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Best Things to Do in NYC During Summer: The Best and Brightest
by Sea The City | Jun 3, 2018 | Things to Do
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This content has been updated in June 2020.
The Best and Brightest Things to Do in NYC Summer 2020
New York City is full of exciting activities and venues to participate in, especially during the warm months of summer. Nevertheless, activities and venues slated for NYC summer 2020 look very different compared to previous years because of COVID-19. To protect the public, Mayor de Blasio canceled all venues and other nonessential events happening in June. Currently, it is unclear how far this policy will extend into summer. Meanwhile, fun is where you find it, and there's still plenty of it to go around if you know where to look. The following guide contains some of the best and brightest things to do in NYC summer 2020.
Note: Closures due to the pandemic are in a state of flux so make sure you check for potential closures before heading out.
Macy's Fireworks Display
If you're wondering what to do in NYC in summer, Fourth of July extravaganzas never disappoint. This holiday, New Yorkers are looking forward to ushering in the United States' 244th birthday with lots of panache. The biggest and most widespread fireworks displays in the country happen in NYC every year, including Macy's huge Fourth of July Fireworks event. The Macy's Fourth of July spectacular will take place as planned, but it will be handled differently for summer 2020.
Beginning on Monday, June 29, a smaller set of fireworks will be launched in all the five boroughs and last about five minutes. To better promote safety and prevent crowding, locations won't be announced before the light shows happen. According to ABC7ny.com, a televised event on July 4 will highlight the best moments from the prerecorded five fireworks displays, along with a grand finale that's set to take place atop the Empire State Building.
"Sea" The City
New York City summers are all about fresh air, spectacular views and longer days. But how to do that and observe social distancing measures that are in place? By taking a jet ski excursion, of course. Riding the waves on a jet ski makes meeting social distancing requirements a breeze, while still allowing you excellent ways to see the breathtaking views NYC has to offer. You'll never get a better view of Gotham's land and waterways than with premiere jet ski company, Sea The City.
Sea The City places you on the Hudson River, where you can soar past the NYC skyline, breathtaking in its own right. From beginners to experienced riders, navigating the waterways by jet ski provides the ultimate opportunity to learn, gaze, and breathe in the sights and sounds of the Big Apple. Slap on your water shoes and get ready for the best time you can have! Take a look to see the fun-filled activities that Sea The City NY has to offer here.
Have a Hotdog in a NY Minute
From newly married couples at Times Square stopping to munch on hot dogs for a photo op to famous hot dog eating contests at Coney Island, New Yorkers love to destroy their beloved mystery meat on a bun – often in record times, too. For instance, Nathan's Annual Hotdog Eating Contest is a huge attraction, and its competitors demolish as many hot dogs as they possibly can in ten minutes. The big event hasn't been canceled due to the coronavirus, but this year's faceoff between hot dog titans will be held without its usual gathering of live crowds. Also, the hot dog contest will take place at an undisclosed NYC neighborhood location vs. the usual one on Coney Island.
In previous hot dog gorging competitions put on by Nathan's, there were typically 15 people participating per group. This year's event sees just five men and five women wolfing down as many dogs as they can. On July 4 at 12 p.m. ET, be sure to pull up a chair to tune in to ESPN, who will televise the popular event. Don't forget to place that stack of plain beef hot dogs on buns and a glass of water in front of you to compete and eat with the best of 'em.
Dine Alfresco at Valentino Pier
The Redhook district had humble beginnings as a shipping industry in the 1600s, and today it is a much-visited and popular attraction. As of June 26, 2020, all New York City parks are open, including the ever-popular Louis Valentino Junior Park & Pier. Located in a cove off New York Bay, this park boasts a million-dollar view of the Statue of Liberty, Downtown Manhattan, Governors Island and historic Red Hook Store buildings.
Destination eateries are also abundant and open nearby, including Red Hook Lobster Pound. After scoring one of their sensational lobster rolls for take-out, you can head to Louis Valentino Junior Park and dine alfresco while enjoying the sights and sounds of the waves lapping against Valentino pier. Later, take a stroll in the park while basking in the summertime weather and gorgeous scenery.
Hit the Beach
Summer is about being outside in the water, and NYC beaches are a favorite go-to for recreation. In some excellent news for New York sun and surf worshippers, beaches in the tristate area will be open for swimming July 1. That means 14 miles of public beaches where you can cavort and enjoy the lazy days of summer. From surfing in the waves of the Rockaways in Queens to strolling along the famous boardwalk of Coney Island, NYC beaches will be bursting with fun activities.
Keep in mind to cool off at the beaches responsibly. The Parks Department beach patrols and the NYPD and will be out in force to ensure that everyone's summertime fun stays safe. NYC fun lovers must follow social distancing rules, which will be in effect at all the beaches.
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There is a bizarre theory about our universe that it might be just a Hologram. A hologram we live in. The holographic notion has been equated us being characters on a television show who don't actually know that our apparently 3D world occurs only on a 2D screen. The information about everything in our cosmos might essentially be encoded in tiny packets in two dimensions, theoretical physicists say. Consider for a sec that if space and time were not continuous then everything in the cosmos would be pixelated, just like a digital image. The natural "pixel size" of space is approximately 10 trillion trillion times smaller than an atom, a distance that physicists called Planck scale.
According to quantum theory it is impossible to know both the precise location and the exact speed of subatomic particles. If space arises from 2D bits with restricted information about the exact location of objects, then space itself would fall under the identical theory of uncertainty. That means it will be impossible to find the exact location of that particular pixel. Now for the confirmation of this theory scientists used the Fermilab's Holometer, or holographic interferometer, the most subtle device ever made to measure the quantum jitter of space itself. For the past whole year, it has functioned on full power, using a pair of interferometers located close to one another.
Each interferometer sent a one-kilowatt laser beam (the correspondent of 200,000 laser pointers) at a beam splitter and down two vertical 40-meter arms.
The light was then mirrored back to the beam splitter where the two beams recombined, producing fluctuations in brightness if there is motion.
Scientists studied these fluctuations in the returning light to see if the beam splitter is moving in a definite way – being carried along on a jitter of space itself.
'Holographic noise' is expected to be present at all frequencies, but the scientists' challenge was not to be fooled by other sources of vibrations.
The Holometer tested a frequency so high – millions of cycles per second – that motions of normal matter are not likely to cause problems.
Rather, the dominant background noise is more often due to radio waves emitted by nearby electronics.
The Holometer experiment was designed to identify and eliminate noise from such conventional sources.
It did not detect the amount of correlated holographic noise - quantum jitter - that this pixelated model of space-time suggests. So ultimately Fermilab's Holometer proved this model of space-time wrong. Fermilab's Holometer has also developed a new way of studying space and time that researchers didn't have before. The research was published in symmetry magazine.


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Staikouras, Tsakalotos row on taxation
By Giannis Agouridis/ Published on: 29/07/2019
The row between Staikouras and Tsakalotos sealed today's discussion of the tax bill in the House Finance Committee. "We take responsibility for our choices. We have no delusions or illusions like the previous government did", Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said, with ex-minister Euclid Tsakalotos responding: "We thank the government that has now come to our calculations and put another 200 million euros to ENFIA. This means that any failure next year will be ND's".
Staikouras assured, however, that fruitful proposals submitted by the parties will be examined and incorporated, while he added: "Since June, after the outcome of the European elections, we have been restoring the credibility of the country. We will move on to remove capital controls. Population was tried in practice and failed miserably. The Greeks have shown the door to populism. And the first tax bill is symbolically and essentially a new beginning".
At the same time, he spoke of a substantial ideological difference between ND and SYRIZA in terms of budgetary space, prompting the reaction of former SYRIZA Minister of Finance and Parliamentary Representative Euclid Tsakalotos.
"For those who want to see the truth, the reality in the implementation of our economic proposal has a positive sign. The times of easy and illusory hallucinations have come to an end. The new era started with positive messages reflected in Greek government treasury bills and interest rates", Staikouras emphasized, while citing among other things the market's positive reaction with the 7-year bond's lower interest rate issuance.
Responding to former Finance Minister and SYRIZA's parliamentary spokesman Euclid Tsakalotos, who accused ND of not saying anything about which was ultimately the fiscal space for 2019, Mr. Staikouras argued that "what ND was saying is that we think the forecasts of the state's general accounting department are correct, and we have voted on the measures you have brought".
E. Tsakalotos: ND after the elections understood that we were right
"Mr. Stournaras said the deficit was 0.7%. ND after the elections understood that were the ones who were right and not Mr. Stournaras. We thank the government that has now come to our calculations and put another 200 million euros to ENFIA. This means that any failure next year will be ND's. They will not say we derailed the budget", Mr. Tsakalotos stressed.
Still, the former finance minister has voiced the opposition of his party for those who own large real estate of more than 500,000 and one million euros to benefit from the same tax cuts.
"If you tell citizens that those who have a million euro-worth of real estate belong to the medium strata they will laugh. Our view is that something else could be done for (properties) more than 500,000 and 1 million euros. We say that this money could be more developmental and fair", Mr. Tsakalotos pointed out./ibna
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I started looking into different designs of induction heaters and it seems that for powerful heaters like >=10kW people at least a few µF with a few hundred amps rating capacitors. What's a minimum for ReactorForge?
And regarding manufacturers, it seems most people use Celems, but I've seen Chinese water cooled capacitors as well, for example on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/af/water-cooled-capacitor.html?SearchText=water+cooled+capacitor&d=y&initiative_id=SB_20190114153544&origin=n&catId=0&isViewCP=y&jump=afs Has anyone tried anything other than Celems? Is there a huge difference?
celem capacitor are better quality than the chinese capacitors, but celem capacitors are more expensive.. I had a few short circuit i think more than 10!! and my cpacitor always its ok ..
I was also wondering about frequency rating on these capacitors, but I think I have better understanding of it now. If anyone else is curious - capacitors' ratings change with frequency and maximum current rating will be usually much smaller in a low frequency as compared to a high frequency.
I think that in the end I'll probably start with some chinese stuff for my first induction heater because I wouldn't want to blow up a Celem capacitor with my limited experience and then when I'll be ready to build a more powerful heater, I'll try to get a Celem capacitor. I've seen lots of used capacitors on Ebay, I might give one a try. They're rather rare in Europe, but I usually visit USA at least once in a year, so I'll probably buy something on my next visit.


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The W£alth of Nations
What do Newcastle United, the Emirates Airline, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, BT, cutting edge life science companies and next generation renewable technologies all have in common?
The answer is that they are all the subject of investments by cash rich Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs).
SWFs are state owned investment funds that invest in a diversified portfolio of financial assets. In effect a "rainy day" reserve fund for a country, similar to an investment portfolio a private individual might set up.
The oldest such fund is the Kuwait Investment Authority, set up in 1953 using surplus oil revenues. Some have been funded by countries who have built up extensive foreign currency reserves as a result of thriving export led economies, such as China and Germany, but it's true to say that the majority of SWFs have been established by countries rich in oil or other commodities.
The investment objective behind SWFs differs from country to country. In the case of a small, oil rich state, the fund might act as a stabilising reserve, a buffer against which to draw in the event that the commodity upon which the economy depends suffers a short term drop in value.
SWFs set up in politically fragile states in volatile areas of the world, such as the Middle East or Africa, may exist to attract large international investors to co-invest in projects that will have a material impact upon the country's citizens. In this instance, partnering with a fund based in a major financial centre such as London or New York, which is subject to the rule of law and where the investments are managed under a robust and independent system of governance. This can provide a potential partner with greater security than embarking on a long term joint venture with the transitory government of a frontier economy.
Conversely, in the case of a larger, commodity based economy, the fund is more likely to act as a means of safeguarding and preserving the country's national wealth for the benefit of future generations and preparing it for a time when the reserve is exhausted or potentially made obsolete by advancing technology.
There are over 120 sovereign wealth funds and while the Kuwait Investment Authority may be the oldest it is not the largest. That honour lies with Norway's SWF, established after the country discovered oil in the North Sea.
This investment behemoth is valued at £1 trillion, roughly the size of the Australian economy. It is the largest single owner of stocks in the world and owns 1.4% of global listed equity. Its assets roughly equate to £200,000 per Norwegian and exceed the value of all Norwegian housing stock. The fund is worth twice the value of Norway's remaining oil reserves.
"It's like we found oil twice" enthuses the fund's Chief Executive Officer Nikolai Tangen. Of the £1 trillion current value, the original investment represents around 27% with the majority accounted for by capital growth and currency gains.
So just how do you go about managing a fund the size the Australian economy? In a word, conservatively. Unlike many of its peers it does not invest in hedge funds or private equity. It is subject to very stringent risk controls, a strict investment mandate and robust governance procedures. Placing great emphasis on research and analysis, it pursues a diversified, balanced approach with a proportion of its core equity component in lower cost passive investments, while employing a number of external managers for specialist, active mandates.
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At November's COP26 summit ex Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, now the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, called on the international financial community to take a lead in tackling climate change. With oil rich countries very much at the sharp end of measures to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels it is clear that SWFs have a key role to play in building this vision and these sleeping giants may be waking up.


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Vinyl LP pressing. Cecil Taylor's solo piano set at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974 drew critical acclaim, earning five star reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide and All Music's Scott Yanow. The set features Taylor's five-movement work Silent Tongues, along with two encores. After being out of print for nearly four decades, the classic live collections has been remastered at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed on audiophile-grade vinyl at Pallas Group in Germany. Silent Tongues is a must-have for fans of Taylor and collectors of free jazz alike!
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1. I initiated with the "Letter to House Leadership" and a request for a staff meeting for our group.
The Speaker is still attending to his duties until the end of the session is he not?
We would appreciate so much just 5 minutes for this bill. It's been sitting for three years while so many more children have perished.
Parents in the childhood cancer community desire very, very strongly more national awareness and conversation about the urgent need for viable solutions for our kids and the larger bills do not address this, nor has the Government Accountability Office investigation into the challenges within NCI to getting adequate resources been approved with the STAR Act. It never happened with the 2008 Caroline Pryce Walker bill.
Nothing has changed significantly for our children, and nothing will without greater public awareness.
We are asking the House for help.
If you would, if ever there were an occasion to use your Republican affiliation, just as importantly if you are retiring, to pull off a brazen feat of "power for Good", this would be the time. With all the earnestness at my command, I implore you to please, help us get a House vote on H. Res. 69. It will only take a matter of a few minutes, and will bring hope to thousands, and a real possibility for public awareness of this relentless human suffering which desperately needs attention–in the wealthiest country in the world!!
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Real Life or Something Like It: Bob Dylan and the Asia Series
"I only ask you one thing; to have your eyes wide open." ~ Albert Kahn
Art and Commerce
Here's a one dollar bill, which can be exchanged nearly anywhere for goods and services to the value of one dollar. Correctamundo?
Wrong, because this one dollar bill has been signed by Andy Warhol — making it a Pop Art collectible. A Warhol painting of a dollar bill fetched over 30 million one dollar bills in 2015. Just imagine what this baby could go for — at least thousands and thousands, right?
Wrong, wrong wrong. Because on closer examination, the Warhol signature is a crude forgery — my god, it's even misspelled as "Whoral" — so now instead of a bucket of money, you're holding a bag of shit.
But wait! What if I told you that I have here a certificate of authenticity that proves that the forged signature is by none other than Bob Dylan, done during his one-and-only visit to the Factory! Now, how much is that dollar bill worth? (based on Mr. Nobody's soliloquy in Grant Morrison's "Magic Bus")
"There's no logical answer to that"
In the Spring of 2011 Dylan played seven shows in Asia, including his first career appearances in China and Vietnam. Those latter shows are not without controversy, with critics labeling Dylan a "sell-out" for allowing his set-lists to be vetted by government authorities.
Dylan uncharacteristically responds with an open letter "To My Fans and Followers," first addressing whether he had originally been banned from China, "Untrue, dreamed up by a wannabe promoter," sez Dylan.
"As far as censorship goes," Dylan continues, "the Chinese government had asked for the names of the songs that I would be playing. There's no logical answer to that, so we sent them the set lists from the previous 3 months. If there were any songs, verses or lines censored, nobody ever told me about it and we played all the songs that we intended to play."
Less than six months after the tour, an exhibition of Dylan's drawings and paintings "that chronicle his journeys in Asia" is announced by the Gagosian Gallery. Titled "The Asia Series," the show is scheduled to run at New York's Madison Avenue Gagosian from Sept. 20 through Oct. 22.
"The Asia Series" is Dylan's third art exhibition since 2008, and his first public showing in the United States. Sometimes described as "the most formidable art gallery in the world," the Gagosian was founded by Larry Gagosian in Los Angeles in 1980. By 2011 the business has grown into seventeen exhibition spaces stretching from New York to Hong Kong.
Left: original photograph by Patrick Cariou. Right: Appropriated/transformed image by Richard Prince
The Gagosian is known as the go-to gallery for hot art investments, as well as for its contemporary roster of artists, including artist/photographer, Richard Prince, who has sucked the Gagosian, as well as Larry Gagosian himself, into a copyright infringement suit filed against Prince in 2009.
The case revolves around Prince's "Canal Zone" show at the Gagosian, which used 28 appropriated and slightly changed images originally published in a book, "Yes, Rasta," by Patrick Cariou. True to form as appropriation artist extraordinaire, Prince never asked for permission to use the imagery.
According to court documents, the Gagosian Gallery sold eight of the Canal Zone paintings for a total of $10,480,000.00. Seven other Canal Zone paintings were exchanged for art with an estimated value between $6,000,000.00 and $8,000,000.00.
In March 2011, U.S. District judge Deborah Batts ruled against Prince and ordered the destruction of all remaining copies of the catalogue and unsold paintings that made use of Cariou's photographs. While no monetary judgement was made in Batts' decision, Prince et al; could be liable for over $4 million in damages for copyright infringement alone.
After pocketing between $16 to $18 million from the "Canal Zone" showing, a $4 million judgement might only put a slight crimp in Prince's and Gagosian's respective wallets, but hey, it's not only about the Benjamins, we're talking a point of honor about "fair use" here.
Prince's lawyers file an appeal and are awaiting a new hearing when "The Asia Series" opens.
BOB DYLAN Life Magazine 96x72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm)
Working from "Real Life"
"A keen observer, Dylan works from real life to depict everyday phenomena in such a way that they appear fresh, new, and mysterious… The Asia Series, a visual journal of his travels in Japan, China, Vietnam, and Korea, comprises firsthand depictions of people, street scenes, architecture and landscapes…" excerpted from the original Gagosian Gallery press release announcing The Asia Series exhibition, September 2011.
As "The Asia Series" exhibition date approaches, several images are posted on the Gagosian Gallery website, including a Life magazine cover ascribed to "Bob Dylan," which looks nothing like any of the other Asia Series works that have been revealed.
"We become so accustomed to our illusions, our images, that we mistake them for reality." ~ Daniel Boorstin: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
The inkjet-printed canvas featuring a dawn fighter raid over Vietnam is a duplicate of a February 25 1966 Life cover photographed by journalist Larry Burrows with the new addition of several lines of text, including "The Shadow," and "The Mask." At its advertised 8 by 6 ft. dimensions, Dylan's "Life Magazine" would be a dominant piece of the exhibition.
A Gagosian representative responds to an inquiry about the "Life Magazine" image that, "It is in fact a Bob Dylan painting and part of the exhibition."
Leon Busy, "Woman Smoking "Opium" and Bob Dylan, "Opium"
In early September, an artist notes on her blog that one of the images that the Gagosian is using to promote the exhibition, indeed, the very one in their press release, Dylan's painting, "Opium," is copied from a 1915 photograph by Leon Busy of a Vietnamese woman smoking opium, reportedly copyrighted by France's Musée Albert Kahn in 2008.
A anonymous comment on the "Opium" post soon follows, relating that "The Asia Series" uses another photograph, a 1998 Bruce Gilden photo available under license from Magnum Photos, as the source for Dylan's "Big Brother."
Bruce Gilden, Japan 1998 (Magnum Photos) and Bob Dylan's "Big Brother"
The hits keep coming. Dylan's "Cock Fight" is found to be sourced from another photo from the Magnum Photos archives, this one by Jacob Aue Sobol.
Bob Dylan, "Cock Fight" and Jacob Aue Sobol, "Thailand. Bangkok. 2008 (Magnum Photos)
Bob Dylan, "The Game" and Dmitri Kessel "Boys Playing Board Game on Sidewalk in Front of the Trocadero Hotel" (Life Magazine archives)
A Dylan street scene of a board game, which is referred to in the exhibition catalog as "Gauguin-inspired," is found to be a reproduction of a photo by Dmitri Kessel, available for licensing from the TIME/LIFE archives.
A Searching Assessment
It becomes a competition among on-line Dylan fans to find the next photographic source of an "Asia Series" painting, which leads many searchers to a specific Flickr photo archive. Three days after "The Asia Series" official opening, an "Okinawa Soba" (real name "Rob Oechsle") makes a first-time post to an "Asia Series" discussion thread in the popular Bob Dylan forum, "Expecting Rain."
"I found this comment thread via the stats page on my Flickr Account," Soba writes. "My Asian photostream had gotten quite a few hits from this discussion board, so I checked things out to see why."
"Imagine my surprise to see at least FIVE or SIX Dylan paintings on the Gallery walls that appear to have been painted from photographs in my personal collection (the originals still in my possession), and posted by me to FLICKr. In any case, the images shown in the Gallery examples all appear to be "derivative works" based on vintage photographs (owned, posted, or published by myself and others), and not on any photos of his own creation while in Asia."
Imagine his surprise, indeed.
Wealthy Manchu Bride and Groom in Beijing — James Ricalton photograph from the collection of Okinawa Soba, circa 1900 and Bob Dylan's "Emperor"
Soba goes on to acknowledge, "All of the original Asian Photos I own and have posted are PUBLIC DOMAIN images. Their appearance on my photostream comes with automatic 'Creative Commons'"' permission for anyone to use them for decorative or illustrative Blog and Website use, AND for conversion to artworks or other craft interpretations. Thousands of people have already done that, including many like Dylan who converted the photos [into] nice paintings."
Soba ends a bit plaintively, "…while Dylan had broken no laws, he seems to have violated a common 'social ethic' that for most of us in the graphics world involves giving credit for sources of inspiration, or direct credit for material upon which a 'derivative work' is based."
The Strategy and the Dissent
Within a week, 11 of the 18 paintings exhibited in "The Asia Series" are found to be sourced from photographs, either in the public domain or available for licensing through archives such as Magnum, Getty, and TIME/LIFE. The remaining seven probably also have their origins in photographs — why abandon a winning strategy — but their provenance proves harder to uncover.
The story is picked up by the popular media shortly after the exhibition opens, with NPR, Rolling Stone, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times, among others, weighing in. The reporting is predictable, many of the reporters having been down the appropriation road before with Mr. D. and "Chronicles: Volume One" and "Love and Theft." Dylan fans and critics are quoted. Plagiarism experts weigh in. Stealing, copying, borrowing. It's acceptable. It ain't. Many artists work from photographs. Many of those artists acknowledge their sources. Many don't. It's bad. It's sad. It's very Dylan.
While NPR had interviewed Rob Oechsle, aka Okinawa Soba, none of the reporters had spoken to any of the photographers or to the archives holding their photographs. When I contacted one of the photographers, it was obvious he wasn't aware of the situation and was shocked and angry when I informed him. A few days later when I followed up, he refused to make any comment.
What had happened during the intervening period? I had contacted Magnum, that's what had happened. And in short order I had a reply from one of their directors…
"Magnum and Bob have a long relationship… he's clearly a fan and we're delighted to be part of his overall Bob-ness. As for specifics, that's confidential. If you have some more general questions, I'd be happy to talk to you."
This not being my first rodeo in the world of Bob-ness, I replied that in general I assumed that their "delight" meant that the photographers whose work was being used for "The Asia Series" were being compensated for that use, just as the Magnum-represented artists whose work was used for Together Through Life and Christmas in the Heart had been compensated. "Would that be a fair inference?" I asked.
The reply from Magnum was that my inference was "fair enough."
After I checked with a few other sources, it became clear that the lid on licensee comments had been clamped down and that no one was going to say nothing more to no one no how.
Dylan's offices had no comment, of course. The Gagosian Gallery responded with the statement, "While the composition of some of Bob Dylan's paintings is based on a variety of sources, including archival, historic images, the paintings' vibrancy and freshness come from the colors and textures found in everyday scenes he observed during his travels."
The gallery also quietly amended the wording of their press release to read: "A keen observer, Dylan is inspired by everyday phenomena in such a way that they appear fresh, new, and mysterious. The Asia Series, a visual reflection on his travels in Japan, China, Vietnam, and Korea, comprises people, street scenes, architecture, and landscapes, which can be clearly identified by title and specific cultural details…"
"Real life" had been 1984'd right out of the press release. But the Gagosian wasn't ready to let go of the term altogether, pointing the media to an interview with Dylan in "The Asia Series" exhibition catalog, in which he is asked whether he paints from sketches or photographs. Dylan responds:
"I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that."
and then muddies his answer with a list that not only encompasses, "real people, real street scenes…" but also "paintings, photographs, staged setups…" pretty much stretching his definition of "real life" to include anything and everything it pleases him to be.
The Risk Taking
A perceptive critique of "The Asia Series" argues that the crime isn't Dylan using existing material — it's that he's apparently so disconnected from real life that even after two years of touring Asia he's relying on photographs created by other people to deliver his impressions. There's no memory, there's no experience, there's no personality, there's neither "visual journey" nor "visual reflection" by Dylan in any of the art.
Maybe. Or maybe there is some personality there. It's just masked and anonymous.
"I'll take some of the stuff that people think is true and I'll build a story around that." ~ Bob Dylan to TIME magazine in 2001 on his memoir, which would be released in 2004 as Chronicles: Volume One.
Remember that "Life Magazine" Vietnam cover with the weird text? The image, which was featured on Dylan's Gagosian "artist" page, disappears from the website shortly after the exhibition opens, and the painting is not to be found in catalog nor show. In fact, it's never to be seen again. It's been 1984'd out from Asia Series reality as completely as "real life" was from the press release.
While several commentators on "The Asia Series" noted that the whole "real life"/"visual journey" PR thing was obvious hyperbole— would anyone really think that Dylan was sketching at a Vietnamese opium den from "real life" — no one asked the question, "Why does 'The Asia Series' use so many scenes and subjects photographed a 100 years or more ago"?
Most of the Asia of "The Asia Series" disappeared long ago except in books and imagination. In fact, "The Asia Series" has the feel of what a vivid imagination might produce if your knowledge of Asia was largely based on fiction and movies featuring preening emperors, blind eunuchs, opium smokers, women in silk gowns, street gamblers, yakuza, monks in saffron robes, cock fights, boys leading reluctant donkeys in the shadow of Mount Fuji, and more.
Perhaps that's because "The Asia Series" is a reflection, not of "real life" but of Western preconceptions about the Far East.
Bob Dylan likes pulp fiction — he's apparently a fan of Pulp Fiction too.
Knocked Out Loaded uses an appropriated image from a 1939 pulp magazine for its cover. Chronicles: Volume One has dozens of references to the pulps, including a very specific allusion to one pulp title when Dylan is writing about a hand injury he suffered in the late 1980s.
The pulp novel? Why, it's by Sax Rohmer. And its title? "The Hand of Fu Manchu," appropriately enough, given Dylan's subject.
"Tall, lean, and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green," Dr. Fu Manchu was a Chinese criminal genius who was the title villain of over a dozen novels and short stories by Rohmer running from 1912 to 1959.
The insidious doctor was also the personification of the "yellow peril" claim that at some point Western civilization would be overrun by the hordes of Asia — the reason why you don't see any Fu Manchu books on the stands these days. Fu Manchu is even referred to as "the Yellow Peril incarnate" in 1913's "The Insidious Fu Manchu."
The Fu Manchu series' racism aside, and the books are uncomfortably racist, they are also filled with memorable plots and lots of action, as well as dangerously beautiful women and a variety of death-dealing traps, giant centipedes, strange creatures with elongated limbs, dacoits, thuggees, secret societies, pythons and cobras, fungi and bacilli (the doctor had a particular fondness for natural weapons). And that's all in one book!
There are at least two references to Fu Manchu in Dylan's "Life Magazine" painting ; "The Mask of Fu Manchu," originally published in 1932 and "The Shadow of Fu Manchu" published in 1948 when Bobby Zimmerman would have been seven years old. Getting as much pulp bang for our buck as we can, "The Mask" is also a reference to the great hard-boiled "The Black Mask" magazine, and "The Shadow," a reference to one of pulp's greatest heros.
Given the era that he he grew up in and his taste for the pulps, I'd guess Vietnam has more associations to Dylan with smoky opium dens and evil Asians bent on nefarious schemes than its being America's Bane, as Vietnam became in the 1960s.
Appropriately, there also seem to be several references to the movie, "Pulp Fiction" in the "Life" text, including "The Bowl," "The Birds," and the weirdest of the group, "The Prick." Rather than drowning you with more details, I'll leave the discovery to those readers interested in pursuing the idea further: try putting "the bowl pulp fiction" into Google, for instance.
Or you could just trust me.
"The paintings that Dylan showed me out in L.A. were paintings from his travels in Asia. Some of them looked too big for him to have painted them while he was there, so maybe he had done them from memory or a photograph or a sketch or a drawing. I didn't ask. I didn't ask a lot of things. I didn't need to. I just enjoyed the experience." ~ Richard Prince, "Bob Dylan's Fugitive Art"
Critics with an opinion of the "The Asia Series" itself generally feel that as art qua art none of the paintings are particularly well-executed or polished. "The color is muddy, the brushwork scratchily dutiful, the images static and postcard-ish," Holland Cotter of the New York Times writes. "The work is dead on the wall." Other reviews are kinder, but none are overly enthusiastic about the exhibition.
"Imagine oil painting reproductions of Renoir's intimate luncheon scene inspiring mouthwatering meals in your kitchen. How about Homer's Girl on a Swing animating your kid's playroom, or Mary Cassatt's Two Women Seated by a Woodland Stream lulling your lodgers to dreamland at night. Envision Claude Monet's Poppy Field in Argenteuil greeting guests in your lobby area and complementing your décor. No need. It's all possible with ArtisOO."
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Some art blogs posit the semi-serious theory that "The Asia Series" paintings aren't by Bob Dylan at all, but are actually from the mind of Richard Prince, collaborating with Dylan in a conspiracy to demonstrate how insane the art market has become (as well as to make a little easy cash).
In that scenario, the only art that Dylan had anything to do with was the "Life Magazine" painting, the first piece his workshop ground out for the real Dylan exhibition, what would become the "Revisionist Art" show that will open at the Gagosian just a month later. Predictably, "Life Magazine" won't be part of that exhibit.
On the other hand, the Prince/Dylan conspiracy theory goes, the actual "Asia Series" paintings were commissioned by Prince from an Asian paint mill like ArtisOO. Send them a photo, they'll send back a painting for as little as $200 USD, although "…the color may be muddy, the brushwork scratchily dutiful, the images static and postcard-ish."
It does makes a weird sort of sense.
Richard Prince, Bob Dylan, and the painting someone allegedly created in Central Park on June 12, 2013
"Bob Dylan was painting on an easel in the background. Bob has wild hair and good shades. He paints nudes with the authority you'd expect of a man who'd been fucked by Patti Smith. Fabiola [Alondra, art director of Prince's publishing house] had told Bob that his motivation was 'Basel.' Bob laughed and said he didn't have that kind of money, but he could do Montreux." ~ Anonymous source to the Animal website
Two years after "The Asia Series" exhibition closes, Richard Prince harks back to the conspiracy theory with a series of tweets — almost immediately deleted — featuring the ladies of the "The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society," whose motto is "We love good books and sunny days and enjoying both as nearly in the altogether as the law allows."
An anonymous source — who is broadly hinted to be Prince himself — tells the "Animal" website that Bob Dylan was also there, painting a topless girl lying on the grass, and supplies an image of the painting as proof.
"Fabiola had told Bob that his motivation was 'Basel.'" "Topless Girl in Grass" — Bob Dylan? and Sonia Aquino photograph by Bruno Bisang
Of course, the Dylan painting turns out to be a crude copy of Swiss fashion photographer Bruno Bisang's portrait of actress Sonia Aquino, as another anonymous tipster informs "Animal" the very next day.
"This is what happens when you write about Bob Dylan's art," the frustrated "Animal" reporter writes. "Is this topless, latest Dylan 'painting' also commentary? Is Dylan, like his good old friend Richard Prince, a sort of a feminist and by 'painting' a famous fashion photographer's polished image of a bombshell Italian actress and adding some grass by her highly commercialized tits, Dylan is commenting on the public, media and tabloid commodification of a woman?… And more importantly…
Did Richard Prince paint this painting? Did Richard Prince paint all of Bob Dylan paintings?"
Prince also wins his appeal in the Cariou case in 2013, with Judge Batts' 2011 decision largely overturned with the exception of five paintings that, the court concludes, must be reevaluated for claims of fair use. That reevaluation never happens. The next year the case is settled — details of the settlement are not revealed except that Richard Prince and the Gagosian Gallery are free of any claim of copyright infringement from Patrick Cariou.
Back in 2011, Bob Dylan doesn't show up for "The Asia Series" opening, but either he — or Richard Prince — makes a quiet, unpublicized appearance at the exhibition's close to sign the back of those "Asia Series" paintings which have sold — reportedly most of them—for an average price of $300,000 each.
And we leave you with one more pop quiz, hot shot…
Here's a photograph of an Asian scene, taken in the early 1900s. What would you pay for it?
A photograph of an Asian scene, taken in the early 1900s. You can have it for free
Guess what? It's your lucky day, bubbie. For you it's free since it's long out of copyright.
But what if someone copied that photo and created a painting from it?
Now let's say that to the average art critic, the painting isn't all that good, especially if you compare the detail against the original photograph. Maybe it came from a Chinese Paint Mill.
It's a bit crudely executed. You might even say… "The color is muddy, the brushwork scratchily dutiful, the images static and postcard-ish" if you were being overly critical.
Or you can have this painting for $300,000
What do art critics know? You can have it for the low, low price of $300,000.
What's that you say? No sale?
But what if I tell you that self-same painting is now signed by Bob Dylan? And in my expert opinion, that $300,000 price is only going up, up, up!
Look at it as an investment, not something you have to hang on a wall. That's why God invented storage lockers.
What do you do now, hot-shot?
"To Richard, Thanks for all the encouragement ~ Bob Dylan"
Have a comment or question? Email me at fhbals@gmail.com
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Sputnik correspondent got a chance to ask US President Donald Trump a question at a Thursday's press conference, following his summit with North Korea's leader, which led to a barrage of comments from Western journalists.
The Sputnik correspondent asked whether Trump addressed the issue of possible inspections to North Korea's nuclear sites during his summit with Kim Jong-un.
"Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik just asked Trump a question," Hunter Walker, the White House correspondent at Yahoo News, said on Twitter, linking to a story on alleged "inner workings of Russia's U.S. news (and propaganda) network."
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"Trump is now taking a question from Russia's Sputnik news agency," the White House correspondent with Feature Story News, Harry Horton, tweeted.
CNN's Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta tweeted that the US president "largely steered clear of WH press corps."
"Russian state media got a question. China state media got a question. [Fox News' Sean] Hannity got a question," Acosta said.
The White House barred reporters from Bloomberg, Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and Reuters from covering Kim and Trump's dinner after two of them shouted questions at Trump at an earlier press conference.
"Trump seems super annoyed AND he was real rude to the Sputnik lady so omg haha something great is gonna go down," journalist Kate Hess said on Twitter.
The correspondent, however, did not feel any rudeness coming from the US president. Trump complained that he could not hear the question, so the Sputnik correspondent had to repeat twice both her question and what news outlet she is from.
The United States will be able to carry out inspections at North Korea's nuclear sites easily and successfully, US President Donald Trump said in response to Sputnik's question.
A number of Western politicians, including those in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, have repeatedly accused Sputnik of spreading propaganda, albeit without providing any evidence. The linked 2017 article by the Yahoo News portal reported on alleged internal Sputnik documents that a former agency employee Andrew Feinberg claimed to have turned over to the FBI. The FBI reportedly questioned Feinberg as part of its investigation into whether Sputnik was acting as a tool of so-called Kremlin propaganda in violation of the US Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Week 3: Flow control. While loop, for loop. Numerical integration using trapezoidal approximation. Integration by symbolic toolbox. Formatted output. fprintf. Functions of two variables. Three dimensional plots.
Week 9: Create a GUI program for the simulation of the motion of the two parts of a robot arm [Executable version][Source code].


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| Center for neuroscience & society talk looks at impact of public health ads on behavior
Center for neuroscience & society talk looks at impact of public health ads on behavior
By Leanna Tilitei 10/04/19 10:45am
Communication professor Emily Falk presented her research which showed that focusing on the unnerving information in anti-smoking and binge drinking ads led subjects to significantly decrease their smoking and drinking habits.
Credit: Sukhmani Kaur
A Penn professor spoke about how anti-drinking ads reduce binge drinking among college students in a talk on Thursday.
Communication professor Emily Falk presented her findings from her research group, which discovered that focusing on the unnerving information in anti-smoking and binge drinking ads led subjects to significantly decrease their smoking and drinking habits.
The event was the first Center for Neuroscience & Society Public Talk of the 2019-2020 academic year. Through this lecture series, the center aims to highlight specific issues in neuroscience and their social implications. This year, the public talks will focus on neuroscience research performed by Penn students and faculty.
Annenberg School for Communication lecturer Emile Bruneau was originally scheduled to deliver Thursday's lecture but had to withdraw due to unforeseen circumstances. Falk spoke instead, describing several studies that tracked brain activity as participants watched health messaging ads in a functional MRI study.
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The Center for Neuroscience & Society Public Talk Series is now in its eighth year.
One of the studies Falk presented tracked the drinking habits of a group of 57 Penn students after they watched anti-binge drinking public service announcements, she said. Some of the participants were told to think about the health dangers of drinking while watching the ads, while others were told to think about the flaws in the ads. A control group was told to analyze the ads neutrally.
Falk said her research group found that the group who thought about the health dangers of drinking reported having fewer drinks than the control group in the weeks following the study. Those who thought about flaws in the ads, however, rated the ads more critically and tended to report drinking more in the weeks following the study.
The Public Talk Series is now in its eighth year. Center for Neuroscience & Society Program Manager Sue Yue Chen said that while she handles the administrative work of the lecture series, Director Martha Farah chooses the speakers for each school year and sends invitations during the summer. Chen said the public talks are geared towards a wide audience, even people without a background in neuroscience.
College junior Julci Areza said she found Falk's lecture accessible and enjoyable even though she does not have an intensive background in human neuroscience.
"We try to make the theme every year really interesting to people, especially to people who might not be neuroscientists," Chen said. She added that members of the center work with each speaker beforehand to make their lectures more "approachable and accessible" to non-scientists.
College junior Julci Areza, an undergraduate fellow at the Center for Neuroscience & Society, said she found Falk's lecture accessible and enjoyable even though she does not have an intensive background in human neuroscience. Areza noted that while she usually sees neuroscience as very removed from society, Falk's lecture helped her see that the work of neuroscientists is extremely present in our daily lives.


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Xian Zhang
Music Director – New Jersey Symphony
Principal Guest Conductor – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Emeritus – Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
Xian Zhang is currently in her seventh season as Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony, who mark their 100th anniversary season in 2022/23. She also holds the positions of Principal Guest Conductor of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Conductor Emeritus of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano following a hugely successful period from 2009–2016 as their Music Director.
Beyond the US, Xian Zhang's 2022/23 guest engagements include the London Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille. Previous engagements include Philharmonia Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra, the orchestra of Komische Oper in Berlin, and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. In recent seasons, she conducted the Orchestre National de Lyon at the Paris Philharmonie, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as part of La Folle Journée festival in Nantes.
2022/23 US engagements include Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Xian Zhang remains a popular guest of Detroit, Montreal, NAC Ottawa, and Toronto Symphony orchestras.
In the opera world, Xian Zhang will returns to Norwegian Opera for Tosca, which she recently conducted at Cincinnati Opera, and makes her debut with The Metropolitan Opera in 2024. Previous productions include Nabucco with Welsh National Opera, Otello with Savonlinna Festival, La Traviata for Norwegian Opera (Oslo), La Bohème for English National Opera and La forza del destino with National Opera, Washington D.C.
Xian Zhang has previously served as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales and was the first female conductor to hold a titled role with a BBC orchestra. In 2002, she won first prize in the Maazel-Vilar Conductor's Competition. She was appointed New York Philharmonic's Assistant Conductor in 2002, subsequently becoming their Associate Conductor and the first holder of the Arturo Toscanini Chair.
Xian Zhang Conducts Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and Orchestra of St Luke's This Summer
Xian Zhang conducts at the Mostly Mozart Festival on 22 and 23 July at the Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. The programme opens with Nokuthula Ngwenyama's Primal Message and also features Beethoven's Symphony 3. Saxophonist Steven Banks joins the stage for...
Xian Zhang & Ana María Martínez in Cincinnati Opera's Tosca July 23 -31
Xian Zhang conducts Cincinnati Opera's production of Tosca with Ana María Martínez in the title role. The Jose Maria Condemi production runs from July 23 – 31, and also stars Russell Thomas as Cavaradossi and Quinn Kelsey at Scarpia. Following the production, Xian...
Xian Zhang Returns to Paris to Conduct Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Following her concert at the Paris Philharmonie at the start of 2019/20 with Orchestre National de Lyon, Xian Zhang returns to Paris for a Beethoven concert with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in which she conducts Beethoven Piano Concerto no,4 with Javier...
"Dvorak's New World got an emphatic reading under Zhang's vivid and demonstrative lead. Punching out chords and scooping through space with her arms, she went for big effects."
Steven Winn
"this April 24 concert at London's Barbican Centre was a perfect demonstration of her acute musicality, dynamism, and breadth of talent… The long, drawn-out crescendo that forms the bedrock of the finale, like so much in this rewarding concert, was spot on."
Clive Paget
"The opening chords [of Beethoven Symphony 7] had tremendous punch, the woodwinds sang their tune under wonderful legato strings, the pipings in the poco sostenuto moved smoothly, almost in tempo into an overwhelmingly positive Vivace. She built the sound down from the brass and the woodwinds stood out more vividly for it… Zhang emphasized firepower and determination in the third movement, hammering home the repeating three-note sequence."
Laurence Vittes
Bachtrack ****
"Zhang then led an elegant, rich-toned and spirited account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. The slow movement was especially fine, taken at a true Allegretto pace, steady yet never forceful, restrained yet coursing with inner intensity. It was a long-awaited and rewarding return for an essential orchestra." [2021 season-opening concert with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra]
"Not only was the opera gloriously sung, but it was wonderfully conducted by Xian Zhang, who led with dramatic urgency and made the 40 members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra sound as lush as could be… On the orchestra podium behind the singers, Zhang matched every breath and phrase, and propelled the drama masterfully. She painted Puccini's canvas with a sure hand as she summoned rich textures and swept up the orchestra in powerful, surging climaxes. The first act "Te Deum," with its organ, cannon shots, chimes and the chanting of Henri Venanzi's chorus, was wonderfully atmospheric. Yet she also knew just where to linger to allow the music to breathe."
Janelle Gelfand
Cincinnati Business Courier
" Beethoven's Fifth, which was given an agile, but full-bodied performance by Zhang… Zhang's reading brought plenty of focus to the beauty of the wind lines, and she drew some fine pianissimos from the orchestra – the slithering lower strings of the third movement and the spritely pizzicato section was nicely done, the conductor getting an exquisitely soft sound from the musicians. With her bow drawn back so far, when she released and the crescendo swept into the fourth movement's majestic opening, the ensemble suddenly sounded enormous, setting up the work's rousing climax.." [Sydney Symphony Orchestra at Sydney Opera House, July 2019]
Angus McPherson
Limelight Magazine ****
"Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony received a quite exceptional account. Zhang was in her element and with absolute control. The individual and quiet contributions were of suppressed-but-alive artistic freedom. Throughout, the playing was exemplary." [Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, March 2019]
Kevin Rogers
Classical Source
"Xian Zhang, on the other hand, was spectacular. More of her, please."
David Gordon Duke
Vancouver Sun
"She obviously loves the work [Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2], and she showed us how she operates at full throttle: full of dynamism and rhythmic thrust and wonderfully in tune with the sweetness and flow of the composer's lyrical lines… The coda was scintillating, a true testament to Zhang's deeply-felt conviction and the commitment of the orchestra… Xian Zhang's Tchaikovsky was of the absolutely highest class, as was her demonstrated orchestral control"
Geoffrey Newman
Vancouver Classical Music
"Zhang is an extraordinary conductor, unfolding the majesty and mystery of this work with singing clarity. Using a baton, she conducts with her entire body, arms moving so rapidly at times they become a blur or sweep down, almost touching the floor. Her direction is precise and her command of these powerful musical forces is absolute… Each section of each movement received her complete attention, resulting in a well-balanced performance."
Linda Holt
Broad Street Review
"A sparkling account of the New World from Xian Zhang and the MSO… Zhang's expert guidance ensured that sufficient space was always available for the piano's melodic expression to breathe without being overpowered… From the opening bars, Xian Zhang's complete command of the New World was evident as she guided the MSO, without a score, through a thrilling account of its toe-tappingly propulsive rhythms, irresistible melodies and the sweeping lyricism of the Largo. Clearly having a ball, Zhang grinned broadly as she dipped and soared throughout a sharp and utterly assured performance that it was truly a pleasure to witness."
Lisa MacKinney
**** Limelight Magzine
"The Friday program introduced two musical entities to Aspen we should be seeing more — the Florida-based chorale Seraphic Fire and the energetic Chinese-born American conductor Xian Zhang… [Xian Zhang] made an impression with big gestures, clear and precise, that brought out an ideal balance of rigor and flexibility in the music… Together they made music that was like plugging Mozart's score into a high-voltage socket. They made each turn of phrase special, not by blasting away — although climaxes lacked nothing in power — but by shaping rhythm, textures, dynamics and the Catholic Mass text into something that came alive."
Harvey Steiman
Aspen Times, August 2018
"Zhang then took the podium to lead the orchestra in a rollicking rendition of Leonard Bernstein's overture from "Candide." The NJSO music director has achieved a great deal with the Jersey band during her tenure so far — perhaps most of all the energy she brings to the podium and the sense of excitement she instills in the orchestra."
James C. Taylor
"The dynamic performances Ms. Zhang led on Friday proved that hers is a name worth memorizing. On the podium she is a pint-size bundle of energy, conducting with feet firmly grounded and big, purposeful motions of the torso and arms. In brief remarks from the stage, she also showed herself to be a natural communicator, brimming with enthusiasm and humor: a good choice for this orchestra, which takes its ambassadorial role seriously with concert series offered across the state and numerous outreach initiatives. The orchestra is also stocked with excellent players, and there were moments during Friday's program when the sound reached a fullness and polish that would be the envy of better-known ensembles on the other side of the state lines."
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
"The Rachmaninov was a thing of grand passions. Zhang pressed through it where some interpreters linger. The brass glared in places, though strings and woodwind were admirably sumptuous, the great clarinet solo in the third movement beautifully poised."
Tim Ashley
"It is not easy to convey [Shostakovich's] ambiguity to young people – but Xian Zhang succeeds in doing just that. Not only does the performance range on the level of a professional top orchestra, but it is also spot-on atmospherically. The opening movement evokes the voice of a tortured soul, the march music breaks in brutally, and the apotheosis with its hope for better times comes off to touching effect. The festival mood of the Allegretto is contorted into the grotesque, and the Largo begins like a reverie but tips over regularly into nightmarish episodes. The grim final movement with its machine music finally exposes the empty pathos of all party conference slogans."
Der Tagesspiegel, August 2015
"Zhang and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales offered the contrast of red-blooded performances of Russian symphonies. Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony was steadier, tougher in character than usual. Rachmaninov's Symphony No.2 boasted well drilled playing and outgoing certainty of vision."
Financial Times, August 2015
"Rachmaninov Symphony no.2, Nick Breckenfield in ClassicalSouce said she conducted with "a romantic sweep starting from the opening's growling double basses to the irrepressible high spirits of the final bars" (Classical Source, August 2015)
Classical Source, August 2015
"Zhang once again proved a thrilling leader. Her innate musicality and ability to communicate intention with clarity invested every gesture. Nothing seemed extraneous or glossed over, even as her whole body seemed to contract and release with explosive energy."
The Star Ledger, May 2015
"Happily, in the hands of the conductor Xian Zhang, the thrust of the music made up for the directorial inadequacies. In an impressive company debut, Zhang's credentials as music director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi shone through: she drove things forward with a stirring dynamism but, just as importantly, let the dramatic pauses breathe with sound instinct, and was alert to the score's intimate chamber-music qualities. WNO's musicians played with great sensitivity."
Opera, August 2014
"A five-star musical performance, lovingly crafted by the fast-rising Chinese conductor Xian Zhang."
Richard Morrison, The Times, June 2014
"The good news is that there can be no complaints about the performance's musical quality, conducted with Muti-like dynamism agility and precision by Xian Zhang. She drives an impressive cast."
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, June 2014
"Musically, the chorus and orchestra's triumph is paralleled by that of conductor Xian Zhang in her notable company debut. A dynamic presence in the pit."
Rhian Evans, The Guardian, June 2014
"A stupendous chorus and excellent cast were the real winners. Together they soared above dowdiness and kitsch to render entirely plausible the agonies of love, jealousy and confused loyalties, supported with admirable pace and panache by conductor Xian Zhang's WNO Orchestra."
Stephanie Power, The Independent, June 2014
"Fortunately, Williams, the principals, the chorus and a marvellous orchestra conducted with vibrancy and passion by Xian Zhang, rose above it all."
Mike Smith, Wales Online, June 2014
"An exciting, heart-on-sleeve Verdian, Zhang powered her way through the overture to La Forza del Destino and delivered the Act I Prelude to La traviata with a finely judged combination of passion and restraint…. The second half was given over to Tchaikovsky's Manfred, the final instalment of the Proms' survey of his complete symphonies. Zhang's in-your-face approach worked wonders here. The first movement, which can sound stentorian, crackled with electricity. She was reckless with speeds, lurched through the first movement coda, and brought the scherzo to a standstill before launching the trio – though each time she got away with it. This is a terrific orchestra, too: what it lacks in finesse it makes up for in dynamism. The single encore, the gallop from Rossini's William Tell overture, was hair-raising."
Tim Ashley, The Guardian, September 2013
"The pleasant surprise of the concert was the excellence of the Orchestra Sinfonia di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and its pocket-sized dynamo of a Chinese conductor Xian Zhang, who made it clear that she – yes, she, o ye of little faith – meant business from the first crisp downbeat of the Overture to La Forza del Destino. The second half of the programme was devoted to Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. It's a work bloated with the rhetoric of Weltschmerz, which can easily seem both pretentious and banal. But Xian and her Italians played it here with such impressive commitment and precision that it revealed its nobler aspects, notably in a stirring final movement which ran the gamut from daimonic bravado to deathbed resignation."
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, September 2013
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After watching my father struggle with the complex and inconvenient Veterans Affairs system, I felt a personal responsibility to improve veterans' access to care. No veteran should have to drive hours to a medical clinic just to be faced with long wait times and inadequate support.
During my time in Congress I have worked hard to improve access to care for veterans by helping pass legislation authorizing funding for four new Veterans Affairs clinics in Tennessee. As a result veterans have not only experienced more timely assistance, but they have also received more specialized services like dental and eye care.
In addition to providing easier access to care, I have made it a priority to regularly meet with the hard-working veterans who are the backbone of our great nation. As your Congressman, please know I will continue to work towards ensuring veterans get the care they so rightly deserve.
More on Veterans
STATEMENT: Fleischmann on Veterans Day
November 11, 2018 Press Release
CHATTANOOGA, TN — Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) issued the following statement in honor of Veterans Day:
RELEASE: Fleischmann on Passage of First Package of 2019 Appropriations Bills
June 8, 2018 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) issued the following statement upon the passage of H.R. 5895, the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act:
RELEASE: Fleischmann on Funding Announcement for Bradley County Veterans Home
April 20, 2018 Press Release
BRADLEY COUNTY, TN — Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03) issued the following statement of high praise after the announcement of a $26.2M U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) State Veterans Home Grant for the construction of the future Bradley County Tennessee State Veterans Home:
A Veterans Day Message from Congressman Fleischmann
November 9, 2017 Press Release
Living in the United States, we have many things to be proud of, but first and foremost are the freedoms we enjoy daily. The foundational liberties laid out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are what makes our country so great. Today, we honor the men and women who donned our country's uniform and risked their lives to defend those freedoms, to protect our communities, and safeguard the promise of a brighter tomorrow. Today I am especially proud to represent a state with such a rich history of respect for and service to our country.
Greeson: Let's Keep Their Memory Forever Chattanooga Strong
May 9, 2017 In The News
"I hope this does bring a little closure to the families," Rep. Chuck Fleischmann told Lee at the event. "But I also hope it forever honors and serves the memories of these fallen heroes — and they are heroes to America."
VA Will See Fund Increase in Trump Proposed Budget
April 22, 2017 In The News
Humble Hero Receives Award
November 25, 2016 In The News
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's office presented Amos with an American Flag that was flown over the U.S. Capitol Building. Later in the ceremony, Fleischmann shared a few comments honoring Amos and all veterans.
Valor and Memory: Solemn Ceremony Marks Veterans Day in Chattanooga
"On Memorial Day we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, but today we honor all who have served," said U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, whose father was a World War II veteran.
RELEASE: Fleischmann Welcomes TN Veterans
September 21, 2016 Press Release
Fleischmann Welcomes Veterans to D.C.
Washington, D.C.— Today Congressman Chuck Fleischmann welcomed veterans with Honor Flight of Middle Tennessee to Washington. The veterans are in the nation's capital visiting the monuments built in honor of their service.
"As the proud son of a WWII veteran, welcoming these legendary veterans to Washington, D.C. is an incredible honor," said Fleischmann.
Wilkes T. Thrasher Veterans Of Foreign Wars Post 4848 Celebrates New Building
August 29, 2016 In The News
Tennessee 3rd District Congressman Honorable Chuck Fleischmann spoke at the flag raising.


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Abraão I (ou Abraão de Aghbatan) foi católico da Igreja Apostólica Armênia entre 607-615. Durante este período, houve a separação entre a Igreja Armênia e a Igreja Ortodoxa da Geórgia. "Esta última, governada pelo católico Kyrion, reconciliou-se com a sede constantinopolitana aceitando a fórmula cristológica do concílio de Calcedônia" (Voicu, 30). Após este fato, em 607, os georgianos continuaram como um corpo eclesiástico distinto.

Referências
Voicu, S. J. "Abraão de Aghbatan". Dicionário Patrístico e de Antigüidades Cristãs. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2002.
Igreja Apostólica Armênia
Armênios do século VII


The huge Rolling Stones show, "Exhibitionism," is open in Chicago. Don't miss it.
Published June 21, 2017 at 9:02 a.m.
The first photo you see when you arrive at the Rolling Stones' "Exhibitionism" show at Navy Pier in Chicago is a photograph of guitarist Brian Jones, who died in 1969. It was a good omen that this show would dig deep into the six decades of the world's greatest rock and roll band.
"He formed the band," former Stones bassist Bill Wyman told the Los Angeles Daily News. "He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs. ... he was very influential, very important."
And he never made it out of the band's first decade alive. So, it might be easy for Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and the rest to rewrite history and leave Jones behind, but to their credit they've chosen not to do so.
The in-depth exhibition, which opened in Chicago in April and runs through July 30, includes more than 500 artifacts, nearly 200 original artworks, a room full of flamboyant outfits worn by the band members across the years, videos, photographs, concert posters, guitars and more, tracing every era of the band's impressively enduring lifespan.
It starts when the the Stones formed in 1962 – with a stellar recreation of the flat that Jagger, Richards, Watts and Jones shared in London's Edith Grove – and runs right through today, with models of stage sets for the band's 2016 tour.
I didn't get to see The Stones live until Summerfest 2015 – four decades after I became a fan – but experiencing "Exhibitionism" was almost as fun and one that was surely more educational.
The exhibit – which is only appearing in a few cities around the world, Chicago being as close as it will get to Milwaukee – is vibrant and loud and flashy, just like the band it chronicles.
Brian Jones started it all, so it makes sense that his is the first face you see when you enter "Exhibitionism" at Navy Pier.
A display case hold proofs of the artwork of the first Stones record, the classic "Out of Our Heads" and the "Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)" early greatest hits record. They're pretty amazing.
There are life-size reproductions – extremely detailed, recreated from the band's memories – of the flat that Jones, Jagger, Richards and Watts shared in Edith Grove. Remarkable that such great music was created by these incredibly sloppy kids.
Any Stones fan will recognize the axes in this room. These are the guitars that (mostly) Keef and Ron Wood used to make some of the band's most beloved records.
Though we can only see a few pages, it's pretty fun to read Keith Richards' diaries of gigs and rehearsals from 1963.
As a drummer – and one who loves Charlie Watts' unique feel – seeing this kit, and then being able to view it from his vantage point was a real treat.
There's an instrument-filled recreation of Olympic Studios in London, where the Stones made six records between 1966 and 1972, including "Beggars Banquet," "Let It Bleed" and "Sticky Fingers." The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and others also recorded there.
Much like the guitar gallery, any Stones fan who has paid even passing attention to the band over the years will recognize some of these flamboyant outfits, designed by the likes of Alexander McQueen, Prada, Dior, Gucci and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Sure, you can drive down to see "Exhibitionism" and then come back home, but it's summer, so why not make a mini-vacation of it?
The 400-room Loews Chicago, which opened about three years ago in a sleek modern tower in the Streeterville neighborhood north of the river and east of the Magnificent Mile, is just a few blocks from Navy Pier (there's also a free trolley that leaves from out front, if you don't want to walk), and has embraced "Exhibitionism" big-time.
The hotel is offering a "Let's Spend the Night Together" package with overnight accommodation, two tickets to "Exhibitionism," two Stones-themed cocktails at the ETA restaurant and bar in the lobby and discounts at the hotel restaurant and spa (which has a great, two-lane pool with a view of the rooftop terrace bar). Rates start at $239 but depend on when you choose to stay.
Loews has a number of other deals available, too. Families with children might dig the Urban Explorer Family Package, with free breakfast for kids, milk and cookies delivered to the room and an urban explorer backpack for the young ones, with a water bottle, a compass, a scavenger hunt booklet and more.