1How can DD3D help me?
In order to convince, you first need to explain. Our mission is to help you explain in order to convince others. Come to us with a new technology, a new product or a new feature that you need to explain to your customers. Perhaps you have a new project that you need to get approved by regulators or committees? We produce top class 3D visualizations, specifically tailored to your needs. It will explain how your system works and what key benefits of your project are. With that, you have powerful tool which will do most of convincing part for you.
What makes us unique is our ability to adapt and adjust to any challenge and tasks that are given to us. We are able to do that because we have wide knowledge and experience, a dedicated, flexible and skillful team that is always 100% focused on your project. We are always at your disposal and we communicate effectively to keep you informed about the progress of your project.
3What is the process of working with DD3D?
From the moment you contact us we are dedicated to help you define your idea so that we all get a clear picture of the scope of your project. With that we are able to give you exact and precise project cost estimation. We have a solid blend of business understanding and 3D programming. Our focus is always your business results.
4How can I know you are experts?
Our portfolio of realized projects for multiple international top-class companies is a testimony that we know what we do. We aim high and focus on total customer satisfaction. Our valued customers come back to us time and again, and we build strong partnerships. Perhaps our foremost asset is that we really care about our customers' business results?
5Who has the property rights on the final product?
The client has full ownership of final images and animation produced by DD3D-Studio. All of that is specified in Professional Service Agreement that we sign with each client. Additional rights and files ownership can be arranged per project.
6How can I be sure you will provide me what I need?
Our main mission is to improve your business results. We help you appear convincing on digital platforms. We help you explain technology and services. We help you convince customers and stakeholders. No one knows the value of this better than you.
7What is the value you provide to me?
•	A potential customer understanding your project or technology?
•	A customer request being converted to an order?
•	Your project is being approved?
•	You convince decision makers on a key decision?
•	You detect flaws in your product design early in the process?
•	Your targets group says "wow!"?
•	Your conversion rate goes up?
•	Your PR impressions are significantly enhanced?
•	You appear convincing and interesting on fairs?
This is what we help you achieve. You know the value better than us.
3D visualization gives digital 3D representations of real life objects. The purpose is to provide a digital presentation of how that object will look like.
2Why do I need 3D visualization?
3D visualization can provide you with essential information needed for completion of your project, before the actual project is started. Additionally, it may enable vital feedback from clients, experts or regulators. 3D visualization will show you how your project will look like in real life. This is critical to your project success.
3How can 3D visualization benefit my business?
With quality 3D visualization you can get feedback early in the process, potentially saving you a lot of money. For many projects, having a good 3D visualization can provide invaluable marketing materials that can help you sell or promote your project even before it is launched. For example, investor can sell apartments to future homeowners, prior to even starting the actual construction.
4How do you make 3D visualization for me?
You have to provide us with all available references (cad drawings, images, descriptions, etc.), and based on that, we will produce detailed and precise 3D models that we will then set in virtual scenes. Once we have set those virtual scenes, we will render out final quality images or animations that you can use.
5What is the price of 3D visualization?
The investment of 3D visualization varies a lot from project to project. For example, producing 3D visualization of huge modern house with simple, straight lines and minimalistic furniture, can be cheaper then small rustically house with all sorts of small details and decorations. The more details, the more time it takes to make it, and the price goes up. The best solution for you is to send us all available references, so that we can provide you with detailed estimate for your project.
In general, the price of 3D visualization depends on complexity of your project. But even the most expensive ones have significant return of investment. You should get it right the first time and don't compromise on quality. There is a huge difference in customer perception between low quality 3D and a high quality. It will all reflect back on your project or your product.
7What do I need to provide for a 3D visualization?
All available reference materials that you have available; drawings, images, textual descriptions, 3D models, etc. There can't be too many references, so it's best to send us everything you have at hand.
8Is it possible to sign NDA in order to protect my data?
Signing NDA contracts is usual practice with most of our clients, so it's not a problem if you require one. We have a template for this. Even if we don't sign an NDA contract, all data you provide us will remain safe and won't be shared outside of our company without your permission.
9What is the process for production of 3D visualization project?
The process: First, we gather all available information and references from you or from other sources. After that we work on detailed description of the project itself. That could be either described in form of detailed estimate or in case of animations, script/storyboard. With that, we can make a list of all 3D models we need to build for that project. Once we have it all listed, we start producing those models. If we are working on animation, we will also start to work on animations using placeholder models until final models are finished. When models and/or animations are done, we setup final scenes. After all of it approved by you, we begin producing final rendered images/animations. The last step is editing of images or video (in case of video that incudes adding sound, text and other elements). Once done, you will receive the final product, ready to use in your business.
10How long will it take to get a delivery?
Project delivery time depends on the scope and complexity of the project.
11Who has the property rights on the final product?
The client has full ownership of final images and animation produced by DD3D-Studio. This is specified in Professional Service Agreement we sign with the client. Additional rights and files ownership can be arranged per project.
12Where is 3D visualization used?
3D visualization can be used in presentations, in meetings, on fairs, for online marketing, social websites, TV commercials, brochures and display of capabilities.
13What are the advantages of 3D visualization?
With 3D visualization you are flexible and only your imagination sets the limit. 3D visualization helps you bring your ideas to people in a better way than traditional descriptions. These are often insufficient to describe complex products in a very interesting, engaging and easy way.
14How can I use 3D visualization to improve my business?
3D visualization is used by many companies to impress potential buyers, convince investors or regulators, get feedback from customers, test design or specifications and to decide if a project should be launched or a product should be produced.
3D animation is a set of animated 3D pictures that provide visual storytelling that gives viewer more immersive and detailed overview of your project.
2What is the difference between 3D animation and static 3D images?
In comparison to static 3D images, animation gives you the ability to show your project in full motion and immersion. Your project will come to live in the viewer's mind in a more immerse, dynamic and effective way, creating this wonderful "aha"-experience.
3Why do I need 3D animation?
3D animation can provide you with essential information needed for completion of your project, before the actual project is started. Additionally, it may enable vital feedback from clients, experts or regulators. 3D animation will show you how your project will look like in real life, invaluable in evaluating the justification of your project. This way you can make significant savings.
4How can 3D animation benefit my business?
3D animation helps present your product in the best and unique way to differentiate you from competition and attract more buyers. With quality 3D animation investors can see and experience your product even before production and you can get feedback early in the process, potentially saving you a lot of money.
5What is the price of 3D animation?
The investment for a 3D animation project will vary with complexity and length of your video. We need to understand exactly what you want to achieve, so we can draft a story line and calculate the cost of the project. So we always start with a good discussion on what you want to achieve, and then we calculate an offer.
6How do you make 3D animation for me?
We always start with your requirements. We offer our input to make sure you get the required business results. Based on this understanding, we provide you with a draft script for the animation. After a revision with you we agree on the script. That script will be used to produce visual storyboard. From that storyboard we will get a clear picture of what 3D models, scenes and animation we need to produce. For that we will also need all available references in regards to the project. As we develop your project we will provide you with test renders and test animation for your assessment and approval, so that you can get full insight into the project development until the final animation is delivered.
7What do I need to provide for a 3D animation?
8What is the process for a 3D animation project?
The process: First, we gather all available information and references from you or from other sources. After that we work on detailed description of the project itself; that could be either described in form of detailed estimate or in case of animations, script/storyboard. With that, we can make list of all 3D models we need to build for that project. Once we have it all listed, we start producing those models. If we are working on animation, we will also start to work on animations using place-holder models until final models are finished. When models and/or animations are set, we setup final scenes. After all of it approved by you, we begin producing final rendered images/animations. Last step is editing of images or video (in case of video that incudes adding sound, text and other elements). Once done, you will receive the final product, ready to use in your business.
9How long will it take to get a delivery?
Project time delivery depends on the scope and complexity of the project. A 90 second animation with normal complexity is around six weeks in production.
10Who has the property rights on the final product?
11Where is 3D animation used?
3D animation can be used in presentations, in meetings, at fairs, for online marketing, social websites, TV commercials and in sales pitches. It is also very effective in engaging your employees and stakeholders. It is highly impressive if you need a project approval.
12What are the advantages of 3D animation?
13How is 3D animation different from 2D animation?
3D animation is made in three-dimensional space, which gives you better perception of depth when looking at 3D animation. 3D animations are better suited for productions of realistic representation of real life objects and scenes. 2D animations are usually hand drawn.
14How can I use 3D animation to improve my business?
3D animation can be used in marketing to show products to buyers or to attract investors. It can be used to get approval for a project. You can also get vital feedback on your product or project, which can save a lot of money. All of this can be done before the project is started or the product is developed. Our clients are amazed when they see the benefits our work brings to them.


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Be sure to Celebrate the many small things….
I have a card framed on my desk that says "Be sure to celebrate the many Small things….." I have it there because it makes me smile! Its signed by my friends from oz and the fact that it has a cupcake on it just makes it was better!
The other day in the midst of a tear fest at work I looked at the card was like FINE I'll Celebrate the small things GOD. So in light of my card and trying to stay positive I figured I'd share some from this week!
Pandora played NSYNC's "I want you back " then "Friends in Low Places" back to back yesterday!
I nearly danced out of my desk chair!
I made a Paula Deen Peach Crumble that was Amazing. I was actually proud of myself!
I've cleaned at least something in the house everyday this week! NOW THAT IS SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE!!!
Some days they should just be lucky I showered! CELEBRATE!
I sang in the car loudly at the top of my lungs….. I haven't done that in a while! I felt tons better and wished I could just go drive in the country… not traffic jammed highways. Maybe on Friday- Payday! Still that's not being wise with my mullah!
I'm scared to say this outloud but I seem to be on the upswing of my recent stint on the depression rollarcoaster…everyday is different but its getting easier to get out of bed each day which may be the the thing I need to celebrate most!
I realize that I may have just put you to sleep by reading this blog! Maybe someday soon I'll have my whitty awesome blogs back if not I will keep inspiring naps!


Earlier in the year I noted to myself that come April, I would need to think about my tenure process every day. It didn't necessarily have to be a huge amount of thinking and some days it could be thinking though many it should be activity as well as though, but it had to be daily.
It's mid-April now and while I'm not sure I've hit every single day, it's certainly started to ramp up.
Why now? I'm coming to another crossroads: my next internal vote. Granted, the vote itself is not until next February (ish, I think, based on last year's calendar), but there's much to do in the interim.
My paperwork adviser from the P&T committee is retiring next month. Yes, this would be the third person on my P&T support team (two paperwork people and Madame Mentor) who have retired. I like to think it isn't me personally…after all Madame Storyteller isn't retiring until this fall, nearly five years after I left her august supervision. But that means as I'm starting the dossier process again, I'll be switching around one adviser. In advance of that, I'm meeting with my current one in a couple of weeks as a kick start to all of this. Somewhere in the next few days my daily thinking will need to be the activity of starting to pile things up (electronically) to show her so that she can make recommendations.
There are a number of my colleagues who are heading into their first round of review this fall, so I'm not alone navigating the trepidation, though it's a different round. I imagine there will be some mutual pulling-our-hair-out-over-coffee-while-wordsmithing happening around early October.
August-October: have my teaching observed, rewrite my statements 6 times. Try to find a smaller but still legible font to meet the 1 page limit.
January-April: [assuming a positive vote] Whatever other prep is necessary for my papers to go to campus. Somewhere in here (I assume) I'll have to move my dossier from the 2015-2016 packet that I'm filling out currently to the 2016-2017 packet. They like to tweak things.
Somewhere around April 2017 my case should go before campus and at that point I truly can't do anything else with it.
What is not listed but inherent throughout this is (a) continue researching, writing, and presenting–we can include additional papers up until things go to campus; (b) everything else in my "real" job; (c) keep doing all the service stuff.
That's my thinking about tenure for today. Now it is back to obsessing over when I'll hear back from that journal that we sent a paper to and it's out for review and why haven't we heard yet and maybe the email system is broken and it's updated only on their website, I'll just log in and check one more time.
*Madame Mentor said she opted for M&Ms during this period.


I think it great everyone is showing their success on social media of their latest purchase or accomplishments which I think is great. However as much as that is great to look at I know I will not be going out every single week to purchase the latest anything. I've actually always been like this and it's because I don't like having a lot of stuff; I just don't care for it. I've learned early thanks mom to buy good quality items because it last longer (investment). I have a goal of going on a shopping freeze for the rest of the year. I'm going to allocate the funds towards savings because I have goals to meet and debt to pay off. That also means only one trip for me this year via plane. What I'll be showing on my YouTube is how I put together outfits using the clothes I have in my closet.
I started doing this last year as part of my Shop My Closet Series (SMCS) but I was still purchasing pieces here and there. However this time around from April to October I'll be on a shopping freeze. I'm even taking it a bit further by not spending on the following; unplanned taxis, eating out or unnecessary household products. I know this can work because, last year I paid off close to 5k in credit cards. I've realized if I don't do something with my habits now, I'll be back in that predicament.
Click here to see my previous post from 2017 of my Shop My Closet Series.
Don't lose heart ladies this will be great. I'm excited to see what I come up with. My intentions is that I will always look polished, on trend and chic.
I tend to shop during sales on US holidays. I love to dress up but I don't go out as much. So I have clothes that are brand new waiting to be worn. Eventually, I will get to wear them and if not I will just give them away. But I don't stick to buying the latest. I buy what I like and feel comfortable in.
I think shopping your own closet is really a great idea. Most times there really isn't a need to buy more "stuff".
I think I will do a shopping for the rest of the year in one weekend and then safe the rest of the way. This is something I think I can actually stick to as I don't like to shop as is.
This is a great way to save money. We sometimes have to make sacrifices for the things we want. You have to be conscious about where you spend your money, if not you will look back wondering where did all the money go, with nothing to show for it.
If I dug deep into my closet I can find so many things I never wear. Great advice. Congrats on paying off the debt!
Sounds like an interesting challenge! I should probably consider a shopping freeze too. In a lot of ways it would be a relief.
That's amazing that you were able to pay off 5k in debt! I remember checking your SMCS and got some great tips from it. I had to take a look at my own closet!
It really interesting how much we really spend annually or even during a quarter of a year on clothes.


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2018 was regarded as the 'Year of Living Nervously' after the ASX shed over $90 billion in February amid fears of rapidly rising interest rates in the US. By December the ASX recorded its worst yearly performance since 2011 and the worst fourth quarter since the GFC.
Within this whirlwind, Corporate Australia received a significant amount of attention, not all of it positive. Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Rod Sims has predicted that the regulator will increasingly clash with companies over merger proposals. At the same time, the ASX has flagged that it will increase its level of scrutiny of companies during the listing process, aimed at reducing the number of subsequent de-listings. Chief Compliance Officer at the ASX, Kevin Lewis, estimates the ASX has delisted more companies over the past 12 months than in the preceding five years combined. This isn't a trend it wishes to continue.
With this as the backdrop, what will be the key considerations from a communication point of view in getting a deal across the line in 2019?
There is a tendency to overestimate the influence of macro-economic issues on local operations. Yes, BREXIT and US-China trade relations are important – but how much are you willing to let speculation dictate the direction of your business? Both these issues will be resolved within six months – most mining projects, for example, take 3-4 years (minimum) to go from discovery to commissioning. Why let a short-term fear impact the long-term value of your company?
When engaging in a transaction, a focus on the immediate, tangible value of an asset needs to be maintained alongside a long-term vision for what this deal means. Sitting back and waiting for the fog to clear can paralyse a company and, in turn, make them into a takeover target.
Communication plays a crucial role in any corporate transaction, but for communication to be effective the recipients of this information need to be identified. Once the concerns and desires of each stakeholder group is understood, communication can be crafted to meet their needs. This becomes vitally important if defending against a takeover.
Often the desires of shareholders are overlooked, or assumed to be obvious (i.e. receiving the highest possible return on investment). As a result, they can be neglected while the transaction is underway and once the deal is closed are left wondering what the next steps are.
Rod Sims has indicated that he will be taking a stronger stance on M&A activity this year, particularly around how companies articulate the value of a target asset. There is a suggestion that in recent transactions only part of the true intention behind an acquisition was communicated to the market. Value needs to be shared or else a bid may be viewed as opportunistic, creating a significant headwind from media, shareholders and regulators alike.
Given the prevalence of activism, and the tightening standards around deal-making, why risk a delay by not adequately articulating the value generated for each stakeholder?
Successful communication has always been integral to M&A yet given the backdrop of the last 12 months, its importance in closing the deal is further enhanced.


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Biografia
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. nacque a New York, all'età di 7 anni con la famiglia si trasferì a Baltimora. Ha studiato musica classica a Baltimora nella scuola dell'arte Juilliard School insieme a Jada Pinkett Smith e Tupac Shakur. Ha studiato recitazione presso The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Acting Studio e The Stella Adler Conservatory. Larry è attore di teatro che ha ricevuto recensioni positive per il suo ruolo di Booth in una produzione del Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Topdog/Underdog. Ha recitato in film piuttosto famosi al grande pubblico, i quali Money Train (1995), Waterboy (1998), Gangs of New York (2002) e Una notte in giallo (2014). In campo televisivo invece è famoso per il ruolo di D'Angelo Barksdale nella serie televisiva della HBO The Wire e per quello di Bob Stookey nella serie televisiva dell'AMC The Walking Dead.

Vita privata
È sposato con l'attrice Michelle Paress incontrata sul set della serie televisiva The Wire arrivata nella quinta stagione.

Filmografia

Cinema
 Straight Out of Brooklyn, regia di Matty Rich (1991)
 Fly By Night, regia di Steve Gomer (1993)
 Buona fortuna, Mr. Stone (The Pickle), regia di Paul Mazursky (1993)
 Lotto Land, regia di John Rubino (1995)
 Money Train, regia di Joseph Ruben (1995)
 Mosche da bar (Trees Lounge), regia di Steve Buscemi (1996)
 Funny Money - Come fare i soldi senza lavorare (The Associate), regia di Donald Petrie (1996)
 White Lies, regia di Ken Selden (1997)
 Prossima fermata Wonderland (Next Stop Wonderland), regia di Brad Anderson (1998)
 Cuore di soldato (A Soldier's Sweetheart), regia di Thomas Michael Donnelly (1998)
 Poliziotto speciale (One Tough Cop), regia di Bruno Barreto (1998)
 Waterboy (The Waterboy), regia di Frank Coraci (1998)
 Semplicemente irresistibile (Simply Irresistible), regia di Mark Tarlov (1999)
 Loving Jezebel, regia di Kwyn Bader (1999)
 A morte Hollywood (Cecil B. DeMented), regia di John Waters (2000)
 Home Invaders, regia di Gregory Wilson (2001)
 Trigger Happy, regia di Julian West (2001)
 Gangs of New York, regia di Martin Scorsese (2002)
 Kill the Poor, regia di Alan Taylor (2003)
 Brother to Brother, regia di Rodney Evans (2004)
 L'uomo senza sonno (The Machinist), regia di Brad Anderson (2004)
 Turnipseed, regia di James Duke (2008)
 The Double, regia di Michael Brandt (2011)
 Would You Rather, regia di David Guy Levy (2012)
 Una notte in giallo (Walk of Shame), regia di Steven Brill (2014)
 Quella notte a Miami... (One Night in Miami...), regia di Regina King (2020)

Televisione
 In the Line of Duty: Street War, regia di Dick Lowry – film TV (1992)
 Homicide (Homicide: Life on the Street) – serie TV, episodio 1x06 (1993)
 ABC Afterschool Specials – serie TV, episodio 21x04 (1993)
 Survive the Night, regia di Bill Corcoran – film TV (1993)
 George – serie TV, 9 episodi (1993-1994)
 New York Undercover – serie TV, episodio 1x06 (1994)
 Inflammable, regia di Peter Werner – film TV (1995)
 L'ora della violenza 2 (The Substitute 2: School's Out), regia di Steven Pearl – film TV (1998)
 Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, regia di Charles Haid – film TV (2000)
 The Wire – serie TV, 18 episodi (2002-2003)
 Perfetti... ma non troppo (Less Than Perfect) – serie TV, episodio 4x08 (2002)
 The Jury – serie TV, episodio 1x07 (2004)
 CSI: NY – serie TV, episodio 1x19 (2005)
 Law & Order: Criminal Intent – serie TV, episodio 5x05 (2005)
 Numb3rs – serie TV, episodio 3x09 (2006)
 Fear Itself – serie TV, episodio 1x02 (2008)
 The Beast – serie TV, 10 episodi (2009)
 Trauma – serie TV, episodio 1x10 (2009)
 Friday Night Lights – serie TV, episodio 4x09 (2010)
 Detroit 1-8-7 – serie TV, episodio 1x08 (2010)
 Lie to Me – serie TV, episodio 3x08 (2010)
 Partners, regia di Yves Simoneau – film TV (2011)
 Southland – serie TV, episodi 4x07-4x08 (2012)
 Army Wives - Conflitti del cuore (Army Wives) – serie TV, 7 episodi (2012)
 Longmire – serie TV, episodio 2x01 (2013)
 The Walking Dead – serie TV, 16 episodi (2013-2015)
 Elementary – serie TV, episodio 3x09 (2015)
 The Good Wife – serie TV, episodio 6x19 (2015)
 Graceland – serie TV, 6 episodi (2015)
 The Deuce - La via del porno – serie TV, 25 episodi (2017-2019)

Doppiatori italiani
Nelle versioni in italiano delle opere in cui ha recitato, Lawrence Gilliard Jr. è stato doppiato da:
 Roberto Certomà in Waterboy, Una notte in giallo
 Riccardo Niseem Onorato in A morte Hollywood, L'uomo senza sonno
 Luigi Ferraro in Lie to Me, The Deuce - La via del porno
 Simone Mori in Money Train
 Francesco Meoni in Poliziotto speciale
 Stefano Crescentini in L'ora della violenza 2
 Roberto Gammino in Semplicemente irresistibile
 Alessandro Quarta in The Wire
Fabrizio Odetto in Law & Order: Criminal Intent
 Marco De Risi in Fear Itself
 Stefano Brusa in The Double
 Gianfranco Miranda in The Walking Dead
 Luca Dal Fabbro in Graceland
 Andrea Lavagnino in Bull

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Studenti dell'Accademia americana di arti drammatiche

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The Podcast Digest: TPD 122 - Wendy Zukerman from Science Vs.
TPD 122 - Wendy Zukerman from Science Vs.
Wendy Zukerman from the mega-hit podcast, Science Vs. from Gimlet Media, is my guest! We talk about the origin of show, the phenomenal reaction it had, the surprise offer from Gimlet, moving to the U.S. and so, so much more! It's an amazing tale about launching into podcast popularity and how Wendy handled this huge transition! Wendy has got to be one of the coolest people in this space and it comes through in this wonderful conversation! Share this episode with a friend if you loved this conversation!
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All of our new Hyundai models are priced with you in mind and are available with great loan and lease options that are designed to fit any budget. Both buying and leasing a new Hyundai vehicle offer terrific benefits, but it's all about what fits your daily life best, and we're happy to walk you through all of your options to figure it out! If you want to get the ball rolling at home and explore some of your payment options, we welcome you to take advantage of our simple online financing tools to save both time and effort on the financing process and figure out the best financing option from home! Our value your trade tool allows you to appraise your current vehicle online so you can factor in its value toward your decision. You can quickly get pre-qualified for financing online to shop with confidence knowing that there are lenders that want to work with you, and once you're ready, our online finance application allows you to get approved for financing and learn about all of your financing options from the comfort of home. When you're ready to finalize the details, we welcome you to join us in our finance center and our team of friendly experts will work with you to personalize a plan that fits your budget best!
We're committed to helping you figure out the most affordable and fitting financing option on the vehicle of your dreams and are happy to work with anyone to make owning or leasing that vehicle a reality today! We welcome you to join us at Vision Hyundai Henrietta and we'll help you drive home to Rochester or Greece in the new Hyundai model or used vehicle that's right for you today.


Justification is by faith alone. Yet Scripture repeatedly asserts that a Day is coming in which there will be a "judgment according to works," in which men will receive "reward" or "punishment" in accordance with their deeds.
These two clear teachings have proven difficult to reconcile with complete satisfaction. Some have attempted to suggest that the judgment according to works is really only true for unbelievers. The only judgment according to works for believers has to do with Christ's already-accomplished righteousness. This, however, does not comport with numerous biblical passages. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5.10, Paul clearly states that believers will be judged according to what they have done in the body.
Another solution has been to suggest that such a judgment is only for the varying rewards that believers will receive. Certainly, there is an element of truth there, as Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians 3 shows. Yet the notion that the judgment which believers face is an altogether different one from the one which unbelievers face (i.e. a different judicial setting) is again belied by numerous biblical texts. The sheep and the goats in Matthew 25, for example, are assembled together for judgment; one can also cite Romans 2 and various other passages where the judgment of believers and unbelievers are placed in parallel.
Probably the most satisfactory and widely-held Reformed interpretation is that while works will be examined at the future judgment, they will not be the basis or ground of final salvation. Rather, such works will be demonstrative or evidential. It is not the case that initial justification is by grace through faith, but that the final justification will be by the merit of works.
Tim Gallant: "The Doers of the Law Wil Be Justified: A Defense of a Literal Reading of Romans 2.12-16." Argues that this passage refers to Gentiles, upon whose hearts the new covenant has been written. The justification is not earned upon the basis of works, but the works are evidential of a faith-relationship to God through Christ.
Rich Lusk: "Future Justification to the Doers of the Law." Argues that the justification mentioned in Romans 2.13-16 is not theoretical, but based upon the gospel.
There is no inconsistency in saying that He rewards good works provided we understand that that implies no denial of the fact that it is by free grace that we obtain eternal life.


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watch video on Stein's "If I Told Him"
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry ("ModPo")
ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly "difficult." We encounter and discuss the poems one at a time. It's much easier than it seems! Join us and try it! ModPo is open all year, so you can enroll now, or any time, and join us. Each year we host a lively, interactive 10-week session, in which we move together through the ten-week syllabus. The next live 10-week session of ModPo will begin on September 7, 2019, and will conclude on November 18, 2019. Al Filreis will be in touch with you by email before the September 7 start of the course with all the information you'll need to participate. If you have questions, you can email the ModPo team any time at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Much more information about ModPo can be found at modpo.org. During the 10 weeks of the course, you will be guided through poems, video discussions of each poem, and community discussions of each poem. And (unique among open online courses) we offer weekly, interactive live webcasts. Our famed TAs also offer office hours throughout the week. We help arrange meet-ups and in-site study groups. If you are curious about the ModPo team, type "ModPo YouTube introduction" into Google or your favorite search engine, and watch the 20-minute introductory video. You will get an overview of the course and will meet the brilliant TAs, who will be encountering the poems with you all the way to the end. If you use Facebook, join the always-thriving ModPo group: from inside Facebook, search for "Modern & Contemporary American Poetry" and then request to be added as a member. If you have any questions about ModPo, you can post a question to the FB group and you'll receive an almost instant reply. We tweet all year long at @ModPoPenn and you can also find ModPo colleagues using the hashtag #ModPoLive. ModPo is hosted by—and is housed at—the Kelly Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia USA. All ModPo'ers are welcome to visit the Writers House when they are in our area. Our discussions are filmed there. Our live webcasts take place in the famed "Arts Cafe" of the House. To find out what's going on at the Writers House any time, just dial 215-746-POEM.
Wonderful course and community! The openness and variety of perspectives and discussions contributes to the richness of each poem and all the possible ways to read poetry.
This is the best community in the world and deserving of all praise. More people should get involved and we could make this world a better place.
chapter 2.3 (week 4)—the rise of poetic modernism: Stein

Week 4 of ModPo 2019 runs from Sunday, September 29 at 9 AM through Sunday, October 6 at 9 AM.  For those doing ModPo on their own or in small groups, the week 4 materials are open and available all year.

Gertrude Stein's contribution to modernist poetry and poetics cannot be overstated, so now, in the third section of chapter 2, we turn to her, spending the better part of week 4 of our course on a selection of her supposedly "difficult" writings. The difficulty of deriving any sort of conventional semantic meaning from the short prose-poems that comprise Stein's Tender Buttons turns out for many readers to be a helpful inducement to look for other kinds of signifying. As we hope you'll see from the video discussions in this section, such difficulty need not excuse us from close reading. Stein's poems really can be interpreted. They might reject representation, but by no means do they turn away from reference. The hard work you do in this part of chapter 2 will be amply rewarded when we get to chapter 9. Stein is a particular influence on John Ashbery in chapter 8, but she is a crucial influence on nearly every poet we'll read in chapter 9. As a matter of fact, here in chapter 2 we have a chance to listen to Jackson Mac Low (a chapter 9 poet) talk about why he finds Stein's opaque and difficult Tender Buttons so nonetheless meaningful. And we hear Joan Retallack (another chapter 9 poet) paying homage to Stein's "Composition as Explanation."

ASSIGNMENTS: During this week there are two quizzes due (see below). There is also a writing assignment due. Writing assignment #2 should be submitted any time between 9 AM on 9/30/19 and 9 AM on 10/6/19; after that, peer reviews will be submitted any time between 9 AM on 10/7/19 and 9 AM on 10/13/19. There is also a live webcast on Wednesday, October 2, at 8 PM (Philadelphia time)

watch video on Stein's "A Long Dress"11:02
watch further discussion on "A Long Dress"5:54
watch video on Stein's "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass"18:24
watch video on "Water Raining" and "Malachite"17:11
watch video on Stein's ideas about narrative, composition, repeating & nouns22:50
watch video on Stein's "Let Us Describe"11:31
watch video on Stein's "If I Told Him"20:49
Al Filreis
Kelly Professor, Dir. Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Faculty Dir. Kelly Writers House
So we're going to be dealing now with Gertrude Stein's famous verbal,
poetic, poem portrait of Picasso, Pablo Picasso.
All right, so what kind of portrait is it?
Emily, right off the top of your head.
What kind of portrait is it?
>> It's a verbal portrait.
As opposed to an oil painting.
>> A pictorial portrait.
>> Could you imagine a verbal portrait that tries to do what a traditional
painted portrait does?
>> Sure. >> Sure what would it be like?
>> Realistic language.
>> Descriptive.
>> Visually descriptive maybe.
>> Yes.
>> But what other kinds of portraits are there?
Verbal portraits.
A biography of George Washington could be said to
be a portrait of George Washington, or Napoleon.
And it would it start?
>> At his birth.
>> And move through his inevitable rise to power and then his decline.
A nice spark, right?
This isn't that.
Dave, what is it?
>> It's more of a cubist verbal painting.
She's trying to replicate more of a realistic life mess
than just a straight narrative, a straight cause and effect.
>> You used the word realistic.
>> Whoa, I think most people would
see the word realism referring to Tolstoy and George Eliot.
That's realism, how could this be realism?
>> Because she still is referring to something, she's not abstracting it out.
It's not abstract in that sense,
it still something that she's trying to just describe in a different way.
>> Describe in a different way.
Kristen, what ways?
How is she describing it, is she describing?
>> She's coming at it from all the different angles, and
kind of twisting the words around.
So every line, in a lot of the lines, they just change very slightly.
And if you listen to a recording it's very impressive how she does it,
because I feel like if I were trying to read this out loud I wouldn't be able to,
because it's such a tongue twister.
because it's just such, such slight differences between each line.
>> Mm-hm, so let's go back to the basics though.
So, what is she doing?
How would you describe or characterize what kind of portrait she's doing?
Anna?
>> Well, if we think about what she
said in the prose paragraphs we looked at earlier, she talks about repeating.
>> Mm-hm.
>> How repetition you can sort of make slight differences,
like Kristen was saying to try and get it right, to try and approximate.
I think that I've sort of imagined this kind of like Dave was saying, too.
If you think about a Cubist painting and
you have all of those little infinitesimal fractures.
I think about each of these different parts of the poem, I think about the would
he like it with Napoleon, Napoleon would he like it and then now, and now.
I think of each of those has a different kind of fracture, angle,
swath of color, line.
>> So not as a word with semantic meaning but
as a As a- >> This is hard to do.
>> Approximation.
>> Approximation?
Translate the media, we have Cubist painting,
who's a good example of a Cubist painter at certain points?
>> Picasso and Braque.
>> Yeah, Picasso!
Let's just say Picasso, why would Braque be relevant to this?
Let's talk about Picasso, okay.
So Picasso would be an instance of a painter who does what in
a Cubist portrait?
>> Takes a rounded shape and flattens it out.
>> Okay. >> And gives you all of its elements on
the same plate- >> When you're just a middlebrow, or
any kind of citizen of the world and you come to a museum and
you see a Picasso portrait and you've never seen cubism before you say what?
>> That's non-representational.
>> Or, what question would you ask?
>> What is this?
>> What is this? >> Or how is this what it is.
>> So this is a portrait of that woman that's in the title,
that man that's in the title, but I can't see that man.
Okay, now, you're standing next to that person and you say, hey buddy.
Actually, buddy, it's.
>> Well, I don't know.
That's the point.
>> Okay, and what would you say?
Hey buddy. Molly, what would you say?
>> The sum of the angles is greater than the whole.
[LAUGH] The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.
>> Okay, what does that mean?
>> That it's actually more accurate to take all the different angles and
all the different fractions of a picture,
of a person then to try to represent them exactly in words.
>> Okay, that's good enough.
Now, try to do it in words.
What's the analogous function for words?
It's a rough analogy.
The canvas would be equal to the piece of paper
that goes into a typewriter or is written on.
That's okay.
It's very this thing, this inter-art thing gets harder after that.
The hand holding the pen or
the fingers pushing down the keys is equivalent to the hand holding the brush.
So far we're okay.
Now it gets hard.
What is the equivalent of the stuff that's on the edge of the paint hairs, the brush.
What's at the edge of the brush?
What is that equivalent of?
And what is the equivalent of the little shard like pieces in the Cubist portrait
in this.
Anybody want to try any of those, Amorice?
>> Maybe the words become the materials for the actual construction so instead of
focusing on their symantic meaning we're focusing on their form and color.
>> Form and color.
>> Or their sound and shape and he or she's,
that destabilizes the subject-object relationship,
because in the way that a cubist painting represents all the perspectives at once.
It isn't like an oil painting from before where
the person is distinctly positioned in their contemporary time.
In front of that painting, we're looking from a certain angle.
All those angles are happening at the same time and
he or she's trying to do that same thing.
>> Difficult to do.
Okay, so why is it appropriate for
her to do a completed portrait of Pablo Picasso in this way?
It's not just the completed portrait of George Washington, no.
Gertrude Stein did her modernistic thing with old George,
who's always been depicted as the guy standing in the rowboat
crossing the Delaware on Christmas Eve, or whenever it was, Christmas Day.
She's not doing this to George Washington, she's doing it to Pablo Picasso.
Commensurate?
Appropriate?
Why, why, why?
>> She's portraying Picasso as he would portray.
>> She's doing what Picasso would do.
That's different from saying let's say I'm Robert Carrow and
I'm biographer of LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
I'm not a Texan.
I'm a Jew. I'm Jewish, Robert Carrow is.
I don't know anything about the life of LBJ so I do my Carrow thing on LBJ.
All right, I don't do an LBJ thing.
If it was an LBJ thing, who knows what kind of biography it would be.
So Stein is kind of giving up the subject position of Stein, although not so
much because they're similar.
And doing Picasso idn oing Picasso, does this resonate at all, what?
>> That's like Frank Sullivan was saying, form follows function.
>> Form follows function, sure.
But more specifically than that.
>> If you're going to do a portrait of Picasso you have to do it.
>> Do Picasso.
>> You have to do Picasso, you can't- >> So the best way.
To do Picasso would be to do Picasso, not to do Stein doing Picasso, do Picasso.
>> You can't talk about Lincoln a Man of the People in this not Man of the People
>> Perfect, well, let's just call that the 19th century fallacy,
right, that form doesn't have to be commensurate with subject matter.
In this case, it is.
So let's just, why do we get all this stuff,
let's talk about he he he and he and he what's going on in that line?
He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and and
as and as he and as he and he, what do you do with that?
What are some interpretations that are possible, Dave, start us off.
>> Sure sounds like someone's laughing.
>> Okay, laughter, good, a kind of glee, this is fun, I love doing this.
Okay, keep going.
>> And the he gets cut off from the verb so it always seems to be in process and
interrupted by the repetition of the conjunction.
>> Maybe commensurate with Picasso there, maybe not,
doesn't have to be, but- >> Well, I think it's a translation of
that medium, so she's saying that the way we've learned to read a visual painting-
>> Okay,
why the word he as opposed to Paul?
>> Because it's a pronoun and she's- >> Is it a female pronoun?
>> No, it's a masculine one that she's cutting off.
>> So she's laughing and also, let's just say Picasso was very masculine.
There's a way in which he he he and he, she's messing with the male pronoun.
Any other connotations of he?
>> Well, it's an enumeration, she's indicating him and
she's indicating many hims.
And considering it is like a multiperspectival thing,
why not point to him again and again and again from a different direction.
>> Good, let's go back to who comes first, Napoleon the first,
what does Napoleon have to do with any of this?
Uh-oh, we don't know, right?
>> Well, [LAUGH] it could have to do with Picasso's power in the art world.
>> So, are you saying,
that Stein is saying, that implicitly that Picasso is Napoleonic?
>> I think so, I think he had a very large
personality from what I've read and- >> A little man with a large
personality, maybe?
Creative energy- >> But I think part of what she's
doing too is just playing with the sound- >> The empire of modern art-
>> Yeah, was it Parloff that said that,
I know I read that.
[LAUGH] >> I think it's Ulagaido who suggested
that to us, yeah.
>> I think she's saying that Picasso's disrupting the traditional hierarchy of
art the way that Napoleon did with all his conquests.
So in the way that she is trying to undermine that ordered nature of language
that has worked up unto this point- >> And
history >> She's saying that, exactly,
especially history, Napoleon's a historical figure.
>> I had a college professor who was from the South and used to say,
when we were studying Shakespeare, y'all ought to know the kings of England.
Translation, you should know the kings of England in order.
I'm not sure why, actually, it had to do with understanding the history place.
So I started to study the kings of England in order as if that would give me some
historical notion.
It implies a certain cause and effect, but
when you go from Elizabeth to James there's a rupture there.
There's more rupture there than there is continuity, the crown gets continued.
So when you're talking about emperors, who came first, Napoleon the first.
She's talking about the kind of self fulfillment and circularity of history.
If she's creating analogy to Picasso, then what?
We're sort of getting there already, but let's say Picasso and
Gertrude Stein, for instance, in their relationship.
Who came first, Napoleon the first.
Does anybody sense some kind of deconstruction of
artistic history and of influence?
Is it possible, art historian?
What is she saying about Picasso and invention,
and who came first, and all that?
>> I think who came first is always a tough question when you
talk about art because, maybe more so than history, art is continuity.
But the 20th century, especially in the beginning of it,
is such a time of change and flux and breaking and fissure and
fracture that at the time when Picasso starts the Cubist movement
that just makes all these other movements just bloom out of that.
You have a couple of different kinds of Cubism, you have Fauvism,
you have Post-Impressionism happening too.
>> So, what would Gertrude Stein, maybe, saying about who came first?
>> Well, that concurrent with that is all of this fracture in the literary world.
So, who did what, was it art first or was it writing first?
>> I think you're right, there is a kind of genre jealousy or an inter-arts rivalry
going on here, especially when you think of Gertrude Stein as doing Picasso.
I can do Picasso, you want me to do Picasso?
Go ahead, make my day, I will do a completed portrait of Picasso.
Picasso did a portrait of Gertrude Stein,
it's a rather depictive representational portrait.
I don't know when it was done, so I don't know my ordering, but
who cares about ordering here?
>> It was one of the first almost Cubist.
>> Almost cubist.
>> But people call it [CROSSTALK] >> So, now she's returning the favor, but
she's really out Picassoing Picasso.
Amarise?
>> I think she's really questioning, or
showing how arbitrary that ordering is because even when Anna was saying
all those movements were in painting, mainly, or they began there.
And I think she's trying to elude to a spreading across mediums,
in the way that she's translating painting into poetry here.
Maybe the difference that she's spreading is one just in any sort of language,
whether that be a visual medium or a linguistic medium.
>> So, portraiture is associated with the telling of history,
portraiture is associated with the proper, orderly depiction of a person,
particularly historic personage, right?
So, if she's questioning cause and effect, and she's questioning portraiture,
she's implicitly questioning history.
Whether it be diplomatic history, the history of empires,
the history of kingship, or the history of authority over aesthetic movements.
So when she says at the end, let me recite what history teaches, history teaches,
what does she mean?
Kristen, what does she mean?
It's a different sentence,
a different piece of language from the rest of the piece.
What does she mean by that?
Let me recite what history teaches, recite?
>> That's kind of strange, let me recite what history teaches, instead of saying
let me tell you what history teaches or- >> Who recites history?
>> Who, professors.
>> Someone who has to memorize things like [CROSSTALK].
>> Who recites the kings of England?
>> Yeah, someone who has them memorized.
Recite, who does one's ABC's, A to Z, who?
>> The student.
>> The student, who is socialized.
>> And so she's saying, yeah, history teaches, that history teaches us things.
>> History teaches that history's in charge.
>> Yeah, basically.
>> History teaches the cause and effect is what I say it is,
and that's what history teaches.
Does that have anything to do with portraiture,
with Picasso, with art?
Take a stab, by way of conclusion, Dave.
>> If she's really, well, I think here she's really questioning the linearity of
time as making sense as us being able to learn everything from cause and effect,
from the linearity of time.
Let me recite what history teaches, by us studying history in that way and
viewing the world as cause and effect.
That's the only way we're going to be able to view it.
>> An alternative portrait Is an alternative history.
It's Susan Howe whom we'll meet in chapter nine of this course,
who writes a book about Emily Dickinson, My Emily Dickinson.
We're reading a few passages from it.
And about Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein,
Susan Howe writes in that book that they conducted a skillful and
ironic investigation of patriarchal authority over literary history.
Who polices questions of grammar, parts of speech, connection and connotation?
Who's order is shut inside the structure of the sentence?
Let us recite what history teaches, history teaches.
This is Susan Howe,
looking back on Stein and Dickinson and trying to extract from them.
Or trying to reread them as radical questioners
of authority over cause and effect, and narrative.
And it's possible to read this poem as in part,
a celebration of Picasso as participating in that alternative.
But also as something of a satire Picasso as quickly falling
into the mode of authority over value.
And so it's possible to see Stein as out doing Picasso.
And questioning whose order is shut inside the structure of the sentence
by exposing questions of grammar.
Who sets things?
And so that's why you get the equation between Picasso and Napoleon.
But I think we've done a very earnest reading of this about
the Stein-Picasso relationship.
But can anybody, let's end by talking about, for
those of you who took pleasure in it, how much fun this is, what pleasure it is.
Who finds it to be pleasurable?
Let's hear it, Allie?
What's pleasurable?
>> Well, I mean just kind of orally,
I think it's very pleasurable but also- >> The sound, mm-hm.
>> But also in addition, it's also jarring I think,
and it's interesting because hearing it is a lot less jarring than reading it.
Especially for the he, he, he, he, and he part.
If you're trying to follow along with it, it actually kind of hurts your eyes.
>> So jarring is pleasurable?
>> Well- >> Welcome to the club.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> Yeah, and I guess it also just kind of
plays with, The notion of what
certain medium, or what different mediums,
what sense they're supposed to effect.
Because we always associate the writing and words visually to some extent.
But- >> And semantically.
We want them to mean and she liberates us from that and that's pleasurable.
Dave?
>> It's like a puzzle.
It's fun to solve.
And by solving it, you really get to
put your mind through a different process than you're used to doing.
And I think that process will always stick with you.
>> Who else wants to say something about pleasure?
Kristen? >> I think there are parts of it that
are very humorous and that's what makes it pleasurable.
Like the business about kings, the beginning, and
then it comes up again, with father and farther was the king of the room.
I think that's pretty, pretty funny.
>> Anybody else want to say something about pleasure?
>> I just like being made so uncomfortable about everything that
I know about history, language, meaning, semantics, art, history, all of it.
I think that the fact that she can do that so successfully, send us so
far over the edge and give us just enough to bring us back.
>> And I love the playful audacity of a word like completed.
A completed portrait of Pablo Picasso.
>> She's so fearless.
>> She's fearless, and she's also, she's just throwing it out there.
The line, I judge judge.
She is turning language around and making it reflexive, which is a common strategy.
She's assessing the arbiter himself.
I judge the judge.
She's turning taste making back on the taste maker.
This is what I want my art to do.
I want my art to challenge me to think about who was in charge
deciding what's beautiful.
And in a way she's saying I, Gertrude Stein, she's a genius.
But she's also kind of liberating me to make my own judgement as to whether Stein
can out Picasso Picasso.
And in so doing, admire Picasso all the more.


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DD vs SRH: Delhi look to maintain momentum gained
Tags: Indian Premier League 2015, Delhi Daredevils, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mayank Agarwal, Yuvraj Singh, 13th match - Sunrisers Hyderabad Vs Delhi Daredevils at Visakhapatnam - Apr 18, 2015
Published on: Apr 17, 2015
IPL 2015 13th match SRH vs DD Preview, Live Scores: Delhi Daredevils will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first match of the double header on Saturday. Delhi had a terrible start to IPL 8, losing their first two games, but their 11-match losing streak in the IPL finally came to an end with a win against Kings XI Punjab
Delhi Daredevils will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first match of the double header on Saturday. Delhi had a terrible start to IPL 8, losing their first two games, but their 11-match losing streak in the IPL finally came to an end with a win against Kings XI Punjab. They would now be keen to continue to build on the triumph they registered against Punjab. Sunrisers Hyderabad, on the other hand, will be looking to get back on the winning track following their loss to Rajasthan Royals. Their batting was particularly poor, something they will need to work on.
Delhi Daredevils win against Punjab was build on a solid all-round effort with both bat and ball. They had been waiting for one such performance. The batting efforts of Yuvraj Singh and Mayank Agarwal were particularly impressive. Yuvraj had looked in good form in the earlier games, but his half-century against Punjab was a much needed one. Agarwal also batted with a lot of flair, which would please Delhi. Batting hasn't been their strongest suit in the event so far, but following their win against Punjab, they should feel better.
There is still scope for improvement in the batting though. If you take away, Yuvraj and Agarwal's efforts, there weren't lot of positives for Delhi. It is imperative that the overpaid Dinesh Karthik gets among the runs. He is not alone though. The skipper JP Duminy also needs to make some significant contributions. Shreyas Iyer and Kedar Jadhav are other batsmen who have to show some spunk. Delhi's bowling is improving with each game. Imran Tahir has led from the front with some excellent bowling performances. Nathan Coulter-Nile is the other bowler who has been impressive. They need better support though.
Looking at Sunrisers' performance, their batting was very poor against Rajasthan. True, the pitch was a sluggish one to bat on, but they could still have put up a better show. The likes of David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan need to learn to bat in varied conditions, even in the T20 format. Naman Ojha, Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara contributed cameos, but they need to do more.
Sunrisers fought hard with the ball against Punjab, but there have been instances in the previous matches when Delhi's bowlers couldn't utilise conditions, which were in their favour. This is something they need to beware of. A lot will depend on how Trent Boult bowls. The performances of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Praveen Kumar also matters a lot. It would be interesting to see if Hyderabad can somehow fit Dale Steyn into the bowling attack. With both sides having had a mixed run, no one would start as favourites on Saturday.
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Evolution of the Ancient Skin Boats
by Tom Watson
Ever imagine what the evolutionary jump felt like between crossing a river bear-hugging a floating log and that first inaugural voyage in a dug out tree trunk? Imagine then the resourceful person who took it one step further - fashioning a "floating tree trunk" where there were no trees? Who developed the idea of making a frame that would function as that tree trunk? Was the idea to cover it in the skin of an animal or the bark of a tree a concurring mental event? Or did one precipitate the other? In any event the evolutionary stages that took us from clinging to flotsam in a river to constructing and commanding a floating vessel is truly a remarkable feat.
Mankind has developed four types of skin boats in the past umpteen thousand years s/he's been in a "tool /building" stage. In probable order of development are the: coracle, umiak, canoe, and kayak. Because of their frailty, there are few, if any early, ancient examples of skin boats. Frames and skins just don't last.
What do last, however, are cave drawings, etchings on pottery and in rare cases, accurate models of boats (toys perhaps?) of vessels presumably used during that artisan's life. The earliest example of a kayak is a small model tested to be about 5,000 years old. It was simply a spindle-shaped frame with what looks like two sealskins pulled tightly over it.
Inverted photo of interior of a two-person kayak from Kodiak, Alaska, looking along keelson to aft cockpit coaming. Ribs snap and skins harden and crack after scores of years of hanging from ceilings or stored in warehouse museums.
This ivory carving from Nome, Alaska, is typical of the types of models researchers had to rely on to determine how boats from antiquity were designed and constructed. This carving is only 3 inches long.
Here's a brief rundown of each of the four types of skin boats Man has created; vessels whose service to Mankind is still evident today in many parts of the world.
Coracle
The coracle is basically a bowl-shaped craft used primarily to cross small rivers or to negotiate ponds and smaller lakes. The frame can be constructed so as to provide a seat for the passenger. Propulsion is usually a long push pole, but also a paddle. Coracles come in a variety of sizes but most often four-six feet wide and usually about half their width in height.
The frame is built in the form of a rounded box/bowl shape with cross ribs lashed together. The skins are wrapped around the outside and pulled tightly up to or over the circular gunwale/rim around the top. Cross pieces secured to the frame provided seat support. The coracle was widely used throughout northern Europe and the Mid East. I've also seen footage of them being used in Africa. Many third-world countries still use a coracle type of vessel today.
Umiak
This is the tradition skiff-shaped boat most often seen on shore in whaling villages. They come in all sizes, from 3-4-person size up to giant boats used for hunting whale. Historically the women of the village paddled the umiak when it was put into service except when it was being used for hunting - at which time only men operated the vessel.
In some Alaskan coastal communities even today, umiak style boats can be seen as the main freighter boats in a village - hauling materials, making deliveries, and such. Built with a tapered bow and stern, the umiak is an open-framed boat, covered in skin. It can be as big or as small as needed or as materials allow. Twenty-four-man umiaks, over twenty feet long and weighing a ton, were a common sight along the coastline of sub Arctic North America for hundreds of years.
During a brief visit to the remote Pribilof Islands in the North Pacific of Alaska I saw a well-worn umiak - about 18 feet long - braced against a warehouse down by a ramp leading into the ocean. Upon inquiry I was told that during rough seas, that particular umiak was used by a crew of five or six men to unload supply vessels that couldn't get past the breakwater. A week earlier they had gone out in rough seas to take delivery of a washing machine from a large fishing boat.
Models of these boats were popular items in pre-historic areas of the far northern hemisphere. Kayaks carved of fossilized whale, walrus ivory, stone and even some of wood are displayed in museums around the world. An easy form to carve, models do reflect the lifestyle of the representative groups by the detail cut into individual boats. Unlike their real-life counterparts, those made of bone, ivory or stone lasted much longer than did the wooden frames and skins so researchers base much of their pre-historic knowledge on such models.
The uniqueness of the kayak is that there is no other craft out there that looks anything like it, nor was concurrently developed in any other part of the world. It could be argued that the skin or bark canoe and dugouts of the Pacific Northwest and others around the world follow a basic design concept. The kayak with its closed deck and cockpit configuration is quite unique.
From birch bark to wood strip to a brilliant shine of aluminum and modern composites, the canoe is clearly respected as a North American frontier icon. I have always thought it incredibly ingenious of the Native Americans to develop the birch bark canoe. It's classic lines and the ingenuity of piecing the bark together and forming a waterproof seam has to be one of the greater natural technological feats of early mankind. Interestingly enough, the "canoes" of the inland waterways of Alaska are strikingly similar in appearance to the coastal kayaks - same hull design without a covered deck.
Like the umiak of the far north, the canoe's history is one of massive vessels maneuvered by large crews and carrying enormous weights. They were the semi trucks of early America. Eastern North America is criss-crossed with old Voyageur routes that weave down through Canada or out of the Great Lakes as intrepid, nomadic-like frontiersmen used rivers and lakes long before roads were even being formed as foot trails.
Modernization of freight and passenger hauling replaced the canoe in the twentieth century. Fortunately the love of the craft shifted its appeal from a workhorse to a play boat. Even more important is the fact that there are those who have preserved the art of skin boat building, both in kayaks and canoes, some even using the materials of yesteryear to maintain a pure sense of the boats everlasting appeal.
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Munitions of the Mind
The Centre for the History of War, Media and Society
The Merci Train: Remembering the World Wars in 52,000 Objects
Written by Ludivine Broch.
It is well-known that France and the French are haunted by the Second World War. Numerous studies have shown how memories of resistance, collaboration and deportation have risen, fallen and clashed since 1945. Yet these studies generally explore memory through the lens of political, judicial and cultural elites. How did people feel at the grassroots level? Did the French Resistance dominate their history and memory of the war, like it did at the national level?
If historians struggle to hear voices 'from below', the Gratitude Train – also known as the Merci Train – offers a unique lens into post-war mentalities and politics. The Merci Train to the American people was organised by the French in thanks for their aid during and after the Second World War. Considerable work gathering information on the Merci Train across all American states has been undertaken by Earl Benett who erected a very useful website. Since then, a team of history enthusiasts have continued to gather and collect information, including Alexis Mueller who manages a thriving Facebook page. On 3 February 1949, ordinary French people sent 49 boxcars to New York City containing 52,000 objects representing France (see photo below.). The boxcars and objects were shared equally amongst each state, and many are still on display to this day.
The Merci Train arriving into New York City aboard the Magellan. Front Page of The New York Times, 3 February 1949.
At the conference on Occupations in Total War, I gave a paper which examined a selection of 500 Merci Train objects, notes and letters of thanks sent from French donors. Indeed, this selection of sources allows us to gain unprecedented insight into ordinary people immediately after the war. I wanted to understand if, how and to what extent the occupations of both world wars featured in the Merci Train archival collections, and in the lives of ordinary people in the late-1940s. Was the obsession with the French Resistance amongst the political and cultural elite mirrored in everyday life?
My paper revealed that, after 1945, French and Americans were particularly concerned with the First World War. Indeed, if the Merci Train is traditionally framed in a Second World War narrative – that it was a gift made in light of Americans' actions both during and after the Second World War – the objects themselves are often linked to the First – rather than Second – World War. Gifts from French people included numerous mementoes from the Great War battlefield: a gavel which was carved from a tree from Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918. A knife on which it was carved 'Souvenir de la Somme' (see photo below.).
Knife in 'Souvenir of the Somme' – MTWC: Texas.
Bivert Vaaille, from Bondy (Loire), donated a small bell. He had attached a note to it: 'Bell made on the front by a poilu in the Great War 1914-18 with a fusée d'obus 77 Allemand, balle de Moser, and button taken from a German prisoner.' A wooden cane had carved into the shaft, under the snake's head, 'Argonne 14 15 16'. Posters like the one advertising commemorations in 1929 which read 'VERDUN asks FRANCE to commemorate its VICTORY * on 22 June 1929 *' are a further reminder that the traumas of human sacrifice during the Great War were all but forgotten (see photo below).
MTWC: Kentucky. Photo credits.
Americans also shared a traumatic memory of loss during the Great War. In fact, The French had transported with the Merci Train a Flame that had been lit beneath the Arc of Triumph, the space where an Unknown French Soldier of the Great War is buried. 'The cult of the unknown soldier', as Stephane Audouin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker have underlined, 'was the Great War's commemorative invention par excellence'. On 5 February 1948, the flame was taken to Washington D.C. and handed over by the Association des Anciens Combattants Français to an American Legion Commander in a 'very impressive ceremony by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier' in Arlington Cemetery, in the hills surrounding the American capital.
Beyond the shared sense of loss and mourning, though, the Merci Train also reveals a revival of nationalist narratives. The glorification of either French or Americans was emphasised in objects such as the bugle which sounded the Armistice in 1918, or in plaques like the one next to the Pennsylvania boxcar which explains how each French donor had expressed a '…depth of gratitude to America for liberating France in two World Wars', and that the boxcars '…stand as a tribute to the sacrifices and bravery of American veterans who served in France in two world wars' (see photo below).
Pennsylvania's Merci Train boxcar. – MTWC: Pennsylvania. Photo credit.
Whilst the sacrifices and victory of the Great War are emphasised in the Merci Train, the history of occupation is completely sidelined. In fact, in this study, France's complicated experience of occupation – first in 1914-18 and then, to an even greater extent, 1940-45 – is never mentioned. It is perhaps not surprising that the history of occupation is overlooked in order to emphasise a more glorious military history; what is more surprising is that the history of the French Resistance des not feature within it. This challenges traditional ideas we have of a resistencialist myth, of a nation obsessed with the Resistance.
The Merci Train and its objects thus confirm that commemoration of total war was very important after 1945 for ordinary people; yet it was not the Second World War, nor the Resistance, which were emphasised, but rather the First World War. Indeed, the Merci Train shows how heavily the Great War continued to feature in people's post-war minds.
Ludivine Broch is a lecturer in the Department of the History, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Westminster and author of Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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