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Государственный художественно-архитектурный дворцово-парковый музей-заповедник (ГМЗ) «Павловск» — дворцово-парковый ансамбль конца XVIII — начала XIX веков, расположенный в Павловске, современном пригороде Санкт-Петербурга.
Ядро комплекса — Павловский дворец, летняя резиденция императора Павла I.

Ко дворцу примыкает Павловский парк площадью около 600 га, раскинувшийся по обоим берегам реки Славянки, что делает его одним из крупнейших пейзажных парков в Европе. Дворцово-парковый ансамбль строили на протяжении около 50 лет три поколения архитекторов и оформителей: Чарлз Камерон, Винченцо Бренна, Джакомо Кваренги, Андрей Воронихин, Карло Росси.

Территориальное деление: составляющие парка

Павловский парк делится на следующие районы:
 Большая звезда (по этой ссылке можно посмотреть и другие районы парка)
 Долина реки Славянки
 Центральный (Придворцовый район)
 Старая Сильвия
 Новая Сильвия
 Белая берёза
 Парадное поле

История строительства дворца и парка
В XVIII веке в долине реки Славянки в 27 км от Санкт-Петербурга находились две небольших финских деревни с лугами и пахотными землями. В окрестностях деревень любила охотиться императрица Екатерина II, приезжавшая в эти места со свитой из Царского Села. Два деревянных домика с названиями «Крик» (сгорел во время фашистской оккупации) и «Крак» (разобран в 1929 году), выстроенные в лесу на берегах Славянки, служили для кратковременных остановок во время охоты. 12 декабря 1777 года по случаю рождения первого внука, будущего императора Александра I, императрица подарила эти земли (ранее выкупленные в казну) сыну, великому князю Павлу Петровичу.

В 1778—1779 годах построили два небольших дома: — Паульлуст ( — Павлова утеха) для Павла, и — Мариенталь ( — Марьина долина) для его супруги Марии Фёдоровны по образцу домиков в имении её отца, герцога Вюртембергского: Этюпа близ Монбельяра.

В 1779 году в Россию по приглашению императрицы Екатерины II прибыл шотландский архитектор Чарлз Камерон с идеями создания «римских терм» в Царском Селе. Камерон непосредственно не работал в Павловске, занятый царскосельскими постройками, он создал общий проект дворца в палладианском стиле. По этому проекту на месте разобранного Паульлуста в 1782—1786 году возводили Большой дворец и разбивали парк — воплощение загородной палладианской виллы. В 1788 году Павел, который предпочитал в качестве резиденции Гатчину, подарил село Павловское своей жене Марии Фёдоровне.

Архитектура Большого дворца
После 1786 года Камерон, из-за постоянных конфликтов с Павлом Петровичем, а затем и с великой княгиней, которая постоянно вмешивалась в проектирование, вообще отказался от работ в селе Павловское. Поэтому все вопросы строительства на месте решал швейцарский рисовальщик и декоратор Анри-Франсуа-Габриэль Виолье, работавший в должности «инспектора кабинетов картин и эстампов». Виолье Старший (прозванный так в отличие от брата, Габриэля Виолье (Гавриила Петровича Виоллье), секретаря Марии Фёдоровны) в 1781—1782 годах сопровождал великокняжескую чету в путешествии по Европе под именами графа и графини Северных. Именно Виолье руководил приобретением картин, мебели, шпалер, изделий из бронзы, фарфора, тканей и всех деталей обстановки для будущего дворца. Виолье разрабатывал убранство интерьеров, делал рисунки декоративных росписей, лепки и даже рисунки мебели в стиле «Луи XVI» (французского неоклассицизма), по которым работали русские мастера.

Согласно проекту Камерона к 1796 году возвели главный корпус дворца кубического объёма с бельведером наверху, колонными портиками западного и восточного фасадов по образцу Виллы Ротонда А. Палладио и двумя циркумференциями (полуциркульными крытыми колоннадами) с боковыми «службами». Анфилады комнат были разделены на «мужскую» и «женскую» половины. В центре здания — приёмные и танцевальные залы.

С воцарением Павла I в ноябре 1796 года и последующей отставкой Камерона главным архитектором Двора был назначен помощник Камерона, итальянский архитектор Винченцо Бренна. Император настаивал на увеличении размеров дворца для придания ему большей величественности. Бренна надстроил созданные Камероном циркумференции (полуциркульные галереи) вторым ярусом лоджий саркадами и трельяжами между арками, увенчал галереи балюстрадой, вазонами с гирляндами. Боковые корпуса украсил трофеями (военной арматурой). С западной стороны Бренна пристроил к дворцу так называемую Светлую колоннаду (позднее «Галерея Гонзага»). С 1799 года в Павловске работал итальянский художник-декоратор Пьетро ди Готтардо Гонзага (Гонзаго). Он создал эскизы росписи плафонов новых парадных интерьеров Большого дворца. «Павловск — энциклопедия Гонзаго, — писал А. М. Эфрос, — Нигде он не проявил себя полнее, многообразнее… Нигде он не был больше самим собой». Гонзага отдал Павловску тридцать пять лет жизни и не просто доделывал то, что не успел сделать Камерон, а «заполнял всё пространство своей фантазией и вкусом». В 1805—1807 годах Гонзага расписал стены и плафон Светлой колоннады архитектурными перспективами trompe-l'œil («обман зрения»; росписи были разрушены войной, условно воссозданы к 2011 году по немногим уцелевшим фрагментам и эскизам художника) и развил камероновскую и палладианскую идею «прозрачных колоннад», продолжив её осуществление в Павловском парке «пейзажного», английского стиля.

Интерьеры и коллекции дворца
Отделочные работы в парадных залах Большого дворца закончили в 1802 году, но в 1803 году из-за неисправности дымоходов возник пожар, уничтоживший архитектуру интерьеров. Винченцо Бренна после убийства императора Павла Петровича 12(24) марта 1801 года уехал из России в Германию и увёз с собой все чертежи. Мария Фёдоровна поручила восстановительные работы А. Н. Воронихину. Новый дворцовый архитектор восстановил Египетский вестибюль по проекту Камерона, расширил галерею северного флигеля, стену которой в 1805—1807 годах расписал Гонзага. В 1807 году Воронихин создал одно из своих лучших произведений — кабинет «Фонарик», интерьер с застеклённой полуротондой, выходящий в «собственный садик». Парные фигуры кариатид выполнены по моделям скульптора В. И. Демут-Малиновского. Мебель кабинета также создана по рисункам Воронихина. В 1822—1824 годах архитектор Карло Росси надстроил северную галерею вторым этажом для размещения библиотеки. В 1872 году на эспланаде перед дворцом установили бронзовый памятник Павлу I (копия памятника работы И. П. Витали в Гатчине).

Большой дворец, как и малые сооружения парка, был варварски разрушен фашистскими захватчиками в 1941—1944 годах.

Интерьеры дворца воссоздавали в 1955—1965 годах под руководством главного хранителя Анатолия Михайловича Кучумова, который скрупулёзно воссоздавал исторические интерьеры, начиная с первых пяти залов, открытых для посетителей в 1957 году. Таким образом Павловский дворец стал первым из пригородных музеев, где после войны начала действовать экспозиция. Взамен утраченных предметов Анатолий Михайлович с коллегами находили новые, аутентичные эпохе и интерьеру.

10 лет длилось восстановление архитектурного объёма дворца, ещё 10 — восстановление убранства под научным руководством А. М. Кучумова, который досконально знал декоративно-прикладное искусство и был истинным «вещеведом». В 1959 году под его руководством на третьем этаже Павловского дворца в соавторстве с И. М. Гуревичем была открыта выставка «Костюм и портрет XVIII—XIX веков» — первая экспозиция в СССР, посвящённая дворянскому быту как культурно-историческому явлению, что было революционным событием в советском музейном деле.

В 1970 году почти все залы были открыты для экскурсантов. Среди них большой Итальянский зал (проект Камерона 1786 года, завершение строительства В. Бренной, 1789, восстановление Воронихина). Греческий зал с колоннами пышного коринфского ордера облицованными тёмно-зелёным мрамором. Тронный зал (Столовая, 1797—1798, В. Бренна, скульптуры кариатид по моделям И. П. Мартоса и М. И. Козловского. Роспись плафона Пьетро ди Готтардо Гонзаго), Пилястровый кабинет (проект Дж. Кваренги. 1800, мебель по рисункам Воронихина), Парадная опочивальня (1789—1791, В. Бренна), Будуар Марии Фёдоровны в «помпеянском стиле» (проект Ч. Камерона, 1784—1788, отделка и росписи Дж.-Б. Скотти по рисункам В. Бренны) и многие другие интерьеры, являющиеся выдающимися памятниками архитектуры и декоративного искусства русского классицизма.

В интерьерах дворца размещена обширная коллекция картин, произведений декоративно-прикладного искусства: изделий из бронзы, фарфора и уникальной мебели, созданной русскими мастерами по рисункам В. Бренны, А. Н. Воронихина, Н. А. Львова, Ж.-Ф. Тома де Томона.

Общая хронология дворца
 25 мая 1782 — начало строительства Павловского дворца.
 1783 — построен центральный корпус.
 1785 — построены галереи-колоннады и служебные корпуса.
 1787 — завершена отделка внутренних помещений дворца.
 1796 — воцарение Павла I.
 Конец 1790-х — дворец перестроен и расширен.
 1801 — убийство Павла I.
 10 января 1803 — пожар в Павловском дворце.
 1803—1805 — восстановление дворца.
 1805—1807 — Пьетро Гонзаго создаёт Галерею Гонзаго
 1808 — построен «кабинет-фонарик» с фигурами кариатид. Архитектор А. Н. Воронихин, скульптор В. И. Демут-Малиновский.

 1822—1824 — построен библиотечный корпус.
 1872 — в парадном дворе установлен памятник Павлу I.
 1920-е — реставрация по проекту архитектора С. В. Домбровского, служившего в должности хранителя и архитектора дворца.
 1942—1944 — парк сильно пострадал во время немецкой оккупации. Дворец был подожжён и заминирован оккупантами при отступлении
 1957 — в ходе послевоенной реставрации открыты для посетителей первые залы дворца: Передний, Кавалергардский, Кавалерский, Оркестровая и Буфетная.
 1978 — завершена реставрация Павловского дворца. Годы своей жизни положила на реставрацию дворца Анна Ивановна Зеленова, директор музея.
 1978 — коллектив Дворца-музея награждён орденом «Знак Почёта».
 1983 — присвоен статус музея-заповедника.
 1986 — коллектив архитекторов, реставраторов и художников во главе с главным хранителем дворца А. М. Кучумовым удостоен высшей награды СССР — Ленинской премии.
 1990 — Павловский дворцово-парковый ансамбль включён в список объектов культурного наследия ЮНЕСКО.

Туризм и рекреационный потенциал парка
Дворец и прилегающий к нему парк являются важными объектами как внутрироссийского, так и международного туризма.

Ученица А. М. Кучумова, профессор Гарвардского университета Сюзанна Масси (долгие годы советник президента Рейгана по русским делам, научившая своего патрона русским поговоркам) основала Общество друзей Павловска. Масси выпустила в США на основе материалов учителя книгу «Павловск. Жизнь русского дворца» (1990, первое издание в России в Санкт-Петербурге, 1997).

Фотографии

Дворец и садово-парковый комплекс

Интерьеры дворца

См. также
 Галерея Гонзаго
 Дворцово-парковые ансамбли пригородов Санкт-Петербурга

Путеводители и альбомы
 А. М. Кучумов. «Павловск. Дворец и парк». Ленинздат, 1976.
 А. М. Кучумов. «Убранство русского жилого интерьера XIX века». 1977 г.
 А. М. Кучумов. «Русское декоративно-прикладное искусство XVIII — начала XIX века». Ленинздат, 1981 г.
 А. М. Кучумов. "Государственный музей-заповедник «Павловск». Ленинздат, 1981.

Примечания

Литература

 В. Я. Курбатов. Павловск. Художественно-исторический очерк и путеводитель. Санкт-Петербург, 1912.
 А. А. Половцов. Сокровища искусств в России. Париж, 1919.
 В. Н. Талепоровский. Павловский парк. Петроград, 1923.
 С. В. Королев. Книги из Библиотеки Павловского дворца в РНБ (Библиотека императрицы Марии Фёдоровны): указатель-справочник. СПб.: Российская национальная библиотека, 2018. ISBN 978-5-8192-0543-3
 А. М. Кучумов. Павловск. Путеводитель по дворцу и парку. Ленинград, 1975.
 А. М. Кучумов. Павловск. Дворец и парк. Ленинград, 1976.
 А. М. Кучумов. Убранство русского жилого интерьера XIX века. Ленинград, 1977.
 А. М. Кучумов. Русское декоративно-прикладное искусство XVIII—XIX веков в собрании Павловского дворца-музея. Ленинград, 1981.
 А. М. Кучумов. Государственный музей-заповедник «Павловск». Ленинград, 1981.
 Памятники архитектуры пригородов Ленинграда. Авторский коллектив. Ленинград, Стройиздат, 1983.
 А. И. Зеленова. Дворец в Павловске. Лениздат, 1986.
 Сюзанна Масси. Павловск. Жизнь русского дворца. Санкт-Петербург, 1997 (перевод с англ. — Первое издание в США, 1990).
 А. Ю. Гусаров. Павловск. От основания до наших дней. Паритет, 2013.

Ссылки
 Государственный музей-заповедник «Павловск» — официальный сайт
 Telegram-канал
 Дворец в Павловске // rusarh.ru
 Павловский дворец
 Фотографии Павловского парка // photocity.ru
 Государственный музей-заповедник «Павловск» // gardener.ru
 Интерьеры Павловского Дворца // prigorod-peterburg.ru
 Фотографии росписи интерьеров Павловского Дворца
 Фотографии Павловского парка
 Видеоэкскурсия по Павловскому парку // toneup.ru
 Фильм Павловск реж. Аранович 1977 г.

Здания и сооружения, заложенные в 1782 году
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A layer of sliced Bramley apples soaked in Calvados is displayed on a bed of pureed apples.
Fresh Bramley apples are cooked with brown sugar, spices and sultanas. The pie is finished with pastry latticing and glazed.
Bramley apples and a little mixed spice make a perfect filling for this pie.
Bramley apples mixed with forest berries are attractively decorated with a lattice top.
A layer of sliced Bramley apples is displayed on a layer of crème patisserie, then glazed.
A luscious filling of Bramley apples with fruit of your choice topped with brown sugar butter crumble. Apple/Plum Apple/Cherry Apple/Blackberry.


BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDSI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for a manufacturing specification change for BUNAVAIL® (buprenorphine and naloxone) buccal film (CIII).
The approval allows for the immediate release of BUNAVAIL inventory to wholesalers. BDSI will be shipping product to wholesalers this morning which should make product available in pharmacies as early as Friday.
The newly released product supplies are expected to satisfy current and anticipated demand, which has increased following the October 1 initiation of a contract providing exclusive, preferred formulary status for BUNAVAIL for Medicaid patients in the state of Tennessee.
"All of us at BDSI want to thank the Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Addiction Products at FDA for working with us in an expeditious and collaborative fashion to help allow patients benefiting from BUNAVAIL treatment to maintain uninterrupted availability," said Dr. Mark A. Sirgo, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We also want to thank all of the patients, physicians and other health providers, including pharmacists, for their patience and support during this period of inconvenience."
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Marvel May Be Making A Movie About Blade's Daughter!
She's a sort of 'anti-Peter Parker.' She's popular, she's well-liked, and it seems like the world is her oyster. But, the expectations that come with being so damn perfect are starting to break her down, and that's before she learns she's the heir to a Daywalking-Monster-Stabbing-Empire.
Tough luck. If Marvel wants to put her on the big screen, then maybe she could team up with her dad in Blade 4? Come on.
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はんだ山車まつり Handa-dashi-matsuri Handa Dashi (Float) Festival
Handa City located in the center of Chita Peninsula in the south of Aichi Prefecture had been a flourishing port town since the Edo period (1603-1868). Storehouses along the canal are still in use today and make a fine townscape.
Handa Spring Dashi (Float) Festivals, which proud 200-year history, are held in 10 districts of Handa City from early in March to late in May every year, and Handa Dashi Festival is held in October once every 5 years, gathering 31 valiant floats in the city at one place.
The 1st Handa Dashi Festival was held in May in 1979, and then the 2nd was held in 1987 as the 50th anniversary event of the city. Since then the festival has been held in October once every 5 years to this day.
Decorated with gorgeous tapestries and elaborate carvings, the floats valiantly march throughout the city, heading for the festival site. The scene of the all 31 floats gathering at one place is overwhelmingly impressive.
Many other fascinating events such as the folk performing art show, the citizens' parade and the local product fair are held all through the city. During the two-day festival period, the whole town is filled with enthusiastic festival mood under the autumn sky.
Chita Peninsula
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広河原松上げ Hirogawara-matsuage Hirogawara Matsuage Torch Lighting Ritual
Matsuage Torch Lighting Ritual is a fire festival held in August in Hirogawara, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto to pray for commemoration of the souls of ancestors as well as for fire prevention and rich harvest. It originates in the tradition of bonfires offered to the deity of fire on Mt. Atago in the western part of Kyoto. Later it was introduced to the nearby villages by mountain practitioners.
In Matsuage (hurling up) ritual, 1,200 torches are set on fire one after another. The flames of the torches spreading in the darkness are overwhelming. Then at the sign of a drum and gong, men began to hurl up burning torches at mass of dry grass called "Ogasa" fixed atop the 20 m tall pole called "Torogi" made of Japanese cypress wood. As they hurl them up, they twirl them many times to give momentum and leave multiple of circular trails of fire, which is very fantastic. The climax is when Ogasa is set on fire and the Torogi is pulled down to the ground. Numerous fire sparks beautifully soar up into the dark sky.
fire festival
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羅臼岳 Rausu-dake Mt. Rausu-dake
Mt. Rausu-dake (1,660 m) is the highest mountain of the Shiretoko volcanic mountain range in Shiretoko Peninsula. It is counted as one of Japan's 100 Fine Mountains. The view of the mountain covered with pure white snow in winter is magnificent. Many snow patches remain even in summer.
From the top of the mountain, you can command a panoramic view of the ocean including far-off Kunashiri Island. The two starting points of a trail up a mountain are located at Rausu Hot Spring in Rausu-cho and Iwaobetsu Hot Spring in Shari-cho. It takes 4 hours and 30 minutes from Rausu, and 6 hours from Shari.
In Mt. Rausu, you can observe a lot of alpine plants that come into bloom one after another on the slopes where snow thaws. At the peak blooming season in summer, the whole mountain becomes field of flowers. Here you will be moved by the great power of nature that overcome and survive severe winter.
100 Mountain
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相模原 中野神社 Sagamihara Nakano-jinja Nakano Shrine in Sagamihara
Nakano Shrine is located in Nakano, Tsukui-cho, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The enshrined deities are Mihosusumi no Mikoto, Toyoukehime no Mikoto and Takuhata Chijime no Mikoto. It is said that the shrine was founded in 835 and restored in 1571. The main hall is made of Japanese cypress wood and decorated with relief carvings. The shrine is known for its annual festival with a history of 300 years, which is held on the 4th weekend of July every year. In this festival, six floats march in the town with a portable shrine. The competition of the floats carrying Oayashi musicians on the stages is very powerful. On New Year's Day, visitors can experience "Chinowa Kuguri," in which sins and dirtiness are expelled by walking through a large ring made of thatch. Though old, Nakano Shrine is still visited by a lot of local worshippers today.
ceremony to drive away evil spirits
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開聞岳 Kaimon-dake Mt. Kaimondake
Mt. Kaimondake (924 m) is located in Ibusuki City in the southernmost part of Kagoshima Prefecture. It is counted as one of Japan's 100 Fine Mountains. From its fine conical shape, it is called Satsuma Fuji.
Mt. Kaimondake erupted in 874 and 885, by which the lava dome was formed in the crater and it became a two-staged complex volcano. The walking trail winds up to the mountain top.
At the top of the mountain is Mitake Shrine, the back shrine of Hirasaki Shrine at the foot. Mt. Kaimondake itself is the sacred body of this shrine. From the mountain top, you can command a magnificent view from the Kirishima mountain range in the north to Yakushima Island in the south including major sightseeing spots in the prefecture.
In the areas at the foot of the mountain, rape flowers bloom in spring, leaves of the evergreen forest cover the whole mountain in early summer and Chinese tallow trees (Sapium sebiferum) turn red in fall.
Subtropical and tropical plants can be seen in the botanical garden in Kaimon Submontane Natural Park located around the 2nd station of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain area many hot spring towns.
foot of mountain
Jyogan
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尾島ねぷたまつり Ojima-neputa-matsuri Ojima Neputa Festival
Ojima Neputa Festival is held in Ojima-cho, Ota City, Gunma Prefecture. The Neputa festival, which is typical to the Tsugaru region, is held in this town because the village of Ojima was an outland territory of the Tsugaru domain in the 17th century. In 1985, a group of people interested in this historical link visited Ojima-cho and the Neputa troupe joined Ojima Festival from the next year onward.
Since then the enthusiasm for Neputa grew among the citizens and they went as far as to build their own Neputa lantern and change the name of the festival to Ojima Neputa Festival.
The festival is held on August 14th and 15th every year. The parade of the 8 m tall Ogi Neputa (Fan-shaped Neputa) lantern and the float carrying the Joppari drums is valiant itself. Colorful pictures of warriors lit up against the dark sky look fantastically beautiful. The highlight of the festival is the joint performance of the Joppari drums and Ohayashi music at the end of the festival, which is very impressive and worth seeing.
香嵐渓 Kouran-kei Korankei Gorge
Korankei Gorge is a scenic spot in Asuke Town in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. It is said that the gorge was first developed in 1634, when the priest Sanei of Kojakuji Temple in Asuke Village planted Japanese maple trees along the front approach of the temple from the Tomoe River, modeling after Arashiyama in Kyoto.
The gorge was named "Korankei" in 1930 by combining "Ko" form Kojakuji Temple, the word "Ran," which means "moist mountain air," and "Kei" meaning "a gorge."
The 1.2 km beautiful gorge along the Tomoe River makes a fine contrast with Mt. Iimoriyama, which looks like rice filled in a rice bowl. The gorge is a famous viewing spot of autumn leaves. 4,000 Japanese maple trees turn red and yellow in fall and create an exquisite landscape. The gorge is also a treasure trove of wild plants. Here you can feel the breaths of nature with all your senses.
rice.
Kanei
autumnal leaves
大塩天満宮 秋季例大祭 Ooshio-tenmanguu Syuuki-reitaisai The Autumn Festival at Oshio Tenmangu Shrine
The annual festival of Oshio Tenmangu Shrine in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture is held on October 14 and 15 every year. It is known for the Oshio Lion Dance, which has been handed down since the Kamakura Period (1192-1333). Six lions representing each of the six districts of the town perform powerful and elegant dances, which are respectively different from one another. This traditional Shinto ritual is designated as a prefecture's important intangible folk cultural property.
On October 14th, the float parade goes through the town in the afternoon. Then in the evening, the six lions, each of which is operated by several men and covered with black and brown long bear hair, gather together in front of the torii gate of the shrine. Their jumping and dancing draw cheers from the spectators. The highlight of the festival is the parade of lion dancers on the 15th. The six lions appear in front of the shrine and start marching through the precinct to the oratory hall. They raise their heads high and jump into the air to the ohayashi music of Japanese drums and flutes. Their dynamic dance is really impressive.
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nrand
Shinkoden
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Board Monitoring of Risk Management at Center of NYU Directors' Institute
The NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business, a joint initiative between NYU Stern School of Business and NYU School of Law, in May hosted its seventh annual Directors' Institute, entitled, "Board Monitoring of Risk Management." Created to help directors stay current on their legal, fiduciary, and ethical responsibilities, the Directors' Institute was attended by more than 50 experts and practitioners in the fields of law, business, and regulation.
William R. Berkley, chairman and CEO of insurance company W. R. Berkley Corp., opened the Directors' Institute with remarks about board risks from an insurer's perspective. He said that the current economic crisis has brought a new level of volatility and in his 40 years of risk insurance experience, he's never fully realized the risk of correlation, even though all investments have it, until now. He said the important, ominous questions to ask are: How and when should risk be measured? How can a company stay ahead of risk and change its exposure to risk? And how can a company know if it is being too risky? He argued that mathematical theory is not enough – that managers need common sense, expertise, and critical eyes. He advised that boards set aside time to discuss internal and external risks in order to provide oversight while allowing chief risk officers to do their jobs. He suggested the following guidelines for firms: make managers risk conscious, have boards define companies' risk tolerance, determine how to measure risk, and have board members set parameters for keeping them informed.
Following Berkley's comments, Joseph S. Tracy, executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, shared his outlook on the US economy. He predicted that the current economic downturn is likely to be the longest and deepest since the 1930s. He said production and employment continued to decline rapidly through March as the economy worked through an unusually large inventory correction, though inflation continues to slow. While nominal income growth is declining, real income growth is increasing, boosted by drops in energy prices and taxes. He noted that the personal savings rate is up but that a lot of savings are being spent on debt reduction. He described the dramatic declines in net worth, and the excess inventory in the housing market. All in all, he argued that fiscal and monetary policy is working.
The luncheon keynote address was delivered by Richard Ketchum, chairman and CEO of the new "FINRA" – Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, who spoke about the financial reform legislation in the US and abroad. He argued that the present financial turmoil creates opportunities for fixing the plumbing of the architecture of the markets. He said there is a need for more thoughtful regulation, not regulation for regulation's sake, and that financial regulators need to cooperate more effectively with one another, now more than ever. He suggested that regulators address the lack of transparency with over-the-counter derivatives, beef up surveillance of the equity market, create legislation that establishes a clear set of principles, develop one oversight body of investment advisors and broker/dealers, and resolve turf issues between regulatory agencies.
The conference also featured panels that examined the board's role in monitoring risk management, what every director should know about asset-backed securities and credit default swaps, risk embedded in succession planning and CEO compensation, and legal compliance risks in a crisis. It included expert panelists from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business, among others.
Learn more about the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business.


Police response times have been calculated by the Ephrata Police Department for 2018. Lt. Thomas Shumaker submitted the following information to Adamstown Borough for their March 5 meeting. There was no discussion.
Code 1 and 2 dispatches are emergencies. A response to these calls may affect someone's health. Code 1 calls tend to lean toward medical emergencies, where Code 2 is geared more toward potential or actual crime in progress. It is also important to recognize that these are mostly original dispatch incident types and may not necessarily reflect the actual nature of the call.
Codes 3 and 4 are generally not known emergencies but have a sense of urgency. In some cases, evidence may be lost without a prompt response.
Higher numbered codes are all less important. Those events' responses were not analyzed, as they do not immediately affect safety.
An Adamstown resident brought forward a concern to council at the "visitors' business" portion of the meeting.
Councilman Shad Lewis asked if cars were trying to pass on the berm around him as he turns left.
"I asked the police about that a couple months ago and asked him if it was legal to pass on the berm, and he said it was," said Lewis.
That was the end of the discussion. If a councilperson said they would look in to it, it was inaudible.
Mayor Dean Johnson said the how to survive an "Active Shooter Training" which was canceled last month due to weather will be held on Apr. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran in Adamstown.


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Tag: David Marx
Fashion Web
Construction: A Short Story
When he's not writing definitive guides to fashion in Japan, W. David Marx likes to write funny stuff, and here's a fun little story he just wrote for Racked, called "Construction: A Short Story."
Tags David Marx, racked, short story, w. david marx
Miniflex
As I think I've written in recent posts, since unearthing my archives and going through my old posts, it's gotten me back into the music I was listening to at that time, which mostly revolved around the Shibuya-kei scene. Through various means I've been able to start rebuilding my collection — the biggest thanks go out to Tom, one of the originals from the old Pizzicato Five Mailing List, who has been my savior — and it not only has me listening to this music again, but talking about it as well — often with David, another P5ML alumni. Miniflex came up, a name I remembered from those days but nothing more than that, but since listening to the album (or mini-album, as it's pretty short) Sud on Friday night, I've been absolutely obsessed, and have been listening to it pretty much non-stop.
Miniflex is a solo project by producer Yugo Katayama, who was the man behind the music of Yukari Fresh, one of my favorite artists from those days. It looks like Sud was the only release he did under the name Miniflex, and that makes me pretty sad — I'm hunting for anything else that would be original music from him, but falling short.
And speaking of David, he's currently listening to every single Pizzicato Five release (or at least pretty much all of them) and writing a review and scoring each of those releases. I've already read a few of them and they're great (and they in turn made me revisit some of those records with a fresh pair of ears). I think he's only planning on publishing the reviews once he's written all of them, but I'll make sure to link to them when he does do that.
Tags David Marx, miniflex, p5ml, pizzicato five, pizzicato five mailing list, reviews, shibuya-kei, sud, w. david marx, yugo katayama, yukari fresh
Design Fashion
The 1964 Olympics Uniforms
As part of his "Ametora Extended" collection of online essays, David has just posted a new piece that takes a look at the controversy surrounding efforts to determine who exactly designed the Japanese uniforms — mainly comprised of those iconic red blazers you see pictured) — for the 1964 Olympics. It's an interesting read, especially in revealing how collaborative an effort it probably ended up being.
Tags 1964 olympics, ametora, ametora extended, David Marx, essay, Japan, olympics, uniforms, w. david marx
Books Fashion Magazines Web
Ametora Extended
This post serves as a reminder that W. David Marx has continued to support his fantastic book, Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, since release through the Ametora Dispatches monthly newsletter — with each missive including an essay and links of interest — as well as footnotes to the book, that he posts on Medium (here are the footnotes for Chapter 4, and you'll find the rest in the "Ametora Extended" collection). The Japanese edition of the book (out in July of next year) now has a page on Amazon Japan, and a monthly serialization in Popeye magazine is starting in this month's issue (September 2016).
Tags amazon japan, ametora, ametora dispatches, ametora extended, David Marx, footnotes, medium, newsletter, popeye, w. david marx
Music Stores Web
Maki Nomiya's Un Homme et Une Femme
One of the first friends I made when I moved to Tokyo was Patrick Benny, who I had met through a Pizzicato Five mailing list (P5ML) — I met quite a few good friends that way, including W. David Marx and Jesper Larsson. We all shared a love for Shibuya-kei music, and Patrick was especially into the scene, and to this day continues to update his Tokyo's Coolest Sound site, and still runs his Tokyo Recohan online store.
As I've been heavily into listening to Shibuya-kei of late (I'm listening to Fantastic Plastic Machine's Moments compilation as I write this), I've also been taking a look again at Patrick's Tokyo's Coolest Sound, where the latest post highlights the upcoming release of a new Maki Nomiya album that celebrates the influence of French culture on Shibuya-kei. This video will give you a taste of one of the tracks (a duet between Nomiya and Crazy Ken Band's Ken Yokoyama of "Un homme et une femme"). Very much looking forward to hearing the rest of the record.
Tags crazy ken band, David Marx, fantastic plastic machine, Japan, Jesper Larsson, ken yokoyama, maki nomiya, p5ml, patrick benny, pizzicato five, shibuya-kei, tokyo, tokyo recohan, tokyo's coolest sound, un homme et une femme, w. david marx
Every month or so, Warren Ellis puts out a post on his site in which he explains where you can find him on the web and elsewhere — sort of a monthly updated FAQ on what he's up to — and I figure I should do one as well, since I'm sure that someone who has just arrived to my site for the first time might have trouble understanding what exactly I'm up to these days.
First off, this week saw the launch of my latest project, The Magaziner, a new site that will cover the growing push of magazine into the digital world — something I've been covering here for a couple of months now, but realized it made more sense to create a proper space for it. It is also accompanied by a Twitter account, which I'm now using for my magazine-related tweets, and has a Facebook fan page too.
Last month I also launched a new weekly music podcast I call Codex. It's usually me playing a selection of 10 tracks, but I'll have the occasional themed shows (like the next one), guest episodes (soon), and I'm also going to start adding what I call the Codex Coda, short guest mixes. You can download all previous episodes here and subscribe to an RSS feed — it's in the iTunes Store too.
Radio OK FRED is the long-running music podcast series I do with Editions OK FRED's Yoshi Tsujimura and Audrey Fondecave, and although it's been on yet another extended break (apologies for that), it still pops up every once in a while, and I'm hoping we'll be able to make 1 or 2 new episodes this month.
Then there's PauseTalk, my monthly creative talk event that takes place at Cafe Pause here in Ikebukuro. We're on a bit of a break this month and the next (due to the holiday slowdown), and so the next edition will take place February 7. If you've never been there, it's a very casual salon-like atmosphere, where a bunch of "creatives" basically get together and discuss topics that affect us, share projects, ask for advice, etc.
SNOW Magazine is the natural extension that was launched at the start of the year for all of the Tokyo/Japan-related art/design/culture coverage I used to do on this blog for many, many years. Although most of the content is provided by me, it does include the occasional guest columns and feature. SNOW also has a presence on Facebook and Twitter.
That means that this place, JeanSnow.net, is again a hub for all of my activities, so don't come looking for Japan-related news, really. I'm on Twitter as well — where some say I actually tweet too much — and of course Facebook.
On the book side of things, while I'll remind you that my previous contributions — Arcade Mania and Tokyolife — make for great holiday gifts, next up will be the release early next year of the fifth editions of The Rough Guides to Tokyo and Japan.
And although it doesn't get updated as much as I'd like, my little gaming corner — simply called GAME — still features a host of games that I like a lot. I'll try and get back to adding a few each month.
The PLAY series, where I would spin virtual discs at Cafe Pause every once in a while, is also on hiatus, and I think it has pretty much been taken over by Codex. I actually want to occasionally record some live Codex shows from the cafe.
You can also still catch my monthly design column for The Japan Times, "On Design," which is published on the last Thursday of every month. It focuses on product design, and each one usually has me recommending five new items. I also contributed two items to the Japan Times' holiday gift guide piece, which was published today.
And even though I don't really contribute anything in the written sense, I would say that I'm a "spiritual" contributor to Néojaponisme, David Marx's web journal that covers social and cultural aspects of Japan, which explains my editor-at-large title. Although the site has slowed down a bit this year in terms of new content, expect a bunch of great year-end reflections to appear later this month.
I'm also a proud member of Luis Mendo's Goodfellas Network, and more specifically part of the GOOD Inc. Japan team. If you're looking for a terrific group of people to work on a magazine-related project (print or digital), then please get in touch.
Last, but CERTAINLY not least, I continue my work as Executive Director of PechaKucha, where my role is mostly behind-the-scenes, but I also provide a public face through the PechaKucha Daily blog, and on Twitter. Local PKN organizers from around the world are the people I mostly deal with, but do feel free to get in touch if you have any questions regarding all things PechaKucha, whether it's about holding a one-off PK event, starting a regular PKN series in your city, or anything else you may have on your mind. Since the organization is run as a non-profit, sponsorship enquiries and collaborations are also VERY welcome!
So there you have it, and if all of this wasn't enough, do feel free to email me with any question you may have.
Tags Arcade Mania, Audrey Fondecave, Cafe Pause, Codex, David Marx, Editions OK FRED, Facebook, Game, GOOD Inc., Goodfellas Network, Luis Mendo, Meta, Neojaponisme, On Design, PauseTalk, PechaKucha, PechaKucha Night, Radio OK Fred, SNOW Magazine, The Japan Times, The Magaziner, The Rough Guide to Japan, The Rough Guide to Tokyo, The Rough Guides, Tokyolife, Twitter, Warren Ellis, Yoshi Tsujimura
Games Music
Forgotten Music Gems of the Decade
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Marxy has a piece up on CNNGo covering some of his top picks in terms of underappreciated Japanese music releases of the past decade. Above, Macdonald Duck Eclair's "The Eyes Just Like a Fawn's," as played through the game Audiosurf.
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Meta Tokyo Walking Web
CNNGo
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Chances are you've already noticed the tweets and a few posts last week, but yes, I was very happy to see the new CNNGo site go in public beta mode last week. Although it may come off at first as just a new travel portal, the audience for the site are really the expats, the people already living in those cities looking to get more out of them. Of course, anyone passing through will also get a lot out of the site, it just means that the content doesn't tend to be overly touristy.
The site is currently Asia-only, covering the following cities: Bangkok, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, and of course, Tokyo. That last one is edited by one W. David Marx, and a look at the list of contributors will immediately reveal a lot of names regular readers of this site will surely recognize (Matt Alt, Patrick Macias, and many more). I've contributed as well — one of my pieces is on my fave burgers in town — and look forward to writing more for the site.
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How to Graph a Logistic Regression in SPSS
By Warren Davies
Use the "Plots" feature to graph your logistic regression in SPSS.
A logistic regression is similar to a discriminant function analysis in that it tells you the extent to which you can predict a given variable based on what you know about other categorical variables. However, the advantage of logistic regression is that any number of variables can be included, and if desired, all predictor variables may be categorical. In SPSS, you can graph a logistic regression through the "Options" menu of the "Binary logistic regression" window.
Start SPSS. Select "Open an existing data source" from the welcome window that appears. Double-click "More Files," then navigate to your data file. Double-click the file to open it in SPSS.
Click "Analyze," then "Regression" and then select "Binary Logistic." The "Logistic Regression" window will appear.
Click your dependent variable from the list on the right -- that is, the variable you are trying to predict. Then, click the arrow next to the "Dependent" box. Next, select your predictor variables, using the "Ctrl" button if you need to click more than one, and click the arrow next to the "Covariates" box. Note that your categorical variables automatically receive a "(cat)" label next to them. If you wish to include the interaction between any of your variables in the analysis, click each once on the main list on the left, then click the ">a*b>" button next to the "Covariates" box.
Select "Forward: LR" from the "Method" drop-down menu. This gives the results for each of your predictors separately, allowing you to see how much each one contributes to the overall model, as well as the predictive power of all variables together.
Click "Options." From the "Statistics and Plots" header, select "Classification plots." After doing this, SPSS returns a graph of your logistic regression. Other useful statistics from this menu are "Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit" and "Iteration history." The output of these two tests gives you information on how accurate the model is. Click "Continue" when you're done.
Click "OK." Wait a while for the results to appear. The logistic regression is a fairly computer-intensive procedure and, with large datasets, this may take some time. When the output screen appears, scroll down to see your graph.
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Bare literally means fully or partially naked,
or figuratively used it means minimal.

Bare may also refer to:

People
 Bare (surname)
 Jader Volnei Spindler (born 1982), Brazilian football player nicknamed "Bare"

Places
 Bare Island (disambiguation)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Bare, Busovača
 Bare (Hadžići)
 Bare (Jajce)
 Bare (Konjic)
 Bare (Posušje)
 Bare (Rudo), in Rudo
 Bare, Visoko, in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Bare cemetery, in Sarajevo

Cameroon
 Baré, Cameroon

Ethiopia
 Bare (woreda)

Kosovo
 Bare, Kosovo, a village in Mitrovica district

Iran
 Bare, East Azerbaijan
 Bare, West Azerbaijan

Italy
 Bàre

Montenegro
 Bare, Kolašin
 Bare, Šavnik

Romania
 Báré, the Hungarian name for Bărăi village, Căianu Commune, Cluj County, Romania

Serbia
 Bare, Knić
 Bare, Kraljevo
 Bare, Požarevac
 Bare, Prijepolje
 Bare, Rekovac
 Bare, Sjenica

United Kingdom
 Bare, Morecambe, Lancashire, England

United States
 Bare Butte, a summit in Texas

Music
 Bare (Annie Lennox album), 2003
 Bare (Barb Jungr album), 1999
 Bare (Wayne Hussey album), 2008
 Bare (EP), by Little Nobody
 Bare: A Pop Opera, a musical story of two gay high school students
 "Bare", a song by Anthrax from Stomp 442
 B.A.R.E in the Woods, a music festival held in Portarlington, County Laois, Ireland

Other uses
 Bare (magazine), 1999-2001 UK women's lifestyle magazine
 Bare (film), a 2015 drama film
 Bare, a 1991 autobiography of singer George Michael, co-written by Tony Parsons

See also
 Bear (disambiguation)
 Baer (disambiguation)

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The Belko Experiment Trailer #3: A Bloody Good Time
by Emily Donn
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James Gunn is a busy filmmaker. After writing and directing the hit Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy, he had to get right to work on the sequel - after he made a cameo appearance in Con Men that is. Plus, the director helped with one scene in Marvel's latest big screen release, Doctor Strange. Then there is the exciting new film he wrote and produced that is being released in mid-March: The Belko Experiment.
The Belko Experiment is a horror film about a group of employees who are locked in their office building and ordered to start killing each other by a mysterious voice. It originally played at the Toronto International Film Festival, and has been picked up for wide release by Blumhouse Tilt and Orion Pictures.
Today, Gunn released a new extended trailer on his Facebook page [above] that gives a bit more insight to what it is like for the employees working at Belko. It also showcases a character we have not seen much of in previous trailers. Marty Espenscheid, played by James Gunn's brother and frequent actor in his films, Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2).
The opening scene of the trailer shows Espenscheid and some of his co-workers smoking on the roof of the building. When they are reminded that Belko tests employees for smoking and they could be fired for doing it, all Espenscheid has to say about it is, "Quit getting so worked up." There is also a reminder of the contract they signed in order to work at Belko. Whatever they do in that building, it certainly seems like a fairly strict place to work.
After that, the trailer heads into the familiar footage from its predecessors. The building's windows are covered with metal shades, employees are ordered to start killing, and they do. All kinds of weapons are found, everything from guns to knives, from meat cleavers to molotov cocktails, as most of the employees of Belko decide that they would rather kill than be killed.
The concept of a group of people locked up together and forced to kill in order to survive is a recurring one in the horror genre. It was famously done in the various Saw movies, and in recent independent horror films Hunger and Circle. It will be interesting to see how Gunn brings his unique voice to the trend and how his film stands out.
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East Bay jazz-poetry ensemble, Upsurge!, has just delivered a new disc containing 15 tracks of well-executed and captivatingly conscious music. While I admit not being the best judge of what makes good poetry, there is some pretty thought-provoking material found here.
They take the Gil-Scott Herron formula and turn it on its ear and even stop to cover Abdullah Ibrahim's "The Wedding." I was really impressed with the production values and above-par musicianship. Very cool and engaging release from this East Bay institution, which also just won the Best Poet or Spoken-Word Performer Award of Best of the East Bay 2003.
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And you know, I like creative stuff, no matter what type of music it is…it's all good. One of my favorites is about the football player, I don't even like football but that piece is really something. I haven't heard anything like it. I haven't heard anything even near what you guys are doing on that record.


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Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance
by Jeff | Nov 3, 2013 | 2 comments
I'm a huge fan of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and when I heard the last of his Tchaikovsky trilogy was playing in NYC for a week I jumped at the chance to buy tickets. That he was taking Sleeping Beauty and morphing it into a gothic romance made it even more exciting.
We've seen American Ballet Theatre's classic take on Sleeping Beauty twice and it's gorgeous. Bourne's vision however tweaks the story we all grew up with in fairy tales and have seen in cartoons, movies and on stage and puts a modern, gothic twist on it.
The basic story is the same. The childless king and queen can't have a child and get help from a fairy. When they don't offer thanks to the fairy, a curse is placed on the child. By the time Aurora comes of age, the fairy has died but her son, who is infatuated with Aurora sees to it that the curse is carried out. Aurora's love, Leo, the castle's royal gameskeeper, is distraught as she falls into sleep. The leader of the good fairies turns Leo (is he a fairy? a vampire? a vampire fairy? I have no idea) so he can live until she awakens.
Of course, in the end, good must triumph over evil, and Leo is reunited with Aurora and they live happily ever after… as fairies, along with a fairy child that they have. All of that happens after an epic battle to vanquish the evil.
Hannah Vassella and Dominic North were excellent as Aurora and Leo. Their dance of love in the first act was exquisite and they had great chemistry together. Leo's rescue in the second act was harrowing and their dances in the second act were full of longing for each other and romance. I liked Bourne's tweak to the story to have Aurora in love before she goes to sleep. It does up the stakes in a way that pushing the love story into the second act after she wakes up doesn't quite pull off.
It's also great how the story is moved up to start in 1890 with the birth, the jumping to 1911 for Aurora's birthday party and then moving to near-present day (2011) in the second act. That brings some fun, present day sensibilities to the final scenes. There was also some excellent puppetry work in the show with a baby Aurora that fully interacted with the cast. It was a nice touch that brought early life to the princess.
Bourne's Sleeping Beauty was a great way to spend the afternoon.
marla	on November 4, 2013 at 1:25 pm
we couldnt tell from the playbill who played Sleeping Beauty for the November 2nd evening performance. Can you tell me? THanks
Jeff	on November 5, 2013 at 6:23 am
Unfortunately, Marla, I can't. The only reason I know who played at the performance I was at is because I checked the cast board in the lobby as I was leaving. It was disappointing the Playbill didn't have specific performance information in it.
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Final road trip for The Blues today
By Chris Ward
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Bury Town head to Sudbury for their final away match of the season
The Blues make their final away journey of the season this afternoon, but it will be a short trip down the A134 to Sudbury.
Ben Chenery's side have all but secured 6th place in the Bostik North table and look set to finish as Suffolk's top club in the Bostik North, but three points at the home of our rivals this season will put that out of question. Bury are in great form going into the game thanks to 4 straight wins, in contrast Sudbury are on the back of 4 straight defeats and their under pressure manager and players will be looking for a moral boosting victory.
Bury go into the game on the back of a 4-2 win over Grays Athletic on Saturday at the Denny Bros Stadium in which Emmanuel Machaya kept up his good scoring record with a brace, with captain Ollie Fenn (pictured) and Jake Chambers Shaw also weighed in with goals.
Sudbury should be fresher for the game having played on Good Friday, but it turned out to be anything but good for the visitors as they were thrashed 6-0.
Kick off at the Kings Marsh is 3pm and your support for the Blues will be appreciated.


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2. Sprinkle lemon juice over peach slices in large bowl. Mix 1 1/4 cup sugar with the salt, nutmeg, cinamon and flour. Add to peaches. Toss until evenly coated.
4. Bake 10 minutes at 450 degrees, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake 30 minutes more. Servewith whipped cream.


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Sabrina Ionescu Has Somehow Gotten Even Better
Feb. 13, 2020 , at 9:00 AM
By Howard Megdal
Filed under College Basketball
Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon is an even more efficient shooter this season than she was her junior year.
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Geno Auriemma knows a few things about elite guards. He's seen enough of Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu to know that she qualifies.
The Connecticut women's basketball coach helped steer Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and countless others through college and into the WNBA. So as Auriemma reckoned with one of Ionescu's and the Ducks' most impressive recent victories — a 74-56 win over the Huskies in Storrs — he had an explanation for what makes Ionescu the consensus choice for national player of the year, the assumed top overall pick in this spring's WNBA Draft and a smart bet to lead her Oregon Ducks to a national title.
"She's just smart," Auriemma said. "She's smart. She waits for you to make a mistake. A lot of guards, they go so fast that they don't give you a chance to make a mistake. She goes at a pace where she waits and waits and waits, and when you screw up, she takes advantage of it."
This is an essential component of Ionescu's game — how she manages to play a position that typically rewards the quickest players on the court — and it explains how she has improved upon a junior season that already placed her atop the college basketball hierarchy.
Take a look at how she uses a screen here against Arizona State:
.@sabrina_i20 from up top!
Oregon leads 18-4 with 5:49 left in the first half. Ducks have forced ASU into seven turnovers while holding the Sun Devils to just 2-of-13 from the floor. #GoDucks | @Pac12Network pic.twitter.com/2o3JoqF8ar
— Oregon Women's Basketball (@OregonWBB) February 9, 2020
Lydia Giomi applies the screen, but Ionescu doesn't take the first bit of open space. Instead a beat, another, and only once the center makes the decision to sag does Ionescu take that wide-open three and bury it.
Defensive players are forced to make that decision this season more often because of the single biggest leap in Ionescu's game: her efficiency at the rim. Ionescu's shooting percentage from beyond the arc has remained strong — 37.4 percent, after three seasons above 40 percent — but her efficiency from two has jumped from 44.8 percent last season to 59.1 percent this one.
To put that in perspective, she ranked 1,108th in Division I last year from two, per HerHoopStats. This year? She's 90th, surrounded on the top-100 list by big post players who live in the lane.
So how does Ionescu explain that leap?
"Just taking the right shots, I think," Ionescu said after the game against Connecticut. "Just definitely more confident and I'm finding my spots on the floor. I think for those last couple years, I was … still trying to figure out the pick and roll and figure out where I was getting shots, and now I know where I'm getting my shots. And so really just drilling those in and practicing them has helped me."
She's certainly figured out the pick and roll. Per Synergy, she averaged 0.912 points per possession on the play as ball handler in 2018-19, which was good for the 91st percentile, and 45.3 percent field-goal efficiency on those plays — strong numbers that would translate at the next level.
But look at her 2019-20 on the same play: 1.095 points per possession, good for second in the country among those with at least 100 such possessions. She's shooting 59 percent from the field on those plays. It's increased her overall production around the basket from 1.015 points per possession last year to 1.315 per possession this year.
Not that overcommitting to Ionescu helps opposing defenses, either. Her assist percentage — 38.5 percent last season, good for eighth in the country — is up to 43.1 percent this year, third in the nation. Oregon bigs Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally are hard enough to stop, let alone while they're moving downhill and are getting the ball in the perfect spot to finish from Ionescu.
Sabrina doing Sabrina things early 😤 pic.twitter.com/dfNjMbXSuH
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"She doesn't do it with, like, tremendous foot speed," Auriemma said of Ionescu. "She doesn't run by you and she doesn't jump over you. She does it more old-school basketball-wise. And those players are few and far between. She beats you with her head, her eyes."
That's certainly how Ionescu accounts for her leap forward, citing endless film study as a means to discovering where she should be on the court at all times.
It's led to a jump in production on, of all things, the boards, where she's increased her offensive rebounding rate from 5.5 to 7.3 percent and her defensive rebounding from 17.4 to 21.9 percent over last year. To put that in strategic terms, she ranks 159th nationally at ending possessions of opponents with a rebound, and the moment she does so, it gives the best team in the nation the ball on offense, with the best playmaker in the country running the show.
.@sabrina_i20 chases down her own miss and then buries the three.
Ducks lead 21-8 with under three minutes left in the first. Nine points already for Sab.
Watch on @Pac12Network. #GoDucks pic.twitter.com/hijgjOCFOx
"I've watched a lot of film this year, considerably a lot more than I ever have in the past," Ionescu said. "Watching film on other teams and their tendencies — where they're missing, how they're missing the ball, where they're getting their shots off … that has helped me figure out where on the floor I need to be in order to get those rebounds."
The same is true at the defensive end, where she's boosted her steal percentage from 1.8 to 2.4 percent, even as she's seen her foul rate decrease to 2.0 percent from 2.3 percent. So she isn't reaching. She's getting to spots first.
"Some players don't like putting it on the ground as much and don't make great decisions when they do put it on the ground," Ionescu said. "And so [it's] just figuring out how to make them play to their weakness and then being in the right spot in order to get that steal. And obviously our defensive intensity has improved this year as a team. And so I think that helps me just be able to get in passing lanes."
She's right about the overall impact for Oregon. The Ducks, remember, made the Final Four last year despite allowing 92.8 points per 100 possessions as a team, which ranked 191st in the country. This season, they're giving up only 81.1 points per 100, good for 25th in the country.
"We figured out last year that defense is going to help us win big-time games," Ionescu said. "It's not just our offense. And I think for those three years before that, we just relied too much on our offense. And some nights you're not going to shoot it well, some nights you are. And so I think we really locked down and are trying to play defense and are holding each other accountable and that's helping us getting our offensive numbers up as well."
It's certainly worked for Ionescu. Auriemma praised her relentlessness and toughness, and he pointed out that her broad base of skills is largely unmatched anywhere in the country. Getting a little better in every area, added together, leads to dominance.
"She happens to have all those things," Auriemma said. "And if you've got those things, and you're living in a world where very few people that you're playing against have even one of those things or two of those things, you've got a huge advantage every night you step on the floor, and that's kind of where she is."
Howard Megdal is editor-in-chief of The Next, a women's basketball site, and founder of the women's sports newsletter The IX. @howardmegdal
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price & More To Perform At 32nd Tibet House Benefit Concert
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For over 30 years, musicians from all genres have come together for a concert to benefit the Tibet House US, a non-profit educational institution and cultural embassy founded in 1987 at the request of the Dalai Lama
Garth Brooks Announces Another Stadium Tour Date & Venue
Garth Brooks just announced another date and venue for his 2019 Stadium Tour, at Minneapolis, Minnesota's U.S. Bank Stadium on May 4. Tickets will go on sale for $94.95 on Dec. 14 at 10 a.m. This news
Pilot Error Blamed For Crash That Killed Troy Gentry Of Montgomery Gentry
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Aaron Lewis Announces New Album And Headlining Tour In 2019
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Kane Brown Scores Third Consecutive No. 1 Single With "Lose It"
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Jessie James Decker Announces Headlining Tour For 2019
Jessie James Decker just announced a 19-date tour that kicks off on April 12 in Denver and makes additional stops in San Francisco, Atlanta, New York City, Seattle and more. The Sisterhood Band, comprised of singer-songwriters Alyssa
Reba McEntire Receives 2018 Kennedy Center Honors Award
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Darius Rucker Reunites Hootie & The Blowfish For "Group Therapy Tour"
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Jana Kramer Welcomes Her Second Child, Son Jace Joseph
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Crypto-Coin Stellar Spikes 20% on Stripe Support
The cryptocurrency stellar, also known as XLM, jumped about 20% Wednesday following news that online payments provider Stripe is considering adding support for the digital currency on its platform as it phases out bitcoin. The announcement comes as bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has seen its transaction times leap to well over 24 hours, compared to stellar's at 2 to 5 second average.
At a price of $0.57 on Wednesday afternoon, XLM has jumped about 13.3% on the news, according to website CoinMarketCap. In May 2017, the digital coin was worth less than half a cent. After jumping to a $10.3 billion market value, stellar became the sixth-largest cryptocurrency.
On April 23, Stripe will stop accepting bitcoin payments after doing so for about four years. "Bitcoin has evolved to become better-suited to being an asset than being a means of exchange," said Stripe. The company highlighted various issues with bitcoin, including its large spike in transaction confirmation times, transaction failure rates and growing fees. "Empirically, there are fewer and fewer use cases for which accepting or paying with bitcoin makes sense."
A Second Act for Bitcoin?
Stripe's product manager Tom Karlo wrote in a company blog post that, "we may add support for Stellar (to which we provided seed funding) if substantive use continues to grow." Stellar is just one of a handful of cryptocurrencies that the Silicon Valley-based fintech company is considering. The firm said that it will also keep and eye on other cryptocurrencies—including ethereum—while "paying close attention to the ecosystem." The payments processor has not ruled out the possibility for bitcoin to "become viable for payments again in the future."
Stripe powers transactions for more than 100,000 global businesses and individuals. Its customers span industries and include Warby Parker, Under Armour Inc. (UAA), Target Inc. (TGT), Blue Apron Holdings Inc. (APRN), and OpenTable. (See also: Bitcoin Could Lose 90% of Its Value: Street Vet.)
Investing in cryptocurrencies and other Initial Coin Offerings ("ICOs") is highly risky and speculative, and this article is not a recommendation by Investopedia or the writer to invest in cryptocurrencies or other ICOs. Since each individual's situation is unique, a qualified professional should always be consulted before making any financial decisions. Investopedia makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or timeliness of the information contained herein. As of the date this article was written, the author owns cryptocurrency.
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