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I am a “boring spender.”- Serena Williams Reveals How She Spends Her Millions
Serena Williams has revealed how she manages her millions.
Starting at the age of 14, Williams has been chasing her tennis dreams. Her hard work paid off, and she became widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
As expected, money came pouring in as Williams soared in her career. In fact, according to the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), she has already earned over $92.54 million in prize money. And as of June, Williams’ earnings reached an estimated $225 million.
However, the 38-year-old tennis icon doesn’t really like to splurge. In a recent interview with People, Williams revealed that the only thing that makes her spend some of her millions is something she wants to buy for her 2-year-old daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian.
“I don’t spend money. when I do it’s on my daughter,” Williams revealed.
In 2019, Williams was the only female athlete to make it into Forbes’ list of the world’s highest-paid athletes. And last year, she raked in $4.3 million in prize money. Another $25 million reportedly came from endorsements from sponsors such as Nike, J.P. Morgan and Gatorade, Forbes reported.
But despite being lucky enough to have this staggering amount of earnings, Williams is still looking to further her fortune. According to Williams, she usually invests her money and even referred to herself as a “boring spender.”
“I usually invest my funds. I am the most boring spender ever. Don’t spend it, invest it,” Williams pointed out.
Given her age, Williams is kind of aware that time will come that she would have to leave the sport she once dominated.
However, even to this day, the American tennis superstar admitted that she is still learning how to treat herself. And just like any other woman, Williams is starting to contemplate about spending on jewelry.
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The groundbreaking British band’s eighth studio album and first new album in nearly three decades. Founded by visionary singer/lyricist Richard Butler and his brother, bassist Tim Butler, The Psychedelic Furs are among the most significant and lasting bands of the post-punk era, their remarkable canon encompassing seven milestone studio albums and such classic singles as “We Love You,” “Sister Europe,” “Love My Way,” “The Ghost In You,” “Pretty In Pink,” “Heaven,” “Heartbreak Beat,” and “All That Money Wants,” to name but a few. MADE OF RAIN sees the band returning to the fray as relevant and original as ever before, fueled by their always innovative sonic approach and Richard Butler’s evocative, masterful songwriting. Produced by longtime associate Richard Fortus (formerly of Richard and Tim Butler’s acclaimed mid-1990s band, Love Spit Love, and a current member of Guns N’ Roses) and mixed by Tim Palmer (Pearl Jam, U2, Robert Plant), magnificent reiterations of The Psychedelic Furs’ distinct, desperate wall of sound, melding haunting melodies and driving rhythms with ambition, aggression, and subversive lyrical power.
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Modern Systems of Government: Exploring the Rol...
The success or failure of empires, nation-states, and city-states often rests on the relationship between bureaucracy and politicians. In this provocative and timely volume, editor Ali Farazmand examines the myriad relationships between politicians and bureaucrats and how they affect modern governance. This book is organized around the major themes of professionalism, bureaucracy, governance, and the relationship between career bureaucrats/higher civil servants and political appointees/politicians under presidential and parliamentary systems. After introducing the basic elements of bureaucracies in Part I, the book discusses the relations between bureaucrats and politicians in presidential systems in Part II as well as in parliamentary systems in Part III. This original and up-to-date book will fill a gap in the literature on the relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in modern governance ...
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Professionalism, Bureaucracy, and Modern Governance
The first set of general themes in this book focuses on the concept of professionalism of the bureaucracy and its implications for modern governance. As discussed in the general introduction, there are several competing theories on the role of a professional bureaucracy in public administration and governance. One theory treats bureaucracy and the professionalization of bureaucracy as a danger to democracy and representative government. The second tendency or theory defends professionalization and the role of the professional bureaucracy as a necessary institution for effective governance. This approach argues that a government that cannot administer efficiently and effectively is a bad government. Only a government equipped with professional competence is a good and effective government. Accordingly, a ...
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How Parties Organize: Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies
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Comparative Politics: Explaining Democratic Systems
Bara, Judith, et al. May 31, 2012
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Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
by Peter Ames Carlin
To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, his work helped define the youth movement of the '60s. On his own in the '70s, Simon made radio-dominating hits. He kicked off the '80s by reuniting with Garfunkel to perform for half a million New Yorkers in Central Park. Five years later, Simon's album "Graceland" sold ... Read More
To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, his work helped define the youth movement of the '60s. On his own in the '70s, Simon made radio-dominating hits. He kicked off the '80s by reuniting with Garfunkel to perform for half a million New Yorkers in Central Park. Five years later, Simon's album "Graceland" sold millions and spurred an international political controversy. And it doesn't stop there. The grandchild of Jewish immigrants from Hungary, the nearly 75-year-old singer-songwriter has not only sold more than 100 million records, won 15 Grammy awards and been installed into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame twice, but has also animated the meaning?and flexibility?of personal and cultural identity in a rapidly shrinking world. Simon has also lived one of the most vibrant lives of modern times; a story replete with tales of Carrie Fisher, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Shelley Duvall, Nelson Mandela, the Grateful Dead, drugs, depression, marriage, divorce, and more. A life story with the scope and power of an epic novel, Carlin's Homeward Bound is the first major biography of one of the most influential popular artists in American history. Read Less
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Everest Base Camp Challenge 2018 in aid of the Steve Prescott Foundation
The Steve Prescott Foundation (SPF) is delighted to confirm that a party of trekkers will take on the Everest Base Camp and Kala Patthar Challenge in October. A 34 strong team will fly out to Kathmandu and endure an eleven day trek from Lukla to Nepal Everest Basecamp (5,364m) and then on to the summit of Kala Patthar (5,545m).
Following the success of the SPF Everest Challenge in 2016 the party will be led by veteran mountaineer Dave Pickles of Edge Travel Worldwide. Participants include SPF Trustees Linzi Prescott and Ade Cunliffe. Professional boxer Martin Murray from St Helens has also pledged his support and has already reached his fund raising target of £4700. Bev Dixon, personal assistant to comedian Johnny Vegas has also signed up the challenge.
The group will be inspired in their epic challenge by the late Steve Prescott MBE and will be raising funds and awareness for the SPF nominated charities the Rugby League benevolent Fund (Try Assist), The Christie and the SPF Special Causes Fund. The Precky4Everest Team have pledged to raise £200,000 for the SPF. Several fund raising events have been organised by the trekkers to help them achieve their fund raising targets
The party of climbers will set off on their adventure from Manchester Airport on 16th October and return to the UK on 1st November.
The Everest Base Camp trek is one of the most popular trekking routes in the Himalayas and is visited by thousands of trekkers each year. The trek is considered strenuous and will be a test of fitness, stamina and determination for all the climbers in the true spirit of Steve Prescott.
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Kapow!, no women
I got an email from a regular commentator on my blog pointing me to the new comic book convention that Mark Millar is organising this coming April in the UK called Kapow! ComicCon. He hinted that I might discover something missing from the event.
Well, yes the omission is pretty glaring to me: not one woman among the forty guests.
This is strange. It’s not like there are no top-class women working in comics. Anyone who suggests otherwise is not paying attention.
For instance, I’d recommend reading the excellent ‘She Has No Head‘ column by Kelly Thompson on Comic Book Resources for plenty of examples of the fine work women are doing in comic books these days. At the end of 2010 Kelly offered a two-part article on ’20 Favourite Female Creators of 2010’ (part 1 and part 2). Here’s Kelly’s list:
KATE BEATON
REBEKAH ISAACS
AMY REEDER
JILL THOMPSON
FAITH ERIN HICKS
KATHRYN IMMONEN
EMILY CARROLL
AMANDA CONNER
LINDA MEDLEY
RAINA TELGMEIER
SARAH GLIDDEN
JEN VAN METER
NICOLA SCOTT
This is just a list of Kelly’s favourites for 2010, there are many more women working in the field. Other great resources to check online that give a women’s perspective on the field is the 3 Chicks Review Comics podcast, also on CBR, which features Kelly, Sue from DC Women Kicking Ass, and Maddy from When Fangirls Attack!. And there’s the long-running, glorious Sequential Tart.
I’m not denying the talent of the guests at the Kapow! convention, in fact it’s an impressive line-up, and Millar deserves kudos for organising such an event in the UK.
Still, I’m surprised that no women rated high enough with the Kapow! team to earn a spot among the vaunted forty. Perhaps, this is a on-going issue with comic book conventions? Maybe those who attend comic-specific conventions could offer their insights?
Further blog posts on this issue:
British women in comics
women in comics in UK/Ireland – redux
women in comics in UK/Ireland – overview
Kapow! – with added women
advocacyequalitygraphic novelswomen
Jennifer Wilde
I’m not a fangirl, but I adore GM
The Power of Superheroes
Jenni Hill
It’s Mark Millar – I’ve come to expect no less. Have you seen the all-male line up of the ‘CLiNT’ magazine he edits? And the rape jokes and the pin up girls?
Ooh, by the way, I’ll put a vote in for Amanda Conner as favourite female artist!
Tweeting this…
Jenni – I had a look at the first issue of CLiNT. There was a blaze on the front page that said ‘For Boys Only’, and then I checked out the editorial and remember getting the distinct impression that not only was my readership not wanted it was being discouraged. Plus, there’s the ‘joke’ of the title itself. I don’t need to give money to a publication with those attitudes, so I didn’t buy it.
I’ll certainly be voting in the Stan Lee Awards (well, depending on if it is open to all), and I’ll be voting for the best artist/writers in each category without a bias toward either gender. I expect at least one woman will get onto my ballot, however. 😉
I was going to say pretty much the same thing. It’s Mark Millar. Colour me unsurprised.
19 January 2011 at 12:46 am
I always find it disheartening when people say they are unsurprised by such an omission, no matter who is involved in the matter. Perhaps because so many people say that to me when I bring up the issue.
I long for the day when people are shocked and taken aback by a lack of women on a guest list of such a prestigious industry event, and consider it utterly surprising!
And surely Mr. Millar is not the only person involved in running the event.
I have no doubt that there isn’t an agenda to keep women from the guest list, but on the other hand either no one noticed the omission or they didn’t think it was an important enough issue for them to take the effort to correct.
I’m unsurprised because it’s Mark Millar. While he may not be the sole organiser, the fact that people tend to surround themselves with those who share their outlook on life means that it is likely his co-organisers are of a similar mindset. I also doubt it’s deliberate, but in this instance it’s predictable.
Predictable doesn’t make it right, or less worthy of disparagement.
Harmsden
It’s worth pointing out that Kapow’s guests, like San Diego, are not limited to the comics industry. They’re a broad spectrum of personalities from TV, film and literature. That’s a broad spectrum limited to one gender, whereas around a third of guests at San Diego were women.
It might not have been a conscious choice, but I’m not opening my wallet to support a boys’ club. There’s enough of them around thanks.
Yes, the event has a wide agenda, but having a look through the guests invited I think most of them are comic book creators in some form. Many of them do work in other media too.
Plus, there are loads of women in film/media/literature industries. (Not that I really need to say that to you!) 😀
It’s a weird oversight. If there weren’t so many guests I might not be so obvious, but 0 out of 40 is pretty hard to ignore.
I’ve seen this kind of unconscious bias before (since I’ve blogged about it), and it only perpetrates a popular delusion that there aren’t that many women working in the industry.
Visibility is important. Women need to be part of the guest list on events like this, because that would make it an honest reflection of the state of the industry.
This guest list, while impressive, is skewed. It’s not offering a full picture of a vital and exciting creative field.
Steve Green
The British International Comics Show, on the other hand, has a smaller guestlist but not one confined to a single gender.
Similar questions have been raised about the all-male guestlist for this year’s Eastercon.
At least with Eastercon there is a short invited guest list (only 5 in this case this year), and everyone knows there will a lot of women writers/creators at the event as well, who will be appearing on programming. Roz Kaveney is the Poet Guest of Honour at Illustrious, so at least there’s some representation.
When someone else raised similar points to those in this blogpost, Millar had this to say on his twitter “Um, Kapow is owned by 5 women. The panels have 500-700 seats and we’re mainly UK. Which female UK pros do you suggest to fill?”
I think he brings up a point worth noticing in that last line, Its mostly British Pros on the list of people attending, and it seems there’s a lot more visible comics female comics talent coming out from America than in the UK, I can’t think of many female UK Pros that could be added to the list of attendees, but perhaps that’s just ignorance on my part.
If were a small press convention, or one of those conventions that has anime, manga and videogames content as well as straight up cape comics it might be a different case, I’m not sure
I had quite a long discussion about this on my livejournal blog, as well as up on Facebook.
I always find it interesting when this happens and the first reaction is ‘well, where are the women?’ Millar and his team of women organisers are part of the industry so I’m surprised that they are asking this question. Surely they should know?
However, in the UK there’s a depressing dearth of writers/artists working in comics. Compared to the USA it’s surprising how small the number is, but they are not completely absent.
The list I’ve come up with is: Carol Swain, Posy Simmonds, Leah Moore, Nana Li, Laura Watton, Kate Brown, Rebecca Burgess, Sonia Leong and Emma Vieceli.
Posy Simmonds is interesting because she might be more well-known to the public than the likes of Frank Quietly (whose work I love, btw) because of her work in The Guardian.
It seems like a great deal of the women emerging in the comic book industry in the UK are coming through the Manga style.
I should also mention that Annie Parkhouse and Ellie de Ville have been lettering for 2000AD and other publications for ages.
If Kapow was going to get some writers/artists from the USA (which they are doing) they could have chosen to add one or two women that way.
If the guest list was shorter then I might not be so surprised by the omission, but it’s a staggering 0/40. Millar and his team should not act shocked when people point out the discrepancy. Better to explain what happened rather than turn the tables and look for suggestions.
The livejournal post is the same as the one I originally replied to. At any rate, I’ll endeavour to check out those names.
Perhaps you missed the long debate in the comments at the end of the blog post? The post is the same as here, of course.
No, I hadn’t missed those comments either, I read them all, and the blog post, so I’m confused as to why you mentioned them…
Richmond Clements
8 February 2011 at 3:16 pm
To whcih I would ask- how many British pros have been nominated for the awards? Not many- and all of them working for the Big Two in the US.
There are loads of British publishers- Rebellion being the most glaring omission from the shortlist, but there are also Self Made Hero, Com.X, Classical Comics and many many more, all doing brilliant work. The best publisher shortlist is astounding to me: MArvel, DC, Image (owned by MArvel) and Vertigo (owned by DC) – not exactly massive choice.
I think the main problem is that they don’t seem to be aware of any comics outside the superhero genre.
Hi Rich, thanks for commenting. I’ve a post a little further up discussing some more of the women comic book creators I tracked down. I’ve got a longer post detailing way more women on the boil.
Fecking hell, I hadn’t seen they announced the short list for the Stan Lee Awards! Who put together that list? Actually, I just read who it was – no women gave any input of course (although the blanket Forbidden Planet label is gender neutral!).
If Kapow! was listed as the ‘all men, all superhero’ comic book convention I wouldn’t mind so much, but it’s not.
The Stan Lee Awards purport to be “a fantastic platform to reward the cream of comic book talent for all their creativity and imagination throughout 2010”. My arse!
I have reservations about the short-list in several categories, but you know that would probably be true in any awards show.
I just nominated for the Eagle Awards last night and it was far more egalitarian.
They are nominating The Walking Dead, and that’s one of the few non-superhero titles (Scot Pilgrim probably qualifies as a superhero), so there is some sense of it going outside of the superhero titles (but Sweet Tooth got a nomination in best trade, WTF?).
Best Publisher is objectionable in its favouritism, although Vertigo would be on my list. It’s shocking, really. Such a tiny reflection of a huge and diverse industry!
9 February 2011 at 4:43 am
So the lack of the 3 or 4 UK based female creators at the con has to mean it’s biased? Perhaps they were invited but either decided not to or just weren’t able to go? I’ve been out of touch with comics for a few years, but there’s only about a quarter of the guest-list there I don’t recognise and wouldn’t go out of my way to see if I lived in the right country (or hemisphere, come to that).
The entire industry has an unbalanced gender ratio on virtually every level, partly due to the legacy of sexism through the ages and (particularly in comics) because of the higher than usual levels of stunted development the medium has a tendency to attract (but that’s a topic for another time). The fact that you there’s only 20 women on that list above compared to hundreds or thousands of men with work of a similar calibre supports that. It doesn’t mean that women aren’t as good as men at making comics by any stretch, it just reflects the fact that there are less women making comics.
Would you honestly be happy if they’d invited some female guests just because they’re women? So-called positive discrimination doesn’t help anyone in the long run; it only keeps the idiotic borderlines visible. We should be aiming for a society where people are accepted as people, regardless of their genetic or cultural backgrounds.
(As an aside, complaining about the shortlist for awards nominations just makes you come across as someone who thinks their opinion is somehow more “correct” than those of the people who were actually involved in the process. Just because you disagree, it doesn’t make their taste or opinions any less valid than yours.)
Simon, thanks for your input.
We should be aiming for a society where people are accepted as people, regardless of their genetic or cultural backgrounds.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think a step in this direction is representing all the various people who contribute to an industry like comics in a fair manner.
You’re correct that there is a legacy of sexism in the industry, and the contribution that women do make to comic books is equally as good as men’s. There are less women in the comic books industry than men – no one disputes that – but there are women in the industry.
The reason why I don’t think the convention asked any women to the event is Mark Millar’s comment as I reported in this post. It’s pretty clear he doesn’t believe there are any professional female British comic book creators. However, as I pointed out in that post, he has asked non-British and non-comic book guests to the event, so he is applying a different criteria to women.
I’m very familiar with the running of events – I’ve done it myself – and the issues that are involved with budgets, people dropping out, etc. It’s difficult for those who run events to be fair to everyone, but it helps if part of your ethos is trying to represent the interests of all your fans in a myriad of ways. I attend a number of genre events every year. I’m quite familiar with there being a ‘token’ amount of women on the invited guest lists, as this the norm, even when women work in the industry in much higher numbers. Yet, I would always prefer that women were at least given some visibility at an event, rather than being completely excluded. That just perpetuates the idea that ‘there are no women in comics/horror/sf/fantasy/whatever’.
One thing I know is that saying nothing, and hoping the status quo will change on its own, will not result in change. All change occurs through action, and speaking up.
My simple request is that the diversity I witness in these industries is represented properly.
I never said my opinion about the Awards short-list is more correct than anyone else’s, but I’m entitled to state my opinion.
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What We Learned From America’s Only Water Sommelier
We've been drinking water wrong this whole time.
Water is important, it is essential for all forms of life to thrive and survive, yet water has never really interested us. We drink it daily, often without thought, mainly because our body inherently craves H2O, but never has anyone been truly excited by this beverage until now.
Meet German-born Martin Riese, who we got the pleasure of interviewing during a water tasting when he came into our Spoon offices. He is America’s first, and only, water sommelier. Sommelier? Yes, you heard us right. The word that is usually given to experts on wine has taken on a new meaning with Martin, who has considered himself an expert on water since the age of four, when he began to notice the variety of flavors in different tap waters from cities around Germany and Europe.
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It wasn’t until years later, when a customer approached Martin at his restaurant, that he realized the importance of different waters. “He said, ‘You’re just offering one particular brand of water, and I don’t like this brand, do you have something else?’ and then I began thinking, ‘What if we had a variety of options for different waters?’” Which led Riese to offer the first water tasting menu in Berlin starting in 2005.
“Water’s not just water, let’s appreciate it for what it is — the most important beverage in our lives,” says Riese, who has since moved to the United States in passionate efforts to hydrate the American population. He was originally in the U.S. on a visa for “extraordinary talent,” and now he has gotten his green card and plans on remaining here for the time being.
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Riese has certainly made a splash since his move to the states. Not only has he been featured on Good Morning America, but he has also made an appearance on Conan O’Brien‘s late-night talk show.
Perhaps most entertaining, however, is the viral video of Riese doing a water tasting with 2 Chainz and Diplo, in which they try a variety of waters including America’s most expensive water, 90H20, with a price point of around $100,000.
So, what is it that really distinguishes one brand of water from another? The answer is TDS, or total dissolved solids. The higher TDS of water means the more minerals and elements that are naturally occurring, leading to a more prevalent “taste”. Riese goes as far to argue that certain waters should be paired with specific meals or wines in order to further bring out the flavor.
We’re still not water connoisseurs quite yet, but now we’re going to think twice when we hit up the supermarket and browse the bottled water aisle.
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The best and worst potential NFL coach openings: Barnwell on the Eagles, Jets and more
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Bill Barnwell is a staff writer for ESPN.com.
We’re expecting significant coaching turnover in the NFL this offseason. Five teams hired new head coaches after the 2019 season, but we’ve already seen three teams fire their coaches this year, and the Jets might inspire their fan base to revolt if they don’t move on from Adam Gase. There are still three weeks left to go in the regular season, but there are as many as nine more teams that could consider changing their coach.
Let’s evaluate the various coaching opportunities that might come available this offseason and rank how desirable they would be for a qualified candidate. I think there are 12 total teams that could have vacancies, but I’m leaving out the Bengals, Cowboys and Vikings, who seem less likely to fire their coaches than the other franchises. Each of those three jobs would rank in the upper half of this list if they were to come available.
I’m evaluating these jobs based on several criteria. Most important, of course, is whether the team has a talented roster and a star quarterback. After that, we’re looking at things like future cap space and draft capital, the difficulty of each team’s respective division and how patient the present ownership group has been when its team has struggled. Also, note that we’re looking at this exclusively from the perspective of a possible coach as opposed to that of a new general manager.
I’ll start with the least desirable opportunity of the nine and work my way up to the most tantalizing job:
9. Chicago Bears (6-7)
Pros: core talent
Cons: lack of cap space, no long-term quarterback
Over the next three weeks, the Bears could run the table and make it into the playoffs or lose two of three and spark a regime change. Regardless of what happens, it’s clear that the all-in moves general manager Ryan Pace made before 2018 didn’t work. Mitchell Trubisky hasn’t developed into a great passer, in part because coach Matt Nagy doesn’t appear to be any sort of quarterback whisperer. (The fact that he was playing the defenses ranked 26th and 30th in pass defense DVOA might have something to do with Trubisky’s recent hot streak.) Pass-rusher Khalil Mack is a great player, but he hasn’t been enough for the Bears to net a playoff win, let alone compete for a Super Bowl.
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It’s hard to be enthusiastic about what’s left. The Bears have $2.5 million in cap space next year before re-signing players such as wideout Allen Robinson, defensive end Roy Robertson-Harris and safety Tashaun Gipson, let alone addressing the quarterback position. They project to have the 14th pick in the 2021 draft, which could leave them too late in the hunt for quarterbacks. After making the Mack deal and repeatedly trading up in drafts past, Chicago also isn’t in position to make another all-in move for a young quarterback. It has a more competitive roster than most of the other teams on this list, but its ceiling is severely capped.
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Futurama: Gone Before Its Time?
And so it came to pass that on September 4th 2013, Futurama aired its final episode. Again.
It’s a sad history that the show seems to keep revisiting, what with this being its fourth finale. Except this one holds the ominous title of “official” finale. I guess we, the fans, will never really understand the ins and outs of why this keeps happening. To us, the show is still in its prime and there appears to be no logical reason for its cancellation.
At least during its tenure under 20th Century Fox we could point to the excuses of a poor time-slot, inadequate marketing and just general apathy from those executives up at the top. But since it’s revival on Comedy Central in 2008, Futurama still felt as fresh, inventive and funny as it did back in 1999, although there will always be split opinions. And with it being safely out of reach from 20th Century Fox, it seemed like the series was on safe enough ground to continue delighting us for many seasons to come. So this cancellation has come as an even bigger shock, not just to fans but also creator Matt Groening and the stars of the show. Groening has insisted that they will shop around to find a new distributor and that the team still have “way more stories to tell.”
I join the mindset of my fellow fans in sincerely hoping that they do. Yet, in the midst of all the wailings that Futurama deserves to go on and is infinitely better than The Simpsons or Family Guy could ever hope to be, this argument has inevitably risen – maybe the show is better off ending on a high and in its prime rather than being dragged along by the scruff of its neck towards TV infinity. Not to say I won’t miss the show and if the creators believe they have the material then by all means they should try to go forth. But when you take away the possibilities for new stories (and let’s face it, given the set up, those possibilities are infinite) and instead think of Futurama’s story arc and the development of its main characters, then could the show have arrived at its natural end?
Consider the subject matter of the most recent finale, titled “Meanwhile.” It centres on Fry and Leela finally tying the knot after seven seasons worth of will-they-won’t-they teasing. From the very beginning in “Space Pilot 3000”, their relationship has been the heart of the show’s overarching story and to see it brought to a close this way really does seal the deal. We’ve suffered through years of Fry being rejected, seen hints that maybe someday the two will finally get together, before finally seeing the two embark on a tentative relationship which grew stronger during the Comedy Central years, ending up leading to this ultimate vindication.
The episode prior “Stench and Stenchibility” featured the show’s resident loser Dr Zoidberg finally finding love and it seems like this one might actually stick. Just a further way to bring everything to a close and give our characters and by extension, the viewers, what they want. When all is said and done, our beloved characters have gotten the happy endings we’ve been waiting for and maybe, though we don’t realise it yet, this is the best outcome we could’ve hoped for and “what’s next” may be better left to our own imaginations.
On the other hand, you can also make the argument that there’s still plenty of room for expansion. After all, just because Fry and Leela are now husband and wife doesn’t mean that their story has used up all its potential. If anything, it’s paved the way for all-new jokes and drama. There’s plenty of other characters who can have a turn in the limelight and, as I mentioned before, the show’s premise means that pretty much any story idea is up for grabs. Zany is the name of the game. Adding to this, seasons 6 and 7 have delved much more deeply into character development, with episodes such as “Lethal Inspection”, “That Darn Katz”, “The Tip of the Zoidberg” and “The Bots and the Bees” giving hidden depths to Bender, Hermes, Amy, Zoidberg and the Professor, the latter four previously seeming to be just eccentric side characters. If the show did continue, the writers should continue in this vein. The more we learn about these characters, the more we care about them after all.
But if the show does come back, then what? Will we get another couple of years of enjoyment and then be crushed by cancellation once again or will we still be tuning in ten years from now? And if that’s the case, what will the quality of the show be by that point?
Consider The Simpsons. Not to turn this into a diatribe about the declining quality of that show, but the comparisons between the two sister shows are pretty much inevitable. When I can catch it on television, I still enjoy it. It still has great moments and is still very funny and occasionally heart-warming, but the limitations of its world and the length of its tenure on television (it holds the honour of being the longest-running prime-time sitcom in American TV history) have taken its toll in recent years. The stories have become more outlandish and characterization has veered wildly in all directions in order to give the show more space to breathe. Weirdly enough, it’s feeling a bit more Futurama-ish in terms of tone.
Where once The Simpsons would have episodes featuring Bart failing classes, Lisa feeling depressed about her place in society and Homer and Marge fighting against temptation and their marriage going through rocky patches, now they have episodes featuring: Homer on death row only for it to turn out to be a reality TV stunt; Bart getting ostracised by the whole of Springfield just for blowing a baseball game and being pushed to the brink of suicide; an episode which ends with the family apparently imprisoned on a drug-dispensing island; and that infamous episode with Homer and the panda. There’s Homer’s deliberately over-the-top choking of Bart and then there’s stuff like this. It isn’t nearly so funny when it makes you mad or confused instead. This descent into questionable behaviour in the name of entertaining us feels illogical and symptomatic of the fact that Fox would rather be made into Torgo’s Executive Powder than let our favourite yellow clan march out into the sunset.
Futurama has its own episodes that are less than beloved but, for the most part, the writing is still strong enough to hold it up. If the show were to continue for a lengthy period, who’s to say it wouldn’t suffer the same problem with quality that The Simpsons now faces? Basically, the longer you drag a story out, the more susceptible continuity and canon become to falling apart. The characters reach the point where they can’t be developed any further, becoming one-note versions of their original selves and the plots become more inane and repetitive in an attempt to keep things fresh.
Imagine if you will, some of your own favourite television series carrying on for about ten years past their prime. For example, Friends. I know people who were growing weary of the Ross/Rachel angle long before she got off the plane so picturing it carrying on even for a couple more years just feels like a bullet dodged. Shows that can run for decades, such as Doctor Who, manage to survive due to change-ups in formula and cast and because the set-up is perfectly designed for one-off stories with very loose continuity and allowing change to happen naturally – a luxury that most other television programmes don’t have, therefore leading to stagnation.
The problem seems to be a reluctance to know when enough is enough and to let the story burn out in a glorious haze rather than keeping it on life support. Key elements of storytelling seem to have been forgotten – it’s not just the plot that makes the ride worthwhile, it’s the characters and seeing how they change. Once both have concluded, they shouldn’t be forced to carry on into the unknown unless there is a better reason that getting high ratings. Breaking Bad, for example, is about to finish after five seasons, to rave reviews and fans grieving the passing of a masterpiece. But at least that show is ending where it should and the creators know to end it now because it makes sense in terms of where the plot has been leading all this time. They know not to keep it going because of lingering fondness.
Yet, that very emotion is what brings me back to Futurama. I know other fans may not share the same opinion and despite what I’ve argued, I can’t rid myself of the niggling feeling that we’re just not quite done yet. The characters have enjoyed development, yes, but perhaps not quite to the point where there’s nothing left to know about them, even if some of the major story arcs have been brought to a close.
With that in mind, the conclusion that I can come to lies somewhere in the middle ground. I don’t want to see Futurama become utterly exhausted from a long stint on air but at the same time, I feel it has enough mileage left in it to carry on for a little while longer. I’d like to see it come back, eke out another couple of seasons, maybe then bowing out gracefully before I and other fans grow sick of it.
In the end, I guess we will have to wait and see what happens. We have one more adventure with the Planet Express crew on the horizon, with a crossover with The Simpsons, titled “Simpsorama”, coming our way. But after that, the waiting game commences again. I place my faith in the show’s creators. The curtain may have closed for now, but hopefully “the world of tomorrow” faces a better chance of survival this time around.
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Nalley
I am happy for the show to have ended. I don’t really want further seasons of it, but I’d still love for them to make a theatrical film as a true send-off for everything. I have every bit of faith in them to produce something wonderful, providing they had the time needed to hammer the script into perfection.
Thanks for commenting. I guess we have the crossover with the Simpsons, but I really want them to have their own epic movie.
I thought this finale fit perfectly into the Futurama universe, I just can’t believe it’s gone. I’d hold out high hopes that somewhere out there it will come back again.
Thanks for commenting. I was really shocked when I saw it was being cancelled again, because I thought it was doing really well. I’m glad they ended it the way they did, but there’s still a lot of things I’d have liked to see from it – like Morbo’s race finally invading the puny humans.
Taylor Ramsey
I have not seen this final run of episodes yet, but the show will be missed.
For all it’s occasional faults, it is consistently fun and fresh.
Thanks for your comment. I haven’t managed to see all of them yet (for some reason the Region 2 DVD is nowhere in sight), but I did see the finale. Futurama’s always been really good at being very sweet as well as very funny. I’ll really miss it too.
nathanial wilbert
The movies were garbage and the later seasons never reached the high water mark set by the originals. the voice-work improved, as did some of the characters, but they made it less and less about ‘the future’ and wrote too many episodes around a joke instead of writing jokes around an episode. futurama had a great ending but too many boring stories came before it to make that season worth owning.
Hassan Mahmod
The movies weren’t the best Futurama ever, but they were still great. Calling them garbage is ridiculous. Season six contained some of the best episodes of the show’s entire history. Season six was absolutely fantastic. Season seven wasn’t amazing. It had a few great episodes, but mostly, it was subpar stuff. So I’m thankful that they brought the show back, but I’m also happy for this to be the end.
Apr 10, 2014 Reply
Jinjo_Bread
The fact that the whole futuristic aspect of the show was downplayed to make room for more crappy Zoidberg one-liners and pop culture jokes killed it for me. It stopped being clever and tried too hard to be like every other animated sitcom out there. There were a few good episodes in the CC run, but most were trash.
It had a great run and there is so much rewatch value. And simpsons is still on air. I am satisfied.
Oct 4, 2013 Reply
Thanks for commenting. I think re-watch value is underrated. You don’t always need new stuff coming in. I can go ages and ages without watching something and coming back to it is always rewarding. For this article I went back and rewatched all of Futurama season 4 and had a great time.
blowe
Didn’t like the final season that much. The Inhuman Torch was the only quality episode turned out that season. While I quite enjoyed 2D Blacktop, I don’t like it when the show breaks formula.
Hitokari
Gone before its time? It was already cancelled and brought back. If anything, the decline in quality represents that it hung around a little too long. Overall it was nice to get more episodes, but it is time to let it go. We got a very nice finale and the last few episodes closed out the characters. No need to beat a dead horse… again.
Joe Harker
I’m glad Futurama ended on a high note. I still think it was great though there were a few wobbly bits near the end. It will be very fondly remembered.
I’m sure the Simpsons will be fondly remembered too, but I think it has gone on too long and when it inevitably ends (it must end one day) it will be remembered as the one that stuck around a bit too long.
Loved your writing.
Wow, thanks! Agree with what you say. Fond memories are much better than growing tired of something you love.
Dec 16, 2013 Reply
J. Bryan Jones
I agree. And I’ll also that that Futurama is better than the Simpsons.
Jan 24, 2014 Reply
Thanks. I haven’t seen The Simpsons in ages, so I don’t know how it’s currently doing. Last time I watched, it just felt a bit weird – it ended with a viewer vote. Felt a bit too fourth-wall.
GWTaylor
As much as I love the show, I can’t help but think this is the right time for the show to take a bow. We have had an uneven couple of seasons since the revival, and I’m simply relieved that the show’s going out on a high note.
Thanks for reading. I agree, I was glad the show ended the way it did. For me, the Fry-Leela romance subplot was something I desperately wanted resolved (and I was really invested in it, unlike many other romance subplots) so the wedding was a great way to end.
theuhdorah
I will definitely miss Futurama, but I do think it is good to end it on a high note. The last episode with Fry and Leela actually felt really final for me in a good way. It was much better than previous finals, and while I am sad to see it go, I don’t think it is a bad time to end it even if the creators and writers have more content. If it had to end… again, I like how the show ended.
Thanks for reading. I would understand if the writers wanted to go back and do more, but I think they should be proud of how Futurama has ended. Considering how FOX refuses the let the Simpsons just end, this cancellation could be for the best – at least the writers still had a bit of agency left in Futurama and they could give it the closure they wanted.
GenMaro
I love the ending of Futurama. true sad, but how it ended made me feel like watching it from the beginning. Probably because of Fry’s line: “What do you say? Want to go another round?”
KongHer
This show was pretty funny.
Ending was good, but overall, I’d say the show was mostly garbage.
cesporz
I have always adored the show. After listening to the commentary it becomes how intelligent the writers are. The thing I liked was that the jokes were not obvious and sometimes not everyone gets them. Much like MST3K, you had to know somethings about history and pop culture to get the reference. I tried to watch the reboot but I felt it relied to heavily upon current events to create comedy. Animated shows do best when they do not rely on current events for the material (South Park can be excluded but then many episodes feel dated. This is also why I no longer find Family Guy funny, and the Simpsons is has fallen into that too). There were episodes I like from the reboot but it never felt the same to me. I think you make some wonderful point in your article. Thanks for writing. I must mention that the final episode of the original airing is still one of the best endings. I left open the possibility of hope and was so bittersweet. Plus, the self-awareness and mocking of its self was just fantastic.
Jessica Pedersen
I’ve always been a big Futurama fan, but I must say that I enjoyed the pre-Comedy Central era much more. I still watched the CC episodes, but they lacked much of the heart of the earlier episodes. If more episodes were ever created, I would watch them, hands down, even if that meant I watched as the writers ran the show into the ground. I do think there is some still some room to grow with this show, although I also agree that anything created after this point will probably be referred to as past the shows prime.
CarliStas
Futurama is such an underrated show – the show had the entire universe to work with and everything in-between. I’m glad it ended the way it did. Futurama went out on a high note and did the entire series justice with the finale. The show left us with some of the most memorable and touching TV episodes ever: the seven leaf clover, the sting, Fry rearranging the stars to tell Leela he loved her, and yes the infamous Seymour episode. This show will always hold a special place in my heart.
Daniel C. Hein
Having just recently finished watching the entirety of Futurama, I definitely think that ending the series when they did was the right move. For sure, the show still had some blood left in it, unlike Simpsons and Family Guy which have both run their course and then some. But if the show hadn’t ended, it’s likely it would have fallen into the same trap those other shows have — uninspired storylines, out-of-character moments, etc. There were signs of this during the Comedy Central era, but I’d argue there was never a horrible episode of the show. Mediocre ones? Sure. But nothing offensive.
That said, I wouldn’t be averse to more direct-to-DVD movies if the crew came up with a decent-enough storyline. I don’t think the series should be full-on revived, but an occasional movie might not be a bad way to continue the show.
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Max Verstappen had earlier stated that it is always essential to maintain a balance. In context to the tiresome 23 races calendar of 2021 set by FIA, the Red Bull No. 33 stated that it will be a tough job for the team crew.
Verstappen had a rigorous childhood. Hailing from parents actively involved in the motorsports scene, Max never bothered for flashlights and the silver screen. The chequered line is all that his mind focuses on. That is why he does not believe in pictures and autographs or the celebrity life.
Regarding his philosophy, Max Verstappen recalls an instance a few weeks earlier when he bumped into soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.
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“A few weeks back I was in Monaco and saw Ronaldo. Cristiano was on the boat next to us. Whatever, just let him do his thing. I don’t feel the urge to ask him for a selfie that I can post, I just let him be.
“I doubt he knows who I am. That’s fine by me. That’s great. I don’t want to bother him for a photo. Just let him and his family have fun. That’s why he is on the boat, he doesn’t want to be disturbed.” recalled Max Verstappen.
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Although he has claimed and covered a lot of ground in his initial years in the F1 circus, Max could never develop a close bond with fame. Talking of Soccer and young bloods, you can match Max Verstappen to Erling Haaland in terms of screen presence.
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Max Verstappen is a sensation and inspiration for kids dreaming to join the sport. Although the big man still has a few things to learn himself, he also holds a few things he could teach. His will power, his determination and his hard work. We should appreciate him because he is one of those few doing the feats way ahead of his age.
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But recently I looked in there for the hell of it, and I found this. I have to say this is something completely new to me. This spam has a very specific target: misogynist right-wing douchebags. You know them well — they’re the guys who complain about “radical SJWs” anytime someone condemns racism or the mistreatment of women. The guys who harass and threaten women on social media simply for saying something. The guys who rage-shit their diapers when women have major roles in big-budget movies. The guys who proudly call themselves “incels” and hate women because their asshole personalities can’t get them laid.
This spam is targeted directly at this type, and frankly it’s the most needlessly inflammatory one I’ve seen in ages. It’s carefully crafted, ridiculing them for being impotent and somehow blaming “angry feminists” for it, as well as all their other troubles. It’s utterly and laughably ridiculous, but also a little upsetting if you imagine how it affects the type of guy it targets. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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TALENT PLATFORM
Discover emerging creative talents who are active in the fields of design, architecture and digital culture, supported by Creative Industries Fund NL. The Talent Platform is showcasing what artistic and professional growth entails and serves as a fount of information for other creatives and for commissioners.
GRANT PROGRAMME FOR TALENT DEVELOPMENT
Talent development is one of Creative Industries Fund NL's spearheads. The Fund awards 12-month grants to up-and-coming creative talents every year, providing the opportunity to enrich artistic and professional aspects of their practice to optimum effect. Participants must have graduated within the last four years and must be active in one of the diverse disciplines of the creative industries, from fashion design to graphic design, from architecture to digital culture. The Fund's online Talent Platform portrays all the individual practices of designers who have received a grant since 2013.
Twenty-five minute-long film portraits introduce you in a personal and intimate way to the talented designers, makers, artists and architects who received a year-long stipendum over 2019/2020. The concept and production are the work of Studio Moniker. The film portraits are part of a programme in the MU artspace during Dutch Design Week 2019.
Twenty-four minute-long film portraits introduce you in a personal and intimate way to the talented designers, makers, artists and architects who received a year-long stipend over 2017/2018. The concept and production are the work of Studio Moniker. The film portraits are part of an installation in the Veem Building during Dutch Design Week 2018.
ESSAY: DIAMOND INVESTMENT & THE NEW OIL
by Rosa te Velde
Around 1960, Dutch television broadcast its first talent show, a concept imported from America. ‘Nieuwe Oogst’ (New Harvest) was initially made in the summer months on a small budget. It turned out that talent shows were a cheap way of making entertaining television: participants seized the opportunity to become famous by showcasing their tricks, jokes, creating entertainment and spectacle — in return for coffee and travelling expenses.1
Talent shows have been around since time immemorial, but the concept of talent development — the notion of the importance of financial support and investment to talent — is relatively new. Since the rise of the information society and knowledge economy in the 1970s, the notion of ‘lifelong learning’ has become ever more important. Knowledge has become an asset. Refresher courses, skill development and flexibility are no longer optional, and passion is essential. You are now responsible for your own happiness and success. You are expected to ‘own’ your personal growth process. In 1998, McKinsey & Company published ‘The War for Talent’. This study explored the importance of high performers for companies, and how to recruit, develop and motivate talented people and retain them as employees. In the past few decades, talent management has become an important element in companies’ efforts to maximise their competitiveness, nurture new leaders or bring about personal growth. Sometimes, talent management is aimed at the company as a whole, but it is more likely to focus on young, high-potential employees who either are already delivering good performances or have shown themselves to be promising.2
It was social geographer Richard Florida who made the connection between talent and creativity, in his book ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ (2002). In this book, he drew the — irreversible — link between economic growth, urban development and creativity. A hint of eccentricity, a bohemian lifestyle and a degree of coolness are the determining factors for ‘creativity’ that provide space for value creation. His theory led to a surge in innovation platforms, sizzling creative knowledge regions and lively creative hubs and breeding grounds. The talent discourse became inextricably linked with the creative industry. The Global Creativity Index, for instance, set up by Florida (in which the Netherlands was ranked 10th in 2015), is based on the three ‘Ts’ of technology, talent and tolerance. The talent phenomenon really took off in the world of tech start-ups, with innovation managers fighting for the most talented individuals in Silicon Valley. ‘Talent is the new oil’.
The idea that talent can grow and develop under the right conditions is diametrically opposed to the older, romantic concept of a God-given, mysterious ‘genius’. The modern view sees talent as not innate (at least, not entirely so), which is why giving talent money and space to develop makes sense. Like the Growing Diamond (groeibriljant), the Dutch diamond purchase scheme in which diamonds can become ‘ever more valuable’.
What is the history of cultural policy and talent development in the Netherlands? Whereas before the Second World War the state had left culture to the private sector, after the war it pursued an active ‘policy of creating incentives and setting conditions’.3 The state kept to the principles of Thorbecke and did not judge the art itself.4 But literary historian Bram Ieven argues that a change took place in the 1970s. It was felt art needed to become more democratic, and to achieve that it needed to tie in more with the market: “[…] from a social interpretation of art (art as participation), to a market-driven interpretation of the social task of art (art as creative entrepreneurship).”5 The Visual Artists’ (Financial Assistance) Scheme (BKR) and later the Artists’ Work and Income Act (WWIK) gave artists and designers long-term financial support if they did not have enough money, provided they had a certificate from a recognised academy or could prove they had a professional practice.6
It was Ronald Plasterk’s policy document on culture, ‘The Art of Life’ (2007), that first stressed the importance of investing in talent, as so much talent was left ‘unexploited’.7 Plasterk called in particular for more opportunities to be given to ‘outstanding highly talented creatives’, mainly so that the Netherlands could remain an international player. Since then, ‘talent development’ has become a fixture in cultural policy. Halbe Zijlstra also acknowledged the importance of talent in ‘More than Quality’ (2012), but he gave a different reason: ‘As in science, it is important in culture to create space for new ideas and innovation that are not being produced by the market because the activities in question are not directly profitable.’8 This enabled the support for talent to be easily justified from Zijlstra’s notoriously utilitarian perspective with its focus on returns, even after the economic crisis. Jet Bussemaker also retained the emphasis on talent development, and talent is set to remain on the agenda in the years ahead.9
The Creative Industries Fund NL first gave grants to a group of talented creatives in 2013. As in the Mondrian Fund’s talent development programme, the policy plan for 2013–2016 opted for a single, joint selection round each year. While the emphasis was on individual projects, it was noted that a joint assessment would be more objective and professional and that this would facilitate the accompanying publicity.10
Who is considered a possible talented creative? To be eligible for a grant, you have to satisfy a number of specific requirements: you have to be registered with the Chamber of Commerce, have completed a design degree less than four years ago and be able to write a good application that persuades the nine committee members from the sector that you have talent. Based on the application, they decide how much potential, or promise, they see in your development, taking into account the timing of the grant for your career. While there are many nuances in the application process, these factors make sure the concept of ‘talent’ is clearly defined.
If you get through the tough selection process — on average ten to fifteen per cent of the applications result in a grant — you enjoy the huge luxury of being able to determine your own agenda for an entire year, of being able to act instead of react. It seems as if you have been given a safe haven, a short break from your precarious livelihood. But can it actually end up reinforcing the system of insecurity? What should be a time for seizing opportunities may also lead to self-exploitation, stress and paralysis. In practice, the creative process is very haphazard. Will the talented creatives be able to live up to their promise?
One of them went on a trip to China, another was able to do a residency in Austria, while yet another gave up their part-time job. Many have carried out research in a variety of forms, from field studies and experiments with materials to writing essays. Some built prototypes or were finally able to buy Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Kunstformen der Natur’. Others organised meetings, factory visits, encounters, interviews and even a ball.
Is there a common denominator among the talented creatives who were selected? As in previous years, this year the group was selected specifically to ensure balance and diversity — encompassing a sound artist, a filmmaker, a design thinker, a researcher, a cartographer, a storyteller, a former architect and a gender activist-cum-fashion designer. Given the diversity of such a group, a joint presentation may feel forced. But presenting them to the outside world as a group enhances the visibility of these talented people, and this is important, because how else can the investment be vindicated?
These are the questions that the Creative Industries Fund NL has been debating ever since the first cohort: how to present this group without the presentation turning into a vulgar, unsubtle spectacle or propagating a romantic notion of talent, and at the same time, how to show the outside world what is being done with public money. And what would benefit the talented individuals themselves? In the past few years, various approaches have been tested as ways of reflecting on the previous year, from various curated exhibitions with publications and presentations to podcasts, texts, websites, workshops and debates.
The Creative Industries Fund NL operates as a buffer between neoliberal policy and the reality of creativity. The fund provides a haven for not-yet-knowing, exploration, making, experimentation and failure, without setting too many requirements. It is a balancing exercise: how do you tone down the harsh language of policy and keep at bay those who focus only on returns on investment, while still measuring and showing the need for this funding, and thereby safeguarding it?
Following input from the talented creatives themselves, a different approach has been chosen this year: there will be no exhibition. Most do not see the Dutch Design Week as the right place for them; only one or two are interested in presenting a ‘finished’ design or project at all, and they do not necessarily wish to do so during the Dutch Design Week. What is more, many of the talented individuals have used the grant for research and creating opportunities. Therefore, instead of a joint exhibition, the decision has been made to organise a gathering and to publish profile texts and video portraits on ‘Platform Talent’, an online database. This will put less emphasis on the work of the previous year and more on the visibility of the maker and the process they are going through, marking a shift away from concrete or applied results and towards their personal working methods. Will this form of publicity satisfy the general public’s appetite and curiosity and will it meet politicians’ desire for results? Has it perhaps become more important to announce that there is talent and not what that talent is? Or is this a way of avoiding quantification and relieving the pressure?
Perhaps what unites the talented creatives most is the fact that, although they have been recognised as ‘high performers’, they are all still searching for sustainable ways of working creatively within a precarious, competitive ecosystem that is all about seizing opportunities, remaining optimistic and being permanently available. So far, there is little room for failure or vulnerability, or to discuss the capriciousness of the creative process. The quest for talent is still a show, a hunt, a competition or battle.
1 https://anderetijden.nl/aflevering/171/Talentenjacht
2 Elizabeth G. Chambers et al. ‘The War for Talent’ in: The McKinsey Quarterly 3, 1998 pp. 44–57. This study was published in book form in 2001.
3 Roel Pots, ‘De tijdloze Thorbecke: over niet-oordelen en voorwaarden scheppen in het Nederlandse cultuurbeleid’ in: Boekmancahier 13:50, 2001, pp. 462-473, p. 466.
4 Thorbecke was a mid-nineteenth-century Dutch statesman.
5 Bram Ieven, ‘Destructive Construction: Democratization as a
Vanishing Mediator in Current Dutch Art Policy’ in: Kunstlicht, 2016 37:1, p. 11.
6 The Visual Artists’ (Financial Assistance) Scheme was in force from 1956 to 1986 and the Artists’ Work and Income Act from 2005 to 2012.
7 Ronald Plasterk, ‘Hoofdlijnen Cultuurbeleid Kunst van Leven’, 2007, p. 5. The Dutch politician Ronald Plasterk was Minister of Education, Culture and Science from 2007 to 2010.
8 Halbe Zijlstra, ‘Meer dan Kwaliteit: Een Nieuwe visie op cultuurbeleid’, 2012, p. 9. The Dutch politician Halbe Zijlstra was State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science from 2010 to 2012.
9 Jet Bussemaker is a Dutch politician who was Minister of Education, Culture and Science from 2012 to 2017.
10 Creative Industries Fund NL, policy plan for 2013/2016.
The fourth edition of In No Particular Order during the Dutch Design Week 2017 presented a collective statement about the pluriformity of contemporary design practice. Nine installations addressed the themes of Position, Inspiration, Working Environment, Representation, Money, Happiness, Language, Discourse and Market. The presentation in the Van Abbe Museum was curated by Jules van den Langenberg, who was himself a participant in the Programme for Talent Development in 2017.
In the third edition of In No Particular Order in 2016, curator Agata Jaworska offered insight into what it means to run a design practice. How do designers create the circumstances in which they work? What can we learn from their methodologies and routines? The designers reflected on these questions in audio recordings and with sketches. Together they give a personal impression of the development of their artistic practices.
In No Particular Order 2016
The second edition of the In No Particular Order presentation was staged in the Veem Building during Dutch Design Week 2015. Curator Agata Jaworska focused on the processes, points of departure and visions behind the materialization of work, using a database of images from the personal archives of the designers. What is it that drives the modern-day designer? What are their sources of inspiration, motivations and ambitions?
What makes someone a talent? How is talent shaped? These were the pivotal questions for the first In No Particular Order exhibition in the Schellens Factory during Dutch Design Week 2014. Besides presenting the work of individual talents, curator Agata Jaworska revealed trends and shared similarities as well.
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Designer and researcher Gabriel Fontana obtained his master's degree in Social Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018. In his design practice, he investigates how our bodies express, internalize and reproduce social norms. Fontana additionally proposes ways of unlearning this through interventions in the public space and activities in the fields of sport and education. His development plan focuses on two projects, with which he wants to lay a strong foundation in kinaesthetic learning and to specialize in the field of queer pedagogy. With the project 'Voice and (Hear)Archies', he is developing a series of new sport games in which voices, sounds and new ways of listening are used to bring about a change in the way power is exercised during sports. The project 'Safe(r) Landscapes' consists of a 'queering manual', a publication in which he proposes measures that schools can take to create a more inclusive environment. Fontana wants to broaden his view of the work field by working together with various professionals, including a gender geographer, secondary-school teacher and graphic designer. He also plans to give workshops at schools and institutions in the Netherlands and France. His work will be presented at Onomatopee in Eindhoven and at the international design biennale in Saint-Éttienne, among others.
Andrius Arutiunian completed his master's degree in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in 2016. In his practice, sound and hybrid forms of media play a central role. In recent years, he has focused on specific themes such as migration and new technologies, including the use of artificial intelligence. In the coming year, he wants to investigate how displacement and dissenting opinions have an impact on communities and how they materialize through noise in the post-digital era. He intends to develop a research method based on the concept of 'Gharib', which means 'strange' or 'mysterious' in Arabic, Persian and Armenian. The plan is divided into three phases: 1. Researching and collecting sonic artefacts related to the concept of 'Gharib', and a residency at Korzo in The Hague, where he will create an audiovisual performance. 2. Expanding his network through mentoring and listening sessions with established artists working on the same themes. 3. Developing a digital video and audiovisual installation for a solo exhibition at RIB in Rotterdam.
Asefeh Tayebani obtained her bachelor's degree in Product Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018. In her practice, she deals with subjects that are full of misconceptions and stigmas. In the coming year, Tayebani will focus on two projects. The first is the continuation of the project 'But you don't look autistic', a research project with which she collects and presents information about autism in women and non-binary people, with the aim of starting a dialogue about the subject. For this purpose, the applicant is developing an online platform, together with graphic designer Fallon Does. The second project is a material research into the concept of 'wounds', under the name 'Leaving Traces'. She also wants to learn different techniques to restore and repair materials such as textiles and metal. Ultimately, she wants to present the material research by means of an exhibition and a publication. Mediamatic is being considered as the location for the launch of the online platform.
Designer Audrey Large graduated in 2019 from the master's programme in Social Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Her practice is at the intersection between new technology as an autonomous (design) method and (product) design as a form of creative expression. She is interested in the associations between the two domains and their implications for today's society. Questioning materials requires redefinition of the tools with which they are formed. This also raises questions about the status of the designer and their role in navigating through 2D images, 3D files, moving images and objects, according to Large.
In the coming year, Large wants to further deepen her reflections on the status of 'the image-as-object' and consolidate her professional design practice by strengthening her cultural entrepreneurship. The first half of her development year is dedicated to a solo show with her 'MetaObjects' at Nilufar Gallery in Italy. With the visual material she produces during the creation of the MetaObjects, she wants to develop a fictional narrative around the objects after the show, and take the next step in the translation of material into different formats, ranging from still to moving images and everything in between. She is going to experiment with CGI manipulation and various digital production techniques. During her development year, Large is collaborating with various parties and receiving advice from designer and software developer Femke Snelting, among others.
Bodil Ouedraogo graduated from the fashion department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2019. Her practice consists of designing wearable clothing as well as producing installations and videos, with a focus on expressing her own bicultural identity. Her development plan focuses on the development of two new 'chapters' that together as presentations tell a story about radiating pride through the phenomenon of 'dressing up'. The first project is a performative show about the traditional 'grand boubou', a three-piece suit worn in West Africa. Ouedraogo wants to project video material onto the large amount of fabric in this garment. To do this, she will collaborate with dancer and choreographer Christiaan Yav and director Florian Johan. The second project concerns an investigation into the expression of pride through wealth in the West African art of 'dressing up'. To carry out this research, Ouedraogo will travel to Mali and Nigeria and collaborate with JeanPaul Paula and Stephan Tayo. Through photography and print, Ouedraogo establishes a link between the expression of wealth in jewellery and accessories, in the fashions of West Africa and Western Europe. Possible locations for the presentations of both projects include Amsterdam Fashion Week and Foam.
Graphic designer Cleo Tsw graduated from the bachelor's program Graphic Design at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. During her graduation she set up the research and publishing imprint 'Off Course', which investigates language and visual literacy from a decolonial perspective. Next year, Tsw will focus on developing and producing the first online and printed edition of Off Course and strengthening its educational practice. Produced in both physical and digital domains, this edition contains a series of articles that distinguish themselves through their visual form—such as through typographic essays, visual essays, comics, lexicons and poetic prose. Tsw intends to collaborate widely in the content, production, and distribution of this publication.
Don Kwaning completed the bachelor's programme Man and Well-Being at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018. In his practice, he is involved in both artistic and industrial material development as well as the design of end products. In his graduation project 'Medulla', he developed circular materials from the soft rush (Juncus effusus), a common weed in the Netherlands. In the coming year, he will continue this project and he wants to develop further into a craftsman in materials development. He will investigate which soft rush materials are most suitable for further development for the commercial market, whether the plant can be grown as a wet crop, to combat subsidence, and whether the materials made from these plants can provide a revenue model for farmers. He is being helped in this by the Green Chemistry Campus. In addition, he will start two new projects in which, based on his artistic interests, he will carry out material experiments with flexible aluminium and compromised wood. For this purpose, he will collaborate and receive advice from basket weaver Esmé Hofman, product designer Bertjan Pot, and various 3D designers. By making his material experiments more personal, Kwaning aims to strengthen his identity as a designer and better position his practice within the design sector. The results of his projects will be presented at the Milan Design Week and the Dutch Design Week.
Fashion designer and interdisciplinary artist Fana Richters was selected during the Scout Night Amsterdam. In the coming year, she wants to further develop her artistic, technical and presentation skills. She is doing this by means of the project 'The Walking Exhibition', in which she builds a bridge between the artistic world and the fashion industry. Surrounded by experts and advisers in various fields, including fashion and textiles, she will develop a series of suits. A central role is played by her own photography handwriting, which is characterized by collage techniques. The suit is being made under the supervision of Marlon Lima, who will oversee the embroidery process and can advise on various possibilities. In addition, Richters is calling on the expertise of Geobella Fini, who will help to develop digital sketches and conceptual fashion. According to Richters, sustainability is an indispensable element and she certainly wants to demonstrate this in the design by using the natural plant hemp, among other things. The final product will be presented during a fashion show where Richters aims to become acquainted with a commercial manner of presentation.
Filmmaker and biologist Frances Rompas was selected during the Scout Night in Utrecht. In her practice, she focuses on telling fictional, satirical and autobiographical stories in the form of immersive film and video installations. According to Rompas, transgenerationally conferred expectations and ideas about the country of origin are mainly based on emotions and memories. The image of the fatherland, or as Rompas prefers to put it, the motherland, can be romanticized as a result. With an interactive video installation, Rompas takes the viewer into a personal process in which she investigates what ethnicity means and how it can be deconstructed. In the coming year, she will experiment with miniatures, décor, shot design and object theatre. Part of the installation is an image that Rompas wants to create concerning a traditional ritual and costume. For this purpose, the filmmaker will seek a collaboration with costume designer Floor Nagler. By following different writing courses, Rompas wants to learn scriptwriting and methods for placing biographical material in a socio-political context. The presentation options are still open and depend on Rompas's research into spatial installations in relation to the public. To get a better grip on this aspect, Rompas is going to follow a course at the Instituto Europeo di Design.
Designer and art director Fransje Gimbrere obtained her bachelor's degree in Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017. In her practice, she tries to create amazement and stimulate the senses by manipulating material. In the coming year, she wants to highlight the importance of sensory design and show how you can respond to this as a designer. In her development plan, she pays attention to both broadening her knowledge and skills as well as deepening the design methodology and improving the positioning of her practice. She describes three phases for this purpose: 1. Theoretical research, where she examines scientific studies and visions concerning the relationship between design, the human psyche and emotion. 2. Experimental material research to find out what stimulates and invites touch. 3. The translation to possible applications and implementations. She is seeking help from marketing professionals and experts in making a book. The results will be presented in the form of a tactile manifesto and an exhibition.
Funs Janssen obtained his bachelor's degree in Design from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2017. In his practice, he combines being an illustrator with the craftsmanship of stained glass. As an image-maker, he is concerned with metropolitanism and youth culture. In the coming year, he wants to research the history of visual culture, constantly questioning his position as maker and looking critically at contemporary visual culture. By means of a multidisciplinary research project in both theoretical and technical areas, he will search for an answer to the question: 'How can I apply the cinematographic aspect of my work more through the medium of stained glass in order to create iconic images?' He is following various workshops in the print techniques riso and screen-printing and the craft of stained glass. He is also bringing in the expertise of The Black Archives and sociologist Teana Boston-Mammah. Ultimately, he wants to develop a number of spatial works that contain a cinematographic aesthetic and invite dialogue. These works will be presented at galleries and art institutions.
Calligrapher Qasim Arif was selected during the Scout Night Rotterdam. In the last 10 years, Arif has mastered the craft of Arabic calligraphy. His visual style is strongly influenced by elements from Hip hop and Pop culture. Central to the work are various aspects of identity with, in particular, his background as a 'third-culture kid'. During the development year, Arif wants to discover new ways of designing through 3D. He argues that a large part of Islamic art only relates to the two-dimensional surface, because the sculpting of living beings is exclusively the domain of a god. Within these frameworks, Arif wants to push the boundaries and convert Arabic calligraphy into 3D sculptures. One of the ways he does this is based on the Nike Air Max 1. According to Arif, the cult shoe is not only a symbol of social status, but it also represents the dreams, wishes and memories of children with a migrant background. For his professional and artistic development, Arif is participating in a number of courses, including 3D modelling, 3D printing and 'Sculpturing, Moulding, Casting & Finishing'. The founder of the 3D printer, Cyrus Sasan Seyedi, is guiding Arif in 3D printing techniques and monitoring the quality of the print. In addition, the applicant will approach artist Joseph Klibansky for advice on the production of sculptures, but also on marketing through social media. Finally, Arif is applying for a traineeship with El Seed, a French-Tunisian calligrapher. The results of the project will be presented both online and offline.
Stylist and fashion designer Inez Naomi was selected during the Scout Night Rotterdam. The coming year revolves around building up her fashion label 'Versatile Forever', in which she upcycles vintage clothing to create new, high-quality and trendy items. The guiding principles of the label are sustainability, accessibility and wearability. To obtain clothing, Naomi will collaborate with various Dutch organizations that collect used clothing. She also wants to buy in 'dead stock' from fashion companies. The first collection was inspired by team sports. She uses the metaphor of the 'benchwarmer': players who always sit on the bench or are chosen last, whom she wants to present as 'winners'. She will put together a team with representatives of under-represented groups and incorporate their stories into the collection. For the development and production of the collection, she will initially collaborate with De Wasserij. She then wants to investigate whether she can scale up to a European production partner. Together with a PR agent, for example Eva Peters PR or Feel Agency, Naomi will develop a strategy for the visibility and public reach of her label. Besides the label, Naomi also focuses on styling and art direction. Under her own name 'Inez Naomi', she collaborates with various artists to design photo shoots and video clips. She wants to provide access to the creative process behind this through weekly vlogs.
Designer Irakli Sabekia graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in Man and Leisure. In his multidisciplinary practice, he combines data, light, sound, (archive) images and technology in immersive installations, to question existing structures. In the coming year, Sabekia wants to deepen his design methodology and strengthen his network outside the cultural world. He will develop new techniques in the area of projection and experimental storytelling, collaborate with social organizations (NGOs) in the field of human rights and ecology, and develop an online platform that provides access to his research. Central to this is his graduation work 'Voicing Borders', in which he gives a voice to the inhabitants of the Russian-occupied territories of Georgia. In the next phase of this project, Sabekia will carry out field research in Georgia together with documentary photographer Tako Robakidze. The results will be shown in an interactive documentary installation in the DocLab at IDFA this autumn. In addition, he plans to present his work at IMPAKT, MU and TAC. With the presentations, he aims to arouse the interest of organizations such as Amnesty International Nederland or Terre des Hommes, in order to establish a collaboration with them, for instance in the form of a residency. Lastly, Sabekia is strengthening his cultural entrepreneurship by being coached in business and strategy.
Jean-François Gauthier graduated from the Academy of Architecture in 2019 with a master's degree in Landscape Architecture. In his practice, he focuses on the development of new urban typologies in which trees play a central role. According to Gauthier, a radical change is needed within current urban design, so that inhabitants have more access to nature in their daily lives. Using various mixed-media techniques, Gauthier aims to create speculative landscape designs that visualize what a forest can look like in the public domain. The possibilities for an alternative form of urban design, in which the value of the forest is central, is made accessible in an atlas. The atlas will provide an artistic answer to what the forest of the future will look like. Gauthier is seeking help from experts such as Marco Roos, Cecil Konijnendijk and Marjolijn Boterenbrood. They will guide Gauthier in finding the right tree species, in the social aspects and in the artistic process within the research. Results from the research will be tested and presented at various locations, including in the city of The Hague and at Terra Nostra.
Interdisciplinary image-maker JeanPaul Paula was selected during the Scout Night Amsterdam. He focuses on creating safe places and moments of exchange. In his practice, his personal experiences as a 'non-conforming black queer man' and his fight against racism, sexism and (gender) stereotyping play a central role. During the development year, Paula will investigate why LGBT+ people born in Caribbean (immigrant) families more often experience rejection, mental and physical violence. By entering into a dialogue with his own family and its history, and placing this in the context of issues of bicultural identity, migration, everyday racism, cultural pride, Christianity and Caribbean ideals about masculinity, he wants to analyze how immigrant families balance between two cultures. Which parts of your cultural heritage do you hold on to? How do you deal with assimilation in a cultural context that makes you feel like an outsider? The research will be given form in a documentary film that will be shown in, among other places, the Melkweg in Amsterdam. In the context of the film, Paula will also enter into discussions with young black LGBT+ people.
Designer Johanna Seelemann obtained her master's degree in Contextual Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. She is interested in the following question: 'How can we design for a world that is in danger?' Her development plan focuses on two projects in which the concept of 'resilience' is central. The first project, 'Perpetual Change', deals with localization and is a conceptual continued development of the earlier work 'Terra Incognita'. In 'Perpetual Change,' Seeleman asks questions such as: 'What does it mean to design in a resilient way at a local level?' and 'What can we achieve by producing at home, and is this realistic?' The research is given form in a series of household objects, in which the concept of 'resilience' is questioned at various levels, including through the material and the production technique. In the second project, 'Desarster', the designer focuses on the contribution that design can make to resilience during a crisis. Desarster consists of an online platform on which Seelemann archives research and information at the intersection of disaster and risk management and design. For this, she is collaborating with researcher Uta Reichardt, an Icelandic expert in disaster risk management. The approach is to create an interaction between design and risk management, where both disciplines are treated equally. In addition to the development of an archive, Reichardt and Seelemann will develop a series of workshops for, among others, art academies and a publication.
Designer and artist Josse Pyl obtained his master's degree at the Typography Workshop of ArtEZ. After using visual language as working material for making spatial installations in recent years, in the coming year he will focus on publishing and distributing language research by means of printed and digital media. By making a book, film and website, Pyl will question the boundary between reality, knowledge and perception. For this purpose, he is setting up a theoretical and philosophical investigation into historical systems developed to organize the world. Parallel to this, Pyl is questioning in his artistic process how the world can be read by rewriting it. He is doing this by making a printed publication in which he investigates how the book functions as a space of knowledge and thoughts, how these take on an abstract form and are subsequently passed on to the reader's mind. In addition, Pyl plans to translate this research into a series of animated films. In this way, he will investigate how cinematographic structures of moving image and sound can form a new step within his work. Ultimately, he will bring everything together on a website that functions as an online archive and distribution channel for the research.
Photographer Khalid Amakran was selected at the Scout Nights Rotterdam. Amakran is self-taught. Thanks to his drive and ambition, Amakran has been able to develop from a hobbyist to a portrait photographer with a sustainable company. In the coming year, he wants to create more space for research and reflection. Together with concept developer Anne Bloemendaal, Amakran will develop a strategy that strengthens his professional and creative development. He is doing this on the basis of project 3ish, a project that provides insight into identity formation in the context of second and third-generation Moroccan-Dutch young people. Loyalty issues, code-switching, institutional racism, jihadism and the politicization of mainly Moroccan-Dutch men make individual choices difficult and emotionally charged. As a result of community thinking, this target group has the idea that choices influence a whole group, leading to a struggle concerning who they want and need to be. The project will be given form in a video and a book. In addition, Amakran is going to strengthen his technical skills in the areas of film, research and signature. Amakran is seeking content-related guidance from photographers and image editors including Ari Versluis, Mounir Raji and Nicole Robbers.
Architect Lesia Topolnyk graduated in 2018 with a master's degree in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Her view of architecture was shaped by her childhood in Ukraine, which has been in an unstable political situation since the collapse of the Soviet Republic. With this background, and an eye for specific geographical and socio-political contexts, Topolnyk develops large-scale spatial interventions that are reminiscent of landscapes due to their size and layered quality. During the development year, she will be investigating the functioning of democracy in relation to architecture. For this purpose, she will analyze and compare a number of international institutions, including the International Criminal Court in The Hague, NATO in Brussels, the UN headquarters in New York and the Kremlin. She will examine not only the building in which the institution is housed, but also the urban, legal, democratic and institutional structures that underlie it. The findings should lead to a number of speculative scenarios and tools that make the democratic process more effective and inclusive. In this process, Topolnyk is seeking advice within and outside the architectural field, from parties such as artist Jonas Staal, government architect Floris van Alkemade, designer and director Nelly Ben Hayoun and filmmaker and architect Liam Young.
Louis Braddock Clarke completed his bachelor's degree in Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Art in 2019. He is interested in the debate about entering a new geological era, the Anthropocene. As part of this, Braddock Clarke is diving into research into the human and non-human position in climate change. In the coming year, he wants to develop his own set of instruments, which he can use to make geological information visible. His development plan is divided into two phases: The first phase concerns the development of a research instrument and method, by means of material testing and interviews and collaborations with scientists, philosophers and specialists in geophysics and biology. In the second phase, he will focus on recording the research, undertake an expedition and make a film. To develop his instruments and present his research, he is involving several partners and coaches, including Lucas van der Velden, director of Sonic Acts, curator Margarita Osipian and various participants at Spatial Media Laboratories. At the end of his development year, Braddock Clarke will present the results of his research and his film at an event.
Architect Luuc Sonke obtained his master's degree at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. His work concentrates on spatial issues brought about by the uncertain and unstable existence within contemporary society. Within this area, he focuses in particular on the ambiguous and changing relationships between public and private, work and leisure. This coming year, Sonke wants to research sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's concept of 'Liquid Life'. He will search for a new spatial language that fits in with modern 'liquid' life and is open to a diversity of voices, backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles. He will do this at different levels of scale, ranging from furniture to interior to urban environment. During his research, Sonke is being advised by various experts and professionals from the field of architecture, including designer Jurgen Bey, architect Erik Rietveld, developer Edwin Oostmeijer, artist Andrea Zittel and illustrator Jan Rothuizen. The results, consisting of objects, spatial models and furniture will be shown in a presentation at NEVERNEVERLAND.
Fashion designer Marlou Breuls obtained her bachelor's degree in Fashion Design from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI). She positions herself as a multidisciplinary designer, aiming to approach the function of fashion from other angles, including theatre, sculpture and unconventional materials, such as resin and epoxy. In this way, she hopes to contribute to the redefinition of the traditional fashion system. In the coming year, Breuls will focus on further developing and challenging her design methodology by experimenting with body casts and investigating how she can manipulate them into new (fashion) objects. To do this, she will take part in two workshops in New York: one in contemporary ceramics and one in body casting. If this is not possible because of the COVID-19 measures, she has alternatives for these courses and guidance in the Netherlands and the UK. She also wants to deepen her artistic practice further under the guidance of artist David Altmejd. Finally, she is working with Branko Popovic to strengthen the public accessibility of her practice and will develop the identity of her studio further with Eric Ellenbaas Creative Agency (EEA).
Mirjam Debets completed her bachelor's degree in Animation at the HKU in 2017 and has worked since then as an animation director, illustrator and VJ. In the coming year, Debets will expand her work to other media and conduct research into presentation forms and their effect on the public. She wants to develop animation applications in which interaction with the audience and the physical experience of the presentation are central. Under the name 'Zenit', she plans to tell an alternative creation story, which shows in a playful way how all life is connected. The project will be presented in the form of a short music video, installation, VJ set and website. Debets wants to be able to realize these forms independently, from concept through to presentation. She is also collaborating with various professionals from other disciplines, including music artists and installation designers. In this way, the animator aims not only to develop artistically and conceptually, but also to build up a larger network of artists and event programmers.
Moriz Oberberger obtained his master's degree in Typography from the ArtEZ School of the Arts in 2019. In his interdisciplinary practice, he focuses on creating visual stories by drawing, illustrating and animating for both online and offline media. In the coming year, Oberberger wants to investigate how he can employ a more spontaneous method of working and, as a result, achieve alternative systems of thinking. He is starting one larger project and several smaller collaborations, with which he aims to further develop his methodology and strategy. The project is 'Time Out' (working title): a drawing process he wants to employ to create a stream of uncontrolled, meditative and spontaneously generated graphic designs. In addition, he plans to give a series of workshops, do a residency and develop an independent platform for publishing magazines and experimental storytelling, among other things. For this project, he is working together with mathematician and writer Ana Lucía Vargas Sandoval and he is involving writer, poet and artist Maria Barnas as mentor. The results will be presented in a publication and an exhibition.
Philipp Kolmann graduated from the bachelor's programme Food Non Food at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. In his practice, creating a more sustainable future perspective for the food system plays a central role. In the coming year, Kolmann will focus on developing a plant-based cheese and designing a culture around it, with the aim of interweaving this plant product more into our food culture. According to the designer, most vegan cheeses lack the rich history that European dairy cheeses have. For that reason, he will conduct research into the origins of industrialization in dairy farming, in collaboration with researchers from the agriculture department at Wageningen University & Research. With a research trip to Japan, Kolmann wants to investigate what is needed for fermentation on a large scale. With the help of a research and communication agency in Tokyo, Kolmann can come in contact with various local experts from specialized scientific institutes. In addition, Kolmann has a selection of experts in mind who fit in with the plant-based cheese research, including Thomas Vailly, Marco Cagnoni, Age Opdam & Genneper Hoeve and Arne Hendriks. Kolmann finds it important that the young generation also has access to this knowledge and hopes to create more awareness by developing an educational programme. The results of the project will be presented in a speculative installation during Dutch Design Week and Slow Food events.
Multidisciplinary designer Renee Mes combines her knowledge and experience from the film world with educational methods she developed during the Man and Leisure bachelor's programme at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her ambition is to break the stereotyping of the queer community and to improve the visibility and social acceptance of this group. During the development year, she will research, together with Queer Trans People of Colour (QTPOC) and people with a bicultural background, how they can shape their own story. In addition, Mes is focusing on the phenomenon of 'chosen families' and choosing different media and forms of expression that come together as a collage on an online platform. The plan is divided into four phases: the first phase starts with in-depth study of the literature on the lives of the above-mentioned groups and interviewing queer individuals. In the second phase, Mes, together with five different 'chosen families', reflects on their identity and the stories are converted into visual elements to create a film set. The third phase focuses on capturing the stories in image and sound and results in filmed portraits (tableaux vivants), audio recordings, photography and 3D scanned objects. In the fourth and final phase, the stories will be presented on an online platform and during an exhibition. During the development process, Mes will be guided by various professionals, including Rosemarie Bulkema, professor of Art, Culture and Diversity at Utrecht University, and the Staat Amsterdam art-direction team.
Seok-hyeon Yoon graduated in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in Design from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Yoon has a fascination for ceramics, and pottery in particular. According to Yoon, earth is the starting point from which everything originated and the most natural product you can work with. Unfortunately, ceramic objects often end up in landfill because they are not easy to recycle due to the glaze used. In the coming year, Yoon will focus on researching ceramics and glazing techniques, in order to achieve alternative (glazing) methods that are actually circular. During the process, Yoon will speak with various professionals within the fields of ceramics, to strengthen his knowledge and discover new possibilities. Examples of experts are ceramist Marlies Crooijmans (EKWC), designer Daria Biryukova and glaze specialist Pierluigi Pompei (EKWC). In addition, Yoon will attend courses at CREA and Kleispot, among others, for the development of various colouring techniques in glazes. The findings made by Yoon during the project will be shared with audiences from the creative and related industries. Possible presentation places are MOAM, Yksi Expo + Dutch Design Week 2021 and Material District Rotterdam.
Sherida Kuffour graduated in 2018 from the Sandberg Institute's master's programme 'Design, Think Tank for Visual Strategies'. Kuffour's design practice is active at the intersection of literature, memories, media and the power structures of design. In the coming year, Kuffour will investigate the vulnerability of memories through fiction and paratext. The types of questions Kuffour will ask herself are: What happens to memories once they become public? How does a paratext such as paywalls, reading times and hashtags influence accessibility, where traditional forms of publication, in particular, focus on a white literary culture? Kuffour is investigating from two positions: the designer and the writer. Kuffour argues that the two positions promote different interests, from which the research questions arise. By following a writing course and engaging in conversation with various writers and theorists, Kuffour aims to further explore the intersection of literature and media. People Kuffour would like to talk to are Michael Tedja, Yra van Dijk and Teju Cole. The interviews will be documented and the results of the research compiled into a series of reports. Kuffour aims to present these reports in a book and an online archive, accompanied by public lectures. Sherida Kuffour
Sophia Bulgakova graduated from the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in ArtScience. In Bulgakova's practice, experiences, inner processes and imaginary phenomena play an important role. She uses colour theory, sensory input and hardships, psychological behaviour, elements of playfulness and scenography. Together, these elements form the basis for immersive installations that stimulate the senses. In the coming year, Bulgakova wants to make more multifaceted and multidisciplinary work concerning pagan rituals that originated from early Christian and Western European traditions. The research will be used to reflect on the context of Bulgakova's practice. In addition to approaching various professionals and experts in the field, Bulgakova is collaborating with the artists' platform Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii). Furthermore, Bulgakova will participate in a residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. She plans to present the results of the new work at the Locating ArtScience exhibition in Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev.
Sound artist Stefano Murgia graduated from the ArtScience bachelor's programme at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. In recent years, he has focused on 'sonic architecture' and 'acoustic ecology', a study of the relationship of sound between organisms and their environment. During his development year, Murgia plans to use sound sculptures to tackle the nuisance of wind in urban canyons, i.e. locations where extreme winds are created by tall buildings. Under the title 'Alternating Winds', he will investigate, together with the Crossing Parallels platform and scientists from the departments of aerodynamics and architecture at Delft University of Technology, whether the flowing movement of wind can be converted into the vibratory movement of sound and what the possible consequences of this are. Do wind and sound lose their power and is a third form of energy created? The research should result in a number of singing sculptures that tackle wind nuisance by absorbing air currents, repelling them or changing their direction. To strengthen his metalworking skills, Murgia would like to do a summer residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, a development site specializing in metal and ceramics. The project concludes with a sound conference, exhibition and performative lecture.
Sydney Rahimtoola gained a bachelor's degree in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art in 2018. As a photographer, filmmaker, cultural programmer and performer, Rahimtoola aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of stories of black and brown communities. From her own experience with a burnout, she wants to use her artistic practice and methodology to involve these communities in mental health, radical self-care and psychedelic healing. In the coming year, she will set up three multidisciplinary projects for this purpose: 1. A podcast, in which she brings together her research and inspiration. 2. A visual album dedicated to the mental disorder of her uncle Saqib, and the racial traumas he has suffered. 3. A presentation at Today's Art, where, among other things, the visual album will be launched as an immersive scenographic film screening. In addition, Rahimtoola plans to follow several workshops and visit the psychedelic-trance scene in India and the psychedelic community in California. To professionalize her practice, Rahimtoola wishes to focus on a more theatrical approach and collaborate with, among others, a cinematographer and music producer.
Thom Bindels graduated in 2017 from the Man and Leisure department of the Design Academy Eindhoven. As a researcher, he is fascinated by the role of human labour in the landscape. In the coming year, this will be expressed in the project 'Een nieuwe maakbaarheid' (A new manipulability), in which he researches the natural landscape and the solutions that its ecological principles and processes offer to relevant problems of our time, such as air pollution, drought and the decline in the bee population. By means of natural interventions in the landscape and a videographic narrative, Bindels wants to invite people to be part of the landscape in a new way. The interventions in the landscape must become an interruption of the monoculture and restore a sense of connection and responsibility to humans in their environment. For this project, he will be collaborating with various landscape organizations, scientists and farmers. He will also be asking researcher and artist Arne Hendriks for advice. He wants to make the results of the research accessible to the general public by means of a film and installations along footpaths that run through the surveyed landscapes.
Designer Vera van de Seyp obtained her bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from the KABK and her master's degree in Media Technology from Leiden University. Her hybrid practice spans the world of digital technology and creative coding on the one hand, and graphic design and applied arts on the other. The central focus is the effect that technology has on humans and their environment and the dilemmas arising from this. In the coming year, Van de Seyp will focus on the question: 'How can the curation process become more accessible in generative design?'. To answer this question, she will perform a number of experiments as case studies, develop new digital tools and develop an online repository. This repository will not only include tools developed by Van de Seyp, but also by other generative designers, such as Rifke Sadleir (UK) and Laurel Schwultst (USA). In the selection, the designer takes into account equal representation of different genders and backgrounds. Part of the repository is an overview of links to existing platforms that focus on a single programming language such as OpenRNDR, ml4a and P5.js. In this way, Van de Seyp aims to create a freely accessible central point where most of the knowledge on this subject is gathered, making it easier for people starting on this material to develop further.
Wesley Mapes graduated in 2019 from the Sandberg Institute's master's programme Radical Cut Up. In his practice, he investigates the relationship between art and design. The basis of his work is the theme of black identities and the history of black communities worldwide. In the development year, he plans to carry out more academic research and materials research and to create a stronger narrative for his work. Under the title 'The Marsupial Jackson Boom Boom Room', he is developing an afrofuturistic, speculative space with a music installation that is location-specific. Wesley Mapes finds inspiration for this space in the work of Donald Judd and The Ummah Chroma. He seeks guidance from Jennifer Tosch from the Black Heritage Tours and Ceasar McDowell from MIT, among others. In addition, Mapes plans to participate in the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam, teach at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and visit the Afro-Antillean Museum in Panama. For the presentation of his work, Dutch Design Week is a possibility.
Momentum. Something designer, performer and educator Alvin Arthur is sensitive to. If the timing does not feel right, then he will not take it any further. This year it was a challenge to find a balance between what was possible and what was not, in order to remain both productive and healthy. The intended collaborations with other professionals did not go ahead for various reasons. However, it seemed like the time was right for his education project 'Body.coding'; programming with the body.
Body.coding is one example of Arthurs movement and body-based approach, also known as kinesthetics. His goal is to ensure that children from a young age realize that many things they see in their everyday life are digitally programmed; from the production of a chair, the construction of a building to even the development of a city. And that all of this is carried out by adults, who usually sit silently behind a desk, however there are alternatives.
For his children's education program, Arthur has developed a choreographic language; drawings in basic geometric forms and colors that show children how they need to move in order to depict a symbol. This, eventually, will allow them to program an entire sentence. Group dynamics are incredibly important. Those who quickly catch on are usually those who are able to explain this new language to their peers in a way that they understand. There is also room for imagination; what is the meaning of the choreography they have made together?
With help from the school network of the Eindhoven presentation platform MU, Arthur has hosted a number of workshops for various age groups in order to test and further develop his methods. In the new school year these methodologies will become widely available, allowing schools to work with this program.
Bringing movement into the classroom is vital to Arthur. 'The minute we sit a child down in a chair a great deal is lost. It's convenient for us, but it has long-term effects.' Arthur is convinced that children are not given enough skills to meet the challenges of the world. 'I think that many of the struggles we face as a society, globally stem from the fact that we do not know enough about ourselves, as we are not able to fully experience our bodies. This is the reason why I do this, so that we can learn more about ourselves by learning more about our bodies.'
Text: Victoria Anastasyadis
Austrian landscape architect Anna Fink investigates life patterns in specific landscapes and how they continually interact. She wants to unravel and strengthen this relationship, which she calls 'topographic life'. Fink does this by giving new meaning to the everyday location-bound customs and cultural actions with which we form the landscape.
Her new venture 'The taskscape of the forest' follows on from her graduation project 'Landscape as house'. It takes us to Austria where, together with her family she owns part of a forest. Through active fieldwork, she examines the personal actions and activities essential for shaping the landscape and preserving the vitality of a place. How do we shape such a plot? What informs the choice of maintenance, planting or harvesting trees or letting the forest take its course? Fink asks herself these questions, just as forest rangers or other owners of forestland. 'My goal is not to judge. I want to ask questions, overturn assumptions, to initiate dialogue regarding the different ways of interacting with the environment, how one defines nature, and what it means to live in a landscape. This is different from walking or cycling through the landscape because then you only consume. You limit the meaning of nature to something distant; to a concept.'
Given her need to research and develop a method, the past year seemed like the perfect time to set up her interdisciplinary design and research studio. It is aptly named Atelier Fischbach, after the place where Fink grew up. She also initiated a summer school in Austria. For the workshop 'Inhabiting wilderness' she works with Dutch designers and local craftsmen. In a riverbed, they build 'topographic furniture': subtle and transient interventions in the landscape that temporarily shape or mark their presence. The oven builder does not make an iconic wood-burning oven like everyone in the region, rather an outdoor furnace that disappears at high water. The loam builder's stamp-loam floor dissolves into nothing after a few rain showers. 'The physical work and our constant presence at the river create a connection with the place. There is room for dialogue from a shared experience called “embodied knowledge”.' Fink documents her research through photography, a film and a series of small books.
Text: Viveka van de Vliet
Arvand Pourabbasi graduated in Interior Architecture from the KABK. Over the past year, he has been studying the concepts of 'comfort' and 'exhaustion'. He believes being productive has a romanticized image that ignores fatigue, procrastination and anxiety. Rather than leisure time being a moment for rest and comfort, it falls within a capitalist logic. According to Pourabbasi, it is a time to recharge before quickly returning to work and maintaining a given level of productivity. He also analyses the meaning of work. Burn-out isn't so much caused by physically demanding labor; it is an exhausting effect of sedentary work on office employees' bodies. Within these contexts, 'home' is where exhaustion and comfort are intertwined.
Pourabbasi runs his studio, appropriately named WORKNOT! with Golnar Abbasi. They shed light on the extreme conditions that shape our society. WORKNOT! curated the collective project 'Fictioning Comfort' out of the need to explore the concept of comfort in a way that transcends artificial or artificial capitalist ideas. Socio-political artists showed their work in relation to different customs and approaches concerning 'comfort'. This ranged from installations, performances and historical research to science fiction, image production and performative objects. 'The meanings derived from the concepts are very diverse. They are about the exhaustion of the body, the land and politics. Such a project helps me to apply new layers to my work.'
To delve deeper into the subject, Pourabbasi spoke with various professionals during the development process, including physiotherapists, psychologists and designers, especially Bik van der Pol who helped him to curate the show and formulate the complex concept of comfort and exhaustion. Discussions with design studio Refunc, who specialize in 'Garbage Architecture', helped Pourabbasi to develop a carpet for use in presentations and discussions concerning his areas of interest. Pourabbasi considers carpets to be the most basic product that signifies both comfort and homeliness as well as a sprawling landscape.
He will collate the outcomes of his research into a publication. 'Drawing conclusions or giving unambiguous answers is not my goal. I am not a problem solver. I want to put the pieces together, and in this case, a publication is the vehicle. It will be an important document for raising awareness and envisioning a different future.'
Although she is trained as an architect, building as much as possible is definitely not what she strives for. Chiara Dorbolò's focus is on the question of what it means to be a contemporary architect. Traditionally, a building constructed based upon your design is perceived by many as the most rewarding part of the job. A significant measure of success is the number of buildings that have been constructed under your design guidance. However, for the younger generation this is different according to Dorbolò: 'Many architects in my peer group are working at the edge of the discipline and are engaged in the ethical responsibility that this profession carries. They do not want to commit to a profit driven system where there is little or no space for other motives and values.'
Dorbolò works at the cutting edge of spatial design and social science, something that she became interested in during her graduation project at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. Here she carried out research into the role of borders in migration patterns centered around the Italian island of Lampedusa, one of the most important arrival points for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe. 'I became aware of the extent of the social issue and realized that it wasn't a matter of simply designing a solution to a problem. Since then I have become much more involved with research and I started to write more and more about architecture and urbanization, including pieces for Failed Architecture and Topomagazine.com. I also started teaching architectural theory at the Rietveld Academy.'
This year Dorbolò has developed her expertise in storytelling and creative writing through workshops, coaching and professional work. She focused on assembling a publication containing a collection of stories paired up with follies – architectural structures without a specific function. Additionally, over the course of the past year she has published numerous articles and essays and collaborated on various projects exploring the intricate relationship between storytelling and architecture. The fact that she does not reject the designing of new buildings is demonstrated by the successful participation in a design contest for a large housing complex in Milan together with a group of other architects. Dorbolò contributed to the preliminary research, the concept and the storytelling in the proposal that won first place. 'Stories on Earth' is another project where she is exploring the possibilities of combining creative writing and design. Together with Failed Architecture she mediated a collaboration between professional designers and writers. This project will be presented in 2021 at the Biennale of Venice.
Having graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018, Martina Huynh and Jonas Althaus went on to form Cream on Chrome, a partnership which carries out research into the social impact of technological developments. Their interactive installations, presentations, videos and digital tools primarily pose questions such as: what is a meaningful relationship between humans and technology? What are the consequences of our dependency on devices? And who is actually responsible for the problems associated with technological progress?
One project that specifically addresses the latter question is 'Proxies on Trial'. 'Complex global issues like climate change or the current pandemic can get stuck in abstract discussions,' Huynh says. In order to make the conversation more concrete and give us a sense of control, the duo decided to press charges against everyday objects. Three different lawsuits take place in a 'whodunnit' video: a sneaker is arrested and prosecuted for global warming, an alarm clock is accused of causing traffic jams, and a face mask is on trial for not showing up in time to prevent infections. The fictional debate between prosecutors and defendants raises questions about mutual blame and the search for scapegoats. The decision to accuse objects (instead of people) is meant to prevent the jury from being biased.
Huynh and Althaus enjoy exploring the origins of established systems, consulting different philosophies, from Bruno Latour and Ubuntu to the ancient Greeks. With their Lab of Divergent Technologies, they turn the relationship between humans and technology inside out. Assuming that everything designed is a reflection of the creator and their zeitgeist, Cream on Chrome presents alternatives based on other philosophies and beliefs.
For example, they take a closer look at common, well-established concepts – like the clock. Our entire society is organized around the idea of linear, measurable time; a notion that was simply agreed upon. On one hand it's very efficient, but at the same time, it limits our freedom. What if we decided to use intuitive time instead? 'Today's technical applications often make users feel powerless. We like to create different designs that require more personal responsibility,' says Althaus. 'With our installations, we want to inspire the audience to rediscover their own role.'
Text: Willemijn de Jonge
With the help of YouTube, Gilles de Brock taught himself how to make hand-tufted carpets with wild, colorful patterns. Encouraged by his success he thought that something similar might work with ceramic tiles. Although printed tiles already exist, the specific glazing properties he had in mind disappeared during the manufacturing process. So, what did graphic designer, art director and creative coder Gilles de Brock do? He built his own ABCNC (AirBrush Computer Numerical Control) machine, explaining: 'Whatever I didn't know, I learned from YouTube videos.' Once everything was working, De Brock spent a few days at the EKWC (European Ceramic Work Centre) working with Koen Tasselaar and Jaap Giesen on the composition and behavior of the glazes. 'I eventually realized that I should rely on experts for the craftsmanship, and do the rest myself online.'
De Brock can now print tiles exactly as he intended but, this didn't happen without a fight. It took two years to get the machine to produce shiny glazed tiles, instead of pieces of junk. The tiles are fascinating because of the alienating effect they have on viewers. At first, they appear to be handmade, but upon closer inspection they are far too perfectly formed for that to be possible. There's something slightly psychedelic about the distinct aesthetic of the pixelated patterns and colors with a glaze that resembles car paint. The initial results were displayed at the Unfair art fair in Amsterdam, where they hung like colorful collages on the wall, contained within the borders of a frame. It was nice that he sold some artwork, but De Brock definitely doesn't see himself as an artist: 'I'm more of an entrepreneurial applied designer who sees the potential in collaborating with architects and interior designers. I envision a bar in a café or hotel lobby, or furniture and metro stations covered with my tiles.' In Jaap Giesen, he has found a partner who can help him market his new products commercially.
Because of the coronavirus, other exhibitions have been postponed, including one at the Fisk Gallery in Portland (US). The results of his research however have led to a publication with Corners, one of the leading graphic design and risograph printing studios in South Korea, which will also distribute it throughout Asia. Additionally, there will certainly be an exhibition in Seoul in the near future.
The art academies where Giorgio Toppin studied did not fully appreciate that his concepts were linked to his cultural background; there was no scope for non-Western approaches and ways of thinking. He was subsequently motivated to make his work public and move beyond academic contexts. In 2007, together with his sister Onitcha, Toppin established the fashion label XHOSA, a moniker similar to his middle name. He wants to offer a more varied and broader choice to young men who want something more in their wardrobe than shirts and jeans. He is proud that he is both from Amsterdam, born in 'little Suriname' (Amsterdam Zuidoost), and a black man with a Surinamese background. 'I mix the two worlds into new narratives. I translate them into collections that blend into the contemporary western context. Fashion that I and my clientele find cool to wear.'
His interest in the Surinamese diaspora and the culture of his homeland led the designer to return to Suriname last year for the first time since he was a baby. Toppin recorded everything and made a documentary to contextualize his research into Surinamese costumes, craftsmanship and techniques. He interviewed artisans about their profession and its development. 'They all gave the same answer: the value of preserving traditional crafts is important and evolves with societal changes. I showed them other possibilities. They were amazed that I translated their fabrics and patterns into a clothing collection.'
He applied indigenous knotting techniques with tassels to a sweater and a hand-embroidered traditional print from the Saramacca district to a winter coat. The creole 'kotomisi', which is extremely difficult to put on, is given a new and easy to wear silhouette. 'In Suriname, the women go to cultural parties in full regalia. Their outfits are passed on from generation to generation. However, this tradition does not apply to men. They rarely get further than a T-shirt and pants. That's a pity.' Therefore, his new collection ensures that men and women, here and in Suriname, have a greater variety of clothing that also adds something new to the street scene. The Covid-19 outbreak meant he could not present his collection during New York Fashion Week, but a launch closer to home is imminent. He also plans to organize viewings for shop buyers.
It should have been a year filled with travel and executing several concrete, ambitious plans. Instead, for Jing He, it has become a period of sitting still and reflecting on her own practice: 'This year I had the opportunity to discover how I can use myself.'
The inspiration for her project plan 'Elysium' was the transformation of her Chinese hometown. 'I can't really prove that I grew up in that city,' she says. 'I don't have any evidence, because all the buildings from my childhood have disappeared.' They have been replaced by modern office buildings and shopping centers. And to give the city some extra appeal, it recently added a life-sized copy of Paris's iconic Arc de Triomphe. It's not an exact imitation, but an adapted design which includes office space and an art gallery.
The idea was to visit this Arc and two other Chinese replicas, as well as a number of other places in China where you could see the imitation and reinterpretation of European cultural history. The practice of copying and identifying formations as social phenomena are often central to He's work. She intended to conclude her research trip with a visit to Paris, 'the original', which would offer inspiration for a series of objects. However, the arrival of the coronavirus, starting in China, threw a spanner in the works. Her trip was cancelled.
Suddenly, there was time to think about an issue that He kept circling back to: how can you translate your research into a social phenomenon into a design, an object, something tangible? How can you make it visual? 'Sometimes an idea is just an idea, but making is a whole different path,' says He. Thanks to advice from former teachers at the Design Academy and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, she has explored new ways of creating and forming routines. For example, it led her to create objects out of fresh fruit, which quickly decompose. Another discovery was drawing: not purposefully sketching, but drawing as a means to freely generate new ideas: 'That gave me courage, because it made me realize that I don't have to know the outcome in advance.'
Through her drawing and online research, she gained new ideas and insights which have yet to be visualized and materialized. He still wants to continue with her original plans as soon as possible.
'My fascination with the subversive figure of the witch began at a young age,' says Juliette Lizotte, also known as jujulove, 'but over the years it faded into the background.' In recent years however, her interest returned and has become the subject of her research. Primarily interested in the relationship between witches and nature, Lizotte makes a connection to ecofeminism. This social and political movement stretches back to the seventies and assumes a correlation between the oppression of women and the decline of the environment. 'As a subject the witch is the perfect vehicle for current events. Her evil image is undeserved. The witch is due a modern interpretation; she is actually an autonomous person, a disruptive, revolutionary character who consciously takes her responsibilities towards the flora and fauna around her'.
French by birth and educated at the Sandberg institute, Lizotte wants to revitalize the climate change discussion with her video work and LARP games, a wake-up call to make people reconsider their harmful habits when it comes to the environment. She aims to create accessible work that also draws interest from outside of the world of art. 'I focus my energies on a younger audience. Youth in particular should feel challenged by the climate crisis. However, the subject is sadly quite often viewed as boring and evokes feelings of guilt. Besides, many other social-political questions seem more urgent.'
Last year Lizotte has followed dance-, performance- and writing courses. She collaborated with dancers and theatre makers and with a fashion designer co-created costumes from recycled plastic for the dancers in her videos. She also delved into the possibilities of LARP-gaming and received advice on optimizing her work presentation. It all served a purpose; to give her research more depth and shape and to create a parallel world to inspire others. Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus the presentation of her work had to be delayed. 'Video shoots could not go ahead and have been postponed. But we picked ourselves up; last week we managed to get together for the first time to film, which was pretty exciting.' Lizotte documents her research both online and in a publication.
The relationship between art and the environment has fascinated Kasia Nowak since she was young. Her graduation project 'Art in Context', which won the 2016 Archiprix, investigated the optimal spatial conditions for art and how they are experienced. The project she has researched over the past year continues this concept, however she has shifted the focus from 'an urban location' to 'a specific location', namely the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. As the curator of her own narrative, she formulates a new and different museum typology: a positive and critical take on exhibiting.
The choice of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is specific. Since the museum is undergoing a renovation, Nowak sees this as a unique opportunity. She also thinks Adrianus van der Steur's ideas are aligned with her own. 'His designs for the original building took specific artworks into account. For example, he wanted to avoid shadows in the corners of the rooms. Such considerations should happen more often.' She delves further into the architectural context of artworks, focusing on aspects often neglected or even ignored in museums: 'Placing a work of art in the wrong context creates an incomplete experience.' She has found numerous examples where placement, natural light, artificial light, or dark spaces can affect how a work is displayed and interpreted. She spoke to historians and read biographies and interviews with artists, from which it became clear that many artists explicitly state how their work should be displayed. Nowak also investigated where certain artworks have been, whether they were specifically made for a location, and whether they were integrated into the architecture.
The results of her research 'Art in the City' will probably be displayed in the Depot of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. For the time being, she is making scale models of objects and experimenting with alternative materials, transparency, shapes and colors. 'It is a privilege to be the curator of your own exhibition that deals with how you can present differently.'
For his 'Tiger Penis Project' Kuang-Yi Ku won the Gijs Bakker Award from the Design Academy in Eindhoven two years ago. The project presents a sustainable alternative to the use of protected species in Chinese medicine and is more relevant than ever. As the consumption of wild animals in China may have been responsible for a pandemic, the search for an alternative has become even more urgent. 'I have been trying to think of a way to produce artificial bats and pangolins,' says Ku, 'to enable us to preserve traditions and at the same time prevent disaster.'
Meanwhile, temporarily from Taipei, Ku is working on three projects for which he has applied to the Creative Industries Fund NL. As a social designer and bio-artist with a background in dentistry, he designs controversial scenarios for the human body. These are based around health, sexuality and our interaction with other species on the planet. Ku searches for methodologies connecting design and medical science. To keep the context contemporary, he also adds a dose of sociology and politics.
Quite often these scenarios portray an oppressive future which explores the lines of what we perceive to be acceptable. An example of this is the project 'Delayed Youth' which outlines a dystopian scenario where the conservative party of Taipei has removed all sexual education from school textbooks. In that case, why not develop an injection that removes one's sex drive and halts the onset of puberty until a person is legally allowed to have sex – at the age of eighteen? A video shows how uniform the world would look if, up until their eighteenth birthday, people are virtually indistinguishable from each other, including trouser skirts for the gender-neutral youth. The second project explores the ethical aspects of modern-day reproductive technologies. 'Grandma Mom' introduces the idea of surrogacy in elderly women for their own daughters, which allows the daughters to continue with their careers.
The third project on which Ku is working is also based around the concept of sexuality and reproduction. Together with an animal ecology researcher from the VU in Amsterdam, Ku compares an androgynous snail with other hermaphrodites; what is normal for a snail, is abnormal for humans. 'Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert' takes a biological view on discrimination of sexual minorities.
Feminine and tough, with a rough edge. That's how Lieselot Elzinga describes her eponymous fashion label, Elzinga, which she founded together with Miro Hämäläinen after graduating from the Rietveld Academy in 2018. Their love of the stage is evident in their designs. Hämäläinen attended art academy and theatre school, and Elzinga has been a singer and bass player in various bands since she was twelve. 'You have to be able to make an entrance and perform immediately. Our clothing is extravagant but not too much, just enough to make you feel good on stage.' The brand celebrates fashion and music, with simple, precise shapes and heaps of color. The designs evoke the fifties, sixties, Teddy Girls, Pop Art and rock 'n' roll, but anno 2020. And it's very popular too. Elzinga's graduation collection was spotted by Parrot fashion agency, who immediately signed the pair up and introduced them to London's MatchesFashion.
That's when it all started. They had to translate a graduation collection that didn't focus on wearability into a sustainable collection for the commercial market. 'I incorporated PVC in my graduation pieces. At the art academy, however, I never considered the applicability of what I made. This suddenly became important.' The task didn't daunt the duo, and they got off to a flying start. 'Of course, we made many mistakes, but ultimately you learn the most by just doing.' And they did a lot in their first year: the launch of four collections, a presentation at London Fashion Week and the opening of Amsterdam Fashion Week – appropriately at the Maloe Melo blues café.
In between, they carried out research into fabrics at a Spanish weaving mill and worked on their professional business operations. 'Suddenly it's no longer a hobby but an enterprise', says Elzinga, 'We had to consider finances and business management – pretty awful stuff. What's nice is, it's getting faster and faster. The first collection took eight months, the second four and the last only two.' Meanwhile, a fifth collection is in the works, this time no longer exclusively for MatchesFashion. The style has become more subdued. 'Fashion is bound to human behavior. We make a lot of party clothes, but these days there aren't that many parties. That's why the new collection is a bit quieter.'
'Super happy and super tired.' That's how designer Marco Federico Cagnoni feels after a year of researching latex-producing edible plants in collaboration with Utrecht University. He is now one step closer to his goal: a fully biodegradable bioplastic that has all the advantages and properties of synthetic plastic. The twelve months of the Talent Development program are only the start of the material's development. Cagnoni estimates it will take several more years to get 'from the seed to the material.'
Utrecht University allows him to use a greenhouse in their botanical gardens to grow a small selection of plants with potentially high latex yields, such as salsify – the 'forgotten vegetable'. Unlike more well-known bioplastics made from algae or mushrooms, latex (the basis of, among other things, rubber) does not contain cellulose. According to Cagnoni, cellulose-based material does not make a high-performance bioplastic. He was already studying this matter for his graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven and the development year has allowed him to further research his ideas and hypotheses into practice.
Monitoring the cycle of a plant takes a lot of time; nature cannot be rushed. The corona measures meant he was temporarily unable to take care of the plants, and the harvest failed. Fortunately, he was able to make a chemical analysis from an earlier sample. 'The bottom line is that we discovered a new material that has incredible characteristics and is 70% similar to polyethylene vinyl acetate (PEVA) rubber.' Now they have discovered the 'fingerprint' of the material and know precisely how it is constructed. But there is still a long way to go: 'We have probably found the key; now we must find the lock.'
The next step is testing the material under different conditions. For the project to succeed, a huge increase in scale is needed: ample growing space and larger machines to extract the latex from the roots or an industrial partner who will commit to the research. Each step is demanding but developing this into a mass-produced material is essential to Cagnoni. As a social designer, his aim is to translate science into design. And not only for the '1%', but also for the benefit of the entire earth and its inhabitants.
These are interesting times for Mark Henning. His graduation project 'Normaal' at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017 marked the start of a period of research on how people perceive normal and the rigidity of our normality. In response to Mark Rutte's remark that 'the norm here is that we shake hands', he designed 'the perfect handshake'. He measured everything down to the millimeter and outlined instructions for a training table to be used when integrating newcomers to Dutch culture – to the point of absurdity. Since then, he has continued to create playful interventions that deal with interpersonal space and the related gestures. In March, his work was displayed at the Philadelphia Museum in the US, as part of the 'Designs for Different Futures' exhibition.
And then the pandemic arrived. Now all of us are talking about 'the new normal'. The world has been turned upside down, which can be a gift to a designer who was already questioning what is normal. Henning is currently rethinking his work. The practice mirror and carefully drawn lines on his training table have made way for something else. While Henning's lines were meant to bring people closer together, public spaces are now covered in lines that show people how to keep their distance. Shaking hands is now out of the question: 'A gesture that is meant to show trust has now become a risk.'
Henning thinks it's surreal. Of course, he's already been observing and playing around with the complexities of social distancing. He's working on an adapted installation for Designs for Different Futures, which will soon move to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The question now is how closeness and intimacy will change. He is especially interested to see what will happen as we re-emerge from lockdown, asking: 'How will we deal with interpersonal space? Will we ever feel safe shaking hands again? What will social interaction look like in six months?' Henning is working on a dramatized documentary that highlights different traditions. 'We don't know how long this process will take, but what if we have to learn it all over again?' If that occurs, Mark Henning's tools will offer us one solution. And then we can all reintegrate, with a knowing wink to what we once considered normal.
'You would make a very good father… just like your mother.' On a Tunisian beach, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Marwan Magroun's mother explains what it was like raising three children by herself in Rotterdam. Magroun's father wasn't around – something that seems to confirm the stigma surrounding fathers from a migrant background. But in his current circle of friends, the photographer and videographer has had a very different experience. He sees divorced fathers with Cape Verdean, Antillean and Surinamese roots fighting for their children, consciously focused on how to provide for them, and grappling with the question of whether they are doing it right or not. So, to counter the negative image of bi-cultural fathers, he decided to make a photo-series and a film. He explains: 'Since 9/11, there's been something projected on us. I'm looking for ways to combat that. Instead of a prejudiced image of the group as a whole, I want to provide a more personal, nuanced view.'
In his half-hour documentary, 'The Life of Fathers', he follows three single fathers. While he interviews his friends and photographs them at close range, his search for nuance is filmed under the direction of Rien Bexkens. 'We all think in stereotypes,' says Magroun, 'until you get to know the people as individuals. The fathers I spoke to want to see their children, be involved and raise them to be good people.' The film was screened at the IFFR in January and is currently in the running for a variety of international festivals. Magroun's goal is to make more of these kinds of independent productions – he calls them 'meaningful stories'.
His passion for photography began completely by chance in 2012, when he got an old SLR camera from 1967, found among some rubbish on the street. He bought a roll of film at the HEMA (a famous Dutch department store) and started taking pictures of the city where he was born and raised. Four years later, he bought a new camera and quit his job as an organizational expert; in 2017 he won the Kracht van Rotterdam photography prize. He's now scaling up his business: 'I've now reached the level where I can just do what I think is cool. There are still plenty of stories waiting to be told.'
Design research. Much has been written and said about it, but what is it really? Or rather, what does it mean? Last year, when Maxime Benvenuto visited the graduation show at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he also graduated with honors in 2016, he noticed that most of the exhibitors relied on design research. 'But,' he wonders, 'can you really call it that if you've simply read a book as a way to justify prroduction?'. Benvenuto views it more as a discipline that collects intangible knowledge and information, without immediately resulting in a product. Research is never finished, there is no end result, there is only an intermediate state. Therefore, what he is presenting at Dutch Design Week is just a snapshot.
Benvenuto started his own design research – on the practice of design research. He is now conducting in-depth interviews with 17 researchers from the Netherlands, Italy, France, the UK and Japan. They describe the discrepancy between education and practice. For example, a French design researcher at a bio nanotechnology lab had to learn everything from scratch when she started working after finishing her degree. During an interview with a French designer, Benvenuto struggled with the translation of an expression: is it 'la recherche au travers du design' or 'le design au travers de la recherche'? So, is it design for or by research? It turned out that a lot has already been written on the subject – he is currently in the middle of reading discourses by researchers like Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Alain Findelli and Christopher Frayling. 'In practice, it really does matter which preposition you use,' Benvenuto says. Another recurring theme is the subjectivity involved. While most scientists frantically try to remain objective, design research allows for subjective findings. 'That's quite typical', he says. Just like creating interventions to see how people react; design researchers take a much different approach than anthropologists, who want to observe without intervening.
His research on 'the cosmology of design research' is still in progress. It requires depth, which according to Benvenuto, is something that is often missing in design journalism: 'Design has become a fast-moving consumer product, that you should be able to describe in 100 words with a few striking images. But it takes more than that to convey the nuance.'
Spatial designers Klodiana Millona and Yuan Chun Liu work together as millonaliu. They share a deep interest in alternative ways of living and cohabitation. They are also critical of architecture as a discipline. They consider it to be political, too dominant, canonical and too focused on redundant paradigms that do not meet current requirements for housing construction.
In their development year, they wanted to study two informal housing structures in the capitals of their native countries Taiwan and Albania. In Taipei, residents often add an extra floor to the existing roof. In a city with sky-high rents, these rooftop extensions are usually rented at relatively low prices, thus meeting a need which the government neglects. In Tirana, a completely different phenomenon occurs; here houses are often not finished but are in a constant state of renovation and expansion. This is partly due to regulations: unfinished houses are subject to tax exemption. It is also due to financing: families abroad will often pay for building work, sending money intermittently.
Due to the corona crisis, the research could not take place in Albania. However, millonaliu were able to carry out field research in Taiwan and conducted further research online during the lockdown. While researching its land ownership formation in time and the forces behind it they focused on a genetically modified rice crop that had to be grown for the Japanese market during its colonial domination of Taiwan, with far-reaching consequences. 'You see how just one type of crop can affect the country, the land, the culture, the industry and even the rituals. We looked at how this crop, and therefore agriculture, has had a strong effect on the environment, both physically and socially.'
The designers are currently organizing the information they have collected for an online publication that they will supplement with comparable examples of alternative forms of cohabitation. Beyond the outcomes of their projects, this development year allowed millonaliu to investigate how to make a living from their work and experiment with types of participatory research. 'How do you collect information that does not come from the people who control the information? What does it mean to research a site both with and within a community? What are our own values, and in this field what do we really want to address?'
During her final year studying product design at ArtEZ, Milou Voorwinden participated in an exchange program with the textile lab at Falmouth University. 'That's when I fell in love with weaving,' she says. After graduating, she continued with her own hand loom and began to specialize in textile design – not only the design but also the manufacturing process itself. She is now a jacquard weaver at EE Exclusives, where she has access to industrial machines with 76 warp threads per centimeter – extremely suitable for 3D weaving. Over the past year, she has taken a deep dive into the technology. 'Normally, fabric is made on a loom, then the pieces of the pattern are cut out and finally, everything is put together. When you weave in three dimensions, it's finished as soon as it comes out of the machine. 'Using this approach, you can make and design textiles locally with a single process,' she says. 3D weaving therefore offers major sustainability advantages: it cuts down on waste, production time and shipping.
Voorwinden joined forces with a designer from New Zealand who is currently working on a PhD focused on sustainable pattern making. Together, they have made a pair of trousers, which have already been woven several times in an attempt to figure out the best results. For example, 'how thick should the thread be and how much tension should the machine put on the thread?' It is not really about the resulting design, but more about the manufacturing process and possible applications. She has also experimented with spacers that could replace the less sustainable foam found in cushions; it is a kind of woven TPU framework that provides a springy, lightweight interior.
In addition to researching high-tech machines in Heeze, Brabant, Voorwinden went looking for the opposite extreme – she went to Japan to rediscover traditional looms. In the silk-making province of Kyoto, she programmed old machines that didn't use a rapier, but instead relied on a shuttle and continuous thread. 'They are often punch-card machines connected to a box that controls everything with a floppy disk,' Voorwinden explains. She found a way to make tradition and innovation work together, by making an old machine work with new software. 'I'd love to go back some time and study it more,' she concludes.
'In Asia, including my homeland of South Korea, people have respect for every living being' says Minji Choi from her studio in Eindhoven. And that's what her 'The Dignity of Plants' project addresses. She investigates the cultural symbolism of plants in relation to the urban landscape by shifting the perspective to the plant rather than the human. Choi uses the 'dignity of the plant' or the 'rights of the plant' to begin redefining our attitude towards other living things. This attitude is often based on false sentiments and moral judgments about what is good and bad or natural and artificial. How we see nature is how we see the world. By putting yourself in the position of a plant, you can look at nature differently.
Last year, Choi elaborated on this fact with a case study of invasive plants, notably the Black Cherry. Known for its vitality, strength and beauty, the Netherlands began importing these trees from America in 1740. Initially, the Black Cherry was used to stimulate the establishment of production forests consisting of pines. The tree however hindered the growth of the pine trees and began to dominate the forest. The initially admired Black Cherry started to be viewed negatively. Since invasive plants supply seeds to birds and provide shelter for insects and other animals, ecologists are now developing ways to take advantage of them in nature. 'Instead of removing invasive trees, we should protect the ecosystem and boost biodiversity, creating a healthier forest with better soil quality and more balance.'
With the exclusion of invasive plant species, Choi sees parallels with the exclusion of people and the way we treat migrants, refugees or obese people. 'As a designer, I want to share stories with a wider audience and help change our thinking.' Choi has done this through a series of publications, a video documentary, an animated film and interviews with ecologists. She also wants to realize her own 'Garden of Eden' and become proficient in garden design. 'In doing so, I am challenging myself to create my ideal garden, and it only makes my case study stronger.'
Having taken to landscape architecture like a fish to water, Mirte van Laarhoven does not develop conventional parks or squares. She works on large-scale visions regarding climate adaptation and the restoration of biodiversity. By creating small interventions, she contributes to a healthy landscape.
Van Laarhoven graduated from the Academy of Architecture in 2017. As a landscape architect, her starting point is not controlling or conquering nature, but moving with nature. She gives water the space to flow more freely and investigates better uses of natural processes.
But how do you create artistic landscape architecture that contributes to the existing landscape? One example is her 'Underwater Forest' of deadwood that attracts all kinds of creatures, influences the current, and is a gauge of ecology. She also makes land-art interventions, such as playground equipment or sculpture gardens, which are attractive for flora and fauna but also humans. 'The idea behind it is that you get to know nature through play, by learning to look deeper and interact with everything that lives.'
She made significant steps last year and established her own studio: Living Landscapes. She continues to develop her practice and expand her portfolio. The new set of instruments she is developing requires new knowledge and skills. She works with ecologists, artisans and architects to achieve her ambition to realize projects in public waterways. It is not something she accomplishes as a matter of course. 'Government and nature organizations are enthusiastic, but the culture of consultation and the safety aspects make processes slow and policy-oriented. I hope to find a way to realize pilots faster and to test my ambitions step by step amidst the forces of nature.'
Fortunately, her in-laws recently bought a plot of land in Klarenbeek. It is currently dead forest, but the goal is to breathe new life into this former spruce forest, which died due to drought. 'A forester would probably flatten it and replant it in one go, I however am reevaluating the current situation. Revitalizing a forest by myself is not what you would call landscape architecture, but it suits my way of working. I develop a clear vision, followed by an organic translation into practice. This allows me to determine what is needed on-site and deliver something tailor-made. My ideal is a working process that flows like water.'
Research designer and journalist Nadine Botha has always been aware of the role of stories within culture, and not just any stories, but stigmatizing stories based on fear and propaganda. As a conversation starter, Botha uses 'innocent' topics as tools to retrieve and nuance the stories never told about repression, justice and colonialism. She reveals them through archival research, interviews and partnerships with scientists, by displaying the socio-political and cultural value behind the subjects via installations at exhibitions, through digital media, in performances, publications and workshops.
With her ongoing research project 'Sugar: A Cosmology of Whiteness', Botha brings, on numerous levels, sugar into the spotlight – using this sweet topic to highlight the darker side of transatlantic slave trade and the contemporary food industrial complex. Currently, for 'Projecting Other-wise', she is working with epidemiologist Henry de Vries. This project, which is about public health, stigma and viruses through zombies was rewarded with the Bio Art & Design Award (BAD). 'Zombie apocalypse films bring the modern-day myths of society regarding sickness and the dreaded other together,' says Botha. The zombie story originates from Haitian folklore, where it was used to herald the resistance of slaves, and ultimately the Haitian Revolution that led to the abolishment of slavery. Later, in Hollywood films, the folklore was appropriated to signify white people's fear of black people as disease carriers – a preconception that stemmed from how epidemiology was used during the colonial times to justify segregation and genocide. 'Over the years, the films have evolved to show the zombie outbreak being spread by a virus and the fear-inducing zombie horde itself representing the political other of contemporary news narratives, such as terrorism, refugees, the HIV/Aids epidemic and now the coronavirus.'
How the fear of others is by design something that Botha wants to bring into the conversation, partly due to her upbringing in south Africa and master studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven. 'Racism and colonialism were never a part of any design discussion whatsoever.' This is why she seeks interaction with the audience, to facilitate conversations over subjects rarely discussed. With her work, Botha attempts to make a contribution by sharing alternative, nuanced stories that question the existing narrative and, with it, in time, our understanding of what we take for granted in the world.
'Bittere Ernst' ('Dead Earnest'): the working title of the game in which Nastia Cistakova gently ridicules the 'quarter-life crisis'. 'Too many choices for young people, obviously a very real problem'; Cistakova has the audacity to make fun of the search for meaning – in both text and images. Her graduation project at the HKU was rewarded with the Blink Youngblood Award, for the sublimely uncomfortable feelings that it brought to the surface. The main character in the game she had already created: a pink potato. 'A meaningless shape, representing this whole generation of seekers and their
spiritual chaos.'
Over the course of the last year, Cistakova dug deeper into the identity of her wandering potato. Using the internet as her oracle, roaming forums, Googling questions such as; 'How to spice up your life?'. 'Then you get those fantastically dull answers like; keep a dream diary, learn to meet new people, step out of your comfort zone.' Cistakova joyously and freely associated; creating storyboards where she allowed her potato to go bungee jumping, struggle with new encounters or run away from a set of rampaging false teeth. The absurd was exalted into art. In the artist's own words: without any deeper message. 'The idea is more like; how can I make life even weirder than I thought it was? Allow little dramas to go even further off the rails? Now that makes me happy.'
The game is not yet finished, since the creative process is also a search for new techniques and methodologies. By now she has improved her drawing skills, taken an interest in animation, video, interactive design and 3D objects. 'Actually, I always used to draw by hand so that I could fix any mistakes in Photoshop later. I have now bought an iPad to learn how to draw digitally, so that I can be finished in one go.'
In addition to commissioned work for, amongst others, De Volkskrant, De Correspondent and Het Parool, where it's mainly about what others experience, Cistakova's own projects are much more focused on sharing her personal story. Keep your eyes open in the coming months for the release of Bittere Ernst, for a surprising look into Cistakova's chaotic soul.
'Bittere Ernst' ('Dead Earnest'): the working title of the game in which Nastia Cistakova gently ridicules the 'quarter-life crisis'. 'Too many choices for young people, obviously a very real problem'; Cistakova has the audacity to make fun of the search for meaning – in both text and images. Her graduation project at the HKU was rewarded with the Blink Youngblood Award, for the sublimely uncomfortable feelings that it brought to the surface. The main character in the game she had already created: a pink potato. 'A meaningless shape, representing this whole generation of seekers and their spiritual chaos.'
'Currently I'm in Morocco, where I have just learnt how to weave a carpet.' This is the voice-over of the cleaning lady, who, together with Ottonie von Roeder, built the robot you now see in the video doing her job - all by itself. In Roeders 'Post-Labouratory', the cleaning lady worked on her own replacement, allowing her to take time off to go travelling. As opposed to the suspicion of advancing of technology, Von Roeder created a more optimistic scenario. Following in the footsteps of philosopher Hannah Arendt, she makes a distinction between work and labour, the latter includes the jobs that we would rather not do. If we are able to manufacture a robot specifically for such chores, then one is able to spend the time saved doing something immeasurably more enjoyable.
After graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven, Von Roeder continued her studies into the transition from labour to work. She noticed that her design peers found her self-made robots an interesting solution for physical professions, but failed to associate the experiment with themselves. 'Designers are convinced, as most people, that their own job could never be automated,'says Von Roeder. 'Computers however, have already become extremely important in our field, nearly everything is created with software programs.' Her design research into the future of creative professions explores the possibilities, but also the sentimental aspects. Von Roeder would like to build a robot that is able to take care of her administration and subsidy applications. Meanwhile, in an effort to blur the lines between inspiring and boring tasks, she is also experimenting with software that is able to design models.
Currently Von Roeder is working on a chatbot for the Dutch Design Week which will question visitors. 'Is creativity a strictly human quality or does a computer also possess this ability? Can we simulate design? If so, will it have the same quality? How will it affect the future of our profession?' Ultimately, Von Roeder aims to trigger and activate the audience. 'Automation is threatening if you look passively at how technology is taking over, but you can also choose to take a more active role. If you are able to master the available technology and redesign it and create something useful, then it becomes positive. I see it as a challenge to turn people from consumers into active participants.'
Florian Mecklenburg and Karolien Buurman have been repositioning their studio this year; what once began as Goys Birls, has now evolved into Paradyme, Practice for Visual Culture. 'A paradigm is a set of rules that determines how you perceive the world', according to researcher and art director Karolien Buurman. 'We decided to immediately break the rules by spelling the word incorrectly.' The intangible framework of the digital domain keeps the duo occupied. Where the world of images previously was dominated by designers, illustrators and photographers, now anybody who owns a smartphone can be an image maker. Paradyme follows this cultural 180 closely. Their new approach is focused more on design research than on delivering an end product. 'Research and strategy were always a significant part of our design work, but now we appreciate the intrinsic value of the process itself,' says graphic designer Florian Mecklenburg.
Lately, the duo has been dedicating time to search for their place in the world of visual culture and pushing any boundaries that they may encounter. They joined forces with a writer and a thinker for the publication of a series of reports on the influence of visual culture. Not being typographers, they decided to create their own font. 'To not have to strictly follow the rules of typography, feels great,' says Buurman. Their font is called Crop Top and is inspired by the garment which exposes the midriff; an item that down the years has been perceived as a symbol for rebellion against society. They regard it as a character in the broadest sense of the word. The back-story is what piques their interest; 'The crop top reveals social-cultural topics on politics, race, gender and religion.' Extensive research will be followed by a visual publication containing their results.
Another new skill they have learnt is virtual 3D sculpting. The duo has also picked up something tangible and earthy; ceramics – because 'not all solutions are found within the computer.' Currently, they are in the middle of a research project into tactile forms and structures and don't wish to disclose much about the objects that will emerge. In the end that's not what's most important, that's the whole point behind this year's research.
Vito Boeckx and Jim Brady were roommates for a few years whilst students at the Design Academy Eindhoven. They graduated in 2018 with respective virtual reality projects, which they worked on in their living room. As Post Neon, they have continued to develop increasingly sophisticated virtual 3D content. And now, childhood friend Jeremy Renoult has also joined them. 'What we do is recreate objects or situations from the real world in a digital form that you can modify. The challenge is to blur the lines between reality and virtuality in such a way that you sometimes no longer know what you have seen. That surreal element is what makes it interesting', says Brady.
As well as being surreal, it is convenient having a database full of digital 3D objects that you can manipulate indefinitely and use in the most unusual places for campaigns, communication and art. They applied for a grant at the Creative Industries Fund NL to increase their technical skills for the various forms of content. Reality cannot be captured in one program: simulating a building is very different from simulating a garment. They needed the latter to assemble digital collections for streetwear brands Edwin and Lores. But they also designed an AR installation for Cinekid and MU, where children could modify a Coke bottle or a flower on their iPad. They also immersed themselves in the visual language of sand – which is part of the self-initiated 'passion projects'. Brady: 'We saw a documentary about sand scarcity. Did you know that at least fourteen thousand everyday objects are made with sand? If the scarcity continues, there will be no more beaches in 60 years – something we wanted to address. The visual language of sand grains is fascinating and inspiring. We are now working with Fontys to make the project a VR experience.'
'Without VR, the outcomes are difficult to describe. We are therefore working on a showreel that summarizes in a few minutes the highlights of Post Neon's first year. We hope it will also feature the 3D work for Ronnie Flex's new album, which was an assignment from record label Top Notch. Ronnie has put back the release, so we can't say too much about it just yet. But we were responsible for the creative direction and production of the entire album's virtual content.' Each track will feature work by Post Neon on Spotify Canvas: music to listen to and watch.
Artist Rosita Kær (28) is working on a series of ongoing projects in collaboration with her grandmother, Karen-Hanne Stærmose Nielsen (87). Her grandmother's textile collection was the starting point of her ongoing research. The collection was sold in 2018, and, as a result, has been disintegrated.
What does it mean when a collector or collection disappears, and what creative possibilities does that offer? This is one of the questions Kær is focusing on. Her grandmother's eclectic collection included everything from Bronze Age textiles to pieces of broken or worn out fabric that others might consider rubbish, however she saw potential in all of them. The fact that her grandmother wanted to get rid of the collection because of her advanced age was at first difficult for Kær, because the pieces had been such a big part of her grandmother's life. They were as precious, intimate and personal as a second skin. But the project is also about letting go, about friendship across generations, between two women – one who is at the beginning of her life, and another who is nearing the end.
As a weaver, Kær's grandmother knows everything about yarn, spinning and all kinds of textile techniques. While Kær says that she isn't that interested in mastering the techniques herself, the grandmother and granddaughter have a lot in common when it comes to how they approach the material. She says: 'We both dive into the different layers, into the details, as if we were archaeologists. We look at how things are made, fall apart, and are repaired. For my grandmother, a weaving flaw in a piece of textile has more value than a flawless piece, because the mistakes give you a glimpse into the thought process of the maker. I also prefer holes and slight imperfections. An archaeologist looks for fragments that, when combined, make a story more complete. But there are always still missing pieces. I'm only interested in partial and slippery conclusions.'
In the past year, she has also had conversations with curators, archivists and artists about how they interpret collections. Eventually, Kær will present her own research in an exhibition in which her interest in textiles, ceramics, spatial design, text, archaeology and museology will come together. In the exhibition and accompanying publication, the recorded conversations she has had with her grandmother over the past four years, will be the thread connecting the objects she will exhibit.
Lush green gardens filled with ferns, Japanese blossom trees and two precisely aligned deer. Ivy, a pot with blooming hortensia's and a fat panda bear. These small artificial landscapes are exhibited at the showroom of the Chinese factory in the Guandong province, where artificial plants are produced. Jewelry designer Sae Honda visited various factories during her research project 'Parallel Botany' to investigate the materials used and their seemingly life-like appearance. Here she studied the manufacturing process of the fake plants and flowers. 'It's crazy, just like a science fiction film.'
Like a somewhat contemporary archaeologist Honda questions our current value systems. In her interdisciplinary practice, which aside from jewelry includes objects, installations and publications, she is less interested in the monetary value but rather focuses on the intrinsic value of an object which is found in the attention it is given and how it is treated, regardless of whether it is fake or real. This also applies to Honda's previous project and publication 'Everybody needs a rock' (2018) as well as the artificial plants. 'I don't wish to promote artificial plants but rather to draw people's awareness to what I call “fake nature”. We place less value on these man-made products, but this new fake nature, carefully reproducing the nerves, shadows or raindrops has a value of its own. This craft of faking is fascinating to see. There are so many industrially produced plants where the human touch is clearly visible.'
Honda also investigated the potential of imitation pearls. For her project 'Faux Pearl' she travelled to her homeland Japan where she visited small factories and workshops in Osaka. These places have small-scale production runs where the fake pearls are made by hand and coated with pearl essence. In collaboration with one of these companies and employing their techniques, Honda was able to experiment with shapes other than the classic round bead.
In order to refine her business, start a jewelry label and find the right sales channels, Honda brought in the expertise of Sarah Mesritz, co-founder of the jewelry platform and magazine Current Obsession. In this way she hopes to find shops for her reproducible collection of custom artificial jewelry, made in Japan and assembled in the Netherlands.
Large, colorful murals and artworks reveal street-art artist Saïd Kinos' background in graphic design. Within his design practice Kinos makes use of collage, paint and assemblage techniques that result in works where the closely placed and overlapping fragmented typographies create the illusion of depth. The way in which people communicate; language, symbols, (social) media and the overload of information are his biggest sources of inspiration.
Kinos makes autonomous works for museums and galleries as well as commission pieces. Last year he created three murals at Art Basel and Art Miami which led to an assignment for a mural at a hotel in Okinawa, Japan. The 'Talentonwikkelingsbeurs' (talent development scholarship) gave him the financial freedom to focus on his work and the headspace to think about how to expand his practices on the international stage and to further develop from a content perspective. 'I would like to transcend the street-art label and present myself more as a contemporary autonomous artist who is able to create work accordingly,' says Kinos from his Rotterdam based studio.
The artist also wants to expand his spectrum. In order to give his work an extra dimension; to bring his paintings to life, Kinos has developed his skills in VR, animation, project mapping (a technique that allows you to project a moving image onto a wall) and AR. 'My approach is no different than that of my two-dimensional work, but with an added technical dimension. I would like to master all these forms of digital media, to allow for better communications between myself and the programmers I prefer to work with.' This involves attending online courses in animation and a work visit to the Argentinian-Spanish street art-artist Felipe Pantone, who also broadened his media horizon.
All this Kinos brings together in a large, spacious installation. Inspired by the 'Infinity Room' by Yayoi Kusama, the artist visualizes large-scale works printed on plexiglass surfaces arranged in a row, whereas the rest of the room has been covered in mirrors, allowing the visitor a walk-through experience. In order to realize this, Kinos is constructing scale models, sketching plans and building prototypes. The artist has already presented an installation at the POWWOW! festival in Japan, however due to the pandemic, Kinos has had to re-think his strategies. The Showbox, a company that displays artworks and installations in empty shop windows in Rotterdam, has asked Kinos to participate; the perfect opportunity for a tryout of his installation.
Seokyung Kim loves illustrations, poems and writing. The project 'Alternative of Alternative Literature' which she has been working on for the past year is inspired by a poem from her diary, something she began writing in when she started her studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2014. Her projects focus on the algorithms in human speech, including automated translation services such as Google Translate, Markov chain (a mathematical system that moves step-by-step), voice recognition and automatic correction. 'Alternative or Alternative Literature' is in a way the follow up to her graduation project 'The Trace of Sorrow', a book about sadness, written by an algorithm based on eight hundred poetry collections and novels including works by Tolstoy, Brontë, Joyce and Kafka. Kim shows that even though algorithms have no emotions or brains, through our input they are able to develop an unexpected use of language.
For her most recent project Kim worked together with writers and critics and made use of a Markov chain. 'Because the system tried to imitate my style, the end result was randomly translated content, seemingly written by a poet disguised as an algorithmic author.' Out of interest in the ways in which machines both limit our creativity and thought processes, whilst at the same time strengthening our imagination, and how writers and reviewers responded, Kim took part in an online writing workshop. Here she read her Markov chain translated poem, without letting anyone know. Some fellow students didn't like it, whereas as others called it a new style of writing, comparable with conceptual and experimental pieces in ambient music. Kim also asked Korean writer and critic Young June Lee and Dutch writers Lars Meyer and Martin Rombouts for their opinion on the poem. Whilst one was not afraid to experiment with these alternative methods, the other was resoundingly critical.
'I would like to show that a translating machine has more potential than just fulfilling a practical function. A collaboration between “human” writers and machine algorithms opens up possibilities – not just for fun, but it can also become a fresh source of inspiration previously unthought of by writers.' The poetry created by the algorithms and the criticism from the writers and reviewers, will be presented by Kim in a publication. The text takes prominence, but Kim is also experimenting with graphic design. During the process, she often contemplates on 'the relationship between book designer and author'. Additionally, she is learning how to program to broaden her creative practices and be able to create commissioned interactive designs and websites.
Sissel Marie Tonn works on the cutting edge of art and design and conducts artistic research and design studies working with various scientific disciplines. This year she won the Bio Art & Design Award (BAD) with her research into microplastics, 'Becoming a Sentinel Species' in collaboration with microplastics expert Heather Leslie, and immunologist Juan Garcia Vallejo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Amongst other things she is interested in the complex way in which we relate to ecological disturbances in our environment, from microplastics to earthquakes. After moving to the Netherlands, she became fascinated by earthquakes that were the result of human activity. 'In the case of Groningen and the earthquakes that have occurred there due to the gas extraction, I was fascinated by the detailed stories that people living there told me – some even claimed that they would wake up a few seconds before the earthquake occurred. This made me imagine that they had developed an extreme sensitivity to these vibrations in the ground, the same way a bird would fly low and silently in the calm before a storm, or a dolphin heads to shore before a tsunami.'
In the installation 'The Intimate Earthquake Archive' Tonn's research and the personal stories of the Groningen residents are combined with seismic data. The hard data are literally woven into a soft textile vest, designed with fashion designers Gino Anthonisse and Christa van der Meer. Tonn's partner, sound artist Jonathan Reus translated the data into interactive compositions and sonic vibrations. 'In this way, the audience is able to experience man-made geological changes and gain a better understanding of the phenomenon.' The second continuous project, 'An Education of Attention' ties in with this and is inspired by a stay in Istanbul, a place that in the past was subject to numerous earthquakes due to its fault line position above two tectonic plates. In Istanbul she interviewed residents about their experiences and memories, before, during and in the aftermath of these earthquakes and how they influenced their daily lives in this high-risk area. The data retrieved were woven into a textile topographic map.
In order to forward her practices and professional career, Tonn enlisted the help of two mentors; media artist and creative coach Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a), who specializes in researching how thoughts can influence our body, soul, behavior and consciousness. Her second mentor is design historian and critic Alice Twemlow.
Folklore is not very popular among the younger generation. In times of globalization however, and the accompanying fear of identity loss, folkloric expressions acquire a new value. 'This is how folk music speaks to our roots,' says information designer Suk Go. 'It is often the older generation who try to keep musical traditions alive. However, the strict and old-fashioned way in which they approach this task doesn't always appeal to young people.' Go graduated two years ago from the Design Academy Eindhoven, producing contemporary visualizations of traditional Korean folk music. She chose not to use the standard staves, which very few people can read. Instead, she developed new graphics and installations to make the music more accessible.
After living in the Netherlands for several years, Go decided to study Dutch folk music, which is also disappearing due to its 'dull' image. 'I'm always looking for the spark that can bring something to life', says Go. She found that spark in the dances that accompany traditional Dutch songs. Everyone in the Netherlands can envisage the 'clog dance', but few people know how to do it. To her surprise, there was hardly any information on folk dances in the archives of the Meertens Institute. She scoured the internet, delved into books, talked to music associations, interviewed experts and created an online archive of Dutch folk dance. At moveround.ml you can find detailed information about these dances from the past, from the Afklappertje (Clapper), to the Driekusman, to the Zevensprong (Seven Leaps). The website presents the history of these dances alongside videos and instructions. Go made animations that you can follow without the need for explanatory notes. Its animated graphic icons transcend language, culture and age; you instinctively know when to swing, stamp or clap.
There are many clogs to be found on the website. The costumes, however, turned out to be much more varied. Each region or city has its own caps, scarves, aprons, hats and shirts. 'The cultural variation is greater than I imagined,' says Go. Covid-19 has made it difficult to investigate this variation further. After all, folk dancing is a contact sport. She is now working on an installation that projects her animations onto the floor to be able to follow the instructions step by step – even if you have to keep a little more distance than before.
Algorithms are the common thread in Telemagic's work. Cyanne van den Houten, Roos Groothuizen and Ymer Kneijnsberg make up this art-meets-technology collective – an open media lab for inventors experimenting with contemporary media and technology. 'We don't look at whether something is good or bad; we look at technology's potential.'
To make the media lab both physically and digitally more accessible, broaden their range and involve other creators, Telemagic are working on tools to share with other artists. One of these is '1 Euro Cinema', a small cinematographic oracle that selects a film for you after you insert one euro. Together with two guest curators, Telemagic filled this 'movie jukebox' with work by more than 40 up-and-coming filmmakers and artists, ranging from short videos to longer documentaries. 'In this way, we offer peers a platform to show their work. It also provides interesting perspectives on how they look at various aspects of today's society.' At the invitation of filmmaker Biyi Zhu, they went to Hong Kong, which resulted in the addition of films and perspectives from outside Europe. China also offers a nice metaphor for the oracle. 'Macau is known as a gambling city; with the 1 Euro Cinema you can bet on a movie.'
Another long-term project is 'Concert in A.I.', which can compose and conduct musical harmonies based on 'AlgoRhytmics', a self-learning music algorithm. In collaboration with Valentin Vogelmann, Mrinalini Luthra and Arran Lyon, they philosophized on how a deep-learning algorithm could theoretically create new musical pieces and genres. They designed a tool that they linguistically trained – after all, music is a language you can parse. 'It's exciting that the algorithm creates patterns, using our tool that stores millions of pieces of data. The results are a new part of the musical spectrum that can endlessly reinvent itself. Usually, we listen to a composer's concert. This is the meta-version of all the music in the world.'
Telemagic's Concert in A.I puts the algorithm center stage. In their magical shows, the designers create varying arrangements where the invisible becomes insightful and tangible. Circles of light and floor projections indicate the notes played and their connection with the instruments. They propose the next step could be an A.I. music label. This autonomous platform would bring together artificial intelligence, musicians and filmmakers.
High in the mountains in the Swiss valley of Engadin, communication designer and performer Tereza Ruller studied, during her design residency, the traditional, colorful, symbolic ornaments, patterns and figures applied by local residents to the facades of their houses using the sgraffito technique. Ruller then translated them into a contemporary digital sgraffito. Over the past year, she has better positioned and professionalized her practice, studio The Rodina. Additionally, as a performative designer, Ruller is exploring topics like body, presence and Non-Western perspectives, a more equitable distribution of resources and labor as well as other ethical issues. She does so by conducting experimental research that combines action, interaction, visual representation and playfulness. Most of her performative designs are visual, but she believes having her own sound is just as important. Accordingly, Ruller collaborated with audio artist BJ Nilsen to create local sounds that accompany her designs.
Together with designer Annelys de Vet, she has also worked on ethical guidelines. These guidelines help Ruller to determine how she is able to work with clients without making ethical concessions. For Vlisco&Co, the Dutch manufacturer of African fabrics, she developed a workshop for young designers from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where many of the Helmond-based company's factories are located. 'The fabric designs are conceived in the Netherlands,' but she wondered, 'If the young Ivorian designers created something themselves, what would that look like?' Within that framework, for her project 'Investigating Underrepresented Perspectives', she wants to consult experts in the field of social design, such as Myra Margolin. The community psychologist specializes in film and video productions that contribute to social change and empowerment in local communities. Ruller says: 'She helped me realize that when it comes to redistributing resources to benefit the people who need it most, even one designer can achieve something on a small scale.'
As part of her work, she provides the audience with tools like stickers, posters that need to be finished, or a carpet that is a playing field, so they can physically intervene and participate in the design process. 'My goal is for people to contribute to, and become part of the story, to feel it and become playful. Allowing the audience to actively participate in my performances enriches the design process. The outcome is surprisingly different every time.'
Despite the pandemic, London-based product designer Thor ter Kulve has been able to execute many of his intended plans in his development year – although sometimes otherwise than initially planned.
Firstly, there was his proposal to make a rainbow machine: an object that can reproduce this wonderful natural phenomenon. And it worked. A four-meter in diameter circular structure sprays a mist of water towards its center. When sunlight shines through it at the right angle, a round rainbow appears – this is usually only visible from an airplane. The rainbow machine extends Ter Kulve's typically playful functional objects into the realm of wonder and 'how you can show natural processes in the urban, the non-natural, and thus generate a bond between people.'
This project dovetails with his interest in the city. We are making increasing demands on limited public space. But who does public space belong to? And what role can design play in this? Ter Kulve's designs are often responses to archetypes and structures within the public domain. He uses interventions to instill public space with different functions that make people think. An example of this is the lever he made during the lockdown. When placed over the button on a pedestrian crossing, it can be operated with the knee or elbow instead of using your finger. Such a device can encourage discussions about hygiene in public spaces.
His deliberations on these issues led to conceptual designs that he realized in scale models. Ter Kulve also made 'romantic' collages, photo compositions depicting a more balanced life in the city. He intended to study photography and video, but the courses were postponed due to the coronavirus. Instead of just showing a slick photo of an outcome, he is looking for ways to communicate his methodology – the process leading up to a new object – to a broad audience. The scale models and image collections he has been making are a valuable way to document his thought processes. They are forms to share thoughts without having to implement them immediately – quite a step for a maker.
Designer Tijs Gilde does not begin with an idea to make a chair, because he believes this limits his mindset. He prefers to experiment and take unusual detours, placing techniques and materials in a new and unfamiliar context. For this design method, Gilde draws inspiration from industrial areas. He likes to work with industrial companies that have no common ground with the design world.
His goal is an interesting, aesthetic and commercial end product. Therefore, he couples his creativity with an economic outlook: 'I work experimentally, but my concept has to provide perspective from the start of the process. Otherwise, I find it too non-committal.' Over the past year, Gilde has continued working on 'Cored', for which he conducted the first experiments during the Envisions exhibition in Milan in 2016. He intended the tests to result in a series of furniture, but now his focus has turned towards lighting. That's how it goes; new ideas and elements keep appearing.
The Talent Development Grant has afforded him the freedom for time-consuming experimentation. For Cored, Gilde researched techniques and materials used in the textile industry, which he combines with other unfamiliar materials. By replacing the core of braided rope – which usually consists of filler material – with another material, he created an aesthetically pleasing lamp that can be hung anywhere. It can also be made in a wide range of colors, patterns and sizes. 'I like mixing up contexts. A rope manufacturer can also make lighting or chairs, which can lend a surprising broadening of a company's market.' This is how Gilde extends his thinking into other unknown worlds.
A well-thought-out presentation strategy is also a vital part of his practice. Unfortunately, a lot has been cancelled. Gilde was unable to show his intended series of Cored furniture at the Salone del Mobile. Because of Covid-19, many industrial companies had to hold back their activities. The money that he would otherwise have spent on showing in Milan however was invested in an internet presentation and a completely renewed website. His astutely posted photos on Instagram during the process were an instant hit. Currently he is working with a major brand to see if Cored can be translated into a range of consumer products.
When a conspiracy theorist tried to convince Tomo Kihara that he was right by using YouTube videos, an idea was born. 'From the moment I saw his home page, it was immediately clear what kind of bubble he was in,' says Kihara, an interaction designer who focuses on the connection between human behavior and technology. He describes how the introduction of artificial intelligence has changed the internet: AI bots predict what you would like to see, and suggest things that match your interests. Other points of view disappear, and the things you were already inclined to believe are confirmed. That doesn't only happen on YouTube – it's also happening on Netflix, Tinder, Amazon and Spotify. On all major platforms, machines use automatically detected personal preferences to determine what kind of information will be presented to you.
Sources of information are always somewhat biased, but if you read The New York Times, you know you're getting something very different than when you watch Fox News. In contrast, recommendation algorithms shape your opinion without any kind of identifiable ideological basis. And in the meantime, they are having a major influence on your worldview. For anyone who is open to a more nuanced view, it's worth taking a look at someone else's home page', says Kihara. As a counterpoint to YouTube, he came up with and developed TheirTube, where you see six different home pages from six different types of people; there is a world of difference. While a 'fruitarian' is seduced by the wonders of a 'hardcore organic life', a 'climate denier' sees proof that global warming is nonsense and a 'conspiracist' is further convinced of his belief in conspiracies.
Kihara is originally from Tokyo and earned a degree in Design for Interaction from TU Delft. After working for some time as a creative technologist at De Waag in Amsterdam, he now works as an independent designer who creates playful interventions that address social-technical issues. The bubbles that we are all part of form the central theme of his work. For Kihara, it's about being open to different ideas from time to time. With this project he accomplished that mission: gaining the 100,000 views he was hoping for within a week of the launch. TheirTube also went viral on Twitter. He quotes the saying 'fish will discover water last' to indicate how difficult it is to be conscious of something when you're right in the middle of it. With this alternative platform, Kihara is challenging those fish to take a more critical look around.
Ward Goes lives in Paris, where, alongside his own projects, he works for Dutch clients. This year, for example, he designed his first book: the graduation catalogue for the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he also completed his degree in 2013. Afterwards, he earned a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University. This mix is clearly echoed in his work.
Goes hasn't had time to sit still in the past year. He's been focused on personal development and establishing his practice in a field between visual anthropology, graphic design and journalism. Based on the theme 'objectivity regimes in journalism and public debate', he is examining how he can make a mark on important topics related to the role of media in forming perceptions, balanced reporting, and the changing definition of facts. He explains: 'I'm a news junkie, so I read everything. I integrate that into my work, distorting the relationship between content and imagery. That creates friction. By presenting news in a different context, by expanding and playing with it, I want to inspire debate and encourage people to take a critical look at their sources.'
He mapped out three parallel projects. First, he did fieldwork. His collaboration with furniture designer Arno Hoogland, information designer Irene Stracuzzi and social designer Déborah Janssen challenged him to use different methodologies and processes. Tamar Shafrir served as his advisor, helping him to articulate what he wanted, asking critical questions, and providing literature and theory.
Goes also set an ambitious goal to initiate a monthly conversation with an established designer, typographer, researcher or curator to expand his network and better position his practice. 'By forcing myself to have these conversations, I spoke to artists that I wouldn't normally dare to approach, such as graphic designer Richard Niessen,' he explains. He also had critical discussions with Liza Enebeis from Studio Dumbar and the young French duo from Syndicat about their profession, entrepreneurship and how to make your mark on the public debate.
Finally, to expand his skillset, he learned how to screen print at WOW in Amsterdam. It led to three (political) prints that are part of his final presentation in the form of an installation and a visual essay revealing the outcome of the first two projects.
As a Dutch person with Surinamese, Moluccan and Portuguese blood, born and raised in Amsterdam Noord, Yavez Anthonio knows the feeling of not quite fitting in. That is, until he went to Rio de Janeiro for the first-time last year for a video shoot. 'I had a pretty stereotypical idea of Rio: samba, favelas, drugs, and beautiful women on the beach. But what I saw was completely different. The youth culture is very mixed there. There's a lot of classism, yet they mix a lot more. They don't make such a big deal about people who are different. I immediately felt at home,' he says.
Anthonio, who films and photographs in Europe for major brands like Nike, Daily Paper, Adidas and Footlocker, decided to carry out his first independent project in Brazil. With 'Rivers of January' he wants to portray the full spectrum of youth culture. The project title is a literal translation of Rio de Janeiro: 'A river that emerges from a single source high in the mountains, and then twists and turns into strong-willed streams – I thought that was a beautiful image,' he says. The project's starting point was actually New York, where he took Portuguese lessons and a course on documentary photography at the International Center of Photography. 'This project is completely different from the fashion shoots that I'm used to. As a photographer, I have to make myself invisible. It's not about my story, it's about theirs,' he says.
In February he was back in Rio and followed ten young people around with his camera – they ranged from fashion designers to gang leaders. Anthonio is trying to portray them 'as purely as possible', but is still trying to figure out what the end result will be having already interviewed and filmed the participants. The plan is to put on shows in Rio, Amsterdam and New York next summer. He asked the participants about 'normal' things, like their plans for the future, or what they wanted to be when they grew up. 'It's not only about extremes, we're just having normal conversations. And then it seems that we're not so different from each other.'
For designer Anouk Beckers, 'Dissolving the Ego of Fashion' was primarily a confirmation of her vision. Written by Daniëlle Bruggeman, the book describes the role that fashion plays in the social, ecological and political developments in contemporary society. With her own work, Anouk brings the existing fashion system into question. She started studying psychology, but eventually earned degrees in both TxT (textiles) and fashion from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She says, 'While I was studying, I already began investigating alternative ways of working, looking for a way I could proudly say that I work in fashion.'
She's currently focused on introducing a model of making clothing that's better suited to her personally. The high point of this approach so far is her project 'JOIN Collective Clothes' (JOIN), where clothing is made collectively. She explains, 'As a designer, I don't want to be an island – I'd much rather involve other professional and non-professional creators in the process of designing and making clothing.' Because of this, she's deliberately seeking a different kind of hierarchy.
Anouk refers to JOIN as a 'manual' – a guidebook for a modular clothing system, which is available online and offline as an open-source system. She says, 'I see this manual as an invitation to everyone to start working on alternatives to “fast fashion”. This methodology challenges professional designers, yet at the same time it's accessible to people who have never been involved in making clothes before.'
JOIN is playful, inclusive and collective. You can think of it as a modern form of quilting, where four different parts of a garment (top / J, sleeve / O, trouser leg / I, skirt / N) are each made by someone else, and then later assembled to create a single piece of clothing. Anouk calls it 'playing with material and form'. Another important point: the material that's used is either donated or 'leftovers', because that part of the process has also been carefully considered.
So far, she's organized four workshops at a variety of locations throughout the Netherlands at institutions like De Appel in Amsterdam and Museum Arnhem. According to Anouk, 'If you experience for yourself that making a sleeve takes a full day, chances are you'll be more critical when you want to buy something that's mass-produced.' She's also presented JOIN to seven different (fashion) designers and asked them if they could make an article of clothing using the modular system of JOIN Collective Clothes.
With this approach, Anouk Beckers is also bringing her own position as a designer into question, saying: 'I'm making the first move, but the physical process and end result are completely open. My design method playfully responds to fashion as a system by offering a different perspective and starting a conversation.' For example, they're often asked who the makers are behind the clothes, and how the value of our clothes is determined. How do we decide if something is ugly or pretty? Or what is the relationship between the designer, the maker and the garment? The beauty of the collective collection isn't only found in the physical outcome, but also in the process behind it. She says, 'In my eyes, that's exactly what determines the final value of the clothing in my project. Something of value is being created throughout the entire process. Because of that, it's always beautiful; it simply can't be ugly. It's very different from a product from the fast-fashion circuit.'
Text: Jessica Gysel
About fifty years ago, in the event of a disaster, humanitarian organisations would provide assistance on location in the form of food supplies and medical care. Today, they also work remotely, using technology like satellite surveillance and biometric databases. The impact of these practices isn't always easy to manage, and the development of ethical standards is falling behind.
Historically, people have always responded to new technologies by posing new ethical questions. It seems like the development of ethical principles is by definition lagging behind the development of technological objects. With his research, Arif Kornweitz investigates where the boundary lies between ethics and technology, and how it's connected to the practice of design. What happens if we view ethics as an interface for using technology?
Arif completed his bachelor's degree in literary theory, conflict studies and communication science, and afterwards, earned his master's degree in conflict resolution and governance and political science at the University of Amsterdam. For his graduate thesis, he conducted research on humanitarian organisations that use surveillance technology and the resulting data as evidence of human rights violations. But after being published, this data is still difficult to verify. In addition, there's the question of the role of technology as an 'objective transmitter'. Evidence often only has meaning once someone constructs a corresponding narrative.
As a teacher at the designLAB department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Arif Kornweitz translated his current research into lessons about objects without clear boundaries, and the fluid notion of objects. In addition, he gave several performance lectures as an expression of his research, for example about the phenomenon of 'function creep', in which data is used for purposes other than what was originally intended, or when the function of a technological object is inadvertently expanded. The methods used by humanitarian organisations and the data they collect are both susceptible to function creep.
Text: Manique Hendricks
Despite the fact that humanity gratefully uses technological developments, at the same time, we're also often critical of them. There's much talk about the struggle between man and machine: consider, for example, our current discussions about artificial intelligence. At their eponymous design studio, Arvid & Marie are focusing on his complex relationship between people and technology, combining technical expertise with critical thinking. Convinced that there will eventually be a highly sophisticated form of artificial intelligence, they're turning their attention to collaboration, rather than speculating about who will dominate.
As human beings, we're used to looking at technological advances from only a human perspective. As a result, nearly everything we design is focused on ourselves. Arvid & Marie want to nuance this unbalanced worldview. With this in mind, they develop artistic and alternative concepts to bring the general public into action and encourage them to think more critically. Research on the relationships between people and technology is central to their approach. In many cases, it leads to tangible objects, such their autonomous soft drink machine, called Symbiotic Autonomous Machine (SAM). Without any human intervention, SAM is capable of managing the production process and determining the price of each drink.
Arvid & Marie are currently based in China, were there's clearly a different view on technology. In general, Asians are much more receptive to technologic developments. In cooperation with a Chinese partner, they're developing a massage chair equipped with artificial intelligence and expressive capabilities, called the 'Full Body Smart Automatic Manipulator'.
Especially if they're developing interactive machines, the power of expression can't be lacking. That's why the use of sound is very important for their projects – it's the means to give shape to the emotional charge of interactivity. The 'voice' of the machine is essential for the ultimate experience! According to the two designers, 'We're working on a wide range of projects, but we often return to sound. The implementation of sound in our technological designs is something that we frequently do for long-term projects. In the shorter term or in the interim, we can present our research in a musical way – kind of like informative concerts. Under the name Omninaut, we're compiling an album based on (video) recordings, together with a diverse group of artists.'
In addition to designing, Arvid & Marie want to make the ongoing debate surrounding artificial intelligence more democratic. At the moment, the development of artificial intelligence is still primarily the domain of larger tech companies. They explain, 'If real artificial intelligence is created, there are so many related ethical concerns that we should be deciding on together, instead of it happening behind closed doors, far away from the general public. Everyone should be able to contribute! On one hand, we're embracing progress, and on the other hand, we're scared that technology will end up controlling us. Why should we assume that? Let's give the machines a chance to “get to know” us, and vice versa. It could allow people and technology to find a way to co-exist, and could provide the basis for a kind of social contract for further developments.'
Arvid & Marie also characterise their work as 'design for non-humans'. Because of their design background, they are used to using tools to design different objects. At design studio Arvid & Marie, they rely on technology as the 'tool' to question, understand and shape the society of tomorrow.
Text: Giovanni Burke
When comes to contemporary architecture, Tomas Dirrix noticed that very little attention is paid to the experience of the building itself – it's mainly about square meters and profits. With his work, he's investigating ways to change that. He says, 'At first glance, a building is mainly about providing shelter, but it's also an expression of tradition, culture and environment. When you look at today's buildings, you see that the latter values are lacking, because they're constructed in such a generic way. Anyone could live there; I miss the personal aspect!'
Tomas bases his work on contradictions which he uses to develop his design methodology. For example, he juxtaposes outdoor space and indoor space, because in addition to shelter, the function of a building is to mark that transition. But what did that relationship traditionally mean, and what does it mean today? It doesn't always have to be about enhancing the contrast, Tomas explains, but can also be about giving more depth to how we typify the relationship between these two extremes.
'What I design doesn't need to be functional architecture. It's more like an exploration of what architecture could be. The development of this 'new architecture' isn't limited to considering the aforementioned contradictions, but is also driven by the emergence of new kinds of building materials. What does it mean for the shape and possibilities of future buildings?'
Using this approach, Tomas makes a series of models, ranging from a multifunctional wall (with a built-in table) to a gigantic balloon that can stretch across a festival stage. You can see the latter as architecture, as well as an art project. He often alternates between experimental projects and more commercial assignments. Here too, he tries to emphasize the value of the design. His intrinsic motivation lies in the fact that the models or spaces he designs can encourage a wider audience to think about what new forms of architecture might look like.
Because it takes so much expertise to construct a building, for architects, collaboration is inevitable. As soon as you start talking about materials, you need craftspeople, because they have more knowledge about the products and how to use them. But you can also use collaborations like these to make progress at a smaller, more experimental scale, says Tomas. This will allow you to take larger steps forward and challenge each other.
One of the most important drivers for Tomas Dirrix is to make people more aware of the magic! He sums it up by saying, 'We should have a sense of wonder about the world we live in, seeing the ordinary as strange, or the other way around. It would be nice if we could once again appreciate the experience of a building.'
Nowadays, contact takes place mainly via digital means and the boundaries between the digital and the physical seem to be getting increasingly blurred. In addition, we are inundated with information and images, but also with a multitude of products. It is precisely this information that Bastiaan de Nennie works with in his artistic practice. As a child, he learned how to use Photoshop at primary school and this led to a fascination for computers, coding language and printed circuit boards. In 2015, he graduated from the Man and Motion programme at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.
In his work, Bastiaan gives existing products a new function by merging them to create a new object or sculpture. He makes 3D scans of objects or parts of objects, which he then adds to an already extensive digital database. This is the source from which he draws to generate new objects that he breathes life into with a 3D printer. Like a reaction to an action, he puts things in the computer and then extracts new things from it. From physical to digital to physical.
Where most colleagues start with an idea or concept, Bastiaan de Nennie starts with a product that he scrutinizes and translates into an idea. His signature is characterized by bright colours and repetitive forms that recur in different ways, such as the spinning wheel of a mincing machine, or a 3D scan of his own feet. Some shapes are clearly recognisable, while others are completely abstracted in neon colours. Physical objects are always both the starting and the end point. In between, various, often digital, adjustments are made on the basis of personal intuition. Craftsmanship and the use and addition of more traditional materials such as clay also find their way into this process.
As a boundless thinker and passionate designer, De Nennie is immensely interested in applying new technology or techniques within his practice, for which he coined the term 'phygital', a combination of physical and digital. As he puts it himself, he wants to stand with 'one leg in the present' with his 'other leg in the future'. His aims are to professionalize and work on his online presentation, as well as enter into new collaborations. Ultimately, he would also like to recycle his own work, for example by melting old existing sculptures or products to create a new work.
Daria Kiseleva loves to run or walk as ways to relax, but is constantly on the look-out for new visions. 'I have a lot of tabs open'. Hailing from St Petersburg with a background in graphic design, she graduated from Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem in 2014, and was a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in 2015-16. Daria's practice revolves around researching and creating new narratives with found and original material. Her work hovers somewhere between design, art, pop culture and technology. She explores the moving image as a communication tool towards a format for visual culture. She mainly creates digital essays and films, focusing on the evolution of digital image technology and tracing it back to its first applications in early space exploration, scientific experiments and cinema. Her inspiration comes from sci-fi scenarios and observation of how technologies move through different contexts (think for example: from the military to the consumer world). She uses these references in her work, which deals with forecasting and a future – but already happening now – dystopia.
'It has become impossible to understand reality without understanding contemporary technology, especially imaging techniques, as they play a big part in constituting reality itself. For instance, how algorithms are used to forecast who is more likely to become a criminal. Or how can a computer notice the difference between fighting and hugging. Or what is 'normal' and what not. And how these 'facts' are used as a ground to colonize and manipulate.' 'For me it's not about paranoia, but uncovering hidden structures. I see myself as a 'visual anthropologist', Daria explains. An excerpt from Field of Vision, Daria's latest digital essay: 'In contemporary reality of abundance of images and signals that are being constantly generated, the concept of vision and the degree of visibility become ever more relevant. […] I am interested in juxtaposing the two meanings of the word 'vision', as in the 'power of seeing' and the 'power of anticipating what will or may come to be” in relation to computer vision (and other related technologies), through a prism of the everlasting dichotomy of human and machine, natural and artificial.'
Daria Kiseleva mostly works with the mediums of film, critical writing, printed and web publications. 'Even if I'm interested in the various formats of digital culture, I have a real fondness for printed matter.' Together with graphic design duo Mevis & Van Deursen she worked on catalogues, posters and signage for artists and institutions, like Documenta 14 in Kassel and Museum Krefeld. Currently she is a research member at the 'The Shock Forest Group' with Nicolás Jaar, as part of the 2d chapter at Het Hem. 'I believe it is our responsibility, as makers, users and unwillingly unpaid labourers, to study, expose, hack and play with mechanisms of production, representation and consumption to expose their hidden mechanisms.'
Darien Brito came to the Netherlands as a classical violin player to study at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, where he received degrees in composition and sonology, a broader approach to artistic sound, with a focus on electronic and digital tools. For him, computers and synthesisers were a source of liberation from the challenges, as a composer, to actually have his pieces performed by musicians in public. Still focusing on composition, his interests shifted to programmable devices, open-ended aesthetics, and structures of sound. He approached electronic music and coding largely as an autodidact, with an eclectic set of references including Bach, late-20th-century spectralism, and today's underground electronic music scene.
Darien first encountered algorithms in his exploration of generative systems for composition, but he did not see them simply as convenient tools for creative output. His desire to understand how they functioned led him from sound to visual graphics, where the patterns created by each algorithm were easier to analyse. Eventually, his parallel experimentation in both media came together in the form of generative audiovisual works, less as finished compositions than as immersive live performances. But it also drew him deeper into the field of coding and computer algorithms. He was increasingly preoccupied with the technology 'behind the scenes', the cultural impact of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raised for contemporary society more broadly.
In that vein, Darien's recent work has investigated machine learning (ML). The topic of ML is viewed today with mixed fascination and fear, as it permeates through our social infrastructure from facial recognition and song recommendations to hiring processes and policing. It also is the basis for fantastic, if unlikely speculations about sentience and creativity in machines. However, there is an enormous vacuum of knowledge about how ML works among the people who are affected by it in innumerable ways every day. Over time, Darien Brito's motivations have become more pedagogical. He does not want to show the end product of a learning process. He wants to show instead how the computer learns.
But to do so, he needed to teach himself how to write an ML algorithm from scratch, and to become familiar with advanced mathematical formulas. He began with a classifier, which determines if an input belongs to a certain class or not, and trained it using a dataset that he also made himself. The outcome is a library of ML algorithms for the software Touch Designer. Darien also shares his hard-earned, applied knowledge through tutorials, with the ultimate goal of empowering digital users to better grasp the technology available to them, and to use their critical and ethical judgment.
Text: Tamar Shafrir
He has a long blond fringe, which falls smoothly over the upper half of his face and under which his nose just peeps out. A broad smile from ear to ear and a pointed chin. His skin, teeth and hair are green, yellow, pink, blue and purple. This fictional character, named Elvis Wesley, is the mysterious alter ego of designer Wesley de Boer. After completing his Art & Design studies at the Graphic Lyceum in Rotterdam in 2016, De Boer went on to study at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, in the Man and Identity programme. During his graduation in 2017, Elvis Wesley took actual shape in 'The Birth of Elvis Wesley', a surrealistic animation film set in another cosmos full of colour and intertwining forms. De Boer made use of VR casting techniques, providing an interesting insight into the endless possibilities of 3D modelling software.
As a child, Wesley de Boer often sat in front of the television for hours on end and preferred to watch cartoons. While he was being sucked into the TV, he fantasized about the possibilities of the endless, colourful worlds in which the cartoons take place, and he built sets with home-made puppets and action figures to mimic these non-existent environments. The born Rotterdammer still finds inspiration for his current practice in cartoon-like figures and environments and the creation of new worlds outside the existing reality. In addition, social media is a source of inspiration for him and he is particularly interested in the online representation and expression of identity.
With Studio Elvis Wesley, De Boer builds a personal and recognizable form language – characterized by bright colours and remarkable, often artificial forms – and at the same time he refers to pop culture and fictional characters and their representation. De Boer sees his work as a cross-pollination of different techniques and disciplines in which Elvis represents the connecting factor. De Boer not only produces a great deal of free work with Studio Elvis Wesley, but also carries out many commissions for various clients, ranging from festivals to museums. These commissions are expressed in various media including animation, sculpture and photo campaigns, but also products such as lamps and wallpaper.
Thanks to the Fund, Wesley de Boer is building the world in which Elvis Wesley operates, project by project. He would very much like to extend the living environment of his alter ego to become an immersive experience where everyone can feel what it's like to be Elvis Wesley for a moment. Between tropical flowers that appear to be made of red, purple, yellow and green tubes of light, brightly coloured monster trucks thunder past cities that are made up of dark cubes with fluorescent patterns and are inhabited by flying drones. In this wonderful place between fantasy and reality, visual art and design merge and boundaries between animation, installation, object and the digital are blurred.
The fact that Gino Anthonisse tries – as he himself puts it – 'reasonably consciously not to follow the traditional fashion path' is an understatement. He graduated in 2014 as a fashion designer from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and was immediately asked to become the fourth person to join Das Leben am Haverkamp, the artists' collective based in The Hague consisting of Anouk van Klaveren, Christa van der Meer and Dewi Bekker. They graduated a year earlier.
For Gino, it felt like landing in a warm bath. 'We share the same ideas, and although we operate as a collective, the collective itself does not have a fixed profile and is effectively the sum of our individual practices. The four do share a workspace and also take on larger projects together in order to fulfil their common passion: exploring what fashion can be, more than just designing the wearable garment.
They started out on the traditional path: a first collection, a showroom in Paris twice, and two shows during Amsterdam Fashion Week. But the fashion circuit didn't really appeal so much: 'too many designers, too many collections, too many clothes'. During one of the showrooms, the collective organized a subsequent exhibition and was so satisfied with it that they decided to explore the more autonomous side of fashion in greater depth. For Gino, this meant working in 2D, 'working from collages, uncompromising in form', and then translating it into three dimensions and searching for relevant links between fashion and body.
In 2017, Das Leben am Haverkamp carried out an intervention at the Zeeuws Museum in Middelburg. The reason for this was a makeover of the fashion spaces and the question of how a new generation of visitors to the museum looks at centuries-old objects that they have often never seen before. Das Leben am Haverkamp developed a new series of objects: clothing, but also accessories and utilitarian items. As a starting point, they took 40 objects from the collection that were randomly selected on the basis of a list. Every tenth visitor was given the task of describing the objects, without explicitly mentioning what the objects actually were. The collective then created the 40 pieces, based on these descriptions, without actually having seen the original objects. The result was a large curiosity cabinet consisting of turquoise, red, yellow or pink objects – each designer had their own colour – such as an oversized fisherman's coat, a totem, a mask and a turquoise baby covered in golden balls. It also generated a colourful book with essays, documentation of the show and, in particular, numerous process images.
In his work, Gino Anthonisse is constantly in search of wonder, always from a different angle. At the moment, he is working a great deal with materials that are new to him, such as plaster, foam and ceramics, with the intention of inspiring viewers to come up with new ideas, to raise questions, and just to make the public think at all. In addition, he works one-and-a-half days a week at the art academy in The Hague, where he is an instructor at the textile and fashion workshop. 'I'm not a teacher, I don't assess students but I help them, and that's a good position for me.'
As a graphic designer Irene Stracuzzi is fascinated by cartography. Her practice looks at the effect of technical, aesthetic, and logistical design choices on larger political, environmental, and social phenomena. She has noted the contradiction between the purportedly objective and detail-oriented process for designing maps and the forcefully political use of maps for single-minded purposes. By materialising collected cartographic data in a representational medium, designers equip powerful or institutional agents with concrete tools to support their rhetorical claims. The designer thus plays an instrumental role in territorial negotiations.
After graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven's Information Design master's programme, she continued her personal practice along the course established by her thesis project, 'The Legal Status of Ice'. Beginning from the theme of international borders in the Arctic Ocean, her project grew to encompass a range of themes from legal frameworks, data collection, border politics, natural resources, and climate change. Due to the transdisciplinary relevance of her research, she has been invited to take part in a variety of exhibitions, from 'Broken Nature' at the Triennale di Milano to 'GEO–DESIGN: Alibaba' at the Van Abbemuseum.
Irene approaches her interests through a rigorous research process that involves historical, scientific, statistical, and technological investigations and a strong ethics about the responsible use of data sets. In her explorations, she often intersects with researchers who deal with critical information as non-designers. She sees great potential in collaboration with scientists and experts from other fields, especially where their urgent observations go unnoticed because they are poorly visualised or not visualised at all. In particular, she is focused on the climate crisis due to the misinformation and lack of understanding of the general public when confronted with conflicting theories, politicised legislation, isolated data points, and anecdotal experience. 'Our inability to collectively envision climate change as a systematic global phenomenon, rather than a series of isolated local events, may account for our general inaction or denial of our influence on the environment—and design could be a key framework for mobilisation.'
At the same time, Irene is highly conscientious of the designer's role in mediating data in tangible images or objects. Single data points or data sets have little meaning until they are layered with other kinds of data, and the content and aesthetic choices made in generating composite data visualisations have enormous repercussions on the interpretation of the viewer. In fact, her Arctic Ocean research indicates that maps themselves made borders possible. Her practice confronts both highly technical GIS software and subjective image-making, as in the gigantic inflated globe she made for 'GEO—DESIGN', with bright orange oceans and flipped orientation, with the South Pole on top. Irene Stracuzzi reveals the unacknowledged influence of the designer in the world order, as well as the need for a careful and informed approach to data.
Job van den Berg has a fascination for industrial manufacturing processes. His passion for this was aroused by a fairly common object: chairs. He is also known in his circle of friends as the 'chairman'. With more than a hundred items, his collection is literally bursting at the seams, forcing him to leave certain items with his friends.
Every day he goes to work in his studio, which is full of cupboards, rough industrial material, glass bastions and of course chairs. Here, Job develops various objects that are located at the interface between industry and art. 'I'm always looking for an industrial find, something that can make a major impact. If I develop a new technique that gives the production of, for example, a piece of furniture more possibilities or more value can be attached to it, then I'm in my element.'
In addition to work that is more focused on art, Job also concentrates on producing for a somewhat larger audience. For example, he designed a wooden cabinet that he had pressed into steel, a fusion of industrial and natural materials. This process increases the decorative value and also the durability. The project, called 'Metal Skin Cabinet', inspired Job to start a new project in which he presses toy cars into an aluminium plate the size of a postcard. Through these and other collaborations with manufacturers, labels and galleries, he wishes to share his work more and more with the wider public in the future.
His projects are interlinked and develop as part of a larger organic and creative process. He does not only want to develop as a creative maker and 'brand'; Job also wants to follow a 10-day 'silent retreat' meditation course to learn how to channel his energy better. 'My own development is central this year, and I am enjoying learning new meditation techniques to achieve the right focus for my projects. But I really don't have to go all the way to the Far East for that', says Job with a grin.
Asked about his ultimate goal as a creative maker, Job van den Berg indicates that this goal will gradually shift, but that he wants to focus on design that inspires and is remembered by people. 'I really do value the appreciation and freedom you enjoy as a well-known designer, but the impact of your work is nonetheless worth more valuable than fame.'
Johanna Ehde might be working in the world of ego-bursting, male dominated, market-driven and self-centred graphic design, at the core of her business, in all senses of the word, lies a deep and inherent love for feminism. Not feminism in the current fashion sense, but as a lived-through, daily practiced and most of all lifelong nurturing support structure.
Johanna graduated in 2016 from the Graphic Design bachelor at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam with 'Lady Taxi', a project about a free of charge cab service for mainly elderly ladies. Inspired by Chantal Akerman's iconic 'Jeanne Dielemans' movie and its portrayal of a woman's limited space in our society, Lady Taxi became the informal starting point of her ongoing project '(Post-) Menopausal Graphic Design Strategies'. This project is dealing with the challenge to gain practical knowledge into how to develop and maintain a life-long graphic design practice while considering the issues of ageism, sexism and women's health. Life-long referring not only to lasting a full working life, but also to healthy, stimulating and safe working conditions. Some titles on the project's website speak for themselves: 'The Woman Destroyed', 'They Will Never Sell Vaginal Dryness', 'All that is left is the killing of time', 'Legacy in Typography'.
As collaboration is a crucial part of a feminist design practice, Johanna also works together with Elisabeth Rafstedt, under the name Rietlanden Women's Office. In this collaboration reading, writing and publishing together is a practice done two days per week. 'We want to work constructively and with lust in our work. Our focus is really on the texts we publish. We try to go deep into a text, read it over and over, and design through that reading'. In relation to their most recent issue of 'MsHeresies', they have been discussing topics such as social media activism, commodified feminism and the importance of looking towards history when questioning hegemonic structures. So far two issues were published, both investigating the topic of work and the possibilities of collaboration from a feminist perspective.
Johanna also has a weak spot for typography and fonts. 'I am trying to have a reckless approach towards type. This in an attempt at trying to redefine the idea of legacy in typography. Legacy referring to both the gendered (extremely male dominated) history and current state of type design, its concepts of divinity and harmony, as well as the physical aspects, which historically would imply hard labour in type foundries (with the likeliness of getting lead poisoning). Today one could consider the very real issue of working, or decaying, in front of a computer screen.'
Underneath of this all lays a manifesto-ish approach towards building a new design ethos. But in a recent interview, Rietlanden Women's Office problematise the easily commodified format of a manifesto: 'A point or statement from a manifesto is perfect for the social media version of activism (…) something we have come to see more and more as a problem. A text written today is old tomorrow—or even in a few seconds—in a busy, scrolling feed. This progress, this speed of things, is connected to consumerism and economic growth, and that goes for texts and images, too! But, in fact, we might even be going backwards—or in circles—as far as feminist 'progress' goes.'
Johanna confesses she's part of this work rat race as well, and is working and stressing too much. It seems symptomatic of this current system. Although she notices some forced progression. Recently she started to take a rest in the middle of the day. She thinks a rest can be very radical.
Type design is more than a craft, a technology, or a profession for Jungmyung Lee. It is deeply linked to how we express, interpret, and experience emotions. Her typefaces are designed as visual forms with a specific context: for example, fonts related to babies tend to have rounded shapes rather than spiky ones. But Jungmyung looks beyond the visual tropes of pop culture or branding. She perceives a typeface as a fully-fledged personality with a complex narrative, which she often explores through creative fiction. The combination of her deep focus on type design and her multidisciplinary practice, including writing, publishing, performance, and music, reflects her education, which began with industrial design in Seoul, specialised in graphic design at Aalto University in Helsinki, and honed skills and knowledge at Werkplaats Typografie in ArtEZ.
Jungmyung explores the aesthetics of emotion in 'Real-Time Realist', a self-initiated publication co-edited with Charlie Clemoes that draws connections between graphic designers, artists, and writers in relation to a single emotion in each issue. The idea for the publication arose when Jungmyung and Charlie, both artists in residence at WOW Amsterdam, started to discuss the emotional spectrum and the diagrammatical schema of various theorists, such as Robert Plutchik's wheel of eight primary emotions in different intensities and combinations. The first issue explored the branch going from amazement through surprise to distraction, while the next will take on ecstasy, joy, and serenity.
The magazine is a forum for Jungmyung to explore aspects of her design methodology and critical perspective that cannot be channeled into her professional career. In particular, she uses it to contextualise the meaning of her typefaces in noncommercial modes, and to offer others the chance to engage with her designs freely. The mainstream design discourse tends to acknowledge typography only in relation to branding, quoting vague claims about modern values and aesthetics. In contrast, Real-Time Realist fosters slow, contemplative, and dreamlike reflections on the typeface as a narrative voice.
It also allows Jungmyung to experiment with new ways of making, however imprecise or obscure. Eight years ago, she learned type design as a fixed sequence: first painting letters one by one with brushes, then scanning them, vectorising them, and refining the final geometry digitally. This standardised process seemed to subdue emotion, whereas she is drawn instead to design processes that invite emotional investment—like woodcut, a historical technique that associated the emotions of the craftsman with the letterform they were making. But contemporary digital techniques, typefaces, and interfaces have just as much potential for emotions, although the medium, speed, and physical and virtual social formations associated with computer interaction may encourage different emotions. In an era of constant and maximal communication, Jungmyung Lee's work is oriented towards the user's subconscious and emotional experience of the little-noticed medium of type.
You're stronger together. That's what the nine, now eight, illustrators at Studio Knetterijs thought when they graduated from the Minerva Academy in Groningen in 2016. In order to bridge the well-known black hole after the academy as a group, they immediately started the collective Knetterijs. By now, Douwe Dijkstra, Jaime Jacob, Jan Hamstra, Kalle Wolters, Maarten Huizing, Megan de Vos, Senne Trip and Tjisse Talsma have set a true trend at the academy, where they themselves still regularly return as guest teachers. In fact, artists and designers graduating from Minerva are increasingly joining forces in a collective form.
At Studio Knetterijs, the aesthetics, techniques, personal interests and ambitions of eight different illustrators come together. Within the collective, everyone has their own expertise and function, ranging from analogue printing techniques, such as risoprint and screen printing, to digital illustration techniques and the maintenance of the Studio Knetterijs webshop. Their underlying contrasts are what makes them into a multiform whole.
Thanks to the Fund, Studio Knetterijs has recently been able to work on three collective projects in the form of a 'zine'. The small publications are the result of an investigation into the possibilities and limits of the medium with a high 'do-it-yourself' level and at the same time an attempt to transcend this. By means of traditional techniques and new technological means, Knetterijs elevated the zine to a new kind of genre, inspired by interaction and a certain degree of playfulness.
'The Rottumereye Tragedy' is a mysterious detective story consisting of a rich file folder containing a variety of small books, prints, a leporello and a poster in different styles on different types of paper that together form the hints to solve the murder on the Wadden island of Rottumeroog. The second zine, called 'The Octagon Pentalogy' is a multidimensional experience consisting of five audio tracks about adventure in space. Every audio track, recorded by American voice actors, is different. By combining the different audio tracks with the printed zine, five different narratives are created. All Studio Knetterijs publications are made by hand and are sold in small editions through their own web shop or at trade fairs. For their most recent project and third zine 'Mushrooms & Magic, an interactive odyssey', Knetterijs is currently working with a programmer who converts layered drawings by the illustrators into a digital interactive zine, in which the reader can influence the course of the story by making choices themselves.
Most people know Kostas Lambridis from his infamous 'Elemental Cabinet', which he made for his master's degree in Contextual Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017. The cabinet is a reinvention of the famous 'Badminton Cabinet', built in the Florentine period by 30 craftsmen and finished in 1730 after 6 years of labour. Kostas finished his with 2 hands (his own) in 3 months. The cabinet is exemplary for his way of working. 'I don't like to design; I like to take an existing form or find a form I like. I don't want to be a designer-expert. For me it's all about working without fear. Embracing naivety, ignoring the perceived ideas about beauty. It's about being free and staying young in the making'.
Born and raised in Athens, Kostas studied engineering on the Greek island of Syros, at the only design school in Greece. Getting a base in mostly theory, he decided to get a more creative and practical formation by doing an internship at designer Nacho Carbonell in Eindhoven. 'Design in Greece is very different than in the Netherlands'. He liked it so much, that he stayed for over seven years, while taking up his master studies at the Design Academy. During his first semester tutor Maarten Baas give an assignment to design a lamp. 'I asked myself, what is a lamp? A lamp is a light bulb. It's glass and metal from stone. I combined the different materials, to create a lightbulb.'
He cites Robert Rauschenberg as a big inspiration, especially how he approached material from a conceptual point of view; thinking about the artistic humility of material. 'Anything can function as material. Once you embrace this principle, the possibilities are endless.' He implements material on two equally important axes: the primitive and the high-tech. This idea is very present in all his crea-tions, where he combines old and new production techniques; a mixture of valuable and valueless materials such as bronze, ceramics, embroidery but also melted old plastic chairs. 'At the basis of it all lays the idea of a non-hierarchy in material. It all comes from the earth. Gold is more precious than mud, but for the planet it's the same. The concept of value is a human construction.'
At the moment, he's working with the Carpenters Workshop Gallery on a couple of new projects. He already made a daybed ('Her') and a chandelier ('Jupiter') and is currently developing a low table and a bookshelf. 'I started making objects by the end, I'm scaling things down now, arriving to more easy pieces. But process is equally difficult. I'm trying to include more modern periods, and keep the ma-terials in a certain logic'.
He's currently moving back to Athens, to be closer with his family. 'I'm starting the second beginning of my professional life, and hope I can create the same feeling of community that I experienced in Eindhoven.' His cites his father as his biggest inspiration. 'He was a maker; he had a very special way of doing things. It's in my DNA. When you're a good maker, you cook good, you clean good, you put attention to detail, that's crucial to me.'
Asked if he ever takes time off he cites one of his tutors, artist Gijs Assman who said you have to keep living your life while trying to work. So in the weekends he goes sailing, one of the perks of be-ing back in Greece.
As an urban planner, Lena Knappers is interested in big-city issues that require an integrated approach. That's why migration is at the heart of her research and design project. She says, 'If you look at the way migrants are being housed, you see that there's no urban strategy behind it. The status that migrants enter our country with – such as asylum-seeker, economic migrant or international student – largely determines what their spatial living conditions are like.' In addition to Dutch policy on migration, Lena is also focused on the policy at a European level. The reason behind this was a stay in Istanbul at a time when many Syrian migrants were entering Turkey. In the same year, the Netherlands apparently only admitted sixty migrants.
'Rethinking the Absorption Capacity of Urban Space', her final project for her master's in Urbanism at TU Delft, contains advanced strategies for sustainably integrating migrants into the host country's society. 'Migration is often perceived as a temporary phenomenon. It's handled with short-term container housing, located outside the city centre. There's a lack of policy regarding sustainable accommodation. But mixing these vulnerable groups with the existing population is of huge importance', Lena explains. For her thesis, she investigated alternative, more inclusive forms of housing, which focused on the use of public space. The Overamstel prison complex, known colloquially as the ''Bijlmerbajes', is a good example of this, and was a suitable location for implementing the spatial interventions that Lena had developed. From August 2016 to February 2018, the former prison served as a reception centre for thousands of asylum seekers. Next to the Bijlmerbajes, there was a shipping container village for international students. They shared the same living space, yet the two groups lived completely separately from each other.
The strategies and spatial interventions she has developed could also be rolled out in other locations in Europe, such as Athens. Lena has visited the Greek city, which is also dealing with migration issues, several times. She wants to bring these problems to the surface through in-depth interviews with a variety of migrants and Greeks. Using the information gathered during this process, she will then focus on suitable design solutions. Once her ongoing research in Athens is finished, she plans to collect her findings in a book.
The ideal inclusive city is something that Lena Knappers will continue to sink her teeth into for the time being. She's not only interested in the topic of migration, but also the use of public space and the persistent inequality that seems to go along with it. Because she also works part time, and collaborates with municipalities, housing associations and organisations like the COA (Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers) as part of her job, there are plenty of shared interests and opportunities to continue her research. She says, 'In The Hague, I'm working on large, complex projects with many different stakeholders and interests. These projects require time and coordination, but at the same time, they teach you to look at things from different perspectives. When I'm working on my own research and design project, I have complete freedom and can use my imagination to reveal creative alternatives.'
Manetta Berends believes that craftsmanship and ethics are essential to design, and no less for digital design and online communities than for more traditional physical media. After studying graphic design at ArtEZ and media design at Piet Zwart Institute, she joined a larger group of individuals to set up 'varia', a Rotterdam-based space exploring new methods of collectivity with a focus on technology.
For Berends, varia has offered a testing ground to implement her design philosophy, which involves using only free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) and independent digital infrastructures that do not profit from their users, collect their data, enforce protective copyright, or make their code inaccessible. Over time, varia has evolved to host its own server and communication and organisation system, including chat program and communal calendar. On their website, they offer their free software, store project documents for collaborators as well as outside viewers, and write posts sharing the technical and conceptual knowledge they have acquired in the process. They also publish their notes from live workshops, meetings, or conferences using etherpad, a real-time collaborative editor.
One of varia's five members with managerial responsibilities, Manetta develops her ideas about what a graphic design practice and collaborative working practice could be today. As in the craft guilds of centuries past, the outcome of the design process is just one element of a larger culture, which also encompasses tool-making, social inclusivity, acquiring knowledge hands-on, and sharing knowledge with peers. This broad approach is fostered at varia through open events like 'Relearn', a collective learning experiment and summer school where teachers and students come together as equals. In this way, Manetta believes that professional practice can sustain the curiosity, energy, and enjoyment experienced in design education.
These qualities resonate throughout her personal work as well. Her cyber/technofeminist cross-reader, part of the 2019 exhibition Computer Grrrls at la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris and MU in Eindhoven, is a collection of manifestos in which technology and feminism are intertwined, spanning from 1912 to the present. At the same time, it is also a tool that identifies the linguistic connections between the manifestos, using the TF-IDF (Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency) algorithm, and allows users to read across multiple manifestos at once by extracting quotes featuring the same word. The cross-reader also includes a detailed explanation of how the algorithm works, using terminology that non-coders can understand. Finally, it explores the language of manifestos, revealing the importance of communication in movements for societal change. Manetta Berends models a design practice in which critical thinking, activism, and social accountability underscore every facet from aesthetic choices to pragmatic obligations.
In her practice, Mirte van Duppen models a new understanding of the role a graphic designer can perform in today's society. During her studies in graphic design at ArtEZ and Sandberg's Design department, she cultivated an interest in collective environments. How do individuals perceive and behave within them? What does freedom mean in public squares in the Netherlands? What is the meaning of transparency in modern buildings?
Mirte is particularly preoccupied with the Dutch landscape, at various scales, and the ways in which it has been shaped by politicians, industrialists, and architects, as well as eccentric individuals with a captivating vision. Her film 'The Dutch Mountain', for instance, departs from Dutch cyclist Thijs Zonneveld's dream to build a 2,000-metre-high mountain in the Netherlands, and imagines it in concrete detail through seamlessly edited footage from different locations in the Dutch landscape. A voiceover describes the mountain as a 'fait accompli', quoting expert scientists that she consulted about the environmental implications of the project. Through split screen composition, she confronts idealistic visions with banal necessities, like bike lanes or pedestrian paths, and overt artifice, like zoos or amusement parks.
In her research, Mirte contemplates the tension between humanity's power to sculpt the terrain to its will, on one hand, and its affinity for romantic or technoutopian concepts of nature, on the other. 'Territory of the Beings', a recent commission from KAAN Architecten, could be described as a nature documentary about the modern office worker in their open-plan habitat. Her film analyses the strategies (both surreal and cynical) used in contemporary architecture to foster impressions of freedom, wellbeing, and personal space in their human occupants. At the same time, it borrows the aesthetics of architectural photography to emphasise the challenge of adjusting to the airbrushed, optimised utopia of the modern workplace.
Her latest project, meanwhile, takes on the working landscape of industrial agriculture in the Netherlands. Interviewing farmers, she is rethinking the iconography of futurism in light of the anecdotes she has collected, including machine hacking, flower high-rises, artificial lighting, and robot gardeners and asparagus growers. While she embraces fiction and poetic license as creative tools, Mirte van Duppen is still conscious of her rhetorical influence as a designer and editor. She seeks out the individuals with direct knowledge about urgent topics and gives space to their perspectives, which often have little resemblance to the grotesque fantasies popularised in the mainstream media. She is equally critical towards humanity's hubristic manipulation of nature as towards fatalistic or alarmist narratives as dramatic devices, and reveals the complete technological saturation of every element of our society, no matter how "natural" it may appear. Her practice aims to inspire fascination, contemplation, and informed action in her audience.
Lucas Muñoz Muñoz already had an established practice as a product designer when he came across, by chance, what would become his creative obsession. A few years after graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven with a master's in Contextual Design, he went to Thailand to visit a former classmate. Hearing about a rocket festival in a village in Isan, they were determined to see it in person. The tradition had developed over centuries, possibly influenced by migration from present-day China carrying knowledge about gunpowder. The rockets are built by Buddhist monks from bamboo and (more recently) PVC pipes; the largest are eight metres long, contain 120 kilograms of gunpowder, and reach altitudes of up to eight kilometres. During the month-long festival, about 500 rockets are launched, even causing annual diversions in airplane traffic.
Lucas and his friend were not visiting simply as spectators. They wanted to engage with the monks as craftsmen, and spent two months living alongside them and learning how to make rockets. Meanwhile, they were joined by a few curious filmmakers, and spontaneously the idea arose to make a documentary - something none of them had done before. They began to collect footage, taking a wide view on the rocket's role as an instigator of temporary social liberties, as well as a symbol of the farmers' dependency and vulnerability in relation to the yearly monsoon. They also followed another tangent into the oral history surrounding the village's main Buddhist abbot, recently deceased, who was famed for his powers in black magic.
For Lucas, the rocket is an object that cuts through seemingly distant cultures, topics, and histories. A rocket carrying a nuclear bomb could destroy the world, but a rocket could also save humans from extinction by carrying them to another planet. Essentially a flying cylinder propelled by a chemical reaction, this single object is the vehicle for a multiplicity of technological dreams, cultural beliefs, political conflicts, and existential fears. This diversity of meanings forms the basis for a series of documentary films, each chapter investigating a particular typology situated in a complex social context.
For example, Lucas explored the rocket as a weapon in Lebanon, collaborating with NGOs that work with refugee communities displaced from their homes by missiles and other tools of destruction. To approach the subject sensitively, Lucas took a more associative approach using personal narrative. He asked Syrian and Palestinian children to describe their memories of their old homes, and then reconstructed each memory through found archival footage, reflecting on the possibilities and paradoxes of cross-cultural empathy. In another chapter, he interviews doctoral researchers in Newcastle University to examine the rocket as a catalyst for debates about space law, colonisation and mining. While Lucas Muñoz Muñoz still works as a maker, he is also eager to challenge the expectations of how objects inspire and emerge from creative processes, and how research manifests in design practice.
There's a feeling of concentrated commotion at Ninamounah Langestraat's studio in the middle of Amsterdam's Jordaan neighbourhood. She graduated from the Rietveld Academie just a couple years ago, and is now working in close partnership with her brand manager Robin Burggraaf, and a diverse collection of employees. Her studio is bursting at the seams, so Ninamounah is considering moving the whole company to Zaandam, saying, 'it's more affordable there, and there's also more space'. She's more interested in finding a community than an incubator, and fantasizes about having her own place on the Nieuwe Meer in Amsterdam, where a close-knit artist's colony already resides.
That's not too surprising for someone who grew up in Ruigoord, the free-spirited community outside Amsterdam that her grandparents helped found. She shares, 'My grandmother was one of the pivotal figures of Pink Monday, and I still wear her earring', a silver piece made up of three interlocking feminist symbols.
So far, she's created five collections, with names like '001 Mothers Nature is a Slut ', '002 Smell my Pheromones' and '004 Evolve Around Me'. The collections each have their own number, because Ninamounah deliberately decided not to work with the traditional fashion seasons. She's also made a few films, and her second, 'Hormones are my Master' has been nominated for several (fashion) film festivals.
She's currently working on a book and exhibition with Amsterdam-based photographer Paul Kooiker, and created a perfume with artist Anna Gray. She says, 'I like scents that serve as a warning to alert you that something is wrong, but are very attractive at the same time.' Ninamounah has a background in biology, and did a course on taxidermy while training to be a park ranger. After that, she ended up at the Rietveld Academie, first studying textiles, and eventually fashion. She often got into debates with her professors, but laughs and says that ultimately, it all worked out. She still occasionally does taxidermy – mostly dogs or cats from her friends. She still has quite a few in the freezer, but at the moment, is short on time.
As a child, Ninamounah and her parents survived a plane crash in Faro; they were planning to move to permanently to Portugal. She doesn't have any memory of it. After that, her mother took her on a trip around the world, which was of course formative for her. She's a survivor, and she likes strong personalities, a detail which is evident throughout her work. The collections may be different, but she often works with a mother pattern that helps shape their dominant character. A number of key pieces, such as the iconic body blazer and the fitted chaps fall into that category. These pieces return in every collection, albeit in a slightly different form. She thinks it's important to include both expensive as well as affordable items in every collection, but there isn't any over-simplified merchandise. She explains, 'Our merchandise is an integral part of the collection – it's not just a simple thing with a logo on it. I always include something special, like embroidery or something handmade.' She frequently works with natural materials; the leather is recycled and everything else comes from dead stock. It's not even an issue; it's just the reality. Besides that, everything is unisex, and it's all made in and around Amsterdam. According to Ninamounah, 'You can definitely do large-scale production here – there are so many possibilities. It does make the clothing more expensive, but I wouldn't do it any other way.'
Going forward, her greatest ambition is to remain independent and develop things at her own pace. She says, 'I'm rarely stressed. Even though I'm a super workaholic, I feel very supported by my family and friends.'
Philip Vermeulen graduated in 2017 from the interdisciplinary ArtScience master's programme bridging between the Royal Academy of Art The Hague and the Royal Conservatoire. Coming from a more traditional art training, he had always been fascinated by light and experimenting with it directly through projectors, strobes, screens, and other standard devices, even while he was still painting. In particular, he wanted these effects to heighten the experience of the viewer.
He takes a similar approach towards the materials he works with, from household objects like rotary fans, tennis balls, and tube lights to industrial components like three-phase motors. Through playful experiments, he pushes them to the point of collapse or failure in order to discover their limits—how fast can they spin, how much force can they absorb, how large can they be scaled up, how can they be hacked, and so on. At the borders of their functional integrity, these materials begin to change and transcend their normal qualities in everyday life. Philip identifies that moment as the expression of a unique character. He i
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Misinformation Sets Road To Roo Off the Rails
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Artist Spotlight Arts & Entertainment News Reviews
By Erin / April 6, 2018
On March 28, a misinformed announcement made by representatives from Atlanta’s Alt 105.7 raised the hopes of two contestants in the Atlanta city finals of the Road To Roo battle of the bands only to be privately redacted the next day, leaving one group disappointed and confused as their “road to roo” had suddenly come to an end.
All throughout the evening both fans and contestants were under the impression that two bands would advance from the city finals to the state finals and play for the chance to perform at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in June of 2018. This impression held up throughout the night as multiple announcements regarding the advancement of two bands were made over the course of the three-hour long event which ended with the reveal that the winners were judge favorite Chelsea Shag and crowd favorite Camera Box.
Both bands celebrated their victories and immediately began thinking ahead to the final round, but the next afternoon the lead singer of Camera Box, Danny Weathers, received a phone call from ALT 105.7 in which representatives from the station informed him that they had made a mistake and that he and his band would not be advancing after all.
“I got a call around 3:30 p.m. the day after the show and up until this point we had been told in our interactions with 105.7 that two bands from Atlanta would advance from the third round onto the final,” said Weathers. “They had me on a conference call and said they had some really bad news for us and that they had just found out that only one band could go to the state final from the third round.”
Understandably upset, Weathers spent most of that evening considering ways that he and the rest of Camera Box could work with ALT 105.7 to find some type of solution to the sudden removal of the band. Having won the crowd vote by a wide margin and earning three second place votes from the judges.
Weathers reached out to the station to propose a one-on-one battle between Chelsea Shag and Camera Box that would take place the next week and determine which band would move on to the state finals. The proposed one-on-one battle would also involve educating both the fans and judges on the specifics of the rules and scoring before any type of voting was cast. Unfortunately for Camera Box this proposal was shot down.
Therein also lay the burden that Weathers would bear to tell his bandmates the bad news and that the band would collectively share while also informing their fans who were less than a day removed from joyous celebration.
“I knew I was going to have to tell the band and we would have to tell our fans and a lot of people would be disappointed while I was also dealing with my own disappointment with that outcome,” said Weathers. “I think that it’s one thing to lose straight up and every band prepares themselves emotionally for the chance that they won’t be selected, but nobody prepares themselves for the possibility that they could be selected and told that they won to have their victory taken away.”
Once the band was positive that they would not be advancing in the competition they reluctantly took to their social media outlets to inform their fans of the unfortunate news and to let them know what had happened. Fans began to voice their displeasure with the way that ALT 105.7 handled the situation and failed to make the specificity of the rules known to them, judges and even the bands. In response, the station began sharing the office phone number for their program director Aly Young.
Many of the initial phone calls circulated around speculation that the station had changed a rule a stated rule after the conclusion of the competition, but Young was quick to clarify such speculation in an understanding manner for disgruntled fans.
“The rules were the rules from the very beginning of the competition,” said Young. “The mistake happened when Camera Box was announced as the second band that would go forward to the next round when in fact there was only supposed to be one band.”
Young was also very apologetic for the confusion, going as far to say that the station was fully responsible for the mistake. However, this does not resolve the absence of the competition’s rules from the station’s website and the station’s inability to communicate those rules clearly to those involved in all aspects of competition.
Despite the disappointment that Camera Box felt following the mistake they have publicly come forth to thank their fans for the love they have shown them through this time of embarrassment and hardship. They also announced that they and ALT 105.7 have entered serious conversations regarding having the band play an opening set for a national headliner later this year.
Even though they are no longer on the Road To Roo, Camera Box is optimistic to see what their future holds.
‘Jingle Jangle’: A Christmas Movie Review
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Confronting Past Trauma in ‘His House’
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October 15, 2019 September-October 2019
10 things every voter should care about this election, 6-10
Mainstream media only shows us a handful of issues, but federal leaders should be held accountable to much more
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
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6. Islamophobia
The face of Zunera Ishaq, the niqab–wearing woman who resisted Stephen Harper’s attempted niqab ban during the citizenship oath ceremony, consumed front pages during the last federal election.
A shameful amount of effort, media attention, and public resources were funnelled into this thinly veiled Islamophobia-forward campaign. Justin Trudeau condemned Harper’s agenda and promised sunny ways that got him elected with a sweeping majority. As a young, visible Muslim voting in my first federal election, I was frustrated with the focus on such a non-issue.
Since then, there has been a rise in Islamophobic policies and violent attacks, both in Canada and abroad. In January 2017, an armed shooter killed six innocent Muslims at a Quebec City mosque. Just over two years later, a gunman killed 51 Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, citing inspiration from the earlier attack. Each catastrophic incident shaped the lives of Muslims globally, amplifying our burden of grief and fear of existing in public space.
Although the Prime Minister and his ministers have used the word “Islamophobia” to describe such events—which is more than some Conservative leaders can say—none of their policies offered effective anti-Islamophobia measures. The non-binding parliamentary Motion 103, announced shortly after the Quebec mosque shooting, aimed to study anti-Muslim sentiments and violence. It caused uproar among Islamophobic groups, such as Canadian Coalition of Concerned Citizens, who protested in Calgary. The MP behind the motion, Iqra Khalid, received death threats. Despite the misinformed fear, the motion and ensuing study yielded no tangible outcomes. The government did not even do something as superficial as designate January 29 as a day of action against Islamophobia.
In the spring of 2019, Bill 21 became law in Quebec. It bans some civil servants from wearing visible religious signs and disproportionately affects Muslim women who wear hijab and niqab. But none of the federal party leaders addressed this legislation as targeting minority religious groups. They provided watered down objections, presumably afraid of losing their Quebec seats come October. They should know that Muslims, especially Muslim women, were keeping receipts.
So what does this mean for the upcoming election?
No major federal party has presented a solid action plan to deal with Islamophobia and other forms of white supremacist hate. In recent years, members of the Conservative party have been anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim. Even as official opposition, they have not addressed anti-Muslim behaviour internal to their party. During a justice committee hearing where Faisal Khan Suri, president of the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council, was testifying on alt-right hate, MP Michael Cooper read the Christchurch shooter manifesto into the public record. After criticism from activists, he was asked to leave the justice committee but he was not removed from caucus and faced no real penalties for inciting discomfort and distress onto a Muslim witness.
It’s highly unlikely that any one political party can save us from Islamophobia. But the discourse a governing party adopts shapes public opinion and consciousness. As a visible Muslim woman, I simply cannot risk another Conservative mandate that inflames the political climate in Canada against Muslims.
Like many others, I find myself in a bind: do I vote for the NDP, hoping the underdog party finally wins big with the first racialized leader of a federal party? Or is that a risky move that would leave space for the Conservatives to win a sweeping majority?
Every major party must have a robust plan to deal with online hate, and right wing radicalization and violence. For Islamophobia to be effectively addressed, it must be considered a human rights and safety concern that affects all Canadians across party lines. Canadian politicians watched in horror as the death toll rose in the recent mosque shootings. As they draft their upcoming platforms, it’s time they promise Canadians mosque shootings do not happen again, and start putting their money where their tears are.
—Baraa Arar
7. Reproductive health
This past May, we began hearing about the introduction of state legislation to significantly restrict access to—and in some places, criminalize—abortion across the United States. Many of us responded instinctively with feelings of sadness and anger. Personally, I was surprised to feel some relief as well. I moved to Canada from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and have, on many occasions over the course of the last three years, felt lucky to be observing, not experiencing, the far-right rearing
its ugly head south of the border.
That feeling of relief was, of course, fleeting. Right around the same time, between the U.S.’ moves, Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff spoke at the annual March for Life anti-choice rally at Queen’s Park—just blocks from my current apartment—pledging to “fight to make abortion unthinkable in our lifetime.” He was likely emboldened by counterparts in the U.S., and in hopping on the bandwagon, emboldened other anti-choicers across Canada to follow suit. About a week later, an anti-abortion group called Show the Truth was reported showing up to schools in Prince Edward Island wielding graphic posters they claim depicted aborted fetuses. Another cohort of anti-choice protestors showed up at the Confederation Building in St. John’s, Newfoundland, days after that. (Worth noting: they were outnumbered by pro-choice protestors 100 to 10.)
Over the course of a very short amount of time, the anti-choice movement has gained real traction in Canada, posing a threat to the rights of all Canadians with uteruses. But attacks against reproductive rights are not a new thing in this country. Despite abortion being legal federally since 1969 (in cases where the health/life of a woman was threatened; 1988 was when it was legalized at any stage), the first legal abortion performed in P.E.I. in 35 years did not take place until 2017; prior to that, people seeking legal abortions had to travel out of province to receive one, which disadvantages low-income people, those working several jobs, and anyone with mobility issues. (Until 2017 the province would pay for abortions performed off-island.) Up until 2017, patients in Nova Scotia were required to obtain a physician’s referral before receiving a surgical abortion, which slowed down the process for many by months—meanwhile, there’s provincial coverage for the abortion pill in Nova Scotia now, but there are still major barriers to access (e.g. billing issues, lack of supply, etc.). As we near the federal election, it’s time to think deeply about national leadership that stands a chance not only against blatant anti-abortion protests, but that stands to revoke some of these everyday barriers to reproductive care access.
Conservative leaders have remained notably quiet about the abortion issue since Oosterhoff’s rally appearance—though 12 Conservative MPs were present at Ottawa’s March for Life rally. Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Andrew Scheer have both said they have no plans to “re-open the debate” around abortion, but both have evaded questions on the matter, and more notably, failed to reprimand actions of politicians like Oosterhoff. Even more troubling is the fact that Scheer’s campaign has, in the past, used his record of voting in favour of anti-abortion legislation to woo supporters. These supporters are likely to come out in droves come election time.
Even on the other side of the political spectrum, there’s reason to keep an eye on the abortion debate. Elizabeth May, leader of the federal Greens, has been known to waver on the topic; while she says she remains steadfast in her support for the right to choose today, she has a history of voicing opposition to abortion (which she has claimed was misreported). And while Justin Trudeau has condemned movements against abortion in both Canada and the States, he also recently had a “cordial conversation” with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on the topic, who in the same meeting, said he was “proud to be part of a pro-life administration.” Perhaps, cordiality is not worth applauding when it comes to attacks on human rights.
When I think about what the anti-abortion movement looks like in the U.S., I think of the people I was up against the summer I canvassed for Planned Parenthood on the streets of New York City. It was 2015, and even then, I was routinely shouted at by anti-choice passersby. I was often called a “murderer.” I regularly had to explain to unconvinced citizens that, despite abortion being federally legal, countless states were defunding abortion clinics, leaving many with no choice but to travel miles and miles, often out of state, to get the care they needed (an especially difficult task for those lacking the money or ability to take time off work to travel). So when I learned that, four years later, the situation in my country of origin had grown far worse, I felt fortunate to no longer be living there.
It’s easy to watch these attacks play out in the U.S. and assume they would never happen in Canada. But anti-abortion groups across the country are becoming increasingly loud, empowered by political leaders like Oosterhoff, Ford, and Scheer. As the federal election nears, it’s time to think wisely about what a government best suited to squash this movement looks like.
—Audrey Carleton
8. MMIWG
A week after the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released their final report and Calls for Justice, there was a conference, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: An Epidemic Crossing the Medicine Line, at the University of British Columbia, where people convened to talk about MMIWG in Canada and the United States. Chief Commissioner of the National Inquiry, Marion Buller, was a keynote speaker.
She spoke about the inquiry and the report—a culmination of 15 community hearings, over 2,380 testimonies from families and survivors, and almost three years of work.
Throughout her talk, Buller shared many informative, empowering, and often heart-wrenching insights, but one statement I remember her making, in particular, sticks with me. In response to the media backlash the report received upon release, mostly around its firm use of the word genocide, she said, “Canadians cannot unhear the truth.”
It’s a powerful statement. And she’s right. But coming into an election season, the concern these days is not so much that Canadians won’t hear the truth, but that they won’t listen to it. That they won’t insist upon the changes that the
truth demands.
I worry that the implementation of the Calls for Justice will become a partisan issue—that there will be debates on the extent to which they should be implemented; that the necessity and spirit of the report will be compromised so that parties can attempt to secure power and votes. I worry that the winning government will feel little pressure or accountability to care about MMIWG, the report, or the Calls for Justice at all. These are worries I know can all too feasibly become realities, especially when looking at how the current party leaders stand on the implementation and findings of the National Inquiry.
Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May have both stated that they agree with the report’s findings, but Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau, whose parties currently have significant leads in the polls, have had more to say.
Representatives from the Conservative Party have said they will commit to a national action plan to implement the Calls to Justice, yet Andrew Scheer has stated that the situation “doesn’t fall into that category of genocide.” Justin Trudeau, promised that his “government will turn the inquiry’s calls for justice into real, meaningful, Indigenous-led action” but has also said that “cultural genocide” was a more appropriate term in his opinion—presumedly as opposed to the actual genocide that the report named and defined.
How does an action plan or commitment hold any meaning if you don’t believe in the reality they are supposed to address? These insufficient and problematic commitments will surely be all the MMIWG report receives come October if Canadians and other non-Indigenous people don’t take up a meaningful stand of solidarity with Indigenous communities leading up to the election, and when casting their votes.
Among the 231 Calls for Justice that the National Inquiry set out, eight are directed specifically to all Canadians. With the federal election in mind, Call 15.8 stands out most. It directs Canadians to “help hold all governments accountable to act on the Calls for Justice, and to implement them according to the important principles we [the National Inquiry] set out.”
Honouring and embodying this call means listening to the voices of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA folks when deciding who to vote for. It means insisting candidates commit to the realization of the Calls for Justice and holding them accountable to that commitment long after the ballots close.
The truth is, Indigenous communities are living through genocide and the governments who are largely responsible for upholding that genocide cannot be allowed to ignore or contradict that. The safety and justice owed to Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA folks are not partisan issues, and further, not issues at all—they are rights that must be ensured, and in many ways, including by their voices and votes, Canadians have a role to play in ensuring them. I hope we can hear that truth, and then act on it.
—Riley Yesno
9. HIV decriminalization
HIV isn’t exactly a hot topic on the campaign trail. On a rare day, a political candidate might be found gesturing to its impact in developing countries, or even mentioning treatment and prevention advances like PrEP or U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable). These are important issues, but it’s time to start pressing candidates on Canada’s grim claim to fame in the field: we are a true world leader in aggressively criminalizing people living with HIV.
In Canada, more than 180 people have been charged with aggravated sexual assault for allegedly not disclosing their HIV status to sexual partners. In many cases, no transmission occurs (or is even possible), and the accused have taken measures to protect their partners. Even so, a conviction results in years of incarceration and a lifetime on the registry of sex offenders.
Such prosecutions rely on a not-so-subtly homophobic logic that sees HIV-positive (poz for short) people as inherent predators. This framework, based primarily on stigma and homophobia, is woefully out of step with global norms and current HIV science. Denmark, Senegal, Australia, and many others have repealed HIV criminalization laws in the last decade or so.
More importantly, the Canadian approach has horrifying effects on people living with HIV. Victims of these laws typically end up in provincial prisons, notorious for their inadequate health care. Afterwards, decent work and housing can be nearly impossible to access due to the sex offender registration.
Even if they haven’t been directly accused, criminalization leaves poz folks in a constant state of fear and surveillance. At any moment, one’s immigration status could be jeopardized by charges, or an abusive partner or family member could use HIV status as fodder for blackmail or violence. The kicker? Criminalization actively discourages Canadians from getting tested and treated, directly undermining public health objectives.
But we may have a chance to change this. For years HIV activists have organized deftly to stop these prosecutions. Politicians have been slow to listen, but there is finally some will towards change. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself hasn’t spoken to the issue, his government is listening. On World AIDS Day 2017, then-federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould announced that the justice committee would review the issue of nondisclosure cases. In June, current Justice Minister David Lametti delivered the resulting report, which condemned the current approach. The committee recommended replacing current practice with a new offence in the Criminal Code that would apply to non-disclosure cases of any infectious disease, but only when transmission occurs, among other suggestions.
Thus, we find ourselves on the precipice of a big change on this issue. The recommendations are not perfect. Broadening the law to other diseases might result in more people being criminalized for their health conditions. And activists have long demanded that criminal charges should be limited only to those extremely rare cases where somebody has intentionally transmitted HIV, a position echoed by the NDP committee members in their dissent. Meanwhile, Conservatives on the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights said they still believe folks should be charged when there is a “realistic” chance of transmission.
And this is what brings us back to the election ahead. The recommendation shared by Lametti in June is just that—a suggestion. It’s not likely to become law before we vote. Real follow-through will be required if the Liberals want this to mean anything, or if the NDP were to actually narrow the scope further. And of course, if the Conservatives take it, there’s a good chance they will try to throw the report in the trash while we’re not looking.
So now’s the time to ask candidates across the board: what are you going to do about the mandated changes in how the law treats people with HIV?
—Jonathan Valelly
10. The North
It has to take a massive amount of dissonance to be proud of Canada being an “Arctic country” that ignores its North. (“We the North” seems fun to chant until it’s time to listen to the North…) As a geographical region it’s 40 percent of the country, but the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Inuit Nunangat (Inuit Regions of Canada) are so distinct from each other; within each is a diverse, mostly-Indigenous, population with varying needs. Nunavut has the highest unemployment rate in the country; Yukon has the lowest. Nunavummiut are concerned with the high suicide rates and high cost of living. The Yukon and NWT are rich for mining; the federal government’s five-year ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic is being reviewed and companies are thirsty.
The common reality heard from Northerners across borders, though, is the North is ignored. Indigenous and territorial governments are left with the burden of making up for the dire lack of infrastructure funding and the high cost of living, which increasingly includes the fallout of the climate crisis. Shouldering the majority of weight of climate change for the entire country—despite being the lowest contributors to climate change (along with P.E.I.)—the North and Northerners are getting stretched thin.
Both Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer and Green Party leader Elizabeth May made their respective rounds to the North in the beginning of July. May gathered a crowd of people in Yellowknife answering to her plans for getting the North off of fossil fuels and promising a ban on all new oil and gas development across Canada. Meanwhile, in June, Scheer gathered his own crowds in Iqaluit, NU and Whitehorse, YT where he promised to honour the funding promises the Liberal government has made to Inuit Nunangat. Trudeau made a visit to Iqaluit, NU in the summer to announce new promises.
If any federal party were serious about investing in the North and empowering Northerners—they would create a cabinet portfolio specifically for the North and any of the three territorial MPs would be appointed. When there’s just one member of parliament representing an entire territory in a sea of about 300 other MPs, that one member wielding that power matters. Sometimes people feel like they can’t really base their vote on the party. The people of each territory have to vote for who they think will represent and advocate for the best interests of their territory.
And Northern MPs don’t often get appointed to cabinet.
The Northwest Territories has never had one appointed and the Yukon has had just one, which was in the 70s. Ethel Dorothy Blondin-Andrew of NWT was a junior cabinet minister; Erik Nielson was an elected minister in 1979 (he was also deputy PM for a time in the 80s). Four-time Liberal Yukon MP Larry Bagnell and two-time Liberal NWT MP Michael McLeod were both passed up for Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade during a cabinet shuffle in July last year.
On top of decades of neglect and disregard, climate change has reached a breaking point in the North. It’s underbuilt, underdeveloped, and undersupported. The Canadian Arctic is 25 percent of the international circumpolar world but contributes less than two percent to the circumpolar economy.
Politicians need to invest robust funding in robust infrastructure development alongside Indigenous and territorial governments with actual vision that include sustaining the land. The shores of Tuktoyaktuk, NT are eroding before residents’ eyes. Homes are sinking from melting permafrost. Coastal hunters from Alaska to Gjoa Haven, NU report changes in migration and movement patterns in marine animals. Nunavummiut along the Northwest Passage are concerned with the increasing traffic through
the infamous Arctic waterway.
The party leaders are concerned with asserting Arctic sovereignty in the North and the Northwest Passage, but it’s impossible when the region is suffering economically and socially. To assert any sovereignty in the North internationally means asserting Inuit Nunangut’s claim.
Indigenous communities in the North understand what they need best. Northerners are asking governments to invest in infrastructure for sustainable and healthy standards of living. These all need to be addressed with the environment in mind and with what Inuit want and need in their communities, like subsidies for access to country foods and support for hunters. Tap into the pulse of any town and you’ll find for each concern, there are a handful of people with potential solutions and ideas. Ones that might actually work if they’re given a chance.
—Kaila Jefferd-Moore
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Press Release - Safe Hotel Housing for First Responders
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Invisible Children and the Barnabas Group
Wayne Besen April 10, 2012
In May 2007, Invisible Children’s CEO Ben Keesey, and IC’s Development Director Chris Sarette, submitted an application, which identified Invisible Children as a “ministry”, asking for support from the Barnabas Group — a politically far right-wing Christian nonprofit which helps cutting edge stealth ministry evangelizing efforts that target Jews and Muslims, youth, Hollywood, and even apartment dwellers around the globe.
The Barnabas Group, which takes on only a small number of elite applicants per year from the Christian ministries that seek its support, accepted Invisible Children’s application. The Group assists such evangelizing efforts by networking them with Christian business leaders and entrepreneurs, and with Christian foundations.
In 2006, a post on the Invisible Children website declared that IC “is not a religious organization, meaning we are not affiliated with a certain church or ministry” and according to Josh Kron of The Atlantic, on March 18th of this year a statement on Invisible Children’s website read, “Invisible Children is not affiliated with any religious organization.”
Judging by its stable of ministries – which, along with Invisible Children, also includes the Family Research Council, identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, the Barnabas Group is dedicated to evangelizing, fighting LGBT rights, and advancing Christian supremacy worldwide.
Leading up to this point, there has been considerable evidence of Invisible Children’s stealth ministry nature: a 2005 declaration from IC co-founder Jason Russell that Invisible Children functions as a “Trojan Horse” and 2011 statements made by Russell at evangelical Christian Liberty University; Invisible Children’s funding from major right-wing evangelical financing entities; and the organization’s extensive social and institutional ties to the Washington D.C. based global evangelical network known as The Fellowship (also known as “The Family”.)
In sum, that evidence is compelling. But Invisible Children’s membership in the Barnabas Group is unambiguous. The Barnabas Group only accepts applications from Christian ministry efforts.
The Barnabas Group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and its 2009 990 tax form filed with the IRS identifies the nonprofit venture as “a collaboration of church and marketplace leaders working together to change the world and build God’s kingdom”.
In a Barnabas Group promotional video uploaded to Youtube on November 30, 2010, Barnabas Group co-founder Bob Shank states that “The Barnabas Group is an environment in which ministries can come in looking for collaborative leaders who are going to partner with them, and the synergy that comes from those partnerships makes the contribution that they make go off the charts in terms of value and leverage.”
As a networking opportunity, Barnabas serves to connect ministries in its stable with some of the biggest foundations that back the politicized evangelical right on Earth – such as the National Christian Foundation, which gives on a financial scale roughly comparable to that of the Ford Foundation and has bankrolled both Invisible Children and The Fellowship – credited with having helped inspire and provide “technical assistance” for Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill.
Many of the ministries supported by the Barnabas Group oppose or even actively fight LGBT rights, including Advocates For Faith & Freedom – a legal effort that has battled court challenges to California’s Proposition 8. Some Barnabas Group ministries do humanitarian work, such as running orphanages and distributing hundreds of thousands of low-cost wheelchairs in the developing world.
But most of the Barnabas ministries evangelize, in a dizzying array of niche efforts that target Muslims, Jews, the children of United States military personnel, even apartment building dwellers.
The group encourages bold thinking. In a September 2003 Barnabas Group newsletter, co-founder Bob Shank was described as having taught, shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, a workshop in which Shank mused, “Learn? From terrorists? They were certainly evil but they were also effective… What were some of the transferable principles used by Al Qaeda that we should ponder?” The newsletter went on to list Shank’s noted principles, including “Decentralized command structure”, “Autonomous cells”, and “Innovative strategies”.
Some of those “innovative strategies” seem to involve stealth, judging by Invisible Children or by Lamplighter Ministries, whose head Mark Hanby, appears in a presentation given to Barnabas Group members and posted March 19, 2011 on Youtube.
In the video, Hanby advertises his ministry as having been launched off a serendipitous meeting at Focus On The Family; “My wife and I were invited to be part of a strategic planning meeting at Focus On The Family… Someone at Focus looked at me and said, “Have you ever considered adapting your books into radio drama?” “
Hanby then describes a series of near-miraculous, last minute financial rescues that have allowed his Lamplighter Ministries theater to continue and expand. After one such cash infusion, according to Hanby,
“I called the producers, I said, “We’re on our way to Hollywood. Get the writers writing! The door is now open to infiltrate Hollywood!” With the help of Tim Conway and John Rhys Davies of Lord of the Rings, we produced an epic drama called “Sir Malcom and the Missing Prince” “
Invisible ChildrenTruth Wins OutWayne Besen
Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
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Bess of Hardwick: From Farm House to Palace
Published 3rd January 2017
Like most women, Bess never left England, but she travelled regularly between her native Derbyshire and London, and to the estates of her third husband in Somerset, as well as with the court. Many of her journeys related to supervision of her magnificent constructions at Chatsworth and Hardwick.
The numbers against the places correspond to those on the map here and at the end of this article.
Bess was born into a comfortable, but not grand, farmhouse called Hardwick Hall (1), just on the Derbyshire side of the county border with Nottingham. Although her father died when she was a child, leaving a minor heir, Bess’ mother managed to retain the house for the younger siblings to live in. Mrs Hardwick remarried and had three more children, which probably made for a lively childhood. In later life, Bess lent money to her brother, James, secured on the Hardwick estate. When he died, a bankrupt, she bought out his other creditors. In 1587 she began a major refurbishment programme. The remains of this, known as Hardwick Old Hall, are in the care of English Heritage.
Old Hardwick Hall © English Heritage
But the Old Hall was not enough for Bess’ status as a countess. In 1590, a whole new hall was begun, based on designs by Robert Smythson, the most important architect of Elizabethan England. He worked on Longleat, and probably on Burghley House as well. These great ‘prodigy houses’ were symbols of wealth and power, built to last.
The majority of the building materials for Hardwick came from Bess’ own land. She even built a glass factory, to create the magnificent ‘Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall’.
Today, Hardwick can be reached from Junction 29 of the M1, or from the A617 Chesterfield to Mansfield Road.
Bess left her childhood home when she was about twelve, to enter the household of Anne, Lady Zouche at Codnor Castle (2). Lady Zouche had been a maid-of-honour to Queen Anne Boleyn, so this would have been a great opportunity for Bess. In fact, there is no hard evidence of Bess being in the Zouche household, but circumstantial information has led her biographers to think it probable.
Codnor Castle was one of the great mediaeval castles of England. Originally owned by the de Grey family, ownership fell into abeyance in 1496 between various branches of the family. Henry VII purchased the castle from the heirs for his son, Henry, Duke of York, later Henry VIII. When he became king, Henry VIII sold it back to Lord Zouche, one of the heirs of de Grey.
In 1634, the castle was sold and largely dismantled. The ruins are in the hands of the Codnor Castle Heritage Trust, which is hoping to protect them from further deterioration. Bess probably lived at Codnor from about 1539 – 1543. It is the likely location for her meeting with her first husband, Robert Barlow, although, as the Barlows were another Derbyshire family, she may already have known him.
Bess was widowed before her husband came into his inheritance, and disputes over her dower meant that she was once again obliged to earn her living. She was employed in the household of Lady Frances Grey (nee Brandon), Marchioness of Dorset at Bradgate (3), in Leicestershire.
This was a huge step up for Bess – Lady Dorset was the King’s niece, and, whilst Henry had little time for her husband, Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset, the two were still prominent in court circles. Like Bess’ first employer, Lady Zouche, the Dorsets were religious reformers. Bess quickly became close to the whole family – all her life, she treasured an agate ring that Lady Dorset gave her, and a picture of the Dorset’s oldest daughter, the luckless Lady Jane Grey.
Bradgate has been enclosed parkland for well over 800 years. The house that Bess lived in with the Dorsets was planned by Sir Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, the half-brother of Queen Elizabeth of York. The actual building work was done by his son, the 2nd Marquess and completed around 1520. It was constructed of the fashionable, and extremely expensive, red brick.
It was at Bradgate that Bess met and married her second husband, Sir William Cavendish. He was considerably older than her, with two previous marriages behind him and at least two living daughters, but nevertheless, the couple soon developed a close working partnership that speedily increased their joint wealth. Bradgate descended in the Grey family, who continued to live in it for another two hundred years after the mid-sixteenth century. After 1739, it was replaced with a new house, and fell into ruin. These ruins can be viewed today – they are in the care of the Bradgate Park Trust, which also looks after the extensive woodlands. It can be reached by taking the A50 from Junction 22 of the M1.
Bradgate Park, Leicestershire
After they were married, Bess and Cavendish lived mainly in London, in a house near St Paul’s, and also at an estate called Northaw (4). Northaw village remains – tucked into the Hertfordshire countryside, just north of the M25. The manor of Northaw was originally a possession of the Abbey of St Albans. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was granted to William Cavendish and his then wife, Margaret.
In 1552, Cavendish and Bess exchanged the manor, together with all their lands outside Derbyshire, for a large parcel of crown lands in their home county. It is suggested by Bess’ biographer, David Durant, that the exchange was made in case a change of government resulted in questions about the status of former monastic lands. There is no trace today of the Cavendishes’ home, and even the church dates only from the nineteenth century.
William Cavendish was probably originally from Cavendish, in Suffolk, but he was a younger son, so had no inheritance there. He and Bess were happy to acquire lands in Derbyshire. The manor of Chatsworth (5) was in the hands of the Leche family, probably relatives of Bess’ mother, whose name was Elizabeth Leake (a homonym) and who married, as her second husband, Ralph Leche. When Ralph Leche’s nephew, Francis, died without heirs, it provided an excellent opportunity for William and Bess to buy the estate. It was subsequently augmented after the sale of Northaw, as noted above.
Bess and Cavendish clearly had a vision of founding a great dynasty, in which they proved remarkably successful. To achieve the status they dreamed of, a great house was an important part of the visible success they needed to show. They began to build at Chatsworth, and this would prove to be one of the most rewarding projects of Bess’ life. She spent many years improving and beautifying the house – perhaps in hopes of a visit from Queen Elizabeth.
Whilst Elizabeth never did visit, her favourite, the Earl of Leicester did, and Mary, Queen of Scots was held there from time to time, when other locations needed to be cleaned.
Chatsworth was entailed on her eldest son, Henry Cavendish, but Bess retained a life-interest in it and spent a good deal of time there, particularly after she and her fourth husband became estranged. The current Chatsworth House, one of the greatest of all England’s ‘Stately Homes’ has almost obliterated Bess’ house, although it is built around the original courtyard plan she designed. The house is still the home of Bess and William’s descendants, the Dukes of Devonshire.
Of course, such an ambitious couple as Bess and Cavendish could not spend all their time in Derbyshire. William was frequently in London, and in 1555, he arranged to rent a house at Brentford (6) from Sir John Thynne, where Bess could spend the winter with him. She was expecting her sixth child, and did not like to be parted from her husband. Thynne proved to be a good friend to Bess. When Cavendish died in 1557 and was accused of peculation of Crown funds, he helped her both by leasing the Brentford house to her again, and arguing against a bill in Parliament that would have bankrupted the widow.
The Brentford Manor that Bess knew was replaced in 1628 by a truly delightful Jacobean house – well worth seeing. Now called Boston Manor, it is on Boston Manor Road, and is in the care of the London Borough of Hounslow. It is open from time to time during the summer months or for exhibitions, and details of opening times may be found here.
Sir William Cavendish was buried in the Church of St Botolph-without-Aldersgate (8), near his mother and his first wife. A church was first built on the site in the twelfth century, and it received extensive improvements in the 1570s under Lord Mayor, Sir William Allen, who was born in the parish. By 1725, it was in such poor condition that it was demolished and rebuilt in the style of Wren. The structure was badly damaged by an IRA bomb in 1993, but repaired. A number of prominent late sixteenth century figures were buried here, including Lady Mary Keyes (née Grey), daughter of Bess’ friend Frances, Duchess of Suffolk.
When Bess married Sir William St Loe in 1559, the couple became embroiled in a long-running dispute with St Loe’s brother and sister-in-law, Edward and Margaret St Loe. The nub of the matter was the status of Sutton Court (7), in the curiously named village of Chew Magna, Somerset. When Bess first visited, perhaps thinking that she and St Loe would live there, she ordered various improvement works to the early fifteenth century house. In the event, Sutton was awarded after St Loe’s death to Margaret St Loe for her lifetime, and Bess did not return.
Sutton Court was extensively rebuilt in the 1850s, and then converted in the late twentieth century to flats.
Like Sir William Cavendish, Sir William St Loe was also buried in London, but his resting place was Great St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate, London (9), alongside his father. This church was once attached to a Benedictine convent, but, after the house was dissolved in 1538, it became the parish church. St Helen’s too, was severely damaged first by a bomb in 1992, and then by the 1993 bomb, which also killed three people. It has now been restored.
On her marriage to Shrewsbury, Bess’ chief marital home became Sheffield Castle (10). The castle was at the heart of the settlement that grew up around the rivers Don and Sheaf, in Yorkshire. A timber structure was first erected in around 1100, which was burnt by Simon de Montfort in his rebellion against Henry III. It was rebuilt around 1270, and the owner, Thomas de Furnival, received a licence to crenellate the new stone structure. The castle came into the hands of the Talbot family when Maud Neville, 6th Baroness Furnivall, married John Talbot, who was created Earl of Shrewsbury in 1442. He is the ‘Old Talbot’ of Henry VI.
The first Earl instigated wide-ranging repairs to the castle, which had two courtyards, with the usual range of buildings – tower, hall, chapel, bakehouse etc. When Bess’ husband, the 6th Earl died, the castle, along with the Barony of Furnivall, passed to her step-son, Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl, who was also her son-in-law. Gilbert and his wife, Mary Cavendish, only had daughters, so the Barony of Furnival fell into abeyance between their three daughters. Sheffield passed with Alathea to the Howard Earls of Arundel. It fell to Parliament in the Civil War and was eventually slighted.
The site is now largely covered with other buildings, but a small portion of the remains can be seen below the Castle Market, by prior arrangement. The Friends of Sheffield Castle promote the archaeological investigation of the site
It was largely at Sheffield that Mary, Queen of Scots was kept, although initially she was taken to one of Shrewsbury’s other manors – Tutbury Castle (11), on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border. Tutbury, once owned by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, was, by the mid-sixteenth century, damp, badly drained and completely unsuitable for a queen. Shrewsbury was also concerned that the local inhabitants were ‘corrupted with Popery.’
The castle’s strong point was its defensibility. Bess was at Tutbury from time to time during the period of Mary’s captivity – when the Queen first arrived in early 1569, Bess had had to furnish the place quickly by sending some of her own household goods from Sheffield Castle. Today, the ruins of Tutbury Castle, which can be visited by the public, are looked after by a trust
Another of Mary, Queen of Scots’ prisons was the Shrewsbury manor of Wingfield (12), near Alfreton, Derbyshire. Dating from the mid-15th century, the house was purchased by the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury in 1456 on the death of its builder, Ralph, Baron Cromwell. Mary was kept there in 1569, and again in 1584 and 1585. It was at the centre of the Babington Plot, in which Sir Anthony Babington, a member of a prominent Derbyshire family well-known to Bess, attempted to hatch a plan to rescue the imprisoned queen.
Wingfield was damaged during the Civil War, after which it was sold to Immanuel Halton, who and stripped away much of its stone and other materials to build a new house. This was abandoned in the late eighteenth century.
The ruins of Wingfield are cared for by English Heritage, but can only be visited by pre-booking.
Wingfield Manor © English Heritage
Another of the great houses that Shrewsbury and Bess owned was Rufford Abbey (13). Rufford, once a Cistercian house, was acquired by Shrewsbury following the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Located in Nottinghamshire, it was a convenient place for Bess to meet Margaret, Lady Lennox, who had been forbidden from travelling within 30 miles of Mary, Queen of Scots. There, whilst Lady Lennox was being nursed by Bess, having been struck down by a convenient sickness, the two encouraged the speedy marriage of their children, Lord Charles Stuart, and Elizabeth Cavendish, incurring the wrath of Elizabeth I.
Shrewsbury and Bess extended the twelfth century property significantly, and it passed to their joint grand-daughter, Lady Mary Talbot. The Elizabethan house was transformed in the late seventeenth century, and today is in the care of English Heritage and Nottinghamshire County Council.
Of course, a wealthy couple like Bess and Shrewsbury needed a town house in London. They owned Shrewsbury House (14) in Chelsea. The exact location of the property is uncertain, but it was probably near Cheyne Walk. There are records of George Talbot, 4th Earl, and Francis, 5th Earl, staying at Shrewsbury House during Henry VIII’s and Edward VI’s reigns respectively. It was at Shrewsbury House that Bess and Shrewsbury effected some sort of reconciliation on Queen Elizabeth’s orders in 1586, after which she was ordered to reside at Wingfield where she largely remained until after Shrewsbury’s death.
Bess retained Shrewsbury House, presumably as part of the marriage settlement, and it passed to her son, William Cavendish. He was created Earl of Devonshire, and Shrewsbury House became attached to the earldom until it was sold in 1643. It was demolished in 1813.
The Earl of Shrewsbury died in 1590, and was buried in the Church of St Peter’s in Sheffield, now known as Sheffield Cathedral. The origins of the church probably date to around the same time as Sheffield Castle, with additions and demolitions taking place over the centuries. The Talbot Chapel contains not just Bess’ husband, but other members of the family. Shrewsbury’s tomb has a model of both his wives on it, but, whilst his first wife, Lady Gertrude Manners, is buried with him, Bess is not. Despite her figure being on the tomb, the epitaph omits all mention of her.
For unknown reasons, Bess chose to be buried in All Saints (Allhallows, as it was called then) Church (15), Derby, now the Cathedral, rather than beside any of her husbands, or her father, who was buried at the church local to Hardwick, Ault Hutnall, and where she had been baptised.
Bess of Hardwick's Tomb © Poliphilo licensed under Cc0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bess began the design and construction of her impressive tomb during her lifetime, but directed that her funeral ‘be not over-sumptuous, or otherwise performed with too much vain and idle charge.’ Despite this, she left £2,000 to cover the costs. She was interred on 4th May 1608 following a sermon oration by the Archbishop of York. Above the vault is a life-sized monument and a plaque on the wall commemorates her (although it dates from the time of her grandson, the Duke of Newcastle). The vault houses more than three dozen of Bess’ Cavendish descendants.
The map below shows the location of the places associated with Bess of Hardwick discussed in this article.
Pack of Elizabeth I Quotes Postcards
Elizabeth (Bess) Hardwick
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Honours & Offices
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Hardwick, Derbyshire
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
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Sir William Cavendish
Sir William St Loe
George Talbot
Frances Cavendish
Temperance Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
William Cavendish
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Elizabeth Cavendish
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We Are Bess
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Mu Prince’s Mansion covers an area of 46 mu (about 8 acres) and spans a length of 369 meters (about 404 yards). It sits against the Shizi Hill (Lion Hill).
Mu Prince’s Mansion completely reflects the open spirit of Naxi people for adoption of multiple cultures.
Decorative work, including carvings and paintings of buildings, are similar in style to those in the palace of Ming. Most of the decorations are simple but sublime showing the dignity of the ruler.
Stories of Mu Princes
The ancestors of the Mus date back of the time before the Tang Dynasty. When Kublai Khan of Mongolia passed by Lijiang to conquer Dali in 13AD, Aliang, the head of the Naxi people, surrendered to him initiatively. In1382, Ade, the governor of Lijiang submitted to the authority of the Ming Government.
The first emperor of Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang, granted the surname of Mu to Ade, and appointed him to be the magistrate of this place. In the middle of the Qing dynasty, the title of the governor that the emperor granted was changed into Tu Tongpan.
Over the past 700 years, the Mus had always been the ruler of Lijiang. It was a wise family, which had kept governing the place over twenty generations. Though the emperors and dynasties changed as time went on in China, the Mus could always keep good relationship with the central government and was even constantly awarded. It is really a miracle.
In fact, the Mus were not conservative. Some people believed that the old town didn’t have defence wall because of the surname of the Mus. (In Chinese, Mu means wood. According to Chinese calligraphy, wood surrounded by walls means confinement.) However, it is not true.
The Mus liked to learn the culture and knowledge of the Han people. They made opening and magnanimous policy for the Naxi religions, Dongba and other religions such as Taoism. All of these made the multicultural flavor of Lijiang. Some members of the Mus were even become excellent poets, calligraphists and writers.
For a long time, Lijiang lies among the three strong political powers of the central government, Tibet and Dali. The Mus not only successfully kept the integrity of the Naxi people, but also created splendid culture.
The grand history and culture of the Naxi are in sharp contrast with those of the powerful ethnic political power in Chinese history like the Liao of the Qidan and Xixia of the Dangxiang that had perished with the time passing by.
The Mus even governed large area among Yunnan, Tibet and Sichuan. They were called the Great King Mu and were treated as gods. They built the splendid Mu Residence, which combined the styles of Naxi, Bai, Tibetan and Han architecture. The exquisite carves and paintings on the doors and windows and meticulously designed structures all indicate their status in Lijiang. The Mu Residence that is being rebuilt has only half the size of the original one.
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Narrative RPGs and Ops Sessions
Posted byTrevor April 11, 2017 April 24, 2020 Posted inOperations, Philosophy
I’m going to start this post by describing something that has nothing to do with model railways – and then try to connect it to railway modelling. Bear with me…
Last year, I returned to another hobby after a hiatus of some 30 years. That hobby is Role Playing Games (RPGs), and my return was an eye-opening experience.
That’s me, pouring over notes as Game Master for a session of Star Wars: Age of Rebellion at the end of March.
This was my first time acting as GM in 30 years. It was nerve-wracking, but fun – and I can’t wait to do it again!
If you’re familiar with RPGs, you can skip ahead. For the rest of you, well…
It’s a big subject – but here’s an overly-simplified description. A group of people gather around a table. One person (the Game Master, or GM) has acquired (or written) a set of rules, and prepared the setting plus other information needed to conduct an adventure. Think of the rules as the mechanics of making a film – the lighting, the camera, the microphones, and all the other things are determine what you can and cannot do. And think of the setting and the adventure as the script.
The other people (the Players) each take on the role of a hero – the actors in our script. But instead of following a rigid script, the action unfolds through a group-based story-telling session. Where they go is limited only by the imagination of the Players and the GM, plus the GM’s ability to respond to the actions of the heroes in his setting. An adventure can last a single session – typically, 3 to 4 hours – like a stand-alone movie. Or, it can stretch over multiple sessions, like a TV series. It can also be part of a larger campaign in which the same Players (playing the same heroes each time) undertake several adventures – acquiring experience, plus a combination of wealth, status, power, and other benefits. Campaign play is more like a movie franchise, or multi-season TV show.
The games can be set just about anywhere: They can be based on any popular genre (e.g.: detective stories/pulp, fantasy, realistic science fiction or space opera, horror, super heroes, and so on). They can be realistic, even historical, or built entirely around an imaginary premise.
There’s usually a challenge involved: Slay the dragon, find the stolen plans, stop the evil empire, catch the bad guy, rescue the captured scientist, prevent (or solve) a murder… the possibilities are endless. The GM has a general plan of how things are to unfold, but the players are free to take their own actions.
The rules of the game tend to focus on basic activities. They define how to shoot a gun, how to cast a spell, how to pick a lock, how to fly a star ship (as appropriate to the world in which the heroes are adventuring). These rules typically use dice to resolve successes and failures. But the mechanics of the game are balanced by improv/narrative, where the Players and the GM can make up things on the fly to move the story forward.
As I mentioned, I’ve been away from RPGs for 30 years. And since I’ve had such a long break, I’ve noticed some interesting developments between then and now.
Many of the games I used to play are still around – although they’ve gone through several rules revisions, moved to different publishers, and so on.
Over all, those games are better – the quality is better and there’s a much greater choice of accessories such as figures (many to 28mm scale, which is very close to S scale) to bring adventures to life. (By the way, these new accessories are built the same way that much of our ready-to-run equipment is: It’s designed by the game developers on computer and manufactured in China. And then gaming hobbyists expand on their collection through scratch-building, kit-bashing, and developing their own computer designs for laser-cutting or 3D printing.)
And while I don’t know whether this is universal, my own experience is that many of the newer games have mechanics that are much easier to learn. In fact, in some of my favourites, the game authors have made it clear that the mechanics should enhance the narrative – not direct it.
For me, there’s been a definite evolution – which I noticed in large part because of my hiatus. The most significant change, in my experience, is the change in emphasis from mechanics to narrative as the driving force in game systems.
The games I played as a teenager were dice-heavy, and the randomness of those roles could make or break an adventure. You rolled the dice, a number came up, you compared it to a chart that told you what happened, and there was little room for GM and/or players to interpret the results.
The games I’m playing today sometimes have dice with no numbers on them at all. The dice are marked with symbols that mean things like “success”, “failure”, “positive benefit”, “setback” and so on. They support the character’s actions, rather that dictate them.
The portfolio for Arkhan – one of the heroes in the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion adventure for which I’m game master – plus funky dice.
In RPGs, the character sheets (or portfolios) contain a mix of data to influence dice rolls, plus background that allows the player to assume the role. In the photo above, the character is a Bothan commander in the Rebel Alliance, played by my friend Brian. How well Brian assumes the character has a direct influence on the mechanics, so he can shape his hero’s destiny.
So, what does this have to do with model railroading? Good question.
The model railway hobby has also advanced a lot in the past 30 years – and in similar ways to role playing games. Our mechanics are definitely better:
We have DCC, laser cutting, photo-etching and 3D printing.
We have amazing ready-to-run models and terrific resin kits.
We shop the world via the Internet.
We have blogs and forums to share ideas and techniques.
We have strong historical societies, photo galleries, history websites, books and other resources – online and offline – to answer questions, and help us become better modellers.
The narrative side of things is also better: As a hobby, more of us know more about the rules of railroading than ever before, thanks to groups such as (but not limited to) the Operations SIG and Layout Design SIG. Thanks to many of the improvements to “mechanics” that I’ve already listed, more people are also getting beyond the “building models” stage to the “building a layout” stage. More layouts have scenery and detailed structures than ever before. And with better running trains, sound-equipped locomotives, signalling systems, prototype paperwork, and more, operating sessions are more realistic than ever.
These are all good things. So what’s next? I suspect that as a hobby, we could do better to define and communicate the narrative that drives our layouts.
Often during operating sessions, we become fixated on the mechanical: Moving this car from here to there… moving that train from there to here… letting the dispatcher know where we are… following the time table… deciphering the DCC throttles, track diagrams and switch controls… and so on. But if we step back and look at what we’re doing, operations sessions are essentially a Role Playing Game.
The owner/builder of the layout is the game master, who has created the world, defined the adventure, and established the rules.
The rest of us assume the roles of various “heroes” in the game: we’re the dispatcher, the engineer, the conductor, the yardmaster, and so on.
With rare exceptions (like the one I cite below), the narrative takes a back seat to the mechanics of the operations game. We follow the rules, but otherwise we basically play ourselves. I know I do. Are we missing an opportunity?
Those who like Role Playing Games would think so.
I suspect that gamers would enjoy a layout like the Kansas City Terminal, built by Jim Senese of Oklahoma. I’ve read about Jim’s layout in Great Model Railroads and Model Railroad Planning. It’s also been featured online. I found an interesting description of it on a website promoting an ops meet…
It’s 3:00 pm on Saturday, November 15, 1980 – the last weekend before the Frisco was absorbed into the Burlington Northern. The eight model railroaders who come to operate the KCT are divided into four two-person crews. One crew will be hired by the M-K-T, one by the Frisco, one by the Kansas City Southern, and one by the Missouri Pacific. During the 3.5 hour operating session each crew will switch industries along their railroad, provide customer service moves at grain elevators, and interchange interline freight cars with the other three trunk lines. As an additional dimension, each crew will be provided with a description of the corporate culture of the railroad they work for and will be asked to adopt that persona during the session. (Emphasis mine)
What a terrific idea!
Now, this works well for Jim because he has built a terminal switching layout focussed on the interplay between four railroads in the Kansas City area, and each railroad has its own culture. But I’m sure this idea could be adapted to individual jobs on any layout. It could be as simple as assigning each operator a persona – a character sheet – that describes their personality.
Are they new to the job, and worried about making errors? Or are they old hands, counting the days to retirement? One could add detail as one sees fit. An old hand might live to hold court with the other railroaders – or might be somewhat dour and unapproachable.
In the Star Wars RPG universe (and, I’m sure, others), each player selects an “obligation” or a “duty” for their character. This is their motivation for being in the Rebel Alliance in the first place, and it combines with the character’s background story to help the player in several ways, including:
It helps the player assume the persona of their hero. In fact, it encourages this, because the Game Master will assess how well the player is fulfilling their character’s obligation (or duty) when awarding experience and other goodies at the end of an adventure.
It helps direct the story, by giving players an understanding of how they would react to situations and what sorts of opportunities they act upon. It also gives the Game Master tools to use to engage the characters in the adventure he or she has designed.
I wonder: If a long-time gamer suddenly embraced railway modelling and built a layout… what would it look like? What would operating sessions be like? Would they include props – perhaps, come to sessions dressed for the part?
Something to think about, as you ponder three Stormtroopers on speeder bikes patrolling through Port Rowan…
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Michael Benner says:
Profound thinking and well written. You have put into words what I have thought. My daughter and son-in-law are big into RPG. I am the model railroader. We operate my layout together as it is a form of gaming.
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Andrew Bloom November 12, 2018 Features
Stan Lee Was the Icon We Needed Him to Be
Upon his passing at age 95, it’s worth reflecting on Stan Lee’s complicated legacy as comic book geekdom’s most visible brand ambassador.
This piece was originally posted on Alcohollywood
The Stan Lee moment that stands out to me isn’t from one of his many famed cameos, or his legendary backpage columns, or his colorful promotional appearances. It’s from a short-lived television show called Who Wants To Be A Superhero? Stan was the master of ceremonies on the series, an effort to tap into the waning days of the reality T.V. show craze. Each week, a coterie of costume-clad hopefuls would compete to have the characters they created and cosplayed enshrined in a comic book by Stan “The Man” himself.
In one episode, one of the show’s more bombastic contestants faced elimination, and for a moment, decided to break character. He confessed to Stan Lee (represented via a giant video screen with Smilin’ Stan’s famous bespectacled visage on it) how much Lee’s comic books had meant to him. The contestant poured out his emotions, talking about how those tales of bravery and daring had inspired him, how they’d comforted him in difficult times, and how they’d almost made Lee seem like a father figure. There was a hint of playing things up for the camera to all of this, or at least a struggle to fully bare one’s soul while dressed in tights and talking to a video screen. But there was also a sense of sincerity in a grown man’s heartfelt speech about the hallowed place Lee’s stories had kept in his life.
Lee, his demeanor static, responded through his oversized projection, “That was very nice. Thank you.” He said it with all the energy and affection of a cashier informing you that the grapes you were purchasing were actually on sale right now. And the show quickly moved on.
I don’t mean to malign Stan Lee, who died yesterday at age 95, with that vignette. Ginning up authenticity and genuine emotion within the bounds of reality television is a fraught endeavor in the best of circumstances. For all I know, Lee (already in his 80s) had to film his segments separately or in advance, and so never had a chance to react to the contestant’s real live confession. And maybe, when you’re Stan Lee, you hear people tell you how much your creative efforts have meant to them everyday, to the point that it’s hard to avoid becoming inured to it.
But that moment feels emblematic of the figure Lee became over the past few decades. That era saw the Marvel brand he’d overseen reach unprecedented levels of mainstream success and recognition. So far removed from his former, legitimately revolutionary creative contributions, Stan emerged as a mascot and ambassador for Marvel and for comic books writ large. With scores of Marvel characters featured in thousands of stories, retold and repurposed in any number of collaborative mediums, the enthusiasm and gratitude of the fans needed a focal point, someone who could represent what we thought of when we thought of comic books. And Stan Lee gladly filled that role.
That’s part of the problem. One of the things that complicates Lee’s legacy is how readily he accepted being the public face for those characters and stories, at the expense of his collaborators and colleagues. Given the state of myth-making, you could be forgiven for thinking that Lee single-handedly dreamed up, designed, and debuted every single Marvel character you’ve ever heard of. That’s a disservice to all the other creative people who helped propel Marvel’s stable of heroes and comic books into the public consciousness, people whom Stan wasn’t necessarily apt to share the spotlight, let alone the residuals, with.
And yet Lee clearly excelled in his role as a promoter. At an early 1990s Comic Con appearance, where he introduced a then-forthcoming Spider-Man animated series to a crowd of adoring fans, you can hear him offer all sorts of exaggerated-but-exciting boasts. He’d assembled an unrivaled world-class team of creatives for this new show! It would change television! It would be 100% true to the comics! The lead voice actors might one day be the stars of a (then mostly hypothetical) live action Spider-Man film! Lee did it all with a salesman’s relish. He exuded the the chipper but firm sense that whatever he was talking up must genuinely be the brightest and best thing to grace the airwaves, the comic book pages, or the silver screen.
But in his later years, Lee would emerge mainly as a figurehead, the professor emeritus of all comicsdom, with his smiling face acting as a stamp of approval that whatever you were experiencing was an honest-to-goodness Marvel production. He cameoed in everything from theme park rides and single-season T.V. curios to the biggest superhero flicks of all time. Each time, his appearance was a pleasant surprise, a brief but cheery nod to the audience and to the history of the characters and the world he helped create.
Over time, that image slowly subsumed the man born Stanley Martin Lieber, who was a real, flesh and blood person. That made it easier to push aside the complicated history of claimed credits and bitter feelings amid Marvel’s various rises and falls. It made it easier not to fuss over rumors and recriminations that those closest to Lee were taking advantage of him in his old age. The Stan Lee the public knew in his later years wasn’t a human being; he was comic books. He had become a symbol, and symbols don’t have health problems or checkered pasts or complicated presents. They can just smile for the cameras, and everything will be fine.
But they also give us an outlet for our admiration and gratitude, meant for characters and stories with too many fathers and mothers to comprehend, let alone thank individually. Stan Lee’s creations will long outlive him, representing ideas like moral responsibility, persecution and tolerance, and the earnestly human within the larger-than-life, that will persist far beyond any single author or illustrator. And in the same way, the icon that was and is Stan Lee will long outlive the man himself, standing in for a bigger creative spirit that touched the lives of film-goers, comic book-readers, and yes, even reality show contestants.
That was his final gift. We need icons like Stan Lee, who make the big and wondrous feel graspable, so that we can say thank you, and goodbye, even when the truth is more complex, and we know we won’t hear much in return.
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Marshall Estes August 5, 2019 Movies
Dora and the Lost City of Gold Review: Can You Say Exciting? Very Good!
L-r, Eva Longoria, Isabela Moner and Michael Peña star in Paramount Pictures' "DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD." Cr: Vince Valitutti
Nickelodeon’s teenage live-action reboot of the beloved children’s show brings a strong central performance and oodles of adventure.
For many a millennial, Dora and the Lost City of Gold represents the unstoppable march of time. Based on the popular Nick Jr. series, Dora the Explorer (which started in 2000), this is one of the first movies that banks on Gen Z nostalgia. Granted, the series is still running, but with the movie’s targeted audience skewing a little higher than the shows preschool fanbase, it will need to be good enough to appeal to kids who are too young to feel nostalgic as well as parents who were too old to enjoy the series. Fortunately, James Bobin (Alice Through the Looking Glass) delivers an adventure flick with enough laughs, excitement, and heart to entertain people who haven’t even heard of the pint-size explorer.
As the daughter of archeologists, 16-year-old Dora (Isabela Moner, Instant Family) feels at home in the jungles of Peru, helping her parents (Eva Longoria and Michael Peña) search for the lost Incan city of Parapata. However, when her parents send her to live in “the city” (it’s never stated, but it’s LA) to socialize with kids her own age, she finds herself out of her comfort zone. Her sunny disposition and odd behavior make her a social pariah in her high school, much to the chagrin of her cousin Diego (Jeff Wahlberg, Future World).
On a field trip to the natural history museum, Dora is kidnapped by mercenaries who want to use her to track her parents, who are close to finding Parapata. The mercenaries also inadvertently kidnap Diego, as well as their classmates Sammy (Madeleine Madden, Picnic at Hanging Rock) and Randy (Nicholas Coombe, Midnight Sun). The teens are rescued by Alejandro (Eugenio Derbez, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms), a professor and friend of Dora’s parents. The group will have to brave the jungle, escape dangerous ruins, and outwit a talking fox named Swiper (Benicio Del Toro, Avengers: Infinity War) if they want to find Dora’s parents and the lost city.
The first act of Dora takes a page from the playbook for the Brady Bunch movies of the 90s by transplanting Dora, who acts as she does in the show, into a more realistic setting. Her behavior ranges from the naive (introducing herself to everyone), to the annoying (she sings a song about mundane tasks), to the truly bizarre (she says things like “can you say delicioso?” to nobody, in a nod to Dora speaking to the audience in the show).
Dora’s maturation doesn’t come at the cost of her innocence; it comes from her forming bonds with peers who accept her for who she is.
Much of the humor comes from Dora’s encounters with “normal” people and the tension that creates. It can be a little repetitive, but it works due to Moner’s fantastic performance. This role could have easily been done tongue-in-cheek, but Moner acts like she’s not in on the joke. Everything about Dora is completely sincere, and it works. She has an infectious charm that makes her fun to watch and awkward around her peers. She never becomes annoying, and she even has moments of depth and a little self-awareness.
What hurts the dynamic between Dora and “the real world” is the supporting cast; the movie would have worked great if the rest of the cast played it straight against Dora’s weirdness, but the other explorers feel just as archetypal. Sammy is the teacher’s pet who is threatened by Dora’s intelligence, Randy is the nerdy outcast goofball, and Alejandro is the comically inept adult that often shows up in kid’s movies. As such, the acting can feel a little one-note: Madden is catty, Derbez is goofy, and Coombe makes awkward pop culture references. Out of the main cast, only Wahlberg feels like a real person. The stereotyped acting isn’t too bad and is most likely the result of direction rather than the actors, but it does make the film feel less mature than it otherwise would.
Once Dora returns to the jungle, the film switches from Brady Movie-style parody to Indiana Jones for kids. Dora features a lot of staples of swashbuckling adventure flicks: dense jungles, dangerous flora and fauna, quicksand, greedy tomb raiders, and ruins with elaborate traps that work flawlessly despite being centuries old. It’s obvious that the filmmakers have a lot of love for these types of movies, and although none of the set pieces are terribly original, they’re still a lot of fun.
L-R, Eugenio Derbez, Nicholas Coombe, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Madeleine Madden and Isabela Moner star in Paramount Pictures’ “DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD.”
While there’s not a big sense of danger to the traps (this is a Nickelodeon flick, after all), they are still thrilling, and escaping them requires the explorers to use their mind as well as their muscle, in keeping with the spirit of the TV show. The production design is also fantastic, with Incan temples filled with intricate carvings, ornate statues, and even some creepy warnings to intruders.
Of course, the biggest difference between Dora and the adventure movies that inspired it is the fact that this is about a mostly Latinx group exploring the history of a Latin American country. While the movie doesn’t lean heavily into Latinx culture, with Dora being vaguely Hispanic instead of being of a specific heritage, it does contain nods to Incan culture. Dora speaks Quechan (an indigenous language of Peru), and they reference the Incan recording system quipu, which uses knots to record data (although they treat it like an alphabet, which it was not).
The movie also has a few criticisms of colonialism, both symbolically (the group explores a European built opera house that has been reclaimed by the land) and literally (the group talks about how Europeans and Americans have robbed Latin America). It’s not a scathing critique of Western imperialism, but it’s about as politically subversive as a Hollywood kids film will get.
I could say that what makes Dora and the Lost City of Gold refreshing is that it features a Latinx heroine in a genre dominated by white men. But while I think that this representation is great, what makes the film is Dora herself. While there is humor in her singing, optimism, and enthusiasm, it’s clear that these are good traits, traits that help her succeed where others might fail. Dora’s maturation doesn’t come at the cost of her innocence; it comes from her forming bonds with peers who accept her for who she is. Dora proves that you don’t have to be “hard” to be strong, and I think that makes it worth a watch.
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Sean Kingston Says He Slept with Serena Williams: ‘She Wanted Something Different’
Daryl Nelson
Sean Kingston paid a visit to BBC Radio 1's Smashed With Sloth and discussed topics like his come up in the music business, working with Justin Bieber and famous women in entertainment.
In one part of the interview, Kingston was asked which celebrities he would hypothetically make his wife, who he would sleep with and who he'd avoid forever.
After the 27-year-old said he'd marry Lauren London and sleep with Meagan Good, he was asked who is the most famous person he's ever been with sexually, and it turned out to be Serena Williams.
Kingston also said that he used to date the tennis star several years ago and always thought very highly of her. He stated that Williams visited him for six days when he was in that nasty jet ski accident in 2011 as well.
"That was my dog," he said. "That was somebody I really looked to for advice ... I use to work out with her. She was just always somebody that really, really looked out for me and made sure that I was good ... She's just always been a great friend of mine. [She has] $300 million and all she wears is Nike tracksuits."
Kingston also said the nine year difference between he and Williams played a part in their eventual breakup.
"I knew what I had, but I just didn't really follow-up on some stuff that I was supposed to follow-up on," he explained. "I was kind of young at the time, and I was being young. She's older than me, so she wanted something different."
The last time Kingston said he communicated with Williams is when she announced that she was having a baby with Reddit's founder Alexis Ohanian. He sent the 23-time grand slam winner a text after the news, and the two exchanged well wishes.
The last time the "Beautiful Girls" singer made headlines was back in February when he said Migos and their entourage jumped him outside of the Sand Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. There were also shots fired during the melee, and one person from Kingston's squad was arrested.
In regards to Williams, she's now in the throws of motherhood with her daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., who was born on Sept. 1. The mother-of one said she suffered complications during the delivery and had to spend several days in the hospital.
Williams hasn't commented on Kingston's sex claims yet, and there's a good chance she won't. But whether she contacts him personally and asks him why he would reveal such personal information is something else altogether.
You can see the singer's full interview on BBC 1 above.
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HomeEntertainmentMovie BriefMovie Brief: “Jackie”
Movie Brief: “Jackie”
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Natalie Portman delivers Oscar-worthy performance in poignant biopic of iconic First Lady
When you think about the Kennedy era, most likely the first thing to come to mind is the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the style and poise of the First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. It’s a story that’s been retold many times, with various perspectives. It’s hard to believe there could be a new angle on which to focus. But the film “Jackie” does just that as it explores what happened in the days following the tragic event and how the First Lady managed to cope and cement her husband’s legacy.
Plot: Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) is grieving the death of her husband and contemplating the legacy of JFK (Caspar Phillipson), as she recounts her life in the White House to a journalist (Billy Crudup). It is an intimate side of the First Lady that was so heavily guarded in life, but is now told in this biopic.
Engagement: Portman superbly channels the famous First Lady in “Jackie.” She brings an innate sense of poise and grace to the role, reminiscent of Jackie Kennedy. The type of strength one would imagine it would take in such a situation is charismatically conveyed through Portman’s riveting portrayal. The film was further elevated through strong cinematography that gave us beautiful historical snapshots. The transition from black and white to color was a nod to the era when TV was in its infancy, and served as a great way to take the viewer back in time. The scenes with Jackie alone in the White House, while trying to cope with what happened, are some of the most powerful.
Style: The set design and costuming in “Jackie” is magnificent and almost serves as another character in telling the story. In an exclusive interview, costume designer Madeline Fontaine explains how the costumes “help transport you to that era and time.” It is a significant role in the film as it was in real life– Jackie was known as much for her style and elegance as her role as First Lady.
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July 2017 by: Deanna Timberlake
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How India’s Elite Competition Poisoned the Internet
The Pulse | Politics | Society | South Asia
Ever wonder why India has so many internet shutdowns? It’s because, to an increasing degree, online discourse is being used to incite real-world violence.
By Pallavi Shahi for The Diplomat
With over 100 reported incidents in 2018 and 2019 each, India, the world’s largest democracy, holds the global top spot for the highest number of internet shutdowns. Having maintained the crown position since 2016, this information technology hub lost a whopping $3.04 billion to 16,315 hours of intentional internet downtime between 2012 and 2017. Conservative estimates place losses incurred by the Indian economy in 2019 alone at $1.3 billion at the least.
India’s two biggest political parties, the Indian National Congress and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have taken their fight online — a realm promising anonymity, lack of immediate screening, and freedom to spread massive information rapidly. At polar ends of the political spectrum and with jarringly different viewpoints about India’s identity and ideal citizenship, their elite competition for the subcontinent’s governance is severely impacting Indian democracy by disallowing the free flow and exchange of ideas, opinions, and information. The fanning of religious, ethnic and identity-based differences for political gains has led to immense polarization and subsequent conflicts, to handle which the government has responded with the knee-jerk reaction of internet suspensions as the immediate short-term remedy.
An analysis of India’s internet shutdowns between 2012 to 2018 indicates that elite competition — struggle between its elites for electoral-backed political dominance — through deliberate dissemination of false information and fake news, directly or through sources, has led to the creation of conflict scenarios. This includes hate-speech and political mudslinging, engineered riots in the aftermath of online and offline spread of divisive information, and IT hubs coupled with abusive online troll-armies on political elites’ payrolls, all aimed toward expanding electoral gains. In a bid to control the law and order situation and arrest the further spread of conflict, the government — one of the parties in this political tug of war — has blatantly and consistently been resorting to widespread internet suspensions, citing necessary preventive or reactive action.
These internet shutdowns — absolute online blackouts at the government’s behest for anywhere between 24 to 72 hours, or longer — are a blatant violation of its citizens’ political, economic, and human rights. Their upswing since 2014, when political power changed hands from Congress to the BJP, has been stark and significant.
From 2012 to 2014, the country witnessed a total of four internet suspensions. With 15 cases in 2015 and 31 in 2016, which gave India more shutdowns than anywhere in the world, the country’s upward trajectory in internet shutdowns has been scaling new heights. In 2019, the number of internet blackouts hit 121. Simultaneously, the period also witnessed a 28 percent increase in religious riots across India wherein Muslims were overwhelmingly the victims and extremist Hindus, the perpetrators. A majority of these cases happened in BJP-governed states where party policies encouraged and emboldened Hindu extremists by openly inciting violence, encouraging and supporting perpetrators, and subsequently allowing them to go scot-free. The BJP-ruled states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Haryana witnessed the highest number of internet shutdowns, other than Jammu and Kashmir.
The period also witnessed an unprecedented rise in the amount of fake news, especially leading up to the 2019 general elections. Social media was repeatedly used for the spread of divisive and inflammatory material and fake news by political parties against one another and minorities, leading to severe conflict scenarios. After repeated warnings by WhatsApp to political parties against “abusing” the app, a fortnight before the elections, Facebook took down hundreds of suspicious accounts linked to both parties, for “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Multiple pages were traced back to an Indian tech firm developing the BJP government’s apps that were found to be sharing flagrant fake news.
Hate speech directed toward minorities and mudslinging against political opponents too witnessed a sharp incline, with the internet being increasingly employed for disseminating unlawful speech by political parties. An analysis of 1,000 tweets by politicians and nearly 1,300 news articles comparing the Modi government’s 2014 to 2018 term with that of the second Congress-led United Progressive Alliance from 2009 to 2014, found that not only had VIP hate speech — to include hateful comments in the language of bigotry or calling for violence — skyrocketed by 500 percent, but also that politicians’ increased use of social media had amplified this disturbing trend. In Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, both states that went to polls recently, the use of online and offline political designs aimed toward inciting violence to derail the government and accrue political gains, followed by widespread internet suspensions, was clearly witnessed.
With India’s secular and democratic characteristics under severe threat, its internet is one of the last checkpoints to register or muzzle information, dissent, free speech, ideas, and opinions. The ramifications of India’s elite competition on the digital sphere are proving to be deadly, and its preservation is extremely integral to India’s existence as we know it.
Pallavi Shahi is a Project Consultant at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Seton Hall University. She holds a Master of Arts in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University and previously worked as a journalist in India.
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Activist Claims Found to be Defamatory, Malicious
by Lucy Towers
3 October 2012, at 1:00am
CANADA - A decision has been delivered in the defamation trial brought by Mainstream Canada against an anti-salmon farm activist.
The trial, which began on Jan 16, 2012 and concluded on Feb 10, 2012 in the Supreme Court of BC, was initiated by Mainstream in response to a prolonged and malicious attack on the reputation of the company and its employees.
"Although I have concluded that Mr Staniford's statements are defamatory of Mainstream, I have concluded that he should succeed on his defence of fair comment," said Madam Justice Adair in her reasons for judgment. "I have found that he was actuated by express malice towards Mainstream. However, I have found that he had an honest belief in the statements he made, and injuring Mainstream because of spite or animosity was not his dominant purpose in publishing the words in issue."
Mainstream Canada is currently reviewing the ruling and considering its full implications.
"Mainstream is disappointed with the decision of the court. The judge ruled that the activist's statements were defamatory and malicious and not based on fact, but because he truly believed them, our claim was dismissed," said Laurie Jensen, Mainstream Canada's Communications and Corporate Sustainability Manager. "We believe that people who say defamatory and malicious things should be held accountable. We took this action to protect our employees and the company from further malicious attacks, and despite this decision we believe this was the right thing to do."
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Revealing how climate change impacts lifestyle
Technology March 21, 2020 April 3, 2020
The Battle Against Misinformation on Climate Change
by Kaushal Kumar
The fight against climate change is one that our world is going to have to fight against for years, and it is essential that people have an honest understanding about what climate change is and its implications so they can understand the severity of the issue. This is why it is so important that when people are exposed to the topic of climate change, the information that they are exposed to must be logical and factually correct.
Recently a nonprofit called “Greenpeace” has called out YouTube for promoting ads that deny climate change or promote misinformation about climate change on their videos. The nonprofit claims that not only are the ads misleading, but YouTube is drawing revenue by displaying the ads, and are in turn making money off of the spread of untrue claims surrounding climate change (NBC).
But the ads are not the only place where climate change deniers go to spread misinformation. According to Time, when searching “Global Warming” on YouTube more than 15% of the top 100 video responses are some form of climate change denial, or attack against the idea of climate change.
These ads and videos have a bigger impact than a company generating revenue off of lies, and that is the effect that they may be having on the audiences of the videos. 81% of parents say that they let their children watch videos on Youtube. This means that there is a large audience of impressionable kids who cannot discern between the lies that these advertisers are spreading and the truth about these topics. By exposing children, and even unknowing adults to this misinformation, YouTube is helping fuel these fraudulent campaigns, making it harder and harder for our world to win its fight against climate change, one that we cannot afford to lose.
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Leonie Lewis awarded MBE at New Year’s Honours list
JVN trustees and staff took great delight in congratulating their Director, Leonie Lewis, after she received an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to the Jewish community.
Leonie has been giving her indomitable energy to the UK Jewish community for over 30 years and continues to have a major impact on many areas both inside the community and as a key external representative. As Director of the Jewish Volunteering Network, she has grown the charity from its inception 10 years ago to become a beacon of excellence in volunteering. Its success and reputation are such that other faith groups are now using it as a template to emulate in their own communities.
Leonie has always represented the Jewish community in the inter-faith sector, as a Founder and trustee of the Faith Based Regeneration Network and Co-Chair of the Faiths Forum for London (FFFL). She has worked tirelessly to build the FFFL’s influence in both inter-faith and wider sectors. Her ability to form personal friendships with the leaders of other faiths, based on mutual respect and shared ideas, enabled her to involve them directly in the FFFL’s work.
Leonie became Co-Chair of US (United Synagogue) Women and in 2013 was able to drive changes to the statutes and bye-laws, resulting in women being able to become chairs of US synagogues. After becoming the first of four female trustees of the US itself, she became joint Vice President, a role she still holds. As a role model for women across the community, she has shown selfless dedication to mentoring and empowering women to step up to the plate and take on critical leadership roles to become future mentors and promote gender equality.
Michael Goldstein, President of the United Synagogue said: “We are delighted that Leonie has received this honour. As Vice-President of the United Synagogue, her contribution to our community continues to be enormous. The huge impact of her years of work will be felt by countless people both now and in the future.”
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Leonie has been an active member of the Pinner Synagogue for over 30 years. Her husband Howard and sons Adam and Ben plus her seven grand-children take great pride in her achievements.
Leonie said “Receiving the MBE means the world to me. It justifies all the hours and commitment I’ve spent at meetings and activities encouraging all who know me to engage and or volunteer with their community. I still have a few friends left!!!
The nicest thing is receiving such wonderful messages, letters and calls from so many people. Its very touching to know that in some small way I really am making a difference!!”
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The Life Sciences Law Review - Edition 8
María del Carmen Alvarado Bayo
Ricardo De Vettor Pinillos
Rodrigo, Elias & Medrano Abogados
Law No. 29459 on Pharmaceutical Products, Medical Devices and Sanitary Products, enacted in November 2009, is the principal legislation that regulates pharmaceutical products, medical devices, sanitary products, pharmaceutical establishments (laboratories, storehouses, drugstores2 and pharmacies) and activities related to the marketing, promotion, advertising and prescription of the aforementioned products.
This Law has been complemented with the issuance of several supreme decrees that regulate specific requirements and conditions for said products and activities, the most important of which are Supreme Decrees Nos. 16-2011-SA (Rules on the Registration, Control and Sanitary Surveillance of Pharmaceutical Products, Medical Devices and Sanitary Products) and 014-2011-SA (Rules for Pharmaceutical Establishments).
The General Directorate of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs (Digemid)3 – a public entity that is part of the Ministry of Health – is the national competent authority in charge of granting all types of marketing authorisations regarding the above-mentioned products and their corresponding authorisations in order to carry out activities as pharmaceutical establishments. Digemid is also in charge of sanitary control and surveillance.
II THE REGULATORY REGIME
Law No. 29459 sets forth the conditions for granting marketing authorisations of pharmaceutical products, medical devices and sanitary products.
There are two principal authorisations for the manufacture and importation, and commercialisation and storage of pharmaceutical products and medical devices that can only be granted to individuals or companies duly incorporated in Peru: a health operating authorisation, which must be granted in order to carry out activities as a pharmaceutical establishment (laboratories, drugstores, warehouses and pharmacies); and a marketing authorisation of the product.
In this sense, medicines and medical devices manufactured locally or in a foreign country can only be traded with the corresponding marketing authorisation issued by Digemid to local companies.
i Classification
Law No. 29459 includes a subclassification of the products that are included under the following main categories:
pharmaceutical products:
medicines (which include pharmaceutical specialities, diagnostic agents, radiopharmaceuticals and medicinal gases). Pharmaceutical specialities are subclassified into specialities whose active pharmaceutical ingredient is: (1) included in the unique national list of essential medicines (Category 1); (2) not included in the unique national list of essential medicines but registered in high health surveillance countries4 (Category 2); and (3) not included in categories 1 and 2 (Category 3);
dietary and sugar substitutes;
biological products;
herbal medicines; and
galenic products;
medical devices of low, moderate, high or critical risk; and
sanitary products (cosmetic, household cleaning and products for personal hygiene and protection).
Cosmetic and household cleaning products are regulated under the applicable international rules (Andean Decisions)5 for the member countries of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).
ii Non-clinical studies
Law No. 30407, enacted in January 2016, forbids any experiment and research involving living animals that may cause them unnecessary suffering, injury or death, unless the aforementioned is essential for study and scientific advances. The results of such experiments cannot be obtained through other procedures, or said procedures cannot be replaced by cell cultures or tissues, or computerised methods or videos, when such experiments are necessary for:
the control, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of diseases affecting human beings or animals;
the assessment, detection, regulation or modification of the physiological conditions in human beings and animals;
the preservation of the environment and the maintenance of biodiversity;
investigation of productive parameters in animals; and
medical-legal research.
The Institutional Research Ethics Committee for the Use of Animals, part of the National Health Institute (INS) within the Ministry of Health, is the national competent authority that approves investigation protocols involving animals. Since there are many gaps in the regulation of studies on animals, the second complementary transitory provision of Law No. 30407 indicated that within a term of 90 days counted from 8 January 2016, the Ministry of Health should issue an ethics code for the use of animals in research. However, no such code has yet been issued.
iii Clinical trials
Supreme Decree No. 021-2017-SA enacted in 30 June 2017 is the principle regulation regarding clinical trials, and the entity in charge of regulating and approving clinical trials is the INS.
Clinical trials must obtain prior authorisation issued by the General Office for Research and Technology Transfer, which is part of the INS. The authorisation can be requested by the sponsor or contracted research organisation and both need to be registered with the INS. The sponsor can be a foreign company but must have a legal representative in Peru duly empowered to act on its behalf with respect to any matter related to clinical trials.
It is only possible to request authorisations for clinical trials if the products under investigation comply with one or more of the following conditions:
they have an authorisation for investigation in human beings issued by the corresponding drug authorities from high health surveillance countries;
they are manufactured in Peru, have undergone preclinical investigation and are in accordance with the investigation policies or priorities determined by the Ministry of Health;
they are used to establish therapeutic equivalence of pharmaceutical products or similarity of biological products;
they are considered a priority for public health in Peru or part of the investigation policies or priorities determined by the Ministry of Health; and
they need to have clinical trials, according to the Ministry of Health, to support their efficacy and safety in order to grant the marketing authorisation.
For the importation of products under investigation, it is mandatory to obtain a sanitary importation authorisation granted by Digemid. This authorisation can only be granted to companies duly incorporated in Peru and after the company has been granted the authorisation to conduct the clinical trial.
iv Named-patient and compassionate use procedures
Article 20 of Supreme Decree No. 016-2011-SA states that Digemid may provisionally authorise the importation and use of pharmaceutical products without sanitary registration or under conditions different from those ones stated in the sanitary registration for individual prevention or treatment. To obtain this authorisation, it is necessary to file an application submitting a medical report issued by a Peruvian doctor with a report stating the characteristics of the product.
The regulations state that the authorisation should be requested by the 'person with interest'; therefore, it should be the patient who performs the procedure. Nevertheless, the patient could delegate the rights to another person or entity to perform the procedure on his or her behalf.
v Pre-market clearance
The general rule is that all medicines and medical devices must be previously registered with Digemid for their commercialisation in the market and this is achieved by obtaining a marketing authorisation. The holder of the marketing authorisation is responsible for the quality of the product.
There are some exceptions to the general rule and in certain specific cases it is possible to manufacture, import or use pharmaceutical products and medical devices without a marketing authorisation as long as Digemid gives prior approval. Exceptions are only applicable for:
use in urgent situations or if an emergency is declared;
research and training purposes;
prevention and individual treatment with the corresponding medical justification; and
public health situations where the need and unavailability of the product in the national market is demonstrated.
vi Regulatory incentives
Patent legislation in Peru does not allow for granting extensions of patents and there are few incentives for the research and study of new chemical entities.
Marketing authorisations are independent of patent procedures and the two are not linked in any way.
Until 2009, there was no protection of test data submitted during the procedure for obtaining a marketing authorisation. This situation changed with the issuance of Legislative Decree No. 1072 on the protection of test data and other undisclosed data relating to pharmaceuticals, and now it is possible to protect undisclosed test data or other data on safety and efficacy for five years. The information that will be protected is related to the safety and efficacy of a pharmaceutical product containing a new chemical entity.
vii Post-approval controls
Digemid is legally authorised to permanently, and without prior notice, conduct technical inspections at pharmaceutical establishments as well as to monitor and perform tests of products to ensure their safety. These actions could result in cancellation of authorisations and even suspension of activities or closure of establishments.
The holder of a marketing authorisation of pharmaceutical products or medical devices should periodically submit security summaries (reports) in line with good pharmacovigilance practices according to the following agenda: (1) each six months during the first two years following the first commercialisation; (2) annually during the following three years, after the first two years have elapsed; and (3) every five years from the sixth year.
Likewise, before its commercialisation and distribution, the holder of the marketing authorisation must submit the results of the product's quality control for each and every batch. The quality control of the first batch that enters into the market, after registration of the product, must be conducted within the National Centre of Quality Control of the INS or in a laboratory duly authorised by Digemid.
viii Manufacturing controls
Manufacturing laboratories need to comply with good manufacturing, laboratory, storage, pharmacovigilance, distribution and transportation practices, and must include independent areas for manufacture, quality control and storage. Digemid conducts periodic supervisions to control the conditions and quality of the manufacturing processes as well as the quality of the products.
All manufacturing laboratories must function under the supervision of a technical director, who must be a qualified pharmaceutical chemist and who is in charge of the laboratory's manufacturing and quality control, among other responsibilities.
By means of Ministerial Order No. 796-2019-MINSA, the Technical Standard for Health (NTS) No. 156-MINSA/2019/DIGEMID was approved and regulates the preparation of the Pharmaceutical Products Risk Management Plan. This Technical Standard is enforceable on the holder of sanitary/health registration of pharmaceutical products. It does not apply to medical gases, herbal medicines, dietetic products, sweeteners and galenical products. It will come into effect as of March 2020.
Also, by means of Ministerial Order No. 779-2019MINSA, the Good Manufacturing Practice Inspection Technical Guide to Pharmaceutical Products was approved. The Inspection Guide will be applied to domestic and foreign laboratories manufacturing pharmaceutical products. It does not apply to herbal medicines.
ix Advertising and promotion
Advertisements do not require authorisation or supervision before dissemination by any authority. The supervision and control takes place after the advertisement is released (ex-post control) and it is supervised by Peru's National Institute for the Defence of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi). The promotion and advertising of medicines and medical devices for sale with a medical prescription must be addressed exclusively to professionals who prescribe and dispense said products.
Advertising for non-prescription medicines must include legible and accurate information of the technical specifications. In the case of advertising panels and advertising on television, the information about the principal precautions and warnings must be clear, legible and perceptible to the public.
Samples must be duly labelled with all the technical and approved information included in the product's marketing authorisation and only physicians are allowed to directly provide samples to their patients.
x Distributors and wholesalers
Pursuant to Supreme Decree No. 014-2011-SA, all pharmaceutical establishments dedicated to the manufacture, importation, distribution, storage and commercialisation of medicines, medical devices and sanitary products, such as drugstores, warehouses and pharmacies, must necessarily obtain a health operating authorisation. Any of these establishments must appoint a permanent technical director or a pharmaceutical chemist (or both).
Laboratories and drugstores cannot commercialise pharmaceutical products or medical devices to end user consumers. Likewise, prescription medicines must only be sold in pharmacies, although some non-prescription medicines (with low sanitary risk) can be sold in commercial establishments (over-the-counter) as long as the establishment has been authorised by Digemid when granting the marketing authorisation for the product.
xi Classification of products
The general classification of products is outlined in Section II.i. Regarding pharmaceutical products (medicines), there is a subclassification depending on how the products will be dispensed. There are four subcategories that involve products that (1) require a specialised, numbered medical prescription; (2) require a simple medical prescription; (3) do not require a medical prescription but can only be sold in pharmacies; and (4) do not require a medical prescription and can be sold in commercial establishments.
A marketing authorisation will not be granted for a pharmaceutical product that has a commercial name that is identical or similar to another product already registered with a different formula. Likewise, a marketing authorisation will not be granted for a pharmaceutical product that has a trade name that corresponds to an international non-proprietary name (INN) or another term that could be confused with an INN.
xii Imports and exports
Besides the general information required by the customs authorities for the importation of pharmaceutical products, medical devices and sanitary products, it is necessary to provide the following:
a copy of the resolution that authorises the marketing authorisation;
identification of the shipment by the product's manufacturing batch and expiry date;
an analysis certificate or protocol analysis conducted over the product's batch; and
a good manufacturing practice (GMP) certificate granted by Digemid.
With regard to (d), it is possible to submit GMP certificates issued by competent authorities from high health surveillance countries or countries that have a mutual recognition with Peru. It is also possible to submit GMP certificates issued by the competent authorities of the country of origin as long as the importer had previously requested it from Digemid and until 28 February 2019, to conduct the certification of the laboratory and the same is pending to be performed.
xiii Controlled substances
Narcotics and psychotropic drugs are subject to the control and supervision of Digemid. For the importation or exportation of said products, it is necessary to obtain an official certificate issued by Digemid.
The prescription of certain narcotics and psychotropic drugs must be undertaken in accordance with special numbered prescriptions that must comply with strict requirements related to the content of the drugs. Likewise, laboratories, importers and pharmacies must have a suitable record whenever substances or medicines that include narcotics or psychotropic drugs are dispensed.
xiv Enforcement
Digemid is duly empowered to adopt security measures, such as preventive retention, seizure, withdrawal or destruction of products or materials and equipment used. These measures can be executed without warning and are imposed regardless of other administrative sanctions that could also be applied, such as fines, cancellation of authorisations or closure of establishments.
Digemid promotes different campaigns to inform consumers about the dangers of falsified medicines and provide general recommendations to prevent the acquisition of said products.
Digemid constantly issues alerts to the national scientific community and to the public in general, with the objective of controlling and minimising the risk related to the sale of a certain product.
III PRICING AND REIMBURSEMENT
The Consumer Protection Commission has stated on several occasions that within a social market economy, price-fixing must be free, based on supply and demand, and that 'excessive' or 'exploitative' prices cannot be penalised. The only prices that may be fixed administratively are public services fees.
On the other hand, it has been stated that excessive prices generate incentives for other bidders (i.e., competitors with respect to whom exploitative conditions are imposed) to enter into the market and offer better prices. Therefore, the idea is that competitors should reduce prices to capture users' preferences.
In relation to drug prices, it has been stated that Peruvian legislation does not regulate the government's intervention in the price-fixing of drugs traded by private companies; however, the government has adopted different policies and measures with the purpose of helping to improve the access thereto by users of medicines.
In this regard, on 31 October 2019, the government issued Urgent Decree No. 07-2019 by which access to drugs and biological products included in the national list of essential medicines was declared as an essential right to health. By means of Supreme Decree No. 026-2019-SA, the Rules on the mentioned Urgent Decree were enacted, establishing that pharmacies must keep available or demonstrate the sale of generic essential drugs.
IV ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL REMEDIES
The procedures to obtain a health operating authorisation or marketing authorisation do not require the application to be published in a legal gazette or on Digemid's website. For this reason, it is very difficult for third parties to be aware of new applications. Even if the third parties obtain information about a product that might infringe patent rights, it would not be possible to oppose or impede registration as the law does not foresee a specific procedure for a third party to do so. The registration application is a two-party procedure (the applicant and the administration).
If an authorisation is rejected, the applicant can either file a writ of reconsideration or a writ of appeal against the decision. The reconsideration writ must be supported by new evidence and will be resolved by the same authority that issued the decision. The appeal is resolved by Digemid's general director, who acts as second and last administrative instance.
The decisions adopted by Digemid's general director acting as second instance can be challenged before the judiciary. For such purposes, it is necessary to file a lawsuit within a term of three months after the issuance of the final decision and the judicial case could reach up to three instances (a judge specialised in contentious matters, the Superior Court and the Supreme Court). Filing a lawsuit does not suspend the effects of the resolutions that are challenged. To do so, it is necessary to obtain a precautionary measure, but these are frequently rejected.
V FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH PRESCRIBERS AND PAYERS
According to Article 31 of Law No. 29459, the prescription of medicines must necessarily include the INN, pharmaceutical form, dose, term of the treatment, form of administration and, optionally, the trade name. Not including the INN in the prescription is considered an administrative infringement and economic fines could be imposed.
Administrative Directive 208-MINSA/DIGEMID-V.016 is the legal norm that regulates the activities of medical representatives. According to this Directive, medical representatives should not encourage healthcare professionals to perform unethical prescription practices by offering, inter alia, courses, trips, rewards and presents. Travel and accommodation expenses are not prohibited but they should be granted in accordance with the ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion approved by the World Health Organization. The Directive also prohibits the installation of stands, modules and offices at public or private health establishments. It is also not permitted for advertisements to be posted on the walls of medical offices.
Any support to healthcare professionals to participate in any domestic or international symposium should not be conditional upon any obligation to promote any pharmaceutical product and must be announced as a conflict of interest, when applicable.
VI SPECIAL LIABILITY OR COMPENSATION SYSTEMS
Under Peruvian law, product liability is ruled under the Consumer Protection Code (CPC) and the Civil Code. The CPC applies to any consumption relationship (relationships established between a consumer and a supplier, as defined below) entered into in the Peruvian territory or whose effects are performed therein. If the CPC is thus not applicable, then product liability shall be regulated by the Civil Code. General rules provide, however, that Peruvian law is applicable.
Consumers are defined as individuals or legal entities that purchase products as end users (i.e., not for business or professional activities). An individual or legal entity that purchases a product for business purposes shall not be considered a consumer. On the other hand, small businesses evidencing a situation of information asymmetry with the supplier in respect of certain products that are not part of their own course of business shall also be considered as consumers. By contrast, suppliers are defined as individuals or legal entities that regularly manufacture, process, handle, mix, pack, store, prepare, dispense or supply products of any kind to consumers. Suppliers may be, among others, distributors, producers or manufacturers, importers, or vendors.
Suppliers that cause damage to consumers with defective products are subject to strict liability and must pay compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code in the corresponding judicial process. When there are several suppliers of a product (e.g., manufacturer and distributor), they shall all be jointly liable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each supplier has a right of recourse against the supplier that provided the defective product or caused the defect.
A supplier is also administratively liable for any breach of the CPC. The proceeding shall be conducted before the Consumer Protection Commission of Indecopi, which may impose fines of up to 1,867,500 soles and impose remedial and complementary corrective measures.
The Civil Code does not contain specific product liability rules. Nonetheless, general principles of civil liability contained in the Civil Code empower the victim of damage caused by a defective product to claim the corresponding compensation.
When there is no contractual relationship between seller and buyer (e.g., between the manufacturer and the end user), the seller may also be liable under tort liability. Article 1970 of the Civil Code provides that if a person causes damage to another person by means of a risky or dangerous product, or the exercise of a risky or dangerous activity, that person must compensate the victim of the damage. This article incorporates the strict liability principle in the Peruvian tort system, under which no degree of fault must be demonstrated. Peruvian scholarship argues that a defective product is a risky product and, therefore, when there is no contractual relationship between the seller and the buyer and the defective product causes damage to the buyer, the seller is subject to strict liability.
VII TRANSACTIONAL AND COMPETITION ISSUES
i Competition law
There are no specific competition regulations in Peru that apply exclusively to the pharmaceutical industry. However, there is a general Antitrust Law that promotes and protects free competition for all markets.
The regulations governing free competition are contained in Legislative Decree No. 1034 on the Repression of Anticompetitive Conducts (LRCA).
The authority in charge of enforcing the general legal framework governing free competition is Indecopi, which through its Commission on Free Competition, investigates and sanctions anticompetitive behaviour in the markets, with technical and functional autonomy.
Peruvian antitrust regulations apply to all practices that produce or may produce anticompetitive effects in all or part of the Peruvian territory, even if the practice originated abroad. The LRCA prohibits and sanctions three types of anticompetitive conduct, namely abuse of dominant position,7 horizontal collusive practices8 and vertical collusive practices.9
With regard to the nature of these prohibitions, some qualify as absolute prohibitions and others as relative prohibitions. According to Article 8 of the LRCA, the former refers to a behaviour that is forbidden per se and thus the competition agency will only have to prove the existence of the practice to determine the offence. However, in the case of relative prohibitions, to verify the existence of the offence, the existence of the practice must be proved and, additionally, it must be proved that it has or may have negative effects for competition and the well-being of consumers.
ii Transactional issues
There are no specific rules on transactional issues for pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Whether foreign laboratories are holders of the marketing authorisation of pharmaceutical products or medical devices must always be taken into account when analysing any transaction because there is always a dependence on the holder's will (usually local importers or drugstores companies that only have a commercial relationship with the laboratories) to transfer the marketing authorisation. Holders are even entitled to renounce the marketing authorisations and this could delay the commercialisation of products in the country as it would be necessary to obtain new marketing authorisations.
On 19 November 2019, the government issued Urgent Decree No. 13-2019, which approves a prior control regime for all business transactions that: (1) involve a change in control; (2) meet the thresholds set forth in the Urgent Decree; and (3) have effects in all or a part of the Peruvian territory.
The new prior merger control regime will be conducted by the Peruvian Antitrust Agency (INDECOPI) and will enter in force within nine months of its issuance date. Furthermore, the Urgent Decree will be in force for a period of five years and is subject to INDECOPI's review in order to recommend its definitive extension.
The Urgent Decree's main aspects are as follows:
Business concentration transaction: any act or transaction that involves a permanent transfer or change of control in a company or part of a company. Among others, the following will be considered as business concentration transactions: (1) mergers; (2) acquisitions of shares; (3) the formation of a joint venture or any other similar arrangement involving the acquisition of joint control over one or more economic agents; and (4) the acquisition of assets that involve the transfer of control.
Business concentration transactions subject to prior control: transactions that meet the following characteristics are subject to the new prior merger control regime:
those that imply a permanent transfer or change of control in a company or part of it; including the acquisition of productive assets (control transfer);
those executed in Peru or abroad but that have effects in all or a part of the Peruvian territory; and
those that meet the thresholds established in the Urgent Decree.
Thresholds: business concentration transactions will be subject to the new prior merger control regime when the following thresholds are jointly met before its execution:
the total sales or annual gross income, in the country, reported by the companies involved in the transaction during the past tax year has reached an amount equal to or greater than 118,000 tax units (approximately US$141.5 million); and
the annual sales or gross income, in the country, reported by at least two of the companies involved in the transaction during the past tax year has reached an amount equal to or greater than 18,000 tax units, each (approximately US$21.6 million for each company).
In the event of a merger or acquisition of joint control, all economic agents involved in the transaction must submit a joint authorisation application before INDECOPI. In all other cases, the authorisation application must be submitted by the economic agent that is acquiring control over all or a part of one or more economic agents.
VIII CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
i Cannabis for medical purposes
The legality of medical cannabis in Peru arose in October 2017 pursuant to Law No. 30681, regulating medical and therapeutic cannabis and by-products. On 23 February 2019, the Rules of Law No. 30681 were enacted by means of Supreme Decree No. 005-2019-SA. A cannabis fact with respect to the variety of cannabinoids is provided by the Rules, identifying psychoactive and non-psychoactive substances. Therefore, psychoactive cannabis end products shall be for medical purposes only. In the case of non-psychoactive cannabis end products, they shall not have restrictions. In fact, non-psychoactive cannabis refers to cannabis of less than 1 per cent THC dry weight as set forth in the Regulations. Thus, they are non-controlled substances and are excluded from the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Regulations enforcement.
According to the Rules of Law No. 30681, patients shall directly import cannabis products by obtaining a special prescription and the authorisation issued by Digemid. Also compounded drugs (compounded drugs are pharmaceutical preparations tailored for an individual patient by a licensed pharmacist or under their supervision in strict compliance with a detailed medical prescription or the active ingredients as per technical and scientific standards in terms of pharmacy) should be prepared upon presentation of the pertinent prescription and are exclusively dispensed by the pharmacy receiving such prescription. They must not be kept in stock and their mass creation is forbidden. For compounded drugs, wholesale or end products must not be used as supplies. Compounded drugs containing substances subject to health control shall comply with the Regulations on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Other Substances.
By means of Ministerial Order No. 1969-2019-IN, Directive No. 006-2019-IN the guidelines to approve the security protocols on the use of medical and therapeutic cannabis and its by-products were published. Security protocols aim to ensure physical intangibility of cannabis and to avoid drug diversion. Said protocols must be duly verified and approved by the representative of the Peruvian Police Force Anti-Drug Division (DIRANDRO).
The authorisation of the Agricultural Production Plan issued by the General Division of Agriculture (DGA) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI) is a requirement for medical cannabis agricultural production licensing that laboratories authorised by Digemid must obtain. Pursuant to Ministerial Order No. 0499-2019-MINSAGRI published on MINAGRI's website, it is set forth to approve the Guidelines for Agricultural Production Plan that includes sowing, cultivation and harvesting of cannabis for medical and therapeutic purposes.
ii Electronic medical records
On 8 July 2019, the Ministerial Order published the Technical Document named Implementation Plan of the National Registry of Electronic Medical Records (RENHICE). This plan aims to implement the technological infrastructure specialised in health allowing the patient or their legal representative and health professionals being previously authorised by them, to access to the medical data contained the electronic medical records. The plan shall be implemented progressively. The use of electronic medical records will favourably contribute to provide quality healthcare services to the benefit of patients. It should be mentioned that any person managing the information contained in RENHICE is liable to non-disclosure.
1 María del Carmen Alvarado Bayo is a partner and Ricardo De Vettor Pinillos is a senior associate at Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados.
2 'Drugstore' is defined as a pharmaceutical establishment dedicated to the import, export, trading, storing, quality control or distribution of pharmaceutical goods, medical devices or sanitary products.
3 La Dirección General de Medicamentos Insumos y Drogas (Digemid) was created by Legislative Decree No. 584 of 18 April 1990.
4 France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Australia, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, Republic of Korea, Portugal, Ireland, Hungary and Austria.
5 Decision 516 will be applicable until 27 May 2020, the date on which Decision 833 will enter into force.
6 Approved by Ministerial Resolution No. 413-2015-MINSA on 1 July 2015.
7 Holding a dominant position, with or without affecting real or potential competitors, does not constitute an illegal conduct. Monopolies or dominant position are not rejected per se, but rather the abusive use thereof.
8 Horizontal collusive practices imply the joint action of several competitors as if they were one. According to the LRCA, such practices may consist of concerted agreements, decisions, recommendations or practices among competitors with the aim or effect of restraining, preventing or forging competition.
9 These are collusive practices among economic agents operating at different levels of the production, distribution or marketing chain, aimed at restricting, preventing or forging free competition.
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The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review Edition 7
Editor Alan Charles Raul
Privacy, like everything else in 2020, was dominated by the covid-19 pandemic. Employers and governments have been required to consider privacy in adjusting workplace practices to account for who has fever and other symptoms, who has travelled where, who has come into contact with whom and what community members have tested positive or been exposed. As a result of all this need for tracking and tracing, governments and citizens alike have recognised the inevitable trade-offs between exclusive focus on privacy versus exclusive focus on public health and safety.
The Financial Technology Law Review Edition 3
Editor Thomas A Frick
This is already the third edition of The Financial Technology Law Review. The authors of this publication are from the most widely respected law firms in their jurisdictions. We hope that you will find their experience invaluable and enlightening when dealing with the varied issues fintech raises in the legal and regulatory field. The emphasis of this book is on the law and practice of each of the jurisdictions, but discussion of emerging or unsettled issues has been provided where appropriate.
The Consumer Finance Law Review Edition 4
Editors Rick Fischer, Obrea Poindexter and Jeremy Mandell
Consumer choice for financial products and services is proliferating across global markets. The ability to reach consumers at any time on their mobile phones, tablets or other devices has helped attract substantial capital investment in consumer financial services. This survey of consumer finance law describes the legal and regulatory approaches taken in the jurisdictions covered. Each chapter addresses the key characteristics of, and current climate within, a particular jurisdiction. Although payments, lending and deposits are the focus of this survey, other financial products and services are discussed where relevant.
The Trademarks Law Review Edition 4
Editor Jonathan Clegg
Cleveland Scott York
This is the fourth edition of The Trademarks Law Review. The key objectives for each of the jurisdictions included in the publication remain the same: to provide, first, an annual snapshot of trademark law which includes a summary of the key legal provisions, second, a review of recent developments and trends from the courts, and third, an informed view of areas of expected legal activity and legislative change going forward.
The Franchise Law Review Edition 7
Editor Mark Abell
This book provides an introduction to the basic elements of international franchising and an overview of the way that it is regulated in 28 jurisdictions. While this book certainly does not present readers with the complete answer to all the questions they may have about franchising in all the countries covered – that would require far more pages than it is possible to include in this one volume – it does seek to provide the reader with a high-level understanding of the challenges involved.
The Intellectual Property Review Edition 9
Editor Dominick A Conde
Venable
To aid practitioners in this changing environment of global intellectual property, we now present the ninth edition of The Intellectual Property Review. In this edition, we present 16 chapters that provide an overview of the forms of intellectual property coverage available in each particular jurisdiction, along with an update of its most recent developments. Each chapter is written and assembled by leading practitioners in that jurisdiction.
The Space Law Review Edition 2
Editor Joanne Wheeler MBE
Alden Legal Limited
The importance of The Space Law Review will grow each year as the value of the space domain and applications from space activities increases and, as such applications of satellite technology are brought into use and the commercial revenues from the industry are recognised. The first edition of The Space Law Review has received excellent feedback from private practitioners, academics and students around the world. This year the Review has expanded to include contributions from Brazil and India, and a chapter on taxation.
The Virtual Currency Regulation Review Edition 3
Editors Michael S Sackheim and Nathan A Howell
This third edition provides a practical analysis of recent legal and regulatory changes and developments, and of their effects, and looks forward to expected trends in the area of virtual currencies on a country-by-country basis. It is not intended to be an exhaustive guide to the regulation of virtual currencies globally or in any of the included jurisdictions. Instead, for each jurisdiction, the authors have endeavoured to provide a sufficient overview for the reader to understand the current legal and regulatory environment at a high level.
The Patent Litigation Law Review Edition 4
Editor Trevor Cook
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
The Patent Litigation Law Review does not only summarise patent litigation procedures. The respective contributors to it, as leading practitioners in each of their jurisdictions, also focus on recent developments in substantive patent law as demonstrated by the most important recent court decisions in their respective jurisdictions, meaning that this Review also provides insight into the current controversies that affect patent law generally.
The e-Discovery and Information Governance Law Review Edition 2
Editor Jennifer Mott Williams
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Virtually unheard of 20 years ago, increasing data volumes and ever-changing technologies have resulted in e-discovery and information governance exploding onto the legal scene. Corporations face a wide array of overlapping and competing e-discovery and information governance laws and regulations impacting the use, retention and disposition of electronically stored information (ESI). This second edition of The e-Discovery and Information Governance Law Review provides a general overview of e-discovery and information governance.
The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review Edition 5
Editor Thomas Vinje
Clifford Chance LLP
Intellectual property practitioners need to look beyond intellectual property laws themselves to understand the antitrust limits on the free exercise of rights. The task of this book is, with respect to key jurisdictions globally, to provide an annual concrete and practical overview of developments on the relationship between antitrust and intellectual property. This fifth edition provides an update on recent developments, as well as an overview of the overall existing lay of the land regarding the relationship between the two bodies of law.
The Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property and Competition Law Review Edition 1
Editor Daniel A Kracov
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
The pharmaceutical business is truly one of the most global industries, with many companies operating in dozens of countries with differing legal regimes and healthcare systems. In certain respects, the rules governing industry activities have largely become harmonised. However, in other areas the legal frameworks differ. Our objective in framing this volume is to give practitioners in the field a one-volume introduction to critical issues in an array of jurisdictions.
The Technology M&A Review Edition 1
Editor Michael J Kennedy
Paul Hastings LLP
Welcome to the initial annual Technology M&A Review. This book’s goal is to both highlight the similarities and differences between technology M&A and ‘normal’ M&A, without taking too much time to try to define what technology and normal are in that context. One of its unstated premises is that because of technology’s importance, effective technology lawyering in M&A necessarily involves and requires a broad set of legal skills across many practice areas; and that requirement will likely increase as governments and interest groups from all spectrums focus on the sector.
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COVID-19 risk to plane passengers may be lower than you think
Elianna Lev
30 June 2020, 8:23 pm ·3-min read
Passengers wear protective face masks and are physically distanced on a flight from Calgary to Vancouver, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
As of July 1, travellers flying on Canada’s two main airlines can expect more seats to be filled, including middle ones. Air Canada and WestJet recently announced it will allow passengers to reserve seats next to each other, despite physical distancing guidelines that require people to keep two metres apart nearly everywhere else. These changes have raised concerns about an increased risk of spreading the virus.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March, airlines around the world have been making an effort to enforce physical distancing measures by keeping passengers apart by spacing seats. This hasn’t helped the airline industry, which has already been hard hit with travel restrictions as a result of border closures.
Despite the concern, one epidemiologist says that airplanes aren’t necessarily a vulnerable space for contracting the virus when you consider all the other measures that are in place to keep them clean.
Isaac Bogoch is an epidemiologist and associate professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He says when you examine the factors that are in place for onboard safety, like air circulation and filtration, along with the requirements to wear masks and proper hand hygiene, the risk is lower.
“While the decision to do this from an optics doesn’t appear to align with physical distancing principles, the risk on airplanes is still lower than people think,” he tells Yahoo Canada. “The areas of safety that have been introduced are pretty impressive.”
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the trade organization for many international airlines, “mandating that airlines use empty seats to increase physical distance between passengers is not an effective health precaution on board aircraft.”
From a broad perspective, Bogoch says there should be more focus on the precautions surrounding all parts of travel, not just flying. The journey of getting to the airport, waiting in lines for security screening and pre-boarding can also potentially increase travellers’ exposure to the virus.
“It’d be hard to quantify what the actual risk (of flying) is,” he says. “Whatever that is, it’s likely to be a lot lower than people think because of the safety measures.”
A study published in February by the Canadian Medical Association Journal looked into one of the first reported cases of COVID-19 in Canada. The infected person flew from Wuhan to Guangzhou, then Guangzhou to Toronto, arriving on January 22. Although he was symptomatic, no one who came in close contact with him contracted the virus. It concluded that “the lack of secondary cases after prolonged air travel exposure supports droplet transmission, not airborne, as the likely route of spread of the COVID-19.”
Bogoch says having a group of people in any enclosed setting can be a risk. That can apply for any indoor environment or other modes of transportation, like buses or ferries, which might not have the same cleaning systems in place as they do on airplanes.
“When we look at the data that’s actually available, based on how airplanes are designed, this appears to be a lower risk than people actually think,” he says.
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Vow ASA : Presentation held at Pareto Power & Renewable Energy Conference
Today, Vow CEO Henrik Badin presented the company at Pareto Securities’ Power & Renewable Energy Conference, an online event for investors with leading players in the energy space on stage. In the presentation, Badin elaborated on the company’s broad offering of technologies and services for landbased industries in general, and its plans for Vow Industries in particular. With the launch of Vow Industries, Vow is taking the first steps to expand its business beyond being a provider of technology and solutions. Vow Industries’ business idea is to build, own and operate plants that valorise waste and produce biogenic raw materials that will help industry decarbonize, and produce CO2 neutral gas and hydrogen (decarbonized energy), low-carbon fuels and CO2 removal certificates. Vow Industries plans to build its first plant at Follum in Eastern Norway. “With Vow Industries our ambition is to deliver ‘decarbonising as a service’ to industrial players which are undergoing significant restructuring in order to achieve their goals of CO2 neutrality”, CEO Henrik Badin said. For more information about Vow Industries, please see Vow’s Newsweb announcement on 15 December 2020 (https://newsweb.oslobors.no/message/520642) and the attached presentation. For further queries, please contact: Vow ASA Henrik Badin – CEO Tel: + 47 90 78 98 25 Email: henrik.badin@vowasa.com In Vow and our subsidiaries Scanship and Etia we are passionate about preventing pollution. Our world leading solutions convert biomass and waste into valuable resources and generate clean and CO2 neutral energy for a wide range of industries. Cruise ships on every ocean have Vow technology inside which processes waste and purifies wastewater. Fish farmers are adopting similar solutions, and public utilities and industries use our solutions for sludge processing, waste management and biogas production on land. Our ambitions go further than this. With our advanced technologies and solutions, we turn waste into biogenetic fuels to help decarbonize industry and convert plastic waste into fuel, clean energy and high-value pyro carbon. Our solutions are scalable, standardized, patented and thoroughly documented, and our capability to deliver is well proven. They are key to end waste and stop pollution. Located in Oslo, the parent company Vow ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ticker VOW from 13 January 2020). This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. Attachment VOW ASA at Pareto Sec Power Renewable Energy Conference
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Madrid's Prado museum to display more female and foreign artists
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ISL 7: Poor referring has been a problem for all teams, says Renedy Singh
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Civic Services Global Market Report 2021: COVID 19 Impact and Recovery to 2030
Major companies in the civic services market include Southern Baptist Churches; World Food Programme; UNICEF; The Salvation Army and Feeding America. The global civic services market is expected to grow from $928.New York, Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Civic Services Global Market Report 2021: COVID 19 Impact and Recovery to 2030" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06009751/?utm_source=GNW 39 billion in 2020 to $964.96 billion in 2021 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.9%. The growth is mainly due to the companies rearranging their operations and recovering from the COVID-19 impact, which had earlier led to restrictive containment measures involving social distancing, remote working, and the closure of commercial activities that resulted in operational challenges. The market is expected to reach $1211.46 billion in 2025 at a CAGR of 6%.The civic services market consists of the sales of civic services and related goods by entities (organizations, sole traders and partnerships) that organize and promote religious activities; support various causes through grantmaking; advocate various social and political causes; and promote and defend the interests of their members. A service can be defined as a transaction between a buyer and a seller without the transfer of any physical goods or commodities. Examples of civic service organizations include community associations or organizations, ethnic associations, fraternal associations or lodges, girl guiding organizations, history societies, parent-teacher associations, retirement associations, scouting organizations, and students’ associations. The civic services market is segmented into religious organizations; NGOs and charitable organizations; and political organizations, unions and associations.Asia Pacific was the largest region in the global civic services market, accounting for 36% of the market in 2020. North America was the second largest region accounting for 32% of the global civic services market. Africa was the smallest region in the global civic services market.NGOs and charitable organizations are increasingly investing in customer relationship management (CRM) software to track donations and manage donor contact information. CRM software offers multiple functionalities such as email, phone, activity tracking, customer communication and others in a single system without having to use multiple software tools. CRM software also provides efficient data management and secure storage of donor contact information using cloud and encryption technology. According to the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report, 45% of the surveyed NGOs use CRM software to track donations and manage donor communications. For instance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable foundation uses SpringCM for document management and Salesforce for customer relationship management. Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06009751/?utm_source=GNWAbout ReportlinkerReportLinker is an award-winning market research solution. Reportlinker finds and organizes the latest industry data so you get all the market research you need - instantly, in one place.__________________________ CONTACT: Clare: clare@reportlinker.com US: (339)-368-6001 Intl: +1 339-368-6001
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You are here: Have your say on the UK's Integrated Review
Earlier this year the UK Government committed to hold the largest review of the UK’s foreign, defence, security and development policy since the end of the Cold War. The Integrated Review was intended to go beyond the parameters of a traditional review by considering the totality of global opportunities and challenges the UK faces.
However, UNA-UK is disappointed to see that this review is not being conducted in the thorough and consultative manner hoped for. The review process is taking place over a very short timeframe before fundamental information about the UK’s post-Brexit arrangements and post-COVID 19 recovery are known; and significant decisions, such as the merger of the DFID and the FCO were taken before the review had concluded.
Most disappointingly of all, there has been very little consultation. Building on our work from 2015, in which we helped generate around 15% of submissions to the Strategic Defence and Security Review, UNA-UK had been making the argument to the government that national security must start with an informed and engaged public and that therefore future reviews should involve a much more comprehensive element to consult the peoples of the United Kingdom, and a timeline that ensures that their views have the opportunity to influence the strategy’s development. Instead, consultation for this Integrated Review has been even more limited than it was in 2015, with a timeframe which gives us even less confidence that the public’s voice will be heard.
But there is still an opportunity for UNA-UK and our supporters to make a valuable contribution to the process. We have identified two ways you can have your say:
The Government has launched an online portal for members of the public to participate in the Integrated Review. The deadline for submissions is 11 September 2020 and you have to provide submissions in a restrictive format. Nevertheless, these submissions will form part of the review process and UNA-UK and others will be campaigning for the body of public submissions to this portal to play a meaningful role in the review and accountability for this process. To help us with this campaign, please cc info@una.org.uk when you submit your responses. For more information on how to submit visit their website.
The National Strategy for the Next Generations programme (NSxNG) of the School of International Futures has created an excellent survey about the future of UK foreign policy. The deadline for submissions is: 10/09/2020 and you can complete the survey here. This short survey asks people for their vision for the UK's global role in a generation’s time; views on how the world in 2045 may look; and how national strategy might be made differently. It is an exciting and innovative approach, and while it does not form part of the Government’s consultation process the results will be fed in to the government.
UNA-UK will be feeding in our ideas into two key areas:
Process: making the case for the involvement of the public in national security and scrutinising the quality of the process. It is vital that there be thorough and meaningful public input in designing the strategy over the coming years. In Feburary we set out key elements of a credible security review.
Substance: making the case for the UK utilise our international system as the best form of security and influence available in our multipolar and increasingly interconnected world. We believe the UK should articulate a clear agenda for strengthening and reforming the system and should therefore invest in areas such as combatting climate change, peacekeeping, atrocity prevention, and arms control. Additionally, we wish to see the UK invert its thinking on nuclear issues: challenging the UK articulate a non-nuclear security strategy which would enable it to deliver on its NPT commitment to disarm and proceed on the planning presumption that the UK will not renew its nuclear deterrent.
Whether you agree with us or not, please do have your say yourself and share these surveys with friends and colleagues. It is important the government hears from the people, so please do get involved and share your views on the future of the UK and how national strategy can be done differently.
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He joined the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 1996 where was the acting head of the Vacuum Electronics Branch. In that role, he has been directing the development of vacuum electronic devices for the genera-tion of coherent electromagnetic radiation as well as experimental and theoretical research in electron beam physics. In 2020 he joined Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA. His own research interests include linear beam, slow-wave devices and components for applications ranging from the microwave to sub-millimeter-wave frequency regimes, multiple-beam devices, and the electromagnetic proper-ties of materials.
Prior to NRL, Dr. Abe worked on interdisciplinary projects in pulsed power, high power micro-wave generation, and electromagnetic effects at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Berkeley Research Associates, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
He has been an active member of the IEEE community for over 20 years, serving in various capacities as a session organizer and on the technical program committees of nu-merous conferences, as a reviewer for Transactions on Plasma Science and Transactions on Electron Devices, and as a guest editor of the Transactions on Plasma Science Tenth Special Issue on High Power Microwave Generation. He has previously served as an elected member of the NPSS Administrative Committee (AdCom) and is currently a member of the NPSS PSAC Executive Committee (ExCom).
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Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann spoke to high school students.
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Living History Speaks to Horrors and Hope
Elaine Cawley Weintraub
Sami Steigmann was born in three different coun tries. The town of Czernowitz where he was born is a physical testament to the horrors of war. At different times, it was in Romania, the former Soviet Union and the Ukraine. Since World War II, it has been part of Romania and the town where Sami spent his youth following his liberation from a Nazi labor camp where he was incarcerated with his parents. At the age of 18 months, he became a prisoner of the Nazi regime and was the subject of medical experimentation until his release at the age of four.
Amazingly, Sami and his parents survived, though they lost 40 out of 42 relatives. Their crime? They were Jews. Despite the horrors of his early childhood, Sami’s message when he spoke to hundreds of students at the regional high school this week was one of hope and forgiveness. Stressing that not all Germans were criminals and not all non-Germans were innocents, Sami urged the students to be proud of their heritage and to stand firmly on their own moral ground. “When you see someone being bullied or you hear a joke that mocks another ethnic group, don’t say it’s not my problem,” he said. “It is your problem, it’s everyone’s problem.” Speaking to rapt audiences in three presentations, Sami shared his own personal struggles, posed for selfies with students and constantly reiterated that forgiveness is the recipe for a happy life. Students had prepared questions for several days in advance of his visit, and the questions ranged from requests for historical detail to asking his advice on how to deal with painful situations.
All three presentations were tailored to the interests of the audience, and Sami’s interactive style and humor eased the discussion about some of the worst crimes ever committed. “What is it,” he asked, “that makes ordinary people become monsters? It is ordinary people who committed these acts that we are discussing.” Skillfully, he drew the students into consideration of the eternal question of how do good people do terrible things, at the same time making sure that the students understood that his life as a small child dying of dehydration and starvation was saved by a German woman who risked everything to give him milk.
Sami was the guest of six students who had met him in New York when they visited the city as part of an exchange program with the high school of Economics and Finance. They invited him, publicized his visit, made T-shirts celebrating him and honoring appreciation for diversity. Each shirt bore the legend chosen by Jr. Teles: “We hate certain persons because we do not know them, and we do not know them because we hate them.”
“He did not ask for money, and came up from New York on the bus and he was just so kind and happy that it made me smile,” said Jason Lages. “He lives in Manhattan on $1,000 a month and he did not mind. His presentation was great — he spoke up for everyone.”
The rest of the group concurred. “I am going to see him in New York when I go to Barnard in the fall,” said Anne Ollen. “It was nice to see that people came in and shared breakfast with him, and with us,” said Gabe Nunes, who spent an hour poring over a Nazi blog that had named Sami in derogatory, anti Semitic terms. Brandon Dwane found Sami’s speech inspirational: “I think students got a chance to hear someone talk to them in a way that will inspire them about how to live a good life,” he said.
The organizing group was proud and excited over Sami’s successful visit to the school. They had worked hard on the arrangements and made life-changing decisions based on what they had learned. True learning, the kind that sticks, had happened.
We are all wiser.
Elaine Cawley Weintraub teaches history at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
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As the President of Unity Jets, a boutique-style private jet firm, it may seem as though Kevin Diemar has a front row seat to spending, but the Miami-native says giving is actually closer to his style. Inspired by his grandfather, Bill Schwartz, who served in the Navy, as Mayor of his North Carolina town and in leadership positions in the United Way and Kiwanis Club, Diemar’s community service began at a young age. “As a child I had a great role model,” he says of Schwartz. Those lessons served Diemar well recently, as he used his unique business position to full advantage post-Hurricane Maria, sending supply-filled flights to Puerto Rico.
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Kevin Diemar’s cellphone rang one recent evening. It was 9:30 p.m.; Pamela Rodriguez was frantic. Her boss, a Miami philanthropist, wanted catering service on his 7:30 a.m. flight from Miami to Anguilla the next morning.
“No problem,” said Diemar, CEO and president of Unity Jets. “I’ll take care of it.” The next morning, the philanthropist and his two traveling companions were eating bagels and yogurt as their plane left the tarmac.
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Unity Jets offers a new way to fly private. They don’t require any upfront capital or long-term committments like time-share programs. It’s straight up sign and fly. Founder and CEO Kevin Diemar is a Miami native who graduated from the University of Florida and received an M.B.A. from the University of Miami. Diemar worked at Marquis Jet for seven years, but left to start Unity as an alternative to traditional fractional ownership programs. The concept is straightforward, and functions like a “concierge charter.”
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Burton, Robert
(1577–1640) British scholar and writer.
He spent most of his life as a vicar at Oxford. His great Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) describes the kinds, causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy in a lively, elegant, and sometimes humorous style; a mine of classical erudition and curious information, it is an index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of its time. His Latin comedy Philosophaster (1606) is a vivacious exposure of charlatanism.
▪ English author, scholar, and clergyman
born Feb. 8, 1577, Lindley, Leicestershire, Eng.
died Jan. 25, 1640, Oxford
English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman whose Anatomy of Melancholy is a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time.
Burton was educated at Oxford, elected a student (life fellow) of Christ Church (one of the colleges of the university) in 1599, and lived there the rest of his life, becoming a bachelor of divinity in 1614 and vicar of St. Thomas' Church, Oxford, in 1616. He also held livings in Lincolnshire (1624–31) and Leicestershire, the latter bestowed by his patron, Lord Berkeley. His “silent, sedentary, solitary” life, as he himself described it, lent his view of mankind an ironic detachment, but it certainly did not make it that of a scholar remote from reality: he is as informative on the pastimes of his day as on the ideas of the ancients, and as keen to recommend a rational diet as to relate human disorders to his own essentially Christian view of the universe.
Burton's first work was the Latin comedy Philosophaster (1606; edited with an English translation by P. Jordan-Smith, 1931), a vivacious exposure of charlatanism that has affinities with Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. It was acted at Christ Church in 1618.
The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is; with all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Several Cures of it: In Three Maine Partitions With Their Several Sections, Members, and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut up, by Democritus Junior appeared in 1621, and five subsequent editions (1624, 1628, 1632, 1638, and 1651) incorporated Burton's revisions and alterations. In the treatise, Burton sets himself in the first part to define melancholy, discuss its causes, and set down the symptoms. The second part is devoted to its cure. Love melancholy is the subject of the lively first three sections of the third part. A master of narrative, Burton includes as examples most of the world's great love stories, again showing a modern approach to psychological problems. The fourth section deals with religious melancholy, and on the cure of despair he rises to heights of wisdom and of meditation.
Burton's colloquial style is as individual as his matter. It is imaginative and eloquent, full of classical allusions and Latin tags that testify to his love of curious and out-of-the-way information as well as to his erudition. He is a master of lists and catalogs, but their sonorous roll is often broken by his humorous asides.
The Anatomy, widely read in the 17th century, lapsed for a time into obscurity, but in the 18th it was admired by Samuel Johnson, and Laurence Sterne's borrowings from it are notorious. In the 19th century the devotion of Charles Lamb helped to bring the Anatomy into favour with the Romantics. The standard modern edition is The Anatomy of Melancholy, 6 vol., edited by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, and Rhonda L. Blair (1989–2000).
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Burton,Robert — Burton, Robert. 1577 1640. English cleric and writer known chiefly for his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of melancholy that ranges far afield in its lively depiction of everyday life. * * * … Universalium
Burton, Robert — (1577–1640). Académico y escritor británico. Durante la mayor parte de su vida fue vicario en Oxford. Su grandiosa obra La anatomía de la melancolía (1621), describe de un modo vivaz, elegante y en ocasiones jocoso los diferentes tipos de… … Enciclopedia Universal
BURTON, ROBERT — an English clergyman, born in Leicestershire; Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford; lived chiefly in Oxford, spending his time in it for some 50 years in study; author of The Anatomy of Melancholy, which he wrote to alleviate his own depression of … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Burton, Robert — (1577 1640) Miscellaneous writer, b. at Lindley, Leicestershire, and ed. at Oxf., took orders, and became Vicar of St. Thomas, Oxf., 1616, and Rector of Segrave, Leicestershire, 1630. Subject to depression of spirits, he wrote as an antidote… … Short biographical dictionary of English literature
Robert Burton (escritor) — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Robert Burton (escritor) Nombre Robert Burton (escritor) N … Wikipedia Español
Robert Burton — may refer to:* Robert Burton, Sr. (21st century), printing industry executive * Robert Burton (athlete) (born 1885), British track and field athlete * Robert Burton (scholar) (1577 1640), English scholar and vicar * Robert Burton (statesman)… … Wikipedia
Robert Burton (Politiker) — Robert Burton Robert Burton (* 20. Oktober 1747 bei Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia; † 31. Mai 1825 im Granville County, North Carolina) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker, der als D … Deutsch Wikipedia
BURTON (R.) — BURTON ROBERT (1577 1640) Né à Lindley, dans le comté de Leicester, le 8 février 1577, Burton fit ses études à Oxford où il obtint une licence de théologie en 1614. Il devint pasteur en 1616 et obtint des bénéfices ecclésiastiques dans le… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Robert Burton — [Robert Burton] (1577–1640) an English academic at ↑Oxford University who is best known for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a study of ↑depression, its history and effects … Useful english dictionary
Burton — Burton, Richard Burton, Richard Francis Burton, Tim * * * (as used in expressions) Chester Burton Atkins Burton, Richard Burton, Robert Burton, Sir Richard (Francis) Lancaster, Burt(on Stephen) Lane, Burton Burton Levy … Enciclopedia Universal
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Culture, microbeads, water pollution - July 13, 2015
Plastic Microbeads are the K-Cups of Skin Care
Your prized anti-aging face wash could be made with plastic microbeads. And much to the dismay of many consumers, this tool for instant exfoliation is really just ground up toxic plastic.
Plastic microbeads are tiny plastic particles, smaller than 2 millimeters, used in toothpaste, face wash, body wash, scrubs, lip gloss, and a number of other personal care products. But these tiny colorful dots present a huge problem in the form of microbead pollution, according to The New York Times.
When the plastic microbeads are washed off they go down your bathroom drain and end up flowing into lakes and streams. And the pollution they create is hugely problematic because the beads are too small to be filtered out by water treatment facilities. And as a result, fish end up ingesting them. In fact, that sushi roll you were noshing on last night may actually contain microbeads. The beads are made of a variety of plastics, but the bottom line is that they’re toxic to both you and the environment.
“Kind of like the Trojan horse effect,” Dave Andrews, a senior scientist with the nonprofit Environmental Working Group said to The New York Times. “You’re increasing the quantity that’s ending up in the lower organisms, and then they could make their way up the food chain.”
That’s why more and more states are banning them. Thus far, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Colorado, Indiana, California, and Maryland have all banned the microbeads in some form. But according to the non-profit, the Story of Stuff, a major player in the fight to ban the beads, some of the laws don’t go far enough.
According to The Story of Stuff:
Unfortunately, many of these bans on microbeads don’t go far enough to protect our health and our shared waters. The industry that is pushing these plastic-filled products has written a bill that leaves loopholes for the microbeads to be replaced with other kinds of plastics and circulated it around the world. The Story of Stuff Project is leading a coalition of over 100 groups to get these tiny plastic beads out of commerce.
Plastic that are considered biodegradable actually require facilities in order to breakdown the plastics, which becomes a problem because the microbeads end up flowing down the drain and never making it to any sort of facility.
You can make a difference by avoiding all products that contain microbeads. This is especially true of anti-aging and exfoliating personal care products. Additionally, while some states have already enacted legislation, many states are working on new laws, so it’s worth writing your representative and letting them know you support such laws. As more and more people learn the damage microbead pollution can do, banning these pesky plastics in your state becomes that much more realistic.
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The Tektronix 4107 is a 640x480 resolution 13" color graphics terminal introduced at the Hannover Faire in Germany in April 1983 for $6950 (2018 value $17,600).
It was part of the "Unicorn" program initiated to deliver a family of low-cost color graphics terminals to the market in 18 months. Sister models were the 4105 ($3,995) and the 4109, a 19" 640x480 color graphics terminal ($9950).
Shipment for the 4107 and 4109 was delayed from the 4105, and the 4107 initially shipped on December 8, 1983.
Besides higher resolution, the 4107 and 4109 had local memory for segment storage that allowed local zoom and pan of the graphics data. All three terminals supported DEC VT100 alpha mode in a dialog area which could be turned on and off overlaying the graphics area.
The 4100 series of terminals were replaced by the 4100A series which added more memory and graphics editing capabilities. Two new terminals were added to the family along with a CX4100A family supporting the IBM 3270 environment. Later the 4100A series was replaced with the 4200 series "Dolphin" program of graphic terminals.
Tektronix 4107 Service Manual (PDF)
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NYTimes: Coronavirus in N.Y.: Head of Port Authority Tests Positive
The following article was published in The New York Times on March 9, 2020.
By Matthew Haag and Patrick McGeehan
Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the region’s major airports, bridges, tunnels and bus terminals, has tested positive for the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced on Monday.
Mr. Cotton is one of the most prominent public officials in the United States to have contracted the virus.
Mr. Cuomo said that Mr. Cotton, who had been overseeing the Port Authority’s response to the virus, had self-quarantined at his home and would be working remotely.
“He has been at the airports, obviously, when many people were coming back with the virus,” Mr. Cuomo said at a news conference. Mr. Cuomo suggested that Mr. Cotton might have been infected as part of his work on behalf of the authority at Kennedy International Airport, noting that it “was one of the main airports for people coming in on those overseas flights.”
Reached at his New York City apartment on Monday morning, Mr. Cotton, who is in his mid-70s, said that he had no obvious symptoms of the virus but declined to comment further. “I’m in self-quarantine at home at the moment,” he said.
His wife, Elizabeth W. Smith, who is the president of the Central Park Conservancy, has also tested positive for the virus and was working from home, a spokeswoman for the organization said on Monday afternoon.
“She was tested after experiencing mild symptoms over the weekend,” the spokeswoman said. “As a precaution, a dozen members of Smith’s administrative team are also self-quarantined for two weeks. No other staff has tested positive for the virus.”
The Central Park Conservancy is a nonprofit that helps renovate and refurbish the 843-acre park in Manhattan.
The Cottons are now among the 142 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York State, which has some of the highest number of cases in the country, many of them concentrated in suburban areas of New York City. Thousands of students were not in class on Monday as school districts and colleges, including Columbia and Hofstra Universities, tried to limit the coronavirus outbreak.
Mr. Cotton decided to have himself tested for the coronavirus after learning that someone he knows outside the Port Authority had tested positive for it, according to a colleague who talked to Mr. Cotton on Monday.
He received the result of his test on Sunday night, said the colleague who did not have clearance to discuss the matter publicly beyond what was in the agency’s statement.
Mr. Cotton had not visited any of the Port Authority’s airports or other public facilities in the last few days. He worked at his office in the World Trade Center on Friday and met with some members of his staff there that night.
Some of those staff members were isolating themselves at home on Monday, but none were sick, Port Authority officials said. Senior officials who had worked near him were being tested for the coronavirus, the governor said.
A Port Authority spokeswoman said that agency employees who were in “close contact with him in recent days” were also working from home on Monday. She did not say how many employees that involved.
Mr. Cotton also attended a breakfast on Thursday morning at the Modern, a restaurant at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan. Known as the Excellence in Transportation breakfast, it is an annual event hosted by the Rudin Center for Transportation at New York University.
A spokeswoman for Union Square Hospitality, which operates The Modern, said that out of “an abundance of caution,” the restaurant would be closed on Monday evening for a “deep cleaning to fully sanitize the restaurant” before reopening on Tuesday.
Mitchell L. Moss, the director of the Rudin Center, said that Mr. Cotton was one of several prominent transportation officials in attendance, including Patrick J. Foye, the chairman and chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner.
Mr. Foye, whose agency operates New York City’s subways and buses, said on Monday that he had not met Mr. Cotton in person “in some time.”
“By all indicators, he appears to be in great health,” Mr. Foye said at a news conference.
New York state’s health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, said the “Department of Health has determined that the earliest possible date of concern for transmission was Friday,” according to a statement provided by Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cuomo.
Mr. Moss said he learned of Mr. Cotton’s positive test only after Mr. Cuomo’s announcement, which led to a flood of calls and texts to Mr. Moss’s phone. He said he and his staff were working from home on Monday as a precaution, but that he did not know of anyone else who attended the breakfast who was sick or had tested positive for the virus.
Mr. Moss said the news about Mr. Cotton should not scare commuters or travelers who use the Port Authority’s facilities because Mr. Cotton was the chief executive of the agency that runs them, not an operational manager.
“He’s the executive director,” Mr. Moss said. “He’s not collecting the tolls, he’s not piloting the planes and he’s certainly not driving the buses into the Port Authority.”
The broadcast journalist Katie Couric said on Monday that she saw Mr. Cotton on Saturday, the day before he received the results.
Ms. Couric said in an email that she saw Mr. Cotton on the street in the morning in a chance encounter. She said they had a short conversation but did not touch.
Given their brief encounter, Ms. Couric said, her doctor and state and federal health officials told her she likely had a “very low risk” of getting the virus and did not need to self-quarantine.
Nonetheless, she said, she would work from home the next several days and watch for possible symptoms.
“Their instructions were to continue practicing good hygiene, and to simply monitor my health,” Ms. Couric said.
Mr. Cotton had worked as a lawyer for about two decades at NBC Universal, where Ms. Couric was a longtime host of NBC’s “Today” show. She said they were longtime friends.
Some members of Mr. Cotton’s staff learned of his test results just before Mr. Cuomo made the announcement. It was not clear how many of them would be tested or how many had been quarantined.
“I could have been in contact with Rick Cotton,” the governor said, who added that he had not tested positive for it.
The Port Authority operates the New York City area’s major airports — including La Guardia, Kennedy International and Newark Liberty International Airports — and employs more than 7,000 people.
La Guardia is not an international airport like Kennedy, which is the primary gateway to New York City for international visitors and travelers.
Mr. Cotton, a friend and ally of the governor, has run the agency since 2017. Mr. Cuomo appointed him to the position.
Mr. Cotton’s office is in the headquarters of the Port Authority at 4 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, the office complex that the agency built and rebuilt after it was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Danieal Manning: The Mann behind the Pads
By Sienna Miller
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The word is out, as many of you know that ACU?s Strong Safety, Danieal Manning has declared himself eligible to entered the 2006 NFL draft. That?s right, Wildcat # 11, originally from Corsicana Texas. After speaking with his Agent, Russel Hicks, he and Manning agreed to do an interview with me.{{more}} I was pleased to have the opportunity to get his take on his thoughts and feelings about entering this year?s draft. He?ll even tell us of another chance to watch him play before the draft. Let?s take a look at the Man behind the pads.I began by asking Manning what his feelings were, about deciding to enter the NFL draft. Manning said, ?Exciting!? Feeling a bit overwhelmed at first, he was perplexed about the decision. Manning says that he wanted to make sure that there were no other outside influences to cause undue pressure. ? I wanted to make sure it was the best decision for me, Danieal.? Manning said that he prayed about it that night. When he woke up the next morning, it was clear to him that he should grab the opportunity set before him and enter the draft. He mentions that he called up his family and told them of his decision. Many can only imagine what a moment such as this would be like. I then asked Manning what he would be doing between now and the draft, he replied, ?Working out.? He?ll be training in order to secure an invitation for the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Along with his training, Manning will also be playing in the East West Shrine Game in San Antonio Texas on the 21st of January. The game will begin at 3:00 P.M. and it will air on ESPN2. Manning mentions what an honor he feels to be able to play in this game. Manning attended Corsicana High School in Corsicana Texas. He accomplished many great things there. A three-year starter at Corsicana, he led the 9-4 club to a regional final appearance as a senior in 2000 by recording 67 tackles, three interceptions , five fumble recoveries , 10 pass breakups and three blocked kicks. He was named second team all state by both the Associated Press and Texas Sports Writers Association. He was ranked the 17th-best player in the Southwest by SuperPrep, and as the 16th-best cornerback in the nation by Rivals.com. He was recruited by Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, Purdue, Arkansas and Alabama. When I asked Manning what brought him here, to Abilene Christian University, he replied, ?The grace of God.? Of course he mentioned that some of the guys he went to high school with, told him about ACU and said that it was a great school. He decided to come, and agrees that it has been that and much more. Manning has been noted as being a great leader. I asked him what he would like to say to all of his teammates who are still here and on the college level. Manning had this to say, ?Thank You, I appreciate those guys for their hard work. I look up to them also.? Along with these encouraging words to his teammates, I asked him if he had any messages for his past coaches. ?No messages.? He said??Just thanks. Thanks I appreciate everything they?ve done.? Throughout the interview Manning displayed a spirit of gratitude.Since he has been playing football from a young age, I had to ask him if he had a favorite NFL Player. Manning admires Chris Mc Alister, Corner Back for the Baltimore Ravens. When asked why, he says this, ?I love the way he plays the game?with passion.? I asked Manning what or who he would consider to be his inspiration for playing the game the way he does. He mentions that he has had so many people who have helped him greatly. Not wanting to leave anyone out he says, ?All people in my family. I have a great support system!? Manning is the son of Tammie Renee? Manning and Joe Allen Brown. Manning who is currently 23, is the eldest of four children. He has one brother Jonte? Manning , and two sisters Jodie and Tiffiany Manning .I asked Manning whether or not he played any other sports besides football, while growing up. He stated that he has also played basketball, baseball and track, with track being another highlight during his highschool career. As a senior he finished second in both the triple jump and 100 meters at the Class 4A state meet with marks of 48 feet, 11.75 inches and 10.34 seconds, respectively. He was also fourth in the 200 meters at 21.28. He finished second in the triple jump at the 2001 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays with a mark of 49-3. He had the fourth-best 100 meter time in the nation as a high school senior and the 12th-best triple jump mark. He?s also been clocked at 4.3 seconds in the 40.When asked what Manning would like to say to all of the kids out there who?ll be looking up to him. He tells them first to, ?Have fun. Never give up on your dreams, they do come true.? Last he wants them to know, ?You?ve gotta surround yourself with positive people!?Manning has had many defining moments in his life, however when I inquired what he would consider to be one of his most difficult, he mentions this decision. Before coming to ACU Manning seriously contemplated the decision of going to a Division 1 or Division 2 school. Originally signed with Nebraska in February 2001 as one of the top defensive backs in the nation. However, he never enrolled at Nebraska, instead enrolling at ACU in January 2002. This was a turning point for him. At first Manning thought that by attending a Division 2 school, ?It would be long to get to where I wanted to go.? he says. Even though a very legitimate concern of many talented athletes, his decision has proved itself to be the best one. He mentions that by coming to a Division 2 school , it taught him patience and hard work. He explains that the people and atmosphere allowed him to get a good understanding of himself and even helped to mold him as a person. At the end of our interview, I inquired of Manning what it is that he would like for us to know about him, and be thinking when we watch him out there on the field or on television? He says this, ?I?m a good sportsman?A man of character that loves to play the game.?
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Definitions of Puritanism
Part of a series on
The Puritan (1887), a statue in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Definitions of Puritanism
Impropriation
Puritan Sabbatarianism
Millennialism
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Puritan work ethic
Merton thesis
History under Queen Elizabeth I
History under King James I
History under King Charles I
Cromwellian era and after
History in North America
Westminster Confession of Faith
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Cambridge Platform
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Trial of Archbishop Laud
Marian exiles
Vestments controversy
Martin Marprelate
Millenary Petition
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English Civil War
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American exceptionalism
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Peter Bulkley
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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Historians have produced and worked with a number of definitions of Puritanism, in an unresolved debate on the nature of the Puritan movement of the 16th and 17th century. There are some historians who are prepared to reject the term for historical use.[1] John Spurr argues that changes in the terms of membership of the Church of England, in 1604–6, 1626, 1662, and also 1689, led to re-definitions of the word "Puritan".[2] Basil Hall, citing Richard Baxter. considers that "Puritan" dropped out of contemporary usage in 1642, with the outbreak of the First English Civil War, being replaced by more accurate religious terminology.[3] Current literature on Puritanism supports two general points: Puritans were identifiable in terms of their general culture, by contemporaries, which changed over time; and they were not identified by theological views alone.
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American Puritanism (I)
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1 To the 1620s
1.1 Separatist groups
1.2 Scripture alone
1.3 Elizabethan Puritanism
1.4 Jacobean Puritanism and conforming Puritans
1.4.1 Semi-separatism
1.5 Lay Puritanism
2 From the 1620s
2.1 Doctrinal Puritanism
2.2 Puritan casuistry and Puritan legacy
3 New England Puritanism
To the 1620s
Historians now generally reject the idea that before the 1620s and the influence of Arminianism in the Church of England there were significant differences in doctrine between English Puritans in general, and other English Protestants. Puritans were in practice known as "zealous Calvinists" fond of preaching.[4] For this reason a term sometimes preferred is "Hot Protestantism": i.e. one approach to Puritanism is to regard it simply as Protestant belief, intensely held.[5]
Separatist groups
Further information: English Dissenters
Numerous, generally small, Calvinist dissenting groups and sects are classified as broad-sense Puritans. These separating Puritans fit more comfortably into the history of denominations than do the bulk of Puritans who remained within the Church of England (non-separating Puritans).
William Ames provided a self-definition of Puritans via three points, in 1610.[6] Point 3 is sola scriptura.
It has been argued that Puritans adopted the Calvinist regulative principle of worship. The laxer normative principle of worship was characteristic of the Church of England.[7] The Puritans took the side of Calvin and the Zwinglians, against Philip Melanchthon, in this early contentious debate of the Protestant Reformation.[8]
Elizabethan Puritanism
Further information: History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I
Patrick Collinson states that "puritan" and "papist" were not "taxonomic definitions" in the Elizabethan period.[9]
Jacobean Puritanism and conforming Puritans
The approach taken by King James I led to the absorption of many conforming Puritans into the Church of England of the time.[10] Collinson has discussed a moderate Puritanism, as contrasted to an extreme Puritanism that demanded presbyterianism in church polity.[11] Ferrell argues that conforming Puritanism was at the same time part of a theological consensus, and in terms of church polity a target of the sustained and divisive Jacobean polemical campaign against further reform.[12] These definitions contrast with others, less precise in period, that on the one hand identified Puritans closely with presbyterians, as in Perry Miller, or with the whole gamut of presbyterian and Independent believers.[13]
Francis Bacon criticised Puritans for their over-strict judgements on adiaphora.[14] On the other hand, Hill gives examples of conforming Puritans who did not object to set forms of worship.[15] Towards the end of King James's reign Marco Antonio de Dominis analysed the views of the Church of England and Roman Catholic Church, concluding that, excepting the views of the Puritans, they were at root compatible. He did make a further qualification, about the extreme Calvinism of some of the bishops.[16]
Semi-separatism
The enforcement of a degree of religious uniformity also led to the formation of "semi-separated" clergy. This kind of semi-separatism relied on niches where Puritan clergy could find employment. These niches, however, are not easily classified.[17]
Lay Puritanism
Lay patrons of Puritanism were prominent in the middle years of the reign of Elizabeth I.[18] Godly gentlemen, the so-called Puritan gentry, then became a significant factor in English life and politics. Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon was a renowned member of the godly nobility.[19]
From the 1620s
After about 1620 there arose clear theological points at issue between English Puritans and other English Protestants. The future colonist Emmanuel Downing wrote to James Ussher in 1620 asking that the king should provide a definition.[20] There were also taxonomies of Puritanism offered. Joseph Mede in 1623 divided Puritans into: (a) ecclesiastical Puritans (the originals); (b) moral Puritans; and (c) political Puritans.[21] Henry Parker in his Discourse Concerning Puritans (1641) distinguished also the religious dogmatic Puritan.[22]
Doctrinal Puritanism
Further information: Arminianism in the Church of England
The native English strand of Arminianism defined Calvinism as "doctrinal Puritanism". This view gained some support from King James I of England.[23] Thomas Fuller reported that De Dominis used "Puritan" to mean "anti-Arminian".[24] William Laud took up the topic of doctrinal Puritanism in 1624.[25] Hill's book Society and Puritanism is directed towards the concerns of doctrinal Puritans, and their lay appeal.[26]
Puritan casuistry and Puritan legacy
Main article: Puritan casuistry
Hall proposes Puritan casuistry as a "common denominator" of types of Puritan that is of value to historians, and also was inherited by later nonconformists. More specifically, he points to "cases of conscience", and sermons preached on them. The Cripplegate Lectures were one vehicle by which this tradition was passed on. Hall gives also the example of The Practice of Piety, by Lewis Bayly, as representative, and influential on Pietism.[27]
New England Puritanism
Main article: History of the Puritans in North America
Further information: Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640)
The cultural form of Puritanism that was a major influence in the development of New England is admitted by historians to be problematic in its definition. At the time of emigration around 1630 it was no different from English Puritanism in general; by 1650 religious differentiation in New England was quite marked, and the New England branch of Puritanism had also evolved in its distinctive way. In denominational terms New England Puritanism has been identified with early congregationalism. The "New England mind", however, about which Perry Miller wrote in connection with "Puritan culture", has been subject to extensive revisionism, as has earlier work in this field.[28]
^ Crawford Gribben (16 August 2007). God's Irishmen:Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. 205 note 52. ISBN 978-0-19-532531-7. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ John Spurr (15 October 1998). English Puritanism, 1603-1689. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-333-60189-1. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Hall, p. 245.
^ J. T. Cliffe, The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1984), p. 2.
^ J. Garnett (2 August 2003). Revival and Religion Since 1700: Essays for John Walsh. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-1-85285-093-7. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Keith L. Sprunger (1982). Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. BRILL. p. 458. ISBN 978-90-04-06793-6. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Ligon Duncan; J. Matthew Pinson (1 March 2009). Perspectives on Christian Worship: 5 Views. B&H Publishing Group. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8054-4099-7. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Alan Richardson; John Stephen Bowden (1983). New Dictionary of Christian Theology. Hymns Ancient & Modern Limited. p. 490. ISBN 978-0-334-02208-4. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Collinson, Patrick. "Elizabeth I". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8636. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Daniel W. Doerksen (1997). Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne, and the English Church Before Laud. Bucknell University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-8387-5334-7. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Clayton Roberts (1996). Logic of Hist. Explanation - Ppr. Penn State University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-271-01443-2. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ Lori Anne Ferrell, Government by Polemic: James I, the King's Preachers, and the Rhetorics of Conformity, 1603-1625, Stanford University Press (1998), p.9.
^ Margo Todd (7 November 2002). Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order. Cambridge University Press. p. 10 note 25. ISBN 978-0-521-89228-5. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ Catherine Gimelli Martin (30 November 2010). Milton Among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4094-0856-7. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Hill, p. 19.
^ Peter Lake; Michael C. Questier (2000). Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, C. 1560-1660. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 168–9. ISBN 978-0-85115-797-9. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ John Spurr (15 October 1998). English Puritanism, 1603-1689. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-333-60189-1. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Colin Pendrill (30 October 2008). OCR History A, as: Church and State 1529-89. Pearson Education. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-435-31260-2. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Paul E. J. Hammer (24 June 1999). The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597. Cambridge University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-521-43485-0. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Jonathan D. Moore (2007). English Hypothetical Universalism: John Preston and the Softening of Reformed Theology. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 23 note 91. ISBN 978-0-8028-2057-0. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ Michael Mendle (1 November 2003). Henry Parker and the English Civil War: The Political Thought of the Public's 'Privado'. Cambridge University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-521-52131-4. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ Matthew Reynolds (2005). Godly Reformers and Their Opponents in Early Modern England: Religion in Norwich C. 1560-1643. Boydell Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-84383-149-5. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Hall, pp. 244–5.
^ Margo Todd (1995). Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-415-09692-8. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Alden T. Vaughan (1972). ThePuritan Tradition in America: 1620-1730. UPNE. pp. xi–xxvi. ISBN 978-0-87451-852-8. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
Basil Hall (1990), Humanists and Protestants 1500–1900, chapter Puritanism: The Problem of Definition, pp. 237–54
Christopher Hill (1969), Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England, Panther History.
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Sandy Rogers, country music legend Kenny Rogers’ sister, is still mourning the death of her brother, who passed away March 20, 2020 surrounded by his family.
Sandy Rogers mourns the death of her brother, who died of natural causes at age 81 while in hospice care. The Grammy-winning singer was known for hits like “The Gambler” and “Islands in the Stream”. Biography: Kenny Rogers airs at 9 p.m. EST Monday, April 13, 2020 at A&E. The two-hour documentary was filmed before his death and features his last camera interview. It is part of a series based on legends of the country.
Sandy Rogers will speak on the documentary, sharing what it was like growing up with the man who would become a legend, his finals days and rumors involving Dolly Parton. Sandy Rogers is a twin, and she is significantly younger than Kenny.
Keny Rogers Family
Kenny Rogers was survived by his wife, Wanda Miller, and their five children: Kenny Jr., Christopher, Jordan, Carole and Justin, according to PEOPLE. His career spanned decades. In that time, he earned three Grammys and 18 American Music Awards. He was also inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Rogers had 120 singles.
Sandy Rogers And Keny Rogers Twins
Sandy Rogers is a twin. She and her twin are significantly younger than Kenny Rogers, so she did not have as many memories growing up with him, she told Fox News. One thing she did remember, though, is Kenny drinking milk right out of the jug.
She said that she got to know her brother better when they were older. She would go to visit him in Las Vegas over spring break, she said in the interview.
“My twin and I are much younger than him, so we didn’t have a whole lot of time with him. I just remember him going to the kitchen, getting a jug of milk and drinking out of it,” she said with a laugh. “We remember him doing that very vividly. I remember he would have us come to Las Vegas and visit him during spring break That’s when we really got to know him as a person.”
Kenny Rogers also fathered twins. His sons, 15-year-old Justin and Jordan, are identical twins.
Sandy Rogers Said She Doesn’t Want Anyone to Forget Her Brother, Kenny Rogers
Sandy Rogers said she doesn’t want anyone to forget her brother, Kenny Rogers. She told Fox News that she agreed to speak in the documentary as a tribute to her brother and as a way to give back for everything she did for her family. She described her brother as a humble person, who did not think he was a good singer. He just liked to entertain people, I’d say. She told Fox that she is still in mourning for death, and that she sometimes has trouble understanding that he left. Still, he said, he knows he will see it in heaven.
“I don’t want anybody to forget him,” she told Fox News. “I know fans just can’t get enough of him, and that is good. He was good to everybody. He was a jokester, but he helped everybody. That’s how we were raised to be and he never forgot that. He did an amazing job. He never saw himself as this icon. He would always say, ‘I’m not a great singer, but I like to entertain people.’ And he was a very good entertainer. I just can’t say enough about him. He’s my brother. I love him. We all loved him. Sometimes I don’t deal with this very well. I still can’t believe he’s gone, but I know I’ll see him again. We’ll see him one day in heaven.”
Sandy Rogers Brother Story
Sandy Rogers was forced to share her late brother’s story as a way to give back to Kenny Rogers, she told Fox News. She said that her brother always helped her and her family more than anyone. She and her family wanted to help him with the project. Her brother Roy is also in the documentary. Sandy said that growing up, they were taught to help each other.
“Well, I would do anything for him,” she said. “He has done so much for me personally and my family, more than anybody else. We’ve been wanting to help him with this project and we did. We were taught to help each other so there was no question.”
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Business communities can help end the addiction crisis
Posted on March 8, 2019 by Leslie Green Leave a comment
Crain Content Studio, the marketing-storytelling arm of Crain’s Detroit Business, worked with Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation to convene, moderate and report on a roundtable discussion among experts in education, medicine and government about the problem of addiction among young people. The discussion took place on Jan. 16, 2019 and was originally published on crainsdetroit.com on March 11, 2019.
In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency when 11.4 million people reported misusing opioids and 47,600 people died from opioid overdoses.
In Michigan, 1,941 people died from opioid overdoses that year, a 13.9 percent increase over the number of opioid deaths in the state in 2016, reports the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Addiction is rampant in our society. According to the Center on Addiction, one in four Americans who began using any addictive substance before age 18 is addicted. Still, substance abuse experts are waging an uphill battle against the stigma surrounding addiction, describing a deep-seated culture of shame and fear that prevents parents, schools, and business leaders from engaging in meaningful dialogue on the subject.
The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation in Detroit is trying to erase this stigma and change the culture and conversation around addiction and recovery.
As part of its efforts, the Foundation partnered with Crain Content Studio, the marketing-storytelling arm of Crain’s Detroit Business, to unite parents and experts from government, academic, and medical fields to discuss prescription drug addiction and how businesses can play a part in ending the crisis.
“Most of our initiatives for adolescents and young adults tend to be in mental health and in opioids and addiction. We strive to be a catalyst for change,” said Lawrence J. Burns, President and CEO of Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation. The $120 million independent nonprofit partners with more than 40 organizations to further its efforts to help children and young adults.
Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation has partnered with Detroit Red Wings announcer Ken Daniels and Lisa Daniels, who formed The Jamie Daniels Foundation in memory of their son, who died of an opioid overdose in 2016. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation will help The Jamie Daniels Foundation with fund development, financial management and generating awareness about opioid abuse. The Daniels’ foundation provides resources and support to the increasing numbers of people battling addiction.
Wreaking havoc on families and businesses
Ken Daniels once saw a billboard that rang all too true. It read: “The brain isn’t the only organ impacted by addiction. It also breaks hearts.”
Daniels and his family are well acquainted with the heartbreaking consequences of youth drug addiction, a widespread problem as devastating as it is complex. Jamie Daniels was a smart kid. He did well in school and had a family and friends who loved him.
And yet at age 15, Jamie deliberately faked symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and failed clinical tests to obtain a prescription for Adderall, the stimulant drug used to treat the condition, said his mother, Lisa.
Though she harbored grave doubts about her son’s diagnosis and need for Adderall, Lisa followed professional recommendations, carefully dispensing the medication to Jamie at the prescribed dosage. “I thought I was in control of it,” she said.Source: National Institutes of Health-funded study by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
TEEN DRUG MISUSE
Percent of the estimated 3.6 million U.S. high school seniors who misused prescription and over-the-counter drugs in 2018:
5 percent: Sedatives, such as Valium and Xanax
4.6 percent: Adderall
3.4 percent: Opioids, such as Oxycontin and Vicodin
3.4 percent: Cough/cold medicine
0.9 percent: Ritalin, a stimulant used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Source: National Institutes of Health-funded study by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan
While attending Michigan State University, Jamie began abusing opioids as well as Adderall and other drugs.
Jamie eventually completed two stints in rehab with his parents’ support. He moved into a sober living home in Florida and was under a physician’s care for depression and anxiety, conditions common in people suffering from addiction.
Until he was convinced by an acquaintance to switch to a less reputable recovery facility and doctor, Jamie was clean and on the road to recovery.
Less than two weeks after making the switch, 23-year-old Jamie died from an overdose of heroin laced with Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 80 to 100 times stronger than heroin.
“There is a hole in my family’s heart that will never be filled,” said Ken Daniels. “And in the time we’re sitting here, we’ll lose eight more people (to addiction). So, we have to continue to talk about it. We need to talk about this in the home. We need to talk about it in the schools and at work; and hopefully in the long term, we can end this crisis.”
Young adults aged 18 to 25 comprise the largest segment of the population misusing and abusing prescription drugs, such as opioids.
But drug addiction doesn’t just impact families. Opioid addictions, specifically, cost businesses, educational and social institutions, criminal justice systems, and health care organizations billions of dollars yearly.
Altarum, an Ann Arbor-based nonprofit health research institute, estimates the economic burden of opioid addiction:
$800,000 per opioid overdose death in lost earnings and productivity
$1 trillion in costs to individuals, businesses and governments since 2001
$215.7 billion in health care costs for emergency and ongoing care from 2001 to 2017
In addition, employees with substance-use disorders miss an average 14.8 days of work a year — almost 50 percent more days of work than the typical employee average of 10.5 days, according to the National Safety Council. And about 70 percent of U.S. employers in construction, entertainment, recreation, and food service industries employ twice the average number of workers with substance use disorders than employers in other industries.
Equal-opportunity killer
Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation and its more than 40 partners are strategizing ways to end the addiction crisis. Solutions include ending the social stigma associated with addiction and recovery.
Despite the availability of accurate information, the perception persists that addiction is the result of an inherent character flaw, moral failing, or conscious decision and affects only a certain segment of society.“Nobody goes into their first use thinking, ‘Someday I’m going to be an alcoholic,’ or ‘Someday I’m going to abuse drugs,’” said Brian Spitsbergen, director of Community Relations for Growth Works Inc., a Plymouth-based facility that provides substance dependency and abuse treatments and solutions for adults and youth.
“There’s no one path to recovery that’s going to work for everybody, because every person is different and every brain is different,” Smith-Butterwick said. “So we are trying to do as many different things as we can to reach as many different parts of the population as we can.”
In 2017, Michigan lawmakers enacted opioid-related legislation that includes requiring the Michigan Department of Education, with direction from the Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission, to provide school districts with models for how to instruct students on the dangers of prescription opioid abuse.
The American Medical Association classifies addiction as a disease, and its task force reports that people who misuse and abuse opioids suffer from a chronic medical condition, like type-2 diabetes or high blood pressure.
Dennis Martell, director of Health Promotion at Michigan State University, added that addiction is not an epidemic.
“It is endemic,” he said. “It’s part of our culture. It’s always been around.”
Spitsbergen, who has been sober for more than 32 years, agreed. “Ten percent of the population will meet the criteria for a substance use disorder in their lifetime,” he said. “It can happen to anyone. That’s the persuasive power that addiction has. It isn’t about the gutter.”
There could be two middle school-aged children who go to the same church and same school and have the same family life, Spitsbergen said. But their responses to their first experience with alcohol could be completely different.
“Because of things that might happen in their brain state, their lives might never be the same,” he said.
The stigma surrounding addiction is so prevalent that parents often don’t participate in potentially beneficial events, said Robert Shaner, superintendent of Rochester Community Schools. He noted only 125 parents attended a recent information session on vaping, opioids and other dangerous drug trends provided by the parent-teacher association for his district, which has 15,400 students.
“People almost treat addiction like they don’t want to ‘catch it,’” Shaner said, adding that some parents think, “‘If I’m not around the people it happened to, it’s not going to happen to my kid.’ Nobody wants to say they’ve got it, and no one wants to say they’ve been treated for it. This is a non-partisan, equal-opportunity killer that we have to attack as a community.”
The challenge of easy access
“There’s no pain greater than losing a child,” Shaner said, adding that the heaviest burden a school administrator must bear is to help parents bury their children.
“Over the past six years, we’ve done this because of opiates well over a dozen times,” said Shaner. “Recently, we had five graduates from one high school lose their lives to opioid addiction. They didn’t start as street junkies; they didn’t start out looking to be addicts. Some of the addictions were caused by self-medicating because of mental health issues, some started because of athletic injuries, and for some it was having access to the drugs.”
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says most teens find prescription and OTC drugs in their home medicine cabinets or on a kitchen shelf. And among those 12 and older who misused opioid pain relievers:
40.4 percent got the drug from a friend or relative for free
35.4 percent received a prescription from a doctor
8.9 percent bought the drug from a friend or relative
6 percent bought the drug from a dealer or stranger
Students as young as middle-school age hold “bowl parties,” said Carmen McIntyre, a physician who serves as associate chair for community affairs for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
“Everybody’s supposed to bring meds out of their parents’ medicine cabinet,” she explained. “They just take a few pills from each bottle so (parents) don’t notice anything. And then they put them all into this big bowl to share.”
McIntyre said children attending these parties also steal Narcan, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, though in her experience children panic and flee the scene rather than stick around and help the youth who overdosed.
When he was a high school principal, Shaner made a point of talking about drugs with his students. “I would say—and I don’t consider this a scare tactic—‘If you love your parents, don’t do these things. You don’t want them to feel that pain, if you truly love them.’”
One of the programs that Shaner, a former law enforcement officer, has helped implement in his district is a prescription drug drop-off program at parent-teacher conferences.
Prescription take-backs are a proven means of reducing the supply of unused, prescribed narcotics, preventing them from circulating among household and community members. Such programs allow members of the community to safely dispose of unused medications at designated locations staffed by law enforcement.
The prevention efforts of Michigan Opioid Prescribing Network, known as Michigan OPEN, include educating medical professionals, law enforcement and others on how to hold opioid collection drives in a manner that encourages participation and does not make community members feel uneasy or like criminals. So far the organization has helped organize drives in 60 cities, getting about 3,000 pounds of pills and 40,000 to 45,000 opioids off the street, said Chad Brummett, associate professor and director of the Division of Pain Research at the University of Michigan Medical School and co-director of Michigan OPEN.
10 WAYS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY CAN HELP FIGHT DRUG DEPENDENCY AND ADDICTION
The experts say there’s considerable work to be done to reduce overdose deaths and prevent and treat addiction, but they can’t do it without the help of business leaders.
“If you’re thinking about something that takes away from your (company’s) bottom line, mental health and addiction are exponential problems,” Shaner said.
Roundtable participants shared their expert advice.
1. Advocate for more mental health services and counselors at schools: The largest percentage of prescription drug abusers are young adults aged 18 to 25 who are also beginning their careers with area businesses. “We all know K-12 education is important in solving the (opioid) problem, so we ought tobe funding it and supporting it in the right way,” Shaner said.
2. Sponsor youth peer programs: Eric Hipple, a former Detroit Lions quarterback and director of Outreach for the After the Impact program, suggests businesses underwrite programs that take a deeper dive into the problem of drugs and facilitate conversations and peer support among youths.
3. Support organizations that help: Provide meaningful support to nonprofits working to prevent and treat addiction. “Politics trump data, but business trumps politics,” said Martell.
4. Provide job training: People in recovery can’t return to the workforce without skills, said Smith-Butterwick. Helping recovery organizations incorporate job training would help recovering addicts support their recovery financially.
5. Make educating workers a priority:Hold human resources-developed programming on identifying, preventing, and treating opioid abuse.
6. Teach coping skills: People who develop a substance use disorder may begin using as a means of easing physical or emotional pain.Teaching alternative coping skills, such as meditation, can help promote healthy living.
7. Partner with insurers: Commit to offering employees robust, extended mental health treatment and addiction recovery services and challenge insurers to craft a benefit plan that reflects your commitment.
8. Become recovery friendly: Be mindful and welcoming of employees who suffer from addiction and/or are in recovery when planning social events. “They can’t tell anybody in the office, ‘I’m in recovery’ because it’s not comfortable,” said Smith-Butterwick. She recommends planning company events that don’t include alcohol.
9. Support employees in recovery:Workers often fear they will lose their jobs if their drug use is discovered. Instead, encourage and facilitate confidential addiction referral and recovery services for employees.
10. Engage in a community of businesses approach: Brummett emphasized the advantages of businesses combining resources as a community to financially support nonprofits dedicated to preventing and treating addiction. “Unfortunately, state and federal dollars will dry up, and we will still have issues with opioids, pain and mental health,” he said.
The number of medical professionals overprescribing potentially addictive medications drastically increased in the 1990s. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed at U.S. pharmacies tripled from 76 million prescriptions in 1991 to 219 million prescriptions in 2011.
McIntyre said one of her patients died from an overdose two days after another physician — who was aware the patient suffered from addiction — injected her with the benzodiazepine Valium and gave her a prescription for 120 Valium in pill form.
McIntyre also cited her own experience with a pharmacy dispensing 100 Vicodin to her following a dental procedure. She pointed out to pharmacy staff that her dentist likely prescribed 10 Vicodin, not 100, but said the pharmacy refused to take back the medication after it had crossed the sales counter.
Brummett said regularly prescribing opioids following dental procedures “just doesn’t make sense.” The more doses doctors prescribe, he said, the more patients take, regardless of whether their pain is reduced.
Those aged 13 to 30 who filled an opioid prescription immediately before or after having their wisdom teeth extracted were about three times as likely as their peers to still be filling opioid prescriptions long after they needed them, according to a Michigan OPEN study.
“If you think about surgery (alone), the two factors that determine whether and how many opioids a person is going to get are the surgery they’re having and the surgeon caring for them,” explained Brummett.
Not prescribing opioids to the 80 percent to 90 percent of people who don’t need them could significantly reduce exposure and access to the drugs, both primary and secondary, Brummett said. Consequently, in 2017, Michigan OPEN released the first evidence-based prescribing recommendations in the country.
Health care providers in and outside the U.S. don’t know how much of the prescribed drugs patients actually use, he said. “Unless you ask people, they don’t tell you. The only metric you have is whether or not they refill.”
Brummett said having conversations about prescribing recommendations helps create a culture of opioid stewardship that opens the door to progressively more detailed conversations, such as how to deal with chronic users, including the 6 percent to 10 percent of patients who undergo surgery and begin taking opioids as a result.
McIntyre added, “We don’t need to just talk about prevention, we need to talk about developing as normal human beings. We have to start teaching people that after surgery, (you’re) supposed to have pain. Part of the purpose of pain is to slow you down so your body can heal.”
To learn more about combating addiction and ending the opioid crisis, visit The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation at chmfoundation.org.
Why children’s mental health matters to your company’s bottom line
Posted on November 20, 2017 by Leslie Green
Mental illness affects one in five adults and costs U.S. employers upwards of $193 billion annually. Half of chronic mental illness begins before age 14; however, fewer than 20 percent of children with mental illness get the treatment they need.
Yet cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illnesses typically dominate healthcare conversations. And when it comes to corporate wellness campaigns, employers emphasize weight-loss challenges, blood pressure screenings and smoking cessation.
That’s because for most people, mental health is not a watercooler conversation. It’s a stigma company leaders just don’t understand.
Matt Friedman, co-founder of Farmington Hills-based communications firm Tanner Friedman, knows from experience. His daughter was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder while in elementary school; and then, in middle school, she began to suffer from anxiety and depression.
“I think businesses are in denial that mental health affects every family they employ,” said Friedman, who spoke at a recent roundtable discussion about children’s mental health that Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation (CHMF) sponsored; he is chair of the foundation’s board of trustees.
“The business community does not get this at all. The business community is largely silent.”
Friedman is grateful he’s self-employed. While medication has helped his now-teenaged daughter over the years, he said regular therapy has been a necessity.
“I’ve got my cellphone and my laptop, and I’m working in the waiting room,” he said. “I’m looking around thinking, ‘All of these people don’t own their own businesses. How do they do it?’ They probably don’t talk to their bosses very comfortably, saying ‘I need an hour a week to take my kid to therapy.’”
Research shows fewer than 40 percent of employees discuss mental health issues with their employers because of the stigma and an associated fear of employers not taking them seriously, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, a partner of the National Institute of Mental Health.
But statistics from the World Health Organization show why mental health needs to be part of each company’s wellness narrative. Last year, WHO reported that for every $1 a company invests in depression and anxiety alone, it would see a return of $4 in better health and productivity.
“If kids can have their mental health treated, they’ll be better students, they’ll be better educated, they’ll be better equipped to be in the workforce and contribute to our community,” Friedman said.
“It starts when they’re kids.”
The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation and Crain Content Studio, the custom publishing division of Crain’s Detroit Business, brought together leaders in business, family service, medicine and education to talk candidly about children’s mental health and why employers need to pay attention. The conversation, moderated by Crain’s Editor and Publisher Ron Fournier, took place in October.
Read the full story at Crainsdetroit.com.
Empowering educators to build a stronger, smarter future
Posted on July 3, 2017 by Leslie Green
Despite being one of the most powerful countries in the world, the United States doesn’t rank in the top five for literacy.
In fact, according to some studies, the U.S. doesn’t rank in the top 25 for literacy based on the population. Finland, Armenia and Norway rank higher, and students in Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore test better. In the U.S. alone, 30 million adults — nearly 12 percent of the population — are illiterate, meaning they are reading below fifth-grade level.
Marcie Craig Post believes that won’t change until government and industry leaders start treating reading as a basic right and teachers with more respect. The executive director of the International Literacy Association in Newark, Del., says the ability to read “should be a fundamental right.”
Originally published on FordBetterWorld.org
Craig Post’s global advocacy group is comprised of educators from nearly 90 countries looking to completely eradicate illiteracy in the world. ILA programs include professional development strategies aimed at pinpointing the best method for teaching students to read and comprehend.
Craig Post started her career working with students with learning disabilities. After 12 years, she ran the school where she worked in Rochester, N.Y., for another 10 years.
Part of her job now is analyzing what works and what doesn’t.
Finland works, she said, because teaching is highly competitive and only the best students get into teaching schools. Moreover, parents value both education and the field of education.
South Korea, she said, has made remarkable gains in improving literacy because the government recognizes the importance of education for young people.
“There’s a general cultural attitude there that for you to succeed you need to be educated,” she added, pointing out that’s not always the case in the United States.
She said there are a variety of issues. Most of them involve kids not accessing traditional forms of education in this country because low-income rural areas and urban communities have difficulty attracting and maintaining quality teachers, a problem compounded by the large number of students that teachers have in their classrooms.
In light of proposed federal budget changes, Craig Post has been spending time talking to senators and congressmen and women about the way we as a culture view education from a family and community standpoint and a funding and government standpoint.
“There are plenty of states sinking billions of dollars into educating the kids,” she said. “Until we value educators and put them on par with doctors or lawyers, and we see the role of the teacher differently, until we consider the intensity of the job they do, we will have the difficulty forever of creating equitable balance of educating all kids.”
She said the proposed federal budget threatens to cut national Title 2 funding, which covers the cost of conferences and actual professional development for teachers.
“It’s a weaning away of our ability to develop quality teachers. Until teaching becomes a competitive field and producing quality teachers because important, we’re going to struggle to punch into the literacy rate all over the world.”
Still, she says it’s not all about education.
Looking at what’s happening outside the classroom is as important as what’s happening in the classroom. “If (kids) come to school and they don’t have food in their belly, clothes on their back and they don’t feel safe, the ability for a teacher to teach them is extremely limited,” Craig Post said. “We’ve got to address this through community development and economic develop. It’s a community system and economic system.”
Read more in this series:
Turning the page: Nonprofits, companies join to lift kids through reading programs
Need to read: Functioning society needs more literate workers
Reading, Writing
Nonprofits take learning beyond the last bell
Posted on March 31, 2017 by Leslie Green Leave a comment
The new presidential administration and questions about funding for school, after school and summer learning programs have amplified the national conversation about how we instruct our children.
While many focus on traditional school day programs, some experts say out-of-school programs are equally, if not more, important to the development of today’s youth. Children spend about 20 percent of their waking hours in school. But, they don’t stop learning at the end of the school day or year.
“What they are learning depends on what they are doing, whether that means spending too much time on screen or with bad individuals,” says Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance in Washington, D.C.
Between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. is when more than 11 million children are on their own, often unsupervised, waiting for parents or guardians to return from work. Between those hours, youth are more vulnerable to experimenting with drugs and alcohol and participating in gang violence. These children also tend to lag in social skills and, Grant says, are 37 percent more likely to become teen parents.
What’s more, during summer break, youth often lose two months of skills they learned during the school year. According to a Measure of American report from the Social Science Research Council, there’s a disconnect with 4.9 million youth, ages 16 to 24, meaning they are not in school and not working and are isolated from routes that help them transition into an independent and rewarding adulthood.
“That’s a huge loss in workforce development skills,” says Grant.
However, they can grow as individuals in programs that help them succeed in school, in work and in life, she says. “If we really want our kids to be prepared for the workforce, we can’t underestimate them gaining soft skills in a safe space. Kids in after school programs do better academically, better behaviorally, attend school more.”
We take a look at three out-of-school, nonprofit youth programs — Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s AileyCamp, 826 National and Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit — that have been successfully enhancing youth development for more than a decade.
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Erika Kubik | Civility | March 21, 2016
Nominations Open For US District Court Pro Bono Awards
As we wrote about last week, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has increased efforts to assist lawyers serving pro bono clients. On top of increasing case reimbursement caps, the Northern District is joining forces with the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association to acknowledge these lawyers with the Seventeenth Annual Awards For Excellence In Pro Bono and Public Interest Service later this May.
Both organizations are currently seeking nominations to honor attorneys who have provided outstanding pro bono and public interest representation in civil and criminal matters before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
According to the district court and the Chicago chapter of the Federal Bar Association, nominees may be court-appointed attorneys, pro bono attorneys, or staff attorneys of a not-for-profit agency. To be eligible, the casework must have been performed in the Northern District, must have dealt with civil or criminal matters, and must be fully completed upon submission of nomination entry.
The factors reviewed when selecting the award winner include, but are not limited to, the candidate’s dedication to pro bono and public interest work; outstanding achievement resulting from the representation of a large group of low-income clients; successful representation in a difficult case; outstanding negotiation and settlement skills in achieving a result without trial; extraordinary number of hours committed to pro bono work; or other distinguished performance.
If you are interested in nominating a suitable candidate, please complete the nomination form and include a brief summary of the reasons why the candidate should be recognized for service in the legal community.
Please complete all nominations by April 4, 2016, and send to the following email: ProBono_ILND@ilnd.uscourts.gov.
If you have any additional questions or concerns please reach out to Chief Judge Rubén Castillo at 312-435-5600.
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Baseball for Beginners
April 1, 2006 Rob Sayers Land Activities, Outdoor Sports 0
Baseball is a sport played between two teams which have nine players each. The goal of the game is to score runs against your opponent, by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching four markers called bases that are arranged at the corners of a ninety foot square,
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Time needed: 1 hour or more, Cost to try: £8 for a baseball bat and ball
Baseball, How to Play the Game
by: Robert Kleine
Baseball is a sport played between two teams which have nine players each. The goal of the game is to score runs against your opponent, by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching four markers called bases that are arranged at the corners of a ninety foot square, called a diamond. Players who are on the batting team will take turns to hit while the team called the fielding team will try to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any number of ways. When a batter hits the ball they run from home plate to first base and try to reach the base before the ball is either caught in the air (fly ball) or before the fielder can throw the ground ball (ball hit along the ground) to first base. If the ball reaches the first baseman before the batter, the batter is “out”. If not the batter is “safe” and remains at first base until another batter hits the ball and advances the player on base to the next base (second base) or further if the player running the bases can reach the next base (third base) or even all the way back to (home base) in which case the batting team would score a run. The teams switch between batting and fielding when the batting team gets three outs. One turn at bat for each team makes an inning; nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
Even though a similar game was played in England as early as the mid-eighteenth century the modern version of baseball developed in The Untied States of America in the late nineteenth century, where baseball became widely recognized as the national sport. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is still popular in North America, parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean and parts of East and Southeast Asia.
How to Play Baseball for BeginnersWhen playing baseball, each player will need some basic baseball equipment . There are a number of basic tools used to play the game. Some equipment that are necessary to play the game are: the bat, the glove, the ball, protective equipment (batting helmet, catcher’s mask etc.), bases and lets not forget “the field”.
The bat is offensive baseball equipment – usually made either of wood or of aluminum (aluminum bats are used in amateur leagues). It is a stick which is long and hard with an approximately two inch diameter – except at the handle, which is smaller, about one inch.
The ball is approximately the size of a fist and is usually white with red lacing (though other colors are also used). The baseball glove or mitt, is defensive baseball equipment. It is usually made of leather and is worn on the hand of the player opposite their throwing hand to help in catching the ball. To meet the need of the defensive position of the player, the glove can take different shapes and sizes.
The other basic equipment that you just can’t do without is a field. This is the place where the game will be played and its dimensions vary according to the age of the players and in some cases the available space. The field, however, always has a diamond shape with bases at its corners. The first, second and third bases are 90 feet apart and are canvas bags. The base called ‘home’ is a rubber plate in the approximate shape of a house or home.
The area of the field that is closest to the bases is referred to as the infield and the area behind and most distant from the bases are referred to as the outfield. The outfields (there are three) are named “right field”, “left field”, and “center field”.
Other baseball equipment used includes, a batting helmet, baseball cap, catcher’s helmet and other protective gear (like a chest protector and safety mask). The batting helmet protects the head and the ear of the batter that faces the pitcher, from the thrown ball. The baseball cap is worn by all players to shade their eyes from the sun. Catcher’s helmets are protective equipment that guards the face of the catcher using a face guard or mask. Good care needs to be taken of this equipment- as without them, the game will not continue.
The highest level of play in North America is professional or major league baseball. Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National and American Leagues, by means of a joint structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 (the National has existed since 1876). In 2000, the two leagues were officially disbanded as separate entities and consolidated in the commissioner’s office. Major League Baseball (MLB) effectively operates as a single league and as such constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States. It is currently composed of 30 teams 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
Each season consists of 162 games (with an additional game, or games, in case of a tie breaker needed to determine playoff spots). The season generally begins on the first Sunday in April and ends on the first Sunday in October, with the playoffs played in October and sometimes into November. The rules of play between the two leagues are the same with one exception: the American League operates under the Designated Hitter Rule, while the National League does not. Utilization of the DH Rule in inter league play, the All-Star and World Series games is determined by the home team’s league rules.
In MLB the overall champion is decided in a series of best of seven games between the winner of the National Conference playoffs and the American League Conference winner. The series of games is called “The World Series” and is one of the best known sporting events on Earth.
Baseball, although perhaps not as popular as it once was, is still one of the most played games on the planet with fans that number in the multiple millions.
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Jockey banned for drugs protocol breach
Jockey Club suspends Brett Doyle for 3 months for failing to provide sample
The Jockey Club Disciplinary Panel last night found jockey Brett Doyle in breach of Rule 66(vi) of the Rules of Racing for failing to provide a urine sample when selected.
The Disciplinary Panel of the Jockey Club held an Enquiry on 14 March 2005 to consider whether or not Brett Doyle, a licensed jockey, had committed a breach of Rule 66(vi) of the Rules of Racing, in the light of paragraphs 1.11 and 3.4 of the June 2003 Jockey Club Protocol and Rules for the Testing of Riders for Banned Substances and Procedures for Notifiable Medications. Rule 66(vi) requires licensed jockeys to comply with the Banned Substances Protocol. Paragraph 3.4 of the Protocol requires jockeys selected for sampling to provide samples for analysis prior to leaving the racecourse. It was alleged against Brett Doyle that, having been selected for both breath and urine sampling at a race meeting held at Newmarket on 18 June 2004, he had failed to provide the required urine sample.
The Disciplinary Panel, which consisted of Lord Rathcreedan (Chairman), John Wallinger and Timothy Charlton QC, heard evidence about the events of 18 June 2004 and detailed submissions about the proper construction of Rule 66(vi) and the Banned Substances Protocol. The Panel concluded that Mr Doyle had breached Rule 66(vi) by leaving the racecourse without providing a urine sample as required of him. The Panel noted that Mr Doyle’s current licence to ride was due to expire on 17 March 2005 and ordered that he should not be issued with a further licence for a period of 3 months until 21 June 2005. This period of suspension was stated by the Panel to reflect its view that it is critical to the integrity of horseracing that jockeys comply with the Banned Substances Protocol, and that forgetfulness (which the Panel accepted was the probable reason for Doyle’s failure to provide a sample) did not excuse that failure. The Panel also observed that it would have imposed a longer period of suspension had it not been for the fact that Mr Doyle had already lost a contract to ride in Hong Kong while the Enquiry against him was pending and the fact that ‘although the primary responsibility for the failure to provide a sample rested with Doyle, there were shortcomings in the operation of the Protocol by some of those at the racecourse who were involved in the testing procedure.’ The Panel also informed Mr Doyle that the issue of a new licence would be dependent upon his obtaining a satisfactory Medical Report from the Jockey Club Chief Medical Advisor.
The Jockey Club was represented at the Enquiry by 5RB’s Godwin Busuttil.
Doyle is hit with three-month ban – Daily Telegraph
Three month riding ban for Doyle – Racing Post
Doyle hit with three-month ban – Sporting Life
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New Guinea campaign
The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Australian-administered Mandated Territory of New Guinea (23 January) and the Australian Territory of Papua (21 July) and overran western New Guinea (beginning 29/30 March), which was a part of the Netherlands East Indies. During the second phase, lasting from late 1942 until the Japanese surrender, the Allies—consisting primarily of Australian forces—cleared the Japanese first from Papua, then the Mandate and finally from the Dutch colony.
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
Australian forces attack Japanese positions near Buna
23 January 1942 – 15 August 1945
Australian Papua and New Guinea;
Dutch New Guinea
Allied victory
Netherlands Empire of Japan
Douglas MacArthur (SAC, South West Pacific)
Australian Military Forces:
Thomas Blamey
Sydney Rowell
Edmund Herring
Iven Mackay
Leslie Morshead
Stanley Savige
Frank Berryman
U.S. Army:
George Kenney
Robert Eichelberger
U.S. Navy:
Arthur Carpender
Daniel Barbey
I.J. Army:
Harukichi Hyakutake
Hitoshi Imamura
Hatazō Adachi
Tomitarō Horii †
Heisuke Abe †
I.J. Navy:
Jisaburo Ozawa
Jinichi Kusaka
Masatomi Kimura
42,000 total[2]
(c.7,000 killed)[3]
12,291 (4,684 killed)[4]
127,600 (mostly from disease and starvation)[lower-alpha 1][3]
Some claim that 97% of Japanese deaths were from non-combat causes.
1st Rabaul
1st Lae-Salamaua
Kokoda Track
Milne Bay
Goodenough Island
Buna–Gona
Bismarck Sea
2nd Lae-Salamaua
Markham-Ramu-Finisterres
Huon Peninsula
2nd Rabaul
Admiralties
Emirau
Take Ichi
Aitape
Wakde
Lone Tree Hill
Noemfoor
Driniumor
Sansapor
Aitape–Wewak
South West Pacific theatre of World War II
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
Lingayen Gulf
Lamon Bay
1st Bataan
1st Corregidor
Dutch East Indies campaign
1st Borneo
1st Tarakan
1st Balikpapan
Badung Strait
Java Sea
2nd Borneo
2nd Tarakan
2nd Balikpapan
Solomon Islands campaign
Treasury Islands
Bougainville
Nassau Bay Landing
Salamaua-Lae
Admiralty Islands
Aitape-Wewak
Recklesss
Leyte Gulf
2nd Corregidor
The campaign resulted in a crushing defeat and heavy losses for the Empire of Japan. As in most Pacific War campaigns, disease and starvation claimed more Japanese lives than enemy action. Most Japanese troops never even came into contact with Allied forces, and were instead simply cut off and subjected to an effective blockade by Allied naval forces. Garrisons were effectively besieged and denied shipments of food and medical supplies, and as a result, some claim that 97% of Japanese deaths in this campaign were from non-combat causes.[5]
According to John Laffin, the campaign "was arguably the most arduous fought by any Allied troops during World War II".[6]
Strategic situation
Papua New Guinea, the Bismarcks and the Northern Solomons
The struggle for New Guinea began with the capture by the Japanese of the city of Rabaul at the northeastern tip of New Britain Island in January 1942 (the Allies responded with multiple bombing raids, of which the Action off Bougainville was one). Rabaul overlooks Simpson Harbor, a considerable natural anchorage, and was ideal for the construction of airfields.[7][8] Over the next year, the Japanese built up the area into a major air and naval base.[9]
The Japanese 8th Area Army (equivalent to an Anglo-American army), under General Hitoshi Imamura at Rabaul, was responsible for both the New Guinea and Solomon Islands campaigns. The Japanese 18th Army (equivalent to a Anglo-American corps), under Lieutenant General Hatazō Adachi, was responsible for Japanese operations on mainland New Guinea.[10]
The colonial capital of Port Moresby on the south coast of Papua was the strategic key for the Japanese in this area of operations. Capturing it would both neutralize the Allies' principal forward base and serve as a springboard for a possible invasion of Australia.[11] For the same reasons, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander Allied Forces South West Pacific Area was determined to hold it. MacArthur was further determined to conquer all of New Guinea in his progress toward the eventual recapture of the Philippines.[12] General Headquarters Southwest Pacific Area Operational Instruction No.7 of 25 May 1942, issued by Commander-Allied-Forces, General Douglas MacArthur, placed all Australian and US Army, Air Force and Navy Forces in the Port Moresby Area under the control of New Guinea Force.[13]
Japanese seizure of Lae and Salamaua
Main article: Invasion of Lae-Salamaua
Due north of Port Moresby, on the northeast coast of Papua, are the Huon Gulf and the Huon Peninsula. The Japanese entered Lae and Salamaua, two locations on Huon Gulf, on 8 March 1942 unopposed.[14] MacArthur would have liked to deny this area to the Japanese, but he had neither sufficient air nor naval forces to undertake a counterlanding. The Japanese at Rabaul and other bases on New Britain would have easily overwhelmed any such effort (by mid-September, MacArthur's entire naval force under Vice Admiral Arthur S. Carpender consisted of 5 cruisers, 8 destroyers, 20 submarines, and 7 small craft).[15] The only Allied response was a bombing raid of Lae and Salamaua by aircraft flying over the Owen Stanley Range from the carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown, leading the Japanese to reinforce these sites.[14]
Japanese attempt on Port Moresby
Main article: Operation Mo
Operation Mo was the designation given by the Japanese to their initial plan to take possession of Port Moresby. Their operation plan decreed a five-pronged attack: one task force to establish a seaplane base at Tulagi in the lower Solomons, one to establish a seaplane base in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of New Guinea, one of transports to land troops near Port Moresby, one with a light carrier to cover the landing, and one with two fleet carriers to sink the Allied forces sent in response.[16] In the resulting 4–8 May 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea, the Allies suffered higher losses in ships, but achieved a crucial strategic victory by turning the Japanese landing force back, thereby removing the threat to Port Moresby, at least for the time being.[17]
After this failure, the Japanese decided on a longer term, two-pronged assault for their next attempt on Port Moresby. Forward positions would first be established at Milne Bay, located in the forked eastern end of the Papuan peninsula, and at Buna, a village on the northeast coast of Papua about halfway between Huon Gulf and Milne Bay. Simultaneous operations from these two locations, one amphibious and one overland, would converge on the target city.[18]
Crossing the Owen Stanleys
Main article: Kokoda Track campaign
"[T]he Owen Stanley Range is a jagged, precipitous obstacle covered with tropical rainforest up to the pass at 6500-foot elevation, and with moss like a thick wet sponge up to the highest peaks, 13,000 feet above the sea. The Kokoda Trail [was] suitable for splay-toed Papuan aborigines but a torture to modern soldiers carrying heavy equipment..."
– Samuel Eliot Morison, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, p. 34
Buna was easily taken as the Allies had no military presence there (MacArthur wisely chose not to attempt an occupation by paratroopers since any such force would have been easily wiped out by the Japanese). The Japanese occupied the village with an initial force of 1,500 on 21 July and by 22 August had 11,430 men under arms at Buna. Then began the grueling Kokoda Track campaign, a brutal experience for both the Japanese and Australian troops involved. On 17 September, the Japanese had reached the village of Ioribaiwa, just 30 kilometres (20 mi) from the Allied airdrome at Port Moresby. The Australians held firm and began their counterdrive on 26 September. According to Morison, "...the Japanese retreat down the Kokoda Trail had turned into a rout. Thousands perished from starvation and disease; the commanding general, Horii, was drowned."[19] Thus was the overland threat to Port Moresby permanently removed.[20]
Since Port Moresby was the only port supporting operations in Papua, its defence was critical to the campaign. The air defences consisted of P-39 and P-40 fighters. RAAF radar could not provide sufficient warning of Japanese attacks, so reliance was placed on coastwatchers and spotters in the hills until an American radar unit arrived in September with better equipment.[21] Japanese bombers were often escorted by fighters which came in at 30,000 ft (9,100 m)—too high to be intercepted by the P-39s and P-40s—giving the Japanese an altitude advantage in air combat.[22] The cost to the Allied fighters was high. Before June, between 20 and 25 P-39s had been lost in air combat, while three more had been destroyed on the ground and eight had been destroyed in landings by accident. The following month at least 20 fighters were lost in combat, while eight were destroyed in July.[23] The Australian and American anti-aircraft gunners of the Composite Anti-Aircraft Defences played a crucial part. The gunners got a lot of practice; Port Moresby suffered its 78th raid on 17 August 1942.[24] A gradual improvement in their numbers and skill forced the Japanese bombers up to higher altitude, where they were less accurate, and then, in August, to raiding by night.[21]
Although RAAF PBY Catalinas and Lockheed Hudsons were based at Port Moresby, because of the Japanese air attacks, long-range bombers like B-17s, B-25s, and B-26s could not be safely based there and were instead staged through from bases in Australia. This resulted in considerable fatigue for the air crews. Due to USAAF doctrine and a lack of long-range escorts, long-range bomber raids on targets like Rabaul went in unescorted and suffered heavy losses, prompting severe criticism of Lieutenant General George Brett by war correspondents for misusing his forces.[25] But fighters did provide cover for the transports, and for bombers when their targets were within range.[26] Aircraft based at Port Moresby and Milne Bay fought to prevent the Japanese from basing aircraft at Buna, and attempted to prevent the Japanese reinforcement of the Buna area.[27] As the Japanese ground forces pressed toward Port Moresby, the Allied Air Forces struck supply points along the Kokoda Track. Japanese makeshift bridges were attacked by P-40s with 500 lb (230 kg) bombs.[28]
Allied defence of Milne Bay
Main article: Battle of Milne Bay
"Thenceforth, the Battle of Milne Bay became an infantry struggle in the sopping jungle carried on mostly at night under pouring rain. The Aussies were fighting mad, for they had found some of their captured fellows tied to trees and bayoneted to death, surmounted by the placard, 'It took them a long time to die'."
While it was beyond MacArthur's capabilities to deny Buna to the Japanese, the same could not be said of Milne Bay, which was easily accessible by Allied naval forces. In early June, US Army engineers, Australian infantry and an anti-aircraft battery were landed near the Lever Brothers coconut plantation at Gili Gili, and work was begun on an airfield. By 22 August, about 8,500 Australians and 1,300 Americans were on site.[29] The Japanese arrived and the 25 August – 7 September Battle of Milne Bay was underway. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison summed up the results this way:
...the enemy had shot his bolt; he never showed up again in these waters. The Battle for Milne Bay was a small one as World War II engagements went, but very important. Except for the initial assault on Wake Island, this was the first time that a Japanese amphibious operation had been thrown for a loss ... Furthermore, the Milne Bay affair demonstrated once again that an amphibious assault without air protection, and with an assault force inferior to that of the defenders, could not succeed.[30]
The D'Entrecasteaux Islands lie directly off the northeast coast of the lower portion of the Papuan peninsula. The westernmost island of this group, Goodenough, had been occupied in August 1942 by 353 stranded troops from bombed Japanese landing craft. The destroyer Yayoi, sent to recover these men, was itself bombed and sunk on 11 September. A force of 800 Australian troops landed on 22 October on either side of the Japanese position. Beleaguered, the survivors of the Japanese garrison were evacuated by submarine on the night of 26 October. The Allies proceeded to turn the island into an air base.[31]
Allied recapture of Buna and Gona
Main article: Battle of Buna-Gona
"In the swamp country which surrounded the area were large crocodiles ... Incidence of malaria was almost one hundred per cent. At Sanananda the swamp and jungle were typhus-ridden ... crawling roots reached out into stagnant pools infested with mosquitoes and numerous crawling insects ... every foxhole filled with water. Thompson sub machine-guns jammed with the gritty mud and were unreliable in the humid atmosphere ... "
– John Vader, New Guinea: The Tide Is Stemmed, pp. 102–103
The Japanese drive to conquer all of New Guinea had been decisively stopped. MacArthur was now determined to liberate the island as a stepping-stone to the reconquest of the Philippines. MacArthur's rollback began with the 16 November 1942 – 22 January 1943 Battle of Buna-Gona. The experience of the green US 32nd Infantry Division, just out of training camp and utterly unschooled in jungle warfare, was nearly disastrous. Instances were noted of officers completely out of their depth, of men eating meals when they should have been on the firing line, even of cowardice. MacArthur relieved the division commander and on 30 November instructed Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger, commander of the US I Corps, to go to the front personally with the charge "to remove all officers who won't fight ... if necessary, put sergeants in charge of battalions ... I want you to take Buna, or not come back alive."[32]
"Also formidable was the tenacity of the enemy, who would fight to the death in these stinking holes, starving, diseased and with their dead rotting and unburied beside them."
– John Vader, New Guinea: The Tide Is Stemmed, p. 93
The Australian 7th Division under the command of Major General George Alan Vasey, along with the revitalized US 32nd Division, restarted the Allied offensive. Gona fell to the Australians on 9 December 1942, Buna to the US 32nd on 2 January 1943, and Sanananda, located between the two larger villages, fell to the Australians on 22 January.[33]
Operation Lilliput (18 December 1942 – June 1943) was an ongoing resupply operation ferrying troops and supplies from Milne Bay, at the tip of the Papuan Peninsula, to Oro Bay, a little more than halfway between Milne Bay and the Buna–Gona area.[34]
Holding Wau
Main article: Battle of Wau
Two dead Japanese soldiers in a water filled shell hole somewhere in New Guinea
Wau is a village in the interior of the Papuan peninsula, approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) southwest of Salamaua. An airfield had been built there during an area gold rush in the 1920s and 1930s. This airfield was of great value to the Australians during the fighting for northeast Papua.[35]
Once the Japanese had decided to give up on Guadalcanal, the capture of Port Moresby loomed even larger in their strategic thinking. Taking the airfield at Wau was a crucial step in this process, and to this end, the 51st Division was transferred from Indochina and placed under General Hitoshi Imamura's Eighth Area Army at Rabaul; one regiment arrived at Lae in early January 1943. In addition, about 5,400 survivors of the Japanese defeat at Buna-Gona were moved into the Lae-Salamaua area. Opposing these forces were the Australian 2/5th, 2/6th and 2/7th Battalions along with Lieutenant Colonel Norman Fleay's Kanga Force.[36]
The Australians decisively turned back the Japanese assault in the ensuing 29–31 January 1943 Battle of Wau. "Within a few days, the enemy was retreating from the Wau Valley, where he had suffered a serious defeat, harassed all the way back to Mubo..."[37] About one week later, the Japanese completed their evacuation of Guadalcanal.[38]
Final Japanese drive on Wau
Main article: Battle of the Bismarck Sea
General Imamura and his naval counterpart at Rabaul, Admiral Jinichi Kusaka, commander Southeast Area Fleet, resolved to reinforce their ground forces at Lae for one final all-out attempt against Wau. If the transports succeeded in staying behind a weather front and were protected the whole way by fighters from the various airfields surrounding the Bismarck Sea, they might make it to Lae with an acceptable level of loss, i.e., at worst half the task force would be sunk en route.[39] It is indicative of the extent to which Japanese ambitions had fallen at this point in the war that a 50% loss of ground troops aboard ship was considered acceptable.[citation needed]
An Allied A-20 bomber attacks Japanese shipping during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March, 1943
Three factors conspired to create disaster for the Japanese. First, they had woefully underestimated the strength of the Allied air forces. Second, the Allies had become convinced that the Japanese were preparing a major seaborne reinforcement and so had stepped up their air searches. Most important of all, the bombers of MacArthur's air forces, under the command of Lieutenant General George C. Kenney, had been modified to enable new offensive tactics. Their noses had been refitted with eight 50-caliber machine guns for strafing slow-moving ships on the high seas. In addition, their bomb bays were filled with 500-pound bombs to be used in the newly devised practice of skip bombing.[40]
About 6,900 troops aboard eight transports, escorted by eight destroyers, departed Rabaul at midnight 28 February under the command of Rear Admiral Masatomi Kimura.[41] Through the afternoon of 1 March, the overcast weather held at which point everything began to go wrong for the Japanese. The weather changed direction and Kimura's slow-moving task force was spotted by an Allied scout plane. By the time the Allied bombers and PT boats finished their work on 3 March, Kimura had lost all eight transports and four of his eight destroyers.[42]
" 'The Boeing [B-25] is most terrifying,' wrote one survivor in his diary. 'We are repeating the failure of Guadalcanal. Most regrettable!!' "
...planes and PTs went about the sickening business of killing survivors in boats, rafts or wreckage. Fighters mercilessly strafed anything on the surface ... The PTs turned their guns on, and hurled depth charges at the three boats which, with over a hundred men on board, sank. It was a grisly task, but a military necessity since Japanese soldiers do not surrender and within swimming distance of shore, they could not be allowed to land and join the Lae garrison.[43]
The remaining destroyers with about 2,700 surviving troops limped back to Rabaul. According to Morison, the Japanese "...never again risked a transport larger than a small coaster or barge in waters shadowed by American planes. His contemplated offensive against Wau died a-borning."[43]
Operation I-Go
Main article: Operation I-Go
Combined Fleet, Third Fleet and Southeast Area Commanders
Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa
Rear Admiral Jinichi Kusaka
Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto promised the emperor that he would pay back the Allies for the disaster at the Bismarck Sea with a series of massive air strikes. For this, he ordered the air arm of Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's Third Fleet carriers to reinforce the Eleventh Air Fleet at Rabaul. To demonstrate the seriousness of the effort to the Supreme War Council, multiple shifts of high-ranking personnel were also effected: Both Yamamoto and Ozawa moved their headquarters to Rabaul; and Eighth Fleet commander Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa as well as General Imamura's chief of staff were sent to Tokyo with advice and explanations for the respective General Staffs (Admiral Tomoshige Samejima replaced Mikawa as Eight Fleet commander).[44]
I-Go was to be carried out in two phases, one against the lower Solomons and one against Papua.[45]
"At 1400 the Russell Island radar screen became milky with traces of bogeys and Guadalcanal broadcast "Condition Red," followed shortly by an unprecedented "Condition Very Red."
– Samuel Eliot Morison, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, p. 120
The first strike, on 7 April, was against Allied shipping in the waters between Guadalcanal and Tulagi. At 177 planes, this was the largest Japanese air attack since Pearl Harbor.[46] Yamamoto then turned his attention to New Guinea: 94 planes struck Oro Bay on 11 April; 174 planes hit Port Moresby on 12 April; and in the largest raid of all, 188 aircraft struck Milne Bay on 14 April.[47]
I-Go demonstrated that the Japanese command was not learning the lessons of air power that the Allies were. The Allied reduction of Rabaul was only made possible by relentless air strikes that took place day after day, but Yamamoto thought the damage inflicted by a few attacks of large formations would derail Allied plans long enough for Japan to prepare a defense in depth. Also, Yamamoto accepted at face value his fliers' over-optimistic reports of damage: they reported a score of one cruiser, two destroyers and 25 transports, as well as 175 Allied planes, a figure that should certainly have aroused some skepticism. Actual Allied losses amounted to one destroyer, one oiler, one corvette, two cargo ships and approximately 25 aircraft.[48] These meager results were not commensurate with either the resources expended or the expectations that had been promoted.[citation needed]
Allied strategy toward Rabaul
Main article: Operation Cartwheel
The umbrella term for the series of strategic actions taken by the Allies to reduce and capture the vast Japanese naval and air facilities at Rabaul was Operation Cartwheel. Two major moves were planned for the end of June:
Turner's III 'Phib undertook Operation Toenails, the invasion of the New Georgia Islands halfway up the Solomons chain (30 June – 7 October 1943).
Barbey's VII 'Phib carried out two almost simultaneous undertakings. Operation Chronicle, the capture of the Trobriand Islands between Papua and the Solomons (22 – 30 June 1943), and the landing of a combined American/Australian force at Nassau Bay on the Papuan coast just south of Huon Gulf (30 June – 6 July 1943).[49]
Eventually, the Joint Chiefs of Staff realized that a landing and siege of "Fortress Rabaul" would be far too costly, and that the Allies' ultimate strategic purposes could be achieved by simply neutralizing and bypassing it. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, the leaders of the Allied nations agreed to this change in strategy focusing on neutralizing Rabaul rather than capturing it.[50]
Australian soldiers resting in the Finisterre Ranges of New Guinea while en route to the front line
Marines of the 1st Marine Division display Japanese flags captured during the Battle of Cape Gloucester
New Britain campaign
Salamaua-Lae campaign (22 April – 16 Sep 1943)
Landing at Nassau Bay
First Battle of Mubo
First Battle of Bobdubi
Battle of Lababia Ridge
Second Battle of Bobdubi
Second Battle of Mubo
Battle of Roosevelt Ridge
Battle of Mount Tambu
Operation Postern
Landing at Lae
Landing at Nadzab
Bombing of Wewak (17–21 August 1943)
Finisterre Range campaign (1943–1944)
Battle of Kaiapit
Battle of Dumpu
Battle of John's Knoll–Trevor's Ridge
Battle of The Pimple
Battle of Shaggy Ridge
Battle of Madang
Huon Peninsula campaign (22 September 1943 – 1 March 1944)
Battle of Scarlet Beach
Battle of Finschhafen
Battle of Sattelberg
Battle of Jivevaneng
Battle of Wareo
Battle of Sio
Landing at Saidor
Bombing of Rabaul (November 1943)
New Britain campaign (15 December 1943 – 21 August 1945)
22 April 1944. US LVTs (Landing Vehicles Tracked) in the foreground head for the invasion beaches at Humboldt Bay, Netherlands New Guinea, during the Hollandia landing as the cruisers USS Boise (firing tracer shells, right center) and USS Phoenix bombard the shore. (Photographer: Tech 4 Henry C. Manger.)
Admiralty Islands campaign (1944)
Western New Guinea campaign (1944–1945)
Landing at Aitape
Landing at Hollandia
Battle of Wakde
Battle of Lone Tree Hill (1944)
Battle of Morotai
Battle of Biak
Battle of Noemfoor
Battle of Driniumor River
Battle of Sansapor
Aitape–Wewak campaign
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We spoke to Kirsty Williams-Henry a Senior Business Analysis at Admiral who has worked for the company for over eight years. Here she tells us about her role and what it’s like for a woman in tech. Tell us about your career so far and what led you to a career in Technology? I would say I fell into my career in technology due to my love of all things tech from a young age: I was the first of my friends to have a PC and I used it for almost everything! I pursued my love of technology at college by doing an A-Level in computing where I was the only girl in a class of eight. I found that I had a natural flare for technology as it aligned with my love for problem solving and the logical way my brain works. I soon realised that technology was the future and I wanted to be a part of it! I went on to achieve a first-class degree in Computer Forensics at the University of Glamorgan. After graduating I became a coder and developer for a company that had forty-three men working there and me, alongside one other woman who was not in a tech-related role. After this I joined the IT Graduate Programme at Admiral where I have found a home for the past eight years. On the Graduate Programme I got to dip into lots of different roles and ended up as an IT Business Analyst, something I would never have imagined myself doing prior to the programme. What does a typical day in your role at Admiral look like? No day at Admiral is typical! During a day at work lots of things could crop up, such as live bugs that might pull me away from other projects and diversify my day. Admiral is very good at allowing employees to try new things. Each day allows you to put a different hat on, you have a lot of freedom to explore. My day often involves meetings and discussions with Product Owners and Project Managers. I need to be able to understand systems from their point of view and how they would be using them. This means I can explain things to them and put guides together to aid their understanding. Most of my time is spent with the Developers and Testers within my team. I translate the requirements from those on the business side of the company to those on the IT side, enabling problems to be solved. Attention to detail is key as a Business Analyst - the smallest of details must be correct for systems to function correctly. Admiral have also been great at flexible working: they have been very accommodating to me and my changing needs and have also been great at enabling us to work from home effectively during the pandemic. If you could begin your career path over, would you change anything? I would never change my job role; I love it and feel like it is a great fit for my skillset. If I had to change one thing it might be to investigate different areas of IT and more specifically IT Security as I find it an extremely interesting area. How does your work impact Admiral and its customers? My role as a Business Analysist means that I am involved in the business end-to-end. I meet those in business Operations to see the reality of how the technology that I work on is being used throughout the business, as well as any problems that might occur. From there, it is about them collectively working out what they may want from IT and the system and then it is translated into something that the IT team can take forward and work on. Being able to see how the changes really impact those working within the business services and the call centres of Admiral really inspires me to work harder and is one of the most rewarding parts of the job. Do you have any advice for women that want to start a career in Technology? It can be difficult for those in Technology to put themselves into other people’s shoes whether it be the customers, those in call centres or those in business support areas, and I have found that the women in tech that I have worked with have been excellent at doing this. The language of development and IT can also be intimidating but I encourage people to spend a day with my team so that they can see that they would easily pick it up. No one should be afraid of Technology; anyone can do it if they give it a chance! I would advise women to find the part that interests them within Technology and run with it. For example, if you have a creative mindset, there are many creative elements to IT. You need to be an artist to write code!
Culture at Admiral – One dream, one team
Admiral’s four pillars help define our unique workplace culture and have been the basis for some of our greatest achievements, including being on the Sunday Times Best Companies to work for list for the 18th year in a row. Communication - our first pillar is centred on ensuring that everyone in the company feels involved; everyone knows what’s going on and feels part of a collective endeavour. It’s just as important that communication goes both ways, with people feeling that they can approach any level of management with an openness and willingness to share problems.Equality - we ensure that there are no obvious signs of separation with managers sat amongst their teams on the floors so that everyone is made to feel equal . One of the other ways that we ensure there is equality is by awarding up to £3,600 of shares every year to everyone, at every level in every part of our business.Reward & Recognition – staff are rewarded in terms of incentives, bonuses and in the form of shares. Of course, there is more to rewards than money. It is extremely important to us that we praise people when they do a good job – we give constant feedback and say thank you for doing a good job day in day out.Fun – Our philosophy is that ‘if people like what they do, they do it better’ - staff are encouraged whenever and wherever possible to have fun and spend time with colleagues – this makes life more enjoyable and helps get to know each other better with team away days, afternoons out, Christmas and summer parties and regular competitions and ways to get involved as part of our ‘Ministry of Fun’ offer ways to do this.How does the culture differ to other companies?Unlike many other companies, Admiral has an informal working environment where staff are trusted and have autonomy within their roles. Through Admiral’s flat hierarchy, decisions are made collaboratively and quickly to respond to change and these changes are implemented almost immediately, whereas, in many corporate companies, decisions are made at the top and can take a long time to implement. Management here are flexible, approachable and are there to help you flourish and develop in your role with a good work / life balance encouraged. We spoke to Amiee from People Services - ‘‘My manager approached me and asked if I was finishing early on the day that my daughter was starting high school – it was the thoughtfulness of it all that makes it such a nice place to work here.‘‘They go out of their way to make you feel appreciated and that you’re useful. When I first started I was introduced to the Head of People Services on one of my first days and I had no idea that he was such senior management – you don’t get a sense of the ‘big shots’ here, everyone is down to earth and very approachable. I work with such lovely people and I love that I have job security here’’.We have everything you’d expect from a large FTSE 100 company, like a contributory pension scheme, free shares and dental care, amongst others. However, our commitment to providing staff with the services and support they need to ensure that they are happy and healthy in their working lives ensures we are offering more than the basics.Admiral’s laid back atmosphere means that staff can wear what they feel most comfortable in to work – be it jeans or joggers.There are also endless opportunities to advance your career with regular internal job postings, support and training. By investing in our people and maintaining a supportive workplace, we can assist our staff in achieving their career goals and personal aspirations.Follow us on Facebook for a peek inside Admiral!
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International Women’s Day: Deborah’s Story
For International Women’s Day we wanted celebrate the women in our business and their achievements. As a company with 51% female staff, and 52% of all internal promotions going to women in 2019, we’re keen to raise awareness against the bias and take action towards equality.We thought this was the perfect opportunity to catch up with Deborah, our Executive Learning and Development Manager. Here’s what she had to tell us about her experience at Admiral…‘’I joined Admiral in October 2016 as a Graduate working within the Business Development team. I got to work with very talented individuals who helped me shape the way I looked at my career. After 6 months, I became the Executive Recruitment Manager for the Group. I recently started leading our Learning and Development initiatives for middle and senior managers; making sure we spot, train and develop the best talents within the business!’’ I think I have a natural aptitude to build strong relationships and trust with people. I tend to combine this with creative thinking and a capacity to learn fast. This has allowed me to work on various projects and adapt quickly to different audiences.
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International Women’s Day: Tabatha’s Story
Let’s celebrate the women in our business! As the UK’s third Best Workplace for women in 2019 we’re keen to raise awareness against the bias and take action towards equality.We spoke with Tabatha, a Product Owner within our Online Department to hear about her career experience in Admiral and celebrate her success. ‘’I joined Admiral in 2015 as a Claims Handler. After I passed my probation, I went on to join a specialist team within the department. I was lucky enough to be asked to complete a full review of our claims journey which resulted in me heading into the Project Manager world. As a Project Manager I was responsible for several. Recently, I have moved to our Online Department where I am now the Product Owner for our online journey.’’ ‘’A lot of the projects I have been involved with have required a good understanding of processes. One of my strengths is that I can quickly pick up a new process and understand where improvements can be made and how these can be implemented. With so much interaction working with different business areas, I am constantly learning and developing my understanding of the business and its processes, this gives me the confidence to ask questions and challenge why we do what we do.’’ Talent can be found in so many different places not just work. Don’t be afraid of pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone and taking risks in work and your personal life. I believe that talent shines when you are happy doing something, so spend time in understanding what makes you happy and what you enjoy! ‘’Admiral has great management; they took a chance by giving me exposure to projects that potentially could have been better off with someone more experienced. This trust and support has allowed me to grow in confidence and go onto bigger projects, without being nervous of failure.’’
18th best workplace in the world!
We’re proud to announce that we’ve been named the 18th best workplace in the world in the annual 25 World’s Best Workplaces list. More than 12 million employees from over 8,000 companies around the globe participated in the survey process for the World’s Best Workplaces list. The ranking assessed employees’ views on leadership, organisational culture, and trust. We qualified due to several our operations around the world making the Best Workplaces list in their respective countries. This is the third time we've been named in the list having taken 20th position last year.Great Place to Work’s World’s Best Workplaces create cultures that are welcoming, friendly, inclusive, and ethical. An overwhelming majority of employees at the World’s Best say they’re proud of their workplaces. We’re immensely proud to be named as one of the World’s Best Workplaces for the third year in a row. Our success as a business is intrinsically linked to our culture and it's gratifying to see that our staff, not just in South Wales but around the globe, think we’re a Great Place to Work. Whether based in Cardiff or Seville or Rome or Halifax, Canada, all our staff have a huge part to play in making Admiral the business that it is, and I thank you all for your hard work and commitment. David Stevens, CEO Great Place to Work’s CEO, Michael Bush, added, “Congratulations to the World’s Best Workplaces. It is a big challenge to build a high-trust culture that is great for employees in many countries across the globe. These organisations have bold leaders who have risen to the challenge--they are the vanguard showing millions of organizations worldwide that is possible and desirable to create a great place to work for all.” For a full list of the 25 World's Best Workplaces click here.
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Diagnosed with a rare disease, this doctor took matters into his own hands
Editor's note: This popular story from the Daily Briefing's archives was republished on Nov. 13, 2019.
David Fajgenbaum, a physician, has become one of the leading researchers in a rare condition called Castleman disease after being diagnosed with it himself, Katie Thomas writes for the New York Times.
Infographic: The journey to personalized medicine
Fajgenbaum's case
Fajgenbaum, now an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, was diagnosed with Castleman disease in 2010—but not before a near-death experience with the condition.
In July 2010, Fajgenbaum, then 25 years old, woke up one night drenched in sweat, with swollen lymph nodes, abdominal pain, and red bumps on his chest. He was also tackling debilitating exhaustion, taking short naps during medical school to make it through the day.
The right route to avoid pitfalls of chronic disease management
Fajgenbaum went to the ED, where a doctor told him that his liver, kidneys, and bone marrow were not functioning properly—but the doctor said he didn't know what was causing it. Medical experts at Penn searched for clues with no luck, shuffling through potential diagnoses including lymphoma, lupus, or mononucleosis.
Finally, after taking a large dose of steroids, Fajgenbaum showed signs of improvement, and he was discharged by September 2010. But doctors still didn't have a diagnosis—and just one month later, Fajgenbaum's symptoms returned.
This time, Fajgenbaum was home in Raleigh, North Carolina. Doctors there sent a sample of Fajgenbaum's lymph node to the Mayo Clinic for testing, where pathologists determined he had Castleman disease.
The disease
Castleman disease has been known since the 1950s, but because it's so rare, it's remained a medical mystery, Thomas writes. About two-thirds of patients with the disease have a form that stays confined to just one part of the body and can be cured through surgery.
But Fajgenbaum had a form called multicentric Castleman disease. Each year, about 1,200 to 1,500 people in the United States are diagnosed with multicentric. According to research, just 65 percent of patients with the condition live for five years after diagnosis.
Diagnosis sparks life of research into rare disease
For the next few years, Fajgenbaum alternated between relative health and bouts of illness with the disease.
After several rounds of chemotherapy and an unsuccessful attempt with a then-experimental drug, Fajgenbaum decided to take his health in his own hands and dedicated himself to researching the disease.
The first thing he learned was that existing research on Castleman disease was "in disarray," Thomas writes. Researchers used different terminology to describe the disease, communication was lacking, and researchers were repeating already-failed studies.
"It became just abundantly clear that just because you have smart people thinking about a problem doesn't mean that it's coordinated at all," Fajgenbaum said.
Fajgenbaum began collaborating with experts as both a patient and a researcher. And after graduating from medical school in 2013, he entered the Wharton School at Penn because he believed a business background would help his research.
When Fajgenbaum relapsed again in December 2013, he used the experience to further his research. Based on blood samples he'd been taking before his relapse, Fajgenbaum learned that five months before he noticed symptoms, his T cells started activating, and three months prior to experiencing symptoms, his body started producing more VEGF, a protein that directs the body to make more blood vessels. Both of these were signs that his immune system was preparing for a fight.
Fajgenbaum suspected that there was a problem with a "communication line" in his body—called the mTOR pathway—and theorized that if he could force his body to shut the communication line down, he could prevent his immune system from overreacting. He and his doctors then turned to a drug known to shut the mTOR pathway, called Sirolimus, which is commonly used among kidney transplant patients.
Over the course of a year, weekly blood tests showed that his immune system was returning to normal function. It's been about three years since Fajgenbaum started taking Sirolimus, and he said he "feel[s] 100 percent."
Thomas writes that "not everyone is convinced that Sirolimus is what has been keeping him healthy." But Fajgenbaum, having discovered a potential treatment for the disease, has grown "more confident every day that it is the drug that is helping," Thomas reports.
The research continues
Fajgenbaum went on to start the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network at Penn, which operates out of the Perelman School of Medicine and aims to prioritize and coordinate research into the disease.
Through the network, Fajgenbaum is furthering his research into Sirolimus as a possible treatment for the disease. He has also assembled an advisory panel of experts under the network that is focused on answering questions related to the disease.
And Fajgenbaum called the location of the network—just above the ED where he first encountered his disease—the "ultimate motivator." He said, "I didn't think that I would ever get to leave the hospital, and now here I am, fighting back" (Thomas, New York Times, 2/4).
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Oil differential darkens Alberta’s budget
It has been, for Alberta, a dismal new year. With pipelines out of the province effectively full, Canadian crude has become a discount brand, and once-expected money is evaporating. The future looks little better. Alberta's Finance Minister has taken to dramatic language to describe the financial duress striking his province.
"This is not an ordinary storm," Doug Horner said this week. The dipping price of Canadian oil will strip some $27-billion from the Canadian economy this year, he said in a speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce that was designed to soften the ground for what is certain to be a grim provincial budget on March 7.
Mr. Horner's argument hinges largely on "differentials." It's an industry term that describes, in the current context, price discounts. So for example, Canadian heavy oil – which is often traded as a blend called Western Canadian Select – has seen a differential of as much as $42 (U.S.) a barrel below the headline oil price numbers. In North America, the headline number is typically the "benchmark" West Texas intermediate (WTI) blend. A big dip away from West Texas intermediate means that Canadian oil is selling on the cheap – and cheap oil for buyers mean low prices for sellers, the reason Alberta is facing such dire straits.
Not everyone is buying it, though. Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, for example, says "the differential has been around for years, it's just now being used as a scapegoat to draw attention away from the government's failed revenue policies."
And it's true that differentials are nothing new. Canadian heavy oil takes more energy – and therefore more cost – to process into fuels like gasoline or diesel, so it's always sold for cheaper. According to Patricia Mohr, the Bank of Nova Scotia economist, that discount averaged $18.19 between 2005 and 2009. (Alberta budgets on a $15.97 differential.)
So a $40 discount for Canadian heavy oil is big – but nearly half that discount is perfectly normal. And over the past 12 months, the differential has averaged just over $25, which means it hasn't been much bigger than average.
Still, the current differential is obviously much bigger – and there are ways to sort out what it could be if there was plenty of space on pipelines. Take, for example, the differential between Louisiana light sweet oil (LLS) and Maya oil. Those two blends of crude traded on the U.S. Gulf Coast are roughly comparable to Canadian light oil and Western Canadian Select, respectively. In recent trading, the gap between LLS and Maya has been roughly $13. Some argue that in a logical world, the Canadian heavy oil discount would look more like that – a possibility that emphasizes how much is being lost today.
But the many different ways of calculating things have led to widely varying estimates of the missed revenues for energy companies today. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers did a back-of-the-envelope sketch and came to roughly $15-billion, based on current pricing. Martin King, a commodities analyst with FirstEnergy Capital Corp., pegs it at $18-billion.
The numbers are necessarily guesses, since they are based on estimates of what oil prices could be if pipelines weren't effectively full and product went to market unobstructed.
That said, the numbers can also be crunched to show much larger losses. If Canadian crude could make it to tidewater, it would access the kind of international prices that drive LLS and Maya. Compared to that, far more revenue is being forfeited – Mr. King puts it at nearly $30-billion, in the vicinity of the Alberta estimates. Still, that's far more hypothetical, since it's less certain that Canadian oil will achieve international prices, given the troubles industry has encountered building pipelines to the West Coast.
And at least part of the story is that the Alberta government didn't just underestimate differentials. It also overestimated the headline oil prices, expecting a WTI price of $99.25 when it's actually been about $93 over the past 12 months.
Either way, Mr. King said, current differentials are adding up to missed government tax and royalty revenues of about $4-billion to $6-billion. Most of that pain accrues to Alberta.
"You take the mid range of that; $5-billion that's wiped out just because we're taking a hit on spreads," he said.
The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013
Byline: Nathan Vanderklippe
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Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon
Place of Birth: Leer, South Sudan
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Economy running on fumes
This is most clearly seen in the size of the administration since the return of opposition leader Riek Machar to Juba in February...
According to the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) a government of national unity bringing in the former rebels of Riek Machar and others was supposed to rule for an interim period to prepare for the first elections since independence...
Equally worrying is the attitude of Riek Machar's chief military commander the UN-sanctioned Simon Gatwech Dual to the delays...
Coups and consequences
Resentment has been building at the top of the armed forces since Angelina Teny the wife of Salva's arch-rival Riek Machar became defence minister in the new Revitalised Government of National Unity...
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Angelina Niajany Teny the wife of First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon who was controversially appointed as defence minister recently refused to obey a summons to appear before the National Assembly's Covid-19 committee claiming that parliament was no longer constitutional under the peace agreement (AC Vol 61 No 7 A diversion for the premier)...
The fourth horseman
The new government is based on a six-strong collegiate presidency with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon replacing fellow Nuer Taban Deng Gai as first vice-president and Taban becoming one of four (junior) vice-presidents along with existing Vice-President James Wani Igga Rebecca Nyandeng Garang and former South Sudan Opposition Alliance spokesman Hussein Abdelbagi Akol controversially selected by Salva from five competing SSOA candidates...
Beyond a hundred days
After the violent collapse of the most recent power-sharing government in 2016 there is no way that Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon will return from exile in Khartoum without a guarantee of security and little prospect of integrating the requisite joint VIP protection unit in time (AC Vol 57 No 10 Power without responsibility & Vol 57 No 16 Riek rival boosts Salva)...
Peace deal wheelspin
Opposition leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon had refused to return to Juba by the 12 November deadline to form a unity government and be installed as first Vice-President...
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The formation of a unity government has been thrown into doubt again after it was reported this week that Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In-Opposition leader Riek Machar would not join a coalition accusing the government of failing to make funds available for the implementation of the peace accord...
'Not even the Pope'
On 10 and 11 April South Sudan's rival warring leaders President Salva Kiir Mayardit and former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon met at the Vatican face to face for perhaps the last time before the two sides are due to form a unity government in May...
Bumps on the road to peace
The government army loyal to President Salva Kiir Mayardit (now known as the South Sudan People's Defence Force – SSPDF) has made common cause with Riek Machar's SPLA-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) in a joint offensive against members of the National Salvation Front which backs the Equatorian strongman Lieutenant General Thomas Cirillo Swaka in his refusal to sign last year's Khartoum Peace Agreement (AC Vol 59 No 19 No cash no peace)...
Peace maybe, prosperity no
The 12 September peace deal envisages the deployment of 4 000 regional peace-keepers to augment the UN Mission and provide security for the return of opposition figures – especially Riek Machar – who is due to return in May as First Vice President in the new power-sharing government but clearly has well-founded concerns for his security following the 2016 collapse of the previous agreement (AC Vol 57 No 17 Pax Salvatica)...
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Do you know about Alsace-Lorraine ?
On this Armistice Day, I wonder how much is known about the role this small part of my country had in the first World War. When talking about WW1 nationalism is always discussed, as well as the alliances of the time, but I wonder if Alsace is given enough thought.
I'm not much of a nationalist, I don't fear the idea of a federal Europe to give you an idea, but if I was a young man in 1914, even an educated and well off one, I think I would have happily gone to war, only to get back part of my country.
vrbarreto
Re: Do you know about Alsace-Lorraine ?
Don't know much about the make up of the country then even though in school we visited the battlefields of the first world war for 5 days... Went to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Sanctuary wood, the graves for both the allies and the central powers. It is said that war is hell and the first world war being the real first mechanical war was truly this... RIP
Kiwirob
I've been to Strassbourg and the surrounding areas, it feels more German than French, the people speak German, the buildings, food and culture appear to be more German than French, too me it appears like one of those parts of Europe like South Tyrol which are part of one country when they really look and feel like they should be in another.
zkojq
Kiwirob wrote:
too me it appears like one of those parts of Europe like South Tyrol which are part of one country when they really look and feel like they should be in another.
Agreed and stuff like this is why I LOVE Europe. Those of us who've spent much of our lives living on an island nation lose the appreciation of how 'fluid' national borders have historically been over time.
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Maybe you mistook German tourists or German/Austrian EU workers for locals?
Use of German (well, Alsatian) in Strassbourg is rather low though smaller villages surrounding the place are still heavily Alsatian-speaking.
But sure, the place looks out of touch with French shops and signs over unmistakeable Germanic architecture.
It is certainly MUCH less German today than Eupen or Sankt Vith in Belgium, which are forming the so called German-speaking community of Belgium.
Kiwirob, it's true many Alsatians speak German, but that's not as a first language. First language is French. Alsatian is its own (Germanic) language and probably less known than German, simply because German is a useful language to learn when you live near Germany. Still, more Germans speak French on the other side of the frontier than the reverse.
salttee
It's surprising that a 21st century French person would identify with the mindset that brought about WW1.
A history of the region's affiliation goes like this (if you have any disagreement here let me know):
Originally Alsace - Lorraine was a region with a peaceful but mixed population. It did have a significant percentage of German speaking residents. So when German unification came about, it was not untoward of the Germans to include the region in their new state, even though it had been loosely under French rule as a result of Napoleon's conquests (which of course were not held in high regard in 19th century Europe).
In 1870, France declared war on the new German state over the Alsace - Lorraine issue, and promptly lost that war. So in 1914, 43 years after the region became an official part of Germany, you're saying that you would have wanted to start another war to get back a piece of land that you never had clear title to (it always had a lot of German speaking citizens), and which was living in peace?
Well that's about what happened. How did that work out?
I have always seen the direct link between the Franco - Prussian war and world wars 1 & 2. Without the French declaration of war on Germany in 1870 there would have been no WW1, hence no WW2.
That's not necessarily true.
While many Alsatians speak French at home and among themselves, Alsatian is still first language for many families, especially in the countryside.
They speak Alsatian in family and social situations even though they will speak French at school or with outsiders.
But of course in places like Strasbourg or Metz most people are 100% French speakers, and if they know German is because it's a useful 2nd language, not because of their heritage.
salttee, thanks for your answer. I don't know history that well myself, that's also why I'm interested in discussing this, I have no ties to Alsace, my family being either from Brittany on the other side of the country, or from Italy.
Alsace has always had special status within France, but from what I'm reading Napoleon didn't conquer it, it was clearly French in the 17th century already.
What happened with the Revolution and the following French governments, pretty much to this day, is a policy of integration of all parts of France, starting with the imposition of the French language. My paternal grandmother spoke Breton as a first language until it was simply banned, for example.
Your theory about the 1870 war is interesting, I had never heard of it. Clearly France didn't like the creation of a new German superstate/Empire, I don't know if Alsace was really a factor though, it wouldn't have been that easy to take, WW1 could have happened then if the agression had come from the East.
JJJ wrote:
I don't disagree with you, my main point was that German is not a first language anyway. Alsatian is not German.
With the "language politics" of France it's very difficult to have reliable statistics on the usage of regional languages.
It may not be standard Hochdeutsch but it is very much German in the same way the different Swiss-German dialects are German or speakers in the Vallée d'Aoste speak French.
First language depends on each speaker. If you move to Hong-Kong your first language it will still be French (presumably), and there are still (rural) areas within Alsace-Lorraine where a majority of people have Alsatian as first language.
Many Alsatians also bark and go woof woof.
Alsace was part of the Holy Roman Empire (essentially German) until 1618 when Louis XIII annexes portions of Alsace during the Thirty Years' War, in 1674 Louis XIV annexes the rest of Alsace during the Franco-Dutch War, establishing full French sovereignty over the region, the Germans kick the stuffing out of France in 1871 and keep it German until 1918.
And, in WWII:
[url]After the defeat of France in the spring of 1940, Alsace and Moselle were not formally annexed by Nazi Germany, although Adolf Hitler, the German leader, drafted an annexation law in 1940 that he kept secret, expecting to announce it in the event of a German victory.[14] Through a series of laws which individually seemed minor, Berlin took full control of Alsace-Lorraine, and Alsatians could be drafted into the German Army. During the occupation, Alsace-Moselle was integrated into a Reichsgau named Westmark and Alsace was amalgamated with Baden. From 1942, people from Alsace and Moselle were made German citizens by decree of the Nazi government.[15]
Beginning in October 1942, young Alsatian men were inducted into the German armed forces. Sometimes they were known as the malgré-nous, which could be translated in English as "against our will".[note 6][16][17] Some, however, volunteered, notably the author of The Forgotten Soldier, known by the pseudonym Guy Sajer. Ultimately, 100,000 Alsatians and 30,000 Mosellans were enrolled, many of them to fight on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Red Army. Most of those who survived the war were interned in Tambov in Russia in 1945. Many others fought in Normandy against the Allies as the malgré-nous of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.[/url]
I thought I'd read that one motivation of the Nazis to invade France in 1940 was to get back Alsace-Loraine.
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Tangentially related to this topic, I figured I'd post this here: https://youtu.be/6iSSVkeorMY
I watch this every November 11th. Excellent BBC show on the final day of the War to End All War.
My favorite part is:
"At 11 o'clock, a German machine gunner opposite the South African brigade north of Mons, having fired off his land, stood up, took off his helmet, bowed, and walked off to the rear."
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Some. I know I have some ancestors that came from there. I assume they were more German than French, though I think they arrived in America well before WWI.
Why do Aerospace Engineering students have to turn things in on time?
salttee wrote:
Sorry but your grasp of history is not very strong :
1/- Asace - Lorraine have been part of France since the end of the 30 years' war in 1648 ( which, btw France won )
The French kings had no intention of imposing anything on their provinces ( they went as far as calling German-speaking immigration - which were the closest populations - to re-populate the region which has been badly hurt by the war ( + famines and plagues )... That's the reason whyFrench and German languages co-existed for more than two centuries : as u_sual, French was spoken by the best-off and the administration.
2/- You should read about thge origins of the 1870 Franco-Prussian war... It is like a spy thriller and, very basically, the French had been maneuvered by that wily old Bismarck into declaring a war they were certainly not prepared for.
3/- As you see, Napoleon had nothing to do with the Alsace-Lorraine, which was - even if you don't like it - very mucvh a French region.
4/- The importance of the region - for France was that it established a " natural" frontier between France and the German empire ( the rivers Rhine and Meuse )
(1)- So in 1914, 43 years after the region became an official part of Germany, you're saying that you would have wanted to start another war to get back a piece of land that you never had clear title to (it always had a lot of German speaking citizens), and which was living in peace?
(2)- I have always seen the direct link between the Franco - Prussian war and world wars 1 & 2. Without the French declaration of war on Germany in 1870 there would have been no WW1, hence no WW2.
1/- I would say that region had been part of France for 222 years and was living in peace. Contrarily to what you think, the French patriotism was very strong in the region :They never accepted the assimilation and knew that someday, they would return to France....
2/- .... but it wasn't one of the reasons for WW1.There were a lot of politically / strategically more involving events in Europe in 1914 : The end of the Ottoman empire and who would take its place, the Balkans, the place of Russia...the hegemonist policy of Prussia;.. etc... etc...
To see a direcr link between the 1870 conflict and the two world ( stress : W.O.R.L.D.) wars is ludicrously comical... worthy of a Mickey mouse university ( does that exist ? )
...but the subject is too vast. I would not mind having a discussion on the origins of WW1, WW2, the regional languages in France or elsewhere, the French policy on their teaching and their importance... etc...
By the way, the unification of all the German-speaking areas in Europe was o,ne of the main Nazi policies... It started with the Anschluss, not the acquisition of Alsace...strange that you would condone it, some 80 years later...
Revelation wrote:
And, in WWII: and Alsatians could be drafted into the German Army. During the occupation,
I presume the above is from some wiki-type of report, which, as usual, is too short to give an accurate account of the related events :
1/- It's true that the nazis tried to enroll Alsatians and Lorrans starting in October 1940... with very little success : 32 volunteers in October 1940, a total of 2100 until November 1942 ( TWO years later !)
2/- The forcible enrollment, under martial law, started in November 1942 : those trying to escape were executed, their property taken and their families deported.
3/- Of course there were quite a number of volunteers, but they were mainly incorporated in the LVF - legion of french volunteers - and some mainly French units ( elements of the sinister SS "Charlemagne Division" were amongst the last defenders of Berlin, especially Hitler's bunker, in 1945 )... The "Malgré nous " were not trusted at all by the German command, that's why most of them ended on the Russian front.I'm not really into monuments but there is one in Mulhouse dedicated to the "Malgré nous"... One of the most moving monuments I know.
4/- The treaty of Versailles had never been accepted by Germany as it was humiliating and the French demands were really stringent and were the cause of serious differences between France and Britain, the US....which did not arrange things. But the Alsace - Moselle situation has never been prominent in Hitler's policy. Just a by the way annexation : the Sudetes and the "Dantzig corridor" were a lot more important to the nazis looking for their Lebensraum.
Thank you for the informative post.
That "French patriotism was very strong in the region" is a subjective assumption which ignores the reasoning of why the Germans wanted to include Alsace - Lorraine into their nation in 1870. The unification of German states was a unification of German states, not a land grab. It seems obvious that there was more than one point of view within the region at the time. It's revealing that you eschew acknowledgement of that fact.
2/- .... but it wasn't one of the reasons for WW1.There were a lot of politically / strategically more involving events in Europe in 1914 : The end of the Ottoman empire and who would take its place, the Balkans, the place of Russia...the hegemonist policy of Prussia;.. etc... etc... To see a direcr link between the 1870 conflict and the two world ( stress : W.O.R.L.D.) wars is ludicrously comical... worthy of a Mickey mouse university ( does that exist ? )
In spite of your rude hyperbole, a major reason for WW1 accepted by historians is hostility between France and Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of ... ds_Germany This is not my invention.
In absence of the fact that France was eager to right perceived injustices and recover Alsace - Lorraine by force of arms, the assassination in Sarajevo would have just been a local event. This is supported by the above statement from the OP, "if I was a young man in 1914, even an educated and well off one, I think I would have happily gone to war, only to get back part of my country".
Here you remove yourself from any objective discussion of the subject. Your insinuation that the actions of Bismark were guided by a Nazi policy that was 80 years in the future (or that I am a Nazi shill) does nothing to help the thoroughly nationalistic case you're trying to make.
As for your discounting the prevailing anti French attitude in the German Empire at the time, I will point out that the memory of Napoleon's brutal excesses were just as alive in 1870 (55 years after his defeat) as your memory of Nazi excesses are now (71 years after the war); and it seems only fair to mention that the French leader at the time of the Franco - Prussian war was named Napoleon.
PanHAM
You get a leckerli for that answer, Kiwirob.
what is most important is, that these borders are freee flow These days without having to ask or Show ID's or worry about language.
There's a Restaurant at "Goldene Bremm", the main border crossing from Germany to France in Saarbruecken where the waitresses cross over from French to Germany and vv and i am sure such places are plenty.
Germans moving to Alsase are expected to speak French but French selling on the many Farmers markets in Freiburg or places nearby speak German. It's up to the individuals to make their choice and that's how it should be.
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sebolino
No no no, it's exagerated.
People don't speak German. Some people, especially in the villages and especially the older, speak French as well as Alsatian, which is a German dialect. I'm always surprised however, when some people switch between French and Alsatian. Some people are hard-core regionalists, but they are mostly ridiculous with their stupid accent.
The typical food is German ok, but you don't eat Sauerkraut everyday.
Some parts of the architecture is German in Strasbourg because those buildings were built by the Germans after 1870.
The typical look of the houses is not especially German as far as I know, you don't find the same style in Kehl just on the other side of the border.
It's more a regional and medevial style. If you visit the center of Rennes in Brittany, you'll find also very old houses which look like Alsatian houses.
The worst in Alsace is really the accent ! But in Strasbourg you have a good mix, and you don't feel that you're in a foreign country. In some villages, it's true that you could wonder ...
If one studies a subject like history, assuimptions are very dangerous : they are just the expression of your biases / xenophobia... etc...
Patriotism could be seen in one of my posts above : asking for volunteers, the nazis got 32 in one month, out of a total of some 500 000 young men... and that included those who thought that joining the Wehrmacht was fighting communism, the perceived enemy of western civilisation.
There also is a report from one site you could not ever-ever accuse of French leaning : the Institute for Research on Expelled Germans.
Here are some excerpts :at the end of the Thirty Years war ...
"The Alsatians enjoyed incredible cultural, academic, and social autonomy from the rest of France despite that nation's frequent political crises. The German language was not actively suppressed, nor was the Lutheran religion that was followed by many Alsatian Germans at the same time as French anti-Huguenot (Protestant) edicts were causing rampant persecution, civil war, and bloodshed in the rest of France. The partially independent social, linguistic, and political evolution of the Alsatians during French rule laid the foundations for a distinct Alsatian sub-national affiliation that endured even after annexation by the Second Reich of Bismarck in 1871. The passive behaviour of French rule also meant that the Alsatians remained distinctly Germanic and seldom assimilated into mainstream French or Latin cultural mores"...
2/- that compared to what happened after the 1870 war :
"This ethnic characteristic was exploited by the nationalistic reunified Germany to justify their claims on the region. So too, the fact that the French had allowed the Alsatians to administer their own affairs contrasted with the very militaristic and dominant rule of Prussian Germany, leading to a very precarious loyalty among the Alsatians between France and Germany that has endured ever since. Whilst Frenchmen emphasize that Alsace has, indeed, been a part of France for many centuries and thus deserves to be part of France, German nationalists emphasize that almost no Frenchmen even live in Alsace and thus it belongs with Germany or Switzerland, or should be independent."...
"...The experience of Alsatian Germans under Germany's authority was one of heavy-handed militaristic authority. The Alsatians were deemed by Prussian/German officers to be potentially unreliable, politically or nationally vaccilatory, and even ethnically 'diluted' due to their interlude under foreign French rule. Alsatians were perceived as being only superficially German by many nationalists to the point that both Joseph Goebbels (Goebbels 1948, 198) and Adolf Hitler (Speer 1970, 44) would later consider Alsace-Lorraine an 'insignificant strip of land' that had lost its Germanic character due to its support of France. Ironically, the French would soon approach the Alsatians with a far-reaching campaign of expulsion and discrimination that portrayed the Alsatians as uniformly pro-German and anti-French.;;;"
The whole article can be found here
So...who has a "'subjective" appreciation of that history ?
lugie
Fwiw a view from the perspective of somebody living not too far away from the border in souther Germany:
Many people here nowadays really appreciate the French character of the region without having to be fluent in French to get along, on public holidays in Germany most transborder roads tend to be congested.
The local population speak French most of the time, however in the small towns Alsacian is much more prominent and it sounds a lot like the German dialect spoken in Palatinate right across the border so for locals there aren't really issues getting along. In most restaurants the waiters speak French with their French guests but fluent German (albeit mostly with a dialect) with the Germans.
Strasbourg however is pretty much 100% French and therefore a really popular destination for schools.
That being said the Germans mostly enjoy having "actual" France so close which means that luckily nobody seriously wants Alsace-Lorraine to be German again (exception being extreme-right splinter groups and stupid jokes floating around...)
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sebolino wrote:
It's OK, they probably think your accent is ridiculous, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of ... ds_Germany This is not my invention. .
Oh yes, the page for which even Wiki is asking for sources, citations...etc... Looks to me it's Mickey University, Goofy college.now.
"French revanchist foreign policy towards Germany
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Like someone with a very light grasp of a subject, you are very lightly manipulating quite a few concepts :
1/- Germany / Germans
Historically, Charlemagne aka Karl der grosse is a Frank kingwho extended his empire to the east, basically to the nowadays Slovaquia, to the south to Lombardy... etc... so we could say that most of Western Europe was populated by - politically - Franks
That territory became more or less the area of the Holy Roman - German Empire after quite a few vicissitudes like heritage (s) divisions...etc...
That empire got fragmented throughout the ages to the point that Germany did not exist any more as a single unit but remained just as an assembly of "German - speaking " multitude of minuscule independent princedoms.
In 1870, we are at the apogea of a "German" re - unification under the king of Prussia ( so the 1870 war was in fact "the Franco-Prussian war" and it's only after the official "Second Reich" that we could again talk about Germany and Germans).
2/- Napoleonic brutal excesses
As a matter of curiosity, I typed in research that exact sentence and the very first hit was a book from a Victorian historian, a George Moir Bussey ( 1807 - 1864 ) who wrote :
"... The inhabitants of the ( French ) provinces were becoming desperate from the brutal excesses everywhere committed by the allies : murder, violations, fire and pillage formed the sport of the enemy.... desolation tracked every movement of the Germans, Russians and Swedes and was so widely and generally spread that herds of wolves and wild boars had reapeared in what has recently been the populous haunts of civilisation.... The horror and fear of the country people at seeing their cottages occupied by savages, all ties of domestic affection wantonly outraged and their roads streaming with the blood of their friends and kindred..."
That was in 1812-13
Excerpts of the book here as History of Napoleon
You really have to get away from the clichés about Napoléon and the angelism of his enemies.
As a matter of fact his "great Army" was probably the best disciplined soldiers of the era and generally left the populations alone ( burning of crops was a military tactic, though, used by about everybody).
The exception was in Spain were the French troops did commit atrocities against the population : the reason of that sort of behaviour was that it was the very first instance of a guerilla war ( the term dates from that period in Spanish ) and every Spaniard was an enemy, to be treated as such. Wellington's army did commit a few, too - and they were supposed to be the protectors !.
I am afraid you are suffering from the holier-than-thou attitude towards Napoleon that is prevailing in the UK, and without any hint of an explanation on what History was.
In fact there is a very valid question : Who created Napoleon ?
One answer is that, had the monarchies of Europe let the French Revolution run its own course without any interference - especially military - France might very well have retained its king... and we wouldn't have seen the Terror, the Vendée Chouans... nor Napoléon... He would have remained an artillery officer named Buonaparte , basically unknown amongst a crowd of brilliant officers. (But that, I'm afraid is just an opinion / assumption I share, hence with not a lot of validity)...
( By the way, did anybody declare war on England's Cromwell ? After all, they executed a king, too... )
You begin a response to me with an ad hominem and then you continue with what looks like a stream of consciousness rant mixed with further ad hominems, which makes it difficult to have a conversation with you, but I'll respond to what I think are your actual arguments for the sake of other readers.
Pihero objects to my description of conditions in Alsace Lorraine on the eve of the 1870 war: "Alsace - Lorraine was a region with a peaceful but mixed population. It did have a significant percentage of German speaking residents. So when German unification came about, it was not untoward of the Germans to include the region in their new state, even though it had been loosely under French rule as a result of Napoleon's conquests (which of course were not held in high regard in 19th century Europe)"
The only possible thing I can see for him to object to here is my statement: "it had been loosely under French rule as a result of Napoleon's conquests (which of course were not held in high regard in 19th century Europe)"
To rebut me he brings in a quote from a source I've never encountered which says:
Post #25 wrote:
Institute for Research on Expelled Germans.
"The Alsatians enjoyed incredible cultural, academic, and social autonomy from the rest of France despite that nation's frequent political crises."
Which supports my contention that at that time Alsace Lorraine "had been loosely under French rule".
And while he noted that France had had "political crises", (Napoleon Bonaparte had brought more than just "political crises") he presumably takes issue with my brief summation "under French rule as a result of Napoleon's conquests".
I did not want to delve into French history in detail when I wrote my post, I was focused on the war of 1870 and its effect on future events; but now that we are there we can take Pihero's slice of history and add to it information from a post that Kiwirob had previously made:
Alsace was part of the Holy Roman Empire (essentially German) until 1618 when Louis XIII annexes portions of Alsace during the Thirty Years' War, in 1674 Louis XIV annexes the rest of Alsace during the Franco-Dutch War, establishing full French sovereignty over the region........
Between Kiwirob and Pihero we are left with a still not detailed picture of the two populations of the region in 1870 which support my original contention that Alsace was a region with a "peaceful but mixed population with a significant percentage of German speaking residents."
In his next post he rudely objects to my statement that I see a direct link between the Franco - Prussian war and world wars 1 & 2. So I'll defend that premise here.
I think it's a given that WW2 is a direct result of conditions created by the way WW1 ended, so there should be no need to go into the Third Reich stuff Pihero brought into the conversation. So I'll make my case for the linkage between the wars of 1871 and 1914.
In late 1914 when the events in Sarajevo came to a head, the Tzar wanted a war with the German states, but he knew that Russia could not take Germany on alone; his declaration of war was predicated on the understanding that France would join in a war with Russia, yet France was not a party to events in the east, it really was no skin off France's nose what happened in Austria-Hungary or the Balkans. France had a defense pact with Russia but in this case Russia was the aggressor and Germany was issuing no threat to France.
If we look at the roots of this defense pact, the opening sentence from Wikipedia's history is: "The history of the alliance dates to the beginning of the 1870s, to the contradictions engendered by the Franco-Prussian War and the Treaty of Frankfurt of 1871. "
I can go into more detail on why I think the wars of 1870 and 1914 are linked, if Pihero wishes to engage in polite discussion, but I am not going to respond to Pihero if he wants a flame war type of dialogue.
t the treaty of Westphalia
Bull ! Twisting the facts to suit your own agenda - because you have one - is not exactly doing objective historical work.
Could I just mention a few facts :
1/- France is with Austria the only country German-speaking folks refer to as "Empires" ( Reich as in Frankreich : the empire of the Franks - and Österreich.That dates to the beginnings of the Charlemagnbe 's empire, and I remind you that he was crowned as Kaiser of the Franks by the pope and not emperor of the Germans.That Karl der Grosse's empire included what are today known as Alsace / Lorraine.
2/- At the treaty of Westphalia, these territories went - I would say "back" - to the French crown.
3/- The French annexation was very soft on the German-speaking population and the French kings did not want to be to harsh on them, considering they had suffered enough during the 30Years War. The first French administrator went in fact as far as to learn both German and the local dialects to be closer to his adminbistrees.
One of the fery few rules which were implemented was re-establishing catholicism as the main religion and to this day one could find churches which were originally Lutheran places of worship.
4/- Contrarily to your assertion, the Prussian take over was very much a land grab, very much akin to the Nazis grabbing Austria ( the Anschluss ) and the Sudeten lands.
Those were, in 1870, French territories whether your idea of history acknowledges it or not ( I have a feeling you won't but I don't care ).
You are bringing a very valid point : anyone interested in history and in a particular subject would research as much as possible . The fact that you've never heard of the Institute for Research on Expelled Germans means that somehow your study, and hence your understanding of that subject is incomplete.
Alsace was part of the Holy Roman Empire (essentially German) until 1618 when Louis XIII annexes portions of Alsace during the Thirty Years' War, in 1674 Louis XIV annexes the rest of Alsace during the Franco-Dutch War, establishing full French sovereignty over the region....... Between Kiwirob and Pihero we are left with a still not detailed picture of the two populations of the region in 1870 which support my original contention that Alsace was a region with a "peaceful but mixed population with a significant percentage of German speaking residents."
The excerpt from the IREG, had you bothered to read it was quite complete enough.
There is no "given" : there are "Facts, and Documents, and Honesty "... and avoiding the searingly burning subject of nazi invasions - mainly without bothering to declare war - and forcible land grabbing + deporting the local populations, replacing them with "pure Aryans" smacks of total intellectual dishonesty.
Have you read "Mein Kampf" ?
You should and basically had our politicians bothered to, everything Hitle'r was about to do was there... The Lebensraum, the Jewish question, the war with the Soviets...etc... Everything... but ...
Funny enough, Elsass-Lothringen did not figure among his plans !
In fact, your argument is as Alsace-Lorraine was a contentious subject between France and Germany, France's "revanchism" was the cause of three wars, the poor Prussians and the poor nazis were just the victims of France's imperialism in Europe !
Your ideas about the events of July 1914 are, to say the least, very curious
Unfortunately for you,there were quite a few other European countries involved in July- August 1914 :
- Austria send a very unreasonable demand to Serbia... or else... leading to an Austrian declaration of war.
- Russia backed Serbia - as their treaties implied and mobilised against the Austrian empire... not as you sweetly say the German States ( or are yoiu just ahead of the time and assume that Ausqtria ihas been ansclussed and is now part og Germany ? )
- Germany tried to get the UK's neutrality, failed and declared war on Russia and France and invaded Belgium ( which was, may I remind you a neutral country ).
- Then, and only then did the British government deckare war on Germany.
So, if we 'd simplify a very complex situation and only regard the declarations of war :
1/- The Austro-Hungarian empire declares war on the tiny Serbia.
2/- Due to a defence pact of "slavic" countries, Russia mobilises against Austria
3/- Germany, because of her ties to Austria declares war on Serbia, then Russia, then France
4/- Germany invades Belgium ...the very first bellicist action of what is to be called WW1.
5/- Great Britain respects its alliances and declares war on Germany.
So the countries which declared war were
1/- Austria, against Serbia,
2/- Germany against Russia and France
3/- The UK against Germany
Do I see France in there ?
As for your wiki quote, any body can interpret it as one wishes. Total verbose rubbish... Something you seem to like in Wiki
That's fine by me. I like discussions where one could learn something.
On the other hand, I abhor agendas and biases and the use of distorted history to suit a person's generally hateful designs and agendas.
For those interested, a bunch of historians and video teams have started two years ago on youtube and the social media a series as how the events happened exactly one century ago.
There now have been some 200 videos made, enough for super interesting / accurate information ( one doesn't need to see them all... they could be only 10 minutes long, they will take 35 hours of your time).
I'd like to submit to those interestd the second video of the series, called The Great War :
This is the program that pertains to our subject., very well worth 9 minutes of attention
.Europe prior to WW1
The anchor, Indy Neidell is a Texan, associated with some European youngsters from (funny, ain't it ?) Sweden and Germany. He's a historian by training.
If I boil all that down to the part that is relevant to the discussion at hand, I am left with:
3/- Germany, because of her ties to Austria declares war on Serbia, then Russia, then France ....
Well no, you don't see France in there, because you didn't include French actions in your summation. You see, France had joined with Russia in the Franco - Russian alliance in 1892 which obviously had been drawn up with Germany in mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Russian_Alliance
And when in late July 1914, Russia took the position of supporting Serbia by mobalizing its army against the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany, France voiced support for the Russian position.
When on August 1, 1914 Germany declared war on Russia, and asked France its intentions; Paris responded by declaring that France would respond according to its own interests, and began mobilization - which of course was an act of war. Two days later Germany declared war on France.
I'm not saying that France started WW1, I'm merely pointing out that France's actions were voluntary, they didn't have to join in the war in the east in 1914 anymore than they had to sign the Franco - Russian alliance pact in 1892. But they did.
Now why did they the engage in actions that brought them to war with Germany?
A part of it had to be bitterness from having lost the war of 1871 and having lost Alsace Lorraine to Germany.
As a Frenchman said a hundred years later in this very forum:
if I was a young man in 1914, even an educated and well off one, I think I would have happily gone to war, only to get back part of my country.
Wiki, again and again and again !
There were at least two alliances : the "Entente" with Britain, France and Russia and the "Alliance" between Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy..
So, again for some very dicy argument, you fail ( ????? ) to mention the Austrian-Hungarian empire, in all instances the main culprit for the war. As I understand your line, they were entitled to send a totally unacceptable to Serbia ( the setting up of an Austrian court of enquiry / judgement on the Sarajevo murder ) before declaring war... very courageous and probably right up to your idea that " it's not land grabbing, just a return of national land".
You write : "I'm not saying that France started WW1, I'm merely pointing out that France's actions were voluntary, they didn't have to join in the war in the east in 1914 anymore than they had to sign the Franco - Russian alliance pact in 1892. But they did."
You could ask the same question to the German position.
... but of course, according to your twisted argument, poor Germany was forced by the dastardly French iunto a war they did not want.... Utter rubbish...
Another pearl : " Now why did they the engage in actions that brought them to war with Germany?
A part of it had to be bitterness from having lost the war of 1871 and having lost Alsace Lorraine to Germany."
1/- A country respects its treaties ( that is, in my opinion ), so Germany declaring war on Russia would have meant French involvement in the aid of its ally... same thing with Britain.
2/- The nationalism in 1914 certainly wasn't a French trait, and the desire for war was quite present in the whole continent.
The country which was the best prepared, I'm afraid for your argument, was Germany : The Schlieffen plan, which laid their strategy in case of a war against both Russia and France was finalised in 1904, ten full years before the real conflict !
As for Aesma's quote, I would have said exactly the same thing, exactly the same way thousand of young Frenchmen were demonstrating to chants of "To Berlin !"
At the same time, in Berlin they were doing the same thing to the chants of " Nach Paris !"...
They were not ready, really, to tone down bellicose postures on either side of the border.
Pihero you seem to be all wrapped up in who to blame.
All I ever said was that without the war of 1870, there would have been no WW1 hence no WW2.
That doesn't seem to be your problem as you have loaded Fance with all the reponsibilities.
And no ! That wasn't the only thing you said :
1/-"It did have a significant percentage of German speaking residents. So when German unification came about, it was not untoward of the Germans to include the region in their new state, even though it had been loosely under French rule as a result of Napoleon's conquests (which of course were not held in high regard in 19th century Europe)."
In these two lines, you manage to validate the Nazi Germany annexation of German-speaking territories and make a huge mistake about Napoleonic wars : they'd been over since 1815 and had Alsace and Lorraine been "grabbed" by Napoleon, I really doubt the status quo would have been kept after Waterloo and the Vienna conference which basically re-drew European borders.
2/- "
Again, two blatant mistakes :
a)- France didn't declare war on Germany ; Germany declared war on Russia, France and Serbia... Does that make a big difference ? In reality, not a lot. For you, it just destroys your main idea of France the baddy.
b)- The backgrounds of Europe in 1870 and in 1914 are vastly different.: In 1870, the main point is about the creation under Prussia of a German nation.
In 1914, one could say that the European character is about nationalism (s) trying to assert themselves on the decaying corpses of two empires : Turkey and Austria-Hungary..
In the rest of Western Europe, the mood was really about pacifism, which quickly disappeared, giving way to bellicose attitudes ( and revanchism on the French side - the Jean Jaurès assassination in effect killed any chance of trying to find a peaceful solution to the Easter Europe conflicts )..
As for the origins of the second world war, there are some facts that should be told :
A/- It came through France's intransigence about payment of war damages
those damages were estimated, in Paris and Versailles conferences at 148 billion marks, for both France and Belgium., the countries most affected by the germans ( have you heard of German atrocities onto civilians ? have you heard about the "rape of Louvain" where they executed by firing squads civilians, adults and children ?...
Do you know that, even considering that sum was inferior to the destruction brought to these countries, the nazi re-arming between 1933 and 1938 is estimated - very conservatively - at more than one trillion marks, seven times the damage reparation sum ?
B/- The great depression which saw the avent oif nazism
C/- The avent of autoritarian regimes, both fascist and communist : Spain, Italy and Germany on one hand, the USSR on the other under Joseph Stalin.
.........etc...........
The unification of German states was a unification of German states, not a land grab.
That reads exactly like an extract from Jo Goebbels propaganda, post 1933.
Actually, these provinces had been Frankish - hence French since the year 511 under the reign of Clovis.
4/- "In absence of the fact that France was eager to right perceived injustices and recover Alsace - Lorraine by force of arms, the assassination in Sarajevo would have just been a local event."
...( sarcastic)... the treatment by the Austrians of Serbia, plus the Russian declaration of war to Austria.... etc... are just local events ? Sheesh !!!
So, in actual fact you said a lot more than you'd claim now.
In these two lines, you manage to validate the Nazi Germany annexation of German-speaking territories.....................
That reads exactly like an extract from Jo Goebbels propaganda, post 1933...................
If you want to talk about Nazis please start a new thread. Nazism didn't exist in 1870 or 1914. I'm sorry to deprive you of what is obviously a favorite topic of yours, but discussions of Nazis are out of place in this thread.
France didn't declare war on Germany
Yes it did in 1870 and that's where in the discussion you took the quote of my words from - and tried to place them in the 1914 part of the conversation.
The backgrounds of Europe in 1870 and in 1914 are vastly different.: In 1870, the main point is about the creation under Prussia of a German nation.
In 1914, one could say that the European character is about nationalism (s) trying to assert themselves on the decaying corpses of two empires : Turkey and Austria-Hungary. In the rest of Western Europe, the mood was really about pacifism, which quickly disappeared, giving way to bellicose attitudes ( and revanchism on the French side - the Jean Jaurès assassination in effect killed any chance of trying to find a peaceful solution to the Easter Europe conflicts )..
I never tried to imply that the backgrounds for 1870 and 1914 were the same.
As for the origins of the second world war, there are some facts that should be told.........................
There's nothing to discuss here. If you don't or can't understand that WW2 was a direct result of the way the affairs of European nations were cast by the WW1 peace agreements, then you are too blinded by some ideology to participate in a discussion of the causes of the wars of 1870, WW1 or WW2.
Pihero I feel like I'm having an argument with a drunken Latin who thinks I called his mother a whore because I mentioned Miley Cyrus or some such thing.
I don't think that you are up to political discussions with foreigners that have anything to do with your home country.
NO. I'm not talking about nazis as important - or even existing - in 1870 or 1914, I'm just referring to a mindset that you share with them to jhustify, a posteriori the Prussian annexcation of Alsace-Lorraine :
"It's not a land grab,but a return of nationals to the bossom of their nation ( or to the same extent)
For a discussion, one needs , again, facts and documents : Your idea is that you are right, therefore nhot needing anytrhing backing your assertions.
And, as far as ideologies go, the one you seem to be backing is despicable. Has been since 1927.
I also note that the only correction you brought to my posts is the declaration of war by France in 1870, for which I acknowledge a mistake - in the last post only - for writing too fast.
" I feel like I'm having an argument with a drunken Latin who thinks I called his mother a whore because I mentioned Miley Cyrus or some such thing.
I don't think that you are up to political discussions with foreigners that have anything to do with your home country."
With people like you, yes, definitely. It's like trying to talk to acreationist, a bloody waste of time.
I love discussing with open and cultured people.
It is not so so simple. From around 970 to the 17th / 18th century the area was part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Louis XIV and Louis XV annexed the area to add it to what they called that natural boundries of the French nation. The Pyrenees to the southwest, the Alps to the southeast, and the Rhine River to the northeast. One sho9uld also not forget that there was no German state when Napoleon was defeated. Prussia was much further East and the smaller countries in the West were not important nor powerful enough to demand anything at the time.
One can not look at it with the knowledge of history that had not happened at the time. It is even quite funny that the Napoleonic wars and the occupation of large parts of Germany were the reasons for the birth of German nationalism in the 19th century.
On top of losing 20% of its coal and steel capacity and 1,5 millions inhabitants, France had to pay the new German state 5 billion Francs-or (in gold), equivalent to more than 20% of its GDP, in five years. This was paid in full and in time.
The sum Germany had to pay after WW1 was similar, except Germany didn't pay more than a few percents of it. But somehow that is blamed for WW2.
Ah ! It's because the arrogant French are responsible for most of the ills of the world.... Didn't you know that ?
They caused the 1870 war ( errr... yes, but they really were outmaneuvered by that wiley old fox called Bismarck..... They caused the first world war for sheer revengism... and they caused the second world war by forcing the poor Germans to pay for the damages they caused ( not even taking into account the first atrocities on civilians by occupying troops : on that account, Belgium is totally forgotten
What is not really understood is how they caused the Japanese to invade China, bomb Hawai and kick the living shit out of the white round eyes in Singapore, Indochina and the Philippines. I'm sure someone will find a way to do that in this forum.
seahawk wrote : "One should also not forget that there was no German state when Napoleon was defeated. Prussia was much further East and the smaller countries in the West were not important nor powerful enough to demand anything at the time".
Maybe not a German state but Prussia, its nucleus was very much present : After all, Marshall Blücher is the real victor of the battle of Waterloo, isn't he ?
But somehow that is blamed for WW2.
Wow such hyperbole! Yet if you want to understand the roots of WW2 beyond Bad Germans! Bad Germans! it seems taking into account the effects of the worldwide economic depression Germany experienced along with everyone else in the 30s. Then if one were to have a bit of empathy (not to be confused with sympathy) for the German people of the period who were living in a country that still hadn't recovered from WW1 and which was paying reparations while people were starving (or close to it, I don't want to engage in hyperbole myself), it is easy to see how a Donald trump like figure could come along and blame it on a country on their southwestern border.
So yes, the reparations did have something to do with the causes of WW2, and I suppose they have been harped on a bit too much, but their effect was real and it is very possible that they were the issue that gave the populist of the day his opportunity to sell his bigoted agenda: the straw that broke the camel's back, so to say.
I don't really disbelieve you, but I would like to see a source for the details above.
Aesma quoted 100% correctly from the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt, signed by Bismarck himself.
Yes, the French had to pay 5 billion Francs in Gold to Germany and lost the Alsace-Lorraine.
Compare to Versailles
- Germany had to pay the allied 20 billion Gold marks until 1921, where the final sum of reparations was to be decided
- In the London Schedule of Payments, the combined sum the central powers had to pay was set at 132 billion, a sum that even the allies know was totally impossible to be paid. So the formed different levels of bonds with Germany being expected to bay 50 billions. That meant that between 1919 and 1921 Germany had to pay 41 billions.
- one could also mention that the desired level of coal the Germans had to sent the allies did not consider the transfer of the Upper Silesian cola mines to Poland, which reduced German production by 11% - this failure to meet the deliveries let to the occupation of the Ruhr (a part of Germany that was not lost during WWI) The occupation of the Ruhr also led to a new formation of right wing ideas and a right wing party, that later was replaced by the Nazis
- the Young plan reduced the amount due to 112 billions to be paid until 1988
- the Lausanne conference ended the reparations with one final 3 billion payment
How much Germany actually paid is wide open to discussion and the reparations are not the cause for the economic collapse, but they were a valuable scapegoat for German politcians and enraged the German population, especially as the occupation of the Ruhr was not free of civilian death and a long period of hunger. In the end the French view was that the treaty was too lenient and did not weaken Germany enough, so that it become a threat again. The UK and US view was more leaning towards the treaty being too harsh, as it would undermine German development and plant the seeds for future conflict. In the end both sides were right in the worst possible way.
And to answer the Napoleonic war, I personally care little about the real victor at Waterloo, I learned that a European coalition defeated the French. The English led by Wellington, the Prussians by Blücher. So, no I do not see a real victor in there.
But that was not my point. Prussia had no common border with France, to be honest they had not even much interest in French territory. The Holy German Empire was quite weak and conflict with France was limited, well until revolutionary France started a conflict. And even ion the first round Prussia showed little interest in the West. The Peace of Basel saw control of areas west of the Rhine go to France, in exchange for Polish territory. After the Battle of Austerlitz (France vs. Austria + Russia not the Prussians) and the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt France formed the Confederation of the Rhine. A confederation of German states under "protection" of France, or to be more exact a French puppet. For the first time in history, there was now a direct border between Prussia and French controlled areas. This defeat also allowed Prussia the needed reforms that later made them a modern state and dangerous enemy to the French. Napoleon then forced Germans to help him on his attack on Russia in 1812.
With the war of the 6th coalition, most fighting in the German wars was done in what is today the Eastern part of Germany or even Poland. During the following retreat, it was the first time that the other German states united with Prussian forces against a common enemy.
I am always surprised how sometimes French people fail to see the influence Napoleon´s wars had on the development of Europe. Napoleon formed Germany as an enemy and he set up the stage for a German state under Prussian leadership. I am also always a bit surprised, that you say the French were tricked into the 1871 war, while Germany is given clear responsibility for WWI, when one could argue that Germany also did nothing more than honouring the alliance with Austria-Hungaria.
See Aesma's post above.
The problem in your demonstration is that :
1/- Germany was been bailed out of the reparation payments by US bankers / government
2/- It has never been paid in full, contrary to France after 1871
3/- Empathy for the German population, yes. But remember that the war happened on French and Belgian soil. Germany had basically no war damage at all and you can't really compare the - again, French and Belgian civilian deaths through what is now characterised as war crimes, atrocities...etc...
4/- the post 1929 financial crisis happened to every country in the industrial world... Only Germany found it necessary to go through a fascist experience.
5/- Once again, I challenge you to find, prior to 1939, any mention of the Alsace-Lorraine situation in nazi circles or publications... It certainly is not in "Mein Kampf" which is supposed to be the nazis' bible.
btw, I found a very similar reasoning to yours in some neo-nazi sites.
Sheesh !
Wow such hyperbole! Yet if you want to understand the roots of WW2 beyond Bad Germans! Bad Germans! it seems taking into account the effects of the worldwide economic depression Germany experienced along with everyone else in the 30s.
I didn't say that. I'd argue the US had a much bigger role, by letting its banks run amok and crash the world economy as a result. Of course that lesson wasn't learned, and still hasn't been learned after having done it again and again.
There is no point in putting the blame for WW2 on anybody but Germany. However it was a political mistake to put the blame for WW1 solely on Germany. It was even worse to strangle all German governments until 1932 and give in to German demands or ignore violations when the Nazis rose to power.
Empathy for the German population, yes. But remember..............
I knew that someone would confuse the word empathy with the word sympathy. You win first prize!
btw, I found a very similar reasoning to yours in some neo-nazi sites.Sheesh !
Oh, go ahead and say it: call me a Nazi because I mentioned that the war of 1871 (which France started) was the catalyst for WW1 & WW2.
And you might as well just make a blanket statement that anyone who thinks Napoleon ever created any problems in Europe is another bloodsucking Nazi.
Go ahead, get it off your chest, you'll feel better I'm sure.
seahawk wrote : " I am also always a bit surprised, that you say the French were tricked into the 1871 war, while Germany is given clear responsibility for WWI, when one could argue that Germany also did nothing more than honouring the alliance with Austria-Hungaria."
Most serious, objective historians have written at length aboiut how cleverly Bismarck maneuvered in 1870 : He had to get into war with France, for which he was far better prepared, and at the same time look completely innocent of any bellicose intent / imperialism towards the German states. He needed to be a victim.
That he achieved with the famed "Ems dispatch"
See this among dozens of researches : The Franco-Prussian war.... from which I take this excerpt :
" The Prussian statesman realized that this move would in all probability precipitate war, but he knew that Prussia was prepared, and he counted on the psychological effect of a French declaration of war to rally the south German states to Prussia's cause, thus accomplishing the final phase in the unification of Germany. "
Here is a short intro to the Ems Dispatch
An excerpt ; " Bismarck, intent on provoking war with France, made the king's report of the conversation public (July 13) in his celebrated Ems dispatch, which he edited in a manner certain to provoke the French. France declared war on July 19, and the Franco-Prussian War began."
sehawk wrote ;"Prussia had no common border with France, to be honest they had not even much interest in French territory."
Very true, but that wasn't the case of quite a few of the German princedoms, those which Bismarck wanted to amalgamate into Prussia... something he brilliantly achieved.
seahawk wrote' :"I am always surprised how sometimes French people fail to see the influence Napoleon´s wars had on the development of Europe".
If that's what you think, you haven't really talked to French people; If there's a period of their history that they've had to study the most, the 1789 - 1815 one is it.
To this day that influence is present : Most of the European countries have based their laws on the Napoleonic code.
As far as his responsibility goes, as usual, non-french forgot that the revolutionary wars and by extension the avent of Napoleon is a direct result of these European monarchs trying to suppress revolutionary ideas and keep the French kings in power... these treacherous, disloyal idiots brought Bonaparte unto themselves.
and finally , sehawk wrote :" I personally care little about the real victor at Waterloo, I learned that a European coalition defeated the French"
I asked once in a meeting of scouters in western Europe how many knew Blücher : Not one of the 60 Brit leaders did, contrary to most Germans, French, Belgians and even Swedes !
So, you're probably one in a very small minority... for which, of course I salute you !
I've always found the english humour of using that name for the TGV terminal from France rather cute.
Imho one can not separate the wars from 1866 and 1871 from the Napelonic wars when looking at Germany, because Napoleon and let the groundwork for a United Germany with his wars. The Holy Roman Empire was divided, it was weak and Prussia´s influence was limited. When its existence ended, and Napoleon created la Confédération du Rhin / Rheinbund French infleunce extend to most parts of Germany today., only Prussia and Austria were not under French control. And while the French did modernize the states and brought reforms with them, which were as important for the future of Germany as what was happening in Prussia, the support for the French dropped, when the economic situation worsened and when the population had to raise armies for Napoleon, with few soldiers returning home. (Bavaria did sent 30.000 men for the war in Russia and 300 came home) Nevertheless the liberal ideas of Napoleon were the seeds for the German unification.
Thank you for that post, with which I agree.
Imho the 1871 and WWI were similar in the fact that both sides wanted the war. However in 1871 German diplomacy was better than the French and for WWI it was the other way around. Imho Napoleon III. was not good as a leader of France. There was no need to piss of Prussia by going behind their back when it came to the agreement about Venetia and the French position in case of a conflict between Prussia and Austria. Offering to accept a German unification under Prussian leadership in exchange for Prussia agreeing to France taking control of Belgium and Luxembourg was very stupid considering the French promise made in the treaty of London from 1839. Sending a written official suggestion was even more idiotic.
Sure the Ems Dispatch was a well aimed provocation, but the French were all too willing to accept it. Imho just like WWI any side could have avoided the war, neither wanted to.
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Georgia opioid lawsuit moved to business court, stays in Gwinnett
Purdue Pharma, which makes the drug OxyContin, is one of the defendants named in Georgia’s lawsuit involving the state’s opioid addiction crisis. (PHOTO by Liz O. Baylen/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Politics | Aug 28, 2019
By Ariel Hart, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The state’s lawsuit against opioid manufacturers has been transferred to a special court in Gwinnett County originally set up to hear business disputes.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, who is in charge of the case on behalf of the state, requested the move. He said in a statement that it was good news because the court would have more resources to deal with such a complex case. A spokeswoman for Carr, Katie Byrd, said Tuesday that the move did not waive the state's right to a jury trial. Carr has requested one.
“This is the proper venue for a case of this complexity and is good news for the people of Georgia,” Carr said in the statement.
Georgia's lawsuit, like other plaintiffs', accuses the drug companies of helping cause the opioid epidemic by misleading people about their addictive drugs. The companies deny that.
The Gwinnett business court was established in 2006, long before the statewide business courts recently enabled by a constitutional amendment, a court attorney said. The court is small, hearing perhaps five cases a year, which are mostly resolved without going to trial.
The cases are overseen by Judge Randolph “Randy” Rich, who otherwise mostly hears family court cases.
The court in 2016 opted into a business court program established for metro Atlanta, and Gwinnett joined Fulton County as the only two counties to do so. Anne Tucker, who once directed Fulton’s business court and is now a law professor at Georgia State University, said that such courts are not set up to be pro-business.
“I think generally the concern is with a specialized court that somehow that means that stacks the cards in favor of one side or the other,” Tucker said. Rather, Tucker said, the benefit is that business courts are supposed to have more time for the cases, and the judge should gain experience with complex cases.
“By that, I mean a really dense, complex record, a multitude of witnesses, depositions, helping the parties to manage the pre-litigation process to expedite it, and proceed in a fair and efficient way,” she said. She pointed out that retired teachers once sued the state over their pension fund calculations and the state court in Fulton ruled in the teachers’ favor.
An expert on the opioid litigation nationwide, Timothy Lytton, also a GSU professor, said he was not aware of other cases that might be in business courts. But he pointed out that a verdict this week in Oklahoma was delivered by a lone judge, not a jury.
The verdict could be read as a victory for Oklahoma, since the judge found that the drug company Johnson & Johnson owed the state for its part in Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic. And the amount, $572 million, is “a very sizable verdict in the civil justice system,” Lytton said.
However, the amount was a fraction of what the state sought: one year’s costs to repair the damage instead of the 20 years requested. Following the verdict, drug manufacturers’ stocks soared.
Opioid manufacturers professed no cheer, though. Purdue Pharma, named in Georgia’s suit but not in Oklahoma’s verdict, “vigorously denies the allegations in the lawsuits filed against the Company,” it said Tuesday in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “and will continue to defend itself against these misleading attacks.”
Stay on top of what’s happening in Georgia government and politics at www.ajc.com/politics.
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How Sewage Pollution Ends Up In Rivers
3.5 million Americans get sick each year after swimming, boating, fishing, or otherwise touching water they thought was safe.
Where does human waste mingle with household chemicals, personal hygiene products, pharmaceuticals, and everything else that goes down the drains in American homes and businesses?
In sewers.
And what can you get when rain, pesticides, fertilizers, automotive chemicals, and trash run off the streets and down the gutters into those very same sewers? Sewage backing up into people’s basements. Sewage spilling onto streets and parks. Sewage pouring into rivers and streams.
Each year, more than 860 billion gallons of this vile brew escapes sewer systems across the country. That’s enough to flood all of Pennsylvania ankle-deep. It’s enough for every American to take one bath each week for an entire year.
After bursting out of a pipe or manhole cover, this foul slurry pollutes the nearest body of water. Downstream, some of it may be pumped out, treated, and piped into more homes and businesses. From there, it goes back into a sewer system, and the cycle resumes.
A threat to human health
Untreated human sewage teems with salmonella, hepatitis, dysentery, cryptosporidium, and many other infectious diseases.
Canal polluted by raw sewage
One hundred years ago, epidemics of these diseases helped limit the life expectancy of a U.S. citizen to about 50 years. Estimates vary for how many people sewage still sickens or kills each year, but they are all large.
Germs linger even after the stench of sewage has dispersed. Healthy adults may never realize that yesterday’s swim caused today’s cough, diarrhea, or ear infection. Young children, their grandparents, and people already weakened by illness are more likely to become seriously ill or die. Scientists believe as many as 3.5 million Americans get sick each year after swimming, boating, fishing, or otherwise touching water they thought was safe.
A 1998 study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology blamed water pollution for one-third of all reported gastroenteritis cases and two-thirds of all ear infections. It’s not just the people who play in and around the water who are at risk. Between 1985 and 2000, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) documented 251 separate disease outbreaks and nearly half a million cases of waterborne illness from polluted drinking water in the United States. Another study by the CDC and the National Academy of Sciences concluded that most illnesses caused by eating tainted seafood have human sewage as the root cause.
Outdated treatment plants
To understand why this is happening, it’s helpful to know some history. For centuries most American sewage poured into the nearest river or creek with little or no treatment, and few people gave it a second thought.
Old wastewater treatment plant
That changed when Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972 and the federal government began making significant investments to modernize sewage treatment infrastructure serving communities across the country.
Today, many of the plants built with that initial investment are undersized or are near the end of their effective lives.
There are 600,000 miles of sewer pipes across the country and the average age is 33 years. Some pipes in cities along the eastern seaboard are nearly 200 years old. Some are even made of wood. The American Society of Civil Engineers has given America’s wastewater infrastructure a “D” grade overall.
Runaway development
Today, poorly planned development compounds the problem of aging infrastructure. As urban areas sprawl into the countryside, new expanses of concrete and asphalt increase the amount of stormwater surging into sewers — and the amount of pollution spewing out.
A single acre of wetlands can hold up to 1.5 million gallons of rain or melting snow. Otherwise it winds up in the sewer system.
Trees help keep water out of sewer systems, too. In fact, the group American Forests estimates that as Washington, D.C.’s tree canopy thinned by 43 percent between 1973 and 1997, the amount of stormwater running into the city’s aging sewer system increased by 34 percent.
Older sewage systems combine stormwater with household sewage, but even in systems where they are separated some stormwater ends up in the sewer, where it contributes to raw sewage overflows.
All people deserve clean water free of the many dangerous pollutants found in sewage. The only way to ensure this is to stop sewage overflows and leaks and ensure that no sewage is released into our streams, rivers, and lakes untreated. It will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and take decades to update the nation’s wastewater infrastructure to this level.
Street-side swale and adjacent pervious concrete sidewalk in Seattle, US. Stormwater is filtered through these features into soil, reducing the runoff into city sewers.
But it isn’t enough to simply invest more. Protecting and expanding natural areas helps prevent stormwater from rushing into the sewer in the first place — stopping sewer overflows before they start.
That’s investing smarter.
In fact, planting trees, restoring wetlands, and creating green roofs are often the most cost-effective ways to expand the capacity of sewer systems.
A single mature tree with a thirty-foot crown can keep 4,600 gallons of water out of the sewer each year. For less than $300,000, it’s possible to construct an artificial wetland that can intercept 3.25 million gallons of stormwater otherwise destined for the sewer.
In June 2003, Ford Motor Company planted ten acres of vegetation on the roof of its Dearborn, MI truck factory, keeping as many as four million gallons of rain out of the sewer system each year. Projects like these prevent sewage overflows as surely as bigger pipes — and cost less.
Until we make significant progress towards reducing sewage in our water, there must be strong notification programs that will alert people when there is a danger of contacting raw sewage. Wastewater facilities should be required to notify the media, citizens, and environmental agencies when they release untreated sewage into the environment. American Rivers works for federal and state right-to-know policies that require citizens to be informed of sewage contamination in their waterways. Not only will such programs keep people healthy by avoiding raw sewage, but it will also galvanize further support for solutions to reduce sewage pollution.
Clean water. It’s essential. It’s irreplaceable. If Americans today want our children and grandchildren to splash along the shore at sunset or drink from the faucet without worry, then it’s time for us to act. It’s time to make the commitment to keep raw sewage out of our water.
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Mother's painted face speaks volumes for her autistic son
Liz Dennerlein
Shekira Farrell never fully understood the power of her voice.
It wasn't until her 6-year-old son Jaiden was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2 that she realized its importance.
“We found out when he was younger there was a possibility he wouldn't speak,” Shekira, 27, of Asbury Park, said. "Now I have to use my voice for not only myself, but for him.”
Her son's diagnosis lit a spark in her. She wanted to raise autism awareness anyway she could, and for Shekira, that was through art.
More often that not, the single mother's face is covered in colors — reds, blues, yellows, and greens highlight her complexion. Her face acts as a canvas, as a platform to share her experiences raising an autistic child. Once finished, she'll post the final creation on Instagram. Since starting, she's garnered over 10,000 likes and more than 2,000 shares in 24 hours on one Instagram post.
She's received hundreds of messages from others, telling her she's an inspiration — that she's bringing about hope.
'Everybody's light'
Before Jaiden, Shekira had no prior knowledge of autism.
When she first heard the news, she immediately went into panic mode. Therapists and pediatricians kept telling her he wouldn't be able to talk, to form relationships or build an imagination.
“When it’s your only child you want to do everything to make sure he’s OK,” Shekira said. “I just ran with it and went in the opposite direction.
“I gave him the opportunity to grow on his own terms. People have this timeline on when your child is supposed to be able to do something. I learned early on it’s whenever they’re ready.”
Jaiden is full of life — he’s an entertainer, constantly putting on a show whether it’s dancing, singing or talking about his favorite video game Super Mario Bros. There are still moments of struggle, however, when Jaiden becomes restless or overwhelmed.
But for the Farrells, Jaiden is everybody's light, his grandmother Rachel Farrell said.
MORE: Local farm offers safe haven for autistic adults
“You can’t describe Jaiden in a word,” Rachel said. “He’s this energetic fireball from the time he wakes up to the time he goes to bed.”
Always creative
From a young age, creativity was an essential part of Shekira's identity, her mother Rachel said.
Since she was 2, she won coloring contests and expressed a love for poetry.
“This little girl walked around with a dictionary,” Rachel said. “She was on the bus one day spelling words from the dictionary to the bus driver. She’s always been showing her creativity.”
But face painting was never an interest of Shekira’s. It wasn’t until one day she looked in the mirror, picked up a paintbrush, and let her imagination run wild.
“My first reaction when I saw (her face) was, ‘Who did that, and where they at?’ ” her mother said with a laugh.
Her face painting projects usually are autism-related. Other times, she will raise awareness for diseases or disabilities, like brain cancer, lupus, sickle cell anemia, depression, anxiety, diabetes.
MORE: Pollak Gallery exhibit features 28 artists living with autism
In her most popular Instagram post, a zipper runs down the middle of her face, opening up to reveal puzzle pieces — the symbol for autism. The image is a bit jarring, but one that gets your attention.
“If you were to unzip my layers and look into my inner being, the core that was the most important to me would be my son,” Shekira said.
Every post Shekira shares comes with a little message — whether it’s a lesson she learned throughout the day or a message about an act of kindness a stranger offered her.
'It's not about a cure'
Many of the walls inside their Asbury Park home are dedicated to Jaiden.
Pictures of him surrounded by loved ones adorn the walls. His school artwork hangs on the fridge, where you'll spot a turtle made out of tissue and construction paper, and a drawing of a young boy smiling, his arms wide open — much like Jaiden.
“He’ll go in his room, take out his crayons and try to mimic her (face painting),” Rachel said.
Ask Jaiden about his mother’s artwork, and he’ll tell you "mommy always stays on task."
“It’s very beautiful and I like it," he added.
Shekira said she wouldn't want Jaiden any other way.
"I want people to know it’s not about a cure," Shekira said. "Autism is a part of who he is. It's not about trying to change them. It’s just about finding a way to connect with them and understand them. Even if there was a cure I wouldn't take it because I wouldn't know him any other way than who he is and how he is."
To see Shekira's work, visit instagram.com/shekiraf.
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Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Audits
An environmental health and safety audit is a structured process of collecting independent information on the efficiency, effectiveness and reliability of the total system and drawing up plans for corrective action. EHS audits examine each stage in the occupational health and safety (OHS) management system by measuring compliance with the controls the organisation has developed, with the ultimate aim of assessing their effectiveness and their validity for the future.
The delivery of environmental health and safety (EHS) audits at Applus+ can be broken down into four key stages:
Planning: The personnel designated as responsible according to the company’s EHS audit plan appoints an audit manager and compose an audit team
Execution: The audit team conducts the audit, which will consist of pre-assessment, interviews, inspections and a final meeting
Reporting: The EHS audit manager submits the audit report to the manager of the audited company, who will in turn share it with the company's board and other stakeholders
Archiving: EHS audit reports are archived according to very strict criteria
Environmental health and safety (EHS) audits are applicable to all businesses, in all industry and business sectors.
The EHS audits delivered by Applus+ helps a company:
Measure how well it is performing in the area of occupational health and safety management (OHS)
Determine that managers and other personnel are meeting the standards set by the company
Assess the client’s compliance with the OHS legislation which could affect its business
OHS management systems can be subject to examination by external stakeholders, including independent audit organisations, customers or enforcing authorities.
However, environmental health and safety (EHS) audits are also undertaken internally (first-party audits), often forming part of a 'self-declaration of conformity'.
Using the independent environmental health and safety (EHS) audit service from Applus+ helps our client to:
Feel confident that they meet current legislation and best-practice standards
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Reassure their staff that health and safety is taken seriously
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Reduce their insurance premiums by demonstrating their health and safety competence to their insurance providers
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Architects: Jacob van Campen (1595-1657)
Jacob van Campen belonged to the noblety and was a wealthy man who regarded art as a passtime. Originally a painter, he later also became an architect, although more of a designer than a craftsman. After a long stay in Italy from 1617 to 1624 he returned to the Netherlands where he combined elements of Palladian architecture and classical culture with the indigenous brick architecture, thus inventing Dutch Classicism, a style which became of some international influence as well. Although many churches were designed in this style (see: The first protestant churches) Van Campen only designed a few.
The following is a selection of Van Campen's work.
1634-1644 Den Haag (ZH): Mauritshuis
Palace for Johan Maurits van Nassau. With assistance of Pieter Post.
1636 Den Haag (ZH): St. Sebastiaansdoelen
Building for a civic guard. With assistance of Pieter Post.
Amsterdam (NH): Tax house
Building in Classical style.
1639-1641 Renswoude (U): Reformed church
Centralizing church in Classical style. Ground plan in the shape of a Greek cross with short arms, with an octagonal tower with dome covering the crossing. Buttresses become thicker at the bottom, a reference to the image people had in that time of the temple of Jerusalem.
1639-1641 Hooge Zwaluwe (NB): Reformed church
Centralizing church in Classical style, very similar to that in Renswoude but with a different roof, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1911 and is slightly different from its original shape.
1645-1649 Haarlem (NH): Nieuwe Kerk
Rectangular church in Classical style, with a tower from 1613 in Renaissance style by Lieven de Key. Buttresses refer to Jerusalem's temple. This was the first church in Haarlem specifically built for protestant services.
1648-1665 Amsterdam (NH): Town hall
Van Campen's most famous design is this enormous town hall, the most important example of Dutch Classicism. Van Campen abandons the project in 1653, after which it is completed by Daniël Stalpaert. Today the building is a ceremonial royal palace.
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Missing, presumed dead: underground Chinese bishop, aged 93
SHIZHUANG, China - In a living room plastered with pious images, the Shi family flicked through timeworn pictures of a wizened man with tortoiseshell glasses and bright eyes, the oldest bishop of China's underground Catholic church.
Almost a month ago, they were passed word that Shi Enxiang - who spent more than half a century in detention for refusing to renounce the authority of the Pope - had died, aged 93. Since then, nothing: no official confirmation, no corpse, no ashes.
"All we want is to be able to bury him. They should give us the body out of human dignity," said Shi Wanke, 66, the bishop's nephew, in a calm, gravelly voice. Around him, his children nodded in agreement.
The family were first told at the end of January that Shi Enxiang - whom they have not heard from since he disappeared during a trip to Beijing in 2001 - had died.
The village chief "asked if we had received the body of my uncle", said Shi Wanke. "We asked if he was alive. He said: 'No, he's dead. Apparently he's dead.' After that he came back twice to see if the body had arrived."
The former bishop of Yixian in the northern province of Hebei, Shi Enxiang was ordained in 1947, two years before the Communists came to power. He spent 54 years in labour camps for refusing to disavow the Pope and cooperate with China's state-sponsored church, the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA).
Instead, he ministered in one of the hundreds of underground churches that have sprung up across China.
"He is a martyr and I hope that, one day, the life of our bishop will be recognised by the pope," said his 33-year-old great-nephew Shi Daxing.
"We want to organise a big public ceremony for his funeral. Even if we are under pressure, we want to honour him, as a member of our family (and) as a prominent member of the church."
Unholy silence
The fates of Shi Enxiang and Bishop Su Zhimin, who was detained in 1997, have been a key sticking point in relations between the Vatican and Beijing.
The two have not had diplomatic ties since they were broken off by Mao Zedong in 1951, and have been embroiled in a long-running battle for control of China's estimated 12 million Catholics.
Beijing bans adherents from recognising the Vatican's authority, regarding the Holy See's insistence on the right to appoint bishops as foreign interference in China's domestic affairs.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pope Francis exchanged letters of congratulation on their respective elections in 2013, fuelling speculation that ties could be warming.
In December Francis ducked out of a meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, which would have been sure to rile Beijing and jeopardise quiet behind-the-scenes contacts.
But Xi has overseen a crackdown on independent Christian groups and Shi's fate has drawn an angry response from Hong Kong, where Cardinal Joseph Zen, the city's emeritus bishop, led protests and sent an open letter to the Chinese authorities denouncing forced disappearances.
Calls by AFP to the Baoding municipal government, which oversees Shizhuang, went unanswered. A woman at the CPCA's Baoding diocese said she had "heard he's died" but declined to give details.
District officials have told the family the village head who gave them the news was a drunkard spreading "false information", they said.
They have long faced a wall of silence from Chinese authorities.
After he disappeared in 2001, Shi Daxing said, "We went to the county government, but they told us they didn't know anything and we should ask Beijing. But in Beijing, they sent us back to the county." Inside the family home, between the bursts of firecrackers marking the Lunar New Year and the cries of children, his relatives were left only with scraps of memories.
"He was a simple man," recalled a grandmother.
"The last of five siblings, he never had much. He wore only the clothes they gave him, ate practically only vegetables and never complained, even if we had forgotten to give him chopsticks to eat."
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Unearthing Singapore's history at Empress Place
How the dig works
The artefacts are cleaned, sorted and tagged with information on when and where they were found.
The ground under Empress Place is proving to be a treasure trove of history.
An archaelogical dig there - the biggest since such excavations first started in the 1980s - has thrown up items such as a headless porcelain Buddhist figure, red-orange carnelian beads from India, a broken bowl with a double-fish motif, coins and a clay figurine.
The recovered items weigh a total of 400kg so far.
The excavation, organised by the National Heritage Board (NHB) with the support of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, is part of efforts to commemorate 31 years of archaeology in Singapore this year.
NHB, which is partnering the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre of the Institute of South-east Asian Studies (NSC-ISEAS) in the excavation, hopes to recover artefacts dating back 700 years during the 14th-century Temasek period to the early colonial days in the 19th century.
Ten volunteer archaelogists from NSC-ISEAS are working at the excavation site which measures 1,000 sq m, the size of 10 four-room HDB flats.
This is the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken here.
Mr Lim Chen Sian, lead archaeologist and research fellow at the NSC-ISEAS, said: "Opportunities for archaeological excavations in Singapore are rare as we are a small and highly urbanised country.
"Empress Place was the location of a thriving port in the early days and any new discovery will hopefully advance our understanding of Singapore's earliest beginnings."
The excavation will end on April 9.
Archaeology is also a form of destruction. If there is no threat from urban development, everything would be left untouched.
Mr Aaron Kaw, 35, research officer at the archaeology unit of NSC-ISEAS
Mr Kaw makes drawings to document the artefacts found because details can be highlighted, such as the shape and form of an object, which may not be accurately represented in a photograph.
Volunteers for NSC-ISEAS have to work fast as urban development is encroaching on the excavation site.
Volunteers use trowels to scrape and remove soil to look for earthenware, metal and organic materials.
A broken porcelain plate with glaze still intact
Artefacts recovered
Headless figurine
Head of a figurine
Old coins that have become brittle
The artefacts are separated from the soil into different buckets.
All artefacts found on State land belong to the Government.
The soil collected in the buckets is sifted to check for artefacts again.
The earth at Empress Place has plenty of sand because this area used to be nearer to the Singapore River. The sand is dark because of the presence of decomposed material.
A sewage pipe, thought to be from the colonial period (19th century), was found. It will be removed to make way for urban development.
The excavation site is 1,000 sq m, about the size of 10 four-room HDB flats.
The area is further divided into 5m-by-4m units.
Sandbags are used to stabilise the soft sand.
A volunteer checks for artefacts that may have been missed.
Items of interest are picked out to be analysed further.
Tracing S'pore history in rare, old maps
This article was first published on Feb 23, 2015.
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Life Skills For Struggling Young Adults In Hawaii ATC is located in St George, Utah, serving young people from around the country. ATC has developed a very powerful "failure to launch" program for young adults coming from the Hawaii area. Even though St George might seem...
Help For Young Adults In Hawaii When They Fail To Launch
At The Crossroads is a premier Young Adult Transitional Living Program helping young adults from Hawaii, ages 18 to 25, experiencing a "failure to launch." The term failure to launch can be used to describe any young adult from Hawaii who is “stuck,” not “moving forward,” or not “maturing” in a way that seems appropriate to his/her age and expectations. If this is your adult son or daughter, we don't have to remind you how troublesome this situation can feel. Many parents describe feeling helpless and hopeless.
When it comes to young adults who have failed to separate from their home, namely from their parents emotional and financial support, there are clear reasons that must be identified before answers can be found. Especially when it's your bright and capable child that is failing to thrive, lacks any ambition and is failing to move forward into adulthood. Many “failure to launch” kids have returned home after being away to college.
However, most troubled young adults still living at home, have not attempted to leave the home because, quite frankly, they are unable to make it on their own. Sometimes, the young adult has made a half-hearted to move out, but in reality they had no real commitment to independence. But what are parents to do? Too often, the parents blame themselves, as they express feelings of being just as paralyzed as their young adult child. Again, we are here to help - make the call that may change everything for the better. Our counselors are ready to assist you by calling (866) 439-0354.
3 Myths Causing Your Child's Failure to Launch
Psychologist and Author, Michael S Broder, Ph.D., talks about the 3 Myths to Help You Address Your Child's "Failure to Launch." In his article posted on the Huffington Post.
Myth number one: "My child will outgrow it." Although many immature young adults eventually do "mature," Dr. Broder states, "many adults become stuck at lower developmental stages as they age chronologically. Some may still act like children or adolescents around the house and may not outgrow these behaviors naturally without specific strategies to get them back on track." In essence, Dr. Broder is stating that parents must have a plan, a strategy, and a way to move forward or, nothing is going to change. It is our opinion that the situation can even get worse. You need a solid plan.
Myth number two: "I'm helping my young adult child!" According to Dr. Broder, this belief is a fallacy. He writes, "Many parents don't understand that, in the long run, they're not helping their kids by making them too comfortable." Many feel sorry for their child, and know in their heart that they can't live on their own. Simultaneously, parents do not want to feel sad while watching their adult child struggle. So they rescue them to avoid feeling uncomfortable. The rescue mechanism, although it seems understandable, does not work - it often backfires and makes the situation worse. Dr. Broder claims, "At some point in the future, your child will have no choice but to learn to live without you. While you may know this intellectually, it can sometimes be difficult to foresee this and connect it to how they are presently functioning. Now is the time for your adult child to learn independence -- in gradual steps if necessary..."
Myth number three: "If I make them feel unwelcome, they will think I don't love them." Nothing could be further from the truth. What message are you sending your adult son or daughter when you are rescuing them (saving them from the struggle that comes with "making it on your own")? You are telling your adult child, "you don't have what it takes... you are unable... you are not capable... for this reason we have to save you!"
Tough love is what your adult child needs. But can you provide the tough love? Struggling young adults need to "struggle" and learn to make it on their own - it can be very painful, even too painful, for many parents to sit back and do nothing. Therefore, sometimes families need professional intervention. If you have come to the conclusion that as a family, you can't make a strategy work, then perhaps it is time to reach out to a specialized program to help both you and your child in the transition to adulthood. Before you choose a program, call At The Crossroads. We might be the wise choice for your child. If you are a parent of a struggling young adult living near Hawaii, we can help. Call (866) 439-0354.
Life Skills For Struggling Young Adults In Hawaii
ATC is located in St George, Utah, serving young people from around the country. ATC has developed a very powerful "failure to launch" program for young adults coming from the Hawaii area. Even though St George might seem far away, a relocation to Utah might be the perfect catalyst for your child to become entirely independent. Sometimes a major move is the first right step.
ATC helps both the parents and the adult child to find success. For more information about At The Crossroads, view our about us or call and speak to one of the admissions specialists or family advocates. It is their job to help families (especially the young adult), to find the pathway forward. ATC will provide you with coaching, guidance, and understanding. Call (866) 439-0354 and get answers today.
The "Failure to Launch" issue is, as a matter of fact, very common in today's economy and much more prominent in the emerging young generation Y (aka Millennials). The “Avoidant” behavior has become somewhat of an epidemic with the twenty-somethings from Hawaii. Although the national recession is much to blame for this all-too-common phenomena, “enabling parents can take some responsibility too,” Says Matt Bulkley, LCSW of therapyassociates.net. It is our humble opinion that At The Crossroads has developed a very successful program (plan and strategy) to help young adults emerge from the basement coach to live a powerful and productive life.
Specialized Programs for Young Adults In Hawaii
When young adults fail to launch successfully, they may be in need of intervention or help. “After dropping out of college, Jeff now stays at home and does very little that’s productive. He has no regular job or even a driver's license. He works a little, but, for the most part, spends his time at home lounging around.” If this story sounds all too familiar, then you may be in need of intervention and a transitional living program. Transitional living programs, like ATC, provide housing, skills training, and hands-on work experience so that the young adult resident can learn their place in this world. Also known as an “outward bound” program, At The Crossroads is an alternative to military schools and residential treatment centers. We want to help your loved one be successful.
Please feel free to contact ATC's admissions department for more information regarding enrollment, tuition, and academics at 866-439-0354. We have helped many troubled boys from Hawaii in the past.
* Michael Broder, Ph.D., Psychologist; Author, 'Stage Climbing: The Shortest Path to Your Highest Potential'. Follow Michael on Twitter - www.twitter.com/DrMichaelBroder.
Independent Living Program for Young Adults from Hawaii
Are you one of the millions of frustrated, exhausted parents from Hawaii whose adult child is still living at home? Like many in this situation, you might be feeling resentful that your adult child believes he or she is entitled to free meals, laundry service, and gas money. Especially, when they do little but sleep and party. By now you may be asking yourself, "Would a halfway home for young adults in St George be the solution?" The answer is, "Yes!" Living assistance services from At The Crossroads comes highly recommended by Educational Consultants, Therapists, and other behavioral health specialists. ATC's failure to launch programs have helped many individuals and families from Hawaii be successful.
Help For Young Adults in Hawaii
There are other issues that may be contributing to a "failure to launch." Have you ever asked yourself: Is my child clinically depressed? Gone untreated, depression will cut one’s drive and ambition. Does my loved one suffer from an untreated Attention Deficit Disorder? Remember, the long-term effects of untreated ADD include poor academic performance, lack of social development, and the inability to obtain or hold a job. Also, do you know whether or not your child may be experiencing "avoidance" as a defense mechanism to stress? You should be aware that defense mechanisms are the primary issue confronting the Failure to Launch patient. Obviously, if your young adult child is abusing drugs or alcohol, this should be remedied as soon as possible.
Remember that we here at ATC understand that any of these "stuck" young adults are quite lovable. We want you to remember this too. And yet, in a very fundamental way, they aren’t men or women yet. They often bring out maternal or paternal feelings from those around them, and this "softness" has been undermining their success to a degree. Just know that sympathy will not help an "avoider."
National Resources for Parents:
National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs - NATSAP integrates a blend of programs and schools offering therapy to thousands of people across the nation. Their members mix therapeutic schools, wilderness programs, residential treatment schools, young adult programs, outdoor therapeutic programs, and home-based residential programs. These work together to help troubled teens and their families.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction, NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the potential of science to help combat drug abuse and addiction.
Resources for Parents in Hawaii:
State of Hawaii Department of Health (Behavioral Health Services) - The Department of Health improves both mental health and wellness through the strength and integrity of local families and communities. SHDH maintains their mission to not only protect, but to improve the health, well-being, and environment for all people in Hawaii.
Mental Health America of Hawaii (MHA-HI) - The MHA of Hawaii mission is to not only improve mental wellness, but also to prevent mental disorders and co-occurring illnesses. MHA of Hawaii knows that by reducing the typical stigma linked with mental illness, families and individuals can have greater possibilities for success. This is accomplished by developing the overall care and promoting effective therapy for children, adults, and elders with mental illnesses.
When Young Adults From Hawaii Fail To Launch Successfully
Here At The Crossroads, we recognize that one circumstance doesn't apply to all families. Because of this, we are committed to the supervision of each child's requirements, and we do this with precision and care. You can reach us immediately at (866) 439-0354.
Important facts that parents should know..
Remember that all relationships take work. If we weren’t biologically programmed to love our infants the human race would have died out long ago, but as kids get older we need to build on that natural bond. Luckily, children automatically love their parents. As long as we don't mess it up, we can keep the connection strong.
Decide rules and discipline in advance. It is important for parents to have their own discussion, coming to some kind of agreement, so they are on the same page in advance. Whether you ban them from driving for a week or a month, whether you ground them for a week, cut back on their allowance or Internet use. But, always follow through with the consequences.
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Dec 9, 2020 - Science
The doctors who saved millions of lives by helping eradicate smallpox
Zhdanov, left, and Foege. Photo: Future of Life Institute
The Future of Life Institute on Wednesday gave its annual award to two doctors who were the key figures behind the eradication of smallpox.
Why it matters: Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases the world has ever known, killing an estimated 500 million people in the 20th century alone. The hard-fought campaign to eliminate it not only saved what Future of Life estimates is 200 million people, but also "showed the world that diseases can be defeated," as Bill Gates put it.
What's happening: Each year the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit research center in Boston that focuses on existential risk, recognizes unsung individuals who helped avert global catastrophe.
This year's winners, announced at an online ceremony, are Viktor Zhdanov and Bill Foege.
Zhdanov served as the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and pushed the WHO in 1958 to take up the campaign to eradicate smallpox.
While serving as the chief of the CDC's Smallpox Eradication Program, Foege developed the surveillance and ring vaccination strategy that ultimately enabled the world to finally achieve eradication 41 years ago today.
What they're saying: "The eradication of smallpox is one achievement that we all look to," said Jennifer Doudna, one of the creators of CRISPR and a 2020 Nobel Prize winner, at the ceremony. "It couldn't be more relevant as we find ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic."
Flashback: The first two winners of the Future of Life award are more obscure than Zhdanov and Foege, but arguably even more consequential.
2017 winner Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet naval officer, likely prevented global atomic war when he convinced his submarine captain not to fire a nuclear weapon during the heat of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
2018 winner Stanislav Petrov was a Soviet air defense officer who in 1983 ignored an early-warning detection system that mistakenly indicated that the U.S. had launched nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union, preventing Moscow from firing back.
The bottom line: Many of us are only alive today because of the heroic efforts of people like Zhdanov and Foege.
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VETERANS DAY: The life of an Army chaplain
By Paul Kim, posted November 11, 2019 in
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BP) — Being a military chaplain is a special calling to be a pastor to the troops in uniform. The chaplain serves the role of a spiritual advisor, someone who can build up the morale of the troops by offering much-needed pastoral care and counseling. The chaplain serves at chapel or in the training field, or sometimes even in combat situations — wherever the need may be, a chaplain’s presence is often demanded.
Even during training, a military chaplain participates along with the recruits to act as a role model and a source of encouragement. As a young man under Moses, Joshua must have filled a role similar to a military chaplain. Joshua then used what he had learned as an aide to Moses by performing the functions of both military and spiritual leadership over the Israelites. In Joshua 1:10-11 it says, “Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people: ‘Go through the camp and tell the people, get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit.'”
In February 1986 at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (now Gateway Seminary), I was sworn into the Reserve Army chaplaincy with a vow to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. The ceremony was officiated by Chaplain Samuel Birky, a former Navy SEAL who had two combat tours in the Vietnam War. I received an endorsement letter from the Chaplaincy Department of the Home Mission Board (now North America Mission Board). That summer I went to the Chaplain School for training at Fort Monmouth, N.J. After graduation, I was promoted to the rank of captain. It was a great honor and privilege to put on my Army uniform as I ministered to our troops on one weekend of each month at the Oakland Army Base, a part of the 91st Infantry Division headquartered at the 6th Army in San Francisco.
In the summer of 1990 I requested to be on two-week active duty at Camp Casey, the headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Division stationed at the DMZ in Korea. Every morning we went out early for physical training before breakfast. As a chaplain I was housed at the officers’ quarters, and I attended meetings and led chapel services. On a memorable day in August I even got a unique opportunity to preside over the wedding of an American soldier and a Korean bride. On a very humid summer day, some 30 family members, relatives and friends on both sides gathered. In the middle of the wedding ceremony the electricity went off. As I had been taught, I bravely soldiered on and finished the ceremony! Ministering to our troops at the DMZ was one of the highlights of my time as an Army chaplain.
In my 10 years of serving as a Reserve Army chaplain I gained many spiritual insights. I was able to experience the power of team work and unity, leading to a church-planting strategy that utilizes leadership training and missions deployment, where we send teams of 10-30 church members from our church network to plant new churches at home and abroad. During more than 30 years of pastoral ministry, we have planted more than 40 churches by raising homegrown pastors and missionaries.
Even in retirement, I continue to serve as a chaplain to our veterans in the American Legion in Cambridge, Mass., and as the national assistant chaplain for the Korean War Veterans/Defense organization. As I have traveled to our SBC seminaries, I have supported seminary students to hold student-led chaplain fellowships and encouraged many to join the chaplain candidate programs. Even when our Armed Forces are not engaged in military warfare, they are in the midst of spiritual warfare each and every day. More than ever I believe our Armed Services need spiritual support, encouragement and the prayers of our people. This Veterans Day, as we remember and honor our military personnel, may we commit to praying for them, their families and for the spiritual victory of our nation.
Longtime pastor Paul Kim currently is the Asian-American relations consultant with the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee.Read All by Paul Kim ›
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ChemistryOrganic And Biological ChemistryDraw the structure of the nitrogen-containing compound produced when each of the amides in Problem 17-139 is hydrolyzed with NaOH present (basic conditions).
Draw the structure of the nitrogen-containing compound produced when each of the amides in Problem 17-139 is hydrolyzed with NaOH present (basic conditions).
Organic And Biological Chemistry
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Publisher: Cengage Learning,
1 Saturated Hydrocarbons2 Unsaturated Hydrocarbons3 Alcohols, Phenols And Ethers4 Aldehydes And Ketones5 Carboxylic Acids, Esters, And Other Acid Derivatives6 Amines And Amides7 Carbohydrates8 Lipids9 Proteins10 Enzymes And Vitamins11 Nucleic Acids12 Biochemical Energy Production13 Carbohydrate Metabolism14 Lipid Metabolism15 Protein Metabolism
6.1 Bonding Characteristics Of Nitrogen Atoms In Organic Compounds6.2 Structura And Classification Of Amines6.3 Nomenclature For Amines6.4 Isomerism For Amines6.5 Physcial Properties Of Amines6.6 Basicity Of Amines6.7 Reaction Of Amines With Acids6.8 Alkylation Of Ammonia And Amines6.9 Heterocyclic Amines6.10 Selected Biochemically Important Amines6.11 Alkaloids6.12 Structure And Classification Of Amides6.13 Nomenclature Of Amides6.14 Selected Amides And Their Uses6.15 Basicity Of Amides6.16 Physcial Properties Of Amides6.17 Preparation Of Amides6.18 Hydrolysis Of Amides6.19 Polyamides And PolyurethanesChapter Questions
Problem 6.1EP
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Problem 6.100EP
Chapter 6, Problem 6.145EP
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Ch. 6.1 - The number of covalent bonds formed by nitrogen...Ch. 6.1 - In organic compounds the number of bonds formed,...Ch. 6.2 - Which of the following elements is not present in...Ch. 6.2 - How many R groups are present in a secondary...Ch. 6.2 - The compound CH3CH2CH2NH2 is an example of a a. 1...Ch. 6.2 - Which of the following statements concerning...Ch. 6.3 - What is the IUPAC name for the compound...Ch. 6.3 - What is the IUPAC name for the compound a....Ch. 6.3 - What is the IUPAC name for the compound a....Ch. 6.3 - What is the common name for the compound CH3NHCH3?...
Ch. 6.4 - In which of the following pairs of amines are the...Ch. 6.4 - In which of the following pairs of amines are the...Ch. 6.5 - Most simple amines have odors that resemble that...Ch. 6.5 - The boiling points of amines are lower than those...Ch. 6.5 - Which of the following types of hydrogen bonds are...Ch. 6.6 - The basic properties of amines are related to a....Ch. 6.6 - Which of the following statements concerning...Ch. 6.6 - The IUPAC name for the ion CH3CH2N+H3 is a....Ch. 6.7 - The amine salt produced from the reaction of ethyl...Ch. 6.7 - Which of the following statements characterizes...Ch. 6.7 - The regeneration of an amine from its amine salt...Ch. 6.8 - In an alkylation reaction what type of compound is...Ch. 6.8 - Alkylation of a secondary amine, under basic...Ch. 6.8 - Which of the following sets of reactants can be...Ch. 6.8 - How many R groups are attached to the N atom in a...Ch. 6.9 - The nitrogen atom(s) in a heterocyclic amine a....Ch. 6.9 - The core heterocyclic ring system present in the...Ch. 6.10 - Which of the following physiologically active...Ch. 6.10 - Which of the following physiologically active...Ch. 6.10 - Which of the following physiologically active...Ch. 6.10 - Structurally, norepinephrine and epinephrine...Ch. 6.11 - Which of the following is not an alkaloid? a....Ch. 6.11 - Which of the following statements concerning...Ch. 6.11 - The most widely prescribed painkillers in the...Ch. 6.12 - Which of the following is a complete listing of...Ch. 6.12 - The compound belongs to which of the following...Ch. 6.12 - Secondary amides are also called a. unsubstituted...Ch. 6.12 - Another designation for a cyclic amide is a....Ch. 6.13 - What is the IUPAC name for the compound ? a....Ch. 6.13 - What is the IUPAC name for the compound ? a....Ch. 6.13 - What is the common name for the compound ? a....Ch. 6.13 - What is the IUPAC name for the amide whose common...Ch. 6.14 - Urea, the simplest naturally occurring amide has...Ch. 6.14 - The foremost synthetic amide, in terms of use, is...Ch. 6.14 - Which of the following amides is an important...Ch. 6.15 - Which of the following is a correct statement? a....Ch. 6.15 - Which of the following directly influences the...Ch. 6.16 - At room temperature, most unbranched primary...Ch. 6.16 - In general, the boiling points of tertiary amides...Ch. 6.16 - Which of the following statements about amideamide...Ch. 6.17 - The process of amidification involves a(n) a....Ch. 6.17 - Which of the following types of amides is produced...Ch. 6.17 - The parent amine needed to produce the compound...Ch. 6.18 - The organic products from the acidic hydrolysis of...Ch. 6.18 - The organic products from the basic hydrolysis of...Ch. 6.18 - In the hydrolysis of an amide which of the...Ch. 6.19 - Which of the following sets of monomers could be...Ch. 6.19 - Which of the following sets of monomers could be...Ch. 6.19 - Which of the following is not a polyamide? a. silk...Ch. 6.19 - Which of the following is a polyurethane? a....Ch. 6 - Contrast N, O, and C atoms in terms of the number...Ch. 6 - Contrast N, O, and C atoms in terms of the number...Ch. 6 - How many R-groups are present in each of the...Ch. 6 - How many carbonnitrogen bonds are present in each...Ch. 6 - How many N atoms are present in the functional...Ch. 6 - How many nitrogenhydrogen bonds are present in the...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the compounds in Problem...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the compounds in Problem...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following amines as a...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following amines as a...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following amines as a...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following amines as a...Ch. 6 - Assign a common name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign a common name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Name each of the following aromatic amines as a...Ch. 6 - Name each of the following aromatic amines as a...Ch. 6 - Draw a condensed structural formula for each of...Ch. 6 - Draw a condensed structural formula for each of...Ch. 6 - Draw a condensed structural formula for each of...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following compounds as a 1...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not the two members of each of...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not the two members of each of...Ch. 6 - How many saturated noncyclic amine constitutional...Ch. 6 - How many saturated noncyclic amine constitutional...Ch. 6 - Assign IUPAC names to each of the eight isomeric...Ch. 6 - Assign IUPAC names to each of the six isomeric...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following amines is a...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following amines is a...Ch. 6 - Determine the maximum number of hydrogen bonds...Ch. 6 - Determine the maximum number of hydrogen bonds...Ch. 6 - Although they have similar molecular masses (73...Ch. 6 - Although they have similar molecular masses (73...Ch. 6 - Which compound in each of the following pairs of...Ch. 6 - Which compound in each of the following pairs of...Ch. 6 - Show the structures of the missing substance(s) in...Ch. 6 - Show the structures of the missing substance(s) in...Ch. 6 - Name each of the following substituted ammonium...Ch. 6 - Name each of the following substituted ammonium...Ch. 6 - Draw a structural formula for the parent amine of...Ch. 6 - Draw a structural formula for the parent amine of...Ch. 6 - Draw skeletal structural formulas for the three...Ch. 6 - Draw skeletal structural formulas for the three...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the amine salt produced when...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the amine salt produced when...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the amine produced when each...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the amine produced when each...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the missing substance or sub...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the missing substance or...Ch. 6 - Name each of the following amine salts. a....Ch. 6 - Name each of the following amine salts. a....Ch. 6 - What is the IUPAC name of the parent amine for...Ch. 6 - What is the IUPAC name of the parent amine for...Ch. 6 - Which of the four terms free amine, free base,...Ch. 6 - Which of the four terms free amine, free base,...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Classify the organic product in each of the...Ch. 6 - Classify the organic product in each of the...Ch. 6 - For each of the reactions in Problem 17-61, draw...Ch. 6 - For each of the reactions in Problem 17-62, draw...Ch. 6 - List three different sets of alkyl...Ch. 6 - List three different sets of alkyl...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the amine or quaternary...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the amine or quaternary...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following salts as an amine...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following salts as an amine...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the salts in...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the salts in...Ch. 6 - Name each of the salts in Problem 17-71. a....Ch. 6 - Name each of the salts in Problem 17-72.Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - With the help of Figure 17-8, indicate whether the...Ch. 6 - With the help of Figure 17-8, indicate whether the...Ch. 6 - What is the difference, if any, between a...Ch. 6 - What is the difference, if any, between a...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following statements...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following statements...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following amines has...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following amines has...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following amines is...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following amines is...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following statements...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following statements...Ch. 6 - Describe each of the following molecules, which...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following...Ch. 6 - How many R-groups are present in each of the...Ch. 6 - How many R-groups are present in each of the...Ch. 6 - How many nitrogen atoms are present in the...Ch. 6 - How many nitrogen atoms are present in the...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following amides as...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following amides as...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the amides in Problem 17-101 as a...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the amides in Problem 17-102 as a...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following compounds as (1) an...Ch. 6 - Classify each of the following compounds as (1) an...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign a common name to each of the amides in...Ch. 6 - Assign a common name to each of the amides in...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign an IUPAC name to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Write a structural formula for each of the...Ch. 6 - Write a structural formula for each of the...Ch. 6 - Assign IUPAC names to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Assign IUPAC names to each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following statements...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether each of the following statements...Ch. 6 - What is the mode of action for the insect...Ch. 6 - What is the relationship between the acronym DEET...Ch. 6 - What effect does a carbonyl group have on a...Ch. 6 - Explain why the nitrogen atom in an amide...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - What is the physical state, at room temperature,...Ch. 6 - Would you expect N-ethylacetamide or...Ch. 6 - Determine the maximum number of hydrogen bonds...Ch. 6 - Determine the maximum number of hydrogen bonds...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - Indicate whether or not each of the following...Ch. 6 - For each of the reactions in Problem 17-129...Ch. 6 - For each of the reactions in Problem 17-130...Ch. 6 - What is the structure of the carboxylic acid...Ch. 6 - What is the structure of the carboxylic acid...Ch. 6 - What is the structure of the nitrogen-containing...Ch. 6 - What is the structure of the nitrogen-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structures of the missing substances in...Ch. 6 - Draw the structures of the missing substances in...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the carbonyl-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the carbonyl-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the carbonyl-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the carbonyl-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the nitrogen-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the nitrogen-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the nitrogen-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structure of the nitrogen-containing...Ch. 6 - Draw the structures of the organic products in...Ch. 6 - Draw the structures of the organic products in...Ch. 6 - List the general characteristics of the monomers...Ch. 6 - Contrast the monomers needed to produce a...Ch. 6 - Draw a structural representation for the polyamide...Ch. 6 - Draw a structural representation for the polyamide...Ch. 6 - Draw the generalized structural formula for a...Ch. 6 - What are the two types of monomers used to form a...
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Walsall is a large town situated in the West Midlands. The town itself has a population of 67,594, however the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall has a population of 269,323. Whilst the town has been and still is an industrial town, it offers a large commuting population. It is located just 8 miles north-west from Birmingham City and 6 miles east from Wolverhampton.
Historically, Walsall is a market town, however during the industrial revolution the town changed drastically. As a result of its manufacturing industries including Saddles, Chains and Buckles, the town's population went from 2,000 to over 86,000 in just 200 years. Revenue for the town was also generated through mining limestone nearby.
Since then its heavy industry has primarily declined, although the Queen's handbags are still made in the town, as are saddles for the royal family and other leathergoods for the Prince of Wales.
In 1980, the Saddlers' Centre was opened, a modern shopping complex, which has been refurbished several times since its opening. The town;s main shopping area, Park Street, has also been refurbished multiple times, including the erection of a new BHS department store, further increasing commercial revenue. On top of this, there have been cultural investments into the town, for example, in 2000, The New Art Gallery Walsall opened in the North West section of the town, with £21m of Public Funding.
The town may also receive economic support through its other cultural attractions, including either of its two museums; the Walsall Museum and the Walsall Leather Museum, or even from visitors to its sports facilities, such as Walsall Football Club. Nicknamed 'the Saddlers', Walsall F.C play at the Bescot Stadium, which has a capacity of just over 11,000. They currently play in the Football League One.
In terms of transport, Walsall railway station provides four trains an hour to Birmingham New Street, as well as regular trains to Wolverhampton Wanderers. There are also three daily services from Walsall to Liverpool Lime Street.
Walsall Bus Station also provides regular bus services to nearby areas such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cannock and Sutton Coldfield.
On top of this, the town is extremely well connected through the road network. It is served by the M6 which in turn connects the town to the M1 offering a direct route to London, as well as the M74, which travels straight up to Glasgow. Manchester is also connected to Walsall through the A34.
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Visionary Founder Of Black Enterprise Magazine Earl Graves, Sr. Dies At 85 Leaving A Trailblazing Entrepreneurial Legacy
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Visionary Entrepreneur And Media Mogul Earl Graves Who Championed Blacks In Business And Wealth Creation Dies At 85
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By Kamau Austin, Publisher Scoop Publications
It recently has been widely reported in major media like CNN, The New York Times, and many others outlets legendary innovative pioneer Earl Graves Sr., and Founder of Black Enterprise Magazine, has died at 85 years of age. Reportedly he had a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Graves, according to a share on social media from his son Earl "Butch" Graves, Jr., died Monday. According to PhillyTrib.com, Grave's son shared "At 9:22pm this evening, April 6, my Father and Hero Earl Graves Sr., the Founder of Black Enterprise, passed away quietly after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. I loved and admired this giant of a man, and am blessed to be his namesake. LOVE YOU DAD!"
Before the Black consumer market was considered a desirable consumer market Graves saw the need to teach Blacks to be successful business people. Later in the development of his Black Enterprise magazine he also steered the editorial to include robust informative content on wealth creation. He was the logical outgrowth of the Civil Rights Movement and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's concern to shift to economic empowerment in the Black community
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Earl Graves Sr., was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the historic Bedford-Stuyvesant section (AKA Bed-Stuy) of the Bourough. He later graduated from Morgan State University with a BA in Economics and also showed promising entrepreneurial sales skills on campus.
Graves had an admirable career in the military. He graduated from ROTC school and later served in the Army's Special Forces. He worked with diverse Presidential campaigns including those of Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and was appointed by George W. Bush to serve on the Presidential Commission for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
It was after Mr. Graves worked with the SBA's Board Of Advisors, that he was motivated to address providing business acumen and insights to Black people. He started an annual newsletter to inform Black Americans on how to run a business.
According to Wikipedia "SBA's advisory board and his direct work with the agency would lead Grave to his belief in the need for advice to businesses in economic development and urban affairs, which convinced him to create an annual newsletter that would chronicle issues relevant to black business people, and raise awareness of the importance of black consumer power. At the suggestion of then SBA Director Howard J. Samuels, Graves would expand the concept of a newsletter into a full-fledged magazine."
Black Enterprise Magazine, has become the classic iconic black business magazine generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue over the years sometimes annually. It still has no peers today. It has chronicled and showcased promising Black businesses, economic issues, and wealth creation strategies for about 50 years.
Graves had numerous positions on major corporations like Federated Department Stores, Daimler AG, AMR Corporation, and he was the CEO to Pepsi Cola bottling franchise in Washington D.C. His company now boasts a state of the art website, 2 television shows, major business events and mobile apps.
Earl Graves, has inspired myself and I'm sure countless other Black entrepreneurs. I'm thankful his staff featured my 1st business with a center page article back in 1989 called "Marketing The Motherland."
Today the Black consumer market is in demand with over 1.5 trillion dollars yearly in collective income. We have over 2.7 million Black businesses. Black women are becoming entrepreneurs faster than any other demographic in the US. All these trends no doubt were inspired by Earl Graves and his trailblazing magazine Black Enterprise.
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The CEO of Impossible Foods, the startup behind the wildly popular veggie burger backed by Serena Williams and Katy Perry, shares the biggest piece of advice he wishes he knew at age 20
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Robyn Beck/Getty ImagesImpossible Foods CEO Pat Brown holds up an Impossible Burger 2.0, the new and improved version of the company’s plant-based vegan burger that tastes like real beef.
Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown says the key to starting a successful company lies in finding a problem that matters in the world.
His company, which he started in 2011, raised $US300 million last year putting it at a $US2 billion valuation, and its meatless burgers can be found in thousands of restaurants across the country.
When starting a company, Brown urges entrepreneurs to “do something actually useful.”
Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown is on a mission to make meat obsolete, and it looks like he’s off to a pretty promising start.
Impossible Foods’ wildly popular plant-based burger can now be found at thousands of restaurants across the United States, and the company is bringing a new faux-sausage breakfast sandwich to Burger King by the end of the month.
Plus, last spring, the company raised $US300 million in a Series E round led by Temasek and Horizon Ventures, who were joined by more than a dozen superstar investors ranging from Serena Williams to pop icon Katy Perry and rapper Jay-Z, bringing its valuation to $US2 billion.
Suffice it to say that Brown’s “bleeding” meatless burger has caught on. But Brown didn’t necessarily have any of these milestones in mind before starting Impossible Foods. Rather, the key to starting a successful company has less to do with business-oriented goals like fundraising and retail partnerships and more to do with the problem you’re aiming to solve, says Brown.
“The main thing I would say to people who are entrepreneurial is, pick a problem that matters to the world,” Brown, who is in his 60s, said to Business Insider when asked what advice he would give to his 20-year-old self. “Really, that solves a big problem in the world, and don’t talk yourself out of it.”
Brown started Impossible Foods in 2011 when he was on sabbatical from his roles as a biochemistry professor at Stanford University’s medical school and an HHMI investigator. But he says he wishes he had a better understanding of the meat industry earlier on in his career so that he could have started Impossible Foods sooner.
“If I would have realised how catastrophic the use of animals in the food system was when I was in my 20s, instead of going into biomedical research, I would have gone right to working on this problem,” he says.
Impossible Foods recently unveiled its first new foods since debuting the original Impossible Burger in 2016: Impossible Pork and Impossible Sausage. The company is testing a new Burger King breakfast sandwich that includes the meatless sausage at 139 locations in the US, but it has not said when Impossible Pork will be launching.
Impossible Foods decided to go with pork for its next major product expansion for two reasons: it’s the most widely eaten meat in the world, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, and Impossible Foods hopes to cut back on the detrimental effects that pig farming can have on the environment.
“We’re not going to solve the problem by declaring war on the incumbent industry or telling people to change their diets,” Brown said in a previous interview with Business Insider. “The only way to do it is by making products that do a better job of delivering what consumers value from meat and these other foods.”
All told, even if your company fails, you’ll at least know your efforts have gone toward a worthy cause if you choose to address a meaningful problem, Brown says.
“If you think you have the capability of coming up with a useful solution to the problem, that’s the big opportunity,” he said. “I feel like the world does not need more gadgets to collect data on everyone, Alexa-enabled toothbrushes or whatever. Do something actually useful.”
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Dusty Hernandez Harrison Interview: “Everybody has counted him out, and nobody has counted me in yet”
By: Matthew N. Becher
Dusty Hernandez Harrison (29-0 16KO) is an undefeated welterweight who is fighting Mike Dallas Jr. on Saturday May 13th, live on B.E.T. Harrison is a very young 21 years old, but has been pro for five years already. Harrison is signed to the recently started Roc Nation Sports and will headline another of their Throne Boxing shows at the D.C. Armory. Harrison was nice enough to take time out of his schedule to answer a few questions for us at Boxing Insider.
Boxing Insider: You recently split with your father as your trainer. What was the reason for the split?
Dusty Harrison: You aren’t gonna get a good answer out of me to be honest. It’s a personal family thing that goes deep, outside of boxing. The hard part about it is that me and his relationship was so much boxing. But at the end of the day, I’m still a boxer and I can’t tell Roc Nation, Fila and Geico, “Hold On”. I have to keep fighting, keep boxing, and keep training. I’m training at Head Bangers and the best part about it is I’m training with great fighters like, Adrien Broner, Rob Easter, Lamont Peterson and Austin Trout. It has been a big benefit in my sparring switching over to that gym.
Boxing Insider: You were recently out in San Diego as a sparring partner for Canelo ahead of his fight with Amir Khan. What was that experience like?
Dusty Harrison: Oh, that was great. Canelo’s team and Golden Boy treated me so good. They are very respectful people, I had to thank them so many times for the whole experience. Canelo is a cool guy, super nice, but he’ll try to kill you in the ring.
Boxing Insider: So what’s it like especially training with Canelo, given that you two are so close in age?
Dusty Harrison: Seeing someone like Canelo being so successful and young, it is definitely something I can relate to. It makes everything seem more in reach, more realistic. It’s like motivating since he’s only a few years older than me. It’s almost like seeing someone from my neighborhood make it out. It gives you hope. Not that I needed the motivation, but it definitely gives you more of it.
Boxing Insider: So your opponent for this fight, Mike Dallas Jr. is your most experienced to date. Dallas has fights against Josesito Lopez, Mauricio Herrera and Lucas Matthysse. Do you expect him to be on another level, than your other opponents?
Dusty Harrison: Yes, I do. It is a big fight for me. Mike Dallas has 21 wins and lost to some good fighters. Everybody has counted him out, and nobody has counted me in yet. He’s coming into this fight to gain respect.
Boxing Insider: This will be your 30th professional fight in 5 years. Are you content with the pace your career is going?
Dusty Harrison: No, it should be 60 or 70 (laughs)…Ya, how can I complain. Who does that many fights that fast anymore? I’m still young, and I want to take advantage of it while I can. I don’t need the time to just sit around and recoup like the older fighters do. I may take a week off after a fight, but I don’t really need to. I just go right back to the gym and I don’t take that wear and tear that the older fighters do.
Boxing Insider: So how much longer do you think you are from top ten guys? Would you say months away, later this year, or are you years away?
Dusty Harrison: You’re asking the wrong person, I was ready five years ago (laughs). Realistically, my career has been in steps, and like you said Mike Dallas is a step up fight for me. To do that a few more times this year and then next year, we start to fight some guys that people are really interested in. Fights where people might say “I don’t know about this Dusty”. To be the underdog coming up next year, we will take some fights like that. Then maybe it’s coming quicker to me, but within 2 years, I’d like to be fighting guys at that top level. I mean, Canelo fought Mayweather at 22, I’m only 21. I’d love to fight someone at the top when I’m 23 or 24.
Boxing Insider: You are a D.C. fighter and D.C. is having a sort of renaissance of young fighters coming up. Could you give us a guy that we should keep our eye on?
Dusty Harrison: Aujee Tyler. He’s a guy that I grew up fighting with. He’s the best I’ve seen. Everybody around here knows about him. Man, I can name like 30 people in D.C. that are gonna come up big. There is a guy on my undercard named Sam Crossed, the Vanilla Gorilla, that is bringing fans to D.C. Selling tickets. He is only 2-0 and he’s been in a Super Bowl commercial, two under armor commercials. Keystone has been able to give a lot of fighters a chance after the Lamont Peterson v. Amir Khan Fight and D.C. has just been taking off after that.
Andre Ward: Boxing’s Forgotten Champion
By Tyson Bruce
The rebirth of boxing on mainstream network television and the approaching superfight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is bringing unprecedented coverage to the sport of boxing in our times. One fighter who seems curiously absent from the goldmine of media coverage, however, is arguably the sports most talented practitioner, Andre “Son of God” Ward.
After defeating some the toughest opposition in recent years, Ward has spent the last two years in a curious tailspin of near constant injuries, out the ring squabbles, and inactivity. Until his recent signing with boxing’s newest player, Roc Nation Sports, Ward was involved in a bitter contract dispute with promoter Dan Goossen, a case that went to court three times on a variety of different jurisdictional levels.
Each time, Goossen was deemed to be in the right, one of the rare times in boxing the majority of its notoriously jaded fan base actually sided with the promoter instead of the fighter.
Goossen’s untimely death in 2015, however, allowed Ward to seek new representation.
Despite his high profile public signing with Roc Nation (courtesy of figure head Jay-Z’s celebrity) he has yet to sign a contract for a comeback bout. Rumors are abounding over the struggle between HBO and Ward over opponent selection. Recently the opponent selected by Ward’s people Thomas Oosthuizen, a struggling fringe contender from South Africa, was deemed inadequate by HBO.
Ward’s outright refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of his contract led to him spending all of 2014 absent from the ring.
Andre Ward: boxing’s forgotten star (Photo: Facebook)
The “SOG’s” last performance was a foul-fest against top contender Edwin Rodriguez all the way back in November of 2013. Since that point, the public reaction to Ward’s perceived “diva” behavior has moved from scorn to utter indifference. It’s been so long since Ward has been in the ring that major boxing outlets like ESPN and The Ring (for what that’s worth) have removed him from the rankings for chronic inactivity.
Most boxing insiders appear to believe that Ward bears a great deal of responsibility for the wasteland that his career has become. However, is it possible that the public has always been a little too hard on Ward?
Ward’s path to success has been anything but conventional. Despite being the only American boxer to win a gold medal since 1996, Ward has constantly struggled for respect and recognition. Unlike many previous fighters, winning the gold medal didn’t lay a red carpet to riches and fame for Ward. After making a glitzy pro-debut on HBO, he was largely discarded by many in the boxing media.
Ward’s development happened on the back pages of the boxing world, where he honed his craft against a variety of journeymen and contenders with different assets and styles. Despite his low profile, Goossen somehow managed to maneuverer Ward into the ground-breaking “Super Six Championship” series on Showtime, a super-middleweight tourney where he was considered a massive underdog.
Despite having just twenty professional fights, Ward dominated tournament favourites Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch with an athletic superiority not seen since Floyd Mayweather. Ward capitalized on the victory by laying an absolutely clinical beating on then light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson.
Regardless of one’s personal feelings towards Ward’s personality or fighting style, one cannot deny the magnitude of his accomplishments. Ward has a Hall of Fame resume of victories, and he’s just 31 years of age.
Despite their vastly different personalities and temperament, Ward’s career greatly resembles that of Mayweather’s at a similar stage. Mayweather was a three-weight division world champion before he was twenty-eight and had been on the pound for pound list since his early twenties, yet before fighting Oscar De La Hoya the guy couldn’t sell out his living room. Mayweather, like Ward, struggled to tap into a boxing market that in North America is geared toward the Latino fan base.
In recent years, boxing promoters have utterly failed, for the most part, to engage with the African American market. After all, Mayweather only became a household name when he left Top Rank. Can Ward do the same thing? The move to Roc Nation, which as of yet has no track record of success in boxing, appears to be an attempt to engage with a wider cross section of fans because of Jay-Z’s success in the entertainment industry.
Ward shares almost no personality characteristics with Mayweather other than hubris, which they express in vastly different fashions. Ward isn’t going to “make it rain” or get arrested for domestic assault to draw attention to his fights. Ward must win people over the hard way: by beating the very best fighters out there. The truth of that statement makes his absence from the ring and contempt for the late Goossen all the more puzzling.
With boxing set to erupt in the next several months with a non-stop slate of events on a multitude of different platforms, Ward needs to set his ego aside and get into a boxing ring. If he does not, he runs the risk of reaching a level of obscurity that will be impossible to overcome.
Also, after so long away from the ring, how much longer can Ward go without fighting until his famous self-belief begins to give way to doubt and regret?
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Brian Castelli's Blog
The Crowd is not Wise
For the last several years, there has been a growing trend towards the behavior that mass social media is a source of truth. As recently as May 2018, for example, Elon Musk tweeted:
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
Let's think about that proposal for a minute. We would vote for truth. As long as at least 51% of the people who participate give something a thumbs-up, it is truth. But what about the people who don't participate? Or the people who have been influenced by bad actors who have used social media to sway opinion? This is mob rule driven by whims and feelings. Some examples:
In April 2018, false rumors spread on social media set Buddhist against Muslim in Sri Lanka, resulting in loss of life.
In April 2018, a study was published that demonstrated that Americans on all sides are convinced that their side loses more than it wins. Feelings trump facts when the mob rules.
In March 2018, a study was published demonstrating that fake news travels faster than real news on Twitter.
In February 2018, after the horrible shooting at a high school in Florida, the lie that there had already been 18 school shootings in 2018 spread like wildfire on social media. Even traditional news outlets such as ABC News picked up the false story and ran with it.
More recently, however, the tide seems to have shifted. With more and more revelations about how social media platforms such as facebook were used to manipulate public opinion in the run up to the 2016 presidential election in the US, distrust in social media platforms is rising. And with recent revelations about privacy and increasingly loud calls for regulation of these giant tech companies, it would seem that the crowd might just be getting a bit wiser.
A few years ago, I had the priviledge of attending a leadership conference at which Chick-fil-A CEO Dan T. Cathy was speaking. During his talk, Cathy addressed the question, "How do we take a teenager who has never held a job and turn him or her into a customer-service specialist?" CAthy's answer: We teach them that everyone has a story. The folks that show up at the drive-through window or walk up to the counter are going through things. They have a story. The may have had a good day. Or a bad day. Or a terrible day. They may be struggling with relationships. They may be facing illness or the loss of a loved one. As the person behind the counter, they don't know their customer's story. So they train them to be aware that every person is worthy, every person deserves the best customer service possible. "My pleasure." In September of 2018, Hurricane Florence rocked the Carolinas. One Chick-fil-A franchise put "everyone has a story" into ac
I am a history buff. Reading and listening to stories of the "Greatest Generation" in the U.S. during WWII is inspirational. But, as I also read and listened to the daily stories of modern life in the U.S., I was not hopeful that we would ever again band together as a nation to fight a common enemy. So much self-focus! So much whining! I thought our ability to sacrifice for the greater good was gone forever. I was wrong. If there's one take-away to cherish from the current COVID-19 pandemic, it's the countless stories of dedication and self-sacrifice of an army of healthcare workers, first responders, grocery store clerks, and so on. Some risking their own health have stayed on the job. These people have restored my faith in the spirit of the American worker. Bravo.
Jim Croce: Two artists
The singer/songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash in 1973. Shortly after his death, I became interested in his music. As a teenage boy growing up in 1970s America, at first I was drawn to the raucous characters he created in his songs, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," "Speedball Tucker," and the like. It was later that I started to appreciate the quality of his voice in softer tunes such as, "I'll Have to say I Love You in a Song" and "Time in a Bottle." I recently started listening to a number of Croce's recordings. The live-in-concert variety were quite eye-opening. A storyteller in word as well as song, Croce would introduce his songs with stories about the circumstances that led to his writing the songs. Croce was very nearly a stand-up comedian in the way he delivered those stories. I was strongly reminded of the delivery style of Bill Cosby. Croce's pre-performance comments su
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Edward Westermarck
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Alternative Title: Edward Alexander Westermarck
Edward Westermarck, in full Edward Alexander Westermarck, (born Nov. 20, 1862, Helsinki, Fin.—died Sept. 3, 1939, Lapinlahti), Finnish sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist who denied the widely held view that early humans had lived in a state of promiscuity and instead theorized that the original form of human sexual attachment had been monogamy. He asserted that primitive marriage was rooted in the needs of the nuclear family, which he considered to be the fundamental and universal unit of society.
Westermarck was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Helsinki (1890–1906) and then professor of moral philosophy (1906–18) and professor of philosophy at the Åbo Academy (1918–30). He also was professor of sociology at the University of London (1907–30). Westermarck helped introduce the work of Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer, and other British thinkers into Finland.
Westermarck’s major interests were the history of marriage, the comparative sociological study of moral ideas and various human institutions, and the culture of Morocco. His first book was the influential The History of Human Marriage (1891), in which he advanced his ideas on primitive marriage and society. His most important work, however, is considered to be The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, 2 vol. (1906–08), in which he proposed a theory of ethical relativity according to which moral judgments are ultimately based on emotions of approval and disapproval rather than on intellect. Viewing ethics as a sociological and psychological discipline, he denied the existence of general moral truths and the objective validity of moral judgments. He favoured an ethic that would examine moral consciousness but not establish rules for conduct. Westermarck’s other writings include Ritual and Belief in Morocco, 2 vol. (1926), and Ethical Relativity (1932).
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…Ideas (1906–08), the Finnish anthropologist Edward Westermarck (1862–1939) compared differences between societies in matters such as the wrongness of killing (including killing in warfare, euthanasia, suicide, infanticide, abortion, human sacrifice, and duelling); the duty to support children, the aged, or the poor; forms of permissible sexual relationship; the status…
Marriage, a legally and socially sanctioned union, usually between a man and a woman, that is regulated by laws, rules, customs, beliefs, and attitudes that prescribe the rights and duties of the partners and accords status to their offspring (if any). The universality of marriage within different societies and cultures…
Sociology, a social science that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them. It does this by examining the dynamics of constituent parts of societies such as institutions, communities, populations, and gender, racial, or age groups. Sociology also…
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Art Workshop under ‘Rivers of the World’ Project
Thursday 09 June 2016 to Tuesday 14 June 2016
‘Rivers of the World’ is the British Council’s flagship Arts and Education project delivered in partnership with the Thames Festival Trust. It provides opportunities and resources for teachers and pupils to learn, through a cross-curricular approach, about their local river environment and to compare this to other rivers in cities around the world. By exploring and reflecting on local and global issues, students in Bangladesh gain an international outlook and build the skills they need for life and work in an increasingly interconnected global society.
As part of the ‘Rivers of the World’ project, six Bangladeshi schools partnered with the UK schools and worked on rivers in the UK. The British Council organised a six-day long art workshop with these schools from 9 to 14 June 2016 which was led by one prominent UK artist Mr Richard Crooks.
Total 100 students participated in this workshop and they worked on River Thames, River Frome, River Wye and River Rother and finally produced six high-quality digital artworks. During the workshop days, the students got the opportunity to discuss the source and the growth of the rivers, their geographic advantages, the richness of the wildlife, flora and fauna, local architecture, the cultural life of the surrounding cities, etc. Also, they had the chance to know about the creative works of some world famous artists like William Morris, Henri Matisse.
“The art workshop was very innovative for our school. It was an opportunity for my students to exercise their creativity. Before this project, we never really wondered about how to motivate our students to explore their imagination and creative thinking,” said Khodeza Begum, Teacher of Alhaj Anowara Begum High School, Chittagong, Bangladesh at the workshop.
Each school has been given a certificate of participation and the previous year’s catalogue which also includes artworks done by them last year. Through the art workshop, students could explore the excitement of learning outside the classroom, in collaboration with the UK school partnerships.
Last year, they produced six artworks based on one Bangladeshi river, River Karnaphuli and the artworks were displayed as part of the Totally Thames Festival at Southbank, London. Also, this year’s artwork is going to be displayed in the Totally Thames Festival in September 2016 in Southbank, London.
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Home Architecture Museum dedicated to eye health planned in San Francisco
Museum dedicated to eye health planned in San Francisco
California Construction News staff writer
The American Academy of Ophthalmology announced plans to construct the world’s first public museum dedicated to vision and eye health in San Francisco.
The academy is proposing a 3,500-square-foot museum in the heart of a major tourist destination, Fisherman’s Wharf. It is anticipated that more than 30,000 people will visit the museum in the first year alone.
“The opening of a museum in San Francisco enables the academy to showcase its collection of more than 38,000 artifacts, books, and instruments,” the American Academy of Ophthalmology said in a statement. “These treasures have been collected for more than 30 years as the Museum of Vision, but opportunities to view them are limited to a yearly exhibit at the Academy’s annual conference.
“Some of the collection can be also viewed by appointment at the Academy’s headquarters, located in San Francisco.”
Plans call for creating an immersive experience, featuring virtual reality headsets and interactive screens, to allow visitors to explore ophthalmology’s history, its professional visionaries, technological advances, medical breakthroughs, and the latest innovations saving sight today.
The museum will be designed for visitors of all ages. School tours will be offered for students. Rotating exhibits, talks, and events, are also planned.
The academy expects to open the museum in 2020.
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Sometimes a book comes along that blows you away. Winner of the 2020 Carnegie Medal, 'Lark' by Anthony McGowan is absolutely magnificent. A stunning piece of work, worthy of being recognised as a future classic.
Nicky and Kenny set off across the Yorkshire moors on a mini-trek. It's a good chance for them to talk, to let off steam. Their mum is soon coming to visit them and they haven't seen her in a long time. But as they make a short-cut over a hill, the snow descends. Quickly the boys are plunged into danger, and they might not even make it out alive.
Wow! There is so much to praise about 'Lark'. Where to start? Firstly, it is worth noting that while this is aimed at 13+ the reading age is from 9. But the language used is sublime, masterly, without ever feeling over-done. Poetic, gritty, simple to the point of being mythic, the writing is pitch-perfect. It makes an aspiring writer such as myself blush, stunned. McGowan paints a vivid and sensual picture of a snowy and treacherous moors. Through Nicky's perspective we feel the cold bone-deep - the majesty and power of nature in all its wild force. McGowan also expertly gets into the heads of these young boys and the dialogue is spot-on and tremendously funny. There are swear words and multiple references to arses, while they also talk of old tales, such as King Arthur, enriching the story with both a sense of history and a smell of the profane. The whole of life is on display here, evoked beautifully while being rough around the edges. The drama and tension created when the boys reach crisis-point is superbly written and I gripped the pages, feeling ice layer my knuckles.
'Lark' is a mini-masterpiece. It is so deserving of its accolades. 'Lark' just simply sings. If you haven't read it, do so right now!
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FC Cincinnati wins regular-season finale
Patrick Brennan
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Futbol Club Cincinnati's riding a considerable wave of momentum into the playoffs.
FC Cincinnati (16-6-8, 56 points) closed out its inaugural United Soccer League season with a 1-0 road win against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. The match didn't have any playoff implications – Cincinnati clinched the USL Eastern Conference's No. 3 seed, along with a home playoff game, a week ago – but they fielded a full-strength lineup anyway and extended some individual and team-wide hot streaks.
Fittingly, FC Cincinnati forward Sean Okoli marked the final match of the regular season with a goal. His 31st-minute tally - a penalty-kick score - was his USL-leading 16th of the year. Okoli is in line for the league's Golden Boot as the top goal scorer, pending the conclusion of other games around the league.
Okoli was subbed off with about 10 minutes remaining in the game. Over the course of the campaign, he set the club mark in several statistical categories, including seven game-winning goals and a USL-best 35 total points.
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Equally fitting was starting goalkeeper Mitch Hildebrandt's command of his 18-yard box. Pittsburgh (6-17-7 25 points) probed Hildebrandt's area throughout the second half but wasn't able to equalize. The shutout was Cincinnati's fourth straight and its 10th overall. Hildebrandt will quietly enter the playoffs having not allowed a goal in more than 360 minutes, or four full matches.
Cincinnati was in the bottom half of the conference standings and facing the possibility of starting the playoffs on the road when September began. The first-year side cruised down the home stretch, however, and posted a 4-0-1 record over the final five games. Cincinnati won 13 out of a possible 15 points in the standings during that span en route to locking up the No. 3 seed.
FC Cincinnati begins the conference's eight-team, fixed-seed, single-elimination playoffs Oct. 2 at the University of Cincinnati's Nippert Stadium. As other USL games went final Saturday, Charleston Battery emerged as the corresponding No. 6 seed in the East.
The club announced it had pre-sold more than 10,000 tickets to the match less than four full days after ticket sales opened.
Tickets moving fast for FC Cincy playoff game
Early Charleston scouting report
It's safe to say Charleston Battery (13-8-9, 48 points) proved itself a pest to Cincinnati this year. FC Cincinnati lost its first-ever league match to Charleston back on March 26. The game was decided on the final kick as Charleston took a 1-0, stoppage-time win. In a July 30 match played at Nippert, Charleston scored in the 70th minute to cancel out Omar Cummings' opener for Cincinnati. The match ended 1-1. The two-game season series was one of FC Cincinnati's least successful.
Charleston's leading goal-scorer was Romario Williams. He finished the 2016 regular season with 10 goals and an assist. The Battery finished the year with 10 shutouts and a plus-five goal differential. They lost three of their last five matches entering the playoffs, including a 2-1 loss in the season finale to New York Red Bulls II.
Will Sean Okoli return to FC Cincinnati next season?
Okoli mounted an MVP-caliber season with FC Cincinnati by almost every measure. In recognition of his apparent on-field value, fans have already started discussing on social media channels whether the club will be able to retain Okoli's services for 2017. USL doesn't make public the terms of player contracts, but history indicates Okoli could receive interest from other clubs this offseason. Two of the last four USL Golden Boot winners have wound up in a higher division of the U.S. Soccer Federation pyramid the following season. Orlando City SC's Dom Dwyer (2013) and Louisville City FC's Matt Fondy (2015) won top-scorer honors at the USL level before moving up at least one league. Following a loan spell in Orlando (then of the USL), Dwyer returned to Major League Soccer's Sporting Kansas City. He scored 15 goals in 13 games while on loan at Orlando. Fondy wound up at the Carolina RailHawks of the North American Soccer League following his successful 2015 campaign. He scored a USL-record 22 goals and played the full year with Louisville.
Stated simply, players of his Okoli's ilk and accolades tend to get looks from other leagues and teams. Rest assured that any decisions regarding his future are probably at least weeks away. Here's an updated look at Okoli's 2016 resume:
USL-leading 16 goals
USL-leading total 35 points
7 game-winning goals
1 Goal of the Month award (April)
5 USL Team of the Week awards
FC Cincinnati is 10-2-1 in games Okoli scores in (16-6-8 overall)
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Theatrical business is not going away: Steven Soderbergh- Cinema express
Theatrical business is not going away: Steven Soderbergh
Warner Bros' plan to release all of their 2021 slate on HBO Max has provoked the ire of filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, and James Gunn
During a promo interaction for his latest film, Let Them All Talk, which has just premiered on HBO Max, acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh commented on Warner Bros' plan to release all of their 2021 slate on HBO Max. The decision has provoked the ire of filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, and James Gunn.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, the Ocean's Eleven director said he believes the decision is going to affect theatres only temporarily and not in the long term. "It’s just a reaction to an economic reality that I think everybody is going to have to acknowledge pretty soon, which is that even with a vaccine, the theatrical movie business won’t be robust enough in 2021 to justify the amount of P&A you need to spend to put a movie into wide release. There’s no scenario in which a theatre that is 50 per cent full, or at least can’t be made 100 per cent full, is a viable paradigm to put out a movie in."
Soderbergh expects the situation to change after some time. "I think somebody sat down and did a very clear-eyed analysis of what COVID is going to do in the next year, even with a potential vaccine, and said, 'I don’t see this as being workable in 2021'. Because, let’s be clear, there is no bonanza in the entertainment industry that is the equivalent of a movie that grosses a billion dollars or more theatrically. That is the holy grail. So the theatrical business is not going away. There are too many companies that have invested too much money in the prospect of putting out a movie that blows up in theatres — there’s nothing like it. It’s all going to come back. But, I think Warners is saying: not as soon as you think."
Let Them All Talk sees Soderbergh working with Meryl Streep again after The Laundromat. The film also stars Dianne West, Lucas Hedges, Candice Bergen, and Gemma Chan.
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Federal emergency loan program for small businesses ends Tuesday
All remaining loan applications for the Paycheck Protection Program must be submitted by the end of the day.
By Peter McGuirePortland Press Herald
Struggling small businesses in Maine are quickly running out of time to apply for a forgivable loan through the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
Tuesday is the last day companies can apply for the program’s emergency loans, which can be used to pay staff and cover basic expenses, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, which administers the program.
Maine businesses have received about 25,700 loans worth more than $2.2 billion in paycheck protection loans since the program was established in April.
The $349 billion available in the first round of the program was spent in less than a month. Congress replenished it with another $320 billion in late April.
Under revamped rules approved by Congress in late May, businesses can get their loan forgiven if they spend at least 60 percent of the money on payroll and use it over a 24-week period, as well as following other restrictions. If the loans are not forgiven, businesses will need to repay the money with 1 percent interest.
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Home Africa News Suicides Are Preventable(Must-Read)
Suicides Are Preventable(Must-Read)
This year in July, one South Africa-based Zimbabwean, Bhekimpilo Moyo, phoned his relatives telling them that he was committing suicide because his wife of 15 years allegedly had an affair with a South African man.
Moyo then took pictures of a poisonous substance before taking it. As he lay dying, he took relatives step by step through the dreadful ordeal until he breathed his last.
Moyo is among the many Zimbabweans who died prematurely and left their loved ones in distress after committing suicide, hence it has become important for the world to raise awareness on suicides.
It is against this background that, World Suicide Prevention Day was observed on September 10, to promote worldwide action to prevent suicides.
About 3 000 people commit suicide daily, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). For every person who completes a suicide, 20 or more may attempt to end their lives. About one million people die by suicide each year. WHO informs us that every 40 seconds, someone, somewhere in the world takes their own life through suicide.
Although suicide is the 19th most common cause of death in Zimbabwe, it is a major preventable cause of premature death which is influenced by psycho-social, cultural and environmental risk factors that can be prevented through responses that address these main risk factors.
In an interview with Harare-based psychiatrist Charles Sibanda, said suicidal reactions may vary from anger, distress, ridicule, anxiety, tension, fear, sadness or any intentional determination to end one’s life.
“The causes for a suicidal intention can be complex, ranging from social, economic, health, cultural, political, religious and other areas of individual’s life. Suicide is multi-factorial in nature, cumulative due to a number of causes which are progressive and operate over a period of time. Even sometimes an impulsive suicide can be extremely difficult to understand,” said Sibanda.
He added: “A passing suicidal thought happens to most of the individuals in a sudden life crisis or a traumatic situation. An individual passing through any of these phases may think, attempt or complete the act. Some individuals, due to their inability to cope with the stress or lack of adequate support mechanisms, finally find suicide as an option. However, the word option itself indicates that there are choices.”
Sibanda highlighted that the major steps towards preventing suicide were identifying the problem in various dimensions, understanding risk factors, and identifying what works in individual societies.
“An early recognition of the warning signs and professional assistance can help to save a life.
If you notice any behavioural change in your loved ones, you should talk to them. Be a good listener as it will help them reduce stress and tension,” he said.
In a statement, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said that from the police statistics, the major causes of suicide in Zimbabwe were mainly social problems such as marital problems, financial problems, mental illness and substance abuse.
Police reports indicate that suicide cases among males are higher than females and are tied to the stress associated with the failure to meet society’s expectations to fend for the family while females’ suicide cases are associated with depression.
“ The figures we have indicate that males are dying by suicide more than females like for example, we are seeing in 2015 we had 656, whereas in 2016 there were 818 cases, 2017 had 389 cases, 2018 had 499, and there were 496 cases for 2019. Then females in 2015 were 108. In 2017 there were 135 cases while in 2018 there were 97, and 2019 there were 69,” said Nyathi.
This prevalence makes suicide an immediate problem that requires urgent medical and social solutions within our communities, because not doing so is robbing the country of people who succumb to this menace at the prime of their lives.
As part of efforts to understand why people commit suicides we interviewed people who had lost their relatives through suicide to figure out if they noticed any suicide triggers before their loved ones died.
Simangaliso Dube, who lost her mother due to suicide in 2013, joined the world in commemorating the World Suicide Prevention Day, taking into cognisance the effects of gender-based violence that have also caused suicide.
Dube, who is also a counsellor, said it was imperative to ensure that people with suicidal tendencies are taken for counselling, listened to and even referred to the Zimbabwe Republic Police Victim Friendly Unit which uses different approaches to deal with people with suicidal tendencies.
“Victims of gender-based violence need psychosocial support, because if they do not get it on time some of them end up resorting to suicide. We have seen even cases of children as young as 10 years getting into difficult situations where they think no one can help them and they end up contemplating suicide. What they need is a listening ear and a solution,” she said.
Dube said some of the causes of suicide included failure to cope with discoveries such as one being diagnosed with malignant illnesses like diabetes, cancer, and HIV, mental illness, and joblessness which causes feelings of unworthiness, among several other issues.
“There is a need for swift intervention in terms of counselling so that the person knows that they can survive their problems instead of committing suicide,” she said.
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Here’s a list of solar energy terms to help you navigate through technical texts. If we left something out, let us know!
Alternating current (AC) – AC is the electric current that your home uses for powering electrical appliances. It is an electric current in which the flow of electric charge periodically reverses direction, whereas in direct current (DC, also dc), the flow of electric charge is only in one direction.
Amorphous semiconductor – a semiconductor that is not made out of crystalline silicon. It is used to make some thin film solar panels. It’s less efficient than traditional crystalline semiconductors.
Array – a set of photovoltaic panels. A home solar electric system might include several arrays on different parts of the roof.
Azimuth – It is a horizontal angle measured clockwise from any fixed reference plane or easily established base direction line an important measurement (usually in degrees) used to optimize the placement of photovoltaic panels. The azimuth angle is the compass direction from which the sunlight is coming, and therefore where solar panels should optimally face for the most solar power production. A positive azimuth angle generally indicates the sun is east of south, and a negative azimuth angle generally indicates the sun is west of south.
Balance of System (BOS) – The balance of system (BOS) encompasses all components of a photovoltaic system other than the photovoltaic panels. This includes wiring, switches, a mounting system, one or many solar inverters, a battery bank and battery charger. It is basically all the parts of a solar electric system excluding the solar panels and the inverter. Balance of system usually includes items like racking, wires, conduit, and safety shut-offs. The balance of system might account for 15% of the total cost of a solar electric system.
Base load – the amount of electric power a utility must supply constantly to meet the demand for energy. It is the minimum level of demand on an electrical supply system over 24 hours. Base load power sources are those plants, which can generate dependable power to consistently meet demand.
Battery – a battery back up for a solar electric system stores the extra power the solar system makes. A home can use that power when the solar system isn’t producing enough energy, at night, or in a power outage.
BIPV panel – Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are photovoltaic materials that are used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope such as the roof, skylights, or facades. It is also a type of solar electric panel that uses silicon as a semiconductor and acts like a part of your roof. They’re also known as solar roof shingles. BIPV can be done on new or existing roofs.
Cell – the smallest part of a solar panel that converts light into solar electricity.
Direct Current (DC) – a type of low voltage electrical current. DC electricity is produced by solar cells and must be converted into AC before it’s usable in a house.
Gigawatt – one billion watts.
Grid – a system of high-tension cables in a region that distributes electricity to homes, businesses, and other buildings.
Grid-tied/Grid connected – a solar system that is connected to the power grid and uses the grid as a backup source of power.
Ground mount – a solar electrical system that is mounted on the ground instead of on a roof.
Interconnection – The physical and bureaucratic process of getting your system connected to the energy grid. Governed by sometimes nonsensical rules imposed by state governments and utility companies.
Inverter – A piece of equipment that converts DC electricity generated by solar panels to AC electricity used by your home.
IRR – Internal Rate of Return. Used to show the relative performance of an investment. Allows you to compare the potential return on solar to other investments.
Kilowatt (kW) – A unit of measurement equal to one thousand watts. Solar panels are rated according to how many kW they produce at any given moment.
Kilowatt-hour (kWh) – A unit of measurement of electricity generation equal to one kilowatt of generation (or consumption) operating for one hour.
Megawatt (MW) – A unit of measurement equal to one million watts.
Microinverter – A type of inverter that changes DC electricity to AC electricity on a per-panel basis. The output from several microinverters is combined and often fed to the electrical grid.
Module – a solar panel, or a group of solar cells.
Monocrystalline panel – a solar panel that’s made from a large, single silicon crystal and has a patchwork pattern. Monocrystalline panels are more expensive and more efficient than multi- or poly- crystalline panels.
Nameplate Rating – Also known as STC, or Standard Test Conditions – Nameplate rating refers to the performance of a piece of electricity-generating equipment under ideal laboratory conditions.
Photon – a “packet” of light energy
Photovoltaic – The generation of electric energy from light.
Polycrystalline panel – (also multicrystalline) a solar panel that’s made from small silicon crystals oriented in lots of different directions. Polycrystalline panels are less expensive and less efficient than monocrystalline panels.
Power purchase agreement (PPA) – a contract between a power producer and a power consumer, which states that the consumer will purchase a certain amount of power from the producer. In this type of solar agreement, a company installs a system on a homeowner’s property and then sells the energy to the homeowner at sub-market prices for a defined period of time.
PTC – Performance Test Conditions – This type of measurement of electrical output from a solar panel accounts for real-world conditions, including energy losses from wiring, and more.
Rebate – Usually a direct, lump sum payment given to a homeowner or installation company when they install solar panels on a home. Utility companies most often pay rebates to homeowners because the utilities can count the homeowners’ generation as clean energy toward their goals under an RPS law.
RPS Law – Renewable Portfolio Standard. An RPS law (often simply called an “RPS”) sets goal for renewable energy generation as a percentage of total output in a state. Most states have enacted RPS laws to spur development of renewable energy, and an RPS is the primary tool used to mandate rebates, tax exemptions, and tax credits for solar and other renewables.
Semiconductor – a material that has a limited ability to conduct electric current. Semiconductors used in different types of solar panels include copper indium diselenide, cadmium telluride gallium arsenide, and silicon.
Silicon – a dark gray, semi-metallic, chemical element. Silicon is the material most commonly used semiconductor used in solar cells and computer chips.
Solar constant – the average amount of solar radiation that reaches the earth’s upper atmosphere, equal to 1353 watts per square meter. Solar Lease – a financial agreement, in which a company installs a solar generation system on a homeowner’s property, then leases the panels to the homeowner over a given period. At the end of the lease’s term, the homeowner is often given the option to renew the lease or purchase the panels for the remainder of the cost, minus interest.
Solar noon – the time of day when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky. This time divides the daylight hours for that day exactly in half. Solar noon may be quite a bit different from ‘clock’ noon.
Solar Panels – The part of a solar power generation system that takes in photons from the sun and turns it into electrical energy, to be sent to the inverter and used in the home or transmitted to the utility company.
Stand alone/off grid – a solar electric system that is not connected to a power grid and which may or may not have a battery.
STC – Standard Test Conditions – Laboratory conditions under which solar panels are tested
Thin Film – A type of solar cell that uses a chemical layer instead of a silicon crystal as the method of converting solar energy to electrical energy. Thin-film is, as the name implies, thinner and less bulky than traditional solar cells, but not necessarily cheaper on a per-watt-generated basis.
Tilt – The degree of elevation of a solar panel relative to the ground. Tilt can either be fixed or adjustable by manual or automatic means. Tilt is one of two necessary orientation variables used to get maximum possible production from solar panels.
Tracking – A system that adjust the azimuth and tilt of solar panels to maximize the production of energy from solar panels.
Watt – A unit of energy equal to one joule per second.
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2016-11-10 · Bus
First MAN bus for Korea
MAN Truck & Bus Korea has launched MAN Lion’s Touring, the first and only cabriolet bus for sightseeing tours in Korea.
With the MAN Lion’s Touring, MAN Truck & Bus is offering a cabriolet single-decker bus for sightseeing tours in Korea for the first time.
The MAN Lion’s Touring is the only cabriolet single decker being offered for sightseeing tours in Korea. It is also the first bus that MAN has launched on to the market in Korea. MAN has already been active in this market for 15 years as a provider of premium trucks.
With its sunroof and removable side windows, the MAN Lion’s Touring is ideally suited to the four seasons in Korea. In good weather, tourists have a significantly better view of the sights and cities. At 11.3 m long and 2.5 m wide, its manoeuvrability is a match even for narrow streets. Its power is provided by a 290 hp engine teamed with a six-speed automatic gearbox. There is space for up to 45 passengers on board the sightseeing cabriolet bus.
Mr Jung from Honeymoon Tour secured the first MAN Lion’s Touring: “In the 20 years that we have been offering sightseeing tours, I have always been on the look-out for a bus that can be easily adapted to the weather and surroundings. I am therefore extremely pleased to be the first customer to secure a MAN Lion’s Touring and to be able to use it on my tours.” The MAN Lion’s Touring will be used on the panorama tour in Seoul from November.
Max Burger, Managing Director at MAN Truck & Bus Korea, sees great potential in the bus market in Korea: “Our aim is to bring high-quality European buses to Korea. The launch of MAN Lion’s Touring marks the start of this.” The company’s plans include unveiling a low-floor bus powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) at the Seoul Motor Show next year. A double-decker bus will also follow soon.
Up to 45 passengers can be treated to a special sightseeing tour in the new MAN Lion’s Touring.
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Although National Nude Day is not an officially observed holiday, it is a good excuse to go skinny dipping if you have a pool or enjoy lying naked in bed. Every July 14, National Nude Day is celebrated, and although the origins are unknown, nudism, which revolves around the philosophy of naturalism — had been practiced for thousands of years.
The holiday is meant to celebrate nudity and nakedness, and essentially enjoying your body and escaping from the pressures of wearing clothes all the time. In the United States, being naked is, of course, only publicly legal in certain places or under certain circumstances. Nudity laws have changed over the years, but in most places, there are only laws about indecent exposure of specific body parts.
Plenty of places have nude beaches and areas where it’s okay to bare it all, but it’s not as common as it was in yesteryears when the 1980s popularized nude swimming and the YMCA used to allow men to be nude together to swim. Now, there are legalities surrounding nudism in the U.S. that involve actual punishments and legal repercussions for walking around nude — the total opposite of some places in the world like Spain, where being nude is written into the country's constitution as an inalienable right. Consequences for indecent exposure can range from and include incarceration, fines, being put on a sexual offender registry, community service time, and more. In Vermont and Alaska, for example, you could still get in trouble for "exposing" yourself.
The laws all widely differ, and while some pose a threat to freedom, others are intentionally restrictive safety measures. There are states and cities, however, that allow people to celebrate nudity in all of its forms in special locations. Ahead, we've mapped out some of the U.S. cities and states where you can be free to (publicly) celebrate National Nude Day.
Seattle actually allows for people to be nude anywhere anytime as long as you’re not making anyone uncomfortable. Many people go to relax at beaches or parks without the stress of clothing, and have been doing so since the 1990s when the case of Seattle v. Johnson made it legal.
Most places in Oregon are pretty lenient when it comes to nudity, as it turns out. There are plenty of nude spas and clubs you can go to (when it’s safe to go places again after the COVID-19 pandemic, of course). There are even lots of hot springs where you can enjoy unwinding totally au naturale.
Surprisingly, Austin is one of the most topless-friendly cities in the United States, where there are no laws specifically forbidding public nudity. In fact, Hippie Hollow is Texas' government-maintained clothing-optional park, which covers 100 acres on Lake Travis's shoreline and is a great place to cool off in the nude.
New York is one of the only places where anyone of any gender can go topless publicly without it being considered indecent exposure. However, it's still not legal to bare your genitals, so no summer streaking across Rockaway Beach unless you want a hefty fine.
Philly technically allows you to be naked as long as you're not being "lewd." In fact, there's usually an Annual Naked Bike Ride, which has also been seen in other places like Los Angeles. Still, people usually cover their genitals.
It's actually completely legal to go out in the nude for some sun at many beaches in Florida, where at places like Miami's Haulover Beach it's clothing optional. Feel free to bare it all at Playalinda, Blind Creek Beach, or even South Beach (although, watch out for camera phones). Perhaps the only exception (though there is no legal precedent) is Bunche Beach Preserve in San Carlos Bay of Fort Myers, which definitely does not want anyone to take their clothes off.
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YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee Receives $1 Million in Private Funding
by Eric Stromgren, Content Producer
Jun 30, 2016 4:48am
In addition to private foundation support, the City of Milwaukee has committed a multi-year community development block grant to help sustain the Y's urban mission. (Photo courtesy YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee.)
The YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has received more than $1 million in private funding from a public and private consortium of funders, the Y announced on Wednesday. Additional commitments are expected this year, including a multi-year block grant from the City of Milwaukee.
The funding comes after the Y emerged from bankruptcy in February 2015. It had filed for bankruptcy in June 2014 after running up a $29 million debt. When it emerged from bankruptcy, the Y said that it planned to focus on a more traditional non-profit model, to rely less on membership fees, and to refocus on health and wellness as well as non-academic youth development.
The $1 million in private funding will build on increased demand for Y programs, expanded community partnerships and continuous improvements to the Y's operating model, the media release noted. The "venture philanthropy" approach is separate from the Y's Annual Campaign and calls for up to five years of strategic funding. Funders include Bader Philanthropies Inc.'s Isabel and Alfred Bader Fund, the City of Milwaukee, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Herb Kohl Philanthropies, the Northwestern Mutual Foundation and the Zilber Family Foundation.
"The Zilber Family Foundation's board of directors has followed the Y's story over the years and has been impressed with its willingness to face its challenges head on while never forgetting its mission and purpose," Susan Lloyd, executive director, Zilber Family Foundation, said in a statement. "We and other funders considered what the partnership means, not only for the Northside Y and the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee as a whole, but also for residents throughout the city."
In addition to private foundation support, the City of Milwaukee has committed a multi-year community development block grant to help sustain the Y's urban mission. The grant amount will be determined in the fall.
"The Y has had a long, vibrant history in Milwaukee," Tom Barrett, Mayor, Milwaukee, said in a statement. "We are proud to continue to stand by them as they work with us and others to help build strong, healthy, safe communities throughout Milwaukee."
The Y's earned revenue and fundraising is tracking ahead of its 2016 targets and 2015 results, according to the release. In January, the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee cut $1.7 million from its 2016 budget due to a $1.5 million shortfall on its $3.8 million fundraising goal in 2015. The reductions came in operating costs, 15 full-time positions, five part-time positions and cuts in executive pay. Also in January, the Y received $20,000 from First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! Outside initiative.
Milwaukee Y CEO and president Julie Tolan stepped down from her position on Thursday in a move that was previously announced. Milwaukee Y Chief Operating Officer Jack Takerian will serve as interim CEO.
"There is tremendous potential for the Y to positively impact many more of the children and families who need our help the most," Tolan said in a statement. "It is nearly impossible to put into words how grateful we are that these funders value the work of the Milwaukee Y, and are willing to walk with our leadership to advance our mission and strategy. They are true partners."
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Hayden Fry jokes about health, pink locker room
Rick Brown
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IOWA CITY, Ia. – Hayden Fry was holding court in the Kinnick Stadium press box Saturday morning. His sense of humor was intact.
"I'm still on the right side of the grass," joked Fry, 85, who turned Iowa football from a laughing stock to a Top 20 program in his 20 seasons as coach from 1979-1998.
Fry even pulled out some of his favorite sayings.
"I've been shot at and hit a few times," Fry said. "I still scratch where it itches. And it itches quite a bit."
Fry has fought bladder cancer for years, going to a clinic in Phoenix, Ariz., and University of Iowa Hospitals several times a year. He said he's a guinea pig for a new serum that's being used to treat his type of cancer. He said he's been given a clean bill of health.
"My doctor said, 'You've been in the Marine Corps, you played football, your body is in good shape. You can probably make it another five years'," Fry said. "That was 16 years ago.
"I've had nine operations, so I'm always rehabbing. I got a paper route so I could ride the bike."
Fry said he's low on energy, and airports are the worst.
"I'm just too damn weak," Fry said. "I don't have any energy. But I'm very lucky. Going through the airport is a big deal. Everyone wants a picture or a signature. But there's nobody like Iowa fans. The most loyal, best people in the world."
Fry did get a kick out of the fact that the visitor's pink locker room was the source of more protests over the weekend.
"Everyone thought it was because I had my Masters in psychology, and pink was a cool, calm color and this and that, which it was to me," Fry said. "But when I got here things were so deteriorated and down. Howard Cissell, my defensive ends and linebacker coach, he was in charge of helping me fix up things. The only color of paint they could find was pink."
Fry chuckles at the reaction the pink locker room got, and still gets.
"(Former Michigan coach) Bo Schembechler and that bunch, they went bananas," Fry said. "They'd send managers downtown to get white butcher paper, and spent all morning putting the paper up so all the players wouldn't see (the pink walls)."
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Complaint sparks probe into Devon MP Johnny Mercer's social media expenses
Johnny Mercer is under investigation from IPSA over his website and social media accounts
Alex RichardsHead of Content
A probe has been launched into expenses claims made by Plymouth Moor View MP Johnny Mercer - once more relating to his website and social media channels.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has announced that the investigation has been launched following the receipt of a complaint from a member of the public.
It has been opened under the MP's Scheme of Business Costs and Expenses. The expenses under investigation relates to Office Costs Expenditure claimed under the scheme.
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Last year Mercer defended spending £2,500 of tax payers’ money to build his social media profile.
However, he has staved off critics, arguing that social media is “an essential part of communication“, and can be “as important” as writing a letter.
Update: Mercer statement released
Mr Mercer said in a statement this afternoon: “I am happy to comply with yet another investigation as a result of yet another politically motivated complaint against my office.
"As with the previous complaints, I am confident this one will be dismissed as well and I can say now that I am unaware of any wrongdoing.
"Both I and my office are working with IPSA to speed up this process and to bring this to a swift and satisfactory conclusion.”
The full IPSA notice reads:
This notice is published in accordance with Section 9 and 9A of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (as amended) and Paragraph 27 of the Third Edition of the Procedures for Investigations of the Compliance Officer for IPSA.
The Compliance Officer for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has opened an investigation to determine whether Mr Johnny Mercer MP has been paid an amount under the MPs’ Scheme of Business Costs and Expenses (‘the Scheme’) that should not have been allowed.
An investigation will be conducted into claims submitted under the following areas of the Scheme:
• Office Costs in respect of website use and other ‘e-presence’.
In accordance with the legislation and the procedures for investigation made thereunder, no further information will be published until the investigation has been concluded.
IPSA was set up in 2009 in the wake of the expenses scandal, to oversee and regulate MPs’ business costs and expenses.
Mr Mercer came under fire after the previous round of publications in 2015, for spending £6,000 on his website.
At the time he stressed it was important to have an “accessible” and “engaging” website which supports his “direct democracy” agenda.
According to last year's data, he has also spent £2,500 on social media management between May and November last year.
Explaining the decision, he said at the time that “in this day and age” social media “is an essential part of communication”.
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“If you look to the US you can see the power of communicating with constituents via social media,” he said.
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The Darkest Dark: A Lesson in Overcoming Fears That Stand in the Way of Dreams
“The dark is for dreams — morning is for making them come true.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood” opined Marie Curie, the famed scientist who developed the theory of radioactivity. “Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Curie’s timeless advice suggests that fear can be a motivational force for personal growth and an impetus for scientific discovery. For although fear is sometimes paralyzing, it’s also an agent of change. When it stands in the way of our dreams, fear forces us to change — or forever hold our silence.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield learned this lesson early in life. As a child, he dreamed of flying into space, but he was afraid of the dark. The Darkest Dark (public library), Hatfield’s autobiographical picture book for children, chronicles his personal experience with overcoming fear of the dark. Beautifully illustrated with a powerful message, The Darkest Dark is an inspiration to any child struggling with fear.
The story starts with Chris playing astronaut in a cardboard ship.
Chris was an astronaut. An important and very busy astronaut. When it was time to take a bath, he told his mother, ‘I’d love to, but I’m saving the planet from aliens.’ When it was time to get out of the bath and go to bed, he told his father — politely, because astronauts are always polite — ‘Sorry, no can do. I’m on my way to Mars.’
But at bedtime, when the lights are turned out, the fear creeps in. Chris slips into his parents’ bed after seeing aliens in his bedroom. His parents try to coax him back into his bed, but nothing works — except warning him that they might be too tired to watch the Apollo 11 landing on TV the next day.
Chris finally goes to sleep, and his family watches the Apollo 11 landing on television the next day. As he’s watching astronauts jump on the moon, he realizes that outer space is “the darkest dark.” The unspoken implication, of course, is that astronauts need to be comfortable in darkness. At home that evening, he tries an experiment. He turns off all of the lights in his bedroom and discovers he’s no longer afraid.
For the first time, Chris could see the power and mystery and velvety black beauty of the dark. And, he realized, you’re never really alone there. Your dreams are always with you, just waiting. Big dreams, about the kind of person you want to be. Wonderful dreams about the life you will live. Dreams that actually can come true.
Aristotle said that “he who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” That ancient wisdom won’t provide solace to the children who are afraid of the dark, but it will embolden those who have squarely faced their fears to conquer them. Hadfield’s story and professional career are proof that the people who overcome their fears can fulfill their dreams, no matter how lofty. His personal message to readers in the back of the book reinforces the message.
Being in the dark can feel scary… but it’s also an amazing place. The dark is where we see the stars and galaxies of our universe. The dark is where we find the Northern Lights shimmering and get to wish on shooting stars. And it was quietly in the dark where I first decided who I was going to be and imagined all the things I could do. The dark is for dreams — and morning is for making them come true.
Perfect in nearly every way, The Darkest Dark is a remarkable achievement. Kids are sure to appreciate and remember this delightful children’s book and its beautiful illustrations. Complement with Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport, a quirky book about dealing with big life changes.
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A ‘Silent’ stamp on Cannes
May 28, 2012 12:00 am GMT+3
Austrian director Haneke won the coveted Palme d'Or for a second time with his film Love/Amour, while Rezan Yeşilbaş won the Short Film Palme D'or for Sessiz / Be Deng.
Turkish cinema has swooped up yet another award at the 65th Cannes Film Festival held over the weekend. Rezan Yeşilbaş's short film Sessiz / Be Deng, which was shown at the festival, was the recipient of the Palm d'Or for Best Short Film.
Yesterday's win makes Yeşilbaş the fourth Turkish director, following Yılmaz Güney, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akın to take the stage at Cannes in order to receive an award. Upon receiving the Palm d'Or, Rezan Yeşilbaş stated, "I want to dedicate this award to all of the women in my country that are silent and have been left on their own."
The film, starring Belçim Bilgin and Cem Bender is based in 1984 and tells the story of a woman named Zeynep and her attempt to deliver a new pair of shoes to her husband who is serving time in Diyarbakır, even though it is forbidden to do so according to prison regulations.
'LOVE' RECEIVES THE BIG AWARD
The Palm d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival was awarded to Michael Haneke for his film Amour/Love. The film tells the tale of an elderly couple facing the inescapable, yet no less tragic march of death. Matteo Garrone's film 'Reality' was the winner of the Grand Prix. Carlos Reygades was named Best Director for his film 'Post Tenebras Lux'. The Jury Prize went to Ken Loach for his film 'The Angel's Share'. Christian Mungiu won Best Screenplay for the film Beyond the Hills/Dupa Dealuri. This year's award for Best Actor went to Mads Mikkelsen for his role in Thomas Vinterberg's 'The Hunt'. The Best Actress award went to Christina Flutur and Cosmina Straran, who both starred in Christian Mungiu's film 'Beyond the Hills'.
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The 'no' campaign's latest mirage
by Fahrettin Altun
At a time when Turkey is facing concrete challenges at home and abroad, a constitutional reform and a new system of government are a practical necessity, rather than a matter of ideological preference.
Since the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) rise to power in 2002, the country's political landscape has undergone major changes. The guardianship regime was dismantled, as the popular vote, democratic reforms and an independent foreign policy emerged as the cornerstones of a new political identity.
In eight weeks, millions of people will go to the polls again to decide whether or not a constitutional reform package, which was adopted by Parliament earlier this year, meets their expectations.
Advocates of constitutional reform, first and foremost, maintain that the proposed changes could help address the existing system's shortcomings. They also consider the upcoming referendum as an opportunity to reiterate their support to the post-2002 reform process.
The "no" campaign, by contrast, oppose reforms due to their general unhappiness with Turkey's transformation during the same period. In other words, they are more focused on finding a way out of the existential crisis of their brand of politics than fixing the country's system of government. The pro-change camp will focus on the reform package's contents on the campaign trail, while opponents stick to the "one-man rule" argument.
For the vast majority of Turks, the "no" campaign's rhetoric is hardly original. Since the Gezi Park revolts, the Turkish people have been subjected to the exact same message time and again, albeit in different forms. At each and every critical junction since 2013, the same groups tried to score political points by fueling anti-Erdoğanism. The Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), in particular, communicated a message of hate directed at the president, which was picked up and reproduced by like-minded intellectuals and non-governmental organizations.
Ironically, anti-Erdoğanism effectively meant that the two parties started to look more and more like each other. The pledge to prevent the adoption of a presidential system was embraced by both movements as a campaign slogan last year. By attacking a single person, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, they tried to distract attention from Turkey's needs. Up until the July 15 coup attempt, both groups had committed all their resources to undermining the president. Although they lost the support of many voters after the failed coup, the CHP and HDP leaders have been talking about "one-man rule" and "regime change" in an effort to mobilize their respective bases.
But the "no" campaign really outdid itself this time by singing the praises of empty chatter about the upcoming referendum by the same people who proved to be good with words during the Gezi Park revolts.
Murathan Mungan, for instance, came up with the following gem, "What makes us who we are is what we reject as opposed to accept. It takes power and a [certain level of] consciousness to say 'no.' Most affirmative answers are related to a predisposition to obey."
To be clear, hardly anyone doubts that plenty of equally funny tales about the ontology of rejection will be told until April 16. Over the next weeks, each word uttered by self-proclaimed intellectuals will be repeated by the "no" campaign's heavyweights at campaign stops, as if they actually mean anything.
At this point, there is nothing to do but to wish the "no" campaign the best of luck. With friends like these, they will need it.
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Turkey's local grocers see 400 pct turnover surge after uniting to compete with supermarkets
by daily sabah
ISTANBUL Economy
Jun 21, 2016 12:00 am GMT+3
A customer shops at a local grocery store in Turkey's Western Edirne province (IHA Photo)
Seven local grocers in northwestern Bursa province's İnegöl district who joined forces in 2006 to compete with large supermarket chains are now seeing their turnover rise by as high as 400 percent, in what appears to be a rare example for local stores failing to compete with the surge of supermarkets which attract customers with lower prices and promotions. The initiative could provide hope for the waning local grocery store tradition, hailed as one of the most prominent features of the neighborhood culture in Turkey.
The Inegöl Grocery Distribution Cooperative (IGDC) President Bülent Savaşçı told the Hürriyet daily that when the co-op was first founded in 2006, their first goal was to buy products in bulk and lower the prices as much as possible, in order to be able to create competition between themselves and large supermarkets. In 2009, three years later, they reached that goal.
Today, the IGDC has close to 100 partners.
''While the daily turnover rate of local grocery stores ranged between 1,000 and 1,500 Turkish lira until 2006, we now have members who are able to make a daily turnover of 3,000 to 5,000 Turkish lira'' Savaşçı said. What is even better according to the IGDC president is that these small enterprises are now able to offer prices that are the same or even lower than large chains.
According Savaşçı, the philosophy behind the co-op is to retain the local grocery store culture while bringing in elements that make large supermarkets successful — such as infrastructure and product diversity.
Savaşçı believes that they have reached a supermarket-level of product diversity. "You used to not be able to find baby food in grocery stories. Now, we even sell baby diapers in most of our stores," Savaşçı said.
"People are slowly trusting grocery stores again," he added and continued by saying that it is their job to ensure that the grocery store culture survives.
Savaşçı explained that the IGDC now has 15 branches across Inegöl, and around 40 grocery store owners in the district are following the IGDC's example.
With significant changes in the consumption habits of Turkish people and steady economic growth, local grocery stores which fail to compete with large supermarkets have suffered significant losses and are replaced with chain supermarkets.
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UK parliament rejects PM May's Brexit deal in worst defeat since 1924
LONDON Europe
Jan 26, 2019 3:38 pm GMT+3
Pro-European demonstrators hold posters at Parliament Square in London, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. (AP Photo)
British lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's divorce deal with the European Union, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and leading to a no-confidence vote in her government.
Moments after the vote, May said it was only right to test whether the government still had lawmakers' support to carry on. Lawmakers will vote Wednesday in a no-confidence motion from opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn that could trigger a national election.
The House of Commons' 432-202 vote against May's plan was widely expected, but it was still devastating for her fragile leadership. It came after more than two years of political upheaval — and was the biggest defeat for a government in the House of Commons in more than a century.
The vote means further turmoil for British politics only 10 weeks before the country is due to leave the EU on March 29. It is not clear if it will push the government toward an abrupt "no-deal" break with the EU, nudge it toward a softer departure, trigger a new election or pave the way for a second referendum that could reverse Britain's decision to leave.
May, who leads a fragile Conservative minority government, has made delivering Brexit her main task since taking office in 2016 after the country's decision to leave the EU.
"This is the most significant vote that any of us will ever be part of in our political careers," she told lawmakers as debate ended. "The time has now come for all of is in this House to make a decision, ... a decision that each of us will have to justify and live with for many years to come."
But the deal was doomed by deep opposition from both sides of the divide over U.K.'s place in the bloc. Pro-Brexit lawmakers say the deal will leave Britain bound indefinitely to EU rules, while pro-EU politicians favor an even closer economic relationship with Europe.
The government and opposition parties ordered lawmakers to cancel all other plans to be on hand for the crucial vote. Labour legislator Tulip Siddiq delayed the scheduled cesarean birth of her son so she could attend, arriving in a wheelchair.
As lawmakers debated in the chamber, there was a cacophony of chants, drums and music from rival bands of pro-EU and pro-Brexit protesters outside. One group waved blue-and-yellow EU flags, the other brandished "Leave Means Leave" placards.
May postponed a vote on the deal in December to avoid certain defeat, and there were few signs in recent days that sentiment had changed significantly.
The most contentious section of the deal was an insurance policy known as the "backstop" designed to prevent the reintroduction of border controls between the U.K.'s Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
Assurances from EU leaders that the backstop is intended as a temporary measure of last resort completely failed to win over many British skeptics, and the EU is adamant that it will not renegotiate the 585-page withdrawal agreement.
Arlene Foster, who leads Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party — May's parliamentary ally — said her party voted against the deal because of the backstop.
"We want the PM to go back to the EU and say 'the backstop must go,'" Foster said.
Parliament has given May until Monday to come up with a new proposal. So far, May has refused publicly to speculate on a possible "Plan B."
Some Conservatives expect her to seek further talks with EU leaders on changes before bringing a tweaked version of the bill back to Parliament, even though EU leaders insist the agreement cannot be renegotiated.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker returned Tuesday to Brussels to deal with Brexit issues arising from the vote, amid signals May might be heading back to EU headquarters on Wednesday.
An EU official, who asked not to be identified because of the developing situation, said that it was "Important that he is available and working in Brussels during the coming hours."
May had argued that rejecting the agreement would lead either to a reversal of Brexit — overturning voters' decision in the 2016 referendum — or to Britain leaving the bloc without a deal. Economists warn that an abrupt break from the EU could batter the British economy and bring chaotic scenes at borders, ports and airports.
Business groups had appealed for lawmakers to back the deal to provide certainty about the future.
Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said parliamentarians "hold the future of the British automotive industry — and the hundreds and thousands of jobs it supports — in their hands."
"Brexit is already causing us damage in output, costs and jobs, but this does not compare with the catastrophic consequences of being cut adrift from our biggest trading partner overnight," he said.
Amid the uncertainty, some members of Parliament from both government and opposition parties are exploring ways to use parliamentary procedures to wrest control of the Brexit process away from the government, so that lawmakers by majority vote could specify a new plan for Britain's EU exit.
But with no clear majority in Parliament for any single alternate course, there is a growing chance that Britain may seek to postpone its departure date while politicians work on a new plan.
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Court sends ex-IMF chief Rodrigo Rato to 4.5 years in prison for embezzlement
by French Press Agency - AFP
MADRID Finance
A file picture taken on April 16, 2015 shows a member of the police (L) assisting former IMF head and ex economy minister with Spain's ruling conservative party Rodrigo Rato (C) into a vehicle outside his home in Madrid. (AFP Photo)
Former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato was handed a jail sentence of four years and six months Thursday for misusing funds when he was the boss of two Spanish banks.
Spain's National Court, which deals with corruption and financial crime cases, said he had been found guilty of embezzlement when he headed up Caja Madrid and Bankia, at a time when both groups were having difficulties.
The case caused an outrage in Spain, where it was uncovered at the height of a severe economic crisis that left many people struggling financially -- made all the worse because Bankia later had to be nationalized and injected with more than 22 billion euros in public funds.
Rato, who is also a former Spanish economy minister, remains at liberty pending a possible appeal.
He was on trial with 64 other former executives and board members at both banks accused of misusing 12 million euros between 2003 and 2012 -- sometimes splashing out at the height of Spain's economic crisis.
They were accused of having paid for personal expenses with credit cards put at their disposal by both Caja Madrid and Bankia, without ever justifying them or declaring them to tax authorities.
These expenses included petrol for their cars, supermarket shopping, pricey holidays, luxury bags or parties in nightclubs.
'Corrupt system'
According to the indictment, Rato maintained the "corrupt system" established by his predecessor Miguel Blesa when he took the reins of Caja Madrid in 2010.
He then replicated the system when he took charge of Bankia, a group born in 2011 out of the merger of Caja Madrid with six other savings banks, prosecutors said.
Blesa was sentenced to six years in jail.
Rato, 67, had always denied any wrongdoing and said the credit cards were for discretionary spending as part of executives' pay deal.
He told court last October that everything "was completely legal".
Rato will not necessarily go directly to jail if he appeals the ruling, just like the Spanish king's brother-in-law Inaki Urdangarin who has been left free without posting bail following his sentence of six years and three months for syphoning off millions of euros.
Urdangarin's temporary reprieve, also announced on Thursday, made waves in Spain where people have long criticized what is perceived as the impunity of the elite.
IMF chiefs in the dock
Rato was economy minister and deputy prime minister in the conservative government of Jose Maria Aznar from 1996 to 2004, before going on to head up the International Monetary Fund until 2007.
His subsequent career as a banker in Spain was short-lived -- from 2010 to 2012 -- but apart from the case of the undeclared credit cards, it also led to another banking scandal considered the country's biggest ever.
Thousands of small-scale investors lost their money after they were persuaded to convert their savings to shares ahead of the flotation of Bankia in 2011, with Rato at the reins.
Less than a year later, he resigned as it became known that Bankia was in dire straits.
The state injected billions of euros but faced with the scale of Bankia's losses and trouble in other banks, it asked the European Union for a bailout for the entire banking sector and eventually received 41 billion euros.
Rato and others were put under investigation, accused of misleading small investors in the listing of Bankia, which has since paid out 1.2 billion euros in compensation.
He is the third former IMF chief to get into trouble with the law.
His successor Dominique Strauss-Kahn was tried in 2015 on pimping charges in a lurid sex scandal, and was acquitted.
And Christine Lagarde, who took over from Strauss-Kahn and is the current IMF chief, was found guilty of negligence over a massive state payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister.
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Amnesty warns US, EU weapons used to commit war crimes in Iraq
IRBIL, Iraq World
Jan 05, 2017 12:00 am GMT+3
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Militias fighting alongside Iraqi troops against Daesh are committing war crimes using weapons provided to the Iraqi military by the United States, Europe, Russia and Iran, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
The rights group said that predominantly Iran-backed militias, known collective as the Hashdi al-Shaabi, were using weapons from Iraqi military stockpiles to commit war crimes including enforced disappearances, torture and summary killings.
Parliament voted for the Hashdi al-Shaabi to formally become part of Iraq's armed forces in November but the session was boycotted by Sunni representatives who worry it will entrench Shi'ite majority rule as well as Iran's regional influence.
Iraqi and Western officials have expressed serious concerns about the government's ability to bring the Shi'ite militias under greater control.
"International arms suppliers, including the USA, European countries, Russia and Iran, must wake up to the fact that all arms transfers to Iraq carry a real risk of ending up in the hands of militia groups with long histories of human rights violations," said Amnesty researcher Patrick Wilcken in a statement.
States wishing to sell arms to Iraq should ensure strict measures to ensure weapons will not be used by militias to violate human rights, he added.
Amnesty cited nearly 2-1/2 years of its own field research, including interviews with dozens of former detainees, witnesses, survivors, and relatives of those killed, detained or missing.
Its report focused on four powerful groups, most of which receive backing from Iran: the Badr Organisation, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kataib Hezbollah and Saraya al-Salam.
Spokesmen for the Hashdi al-Shaabi and for the prime minister, to whom the fighters technically report, did not respond to requests for comment.
A major offensive by Iraqi security forces to retake the northern city of Mosul from Daesh is nearing the end of its third month. Thousands of fighters from various Hashid groups are participating.
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Sudan partially withdraws from Yemen after years of military support
by Daily Sabah with AA
Istanbul World
Jul 25, 2019 12:12 am GMT+3
Sudanese troops participating in a Saudi-led military coalition have partially withdrawn from areas they were deployed to in Yemen, according to a military source.
Col. Waddah al-Dabeesh, a spokesman for the Yemeni army, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the Sudanese forces participating in the West Coast military front withdrew from three areas they were deployed in.
He explained that some Yemeni army forces were redeployed in these areas to replace the Sudanese forces. The withdrawal of the Sudanese forces came after an earlier and partial withdrawal of United Arab Emirates (UAE) forces from the same areas.
With Sudan in turmoil following the ouster of longtime President Omar al-Bashir, the continuation of his foreign policy toward Gulf countries by the military was not well received by the Sudanese people.
In May, the chief of the ruling military council Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo toured Khartoum's regional allies Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE. Al-Burhan met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a former military chief who ousted the country's first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, in a coup in 2013.
Sudan is part of a UAE and a Saudi-led military coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. That marked a dramatic shift by Khartoum, which aligned itself with the Gulf Arab monarchies at the expense of close ties with their archrival Iran. Al-Bashir deployed troops to Yemen in 2015 as part of a major foreign policy shift that saw Khartoum break its decades-old ties with Shiite Iran and join the Saudi-led coalition. Sudanese media reports claim that many of the Sudanese troops fighting in Yemen are from the Rapid Support Force (RSF) paramilitary group. Sudan did not announce the number of troops participating in the war but had affirmed earlier its readiness to send 6,000 fighters to Yemen. Hundreds of Sudanese soldiers and officers are fighting in Yemen and have suffered casualties, raising calls for a withdrawal.
For nearly four months, thousands of people had protested across Sudan, calling for President al-Bashir to step down. Their wish came true on April 11, when the military ended his 30-year rule and placed him under house arrest. But it wasn't enough for the demonstrators, who fear an army dominated by al-Bashir appointees will cling to power or select one of their own to succeed him.
Protesters have stayed in the streets demanding that the generals hand over power to civilian leadership. Talks collapsed when security forces razed a protest camp outside military headquarters in Khartoum on June 3, leaving more than 100 dead, according to protesters. At least 136 people have been killed nationwide since June 3, including more than 100 on the day of the raid, according to doctors close to the umbrella protest movement, the Alliance for Freedom and Change. The health ministry says 78 people have been killed nationwide.
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PKK attacks aimed at spoiling social unity after July 15
by Yunus Paksoy
ISTANBUL War On Terror
Aug 27, 2016 12:00 am GMT+3
Increasing PKK attacks in the eastern and southeastern parts of Turkey are targeting the social unity in the country, experts argue. Experts also stress that PKK attacks have received little support from the Kurds because of the peaceful stance toward them by the government
At least 11 police officers were killed and at least 78 people were injured by a car bomb attack carried out by PKK terrorists in the Cizre district of the southeastern Şırnak province early Friday. The attack is the latest move by the PKK to spoil the peace and order in the country.An initial statement by the Şırnak Governorate put the death toll at eight, adding that four of the 45 wounded in the attack are in a critical condition. Health Minister Recep Akdağ said 78 people had been taken to hospital after the attack. Three police officers later succumbed to their wounds in hospital, bringing the total death toll to 11.
The terrorist attack took place at 6:40 a.m. The bomb was in an explosive-laden truck, reports said.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım strongly condemned the attack. The two leaders asserted that Turkey will never give up in face of PKK attacks.
İlhami Işık, a columnist for the Star daily and an author specializing in the Kurdish issue, told Daily Sabah that the recent PKK attacks are aimed at scaring Turkish citizens away. "It seems that the attacks will continue. They are trying to take Turkey hostage. The PKK attacks that have happened since 2013 and the coup attempt prove it," he added.
"They are trying to send a message to Turkey that they will not give up after the July 15 coup attempt," Vahdettin İnce, a Kurdish author writing on the Kurdish issue, told Daily Sabah. He contended that the scare tactics by the PKK will not succeed.
The Şırnak-Cizre road was closed to traffic following the terrorist attack, and many houses and shops were damaged as a result of the explosion.
İnce told Daily Sabah that the PKK's attacks have received no support from the Kurds in the region. "The fact that the attacks find no support among the Kurds lead the PKK acting even more insanely," he added. He argued that the peaceful environment in Turkey toward the Kurds is the reason why the PKK cannot receive help in the region.
People took to the streets last week to protest the terror attacks by the PKK, which has escalated its campaign of violence in eastern cities. Three attacks by the terrorist organization hit the country's eastern and southeastern provinces in the space of 24 hours. On Aug. 17, four people, including two police officers, were killed, and more than 70 were injured in a bombing in the province of Van. It was followed by another attack that killed six people, including five soldiers, in the province of Bitlis. On Aug. 18, a suicide car bombing targeting police headquarters in the city of Elazığ killed three police officers and injured hundreds of others.
The crowd, carrying Turkish flags, condemned the terrorist organization that resumed its attacks after a brief lull in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt. "May Allah curse them. We don't deserve this violence. This is inhumane," Halime Arıç, a member of the angry and grieving crowd that took to the streets in Elazığ, told Anadolu Agency. "They cannot divide us. We are here to show our support for the state, for the police," Gökmen Arslan, another demonstrator, said. The attack on Elazığ was the largest ever in the city, which is located in a predominantly Kurdish region. Though attacks in the city are rare, the PKK is active in the region where it claims to fight for Kurdish self-rule.
Ambulances and health officials rushed to the scene of the attack, and the injured were brought to Cizre Public Hospital to receive treatment.
Işık said the PKK hurts women, children and the elder in its attacks. "As the PKK fails with its attacks, it increases the violence," he added.
Security forces have launched an operation to catch the terrorists.
The government has intensified its counterterror operations following the recent attacks carried out by the PKK, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union.
İnce asserted that government must stop the PKK. "They do not want Turkey to disappear. They want Turkey to deal with its problems and not be interested in any other issues," he claimed
"Turkey has become a game-setter in the region, which is why it is targeted by different circles. They kill women and children in an attempt to stop Turkey," Işık said, adding that "the heinous" PKK even targets political party leaders.
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The Bluffer’s Guide to Laurel & Hardy with Paul Donnelley
THIS week sees the release of new film Stan & Ollie starring Steve Coogan and John C Reilly as the comedy legends. Here are some fascinating facts about the duo.
Paul Donnelley
TOGETHER: Stan Laurel (right) and Oliver Hardy (left) (Image: Popperfoto/Getty Images)
English Stan's real name was Arthur Jefferson while American Ollie was born Norvell Hardy. The name Laurel was adopted in 1918 when Stan's girlfriend Mae Dahlberg saw a picture of a Roman general wearing a laurel wreath. Oliver was Hardy's father's name and he adopted it on the advice of a numerologist.
Ollie was just 10 months old when his thrice-married father died in 1892.
Known worldwide as Ollie, Hardy was actually called Babe by family and friends, and billed that way in early films.
Stan worked in music hall and was Charlie Chaplin's understudy.
GUIDE: The new film Stan & Ollie will be released this week (Image: Daily Star)
STAN & OLLIE: The actors posing next to a cine camera (Image: Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
Stan's favourite brand of aftershave was called English Leather.
Stan cut the heels off his shoes to give him a funny walk.
The pair's signature tune is called Dance Of The Cuckoos. Marvin Hatley wrote it.
Their first stage appearance as a double act was in March 1928. It was a charity performance for victims of the St Francis Dam disaster.
Thelma Todd played Ollie's wife in the short film Chickens Come Home (1931) and appeared in four other films with the boys. In December 1935, she was found dead in her car in mysterious circumstances. Rumours abound that she was murdered by the mafia.
Between them, Laurel and Hardy married seven times (Ollie three, Stan four plus a common-law wife he couldn't marry because her husband would not divorce her). Ollie had no children; Stan had two but only one, Lois, lived to adulthood.
DUO: Between them, Laurel and Hardy married seven times (Image: NC)
The duo's last appearance was on December 1, 1954, on a live edition of This Is Your Life, seven months after Ollie had a mild heart attack. Stan was polite during the show but did not enjoy the experience.
Ollie died on August 7, 1957, after a stroke. Stan never worked again.
Stan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1961. It became his most prized possession, although he nicknamed it Mr Clean because it looked like a TV advert character.
Stan lived at a rented apartment in Santa Monica and was in the phone book. His number was Oxford 0614. He happily chatted to fans who rang him and would personally answer his fan mail.
LONG-TIME: Their first movie together was in 1931 (Image: Daily Star)
Stan's daughter Lois married British writer Tony Hawes, who voiced the list of prizes on Sir Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game.
Stan died on February 23, 1965, at the age of 74, four days after suffering a heart attack.
The duo achieved a posthumous No 2 hit in 1975 with The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine from the film Way Out West (1937). But Stan doesn't sing the high and low sections - his bass voice was provided by Chill Wills and the soprano by the film's Rosina Lawrence.
In 1991, Way Out West became the first computer-colourised Laurel & Hardy film released on video in Britain.
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Franklin County Judge H. William Pollitt dies of COVID-19 complications
John Futty
jfutty@dispatch.com
Complications of COVID-19 have claimed the life of one of Franklin County’s longest-serving and most respected judges.
Municipal Court Judge H. William Pollitt Jr. died Thursday morning at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital. He was 72.
Pollitt had been in the hospital’s intensive care unit for more than a week with COVID-19, according to court sources.
“Nobody enjoyed life more than Bill Pollitt or made more of it,” said his suitemate at the courthouse, Judge Mark Hummer, who first met him in 1986. “It’s a great loss for our court.”
Pollitt was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Municipal Court bench in 1996 by then-Gov. George Voinovich. He was elected the following year to complete the unexpired term and continued to be returned to the bench by voters, serving 24 years.
He was last reelected in 2015, without opposition, and was serving his final six-year term because of an Ohio law that prohibits anyone from beginning a judicial term after age 70.
He was consistently rated as one of the best of the 17 judges on the bench in Columbus Bar Association polls.
His career in public service began in 1978, when he became one of the first assistants that Greg Lashutka, a future Columbus mayor, hired after becoming elected Columbus city attorney. The two had been classmates at Capital University Law School.
“I knew his character, his competitive spirit, his zest for life,” Lashutka said. “The city attorney’s office needed that type of person.
“He was fun to be around, a great storyteller,” Lashutka added. “He kept things moving, in his courtroom and in life. He tested everyone around him, in the most pleasant and positive way.”
Lashutka last spoke to Pollitt about two weeks ago, shortly before he was hospitalized.
“He’d had a bad week,” Lashutka said. “He was grasping for air. But he was upbeat. Frankly, I never saw him on a down day.”
Pollitt was a guard and linebacker for the Ohio State University football team from 1966 to 1970 and was on the 1968 national championship team, the backup for All-American Jim Stillwagon.
Most of those who knew Pollitt well were aware that his career highlights included making the tackle on the opening kickoff of the 1969 Rose Bowl.
Ron Maciejowski, a backup quarterback on the team, remembered Pollitt as one of his funniest, most sociable teammates.
“Bill was, as his wife would describe him, a character,” he said.
He recalled that, after graduation, Pollitt’s mediocre grades were making it difficult to get into law school, so their coach, Woody Hayes, pulled some strings to help get him into Capital.
“Woody told him, ’You’d better not screw this up,’” Maciejowski said, repeating a story known to most of Pollitt’s friends. ”Well, he graduated from law school and became one of the county’s top judges. That says everything about him.“
According to Hummer, “everybody has a Bill Pollitt story.”
One of Hummer’s favorites begins with a phone call he got from Pollitt around 2000, when Hummer was a magistrate with the court. On short notice, Pollitt asked if he could join him for a round of golf at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin.
“Don’t worry,” he assured Hummer. “It won’t cost us a thing.“
They played 18 holes, with caddies and carts, sandwiches at the turn and beers afterward. As they were leaving, a staff member said, “Hey, Bill, I’ll send you bill.”
Once again, Pollitt assured Hummer that they didn’t have to worry about paying.
“A month later he called me and said, ’Hummer, you owe me $240,’” Hummer recalled. “I wasn’t too happy about that and neither was my wife. But we got to play Muirfield.”
Funeral services are pending for Pollitt, who is survived by his wife, Lee, and two daughters.
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City League football coaches overjoyed that season is back on for Columbus teams
Steve Blackledge
sblackle@dispatch.com
While many people jumped to the conclusion that City League athletics had been canceled this fall because of COVID-19 concerns, football coaches remained cautiously optimistic throughout a pause mandated by the Columbus City Schools.
Shortly after the Ohio Public Health Advisory Alert System dropped Franklin County from red to orange level (a decreased level of risk) Thursday, the state’s largest school district lifted what turned out to be a two-week suspension on extracurricular activities, effective Saturday.
“I was always confident we’d be back,” South coach George Yates III said. “Knowing that the suspension didn’t take effect until Aug. 14, we went out in the pouring rain and got two more practices in. I told the guys we needed to get in the work because we would be resuming the season at some point.”
The term “suspended” was misconstrued by some, prompting a few athletes to transfer out of the district in order to play for other schools.
“I’ve got to admit that I was about 50-50, but when I saw on the governor’s press conference that the county went from red to orange, that was a game-breaker,” Whetstone coach Tom Jones said. “When I got the news from CCS, it took about two minutes to let the players know. They were ecstatic.”
There are still some logistics to work out before City League teams begin competition.
During the hiatus, the City League Football Coaches Association submitted a proposal to Student Activities Director Vincent Clarno that would allow teams to return sometime between Sept. 11 and Sept. 25 and play a four-game league schedule, followed by a two-week playoff tournament. Teams would be realigned into three five-team divisions based on their level of competitiveness.
In turn, City teams would bypass the Ohio High School Athletic Association playoffs, which in 2020 will allow all teams the opportunity to participate.
“Our rationale is that playing an all-City schedule will help keep the virus contained in our zip codes, and it would give us a chance to sharpen our brand,” said Mifflin coach Anthony Thornton, president of the coaches group.
“If Vince and his people agree to this plan, or at least some of it, there are a few finer points to be hammered out yet, such as scheduling, finding available officials and deciding when we want to start.”
Clarno said he would communicate with coaches and school officials throughout the weekend to hash out a game plan for going forward.
“There’s no blueprint how to do things during a pandemic,” Clarno said. “We never stopped planning during the suspension and we were confident it was just a suspension but you have to pivot a little during each week that you’re out. Different sports are going to need more time than others getting acclimated.”
Some coaches indicated that their teams should be ready to roll by either Sept. 11 or the following Friday.
“Since the kids have been inactive, they probably will need a week of acclimation and a week of contact before playing in a real game,” Jones said.
Thornton said the OHSAA’s decision in March allowing all sports teams to condition with safety precautions was a godsend.
“Given the extra time we had to practice this year, we were able to focus more on specific things offensively and defensively we planned to do,” he said. “As far as returning, though, conditioning comes into a play here a little. I wouldn’t feel good about sending my team out there next week or maybe even the week after that. We’re two weeks behind everyone else.”
Many were quick to criticize Columbus district leaders for suspending athletics when all other area districts were proceeding, but statewide data showed that urban districts were at a significantly higher risk of contracting and spreading the coronavirus. All other urban districts in the state are either canceled or still on pause.
“There were a bunch of legal things to consider, and our district was trying to do the responsible thing,” veteran Eastmoor Academy coach Jim Miranda said.
“At the same time, all of us were willing to jump through hoops to do anything in our power to get the kids back on the field again, and as soon as possible. This was great news today, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.”
sblackledge@dispatch.com
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