Conference Co-Host: Kentucky Historical Society

KHS—Visit us! We at KHS are proud to sponsor the upcoming FGS conference with the ETHS. But we want you all to know that we have a lot to offer here in Frankfort, too! So let me tell you a little more about visiting KHS. The KHS history campus, located in downtown Frankfort, Ky., consists of three buildings: our headquarters, the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History; the Old State Capitol; and the Kentucky Military History Museum at the Old State Arsenal. At the Center for Kentucky History, a multi-million dollar museum and research facility, you can immerse yourself in the Kentucky experience and watch history come to life. First, you will want to check out both exhibitions housed in the Center. In the Society’s signature exhibition, “A Kentucky Journey,” put yourself in the shoes of Kentuckians who lived through both struggles and triumphs—from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement—as you explore 12,000 years of the commonwealth’s history. “Kentucky Military Treasures,” the newest KHS exhibition, tells the stories of Kentuckians who fought in battles spanning nearly 200 years and includes artifacts from conflicts ranging from the War of 1812 to more recent engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq. After checking out our exhibitions, genealogists will definitely want to visit the Martin F. Schmidt Library, the commonwealth’s premier genealogical research library. This is the where you will be able to trace your family’s roots and benefit from the expertise of the KHS professional staff. After spending some time in the library, stop by the Stewart Home School 1792 Store, where you can purchase a Kentucky keepsake to remember your trip.Just down the street from the Center is the Old State Capitol, a National Historic Landmark that served as Kentucky’s capitol from 1830 to 1910. You can delve into the politics and everyday life of the tumultuous 19th-century as you tour the building with a knowledgeable guide. In the galleries of this stately building, you will witness the evolution of decorative styles in “Great Revivals,” an exhibition showcasing never-before-seen artifacts from KHS collections. If you are visiting on a Saturday, you will definitely want to check out the Kentucky Military History Museum at the Old State Arsenal before you leave. Schedule a guided tour of the fortress-like building at the Center. On the tour, you will learn about the architecture of the building, which was constructed in 1850, and the history of the grounds. Think all of this sounds great and plan to visit often? Become a member! Joining is easy and, considering all of the great benefits you receive as a member, it is cheap. Visiting our history campus in a single day or afternoon can be overwhelming, so we suggest that you stay for a couple days. There are a lot of great lodging options nearby, including The Meeting House, a quaint bed and breakfast located within walking distance of the KHS history campus. The Meeting House owners, Boston transplants Gary and Rose Burke, will make sure that you are well-fed and rested. If you are in the mood for something quick and tasty, you can check out Buddy’s, a pizzeria with a to-die-for veggie pizza and a wall completely dedicated to local 4-legged friends. Buddy’s is located between the Old State Capitol and Center for Kentucky History, just like Gibby’s. You will want to try one of Gibby’s specialty salads or sandwiches. The 3-cheese grilled cheese is my favorite. Looking for something a little nicer? Don’t worry, we have that, too! Also within walking distance of our history campus, Serafini features delicious Italian cuisine and a great view of the Old State Capitol. Try the bruschetta. You won’t regret it! You’ll need to take home some local fare, too. The Rebecca Ruth Chocolate Café, which sells delicious bourbon balls and other candies, is located right next door to the Center for Kentucky History. One more must-see attraction in Frankfort is the Buffalo Trace Distillery. On a tour with one of the distillery’s lively guides you will experience a century-old aging warehouse, visit the hand-bottling hall and sample some of the distillery’s finest bourbons. This is just a small taste of everything we have to offer in Frankfort and at KHS. If you are interested in learning more, visit the KHS Web site, www.history.ky.gov or call 502-564-1792. -Lauren Medley, KHS marketing coordinator. The lodging, attraction and food suggestions are just my humble opinions—we have many great options not mentioned above. Visit www.visitfrankfort.com or www.downtownfrankfort.com to learn more.

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The 60th Berlinale--Retrospektively Speaking

by Richard Traubner The Retrospektive at the Berlinale usually excites all types of film historians, curators, museum personnel, and other interested parties--especially when it's a German subject. This year, a restored version of Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis trumped the Retrospektive itself, which was a look-back at significant and sometimes controversial films shown at the film festival since it began in 1951--in far warmer June weather. Many of these films are quite familiar now: In the Realm of the Senses, The Deer Hunter, or even Powell and Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann. One can obtain these from any video store. There was a large crowd for the showing I caught of Clouzot's Le Salaire de la Peur, but it began by being accidentally screened in widescreen format. After that was corrected, the film's exposition seemed endless, and hardly classic, before the actual dynamite truck ride began. Metropolis has been restored several times, a few years ago with footage found at Moscow's Gosfilmofond archive. But two years ago a longer version was found in a Buenos Aires archive that contained about a half-hour of footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere at the UFA Palast am Zoo in 1927. With the help of the original Gottfried Huppertz orchestral parts, its music cues, and the archival censorship copy of the script, the grainy Argentinian scenes were fitted into what is now touted as the complete Metropolis. This was shown in direct transmission en plein air at the Brandenburg Gate, and on television, the second night of the festival, to a crowd of very cold film buffs. The saga of Metropolis's journey, after being severely cut and rewritten for a Paramount release in the USA by the writer Channing Pollock, was also the subject of a fascinating exhibit at the Berlin Kinemathek, which showed everything from original costume designs to a still of Lang and his stars playing in a jazz band on the set. The second German release was much shorter, as it was felt the original was too long for 1920s' audiences. Although Lang's film may have been mutilated in the process, it cannot be said to be the easiest film to sit through, even in its present, restored version. And it's worth remembering that the film was not the desired international success Ufa envisioned. But the wonders of Lang's film as a predecessor of most science-fiction and futuristic films remain luminously vivid, with the spectacular sets by Hunte and Kettelhut, the amazing lighting, camerawork of Freund, and Lang's strirring mise-en-scène. But the plot itself, with its future + present + Christian-humanist themes, does not wear as well as it might, despite wonderful performances from its cast: Gustav Frölich, Alfred Abel, Heinrich George, and the amazing Brigitte Helm. I was enchanted by the very 1927 nightclub scenes found throughout the film, with their fantastic revue sets and costumes, some of which were newly discovered in Argentina. Lang was of course courted by the Nazi regime early on, despite his Jewish roots. The spectre of Nazi-era subjects, and even their very films, were potently on display at this Berlinale. Jud Süss-Film ohne Gewissen (directed by Oskar Roehler), scrutinised the making of the infamous propaganda film originally directed by Veit Harlan in 1940. This was an uneasy mélange of National-Socialist nostalgie, with glamorous receptions peopled by film-star portrayers, songs of the period, jokes against Hitler, non-heiling by an artsy crowd, nightclub scenes, and reconstructions of the original black-and-white film scenes-which turned out to be more riveting than the other recreated vignettes. (One exception was the documented showing of Jud Süss to SS officers who would later work in the as-yet unfinished Auschwitz.) Although the unease of the lead actor Ferdinand Marian was depicted, the film seemed flat compared to the more captivatingly diabolical tale of an opportunistic actor, a thinly-veiled Gustav Gründgens, in Mephisto (1981). For Jud Süss, the very popular actor Moritz Bleibtreu was on hand to give a very flashy portrait of propaganda minister (and film tsar) Josef Goebbels. The French La Rafle, a fictional account (shown in the market section) of the Vélodrôme d'Hiver round-up of Paris Jews in 1942, was not open to the press before its Paris release on March 10th. But another commercial film with NS subject matter was: the Norwegian Svik (Betrayal), a compendium of Nazi clichés that almost seemed a parody. For actual Nazi horror, one could turn to the real footage of a Nazi project that was the subject of a new Israeli documentary, A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonski). The Warsaw Ghetto scenes filmed by SS cameramen were frightful, with the very evident death, starvation and rags of the inmates on view just before the mass deportations to Treblinka began in the summer of 1942. Not content to show simple misery and degradation, the filmmakers actually staged scenes of comparatively healthy-looking Jews gorging themselves, drinking, smoking and laughing at tables filled with amounts of food they had not seen for months. The "acting" of the Jewish crowds was forced on them by the helmers, with obviously terrible consequences if they failed to react properly. This is the worst kind of a horror film, as frightening as any concentration camp footage because we know what lay in store for most of the cast. The Nazi documentary using this footage was never actually made, and only recently uncovered in an archive vault. Further post-Nazi-era documentaries included a film on the postwar prosecutor Fritz Bauer, mysteriously murdered, and a documentary with newly restored footage of some of the Nürnberg war-crimes trials. Ironically, the golden-age Ufa producer Erich Pommer worked on this exposé, shown in postwar Germany but never in the USA. Another retrospective but modern glimpse of totalitarian days was the superb Czech film Kawasaki's Rose, directed by Jan Hrebejk, dealing in a different, but no less fascinating way to elements of secret-police activity and betrayal as shown in the Das Leben der Anderen. In another depiction of a mass-murderer by a very popular actor, André Dussollier appeared rather unusually as a comparatively gentle, nuanced Stalin in his final days in the French Une exécution ordinaire (writer-director Marc Dugain), opposite a quite frightened female doctor played memorably by Marina Hands. I missed screenings of three prewar Japanese films by Shimazu Yasujiro in the Forum section, unfortunately, but managed to take in such interesting period projects as the French L'Autre Dumas, a study of the unsettling relationship between Alexandre père and his uncredited co-author, Auguste Macquet. With brilliant playing by an overstuffed, over-the-top Gerard Depardieu and the requisitely nerdy Benoit Poelvoorde, and a witty script, based on a play, the film held one's dramatic as well as decorative interest. Finally, a moving documentary in the Panorama section about a 1950s' Hollywood icon: Rock Hudson-Dark and Handsome Stranger (Andrew Davies, André Schäfer), which plumbed the saga of a real man's man of an actor who of course turned out to be gay, and, in a celebrity death, helped change attitudes toward the AIDS crisis. by Richard Traubner http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/festivals.shtml

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DOK.FEST München preview

In May the waiting will be over. The Munich International Documentary Film Festival will be celebrating its 25th anniversary! From 5th - 12th May 2010, the festival's new Directors, Christian Pfeil and Daniel Sponsel, invite you to view the most significant of contemporary documentaries and meet and celebrate with filmmakers from all over the world. SECTIONS At the heart of DOK.fest is, as always, the International Competition, from which an esteemed Jury will select the best film. For the first time this year there will also be a German-speaking Competition. In total, DOK.fest will be screening around 70 films in various sections, including many German and world premieres. You will find an overview of the sections here. PROGRAMME The entire programme and information on the films being screened at the 25th DOK.fest will be available from the middle of April here. A few advance highlights: DOK.fest's Guest of Honour, Volker Koepp, will present, in person, a retrospective of his work. Peter Lichti, whose film THE SOUND OF INSECTS (European Film Prize, 2010) is being screened in the DOK.specials section, will be President of the 2010 International Jury. This year, the new section, DOK.guest, features the African continent. Many celebrated directors from several African countries will be our guests in Munich, along with their films. Notable European filmmakers will also be showing their recent work from the region. In addition, there will be a panel in the Museum of Ethnology on the theme of "Africa in the Media", with guests including Eberhard Piltz and Jean-Marie Teno, a prominent director from Cameroon. Teno, whose film SACRED PLACES is being screened in the DOK.guest programme, will also be a member of the International Jury. The DOK.education section is also new this year with the motto "I want to know how the images work on me". In the mornings we will be showing two films for school classes, followed by discussions with filmmakers led by media education specialists. ACCREDITATION Professional guests are invited to register for accreditation between now and Friday 23rd April here. Accreditation before 23rd April costs only 50 Euro (25 Euro for film students and directors of films submitted to the festival in 2010). After the deadline the accreditation fee rises to 60 Euro (30 Euro for film students). Your accreditation will be available to collect from 4th May from the Festival Centre.

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Affresh for a Cleaner Dishwasher

I use my dishwasher everyday, sometimes twice a day. Some people might view owning one as a luxury, but with three kids and non-stop schedules, I consider my dishwasher a necessity. I take care of my dishwasher, using the recommended detergent, ensuring the filter is cleaned and scrapping any extra food items off before putting them in the machine, but I’ve never thought of cleaning it. I mean, it’s cleaned all the time when it cleans my dishes, right? However some days, when emptying my clean dishes, I notice my dishwasher doesn’t have the freshest smell. I use to just think it was the residual smell from the detergent in the heated dishwasher, but now it turns out it could be caused by food and mineral residue build-up. Affresh is a cleaning product designed specifically for your dishwasher. A little skeptical, I had a sample sent over to me to try first hand. The first thing I noticed was the wonderful lemon scent, even before opening the package. I love the scent of lemon in the kitchen. A standard bag consists of six individual tablets but you need to use two for each cleaning, that means one bag is good for three-months. I was thrown off at first by each tablet being packaged individually. I thought I only needed to use one tablet per cleaning, but if you read, you put one in your soap dispensor and one sitting loosely in the bottom of your dishwasher. You use Affresh with your dishwasher empty, setting it on the heaviest cycle using the hottest water. While the dishwasher was going I could smell the lemon scent slightly near the end of the cycle. With the wash over, I opened to inspect the dishwasher. I was worried I would find grit or other deposits from the tablets but the dishwasher was clean. I must admit I was a little disappointed the lemon smell wasn’t as lemony as the original tablet but surprisingly my dishwasher didn’t have the previous odor. I didn’t notice any odd odor on my dishes either, which sometimes has occurred, especially with Tupperware items. Even after just one use, I’m impressed at the difference Affresh has made. I’m curious if I will notice a greater improvement over time, using Affresh on a regular basis. * Product was provided for the purpose of this review GIVEAWAY! The folks at Affresh want to help you get ready for Spring by offering one (1) EverythingMom member a Spring Cleaning Gift Basket containing a year’s supply of Affresh plus other cleaning supplies. To enter leave a comment telling us how often you use your dishwasher. This contest is only open to EverythingMom members. Not a member? It’s quick and easy to join. Contest is only open to Canadian Residents and ends March 23, 2010. One (1) EverythingMom members will be randomly chosen after that. About the Author With a background in advertising, Carrie Anne left the agency life to spend more time with her three energetic and active kids (age 7, 5, & 3). She continues to work with marketing agencies testing online programs and has been working with Today's Parent magazine for the last three years testing toys for their annual toy issue. As the Review Editor at Everythingmom.com, Carrie Anne plans to share her thoughts on products that might be of interest to you and your family. She will put them to the test so you don't have to. Profile | Blog | Her Main Site | Follow Her on Twitter

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Find a facility in Mesa specializing in laser acne treatment, view before and after photo, learn about cost, benefits and results you can expect from acne scar... Tagged as: facility, specializing, treatment, benefits, results, expect

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Part-Time Before After School Staff - YMCA of Central Florida - Orlando, FL

program. Elementary School staff ensure that the YMCA is hosting a successful after school program that... within the Central Florida YMCA, as these positions... From Job News - 10 Mar 2010 16:53:32 GMT - job details - View all Orlando jobs

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Police records show Tiger Woods had taken pain pills before crash

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Ensure customer satisfaction before, during and after the sale to drive repeat business, increase average ticket & close ratio and continually improve in the... From LuckyDogJobs.com - 09 Mar 2010 10:05:05 GMT - job details - View all Westchester jobs

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National › No. of foreigners overstaying visas in Japan lowest in 21 years

The number of foreign nationals staying in Japan after their visas expired was down 18.8% from a year before to 91,778 as of Jan. 1,…

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Beovox S45-2 - How I almost loved them to death, but got them back to live better than before

Some time ago, I got a pair of Beovox S45-2 for a very fair price: DKK 150 / EUR 20 / USD 30 with the original stands. That was a fine day! The speakers looked somewhat neglected in many ways – but worked. And they played well – actually more than well: They sounded really good! So a lot of records/CDs were played – and a lot of Watts were put into the small speakers (from a 2 x 110 W Luxman amp.). And even though the 8 inch bass really was busy – everything went well Or so it seemed… Because when I – just out of curiosity – opened one of the boxes, this is what I found: The heat from one of the resistors in the cross over network had melted the isolation on one of the wires – and was well on its way through the next wire (see photo). One more millimetre of melted plastic, and the speaker would have been dead - or at least the tweeter and midrange/phase link unit. My curiosity seemed to be a good thing. The damage had – of course – to be fixed. And since the speakers were doing so well, I thought it was worth taking some extra steps to make them sound the best possible (within sensible economic limitations). So here is the story of what I did – maybe it’ll inspire others to give their small Beovox S45s (or the like) some TLC. Please feel free to copy any ideas and/or suggest alternatives and further improvements. Cross over network: Capacitors: Two problems with the capacitors: They are 30+ years old – and they’re the “Bipolar” type. Neither things are good, so all 3 capacitors were changed to an audiophile type (though an inexpensive such): Jantzen Cross Cap. (Haven’t tried Martin/Dillen’s kit – only read about it after I had bought the components) Resistors: Well - they got too hot so all 6 resistors were changed to higher wattage type (10 and 20 Watt). The two in series with the tweeter and phase unit is also low-induction types. Coils: The 4 coils are of a good quality – so no need to change here. All the new components got a 5 mm thick bead of Silicone underneath (to dampen vibrations) and a cable strip to fix them to the board. Silicone was also put on the ferrite core in two of the coils to avoid vibrations against the back side of the cabinet. Wires: They are rather thin. I could – and maybe should – have changed the wires to the units and the DIN connector. Tweeter When you take out the tweeter and knock on it with your knuckles, you notice some resonances. This can colour the sound when playing, and should be dampened (or eliminated). So the units were dismantled and Silicone was filled into all the small “holes/rooms” on the backside – see photo below under "Cabinet". Even it out with a wet finger (water or acetone). Be careful when you put the dome/coil-part back into the magnetic gap. Midrange/phase link unit. No modifications – except a drop of Silicone to seal the small hole for the wires (so you’re sure it’s airtight). By the way: When mounted the midrange-“chamber” is connecting the front and back of the cabinet – an thus stabilizing it. Very clever design detail by B&O here! Woofer: Two beads of two-component glue (epoxy-based – in Danish: Araldit) on the upper and lower edge of the magnet. This should prevent it from getting loose – and make the unit useless/un-repairable. See photo. Cabinet: Almost all speaker cabinets could be made stiffer and/or more “sonic dead” – also the Beovox S45-2: When you knock on the side of the cabinet the sound change a lot depending on where you knock (it sounds more “dead” near the top and bottom). So a 12,5 x 40 cm piece of Bitumen based sound-dampening material (for automobiles) was glued on each cabinet side (inside of course…). And a piece of wood (15 x 25 mm) was places between these across the cabinet just under the midrange. On the photo below you should be able to see the black Bitumen inside (a bit shiny) and the piece of wood (as well as the tweeter w. Silicone). Also a small Bitumen piece was glued on the front baffle (inside) to the right of the tweeter/midrange (where the tweeter front is on the photo above). New grill cloth was also mounted, so now they’re black again – not gray… The result: First of all: The speaker has put on some weight – app. 1 kg (Bitumen, Silicone, new components etc.) and the cabinet is far deader when you knock on it. Then there is the sound: The bass is more accurate and better controlled. It sounds cleaner and e.g. a bass drum stops and starts more precise. It’s not an enormous difference – but easily audible even on “non-audiophile” materiel. E.g. The Beatles “Abbey Road” (remastered) track 16: On Ringo’s drum solo, the attack on the bass drum much more “punctual” (where it sounds more “boomy” without the modification). The treble and upper midrange sounds a lot clearer – really a lot! There is much more air around the instruments and voices, hi-hats sound crisper and you hear a lot of small details that were masked. Even on an old – but very well made – recording like Dave Brubeck Quartet “Time Out” (1959) it’s very easy to hear the difference. On newer high quality records the difference is even bigger. I made a near-field measurement of the tweeters performance from 2 kHz – 20 kHz. The microphone was placed 6½ cm in front of the tweeter. Blue curve is the non-modified speaker, red is the modified speaker. The unmodified speaker is much more “peaked” and looses level above 7 kHz. This matches the audible difference but looks worse. (First I didn’t trust the measuring – but when repeated they were all identical). Conclusion – is the modification worth the effort? Well, if you look at it from an economic-rational view: NO! It took me app. 5 hours to fix one speaker and cost around DKK 250 / EUR 30 / USD 50 for components (a side). I’ll most likely never get this much for the speakers – if I ever sell them. And this is just the point here: I really like my modified Beovox S45s. I “know” them better than before, I enjoy listening to music through them – and enjoyed the time I spend under ways. It’s is really a great, little speaker and even more so than before I - almost - killed them. So: YES – it was well worth the effort! Good luck with yours!

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