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Poppy Red (shōjōhi) Iromuji Kimono with Gold and White Obi
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Before I start this very long entry, a quick reminder: the Oscar red carpet starts tomorrow at 7 PM EST. I'll be livedolling – that is, drawing as many of the gowns in attendance as I can before my fingers drop off – and I hope you can join me in the comments section for discussing all the gowns and perhaps adding your own, if you like! Even if you don't have a TV, you can join in: I can't watch it live either, so when I've done this before I just kept reloading the Oscar-related pictures on Getty Images. It looks like it'll be streamed online at AP Live, so I will be trying that, too. I may be able to break my record of three in one night, due to the time difference…
I'm fairly well versed in English color names – especially those of the 146 Prismacolors that I've been using for over a decade – but in Japanese, the closest I get to sophistication is popping the words for "dark" and "light" in front of the basic color words. To fix this, I thought that I could learn some obscure Japanese color words, which would both brighten up my impoverished vocabulary and provide an opportunity for some cute drawings.
I started with the book Kimono and the Colors of Japan: The Kimono Collection of Katsumi Yumioka, which is both in English and Japanese and has a paragraph of information on sixty traditional colors, with a gorgeous picture of a kimono to illustrate each one. I also picked up 日本の伝統色 The Traditional Colors of Japan for my birthday, which has a sentence in English about each color but is primarily written in Japanese and has information on 250 colors. It also gives CMYK, RGB and hex code values for each color, meaning I can figure out easily what the nearest Prismacolor shade is with the Prismacolor Digital Color Coordinator.
The first color in Kimono and the Colors of Japan is 猩々緋(shōjōhi), a warm, cheerful red with a touch of yellow and a hex code of #E83015. Both books translate this as "poppy red", and conveniently, the Prismacolor color picker tells me that the closest Prismacolor equivalent to #E83015 is Poppy Red. To my eyes, it looks like it could be either Scarlet Lake or Poppy Red, and that Poppy Red is just a touch too orange, but I have a feeling they will not all be this easy, so for now I'm accepting the coincidence.
The color is produced with dye made from the female cochineal insect, and it first showed up in Japan during the Warring States Period (1467–1573), when thick woolen fabric dyed poppy red was first imported from Southeast Asia. Japan was at civil war at this time, and many feudal lords had their battle surcoats (陣羽織, jinbaori) made out of this material, because it was thought that the color protected the wearer from arrows or bullets. (For an example of these battle surcoats, look at this reproduction of Oda Nobunaga's surcoat.)
Let's break down the kanji in 猩々緋. On its own, 猩 means orangutan, and the Japanese word for orangutan used to be 猩々 (shōjō). That's because the animal was named after the 猩々 (shōjō), a mythical Chinese creature or spirit that was said to live on the coasts and enjoy drinking. It was said to look like a human, or like a monkey with a human face, with brilliant red hair and a face red from drinking too much, and according to one account its blood was thought to be what lent the fabric its protective qualities. The shōjō is also a character in a Noh play, Shōjō Midare, and the actor wears a shaggy red wig, a red mask and red clothes. If you look 猩々 up in a dictionary, one of the definitions is "someone who loves to drink," but when I asked some of my Japanese friends, that usage doesn't seem very common these days, so it is just an interesting, random fact; don't put the term into practice unless you happen to hang out with a bunch of Noh enthusiasts. Incidentally, it is not very clear if the color name was simply named after the creature, inspired by its representation in the Noh play, or if it gained that name specifically because the dye was said to be taken from the shōjō's blood or hair: all of my sources have something different to say about the matter. (It seems like the story about the dye coming from the blood is pretty common, but it could have gained the name first, and the stories about the blood and its protective properties, later.) One story claims that leaving sake out on the beach will tempt them to try it, then get drunk and fall asleep; from there, it's a simple matter to extract the blood needed for the dye.
Of course, it's not in the official list of kanji that Japanese students have to learn (常用漢字, jōyō kanji), nor in the list of kanji that may be used in names (人名用漢字, jinmeiyō kanji), and it only shows up in a few other words, so a kanji like that does one little practical good. So all of this detail is great fun, in my opinion, but those of you out there learning Japanese, don't trip all over yourselves to practice writing it. (If you actually want to write orangutan, 猩々 is way overkill – the word you would be looking for is オランウータン.)
The middle kanji, 々, just indicates that the previous kanji is repeated. That is, we could also write the color name as 猩猩緋.
The last one, 緋, is slightly more useful than 猩, as it is also seen in other colors such as 浅緋 (asahi, light scarlet). This kanji indicates a deep, bright red. It's not on the list of kanji that are commonly used but it is on the list of kanji that may be used in names. It shows up in a couple of other colors in Kimono and the Colors of Japan, so we'll remember that one.
For today's kimono, I've done a poppy red iromuji (色無地), which is a formal, unpatterned, single-color kimono worn by both married and unmarried women. (I'll write more about the various types of kimono in the future, but I have had this entry mostly written for some time, and I wanted to get on with it.) The obi is decorated with a stylized wave pattern (青海波, seigaha) in gold and white, plus a sake (Japanese rice wine) bottle and cups, as a reference to the shōjō; as a nod to the English name of the color, the obi-dome (帯留め), which is the piece of jewelry in the middle of the obi, is a poppy. (That would be ケシ, keshi, in Japanese. Incidentally, poppies seem to be rather rare motifs for Japanese textiles; they were introduced in the Muromachi period, so it's not like the flower was unknown, but they don't have symbolic significance that I've found; perhaps the connection with medicine or opium was too strong to make it a desirable decoration for a kimono?)
Besides Kimono and the Colors of Japan and 日本の伝統色 The Traditional Colors of Japan, I also referred to Symbols of Japan: Thematic Motifs in Art and Design, The Colors of Japan and Japanese Art Motives. The story about trapping shōjō with sake is from the 1912 "Scientific Temperance Journal."
I've tried to stay away from relying on online sources, but the detail about shōjō blood being thought to have protective properties was too good to pass up, and is from this page. For further information (in Japanese), you can also look at http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2011.html, http://yuzen.net/color/red/shojohi.htm, and the Japanese Wikipedia page on 猩々緋. For you kanji fanatics out there, you can find all the details about 猩 and 緋 on Denshi Jisho.
Now, "poppy red" is the first color in Kimono and the Colors of Japan, but if I go in order all I'll do is red, red, red, and I'll get bored. I've picked five colors at random from the table of contents of Kimono and the Colors of Japan. Which should I do next?
Prismacolors used: Poppy Red, Crimson Lake, Tuscan Red, Cream, Sunburst Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Goldenrod, Bronze, Sepia, Apple Green, Chartreuse, Kelly Green, French Grey 10%, 20%, 50%, 70%, Black, Cool Grey 10%, Sakura Soufflé White Gel Pen
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Q: Need help to convert string to dictionary in python I am creating a lambda function in AWS to execute SSM Automation document.
https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/ssm.html#SSM.Client.start_automation_execution.
response = client.start_automation_execution(
DocumentName='XYZ',
Parameters={...}

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I have stored the DocumentName and Parameters values in dynamodb table as below.
"parameters_name": { "S": "'ParameterName1': [Variable1] , 'ParameterName2': [Variable2] , 'ParameterName3': [variable3] , 'ParameterName4': [Variable4] " }, "document_name": { "S": "XYZ" }
** The variable values are obtained from an event as strings.
The definition for Parameters is as below in the boto3 documentation:
Parameters (dict) -- A key-value map of execution parameters, which match the declared parameters in the Automation  runbook. (string) -- (list) -- (string) --
Is there a way to convert the string to dictionary to below format:
{'ParameterName1': [Variable1] , 'ParameterName2': [Variable2] , 'ParameterName3' : [Variable3], 'ParameterName4' : [Variable4]}

A: Python has a built in function called eval for this:
# need to append and prepend curly braces to the string first
my_str = "{'ParameterName1': [Variable1], 'ParameterName2': [Variable2], 'ParameterName3': [Variable3], 'ParameterName4': [Variable4]}"
my_dict = eval(my_str)

print(str(my_dict))

You can also use the ast library, which claims to be safer than eval, but this is because it enforces stricter rules on the string's format.
import ast

my_str = "{'ParameterName1': [Variable1], 'ParameterName2': [Variable2], 'ParameterName3': [Variable3], 'ParameterName4': [Variable4]}"
my_dict = ast.literal_eval(my_str)

print(str(my_dict))

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On 26 June, scaffolding was erected on the front facade of the former library to enable the continued demolition of the site. They are also being used to enable specialists to remove the University Crests. They are currently being safely packed to be sent to expert restorers who will return the Crests to their former glory. They will then be incorporated back at the 'heart' of campus in the Green Heart in 2019. If you watch our animation, you'll spot them at the end of the video.
Did you know… the original University coat of arms was designed in 1900 and its symbols, a double headed lion and a mermaid holding a mirror and comb, are an echo of the institution's predecessor coat of arms, Mason College. The shields at the top of the former library were chiseled directly into the stone on the building during its construction in 1958.


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Constrictotermes is a genus of neotropical higher termites within the subfamily Nasutitermitinae. They form large open-air foraging columns from which they travel to and from their sources of food, similar to the Indomalayan species of processionary termites. Species of this genus commonly build epigeal or arboreal nests and feed on a variety of lichens, rotted woods and mosses.

Description

Soldiers are monomorphic and identifiable with a notable constriction of the head behind the antenna sockets; the antenna have 13-14 articles, and the points of the mandibles are small. Species of this genus are distributed throughout the neotropics, occurring primarily within South America and Central America; with one species, C. guantanamensis, being found within the extreme southeastern coast of Cuba. Within South America, Constrictotermes spp. can be found from the tropical rainforests of the Amazon to the xeric shrublands of northeastern Brazil.

As with all Nasutitermitinae termites, the soldiers are capable of shooting a noxious terpene based chemical repellant from their fontanellar gun that solidifies when exposed to air.

Species

 Constrictotermes cavifrons
 Constrictotermes cyphergaster
 Constrictotermes guantanamensis
 Constrictotermes latinotus
 Constrictotermes rupestris
 Constrictotermes cacaoensis

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The teeth at the back of our mouths — the molars — have a series of bumps, ridges, and grooves across the chewing surface. This complex dental landscape is the product of the spatial arrangement of cusps, which are conical surface projections that crush food before swallowing. How many cusps there are, how they are positioned, and what size and shape they take together determine our molar's overall form or configuration.
In a study published this week in Science Advances, an international team of researchers from Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, New York University, University of Kent, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found that a simple, straightforward developmental rule — the "patterning cascade" — is powerful enough to explain the massive variability in molar crown configuration over the past 15 million years of ape and human evolution.
Publication: Alejandra Ortiz, Shara E. Bailey, Gary T. Schwartz, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Matthew M. Skinner. (2018) Evo-devo models of tooth development and the origin of hominoid molar diversity. Science Advances.


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Q: Getting the scala compiler to work inside an OSGi runtime I am using a Scala template engine (Scalate) to compile templates at runtime within an OSGi environment (Scala 2.9.1). The templates cannot be pre-compiled because they are built dynamically.
In order for this to work, the Scala compiler needs to run within the OSGi environment. However, since the Scala compiler cannot take a classloader as input, this does not work out of the box.
From my research, there appears to be two general solution approaches:
1) A scala compiler plugin (there is one started here but it has not been touched since 2009, and messages on the scala list in 2009 stated it was not ready for production use.
2) Creating a virtual file system on top of the bundle context which could then be used by the Scala compiler. Apparently the Apache sling guys have successfully used this approach on an older version of Scala.
Has anyone gotten Scalate, Scala 2.9.1, and OSGi to work together to dynamically compile templates?

A: My team now has Scala compilation and execution working for Scalate within OSGi.
In general, the ScalaCompiler settings should be provided with a set of AbstractFile objects that correspond to the relevant OSGi bundles. This is supported by Guggla as referenced by @michid. But while  Guggla does provide the AbstractFile layer, it does not yet provide any examples or code for how to create the AbstractFile instances in an OSGi environment. Example code to do the latter can be found in the Sling project (the origin of Guggla itself) as well as in the Scalate project (see ScalaCompiler but note our changes to it below).
We chose the OSGi-ified scala bundles (compiler and library) from the ServiceMix project. See issue SMX-1048 (with patch) on the scala-compiler bundle.
Our original intent was to get this working in Scalate, and so the rest of this answer is specific to that project.
The Scalate code already had most of the logic necessary to work within an OSGi environment, including the virtual AbstractFile layer as well as setting the compiler classpath. However we needed to patch Scalate (https://github.com/scalate/scalate/pull/16) to get it working:
1) The OsgiCompiler override of the ScalaCompiler class was not being enabled properly, and so bundle's were not being detected as classpath inputs to the compiler, and
2) The template execution (run-time) classloader was being set to the classloader of the scalate-core bundle, resulting in CNFE's at runtime.
The pull request above configures Scalate in an OSGi environment to default to the thread-context classloader at runtime. That seems to be the easiest way to get a reference to the caller's classloader without the caller having to explicitly inject it (for example, a Spring-DM osgi:service declaration exporting a template service can use the context-class-loader="service-provider" attribute to set this automatically. This also makes the run-time behavior of Scalate OSGi correspond with the existing compile-time behavior which already used the TCCL.
Therefore a caller to Scalate should set the TCCL to it's own classloader or explicitly inject the desired classloader to the template engine e.g. templateEngine.classLoader = ... before executing the template.
Update 31-Aug-2012: Scalate master now contains all of the patches mentioned in this post.
Update 10-Apr-2013: Scalate 1.6.1, with runtime template compilation via the Scala compiler, is OSGi compatible. Also Scala 2.10 and above are valid OSGi bundles as released.

A: I think you need to set the buddy policy.  The following should help.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Context_Class_Loader_Enhancements#Buddy_Policy
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t90282.html
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/bundle_manifest.html
In your bundle you can say you need to use the same class loader as another bundle.


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US'S Bernie Sanders Apologizes To Hillary Clinton Over Campaign Data Breach
The rising tensions over the breach came at a crucial moment for Bernie Sanders, who is trying to erase Hillary Clinton's lead in the November 2016 Democratic White House race. (AP Photo)
WASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders apologized to front-runner Hillary Clinton at a debate on Saturday for a breach of Clinton voter files by a Sanders staffer that intensified tensions between the two camps.
The Sanders campaign also suspended two staffers in connection with the breach, a campaign spokesman said after the ABC debate, following the firing of its top data director after reports of the incident surfaced late on Thursday.
"Yes, I apologize," Sanders said when asked about the controversy by debate moderators. The Vermont senator, however, renewed his criticism of the Democratic National Committee for freezing access to his own voter files until the issue was resolved late on Friday and called it an "egregious act."
"What the DNC did arbitrarily without discussing it with us is shut off our access to our information, crippling our campaign," Sanders said. He vowed to fire any additional staffers found to have been involved in the breach.
Clinton, whose campaign said its chief rival made a number of breaches into Clinton computer files, accepted the apology and said it was time to move on.
"I very much appreciate that comment, Bernie," the former Secretary of State said. "Now that I think we've resolved your data, we've agreed on an independent inquiry, we should move on. Because I don't think the American people are all that interested in this."
The rising tensions over the breach came at a crucial moment for Sanders, who is trying to erase Clinton's lead in the November 2016 Democratic White House race just six weeks before the first nominating contest in Iowa.
But the issue was dismissed within the first minutes of the debate and did not come up again in a more than two-hour event that focused on foreign policy, gun control and taxes.
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Book Review: Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories; From Lady Chatterley to Howard Marks by Thomas Grant
This book is rather different from the traditional advocate biographies, such as Norman Birkett by Montgomery Hyde. Instead, it purports to look at the social and cultural revolution of the 1960s through the prism of the high-profile legal cases involving a remarkable barrister, Jeremy Hutchinson QC.
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.
- Philip Larkin, Annus Mirabilis
Jeremy Hutchinson QC, son of Jack Hutchison QC (a famous criminal advocate who had defended Compton Mackenzie on a charge of breach of the Official Secrets Act), was a first-hand witness to, and some might say, an instrument of, that invention.
Jeremy had in many ways a gilded youth, moving freely in literary and artistic circles which included TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, and later visiting and staying with Aldous and Maria Huxley in California. After Oxford, Hutchinson served in the Royal Navy on the same ship as Louis Mountbatten, was dive-bombed by German Stukas and had to be rescued from the sea. He had a "good war", and it would have been no surprise to see him become a Conservative member of Parliament. But he had already been politicised in the opposite direction by the sight of the Jarrow Hunger Marchers. By the 1960s, he was the go-to counsel in a roster of cases for clients threatened with outbreaks of Establishment morality. And it is quite a list of Greatest Hits.
George Blake
Blake was one of the Cambridge five (along with Philby, Burgess, Maclean and Blunt), an employee of the Secret Intelligence Service, who had worked as a Soviet spy for a period of nine years. He passed secrets to them, motivated by personal conviction, following a conversion to Communism whilst a prisoner of war during the Korean conflict.
The discovery of his treachery caused consternation in Whitehall. There was public outrage against him. Hutchinson had to face the enmity of presiding judge Lord Justice Parker. He reminded the judge that this was not a political trial, and its purpose was not "to give comfort to our allies and bring fear to our enemies." This fell on deaf ears as Blake was sentenced to 42 years.
But they did not build the prison walls high enough. He escaped and made it to East Berlin in 1966. He currently lives in Russia and on his 90th birthday President Putin congratulated him as a hero. It should be recorded on the debit side that it is believed his information to the Soviets resulted in the death by execution of at least 40 British agents.
Within a year or so, Hutchinson was to defend another notorious spy, John Vassall. Vassall operated at a more junior level than Blake. He too spied for the Soviets, having been honey-trapped and then blackmailed for his homosexuality, before going on to accept bribes from his Soviet paymasters.
There were pleas of guilty to four breaches of the Official Secrets Act. Hutchinson, in essence, repeated his plea in mitigation from Blake. A criminal trial was not an Executive act, and the courts were not there "merely to assist in the squashing of fly." His address fared rather better this time around and Vassall was sentenced to 18 years.
The Profumo Affair and Christine Keeler
Hutchinson's role in this sorry affair was to represent Christine on a charge of perjury in respect of the trial of her former lover Aloysius "Lucky" Gordon. Hutchinson recalls that when she came to see him for consultation, she turned every head in his Chambers, as colleagues surreptitiously peeped their heads round the door to see her as she walked through the corridors.
The Profumo affair is described in some detail. It becomes more absurd with each retelling (and of course tragic for the person of Stephen Ward), yet it would hardly merit a Daily Mail sidebar in this day and age. It provided an opportunity for an outpouring of self-righteous humbug on a grandiose scale. Quintin Hogg MP (later Lord Hailsham and the father of Douglas Hogg MP, he of expenses for duck-ponds fame) fulminated in the House of Commons that his colleague John Profumo had lied and lied and lied. This prompted one of the finest putdowns in Parliamentary history from Reginald Paget MP, which is worth quoting in full:
"From Lord Hailsham we have had a virtuoso performance in the art of kicking a fallen friend in the guts. It is easy to compound for sins we are inclined to, by damning those we have no mind to. When self-indulgence has reduced a man to the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence involves no more than a sense of the ridiculous."
Keeler pled guilty. Hutchinson delivered a more sinned against than sinning plea and she received a comparatively light sentence of 9 months.
The Lady Chatterley Trial
Hutchinson was junior in this case, instructed by Penguin books to defend the publication of the DH Lawrence sex and class bonk-buster (once again so very tame to modern sensibilities). The defence strategy was to provide a chorus of the great and good to testify that this was truly a literary masterpiece.
Particularly telling exchanges came between prosecuting counsel Mervyn Griffiths-Jones QC and the academic and Lawrence expert Richard Hoggart. Welcomed by Griffiths-Jones with sniffy disdain as a provincial academic, Hoggart proceeded to trounce him in the questioning which followed. Asked whether he was not horrified when confronted with the Anglo Saxon shorthand for sex, Hoggart explained that he had already heard it three times that morning on the way to court.
Every practising courtroom lawyer has had the experience of asking the disastrous question, but was there ever a more catastrophic public remark than that of Griffiths-Jones QC, who in his summing up asked a bemused jury of ordinary Londoners: "Is this a book which you would wish your wife or servant to read?"
Acquittal inevitably ensued, followed by record book saIes. I can still remember as a shocked (but very curious) young schoolboy, seeing grown-ups on the bus read the now familiar orange and black Penguin edition, with its D.H. Lawrence Phoenix motif.
These are merely a few of the remarkable cases in which Hutchinson pressed the thorn into the Establishment flesh. Others included: Duncan Campbell, accused of disclosing state secrets relating to GCHQ; Tom Keating, the art forger; and, Howard Marks, the charismatic drugs runner nickname 'Mr. Nice'. Hutchinson maintained contact with many of his accused clients after their trial, assisting them with job applications and the like.
From his vantage point of 50 years on, Hutchinson believes that this period marked a sea-change in attitudes to a ruling elite which was now seen as degenerate, corrupt and hopelessly out of touch. The trials were reported in great detail by a mass circulation press, and in a real sense the 60's cases changed public attitudes and private morals.
Hutchinson is still alive, aged over 100 years, with his memory as sharp as a pin. I finished this hugely entertaining book on the same day as the death of androgynous rock star and patron saint of otherness, David Bowie. It is not too fanciful to suggest that without Hutchinson, the true life of that great musical artist would have remained unlived.
Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories by Thomas Grant is published by John Murray, available in paperback from Amazon for £7.49.
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Note the range of appearance among ancient Nilotes.
The books of the Bible include sacred texts older than the Bible itself. The Bible is a valuable source of information pertaining to history, ethnography, legends, origin stories, and myths; all of which interest cultural anthropologists. An empirical approach to biblical texts helps us to better understand ancient biblical populations.
Biblical anthropology works hand-in-hand with biblical archaeology. Biblical archaeologists dig up artifacts and survey ancient monuments to gain a better understanding of the material culture of populations living mainly in the "Holy Land." Biblical Anthropologists dig data out of the Bible to better understand the cultures and social patterns of diverse biblical populations from Africa to Europe.
Some anthropologists regard the words Bible and Anthropology as an oxymoron (from Greek ὀξύμωρον, "sharply dull"). Why would a volume of poetry, prayers, oracles, curses, king lists, etc. stand as a contradiction to the discipline of anthropology? Cultural anthropologists investigate such things when it comes to shamans, native healers, and griots. Why not investigate the biblical texts for data related to the many biblical populations and their beliefs?
A central task of biblical anthropology is to uncover antecedents; something coming before what is described in the text. Biblical anthropology seeks to understand the cultural context of the Bible at the oldest levels. It is concerned with ancestors and received traditions. What events preceded the events recounted? From what earlier context did certain practices develop? What traces of ancient memory can be uncovered?
The biblical text always speaks of something older, some prior action that solicits a response from later generations. The later generations are told to see the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. There is a thick cultural web surrounding that God.
Here is what some people have to say on this topic.
Michael F: Science and beliefs do not mix.
Alice L: Science begins in belief. One must believe something to begin to think scientifically.
Gioiello: Bible and theology are not the enemy of the biological evolution; they are superfluous.
Alice L: That's the sort of remark one reads at sites "where graduate students, researchers, doctors and the 'skeptical community' go not to interpret data or review experiments but to chip off one-liners, promote their books and jeer at smokers, fat people and churchgoers? And can anyone who still enjoys this class-inflected bloodsport tell me why it has to happen under the banner of science? " -- Virginia Heffernan, The NYT Magazine
Susan B: There is a chasm between science and religion that needs to be bridged before our understanding of the human condition can be fully formed.
Alice L: I agree. Biblical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, DNA studies, and migration and climate studies help to close the gap. Biblical anthropology, like biblical archaeology, uses the Bible as a resource in advancing knowledge of the ancient Near Eastern and African peoples. Both seek data and material evidence, only of a different kind.
Elsbeth T: An anthropologist is always seeking data. Perhaps this is the key to finding a common ground between the theologian and the anthropologist. Both are looking for evidence (data) to confirm truths (conclusions). I think that using a scientific methodology can be beneficial to all sides of the conversation.
Susan B: If the study of biblical humanity is to be undertaken then science and religion are going to have to "mix it up". I see nothing wrong with stating our personal beliefs. They are conclusions reached through research and evidence no different than an atheist declaring the fact that there is no god. Science does not have the ability to definitively prove this theory one way or the other and does not take a position. That doesn't stop popular scientists and other vocal critics from suggesting we would be better off without a "belief" system. But before religion is relegated to the trash heap of human progress, don't you think it would be a good idea to see what selective benefit it afforded us?
Hope R: Throughout history skeptics in the field of anthropology have denied the existence of many cities and events described in the Bible, only to have them discovered, uncovered, and confirmed by people in their own field. To quote Bill Boyd, "Faith goes beyond the evidence, but not against it."
Alice L: But there is a bias against faith-talk in the scientific and academic communities, often even open hostility. I've experienced it. My research has been called a "mixture of faith and reason" which was meant as a slight, but which some might take as a compliment. Still, you have to wonder about the dismissal of belief or faith. Every scientist operates on belief and faith of some kind, if nothing else than the faith that the laws of physics will be the same tonight as they were this morning.
Beside an anti-Bible bias, there is ignorance of the Bible and the usefulness of biblical data in making connections. There is the problem of assumptions about what the Bible says on the part of people who have never read the Bible. For the most part, people are biblically illiterate. The same can be said for those who attend church. Gary Burge, professor of New Testament at Wheaton College (Illinois), is astonished by the ignorance of the Bible among the students who come to Wheaton from "Bible-believing" churches. He says, "If it is true that biblical illiteracy is commonplace in secular culture at large, there is ample evidence that points to similar trends in our churches."
Susan B: How very disappointing that Biblical Anthropology is not a recognized scientific field of study! I have been knocking at that door for many years but have been either ignored or belittled. Biblical anthropology is my passion but, unfortunately, not my career path. Until a few days ago, I didn't know we were allowed to connect those two words together.
Marty P: Biblical anthropologists start out by ignoring existing data or by assuming they are the first scholars in history to pay attention to such things as locations and genealogies! I agree with the atheists to the extent that the Mesopotamian myths are remarkably similar to the stories in Genesis 1-11. The parallels cannot be denied. I don't think Genesis is derived from those myths, but contains parallel accounts of the same historical events.
Alice L: That is an example of how a false assumption can cause confusion. Close analysis of the Gilgamesh Epic and the Genesis Flood narrative reveals that they are not similar in any detail except that both have a hero who overcomes the chaos. The Genesis creation and flood stories find their closest parallel in African narratives. The themes, wording, and details are startling! The motifs of the generative breath of God, a tree of life, the serpent, the first parents, God walking on earth - all these originate in Africa. Now we have to ask: are we leaving science when we compare and contrast legends, narratives and myths? Or is comparative mythology simply another tool in the anthropologist's tool box? Can any science make progress without drawing on other disciplines?
Marty P: Interdisciplinary studies have long been conducted into the engrossing and popular topic of Middle East history. Christians, Jews, Arabs, Persians (Iranians) and secular scholars are all intensely interested in this part of the world. Scholars are so interested in all aspects of research that some of the early Middle East history experts found themselves trying to master all related scholarly disciplines. Consider, for example, Professor William Albright, described as follows:
"The fields of scholarly research that Albright controlled were vast and included archaeology, Semitic linguistics (including all branches of the great family of languages, especially the numerous dialects of Northwest Semitic, but not neglecting Akkadian and Arabic), epigraphy, orthography, ancient history, chronology, historical topography, mythology—in short, all facets of ancient Near Eastern civilization from the Chalcolithic period (ca. 4500 BCE ) through the Greco-Roman period."
Froilan S: Or Noel Freedman, a Jewish Bible scholar and well known in biblical archaeology. He says there's a difference between the Jewish understanding of Genesis and the Christian understanding of Genesis. In the Jewish perspective Genesis is all about how the Israelites lost the land, lost the temple, and how they were in exile. Genesis is all about the story of Israel and God's covenant with the Israelites. Genesis can only be interpreted by way of allegory, not by way of history. What's your opinion?
Alice L: Later in his life, David Noel Freedman saw that his allegorical scheme didn't work perfectly. He and William Albright contributed greatly to the world's understanding of biblical texts. They were masters in their fields but also willing to admit that not all the evidence aligned with their theories. Freedman once said: "The Hebrew Bible is the one artifact from antiquity that not only maintained its integrity but continues to have a vital, powerful effect thousands of years later."
In the end, the Bible is as reliable and useful a resource for anthropologists as it is for Bible scholars and biblical archaeologists. But we have to keep an open mind.
Susan B: Here's a case in point: Cyperus Esculentus is a C4 sedge and Ardi was found to have traces in molars. Chufa (Cyperus E) is a rhizome with underground storage units with protein levels equal to chimp food and much less fiber content than that consumed by chimps. Also, Ardi was found with many pig bones and pigs are tuber feeders. Whether Ardi consumed the pigs or not is irrelevant to the point that pigs were able to find food.
It just seems to me that chufa is a primary candidate for Paleolithic food source shared by apes, proto-humans and humans alike. Why discount it simply because it appears in the Bible? Instead of looking in remote China for the source of C4 sedge why don't they look in front of their noses? Pardon the sarcasm. C4 sedge grows in swampy areas much like rice. It is one of the oldest domesticated plant species if not the absolute oldest.
Alice L: And it grew all over the swampy grasslands of the wet Sahara and Nile Valley. That's another example of how European and American researchers tend to ignore Africa when making connections. Even "Bible-believers" ignore pertinent data, such as the fact that one of Abraham's ancestors was Nimrod, the son of Kush (Gen. 10). Kush ruled in the Nile Valley and Nimrod ruled in Mesopotamia. The data suggests a movement of a kingdom builders out of Africa that aligns with genetics, linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological evidence.
I'm reminded of how many have ignored Thomas Strasser's discoveries on Crete. He and his team have discovered hundreds of stone hand axes dating between 100,000 and 130,000 years and they are identical to hand axes fashioned in Africa about 800,000 years ago. He believes that ancient Africans used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe and the Near East via larger islands in the Mediterranean.
Similar hand axes have been found on the Iranian plateaus. Ancient African artifacts have been found in China also.
Michael Petraglia's team found stone tools at Jwalapuram in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India. Petragalia's team notes that the Indian tools found in southern India are like those from the African Middle Stone Age about 100,000 years ago. He states, "Whoever was living in India was doing things identical to modern humans living in Africa."
This is what the data in Genesis indicates: that Abraham's ancestors came out of Africa and were men of renown (Gen. 6:4) and kingdom builders. Nimrod was one of his ancestors and a son of Kush (Gen. 10). He was a sent-away son who established a territory in Mesopotamia.
Although in the Bible we first meet Abraham in Ur, his ancestors came out of Africa. His Hebrew ancestors were a caste of ruler-priests who dispersed widely in the service of kingdom builders like Nimrod, the Kushite (Gen. 10). Biblical anthropology helps us to reconstruct the earlier cultural context of these ancestors, and clarifies the roots of the Messianic Faith in God Father and God Son.
Related reading: The Substance of Abraham's Faith; Biblical Anthropology is Science; What Does a Biblical Anthropologist Do?; Dismantling Outdated Interpretations; Something Older; Biblical Anthropology and Antecedents; Three Portraits of Adam
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A Pentagon watchdog faulted the World Bank and Afghanistan's government for failing to shield billions of dollars in aid from potential waste or misuse, saying that long-identified weaknesses remain in a program that provides 40 percent of non-military expenditures in the country.
"The Afghan government is not meeting its responsibilities to account for how it uses ARTF funding and to safeguard the funds from risks of misuse, waste, and fraud," according to the report on the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund by the Defense Department's special inspector general. "The World Bank's lack of transparency limits donors' and the public's knowledge about ARTF progress and results reported."
The fund was established in 2002 to provide for the rebuilding of Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Supported by 34 nations and administered by the World Bank, the fund is designed to bolster government and economic development programs and to protect civilian rights. Of the $10 billion contributed to the fund since 2002, the U.S. has provided more than $3 billion, making it the single largest donor.
The report by the watchdog, known as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, is another sign of the troubles the U.S., its allies and President Ashraf Ghani's government are having in improving governance while staving off advances by the Taliban and Islamic State.
About 60 people were killed and more than 120 were wounded in a bombing over the weekend at a voter registration center in Kabul. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.
Afghanistan's central government has been losing control of swaths of territory to Taliban and other forces for years. According to the Pentagon, as of October 2017, about 56 percent of Afghanistan's population lived in areas under government control, with 14 percent controlled by insurgents and the remaining 30 percent in contested areas.
President Donald Trump agreed last year to a Pentagon request to send 4,000 additional U.S. troops, including special forces, to Afghanistan. He also gave commanders in the field more authority to strike the Taliban as well as Islamic State and al-Qaida terrorists. But those efforts don't appear to have turned the tide against the insurgents in what has become the longest war in U.S. history.
The latest SIGAR report said the World Bank has made changes to its oversight of the reconstruction fund, but cited the effort for a lack of transparency and effective monitoring. The bank "will be unable to determine the impact that about $10 billion in donor funding has had in improving Afghan development," according to the report.
In a letter responding to the report, the World Bank said it agreed with most of SIGAR's recommendations but not its call to cancel or adjust the scope of projects deemed to be failing or to withhold or recover money from the Afghan government.
Shubham Chaudhuri, the World Bank's country director for Afghanistan, called most of the findings "somewhat anecdotal" and said that while they showed a lapse in reporting at a particular moment, they were not necessarily "recurrent weaknesses that were never addressed."
Separately, the World Bank said in a statement on its website Wednesday that it is working with the Afghan government to strengthen the program.
In its assessment, the watchdog said it selected six of 51 completed and ongoing projects for review but, due to "a lack of transparency and records," couldn't determine the extent to which the World Bank was monitoring the projects to determine if they were meeting their objectives. The six projects represented more than $2.25 billion in ARTF funds, according to SIGAR.
As an example of the problems with reporting and monitoring, SIGAR said the World Bank doesn't require its third-party monitoring agent to verify that employees whose salaries are paid through the fund actually exist, despite identifying risks associated with "ghost workers" who exist only on paper.
U.S. contributions to the fund are administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development. According to the watchdog's report, officials from USAID said they would reduce future 2018 contributions to the trust fund if the World Bank and Afghan government don't take steps to correct the issues.
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AP warns Democrats: Time to ease off on the race-baiting
Allahpundit Sep 17, 2009 7:23 PM ET
They see the train lights in the distance and they're screaming for the left to get off the tracks.
[I]f everybody's racist, is anyone?
The word is being sprayed in all directions, creating a hall of mirrors that is draining the scarlet R of its meaning and its power, turning it into more of a spitball than a stigma.
"It gets to the point where we don't have a word that we use to call people racist who actually are," said John McWhorter, who studies race and language at the conservative Manhattan Institute…
[It's] an easy charge to make against the rare individual carrying an "Obamacare" sign depicting the president as an African witch doctor with a bone through his nose. But it's almost impossible to prove — or refute — assertions that bias, and not raw politics, fuels opposition to Obama.
"You have to be very careful about going down that road. You've cried wolf," said Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University professor who studies U.S. political and social history.
If ObamaCare crashes and burns, the Democratic strategy painting the opposition as racist nuts — starting with that odious DNC ad about "angry mobs" in July and continuing to the present day — will go down as one of the most insanely idiotic gambits in modern political history. (It should be remembered that way anyway, but if the bill passes it'll be treated as harmless error.) To stoop to racial demagoguery to try to bully centrists out of their doubts about universal health care is both a short-term error and a long-term one. The AP identifies the long-term problem, namely, that the race card is like any other commodity insofar as the greater the supply, the more it's devalued. The left has gotten tremendous mileage out of it over the years, but to be this cynical about it when there are clear majorities with serious concerns about health-care reform is practically an admission to independents that it's little more than a type of McCarthyism. Good luck getting them to join a "permanent Democratic majority" after equating their worries about government expansion to white supremacism.
As for the short-term problem, back to that Fox News poll:
Rasmussen's split was slightly different — 12/67 — but when you've got even a near-majority of Democrats willing to defend the motives of the opposition, you're looking at a credibility-killer ahead of the midterms. The real problem for Democrats, of course, is the racial divide: This line of attack plays well among black voters, which may help explain why Clyburn, Hank Johnson, and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus are out in front of it, but it's poison to the whites and independents whom The One will need in 2012. Can't wait to hear how he plays this during his Sunday morning blitz.
Anything else that needs to be said on this subject was already said by Krauthammer; the first clip comes via Greg Hengler, the second via Breitbart. Note his knock on Maureen Dowd for putting words in people's mouths. She's not the only leftist guilty of that this week.
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I seem to decorate a little more for Christmas every year. Our first year of marriage consisted of a tiny little Christmas tree in a tiny studio apartment. We used balls of yarn as ornaments, an old suitcase as our tree stand, and wrapped our gifts in brown paper. It was simple, much like our life :). You can see that little post here. It was my first year with a real tree (I grew up with artificial trees) and I fell in love. We continued the tradition and got a real tree the following year, but being in a more temporary space, I strung lights and tassle on it and called it a day. The next year was our first Christmas in our new home, and we were still very much in the middle of renovations. We went tree shopping with our good friends, but I don't think we ever made it around to actually decorating the tree.


Inhabitat shows another folding container design that differs from the Cargoshell we showed last year; it folds horizontally instead of vertically. There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
A hinge is always a weak point, and the Staxxon has solid walls with a folding floor and roof. Solid walls will probably be stronger when they are stacked.
On the other hand, on a container with folding walls, the rigid doors act as a solid stiffener. When it folds flat it can still be easily lifted by conventional spreaders and dropped on a flatbed conventionally.
Staxxon's top sustainability objective is to reduce the number of container ship movements as well as intra-state truck movements at ports related to empty containers. While some competitors have focused their environmental objectives around the use of composite materials to replace steel, Staxxon has focused on the larger environmental challenge of reducing net sea-going vessel movements and gate entries involving empty containers. In addition, Staxxon's folding method allows existing container fleets to be repurposed to address sea lanes and routes with high empty imbalance scenarios instead of requiring wholesale replacement of existing container fleets.
Staxxon founder and CEO George Kochanowski applied for his patent five years ago and got 7703632 last year; these things take a long time.
Collapsible containers are not a new idea; Here is William W. McQuiston's 1980 patent 4214669 (things were different then; he got his in five and a half months). The big question is, is there a market for them?
This market could justify a more expensive box if four of them could be deadheaded in the space of one. It could change the economics of intermodal transport of goods, helping get transport trailers off the roads and the goods onto rail.
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How photography is just like photosynthesis
Fine Art, Portraiture
by Sarah Marie Allen
The photography of Alice Cazenave, as much a scientist as an artist, is intriguing, her methods of construction ambiguous. In her work Breathe a ghostly portrait emerges from the fragile architecture of a geranium leaf. It's one of the first images created through a new photographic process Cazenave calls Pelargonium printing.
Although pushing photography in exciting new directions, Cazenave's new process engages with some of the medium's longstanding concerns: light, time and memory.
The concept of a photograph as an "exact trace of light, shadow, time and space" is paramount to the artist. She cites Susan Sontag's On Photography, regarding the process of looking at a photograph: "'The photograph of the missing being will touch me like the delayed rays of a star' – I think it's a beautiful way to explain photography," she says.
Having recently lost someone close to her, the artist places great value on: "The notion that light can freeze time for the keeping, as a physical keepsake."
Cazenave's interest in photography was piqued at an early age when a school teacher introduced her to the photogram and chemigram. Cazenave went on to study Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bristol followed by an MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins.
"It was during my graduate studies that my interest in cell biology fused with my interest in photographic process which had been laying dormant for 10 years," she says.
Yet it was a family tradition of cabinet making that instilled an appreciation for the patience required to work with organic materials. "The Pelargonium prints serve as a coupling of interests – my father's knowledge of trees and my apprenticeship in photography", she says.
"The Pelargonium process essentially uses the leaf as photographic paper", Cazenave says. To create the images, a negative is placed on top of the leaf and left overnight to expose. Light flows through the transparent areas in the negative, affecting the leaf surface and producing starch. Dark areas of the negative protect the leaf from exposure to light, and so remain unaffected.
Post-exposure, chlorophyll is removed from the leaf by a number of washes. This allows the latent photograph to been seen clearly after development with a chemical which identifies starch produced in the leaf. "With the leaf process, the pigment is created by photosynthesis; the photograph is an insight into the otherwise invisible workings of the leaves' biochemistry."
By adopting a camera-less technique Cazenave's practice harks back to the very beginnings of the medium calling to mind the botanical experiments of William Henry Fox Talbot in the 19th century. "I am interested in direct visual representations of a light-driven process. What I like about camera-less photography is that you can make a photograph of something that can't be photographed. Instead of an external referent seen through a lens, life itself becomes the image – it surpasses the merely retinal."
Wishing to focus attention on the human being's dislocation from nature, Cazenave has chosen to experiment with portraiture. "I find our celebrated reliance on technology suffocating. Whilst technological advancements have been liberating in many ways, in photography I feel the magic of things has been lost."
With each leaf taking a week to create, process is central to Cazenave's practice. During her graduate show at Central Saint Martins, she constructed a green house where she invited visitors to experience the method of production. "The creation of the greenhouse-darkroom serves to communicate the intimacy of the workspace and the bond an artist creates with his or her work through long hours of dedication to a project."
Cazenave hopes to radically expand the project in the future: "The dream is to be able to use region-specific leaves to tell a story through the leaf portraits, of members of the community. I don't want the technique to become a gimmick, the role of photography as story-telling must be embedded in the practice."
See more of Alice's work here.
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Published Mar 13, 2018 at 5:23 pm (Updated Mar 13, 2018)
Its clientele escaped mass extermination, its guestbook doubled as a Book of Life, its Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte can never be replicated. Now an author researching its lost world needs help finding old photos
All that remains of the Café Éclair on West 72nd Street is this fragment of its old metallic sign, which hangs in the office of Landmark West! on West 67th Street. Photo: Courtesy of Landmark West!
This undated photo from the late 1980s or early 1990s captures a section of the facade of the Café Éclair, a traditional Viennese-style coffeehouse at 141 West 72nd Street where German-Jewish refugees gathered to recreate their lost world. Photo: Courtesy of Landmark West!
The site of the old Café Éclair at 141 West 72nd Street for 54 years is now home to Izakaya Ida, a popular Japanese gastropub, and Naam Yoga, a second-floor yoga studio. Photo: Douglas Feiden
"It came as close as any place to the Parnassus of the bourgeois of the German-Austrian-Jewish West Side."
Peter Schrag, journalist and author
It was a time of lamentation for the destruction of Europe — and a time of celebration for the shelter and embrace of the Upper West Side.
Haunted by the Holocaust, lucky to be alive, unknowing as to which of their loved ones would live and which would die on the other side of the Atlantic, the refugees flocked to the Café Éclair at 141 West 72nd Street to recreate the Old World.
Its customers were mostly German, Austrian, Czech and Hungarian Jews — the "Fourth Reich," as they called themselves — and every day, dozens of them performed a ritual that their American-born neighbors initially could not understand:
They leafed through a guestbook at the front counter, turning page after page, scanning the signatures, hoping they would espy the names of their landsleit, praying that among those feared doomed they would find other exiles who had managed to escape the gates of Hitler's hell.
Infrequently, miracles would happen. And in that traditional Viennese-style coffeehouse — over Sachertorte, petits fours and Kaffee mit Schlag, or coffee topped with whipped cream — family reunions would take place, starting during World War II and continuing through at least the 1960s.
And what better way to revel in such back-from-the-dead moments than with a Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte? The seven-layered, Black Forest chocolate sponge cake with its rich cherry filling, one of Germany's most fabled desserts, was a signature item at the Éclair, and its equal doesn't appear to exist on the West Side.
Opened in 1939 by Alexander Selinger, an Austerlitz-raised sugar broker from Vienna, the Éclair, under his ownership, endured until 1993, and after a bankruptcy filing in 1996, the café's contents were eventually auctioned off. The site became a Krispy Kreme Donut Shop, and today, it is a popular Japanese gastropub called Izakaya Ida.
But in ways both tangible and intangible, the Café Éclair never really died: Consider that to this day, a portion of the Éclair sign, with its long and flowing metallic script, hangs proudly on a wall in the office of Landmark West! at 45 West 67th Street.
The preservation advocacy group, founded in 1985 to seek landmark status for buildings and historic districts on the West Side, salvaged the sign as it was being removed from the façade in the mid-1990s, said Sean Khorsandi, its executive director.
"We have artifacts and relics from the Upper West Side, pieces and segments of buildings, and hanging the Éclair sign in a vertical plain on the wall was the best we could do honor it," Khorsandi added.
Intern Anna Siftar shares the enthusiasm. "It's an object of beauty in the same way our buildings are objects of beauty," she said. "It's a part of our shared memory and the shared history of our neighborhood."
That's not all. In a cultural repository stored in its basement, Landmark West! maintains items that document the West Side's rich architectural heritage, and its Éclair collection includes plates, saucers, ceramic ware, place mats — even two wire chickens that were part of the quirky decor.
CONDUCTORS, RABBIS AND LITERATI
Meanwhile, that guestbook, which time and again functioned as a Book of Life, can be found at the Leo Baeck Institute, which is devoted to the history and culture of German-speaking Jews, both online and in the LBI Library at the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street.
The signatures, collected between 1940 and 1992, include those of Budapest-born Rabbi Stephen Wise; Polish-born Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer; German-born conductor Bruno Walter; Prague-born novelist Franz Werfel; Hungarian-born conductor Eugene Ormandy; Munich-born writer Klaus Mann; and Austrian-born theater director Max Reinhardt.
Later signatories included Brooklyn-born Joan Rivers, Brooklyn-born Barbra Streisand and German-born Dr. Ruth Westheimer, LBI records show.
The Institute also maintains a virtual photo archive of the massive, multi-layered cakes baked at the Éclair for Ed Sullivan, on the seventh anniversary of his show in 1955; Jackie Kennedy, for an event to save Grand Central Terminal in 1968; and Bob Hope, on his 75th birthday in 1978.
But something is missing from this grand inventory. Photographs. Shots of both the interior and exterior of the Éclair have curiously been hard to come by. Which is doubly odd considering the original café was in existence for 54 years.
And that's where readers of The West Side Spirit can pitch in.
Peter Schrag, the former editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee and author with his father of a 2015 memoir, "When Europe Was a Prison Camp," was himself a 9-year-old refugee in 1941 when his family came to America after fleeing Germany, Luxembourg and Brussels.
For his latest book — to be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2019 and tentatively titled, "The World of Aufbau: Hitler's Refugees in America" — he researched German-Jewish immigration to New York between 1933 and 1983.
The Aufbau — the German-language, Upper West Side-based journal for German-speaking Jews, published from 1934 through 2004 — was a veritable Bible for patrons of the Éclair and other refugee gathering places.
As Schrag sought to reconstruct that lost world and illustrate his book, he reached out to Landmark West!, hoping its members might have saved old pictures, and the group on February 12 sent out an eblast: "Help give the Éclair another moment in the limelight!"
A partial image showed up. But the quarry remained elusive. "The hunt continues," Schrag said.
"Excepting only I.B. Singer, who wrote only in Yiddish and may have been its most regular guest, the Café Éclair came as close as any place to The Parnassus of the bourgeois of the German-Austrian-Jewish West Side," Schrag writes in "The World of Aufbau."
Now, it's your turn. Do you have interior or exterior photos of the Café Éclair? Or stories or anecdotes about the place? Write to Douglas Feiden — invreporter@strausnews.com — and we'll print your letters and share the pictures with author Peter Schrag.
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After a 40-year career that has frequently taken forays into blues, jazz and rhythm and blues, this time around Boz Scaggs is focusing on the hits — sort of.
Scaggs , currently on tour with another big hit maker, Michael McDonald, was asked what it is like to have that "rock star" moment when he unleashes on audiences those hits — "Lowdown," "Lido Shuffle," "We're All Alone," "Breakdown Dead Ahead," and others — and the crowd goes wild.
"It's very satisfying, I must say," replied the low-key Scaggs, calling recently from North Carolina.
The shows with McDonald will feature a set of each man performing his own repertoire, then a third set in which they will share the stage and sing R&B favorites first recorded by the likes of Sam & Dave and Joe Simon, as well as perhaps a Leonard Cohen tune.
William Royce Scaggs began life in Canton, moved from the Pro Football Hall of Fame City at age 2, then lived in a couple of other locales, as his father worked as a traveling salesman. When the family landed in Texas, in Scaggs' teen years, it proved to be fortuitous move. That's because Texas, like Scaggs, is known for its musical variety.
With that musical melange in his background, Scaggs grew into a recording artist who mixed all of these elements, along with a sprinkling of jazz, into his sound. The result has been a multicultural fan base that most artists don't enjoy.
Another experience helped shape Scaggs' sound, as well.
"I was a junior in high school and he was already going to the school when I met him," Scaggs said, speaking of his bandmate at the time, guitar slinger Steve Miller. After attending college in Wisconsin with Miller, Scaggs went on to join the first incarnation of The Steve Miller Band, playing on its first two albums.
Songwriter/guitarist/singer Scaggs ventured to Sweden to record in 1965, but said it was only after he recorded his first album for Atlantic Records in 1969 (titled "Boz Scaggs," it featured a version of the blues "Loan Me a Dime" that still gets airplay on classic rock stations), that he decided to make music his career.
Things didn't start off too promising when the album's first two singles "What Can I Say?" and "It's Over," didn't take off.
In 1981, he took a seven-year break from the business and worked in establishing a San Francisco restaurant with his brothers.
"I was just burned out," he said.
Music, however, is a constant to Scaggs.
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#ifndef NOMLIB_GUI_DECORATOR_HPP
#define NOMLIB_GUI_DECORATOR_HPP

#include <memory>

#include "nomlib/config.hpp"
#include "nomlib/gui/IDecorator.hpp"
#include "nomlib/gui/Drawables.hpp"

namespace nom {

/// \brief Customized GUI widget theme style.
///
/// \todo Implement interface for calculating and providing border dimensions
/// so that our widget(s) are able to better account for their own size
/// requirements.
class Decorator: public IDecorator
{
  public:
    typedef Decorator self_type;

    typedef self_type* raw_ptr;
    typedef std::unique_ptr<self_type> unique_ptr;
    typedef std::shared_ptr<self_type> shared_ptr;

    /// \brief Default constructor; do nothing.
    Decorator( void );

    /// \brief Destructor.
    virtual ~Decorator( void );

    /// \remarks Implements IDecorator::margins.
    virtual IntRect margins( void ) const;

    /// \brief Get the unaffected rendering area coordinates of the border.
    ///
    /// \remarks Implements IDecorator::frame_bounds.
    virtual IntRect frame_bounds( void ) const;

    /// \brief Implements IDecorator::invalidate.
    ///
    /// \remarks Alias for ::update.
    virtual void invalidate( void );

    /// \brief Re-implements IObject::type.
    ///
    /// \remarks This uniquely identifies the object's type.
    virtual ObjectTypeInfo type( void ) const;

    /// \remarks Re-implements Transformable::set_bounds.
    virtual void set_bounds( const IntRect& bounds );

    /// \remarks Implements IDecorator::set_margins.
    virtual void set_margins( const IntRect& margins );

    /// \brief Set the intended boundaries of the "client area", meaning the
    /// unaffected rendering area of the rendered border.
    ///
    /// \remarks The boundary coordinates should exclude the rendering area used
    ///  by the rendering of the border, leaving only what is free (think: safe)
    /// for others to render on.
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    /// \note This information is provided as a convenience for visual
    /// interfaces that require such detail about their environment, such as
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  protected:
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    Drawables drawables_;

  private:
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    /// \brief The rendering area unaffected by the rendered border.
    IntRect frame_bounds_;
};

} // namespace nom

#endif // include guard defined

/// \class nom::Decorator
/// \ingroup gui
///
/// Note that you must first set the bounds -- position and size -- of this
/// object before a decorator can render anything. See also: set_bounds.
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1. When you don't hit snooze, not even once, on a Monday morning.
2. When you fit all of your stuff for your trip into one suitcase.
3. When you have to walk in front of an audience and you choke because you just can't handle the pressure.
4. When you parallel park like a boss.
5. When you give your cat a direct order and it definitely DGAF.
6. When you're lurking and accidentally like your ex's new flame's Instagram pic from 27 weeks ago.
7. When you remember a password for an account you haven't used since 2009.
8. When you ALMOST slip but you catch yourself because you've got your own back.
9. When you successfully hit all the green lights on your way to work.
10. When you and your squad hit the club in rare form and slayyy.
11. When you get all your work done by exactly 4:59 on a Friday.
We can't all be pro gymnasts, but anyone can make life into a sport with the Ford Escape. Tune in to see how the real pros do it. Be unstoppable like them.