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NYC's Villard Shows Off the Mastery of Famous Chef Michel Richard
His tuna burger with a soy dressing on brioche bun with potato tuile, confit tomato, and ginger mayonnaise shows what happens when a master chef applies his precise sense of balanced flavors.
John Mariani, Contributor
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Feb 18, 2014, 05:52 PM EST | Updated Dec 6, 2017
It is very rare that I so radically disagree with my colleagues' reports as I did with a recent thrashing by the NY Times restaurant critic Pete Wells of Chef Michel Richard's Villard in the New York Palace Hotel. Reading it, I could not believe he and I went to the same restaurant or ate the same food. (For the record, the staff at Villard knew both of us on sight on our separate visits.)
Wells is as aware as any gourmand how highly regarded Chef Richard (below) is, winning every accolade possible in his long career. So Wells rightly wondered if Richard's working with an imposed union staff might have affected the food and service. (I know very well how those unions can wreak havoc with a chef's best intentions: their obstinacy drove a previous tenant at The Palace -- Le Cirque -- to leave as soon as its contract ran out.)
Yet on my two visits, one to the large dining room that serves breakfast, lunch and the other to the Gallery that only serves dinner, I had meals in every way reminiscent of those I've enjoyed at other Richard-run restaurants over the last four decades. Nothing I tasted at Villard indicated that Richard and a dining room staff of veterans were coasting on laurels or intimidated by the union workers there. (There is also the Pomme Palais market, open all day serving breakfast, lunch and light dinner options.)
Born in Brittany, Richard learned his craft in Paris, moved to Los Angeles, where he first ran a patîsserie, and, in 1986, opened Citrus, a bellwether California-French restaurant of its day. He later opened what many still consider to have been DC's finest restaurant, Citronelle (shuttered when the hotel itself in closed).
There have been a few missteps along the way, but Richard never compromised his cuisine or changed his witty, winking approach to prole food -- most evident at Villard in his splendid fried chicken (below), which is brined, coated in a chicken mousse, breaded and fried to a succulence I've never before encountered, served with Yukon Gold mashed potatoes and glazed baby Brussels sprouts.
His short rib sandwiches are made from beef marinated 72 hours; and his tuna burger with a soy dressing on brioche bun with potato tuile, confit tomato, and ginger mayonnaise shows what happens when a master chef applies his precise sense of balanced flavors.
In the more casual side of Villard (below) -- though it is a riot of Gilded Age filigree and a spectacular glass wine cache -- I enjoyed an extensive lunch that included dishes only a carefully trained kitchen could render with such delicacy, not least perfect puff pastry enclosing shiitake mushrooms with butter and parmesan; or a simple frisée salad with lardons of bacon, croutons, and creamy poached egg in which every element was crafted with the same degree of care. Another classic bistro lunch dish -- so often a leaden bore -- ham and cheese quiche, was here a cogent argument to bring it back to favor.
In the Gallery (below), whose interior is landmarked and cannot be altered in any way, oversized photos of French and American actresses lean against the walls, and a glowing light comes from under the tables. My wife and I had the four-course dinner ($140; there is an eight-course dinner at $185 and vegetarian dinner at $140) with many options. We feasted on rich foie gras that was brûléed with a sweet crackling sheen. Striped bass came with a sunchoke puree, parsnip chips, lobster butternut squash emulsion, while cuttlefish-colored fettuccine was showered with white truffles ($20 supplement). Beautiful plump, rosy squab was made more luscious with a Port wine reduction and an unexpected cherry-cocoa sauce. Muscovy duck breast was accompanied by its own confited leg, pumpkin, crispy spaghetti squash, and a spiced fig sauce that was as perfect a winter's dish as might be imagined.
Desserts proved every bit as impressive, not least a crème brûlée napoleon, a raspberry vacherin, and a dense chocolate bar (below) with crispy chocolate base and chocolate mousse -- the kind of dish that made Michel Richard famous when he first came to the U.S.
From all I tasted, Richard is at the top of his form, and though I worried about his commitment to being at Villard -- he lives in Washington, D.C. -- he insists he is in New York five days a week, overseeing those details that need constant improvement, especially in a union shop.
It's possible the cooking did not reach the heights I experienced when Pete Wells dined at Villard, but I can guarantee that when all is going well, Villard ranks with the finest of New York's fine dining rooms right now.
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Strong Debuts Help Lead CWRU Women's XC to Win at Sudeck Classic Stampede
The Case Western Reserve University women's cross country team opened its 2019 campaign on a positive note, capitalizing on the performances of a number of newcomers to pick up a first-place finish at the Sudeck Classic Stampede at the Squire Valleevue Farm in Hunting Valley, Ohio on Saturday morning.
The Spartans finished the meet with a score of 31 points to finish in first, ahead of second-place John Carroll University (39) and third-place Allegheny College (66).
Three new members of the cross country team were the top-three finishers for the Spartans on Saturday. Sophomore Jana Fisher, who competed for track and field but not cross country as a freshman, placed third overall with a time of 15:19.6 for the 4K course. She was followed by freshman Melissa Phung in fifth place with a time of 15:27.3 and freshman Stephanie Wroblewski in sixth place with a time of 15:30.8. Completing the top-five scorers for the Spartans were sophomore Susanna Henry in seventh place with a time of 15:42.6 and senior Vanessa Pasadyn in 10th place with a mark of 15:44.3, while junior Kiera Olson (11th, 15:49.7) and junior Grace Kemerer (12th, 15:50.6) rounded out the top-seven for CWRU.
Other finishers for the Spartans in the field of 50 runners on Saturday included junior Olivia Battistoni (14th, 15:54.8), sophomore Julia Kocherzat (15th, 15:55.8), freshman Danielle Sarno (20th, 16:08.4), freshman Rae Dwyer (25th, 16:19.2), junior Cara Giannuzzi (29th, 16:32.4), sophomore Maddy Nacci (34th, 16:46.8), junior Madison Vargo (37th, 16:51.1), freshman Cassidy Hill (40th, 17:01.4), senior Mallorie Mitchem (43rd, 17:09.9) and freshman Suki Bristol (44th, 17:10.8).
John Carroll sophomore Cameron Bujaucius won the race with a time of 14:57.6, setting a record for the course, which was modified from previous seasons. Her teammate, freshman Sydney Jenko, placed second with a time of 14:57.7.
The Sudeck Sunset Classic Stampede is run in the honor of the legendary late former CWRU head cross country and track & field coach Bill Sudeck. During his 46-year career at the Case Institute of Technology and Case Western Reserve University, he led his cross country teams to 12 conference titles, leaving behind a legacy of success for the program.
The Spartans will be back in action next Saturday, September 7th at the Calvin Invitational in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the team will get an early look at the course for the 2019 NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet.

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Emails obtained by the Associated Press show discussions among the senior administrators of the World Health Organization from as early as June 2014, in which officials refused to yet declare a state of emergency in West Africa over the Ebola outbreak for fear of angering local governments and interfering with the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Patient Zero in the current Ebola epidemic, which has to this date claimed at least 10,000 lives, was diagnosed in Guinea and died on December 6, 2013. It was not until February that the virus showed signs of spreading rapidly. By April, hospitals in the United Kingdom issued an alert to workers to be aware of Ebola symptoms. In June, Doctors Without Borders warned the situation had gotten "out of control."
It is in June that the Associated Press emails show the World Health Organization and UN officials arguing over whether to issue the emergency call. The Associated Press reports the emails show that, "among the reasons the United Nations agency cited in internal deliberations: worries that declaring such an emergency – akin to an international SOS – could anger the African countries involved, hurt their economies or interfere with the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca."
Dr. Sylvie Briand, the head of the WHO's pandemic unit, called declaring an emergency a "last resort" in a June 5 email, suggesting "other diplomatic means" to combat the virus. Another email describes an emergency response as "a hostile act" in the eyes of some foreign governments.
Speaking to the AP, Marc Poncin, Doctors Without Borders then-mission chief in Guinea, said those dispatched by the WHO to Conakry, Guinea "had no idea how to manage an Ebola epidemic" and did little to improve the situation before the emergency declaration. The WHO defended itself in an email to the Associated Press in which they stated:
People often confuse the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern with our operational response. It is very different. WHO mounted a strong operational response a year ago when we were notified the outbreak was Ebola.
By the time the declaration of an emergency was confirmed on August 8, almost 1,000 people were certified dead of the virus, though actual numbers are estimated to be much higher as victims' families worked to hide bodies from authorities and others died in areas too remote from medical officials.
It is worthy of note that, in May, the World Health Organization alleged that the Ebola virus had been subdued in large part. Claiming that the outbreak "could be declared over on May 22," the WHO pulled staff out of west Africa. The decision could have triggered a more rapid spread as attention was diverted away from preventing the virus from spreading.
The United States officially issued a response to the Ebola crisis in September, when President Obama pledged to send 3,000 troops to Liberia.
The emails revealed by the Associated Press corroborate complaints by private medical and charity groups that the response to the Ebola virus was not fast enough to stop it from becoming an epidemic. Doctors Without Borders, in particular, warned in August that the response to the outbreak was "almost zero" from the international community, and that a "lack of political will" was preventing any substantive response to the virus from occurring.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/20/ap-un-stalled-declaration-of-ebola-emergency-for-fear-of-interfering-with-mecca-pilgrimage/
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Imagine the Ebola virus spread to Mecca, to all the pilgrims there.
Global peace would ensue.
Some of those countries where those pilgrims come from, may have a chance to develop, instead of in a rut of jungle justice!
Especially if it spread to Israel.


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We Need A Much Bigger Impakt
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"Why are people losing confidence in traditional sources of information? What are the consequences of social media & new online platforms becoming the prime source of information & interpretation of world events? What mechanisms are driving these online resources, how can they get manipulated and how are they connected to existing and new power structures in our society?"
These urgent questions concerning our post-truth era, spoken by Impakt Festival founder Arjon Dunnewind, resonated through the Theaterzaal at Het Huis in Utrecht (NL) and introduced the theme of the Impakt Festival 2018. The questions as described by Dunnewind are further investigated by curators Luba Elliott (curator, researcher & consultant, specialised in creative applications of artificial intelligence), Yasemin Keskintepe (curator and researcher, examining the politics and poetics of the digital condition) & Alex Anikina (artist, researcher and film-maker, Assistant Lecturer in Film and the Audiovisual) through the role algorithms play in our society, resulting in a 4-day festival program of keynotes, panels, screenings, tours and a festival exhibition, named ALGORITHMIC SUPERSTRUCTURES.
The festival theme is addressed as a metaphor, the curators explain, to be critically assessed by the audience, to provoke discussion by combining as many different views as possible, a format IMPAKT Festival has been successfully maintaining throughout the past years, critically reflecting on contemporary media culture.
"The works in the exhibition," in the words of curator Keskintepe, "are referential to new forms of political governance and hegemony being established, that stand in opposition to democratic values and procedures. Illustrating how algorithmic superstructures are shaping our thinking our perception and value system, they speak to a need for accountability and new forms of public democracy. The exhibition asks how, in this landscape, we can preserve our democratic legitimacy whilst embracing technological developments maintaining the integrity of our democratic processes."
Resulting in partially newly commissioned works, the selected artists investigate the learning ability of the network and Artificial Intelligence (Constant Dullaart & Adam Harvey – Imagenet.xyz 2017, Coralie Vogelaar – Expressionist Drawings Created By An AI That Is Fed By Trolls 2018), design and visualise future network models (Paolo Cirio – Global Direct 2014 & Kyriaki Goni – Aegean Datahaven 2017), critically investigate or reflect on network power dynamics (Kara Vith – Twitter Getusertimeline [25073877] 2016, Donna Verheijden – D.A.T.A. Dock 2018, Chloe Galibert-Laine & Kevin B. Lee – Bottles Songs 2018) visualise futuristic scenarios (Egor Kraft, Pekka Tynkkynen, Alina Kvirkveliya, Karina Golubenko – Air kiss 2017/2018) or use AI to generate datasets in a research on financial speculation (Anna Ridler – Mosaic Virus 2018).
Stand out is Imagenet.xyz from Constant Dullaart & Adam Harvey in which Dullaart has retrained image recognition networks to include European artefacts, a project named EuroNet. The main question of EuroNet, as explained on the website, is whether Europe's diverse cultural output can be represented within a dataset and if the network has the capacity to recognise what is deemed European. By illustrating the networks' ability to draw out cultural bias, the work shows mechanised image interpretation's understanding of Europe in 2017. (Source: http://imagenet.xyz/ – EuroNet is a commissioned work by Victoria and Albert Museum for the 4017 Enacted exhibition and is open to visit online).
Another stand out is Airkiss from Egor Kraft, Pekka Tynkkynen, Alina Kvirkveliya & Karina Golubenko, which is a four screen video-installation, offering a glimpse into a speculative future where citizens and artificial intelligence belong to the same collectivised system, rendering the state and corporate governance obsolete: a so-called parametric democracy.
Where the artists actively engage with digital networks and algorithms in order to reflect on our current state and possible future scenarios, the keynote presenters and panels present more outspoken views on the digital condition. The festival kicked off with activist keynote speaker Adam Greenfield who openly advocates to pay more attention and resistance to the radical technologies that control and transform our daily lives and are redefining what it means to be human. According to Greenfield, we need to (re)claim our place in the future.
The technologies Greenfield calls forth to resist are in a way embraced by the first panel of the festival, Black Boxes for Fiction Makers, where artists Mario Klingemann, Nicolas Maigret, Egor Kraft and Coralie Vogelaar presented the new forms of representation machine learning can enhance in contrast to the human's lazy brain, putting their hopes in machines to show us something new.
In the next panel, called Algorithms and Financial Speculation, researcher Inger Leemans, artist collective Demystification Committee and artist Anna Ridler (who's work Mosaic Virus was also included in the exhibition) discuss high frequency trading, following its development from the early ages onwards. The discussion afterwards coined the interesting view whether the Ridler & the Demystification Committee were actually criticising or facilitating these financial speculations with their works but overall, the panel fell a bit short on a really interesting discussion around the topic.
Second keynote speaker Julia Kloiber, researcher, designer and founder of the Prototype Fund, clearly calls out for digital optimism: for new narratives & new visions which hopefully become self-fulfilling prophecies, openly opposing Greenfield (according to Kloiber, technology is not so mystical at all) and keynote speaker Evgeny Morozov later on.
Who owns augmented space? is the question posed in the panel Augmented Cities: Data and Public Space (lectures by curator and researcher Judith Bihr, writer, editor and podcaster Charlie Clemous and Professor of Public Innovation Albert Meijer), showing that the battle of claiming, intervening and uncovering power structures of augmented public space already started in 2010, even showing some examples of augmented vandalism.
Keynote speaker of the third festival day Evegny Morozov, renowned writer, researcher, internet critic and very self-aware of the fact that he often leaves the audience lingering in a negative state, added up to Greenfield's view by actively drawing attention towards the real motives behind big data: players like Tesla, IBM & Google and of course, he left without giving the positive note he promised earlier in his speech. But it's the type of contrasting view which is needed in dealing with certain digital issues.
In the panel (Infra)structures of Trust the question of sovereignty in computational design influencing diverse social fields was addressed by developer Jaromil, strategist Arnaud Castaignet & artist, activist and researcher Paolo Cirio. Cirio presented his work Global Direct (2014) which was included in the festival's exhibition. Influenced by his previous projects and how it occurred to him that we have hardly any agency over the decisions institutions make, Cirio started to think of a political philosophy that could become a global democracy.
Global Direct, according to Cirio, turns globalisation and technology into an opportunity: it can be seen as a political party or movement but actually is an utopia of the internet. On the official last day of the festival, open source research collective Bellingcat represented by founder Eliot Higgins, took over, showing its civilian service to investigate the truth (whatever this may mean in this post-truth era) through open source online resources, putting transparency and accountability up for discussion but also showing how journalism can adapt to this new conditions and even prove to be of high value to certain law cases (this is also very much reflected in the work of Turner prize candidate Forensic Architecture).
Very cleverly programmed as closing keynote speaker is Daniel van der Velden from design-, research- & artist-collective Metahaven, currently exhibiting their solo-exhibition EARTH in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Where former keynote speakers formed critical views pro or con technology, Metahaven is working right through it with their stream of associative images and texts, not giving a lecture on digital power dynamics and post-truth worries but going right through the middle of its alienating workings, an unconscious stream of internet, full on in the experience of the digital condition itself, visually being the sum of everything previously discussed without any judgement, or is there?
In order to proceed, should we become digital activists, digital ambassadors or just observe and accept our fate, if we believe it's digitally doomed at all? Is there more beyond the worrying thoughts from Greenfield & Morozov, can we go past the seemingly naivety of Kloiber while obtaining her fresh vision? It's exactly at this point where IMPAKT Festival comes in.
The festival is not merely the presentation of digitally oriented artworks and talks but moreover the discussion and buzz it creates in between the combination of all of its programs, actively inviting different views, whether positive, negative, provoking or traditional. Never judging on its presenters or artists but still carefully selecting its guests and above all always expecting more from its audience than only to listen, urging them to think and speak up.
With a new edition of the festival coming up in 2019 where critical thinkers will gather around once again and Impakt expanding their program of exhibitions this year, I feel safe to say political network developments will not go unnoticed. I still cannot foresee what the digital future will exactly hold but I do know this:
We need a much bigger Impakt.
https://impakt.nl/
Patty Jansen
Graphic Artist, Researcher and Producer
Patty Jansen is a graphic artist, researcher and producer. With a background in design, Art History and Artistic Research, she has become increasingly interested in the representation of our current society and its history in the rapidly changing media landscape. In her published research Networked Collective Memory she investigated the influence of the digital network on the visual development of collective memories such as 9/11 & MH17. Jansen is fascinated by human ideas of time: the past, present and future. Its visual reflection and how its meaning can and will change play an important role in her fascination and work.
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The Column of Lasting Insignificance: March 29, 2008
The diaries that follow, are ones that I wrote
and handed out in Soho thirty years ago.
Along with many others, they appear in the serialization of Manhattan Memories on this website.
Other Scenes — John Wilcock's Secret Diary
Saturday, March 10, 1978: Leo Castelli muttered something about me tying him up with the Shah's art collection in my last newsletter. Later I met him walking down West Broadway with his famous Dalmatian Paddy (as patrician as Leo himself). He was accompanied by a startlingly beautiful, frizzy-haired blonde and her BP male escort. Leo asked why single him out among all the dealers who sold to the Teheran Museum of Modern Art and who had helped him assemble its vast collection of contemporary art which at this very moment the Ayatollah is demanding be covered up to its eyebrows.
At Landmark Milly Brower introduced me to painter Jean Davidson who said he'd just acquired a 1750 square-foot loft at 19th and 8th Avenue. Milly said she'd been deafened most of the day by police sirens. "The police have just bought a new one from Federal Sign & Signal," she said, "that is guaranteed to penetrate buildings. They want people to be aware of their omnipresence." New ambulance sirens, explained Milly, tested at 110 decibels, almost double what's comfortable.
Milly's old house — from '52 to '64 — was an $85-a-month carriage house at 132 East 27th Street, whose two 10' x 16' rooms were connected by a spiral staircase. In which William (The Recognitions) Gaddis met his wife and Norman Mailer offered me my first joint back in 1955. (I declined). Milly, whose green, yellow, and lilac blouse ("an explosion in a diamond factory") was purchased at an off-season sale in Palm Beach, stood in sharp contrast to the plain, black number worn by Landmark's bubbly Victoria Oscarron. Her solitary touch of color — scarlet lipstick — recalled Kurosawa's movie High and Low, in which a single puff of orange smoke interrupted an otherwise totally black-and-white movie.
Cynthia Mailman, in from verdant Staten Island by VW bus, confessed she'd been invited to take part in a March 30th panel at Landmark on the "art and technology aspects" of contemporary images. It had mysteriously been titled "The Literal Image" into which Cynthia's stark rear-view mirror images would seem to fit. Henry Rose whose recent celebrations to mark the 11th anniversary of his The Old Reliable Fish House (in Provincetown) was marred by a citation from the health inspector recalled for us Some Famous Openings we'd all attended.
The kitchen was filled with melodious chimes from Dennis Oppenheim's visionary Tune Towers, which, as he suggests, would do a lot to civilize the drab industrial reaches of New Jersey.
Segueing into evening parties I met up with Vernita Nemec, Sharon Wynbrandts, and Marty Fine who's trying to soften his image as a loft lord. He promised to hire Sharon to paint what he described as "the mirrored hall of Versailles" in his elevator at 644 Broadway.
Sunday, March 11, 1978: A few gallery openings but it didn't seem worth turning out on a bitterly cold day. Sometimes I think that instead of subsidies there should be grants made to artists to perform some honest-to-god real work. There are far too many paintings, sculptures, and artifacts of all kinds already, and who needs more? Another bit of philistinism which always seems to provoke people is my suggestion to sell all the masterpieces from the world's museums to eager private collectors and replace them with the excellent reproductions that constantly seem to fool the experts. That way some of the mystique could be removed from "art", the museums could become educational — their presumed major function — and all that expensive security, not to mention insurance would become superfluous. Or more probably become the responsibility of the paintings' proud owners who would doubtless guard their possessions at least as well.
Friday, May 5: Everybody's a performing artist these days, whatever else their specialty might be, and there was grim evidence of this at the Grand Street opening of Bill Rabinovitch's paintings, some of which looked like a medley of Picasso and Matisse. But while the deceptively mild-mannered Rab welcomed his friends upfront, the menacing Ear Inn Mob took over the rear room to yodel, spin metal balls around glass containers (the sound of centrifugal force?) and act generally like a bunch of clowns. Fleeing home to my TV set I observed Channel 5 News was over at the New York Times interviewing Sovietologist Harry Schwartz. As he spoke, a procession of lady journalists passed back and forth behind him — a presentation that looked suspiciously as though it had been choreographed (probably by m/e Abe Rosenthal) to bolster the paper's image as a champion of women's rights. Which, some critics complain, it definitely is not. Of course, certain malcontents claim that the main thing wrong with poor old Abe is that he never found the time to get stoned on some excellent ganja during his struggling years as the Times' man in India. And that if he had he wouldn't have started his reign as m/e by commissioning a slanted, full-page attack on the 'dangers' of the killer weed.
Saturday, May 6: Tried to call my friend Catherine about her apartment to find she now has an unlisted number. What a dumb thing to do! Who on earth do these unlisted paranoids think is going to call up and harass them? Surely communication should be a two-way thing with people being refused telephones to make outgoing calls if they are not prepared to receive incoming ones.
On WBay, original Larry Rivers drawings were being sold for a dollar apiece. They are color Xeroxes made by the artist to benefit the Little Red Schoolhouse. Rivers, one of the first major artists to see the potential of the color Xerox, made some of his early experiments at the Soho Media Co-op whose director, Buddy Wirtschafter, has taken the art of forging party invitations to new heights.
A charming show of 'books' you've never seen before was intriguing visitors to Franklin Furnace: books on rollers…on strips of paper inside bottles…in moebius loops, on scrolls…even a 'Helicopedia' on its way to becoming a bicyclopedia. The viewer sits on a stool inside this and reads the words on a cylinder that revolves around the head. Pedals to turn the cyclinder automatically have still to be added. Filmmaker Kay Hines (who sneaks me into Guggenheim openings when the museum forgets to invite me) is also a writer but admits that her words in the show aren't getting much attention. Form over substance and all that.
Sunday, May 7: The Robert Freidus gallery on Lafayette Street is actually somebody's luxuriously furnished apartment, so openings there always have the aura of intimate parties. Today the roof was open, displaying a selection of sculptor Jay Kelly's constructions, most of which drip, squirt, or spray water. The artist, who makes simple sundials that look like metal spinning tops, tripped and scattered a bagful of ice cubes all over the floor which diverted my attention from a comely lady who had just told me that her name was — no kidding — Skye Vermont; a poet, as who wouldn't be with a monicker like that. At the Broome Street party later, somebody told me I'd missed yet another of Sharon Wynbrandt's performances (she's doing seven, on successive Monday nights) at her White Street loft. "You should certainly have come this time; she was nude." Sharon turned up at the party and amplified: "Yes, it was lovely. I did my Dance for Red Laser and Trumpet with the laser beam caressing my body all over. My children were in it, too." Next, I got into conversation with an actress who said she worked part-time as assistant cook in the executive dining room at one of the networks. "Boy," she said, "talk about naked power; I've seen it all."
Monday, May 8: Screw's Al Goldstein is about to launch a monthly tabloid, Death, which will have honest obits, listings of the lowest rates for funerals, and articles aimed at the terminally ill. "It's the only publication in existence devoted to the subject," explains the Printz of Porn, "and it definitely will be bizarre." Uncle Al, just back from photographing the cemeteries of Switzerland, was about to leave for LA to have dinner with Hugh Hefner as I arrived at his barricaded 14th Street office. He pointed to his latest acquisition, an ornate coffin with which he co-stars (dressed as an undertaker) in the commercial he just shot to appear on his cable show, Midnight Blue.
Tuesday, May 9: In response to my card, Catherine called to explain that having an unlisted number was a hangover from the time when she had appeared on the cover of a national magazine. Now she was struggling as a freelance writer and had recently sold a piece about "Foods of the Future" which had made her feel strangely optimistic. I asked if I could come over and take a look at her apartment as I was thinking of moving into the same block, and she said sure, make it tomorrow.
An unprecedented five–hour opening took up most of the evening at the Shepherd Gallery on E 84th Street. Guests roamed through four rooms cluttered with paintings and sculptures of Victorian England: horses, landscapes, fairy paintings, portraits, and numerous works by seven rebellious young artists who came to be known as the pre-Raphaelites (1849-53).
"I love that period, it's so romantic," sighed lovely Rozelle Cooper, who works for Barry Friedman, a dealer so exclusive you must make an appointment to see his wares. Ms. Cooper said that seven of her personal collection were in the show and pointed proudly to her name in the catalog.
Blond Charmian Stirling had arrived in New York for the first time only a few hours earlier. She said she was here to draw half a dozen portraits which usually took about six hours apiece. "Men fall asleep and women look worried when being drawn," she added. Painter Walter David and I discovered we had a mutual friend, Sam Middleton, another black artist who lives in Amsterdam. "He influenced me a lot," Walter confided. "I'll always remember his horizon painting — a thin blue line across an otherwise blank canvas. Who influenced Sam? Well, Romaire Barden for one. Miro probably, and…oh Matisse. And they must all have been influenced by jazz. Walter was wearing a red blazer, checkered shirt with tie, and neatly pressed slacks.
"Last night I had on T-shirt and jeans," he said. "Thelonious Monk once said, 'We don't play the same music so we don't have to dress the same." Colette, who has always been uniquely attired at any event at which I've seen her, never dresses the same. Tonight she sported the Victorian punk look with pink jacket, Chinese print dress, shimmering pink shoes and bloomers. "I'll be on view in Fiorucci's window on 59th Street next week," she revealed.
Wednesday, May 10: Douglas Durst, whose family owns most of the midtown property between 40th and 47th Streets, never goes anywhere without his pocket CB, so most of the time we visited with Catherine on W43 St, he kept getting calls from his assistants working on renovation projects in the area. The Durst Organization operates about 500 apartments so I jumped at the chance to inspect one occupied by my friend in company with the man who's already her landlord and might become mine. We sat in her cozy garden pad, sipping jasmine tea, smoking, and talking about how interesting it was to watch an area develop and undergo rehabilitation. Across the street, about three-quarters of the heavily-subsidized Manhattan Plaza are theatrical types and many of the area's old churches are being converted into theaters.
"It's pleasant, it's vibrant and it's an area that's almost ready for its own newspaper," Catherine commented. "Why not come and live around here and start one?"
In the evening, the first person I met when I crashed MacMillan's party for the John Gruen biography of Giancarlo Menotti was the program director of WNCN, Matt Biberfeld, who observed he felt a bit out of place but was there because Gruen did a weekly talk show (about dance) for the station. "WNCN is what painters turn to when they get to their studios and begin work," declared painter Jane Wilson, Gruen's wife. Gruen himself, joyfully greeting friends, said he thought he had rotten billing on the invitation for the party. It had emphasized MacMillan, the Schirmer company, and Menotti in huge type, mentioning the author almost as an afterthought. "I grabbed the head of the company as he went by," the velvet-suited author joked, "and thanked him for inviting me to my party."
"Ooh," chorused publicists Raye Linday and Ricka Canter, "that would be Mr. Hagel he was talking about. He's chairman of the board and travels around in limousines a lot. He's very rarely seen, in fact, tonight is the first time we've ever met him. What does he look like? He's a small man who looks a little like…ha, ha..a bookkeeper."
Thursday, May 11: Back in the news once again is the Village Voice whose editor Marianne Partridge has apparently been axed without warning, causing the usual staff upheavals and divided loyalties. Of course, what the paper really needs — apart from being physically split into different sections — is a completely new, slimmed-down staff and a whole new direction. But then who could work with Murdoch and his sycophantic lieutenants, most of them strangers to the very city they're supposed to be covering? One almost infallible rule is that a publication has a specific lifespan and it is difficult, if not impossible, to turn it round and get a new readership once its natural life has ebbed away.
Cosmopolitan was about the only exception to this rule in recent years; Esquire, for example, was not. (Another iron-clad rule about publishing that Murdoch has mastered, is that there is always room at the bottom — i.e. any publication that has even more degraded tastes than the already-existing lowest one, is bound to be a success.)
Sentimentalists think fondly of earlier Voice days when Ed Fancher was publisher, but they overlook the fact that — in the grand tradition — publishers are invariably rip-off artists who get rich underpaying their writers while constantly pleading poverty. All the publishers I have ever known in New York—Fancher, Lyle Stuart, Barney Rossett, Ralph Ginzburg, Bob Guccione, Arthur Frommer, Michael Goldstein — have been like that, and they've always been courted at the beginning by writers who'd give anything (and willingly accept nothing) to have their names in print, and then reviled their 'benefactors' later on. It's almost as though Goldstein at the Soho Weekly News had decided that, seeing as it was inevitable he'd be hated eventually, he might just as well be as unpleasant as possible to begin with, and still rip everybody off in the way that publishers always have.
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Are you living it to the fullest?
That's the question that Chris Graebe wants us to ask ourselves. He has dedicated his life to helping people discover the best version of their dreams and then push past the fear that is getting in their way.
In fact, that's exactly what brought him to us.
Today is a special day for me—and for all of StartupCamp—because on this episode of the StartupCamp Show, you get to properly meet Chris, our new director and podcast host here at StartupCamp. Please help me welcome Chris to the StartupCamp family!
For those that don't already know him from his articles or social media, Chris Graebe has led an inspiring life: He grew up in a one-stoplight town in Indiana with plenty of early challenges. He went on to become a reality star on M.T.V.'s "Road Rules", and then became a pastor. Finally, he started his own Amazon-based e-commerce business (on nights and weekends, while working as a pastor and raising his five kids), which in its first two years grossed over $2 million.
Chris' passion is helping people push past fear to live the life they've always wanted. If we can say it humbly, that's what makes him a perfect fit at StartupCamp. He also has some killer knowledge to share on starting an e-commerce business. You'll learn why now is the right time to get into the e-commerce business and what it takes to get going.
Most entrepreneurs are ideators: great at starting, not so hot at sealing the deal. At StartupCamp, Chris is going to teach you—teach us—how to take our great ideas across the finish line.


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It's 11:00 pm on a Friday night. Sitting up in the middle of my bed and all I can think about are the lives that surround me. This has been on the brain for the last couple of nights. It wakes me at 2:30 am and again at 4:45 am without looking at the time. I am truly passionate about helping people, I believe it is my calling. The problem is, it also affects me and my well being.
As humans, we are all fighting battles that no one knows about. These battles don't have to be negative; it can be a positive one. If it is worth it, it will take hard work to accomplish. I try to be as leveled as I can be. Some days are harder than others. But I make sure that I am strong for others because sometimes that's what they need, strength.
I speak of my current work woes. Working with homeless families is not easy. Indeed, I dream about my families and their children. It is hard to think for 30 families and some. To balance my chaos, and their need for help, I still do not know how I make it out of bed.
I do think there should be more to say, but I'll leave it bleak. Some days I wish I had someone who I can release my work frustration to while receiving a much needed embrace and reassurance. Some days I would like someone to be strong for me.


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H3 makes Top 3 on USA Today's 10Best
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Not long after Hilton Head Island was announced one of the Top 10 Islands in the United States in the 2016 Traveler's Choice Awards, local wellness resort destination, Hilton Head Health was nominated for Top 10 Best Health and Wellness Resort.
The contest was hosted on the USA TODAY's website in which voters could select one of the nominees and cast their vote once per day between July and August 1st, 2016 at 11:59a.m. EDT. H3 was amongst 20 nominees running to be in the top 10.
H3 reached out to the local Hilton Head Island community and posted the announcement on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram asking for votes.
Thanks to our amazing social media and local Hilton Head Island community, H3 finished in the Top 5 and is #3 in the USA Today's 10Best Health and Wellness Resorts 2016.Hilton Head Health is now featured on USA Today's 10Best website. Winning this prestigious award positively affects H3 and the local community alike as it continues to set the Island as one of the most desirable vacation destination for wellness in the country.
In addition to this nomination, Hilton Head Health is celebrating their 40th Anniversary, the launch of their new LifePrime™ program, new promotions and more in 2016. Locals can also enjoy the upcoming events and activities hosted at the recently updated Indigo Spa and renowned H3 Healthy Kitchen this season.


FUQUAY-VARINA — Fidelity Bank has announced that Tim Britt of Asheboro has joined its Trust Company of North Carolina team as executive vice president and chief wealth management officer. In his new position, Britt is responsible for overseeing the daily responsibilities of Trust Company of North Carolina and the brokerage services offered throughout the Bank's footprint.
His office is located at the Trust Company of North Carolina headquarters in Cary on 100 W. Chatham St.
Britt has 25 years of experience in investment management, tax, estate and financial planning as well as administration of various types of employee benefit plans. Prior to joining Trust Company of North Carolina, he worked as a senior vice president and chief wealth management officer for KS Bank Inc. He has also held wealth management positions where he managed a $500 million wealth management division that had $235 million in trust assets.
Britt graduated from Campbell University with a Trust and Investment Management degree with a minor in Financial Planning, and a master's in Business Administration. He is also a graduate of the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Pennsylvania and completed the Wharton Executive Leadership Certification from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently holds an Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst designation.
Britt currently resides in Asheboro with his wife, Kim, and has three children.
Fidelity Bank is a full-service financial institution with assets of approximately $1.9 billion headquartered in Fuquay-Varina. The Bank owns and operates 56 branches throughout North Carolina and Virginia and was awarded a 5-star (superior) rating by BauerFinancial. For more information, visit www.fidelitybanknc.com.
ASHEBORO — Randolph Community College's Workforce Development and Continuing Education Division is offering "Fundamentals of HVAC" — a course designed to provide students with the introductory skills required to become employed as an apprentice in the heating and air conditioning field.
It is a comprehensive course focusing on the operating principles of heating systems with emphasis on safety, ventilation, types of heating/cooling systems, Ohm's law, load calculation, troubleshooting using the various types of test equipment, servicing and repairing.
This course will prepare students to sit for the CFC Certification, which will be administered during the class for an additional $25. The majority of the class will be theory with some hands-on application.
This class (#69616) meets from 5:30-9:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, April 24-Aug. 14, in room 104 of the Building Trades Center in the Asheboro campus. The cost is $180.55.
ASHEBORO — On Thursday, April 11, from 9-10 a.m., a free Auxin Stewardship Training course will take place at the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service in Randolph County, 1003 S. Fayetteville St., Asheboro, in the Wolfpack room.
This training will fulfill the training requirement mandated by federal and 24(c) labels of dicamba containing products registered for over-the-top use on dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybean.
The training will also meet 24(c) label requirements for 2,4-D choline containing products for over-the-top use on 2,4-D-tolerant cotton in North Carolina.
Every person who will be applying the herbicide(s) is required to attend an Auxin Stewardship Training. There will be an hour's worth of recertification credit in categories N, O, D and X.
Please register by calling the Randolph County office at 336-318-6000 or by emailing Wanda Howe at wanda_howe@ncsu.edu.


Enjay IT Solutions recently launched a CRM (Not For Resale) technology at special price points for the System Integrators and IT retailers in India. As a promoter of cutting-edge software solutions for SME, entrepreneurs and enterprises, Enjay IT Solutions now aims to urge the IT industry to revamp and adopt the CRM based business process for their own setup.
As per a recent report, the global IT & ITeS market (excluding hardware) touched US$ 1.2 trillion in 2016-17, while the global sourcing market increased by 1.7 times to reach US$ 173-178 billion. The Indian IT industry has to lead the economic transformation of the country, even as India continues to remain the world's top sourcing destination for 2016-17 with a market share of 55 percent.
While these numbers are progressive and encouraging, the IT industry, mostly the SI's and the smaller entrepreneurs, have been struggling to set up a well-organized and IT-supported business process. The CRM (NFR) launched by Enjay IT solutions, aims to offer these services at a more affordable rate. Further, being one of the largest providers of Tally ERP on the cloud for SME's, the service offering will also encourage the use of cloud technology among the IT industry players, further making access to technology affordable.
Apart from the CRM technology, Enjay IT solutions also aim at offering other cloud bases technologies that are modern yet affordable. With a unique CRM Currently, over 2500 SME's, SI's and IT entrepreneurs are already using Tally ERP on cloud and the company is also promoting several other software that will help organize and create productive IT entrepreneurs.
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The "7th" in Camp
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This is an incredibly rare booklet of 12 cartoons depicting the daily life of the 7th regiment as they reside at camp, likely during the American Civil War. Satirical and jovial in nature, these etchings trace one day's activities, possibly of the New York 7th Infantry, from "Reveille" and "Company...Read More
The 50 Most Influential Black Films
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The 50 Most Influential Black Films is an introspective study of the black image in motion pictures from the late-19th century through the 20th century. Its chapters are organized by decades, starting with silent films and continuing through independent films of the 1990s. Each chapter begins with...Read More
An Account of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Republic of Mexico
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In the decade before the American Civil War, the United States was preoccupied by efforts for interoceanic communication. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec represented the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, and prior to the opening of the Panama Canal, was a major...Read More
Account of the Skeleton of the Mammoth
An artist rather than a paleontologist, Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) nevertheless did a great deal to popularize the field. He was the son of American painter Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827); father and son are both well known for their portraits of George Washington. Charles Willson also founded...Read More
African Americans on Stamps
At over two hundred pages long, this hardback book is basically an encyclopedia of African American heroes on postage stamps, both from the United States and around the world. Arranged alphabetically by last name, it provides short biographies, followed by black and white illustrations of each...Read More
This thin, thirty-paged color booklet was published by the United States Postal Service in 2004. The Black Heritage stamp series began in 1978 and ever since, African American heroes and heroines have been honored on postage stamps. The Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) votes on which...Read More
African-American Pioneers in Anthropology
This book highlights the lives, works, and accomplishments of African American scholars in recent history whose work is influential in the field of anthropology. The contributions of these scholars vary, ranging from the cultural impacts of Zora Neale Hurston's field works and writings to...Read More
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
This is a new edition of Turner's original 1949 masterpiece, which was a seminal work in Afrocentric linguistics. Arranged like a dictionary, it has Gullah words on the left side of each page and the corresponding West African words on the right side. Gullah is a language spoken by the eponymous...Read More
Afro-Americans in Dentistry
African American dental practices were first documented in 18th century when dentistry was a crude trade learned by apprenticeship to perform necessary extractions. Extramural dentistry is the practice of exercising dental expertise outside of the institution and bringing dental care and education...Read More
The Afronomical Way
This limited-edition set of 43 vibrant, color printed cards housed in a custom box is parts that together comprise artist Sanford Biggers' explorations of identity, rituals, and iconography. Divided into three sections—afronomix, fetico, and fides—the images offer moments of both intimacy and...Read More


Diversity is complex, because everyone is different. In this post I'm going to talk about what we learnt when we worked on a recent system storing the names of people from across the world.
First, I will use this analogy: If you're able to walk, then you could look at how our offices are accessible to people in wheelchairs. We comply with all regulations and requirements and then some. But if you'd ever tried to get through the doors in here, then you'd know they're a pain to get through in a wheelchair. It's only if you use a wheelchair and try to get around that you realise the difficulties wheelchair users face.
As a developer of buildings, it can be handy to spend some time experiencing other people's problems. As a developer of software, there's an area that helps illustrate how tied we are to our own cultures, and how little awareness we have of others and the diversity of people.
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What do you notice about it? Assuming you didn't just scroll through this post, looked at subheadings, thought you'd reached the bottom and decided to go back to Facemonkey or Twitsonline or whatever, what's wrong with it?
Nothing. You can see nothing wrong with it. I would imagine that almost nobody reading this article would see the problem.
Unless you try and complete it and happen to be a famous Indonesian weightlifter. He only has one name. Then what does he do? Where does he put his name? Of course, to be pedantic, his only name is his first name, and his last name. He could complete both sides of the form with "Triyatno" and we'd be fine. Except the system would report his name incorrectly in some cases by emailing him as Triyatno Triyatno.
In fact, if he moved to many countries, Triyatno would need to become Triyatno Triyatno, because many legal systems have no way of dealing with mononym cultures.
I'm entirely aware of mononym cultures, yet on our website I use a system that enforces a two name paradigm. Why?
Because all the systems we work with are designed this way. We cannot fix everything about the systems around us. We are culturally bound. Even when we know better. So only with systems we build ourselves, do we have the opportunity to break out.
I don't like getting mails that say "Dear Mr David." So I doubt they'd like it either.
It just seems so sloppy. And impersonal.
The awful reality is that coding software to take into account the vagaries of the human world is hard. Once we learn, we can deal with the differences in people we know and work with. If I meet a Korean, I know what to do about names. If an Indonesian gives me a single name, I can handle that. In Britain, you can call yourself whatever you like. It's OK to be called 'Prince' and only 'Prince.' And this conveniently segues us into what happens if your name isn't writable in Latin characters? How can our system handle Prince's symbol?
It can't. Tough, yeah? Because Prince's symbol will never be available in Unicode, as they won't add symbols pertaining to individuals. Even Unicode's vast tables of characters can't handle the fullness of human diversity.
If they do, it may not be possible to represent the said name in your system. How's your encoding?
Don't assume people always have a first name.
Don't assume the sort order of a family name. Does Van Halen come with the Hs or the Vs?
Don't assume people have prefixes.
Or is it better to skip prefixes and suffixes altogether?
In some countries you are entitled to be called what you want, regardless of birth certificates or any official paperwork.
Some names are really really long.
Names can at times include symbols, such as an exclamation.
Sorting names is non-trivial and requires cultural knowledge.
Names, therefore are indicative of the complexity and range of edge cases in the huge diversity of humanity.
This is, of course, one reason why machine learning is so popular. It can potentially handle the fuzziness of the human condition without having to reduce everything down to empirical and discrete conditions.
Yet… these machine learning tools will acquire the biases of their trainers. Just like the conventional logic based systems.
You can put any name, using any Unicode supported character into the name field, and you can choose to sort it differently. So if someone's name is ❤ then that's OK. We can store that. And to sort it? Well, we can use the text string of "Heart" in the Family Name field so that the person appears between G and I. Prince's symbol, if we could store it as text (we can't), could go in with the Ps and everyone would expect him there.
It saves trouble when dealing with someone from France called La Tour who expects to be with the Ts, but a British person called L'Estrange who expects to be with the Ls.
It also gives us a straightforward way of dealing with the problem that someone whose name starts with Å may end up being sorted at the end of the alphabet by many computer systems, behind the Zs. We even allow ourselves a way around dealing with diacritical marks which can have very specific sort orders in different languages. For example in French the order of Es with marks, would be é, è, ê, ë… yet in Italian the convention is to sort it the other way around.
So imagine, you're writing a database system that has to display content to people across the world… they will look at a large amount of data on the screen and have expectations of the order in which things come. You really need to understand the cultural basis of the person looking. Are they in Italy? Or are they English, but based in Italy, in which case what do they expect?
And this is why it can be hard to write software for the whole world to use. It may feel like the internet is a borderless and boundless place, but in reality, it is bounded by culture and language. Even though the internet is the most sophisticated machine ever built by humankind, it fails at dealing with the complexity of diversity that the world can throw up.
It's also actually why good software is never 'done'. There are always more cases to fix, more diversity to deal with, more ways in which actions can be interpreted – and none are necessarily right or wrong. And playing at the 80:20 game just leaves you open to losing out a lot because everyone's 80:20 of important is different.
Diversity failures are sometimes used to make good people feel bad. "Bwahaha! Your system incorrectly sorts Irish names starting with Ó! You're rubbish! You don't care about diversity even though you say you do!" It's not actually an unusual thing to see, but often the accusers are people who couldn't give two stuffs about diversity. They just enjoy bullying people regardless of the reason. Look at Twitter to see plenty of examples.
The complexity and 'never done' nature of satisfying diversity is also sometimes used as an excuse by some to bother less than they should. But truth is, it's good to try. And if you think carefully, early on, then you can be inclusive without being crazy. Our handling of names in our custom built software is straightforward. We can even easily add another column to the system to give a preferred name, so that can be used for correspondence.
Yes, all that is harder than having a simple forename/surname approach, but it's inclusive, it's not that much harder, and it covers a huge range of possibilities. It also saves masses of contextual logic.


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Diana Monkey
Lincoln Park Zoo is excited to announce the arrival of a Diana monkey infant at Regenstein African Journey. Cece welcomed an infant on April 23 as part of the Diana Monkey Species Survival Plan® (SSP). The infant has yet to be sexed or named.
The youngster is doing well and joins the troop of four Diana monkeys at Regenstein African Journey.
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Lincoln Park Zoo is excited to announce the arrival of a black-and-white colobus monkey at Helen Brach Primate House! The female infant was born on November 12 to dam Kutaka and sire Keanjaha as recommended by the Guereza Colobus Species Survival Plan® (SSP). The infant is doing well and continues to pass critical milestones. She…


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Scutum (Sct), o Escudo, é uma constelação do hemisfério celestial sul. O genitivo, usado para formar nomes de estrelas, é Scuti. Representa o escudo do rei João III Sobieski da Polônia.

As constelações vizinhas, segundo as delineações contemporâneas, são a Águia, a Cauda da Serpente e o Sagitário.

História
A constelação foi nomeada em 1684 pelo astrônomo polonês Johannes Hevelius como Scutum Sobiescianum (Escudo de Sobieski), para comemorar a vitória das forças cristãs lideradas pelo rei Jan III Sobieski na Batalha de Viena. Mais tarde, o nome foi abreviado para Scutum.

Cinco estrelas brilhantes de Scutum (α Sct, β Sct, δ Sct, ε Sct e η Sct) eram anteriormente conhecidas como 1, 6, 2, 3 e 9 Aquilae, respectivamente.

Coincidentemente, os chineses também associaram essas estrelas com armaduras de batalha, incorporando-as ao asterismo maior conhecido como Tien Pien, ou seja, o Casco Celestial (ou Capacete).

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