP. same could probably be said for much of the scene that followed. SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF is definitely worth check out irrespective of your interest or passion for ALTERNATIVE ROCK or its history. just a great ROCK N ROLL record.
FILM REVIEW | HYPE!
filmed in SEATTLE after the initial wave of GRUNGE had crested and crashed, HYPE! (HELVEY-PRAY PRODUCTIONS, 1996) is very much a contemporaneous attempt to make sense of what turned out the be the last organic pre-internet mass cultural phenomenon in AMERICAN history.
utilizing interviews from participants from bands the likes of SKINYARD, THE MONOMEN, BEAT HAPPENING, THE MELVINS, SCREAMING TREES, SOUNDGARDEN, THE FASTBACKS, MUDHONEY, TAD, GAS HUFFER, COFFIN BREAK, THE SUPERSUCKERS, LOVE BATTERY, 7 YEAR BITCH, THE GITS, DEAD MOON, PEARL JAM and THE WALKABOUTS among others and scene producers like JACK ENDINO, STEVE FISK, FRANK HARLAN and photographer CHARLES PETERSON as well as local indie record label founders CALVIN JOHNSON (K RECORDS) and BRUCE PAVITT and JOHNATHAN PONEMAN (SUB POP RECORDS)
it has been repeatedly said that due to this scene's relative isolation from all but major touring acts in the 80s that a void was filled by local bands that had a fierce DIY ethic informed by HARDCORE and INDIE ROCK of the period. when this insular scene burst open nationally in the wake of the success of ALICE IN CHAINS, SOUNDGARDEN, PEARL JAM and, of course, NIRVANA, things became more unbalanced in the scene once a financial motive got involved. suddenly catwalks where filled with flannel and opportunistic bands moved to SEATTLE to be "discovered" and outright careerism polluted the once vibrant scene that house and nurtured misfits.
i found the crux of this film to be that intersection between art and commerce. that point at which expression is informed by winds of passing fad. once your scene is a fad, where do you go? what do you do?
the film never really answers that question but offers an amazing look at how such commercial interests affected that small intimate scene at a time it was wholly unprepared for it. and yet it seems inevitable that once you become en vogue, your season will ultimately fade and another thing will replace you. i think fortunately for SEATTLE, to this day that city name is synonymous with highly influential strains of ALTERNATIVE ROCK, INDIE ROCK and even SLUDGE METAL. it is still relevant to anyone who loves ROCK AND ROLL. there is still a purity to listeners to this day. of course, this idea of commerce affecting a scene's perceived purity makes no sense in today's climate. through technology there is no more isolated local scenes, the playing field is relatively horizontal in terms of means of exposure and music distribution. when nobody is making money anymore from music, those lines that existed during the filming of this documentary seem rather quaint by comparison.
interestingly, director DOUG PRAY 20 years later revisIted the scene and talked to some of the same participants again (video embedded below) about the impact of that initial wave. for most of them they just kept on their same path and nurtured upcoming artists. for band that came about long after GRUNGE came and went, the true legacy is that commercial viable artistry that is vibrant can come from anywhere, even SEATTLE.