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I'm presenting my masterclass "Learning to Learn" for the percussion students at Chapman University. For more information, contact Nicholas Terry.
Transient Canvas performs selections from our Wired program with Sarah Belle Reid and Stephanie Cheng Smith.
Transient Canvas presents a masterclass on their electronic repertoire and contemporary chamber music at Cal Poly Pomona.
Transient Canvas performs music by Lucy McKnight, Lansing McLoskey, Brian Sears, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Transient Canvas reads pieces by student composers at the University of Southern California.
Transient Canvas reads pieces by student composers at Chapman University.
Transient Canvas performs music by Lansing McLoskey, Osnat Netzer, Brian Sears, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Hinge performs music by Chaya Czernowin, Philippe Hurel, Louis Andriessen, Dan VanHassel, and Björk.
Transient Canvas performs our Wired 2.0 program at the University of Southern Maine featuring music by Kirsten Volness, Dan VanHassel, Marissa Hickman, Peter Van Zandt Lane, David Ibbett, and Brian Sears.
The Brockton Symphony Orchestra performs music by Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Berlioz.
Featuring works by Chaya Czernowin, Louis Andriessen, Dan VanHassel, and Bjork.
Ensemble / Parallax performs music by Per Bloland, Pierre Boulez, and Peyman Farzinpour.
Transient Canvas is a guest ensemble for Longy's summer program for new chamber music and composition. We'll present new works by the students — concert date TBA!
Transient Canvas performs new works by CNMF students.
The Orchestra of Indian Hill performs music by Vaughn Williams, Rautavaara, and Beethoven.
Times Two - "Big Dog Little Dog" x "Hinge"
Times Two Concert Series presents the NYC-based duo Big Dog Little Dog alongside Hinge. Hinge will perform music by Louis Andriessen, Chaya Czernowin, Philippe Hurel, and Dan VanHassel.
Ensemble / Parallax performs Berio's Folksongs alongside pieces by Tufts composition faculty and students.
Programing includes Kristin Kuster's Ando: Light Against Shade with works by Mozart, Messiaen, Musgrave, and Fauré.
Transient Canvas performs one of our Collage programs featuring music by Anthony Green, Osnat Netzer, Brian Sears, Kirsten Volness, and Dan VanHassel.
I'm presenting my class "Learning to Learn" for percussion students at East Carolina University. For more information, contact Travis Alford.
Transient Canvas gives a guest lecture on career development for Oberlin Conservatory students as part of Dana Jessen's "Ensemble Startups" class.
Hosted by the Modern Music Guild, Transient Canvas performs one of our Collage concerts featuring music by Anthony Green, Osnat Netzer, Brian Sears, Kirsten Volness, and Dan VanHassel.
Ensemble / Parallax premieres Gabriele Vanoni's chamber opera Ellis, featuring soprano Mary MacKenzie.
Marimba masterclass for the percussion studio at the University of Central Missouri. For more information, contact Alex Smith.
Transient Canvas performs Wired 2.0 at the University of Central Missouri. Featuring electroacoustic music by Aaron Cecchini-Butler, Marissa Hickman, David Ibbett, Brian Sears, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Transient Canvas performs Wired 2.0 at the University of Missouri. Featuring electroacoustic music by Aaron Cecchini-Butler, Marissa Hickman, David Ibbett, Brian Sears, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Marimba masterclass for the percussion studio at the University of Missouri. For more information, contact Megan Arns.
Transient Canvas performs Wired 2.0 at St. Lawrence University. Featuring electroacoustic music by Kirsten Volness, Dan VanHassel, David Ibbett, Marissa Hickman, Aaron Cecchini-Butler, and Brian Sears.
Music on the Edge presents Transient Canvas' concert program, Wired 2.0. Featuring electroacoustic music by Kirsten Volness, Dan VanHassel, David Ibbett, Marissa Hickman, Aaron Cecchini-Butler, and Brian Sears.
Boston Percussion Group performs Nat Stookey's Junkestra along with music by Dan VanHassel, Steve Reich, Björk, and more.
The New Hampshire Master Chorale performs Craig Hella Johnson's epic Considering Matthew Shepard to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death in Laramie, WY.
Transient Canvas presents a concert celebrating the release of our second album, Wired, on New Focus Recordings. Featuring music by Kirsten Volness, Peter Van Zandt Lane, David Ibbett, Lainie Fefferman, Rudolf Rojahn, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, and Dan VanHassel.
The Brockton Symphony Orchestra performs music by Copland, Arutiunian, Gounod, and Dvorak.
Transient Canvas joins forces with Boston's finest players to perform William Thomas McKinley's Paintings VII and Poem of Light.
Ensemble / Parallax performs music by Morton Feldman, Luca Francesconi, Iannis Xenakis, Anthony Cornicello, and Peyman Farzinpour.
In collaboration with AgX Boston Film Collective, Ensemble / Parallax provides musical accompaniment to short experimental films by AgX Collective members. Repertoire includes pieces by Toshio Hosokawa, Gabriel Ertzak, and Peyman Farzinpour.
Transient Canvas joins new music groups Zeitgeist (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), No Exit (Cleveland, OH), and Ars Futura (Cleveland, OH) in the world premiere of Andrew Rindfleisch's massive American Monster. The program also features Greg D'Alessio's Running With The Devil for video and pianist Geoffrey Burleson performing Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated.
Doppelgänger Dance Collective & Ensemble Warhol present Men and Their Machines - scene 5 from the first act of Mark Warhol's JEANNE. Featuring Anna Ward, soprano.
The Great Music on Sundays concert series presents Boston Percussion Group performing music by Dan VanHassel, David Ibbett, Dave Brubeck, and more!
Transient Canvas returns to Avaloch Farm to work with composer Jennifer Jolley on a new electro-acoustic piece.
Featuring Stravinsky, Sibelius, and Rachmaninov.
Featuring Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, Overture to Candide, One the Waterfront Suite, and Mass.
Free concert for the whole family.
Music by Jim Stephenson alongside Carl Nielsen and Beethoven.
NHMF's season begins with three familiar composers: Wagner, Hindemit, and Tchaikovsky.
Performing Osvaldo Golijov's Mariel for marimba and cello on a post-concert cabaret!
Split bill with New Morse Code. Music of Crystal Pascucci, Brenna Noonan, Emily Koh, and Barbara White.
Members of Boston Percussion Group perform Tan Dun's Elegy: Snow in June.
TC performs Year Without a Summer by Kirsten Volness and Epidermis by Dan VanHassel.
Featuring world premieres by this year's composition fellows: Cindy Giron, Todd Kitchen, and Aaron Cecchini-Butler. Plus works by 2017 Alba Composition Fellows Lucy McKnight and Dylan Findley.
The 2017-18 Composition Fellowship is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Harvard Musical Association's George Henschel Community Award. This performance is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Mass Cultural Council, and administered by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture.
Transient Canvas performs a set on "Chamber Music Grab-Bag II" at the 2018 New Music Gathering. We're performing our two 2017-18 electroacoustic commissions by Kirsten Volness and Dan VanHassel.
The Manchester Choral Society presents Haydn's The Seasons under the direction of Dan Perkins.
Performing new works by Brandeis graduate student composers.
Ensemble / Parallax performs music by Toshio Hosokawa, Robert HP Platz, and Gabriel Erkoreka with world premieres by Gabriele Vanoni and Peyman Farzinpour.
The Orchestra of Indian Hill presents music my Ernescu, Da Falla, Vaughn Williams, and more.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project performs music by Yu-Hui Chang, Huang Ruo, Anthony De Ritis, and Lei Liang.
Transient Canvas performs excerpts from their electroacoustic program Wired. Music by Lainie Fefferman, David Ibbett, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Transient Canvas premieres a new work by Ryan Carraher on a concert featuring Tufts graduate and undergraduate composers.
Transient Canvas presents music from our Wired program as featured performers at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United State's 2018 National Conference. Awarded the 2018 Performer-Curated Concert, our program includes music by Kirsten Volness, Peter Van Zandt Lane, David Ibbett, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, and Dan VanHassel.
Transient Canvas performs music by Lainie Fefferman, David Ibbett, Lansing McLoskey, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness on a new concert series paired with the BPL's Lowell Institute Lecture Series. The concert series is curated by Beau Kenyon.
Transient Canvas performs electroacoustic works by Lansing McLoskey, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness along with new works by Brandeis graduate composition students.
The Equilibrium Concert Series presents a split-bill concert featuring our resident ensemble and new music super hero Kathleen Supové. The EQ Ensemble will perform works English horn, marimba, and cello by New England-based composers Ashley Fure, Curtis Hughes, and Aaron Jay Myers. Kathleen Supové will perform a set of contemporary pieces for piano and electronics featuring music by Marti Epstein.
Sound Icon presents pieces by Billone, Gervasoni, and Sciarrino.
I'll be joining violinist Sharan Leventhal in the world premiere of David Vess' daydreamer, singing strange songs for violin & marimba.
We will be reading music by UC Berkeley undergraduate composition students of Ken Ueno.
Marimba masterclass for Michael Downing's percussion students at Fresno Pacific University. This masterclass is generally sponsored by Marimba One.
Transient Canvas performs excerpts from our electroacoustic show Wired. Music by David Ibbett, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Rudolf Rojahn, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Transient Canvas performs works by David Ibbett and Robert Nance.
Transient Canvas presents a concert/lecture on their repertoire for students at California State University Monterey Bay.
Marimba masterclass for Galen Lemon's students at San Jose State. This masterclass is generously sponsored by Marimba One.
Transient Canvas performs acoustic works from our Collage program, including music by Joseph Colombo, Lainie Fefferman, Keith Kirchoff, Emily Koh, Crystal Pascucci, and Matthew Welch.
UC Berkely's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies presents Transient Canvas' full Wired program with music by Lainie Fefferman, David Ibbett, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Rudolf Rojahn, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Marimba masterclass for Michael Downing's percussion students at the University of the Pacific. This masterclass is generously sponsored by Marimba One.
Transient Canvas presents our electroacoustic show Wired with music by Lainie Fefferman, David Ibbett, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Rudolf Rojahn, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Transient Canvas performs our electroacoustic show Wired with music by David Ibbett, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Rudolf Rojahn, Mishca Salkind-Pearl, Dan VanHassel, and Kirsten Volness.
Presenting our concert program Collage with music by Daniel T. Lewis, Stefanie Lubkowski, Matthew Welch, Tina Tallon, and Lansing McLoskey.
Original Gravity Concert Series hosts a fundraising concert/party featuring beers from six remarkable local breweries paired with live performances of contemporary music. The breweries in question include Exhibit A Brewing, Cambridge Brewing Company, Aeronaut, Bone Up Brewing, Springdale by Jack's Abbey, and Notch Brewery. I'll be performing Dan VanHassel's fzzl for snare drum and electronics.


On March 15, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that its staff will host a public forum focusing on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital assets on May 31, 2019. The forum is being organized by the agency's Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub) and was announced in connection with the launch of FinHub last year. FinHub is committed to active engagement with market participants on new financial technologies. The forum is the second such forum to be hosted by the agency, will feature panelists from industry and academia, and is designed to foster greater communication and understanding around issues involving DLT and digital assets. Panelists will explore such topics as initial coin offerings, digital asset platforms, DLT innovations, and how these technologies impact investors and the markets.
On March 15, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that they are on the verge of proposing reforms to rules governing advertising, a regulation that tends to vex investment advisers. Despite the 35-day government shutdown earlier this year, the agency is still on track to release amendments to the advertising regulation in the "very near future," Dalia Blass, director of the SEC Division of Investment Management, said Friday at an Investment Adviser Association conference in Washington.


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The Mountbatten Diaries
The First-Tier Tribunal of the United Kingdom is to hear a petition by British author Andrew Lownie seeking full disclosure of the Mountbatten Diaries. He has alleged that Mountbatten met Cyril Radcliffe, who headed the Boundary Commission to demarcate the India-Pakistan border, and Christopher Beaumont (secretary of the Boundary Commission) on July 12, 1947. Another allegation is that the British government opted to withhold that information as it might reveal Mountbatten 'influenced' India's partition, which could affect UK-India relationship.
According to the media, the case is against the UK government to fully disclose the remaining confidential diaries and correspondence of Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The Mountbatten Dairies (termed Broadlands Archive) are held by the University of Southampton's archival section. In 2019, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) had ruled that the entire Broadlands Archive (33 files, 1948-60) including letters from Lady Mountbatten to Jawaharlal Nehru with copies of his letters to her be made available to Lownie. That decision of the ICO has since been appealed, which is now being heard in the First-Tier Tribunal.
Cyril Radcliffe arrived in India on July 8, 1947 and was given five weeks to draw the borders between independent India and the newly created Pakistan. Radcliffe had never visited India earlier and probably never seen a map of India. He chaired two boundary commissions, one for Punjab and one for Bengal, consisting of two Muslims and two non-Muslims each – none being from military or with military background.
Over a Century of British rule in India with atrocities galore (Black Hole of Calcutta and Jallianwala Bagh just two examples), massive loot and after killing Indian industry infrastructure, five weeks to Partition the Country by Radcliffe who had been conscripted in World War I but found fit only for Labour Corps on account of "poor eyesight". He would have been primed with British guile and pumped with deceit for the job of heading the Boundary Commission and 'briefed' that Pakistan was the favoured child to stop communist expansion.
Mountbatten declared Independence on August 15, 1947, two days 'before' the resulting boundary award was announced on August 17. Radcliffe sailed back to England on August 18, Partition along the Radcliffe Line ended in violence that killed one million people and displaced 12 million.That blood soaked hands of the British including Mountbatten were witnessed by the world. But British treachery did not end there.
On Partition of India, the British contrived an invasion of India to capture Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) through Mountbatten (Governor General of independent India), Lockhart (C-in-C Indian Army) and Douglas Gracey (C-in-C Pakistan army). The invaders were largely Razakars with sprinkling of regulars, all armed by the Pakistan army while British officers of the Pakistan army guided the Pakistani invaders into the Shyok and Nubra Valleys of Ladakh but the Nubra Guards of Ladakh fought and made them retreat.
The British government's dictum to Douglas Gracey was to let India-Pakistan fight but "keep a piece of India", so that both keep fighting in perpetuity. Gracey organized the fall of the Skardu Garrison comprising J&K State Forces which had been holding on for eight months. The complete garrison including women and children were massacred albeit Lt Col Sher Jung Thapa, garrison commander was not killed but taken prisoner since Gracey had known him earlierwhile serving in India. When the Indian Army was going after the retreating Pakistani infiltrators in J&K, Mountbatten and Lockhart persuaded Nehru to call a ceasefire and approach the United Nations for arbitration. This was another trap to make Pakistan party to the contrived dispute on Kashmir, which did not exist since J&K had formally seceded to India. It also gave Pakistan a border with China it never had which changed the strategic equations in the Subcontinent forever.
During the India-Pakistan Karachi Agreement of 1949 held under aegis of the United Nations, the Ceasefire Line (CFL) marked went east only till NJ 9842, beyond which it only said "thence North to the Glaciers" – another mischief contrived by the British. Also, the CFL was marked on a 1:2,50,000 map with thick sketch pen and did not follow the watershed principle. Marking a 1:2,50,000 map with a thick sketch pen itself meant a difference of up to one kilometer at any point – cause for perpetual friction which remains cause for friction to-date even though the CFL was renamed Line of Control (LOC) in 1972.
What the First-Tier Tribunal will rule on Lownie's petition is yet to be seen but Andrew Lownie should not hope for much. As for Mountbatten meeting Cyril Radcliffe and Christopher Beaumont on July 12, 1947, there is no need to look for an entry in the Mountbatten Diaries. As mentioned above, Cyril Radcliffe arrived in India on July 8, 1947 and would have certainly met Mountbatten accompanied by Beaumont or without.
According to another media report, the British government is paying some 600,000 pounds (around $800,000) for the court battle to keep the Mountbatten Diaries of both husband and wife secret. This reportedly is to save any damage to the British royal family and jeopardize UK-India and UK-Pakistan relationships.
In 2011, the University of Southampton had purchased the diaries from the Mountbatten family, using public funds of over 2.8 million pounds with the intention of making the papers widely available – making money in the process?But the university perhaps did not realize the implications of Mountbatten being a member of the British royal family. To expect original documents connected with the royal family would be utopian. The manner in which the death (or assassination?) of Lady Diana was handled is indicative of this.
Louis Mountbatten anyway was just a conduit for treachery of the British government perpetrated on the Indian population and India. If he did influence Radcliffe's actions in the boundary commission, he was obviously acting on behalf of the British government, not of his own volition. The First-Tier Tribunal, therefore, may not be able to give any reprieve to Andrew Lownie beyond perhaps confirming that Mountbatten did meet Radcliffe on July 12, 1947 four days after the latter arrived in India. But this can hardly prove that he 'influenced' the boundary commission.
De-classifying the correspondence between Edwina Mountbatten and Jawahar Lal Nehru too is unlikely unless the British government is sure that it will not affect the royal family in any manner. It is not known what aspects Andrew Lownie is covering in his book (s) but some British author should muster the courage to write about the 'black deeds' of the British while ruling India, for which one prime minister apologizing for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre is only a drop in the ocean. Also, Lownie could get ample inputs including about Mountbatten's role from Indian scholars.
Britain's anti-India stance and bias towards Pakistan spearheaded by the British media and the BBC working directly under Britain's Foreign Office continues unabated. This includes promoting Pakistan's disinformation campaign on Kashmir. The surprising part is British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on one hand seeks free trade agreement with India and better defence ties but simultaneously is meddling in India's internal affairs. His inflammatory letter to British parliamentarians accusing India of land-grabbing in J&K and promoting exclusive Hindu settlementsis ludicrous. There is a viewpoint that his disheveled hair signals his confused muddled thought process but perhaps he should get his head examined.
Boris needs to read about his ancestors ruling India looting some $45 trillion between 1765 and 1938 and about 1.8 billion Indians dying because of egregious deprivation between 1757 and 1947; deadly impact of which continues to-date. Moreover, the era of sun not setting over the British Empire has gone long back and taking a piggy back on the back of America cannot replace that. So it is time for the British to get off the high horse and get down to mother earth.
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Warren Low — né le  à Pittsburgh (Pennsylvanie), mort le  à Los Angeles (quartier de Woodland Hills, Californie) — est un monteur américain, membre fondateur de l'ACE.

Biographie
Warren Low débute comme assistant-monteur sur deux films sortis respectivement en 1934 et 1935, le second étant Le Songe d'une nuit d'été de William Dieterle et Max Reinhardt.

Ses trois premiers films comme monteur à part entière sortent en 1936, dont The White Angel (avec Kay Francis et Ian Hunter) du même William Dieterle, qu'il retrouvera à plusieurs reprises par la suite. Le dernier est Willard (avec Bruce Davison et Elsa Lanchester) de Daniel Mann, sorti en 1971.

Entretemps — au sein de la Warner Bros. jusqu'en 1944, puis de la Paramount Pictures —, citons La Vie d'Émile Zola de William Dieterle (1937, avec Paul Muni et Gale Sondergaard), La Lettre de William Wyler (1940, avec Bette Davis et Herbert Marshall), La Femme à l'écharpe pailletée de Robert Siodmak (1950, avec Barbara Stanwyck et Wendell Corey), La Rose tatouée de Daniel Mann (1955, avec Anna Magnani et Burt Lancaster) et Cent dollars pour un shérif d'Henry Hathaway (1969, avec John Wayne et Kim Darby).

Durant sa carrière, il obtient quatre nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage (sans en gagner), dont deux pour La Lettre et La Rose tatouée précités.

Warren Low est l'un des membres fondateurs, en 1950, de l'American Cinema Editors (ACE).

Filmographie partielle

(comme monteur, sauf mention contraire)
 1935 : Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Dream) de William Dieterle et Max Reinhardt (assistant monteur)
 1936 : The White Angel de William Dieterle
 1936 : Satan Met a Lady de William Dieterle
 1937 : Le Grand Garrick (The Great Garrick) de James Whale
 1937 : La Vie d'Émile Zola (The Life of Emile Zola) de William Dieterle
 1938 : Nuits de bal (The Sisters) d'Anatole Litvak
 1938 : L'Insoumise (Jezebel) de William Wyler
 1938 : Le Mystérieux docteur Clitterhouse (The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse) d'Anatole Litvak
 1939 : Juarez de William Dieterle
 1940 : La Lettre (The Letter) de William Wyler
 1940 : Une dépêche Reuter (A Dispatch from Reuter's) de William Dieterle
 1940 : L'Étrangère (All This, and Heaven Too) d'Anatole Litvak
 1940 : La Balle magique du Docteur Ehrlich (Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet) de William Dieterle
 1941 : One Foot in Heaven d'Irving Rapper
 1941 : Shining Victory d'Irving Rapper
 1942 : Les Folles Héritières (The Gay Sisters) d'Irving Rapper
 1942 : Une femme cherche son destin (Now, Voyager) d'Irving Rapper
 1943 : La Petite Exilée (Princess O'Rourke) de Norman Krasna
 1947 : La Furie du désert (Desert Fury) de Lewis Allen
 1947 : L'Heure du crime (Johnny O'Clock) de Robert Rossen
 1948 : Raccrochez, c'est une erreur (Sorry, Wrong Number) d'Anatole Litvak
 1949 : La Corde de sable (Rope of Sand) de William Dieterle
 1949 : Les Mirages de la peur (The Accused) de William Dieterle
 1950 : La Rue de traverse (Paid in Full) de William Dieterle
 1950 : La Femme à l'écharpe pailletée (The File of Thelma Jordan) de Robert Siodmak
 1950 : Les Amants de Capri (September Affair) de William Dieterle
 1950 : La Main qui venge (Dark City) de William Dieterle
 1951 : Bon sang ne peut mentir (That's My Boy) d'Hal Walker
 1951 : Pékin Express (Peking Express) de William Dieterle
 1952 : Parachutiste malgré lui (Jumping Jack) de Norman Taurog
 1952 : La Polka des marins (Sailor Beware) d'Hal Walker
 1952 : Reviens petite Sheba (Come Back Little Sheba) de Daniel Mann
 1952 : Le Cabotin et son compère (The Stooge) de Norman Taurog
 1953 : Fais-moi peur (Scared Stiff) de George Marshall
 1953 : Un galop du diable (Money from Home) de George Marshall
 1954 : Le clown est roi (3 Ring Circus) de Joseph Pevney
 1955 : La Rose tatouée (The Rose Tattoo) de Daniel Mann
 1955 : Artistes et Modèles (Artists and Models) de Frank Tashlin
 1956 : La Mauvaise Graine (The Bad Seed) de Mervyn LeRoy
 1956 : Le Faiseur de pluie (The Rainmaker) de Joseph Anthony
 1957 : Car sauvage est le vent (Wild is the Wind) de George Cukor
 1957 : Règlements de comptes à OK Corral () de John Sturges
 1958 : Vague de chaleur () de Daniel Mann et George Cukor
 1958 : Bagarres au King Créole (King Creole) de Michael Curtiz
 1958 : En lettres de feu (Career) de Joseph Anthony
 1959 : Le Dernier Train de Gun Hill (Last Train from Gun Hill) de John Sturges

 1960 : Mince de planète (Visit to a Small Planet) de Norman Taurog
 1960 : Café Europa en uniforme (G.I. Blues) de Norman Taurog
 1961 : Il a suffi d'une nuit (All in a Night's Work) de Joseph Anthony
 1961 : Sous le ciel bleu de Hawaï (Blue Hawaii) de Norman Taurog
 1961 : Été et Fumées (Summer and Smoke) de Peter Glenville
 1962 : Des filles... encore des filles (Girls! Girls! Girls!) de Norman Taurog
 1962 : Citoyen de nulle part (A Girl Named Tamiko) de John Sturges
 1963 : L'Idole d'Acapulco (Fun in Acapulco) de Richard Thorpe
 1963 : Le Divan de l'infidélité (Wives and Lovers) de John Rich
 1964 : L'Homme à tout faire (Roustabout) de John Rich
 1965 : Les Quatre Fils de Katie Elder (The Sons of Katie Elder) d'Henry Hathaway
 1966 : Paradis hawaïen (Paradise Hawaiian Style) de Michael D. Moore
 1967 : L'Or des pistoleros (Waterhole No. 3) de William A. Graham
 1968 : Cinq cartes à abattre (5 Card Stud) d'Henry Hathaway
 1968 : Will Penny, le solitaire (Will Penny) de Tom Gries
 1969 : Krakatoa à l'est de Java (Krakatoa: East of Java) de Bernard L. Kowalski
 1969 : Cent dollars pour un shérif (True Grit) d'Henry Hathaway
 1971 : Willard de Daniel Mann

Distinctions (sélection)
 Quatre nominations à l'Oscar du meilleur montage :
 En 1941, pour La Lettre ;
 En 1953, pour Reviens petite Sheba ;
 En 1956, pour La Rose tatouée ;
 Et en 1958, pour Règlements de comptes à OK Corral.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Monteur américain
Naissance en août 1905
Naissance à Pittsburgh
Décès en juillet 1989
Décès à 83 ans
Décès à Woodland Hills

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Q: Use PowerShell Add Web Browser Control, Prompt Script Error I am trying to add a web browser control using powershell, but I am experiencing the following problem, any suggestions are welcome, thanks in advance
1.Some simple web pages can be displayed normally
2.But for html5 web pages, or web pages with flash controls, they can't load properly, showing script errors.
3.If I use IE browser to open the above three pages directly, I can open them successfully.
The following GIF image shows the loading of three web pages

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    [void][reflection.assembly]::Load('System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089')
    #endregion Import Assemblies

    [System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()
    $form1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Form'
    $webbrowser1 = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser'
    $buttonFlashWebUnableToOpen = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'
    $buttonH5WebUnableToOpenPro = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'
    $buttonSimpleWebCanOpenNorm = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'
    $InitialFormWindowState = New-Object 'System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState'

    $form1_Load = {
        #TODO: Initialize Form Controls here

    }

    function Set-WebBrowserEmulation
    {
        param
        (
            [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
            [string]$ExecutableName = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName([System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName)
        )

        #region Get IE Version
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Current Partnerships
Underground Railroad/Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site Collaborative
The Allegheny Portage Railroad (APRR) is one of the earliest marvels of civil engineering in the U.S. Completed in March 1834, it was the Commonwealth's solution to the "problem" of the Allegheny Mountains in its quest to move people and goods between the Eastern cities and western frontier via the Main Line of Public Works. To surmount the Alleghenies, engineers built a series of ten inclines, five ascending and five descending, from the Hollidaysburg Canal Basin on the eastern slope to the Johnstown Canal Basin on the west. Stationary steam engines at the top of each incline pulled rail cars carrying canal boats up and over the mountains with ropes. From 1834-1854 the APRR served as an essential—if terrifying—feature the main thoroughfare from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and back.
"Occasionally the rails are laid upon the extreme verge of the giddy precipice and looking down from the carriage window, the traveler gazes sheer down without a stone or scrap of fence between into the mountain depths below."
— Charles Dickens, on traveling the APRR in the early 1840s
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site (ALPO) is located in Gallitzin, PA at the summit of the Allegheny Mountains. In addition to preserving the history of the portage railroad, ALPO has been designated a Network to Freedom Site. Evidence suggests a clear connection between the Main Line Canal/APRR transportation system and the Underground Railroad (UGRR) during the high point of its activity.
Healthy Blair County Coalition
Pittsburgh-to-Harrisburg Main Line Canal Greenway Collaborative
Underground Railroad in Central Pennsylvania Digital Mapping Project (Frederick)
This project documents UGRR activity in central Pennsylvania and populates a multi-state GIS database to map UGRR-related sites, events, and personalities.
Digital Story Maps and Interpretive History through Multi-Media (Mohammed)
In a multi-phase project, digital story maps and other multi-media venues such as 3D technology are being employed to broaden the reach and deepen the understanding of publics about the history and culture surrounding the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Phase I began with the creation of a story map for Hollidaysburg Canal Basin Park. Phase II will include refining the original map and connecting it to new multimedia enhancements for ALPO and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial, ALPO's sister site.


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Lankford Statement on Lebanon Explosion
WASHINGTON DC- Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today issued a statement on the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon:
"My family grieves with the thousands of affected families in Lebanon. Prior to yesterday's tragedy, Lebanon was at a critical point due to the economic and security challenges facing the Lebanese people, worsened by regional terrorism, the Syrian civil war, financial mismanagement and a global pandemic. In the aftermath of yesterday's explosion, the country faces a new set of challenges to overcome. The Lebanese people deserve a thorough and transparent investigation into the cause of this horrible explosion.
"As Lebanon responds, the US should offer any support we can give in the investigation and stand with the Lebanese people so that bad actors like Iran cannot exploit yesterday's tragedy to perpetuate regional or sectarian conflicts. Lebanon has been a beacon for religious diversity and pluralism in the region for decades. A stable and secure Lebanon is in the best national security interest of the US and the whole region. We stand readily available to assist the people of Lebanon in the days ahead."
As a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, Lankford has been a leading advocate for regional peace. He most recently traveled to Lebanon in 2019 to advocate for a strong US-Lebanese partnership.


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Miss Astrid's 'Striptease Séance' Will Have a Celebrity Stage Kitten
April 9, 2019 By Bradley Spinelli
(Photo: David Byrd)
Do you know Miss Astrid? The question is the Downtown equivalent to the Williamsburg litmus test query, "Remember Cokie's?" Your answer speaks volumes about how long you've been around and how much realness you've gotten yourself into. Miss Astrid, née Kate Valentine, was a member of the LA burlesque troupe The Velvet Hammer, one of the major groups often cited as the edge of the knife in the burlesque revival of the 1990s (along with New York's Billie Madley and Dutch Weismann's Follies). With her own vaudeville review, The Va Va Voom Room ("Best Burlesque Show in NYC – New York magazine") Astrid rocked such bygone venues as Fez under the Time Cafe, Show World, and The Zipper Factory.
Now Miss Astrid is back! Word on the street is that she got a lifelong, incurable condition (babies) that took her out of the circuit for a bit, but last summer she wowed and dazzled with a don't-call-it-a-comeback nostalgia show, "The Bad Girls of 90's Burlesque," at Sideshows by the Seashore on Coney Island. The show felt like a rebirth, featuring Coney icon Bambi the Mermaid and 2000s burlesque stalwarts like Peekaboo Point, Madame Rosebud, and erstwhile New Yorker Anita Cookie— and, of course, true '90s badgirl Bonnie Dunn.
That event feels more profound now, as a mere seven months later, the burlesque community mourns the untimely passing of Bonnie Dunn. She ran Le Scandal in midtown, touted as "the longest-running variety burlesque show in New York City." Dunn had been private about her long illness, still undisclosed, and the sudden loss rippled through the NY burlesque scene. I asked Astrid about dealing with losses in the community, or better serving people while they're still here, and she answered in character, in true deadpan Astrid brevity: "I hate hippies, but one thing they said is true: Be here now."
Astrid's resurrection from retirement is Miss Astrid's Mystery Box, a coproduction by Astrid's Electric Valentine company and Thirsty Girl Productions (New York Burlesque Festival). It's billed as a "striptease séance," and when I asked Astrid what that meant, she said "Only way to find out, is to come."
A limited (three-time) monthly event, the April 13th show features Tiger Bay, Fancy Feast, David Ilku, Fem Appeal, and Tanya Gange; the May 11th show has a cast stacked with familiar names: Tansy, Broadway Brassy, Cheeky Lane, Evil Hate Monkey, and Bradford Scobie, all likely to bring their A-games for Astrid.
The most shocking and delicious aspect of Astrid's new show is the stage kitten. In modern burlesque shows, the stage kitten (aka stage panther) is the person who comes onstage after each act to pick up the "stripper droppings," the clothes and props left onstage by the performer. This often involves slow and exaggerated bending over, with commentary from the MC that can vary from Murray Hill's outrageous flirting to Miss Astrid's cold and silent "get the fuck off my stage" one-eyed glares. Kittening is a spot for newbies. It's entry-level/intern labor, a way to squeeze a tassel in the door.
So it's BONKERS, BANANAS that the stage kitten for this show is: Dirty Martini. If you know one name in modern burlesque, it's probably hers, and I don't know if she ever kittened. To be sure, I asked her, and she purred, "Mmmm no, I've never been a kitten. We'll see where it goes! Maybe I could have a new career!" which, if the correspondence hadn't been by email, would certainly be delivered with Dirty's singular boisterous laugh. Kitten? Dirty was too busy being one of the first standout stars of the '90s New York burlesque resurgence, going on to win Miss Exotic World, get photographed by Karl Lagerfeld, star in a movie that went to Cannes, tour with Dita Von Teese, etc. Can't wait to see her kitten.
Miss Astrid's Mystery Box runs second Saturdays at Bedlam, 40 Avenue C, April 13th, May 11th and June 8th.
Bradley Spinelli is the author of the novels "The Painted Gun" and "Killing Williamsburg." He is a co-founder of BurlesqueBeat.com.
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A growing body of evidence suggests that psychological factors are — literally — heartfelt, and can contribute to cardiac risk.
Stress from challenging situations and events plays a significant role in cardiovascular symptoms and outcome, particularly heart attack risk. Depression, anxiety, anger, hostility, and social isolation also affect cardiovascular health. Each of these factors heightens your chances of developing heart problems. But emotional issues are often intertwined: people who have one commonly have another.
Workplace stress. Women whose work is highly stressful have a 40% increased risk of heart disease (including heart attacks and the need for coronary artery surgery) compared with their less-stressed colleagues. These findings come from the Women's Health Study (WHS), which included more than 17,000 female health professionals.
For the study, researchers defined job strain as a combination of demand (the amount, pace, and difficulty of the work) and control (the ability to make work-related decisions or be creative at work). Earlier studies found similar trends among men: one documented a twofold higher risk of newly diagnosed heart disease among men who felt the rewards they received at work weren't compatible with their effort.
Financial stress. Heart attacks rose as the stock market crashed, according to a 2010 report in The American Journal of Cardiology. Researchers at Duke University reviewed medical records for 11,590 people who had undergone testing for heart disease during a three-year period, and then compared monthly heart attack rates with stock market levels. Heart attacks increased steadily during one eight-month period — September 2008 to March 2009 — that was particularly bad for the stock market.
Caregiver stress. Women who cared for a disabled spouse for at least nine hours a week were significantly more at risk of having a heart attack or dying from heart disease compared with women who had no caregiving duties, according to findings from the Nurses' Health Study. This large study followed more than 54,000 female nurses over a four-year period.
Disaster-related stress. Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, researchers asked 2,700 American adults to complete an online survey of physical and mental health. People who had high levels of stress immediately after the attacks were nearly twice as likely to develop high blood pressure and more than three times as likely to develop heart problems during the following two years compared with those who had low stress levels.
Earthquakes also trigger stress-related heart problems — not just in their immediate wake but for years afterward, some research has shown. Sudden cardiac deaths rose sharply immediately after the 1994 earthquake in the Los Angeles area, and hospitalization for heart attacks jumped on the day of the 1995 temblor near Kobe, Japan. A longer-term follow-up of another major earthquake in Japan (Niigata-Chuetsu in 2004) revealed that death rates from heart attacks rose during the three years after the quake compared with rates during the five years prior to the disaster.
Get enough sleep. Lack of sound sleep can affect your mood, mental alertness, energy level, and physical health.
Exercise. Physical activity alleviates stress and reduces your risk of becoming depressed — and it is good for your all-around health.
Learn relaxation techniques. Meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, deep breathing exercises, and yoga are mainstays of stress relief. Your local hospital or community center may offer meditation or yoga classes, or you can learn about these techniques from books or videos.
Learn time-management skills. These skills can help you juggle work and family demands.
Confront stressful situations head-on. Don't let stressful situations fester. Hold family problem-solving sessions and use negotiation skills at work.
Nurture yourself. Treat yourself to a massage. Truly savor an experience: eat slowly, focusing on each bite of that orange, or soak up the warm rays of the sun or the scent of blooming flowers during a walk outdoors. Take a nap. Enjoy the sounds of music you find calming.


Loot boxes: Are they ever appropriate?
Loot boxes have become the new sweetheart of game developers looking to make a little extra cash. Largely full of cosmetics, and earned by playing the game or using real money they have become the latest battle ground in what is being heralded by some as a crusade on Micro Transactions. With Shadow of War, the upcoming sequel to Shadow of Mordor (inventive title guys) the debate has been handed a new battleground. Lets take a closer look at the differences between loot boxes in Blizzard's Overwatch and Warner Brothers fast approaching title, Shadow of War.
Whilst Micro Transactions have at this point become a long-established part of the free to play games industry, it is only more recently that they have made their way into full price titles. Overwatch is a prime example of this; the game which launched for full retail price was itself the centre of loot box controversy. The loot boxes themselves however were easily attainable by playing and had no impact on gameplay. As such there was no non cosmetic incentive for people to purchase them. What changed with Overwatch and For Honor was that paying a set price for the item you wanted became a thing of the past. Instead you would buy a loot box and get something randomly generated out of it. This in many ways feels like you are giving people less for their money as they could receive four items that they will never use. Is this gambling? Well the comparison can and has been drawn and it is easy to see why. Opening one can either be grant great boons or nothing at all (sounds and awful lot like the lottery to me) and the fact you have paid real, not in-game currency can have the same detrimental effect on your wallet.
If this is the case then this sets a dangerous precedent, likely encouraging other developers to follow suit. At least they have offered the somewhat annoying justification that 'nothing is gated by gold' (The rare/real money currency.) Which at least gives me hope that the single player wont be pay to win. This justification seems to beg the question why play the game at all? At very least we can expect the multiplayer to be flooded with players who have spent more money on gaining powerful followers etc than most people can afford. This will likely lead to poor balancing and a system that essentially forces the player to make a choice, pay up or remain noncompetitive . Having already charged the full retail price for the game, it feels rather depressingly that Warner Brothers are suggesting they don't really care about people enjoying the new and improved experience of the Nemesis system, providing they make more money. All in all its safe to say that this has not been a popular move by Warner Brothers. Losing them a lot of the good will that their fresh take on the open world RPG had earned them.
What do you think? Are loot boxes ever acceptable? Does the content change of the loot box change your opinion? Let me know in the comments section below.
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Photographer Alan McGee's landscape photographs seek to capture the human feeling behind the image
by Frances Freyberg on April 4, 2019
Photographer Alan McGee of Portola Valley is the featured artist at the Portola Art Gallery in April with an exhibit titled "Woodlands." The show features photographs from the last half century of his explorations in the land adjacent to his home. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, April 13, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at the Gallery (Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Rd., Menlo Park).
"The landscape near my Portola Valley home is the San Francisquito Creek watershed, which has its headwaters on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains," explains Alan. "The San Francisquito creek, joined by its tributaries Corte Madera and Los Trancos creeks, flows into the San Francisco Bay. The evergreen Coast Live Oak and the deciduous Valley Oak and the creeks were the primary subjects of my early landscape photography. I gave little thought as to why I was attracted to this place other than for its obvious scenic beauty."
Influenced by the work of photographer Aaron Siskind, Alan's approach to photography began to change as he stretched his imagination to view and capture the landscape around him in a new way, and sought to reveal the human feelings behind each image.
"I gradually recognized that, for me, the primary aim of artistic photography, as I believe it is with all art, is the expression of human emotion," he said. "Subject matter plays a secondary role. What I have attempted to achieve in these photographs is a synthesis, joining the natural beauty of the landscape with its more abstract expressive possibilities, often through metaphor, that seem to exist in those landscapes.
"My intention is to engage the viewer in a 'Visual Dialogue,' with the print acting as a catalyst for the viewer's imagination. I have come to the conclusion that the strongest works of art are those that have multiple layers of meaning, and I am passionate about combining feeling and form in equal measure."
"Woodlands" is also the title of Alan's newest book, published in March of 2019. This book is part of Alan's efforts, as an octogenarian, to create a photographic legacy. His first book, published in 2014, is entitled Rodin Revisited, and is placed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and the Cantor Art Museum at Stanford University. The second book is entitled "Beauty & Terror" (2016). He plans to publish two more books and place them in libraries and museums that will make his work accessible beyond his lifespan.
"Coast Live Oak (11×14", photograph, 1998) is one of the featured artworks in Alan McGee's April exhibit "Woodlands" at the Portola Art Gallery."
Alan McGee photographed by Frances Freyberg in 2014; InMenlo file photo
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Movie Review: Texas Chainsaw 3D
By Adam Frazier | @ | Sunday, January 6th, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Directed by John Luessenhop
Written by Debra Sullivan, Adam Marcus
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine Neverson, Tania Raymonde, Bill Moseley, Paul Rae
Lionsgate Entertainment
Rated R | 92 Minutes
Release Date: January 4th, 2013
Directed by John Luessenhop (Takers), Texas Chainsaw 3D feels like the kind of slasher sequel New Line Cinema would have released in the '90s.
Reminiscent of movies like Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Texas Chainsaw 3D is a derivative, low-budget horror flick that digs up a mass grave of dead horses and beats them senseless with all matter of hammers, meat hooks, and chainsaws.
After 2003's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and its 2006 prequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Platinum Dunes decided to abandon the franchise. Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate picked up the rights to the series subsequently, and planned a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's original 1974 film – even though there are already three sequels to that film.
And I do mean 'direct' sequel – Texas Chainsaw 3D picks up minutes after the original, with police responding to a call from the pickup truck driver who rescued Sally Hardesty. Enraged and slightly drunk, the townspeople of Newt, Texas form a mob, burn down the old Sawyer homestead, and kill the family – even poor ol' hammer-wielding grandpa. As one red-blooded redneck so elegantly puts it, "Eye for an eye, Sheriff. You can't get around the Good Book!"
While the townspeople are scouring the burnt-to-a-crisp remains, a man discovers a baby girl that survived the massacre – the last of the Sawyers (or so they think). She's kidnapped/adopted by a redneck family and raised as Heather Miller – with no knowledge of her real family and their murderous ways.
Fast-forward to the present, where the baby is played by 26-year-old Alexandra Daddario and surrounded by slutty, repugnant college kids. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre takes place in the '70s. Texas Chainsaw 3D uses footage from Hooper's film to establish the story – showing the fashion, cars, and the culture of the '70s. So, one can assume this new movie must take place about 20-25 years after the first film, which would place the sequel in mid-to-late-nineties.
At first glance, Texas Chainsaw 3D appears to be a period piece. But then, suddenly, it's revealed that it's 2012. I know what you're saying: "Wait a second, the baby was born in the '70s… so if this sequel takes place in 2012, then she should be 38 years old!" Daddario's character is clearly a gorgeous, midriff-baring twentysomething – but this movie doesn't care about that – or about the original film at all it seems.
It's like the screenplay began as a period piece and then the writers realized it was going to be a lot of work and just gave up. It's revealed that it's present day when a sheriff pulls out an iPhone and uses it to FaceTime with his deputy, who gets hacked and slashed by Leatherface. If they wanted to make this a period piece, they could have simply had the deputy deliver dialogue over his two-way radio but Hell, that'd make too much sense I guess.
It's pretty obvious the only reason this movie exists is because Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate purchased the series and had to put something into development to retain the rights to further exploit Leatherface and his people-eating pals. It's rushed, messy, and just plain dumb; it doesn't even live up to direct-to-video standards. As least those '90s New Line Cinema sequels could be guilty pleasures – this movie isn't even laughably bad, it's just half-assed and ill-conceived.
If you're going to make a bad horror movie, at least give the audience something to enjoy: full frontal nudity, a high death count, some inspired depravity – but Texas Chainsaw 3D has none of these things. Instead, the filmmakers rely on computer-animated blood and gore and a few rubber masks to thrill us.
At one point, Leatherface kills a guy, cuts his face off (ok, that was cool) but moments later, the flesh looks rubberized and aged like leather, not the fresh bloody mess it should be. In 40 years (or is that 20 years?) you'd think Leatherface would be better at making masks – instead they look like wet tree bark plastered to his face. A fifth grader could have crafted something out of papier-mâché more frightening.
Of course the film's payoff is that Heather eventually discovers who she really is and what the townsfolk of Newt, Texas did to her family. It's a jumble of ideas you've seen in other slashers: the whole town is hiding a terrible secret ala A Nightmare on Elm Street, a girl who shares the blood of a psycho-killer (Halloween 4, Halloween 5), and the Friday the 13th staple of youths engaging in drugs and premarital sex and being punished for it.
As someone who unapologetically enjoys Hooper's 1986 black comedy sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and Platinum Dunes' re-imagining of the story, I can safely say this is one of the worst entries in the seven-film franchise. Generic, unoriginal, and lacking any tension or suspense, Texas Chainsaw 3D is unworthy of your time and money – a painfully dumb film that illuminates further just how incredible Drew Goddard's Cabin in the Woods is and how these kinds of halfhearted, dimwitted horror flicks just won't cut it anymore.
Topics: Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews
Tags: Alexandra Daddario, Bill Moseley, Dan Yeager, John Luessenhop, Leatherface, Paul Rae, Tania Raymonde, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, Tremaine Neverson
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SMWS Global Gathering 2022
3rd October 2022 5th October 2022 Coldorak
Yesterday 30th of September was the Scotch Malt Whisky Society Global Gathering 2022 event. It's virtual tasting with John McCheyne, SMWS's global brand ambassador, and he was joined by five people who were part of the selection of the five drams of the night. Each dram was selected by a tasting panel from a specific country, and chose a name for it in their own language. Then, each dram's tasting was led by the local brand ambassador, starting… in his or her native language. As it started with the whisky selected by the French panel, some people who joined a bit late were quite surprised to hear the tasting in French, before realising it would switch back in English a few minutes later. Obviously, I had ordered a tasting pack in order to join, so let's go review those five whiskies chosen for the SMWS Global Gathering 2022.
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The Whisky Cellar Series 003 Tweet Tasting
12th November 2021 14th November 2021 Coldorak
Keith Bonnington, Whisky Cellar's founder and who we interviewed for the first Whisky Cellar Tweet Tasting, likes to be busy. We tried his first series of releases during a Tweet Tasting back in September last year, but the second series was just a few months ago in August. And he's already working on his fourth series that I really do hope I'll get to try once again. But let's talk a bit about indy bottlers first, then you thirsty readers will be able to check the review of the drams we tried.
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Jay Leno Injured With 'Serious Burns' in Gasoline Fire
The world-renowned comedian, TV host, and car collector was admitted to the hospital with burns to his face, TMZ reports.
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TV show host and well-known car collector Jay Leno was admitted to a hospital after suffering burns to his face from a gas fire on Saturday, TMZ and Variety report.
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According to TMZ's sources, Leno was in his Los Angeles garage where he stores his vast collection when a car burst into flames without warning. The report claims the fire burned the left side of the comedian's face, but did not penetrate his eye or ear. The Burbank Fire Department confirmed to Road & Track it responded to an emergency medical call at Leno's garage on Saturday where it assessed and treated one adult male patient.
"I got some serious burns from a gasoline fire," Leno told Variety. "I am ok. Just need a week or two to get back on my feet."
George Swift, a mechanic for Leno, shed some light on what actually happened in an interview with Access Hollywood. "It was a steam car," Swift said. "Steam is made by gas and he got sprayed with some gas and it ignited."
Swift, who was not present at the time of the incident, said Leno called him afterwards to say a fire occurred and that the fire department was on the way.
The 72-year-old former Tonight Show host was scheduled to appear at a financial conference in Las Vegas on Sunday night, but did not appear due to a "very serious medical emergency," People reports.
Leno was admitted to the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles where he remains today, says TMZ. The facility released the following statement on Monday:
Jay wants everyone to know that he is in stable condition and receiving treatment at the Grossman Burn Center for burns that he received to his face and hands from a gasoline accident in his garage over the weekend. He is in good humor and is touched by all the inquiries into his condition and well wishes to wants to let everyone know he is doing well and is in "the best burn center in the United States."
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namespace Farmhand.Helpers
{
    using System.Collections.Generic;

    using Farmhand.Logging;

    internal class ArgumentsHelper
    {
        // A dictionary containing all possible command line arguments, and the delegates they call
        private static Dictionary<string, ArgumentAction> ArgumentActions { get; } =
            new Dictionary<string, ArgumentAction>
                {
                    { "setModFolder", ArgumentSetModFolder },
                    { "addModFolder", ArgumentAddModFolder }
                };

        /// <summary>
        ///     Take the raw args passed to the program and perform relevant actions
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="args">space split array of arguments</param>
        internal static void ParseArguments(string[] args)
        {
            // If there are no arguments, there's no need to continue
            if (args.Length == 0)
            {
                return;
            }

            // Iterate over all the arguments, performing actions where requested
            string currentAction = null;
            var subArgs = new List<string>();
            foreach (string arg in args)
            {
                // New actions are signaled with a -
                if (arg.StartsWith("-"))
                {
                    // If we're currently building an argument action, a new action signals that the old one is complete, and usable
                    if (currentAction != null)
                    {
                        PerformAction(currentAction, subArgs.ToArray());

                        // Reset for next action
                        subArgs = new List<string>();
                    }

                    // Now that any old actions have been handled, start building the new one
                    // Be sure to remove that beginning "-"
                    currentAction = arg.Remove(0, 1);
                }
                else
                {
                    // If there is no beginning "-", this is an argument to tack onto an action
                    subArgs.Add(arg);
                }
            }

            // If we've got anything left in currentAction, that's our final argument
            if (currentAction != null)
            {
                PerformAction(currentAction, subArgs.ToArray());
            }
        }

        // performs an action with specified parameters
        private static void PerformAction(string action, string[] args)
        {
            // Make sure this is an action we recognize
            if (ArgumentActions.ContainsKey(action))
            {
                // Call our delegate which is associated with this action
                ArgumentActions[action](args);
            }
            else
            {
                Log.Warning($"Command line argument \"{action}\" unrecognized. Ignoring.");
            }
        }

        // An argument action which will set the folder used for mods
        private static void ArgumentSetModFolder(string[] args)
        {
            if (args.Length != 1)
            {
                Log.Warning(
                    $"Command line argument \"setModFolder\" recieved {args.Length} arguments instead of the expected 1. Ignoring.");
                return;
            }

            // Give args[0], which is the file location, to ModLoader as the new exclusive mod path
            ModLoader.ModPaths = new List<string> { args[0] };
            Log.Success($"Set mod folder path to {args[0]}.");
        }

        // An argument action which will add a folder used for mods
        private static void ArgumentAddModFolder(string[] args)
        {
            if (args.Length != 1)
            {
                Log.Warning(
                    $"Command line argument \"addModFolder\" recieved {args.Length} arguments instead of the expected 1. Ignoring.");
                return;
            }

            // Give args[0], which is the file location, to ModLoader as a new mods path
            ModLoader.ModPaths.Add(args[0]);
            Log.Success($"Added mod folder path {args[0]}.");
        }

        #region Nested type: ArgumentAction

        // The type of delegate called to perform argument actions
        private delegate void ArgumentAction(string[] args);

        #endregion
    }
}

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When we were little we all remember playing doctors and nurses, and now Southend Hospital Charity have extended that dress up challenge to local primary schools, pre-schools and nurseries as part of the NHS 70th birthday celebrations.
All children need to do is dress up as a doctor, nurse or healthcare professional on or around Thursday 5 July - the date the NHS was launched - and help raise money at the same time.
Lucy Lock, Community Fundraising Officer for Southend Hospital Charity, said: "Whether children raid their toy box for a doctor's kit, make a nurses hat, wear a white shirt or simply put a bandage on and be a patient, it's easy to take part and a great way of learning about some of the amazing people who help us in hospital."
And several of those schools and nurseries taking part will also have the opportunity to receive a special visit from Buddy Bear, the lovable hospital charity mascot. He'll be joining in the celebrations as he'll be wearing his operating theatre scrubs, hopefully for him blue will be in this summer.
Lucy added: "Monies raised will be going directly to the hospital's For Wards Appeal that is helping raise funds for life-saving medical equipment and pioneering new technology projects as part of the 20th anniversary of the Southend Hospital Charity. So money will be making a direct difference to your local hospital."
Schools and nurseries across Rayleigh, Leigh, Southend, Westcliff, Hockley and Benfleet have already signed up to dress up.
One of the first nurseries to say yes was the Ladybird Nursery, which is situated on the hospital site. Lynda Bartholomew, Nursery Manager said: "Lots of the mums and dads of our children work at the hospital, so we jumped at the chance to take part. 70 years of the NHS is a huge milestone and gives us chance to show children what a wide range of jobs and careers there are in a hospital. It also helps us challenge the stereotypes that nurses are just women and doctors are just men."
If you are interested in signing up finding out more details of how your school can take part please call 01702 385337 or email fundraising@southend.nhs.uk.


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El barranc de Xércoles és un barranc que discorre pels termes municipals de Gavet de la Conca, a l'antic terme d'Aransís, i de Llimiana, a la zona dels Masos de Llimiana. Es forma a 1.108 msnm, al vessant sud-oest del Capolat d'Aransís, des d'on davalla cap a ponent, lleugerament decantat cap al nord. Passa pel sud del poble d'Aransís, zona on rep l'aigua de diverses fonts, com la Font Llun, le Gotelleres, la Font de la Coma o la Font del Ruïnal, i va a passar pel nord dels Masos de Llimiana, poc abans d'abocar-se en el pantà dels Terradets, a la Noguera Pallaresa.

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The cost of shipping has been found to be one of the largest expenses for small businesses. However, as a resourceful entrepreneur, you should know of ways that will help to reduce the shipping costs significantly. One is by consulting and hiring the services of a Canadian Trucking Company. Remember that one of the goals of a business is to reduce the expenses while trying to get more profits. To achieve this, the article enumerates some essential tips that can help small business to manage their shipping costs.
As protocol, all shipping companies have their pricing schedules based on the volume of the items that are being shipped. Therefore, the more the volume of the products, the less the rate of shipping will be. What most small businesses do not realize is that they have the negotiating power. Before settling on a shipping company, make a comparison between different shipping companies and consider one that is relatively cheap but also ensure that they deliver on time. They should also have favorable terms and conditions. After this, try to persuade the carriers to reduce their costs.
Using your packaging could make you incur additional dimensional fees if your package exceeds the size regulations that are set by the shipping companies. You can, therefore, avoid these extra costs by using the packaging services that are provided by your carrier. This can also save you up to 15 percent of the amount you were to pay.
This is an efficient method of cutting down shipping costs. This is because many shipping companies offer a special discount rate to their clients who invest in their prepaid shipping services. When this happens, you buy some shipping labels then affix them to the various packages as required instead of paying for each package when you are sending them out. However, this may work best for companies that know that they will be shipping the same weight packages repeatedly because this will help them to determine the costs quickly.
Hybrid services may have restrictions on the weight, size, and volume of the packages but they are a cheaper option as compared to other delivery options. They can cost half as much as other delivery options, and this will significantly help to cut down on the shipping costs. The services will pick your packages and ship them to the post office that is closest to the destination. The mailman will do the final delivery. While this method is a cheap option, it is relatively slow.
Find out if your carrier services offer membership discounts. Even if the discount rate may seem insignificant, you are making savings in the long run.


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REIT ATM offerings up 37.5% QOQ in Q4'15
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U.S.equity REITs raised $830.5 million of equity through at-the-market offerings inthe fourth quarter of 2015, 37.5% more than was raised in the prior quarter.However, equity raised through ATM programs in the fourth quarter was down52.0% from the $1.73 billion logged in the fourth quarter of 2014.
21REITs tapped their ATM programs in the fourth quarter, slightly less than the22 REITs that did so in the prior quarter, and down significantly from the 32 REITsthat utilized ATM programs during the fourth quarter a year ago.
was the only REIT to raise more than $100 million through an ATM program in thefourth quarter, generating just over $200.8 million in the period. The companyhas used its ATM program every quarter since it was Feb. 26, 2015, and the amountraised in the fourth quarter is greater than all funds raised in the threeprior quarters combined.
and raised the second- and third-most proceeds through ATM programs in the fourthquarter, bringing in $98.4 million and $75 million, respectively.
Year-to-datethrough April 1, six REITs have initiated new ATM equity programs aggregatingapproximately $2.27 billion. That is down from the same period in 2015, when 10REITs announced programs totaling $4.21 billion. The median size of the ATMprograms announced through April 1 is $291 million, down slightly from the $300million median program size in the same period in 2015.
onMarch 8 announced thelargest equity distribution program year-to-date in 2016. The company noted inits prospectus that it has the option to sell up to 5 million common shares,with an estimated aggregate price of nearly $700 million.
NationalRetail Properties inked the second-largest ATM program in the year onMarch 18. The company aims to generate nearly $537.8 million in proceedsthrough the sale of up to 12 million shares of common stock.
Ofthe selling agents involved in the six programs, Jefferies LLC and Wells FargoSecurities LLC were tied for first, with involvement in four programs apiece.BMO Capital Markets Corp., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch PierceFenner & Smith Inc. each were involved in three of the programs announcedthis year.
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I've been working in my free time lately coding a little app for Android 2.2+ in order to train myself in some disciplines I've never had the chance to use, and… just because. Its name is BikeShare!
For the lazy ones: it's an app to use daily if you use public bikes in one of the 45 different supported cities. It allows you to favorite and see the details of all stations near you and helps you to find them if you don't know the neighbourhood.
I have a very big roadmap for this one, with lots of things I'd like to do, but I'll see how is it working first. Don't want to repeat past mistakes, when I only published things to the public after lots and lots and lots of features were done. Now I'll start from a simple approach and I'll see how it goes and what the users ask me to do.
Probably one thing I'll do either way will be to implement some widgets to the app.


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Tarion makes changes to benefit home buyers
By Yuliya Khraplyva
Tarion Warranty Corporation has announced two major changes meant to contribute to enhanced consumer protection and better transparency.
First, Tarion has introduced new delayed closing and delayed occupancy addenda forms that have to be attached to every purchase agreement as of October 1, 2012. The new forms could also be used optionally as of July 1, 2012.
It is expected that the changes will make it easier for the buyer to navigate some of the complicated documentation involved in the process of home buying. For example, now all adjustments to a new home's purchase price must be located in a single schedule attached to the agreement of purchase and sale. The new rules will also allow more flexibility for changing critical dates by mutual agreement. Finally, a new form has been created for new homes on freehold parcels of land that are tied to common elements corporations. All the new and revised forms can be found on Tarion's website.
The second change deals with the Major Structural Defect (MSD) warranty that applies to new homes sold on or after July 1, 2012.
Under the new rules, Tarion has extended builder/vendor accountability for MSD throughout the full seven year warranty period. Earlier, builders were directly responsible for valid MSD claims made within the first two years from the warranty start date and Tarion carried responsibility for valid MSD claims made between years three through seven. The changes also expand on the existing definition of MSD and set out a detailed MSD claims process. See Builder Bulletin 24 for more details.


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Stanley Alfred Harmer
Stanley Alfred Harmer passed away Dec. 29, 2007 in Smithers Hospital at the age of 80.
Survived by his wife Verna, daughters Geraline (Jack) Dykens of Prince George, Sandra (Joseph) Stibrany of Prince George, sons Stewart (Jan) Harmer of Telkwa, Ken (Karen) Harmer of Telkwa, 10 grandchildren, four great grandchildren.
Stan, was born at Trapp Lake, B.C. on March 19, 1927. Stan worked around the Kamloops and Clinton area, at Stan Steele and Mound Lumber up until 1962. When he moved the family to the Bulkley Valley. He worked for Madigan Equipment in Telkwa and as a faller in the Houston area. For the many years until 1977 he worked as a mechanic at Mound Concrete. When Fred Shortreid sold Mound Concrete, he then went into business for himself. He started with a backhoe, and later bought gravel trucks and logging equipment. Stan was a very hard worker, who could fix anything. He enjoyed his work and at the age of 67 instead of retiring started farming. In 2004, Stan found out he had cancer, and decided to fight with major surgery. He recovered and returned to the farm that he loved, going right back to work until once again cancer returned. His, valiant fight lasted two months in which he never gave up the thought he would get home and farm again.
At Stan's request there will be no services. Donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.


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"When the Irish Invaded Canada" - Signed by the Author, Christopher Klein
When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland's Freedom signed by the author, Christopher Klein
If you would like to have the book inscribed, you may write your inscription at the notes section in the cart page.
Hardcover (344 pages), published by Random House LLC, brand new and signed by the author, Christopher Klein
"Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured.
By the time that these invasions--known collectively as the Fenian raids--began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans who had fled to the United States rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger still considered themselves Irishmen first, Americans second. With the tacit support of the U.S. government and inspired by a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries, the group that carried out a series of five attacks on Canada--the Fenian Brotherhood--established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Defiantly, this motley group, including a one-armed war hero, an English spy infiltrating rebel forces, and a radical who staged his own funeral, managed to seize a piece of Canada--if only for three days.
When the Irish Invaded Canada is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish Americans and their chapter in Ireland's centuries-long fight for independence. Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is a story of fighting for what's right in the face of impossible odds."
"Thoroughly researched and engagingly written…A well-presented, little-known sidebar to the struggle for Irish independence."
"From today's perspective the invasions of Canada by Irish-Americans…seem to have the qualities of a comic opera. But these 'Fenians' were deadly serious…Their example helped inspire the movement that led to eventual success a half century later. Christopher Klein's fresh telling of this story is an important landmark in both Irish and American history."
—James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and The War That Forged a Nation
"Klein tells the stirring story of a poor but passionate group of American immigrants who fought not only for their new country—on both sides of the Civil War—but for the one they had left behind. It's astonishing that these men have been forgotten, but Klein brings them back to vibrant life."
—Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of Hero of the Empire
"This is a surprising and fascinating book. With a great eye for detail and illustrative flourish, Klein tells the riveting story of brave men who believed deeply in the cause of Irish independence, and were willing to lay down their lives to achieve it. At turns heroic, bumbling, comic, idealistic, prideful, pigheaded, and star crossed, these men and their dramatic actions are an important, though all but forgotten, part of the American and Irish experience."
—Eric Jay Dolin, author of Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
"When the Irish Invaded Canada is a sincere and eloquent book, as Christopher Klein tells an heroic and tragic story from a more innocent, less cynical era—when Irish Americans fought and died, not for profits and plunder, but for Irish democracy and freedom from the world's most powerful empire."
—Kerby Miller, author of the Pulitzer finalist Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
"A riveting narrative of the ill-fated Fenian invasions of Canada… A must-read for all with even a passing interest in Irish America, Ireland, and the Civil War. [Klein's] fast-flowing, often lyrical, often gritty narrative commands the reader's attention from the opening paragraphs. His portrait of this turbulent and crucial era in America's and Ireland's annals is captivating."
—Boston Irish Reporter
"Christopher Klein has written one of the great untold stories of Irish, Canadian, and American history. He tells how a ragged band of Irish Fenians, inspired by a one-armed general and a Famine immigrant, set their sights on Canada and ignited a massive crisis in Canada and the US. This forgotten revolution shaped both countries to the present day. Vivid, dramatic, and insightful, Klein delivers a book stranger than fiction but more gripping and exciting."
—Niall O'Dowd, author of Lincoln and the Irish and founder of IrishCentral
"Christopher Klein brings to life an almost unbelievable--and yet completely forgotten--episode from post-Civil War America. If you're wondering why the Irish would invade Canada, the answers are here in this exciting, well-told narrative filled with colorful characters."
— Terry Golway, author of Frank and Al and Machine Made
"Hapless, often exasperating but somehow inspiring, these Irish freedom fighters set off on their quixotic quest to leverage the conquest of Canada into independence for their beloved homeland. Christopher Klein finds the genuine honor in this foolhardy exploit and also the humor. Any book that contains the following authentic historical quotation deserves to be read: 'I regret to inform you that you are not going to be hanged.' A fine forgotten slice of Irish rebellion that should appeal to oppressed people everywhere, and to those oppressors finally ready to seek salvation."
—Richard Zacks, New York Times bestselling author of Island of Vice and Chasing the Last Laugh
CHRISTOPHER KLEIN is the author of four books, including Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero. A frequent contributor to History.com, Christopher has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Harvard Magazine, Smithsonian.com, and AmericanHeritage.com. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
A note regarding shipping: Your book will probably be shipped via Media Mail. USPS regulations for Media Mail restrict any correspondence, so while I'd normally include a note of thanks, doing so, in this case, would violate USPS regulations.
Mayflower Passengers foldout with those who survived the first year—folds to 8 1/2" x 11"
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Epigentek today announced the debut of Pre-Sure(TM), a commercialized kit for quickly validating and qualifying whether antibodies are suitable for use in chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). Officially known as the Pre-Sure(TM) ChIP Antibody Validation Kit, the innovative product is part of the company's effort to improve the integrity of ChIP-grade antibodies in the marketplace as well as to provide a fast and affordable means for researchers to validate their own antibodies for ChIP use.
Chromatin immunoprecipitation is a major lab technique for determining whether specific proteins are associated with certain genomic regions, and is highly useful for investigating histone modifications and various epigenetic mechanisms through ChIP-PCR, ChIP-on-chip, or ChIP-seq. The success of the technique is highly dependent on an antibody's ability to capture protein/DNA complexes specifically and sensitively, which makes it important for researchers to identify suitable antibodies as "ChIP-grade". The largest bottleneck to a reliable ChIP experiment is the high variability of antibodies available on the market, which Epigentek addresses with Pre-Sure(TM).
"The market is saturated with questionable ChIP-grade claims of antibodies due to improper use of Western blot and immunohistochemistry data as the validation basis, both of which are actually unreliable applications for ChIP determination," said William Lee, vice president of operations at Epigentek. "This problem is compounded by the lack of a cost-effective and easy validation method for researchers."
Epigentek's method solves the problem by providing both researchers and vendors the ability to validate antibodies with an inexpensive, fast, and proper method without having to do a full blown and cumbersome ChIP-PCR or ChIP sequencing run. In addition, the low cost and labor aspects of Pre-Sure(TM) provide antibody manufacturers an opportunity to economically screen their antibodies for ChIP, potentially also improving market pricing for researchers. The estimated cost, including labor, to test each antibody via Pre-Sure(TM) is less than $15, whereas validation by ChIP-PCR and ChIP-seq are in excess of $100 and $1,500 per antibody, respectively.
The 96-well plate based Pre-Sure(TM) kit utilizes control antibodies and a fluorescent method to deliver a "ChIP-Grade Intensity" reading of the test antibodies against input chromatin. In less than 3 hours, one could test up to 43 antibodies simultaneously using this kit and a fluorescence-based microplate reader.
Back in 2006, Epigentek was the first company to offer a microplate-based ChIP method to resolve throughput bottlenecks, and the Pre-Sure(TM) ChIP Antibody Validation Kit underscores another milestone of innovative efforts to overcome research obstacles in epigenetics.


One of the great paradoxes of higher education has to do with our dueling outlooks on the world. Why do professionals who have devoted their careers to the notion that they can improve the lives of individuals through education and therefore improve the world—an inherently optimistic leap of faith—simultaneously wallow in the contemplation of the demise of their very undertaking and the extinction of all they value?
I am referring, of course, to the current spate of academic criticism, what I call the "literature of academic eschatology." We go to meetings, read articles and books, and listen to talks all dedicated to the assumption that higher education, as we know it, and particularly the liberal arts, is doomed. And we, the professional optimists, seem to love it. I know I do.
Certainly there is nothing new about all this doom and gloom in higher ed. For decades we have heard about the corporatization of education, the canon wars, laments about the lack of high school preparation, and so on, and many of these threats are still present in some form or other. Some have likely increased. Worries about disruptive technology and college affordability are largely variations on the themes of the past, which is not to say that these threats are not real or we should be dismissive of them. In fact, it may be our very propensity toward pessimistic anxiety that gives us the wherewithal to adapt and survive. I imagine university dons in the Middle Ages similarly bemoaning that, given the continued influx of lunkheads and roustabouts as students, there would be no way for their institutions to survive into future generations. And yet here we are.
The Thursday AAC&U Annual Meeting session titled "Preparing for the Apocalypse? The Liberal Arts in the Era of 'Higher Education Reform'" touched on many of these themes—sometimes indirectly—and unsurprisingly drew a large and enthusiastic crowd. During the session, two presenters—Johann Neem, an associate professor of history at Western Washington University, and Scott Cohen, an associate professor of English at Stonehill College—gave their views on what we could do to keep liberal arts education intact in the face of elimination from its traditional perch in institutions of higher education. Afterward, responsive commentaries from Benjamin Ginsberg of the Washington Center of American Government at Johns Hopkins and Goldie Blumenstyk from The Chronicle of Higher Education rounded out the session.
The title of the session alone is troubling: "Preparing for the Apocalypse?" The question mark can either be a provocation or a dodge. As for the session, in the best academic tradition, it raised many more questions than it answered.
Scout." He suggested four alternatives to teaching the liberal arts in a traditional university setting, including seeking out philanthropic patrons and starting instructional service networks along the lines of yoga communities. Cohen focused exclusively on building niche or boutique universities for the liberal arts, but he also expressed misgivings. For instance, he cited Joseph Turow's Niche Envy to suggest that boutique culture can erode the very coherence of society. After all, if everyone has their niche, where is the common ground on which we can all gather?
Ginsberg picked up on this point to critique Neem's and Cohen's ideas by decrying the potential loss of the egalitarian reach of the liberal arts as they are currently offered. He described Neem's recommendations as a form of "immigration"—that is, departing from problems to find a new land of possibility—and Cohen's niche as a "retreat." The irony that these suggestions were offered to empower faculty but instead felt reactive supports Ginsberg's assessment. But Ginsberg also laid blame at the feet of the faculty who, as he claims, do not spend enough time or effort forcefully and explicitly promoting liberal arts through their teaching. Ginsberg's idealism was most apparent when he cited Richard Vedder's observation that many cab drivers have liberal arts degrees, which Ginsberg sees not as a symbol of liberal arts' uselessness, but a mark of our culture's great strength. Even our cab drivers are informed citizens of our democracy, he declared. Nonetheless, his comments seemed to assume that the main audience for lauding the liberal arts would be found in the university classroom, which presents a dilemma in an age of shrinking liberal arts enrollments.
The ensuing questions and comments at times provided more heat (not entirely unwelcome on a frigid morning) than light. Is there "a common body of knowledge" we must teach, or is it a set of "common cultural understandings?" Or perhaps we should ask "a common set of questions" and guide students as they grapple with answers.
Good. Now we can resume the debate.


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