#howard fischer design

[byneddiedingo]

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)

Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy. Screenplay: Robert Altman, Brian McKay, based on a novel by Edmund Naughton. Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond. Production design: Leon Erickson. Film editing: Lou Lombardo.  McCabe & Mrs. Miller may be Robert Altman's best film, as well as the greatest of all "stoner Westerns." It's very much of the era in which it was made, with its fatalistic view of its loner protagonist, doomed by his naive willingness to go up against the big corporate mining interests who want to buy him out. Hippies against the Establishment, if you will. It's also very much at the heart of the mythos of the American Western, which always centered on the loner against overwhelming odds. McCabe & Mrs. Miller came along at a time when the Western was in eclipse, with most of its great exponents, like John Ford and Howard Hawks, in retirement, and some of its defining actors, like John Wayne, having gone over to the side of the Establishment. So when iconoclasts like Altman and Warren Beatty, coming off of their respective breakthrough hits M*A*S*H (1970) and Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), took an interest in filming Edmund Naughton's novel, it was clear that we were going to get something revisionist, a Western with a grubby setting and an antiheroic protagonist. The remarkable thing is that McCabe & Mrs. Miller, perhaps more than either M*A*S*H or Bonnie and Clyde, has transcended its revisionism and formed its own tradition. For once, Altman's mannerisms -- overlapping dialogue, restless camerawork, reliance on a stock company of actors like Michael Murphy, John Schuck, and Shelley Duvall, and a generally loosey-goosey mise-en-scène -- don't overwhelm the story. Some of this is probably owing to Beatty's own firmly entrenched ego, which was often at odds with Altman's. His performance gives the film a center and grounding that many of Altman's other films lack, especially since he works so well in tandem with Julie Christie's performance as Mrs. Miller, the only thing about the film that the Academy deigned worthy of an Oscar nomination. How the Academy could have overlooked the contribution of cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond remains a mystery, except that at this point the cinematographers branch was dominated by old-school directors of photography who had been brought up in the studio system, which was to flood the set with light -- one reason why Gordon Willis's magisterial chiaroscuro in The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) failed to get a nomination the following year. 

#McCabe & Mrs. Miller #Robert Altman #Warren Beatty #Julie Christie

[monkeyjaw]

The Year in Books and Graphic Novels 2022 and an analysis of 20 years of books and comics

January

1.      Temple Alley Summer – Kashiwaba Sachiko, illustrated by Miho Satake, translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa

2.      Dreams From My Father – Barack Obama, audiobook read by the author

3.      X-Men Grand Design Vol. 1 – Ed Piskor

4.      Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery – Rosalie Knecht

5.      All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team – Christina Soontornvat, illustrations by Karen Minot

6.      X-Men Grand Design Volume 2: Second Genesis – Ed Piskor

7.      Year of the Rabbit – Tian Veasna

February

1.      Deadly Class Volume 1: 1987 Reagan Youth – Chris Remender, Wes Craig

2.      The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan

3.      Pattern Master – Octavia E. Butler

4.      X-Men Grand Design Volume 3: X-Tinction – Ed Piskor

5.      The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History – Margalit Fox

6.      Deadly Class Volume 2: 1988 Kids of the Black Hole – Rick Remender, Wes Craig

March

1.      Once and Future Volume 1: The King is Undead – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora

2.      Once and Future Volume 2: Old English – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora

3.      Dragon Hoops – Gene Luen Yang

4.      Ringworld – Larry Niven

5.      Once and Future Volume 3: A Parliament of Magpies – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora

6.      Princess Jellyfish Volume 8 – Akiko Higashimura

7.      Princess Jellyfish Volume 9 – Akiko Higashimura

8.      The Sheepfarmer’s Daughter – Elizabeth Moon

April

1.      Planetes Volume 1 – Makoto Yurimura

2.      The Library of the Unwritten – A.J. Hackwith

3.      Doom Patrol Volume 1: Crawling From the Wreckage – Grant Morrison, Richard Case

4.      ODY-C Volume 1: Off To Far Ithacaa – Matt Fraction, Christian Ward

5.      Conan of Cimmeria – Robert E Howard, Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter

6.      Doom Patrol Volume 2: The Painting That Ate Paris – Grant Morrison, Richard Case, John Nyberg

7.      Doom Patrol Volume 3: Down Paradise Way – Grant Morrison, Richard Case

May

1.      Doom Patrol Volume 4: Musclebound – Grant Morrison, Richard Case, Kelley Jones, Mark McKenna, John Nyberg

2.      Eragon – Christopher Paolini

3.      The Promised Neverland Vol 1 – Kaiu Shirai, Posaku Demizu

4.      Deadly Class Volume 3: 1988 Snake Pit – Rick Remender, Wes Craig

5.      Once and Future Volume 4: Monarchies in the U.K. – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora

6.      The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper

7.      The Forest – Thomas Ott

8.      The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin

June

1.      Deadly Class Volume 4: 1988 Die For Me – Rick Remender, Wes Craig

2.      Arthurian Legends – Wace and Layamon

3.      Dune – Frank Herbert

4.      The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin

5.      The Lost Years of Merlin – T.A. Barron

July

1.      The Secret To Super-Human Strength – Alison Bechdel

2.      The Promised Neverland Volume 2 – Kaiu Shirai, Posaku Demizu

3.      The New World – Ales Kot, Tradd Moore

4.      Super Sentai Himitsu Sentai Gorenger – Shotaro Ishinomori

5.      Spider-Gwen Volume 0: Most Wanted? – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez

6.      The Deed of Paksenarrion: Divided Allegiance – Elizabeth Moon

7.      Ultimate Miles Morales Spider-Man Volume 1 – Brian Michael Bendis, Sara Pichelli, Chris Samnee

8.      Giant Days Volume 1 – John Allison, Lisa Treimann

9.      Giant Days Volume 2 – John Allison, Lisa Treimann, Max Sarin

August

1.      Lockwood & Co. Volume 1: The Screaming Staircase – Jonathan Stroud

2.      Ultimate Miles Morales Spider-Man Volume 2 – Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez, et al

3.      Ultimate Miles Morales Spider-Man Volume 3 – Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez, et al

4.      The Wheel of Time Book 2: The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan

5.      Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones

6.      A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle

7.      French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie of France – Translated by Eugene Mason

September

1.      Pyongyang – Guy Delisle

2.      Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold – Alisa Kwitney, Kent Williams, et al

3.      The Dead of Paksenarrion: Oath of Gold – Elizabeth Moon

4.      Brave Chef Brianna – Sam Sykes, Selina Espiritu

5.      Fledgling – Octavia E. Butler

6.      At Death’s Door – Jill Thompson

October

1.      We – Yevgeny Zamyatin, read by Toby Jones

2.      The Witch Boy – Molly Knox Ostertag

3.      20th Century Boys Vol. 7: The Truth  – Naoki Urasawa

4.      20th Century Boys Vol. 8: – Naoki Urasawa

5.      Isaac the Pirate Vol. 1: To Exotic Lands – Christophe Blaine

6.      Dungeon Zenith: Volume 4: Outside the Ramparts – Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Boulet

7.      The Wheel of Time Book 3: The Dragon Reborn – Robert Jordan

8.      20th Century Boys Volume 9: Rabbit Nabokov – Naoki Urasawa

9.      The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

10.  Isaac the Pirate Volume 2: The Capital – Christophe Blaine

11.  20th Century Boys Volume 10: The Faceless Boy - Naoki Urasawa

November

1.      Gotham Central Book 1: In the Line of Duty – Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka

2.      Komi Can’t Communicate Vol. 1 – Tomohito Oda

3.      The Promised Neverland Volume 3 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu

4.      Sleepless Volume 1 – Sarah Vaughn, Leila Del Duch

5.      R.U.R. – Karel Capek, translated by David Wyllie

6.      20th Century Boys Volume 11: List of Ingredients – Naoki Urasawa

7.      20th Century Boys Volume 12: Friend’s Face – Naoki Urasawa

8.      20th Century Boys Volume 13: Beginning of the End – Naoki Urasawa

9.      20th Century Boys Volume 14: The Boy and the Dream – Naoki Urasawa

10.  The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Sam Ketih, Malcolm Jones III

11.  Dodger – Terry Pratchett

12.  The Promised Neverland Volume 4 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu

13.  20th Century Boys Volume 15: Expo Hurray – Naoki Urasawa

14.  20th Century Boys Volume 16: Beyond the Looking Glass – Naoki Urasawa

15.  20th Century Boys Volume 17: Cross-Counter – Naoki Urasawa

16.  20th Century Boys Volume 18: Everybody’s Song – Naoki Urasawa

17.  20th Century Boys Volume 19: The Man Who Came Back – Naoki Urasawa

18.  20th Century Boys Volume 20: Humanity in the Balance – Naoki Urasawa

19.  Thursday Next book 2: Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde

20.  20th Century Boys Volume 21: Arrival of the Space Aliens – Naoki Urasawa

21.  20th Century Boys Volume 22: The Beginning of Justice

22.  The Promised Neverland Volume 5 – Kaiu Shira, Posuka Demizu

December

1.      Thrawn Ascension: Book 1: Chaos Rising – Timothy Zahn

2.      Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high - Kerry Patterson,

 Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

3.      Sandman Volume 2: The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III

4.      My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris

5.      Please Don’t Step On My JNCO Jeans – Noah Van Sciver

6.      The Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country – Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Malcolm Jones III, Charles Vess

7.      Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold

8.      Sandman Book 4: Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner, George Pratt, Dick Giordano, Kelley Jones, P. Craig Russell

9.      Sandman Book 5: A Game of You – Neil Gaiman, Sean McManus, Bryan Talbot, Colleen Doran

 105 books and graphic novels in 2022! 34 novels (and 1 novella) and 70/71 graphic novels. I read one book twice for a book club. That’s 13 more than I read last year.

Now for totals from 2002 to 2022.

Totals:

2002 20

2003 86 – 7.16/month

2004 9

2005 84 – 7/month

2006 79 – 6.58/month

2007 58 – 4.83/month

2008 49 – 4.083/month

2009 51 – 4.25

2010 72 - 6

2011 60 - 5

2012 80 – 6.66

2013 50 – 4.16

2014 144 - 12

2015 92 – 7.66

2016 151 – 12.58

2017 138 – 11.5

2018 116 – 9.66

2019 96 - 8

2020 102 – 8.5

2021 92 – 7.66

2022 105 – 8.75

 Including the years that I have incomplete data for (2002 and 2004 I only have 3 months of data), I read 1734 books and graphic novels from 2002 to 2022, 86.7 per year. If we leave off 2002, and 2004, I read 85.25 per year and an average of 7.89 books per month. I’ll post the graphic novels and regular books break down shortly. 

#books #reading #year in review #graphic novels #comics

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.24

Beer Birthdays

Henry Rahr (1834)

Howard Hughes; zillionaire businessman (1905)

Aron Deorsey (1974)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Curtiz; film director (1898)

Anthony Fauci; physician (1940)

Fritz Leiber; writer (1910)

Benjamin Rush; father of psychiatry, 1st to recognize alcoholism as a disease, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745)

I.F. Stone; writer (1907)

Famous Birthdays

Matthew Arnold; English writer (1822)

Jill Bennett; actor (1931)

Jonathan Borofsky; artist (1942)

Ray Bryant; pianist, composer (1931)

Charles Wakefield Cadman; composer (1881)

Kit Carson; frontiersman (1809)

Lee Daniels; director (1959)

Baby Dodds; jazz drummer (1898)

Lee Dorsey; singer-songwriter (1924)

Paul Foot; English comedian (1973)

Mary Higgins Clark; writer (1927)

Howard Hughes; businessman, pilot (1905)

Scott Fischer; mountaineer (1955)

Ava Gardner; actress (1922)

Ignatius of Loyola; Jesuit founder (1491)

Robert Joffrey; choreographer, dancer (1930)

Libby Larsen; composer (1950)

Emanuel Lasker; German chess player (1868)

Glenn McQueen; Canadian-American animator (1960)

Adam Mickiewicz; Polish poet and playwright (1798)

Mark Millar; Scottish author (1969)

Émile Nelligan; Canadian poet (1879)

James Prescott Joule; physicist (1818)

Lemmy Kilmister; rock bassist (1945)

Ricky Martin; pop singer (1971)

Nicholas Meyer; film director (1945)

Mark Millar; comic book writer (1969)

Jean-Louis Pons; French astronomer (1761)

Michael Ray; jazz musician (1952)

Ryan Seacrest; tv entertainer (1974)

Kate Spade; fashion designer (1962)

Noel Streatfeild; English author (1895)

J.D. Walsh; actor (1974)

Harry Warren; songwriter (1893)

Franz Waxman; composer (1906)

Marguerite Williams; geologist (1895)

Wade Williams; actor (1961)

Philip Ziegler; English historian (1929)

#Birthdays

[coinnewz]

US Stablecoin Bill Hits Pause: New Delay Sparks Criticism

The House Financial Services Committee’s decision to delay a vote on stablecoin and crypto trading legislation by a week has caused a stir. Previously scheduled for July 17, the rescheduling to July 26 marks another chapter in the United States’ complex stance on crypto regulation. US Stablecoin Bill Sparks Debate The legislation, designed to “provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes,” has sparked bipartisan debate. On one side, Democratic lawmakers continue to display skepticism. They align with industry advocates who contend that current securities laws are robust enough to manage cryptocurrencies. “It proposes a cumbersome framework with inherent structural issues that will undermine the ability of our federal financial regulators to properly regulate and oversee an industry already rife with instability and fraud,” Rep. David Scott said. On the other side, Republicans, spearheaded by Reps. French Hill and Patrick McHenry, see the need for new legislation to regulate digital assets. They have turned towards the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a preferred regulator. The goal is to marginalize the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) reach into the crypto industry. “ bill that deals with both the capital raising piece for digital assets all the way through how a product goes from a securities regime to a commodities regime. At the same time, preserve our right around products that neither neatly into the securities or commodities regime and the ability for people to exchange those,” McHenry said. Read more: This Congressman Wants to End America’s War on Crypto Recent developments in the SEC’s case against Ripple Labs could potentially influence the proceedings. A landmark ruling by federal Judge Analisa Torres stated that Ripple’s XRP sales to institutional investors violated securities laws. Still, other sales, notably those to everyday investors on crypto exchanges, were exempt from these rules. “The ruling gives large institutional investors greater protections than everyday Americans. Outcomes like this are what happens when regulators force courts to make policy instead of Congress. Our comprehensive market structure legislation will give all investors, customers, and market participants the same longstanding protections found in traditional financial markets,” McHenry stated. The Influnce of SEC vs. Ripple Ruling The verdict’s ramifications extend beyond Ripple, sending waves throughout Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The investor protections granted to registered investment products, it appears, do not extend to retail traders. This discrepancy, as Howard Fischer, former senior trial counsel at the SEC, points out, is “almost counterintuitive.” The implications of this ruling have given Republicans an opportunity to rally support for their proposed stablecoin bill. However, they face staunch opposition from Democrats. They generally support SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s position that most crypto activity falls under the SEC’s jurisdiction. Read more: Senator Elizabeth Warren Wants to Form an Anti-Crypto Army Crypto Regulation Worldwide. Source: Statista The House Agriculture Committee also expected to debate and vote on the legislation. The anticipation surrounding these discussions is heightened by their potential implications for the future regulatory framework of cryptocurrencies. Especially Bitcoin, the largest digital asset viewed as a commodity. The delay of one-week for the stablecoin bill may provide a breather for all parties involved, allowing for more negotiation and changes. Disclaimer In adherence to the Trust Project guidelines, BeInCrypto is committed to unbiased, transparent reporting. This news article aims to provide accurate, timely information. However, readers are advised to verify facts independently and consult with a professional before making any decisions based on this content. Source link Read the full article

[bookclub4m]

Episode 129 - Non-Fiction Film & TV Books

This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Film & TV books! We discuss media about media, self-pity book purchasing, spoilers, and more! Plus: Kakapos!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Appleberry

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West

Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade

Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano and Arturo Torres 

Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Questlove

Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss, Mathew Klickstein

Hollywood vs. the Author edited by Stephen Jay Schwartz

Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies by Ann Hornaday

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell

Richard Ayoade Presents the Grip of Film by Gordy LaSure

Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave Addey

Typeset in the Future website

101 Movies to Watch Before You Die by Ricardo Cavolo

How to Watch Television, Second Edition edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell

Other Media We Mentioned

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Wikipedia)

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Wikipedia)

Samurai Pizza Cats (Wikipedia)

My Pet Monster (Wikipedia)

The A-Team (Wikipedia)

Murder, She Wrote (Wikipedia)

Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Wikipedia)

Goosebumps (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales

Saturday Night Live (Wikipedia)

The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy by Paul Myers

The Kids in the Hall (TV series) (Wikipedia)

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman

Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman

The Fugitive (Wikipedia)

View from the Top (Wikipedia)

The Room (Wikipedia)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Wikipedia)

Alien (Wikipedia)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wikipedia)

Blade Runner (Wikipedia)

Total Recall (Wikipedia)

WALL-E (Wikipedia)

Moon (Wikipedia)

House (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Battlestar Galactica (Wikipedia)

The Video Game History Hour podcast

Decoder Ring - The Soap Opera Machine

Shrill (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Love, Actually (Wikipedia)

List of Hallmark Channel Original Movies (Wikipedia)

33⅓ (Wikipedia)

Criminal Minds (Wikipedia)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wikipedia)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Wikipedia)

Dredd (Wikipedia)

The Muppets (Wikipedia)

Top Gun (Wikipedia)

Kate Beaton’s Top Gun comics

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wikipedia)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Wikipedia)

Armageddon Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know about Zombies, Contagions, Aliens, and the End of the World as We Know It! by Dale Sherman

Links, Articles, and Things

Library Punk episode 014 - Manga

Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective

Fanart!

Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction

Toy Galaxy (YouTube channel)

Lindsay Ellis (YouTube channel)

Amanda the Jedi (YouTube channel)

Jenny Nicholson (YouTube channel)

Every Frame a Painting (YouTube channel)

Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting by co-creator Tony Zhou

Welcome to the Basement

Pushing Up Roses (YouTube channel)

Jacob Geller (YouTube channel)

Letterboxd (Wikipedia)

Demi Adejuyigbe on Letterboxd

Sidewalk Slam - Episode 57 - AEW Revolution 2021 (YouTube)

Kakapo (Wikipedia)

Lego set

Diegesis (Wikipedia)

The Stranger (newspaper) (Wikipedia)

Chuck Klosterman (Wikipedia)

Hanif Abdurraqib (Wikipedia)

24 Film/TV/Video Non-Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire by Jonathan Abrams

“Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations' Voices Speak Out by Sierra S. Adare

Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance by Christina N. Baker

Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman  

The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry by Maryann Erigha

Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film by Ed Guerrero

Why Wakanda Matters: What Black Panther Reveals About Psychology, Identity, and Communication by Sheena C. Howard

Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa

Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals by Julia Lee

The Films of Bong Joon Ho by Nam Lee

Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts edited by Russell Leong

Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic by Helen Hok-Sze Leung

Cinema-Interval by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay by Jordan Peele

Where Do You Think We Are?: Ten Illustrated Essays About Scrubs by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres

Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity by Viola Shafik

Maori Television: The First Ten Years by Jo Smith

Shaded Lives: African American Women and Television by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade

Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms by Dustin Tahmahkera

Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto by Melvin Van Peebles

Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism by Nancy Wang Yuen

I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio by Kristal Brent Zook

Also check out the booklist from our episode on Entertainment Non-Fiction.

Give us feedback!

Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!

Which zine do you most want to read? (Twitter poll)

RJ's zine about Love Actually

Anna's zine about Criminal Minds

Matthew's zine about Dredd

Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!

It’s almost time for our annual “We all read the same book” episode. So on Tuesday, July 20th we’ll each suggest and talk about one title and you’ll get to vote for which one we’ll read. (And yes, it will definitely happen this time.)

Then on Tuesday, August 3rd it’s time to jack in and download because we’ll be reading the genre of Cyberpunk!

#episodes #genres #nonfiction #films #movies #tv

[grimnoire87]

[ifthenslashers]

Disney on Broadway 25th Anniversary Concert for Broadway Cares' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund

Here’s the If/Then-related performances:

Ashley Brown singing “No More Fear” from Freaky Friday The Musical, written by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey (If/Then, Next To Normal)

If/Then fam Tamika Lawrence & co. sings “Zero To Hero” from Hercules

“I Won't Say (I'm in Love)” from Hercules featuring Tamika Lawrence

Donate to Broadway Cares' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund now: 

https://broadwaycares.org/help2020

Enjoy a special stream of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ benefit concert celebrating Disney on Broadway’s 25th anniversary. The online playback will raise money for Broadway Cares’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund, which is helping everyone in the theater and performing arts community impacted by the pandemic and work shutdown. Ryan McCartan (Frozen, TV’s Liv and Maddie) hosted the stream live from his family’s home and will interview special Disney on Broadway stars, from their homes, throughout the evening.

The streamed show featured performances by Jelani Alladin, Sierra Boggess, Christian Borle, Ashley Brown, Kerry Butler, Lauryn Ciardullo, Gavin Creel, Merle Dandridge, Lindiwe Dlamini, Bongi Duma, Susan Egan, Andrew Barth Feldman, Bradley Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Mandy Gonzalez, April Holloway, James Monroe Iglehart, Adam Jacobs, Ramona Keller, Nina Lafarga, Tamika Lawrence, Norm Lewis, Kara Lindsay, Tshidi Manye, Sibusiso Ngema, Ashley Park, Adam Pascal, Krysta Rodriguez, Michael James Scott, Sherie Rene Scott, Kissy Simmons, Josh Strickland, Katie Terza, Marisha Wallace, Rema Webb, Alton Fitzgerald White and Syndee Winters.

The show also included a much-anticipated, high-energy reunion of 18 Newsies from the show’s Broadway and national touring productions, and a moving performance from Broadway Inspirational Voices.

The November concert was directed Casey Hushion. Jeff Lee and Tom Viola served as executive producers. James Abbott was the music director and created the revised orchestrations. Jason Trubitt served as Disney’s production supervisor. Howard Joines was the orchestra coordinator. The creative team included lighting designer Ryan J. O’Gara and sound designers Kurt Fischer and Marie Renee Foucher.

Video by Reel Time Video Production.

Special thanks to SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association and American Federation of Musicians Local 802.

#ashley brown #tamika lawrence #freaky friday #tom kitt #brian yorkey #hercules #next to normal #if/then #disney on broadway #disney theatrical #BCEFA #live performance #offtopic #original post

[tabloidtoc]

OK, February 11

Cover: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton -- We’re Having a Baby Girl 

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: Contents

Page 4: Insider Access -- Paris Couture Week -- Geraldine Chaplin and Kristen Stewart and Tessa Thompson and Kristine Froseth, Celine Dion and Pepe Munoz, Karlie Kloss, Maisie Williams and Miss Fame, Pharrell Williams, Irina Shayk, Dakota Fanning and Michelle Dockery 

Page 6: Melissa McCarthy raising strong daughters 

Page 7: Christie Brinkley’s lonely life, Robin Thicke trying to distance himself from his bad-boy past by pursuing a career in acting to honor his late father Alan Thicke, Zac Efron credits his vegan diet for maintaining his chiseled physique 

Page 8: Yolanda Hadid declared she’s now free is breast implants and fillers and Botox and other toxins, Duchess Meghan Murphy and Prince Harry’s nanny search, Bethenny Frankel won’t help other Housewives when they launch their own competing wines 

Page 10: Red Carpet -- Cutout Dresses -- Charlize Theron, Thandie Newton, Laura Dern

Page 11: Mandy Moore 

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Shanina Shaik vs. Alessandra Ambrosio, Miley Cyrus vs. Sylvia Hoeks, Jennifer Lopez vs. Taraji P. Henson

Page 14: Cover Story -- Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are set to welcome a daughter, their exes Miranda Lambert and Gavin Rossdale are single  

Page 18: John Travolta’s home with runways in Ocala, Florida 

Page 20: News in Photos -- Ryan Reynolds 

Page 21: Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault and Uma Thurman, Adam Levine on Ellen 

Page 22: Kit Harington, Emily Blunt in Tokyo with Ayaka Hirahara and Shosuke Tanihara, Frieda Pinto 

Page 24: Cher 

Page 25: Andy Cohen and Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, Sarah Hyland, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell 

Page 26: Emma Roberts and fiance Evan Peters, Khloe and Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, Molly Sims and Angela Sarafyan 

Page 27: Terrell Owens bowling, Adriana Lima 

Page 28: Vanessa Hudgens 

Page 31: Alessandra Ambrosio, James Franco and Isabel Pakzad, Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer 

Page 32: Lady Gaga -- my best body ever 

Page 36: Celeb Chefs with Chef Judy Joo -- Dominique Crenn 

Page 38: 10 most epic Grammy moments of all time 

Page 40: Fatherhood changed George Clooney 

Page 42: Hollywood Health Kick -- Gigi Hadid, Gabrielle Union, Gwyneth Paltrow 

Page 44: Cookbook -- Please try a plant-based diet 

Page 46: Emma Stone and Dave McCary engaged 

Page 47: Hailey Bieber not happy that Justin Bieber’s mom Pattie Malette has moved in with them, after a momentous year Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are ready to step back and have a third child, Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp are moving in together 

Page 48: Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn’s secret wedding, Rami Malek’s social life is controlled by girlfriend Lucy Boynton who doesn’t want to share him, Love Bites -- Duff Goldman and Johanna Colbry wed, Adriana Lima and Metin Hara split, Carlos and Alexa PenaVega expecting their 2nd child 

Page 49: Kourtney Kardashian helping Scott Disick propose to Sofia Richie, it’s serious between Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone, Ben Higgins dating someone but he wouldn’t give out her name 

Page 50: Style -- Kaia Gerber 

Page 52: Jessica Alba 

Page 54: Super Bowl style -- Gisele Bundchen 

Page 56: Beauty -- Olivia Culpo 

Page 58: Tailgate Party

Page 59: Jamie Chung and Tika Sumpter 

Page 60: Entertainment 

Page 61: Musical acts heating up Las Vegas in 2019 -- Lady Antebellum, Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, Billy Idol, Aerosmith, Lady Gaga 

Page 62: Things We’re Obsessed With -- Snoop Dogg, Derrick Barry 

Page 64: Man of the Week -- Maksim Chmerkovskiy 

Page 66: Sound Bites -- Goldie Hawn on Kate Hudson giving birth, James Corden on Chris Pratt, Matthew McConaughey on nude scenes, Rachel Brosnahan on her trophies 

Page 68: Hollywood Heat Meter -- Michael Gandolfini, Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher’s new son, Joe and Teresa Giudice, Leslie Jones, Kendra Wilkinson and Chad Johnson, Stars who shamed designers for refusing to dress their non-sample size figures -- Bebe Rexha, Megan Mullally, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Dascha Polanco 

Page 70: Horoscope -- Aquarius Ashton Kutcher 

Page 72: By the Numbers -- Jake Gyllenhaal 

#tabloids #celebrity gossip #gwen stefani #blake shelton #kristen stewart #miley cyrus #shanina shaik #alessandra ambrosio #sylvia hoeks #jennifer lopez #taraji p. henson

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Birthdays 12.24

Beer Birthdays

Henry Rahr (1834)

Howard Hughes; zillionaire businessman (1905)

Aron Deorsey (1974)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Curtiz; film director (1898)

Anthony Fauci; physician (1940)

Fritz Leiber; writer (1910)

Benjamin Rush; father of psychiatry, 1st to recognize alcoholism as a disease, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745)

I.F. Stone; writer (1907)

Famous Birthdays

Matthew Arnold; English writer (1822)

Jill Bennett; actor (1931)

Jonathan Borofsky; artist (1942)

Ray Bryant; pianist, composer (1931)

Charles Wakefield Cadman; composer (1881)

Kit Carson; frontiersman (1809)

Lee Daniels; director (1959)

Baby Dodds; jazz drummer (1898)

Lee Dorsey; singer-songwriter (1924)

Paul Foot; English comedian (1973)

Mary Higgins Clark; writer (1927)

Howard Hughes; businessman, pilot (1905)

Scott Fischer; mountaineer (1955)

Ava Gardner; actress (1922)

Ignatius of Loyola; Jesuit founder (1491)

Robert Joffrey; choreographer, dancer (1930)

Libby Larsen; composer (1950)

Emanuel Lasker; German chess player (1868)

Glenn McQueen; Canadian-American animator (1960)

Adam Mickiewicz; Polish poet and playwright (1798)

Mark Millar; Scottish author (1969)

Émile Nelligan; Canadian poet (1879)

James Prescott Joule; physicist (1818)

Lemmy Kilmister; rock bassist (1945)

Ricky Martin; pop singer (1971)

Nicholas Meyer; film director (1945)

Mark Millar; comic book writer (1969)

Jean-Louis Pons; French astronomer (1761)

Michael Ray; jazz musician (1952)

Ryan Seacrest; tv entertainer (1974)

Kate Spade; fashion designer (1962)

Noel Streatfeild; English author (1895)

J.D. Walsh; actor (1974)

Harry Warren; songwriter (1893)

Franz Waxman; composer (1906)

Marguerite Williams; geologist (1895)

Wade Williams; actor (1961)

Philip Ziegler; English historian (1929)

#Birthdays

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Political polarisation impedes the public policy response to COVID-19

Maria Milosh, Marcus Painter, Konstantin Sonin, David Van Dijcke, Austin L. Wright 23 December 2020

Carrying face masks ought to be thought-about the least controversial of main public responses to COVID-19. Not like with many different measures comparable to shelter-in-place ordinances, lockdowns, or capability restrictions, there isn’t a trade-off between masks use and financial exercise. A number of latest research documented that masks can successfully diminish the unfold of a viral respiratory an infection (Mitze et al. 2020, Fischer et al. 2020, Chu et al. 2020, Leung et al. 2020), with out disrupting financial exercise (Howard et al. 2020). In contrast, social distancing has had an antagonistic impact on client exercise (Goolsbee and Syverson 2020, Chetty et al. 2020, Coibion et al. 2020, Chronopoulos et al. 2020) and job losses (Friedson et al. 2020, Chudik et al. 2020, Gupta et al. 2020, Beland et al. 2020) and is itself influenced by financial circumstances (Wright et al.  2020).

Nevertheless, the general public response to this seemingly uncontroversial measure has been considerably impeded by political polarisation. Within the US, the one most necessary predictor of native masks use shouldn’t be COVID-19 severity, demographic traits, non secular affiliation, social capital or native insurance policies comparable to masks mandates, however political partisanship. Masks mandates do have a major impact in these localities which vote closely Democratic, opposite to average or Republican localities.

In a latest paper (Milosh et al. 2020), we set up the function of political partisanship on use of masks by way of survey information on the zip code stage. The dataset was compiled by the net market analysis agency Dynata on a request by the New York Instances between 2 July  and 14 July 2020 and included 250,000 responses throughout the US. Contributors had been requested to estimate how typically they put on a masks when exterior and round different folks. We use these responses to assemble our important measure: the chance that out of 5 folks randomly encountered in a sure zip code, all 5 are carrying a masks. We then use vote shares from the 2016 election to measure partisanship. Our findings counsel that partisanship is without doubt one of the most necessary predictors of native masks use, and the hole between Republican and Democratic counties stays important even within the presence of a neighborhood authorities masks mandates. 

President Trump’s management on the difficulty additionally issues (Ajzenman et al. 2020). Following Trump’s surprising masks use at Walter Reed on 11 July 2020 and his endorsement of masks on 20 July 2020, there was a right away and important optimistic change by way of social media engagement with and sentiment in direction of mask-related matters. Twitter customers expressed extra curiosity in mask-wearing. We will solely speculate how far more Republican voters would put on masks if President Trump had persistently despatched a pro-mask message.

The partisan divide over the 2020 pandemic can also be documented by Barrios and Hochberg (2020) and Goldstein and Wiedemann (2020). They discover that the hole between Democrats and Republicans manifests itself in several threat notion, curiosity in COVID-19, and social distancing behaviour (all of that are increased for Democrats). Additional, the concept that political polarization is perhaps detrimental to environment friendly governance has been explored earlier than (McCarty 2007, Brady et al. 2008, Iyengar et al. 2019). We contribute to this literature by displaying that political polarization doesn’t have to work by way of long-term processes comparable to authorities gridlock or diminished belief within the authorities. Fairly, the impression of political polarisation on public coverage is perhaps fast.  

Our analysis consists of 4 designs exploring the consequences of political partisanship on masks carrying. First, we estimate the affiliation between partisanship and masks use, beginning with a easy bivariate correlation after which including quite a few potential covariates in addition to different mounted results specs to account for potential confounding elements. We discover {that a} one normal deviation shift in votes in favour of Donald Trump within the 2016 elections (18% swing) decreases masks use by 13.1% (p < 0.001). We then transfer to numerous regression specs explaining the usage of masks on the zip code stage, including all observable financial and demographic traits we will discover, together with indicators of native masks mandates, social capital, COVID-19 severity, and comorbidity patterns to account for potential confounders (Determine 1). The estimated impact of the Republican vote share on masks use stays unfavorable and important whatever the specification.

Determine 1 Affiliation between partisanship and masks use

Subsequent, we zoom in on the masks mandates’ impact on masks prevalence. Masks mandates issued on the county and state stage had been collected by Wright et al. (2020). We discover that these rules aren’t capable of shut the partisan hole: in areas with sturdy help for Democrats (2016 Republican share lower than 0.2), the mandates have led to a major surge in masks use if masks had been already pervasive. In distinction, in areas with a 2016 Republican share increased than 0.2, we observe no significant change after a masks carrying is remitted. All in all, coverage interventions had been unable to beat the pre-existing partisan hole.

Determine 2 Impact of masks mandates on masks utilization

Third, we flip to gauging the place partisanship stands amongst different elements that may probably predict masks use. To do this, we use the LASSO algorithm, a statistical technique that’s designed to pick out an important predictors of the end result variable (masks use) from a probably massive checklist of variables. Determine 3 reveals that the Republican share is the strongest predictor of masks use, adopted by native masks rules, and the share of school graduates within the corresponding locality.

Determine 3 Predicators of masks use 

Lastly, we use a shock look by President Trump as a quasi-experiment. On 11 July 2020,  Donald Trump unexpectedly arrived on the Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Centre, carrying a face masks publicly for the primary time. We measure mask-related engagement and sentiment on Twitter round this occasion, utilizing it as a quasi-experimental shock to partisan messaging. We collected English language tweets mentioning mask-related key phrases (comparable to ‘masks’ and ‘face masking’) between 6 July  and 19 July, classifying the tweets by their sentiment on a negative-positive scale. We then collapse their quantity and sentiment rating by minute. To establish the precise second of temporal discontinuity, we search for the very first tweet confirming Trump’s go to to the hospital.

Determine 4 depicts the leap within the variety of mask-related tweets and their optimistic sentiment. The de-seasonalized tweet quantity elevated by a sizeable 4.24 normal deviations. Moreover, tweets printed after the cut-off had been extra optimistic: the upward shift in sentiment was 1.02 normal deviations.

Determine 4 Discontinuity in mask-related tweets and their optimistic sentiment after Trump wore a masks in public

Determine 5 reveals the same quasi-experiment: it makes use of President Trump’s surprising tweet selling masks use as patriotic on 20 July. That tweet resulted in a 2.6 normal deviation rise within the quantity of mask-related tweets, and a 0.6 normal deviation enhance in optimistic sentiment.

Determine 5 Discontinuity in masks associated tweets and optimistic sentiment after Trump’s tweet on masks carrying

General, our examine supplies sturdy proof that political polarization has adversely impacted the implementation of an necessary well being coverage within the US. 

References

Ajzenman, N, C Tiago and D Da Mata (2020), “Leaders’ speech and risky behaviour during a pandemic“, VoxEU.org, 2 Could.

Barrios, J, and Y Hochberg (2020), “Danger Notion By means of the Lens of Politics within the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic”, NBER Working Paper 27008.

Beland, L P, A Brodeur, D Mikola, and T Wright (2020), “The Brief-Time period Financial Penalties of COVID-19: Occupation Duties and Psychological Well being in Canada”, Working Paper.

Brady, D W, J Ferejohn, and L Harbridge (2008), Polarization and Public Coverage: A Common Evaluation, Brookings Establishment Press.

Chetty, R, J N Friedman, N Hendren, and M Stepner (2020), “How did Covid-19 and stabilization insurance policies have an effect on spending and employment? A brand new real-time financial tracker based mostly on personal sector information”, NBER Working Paper 27431.

Chronopoulos, D, M L and J O S Wilson (2020), “Real-time consumer spending responses to the COVID-19 crisis and government lockdown” , VoxEU.org, 6 Could.

Chu, D Okay, E A Akl, S Duda, Okay Solo, S Yaacoub, H J Schünemann, A El-Harakeh, A Bognanni, T Lotfi, M Loeb (2020), “Bodily distancing, face masks, and eye safety to forestall person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a scientific evaluate and meta-analysis”, The Lancet 395(10242): 1973-1987.

Chudik, A, M H Pesaran and A Rebucci (2020), “Voluntary and necessary social distancing: Proof on Covid-19 publicity charges from chinese language provinces and chosen international locations”, NBER Working Paper 27039.

Coibion, O, Y Gorodnichenko and M Weber (2020), “The price of the Covid-19 disaster: Lockdowns, macroeconomic expectations, and client spending”, NBER Working Paper 27141.

Fischer, E P, M C Fischer, D Grass, I Henrion, W S Warren and E Westman (2020), “Low-cost measurement of face masks efficacy for filtering expelled droplets throughout speech”, Science Advances 6(36).

Friedson, A I, D McNichols, J J Sabia and D Dave (2020), “Did California’s shelter-in-place order work? Early Coronavirus-related public well being results”, NBER Working Paper 26992.

Goldstein, D and J Wiedemann (2020), “Who Do You Belief? The Penalties of Political and Social Belief for Public Responsiveness to COVID-19 Orders”, Working paper.

Goolsbee, A, and C Syverson (2020), “Worry, lockdown, and diversion: Evaluating drivers of pandemic financial decline”, Journal of Public Economics 193: 104311.

Gupta, S, L Montenovo, T D Nguyen, F L Rojas, I M Schmutte, Okay I Simon and C Wing (2020), “Results of social distancing coverage on labor market outcomes”, NBER Working Paper 27280.

Howard, J, A Huang, Z Li, Z Tufekci, V Zdimal, H M van der Westhuizen, A von Delft, A Value, L Fridman, L H Tang and V Tang (2020), “Face masks in opposition to COVID-19: an proof evaluate”.

Iyengar, S, Y Lelkes, M Levendusky, N Malhotra and S J Westwood (2019), “The Origins and Penalties of Affective Polarization in america”, Annual Evaluation of Political Science 22(1): 129-146.

Leung, N H, D Okay Chu, E Y Shiu, Okay H Chan, J J McDevitt, B JP Hau, H-L Yen, Y Li, D KM Ip, JS M Peiris, et al. (2020), “Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks”, Nature Medication 26(5): 676-680.

McCarty, N (2007), “The Coverage Results of Political Polarization”, Brookings Establishment Press.

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Mitze, T, R Kosfeld, J Rode, and Okay Wälde (2020), “Face Masks Significantly Cut back COVID-19 Instances in Germany: A Artificial Management Technique Strategy”, Working Paper.

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DESPAIR by Alex Prager 2010

Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard

Produced by Jeremy Dawson, Rachel North and Jeff Vespa Executive Producer: Paul Fischer Executive Producer: Jonathan Segal Associate Producer: Bailey Reise Music By Ali Helnwein Cinematography by Matthew Libatique Editing by George Folsey Jr and Brad E. Wilhite Costume Design by Callan Stokes Sound by Andrew DeCristofaro and Matt McGowin Visual Effects by Henrik Fett and Ben Sumner Production Designers by Tam Reid and Fi Campbell Johnson

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Livres : les nouveautés de la semaine (18 février 2019)

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Actualité

Gilets jaunes : hypothèses sur un mouvement / AOC

Cote de rangement : HM 883 C 257159

"Dès le début de ce mouvement social et politique inédit, AOC a demandé à des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des artistes d’éclairer l’événement à la lumière de ce qu’ils savaient déjà, au regard de leurs travaux antérieurs. En complément des indispensables reportages de la presse classique, qui donnent à voir sur le moment ce qui se passe, AOC fait depuis son lancement le pari d’un journalisme en profondeur, celui de longs textes d’analyse et d’opinion produits le plus souvent par des non-journalistes. Une approche qui a souvent et humblement recours aux hypothèses pour tenter de mieux comprendre et non pas seulement décrire l’actualité. « Gilets jaunes : hypothèses sur un mouvement » réunit, par ordre chronologique, vingt-quatre textes de sociologues, géographes, historiens, philosophes, politistes, juristes, économistes et écrivains. AOC est l'acronyme de Analyse, Opinion, Critique. AOC est un quotidien numérique ; un quotidien d'auteurs conçus par des journalises." - Quatrième de couverture

Sociologie

Theodor W. Adorno : un des derniers génies / Detlev Claussen Cote de rangement : B 3199 C 257161

The digital street / Jeffrey Lane Cote de rangement : HM 742 L 257171

Le fond de l'air est jaune : comprendre une révolte inédite / textes réunis et présentés par Joseph Confavreux Cote de rangement : HM 883 F 257155

Abc de la rumeur : message & transmission / Françoise Reumaux Cote de rangement : HM 1241 R 257154

Abortion politics / Ziad W. Munson Cote de rangement : HQ 767 .5 M 257174

Génération Internet / Jean M. Twenge Cote de rangement : HQ 799 .7 T 257153

Femicide across Europe : theory, research and prevention / edited by Shalva Weil, Consuelo Corradi, Marceline Naudi Cote de rangement : HV 6250 .4 F 257165

Sciences politiques

Research design in political science / Dimiter Toshkov Cote de rangement : JA 86 T 257169

In defense of universal human rights / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann Cote de rangement : JC 571 H 257173

The digital party : political organisation and online democracy / Paolo Gerbaudo Cote de rangement : JF 2051 G 257172

2017, la présidentielle chamboule-tout : la communication politique au prisme du "dégagisme" / dirigé par Philippe J. Maarek et Arnaud Mercier Cote de rangement : JN 2959 D 257158

L'Europe : approches géopolitique et économique / sous la direction de Jean-Paul Chagnollaud et Xavier Richet Cote de rangement : JZ 1570 E 257157

Finance

The behavioural finance revolution : a new approach to financial policies and regulations / edited by Riccardo Viale, Shabnam Mousavi, Barbara Alemanni, Umberto Filotto Cote de rangement : HG 4515 .15 B 257170

Économie

Great economic thinkers : an introduction from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen / edited by Jonathan Conlin Cote de rangement : HB 76 G 257167

Sugar daddy capitalism : the dark side of the new economy / Peter Fleming Cote de rangement : HB 501 F 257164

Money, finance and crises in economic history : the long-term impact of economic ideas : essays in honour of Maria Cristina Marcuzzo / edited by Annalisa Rosselli, Nerio Naldi and Eleonora Sanfilippo Cote de rangement : HC 21 M 257168

Poverty as ideology : rescuing social justice from global development agendas / Andrew Martin Fischer Cote de rangement : HC 79 .P6 F 257166

Anthropologie

Pietpraat : over Zwarte Piet in België / Bambi Ceuppens Cote de rangement : GT 4995 .N5 P 257163

Religion

L'Algérie catholique : une histoire de l'Église catholique en Algérie : XIXe-XXIe siècles / Oissila Saaïdia Cote de rangement : BX 1682 S 257162

Démographie

Niakhar, mémoires et perspectives : recherches pluridisciplinaires sur le changement en Afrique / Valérie Delaunay, Alice Desclaux et Cheikh Sokhna (éd.) Cote de rangement : HB 850 .5 N 257160

Communication

Le format bible des séries télévisées : pratique et enjeux esthétiques / Hélène Monnet-Cantagrel Cote de rangement : PN 1992 .8.S4 M 257156

Tous ces ouvrages sont exposés sur le présentoir des nouveautés de la BSPO. Ceux-ci pourront être empruntés à domicile à partir du 4 mars 2019.

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Birthdays 12.24

Beer Birthdays

Henry Rahr (1834)

Howard Hughes; zillionaire businessman (1905)

Aron Deorsey (1974)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Curtiz; film director (1898)

Anthony Fauci; physician (1940)

Fritz Leiber; writer (1910)

Benjamin Rush; father of psychiatry, 1st to recognize alcoholism as a disease, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745)

I.F. Stone; writer (1907)

Famous Birthdays

Matthew Arnold; English writer (1822)

Jill Bennett; actor (1931)

Jonathan Borofsky; artist (1942)

Ray Bryant; pianist, composer (1931)

Charles Wakefield Cadman; composer (1881)

Kit Carson; frontiersman (1809)

Lee Daniels; director (1959)

Baby Dodds; jazz drummer (1898)

Lee Dorsey; singer-songwriter (1924)

Paul Foot; English comedian (1973)

Mary Higgins Clark; writer (1927)

Howard Hughes; businessman, pilot (1905)

Scott Fischer; mountaineer (1955)

Ava Gardner; actress (1922)

Ignatius of Loyola; Jesuit founder (1491)

Robert Joffrey; choreographer, dancer (1930)

Libby Larsen; composer (1950)

Emanuel Lasker; German chess player (1868)

Glenn McQueen; Canadian-American animator (1960)

Adam Mickiewicz; Polish poet and playwright (1798)

Mark Millar; Scottish author (1969)

Émile Nelligan; Canadian poet (1879)

James Prescott Joule; physicist (1818)

Lemmy Kilmister; rock bassist (1945)

Ricky Martin; pop singer (1971)

Nicholas Meyer; film director (1945)

Mark Millar; comic book writer (1969)

Jean-Louis Pons; French astronomer (1761)

Michael Ray; jazz musician (1952)

Ryan Seacrest; tv entertainer (1974)

Kate Spade; fashion designer (1962)

Noel Streatfeild; English author (1895)

J.D. Walsh; actor (1974)

Harry Warren; songwriter (1893)

Franz Waxman; composer (1906)

Marguerite Williams; geologist (1895)

Wade Williams; actor (1961)

Philip Ziegler; English historian (1929)

#Birthdays

[helloyoucreatives]

This Pride season marks 50 years since Parliament first voted to start legalising homosexuality. Across the UK, Prides will be marching with a message of hope, acceptance, activism and love. Ahead of the London parade on 8th July, Pride in London and WCRS have launched a multi-media campaign, celebrating love in all its forms.

The ‘Love Happens Here’ campaign will play out in two phases; ‘Hate’ and ‘Love’. The first phase draws attention to the rising problem of anti-LGBT+ hate crime in the London with Guerrilla-style fly-postering across the city, a covert take-over of Wi-Fi networks, statistic led taxi-tops and an event, which all tell stories aimed to raise awareness of the ongoing prevalence of prejudice.

On the 23rd June, the second ‘Love’ phase of the campaign will launch, which sees the stories of hate crime replaced with ones of love, showing London that ‘Love Happens Here’.

Full credits:

Client: Pride in London, Marketing and Comms team: Alison Camps, Iain Walters, Jonathan Everaere, Chris Eeles, James Holt

Agency: WCRS

Executive Creative Director: Ross Neil

Creative Directors: Orlando Warner, Joe Miller

Creatives: Howard de Smet and Sidonie Chaffer-Melly (Campaign), Tian Murphy and Charlie Gee (TV)

Agency Producer: Callum Procter, Ross Frame, Anna Lippert-Larsen, Kaiya Taffel

Account Handling: Emma Marsland, Alexandra Gluck, Charlie Harrington

Planning: Matt Rhodes, Stuart Williams, Gemma Glover, Megan Atherton, Jack Cartwright

Agency Designers: Jacinto Caetano, Patrick Gibson, Abbi Chard

Director of Technology: Dino Burbidge

Creative Technologists: Liam Chapman, Andy Bridges

Media Agency: Jonathan Everaere @ Pride in London

Media Partners: Jack Agency, Outdoor Plus, Clear Channel, 8 Outdoor, Kong Outdoor, Primesight, Media Circus, Ocean Outdoor, Outdoor Plus, Urban Vision, ECNLive, STORM, Channel 4 (TV), Verifone (Taxi tops, London & New York), Mobly Media (New York).

Production Company: Pulse Films

Director: Fred Scott

Producer: Chris Harrison

Editor:  Kevin Palmer @ Ten Three

Sound Design: Aaron Taffel @ Grand Central Sound Studios

Post-Production: Oisin O’Driscoll (Colourist @ The Mill), Tim Gaydon (Flame @Creative Outpost), Caroline McNulty (Post Producer @ Creative Outpost)

Exposure: OOH, TV (4 x30”, 1x60”)

Illustrators:

·       Alice Bowsher

·       Adam Hayes – Bernstein & Andriulli

·       Cachetejack - Bernstein & Andriulli

·       Pete Fowler - Bernstein & Andriulli

·       Billy Clark

·       Al Murphy – Blink Art

·       Chrissie Abbott – Blink Art

·       Daniel Frost – Blink Art

·       Gutless Wonder – Blink Art

·       Jack Hudson – Blink Art

·       Marcus Walters – Blink Art

·       Peter Judson – Blink Art

·       Rob Flowers – Blink Art

·       Sam Dunn – Blink Art

·       Craig & Karl – Breed London

·       Steven Wilson – Breed London

·       Charlotte Trounce

·       Mark Ward – Debut Art

·       Tobias Hall – Debut Art

·       Alex Tait – Jelly London

·       Hannah Warren – Jelly London

·       Mimi Leung – Jelly London

·       Alec Doherty

·       Fernando Volken Togni – MP Arts

·       Jenue – MP Arts

·       Marina Esmeraldo – MP Arts

·       Marylou Faure – MP Arts

·       Oli Frape – MP Arts

·       Thomas Hedger – MP Arts

·       Owen Gildersleeve – Grand Matter

·       Crispin Finn – Siobhan Squire

·       Richard Hogg – Siobhan Squire

·       Supermundane

·       Craig Townsend - WCRS

·       Darren O’Donoghue – WCRS

·       Harry Fischer – WCRS

Artworking: Trailer Park

#pride #lgbt

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Tuesday round-up

Yesterday the Supreme Court released one of its most eagerly anticipated decisions of the term, holding in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that federal employment discrimination law protects gay and transgender employees. Amy Howe analyzes the opinion for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. At Reuters, Lawrence Hurley reports that “[t]he landmark 6-3 ruling represented the biggest moment for LGBT rights in the United States since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015.” Tucker Higgins reports for CNBC that “[w]hile workers in about half the country were protected by local laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, there was no federal law that explicitly barred LGBT workers from being fired on that basis.” At The Washington Free Beacon, Kevin Daley reports that “Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of President Donald Trump’s appointees, delivered the opinion.” Steven Mazie at The Economist reports that “Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh wrote a dissent admonishing the majority for legislating from the bench”; “[f]or the more vituperative Justice Samuel Alito (joined in dissent by Justice Clarence Thomas), the ‘radical’ result in Bostock is based on ‘preposterous’ reasoning.”

Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall report for The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that “[t]he case extends a quarter-century of momentous advances for gay-rights advocates at the Supreme Court, even as the court has grown more conservative with the 2018 retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the court’s previous LGBT rights rulings.” For USA Today, Richard Wolf reports that “for now – thanks in no small part to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh – the court may be conservative, but it is far from united.” At NPR, Nina Totenberg reports that “[a]t the end of his 33-page opinion, … Gorsuch invoked several potential caveats[:] He noted, for instance, that some employers might have valid religious objections to hiring gay or trans workers,” and he “point[ed] to the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act as a ‘super statute’ that may offer a potential lifeline to employers who object, on religious grounds, to hiring gay and trans individuals.” Additional coverage comes from Ronn Blitzer and Bill Mears at Fox News, Howard Fischer for Capitol News Services (via Tucson.com), and Mark Walsh at Education Week, who reports that “debates over restrooms, locker rooms, and athletics had marked the oral arguments in the Title VII cases, and Justice Alito spent several sections of his lengthy dissent on those topics.” [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is counsel on an amicus brief in support of respondent Stephens in Harris.]

Lisa Keen at Keen News Service calls this “perhaps the most stunning U.S. Supreme Court victory in history for LGBT people.” At the Constitutional Law Prof Blog, Ruthan Robson notes that “all of the opinions raise the First Amendment free exercise of religion specter.” At Stanford Law School’s Legal Aggregate blog, Jane Schacter finds it “notable … that the opinion reaches a historic progressive result through methodologies typically associated with more conservative approaches to the law.” In an op-ed for The Hill, John Bursch argues that “[i]t cannot be that Title VII meant one thing for over 50 years and now means something completely different.” The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal writes that “[i]f Justice Gorsuch can use textualism to rewrite a statute to comport with changing public mores, then it is meaningless[:] Textualism becomes merely one more tool of those who believe in a ‘living Constitution’ that means whatever any Justice says it means.” Damon Root writes at Reason that “[i]t might come as a surprise to find Gorsuch and [Justice Antonin] Scalia playing such big roles in a Supreme Court decision that is being celebrated as a landmark liberal victory[, b]ut that misses the point of textualism.” Steve Sanders observes at Medium that “the majority opinion is not a manifesto for LGBT rights or social equality”; “[i]nstead, the opinion is an exercise in pure, academic textual analysis.” At PrawfsBlawg, Gerard Magliocca suggests that “the stakes for the ERA are now higher[:] If Congress ever decides to repeal the expired ratification deadline and declare the ERA part of the Constitution, that amendment could well read as prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status.” Additional commentary comes from Hera Arsen at Ogletree Deakins, William Gould in a Q&A at Legal Aggregate, Howard Wasserman at PrawfsBlawg, Ryan Everson in an op-ed for The Washington Examiner and Shirley Lin at the Human Rights at Home blog.

The court also held 7-2 in U.S. Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association that the Forest Service had the authority to grant a right of way for a natural gas pipeline through lands traversed by the Appalachian Trail. Robert Barnes reports for The Washington Post (subscription required) that the decision “removed a major obstacle to the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a long-delayed and multibillion-dollar project meant to carry natural gas through some of the most mountainous scenery in central Virginia.” Mariam Morshedi analyzes the decision at Subscript Law. [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, is counsel on an amicus brief in support of the respondents in this case.]

In a summary decision in Andrus v. Texas, the justices held 6-3 that Texas death-row inmate Terence Andrus had established that his defense counsel’s performance was deficient, and they sent the case back for the lower court to determine whether the counsel’s inadequacy prejudiced Andrus. Amy Howe analyzes the opinion in Andrus for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. At Crime & Consequences, Kent Scheidegger complains that “[t]he per curiam opinion reads like a typical capital defense brief.”

Yesterday the court issued orders from last week’s conference. The justices added two cases to their merits docket: Albence v. Chavez, which asks which provision of immigration law governs the detention of a noncitizen whose removal order has been reinstated and who is seeking withholding of removal, and Henry Schein v. Archer and White Sales Inc., in which the court will decide whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that carves out some claims trumps a clear delegation to an arbitrator of questions of arbitrability. The court also requested the views of the solicitor general in Texas v. California, in which Texas is asking the justices to decide whether California’s ban on government-funded travel to states that it regards as having laws or policies that discriminate against gays, lesbians and transgender people violates the Constitution. Amy Howe covers the order list for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. For Capitol Media Services (via Tucson.com), Howard Fischer reports that the court also “quashed a last-ditch effort by the Arizona Libertarian Party to void a state statute that as designed – and succeeded – at keeping its candidates off the ballot.” At CPR Speaks, Russ Bleemer and Heather Cameron look at the cert grant in Henry Schein.

The justices declined to review a group of Second Amendment cases they had considered at several conferences, along with another group of cases involving the doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields officials from liability for constitutional violations that do not violate clearly established law. For this blog, and also at Howe on the Court, Amy Howe covers the cert denials in the Second Amendment cases. At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that the court “turned away 10 appeals that sought to broaden constitutional firearm protections, rejecting calls for rights to own a semi-automatic assault rifle and carry a handgun in public[:] The rebuffs are a blow to the gun-rights movement, which has been trying for a decade to get the court to take up a major new Second Amendment case.” At Route Fifty, Bill Lucia reports that several of the “pending gun  cases before the court involved challenges over ‘public carry’ restrictions.”

At NPR, Nina Totenberg reports that “[t]wo Supreme Court justices have repeatedly urged the court to reexamine qualified immunity doctrine: Sonia Sotomayor, arguably the court’s most liberal justice, and Thomas, arguably its most conservative.” At Education Week’s School Law Blog, Mark Walsh reports that in one of the nine qualified immunity cases the court declined to hear, “Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a lone dissent from the denial of review, saying, ‘I continue to have strong doubts about our Section 1983 qualified immunity doctrine.’” Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin report for The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that “[t]he court’s move will keep it on the sidelines of a brewing national debate over the leeway law enforcement enjoys to treat suspects and others without regard to their constitutional rights.” Commentary comes from Howard Wasserman at PrawfsBlawg, who wonders “if the recent events and the introduction of legislation prompted the Justices to wait.” At trialdex, Ed Hagen argues that “[t]he Court properly denied cert in these cases,” because “if § 1983/Bivens qualified immunity is a doctrine that should be revisited, that is a job for Congress, not the Supreme Court.”

Ariane de Vogue reports at CNN that the court “left in place a lower court opinion upholding one of California’s so-called sanctuary laws that limits cooperation between law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, a measure that the Trump administration says is meant to ‘undermine’ federal immigration enforcement.” Amy Howe’s coverage of the sanctuary state case for this blog is here; it first appeared at Howe on the Court. Kevin Johnson offers his take on the petition at the ImmigrationProf Blog.

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For The Wall Street Journal, Sadie Gurman reports that “[t]he Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death row inmates while the prisoners’ appeals are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Jordan Rubin reports at Bloomberg Law that “Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s suggestion last term that Texas could avoid religious freedom issues during executions by barring ministers of all faiths is back at the high court, due to an appeal ahead of a planned Tuesday execution.”

At Sentencing Law and Policy, Douglas Berman laments that “the current Supreme Court has largely decided [to] become particularly quiet on sentencing matters.”

In an op-ed at The Hill, Deborah LaFetra and Elizabeth Slattery are discouraged by the court’s decision not to review a case challenging Wisconsin’s mandatory bar membership and dues requirements, and they urge the justices to ensure in a future case “that attorneys nationwide enjoy protection against compelled subsidization of speech.”

In an op-ed at the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Daniel Cotter highlights last week’s Supreme Court news.

At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy worries that “the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Bridgegate case,” Kelly v. United States, in which the justices reversed federal fraud convictions stemming from the Bridgegate controversy in New Jersey because the scheme did not aim to obtain money or property, “will ultimately make it harder, if not impossible, to use federal fraud statutes against fraudulent officials.”

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3 Special Games and Questions and Their Record

Most of us have really fond memories of the many childhood activities we performed, and some still live on, not only within our memories, but have now been handed down to your children and grandchildren.

Do we actually end to question, however, where these activities started? Who have been the masterminds behind these activities? Just how many years have they sailed down? Did the designer create them merely for their particular children, or did they've programs of creating their thousands by developing a new phenomenon?

Let us have a look at some of these activities and puzzles, and consider the annals behind them. We may be surprised at what we find.

Chess:

Chess has been Unique Game World about for a few 1500 years. The very first formal world chess championship was presented in 1886, but it's beginnings had started well before that time. Its sources may be tracked back once again to India, from where it spread to the Middle East and then to Europe. It had been in Europe so it developed into their current form.

Most of the good chess players are from the former USSR, but persons such as for instance Bobby Fischer, who was the first US-born citizen to win the entire world championship, and Capablanca, experienced their names drop in history also.

Board/Table Activities:

While there are numerous old board games, and it's uncertain regarding which can be certainly the earliest, Mancala is an old traditional sport that's identified the entire world over. With numerous modifications, it's possible to be surprised to get that the talent problem involved in the more technical designs of this sport is on level with the level of chess. Whereas board games are available for Mancala, in certain areas in Africa, that sport is played with rocks in finished out openings in the bottom, causeing the one of many sides popular activities and puzzles. Rock tables with Mancala openings etched engrossed have now been found from old times.

Number Puzzles:

Leaping ahead in history, let us take a consider the popular Sudoku puzzles and how they came into being. The annals of Sudoku actually reaches more right back than might be thought, understanding that the trend of Sudoku puzzles turned a winner in 2005. In 1892 a number puzzle, akin to the present day Sudoku, seemed in a German newspaper - their major huge difference was the usage of double digit numbers, and it absolutely was based largely on arithmetic as opposed to pure logic. An altered puzzle, very nearly a modern Sudoku puzzle, began to be printed and seemed for about ten years prior to the First World War. The very first modern Sudoku puzzle was printed in 1979, supposedly created by National, Howard Garns. It had been later introduced in Japan in 1984 where it turned called Sudoku.

If you should be a fan of Marked Trek, exclusively the Next Technology where you are able to investigate new world and move where number man (or woman) went before, then you'll certainly enjoy the overall game of World of Warcraft. A game title with connection between People, Elves, Gnomes, etc. You can be what you need, as in actual life, you may be a Hunter, Priest, Warlock, Warriors and you title it. Every classes and contests have their particular benefits and weaknesses to work well with and that produces the whole experience distinctive in the electronic online world.

Your personal electronic dream world!

The overall game which can be performed in a dream world extends back to 1994 and has an eerie connection with a dream world and the entire world that individuals know and stay in. As you and I usually desire of some sort of where we could get remarkable energy to complete what we want, fortuitously it becomes really probable to accomplish in that dream life. The overall game of Wold of Warcraft is now so popular with millions of players all over the world that it is having a living on their own. There isn't to reside your property to transport out various missions, continue treks in different sides and connect to different players portraying various characters.

Can you manage energy!

When you have actually wondered about the word, with energy came responsibilities and utter energy corrupts definitely then it will undoubtedly be your chance to learn what's in your soul, what's buried deep within your human veil. When you have gained a lot of energy in that dream world, have you been planning becoming a villain who exploits and commits atrocities on weaker contests and class for riches? Have you been planning to function as defender of the fragile and hopeless? The only path to learn is usually to be set face to face with the tough fact and possibilities.