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Writers series, May 2007
hands of Mary Oliver, signing a copy of Thirst at reading
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Tittel / Title: Jonas og Thomasine Lie, 1871
Motiv / Motif: Visittkort.
Dato / Date: 1871
Fotograf / Photographer: C. G. Rude (Drammen) / A. A. Anderssen (Bergen) (reprofotograf)
Sted / Place: Buskerud, Drammen
Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
Lenke / Link: www.nb.no
Bildesignatur / Image Number: blds_02916
I had a great time with my writers' group today. It's as much about catching up as it is about writing, so we always have a good time.
This is my writing desk, with my typewriter (more reliable than computer ... ), ikons, and a few reference pictures. And more than a few packs of cigarettes.
In this picture you can see how one of the ikons fell off between pictures - I have to keep putting them up night after night ...
Southwest Virginia Museum State Park
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Stalin's index finger and the laughter of Václav Havel
The "Museum of Communism" in Prague was founded by an American and shows the sabre-rattling Matryoshka dolls or the blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators. Does it trivialize history for this reason?
After the American director Philip Kaufman had filmed Milan Kundera's novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in 1984, the writer immediately dissociated himself from the adaptation - it was cliché-laden. However, as hundreds of thousands of filmgoers with the large, frightened eyes of Juliette Binoche saw the penetration of the Soviet tanks into the city and thus probably for the first time got an idea of the tragedy of August 21, 1968, is waiting for museum visitors of today a discovery: in the "Museum of Communism". It was founded near the Wenceslas Square by an American. The English name of the memorial is just as much attributable to him as the posters, which show a sabre-rattling Matryoshka doll or blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators provided with the image line "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialization of history? Not necessarily. It is rather the case that in the appearing gloom exhibition rooms the scandal of the communist human experiment is presented in an effective way. The historical dimension is by no means omitted: the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 is documented as well as the Western treason of Munich in 1938 and Hitler's subsequent invasion. Also the liberation of Prague by the Red Army in May 1945 is not withheld. But then, starting with the Communist Seizure of Power 1948, the visitors in the rooms "Reality" and "Nightmare" is awaiting an oppressive exhibit show: original faithfully reproduced prison cells from the time of the Stalinist Show Trials, causing goosebumps radio recordings of malignant fizzling prosecutors, in addition the dubious oil paintings of Socialist Realism on which country women as blond as bread roll throw red carnations to resolutely looking soldiers, or Josef Stalin exhorting the pointing finger.
Kafka, Marx and the soldier Svejk
The fact that totalitarianism differentiated itself exactly here from traditional dictatorships that it did not suppress the people clumsily but turned those people into brainwashed complices of its domination exercise - it is a lesson, which is here sensually comprehensible and is conveyed completely en passant in the literal sense. Many of the young tourists who go through the exhibition in neat, foolish "Czech it" or beer-stein-Kafka-und-Schwejk T-shirts get the first impression of the Communist system and which for a while even cast a spell over a few naive Westerners. Even if, for example, the path of Marx's theories to the crimes of the regime were somewhat shortened, the fascinating intellectual environment of the Prague Spring might have been represented a bit more in detail: whoever sees the historical TV recordings of the protesters who are at Wenceslas Square fearlessly facing the Soviet tanks with the red star is by no means emotionally manipulated but catches an impression of the essence.
Thus, the museum can be visited in two ways: with the curious eyes of an upcoming generation born around the year 1989, as well as with the eye of the contemporary, who is regarding very critical if the complex history has been given the due attentiveness. Is it not a standard formula of the repressers from Prague to East Berlin, in the last years of its existence, the Party regime had become more moderate and was then peacefully imploded? But now the museum shows pictures of pre-military youth education from the eighties, shows - in pictures of the Austrian television - pictures of one of the numerous arrests of Václav Havel and in addition police, who yet in November 1989 were bashing up demonstrators and dragging students on the hair over the pavement - again on the Wenceslas square near the museum.
In a free word
Even who knows all this is shattered, and must not be ashamed at the end of the exhibition of his emotion when he finally sees the freedom triumphant on the screens and monitors. On November 24, 1989, Alexander Dubcek and Václav Havel stand laughing and arm in arm on the balcony of the publishing house Svobodné Slovo (The Free Word) and talk to the demonstrators who finally now can be what they have dreamed for so long: free citizens of a city that begins to breathe again.
"Museum of Communism", Prague, Na Príkope 10, open daily from 9 am to 9 pm.
Prag
Stalins Zeigefinger und das Lachen von Václav Havel
Das „Museum of Communism“ in Prag wurde von einem Amerikaner gegründet und zeigt zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten. Trivialisiert es deswegen die Geschichte?
Nachdem 1984 der amerikanische Regisseur Philip Kaufman Milan Kunderas Prag-Roman "Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins" verfilmt hatte, distanzierte sich der Schriftsteller sogleich von der Adaption - sie sei klischeebeladen. Doch so, wie inzwischen Hunderttausende Kinozuschauer mit den großen, erschreckten Augen Juliette Binoches das Eindringen der sowjetischen Panzer in die Stadt gesehen haben und damit wohl zum ersten Mal eine Ahnung bekamen von der Tragödie des 21. August 1968, so wartet auch auf Museumsbesucher von heute eine Entdeckung: im "Museum of Communism". Gegründet wurde es, nahe dem Wenzelsplatz, von einem Amerikaner. Ihm ist der englische Name der Gedenkstätte ebenso zu verdanken wie die Plakate, die etwa eine zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppe zeigen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten - versehen mit der Bildzeile "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialisierung der Geschichte? Nicht unbedingt. Eher ist es so, dass in den düster anmutenden Ausstellungsräumen das Skandalon des kommunistischen Menschenversuchs entsprechend effektvoll präsentiert wird. Auf die historische Dimension wird dabei keineswegs verzichtet: Die Gründung der Tschechoslowakei im Jahre 1918 wird ebenso dokumentiert wie der westliche Verrat von München 1938 und Hitlers nachfolgender Einmarsch. Auch die Befreiung Prags durch die Rote Armee im Mai 1945 wird nicht unterschlagen. Dann aber, beginnend mit der kommunistischen Machtergreifung 1948, wartet auf den Besucher in den Räumen "Reality" und "Nightmare" eine bedrückende Exponatenschau: Originalgetreu nachgebaute Gefängniszellen aus der Zeit der stalinistischen Schauprozesse, Gänsehaut verursachende Radio-Aufnahmen bösartig fistelnder Staatsanwälte, dazu an den Wänden die Ölschinken des Sozialistischen Realismus, auf denen semmelblonde Bäuerinnen entschlossen dreinblickenden Soldaten rote Nelken zuwerfen oder Josef Stalin mahnend den Zeigefinger hebt.
Kafka, Marx und der Soldat Schwejk
Dass sich der Totalitarismus genau darin von traditionellen Diktaturen unterschied, dass er das Volk nicht plump unterdrückte, sondern zum gehirngewaschenen Komplizen seiner Herrschaftsausübung machte - es ist eine Lektion, die hier sinnlich nachvollziehbar und im Wortsinn ganz en passant vermittelt wird. Viele der jungen Touristen, die in nett-törichten "Czech it" oder Bierhumpen-Kafka-und-Schwejk-T-Shirts durch die Ausstellung gehen, bekommen hier wohl das erste Mal eine Ahnung davon, weshalb sich das kommunistische System so lange halten und für eine Weile sogar manch naive Westler in seinen Bann zu ziehen vermochte. Mag auch in den Erklärungstafeln etwa der Weg von Marx' Theorien zu den Verbrechen des Regimes etwas verkürzt dargestellt sein, hätte man das faszinierende intellektuelle Umfeld des Prager Frühlings auch etwas ausführlicher darstellen können: Wer die historischen Fernsehaufnahmen von den Demonstranten sieht, die sich am Wenzelsplatz todesmutig den Sowjet-Panzern mit dem roten Stern entgegenstellten, wird keineswegs emotional manipuliert, sondern erhascht einen Eindruck vom Wesentlichen.
So lässt sich das Museum auf zwei Arten besichtigen: mit den neugierigen Augen einer nachwachsenden Generation, die um das Jahr 1989 erst geboren wurde, wie auch mit dem Blick des Zeitzeugen, der durchaus kritisch betrachtet, ob man hier der komplexen Geschichte gerecht wurde. Lautet nicht eine Standardformel der Verdränger von Prag bis Ostberlin, in den letzten Jahren seiner Existenz habe sich das Partei-Regime doch gemäßigt und sei anschließend friedlich implodiert? Nun zeigt das Museum aber Bilder vormilitärischer Jugendausbildung aus den Achtzigern, zeigt - in Aufnahmen des Österreichischen Fernsehens - Bilder von einer der zahlreichen Verhaftungen Václav Havels und dazu Polizei, die noch im November 1989 auf die Demonstranten eindrosch und Studenten an den Haaren über das Pflaster schleifte - wiederum auf dem nahe beim Museum liegenden Wenzelsplatz.
Auf ein freies Wort
Selbst wer dies alles kennt, ist erschüttert und muss sich am Ende der Ausstellung seiner Ergriffenheit gewiss nicht schämen, wenn er auf den Schautafeln und Monitoren die Freiheit letztlich doch triumphieren sieht: Am 24. November 1989 stehen lachend und Arm in Arm Alexander Dubcek und Václav Havel auf dem Balkon des Verlagshauses Svobodné Slovo (Das freie Wort) und sprechen zu den Demonstranten, die nun endlich das sein können, was sie so lange erträumt haben: freie Bürger einer Stadt, die wieder zu atmen beginnt.
„Museum of Communism“, Prag, Na Príkope 10, täglich geöffnet von 9 bis 21 Uhr.
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José Lezama Lima museum, Havana, Cuba. José Lezama was a writer in the 1930s and a leader in the avant-garde movement in Cuban art and literature similar to the Harlem Renaissance around that time.
Half Life’s writer confirms departure so what now for the franchise?
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Sweet Briar College welcomed the University of Virginia’s Young Writers Workshop back for its second year in residence this summer. Two sessions brought about 90 participants from 20 states and four countries for intensive studio workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, songwriting, and scriptwriting for screen and stage.
The famous writer and expatriate Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond enthusiastically to European avant-garde art. She held weekly salons in her Paris apartment populated by European and American artists and writers. For Picasso, Stein’s early patronage and friendship was critical to his success. He painted this portrait of her between 1905 and 1906 at the end of his so-called "Rose Period." He reduces her body to simple masses—a foreshadowing of his adoption of Cubism—and portrays her face like a mask with heavy lidded eyes, reflecting his recent encounter with Iberian sculpture. (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488221
Writers Square Belfast This open space is a key element in the Cathedral quarter’s reinvention as a centre for the arts and, when skateboarders aren’t rattling over the quotations about Belfast by famous writers inscribed underfoot, it’s a venue for street performers and arts festival events
Leaks Found in Earth's Protective Magnetic Field
By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 16 December 2008
03:20 pm ET
Scientists have found two large leaks in Earth's magnetosphere, the region around our planet that shields us from severe solar storms.
The leaks are defying many of scientists' previous ideas on how the interaction between Earth's magnetosphere and solar wind occurs: The leaks are in an unexpected location, let in solar particles in faster than expected and the whole interaction works in a manner that is completely the opposite of what scientists had thought.
The findings have implications for how solar storms affect the our planet. Serious storms, which involved charged particles spewing from the sun, can disable satellites and even disrupt power grids on Earth.
The new observations "overturn the way that we understand how the sun's magnetic field interacts with the Earth's magnetic field," said David Sibeck of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., during a press conference today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The bottom line: When the next peak of solar activity comes, in about 4 years, electrical systems on Earth and satellites in space may be more vulnerable.
How it works
Earth's magnetic field carves out a cavity in the sun's onrushing field. The Earth's magnetosphere is thus "buffeted like a wind sock in gale force winds, fluttering back and forth in the" solar wind, Sibeck explained.
Both the sun's magnetic field and the Earth's magnetic field can be oriented northward or southward (Earth's magnetic field is often described as a giant bar magnet in space). The sun's magnetic field shifts its orientation frequently, sometimes becoming aligned with the Earth, sometime becoming anti-aligned.
Scientists had thought that more solar particles entered Earth's magnetosphere when the sun's field was oriented southward (anti-aligned to the Earth's), but the opposite turned out to be the case, the new research shows.
The work was sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation and based on observations by NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) satellite.
How many and where
Essentially, the Earth's magnetic shield is at its strongest when scientists had thought it would be at its weakest.
When the fields aren't aligned, "the shield is up and very few particles come in," said physicist Jimmy Raeder of the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
Conversely, when the fields are aligned, it creates "a huge breach, and there's lots and lots of particles coming in," Raeder added, at the news conference.
As it orbited Earth, THEMIS's five spacecraft were able to estimate the thickness of the band of solar particles coming when the fields were aligned — it turned out to be about 20 times the number that got in when the fields were anti-aligned.
THEMIS was able to make these measurements as it moved through the band, with two spacecraft on different borders of the band; the band turned out to be one Earth radius thick, or about 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers). Measurements of the thickness taken later showed that the band was also rapidly growing.
"So this really changes our understanding of solar wind-magnetosphere coupling," said physicist Marit Oieroset of the University of California, Berkeley, also at the press conference.
And while the interaction of anti-aligned particles occurs at Earth's equator, those of aligned particles occur at higher latitudes both north and south of the equator. The interaction is "appending blobs of plasma onto the Earth's magnetic field," which is an easy way to get the solar particles in, said Sibeck, a THEMIS project scientist.
Next solar cycle
This finding not only has implications for scientists' understanding of the interaction between the sun and Earth's magnetosphere, but for predicting the effects to Earth during the next peak in the solar cycle.
The Sun operates on an 11-year cycle, alternating between active and quiet periods. We are currently in a quiet period, with few sunspots on the sun's surface and fewer solar flares, though the next cycle of activity has begun. It is expected to peak around 2012, bringing lots of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CMEs can interact with the Earth's magnetosphere, causing problems for satellites, communications, and power grids.
This upcoming active period now looks like it will be more intense than the previous one, which peaked around 2006, some scientists think. The reason is the changes in the sun's alignment.
During the last peak, solar fields hitting the Earth were first anti-aligned then aligned. Anti-aligned fields can energize particles, but in this case, the energy came before the particles themselves, which doesn't create much of a fuss in terms of geomagnetic storms and disruptions.
But the next cycle will see aligned, then anti-aligned fields, in theory amplifying the effects of the storms as they hit.
Raeder likens the difference to igniting a gas stove one of two ways: In the first way, the gas is turned on and the stove is lit and you get a flame. In the other way, you let the gas run for awhile, so that when you add the gas you get a much bigger boom.
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. His father, Sir William Wilde, was an eminent Dublin surgeon and his mother, Jane Francesca Elgee, agitated for Irish Independence and wrote revolutionary poems under the pseudonym "Speranza".
In 1864 Wilde went to the Portora Royal School where he excelled in the classics, taking top prizes. He was awarded the Royal School Scholarship to Trinity College in Dublin where he earned a Foundation Scholarship. In 1874, he won the college's Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek and was awarded a Demyship scholarship to Magdalen College in Oxford. There Wilde was awarded the Newdigate prize for his poem, Ravenna, and a First Class in both his "Mods" and "Greats. After graduation, he moved to London. In 1881, he published his first collection of poetry, Poems, which received mixed reviews by critics.
In 1881 and 1882 Wilde travelled across the United States giving over 140 lectures in 260 days. He spent the next couple of years in Britain and France, championing 'Art Nouveau'-essentially the Aesthetic, art for art's sake movement. In 1884, he married Constance Lloyd. They had two sons, Cyril in 1885 and Vyvyan in 1886. He worked on The Woman's World magazine in 1887-1889. In the following six years he published two collections of childrens stories, The Happy Prince And Other Tales (1888), and The House Of Pomegranates (1892). His first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was considered very immoral by the Victorians. The first of his witty and scandalous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, opened in February 1892 to critical acclaim. His subsequent plays included A Woman Of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband.(1895), and The Importance Of Being Earnest (1895).
His friendship with Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry, was to prove his undoing. In 1895, Wilde sued Bosie's father for libel as the Marquis had accused him of homosexuality. Although he withdrew the case he was himself arrested, convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years hard labour. His long, poignant and revealing letter, now known as De Profundus, written from prison to Alfred Douglas, was not published in full until 1962.
On his release, he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a response to the agony he experienced in prison. He spent the last three years of his life wandering Europe. He died of meningitis on November 30, 1900 and was buried in Bagneux. His remains were later transferred to the National Cemetery of Pere Lachaise in Paris, where, on the back of the ornate Epstein Tomb, is carved part of a verse from his last work.
"And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn
For his mourners will be outcast men
And outcasts always mourn."
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I hung out with these crazy people today talking about songwriting. They're all in a summer writer's workshop at the Hugo House. We ended up talking about alopecia, evil record deals and status anxiety. Sweet!
Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host Tamara Krinsky were at both WGN America “Manhattan” events meeting cast and creative teams at the Beverly Hilton at the TCA/CTAM press tour event and the special panel event at the Paley Center with the Honorable Bill Richardson, New Mexico’s 30th Governor, US Ambassador, Secretary of Energy and Congressman as the moderator.
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About the TCA/CTAM Press Tour – Summer 2014
The TCA/CTAM Summer 2014 tour included hosting WGN America’s 2nd original scripted series “Manhattan” at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with a panel and photo opportunity for press during the early afternoon on July 9th.
About the Paley Center Presents Special Event
The Paley Center for Media presents a special evening with the cast and creative team of WGN America’s second original series, Manhattan, moderated by The Honorable Bill Richardson.
About WGN America’s Manhattan
Manhattan is set in the 1940s in a town whose very existence is classified. Frank Winter and his team have been recruited to work on a project even they could know nothing about until their arrival. Once inside “The Hill,” a middle-class bubble on a dusty foothill in the New Mexico desert, they begin to sense that this is no ordinary assignment.
Created and written by Sam Shaw (Masters of Sex) and directed by Emmy Award–winner Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), Manhattan is a one-hour drama set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science – the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb -- that follows the brilliant, but flawed, scientists and their families in Los Alamos as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
The series premieres on WGN America on Sunday, July 27. Manhattan is produced by Lionsgate Television, Skydance Television and Tribune Studios.
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