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Jeff Nilluka, left, and his son Jamis, 8, view works of baseball paintings at the Thomas Kinkade gallery in the late artist's hometown of Placerville, Calif.
By Bill Briggs, msnbc.com contributor
In life, Thomas Kinkade was easily one of the world?s most commercially successful artists. In death, his popularity has only grown.
?It?s like if you take Christmas and multiply it by 12, or maybe even by 15,? said Linda McLoone, director of the Thomas Kinkade Signature gallery in Port Jefferson, N.Y.? ?It?s good, but it?s sad.?
Since the ?Painter of Light? died April 6 at age 54, rabid Kinkade fans, along with novices, have swarmed? his numerous galleries around the country, purchasing mass-made reproductions and prints of the artist?s works?even faster than his corporate arm can churn them out (more than 500 copies per day).
To be clear: These are not Kinkade originals ? which are rare and can fetch five or six figures. The hot market this week is largely machine-made lithographs?on canvas ? some signed on the back by Kinkade, others hand-highlighted or ?enhanced? by other painters, generally priced at $800 to $1,600.
Retailers say other products ? which include prints, nightlights, coffee mugs and bath lotions ? also are selling briskly.
At the Port Jefferson outlet, buyers waited in three-hour lines to order factory reproductions of paintings with titles such?as ?Beside Still Waters,? ?Mountain Majesty? and ?Sweetheart Cottage III.? More than 100 other would-be buyers clogged the gallery?s voicemail, McLoone said.
?We?re getting inundated,? said Sal Catalfumo, who co-owns five Kinkade galleries in New York and New Jersey.
How much have sales jumped since Kinkade?s brush was silenced?
?I?d prefer not to mention that,? Catalfumo said. ?I don?t want it to look like, because of his dying, we?re benefiting. I?d rather have him not be gone and take away all the money I?ve made this week and instead know that I have a flourishing business for 15 to 25 years.?
Some fine-art appraisers, like Ithaca, N.Y.-based Evan D. Williams, have heard secondhand that some gallery owners ?are doing massive markups? on Kinkade pieces.
?A call Wednesday to the Patrick?s Fine Art, a Thomas Kinkade dealer in Mount Dora, Fla., failed to shed any light on whether retailers have boosted prices.
?It?s selling very well,? the gallery operator, Jimmy Patrick, said of Kinkade?s line, featuring works like light-blazing country cottages and snow-covered churches. ?As far as any other comments, I suggest you go to corporate.?
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An undated photo provided by The Thomas Kinkade Co. shows Kinkade's "Christmas in New York."
Corporate is an apt term for Kinkade?s empire. His paintings became a brand -- feel-good images?that resonated with thousands of mainstream consumers.?At his peak, Kinkade?s products, virtually ignored by serious art critics, were said to generate about $100 million in annual revenue through a chain of franchised galleries.
Corporate officials at Thomas Kinkade Co. in Morgan Hill, Calif., did not respond to msnbc.com?s interview request.
The question now: Will all those people clamoring for and collecting Kinkade reproductions see a profit from their investments? Will the value rise for pieces never touched by Kinkade?
?If somebody were to come to me with one of those embellished prints and ask my professional opinion on selling it, insuring it or donating it, I?m in a tough spot,? said Williams, the appraiser, who does not deal in Kinkades. ?Even though he?s so well known ? and, in some aspects, the most successful artist in history ? he?s got a completely terrible secondary market track record as far as I know.?
And that?s not because the secondary art market frowns on embellished reproductions. Andy Warhol?s reprinted serigraphs gained value after the pop artist?s death.
?I?m not a forecaster, but I don?t see that happening with Kinkade,? Williams said. ?It all goes back to this concept of things being legitimized by the art world, and, yes, it?s all very arbitrary. Is Warhol objectively better than Kinkade? I would think so.?
However, Kinkade prints are hardly worthless, he added.
?This week, I read articles where some gallery owners have said that if something is mass-produced, it?s never worthwhile,? Williams said. ?That?s absolutely wrong. I think that?s a dangerous generalization.?
But when it comes to the future value of Kinkade?s factory-made pieces, it may be the rules of basic economics that ultimately trump art snobbery. In other words, Kinkade Inc. may be hurt by the fact that, for years, it flooded the market with reproductions.
Kinkade?s website lists hundreds of paintings including 31 bridges, 22 churches, 68 cityscapes, 74 cottages and 36 "inspirational? images. Copies are sold through a network of hundreds of galleries, including dozens of ?signature gold? galleries devoted entirely to the artist?s work and ?signature silver? galleries that generally include at least?a Kinkade viewing room.
?Is supply going to outpace demand?? Williams asked. ?Probably.?
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It could take months before we know what killed popular artist Thomas Kinkade, the so-called "painter of light," who faced a number of legal and financial problems in recent years. NBC's Mike Taibbi reports.
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There?s no doubt that the appetite for food and wine events in Edmonton has been growing. In many ways, this is great for consumers who have much more to choose from, though with every passing year, distinguishing one from another has become more challenging. Every so often, however, a unique concept is introduced, and a second look is required. I think the Shaw Conference Centre?s upcoming fundraiser, Hot Chefs, Cool bEATS, is one such event.
What: Hot Chefs, Cool bEATS
When: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Time: 6:30-10pm
Where: Shaw Conference Centre
Cost: $150 (all inclusive)
Mack and I had the opportunity to sit down with Vinomania?s Gurvinder Bhatia recently to talk about the event. He and Shaw Executive Chef Simon Smotkowicz are co-chairing Hot Chefs, where funds raised will support Culinary Team Canada?s quest for gold at the Culinary Olympics in Germany this fall, as well as their High School Culinary Challenge program that supports young talent with apprenticeship opportunities and scholarships for formal training. Their driving vision behind creating Hot Chefs was actually wanting to break the mould of a typical wine-and-dinner event ? how far outside of the box could they go?
As it turns out, by leaps and bounds. To start, instead of a traditional cocktail reception, guests will encounter a street festival in the foyer of Hall D. All of the food was inspired by dishes that could be found in street hawker stalls from around the world: The menu includes (all food and drink samples are included in the ticket price):
The main event will move inside Hall D, which will be transformed into a culinary tourist?s dream. Gurvinder described a space where guests will not only be able to sample different types of cuisine and liquors, but will be immersed in the sights, sounds and experiences those regions have to offer:
Elm Cafe, Duchess and Transcend will also be on hand sampling appetizers, macarons and coffee, respectively, and guests can also look forward to an Iron Chef-style competition featuring Culinary Team Canada chefs.
The only sit-down portion of the evening comes at the end, with a plated dessert prepared by Culinary Team Canada?s pastry chef.
In many ways, its disappointing that the vision of Hot Chefs isn?t better articulated on either the poster or the webpage. Given the number of local restaurants involved, and the street festival and culinary tour concept, I think this event is one that food lovers cannot miss ? Mack and I picked up our tickets this weekend. Hope to see you there!
Find out more about Hot Chefs, Cool bEATS on their website and on Facebook.
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UCLA anthropologists asked hundreds of Americans to guess the size and muscularity of four men based solely on photographs of their hands holding a range of easily recognizable objects, including handguns.
The research, which publishes today in the scholarly journal PLoS ONE, confirms what scrawny thugs have long known: Brandishing a weapon makes a man appear bigger and stronger than he would otherwise.
"There's nothing about the knowledge that gun powder makes lead bullets fly through the air at damage-causing speeds that should make you think that a gun-bearer is bigger or stronger, yet you do," said Daniel Fessler, the lead author of the study and an associate professor of anthropology at UCLA. "Danger really does loom large ? in our minds."
Researchers say the findings suggest an unconscious mental mechanism that gauges a potential adversary and then translates the magnitude of that threat into the same dimensions used by animals to size up their adversaries: size and strength.
"We've isolated a capacity to assess threats in a simple way," said Colin Holbrook, a UCLA postdoctoral scholar in anthropology and co-author of the study. "Though this capacity is very efficient, it can misguide us."
The study is part of larger project funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to understand how people make decisions in situations where violent conflict is a possibility. The findings are expected to have ramifications for law enforcement, prison guards and the military.
"We're exploring how people think about the relative likelihood that they will win a conflict, and then how those thoughts affect their decisions about whether to enter into conflict," said Fessler, whose research focuses on the biological and cultural bases of human behavior. He is the director of UCLA's Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture, an interdisciplinary group of researchers who explore how various forms of evolution shape behavior.
For the study, the UCLA researchers recruited participants in multiple rounds using classified advertisements on the websites Craigslist and MechanicalTurk. In one round, 628 individuals were asked to look at four pictures of different hands, each holding a single object: a caulking gun, electric drill, large saw or handgun.
"Tools were used as control objects to rule out the possibility that a simple link with traditionally masculine objects would explain intuitions that the weapon-holders were larger and stronger," Fessler explained.
The individuals were then asked to estimate the height of each hand model in feet and inches based solely on the photographs of their hands. Participants also were shown six images of progressively taller men and six images of progressively more muscular men and asked to estimate which image came closest to the probable size and strength of the hand model.
Study participants consistently judged pistol-packers to be taller and stronger than the men holding the other objects, even though the experiment's four hand models were recruited on the basis of their equivalent hand size and similar hand appearance (white and without identifying marks such as tattoos or scars).
To rule out the possibility that a feature of any one hand might influence the estimates, researchers had taken separate pictures of each hand holding each object ? some participants saw the gun held by one hand model, others saw the same gun held by another model, and so on; they did the same thing for each of the objects. The researchers also shuffled the order in which the photos were presented.
On average, participants judged pistol packers to be 17 percent taller and stronger than those judged to be the smallest and weakest men ? the ones holding caulking guns. Hand models holding the saw and drill followed gun-wielders in size and strength.
"The function of the system is to provide an easy way for people to assess the likelihood that they would win or lose in a conflict," said Jeffrey K. Snyder, a UCLA graduate student in anthropology and a study co-author.
Concerned that their findings might be influenced by popular culture, which often depicts gun-slingers as big and strong men, the team conducted two more studies using objects that did not seem to have a macho image: a kitchen knife, a paint brush and a large, brightly colored toy squirt gun. In the initial round, a new group of 100 subjects was asked to evaluate the danger posed by each of the objects (which were presented alone, without hands holding them). They then were asked to pick the type of person most associated with the object: a child, a woman or a man.
Not surprisingly, individuals rated the knife most dangerous, followed by the paint brush and squirt gun. But where the most lethal object in the earlier studies ? the handgun ? would likely have been associated with men, participants in this study most often associated the most lethal object ? the kitchen knife ? with women. The paint brush was most often associated with men, and the squirt gun with children.
In the final round of tests, a new group of 541 individuals was shown male hands holding the knife, paint brush and squirt gun and was then asked to estimate the height and muscularity of the hand models. Once again, men holding the most lethal object ? in this case, the kitchen knife ? were judged to be the biggest and strongest, followed by those holding the paint brush and the squirt gun.
"It's not Dirty Harry's or Rambo's handgun ? it's just a kitchen knife, but it's still deadly," Holbrook said. "And our study subjects responded accordingly, estimating its holder to be bigger and stronger than the rest."
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Claeson might have a point. The Swedish school system has wholeheartedly, and probably too quickly and eagerly, embraced this new agenda. Last fall, 200 teachers attended a major government-sponsored conference discussing how to avoid "traditional?gender?patterns" in schools. At Egalia, one model Stockholm preschool, everything from the decoration to the books and toys are carefully selected to promote a gender-equal perspective and to avoid traditional presentations of gender and parenting roles. The teachers try to expose the pupils to as few "gendered expressions" as possible. At Christmastime, the Egalia staff rewrote a traditional song as "hen bakes cakes all day long." When pupils play house, they are encouraged to include "mommy, daddy, child" in their imaginary families, as well as "daddy, daddy, child"; "mommy, mommy, child"; "daddy, daddy, sister, aunty, child"; or any other modern combination.
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 10, 2012) ? There have been many scientific studies looking at the levels of toxic mercury (Hg) in fish. After all, fish can end up directly on our plate. However, far fewer studies have examined Hg levels in aquatic insects. This is a significant oversight because aquatic insects are an important source of Hg to fish and even terrestrial wildlife.
Researchers at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas have found that the presence of fish dramatically alter the amount of insects in small grassland ponds and the level of Hg contamination within insect communities. In ponds where fish were present, there was less Hg in the insect community than in ponds where fish were absent.
"We have found that in ponds without fish there is a large pool of Hg in the aquatic insect community, but when fish are present, Hg is transferred from the insect community into the fish," said Matt Chumchal, assistant professor of biology at Texas Christian University. The TCU Scientists studied 10 ponds at the LBJ National Grassland in north Texas -- five with fish and five without fish.
The observed difference in the size of the pool of Hg in insect communities from ponds with and without fish has significant implications, because small ponds, like those at the LBJ Grasslands, may represent an important source of Hg to aquatic and terrestrial consumers. Waterfowl such as ducks consume insects in aquatic habitats, whereas terrestrial consumers, such as birds and bats, could be exposed to Hg by consuming adult emergent insects.
Hg is a growing concern because concentrations are now elevated above baseline levels in many aquatic ecosystems due to widespread emissions. Hg is released into the atmosphere from a variety of anthropogenic sources where it can remain for years before being deposited. As a result even remote habitats are at risk from Hg pollution.
"There are more than 2.6 million small man-made ponds in the United States and many of them are fishless." said Ray Drenner, a professor of biology at Texas Christian University and coauthor on the paper. "Our study suggests that these small ponds contain Hg-contaminated insects with the potential to expose birds and bats to this dangerous pollutant."
This research appeared in the April 2012 edition of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
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FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2008 file photo, the America Online logo is seen at the AOL booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. AOL Inc. shares surged Monday, April 9, 2012, to their highest level in more than a year after it said it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft Corp. for about $1.06 billion in cash. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2008 file photo, the America Online logo is seen at the AOL booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. AOL Inc. shares surged Monday, April 9, 2012, to their highest level in more than a year after it said it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft Corp. for about $1.06 billion in cash. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2012 file photo, attendees at the National Retail Federation visit a Microsoft display, in New York. AOL Inc. shares surged Monday, April 9, 2012, to their highest level in more than a year after it said it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft Corp., for about $1.06 billion in cash. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2008 file photo, a show attendee leaves the AOL booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. AOL Inc. shares surged Monday, April 9, 2012, to their highest level in more than a year after it said it has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft Corp. for about $1.06 billion in cash. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? AOL's $1 billion deal to sell and license patents to Microsoft is another in a series of "Antiques Roadshow" moments in the technology world. Faded companies have been rummaging through their assets recently, and some of them have found musty old patents that turn out to be worth a great deal.
Patents have become a hot commodity in recent years. They give the holder the exclusive right to use certain technologies or business processes in the U.S. Companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google and others are collecting large patent libraries and increasingly using them in lawsuits ? to defend their businesses or to attack rivals.
A valuable patent is less like a forgotten Rembrandt and more like a rusty-but-serviceable gun.
"Patents have become legal weapons. They're not representing ideas anymore," says James Bessen, a lecturer at Boston University and the director of a nonprofit that studies patent issues.
Two big deals in the past year have pushed patents into the spotlight.
In July, a consortium that included Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. pledged to pay $4.5 billion for a collection of patents from Nortel Networks, a bankrupt Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment. By contrast, Nortel's once-prominent wireless networks business fetched just $1.13 billion in 2009.
The consortium outbid Google Inc. for the Nortel patents. But Google struck back in August, when it sealed a deal to buy cellphone company Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion. Motorola is well past its prime as a cellphone maker, but as a technology front-runner for decades, its engineers had accumulated 17,500 patents for the company. The deal with Google has yet to close.
Google wants Motorola's patents as a defense against lawsuits related to its Android operating software for phones and tablets. Motorola, Samsung Electronics Co. and other phone makers have been riding Apple's coattails with devices that are similar to Apple's iPhone and iPad. Apple is fighting back, using patent law in an attempt to delay competitors.
Google supplies Motorola and Samsung with phone software, so it doesn't want to see Apple succeed with its lawsuits. It's buying Motorola so it can use its patents to sue Apple, a threat that could force Apple to the negotiating table or avoid suing Google's partners altogether.
Because of their complexity, high-tech products are particularly susceptible to patent litigation. Hundreds of thousands of patents could apply to a smartphone, for instance. A competitor sitting on any one of those patents could ask a court to stop sales of the product. Things rarely get that far, however. Instead, the defendant usually ends up paying the patent owner ongoing royalties.
These royalties can add up: Analyst Pierre Ferragu at Sanford Bernstein estimates that Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. pays about 10 percent of its revenue to license patents from other companies.
Christopher Marlett, the CEO of MDB Capital, an investment bank that focuses on intellectual properties including patents, says he believes the AOL deal was driven by the rivalry between Google and Microsoft. AOL has Internet-related patents, including some that cover mapping, given that it owns MapQuest, one of the pioneers in that area. Google and Microsoft have their own mapping services.
Much as Google, Microsoft and Apple are doing, Facebook is also buying patents from technology veterans to use in tomorrow's battles.
As a young, successful company with few patents of its own, it needs protection. In March, IBM Corp. sold Facebook 750 patents. The companies did not offer details on what the patents cover or the amount of money exchanged.
Which other companies are sitting on potentially valuable patent portfolios?
Eastman Kodak Co. started shopping around its digital-imaging patents last summer, but didn't manage to make a sale in time to avoid a bankruptcy filing. It's now set to sell the patents under the bankruptcy proceedings.
Though best known for film-based photography, Kodak created some of the first digital cameras. At a time when cameras now go into every phone, Kodak's patents could be worth $2 billion to $3 billion, according to various estimates. Last fall, investors valued the entire company at just over $1 billion, including its debts.
Patents may also represent a big part of the value of Research In Motion Ltd., the struggling maker of the BlackBerry. The company has seen a steep slide in sales, which has pulled its market capitalization down to $6.8 billion. Its patents could be worth $2 billion to $4 billion, analysts say.
Yahoo Inc., like AOL an Internet pioneer, has valuable patents and an ailing business as well. But its straits are not as dire as Kodak's and RIM's. Still, Yahoo chose to wield its patents in March, suing Facebook for infringement on 10 patents. As is customary, Facebook retaliated with its own patent suit against Yahoo, shortly after acquiring the patents from IBM.
The recent trend doesn't mean that patents are on an unstoppable rise in value. Ferragu, the Sanford Bernstein analyst, believes that the smartphone fight is heading for a truce, where a "gentleman's club" of companies figure out the relative strengths of their patent portfolios and work out royalty rates in accordance.
But patents are likely to keep driving deals.
"Patents are a very important asset class that have been ignored way too long," says Alexander Poltorak, CEO of patent-management firm General Patent Corp. "Patents are the currency of the knowledge-based economy."
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) ? Patricia Murphy says part of her roof collapsed after the tornado slammed their Southwest Dallas house last Tuesday.
She weren?t hurt, but while she continues to clean-up, she?s concerned about more stormy weather possibly blowing this way. ?It worries me.? Just have to take it one day at a time.?
So when she saw volunteers with the charity Operation Blessing International putting a blue tarp on her neighbor?s house, she asked them for help too.
She says while some of the plastic previously put on her roof helped during the weekend rain?
Murphy says, ?Another rain storm and it would have dropped this plastic inside the house.? So this is more secured.?
Her home and those in neighboring Lancaster were among the hundreds damaged throughout North Texas.
Lancaster?s city manager Opal Mauldin-Robertson vows after an incredibly busy week, they?re ready to handle additional violent weather.
Mauldin-Robertson says, ?We will continue to monitor the weather, we will continue to be prepared to go into mode as we did on Tuesday.?
Operation Blessing, affiliated with the First Baptist Church in Lancaster, has been busy too.? Its volunteers have been helping residents non-stop since Friday.
Jody Herrington-Gettys of Operation Blessing International says ?We focused not only on the uninsured and under-insured, but we helped people who have insurance with blue tarps because even people with insurance are going to have damage if they don?t have a covering on their house.?
Murphy can?t thank the volunteers enough. ?They are truly a blessing ? a blessing from God.?
Murphy says she?s glad her parents have insurance.
People out here also have to worry about looting.? Since last Tuesday, Lancaster police and sheriffs deputies have arrested 14 people in the affected areas on a variety of charges.? That includes five on Monday alone.
MORE: Lancaster Police: 14 Arrested For Looting
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Anne Hathaway leaving the Box nightclub in London on April 8
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Anne Hathaway has a new 'do. The actress was spotted in London with a spankin'-new pixie cut. She cut her hair super-short for her role as Fantine in the splashy big-screen adaptation of "Les Miserables."
Hathaway was photographed early Sunday morning leaving London hot spot the Box, where she had been hanging out with her fiancé, Adam Shulman and a female friend, according to People.com. In the pic, she's seen covering her hair with her hand.
The haircut makes sense given Fantine's story line. At one point during "Les Mis," Fantine, an ill-fated prostitute, chops off her hair in order to get money to buy food for her child, Cosette.
Hathaway joined the Tom Hooper-directed film in October 2011. It also stars Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter. The film is currently shooting in London.
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Scientific American
Vol. CVI, No. 17, April 27, 1912
Editorial
Light Out of a Dark Tragedy
Out of the necessarily confused and contradictory stories of the "Titanic" disaster, told by the survivors, there has shone, conspicuously, one reassuring fact, which has shed a softening light upon the unspeakable horror of the disaster. Supreme among the master motives of this complicated human nature of ours are the love of life and the instinct to preserve it at whatever cost. True it is that under certain conditions of iron discipline or the contagious passion of the multitude, men have seemed to hold life less dear and so the roll of recorded heroism has grown with the passing years. When the side of the "Titanic" was torn asunder, the rapid settling of the ship must soon have foretold her doom to every thinking man aboard; and early in the development of the disaster the terrifying fact was known that two out of every three of that ship's complement must go down in that ice-covered sea. Yet in all the narratives of those final hours of agony there is practically unanimous testimony to the noble spirit of chivalry which prevailed. With scarcely an exception the men stood aside and surrendered the one chance of life for women and children, until the safety of every one of these had been assured. Then, with that calm resignation in the face of certain death which is the mark of the highest courage, and to the music of the band (to whose eternal honor be it recorded) the majority awaited the final plunge, or flung themselves in a last vain hope into the dark waters. Let the pessimist who laments the debasing effects of our modern civilization take note of this?the supreme triumph of the man in us over the brute. The blow which proved the "Titanic," the supreme exhibit of our boasted skill and prowess, to be after all but a fragile shell, served to demonstrate the eternal strength and the eternal growth of those sublime qualities of heart and mind, which, after all, are the true values and highest glory of our human life.
Scientific American
Vol. CVI, No. 17, April 27, 1912
Editorial
Lessons of the "Titanic" Disaster
On Sunday, April 14th, the largest and supposedly the safest steamship afloat, while steaming on her proper course, on a clear, starlit night, struck an iceberg and within a few hours sank, carrying down with her over sixteen hundred souls. The technical lessons taught by this prodigious disaster are three: First, that the naval architect has not yet learned how to make an absolutely nonsinkable ship, and, that, probably, he never will. Second, that if every ship is sinkable, it should carry at least a sufficient number of lifeboats to take care of every person on board until other ships, summoned by wireless, can reach the scene of a disaster. Third, that the transatlantic sailing route for passenger steamships should be shifted so far south as to be entirely beyond the track of floating icebergs. The loss of the "Titanic" has brought home to the public at large the fact (always understood by the naval architect), that in spite of the improvements in ship design and construction, there is not a vessel afloat which is unsinkable by one or other of the accidents to which ocean travel is liable. And this is not to say that a great advance toward the unsinkable ship has not been made. The double bottom, the water-tight compartment, bulkhead subdivision, the powerful steam pump, and, above all, the vast size of the modern steamship, have conspired to render such a ship as the "Titanic" proof against any but the most severe trial. A collision with another ship which would have quickly sunk the 7,000-ton ship of the early eighties, would have relatively little effect upon the stability of the 45,000-ton ship of our day. A sailing schooner sufficed to send the swift "Oregon" to the bottom; but the blow which sunk the crack liner of that time would not have endangered for a moment the flotation of the "Titanic." In the presence of the overwhelming disaster to this ship we must not lose sight of what has been done upon the hull of the modern liner to make ocean travel safe. We very much doubt if any possible accident of wind, weather, or collision with another ship, could have sunk the "Titanic." In meeting the fatal iceberg in mid-Atlantic she encountered the one form of accident which could surely wreck her, namely, that of running ashore or, what is tantamount in its effects, collision with an iceberg of magnitude. If, then, the modern ocean liner is not unsinkable, dictates of common prudence and humanity demand that it should carry a sufficient number of lifeboats to accommodate every soul on board. The regulations of the United States and the German governments call for boats to carry, in the large liners, two-thirds of the passengers and crew; but no government demands enough boats to carry the complement of an absolutely full ship. In Great Britain the question of lifeboat accommodation is determined by the Board of Trade, and under their regulations a ship like the "Titanic" is required to carry lifeboats sufficient for only about one-third of the ship?s complement of passengers and crew. Under an international agreement our government accepts the certificate of inspection of foreign countries; and if the Board of Supervising Inspectors find that the foreign ship carries the number of boats called for by the certificate, she is permitted to sail. Under the laws governing American ships a ship of a given size must carry boats of a certain total cubical capacity. Under the table given in the Regulations of the Board of Supervising Inspectors we find that, had the "Titanic" carried the American flag, she would have had to provide 24,120 cubic feet of space in her lifeboats, which, at 10 cubic feet per passenger, would have afforded accommodation for 2,412 passengers and crew. As it was, the maximum provision in the lifeboats that the "Titanic" carried was about one thousand! Now, as regards the conditions on this ship, we can simply say that they were an invitation to the very kind of ghastly horror which took place on Sunday night, April 14th, when the 1,600 souls for whom no lifeboats had been provided went to an inevitable and altogether unnecessary death. The Department of Commerce and Labor, in which the Steamboat Inspection Service is included, will be remiss in the duties with which it is charged, if it does not become the moving spirit in an effort to change the treaties with foreign governments, so that our government can compel every ocean-going steamer which visits our ports to carry sufficient lifeboats of first-class construction to accommodate every soul on board. Finally, we take it that the future steamship routes must be moved so far south during the spring and summer months as to be absolutely clear of the awful menace of the iceberg. In the presence of this stupefying disaster, we enter a plea for the exercise by Congress of a calm and judicial spirit in all legislative action which may be taken. Evidently the matter is one for joint international action. The Hague Tribunal has been suggested, but the subject scarcely comes within its scope. A special international commission, including the leading builders, ship owners and insurance agents of the world, would be better qualified for the task.
Here we can see a lifeboat drill taking place on a German liner that is contemporary with the Titanic. Note the cork life-vests on the German crew. Credit: Scientific American, April 27, 1912
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Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, at left, is becoming a very wealthy man.
By msnbc.com staff
Wired has another angle on Facebook?s $1 billion purchase of photo-sharing service Instagram: CEO Kevin Systrom is about to be a very rich guy.
Forget Porsche --?the Lamborghini dealer should be looking up this guy?s number.
According to Wired, Systrom owns 40 percent of Instagram, meaning he will?get $400 million in the cash-and-stock?deal. Co-founder Mike Krieger, with a?10 percent stake,?will net about?$100 million, according to Wired. Several venture capital firms also each stand to get $100 million or more of the purchase price.
The rest of the company?s 13 full-time employees will each get a portion of a nearly $100 million pool, with specific amounts awarded by how long the employee has worked at Instagram.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died.
First it was Andy Rooney, the cantankerous commentator who died last November, a month after delivering the last of his show-closing essays. Late Saturday night, it was Mike Wallace, the hard-charging interviewer who frequently led "60 Minutes" and gave it journalistic heft with a showman's flair.
Rooney made it to age 92. Wallace beat him by a year, although he spent the latter stage of his life in the New Canaan, Conn., care facility where he died.
"More than anyone else he was responsible for the continuing success of '60 Minutes,' "veteran correspondent Morley Safer, a longtime colleague and frequent competitor of Wallace's in chasing after big stories, said on Sunday's show. "We are all in his debt."
"60 Minutes" plans an extended tribute to Wallace next Sunday.
Wallace had such a fearsome reputation as an interviewer that "Mike Wallace is here to see you" were among the most dreaded words a newsmaker could hear.
Wallace didn't just interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them pitilessly. His weapons were many: thorough research, a cocked eyebrow, a skeptical "Come on" and a question so direct it took your breath away.
He was well aware that his reputation arrived at an interview before he did, said Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman and Wallace's long-time producer at "60 Minutes."
"He loved it," Fager said Sunday. "He loved that part of Mike Wallace. He loved being Mike Wallace. He loved the fact that if he showed up for an interview, it made people nervous. ... He knew, and he knew that everybody else knew, that he was going to get to the truth. And that's what motivated him."
Wallace made "60 Minutes" compulsively watchable, television's first newsmagazine that became appointment viewing on Sunday nights. His last interview, in January 2008, was with Roger Clemens on his alleged steroid use. Slowed by a triple bypass later that month and the ravages of time on a once-sharp mind, he retired from public life.
During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, Wallace asked Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ? then a feared figure ? what he thought about being called "a lunatic" by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Khomeini answered by predicting Sadat's assassination.
Late in his career, he interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin, and challenged him: "This isn't a real democracy, come on!" Putin's aides tried fruitlessly to halt the interview.
In 1973, with the Watergate scandal growing, he sat with top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman and read a long list of alleged crimes, from money laundering to obstructing justice. "All of this," Wallace noted, "by the law-and-order administration of Richard Nixon."
The surly Ehrlichman could only respond: "Is there a question in there somewhere?"
In the early 1990s, Wallace reduced Barbra Streisand to tears as he scolded her for being "totally self-absorbed" when she was young and mocked her decades of psychoanalysis. "What is it she is trying to find out that takes 20 years?" Wallace wondered.
"He was hands down the best television interviewer ever," said Steve Kroft, his former "60 Minutes" colleague. "I can't think of anyone, besides (CBS legend Edward R.) Murrow, who had a greater influence in shaping television journalism."
"60 Minutes" pioneered the use of "ambush interviews," with reporter and camera crew corralling alleged wrongdoers in parking lots, hallways, wherever a comment ? or at least a stricken expression ? might be harvested from someone dodging reporters' phone calls. Wallace once went after a medical laboratory offering Medicaid kickbacks to doctors in this fashion.
They were phased out after founding executive producer Don Hewitt termed them "showbiz baloney." ''Finally I said, 'Hey, kid, maybe it's time to retire that trenchcoat,'" Hewitt recalled.
Wallace's late colleague Harry Reasoner once said, "There is one thing that Mike can do better than anybody else: With an angelic smile, he can ask a question that would get anyone else smashed in the face."
Fager's first contact with Wallace ? as a young producer he had to shorten one of Wallace's stories for another broadcast ? left him more frightened than anything he had to do professionally to that point. Eventually, Fager became one of Wallace's producers and, as the top producer at "60 Minutes," the one who had to delicately convince a man who never wanted to retire that it was time to hang it up.
"I was scared of him and intimidated by him," he said. "He knew it and he would just make you more miserable. That was Mike. He always had a twinkle in his eye, and even if you were intimidated by him, it was hard not to love him."
ABC's Diane Sawyer, a former "60 Minutes" colleague, said Wallace's energy and nerve set the show's pace. "He bounded through the halls with joy at the prospect of the new, the true, the unexpected," she said.
His prosecutorial style was admired, imitated, condemned and lampooned. In a 1984 skit on "Saturday Night Live," Harry Shearer impersonated Wallace, and Martin Short played weaselly, chain-smoking attorney Nathan Thurm, who becomes comically evasive, shifty-eyed and nervous under questioning.
Wallace was hired when Hewitt put together the staff of "60 Minutes" at its inception in 1968. The show wasn't a hit at first, but worked its way up to the top 10 in the 1977-78 season and remained there year after year. Among other things, it proved there could be big profits in TV journalism. It remains the most popular newsmagazine on TV.
Wallace said he didn't think he had an unfair advantage over his interview subjects: "The person I'm interviewing has not been subpoenaed. He's in charge of himself, and he lives with his subject matter every day. All I'm armed with is research."
Wallace himself became a dramatic character in several projects, from the stage version of "Frost/Nixon," when he was played by Stephen Rowe, to the 1999 film "The Insider," based in part on a 1995 "60 Minutes" story about tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, who accused Brown & Williamson of intentionally adding nicotine to cigarettes. CBS News initially cut Wigand's interview for fear of being sued.
In all, his television career spanned six decades, much of it at CBS. In 1949, he appeared as Myron Wallace in a show called "Majority Rules." In the early 1950s he was an announcer and game show host. In the mid-1950s he hosted "Night Beat," a series of one-on-one interviews that first won Wallace fame for his tough style.
After holding a variety of other news and entertainment jobs, including serving as advertising pitchman for a cigarette brand, Wallace became a full-time newsman for CBS in 1963.
He said it was the death of his 19-year-old son Peter in an accident in 1962 that made him decide to stick to serious journalism from then on. (Another son, Chris, followed his father and became a broadcast journalist. He anchors "Fox News Sunday" on the Fox network.)
Wallace had a short stint reporting from Vietnam and took a sock in the jaw while covering the tumultuous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. But he didn't fit the stereotype of the Eastern liberal journalist. He was a close friend of the Reagans and was once offered the job of Richard Nixon's press secretary. He called his politics moderate.
The most publicized lawsuit against him was by retired Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who sought $120 million for a 1982 "CBS Reports" documentary, "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception," that accused Westmoreland and others of deliberately underestimating enemy troop strength during the Vietnam War.
Westmoreland dropped the libel suit in 1985 after a long trial. Lawyers for each side later said legal costs of the suit totaled $12 million, of which $9 million was paid by CBS. Wallace said the case plunged him into a depression that put him in the hospital for a week.
In 1996, he appeared before the Senate's Special Committee on Aging to urge more federal funds for depression research, saying that he had felt "lower, lower, lower than a snake's belly" but had recovered through psychiatry and antidepressants. He later disclosed that he once tried to commit suicide during that dark period.
Wallace was born Myron Wallace on May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Mass. He began his news career in Chicago in the 1940s, first as a radio news writer for the Chicago Sun and then as a reporter for WMAQ. He started at CBS in 1951.
He was married four times. In 1986, he wed Mary Yates Wallace, the widow of his close friend and colleague Ted Yates, who had died in 1967. Besides his wife, Wallace is survived by his son, a stepdaughter, Pauline Dora and stepsons Eames and Angus Yates.
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Associated Press Television Writer Frazier Moore, Deepti Hajela, former Associated Press writer Polly Anderson and National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report.
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