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HERE ARE SOME POSTERS THAT REFUTE SIMPLY AND CLEARLY REPUBLICAN LIES ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT'S POLICIES AND THEIR OUTCOME WHEN IT COMES TO THE DEBT AND THE SIZE OF THE GOVERNMENT (AND A SAD BUT TRUE HUMOROUS EXTRA)
EMBLEMATIC OF THIS MOMENT IN OUR POLITICS
Clint Eastwood's imitation of an aging drunken stand-up comedian was pretty accurate. But he gave the lie to rightwing Republicans pretending, or trying to convince themselves, let alone the rest of us, that they don't have any prejudice or disrespect or disdain or contempt for our president. Implying that our too courteous and considerate president tells his opponents to go f@#k themselves, when the only time that has been recorded in our history it came from Dick Cheney's mouth because a Democrat stood up to his bullying is disingenuous to say the least.
The onslaught of lies continued on this last night of the Republican convention epitomized by Eastwood's sometimes incoherent act and Romney's coherent but lying act. The easiest way to demonstrate what the Republicans are doing, and might pull off because so many people fall prey to Carl Rove's version of the old Nazi "big lie" technique is to quote Juan Cole's list of the top ten lies in Paul Ryan's speech:
"Ryan blamed the US credit rating downgrade on President Obama. But it was caused by the Republican Congress's threat not to raise the debt ceiling. That is, the fault for the credit rating downgrade from AAA to AA belongs with... Paul Ryan.
Ryan continues to claim that President Obama said business owners did not build their own businesses. Obama said that business owners benefit from government infrastructure and programs, which they did not build. No small business owner has built an inter-state highway or bridge, but those are the means whereby their goods get to market. Ryan's (and the GOP's) talking point in this regard is a typical Karl Rove Big Lie, and among an informed electorate it ought to discredit them.
Ryan depicted Obamacare as virtually a turn to Soviet-style totalitarianism, as incompatible with liberal freedoms for the individual. But the logical conclusion is that Ryan's running mate, Mitt Romney, turned Massachusetts into a Gulag.
Ryan slammed President Obama for not implementing the deficit-cutting measures recommended by the Simpson-Bowles commission. But he himself voted against Simpson-Bowles.
Ryan keeps attacking Prsident Obama's stimulus program now. But in 2002 when then President George W. Bush proposed stimulus spending, Ryan supported it. "What we're trying to accomplish today with the passage of this third stimulus package is to create jobs and help the unemployed," Ryan told MSNBC in 2002. Ryan says that the stimulus had not positive effects, while economists say it saved or created millions of jobs and pulled the US out of a near-Depression.
Even more embarrassing, in 2010, Ryan asked for $20 million in stimulus money from Obama for companies in his district, then repeatedly denied requesting stimulus funds. He finally admitted he had done so, but continues to slam the stimulus program as a failure (even though the economy pulled out of a Depression as a result of it).
Ryan slammed President Obama for the closure of an auto plant that closed in late 2008 under George W. Bush. Ryan's running mate, Mitt Romney, opposed Obama's actual auto bailout, which was a great success and returned Detroit to profitability.
Paul Ryan charges that Barack Obama has 'stolen' $700 billion from medicare for his Obamacare. In fact, these expense reductions do not cut Medicare benefits, and, moreover,Romney and Ryan supported these reductions! The difference is that they would give the savings to the affluent, whereas Obama uses them to cover the presently uninsured.
Ryan continues to push his longstanding plans for a steal-from-the-elderly-and-give-to-the-rich medicare plan, which President Obama warned would cost ordinary recipients over $6000 a year extra. Politifact checked and rated Obama's charge as correct, though they noted that the figures referred to CBO analyses of Ryan's last plan, not his 'new' one, which hasn't been subjected to similar analysis. Ryan certainly recently put forward a plan that would cost ordinary people that much extra.
Ryan neglected to note that under the tax plan he favors, Gov. Mitt Romney would pay less than 1% in annual federal taxes, highlighting Romney's already low rate compared to ordinary Americans (slightly lower than Ryan's own!) and putting the spotlight back where Ryan's appointment was supposed to misdirect it."
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TOO PREDICTABLE TO SAY MUCH
I've been a political junkie since I was a kid, working for my old man who, besides being a small business owner (home repairs), was part of what was called "the Democratic machine" of Essex County New Jersey. I've been watching the presidential nomination conventions every year ever since we got our first TV.
But this is the first year I've been tuning out. I watched snippets of Ann Romney's speech last night and a few others, and a good portion of Paul Ryan's tonight, as well as others. But pretty much every word they said was so predictable and so predictably untrue (except for the bromides, like we're for freedom or we love America etc.) and the obvious disgust, even venom felt toward our president seemed to me unprecedented.
Mocking the opposition, even getting snide about the opposition, is classic presidential politics in my experience. But obvious outright lies projecting and promoting the idea that the president is beneath contempt, the epitome of evil and deliberately trying to undermine our union and society and well being etc. etc. etc. No, that's descended to a new level.
Every speaker got elements of that justification for contempt for our democratically elected president into their speeches somewhere somehow, and some that's all they did (I learned later from watching analysis and The Daily Show and Colbert and reruns etc.). Like the chairman of the Republicans, who illustrated exactly the point I'm making when he answered a question about running ads and making speeches that tell lies about Obama's record by dismissing "fact checkers" as irrelevant and then went on to give a speech full of lies.
Ryan is the poster boy for this, including lies even about his home town and home state (as well as about Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts). The reality is though, that certainly Republicans themselves buy into the lies and like the chairman of their party dismiss facts as irrelevant to the story they're trying to convince voters about. And unfortunately so do a lot of others, like so-called "independents" who don't fact check and pick up their information from the media that gives equal weight to facts and fiction in their coverage because they want a horse race and one that's exciting and dramatic and close enough to keep people interested for the duration.
If the Republicans were not successful in getting laws demanding picture i.d. to vote in a majority of states now, that will repress the vote, for example in Pennsylvania by as much as 9%, enough to turn that blue state red, and if the media actually talked facts and not opinions etc. Obama would be reelected by a landslide. Just the media making it clear that the economy does not need to be "turned around"—that's what Obama did, turn around an economy speeding into the abyss of another Great Depression. The economy needs to grow faster, but it IS heading in the right direction, thanks to Obama and the Democrats in Congress whose attempts to make it grow faster have been thwarted every step of the way by an obstructionist Republican party that declared on the first day of Obama's administration that their top priority was making sure he failed!
But that's not reality. What's happening is the Republicans have more money, especially the undisclosed donor kind that can run nasty lying ads in more states and more times than the Dems, and they have their own media as well as the mainstream media cowed by their insistence that any questioning of their lies only proves their "liberal" bias, etc. and many voters will stay home out of disappointment in what they believe are Obama's failures because they have bought into the message of the rightwing lies in their ads and media repetition of those lies, or not be able to vote because Republicans have managed to get voter i.d. laws passed that mostly will keep the poor and the elderly from being able to vote. There's a very good chance Romney/Ryan can "win" this as a result.
Plus a lot of folks are just tired, probably feel battered by the relentlessness of the rightwing Republican machine's repetitive propaganda (and maybe of the Democrats failure to transcend these attacks) and have lost interest in the whole political process. Which will only help the Republicans. But if we want to avoid an even worse future than the one we have ended up with after Bush/Cheney moved the country further to the right than Reagan who moved it further right than Nixon, etc. we've got to buoy each other up with enthusiasm and encouragement to not just vote but to get the message out to anyone we encounter or can reach through any means.
Here's to rising to the occasion.
[In the meantime, to the poster I shared in my last post as a rejoinder to the right's idea that anyone can become wealthy if they work hard enough and a comment on the first night of the Republican convention, here's another poster to share as a rejoinder to the second night:]
QUOTE OF THE WEEK (SHOULD BE ECONOMICS 101)
I'm concerned about the election. As scientists and others who study the mind have made clear, and we all knew anyway, humans think in terms of "story"—i.e. we interpret reality as a story, our lives as stories, problems and the solutions to them as stories, etc.
Any good politician, let alone leader, let alone success at almost anything, knows that the story is paramount. Clinton got that, so did Reagan. Carter did in his campaign for president than seemed to abandon using "story" to get his perspective and goals and policies, most of which were good and would have made our country better had he been able to achieve them all including a second term. But he totally lost control of the story and the result was the idea that he was ineffectual, when actually his achievements made the world a better place and if we had followed where he was trying to lead in terms of energy and the environment we could have avoided all kinds of problems that came up under Reagan's policies, etc.
Obama had a great story, embodied it in the convention speech that got him first noticed and honed it some in his 2008 campaign, but then let the Republicans, the rightwing Republicans (which is sort of redundant now) distort and transform his story and he didn't seem to see the damage it was doing or have the inclination to counter it.
Yes, he's campaigning well with the story of the Republicans wanting to make life even easier for the wealthy but harder for the rest of us, but he needs to bring his single mother and his Kansas grandparents and the WWII service etc. and Michelle's father's illness and the sacrifice of her parents sleeping on the couch to give their kids the bedrooms, etc. to the table in every speech and every talking point.
Otherwise he will continue to be too easily defined by snide birther jokes and not so subtle race-card playing with references to how he wants to give welfare money to people for not working etc. or even more threatening to his campaign, he'll be defined by the distortions and contortions and outright lying in the rightwing Republican propaganda movie OBAMA 2016.
Not to mention the media loves an easy story they think their audience will go for like Paul Ryan is a "big idea" guy who is willing to face the tough choices, yeah sure, if they don't effect him and his fellow wealthy and only harms the rest of us.
Most of "the media" is so corporate controlled and obedient to their corporate masters it's difficult to get any story out that doesn't support corporate agendas. Most of the media also falls for a simple easy to understand story, and the rightwing Republican media experts seem to understand that better than Obama's or most Democratic politicians.
Now that it looks like Romney/Ryan will have much more money to spend on TV advertising, and has been doing that in recent weeks and will do even more in the little more than two months until the election, their story will be seen and heard by more voters more often than Obama's. It's a pretty dicey situation for those of us informed enough to know that a Romney/Ryan victory would be more disastrous than the Bush/Cheney one was. And that's saying something.
Spent the afternoon and early evening at a skateboarding competition at The Prudential Center in Newark with my youngest son, oldest son, grandson, and two friends of my youngest. Wonderful mix in the cheering crowd and among the competitors. Witnessed some feats of balance and footwork and aerodynamics and creating works of art out of body and board manufacturing illusions of suspended animation and impossible physics and grace as well as noble failures and mishaps.
Entertaining and delightful. I'm grateful to my boys for sharing their love of this unique individual sport and art and helping me to appreciate it as well. Only wish it had been around when I was a kid. Can't wait for the Olympics to catch up to it. Though my boys think it would spoil the purity of its street cred. If you ever get a chance to watch some great skateboarders, take it.
Here's a link to a video of one trick in slo mo so you can see how difficult it is (after the commercial, then the first try and major mishap that would have put me in the hospital—that's concrete he's landing on—second try beautiful).
WHY I LOVE MELODY GARDOT
Thanks to JenW for sending the links for these two YouTube videos of behind the scenes for two Melody Gardot recordings.
The first is with some old(er) jazz masters in which the "newcomer" not only holds her own but from my perspective even threw them a little. The second is more recent of Melody doing her version of "La Vie En Rose" which'll make you want to dig the recording without the behind-the-scenes- interruptions.
If you don't smile during the first with delight at the depth of her talent, or find your eyes filling up during the second, well, then you're just not a sentimental old Irishman I guess [or maybe just haven't had brain surgery, as in my case, or severe brain trauma as in Gardot's] [but you have to listen and watch them both all the way through too] [and the Hancock one first].
MORE POSTERS THAT GET IT RIGHT—I MEAN CORRECT
[click to enlarge, as usual]
Kind of tells a story, doesn't it?
Caught this flick because my fourteen-year-old and two of his friends wanted to see it. The first theater we went to was sold out, so the teenagers were hip to the audience's expectations I guess. The second and much cheaper theater in a nearby more working-class and working poor town we went to had plenty of seats.
The teens liked it initially. They found the typical (for contemporary Hollywood movies) gross out humor funny, while I found it obvious and forced and unhinged from any attempt at a story with a point that the moviemakers seemed to be making. Which was: politicians are controlled by big corporate money, in this plot's case, a corporation owned by two brothers seemingly based on or at least inferring the Koch brothers.
The only problem was it did what I see as the usual lazy thinking, or lazy political analyzing, and blamed both parties, and not even equally because the only decent and honest and mostly principled politician is the one Zach Galifianakis plays as an almost simpering Tea Party type idealist but without the ominous influence on our politics and government.
I remember reading an interview with Galifianakis and his co-star Will Ferrell (who plays the womanizing do-anything-to-win Democratic candidate as a combination of Anthony Weiner/John Edwards/and every childishly narcissistic idiot comic character Ferrell's played in previous films but with the usual saving grace of course that redeems the character(s) and the movie(s) at the end despite the previous almost entire movie's over-the-top self-centered immaturity) in which they said they didn't want to look like they were just bashing Republicans so they made Ferrell's Democrat look even worse at times.
It's true that both parties have politicians who behave badly and hypocritically, especially in their personal lives, but it is not true that a pair of gazillionaires like the Koch brothers back Democratic politicians just as easily as Republican ones as long as they do their corporate bidding. The Koch brothers have an ideology, as do many of the big money Republican Party backers, like Seth Adelson, an ideology that goes beyond just maximizing profits and into the realm of making it impossible for the government to ever threaten maximum profits no matter how many people suffer as a result.
As I've written and been writing since the election of 1968 in which I backed a third party candidate and watched Nixon get elected and cause more death and destruction, let alone damage to our politics and government, than any Democrat ever could (and the same happen when a third party candidate, Nader, helped Bush/Cheney steal the election in 2000 with the help of the rightwing members of a Supreme Court that stopped Florida's recount, a ruling that went against everything they previously professed to believe in unquestionably, namely states rights) it has been clear to me and to anyone who has read the internal documents of Republican Party leaders and tacticians that the right understands that its minority base can only win elections if enough people either don't bother to vote or vote for a third party candidate.
So it is to the right's advantage if it can convince most voters that both parties are equally to blame for whatever voters are disappointed about. Because then those voters will either sit out an election or vote for a third party candidate (as was the case in '68 and 2000—an exception being Ross Perot's third party candidacy from the right that helped get Bill Clinton elected).
But there are distinct differences between the Democrats and the Republicans. Yes they both are influenced by corporate money. But most Democrats much less so than most Republicans. Just read up on which gazzilionaires are supporting which party and why. The Koch brothers support the Republicans because they want their oil and other energy corporations to be free to pollute and exploit and etc. without government regulations interfering no matter what the cost to the environment and our health and welfare etc.
Not much of a movie review I know, but I found the movie terrible, though I did laugh at some of the comic bits and do admire Zach Galifianakis's acting and comic chops for the most part. But I must admit, this was the first time I found him to be inconsistent in his character development and portrayal (and not just him but the director: e.g. his brother and his father have accents from different places than each other as well as from his character). In the end, it seemed to be a movie made to convince juvenile sensibilities that all politicians can be bought and sold except for the most naive and inexperienced, ala some of the Tea Partyers who, of course, are more responsible for the crisis in our politics and governing in the past two years and the impending greater crisis over the deficit and debt than any politician, even some of the Republicans owned by corporate greed!
A WELL REASONED (AND ACTUALLY TRADITIONALLY "CONSERVATIVE") ARGUMENT FOR VOTING AGAINST ROMNEY/RYAN
I've been catching up on seeing movies while they're still in theaters, and the latest was Woody Allen's latest. Most people like some Woody Allen movies. And some people like most Woody Allen movies. There's a few who don't like any Woody Allen movies, and from conversations I've had they're people who are still mad at him for his personal life and actually haven't seen a Woody Allen movie in decades.
But I'm the only person I've ever known who has never seen a Woody Allen movie I didn't like. Some are better than others, and a lot of his most recent have been some of his best. But even the ones that aren't so good are still always uniquely Woody Allen movies in ways that brings me movie watching pleasure even if for some in inconsistent doses, as was the case with TO ROME WITH LOVE.
I saw it with a friend who liked TO ROME WITH LOVE a lot but hadn't dug Woody's previous flick, his most commercially successful in decades, if not his alltime most commercially succesful: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS. But for me that movie was a masterpiece with every scene working perfectly while TO ROME WITH LOVE seemed hit and miss as it went along.
It's an amazing cast, and there are some great performance moments, including every moment Penelope Cruz is onscreen, and ditto for Ellen Page. I was happy to see Woody playing a role himself and the incomparable Judy Davis as his wife. But their scenes sometimes seemed like schtick and almost out of place with the rest of the movie, and at other times had me laughing out loud.
As is often the case in Woody's flicks, especially MIDNIGHT IN PARIS and now TO ROME WITH LOVE, there's an element of fantasy that is in many ways original but evocative of classic movie fantasy tropes. But where it worked for me in MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is sometimes didn't in TO ROME WITH LOVE. This is true mainly in the out and out fantasy subplot that involves Alec Baldwin as an actual character but one who can interrupt his scenes with commentary like Marshall McLuhan in ANNIE HALL.
Alec's one of our greatest film actors (and an old friend) and the storyline his character's a part of is classic Woody (nebisshy guy, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is in a relationship with an attractive woman—the incomparable Greta Gerwig who brings her indie penchant for an almost anti-Hollywood realism to her character—and falls for a seductress not half as substantial etc.). But despite the great acting by all involved—especially Ellen Page playing the seductress—it was hit and miss with some terrific bits and some surprisingly tired ones.
And though this also is often the case in Woody's flicks, it usually can be justified somehow, but not Eisenberg's in TO ROME WITH LOVE, and that is that Woody's characters almost always live in apartments that only the wealthy could afford even when they're artists or students. Like Eisenberg's character in TO ROME WITH LOVE. He's a student studying to become an architect but he lives like someone who has already made a good living at it. In Woody's defense, a lot of the movie is meant to be absurd in the service of making sometimes obvious points (though nonetheless not usually made in other films).
Like the subplot that's been getting the most attention, in which Roberto Benigni plays another nebbishy character, one who women don't notice and whose opinions no one cares about, and all that is reversed when he suddenly becomes famous. I wasn't sure what Woody's ultimate point was in this storyline, but it seemed to be that celebrity has its downsides (which we of course all know by now) but it's still better than being a poor nobody (though no one in the movies seemed poor).
That's refreshingly honest in a way, and well played by Benigni, and may be the most fun part of the film, that and Penelope Cruz's scenes. Anyway, in the end, it's worth watching because it's Woody and he's always trying something other filmmakers don't, and because so much of the acting is outstanding despite the hit and miss aspect of the screenplay. But like I said above, I've never seen a Woody Allen movie I didn't like on some level.
MORE RIGHTWING REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY
RUBY SPARKS
Another great indie movie. Heard and read mixed reviews of this one, but I found it thoroughly engaging. Directed by the husband and wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris—who were responsible for LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE and before that a lot of great music videos—and starring the real life couple Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, RUBY SPARKS has a lot of the same charm and upbeat though quirky satisfaction of their former work, but it also has some unexpected intensity not quite as easy to surrender to.
Dano plays a writer, an uneducated or self educated prodigy who is now a decade past his early triumph and facing a writers block that the entire story is about his overcoming. It's a romantic fantasy that despite the usual movie writer cliches (rapid typing of entire pages that seem to need no rewriting etc.) worked for this writer. And its the best work Dano's done, for my taste, since I first noticed him in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.
The acting is all terrific and Zoe Kazan is a revelation. Playing the usual indie movie irresistible oddball sweetheart etc. she is brave enough to play against what has become a contemporary stereotype in ways that made her performance refreshing and yep, irresistible, at least for me. And Annette Benning and Antonio Banderas in smaller roles knock it out of the park as they usually do.
Someone who's work I was unfamiliar with, Chris Messina, managed to play the sidekick (in this case brother of Dano's lead character) role with some originality. All in all a satisfying evening at the movies. Worth seeing, is my verdict.
[Oh, and PS: Zoe Kazan wrote the movie too, which is really admirable. Sort of an "American" version of Julie Delpy, only more like Woody Allen. Anyway, impressive and I will definitely make sure I catch anything else she writes.]
"At a time when poverty is increasing, when public parks and public libraries are being closed and when public schools are shrinking their offerings and their hours, when the nation's debt is immense, and when the 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together - Romney's 13 percent is shameful." —Robert Reich (On Romney's paying 13% in federal taxes)
[PS: This more recent commentary by Reich makes the Romney/Ryan lies even more obvious.]
MY NEW HEROES: PUSSY RIOT
I'm sure you heard about PUSSY RIOT getting two years in prison for singing an anti-Putin (Russia's de facto dictator) song in an Orthodox Russian cathedral.
According to The Huffington Post report on it (one of the rare Huff Post stories with some substance) the judge cited them for doing "devilish dances" in a church! Talk about the New Dark Ages, or the return of oligarchies and dictators! This is what the USA would look like if rightwing fundamentalist Christians had full control of our government and courts etc.
Along with Ai Wei Wei in China and all dissidents being imprisoned or having been imprisoned for acts of art and truthfulness about those in power, the PUSSY RIOT trio deserve to be lauded and defended through writing campaigns and demonstrations of support, etc. Long live PUSSY RIOT!
THESE GET IT RIGHT, I MEAN CORRECT
You've probably already heard about this little indie flick that was a hit at Sundance. With good reason. Unlike most indie films this one isn't about young urban or suburban quirky young couples. It's about a Southern coastal community of misfits (and basically alcoholics) threatened by rising water and how they respond.
It's also about a little girl who had never acted before and basically is the reason for the movie. She's the lead character and in that role hits more emotional notes than most seasoned actors only wish they could. Her performance is worth the price of admission.
There's a fantasy element since the story is from the perspective of what appears to be an eight or nine year old, and for a low budget little movie the fantasy elements are done more with sets and angles and camerawork than CGI etc. So besides being perfectly cast [with almost all local non-professionals, another of which is the man who plays the father perfectly, a local baker it turns out who never acted before] it's also beautifully shot.
There's a few scenes that made me laugh, or at least smile, and a few that made my eyes water, but most scenes just made me sit back and enjoy being engaged by pretty original film making. I highly recommend it.
LYNDALL GORDON'S LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS
I've been meaning to read this book ever since I first read about it when it came out two years ago. I finally picked up a paperback copy recently and have had to force myself to stop reading it so I can have a life outside the world of Emily Dickinson and her family and friends and misinterpreters, or as Gordon's subtitle puts it: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds.
Maybe you have to care about Emily Dickinson or love her poetry or be a history buff—especially of the 19th century (and the early 20th as well in this book's case)—to be as engrossed as I've been in LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS since I started reading it.
But I don't think so. In fact, it reads like a terrific mystery, one that it seems to solve with well researched and well reasoned examinations of the various myths and interpretations of Dickinson's poetry and life.
I had my own version, deduced from various biographies and my reading of her poems. I taught it to college students back in the early '70s. It was based partly on the new wave of feminists' reinterpretation of the lives of women, especially historical figures like Dickinson. Gordon proves me wrong as well as some of the most noted experts, let alone Dickinson's family members.
Not only does LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS dispel the more contemporary interpretations of Dickinson's life (that replaced the earlier equally misguided ones) but she lays bare an impressive array of evidence resolving all the big questions about Dickinson's secrecy, and seemingly self-enforced solitude, and love life, and love objects and self awareness, until everything you thought you knew about "the nun of Amherst" you discover you had wrong.
And Gordon does this with such great timing in revealing the story that I couldn't help thinking what a great movie this would make. One of those period biographical films the Brits specialize in, but much more gritty and sensual and dramatic (even operatic) and revealingly, even shockingly, raw in ways that would make "reality" TV shows seem tame.
ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE BERKSHIRES
Perfect really. Bright blue sky with white rolling clouds over the lush green hills and mountains. The soulful, sensuous landscape of my deepest memories, or maybe fantasies. Real today though.
And time spent with my daughter and granddaughter and their impressive creative energy and output. And with my older son and younger and grandson. My progeny. For which I am thankful every day, as I am for every day, this one especially.
ANOTHER GREAT POSTER
The quality of the video isn't great, but the vibe transcends that to deliver the perfect antidote to these troubled times from an earlier even more troubled time (1970 to be exact). Hey, it made me smile.
The good news out of the recent terrorist attack on those US Sikhs is reading and hearing and watching interviews with and stories about Sikhs and their religion.
I don't know about anyone else but it sounds like the kind of religion that even those of us who are pretty much over organized religion could dig. Especially the idea that the place where the gunman did his horrible deed had four doors for each direction of the compass and always open to anyone, Sikh or not, "American" or not, and that they are taught not just that everyone is equal but that everyone is worthy of respect.
I don't know, if I was younger and still searching for a spiritual path (I have my own now) I certainly would have liked to have spent some time getting to know and understand the Sikh religion. And in fact, I'm going to find their holy book and read it and let you know what I discover there.
It's sad that it took a tragedy to get me to pay closer attention to what Sikhs are about (I have a good old friend who converted and is a Sikh but he lives in L.A. and we never talked a lot about their belief system and practices beyond his dedication to yoga). But the silver lining is that hopefully more of my fellow citizens will now take the time to learn more about the Sikhs and what they believe and practice and maybe even see an example of a religion that is based on tolerance and acceptance and equality and love and be inspired.
I-NEED-A-BREAK LIST [OF FAVORITE NOVELLAS]
With Republicans pushing through "voter i.d." laws to combat "voter fraud" which has been proven to be almost nonexistent (The Daily Show worked it out to .7 cases per state per year based on the facts) and the media not pointing out the on-the-record admission from top Republicans that either there is no real "voter fraud" or that the i.d. laws will get Romney and other Republicans elected and that's what they're for, and with last month being the hottest July in history and Romney and other Republicans still denying global warming or that humans have anything to do with it, and studies showing corporate (Monsanto) altered food creating infertility and stunted growth and all kinds of other Frankenstein-ish monstrous effects in animals...
I thought I'd take a break from the news and force myself to make a list as a distraction.
As those of you who know me or have been reading this blog for a while know, all my life I made lists in my head all day long, and over the years I posted many here. In fact for many years the "list" category in the archive down to the right was always way more than anything else. That's no longer the case because after brain surgery I no longer have the urge to make lists, and even when I try to force myself to make one I lose interest after only one or two items.
But after writing a post the other day on a novel I read that seemed like a novella because it read so fast it made it seem short, I thought I would try and write a list of my favorite short novels, or novellas, by looking on my bookshelves, because trying to do it as I used to pre-brain op wasn't getting me anywhere. [Unfortunately one whole bookcase is in a corner behind my youngest's drum set, so I'm sure I'm leaving off some good ones I can't see without moving his entire drum set which I ain't doing today.] So, here 'tis (and a pretty short list in the end):
TRACY'S TIGER by William Saroyan
THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL by William Carlos Williams
PORTRAIT OF JENNIE by Robert Nathan
TRISTESSA by Jack Kerouac
PRATER VIOLET by Christopher Isherwood
FREAKS by Doug Lang
THE STREET by Aram Saroyan
GOODBYE COLUMBUS by Philip Roth
BY NIGHT IN CHILE by Roberto Bolano
OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
[Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING has been called a novella and it's one of my favorite books but judging by the number of pages in my copy it's longer than the others listed here, as is Jean Toomer's CANE, another alltime favorite.]
[And then there's long short stories in story collections that some see as novellas, like James Joyce's "The Dead" from DUBLINERS and Terence Winch's title story from CONTENDERS.]
ONE OF MY FAVORITE MARILYN PHOTOS
The anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death has created a lot of articles and books and even yet another documentary. But to honor her memory I chose this photo, one of my favorites:
Ella often told the story of how MM got her into a white club that didn't want her to perform because she wasn't white, the Magambo I think. Marilyn was a class act in a time when it was difficult for some to see anything but a sex symbol and a "dumb blonde" etc. Hopefully, she is resting in the peace she well deserved.
[Here's a great version of the story I just googled (duh) and found.]
IRONIC? NO, JUST DUMB
So the Sikhs in this country have been getting flack from rightwingers since 9/11 because they mistake the turbans and beards for "Muslim" and don't know that the Sikh religion considers everyone equal, no matter religion or not, or gender, or ethnicity etc.
But the rightwingers are usually steeped in, if not still following, the fundamentalist "Christian" tenet that doesn't consider all equal or celebrate "a loving God" that Sikhs are supposed to but instead insists that unless you "accept Jesus as your personal savior" you're going to hell where you will be tortured unimaginably for all eternity!
Now obviously not all those who call themselves "Christians" are always that intolerant, but basically the idea that only those who accept Jesus are saved is pretty universal these days in the dominant Christian churches and communities. And just as obviously not all Sikhs practice total tolerance and acceptance of others, but as in the community that was so viciously attacked yesterday most Sikhs living in this country put up with all kinds of rightwing fools who mistake them for "Muslim" and then feel they have the right to attack them whether through bullying or vandalism or threats etc. or as in this case and others, murder.
Which kind of community would you prefer being a part of? One that says if you don't believe what we believe you're eternally damned and "the other" or one that welcomes all into their midst and preaches that we are all equal in God's eyes no matter what we believe or look like or where we come from etc.
THIS SAYS IT ALL
THREE QUICK THOUGHTS
1. How can you not help falling in love with the Olympic Gold medal winner "Gabby" Douglas and her and her family's story? And how incredible to go from total obscurity to one of the most famous people in the world overnight! But how sad it is that so many others who spent the last four years working for and yearning for the same result go home empty handed and unknown and unrewarded or feeling that way unless they have the maturity or wisdom or spiritual awareness to appreciate the experience and accept the reality as a gift rather than a punishment.
2. And sort of related: listening to an interview with the author of yet another book on what makes "successful" people "successful" and hearing that it's all about the rich and famous it occurs to me that a much better project would be to explore what makes happy people happy, whether rich and famous or not.
3. And yet still related if you can see it: no one I have noticed in the media is pointing out that the new jobs numbers that got so much attention today don't have to be seen through the prism of the president's perspective that more jobs were created in the last month than economists expected which is great given the incredible hole the Bush/Cheney regime dug in terms of jobs lost from their economic collapse, or from the right's attempt to spin the tenth of a percent rise in unemployment claims as a failure for Obama. It's much simpler than that. if you ignore government jobs lost, because of cuts, which are what the right is always clamoring for and became necessary due to the economic downturn, then the unemployment rate would be steadily dropping. In other words, enough non-government jobs were created to spur the recovery, but unfortunately too many government jobs were lost to lower the unemployment rate.
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WILLIAM TREVOR'S LOVE AND SUMMER
I've always admired William Trevor's writing, but mostly through short stories I've read. An Irish writer who is such a precise stylist that not a word seems misplaced, I could read him just for the writing. But I found the few stories I've read a little too good at creating the feeling of constriction and repression in Irish society of the past, so while I enjoyed his style I felt a little depressed by his subject matter.
But I'd never read any of his novels, until I found one on the sales rack at my local bookstore (yes, I know how lucky I am to have a "local" bookstore). Trevor's an Irish writer who often sets his fiction (at least in my limited experience) in the Ireland of the past, pre-Celtic Tiger and collapse. LOVE AND SUMMER is set in mid-20th Century Ireland, in the countryside, and I have to say since the day I began reading it last week to today, when I finished it, I haven't enjoyed a novel this much in a while.
His characters are so finely drawn and compelling I couldn't stop the compulsion to keep reading to find out what happens to them. And despite their limitations and the limitations of the time and place where they exist, I read it with a certainty that this time I wouldn't be left feeling let down by the bleak perspective of the characters themselves. Instead, I felt my spirit lifted by the possibilities, no matter how limited or unlikely, and I wasn't disappointed.
There's a blurb on the back of the paperback I bought that quotes a Los Angeles Times review that says in part: "no author alive is more respectful of his characters or efficient at fleshing them out." I'm convinced that is true after reading LOVE AND SUMMER. It's a fairly fast and easy read, though some Irish expressions and idiomatic "English" might cause some readers, unfamiliar with some Irish ways of using the language we share, to have to figure out from the context what's being talked about. But it won't be much of an effort, and this book was so satisfying it's worth any effort. Though for myself, I found reading it effortless and unexpectedly uplifting.
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Q: Python Pandas Commands .replace() Not Working despite inplace = True I'm trying to use .replace() on a DataFrame made from .read_excel(). The command is not working despite using inplace = True, and triple-checking the spelling (copy pasted from original excel doc)
import pandas as pd

def create_frame(path):
    df1 = pd.read_excel(path)
    return df1.replace(('Visit 2: Day 1','Day 1'), inplace = True)

df = create_frame('example.xlsx')
df.to_csv('test.csv')

i've also tried using df2 = df1.replace(('Visit 2: Day 1','Day 1')) instead of using inplace = True but the test csv always comes out with 'Visit 2: Day 1'
I'm having a similar dysfunction (commands not working) with .sort_values and .reset_index as well.
Any ideas what i'm doing wrong? All help is appreciated! thank you!

A: You can create the function create_frame without inplace=True.
if you use inplace=True, it will return None from the func create_frame.
similarly, Pandas dataframe: set_index with inplace=True returns a NoneType, why??
import pandas as pd

def create_frame(path):
    df1 = pd.read_excel(path)
    return df1.replace(('Visit 2: Day 1','Day 1'))

df = create_frame('example.xlsx')
df.to_csv('test.csv')

when you use df2 = df1.replace(('Visit 2: Day 1','Day 1')), it will not affect df1.
so without use func, you can do like this:
df1 = pd.read_excel(path)
df2 = df1.replace(('Visit 2: Day 1','Day 1'))
df2.to_csv('test.csv')

df1 = pd.read_excel(path)
df1.replace(('Visit 2: Day 1','Day 1'), inplace=True)
df1.to_csv('test.csv')

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In practicum architecture we were put in groups and had to design a refugee camp.With in the refugee camp I chose to design the school.I wanted the school to have a welcoming feeling to it.
At first I had to start with ideas on how I wanted the school to look like from there I thought of ventilation because there are no air conditioning in a refugee camp.From there I put my ideas in to sketch up to see how the school will look.
For my final work I incorporated the ventilation idea with ventilation on the walls to add more air flow with in the building.I changed up the design layout a little to help with the welcoming feel.
For our second project we had to rebuild our city of crisis for people who are coming back into the city from a refugee camp. From all the things I could have choice from i picked to design a clinic I wanted to continue the welcoming fell from my project one.
When I fist started to design my clinic I was in the mind set of United States type of clinics, but as I went on I started to think this is not for Americans should i changed my whole design ideas, and strated to explore over seas clinics.
For my final work I took two of my design ideas and combined them to make a type of separated clinic where the people wait outside till the doctor calls you in, and if something bad has happened to you. You will go into the main building.


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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 25239
Airco DH.4A
Owner/operator: Syndicat National pour l'Etude du Transport Aérienne
Registration: O-BAIN
MSN: H5915
Category: Accident
Location: near the 'Valiant Sailor' Public House, Hope Farm, Folkestone, Kent - United Kingdom
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey (EGCR)
Destination airport: Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL/EBCI)
Ex-RAF H5915, first registered in Belgium as O-BAIN 21st August 1920 to Syndicat National pour l'Etude du Transport Aérienne
On 25th January 1921 the Airco DH.4, registered as O-BAIN, crashed on the hill between Hope Farm and the "Valiant Sailor" public house, on the Dover Road at Folkestone, Kent. The aircraft had taken off from Croydon at 13.43 with Mons. P.J.George at the controls, destination Brussels with just cargo onboard. Fifty minutes after taking off, the machine was seen flying through thick mist over the high ground to the North East of Folkestone. While making a turn the aircraft struck the ground and was completely wrecked. The pilot was dragged from the wreckage but unfortunately died in hospital three days later.
The Investigation Report for the incident says that the cargo was a mere 8.5lbs in weight and 150lbs of ballast. Mons.George was a very experienced pilot and had flown that type of aircraft on the same route many times before. O-BAIN was seen approaching the Dover-Folkestone road from the west and was dimly seen passing just over the roof of a farmhouse. It then turned to starboard, towards rising ground, and crashed in a field 546 feet above sea level. Just before impact it was noted that the engine appeared to be running satisfactorily.
Examination of the wrecked Airco showed that the starboard plane had struck the ground first, an interplane and part of the bottom wing tip being embedded in the earth. From that point to where the main wreckage lay, a distance of 90 yards, the collapse of the parts of the machine could be traced from the marks on the ground. The entire fuselage was shattered as far back as the passengers cabin. All control cables were found to be intact and in serviceable condition. The accident was blamed on poor visibility.
Additional - per a contemporary press report ("Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald" - Saturday 5 February 1921) on the inquest into the the death of the pilot:
"BELGIAN AIRMAN'S DEATH - ACCIDENT DUE TO FOG
On Tuesday the Borough Coroner (Mr. G. W. Haines) resumed the adjourned inquest touching the death of Prosper Joseph George, the Belgian aviator, whose machine crashed to the ground on the hills, whilst in thick fog between the Valiant Sailor and Hope Farm, on Tuesday afternoon of last week. The airman received serious injuries from which died at the Royal Victoria Hospital early on the 28th January.
Mr. Ernest Sidney Hambrook, of Hope Farm, Hawkinge, said on Tuesday the 25th January about 2.30, he was in the garden at Hope Farm. A very thick fog prevailed at the time. He heard an aeroplane pass directly over the house. It was very low down. It was proceeding slowly in an easterly direction, but afterwards seemed to be circling round. When it had gone about three-quarters of a circle he heard a crash. He rushed to the spot whence the sound proceeded, and between the farm and the Valiant Sailor about a hundred yards from witness's houses, in a field, he saw a smashed up machine. The wings were piled up on top of the engine and the wreckage extended for about a hundred yards behind the machine. There were deep ridges in the ground along the sides of the wreckage. Witness saw a man lying along the fuselage. He was quite free and conscious. Witness spoke to him, and he mentioned that his arm was broken, and also uttered the word "Mist," at the same time waving his other arm about. The man pointed towards the engine, and said something that witness did not understand. Witness fetched his mother, who remained with the man while he went tor help. Witness telephoned at the Valiant Sailor to the police and for an ambulance and returned with Mr. Aird. The marks on the ground showed a distinct curve, and as the machine was circling in the air at the time, witness was of opinion that it was not the intention of the deceased to effect a landing there. The letters O.B.A.I.N. were on the under part of the plane.
Mr. Alfred Chas. Aird, of the valiant Sailor, stated that on Tuesday, about 2.30, the last fitness informed him that an accident had occurred to an aeroplane. Witness went across to Gorse Field, and there saw the wreckage of an aeroplane on the ground. There were curved marks on the ground leading to where the plane was lying. He saw a man lying on the ground immediately to the fore part of the machine, the engine being about a yard further on. Mrs. Hambrook was attending to the man, and witness assisted in putting him in the ambulance. The following morning he was attendance with Major Phill, of the Air Ministry. He made a thorough examination of the engine, which appeared to be in perfect order, excepting the damage caused by the fall. He gave witness to understand that in cases where an airman struck a bank of fog he was instructed to get under or over it. He thought in this case the deceased was attempting to get under it. Major Phill also thought the control was in good order, and that the engines had not been shut off. The propeller was smashed up. Major Phill expressed the opinion that the accident was due to the fog and in no way to the machine, which was in proper working order. The machine had the name of the owners on its side.
Monsieur Adolphe Peterson (Belgian Vice Consul at Folkestone), said he saw deceased at the Royal Victoria Hospital on Thursday and had a conversation with him. Deceased told him he remembered little about the accident, but he did know that he suddenly got in a very thick fog. That was the only reason he could give for the accident. He left Croydon en route for Brussels at 1.40 on Tuesday. He had had considerable experience as an aviator, and was chosen to test all aeroplanes on their first flight.
Mr. Aird said that close to where the deceased struck was a bank, close to which was a hollow extending over a considerable area.
The Coroner found deceased died from injuries accidentally received whilst in charge of an aeroplane belonging to a Belgian syndicate, the machine having collided with the ground.
The remains of the deceased, after being embalmed, were enclosed in a lead coffin, the outer casket being of oak with brass fittings. The inscription on the plate was as follows:- "Prosper George. Décédé le 28 Janvier, 1921. A C'age de 28 ans."
The body was conveyed on Wednesday via Ostend to Brussels for interment, Mr. Douglas Spain (Messrs Prebble and Spain) having charge of the arrangements. Burial or Cremation Place: Ixelles Communal Cemetery, Ixelles, Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
1. Dover Express - Friday 04 February 1921
2. Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald - Saturday 5 February 1921 (Inquest into death of pilot)
3. The Aeroplane, 2 February 1921
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_O-B.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_airliners_in_the_United_Kingdom
7. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh4-folkestone-1-killed
8. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2436.0
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08-Oct-2011 12:27 ThW Updated [Operator, Source, Damage, Narrative]
08-Oct-2011 12:29 ThW Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
18-Dec-2013 21:15 Dr. John Smith Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
05-Sep-2017 19:18 Dr. John Smith Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Narrative]
07-May-2018 17:54 Dr. John Smith Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]
26-Feb-2020 20:51 Dr. John Smith Updated [Source, Narrative]
26-Feb-2020 20:52 Dr. John Smith Updated [Narrative]
13-Jan-2021 14:33 harro Updated [Category]

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Photo Essay: Melody Ranch Movie Ranch, Closed to Public (Except this Once)
Yes, some of Hollywood's old movie ranches have been converted into parks and tourist attractions, but some of them have been preserved in super secrecy so that modern Western TV shows and movies still have an authentic-looking place out in the deserty outdoors to shoot their saloon scenes and gunfights.
Case in point: Melody Ranch.
It looks like an Old West town, but it's a real motion picture studio...
...that dates back to 1915 and was eventually sold to Gene Autry in 1952.
Countless movie stars have graced this property, whose buildings were reused over and over again until a wildfire raged through the canyon ten years later, burning down much of the western town.
Only a few of the fake adobe walls survived...
...and a couple of original structures, including a black barn...
...and the house that once served as Autry's dressing room...
...which a bucket brigade managed to save during the fire.
Rumor has it that firefighters had to choose between saving the nearby houses or the ranch, and they chose the houses.
Melody Ranch is tucked away in a residential neighborhood of Santa Clarita now, surrounded by lots of residential homes, but there wasn't much there when it was first built.
When the fire struck and ruined nearly everything in the place that he loved, Autry moved out of the ranch, leaving it as a retirement home for his horse, Champion. When Champion died in 1990, the Veluzat Brothers bought the ranch and rebuilt most of the structures, adhering as best they could to their original designs, based on film footage and old still photos.
The entire Western Town / Main Street is a reproduction, but in its same exact location...
...each building in its original footprint.
The ranch opens up once a year for the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, where cowboys – some real, some costumed – descend upon it to demonstrate their gun tricks, roping, horseback riding, and blacksmith skills along the main drag.
Some of the buildings are just flat façades, like the set pieces used to fool the bad guys in Blazing Saddles.
Others are practical sets that you can actually go into and film inside of...
...like a bordello / concert hall, a general store, a saloon, and a jail.
Vendors occupy most of these buildings during the festival.
The end of Main Street is currently cordoned off for an upcoming Warner production...
...rumored to be a multi-year contract.
Other recent productions that have used Melody Ranch as a shooting location include the HBO series Deadwood...
...and the Tarantino film Django Unchained.
This reddish building served as the haberdashery where the doctor buys Django his fancy hat.
Lots of places at Melody Ranch will look familiar to those well-versed in episodes of The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, and more, though sometimes a church was a church...
...and other times, maybe the church was a schoolhouse.
Melody Ranch appears to be a full-service facility, even with its own train...
...and three proper, modern soundstages.
Even The Amazing Race began their season's race last year at Melody Ranch.
Most of Melody Ranch was technically (re)built in the last 25 years, but when you visit, it feels like you're stepping back in time, into an era of outlaws and lawmen and saloon girls and the Gold Rush.
Or was that just because of the guy who tried to lasso me?
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A short intro for those yet uninitiated: there are international skiing competitions i.e. World Championships ( hello, Seefeld'2019!) and World Cup stages. Those are held – you guessed it – in the winter, when the Northern hemisphere gets some snow ( more of which later).
Which means that the skiing as sport is suffering from a major competitive disadvantage in ever toughening field of battle for media attention and sponsorship – it's seasonal.
You might adore Klaebo, Nillson, Ustiugov, Diggins or Pellegrino – but you naturally start forgetting about them between April and November. Well, you might not – but television and social media as collective news amplifier certainly will. Out of sight – out of mind.
So, what's to be done? How to get media covering, spectators watching and, last but not the least, money flowing into the best sport ever, the one of skiing?
There is an answer – and it is to be found in Western Norwegian town of Sandnes. It's there where Arne Idland, native of the local Rogaland province and one of the world's top biathlon coaches have built together with sympathetic ( and wise) local authorities and businessmen something called Blink Skifestivalen.
It took some 10-12 years, but today the Blink fest is literally one the best organized, attended, funded and overall worth visiting events in both world crosscountry skiing and biathlon, the place where top stars come to compete year after year.
– National television coverage. All races are professionally televized , most of them live on main national NRK channels. Wow! Yes, that sort of television production costs a bomb and, very likely, is only possible in the lands of public broadcasters – like NRK . Luckily, there a quite a few of those around, especially in Europe.
NRK gets special merit for not just televising the races – but being a "Collective promoter and organizer", turning races into a very watchable, high quality TV show. Yes, it's catered to local tastes and is, of course, in Norwegian language – but television coverage of FIS World Cup races looks like a dry, rather boring affair after watching Blink on NRK. With sports broadcasting it's always like that- where there's a will, there is a way of making an event watching more fun – but takes an effort, expertise – and some money.
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Pellegrino, Bolshunov, Brandsdal…the race is packed with top stars!
– Timing, again. Timing of the event for the athletes themselves. August is in-between training time, where there is no costly & remote gletcher skiing ( well, almost). And you what? Elite skiers actually like to compete! It's important for them, their coaches to face off those future snow season rivals in the summer. What do they actually glean from it is top-notch training secret – but one thing is evident beyond doubt: those who do well in Blink, go to win in the winter to. Just ask Charlotte Kalla, Simen Kruger or Ragnhild Haga each of which did well at Blink'17 – and then went for Olympic gold in Korea.
– What follows is a proper international flair the event has. The crowd will root for local boys & girls – but recognize and appreciate Ustiugov, Bolshunov, Kalla, Parmakoski etc. etc. who bent their training schedules to come to Sandnes to compete in front of these discerning thousands of fans.
these gues play a role of "human brakes" , catching the biathlets ( but not skiers) at the finish line ahead of the shooting range.
– Unique to Blink: it's the only event besides the Olympics that brings together skiers and biathletes. Except that the latter actually compete in rollerski races too.
– Weather. It is so much more convenient to watch and compete in plus 20 Celsius than in minus 20. Just ask those athletes who are much happier to stand & chat with reporters, fans – or to each other – after the race than they would in subzero conditions.
Well, while visiting, watching, followng Blink is hugely recommended, not everything is perfect. Some things could and, in our opinion, should be changed.


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What Is Cynthia Rowley's Net Worth? (Updated 2022)
By Rybecca Quinn November 21, 2021 @rybeccaquinn
Cynthia Rowley is one of the most popular fashion designers of the modern age.
Her influence on fashion branches out to every type of fashion, from semi-formal gowns to a whimsical line of home goods.
Rowley has had many great influences that include multiple members of her creative family and Andy Warhol.
Even during her early years as a designer, she never allowed anything to stop her determination from shining through.
What Is Cynthia Rowley's Net Worth?
Cynthia Rowley has a net worth of $100 million, which she has earned as an American fashion designer.
Rowley had an incredibly early introduction to the world of art and design, with her mother and grandparents all being artists.
Cynthia Rowley created her first garment after learning to sew when she was only seven years old.
She was raised in Barrington, Illinois and graduated from Barrington High School in 1976.
Rowley then attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she entered many fashion competitions with varying degrees of success.
She was even kicked out of a fashion show for her use of wings for one of her creations.
Cynthia Rowley would go on to create her own fashion label named after herself, with which she would add color and whimsy to the world of fashion.
Inspired by the local climate of Chicago, her first clothing line was full of fuzzy, colorful sweaters.
Rowley wasn't satisfied with just creating clothing.
She wanted to create a world full of whimsical and genuinely unique designs that would break up the bleak, mundane world around her.
After establishing herself as a clothing designer, Rowley began designing accessories such as eyewear.
Although her clothing and accessories are normally higher-end, she wanted to expand her dreamy designs into the lives of more people.
To accomplish this goal, she teamed up with Target to create a line of home goods, styled in her iconic fun and colorful patterns.
Cynthia Rowley often finds her inspiration in what she feels that the world needs at the time, which is what led her to create a line of surfing attire and other athletic wear.
The fame she has gained from her success in the fashion world has given her a chance to expand her career even further.
Creating Her Own Clothing Brand
Cynthia Rowley has built the foundation of her entire career on her clothing brand, Cynthia Rowley.
She is best known for fun, colorful, flowy, feminine styles that are fashionable while still having a child-like wonder about them.
After creating her first line of fuzzy mohair sweaters, she found a man who was willing to sell her designs around New York City, as long as she would pay for his plane ticket. Rowley agreed to the terms and sent the man on his way to the big city.
A few days later, he turned to Rowley after finding massive success in New York City.
He was able to sell 400 pieces to major stores like Henri Bendel and even to some smaller downtown boutiques looking for clothing pieces that couldn't be found anywhere else.
Rowley thanks her carefree attitude as a young designer for the success she found only a little later in her life.
Without the fear of what the future would hold or what others thought, Cynthia Rowley was willing to do whatever it took to succeed.
Rowley acted on her instinct for every business decision after this point.
However, Rowley may not have had a business in the first place if she had not been given $3,000 in seed money from her grandparents.
Her family knew that design was in her blood, with one of her grandparents even designing the logo for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
They also knew that Rowley had the fearlessness and determination to survive in the world of fashion.
This passion for fashion is nearly genetic, with Rowley inspiring her older daughter, Kit Keenan, to create her own fashion line called KIT.
It seems that the same passion didn't transfer to Rowley's younger daughter, Gigi Powers, who'd rather practice music in her hoodie.
Designing Eyewear For B. Robinson
In late spring of 2005, Cynthia Rowley released her first line of eyewear with the support of B. Robinson and the Kenmark Group.
The odd, three-way alliance allowed each party to contribute their expertise, making their release as smooth as possible.
It was B. Robinson's job to create the glasses and sell the eyewear to non-optical retailers, while the Kenmark Group would work on selling the glasses to private optical retailers and select optical service chains.
It was Rowley's job to design glasses that actually stood out from other eyewear options.
Rowley's biggest complaint with eyewear at the time was that all the frames were so similar that it was difficult to even tell them apart.
Many eyewear options just felt like the same five frames with new, normally bland paint jobs.
This collaboration ended up being extremely beneficial for both Rowley and the Kenmark Group.
The Kenmark Group only had about 80 individuals working for them at the time but were able to expand greatly after they collaborated with B. Robinson and Cynthia Rowley.
However, this wouldn't be Rowley's last time designing eyewear.
She would later go on to start two of her own eyewear collections, Cynthia Rowley Eyewear and Mr. Powers.
Cynthia Rowley has also released two eyewear collections with online optical seller Zenni.
She recently released her second line with them over quarantine for COVID-19.
While spending more time indoors and on her computer, Rowley has found that her eyes burn and tire more easily.
To combat this feeling, she has used Zenni's blue light protection technology, Zenni Blokz.
With her more men-centric eyewear collection, Mr. Powers, she wanted to add a fun approach to the world of men's eyewear.
A pair of Mr. Powers glasses are going to cost $129 and sunglasses cost $99.
Her Home Products With Target
By the early 2000s, most people knew Cynthia Rowley's name thanks to her over-the-top, wanderlust-filled designs.
While not everyone could afford one of her clothing pieces, people wanted an affordable way to incorporate her art into their everyday life.
Target approached Rowley about the potential of creating a home goods line for their chain stores.
In 2002, Rowley created her first line of home goods for Target called Swell, which was based on her books from 1999 and 2002.
In 2008, Cynthia Rowley released a summer-themed, outdoor home goods line for the superstore chain, Target.
In the Whim collection, you could find more than 500 different products that all had Rowley's signature bold colors and graphic designs.
Whim was inspired by Cynthia Rowley being a busy mother with two daughters of her own.
Her goal was to make it easy for consumers to add a splash of bold color or design into their everyday lives for an affordable price.
Rowley wasn't done helping Target customers add as much whimsy as they could into their days.
In 2010, Target exclusively sold the Pampers diapers that Cynthia Rowley had designed.
Rowley designed 11 different diapers to give parents more options for their children.
Ever since teaming up with Target, Rowley has created a unique line of home goods that even included cleaning supplies like sponges.
Rowley wanted to give parents more options in design and style in every aspect of their daily lives.
Starting To Work With Athletic Wear
When you have as busy a life as Cynthia Rowley, you have to find that hobby in life that allows you to remove yourself from stress and take a breather.
Surfing is what Rowley does to get away from the problems of the world and connect the planet.
According to an interview she gave with Elle, Cynthia Rowley believes that surfers are the most eco-conscious people in the world because they see the effects of pollution so regularly and rely on the ocean waves to find peace and fun.
The peace that she has found in the water is something that she shares with her daughters Kit Keenan and Gigi Powers.
Powers has actually become a child surfing instructor, with her starting to give lessons when she was only 14 years old.
In her early years of surfing, Rowley found that wetsuits all looked the same and lacked any sense of personality or individual style.
While surfing, a fellow surfer came up to Rowley and was complimenting her work.
He asked about the potential of having her design surf wear for his company, Roxy.
Only then did the fellow surfer reveal himself to be Randy Hild.
The wetsuits sold incredibly well around the world, especially in New York City, Paris, Tokyo, and Sydney.
For her first line of wetsuits, Rowley played around with multiple different cuts that the surfer world had never seen before.
Her most popular of these designs were her boy-cut bodysuits.
However, Rowley wanted to do more with the design of her clothing.
Cynthia Rowley worked hard to create her first printed wetsuit but managed to complete her goal.
That's when Quicksilver, a fashion production company, gave her one of their factories to make the popular printed bodysuits.
Her Appearances On Television
Cynthia Rowley has a fun-loving personality that shines brilliantly whenever she's on the screen.
That's why she was the perfect person to have as a judge on televised design competitions such as HGTV Stars, Project Runway, 24 Hour Catwalk, and Project Runway All Stars.
On HGTV Stars, eight interior designers went head-to-head in weekly design challenges with the judges voting to remove one designer each week until only the grand winner is left to receive a prize of $50,000 and their own HGTV show!
Cynthia Rowley was one of the judges in the 2008 run of the show, alongside Vern Yip and Genevieve Gorder.
Now, HGTV is bringing the show back with new judges and contestants.
The new judges include Jonathan Adler, Lauren Makk, and a new celebrity judge each week.
Her second time as a television judge was on the sixth episode of Project Runway All Stars, for the episode themed around transformations in 2013.
She had also appeared as the guest judge on episode 6, season 8 of Project Runway in 2010.
In 2012, Rowley had her fashion competition show 24 Hour Catwalk, where she judged fashion designer contestants with fellow judges Alexa Chung, Derek Blasberg, and James LaForce.
Contestants were given only 24 hours to create looks that appealed to a theme and to the panel of judges.
All of the judges were extremely passionate about the show and their decisions.
Cynthia Rowley explained that the judges would have to duke out their strong opinions about the contestants' placement in the competition.
Cynthia Rowley appeared on the television show Celebrity Ghost Stories, talking about how she would often see the apparition of a woman with a scarf covering her face.
After a fire broke out in the house, Rowley found out the previous owner of the house had been severely burned in a house fire.
Her Work As An Author
Cynthia Rowley is a wonderfully creative person who has learned to express herself through a multitude of creative mediums.
In 1999, she released her first book, Swell: A Girl's Guide to the Good Life.
Rowley wrote her first book alongside friend and style editor Ilene Rosenzweig.
The two gave their advice for those who wanted to live dashing lives while also learning to go with the flow and not worry about minor problems or hiccups.
When trying to become the best host possible, Rowley and Rosenzweig state that perfection is overrated and that an imperfect host comes off as more inviting and genuine because imperfect is just a part of human nature.
Rosenzweig and Rowley also give practical advice to their readers, such as how to call a taxi, golf term definitions, and even how to hook a worm.
The book often brings up the idea of "pathological optimism", which would be a common occurring topic in Rowley and Rosenzweig's future books.
The same creative duo released Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad, which gave advice to young homeowners while also providing comical anecdotes from Rowley and Rosenzweig's own lives.
In this book, they discuss how to take creative aspiration and apply practical execution, how to get paint out of your hair, using fluorescent lights to change the appearance of your walls, how to turn your kitchen into a day spa, and how to wire lights in your trees to create a moonlight-like look.
Rowley and Rosenzweig share multiple other publications together, which include Swell Holiday: Turning Up the Twinkle, and The Swell Dressed Party.
On her own, Rowley wrote and illustrated Slim: A Fantasy Memoir.
Cynthia Rowley In The World Of Real Estate
Cynthia Rowley is someone who understands that the most important part of real estate is location, and her favorite location is one of the most expensive cities to live in: New York City.
Rowley had owned four houses in the West Village of New York, but sold one in 2019.
The house was originally built in 1905 and was zoned for both commercial and residential use.
The 25-foot-wide townhouse served as a workspace for Rowley, which was perfect for her because the home she and her family stayed in was nearby.
In 2014, Rowley had paid $10.995 million for the space and put it on the market for $17 million four years later.
However, it took a year and price reduction before anyone was interested in the house.
The following year, she sold the 6,000 square feet home for $14 million.
However, Rowley still owns a property in the area.
Her 19-foot-wide townhouse is home to her New York boutique.
Her Podcast With Kit Keenan
Cynthia Rowley hosts a mother–daughter podcast with her daughter, Kit Keenan, called Ageless.
In the show, the fashion family duo talks about their misadventures and the lessons that they learned along the way.
The podcast releases bi-weekly and has a slew of guests on to talk about the world of fashion, art, business, parenting, and wellness.
They also talk about their beliefs in the importance of body image, food, justice, and even astrology.
Although Rowley and Keenan may have two different personalities and outlooks on life, they still come together to do all the things they love most.
The relationship they've formed is on full display in their podcast.
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Q: OSX Terminal "last" does not show more logins before todays In Mac OSX 10.12.1, using Terminal
last

does not show logins before today? I did read the earlier article and tried
sudo last

which did not reveal anything earlier.

A: last works in Sierra like in all older OS X systems equipped with ASL.
Here is an example of a Sierra VM (first light: installed: Sep 20, 2016):
user  ttys001                       Fri Dec  9 02:31   still logged in
user  ttys000                       Fri Dec  9 02:30   still logged in
user  console                       Fri Dec  9 02:30   still logged in
...
reboot    ~                         Wed Sep 21 00:01
user  console                       Tue Sep 20 22:18 - crash  (01:42)
reboot    ~                         Tue Sep 20 22:18
user  ttys000                       Tue Sep 20 22:08 - crash  (00:09)
_mbsetupuser  console               Tue Sep 20 22:01 - crash  (00:17)
user  console                       Tue Sep 20 22:00 - crash  (00:17)
reboot    ~                         Tue Sep 20 21:59

You can check any misbehavior of last/ASL with Terminal.app:
Open a new shell and enter sudo opensnoop -n last, then open a tab with ⌘T and enter last.
In the first tab you should get something like:
  UID    PID COMM          FD PATH
  501   7281 last           3 /dev/dtracehelper
  501   7281 last           3 /var/log/asl
  501   7281 last           4 /var/log/asl/2016.12.04.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          -1 /var/log/asl/2016.12.04.U0.asl
  501   7281 last           5 /var/log/asl/2016.12.04.U501.asl
  501   7281 last           6 /var/log/asl/2016.12.05.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          -1 /var/log/asl/2016.12.05.U0.asl
  501   7281 last           7 /var/log/asl/2016.12.05.U501.asl
  501   7281 last           8 /var/log/asl/2016.12.06.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          -1 /var/log/asl/2016.12.06.U0.asl
  501   7281 last           9 /var/log/asl/2016.12.06.U501.asl
  501   7281 last          10 /var/log/asl/2016.12.08.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          -1 /var/log/asl/2016.12.08.U0.asl
  501   7281 last          11 /var/log/asl/2016.12.08.U501.asl
  501   7281 last          12 /var/log/asl/2016.12.09.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          -1 /var/log/asl/2016.12.09.U0.asl
  501   7281 last          13 /var/log/asl/2016.12.09.U501.asl
  501   7281 last          14 /var/log/asl/BB.2017.09.30.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          15 /var/log/asl/BB.2017.10.30.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          16 /var/log/asl/BB.2017.11.30.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          17 /var/log/asl/BB.2017.12.31.G80.asl
  501   7281 last          18 /var/log/asl/Logs
  501   7281 last          18 /var/log/asl/StoreData
  501   7281 last           3 /etc/localtime
  501   7281 last           3 /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC

which shows all files opened/read by last. Quit opensnoop by entering: ^C.
If you don't get a similar output check your ASL subsystem (e.g. asl.conf or the launch daemons com.apple.syslogd/com.apple.aslmanager)/the folder /var/log/asl and repair everything if necessary.


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WORKDIR ijavascript

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The cast of Newsies will perform at the Derry Opera House this weekend only. Tickets can be purchased at www.kids-coop-theatre.org.
The smash-hit Broadway musical Newsies, adapted from the Disney film of the same name, is a vibrant show filled with upbeat music and energetic dancing. Six years after it opened on Broadway, Kids Coop Theatre will present its southern New Hampshire premiere.
Newsies, based on a historical event, tells the story of the Newsboys' Strike of 1899. Jack Kelly, played by Zac Barnaby, and his group of Manhattan newsies stand up for what they believe is right, even if it means having to face the political giant Joseph Pulitzer, played by Ryan Geary.
One of the newsies in this show is portrayed by Garrett Olsen, and he notes that the musical showcases the importance of sticking together against the odds.
Zac Barnaby (Jack Kelly) agrees with Olsen, saying one of the major themes in the show is the difference between the older and the younger generations.
Barnaby has an additional perspective. He thinks that one of the messages of Newsies has to do with being a dreamer.
Jack's friend Crutchie is played by Michael Overko. Overko enjoys the high energy and the strength that is conveyed through the show's music.
One of the other characters in the show is Davey. He and his brother, Les, become newsies at the beginning of the show to support their family after their father is laid off. Davey is played by Michael Hughes. Hughes believes that this story and its message are still powerful and important in the present day, just as they were in 1899.
Olsen also appreciates how this show speaks into today's world.
Newsies opens at the Derry Opera House on November 15 at 7:00 PM. The cast will also perform on Friday, November 16 at 7:00 PM and on Saturday, November 17 at 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Tickets are $13.50 and can be purchased online at www.kids-coop-theatre.org. Some tickets may also be available at the door.


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Quickly building a big lead to Valtteri Bottas in the other Mercedes, Verstappen took his third win of his career, and second win in four races.
While Verstappen was unchallenged throughout, it was a different story for team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who retired after just six laps with a turbo failure.
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The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858- 1932) is the author of The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories (1899), The House Behind the Cedars (1900), The Marrow of Tradition (1901), and Colonel's Dream (1905).
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Uładzimir Ilicz Michasiou (, , Władimir Iljicz Michasiow; ur. 14 października 1949 w Sosnówce w rejonie szkłowskim) – białoruski polityk, w latach 2008–2012 deputowany do Izby Reprezentantów Zgromadzenia Narodowego Republiki Białorusi IV kadencji.

Życiorys
Urodził się 14 października 1949 roku we wsi Sosnówka, w rejonie szkłowskim obwodu mohylewskiego Białoruskiej SRR, ZSRR. Ukończył budownictwo przemysłowe i cywilne w Białoruskim Instytucie Inżynierów Transportu Kolejowego i ekonomię polityczną w Mińskiej Wyższej Szkole Partyjnej. Pracę rozpoczął jako mistrz pociągu budowlano-montażowego Nr 105 w przedsiębiorstwie "Kaztransstroj", w mieście Murom w Rosyjskiej FSRR. Odbył służbę wojskową w szeregach Armii Radzieckiej. Następnie pracował jako mistrz Zarządu Kompletowania Wytwórczo-Technologicznego, mistrz, majster Zarządu Budowlanego Nr 139, starszy majster Zarządu Budowlanego Nr 61 Przedsiębiorstwa Budowlanego Nr 10 w Homlu, starszy majster Zarządu Kompletowania Wytwórczo-Technologicznego w Budowlano-Montażowego Zjednoczenia "Gomielpromstroj", kierownik Wydziału Gospodarki Komunalnej Homelskiego Miejskiego Komitetu Wykonawczego, główny inżynier Zarządu Gospodarki Mieszkaniowo-Komunalnej Homelskiego Miejskiego Komitetu Wykonawczego, zastępca kierownika Produkcyjnego Zarządu Gospodarki Mieszkaniowo-Komunalnej Obwodu Homelskiego, zastępca przewodniczącego Homelskiego Miejskiego Komitetu Wykonawczego, kierownik Zarządu Gospodarki Mieszkaniowo-Komunalnej Homelskiego Obwodowego Komitetu Wykonawczego.

27 października 2008 roku został deputowanym do Izby Reprezentantów Zgromadzenia Narodowego Republiki Białorusi IV kadencji z Rohaczowskiego Okręgu Wyborczego Nr 45. Pełnił w niej funkcję zastępcy przewodniczącego Stałej Komisji ds. Polityki Mieszkaniowej, Budownictwa, Handlu i Prywatyzacji. Od 13 listopada 2008 roku był członkiem Narodowej Grupy Republiki Białorusi w Unii Międzyparlamentarnej.

Udział w fałszerstwach wyborczych
W czasie wyborów prezydenckich w grudniu 2010 roku Uładzimir Michasiou pełnił funkcję przewodniczącego Homelskiej Terytorialnej Komisji Wyborczej. Za domniemany udział w fałszowaniu wyników wyborów, 2 lutego 2011 roku otrzymał zakaz wjazdu na terytorium Unii Europejskiej.

Odznaczenia
 Honorowy tytuł "Zasłużony Pracownik Sektora Usług Republiki Białorusi";
 Gramota Pochwalna Prezydium Rady Najwyższej Republiki Białorusi;
 Gramota Pochwalna Rady Ministrów Republiki Białorusi.

Uwagi

Przypisy

Absolwenci Białoruskiego Instytutu Inżynierów Transportu Kolejowego
Absolwenci Mińskiej Wyższej Szkoły Partyjnej
Deputowani do Izby Reprezentantów Zgromadzenia Narodowego Republiki Białorusi IV kadencji
Odznaczeni Gramotą Pochwalną Rady Ministrów Republiki Białorusi
Urodzeni w 1949

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