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CHICAGO — Retailers can celebrate Chinese New Year and ring in increased sales and profits by leveraging Tsingtao Beer's 2013 "Year of the Snake" on- and off-premise promotion, which runs in January and February 2013. This is Tsingtao's largest promotion of the year in celebration of Chinese New Year, which starts on February 10 and continues until the end of the month.
The Year of the Snake is a time to celebrate and cultivate the animal's most noble trait: wisdom. It is something we could all use a little more of, and it's brewed into every bottle of Tsingtao. For 2013, the number one Chinese beer in the U.S. is happy to oblige, giving consumers many fun ways to wise up with every sip of Tsingtao.
Tsingtao Lager will be featured on all-new thematic point-of-sale items to reinforce the brand's authenticity with the Asian market while celebrating the Year of the Snake and informing the General Market, during its number one selling period.
Chinese New Year is the number one celebrated Chinese holiday in the U.S. and Tsingtao is one of a few leading Asian beers still brewed in its country of origin (since 1903).
"During the Chinese New Year holiday, retailers are looking for easy to execute POS and local activation ideas that get consumers excited," said a Crown Imports representative, Tsingtao's U.S. importer. "We encourage on- and off-premise accounts to take full advantage of this unique promotional opportunity to increase sales while providing consumers with an authentic Chinese beer to celebrate the 'Year of the Snake'."
For the off-premise, Tsingtao offers a variety of 2013 "Year of the Snake" point-of-sale items sure to generate consumer excitement at retail, including bi-lingual (English and Chinese) POS, Asian market and Total Market templates, large and small format displays, sampling programs in key markets and value-added cross-merchandising offers. And for the first time, Tsingtao will have custom "Year of the Snake" packaging for 6, 12 and 24-packs, to drive excitement around the brand during Chinese New Year, and to increase trial.
On-premise accounts can decorate their establishments with two-sided display screens (in English and Chinese), lantern danglers, pennants, coasters and wall calendars. Waitstaff education materials will also be available.
Tsingtao Lager, the number one imported Chinese beer in the United States, is brewed and bottled by the Tsingtao Brewery in China. Monarch Import Company (Crown Imports LLC) is the exclusive importer of Tsingtao Lager and Tsingtao Pure Draft in the United States.
Crown Imports is a 50-50 joint venture between the Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V. (MX: GMODELOC), Mexico's leading company in the brewing, distribution and sale of beer, and Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ), a leading international beverage alcohol producer, importer and marketer.


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Thousands of Palestinians are employed "illegally" on building sites in the Israeli-occupied areas – the new town of Ma'ale Adumin, near Jerusalem, being one example. Israeli director Ido Haar's film documents the hard living and working conditions faced by the migrant labourers. Arian Fariborz caught up with him
How did the audience at this year's film festival in Jerusalem react to your documentary? Were people even aware of the very serious problems you address in the film?
Ido Haar: "9 Star Hotel" made a tremendous impression with many people at the festival. Even conservative Israelis were very shocked to learn of the working conditions faced by the Palestinians. When one is confronted with these things, one is forced to think differently about them. I had the impression that many of the filmgoers were left feeling very uneasy. Though the film is less about the Middle East conflict than about social, human problems, there is, of course, more than a shade of irony in a situation where Palestinian workers are building houses for the occupying force.
Your film shows the dire, miserable conditions faced by the illegal Palestinian construction workers, forced as they are to live constantly on their guard against police raids both at the building site and in their makeshift shanty huts in the hills surrounding Ma'ale Adumin. Has the building of the border fence made their situation worse?
Haar: Yes, due the terrorist attacks on Israel and following the building of the wall, the government has become much more restrictive in its issuing of work permits to Palestinians. Moreover, recently, more and more workers from China and Thailand have been brought in, though there are still many Palestinians working on building sites. Because there is such a shortage of workers, the building companies are willing to take a risk by bringing in illegal Palestinians; their building programmes would fall behind schedule otherwise.
But making the film really brought home to me the tragedy of all those young people, full of life and vitality, but with no prospect of improving their lives. I find it tragic for them, if you compare their situation with the opportunities we have here in Israel. I, for example, was free to choose to pursue a course in film studies. That's the sort of thing that many young Palestinians can only dream about.
Such opportunities just don't exist for them. And I am sure that Muhammad, one of the protagonists in my film, would have been a filmmaker had he not had to work on the building site. He has so much talent, and a poetic soul, something which comes across very well in the film. To me it has become clear that luck plays a big part in life, as does the country you happen to have been born in.
Was the most important thing for you in "9 Star Hotel" to show the social squalor and wretchedness that is the lot of the Palestinian workers?
Haar: I wanted to do more than that. I wanted the film to make people in Israel more aware of the lack of perspective, the frustration, experienced by the younger generation of Palestinians. People here still tend to think that the building of the wall has improved things because there are not as many Palestinian bomb attacks anymore. It's becoming harder and harder for young Palestinians to find work in Israel. But where are the alternatives for them in the autonomous areas? Poverty and unemployment rates are extremely high there and this allows Hamas to find recruits by offering financial support.
The result of all this is that the potential for frustration among the younger generation is increasing and with it the political violence – even more than in previous years. I have the feeling that the pent up frustration in the occupied territories is reaching boiling point and it is just a matter of time till the whole thing blows up in our faces. I love Israel; I grew up here. I made the film to give the Israelis a wake up call, to make them aware of what is happening, so that they don't allow themselves any longer to indulge the illusion that the separation wall makes any real difference to the situation or that our lives have suddenly become more peaceful. I am very worried about these young Palestinians and especially about our families in Israel.
What was it that made the biggest impression on you during the filming with the Palestinian workers?
Haar: Many people in Israel believe that the Palestinians hate them. But the film makes it very clear that this is not the case. It shows the Palestinians talking about the things they need just to get by from day to day – dealing with organisation, criticism and taking care of one another. For me this was astonishing, particularly since Israel carries a lot of the responsibility for this situation. Then there are the cultural and political responsibilities on both sides. That was fascinating to observe, and something that broadened my understanding.
Interview: Arian Fariborz
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Is it even possible for young Israeli and Arab hip-hop musicians to be friends in times of the Intifada? Israeli filmmaker Anat Halachmi has examined this question in her new documentary Channels of Rage, in which she introduces two rappers, Subliminal and Tamer. Petra Tabeling reports on an unusual musical experiment.
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Sympathy with the Devil
For their documentary on the Sabra and Shatila massacres that took place during the Lebanese civil war, the film-makers chose to portray the perpetrators sympathetically in order to shed more light on the causes for war crimes. Christina Förch reports
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The Palestinian-Swedish writer Lina Makboul provides a portrayal of the former Palestinian militant Leila Khaled in her film "Hijacker." The film addresses the distinction between terrorism and the struggle for freedom. By Petra Tabeling


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Spring announced its arrival, winter bid adieu, and summer is almost knocking at the doors. Holi(Indian Festival of colours ) is just few days away, and I am as usual grumpy and lethargic. No changes in SEASON of my MOOD. The diet regime seems to be improper, leaving me dull and tired whole day. I need to breakup my meals into more sensible way and include some more antioxidants and proteins too.
Of late we had been socializing more, that ends up in many unwanted calories in the body and the fight to get rid of those extra calories is proving to be strenuous.
On the whole, I am literally dragging myself to the daily grind, day after day. I am still researching (Highly dependent on Google for that) on consumption of protein shakes before work outs in Gym.Till now, I haven't reached to any conclusion since there seems to be a lot of difference of opinion amongst people. Do you have any first hand information on that? Do share that with me please. I do not want lethargy to be an excuse for not working out 😉
Coming to Recipe of the day, it has nothing to do with diet food or wonder milkshakes. Instead it has got something to do with leftovers..yeah, leftover rotis/phulkas. This is one very popular way of cooking with some leftover rotis , turning those into tangy, spicy morsels . And its so simple to cook, with just few basic ingredients.
- 4 Leftover Rotis (at least one meal stale)
- 2 Green chillies chopped (adjust as per taste)
- 2 small Tomatoes, grated
- Some Curry leaves
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- 4 Cloves of garlic
- ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Coriander powder
- Handful of Coriander leaves
- Salt as per taste
- 1 tsp oil
- 11/2 cup or more of water (Explained below)
- In a kadai or frying pan, take 1 tsp of oil, heat it, add chopped garlic, saute till it changes colour, add curry leaves and mustard seeds and let the seeds splutter.
- Quickly add grated tomatoes, chillies, salt, turmeric and coriander powder and fry on high heat till the raw smell of tomatoes go away.
- Add about a cup and half or more of water. Depending upon how OLD are your Rotis, the quantity of water required differs.The more stale (please do not use rotis more than a day old, that too if you have stored it well) ) and stiff the rotis, the more amount of water required.The softer and fresh the rotis, lesser the water quantity.
- As soon as the mixture starts bubbling, tear the rotis into bite size pieces, and add to the boiling mixture.
- Add coriander leaves and let it cook on medium to low flame.Go with your instincts as you watch the pieces of rotis, get dunked into water.If you feel that there isn't enough water in curry to soften the chapati, just cook the mixture on lowest flame, with lid put on the pan.
- Cook till all the water is dried up .Garnish with some more coriander and a drizzle of freshly squeezed lemon juice adds the holy tang to the yummy and easy to cook Seyal phulka.Enjoy !


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With Sudan and South Sudan presidents meeting eminent, it's evermore pertinent to draw attention to the growing human catastrophe in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States. United to End Genocide is advocating March 16 as the national day of action for Sudan in response to the escalating crisis.
Furthermore, on March 7 a new piece of legislation, the Sudan Peace, Security and Accountability Act was introduced in the House of Representatives to propel immediate action. Implementing the legislation includes holding Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his forces fully accountable with strengthened and increased sanctions, and immediately working to ensure the delivery of food to prevent mass starvation as a result of genocide by attrition. Take action here.
"We welcome the introduction of strong bipartisan legislation to address the blockade of food and humanitarian aid and the ongoing bombing of civilians that has put the lives of 500,000 people at risk in Sudan." – Tom Andrews, United to End Genocide President
George Clooney and John Prendergast, who together co-founded the Satellite Sentinel Project, just returned from Sudan's troubled Nuba Mountains region in the hopes of bringing attention to and potentially heading off hostilities. They spoke and gave their report to Washington and the Council on Foreign Relations March 14. Watch their video clip here:
"There's a difference between two armies fighting and what the Geneva Convention calls war crimes.We saw that very specifically happening on two occasions: rape, starvation, lack of humanitarian aid. They're scaring the hell out of these people and they're killing, hoping and trying to get them just to leave." – George Clooney, Activist for Sudan.
A top commander of the Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel group, Lt. Colonel Bizimana, has surrendered to the UN mission in South Kivu. A joint military offensive between the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) and the Congolese army pressured Lt. Colonel Bizimana, also known as Idrissa Muradadi, to turn himself in along with three of his bodyguards. He is being processed through the Demobilization Disarmament Rehabilitation, Repatriation and Reintegration (DDRRR) and awaiting extradition to Rwanda.
The FDLR, operating in Eastern Congo, is known for their destructive attacks and brutality against civilians. They are comprised of primarily former Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) and interahamwe, responsible for killing 800,000 people in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
"It's very good news for us because the surrender of Idrissa will also have a demoralizing effect on his troops and we are expecting to see a lot of the FDLR [rebels] surrender in the coming days." – MONUSCO spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai
I am surprised by the surrender but wonder how the outcome will turn out. The integration process has become extremely messy because of the convolution and mixed loyalties created by the number of armed factions. To add to the calamity, just because Bizimana surrendered to MONUSCO doesn't necessarily mean any problems are solved because both UN officials and Congolese army officials have been reported to have killed, raped, and endangered innocent civilians. Thus, we must continue to seek sustainable and ingenious ways to solve this dreadfully complex conflict and the rampant impunity that plagues the DRC.
In light of this surrender, the ICC's first verdict on March 14 has found Thomas Lubanga guilty of recruiting child soldiers during the DRC conflict. While the case may help set a precedent for other cases involving the recruitment of child soldiers, the ICC has much work to do with the trying, process, and sentencing of war criminals.
The government has signed provisional ceasefires with several armed ethnic groups in recent months as part of political reform in the country, but has resulted without agreement and an end to fighting with the Kachin ethnic group. Most recently, daily clashes have prompted the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese government to hold peace talks.
"Negotiations have not yet yielded any agreement. There needs to be more discussions about the withdrawal of Burmese army bases from the region. We will continue to talk until we reach an agreement." – Gen Gun Maw, the deputy military chief of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).
The KIO says it wants government troops to withdraw from their bases in Kachin strongholds before it signs any ceasefire with the government. The government delegation, though, has maintained that such issues can only be discussed after a ceasefire is in place. President Thein Sein ordered an end to fighting with Kachin rebels December 10 of last year, but the hostilities between the two continue.
We follow UN envoy to Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana's call on the Burmese government to develop a plan to "officially engage with ethnic minority groups in serious dialogue and to resolve long-standing and deep-rooted concerns."
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Lawrence Technological University's Proud Heritage, Bold Future campaign has received more than $100 million in contributions.
Anonymous donors pushed the campaign, which was launched in 2007, over the $100 million mark with a contribution of $20 million that will be paid over three years, according to a news release.
Most of the campaign's contributions have been used for academic programming, research, scholarships and the university's endowment.
More than $30 million from the campaign has been committed for the new $55 million A. Alfred Taubman Engineering, Life Sciences and Architecture Complex, construction on which is expected to begin in the fall.
Construction on the 34,000-square-foot first phase of the 125,000-square-foot complex is estimated to cost $15 million. It will be connected to the university's Science Building and Engineering Building on the southeast corner of the campus quad.
Taubman, founder of Bloomfield Hills-based Taubman Centers Inc., is an alumnus of the Southfield-based university and donated $1 million to the project. He also offered a $10 million challenge grant that has been matched by more than $20 million in contributions for the new building, according to the news release.
The first phase is expected to be complete by 2016, said Eric Pope, the managing editor of the LTU University News Bureau.
Bidding for the construction contractor is expected in July, Pope said.
The design architect is Morphosis, which has offices in New York City and Culver City, Calif. The architect of record is Detroit-based Albert Kahn Associates Inc.
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I think many of Mr Becker's concerns are well understood by the Obama administration.
"If these companies offer higher pay than the Czar allows for companies under his jurisdiction... the controlled companies will lose their best employees to competitors, and they will have trouble attracting employees who are highly capable."
Mr Becker's reasoning on this is unassailable, but I think it is a bit behind the winds of change.
The stated goal of the administration is to apply these limits to all publicly traded companies (I believe Mr Posner also takes this in view of the situation is his article). Compensation for for all these entities is then to be placed under review by the SEC, the Fed, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.
This will, no doubt, have some similar effect of flight and disturbance of competition, but between firms in curtailing of new public offerings, and may lead some companies to return to private hands. I am certain, however, that a large number of firms will be unable to extract and exempt themselves, either through the complexity of their existing arrangements or through additional law that would see delisting--or perhaps even refraining from going public--as a regulatory dodge.
The goal of the administration is clearly to establish equal footing -- everyone's throat beneath their heel.
I hate too say this, but most of Hayek's work also suffers from a "Fatal Conceit". That is, that Markets and assorted Corporate Executives and Boards are any better at establishing "Prices and Wages" and not too mention Economic Sytems that operate in the Public Interest than is the Government or it's various Agencies. The now classic example is the current Depression.
As old A.Lincoln once said, "It's time to think anew and act anew". Not too mention, canning the various Econ. Dept's around the globe.
No one should be surprised. Fearful yes, but not surprised.
Another fatal conceit: that executives at a handful of major financial institutions would know how to price subprime mortgages.
Yikes! One hates to denounce the writings of prize winning economists as obtuse and outdated crapola but it's also hard to find reason for a higher grade.
These apologists for what the very recent "status quo" has become seem to have "forgotten??" what has happened to wage distribution over the last 30 years with increases at very top doubling and tripling, while median wages and those just above and below median have been virtually flat. The min wage has been allowed to erode to barely half the purchasing power it had in 1980 and those folks have not seen a dime of the doubling of productivity over those years.
Today, it's pure and very simple economics that the US and indeed the world is demand starved and the economy simply will NOT work with such a percentage of both wages and wealth being held by a small percentage while the remaining 80% are strapped and have literally no discretionary income after paying basic living costs.
As for trying to foil us with some phony "supply and demand" shuck and jive as companies "compete" for "talented" CEO's and other top excs, how naive do these guys think we are? We KNOW well and have long known that the game is that of the CEO appointing the board and the board appointing a "salary commission" made up of cooperative pals, or worse, those whose own companies will be awarded sweetheart contracts.
In 1980 Ceo's in the US earned about 60 times worker pay, and THAT ration was among the highest in the developed world. Volvo was built on a concept of factor of 10 being the difference between the top earner and the least. Yes, there is a reason for the name "company" and it used to mean a group of people working together to pool talents and labor and achieve more for all than could be done working individually.
Today CEO pay has risen to 400 times worker pay, so the rather annoying term "He works FOR me" rather than "He works with us....... or out team" has never been truer. And has this outlandish scheme of husbanding most of the profits at the top bought us excellence? or even competence? And would not ONE measure of such excellence or competence BE increasing rewards at all levels of pay as productivity increases?
So now that things HAVE gotten so out of kilter "we" circle the wagons and claim that any disruption of what has been previously stolen by Congressional negligence of, at LEAST, increasing the min wage with inflation, killing the unions and collective bargaining, and I suppose buying a batch of radio stations with propagandists that convey to their sheep-like audience the message that they are NOT worthy even of what they do get and are lucky beyond belief that these grossly overpaid CEO's who've stolen complete control of the company will "give them a job??"
Obama might fail in his endeavor to rationalize at least a bit of our wage structure, as JFK once failed in his to jawbone down soaring and inflationary steel prices, but! if this economy is ever to return to any semblance of health, by one means or another, those of the middle income group and those below MUST have a buck in their pocket to spend. The few at the top can not consume that many homes, cars, appliances and other consumer goods we still mfg here. If the US mass market isn't buying China, India and the rest will have increasing problems with the entire world's economy will continue in the death spiral it's in today.
Lastly, I've not heard much about pressure on GM to build smaller and more efficient cars and their (approved?) plan of selling off Saturn and closing Pontiac leaves them with fewer cars of modest size and good mileage. Even the most popular Hummer, the H-3 gets fair mileage for a midsized SUV.
But if there is pressure to bring the plug-in hybrids or other fuel efficient rigs to market, I applaud the effort as "the market" is again flawed in terms of dealing with either "peak oil" or global warming, as the fuel savings to our individual and short-sighted consumers are too little to spur the changes we MUST make as a community and a nation.
Chrysler? with Jeep and a variety of attractive cars including America's most popular convertible, and its popular Dodge Caravans which still dominate the minivan market, along with Dodge trucks should do just fine after healing up from the financial raping it took from DCX and the thieves of the three headed dog at the gates of hell. Adding some sexy Alfas, as well as some efficient diesel cars to the mix won't hurt either. And, Hey! what could inspire the working folk of the UAW who've given up pay and benefits BUT to see the boys at the top pitching in for the benefit of the team as well?
I am a capitalist for sure. But I guess that once the government was to bail out the perps who crashed my beloved capitalist system, doesn't that give gov the impetous to control the pay that will go to the likes of Ken Lewis? Whom, one has to wonder why he still has his job? I am not advocating gov should determine pay and I certainly agree that "free" markets should dictate prices and pay. But come on boys, free market left years ago. Now we have Wall Street and Congress decide prices and their own salaries.
You assume the highest pay will secure the best leadership for these companies. The events of the past year do not seem to support this thesis. Also, the intangible rewards and notoriety of turning one of these failed behemoths around might be worth a lot and also be quite enticing to a gifted corporate manager.
You also give no weight to the public's (and their elected representatives') likely response to a continuation of compensation packages that are unmoored from reality and incentives that favor short-term gain over long-term properity. If any of these bailout babies need to feed at the public trough in the future, these sorts of pay controls will improve their chances.
I still love capitalism but I've come to distrust capitalists. I don't have much more faith in our politicos, and this move smells of political grandstanding, but I'm willing to go along with it for now.
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What were families of 9/11 victims compensated for?
I'm quite opposed to government intervention in private markets, including employment markets. It will inevitably lead to even more perverse incentives, inefficiency, and cronism. Nonetheless, if one assumes that the Czar will only have authority over firms that have sought and received Federal assistance, that Czar would create substantial disincentives to seeking government assistance. That's a good thing. It's so good, I would actually favor the Czar having authority over execuive pay for any company that accepts government subsidies of any kind (yes you Big Agri, Boeing, Xerox, IBM, Motorola, Dow Chemical, and GE). I'm pretty sure corporate subsidies would go to zero shortly thereafter.
Obama is a communist. Who really denies this statement...?
Look at the Chrysler deal. Obama squeezed out creditors (a teacher's retirement fund for crying out loud...!) to prop up his largest campaign donor, the United Auto Workers union. I'm not sure Hugo Chavez would even make such an egregious intervention like that.
The list goes on here.
Becker, your logic here is assailable on many fronts. As some have pointed out, the idea that these companies are better able to create compensation systems is ludicrous. As Alan Greenspan said recently, "I was mistaken in the assumption that these banks would be run to ensure their long-term viability and growth." It's clear that they were not. The blind belief that markets find levels that maximize stakeholders' expected returns ignores the idea that some stakeholders are now more important that others. The severe misalignment between underinformed minority shareholders and insider management has reached a crisis level. To leave their compensation systems intact would be negligence of fiduciary duty given the overwhelming evidence we have recently received.
More fundamentally, I would encourage you to consider that markets break down when certain players have undue advantages and when this happens intervention is required. Our current market systems are tilted towards the powerful which will only result in continuing consolidation of assets in the hands of a few. This playing field needs to be rectified in order maximize our entire society's well-being. Any thoughts to the otherwise is just cruel because it disregards increasing pain and misery to the disadvantaged.
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If you do not agree with the thrust of Hayek's work on "The Uses of Information in Society," then you're visiting the wrong blog.
I'm not sure but you guys are paying Austan Goolsbee over $400,000 per year, how worse could the feds do?
Strongly recommend reading the Ben & Jerry's business case.
1990s B&J policy capped CEO pay at 7x the lowest salary in the company. When Ben Cohen left, the company nearly went out of business because from hiring poor executives at uncompetitive pay. B&J eventually had to scrap the policy to hire a turn-around specialist.
An interesting point that the Pay Czar may drive targeted companies to return to private ownership as quickly as possible. Where the influence will be perverse is with companies like GM where a number of factors suggest there is little or no prospect of it returning to fiscal viability and thus no prospect of it escaping from the public dole.
Hello Mr. Becker, Mr. Posner:
First post, recent visitor, look forward to exploring and learning.
My first impression is that micromanaging is ineffective role for the Federal Government, and that my teenage years recall the efforts of President Nixon and his Wage Price Control efforts that seem to cause a temporary solution with much bigger long-term economic consequences.
Clearly some pressure needs to be used to encourage better compensation towards a balance of long-term consideration along with short-term opportunities. That the shareholders clearly need more transparency and understanding of how these compensation packages will effect their investments, and a means be found that allows them to better influence corrections when they are slipped into the CEO pay package.
Since at this time the Federal government does play a role as a shareholder, along with structuring means of transparency, and regulation, it can provide a role in identifying what effective means can be established so that shareholders to have some real decision-making voting ability towards monitoring and approving a CEO pay package that maintains a balanced approach towards long-term and short-term opportunities for the company, corporation, business.
I would like to suggest topic of interest to me, on and off for 30+ years. It started in 1973 during my experiences in the Air Force during and after the Yom Kipper war regarding the national security and economic needs for this nation regarding oil and energy. Two general principles struck me deeply, that our need for oil could led to military actions by the U.S. in the Persian Gulf, and that like the depression era Civilian Conservation Corps the U.S. would need to consider the establishment of a decentralized, nation-wide Youth Energy Conservation (Efficiency) Corps.
Shortly after moving to San Jose CA, I learned of Congressman Paul N (Pete) McCloskey's bill in the House of Representatives to replace the Selective Service System with a voluntary National Youth Service System. The core principles of change were to have males and females register at 17 encouraged to debate the role of service both in a community format of service and military service. At 18 provide feedback towards yes, no, or maybe towards some form of contracted service. Maybe allowing for further consideration, maturity, additional education for post higher Ed participation. Community service would be vastly expanded with some programs being established by local government, state and federal agencies, but a even higher percentage of focus would be on non-profit maintained programs.
I have gotten brief kind words from members of Congress, including extensive correspondence with my representative then, Congressman Mineta, and Congressman Panetta. Nearly every White House administration, especially the Reagan Administration, but not the current Obama Administration, yet has provided thank you notes. Since 9/11 I have gotten brief encounters with many people of influence, photos to document close encounters, but near zero feedback, at the Commonwealth Club of California, World Affairs Council of Northern CA, Marines' Memorial Association – San Francisco, U.C. Berkeley. Not sure why silence is the best these encounters offer, and how capitalism can offer a foolish veteran, career clinical laboratory technician, the means to market participatory democracy constructive citizenship, contracted service as a national product worth purchasing or at least investing in.
Being a fan of Charlie Rose these last 15 years, I discovered Mr. Posner's presentation very compelling, worth further exploration, have order a few of his past books, and current one for further understanding of his perspective on life, society, civilization. Charlie Rose is a part of my close encounters, shared detailed documents, wall of silence.
I hope both you Mr. Becker and Mr. Posner can consider this three-part theme of mine:
Educational (decision-making) Democracy
Constructive (sweat-equity) Citizenship
National (economic-individual) Security
I like to think of myself as a existential phenomenologist, trying to understand the reality of what challenges and solutions lie ahead for our nation first, government and capitalism second, political parties a distant third. Having worked in the health care field most of my life, this life game of who lives or dies seems very real, but finding solutions towards a better more effective structure is so complex with winners and losers that our narrow minded ego's will probably prevent us from outlining, and creating any real reform that is cost-effective. I look forward to your discussions on this and many other topics.
I hope my priority can become a part of your priorities, at least as a interesting intellectual consideration.
Peter Jesella
P.S. Anonymous seems to be a very popular commentator.
I wonder though, why you think that because a firm is owned and has its pay set by the government that there would be no talented people who would take the job? The assumption is that there is not a Barack Obama out there, coming out of graduate school, filled with a desire to "be of some use" and work for "change [they] can believe in". All of this assumes, incorrectly, that people will always maximize their self-interest.
Great! Thank you!
Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Anonymous June 15, @12:21 pm
As for the uses of Information in Society, "If one tells a big enough LIE long enough, it will become the "TRUTH""
Paraphrased from Joseph Goebbels's "On Propaganda"
Anon 12:57 Ha! And we get the President, the VP, the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a stretch limo full of top generals, all for far less than a Blue Cross CEO.
Other than leading the charge for ever more vigorous lobbying, and passing on higher costs, or raising prices, do we think we've seen any innovation or rare talent in such offices during any recent decade?
You can't really set pay caps. It kind of goes against our collective American grain. I know we look at executive compensation and are outraged that they make millions even as their companies are failing, but if we start legislating how much people are allowed to earn in a given post, isn't that heading towards socialism at the very least? That's not what America is about, is it?
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Re: Mandalorian Ink. Fett Tatts.. A painful pleasure
*Gasp!* Friday the 13th! Thats BAD LUCK DAY DUDE!
Just kidding lol
My Mom got a Tatt on her neck yesterday. she said "It hurt so little!" Its a cool japanese symbol thing.
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Canada urged to bolster aerospace industry
Canada will lose position as aerospace power without investment, Emerson report warns
The aerospace sector is under threat from ambitious international competitors and the space agency has "foundered" for a decade, says a review of one of the country's biggest industries.
The aerospace report calls on the Harper government to beef up spending to develop space technology, diverting the money from other research programs.
It also urges Ottawa to be more aggressive in promoting Canada's aerospace industry abroad and to negotiate co-operation agreements with emerging industry players, such as China and India.
Canada should be proud of its status as a global aerospace power, said David Emerson, the former cabinet minister who led the wide-ranging review.
The country will lose its competitive position in the industry if it sits back and doesn't invest, he warned in the two-volume report.
"Times have changed," Emerson told a news conference.
"It's fair to say that the past, and our successes in the past, cannot simply be replicated going forward," he said.
"We're going to have to change and adapt to new global realities."
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., an Indian state-owned company, is heavily involved in building helicopters and plans to eventually develop its own fighter planes and commercial aircraft.
Industry watcher Suzanne Benoit, CEO of Aero Montreal, notes that Hindustan hasn't gone heavily into commercial markets yet, but it's only a matter of time.
The Chinese are also developing their own industry, although it could take 15 to 20 years to catch up to global competitors.
Focus on selling abroad
To maintain Canada's stature in the market, Emerson says the prime minister needs to sell new technologies abroad and use his position to make aerospace a top government priority.
"Presidents, prime ministers and senior officials around the world help open doors for their nations' aerospace firms by highlighting those firms' strengths and successes" says Emerson.
"The right combination of business acumen, cutting-edge research, and government policies will allow Canada to remain an aerospace power for decades to come."
Canada is currently home to the world's fifth-largest aerospace industry by a measure of gross domestic product.
The review recommends that Ottawa spend $10 million in each of the next three years to bolster the work of the Canadian Space Agency.
The money, says Emerson, can be found within the current budget of the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative.
The report, divided into two categories, makes 17 recommendations for supporting the country's aerospace sector and eight for its space industry.
One controversial recommendation is a call for a loosening of export controls on sensitive technologies, which carries with it the potential for leaks of intellectual property that could upset Canada's key aerospace partner, the United States. Such a move, if handled badly, could also threaten national security.
Those controls, however, may be "unduly sweeping and rigid," the review, said. This could lead to the loss of business to companies from countries with more balanced export-control regimes that are able to sell to Russia, China and elsewhere.
Space program has 'foundered'
Canada's space program must also be reinvigorated, said the second-volume of the report, suggesting that the Harper government doesn't always recognize the importance of space technologies and their benefits, particularly for national security and the broader economy.
"Over the last decade, the Canadian space program has foundered," said Emerson.
"There's been some lack of clarity around priorities and an uneven performance in the implementation of projects," he added. "This cannot continue."
The report recommends that the Canadian Space Agency's core funding be stabilized over a 10-year period.
The agency's budget for 2011-2012 was $442.3 million.
As well, the review recommended that the government allow for "space-related commercial activity" where it's safe to do so, including exploration projects and space tourism.


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Here's a look at about 6 minutes of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare's "Gardens & Graveyards" multiplayer, which PopCap calls "a remix of Rush and Conquest gameplay modes from Battlefield but with a PvZ spin."
The similarities end there, because I'm not sure Rush or Conquest features carnivorous plants that can tunnel underneath you to score an unrevivable kill. Also, engineer buttcrack at 2:38, pretty sure that's not featured in Rush and/or Conquest.
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare supports up to 24 in multiplayer. The map you see above is called "Driftwood Shores," likely an homage to the city where Electronic Arts headquarters is located. The game is a Microsoft timed exclusive (Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows PC) and arrives Feb. 18.
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Four amazing race tracks. Twenty one hours. Too much fried food. One great car. One possible birdslaughter. Zero sleep.
We arrived back in New York City 21 hours after setting off from Daytona yesterday. It's been a long one.
Here are the stats:
1355.3 miles
21:03 total time
21.6 MPG average
63 MPH average speed
1 possible dead bird
2 2nd gen Camrys spotted
0 Moslers spotted
Now, I NEED A SHOWER.


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WORCESTER � For the first time in more than two years, Mary Ann Swistak of Hardwick picked up the telephone on Thanksgiving eve and spoke to her granddaughter a few miles away in Barre.
The 9-year-old voice on the other end is the last connection Ms. Swistak has to her daughter, Randi Stemlokas, who died in a horseback riding accident in the fall of 2005. It was the first of many tragedies the families would experience.
Back then, Ms. Swistak and her husband, Michael Swistak (who died April 2010 from pancreatic cancer), regularly cared for Morgan Stelmokas, who also enjoyed time with her aunt, Blair Swistak and her great grandmother, Theresa Zaganiacz.
But in 2006, the great relationship they had with Morgan's father, William Stelmokas, changed. He was devastated over the loss of his wife and was trying to move on as a single father. He started dating and in November of 2006 the woman he'd been seeing died in a car accident. In a 2008 logging accident he nearly lost his leg.
Ms. Swistak became concerned about her granddaughter's well-being and Mr. Stelmokas' ability to care for her. In 2007 she made the first of two calls to the state Department of Children and Families. The agency found no cause for concern, according to legal documents.
Before long, the matter moved to court.
"They said I was a bad parent," Mr. Stelmokas said. "And it escalated into a fight."
A judge suspended Morgan's visits with her grandparents, but after some time and in spite of the court order, Mr. Stelmokas allowed Morgan to have time with her grandparents again.
Then things went downhill.
In 2009, Mr. Stelmokas met a new woman and when they later married, she adopted Morgan. The Swistaks learned of the adoption moments before a judge terminated their rights for visitation in 2011, citing a state law that, according to an appeals court decision, the judge misread.
"At the hearing, the judge informed the grandparents that the child had been adopted by the father's new wife and that the plaintiff was 'not the grandmother anymore, legally' because 'as soon as a child's adopted by another parent, that cuts off the entire other family,'" according to a decision by the Appeals Court of Massachusetts.
The same judge had granted the adoption, the ruling states.
The appeals court vacated the decision but kept the hold on the Swistaks' visitation and sent the matter back to the lower court, ordering that a different judge hear the matter.
Terry Stelmokas admits she's had a strained relationship with Ms. Swistak since then.
Ms. Swistak said the same thing, though each believes they are easy enough to get along with and places the blame squarely on the other. Both said they are only concerned for Morgan.
In Massachusetts, grandparents have the right to see their grandchildren as long as the visits are in the best interest of the child, said Judge Joseph Lian Jr. who presides over probate cases in Worcester.
Mass. General Law Chapter 119, Section 39D allows for grandparents' rights, Judge Lian said, though the judge involved must determine whether the visits are good for the child..
He's seen his share of grandparents heartbroken over not seeing their grandkids and admits he has two grown granddaughters he adores; one a teacher and the other in law school. He tries to cut through the sometimes extraneous testimony that distracts from the legal issues of when grandparents should be involved with their children's children and when they should not.
One of his cases involved a military father who had been overseas for more than a decade and returned to seek custody of his daughter, who'd been in the care of her guardian, an aunt, after the girl's mother and sister had died.
Judge Lian's decision to grant him custody and allow visitation to the aunt was upheld on appeal.
Now, he has ruled on an agreement hashed out among Donald Stolgitis Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Stelmokas' lawyer, and Ms. Swistak's attorney, Nicole Reeves Lavallee.
Mr. Stolgitis, who himself fought a battle over the custody of his own son, said he never wants to see such matters go to trial and he told his clients they should try to work things out even if it's difficult to do so. He saw the effects of his own family's litigation and wanted to prevent Morgan from experiencing that, he said.
"Anytime we're in a situation where a kid is in the middle, it negatively affects them," he said. "My own case took such a toll on me, I rarely do these cases anymore."
So in the interest of doing what's right for Morgan, everyone involved will go through counseling.
Ms. Swistak is willing to do whatever it takes and has for some time had a sign in her yard letting Morgan know her maternal family loves and misses her. She's hoped her granddaughter has seen it and been comforted by it.
Morgan will be reintroduced to her grandmother slowly, once a counselor determines the time is right, and until then, they'll be able to talk on the telephone.
"It's definitely more than what I had," she said, adding that she was appreciative of Judge Lian's ruling. "He's awesome. This is exactly why I went to the appeals court."
In addition to counseling and eventually a few hours visit on Saturdays, the court also stipulated that the Stelmokases and the Swistaks should not speak ill of one another in front of Morgan.
Mrs. Stelmokas, despite the bad blood, said she's hopeful for a relationship with her adopted daughter's grandmother.
"I want to be the kind of mother who can send (Morgan's) grandmother her report card to hang on the refrigerator," she said. "And I would think she would want to get to know the woman who's mothering her granddaughter."
Ms. Swistak is cautious in her optimism.
"I will give it a shot," she said. "But I am afraid of retaliation."
Both sides said the matter probably should not have gone this far and that instead of using the courts to make Morgan's family smaller, they should gladly acknowledge that there are now more people in her new extended family that love her.
Still, Judge Lian set a date to review the case to see how things are going and penned a trial date on the court calendar, just in case.
He warned both sides after telling them he spoke with the probation officer who interviewed Morgan.
"She sounds like she's a delightful child," he said. "Let's keep it that way."
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Paul Simpson & The Wild Swans
It's going to be a busy time for collectors of 'The Wild Swans' as both 'The Coldest Winter' and 'Incandescent' will have a vinyl release in the next few weeks. Both are available in various formats. See Occultation for more info.
You can also buy Volumes 1 and 2 or 'Man In A Burning Anorak' in the STORE as well as other Bits and Bobs.


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AEA Student Program
The AEA Student Program seeks to inspire and foster exemplary future leaders in education by offering opportunities in professional development, community outreach, leadership, and networking with future teachers. These opportunities support a future teacher's preparation and entry into the teaching profession. AEA is the Arizona affiliate of the National Education Association. By joining AEA, you also belong to the NEA and their network of 3 million educators nationwide.
Hear from NEA Student Program members on why they belong to the NEA.
Student Program Core Values
The NEA Student Program Foundations – Teacher Quality, Community Outreach, and Political Action – are the underlying areas of focus that direct Student Program activities. It is in these areas that our members and affiliates sponsor programs, educate on issues, and affect change.
Teacher Quality encompasses pre-professional development and job preparation. At local meetings and workshops, state conferences, and national symposiums, our members encounter professional development opportunities: guest speakers on classroom management, experts on testing and practitioners sharing tips on smoothly running science labs. Job preparation comes in the form of resume workshops, portfolio tutorials, mock interviews and new teacher panels. Student Program publications and websites share teacher quality information relevant to our members, including certification requirements and resources for working with special needs children. Student members and chapters partner with Local Associations to enhance in-the-classroom opportunities and secure "real world" insights into the education profession. Students shape their college curriculum by serving as change-agents on boards and committees. Our members' involvement in the NEA Student Program increases their ability to become quality teachers.
Community Outreach describes how NEA Student Program members engage the people and environment around them; we impact our communities – locally and globally – and value the meaningfulness of such involvement. Our members learn about communicating with parents, experience partnering with local businesses, and find grant support through Chamber of Commerce consortiums. We design and implement projects as diverse as after-school tutoring programs, Harry Potter learning carnivals, and Senior Citizen dances. New teachers who are NEA Student Program Alumni are more successful in helping their students achieve because they know how reaching out to the community provides them access to material and human resources.
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On World Pneumonia Day, the United Nations Secretary-General's global movement to advance the health of women and children, Every Woman Every Child, has joined forces with the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia to draw attention to the critical importance of reducing child pneumonia deaths to the achievement of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4.
World Pneumonia Day seeks to raise awareness of pneumonia as a public health issue and help prevent the millions of avoidable child deaths from pneumonia that occur each year. It is organized by the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia (a network of international, government, non-governmental and community-based organizations, research and academic institutions, foundations, and individuals) to bring much-needed attention to pneumonia among donors, policy makers, health care professionals, and the general public.
Pneumonia is the single largest cause of death in children worldwide. Every year, it kills an estimated 1.2 million children under the age of five years, accounting for 18% of all deaths of children under five years old worldwide. Pneumonia affects children and families everywhere, but is most prevalent in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Children can be protected from pneumonia, it can be prevented with simple interventions, and treated with low-cost, low-tech medication and care.
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Family Relationships Quarterly No. 14
Focus on natural disasters: literature review on responses of families, children and adolescents; a whole-of-service response to the 2006 Grampians
The Australian Institute of Family Studies acknowledges the traditional country throughout Australia on which we gather, live, work and stand.
We acknowledge all traditional custodians, their Elders past, present and emerging, and we pay our respects to their continuing connection to their culture, community, land, sea and rivers.


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Kennedy faces disappointing end to first half
Onetime D-backs ace unable to put Brewers away in series finale
PHOENIX -- The All-Star break could not come at a better time for Ian Kennedy. Pegged as the ace of the staff entering the season, the right-hander has yet to consistently show the top-of-the-line stuff in 2013 that thrust him to the front of the rotation back in 2011.
Continuing the theme of his season to date, Kennedy struggled Sunday, while the D-backs' lineup went hitless with runners in scoring position as the club dropped the series finale to the Brewers, 5-1, at Chase Field.
"Terrible," said Kennedy when asked to describe his first half. "I didn't pitch to my abilities; I was very inconsistent."
While the D-backs can write off their poor offensive showing Sunday as a one-game glitch, the same cannot be said for Kennedy. The right-hander surrendered five runs on nine hits over 6 1/3 innings as his ERA crept even higher to 5.42, the second-worst among NL starters. The 28-year-old has not won since June 1, a span of seven outings.
"He can throw the ball better; I know it, and he knows it, so we'll work on that," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "He's busting his tail. He's frustrated with his performances, as anybody would be."
As has also been the case for him this season, Kennedy on Sunday struggled to put batters away with two strikes, especially early on. The first four Brewers of the game singled on two-strike counts, putting the D-backs in a 3-0 hole in the first inning.
After another two hits and a safety squeeze bunt in the second added to Milwaukee's lead, Kennedy worked consecutive 1-2-3 innings before Logan Schafer launched a solo blast to right field in the fifth, on another two-strike count.
"The secondary stuff isn't as sharp; he used to be a guy that would get punchouts with changeups and curveballs, but that hasn't happened," Miguel Montero said. "Right now, he might be in his head a little bit, and that's when he gets in trouble. It's been a tough year for him. Sometimes you lose your confidence; I've gone through the same thing. Hopefully these four days can refresh him, and he'll get a new start for the second half."
The D-backs know how important getting Kennedy back on track will be for their playoff push. In the midst of the Brewers' hit barrage early Sunday, Gibson made a rare coaching visit to the mound, and television cameras showed him heatedly jawing at his pitcher. While neither Gibson nor Kennedy would divulge what was said in the meeting, both said the point of it all was to light a fire under the righty.
After the talk, Kennedy went on to retire the next seven batters he faced before serving up the homer to Schafer.
"I thought it needed to be said, and I think it was well received," Gibson said. "He needed to get his butt going, and he did. I'd just like to see him do that out of the gate."
Said Kennedy: "It was basically make adjustments quicker, and I knew if I didn't, I'd be out of the game. He didn't say that, but I knew what he meant. I know he expects a lot out of me, and I expect a lot out of myself."
Kennedy added that he remained confident despite his results, but he is looking forward to getting away from the game for the next couple of days.
"It'll be nice to relax," said Kennedy, who will start the D-backs' first game back Friday. "It has been frustrating, but I'll have the break to think things through."
Although Kennedy and the D-backs were not able to finish the first half of the season on a high note, the club nevertheless enters the All-Star break atop the National League West standings, leading the Dodgers by 2 1/2 games. Arizona went 8-4 over its last 12 games, including 6-4 in the recent 10-game homestand.
"We're in first place; we've had a lot of trials and tribulations, but the team has hung in there well," Gibson said. "We've stuck together."
Offensively Sunday, the D-backs went 0-for-6 with RISP, as their sole run came on Miguel Montero's second homer as many days. Arizona put runners on the corners with one out in the first but came up empty when Aaron Hill grounded into an inning-ending double play. The club again put two men on with one down in the second, only to see Didi Gregorius fly out and Kennedy strike out to end the threat.
Down by four in the sixth, the D-backs wasted their best chance for a comeback when, after the first two batters of the inning singled, the next three went down in order, including strikeouts by Hill and Jason Kubel against Brewers starter Willy Peralta.
"We had some things going, and he got out of it with some double plays," Gibson said. "Give him credit for shutting us down like that as we tried to chip away at the lead. If we get those runs, it's a different game."


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Selves and computers
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Sherry Turkle's work is amongst the most influential analyses of people's emotional engagement with online environments. Her ethnographic work on computer users in the 90s depicted the encounter of her background in psychoanalysis with the techno-utopianism of the MIT community in "Life on the Screen: Identity on the Age of the Internet". Her analysis of the relationship between selfhood and computer-mediated interaction started with the earlier work, "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit" and has continued most recently in "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other". Although some have characterised the trajectory of her work (in some ways, Turkle does this herself) as a movement from optimistic embrace of the possibilities that machines offer towards a more problematic view of how machines permit their users to become narcissists, the structure of these tensions can be seen throughout her work: Technically mediated control over human relationships can allow us to replace importantly liminal experiences with less risk-laden interactions. If such substitutions allow us to explore our identities, inhabit imaginative selves and bypass meatspace prejudice, so much the better; if they allow us avoid important coming-of-age rituals or maintain artificially arms-length distances to the people around us, then perhaps something is amiss.
Turkle finds an analogy between the interface of the modern computer GUI and the postmodern condition of the self. She finds that her respondents are able to switch between different selves by switching windows on the screen, and thus they are able to express and perform on their desktop interfaces the fragmented predicament of the self in postmodernity. The way that the enframing logic and style of media technologies reflects the conditions of subjectivity is a theme taken up in the work of Steven Shaviro whose analysis of networked culture (Connected: What It Means to Live in the Network Society, 2003) represents in its form the distributed, decentralised nature of both the network and the "fragmented and multiplied" self. Most recently, Shaviro's work on post-cinematic affect explores how the mirroring between subjectivity and mediation continues as cinematic editing styles demote concerns for continuity in favour of a mode which emphasises not only the non-linearity and glitch aesthetic facilitated by digital technologies but the neo-liberal tropes of precarity and just-in-time production. The artefacts of mediated culture now reflect a world in which not only is the casual employee's labour alienated, but also the specific instance of the self is, just like the media products consumed by the viewer, produced on-demand.
The encircling of media affordances and selfhood within similar frames of reference receives its most contemporary expression in the smartphone. The mobile phone is pervasive not only in the digitally advanced consumer societies of the developed world, but is also the technology of choice in developing countries as its practicality has leapfrogged other more bulky and expensive computing devices. The penetrative capacity of the smartphone ensures that people's lives in all their dimensions are accompanied into every corner of time and space with two-way media. Thus Urry's term "networked mobilities" is applicable equally to the identity of the owner as it is to the media products and interactions that the device enables. The pervasiveness that mobile computing brings about is a genuine shift from the previously separated and distinct experiences that constituted online life. Access to digital spaces is no longer a discretely portioned parcel of life but a continuous augmentation of most everyday activities, leading some commentators such as Nathan Jurgenson to argue that the diagnosis of technically mediated aspects of life as separate and inferior to "real life" in some way is guilty of a "digital dualism" which is at best anachronistic and at worst doesn't appreciate the entwined interlacing of physical and virtual life. Nevertheless to erase the distinction between the digital world and the space of embodied existence is to beg the question that Turkle and others would raise.


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The Supreme Court says people must be able to hire and fire people to be considered a supervisor in a discrimination lawsuit.
The justices made the 5-4 ruling on Monday as it threw out Maetta Vance's appeal.
At issue was whether to be considered a supervisor, a person must be able to hire and fire people.
That's what the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said while hearing a complaint from Vance, who says she was racially harassed. Vance, a Ball State University caterer, says her tormentor was a supervisor, making the university liable. But the lower courts said that since the woman could not fire Vance, she was only a co-worker, and threw out the case.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Fashion Illustration: "...it just keeps coming back, like a familiar melody."
For quite some time now, I've been wanting to devote a week on Today's Inspiration to fashion illustration of the mid-20th century.
Not because I have all sorts wisdom to share on the subject (I don't) or because I have followed the work of fashion illustrators closely (I haven't) -- but because occasionally I've come across pieces like the ones above and below and thought, "Wow, these are just too cool not to share on the blog!"
For those of us who have focused our attention mostly on other types of illustration, its easy to overlook the importance of fashion illustration and how it influenced the stylistic development of some of our favourite mid-20th century artists...
These artists in turn influenced the entire illustration industry, inspiring countless other artists to incorporate the elements of fashion illustration in their own work.
Some have even gone beyond the industry, profoundly influencing the larger world of fine art and popular culture.
While I think I have a pretty good grasp on the motivations of the 'typical' illustrator, the nature of fashion illustration and those who specialize in it remains largely a mystery to me. I don't think I'm alone in my opinion that fashion illustrators live in a world somewhat apart from the rest of the industry.
So what exactly are the elements of fashion illustration? I feel I lack the expertise to speak with any authority on the subject. Instead I'll offer some observations made largely out of ignorance and hope that TI's learned readers will share some genuine insight as we go along.
Some fashion illustrators seem to be primarily poster designers...
... others seem to be almost like fine artists who specialize in figure drawing...
... still others seem to be not unlike technical illustrators or designers of infographics...
... while yet others could very well be portrait painters.
Under the umbrella of "fashion illustration" these specialists have found not only common ground but great acclaim as well.
You'll notice I started and concluded this post with art by a contemporary illustrator, David Downton. That's because David and I have corresponded for a couple of years now and I wanted to highlight his excellent book, "Masters of Fashion Illustration", in which he acknowledges artists like J.C. Leyendecker, Bob Peak, Coby Whitmore and others one might not normally think of as fashion illustrators. Its thanks to David and his book that I began to consider fashion illustration in a different light.
I hope you'll share you thoughts on the subject!
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Great post! I love fashion illustration. It all started with Jack Potter introducing me to the work of Carl Erickson. Potter owned original art by Eric and I was fortunate to be able to see that stuff.
Beautiful drawing after beautiful drawing. His line, selectivity and simplicity was excellent. Interesting too to see his work in print (primarily Vogue where he worked for years). Sometimes you can see where a line was "off" or a section (such as a hand) erased. A directness to the drawing that you don't see often.
Where did you find the Potter piece that you posted today? I've never seen it before.
Glad to see fashion illustration still around today with artists like David Downton. Hopefully art buyers will see this blog and get inspired to hire more like it.
Did you know that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has some original Potter fashion drawings? If you do search you can see them here:
I look forward to the conversation, and posts, this week.
- Anonymous7:02 PM
So happy to have found you. I'm a fashion writer and have always been fond of fashion illustration, actually illustration in general. But I don't know anything about it. I look forward ot learning. Thank you!ReplyDelete
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Daniel; Thanks for your comment. Maybe you can shed some light on this for me... What is it that motivates the fashion illustrator? I tried to touch on it in my post today - but I'm still sort of mystified by fashion illustration.ReplyDelete
Hopefully I don't come off sounding negative (its not my intention to put down fashion illustration) but it seems to me that when someone chooses to devote themselves to fashion illustration they have come to terms with certain limitations or restrictions. When I look at most (not all) other types of illustration, it seems that the artist has the opportunity to explore far more variety of subject matter, scenery - even concept. Fashion illustration focuses a narrow beam on the clothed figure (and various accessories related to that figure).
Personally, as a creative artist, I would find that frustrating. Obviously, some fantastic artists did not and do not. Why?
Moya; thanks for your comment. I hope you find both inspiration and educational value in this week's series of posts. :^)ReplyDelete
Have a look at this 2009 series of posts about Carl Erickson for additional thoughts and information on the subject:
I understand why you'd have questions about fashion illustration because it does seem like a limited market. But before I try my best to answer that, keep in mind that choosing to move in any direction (as an artist) is different for each individual.
Also, the business has changed over the years and I'm sure that fashion illustration in the 40's is much different than today. There were more opportunities back then and most fashion artists worked from models.
Today that's not the case (unfortunately). At least not that I know of.
I've always thought of fashion art as a way to showcase a product in a stylish way. Be it a piece of clothing, perfume, or whatever the item may be. Many artists not only worked for magazines but also for stores (such as Lord & Taylor) and fashion designers (Dior).
Aside from style how different is that from other forms of illustration? There are artists today who have done ad campaigns selling a product. Or drawings that are later used on various items such wine labels, t-shirts, etc. They sell items and not always with a story or "concept".
The reason why artists chose fashion over other areas of illustration varies artists to artist. In some ways it's no different than a comic book artist working in that field for their entire career.ReplyDelete
But keep in mind that some of the biggest names in fashion art did more than you might think.
Carl Erickson worked for Vogue Magazine for 30+ years. In the 40's you can see his art in almost every issue (numerous pages). Who wouldn't want that gig? I'm sure through that other artists, such as Jack Potter, were inspired to do the same. In Jack's case he did do fashion art but was able to branch out into editorial work as well. Part of that was his ability as an artist but also the market at that time. Fashion art was changing as photos started to take over.
Going back to Eric for a moment you might be surprised to know that he did an editorial job for Esquire magazine, a series of reportage drawings for CBS, and portraits of high society. Sure they all are drawn in his signature style but they're not his typical fashion work.
Other big names in the field such as Rene Bouche did fine art oil paintings (portraits). Rene Gruau not only did fashion ads but also did posters as well.
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Leif, I was offered a fashion illustration job at the Broadway stores in L.A., by my fashion instructor at (then called) Art Center School. I came close to taking it, since it was a solid offer and a starting point. But, I had the same reservations as you have expressed. However, I really enjoyed fashion drawing and had a "knack" for it, but I felt it might be too repetitious. Perhaps, had I been a fashion illustrator in N.Y., I could have more easily branched out into other avenues of illustration. I remember being told many times throughout my schooling, "Be careful not to keep doing the same type of work over and over again, or you will be "pigeon holed." But, there was a sense of excitement and challenge to draw directly from the model, and achieve a direct, simplified elegant drawing in a short time. When I worked in Chicago, I did freelance fashion illustrations for Sears & Roebuck Co., and also a little fashion illustration in S.F.ReplyDelete
Incidentally, I think Daniel gave a valid comments, and I might add Marburry Brown to that group of mid century fashion illustrators. Brown also did other on-location magazine assignments for Esquire. His work had great flair and simplicity, and I also liked the way he handled the foreground and background props, etc.. mere suggestions.
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Oops! Spelling correction.. Marbury Brown.ReplyDelete
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Hi Leif. A delight to find your blog today. I shall be making many return visits.ReplyDelete
I was intrigued by your comment on the limitations of fashion illustration.
Perhaps it was a subconscious decision from you to post such wonderfully creative and conceptual examples?
They only seem to challenge your own thoughts that this style is restrictive. Personally I can't see how fashion illustrators are any more exclusive than those who devote their careers to say children's books or comics. Or certainly the restrictions imposed were defiantly confronted. Think also of some of the classic pin up artists who were working in a far more niche style yet always managed an interesting use of props to alleviate their images from being completely repetitive.
I was always very jealous at fashion students at uni. They could draw better than us illustrators.
I've never heard of Marbury Brown before. Sounds like an interesting artists. A quick google search says that he went to the Jepsen school and may have been there at the same time Potter was.
Do you know where I might be able to find samples of his work?
- Rich3:53 PM
Somehow the very term "Fashion Illustration" sounds a bit puzzling to me: Because the German term "Modezeichner" (verbatim "fashiondrawer") would translate into "styler".ReplyDelete
There must be a differentiation: between someone creating fashion (the styler), and someone illustrating - both of them bound to and excelling on the drawing board. Both of them depicting their ideas, even if narrowed down to a single repetitious theme.
But, for instance, wasn't Degas repetitious with his repeatedly rendered and fashioned ballet dancers?
Perhaps, instead of "repetitious", the term "obsessive" might fit better, because IMO "repetitiousness" hardly implies variety - who knows, perhaps obsessiveness implies some more?
Just my own observations "made largely out of ignorance", as Leif puts it.
I know this is becoming a tired refrain when I post here, but once again you've posted a revelation for me. Herebefore, I had actually dismissed fashion illustration as just trivial fluff and lifeless. I especially felt (and still feel) that way for contemporary fashion illustration.
But coming across the work of Rene Gruau and now your posts here on the blog, totally opened my eyes. Just fantastic work and now I feel shamed that I've given this stuff such short shrift undeservedly in the past.
Once again,
Thanks, Leif!
I could never find much info on Marbury Hill Brown, and still haven't found much more than you have, even after spending some time googling him. As I remember, he did mainly men's fashions, suits, overcoats, etc., at least that's all that I evere saw, back in the 60s' and maybe into the 70s'. They were loose charcoal drawings printed on beige or light brown stock, with no color washes added. I specially recall a men's fafshion series he did for Esquire that blew my socks off. After that, I only saw a few more examples at random. He suddenly appeared, and then kinda disappeared, as I recall. However, he may have been doing retail ads, brochures, gallery painting, etc., that I was unaware of. He wrote and illustrated a "how to book" called "BODYWORKS, a visual guide to drawing the figure", that can be found on the Internet. A few people on the Internet have stated they were fashion students in his class, but information on him is almost nothing.
I once had some nice samples of his work from Esquire Magazine, but they were lost in a move, along with nice examples of other illustrators. I did run across a little sketch he did for the US Coast Guard of a docked sail boat, but found no fashion drawings. I will email the boat sketch to Leif, and maybe he can email it to you, if you can provide your email adress to him.
Tom Watson
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Hi MY name is Dick Hammond and I did fashion illustrations for Neiman Marcus in Dalles store in the mid 60s. Maubury Brown the mens artist had already left the store and had moved to New York City, doing adds for various accts. GQ magazine, Esquire etc. The staff artists at the time were Jackie Evans, Irma Lee Scruggs, Laurily Lee Oakey and Dick Hammond, A lady name Verge did hard lines. More laterReplyDelete
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I was a model at Neiman Marcus in the 1960's. I worked with Jackie Evans, Irma Lee Scruggs and Vergie. I remember Laurile Oakley. Not sure about Dick Hammond. If I saw a photo of him maybe it would jog my memory. The art director was Art Feckedy (spelling?) and he went to to be editor of Ladies Home Journal and then returned to be Advertising Director. I also worked with artist named Dorothy. The other models were John, Linda and Susan who later opened a modeling school and then a Fashion School in the Trade Mart.I think she just wanted to put Neiman Marcus model on her resume. I'd love to hear from anyone who was there in those days. Sue Gafford Piner. I'm on Facebook.ReplyDelete
The fashion industry is booming, and if you have decided to become a fashion designer, you have made the right choice. It is like a dream job which offers you the ultimate satisfaction.ReplyDelete
I had Marbury Brown as an instructor at Ringling School of Art in 1979-80. Somewhere in my files, I have some samples of his work. Great draftsman. He also did some paintings for the Air Force art program.ReplyDelete
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Maroth update
Not really great news on Mike Maroth, but not necessarily bad news, either. Despite "something" showing up in the MRI exam, as GM J.P. Ricciardi worded so eloquently, the lefty has decided to try to pitch through the discomfort.
"There's something in there," Ricciardi said. "He might have some damage in there that requires surgery, but he thinks he can fight through it. That's really his call.
The Jays signed Maroth to a Minor League deal over the winter with the hope that he could compete for a spot in the rotation, or at least add deptch behind the big league staff. Maroth is making his way back from left shoulder surgery as well.
That's it for now. I'm all hopped up on Red Bull and hoping the clouds don't start sending the rain. It's a bit dreary here today weather wise. I'm planning on sitting down with Aaron Hill a tad later to talk about his comeback from that nasty concussion.
Stay tuned…
JOINING THE CLUB: We can all welcome the Globe's Robby MacLeod to Twitter. You can find him on there at www.twitter.com/Sportshack. He's still building his page, but he joined the new super cool trend this morning. As a reminder, I'm on there at /MLBastian.
NEW ARRIVAL: Jose Bautista showed up to camp today, leaving 3B Scott Rolen as the only no show so far. Rolen lives in Bradenton, so he's probably using these last days to spend more time with the fam. Why commute before you're required to? Manager Cito Gaston said he's not worried about Rolen at all.
UPDATE: Looks like Maroth's injury might be a bit more serious. One Jays insider described the situation as "bleak" and it's believed that the injury is a torn meniscus in his left knee, which would require at least 4-6 weeks of recovery if he had surgery. Gaston stated the obvious, saying this puts Maroth way behind in the race for a rotation job. Maroth was a long shot to begin with. No one seems to know what caused the injury.
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Thank you for the best news of the year-a healthy Aaron Hill.
Disapointing that Bautista just showed up today and Rolen hasn't been seen yet.
Great news regarding Hill, i'm excited to see him healthy and playing a full season again.
I agree with GS about Rolen. I realize he isn't required to be there quite yet, but after having a poor showing last year, I would have thought he'd be there early working on his new swing. Not to mention that fact that he is a veteran on this team and the young players are looking up to him. Perhaps he has personal reasons that we don't know about.
Probably best that Rolen doesn't overdo it in Spring Training. Save his strength for regular season, limit BP, and take days off here and there.
Rolen is one guy who you can count on being ready come opening day. He just stays at home because he can still work out there and remain with his family.


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