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The all-star lineup of music and comedy talent includes previously announced artists Coldplay, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand and Reggie Watts.
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New Comedians Join the Expanding Roster: Fred Armisen, Hannibal Buress, David Cross, Bill Hader, Rashida Jones, Seth Meyers, Bob Odenkirk, John Oliver, Andy Samberg, Sarah Silverman, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig and more
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New performers added to the show include American comedians Fred Armisen, Hannibal Buress, David Cross, Bill Hader, Rashida Jones, Seth Meyers, Bob Odenkirk, John Oliver, Andy Samberg, Sarah Silverman, Statler & Waldorf from Disney's The Muppets, Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig plus British comics Noel Fielding, Micky Flanagan, Peter Serafinowicz and Jack Whitehall. The all-star lineup of music and comedy talent includes previously announced artists Coldplay, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand and Reggie Watts.
EPIX is partnering with Amnesty International to target the enormous fan bases of the comedians and musical artists performing in the show, reaching over 150 million Twitter and Facebook followers. Throughout the event EPIX will offer a second screen companion application where viewers will be able to learn more about Amnesty International and the historic series of Secret Policeman's Balls dating back to 1976, connect with their favorite performers and follow the conversation via Facebook and Twitter.
"We are delighted to present this extraordinary lineup of music and comedy talent to our viewers," said Mark Greenberg, EPIX President and CEO. "EPIX's all-access, multiplatform availability allows us to bring Amnesty International's message to a new generation."
"We are excited to work with EPIX to bring the event to the U.S. and reach a wider audience of younger viewers," said Andy Hackman, Executive Producer for Amnesty International.
"Amnesty International is thrilled that so many top comedians, musicians and entertainers will sound off for free speech at The Secret Policeman's Ball by using the power of speech itself to challenge and resist those who would constrain it," said Suzanne Nossel, Amnesty International USA's new executive director. "On March 4, we will stand with bloggers in Egypt, China and Azerbaijan, a writer in Cameroon, Burmese comedian Zarganar, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for mocking his government, and countless others facing punishment for writing and saying what they think."
Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball is a co-production of Amnesty International, Control Room and EPIX. Executive Producers are Lily Sobhani of Amnesty International and Aaron Grosky of Control Room.
Ross Bernard is the Program Executive for EPIX.
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A year later, he switched to vocals. Despite a strong preference for jazz, honed by early exposure to recordings of Nat King Cole trademarks such as "Route 66," "Sweet Lorraine" and "Unforgettable," he calls himself a jack-of-all-trades kind of singer.
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"There is something cosmic, celestial about these creations. They evoke thoughts of physics, with molecular quality that captures speed and gravity" -
Rusty Wolfe : A Progression of Circle
Deborah Walden, Nashville Arts Magazine
As a self-taught artist, woodworker, designer, musician, songwriter, and entrepreneur, I have learned that the only boundaries are those that are self-imposed. Diagnosed with a severe case of dyslexia at an early age, I have realized that my disability is actually a gift, for the conventional way of learning has never been an option; I rely on my own inventiveness to show me the way. My work is a product of the ability to open new doors where both visual creativity and inventiveness come together.
This current body of work brings together my ability to work with color, wood, fabrication, design and spatial relation. Each sculpture is based on the grouping of elements to create a whole. Each individual element is hand fabricated to exacting tolerances and then finished with 14 to 16 coats of lacquer. Each element is precisely hung with a patented hanging system to ensure the engineered integrity that defines this body of work. One might say this work is magically minimal.
Rusty Wolfe: How Did We Get in This Place
How Did We Get in This Place is a beautifully rendered story of life in America in 2020. It urges peopleto come together. For those who are crippled by the constant barrage of often-negative news (the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest, divisive politics) this is a wakeup call! Wolfe is inviting us to reflect on current events, to see each other, to listen to each other. The video showcases Wolfe's many accomplishments: song writer, visual artist, community activist, story teller, and architect.
"The Dream" represents a return to Rusty Wolfe's first love: song writing.
Returning to his roots in folk music, Wolfe abandons his commercial past for songs with a soul. Message and content are paramount in Wolfe's first album The Dream. Production is centered around his unique finger-picking style and vocals. Forty years ago, Wolfe's first foray into music garnered great success with cuts on Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Lacy J. Dalton, Glenn Campbell, Conway Twitty, and more. After spending most of his adult life in pursuit of the visual arts, Wolfe returned to his first love, music, in the last year.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
LA Art Show Modern and Contemporary - 2019
SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2017, 2018
Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL, 2007
Los Angeles Art Show, Santa Monica, CA, 2007
Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach, FL, 2008, 2007
Soho Gallery, Studio City, CA, 2007
Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL, 2007
SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1997 - 2008
SOFA New York, New York, NY, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2003, 2002
ARTscottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ, 2006
Emerging Art Fair, Scottsdale, AZ, 2005
Anderson Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2005
Tercera Gallery, Los Gatos, CA, 2005, 2003
Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY, 2003 - 2007
Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2005, 2004
Master Multiples, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, 2002
Black N White, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2003
Grids, Lewallen Contemporary, Sante Fe, NM, 2002
Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA, 2002, 2001
Elizabeth Edwards Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, 2002
Side by Side, Belfast Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2001
The Best of Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN, 2001
National All-Media Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2001
Confluence, 25th Annual Exhibition, Ingram, TX, 1998
New American Talent, 15th Annual, Austin, TX, 1997
Tennessee All-State Exhibition, 35th Annual, Nashville, TN, 1997
34th Annual Vague Art Exhibition, Parthenon, Nashville, TN, 1997
Kim Brooks Fine Art, Marinette, WI, 2018
SOFA - Chicago,IL, 2017
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA, 2008
Campton Gallery, New York, NY, 2007
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2007
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, 2006, 2004, 2002
Finer Things Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996
Art at El Paseo Square, Palm Desert, CA, 2005, 2004
James Tigerman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2003
Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, 2002
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN, 2001
Flying Solo, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN, 1998
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Winzeler Gear, Chicago, IL
Lincoln Plating, Lincoln, NE
BellSouth, Nashville, TN
Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN
Pinnacle Financial Group, Nashville, TN
Rising Tide Records, Nashville, TN
Technical Resource Group, Nashville, TN
B & G Wholesalers, Nashville, TN
Bacar Constructors, Nashville, TN
Harwell, Howard, Hyne, Gabbert & Manner, Nashville, TN
MTM Records, Nashville, TN
Robyn and John Horn, Little Rock, AR
Leann Rimes, Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. David Steine, Nashville, TN
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, Honorarium, 2000
Metropolitan Home, "White On," May - June 2003
Architectural Digest, "Art Across America," May 2003
South Florida Times, "Rusty Wolfe: Pop Goes Minimal," Alissa Lawrence, January 2003
Florida Design, "A Smart New Look," October 2003
Rusty Wolfe: Off the Wall, published by Finer Things Gallery, September 2002
Laguna Beach Times, "Rusty Wolfe is Multi-Skilled," Roberta Carusso, January 2002
Nashville Scene, "Layers Upon Layers," Angela Wibking, January 2002
Rusty Wolfe: Introducing Lacquer, Published by Finer Things Gallery, July 2000
Tennessean, "Wolfe Puts a New Spin on Lacquer," Liz Nutter, April 2000
INReview, "Solo Performance: Wolfe's Work Flies High," Adrienne Outlaw, November 1998
Tennessean, "All Lacquered Up," Alan Bostick, September 1998
For more information and questions about Rusty Wolfe,
please write to rusty@rustywolfe.com
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Andrew 'is a wonderful man who has gone through enormous pain', says Sarah
The Duchess of York said claims surrounding her ex-husband were 'nonsense'.
Sarah, Duchess of York with the Duke of York (Adam Davy/PA)
By Laura Elston, PA Court Reporter
Sarah, Duchess of York has described the Duke of York as a "wonderful man" who has gone "through such enormous pain".
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She expressed support for her ex-husband, who was forced to quit royal duties following his disastrous Newsnight interview about his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In an interview with Vogue Arabia, believed to have been carried out before Andrew stepped down from public life, Sarah said the claims surrounding him were "nonsense" and also compared herself to the Duchess of Sussex.
The Duke of York, Sarah, Duchess of York and their daughter Princess Beatrice at Princess Eugenie's wedding (Danny Lawson/PA)
She described the royal newbie as "fabulous", adding: "I know what Meghan is going through."
Of Andrew, who has strenuously denied claims from Virginia Giuffre that he slept with her when she was 17 after she was trafficked by Epstein, the duchess said: "When I talk about Prince Andrew, I talk about family because the last six months have been hard on the girls and me.
"To see such a wonderful man go through such enormous pain … he is the best man I know.
"It's just incredible what he has done for Britain and it's all nonsense."
Meghan has spoken her struggles with royal life (Steve Parsons/PA)
The duchess, who faced harsh criticism from the press after marrying into the royals and then divorcing Andrew, said she could sympathise with the Duchess of Sussex's experience.
US-born former actress Meghan has revealed how she had tried to cope with the pressures of her new life by putting on a "stiff upper lip" but was not prepared for the intensity of tabloid interest.
Sarah said: "It must be hard for Meghan and I can relate to her.
"I believe she is modern and fabulous … I tend not to give advice because it is taken out of context but I have been in Meghan's shoes and I still am.
"There's always a twist of negativity and it just gets so sad and tiring – it's hard and mean."
Driveway theft prompts frost warning for motorists as temperatures drop
By Edd Dracott, PA Police have urged drivers not to leave their vehicles to defrost after an unattended car was stolen in Hertfordshire.
By Joe Gammie, PA Environmental activists are trying to prevent trees being cut down as part of the HS2 high-speed rail project.
By Shaun Connolly and Joe Gammie, PA Staff The first hustings of the Labour leadership battle saw contenders clash over the way the party has dealt with anti-Semitism.
By Josh Payne, PA A police chief has demanded an urgent meeting with the commander of the US base where the woman charged over the death of Harry Dunn was stationed after video emerged of another incident...
Northern Ireland woman's warning to dog owners after pet dies of rare disease Northern Ireland


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This is my journey to finding balance between my love for good food and my passion for fitness.
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Go On! ICJ Judge Joan Donoghue at Georgia Law
(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest)
Delighted to announce that the Honorable Joan E. Donoghue (below right), who has served since 2010 as a Judge on the Hague-based International Court of Justice, soon will deliver the 108th Sibley Lecture here at the the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens.
Donoghue will speak on "The Role of the World Court Today" at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in the law school's Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. She'll address the continuing role of the ICJ in light of changes in international law since the court was founded as the principal judicial arm of the United Nations in 1945.
As we've posted, at the time of her election to the ICJ Donoghue was Principal Deputy Legal Adviser in the U.S. Department of State, a position in which her duties included advising Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials on all aspects of international law. (photo credit) She'd practiced at State since 1984, with a few breaks to serve as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and General Counsel for Freddie Mac. She holds bachelor's and law degrees from the Santa Cruz and Berkeley campuses, respectively, of the University of California.
The Sibley Lecture's named after a 1911 graduate of the law school. Over the years several other international lawyers have taken part in the lecture series. Among them was Donoghue's predecessor at the World Court, Philip C. Jessup, who spoke on "The Shaping of International Law and the Building of a Decent World Order" in 1970. Others included former Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor, who spoke on "Guilt, Responsibility and the Third Reich" in 1968; Professor Louis B. Sohn, then of Harvard and later of Georgia Law (prior post), who spoke on "The Shaping of International Law and the Building of a Decent World Order" in 1977; and Sir Crispin Tickell, then Britain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, who spoke on "The Role of the Security Council in World Affairs" in 1989; Columbia Law Professor Louis Henkin, who delivered "International Human Rights at the End of the Twentieth Century" in 1994; and Israeli Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner, who asked "Does Israel Have a Constitution?" in 1999.
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Step by step guide, how to operate gas control valve and thermostat on Whirlpool gas water heaters. Understanding diagnostic codes.
Whirlpool gas water heaters, such as those models with the Flame Lock feature, are utilizing the gas control valve with the thermostat to adjust the temperature of hot water and indicate when there is a problem with some of the heater's elements. The assembly is the same as the gas valve but with the addition of the wires that are connected to a thermal switch. There are two types of codes you can find on the control valve; status indicator and diagnostic codes.
When there are 0 flashes and led light is OFF, the pilot light is out because there is not enough power to keep it ON, or it is turned OFF.
1 Flash every three seconds means that water heater is operating as it supposed to.
Continuous flashes mean that the water heater is shutting down.
2 Flashes – Thermopile voltage is low. Before replacing the thermopile, check the wire connections first.
4 Flashes – Overheat failure followed by the tripped ECO requires you to replace the gas control valve/thermostat.
5 Flashes – Due to sensor failure, replace the gas valve.
7 Flashes – Due to gas control valve failure replace the gas valve.
8 Flashes – thermopile is still producing the electric power even with the gas valve turned OFF. You might have to replace the gas control valve as the pilot valve is stuck open. Before that and when the pilot is OFF, you might want to wait at least 10 min for the thermopile to cool down and then try to relight the pilot.
The water temperature inside the water heater tank can be adjusted from 55 F to 155 F, while some models can produce how water up to 180 F. The temperature dial shows only three settings: low, hot and very hot, and allows you to put your water heater in standard or vacation mode.
Standard mode allows you to set the temperature from its minimum to its maximum, while vacation mode lets you set the temperature to approximately 55 F, and is recommended when you are away and not using the water heater for an extended period of time. This is how water heater is protected from freezing, with the minimum energy losses.
The gas control valve and thermostat are equipped with the Energy Cut Off (ECO) sensor that is a safety feature and it shuts off the heater if water temperature exceeds 189 F, while the diagnostic status light will flash four times (overheat failure).


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The Department of Chemical Engineering has organised a one day national workshop on "FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY- OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES" on 29th September. Fuel cells are Electrochemical cells that converts chemical energy from a fuel into electrical energy through electrochemical reaction of hydrogen fuel with oxygen or oxidizing agents. Fuel cells can produce electrically continuously for as long as fuel and oxygen are supplied.
The workshop covered the physical concepts and technological aspects of various types of fuel cells. The objective is to make the participants aware of the potential applications and challenges in fuel cells.
The workshop was chaired by his Excellency Dr P.V.S Ganesh kumar, Scientist, NSTL, Visakhapatnam. He delivered the speech which enlightened the participants on the advances of fuel cell technology. He also Focused on the major problems related to it.
Dr Y.M.C Sekhar, Vice Principal, gave a brief view about energy crisis and about alternative sources of energy. He also motivated the fellow participants to make a use of the workshop. Dr D.R.K Raju , Correspondent, MANSAS has gave a brief view about the fuel cell and its threats .
Dr S.V.A.R Sastry, Coordinator and Dr. Subba Rao, Convener thanked the participants from various industries and prestigious institutions.


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\section{Introduction}

Holographic duality is a powerful tool to study strongly-coupled systems, but direct comparison of its predictions with underlying field theory requires doing non-perturbative calculations,  in general a very difficult task. Remarkably, in  $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory many such calculations have been done, leading to spectacular confirmations of the AdS/CFT duality. Methods used there look very model-dependent, as they typically rely on the high degree of supersymmetry of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM, conformal invariance and integrability. Nevertheless, similar methods can be applied to a deformation of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM that breaks both conformal invariance and half of the supersymmetry.

The theory we will be dealing with is obtained from $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM by giving common masses to four scalars out of six and to half of the fermions. Such a deformation breaks half of the original supersymmetries and is known as $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ theory. The  gravity dual of this theory is an explicitly known solution of ten-dimensional supergravity \cite{Pilch:2000ue}. On the field-theory side, the main technical advance is localization
 \cite{Pestun:2007rz}  allowing one to do computations at any coupling. We will exploit these two facts to test holographic duality in this non-conformal setting.

The $SU(N)$ gauge symmetry of $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ theory is spontaneously broken to $U(1)^{N-1}$ by the vev of one of the massless scalars:
\begin{equation}\label{eigenv}
 \left\langle \Phi \right\rangle=\mathop{\mathrm{diag}}\left(a_1,\ldots ,a_N\right).
\end{equation}
The theory thus is not confining and always remains in the Coulomb phase.
Its  Seiberg-Witten curve is constructed in \cite{Donagi:1995cf}.
At large $N$ the eigenvalues form a continuous distribution conveniently characterized by the density
\begin{equation}
 \rho (x)=\frac{1}{N}\,\sum_{i=1}^{N}\delta \left(x-a_i\right).
\end{equation}

The Pilch-Warner (PW) supergravity background \cite{Pilch:2000ue} corresponds to a very particular eigenvalue density, identified in \cite{Buchel:2000cn}. In the  'Pilch-Warner' Coulomb branch vacuum, the eigenvalues form a semi-circular distribution:
\begin{equation}\label{Wigner}
 \rho (x)=\frac{2}{\pi \mu ^2}\,\sqrt{\mu ^2-x^2}.
\end{equation}
The width of the distribution is proportional to the mass-deformation parameter $M$ (as expected on dimensional grounds) and the square root of the 't~Hooft coupling $\lambda =g_{YM}^2N$:
\begin{equation}\label{sugrawidth}
 \mu \equiv \mu_{\rm SG} =\frac{\sqrt{\lambda }M}{2\pi }\,.
\end{equation}
This result is obtained within the classical supergravity approximation, and is valid when $\lambda \gg 1$.

The width of the eigenvalue distribution sets the scale of gauge symmetry breaking. The symmetry-breaking vevs and the masses of W-bosons are on average proportional to $\mu $, which at strong coupling is parametrically bigger than the soft mass $M$ that triggered the symmetry breaking.
However, some of the W-bosons, that connect nearest neighbours in the eigenvalue distribution, are very light, with masses of order $\mu /N$.

We will consider $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ theory on the four-sphere of radius $R$, which here we regard merely as an IR regularization, and will use localization results \cite{Pestun:2007rz} to analyze the theory at large $N$ in the regime of the strong 't~Hooft coupling. We will show that the semicircular eigenvalue distribution (\ref{Wigner}) arises dynamically as the large-$N$ master field, with the width that precisely matches the supergravity prediction (\ref{sugrawidth}). We will then compare the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop with the minimal area law in the PW geometry.

\section{Strong coupling from localization}

The partition function of $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ theory on $S^4$ can be calculated using localization \cite{Pestun:2007rz}.  The partition function reduces to an $(N-1)$-dimensional integral of an effective matrix model:
\begin{equation}\label{main_partition}
 Z=\int d^{N-1} a \,\prod_{i<j} \frac{(a_i-a_j)^2H^2(a_i-a_j)}{H(a_i-a_j-M)H(a_i-a_j+M)}  \,{\rm e}\,^{-\frac{8\pi^2N}{\lambda }\sum_{j}a_j^2} \left|\mathcal{Z}_{\rm inst}\right|^2.
\end{equation}
The integration is over the eigenvalues of the adjoint scalar from the vector multiplet, the same as in eq.~(\ref{eigenv}). All other degrees of freedom have been integrated out. Their contribution is expressed in terms of a single function
\begin{equation}\label{H(x)}
 H(x)\equiv \prod_{n=1}^\infty \left(1+\frac{x^2}{n^2}\right)^n e^{-\frac{x^2}{n}}.
\end{equation}
To avoid notational clutter we express all dimensional quantities in the units set by the radius of $S^4$. The dependence on $R$ can be re-instated by rescaling $a_i\rightarrow a_iR$, $M\rightarrow MR$, which we will do at the very end of the calculation.

The instanton partition function $\mathcal{Z}_{\rm inst}$ is known \cite{Nekrasov:2002qd,Nekrasov:2003rj,Okuda:2010ke}, but is not important for our analysis, since in the large-$N$ limit instantons are exponentially suppressed. We thus set $\mathcal{Z}_{\rm inst}$ to one.

Observables that can be computed using localization include the free energy:
\begin{equation}
 F=-\ln Z
\end{equation}
and the Wilson loop for the contour running along the big circle of $S^4$:
\begin{equation}\label{WC}
 W(C_{\rm circle})=\left\langle
 \frac{1}{N}\mathop{\mathrm{P}}\exp\left[\oint
 ds\,\left(i\dot{x}^\mu A_\mu +|\dot{x}|\Phi \right)
 \right]
 \right\rangle,
\end{equation}
where $\Phi $ is the field that takes on the vacuum expectation value (\ref{eigenv}). Supersymmetry allows linear combinations of the two massless scalars to appear in the exponent, but only this particular operator commutes with the supercharge used in localization as the BRST operator. Therefore localization can compute the Wilson loop vev only with this specific scalar coupling. The Wilson loop vev maps to an exponential average in the matrix model:
\begin{equation}
\label{Wils}
 W\left(C_{\rm circle}\right)=\left\langle \frac{1}{N}\sum_{j}
 \,{\rm e}\,^{2\pi a_j}
 \right\rangle.
\end{equation}

The localization partition function for $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM ($M=0$) is a simple Gaussian model, easily solvable at large $N$. The Wilson loop vev can then be computed at any coupling. At strong coupling, it grows as $\,{\rm e}\,^{\sqrt{\lambda }}$, in precise agreement with the area law for classical strings in $AdS_5\times S^5$ \cite{Erickson:2000af,Drukker:2000rr}. The study of the matrix integral (\ref{main_partition}) at large-$N$ was initiated in \cite{Russo:2012kj,Russo:2012ay}, following earlier work on similar models \cite{Rey:2010ry,Passerini:2011fe,Bourgine:2011ie,Fraser:2011qa}.

The integral (\ref{main_partition}) is of the saddle-point type in the large-$N$ limit. The saddle-point equations are
\begin{equation}
 \sum_{k\neq j}^{}\left(
 \frac{1}{a_j-a_k}-K(a_j-a_k)+\frac{1}{2}\,K(a_j-a_k+M)+\frac{1}{2}\,K(a_j-a_k-M)
 \right)=\frac{8\pi ^2}{\lambda }\,a_j,
\end{equation}
where $K(x)$ is the logarithmic derivative of $H(x)$:
\begin{equation}
 K(x)=-\frac{H'(x)}{H}=x\left(\psi \left(1+ix\right)+\psi \left(1-ix\right)-2\psi (1)\right) .
\end{equation}

The continuum limit converts the saddle-point equation into a singular integral equation for the eigenvalue density:
\begin{equation}
 \label{nnstar}
\strokedint_{-\mu}^\mu dy\, \rho(y) \left(\frac{1}{x-y} -K(x-y)+{1\over 2}\,K(x-y+M)+\frac{1}{2}\,K(x-y-M)\right)= \frac{8\pi^2}{\lambda}\, x.
\end{equation}
The density is defined on the interval $(-\mu ,\mu )$, and the equation also holds only on this interval. This equation is difficult to solve in general, but its solution at strong coupling can be obtained by a slight modification of the small-$M$ limit considered in \cite{Russo:2012kj}.

The basic assumption, that we will check {\it a posteriori}\footnote{We have made an extensive set of numerical tests which confirm the validity of this assumption.}, is that at $\lambda \rightarrow \infty $ the symmetry-breaking scale is much larger than the hypermultiplet mass, as suggested by the supergravity analysis:  $\mu \gg M $. This justifies an approximation
\begin{equation}
 {1\over 2}\,K(x+M)+\frac{1}{2}\,K(x-M)-K(x)\approx
 \frac{1}{2}\,K''(x)M^2\approx \frac{M^2}{x}\,,
\end{equation}
after which the integral equation (\ref{nnstar}) greatly simplifies:
\begin{equation}
 \strokedint_{-\mu}^\mu dy\, \rho(y) \,\frac{1+M^2}{x-y}= \frac{8\pi^2}{\lambda}\, x,
\end{equation}
and is solved by Wigner's semi-circular distribution (\ref{Wigner}) with
\begin{equation}\label{widthofWigner}
 \mu =\frac{\sqrt{\lambda \left(1+M^2\right)}}{2\pi }\,.
\end{equation}

The solution is written in the $R=1$ units. Recovering dependence on the radius, we find:
\begin{equation}
  \mu =\frac{\sqrt{\lambda \left(M^2+\frac{1}{R^2}\right)}}{2\pi }\,.
\end{equation}
This result exactly agrees with the supergravity prediction (\ref{sugrawidth}) in the decompactification limit $R\rightarrow \infty $.

We now turn to the Wilson loop vev:
\begin{equation}
  W\left(C_{\rm circle}\right)=\int_{-\mu }^{\mu }dx\,\rho (x)
  \,{\rm e}\,^{2\pi x}.
\end{equation}
The integral here is highly peaked at the largest eigenvalue, such that
\begin{equation}\label{finitecircle}
 \ln W\left(C_{\rm circle}\right)=\sqrt{\lambda \left(1+M^2\right)}
 + O\left(\lambda ^0\right).
\end{equation}
Again, $M$ should be understood as $MR$. Taking the limit of $R\rightarrow \infty $, we find that the Wilson loop satisfies the perimeter law:
\begin{equation}\label{matrixarealaw}
  \ln W\left(C_{\rm circle}\right)=\sqrt{\lambda }\ MR\qquad \left(R\rightarrow \infty \right).
\end{equation}

We can also compute the free energy, by first differentiating in $M$:
\begin{eqnarray}
 \frac{\partial F}{\partial M}&=&\frac{N^2}{2}
 \int_{}^{}dxdy\,\rho (x)\rho (y)
 \left(K(x-y-M)-K(x-y+M)\right)
\nonumber \\
&\approx&
 -N^2M\int_{}^{}dxdy\,\rho (x)\rho (y)K'(x-y)
\nonumber \\
&\approx&
 -2N^2M\int_{}^{}dxdy\,\rho (x)\rho (y)
 \left(\ln|x-y|+1+\gamma \right),
\end{eqnarray}
 where $\gamma =-\psi (1)$ is the Euler's constant.
Plugging in the semicircular distribution (\ref{Wigner}) with the width (\ref{widthofWigner}), we get:
 \begin{equation}
 \frac{\partial F}{\partial M}=-N^2M\ln\frac{\lambda \left(1+M^2\right)\,{\rm e}\,^{2\gamma +\frac{3}{2}}}{16\pi ^2}\,.
\end{equation}
Choosing the normalization constant such that at $M=0$ the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM result is recovered, we find:
\begin{equation}\label{freeE}
 F=-\frac{N^2}{2}\,\left(1+M^2\right)\ln\frac{\lambda \left(1+M^2\right)\,{\rm e}\,^{2\gamma +\frac{1}{2}}}{16\pi ^2}\,.
\end{equation}

For a large sphere we find, with a logarithmic accuracy:
\begin{equation}
 F=-N^2M^2R^2\ln MR\qquad (R\rightarrow \infty ).
\end{equation}

\section{Strong coupling from supergravity}

The supergravity dual of the $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ theory is a warped product of a deformed $AdS_5$ and a deformed five-sphere \cite{Pilch:2000ue}. The warp factor, the dilaton, the form fields and the metric all depend on the AdS radius and on the azimuthal angle on $S^5$.   The deformed five-sphere is foliated by elongated three-spheres, whose  $SU(2)\times U(1)$ isometry realizes geometrically the R-symmetry of the dual field theory.

We will study string solutions that are dual to Wilson loops in SYM. The string then ends on a given contour on the boundary and
sits at one point on the internal manifold. This point is determined by the scalar couplings of the Wilson loop. Locally supersymmetric Wilson loops, amenable to  localization, couple to the symmetry-breaking scalar in the vector multiplet. The coupling to this scalar geometrically corresponds to a locus where the R-symmetry three-sphere  shrinks to a point ($\theta =\pi /2$, in the notations of \cite{Pilch:2000ue,Buchel:2000cn}). On this locus, the AdS metric takes the following form:
\begin{equation}\label{Einmetric}
 ds^2 =\frac{\sqrt{c}\rho ^6}{c^2-1}\,M^2dx_\mu ^2+\frac{\sqrt{c}}{\rho ^6\left(c^2-1\right)^2}\,dc^2,
\end{equation}
where $c$ is the radial coordinate and
\begin{equation}\label{rho6}
 \rho ^6=c+\frac{c^2-1}{2}\,\ln\frac{c-1}{c+1}\,.
\end{equation}
The boundary is at $c=1$. Near the boundary, the geometry asymptotes to $AdS_5\times S^5$ of unit radius (in this normalization, the radius of AdS appears in the string action in combination with $\alpha '$ which together make the square root of the 't~Hooft coupling). The relationship of $c$ with the standard radial coordinate of $AdS_5$, $z$,  is
\begin{equation}\label{asymptot}
 c=1+\frac{z^2M^2}{2}+O(z^4).
\end{equation}

The dilaton also depends on the polar angle $\varphi $, that determines orientation of the scalar coupling of the Wilson loop with respect with respect to symmetry-breaking vev. For the reasons explained after eq.~(\ref{WC}), we should set this angle to zero.
The dilaton has a very simple profile at $\theta =\pi /2$ and $\varphi=0$:
\begin{equation}
 \,{\rm e}\,^{-\phi }=c.
\end{equation}

In addition, the background contains  a non-trivial B-field and Ramond-Ramond form fields. The Ramond-Ramond fields do not couple directly to the classical string worldsheet, and the two-form potential of the B-field has all its indices on the sphere. The string that moves only in AdS and is shrunk to a point on the internal manifold will not interact with the B-field either. For this reason we do not display explicit formulas for the form fields here. We also omit  a rather complicated metric on the internal manifold. The  fully explicit supergravity solution can be found in \cite{Pilch:2000ue}.

The metric (\ref{Einmetric}) is written in the Einstein frame and is normalized such that the string action is given by
\begin{equation}
 S=\frac{\sqrt{\lambda }}{2\pi }\int_{}^{}d^2\sigma \,\,{\rm e}\,^{\frac{\phi }{2}}
 \sqrt{\det_{ab}G_{MN}\partial _aX^M\partial _bX^N}.
\end{equation}
An expectation value of the Wilson loop, at strong coupling, is determined by the renormalized on-shell action of the string that ends on the contour $C$ at the boundary of AdS \cite{Maldacena:1998im,Rey:1998ik}:
\begin{equation}\label{logW}
 \ln W(C)=-S_{\rm ren}(C).
\end{equation}
Renormalization consists in integrating from the cutoff surface at $c_\epsilon =1+\epsilon ^2M^2/2$ and subtracting the perimeter divergence:
\begin{equation}\label{reg}
 S_{\rm ren}=S-\frac{\sqrt{\lambda }L(C)}{2\pi \epsilon }\,.
\end{equation}
Here we used the relationship (\ref{asymptot})  between $c$  and the radial coordinate in $AdS_5$ in the asymptotic region  near the boundary. Justification of this regularization prescription can be found in \cite{Drukker:1999zq}.

Consider now a segment of a straight line of length $L\gg{\rm anything~else}$. The minimal surface in this case is just a vertical two-dimensional wall with the induced metric
\begin{equation}
 ds_{2d}^2=\frac{\sqrt{c}\rho ^6}{c^2-1}\,M^2dx ^2+\frac{\sqrt{c}}{\rho ^6\left(c^2-1\right)^2}\,dc^2,
\end{equation}
whose area can be readily calculated:
\begin{equation}
 S=\frac{\sqrt{\lambda }ML}{2\pi }\int_{1+\frac{\epsilon ^2M^2}{2}}^{\infty }
 \frac{dc}{\left(c^2-1\right)^{\frac{3}{2}}}
 =\frac{\sqrt{\lambda }L}{2\pi \epsilon }-\frac{\sqrt{\lambda }LM}{2\pi}
 +O\left(\epsilon \right).
\end{equation}
It is interesting to notice that the complicated factor $\rho ^6$ drops out from this calculation.
From (\ref{logW}) and (\ref{reg}) we then find for the expectation value of the straight line:
\begin{equation}\label{perlaw}
 \ln W(C_{\rm line})=\frac{\sqrt{\lambda }ML}{2\pi}\,.
\end{equation}

It is not difficult to see that the same result holds for any sufficiently large contour. More precisely, for any contour whose radius of curvature is large compared to $1/M$. The minimal surface for an arbitrary contour starts off vertically at the boundary, with deviations from verticality proportional to the local curvature of the contour. If such deviations are small, the minimal surface will remain vertical not only near the boundary but all the way through the transition region with $c\sim 1$, and will close off only in the near-enhan\c{c}on region of $c\gg 1$, where the string-frame metric behaves as
\begin{equation}\label{nearen}
 ds^2_{\rm s.f.}\sim \frac{1}{c^3}\left(\frac{2}{3}\,M^2dx_\mu ^2+\frac{3}{2}\,dc^2\right).
\end{equation}
The line element there is rather small, so the biggest contribution to the area comes from the transition region of $c\sim 1$, where the minimal surface is a vertical wall. We make this argument more precise in the appendix by considering circular Wilson loop in more detail.

We thus conclude that large Wilson loops at strong coupling loops obey the perimeter law (\ref{perlaw}) (in other words, the area of the minimal surface in the PW geometry is proportional to the perimeter of its boundary).
This perfectly agree with the localization result (\ref{matrixarealaw}) for a circular loop of a very big radius, including the coefficient.

\section{Conclusions}

We have shown that the vacuum structure of $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ (the distribution of eigenvalues of the symmetry-breaking vev) and the expectation value of the circular Wilson loop computed directly from the field-theory path integral perfectly agree with supergravity predictions based on the PW geometry. It is interesting to mention in this respect that semicircular distribution of eigenvalues arises in a very general class of supergravity backgrounds \cite{Carlisle:2003nd}. It would be interesting to understand if the field-theory results (effective reduction to a Gaussian model at strong coupling) also hold in a more general setting than $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ theory.

The supergravity results are recovered in the decompactification limit, when the radius of the four-sphere $R$ goes to infinity. However, our main results (\ref{widthofWigner}), (\ref{finitecircle}) and (\ref{freeE}) hold on the four-sphere of any radius. The dependence on the radius is not very complicated, and it would be interesting to reproduce it from supergravity. For that one needs to find the (1/2 supersymmetric) supergravity solution whose boundary is $S^4$ rather than $\mathbbm{R}^4$ as in the PW geometry. Perhaps this can be done along the lines of \cite{Buchel:2003qm}.

\subsection*{Acknowledgments}
We would like to thank D.~Young for discussions.
K.Z. is grateful to ICTP-SAIFR, S\~{a}o Paulo, and IIP, Natal for kind hospitality during the course of this work.
The work of K.Z. was supported in part by  the RFFI grant 10-02-01315, and in part
by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
under contract 14.740.11.0347. JR acknowledges support from project FPA 2010-20807.
AB gratefully
acknowledges support by an NSERC Discovery grant.
Research at Perimeter
Institute is supported through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research $\&$ Innovation.

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Review: A Dress of Violet Taffeta by Tessa Arlen
Posted on July 6, 2022 July 5, 2022 by Marlene Harris
A Dress of Violet Taffeta by Tessa Arlen
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Genres: biography, historical fiction
Published by Berkley Books on July 5, 2022
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A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of Belle Epoque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, a woman determined to shatter the boundaries of the fashion world and support herself and her young daughter with her magnificent designs.
Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, fabric, and texture in ways few other people do. But is the world ready for her? A world dominated by men who would try to control her and use her art for their own gain?
After being deserted by her wealthy husband, Lucy is desperate to survive. She turns to her one true talent to make a living. As a little girl, the dresses she made for her dolls were the envy of her group of playmates. Now, she uses her courageous innovations in Belle Époque fashion to support her own little girl. Lucile knows it is an uphill battle, and a single woman is not supposed to succeed on her own, but she refuses to give up. She will claim her place in the fashion world; failure simply is not an option.
Then, on a frigid night in 1912, Lucy's life changes once more, when she becomes one of 706 people to survive the sinking of the Titanic. She could never have imagined the effects the disaster would have on her career, her marriage to her second husband, and her legacy. But no matter what life throws at her, Lucile will live on as a trailblazing and fearless fashion icon, never letting go of what she worked so hard to earn. This is her story.
In historical fiction it seems as if behind every successful woman there's either a rotten first husband, a harridan of a mother, or both. In A Dress of Violet Taffeta, this fictionalized biography of groundbreaking British couturier Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, there's both.
(Historically, we're certain about the rotten first husband. She divorced him for multiple infidelities and her divorce was granted in 1895. Whether her mother was quite the harridan portrayed in this fictional account of her life is not so certain – but it makes for an even better story.)
What made Lucy special, and fascinating enough for her to be portrayed more than once in both fiction and biography, are the choices she made and the life that she led. She's famous, not for who she married or who she knew – although she absolutely married better the second time around and certainly knew the rich and famous of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but because of what she did.
She had a dream, and she worked for decades to achieve it. And succeed – which she certainly did. To support herself, her daughter, and her widowed mother (see harridan above) Lucy took her talent for not just dressmaking but dress designing and turned it into a worldwide brand of haute couture at a time when all the famous fashion houses were headed by men.
Lucile dress designed by Lucy Duff-Gordon
Her company, her brand, Lucile, Ltd, was an innovator both as a business and as a design studio, inventing trends that became the foundation of the modern fashion industry. She was the first to train models and use shows to display her creations. And that was only one of her "firsts".
She was a pioneer and a trailblazer in a world that may have been changing but still expected women like her to sit and look pretty. She chose to make a life, a business and a career out of making other women look pretty instead.
In some ways, her story is a "rags to riches" tale. Lucy pulled herself up – and as many women as she could take with her – by her own shoebuttons if not bootstraps – going from wondering whether she could pay the rent and feed her family to opening shops in Paris and New York in addition to her signature London shop and studio.
But that wealth and fame bought her – along with her second husband, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, a first-class cabin on the maiden voyage of the ill-fated RMS Titanic. Both Lucy and Cosmo survived their harrowing ordeal – only for them to lose their reputations in the relentless search for scapegoats in the aftermath.
Whatever the ratio of facts to conjecture in this particular fictionalized biography, the life of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon makes for a fascinating read.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
Escape Rating A-: Lucy Duff-Gordon led a great big huge storied life. Hers would have been a larger-than-life story even without the misadventure of the Titanic. With it, she becomes an English version of the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", another famous female entrepreneur – albeit American – who survived that disaster. (And they did meet afterwards!)
Lucy's story as written here is utterly compelling. She starts with nothing but a dream and the barebones of a plan. With a bit of help from her sister (who also became famous as the novelist Elinor Glyn and creator of the concept of the "It girl") Lucy turned that dream into, a somewhat more realistic plan that was going to take all of her time, effort and attention for years to turn into a success. Which she eventually did.
This was the part of the story I loved best, where Lucy is working flat-out all the hours of the day and entirely too many of the hours of the night to turn her dream into something that will keep them all afloat. This was also the part of the story where the second perspective, that of Celia Franklin, her once scullery maid turned right hand woman was best presented alongside Lucy's own. We see what Lucy is thinking and feeling but also get a glimpse into what an opportunity it was and how many opportunities it, in turn, provided to others.
(Celia was not a real historical person, but rather a combination of two separate people. Her perspective on Lucy sheds a lot of light, but certainly made me wonder how much of that perspective was fabricated rather than based on history. Lucy's insistence on bringing other women up in her studio by providing them with good jobs at decent wages under excellent working conditions reads well in 21st century terms but may or may not reflect her actual views. I wish we knew.)
But as much as I loved the part about building her business, once it was built the story shifted to her second marriage (a bit, as much as Lucy seems to have) and to her higher and higher rise into the upper echelons of society – at least in New York City. The parts about the business are a case of the journey being more interesting than the destination, but if her relationship with Cosmo was meant to portray a grand romance I'll admit that I wasn't feeling it.
Which doesn't mean he wasn't an excellent choice for Lucy. As her husband, he could have forced her back into the kind of life that women were expected to have. Instead, he was as much of an iconoclast as she was and they were a good match. I bought that their marriage was successful but not the romance of it. And that may have been an accurate impression after all.
There are things in Lucy's life that are either left out or elided over, and the biggest of these was in the manner and timing of its ending. The aftermath of the Titanic disaster was disastrous in an entirely different way for Cosmo Duff-Gordon. He was one of the scapegoats of the inquiries and his reputation was ruined in the press. While he was eventually exonerated, the public and the press never forgot, and the loss of his reputation cast a pall over his remaining years. That the author chose to end Lucy's story on a note of recovery made sense fictionally – we want stories to end happily, after all – but probably didn't reflect the reality of the rest of their lives.
I've written a LOT about this particular book. Obviously I was caught up in it and it gave me a lot to think about. Also, there always seem to be two issues in historical fiction that is based this closely on real history. One is the question of how it reads, while the other is the question about how much it does or does not match the historical facts that are known.
In the case of A Dress of Violet Taffeta, it reads very well indeed. And most of the variations from history make sense in the course of the story's narrative, even though they niggle a bit as the amateur historian in this reader. All in all, a compelling read about a woman whose achievements made her larger-than-life.
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3 thoughts on "Review: A Dress of Violet Taffeta by Tessa Arlen"
Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys says:
This is an excellent review – and since I have this on my TBR, it is encouraging to see how much you enjoyed it!
Laurel Ann Nattress says:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Marlene. This story made me think too. Lucy was such a trailblazer for fashion and women entrepreneurs. Arlen did a fabulous job with the era, fashions, and characters. I am looking forward to her next novel.
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Ревекка Хаимовна Бурштейн (06.05.1904, город Сморгонь Ошмянского уезда Виленской губернии — 01.10.1992, Москва) — советский электрохимик, доктор химических наук, профессор (1942),Заслуженный деятель науки и техники РСФСР

Биография
Родилась в семье кожевника. Окончила Ленинградский университет (1926).

С 1 марта по 20 июня 1926 года — научный сотрудник Естественного отделения Публичной библиотеки в Ленинграде. В 1927—1934 годах принимала участие в составлении «Технической энциклопедии» под редакцией Л. К. Мартенса, автор статей по тематике «химия».

Работала в Физико-химическом институте им. Л. Я. Карпова (1927—1947) у А. И. Рабиновича, затем в лаборатории А. Н. Фрумкина.

В 1946—1958 годах — заведующая лабораторией в Институте физической химии АН СССР.
В 1958—1992 годах — заведующая лабораторией Института электрохимии АН СССР.

Доктор химических наук (1941), профессор (1942). Автор около 260 научных печатных работ. Получила 25 авторских свидетельств.

Умерла 1 октября 1992 года в Москве. Похоронена на Хованском кладбище.

Награды
Сталинская премия 1943 года — за создание устойчивых в зимних условиях новых типов гальванических элементов и батарей.
Сталинская премия 1951 года — за разработку методов борьбы с коррозией на диффузионном заводе.
орденом Трудового Красного Знамени и тремя медалями.

Признание
 Доктор химических наук
 Профессор
Заслуженный деятель науки и техники РСФСР (1965).

Семья, родные
Муж — ботаник, фитоценолог Т. А. Работнов. Брат — Илья Ефимович Бурштейн, дважды лауреат Сталинской премии (1943, 1950). Двоюродный брат — Моисей Исаакович Бурштейн, доктор сельскохозяйственных наук, профессор.

Библиография
 Влияние кислорода и паров воды на поверхностные свойства германия и кремния // Поверхностные свойства полупроводников. М., 1962 (в соавт.);
 Влияние хемосорбированных газов на работу выхода металлов. 1965 (в соавт.);
 Исследование зависимости между структурой и электрохимическими характеристиками пористого газового электрода. М., 1963 (в соавт.).

Литература
 Ревекка Хаимовна Бурштейн. [Физико-химик. К 70-летию со Г 478 1 | рождения) . — Электрохимия, 1974, т. 10, вып. 9 ©, с. 1438.
 Ревекка Хаимовна Бурштейн: (К 60-летию со дня рождения). — Журн. физ. химии, 1964, т. 38, No 5, С. 1390—1391.
 Сотрудники Российской национальной библиотеки — деятели науки и культуры. Т. 2: Российская Публичная библиотека — Государственная Публичная библиотека в Ленинграде, 1918—1930. Изд-во НРБ, СПБ: 1999.

Источники

 http://elib.biblioatom.ru/dir/atomproject/person/burshteyn_revekka_haymovna/
БУРШТЕЙН Ревекка Хаимовна

 От теоретических работ к прикладным // Александр Наумович Фрумкин: Очерки, воспоминания, материалы. М., 1989.
 Некр.: Электрохимия. 1994. № 11.
 http://www.nlr.ru/nlr_history/persons/info.php?id=531

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LEGO Announces LEGO Ideas Revisited
March 31, 2016 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 11 Comments
LEGO today has announced in a new initiative that Ideas projects that were rejected during their respective Review Stages to have a second chance in becoming an official set. This new plan is called "LEGO Ideas Revisited" and starting this summer, fans will be able to vote for projects in a head-to-head format similar to the March Madness bracket.
Early on there weren't that many CUUSOO/Ideas projects that qualified at a certain Review Stage so for the first Revisited voting period, LEGO will be combining a few of the early Review Stages together to create the bracket determined by when they achieved 10,000 supporters. Each voting period will vary depending on the number of projects being considered. For the first bracket, there will be three weeks of voting until the winner is chosen at the end which you can see above.
The first bracket pits the Winchester – Shaun of the Dead, Eve Online Rifter, and The Legend of Zelda against each other with the winner going up against outcome of the Modular Western Town, UCS Sandcrawler (even though we already have one), and Thinking with Portals! matchup.
After the winner is chosen, the LEGO Jury will again deliberate to see if that particular project will become a set. It will go through the same rules as before so nothing has changed there. Check out the full press release below.
LEGO Gives Rejected LEGO Ideas Projects a Revisit
BILLUND, DENMARK (April 1, 2016) – Beginning this summer, LEGO Ideas will have a new change coming to the program called LEGO Ideas Revisited. We will take projects that were not successful during the Review Stages and will let the fans decide which one will have a chance to redeem themselves.
There will be a bracket structure filled with previous projects with voting periods to allow fans to choose which project will have a second chance for us to revisit and it could possibly become an official LEGO Ideas set!
The projects are determined by when they achieved 10,000 supporters. Early on in the LEGO Ideas program, previous known as LEGO CUUSOO, there were a small number of projects that had reached the magical number of 10,000 supporters so we are combining a few of the Review Stages together to make the initial bracket.
The projects that you will be able to vote on include: Winchester – Shaun of the Dead, Eve Online Rifter, The Legend of Zelda, Modular Western Town, UCS Sandcrawler, and Thinking with Portals!
Voting will take place on June 1 and each stage will last for a week. The projects with the most votes moves on until the final project is chosen. After that, we will reevaluate the project using the same criteria as we do now with current projects to see if they are viable.
Was there a previous project that you wanted to see become an official LEGO Ideas set that fell short? LEGO Ideas Revisited will allow them a second chance to do so. Stay tuned as we have more updates about LEGO Ideas Revisited over on our blog.
Technically, it's April 1 on the east coast. I had to do it. Sorry guys. It's all in good fun. Every project that reaches the Review Stage is excellent in their own right and I do not mean to disrespect the creators or the project themselves.
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