Approximately 50,000 British nationals now permanently reside in Portugal and many more have chosen to buy a second home in the country. Portugal ranks among the top three countries chosen by us Brits, along with France and Spain.
The choice of landscapes is endless; from mountains and vineyards in the north to sandy beaches on the southern shores of the Algarve. For years this southern coast has been one of Europe's most popular holiday destinations and is the place of choice for most British second homes. However, the shores of the Atlantic, north of Lisbon on the 'Silver Coast', are now attracting an enormous amount of attention amongst buyers looking for more rural retreats away from the tourist hubs of the Algarve – at more realistic prices.
Portugal has many enchanting religious festivals, pilgrimages, carnivals and fairs. In fact, given Portuguese friendliness, you will find yourself part of these festivals as you are carried along by the warmth and enthusiasm of the crowds – sometimes literally!
Most people are also attracted by the relaxed and unstressed way of life in Portugal and the culinary delights are legendary… and affordable. Overall, there are countless reasons that have influenced people's decision to buy property in Portugal.
Getting Started – is it possible for you to buy in Portugal?
Anyone can buy property in Portugal. However it is important to note that non-residents need to appoint a Fiscal Representative and obtain a Fiscal Number or Número Fiscal de Contribuinte from the local tax office. This number is used on all documents relating to the purchase of the property. Also important is that married couples should both obtain a Fiscal Number or the Tax Department will not accept payment of the transfer tax or Imposto Municipal sobre Transmissões.
Finance – how much does it cost to buy a property in Portugal?
Estate Agent's Fees: These are paid by the vendor.
Municipal Transfer Tax or IMT (Imposto Municipal Sobre Transmissões Onerosas de Imóveis): This is basically a purchase tax, payable by the purchaser when a property's title changes ownership. IMT varies considerably from 0.2-0.8% depending on the nature of the property.
Registration of purchase is a fixed value of €250.
Registration of mortgage is a fixed value of €250.
Extras usually do not exceed €100.
Legalities – should you use a lawyer in Portugal?
There are many pitfalls that a prospective buyer can encounter when buying a home in Portugal. There are also ways in which a legal advisor can structure the purchase so that it is beneficial to the buyer, so getting a lawyer or advogad involved in your property purchase in Portugal is a must.
An advogado is the equivalent of a lawyer, barrister or solicitor in the UK. They can be held responsible for their actions and advice and are subject to strict scrutiny from the Portuguese Bar (Ordem dos Advogados). Make sure to check that your lawyer is qualified, and to obtain their registered number (cédula number).


Culvert pipe, used as a storm water conduit under driveways and roads, are designed to facilitate the efficient downstream runoff after heavy rain events in areas with open ditches.
However, over time, in both residential and commercial areas, these pipes tend to become obstructed by debris. These obstructions block the efficient flow of water and cause pooling and flooding in the adjacent properties during heavy rain events.
To solve the problem of the blocked pipe, municipalities or contractors will either replace the culvert or clean it out. The most commonly used existing method to remove silt, impacted vegetation and trash is a high pressure water jetting truck that blasts the stoppage out of the ends of the pipe. This method tends to be cost prohibitive and very messy as well as time consuming.
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The synthetic peptide sequence used to generate the antibody AP9232b was selected from the C-term region of human DYNC1I1. A 10 to 100 fold molar excess to antibody is recommended. Precise conditions should be optimized for a particular assay.
Acts as one of several non-catalytic accessory components of the cytoplasmic dynein 1 complex that are thought to be involved in linking dynein to cargos and to adapter proteins that regulate dynein function. Cytoplasmic dynein 1 acts as a motor for the intracellular retrograde motility of vesicles and organelles along microtubules. The intermediate chains mediate the binding of dynein to dynactin via its 150 kDa component (p150- glued) DCNT1. May play a role in mediating the interaction of cytoplasmic dynein with membranous organelles and kinetochores.
DYNC1I1 is the intermediate chains seem to help dynein bind to dynactin 150 kDa component. This protein may play a role in mediating the interaction of cytoplasmic dynein with membranous organelles and kinetochores.


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Tougué-Mossi est une commune rurale située dans le département de Tangaye de la province du Yatenga dans la région Nord au Burkina Faso.

Géographie

Tougué-Mossi se trouve à environ  à l'ouest de Tangaye, le chef-lieu du département, et à environ  à l'ouest du centre de Ouahigouya. La localité est traversée par la route régionale reliant Gomboro à Ouahigouya.

Le village, peuplé historiquement essentiellement de populations Mossi, constitue un ensemble avec les villages indépendants de Tougué-Peulh et Tougué-Yarcé, situés au sud.

Histoire

L'électrification rurale du village est faite en 2007.

Depuis 2019, des groupes armés extérieurs ont réalisé à plusieurs reprises des menaces et intimidations sur la population de Tougué-Mossi. En juillet 2020, des attaques armées non identifiées ont eu lieu sur différents villages du secteur, dont Tougué, entrainant le déplacement en urgence d'une partie de sa population vers Tangaye et Ouahigouya.

Économie

L'économie de Tougué-Mossi est essentiellement basée sur l'agro-pastoralisme, notamment dans le bas-fond pratiquant la culture de riz pluvial.

Santé et éducation

Tougué-Mossi accueille un centre de santé et de promotion sociale (CSPS) tandis que le centre hospitalier régional (CHR) se trouve à Ouahigouya.

Le village possède une école primaire publique.

Notes et références

Ville dans le département de Tangaye

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The whole blog thing, wordpress and the like, has become so common that some clients expect them and others, like myself, find it hard to get too excited about them. There is only so much you can do with the design and linear just get boring. Kind of like your neighbor showing you the jpegs his Canon 60D with the kits lens takes. He's thrilled, you see some mediocre images.
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18 August 2020 | Alex Camatta
The intention behind these interviews, which will be a regular feature, is to introduce you to the team members working hard behind the scenes at Shaw + Smith. From our winery and viticultural team, to the tasting room and office, we've got some great people for you to meet.
Tasting Room Manager, Alex Camatta, has taken on the mantle of chief interviewer, to share insights of what the team get up to, both in and outside of Shaw + Smith.
In this first instalment of our Interview Series, Alex introduces you to Tara Sullivan, Shaw + Smith's Wine Club manager and the face behind the emails and updates you receive from us.
Tara, could we have a snapshot of your early years, where you were born, went to school, your early plans and aspirations?
Born in Townsville in FNQ, my family then moved back to Adelaide when I was young. I grew up with parents and 3 brothers in the Adelaide foothills, attending school and University in SA, before venturing overseas at 21, on a year-long backpacking tour of Ireland and Europe. Travelling gave me a greater appreciation for what SA has to offer. Coming back, I was keen to stay in my home state, close to family, and concentrated on fulfilling a long-held aspiration of working in wine. I undertook marketing roles in a variety of industries, including finance, legal and tourism, before making the move to wine, first in the Barossa and then to the Adelaide Hills with Shaw + Smith.
What was it that drew you to the world of wine?
I believe that SA has a lot to offer as a wine and tourism destination. Wine is fun, and celebratory, creating a sense of occasion, and drinking wine brings people together. Also, the agricultural aspect really appeals to me. It's great to be involved in something that you really believe in. And being a hills dweller, I have particular regard for this beautiful region.
Tell us a little about your home life and how you spend your weekends?
Time spent with family is really important to me. I value weekends at home with my husband and daughter on our small property, around 20 acres of relatively hilly terrain. We have a small Chardonnay vineyard on a steep aspect, a real labour of love. My first attempt at making my own wine, pre-Shaw + Smith days, was a dismal failure. We've recently handed over the vineyard to a (winemaker) friend to manage and take the fruit. I've had more success with apple cider, made in a 'Scrumpy' style. We have a number of apple trees, as well as cherries. Also, a lemon orchard, along with sheep and a few chooks, surrounded by native bush.
When we first moved to the Hills, I was quite enchanted with the idea of becoming more self-sufficient. I admit to holding dreams of looming alpaca wool in the early days on the property, that never quite eventuated. But we have established a reasonable vegetable garden, a trout stocked dam, and my husband is creating an interesting topiary nursery, which is his thing.
We are close to the Heysen Trail, so there are some great walking tracks nearby. All in all, it's a pretty special place to call home.
Besides sharing with your colleagues, what is it that you do with all the surplus lemons?
Reminiscent of Forest Gump, and Bubba's litany of shrimp… Limoncello, lemon curd, lemon tarts, lemon cordial, lemonade…
Thank you, Tara. It was great to get a little more insight into the name behind the emails. Before we finish up, do you have a favourite wine memory or perfect wine-drinking scenario you would like to share with us?
Keeping it close to home… a long lunch with friends at the Star of Greece, Port Willunga… Chardonnay in the glass and some delicious seafood, is a great way to spend a Sunday (they are currently pouring our Lenswood Vineyard Chardonnay too!)
With winter still upon us, this scenario paints a welcome picture for what we have to look forward to, come spring.

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It will be a star-studded affair when didi rugby Gloucestershire launches on Sunday June 10.
Under the leadership of former England player Susie Appleby, didi rugby's latest franchise is edging closer to a launch that everyone is looking forward to.
And, along with Susie, who earned 65 England caps during an 11-year career at the top and now coaches Gloucester/Hartpury in the Tyrrells Premier 15s, there will be plenty of well-known faces there to join in the fun.
Danielle 'Nolli' Waterman is the latest World Cup winner and Olympian to confirm her attendance and she will be joined by Natasha Hunt and fellow England star, Ceri Large on what promises to be a memorable and fun-filled day.
"It's currently full steam ahead and we are all raring to go," said Susie, who will be running the franchise with fellow director Suzanne Appleby-Jones.
"We are really excited about introducing didi rugby into The Forest of Dean and the rest of Gloucestershire.
"There is a lack of activities for young people in the area and we want to make a real difference to rugby clubs, schools, pre-schools, other local business and the community around us.
didi rugby Gloucestershire will launch at Lydney RFC and free taster sessions for all age groups will be available between 10am and Midday.
Parents are invited to book their child in and come along to see what didi rugby has to offer. The England contingent will be joining in too and will be available for photos and autographs throughout the morning. Classes will then continue at Lydney on Wednesdays and Saturdays and other venues are expected to be confirmed soon.
"Parents, schools and local businesses have already been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive and we look forward to seeing as many people as possible on June 10 and beyond," added Susie.


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Emmy Award-winning Broadcaster
Hard hitting, inspiring, intelligent, honest, and direct: these are some of the words used to describe the style and approach of Emmy award winning broadcaster Ed Gordon. Known for his stellar interaction with newsmakers from the worlds of politics, entertainment, and sports.
Gordon is host and executive producer of Ed Gordon, an hour-long quarterly news magazine on Bounce TV. The first program included; an emotional interview with The Mothers of the Movement, a group of women whose children had been killed by senseless violence, a look at the movie, The Birth of a Nation and the controversy surrounding it's star and director Nate Parker and a one-on-one with singer, Maxwell. The program garnered nearly a million viewers on its premiere night.
Gordon also can be heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show where he gives his perspective on current national headlines. He also delivers, Right Now with Ed Gordon providing daily commentaries for radio stations across the country. He is also the host of the nationally syndicated radio program Weekend WITH ED GORDON. The 2-hour program is a mix of talk, information, entertainment, and music. It's been called "a fun, smart radio show for grown folks."
Gordon hosted and executive produced the nationally syndicated one-on-one program Conversations with Ed Gordon. Â The signature program allows Gordon to bring newsmakers and celebrities up-close and personal to viewers. Over the years guests have included: Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Kevin Hart, Steve Harvey, and Janet Jackson among many others.
Gordon continues to be on the forefront of news.  He conducted one-on-one interviews with President Barack Obama during his historic presidency. Gordon also anchored BET's coverage of the important 2012 Presidential election, Obama's second inauguration, Nelson Mandela's funeral from South Africa, and the 50th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington.
Gordon distinguished himself during two stints at BET. He's had many roles at the network including host of BET Tonight, anchor of BET News, and creator of his signature one-on-one series Conversation with Ed Gordon.
The list of impressive positions Gordon has held includes; contributing correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes II and contributor for NBC's Today Show and Dateline. NPR's News and Notes with Ed Gordon, MSNBC anchor & host of nationally syndicated television programs, Our World and Weekly with Ed Gordon
Over the years Gordon has covered many of the world's most defining events.
From the historic 2008 United States Presidential election, to the freedom of South Africa's Nelson Mandela, to the beating of Rodney King, to upheaval in Haiti and Cuba. He's also provided comprehensive coverage and up-to-the-minute reports on many other domestic and international affairs, including the tragic September 11th attack on America.
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Gordon's impressive portfolio also includes conversations with newsmakers the likes of Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, television mogul Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé', Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx and Halle Berry, as well as Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan, comedian Kevin Hart, actor Idris Elba and Michael Jackson among others.
In addition to an Emmy, Gordon is the recipient of many other awards recognizing his talent and professionalism. His awards include the NAACP Image Award, as well as the prestigious Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Gordon is an alumnus of a special list; PEOPLE magazine named him one of its 50 most beautiful people.
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We now know the big bang theory is (probably) not how the universe began
The Big Bang still happened a very long time ago, but it wasn't the beginning we once supposed it to be.
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Where did all this come from? In every direction we care to observe, we find stars, galaxies, clouds of gas and dust, tenuous plasmas, and radiation spanning the gamut of wavelengths: from radio to infrared to visible light to gamma rays. No matter where or how we look at the universe, it's full of matter and energy absolutely everywhere and at all times. And yet, it's only natural to assume that it all came from somewhere. If you want to know the answer to the biggest question of all — the question of our cosmic origins — you have to pose the question to the universe itself, and listen to what it tells you.
Today, the universe as we see it is expanding, rarifying (getting less dense), and cooling. Although it's tempting to simply extrapolate forward in time, when things will be even larger, less dense, and cooler, the laws of physics allow us to extrapolate backward just as easily. Long ago, the universe was smaller, denser, and hotter. How far back can we take this extrapolation? Mathematically, it's tempting to go as far as possible: all the way back to infinitesimal sizes and infinite densities and temperatures, or what we know as a singularity. This idea, of a singular beginning to space, time, and the universe, was long known as the Big Bang.
But physically, when we looked closely enough, we found that the universe told a different story. Here's how we know the Big Bang isn't the beginning of the universe anymore.
Theoretical roots of big bang
Like most stories in science, the origin of the Big Bang has its roots in both theoretical and experimental/observational realms. On the theory side, Einstein put forth his general theory of relativity in 1915: a novel theory of gravity that sought to overthrow Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Although Einstein's theory was far more intricate and complicated, it wasn't long before the first exact solutions were found.
In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild found the solution for a pointlike mass, which describes a nonrotating black hole.
In 1917, Willem de Sitter found the solution for an empty universe with a cosmological constant, which describes an exponentially expanding universe.
From 1916 to 1921, the Reissner-Nordström solution, found independently by four researchers, described the spacetime for a charged, spherically symmetric mass.
In 1921, Edward Kasner found a solution that described a matter-and-radiation-free universe that's anisotropic: different in different directions.
In 1922, Alexander Friedmann discovered the solution for an isotropic (same in all directions) and homogeneous (same at all locations) universe, where any and all types of energy, including matter and radiation, were present.
That last one was very compelling for two reasons. One is that it appeared to describe our universe on the largest scales, where things appear similar, on average, everywhere and in all directions. And two, if you solved the governing equations for this solution — the Friedmann equations — you'd find that the universe it describes cannot be static, but must either expand or contract.
This idea, of a singular beginning to space, time, and the universe, was long known as the Big Bang. But physically, when we looked closely enough, we found that the universe told a different story.
This latter fact was recognized by many, including Einstein, but it wasn't taken particularly seriously until the observational evidence began to support it. In the 1910s, astronomer Vesto Slipher started observing certain nebulae, which some argued might be galaxies outside of our Milky Way, and found that they were moving fast: far faster than any other objects within our galaxy. Moreover, the majority of them were moving away from us, with fainter, smaller nebulae generally appearing to move faster.
Then, in the 1920s, Edwin Hubble began measuring individual stars in these nebulae and eventually determined the distances to them. Not only were they much farther away than anything else in the galaxy, but the ones at the greater distances were moving away faster than the closer ones.
The universe was expanding.
An illustration of our cosmic history, from the Big Bang until the present, within the context of the expanding universe. The first Friedmann equation describes all of these epochs, from inflation to the Big Bang to the present and far into the future, perfectly accurately, even today. (Credit: NASA/WMAP science team)
Cornerstones of the big bang theory
Georges Lemaître was the first, in 1927, to recognize this. Upon discovering the expansion, he extrapolated backward, theorizing — as any competent mathematician might — that you could go as far back as you wanted: to what he called the primeval atom. In the beginning, he realized, the universe was a hot, dense, and rapidly expanding collection of matter and radiation, and everything around us emerged from this primordial state.
This idea was later developed by others to make a set of additional predictions:
The universe, as we see it today, is more evolved than it was in the past. The farther back we look in space, the farther back we're also looking in time. So, the objects we see back then should be younger, less gravitationally clumpy, less massive, with fewer heavy elements, and with less-evolved structure. There should even be a point beyond which no stars or galaxies were present.
At some point, the radiation was so hot that neutral atoms couldn't stably form, because radiation would reliably kick any electrons off of the nuclei they were attempting to bind to, and so there should be a leftover — now cold and sparse — bath of cosmic radiation from this time.
At some extremely early time it would have been so hot that even atomic nuclei would be blasted apart, implying there was an early, pre-stellar phase where nuclear fusion would have occurred: Big Bang nucleosynthesis. From that, we expect there to have been at least a population of light elements and their isotopes spread throughout the universe before any stars formed.
In conjunction with the expanding universe, these four points would become the cornerstone of the Big Bang.
A dangerous game
The growth and evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe, of individual galaxies, and of the stellar populations found within those galaxies all validates the Big Bang's predictions.
The discovery of a bath of radiation just ~3 K above absolute zero was the key evidence that validated the Big Bang and eliminated many of its most popular alternatives. And the discovery and measurement of the light elements and their ratios — including hydrogen, deuterium, helium-3, helium-4, and lithium-7 — revealed not only which type of nuclear fusion occurred prior to the formation of stars, but also the total amount of normal matter that exists in the universe.
But extrapolating beyond the limits of your measurable evidence is a dangerous, albeit tempting, game to play.
Extrapolating back to as far as your evidence can take you is a tremendous success for science. The physics that took place during the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang imprinted itself onto the universe, enabling us to test our models, theories, and understanding of the universe from that time. The earliest observable imprint, in fact, is the cosmic neutrino background, whose effects show up in both the cosmic microwave background (the Big Bang's leftover radiation) and the universe's large-scale structure. This neutrino background comes to us, remarkably, from just ~1 second into the hot Big Bang.
But extrapolating beyond the limits of your measurable evidence is a dangerous, albeit tempting, game to play. After all, if we can trace the hot Big Bang back some 13.8 billion years, all the way to when the universe was less than 1 second old, what's the harm in going all the way back just one additional second: to the singularity predicted to exist when the universe was 0 seconds old?
The answer, surprisingly, is that there's a tremendous amount of harm. The reason this is problematic is because beginning at a singularity — at arbitrarily high temperatures, arbitrarily high densities, and arbitrarily small volumes — will have consequences for our universe that aren't necessarily supported by observations.
For example, if the universe began from a singularity, then it must have sprung into existence with exactly the right balance of "stuff" in it — matter and energy combined — to precisely balance the expansion rate. If there were just a tiny bit more matter, the initially expanding universe would have already recollapsed by now. And if there were a tiny bit less, things would have expanded so quickly that the universe would be much larger than it is today.
The reason this is problematic is because beginning at a singularity — at arbitrarily high temperatures, arbitrarily high densities, and arbitrarily small volumes — will have consequences for our universe that aren't necessarily supported by observations.
And yet, instead, what we're observing is that the universe's initial expansion rate and the total amount of matter and energy within it balance as perfectly as we can measure.
If the Big Bang began from a singularity, we have no explanation; we simply have to assert "the universe was born this way," or, as physicists ignorant of Lady Gaga call it, "initial conditions."
Similarly, a universe that reached arbitrarily high temperatures would be expected to possess leftover high-energy relics, like magnetic monopoles, but we don't observe any. The universe would also be expected to be different temperatures in regions that are causally disconnected from one another — i.e., are in opposite directions in space at our observational limits — and yet the universe is observed to have equal temperatures everywhere to 99.99%+ precision.
Cosmic inflation
We're always free to appeal to initial conditions as the explanation for anything, and say, "well, the universe was born this way, and that's that." But we're always far more interested, as scientists, if we can come up with an explanation for the properties we observe.
That's precisely what cosmic inflation gives us, plus more. Inflation says, sure, extrapolate the hot Big Bang back to a very early, very hot, very dense, very uniform state, but stop yourself before you go all the way back to a singularity. If you want the universe to have the expansion rate and the total amount of matter and energy in it balance, you'll need some way to set it up in that fashion. The same applies for a universe with the same temperatures everywhere. On a slightly different note, if you want to avoid high-energy relics, you need some way to both get rid of any preexisting ones, and then avoid creating new ones by forbidding your universe from getting too hot once again.
Inflation accomplishes this by postulating a period, prior to the hot Big Bang, where the universe was dominated by a large cosmological constant (or something that behaves similarly): the same solution found by de Sitter way back in 1917. This phase stretches the universe flat, gives it the same properties everywhere, gets rid of any pre-existing high-energy relics, and prevents us from generating new ones by capping the maximum temperature reached after inflation ends and the hot Big Bang ensues. Furthermore, by assuming there were quantum fluctuations generated and stretched across the universe during inflation, it makes new predictions for what types of imperfections the universe would begin with.
Since it was hypothesized back in the 1980s, inflation has been tested in a variety of ways against the alternative: a universe that began from a singularity. When we stack up the scorecard, we find the following:
Inflation reproduces all of the successes of the hot Big Bang; there's nothing that the hot Big Bang accounts for that inflation can't also account for.
Inflation offers successful explanations for the puzzles that we simply have to say "initial conditions" for in the hot Big Bang.
Of the predictions where inflation and a hot Big Bang without inflation differ, four of them have been tested to sufficient precision to discriminate between the two. On those four fronts, inflation is 4-for-4, while the hot Big Bang is 0-for-4.
But things get really interesting if we look back at our idea of "the beginning." Whereas a universe with matter and/or radiation — what we get with the hot Big Bang — can always be extrapolated back to a singularity, an inflationary universe cannot. Due to its exponential nature, even if you run the clock back an infinite amount of time, space will only approach infinitesimal sizes and infinite temperatures and densities; it will never reach it. This means, rather than inevitably leading to a singularity, inflation absolutely cannot get you to one by itself. The idea that "the universe began from a singularity, and that's what the Big Bang was," needed to be jettisoned the moment we recognized that an inflationary phase preceded the hot, dense, and matter-and-radiation-filled one we inhabit today.
The idea that "the universe began from a singularity, and that's what the Big Bang was," needed to be jettisoned the moment we recognized that an inflationary phase preceded the hot, dense, and matter-and-radiation-filled one we inhabit today.
This new picture gives us three important pieces of information about the beginning of the universe that run counter to the traditional story that most of us learned. First, the original notion of the hot Big Bang, where the universe emerged from an infinitely hot, dense, and small singularity — and has been expanding and cooling, full of matter and radiation ever since — is incorrect. The picture is still largely correct, but there's a cutoff to how far back in time we can extrapolate it.
Second, observations have well established the state that occurred prior to the hot Big Bang: cosmic inflation. Before the hot Big Bang, the early universe underwent a phase of exponential growth, where any preexisting components to the universe were literally "inflated away." When inflation ended, the universe reheated to a high, but not arbitrarily high, temperature, giving us the hot, dense, and expanding universe that grew into what we inhabit today.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, we can no longer speak with any sort of knowledge or confidence as to how — or even whether — the universe itself began. By the very nature of inflation, it wipes out any information that came before the final few moments: where it ended and gave rise to our hot Big Bang. Inflation could have gone on for an eternity, it could have been preceded by some other nonsingular phase, or it could have been preceded by a phase that did emerge from a singularity. Until the day comes where we discover how to extract more information from the universe than presently seems possible, we have no choice but to face our ignorance. The Big Bang still happened a very long time ago, but it wasn't the beginning we once supposed it to be.
This article was originally published on our sister site, Big Think. Read the original article here.
Physicists claim to have generated matter from pure light particles for the first time — a spectacular display of Einstein's most famous equation.
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Taiwan compatriots confident in developing mainland
Updated: Oct 31, 2022 By Zhang Yi CHINA DAILY Print
Taiwan compatriots examine a book about the reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits at an exhibition showcasing China's development during the past decade in Beijing on Saturday. ZHANG YI/CHINA DAILY
Taiwan compatriots who work or study in Beijing have expressed confidence in the development of the Chinese mainland and their expectations for the reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits after a visit to an exhibition showcasing achievements made over the past 10 years.
The exhibition, Forging Ahead in the New Era, at the Beijing Exhibition Hall, includes a demonstration of achievements in deepening cross-Straits integration, curbing separatist attempts for "Taiwan independence", and safeguarding the prospects for peaceful reunification.
At the area demonstrating cross-Straits exchanges, a picture showcasing several young volunteers from Taiwan providing services at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics during this year's Spring Festival holiday is displayed on the wall.
One of them is Chen Wen-cheng from Changhua in Taiwan, a teacher at the Department of Physical Education at Peking University. Chen, who visited the exhibition on Saturday, was a leader of a volunteer team for the Winter Games — consisting of seven students studying at universities in Beijing and three young people working in the city.
"I feel excited, but more moved. It's a great memory," the 32-year-old said after seeing his picture at the exhibition. "I will contribute more efforts to cross-Straits exchanges and help more Taiwan young people see the development on the mainland."
Chen Szu-chun, of Taiwan's New Party and who currently works in Beijing, said at the exhibition he saw that the mainland has achieved its first centenary goal — winning the battle against poverty — and made great strides in all aspects in the past decade.
However, Chen said he felt a little pity that there was no Taiwan region in the display area focusing on the development of the provincial regions, even though the outcome of cross-Straits exchanges and efforts to achieve the reunification of the two sides are demonstrated.
"On the way to the second centenary goal, Taiwan will not and cannot be absent," he said. "I hope in the future I can see the Taiwan region in the exhibition and people in Taiwan can live better lives after reunification."
Shen Hung-jui, from New Taipei City of Taiwan and now a graduate student of world economy at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "My deepest feeling is that the motherland really cares about and supports those of us from Taiwan. I hope the two sides can achieve reunification as soon as possible as it's beneficial to people in Taiwan."
Shen said he often encourages his friends in Taiwan to pay visits to the mainland and see the place for themselves so that they can understand that the mainland is completely different from what they see in some Taiwan media.
"I have visited some once-impoverished counties in Sichuan province, and saw their development," he said, adding, "Taiwan people should take an objective view of the mainland's system and they will find the system really brings the country better development."
Chou Yu-chieh, a senior student from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, visited the exhibition with other students from Taiwan and said she was impressed by the high-tech achievements on display.
"I will consider pursuing graduate studies at a university in Beijing," said the 21-year-old who is on a half-year exchange program at Renmin University of China in Beijing, as she wants to experience the culture on the mainland.
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Are major economies suffering from the deficiency of demand?
In his article "The curse of weak global demand", Financial Times November 18, 2014, the economics columnist Martin Wolf wrote that today's most important economic illness is chronic demand deficiency syndrome. Martin Wolf argues that despite massive monetary pumping by the central banks of US and EMU and the lowering policy interest rates to around zero both the US and the EMU economies have continued to struggle.
After reaching 1.0526 in Q1 2006 the US real GDP to its trend ratio fell to 0.966 by Q3 2011. By Q3 2014 the ratio stood at 0.98. The ratio of EMU real GDP to its trend after closing at 1.061 in Q1 2008 fell to 0.954 by Q3 2014.
Martin Wolf is of the view that what is needed is to raise the overall demand for goods and services in order to revive economies. He also holds that there is a need to revive consumer confidence that was weakened by the severe weakening of the financial system.
He is also of the view that there is a need for the banks to lift their lending in order to revive demand, which in turn, he suggests, will revive the economies in question. He also blames massive debt for the economic difficulties that the US and the EMU economies are currently experiencing.
Martin Wolf views the current economic illness as some mysterious and complex phenomena, which requires complex and non-conventional remedies.
We suggest that the essence of Wolf's argument is erroneous. Here is why.
There is no such thing as deficiency of demand that causes economic difficulties. The heart of economic growth is the process of real wealth generation.
The stronger this process is the more real wealth can be generated and the stronger so-called economic growth becomes. What drives this process is infrastructure, or tools and machinery. With better infrastructure more and a better quality of goods and services i.e. real wealth, can be generated.
Take for instance a baker who has produced ten loaves of bread. Out of this he consumes one loaf and the other nine he saves.
He can exchange the saved bread for the services of a technician who will enhance the oven. With an improved oven the baker can now produce twenty loaves of bread. Now he can save more and use the larger savings pool to further invest in his infrastructure such as buying other tools that will lift the production and the quality of the bread.
Observe that the key for wealth generation is the ability to generate real wealth. This in turn is dependent on the allocation of the part of wealth towards the buildup and the enhancement of the infrastructure.
Also, note that if the baker were to decide to consume his entire production i.e. keeping his demand strong, then he would not be able to expand the production of bread (real wealth).
As time goes by his infrastructure would have likely deteriorated and his production would have actually declined.
The belief that an increase in the demand for bread without a corresponding increase in the infrastructure will do the trick is wishful thinking.
We suggest that there is no such thing as a scarce demand. Most individuals have unlimited desires for goods and services.
For instance, most individuals would prefer to live in nice houses rather than in small apartments.
Most people would like to have luxuries cars and be able to dine in good quality restaurants. What prevents them in achieving these various desires is the scarcity of means.
In fact as things stand most individuals have plenty of desires i.e. goals, but not enough means.
Unfortunately means cannot be generated by boosting demand. This will only increase goals but not means.
Contrary to the popular way of thinking we can conclude that demand doesn't create supply but the other way around.
As we have seen by producing something useful i.e. bread, the baker can exchange it for the services of a technician and boost his infrastructure.
By means of the enhanced infrastructure the baker can generate more bread i.e. more means that will enable him to attain various other goals that previously were not reachable by him.
The current economic difficulties are the outcome of past and present reckless monetary and fiscal policies of central banks and governments.
It must be realized that neither central banks nor governments are wealth generating entities. All that they can set in motion is a process of real wealth redistribution by diverting real wealth from wealth generators towards non-wealth generating activities.
As long as the pool of real wealth is expanding the central bank and the government can get away with the myth that their policies can grow the economy.
Once however, the pool of wealth becomes stagnant or starts shrinking the illusion of the central bank and government policies are shattered.
It is not possible to expand real wealth whilst the pool of real wealth is shrinking. Again a shrinking pool of wealth over time can only support a shrinking infrastructure and hence a reduced production of goods and services that people require to maintain their life and well being – real wealth.
The way out of the current economic mess is to close all the loopholes of wealth destruction. This means to severely cut government involvement with the economy. It also, requires closing all the loopholes for the creation of money out of "thin air".
By curtailing the central bank's ability to boost money out of "thin air" the exchange of nothing for something will be arrested. This will leave more real wealth in the hands of wealth generators and will enable them to enhance and to expand the wealth generating infrastructure.
Contrary to Martin Wolf the expanding of bank loans as such is not going to revive the economy. As we have seen the key for the economic revival is the buildup of infrastructure that could support an expanding pool of real wealth.
Banks are just the facilitators in the channeling of real wealth. However, they do not generate real wealth as such.
The lending expansion that Martin Wolf suggests is associated with fractional reserve lending i.e. lending out of "thin air" and in this respect it is bad news for the economy – it sets in motion the diversion of real wealth from wealth generators to non wealth generating activities.
We can conclude that the sooner governments and central banks will start doing nothing the sooner economic revival will emerge. We agree with Martin Wolf that the economic situation currently seems to be difficult; however, it cannot be improved by artificially boosting the demand for goods and services.
Some experts are of the view that today's most important economic illness is chronic demand deficiency syndrome. It is because of this deficiency that world economies are still struggling despite massive monetary pumping by central banks, or so it is held. We suggest that this way of thinking is erroneous. The key problem today is a severe weakening in the wealth generation process. The main reason for this is reckless monetary and government policies. We hold that the sooner central banks and governments start doing nothing the sooner economic revival will occur.
So investment and better infrastructure leads to more wealth? This is Earth shatteringly original stuff. Shostack deserves Nobel Prize.
As for Shostck's claim that the fact that the baker and technician swap goods and services, that does not support Say's law (i.e. the idea that supply creates demand). It is widely accepted that Say's law works in barter economies. But that law gets into difficulties in money economies – a point which I doubt Shostak will ever understand.
It is widely accepted that Say's law works in barter economies. But that law gets into difficulties in money economies – a point which I doubt Shostak will ever understand.
The only possible reason that Say's Law might not work in "money economies" is the government intrusion into trade that results from the unlimited money it can print. In the end, though, it doesn't really disprove Say's Law — it only obfuscates it.
Economic law can be ignored, but it doesn't cease to exist.


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Q: Add primary key to a table with many records I have a table in SQL Server 2005 containing 10000054 records; these records are inserted through a bulk insert operation. The table does not contain a primary key and I want to have one. If I try to modify the table's structure, adding a new column, PK, set as int with isidentity, the management console gives me a warning:
"Changes to tables with large amounts of data could take a considerable amount of time. While changes are being saved, table data will not be accessible."
then outputs error:
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Unable to modify table.
Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
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I want a PK into my table.
How can I add it?

A: If in Management Studio you set the primary key in Design view (without saving), when you next right click you have an option "Generate Change Script" - this option is also available on the "Table Designer" menu at the top.
That provides the raw SQL (safely wrapped in a transaction) which you can copy to clipboard, take that over to run as a New Query (button top left, or File > New > Query with Current Connection), paste it in, select the right DB and execute the query.

A: I know this is older but I ran into this and solved it a different way. Assuming you're using SSMS 2008, you could go into Tools --> Options
Under 'Designers' then 'Table and Database Designers', change the 'Transaction time-out after'
value. Default is 30, 0 is for infinite. Try to create the Primary Key after increasing the value.
This tends to be a lot quicker than; creating a new DB, copying the data, deleting the old Db and renaming the new db to the old db. After you're done applying the Primary Key you can set the timeout back to 30 too - if you wish, your choice.
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Adding a screenshot

A: Try to generate the SQL script and issue it from a SQL Query window.

A: make a new table with exact schema and make the desired column the primary key. Now using select to insert copy the records from one table to another.
When completed then delete the old table and rename this new table to the desired name.

A: you can make a table with primary key. when insert data with bcp you can use a format file to map columns. format file for bulk copy is a good solution.
with this solution you insert data with identity information.

A: From you response to David I get you do not have a suitable column for primary key. In this case you could add an int identity as the last column of the table, bulk insert would continue to work.
As the table is loaded with a bulk insert the best option would be truncate the table (truncate table MYTBL); alter it, adding the ID (alter table TBL add ID int identity primary key) and re issue the bulk load.
If you cannot rebulk the table you could use stamp or hassan solution to alter the table.

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Posts Tagged 'Jeff Bridges'
Long Live the Dude: Gail Levin Chronicles Jeff Bridges for "American Masters"
January 5, 2011 leoadambiga	2 comments
My friend and sometime subject, documentary filmmaker Gail Levin, has a new work premiering Jan. 12 on PBS for American Masters — a profile of Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges. Her film, Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides, comes just short of a year since the star accepted the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bad Blake in Crazy Heart. He may well be in contention for the award again on the strength of his performance in the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit. I interviewed Levin by phone during a break from her editing of the film in New York, where she lives. I haven's seen the film, except for a brief excerpt you can find yourself on the American Masters web site. But I know her work very well, and she's handled similar assignments profiling acting legends quite well. I expect the same with this project. Levin is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared before on both American Masters and Great Performances. On this blog site you can find some of my earlier stories about Gail and her films The Tall Ship Lindo, Making the Misfits, James Dean, Sense Memories, and Marilyn Monroe – Still Life. My story on Levin and her Jeff Bridges film is published in The Reader (www.thereader.com).
NOTE: Now that I have seen Levin's film — on the rebound in a late night reprise screening — I can now say that it one of the better profiles of an actor I have ever seen. Even though Levin expressed frustration to me at not getting in as deep or close with Bridges as she would have liked, I feel like I now have an authentic appreciation for who he is and how he conducts himself in his life and in his art. As I mentioned to Levin when we spoke about the project, I have always felt that Bridges was hugely unappreciated and I think her film will be part of an ongoing reevaluation of his work and his career that will recognize him as one of the masters of his craft.
Author of Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film
Published in The Reader (www.thereader.com)
Omaha native and Emmy Award-winning documentarian Gail Levin profiles actor Jeff Bridges in a new film kicking off the 25th season of American Masters, a series produced for PBS by New York Public Media THIRTEEN in association with WNET.
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides premieres Jan. 12, showing locally on NET at 9 p.m.
Susan Lacy, Jeff Bridges, Gail Levin
Levin, an Omaha Central High graduate long based in Manhattan, says the project has been on quick turnaround to parlay the heat surrounding Bridges. A year ago he won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as country musician Bad Blake in Crazy Heart. Oddsmakers predict a nomination for his rendition of lawman Rooster Cogburn in the Coen brothers' True Grit.
"We're really trying to take advantage of all the energy and buzz of everything that's going on with him," says Levin (Making the Misfits, James Dean: Sense Memories).
Her film reveals Bridges as a multi-faceted creative. In addition to acting he's a musician. He performs with his band The Abiders. He's also a photographer, painter, potter, and vintner. Performing his own music in Crazy Heart surprised many, but it was simply an extension of what he's always done.
"His great love is music, and it has been all throughout his life," she says. "He's now really playing a lot of music, doing gigs. We've got a lot of footage of him. We shot at this funny little place he played in Niagara Falls."
She also captured him at a Zen symposium.
"I don't know that he would call himself a Buddhist, but he's certainly in that ether at the moment. He's very involved with a group called Zen Peacemakers."
Levin was struck by a passage Bridges wrote in the intro to his book Pictures, a sampling of images the actor takes on movie sets and gifts as photo albums to cast and crew. In describing why he prefers the panoramic Widelux still camera, he offers a key to his creative method:
"…it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that. It's something I aspire to in all my work — a lack of preciousness that makes things more human and honest, a willingness to receive what's there in the moment, and to let go of the result. Getting out of the way seems to be one of the main tasks for me as an artist."
For Levin, the insight helps explain what makes Bridges a durable star 40 years since his feature breakthrough in The Last Picture Show.
In her interviews with him, his family and colleagues Levin found he's more complex than his public Everyman-Next-Door, laid-back Dude persona.
"The interesting truth about him is that he's rather tortured all the time. He says in the film he's rather reluctant to all of this (film career). I think he came to it obviously through the legacy of his father (the late actor Lloyd Bridges) and his older brother Beau, But he even says he's a little bit lazy, he's got a little of the Dude in him, and it's always kind of hard for him to kind of gear himself up again."
This "drag me to the party" resistance and ambivalence is how he moves through life. She says some Bridges collaborators, such as Terry Gilliam and John Goodman, speak to his cautious approach.
"He's not a spontaneous, improvisational actor," says Levin. "He really needs to know what and where. He has guides who school him in being a junkie or a drunk. He takes that all very seriously and seems to form close relationships with these people who sort of become his models for how to play various parts.
"I think he's very particular about the kinds of things he chooses. I think he picks films that have some intrigue for him and not necessarily what are going to be the biggest blockbusters. He's a very individual star. I think he's really on his own path."
While Levin enjoyed "amazing access" to Bridges and Co., she found his well-protected veneer hard to penetrate:
"You'll see in this film there's a much darker side to Jeff than people realize, and this kind of push-me, pull-you about the acting is really a great revelation. People think he's easy going about it, and he's really not. But he doesn't divulge dark disappointments and things like that. Others say it."
She says if there are secrets to pry loose, "you gotta be long and deep with him," adding she didn't establish a rapport that might have led to such intimacies.
As for Bridges being an American Master, she says, "He's worked with remarkable directors, he has an extraordinary body of work. He's an amazing amalgam. He's an artist on many, many levels."
Jeff Bridges looks back on "Lebowski" for "The Dude Abides" (hollywoodnews.com)
WATCH: Jeff Bridges Almost Told Coen Brothers No On 'Big Lebowski' (huffingtonpost.com)
Jeff Bridges, from The Dude to The Duke (thestar.com)
Jeff Bridges Previews Debut Album at L.A. Show (musicbusinessheretic.wordpress.com)
Jeff Bridges Looking to Adapt and Star in 'The Giver' (moviefone.com)
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Gail Levin takes on American master James Dean
September 20, 2010 leoadambiga	1 comment
My friend Gail Levin is a talented documentarian whose award-winning work covers many subjects, although she has a particular knack for portraying artists and creatives. Many of her recent feature length documentaries have appeared on PBS and this story for The Reader (www.thereader.com) is about one of those films, a look at the enigmatic James Dean, the brilliant Method actor whose bright flame was extinguished far too early. In part because of the resonant parts he played with such ferocity and in part because he did die so tragically young, he remains a symbol of youth angst and rebellion more than 50 years after his passing. My story for The Reader (www.thereader.com) explores both what Levin tried to capture and what Dean represented on screen. I am posting other pieces about Levin and her work, including one on her documentary Marilyn (Monroe). She profiled a latter day American rebel actor, Jeff Bridges, in a documentary for American Masters earlier this year. Bridges is one of my favorite actors, and I believe he's every inch the artist Dean was but I must say that Dean had a spell-binding quality that only a few other actors possessed. Marlon Brando was one. Montgomery Clift was another. Both born in my hometown of Omaha, by the way.
James Dean.
Chameleon. Seducer. Seeker. Rebel. Artist. Icon. The embodiment of youthful angst and the preternaturally old soul in touch with the ages. The epitome of cool. A timeless presence. An original. Seething with curiosity. Sampling life's diverse offerings. Always running, yearning, racing. Forever young and free.
He's one of those select figures whose legacy transcends time and culture. In this 50th anniversary year of Dean's death, it's hard imagining anyone who doesn't know of the actor and his story. His coming from a shattered family in rural Indiana to make his way out west, where he pursued the Hollywood dream. Studying acting. Landing bit parts in some good and some forgettable films. Then rashly taking off for New York, where things broke big for him on stage and in live television. Doing the Actor's Studio thing. The buzz from his Broadway and TV work got the same L.A. suits who barely noticed him before to come courting.
There was the remarkable string of three starring films he made for Warners, each directed by a master, all within a span of 18 months. Then, on the verge of superstardom, he died September 30, 1955 in an auto crash on a remote stretch of California Route 466. Apropos of his free spirit image, he died in a sports car en route to compete in a race. He was 24. His legendary status ensured not so much by an early death as by the enduringly fine work he left behind and the sublime expression he gave to emblematic characters. Three coveted roles came his way. His animus perfectly suited each and he made them entirely his own. Was it coincidence or serendipity or something else?
The art imitating life aspects of Dean and his very real dedication to his craft are the subjects of a new American Masters documentary, James Dean: Sense Memories, premiering May 11 at 8 p.m. (CST) on PBS. Its creator, New York-based, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Gail Levin (Making the Misfits), is an Omaha native and a longtime Dean admirer. In a recent conversation, the producer-director-writer said, "I loved making this film. It felt very true to me make this one."
Dean is among many noted artists she's profiled in her 30-plus-year career. With Sense Memories, the Central High graduate's made an impressionistic film evocative of what made Dean the Beat poet among his acting generation and a style setter over the years. If only an interesting personality with killer good looks, his influence would have faded by now. If not an accomplished actor, his performances would be passe, his films dismissed. No, he's still a vital presence and symbol because of a kind of genius — certainly, innovation — for exuding truth.
Director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond), once a struggling young actor with Dean in New York, says in the film, "It was so clear that he was a special person. Every moment that you spent with him you knew you were with an original. Strange and peculiar and arresting — you couldn't take your eyes off him."
Sense Memories is fixed in that time and place when Dean emerged on the scene, like Elvis, as a new breed of hep cat straining against convention. Actor Martin Landau, a crony of Dean's in the '50s, describes how Dean personified post-war America's existential modern man — "a different kind of animal…that represented unrest and dissatisfaction with the status quo." In sketching Dean's life to a John Faddis jazz score and a black and white (actually, desaturated color) visual motif, Levin's made a mood piece eloquent of an age of anxiety and possibility and devoid of the cliche and gossip that can distort an icon as potent as Dean.
"There's been a ton of stuff that's been done, and a lot of it is very tawdry," she said, "which is really never where I wanted to go with this film. I really wanted the point for this film to be that his art and life were so close. Because he was so raw, it allowed him to inhabit these characters and to live those feelings and yet to have that one degree of separation that maybe made it less painful somehow. Although I think he lived that pain in his life, too. And then there was his exceptional collaboration with three directors of enormous stature and his truly good work for them. I think that is…often overlooked in telling the Dean story."
To flesh out the man behind the myth, Levin filmed reminiscences with intimates of his from those halcyon days of new ideas and spectacular talents. The title,Sense Memories, refers both to the enigmatic portrait painted of Dean by his friends' burnished recollections and to the Method Acting technique Dean presumably employed to elicit his extraordinary range of emotions on screen.
"It's Rashomon. It's just people's memories, and some of them jive with each other and some of them don't," she said. "It's meant to be interpretive. It's not meant to be in any way a chronology. It's not meant to be a biography. It's just meant to evoke him from the experiences and memories of people who really knew him."
She said it's no accident Dean surrounded himself with special people. "There's this range of exceptional men and women he found as friends and soulmates, and they're all quite exotic little flowers. They all achieved a level of greatness themselves. They were there when it was all happening. Great music. Great art. Great theater. They were all touched by it and were all in it with him."
Levin cast, lit and shot her on-camera observers as though characters in a drama of Dean's life, which in a sense they were. Shot against a stark white backdrop and at an extreme angle, the texture of their faces and the vividness of their personalities come out and create a stream-of-consciousness effect when juxtaposed with the Dean images. "I am not afraid of a talking head. I like a tight shot. I like faces. I want to see them. I believe you hear people better the closer in the camera is," she said. Tony Huston described to her how his father, The Misfits' director John Huston, considered the human face "a landscape unto itself" and therefore something to be explored in detail. "And I shoot like that," she said.
As Levin's film reveals, Dean embraced life the way a method actor tackles a role, living in the moment and shaping the rhythm of his external self to the driving riffs inside him. His circle of friends was eclectic, cutting across age, race, gender, sexual persuasion, occupation, et cetera. He became whatever the circumstance called for and sought whatever he thought was missing.
Entertainer Eartha Kitt recalls she and Dean hanging out with: "We'd sit on the street benches on Hollywood and Vine and watch the night people. 'That's where we get our characters,' he said." That close observation and deep curiosity is what great artists have in common. It's what allowed Dean to submerge himself in character and imbue himself so fully in it that his work rung authentic and fresh, as if happening for the first time. A student of human behavior, he applied research and technique to his creative process and then let his instincts take over.
"He was becoming one of America's greatest actors," Kitt says. "He instinctively knew what to do with a character because his spirit was free. It was quite interesting the way he went about it — methodically and then unmethodically."
Dean was a mass of contradictions who gave and took from others as he saw fit and this ability to be different things to different people is part of the appeal he holds for us as viewers. With Kazan and Ray, for example, he felt protected and appreciated. Given free rein and much nurturing, the acolyte went out on a limb for them. With Giant director George Stevens, however, he was a petulant pain-in-the-ass unhappily constrained and stymied by G.S.'s penchant for many takes.
Perhaps the dichotomy of Dean is best articulated by actress Lois Smith, who played opposite him in Eden and recalls "a sweet rustic person, but on the other hand there was this suspicious, taut, guarded young man — and both of them seemed always present and, of course, that's a thrilling tension."
Just as Dean projected the tension of his complex inner life, he was a mimic and sponge who drew on persons, events and places as studies for his art.
"He was very willing to put himself in the hands of people he trusted," Levin said, "but that trust was hard won. As his friend, writer William Bast, says, 'he was very needy' and he knew what he needed. I think he was a very canny guy about all those things. I think he definitely was living on the edge because he was so hungry for experience. He was definitely trying to take of everything."
Separated from his mother at age 9, when she died of cancer, and spurned by his father, he attached himself to older men like Kazan and Ray and he acted out the demons of his real loss and neglect in the characters he played.
In Eden, Dean was — as we hear the late Kazan say — the incarnation of Cal Trask's "twisted boy. Twisted by the denial of love." Following a hunch, Kazan knew Dean/Trask were in "search for love everywhere and in every way." Landau said Dean "understood pain." Cal's search for his lost mother mirrors Dean's own sense of maternal abandonment. Cal is also desperate to earn his cold, stern father's love. Dean's life resonated with similar longing. After his mother died, his father dropped out, not seeing him again until years later. In Rebel, Jim Stark craves a strong father figure in the same way Dean craved one, too. In Giant, Dean plays Jett Rink, the quintessential wildcatter that goes his own way. Similarly, Bast says Dean brandished "a completely independent attitude" toward work and life.
Ultimately, what makes Dean still fascinating is his ageless quality. "He is so timeless," said Levin. "His androgyny is way ahead of its time because it's so completely in its time right now. You look at him in those films and in every shot he looks totally modern. He's the one in Rebel who looks completely timeless, while the rest of them look like children of the '50s. The same thing is true in Eden. Every single frame of him could have been taken yesterday. With his shabby yet seductive good looks, you might as well be looking at Brad Pitt or Colin Farrell. That great Times Square picture where he walks in the rain, cigarette in his mouth, and coat collar pulled up — my God, it just doesn't get any better than that."
That image has "influenced" Levin. "It's a perfect picture to me. It's everything black and white photography should do. It's full of atmosphere and contrast, lights and darks and varying shades of gray, and then there's THIS guy. It's informed the look of my films. I tried capturing that era's beautiful black and white photography in this film." The man who made that image, famed Magnum shooter and Levin friend Dennis Stock, planted the seed for the Dean film when he told her: "'It's going to be the 50th anniversary, and we should do something.' So, in a sense," Levin said, "this project has completed a circle."
Dean's only the latest in a gallery of notables she's documented: Martin Scorsese, Stephen Frears, Francis Ford Coppola, John Singleton, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Richard Dreyfuss, Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, Whoopi Goldberg, Joni Mitchell, Bobby McFerrin, Paul McCartney, Yo-Yo Ma, Franco Zeferelli, Red Auerbach. Besides American Masters, her work has appeared on PBS's Great Performances, the A & E network and the satellite channel VOOM.
Her work reflects an eclectic background. She grew up the only daughter of "an erudite" Nebraska Jewish family with a string of retail clothing stores and a taste for the arts and humanities. Her extended family included a pair of English teachers/published poets and a psychologist pioneer in the field of aging. Levin earned an education degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did grad work at Wheelock College in Boston. A die-hard cineast since seeing Fellini's 8 1/2 at the Dundee Theater as a teen, she was inspired by the heady free cinema movement in the '60s to try her hand at filmmaking. She returned to school, this time at Boston University, for a mixed educational media and filmmaking doctorate.
A Boston WBZ-TV kids show internship led to an associate producer's job that became a senior producer slot. She evolved into the independent filmmaker she is today, going from essaying a rite-of-passage on the open sea to sweating out a shoot in the scorching desert to recording candid conversations in hallowed halls with luminaries from the worlds of sport, art, entertainment and academia.
She considers her work a calling.
"I've been so blessed. I have had a career that I love and that I hope is not going to end any time soon," she said. "As hard as it is sometimes, I don't even care. When you know the roller coaster, you know how to ride it. Besides, I don't know how to do anything else. You know, you are lucky in this life if you get to do a couple of the things you really want to do, and I already have, so, I think I'm already ahead of the game. I've had hugely impassioned projects…and I've been able to see them go from the moment that little light went on in my head to the final edit."
Much like her artist subjects, she's an intensely curious person.
"When I discover something, it does fuel me. I love finding the connections and chasing them down. It's not just about having a good idea. It's having somehow or other the planets line up in exactly the right way…and when that happens, oh, that's just…You have to be passionate about this stuff for that to happen."
One of her dream projects came quite early in her career when, in 1980, she and a small crew filmed a transatlantic voyage made by several young mariners aboard the Lindo, a 125-foot, three-masted, top-sail schooner built in Sweden in 1925. The ship left Boston harbor June 4, docking in Kristiansand, Norway 23 days later, where Levin filmed. Then the ship made out to the open sea for additional shooting before completing the return crossing in mid-July.
Her film charts the bonds formed among a group of Boston-area youths initiated in the maritime traditions of old wooden sailing ships by a crew of seasoned sailors. As soon as she heard about the prospect of this "across the ocean documentary," she said, "I knew I wanted to do it. I couldn't go fast enough. I can't imagine it would happen today. That a television station or even a network would send a filmmaker and crew off for what was a fabulous several-week adventure. This is what you now go out in the world and try to pitch people to finance for you."
Despite "hitting some particularly bad weather" and nursing a cameraman who "became very seasick right away," the journey and resulting film, The Tall Ship Lindo, proved satisfying. "I loved every minute of it." Being ensconced in tight quarters on an old sailing vessel, totally exposed to and buffeted by high seas was, she said, "quite extraordinary. To this day I'm still friends with the people from that voyage." Her most lasting impression is of being overwhelmed by the ocean's enormity. "A 125-foot boat is not a very big boat and you don't know that until you go across the ocean on it. It's tiny. You are very aware from the very first second…that you are just a speck. You're out there and you are so tiny and it is so big, and but for the grace of God…You have to be in awe of it."
The Tall Ship Lindo won Emmys for outstanding cinematography and sound.
For Making the Misfits, her take on the remarkable confluence of talents (actors Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, playwright Arthur Miller, director John Huston) that came together to shoot the 1961 classic film, The Misfits, Levin and her DP, Dewald Aukema, filmed in its Nevada locales. Her doc won a Cine Goden Eagle for and was included in the International Festival of Film in Montreal.
For Sense Memories, Levin and Aukema went to Marfa, Texas, where Giant was shot, and to that barren California spot where James Dean's flaming life ended and his golden-hued legend began. Her film opens quietly there, with a gentle pan across the desert highway, lingering at the two-pump filling station that was his last stop. Desert and traffic noises rise. An engine revs. And then some jazz licks come in. It's a haunting, muted elegy for a bright spirit dimmed too quickly, but still holding us entranced in its warm after-glow.
Sense Memories is a co-production of Thirteen/WNET's (New York) American Masters and Warner Home Video. The acclaimed series is executive produced by Susan Lacy.
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Four Introductions to James Franco (esquire.com)
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13 Movies Completed Post-Mortem (popcrunch.com)
Famous Men and Their Motorcyles (artofmanliness.com)
Categories: Documentaries, Film, Gail Levin, Hollywood, Movies, Nebraskans in Film, Personalities-Characters, Pop culture, Television, Writing Tags: Documentaries, Film, Gail Levin, James Dean, Jeff Bridges, Martin Landau, Movies, Nebraskans in Film, Rebel Without a Cause, Television


Manager John King is pictured in the foreground.
An article written for GGP Magazine, April 2018.
In this report for Glass and Glazing Products, John King - National Sales Manager for Carl F Groupco , explains how the company's advisory service includes taking a detailed brief and working with customers to ensure the best solution for their application.
"We sell hardware across a range of sectors including retail, trade, new build and commercial and all our customers have very specific, individual needs.
We know that, when supplying hardware, one size definitely doesn't fit all. This philosophy is backed by a catalogue of over 7,000 product lines from leading manufacturers that enables us to mix and match solutions. With one of the largest ranges of big brand hardware names, we hold over £3 million of stock and almost 1.9 million components available for next day delivery.
It would be easy to assume that we have enough on our hands with stock control and that we simply respond to orders. There are occasions when a repeat order is needed or the enquirer knows exactly what they want. However, there are many instances when hardware purchasers need assistance regarding products, standards or specification issues.
Addressing this, we ensure that we aren't just order takers. We take care to fully understand the products that we supply and we work closely with our manufacturer suppliers to keep informed of latest technology updates – this is backed by regular training. This depth of knowledge goes across our organisation.
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