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Call for Artwork: Send Your Portfolios to atilley@hotelchelsea.com
Good News! As reported last week in Chelsea Now's Buzz column, Andrew Tilley is going to revamp the Chelsea Hotel's official website so he can take over our job of publicizing the work of Chelsea Hotel artists. This really takes a load off of our shoulders, and we couldn't be happier, as now we can devote more time to writing fake letters from Marlene Krauss. Thanks Andrew.
August 29, 2008 in Hotel Chelsea | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Portraits for Everybody
Last Thursday's art show was a portrait filled occasion. First off, Storme Delarverie, the honoree of the evening was given a portrait painted by Zito. Secondly, our illustrious proprietor Stanley Bard was simarily honored with a portrait, this one painted by Steven Fisher. (By this point in time, Stanley probably has a whole closet full of portraits!) Stanley gave Storme a big bear hug. "He's stronger than he looks," Storme said. She said that she'd had many arguments with Stanley over the years but that they always made up and were friends afterwards. She also said, we're like a big family here we fight amongst ourselves but no outsiders better come in here and mess with any of us. The portraits were presented by the evening's emcee, Williamson Henderson, of the Stonewall Veterans Association.
Not to be left out of the evening's festivities, David Elder commissioned his own portrait from Zito, who was sketching portraits for anyone who cared to pay and generously donating some of the proceeds to the Stonewall Veterans Association.
(photo by Lois Stavsky)
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Rachel Cohen points us to an exhibit of Eugenie Gershoy's work which is on display through August 31st at the Fletcher Gallery located in Woodstock, New York. Gershoy is responsible for the fabulous "Pink Lady on a Swing" which hangs from the ceiling of the Chelsea Hotel lobby. (Photo: Sarah E. Dewar's flickr)
The Pink Lady is by Renate Goebel. Eugie Gershoy's work is the papier maché portrait figures hanging above the telephone booths.
Judith Childs writes to tell us about a new song inspired by the hotel. So, check it out! Judith writes: "Billy Squire dreamed about the Hotel Chelsea for years and ever since I took him up to the roof some years ago to play his guitar atop the hallowed halls, he has returned, from New Zeland, to stay here, to play here and compose his dreams. He just sent me a dvd of his new album which you can find by going to www.billysquire.net and then to Listen to Album. "Chelsea Dreams" is seventh down the list."
Robert Shaw clues us in that a fellow Aussie stopped by the Chelsea. "Paul Capsis, a unique [to engage an over used word] Aus cabaret / theatre / singer performer has paid a visit to the famed Chelsea Hotel. He's currently playing Riff Raff in a brilliant production of Rocky Horror here- a role way way beneath his capabilities. Amongst Paul's talents he 'channels' dead divas including a remarkable Janis."
Cindy Gallop sends greetings along with a link to a piece in the Guardian featuring writer Joe O'Neill and family.
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August 27, 2008 in Art, Events, Living Authors, Rock & Roll | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Chelsea Hotel Tenant Wins Rent Stabilization
Good news on the legal front. Another two tenants have had their apartments acknowledged as Rent Stabilized. The one case I am at liberty to talk about is Jim Georgiou's, though the other tenant's case had a similar resolution.
Everybody knows Jim: he's that guy with dark hair and a small mustache who often wears a porkpie hat, and can be seen daily walking his big, friendly black and white dog, Teddy. Jim, who has lived at the hotel for 6 years, is a specialist in a form of the ancient Chinese healing art that some call Qi-Gong (Jim calls it something else that I can't pronounce). Jim has been under the weather lately, suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, among other ailments, and so fell behind in his rent. (In the past, on another occasion when he fell behind due to illness, the Bards let him slide for awhile, and he was able to repay the debt in full once he recovered. In other words, he's not some slacker; he's able to make good money in his profession.)
Although Jim received assurances from hotel management that his case was not yet critical, a few weeks back they sprung a surprise on him, taping a notice to his door telling him he had three days to pay or be evicted. Luckily, Jim was able to scramble and come up with the money in time. On Thursday, August 21, when he went down to housing court, a representative of the hotel's law firm, Belkin Berdin, granted him a discontinuance, which means they are dropping the eviction proceedings. (They could have sent Jim this document earlier, or just told him over the phone, but they made him come all the way down to Centre Street, either hoping that he wouldn't show, or else just to inconvenience him.)
The ironic thing about the case is that, in order to file eviction papers against Jim, hotel management had to first register his apartment as Rent Stabilized with the DHCR. (The strategy was to evict him and then convert the room to transient use, thus legally deregulating the room.) So, by not paying, Jim has ended up in much better shape now than he was before!
This is not to say that you shouldn't pay your rent; everyone should pay their rent except on the advice of an attorney. But withholding rent is turning out to be one way of forcing hotel management to address the issue of Rent Stabilization. (The other case I referred to was settled in the same way: the tenant withheld rent; management registered the room as rent stabilized; and then the tenant simply paid the back rent.)
An even more important lesson to be learned is that hotel management is, at present, only going after tenants who are not represented by a lawyer. Neither of these tenants had legal counsel at the time they were served with eviction papers (Jim received some legal advice before he went to court). What's more, there are two other Chelsea tenants in housing court at the present time, and neither of them had counsel either when they were served with eviction papers (one has since retained counsel). -- Ed Hamilton
August 26, 2008 in Hotel Chelsea | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)
Chelsea Community Saddened by Tragic Death
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Angela O'Conner, 46. As reported in The Daily News she was discovered lying face up on her bed in a 9th floor apartment here at the Chelsea Hotel. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Ms. O'Conner's family for their loss. Although we personally did not know the deceased we are sure that she had many friends at the hotel who will miss her.
Angela was discovered lying in bed sometime on Friday afternoon (not, as the Daily News reported after 8:00 p.m.). She had apparently been dead for a number of days. Manager Andrew Tilley informed us that although the room Angela was found in was that of a permanent resident, he did not believe that she lived there. (That contradicts what was said in the Daily News. We ourselves are not sure of her residential status. ) The case has been turned over to the medical examiners office, who will determine the cause of death.
Kyle and the DonJon Pranksters Stop by the Chelsea Hotel
In route from Nashville Tennessee to the DNC, former Chelsea Hotel resident Kyle Taylor brought his DonJon platform to the streets of Chelsea for a few hours yesterday. Lots of people happily jumped on the bus for the Last Great American Road Trip. It remains to be seen if they'll make it to the DNC. If you spot DonJon in your town send us some pics.
The Bus.
Vote for DonJon!
Robert Lambert may or may not be convinced that DonJon is the man.
Ed jumps/falls off of the back of the bus. (Nice photo Robert)
Bettina tagged the bus.
The bus pulls out with a message of hope!
August 22, 2008 in Art | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
New Hotel Chelsea Director of Operations is a Restroom Specialist
If you've been having leaky faucets and clogged toliets, you can rest easy now beleagered Chelseaite, for your problems are about to be solved. Our new manager, Andrew Tilley, has just hired Arnold Tamasar as Director of Operations of our budding boutique hotel.
Tamasar, who inherits Glennon Travis's old title, was previously Assistant Director of Housekeeping and Style at the W New York Times Square Hotel, in which capacity he received the prestigious Kimberly-Clark Award for Restroom Ambiance and Cleanliness.
"...At the W New York Times Square Hotel, the ambiance is just as exquisite. The style is rather uniform for warmth and color, says Arnold Tamasar, the assistant director of housekeeping and style at the hotel.
The restrooms overflow with greenery. There are three tiers of wheat grass, Egyptian green limestone and white oak doors with gingko leaves embedded in the frosted glass. For special occasions such as weddings or wine tastings, the hotel adds an extra touch by providing a restroom attendant to hand out towels."
I can't wait. "Consistency is very important," says Tamasar. "We clean religiously." Well that sounds great. But the most pressing question remains: can he keep the junkies out?
(Photo: Our Friends over at Hotel Chatter)
The Spirit of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Lives on at The Chelsea
When we asked Chelsea Hotel historian Sherill Tippins for a ghost story for Halloween, she sent us this essay by by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Flynn, a labor activist and women's rights advocate who worked for the IWW and helped found the ACLU, was national chairperson of the U.S. Communist Party, while she was at the Chelsea Hotel. Sherill writes:
"...here's an article from Elizabeth Gurley Flynn that you might be able to use on the blog sometimes. It was published in the Daily Worker in 1939, when Flynn had returned to NYC from a retreat of many years to the West Coast. It seems she stayed briefly at the Chelsea around this time while looking for a permanent place to stay. Then she moved back to the Chelsea permanently in the 1960s, where she began writing her memoirs, as she predicts in this essay:"
"I Like a Hotel," Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Sunday Worker, Feb. 19, 1939:
"When a committee puts me up at a hotel, I don't say 'Bourgeois,' scornfully. Not me! I luxuriate, because it doesn't happen often. I think 'Well, this is a sample of the future, what every woman ought to have, a room to herself and release from domestic tasks." I hope to see the day we banish washtubs, kitchen stoves and straw brooms to the museum, as relics of the past.
It's a grand feeling for a woman (I can't speak for the men) to get up in a warm room, no worry about the furnace; get dressed in your street clothes, not in an apron or housedress, go down to a breakfast you didn't cook. I return to a well-stocked desk, pen, ink, writing stationery. This has a little house on it, 'Where Washington refused a crown, 1776' (Newhigh, N.Y.). It inspires me to write.
The telephone doesn't ring incessantly, no doorbell, bill collector, laundryman, grocer, or peddler interrupts my thoughts. No lunch to worry about. (Is there bread in the house? Is the sugar all gone?) The bed is unmade—at home I'd stop to tidy my room before I start to write. My mother used to laugh when I'd clean the apartment, then rush to my desk and say, 'Now I must get to work!'
In a hotel room I read the Daily Worker and the Times thoroughly. I collect my thoughts. I do some neglected reading. I work on a special article. I get an early start on the column. I catch up on my correspondence and surprise my friends with letters. I do my work.
Somebody else will make the bed and wash the dishes. Service in a well-run hotel is professional, not menial. Work in homes is amateur by comparison. You can eat in the restaurant or in your own room. This room is clean, comfortable, yet bare of non-essentials.
I see lots of old ladies in hotels. People pity them. It's quite unnecessary. They enjoy it immensely. It's a sort of 'sit-down strike.' Many say frankly they are tired of households.
They don't want a place where the grandchildren are parked. Lots of grandmothers feel that way. Few can afford to avoid it. These always look happy, like little grey pussy cats, purring with contentment. They read, go to shows, play bridge—all the things they wanted to.
It's the way all old people should be able to live out their last years. Today it's only possible for a few. A comfortable hotel is a glimpse of the future rest homes for the aged and for mothers, when capitalism is no more. How heavenly it would be fore tired, overworked mothers! It gives us another incentive to socialize the world.
If I ever actually write the story of my life I think the publishers will have to stake me to stay at a quiet hotel. Page the International Publishers!"
No, it's not too scary, is it? The scary thing is how many times Flynn was thrown in jail for sticking up for her beliefs. But America (and the Chelsea) wouldn't be the land of freedom it is today without the sacrafices that Flynn and others like her made for us. Where is she in these troubled times when our home is being threatened? Surely Flynn's spirit still walks these halls. Maybe we can hold a seance. Ed Hamilton
August 20, 2008 in Ghosts, Hotel Chelsea | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
King of the Chelsea: Storme DeLarverie to Be Honored
Th e Chelsea Hotel Grand Ballroom will be the scene of a grand evening of art in honor of legendary resident Storme DeLarverie. Stormé Delarverié is a 87-year-old former cross-dressing torch singer, gay rights activist and one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet. Here's how Storme told me her story. "I've got a story!" Stormé exclaimed, "I chopped off my hair, put on men's clothes, and joined the Jewel Box Review!" The Jewel Box Review was a multi-racial drag revue that toured the country in the fifties, sixties and seventies. The only female member of the troupe, Stormé served as stage manager, musical arranger, emcee and "mother" of the troupe for fourteen years. (Portrait of Storme by Anthony Zito)
Chelsea Hotel artist Susan Olmetti, who organized the evening, along with other Chelsea Hotel residents and artists, is donating one of her vibrant whimsical paintings (5' x 5' acrylic on canvas), titled "Mr. Minkel", for sale at the art show with the proceeds to the non-profit Stonewall Veterans Association. Another painting, a specially commissioned tribute portrait of Storme is by acclaimed artist Anthony Zito. That intuitive painting is being presented as a gift to Storme. During the three-hour soiree, Zito will apply his artful mastery to paint his critically acclaimed 7-Minute Watercolor Portraits - a signature quick-draw style, of anyone who is willing. Portraits painted at the event will be available for sale that evening. Works by photographers Lisa Ackerman and Sam Bassett will also be on display. Music will be provided by Tsakwe Ibrahim.
Additionally, according to Ms. Olmetti, Stanley Bard will be presented with a portrait in appreciation of his support of the arts. The portrait was painted by Steven Fisher.
Stop by the Chelsea Hotel Grand Ballroom from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Thursday, August 21.
The Chelsea Hotel is located at 222 West 23rd Street. The closest subway stops are the "1", "C", "E", "F" and "Q". Times are symbolic from "6" to "9" p.m. as in Stonewall '69. On display (shown below with Storme) will be the 1969 "Stonewall Car". To r.s.v.p., please telephone Storme's "Baby Boi" AnDre Christie at (212) 627-1969. Beverages will be provided by Drink Purple.
Stefan Brecht & Legends Contribute to Ph.D Thesis
The rewards of blogging are few and insubstantial. So it's satisfying when we get feedback like this.
Dear Ed
Just a quick note to say I've just finished reading your book about the Chelsea and really enjoyed it! I also read Joe Ambrose's tome and that was enjoyable too.
On my first visit to the US in 1997 I visited the Chelsea but couldn't afford to stay. Me and my travelling companion were on a really tight budget. We did however, get to stay in the apartment building on Bleeker Street that Gregory Corso was born in, which was a thrill.
I've just got my PhD and part of my thesis was about the Flaneur. I mention Stefan Brecht's 8th Avenue poems (which are fantastic) and argue that Brecht was practicing Flanerie when walking to the Chelsea and his writing room. So thanks for pointing me in the right direction (I read about Brecht on your blog!)
Hope things are going OK at the Chelsea. Who knows? I may get to stay there one day...
I wrote about Stefan Brecht's dual poetry and photography book for this blog and for Chelsea Now and The Villager back in April 2007. I was quite excited by Brecht's project, and it seems at least one corner of academe was as well. (Photo: from Stefan Brecht's book, "8th Avenue".)
Chelsea Hotel Brain Trust Drops Ball on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Big news: an annex of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is set to open in Soho! It will of course feature exhibits devoted to several former Chelsea Hotel residents, such as Bob Dylan and the Ramones, and will even include an interactive map of musically significant spots in New York—and I'm sure I don't need to tell you what the most important location on the map will be.
But then I started thinking: Soho?!? Why, the Hall should be right here where it belongs in the Chelsea Hotel. The Capitol Fishing space has been empty for two years now; what else are they saving it for? Tilley could have the Hard Rock Hotel he's been dreaming of, and I'll bet Dan would sell ten times as many guitars.
Yes indeed, Rockers, this could have been the solution to all our problems. With an admission price of $26 a pop, Tilley wouldn't have to kick residents out on the street to make ends meet. It's another way to rip off the tourists, but so what? They would just waste their money on golf (if they could find a place to play in Manhattan) and bad theatre anyway.
It would have been great. But, as usual, our fearless leaders have dropped the ball on this one as well. Shame on you, Marlene. I don't know if we would have had room for Springsteen's 1957 Chevy anyway. Maybe we could have rented a crane and hauled it up to the bar on the roof. Sid—and Nancy too--must be rolling over in their graves. -- Ed Hamilton
August 15, 2008 in Hotel Chelsea, Rock & Roll | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Dainty Adore at The Coney Island Mermaid Parade
The end of summer is quickly approaching and the future of the Chelsea Hotel and Coney Island are still uncertain. Former Chelsea Hotel resident Dainty Adore takes us back in time to the Fourth Annual Mermaid Day Parade. After Danity performs her quirky set she provides a tour of the boardwalk and amusement park.
(Video by Nelson Sullivan)
August 14, 2008 in Art, Hotel Chelsea, Rock & Roll | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Golf, Sport of the Suburbs, Supplants Art at the Chelsea
Reverend Jen, who has an open mike reading series on Ludlow Street and runs a trolll museum, is a crusader against the gentrification—and the stupification--of the Lower East Side. I remember reading in Rverend Jen's book (Really Cool Neighborhood, Printed Matter Inc., 2003) awhile back about how for her the final straw was when she saw somebody go into her building carrying golf clubs. When she witnessed this abomination it actually caused her to vomit.
Well, I saw somebody check into the Chelsea with some golf clubs the other day, and that's about how I felt too. He had come from Florida to play golf in Manhattan. The Chelsea was able to hang on a few years longer than that larger and even more essential bastion of Bohemianism, the LES, but the end result is shaping up to be even more sickening.
Now, I don't know where the best place in the country to play golf is, no doubt in some suburb somewhere, but I do know the absolute worst place: Manhattan ! What the hell was this guy doing, hitting balls off the roof?! This is the kind of guests we have to get used to now, with the new management. (And lately, these clueless assholes have had the gall to complain about us! Increasingly, we're being treated like second class citizens in our own home.)
Let's get something straight golfers: you've got the burbs, which you created in your image; isn't that enough? Don't you get it? We came here to get away from you. We're even willing to pay for your cut-rate mortgages that you can't afford! Please, we beg of you, just go back!
Anyway, Reverend Jen, with things even worse on the LES now than when you wrote your book five years ago, I hope you're able to keep down the occasional Budweiser and slice of pizza. -- Ed Hamilton
HAIR to Stay Around A Little Longer
According to newyorkology.com "Hair" will run for one extra week in Central Park. If you don't want to wait all day to get tickets you can always climb to the top of Belvedere Castle and enjoy the songs perfectly fine though the view is obstructed to say the least. The connections between the Chelsea Hotel and "Hair" are so numerous that we could never untangle them all, but for starters former resident Milos Foreman directed the movie and Galt McDermott wrote the music for the Broadway show.
This spring, former Chelsea Hotel resident and member of the original "Hair"cast, Sharmange Leland-St. John-Sylbert was in town for the 40th reunion of the original cast. In 1966-67 Leland-St. John-Sylbert lived at the Chelsea Hotel, down the hall from Edie Sedgwick, in a small studio that was also used by a photographer as his dark room. She talks a little about her experience at the Chelsea in this video. During her recent visit she chatted with us about the big fire of 1966. According to Sharmange, one of the more memorable highlights was when the firemen broke through the floor while they were putting out the fire and spotted a stash of pot in the room below. The firemen call the police, which resulted in a couple of tenants getting arrested.
August 12, 2008 in Rock & Roll | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Voodoo, Jungle Cats, Poetry & Communists Banned at Chelsea
It's worth pointing out -- even if it's rather obvious -- that the Chelsea Hotel would never have become the world renowned rebel mecca that it is (or was, if you prefer) if Stanley Bard had hired security guards to rid the Hotel of the weird and/or inebriated. In response to a question from reader "Miss H" regarding whether the ban on gathering in the hallway would preclude the legendary staging of a scene from Aida historian Sherill Tippins writes:
That was the splendid Katherine Dunham, an anthropologist, choreographer, and expert practitioner of Voodoo. Stanley said she had asked him whether it was all right to rehearse for Aida in her room (for the Metropolitan Opera), and he'd said that was fine. Then he got a call at home that she'd arrived at the hotel in a limousine with a pair of real lions and (according to Stanley) taken them upstairs in the elevator. He insisted that she take them out, but she got some rehearsal in first.
Dunham and the composer George Kleinsinger were the ones who rescued Brendan Behan by bringing him into the Chelsea. Dunham's dancers tended him around the clock. Still, he would escape out into the halls, find the portly, 73-year-old Communist leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on her way downstairs, pick her up like a little doll and give her an affectionate shake, saying she was the best little Irish-American Communist he'd ever known.
Stanley did eventually ask Dunham to leave--not because of the lions, but because her Voodoo drums were bothering the neighbors.
Charlie Rangel has a bill in the House tight now formally honoring Katherine Dunham's contribution to American dance.
I'm sure some may say that we don't want lions (or drunks like Behan) wondering the halls, yet the point is that the Chelsea was once a magical place where the odd and unusual were part of the everyday fabric of our lives. And that's waht we are struggling against: a return to boring normalcy. Let's send Tilley and his guards to a Red Roof Inn at a truck stop in Cleveland where they belong. -- Ed Hamilton
(Photos: Katherine Dunham, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn)
Oscar Nominees at the Chelsea Hotel's 100 Year Anniversary Celebration
Not only did we come into possession of the 100 year anniversary program earlier this week, now we have video from the event. Watch below to see Oscar nominees Sylvia Miles and Ronee Blakely hanging out in the lobby with actress, author and cult icon Cookie Mueller. The anniversary party had just been shut down by the fire marshall because of overcrowding. The video is by Nelson Sullivan who also filmed "Christina at the Chelsea."
Tilley Takes Sabbatical to Attend David Bernstein School of Hotel Management
The news this week is that Andrew "Picadilly" Tilley has already gone on vacation! He's been out all week, after having only started work on July 1. Man that's the life, isn't it? I guess he doesn't intend to emulate Stanley Bard. But what I'm wondering is, what sort of job is this? Most of the time, when you start a new job, you don't even think of taking a vacation for several months, right? At least if you want to make any kind of a good impression. And what kind of boss would let him get away with this shit? I wonder if Marlene Krauss is rethinking the wisdom of her hire.
I guess dealing with the press must have stressed Tilley out. After all, he gave two half-hearted interviews in the past couple of weeks. Maybe he needs a mental health break.
It's no skin off my nose anyway. Even when Tilley was here he was reportedly only working "summer hours" of 9:30 - 3:30, and even then nobody saw him since he was always in the back. No doubt the very visible security guards can take up the slack in his absence. Well, here's wishing Tilley a quick recovery from whatever it is that ails him. -- Ed Hmailton
Revealed! Andrew Tilley's Plans for Chelsea Hotel
In last week's Chelsea Now, manager Andrew Tilley promised Chelsea Hotel residents a letter in which he would introduce himself and tell us his plans for the building. While it has not been forthcoming, Tilley did indeed compose a draft of such a letter, which he then e-mailed to Marlene Krauss, who promptly shot it down. Apparently, she thought it revealed too much, but you can judge for yourself, as we intercepted it. These people still haven't caught on that we control the internet:
Dear Chelsea Hotel Residents,
Welcome to the New Chelsea Hotel! I'm Andrew Tilley of Britain, and I'll be your manager as we move forward into the New Century. If you have any questions, just ask for me at the front desk, and I'll be only too happy meet with you in order to address your concerns. I have a feeling we're going to be friends.
Some of you are no doubt concerned as to our plans for the building, and I'm here to set your minds at ease. Just trust us, it's going to be great. Though restrictive and unfair land marking laws prevent us from modernizing the façade of the hotel, the good news is that no such strictures are in place regarding the interior of the building, so we can have a ball!
The new lobby will be under construction for two years, but residents can enter and exit through the tunnel to 22nd St., and so any inconvenience will be minor. The wait will be worth it, for when the lobby is finished it will stand alongside any W Hotel in the world in terms of style and elegance, probably something in slate or black and red lacquer, definitely with a Koi pond and some potted trees. The stairwell will be opened to the lobby, resulting in dust and asbestos being broadcast throughout the building, but only temporarily. We will also replace the dilapidated cast iron railing of the staircase with a more modern version, a move which only the most hopeless fossils can fail to applaud. (Don't worry, having worked at the Hard Rock Hotel, I have a well developed appreciation of history.)
A new bar, "Legends Lounge" is presently under construction in the room off the lobby. It will be managed by Charles Ferri and will feature fresh young coconut shakes and music by the Doors. Exclusive Members will enter through the old Balabanis Tailor shop, and will eventually be able to board an express elevator to Rareview, the elite new club on the roof! At some point, if you behave yourselves, we will have an open house where you can tour this fabulous establishment, which will normally be bottle service only and will feature a helipad for oil magnates visiting from Dubai.
Under study is a proposal whereby the present lobby and entrance will be used only for the high-paying nightly guests. The old permanent residents, if any remain, will be grouped on the lower floors of the east wing, using the back staircase and the present service elevator to access a "grandly" refurbished tunnel to 22nd St.(which you should be accustomed to using by this point anyway). We are in negotiations with Madame Tussaud's to produce a full scale model of Stanley Bard, possibly in tennis attire, that will be installed behind glass on your wing of the hotel.
As part of this long-overdue process of renewal, we'll be sloughing off the detritus of the old. We realize that some of our tenants have special needs that can best be served by such psychological care facilities as half-way houses, and we will work with each of you individually to ensure that you obtain the most satisfactory placement. In addition, some of you may be "temporarily" relocated to another floor as construction proceeds, or even to a beautiful resettlement project in the Bronx. But don't worry about any of this until you receive a notice in your box.
Of course, all these changes will be financed under a Capital Improvement program that will allow us to levy a "modest" increase in your rents, thus bringing them up to market level in a long overdue correction. But once you see our brilliant new hospitality establishment, I'm sure you all will agree that the sacrifice is well worth it. And besides, most of you will be gone by then and won't even have to pay!
Welcome once again to an exciting new concept in hotel living.
Cheerio,
Andrew "Picadilly" Tilley
Chelsea Hotel: Fade to Black?
Legends has obtained a rare copy of the program for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of of the Chelsea Hotel in 1983. In somber black and oddly titled "Chelsea: Chelsea Hotel. The First One Hundred Years," the cover of the (obviously expensively produced) booklet features a very faint reproduction (almost a watermark), also in black, of a section of the famous cast iron balcony. I guess the designer, Joseph DeAngelis, was going for a sort of Back in Black effect, since it was at around this time that the AC/DC album came out, if I remember correctly. I wonder if Angus Young ever stayed here.
The booklet is copiously illustrated. Claudio Edinger is credited with the photos, and several of those that appear can also be found in his book. There are also some very fine uncredited photos that I don't think Claudio took, of such Chelsea luminaries as Arthur Miller, Virgil Thomson, and Arthur C. Clarke.
At a time when the current management is contemplating the destruction of the physical and cultural integrity of the Chelsea Hotel, the booklet is an instructive document. Perhaps Marlene Krauss, David Elder, and Andrew Tilley will be given pause by the assessment of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission:
On the basis of a careful consideration of the history and architecture and other features of this building, the Landmarks Preservation Commission finds that the Hotel Chelsea has a special character, special historical and aesthetic interest and value as part of the development, heritage and cultural characteristics of New York City.
Though I rather doubt it. But surely they cannot fail to heed the words of Bess Myerson, Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs:
There is, perhaps, no other hotel in the world that has been as important to the creative process as the Chelsea. For one hundred years the hotel has provided a safe haven to an impressive array of artists. . . .it now deserves to be recognized as a New York City treasure. A century of anything is a long time. A century of nurturing and supporting the creative process is a remarkable achievement. Bravo!
We couldn't have said it any better ourselves. In case anyone wondered, this is what the residents of the Chelsea Hotel are struggling to preserve—for ourselves, and for generations of creative people to come. More than simply our home, the Chelsea represents a way of life that is an increasingly rare alternative to the hollow materialism of the greater part of society. -- Ed Hamilton
New Manager Andrew Tilley Speaks—and Says Little
After hiding away for almost a month, manager Andrew Tilley has finally heeded Legends' advice and broken his silence with the press (Chelsea Now, August 1-7, Scott Stiffler). The result is a transparent nattering of corporate-speak in which he tiptoes around addressing residents' concerns.
First and foremost on every tenant's mind is whether or not the wave of evictions—16 in the year since Stanley's ouster—will continue, and whether it will affect them personally. Though he doesn't address the issue directly, Tilley says: "A lot of our existing tenants are very special people who made the hotel what it is today. We want to preserve that, but also create new history moving into the 21st century." Yeah, a lot of us are special, but apparently a lot of us aren't. Which I suppose explains why the hotel is in court with about 40 of us because they are refusing to acknowledge that our apartments are rent stabilized. In addition, only last week several residents received notices on their doors advising them to pay up in three days or face eviction proceedings. Actions speak louder than words. Remember who hired Tilley.
Tenants are worried that Tilley is set to begin a major construction project and then try to pass along the costs to the residents as capital improvements—in some cases raising rents over the threshold of luxury decontrol. Tilley seems to confirm our fears when he says that he intends to, ". . .refurbish and renovate the hotel while preserving the heart and soul of the building."
Repairs are of course different from new construction, but Tilley has nothing to say on this matter. If your floorboards are rotted through, Tilley is responsible for providing you with a new floor. If your ceiling is leaking, Tilley is responsible for fixing it. The sorry state of this building is one of the main reasons why Tilley can't obtain the necessary permits and certificates, chief among them a Certificate of Non-Harassment. Yes, it is indeed considered harassment for Tilley not to make the necessary repairs to your apartment. Ask Tilley to make any repairs you need, and if he doesn't (which he won't for anything major), dial 311 and complain.
New Security Guards
This is not the way to respect the history of the Chelsea. Tilley says: "I've worked in many hotels in NYC, and every one has had a security guard present," and implies that the presence of these new guards is standard and necessary. But the truth of the matter is, we've always had security (those who have the job blend right in), just not professional guards standing around in the lobby and walking the halls to intimidate people. Isn't it funny that the one real case where the guards have acted was to threaten, harass and ultimately assault a permanent resident who was exercising his right to free speech? Now, however, Tilley cites another case, saying, "Two days ago, we had a guest who required security because they were being accosted by an inebriated person."
Legends recently received information about an incident that sounds curiously like what he's referring to. Was the "inebriated" person by any chance a permanent resident, simply acting in his or her normal, wacky manner? (Perhaps the guest just needed to be educated as to what sort of hotel he was in.) Whatever it was, I'm sure the longtime staff could have handled it without the intercession of the professional guards. If anyone knows more about this incident, please write in to the blog so we can get to the bottom of this. -- Ed Hamilton


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Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) supports high ability and intellectually gifted students by providing testing and identification, information resources and enrichment activities.
To learn more about our GATE program, please visit the GUSD website.
Multiple measures are used to identify gifted and talented students. Students in 4th, 5th and 6th grades who achieve a specified benchmark in Mathematics and/or English Language Arts/Literacy on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) are invited to participate in further testing to determine whether they meet the gifted and talented criteria established by GUSD.
Students who meet the CAASPP benchmark are invited to take the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, Eighth Edition (OLSAT 8). This test assesses a student's ability to reason abstractly using verbal and nonverbal skills. The test is based on a student's innate ability to reason: no preparation or instruction is necessary prior to testing. A student must score in the 92nd percentile or higher on the OLSAT in order to receive gifted and talented designation within GUSD.
Although identification of GATE students is managed at the District level, programming and activities for gifted students are managed at the individual school level. Individual school programming includes differentiated instruction in the regular classroom and/or before/after-school enrichment opportunities.
Each fall, GUSD hosts an Invention Convention open to all GATE-identified fourth- through eighth-grade students. Students are invited to use their problem-solving and creative thinking skills to invent new products. Students display their inventions at the annual Invention Convention. Inventions are judged by a panel of community members, which in the past has included staff from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Awards are given out by grade level.
Every fall, each elementary and middle school in GUSD identifies high-achieving math students to participate in math enrichment activities in order to prepare for the District-wide Math Field Day competition. Identified students in fourth through sixth grades practice math skills including computation and problem-solving. The District-wide Math Field Day competition is held each spring. The winners of the District-wide competition are invited to represent GUSD at the Los Angeles County Math Field Day competition, which is also held each spring.
The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) hosts a county-wide Math Field Day competition each spring. County Math Field Day is designed as an enrichment activity to promote mathematical reasoning, teamwork and a balanced mathematics curriculum for students in upper elementary and middle school. Participation allows students to demonstrate their math knowledge through competition. The competition covers computational and procedural skills, conceptual understanding and problem-solving.
Scholastic Bowl offers high-achieving high school students in GUSD an opportunity to represent their school and participate in academic competition in the areas of Fine Arts, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Science and Science. Scholastic Bowl competitions are held each spring. Each of the four high schools in GUSD sends a team of five students to the competition. The first phase of the competition is an essay contest. Team members are given 60 minutes to write an essay addressing an assigned prompt on a controversial issue. The second phase of the competition (typically held one week after the essay competition) is held in a quiz format. During the first part of the quiz, team members collaborate to come up with answers; during the second part of the quiz section, individual students respond to questions.
Community businesses and organizations generously provide scholarship awards each year for Scholastic Bowl winners. For the spring 2016 competition, Scholastic Bowl Scholarships were made possible by generous grants from: the Glendale Educational Foundation; Parker Anderson Enrichment; Knapp, Petersen & Clarke; Sylvan Learning Center; Glendale Oakmont League; and the Kiwanis Club of Glendale.
GUSD holds two meetings each year for parents of students who have been identified as meeting the District's GATE criteria. These meetings feature guest speakers who have expertise in topics related to the education of gifted and talented students. Meetings are typically held in October and May.


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The 25th James Bond film just got another boost of good news with the announcement that Christoph Waltz will be reprising his role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the dreaded founder/leader of the global criminal organization known as SPECTRE.
An iconic antagonist of the franchise, Blofeld was supposedly killed by Roger Moore's Bond in 1981's For Your Eyes Only. The iconic villain, who appeared in nine of James' epic adventures, wouldn't show up again until 2016's Spectre. In that film (helmed by Sam Mendes), it is revealed that A) Blofeld is James' adopted brother and B) he was behind the main bad guys of the Daniel Craig era Bond movies up until that point: Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and Skyfall (2012).
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At this time, it's unclear what role Blofeld will play in the story, given the fact that he was captured and jailed by James at the end of the last movie. During that skirmish, the villain also got his famously scarred and cataract-looking eyeball. However, we do know that Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) is taking up the post of the latest 007 baddie, which means there's a chance of James picking Ernst's criminal mind for advice on how to stop this new threat — a la Silence of the Lambs.
While the project doesn't have an official title yet, rumors have persisted that it may be called "Shatterhand," a known alias of Blofeld's. Over the years, the iconic character has been portrayed by a number of well-known actors, including Donald Pleasence, Max von Sydow, and Telly Savalas.
Aside from Craig and Waltz, Ralph Fiennes (M), Léa Seydoux (Madeleine Swann), Naomie Harris (Eve Moneypenny), Rory Kinnear (Bill Tanner), and Ben Whishaw (Q) are also returning from previous installments.
Aside from Malek, Ana de Armas (Blade Runner 2049), David Dencik (McMafia), Billy Magnussen (Aladdin), and Dali Benssalah (A Faithful Man) are also newcomers to the franchise.
Directed by Cary Fukunaga, Bond 25 opens in theaters everywhere April 8, 2020.
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10 Ways PSNI is Helping Integrators Raise the Bar
By Hailey Klein (AV Network) 2016-08-02T11:57:00Z Expert Opinions
In June of 1986, a group of AV dealers met in Chicago to discuss some shared business concerns. The result of the meeting—led by John Fuchs of Video Images, Sonny Davis and Ed Matthews of Technical Industries, Inc., Randy Hippler of GTN, and Fran Fehr of Professional Communications Systems, Inc.—was the formation of PSNI (Professional Systems Network International).
Now at its 30th anniversary, PSNI continues to find new solutions to business challenges through a connected network alliance of affiliates and technology solution partners. Like all great ideas, it is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Here are 10 ways PSNI affiliates are raising the bar for their businesses and the AV industry as a whole.
1. Solving problems
The PSNI affiliate network creates a deep repository of insights and information that can only be built from experience—lots of it. And with 35 affiliates averaging 25-plus years in business, PSNI members represent more than 600 years of experience. If an affiliate is having a problem, chances are, several other owners or principals have faced the exact same challenge. They know what worked—and perhaps more importantly what didn't—when they looked for solutions.
2. Informing decisions
Gut-decisions can take you a long way, especially if your instincts are good. But there is no substitute for data-driven decision making. To provide actionable intelligence, PSNI initiated a financial benchmarking survey in 1990. This survey is one of the oldest and largest in the industry and has been tracked for the past 28 years. PSNI has also invested in industry-leading studies on customer satisfaction and employee engagement. The QualTrak Customer Satisfaction study in 2012—an AV industry first—gave PSNI affiliates a clear benchmark against which to measure and narrow the gap between client expectations and deliverables. The Employee Engagement study of 2013 revealed the current mindset and morale of more than 2,500 affiliate employees. All in all, PSNI has invested more than $500,000 in research studies, delivering advantageous insights that members could not access on their own.
3. Making it rain
The bottom line for any business is sales revenue. Recognizing an opportunity to help affiliates improve sales techniques, PSNI rolled out a yearlong sales training course, appropriately named the "Rainmaker" course. This online sales course has been completed by 350 sales associates across North America.
4. Extending footprints
For many smaller technology integrators, being limited to a single metropolitan area or region can be detrimental to business growth—particularly when pursuing larger customers. Part of the original vision for PSNI was to establish a support and service network that would allow all members to extend their business footprint and access new customer opportunities. The PSNI network alliance of affiliates is achieving this vision with 35 member companies with 107 offices throughout North America and more than 3,000 employees. Yet there is still a need and opportunity for additional affiliates in North America and an increasing need for global representation. When combined, the mix of small to large affiliates in PSNI creates a sizeable pool of talent and technology resources.
5. Forging partnerships
The preferred vendor program (PVP), created in 2004, has never had the primary goal of discounts or spiffs. Indeed, PSNI rejects the label of "buying group" because the vision has always been so much greater. PSNI affiliates focus on creating true partnerships with vendors where they provide feedback on products, work together to solve problems, and collaborate on marketing strategies. We share a common bond to meet end-user expectations with their technology investments. Partners have sponsored certification programs, such as the Lean Initiative, that would have cost thousands of dollars without their support. The PVP program has seen tremendous growth over the years, which has a clear financial impact as well. PSNI affiliates now account for $169 million in PVP revenue.
6. Deepening relationships
Part of the value for executives and owners of affiliate companies is the relationships they create with their peers in the network. These peers are thought leaders and industry icons that include current and former leaders and officers of InfoComm, NSCA, and other industry trade associations—not a bad group to shape business ideas and share in business opportunities with. PSNI holds several events throughout the year to help affiliate owners spend time with each other outside of the office, including a multi-day Super Summit.
7. Developing leaders
In 2016, PSNI created its first Management Training program. This program sought to develop leadership skills, share best practices, and create a forum for affiliate managers to share ideas and network with each other. For many affiliates, the networking aspect of the group and the access to shared intellectual capital, is the most valuable reason for membership.
8. Enhancing skills
In recent years, it has become clear that it's not just owners and executives who benefit from the network alliance, but all employees. With that insight, PSNI began developing more targeted summits for project managers and sales managers. In 2013, PSNI introduced a summit for CFOs and in 2015, a summit for marketers. These summits create networking opportunities at almost every level of the business, and broaden the shared experience and knowledge of the group.
9. Making an impact
While the intent of the PSNI affiliate network is not to be a "buying group" or unduly influence pricing, the financial impact of the network cannot be overlooked because it tells a powerful story of growth and success. In 30 years, PSNI affiliate revenue has increased from approximately $80 million to more than $1 billion in 2016.
10. Looking to the future
PSNI has evolved over time—and that's to be expected. To be relevant in any era requires constantly checking for North on the compass. PSNI does not change for the sake of changing. Instead, the success of PSNI can been attributed to listening to its stockholders and partners and delivering industry-exclusive programs that help each affiliate achieve their unique business goals and objectives.
Learn more about the PSNI network alliance, at www.psni.org.
Hailey Klein is marketing and communications director for PSNI. Follow her on Twitter @PSNI_Hailey.
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With the introduction of tourist activity, the amenity value of traditional settlement prompted commercialization of the place. The largest economic interest pursued in capitalism resulted in the lost of unique quality of traditional settlement. This phenomenon is one of the major concerns of the field of both leisure study and landscape architecture. Inevitably, tourist development imposed impacts on traditional settlement. Thus it became important for the traditional settlement developing tourism to have interactions between tourists' need and habitant's life in order to make tourist interest be shared by the whole people and develop a mechanism for spatial behavior ensuring both indigenous landscape and tourist industry. In terms of environmental behavior study, this research assumed that the context shaped by the habitants' attitude toward tourist development would influence the selection of the recreational site of the tourist and that behavioral direction of both habitants and tourists could be achieved through the classification of tourist types and the employment of modes of spatial implication. Based on the grounded theory of qualitative study, literature review, participant observation and interview were utilized to investigate behavior of habitants and tourists in Pei-pu and the attitude of the former. Through the interpretation and induction of iconic analysis, the author tried to address the impact of tourist development in social and cultural aspects and behavioral pattern and interaction of habitants and tourists in the space. The results showed that the two forces (traditional spatial structure and bonds between habitants) which have maintained Pei-pu settlement for long are changing under the impact of tourist development. The main points are: 1. Ritual spaces for habitants were sacrificed as the service spaces for holiday recreation. 2. Habitants' living spaces were lapsed as shared spaces of tourists. 3. Unevenness of tourist interest had become the knife cutting bonds between habitants. 4. External consumerism caused the depression of diligent Hakkanian ethos of early deploitation period. The conclusion showed that tourists could be classified into four categories, i.e. roaming aimlessly, sight seeing, information oriented and deep explorer. Coordinating with four types of the habitant, i.e. interest pursuer, prospect holder, purposeful thinker, and do-nothing expectator, appropriate spatial pattern could be planed to minimize the impact of tourist development on social and cultural aspects of traditional settlement.


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Picture of the Day: The Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge
Rebecca J. Rosen
Plans for a bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County were more than a decade in the making when, on this day in 1933, construction finally began. For about a century before the bridge's construction, ferries were the primary means of travel across the bay. Though the idea of a bridge was circulating as early as 1872, it wasn't until the 1920s that people thought the idea was feasible, in terms of both bridge technology and costs. The final suspension design was the result of a collaboration among Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, Charles Alton Ellis, and Leon Moisseiff. The bridge opened with much fanfare in 1937; its 75th anniversary will be marked this May. Above, the early stages of the bridge's construction, taken in 1934.
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Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Family and Education sections.


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The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
Author: Charles Glass
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Language: Ehglish
"Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts." --The Boston Globe
A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glass—renowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation—delves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history.
Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glass's arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers.
With the grace and pace of a novel, The Deserters moves beyond the false extremes of courage and cowardice to reveal the true experience of the frontline soldier. Glass shares the story of men like Private Alfred Whitehead, a Tennessee farm boy who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for bravery in Normandy—yet became a gangster in liberated Paris, robbing Allied supply depots along with ordinary citizens. Here also is the story of British men like Private John Bain, who deserted three times but never fled from combat—and who endured battles in North Africa and northern France before German machine guns cut his legs from under him. The heart of The Deserters resides with men like Private Steve Weiss, an idealistic teenage volunteer from Brooklyn who forced his father—a disillusioned First World War veteran—to sign his enlistment papers because he was not yet eighteen. On the Anzio beachhead and in the Ardennes forest, as an infantryman with the 36th Division and as an accidental partisan in the French Resistance, Weiss lost his illusions about the nobility of conflict and the infallibility of American commanders.
Far from the bright picture found in propaganda and nostalgia, the Second World War was a grim and brutal affair, a long and lonely effort that has never been fully reported—to the detriment of those who served and the danger of those nurtured on false tales today. Revealing the true costs of conflict on those forced to fight, The Deserters is an elegant and unforgettable story of ordinary men desperately struggling in extraordinary times.


Following President Cyril Ramaphosa's election date announcement at his state of the nation address (Sona) on February 7, South Africans have turned to Google to find out more – including who the likely winner of the 2019 elections will be.
President Ramaphosa announced that the 2019 elections would take place on May 8. The elections will see the election of a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province.
This will be the sixth election held since the end of the apartheid system in 1994. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) confirmed that 700,000 new voters registered during the final registration weekend (25 and 26 January), bringing the total number of registered voters on the voters roll to 26,727,921.


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It was raining when I visited the Kips Bay Show House in Palm Beach and Peter Dunham's room looked like the perfect place for rainy day activities. The Los Angeles based designer upholstered the walls in his Collage fabric from Peter Dunham Textiles, upholstered the sofa in his Souk fabric, and grounded the room with an antique Persian carpet. Dotted around the room and outside are his own furniture designs while the artwork was selected in partnership with gallerist Sarah Gavlak and includes a very chic photograph by Marilyn Minter above the games table. Hope they have a box of Scrabble tucked away in that console table for the next rainy day.


With the IE9 RC, we released another Test Drive demo to explore the full benefits of ECMAScript 5 available in IE9. This game of Texas Hold'Em (fondly referred to as T'ECMAScript Hold'Em in Redmond) is intended to be a brief illustration of how to write a reusable class library leveraging many of the features of ES5 to retain more developer control and model object oriented design patterns. Both are necessities as Web standards-based applications grow in size and complexity.
Because our game of Texas Hold'Em makes liberal use of ECMAScript 5, we employ feature detection to ensure that the app is running in a browser which supports the necessary features. The FeatureDetectES5Properties.js file specifically looks for support of a key ECMAScript 5 feature, defineProperties, to ensure that the rest of the application can proceed without encountering runtime errors. It's not a comprehensive test conformance test for ES5 support, but its decent shorthand for checking to see that the app is running in a modern browser.
library you no longer need to worry that consumers might accidentally overwrite a key method.
exactly what protection is required.
Attributes are applied using a property descriptor.
playing card. The binval is a binary representation of the same information which provides an absolute way of comparing any two playing cards.
reason they should ever change. I set writable:false to prevent new values from being assigned. I set configurable:false to make them essentially permanent.
methods as well. You can see this in Shuffle method in the Deck.js file.
same as iterating over all available playing cards. The methods are still accessible, but do not clutter up the logic in other places.
method is exposed to users of our library. It's just a simple data property to consumers.
flexibility of these new methods. You can see an example of this in the Card.js file.
desired level of property protection to an entire Object. Before we can discuss them we first need to mention one last attribute added by ES5: extensible.
Our CardPrototype contains our shared methods (Comparison method, etc) while our new descriptor contains the unique values for each card instance.
By iterating over all of the properties on our two Arrays of constants every possible combination of Rank and Suit is hit and full deck compiled.
names. This means properties inherited from a prototype will be skipped. This does provide a simple way of separating the two.
for ES5. You can use this code to write your own ES5 based card game – perhaps ECMAScript 5-card draw?
Download IE9, code well, have fun.
Thanks for the code & explanations chaps.
I was too excited by my winnings to proof-read that!
Instead of for-in loops, you could have used .forEach.
And in a way, it makes more sense to use array extras which loop over index properties rather than for-in loops which loop over all (own or inherited) properties. This avoids iterating over Array.prototype methods when a script "monkey-matches" the methods in browsers that wouldn't support them natively.
But is this native ECMAScript 5 ?
How is Math.random() seeded in IE9? If it's just by the current time, I could break this game (i.e., know what the other players were dealt and what cards are coming up) in seconds or minutes.
Leveraging knowledge of the random number generator is overkill to break the game – just repeatedly raise, and eventually all the other players will fold.


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ISO 3166-1 alfa-2 são os códigos de países de duas-letras definido no ISO 3166-1, parte do padrão ISO 3166 publicado pela Organização Internacional para Padronização (ISO), para representar  países, territórios dependentes, e de zonas especiais de interesse geográfico. Eles são os mais utilizados dos códigos de país publicado pela ISO, e são utilizados com mais destaque para o código do país de domínio de nível superior (com algumas alterações) da Internet. Eles foram incluídos na primeira parte da norma ISO 3166 em sua primeira edição em 1974.

Usos e aplicações
Os códigos ISO 3166-1 alfa-2 são utilizados em diferentes ambientes e também fazem parte de outras normas. Em alguns casos, eles não estão totalmente implementados.

Implementações perfeitas
Os códigos ISO 3166-1 alfa-2 são usados em:
 ISO 3901 — International Standard Recording Code
 ISO 4217 — Códigos das moedas
 ISO 6166 — International Securities Identifying Number (ISIN) system
 ISO 7372 — Trade data interchange (Trade data elements directory)
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The bonniest babies of them all!
The winners of this year's Wokingham Times Baby Portrait of the Year competition have been announced.
Three bouncing babies from across Wokingham and Bracknell have been declared the winners after receiving the most votes from readers, and will each receive a framed portrait from Premier Promotions.
Jake Beck, 23 months, of Hearn Walk, Bracknell, secured enough votes to be declared the winner of the boys aged 19 months to five years competition.
Delighted mother Kelly Kitchen said: "It has come as a bit of a shock to me because I didn't even know the competition had been running.
"We got a phone call to say he had won and we are very proud of him."
Oliver Waistell, 11 months, of Chatsworth Avenue in Winnersh, took home the votes in the babies aged up to 19 months section.
His mother, Debbie Everson, said: "We are really pleased for him.
"We think he is gorgeous and it is nice to know he has won the baby competition.
"When I got the call telling me he had won I was like wow! Brilliant! Because everyone has been asking if we had heard anything.
"It's just fantastic because we would never have been able to afford any portraits like these ones."
In the girls 19 months to five years competition, three-year-old Caitlyn Everson, of London Road Wokingham, will receive the framed portrait.
Mother Lisa Everson said: "I am both very proud and very pleased for her, and I look forward to getting the framed portrait.
"She [Caitlyn] is very excited about it too, and she was over the moon when I told her she had won.
"I was a bit surprised when they told me she had won, but it is brilliant."
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OTTAWA, January 31, 2019 — The Board of Directors of Saegis, a provider of Canadian healthcare safety and practice management solutions, announced today that Margaret Hanlon-Bell has been appointed CEO, effective January 28, 2019. Saegis is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) that delivers programs and services that extend beyond the CMPA's current offerings and contribute to safer and more sustainable healthcare in Canada.
Ms. Hanlon-Bell has over 25 years of experience and demonstrated success as both a healthcare professional and a senior business leader in the healthcare sector within North America. She has worked on international teams setting business strategy that enabled organizational growth through the provision of products and services that helped to improve the delivery of healthcare. Most recently she was Vice President, Sales and Product Management at Joule Inc. a Canadian Medical Association company. Margaret has sat on Boards of Directors both within healthcare companies and not-for-profit organizations. She currently sits as a Director on the Board of Parkinson Canada.


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Q: Copying sequence of files to be physically placed consecutive on hard drive I have a image files sequence that need to be read as fast as they can as long they are really a video divided on frames. So when the image sequence is not written on the hard drive consecutively the performance is poor because the disk arm continously moves the head seeking for each file.
I need to know how to force files to write in the right order physically on hard drive when copying. OSX, Linux and Windows procedures are needed.
Thanks.

A: The contig utility from Sysinternals is specifically designed to do this for one file at a time in Windows systems with HDD storage.  No equivalent to contig was found for MacOS or Linux.
However, if you use an SSD, please note that data is stored within the cells of the SSD wherever its firmware decides to put it, so any benefit from the file being contiguously written as per NTFS may be negated.

A: I don't think you can really answer this, especially for Linux, Windows, and Mac at once. Because:

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*Each different filesystem could put files in a different place on-disk. Try creating an ext3/4 filesystem and take a look at where an easily identifiable file (that contains for example all a's) ends up - it will probably get written in "stripes" across the device.

*Each different hard drive could have an unknown number of platters & heads, and an unknown way they map to sectors

*The operating system or hard drive itself could quietly "remap" sectors to a different on-disk location

In general, it sounds like you just want to avoid file fragmentation, and you can do that by having the filesystem empty (or nearly empty) when you write the files.

If you just want to write one specific file after another in whatever order you prefer (but the OS will still ultimately decide where to place them on disk), you could use a loop something like (for example on Linux)
while read filename
cp filename destination
sync
done

Or have dd skip the buffer cache and do some syncing too:
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Mizzou Golf Course to be Named for Former Curator
6 years 4 weeks 1 day ago Tuesday, June 18 2013 Jun 18, 2013 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:39:00 AM CDT June 18, 2013 in Tiger Talk
COLUMBIA (AP) - An $8.3 million contribution has earned a former University of Missouri curator naming rights for the school's golf course at a Columbia country club.
The university's Board of Curators voted unanimously last week to designate the facility as the Walsworth Family Golf Complex, a part of the Club at Old Hawthorne.
That comes five months after Don and Audrey Walsworths' gift for upgrades at Memorial Stadium upgrades and a new clubhouse for the men's and women's golf teams.
Don Walsworth, of Marceline, is an MU graduate, CEO of a northern Missouri publishing company and former curators' chairman. Two of his three children played golf for Missouri. A third was a Pac-10 golf champion at Stanford University.
A Mizzou Arena outdoor plaza is also named for the family.


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RKVV Miranda is een voormalige Nederlandse amateurvoetbalvereniging uit Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland.

RKVV Miranda werd op 1 juni 1926 opgericht als Leonidas en verandere de naam in hetzelfde jaar tot Miranda, maar omdat er al een Leonidas in Kerkrade was werd de nieuwe naam R.K.V.V. Miranda (Rooms Katholieke Voetbalvereniging Miranda). In 2008 halen zij het door de KNVB verplichte minimumaantal leden van 55 niet en verliezen zij de club-licentie en wordt de club opgeheven.

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Proper nutrition and optimal weight status in pregnancy are important for both the mother and her child. The present study was aimed at assessment of maternal food and nutrient intake, dietary supplement use, dietary patterns, and weight during pregnancy. Additionally, associations between maternal weight, socio-demographic and perinatal factors and advanced beta cell autoimmunity in the offspring were examined.
The results from a one-year cohort of mothers entering the ongoing Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) study in 1998–99 (n = 797) suggested that healthy food choices were positively correlated with maternal age and education. Dietary supplements were used by 85% of the women. However, the intake of vitamin D did not meet the recommendation and folic acid intake was inadequate in 44% of the pregnant women when both food and supplementation intakes were taken into account.
Seven dietary patterns were identified in 3730 pregnant women who entered the DIPP study between 1997 and 2002. The 'healthy', the 'low-fat foods' and the 'alcohol and butter' dietary patterns were positively associated with maternal age and education. The 'fast food' dietary pattern was positively associated and the 'alcohol and butter' pattern was inversely associated with the rate of maternal weight gain during pregnancy.
Altogether, 4093 children and their mothers comprised the study population in which the relationships between maternal initial body mass index, weight gain rate, and the development of beta cell autoimmunity in the offspring were examined. Maternal weight status during pregnancy was not related to the risk of advanced beta cell autoimmunity. A higher level of maternal education was significantly associated with a decreased risk of advanced beta cell autoimmunity in children.
More attention should be paid to nutritional guidance among Finnish pregnant women, especially as regards young and less well educated women. Dietary patterns may be useful for risk group identification and they may offer a framework for further research concerning diet and health outcomes among mothers and their children.


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Roy Fehler
EUPD377 said:
Yes, actually. However, everyone in NC has the power to detain anyone for any crime (sorta our version of citizens arrest), so SHP can detain them just as any citizen can until local police arrive.
I think it's dumb, but that's how it works.
In Mass, a citizen's arrest can only be for a felony in-presence, and even then, the standard of proof is "did in fact commit", which is impossibly high.
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Some new dickhead with a big ego wanting to put his own stamp on things. At significant taxpayer expense.
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I got my badge on Ebay, my cuffs are furry, and my Glock shoots plastic BB's.
KPD54
Here comes the Wee-Woo man
Roy Fehler said:
is it really? Maine is probable cause to believe for classes A,B,C and murder (felonies) and being committed in presence for D, and E (Misdemeanor)
I always wear my Campaign cover, and pretend I'm Smokey the Bear
Foxy85
KPD54 said:
i think Mass. is like that to deter people from trying to be hero's when they have no idea what they're doing.
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Foxy85 said:
The state wants to control the monopoly on violence lest it be used back on the state.
The government can drone strike a family by accident, or shoot Vicki Weaver with no consequence. You dare defend yourself against an armed robber, you will be standing tall before the man.
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Hush said:
Citizen's arrest isn't self-defense, Massachusetts actually does have a Castle Doctrine, hard as it is to believe.
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CCCSD
Betting it's a Kennedy only Castle…
Now that can't be right, I'm almost certain you have the duty to retreat in MA
Under Dukakis if I remember correctly, but hopefully that's been addressed.
Not within your dwelling you don't.
Section 8A: Killing or injuring a person unlawfully in a dwelling; defense
Section 8A. In the prosecution of a person who is an occupant of a dwelling charged with killing or injuring one who was unlawfully in said dwelling, it shall be a defense that the occupant was in his dwelling at the time of the offense and that he acted in the reasonable belief that the person unlawfully in said dwelling was about to inflict great bodily injury or death upon said occupant or upon another person lawfully in said dwelling, and that said occupant used reasonable means to defend himself or such other person lawfully in said dwelling. There shall be no duty on said occupant to retreat from such person unlawfully in said dwelling.
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mpd61
Retired Fed, Active Special
YEEEEEE
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]"No one has done more to prevent conflict than America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among all our heroes of the Cold War." General Colin Powell
Every sign, every vehicle, every patch, every badge, every single piece of stationary, every business card, etc, etc...millions of taxpayer dollars for two words that mean basically the same exact thing.
It's not a particular strong Castle Doctrine, it applies only to the living area of your residence (garages, sheds, yards, etc., aren't included), but it absolutely exists.
Actually it's only about $473,000 over the next two fiscal years for procurement of those items. The real waste is the tossing of the stocks of old stationary, uniform accoutrements, and re-decaling the majority of the vehicle fleet which will be another $200,000 net loss. So yeah it's definitely a waste of money.
Now I'm an old military logistics guy. Put me in charge and pay me $77,000 and I'll sell all the obselete stuff on the internet to Collectors and whackers. I can recycle and re-utilize more than you can image. I can probably recoup about $100K or more. That'll pay my salary and have enough left over to lease a couple motorcycles for years, or a tactical dune buggy. Winning!!!!
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mpd61 said:
They said in the article that they wouldn't be redetailing anything, just phasing them out.
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Kilvinsky
I think, therefore I'll never be promoted.
LA Copper said:
I've heard similar stories about the California Highway Patrol when they were off the highways out here, which isn't very often. They usually stick to the highways.
I've had similar questions when I've stopped someone on the highways. For some reason, people think the city police don't have jurisdiction on the highway, even though it traveled right through the middle of the city..... Please sign here!
It's amazing to see just how naïve the general public can be when it comes to law enforcement.
Sadly, there are those IN Law Enforcement with the same issue, but those folks are fewer and fewer each year, but they'll never REALLY be gone.
Yes. Well, when I see 5 weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards. That's *my* policy. Frank Drebin, Police Squad.
Meaning NO disrespect to the hard working women and men of the MBTA/Transit Police, but when they changed their badges and patches several years ago and went from MBTA To Transit, my first thought was, "Well, it's a good thing the system is fiscally sound enough to handle these very necessary changes because the OLD stuff just didn't work." or words to that effect. I just still don't fully get it and will gladly appreciate anyone who can say Boston style badges were far more important than fixing an Orange Line train.
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Kilvinsky said:
I'll never understand why departments that change badges/patches don't just do it through attrition. When LAPD changed the title of their badges from "POLICEMAN" to "POLICE OFFICER", the people with the old title badges could keep them until they retired, and I assume most did.
Boston spent a fortune to have new "POLICE OFFICER" badges made to replace the "PATROLMAN", I don't understand why they didn't just start issuing the new badges and let the old ones retire off.
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E G O. Every "leader" without real ideas needs to find a way to put a stamp on things regardless.
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Sometimes, yes, Joe Jordan did that in the 1980's when he had Boston go to light blue shirts, which is a radical and visible change.
The title on a badge is something that 99% of people wouldn't notice, either way.
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SGI President Ikeda's Encouragement for the Future Division
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"Spreading the Supreme Philosophy of Respect for the Dignity of Life"
"Creating a Growing Realm of Inspiration and Empowerment"
In his 39th Peace Proposal issued on January 26, Value Creation in a Time of Crisis, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda addressed major issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, building a global culture of harmony and human rights, the need to get rid of nuclear weapons and the climate crisis. He proposed solutions for overcoming these challenges and called on the global community to together build a society realising "happiness for both oneself and others through bringing into full play the human capacity to create value." [1]
When we look at the world today, people are only concerned about their own interests. Most people only care about themselves and their own families, placing their personal concerns above all else. People even resort to unethical methods, even damaging and sacrificing the needs of others in order to fulfil their own interests.
Looking at our pandemic-stricken society as an example, we can see that many people have had their spirits crushed and livelihoods destroyed – they are in dire straits. But the cruel reality is that they are ignored or discriminated against, – even excluded – leaving them isolated and helpless.
Even where the supply of vaccines is concerned, we see that countries only take care of their own needs and turn a blind eye to the needs of other countries.
On this, President Ikeda stressed that we must have the determination to never leave behind those struggling in the depths of adversity, lending them a helping hand, and shine the warm glow of concern in their lives. We must enable them to bring forth the strength to live with dignity and strive to build the foundations for a society where the word "misery" is eradicated.
In "The Three Virtues of Food," Nichiren Daishonin writes: "If one gives food to others, one will improve one's own lot, just as, for example, if one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way." (WND-2, pg 1060) This teaches us that when we contribute to the wellbeing of others, we ourselves will receive benefit too.
The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings states: "'Joy' means that oneself and others together experience joy." (OTT, pg 146) True joy is when we and others enjoy happiness.
On this, President Ikeda says: "Happiness is something that we must each achieve for ourselves and experience in our own lives. But at the same time, one's own happiness to the exclusion of others is not true happiness. Just being content with one's own welfare with no concern for others is selfish. By the same token, brushing aside one's own happiness and caring only about the happiness of others is not sufficient either. True happiness is a condition when both we ourselves and others are happy." [2]
He also points out: "We cannot steal happiness from someone or attain it by sacrificing others for our own gain. It is something that must be shared – which is why I have always insisted that our happiness must not be built upon the misfortune of others." [3]
We cannot live alone and isolated. Humankind has always been a community where we share joy and sorrow together. The thinking that helping others will only hurt our interests is the main reason for the terrible state that society is in today.
There is no life more noble than one dedicated to caring for and helping others, and enabling people to become happy.
Let us learn from this pandemic and transform this crisis into opportunity, and together build a society that realises happiness for both oneself and others!
[1] Pg 42 of this issue.
[2] FLOW No. 661 (01.10.2017), pg13–14.
[3] Ibid., pg 14.