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Call for applications - Labex CAP
Eight post-doctoral contracts are open for the 2015-2016 competition
The PRES héSam "Creation, Art and Heritage" laboratory of excellence (Labex CAP) announces the competitive recruitment six to eight post-doctoral researchers for a period of one year.
The Labex CAP's methodological hypothesis consists in uniting teams from intitutions that conserve, communicate and exhibit heritage collections and funds with university research teams. Within the context of institutional and disciplinary decompartmentalisation, the selected corpus and research subjects relate to notions of creation and creative process, heritage and the process of heritage creation and the interaction between heritage and creation.
The multi-disciplinary jury, composed of members of the Council and the Labex Board, will select the ten most relevant and original research projects proposed in the context of a call for projects from scratch which nevertheless correspond to the general issues studied by the Labex CAP.
En effet, quatre plateformes à projet seront mises en place par le Labex CAP dès la rentrée 2015 :
- Platform 1 : Création, patrimoine et politique
Mots clés : dominations, conflits, destruction, reconstructions, transferts, champs et contre-champs, émotions patrimoniales, valeurs
- Platform : Représentations, transmission. Séries, copies, multiples
Mots clés : arts performés, enregistrements ; tirages, moulages, authenticité ; modèle économique de la copie
- Platform 3 : Numérique, art et archives : collaboration, outils et partage
Mots clés : création et archives numériques d'architecture, de cinéma, de littérature ; valeurs des sources : œuvres et archives d'artistes
- Platform 4 : Exposition et création : pratiques sociales et expériences du musée
Mots clés : instruments, récits, scénarios ; éclatement des frontières du musée ; réalité augmentée
Admission conditions
Thesis submitted after 1st September 2010.
Recruitment schedule
- Competition launch date: 2nd July 2015
Closing date for submission of applications: 2nd September 2015
Eligibility phase: 5th October 2015
Admission phase (auditions): 19th October 2015
Recruitment duration and position start date
- The contracts offered are for a duration of one year.
- The position is taken up from 2nd November 2015.
The complete application must be sent no later than 4.00 pm on 3rd September 2015 to the following address: labex.creations.patrimoines(at)gmail.com
In order to simplify the reception and processing of applications, please send all documents relating to your application in pdf format (Lastname_Firstname.pdf). Please optimise the size and resolution of your files. If possible, your whole application should not exceed 5 Mb, and at most 10 Mb.
The application consists of:
- the research project: title, desired host research unit(s) (one or preferably two Labex partner laboratories), a presentation of the project in French (10,000 characters maximum)
- a curriculum vitae and a list of publications
- PhD diploma
- the thesis submission report (if the thesis was submitted in France)
- cover letter
- a significant publication (pdf)
- at least two recommendation letters from researchers and people recognised in the arts and creative world
NB: Each application is evaluated by two experts external to the Labex Council and Board.
The Council and the Board sit as the jury during the eligibility and admission phases.
Obligations in terms of service and participation in the work of the laboratory
In addition to the research project for which they will be selected, the researchers will take part in the Labex's activities. They will spend two-fifths of their work time contributing to the organisation and execution of promotional activities such as workshops, encounters and study days and to enhancing communication media (website, presentation documents etc.) and to the life of the laboratory/host department. They will contribute to the organisation of the Labex monthly post-doctoral seminar.
Post-doctoral researchers will carry out their function in accordance with the European researcher charter.
Expected results
- the candidate undertakes to produce a 40-page study (60,000 characters including spaces) relating to their research subject at the end of the contract. This study will be published in the Labex "Annals" (Sorbonne Publications, Paris).
- the candidate will organise, take part in and monitor Labex post-doctoral seminar sessions in order to present and jointly discuss their work.
The recruitment takes place in the form of a fixed term contract. The candidate will receive a monthly net remuneration exclusive of any additional remuneration on the basis of a full time position of 2361.45 €.
Selection criteria
The contracts proposed are intended for young researchers. Candidates must hold a PhD diploma and must be able to demonstrate completed work in the research field.
The criteria taken into account by the selection committee are:
- The scientific quality of the project, its originality, its appropriateness in terms of its themes, the Heritage programme or the general themes examined by Labex (see above)
- The profile and suitability of the candidate (scientific skills, experience in the research field, publications)
- The international character of the research (study visits, publications, linguistic skills)
- The relevance of the requested placement(s)
Contact information
- Jeanne-Marie Portevin, Labex CAP manager : labex.creations.patrimoines(at)gmail.com
- Zinaïda Polimenova, Research control and promotion officer: zinaida.polimenova(at)univ-paris1.fr


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The Honest Side of Bebo Norman
- Matt Conner CMCentral.com
- 2008 30 Sep
Bebo Norman talks about his new label, his new perspective and his new song about Britney Spears …
If I told you Bebo Norman is a dishonest songwriter, you'd laugh me out of the room. The singer/songwriter has long been known for his honest, poignant lyrical gems of life, love and faith. So to think anything else would seem, well, dishonest.
Yet, that's exactly how Bebo describes his past songwriting in our interview about his new, self-titled album. After being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, the Georgia native says he's now more open and vulnerable than ever, and he's ready to write about anything … including Britney Spears.
CMC: How has the new start with a new label, a new child and some time away affected your songwriting?
Bebo Norman: I think it's really affected it fairly tremendously. The last few years for me have been pretty transforming in a lot of ways. It's kind of strange because I just got married five years ago, and my whole last record was all about peace and living in that and relishing that. That was really happening there, and still is in some ways, but therein lies the irony of it. Right in the middle of this peaceful season is when I realized I was dealing with anxiety—which I didn't know it was that at the time—but it's been clinically diagnosed now. So I was dealing with whether or not I wanted to keep doing music at all, since that's where the struggle or the anxiety was coming from—even though I'd been doing this thing for such a long time.
So that laid the framework for this context of stepping back and saying, "I don't know if I have the energy to do this anymore." So there was this strange battle, and all that to say, with that as the foundation, signing this new record deal and having a baby, it's been so interesting how it's all shifted my perspective. The realization is that while I love playing music, it can't be where my identity is. It can't be where I draw my life from. I have to draw that from relationships and the context of community, from my wife and my son. It's been a whole rearrangement of things in a profound way. So that's completely affected how I write songs because I've always written them out of my own life.
CMC: When you realize that it's not all about the music, how does that affect the music?
Bebo: I think it freed me up a little bit. I've always written out of my life, so I don't know how to do it otherwise. But it allowed me to step into it knowing that I wasn't going to draw my life from the response to this group of songs. It allowed me to make a record and then let it go. It was more of an internal struggle than an external struggle.
CMC: Internal struggle?
Bebo: Well, whether I admitted it or not, for years I was drawing my identity from how people responded to my music. I always talk about writing honest songs, and I think I do, but in terms of how they are received, it was an intense struggle for identity. I think this battle with anxiety has put me in the right place. I questioned whether I was supposed to do this, and I've learned that I am supposed to, but it can't be about how people like me or how they respond anymore. So now the internal part is that I'm beginning to be in a place where I can say that I'm OK with whatever the response is. This allows me to write songs that might be a little more pointed at culture that I might not have written before. I can take risks with this record that I couldn't in the past.
CMC: Is that weird to be known for being an honest songwriter, and, yet, you're saying you're just now finding the ability to be completely honest?
Bebo: I was just talking to a friend about this. The first single is called "Pull Me Out," and I've been doing a lot of media for the new album. I told him it's really funny because after an interview, people will thank me for talking about anxiety and say, "Thank you for being brave in that." That's the word that people use, but it's funny because I'm talking about this weakness of mine after already dealing with most of it. I'm talking from a place of strength about my weakness. I've come through it a bit. The reality is that I'll always be dealing with it to some degree. But if I were to stop in the middle of a song [during] a concert two years ago when I literally thought I was going to die, then I'd be really honest. I couldn't breathe. That's real honesty, because I would be talking about it in the concept of not knowing what to do with it.
I would love to be in the place of being that guy. I don't know if I will ever get there, but that's what I am shooting for. I'm aiming for the day that I can stop in the middle of a song and say, "Hey, I'm feeling insecure" or "I can't breathe right now." I think [I'm] moving toward vulnerability constantly, especially in my own songwriting, but I still have a long way to go.
CMC: Looking back, were there ever any moments to let the "cat out of the bag" at one of those shows that you felt that way?
Bebo: I was absolutely tempted to do that. In those moments—and this is the craziness of it—I didn't know how to literally do the next song. Honestly, I was struggling so much that I didn't know how to play a song. It was beautiful in the sense that I literally had to pray constantly in the middle of a song to get through it. I know that sounds crazy, but that's literally where I was internally. But what stopped me from saying anything was my insecurity. That's always what stops me. I think that's what stops all of us. I've always wanted to be in control, and I was not in control. So this has been a huge struggle, yet beautiful in a way.
CMC: Can you tell us about this new song, "Britney?" It seems ...
Bebo: [Laughs] I get it, man. Who writes a song about Britney Spears, right? I totally get it. It's an odd thing. I feel very proud to have written this song, and this is why: I really struggled with this song when I wrote it. I was up really late one night, and a news story came on where she was being taken out on a stretcher from her home to a mental hospital, I think. It's a tragic story, but the thing that shamed me was my first response. My gut response was to scoff about it: "Is this another story of Hollywood excess or whatever?" But there was one moment where they zoomed in on her face, and this look paralyzed me. It was of complete confusion or brokenness and being completely gone. This is from a girl who had every accolade the world could throw at her.
I remember being frozen in that moment and, for the first time, having compassion on her. And it's because the look on her face was one I recognized. I've had that face at the dark moments of my life. The response I can imagine Jesus giving to me in that moment is not one of condemnation, but one of "Hey, I'm sorry [about] what this world has done to you, and I'm here." What we are telling young girls these days is a lie, and this was the first moment I recognized that. So maybe I saw her through the eyes of Jesus for the first time. So that's why I wrote it.
So I sat down in my study that night, and I wrote a 15-minute song, apologizing for everything I could think of. We had to narrow it down to a normal sized song, but I didn't play it for anyone for three months. Again, who writes a song about Britney Spears? Finally, literally the day before we went in to track the record, my friend who produced the record convinced me to play it. I did, and he said that he felt it belonged on the album. We recorded it the next day, and that's been the process.
That's one of those moments that we were talking about. Putting that on the record was one of those moments where I had to say, "I can't care how people might respond to a song about Britney Spears. I have to say what I feel called to say. However they respond to it is OK." I feel proud to have gotten to be a part of this.
For more information on Bebo Norman and his self-titled album on BEC Recordings, visit bebornorman.com.
© 2008 CMCentral.com. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
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Wisconsin Cinemas I & II
530 W. Wisconsin Avenue,
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Aside from civic exhibition halls and recent stadia and outdoor amphitheaters, the largest indoor theater ever built in Milwaukee was Saxe's Wisconsin Theatre, "the flagship of their fleet of 28 theatres,"* which presented all 3,275 of its seats to the public on March 28th of 1924 smack in the middle of a blizzard.
The noted firm of theater architects Rapp & Rapp of Chicago was commissioned to create the first of the four theaters they would do here. While they were not given the budget they enjoyed in creating the super palazzi such as the Tivoli Theatre and the Chicago Theatre in 1921, that extravagance was not needed here since the competition was much less in a smaller city.
Still, the Rapps did bring along some of their favorite features, such as a recessed orchestra pit that not only extended out toward the audience with the Rapp's signature curve, but it also extended inward beyond the line of the proscenium arch to the concave front line of the stage. This not only allowed more room for the orchestra, but it also allowed for two organ consoles - but they both played the same 17-rank Barton theatre pipe organ to accompany the silent films.
This design also allowed the first rows of seating to be closer to the picture sheet (screen) which in that day was less than a third of the size we are used to today. Since this inward extension toward the stage brought the pit beyond the seal-off position of a dropped fire curtain, the authorities here and in Chicago, at least, eventually caused the owners to later remodel to the traditional pit line to be in front of the stage and beyond the line of the fire curtain for effective seal-off of the stage in the event of fire.
A feature that allowed so many seats on only a quarter of a city block was the addition of a mezzanine under the balcony. Only a few other theaters in the state used this more expensive form of construction. The reported $1 million spent on this project could not go to the theater alone, for it was only part of the surrounding six story Carpenter office building. This part of the project was the work of local architect Martin Tullgren, but the Rapps were also responsible for a large Roof Garden dance hall on the roof of the building. Nearly a thousand people could dance up there in open-air refreshment in summertime in the days before air conditioning (actually, air cooling which the theater below enjoyed) became common. The bandstand on the roof was also carried out in the French baroque used throughout the theatre.
For many years a darkened neon sign up there looked down upon the intersection of 6th St. and Wisconsin Ave. with the words "ROOF DANCING," a puzzlement to the younger generations who danced to rock, but never on a roof!
Those coming to the first real movie palace in Milwaukee (transitional theatres such as the Riviera Theatre in 1920 bore signs of the palaces to come) were not disappointed upon entering the Wisconsin Theatre's white marble lobby with a split grand staircase carpeted in forest green leading to the mezzanine and balcony and to flanking arcades that had oil paintings and statuary to soothe those impatiently waiting to enter the auditorium for the next show.
Three huge chandeliers with rose colored light bulbs hidden behind a body of milk glass with candolier arms and crowns of stud lights in white frosted bulbs lent an elegant glow to the two levels of heavily gilded ornamentation in a myriad of forms. There were also six smaller chandeliers along the mezzanine promenade arcades.
Among the statues here was one of a Grecian maiden labeled "IONE," 8-½ ft. tall, of purest alabaster. Her demurely draped figure did little to reveal her origin as the parlor 'maiden' in one of the city's former houses of ill repute! Just how this creation from Italy got to the theater is not known, but before demolition it was removed to the lobby of Centennial Hall at the central library where its beauty and its appraised value of $50,000 adds to her value in the eyes of all who see her.
Entering the auditorium on any of its three levels one encountered a pleasant space, but one certainly less ornate than those accustomed to Rapp & Rapp's other works might suggest. Their signature sunburst motif was present above the rather simple arches used along the walls from floor to ceiling on the balcony level. They were blind and filled with a celadon and ivory brocade overdraped with simple tied-back legs of dark crimson velour fringed in gold color rayon. Strangely enough, there were no chandeliers as one might have expected, but merely cove lighting from hidden bulbs in the dome coves in the ceiling and the soffits of the balcony and mezzanine.
The organ screens were rather like the balcony wall arches, but here they enriched the view with giant gilded urns of plaster which stood about 12 feet high upon their volute and plinth block pedestals. The balconnets supporting this also contained a number of hidden spotlights to highlight the glittered scrim cloth of the organ screens with changing angles and colors.
The gentle curve of the proscenium arch was nicely gold leafed, but its panels of ornaments lit by a cove only served to frame a Grand Drapery that was something less than grand. Its six velour swags in forest green were fringed in gold rayon and rested upon a lambrequin of silver satin panels fringed in green against a flat rear panel of celadon velvet plush also fringed in gold. Neither tassels nor pendants or drops were used.
Of course, none of this affected the fine stage shows which were seen with the movie, an organ recital, orchestra overture and trailers, all for 25 cents in the more expensive seats. This theater did boast the only rising orchestra pit in Milwaukee but after 1963 it was one of many things which ceased to function.
In 1963 this enormous theater became just another anonymous cinema in order to stay in business. Flight to the suburbs was even faster here than in most cities, so the Wisconsin lost most of its audience and was split horizontally into the Wisconsin Cinemas I & II, in the hope that two screens would bring in enough revenue. It was usually just referred to as the Cinemas. A wall was dropped down to the balcony rail and the balcony became Cinema II. The mezzanine was closed off for good and the orchestra floor became Cinema I, sans orchestra and sans pipe organ.
Out in the once grand lobby, the chandeliers were discarded, a giant stainless steel concession stand was installed and a remarkable 'flying' double escalator rose from the new aluminum and plate glass doors (the original bronze ones were junked) upward for four stories to pierce the ceiling and directly invade the balcony foyer now spray painted in tan (who needs gold leaf?!) and carpeted in a synthetic fiber and pattern of geometric shapes - the same pattern applied in a jarring way to the once elegant auditorium ceiling.
A garish electric sign informed the audience that the concession stand was open or if it was about to close; money was then made on candy and popcorn, not movies. And advertisements began appearing with the films; anything to make a buck!
Few of the light bulbs worked any more and few of the patrons came any more and so the Cinemas were frequently closed until finally the insurance company on the other side of the block was bought by ambitious people who persuaded the city to condemn all the buildings on the entire block for a proposed giant skyscraper.
Attorneys spent three years locating over 100 heirs of the Carpenter estate alone, and demolition proceeded in 1986, but by then the purchasing company went bust and the city was left with a large vacant lot. Not to worry, for in a few years state and local funds were appropriated to build a new two-city-block-long convention center which will hold more people at taxpayer expense than the WISCONSIN ever did.
- Larry Widen in his "Milwaukee Movie Palaces," Milw. County Hist. Soc., 1986
Recent comments (view all 22 comments)
I couldn't identify the partially obscured theater on the left.
Here is a photo circa 1944:
pre grand opening ad for the Cinema 1 & 2 is on the top of the page at View link
March 28th, 1924 ad is at View link
Thanks for the ads,always great to look at all of them.
When I opened this page and seen that "Move Over Darling" was on the marque, I almost fell off my chair. I seen it their on a very cold December day.
I saw Astro-Zombies at this theater. It was part of a horror triple feature upstairs and played with House of Whipcord or some such title. The next day I returned and saw the three kung fu movies playing downstairs. Dennis
A Golden Toned Barton Theater Pipe Organ, 3/17, manual/ranks, keyboards/set of pipes, it had TWO CONSOLES, was shipped from the Barton organ factory in 1924. It seems the organ was removed around 1963? What happened to the organ?
I am interested in pictures of the gargoyles that were in the ceiling of the lobby and also the gargoyles that were on both sides of the original stage that was covered up in 1963 if someone could help me find more information and pictures of this theater
Photos of the Esquire, Strand & Wisconsin Theatres in below 2/11/16 link.
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Last updated: April 25, 2012
This document describes how to install NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 on your system. Please see the NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 Release Notes for information about supported operating systems and hardware configurations for the IDE. To learn about the new features included in this release of the IDE see the NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 Release Information page.
Required Software
The Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 6 Update 26 or later is required to install the NetBeans IDE. The 7.1.2 version of the IDE can not be installed using JDK 5.0. You can download the latest update of JDK 6 at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads.
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The Afghan war made a rare appearance in the presidential campaign discourse yesterday, with both President Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney forced by reporters to address a war they've been mostly ignoring on the trail.
The conflict has been grinding on in the background, costing about $5 billion a month and the lives of soldiers, with 418 US soldiers dying in Afghanistan last year, and 236 so far this year. The brief blip in interest now in Afghanistan comes thanks to a surge in so-called "green on blue" killings – Afghan soldiers and cops, armed and trained at the expense of the US taxpayer, murdering the NATO troops working with them.
Romney's and Obama's responses make clear why neither seem to want to talk about America's longest war: There is little difference between their positions on Afghanistan.
Obama and US generals will continue to speak of steady progress as they prepare to depart Afghanistan in 2014. If Mr. Romney wins the presidency, he is unlikely to extend an unpopular, but generally forgotten war. When campaigning, he's said he'd stick to the current withdrawal timeline.
Obama went first, after he made a rare appearance at a White House press briefing. He was asked what senior US officers are telling him about the propensity of Afghan troops to kill US troops.
"On Afghanistan, obviously we've been watching with deep concern these so-called green-on-blue attacks, where you have Afghan individuals, some of whom are actually enrolled in the Afghan military, some – in some cases dressing up as Afghan military or police, attacking coalition forces, including our own troops," Obama said. "I just spoke today to Marty Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who happens to be in Afghanistan. He is having intensive consultations not only with our commander, John Allen, on the ground, but also with Afghan counterparts. And I'll be reaching out to President Karzai as well — because we've got to make sure that we're on top of this."
Dempsey certainly has his work cut out for him. Shortly after Obama spoke, Dempsey's plane was hit by Taliban rocket fire on the tarmac at Bagram Air Field outside Kabul. That's the part of Afghanistan where the US presence is strongest, and where support for the overthrow of the Taliban in 2002 was rock solid. President Karzai? He has little practical influence over what happens in the ranks of Afghanistan's rapidly expanding but ethnically divided Army.
More than 10 years into the war, Afghan soldiers murdering NATO soldiers is a new phenomenon. Data compiled by the New America Foundation show no killings of NATO soldiers by coalition Afghan security forces until 2007, when two NATO soldiers were killed.
In 2008, the number went to zero again, rose to 10 in 2009, 20 in 2010, and then to 36 last year. So far there have been 36 such killings in 2012. Last year's grim record will almost certainly be broken.
Yet Obama said yesterday: "We are already doing a range of things, and we're seeing some success when it comes to better counterintelligence, making sure that the vetting process for Afghan troops is stronger."
But is the US seeing success?
The blood, however, points to failure in this regard.
And beyond the loss of life itself is the certain erosion of whatever trust US trainers have in their Afghan counterparts, making the whole exercise of molding an army along Western lines that much harder. The Soviet Union tried to build an Afghan national army during its failed occupation of the country, and also dealt with the problem of Afghans killing their Soviet mentors. After the Soviet withdrawal from the country, the "army" quickly splintered into its various Tajik and Pashtun and Uzbek parts, and the vicious civil war that eventually spawned the Taliban was on.
Of course, the Afghan Army is growing, and more US trainers are in constant contact with Afghan soldiers, so the opportunity for such attacks has also grown.
What does Romney have to say about the issue?
Romney attacked Obama yesterday for being too vague about Afghanistan, with a series of vague and platitudinous comments of his own. Asked about Afghanistan during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Romney said:
"When our men and women are in harm's way, I expect the president of the United States to address the nation on a regular basis and explain what's happening and why they're there, what the mission is, what its purpose is, how we'll know when it's completed. Other presidents have done this. We haven't heard this president do this. This is something he ought to do time and time again so the people of America know where we stand."
Actually, Obama often addresses the question of "why we're there": Defeat the Taliban, build a stable democracy, create Afghan institutions that will stand on their own when we go. He basically says about the Afghan mission what Romney said about it yesterday: "I will do everything in my power to transition from our military to their military as soon as possible, bring our men and women home and do so in a way consistent with our mission, which is to keep Afghanistan from being overrun by a new entity which would allow Afghanistan to be a launching point for terror again like it was on 9/11."
But statements of purpose don't accomplish anything on their own. And the US is rapidly coming up against the limits of its power, particularly when it comes to using the military as the agent of an experiment in revolutionary social change in foreign lands.
Should the Afghan war be a campaign issue? Of course. Will it be? Only occasionally, when a tragedy forces it onto the campaign agenda. Polling shows most Americans are fed up with the war, but that it's largely irrelevant to their voting preferences, which are driven more by their beliefs about which president will do a better job at restoring the economy to health. Fewer and fewer Americans know soldiers or Marines in harm's way, and for many, the deaths afar are abstractions.


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1940 : De Gaulle sets up the Empire Defense Council1940 : De Gaulle sets up the Empire Defense Council
On this day in 1940, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle, speaking for the Free French Forces from his temporary headquarter in equatorial Africa, calls all French men and women everywhere to join the struggle to preserve and defend free French territory and "to attack the enemy wherever it is possible, to mobilize all our military, economic, and moral resources...to make justice reign."
De Gaulle had a long history fighting Germans. He sustained multiple injuries fighting at Verdun in World War I. He escaped German POW camps five times, only to be recaptured each time. (At 6 feet, 4 inches tall, it was hard for de Gaulle to remain inconspicuous.)
At the beginning of World War II, de Gaulle was commander of a tank brigade. He was admired as a courageous leader and made a brigadier general in May 1940. After the German invasion of France, he became undersecretary of state for defense and war in the Reynaud government, but when Reynaud resigned, and Field Marshal Philippe Petain stepped in, a virtual puppet of the German occupiers, de Gaulle left for England. On June 18, de Gaulle took to the radio airwaves to make an appeal to his fellow French not to accept the armistice being sought by Petain, but to continue fighting under his command. "I am France!" he declared. Ten days later, Britain formally acknowledged de Gaulle as the leader of the "Free French Forces," which was at first little more than those French troops stationed in England, volunteers from Frenchmen already living in England, and units of the French navy.
Another Free French movement had begun in Africa, under the direction of Gen. Henri Giraud. De Gaulle eventually relocated to Africa after tension began to build between himself and the British. Initially, de Gaulle agreed to share power with Giraud in the organization and control of the exiled French forces--until Giraud resigned in 1943, unwilling to stand in de Gaulle's shadow or struggle against his deft political maneuvering.
Whatever disagreements the British had had with de Gaulle, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was pleased with the French general's appeal to his countrymen's patriotism and the creation of the Empire Defense Council, which would organize necessary resources for military operations. Churchill believed it would "have a great effect on the minds of Frenchmen on account of its scope and logic. It shows de Gaulle in a light very different from that of an ordinary man."
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The closure of U.S. oil refineries
To the Editor:
I recently wrote a letter on exported fuels by U.S. oil companies who reap higher prices paid overseas.
Another reason for our high gasoline prices is the closure of U.S. oil refineries and the movement of our oil overseas to foreign refineries, "Sunoco is closing two refineries in July 2012 in Philadelphia and Marcus Hook, PA. Conoco Phillips announced the closing of two plants in Trainer, PA and Bayway, NJ, and is closing its facility in Alaska. Hess is closing the third largest U.S. oil refinery, laying off 2,000 workers and impacting 950 contractors."
The oil companies, with profits of tens of billions of dollars each year, are closing U.S. refineries due to environmental and other government regulations and union demands. Refineries are being built in Columbia, Mexico and Brazil due to low construction and operating costs. Plus our government unconsciously promotes this construction by providing foreign aid to the countries.
Hopefully, it isn't too late for our government and the unions to wake up and evaluate the impact of their policies and decisions on the oil refining industry. Otherwise we will continue to see rising fuel prices that could reach historic highs, including gasoline at or above $5 per gallon.
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Congratulations to Josh Tynjala and the Feathers open source project for the release of Feathers 3.0. Feathers offers a large collection of ActionScript user interface components and layouts for mobile and desktop. It is powered by both Starling Framework and Adobe AIR.
What's new in this release?
Many of the changes in Feathers 3.0 can be found under the hood, including bug fixes and architecture improvements. This version lays a foundation for new components and features in future versions.
Improved Performance When Idle
Feathers apps benefit greatly from the architecture changes in Starling Framework 2.0. CPU usage in static scenes has dropped to nearly zero with Starling's new
skipUnchangedFrames property. This means that apps built with Feathers should use less battery, which makes them better citizens on mobile devices.
Just take a look at this comparison made by Adobe Scout that shows an idle Feathers 2.3 app compared with the same app running on Feathers 3.0:
In Feathers 3.0, the developer experience gets better too. Let's look at some of the skinning improvements.
Scale3Image, and
TiledImage classes are no longer necessary in Feathers 3.0 because Starling 2.0 now supports these capabilities natively in the
Image class using the
scale9Grid and
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image.scale9Grid = new Rectangle( 3, 2, 6, 3 );
image.width = 100;
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For components that have more than one state (such as a
Button that can be up, down or disabled), Feathers includes a new
ImageSkin class that accepts multiple textures.
ImageSkin works a lot like Starling's
Image class, but it adds a new
setTextureForState() method that can be used to pass in additional textures. Take a look at this example of using
ImageSkin to skin a
Button component's states:
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skin.setTextureForState( ButtonState.DOWN, downTexture );
skin.setTextureForState( ButtonState.DISABLED, disabledTexture );
skin.scale9Grid = new Rectangle( 3, 2, 6, 3 );
button.defaultSkin = skin;
Migrating from Feathers 2.x to 3.0
Feathers 3.0 includes many more improvements, and some of them may require changes to your existing Feathers apps. Please read through the Feathers 3.0 Migration Guide for complete details about upgrading to this new major version.
You may also want to review the Starling 2 Migration Guide because it provides specific hints about upgrading Starling.
Get started with Feathers 3.0.0
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The federal government has wanted a nationwide network of unclassified cyberexercise facilities for years, and now the idea is making its way to state and local governments.
One way or another, cyber-ranges are coming.
Brig. Gen. Michael Stone of the Michigan National Guard said that the federal government has wanted a nationwide network of unclassified cyberexercise facilities for years, but he's bringing the idea to state and local government -- starting with his home state of Michigan. If the state receives funding for this purpose, he says the first hub of the network should be ready by Oct. 1.
The network of facilities would allow IT professionals without security clearance to practice for cyberattacks in multi-state and multi-stakeholder efforts. Such facilities are uncommon today, he said, and unclassified interstate efforts don't exist.
Congress succeeded with this goal to an extent, but it missed a crucial part of the idea, Stone said. The National Science Foundation, which teamed with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on the project, was allocated $110 million to create cyber-ranges. While it did create cyber-ranges, those ranges are not accessible to those without security clearance.
"They did some wonderful work for the country, but they did it all in the top secret domain," Stone said, adding that this was unfortunate for a few reasons.
The second reason unclassified cyber-ranges are needed, he said, is a practical one: When a cyberattack hits state or local government, officials don't want to sit around waiting for the federal government to come rescue them, he said.
"There are folks who work at the federal level -- policy makers -- who believe the domain of cyber falls entirely on the federal government," Stone said. "The problem with that, though, is that requires perfect resources and perfect execution of the federal government. And being a person who works for the state and local level, just ask yourself, 'How long is it going to take before the response is there? And how perfect is federal government execution all the time?'"
Stone's vision is a nationwide network of cyber-range facilities that's anchored in the advisory of the National Guard, which is in the unique position of spanning the federal, state and local levels, he said. Most people are familiar with the National Guard acting as a second responder during such events as hurricanes or floods, but the Guard also is in a perfect position to bridge the gap between federal involvement and state and local participation.
And ultimately, Stone said, it doesn't make sense to put federal agencies in charge of critical infrastructure such as power grids and dams, because that's not who's operating them.
"Eighty percent of all critical infrastructure is privately owned," he said. "And 85 percent of all people operating networks for critical infrastructure are civilians, non-federal government."
Almost without exception, Stone said, IT organizations will agree that the most valuable resource they have and the thing highest in demand is talented human capital. So why would government ignore 85 percent of its capital, particularly during a time of crisis?
To take advantage of this capital, the Michigan National Guard partnered with the California National Guard; California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly); Michigan's Merit Network; EADS North America; and nonprofit Electricore, the organization that applied for the Department of Energy grant on behalf of the team's members to get unclassified cyber-ranges going.
The costs for establishing each facility in the network, Stone said, is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars -- as opposed to the millions spent by the federal government.
"The dollar figure to stand up hubs is really the cost of running fiber optic to the buildings we want, which is about $50,000 a mile to run this fiber," he said. "Once you're there, it's really the human capital cost."
In addition to Cal Poly, the network would include many major universities in Michigan, starting with the state's Merit Network, the longest-running fiber optic network in the country. And the first hubs will be military bases and academies in Michigan. Stone said he is also in talks with the National Guard Bureau in Little Rock, Ark., and organizations in Kansas. The idea, he says, is to cast a wide net while also creating a culture of cybersecurity awareness.
"We're going to need special guardsmen with civilian skill sets," he said. "We're going to need recent college graduates, we're going to need an abundance of IT experts to really be able to surge, to overcome those problems."
This network, he said, is part of a larger effort to set the right conditions for a workforce that can handle these issues.
"We have to do this," Stone said, adding that it's one thing to teach individuals to troubleshoot a network or solve a computer problem, but they need teams of people who can work together. They need collective training tools, he said. "I think that this is going to happen one way or another, whether or not there are federal dollars," he continued. "This is a clear trend. There's a demand. Every time we ask a corporation if they want to participate, if they have any information assurance requirement, they get to yes really fast."
It's going to happen, Stone said, the only question is who the players will be.
And the bulk of this effort consist of Stone's strategy and the work that organizations like Cal Poly will do, said Electricore Executive Director Deborah Jelen.
"A lot of the value is in the ability to test different products," she said. "The nature of a cyberthreat is changing all of the time, and there are going to be many different solutions to address those threats. Ao I think having that ability, that bandwidth to be able to conduct the testing, really is going to be a critical success factor."
She has no way of knowing today whether they will receive the funding they requested, she said, but a project like this could lead to very important work in the area of research and development, and emergency management.
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The renovations to 100 church street are no improvement. I don't think it will be anytime soon that you see the City move out of that building. Given who is in there, you can expect at least 5 more years.
Another health club? How many more can we squeeze into Manhattan?
The renovations to 100 church street are no improvement. I don't think it will be anytime soon that you see the City move out of that building. Given who is in there, you can expect at least 5 more years.
So Silverstein got Stern to design this...if he does just a good a job of contextualism as he did in CPW then perhaps there may be something to look forward to.
Let's hope for limestone.
Scaffolding was going up on 99 yesterday and they were doing deconstruction in the interior, pulling out drywall, insulation, etc.
I'll have to avoid this block for the next few months. The site of this one coming down would be too sad to behold
Plus it's really a drag when you look across Church and see the two glass monstrosities and know that they aren't going anywhere. They're like suburban 1960s/70s public schools bulked up on steroids and pretending to be urban office buildings.
We don't need every building on every corner to scream "Look at Me" (whether because they are fantastically beautiful, horrendously ugly or numbingly banal).
Sometimes a building such as this -- which is nearly perfect in its simple form and use of materials -- is needed to give the eye a place to rest. Almost like a silence in a measure of music.
hmmm...68 storeys. Usually I would be excited by a height increase, but I need to see how this building interacts with the Woolworth. Hopefully the Woolworth isn't made to look like a fragile old lady.
October 15, 2007
Silverstein Taps Stern for New 99 Church St Tower
Add one more to the list of prestigious architects rebuilding Lower Manhattan. Robert A.M. Stern joins the architectural talent pool hired by Silverstein Properties and other developers for the current downtown renaissance.
Stern's 38-year-old firm will design the residential and hotel tower slated to rise at 99 Church Street over the next three years. The skyscraper will replace the 11-story building that now occupies the site with 68 stories of luxury condominiums, a restaurant, and a five-star hotel.
Located on the east side between Barclay Street and Park Place, 99 Church Street is the former home of Moody's Corporation, which relocated its corporate headquarters to Silverstein's 7 World Trade Center in early 2007. In a joint venture with partner California State Teachers' Retirement System, Silverstein bought 99 Church Street in November 2006 for $170 million. The purchase marks the second investment between the pension fund and Silverstein, the first being the acquisition of 575 Lexington Avenue in October 2006.
Tishman Construction, which also is building the Freedom Tower and the new Goldman Sachs headquarters, will manage the project beginning with demolition of the 1951 building. Scaffolding around the building will begin to rise this week, followed by approximately six months of demolition work. Construction of the new tower's foundation will begin in June 2008, on the way to its early 2011 opening.
Wow! But I agree, 68 stories could put it as exactly the same height as Woolworth....but maybe we'll get lucky and it will push 900 feet. Anxiously waiting a rendering for this one now.
Doubt it. Most likely in the 700 to 800 feet range although I would love to be wrong.
Where did the increase in air rights come from?
Robert M. Stern, please make sure this one is spectacular, please.
TWT is 'officially' 72 i think so that would be the upper range of 800' odd


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BIC (Business Identifier Code, also known as SWIFT code or SWIFT BIC) is a the mostly used international identifier of financial institutions. SWIFT is the registration authority for BICs. BICs are used in financial transactions, client and counterparty data bases, compliance documents and many others.
A BIC consists of eight or eleven characters, comprising a financial institution code (four characters), a country code (two characters), a location code (two characters) and, optionally, a branch code (three characters).
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COLUMBUS -- Just before noon Saturday, 21 seniors on the Ohio State football team will run across the field during pregame introductions as part of the program's annual senior day festivities. Coach Urban Meyer is thankful none of them went running out the door nearly a year ago when he and the team members were informed they would not be eligible to play in a bowl game this year. "Those kids could have all went wherever they wanted to go," Meyer said earlier this week as his team was preparing for Saturday's noon kickoff against rival Michigan. "I still remember that day when we walked in, and (AD Gene Smith) said, 'You're not going to a bowl game.' I thought, 'We're not what?' "And then my mind started thinking about this year's team. Those seniors, if I remember right, if I read the rules right, they (could) pick up and go without punishment." The door was open to leave. None did. "I called a team meeting. Within 15 minutes, we had one," Meyer said. "I kept the seniors after. I had no idea who they were, and they didn't know me, so it was a leap of faith. "It's tough. I usually get emotional talking about those guys." So when those 21 seniors run across the turf to be greeted by Meyer prior to Saturday's game, an emotional moment is expected. Meyer gives an immense amount of credit to the senior class for helping put the Buckeyes where they are -- 11-0 heading into Saturday's game with the undisputed Leaders Division championship sewn up. Because of NCAA sanctions, Ohio State is not eligible for the league title game nor a bowl, but Meyer credits the senior class for picking the program back up. "Now that I know them, I know exactly why they stayed," Meyer said. "For the love of Ohio State. It's really cool in this day and age to witness that. We're forever indebted to them because they didn't have to do what they did." The OSU players who met with the media earlier this week vividly remember the day they were informed of the bowl ban. The Buckeyes were on a visit to a hospital around the Christmas holiday when they were informed. "I know we were all together when we found out," senior defensive back Zach Domicone said. "It was last year before the bowl game. We were coming back from a hospital visit. All the upcoming seniors were on the same bus." There was never any consideration of anyone leaving, even if Meyer feared such. "I don't really know a word to describe it, but we just all stuck together," senior Zach Boren said. "I think when Coach Meyer came in ... we just sat down and said we have to stick together and help lead this young team." Boren, along with defensive lineman John Simon, are among Meyer's favorites. Simon for his work ethic and tenacity, Boren for his selflessness in moving from fullback to linebacker to make up for an injury-depleted linebacking unit. "You want someone to write a book," Meyer said. "Wow, that would be good if you go write a book on Zach Boren." Meyer also thought back to the summertime when Simon joined him to watch Meyer's son, Nate, play a baseball game in Youngstown area. "That just tells you what he's all about," Meyer said. "He's the best. The best." Those are the types of things that will likely be going through the mind of Meyer as the seniors come across the field one by one before their last game in an Ohio State uniform. Defensive lineman Garrett Goebel said: "Life is 10 percent what happens and 90 percent how you react." He's proud of how he and his teammates have bounced back from last year's 6-7 season. Linebacker Etienne Sabino accentuated the importance of completing the undefeated season. "The last thing you want to do is leave here with that pit in your stomach," he said. Most of all, the Buckeyes -- particularly the seniors -- and to finish what they started. What they returned to do. "We wanted to leave our mark. We wanted to leave a legacy," Domicone said. They already have, in the eyes of their coach. "I'm very appreciative of where I'm at and who I'm doing it with," he said.
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The First Heritage Trail in Hong Kong
Step back in time and revisit the early days of Hong Kong on the Ping Shan Heritage Trail in Yuen Long.
Find out how old traditions persevere in Hong Kong in an old fishing village that lies on the northeastern shore of Hong Kong Island.
Evolvement of a Fishing Village (Shau Kei Wan)
Once upon a time, Shau Kei Wan ('Shau Kei' means pail and 'Wan' means bay) provided a haven for ships that sailed into Victoria Harbour and served as a typhoon shelter for local fishermen. Through the years, the area became known as a centre for shipbuilding and a number of temples dedicated to popular fisherfolk deities such as Tin Hau and Tam Kung sprang up, which you can still visit today.
Shing Wong Temple was originally called Fook Tak Tsz. It was built in 1877 and expanded in 1974, and has been especially popular with local residents ever since the early 1900s due to its convenient proximity to the Shau Kei Wan tram terminus.
How to get there
MTR Shau Kei Wan Station, Exit C. Walk along Mong Lung Street and turn left onto Kam Wa Street to reach the tram terminus. Shing Wong Temple is adjacent to the tram terminus. Or, take a tram into the Shau Kei Wan terminus from other points on Hong Kong Island and you'll find Shing Wong Temple right nearby.
Did you Know
Located at the junction of Shau Kei Wan Main Street East and Kam Wa Street, the Shau Kei Wan tram terminus is the eastern end of the line built in 1904 that runs all the way to Kennedy Town in Hong Kong Island's west.
This small Tin Hau Temple dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea and a number of lesser deities dates back to 1876. There is a pair of stone lions outside the temple and inside you'll find a collection of well-preserved murals, woodcarvings and Shek Wan-style pottery.
How to get there
Walk along Shau Kei Wan Main Street East until you reach Miu Tung Street. Tin Hau Temple will be on your right.
Did you Know
It's fairly hard to believe now, but Shau Kei Wan Main Street East was originally the waterfront! To crack down on pirates that liked hiding here, the Hong Kong government decided to clean up the area in the 1860s by building houses and stores along both sides of the road. While these houses have since been replaced by modern high-rises, there are still a few original restaurants and stores dotted along the street.
This temple was originally a shrine built in the mid-19th century by people from Mainland China who worked in a nearby stone quarry. In the early 1900s, the shrine was expanded into a small temple honouring Yuk Wong, who is credited with solving flooding problems and saving people's lives.
How to get there
Walk along Shau Kei Wan Main Street East, turn right to A Kung Nam Village Road and proceed along the Tung Wong Road to reach Yuk Wong Temple.
The Lei Yue Mun Fort built by the British in 1887 to defend Hong Kong against invasion by sea is now home to Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence — an intriguing exhibition of military memorabilia covering the 600 years spanning the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods. It sits perched on the heights overlooking the narrow strip of water at Lei Yue Mun, an area now famous for its seafood restaurants. The 34,200-square-metre museum features a redoubt and a historical trail that paints a vivid picture of Britain's readiness to defend Hong Kong against aggressors.
How to get there
Follow the directional signs, cross Tung Hei Road. Turn right and you will see the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence in front of you.
One of the few deities known only to Hong Kong, Tam Kung is a much-loved patron of fishermen. Tam Kung Temple is over 100 years old and preserved its original design when it was renovated in 2002. Besides a statue of Tam Kung, the temple also houses a small wooden junk and a dragon boat.
How to get there
Walk back along Tam Kung Temple Road and follow the signs to Tam Kung Temple.
Did you Know
The birthday of Tam Kung falls on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month. For many years, local people held an annual procession on this day to commemorate the time when many were saved from a plague.


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War on women, what war on women? (Looks around wildly for invisible war on women made up by democratic commies) Oh wait, this might be it!
TPM— Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of "legitimate rape" have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
He understands very little, obviously, outside of the comforting magic inherent in his Bronze-age mythology and flaky new age conservative wackiness . But I'll bet you Akin's small dollar campaign contributions spike because of this.


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Here is a video clip from a Ukrainian librarian, Maya Tarasova. She had a wonderful experience of visiting Corvallis Public Library in Oregon. She also wrote an article describing it. If you are interested, you can access the full article at http://data.memberclicks.com/site/ola/olaq_15no2.pdf
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Kirk Gibson unloads on Ryan Braun and pending apology
- Kirk Gibson%27s Diamondbacks lost to the Brewers in the 2011 playoffs
- Shortly after that%2C Ryan Braun tested positive for testosterone
- Gibson says Braun is probably %22practicing his apology in theater school%22
PITTSBURGH – Count Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson among those still waiting to hear what Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun has to say about his suspension – and still waiting to encounter the former MVP in person.
Gibson said he was talking recently with his wife, Joanne, about how his legendary home run in the 1988 World Series changed the course of his life when she made a point about performance-enhancing drugs and how they might have affected the 2011 season. That year, Braun and the Brewers eliminated Gibson's Diamondbacks in the division series.
"If you look at that moment in my career, it was a huge moment," Gibson said Sunday morning of his World Series homer. "It was big in my career. It helped propel me to really where I am today.
"Her point was, she gets pissed off about the PED stuff and goes back to the playoffs and Braun. I told her that if I get a chance to see Braun, I got a question for him, right to his face. Is he about rehearsed by now? About ready to come out? He's probably been practicing at theater school somewhere. Anyway, she was looking at how things like that can influence people's opportunities and the opportunity to do something like that."
Gibson wouldn't say specifically what he wanted to ask Braun.
Braun accepted a 65-game suspension in July for "violations of the Basic Agreement and its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program" but has yet to speak publicly.
Gibson said he heard Braun speak in 2011 at the baseball writers' awards dinner in New York. "I remember everything he said very vividly," Gibson said.
A month after his name first surfaced in connection to PEDs, Braun accepted his MVP award at the Hilton Hotel in New York.
"I've always believed a person's character is revealed through the way they deal with those moments of adversity," Braun was quoted as saying in The New York Times. "I've always loved and had so much respect for the game of baseball. Everything I've done in my career has been done out of respect and appreciation in mind, and that is why I'm so grateful and humbled to accept this award tonight."
Said Gibson: "I said this a long time ago: I think that people should have an opportunity to ask him some questions and have him answer them unrehearsed. Something tells me he's getting really prepared for just about anything that they could throw at him.
"I'm not surprised he hasn't addressed people. He probably doesn't give a (expletive) about me. He's got it really good. I was one of the guys who went through many things – work stoppages, etc. – so that he could do that. I would hope that he respects me and everybody who stood up for him before he played the game. Everybody looks at it differently, but if he thinks he's giving back to the game, he has a different idea of how to give back than I do."
The Diamondbacks lost to the Brewers in extra innings of Game 5 of the best-of-five series, in which Braun went 9 for 18 with four doubles and a home run.
"Everybody listened to his line of (expletive), so you take him at face value," Gibson said, referring to Braun's press conference in spring training of 2012. "All things considered, we should have won the game. All things considered, the last game, we tied it up and we had a chance to win it. There were other times in my career when I did overcome cheaters. We had our chance."
Piecoro writes for the Arizona Republic


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – It's a sight that can trigger dread: the low-battery message on your cellphone when there's no charger around.
But New Yorkers needing a little extra juice will have some new options this summer.
The city is teaming up with AT&T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations in parks across the five boroughs. The charges will provide a free boost to dying phones and other mobile devices.
The solar technology in the "Street Charge" stations can fully charge up to 30 phones before it needs its own recharge — even with cloud cover and during the night.
The idea came about after Superstorm Sandy. The storm left New Yorkers desperately searching for power to contact friends and loved ones.


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Russia retaliates against U.S., EU with import ban
Moscow formally moved Thursday to impose a ban on imports of meat, fish, milk and fruit from the United States, European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway.
The ban, effective immediately, is expected to last for one year.
The diplomatic move, following a decree signed Wednesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin to "protect Russia's security," follows the latest round of sanctions by the U.S. and EU that targeted entire sectors of the Russian economy.
The U.S. and the EU have accused Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in March, of fomenting tensions in eastern Ukraine.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia was also ready to introduce protective measures in aviation, car building and other industries.
Speaking live on Russian TV, he said Russia is considering banning the transit of flights from U.S. and EU commercial airlines.
"Until the last moment, we hoped that our foreign colleagues would understand that sanctions lead to a deadlock and no one needs them," he said. "But they didn't and the situation now requires us to take retaliatory measures."
Russia is the second-largest agricultural importer after China, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Its imports rose from $7 billion in 2000 to $33 billion in 2008.
Separately, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is traveling to Kiev Thursday as fears of a potential Russian invasion hung over eastern Ukraine.
NATO says some 20,000 Russian combat forces have massed on the border for war games and could intervene under the pretext of helping ethnic Russian civilians caught up in what Moscow calls a "humanitarian catastrophe."
In a further unrelated development out of Russia on Thursday, a lawyer for former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said the American has been granted permission to remain in Russia for three more years.
Last year, Snowden was given temporary asylum but that ran out on Aug. 1.
Contributing: Michael Winter, Associated Press


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LONDON - A critic who dismissed a divorce memoir as a stew of "vague literary blah" has won a prize celebrating the year's most lacerating book reviews.
Camilla Long's review of Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation" for the Sunday Times newspaper was named winner of the Hatchet Job of the Year Award on Tuesday.
Long acknowledged finding the book — in which Cusk, an award-winning novelist, recounts the breakdown of her marriage — full of narrative gaps and "quite simply, bizarre."
She described Cusk as a "peerless narcissist" and the book as "acres of poetic whimsy and vague literary blah, a needy, neurotic mandolin solo of reflections on child sacrifice and asides about drains."
Cusk's book was published last year to generally negative reviews, although The Daily Telegraph found it "full of beauty" and The Independent praised Cusk's "honesty, courage, and the ability to depict her experiences in exquisitely crafted language."
Long's prize consists of a golden hatchet and a year's supply of potted shrimp from the award's sponsor, a fishmonger.
The Hatchet Job award was established by literary website The Omnivore to honour "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant" review published in a newspaper or magazine.
Only in its second year, it has attracted wide attention in Britain, a country that loves a waspish turn of phrase.
While it has received some flak for rewarding mean-spiritedness, organizer Fleur Macdonald said the prize was intended "to encourage fearless and honest reviewing."
And organizers insist they only pick on established writers strong enough to take it.
This year's finalists included attacks on two of Britain's most eminent novelists, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.
In the Washington Post, Ron Charles' slammed Amis' satirical saga "Lionel Asbo" as a "ham fisted novel" full of "blanched stereotypes."
Zoe Heller's critique of Rushdie's memoir "Joseph Anton" for the New York Review of Books lambasted the author's "magisterial amour propre" and concluded: "The world is as large and as wide as it ever was; it's just Rushdie who got small."
Online: www.hatchetjoboftheyear.com
Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless


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I need to create a custom 3D avatar to embed it in my application . I'm using Daz 3D (as mentioned) to create the avatar and need to connect it with botlibre .
I cannot find the steps of how to connect the external 3D models and with which extension . Could you please provide me with a way to do this job?
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Then learns from it.Is it possible to make a chatbot like that with a botlibre chatbot?
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See Web API
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You can create your own bot, and embed it on your own website, mobile app, or integrate with your social media. You can create bots for fun, for business, for customer support, or for someone to talk to.


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Lackey's comfort at an all-time high with Red Sox
Righty doesn't have any critics to silence, injuries to deal with coming off title
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- For the first time in John Lackey's time with the Red Sox, he comes to camp without critics to silence or health problems to battle through or back from.
In his fifth Spring Training in Fort Myers, the right-hander is at last in his comfort zone with Red Sox Nation.
The last memory of Lackey from 2013 was that of him walking off the Fenway mound to a thunderous ovation in the clinching Game 6 of the World Series.
At that moment, Lackey at last tipped his cap to the Fenway faithful, serving as a symbol that he had finally bonded with a general public that had been harsh to him his first two seasons with the team.
Lackey used to bite his tongue when the subject of Boston fans came up, and who could blame him? But on that night of Oct. 30, 2013, the bad memories were washed away with an ovation that still just about gives him goosebumps.
"It was a special feeling. The whole night was special," said Lackey. "You could feel it in the atmosphere even when I was warming up. It's going to be tough to beat for sure. It was pretty cool."
Winning Game 7 of the World Series as a rookie with the Angels was also tough to beat, but 11 years later, Lackey was able to do just that.
"Obviously, you know how hard it is to get there," said Lackey. "When you have a decade in between them, you probably appreciate the second one a little more."
Perhaps the magnitude of what Lackey was able to accomplish and come back from is still sinking in.
"In the moment, it's kind of tough. But a few days later, looking back I may have [reflected]," Lackey said. "On the flight home, with your family, friends, we talked about it over a couple of cold ones. It was pretty fun."
The reason Lackey's teammates admire him so much is because he never complains or makes excuses.
In that nightmarish 2011 season, when Lackey pitched with a deteriorating ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow and posted a gruesome 6.41 ERA, he never once used the injury as an excuse. This, even as the boos rained down all over him and talk-show callers begged the Red Sox to find a way to get rid of him.
During Lackey's initial tough period with the Red Sox, Mike Napoli -- his teammate with the Angels and now again in Boston -- hated watching what his friend was going through.
Few people enjoyed the big rebound by Lackey more than the man who stood at first base for nearly all of his 33 starts.
"I'm really good friends with him so I know it meant a lot to him," said Napoli. "I was definitely happy and excited for him, because what went on before, he was trying to battle through. For him to come back last year and throw like he did, it just showed a lot that they signed the right guy. He just had some injury problems. I was really happy for him."
So when a lot of skeptics wondered what Lackey could do entering last season, after missing all of 2012 recovering from Tommy John surgery, Napoli sort of knew what was coming.
"I knew what he could do, a healthy Lackey," Napoli said. "I've seen it. I've caught it. I knew it was in there. I knew if he could get back to where he feels good and his arm is free, he would be able to do that, and he did it. It was good for him and good for the organization."
At the age of 35, Lackey's rebuilt elbow might even be capable of topping his solid 2013 season and even better postseason, in which he outdueled Justin Verlander in a 1-0 epic in the American League Championship Series and fired a gem in the Fall Classic clincher.
"A lot of people I've talked with about the surgery, the second year they do feel even better, they do feel stronger," Lackey said. "But a lot of them weren't 35, too, you know what I mean? There's going to be a little bit of a combination of that. I feel like I've put in a lot of work to be ready for this season, and I'm feeling pretty confident going into it."
And as for all those critics Lackey had to endure for a couple of years, he never believed what they were saying.
"I don't think many people that know me personally wrote me off," said Lackey. "It was great for sure, coming through a surgery. There was a lot of hard work put in just to get back out on the field, much less to perform well once you get there. To have a good year and for the team to win a championship, it couldn't have worked out any better."
Now that the comeback is complete, did Lackey really have full confidence he could be so effective last year?
"Yes," said Lackey. "Without a doubt. I busted my [butt] last offseason."
Red Sox manager John Farrell is fortunate to not only have a bona fide ace like Jon Lester, but another proven veteran with two World Series rings worth of credibility in Lackey.
"He was back to the point [last year] of being able to lead by example and then give his impressions and experiences against a given lineup to the guy who was following him," Farrell said. "He was freed up to do what he's been doing so well for a long period of time. By everything evident in this camp, he's picking up right where he left off."
What Lackey demands most out of himself for 2014 is innings, at least 200 of them. If he can do that, he has full confidence in the body of work he will produce.
"I've thrown 200 innings [five] times in my career. It's something I expect out of myself," said Lackey. "You put in the offseason work, you put in the work between starts to get to that number. I think that's an important number for sure."
How does Lackey sum up his time with the Red Sox to date?
"It's been a crazy ride I guess, for sure," he said. "Honestly, I don't look at a whole lot of that stuff, negative or positive. I have family and friends who will tell me stuff, but no offense, I don't read a whole bunch of stuff. I don't listen to any stuff. I'm pretty comfortable with who I am."
And at last, Red Sox fans can say the same.


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Her lawyers say she was too whacked out to realize she signed-off on "Baseball Mistress (NSFW)", but, nonetheless, I still find her woozy interview about her puppy love with Roger Clemens mesmerizing.
They watched a Walter Matthau film together, they listened to the Sliver soundtrack, she...showered with him when she was 16? (But she swears they didn't actually engage in full coitus until she was 21. Mmmhmm.)
So the next time you hear UB40's version of "Can't Help Falling In Love," remember that it was possibly the song to which a 29-year-old, erectilely dysfunctioned Clemens gently massaged a 16-year-old Mindy McCready in the shower. Allegedly.