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“It has been difficult,” he said. “If you’re not playing – and I wasn’t at the start of the season – then it can be hard. It’s best to do your talking on the pitch.
Walcott, played wide again on Sunday by Wenger, burst through the middle – where he prefers to play – to score his goal.
But Arsenal’s limp first-half display overshadowed that moment, with the Gunners now seven points off the top four, and 22 behind leaders Manchester United.
“I would rather not score if it means the team wins,” said Walcott. “I know what Arsenal should be and that’s why I committed myself to them for the long term.
“We need to start realising how good we are. We played some great stuff in the second half at Chelsea, but it’s time we did that from the start.
A win against West Ham at the Emirates tomorrow is imperative for a Gunners team who then face a tricky FA Cup fourth-round tie at Brighton on Saturday. But the top four is the key.
Ten years strong at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California, Alice Waters’s Edible Schoolyard is sprouting new growth at the Samuel J. Green Charter School in New Orleans, the site of Waters’s first full-blown satellite program. Waters calls the visionary curriculum “eco-gastronomy.” It teaches the whole child through some of the most basic human endeavors: gardening, cooking, serving and eating. The Edible Schoolyard isn’t about having a little garden–it’s a radical program meant to address issues of hunger, health and sustainability.
For more information about the Edible Schoolyard, visit http://www.edibleschoolyard.org or contact Diana Pinckley at diana@zehno.com. The Ruth U. Fertel Foundation (headed by Randy Fertel) has provided funding for the program.
And it works. According to a study by Harvard Medical School, after only one year students at King demonstrated improved behavior, fewer emotional problems, higher grade-point averages and a better grasp of ecology.
The Edible Schoolyard, Waters says, “teaches children their moral obligation to be caretakers and stewards of the finite resources of our planet. And it teaches them the joy of the table, the pleasures of real work and the meaning of community.
“School gardens turn pop culture upside down: They teach redemption through a deep appreciation for the real, the authentic and the lasting–for the things that money can’t buy: the very things that matter most of all if we are going to lead sane, healthy and sustainable lives,” she explains.
Surely, post-Katrina New Orleans is sorely in need of the real, the authentic and the lasting. Like everything else in the city, our renowned and unique indigenous food culture is in jeopardy. That’s why the curriculum includes an oral history component. Students learn local classics like red beans and rice and gumbo, grow some of the ingredients themselves and interview their parents about how they cook these dishes and how their parents cooked them. “We hope to renew New Orleans one okra plant and one child at a time,” says Green principal Tony Recasner.
Recasner, a psychologist and former Loyola University faculty member, opened Green School in January–four months after Katrina. Of the 400 children in grades K-8, 99 percent are African-American, 75 percent are from single-parent homes and the vast majority (95 percent) qualify for the federal free-lunch program. Although development of the garden and the kitchen classroom will take time, food is already a critical part of the Green School curriculum. Students will be involved in planning the garden and will visit with local farmers and chefs. And cafeteria food purchased from Louisiana farmers will insure that they eat “fresh and local” while the school puts down roots in its community.
Randy FertelRandy Fertel co-sponsors the Ridenhour Prizes with The Nation Institute and teaches literature at the New School for Social Research.
U.S. stocks tumbled at the open Wednesday, as worries about China's intervention in its currency roiled global markets for a second day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 193 points, or 1.2%, at 17,206,and is looking to post a decline for nine out of the last 10 days. The S&P 500 shed 19 points, or 0.9%, to 2,065, while the Nasdaq Composite Index retreated 57 points, or nearly 1.2%, at 4,977, moving off the psychological significant 5,000 level hit back in March.
Former Fannie Mae executive Tim Rood and FBN's Charlie Gasparino on the Trump administration going after Facebook over housing discrimination in its ads and President Trump's push for housing reform.
A Housing industry leader told FOX Business he is encouraged by the Trump administration's plans to remove Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government control.
President Trump signed a memorandum Wednesday ordering both the Treasury Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop a plan to end the direct government control—known as conservatorship-- while implementing safeguards to prevent another collapse of the agencies.
"Hopefully this is an earnest step forward towards getting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of conservatorship. This has been an 11 year timeout," former Fannie Mae executive Tim Rood Rood said during an interview on “Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast” Thursday.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson called the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship "absurd" and he thinks the conservatorship threatens the U.S. economy.
Rood also detailed the complex steps the president would have to take to get Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of conservatorship.
“You have to deal with how to build capital, how to get the Treasury Department out, settle lawsuits...then, you need to basically clear the deck for Congress to do a long-term plan,” he said.
Since the financial crisis, there have been no “comprehensive” changes made in the housing structure, despite the “need for it,” according to the White House. As FOX Business' Charlie Gasparino was first to report, the Trump administration is also pushing for a fast-track Senate confirmation of Mark Calabria, the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
LAS CRUCES — David Tofsted, R-Las Cruces, filed to run for state representative in House District 36. The district is located in Doña Ana County and includes portions of Las Cruces and Hatch.
Tofsted is a retired research physicist with 36 years work experience at White Sands Missile Range working for the US Army Research Laboratory. He wrote or coauthored some 70 papers, reports, and journal articles, and presented papers at numerous technical conferences. His research focused on optical propagation through the near surface atmosphere.
Tofsted lives in Las Cruces with his wife, Kathy. His two children, Nathan and Samuel, went to school in the Las Cruces public school system. He has lived on the East Mesa and in the Mesilla Valley since 1984. He currently teaches and continues as an emeritus researcher.
“I firmly believe that by working together, we can make New Mexico great,” Tofsted said. “I am running to achieve real results by improving our state's education system that is now ranked 50th in the nation. Our economy also needs to be improved to support New Mexico’s families and give our young people the option of finding well-paying jobs here are home."
Education. Reading is fundamental, and reading by the end of third grade is vital to ensuring students can handle the tasks of learning in subsequent grades. We have saddled our state with the PARCC test, which drains our state of resources and takes valuable classroom time. Only five other states use PARCC. We should seek a better system of testing that is less time consuming and allows our teachers to be more effective.
Jobs. We must do a better job to incentivize businesses to hire. We also must find ways to attract companies to come to New Mexico to bring jobs to our state.
Families. Strong families provide the basis for successful societies. Children have a better chance of thriving when they are raised in healthy and loving environments. We must strengthen the ability of families to support their children and contribute to the well-being of our communities. Giving parents the support they need will also help improve our education system.
Tofsted is the only Republican candidate for the District 36 seat. He'll go against incumbent Democrat Nathan Small in the general election on Nov. 5.
London, United Kingdom - It took a breathtaking span of 26 hours in London for more records to fall in the thriving global art market.
Works by Gerhard Richter, Lucio Fontana, and Cy Twombly were among those that set the pace at the post-war and contemporary art sales hosted by Christie's and Sotheby's.
The highest priced lot took place on Tuesday when Richter's Abstraktes Bild surprised the packed auction room on Bond Street with aggressive phone bids coming in at 2 million British pound increments ($3.1m).
The final sale price of 30.4 million pounds ($46.8m) established a new auction record by a living European artist.
The anonymous bidder, reported to be an American, was represented by Sotheby's worldwide co-head of contemporary art, Cheyenne Westphal.
"I think I can genuinely say it went to someone who truly wanted this painting, and he was set on buying it tonight," Westphal said, noting Richter also happened to be her favourite artist.
A sister painting of the large abstract work was sold by Eric Clapton in 2012 for a then-record of 21 million pounds ($32m).
The artwork, which measures 3 x 2.5 metres draped with jagged lines of reds and greens, was last sold on auction at Sotheby's in 1999 for $607,500, generating a return of 32.4 percent annually.
"Richter is not hot all of a sudden, he has always been sought after," said Arianne Levene Piper, founder of the New Art World consultancy.
"There are plenty of ultra-high net worth collectors who are willing to pay for top works. This explains why a great painting by a great artist will sell for high prices at auction."
Works by another European artist, Francis Bacon, failed to make headlines this auction season, despite drumming up a buzz prior to the sales.
Both his diptych self-portrait at Sotheby's and his Study for a Head painting of Pope Pius XII at Christie's hammered at the low-end of estimates, selling for 14.7 million pounds ($22.4m) and 10 million pounds ($15.3m), respectively.
"They are not the most sought after of his works," noted Levene Piper. Nevertheless, the late Irish-born painter known for his abstract portraits, still holds the record for the second highest price ever paid at auction; his Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142.4m in November 2013 to Las Vegas-based Elaine Wynn.
"Buying a [Francis] Bacon is as good as money in the bank," said Philip Hoffman, chief executive of The Fine Art Fund. He noted that currency weakness in the British Sterling created an opportunity for overseas buyers - especially those in the United States.
"The Americans will be looking and they are the powerhouses of the art market," he said, noting most buyers created wealth in the past 20 years and are keen to diversify their assets.
Conversely, married Swedish doctors Anna-Stina Malmborg-Hoglund and Gunnar Hoglund decided to part with many of their cherished works collected over the past 60 years.
The couple, both in their mid-80s, had a keen eye for talent, purchasing Fontana's Spatial Concept, Expectations in 1966 and hanging it in their Stockholm living room ever since.
The white canvas with 23 cuts fetched 8.31 million pounds ($12.7m) in the Sotheby's sale. The couple sold nine works during the evening for a total of 10.7 million pounds ($16.4m), far exceeding estimates.
One standout sale by an up-and-comer came from Los Angeles-based Jonas Wood. The 38-year-old's Studio Hallway sold for 365,000 pounds ($556,000), shattering his previous personal best achieved at auction.
Born and raised in Boston, Wood's passion for professional basketball shows up in a number of his works, with painted photos of former Boston Celtic players appearing as part of the Studio Hallway scene.
"He's a painter whose work offers subtle nods to the great figurative painters in the past, such as David Hockney," says Levene Piper.
"He's doing something different from what a lot of the trendy LA artists are doing, which is more process-based painting - that has been the focus of everyone's attention for the last few years."
Another artist breaking ground was late American Cy Twombly with Rome, a work of curved wax crayon drawing over paper that sold for 3.9 million pounds ($5.9m). The new record for a single work on paper arrived on the heels of a similar prominent piece from his blackboard series selling for $69.6m last November at Christie's in New York.
"Twombly has now made record prices and I think you'll see his work going up across the board," said Hoffman, noting collectors are likely to form a trend once artists make headlines.
Should their works be recently purchased by the likes of Francois Pinault or Charles Saatchi, or perhaps featured in a high-profile retrospective at the Tate Modern, it would add to that artist's allure.
"There is a herd mentality following," he said.
You'll see some amazing works of art that have been sold to Qatar that will be on show when the museums are all opening.
On the other hand, artists also experience a cooling-off period. The collective of British artists who achieved prominence in the 1990s, known as the YBA's (Young British Artists), appear to be at that stage.
None of the works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin or Chris Ofili - famous for his use of elephant dung - climbed past the low-end of their estimates at Christie's on Wednesday.
"I think they will come back in time," said Hoffman, noting Hirst was "not hot" at the moment. "I think there are plenty of buyers out there, but people are reluctant to pay the Hirst prices of 2007 or 2008," he said.
Hoffman, who spent 12 years as a director at Christie's, added the records being broken in contemporary art today do not reflect a bubble, symptomatic of too few players controlling the market.
"I saw exactly what was happening in the impressionist market in 1990," he said.
"There were 10 Japanese buyers and no one else. They were outbidding everybody. And now there are 4,000 potential bidders not at all concentrated in one country."
Hoffman also noted buyers from the Gulf are being more selective, yet not averse to surprising the market as seen by last week's record-breaking announcement of a $300m purchase of a Paul Gauguin painting said to be acquired for display in Qatar.
"I think they have got fabulous things and no one yet knows what's going to go on show, what surprises are going to come out," he said.
"You'll see some amazing works of art that have been sold to Qatar that will be on show when the museums are all opening."
As the world’s most powerful leaders converged on the earthquake-ravaged central Italian city of L’Aquila for the G8 summit in July 2009, a more discreet gathering was about to steal the limelight. San Demetrio ne’ Vestini, a village about 13km away welcomed its own illustrious visitor when George Clooney flew in from his Lake Como home to inaugurate the construction of a new theatre to replace one destroyed in nearby Casentino earlier that year.
The Hollywood actor’s support helped to boost donations, and the restoration of the theatre has become one of the few sources of civic pride in an area that is still a long way from a full recovery.
“He probably doesn’t realise just how much his support has contributed to this small miracle,” said Giancarlo Gentilucci, who runs the theatre, called Spazio Nobelperlapace, with his wife, Tiziana Irti.
The 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the central region of Abruzzo on 6 April 2009 killed 309 people, left 70,000 homeless and devastated around 56 villages in Italy’s mountainous heart.
Some of the G8 leaders fulfilled their promises to donate funds to the reconstruction, but the theatre, which hosts shows, concerts and other events throughout the year, has played a pivotal role in helping rebuild the tattered social fabric.
A torchlight procession, attended by prime minister Giuseppe Conte, was held to recall those who died in L’Aquila but also the 297 killed in an earthquake in nearby Amatrice in 2016 and others across the country over the past two decades.
“We have a duty not to forget, but above all we have a duty to be constantly striving to relaunch this territory,” said Conte.
Today, the historic centre of L’Aquila, which was home to around 20,000 people before the earthquake, is a tale of two cities: one still emerging from the rubble, the other resiliently trying to return to normal. The few inhabitants who have gone back to their homes over the past couple of years live beside cranes, diggers and dusty roads. Meticulously restructured buildings stand opposite ones still clad in scaffolding. By day, workmen help by patronising the handful of bars, restaurants and shops that have reopened. By night, those businesses are kept afloat by students from L’Aquila’s university.
“Even though we’re surrounded by scaffolding, building sites and very few people, when you open the door to your house and you’re inside, you feel at home, and that’s enough,” said Paola Inverardi, the university’s rector. A thriving university town before the disaster, L’Aquila lost 55 students in the quake. Eight perished when their hall of residence collapsed. The others had been living in modern, but structurally weak, buildings just outside the walled medieval city.
It is difficult to find out how many people are now living in the centre, with some guessing “a few hundred” and others “around 1,000”. Inverardi, who was dean of the science faculty at the time of the earthquake, moved back into her home last year. In the months after the tragedy she lived in a tent in her sister’s garden before moving to one of 19 “new towns” rapidly built across the area. She stayed there for less than two years before moving into a repaired building on the outskirts of the city.
To say that rebuilding has been slow would be an understatement. Work in the historic centre only began to gather pace in 2013 after problems with mismanagement, political wrangling, stifling bureaucracy and corruption and probes into contractors’ links with the mafia. Then there was the exploitation: the earthquake was disastrous for the people of L’Aquila but a golden opportunity for the construction sector. Even before the dead had been named, two high-profile entrepreneurs, Pierfrancesco Gagliardi and his brother-in-law, Francesco Piscicelli, were overheard in a wiretapped phone call bragging about contracts the disaster could bring their way.
Some 2,000 families still live in prefab housing scattered across the mountains, and another 3,000 are in the new towns. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s anti-seismic housing initiative was originally hailed an “Italian miracle”, but over time the buildings’ defects started to show, with former L’Aquila mayor Massimo Cialente suggesting it would be better to demolish the projects due to the structural weaknesses and high maintenance costs.
The haphazard emergency response also damaged social connections: those not housed locally were put up in hotels along the Adriatic coast for almost two years. Berlusconi said at the time that it would be “a nice break” for them.
Alongside the iPad 2 launch last night, Apple also revealed a handful of new apps ready to be downloaded alongside the new slate. We’ve written an in-depth guide to the new Garageband app, which you can read by clicking here.
Garageband for iPad has the potential to totally democratise music making. Not only will you not need an expensive PC rig to write hit tracks, as all the hardware and software you’d need can potentially be housed in the $499 tablet, but you need not have any real musical skill either. Smart Instruments, easily allowing novices to lay down pleasing chord progressions with a number of instruments, will allow any iPad 2 owner to become musically creative. Forget bedroom recording, the iPad 2’s mobility will create a whole new wave of street producers.
That’s not to say Garageband is purely for beginners. Here Tech Digest list 10 successful bands and artists who use the program on Macs, and will undoubtedly make the jump to the iPad 2 when on the road too.
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Happy birthday, Calvin Harris! The Scottish DJ turns 32 today, Jan. 17. With how great things have been going for Calvin, we’re sure his 32nd year of life will be full of even more excitement! Help us celebrate the guy, who knows how to make us all dance, with a look back at his past year in photos.
Calvin Harris, 32, can easily be blamed for making people go crazy on the dance floor and now that he’s another year older, we want to help him live it up for his big day! With an amazing relationship and sold out Vegas shows, Calvin killed it as a 31-year-old and this year is sure to be even better!
By now, there’s no one left in the world who hasn’t found themselves jamming out to Calvin’s music while sitting in rush hour traffic. Or, some are even luckier, and have seen him perform one of his insane sets. For those who haven’t had that wonderful pleasure yet, don’t worry, because Calvin is coming to Coachella 2016! The huge performance is just one of the zillions of amazing things that has happened to Calvin lately.
Aside from his beat dropping, Calvin also sparked a new romance with none other than Taylor Swift, 26, in 2015. The two may be Hollywood’s cutest couple, as they’re not only always seen together, but they’re also living in the same place now and talking about an engagement! Aw!
From candlelit, Italian dinner dates to spending their first Christmas together, Calvin’s new relationship is going incredibly smoothly! For Taylor’s own birthday, the pop singer flew from Australia, where she was touring at the time, to Malibu on Dec. 13 to spend the day with her man. They headed off to a holiday party together and were inseparable the entire time.
Help Calvin ring in his birthday by listening to all of his electro music here! HollywoodLifers, are you going to jam out to some dance EDM in honor of the musician’s birthday? Let us know and subscribe here to see some of the DJ’s craziest videos!
Taylor Swift & Calvin Harris Enjoy Sweet Dinner Date — But Who’s That Kid With Them?
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