Despite an aggressive, high-dollar campaign from the oil and gas industry, Broomfield voters Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a measure to allow more local control over drilling in their community.
Slightly more than 57 percent of voters supported Question 301, while 42.5 percent said no. The measure will amend Broomfield's Home Rule Charter to grant "plenary authority to regulate all aspects of oil and gas development," and to demand that such development "not adversely impact the health, safety and welfare" of residents, the environment or wildlife resources.
The passage of Question 301 is expected to draw legal pushback from the oil ad gas industry, though it's not yet clear what that will look like. State law prohibits cities from banning oil and gas drilling outright, but local jurisdictions can exert limited control through agreements with drillers themselves.
Kelly, along with thousands of other Broomfield residents, will soon see oil and gas development near her home. At a meeting on Oct. 24, Broomfield City Council approved a controversial "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) with Extraction Oil and Gas to drill 84 wells on pads throughout the city.
Broomfield residents and environmental groups raised about $46,000 to pass the measure, but they were significantly outspent by the industry. Groups such as Vital for Colorado and the Colorado Petroleum Council spent $434,000 on the opposition campaign.
Fundraising for both sides continued until the last minute. On Thursday, the Sierra Club gave $35,000, marking the "yes" campaign's only non-individual contribution. Vital for Colorado, which gave $100,000 to the No on 301 effort in early October, donated an additional $90,000 on Friday. Final campaign finance reports are not due until Dec. 7.
Vital for Colorado also poured money into several city council races via various "[City] for a Better Economy" PACs. The industry group, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment, dumped $50,000 into Thornton for a Stronger Economy, $10,000 into Broomfield for a Stronger Economy, and $100,000 to Aurora for a Better Economy.
Throughout the campaign season, anti-301 messaging accused the campaign of being influenced by outside environmental groups and "extremists." But records show that, except for the large Sierra Club donation, funds came from individual donors, typically in contributions of $100 or less.
"This was absolutely citizen-led," said Kelly, who at first was resistant to the idea of any outside contributions. "But when we had almost $500,000 spent against us, to have somebody else come in and support us, I felt really good about that," she said.
In response to the election results, Dan Haley, president and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, called the measure "an illegal attempt to override the state's authority" that "puts Broomfield and their taxpayers in a difficult legal position." Extraction Oil and Gas did not respond to a request for comment.
Broomfield City and County Attorney Bill Tuthill was not available for comment in time for publication. But Mayor Randy Ahrens, who called the high margin of 301's passage "a good barometer for how people are feeling," said the mere passage of 301 is unlikely to result in legal repercussions.
"I don't see how anybody could present a lawsuit right now, before we've done anything with it," he said. As he sees it, 301 gives Broomfield another "tool in the toolbox" when it comes to negotiating oil and gas developments — but it doesn't give Broomfield the power to override state law.
"If we were try to mandate something with 301 that was illegal under state law, that action would be sued," Ahrens said. A total ban on fracking, for example, would be thrown out.


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Found Objects Become Art in the Eyes of Famed Architect Carl Abbott
by Karen LeBlanc November 9, 2020
written by Karen LeBlanc November 9, 2020
An Exhibit at the Art Center Sarasota, Shows the Sculptural Talents of Renown Modernist Architect Carl Abbott
Modernist Architect Carl Abbott, an original member of the Sarasota School of Architecture movement, shows another artistic oeuvre in his exhibit Found Forms.
As the pandemic lingers on, I miss all the artistic stimulation as an art, design and travel writer. Most events have gone virtual out of necessity. So, you can imagine my excitement when I learned that renowned Modernist Architect Carl Abbott would be exhibiting his sculptures for a short 3-day event in conjunction with SarasotaMOD Weekend.
Architect Carl Abbott and Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist, touring his exhibit Found Forms, a collection of blue painted sculptures made from ordinary objects.
"Sarasota in the 1950s was one of the most important places in the world for architectural creativity, where the greatest design movement of the day came together," says Carl Abbott, FAIA. "There's a reason a handful of communities in the world stand out for architectural innovation. Sarasota's one of them. You really do have to see it to believe it."
Found Objects, an exhibition of sculpture by Architect Carl Abbott on view at Art Center Sarasota during Sarasota MOD Weekend.
Carl Abbott's exhibit, Found Forms, hosted by the Art Center Sarasota, shows another side of this extremely talented architect, one of the original members of the Sarasota School of Architecture, a movement in the 1950s that produced an architectural legacy of regional modernism.
Found Objects, an exhibition by Architect Carl Abbott, on view at Art Center Sarasota for a special 3-day event.
Carl Abbott is this year's honoree with SarasotaMOD Weekend. "It's a great honor. Hopefully, the attention drawn to the buildings and homes featured will generate more respect for them as architectural treasures deserving of preservation and protection. This is a challenging thing to do given rising land values in many of the places where these buildings and homes reside," says Abbott, a passionate preservationist and active member of the Sarasota Architecture Foundation host of SarasotaMOD Weekend.
Architect Carl Abbott shows Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist, his direction sculptures, North, South, East, and West on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Janet Minker
Abbott has built a career designing his signature modernist buildings and homes in and around Sarasota and his legacy is everywhere. During SarasotaMOD Weekend, his many architectural achievements were on view in self-guided driving tours. Abbott has also documented his architecture in a recent book, In/Formed by the Land, The Architecture of Carl Abbott.
Ice Tongs painted in blue, a sculpture by Architect Carl Abbott on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist.
"Sculpture and architecture both complement each other. The big difference between sculpture and architecture is that sculpture is not site-based. You can take the forms you like to work with and create. With architecture, I study the land, the way the sun works, and so many other physical factors that drive the design. A sculpture is a spontaneous work of art whereas architecture is calculated and methodical because of the building process. You have to work within the confines of building codes, structural and site engineering, mechanical and acoustical considerations," explains Abbott.
Found Object, a sculpture by Architect Carl Abbott on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist.
To create his sculptures for Found Forms, Abbott scoured junkyards and his own garage for functional objects with sculptural beauty that he teases out by coating each object in a luminescent cobalt blue.
The color, expressed in powder-coated steel paint, is inspired by the flowers Abbott picked as a child, growing in coastal Georgia. Abbott says he is drawn to objects that possess a knife-edge, a signature feature in many of his architectural works.
What strikes me about Found Objects is Abbott's ability to see the beauty in objects that are not sculptural by intention but as a consequence of functional design.
Found Objects, sculptures by Architect Carl Abbott on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist.
The blade of a hand push lawnmower is perhaps one of the most stunning examples with its helix design highlighted in blue. A wheat scythe, ice thongs, a truck spring, and a hay bail, all ordinary tools and utilitarian objects become art at the hands of Abbott.
Wheat Scythe, a sculpture by Architect Carl Abbott on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist.
"My goal is to make people aware of the beauty around them as he points to one of his favorite pieces, a large double X he salvaged from the office of his mentor, the late architect Paul Rudolph, a founding member of the Sarasota School of Architecture.
X Slash, a sculpture by Architect Carl Abbott on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist.
"The double X was the base of a huge conference table in Rudolph's office. I call it X Slash Two. It means two Xs or X with Rudolph and Me," Abbott notes.
Other works include the directional metal columns, each representing a point on the compass, North, South, East, and West, made of air conditioning ducts.
North, South, East and West, sculptures by Architect Carl Abbott on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist.
"It is difficult for artists to transform found objects into fine art. Carl has made significant achievements with these sculptural works advancing the idea that found objects can be art objects," says Elizabeth Goodwill, Education Director of Art Center Sarasota.
A bicycle wheel, a sculpture by Architect Carl Abbott on view at the Art Center Sarasota. Photo Credit: Karen LeBlanc, aka The Design Tourist.
The Art Center Sarasota has been in existence for 94 years acting as an artistic hub, offering classes, community spaces for local artists to sell their works and regular gallery showings. The Art Center is currently closed to the public due to the pandemic. It briefly opened to show Abbott's exhibition during the 3-day SarasotaMod Weekend. At present, you can view the Art Center's featured works online.
Karen LeBlanc
Karen LeBlanc is a freelance writer living in Orlando, Florida with many published bylines in magazines, newspapers, and multimedia sites. As a professional lifestyle writer, Karen specializes in art, architecture, design, home interiors and personality profiles. Karen is the writer, producer and host of the streaming series, The Design Tourist (www.TheDesignTourist.com) that brings viewers a global dose of design inspiration with episodes featuring the latest looks and trends from the world's premiere design events and shows. She also publishes a quarterly magazine on design travel that you can read by clicking the link: https://thedesigntourist.com/the-magazine/ Her journalism background includes seven years on-air experience as a TV news reporter and anchor covering a range of issues from education to politics. Her educational credentials include a Master of Arts in Mass Communications from Northeast Louisiana University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Louisiana State University. Throughout her career, Karen has written and produced dozens of documentaries and videos for educational, commercial, corporate, and governmental clients and appeared in many TV and video productions as a professional host.
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ATHENS, Ohio -- The Ohio men's basketball program has added Antonio Cowart, Jr. (McComb, Miss.) to its 2018-19 recruiting class, fifth-year head coach Saul Phillips announced on Thursday (April 26).
Cowart, Jr. joins prep forwards Mason McMurray (Stow, Ohio) and Nate Springs (Charlotte, N.C.), who signed with the Bobcats as part of the early signing period of the 2018-19 recruiting class on Nov. 9, 2017, and redshirt sophomore wing Connor Murrell (Sioux City, Iowa), who signed with Ohio as a transfer from Indian Hills Community College on April 17. The 6-foot-2-inch, 175-pound guard will come to Ohio as a junior with two years of eligibility remaining.
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"Antonio is a terrific guard," said Phillips of Cowart, Jr., who chose Ohio over 17 other NCAA Division I offers. "He passes it well, shoots it well and is explosive to the rim. He has athleticism and should fill a position of need for us."
Prior to his stint at Southwest Mississippi Community College, Cowart, Jr. led McComb High School to Mississippi High School Activities Association state titles as both a sophomore and a junior under head coach Pastor Hilton Harrell. He averaged 19 points and five assists per game as a senior and earned all-district honors following both his junior and senior prep seasons.
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Police say on Thursday they received a call from the principal at Sundance Elementary School, near Watson and Yuma roads, who reported a possible medical issue with a 10-year-old student.
The child was reportedly complaining of a hurting heart and shortness of breath.
Fire personnel responded and transported the child to the hospital.
Officers spoke with the child, who notified them that his father, 49-year-old Michael R. Nash, and the father's girlfriend, 34-year-old Ashley M. Mahaney, were smoking drugs in the car before school.
The student said they were homeless and lived in the car and advised that this type of activity "happened all the time."
Later in the afternoon, officers located the couple in the vehicle described by the child.
Police say Nash admitted to smoking illegal narcotics in the vehicle before taking his child to school.
Buckeye officers located drug paraphernalia inside the car and a bag of a white crystallized substance that tested positive for methamphetamine.
Both Nash and Mahaney were then taken into custody.
Police say Mahaney also had a felony warrant for a prior child abuse case.
Each were booked into jail on felony child abuse and drug charges.
The child has since been released from the hospital and turned over to the Arizona Department of Child Safety.


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Parties keep Florida House seats in special election
MIAMI —
Two Republicans and a Democrat have taken over Florida House seats previously held by members of their respective parties.
Unofficial results show Republican Jason Shoaf beat Ryan Terrell in a special election Tuesday for District 7, which includes nine Panhandle counties and parts of Leon County. Republican Randy Maggard beat Kelly Smith in District 38, which includes part of Pasco County. Democrat Dan Daley automatically won the seat for District 97, which includes part of Broward County, earlier this year because he was the only one to qualify.
Shoaf replaces Halsey Beshears, who left to become the Secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Maggard replaces Daniel Burgess, who became executive director of Florida's Department of Veterans' Affairs. Daley replaces Jared Moskowitz, who now heads the Florida Division of Emergency Management.


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POLITICO Playbook: W.H.'s new strategy: Humanitarian and security 'crisis' at the border
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after a meeting with Congressional leaders about ending the partial government shutdown on Jan. 4. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
DRIVING THE DAY
SHUTDOWN … DAY 18 … THE WHITE HOUSE is trying a new strategy — tactically and rhetorically — as this government shutdown barrels on without any sign of ending.
THE WHITE HOUSE is increasingly positioning the situation at the southern border as a global humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, for which the same old solutions will not be sufficient. Sure, they're still talking about the wall — on which they are demanding Congress spend $ 5.7 billion — but this new line of thinking is taking increased prominence. Expect to hear it tonight from PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP during his address to the nation.
THE ADMINISTRATION is trying to shove off the politics of the wall, and turn the focus to what they consider the humanitarian impact. BASICALLY, the administration is trying to move the narrative away from politics and to national security, even though this issue has been — and continues to be — part and parcel to Trump's political rallying cry.
VP MIKE PENCE SAID IT plainly: "Our position is very simply this: There is a humanitarian and national security crisis at the southern border." The VP is going on morning shows with network White House correspondents. He'll be on NBC's "Today" show with Hallie Jackson, ABC's "Good Morning America" with Jon Karl and "CBS This Morning" with Major Garrett this morning.
THE TOUGH QUESTION: Even if everyone accepts the base case that this is a humanitarian crisis, Republicans say there is no answer that does not include a wall, and Democrats — generally speaking, at the moment — say there is no answer that does include a wall.
SPEECH PREVIEW … PENCE ON TRUMP'S MESSAGE: "What we would welcome — and I think the president is going to take the message to the nation tomorrow — is that Republicans and Democrats would come together around the recognition of a humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border and the need to take action."
HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY KIRSTJEN NIELSEN said it this way: There is a "real sense of urgency, the crisis is getting worse. The issue is that the status quo funding, the status quo laws are not able to address the crisis that we're seeing at the borders. … It is a security and a humanitarian crisis."
INCREASINGLY, THE WHITE HOUSE seems to be looking into building the wall without Congress — declaring it a national emergency, and doing it under what's called "section 2808," which allows military construction without congressional approval. Democrats have indicated this would be caught up in legal challenges.
— BOB COSTA and PHIL RUCKER lay their thinking out in the Post: "Vexed by Democrats' refusal to yield to his demand for $ 5.7 billion for wall funding, Trump increasingly views a national emergency declaration as a viable, if risky, way for him to build a portion of his long-promised barrier, according to senior administration officials." WaPo
ANOTHER OPTION … IF DEMOCRATS somehow accede to a physical barrier of any kind at some point, the VP discussed the White House supporting an emergency supplemental spending bill. This would allow the wall to be built outside the current spending caps.
THE SCENE … PENCE hosted reporters in his ceremonial office Monday afternoon in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. As he noted, this was the same room he hosted senior congressional aides over the weekend. Pence sat with acting OMB DIRECTOR RUSS VOUGHT — his former congressional aide — NIELSEN and JARED KUSHNER. Vought, Nielsen and Pence spoke, and Kushner listened, periodically whispering in the VP's ear.
PENCE AND NIELSEN said the word "crisis" 36 times during the question-and-answer session with reporters Monday.
PENCE ALL BUT conceded that negotiations between the Hill and the White House were at an impasse of sorts: "We think it was a productive session on both days. … That does not mean to imply that we made progress in negotiations, but I think we gained a better understanding of the issues, the crisis on our southern border and a better understanding of the priorities on both sides of the aisle to address that crisis."
THERE IS A GROWING FEAR that Republicans will begin getting frustrated with the White House's position, and will vote with Democrats to open government. Pence said the administration is in touch with Republicans, and he'll be on the Hill briefing people today.
— JOHN BRESNAHAN and SARAH FERRIS: "House GOP leaders fear support eroding for Trump's shutdown fight": "Several dozen House Republicans may cross the aisle this week to vote for Democratic bills to reopen shuttered parts of the federal government, spurring the White House into a dramatic effort to stem potential GOP defections.
"White House officials and Republican congressional leaders worry that GOP support for the shutdown is eroding, weakening President Donald Trump's hand as he seeks billions of dollars for a border wall that Democrats have vowed to oppose, according to GOP lawmakers and aides." POLITICO
Good Tuesday morning. THE IMPACT … VOUGHT, the acting OMB director, told us that the government will pay tax refunds. "I know you all have questions on tax refunds. Tax refunds will go out," he said. He also said flood insurance is on track, the Park Service will have trash pickup and fish and wildlife refuges will be kept open. More from the WSJ on the tax refund change
— IN THE AIR … "Air travelers start to feel effects of government shutdown," by AP's David Koenig: "Over the weekend, some airports had long lines at checkpoints, apparently caused by a rising number of security officers calling in sick while they are not getting paid. Safety inspectors aren't even on the job. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said Monday that inspectors are being called back to work on a case-by-case basis, with a priority put on inspecting airline fleets." AP
— "Newest shutdown casualty: Trump's own policies," by Eric Wolff and Brianna Ehley: "The government shutdown is threatening important pieces of President Donald Trump's agenda, escalating the political stakes as he and Congress vie to see who blinks first.
"At EPA and the Interior Department, furloughs have frozen efforts to roll back Obama-era regulations and open new water to oil and gas drilling. The White House has sent home key staff coordinating its response to the opioid crisis. And if the partial shutdown drags on long enough, it could force Trump to cancel a late-January trip to Davos, Switzerland, and delay congressional action on the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal." POLITICO
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WHERE THE PRESIDENT IS … ELIANA JOHNSON, "Trump wages intense but lonely campaign for his border wall": "Fighting a virtual one-man messaging battle for his border wall, President Donald Trump is growing frustrated that he doesn't have more public defenders in his shutdown fight with Congressional Democrats.
"Even by the standards of a president who prefers to deliver his own message rather than outsource it to surrogates, Trump is putting an unusually personal stamp on the White House's public relations campaign to win more than $ 5 billion in border wall funding. …
"[A] president who demands constant praise has a diminishing number of public defenders these days. The result is a manic, one-man public-relations effort to sell the shutdown that has left some White House officials scrambling to catch up. Trump has griped to associates that hasn't seen enough administration officials on the airwaves defending him during the shutdown fight, according to three people close to the president. He is also angry that he didn't get more backup for his mid-December decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria." POLITICO
FACT CHECK … "Only six immigrants in terrorism database stopped by CBP at southern border in first half of 2018," by NBC's Julia Ainsley
TRUMP TO MCALLEN … THE MCALLEN MONITOR'S LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO and MITCHELL FERMAN: "President Trump is scheduled to visit McAllen on Thursday to address what he called the crisis at the southern border, which comes amid attempts to persuade the nation of the need for a border wall, the sticking point in negotiations with congressional Democrats that led to a government shutdown.
"The logistics of Trump's trip were unclear, but he plans to land in McAllen on Thursday, according to three people familiar with the visit. After the White House announced Monday that Trump will travel to the southwest border this week and a Federal Aviation Administration notice indicated a high-profile visitor will be in South Texas, speculation centered on McAllen." McAllen Monitor
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI and SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER put out a statement that they want to have time to respond to TRUMP'S address.
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NEWS ON THE POLITICO HOMEFRONT via CNN's "Reliable Sources": "Oliver Darcy emails: Politico's Robert Allbritton is looking to move beyond politics. Last month, Allbritton told Vanity Fair that he was looking at 'considering the prospect of new publications outside of Politico's traditional wheelhouse." On Monday, a spokesperson told me Allbritton had hired Politico and McClatchy alum Tim Grieve.
"Grieve, who was the founding editor of Politico Pro, has been hired by Allbritton to head a brand new media company. The company will be separate from Politico and focused on something 'beyond the realm of politics,' the spokesperson told me, adding, 'Stay tuned!'" CNN
BURGESS EVERETT and JAMES ARKIN: "Romney gets chilly reception from GOP senators after Trump attack": "Sen. James Lankford will occasionally take issue with President Donald Trump's tactics and rhetoric. But he's not sure what Mitt Romney was thinking with his biting condemnation of the president before he was even sworn into office.
"'It kind of felt like the same thing Trump does to everybody, Romney does to Trump. Smack you, and then want to negotiate,' said Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma. 'It is funny to me that while he was complaining about President Trump's personal attacks, he was personally attacking President Trump. I don't know if he sees the irony in it.' …
"'Focusing on our political opponents that are trying to annihilate us and embarrass the president is probably a more productive focus, rather than just criticize what the president is, how he does things,' said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the former whip who is running for reelection as a Trump ally." POLITICO
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION … "Trump struggles to replace Mattis as Pentagon chief," by Eliana Johnson and Daniel Lippman: "Jon Kyl, the retired Arizona Republican senator, became the second person to wave off Trump's overtures last week, telling the White House he is not interested in the job. Ret. Gen. Jack Keane also turned down the job shortly after Mattis' resignation. …
"The refusals are particularly striking given that the top Pentagon job is historically among the Cabinet's most prestigious and powerful, and coveted by national security veterans." POLITICO
KEEPING HIS OPTIONS OPEN! — "Mick Mulvaney is interested in becoming USC president, sources say," by the Post and Courier's Andy Shain: "Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina congressman who is the acting White House chief of staff, has inquired about becoming president at the University of South Carolina, a state lawmaker and two sources with knowledge told The Post and Courier on Monday.
"News of Mulvaney's interest … comes as Harris Pastides winds down his 11th and final year the state's flagship university. Pastides leaves in July, and a search committee is expected to start accepting applications this month. Mulvaney reached out to state leaders about a month ago before he was named Donald Trump's acting chief of staff, said state Rep. Kirkman Finlay, R-Columbia, as well as two sources who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the talks." Post and Courier
2020 WATCH …
— "Biden uses midterms haul to bolster his 2020 chances," by Maggie Severns and Chris Cadelago: "Former Vice President Joe Biden raised more money for a PAC that supports Democrats in 2018 than any of his likely White House competitors did. But unlike many of them, he spent the lion's share of that haul on himself.
"Biden's PAC gave Democratic candidates just a quarter of the more than $ 2 million he raised and spent during the midterms. At the same time, he spent half a million dollars on websites and digital ads that could help him bolster his online presence and raise money from small donors for a 2020 primary campaign, and more of his PAC funds went to travel and other expenses." POLITICO
— WSJ'S REID EPSTEIN and KEN THOMAS: "Democrat Beto O'Rourke Plans Solo Road Trip to Meet Voters Outside Texas": "O'Rourke is asking aides to create an itinerary for him to take a solo road trip outside of Texas where he would 'pop into places' such as community college campuses, as he considers whether to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, according to a person familiar with the plans.
"Mr. O'Rourke's trip would begin from his El Paso home and keep him away from Iowa and other early-voting states. Mr. O'Rourke doesn't plan to be accompanied by staff or press, though he may document the trip on social media and allow people he meets to do so as well. He doesn't plan to make a final decision on a presidential bid until at least February." WSJ
– CHRIS CADELAGO, "Kamala Harris readies her 2020 rollout": "Harris will hit the morning news show circuit Tuesday with appearances on 'Good Morning America' and 'The View,' in addition to a National Public Radio interview.
"She'll promote her book Wednesday at a Washington event, and then make a stop Thursday at 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.' After Washington, Harris' book tour will take her to the Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York on Friday, then San Francisco before two stops in Los Angeles concluding Jan. 13." POLITICO
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THE JUICE …
— FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: GEOFF BURR, who has served as the Transportation Department chief of staff since 2017, is leaving for the private sector. He is expected to make an announcement next week on his next move.
Burr worked for Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao first in the George W. Bush administration, when she was secretary of Labor. He also served as her Senate "sherpa" during her latest confirmation process. TODD INMAN, current DOT deputy chief of staff, is expected to replace Burr.
TRUMP'S TUESDAY — The president will give an "address to the nation" at 9 p.m. from the Oval Office.
PLAYBOOK READS
PHOTO DU JOUR: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday after he was sworn in as the 40th governor of California. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo
THE INVESTIGATIONS — "A Judge Told The Defense In The Russian Troll Farm Case To 'Knock It Off' With Attacks On Mueller's Office," by BuzzFeed's Zoe Tillman: "Since prosecutors filed charges of election interference in February, the lead attorney for defendant Concord Management and Consulting, Eric Dubelier, has used strong, and at times pop culture–laden, language in his pleadings. The rebuke from U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich came three days after Dubelier filed court papers that questioned the trustworthiness of Mueller's office.
"Dubelier compared the government's arguments to a line from the movie Animal House: 'Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You f**ked up … you trusted us. Hey, make the best of it.' Friedrich, who set Monday's hearing roughly two hours after Concord's latest filing appeared on the docket Friday, was not amused. Concord's recent filings were 'unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective,' Friedrich told Dubelier, and the defense's 'relentless personal attacks' on the special counsel's office and others involved in the case would not play a role in her decision. 'It's undermining your credibility in this courthouse,' Friedrich said." BuzzFeed
— DARREN SAMUELSOHN and RACHAEL BADE: "DOJ delaying Whitaker testimony before House": "The Justice Department is trying to delay acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker from delivering testimony to the new Democratic-led House until next month, potentially pushing his high-profile appearance until after a permanent replacement has already been confirmed, according to two sources familiar with the situation." POLITICO
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ON THE WORLD STAGE — "Pompeo, in Cairo speech, to rebuke Obama's Mideast vision," by Nahal Toosi: "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading out on what may prove his toughest trip yet, a weeklong swing through the Middle East in which he will give a major speech about America's role in the region and privately reassure Arab allies that the U.S. remains committed to them.
"In his speech, to be given in Cairo, Pompeo plans to repudiate the Middle East vision of former President Barack Obama, who famously delivered an address to the broader Muslim world while in Egypt in 2009. Pompeo will slam Obama's engagement with Iran, sources told POLITICO, while asserting that President Donald Trump has the region's best interests at heart." POLITICO
— REUTERS: "North Korea's Kim in China after warning of alternate path to Trump talks," by Se Young Lee and Christian Shepherd in Beijing: "North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is visiting China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, only days after warning he may take an alternative path if the United States does not ease sanctions and pressure on his country." Reuters
HAPPENING TONIGHT — Per Florida Playbook's Marc Caputo and Matt Dixon: "To celebrate Rick Scott officially becoming Florida's junior U.S. Senator, his New Republican PAC is throwing a 'black tie optional' Sunshine Ball in D.C. tonight at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Constitution Avenue. A few Scott critics (including a Republican) flagged the event to us as an example of the gov-turned-senator entering his new job on a tone-deaf note in the capital amid a federal government shutdown.
"While many federal workers go without pay, special interests can pony up $ 100,000 for a 'Platinum' sponsorship (includes VIP reception, photo op, VIP ball section access, special recognition), etc." The invite
PLAYBOOKERS
SPOTTED at Cafe Milano last night: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Dina Powell and Eli Miller having dinner together.
TRANSITION — Ryan Williams is now EVP of public affairs at Targeted Victory. He most recently was SVP at FP1 Strategies and is a Romney alum.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: David Chavern, president and CEO of the News Media Alliance. A trend he thinks deserves more attention: "People don't understand the extent to which tech policy is being determined overseas. Between Europe's actions on privacy and copyright to China's example of a state-determined internet, the future of our connected world is slowly being decided without U.S. participation. Eventually, we will wake-up and say 'hey, we need some common rules' but it will probably be too late." Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Joyce Overboe (hat tips: Anna, Leah, John and Rachel) … Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is 61 … Heather Podesta … John Podesta is 7-0 (h/ts Amy Weiss and Allison Preiss) … Anita Dunn, managing director at SKDKnickerbocker (h/ts Hilary Rosen and Kelley McCormick) … Sander Vanocur is 91 … Charles Osgood is 86 … Jeannie Kedas, chief comms officer at First Look Media (h/t Jon Haber) … POLITICO's Nirvi Shah … WSJ alum Elizabeth Holmes … Ted Leonsis is 62 … Avra Siegel … Kim Jong Un is 36 … Israel Hernandez … David P. White is 47 (h/t wife Kimball Stroud) … Adam Hechavarria … Buckley Carlson … Maria Pena … former Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) is 43 … former Rep. Charlie Bass (R-N.H.) is 67 … Dina Fraioli … Jason Mehta is 36 … Ross Schneiderman is 36 … former Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) is 91 … former Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) is 58 … Caitlin Oakley, national spokesperson and senior adviser at HHS (h/t Charmaine Yoest) …
… Andrew Bates, comms director for House campaigns at American Bridge, is 32 (h/t Megan Apper) … FIU's Brian Van Hook is 41 … James Reed … Kathryn Grant … Chris Tanner … Angelo Mathay … Rob Melick … Sally Smith … Chip Giller, founder of Grist … Scott Fairchild … Jane Lucas … James Quinn … Kevin Ryan is 52 … Emma Brown … former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft is 77 … Snapchat's Russ Caditz-Peck … Amanda McTyre … R Street's Andy Smarick (h/t Alice Lloyd) … Gul Jammas Hussain … Jake Bailey … Nicole Tieman … Deborah Weigel … Dena Horton … Michael Calvert … Sarah Wright … Laura Pinsky … Mary Jane Volk … Micah Honeycutt (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
21 million beneficiaries receive quality, affordable health coverage from Medicare Advantage. The 2020 Health Insurance Tax (HIT) will make beneficiaries pay more for their coverage, which they simply cannot afford. For 2019, the tax was delayed, resulting in lower costs for seniors, individuals with disabilities, and low-income Medicare beneficiaries. Without delay of the tax for 2020, these beneficiaries will pay the price. Congress, time is running out. Delay the 2020 health insurance tax now and preserve seniors' access to Medicare Advantage. Learn More.
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Bang! Game 1 goes to the Twins
With the bases loaded and a 3-0 count to Boston's Jackie Bradley Jr. in the bottom of the ninth at Fenway, it appeared that Twins' closer Fernando Rodney was about to let the game get out of hand. But Rodney came back to strike out Bradley and preserve the Twins' 2-1 victory over the Red Sox in Game 1 of the four-game series.
After the game, the Pioneer Press got the quote of the season from Rodney about who will win the AL Central.
"Oh," he said with a twinkle in his bloodshot eyes, "we're going to win the division."
Rodney picked up his 22nd save and starter Kyle Gibson improved to 5-7 with a 3.42 ERA. Gibson pitched a great game. He went eight innings with seven strikeouts and limited the Red Sox to just one run. Gibson gave up a run early, then the Twins came back to tie the game before catcher Mitch Garver doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning.
Pitch like that at Fenway Park before the July 31 trade deadline and you become a potential trade target.
Was tonight's brilliant performance Kyle Gibson's final start as a Twin? "I'm hoping not, you know," he said. "These guys are a great group of guys, and shoot, I think we can come back and make a push to the division and I'm going to be excited to be a part of it."
Boston starter Brian Johnson pitched shutout baseball for five-plus innings, then the Twins got to the bullpen. Heath Hembree was tagged with the blown save and Matt Barnes took the loss.
Lance Lynn gets the ball Friday.
-Lynn gets the ball for the Twins on Friday, but guess who gets it for the Red Sox? Chris Sale. Sale is 11-4 with a 2.13 ERA.
-The Twins have won four in a row and are now seven games behind the division-leading Cleveland Indians. After the Boston series, the Twins fly home to host the Tribe for three games. If the Twins win their next seven games and the Indians continue to lose, the two teams could be deadlocked at the top of the division by the middle of next week.
No harm in dreaming, right?
First the Twins beat Chris Sale, then David Price
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Q: How long would it take for me to program a travelling salesman program with 5 nodes? I'm considering doing a travelling salesman problem for my computing coursework and would like to know how long a standard computer would take to work out the shortest route between 5 different places. I just want to know if the project is viable. Thanks in advance!
I will be using VB express.

A: How many possible routes are there? Informally, surely not many? Formally, I'll let you work that out. How long would it take you with a paper and pencil to list them and find the shortest? Surely less than 5 minutes? So that gives you an idea that it's not going to tax even a slow computer.
It might be an idea to do the paper and pencil thing for 5 and 6 nodes and make sure you understand what happens as the number of nodes increases, and hence why this problem starts to get hard as the nunmber of nodes gets big.

A: A straightforward solution of Traveling Salesman Problem with 5 places requires enumerating 5! paths.  5! = 1*2*3*4*5 = 120.  Enumerating 120 paths has not been a big deal for any modern computer since, I guess, 80's.
But of course, If you want to make it slow, you can always write your program awfully badly, especially in VB.

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Seminar of Dr. Manas Upadhyay from the "Ecole Polytechnique" (Paris), entitle "Micromechanical response during biaxial load path changes of stainless steel: insitu neutron diffraction and multi-scale modeling" – June 10th at 12:00 pm, in the Seminar Room
Micromechanical response during biaxial load path changes of stainless steel: insitu neutron diffraction and multi-scale modeling
Manas V. Upadhyay1,*, J. Capek2, Anirban Patra3, Wei Wen4, Tobias Panzner2, Steven van Petegem5,
Carlos N. Tomé4, Ricardo A. Lebensohn6, Helena van Swygenhoven5,7
1LMS, C.N.R.S., Ecole Polytechnique, 911128 Palaiseau, France
2NIAG, NUM, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
3Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai – 400076, India
4MST, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
5PEM, PSD, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
6Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
7NXMM, IMX, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1012 Lausanne, Switzerland
*The presentation is on the work done during the author's position at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.
Abstract: Engineering materials are often subjected to complex load path changes during their forming processes or under service conditions. Their complex deformation history determines their subsequent mechanical response such as the Bauschinger effect, work hardening rate, etc. The origin of these macroscale phenomena is found at the microscopic scale. At the polycrystalline level, elastic and plastic heterogeneities due to texture result in the generation of intergranular stresses whose nature and evolution depends on the type of loading. At the single grain level, dislocation slip and interactions
with other defects result in the generation of intragranular stresses, whose evolution also depends on the type of loading. Our current understanding of the material behavior, and development of constitutive models, is mainly driven by experimental studies performed under uniaxial loadings and load reversals. However, this may not be sufficient to appropriately capture the material response in complex part geometries subjected to multi-axial load path changes; such situations are typically encountered during sheet metal forming and applications. Recently, with support from the ERC advanced grant MULTIAX (339245), a series of in-situ neutron diffraction tests were performed to study the microstructural response of 316L stainless Steel cruciform samples subjected to biaxial load path changes. To better understand the macroscopic and microstructural behavior of these 316L cruciform samples, a combined approach including the viscoplastic self-consistent finite element (VPSC-FE) scheme and the elasto-viscoplastic fast Fourier transform (EVP-FFT) model was proposed [1]. The passage of information between the experiments and simulations was based on a previous work where the aim was to understand the mechanical and microstructural behavior during monotonic biaxial loading response of 316L steel [2]. At the macroscale, the VPSC-FE model converts experimental boundary conditions to predict the cruciform
gauge stresses. These macro-stresses are used as homogeneous boundary conditions to drive the polycrystalline EVP-FFT model. Both models use the same dislocation density based hardening law that accounts for load path changes. Following validation with in-situ digital image correlation and insitu neutron diffraction experiments, the multi-scale model is applied to quantitatively explain the mechanical response [1], including the Bauschinger effect, and the microstructural behavior [3], including the lattice strain and texture (through diffraction peak intensity) evolution.
[1] Upadhyay et al., Int. J. Plast., 108 (2018) 144 – 168
[3] Upadhyay et al., Int. J. Plast., under review
[2] Upadhyay et al., Acta Mat. 118 (2016) 28 – 43


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New tire factory to be built in Akron Ohio.
Discussion in 'The Bench' started by 1970bl20, Feb 9, 2019.
Firestone has announced they will be tire provider for Indy car till 2025. as part of this announcement they said A new facility will be built in Akron to make the tiers. I know it's less than 100 jobs and the Firestone brand is now owned buy Brigestone but it still seams like good news to me to have the first new plant built here in 70 years.
The days of being the home to the tire industry are gone forever and the town smells better these days. Still nice to see some link to our place in history.
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Yeah, too bad American tire industry moved to China. Nice to see "something" happen. I wish an American tire company would make tires for our old cars in the popular sizes for a reasonable cost so we all don't have to buy expensive junky tires from Coker.
They are only making high end specialty tires for Indy / Formula 1 cars?? At this proposed Akron OH facility? Tried to get into a Bridgestone "research" facility in Mesa AZ a while ago - in response to a posted employment ad - it seemed to be a crony operation.
So are most Goodyear and Kelly-Springfield tires.
And since Cooper makes Mickey Thompson's tires, I would assume that they are made in America, too.
I never heard of Gassy's Auto parts not sure if before my time but the logo looks like the one from the store on South Main st.
They had a few stores around Akron with the logo like that. You get the pics from the Quaker Square place? They used to have a place there that had all the old stuff from then.
I am old enough to remember when the old Burghart brewery was operating on Grant st. and Flarity's potato chip company there too. Probably not spelled right..
OHC JOE and Mark Demko like this.
Is Quaker Square still there/open?
I had a tough time trying to burn those off. Wore real well.... They were a great compound years ago.
Toyos are American made, or were the last I checked a couple years ago.
Good to see a new plant here.
Cooper Tiers have been my first choice for a long time. Sold them where I once worked and had few troubles with them and when you had a problem the rep. made it right every time. There stock has been a long time winner as well. When Firestone was thinking about getting out of racing the roomer mill had Copper making the tires for Indy car. Some of the under-card cars run on Cooper tires.


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Nancy Ruth Biery, political strategist and consultant, died of cancer on March 23rd, 2018. She was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma (LMS) in mid-2016. LMS is a rare and very aggressive disease with no known cause, no early symptoms, and no tests or screenings. Biery passed at home on the Olympic Peninsula in the presence of her husband Bill and three adorable and lovable rescue dogs.
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Biery graduated Barrington Consolidated High School in 1970, one of the first students in the state to graduate in 3 years at age 16. While in high school she belonged to the US Pony Club and rode competitively in cross country hunter/jumper and dressage. It was during this time she met her husband who worked caring for the 26 horses at the family farm. They married December 30, 1972.
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The Modigliani Myth
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(This review was first published in the Jerusalem Report/Jerusalem Post in 2012, and is being posted here again to coincide with "Modigliani Unmasked", an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York which opens on September 15.)
JERUSALEM REPORT, January 16, 2012
Modigliani: a life
By Meryle Secrest
A. Knopf
416 pages; $35
Meryle Secrest fails in her attempt to debunk the myth of Amedeo Modigliani, 'the cursed artist'
by Yaëlle Azagury
"There is some Myth for every man which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he knew and thought."
This quote from Irish poet W. B. Yeats launches the American researcher and biographer Meryle Secrest in her quest for the "myth," or key, of the Italian Jewish painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). Secrest, the recipient of the 2006 U.S. National Humanities Medal, sets out to debunk the prevailing wisdom that Modigliani "was a brilliant young artist who ruined his health and died prematurely from drugs and drink."
But though she reinterprets old sources with insight as well as bringing new evidence into focus, and avoids the temptation of fictionalizing her subject, she fails to make her story compelling, or even lively. Her investigation is serious and her efforts earnest, yet Modigliani never entirely comes alive.
Born in Livorno (Leghorn), Italy, into a cultivated Jewish family, the painter known for his elongated figures with swan-like necks and almond-shaped eyes died in poverty in Paris at age 35 just as his art was starting to earn recognition. His death, followed two days later by the suicide of his mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne, then eight-months pregnant, is represented by Secrest as Greek tragedy. Hence Modigliani, "Modi the cursed artist," as his friends called him (maudit means cursed in French), and the myth that followed.
Secrest starts off with an examination of Modigliani's family. His mother came from the Garsins, a genteel family of Sephardi Jews from Marseilles. They were cultured and sophisticated. They had a talent for acting, a strain of superstition, eccentricity, and even madness, with an aristocratic disdain for money: easy come, easy go. The Modiglianis on the other hand were a less sophisticated but more money-savvy Jewish family from Livorno, a thriving center of Sephardi Jewish life. Unfortunately, Secrest's account of her subject's family background doesn't quite captivate our attention.
Her narrative is often tedious, unimaginative, and confusing. Granted, the sources on Modigliani's family are patchy. But we do know quite a lot about the fascinating Livornese Jewish community.
The Mediterranean port of Livorno, where Jews had enjoyed unprecedented rights and privileges since the 15th century, was a thriving commercial and intellectual center of Jewish life. Because of its strategic geographic position, the Jewish community, mainly Sephardim who had arrived after the Inquisition in the late 1590s, acted as a meeting point for other Jewish communities such as those of Amsterdam, London, Tunis, Fez or Damascus.
But Secrest's account of Jewish life in Livorno, which probably shaped Modigliani, is sketchy. She is not fluent in Italian and Italian Jewish culture: her sources are old and do not reflect modern scholarship. Worse, she notes that Modigliani was circumcised "eight hours after his birth," not eight days; and she quotes Leo Rosten, a writer best known for his work "The Joys of Yiddish" (1968), to claim that Sephardim spoke Ladino. In fact, they spoke Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo), Judeo-Italian, or Judeo-Arabic. Ladino, a literal Spanish transcription of Hebrew texts, is properly a term applied only to written literature.
The book fortunately gets more compelling as Secrest follows Modigliani to Paris where he arrived in 1906 to pursue his calling, fresh from his studies in Livorno and Venice's Scuola Libera del Nudo and Academia delle Belle Arti. He led "la vie de bohème" in nonconformist Montmartre, and then Montparnasse. Secrest does not have anything new to say on bohemian Paris, but she does get our attention.
A dashing young man with the looks of the Roman emperor Hadrian, "Modi" had a great ability to make friends: he quickly attached himself to painters such as Gino Severini, Maria Marevna, Moise Kisling, Chaim Soutine, and Pablo Picasso. Picasso and Modigliani admired each other's style: both experimented with mask-like stylization and geometric emphasis of the face. But there was also a secret artistic rivalry between the two. He also numbered among his acquaintances the sculptors Constantin Brancusi and Chana Orloff (Modigliani had wanted to be a sculptor early in his career), and writers such as Ilya Ehrenburg, André Salmon, Jean Cocteau, and Anna Akhmatova.
Secrest reports on life at the Bateau Lavoir, a squalid tenement turned artists' home, where Modigliani lived, and his subsequent moves to even more rudimentary locales as he became increasingly poor. He was a notorious spendthrift, quickly dissipating the stipend sent by his family, and ate on credit-especially at Chez Rosalie, a vermin-ridden restaurant which fed starving artists. Legend has it that he paid the picturesque eponymous Rosalie once by painting a fresco on one of her walls. She covered it with white paint the next day.
Secrest is at her best on Modigliani and the women who loved him. The portrait of Anna Akhmatova is finely sketched; the poet and journalist Beatrice Hastings, a charismatic free-thinker with whom Modigliani fell madly in love in 1914 and had a tempestuous relationship, and the young Jeanne Hébuterne, his last mistress, both complex and enigmatic, are evocatively and convincingly recreated. Even Jeanne Modigliani, Amedeo's daughter by Hébuterne poignantly comes alive.
But one of the biographer's central contentions is unconvincing. Secrest attributes Modigliani's drinking and drug – taking (hashish, opium, absinthe and ether were among his intoxicants of choice) to his ill-health. As opposed to previous biographers who did not find his illness significant, Secrest contends that he succumbed to tubercular meningitis, related to tuberculosis, which can infect the brain. Tuberculosis had affected him for a long time and his drinking was a way of controlling his symptoms. Alcohol, Secrest reminds us, is an efficient, albeit primitive anti-spasmodic. Acting as a kind of anesthetic, it suppresses the urge to spit and cough.
This, however, seems overstretched and unconvincing. Alcohol is addictive, regardless of the intention, and has the same outcome, whether one drinks for pleasure or for medical reasons. Modigliani was often drunk.
Furthermore, Secrest draws the portrait of an artist harrowed by tuberculosis, the disease whose impact on the collective imagination then is comparable to AIDS today. She devotes an entire chapter to consumption, as it was then called, listing artists, writers, and poets who were affected by it. Several studies have explored the link between creative temperaments and tuberculosis, weaving a romantic mythology around it.
In other words, Secrest is reinforcing the myth of Modigliani, the cursed artist, just from a different perspective. She believes this made him obsessed with death ("I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar"). But even an amateur observer can see that Modigliani's paintings are luminous rather than ominous.
Finally, another of the book's weaknesses is the lack of discussion on Modigliani's Jewishness, or rather, the Jewishness of his art. Secrest deals with this issue in a single paragraph. She notes: "he was casually blunt about his beliefs. "Hello, I'm Jewish," was the direct approach to anyone who wasn't." She also adds that he vigorously attacked anti-Semites, and mentions that Stars of David and other religious symbols featuring in the sephirot of kabbala, and in the teachings of the Livornese 19th century Kabbalist Rabbi Eliyahu Benamozegh appear in his art. But overall, Secrest concludes that he should mainly be linked to the "Greco-Roman and Italianate roots of Western art." For instance, his Caryatids (1911-1913), a series of drawings and watercolors, clearly bear the influence of classical antiquity.
It is true that he was less haunted by his Jewishness than Marc Chagall or Soutine who came from lands where Jews were severely persecuted. Chagall made extensive use of Jewish imagery and myth, as did Soutine, who blended Jewish themes with Fauvism and Cubism. Both are considered Jewish artists.
But what exactly is Jewish Art? Is it merely defined by the artist's religious identification or by the themes that preoccupy him? There is Christian art, as exemplified in the stained glasses of churches and cathedrals; or a Muslim art in Persian miniatures, or a Buddhist art in the statues and temples of Asia. But ever since the Golden Calf, Judaism has always been wary of visual representation, which may lead to idolatry. This is perhaps why it is an intellectual rather than an esthetic religion.
Esthetics lead to the exaltation of beauty, and exalted beauty is a subtle pathway to the sublime, a concept reserved to God. It may be the reason why Jewish artists – painters and sculptors – are rare, at least until recently. In fact, Jewish artists, limited by their observance in what they could portray, expressed themselves through traditional Judaica, the making of ritual objects, manuscript illumination, textile embroidery, and so on. But apart from Judaica, is there Jewish art as such, or must it be relegated to "arts and crafts?"
If the very notion of Jewish art is problematic, what is Jewish about Modigliani's paintings? His themes certainly aren't, save for a portrait called "The Jewess," which, (I must agree here with Secrest) seems unusual enough in his body of work to be singled out by art historians as a quasi-caricature at a time when anti-Semitism was on the rise in France.
Some critics have suggested that Modigliani's Jewishness lies in his stand as an outsider in the art world, in his artistic independence: mainly a portraitist, he followed no trends, ignoring Cubism and the avant-garde. The argument is fair, but vague. I have another hypothesis. At a time when painters and writers were focused on the deconstruction of the self, Modigliani's portraits are preoccupied with its construction, its integrity. His art offers a deep concern for the human and a search for unity and essence. There is something ethical about that project. Perhaps therein lies his Jewishness. Judaism, a humanist religion, puts a strong emphasis on human form and dignity.
Ultimately, Jewish art might not exist, at least not in the same way as a Flemish art of portraiture, or an Italian art of form, or a British art of landscapes, or a French art of color. All four artistic traditions rest on a history, a tradition, a theory, and an established culture. Judaism has none of these things precisely because visual representation has always been frowned on.
So there might not be a specifically Jewish art, but rather great art executed by great Jewish artists who were shaped by their tradition. Although Secrest emphasizes the eccentric side of Modigliani's family, she also hints at his traditional Jewish upbringing. Isaaco Garsin, his grandfather and a man of enormous erudition, was an important influence on Modigliani's intellectual development until he was 12. He opened him up to Western history, literature and philosophy, but also saw to his religious education. We also know that Amedeo's father, Flaminio Modigliani, whose authority over the family was absolute, was a strictly observant Jew.
A final hypothesis: it has been argued that "port Jews" (from port cities such as Livorno, Trieste, Amsterdam and Bordeaux) share a similar outlook on the world: religious practices and beliefs tempered by continuous contacts with the outside world brought in by commerce. Their religious observance is broad-minded rather than fierce or militant.
The kabbalist Eliyahu Benamozegh, mentioned above as a source for Modigliani's imagery, and a proponent of religious universalism, exemplifies this stance. Drawing from halakhic sources, he emphasized Judaism's universal and humanistic vocation, at a time when emancipation distanced Jews from their religion.
A corollary of this position may be internal contradictions, and a tireless yet dynamic tension between "Self" and "Others," self-assertion and self-denial, religious isolation and assimilation. This ambivalence is echoed in Modigliani's significant words to the sculptor Chana Orloff: "I carry no religion, but if I did, it would be the ancient religion of my ancestors."
Dr. Yaëlle Azagury writes about French and Sephardi culture.
Tagged Amedeo Modigliani, Jewish art, Livornese Jews, Meryle Secrest, Sephardi
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rrahw
Y, this gets better and better as your argument expands. As always, I wish you started with your strongest assertions, but I'm beginning to understand your method. Love, R
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The Forecastle music festival is slated to make a return in 2022, and organizers announced its lineup Wednesday.
This year's event will run May 27 – 29, Memorial Day weekend, at Louisville's Waterfront Park.
According to the Forecastle website, headlining acts include hometown rapper Jack Harlow and DJ Porter Robinson on opening night.
Other musical artists throughout the weekend include psychedelic pop project Tame Impala, singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, producer and rapper Tyler, the Creator, soul band Black Pumas and rapper Princess Nokia.
The festival is back after a two-year hiatus brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When organizers announced the second-year cancellation last spring, they said they'd also move the festival from July, when it's traditionally been held, to Memorial Day weekend so fans wouldn't have to endure the city's sweltering summer heat.
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