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Gabby NaranjaMarch 22, 2016
Noah Hoffman of Ski & Snowboard Club Vail and the U.S. Ski Team (USST) racing to first place in the men's 15 k freestyle individual start at the U.S. SuperTour Finals on Monday in Craftsbury, Vt. (Photo: John Lazenby/Lazenbyphoto.com)
Technique takes practice. Race tactics take practice. What about podiums?
U.S. Ski Team (USST) member Noah Hoffman — currently competing for his club team, Ski & Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV), at the U.S. SuperTour Finals in Craftsbury, Vt. — views the process of winning a race, equally important to the win itself.
"Honestly, it's nice to get to win a race every once in awhile," Hoffman, the winner of the men's 15-kilometer freestyle individual start race on Monday in Craftsbury, said in a post-race phone interview. "I mean, it's been a long time since I've won a ski race outright and I think there's something to be said for learning how to win."
The last time the 26-year-old Colorado native won a race was two years ago at 2014 SuperTour Finals in Anchorage, Alaska. There, he won the opening 15 k freestyle as well.
Now, with another victory under his belt, Hoffman is all for practicing how to win as an individual as well as a group.
"It's not a secret that we're lagging behind on U.S. men's distance [racing]," he said. "We have a long way to go as a group … but I have a lot of faith in the athletes that are skiing right now and I think we can all work together to try to improve."
The top six in the men's 15 k freestyle at SuperTour Finals on Monday in Craftsbury, Vt., with (from left to right) fifth-place finisher Eric Packer (APU), runner-up Scott Patterson (APU), winner Noah Hoffman (SSCV/USST), Paddy Caldwell (SMS/USST) in third, David Norris (APU) in fourth, and Tad Elliott (SSCV) in sixth. (Photo: John Lazenby/Lazenbyphoto.com)
Following the end of the World Cup season two weeks ago at the Ski Tour Canada (STC), Hoffman sees value for both himself and the USST by racing this last set of races on the U.S. circuit.
"I think my teammates and I all prioritize these races," Hoffman said. "We're not just doing this for the domestic scene. I think there's a lot of value for us as well."
The term "us" can be applied to both the USST members, as well as athletes watching or racing experienced skiers like Hoffman at SuperTour Finals.
"It's really fun for me to be here with the Vail club," Hoffman said. "We [SSCV] have a couple of juniors here, plus we're part of the Rocky Mountain crew, and there's a junior from Aspen where I grew up and there's some Steamboat kids. So being a part of this crew and being on a team with these athletes is really fun for all of us here."
Hoffman Holds Off Patterson's 'Fight for the Win'
Finishing just six-tenths of a second behind Hoffman's winning time of 31:14.3, was Scott Patterson, skiing for Alaska Pacific University (APU), in second place.
"It's kind of fun getting back to the domestic racing and actually being able to fight for the win instead of getting blown out of the race," Patterson, who made his World Cup debut this season, said on the phone. "Obviously I would have like it a little more if I had found 0.6 seconds, but I'm happy with [the race]."
As the last A-seeded male in bib 20, Patterson led both the first and third laps of the four x 3.75 k course skiing with APU teammates Tyler Kornfield and Eric Packer.
"Packer started 30 seconds in front of me and I caught him," Patterson explained. "And then Tyler left the start line right as Packer and I were passing through. So we had a good group … always nice to have a couple people to ski with."
While the APU trio made their way through the final lap, Patterson pinpointed another cause for his seconds lost on Hoffman.
"I got a split that I was 12 seconds up on the last uphill, so I probably held back a little bit in the finish," Patterson said.
Scott Patterson (APU) racing to second place in the men's 15 k freestyle individual start at SuperTour Finals on Monday in Craftsbury, Vt. (Photo: John Lazenby/Lazenbyphoto.com)
Still, coming off of the STC and two stages of World Cup racing, Patterson was happy to be back in the fight for the top spot.
"I'm sure we'll have fun in the 50 k with racing in the front instead of having other people control it and trying to hang on," Patterson said of the men's 50 k classic mass start, part of U.S. Distance Nationals, on Saturday. "These races are fun because they kind of bring everyone together at the end of the season."
Hoffman who started in bib 15, said despite his hot off the start pace, he managed to hold on for the win with the help of Northern Michigan University skier Adam Martin.
"I was pretty aggressive on the first lap, which I intended to do," Hoffman said. "But I definitely paid for that at the end of the race. I was lucky I had some help, I caught Adam Martin after a lap … He showed me the pace all the way from there to the finish, the last 3 k or so. That was very helpful for me, having not paced it well. I needed that little boost of somebody to follow."
While both Hoffman and Patterson found the help of other racers on course, Paddy Caldwell, skied the course solo for third place overall.
"I was flying solo for the day, but that was all right," Caldwell said on the phone.
Caldwell, who skis for Dartmouth College and is also a member of the Stratton Mountain School and the USST development ("D") team, was the top U23 athlete, finishing 11.4 seconds behind Hoffman
Paddy Caldwell, racing for the Stratton Mountain School, on his way to third place in the men's 15 k freestyle individual start at SuperTour Finals on Monday in Craftsbury, Vt. (Photo: John Lazenby/Lazenbyphoto.com)
"I'm definitely really excited with the result and it was fun to be so close to a teammate, who I for sure look up to as distance skier and overall guy," Caldwell said, referring to Hoffman. "And same with Patterson. Those two have really been nailing the distance skiing this year so I'm for psyched to be close and I think, within striking range today."
With the broad conglomerate of athletes and clubs showing up to the final week of SuperTour racing in the U.S., Caldwell is feeding off the energy of others, while also pushing a competitive energy of his own.
"It's just awesome to have the whole ski community here," Caldwell said. "All the World Cup guys — whoever is healthy — it's great to have everyone here. And I think the World Cup skiers bring some of that energy here which is always fun to see. It's definitely a relaxed setting, but it's fun because the competition is definitely high."
Racing continues Tuesday with the men's and women's 1.5 k classic sprints.
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Ex-Auburn Receiver Accused of Robbing Restaurant at Gunpoint
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — A former Auburn University football player faces criminal charges in suburban Atlanta after police say he robbed a restaurant at gunpoint.
Duluth police arrested Myron Burton Jr. Friday, saying he entered a Chinese restaurant Tuesday, pointing a pistol at an employee and demanding cash. The employee gave the robber about $300 before the robber ran away. Surveillance cameras recorded the incident, a police report says.
Local news outlets reports detectives recovered a gun when they arrested Burton.
Burton is charged with armed robbery and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony. He was held without bail over the weekend, awaiting a Monday court appearance.
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TG3305 : Flowering shrubs on the Wherrymans Way
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Flowering shrubs on the Wherrymans Way
This section of the Wherrymans Way long distance footpath links Surlingham with Rockland St Mary, further to the south. The south-eastern edge of Rockland Broad can be glimpsed in the background.
The Wherrymans Way is a 35-mile long distance footpath following the route of the Broads trading wherries between Norwich and Great Yarmouth. The route takes its name from the wherry – a large cargo-carrying barge whose black sails used to be a common sight on these waters. Ten circular village walks branch off this path along the way.
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THIRD SEEKER (to the thief): It is beneath our dignity to sit beside you. You are an earthly man, whereas we are all crying to be Heavenly beings. We would not marry any woman. We know we would fall if we did. Marriage is frustration. Frustration is destruction. Meditation on God is Illumination, and Illumination is transcendental Delight. This is what we have come to realise.
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The Treasury committee hearing has ended so that's all from me for today. Thanks for reading and commenting. Here's a summary of the key events covered today:
The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, was grilled on the budget by MPs on the Commons Treasury committee. He defended the decision to raise taxes as making a "progressive" improvement to people's quality of life and essential to fix the problems caused by the pandemic. However, he insisted he would bring down taxes in future.
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The DUP will hold back on its threat to collapse Stormont over the Northern Ireland protocol for a few more weeks to enable negotiations between the UK and EU to continue, the party leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, has said.
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Donaldson faced questions at to why he has not followed through on his ultimatum to withdraw ministers from Stormont at the start of November – thus collapsing powersharing – if major changes to the contentious Irish Sea trading arrangements had not been secured by that date.
There have been suggestions the hijacking and burning of a bus in a loyalist area of Newtownards, Co Down, on Monday morning was timed to mark the DUP's missed deadline.
Condemning the "paramilitary elements" behind the attack, Sir Jeffrey insisted they would not influence his political strategy to remove the Irish Sea border.
He said it would be "churlish" to pull down Stormont at this point, claiming the UK government was making progress in efforts to slash the red tape burden imposed by the protocol.
His comments come as negotiations between the EU and UK remain deadlocked.
Asked what levelling up means to him, Sunak said: "Levelling up is meant to be the golden thread that runs through the entire SR [spending review]."
The two areas he is most focused on are "pride in place", in which people feel that their communities are becoming a "richer, nicer place to live in" through investment in culture and sports, as well as access to opportunity regardless of wherever you grow up. "That will manifest itself in different ways" depending on where you live, he said.
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Defending the scrapping of the triple lock on state pensions, Sunak said there was "lots of other support for pensioners that comes through the system".
The chancellor pointed to winter fuel payments and free prescriptions as examples, and he said: "There's lots of other support for pensioners separate to the state pension and, actually, pensions relative to earnings in this country are the highest they've been in over 30 years."
He said that reducing the pension triple lock to a double lock for a year from 2022-23 was "a reasonable and fair thing to do in the circumstances".
Asked why the government was not acting to reduce train ticket fares to encourage more people to choose rail travel, Sunak said the government was currently subsidising it with "billions of pounds" to reflect the fact that "not that many people are travelling on it compared to pre-coronavirus".
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He added that the government was putting investment into sustainable fuel research.
Asked about OBR forecasts showing that trade with EU is 15% lower than it was pre-pandemic, equating to a 4% reduction in productivity, Sunak said: "Our trading relationship with the EU has changed post-Brexit, we have a free trade agreement but it's not exactly the same as before and that means trade patterns take some time to adjust."
But he added: "I think the trajectory is on an upward flow."
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Sunak said it was "slightly unfair" to focus on taxpayers' cash lost to fraud during the emergency rollout of schemes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Labour's Angela Eagle raised concerns about the £37bn spent on the test-and-trace scheme and the possible £27bn lost to fraud under Covid support schemes.
Sunak responded: "People should expect and demand their money is spent properly.
"I do think it's slightly unfair to focus on Covid schemes that were put in place at a time of national crisis at enormous speed.
"On the Covid side, that is what it is, and I said it at the time when you're in a crisis you're going to end up casting the net wider than you would in peacetime."
But "now we're through that", he added: "The state is taking a lot of money from people, we've talked about the tax rate being high, we've talked about the state doing a lot, it is absolutely right that that money gets spent really well."
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The European Commission has called a meeting involving officials from the UK, France, Jersey and Guernsey as Emmanuel Macron's deadline for action to resolve the dispute looms, PA reports.
A spokesman said: "A meeting, convened by the commission, is taking place this afternoon bringing together senior officials from the commission, France, the UK, as well as from Jersey and Guernsey, to allow for a swift solution on the outstanding issues."
Downing Street said the talks were part of the "regular, technical, ongoing engagement".
"We will continue to work with them to grant licences where the evidence and data can be presented to back up the application for a licence," a No 10 spokesman said.
Asked whether he raised taxes to cut them shortly before the next general election, Sunak said: "The last thing I would do is voluntarily raise taxes."
Instead he said this had been to fix the damage caused by Covid, solve the NHS backlog and fund "landmark reforms" to social care.
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Sunak has insisted he will aim to bring taxes down in future.
He said: "That's very much my goal, my mission, over the remainder of this Parliament, and we took a step in that direction at budget."
After giving the example of the new tapering rules for Universal Credit, Labour MP Siobhan McDonagh interrupted to say: "That's not a tax cut, that's a benefit change."
Sunak said it was a "combined approach" but McDonagh said: "That really isn't a tax cut. You're just desperate to find a tax cut.
"We're sitting in the Margaret Thatcher room and you hope to emulate her. But the British Prime Minister and the British Tory government that you are most emulating at the moment is Ted Heath's, low growth and therefore high tax. Is that not the case?"
Sunak replied: "Actually, we're forecast this year to grow at, well, historically very high rates as we recover from the pandemic."
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"A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy." Noël Coward In the heart of Rosebery, a Sydney suburb that was once a hub of industry and abandonment yet in recent years has come to be synonymous with good food and pioneering design (think Kitchen By Mike and Koskela), something particularly special is brewing. You'll have to pardon the pun.
In a reclaimed warehouse is Archie Rose Distilling Co., the first distillery to emerge in Sydney since 1853. Here gin is infused with native botanicals, cocktails capture the spirit of the land and style, flavour and history fuse.
Given the lack of a recent distilling past, Archie Rose is essentially able to make up the rules as it goes along, learning the art of distilling from the ground up. And less than a year in, it is making some serious waves, utilising the skill and passion of its dedicated young staff and materials that are delightfully unique. Their copper pot stills hail from Tasmania and most of their equipment was assembled on the production floor - even the final bottling and labelling is carried out on site. Inspired by the distilling revolution that's unfolded in London and New York, this pioneering, not-so-little company is destined to produce Sydney's spirit.


Currency pair Australian Dollar to US Dollar AUD/USD continues to move in decline. At the time of the publication of the forecast, the Australian Dollar rate to the US Dollar is 0.6982. At the moment, we should expect an attempt to grow and test the resistance area near the level of 0.7025. Further, the continuation of the fall of quotations to the area below the level of 0.6340.
In favor of reducing the pair AUD/USD, a test of the bearish trend line on the relative strength index (RSI) will come out. Cancellation of the option of falling quotes of the Australian Dollar will be a strong growth and the breakdown of the level of 0.7105. This will indicate a breakdown of the resistance level and continued growth of AUD/USD at FOREX with a potential target above the level of 0.7255. Expect to accelerate the fall of the pair stands with the breakdown of the support area and closing quotes below the level of 0.6925.
AUD/USD forecast Australian Dollar January 4, 2019 suggests an attempt to test the resistance level near the 0.7025 area. Further, the continuation of the decline in quotations of the pair below the level of 0.6340. An additional signal in favor of the fall of the pair will be a test of the trend line on the relative strength index (RSI). Cancellation of the reduction option will be a strong growth and the breakdown of the 0.7105 area. This will indicate continued growth in quotes.


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Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.
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Wandering through Minnesota's relatively flat Arrowhead region, you might stumble upon what seems to be a beautiful series of gorges and fluvial terraces rivaling the splendid canyonlands of the American Southwest. But what you're seeing isn't a natural geologic formation, it's a massive mining project that's been reshaping the environment for over 120 years.
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Airport privatisation: Cabinet nod to Adani takeover likely by July
Employees at these airports, currently being run by the AAI, will have the option of either joining Adani Enterprises or continue working with the PSU
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Airports Privatization
New Delhi: Adani Enterprises, which had recently bagged six Indian airports, is expected to get an approval from the new Cabinet next month for taking over the airports formally, aviation ministry officials have said. "The award of projects happened during the end of the first term of the government," said one of the persons cited above. "The Cabinet did not take up the matter for approval as the government had completed its tenure then and the ministry's note was not accepted by the Cabinet Secretariat. We will again be sending the note and expect it to be cleared by July-end," they said.
Transfer of assets will start after Cabinet nod
The transfer of these assets to Adani Enterprises will start after the Cabinet gives its nod. Employees at these airports, currently being run by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), will have the option of either joining Adani Enterprises or continue working with the public sector undertaking (PSU). Adani was awarded the lease to upgrade and operate airports in Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore for 50 years in auctions held late last year.
Earnings will be used to develop airports
AAI is expecting to earn about Rs 1,300 crores annually from the six airports, the Economic Times had reported. Earnings from the airport will be used to develop interior airports. "The privatisation of these six airports, while freeing us from managing these, will give us considerable revenues, which we can put into the development of smaller airports in the country, which would not get any interest from private parties," AAI Chairman and Managing Director GP Mohapatra said. "The development of these smaller airports will be instrumental in giving a push to India's aviation growth."
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The backdrop
The proposal for privatisation of six airports had been cleared by the government in November last year. The privatisation drive was taken up after a gap of 13 years. GMR Group and GVK Group were given the rights to manage Delhi and Mumbai airports in 2006. Greenfield airports like those in Hyderabad and Bengaluru were also awarded at the same time.
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Venezuelan Congress declares President Maduro has staged coup
A deputy of Venezuela's National Assembly holds a sign that reads 'Maduro Dictator' during a meeting of the opposition-led congress in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. During a four-hour extraordinary session in Caracas, which was interrupted for about 30 minutes after government supporters breached security and threatened lawmakers on the National Assembly floor, Congress approved a series of actions in response to last week's decision suspending a referendum process to recall President Nicolas Maduro.
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Venezuela's Congress on Sunday declared that the government had staged a coup by blocking a drive to recall President Nicolas Maduro in a raucous legislative session that was interrupted when his supporters stormed the chamber.
Opposition lawmakers vowed to put Maduro on trial after a court friendly to his socialist administration on Thursday suspended their campaign to collect signatures to hold a referendum on removing the deeply-unpopular president.
Lawmaker Julio Borges said the opposition-led congress is now in open rebellion after a majority of its members voted that the decision constituted a coup with government participation.
"We will bring a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro to get to the bottom of his role in the break with democracy and human rights here," Borges said.
A day of fiery speeches was briefly thrown into chaos when dozens of red-shirted protesters who had been heckling opposition lawmakers outside the capitol burst onto the floor. Lawmakers ran out of the path of protesters who chanted: "Congress will fall!"
It was not immediately clear how the protesters entered the heavily guarded building, which has been under the opposition's control since it won legislative elections in a landslide in December. The protesters began to file out of the building after Socialist party leader Jorge Rodriguez called on them to leave, leading the opposition to charge that Rodriguez was directing the protest.
Opposition spokesman Jesus Torrealba said the protest on the floor was a perfect illustration of the opposition's complaint that democracy has been suspended in the oil country.
"The fact that lawmakers elected by 7.5 million people were silenced by 300 thugs sums up the situation better than any speech could," he said.
Legislators also proposed efforts to replace national elections officials and Supreme Court judges.
Amid severe shortages and the world's highest inflation, polls suggest as much as 80 per cent of voters want Maduro gone this year.
A push to take legal action against the president would throw the country further into a constitutional crisis, but would probably not prevail because the administration controls the courts and other major institutions.
The opposition is hobbled because it has been unable to make alliances with anyone in the ruling socialist party, according to Amherst College Political Science professor Javier Corrales.
"It's important because in other constitutional crises elsewhere in Latin America, the behaviour of the ruling party was crucial," he said.
Last week's ruling suspending the recall vote because of alleged fraud in an earlier stage of signature-collection drew condemnation from the U.S. State Department and the Organization of American States.
On Sunday, congress approved a resolution officially asking the international community to step in to "protect the people's right to democracy by any means necessary."
Opposition leaders are also pledging to build pressure in the streets, starting with a nationwide protest on Wednesday dubbed "the taking of Venezuela."
Thousands march in Venezuela demanding President Maduro's downfall


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I honestly don't know where the time went. It seems like just a few weeks ago we were turning the calendar to 2018 and now it's already 2019. I guess that's the biggest reason that many of us have for pursuing financial independence: to reclaim our time.
In December I set a personal best for dividends received and broke through the $1,000 mark for the 2nd time every. My FI Portfolio produced $1,035.80 in dividends for December while my Folio First portfolio chipped in another $8.60. My Roth IRA got back on track with $52.48 of dividends received. Across all 3 accounts I received a grand total of $1,096.88 in December. Nearly $1,100 just for owning excellent companies!
As I mentioned above my FI Portfolio produced $1,035.80 in dividends last month. Compared to September that's a modest 0.26% increase. The year over year increase looks much better at 14.2%.
What I'm most excited about is that without adding fresh capital to the portfolio my 2018 total dividends came in at $6,299.35. That's a 10.9% increase from 2017's total of $5,680.38 or $618.97 higher! Considering that was primarily done with dividend growth and reinvestment as well as investing some of the cash dividends that had built up I'm pretty happy with those results.
My Roth IRA got back on track after its mid quarter month hiatus and produced $52.48 in dividends. Compared to September 2018 that's a small 0.50% increase. However, the year over year increase is really strong at 26.1%.
What I think is really impressive is that that growth is purely organic dividend growth plus dividend reinvestment. The 2018 total worked out to $359.72 which is a huge 24.6% increase from 2017's total.
The pay raises just keep on coming. December saw another 4 dividends being raised up among my FI Portfolio positions. You mean a company I own a piece of, albeit tiny, wants to pay out more of their profits to me just because I own part of the company? Sign me up!
Combined those 4 companies boosted my forward 12-month dividends by $7.96. In 2018 I received 59 increases from 50 of the companies within my FI Portfolio combining to increase my forward 12-month dividends by $476.59.
My forward 12-month dividends for my FI Portfolio ended November at $6,426.03 while my FolioFirst forward dividends are at $92.16. That brings the total taxable account forward 12-month dividends to $6,518.19 My Roth IRA's forward-12 month dividends increased to $402.79 due to dividend reinvestment. Across all 3 accounts, assuming no dividend cuts or position size changes, I can expect to receive at least $6,920.98 in dividends over the next year.
The rolling 12-month monthly average for my FI Portfolio is at $524.95 per month which is a solid $52 above 2017's monthly average of $473.37.
How did you do on your dividend goals for 2018?
Nice work PIP, keep up the good work!
I'm pretty stoked to see another $1k+ month and can't wait to see how 2019 plays out. I'm hoping that we'll finally get back to regular investing, even if it's just a little bit each month and start building the portfolio and dividends up once more.
I can't complain with how 2018 went considering that we added no new capital once again. Overall I"m pretty happy to see that we crossed the $6k mark for the year and crossed $1k in 2 months, September and December. There's still a long way to go but the direction is trending higher so I'm pretty excited to see what 2019 will bring.
The beauty of dividend investing... little or no fresh capital added and your year over year totals still rise. As usual, I see a nice laundry list of solid dividend payers send cash your way. Keep building that average monthly income into 2019.
Yeah the dividend growth and some reinvestment really fueled the increase for 2018. I'm sitting on a decent amount of cash now that I'm ready to put to work should the markets go hay wire again.
Congrats JC. Thats a nice way to wrap up the year.
Yeah no complaints by me about a $1k+ month to end the year.
Do you have DRIP enabled an all your holdings? I currently do, but am thinking about turning it off so I can pick and choose when and where to reinvest. The only thing that stinks is then I would have to pay a trade fee to the brokerage company while currently with DRIP that is not the case. I'm not necessarily sure if it's worth it. What are your thoughts?
I have DRIP enabled for some of my positions and other I take in cash. That decision really comes down to a few things.
Currently our investment capital each month is little to none so I turned the DRIP back on for holdings that I think are at good enough valuations and that I want to keep building up.
That's my $0.02 on cash vs DRIP.
December was definitely a great end to the year with over $1k in dividends. No complaints from me about that one. I ran some projections and it looks like 2019 should have 3 months over $1k which is crazy to think about.
I've already made one purchase with some of my capital raised from my December sales and hope to get some of it put back to work. If only the markets can get crazy again.
Best of luck in 2019 and looking forward to seeing how the year plays out for you!


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Under the terms of the agreement Barco will sell 9% of its shares in the BarcoCFG joint venture to CFG in exchange for 175 million RMB, thereby reducing its stake in the joint venture from 58% to 49%. Barco will continue to act as exclusive OEM partner for all projection and image processing technologies of the joint venture.
The joint venture between Barco and CFG was established in 2011 to develop China's digital cinema market through localized commercial operations, business development and assembly of digital cinema products and services.
"The combination of Barco's technology and China Film Group's expertise and market access has made meaningful and successful contributions to the development of digital cinema market in China over the past six years, resulting in a current market share of over 50% for Barco Cinema projectors." said Jan De Witte, CEO of Barco.
The new ownership structure is expected to take effect by mid 2018 pending customary regulatory approvals after which Barco, as a result of the change in control, will report financial results of the BarcoCFG joint venture under the equity method. Although the impact of the change in ownership change on Barco's net earnings will not be material, Barco's net sales and EBITDA will not be comparable with prior periods. Once the new ownership structure is established Barco plans to provide pro-forma financial statements for the first half of 2018.
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China Film has the largest digital film distribution management platform in China and a dominant position in the field of digital film distribution. China Film owns 7 holding and joint-stock cinema chains and over 100 holding theaters.


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Forming part of a side event at the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) conference 2019, the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA), and Twende Mbele hosted a peer-learning Symposium on 'Strengthening Systems of Evidence in Parliaments'.
The symposium reflected on a number of key issues affecting evidence use within parliaments. The discussions centred on what participants had learnt during the past 12-months and what should be taken forward to strengthen monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and capacity for evidence use in parliaments. It was based on discussions from a broader peer learning programme undertaken in the year 2018.
This broader peer learning programme facilitated peer learning between parliamentarians and parliamentary support staff from various parliaments in the African region. It was delivered collaboratively by the African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), African Parliamentarians' Network on Development Evaluation (APNODE), UNWomen and, the two symposium hosts CLEAR-AA and Twende Mbele.
Taking a 'world café' approach, the symposium traversed six key issues affecting evidence use within parliaments including oversight, legislation, representation, communities of practice & peer learning, institutional components and incentives. Also discussed were strengths/opportunities and challenges of evidence use, and what should be taken forward in the efforts to strengthen evidence use in parliaments.
This blog is the first of three addressing the topics discussed above. This first blog will focus on the institutional components and incentives for evidence use.
Institutional components and evidence use
Participants noted that there are a variety of institutional components where M&E functions are located, depending on the different type of parliamentary system. The research department, library, civic education, and audit committees are just a few of these institutional structures within parliaments that support parliamentarians in discussions and debates. Linkages between the various institutional components and the sources of evidence for parliamentarians is necessary to strengthen evidence use in parliaments.
The committee system is a key institutional component in most parliaments as it scrutinises legislation and monitors the work of the executive. Committees are considered a good starting point for strengthening evidence systems, particularly if evidence use is integrated into the strategic plans of the committees.
According to participants, determining which units within parliament will drive the agenda of strengthening the evidence systems within parliament is paramount. This unit should consider the role of the capacity building/training unit within parliament in the broader evidence system strengthening process.
The M&E function within some African parliaments plays a strategic role in supporting and strengthening evidence use. The significance of this institutional component is that it should ideally play a central and dual function in terms of M&E by parliaments (oversight of government performance) and M&E of parliaments (internally focused M&E on parliament's performance). Its positioning within the institutional structure needs to be carefully considered since the M&E function will take on a different character depending on where in parliaments it sits. For example, if it sits in auditing units it may become a compliance tool, while if it sits in strategy units, it may take on a broader, overarching nature. While the decision on where to situate the M&E function in parliaments should be determined based on the needs and context of that individual parliament, participants at the symposium all agreed that ensuring the M&E function is placed in a strategic unit (ie, not auditing) will have a more positive outcome for parliaments.
Another important consideration is the resourcing of M&E units within parliaments as these specialised staff and budgets but are often under-resourced. One symposium participant put forward some potential ways in which to strengthen the M&E function within parliaments suggesting that the M&E function should be guided by strategic plans and should be better aligned with other institutional structures within parliament. Further exploration is needed regarding each parliament's unique structure.
Incentives for evidence use
This issue received as much attention at the symposium as it did during the 2018 peer-learning workshops, while being particularly sensitive to address. Understanding the politics of evidence use is key to understanding the systemic drivers for evidence use e.g. political power and patronage. The ideal scenario is a situation where the incentives for evidence use should be focused on achieving outcomes for the national good. Ultimately the incentive for evidence use in parliament should assist parliamentarians to fulfill their mandates.
The key role of a parliamentarian is to contribute towards better development outcomes and to hold the executive accountable for its work. Parliamentarians need to make sure the right evidence is used for the right arguments to be advanced to ensure better service delivery by government. In other words, evidence can be used to identify the problems that hinder service delivery and to come up with solutions to address them. Parliamentarians can draw on a range of evidence sources from government, civil society, and international organisations, and even the media to gain a better understanding and to be able to ask more evaluative questions.
Conclusion and ideas on a way forward
Passionate discussions were followed by ideas on the way forward, as described by participants:
To mobilise resources and budgets for capacity building and infrastructure which will strengthen institutional components supporting evidence use.
Follow up with more technical support / learning exchanges for the development and strengthening of M&E frameworks for parliaments, and for understanding how the location of the M&E function affects objectives
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March 11, 2019 Ursula Petula Barzey Culture & Heritage, Montserrat 0
After attending Saint Patrick's Festival in Montserrat last year, I decided to restart genealogy project to trace my family tree back to Africa. I had started the genealogy project nearly two decades earlier after my mother's death, and with assistance from family members, I was able to put together a detailed family tree starting with my great-grandparents, William Henry Barzey born in 1882 and Anne Francis Boatswain Barzey born in 1886. I also know the names of their parents and siblings but not much else as records in Montserrat which had its first European settlers starting in 1632 is somewhat limited. Now with results from two different DNA tests, I've made progress with tracing my family tree from the Caribbean island of Montserrat back to Africa. This is all part of my quest to experience more ancestral tourism and DNA travel.
With my 99-year-old great-aunt Dorothy "Nenen" Allen Barzey one of seven children from William Henry Barzey and Anne Francis Boatswain Barzey.
The growing myth about the Black Irish of Montserrat
Before I can discuss my DNA test results, it is important to highlight both my family history and the growing myth about the black Irish of Montserrat. To start, both maternal and paternal lines of my family are from Montserrat, and we are descendants of West African slaves. My mother's side is from the north, and my father's side is from the south of Montserrat. Growing up, whether in Montserrat or Boston Massachusetts (one of the most Irish cities in America), there was never any talk about our family being Irish, not even a whisper! However, in recent years, I've been frequently asked if my family is part of the black Irish of Montserrat.
You see, before West African slaves were brought to the island to work the sugar and tobacco plantations starting in the 1650s, many of the early settlers on Montserrat were Irish. They were sent there by Oliver Cromwell who used the 39 square miles Caribbean island as a penal colony, and at the peak, the Irish population was around 10,000. Many became wealthy as the production of sugar and tobacco increased but eventually left the island as the industries retracted when slavery ended throughout the British Empire with the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
Now 250+ years after the planned slave rebellion with Saint Patrick's Festival in Montserrat attracting an international audience, the story of the black Irish of Montserrat keeps growing. Much of this is misguided marketing hype by private event organizers as while there are people and places on Montserrat with Irish names, the cultural legacy of the Irish on the island is limited. Also, as Montserrat was a slave-colony, the relationship between British plantation owners along with Irish supervisors and enforcers and West African slaves was quite adversarial due to inhuman conditions.
These deplorable conditions led to a slave rebellion being planned for March 17th, 1768 when the Irish would be distracted with their Saint Patrick's Day celebrations. The rebellion never happened as the plot was discovered but it was significant as it inspired others across the Caribbean region which ultimately brought about the end of slavery. It is for this reason why Saint Patrick's Day became a national holiday in 1985. It is to commemorate the freedom fighters now considered national heroes who lost their lives after the discovery of the planned Saint Patrick's Day slave rebellion. It is not about celebrating St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
Of course, this is not to say that there aren't black people with Irish genes on Montserrat. As was common throughout slavery, many black women were taken advantage of and this resulted in some black Irish on Montserrat. However, the black Irish is not the majority of the population. As for the many Irish surnames, this is because former slaves took the last name of their masters. So the narrative of the black Irish of Montserrat is embellished. Plus the majority of cultural traditions on Montserrat including the national dish of goat water and masquerade dancing popular at festivals is from our West African ancestors, not Ireland. Finally, until many became aware of what happened on Montserrat around March 17th, 1768, St Patrick's Day celebrations on Montserrat was just another village fete, similar to St John's Day in another part of the island.
St Patrick's Festival in Montserrat – Representation of freedom fighters on a map of Montserrat.
AncestryDNA Test & Results
Experiencing first hand the current day Saint Patrick's Festival in Montserrat which is less about heritage/culture and more about revelry increased my desire to confirm my genetic genealogy and so I took the autosomal DNA test from AncestryDNA who have over 10 million people in their database. This required me to order a DNA kit, return a small saliva sample and then wait about six weeks for results. After comparing my saliva sample with 16,000 reference samples from 500+ possible regions, AncestryDNA advised that my ethnic makeup is Benin/Togo – 44%, Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples – 33%, Ivory Coast/Ghana – 10%, Nigeria – 6%, Ireland and Scotland – 5% and Mali – 2%.
AncestryDNA results.
So as I suspected, what little Irish DNA I have is minuscule and most likely the result of one of my maternal ancestors being taken advantage of. My family roots and DNA is West African, 95% West African. That said, the groupings are broad, vague and almost meaningless as AncestryDNA have a small reference sample from Africa. Only nine of their five hundred regions are in Africa and they admit the limitation of their African sample size in their FAQ section:
"The African continent is the ancient birthplace of humanity, and humans there are the most genetically diverse on earth. This makes Africa a tricky place for ethnicity estimation because you need lots of DNA samples to account for all that diversity. We're working to increase the number of African samples in our reference panel so we can take full advantage of our new methods of analysis and provide even better estimates for Africa."
One of the other challenges is that presenting their results without properly mentioning African empires or tribes is problematic due to the artificial and political borders imposed on Africa after European colonial powers carved up the continent during the Berlin Conference of 1884–85 often referred to as the Scramble for Africa. At one point in history, most of these African countries linked to my genealogy were part of the same empire, specifically the Mali Empire.
African Ancestry DNA Test & Results
With the vagueness of results from AncestryDNA, this led me to take a MatriClan™ DNA test with African Ancestry who focus on "helping people of African descent trace their ancestral roots back to a specific present-day African country and ethnic group." Compared to AncestryDNA and 23andMe another genetic testing company, the African Ancestry database is much more extensive with 33,000 lineages/reference samples from 40 African countries primarily from Central and West Africa.
African Ancestry Comparison with AncestryDNA and 23andMe.
Similar to the process with AncestryDNA, I sent in a saliva sample to African Ancestry and waiting around eight weeks for results to confirm my mother's maternal roots from 500 – 2,000 years ago. Arriving in certificate form via the mail, African Ancestry advised that via my maternal line which includes my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, my ancestors have high genetic similarities with people from three different African countries and four tribes. Specifically, the Fula and Balanta people living in Guinea-Bissau, the Mende people living in Sierra Leone and Mandinka people living in Senegal.
These results initially left me bewildered as I had anticipated just one or two African tribes and countries. However, after doing some additional research, came to realize that African ethnic groups are formed around social and cultural characteristics, not genetic traits. Thus there are ethnic groups that share the same genetic lineages even though they have different social and cultural characteristics including dialects, beliefs, practices, and religions.
African Ancestry results.
Another realization was that having maternal genetic links with four different tribes in three countries is not unusual as the countries are all close and were all part of the Mali Empire. Guinea-Bissau is located between Sierra Leone and Senegal of the West Coast of Africa. Furthermore, the capital cities of Sierra Leone and Senegal are about 500 miles apart which is roughly the same distance as between Atlanta and Washington DC. So far, but not far at all!
It would be interesting to find out what if any overlap there is with my paternal line, but for now I'm happy to focus on the maternal line where I have the most family tree information. Thus as I begin to research for DNA travel, I have the freedom to explore any or all four tribes and three countries. So far I've been focusing on the Mandinka people in Senegal as part of the initial inspiration for starting the genealogy project was the book Roots: The Saga of an American Family written by Alex Haley. The main character in the novel is Kunta Kinte a Mandinka warrior who was sold into slavery and brought to the Americas – interestingly from The Gambia and not Senegal. Globally, there are about 11 million Mandinka people with most residing in West Africa.
Connecting the dots – Tracing My Family Tree from the Caribbean Island of Montserrat Back To Africa for DNA Travel
Having the genetic insight from both AncestryDNA and African Ancestry has reinvigorated my search to dig deeper and trace my family tree from the Caribbean island of Montserrat back to Africa. And while I may not learn all the names since slave records are incomplete, I have enough information that confirms the journey my ancestors made from the West Coast of Africa to the Americas. In time I hope to uncover via Slave Voyages or another source whether they came directly to Montserrat from Africa or via one of the other Caribbean islands.
Transatlantic slave trade routes from 1500 to 1870. Photo Credit: © Pearson Education.
Helping to connect the dots is the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database which provides information on all the individuals and corporates compensated after the end of slavery. From this, I learned that the 350 acres Barzey Estate in Montserrat where my ancestors lived and worked was initially owned by British plantation owner Thomas Bouveron Barzey who died in 1766.
Beyond the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, I've also uncovered some information from The National Archives in London and the Montserrat National Trust who are currently in the process of digitizing their records. However, even with this wealth of information, completing my family tree from the 1650s to 1880s will most likely take a few more years or even a decade. Records are just not in the order they should be but I will remain committed to the project as I am a descendant from the Mali Empire in West Africa and for that, I'm proud.
Thus for anyone struggling with their family tree or wanting to travel the world based on genetics, would recommend taking a DNA test. AncestryDNA is fine for those primarily of European descent or those who wish to confirm if they have any European genes. For those looking to get more accurate insight about their African roots, would highly recommend taking the African Ancestry DNA test.
Both AncestryDNA and African Ancestry continue to increase their reference sample databases and so results will become even more insightful and help to separate fact from fiction whether told by family members or misguided historians and event promoters. In the case of AncestryDNA who provide online access to their global database, I may even be able to connect with distant cousins in Africa at some point in the future. In the meantime, I'll continue to research my family tree and be thankful that modern science has made it possible to confirm that my maternal ancestors share DNA genetics with the people of Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Senegal. I can't wait to visit. So three cheers for modern science and making DNA travel possible.
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Good Day,
Im having trouble solving this one, Basically I'm stuck. All I just need is create a new input type with a unique name preferably incremented numbers. then I have a function that can delete specific new element.. Hope you guys can help me.. Thanks in Advance..

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Pukatea St is located only 50m from the lovely Greenwood park, an ideal spot for children to play.
The beach is across the promenade from the park, with the main entrance to Butterfly Creek track in the opposite direction, a short walk to the east.
The lounge looks out onto a protected sealed area that can be used as outdoor living, or a carpark.


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The Third Wife
In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife's death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to surface. The divorces from his two previous wives had been amicable, or so it seemed; his children, all five of them, were resilient as ever, or so he thought. But something, or someone, must have pushed Maya over the edge. Fans of Liane Moriarty and Jojo Moyes will be captivated by this riveting family drama with a dark mystery at its core.
Publisher: [United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2018.
Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 22 min.)) :,digital.
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Additional Contributors: Jameson, Joe - Narrator
Read more reviews of The Third Wife at iDreamBooks.com
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That renders OK. Now I want to change the video being played based on a JavaScript function call:
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But nothing happens! How can I do that?

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You can find everything you need here in the YouTube JavaScript API
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A: To control YouTube player you'd better use YouTube API. It is pretty easy. check out this exaple http://jsfiddle.net/uLygZ/1/ I tried to make free of jQuery calls, but note that my scripts are executed inside document-ready handler.
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Former Pentagon Chief Gates criticizes Obama's war policy against Syria
September 18, 2013 Arabi Souri Syria, USA 3
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Former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates criticizes Obama's Syria policy.
Although the former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates is certainly anything else than an innocent lamb, his recent remarks at a forum in Dallas about the war policy by US President Barack Obama against the Syrian government are indeed smarter than the most statements by many current members of the U.S. administration in Washington.
The former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said at this forum in Dallas for example, that any US-led military strike against Syria would be like throwing a gasoline on an extremely complex fire in the Middle East and this comparison by Robert Gates is certainly valid and understandable.
Not to mention that any military action against Damascus would only increase the violence in the Arab country as well as the suffering of the Syrian people. Such a US-led military strike against Syria would also have dire consequences for the entire region of the Middle East and even boost the terrorism.
The former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates held his speech at this forum in Dallas yesterday and it is to hope that there is a video of his speech on YouTube. Gates also pointed out in his speech from yesterday that the last US-led military interventions (in principle wars of aggression) in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya already showed that such military actions can lead to unintended consequences.
The former US Secretary of Defence also rejected the idea of attacking the Syrian nation in order to enforce the "red line" by U.S. President Barack Obama. Robert Gates dismissed attacking Syria in order to enforce Obamas "red line" against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. Gates said that he believes "I believe to blow a bunch of stuff up over a couple of days to underscore or validate a point or principle is not a strategy."
As stated, Robert Gates is himself no innocent lamb and it is probably the situation that such statements are now easier for him than when was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under George H.W. Bush. So or so, the statements are valid, but the former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates deserves no honour for it, he has himself already much to answer for.
Syrian soldiers are executed by "selected rebel groups" in Syria.
Gates, who was also the chief of the Pentagon under Barack Obama and also under the former U.S. President George W. Bush, added in his speech at the forum in Dallas that the most recent presidents of the United States have become "too quick to reach for a gun to solve an international problem." It is too mention, that Robert Gates was among the groups that were responsible for some of such events and some would designate these events as crimes.
The former US Secretary of Defence also hinted that the U.S. administration of President Obama sends arms to "selected" terrorist groups in Syria and that Washington should in principle push for Bashar al-Assad to be labelled a war criminal, for warrants to be issued for his arrest and for a seizure of his family's assets abroad.
His speech in Dallas was a kind of self-adulation after his official time at the Pentagon. This is probably simply the way these former politicians and power holders act when they retire.
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There seems to be a vast consperiacy to get rid of Assad. This is a very foolish endever. Assad was the first leader in the world to combat terrorism on a grand scale when he slammed the eygyptian brotherhood into the dirt with an "Iron Fist". Remember who attacked the trade center first. No matter how many the council of over educated morons parade around for the american public all who have collaborated with Al-Quida are guilty of treason.
Hi, John. President Assad certainly recognized the dangers inherent in Muslim Brotherhood, and other such rat packs, but recall that prior to the second Gulf War there were no living al Qaeda or MB in Iraq. Saddam killed them as quickly as they popped up. Libya got bad rapped as a blood thirsty dictatorship because Colonel Gaddafi prosecuted a vigorous campaign against jihadist rats of any description, as did President Mubarak of Egypt. Syria, Egypt and Libya, as well as Syria presented a stable, secular and in some instances very prosperous State, but Libya, Iraq and Syria dumped the US dollar as the sole currency for commerce, or were in the process of doing so, which is why they became infested with rabid rats. So. Russia, Red China, India and a couple of others are prepared to drop the dollar at any time and then what? How about we declared Red China as a bloodthirsty dictatorship and bomb the livin' sh*t out of Red China? Or, how about the same treatment for Russia? If Obama tries it, he'll be left with this thumb up his *ss, wondering what happened. Personally, I think that almost all American politicians are ripe for a drumhead court and the gallows, but that's just me.
Pro-Opposition Syria Analyst O'Bagy Admits Never Enrolled in Ph.D.
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Joanna R. Barnes and J. Patrice Marandel
French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition: Selections from a Private Collection on Loan to the University Art Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Pennsylvania State University Press in association with American Federation of Arts, 1994. 191 pp.; 92 color ills.; 51 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0812232755)
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C., October 14–December 11, 1994; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla.; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta; Dahesh Museum, New York, September 22, 1998–January 2, 1999
The Dahesh Museum in New York was the latest venue for an exhibition titled French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition, organized by the American Federation of the Arts and previously shown, in a more expanded version, at the Mint Museum, the Society of the Four Arts, the Arkansas Art Center, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. The exhibition was composed entirely of works from a single private collection that is on long-term loan to the University Art Museum in Albuquerque. Perfectly suited to the Dahesh Museum, both for its size and its theme, this exhibition… Full Review
Petra ten-Doesschate
Benoy K. Behl
The Ajanta Caves: Artistic Wonder of Ancient Buddhist India
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. 256 pp.; 186 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0810919834)
When I first opened this book, the spine broke, a premonition of things to come. But let me start with the book's strengths, for certainly there are some. Benoy Behl is a photographer who enjoys the challenge of working in low-light conditions such as those of the rock-cut shrines that form the Buddhist monastery of Ajanta. His photographs bring out the extraordinary richness of Ajanta's paintings and capture details that I have failed to see or to see in the lush fashion that his photographs capture. It is too bad, however, that the book's many color plates represent details… Full Review
Frederick M. Asher
Vincent Pomarede and Arlette Serullaz
Delacroix: The Late Work
Exh. cat. Thames and Hudson, 1998. 408 pp.; 250 b/w ills. $65.00 (0500092753)
Grand Palais, Paris, April 7–July 20, 1998; Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 15, 1998–January 3, 1999
"I am in that phase of life when the tumult of the mad passions does not mingle with the delightful emotions which works of art give to me. I don't know the meaning of dusty papers and hateful occupations, which is what almost all human beings must devote themselves to; instead of thinking of business, I think only of Rubens and Mozart: my great business, for a week, is the memory of an aria or a picture. I go to my work as others hasten to their mistress, and when I leave it, I carry away into my solitude or… Full Review
Petra ten-Dosschate Chu
Ilay Cooper and Barry Dawson
Traditional Buildings of India
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998. 192 pp.; 92 color ills.; 128 b/w ills. Cloth (0500341613)
Ilay Cooper's text is sumptuously illustrated with photographs mostly by Barry Dawson. His focus on traditional buildings is apparently based on anthropologist Milton Singer's long-accepted but now challenged notion that Indian culture could be divided into two dichotomous strands, the great tradition and the little tradition. Indeed, Cooper's definition of traditional architecture "as architecture without architects," by which he means architecture built by local and often skilled craftspeople but without the guidance of "a sophistical urban professional" (p. 10), seemed to fall into Singer's little tradition category. Reading further, however, it became clear that the text is marred by outmoded… Full Review
Catherine B. Asher
Lawrence Nees, ed.
Approaches to Early-Medieval Art
Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 1998. 257 pp.; 156 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (0915651092)
This volume gives an interesting sample, though not a survey, of current scholarship on the art of early medieval Europe. Its editor, Lawrence Nees, has given it shape and balance that clearly reflect his own approach to the material. Nees has long been constructing bridges over the divide between Western "medieval" and "Byzantine" art, an enterprise indebted to the example of Ernst Kitzinger, to whom this book is dedicated. Geographical boundaries are facts of American academic life, both in the courses we teach and in the conferences we attend (usually either the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo or… Full Review
Genevra Kornbluth
Judith Barter
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman
Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1998. 320 pp.; 100 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. $65.00 (0810940892)
Art Institute of Chicago, October 10, 1998–January 10, 1999; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, February 14–May 9, 1999; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 6–September 6, 1999
Not surprisingly, the public flocked to see the well-conceived Mary Cassatt exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, standing in line to buy calendars, posters, refrigerator magnets, and coffee cups adorned with her beloved images. Yet the exhibition curator, Judith Barter, intentionally downplayed the sentimental side of Cassatt, opting instead to show her evolution as a "modern" artist. Ninety key works, including paintings, pastels, drawings, and prints, highlighted Cassatt's progress from a young artist studying in Europe to her acceptance as a member of the Parisian avant-garde. Loosely following this basic chronology, each of the seven galleries was organized around… Full Review
Sally Webster
Bodo Brinkmann
Die Flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: Der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 1997. 441 pp.; 63 color ills.; 367 b/w ills. Cloth €85.00 (2503505651)
The subject of this monograph is the Netherlandish book illuminator whom Friedrich Winkler named the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook in 1914 after a Book of Hours—not a Prayerbook—in the State Library of Saxony (ms. A.311). Although some thirty ascriptions to the artist have been made in the eighty years since Winkler's pioneering essay, Brinkmann is the first scholar carefully and systematically to examine the painter's entire output. Brinkmann has enlarged that output to fifty-two manuscripts, four groups of cuttings, and two incunabula. All of the works are individually examined, the majority in chronological order; most of the… Full Review
Gregory T. Clark
Lynn F. Jacobs
Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380–1550: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 352 pp.; 91 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0521474833)
If quizzed to name two sculptors of early Netherlandish wooden altarpieces, many of my colleagues and I would not pass or would do so only with considerable searching the depths of our memories. Even if we relaxed the rules and permitted the use of the standard introductions to Netherlandish art by Charles Cuttler (1968), James Snyder (1985), or Craig Harbison (1995), these yield just four examples, two of which are given as by anonymous artists. Jacques de Baerze is known primarily because at a slightly later date Melchior Broederlam, one of the "pathfinders" of early Netherlandish art, painted exterior wings… Full Review
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Penny Howell Jolly
Made in God's Image? Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 155 pp.; 12 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. £45.00 (0520205376)
For decades the rich, dense heritage of medieval and Renaissance Venice has offered historians, art historians, and social scientists an array of subjects and an evolving methodological arsenal for their analysis. Building on the work of previous generations, recent scholars have expanded our understanding of the manner in which a society can use its visual culture to construct a variety of identities: civic, religious, class, familial, and even individual, conveying messages that were normative as well as informational. Yet despite intense activity, monuments such as the thirteenth-century mosaics of San Marco have awaited the application of approaches that reach beyond… Full Review
Rebecca W. Corrie
Beth Archer Brombert
Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 506 pp.; 68 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0226075443)
It was Édouard Manet's notoriety that caught the attention of the young writer Émile Zola in 1866 and galvanized him to write the first sustained polemic about his work. A fascination with the controversies surrounding the reception of Manet's paintings has inspired an entire strain of writing on the artist ever since. Although some of that journalistic skirmishing animates Beth Brombert's biography, this new account of his life does not dwell on Manet's public persona. Objecting to the "depersonalized" Manet that has emerged in recent scholarship, Brombert argues that many of the enigmatic aspects of his art can be explained… Full Review