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Le bureau des aurors (suggestion de Markus Falkenberg)

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Vor der Humboldt-Universität haben sich am Freitagnachmittag Dutzende Menschen zu pro-palästinensischen Protesten versammelt. Wie die Polizei mitteilte, demonstrierten Menschen im Innenhof des Campus Mitte bei einem nicht angemeldeten Sit-in. Weitere Demonstranten standen noch vor dem Uni-Gebäude. Gegen 17.30 Uhr war der Protest weitestgehend beendet. In der Spitze waren es 300 Menschen, wie die Polizei auf X schrieb. Wegen antisemitischer Sprüche oder Widerstand gegen die Polizei nahmen die Beamten Personalien nach eigenen Angaben „auch unter Anwendung von Zwang“ auf. Etwa 40 Personen wurden vorübergehend festgenommen, so die Pressestelle der Polizei. [...] Wenig Verständnis für die Proteste zeigt Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister Kai Wegner. [...] „Bei uns wird es kein Verständnis für diejenigen geben, die hier Zustände wie in den USA oder Frankreich wollen.“ Die Präsidentin der Universität, Julia von Blumenthal, war vor Ort und im Gespräch mit den Protestierenden. „Wenn Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht“, war auf einem Schild zu lesen und auf einem anderen: „From the Spree to Overseas the people will rise in solidarity“ (Deutsch etwa: „Von der Spree bis Übersee werden die Menschen sich solidarisieren“). [...]

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"Do you enjoy card games?" At this query, Caleb looked up slowly, finally, from the Aeorian tome he had been frowning at all day.

It was the third day of a forced respite from their Aeorian expedition. They had been beset on their last outing by a three-headed abomination that, though quickly vanquished, had left Caleb with a series of nasty bites that bled with alarming profusion. A couple of healing potions had stopped the bleeding and partly healed the wounds, but they stubbornly refused to heal up entirely. So, at Essek's insistence and Caleb's reluctant acceptance, they were taking a break.

Caleb had spent their "break" thus far puzzling over an incomplete Aeorian formula with increasing frustration and, despite Essek's efforts at reassurance, guilt at delaying their explorations. Caleb had stubbornly refused both Essek's help and his suggestions that he work on something else for a while. So, Essek moved to Plan C.

"I, ah, ja, I suppose so," Caleb replied, azure eyes glancing down to Essek's hands, deftly shuffling the deck he had procured from the second floor of the tower. "Although, it has been some time since I've played one."

"It has for me as well." Essek glided around the desk Caleb was seated at to place himself on the opposite side, as Caleb considered him thoughtfully, and as he seated himself, the Zemnian wizard gently closed the tome with a small sigh and made space on the desk by unceremoniously shoving a small mountain of wadded-up, discarded parchment onto the floor, to the annoyed meows, chitters, and huffs of a number of the tower cats. "It's been at least," Essek took a large breath and let it out in a slow sigh, making a production of thinking over the many decades it had been since his last game with Verin. "Oh, at least 70 years, maybe 80." Caleb leveled a deadpan gaze at him for his efforts, though he was unable to completely school the muscles at the corners of his lips that wanted to form a smirk at his little one-upmanship. Essek allowed himself a satisfied grin in return. "Still, I thought it might be a pleasant diversion."

"Do you have a particular game in mind, old man?" Ha. Essek considered the possibilities, unsure of which, if any, games spanned their two cultures.

"Hm, there was one Verin was particularly fond of when we were children. The cards are dealt evenly between the players," he explained and began dispensing the cards. "And the goal is to obtain the entire deck. Without looking, we each take turns flipping cards over into a pile in the center, until someone plays a face card. When that happens, the next player tries to beat the value of the previous card, Aces being of greatest value, and whomever has the highest card claims the pile."

"Simple enough."

"Indeed, but when Verin played, he was fond of what he called..." He paused to consider how best to convey it in Common. It was odd the random words that came up as blank spots in his vocabulary. Punch...? No, not punch. "How do you say it ... There is a word, I think, for when you hit something with your palm?" He mimed the motion of doing it to someone's face.

Caleb raised an eyebrow, a bemused expression settling on his features. "A slap?"

"Yes!” Now that Caleb said it he was certain he had heard it before. “He liked to play with...” He paused to consider the translation again. “Slap rules."

"Slap rules?"

"When two cards of the same value are played in a row, or on either side of a single card, any player may slap their hand down and claim the pile, whomever is quickest."

"Alright, I think I've got it." They each scooped up their respective piles of cards and formed them into neat stacks in their hands. "Shall we?" There was a glimmer of friendly competitiveness in Caleb's eyes that made Essek's heart-rate tick up a little.

"After you."

They took turns flipping over cards, slowly at first, random numbers of varying colors stacking one on top of the other until Caleb, at last, turned over a Jack. "Ah, let's see if you can beat that, Her Thelyss." Essek dealt his next card. Six. He let out a little huff of disappointment as Caleb slid the pile towards himself with the ghost of a grin hovering around his mouth.

"Danke." He said, adding the pile to his hand.

"Ole hyvä." Essek deadpanned. Amusement crinkled the edges of Caleb's eyes, and an increasingly familiar warm affection took up residence in Essek's chest. They began again, flipping the cards a little faster this time.

Thump. Caleb blinked with surprise as Essek claimed the pile. He moved his hand back slightly to reveal the most recent cards - two threes in a row. "Aaah, right, slap rules."

"Indeed."

They began again, flipping the cards over a little faster still. Essek glanced up at Caleb's face. The guilt and frustration that had tugged on his features the past two days seemed to have released their grip, in favor of intent observation. He looked back down -- two eights! Their hands collided as they both reached for the pile at the same time, but Caleb eked out a victory, his fingers managing to slip just under Essek's. Caleb gave a soft "ha!" as he claimed the pile, and Essek found himself grinning as well, despite the loss. He had not considered that their hands would inevitably touch over the course of this game, but he couldn't say he minded.

"You can imagine, perhaps," he said slowly as they began turning over cards again, resolutely watching the cards this time, "two little Drow boys slapping the cards, and each other, with increasing enthusiasm as the game goes on." Caleb chuckled.

"I can indeed. In Blumenthal, we had a game where we just slapped each other's hands to see who was fastest, no cards needed." Both of their hands shot out - a nine flanked by a pair of fives this time. Again, there was Caleb's warm hand under Essek's instead of cardstock. He made a show of hissing with frustration, baring his fangs a little, but he was sure it was belied by the grin still tugging at his mouth. Caleb didn't seem the least bit intimidated as he added the cards to his hand, amusement crinkling the eyes again. The warm affection steadily blooming in Essek's chest grew warmer still. They began again, and after a moment of dealing cards in companionable silence, Caleb asked, "What is he like? Your brother?"

A memory filled Essek's senses. He and his brother were in a ballroom on the Thelyss estate. Members of various Dens and the upper echelon of the military were milling about them to the strains of soft music and polite conversation. Verin was grinning with a brash pride at being appointed Taskhand, chin held high, chest puffed out. A gleeful victory polished his silver eyes to shining. Earlier that evening, Essek had retied the bun neatly collecting his little brother's many braids to make sure he was presentable for the ceremony. Verin had ruffled Essek's hair to make sure he wasn't. "Tall," he replied, finally, and then muttered, "the bastard." That shocked a laugh out of Caleb, as Essek hoped it would, and he tried to suppress his own victorious grin.

"How rude of him growing past his elder brother!" Caleb laughed.

"The disrespect," Essek opined, shaking his head. "When we were teenagers, I once escorted him to a shop - he wanted to buy a trinket for some girl, and I needed spell components."

"Naturally."

"And the shopkeeper complimented him on how kind he was to take his little brother out shopping." Caleb's laugh was lovelier than any sound Essek could think to compare it to. "I could have strangled that shopkeep. I knew I would never hear the end of it. All I heard for months after that was little brother this, and little brother that."

"How did you get him to stop?"

"Violence." Essek claimed the card pile with a Jack of Spades. "I mastered Telekinesis and tossed him into a snowbank."

"Ja, naturally, as one does." Caleb's voice was warm with amusement.

Essek felt no need to mention that Verin had enjoyed the experience and asked to be tossed into the snowbank three more times. "He's naturally charming," Essek continued. "Too much for his own good, sometimes. He has forgotten on more than one occasion to check whether the targets of his charms were married first."

"Uh-oh," Caleb chuckled.

"Indeed." Essek rolled his eyes with old exasperation and then claimed the pile of cards again with a Queen of Hearts. "He's smart, but he always preferred fighting and flirting to academics. Still, he has a keen mind for battle strategy, tactics, problem-solving. Much too honest for politics, but he is the sort of person people turn to naturally for leadership, and he takes that responsibility seriously." Caleb claimed the pile this time, King of Clubs.

"He sounds like a good person," Caleb ventured quietly.

Another memory rose up, unbidden. Verin when he was a long way yet from being Verin. They had called him Rei then, and Essek had been called Kai. Rei was a baby, barely old enough to walk, but his tiny hand patted Kai's shoulder gently as his elder brother tried not to cry over a skinned knee. His silver eyes, large in his small, round face, clearly full of a sympathy he did not have words yet to express. Essek nodded. "Even when he was a child. As a toddler, any time he received a treat, his first instinct was always to share it, with me or Nanny, or the housekeepers, even, whomever was nearby." Haluatko vähän? Do you want some? The little boy had always asked. Haluatko vähän? He had asked the less popular children in school, as he went out of his way to share his snacks and his shine. Haluatko vähän? He had asked with an excited smile, on the eve of his deployment to Bazzoxan, before running out into the rain to get fried insects from his favorite street vendor, like a child and not the 105-year-old man that he was, and again after purchasing it and exclaiming how delicious they were, Haluatko vähän? "He has always had a good heart." Icy tendrils began to snake their way through Essek's chest, like the mold of Aeor, feeding on the heat there and turning it into cold, cold shame and guilt. How had Verin remained so good and Essek turned so wrong?

He didn't ask the question aloud, but Caleb seemed to guess where his mind had turned and countered it with a question of his own. "Perhaps some credit goes to his elder brother for shielding his good heart?" Essek made himself look into Caleb's eyes, and their hands paused in their game for a moment. There was no pity in the Lucidian blue, just a gentle curiosity. It was a genuine question.

Essek considered the hypothesis. He had tried his best to keep Verin on the right side of the Umavi's scrutiny and their father's temper and out of any problems he couldn't punch his way out of. But was it as simple as being the younger of the two? Essek had felt as much affection for Nanny as Verin had, but he wasn't sure he had ever offered to share a treat with her before Verin came along. If he had, he certainly hadn't continued to offer after repeated declinations out of an immovable sense of fairness. As far as Essek could recall, they had always been of wildly different dispositions. Verin was boisterous where Essek was quiet, outgoing where he was introverted, gregarious where he was selfish, courageous where he was cowardly. Try as he might, Essek could not imagine Verin doing the things he had done, for the Dynasty or against it, for mere power.

"Very little," he concluded. "I did try to look out for him, but for all that we share in origin, we are very different people. There is no discarded timeline with a Shadowhand Verin."

Caleb considered this thoughtfully for a moment and then tossed a card down with his verdict: "That last assertion is unfalsifiable." Essek raised an eyebrow and tossed a card down. Yes, he supposed it was... for now...

Thump. Caleb slid the pile crowned by two Kings toward himself with a satisfied grin. "You know this game is very unfair to you, Herr Thelyss." There was a spark of mischief in his eyes, and Essek felt the chill in his chest begin to ease. "What with my being so much younger than you, better reflexes and all of that."

Essek scoffed and shook his head, a grin returning to his face. The nerve. "Oh, we'll see about that."

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GENE REYNOLDS

April 4, 1923

Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal was born on April 4, 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was raised in Detroit, before the family relocated to Los Angeles in 1934. He is best known for directing, producing and/or writing two hugely successful TV shows: “Lou Grant” (1977) and “M*A*S*H” (1972) which, along with his work on “Room 222″, earned him six Emmy Awards.  

Reynolds served in the United States Navy during World War II. Following the war, Reynolds received a degree in history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and picked up his acting career.

He made his screen debut in the 1934 Our Gang short Washee Ironee. That same year he was an uncredited extra in March of the Wooden Soldiers with Laurel and Hardy. He made his television debut in May 1949 in an episode of “Your Show Time” on NBC. 

Just before working with Lucille Ball, he worked for Lucille Ball doing a January 1957 episode of Desilu’s “Whirlybirds” 

On “I Love Lucy” he played the role of Mr. Taylor, the man who rents the Ricardo apartment when they move to Connecticut in “Lucy Hates To Leave” (S6;E16) filmed on December 13, 1956 and aired on February 4, 1957. His wife was played by Mary Ellen Kay. 

Around the same time, Reynolds started to transition to off camera work, like writing and directing. He directed 75 episodes of “My Three Sons” (filmed at Desilu Studios), from 1962 to 1964. He also directed three episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show” filmed on the Desilu backlot. 

Gene Reynolds died on February 3, 2020 at age 96. He was married to Bonnie Jones from 1967 to 1976. In 1979 he married Ann Sweeney. They had one child together. 

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BASICS.

full name. Caleb Widogast pronunciation. [kay-lehb] [wi-dow-gast] nicknames. Cay-Cay, and Cay  height.     5′10″ age.     31 zodiac. Cancer (head canon of course) languages. common, zemnian, celestial. and sylvan

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.

hair colour. Ginger eye colour.  Blue skin tone. Pale body type. lean, skinny, very little muscle definition  accent. German/Zemnian dominant hand.��Right hand posture. Usually standing tall by default due to past training, but is more comfortable slumped over tattoos. None most noticeable features. If he shows you: various scars on his forearms

CHILDHOOD.

place of birth. Blumenthal hometown. None birth weight / height. N/A first words.  N/A siblings. None parents.  A mother and father, both deceased parental involvement. Very involved until their unfortunate death

ADULT LIFE

occupation. Adventure  current residence.  Xhorhouse for now close friends. The Might Nein (particularly Nott and Beau)  relationship status.  Single financial status. Constantly broke in order to by Paper and Ink(TM) driver’s license.  Nope criminal record. Squeaky clean!

SEX & ROMANCE.

sexual orientation. asexual (but is comfortable with sex in general) romantic orientation. Panromantic  preferred emotional role.     submissive | dominant | switch  |  unsure. preferred sexual role.     submissive |  dominant  |  switch |  sex repulsed. libido. Too tired most of the time due to studying, but will be blunt about asking for sex turn on’s. Speaking multiple languages, incorporates magic into sex  turn off’s. Any mention of fire, wax play love language. Reading passages together and at each other relationship tendencies. What’s a relationship?

MISCELLANEOUS.

character’s theme song. Funhouse by P!nk hobbies to pass the time.  Have I mentioned reading yet? mental illnesses. PTSD, depression physical illnesses. None that has been revealed yet left or right brained. Left fears. Proving that he’s the monster he knows believes he is and losing his only friends self confidence level.  Don’t know her vulnerabilities. Magic hungry and glutton for punishment

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This was actually pretty fun to do! Sorry that I didn’t see that you tagged me sooner!

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Former USA Gymnastics National Team Coach Arrested, Facing Charges of Lewdness With Minor

A former USA Gymnastics women’s national team coach was arrested in Las Vegas and faces 14 counts of lewdness with a child under age 14, authorities said.

Terry Gray, 52, was a coach at a gym in the city from 2009 to 2015, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Court records show that the alleged incidents occurred between 2007 and 2013. CNN has reached out to his attorney.

Gray also coached at gyms in Cincinnati and Southern California, according to multiple reports. None of these current charges are related to those gyms.

In October 2019, he was suspended by USA Gymnastics for two years, according to the USA Gymnastics’ website. CNN is reaching out to USA Gymnastics and U.S. Center for SafeSport, the agency that has jurisdiction over allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor for USA Gymnastics.

During a Congressional hearing in July 2018, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal asked then-president of USA Gymnastics, Kerry Perry, about Gray. At the time, he was the subject of a report by the Orange County Register showing he was still coaching at a club in Southern California after USA Gymnastics put him on an interim suspension as he was being investigated by U.S. Center for SafeSport.

The report stated that the gym owner was unaware of his suspension. However, Perry said during the hearing that they had sent an email and first class mail to the gym about it.

An arrest warrant was issued on July 8 and Gray was arrested two days later, according to court records. Jail records show he is being held without bail and his first court hearing is scheduled for Monday.

Police are seeking additional victims and are asking anyone with information about his crimes to contact the LVMPD Sexual Assault Section at 702-828-3421.

By Kay Jones

The-CNN-Wire

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Former USA Gymnastics National Team Coach Arrested, Facing Charges of Lewdness With Minor

A former USA Gymnastics women’s national team coach was arrested in Las Vegas and faces 14 counts of lewdness with a child under age 14, authorities said.

Terry Gray, 52, was a coach at a gym in the city from 2009 to 2015, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Court records show that the alleged incidents occurred between 2007 and 2013. CNN has reached out to his attorney.

Gray also coached at gyms in Cincinnati and Southern California, according to multiple reports. None of these current charges are related to those gyms.

In October 2019, he was suspended by USA Gymnastics for two years, according to the USA Gymnastics’ website. CNN is reaching out to USA Gymnastics and U.S. Center for SafeSport, the agency that has jurisdiction over allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor for USA Gymnastics.

During a Congressional hearing in July 2018, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal asked then-president of USA Gymnastics, Kerry Perry, about Gray. At the time, he was the subject of a report by the Orange County Register showing he was still coaching at a club in Southern California after USA Gymnastics put him on an interim suspension as he was being investigated by U.S. Center for SafeSport.

The report stated that the gym owner was unaware of his suspension. However, Perry said during the hearing that they had sent an email and first class mail to the gym about it.

An arrest warrant was issued on July 8 and Gray was arrested two days later, according to court records. Jail records show he is being held without bail and his first court hearing is scheduled for Monday.

Police are seeking additional victims and are asking anyone with information about his crimes to contact the LVMPD Sexual Assault Section at 702-828-3421.

By Kay Jones

The-CNN-Wire

& © 2020 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.

from Rayfield Review News https://therayfield.com/former-usa-gymnastics-national-team-coach-arrested-facing-charges-of-lewdness-with-minor

[theliterarybug]

New Children’s Non-Fiction

Fancy party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe by Deborah Blumenthal and Illustrated by Laura Freeman

A picture book biography of Ann Cole Lowe, the first African American Woman to become a designer of couture clothing.

Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing by Kay A. Haring and Illustrated by Robert Neubecker

A picture book biography of Keith Haring, a pop artist who wanted to share art with the world.

Lesser Spotted Animals: The Coolest Creatures You’ve Never Heard Of by Martin Brown

A look at animals that are not often mentioned, like the Cuban Solenodon which is a shaggy Caribbean insectivore with a toxic bite .

Alexander Hamilton:The Making of America by Teri Kanefield

The story of Alexander Hamilton and his role in “making America”.

The Secret Project by Jonah Winter and Jeanette Winter

The story of the creation of the first atomic bomb and its first testing.

Please check out these titles and others at your local library. Happy Summer Reading!!!

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Approximately 10 people were killed and 50 wounded in ongoing confrontation in the Ein El Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon between Palestinian factions and Islamists affiliated with the Salafi movement. Recently, an attempt was made to reach a cease-fire, and now the person who heads an armed group and is affiliated with the Salafis is being pursued.

Under the Cairo agreement signed in the early 1970s, the Lebanese army does not enter the Palestinian refugee camps. However, since the 1990s, the Lebanese army has increased its presence around the problematic camp, where some 80,000 people live in crowded conditions. In recent months, in light of fears that support for ISIS has been growing in Ein El Hilweh, the authorities have begun to build a kind of concrete fence around the camp. The move aroused great resentment among the Palestinian factions inside and outside Lebanon, and as a result, construction has been frozen.

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This is where I stand. Our 45th President, his power hungry cronies taking positions of authority in his Cabinet and administration, and the majority of Republicans in Congress are a real and active threat to me, my way of life, and all the people I love. Some people are saying that we should give Trump a chance, that we should "work together" with him because he won the election and he is "everyone's president." 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March 14 in Music History

1623 Birth of composer Adam-Nicolas Gascon.

1681 Birth of German composer Georg Phillip Telemann in Magdeburg. 

1727 Birth of German composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg in Danzig. 

1734 FP of G. F. Handel's anthem This is the day which the Lord hath made for the wedding of Princess Anne and Prince Willem, the Prince of Orange, at the French Chapel of St. James's Palace, in London.

1755 Birth of composer Pierre-Louis Couperin.

1795 Birth of composer Rubert Lucas Pearsall.

1796 Birth of tenor Anton Haizinger in Lichtenstein. 

1804 Birth of Austrian composer Johann Strauss Sr. in Vienna. 

1815 Birth of German-American composer Josephine Lang. 

1821 FP of Weber's Preciosa in Berlin.

1824 FP of Franz Schubert's String Quartet in a, D. 804. Schuppanzigh Quartet in Vienna. 

1826 Birth of American composer William Fiske Sherwin in Buckland, MA. 

1831 Birth of composer Leon Leopold Lewandoski.

1835 Birth of composer Manuel Fernandez Caballero.

1845 Birth of German composer August Bungert.

1847 FP of G. Verdi's opera Macbeth at the Teatro della Pergolain Florence.

1852 FP of Schumann's Manfred with Franz Liszt conducting in Weimar.

1857 Birth of bass Eduard Aschenbrenner in Jicin.  

1859 Death of tenor Nicola Tacchinardi.

1861 Birth of Boston piano craftsman Alexander Steinert. Founder of Steinert Concert Hall. 

1865 Death of tenor Carlo Negrini. 

1871 Birth of Swedish-American soprano Olive Fremstad in Stockholm. 

1871 Birth of bass Vladimir Kastorsky in Moscow. 

1875 Birth of tenor Piero Schiavazzi in Cagliari.

1875 Birth of composer Norman Houstoun O'Neill.

1877 Birth of tenor Paul Reimers in London. 

1884 Birth of American composer Wintter Watts. 

1885 FP of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Mikado at the Savoy Theater, London.

1886 Birth of baritone Stepan Chodounsky in Prague. 

1887 Birth of English composer and conductor Sir Laurence Collingwood.

1893 Birth of tenor Ferdinando Ciniselli in Mortara. 

1893 Birth of tenor Franco Lo Giudice in Paterno. 

1894 Birth of composer Josef Schelb.

1904 Birth of soprano Iris Adami Corradetti in Milan. 

1905 Death of tenor Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky. 

1906 Birth of composer Ulvi Cemal Erkin.

1908 Birth of composer Nikolay Petrovich Rakov.

1913 Birth of composer Witold Rudzinski.

1914 Birth of composer Jiri Reinberger.

1914 Birth of soprano Sari Barabas in Hungary. 

1915 Birth of composer Alexander Brott.

1915 Birth of bass-baritone Josef Pollak in Vienna. 

1926 Birth of composer Francois d'Assise Morel.

1929 Feodor Chaliapin gave his final performance in Boris Godunov, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

1930 Birth of German vicar and composer Dieter Schnebel.

1932 Birth of bass Marius Rintzler in Bucharest. 

1932 Death of photo pioneer George Eastman, founded Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

1934 Birth of bass-baritone Carl Allen Schultz in Los Angeles. T

1935 Birth of Dutch composer Jo van den Booren in Maastricht.

1938 Conductor Bruno Walter resigns as conductor of the Vienna Opera after Nazi's take Austria. Forced to leave country with property confisgated.

1940 Birth of tenor Adolf Dallapozza in South Tyrol.

1941 Birth of soprano Rachel Mathes in Atlanta. 

1954 Birth of Welsh baritone Philip Joll in Merthyr Tydfil. 

1954 Death of soprano Zdenka Fassbender. 

1963 FP of Robert Simpson's Symphony No. 3, in Birmingham, England. 

1966 Death of baritone Dennis Noble. 

1967 Birth of Argentinian conductor and composer Alejandro Rutty.

1972 Birth of American composer and violinist Keeril Makan.

1974 Birth of American composer Ariel Blumenthal.

1975 FP of Ulysses Kay's Quintet Concerto for five brass solists and orchestra in New York.

1976 FP of Paul Creston's Hyas Illahee for chorus and orchestra, in Shreveport, LA.

1986 FP of Harrison Birtwistle's Earth Dances for orchestra. Peter Eotvos conducting the BBC Symphony, at Royal Festival Hall in London.

1996 FP of Leo Ornstein's Piano Sonata No. 6. Marvin Tartakat, pianist, at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, CA.

2000 FP of David Maslanka's Wind Quintet No. 3. Missouri Quintet, in Columbua, Mo. 

2001 FP of Richard Danielpour's Cello Concerto No. 2 Through the Ancient Valleyat Lincoln Center, by soloist Yo-Yo Ma with the New York Philharmonic;

2002 FP of Andre Previn's Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Boston Symphony for soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter, with her future husband, Previn, conducting.

2003 FP of Jim Mobberley's Vox Inhumana for live and prerecorded sounds. NewEar ensemble in Kansas City, MO.

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Artists: Sara Magenheimer, Maggie Lee, Alima Lee, E. Jane, Nikita Gale, Whitney Claflin

Venue: Shoot the Lobster, New York

Exhibition Title: Dear Delia

Date: February 16 – March 29, 2020

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  Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Videos:



Alima Lee, Meditation on Madness, 07:41

Sara Magenheimer, SAFE, 2020, HD video, 04:47

  E. Jane, mood 08 (giving no fucks), 2015-2017 video, color, sound, 01:21

  

E. Jane, mood 06 (practicing), 2015-2017, video, color, sound, 00:34

  Images courtesy of the artists and Shoot the Lobster, New York

Press Release:

Delia Derbyshire was a musician and composer known for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her arrangement of the iconic theme music to the ongoing British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. Though she remained uncredited for the work until Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary special (12 years posthumously), Derbyshire continued to produce historical work in electronic sound. A true pioneer, Derbyshire faced countless obstacles but forged ahead, becoming what many refer to as “the unsung heroine of British electronic music.”

Dear Delia is a letter to the legend. Six artists hailing from various practices and backgrounds — Whitney Claflin, Nikita Gale, E. Jane, Alima Lee, Maggie Lee, and Sara Magenheimer — coalesce in the gallery to create a multimedia homage to Derbyshire in an installation of works on paper, collage and video.

Whitney Claflin (b. Providence, RI) received an MFA from Yale University School of art in 2009 and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Claflin is a visual artist who creates amorphous paintings resulting from a conceptual practice wherein she studies the narrative of mark making across various media. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Select exhibitions include By All Means, You Can Have Two Halloweens, Drei, Cologne, Germany (2020); Crows, Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY (2014); Exteriorized Bliss, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2015); Painting: Now and Forever, Part III, Greene Naftali, New York, NY (2018); Zombie Formalism, Mitchell Algus, New York NY (2016).

Nikita Gale (b. Anchorage, AK) received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016 and a BA from Yale University (2006). Gale is a visual artist working in sculpture, film, text, and sound. Her practice is structured by a study of objects, and the way they are imbued with social and political histories. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Select exhibitions include ‘AUDIENCING,’ PS1, New York, NY (2020); HOT WORLD, Reyes|Finn, Detroit, MI (2019); ‘Fall Apart,’ Martos Gallery, New York, NY (2019); ‘Extended Play,’ 56 Henry, New York, NY (2018); ‘MADE IN L.A.,’ Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Keynote Drift, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (2018); DESCENT, Common Wealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA (2018); and RIFF FATIGUE, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2017).

E. Jane (b. Bethesda, MD) received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and a BA from Marymount Manhattan College in 2012. E. Jane is a Black woman, conceptual artist, sound designer and musician. Their work is a critical inquiry surrounding softness, safety, Alice Walker’s womanism, futurity, cyberspace and how subjugated bodies navigate media/the media. Their interdisciplinary practice incorporates text, digital images, video, performance, sound- based, sculpture, textile and installation works. They live and work in Brooklyn, NY. Select exhibitions include HOTLINE, SPACE, Portland, ME (2019); I Was Raised On The Internet, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (2018), Torrent Tea: Queer Space and Photographic Futures, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR (2017); Wandering / WILDLING: Blackness on the Internet, IMT Gallery, London, UK (2016). E. Jane is currently in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

Alima Lee (b. New York, NY) is a filmmaker, designer, artist, curator, and DJ. Her work explores themes of identity and intersectionality. She is Co-Founder and Art Director of Akashik Records music label, and Co-Host of a monthly show, Rave Reparations, on NTS. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Select film work presentations and exhibitions include EBSPLOITATION, Martos Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Screen: Black Radical Imagination, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (2018); The Worst Witch, Shoot The Lobster, Los Angeles, CA (2018); The Smithsonian African American Film Festival, Smithsonian African American Museum, Washington, DC (2018); Portals 1, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY (2018); Black Radical Imagination, ICA Boston, MA (2018).

Maggie Lee (b. 1987) Received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Lee is a multimedia artist working in collage, film, and installation – mining content from her personal biography, as well as subculture and cult classics. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Select exhibitions include Cracki’s Birthday, Édouard Montassut, Paris, France (2019); Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belongings, MOCA, New York, NY (2019); Reset, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY (2019); Music Videos, Arcadia Missa, London, UK (2018); Maggie Lee, Lomex, New York, NY (2017); Gigi’s Underground, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Fufu’s Dream House, Real Fine Arts, New York, NY (2016); Billboard on Bowery, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY (2017); Speak, Lokal, Kunstalle Zürich, Switzerland (2017); Homo Mundus Minor, T293, Rome, Italy (2017); Mirror Cells, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2016).

Sara Magenheimer (b. Philadelphia, PA) received an MFA from Bard College in 2013 and a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2004. Magenheimer is a multimedia artist whose practice spans video, sound, performance, sculpture, collage and installation, creating surprising juxtapositions with language, graphic symbols, sound, and imagery. In her video work, visual and verbal signs mutate to open up new channels of understanding. She lives and works in New York, NY. Select exhibitions include Sara Magenheimer: NOON, New Museum, New York, NY (2018); I Collect Neglected Venoms, The Kitchen, New York, NY (2017); I am a Scientist, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2018); Frame Structures, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2018); Freuds Mouth, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2016); Chatham Square, Foxy Production, New York, NY (2016); CCCC (Ceramics Club Cash and Carry), White Columns, New York, NY (2015).

Link: “Dear Delia” at Shoot the Lobster

from Contemporary Art Daily https://bit.ly/2SLBQLS

[maxwellyjordan]

COVID-19 pandemic roundup

“Inside America’s mask crunch: A slow government reaction and an industry wary of liability” [Jeanne Whalen, Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, Washington Post; Melissa Chen; earlier here, here, here, here, and here] “To Help Solve the Surgical Mask Shortage, Get the FDA out of the Way” [Paul Matzko, New York Daily News] “FDA Prevents Import of Masks” [Alex Tabarrok] Was the World Health Organization/Centers for Disease Control position that face masks don’t reduce transmission outside medical contexts meant as a noble lie? [Alex Nowrasteh; but see Scott Alexander (agencies declared against mask usage before shortages were an issue; my long Twitter thread advocating masks for all)]

Its woeful mask advice aside, there’s little margin left for confidence in the World Health Organization [Jim Geraghty; Dan Blumenthal and Nick Eberstadt (“The very fact that truth-seekers are left counting urns is an indictment not only of the Beijing ­regime, but also of the WHO.”)]

Defense Production Act, often imprecisely described in popular coverage, empowers federal government to get its orders placed first in line at suppliers [Christina Jewett and Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News, earlier] Some federal sharp-elbowing: Bill Bowman, Franklin Reporter and Advocate (35,000 masks destined for Somerset County, N.J.); Richard Lough, Andreas Rinke, Reuters (supplies bound for Canada, Germany, Latin America); Alex Tabarrok and links; Nancy Asiamah, WWLP (3 million masks bound for Massachusetts); Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post (Colorado ventilators);

Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is the target of a writerly hit job and I contribute to its correction [Tim Carney, Washington Examiner]

Comparative federalism: Germany, with relatively decentralized, competitive, and local health care arrangements, offers lessons in tackling the crisis [Rob Schmitz, NPR (no central government approval needed for new diagnostic tests); Kai Weiss, CapX]

This is not going to help: “Hospital Liability for Ventilator Shortages” [Michael Abramowicz]

Tags: COVID-19 virus, Germany, United Nations

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