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Die Wendelinuskapelle am Wachtküppel ist eine römisch-katholische Filialkirche der Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt, Gersfeld am Wachtküppel im osthessischen Landkreis Fulda, die zum Bistum Fulda gehört. Das Kirchengebäude steht in Gersfeld-Maiersbach am "Wachtküppel 107".

Die Filialkirche steht unter dem Patrozinium des Heiligen Wendelin (Fest am 20. Oktober) und ist ihm geweiht. Sie gehört zur Pfarrei Mariä Himmelfahrt in Gersfeld und ist dem Pastoralverbund St. Wendelinus Hohe Rhön im Dekanat Rhön zugeordnet. Das unter einem Satteldach gelegene Kirchenschiff ist eine Saalkirche mit Glockenturm und seitlich angegliederter Werktagskapelle bzw. Sakramentskapelle und Sakristei.

Geschichte

Eine erste Kapelle wurde als Hauskapelle von dem am 12. Juli 1906 in Frankfurt geborenen Kaplan Hermann Mott, der am 25. Juli 1943 im Dom zu Fulda zum Priester geweiht worden war, eingerichtet. Seine erste Kaplanstelle war in der Stadtpfarrei Mariae Namen, Hanau. Danach erkrankte der spätberufene Priester. Bei seinen Angehörigen in Maiersbach am Wachtküppel suchte er Heilung und Pflege. Mit Genehmigung von Papst Pius XII. wurde eine Hauskapelle im Wohnhaus am Wachtküppel eingerichtet. In 1944 wurde darin von ihm der erste Gottesdienst gefeiert. Die Gottesdienste wurden auch immer mehr von benachbarten und nach 1945 von Vertriebenen Gläubigen besucht, sodass die Hauskapelle zu klein wurde. Bei der Suche nach einem größeren Gottesdienstraum stieß man auf die unmittelbar nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg leerstehende Baracke des ehemaligen Reichsarbeitsdienstes in Abtsroda. Diese wurde abgebaut und als Barackenkapelle (mit Glockentürmchen und Glocke über dem stirnseitigen Eingang) am Wachtküppel wieder aufgebaut. Am 20. Oktober 1946, unter Bischof Johann Baptist Dietz, erteilte der von ihm beauftragte Generalvikar die kirchliche Weihe.

1959 begannen Neubauplanungen für die inzwischen zu klein und baufällig gewordene Barackenkapelle, die vom damaligen Weihbischof Adolf Bolte genehmigt worden waren. Die Bauarbeiten an der vom Fuldaer Architekten Rudolf Schick geplanten Kapelle begannen im Herbst 1961. Das Richtfest wurde am 13. Dezember 1963 gefeiert. Die kirchliche Weihe erfolgte im Auftrag des neuen Bischofs Adolf Bolte durch Domkapitular Prof. Dr. Ludwig Pralle im Jahre 1964.

Architektur

Die Kapelle trägt auf schildförmigem Grundriss ein kupfergedecktes Satteldach, über der seitlichen Werktagskapelle, dem Haupteingang und der Sakristei ein Pultdach. Die Wetterseite ist beidseits des senkrechten, gebäudehohen Lichtbandes mit Holzschindeln verkleidet. Das Kirchenschiff wird durch drei senkrechte Betonrippenfenster erhellt. An der Altarwand dominiert ein großes Bronzekreuz mit Korpus und beidseits schwebenden Engeln mit den Attributen der Dornenkrone und dem Kelch in Höhe des Kreuzquerbalkens. Eine große geflochtene natürliche Dornenkrone schwebt zwischen dem Korpusende über dem Altar.

Außenaltar

1971 wurde stirnseitig vor der Kapelle ein Gedenkstein aus rotem Sandstein für Kaplan Hermann Mott (1906–1968) errichtet, der vom Bildhauer Johannes Kirsch (Petersberg) geschaffen wurde. Er ist auch als Freialtar nutzbar.

Bildstock

Seitlich am Zugang bzw. Zufahrt zur Kapelle steht ein Bildstock aus einer Nieschensteinsäule mit einer Bronzeplastik von Agnes Mann Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe)-Güntersberg. Das Motiv stammt aus dem Lukas-Evangelium .

Orgel
Die Kapelle besitzt eine Orgel von den Gebrüdern Hey, Urspringen, aus dem Jahre 1966, die 1971 von ursprünglich sieben auf zwölf Register erweitert wurde.

Werktags- und Sakramentskapelle
Die Werktagskapelle beherbergt einen Sandsteinaltar mit aufstehendem Tabernakel aus Bronze und einem krönenden Kreuz. Als figürliche Ausstattungsgegenstände assistieren moderne Holzplastiken des Hl. Wendelinus und einer Schutzmantelmadonna sowie eine seitlich angebrachte Pietà. Im Turm der Kapelle befindet sich eine Holzplastik des Hl. Josef.

Glocken
Der im Osten an das Kirchenschiff angebaute Glockenturm enthält ein Geläut aus drei Kirchenglocken hinter Schallfenstern. 1971 wurde durch Spenden der Guss von drei Glocken bei der Firma Schilling in Heidelberg ermöglicht. Sie erklingen in den Tönen "h-", "cis" und "c" und tragen die Namen "Christus, König der Könige" (475 kg), "Ave Maria" (324 kg) und "Patron St. Wendelin, bitte für uns" (185 kg). Am 25. April 1971 erfolgte die Glockenweihe.

Literatur
 Marcel Stumpf: Kirchenführer: Kapelle St. Wendelinus Wachtküppel. Katholische Pfarrei Mariä Himmelfahrt, Gersfeld.

Weblinks
 Homepage der Pfarrei Gersfeld
 Pastoralverbund St. Wendelinus Hohe Rhön

Einzelnachweise

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NJ Graduation Rates: Trenton and Lakewood
NJ School Boards Association has a cogent explanation of the new way NJ is calculating graduation rates:
Previously, the graduation rate for a given year was calculated by taking the number of students in a graduating class and dividing that number by the graduating class total plus the number of drop-outs in the class over each of the four preceding years. The methodology was considered flawed, in part because of the under-reporting of drop-outs by some districts. Using this system, last year's statewide graduation rate was 94.7 percent.
The new methodology tracks students who entered in grade nine and counts how many graduate four years later. If a district can provide documentation that a student transferred out of the school and registered in another New Jersey school or a school in another state, emigrated out of the country, or died, the number of students entering as ninth graders will be adjusted appropriately. The size of the graduating class will then be divided by this figure.
Under this revised methodology – already in place in 34 other states this year and being implemented in all 50 states after that – New Jersey's graduation rate in 2011 stands at 83 percent.
The drop in graduation rates is clearly the topic of the day: here's coverage from The Record, The Star-Ledger, NJ Spotlight, The Courier Post, and Press of Atlantic City.) In addition, the Trenton Times reports that Trenton Public Schools has the worst graduation rate in NJ, "with nearly one in two students who started high school in 2007 not receiving a degree last year."
The Times is also perplexed because "Lakewood High School's rate increased by nearly 33 percent. The report did not offer any explanation for the huge changes."
Why did Lakewood High School's graduation rate go up when just about everyone else's went down? Simple: the Board and Administration there deliberately reduced its graduation rate in order to qualify for a $6 million School Improvement Grant. Until the upgrade of the DOE's data base and subsequent recalibrations, it was an easy task to game the system. Not so much any more. Thus, the correction to Lakewood's numbers.
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Man Utd Verbally Agree Terms With £87m Attacker, Player Keen On Move
Man Utd are confident of signing Antoine Griezmann this summer after verbally agreeing the terms over a potential £87m deal for the Atletico Madrid forward
Managers are now making moves to try and strengthen their squads during the January transfer window so we'll bring you all the latest gossip from around the globe. Today, more on Man Utd's interest in Antoine Griezmann…
Manchester United are confident of signing Antoine Griezmann this summer after verbally agreeing the terms over a potential £87m deal for the Atletico Madrid forward, according to the Independent.
Griezmann is now considered as one of the best strikers in world football having scored 69 goals and provided a further 19 assists in his 132 games since moving to Atletico from Real Sociedad in 2014.
The Frenchman took his form in to the international stage last summer after being named as the Player of the Tournament at the 2016 European Championship Finals after his 6 goals led France to the final where they eventually lost out to Portugal.
Understandably, the 25-year-old has attracted interest from all around Europe but the Independent claim that United are now increasingly confident they've won the race for his signature ahead of a summer move.
The newspaper says that United officials have been negotiating with Griezmann's representatives for some time and have now verbally agreed a deal including the players contract and what shirt number he'd wear.
The Independent claim that Griezmann is extremely keen on moving to Old Trafford this summer and United are expected to match the forward's €100m buy-out clause, which at today's exchange rate would mean a deal worth in the region of £87m – just shy of Paul Pogba's world record £89m fee.
Griezmann is good friends with Pogba having grown close during their time away with the French national team so it seems the Atletico striker is keen to also link-up with his compatriot at club level.
Obviously Griezmann would be a sensational signing for United if they were able to pull it off as he'd be a long-term replacement for the likes of Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic while he's also capable of playing out on the wing if needed.
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However, the Independent's report states that the only issue that could scupper any potential deal is the fact that Atletico are still waiting for the Court of Arbitration for Sport to rule on their current transfer ban which will determine whether they'll be able to buy and sell players this summer.
United will pray that the decision goes in Atletico's favour as it means they'll be free to complete their proposed swoop for Griezmann and while it may be bad news for United's title rivals, I'd love to see the player plying his trade here in England.
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Corinthia Hotel Release More Tickets For Found & Lost
AuthorEmma ClarendonPosted on January 21, 2016 CategoriesMusic, Unique ExperiencesTagsCorinthia Hotel, Emily Hall
The hotel in London has today announced that it will be releasing more tickets for the world premiere of Emily Hall's brand new promenade opera.
Titled Found & Lost , this latest Artist in Residence at the hotel will see audiences embarking on a sonic experience around the establishment and so far tickets are proving popular for the experience that the Corinthia Hotel has announced more tickets will be available to purchase.
Emily Hall conceived the idea for the site-specific opera with the help of the renowned sound designer David Sheppard, during her stay at the five-star hotel as its Artist in Residence.
The opera will be performed in front of audiences of 12 at a time, in all kinds of rooms at the hotel from bedrooms to boiler rooms, inviting audiences to be led by a live choir while discovering musicians where they are least expected, accompanied by specially recorded music.
As well as Hall and Sheppard, poet Matthew Welton has created the libretto exclusively from texts that can be found around the hotel such as wine lists, lost and found records and housekeeping checklists. While award-winning director Ella Hickson has advised on the production.
Integrating music recorded in a variety of spaces on-site, intertwined with a live chorus sung by members of Siglo de Oro, and live performances from James McVinnie on a specially simulated organ. Recorded artists featured in the production include: tenor Allan Clayton; singer-songwriter Mara Carlyle; cellist Oliver Coates; vocalist Sofia Jernberg; singer songwriter Puzzle Muteson, and treble Duncan Tarboton.
Hall was selected in April 2015 from eleven finalists to create the piece at Corinthia Hotel London after entering the hotel's fourth Artist in Residence competition – a search to find a composer or company to produce a brand new opera inspired by the luxury five star hotel. Her idea was selected by a panel of music and arts industry leaders including opera luminaries Alex Beard CBE, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, Joseph Calleja, internationally acclaimed award-winning tenor and James Conway, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of English Touring Opera among others.
Previous residencies saw winning commissions from aspiring filmmakers Zawe Ashton and David Petch (2014), immersive theatre company Look Left Look Right (2013) and photographic artist Noémie Goudal (2012).
Found & Lost will appear at the Corinthia Hotel from the 25th January to the 3rd February. For more information and to book tickets visit: http://corinthia-air.com/.
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If enough people are interested we plan to offer free runs before each race for anyone who fancies joining us. If you're not confident about running at night or on trail, it's a great chance to gain a little more confidence.
There's also a chance to join in with numerous fun and free (or at least very cheap) training sessions.
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Oscar Snubs: Alfred Hitchcock
Posted on February 1, 2014 July 19, 2014 AuthorEmily
The Oscars are one of Hollywood's greatest traditions, but they're also one of the more inherently divisive. In any situation where you're attempting to name a singular, unequivocal "Best" in a subjective category—not just a collection of "Very Goods" or "Great Efforts"—you're going to draw some criticism. That's partly because movies aren't math problem sets: there's not a single right way to do things, nor a single right answer upon which to arrive, and in reality, one person's interpretation of a film can be entirely different than what someone else sees. And so, those films and filmmakers that do win Oscars necessarily have to appeal to votes based on the quality of the film, as well as appealing to the sense of populism they need to secure the majority of votes.
And that's maybe why the Academy's notorious, career-spanning snub of Alfred Hitchcock—one of film history's most enduringly entertaining AND well-respected filmmakers—is especially perplexing.
Now, Hitch did receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1967, of course, which, while arguably more prestigious, has also been famously used to right Academy wrongs (or to have a chance to give Darryl F. Zanuck another trophy—he won the award three times in the first 15 years). But, certainly, Hitch's breadth of work should have been more than enough to earn him a statuette of his own accord, and he gave them ample opportunities.
Indeed, part of the reason that the injustice feels particularly cutting is that Hitchcock was by no means ignored by the Academy, nominations wise. In total, sixteen of his films were nominated in some capacity over the years, for a sum of 50 nominations—but only six wins. Although a modern audience, having experienced his whole range of films, might curate a different a selection of films, Hitchcock was nominated for Best Director five times in his lifetime: for Rebecca, Lifeboat, Spellbound, Rear Window, and Psycho. (He's tied, and in good company, with Robert Altman, Clarence Brown, and King Vidor for most "Best Director" nominations without a win.) He directed four films that were nominated for Best Picture: Foreign Correspondent, Suspicion, Spellbound, and Rebecca. Rebecca was his most successful film in the eyes of Oscar, which perhaps would have been his best opportunity for picking up the prize; it was nominated for 13 awards and actually won Best Picture.
But really, breaking down Hitchcock's work into a series of numerical equations feels like a betrayal to his career, and underscores the problem of Oscar prognostication. It's hard to measure a film's lasting cultural effect when looking at it within the time span of a year, especially when the voting is limited to a relatively small group of viewers. Hitchcock really understood not just how to tell stories, but how to tell them in a specifically cinematic way. Psycho isn't remembered because of the plot, but because of how everything—sound, lighting, editing, casting, and so on—works together on screen. He was undeniably a master craftsman for the cinematic age.
In the end, I think Hitchcock is a great reminder for Oscar night. Although a win can cement a filmmaker's legacy, not winning doesn't take away from our enjoyment of their work. Sure, being on that permanent list can introduce films and filmmakers to future audiences, but sometimes the strength of the films allows them to stand on their own. Vertigo, which seems to be somewhat commonly-agreed-upon as his greatest work by modern viewers, barely made a blip on the Oscar radar, earning only two nominations, and no wins. If a filmmaker is able to consistently tap into the public's consciousness through film, their legacy will be preserved just the same as it would be had they announced a certain name from an envelope. And Hitchcock's mastery of the art form has certainly cemented his name in film history despite the Academy's lack of recognition.
This is part of the 31 Days of Oscar blogathon, hosted by Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled, Paula of Paula's Cinema Club and Aurora of Once Upon a Screen. To find out more info, visit the blogathon home page. All future entries will be tagged under 31 Days of Oscar.
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Maybe Hitch just didn't play the game. Maybe he didn't go to the right parties and schmooze. At any rate, he certainly had the last laugh.
Yep! In some years, it definitely seems the actual quality of the film/filmmaker was a distant consideration on the list… but yes, Hitch certainly didn't need a trophy to solidify his reputation!
kelleepratt says:
Thanks for joining our blogathon! This was a wonderful and very much NECESSARY highlight for our Snubs week. As my favorite director, as he remains for countless fans, it's hard to fathom this man not bringing home that statuette almost annually.
Thanks so much for hosting. I'm always trying to think of good "cameos" to feature to match the site name, and this was the perfect opportunity to salute Hitch!
The Gal Herself says:
Psycho is one of the most influential films ever. One of the first really subversive mainstream Hollywood movies. Killing off his leading lady early on, the editing, even the promotional campaign. Billy Wilder was a great director in his time, but I don't see his stamp on today's movies the way I see Hitch's. So obviously, I agree with you 100%!
I lovvvvve Psycho–one of those movies I can watch over and over again without noticing the time go by! And yeah, that's one of the other problems with Oscar—of course I think Hitchcock should've gotten one, but I don't necessarily want to grab it out of the hands of Billy Wilder or John Ford… In any case, Hitch definitely left his mark on movie history, with or without a statue!
Great write-up on what may be the most egregious of all snubs since he helmed so many other nominations. I think it was most likely due to the fact he did things his way after Rebecca. In any case, he remains (also) the best example of how little the Oscar means to a career. So happy you chose to discuss Sir Hitch for this event. :)
Yes, I think Rebecca was probably the closest he got to winning… he seemed to fall increasingly out of favor with the Oscar voters after that—though more popular with the movie audiences that would make him immortal!
Thank you for covering one of the most egregious snubs of all time. It still confuses me, to this day, how a movie can win Best Picture and not Best Director. I have actually had to show people Hitchcock's IMDB awards page because they don't believe he never won an Oscar. Maybe I should get them to bet on it first ;)
Marsha Collock says:
Can you believe it? And I just hate it when they get those "other" awards – like the Thalberg or Lifetime Achievement or whatever (I am thinking Cary Grant here, too). I think they were all just jealous of his great success.
Exactly—and it's not like either of them were unappreciated in their own time, either! I had a bit of an existential crisis reading everyone's Oscar snub entries all together: "How can they matter if they didn't reward all these talented people??"
Minoo Allen for Classic Movie Hub says:
Thank you for such an eloquently written post! What I found most interesting was that his most of nominations for best director came so relatively early in his Hollywood Career. That he was nominated for films like Lifeboat and Spellbound but not Vertigo or North by Northwest is astounding.
I have often wondered why Hitchcock never won the Oscar, although you are correct – in the end he did get the last laugh.
I liked the point you made re: not winning an Oscar doesn't diminish our admiration of a director's work.
I really enjoyed reading your excellent post.
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Generation Rent in last-ditch bid to keep evictions ban
The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the end of this weekend.
In a survey of 1,064 renters - which was conducted by the campaign group itself, not by an independent body - the results showed "one in five private renters who has struggled to pay rent during the pandemic has already been told to move out, given a rent increase or warned that they'll be evicted."
The summary of the results put forward by the group continues: "Nearly half of struggling tenants are already searching for a new home but most of those searching (59 per cent) are unable to find one they can afford or a landlord who will accept them."
The result sample of 1,064 includes 636 private renters on assured shorthold tenancies or licences; of those, 292 had lost income in the pandemic and 343 had not.
Of the private renters who responded, 45 per cent had lost income and five per cent had been asked to move out since March. Two thirds of renters who have lost income (68 per cent) are struggling to pay their rent, and are reducing spending, getting into debt, using up savings or getting into arrears.
Some 14 per cent of private renters who reported losing income are in arrears.
The group claims that this new research shows renters in arrears have little protection against homelessness due to a shortage of affordable properties and a safety net that is "not fit for purpose."
The groups suggests that the number of renters in debt to their landlords is likely to increase when the furlough scheme is wound down, "as the welfare system is failing to cover renters' housing costs."
A statement from Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the group's new director, says: "Many renters are trying to move but it is proving difficult for them to find a new home. Homelessness will be the only option for somebody as they find themselves with nowhere else to go.
"The government's lack of action is deplorable - renters who have lost income need protection from eviction.
"The Scottish and Welsh Governments have already taken steps to extend protections, but renters in England haven't been so lucky. Generation Rent hears daily from renters who are terrified about what will happen to them once the courts are open and evictions resume next week.
"Many have been unable to work due to the pandemic and have not kept up with rent payments, and others have not even been given a reason for their eviction notice by their landlord – they have simply been told to leave.
"The government must pass emergency legislation to restrict 'no fault' evictions, and those for rent arrears, to ensure renters who have been hit by the pandemic do not lose their homes this autumn. They must also ensure that the safety net is fit for purpose and prevents further arrears from building up."
Generation Rent
Evictions Ban
Baroness Alicia Kennedy
21 August 2020 07:50 AM
I just don't care.
If they cannot pay their rent when else everywhere in the entire world does, that action results in inevitable eviction. Without exception. In the world too.
So what gives these people the right to think in the UK that they should be different?
It is a contact that must be regarded and honoured.
So, if the rent is not paid then they must expect to be evicted.
And if it means they have to suffer, then that mate, is the undisputable law of the jungle. FULL STOP.
And in the process, they are obliged to pay the unpaid rents for the time it was withheld. BIGGER FULL STOP.
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Johnny Depp Is Still Dating Lawyer Joelle Rich After His Trial, 'Surprised' by Split Rumors: Details
By Yana Grebenyuk
Johnny Depp and Joelle Rich. Shutterstock; Elder Ordonez/Splash News
Going strong! Johnny Depp is "still together" with Joelle Rich amid rumors of a split, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.
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"Nobody was more surprised by the reports they split than Joelle and Johnny," the insider shares, adding that "nothing has changed" with the status of their relationship.
According to the source, the attorney is "still very much in the picture" as the couple continue to see where their romance is headed. "They are both loving the time they spend together," the insider shares with Us.
Earlier this year, Us broke the news of Depp's romance with Rich, 37. At the time, a second source revealed that the pair met after working on his U.K. libel lawsuit.
"Their chemistry is off the charts," the insider told Us. "It's serious between them. They are the real deal."
The source also noted that Rich was by Depp's side during his defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, saying, "There was no professional obligation for her being there. It was personal."
The Kentucky native's new romance came amid his high-profile court battle with Heard, 36. Depp, 59, was previously married to the actress from 2015 to 2017. Following 15 months of marriage, Heard filed for divorce and obtained a temporary restraining order after she accused the Nightmare on Elm Street star of domestic violence.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star, who has denied the claims, ended up suing the U.K. newspaper The Sun after they referred to him as a "wife beater" in a 2018 article. During the trial, Depp hired Rich to represent him in the libel lawsuit. He ultimately lost his overseas case two years later.
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In 2018, Depp took Heard to court after she penned a Washington Post op-ed about her history with abuse. The actor claimed that the Texas native's article negatively impacted his career even though he was not named in the piece. Meanwhile, Heard argued that she lost out on jobs following their split due to their messy legal battles.
A jury ultimately ruled in favor of Depp after several weeks of testimonies in June. The judge announced that Depp would be awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Heard, for her part, was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages and no punitive damages for her counterclaim.
Johnny Depp and Joelle Rich. Elder Ordonez/ Splash News
The Drive Angry actress would only have to pay $10.35 million after the judge reduced the amount due to a Virginia law capping punitive damages. The duo have individually expressed plans to appeal the verdict.
Following the hearing, Depp released a statement to address his reaction to the news.
"From the very beginning, the goal of bringing this case was to reveal the truth, regardless of the outcome," he told Us that same month. "Speaking the truth was something that I owed to my children and to all those who have remained steadfast in their support of me. I feel at peace knowing I have finally accomplished that."
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's Ups and Downs Through the Years
The musician said he felt "overwhelmed" by the "outpouring of love and the colossal support and kindness" that he received amid the legal proceedings. "I also hope that the position will now return to innocent until proven guilty, both within the courts and in the media," he added.
Heard, however, took to social media to share her response. "The disappointment I feel today is beyond words," she wrote via Instagram. "I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband."
The Aquaman actress explained that her worries extended beyond her own involvement in the case. "I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women. It is a setback. It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated," she continued. "It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously."
Heard concluded: "I believe Johnny's attorneys succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of Freedom of Speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the U.K. I'm sad I lost this case. But I am sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American — to speak freely and openly."


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Illustrations of the holy Scriptures, Volume 2
Door George Paxton
chamber, which serves for a kitchen, dining-room, and bed-chamber; besides one corner of it, which is reserved for their foals, calyes, and kids. As these hovels are al ways fixed and immoveable, they are undoubtedly what the ancients called magalia ; and therefore, Carthage itself, before the time of Dido, was nothing more than a cluster of mud-built hovels :C
" Miratur molem Æneas, magalia quondam." Æn. lib. i, 1. 425. The houses of the lower orders in Egypt are in liķe man. ner constructed of unburnt bricks, or square pices of clay, baked in the sun, and only one story high; but those of the higher classes, of stone, and generally two, and some times three stories high. These facts are at once a short and lively comment on the words of the prophet: " AŲ the people shall know, even Ephraim, and the inhabitants of Samaria, that say, in the pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."d Bricks dried in the sun, are poor
© Dr. Shaw's Tray. vol. i, p. 400.-The houses of the lower classes in Persia are built of the same materials. Malcom's Hist. vol. ii, p. 525. The houses of Bassorah are built partly of sun-dried and partly of burnt bricks. Kinneir's Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire, p. 289.-
The villages of modern Egypt still consist of mud and straw-built þuts, with white pigeon-houses on the top. Richardson's Trav. vol. ii, p. 141.
Isa. ix, 9, 10.-Richardson informs us that "the brick pyramid in Egypt is much fallen down on the north side, and looks as if the roof of one cham. ber had given way, and the walls fallen in : the bricks are sun-dried and remarkably fresh ; they have been made of mud and cut straw, in the same manner that bricks are made in Egypt in the present day" (Trav. vol. ii, p. 146); and it may be added, in the days of that Pharaoh who made the lives of enslaved and proscribed Israel." bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field." Exod. i, 11-14. The ruins of On, or Heliopolis, consist chiefly of houses of unburnt brick, of the same description with the ruins in Upper Egypt. Such, it is most probable, were the treasure cities which the people of Israel built for Pharach. P. 164.
materials for building, compared with hewn stone, which in Egypt, is almost equal to marble; and forms a strong contrast between the splendid palace, and mud-walled cabin. And if, as is probable, the houses of the higher orders in Israel were built with the same species of costly and beautiful stone, the contrast stated by the prophet, places the vaunting of his wealthier countrymen in a very strong light. The boastful extravagance of that people, is still further displayed by the next figure : " The sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars;" the forests of sycamore, the wood of which we have been accustomed to employ in building, are cut down by the enemy, but instead of them we will import cedars, of whose fragrant and beautiful wood we will construct and adorn our habitations. The sycamore grew in abundance, in the low country of Judea, and was not much esteemed ; but the cedar was highly valued; it was brought at a great expense, and with much labour, from the distant and rugged summits of Lebanon, to beautify the dwellings of the great, the palaces of kings, and the temple of Jehovah. It was therefore, an extravagant boast, which betrayed the pride and vanity of their depraved hearts, that all the warnings, threatenings, and judgments of the living God, were insufficient to subdue or
restrain. · In Judea, and some of the neighbouring countries, where rain often falls in winter in very copious and violent showers, instead of earth and straw, they make use of wood in constructing the walls of their dwellings. In this manner was the wall originally built, which enclosed the court of the temple at Jerusalem ; and it was re-constructed of the same materials, wood and stone, when the Jews returned from their long and painful captivity, by
the direction of the Persian monarch. It is evident that the walls of their fortified cities were partly constructed of combustible materials; for the prophet, denouncing the judgments of God upon Syria and other countries, declares; " I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof."e The walls of Tyre and Rabbah seem to have been of the same perishable materials ; for the prophet adds: " I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof;" and again; 56 I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof with shouting in the day of battle." The more durable materials of wood and stone, were preferred by the inhabitants of Canaan from the earliest times ; for Moses, in the law concerning the leprous house, proceeds on the supposition that their houses were built of these : " Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is."g. The greater durableness and beauty of such edifices have not, however, prevailed on the lower orders in the east to abandon their mud-walled habitations, even in those places where stone may be procured in abundance. · At Damas: cus, for example, they continue to build with mud and slime, though they have plenty of stones near the city. In the time of Job, and probably for a long succession of ages, the houses of all ranks in the land of Uz were built of mud; for he charges the adulterer with digging through the walls of his neighbour's house, with the view of gratifying his vile propensities : " In the dark," said the sorrowful and indignant patriarch, "they dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the day time: e Amos i, 7. f Verses 10, 14.
Lev. xiv, 40. h Maundrell's Journey, p. 124.
they know not the light."i These walls of dried clay, when moistened with copious showers, must have been liable to accidents of this kind ; and as the walls of eastern houses are made very thick, in order to shelter the inhabi. tants more effectually from the oppressive heats, the term digging, as applied to them, is peculiarly expressive.
The short duration of mud-walled buildings is not the only objection to the use of unburnt brick ; for in windy weather, the streets are incommoded with dust, and with mire in time of rain. At Damascus, when a violent rain happens to fall, the whole city, by the washing of the houses, becomes as it were a quagmire. So great is the quantity of dust and mire which sometimes accumulates in the streets of an eastern city, that the prophet Zechariah borrows a figure from it, of great force and significancy in the ear of an oriental, to denote the immense riches of Tyre: " Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets." ! The beauty of the figure is lost if we attempt to judge of it by the state of an occidental city in modern times ; but it will not be easy to conceive one more strikingly appropriate, if the streets of an eastern city, choaked with mire, or suffocated with dust, are considered. Dr. Shaw directs the attention of his readers to the same circumstance, the dissolution of oriental buildings upon a shower, and supposes it may illustrate what Ezekiel observes respecting untempered mortar." When that traveller was at Tozer, in the month of December, they had a small drizzling shower, which conti
When there observer, and
i Job xxiv, 16. j Egmont and Hayman, vol. i, p. 300.
Maundrell's Journey, p. 124, 125.
Zech. ix, 3.
m Ezek. xiii, 11.
nued for the space of two hours ; and so little provision was made against accidents of this kind, that several of the houses, which, as usual, were built only with palm branches, mud and tiles baked in the sun, fell down by imbibing the moisture of the shower. Nay, provided the drops had been either larger, or the shower of a longer continuande, he was persuaded the whole city would have dissolved and dropt to pieces." In his opinion, the phrase " untempered mortar" refers to the square pieces of clay of which the wall is constructed; but on fooking at the text, it is evident that it refers to the plaster which is used in the east for covering the walls after they are built. The words of the prophet are: " And one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar ---Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it ? The view which Chardin gives of this text is, therefore, to be preferred. According to that intelligent traveller, the mud walls fall down in consequence of the rain dissolving the plaster, This plaster hinders the water from penetrating the bricks; but when it has been soaked with wet, the wind cracks it, by which means the rain, in some succeeding shower, gets between and dissolves the whole mass. To this external coating of plaster, the prophet certainly refers, and not to the bricks, of which the wall is constructed; for these, however tempered, never can be supposed to resist the action of violent rains. The ruinous effect of stormy winds and heavy rains upon such frail structures, is well described in the thirteenth verse, and exactly corresponds with the accounts of modern travellers: " Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, I will even rend it with a stormy
* Shaw's Trav. vol. i, p. 250. Harmer's Observ. vol. I, p. 287.


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AI Machine Learning & Data Science Research
Google Proposes a 'Simple Trick' for Dramatically Reducing Transformers' (Self-)Attention Memory Requirements
In the new paper Self-attention Does Not Need O(n2) Memory, a Google Research team presents novel and simple algorithms for attention and self-attention that require only constant memory and logarithmic memory and reduce the self-attention memory overhead by 59x for inference and by 32x for differentiation at a sequence length of 16384.
A Google Research team has proposed a novel method for dramatically reducing transformers' (self-)attention memory requirements. This "trick," which they believe had been simply overlooked by the machine learning community, addresses the concerning quadratic time and space complexity of transformer architectures' self-attention mechanisms.
In the paper Self-attention Does Not Need O(n2) Memory, the Google team introduces simple algorithms for attention and self-attention that require only constant memory and logarithmic memory, respectively. At a sequence length of 16384, the approach can reduce the self-attention memory overhead by 59x for inference and by 32x for differentiation
The team first presents an algorithm for the attention operation with a single query, then extends it to self-attention.
Attention-based transformer architectures contain an encoder and a decoder. The encoder first computes an annotation of each word in the input. A weighted average of the encoder's annotations is then computed as the context vector, which is fed to the decoder to make word predictions.
Each input comprises three representations: key, query and value. Given a query and a set of key-value pairs, attention can be generalized to compute a weighted sum of the values dependent on the query and the corresponding keys. In this way, the query determines which values to focus on — i.e., which values to "attend" to.
The proposed algorithm is very simple. The team observed that when the attention weights are calculated as a softmax, the division process can be moved to the very end of the attention operation using the distributive law. The computation complexity thus becomes constant when inputs are given in a particular order. If the inputs are provided in a different order, the proposed method will also store an index into the sequence, requiring only O(log n) memory.
To extend the algorithm to self-attention, the team computed the results to all queries sequentially, which required adding only one additional index to the list of queries, again using just O(log n) memory.
The team has presented the algorithms' entire implementation in the JAX Python library, including support for multiple attention heads and memory-efficient differentiation.
The researchers compared their proposed algorithms' memory and time requirements for inference and differentiation to baseline standards. For a sequence length of 16384, the self-attention memory overhead was reduced by 59x for inference and by 32x for differentiation.
The Google team hopes their work can raise awareness of the fact that attention is not intrinsically memory-hungry and encourage researchers to revisit some of their design choices in popular neural architectures.
The paper Self-attention Does Not Need O(n2) Memory is on arXiv.
Author: Hecate He | Editor: Michael Sarazen
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Breach of Contract & Business Torts
Real Estate & Construction Litigation
Wrongful Death & Personal Injury
Proving Lack of Probable Cause in Malicious Prosecution Actions
A primary element of malicious prosecution claims is lack of probable cause supporting the underlying suit. The plaintiff in the malicious prosecution action normally has the burden of proving lack of probable cause, and can prove it in a variety of ways:
Lack of Probable Cause For One or More Claims.
To avoid a malicious prosecution claim, probable cause must exist with regard to every element of every claim in the underlying suit. Even if some of the claims were supported by probable cause, if even a single claim was brought without probable cause for prosecution, that may be enough to support a malicious prosecution action.
Lack of Probable Cause to Name or Associate a Defendant.
Probable cause must exist with regard to every defendant named in an action. Bringing a claim or action against a defendant against whom the plaintiff had no probable cause can also support a malicious prosecution action–even if the claims were justified with regard to other named defendants. (However, the defendants against whom probable cause existed cannot bring malicious prosecution claims.)
Lack of Probable Cause May Be an Issue of Fact or an Issue of Law.
Sometimes, lack of probable cause arises because the plaintiff's case lacked proper factual foundation–the facts were insufficient to create the required probable cause. In other cases, lack of probable cause relates to a weakness in the legal arguments or legality of the claims.
When dealing with issues of probable cause relating to facts, courts generally find probable cause as long as the plaintiff in the original action had sufficient information to reasonably support an inference or belief that the facts were as stated. No probable cause exists if the plaintiff (or the plaintiff's attorneys) know the factual basis for the stated claims is false.
Where the question surrounding probable cause arises from the case's legal foundation, however, the standard is slightly different. Courts judge legally sufficient probable cause according to a standard which asks whether the legal issue was "fairly debatable" and whether the plaintiff and/or his attorney had a reasonable basis for believing the claims were legally valid. This difference is important because courts want to encourage lawyers' ability to bring untested claims and causes of action, particularly in areas where the law remains unsettled.
Disclaimer: THIS ARTICLE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE. Your rights and experiences may vary. Never use an article like this one to evaluate your legal claims. Speak with an experienced lawyer promptly to obtain a personalized evaluation of your claims, possible damages, and options. You may lose or compromise your rights if you delay in consulting legal counsel. Legal claims against lawyers or other third parties are a complicated topic. If you believe you have a claim against an attorney who failed to provide you with competent representation, consult an experienced malpractice lawyer immediately for an evaluation of your possible rights and claims.
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We have been able to create and polish a working visual novel version of the BurntOut gameplay that uses 2D sprites as actors.
The ICU Clinic is the first scenario that the player is exposed to in the game. Here, the player plays as a 3rd-year clerkship student that is on his/her first rotation in the ICU. The 4th year students, who had this clerkship last year, are not very cooperative with the player. Then, while shadowing a resident, you see a patient who may have a rare syndrome which you are not familiar with, which stirs up a situation. Additionally, the first solo assignment of setting up an EKG at a patient's bedside is assigned to the player, which comes with an interactive narrative. So, in all, the player is exposed to crucial decision-making that will impact gameplay in an interactive experience.
The interactive narrative uses the framework we used in the previous version of the project, where the player had to interact with patients. We have expanded this system to allow it to call actions (such as "move here" or "enable/disable this object") that can be performed to progress the scenario. We began planning the structure to make the framework more complex to allow the narrative/gameplay to branch out to different storylines based on the saved conditionals. But, for now, we have a rather linear, yet fully-functional gameplay experience.
We also vamped up various UI components to make the interactions with the actors a bit more immersive.
The new scene where Scenario 1 takes place has been designed using an ICU clinic photo as reference. We wanted to match the contemporary look and visual aesthetic of central with this scene as much as possible so we designed the scene with a more modern looking approach. Many of the assets including furniture and structures from central are seen in this scene as well to give the scenes a sense of connection and similarity. The level structure such as the walls and corners contains a lot of irregularities and asymmetry to further match the style we were going for when designing out level selection scene "Central".
This week, we discussed BurntOut's current overall gameplay and player engagement, as well as the future of this project. We plan to begin integrating what we have so far into a virtual reality environment using the Oculus Go. We believe this shift will enhance the immersion of the game and fix many of the engagement problems we have in our current version. We will continue to experiment with new ways that can strength the purpose of this project and we will use the valuable player feedback from the various game conferences as a backbone to many of our changes.
Does Burnout Get Better During Medical School?


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Notes: Blodwell Junction station was opened as Llanyblodwel by the Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway (PS&NWR) on 18 April 1870. The station was situated on the PS&NWR Nantmawr branch, a 3¾-mile line that had opened on 13 August 1866. The Nantmawr branch provided a link between the Cambrian Railways (CR) line at Llanymynech and quarries at Nantmawr. The PS&NWR main line linked Shrewsbury to Llanymynech. The PS&NWR was not a financial success and it went into receivership in December 1866. Trains ceased to run on 21 December 1866.
The receiver started to run train services again in December 1868 and on 18 April 1870 they introduced a passenger service onto the Nantmawr branch for the first time. The branch terminus for passenger trains was located 2 miles and 36 chains from Llanymynech at Llanyblodwel. The station was located ½ mile to the east of its village namesake on the west side of the Llanymynech road (present day A495) which passed over the line on a bridge.
The branch was a single-track railway and the station was provided with a single platform on the north side of the line. It was constructed from brick, backfilled with earth and topped with cinders. A single-storey timber building located at the eastern end of the platform provided booking and waiting facilities.
Run-around facilities were provided at the station. The branch continued northward from the station for a further 1 mile and 21 chains to its terminus at Nantmawr but only goods trains operated over that section.
Passenger services ran between the station and Shrewsbury Abbey station via Llanymynech.
The receiver could not make the PS&NWR line pay and it withdrew all train services on 22 June 1880. Llanyblodwel station was closed and fell into a state of dereliction.
The main line between Llanymynech and Shrewsbury was abandoned but the quarry owners at Nantmawr wanted to move their stone out by rail. They approached the CR who agreed to work the line for mineral trains from 11 February 1881.
During the second half of the nineteenth century there hadbeen various schemes to build a railway along the Tanat valley towards Llangynog, but none were successful until on 4 January 1899 the Tanat Valley Light Railway (TVLR) was authorised as a 15-mile standard gauge line. Construction started in July 1901.
The TVLR route made use of two existing lines. At Llanyblodwel it used 19 chains of the Nantmawr branch through the site of the station. Further east it used 78 chains of the CR Porthywaen branch which connected to the CR main line at Llanclys. A section of line of 1 mile 21 chains was built from Llanyblodwel station to the Porthywaen branch and a further section of 13½ miles ran from the west of the station to Llangynog.
The line was inspected in November 1902 and again in December 1903. During 1903 Llanyblodwel station was refurbished. A new platform face was constructed from timber and the building was altered. The station was renamed Blodwell Junction in recognition of the new situation that it found itself in. A running-in name board was provided to the east of the buildings.
To control the junction a signal box was built at the south-west end of the platform.
There were sidings at Blodwell Junction and the Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations 1904 listed the station as being able to deal with goods and livestock.
An opening ceremony was held on 5 January 1904 when a special train was run for directors and invited guests; public services began the next day. Train services were operated by the CR and ran between Oswestry and Llangynog via Llynclys Junction.
By this time moves were afoot to resurrect the PS&NWR main line as the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway (S&MLR). The fledgling company was concerned that it would be denied traffic because the TVLR trains bypassed Llanymynech running via Llanclys. To allay those fears a passenger service was introduced between Blodwell Junction and Llanymynech. The S&MLR did not obtain its light railway order until 11 February 1909 and the line did not reopen until 13 April 1911.
In 1910 there were three trains to Llangynog and three to Oswestry on all days except Wednesday and Sunday. On Wednesday there were four up trains and on the first Wednesday of the month only there were four down services. No trains ran on Sunday. There were trains to Llanymynech at 10.55am and at 2.40pm and arrivals from there at 11.35am and 2.35pm on Monday-to-Saturday.
The Llanymynech service was not a success and it ceased to run on 1 January 1917.
In 1921 the TVLR was vested in the CR and a year later on 1 January 1922 the CR was absorbed into the Great Western Railway (GWR).
The July 1922 timetable showed three services in each direction Monday-to-Saturday as seen in the table below. There was an extra up service on Wednesdays and an extra down train on the first Wednesday of every month. There were no trains on Sundays.
In 1925 a section of the Nantmawr branch, between Blodwell Junction and Llanymynech closed. At Blodwell Junction a short section of the line was retained as a headshunt that stretched as far as the River Tanat. The redundant track had been lifted by 1938.
During the Second World War the passenger service was reduced and additional buses were operated to serve the Tanat Valley.
On 1 January 1948 Blodwell Junction became part of British Railways [Western Region] (BR[WR]).
The BR[WR] timetable for the summer of 1949 showed only two trains in each direction on Monday-to-Saturday as seen in the table below.
With such a limited service and heavy competition from local bus services passenger trains between Oswestry and Llangynog were withdrawn by BR[WR] on 15 January 1951.
Goods services continued to run through to Llangynog until 1 July 1952 after which the line was cut back to Llanrhaiadr. Trains from a local quarry continued to use the remaining section of the Nantmawr branch as far as Blodwell Junction from where they then travelled via Llynclys Junction.
The 1956 Handbook of Stations listed Blodwell Junction as being able to handle goods, parcels and miscellaneous traffic.
In December 1960 flood damage to a bridge west of Llangedwyn led to the closure of the line west of Blodwell Junction. On 1 January 1963 Blodwell Junction came under the operational control of British Railways [London Midland Region] (BR[LMR]) and on 6 January 1964 the station closed to public goods services.
Stone traffic from Nantmawr ceased on 21 October 1971. The last train was hauled by Sulzer Type 2 locomotive (later class 24) No.5048. Stone from Llanddu quarry continued to be moved by rail and trucks were shunted at Blodwell Junction.
In 1985 a new loop was laid between the Blodwell Junction station goods siding site and the Llanddu quarry. Buffer stops were erected at the A495 bridge which became the end of the line. All traces of the station had been swept away by that time. Quarry traffic continued to run until 1989.
In 2004 the Cambrian Railway Society bought the line from British Rail Property Board and work began on clearing away vegetation. In 2009 the Cambrian Heritage Railways (put in link) was formed to bring together two groups (the Cambrian Railway Society being one) with the aim of reopening the line from Blodwell Junction to Oswestry.
A view of the station looking north-east in 1903 during the period when it was closed. The station had closed as Llanyblodwel on 22 June 1880 but within a few months of this view being taken it would reopen as Blodwell Junction.
The station shown on a 1:2,500 scale map from 1876. The passenger platform is on the west side of the bridge (left) and the goods facilities which include a weighing machine are to the east of it (right).
Blodwell Junction station shown on a six-inch scale map from 1884 when it was still called Llanyblodwel and there was no junction at that location.
Blodwell Junction station and the Nantmawr branch shown on a Railway Clearing House map from 1915. The Nantmawr branch is shown coloured green. Coloured in orange is the Tanat Valley Light Railway the opening of which in 1904 created the Junctions at Blodwell.
Blodwell Junction station shown on a six-inch scale map from 1949.
Blodwell Junction seen in late 1903. Refurbishment work is being carried out ready for the opening of the Tanat Valley Light Railway. The platform edge has been rebuilt from timber replacing the decayed brick face seen in the photo at the top of the page. A signal box had also been built to control the soon to be commissioned junction.
An Oswestry to Llangynog train is seen at Blodwell Junction in the early months of 1904. The Tanat Valley Light Railway was worked by the Cambrian Railways company and it is one of their engines that can be seen at the head of the train.
Blodwell Junction looking west in the 1930s during the Great Western Railway era. The platform edge had been rebuilt yet again this time in concrete.
A view looking north-east towards Blodwell Junction station in 1948. The station can be seen in the distance. The line to the left is the Tanat Valley Light Railway that ran to Llangynog. The line to the right is the Nantmawr branch to Llanymynech.
Looking south-west along the platform at Blodwell Junction in 1957 during a period of flood.
Blodwell Junction station looking north-east on 4 November 1979.
Lookning south-west at the site of Blodwell Junction station on 25 June 2016 from the road overbridge. the fork of the junction between the Llanymynech and the Llangynog can be seen in the distance.


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Margo Comes Home : Review
Ana Hagedorn channels regional theater pioneer Margo Jones in a spirited solo performance, Let Me Talk My Dreams, in the Fair Park venue Jones founded.
Q&A: Ana Hagedorn
The actress on her one-woman show about Margo Jones, Let Me Talk My Dreams, now playing at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park.
SMU Graduate Student Brings Dallas Theater Legend to the Stage
Ana Hagedorn didn't know who Margo Jones was until she noticed a plaque at the theater on Southern Methodist University's campus named for the theater visionary. Hagedorn wanted to flesh out the woman beyond the place named in her honor. The result is Let Me Talk My Dreams, a one-woman show making its world premiere at the Margo Jones Theatre at Fair Park from May 24 -28.
"Let Me Talk My Dreams" World Premiere May 24
The world premiere of "Let Me Talk My Dreams," a one-woman play about Margo Jones, written by Ana Hagedorn, will be presented in the most fitting venue possible. The Margo Jones Theatre at Fair Park is where the legendary Miss Jones originally practiced her craft.
LET ME TALK MY DREAMS, A New Show About Margo Jones, Comes to Dallas
"Let Me Talk My Dreams" introduces audiences to Margo, the real life Dallas-based theatre legend and innovator.
Let Me Talk My Dreams M.F.A. '18 Ana Hagedorn and Meadows alums create play about theatre virtuoso Margo Jones
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