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The opening of a once forbidden city
by Meyhöfer Dirk | May 15, 2011
Novartis Campus (publication series), All photos: David Giebel, Stylepark
Switzerland is not only a popular destination for officials investigating tax evasion and tourists but also a symbol of extraordinary engineering achievements in tunnels and bridges. The nation also ranks high when it comes to architectural and urban planning achievements. As such, it is hardly surprising that Switzerland has succeeded admirably (one prime example being the ETH in Zurich) in fostering national prosperity through education and knowledge transfer. In other words, it is evitable that anyone looking for exemplary education buildings would look to Switzerland. The country is home to the Leutschenbach school complex by architect Christian Kerez, it is the largest new Swiss school building and a complex tower that has advanced to become a model inner-city school. Indeed, it is possible to find countless projects in Switzerland which have developed a model function in combining university, science and industry. This not only includes the Novartis education and science campus in Basel, to which a major publication has been devoted but also the "Rolex Learning Center" of the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne (which opened in 2010) by architects Sanaa Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. The latter is a veritable landscape of learning, because the amoeba-like building not only follows the local topography like a carpet but for all its restraint it also facilitates students' concentration architecturally.
No other topic of social relevance has such importance for all of our futures as knowledge transfer. It is a topic that cuts across all sections of the field, from the nursery school through to adult education. The demands made of school, university and other academic education architecture – and consequently of architects – have risen enormously. Education and knowledge transfer in the force field of urban development policy measures and shaping pedagogic and architectural objectives has become a key social task.
The Novartis Campus caters to the altered needs in an exemplary manner because its institute buildings were organized on public streets as in a mature city. Accordingly, a public place of knowledge on an international scale will be realized on a complex in the northeast of Basle once used by the Swiss pharmaceuticals industry. The Novartis Campus is also the result of a public-private partnership. As an ideal setting for innovation and research it is to provide jobs for 10,000 people over the midterm. The project "Neunutzung Hafen St. Johann – Novartis Campus Plus" (Re-Invention Harbor St. Johann) focuses on redevelopment of the St. Johann inland port and the Novartis Campus Plus, and evolved in cooperation with the canton Basel. It means that the inhabitants of Basle have more direct access to the Rhine, and a public pedestrian and cycle path is being created along the river – something that will benefit everyone involved.
According to the proposals of Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani each of the buildings in the core of the Campus was to be realized by different architects. The first buildings have since been documented in an impressive slipcase containing five volumes and following publications, edited by the former Director of the Swiss Architecture Museum, Ulrike Jehle-Schulte. Fittingly, it is poetic and very detailed, as are the architectural designs themselves.
As Lampugnani explains in the first volume, the master plan has been kept startlingly clear and simple. It follows few rules: The building lines must be realized; the eaves height is set at 22 meters, and may be undercut but not exceeded; and all the buildings on the East side of the Fabrikstrasse must have arcades. Clear and simple lines in other words. Meanwhile, the first buildings have been completed including the building "Fabrikstrasse 4" by Sanaa/Sejima + Nishizawa. Its character, properties and importance for the Campus could not be better described than by a quote from equally well-known Graubünden architect Valerio Olgiati: "Saana has designed a building that disregards all the rules of historical architecture (…), the building is a framework without a facade, lacking in hierarchy (…), it does not behave historically but in an urban manner. I must admit that it seems impossible to me to conceive a building more simply!"
In the publication documenting the works by Marco Serra, Günther Vogt, Ulrich Rückriem and Eva Schlegen it becomes evident that the requirements made of the new urban district go much farther than simply creating attractive buildings: The factory and the education campus is to become an integral work of art with poetry and illusion for space and art in the urban setting. Or as Paolo Fumagalli demands in the foreword: "It is always necessary to examine and interpret the relationship of a building to its surroundings!" Similarly, in the other volumes it is demonstrated primarily with the help of sensitive and artistic photography how the experiment succeeded, because the concept was a multi-disciplinary one, but was also like that of a company, whose manufacturing facilities and laboratories were once in a "forbidden city", can now be integrated into the public space, its buildings will be developed together with the city.
The idea of the isolated campus for science inspired by the Anglo-American model and which also developed in central Europe in the 1970s with new education factories such as the Ruhr University in Bochum, not to mention the expansion of traditional universities outside the city as in Zurich, Stuttgart or Vienna, is dead. Together with the city and its residents the campus is poised to become the key player of a new urban development. What we are seeing today might be termed "Urban Reset". However, Novartis still needs to work on one crucial detail: the central security check at a kind of 'central factory gate' needs to be easier to pass and essentially enable largely free access to the marvelous open spaces in the campus. That said, the brains at Novartis are already busy trying to devise the relevant concepts needed.
Novartis Campus (publication series)
Edited by Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus
German und English
Christoph Merian, Basel
www.merianverlag.ch
New publication within the series:
Fabrikstrasse 22 – David Chipperfield


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American Record Guide May-June 2015 CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Fantasy on Polish Airs. Krakowiak.Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano." Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante Ÿ CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Fantasy on Polish Airs. Krakowiak.Variations on Mozart's "Là ci darem la mano." Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante Ÿ Oleg Marshev (pf); David Porcelijn, cond; South Denmark Phil. ŸDANACORD 701-702 (2 CDs: 136:06)
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AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE November/December 2006 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1, Op.1. Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9. Four Ballades, Op. 10 Oleg Marshev (pf) Danacord DACOCD 643 Marshev, born in the USSR and living now in Italy, has been on the international scene for some years; his US debut was in 1991. For Danacord he has made some 30 CDs, mostly of unusual repertory: the complete solo music of Prokofieff, Emil von Sauer's complete piano music, four discs of Danish piano concertos, and so forth. Marshev shows a strong affinity for Brahms. He has the strength and control to clarify the thick textures of the sonata beautifully. The quicker variations in the Schumann set reveal a great technique,...

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Marxism explains that that the state consists ultimately of armed bodies of men: of the army, police, courts, and jails. It is an instrument of the ruling class for the oppression of other classes. Against the confused ideas of the anarchists, Marx argued that the workers need a state to overcome the resistance of the exploiting classes. But that argument of Marx has been distorted by both the bourgeois and the anarchists.
The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the greatest and most inspiring episodes in the history of the working class. In a tremendous revolutionary movement, the working people of Paris replaced the capitalist state with their own organs of government and held political power until their downfall a few months later. The Parisian workers strove, in extremely difficult circumstances, to put an end to exploitation and oppression, and to reorganize society on an entirely new foundation.
Marx and Engels drew a thorough balance sheet of the Commune, pointing out its advances as well as its errors and deficiencies. These can almost all be traced to the failings of the leadership. The leaders of the Commune were a mixed bunch, ranging from a minority f Marxists to elements who stood closer to reformism or anarchism. One of the reasons the Commune failed was that it did not launch a revolutionary offensive against the reactionary government that had installed itself at Versailles. This gave time to the counterrevolutionary forces to rally and attack Paris. Over 30,000 people were butchered by the counterrevolution. The Commune was literally buried under a mound of corpses.
The bourgeois and its apologists wish to confuse the workers and youth by attempting to identify the idea of communism with the monstrous bureaucratic and totalitarian regime of Stalinist Russia. "Do you want Communism? Here it is! That is Communism! The Berlin Wall is Communism! Hungary 1956 is Communism! The Soviet gulags are Communism!" Unfortunately, the anarchists also echo these arguments.
This is a stupid calumny. The workers' state established by the Bolshevik Revolution was neither bureaucratic nor totalitarian. On the contrary, before the Stalinist bureaucracy usurped control from the masses, it was the most democratic state that ever existed. The basic principles of the Soviet power were not invented by Marx or Lenin. They were based on the concrete experience of the Paris Commune, and later elaborated upon by Lenin.
These were the conditions which Lenin laid down, not for full-fledged socialism or communism, but for the very first period of a workers' state—the period of the transition from capitalism to socialism.
The transition to socialism—a higher form of society based on genuine democracy and plenty for all--can only be accomplished by the active and conscious participation of the working class in the running of society, of industry, and of the state. It is not something that is kindly handed down to the workers by kind-hearted capitalists or bureaucratic mandarins. The whole conception of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky was based upon this fact.
Under Lenin and Trotsky, the Soviet state was constructed as to facilitate the drawing of workers into the tasks of control and accounting, to ensure the uninterrupted progress of the reduction of the "special functions" of officialdom and of the power of the State. Strict limitations were placed upon the salaries, power, and privileges of officials in order to prevent the formation of a privileged caste.
The Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies were elected assemblies composed not of professional politicians and bureaucrats, but of ordinary workers, peasants, and soldiers. It was not an alien a power standing over society, but a power based on the direct initiative of the people from below. Its laws were not like the laws enacted by a capitalist state power. It was an entirely different kind of power from the one that generally exists in the parliamentary bourgeois-democratic republics of the type still prevailing in the advanced countries of Europe and America. This power was of the same type as the Paris Commune of 1871.
"The fundamental characteristics of this type are: (1) the source of power is not a law previously discussed and enacted by parliament, but the direct initiative of the people from below, in their local areas—direct 'seizure', to use a current expression; (2) the replacement of the police and the army, which are institutions divorced from the people and set against the people, by the direct arming of the whole people; order in the state under such a power is maintained by the armed workers and peasants themselves, by the armed people themselves; (3) officialdom, the bureaucracy, are either similarly replaced by the direct rule of the people themselves or at least placed under special control. Officials become not only elective, but are also subject to recall at the people's first demand; they are reduced to the position of simple agents; from a privileged group holding 'jobs' remunerated on a high, bourgeois scale, they become workers of a special 'arm of the service' whose remuneration does not exceed the ordinary pay of a competent worker.
Lenin emphasised that the proletariat needs only a state that is "so constituted that it will at once begin to die away and cannot help dying away." A genuine workers' state has nothing in common with the bureaucratic monster that exists today, and even less the one that existed in Stalinist Russia.
The early Soviet Union was in fact not a state at all in the sense we normally understand it, but only the organized expression of the revolutionary power of the working people. To use the phrase of Marx, it was a "semi-state," a state so-designed that it would eventually wither away and be dissolved into society, giving way to the collective administration of society for the benefit of all, without force or coercion. That, and only that, is the genuine Marxist conception of a workers' state.
The question of the state is naturally linked with the question of violence. The ruling class has at its disposal a vast apparatus of coercion: the army, the police, the intelligence services, the courts, the prisons, the lawyers, judges, and prison wardens. Many protesters have recently received a valuable education in the Marxist theory of the state—on the end of a policeman's baton.
This should not really surprise us. All history shows that no ruling class ever gives up its wealth, power and privileges without a fight—and that usually means a fight with no holds barred. Every revolutionary movement will come up against this apparatus of state repression.
What is the Marxists' attitude towards violence? The bourgeoisie and its defenders always accuse Marxists of advocating violence. This is highly ironic, considering the vast arsenals of weaponry that the ruling class has piled up, the armies of heavily armed troops, cops, prisons, and so on and so forth. The ruling class is not at all opposed to violence per se. In fact, its rule is based on violence in many different forms. The only violence that the ruling class abhors is when the poor, downtrodden, and exploited masses attempt to defend themselves against the organized violence of the bourgeois state. That is, it is against any violence directed at its class rule, power, and property.
It goes without saying that we do not advocate violence. We are prepared to make use of each and every opening allowed to us by bourgeois democracy. But we should be under no illusions. Beneath the thin veneer of democracy there is the reality of the dictatorship of the banks and big corporations.
While the people are told that they can democratically decide the direction of the country through elections, in reality, all the real decisions are taken by the boards of directors. The interests of a tiny handful of bankers and capitalists carry much more weight than the votes of millions of ordinary citizens. The real meaning of formal bourgeois democracy is this: anyone can say (more or less) what they like, as long as big business decides what really happens.
This dictatorship of big business is normally concealed behind a smiling mask. But at critical moments, the smiling mask of "democracy" slips to reveal the ugly face of the dictatorship of Capital. The question is whether we, the People, have the right to fight against this dictatorship and strive to overthrow it.
"Question 16: Will it be possible to bring about the abolition of private property by peaceful means?
The fact is that once the working class is organized and mobilized to change society, no state, army, or police can stop it. Nine times out of ten, any violence arising during a revolutionary situation is initiated by the ruling class, which is desperate to hold on to power. Therefore, the danger of violence is in inverse proportion to the willingness of the working class to fight to change society. As the ancient Romans used to say: Si pacem vis para bellum—if you want peace, prepare for war.
However, that does not mean that we advocate sporadic acts of violence by groups or individuals: senseless rioting, breaking windows, arson, etc. Such things sometimes reflect the genuine anger and frustration felt by people, especially the unemployed and dispossessed youth, at the sheer injustice of class society. But this kinds of actions achieve nothing positive. They merely alienate the broader layers of the working class and give the ruling class an excuse to unleash the full force of the state, in order to crack down on the protest movement in general.
There is a force in society that is far stronger than even the most powerful state or army: that is the power of the working class, once it is organized and mobilized to change society. Not a wheel turns, not a phone rings, not a light bulb shines without the permission of the working class! Once this enormous power is mobilized, no force on earth can stop it.
Powerful union organizations exist that would be more than capable of overthrowing capitalism if the millions of workers they represent were mobilized to this end. The problem once again reduces itself to a problem of leadership of the working class and its organizations.
The leadership of the mass organizations, beginning with the trade unions, is in a lamentable state everywhere. A panorama opens up not only of great battles, but also of defeats of the working class as a result of bad leadership. It is understandable that some young people, disgusted with the role of the current leaderships, look to anarchist ideas as a solution.
This "anarchism" is in reality only the outer shell of an immature Bolshevism, of revolutionary Marxism. These are sincere young people who desire to transform society with all their heart. Many of them will come to understand the limitations of anarchist ideas and methods and will seek a more effective revolutionary alternative. The lack of an adequate leadership and a clear program for action is already being felt by an increasing number of activists in the Occupy movement.
Through painful experience, the new generation of workers and youth are beginning to understand the nature of the problems that lie before them and are gradually beginning to grasp the need for radical solutions. The best elements are beginning to realize that the only way out of the impasse is through the revolutionary reconstruction of society from top to bottom.
It will not be easy to achieve this; but then, nothing worthwhile in life is ever easy. The first and most important step is to say no to the existing society, its institutions, values and morality. In many ways this is the easiest step. It is not difficult to protest and reject. But what is also necessary is to say positively what is to be done.
This underlines the need for clarity in ideas, programs and tactics. Mistakes in theory inevitably lead to mistakes in practice. This is not an academic exercise. The class struggle is not a game, and history is full of examples where the lack of political clarity led to the most tragic consequences. Spain in the 1930s is a case in point.
The first stages of the revolution are inevitably accompanied by naivety and all kinds of illusions. But such illusions will be destroyed by events. The movement is proceeding by trial and error. It needs time to learn. If a Marxist party already existed, with roots in the masses and political authority, the learning process would undoubtedly be much shorter, and there would be fewer defeats and setbacks. But such a party does not yet exist. It has to be built in the heat of events.
Confusion, the lack of a program, and never-ending debate is no substitute for positive action. If the Occupy movement is to succeed, it must be armed with clear ideas and a consistent revolutionary program. That can only be provided by Marxism. The workers and students have shown the most tremendous resourcefulness and initiative. All now depends on the ability of the most revolutionary elements of the workers and youth to draw all the necessary conclusions. Armed with a genuine socialist revolutionary program, they would be invincible.
Is it really true that there is no alternative to capitalism? No, it is not true! The alternative is a system based on production for the needs of the many and not the profits of the few; a system that replaces economic chaos and anarchy with harmonious planning; that replaces the rule of a minority of wealthy parasites with the rule of the majority who produce all the wealth of society. The name of this alternative is socialism.
Genuine socialism has nothing in common with the bureaucratic and totalitarian caricature that existed in Stalinist Russia. It is a genuine democracy based on the ownership, control and management of the key levers of the productive forces by the working class.
Some think it is Utopian to suggest that the human race can take hold of its own fate and run society on the basis of a democratic plan of production. However, the need for a socialist planned economy is not an invention of Marx or any other thinker. It flows from objective necessity. The potential for world socialism flows from the present conditions of capitalism itself. All that is necessary is for the working class, which constitutes the majority, to take over the running of society, expropriate the banks and giant monopolies, and mobilize the vast unused and untapped productive potential to begin solving the problems we face.
In order that humanity can be free to realize its full potential, it is necessary to free industry, agriculture, science, and technology from the suffocating restraints of capitalism. Once the productive forces are free from these suffocating limitations, society would be capable of immediately satisfying all human wants and prepare the way for a gigantic advance for humanity.
We invite all those who are interested in fighting to change society to join with us, to discuss, debate our differences, and to test the viability of ideas and programs in the practice of the class struggle. Only in this way can we put an end to the prevailing confusion and attain the ideological clarity and organizational cohesion that are necessary to achieve our final victory.


Sunny, bright, fully equpped apartment near city center. Located in beautiful prewar house in quiet neighborhood. It has everything for comfortable stay - kitchen with necessary thing for cooking, big bathroom, washing machine, iron, cloth grying rack, hair dryer, big closet etc. Apartment has fast wifi and a workspace. It is quiet and warm.


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Dr. Hamilton, MD is a practicing Family Practitioner in Lawrenceburg, KY. Dr. Hamilton graduated from University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1967 and has been in practice for 51 years. He completed a residency at McLeod Regional Medical Center Program - Florence. He currently practices at Capital Medical Group and is affiliated with Frankfort Regional Medical Center. Dr. Hamilton accepts multiple insurance plans including Aetna, Medicare, and Cigna. Dr. Hamilton is board certified in Family Medicine. In addition to English, Dr. Hamilton's practice supports this language: Farsi/Persian.


Kinsley Lawson Home Design, 2018-09-05 15:52:16. The first order of business is purchasing a lot. A truly custom home design is specifically designed for the lot it sits on. A survey will be needed before the custom home design can begin. If it is an older property there should be one in the closing documents. Now there is some home design homework to do even before purchasing a lot. You have to know what you desire in the home and what the footage goal is to know what size the lot has to be.
Margaret Phelps Home Design, 2018-09-24 19:04:18. The next is to prioritize features. Once your ideas are recorded in rough form, begin prioritizing features for your new house. Custom home design can easily exceed a budget if you let your fancies run amok. With so many luxuries to choose from, it's important to prioritize the most important aspects of your design. For instance, if you've always dreamed about a box window in the kitchen where you can grow herbs, you may want to prioritize that over installing a line to facilitate a gas stove.
Adelina Lindsay Home Design, 2018-09-26 00:50:16. The third tip is to check that your architect has liability insurance. Accidents do happen - that's why insurance was invented. If something doesn't come out right in your custom home design, liability insurance can cover rebuilding costs or other unanticipated expenses. Professional engineers and designers carry insurance to defend their customers against expensive errors. Make sure your custom home plans come from a designer with liability insurance.
Rylan Dale Home Design, 2018-09-26 02:50:14.
Mariah Bennett Home Design, 2018-09-26 04:14:23. Focus on lighting--both artificial and natural light. The home can never have too much light, and so the budget should allow for numerous light sources throughout the home, from one room to the next. Keep in mind that one central ceiling-mounted light fixture just won't do, and instead, aim for six light sources per room. As for natural light, with all the advances in insulated windows today, choose a design that lets the sun shine in through as many openings as possible.
Taliyah Kline Home Design, 2018-09-26 09:16:24. The next tip is to choose a designer with experience working with similar properties. If you've already purchased the land for your dream home, ensure that your designer has background in working with your type of property. For instance, while a steeply sloped lot often offers up the best views, it also poses unique design challenges.
Shelby Welch Home Design, 2018-09-26 03:29:35. Planning for your home requires a more extensive approach and a lot of decision making to do compare to when buying one. Finding the perfect building lot is already a challenge, designing how your future abode will look like is another challenge. Putting together your dream home design on the current lot that you have as well as balancing the act of planning and budgeting can be quite difficult and may require professional help. Here are some of the ways that can help you on your way.
Bonnie Rosales Home Design, 2018-09-26 04:32:34. The next tip is to choose a designer with experience working with similar properties. If you've already purchased the land for your dream home, ensure that your designer has background in working with your type of property. For instance, while a steeply sloped lot often offers up the best views, it also poses unique design challenges.
Shelby Welch Home Design, 2018-09-26 02:36:24. Home trends change along with the needs of consumers and of the general population. Modern home design aims to satisfy those changing needs by providing simplistic design with loads of storage space--a common problem found in older homes where dwellers find it impossible, or at least challenging, to store their personal items in a logical and organized manner. The design must be capable of providing such solutions for the home to be functional, and that has architects, interior designers, and builders scrambling to come up with great ideas every year.
Mariah Bennett Home Design, 2018-09-26 08:04:31. The next meeting will be to review the finalized drawings. Expect to see floor plans with the electrical outlets and switches or separate electrical plans, interior elevations (cabinet and other views), exterior elevations, cross sections if necessary (always on two or three story), form plan, roof plan and plot plan. The plans need to meet the appropriate codes, ordinances and subdivision restrictions where it will be built. Once any revisions are completed construction sets can be run. Additionally the foundation and structural should be engineered.


How can you not love Calexico and the Quarterstick/Touch & Go family? After news that the group's song Crystal Frontier was being played on the Space Shuttle Discovery, the label has decided to make it available as a free download for Earthlings.
Maybe you remember our super awesome news last week about Calexico getting played IN SPACE.
Well, we thought about it some more, and we're still pretty stoked, and really, if Martians and astronauts are going to get to hear "Crystal Frontier" for free, why not you, right? So, we're pleased to offer up a free MP3 download of "Crystal Frontier" (from Even My Sure Things Fall Through) for the rest of the space mission, through landing day June 14.
You'll be able to actually hear the astronauts waking up to Calexico on Flight Day 14, June 13, by checking out NASA TV live at around 3am EST (check your local provider). If you miss it, starting at 8pm every hour on the hour they run the highlights starting with the wake up song.
Also, the whole thing is live on www.nasa.gov – just click on watch NASA TV live.
Special Thanks to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a big Calexico fan, and her husband, Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly for making this happen.
There's also that news of a new Calexico full-length in the offing. Doesn't look like Absent Afternoon made the final cut (unless the title changed).


Whether you're ready for breakfast or dessert, you can have it portable in this delicious, flavor-packed cookie. A half pound of bacon joins butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, flour and cinnamon with some hearty quick oats. Pour on a glaze of confectioners' sugar and maple syrup for a cookie that balances savory and sweet in the most irresistible way! Get the recipe for Bacon Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies With Maple Glaze.
These savory whole wheat cookies have bacon bits and Cheddar cheese and are sure to satisfy your sweet and salty cravings.
This recipe makes a big batch of cinnamon oatmeal raisin cookies. Chewy raisins and crunchy walnuts compliment the flavors.


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The Battle on Clay
The Sports Desk
The French Open, which begins Sunday at Roland Garros in Paris, is the premier clay court tennis tournament in the world. It is not the favorite of many players because clay is a notoriously demanding surface, slowing down the ball and allowing defensive-minded players to scramble and make returns. However, it has become a happy place for Rafael Nadal, who is looking to win a record 12th men's title. On the women's side, reigning U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka enters a Grand Slam as the top seed for the first time.
Photo: www.si.com
2019 French Open Seed Reports
Sports Illustrated - Jon Wertheim
Catsuits, clay courts and Roger Federer: Here's your 2019 French Open primer
The Washington Post - Ava Wallace
What's at stake for Federer, Nadal and Djokovic at the French Open?
ESPN - Peter Bodo
Steady as He Goes: Roger Federer on Success, Staying Power and 20 Years at the French Open
The New York Times - By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
Why Serena Williams isn't the favorite in a deep French Open field
Power Players Learn to Love — Well, Like — the Clay
The New York Times - By BEN ROTHENBERG
How did Canada become a tennis superpower? It's complicated
The Guardian - Stephanie Myles in Paris
Spoiler alert: Is Dominic Thiem ready to finally win the French Open?
ESPN - Simon Cambers
Which Sloane Stephens Will Show Up at the French Open?
Roger Federer playing the French Open again is special even if he doesn't win
SB Nation - James Brady
Up-and-Comers, Sleepers to Watch at the French Open
Sports Illustrated - Vanja Lakic


There's a common thread to this week's edition of $mart Women. First, host Michelle McKinnon takes a look at the death of Survey Monkey founder David Goldberg at the age of 47. His death reminds us that we are never too young to prepare our will and trusts for the next generation. And speaking of the next generation, our guest this week, Dr. Melissa Donahue, is an education specialist who has made it her life's mission to teach today's young girls and women about finances. Learn more about her important work at financialnutrition.com. Finally, we end the show with a letter from a woman wondering at what age should she start talking to her children about stocks, balancing a check book, and more.


This 1967 BMW 2000CS is the quirky 4-cylinder predecessor of the iconic E9 coupes that can be had for quite a bit cheaper. This one has some needs but is offered with a good photos. This is a great driving model in perfect condition for a do-it-yourselfer who wants to run some low-buck driving events like the California Melee or SoCal TT. Find it here on eBay in Beverly Hills, California with bidding under $8k and no reserve.
From the front wheels rearward the car has all the charm of the later CS coupes. We prefer the Euro headlamps in this model over these sealed beam USA-spec units, as they do a better job of highlighting the unusual pointed shape. This example seems to be mostly rust-free, showing some parking dings and door-edge wear on the once-repainted finish.
Inside, the woodgrain dashboard is very similar to the later E9 dash.The original steering wheel with horn ring is present and in nice condition, though we'd have trouble not swapping in a Petri wheel. The seats will need attention, as the surfaces show the wear from 46 years of driving.
Under the hood is the familiar M10 four cylinder, found in countless BMWs for decades. The stock dual-carb mill should put out around 120hp, plenty for most users. The side-drafts and factory logo airbox are cool to see in place.
This coupe needs some work, but even in the current form would draw compliments at gas stations and driving events. The seller has included a Shutterfly album with over two hundred photos, thoroughly showing the condition. It is refreshing to see on at a no reserve auction instead of overpriced on Craigslist or in basketcase condition.


In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species.
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
Supramolecular chemistry, the designed chemistry of the intermolecular bond, is rapidly expanding at the frontiers of molecular science with physical and biological phenomena.


Before coming to Canada for VFT I was enrolled with MAAC (Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics) where I learned the basics of 3d packages like Maya and 3ds Max. I also have a degree in Information Technology which helped me to grasp the technical side of the Visual Effects. I really believe that Visual Effects and compositing specifically is an amalgam of technical and creative skills.
Fast, Intense and Informative. The experience at Seneca was outstanding. Though I had some prior knowledge of Visual Effects and how it works, the course at Seneca changed my workflow and style quite a lot. I learned new and correct ways to do things. The course has some rare breed of instructors that are well versed and updated when it comes to industry standards. The instructors were readily available whenever I needed them. They were times when I was working during the break and the instructors were more than happy to make video tutorials explaining things to me and problem solve my shots. My classmates were also very supportive and quite honest when it came to feedback and I think that helped a lot in polishing my work.
Today at work, in some way or the other I am using the techniques and fundamentals learned at the course. The course not only teaches software skills but also gives a good understanding of approaching a shot, problem-solving and surviving in the industry. The in hand industry experience knowledge shared by the instructors facilitated me to transition smoothly from studies to work.
This was Pranjal's demo reel when he graduated from the program in 2014.
The course is very robust and is designed to give you the most in 8 months, which can be overwhelming sometimes, but If you get sure about what interests you the most that will be very helpful. It's not really about the GPA or marks in an assignment, all of it boils down to the Demo Reel you have by the end of the course. A rough plan on how you can approach your Demo Reel will get you a step ahead and keep you away from all the last time confusions. At last but not the least, love whatever you do and be passionate about it.


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Devs – Season 1 Episode 1 Recap & Review
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Alex Garland is one of the more prolific names in the world of science fiction. From the excellent 28 Days Later to the psychedelically trippy Annihilation, Garland has a knack for writing a tight-knit story with compelling characters and abstract ideas. Turning his attention to the small screen, Devs is a thought provoking, engrossing series that gets off to a pretty good start, although some clunky exposition and some questionable acting hold this back from being a better title.
Episode 1 of Devs begins at Park Vista Apartments, as Lilly and Sergei head out their apartment and travel across the city to work. Once there, Sergei pitches an idea to the head developers, Forest and Katie, who both look impressed with his work. At the end of the presentation, they invite him to join the secretive branch of the company called Devs.
The next day he's brought into a meeting with a man named Kenton, who tells him he can't disclose anything about the company before asking him questions about beliefs and religion. Eventually this cold welcome paves way for Forest to arrive, who officially invites him into the project. They walk together through the woods and discuss Devs, while Lilly watches from afar as they walk away from the main complex. Isolated and far away from other people, the duo make it to the Devs building, complete with strange gold bars outside.
Inside, the place is a work of art. Pulsating gold walls, glass doors and an open-plan set-up hide something oddly off-kilter about the place. Sergei admires the main processor showcased in the middle of the room before eventually being shown to his computer and work station. Unfortunately things start to go awry when Sergei feels sick and finds himself in the bathroom throwing up.
Eventually he returns to his desk where Katie approaches him. He asks her about the code infront of him and, wide-eyed, he tells her if the code is true it changes everything. She disagrees though, going on to nonchalantly tell him it changes nothing – which is the point of their experiment.
Outside, he runs into Forest who accuses him of stealing his code. After offering his hand for forgiveness, Sergei makes his choice and runs… right into Kenton who tackles him to the ground and chokes him out with a carrier bag.
Meanwhile, Lilly awakens to find Sergei missing and immediately suspects something awry. At the company, she speaks to Kenton about Sergei's disappearance but he shows her footage of him walking away from the complex that night. Forest arrives not long after and feigns surprise, telling her they'll go by the book and phone the police to report him missing.
Not content with this, Lilly does her own investigating back home, partly thanks to obtaining Sergei's phone. She finds a suspicious app for Sudoku, commenting that Sergei hated the game out loud. When she tries to open it however, the password protected app leads her out to find someone to help. This someone is Jamie, who she tells about Sergei's disappearance. Spelling it out, she wants his help cracking Sergei's phone as it may hold some clues. Instead, he tells her to go away given their history, and leaves her sitting alone in contemplation.
In the middle of the night, Lilly is called in to the company where footage of Sergei covering himself in petrol and igniting himself is shown to her. It's all too much and she charges through the complex to the site the burning occurred, subsequently finding his charred remains on the ground.
Devs is an interesting series of two halves. On the one hand, there's enough here to suspect there's a multifaceted story that could prove to be one of those shows that benefits from repeat viewings. I'm sure there's a lot of easter eggs dotted right the way through this that will hold up to the keen-eyed viewers but some of the exposition really counteracts these ideas. Hearing Jamie and Lilly unnaturally talk about what her plan is or seeing Forest talk to Sergei in a really cryptic way feel a little unnatural.
Having said that though, if you're hooked on the first episode then chances are you'll be hooked for the remainder of the series. The sound design is suitably odd, the characters are layered and the mystery woven through the middle of this is interesting enough to keep you coming back. It's not perfect, but it's also early days so this show could easily pull it out the bag and deliver a fantastic season of sci-fi – only time will tell whether that comes to fruition or not!
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Last year at this time, I wrote here about the outrage, bigotry, unrest, and violence emerging from many quarters of our society, and the difference that one person can make in redirecting young lives and moving communities forward. That person was Naomi Ackerman, Founder of The Advot Project, the 2016 Blank Rome Adopt-A-Center recipient. I could not have predicted that one year later these same disturbing conditions would exist, and to a greater and more pervasive extent than our country has experienced in many decades.
What I could have predicted, however, was that our 2017 Adopt-A-Center recipient would be a truly unique and worthy nonprofit that was led by a visionary individual who is making a difference in the lives of local children and families. That person is Teo Alfero, founder and executive director of Wolf Connection, an educational sanctuary and wilderness retreat that brings people together through direct interaction with rescued wolves, empowering the next generation to become authentic leaders and stewards of the earth.
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On Sunday, October 29, we have the rare opportunity to experience the teaching, healing, and connection that Teo Alfero has made his life's mission. The Blank Rome Adopt-A-Center Program will host HOWL, a fair and concert at the Wolf Connection Ranch that will entertain, educate, and inspire. Guests will get an inside look at how the youth served by the program interact with the rescued wolves, experience the natural beauty of this unique sanctuary and wilderness retreat, and enjoy Halloween-themed activities as well as performances by Street Poets, internationally renowned guitarist Bibi McGill, and the band Grand Canyon.
Here in Los Angeles, we provide pro bono services through many nonprofit organizations, such as the Harriet Buhai Center, Bet Tzedek, Public Counsel, the Alliance for Children's Rights, and Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center.
As a family law attorney, the well-being of children is a topic frequently in my thoughts. Too often, they become collateral damage when parents are separating and divorcing. And as evidenced all around our country, children and young adults can lose their way while growing up in the midst of the social chaos around them. I find renewed hope for the children and young adults in our Los Angeles community in the transformational work of the talented professionals and volunteers at Wolf Connection.
The Adopt-A-Center Program is only one aspect of Blank Rome's proud tradition of corporate philanthropy. My colleagues at the firm work on behalf of numerous pro bono clients all over the country, including the homeless, the disabled, veterans, immigrants seeking asylum, Holocaust survivors, domestic violence victims, abused and neglected children, and low-income senior citizens. Here in Los Angeles, we provide pro bono services through many nonprofit organizations, such as the Harriet Buhai Center, Bet Tzedek, Public Counsel, the Alliance for Children's Rights, and Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center.
More than 70 years ago, the firm's founding partner, Edwin P. Rome, served as court-appointed counsel for Aaron "Treetop" Turner, an African-American laborer accused of beating to death a factory employee. Mr. Rome defended Mr. Turner over eleven years and through five separate trials during which he was convicted of murder five times, and sentenced to die four times. Ultimately, Mr. Turner was freed as a result of the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on an appeal after the fifth trial. Current pro bono cases being handled by the firm involve claims of racial discrimination, civil rights actions, and death penalty cases.
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I hope you will join us for HOWL on Sunday, October 29 at the Wolf Connection Ranch in Acton, CA. Advance ticketing is required. As in years past, we anticipate that our Adopt-A-Center Program will present a memorable and enriching experience for you and your family.
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The end of the shuttle era
Because I'm an astrophysicist, people often seem to think I must be a big fan of the space shuttle. As the shuttle program comes to an end, several people have asked me whether I'm sad about its going away.
Nope! The end of the space shuttle (and its partner in codependency, the International Space Station) can't come soon enough, as far as I'm concerned.
As far as science is concerned, the shuttle did one great thing: it put up and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope. I'm grateful to it for that. But as terrific as HST is, it doesn't go a long way towards justifying the estimated $174 billion we've spent on the shuttle program.
That's not really a fair criticism, because the shuttle program's not primarily about science, and never has been. (People often seem not to realize this, because anything to do with space sounds all sciencey.) There are reasons for human space flight, but scientific research isn't a good one: sending people up into space is not and never has been a cost-effective way to do science. So if we want to evaluate whether the shuttle program has been worthwhile, we should judge it based on other goals.
One goal people often mention is the intrinsic value of exploration of the unknown. We should send people into space for the same reason that explorers charted new continents, went to the South Pole, explored Everest, etc. I agree with this in principle, although it's only fair to ask about the cost-benefit ratio in any particular instance. But shuttle launches are not exploration in any sense of that word.
We sent people to the Moon in the 60s and 70s. Since then, we've sent people repeatedly back and forth to low-Earth orbit. Discussions in recent years about the possibility of going back to the Moon have made clear how far we are from being able to do that: it'd take years and cost huge amounts of money just to repeat what we did in the 60s.
Suppose that, after Columbus had returned to Portugal after reaching the Americas, Europeans did nothing but sail back and forth between the Portuguese mainland and the island of Berlenga, a few miles off the coast. Suppose they did that for so long that they forgot how to sail across the ocean. That's pretty much the kind of "exploration" did when we came back from the Moon and spent the next four decades shuttling back and forth to low-earth orbit.
Actually, that's not quite a fair comparison: Berlenga's too far offshore. I should have found an island closer to the Portuguese coast.
The other reason people often cite for supporting human space flight is that it inspires young people. It's always said that the Apollo missions inspired a whole generation of scientists, engineers, etc. That's before my time, and I haven't studied the history, but I'm prepared to stipulate that that's true.
Has the shuttle had a similar effect? I don't know of any data suggesting that it has, and I'd be very surprised if it did. I'd be willing to bet that the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been far more inspiring to the public than the shuttle program, for less than the cost of a single shuttle launch.
(According to Wikipedia, the mission that landed Spirit and Opportunity cost less than a billion. The cost of a shuttle launch is $174 billion / 134 launches, or $1.3 billion. NASA says that "the average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission." I don't know how this is calculated, but it clearly doesn't include all costs.)
There's an interesting debate to be had over whether human space flight is a worthwhile thing for the US government to be doing. With the end of the shuttle program and the International Space Station, maybe we can actually have that debate.
Ted Bunn
I am chair of the physics department at the University of Richmond. In addition to teaching a variety of undergraduate physics courses, I work on a variety of research projects in cosmology, the study of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Universe. University of Richmond undergraduates are involved in all aspects of this research. If you want to know more about my research, ask me!	View all posts by Ted Bunn
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9 thoughts on "The end of the shuttle era"
robert61 says:
Shut it down. In my more libertarian moments (most of them), I say eliminate NASA. But if it has to exist and spend money, why not focus on developing a space elevator? (Shut it down. Shut it down.) Or at least go to Mars…
When has well reasoned cost-benefit analysis (regardless if how tangible or intangible those benefits are) really driven government spend? Lobbyists, special interests, "public opinion" and historical funding drive future funding.
A big problem you don't consider though is not just cost but value. What I mean is $174B is a lot of money. But did it need to cost that? Or half of that? Government spend has obscene bloat, and I wonder what the cost could have been given a different focus. Look at what the x prize achieved…. Obviously it is not a multi-year program with a similar focus as nasa, but is nasa worth the multiple?
Ted Bunn says:
@Robert — You've managed to cultivate your libertarianism despite living in a democratic socialist paradise for so many years? Actually, maybe that helped you to maintain it: I believe that contrarianism is not entirely absent from the Dunlap genome.
I'm not a libertarian: I do believe there are good outcomes that markets don't provide and that government spending can. For instance, basic science research. (Yes, that belief is self-serving, since in my own small way I am the recipient of some of this spending.)
@Derek–
You're quite right about the lamentable absence of cost-benefit reasoning in the government funding process. But that doesn't mean that we as individuals shouldn't use it in deciding whether to support or oppose particular programs. On the contrary, the less it's happening in Washington, the more important it is that we try to do it, and then throw our political support around accordingly.
I agree 100% that things like the X prize are a good model to consider as we try to find ways to achieve these goals more efficiently. In general, I'm very happy that the idea of private-sector support for space exploration is going mainstream. If Richard Branson et al. can push the human space flight envelope instead of NASA, that's great as far as I'm concerned.
Phillip Helbig says:
Just to put things in perspective, I remember a figure from several years ago for US military spending: [queue sinister Dr. Evil voice] one million dollars per minute. That's about 500 billion per year.
On the whole, I agree with Ted's post. Space exploration is interesting, but a) that's not what has been going on in the last 40 years (or, to be sure, even before that: the last man on the Moon was the first scientist on the Moon (Harrison Schmitt)) and b) science in space is much cheaper when done by unmanned space probes.
Looking to the future, I think it is good if NASA pulls out of space exploration; there is too big a danger that Mars will be colonised by members of the Tea Party. I would rather have Richard Branson behind things.
mtrawick says:
I agree with you in not being sad about the end of the space shuttle era, for all the reasons you mention. But it's worth pointing out that sailing back and forth between mainland Portugal and Berlenga probably isn't a fair analogy.
The reason is that the distance between two points isn't the most relevant quantity for measuring the difficulty of a journey in space. A better metric might be the energy required to get there, since that roughly corresponds to the amount of rocket fuel needed.
It's true that the distance to the ISS is roughly 1/1000 of the distance to the moon. But remember that the Earth's gravitational potential energy is nonlinear, falling like 1/distance. More importantly, just getting to the ISS isn't enough; you also have to be going fast enough to maintain the orbit, which requires significant kinetic energy as well. By my calculation, boosting a single kilogram into the low-Earth orbit of the ISS requires 33 megajoules of energy. Lifting a kilogram to the gravitational midway point between the Earth and Moon requires about 62 megajoules. The difference between the two is more like a factor of two, not 1000.
(Of course, the above analysis understates the difficulty in getting to the the moon and back, because it ignores both the fuel required to slow the craft for a safe landing on the lunar surface and the fuel for the return trip. There's also a "fuel multiplier" effect: each kg of fuel required for the return trip requires still more fuel to get it to the moon in the first place, and so on. By contrast, the return trip home from the ISS is energetically easy: just reduce the orbital radius enough to catch a bit more of the earth's atmosphere, and let atmospheric drag to the rest.)
You're right, of course, Matt. In my partial defense, I'll point out that I wasn't talking about the degree of difficulty but rather about the degree to which what we're doing with the shuttle counts as "exploration." I think it's only exploration if you're going to new and unfamiliar places, and low earth orbit doesn't cut it.
I know as a little kid the Space Shuttle program inspired me. Do we need a space program? YES! Why? It will help the economy, the new tech developed because of it, its part of our genetic make up to explore and it gives a great sense of pride as humans that we can actually do it!
Plus I'd rather support a space program then an economy based on who has the bigger gun.
stephany says:
ted, i got a question do we really need the moon?
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Eli Kokotovich, 95, passed away on Oct 20, 2019, at Primrose Retirement Community of Duluth. Eli was born on Jan 10, 1924, in Hibbing, MN, to Jovo and Milosova (Stuckich) Kokotovich.He was a graduate of Hibbing High School, class of 1941. He attended Junior College in Hibbing and then enlisted to serve in the army in World War II. After the war, he went back to school and graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Pharmacy. He was working as a pharmacist in Thief River Falls when the army called him back to serve in the Korean Conflict. When he came back, he moved to Duluth, where he would work the rest of his career, eventually owning and running Rutter Pharmacy. Eli married Georgia Johnson in Hibbing on June 23rd, 1950, and they raised two sons in Duluth. Eli was an active member of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, belonged to Euclid Lodge No. 198, and was a long-time board member of Oneota Cemetery. During his life he loved sports and spending time outdoors. He played fastpitch softball, bowling, golf, and curling, was an avid fisherman, and looked back fondly at his years playing American Legion baseball. Eli loved spending time with his family. He spent many hours watching his grandchildren's dance recitals, band concerts and sporting events, and in later years he enjoyed time with his great-grandchildren. He was a kind, caring man whose sense of humor brought smiles to those around him.
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In defense of prejudice
Dear M,
Once a man reaches a certain age he begins to forget how he got there. He forgets because he has to. He has no time to remember the little, successive steps that built him into who he is. Unless he's dull, a man is always on the move, always thinking, churning, taking steps in a new direction that will change him, imperceptibly at first, into someone else. Even if his mind won't change his body will; and the body will begin to change the mind itself. He either takes the initiative or God does it for him.
Who has the time to remember how he got here? Who has the power to see where he's going? The whole of man's development, in hindsight, seems like an inevitable accident -- and then the past gets sacrificed, or flushed down the drain, to make way for thoughts which build the next man. Thus every man is a series of men -- or, perhaps more accurately, a river of manhood. Every day we see the same river, and every day the water is different.
When we look back at our past selves we see pictures but not mindsets. We seem foreign to ourselves; almost strangers. We remember some feelings vividly and others barely, still others not at all. An intellectual, if he leaves a record of his thoughts, sees the arguments he left behind but lacks the emotions that went with them. The eurekas he had years ago, things that used to electrify his whole soul, seem stale and obvious to him; he neglects to go over them because they bore him, and once they bore him he forgets them. He forgets the long train of ideas that led him from the left wing to the right; or from lousy women to good ones; or from bad style to good. All of these things cease to take hold of the imagination, gather dust, and the bridges are burned. Those of us who age without remembering become unintelligible to our children, and the children then see us as prejudiced. We are what we are -- can we really explain it*?
Each man is much more than a continual development of thought. He's a development of taste. He may not be an artist but he's a consumer of art. Thus a middle aged man may prefer a good voice to a nice rack; and he loves a rare act of honor more than a hip pair of jeans. We get picky as we get older, and especially with women when we've got less women to pick from. We call it "growing up" or "maturity" but it's really that we're bored. We've devoured the lesser things and now we need better. Are old men old and tired? Or is the world not enough to excite them anymore? I suspect the fault is ours, and we're not interesting enough for them. Children will play with almost anyone. But how many people does an old man choose to play with?
The area of art is where the most dynamic men leave others behind. Not only in that we make it but in that we get taste for it. Not art in the sense of paintings but art in the sense of living. How we got here on this planet is irrelevant. What we know is that we arrived here, and when we got here we judged nature. We were a part of nature but we pretended we weren't; and we decided what it gave us was too little.
This was the beginning of all art. Desire and imagination and poverty. Richness, really, in the midst of everything; but an everything that wasn't quite good enough as it was. Thus the first men saw meat and they improved it with fire. This was the beginning of cookery. They were hit with cold and they made clothing, and they fashioned the clothing to be comfortable, and to look interesting. This was the beginning of style. They needed shelter from the elements beyond what clothing could offer; so they piled wood and skins together and this was the beginning of architecture. Two people made a baby and needed to take care of it. This was the art of all parenting. They became jealous over one another and they came up with an art known as marriage. They found certain ways to talk to people, ways to make yourself agreeable, rules for what you couldn't do -- and thus kicked off the arts of language, and manners. There was nothing we saw that we didn't dream about improving, and each man had his own dreams, and each dream led to an art form.
Sometimes these dreams spread far and sometimes they were incompatible. Some of them were useful and other ones were stupid. When too many dreams collided, we created the arts of war. Learned to run fast in groups and how to swoop down when other groups weren't expecting it and cut them to pieces. We dreamed how to beat them and built weapons, armor -- fortifications. When we exchanged dreams about property peacefully we called it trade, the art of business. When we didn't dream peacefully we created the art of plunder. Some men dreamed big dreams about how we were connected, and could live in peace, and this gave birth to the arts of leadership, and rhetoric, and citizenship, and law. The great lawgivers arrived, Numa and Solon and Moses and Lycurgus and Hammurabi, and gave us the arts of government.
No man, once he's experienced a taste for something, is able to really go back to what he left before it. Not fully happily. He can do it but he'll always be looking back**. And so we live in environments of inherited art, and build our tastes on the already refined tastes of others -- most usually our ancestors. We're not born into the wilderness, but into civilizations full of artful prejudices -- social organisms, complex beyond understanding, full of little ways to do this and that, and which none of us, unless we leave, are capable of throwing off entirely. Even if we leave we bring too many of the art forms with us. Every exile is the germ of a whole civilization***.
If you don't know who this is, God save you
We call the custom of an art, and the feelings that defend the custom, a prejudice. We can handle some arts getting bucked but not too many of them. We expect art out of others and if they can't deliver it we shun them -- as barbarians, or dimwits, or animals***. We pretend we're against prejudice but a nation is only a mass-scale prejudice. All nations began in barbarism and slowly branched out until some art forms grew one way and others in others and their feelings defended the branches. A culture is a series of prejudices that overlap peacefully; and when people have been doing it so long it's almost invisible to them -- until you try to do things differently.
We say we want to be unprejudiced but this, quite frankly, is impossible. Tolerance, which is always necessary, in some degree, to progress and civilization, means putting up with things you personally don't like. We can only devalue our particular prejudices, and when we do this we only make way for another nation -- with a whole different series of prejudices. You can examine your prejudices and change some of them, but you can't (and shouldn't) change all of them and you certainly can't get rid of them. Exchange is the only option, and if there isn't anything better you have to go with worse. A man who tells you otherwise isn't a saint, but an enemy. If he's from your culture he's a traitor. If he's from another culture he's an invader.
*I believe a man can relate to youngsters, although most of us choose not to; and that it's one of the chief duties of a parent to think hard about the things he left behind -- so he can bring his children up to speed. The art of studying children and young people, and learning how to grow them in wisdom and the best traditions, building, step by step, from naivety to know-how, is one of the most sacred of all arts -- and usually left, by feckless conservatives, to silly women and leftists. We call ourselves conservatives, but snub the art of conservation.
One reason we do this is for the simple fact that teaching children is boring; and generally speaking, repeating things you learned a long time ago, over and over again, to people who probably don't want to be there, is a painful experience. Thus we often relegate these duties to radicals, who want to steal children, and mercenaries, who teach primarily for the paycheck.
Some honor has to be given to the intellectual who steps, day after day, into arguments he's already had a hundred times. I say I won't read right-wing papers because they're obvious to me, but they serve a purpose. They were interesting to me when I needed them, and they're interesting to a whole horde of people arriving on the doorstep every year -- who are either turning from leftism, or are in danger of turning towards it. These non-thinking thinkers, repeaters of known things, are heroes in their own way -- and should be celebrated for taking bullets that I've long since refused to take. Martyrdom and drudgery all involve suffering. We have learned to glorify one of them because it's sensational, but completely disregarded the other.
**Much of the horror of post-apocalyptic films revolves around this. Yes, the lawlessness is bad. But what are we going to do without toilet paper?
***We pretend to worship our ancestors but the truth is that we'd scorn them. We've gotten too rich in many ways and too poor in others. Our conversation would probably bore Thomas Jefferson to death. Abe Lincoln's hygiene would probably ruin our conversation. Our ancestors would think we were effeminates and degenerates and city slickers. We would look down on them -- as country bumpkins, religious fanatics, and radical prudes.
****The chief value of travel is learning that your art isn't the only art.
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Today, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe revealed information about a new character named Mido, new features, weapons and the introduction of partner action in the upcoming action-RPG CODE VEIN.
Before the Great Collapse, Mido adopted orphans to conduct barbaric experiments on them and sent his "experiments" to the battlefields. For those experiments he used parts of his body as material to reinforce them and make himself a superior Revenant. A group of reinforced Revenants surround Mido and by their force, they can stop the attacks of Yakumo. Although Mido is already extremely powerful, he continues to strive for power and strength. What could his intention be?
Besides Mido, another innovation is the new Combo Drain, which is executed with a weapon immediately after an enemy attack. Bayonet combos get well-spaced while attacking. Combo drain takes advantage of long reach Stinger characteristic. Combo-Drain can also be used immediately after a launch attack, allowing the user to hit his opponents with this powerful combo attack while he is still in the air.
In addition, numerous weapons will be available in CODE VEIN. The one-handed sword has the special attack of the Sunset Sword, which lets the user jump over his opponent and swing the sword down. The charged attacks of Broadsword and Hanemukuro have a strong influence on opponents. The two-handed sword's special attack Zweihander is a far-reaching stab attack, which is executed while the user advances to his opponent. Nagimukuro and Warped Blade are attacks that are characteristic of a two-handed sword due to their great movement.
CODE VEIN will also feature partner action with the characters Mia and Louis, which allows new and different opportunities in battles. Both, Mia and Louis, use different ways of the Combo Drain and the partner will assist the protagonist. When the protagonist stops, the partner will watch the surrounding for items and enemies.


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O God, this is too much. This is f-ing hilarious. This is rich.
Please, give me another state before I die laughing. . . I really don't know how much more of this circus mirth I can take.


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Q&A with Heather Kaufman
Lindsey Martie
Originally posted on October 5, 2016
Featuring an endearing cast of characters that will capture your heart from page one, The Story People is a tale of hope, love, and courage. We recently caught up with author Heather Kaufman to chat about her debut novel.
Where did you get the idea for The Story People?
Years ago, my family and I visited New Harmony, Indiana, which is a small, historic town where two attempts were made to establish utopian communities. The town was quaint and gorgeous, and (icing on the cake!) they had a bookstore there. The man behind the counter was this young beach bum looking guy. I remember thinking he looked so out of place, and then I couldn't get it out of my head—the idea of a young man who feels entirely out of place running a bookstore in a quaint little town. Why does he feel out of place? What's his background, and how did he end up where he did?
How do you write? What are your routines?
I tried really hard to write every day because I've been told that's the ideal—make it a habit, set daily word-count goals, etc. I tried hard; I really did! But it just didn't work for me. Instead, I found that scheduling fewer, bigger chunks of time worked best. It takes a little time to sink into your story, your characters, the world you're creating. I work best when I give myself a large block once a week to really immerse myself in it. I go to Barnes & Noble, buy a coffee and snack, and just marinate in my story. I find I'm much more productive that way. Also, I need to listen to soundtracks while I write. It makes me feel like I'm in a movie, and when the scene I'm writing and the soundtrack I'm listening to match up perfectly—oh, the magic in that moment!
Who is your favorite character in the book? Why?
This is like asking a mom if she has a favorite child! The hardest character for me to write was Rosemary, and the easiest character for me to write was Mrs. Gardner, but my favorite character is probably Ben. He's the one who came first, you know, and this really is his story. It's been me and him for a long time, figuring this whole thing out together. He feels the most relatable to me as well. I think everyone can relate to certain aspects of his character—feeling trapped, nostalgic, hopeful, uncertain about the future. Ben is the heart of the book.
What was the biggest lesson you learned while writing your first novel?
Grace, grace, marvelous grace! Even when we're quick to give it to others, we're stingy with ourselves. It's easy to get bogged down in trying to be "good enough" or worrying over every little detail, but in the end I had to learn to be kind to myself and to trust my instincts. My editor, Peggy, said something that profoundly helped me in the beginning: "You're ready for this. You've been preparing for this your whole life." I think that's so true with anything you work toward. In the end, the athlete has to just let go and trust her training. It was the same for me with this book, and it's a lesson I'll take elsewhere: Give yourself grace. Be kind to yourself. Trust your instincts.
What's the best piece of writing advice you've received?
"Write what you want to read." I don't remember who said it, but it's proved to be invaluable advice. I think it's easy to get caught up in what you're trying to communicate to the world. I found it helpful to keep putting on my "reader hat." As a reader, what do I want to see happen next? What would be satisfying for me in this moment? Doing this—constantly approaching my work as a reader—helped me focus on building a satisfying story as well as communicating larger themes. It also helped me when I hit those inevitable writing blocks and didn't know what was going to happen next. I just kept putting myself back into the reader's position and let the question "What do I want to see happen next?" drive the story.
Much of your novel takes place in a family-owned bookstore. What section of Palermo's would be your go-to hang-out spot?
Definitely the reading nook on the first floor! Many scenes in the bookstore take place here, partly because it serves as an effective hub of activity while also being cozy and personal. I love going into bookstores and seeing these small reading areas because it communicates that this isn't just a commercial place to buy books; it's a personal place where we want you to sit down and get lost in a book. So I'd want to camp out there because I'd be able to observe all that goes on in the store or just kick back with a book.
Who are some of your favorite writers? Why?
This is such a hard question! My reading taste is varied—depends on the mood I'm in. But some of my favorites would be Kate Morton, who writes luscious, complex novels that jump back and forth in time and involve layered characters and secrets galore. Chris Cleave, who is an elegant, thoughtful writer, who isn't afraid to tackle large and tough topics with grace. Joshua Ferris, who is whip-smart when it comes to people and detail—oh, and he's hilarious too! Francine Rivers and Liz Curtis Higgs, both Christian writers, whose historical fiction is especially noteworthy.
Are you one of those writers who carries a notebook with you or keeps one on your nightstand?
Yes, absolutely! I have a notebook in my nightstand and have considered getting a waterproof notebook (yes, they make them) for the shower! I find that inspiration hits at the most awkward moments. When I'm on the go, I use the Notes app in my phone to jot down sentences or ideas (or ask Siri to do this if I'm driving!). This happens quite frequently throughout the week and then when I have my large chunk of writing time, I reference my Notes and transfer it all to the computer. Some of my "prettier" sentences in The Story People originated this way—sparks of inspiration recorded on the go.
Any plans for future novels?
Yes, I'm currently working on a very different book from The Story People called Loving Isaac. I often think that The Story People is something that I wanted to write and Loving Isaac is something I needed to write. I remember exactly where I was back in 2008 when I knew with clarity that I needed to write Loving Isaac. It's a book about a humble pastor, single mother, and the boy with autism who changes them both. It's a very personal book for me, and I'm just praying that I can do it justice!
Now that you are a published author, what is one piece of advice you'd give to aspiring writers?
Write because you love it without worrying if it's good enough or if it will get published. Write because you love it and you can't help yourself. Read—a lot. Read writers you admire, and they'll rub off on you. So, write because you love it, read writers you love—do all of this as part of the natural fabric of your life without self-depreciation or fear of rejection, and you will grow as a writer—trust me, you will! I could go on about putting your writing out there for feedback, going to writing conferences, and creating book proposals, but really it all starts with that basic love of writing and reading and letting it grow in you organically and not rushing yourself or being too hard on yourself.
How do you describe your book to friends and family?
I often call The Story People a romantic comedy. I didn't intend for it to be as funny as it turned out to be, but Mrs. Gardner and her gang just kind of took over and what was I supposed to do? Sit back and let them have their way is what! I also refer to this book as a celebration of stories and what they mean to us. I think there's a reason why stories resonate with us so much, and it's because we are a part of the large Epic that God is telling. He is the ultimate Author, and every stab of heartache, every sweet joy, all the ups and downs of life—it's all a part of something larger and bigger than us.
Speaking of family, how is life as a new mom?
Challenging, humbling, exhausting, wonderful! I am the mother of a rough-and-tumble two-year-old boy who is all about running, wrestling, yelling, and playing as long and as hard as he can. For someone who always imagined mothering a sweet little girl who loves butterflies and tea parties, I find it funny and kind of great that God chose me to be the mother of this wonderful boy, who is so utterly different from me. And now I can't imagine life any other way! He challenges me to be a better person and to stop caring so much if my clothes get dirty.
Without giving too much away, what do you hope your readers take away from your book?
I hope my readers leave with a sense of peace, knowing that we serve a faithful God who is never in the business of deserting His children but who is always there for us in every season no matter what. I hope readers are encouraged to serve Him more fully in all their various vocations, just as Ben is encouraged to do so. And I hope that readers just have a good ol' time reading this story—that they get caught up in it and swept away and that it builds them up to go on and tell the best story they can with the lives God has given them. That's what we're all called to do, isn't it? Our lives are stories in His grand Epic, and God gives us the strength and courage to live them well wherever, and however, He calls us!
Lindsey Martie joined the Public Relations team at Concordia Publishing House in 2014 after graduating from Mississippi State University (Go Dawgs!). A southern transplant, she values all things southern – except for sweet tea. In her free time, Lindsey likes to travel, cook, and spend time with her two dogs and family.
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Global NewsClampdown: Iran Arrests Journalist, Over 80 Media Workers
Clampdown: Iran Arrests Journalist, Over 80 Media Workers
The Iranian government arrests Mehdi Beyk, head of the political editorial department at the reformist newspaper Etemad.
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Mr Beyk's arrest was disclosed by his wife, the paper reported on Friday. He was arrested on Thursday and his mobile phone and notebook confiscated.
In recent weeks, numerous Iranian journalists have been detained as part of a wave of arrests.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York, more than 80 media workers have already been arrested. The possibilities for reporting are massively restricted in the country.
Iran's political leadership has been under enormous pressure since nationwide protests broke out in mid-September.
Triggered by the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in police custody, Tehran has plunged into its worst political crisis in decades.
The 22-year-old had been arrested more than three months ago for violating strict Islamic dress codes relating to her hijab.
Some female journalists are being held in the notorious Evin prison in the capital Tehran.
Journalist Niloofar Hamedi of the reform newspaper Shargh, who was one of the first to publicise the Amini case and her colleague Elaheh Mohammadi are also imprisoned there.
The intelligence service recently described the women as foreign agents. The newspaper denied the accusations.
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The apps Instagram and WhatsApp remain blocked in Iran, the Interior Ministry said on Friday as reported by the newspaper Shargh.
"As long as WhatsApp and Instagram do not accept the rules of our country's sovereignty, there is no way they can exist," the newspaper quoted a senior security official at the ministry as saying.
WhatsApp had said on Thursday it would introduce proxy servers to help circumvent bans.
Iran's authorities had blocked the apps and in phases, the internet starting in September to prevent communication between protesters and the publication of information and videos. (dpa/NAN)
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Zeppelin Museum
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Boasting over 1,500 original exhibits and historical photographs, videos and audio recordings, the exhibition at the Zeppelin Museum brings the history of airship travel to life with the help of multimedia installations.
The Zeppelin Museum is located in the former harbour train station on the banks of Lake Constance. Many different aspects of airship travel are covered across the exhibition space of 4,000 square metres, which is home to no end of special displays. The permanent exhibition clearly demonstrates the process of flying in line with the "lighter than air" principle and gives visitors the chance to feel what it's like at experimentation stations. The successful past of the Zeppelin Group is touched upon too. For example, visitors are told how the technical innovations came about back in the day and how the Zeppelin gained a cult following.
The highlight of the museum has to be the partial reconstruction of the Hindenburg Zeppelin. Visitors can enter the recreated passenger areas of the LZ 129 and get a feel for what it would have been like to travel on board this luxury liner in the sky. Another special attraction at the Zeppelin Museum is the large art collection in the former harbour train station, which reflects the work of the major players from the south of Germany between the Middle Ages and modern times. Opening times: May to October: Every day 9 am–5 pm, November to April: Tuesday to Sunday 10 am–5 pm
www.zeppelin-museum.de
Darmstadt: a city of poets, thinkers and space explorers
The Ruhrgebiet: from industrial region to cultural melting pot
Frankfurt: where tradition meets modernity
Hamburg: a maritime metropolis that leaves you wanting more