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Brief bio on Bihari in English
Wikipedia page on Bihari
Bihari is also mentioned in Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse
I think I see four different "arrows" directing our attention to the Gypsy's head: from the judges head, along several other heads; along the heads of the figures to our right; from the hat on the floor, though his own dark coat; and finally, from the lantern on the upper left. This all has to have been planned.
"ideas of Impressionism" …???
अर्जुन, You know, painting direct from nature outdoors, broken color, etc. The ideas were in the air in Vienna and Paris. They were very much a part of academic practice before the Impressionists latched onto them. Bihari, from what I've read of him, was as much coming the Munich school of thinking as anything else, and I'm trying to learn more about how that thinking was different from Parisian academic training.
Beautiful image! However I really wanted to comment more on the Spectrum Live! Convention that I just noticed on your sidebar and was investigating... I have never exhibited at a convention before and it terrifies me to even entertain the thought of putting my humble pieces next to you, or Brom, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Jon Foster... any of you... But I know I SHOULD do it, because it could help me get work in the future, so I am going to do it. I admit freely that I'm young, and as such my work is still young, and I know how much I still have to learn. Do you have some advice on what I should be prepared for at the convention? How should I engage other artists? How does one approach a seasoned artist and politely ask to get to know each other as business contacts or friends without sounding incredibly obnoxious? How do I do that and make you WANT to get to know ME, since EVERYONE else is wanting the same thing?
The whole idea makes me feel like David taking on Goliath without the support of God.
Hi, Maria, I'm sure others will comment, but I can assure you that this will be a totally informal and welcoming environment. I first showed my paintings at a science fiction convention, right next to my heroes, and then I found out they were all really approachable and down to earth. Spectrum Live is dedicated just to imaginative art, so you'll get a lot out of it.
Painting is not a narrative form; one does not relate a series of events.
If you insist upon a sequential component in a definition of narrative in regard to painting, then clearly it does not apply to most paintings. The thing is, there is a well established art methodological precedent for not insisting upon it.
The painting is successful as a piece of storytelling and is well executed. I think it's a fairly bland composition, however.
Etc. Of course some paintings tell stories and some don't. But I think "narrative" is a term we should do without in talking about paintings, for two reasons: it's often used to disparage storytelling art, and it suggests the presentation of a story by means of a sequence of events. A single painting suggests a story in a very different way, by selecting a single moment in time. Understanding that difference really helps me think more clearly about making a picture tell a story.
Hello Mr. Gurney. I'm Hungarian, and I've read your book (Dinotropia, journey to Chanadra) today, in a Hungarian library in Budapest, in Hungarian language (being translated from English to Hungarian before 2010).
It was exciting and I liked very much the paintings too!! I felt as if I had been in a movie!!!
I make research in modern time-concepts, maybe I'll use your book as a source, an illustrious example in my essay.:)
I'm right if I say that your book not only exhibits a gorgeous and fabulous far-off world, but also criticize (maybe unconsciously?) our modern world, notions and our way of life?!
I would be very glad for your answer.
Greetings, Beata
Nice painting indeed!
I plan a viewing, since the National Gallery is near by the library I often visit!
that is an awesome chuchwarden pipe on the left, i know it wasn't supposed to but it hung my attention up on it :)
Sorry, I made a mistake in my comment...
Istead of "Dinotropia, journey to Chanadra"... "Dinotopia. Journey to Chandara", of course...
FYI, The Wikapedia article doesn't translate completely and the bio doesn't mention it, but the Hungarian says that he worked first as a House Painter next to his father.
I found that interesting.
I've translated some sentences from the letters of Bihari (1886) - from Hungarian to English.
Sorry for my English is far from the best...
"My collegue Roskovics visited me yesterday. I was immensely happy when he told, that my picture represents considerable progress. I think he is a frank man and he didn't wanted to adulate." (23 June 1886)
(In 1906 Roskovics Ignác wrote in a newspaper that when he visited him, Bihari showed his picture (Biro elott) reluctantly, and said that "Earlier was better, but I ruined it")
"I was compelled to change particularly the coloration of Gypsies, because were missing the powerful, strong, specific colours which mark them. I painted the judge even greater and I carried out those little changes we discussed at your last visit." (letter to Tauszig, 9 April 1886.)
"Revesz argues that I will surely win the Munkacsy prize with my big picture (Biro elott), just compete for it. I'm very curious what will bring to me this autumnal exhibition. I wonder whether my pictures will have success or not... The first person who saw my picture about this gypsies was a young peasant girl who apprehended it and its topic as I envisaged/wanted it earlier! Her naive judgment about the message of my picture is of the highest value." (17 July 1886)
(source: Szelesi Zoltán: Válogatás Bihari Sándor levelezéséből. Published: Szeged, 1956, 109-111. p.)
In 2 books we can find that:
Finally, he didn't win the Munkacsy prize with this picture, but the picture was bought by the king...
Anna Oelmacher writes in her book about Bihari that he picked up on Gypsy faces that time when he didn't have money to pay Hungarian models. The gypsies posed for lesser money and howsoever they had interesting appearance.
"painting direct from nature outdoors, broken color, etc." ~ the veneer upon different aims. Studies done as reference for studio paintings, by nature many are broadly handled, and occasionally with subtle colour changes, but all those done by pre-Impressionist academics are of the brown school …even the great Corot. Lord Leighton's are fantastic …brown school.
Now I'm not an advocate or devotee of Impressionism …but it does have a clearly defined doctrine~
Impressionism is the truthful depiction of the effect of light on form. Truthful colour. Truthful value. Each in proper relationship to the forms position in space and relative to the flow of the light. It is not decorative colour. It is not values altered for the sake of narrative/illustrative/pictorial considerations. If the light obscures the clear delineation of form, or if contrast exist away from the 'center of interest', then so be it. Once such a change is made, it ceases to be Impressionism, and instead becomes lies ~ academic/brown school/old master/traditional/illustrative (or: Truths of another aim).
for a succinct historical introduction/appreciation of Impressionism~
recommended reading;
1- VELASQUEZ (in particular chapters 'X. His Influence Upon Recent Art' and 'XI. The Lesson of Impressionism') by R.A.M. Stevenson (author was a student of Carolus-Duran, friend of J. S. Sargent, and cousin of Robert L. Stevenson)
2- TWO WAYS OF PAINTING (short essay) by Kenyon Cox
3- Oil Painting Techniques and Materials (Chapter VII - COLOUR) by Harold Speed
4- The Boston painters, 1900-1930 by R H Ives Gammell
from which I quote (pgs70-71) Tarbell ~ He happened to be in the studio of a comrade one afternoon when Monsieur Lefebvre dropped in to criticize a canvas the young man was working on from a posing nude model. Picking up the palette and mixing a tone, the master quickly brushed in a hue which, to Tarbell's amazement, unerringly matched the color of the posing girl's flesh. "Now will you tell me," Tarbell concluded with a rhetorical question, "Will you tell me why in the world the man who could do that went to work and painted the chalky nude holding up a hand mirror in the Luxembourg?" He was referring to the then celebrated picture entitled "la Vérité." I held my peace, but my own long preoccupation with symbolism as well as with mural painting had taught me that, had he painted "la Vérité" impressionistically, to use a word he would not have understood in our sense of it, Lefebvre would have ended up with a picture of an unclad woman, which was not his purpose at all. His aim in this instance was to depict the female figure in a manner susceptible of suggesting the remoteness and dignity of a symbol. This withdrawal from everyday reality necessitates adopting a calculated color scale for the fleshtones and generalizing the structural forms of the body, esthetic devices which Lefebvre utilized extremely knowledgeably, although perhaps not triumphantly in this instance. Now, these objectives are alien to the impressionist endeavor which, as we have noted previously, aims to report the immediate impact of something seen and observed by the painter in its envelopment of light and atmosphere. Both ideals have suscitated great works of art, but each should be judged by its own criteria with the painter's specific intent in mind.
Beata, thank you so much for giving us those further insights into Bihari. That's something we English speakers would never have known.
Susan, yes, that's an interesting detail. Also, he came from a Jewish background, which I forgot to mention.
Young, Bihari's other pictures have a lot of guys with super-long pipes. I guess that's what they did in those days.
अर्जुन : Thanks for taking the time to write all that down. "Impressionism" is a large and complex topic that could fill several books, and I'll bet that we'd agree that most of the available books don't cover the topic adequately, especially in relation to academic practices. But please keep in mind that I'm writing a brief post about one Hungarian painter, so I hope you'll forgive me for a bit of shorthand.
Ernest, I'd love to see his sketch stages to see how he arrived at that composition.
I found something very interesting!
The pictures of Bihari inspired Aurél Göndör, a Hungarian actor and cabaret-composer (1869-1917), to write and compose a play (Czigány a bíró előtt = A gipsy before the judge) which contains only two scenes. The first scene follows the picture intituled Az ő nótája (His song), the second one the picture mentioned above: Bíró előtt (Before the judge). Göndör united this two pictures and their topics in one story. In the first scene (Az ő nótája) the Gypsy musician tunes up and plays the favourite songs of that well-heeled farmer who sings. Finally they have a quarrel and that confident, sass farmer destroy the violine. In the second scene the gipsy remonstrate against this act at the judge... The first scene is based on music, the second one is a verse, the monolog of that Gypsy before the judge, appearing on the picture too. I could seize only the record of the first scene, I miss the second one... You can find here, at the foot of the page, at the record named "Az ő nótája", taking 3,21 minutes. http://gramofononline.blog.hu/2010/11/04/rejtelyes_titokra_bukkantunk
This play was recorded and diffused on phonograph disks (the picture of the disk is also on the page). Some people suppose that Bihari and Göndör were friends.
Beata, it's so exciting to listen to those recordings, with the voice reciting and the horn player. It really brings the paintings to life. Thanks for sharing that with all of us.
But I think "narrative" is a term we should do without in talking about paintings
I see. I tend to ignore the modernist's pejorative spin that is placed on the word "narrative". It is a useful word for me in that I tend to think of a narrative-decorative polarity within traditional art. If you don't mind, I'll qoute a lengthy section from Heinrich Wolfflin's Classic Art, Chapter IV, Raphael, Section 3. The Camera della Segnatura:
It is difficult for the modern public to do justice to the artistic qualities of these frescoes. It looks for the merit of the works in the expression of heads, in the thoughtful relation of one figure to the other. The traveller wishes above all to learn what the figures mean, and is not satisfied until he knows their names. He therefore listens gratefully to the information given by the guide, who knows the name of each person, and is convinced that he understands the picture better after receiving this information. Many people are quite satisfied with this, while some conscientious visitors try to realise thoroughly the expression of the heads, and rivet their attention on the features. Few are able to grasp movement of the figures as a whole in addition to studying the faces, and to appreciate the beauty of motive in the various postures of the leaning, standing, or sitting figures. Still fewer have any suspicion that the real value of these works does not lie in the details but in the arrangement of the whole, in the harmonious animation of the space. They are decorative works of the grandest style, decorative, however, in a sense other than that in which the word is commonly used; I mean that they are paintings where the chief accent is laid not on the individual head, or the psychological connection, but on the arrangement of the figures upon a given surface, and in their relative positions in the space. Raphael had a stronger instinct for all that pleases the human eye than any painter before him.
Your welcome James, I'm glad that I could exhibit something new!
The record with horn (intituled "A néma trombitás") is not exactly that one I wanted to show to u. The picture of Bihari appears in the record at the bottom of the page (named Az ő nótája, 3.21 minutes).
(As regard to the horn record which is situated on the top and in the middle of the page there is a dumb trumpeter, who is asked by a judge to try to answer the questions with music. The questions: Where did you born? How old are you? Where do you work? How many children do you have? Who is the man your wife had sexual intercourse with? What did you do when u discovered that betrayal? Do you love her who committed that cuckoldry? Etc. At the end turns out that this is a judicial process, and the judge want to decide upon this adultery case.)
Etc, thanks for sharing that quote, and I see where you're coming from. Those abstract or decorative qualities interest me very much in picturemaking, but to me they're not interesting merely in themselves, but rather in service to the expression of something else, such as story, mood, or characterization.
I love the Gurney Journey. The more I know, the more I find out I don't know! Wow, there is so much fascinating stuff to learn from both James and the commenters.
"Sándor Bihari (1855-1966)" gives him a very long life. It should be "(1855-1906)". (See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:S%C3%A1ndor_Bihari)
Thanks, Greg. Fixed. Wish he did live so long.
Thanks Andy. I love your blog Panel Discussion, too!
I was a little bothered by your comment about the details in photography. A straight film or digital snapshot is an unpredictable creature to be sure, and I'll grant that there are more unconscious compromises than you might make in a painting you spend 2-10 hours on, but I'd like to at least make the case that, properly done, photography is exactly as vivid or subdued as you need it to be (when I first read this entry back when you posted it, I couldn't think of any examples off hand, but I've bumped into a couple so here they are). The first example is this set of animal photographs by Simen Johan ( http://butdoesitfloat.com/2690675/I-am-not-an-animal-I-am-a-human-being ), which might be in the realm of too-much-detail HDR that you aren't very fond of, but through the set you can see a really wide range of exposure, contrast, and detail, every bit as overworked or subdued as a painting can be. Timothy Archibald's work documenting his autistic son (http://timothyarchibald.com/#/echolilia/echolilia%20-%20personal%20project/1) has a brilliant kind of nuance surrealism that I don't think could have been possible with painting. Each medium has its own strengths, but I think it's false to suggest that something so diverse as photography is incapable of being as soft and understated as painting. And just for good measure, let me toss this in: Photography can even support totally hack, overdone, kitschy work on the same level as Thomas Kinkade (sorry for hating on your old chum, but damn I don't like his work): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylX-1dufGI
Jude, thanks for those links, and of course I agree with you that photography is capable of all sorts of aesthetic manipulation in the shot and afterward to achieve selectivity and subordination. But I mentioned "the camera" here as a shorthand for unselective perception. I find that snapshot images or typical photo reference provides way too much information. As you point out, rendering detail indiscriminately can happen with artists as well as cameras. And it's fair to say that sometimes a huge amount of indiscriminate detail may serve the artist's or the photographer's purpose.


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U.S. Bank this morning announced it is piloting an interesting mobile payments service: NFC-enabled iPhone cases.
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The bank is partnering with Visa, mobile contactless technology company DeviceFidelity and Datacard Group on this initiative.
Dominic Venturo, chief innovation officer for the bank's payment services group, said in a statement that the offering incorporates customer feedback from prior mobile payments pilots. Venturo has previously discussed some of U.S. Bank's NFC-based payments programs with Bank Systems & Technology, and believes the early signs for consumer adoption of mobile payments are strong.
Meanwhile, mobile device maker Incipio unveiled a product called Cashwrap at the recent Consumer Electroncics Show in Las Vegas. Like U.S. Bank's product, Cashwrap is an NFC-enabled iPhone case, and specifically works with the Isis mobile wallet service.
There has been much debate already about whether cloud or NFC-based wallets will end up being the preferred method of mobile payments by consumers. These recent announcements show that NFC enabled technologies are still a big factor in the nascent mobile wallet world.
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Marchand goal late in 3rd completes comeback for Bruins in 3-2 win over Lightning
BOSTON - The Boston Bruins' power-play woes took a dramatic turn.
While Boston still has much to work ahead with the man advantage, a pair of rare power-play goals led the Bruins from a 2-0 deficit to a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.
Tyler Seguin's goal early in the second period was Boston's first at home during a power play this season, then Brad Marchand doubled the small total when he scored the tiebreaking goal with 2:16 left in the third period with Tampa Bay down a man because of a four-minute high sticking penalty.
"It's big. We needed those," Marchand said. "That's what we need our power play to do—step up at the right times, get us in the game."
Seguin's goal cut Tampa Bay's lead to 2-1, Rich Peverley scored 1:17 later to tie it and Marchand scored the winner when he and Patrice Bergeron got behind the Lightning's penalty killers for a 2-on-1.
Bergeron raced up the right side and timed the pass to his left perfectly. All Marchand had to do was direct it at the net, where goalie Mathieu Garon was caught on the wrong side.
"Bergie gives me a wide-open net to shoot at. I think anyone in this league would've hit that," said Marchand, who leads the Bruins with 11 goals. "I'm fortunate to be on the team I am."
The Bruins are now 9 for 59 on the power play, still one of the lowest percentages in the league. Yet the Bruins continue to win, extending their streak to six straight on Saturday as they enjoy their best start since the 1929-30 season.
"It's not always going to be your way so you have to find ways to show some character," Bergeron said. "I think we've done that again tonight."
The Bruins were called 10 penalties, six in the first period, and the Lightning had seven in the game, including Brendan Mikkelson's double-minor for a high stick on Milan Lucic with 5:39 left in the third.
The Lightning nearly had the penalty killed, but Steven Stamkos tried for a short-handed goal instead of killing time. The shot took a funny bounce off the boards and set up Bergeron and Marchand for the winning goal.
"We gambled and wasted 58 minutes of hard, intelligent, paying-the-price work," Lightning coach Guy Boucher said.
Stamkos and Alexander Killorn scored for Tampa Bay, both on power plays in the first period. The Lightning failed to score on six other power plays and finished with just 22 shots on goal.
"It's not all the time that you score on the first two power plays," Stamkos said. "Sometimes it's the last two and then everyone says 'Oh, your power play is great!' Our power play was better tonight. We generated some chances and we got two. Hopefully we build on that.
Anton Khudobin had 20 saves as Boston starter Tuukka Rask got the day off with rival Montreal coming to Boston on Sunday.
Garon finished with 24 saves for the Lightning, who lost their fourth in a row.
The Bruins were called for six penalties in the first period and Tampa Bay capitalized on two of them.
Stamkos put the Lightning up 1-0 on a wrist shot 5:32 into the game off passes from Teddy Purcell and Marc-Andre Bergeron. Purcell got another assist when Alexander Killorn beat Khudobin with a backhander for a 2-0 lead with 11:22 left in the first. Purcell took a pass from Martin St. Louis, crossed the blue line and headed straight up the middle before dropping a pass behind to Killorn, who got Khudobin off balance and tapped it in for his third goal of the season.
Seguin got a rare power play goal for the Bruins on a one-timer from the left circle 3:22 into the second. It was the first power-play goal at home for the Bruins and just the eighth time they scored in 57 chances overall this season. Dougie Hamilton and David Krejci assisted on the goal.
The Bruins got an obvious emotional boost by finally scoring on Garon, who had just stopped a flurry of good scoring chances. Peverley scored again for the Bruins just over a minute later to tie it at 2-all on another one-timer from the left circle.
Adam McQuaid surprised the Lightning with a crossing pass from the blue line to the opposite corner, where Peverley fired off the shot before Garon had a much of a chance to get across.
NOTES: The Bruins improved to 6-1-1 at home. ... Stamkos extended his point streak to nine straight games. ... The Bruins and Lightning will meet one more time during the regular season when the Lightning return to Boston on April 25. The game was scheduled for Feb. 9 but postponed because of a blizzard. ... Peverley's goal was his 199th career point. Lighting LW Benoit Pouliot left the game with an upper body injury after taking a hard hit from Dennis Seidenberg with 9:15 left in the first period. Seidenberg was called for boarding on the play.


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[mpoverlay]PBS reported that the rapper Tupac Shakur was sighted in Tasmania this weekend.
PBS is reporting that Tupac Shakur was sighted and photographed having drinks at a bar in Snug, Tasmania. Soon thereafter the internet was ablaze with speculation if this was real and Tupac was really alive.
Tupac Shakur was allegedly gunned down September 7th 1996 after leaving a boxing match. However reporters have discovered that Tupac actually survived the shooting, but he and record label executives paid off medical examiners to claim he had died. His apparent death allowed him to escape his assailants and his constant legal battles.
Since then Tupac had lived in hiding under an assumed name in rural Pennsylvania. Weekly World News reporters tracked down the beloved rap star to his new home.
With regards to going into hiding he said, "At first it was life or death. I'd just been shot at and I knew it wasn't going to stop. Once I was out of the game, a fresh start looked too good. All the baggage from the old life, I could let it go and walk away."
Since then, "I mostly keep my head low. Don't draw attention. Staying out of trouble."
When asked about how he spends his time, he said, "Ya know, same old same old. Shop at the Farmer's Market. Keep my bees, get some honey. Flirt with the girls at Dairy Queen. Nothin' big."
For creative exploits, Tupac says, "I like to knit." His house was covered with hand knit pieces celebrating his former celebrity and sweaters with 'Thug Life' stitched on them. Above the couch was a large tapestry depicting a scene from his California Love video. He went on: "I do a lot of writing. Jewel's book of poetry, that was mine. I also ghost wrote the screenplay for 'The Lake House'."
Tupac said he has no plans to return to the public eye. "I'm a keep it straight chillin' here. Keep them bees, work the strawberry patch. End of the day, play on with some World of Warcraft. It's a good life."[/mpoverlay]


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New Movie Releases — 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,' 'Haywire,' 'Red Tails' and 'Underworld Awakening'
Now that the holidays are officially dead and buried, studios are back to releasing new films at a brisk pace — and this weekend, you'll have your choice of four.
Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks star in 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,' in which a young boy is convinced that his father who died in the 9/11 attacks has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in New York City.
'Haywire' is the story of a highly-trained government operative who seeks revenge after she's double-crossed by her own people.
In the World War II-set 'Red Tails,' the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are given the ultimate chance to show their courage.
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A series of business and technology workshops are planned for this winter at the Straits Area Education Center, 504 Division St.
North Central Michigan College's Department of Corporate and Community Education is offering the programs from Jan. 16-March 7.
Richard Sanford, a successful entrepreneur, author, Dale Carnegie instructor and strategic planning coach, will instruct the courses.
The object of the course is to leave with a strategic business plan to power a company forward. The cost of the series is $159 and includes a textbook and 12 hours of individualized hands-on coaching.
"With enrollments in Cheboygan at an all time high, we want to find ways to invest in the community other than just with for-credit offerings," Michele Andrews, NCMC's director of off-campus programming, said Thursday. "This means offering non-credit workshops through our Corporate and Community Education programs and looking at how we can invest in community projects."
The series begins at 6 p.m. on Jan. 16 with an opportunity to learn what is required of a prospective entrepreneur. The program will increase the odds of success and reduce the odds of failure before starting a business. The cost is $35.
On Saturday, Jan. 26, a crash course on social media will be offered from 9 a.m. until noon in the computer lab. The do's and don'ts of social media will be covered and how it can be used to grow a business, add customers and increase profits. The workshop also will cover the initial set up of the iPad, how to add content and how to find the best apps. The cost is $25.
An overview of what iPads can and cannot do and how to use them effectively is planned for Feb. 6 from 6-9 p.m. The cost is $25.
Melanie Goodrich, known as the Extreme Couponer, will share her techniques of saving 60 percent or more on everyday purchases and provide a start-up package at an expert couponing workshop to be held Feb. 16 from 9 a.m. until noon. The cost is $30, with a 10 percent discount offered to two or more attending together.
Finally, Michigan's cottage foods law will be the subject of a workshop to be held from 6-9 p.m. on March 7. MSU Extension specialists Wendy Wieland and Jennifer Berkey will present the business and food safety aspects of preparing and selling cottage foods. The workshop costs $20.
For more information on the workshops or the new Straits Area Education Center in Cheboygan, call 597-0322 or visit www.ncmich.edu.
"NCMC wants to reinvest the growth we are seeing in Cheboygan in the form of a variety of educational opportunities that will benefit not just degree seeking individuals but all community members looking to improve a particular skill set or participate in critical thinking experiences," Andrews said. "This winter Cheboygan citizens can look for our popular Luncheon Lecture series to come to Cheboygan with some educational sessions offered as a lunch time option. Stay tuned for more to follow."


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NEW YORK — Kate and Warren Sherwood had to think quickly about what to take when Superstorm Sandy's surge flooded their barrier island and caused five houses on their block to burn to the ground. Luckily for their two black cats, Schwartz and Scooter, their pets were a priority.
But the narrow escape wasn't the end of the road for the felines. Their owners took refuge at a hotel that didn't accept cats.
"We sneaked them in and put a 'do not disturb' sign on the door — pretending we're on our honeymoon," said Warren Sherwood, 56, a systems analyst. "But after three days, they got restless and starting meowing."
The couple ended up having to take them to a shelter set up in a gym near their hometown of Long Beach, N.Y.
Entwined with the human costs of the storm, which killed more than 100 people and caused billions of dollars in damage, is another significant toll — that of the cherished pets that died or were left behind as families fled for their lives, adding in many cases to feelings of displacement and trauma.
Some find it hard to understand why animals are a key concern in disasters engulfing human lives, but owners feel an attachment and responsibility to their pets, said Niki Dawson, director of disaster services for the Humane Society of the United States.
"There's such a strong bond between people and animals that people will put their lives at risk not to leave a pet behind," Dawson said. "So they stay, even when they're told to evacuate, and that puts first responders going back for them at risk."
Owners have recounted tales of a dog swimming through flooded streets and extra food left behind for a tarantula no one was willing to take in.
In New York City and on Long Island, the ASPCA has rescued more than 300 animals and treated or provided supplies to about 13,000, working with government and private animal welfare agencies, said spokeswoman Emily Schneider.
City shelters took in about 400 animals along with their families in the first days after Sandy, Schneider said. There are now more than 100 in shelters with their owners, and a mobile animal medical clinic is cruising decimated neighborhoods in the Rockaway areas of Queens and on Staten Island.
In New Jersey, the Humane Society deployed dozens of first responders using mobile units and boats to bring in about 60 displaced animals each day on the barrier islands hit by the storm.
Two weeks after Sandy made landfall, followed a week later by a nor'easter, search-and-rescue teams were led by Animal Care & Control of NYC, a city-contracted nonprofit responding to hotline calls about pets in distress. Callers are owners forced to leave animals behind or unable to care for them, or people who see them wandering in hard-hit areas.
A Manhattan shelter takes in animals round the clock, hoping for owners to show up. And social media teams scour the Internet for reports of lost pets, helping reunite them with owners.
Rescuing animals is mandatory under federal law, which requires local and state governments to include plans for pets in emergency procedures. Federal Emergency Management Agency funds go toward the welfare of animals in disaster zones.
New York City's human shelters are required to accept pets, and so are taxis and public transportation.
More than 200 dogs, cats and other pets from a devastated area of Long Island are being sheltered in the gymnasium of a community college, set up by the North Shore Animal League America, the nation's largest no-kill rescue and adoption organization. Many, like the Sherwoods' Schwartz and Scooter, belong to owners in nearby shelters and hotels.
"We're ridiculously stressed out; we're freaked out," Warren Sherwood said. "But I'd do anything in the world for these people who are keeping our cats alive."
Also among the pets in the gym is Emma, a Manchester terrier who swam to safety through flooded streets in Freeport on Long Island, while its owners carried their cats above the water, plus some clothes they grabbed at the last minute.
"We lost our house. It's submerged," said Mark Swing, who fled with his girlfriend as the tides rose. "All we got out was our four cats and the dog, except for a few changes of clothes."
The 8-year-old terrier was "a little tired, but fine," said Swing, 48, a contractor who was in a Red Cross shelter.
Cats and dogs weren't the only pets rescued from the storms.
"We're finding chinchillas, guinea pigs, rabbits, reptiles, birds," Dawson said.
There are stories of pets whose fates remain unknown, like gerbils and a tarantula left behind by a teenage boy whose Staten Island home has been deemed uninhabitable.
His aunt in Brooklyn agreed to take in the gerbils, but no one wanted the hairy tarantula. The teen left it behind with lots of food — in hopes the spider could be retrieved later.
Transport trailers distributed pet food and supplies like crates, leashes and litter from a warehouse in Queens set up days before Sandy descended, said the Humane Society's Schneider. Tons of food donated by manufacturers is being trucked in.
Celebrity chef Rachael Ray is donating $500,000 to the ASPCA to help pets and families struggling to rebound from Sandy. She said her pet food brand, Nutrish, is also shipping 4 tons of wet and dry dog food for Sandy animals, and her Yum-o organization is donating $100,000 to City Harvest and the Food Bank for New York City.
The ASPCA will use the money to lease a building to board Sandy animals until their owners can take care of them.
It will likely be months before any estimates are available as to how many pets might have died or were lost during New York's double storms. And like their owners, many animals that survived won't go home anytime soon.
Dawson said she has seen people stuck in shelters, wearing donated clothing, with no idea when they'll go home. But when they turn to their dog or cat, "their faces light up."
And that, she says, is why animals matter amid a human disaster.


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The last five months have turned into a blurr. Many destinations. Workshops. Two cookbooks shoots. Fifty recipes for other clients. A job proposal. An acceptance. A house hunt. A bare bone move (seriously moved with three boxes labeled kitchen, clothes, toiletries and office. Oh and some props, linens, reflectors and strobes...)** And my first day working with amazing talent propping and styling the recipes I will be shooting.
A wave of emotions is taking hold of me as I reflect on the years gone by. I am sitting in an empty living room. It's an unsually chilly day for Birmingham, I am told. I have a fire going. Some hot soup on the stove. A glass of wine. This is it. What comes to my mind, very clearly, though is how I would have never imagined the winding roads of this career would take me to this moment.
Yet, how everything I did in my work was never by chance but always from a place of hard work and desire of a job well done. How goodness comes to one's own heart by just trusting yourself onto others. How just opening up your guts and heart to the universe gives you ten times the hopes you sent out there. How leading lights of desires, friendships, mentors and aspirations, inspirations lead one to just pack up and go seek a better life for the ones you love.
Good people working on fun projects always make for a fun day at work. That is one if the reasons I wanted to share this book I photographed a few months ago, Marmalades by Elizabeth Fields (Running Press). It just came out and while I take a little time getting situated in my new life, I wanted to share with you some good old fashioned and modern marmalades recipes by giving away a couple of copies of the book, courtesy of Running Press.


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Profanity and insults have long been management tactics of Linux creator Linus Torvalds. He once memorably gave the middle finger to Nvidia; separately, he announced that he would not change Linux "to deep-throat Microsoft." Torvalds has also shown no qualms about being rude to those who disagree with him.
When Torvalds is fighting for the open source way against proprietary software companies, his abrasive style may elicit cheers. But developers who volunteer to improve the Linux kernel and find themselves on the receiving end of a Torvalds tirade might prefer a different management style. One developer is now calling out Linux's leader for turning the world of open source kernel development into a hostile working environment.
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The Linux "workplace" is primarily a mailing list in which developers discuss changes to the kernel. The criticism of Torvalds came yesterday from developer Sarah Sharp, a software engineer at Intel who has made numerous contributions to the Linux kernel in the past seven years. Sharp wrote:
Seriously, guys? Is this what we need in order to get improve -stable? Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence. Ingo Molnar and Linus are advocating for verbal abuse.
Not *fucking* cool. Violence, whether it be physical intimidation, verbal threats or verbal abuse is not acceptable. Keep it professional on the mailing lists.
Let's discuss this at Kernel Summit where we can at least yell at each other in person. Yeah, just try yelling at me about this. I'll roar right back, louder, for all the people who lose their voice when they get yelled at by top maintainers. I won't be the nice girl anymore.
Sarah Sharp
Sharp's e-mail quoted statements from Torvalds such as "Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should* scare you. He might squish you without ever even noticing" and "Greg, the reason you get a lot of stable patches seems to be that you make it easy to act as a door-mat. Clearly at least some people say 'I know this patch isn't important enough to send to Linus, but I know Greg will silently accept it after the fact, so I'll just wait and mark it for stable.' You may need to learn to shout at people." (Torvalds' target is Linux kernel chief Greg Kroah-Hartman.)
On her blog, Sharp pointed to two other e-mails from Torvalds containing language such as "Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and "Rafael, please don't *ever* write that crap again."
"Linus, you're one of the worst offenders"
The argument over whether such language is appropriate then moved off-list, with Torvalds trying to make the conversation private and Sharp making it public again. "Oh, FFS, I [was] just called out on private email for 'playing the victim card,'" Sharp wrote. "I will repeat: this is not just about me, or other minorities. I should not have to ask for professional behavior on the mailing lists. Professional behavior should be the default."
At another point, Sharp added, "I am serious about this. Linus, you're one of the worst offenders when it comes to verbally abusing people and publicly tearing their emotions apart." She noted that while Torvalds has shown that he can politely tell developers their work needs changes, "You just don't want to take the time to be polite to everyone."
Torvalds' responses to Sharp's e-mails made it clear he has no intention of changing the way he writes to people on the Linux kernel mailing list. He even claimed to be something of an oppressed minority, saying Sharp should be sensitive to his Finnish culture and its reliance on cursing. In response to being called "one of the worst offenders," he wrote:
Yes. And I do it partly (mostly) because it's who I am, and partly because I honestly despise being subtle or "nice".
The fact is, people need to know what my position on things are. And I can't just say "please don't do that", because people won't listen. I say "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle," and I mean it.
And I definitely am not willing to string people along, either. I've had that happen too—not telling people clearly enough that I don't like their approach, they go on to re-architect something, and get really upset when I am then not willing to take their work.
Sarah, first off, I don't have that many tools at hand. Secondly, I simply don't believe in being polite or politically correct. And you can point at all those cultural factors where some cultures are not happy with confrontation (and feel free to make it about gender too—I think that's almost entirely cultural too). And please bring up "cultural sensitivity" while at it. And I'll give you back that same "cultural sensitivity". Please be sensitive to _my_ culture too.
Google "management by perkele".
Do you really want to oppress a minority? Because Finns are a minority compared to almost any other country. If you want to talk cultural sensitivity, I'll join you. But my culture includes cursing.
In another e-mail, Torvalds told Sharp that "the 'victim card' is exactly about trying to enforce your particular expectations on others, and trying to do so in a very particular way. It's the old 'think of the children' argument. And it's bogus. Calling things 'professional' is just more of the same—trying to enforce some kind of convention on others by trying to claim that it's the only acceptable way."
Torvalds concluded:
Because if you want me to "act professional," I can tell you that I'm not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways.
Clearly, Torvalds has an aversion to the corporate world. He works full-time on the kernel, with his work being funded by the nonprofit Linux Foundation (which in turn is funded by IBM, HP, Intel and dozens of other companies). The Linux Foundation has traditionally taken an extremely hands-off approach to Torvalds' work. We asked the Foundation if it has any response to Sharp's comments or any plans to discuss the matter with Torvalds, but we didn't receive an immediate response.
"Civil development discourse"
Sharp describes herself on LinkedIn as "a huge advocate of open source, open hardware, and Linux." She began contributing to Linux in 2006 "through an Intel Undergraduate Research Grant, [in which] I was funded to redesign the current Linux USB filesystem to better fit into the standard Unix I/O stream model." She is also the author of the Linux USB 3.0 host controller driver.
Torvalds' management hasn't prevented Linux from becoming one of the most sophisticated pieces of technology on the planet, and Sharp sounds unlikely to walk away from Linux development—but concerns about a hostile environment might have that effect on others.
Developer Neil Brown noted on the Linux kernel mailing list that "scolding people senior developers in front of newcomers ... is not likely to encourage people to want to become senior developers." Another developer, Stefano Stabellini, wrote that "I think there is a way to get the point across without cursing. One can be clear and decisive without 'bursting'. It's easy to mistake cursing on the quality of the code for a personal attack."
On Twitter, numerous developers thanked Sharp for her efforts. One called himself an "ex-kernel hacker," and another said, "Thanks for standing up for politeness/respect. If it works, I'll start doing Linux kernel dev. It's been too scary for years."
Longtime technologist, open source software user, and journalist Sean Michael Kerner expressed hope that Sharp's protests might help Linux development circles become more welcoming to those who prefer polite collaboration over confrontation. On InternetNews.com, Kerner wrote:
It's obvious to me that Sharp is right. It should be obvious to all decent human beings that violence and threats of abuse have no place in civil development discourse either.
Do I expect Linus to change? No. Do I hope he will? Yes.
Will Sharp change anything? I sure hope so. The fact that she's standing up and making her voice heard is the start of a conversation that should have started a long time ago.
UPDATE: Torvalds told Wired today that he looks forward to discussing "workflow" issues at the upcoming Kernel Summit. "It's maybe easy to forget for outsiders. I've been doing this for 20+ years, and people don't think about *why* I'm still doing it," Torvalds wrote in an e-mail. "I care. Deeply." However, Torvalds doesn't want a "code of conduct," saying that "venting of frustrations and anger is actually necessary, and trying to come up with some 'code of conduct' that says that people should be 'respectful' and 'polite' is just so much crap and bullshit."


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Not long ago, the nether parts of Hurricane Gustav hit my town and trapped me in a coffee shop just after I'd left a bookstore with Persepolis and Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi's tragicomic memoirs in comic strips of her childhood and early adulthood in fundamentalist Iran. What a welcome diversion the books made as rain pelted the plate glass. Both have enough to offer teenagers — assuming there are any left who haven't read these bestsellers — that I hope to review them on a Saturday soon. Until then Persepolis could be a good choice for adult book clubs that want to try a graphic novel, the industry term that's a misnomer for nonfiction. Both memoirs are much more engaging than — but would make a fine complement to — the pontifical Reading Lolita in Tehran, a book club staple. You'll find more on Satrapi's work at www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=43801. If you like the genre, you may want to explore other comic-books pages at Pantheon www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/, the Tiffany's of graphic-novel publishers.
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Ian McEwan is safe — at least until One-Minute Book Reviews considers the candidates for its next Delete Key Awards for the year's worst writing in books, the winner of which will be announced on the Ides of March. The online edition of the Times of London reports that McEwan's longlisted On Chesil Beach didn't make the shortlist for the 2007 Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
The newspaper says that the finalists who swept past McEwan are: Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Richard Milward's Apples, Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy, David Thewlis's The Late Hector Kipling, the late Norman Mailer's The Castle in the Forest, Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan, Christopher Rush's Will and Clare Clark's The Nature of Monsters. The winner will be announced today after the offending passages are read aloud by actresses. Read the Times post, headlined "Ses in Ian McEwan's Novel Is Not Bad Enough to Impress Judges."


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Yunnan Province in southwest China border, the provincial capital Kunming. Warring States period, this is the Dian tribe fowl. Yunnan, namely, "Caiyunzhinan"and the other argument is that because in the "Yunling of the South " is named. The total area of about 39 million square kilometers, accounting for 4.11% of total land area, the provincial administrative regions in the country ranked No. 8 in the area. The total population of 45,130,000 (2008), accounting for 3.36% of the population, the population ranked 13th. And Yunnan provinces adjacent to Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Tibet, Yunnan Province, three neighboring countries of Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Tropic of Cancer crosses from the southern province.


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David Dean Johnson, 49, of El Cerrito, Calif., is being held in the jail on $1 million bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in the Siskiyou County Superior Court.
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Train seat availability for all 22 trains that run from Amla Jn to Betul can be found in above table.
Fare for trains from Amla Jn to Betul is Rs 45 in Second Seater (2S), Rs 1165 in First AC (1A), Rs 700 in Second AC (2A), Rs 145 in Sleeper (SL), Rs 30 in None (GN) and Rs 495 in Third AC (3A) in general quota. Tatkal ticket fare and premium tatkal fare in this route starts from Rs 190 in Second Seater (2S), Rs 1540 in Second AC (2A), Rs 395 in Sleeper (SL) and Rs 1105 in Third AC (3A).
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Vermont Commons: Going the Wrong Way? What the Public Says about Education Reform
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"In a closed process with nominal review by practicing educators, state legislatures and state boards of education; these standards were adopted by 45 states. Right wing groups have protested that the standards are illegal back-door incursions into state authority and responsibilities. Left wing groups have objected claiming the standards do not represent the skills needed for the twenty-first century. Specifically, they claim the standards are mechanistic, mind-numbing expansions of rote, drill-and-kill education."
Labor Day brings the end of summer, the opening of schools and a swarm of education polls. The number of these tallies has increased as groups from the left and right launch efforts that – not too surprisingly – tend to produce results favoring their perspective. The granddaddy, and most universally respected, of these is the Gallup poll sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa, which just released its 45th annual report.
A couple of findings jump out; Most people have not heard of many of the nation's biggest reform efforts and when they have, they are increasingly dissatisfied with the top-down, test-driven market-model orientation of these initiatives.
In particular, 62% of citizens have never heard of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Proponents of this initiative strongly proclaim it is not a "national curriculum" (which would be specifically prohibited by federal law). Nevertheless, it is a list of what should be taught in each grade level to every student. Based on these standards, national standardized tests are being written with heavy corporate and federal backing. The federal government has said the standards are "voluntary" yet they have required states to adopt these standards in order to get federal grants and dispensations. Of the people who have heard of the CCSS, only 4 in 10 think it will make the nation more competitive while 56% say it will have no effect or be downright harmful.
Perhaps the reason citizens have not heard of these standards is because they were developed outside of normal governmental oversight. Specifically, the ACHIEVE corporation, a private organization, developed the standards with the backing of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. In a closed process with nominal review by practicing educators, state legislatures and state boards of education; these standards were adopted by 45 states. Right wing groups have protested that the standards are illegal back-door incursions into state authority and responsibilities. Left wing groups have objected claiming the standards do not represent the skills needed for the twenty-first century. Specifically, they claim the standards are mechanistic, mind-numbing expansions of rote, drill-and-kill education.
The common standards serve as the foundation for the national standardized tests. According to both House and Senate drafts of the No Child Left Behind reauthorization legislation, mandated standardized tests will continue in grades 3-8 and in high school. The Gallup poll shows that only 22% of the public thinks this is an effective way to improve education. In fact, in just one year, public sentiment dramatically swung against (58%) using standardized test scores in teacher evaluation. Furthermore, excessive testing and regulations leaped on to the public's list of the nation's major education problems for the first time. Researchers, from all perspectives, generally agree with the public. Twenty years of test based reform has not resulted in closing the achievement gap.
Since 1983, the driving mantra of the national reform movement has been the "failure" of the nation's schools. This drumbeat has resulted in a generalized negative attitude toward schools. Yet this impression is not reflected in how Americans rate the schools their children attend. A majority of parents grade their local school as either A or B, -- and by the highest percentage ever recorded. There is an obvious difference between what parents see with their own eyes and the message propagated in the national reform narrative.
Instead, the public sees the greatest problem is the lack of financial support – the number one concern for the last 45 years. This view is supported by the fact that the United States is the only developed nation where educational spending on needy children is lower than for other children. The United States also has the highest income inequality of advanced nations. It should therefore not be surprising that the nation's school funding is, by and large, inequitable and inadequate.
Polls are only a snapshot. Results vary over time and by how a question is asked. Nevertheless, the growing rift between the public's desires and the strategies pushed by federal and state policymakers should give us pause for reflection.
At the heart of the issue is a fundamental philosophical disagreement about the purpose of public education. The policymakers have adopted an internationally competitive, top-down, one-size-fits-all, test-based approach. The citizenry clearly aspires to broader and grander purposes.
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NASHVILLE (AP) — Grand Ole Opry member Jimmy C. Newman, known for mixing Cajun and country music, has died.
Opry publicist Jessie Schmidt said Newman died in Nashville on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 86.
The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/1lhA3YI) Newman's first Top 10 country hit, "Cry, Cry, Darling," came 60 years ago, in the summer of 1954. That same year he joined Shreveport-based radio show "The Louisiana Hayride," where he performed alongside Johnny Horton, Elvis Presley and others.
He joined the Opry in 1956, after notching five straight Top 10 records, including "Seasons Of My Heart." In 1957, Newman earned his highest-charting record with "A Fallen Star," which reached No. 2 on the Billboard country chart and No. 23 on the pop chart.
Newman also offered a boost to a teenage Dolly Parton by allowing her to take part of his "Friday Night Opry" stage time in 1959 so that she could make her debut on the show.
Originally from Louisiana, Newman added the "C'' to his stage name in the early 1960s, saying that it stood for "Cajun." The French Acadian-sounding "Alligator Man" hit the Top 40 in 1962, and Newman recognized that a Cajun-country blend would set him apart and honor his roots. He took pride to be considered the first Cajun artist to join the Opry.
Career honors include induction into the Cajun Music Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Opry member Marty Stuart told the newspaper, "His role became the Cajun fellow at the Opry, and that's great. But if you go back to his 1950s recordings of 'Cry, Cry, Darling' and 'Seasons Of My Heart,' you'll witness a country music architect at work. He was a brilliant singer, a brilliant designer of country music."
Although never a chart dynamo, Newman was a steadily entertaining personality for 60 years, a cultural ambassador for southeastern Louisiana, and a smiling, engaging performer to the end. His final Opry performance with his band, Cajun Country, came on Friday, June 6.
A public service will be held Wednesday at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
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