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31 Days of Oscar: Actors Playing Actors
Posted on February 14, 2014 February 20, 2014 AuthorEmily
Hollywood loves a good behind-the-scenes tale, so it's fitting that the Oscars have rewarded a number of actors for playing… well, actors. Though it may seem like an obvious and easy role given their own career, portraying an actor on screen offers a unique set of challenges for thespians. Not only do they need to make the audience believe their character as a real person, as all actors do, but they must do this while calling attention to their acting process, by virtue of their character's profession. It can be a challenging task to keep their acting relatively invisible, and some actors have managed great success in this realm.
In the earlier days, behind-the-scenes films typically focused on fictional characters and productions. Around the 1960s—when Hollywood had built up a couple of generations' worth of nostalgia for its most fascinating early stars—they began to shift towards telling stories about real players from Hollywood's history, and the Oscars reflect that change accordingly. It's also worth noting that actors playing real-life performers, instead of fictional, are additionally tasked with portraying a figure that is likely already familiar to the audience. This risks the danger of either going too far into caricature, or, on the other side, having an audience lose interest because some element of the performance wasn't exactly perfect—be it the look, the manner, or even the accent.
Many actors have been recognized by the Academy in both categories, playing both real and fictional movie actors. Below, I've collected some of best, most interesting, and most memorable moments in Oscar history for these specifically challenging and unique roles.
A Star is Born (1937)
Actors: Fredric March and Janet Gaynor
Characters: Norman Maine and Vicki Lester, fictional movie couple (supposedly based partially on Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay) navigating the tumultuous Hollywood scene.
Award Status: Best Actor (nominated) and Best Actress (nominated)
Singin' in the Rain (1937)
Actress: Jean Hagen
Character: Lina Lamont, the selfish, adorable actress intent on using talented nobody Kathy Selden as a stepping stone to her continued success.
Award Status: Best Supporting Actress (nominated)
Sunset Boulevard (1951)
Actress: Gloria Swanson
Character: Norma Desmond, fading star of the fictional silent screen who manically soaks up attention from live-in biographer Joe Gillis.
Award Status: Best Actress (nominated)
All About Eve (1951)
Actresses: Anne Baxter and Bette Davis
Characters: Eve Harrington and Margo Channing, dueling divas caught up in the pursuit of fame, obsession, and ambition.
Award Status: Best Actress (nominated) and Best Actress (nominated)
Actors: James Mason and Judy Garland
Characters: Norman Maine and Vicki Lester, fictional movie couple once again attempting to navigate the murky waters of Hollywood.
Actress: Bette Davis
Character: Baby Jane Hudson, twisted former child star now determined to make her invalid sister's life a living hell.
Funny Girl (1968)
Actress: Barbra Streisand
Character: Fanny Brice, the real-life vaudeville sensation and comedian who also appeared in films like Ziegfeld Follies.
Award Status: Best Actress (won)
Actress: Jessica Lange
Character: Frances Farmer, the strong-willed actress who starred in a few pictures for Paramount in the '30s before getting involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in 1943.
Actor: Robert Downey, Jr.
Character: Charlie Chaplin, the writer, director, producer, and actor of some of silent (and sound) film's most enduring masterpieces.
Award Status: Best Actor (nominated)
Actor: Martin Landau
Character: Bela Lugosi, horror movie icon known for his portrayal of Dracula, later often typecast due to his heavy Hungarian accent.
Award Status: Best Supporting Actor (won)
Actress: Uma Thurman
Character: Mia Wallace, a fictional actress who was the star of the TV show pilot, Fox Force Five.
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Actor: Willem Dafoe
Character: Max Shreck, the actor most famous for his dedicated and perhaps obsessive performance as the creature in Nosferatu.
Award Status: Best Supporting Actor (nominated)
The Aviator (2005)
Actress: Cate Blanchett
Character: Katharine Hepburn, the vivacious, Oscar-winning actress and prime object of entrepreneur Howard Hughes' affections in the late 1930s.
Award Status: Best Supporting Actress (won)
Venus (2006)
Actor: Peter O'Toole
Character: Maurice, a fictional, artistic-minded actor who develops a questionable friendship with a young woman late in his life.
Actors: Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo
Characters: George Valentin and Peppy Miller, two silent film actors working in Hollywood around the cusp of sound age (again).
Award Status: Best Actor (won) and Best Supporting Actress (nominated)
My Week with Marilyn (2012)
Actors: Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh
Characters: Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, the ultimate blonde bombshell and the proper Shakespearean actor, who co-starred in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
Award Status: Best Actress (nominated) and Best Supporting Actor (nominated)
Did I miss any of your favorites? Or were your favorites outrageously not ever nominated? Should any of the nominated actors have actually won? Or did any of the winning actors earn something they shouldn't have? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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The Gal Herself says:
So happy to see Streisand as Fanny. I read recently that Babs said she wishes she had met Fanny and admired her so. And Robert Downey Jr was such a graceful, lovely Chaplin!
She's so great! I feel like if they'd been paired up in the same lifetime, they would've been an unstoppable force.
fernandorafael says:
Very cool post. I loved Blanchett as Hepburn, a great actress playing a great actress! Loved the performances by Jean Hagen, Bette Davis and Kenneth Branagh as well.
I believe Blanchett is currently the only actor who's ever won an Oscar for playing another Oscar winner!
That's pretty cool!
The performances you highlighted show that the role of an actor is one that many performers respond to with everything that is in them. Swanson as Desmond is one I find endlessly intriguing. For a while after I first saw Downey Jr. as Chaplin, I kept on seeing him even when I was watching the real deal.
Two actors/one actor: James Cagney's portrayals of George M. Cohan and Lon Chaney. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is a total winner. The script for "Man of a Thousand Faces" doesn't really do Chaney justice, but Cagney's performance certainly does.
Tops of all time: Ronald Colman's Oscar winning performance in "A Double Life" as an actor who sadly loses himself in the roles he plays.
Ha, one of the first Google image results for "Charlie Chaplin" is actually RDJ's version, which kept throwing me off trying to put together the photos for this.
Cagney and Colman are fantastic additions!
Kelly Lewis says:
Thanks for the fun and clever post on Actors playing actors!
Wonderful! Patricia reme,bered Cagney and Colman well, both have magnificent performances! And it's great you put the first version of A Star is Born, it's my favorite film.
In Show People, from 1968, Marion Davies plays a wannabe actress in Hollywood, also.
One thing: Barbra Streisand won an Oscar for Funny Girl, tied with Kate Hepburn.
Don't forget to read my contribution to the blogathon!
Kisses! :)
Oops, yes she did! You know, I couldn't find a good existing list of all this, so for the most part it was just me typing it all out, haha. Thanks for the catch!
I think I'll have to do a second post focusing on the best portrayals of specifically stage actors, as well as great performances from people who didn't actually get nominated for an Oscar. I just watched Show People and Marion was adorable—I loved her "cameo" as herself :)


Reformation means standing against the spirit of the age, so pastors and church leaders must join together to encourage, equip, and embolden one another in the work of the Reformation. Most importantly, a society brings the Word of God and prayer to bear on the leaders themselves, strengthening them for the work of a faithful shepherd.
List of active Reformation Societies.
Ultimately, why did God choose to relieve man of the great and heavy burden of his sin the way He chose to do so? What is the ultimate reason for God's wisdom in the word of the cross? God reveals the reason for the word of the cross in I Corinthians 1:26-31.
In light of this conflict between the Word of the Cross and the world, we see that these two opposing world views do not demonstrate an equal dichotomy of good vs. evil. Rather, the Apostle Paul explains that God's wisdom is all powerful and will conquer and can overcome the wisdom of the world.
The second people group which responds to God's wisdom are known by many names: the redeemed; the justified; the saved; Christians; believers. We will call them followers of Jesus. Their response to the cross is revealed in I Corinthians 18b and vs. 24-25.
What may we discover about God's Wisdom from God's Word in dealing with a person's great and heavy burden of sin? To begin with, we must recognize there are two responses to God's wisdom by two different people groups.
Have you ever been overwhelmed by your great and heavy burden? The Bible says the great and heavy burden is our own personal sin and our awareness and sense of guilt of that sin. Psalm 38.


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The Giallo Project #12: The Fifth Cord
Alternative titles: Giorna nera per l'ariete; Evil Fingers; Director: Luigi Bazzoni; Starring: Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Wolfang Preiss, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edmund Purdom, Rossella Falk, Renato Romano, Pamela Tiffin; Music: Ennio Morricone; Italian theatrical release date: August 28th, 1971
Note: this review contains significant spoilers.
In his excellent essay Playing with Genre, Gary Needham descibes Luigi Bazzoni's giallo The Fifth Cord as an example of the more progressive side of the movement. The first time I watched the film, I really wasn't sure what he meant, but, after mulling the issue over in my mind for a while, I'm beginning to see where he was coming from. I'm going to do something a little different with this instalment of the Giallo Project, in that, instead of doing a general overview of the film, I will focus in depth on a handful of scenes which specifically refer to the subject on which I am currently interested: namely, the character of Andrea Bild (Franco Nero) and his relationship with the two women in his life, his ex-girlfriend Helene (Silvia Monti) and his current catch, Lou (Pamela Tiffin). This is part of the work I am currently doing for my PhD, a piece which I am hoping to use to explore the wide variety of ways in which women are portrayed in gialli, and as such, a lot of the material below was written with an eye to being incorporated into an academic essay.
Above: Andrea Bild: the image of the stereotypical hard-drinking macho man turned on its head
Andrea embodies the hard-drinking, virile, macho male stripped of all the qualities normally found in giallo portrayals of such characters. Rather than the suave George Hilton type, he is an unkempt, pathetic drunk, engaged in an affair with Lou, a student several years younger than him, but clearly still dependent on his ex-girlfriend, Helene, a firm, sensible, working single mother fighting a divorce (at one point, she says that, until the proceedings go through, she will not be able to "live [her] own life"). In this film, it's not so much the plot or the basic character archetypes that are unique (on the contrary, they are actually somewhat generic), but the manner in which what we are supposed to infer from them is reversed. In the average giallo, the J&B Whisky bottle is an ubiquitous simple of sophistication and finesse (Koven, 2006, pp. 49-50); here, the first time we see a J&B bottle is when Andrea, drunk and unshaven, swigs from it while driving home from a party after being snubbed by Helene, who has already commented with disdain on his drunkenness. What's particularly interesting about this is that it is a clear reimagining of the persona Franco Nero portrayed in the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s and would go on to play in the action and crime thrillers of the mid to late 1970s. In these, the gristled, tough-talking antihero who takes the law into his own hands was romanticised; here, he's practically a joke. Just watch his first speaking role, where he drunkenly tries to woo Helene, gazing pleadingly at her, only for it to be made clear that she finds his state of intoxication pathetic. As someone who finds macho culture intensely irritating, this pleases me no end.
Above: J&B: the classy gentleman's drink
In the scene above, Helene returns to her car to find him sitting in the passenger seat, dishevelled and slurring his speech. It is made clear from the start that he is encroaching on her territory (in this case, her car) and that she holds the power. Throughout their conversation, he gazes at her pleadingly, which she refuses to even dignify him with eye contact. When he begins to caress her hair, she firmly and calming removes her hand, responding to his statement that drinking "makes life much easier" with the statement that she, on the other hand, has not been drinking, the implication being that she would have to be drunk herself in order to entertain any prospect of anything happening between them. She controls the scene from its beginning to its end, when she orders him out of the car with the simple statement "Goodnight. Goodbye, Andrea", and turning on the car's ignition, all the while refusing to look at him. Bazzoni, meanwhile, underscores the lack of connection between the two of them by filming the entire scene as a single medium shot in which each character occupies either side of the frame, the camera adopting a detached distance rather than priveleging either character's point of view with subjective shots.
The first scene to feature Andrea's young girlfriend, Lou, taking place the morning after his encounter with Helene, shows him to be even more dishevelled and pathetic than the night before. He wakes up in bed, groggy and half-dressed, to the sound of the telephone ringing, and it is revealed, through dialogue, that he has slept through two previous calls after returning home in such a state that Lou had to undress him and put him to bed.
Andrea: You always liked undressing me.
Lou: Not when you're drunk.
Above: The modern man: emblematic of suavity and dignity
Here, drinking is once again held in contempt, the impression being given that, far from making him the virile 'ladies' man' that most male giallo protagonists seem to embody, drink is a turn-off (rather than a turn-on) for women and makes him unable to function sexually. Alcohol, therefore, is here used to diminish masculinity rather than embody it.
Lou, however, is a considerably different character from Helene. Content to allow Andrea to be unfaithful to her (a courtesy which he does not extend to her in return - see the scene in which he slaps her about after suspecting that she has been seeing another man) and to dote on him (Helene refused to give him the time of day; Lou, on the other hand, took care of him when he came home too drunk to even undress himself), she is instantly portrayed as a more submissive character. What is unusual, though, is that, while the Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s generally portrayed assertive women as dangerous and a threat to (patriarchal) society and weak, submissive women as embodying the 'proper' characteristics of femininity (see Günsberg, 2005, Chapter 4), this film does not appear to make any judgement calls about either of the two women in Andrea's life. Indeed, if anything, she is the most positively portrayed character in the film. (Other examples of positive portrayals of independent professional women in gialli include Vittoria Stori in What Have They Done to Your Daughters? and Gianna Brezzi in Deep Red. These are, I must confess, about the only ones I can think of.) On the contrary, we see the level of respect Andrea has for Helene when he is sober, heading round to her house to apologise for his inappropriate behaviour the previous night when he discovers that Lou has gone away for the weekend. (In a note she has left for him, Lou tells him that, if he wants to "get laid", he is free to go ahead, but this clearly is not his intention when he pays his visit to Helene.)
Above: Helene, a woman in control of her own life
Is with their previous encounter, Bazzoni once again emphasises Andrea's futile attempts to make eye contact with Helene and her refusal to look at him. It is only when he makes a disparaging remark about her lack of a sex life, telling her that "it's bad for [her] not to make love", that she finally grants him more than a brief glance, and only then to once again refer to his drunkenness and to tell him to get to the point of his visit. His purpose, incidentally, is to ask her for information about a case he is investigating, in effect priveleging her with information which he does not possess and even going so far as to imply that he needs her to succeed at his job (whereas she is self-sufficient). Throughout the scene in which she provides him with the information that she needs, her authority is accentuated by low angle shots in which the camera looks up at her, while the scene's first shot shows her standing on the balcony at the top of a flight of stairs, looking down at Andrea. Throughout the scene, she moves freely around the house, pouring herself a drink and monologuing without directly looking at Andrea, until towards the end, when she sits down and faces him, maintaining a clear distance from him.
Andrea: I didn't notice anything.
Helene: I'm not surprised. You were drunk.
Above: Are you getting all this down, Laura Mulvey?
The difference between the portrayal of Helene and Lou is once again accentuated when Andrea, after believing Lou to be having an affair with another man, returns home to confront her. Whereas Helene, in the scene previously discussed, was dressed modestly in a black pullover and trousers, Lou is completely naked, lying on Andrea's bed as she waits for him to return. Even more significantly, she is introduced via a subjective shot, the camera adopting Andrea's point of view as he enters the bedroom. This time, it is Andrea who moves freely around, putting his groceries away while talking at Lou rather than to her. It is tempting to view Lou, who tells Andrea that she was "dying to see [him]", as his attempt to make up for his failure with Helene. One gets the impression that Helene's independence frustrates him, and that he entertains Lou simply for the convenience of someone who can alternately dote on and be dependent on him.
Andrea: What kind of dump do you come from? Your mother doesn't take care of you, your father's gathering mould in a state home for the aged, and you play tramp in one sports car after the other."
Lou: Was it a red sports car?
Andrea: That's right.
Lou: Well, that car just happens to belong to my brother Walter, you idiot! You know, ever since you've been playing detective, you just can't get anything right. You really had me a laugh!
[Brief pause]
Andrea: You're pathetic.
In a sense, Lou is pathetic. Immediately afterwards, she eagerly tries to please Andrea by providing him with further information for his investigation, before pleadingly asking where he is going when he head out without a word. (Later, she seems to forgive him completely, indulging in a giggling play-fight with him before having sex.) Andrea, however, the drunk who seems to take his frustration regarding his ex out on his current girlfriend, is nothing if not a hypocrite. This is not, of course, the only giallo in which a male protagonist treats his girlfriend badly, whether by treating her with contempt or physically assaulting her, but it is one of the few in which the filmmakers seem to condemn this behaviour. Often, George Hilton (or one of his counterparts) will slap a female character whom they believe to be in a state of 'hysteria' (the impression given that the filmmakers believe such violence to be justified in order to calm down an unhelpfully 'hysterical' woman); here, however, Andrea's assault of Lou is that of a scruffy alcoholic hitting a woman in complete control of her senses on the basis of a false assumption. Andrea is not 'punished' as such for this; rather, it is simply yet another in a long line of cases of bad behaviour. (When she reappears once more, towards the end of the film, to tell him that she is leaving him and getting married, it's tempting to view this as Andrea getting a taste of his own medicine.)
Above: And it looks really nice, too
Of course, the characterisations are far from inclusive. For all her strengths, Helene does, rather regrettably, submit to a brief passionate snog with Andrea after her turns up at her house, wanting her to comfort him after a particularly unpleasant encounter with his boss. (To her credit, however, she does call a halt to it, opting to head back indoors to take care of her son rather than allowing herself to be used by Andrea as a cheap lay to make himself feel better.) And let's not forget that the killer's motivation, seemingly plucked out of nowhere at the last minute, is that old reactionary staple, that of the homosexual turned down by a straight man going mad and deciding to kill a bunch of people. Still, I can see exactly what Gary Needham means when he calls this a progressive giallo which "play[s] with the conventions of detection and investigation procedures in order to explore issues of masculinity and identity".
Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 5:06 PM | Comments: 2
Categories: Cinema | Gialli | Reviews | The Giallo Project
Brief comment - would you really categorise What have they done to your daughters? as a giallo? It doesn't really strike me as being one, though I'm not certain why.
Posted by: Baron Scarpia, February 29, 2008 11:55 AM
It's a tough one, really. I suppose it's more of a cop thriller, given that the emphasis is primarily on the police, but it does borrow elements of giallo iconography, including the black-gloved killer. I tend to include it mainly because it is part of a loose trilogy, the other two instalments of which are definitely gialli.
Posted by: Whiggles, February 29, 2008 1:37 PM

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After a cracking sail yesterday, the wind seems to have abated, which we are glad of since we are nearing the headland of Colombia, where the winds accelerate into a current counter to the northeasterly equatorial current, which sets up a nasty chop of a sea in windy conditions. With a bit of luck we may arrive in Santa Marta on Saturday.
Our fridge has packed up. Luckily, it is a top loader, so that it will keep cooler for longer. Unfortunately, its malfunction has drained the batteries to 10.5 volts, so that today we have switched everything off to give them a chance to recharge fully by solar power. Great excitement was had last night when a ship was sighted, but did not appear on our new AIS B transponder. It gave us an opportunity to get familiar with the new gadget, a Watchmate as it is called, which carries with it a substantial operating instruction manual, which guided me through a myriad of options and sub-options. Our old AIS, which is still installed, picked the ship up easily.
Julia is back in the cockpit and has put the gate up (i.e. the wash board) and on no condition am I allowed to enter her private domaine. She slept in it last night using my sleeping bag to chase the chill away. She said that it would not get wet, but a wayward wave visited the boat splashing its salt water around the cockpit area.


My ethnographic research theorizes the multiple meanings of Scottishness and Scottish identity, the contradictions between these definitions and describes the development and functions of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. This is a thesis that explores Scottishness--and the politics surrounding that identity--by way of a number of individual pipers and two key exponents in particular. It uses the tried and tested anthropological methods of microsocial fieldwork and case-studies to ground an appreciation of abstract concepts such as 'identity' and 'Scottishness' in particular lived lives. What this thesis demonstrates is that the new piping is about musicianship rather than iconic or symbolic national identity, synthesizes other musical traditions and is global--thus transforming traditional or stereotypical ideas of Scottishness.
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ADORABLE Princess Charlotte may have looked ultra-cute as she waved to the crowds when she went to visit mummy but most people seem to have missed this heart-warming moment between the royal siblings.
The two-year-old and her older brother Prince George, four, melted hearts when they were led into the Lindo Wing by Prince William to visit mum and their new brother.
Footage has now emerged of an adorably tender moment between brother and sister as they go through the doors of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London on St George's Day.
The Duke of Cambridge, 35, leads the way and guides them through the doors with a gentle pat on the back of their heads.
Picking up on his dad's actions, Prince George appears to mimic his dad's behaviour and raises his hand to lightly touch Charlotte's hair, as if clumsily attempting to give is little sister a hug, but failing.
The doors then close and the pair continue on their journey to be introduced to their new brother, who was only a few hours old at the time.
Eventually Kate Middleton and William appeared outside the hospital with the new prince to the delight of adoring fans and the media and introduced their son to the world.
The name of the prince has yet to be released but Arthur so far seems to be the front runner with the punters with James and Albert also hot contenders.
Prince William joked about having his hands full, saying: "Thrice the worry now" as they headed home.
The new prince is now fifth-in-line to the throne, becoming behind Charlotte who maintains her position but Prince Harry has now down one place in the royal league table.


Life is not always a race against other people. What should matter to you is self-improvement. Ask yourself every day: Am I a better man than I was yesterday? If you can answer with yes, you are doing all right, no matter how slow the speed or how gloriously awesome other people may be. If the answer is no on the other hand you should try to improve, take your eyes of the others and just focus on your tasks at hand.
You would be suprised how far it gets you to just stop comparing yourself to others but just trying to get gradually better at what you love.
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Yale hosts early Rhode Island furniture exhibit
"Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture (1650-1830)" is scheduled to open Aug. 19 at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn.
The exhibition, on display through Jan. 8, 2017, will present a comprehensive survey of Rhode Island furniture from the Colonial and early Federal periods, including elaborately carved chairs, high chests, bureau tables and clocks. Drawing together more than 130 exceptional objects from museums, historical societies and private collections, the show highlights major aesthetic innovations developed in the region, according to the gallery.
In addition to iconic and stylish pieces from important centers of production like Providence and Newport, R.I., the exhibition showcases simpler examples made in smaller towns and for export.
The exhibition also addresses the surprisingly broad reach of Rhode Island's furniture production, from the boom of the export trade at the turn of the 17th century and its steady growth throughout the 18th century to the gradual decline of the handcraft tradition in the 19th century.
The gallery also maintains the Rhode Island Furniture Archive that documents furniture and furniture making in Rhode Island from the time of the first European colonization in 1636 through the early 19th century.
"Bringing together records of surviving furniture, individuals who owned it and known furniture makers, this archive aims to provide a complete account of the specific culture, local variations and artistic practices surrounding the first two centuries of furniture making in Rhode Island" the gallery said in a statement.
Faculty show
"New Work by Faculty," an exhibition of furniture, turned objects, carving and sculpture in wood, is open for the summer at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship's Messler Gallery in Rockport, Maine. It is scheduled to run through Sept. 14.
All 29 makers represented in the exhibition are current-year instructors at the woodworking school.
Exhibitors include Dixie Biggs of Gainesville, Fla.; Elia Bizzarri of Hillsboro, N.C.; Jim Christiansen of Moscow, Idaho; Chance Coalter of San Diego.; Asher Rodriguez-Dunn of Rumford, R.I.; Ray Finan of Arlington, Vt; Garrett Hack of Thetford Center, Vt.; Reed Hansuld of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Stephen Hatcher of Olympia, Wash; Beth Ireland of Roslindale, Mass.; Clark Kellogg of Houston;, Yuri Kobayashi of Westport Point, Mass.; Mary May of Johns Island, S.C.; Jim Sannerud of Saint Paul, Minn.; Peter Shepard of Harvard, Mass.; Kagen Sound of Denver; and Rich Tannen of Bloomfield, N.Y..
Maine exhibitors are Stephen Gleasner and Tim Rouusseau of Appleton; Jim Macdonald of Burnham; Mac Ray of Damariscotta; Brian Reid of Rockland; Kevin Rodel of Brunswick, and Adam Rogers of Auburn.
International exhibitors are Adrian Ferrazzutti of Canada; Aled Lewis of Wales and Chris Pye of England.
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, 25 Mill St., Rockport, ME 04856. Tel: 207-594-5611. www.woodschool.org
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven CT 06510. Tel: 203-432-0601. http://artgallery.yale.edu
This article originally appeared in the August 2016 issue.
Early Rhode Island furniture featured at Yale exhibit
Rhode Island furniture show sees boost in sales
Time for a major clock exhibit in Rhode Island
Shaker furniture is focus of N.H. exhibit
Whidbey Island guild hosts Woodpalooza
Exhibit touts furniture 'Made in Massachusetts'
Philadelphia gallery hosts Wharton Esherick exhibition
Pritam & Eames pays homage to early years
Exhibition features up-and-coming artists


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Hello folks! It's been a crazy semester here at Easy Lemon. Southside Stroll has finished an incredible season and Gallery Hop kept us on our toes! Thanks to Harrison Holmes for GREAT tunes at the Southside Stroll afterparty! My new quartet KALOSIS is just about to be premiered in Nashville at the SoundCrawl festival, so that's kept me very busy.
With all the craziness, our two-night Easy Lemon featurette, Freshly Squeezed, will need to be pushed back a few weeks. Please note: NO EASY LEMON PRESENTATION October 3 and 4!!!
I'm talking to Mike and the others currently and should have a firm date for you soon! We are still looking forward to Mark Bradley-Shoup's residency in November. It will be truly unforgettable!


This page is about the former pay to play fantasy MMORPG developed in Reunion Island by NPCube and published by Farlan Entertainment. It was released on June 6, 2006, to largely negative reviews. Though there was never an official announcement regarding discontinuation of service, the servers have been offline since 2008, ostensibly due to a lawsuit by VWORLD, LLC. The game has now been rebooted and details are emerging (by rebooted apparently this person only meant in name, the 2 games are completely different in their entirety - important note Dark and Light 2017 is not an MMORPG, this is even said by the Devs within steam store page), leading up to early-access/beta release sometime in 2016 .
Dark and Light was a third-person Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), set in a medieval fantasy world called Ganareth. Players could choose from 12 races, 10 of which could be either male or female (the exceptions being Half-Trolls, which were male only, and Fairies, which could only be female). There were 14 playable character classes to choose from, divided into four main archetypes: Fighter, Hunter, Healer, and Mage. Fighters were designed to have good defensive abilities and armour, and also had the ability to bring the focus enemies off of other characters and onto the fighter. They could be Warriors, Paladins, or Shadow Knights. Hunters were a support character, relying more on tactics and offensive support than on damage or defense. They could be Archers, Rangers, Bards, or Thieves. The primary purpose of Healers was to heal, as the name suggests, but they also had decent ranged damage capabilities. Healers could be Clerics, Monks, Druids, or Enchanters. Mages discarded personal safety in favour of large amounts of damage, in addition to buffing other players. Mages could be Illustionists, Necromancers, or Wizards.


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Amazing Spider-Man 2 Video Game: Box Listed On Amazon, Not Game's Official Site
Apr 18, 2014 03:10 PM EDT | By Justin Stock
Amazing Spider-Man, Microsoft Xbox One, Sony Play Station
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game might not be coming to the Microsoft Xbox One game console when the electronic technology hits the market on other game consoles April 29 Forbes reported Friday.
"We are working with Microsoft in an effort to release The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game on Xbox One," Activision said in a statement Forbes reported. "Currently, the game will be available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and the PC on April 29, 2014 as previously announced."
Speculation arose after an image of packaging for the game's Xbox One version was reportedly taken off of the video game's website Forbes reported. The game is still for sale on Amazon.
The Xbox One has an improved kinect sensor, which enables players to operate the device just by talking. Individuals can also connect the console to their satellite television equipment in order to watch TV, and flip back and forth between gaming, and viewing shows USA Today reported. The Xbox 360 can also do the same.
Microsoft is also growing the Xbox into other countries in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates Zeenews reported.
Sony's PlayStation 4 game console has eight x86 CPU-codes titled Jaguar, and is manufactured from Advanced Micro Devices according to Network World. It also comes equipped with upgraded graphics co-processors capable of handling 1.84 teraflops of performance according to information from Tech Hive.
The machine has 500 gigabyte hard drive that can play blu-ray DVDs. There are also eight gigabytes of GDDR5 memory or quick network speed random access memory found in graphics cards. Game makers put 176 gigabytes of network speed a second on the machine since they wanted the computer to run faster.


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Bolin: NHL Power Rankings Week 18
About midnight Thursday the 2014 Winter Olympics began. Some of us were awake. Not sure as many will be on Saturday at 2 a.m. when the hockey tournament begins.
But I'm sure gonna try.
There is no clear-cut favorite. Canada has the most skater talent. The United States and Finland are the best in goal. Sweden is maybe the best combination of both. And the home country, its offense is awesome as its defense is porous.
The smart money lies not with United States or Canada, despite the proclamation of many on this side of the pond. The two North American countries are, no doubt, the deepest and most talented from top of the roster to bottom. The Olympics, though, are in Europe, where the ice surface is wider than in the NHL and when North American countries host international tournaments.
Canada and the United finished with gold or silver in 2002 and 2010 when the Games were held in Salt Lake City and Vancouver. In 1998 in Nagano, Japan and in 2006 in Turin, Italy, neither were anywhere on the medal stage.
That said, I'm not sure I would actually pick a winner. If given the option of Canada/United States/The Field, take the field. But sticking with one country? Too tough a call in a tournament expected to be as close as this one.
Maybe Sweden.
Week 18 NHL Power Rankings
30. Buffalo Sabres (29) — Buffalo had been buoyed this season by goaltender Ryan Miller while the offense struggled. Now both positions, goal and skaters, are lackluster.
29. Edmonton Oilers (30) — Welcome home, Ben Scrivens. The recently acquired Edmonton goaltender stopped all 59 shots in a shutout of San Jose last week. Oh, and the Oilers beat Buffalo, too, to jump a spot. They're not beating down the door for the postseason, but maybe there are some positives to be found after all.
28. Florida Panthers (27) — Florida has nine players with more than 20 points. That's not half bad. Problem is they don't have a single player with more than Brad Boyes' 29. It's a re-re-re-building process in Sunrise.
27. New York Islanders (25) — The Islanders traded for Thomas Vanek earlier this season hoping they'd make a run a second straight playoff appearance. Vanek proceeded to turn down what was believed to be a 7-year, $50-million extension. He said it: "It's not you (Islanders). It's me."
26. Calgary Flames (28) — Bob Hartley's rag-tag bunch five straight games — over a couple big boys in Chicago and San Jose, no less — before finally falling to Montreal. What's going on in Calgary may not always be fun to watch if you're a Flames fan, but it's awfully admirable as an outsider.
25. New Jersey Devils (24) — For years the Devils' mantra has been defense. That's all well and good if you're scoring enough goals to win low-scoring affairs. But New Jersey has just one win in its last five — an almost unwatchable affair against Dallas a week ago.
24. Washington Capitals (21) — It's hard to believe a team can light up the scoreboard for six goals one night and a game later look totally lost offensively and be shutout. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013-14 Washington Capitals.
23. Nashville Predators (26) — They're plucky. You can at least say that about the Predators. A look at the roster of forwards makes you wonder how they're sticking around the playoff hunt without Pekka Rinne. They're doing it, though.
22. Carolina Hurricanes (22) — Apparently Cam Ward isn't needed. Anton Khoudobin was named First Star of the month in going 10-4 with a .927 save percentage in January. The Hurricanes are still one of the most up and down teams in the league, but at this point, why can't they make the playoffs?
21. Detroit Red Wings (23) — A patchwork lineup continues to hover. It's Detroit, so of course it does. Gustav Nyquist has been a recent revelation with points in eight of his last name games, thirteen, actually, in that span.
20. Ottawa Senators (20) — A two-game losing streak was countered with a one-goal win against St. Louis this past week. This might just be who the Senators are. Lingerers.
19. Phoenix Coyotes (16) — Trading wins and losses over the last seven games is no way to stick around in the rugged Western Conference. They were too loose in Tuesday's loss to Dallas. It's got to be driving coach Dave Tippett bonkers.
18. Philadelphia Flyers (19) — People have kind of forgotten the Flyers were one of the three worst teams in the NHL the first couple weeks of the season. They hardly look the same even though the roster has barely changed. Kudos to coach Craig Berube for that.
17. Vancouver Canucks (14) — Free fall isn't a strong enough word for what's going on Vancouver. The Canucks won all of two games during coach John Tortorella's suspension. Vancouver was six points clear of a playoff spot after beating Edmonton in the first game of the suspension. They're now one point from falling out of it.
16. Dallas Stars (17) — Thanks in large part to sputtering by Phoenix and Vancouver, Dallas is in the thick of things for the West's final spot or two. Picking seven of a possible 10 points during a five-game home-stand also helped.
15. Montreal Canadiens (12) — Yes, Montreal is 3-6-1 over its last 10. But things aren't dire yet. The wins certainly need to come, though, as the Habs don't want to be a part of the cluster that is 6-through-12 spots in the East. Feels like no one needs the Olympic break as bad as Montreal.
14. Toronto Maple Leafs (14) — The offense is coming alive. More is needed from folks other than Phil Kessel, James van Riemsdyk, Tyler Bozak and Nazem Kadri, though, because the defense is still awful.
13. Winnipeg Jets (18) — The power play is still atrocious in Manitoba, but that's nit-picking a team on the rise. The Jets haven't lost more than one in a row since Jan. 7 and 11.
12. Los Angeles Kings (11) — It's good thing for Los Angeles they were smoking during the first half of the season. The Kings have been shutout (three times) more than they've won (once) since January 16. That one win? It was 1-0. Matt Moulson, interested in coming back to LA?
11. Columbus Blue Jackets (13) — Winners of three in a row after dropping the previous three. Ryan Johansen doesn't have the numbers for a Hart Trophy, but, my goodness, watching him feels like he might someday very soon.
10. Tampa Bay Lightning (9) — There's bad news: A little skid here for the Lightning, losers of three of their last four. And there's good news: Steven Stamkos is set to return shortly after the Olympic break.
9. Minnesota Wild (8) — A "meh" week for Minnesota, going 1-1-1. At least the Wild aren't in danger of falling out of contention any time soon anymore.
8. New York Rangers (10) — Only a Glen Sather GM'd team would consider shopping its captain and member of the United States Olympic team during a four-game winning streak.
7. San Jose Sharks (2) — The Sharks, man. They followed a six-game winning streak with losses in four of their last five. It was snapped with a win over Dallas last night, but it was hardly the type to re-establish dominance.
6. Boston Bruins (6) — Boston has lost just twice in its last eight games, so it feels like the Bruins should be moving up. Those wins, however, have come against the Little Sisters of the Poor. Still, they are wins.
5. Chicago Blackhawks (5) — A brutal road trip to the West yielded a 3-0-2 record. Pretty salty. The Blackhawks may be rounding back into form.
4. Pittsburgh Penguins (4) — Like Boston, Pittsburgh continues to simply beat the teams they should. Sure, there were hiccups against Dallas and Phoenix over the last couple weeks, but mostly, it's just continuing a great show.
3. Colorado Avalanche (7) — There was contemplation of bumping the Avalanche all the way to No. 2 this week, thanks to a four-game winning streak that was finally snapped Tuesday. Look behind the results. Three of those wins were by a single goal. The one that wasn't came against Buffalo. The Avs are very good. But they're not second-best in the league. Yet.
2. St. Louis Blues (3) — I don't get a vote for Team USA's captaincy. If I did, it would have gone for Blues forward David Backes. He's the perfect NHL player.
1. Anaheim Ducks (1) — Anaheim misses Nick Bonino. Who would have thunk that at the beginning of the year? The Ducks no longer look infallible losing six of last 10, but maintain, by the slimmest of margins, their spot at the top.
Eric W. Bolin is a Times Record sports writer. Email: ebolin@swtimes.com. Twitter: @EWB_TimesRecord


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Is there actually a difference between running a Server and Client on two threads compared to two processes?

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Elizabeth Kramer, @arts_bureau
Increasingly in recent years, dance performances have become events at notable art museums such as the Museum of Modern Art.
But choreographers have long found inspiration in and ways to work with visual artists. The Louisville Ballet's artistic and executive director Robert Curran made his intentions to do that nearly two years ago in a new look for George Balanchine's "Square Dance" that included work by Louisville-based artist Letitia Quesenberry.
Curran's first personally choreographed piece, "How They Fade," took that collaboration to a new level in a dance Friday on the stage of the Kentucky Center's Whitney Hall.
But that melding of design and dance also figured into the company's first performance of choreographer Twyla Tharp's 1986 work "In the Upper Room," with looks dominated by designer Norma Kamali's costumes of stripped fabric, red-toe shoes and other red trimmings. Accompanying these contemporary works was Balanchine's "Theme and Variations," with stage and costumes that strongly hinted at Art Deco and choreography that showcased grand architecture combined with rudimentary classical steps that grew ever more complicated.
Curran's "How They Fade" dance against the haunting music of the San Francisco band Yassou playing with the Louisville Orchestra melded with indistinct images created by Quesenberry and with soft colors that blended together and were projected on a huge screen. Those misty yearning they conjured against Curran's intensely physical and sometimes athletic movements suggested an idea of inner struggle at work.
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While the dancers in white came together in almost tangles of movement and energy, Yassou' s vocalist, Lilie Bytheway, wandered slowly on the outskirts, with some moments standing in the middle of the mass of bodies. Her high and airy voice made it difficult to make out the lyrics, but the sound of her voice and the music from the musicians in the orchestra pit were mesmerizing.
Curran's complicated and demanding choreography included partnering where women's bodies slide in many angles across men's shoulders. That balancing of bodies also included turns with couples entwined in ways that resembled complicated mobile sculptures. In one, a woman balanced her palms solidly against her partner's legs as he spun her.
Tharp's excruciatingly demanding "In the Upper Room," with its nine parts, was a marvel to watch with its movement steeped in the aerobic exercise of the era it was created and set to Philip Glass's frantic music. It does hold some respites with passages of calming violin.
But the company dancers plunged into the demanding and constant rapid movement that was mesmerizing and at times even exhausting to watch. In between parts, a group leaves the stage making way for another – always moving, always on the go.
In some places, dancers were not in sync. However, the slip-ups were small in the huge work.
The placement of Balanchine's "Theme and Variations" is set to Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, which is based in Russian ballet from the 19th-century – of which the choreographer was a student. The work demonstrates Balanchine's talent at creating complicated but seamless moving patterns.
Today, this work is nearly 70 years old (it premiered in New York in 1947). Including this work in the program demonstrates how this country embraced the Russian tradition but went on to imbue ballet with its own character. In the Louisville Ballet's production, Natalia Ashikhmina and Mark Krieger, as the couple spotlighted in the piece, demonstrated precision in their solos and duets. The piece also demonstrated the Louisville Ballet dancers embrace that tradition, which helped point the way to a future in American ballet.
Performances of "Stars + Stripes" with the Louisville Ballet are at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, 501 W. Main St. Tickets are $35 to $110. For more information, call 502-584-7777 or visit www.kentuckycenter.org or louisvilleballet.org.
Reach reporter Elizabeth Kramer at (502) 582-4682 and ekramer@courier-journal.com. Follow her on Twitter @arts_bureau and on Facebook at Elizabeth Kramer - Arts Writer.


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Sierra County Prospect
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The Sierra County Board of Supervisors met in Downieville in continued regular session; all supers were present and sober.
Public comment period saw Robert Eshleman describing how AIS is a genuine problem, and a rational solution was easily available to the problems of Independence Lake and TNC has the money to do an exemplary program ensuring both protection against AIS and allowing access. Everyone agreed in principle.
A business owner from Sierra City whose name we didn't catch stood in support of Kathy Breed and the Sierra County Chamber of Commerce. Everyone agreed, but no one has money to support her.
Supervisor Lee Adams thanked Heather Foster and others for putting on a great Snow Ball again this year. There is no way to overestimate the value of events like this both to fund local schools and services and to bring the community together to remind us what really great folks we share the county with.
Dr. Carol Roberts reported to the Board that the Child Welfare Services improvement plan would have a meeting of stakeholders on March 10th from 9:00 AM to noon. She said the public was welcome and joyfully invited, though the scope of the meeting was narrow and was primarily intended to have people already in the loop give input on integrated services to clients.
Director of Planning, Building Inspection, and Public Works Tim Beals announced that the county is now officially a stakeholder in the Aquatic Invasive Species group.
He amazed everyone in the room with the news that the State of California has agreed under the Truckee River Operating Agreement that the State of Nevada, freaking NEVADA, would have the right to reject any permit for a well in the freaking state of CALIFORNIA in Placer, Nevada and Sierra Counties. It's water, which will make people crazier than whisky.
Mr. Beals warned of the drastic hit the county will take if the Secure Schools and Community Self Determination Funds are not approved by congress. Mr. Hardeman was not present from the schools, but he will no doubt have a similar story.
Director Beals sought direction from the Board about the increasing burden on his department's time for technical support for Loyalton.
The Board addressed its resolution for Independence Lake, and the restrictions The Nature Conservancy has placed on the use of the lake.
The resolution originally began as a strongly worded statement by Bill Nunes regarding the importance of access to IL. The first motion, last meeting, specified motorboat access, but was reduced to simply insisting that land paid for with public funds should have public access.
However, Mr. Beals and County Council Jim Curtis realized, as did all the ranchers in the Valley and the Citizen's Alliance for Property Rights, that a whole lot of property in the county has received some public money one way or another, either through conservation easements or other transactions. By the time the resolution came up for a vote it merely said "the board of supervisors supports public access to Independence Lake."
The Friends of Independence Lake noticed the change, and recognized it as backing way down from where it originally started.
Supervisor Nunes, who is on the Sierra Nevada Conservancy board, spoke of a meeting arranged by Tim Holabird of Congressman McClintock's office, with The Nature Conservancy. The problems which did exist should be dealt with in a reasonable manner. Bigshots from TNC were there, and they are willing to consider increased access to traditional users.
Julie Osburn of Friends of Independence Lake stood and hammered the Board over the change in wording, but she was assured the Board still supported full access. Yes, the current resolution was different from the one originally made, but the board had had two weeks to sober up.
Chris Fichtel, of TNC said the giant non-profit corporation wanted openness in the process. This will constitute a new way of doing business for Mr. Fichtel and TNC in the area. A consultant has been hired (Ooooh, a CONSULTANT) who will orchestrate this new openness. There will be a website with documents, but we later learned from a local man in the know that the website won't be a TNC site, but a SNC supported page.
Bill Bate of Calpine stood and said that Mr. Dewit Zeleke, a director of something at TNC California, said that there were timelines to get the management plan for the lake accomplished.
Scott Schlefstein pointed out that the new language was specific to Independence Lake, and might be an improvement.
The Board passed the resolution, but Ms. Osburn stood her ground. She wanted something better. The land was purchased with public money.
To be clear, there is very little the Board can do. If the road to the campground and boat ramp isn't clearly county road, then the county has no jurisdiction over it, beyond requiring a permit from whoever does own it.
Then, though it is not the purview of the Board to determine the public nature of non-county roads, the Board launched into a long opinionated discussion of public money on private lands.
Dave Goicoechia made a great speech about the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska and how you better not go there and talk about public money and access to private land. He spoke about how he'd prosecute trespassers on his land and frankly, everyone agrees. It still had nothing to do with the subject which they'd already voted on.
In the end, we're left with everyone's assurances that TNC will reopen Independence Lake to the full public access.
Van Maddox, County Auditor, gave the board a report on the budget. In a nutshell, we still have to wait to hear from the state, and from the feds. Tax receipts are likely to be down $50-100,000 dollars. The county is likely to take other hits, as well. Of the $5.5 million dollars in the general fund, most of it is restricted by state and federal law. There is about $600,000 which the supes could write a check on.
Mr. Maddox reported that, thanks to Mr. Beals staff in public works, the transportation audit was the best in years.
The Board discussed bringing federal representatives into the discussion of the Forest Service presence in Downieville, there is none. Mr. Adams pointed out how the FS benefits from having us live here, as do TNC and the other land trust organizations. The Forest Service needs a representative in Sierraville AND in Downieville. The Board instructed staff to call up our congressmen and senators and schedule brunch, or some other, unspecified action.
If anything else happened, I missed it!
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Phoenix Chinese Channel was launched on 31 March 1996 with the aim of offering quality content to Chinese communities around the world. The dynamism of this massive market combined with successful expansion strategies has enabled Phoenix to develop a comprehensive multi-dimensional media platform that now includes Cantonese television services.
AsiaSat has allowed Phoenix to deliver a bouquet of 3 High Definition (HD) and 3 Standard Definition (SD) television channels since 1 January 2014, marking a new era for Phoenix TV's broadcasting services in Asia.


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Deglobalisation and its discontents
13 May 2020|Richard N. Haass
Increasing global interconnection—growing cross-border flows of people, goods, energy, emails, television and radio signals, data, drugs, terrorists, weapons, carbon dioxide, food, dollars and, of course, viruses (both biological and software)—has been a defining feature of the modern world. The question, though, is whether globalisation has peaked—and, if so, whether what follows is to be welcomed or resisted.
People and goods have always moved around the world, be it over the high seas or on the ancient Silk Road. What is different today is the scale, speed and variety of these flows. Their consequences are already significant and are becoming more so. If great-power rivalries, and how well or poorly they were managed, shaped much of the past few centuries, the current era is more likely to be defined by global challenges and how well or poorly the world addresses them.
Globalisation has been driven by modern technology, from jet planes and satellites to the internet, as well as by policies that opened up markets to trade and investment. Both stability and instability have promoted it, the former by enabling business and tourism, and the latter by fuelling flows of migrants and refugees. For the most part, governments viewed globalisation as a net benefit and were generally content to let it run its course.
But globalisation, as is clear from its various forms, can be destructive as well as constructive, and in recent years, a growing number of governments and people around the world have come to view it as a net risk. When it comes to climate change, pandemics and terrorism—all exacerbated by globalisation—it's not hard to see why. But in other areas, the increased opposition to globalisation is more complicated.
Consider trade, which can provide better-paying jobs in export-oriented factories or farms, as well as consumer goods that are often higher quality or less expensive, or both. But one country's exports are another country's imports, and imports can displace domestic producers and cause unemployment. As a result, opposition to free trade has grown, leading to calls for 'fair' or 'managed' trade in which the government plays a larger role to limit imports, promote exports, or both.
A similar trend is under way when it comes to information. The free flow of ideas might seem to be a good thing, but it turns out that authoritarian governments regard it as a threat to their political control. The internet is being balkanised into a 'splinternet.' China's 'Great Firewall' led the way, blocking access to online news and other 'suspect' websites and ensuring that Chinese users cannot access content deemed politically sensitive.
The ability of people to cross borders in large numbers was traditionally accepted or even welcomed. Immigrants in the United States have been the foundation of the country's economic, political, scientific and cultural success. But now many Americans view immigrants warily, seeing them as a threat to jobs, public health, security or culture. A similar shift has taken place in much of Europe.
All of this adds up to a shift towards deglobalisation—a process that has both costs and limits. Blocking imports can cause inflation, reduce consumer choice, slow the pace of innovation and lead others to retaliate with import restrictions of their own. Blocking ideas can stifle creativity and impede the correction of policy mistakes. And blocking people at the border can rob a society of talent and needed workers, while contributing to the misery of those forced to flee as a result of political or religious persecution, war, gangs or hunger.
Deglobalisation is also bound to fail in certain policy areas. Borders are not barriers to climate change. Closing them does not shield a country from the risks of disease as citizens can easily return home with an infection. Sovereignty guarantees neither security nor prosperity.
There is a better way to respond to the challenges and threats of globalisation. Effective collective action can meet the risks of disease, climate change, cyberattacks, nuclear proliferation and terrorism. No single country on its own can make itself secure; unilateralism is not a serious policy path.
This is what global governance (not government) is all about. The form of the arrangements can and should be tailored to the threat and to those willing and able to cooperate, but there is no viable alternative to multilateralism.
Isolationism is not a strategy. Nor is denial. We can stick our heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich, but the tide will come in and drown us. Globalisation is a reality that cannot be ignored or wished away. The only choice is how best to respond.
The critics are right in one sense: globalisation brings problems as well as benefits. Societies need to become more resilient. Workers require access to education and training throughout their lives, so they are ready for the jobs that emerge as new technologies or foreign competition eliminate their current ones. Societies need to be better prepared to cope with inevitable pandemics or extreme weather events caused by climate change.
Globalisation is not a problem for governments to solve; it is a reality to be managed. To embrace wholesale deglobalisation is to choose a false cure—and one much worse than the disease.
Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. His next book, The world: a brief introduction, will be published on 12 May. This article is presented in partnership with Project Syndicate © 2020. Image: Lars Plougmann/Flickr.
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Where 1900s Serial Killer Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi Stashed His Victims' Bodies
By Jean Mendoza/Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 3:32 pm EST
When speaking about serial killers, the names Ted Bundy, John Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer may immediately come to mind. Yet, in Morocco, the Marrakesh Arch-Killer is one of the most notorious killers the country has ever known. He may not be as famous as the aforementioned serial killers, but his crimes were just as brutal.
Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi was a cobbler and public letter writer in Marrakesh in the 1900s. Back then, Marrakesh was the center of trading and a hotbed for crimes. Locals and foreigners went in and out of the city, which made it a challenge for authorities to follow and keep track of the increasing number of crimes, per History of Yesterday. Mesfewi operated his shoe and letter-writing business in the area and was quite well-known as he was one of the few cobblers at the time.
In 1902, 10 women reportedly went missing from Marrakesh, and no traces of them were ever found. Authorities assumed that the women were kidnapped by traveling traders, but the incidents were never solved. Four years later, 30 more women were reported missing, and their disappearances were eventually linked to Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi.
Mesfewi's MO and accomplice
The parents of one of the missing women determined that their daughter's last known location was at Mesfewi's shop. As reported by Killer Tales, Mesfewi had an accomplice, a 70-year-old woman named Annah, who eventually led to his arrest. Upon investigation, authorities were led to Annah, who confessed after being tortured and pointed to Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi as the one responsible for the missing women.
Mesfewi eventually confessed and told the police what happened to the missing women. According to Murderpedia, Mesfewi would lure women by inviting them to dinner and giving them narcotics. While they were unconscious, Mesfewi would go through their pockets and belongings, looking for valuable items. Afterward, he would kill the women and mutilate their bodies.
Authorities searched Mesfewi's properties, where they found 36 bodies. Twenty-six of the missing women's bodies were found buried underneath Mesfewi's shop, while the other 10 were found buried on another one of his properties, per Mysteries Unsolved.
Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi's sentence
Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi was found guilty of 36 murders and was scheduled to be executed by crucifixion on May 2, 1906. His crucifixion, however, didn't push through as foreign diplomats went against it and said it was too barbarous a punishment for the 20th century, according to History of Yesterday. Yet, the alternative that was proposed wasn't any less brutal.
Mesfewi was sentenced to immurement, which is considered one of the most brutal capital punishments (via ATI). In the 20th century, the practice of immurement was still practiced, especially in the Persian Empire. Immurement entails walling a person alive. Mesfewi's sentence was carried out in the middle of the city square for the people to see. Before his immurement, he was given daily whippings from May 15 up to June 11.
Mesfewi was brought to the city square thinking it would be another day of whipping, but what met him was a hole in a wall and bricks. He was placed in the hole with some bread and water before authorities secured the bricks one by one, building a wall around Mesfewi, until he could no longer be seen, per Yabiladi. Reports say that his screams were heard for two days before he eventually stopped, signaling his death.


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Q: Accepting parameters on urls.py in Django I am trying to access a function with two IDs and sending a message via POST to make a small chat function. The problem is that when I do this, I get a 403 (forbidden).
How I save this on the database is very simple: There is a table with 2 keys corresponding to each person, and I concatenate on a conversation field.
I make the call via JQuery:
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        new_convo = convo.conversation + text + "\n"
    return render_to_response("plain.html", {'res':new_convo}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

I am not too sure if this is all relevant as to why I get the 403, but I decided to post it and explain anyway just in case.
Is there anything I need to take in consideration regarding Django's internals to be able to make this call?
Thanks!

A: Looks like you're hitting the CSRF protection which would explain the 403 forbidden response.
You will need to add the {% csrf_token %} as normal in your template then add a pre-request callback function beforeSend on your AJAX POST to send the token:
beforeSend: function (request) {
   request.setRequestHeader("X-CSRFToken",
       $('input[name="csrfmiddlewaretoken"]').val());
   },

You can also disable the protection but I would advise against this.


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A graduate of law school that's passed the bar exam can open his own private practice. However, if you hadn't worked with an established law practice prior to doing that, you could be making a mistake. Engaging in such an endeavor wouldn't be easy or even recommended. A more sensible path would be to go to work for an established law firm first.
There, you'd be able to get training and exposure to the area of law in which you intend to practice. The career path for most attorneys is determined on their first job with a law firm. It's extremely difficult, but not impossible, to change the area in which you would be best qualified to practice. Thus, If you are going to stick with law long-term, it's absolutely essential you enjoy what you do.
If you decide to go into private practice, it makes the most sense to build a practice around your core legal skills, which would likely be those learned at the first law firm you worked for. It's during your internship with a law firm you'll find there's a huge discrepancy between what you learn in law school and what's required for actual practice. Having tackled the issue of your practice area, you must identify, the groups of companies or individuals most in need of your core competency. These will be the groups you target to market to, once you hang out your shingle to practice.
Potential clients won't be sitting in a court room trying to decide who's good and who's not. Consequently, you must develop multiple means of making people aware you're available to offer help for specific legal issues. Most new attorneys have limitations on what can be spent to setting up shop. Thus it's critical to determine what your budgetary limitations will be.
There are essentially two possible paths from which to chose. You can start your practice in a brick and mortar location, which you'll have to furnish. An office without computers, copiers and other office equipment won't work. And, that's another expense you'll have to factor in. It enhances your image to have a receptionist available when you're unavailable. So you may have to factor in the cost of at least part time help.
A less expensive alternative would be to have a virtual office. You'll have to ensure clients understand you'll need to meet them at their homes, offices or over lunch or dinner. With subsequent meetings conducted by phone. An essential service you need to practice law is a human answering service. If a potential client calls and has to leave a message on an answering machine, it increases the probability he purchases legal services from the first attorney he's able to speak directly with. A live answering service capable of reaching you, can delay client losses, due to frustration. If you're serious about practicing, the virtual office, should be viewed as a short term alternative. It's best used to get a few initial clients.
No matter what type of office you plan to have, a live answering service is a must. It presents the right facade when you're out litigating or simply unavailable. Initially, it can save the cost of an administrative assistant for a short time. Typically, live answering services have the ability to reach you on a cell or remote phone during normal business hours. This will help you earn a few fees on your way to setting up a real office. If you don't have an office, it's best to get an answering service in a location offering shared office space and mail drop services. If you should have a meeting with an important client insisting on coming to your office you can rent offices for the day, and satisfy their curiosity.
Other minor cost must include business cards, stationary and envelopes. These can be made on a good word processor, but will look a little low class for someone asking for several hundred dollars per hour for professional help. Initial orders for startup packages including those things can become semi expensive. a first order will require a printer to make plates or impressions on computer software and in virtually every case you'll pay extra for that setup. Their costs may be minor in comparison to the major costs of setting up your practice, but, their existence is essential.
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Upon graduating from law school, passing the bar and getting some exposure to how to interact with clients, you must realistically determine your ability to finance a law practice. I previously described many of the costs associated with starting your practice in an office or starting a virtual practice. Neither can be accomplished without costs.
There are many ways to finance a new legal practice. However, there are three methods you should avoid. Borrowing from a financial institution shouldn't be used for startup. Because, the only assurance you'll have is you'll need to make a regular loan repayments. Investors can cause the same problems. Though, in some cases they can be made to wait for your payment as long as the wait isn't too long. This typically isn't a problem for attorneys as there aren't many investors interested in investing in a solo or small law practice.
Finally, grants can be great because you don't have to repay them. However, seeking one puts you in competition with potentially tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of other grant seekers. Many of those people will have been through the process multiple times, some have professional writers, and other professionals increasing their chances of getting a particular grant, and if you think you can beat them, good luck. Many grant recipients will have lost the fire to start a business by the time they receive grant funds.
Upon completing your cursory analysis of your ability to finance and start a legal practice, you should decide if you want to try to get some of these items prior to opening your practice or if your situation allows for the purchase of all of it at once. Having made that determination, it's time to create your business entity. You must decide the form of business you'll practice under. You may review the posts on this website and on Bizdoks for matter of fact answers to that question. Or you may contact a CPA for advice on what form of business will work best in your situation. You can then take the first step toward starting your law practice. You can go online to the IRS website to get your EIN, find the paperwork to register your practice with your state and it's highly recommended you visit the Dun and Bradstreet website to get a DUNs number.
The only way to address these issues is to plan.
My list of cost are not designed to discourage you from private practice. They're aimed at preventing you from thinking passing the bar is enough to begin a career practicing law. Many of the aforementioned costs can be addressed with your salary earned at jobs while you're getting experience to practice law. But, once you're open you'll find you'll find there are operating expenses that must be addressed that weren't previously mentioned. The primary cost will be marketing, which should be your primary cost until you hire staff and incur payroll cost. As long as you want to get new clients, you have to make them aware you're available to address their legal issues; It wouldn't matter how great a lawyer you are if no one knows you exist.
Understanding the requirements for establishing a legal practice, you must develop a business plan. Your business plan must outline how you will address the issues associated with getting started an what you'll do to grow your practice. Starting any business without a plan is a gigantic mistake. And starting a law practice is opening a business. After planning how you get to the point of opening for business you must determine how you'll get clients so your law firm pays you what you feel you're worth. otherwise you may as well have remained on a job.
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